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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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HIST 263 - Modern American Indian Social and Political History: From the American Revolution to Standing Rock
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will examine the varied historical experiences of American Indians from the time of the American Revolution to the present, with a special focus on the 20th century. American Indians (as well as Native Hawaiians and Alaska Natives) are and were actors in history and not just hapless victims of Euro-American imperialism and power. The course will examine the ways Native peoples in the U.S. adapted and responded to the host of stresses that accompanied the rapid and often violent social, cultural, and environmental transformations of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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HIST 265 - American History before 1877
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Beginning with the history of North America prior to the voyages of Columbus, History 265 examines the impact of Europeans upon indigenous peoples, and studies the evolution of colonial settlements in British North America. It covers the causes and consequences of the American Revolution, the subsequent development of democratic political and social institutions, the emergence of transportation, market and industrial revolutions and the coming of the sectional conflict and Civil War.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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HIST 266 - American History since 1877
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
History 266 begins in the aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction and examines the nature and impact of urbanization, immigration, and industrialization. The course then examines the growth of American imperialism and the nation’s rise to world power status. It also focuses on cycles of economic change, including the Great Depression and the enormous expansion of the middle class after World War II. The course will also examine the Cold War in both its worldwide impact, such as wars in Korea and Vietnam, and on the domestic front. Finally, the course examines the transformation of society and culture in the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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HIST 276 - This Land is Your Land: A Survey of American Environmental History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
From the Dust Bowl to current global climate change, from Hoover Dam to acid rain, from the 1927 Mississippi flood to Hurricane Katrina, from Native American agriculture to the recent Farm Bill, this class studies how people have used and changed the North American environment from the colonial era to the present. Through discussion exams, and essays, students will master historical material and build skills in document analysis and written argument. This class does not require a background in history. Science majors and first-year students welcome.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
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HIST 280 - Special Topics
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
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HIST 301L - Ancient Greek History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a survey of the origin, rise and development of ancient Greek civilization from the arrival of the Greeks in Europe until the death of Cleopatra (approximately 1600-30 BC). Emphasis is placed on the rise of the Greek city-state and the spread of Greek culture to the East. CLSICS 301L and HIST 301L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS or HIST course or permission of instructor
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HIST 302L - Roman History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on the Roman state from its origins until the triumph of Christianity from about 700 BC to 300 AD. Republic and Empire receive equal attention. CLSICS 302L and HIST 302L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS or HIST course or permission of instructor
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HIST 303L - The Archaeology of Ancient Greece
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a survey of Greek archaeology and history from the Bronze Age through the Classical Era. Students are introduced to the methods and aims of archaeology. The course begins with the Minoan and Mycenaean eras; the Dark Age and emergency of the full Hellenic era are treated, with emphasis on the city-states of the Greeks. The course makes extensive use of images and surveys the art and architecture of the Greeks in the context of primary literary sources. CLSICS 303L and HIST 303L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS or HIST course or permission of instructor
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HIST 304 - Early Middle Ages: Europe 300-1000
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Early Middle Ages covers the period when the great Western monarchies and the social structures and economy that supported them began and the enormous influence of Imperial Rome persisted. Additionally, interaction with a series of invaders as well as relations with the rapidly expanding Islamic states helped to shape Europe geographically, culturally and linguistically. History 304 examines these developments with close analysis of original documents and historiographical analysis.
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HIST 305 - Later Middle Ages: Europe 1000-1450
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Later Middle Ages examines the story of a backward part of the world. By the year 1000, Europe was a collection of fractious and fragile governments, a scattered population, few towns (with mostly barter economies) and frequent wars. Poor cousins to the magnificent civilizations of Asia and Africa, nevertheless Europeans, in the space of a few hundred years, forged a civilization that more than any other has been able to impose its culture on the rest of the planet. History 305 seeks to explain this by close analysis of original document sand historiographical analysis.
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HIST 306L - The Archaeology of Ancient Rome
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a methodological approach to roman archaeology as a key to understanding the history and culture of Rome and its empire from the city’s origins in about 750 BC through the height and decline of Roman civilization during the first through fourth centuries AD. The course makes extensive use of images and surveys the art and architecture of the Romans in the context of primary literary sources. CLSICS 306L and HIST 306L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS or HIST course or permission of instructor
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HIST 307 - Renaissance and Reformation
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
People, ideas, and institutions of fourteenth century through sixteenth century Europe.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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HIST 308 - The History of Common Law
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The principles underlying the evolution of law in Western Europe. Emphasis on England during the Middle Ages. Some of the legal concepts and procedures necessary in understanding medieval history and common law. Recommended for pre-law students. (Course offered in the fall only.)
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HIST 310L - Greek and Roman Historians
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Through the examination of all of the major Greek and Roman writers of history from Herodotus to Ammianus Marcellinus, this course considers the development of historical writing. With support from secondary scholarship and through extensive reading of the ancient texts, students will evaluate the work of each author, with particular attention to the roles that audience, culture and historical context have in shaping narrative structure and approach. CLSICS 310L and HIST 310L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS course or HIST 211 or permission of instructor
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HIST 313 - Nineteenth Century Europe
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A political, social and cultural history of Europe from 1815 to 1900, including the history of each major European nation.
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HIST 314 - Health and Healing in Early Modern Europe
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the ways illness intersected with everyday life in Europe spanning the years 1500-1800. Topics include experiences of childbirth, popular medical texts, witchcraft and magic, plague, religious approaches to healing, and ordinary people’s understanding of their bodies. A significant amount of class time will be spent discussing and analyzing primary sources, including diaries, recipes, anatomical texts, casebooks, and literature.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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HIST 315 - Europe 1900-1945
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Political, social and intellectual history of Europe from 1900 to 1945. Emphasis on the origins of the World Wars, European totalitarianism, the Great Depression and inter-war societies.
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HIST 316 - Europe since 1945
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Europe with attention to extra-European influences, from 1945 to the present.
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HIST 317L - Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to introduce students to the study of European women in the medieval and early modern eras and, more generally, to the challenges and rewards of women’s and gender history. Through in-class discussions and writing assignments, the course hones students’ ability to analyze, critique, and compare primary and secondary sources. Topics include women’s work, writing, religious lives, and relationships. HIST 317L and WGS 317L are the same course.
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HIST 318 - Advanced Topics in History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Intensive study of selected topics in history. Course content is announced during the advanced registration period. Course material is consistent with other advanced level history courses.
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HIST 320 - Tudor-Stuart England
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to English history from the high Middle Ages. Emphasis on the political crises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to 1660. (Course offered in the fall only.)
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HIST 322 - Shakespeare’s London
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course draws on artifacts, literature, and first-hand accounts to recover life in London during Shakespeare’s time (1550-1650). The course captures various dimensions of life in the bustling city, including reading practices and education, alehouses and coffeehouses, the experiences of the working poor, and urban crime. It addresses how men and women used various kinds or personal writing - from diaries and letters to spiritual journals and recipe books - to construct their day-to-day lives. Class discussion and assignments consider how Londoners chose to record certain information and how varying genres of writing informed resulting accounts.
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HIST 324 - Russia and the Soviet Union: From the 1917 Revolution to Putin
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The peasant emancipation from serfdom in 1861 left the overwhelming majority of Russians destitute and disenfranchised. How did the subsequent revolutionary movement that promised social and economic equality transform into such a brutally oppressive system under Stalin? How did the Soviet Union become a world superpower and what were the reasons for its downfall? Through the use of primary documents, this course will attempt to answer these questions and emphasize social history: the ideals, aspirations, and actions of ordinary Soviet citizens.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: International
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HIST 325 - European Expansion
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The first European empires began to develop after 1492, challenging Europeans to build complicated relationships with outside societies. This era saw the first example of globalization in the “world trade system.” Tremendous growth in the circulation of goods and ideas and the affirmation of the modern perception of “East” and “West” all played significant roles in shaping politics, business, society, and the environment in new ways. This course will examine these issues and related changes from the 1400s to the 1800s.
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HIST 326 - Hitler, A Man and His Times
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A focus on the life and career of Adolph Hitler to elucidate an important period in German and European history. (Course offered in the spring only.)
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HIST 330 - The French Revolution
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
History of the efforts of the French people to overthrow the social system of the old regime and to replace it with one more suited to their needs. (Course offered in the spring only.)
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HIST 334 - Italy Since 1815
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The most significant events in modern Italian history including the Resorgimento, the Giolittian Era, the rise and fall of Fascism, the Republic, and the growth of terrorism.
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HIST 339 - Modern Irish History from 1800 to present
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the forces and movements in the development of Irish nationalism from 1800 to the achievement of national independence. The course also explores the history of an independent Ireland. (Course offered summer only.)
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HIST 342 - Cinema in Hitler’s Germany: Movies, Propaganda, Politics in Weimar and Nazi Germany 1919-1945
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the history of German cinema between 1919 and 1945. The first half of the course will focus on the films of the Weimar Republic - a time of bold artistic experimentation when Germany’s film industry was second only to Hollywood in worldwide influence. The second half of the semester will be devoted to the cinema produced in Germany during the Nazi dictatorship, when movies were no longer simply entertainment, but also served as an important form of propaganda. The films of both of these periods will be analyzed as historical sources that illuminate the society that produced them.
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HIST 343 - World War II: The Global War
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Second World War was certainly the 20th century’s seminal and most cataclysmic global event, its effects felt on every continent. Although this course will explore all aspects of the Second World War, it will focus heavily on the role of the United States as part of the Allied cause, including examining the political, social, and industrial aspects of the war on the American homefront. This will include a view both from the “homefront out” - how activities in the United States affected events across the world and changed the course of history - and also from “overseas back” - how the war changed America and the world, from a foreign and domestic perspective. This course will discuss the impact of the war, as well as how the war has impacted the United States and the world in the years since 1945.
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HIST 346 - Women & Gender in African History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course looks at major themes in African history - precolonial states, the slave trade, colonialism, nationalism, development - from the point of view of women’s experiences and knowledge. How does Africa’s past look different when women’s voices and lives are put at the center of the story? What can be learned from feminist debates about the relevance of gender in African history, especially prior to colonial rule? Drawing on scholarship, primary sources, life stories, fiction and film, this course will examine women’s roles in African history as well as the gender ideologies and practices constraining women’s agency in the past and today.
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HIST 347 - Feast to Famine: Food in African History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
For a continent long known as the world’s poster child for famine, Africa possesses an extraordinarily rich range of food systems, consumption cultures, and culinary histories. For farmers and hunters, diviners and chiefs, missionaries and scientists, aid workers and tourists - food figures in crucial ways. This course explores Africa’s diverse foodways since ca. 1800, through case studies that illustrate the critical role of food - in times of abundance and times of scarcity - in ethnic and national identity, health and economic development, and struggles over wealth and power in the colonial and postcolonial eras.
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HIST 349L - The Cold War: Rise and Fall
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: International
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HIST 350 - Mexico since 1850
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
It is hard to separate modern Mexico from its famous but conflicting stereotypes: massive wealth and crushing poverty, international leadership set against institutional weakness, an openness to the world together with proud localism. At the same time, however, the deeper history of this society makes it harder to separate out these extremes. This class presents modern Mexico beyond these stereotypes, seeking to understand the deeper processes that cause such apparent contradictions.
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HIST 351 - Histories of Brazil
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
What makes Brazil so distinctive? Why is it so unequal? How did it become so powerful, seemingly overnight? And, what is it about all that samba, soccer, and carnaval? This course introduces students to the history and contemporary society of Brazil, a large and increasingly important actor in Latin America, the wider hemisphere, and the world. Additionally, the particularities of Brazilian history can illuminate wider questions relating to social change, economic growth and inequality, exclusion and prejudice, creativity and leadership, and the relationship between humans and their environment, among many other questions.
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HIST 352 - Topics in African History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An intensive study of selected themes in African history; although the approach is thematic, attention is given to essential chronology and to regional differences. Topics, which vary from semester to semester, include African economic history; pan-Africanism and nationalism; post-colonial Africa: its prospects, developments, and crises; religion in Africa; and African urban history.
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HIST 357 - The Vietnam War
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course covers the period from 1945 to 1975, with attention to the Vietnamese Revolution and its American and Vietnamese adversaries. Topics include origins of the Cold War and US policy in Indochina; Vietnam’s peasant revolution and Communist Party; society, economy, and ideology of the Saigon milieu; the US anti-war movement; and US soldiers and veterans of the Vietnam War era.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
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HIST 358 - War in the Twentieth Century
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of military plans, strategy and weapons employed in twentieth century wars, and their consequences on the battlefield, together with their larger impact on the societies involved. Emphasis on the two world wars and the Vietnam War. The course concludes with a review of current military plans and weapons systems of the world powers in the perspective of military history since 1914. (Course offered in the spring only.)
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HIST 359L - Women in Modern China
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the social and cultural roles of Chinese women, and their changes over time. Emphasis is given to twentieth-century China, especially the People’s Republic period. ASIAN 359L and HIST 359L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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HIST 360L - Traditional China
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A survey of traditional China from ancient times to about 1800, with emphasis on cultural, intellectual, and social developments. ASIAN 360L and HIST 360L are the same course.
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HIST 361L - The History of Modern China
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A survey of the political, social, and intellectual development of China from 1800 to the present, with emphasis on Sino-Western relations and twentieth century reform and revolution. (Course offered in the fall only.) ASIAN 361L and HIST 361L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
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HIST 363L - Modern Japan
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A historical survey of economic, social, political and cultural developments in Japan from 1800 to the present, special consideration of economic and foreign policy problems. ASIAN 363L and HIST 363L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
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HIST 364 - India since 1857
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Intended to be an introduction to the Indian subcontinent as it emerged from British rule to independence. Designed for students interested in this area and the Third World, regardless of major. The framework of the course is historical, but it also deals with social and religious institutions such as the caste system, as well as economic and political change in a traditional society.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
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HIST 365 - Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in Modern History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In 1979, three separate events in three different countries marked the beginning of a new era of politics and religion in western Asia. A revolutionary Islamic government took control in Iran, a religiously-motivated military dictator took power in Pakistan, and the USSR invaded Afghanistan, triggering the Afghan Jihad. This course will explore the history leading up to the events of 1979 in the context of global events and political change and religious thought in Western Asia. It will then go on to examine the consequences of these events as they have played out into the new millennium.
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HIST 365 - The Middle East, 1798-1914
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Impact of the Western world on the Middle East and the Middle Eastern response, especially the latter, from 1798 to 1914. Comparative analysis of the different societies of the area and their political, economic, and social structures.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits
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HIST 370 - Colonial America to 1763
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The English background of emigration and settlement. The evolution of imperial institutions; American social, economic, and religious development. Emphasis on political ideas, institutions and behavior in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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HIST 371 - The American Revolution, 1763-1789
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The development of the conflict with Britain, 1763-1776, the Revolutionary War and its effect, the forming of republican institutions for state and federal governments.
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HIST 372 - The Early Republic
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Survey and analysis of the early development of the United States as an independent federal republic. Focus is on key issues: civil liberties, slavery and the first emancipation, federalist economic policy, neutrality, war, institutional growth (presidency, congress, judiciary, political parties), and changes in the social, ideological and cultural environment. (Course offered in the spring only.)
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HIST 374 - The Whaling Women of Nantucket
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces the lives and the worlds of women living on Nantucket from the beginning of whaling in the seventeenth century. Through both primary and secondary sources, the course examines the lives of the wives of whalers, indigenous Wampanoag women, and African American women, all of who lived in close proximity on Nantucket. These women, living far from urban centers, were responsible for their homes and families alone while their husbands were away, often for month or years at a time. The course will look at their daily lives, their communities, and their ideas about womanhood in circumstances far different from their mainland sisters.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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HIST 375 - The US Civil War and Reconstruction
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Causes of the Civil War, its social, political, and ideological history, and the problems and results of Southern Reconstruction. (Course offered in the spring only.)
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
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HIST 377 - The American Progressive Era, 1890-1920
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course covers a volatile period in which Americans came to grips with the social and political consequences of industrial and urban transformation. a generation of reformers and political activists reorganized cities, confronting issues of poverty and dangerous working conditions, and looking to government to regulate the unbridled power of large corporations. Artists challenged European traditions in art, music and literature. The period also saw racial polarization and a new, rights-oriented African American movement. Unprecedented immigration and the massive influx of so-called “new immigrants’ from southern and eastern Europe stirred nativist and racial exclusionist sentiment.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
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HIST 380 - The United States Since 1945
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
American politics and culture from the end of World War II to the present.
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HIST 382 - American Indian Treaty Rights, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Recently, treaty rights, sovereignty, and self-determination emerged as critical to the survival of American Indian communities and nations. Proactive Native individuals fighting the federal government’s efforts to terminate its trust relationship with tribes and advocating for a distinct place in modern American society shaped the emergence of these ideas after World War II. Yet the history of these concepts predates the casinos, activist occupations, fish-ins, and community meetings of the twentieth century. This course examines the longer history in order to understand better the importance of American Indian sovereignty and self-determination today.
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HIST 383 - History of the American West
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
With a long and diverse story, the American West has a narrative people by many distinc indigenous peoples, Mexicans and Mexican Americans, Asians and Asian Americans, African Americans, and immigrants form Europeans countries. In this course, we will begin with indigenous peoples before the arrival of Europeans, and then examine their early contacts with the newcomers. The course will then explore an array of topics, including the Spanish in the southwest, the fur and hide trades, the westward expansion of the United States, gold rushes and the arrival of industrialization, farming and the Dust Bowl, the West as myth and commodity, and issues that remain central to the region today, such as American Indian sovereignty, urban growth, conservation, and immigration.
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HIST 384 - E Pluribus Unum?: American Immigration and Ethnicity
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
It has been often said that America is a “nation of immigrants.” This course will examine why so many individuals have come to America over the years, the experiences of foreign-born people in America, how native-born Americans have received those immigrants, how American immigration laws have changed over the years, and what role ethnicity has played in American society. In doing so, we will utilize a variety of sources, including historical monographs, primary sources, movies, and memoirs. We will pay careful attention to the similarities and differences between the experiences of various immigrant groups over time.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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HIST 386 - Native American Health in Historical Perspective
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
How do historians address Native American health? How have ideas about Native American health and illness reflected broader attitudes and values in American life? This lecture class provides an historical overview of topics in Native American health and healthcare during the 19th-21st centuries. The course is premised on the idea that health is a social and political condition as much as a scientific and medical one. It seeks to understand developments in the history of Native American health, healthcare, and policy in the context of concomitant social and political changes and against a backdrop of settler colonialism.
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HIST 387 - US Foreign Policy since 1898
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Survey of United States foreign policy and diplomatic relations with other powers from the turn of the century to the present. Emphasis on domestic sources of foreign policies and on such general topics as war: World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam, and the Cold War, and the debate over America”s role in world affairs.
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HIST 388 - American Soldiers in American Wars: History and Memory
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course places the experiences, perspectives, and memories of American soldiers at the center of a historical study of U.S. wars from the Civil War to modern military conflicts. After covering the basic history of each war/conflict, the course will cover various historical interpretations of their origins and causes. The course will place great emphasis on understanding the lived experiences of American soldiers through their journals, letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, and other primary sources. Finally, the course will also look at historical memory, both through the memories of soldiers themselves and as part of the collective memory of the nation.
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HIST 389 - The History of Modern Terrorism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course studies the phenomenon of terrorism by considering twentieth-century political movements that have used or are using terror to achieve their objectives. The course develops an analytical framework for the study of terrorism and uses this framework in exploring the historical backgrounds, objectives, ideologies, tactics, and membership profiles of selected groups, and in considering the responses of their opponents. Groups to be studied include the IRA, the Irgun, the PLO, the Baader-Meinhof, and the Ku Klux Klan.
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HIST 392 - American Women in Biography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces major themes of women’s history and historiography through the biographies of individual women. Biography allows us to examine not only the lives and times of individuals, but also the considerations historians tackle in trying to represent a life, and the difficulties inherent in researching women who often did not leave public records.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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HIST 395 - The History of Boston
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A general survey from 1630 to the present, emphasizing the variety of people who gave this seaport its special character and prominence in American history.
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HIST 413 - Saints, Witches and Heretics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This seminar will examine the types of spirituality that were celebrated and the types that were brutally repressed by the Christian churches of late medieval and early modern Europe (1250-1700). It will compare different interpretations of late medieval Catholicism and then turn to Martin Luther, assessing the major theses of his theological vision and why they led to religious division. The course will then consider varied attitudes to saints, witches, and heretics in Catholic and Protestant Europe. Throughout the semester, the course will explore the interrelationship between these three categories and the ways in which they illuminate the Reformation era.
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HIST 416L - Thucydides: War & Human Nature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The central event of classical Athens was the Peloponnesian War, and Thucydides’ history of it has helped define the writing of history ever since. This course, in addition to giving students an overview of ancient Greek political and military history, will also delve into his contributions to the history of political thought and international relations.
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HIST 433 - Mussolini
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A focus on the life and career of the Italian Fascist premier.
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HIST 440L - United States in a Global Context
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
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.
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HIST 478 - Special Topics Seminar in History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Course content is announced during the advance registration period. Course material is consistent with other departmental seminar offerings.
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HIST 481 - Research & Methods: Senior Research Methods in History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is for advanced History majors focused on historical research and writing. While the topic of study varies, all sections of the seminar emphasize the close study of primary and secondary sources and the composition of an original research paper.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: HIST 101
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HONORS 291 - Honors Topic in Arts
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 4 times/12 credits
Description:
An Honors course in the AR distribution explores - from term to term in varied specific cases - the basic assumption that form has meaning. In each Honors AR course, we address the questions “What is the study of arts?” by exploring areas including architecture, literature, painting, music, and sculpture. We will discuss the fundamental basic assumptions of the arts, including: the artist’s subjectivity affects the creative process; the creative process is shaped by the social and cultural and political contexts in which the artist works; the creative outcome in open to interpretation’ the interpretive process is driven by features of a specific piece and conventions of a specific form; artists both build on and disrupt established conventions in their field; the creative process involves revision. An Honors College course in the Arts shares the attributes of university-wide AR course in its emphasis on learning how the arts strive to articulate the aesthetic, moral, intellectual and spiritual aspects of the human condition. Students acquire hands-on experiences with the humanistic methods of inquiry by learning how to interpret ideas and symbolic expression. Students are taught how to engage artistic texts of all kinds, while also being trained to situate these texts in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary contexts. In this way, an Honors course in the Arts emphasizes the interplay between arts, humanities, natural science, mathematics, and technology.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
Enrollment Requirements:
Honors College students only
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HONORS 292 - Honors Topic in Humanities
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 4 times/12 credits
Description:
An Honors course in Humanities distribution explores- from term to term in varied specific cases - the basic assumption that the world is interpretable. In each Honors HU course, we will begin by exploring fundamental questions and the basic assumptions of the field. This course will address the question “What is the study of Humanities?” We will discuss the fundamental basic assumptions of the field, including: humanities research can redefine the decisions we need to make; there are different ways of seeing and interpreting human nature; the diversity of perspective is rooted in historical and social and cultural contexts; the humanities involve articulation of human values and are dependent upon cultural context; the study of humanities involves introspection and re-imagining of the interpretive endeavor. An Honors College course in Humanities shares the attributes of university-wide HU courses in its emphasis on learning how to appreciate ways in which the aesthetic, moral, intellectual and spiritual aspects of the human condition have been and may be articulated. Students acquire experience with the methodologies of the humanities by learning how to examine philosophical, historical and literary materials, and investigate a multitude of creative productions. Students are taught how to engage a variety of types of texts, ideas, and symbolic expression, while also being trained to situate these data and texts in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary contexts. In this way, an Honors course in Humanities emphasizes the interplay between humanities, arts, culture, and the social sciences.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Honors College students only
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HONORS 293 - Honors Topic in Social and Behavioral Sciences
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 4 times/12 credits
Description:
An Honors course in Social and Behavioral Sciences distribution explores - from term to term in varied specific cases - the basic assumption that variables affect human behavior of individuals and groups. In each Honors SB course, we will begin by exploring fundamental questions about the social and behavioral sciences, and the basic assumptions of the field. This course will address the question “What is the study of social and behavioral sciences?” by exploring human behavior and the multiple mechanisms and social structures through which behavior is influenced. The assumptions of such an examination include: there are universal processes among humans, human behavior is predictable, and human freedom is bounded by social structures and contexts. An Honors College course in Social and Behavioral Sciences shares the attributes of the university-wide SB courses in its emphasis on learning about the institutions, practices, and principles that define human interactions. Students acquire hands-on experiences with the methodologies of the social and behavior sciences by learning how to analyze the individual-level factors and group-level factors that impact behavior and society. Students are taught how to engage with both primary and secondary texts in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary contexts. In this way, an Honors course in social and behavioral sciences emphasizes the interplay between social sciences, natural sciences, arts, and humanities.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Honors College students only
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HONORS 294 - Honors Topic in World Cultures
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 4 times/12 credits
Description:
An Honors course in the World Cultures distribution explores - from term to term in varied specific cases - the basic assumption that culture is a vital framework for thought and action. In each Honors WC course and in this course, we will address the question “What is the study of World Culture?” by exploring the fundamental basic assumptions of the field, which include: culture is material and symbolic; cultural symbols and materials are created by (a) people who express their cohesive identity through these products and labels; historical forces impact culture; even within a homogenous culture there will be debate and contestation; culture identifies members of a group while also distinguishing them from other groups; and a comparative perspective is essential to understanding the diversity of world cultures. An Honors College course in World Cultures shares the attributes of university-wide WC courses in its emphasis on discussing the meaning of culture, the dynamic nature of culture, and the implications of ethnocentrism. Students acquire experience with the diverse methodologies (textual interpretive, participatory, and observational) of studying world cultures by learning how to understand cultures other than one’s own, and how to compare and contrast different cultures with one another. Students are taught how to engage academic texts and data/information from current research studies, while also being trained to situate these data and texts in interdisciplinary contexts. In this way, an Honors course in World Cultures emphasizes the interplay between history, economics, politics, and culture.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Honors College students only
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HONORS 295 - Honors Topics in the Natural Science
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 4 times/12 credits
Description:
An Honors course in the Natural Science distribution explores – from term to term in varied specific cases – the basic assumption that physical and biological science are knowable in terms of causality. In each Honors NS course, we will begin by exploring fundamental questions about natural sciences and the basic assumptions of the field. This course will address the question “What is Natural Science?” by exploring topics including: the difference between life science and physical sciences, the difference between data and information, the emphasis on metrics of measurement, the ability to go beyond being descriptive and enter the domain of being predictive, and the capacity to use measurements and patterns to create models of natural phenomena. We will discuss the fundamental basic assumptions of natural science, including: the world is knowable, humans can perceive and understand the world through structured observation, the things that happen in the world around us have natural causes, experiments and observations can be used to learn about these natural causes, and the causes that operate in the natural world are consistent and therefore can be represented through models and other forms of mathematical or quantitative expression. An Honors College course in Natural Sciences shares the attributes of university-wide Natural Science courses in its emphasis on learning how laws of the physical world are derived and tested, and gaining an understanding of how scientific knowledge is correctable. Students acquire hands-on experiences with the methodologies of science by learning how to articulate hypotheses, making observations, designing experiments, analyzing date, drawing conclusions, and engaging in problem solving. Students are taught how to engage scientific texts and data/information from the physical and life sciences, while also being trained to situate these data and texts in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary contexts. In this way, an Honors course in Natural Sciences emphasizes the interplay between science, technology, and society.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Honors College students only
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HONORS 490 - Special Topics
3 - 6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Topical coverage in selected fields of scholarly interests directed by members of the faculty.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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Human Resource Management |
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HRM 001 - Human Resource Management
3.6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Certificate Program in Human Resource Management is designed for those seeking an overview of the human resource function and its strategic role in today’s organization.
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HRM 002 - Human Behavior and Human Resource Management
3.6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Understanding the nature of human behavior is an essential part of a Human Resource manager’s job. Sometimes this may not be as obvious as it may seem, since HR managers consume themselves with hiring, compensating and training people, and performing many administrative tasks. HR managers must critically evaluate people and situations that could be detrimental to the success, mission, goals, and performance of the organization. Having done so, they must create strategies for their resolution. On the positive side, they also identify positive behaviors such as selecting high performers, identifying new hire talent, and rewarding achievements of individuals, groups and teams. Sometimes management fails employees, who wonder “how could they do that?”
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HUMCTR 220 - The Life Cycle and the Environment
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
To understand human behavior in real-life situations, you must have a working knowledge of the life-span developmental process and the impact of systems in the environment on those developmental processes. All human behavior, whether it is physical, social, or cognitive, comes into being through the processes of development. Developmental changes result from the interaction of various influences. These influences can range from the heredity prenatal environment to the broadest social and cultural factors. Basic concepts and theories are used to explain these life-long developmental changes. Familiarity and concepts and theories of development are essential tools of an effective human services worker. This course will examine life-span development and the role of the human service worker in helping individuals and families respond to the challenges in productive ways. Students will conduct field observations of a life stage and apply theory to explaining their behavior.
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HUMCTR 230 - History of Social Welfare
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the historical development of social welfare provision in the United States from the colonial era to the present. The social economic, political, and cultural trends of society at large provide the context for both the identification of human service needs and the development of strategies to accommodate these needs throughout various historical periods. Particular attention is given to the interplay between historical context and changes in values, attitudes and policies. Recurring issues such as a private vs. state-based provision, determination of ‘the needy’, and the impact of gender, class, race/ethnicity and economic change on social welfare ideas and practices will be considered.
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HUMCTR 320 - Intervention with Individuals and Small Groups
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will focus on the skills and knowledge which are common to intervening with individuals and small groups, as well as, with organizations and communities. To be an effective human service worker, it is important to be able to apply skills with an understanding of relevant theories and models, and be able to choose appropriate intervention strategies and methods for particular situations. Since there is no substitute for actually working with individuals or groups, an important part of enhancing a worker’s intervention sills is obtaining hands-on experience in the field through a practicum covering the length of semester.
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HUMCTR 322 - Intervention with Large Systems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Students will learn to effect and improve the lives of individuals, families and groups by working for social justice and social change at the organization and community level. Students will learn how to analyze and engage with communities. We will apply knowledge and skills in organizing, advocacy, collaboration, influencing policy, social and community development, and planning, to address issues facing diverse populations in living communities and connected to organizations across the life span. To be an effective human service worker, it is important to be able to differentially apply knowledge and skills, and to be able to select from a range of strategies and interventions that will best suit particular situations and issues. As part of this course, students will be expected to participate in a practicum in which they can learn for the community, work on community identified issues, and apply theory to practice.
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HUMCTR 330 - Human Service Systems for Contemporary Families
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides an in depth understanding of essential human services. It examines the challenges and needs confronting individuals and families over the course of a lifespan. Students will analyze a broad range of reasons why individuals and families utilize human service programs and the resources available in they provide, nonprofit, and public sectors. The course will examine contemporary relationships and families, theories related to the helping profession, and the differences among available resources. Students will compare human services delivery systems so as to differentially determine appropriate services for client systems.
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HUMCTR 345 - Professional Responsibility and Ethics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will address value conflicts and ethical issues human service professionals encounter in a range of human service settings: It explores ethical issues and practices in direct service work- -focusing on moral values, ethical principles/dilemmas, decision-making frameworks, client confidentiality, informed consent, client safety/autonomy, professional boundaries, conflicts of interests, and mandated reporting. We will critically examine cases of consumers at risk, and seek to construct ethical interventions best matched with these case studies. We will explore unethical human service interventions and their determinants. Students will gain specialized knowledge and skill in applying ethical theory to practice in human services.
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HUMCTR 370 - Human Services Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
The study of special topics in Human Services. Consult department’s description of current offerings to find out about the topic or topics being explored this semester.
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HUMCTR 401 - Research and Information for Evidence-based Practice
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on locating and critically applying data to inform practice in human services. Human service providers frequently encounter service users with challengers reflecting larger social problems. Student will learn how to identify these social problems and turn them into research questions. They will learn to locate and appraise relevant studies, and to understand what constitutes sound evidence as the basis for problem solving in human service practice. In the process, students will become familiar with the scientific method of data collection, enabling them to be critical consumers of information relevant to human services.
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HUMCTR 420 - Professional Internship Seminar
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course enables students to apply theory to practice in Human Services through supervised internship and professional seminar. Students will have the opportunity to further develop their knowledge and skills through experiential learning and reflection in fieldwork seminar accompanying the placement. From this experience students will address ethical issues, improve their practice skills, gain a better understanding of themselves and the field, and gain familiarity with human service systems. There will be an emphasis on self awareness, growth and development, as well as, critical thinking, civic engagement, and professional identity. Students can expect to improve skills in communication and interpersonal relations; draw connections, between theory and practice; see how service agencies operate and work with diverse types of people. In the seminar we will discuss practice issues that emerge in the field, along with, professional issues such as use of self, self disclosure, supervision, termination, empowerment, and social justice and social control.
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HUMCTR 421 - Human Service Policy and Practice (Capstone)
Formerly HUMCTR 415
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this Human Services Capstone course students will learn how to understand, analyze, and influence human services policies. Students will take an ecological approach to understand the interplay between policy and practice in governmental and human services organizations at the local, state, and federal levels. Building on cumulative knowledge, skills, and internship experience, students will design and present a capstone project. This project may include issue identification, research, an intervention strategy, and a proposal to bring about positive change in the identified human services area.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: HUMCTR 420
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HUMCTR 425 - Case Management
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course address current practice and policy for human service workers assuming multiple and conflicting roles posed by case management with consumers in human services. Case management functions include client screening, risk assessment; service planning, implementation, monitoring and reassessment of the service plan. Case managers seek to support client self-determination but are also charged with controlling costs and rationing services posing ethical dilemmas for workers. We will examine best practice guidelines for case management and apply theory to practice in the field. We will examine case management from the perspective of the consumer, practitioner, other providers and the service system. A major focus of this class is critical examination of case management practice in a variety of settings. This highly interactive class will involve a combination of lecture, class discussion of anonymous case vignettes drawn from the field, and field interviewing.
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HUMAN 220L - Hades, Heaven, and Hell
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This interdisciplinary course first explores Hades from Ovid to Cocteau. It then moves to heaven and hell to examine the Christian symbolism of good and evil, angels and devils, sin and redemption in European literature, film, and the arts. HUMAN 220L and MLLC 220L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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HUMAN 255L - Pacting with the Devil: The Faust Tradition
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A reading and discussion course emphasizing critical interpretation of major texts in the Faust tradition from German folklore, Christopher Marlowe, J.W. von Goethe, Mikhail Bulgakov and others. Attention is given to the evolution of the legend and to other adaptations (in music and film) of Faustian material. HUMAN 255L and MLLC 255L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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Information Technology |
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IT 110 - Information Technology Problem Solving
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Several IT concepts are introduced including programming, databases, networking, web servers and how they work together in a modern system. Students work in groups to implement examples of these systems. The course examines the importance of key issues such as security, privacy, and ethics. Students should leave the course with an understanding of the components of modern systems and the scope of knowledge needed to become an IT professional.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Completion or placement into MATH 115 or higher
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