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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

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Alcohol, Chemical Dependence Treatment Services Program (non-credit)
  

  • ACDTSP 012 Massachusetts Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC) State Test/review

    1 Credit(s)

    Massachusetts Licensed Alcohol and Drug COunselor (LADC) State Test Review Workshop - Workshop prepares counselors to take State exam to obtain a Massachusetts State Licence and prepares for the International Consortium and Reciprocity Commission (CRC) process.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Department consent
1 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 014 HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse

    1 Credit(s)

    This introductory-level course will provide an overview of some of the major aspects of HIV, including the history, biology, treatment and prevention of the disease and will include a specific examination of HIV in substance abusers. The course is designed to provide participants with a basic level of proficiency and confidence necessary to communicate with and educate their clients about HIV risks, management and prevention.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Department consent
1 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 016 Psychopharmacology and Physiology of Substance Abuse

    1 Credit(s)

    In this introduction to psychopharmacology we will look at two aspects of the subject. The first is medical terminology that is commonly used to refer to the nervous system and its conditions. The second is the anatomy of the central and peripheral nervous systems. By learning the terminology it will be simpler to understand the anatomy and because this course is 3 weeks we can concentrate on these areas of study to become familiar with them.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Department consent
1 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 018 Criminal Justice and Substance Abuse

    4 Credit(s)

    Students will learn how the two systems of addiction and criminal behavior overlap and examine the roles and responsibilities that have resulted in greater communication and interdependence among the courts, adult and juvenile justice professionals, and the alcohol and other drug abuse treatment professional. Many corrections agencies routinely provide substance abuse treatment services. Substance abuse treatment agencies provide court liaison and monitoring services. Case management of drug-involved offenders is provided by substance abuse treatment staff.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Department consent
4 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 043 Practice of Addictions Counseling

    4 Credit(s)

    This course provides the student intern with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide addiction counseling that meets the standards of best practices within the field.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Department consent
4 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 044 Co-Occuring Disorders: Treating Substance Abuse and Mental Illness

    4 Credit(s)

    This course teaches participants how to effectively integrate the treatment of substance abuse and mental illness.

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 045 Pre-Sentence Investigation Specialist

    4.5 Credit(s)

    This is a Forensic Cours providing instruction in the preparing and writing of pre-sentencing investigation reports, assements, and evaluations, that provide valid and reliable information to assistin determining criminal justice sanctions.

4.5 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 053 Certified Clinical Supervisor Specialist (CCSS)

    4 Credit(s)

    This distance learning course provides the theory base and techniques essential for effective clinical supervision in alcohol/drug counseling. This course covers the clinical supervision domains with a specific focus on ethnical and legal issues. This course prepares students for clinical supervision credentialing.

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 054 Certified Co-occuring Disorders Specialist (CCDS)

    4 Credit(s)

    This distance learning course provides students with the essential theories and techniques necessary to effectively treat people who have both a substance abuse and mental health disorder. The development of a co-occurring competency and the application of evidence-based approaches are current expectations of state, federal and private payers. This course prepares students for co-occurring disorders credentialing.

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 055 Certified Criminal Justice Substance Abuse Specialist (CCSAS)

    4 Credit(s)

    This distance learning course provides students with the essential theories and techniques necessary to effectively treat people who have substance abuse disorder and are involved in the criminal justice system. In addition, this course provides students with information on successful collaboration of substance abuse professionals and criminal justice professionals. This course prepares students for criminal justice addictions credentialing.

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 056 Prevention Specialist (PS) in Alcohol & Other Drugs of Abuse

    4 Credit(s)

    This 40 hour student-directed distance learning course offers training that leads to the Prevention Specialist (PS) credential offered by various credentialing boards across the US. Prevention Specialist is one of the fastest growing credentials in substance abuse counseling in the US and abroad. This course covers the five competencies that comprise the Prevention Specialist credential: planning & evaluation, education & skill development, community organization, public policy, and professional growth & responsibility. This course is offered in the Digital Chalk (DC) student directed distance learning platform.

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 057 Substance Abuse Educator 101

    2 Credit(s)

    Substance abuse research shows that education and early intervention can help save lives. Whether you are interested in volunteering in the filed of substance abuse or you are seeking interpersonal strategies you can use to respond to family and friends affected by substance abuse, this course will provide you with the educational foundation and resources you need. Different circumstances require different responses. How one responds to a teen differs from how one responds to an older person with substance abuse issues; how one responds as a loved one differs from how one responds as a volunteer in a treatment setting. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to respond effectively to substance abuse problems whether they are found at home, in the community, or at the work setting.

2 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 058 Cultural competence in substance Abuse Delivery Services

    2 Credit(s)

    Cultural competence refers tot he ability to honor and respect the beliefs, language, interpersonal styles, and behaviors of individuals and families receiving services, as well as staff who are providing such services. Upon completion of this course, student will be able to understand, identify, and advance levels of cultural competence.

2 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 059 Gambling: The Hidden Addiction

    4 Credit(s)

    The purpose of this course is to provide the tools necessary to assess and treat problem gambling and to provide the CEUs necessary to apply for problem gambling credentialing, including the Massachusetts Problem Gambling Specialist Certification (MA-PGS). It is intended for the education of clinicians, addictions counselors, and other professionals interested in counseling problem gamblers. Treatment approaches are explained, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Brief Therapies, Gamblers Anonymous and other peer support groups, and psychopharmacology. The course also examines the neurochemistry of gambling activity and the relationship of neurostransmitters with gambling and other compulsive behaviors.

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 060 Problem Gambling: Advances and Recertification

    1 Credit(s)

    The purpose of this course is to inform the participants about new developments in treating problem gambling based on evidenced-based and best practices. The course will provide 10 educational hours (1.0 CEU), which can be used to renew the Massachusetts Problem Gambling Specialist Certification (MA-PGS), as well as recertification in other States. It is intended for the education of clinicians, addiction counselors, and health professionals who want to keep up with the latest developments in problem gambling treatment. Participants will learn about new and updated assessment and screening tools, conceptual models, treatment approaches and theories, and the continuing impact of expanded legalized gambling.

1 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 061 Clinical Supervision in Problem Gambling

    5 Credit(s)

    The purpose of this course is to provide the necessary clinical supervision required for problem gambling credentialing. This course provides the teaching and mentoring to help counselors develop their skills in providing treatment for gambling addiction disorders. This course will accommodate the variable requirements of credentialing boards across the states. The general requirements include the supervision in what are recognized as the key performance domains for problem gambling counseling: addiction theories, basic knowledge of problem and pathological gambling, gambling counseling practice, special issues in gambling,and professional issues.

5 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 062 Performance Enhancing Drug Use in Athletes and Students

    2 Credit(s)

    This course reviews the current research on the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) in Today’s Athletes and Students. Participants will be able to identify populations most at risk for abusing PEDs, understanding the motivation behind the use and abuse of PEDs, examine the role of PEDs in sports and academia, become knowledgeable in the health consequences, and utilize PED use & abuse screening and treatment approaches.

2 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 063 Women in Substance Abuse Treatment

    2 Credit(s)

    The course reviews gender-specific research and best practices such as common patterns of initiation of substance use among women and specific treatment issues and strategies. Treatment factors explored are the role of pregnancy and other health issues, trauma and PTSD, domestic violence, system coordination, and parenting.

2 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 064 Substance Abuse Treatment Group Counseling

    2 Credit(s)

    The course helps counselors improve their skills in leading group counseling sessions for substance abuse treatment. Specific attention is given to adolescents, ex-offenders, marijuana dependence, and suboxone treatment. Participants will understand types of groups, confidentiality, client placement, group development, stages of treatment, training, and supervision.

2 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 065 Peer Mentor/Recovery Coach Certificate: MH/DD/SAS

    5 Credit(s)

    This 50-hour distance learning course offers training leading to the Peer Mentor Certificate offered by various credentialing boards across the US, including the IC & RC. This course offers 10 hours of training in the domains of advocacy, mentoring/education, and recovery/wellness support and 16 hours in the domain of ethical responsibility. Peer mentoring or Recovery Coaching is a set of non-clinical, peer-based activities that engage, educate, and support an individual to make life changes to recover from mental illness and/or substance use disorder conditions. This training is offered for MH/DD/SAS po;ulations.

5 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 066 Addiction Treatment Re-Credentialing: Common Etiology in Clinical Practice

    2 Credit(s)

    This course provides an overview of the etiology of addiction behaviors; their biological, psychological, and social manifestations. Current research in the prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery from addiction will be summarized. Evidenced-based practices forthe different addictive behaviors will be presented. Participants will be able to: Explain the etiology of addictive behaviors: alcohol, drugs, gambling; Summarize current theory, research and evidence-based practices in the treatment of addictive behaviors; Describe the continuum of addictions and addiction services; and Apply outcome-oriented and results-based tools and techniques for patient placement and creation of individual treatment plans.

2 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 067 NIDA Research Report: Heroin, MDMD, & Marijuana

    3 Credit(s)

    The offering includes three separate NIDA research reports on three substances of abuse: heroin, MDMA, and marijuana. This course prepares students for the psychopharmacology component of credentialing exams.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 068 Addictions Counselor Credentialing Practice Exams

    2 Credit(s)

    This course prepares students for state and national addictions counselor credentialing examinations.

2 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 069 Licensed Alcohol Drug Counselor Test-Prep

    1 Credit(s)

    This 10-hour distance learning course prepares students for the Licensed Alcohol Drug Counselor (LADC) exam.

1 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 070 Contemporary Ethical Issues for Counselors

    4 Credit(s)

    This course requires the viewing of five webinars. The five webinars are: Cultural consideration for the ethically aware clinician, Ethics in the online world, Ethics violations: a guide for reporting and managing the process, Clinical supervision; ethical dilemmas and other challenges, and Cultural humility and Counseling Hispanic and Latino populations. The student is required to successfully pass an exam located on the UMB/ACEP/Digital Chalk Learning Platform.

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 071 Ethics for Addictions Professionals

    4 Credit(s)

    This offering covers the material in the textbook: Ethics for the Addiction Professional by J. Berton, 2014. This book is required reading for the UMB Addictions Counselor Education Program (ACEP) Online Practicum. The student is required to successfully pass this exam located on the UMB/ACEP/DigitalChalk Learning Platform.

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ACDTSP 072 The Role of Prevention in Addressing Opioid Overdose

    4 Credit(s)

    This offering requires the viewing of the webinar: The Role of Prevention in Addressing the Opioid overdose crisis, including a review of relevant data on overdose rates from prescription opioid and heroin use, risk factors and prevention strategies identified from the literature. The student is required to pass an exam located on the UMB/ACEP/DigitalChalk platform.

4 Credit(s)

American Studies
  

  • AMST 100 American Identities

    3 Credit(s)

    “What is an American?” The subject of this course is how the diverse identities of North Americans are constructed, defined, and explained. Through a variety of resources-including historical sources, material artifacts, fiction, poetry, film, and music explore individual, family, community, ethnic, class, gender, and racial identities in relation to regional, national, and transnational identities. Students who take this course cannot enroll in AMST G110. Please note: Students may not receive credit for both AMST 110G and AMST 100.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Students who have taken AMST 110G may not enroll in AMST 100.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 101 Popular Culture in America

    3 Credit(s)

    This course introduces students to the varieties of popular culture in America, including popular literature, live entertainment, radio, movies, and television. In-depth case studies of such particular forms of popular culture as humor and music are included. In class viewing and listening accompany case studies.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 110G US Society and Culture since 1945

    4 Credit(s)

    The course focuses on three broad themes: work, family, and (im)migration, using all three to explore the diversity of American experience with regard to race, class, gender, and ethnicity (culture). This course may count toward the American studies major. Please note: Students may receive credit either for this course or for AMST 100 (American Identities), but not for both.

    Diversity Area: United States | First Year Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Degree students only, with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston.

    Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar).

    Students who have taken AMST 100 may not enroll in AMST 110G.

4 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 200 Special Topics

    3 Credit(s)

    Various specialized topics are offered once or twice under this heading. Topics change from year to year and are announced before the beginning of each semester.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 201 Latinos in the US

    3 Credit(s)

    This course seeks to examine the development of people of Hispanic descent, and to understand how this history intersects important junctures in US history. The course explores such topics as the formation of Latino groups; emigration, migration, and settlement; the impact of Latinos on US culture; and the development of pan-ethnic identities.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 203 The Thirties

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of American society and culture during the years from the Panic of 1929 to the attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941 using several kinds of evidence: the accounts of people who lived during the decade, the interpretations of historians, and the representations of artists, writers, and filmmakers. The objective of the course is to develop an idea of the main characteristics of American society and culture during the 1930s, a conception of the decade’s significance, and an increased understanding of the processes of historical and cultural analysis and interpretation.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 204 The Forties

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of the history and culture of the 1940s. The course focuses on the social, political, and scientific effects of World War II, rather than on the conduct of the war itself.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 205 The Fifties

    3 Credit(s)

    This course covers the period from the end of World War II in 1945 to President John F Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961, focusing on the social, political, economic, and cultural trends of the era. Topics include the Cold War, the atomic age, McCarthyism, the early civil rights movements, the Fifties family, rock ‘n’ roll, the Golden Age of television, automobile culture and the growth of the suburbs, and the Beat movement.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 206 The Sixties

    3 Credit(s)

    The course focuses on protest and the role of youth. Who protested and why? Was the phenomenon of the sixties an aberration or part of a larger radical tradition in America? What was the impact on the seventies? Readings are drawn from the works of participants in the student, black, feminist and peace protest movements, from the intellectuals who defended and attacked them, and from the growing body of retrospective, analytic, and historical literature which attempts to explain what really happened in that tumultuous decade.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 209 The 1990s

    3 Credit(s)

    This course studies American culture, society, politics, and social thought in the 1990s. From a stirrings of globalization to the fall of the Communist bloc; from the protests in Seattle to the overthrowing of apartheid in South Africa; from the racial uprisings in Los Angeles to the inertia of Generation X’s couch-surfing slackers; the 1990s were a decade marked by accelerating social, cultural, and political change, recorded by an increasingly omnipresent media. This course will study the decade in all its chaotic contradictions and inspiring innovation, particularly focusing on global contexts, generational shifts, emerging identities, and social upheaval.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 210 American Society and Culture, 1600-1860

    3 Credit(s)

    Documents, diaries, letters, essays, fiction, and art, along with secondary historical and anthropological sources, are used to compare the dreams and realities of men’s and women’s lives in America from the first contact between European explorers and Native Americans up through the Age of Reform (1830-60). Topics include visions of landscape and nature; contrasting cultures of Indians and Anglo-Americans; family and “women’s place”; slavery; working class organization; and women’s rights.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 211 U.S. Society and Culture, 1860-1940

    3 Credit(s)

    This course traces the dreams and realities of men’s and women’s lives in the United States from the Civil War through the Great Depression. Topics include the Westward Movement, the Second Industrial Revolution, immigrants and the city, World War I, the great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, and the emergence of a consumer society in the 1920’s. Among the materials analyzed in this course are primary sources such as photographs and paintings, film, short stories and poetry, letters and diaries, and public documents, as well as secondary-source analyses of specific themes and issues presented in scholarly historical essays.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 212G The US in the Eighties

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the politics and experiences of President Reagan’s “morning in America,” including family life, work, and organized labor; changes in the pattern of wealth and poverty; the enlargement of the role of the media in culture and politics; and US interventions in Central America and elsewhere. The course may be counted toward the American studies major or minor. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing, academic self assessment, collaborative learning, information technology.

    Intermediate Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits.

    Degree students only.

    Students may not take more than one 200G (Intermediate Seminar) course.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 215L America on Film

    3 Credit(s)

    This course focuses on the flowering of American cinema through decades of social, political, and cultural change. It examines both classic representations of “The American Experience” and films which challenge such classic representations. The relations between film and other arts, and between film, history, and ideology, are an ongoing concern. AMST 215L and CINE 215L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 223L Asians in the United States

    3 Credit(s)

    This multidisciplinary course examines the social, historical, and structural contexts defining the Asian American experience from 1850 to the present. Topics include immigration, labor, community settlement, ethnicity, stereotypes, and race relations. AMST 223L and ASAMST 223L and SOCIOL 223L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 225L Southeast Asians in the United States

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines issues arising from the resettlement of one million Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees in the US since 1975. Topics include resettlement policies, adjustment and acculturation, changing roles of women and family, and the continuing impact of international politics. Media presentations and lectures by local Southeast Asian community leaders highlight the course. AMST 225L and ASAMST 225L and SOCIOL 225L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 228L Asian Women in the United States

    3 Credit(s)

    Drawing on women’s voices in literature, sociocultural research, and historical analysis, this course examines the experience of Asian women in the United States from 1850 to the present. Topics include the transformation of Asian women’s traditional roles as part of the acculturation process; exclusion; changing roles within the Asian American family; resistance to oppression as defined by race, gender, class; and the continuing impact of international politics. AMST 228L and ASAMST 228L and SOCIOL 228L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 235 The Social History of Popular Music

    3 Credit(s)

    This course analyzes the social forces, technological advances, and multicultural influences that have contributed to the development of US popular music, including Tin Pan Alley pop, blues, country, rhythm and blues, rock ‘n’ roll, rock, soul, punk, disco, rap, and heavy metal. Popular music is treated as commercial mass culture and discussed as a social indicator. Extensive use is made of audio and video recordings.

    Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 240G War in American Culture

    3 Credit(s)

    The course examines American cultural productions (essays, novels, poems, films) centered on the nation’s wars, focusing on the “American Way of War”; images of the soldier/veteran; and images of the enemy. Material is analyzed through the perspective of the Idealist, the Jingoist and the Dissenting-perspectives found in cultural artifacts dealing with America’s wars. Counts toward the major in American studies. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing.

    Intermediate Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits.

    Degree students only.

    Students may not take more than one 200G (Intermediate Seminar) course.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 250 U.S. Travel and Tourism

    3 Credit(s)

    Tourism is the world’s largest industry. We encounter tourists on Boston’s Freedom Trail, Harvard Square in Cambridge and on Cape Cod. In turn, we ourselves are tourists as we travel to Washington D.C., Disneyworld, and beyond. The tourist experience shapes our understanding of the past, our perceptions of ourselves and others, and our notions of the ‘authentic’ and the ‘exotic.’ Tourist encounters often place inequalities based upon class, race and ethnicity in sharp relief. Using history, anthropology, and cultural studies, this course explores the nature of tourism and how it affects and reflects U.S. culture.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 260L African-American Folklore

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the development and the significance of African-American folklore through study of its various genres: music, tales, legends, shorter verbal forms, material culture, folk belief, and folk humor. Emphasis is given to both African survivals and Indo-European influences in these genres. AFRSTY 260L and AMST 260L are the same course.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 268L The Italian-American Experience

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the cultural history of Italian-American communities from the early Twentieth century to present. The course will explore representations of Italian-Americans in literature,film and popular culture. Taught in English, no previous knowledge of Italian is required.

    Diversity Area: United States

3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 270L Native Peoples of North America

    3 Credit(s)

    An introductory survey of Native American societies and cultures. Emphasis is given to the descriptive comparison of selected Native American societies, on their histories, and on problems in cross-cultural understanding. The course focuses on pre-twentieth century cultures and history. AMST 270L and ANTH 270L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 278L U.S. Documentary Photography

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines U.S. documentary photographs as constructions of the past that articulate the social and political assumptions of their times. We will assess the impact of these photographs on their contemporary audiences and how they have shaped Americans’ collective memories of such events as the conquest of the West, mass immigration, the Great Depression, and 9/11. AMST 278L and ART 278L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 285 Food in American Culture

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the cultural history and meanings of “American” foodways at home and abroad from the colonial period to the present. It considers how nation, region, gender, ethnicity, race, religion, global politics, and corporate America affect food production and consumption. It explores how the histories of immigration, industrialization, suburbanization, and globalization have transformed what, how, where, and why Americans eat, as well as how American food is perceived throughout the world.

    Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International

3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 301L Childhood in America

    3 Credit(s)

    An interdisciplinary treatment of conceptions and practices of child nature and nurture in the United States, viewed in the context of American culture and history. The course begins with an historical overview of child life in America, with special attention to Puritan New England, nineteenth century industrialization and urbanization, and twentieth century trends. In treating contemporary childhood, the course examines mainstream patterns of the middle and working classes, both rural and urban; African-American child and family life; Hispano-American child and family life; enculturation among selected American Indian groups; the importance of gender as a variable in childhood experience; and the growing importance of formal institutions-such as schools, youth organizations, and medical institutions-as environments for young people. Children’s own cultural constructions, in the form of games and folklore, are also considered. The course concludes with an examination of selected policy issues affecting children, such as child abuse, medical intervention, day care, and the Children’s Rights Movement. AMST 301L and ANTH 301L are the same course.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 310 Television in American Life

    3 Credit(s)

    The American experience with television and its cultural, political, and economic implications. Topics include technological innovation, entrepreneurship, the changing cultural content of “prime-time” programming, and public broadcasting cable system capabilities.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 311L American Oral History

    3 Credit(s)

    This course explores oral history interviewing, texts, and films, within the context of efforts to create a fully representative social and cultural history of the US. Students design individual or group oral history projects, to capture the experiences and perspectives of people formerly regarded as “unhistorical”-in particular, women, working class people, immigrants, people of color, and gays and lesbians. (Satisfies the research requirement for women’s studies majors.) AMST 311L and WGS 311L are the same course.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 312 The United States & the Middle East since 1945

    3 Credit(s)

    This course seeks to elucidate the current crises in the Middle East in terms of their root in policies pursued by the United States after World War II and by analyzing public attitudes toward the region embedded in religious and popular culture.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 325L Sexual Identities in American Culture

    3 Credit(s)

    This course studies the history of sexual identities in the twentieth-century United States, with a particular emphasis upon the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities, through the study of cultural texts such as novels, songs, films, and poems. Topics covered in the course include homosexuality in the turn-of-the-century United States, sex in the Harlem Renaissance, sexual politics in the Depression years, purges of gay women and men in federal employment during the cold war and sexual liberation in the 1960s and 1970s. AMST 325L and WGS 325L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: Humanities

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 335 Music And Politics

    3 Credit(s)

    This course treats popular music as a social indicator, examining the relationship between popular music and various social issues, problems, and movements. It is organized thematically, addressing such topics as racism, sexism, censorship, social change, consciousness raising, and the impact of globalization. The course draws on historical and contemporary readings at the intermediate and advanced levels. There is extensive use of audio and video recordings to explicate various themes and issues.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 349L The Cold War: Rise and Fall

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the shifting US and Russian images of each other during the rise and fall of the Cold War. It focuses in particular on the way that issues of difference play out in the US/Soviet/Russian encounter, and on the emergence of public perceptions which linked struggles for racial, gender, and social equality with Communism and its agents. AMST 349L and HIST 349L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: International

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 350L Race, Class, and Gender: Issues in US Diversity

    3 Credit(s)

    This course deals with the interrelationship of race, class and gender, exploring how they have shaped the experiences of all people in the United States. Focusing on race, class and gender as distinct but interlocking relationships within society, the course examines both the commonalities and the differences that different historical experiences have generated. AFRSTY 350L and AMST 350L are the same course.

    Diversity Area: United States

3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 352L Harlem Renaissance

    3 Credit(s)

    This course focuses on major texts of the Harlem Renaissance within contexts of modernism, history, and the development of an African American literary tradition. The course will examine how literature creates and represents real and “imagined” communities and will explore the diverse and often contradictory roles that literature plays in shaping, resisting, and reinforcing cultural discourses. AFRSTY 352L and AMST 352L and ENGL 352L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites:

    • ENGL 102 and
    • ENGL 200 or 201 or 202 or 235 or AFRSTY 100
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 353 Latino/a Border Cultures

    3 Credit(s)

    An introduction to the field of border studies, this course investigates the linguistic, cultural and historical meanings of the concept of “border” for several Latino/a groups, particularly Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans, and Cuban Americans. While attending to the distinct histories of the groups in question, the course also looks for cultural and artistic links which connect Latino people.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 355L Black Popular Culture

    3 Credit(s)

    This course requires students to engage with Black/African diasporic cultural products intended for a mass audience. The macro-contents of American and global consumer capitalism and the micro- categories of ethnicity, gender, and sexualities are used as a framework for the critical analysis of production, consumption, and reception of African American popular culture in the US and abroad. AFRSTY 355L and AMST 355L are the same course.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 360 Work, Society, and Culture in Modern America

    3 Credit(s)

    This course has a double focus: the history of work in the modern US, and the cultural representations (fiction, movies, television, music, and others) that people have made of their working lives. All manner of work-from domestic service to farm labor-is considered. Above all, this course examines how work functions as a “way of life” in American cultural history.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 372L American Women Writers and American Culture

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the significant contribution that women writers have made to the creation and development of an American national literature and culture. Points of emphasis include studying representative writers from different historical periods; examining the structures, forms, themes, concerns, and cultural contexts of individual works; and examining the relation of women’s writing to American culture. AMST 372L and ENGL 372L are the same course.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 375 Best Sellers in American Society

    3 Credit(s)

    “Best sellers” have shaped American views of science and nature; molded American business behavior; affected Americans’ notions of the past and their expectations of the future; and shaped public perceptions of gender, class, race, and ethnicity. In this course, we will read popular works, both fiction and nonfiction, published over the past century and a half and discuss the ways in which these books have influenced our images of our society and ourselves. The best sellers we will examine are those which were extremely popular with large sections of the public and/or influential in changing public opinion on major social issues. Readings for the course include Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Gone with the Wind, The Power of Positive Thinking, Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique, and the novels of Stephen King.

    Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 376L Women of Color

    3 Credit(s)

    This course offers interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives on a variety of theories, themes, and issues related to the experiences of women of color in both U.S. and global contexts. It examines the genealogies, practices, and agendas of women of color “feminisms,” and promotes a dialogue about the interactive impact of race, class, and gender on women’s lives. AMST 376L and WGS 376L are the same course.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 380 Kennedys Of Boston

    3 Credit(s)

    This course provides a background on the Kennedys and their times. It analyzes some of the political and cultural processes of which the Kennedys were a part, and in particular traces the rise of the Kennedy family in the context of the Boston Irish. Audio-visual material is used where appropriate to examine the role played by the media, that is, print, film, and television, then and now, in forming popular images of the Kennedy family.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 383L Men’s Lives in the US

    3 Credit(s)

    An investigation in the contemporary U.S. of the experiences of men and the social construction of masculinities, as they emerge in various realms of experience (family, work, college, sexuality, war, imprisonment) and in conjunction with other constructed identities (social class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation). We will consult various theories on gender and examine a range of perspectives on “men’s issues.” AMST 383L and SOCIOL 383L are the same course.

    Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 394L Women in US Social Movements

    3 Credit(s)

    A selective survey of the motivations, strategies, experiences, and accomplishments of US women who have been activists in a variety of social movements during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students have the opportunity to do a research project on an activist in any of several movements, including, among others, anti-slavery, birth control, civil rights, gay and lesbian liberation, labor, peace, socialism, suffrage, temperance, and women’s liberation. AMST 394L and WGS 394L are the same course.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 402L American Visual Cultures

    3 Credit(s)

    This course explores the historical, cultural, and aesthetic importance of visual images in shaping ideas about empire, race, gender, class, work, and nation in American culture. We will think about our reasons for looking and how different historical contexts change how and why we look as consumers. We will learn how to interpret and analyze visual evidence from a variety of forms, including film cartoons live performance, photographs, and print advertising, from the mid-nineteenth century through the twenty-first. AMST 402L and ART 402L are the same course.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and two AMST courses or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 405 The Immigrant Experience

    3 Credit(s)

    Through letters, essays, autobiography, fiction, film, oral and written history, the course explores the historical and cultural issues raised by native-born Americans (Anglos) and immigrants (Aliens) who were involved during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in defining the sometimes agonizing process of becoming an American. Representative documents reveal a variety of conflicting views about the process and meaning of Americanization: from the defensive essays of Anglo-Saxon supremacists, through Jane Addams’ sensitive witness of immigrant life, the letters, diaries and accounts of immigrants, and two works of immigrant fiction.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and two AMST courses or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 410 Cultural History of U.S. Media

    3 Credit(s)

    This capstone course will explore the historical emergence of selected media: the Penney Press in the 1830s, film 1896-1932, radio 1928-1960, and television 1948-1977. Examining these media in the period of emergence will show how each relied on and challenged prior forms of conveying information and telling stories, reshaping boundaries between fictional and the real.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and two AMST courses or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 430 Music & Amer Lit

    3 Credit(s)

    What special insight into American literature can be gained by linking literary texts to musical ones? This course examines the various ways in which popular musical forms, tropes, performance styles, mythologies (and so forth) have shaped, and been shaped by, twentieth-century American literature. Musical genres considered include blues, hip hop, punk, Tex-Mex, soul, and country. Weekly responsibilities include intensive and systematic listening as well as reading assignments.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and two AMST courses or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 440L United States in a Global Context

    3 Credit(s)

    This course will situate thhe United States in a global context by considering US and non-US perspectives on key events of the twentieth century. Special focus: Public, media/arts as well as government perspectives. AMST 440L and HIST 440L are the same course.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and two AMST courses or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 470L New England Literature and Culture

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of the New England literary tradition from about 1850 to the near present. How have writers and critics contested their differing versions of native grounds and reinvented the New England idea in their works? Consideration of such topics as Native American culture, Puritanism and Transcendentalism, slavery and Abolitionism, immigration and ethnicity, nationalism and regionalism, industrialization, and popular culture. AMST 470L and ENGL 470L are the same course.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and two AMST courses or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 471L The City in American Literature and Culture

    3 Credit(s)

    A study of physical, social, and cultural aspects of the American city, as reflected and constructed in architecture, the arts (literature, film, music, visual arts), and theory. The course focuses on four historical periods: the mid-19th century, the turn of thecentury, the mid-20th century, and the present; and includes a capstone research project. AMST 471L and ENGL 471L are the same course.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and two AMST courses or permission of instructor.
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 476L Current Issues in Native America

    3 Credit(s)

    This seminar focuses on the lives of modern Native Americans, on reservations and off. Topics for reading, discussion, and original research include law, politics, economic development, public health, education, and the arts. Each student in the seminar compiles and presents a comprehensive case study on a subject relevant to one of the seminar themes. AMST 476L and ANTH 476L are the same course.

    Diversity Area: United States

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ANTH/AMST 270L
3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 478 Independent Study

    1 - 3 Credit(s)

    Advanced students may conduct independent research under the supervision and guidance of members of the faculty.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and two AMST courses or permission of instructor

    Instructor consent

1 - 3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 479 Independent Study

    1 - 3 Credit(s)

    Advanced students may conduct independent research under the supervision and guidance of members of the faculty.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and two AMST courses or permission of instructor.

    Department consent

1 - 3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 490 Internship in American Studies

    3 Credit(s)

    Part-time experience in an appropriate business, government, public advocacy, or non-profit institution, supervised by an on-site supervisor and an American Studies Program faculty advisor. Bi-weekly conferences with faculty advisor and written/audio-visual work are required. For full details, see the American Studies Student Handbook.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and two AMST courses or permission of instructor

    Department consent

3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 498 Honors

    1 - 3 Credit(s)

    To be eligible for honors work in American studies a student must be doing a major in American studies and must have a cumulative average of at least a 3.3 in the program, and an overall grade-point average of at least 3.0. The student defines and writes the Honors project with the help of an American studies faculty advisor and enrolls in AMST 498-499. For full details, see Student Handbook.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and two AMST courses or permission of instructor

    Department consent

1 - 3 Credit(s)
  

  • AMST 499 Honors II

    3 Credit(s)

    To be eligible for honors work in American studies a student must be doing a major in American studies and must have a cumulative average of at least a 3.3 in the program, and an overall grade-point average of at least 3.0. The student defines and writes the Honors project with the help of an American studies faculty advisor and enrolls in AMST 498/499.

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and two AMST courses or permission of instructor

    Department consent

3 Credit(s)

Anthropology
  

  • ANTH 105 Introduction to Biological Anthropology

    3 Credit(s)

    The study of human biological evolution and human population variation. This course introduces the history, theory, and methods of research in biological anthropology through lectures and hands-on exercises. Major topics include: geological time, classification, and the place of humans in the animal world; evidence for primate and human evolution; evolutionary theory and genetics; and discussion of the evolutionary forces involved in producing human population variation. This course addresses, in assignments and during class time, the following general education capabilities: critical thinking; using technology to further learning; quantitative reasoning; collaborative work; and effective communication. Students who have taken ANTH 102 may not receive credit for ANTH 105.

    Distribution Area: Natural Sciences

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 106 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

    3 Credit(s)

    An introduction to the anthropological study of cultures, based on ethnographic descriptions and analyses of tribal, developing, and modern state societies. The course explores a variety of concepts and approaches to the study of culture, and participants acquire experience in critical reading, critical thinking, and analytic writing. Students who have taken ANTH 103 may not receive credit for ANTH 106.

    Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 107 Intro To Archaeology

    3 Credit(s)

    The study of the past through scientific analysis of the traces left behind by humans. This course introduces the history, theory, and methods of archaeological research through lectures and hands-on projects. Archaeological data are then used to examine such major transformations of human cultural evolution as the domestication of plants and animals and the origins of complex civilizations. Students prepare a paper suitable for the Writing Proficiency Requirement Portfolio. Students who have taken ANTH 102 may not receive credit for ANTH 107.

    Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 112G Understanding Human Behavior

    4 Credit(s)

    The course addresses issues of diversity through the use of cross-cultural/US-based readings and lectures. This material provides students with a backdrop against which they can begin to understand how culture (including their own) creates and sustains belief systems, including but not limited to constructions of race, class, and gendered systems of knowledge. Please note: Students may receive credit either for this course or for ANTH C100 (Culture and Human Behavior), but not for both.

    Diversity Area: International | First Year Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Degree students only, with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston.

    Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar).

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 113G Food and Society

    4 Credit(s)

    This course explores how food is related to culture. Discussion topics include the origins of agriculture, food taboos, the social organization of eating, festivals, and feasting.

    First Year Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Degree students only, with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston

    Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar)

4 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 120L Sports and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and the Labor of Sweat

    3 Credit(s)

    This course explores the place of sports in US history and culture. How have sports shaped US history/culture, and how has US history/culture shaped sports? As we read stories of races won, baskets made, fights fought, and players competing, we will explore sport-as-labor and focus on this main themes: the impact of immigration, industrialization, and urbanization on the games Americans played; the class origins of sports like baseball, boxing, football, tennis, and golf; sport and conflict between labor and capital; racial prejudice, gender exclusion, and integration in sport; athleticism and the evolving ideas about masculinity, femininity, and race; the links between sport, patriotism, and national identity; and sport as an arena for political protest.

    Diversity Area: United States

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 210L Labor and Working Class History in the United States

    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the history of labor and working people in the United States from the colonial period to the present. It explores the diversity of work and working-class experiences, the history of labor movements, labor conflicts, and the larger processes of social, economic, and political change that have affected work and workers. While work and organized labor receive central attention, the course gives equal consideration to the comparative dimensions of class and cultural identity, race and gender, immigration and ethnicity, family and community, technology, politics, and government policy. We will work to improve our skills in critical reading and writing. Lectures, readings, videos, and discussion explore the actions, opinions, identities, and experiences of diverse women and men. You will work on understanding and interpreting the materials. Short essays, in-class exams, and presentation will provide opportunities to develop your interpretations systematically and polish your writing skills.

    Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 211 Human Origins

    3 Credit(s)

    An introduction to the study of man”s biological origins with emphasis on the fossil record, primate analogues of human behavior, and the variety and diversity of modern man including the adaptive significance of this variability.

    Distribution Area: Natural Sciences

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or 105
3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 220G Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Change in Amazonia

    3 Credit(s)

    This course focuses on indigenous peoples of South America’s Amazon region, and persistence and change in their cultures and histories, from 1500 to the present- especially in response to European colonizers, missionaries, modern states, and contemporary rain forest development. Participants consider the human rights issues involved, and critique conventional European representations of Amazonians, in ethnography, literature and film. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing, academic self assessment, collaborative learning, information technology.

    Intermediate Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisite: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits.

    Degree students only.

    Students may not take more than one 200G (Intermediate Seminar) course.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 222G Aztecs and Spaniards in the Conquest of Mexico

    3 Credit(s)

    The defeat of the Aztec Empire by a small band of Spanish soldiers led by Hernan Cortes permanently changed the way Europeans understood the world, at the same time that it subjugated Mexico’s indigenous population to the institutions of colonial rule. Both sides of this important cultural encounter are studied through a close examination of narratives about the conquest written a few days or a few decades from the events themselves. The course may be counted toward the anthropology major and completion of the Latin American studies program. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing, academic self assessment, collaborative learning, information technology, oral presentation.

    Intermediate Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits.

    Degree students only.

    Students may not take more than one 200G (Intermediate Seminar) course.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 223G Afro-Caribbean Religions

    3 Credit(s)

    The purpose of this course is to examine several of the better known Afro-Caribbean religious movements that have played a major role in the modern history of the Caribbean region. Historical influences from Europe, Africa and the Americas will be addressed. The course provides an introduction to the anthropological study of religion and to the field of Caribbean studies. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing, information technology.

    Intermediate Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits.

    Degree students only.

    Students may not take more than one 200G (Intermediate Seminar) course.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 224G The Rise and Fall of the Maya

    3 Credit(s)

    This course focuses on the rise and fall of the Maya civilization in Central America. It considers their origins; political, economic, and social organization; religion and ideology; their eventual collapse; and the contemporary Maya. Discussions include the latest theories and controversies in Maya studies. This course may be counted toward the anthropology major. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing, collaborative learning, information technology, oral presentation, academic self assessment.

    Intermediate Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits.

    Degree students only.

    Students may not take more than one 200G (Intermediate Seminar) course.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 227GL Multicultural Expression and Celebration: U.S. Ethnic Festivals and Transnational Belonging

    3 Credit(s)

    The course uses the lens of celebrating different communities’ ethnicities to explore ideas of transnational belonging as they relate to diaspora, ethnicity, and race in the contemporary United States. Class discussions focus on art and display, critical race theory, and anthropological studies of culture history and cultural migration to examine the politics of ethnicity, racialized identity, and national belonging. In so doing, students assess current goals for U.S. multiculturalism and its practical connections to multi-vocality. ANTH 227GL and ASAMST 227GL are the same course.

    Diversity Area: United States | Intermediate Seminar

    Enrollment Requirements:
    Prerequisites: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits.

    Degree students only.

    Students may not take more than one 200G (Intermediate Seminar) course.

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 230 Archaeological Myth & Mystery

    3 Credit(s)

    This course introduces students to the myths, mysteries, frauds, and fantasies of archaeology and the human past, such as Atlantis, alien visitations, Stonehenge, pyramids, astronomical alignments, pre-Columbian visits to the North American continent, anachronistic artifacts, and outright hoaxes. These claims - some real, some false, some misunderstood, some intriguing - will be examined closely to see how well the explanations use evidence and how valid the assumptions are that uphold them. Students will learn how to critically evaluate these claims in their empirical, political, historical, and cultural contexts as well as try to understand the agendas, personalities, motives, and politics behind some o f the more unsupportable claims. Students my not receive credit for both ANTH 230 and ANTH 230G.

    Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 232 The Viking World

    3 Credit(s)

    The Viking Age (c. 793-1050 AD) is best known as Scandinavian raids throughout coastal Europe. This course examines the archaeology of the societies behind the Viking raids from their origins in Late Iron Age Scandinavia, to their expansion into Europe and the British Isles, and on to the discovery of North America and the colonization of Greenland. In addition to covering the archaeology and history of Viking Age societies, the course presents and critically evaluates several anthropological themes which have been exemplified by Norse society: the Germanic mode of production, gift exchange and reciprocity, proto-world systems, gender and class identity, pagan religious systems and mythology, the archaeology of religious conversion, and cultural contact in the preindustrial world.

    Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 238 Empire and Imperialism: From Rome to the War in Iraq

    3 Credit(s)

    This class examines the way empires and imperialism have influenced the course of human history and continue to shape the present. Students will be challenged to view the events of today’s world within a deeper historical and cultural context in which imperial rhetoric has sought to characterize indigenous and colonized societies as backward and brutal. Through the examination of documentary and archaeological evidence, students will gain an in-depth understanding of the way imperial conquest has played and continues to play such a critical role in shaping the conflicts of the contemporary scene. Through class readings and a series of writing exercises students will gain competencies in the use of analytical concepts such as materiality, hybridity, diversity, and cross-cultural analysis.

    Distribution Area: World Cultures

3 Credit(s)
  

  • ANTH 247 Ancient Cities & States

    3 Credit(s)

    This course compares the processes of state formation in major civilizations, including Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic Egypt, Shang China, Aztecs of Mesoamerica, Inca of Peru. Recent archaeological and historical data are used to explore cross-cultural themes such as the provisioning of cities, role of religious ideology, social organization of land and labor, and gendered dimensions of power and social identity.

    Distribution Area: World Cultures

3 Credit(s)
 

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