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Course Descriptions

 
  

  • FIN 320 - International Finance

    3 Credit Hours
    This course introduces students to the structure and operation of foreign exchange markets - spot, forward, futures, and options. Students learn how to measure and manage foreign exchange exposure and international transactions. The course emphasizes working capital policies and international money and capital markets operations.

    Previously numbered as BAD 375

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 101  and FIN 301 .
  

  • FIN 321 - Advanced Corporate Finance

    3 Credit Hours
     This course builds upon topics introduced in Corporate Finance and explores the strategic decisions financial managers face. A broad array of topics will be discussed including discounted cash flow analysis, firm valuation, the process of going public, corporate control, shareholder activism, and financial forecasting. This course infuses real world applications and makes use of current data analytics software. Students are strongly encouraged to complete QUAN 201   before enrolling in this course. 

    Prerequisite(s): FIN 301  
  

  • FIN 322 - Investments and Portfolio Management

    3 Credit Hours
    This course builds upon the introductory corporate finance course and examines practical approaches to stock management and fixed income investment portfolios. Students learn the basics of bond pricing and debt portfolio management, the theory of asset pricing models, and techniques for evaluating investments. Topics in this course include modern portfolio theory, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, derivative securities, and tax-advantaged investments. Students are strongly encouraged to complete QUAN 201  before enrolling in this course.

    Previously numbered as BAD 370

    Prerequisite(s): FIN 301 
  

  • FIN 323 - Financial Markets & Institutions

    3 Credit Hours
    This course examines money and capital markets, the instruments traded in these markets, and the major financial institutions and regulation of these markets. The first part of the course explores market forces, determining the level and structure of interest rates. In the second part, the money, stock, and bond markets as well as the foreign exchange markets and financial derivatives markets are analyzed. The last part of the course examines the changing structure, management, and regulation of depository institutions and investment companies. Students are strongly encouraged to complete QUAN 201  and FIN 301  before enrolling in this course.

    Previously numbered as ECON 367

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 101  and ECON 102 . 
  

  • FIN 420 - Real Estate Finance and Investments

    3 Credit Hours
    This course introduces students to the methods and procedures used to evaluate real estate financial markets and insurance. Students learn about the role of insurance, mortgage banking, funding sources, and the roles of various financing institutions, both private and governmental, in real estate markets. Students will utilize case studies and spreadsheets throughout this course. Students are strongly encouraged to complete  QUAN 201  before enrolling in this course.

    Prerequisite(s): FIN 301  
  

  • FIN 421 - Financial Statement Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    This course explores the concepts and tools to understand, prepare, read, and analyze corporate financial statements. Students learn how to forecast financial statements, assess earnings announcements and quarterly reports, and evaluate how financial markets respond to corporate announcements. Students will utilize case studies and spreadsheets throughout this course. Students are strongly encouraged to complete QUAN 201  before enrolling in this course.   

    Prerequisite(s): FIN 301 
  

  • FIN 440 - Risk Management and Derivatives

    3 Credit Hours

    Risk Management has matured in the last few decades to be a central concern of financial practitioners, to approach the measurement and management of risks in a systematic fashion. This course intends to equip students with the skills and techniques of risk management. Anyone following a career in finance will deal with the problem of matching the risks of their business to the nature of the business and the returns expected from it. The course will include: Value-at- Risk (VAR), credit evaluation, operation risk measurement, evaluation of economic capital, stress testing, and regulatory matters.  It will also deal in detail with derivatives markets since derivatives are the principal tools used in risk management. 

     

    Prerequisite(s): FIN 301  
  

  • FIN 490 - Special Topics: Finance

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will cover special topics in the area of finance. Topics covered will be based on the research interests of the course instructor. This course may be repeated for credit if the content of each class is different. Students are strongly encouraged to complete QUAN 201  before enrolling in this course.

    Previously numbered as BAD 491

    Prerequisite(s): FIN 301 
  

  • FIN 506 - Foundations in Finance

    0 Credit Hours
    This course introduces students to the concepts and tools used by financial managers. Topics include shareholder wealth maximization, financial statement analysis, working capital management, and time value of money management and application. Students will use and develop skills with Microsoft Excel. Cases and technology exercises will be used to illustrate real-world applications.

    Previously numbered as GSB 615
  

  • FIN 605 - Financial Management

    3 Credit Hours
    This course explores emerging topics in the financial field. Topics include bond and stock valuation, risk management, capital budgeting, cash flow estimation, capital structure theory, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offerings. Students will utilize case studies and spreadsheet applications in this course.

    Previously numbered as GSB 625

    Prerequisite(s): FIN 506  
  

  • FIN 720 - Multinational Financial Management

    3 Credit Hours
    This course examines the principles underlying the benefits of free trade and the impact of government controls on trade such as quotas and tariffs. It also explores the problems, policies and techniques of financial decision making in an international context by discussing the relationships between interest rates, inflation rates, and foreign exchange rates; and emphasizing the determination and management of foreign exchange risk through international money and capital market operations.

    Previously numbered as GSB 733

    Prerequisite(s): FIN 605  
  

  • FIN 721 - Investment Analysis

    3 Credit Hours
    This course examines how to achieve individual and institutional investment objectives. It includes analysis and evaluation of various investment strategies including the evaluation of equity securities. It also provides an in-depth analysis of various techniques for valuing equities such as discounted cash flow methods and multiples.

    Previously numbered as GSB 731

    Prerequisite(s): FIN 605 
  

  • FIN 722 - Options and Derivatives

    3 Credit Hours
    This course examines the use of futures, forwards, options and swaps to manage the exposures that confront a corporation. The course explains what each of these instruments is, how each is priced, how each is useful to manage the exposures confronting a firm and how each is useful in enhancing return for the firm.

    Previously numbered as GSB 732

    Prerequisite(s): FIN 605 
  

  • FIN 724 - Financial Planning and Budgeting in Healthcare Organizations

    3 Credit Hours
    This course examines the institutional setting, goals and financial policies of organizations in the health care field. Special attention is given to performance analysis at both the enterprise and departmental levels, strategic financial planning and capital structure, capital investment decision making and the management of financial risk.

    Previously numbered as GSB 734

    Prerequisite(s): FIN 605  
  

  • FIN 725 - Forecasting and Simulation

    3 Credit Hours
    This course provides students with practical experience in forecasting business activities using software as a means for data interpretation. Students explore spreadsheet modeling techniques which integrate the various functional areas of business, including finance, economics and marketing. Topics include advanced regression analysis with variable transformation, trend modeling, short term forecasting techniques, and simulation. Students are strongly encouraged to complete FIN 506  before enrolling in this course.

    Previously numbered as GSB 735

    Prerequisite(s): QUAN 504  
  

  • FIN 790 - Special Topics in Finance

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will cover special topics in the area of finance. Topics covered will be based on the research interests of the course instructor. This course may be repeated for credit if the content of each class is different. Students are strongly encouraged to complete QUAN 504  before enrolling in this course

    Previously numbered as GSB 737

    Prerequisite(s): FIN 605 
  

  • FREN 101 - Elementary French I-The Basics

    3 Credit Hours
    Students are immersed in the French language from Day One. A hybrid communicative and collaborative learning approach is used to provide students skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in French in a French or Francophone cultural context. Through a study of French grammar and vocabulary, students will develop a basic proficiency.

  

  • FREN 102 - Elementary French II-The Basics

    3 Credit Hours
    This course continues to develop cultural competence and the four language skills. Students will learn structures to discuss their past as well as events in history and will begin looking toward the future and its possibilities.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 101  or equivalent.
  

  • FREN 201 - Intermediate French I-Gateway to Fluency

    3 Credit Hours
    The first of a pair of gateway courses to reinforce and build cultural competence and the four language skills through perpetual review and further development of French grammar, through songs, podcasts of current events and cultural matters, short readings and compositions, conversational practice, and practice in comprehension.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 102  or consent of instructor.
  

  • FREN 202 - Intermediate French II-Gateway to Fluency

    3 Credit Hours
    The second gateway course continues to develop students’ reading and listening skills while emphasizing written and spoken communication. A variety of media launches discussions to enhance students’ cultural competence and communication skills.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 201   or equivalent.
  

  • FREN 211 - Literary Topics: Les Misérables

    Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, a transcendent story of suffering and redemption, grace and damnation, and selflessness and greed, has been feverishly reinvented in books, plays, films, and musicals since it first appeared in 1862. A tense thriller, roundly portraying both hunter and hunted, the story is epic, bearing witness to aftermath of a revolution that culminated in regicide. Hugo captures the drama and dignity of generations of souls condemned to even greater poverty and injustice as the nation struggled to realize the liberal principles of the Enlightenment and establish a new social order. Students will discover the universality of Hugo’s rally for humanitarian causes by analyzing films that retell his story in the contexts of WWII and housing projects of today. Targeted readings and film adaptations from 1957 to 2019 will spark discussion and debate and inform position papers, and students will become intimately familiar with the plight of the poor and the punitive policies that imprison them.

    *Taught in French. 

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 202  or consent of instructor. 
  

  • FREN 260 - Chocolate: French Literature and Colonialization

    3 Credit Hours

    Arriving in France after a complicated journey from the “New World”, chocolate became a medical, social and cultural sensation when it took seventeenth-century Parisian aristocrats and the haute-bourgeoisie by storm. The course asks students to explore the economic, historical, social, political, artistic and cultural legacy of chocolate production and consumption in Francophone countries to discover how the “food of the gods” has affected communities the world over. Student will hone their four language skills, develop cultural competence and practice critical thinking through research, writing, and presentations. Documentaries, literary excerpts (Madame de Sévigné, Proust), and theory (Barthes, Foucault, Glissant) will be introduced. Students will reflect on the social impact today of advertising campaigns and popular movies featuring chocolate. (3 hours)

    * Taught in French. 

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 202  or equivalent.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
  

  • FREN 261 - Versailles: Civilization and Culture

    3 Credit Hours

    From the Grand Siècle to the Enlightenment, this survey of French politics, economics, social and cultural history will give students an understanding of the implications of absolute monarchy and its defects. Louis XIV’s triumphant transformation of Versailles from a hunting lodge to an international world treasure (UNESCO) will be evaluated as the apotheosis of French culture. An architectural and technological wonder, the palace became the ultimate symbol of fine arts and exquisite manners. 

    *Taught in French.


     

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 202  or consent of instructor.

     

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
  

  • FREN 262 - The French Revolution: Civilization and Culture

    3 Credit Hours

    From the French Revolution to recent times, this survey of French political, social, economic, and cultural history will give students an understanding of human rights, which evolved from the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789), as well as the fragility of representative government and the ever-present threat of fascism. French imperialism spread from Algeria to Indochina, and accelerated during the Scramble for Africa. Through a variety of readings and media, students will consider the effects of 19th Century French policies on French, Francophone, and American societies today.

     

    *Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 202  or consent of instructor.

     
  

  • FREN 272 - French Media: Oral French

    3 Credit Hours
    French and Francophone media is the point of departure for this French conversation course, which will help students keep up with current events and discern differences in perspective between French, Francophone and American news. Students will improve their French language production skills, fine tune their pronunciation, expand their vocabulary, and practice listening comprehension through a lively assortment of speaking and listening activities, including role-play, team debates and presentations.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 201  or equivalent.
  

  • FREN 280 - Tour de France: Regions of France

    3 Credit Hours

    Alsatians, Bretons, Occitans and Basques will lead us on a sensory tour of France. Traditional folklore and myths, public and private architecture, folk music, dialects, and regional cuisine will expose students to the profound diversity which persists in the region we recognize today as France. Four tests (one for each region), one research presentation, and a final exam, plus the preparation and consumption of a regional meal will be the students’ contribution to this unforgettable tour.

     

    *Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 202   or consent of instructor.

     
  

  • FREN 289 - Francophone Film: Africa, Caribbean, Quebec

    3 Credit Hours

    This course will compare and contrast a sampling of African, Caribbean and Québecois films to demonstrate the polyvalent character of Francophone cinema. Students will discuss the aesthetic, theoretical and socio-political questions raised in each film’s geopolitical context. Practicalities including production, distribution and exhibition will be considered. Students will view films by Sembène, Mambety, Bekolo, Teno, Sissako, Nacro, Palcy, Monpierre, Peck, Brault, Jultra and Arcand. Knowledge of French is encouraged, but not required.

    * Taught in English.

    Listed also as MFL 289 , BWS 289 , and CAS 289 .

    This course can count toward the major or minor if the student completes the 1-credit intensification in French. 

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts and multicultural studies.
  

  • FREN 290 - Women Write Women: Africa and the Caribbean

    3 Credit Hours

    How do French-speaking African and Caribbean women writers examine and expose their respective cultures and societies in their writing? How do we identify the so-called feminine point of view? Through close readings of Mariama Bâ, Maryse Condé, Fatou Diome, Assia Djebar, Aminata Sow Fall, Werewere Liking and Calixthe Beyala we will discuss how these women illustrate, confront, and negotiate patriarchy, tradition, exile, and migration, and how they resist limiting womanhood to marriage, motherhood, or outcast. Two films (in French with English subtitles) will complement English translations of the above readings. 

    * Taught in English. 

    This course can count toward the major or minor if the student completes the 1-credit intensification in French.

    Listed also as SWG 290  

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature and multicultural studies.
  

  • FREN 291 - Maryse Conde: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

    1.5 Credit Hours
    I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem is Condé’s invention of a life story for the historical figure Tituba, the mixed-race daughter of a slave raped by an English sailor, who was the first of the formally accused witches in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. Condé uses legal and historical records as the basis of her fictional story, with an insistence on the symmetry between historical writing and the writing of fiction. Condé depicts in meticulous detail historical truths about Puritanism and seventeenth-century New England to evoke the drama and hysteria that ensue when the English Puritans’ beliefs collide with the religious practices of people from Africa and the Caribbean. Condé’s play, “In the Time of Revolution,” shows the impact of decisions made in Paris in the disorder following the Revolution of 1789, prior to the establishment of the Third Republic, on the people of Guadeloupe. The two literary pieces bear witness to the experiences of people whose stories are not recorded and evoke neither fiction nor history, but human truth. 
     

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature, in combination with another LT short course.

    This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies, in combination with another short MC course.
  

  • FREN 292 - Tahar Ben Jelloun: French Hospitality

    1.5 Credit Hours
    In Sand Child, Ben Jelloun recounts a Muslim father’s efforts to raise his eighth daughter as a male in order to evade Islam’s patriarchal inheritance laws. In the voice of a professional storyteller in a Marrakesh market in the 1950s, Ben Jelloun plumbs the rich Arabic oral tradition to recount the coming of age of Mohammed Ahmed. The young female man’s letters tell another story, that of Zahra, who enjoys men’s privileges, but yearns for a child. The polemical French Hospitality: Racism and North African Immigrants is no less provocative. Today, it speaks to the estimated 272 million international migrants abandoning their homes in search of work opportunities or simply to escape conflict, violence, and climate change. Ben Jelloun confronts his own Otherness in France and analyzes the relationship between the formerly colonized to their onetime colonizers, the cohabitation of Muslims amidst the Judeo-Christian majority, and the status of non-European minorities in Europe today. Both novel and essay illuminate, at intimate as well as societal levels, Ben Jelloun’s wager on the benefic power of opening of oneself to another. 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature and multicultural studies, if taken with FREN 291.

    This course will satisfy the core requirement in multi cultural studies, if taken with FREN 291.
  

  • FREN 293 - Duras’ Indochina: The Lover

    1.5 Credit Hours

    Marguerite Duras was raised by a poverty-stricken single mother in Vietnam (French Indochina) and left at the age of 17 to study law and politics at the University of Paris. There, she wrote 70 novels, plays, essays, and screenplays, and became a household name. In this course, we will read Duras’ semi-autobiographical novel L’Amant  (1984; The Lover; film, 1992), which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt. We will read Duras’ screenplay to Alain Renais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959; novel 1960), one of the most influential works of the French New Wave. We will explore the limits of words and film, and examine the protean nature of female desire, the evanescent qualities of memory, and the essence of love and power. 

     

     

     
  

  • FREN 294 - Mariama Ba: So Long a Letter

    1.5 Credit Hours
    “To warp a soul is as much a sacrilege as murder,” wrote Senegalese author and advocate for women’s rights, Mariama Bâ, whose French-language novels are available today in a dozen languages. Born in Dakar, Bâ grew up Muslim. Her grandmother instilled in her the traditional values and principles of her society, and the spirituality of its historic past. At her father’s insistence, Bâ received a colonial education and she graduated from the prestigious Ecole Normale as a teacher. She separated from her husband and raised their nine children as a single parent. Bâ’s writing sheds light on the complex and poignant fate of many African women and girls. ”To warp a soul is as much a sacrilege as murder,” wrote Senegalese author and advocate for women’s rights, Mariama Bâ, whose French-language novels are available today in a dozen languages. Born in Dakar, Bâ grew up Muslim. Her grandmother instilled in her the traditional values and principles of her society, and the spirituality of its historic past. At her father’s insistence, Bâ received a colonial education and she graduated from the prestigious Ecole Normale as a teacher. She separated from her husband and raised their nine children as a single parent. Bâ’s writing sheds light on the complex and poignant fate of many African women and girls. This course, when taken with another 1.5 hour French literature class. will earn the literature core area requirement. Also listed as BWS 294.

  

  • FREN 295 - Literary Paris (Short-Term Study Abroad)

    3 Credit Hours

    This course explores aspects of the two thousand year history of the capital of France through world literature in which Paris plays a key role. From its Gallo-Roman origins through the French Revolution to its twenty first century status as a multicultural capital, students will gain perspectives and insight on the role of Paris in France, French society and the world. 

    This course can count toward the major or minor if the student completes the 1-credit intensification in French. 

    *Taught in English. 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
  

  • FREN 301 - Jules Verne: Fantastic Journeys- Discussion

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will read graphic novel editions of Journey to the End of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, and Around the World in 80 Days, and will entertain discussions about humankind’s relation to nature, God and Other. Retracing Verne’s imaginary voyages, students will have fresh encounters with geography and world conservation. Students will enhance their spoken fluency using narratives meant to edify through entertainment. Students will analyze lessons embedded in Verne’s stories to discover new worlds within the world.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 201  or equivalent.
  

  • FREN 302 - The Dreyfus Affair: Advanced Grammar and Composition

    3 Credit Hours
    French writing skills will be the focus of this grammar intensive course that will begin with the context and publication of Émile Zola’s incendiary “J’accuse.” Zola’s letter divided the French people and forced the nation to reconsider its treatment of Jews in France. Students will examine several historical episodes in which words have constituted actions in the public eye, and will contemplate the written word as a vehicle for social change. Students will grapple with the complexities of structure and idiom, composition techniques and grammar review. 

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 201  or equivalent. 
  

  • FREN 319 - French for Business

    3 Credit Hours

    This course offers advanced study of speaking, writing, reading and listening comprehension in French, with special attention to workplace culture and social mobility in the U.S., France and in the Francophone world. Students will master French vocabulary relevant to business and other professional careers, and will easily switch from formal to conversational French depending on context. In addition to a textbook, we will rely on authentic French materials: newspapers, magazines, podcasts, and two films. Students will practice speaking and writing in simulated professional settings to perform a faux job search, job interview and marketing presentation. 

    Notez bien: Students earning a B or better will be invited to take the qualifying exam for a Business French Diploma from the French Chamber of Commerce.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 202  or consent of instructor.
  

  • FREN 353 - The Art of French Cinema

    3 Credit Hours

    From Avant-Garde, Golden Age, cinema of the world wars and Occupation, New Wave and cinema of the fantastic to more recent political/social films, French cinema has borne witness to upheavals and profound changes of mentalities that have French society. Social and historical context, related artistic movements, and rich literary and philosophical traditions imbue French film with competing layers of meaning, which will be explored and pondered during class discussions. Students will become familiar with the formal lexicon of cinematic technique and film analysis. All films are in French with English subtitles.

    * Taught in French. 

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 202  or consent of instructor. 
  

  • FREN 355 - French and Francophone Fairy Tales

    3 Credit Hours

    Cocteau, Demy, Renoir, Malle, Ocelot, Breillat, Alnoy - all brilliant French and Francophone directors who turned to children’s stories to produce films best suited for grownups. What is our fascination with these not so whimsical tales of danger and magic? What values do we wish to inculcate in our children? Students will read fairy tales by Perrault, Hoffman, and West African griots, and will compare written texts to their film adaptations and their interpretations in dance and opera. Students will analyze literary texts and critique performances of the texts, tracing similarities in technique and style across media.

    * Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 202  or consent of instructor.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
  

  • FREN 374 - Saints and Scoundrels

    3 Credit Hours

    This course will consist of analysis and discussion of medieval and Renaissance saints’ vitae, theater (fabliaux, farces, pastourelles), poetry and prose. In the context of the Querelle des femmes, that is, the fierce debate over women’s virtue - or lack of virtue! - as opposed to men’s honor, a debate which pre-occupied French courtiers and writers for centuries, we will do careful readings of representative literary works and reflect on paradoxes of Early Modern French society. Among the questions we will ask is whether the principles of courtly love influence dating and marriage today. Students will become familiar with French literary terminology and the explication de texte.

    *Taught in French. 

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 202  or consent of instructor.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
  

  • FREN 399 - Directed Study

    1-4 Credit Hours
    This option is to be selected only when absolutely necessary (i.e., the student has already taken all courses offered that semester or has a scheduling conflict that cannot be resolved otherwise). The student will work closely with the instructor.

  

  • FREN 450 - Independent Study

    1-4 Credit Hours
    Open to advanced students of exceptional ability with consent of the instructor and senior standing.

  

  • FREN 455 - French Internship

    1-8 Credit Hours
    Academic internships are available for qualified students (3.0 GPA; 3.25 GPA in French). Internships provide students with job experience that enables them to demonstrate their cultural competence and fluency in French. To earn credit hours, students must obtain the approval of the French division director for all internships prior to their completion.

  

  • GEOG 250 - World Regional Geography

    3 Credit Hours
    A study of the physical and cultural patterns of the world to observe specific types of interrelationships and distributions of processes and people.

  

  • GEOG 320 - Global Economic Geography

    3 Credit Hours
    A consideration of the location and functioning of economic activities in various parts of the world.

  

  • GEOL 200 - Our Dynamic Planet

    3-4 Credit Hours
    This is a course in basic physical geology. Study of the formation, occurrences and structures of minerals and rocks; plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain-building processes; glaciers and deserts; erosion and geologic time. In addition, the earth science topics of weather, astronomy, and oceanography will be introduced. To satisfy the laboratory component, students must enroll for 4 semester hours and attend the lab section.

    Listed also as NSC 202 .

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in natural sciences.
  

  • GEOL 231 - Environmental Geology

    3 Credit Hours
    The study of the earth’s environment from a multidisciplinary systems approach. Each system-atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and anthrosphere-is studied separately and then interrelated with the others through considerations of five main topics: methods of study, evolution, physical and chemical composition and structure, classification and behavior or function, and anthropogenic effects in the past, present and future.

    Listed also as NSC 231  and ENVS 231  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in natural sciences.
  

  • GEOL 241 - Current Topics in Environmental Science

    3 Credit Hours
    Listed also as ENVS 241  and NSC 241  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in natural sciences.
  

  • GEOL 251 - Hydrology

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will discuss the many facets of water by looking at its role in the context of the hydrologic cycle, the geologic environment, and relative to ecological and environmental studies. This course utilizes selected concepts from chemistry, biology, climate science, international politics, public policy, business, physics, health, literature, and religion, and looks at some significant current water issues facing the world. Lecture and discussion.

    Listed also as ENVS 251  and NSC 251  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in natural sciences.
  

  • HIST 101 - History of Western Civilization Before 1500

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will investigate the history of Western civilization. Topics will include the civilizations of ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome, and medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe.

    Prerequisite(s): This course is not open to juniors and seniors without consent of the department.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 102 - History of Western Civilization Since 1500

    3 Credit Hours
    This course will investigate the history of Western civilization from 1500 to the present. Topics will include European societies, cultures, economies, and politics.

    Prerequisite(s): This course is not open to juniors and seniors without consent of the department.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 111 - World History Before 1500

    3 Credit Hours
    This course analyzes the global links and interactions between peoples and societies from multiple backgrounds in the period before 1500. River valley civilizations, the rise and fall of empires, long-distance trade, and the spread of world religions are the major themes emphasized in this course.

    Prerequisite(s): This course is not open to juniors and seniors without consent of the department.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 112 - World History After 1500

    3 Credit Hours
    This course analyzes the global links and interactions between peoples and societies from multiple backgrounds in the period after 1500. Topics include the economic transformations of the world, colonial conquest, social revolutions, world conflicts and resolutions, processes of democratization, religion and politics, and globalization.

    Prerequisite(s): This course is not open to juniors and seniors without consent of the department.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 152 - The Atlantic World 1400-1888

    3 Credit Hours
    This is a study of the processes of cultural, social, and economic interaction in and around the Atlantic rim (Europe, Africa, North and South America) between 1400 and the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888.

    Prerequisite(s): This course is not open to juniors and seniors without consent of the department.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 180 - Pre-Colonial Africa

    3 Credit Hours

    This course explores the history of pre-colonial Africa from the 400s to the 1880s. Among the many themes discussed in this course are the trans-Saharan trade, the early spread of Islam, the rise and fall of African empires, and the slave trade.

    This course may be applied to the African history concentration.

    Listed also as BWS 180 

    Prerequisite(s): This course is not open to juniors or seniors without the consent of the department.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 200 - Introduction to Historical Studies

    3 Credit Hours

    This course introduces students to the practice of history as a discipline of study; explores questions about what historians do and how they do it; and offers students the opportunity to conduct archival research, develop writing skills, and consider pathways for history majors in professions. 

     

    This course is required for all history majors and minors.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 201 - A History of Globalization

    3 Credit Hours

    This course analyzes the ebb and flow of global economic and cultural interdependence, emphasizing developments since 1850.

    This course may be applied to the global history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 216 - Foundations of Islamic Civilization to 1456

    3 Credit Hours

    This course introduces students to the rise and early development of Islam from its birth in seventh-century Arabia to the capture of Constantinople in the 1450’s. Topics include pre-Islamic Arabia, the life and time of prophet Muhammad, the major Islamic beliefs and practices, Islamic dynasties, and early Muslim conquests.

    This course may be applied to the global history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 217 - The Age of Empires: Europeans and the World

    3 Credit Hours

    This course explores the processes and consequences of European expansion, imperialism, and colonialism in the broader world. It emphasizes the intersections of race, class, and gender both within Europe and in encounter with other cultures, the links between empire and science, industrialization, and the forging of the modern world.

    This course may be applied to the European or global history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 219 - Islamic Civilizations in the Modern World

    3 Credit Hours

    This course explores the history of modern Islam from the 1450’s to the present. Topics include the later Islamic dynasties, the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the transformations of the Islamic world, the development of militant Islam, the mutual perceptions between Muslims and non-Muslims, and modern religious conflicts.

    This course may be applied to the global history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 221 - American Encounters: The Colonial Age

    3 Credit Hours

    This course is an exploration of the American colonial experience emphasizing the interaction among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans between 1492 and 1763. The course investigates the development of political, religious, economic and social institutions across the American colonies as cultures and communities were destroyed and formed along the Atlantic coast.

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 226 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 223 - Changing America: The Gilded Age Through the New Deal

    3 Credit Hours

    This course covers the tremendous social, economic, and political change in the United States between 1880 and 1940. Focusing on the Progressive movement, the cultural divisions of the 1920s and the Depression, students will examine these periods through in-depth analysis of Hull House, the World’s Fair of 1893, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the Great Migration, and the impact New Deal programs had on everyday Americans.

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 225 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 224 - The American Century, 1940-1990

    3 Credit Hours

    Arguably the United States played a dominant role in global events during the 20th century. From World War II and the decades of Cold War that followed, American culture, economics, and social values reflected a nation whose citizens enjoyed tremendous economic prosperity, witnessed amazing technological advancement, and experienced profound social change. What did these decades mean? How do we understand them in relation to earlier ideas of American destiny? What do they mean in the post-Cold War era?

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 224 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 226 - The Modern Middle East

    3 Credit Hours

    This course introduces students to the general history of the modern Middle East from the end of World War I to the present. Topics discussed will include the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the subsequent remapping of the Middle East, the place of oil in the local economies, the Iranian Revolution, the transition toward democratization, the Iraq War, and the causes and consequences of the Arab Spring. No prior knowledge of the Middle East is required to take this course.

    This course may be applied to the global history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 241 - Colonial Latin America

    3 Credit Hours

    This course is a survey of Spain’s colonial empire in the Americas from the voyages of Christopher Columbus through the wars for independence (1492 to the 1820s), emphasizing the interaction of European and indigenous cultures in shaping the administrative apparatus, the economy, and the social structure of what came to be known as colonial Latin America.

    This course may be applied to the Latin American history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 242 - Modern Latin America

    3 Credit Hours

    This course is a survey of Latin America since the colonial wars for independence (1810s) to the present. It will examine general trends in the region’s quest for political stability and economic prosperity while highlighting differences in each country’s national culture.

    This course may be applied to the Latin American history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 243 - New African Diaspora in the Americas Since 1945

    3 Credit Hours
    By using several categories of analysis such as ethnicity, religion, age, gender, education, race and labor, this course will highlight the current contributions of African immigrant groups to the remaking of the Americas from the end of World War II in 1945 to the present. 

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 244 - Latin American Women

    3 Credit Hours

    This is a history of the vital roles Latin American women have played in that region’s political, economic, and social history from the time of the Spanish Conquest through the present. Topics include ethnicity and gender in colonial society, the evolution of female career options, women’s influence upon politics, and marianismo versus machismo.

    This course may be applied to the Latin American history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 261 - Greek Civilization Golden Age

    3 Credit Hours

    This course is a study of the interrelationships between the economic, social, and political structure of Aegean society, c. 700-323 BCE, and the intellectual and artistic achievements of Greek thought during the period. Readings will include works by Herodotus, Thucydides, and Aristophanes, and modern works on the ancient economy and politics.

    This course may be applied to the European history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 262 - The Roman World

    3 Credit Hours

    This course examines Rome’s conquest of a Mediterranean empire. We will address how major social conflicts and political inventiveness during the century of Roman “revolution” contributed not only to the later establishment of autocratic rule but also to reciprocal cultural changes with the peoples of the empire.

    This course may be applied to the European history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  and CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 267 - Crusade and Jihad

    3 Credit Hours

    This is a study of the holy wars between medieval Christians and Muslims including religious beliefs, military and political events, and economic and cultural consequences.

    This course may be applied to the European or global history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 270 - The Silk Road

    3 Credit Hours

    This class explores the history of the Silk Road, a system of trade routes connecting the Far East to the Mediterranean from roughly 100 BCE to around 1350 CE. It looks at the cultures of the people who lived along the Silk Road and focuses on their moments of interaction.

    This course may be applied to the global history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 271 - The Viking World

    3 Credit Hours

    This course examines the Vikings both in their homelands and in the many regions to which they traveled. We will look at them as merchants, conquerors, pilgrims, colonists, mercenaries, pirates, historians, and storytellers.

    This course may be applied to the European or global history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 273 - The Byzantine Empire

    3 Credit Hours
    This course offers an overview of the political, religious, cultural, social, and economic history of the Byzantine Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire) from the time of Constantine until the conquest of Constantinople in 1453. The class also provides an introduction to the many disciplines from which scholars study the past.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 275 - Medieval and Renaissance Europe

    3 Credit Hours

    This course offers an overview of the political, religious, cultural, social, and economic history of medieval and Renaissance Europe from the decline of Roman authority in the West to the Peace of Augsburg (1555 C.E.). The class also provides an introduction to the many disciplines from which scholars study the past. It is the core class for the medieval and Renaissance studies minor.

    This course may be applied to the European history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 276 - The Fall of Rome: From Constantine to Charlemagne

    3 Credit Hours

    This course begins by examining the decline of the Roman Empire, then looks at the first four groups to claim their legacy -Byzantium, the Islamic Caliphate, the Catholic Church, and the Holy Roman Empire.

    This course may be applied to the European history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 280 - Colonial Africa

    3 Credit Hours

    This course introduces students to the history of Africa between the 1880s and the 1960s. The course focuses on the interwoven relationships between European colonialism and African nationalism. Topics include the partition of Africa, European colonial systems, Africans in the world wars, decolonization and anti-colonial struggles, and gender relations.

    This course may be applied to the African history concentration.

    Listed also as BWS 281 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 282 - Digital History

    3 Credit Hours
    This project-based course will explore the use of digital technologies in the investigation of historical questions. Students will examine historical evidence and scholarship using traditional printed sources, online resources, data sets and other online resources to build their own collaborative, accessible digital resources as part of their contribution to the growing body of scholarship available to the digital humanities community, public history and social studies education. 

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 293 - European National States in Crisis 1871-1945

    3 Credit Hours

    This course examines Europe from the unification of Germany in 1871 to the division of Germany in 1945, emphasizing the relationship between national social and political change and international conflict.

    This course may be applied to the European history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 294 - Post-War Europe, 1945 to the Present

    3 Credit Hours

    Students will study the historical processes that made it sensible to speak of Europe as a political and cultural whole from the division of Germany through its reunification and beyond, emphasizing the relationship between social and political change and international conflict.

    This course may be applied to the European history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 296 - American Mass Media History

    3 Credit Hours
    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as CAS 294  and AMST 294 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 307 - Voices from the Past: Introduction to Oral History

    3 Credit Hours
    Oral history is the structured collection of living people’s testimony about their own lives and experiences. It is an excellent research tool for understanding the perspectives of those whose voices are excluded from other recorded forms of history. Oral history can also provide important personal interpretations of historical events in the recent past. Using oral history and ethnographic case studies, this course examines the purpose, theory, and practice of oral history. Students will conduct their own oral history interviews as part of this course.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  
  

  • HIST 308 - Saints and Sinners of the Middle Ages

    3 Credit Hours

    This course will examine key questions debated by Christians from the origins of the faith in the Roman era to the end of the Middle Ages, many of which continue to be discussed today. These may include: should Christians use violence at all, and if so, under what circumstances? What is the correct relationship between the Church and the government? What makes a person a saint - celibacy? Harsh asceticism? Aiding the poor? Preaching the Gospel? What is the appropriate role of wealth and property in the life of a dedicated Christian? Should a Christian seeking religious truth rely only on the Bible and revelation, or do logic and scientific inquiry have a role to play? Students will work with primary sources in translation and significant works of modern scholarship. 

    This course may be applied to the European history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 315 - Latin American Revolutions

    3 Credit Hours

    This course examines social and political upheavals in 19th- and 20th-century Latin America. Students will study theories of “revolution” as a social science concept and apply this knowledge to analyze specific case studies, namely the Latin American independence movements, the Mexican Revolution, and the Cuban Revolution.

    This course may be applied to the Latin American history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 319 - The African-American Experience Since 1877

    3 Credit Hours

    This course examines and analyzes the variety of economic, social, cultural, and religious experiences in diversity within the African-American community, the growth of the black middle class, the Great Migration, the creation of the black urban working class, the visions of black leadership – including W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey and Booker T. Washington – and the experience of the civil rights movement and its legacy.

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 321  and BWS 321 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  orCRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 320 - From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Experience From 1619 to 1877

    3 Credit Hours

    This course examines and analyzes the variety of economic, social, cultural, and religious experiences in African-American communities from the colonial era to the end of Reconstruction. This course focuses on the construction of a distinct African-American culture and identity in the face of slavery, the complexity of the free African-American community in the North, and the persistent political struggle for freedom and equality found in the actions, rhetoric, and faith of African-American men and women during this period.

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 320  and BWS 320 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 328 - Latin American and United States Relations

    3 Credit Hours

    This course examines the political, economic, and cultural components of Latin America’s diplomatic history with the United States from the late colonial period (1700s) and the independence era to the present. The course focuses on the ways Latin American countries individually and collectively have responded to the United States’ growing presence in inter-regional affairs through the 19th and 20th centuries.

    This course may be applied to the global, Latin American, or United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 328  

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 329 - Caudillos and Dictators in Latin America

    3 Credit Hours
    This course explores the cultural context of men such as Simón Bolívar, Porfirio Díaz, Juan Perón, and Fidel Castro, and questions Latin America’s seeming propensity for authoritarian rule. This course may be applied to the Latin American history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 330 - American Food History: Migration and Encounter in American Foodways

    3 Credit Hours
    This course is an interactive history course that analyzes the history of American foodways from contact in the sixteenth century to modern times.  We will trace the history of immigration, migration and cross-cultural encounter on this continent through the food Americans have cooked and eaten over the last four hundred years-by reading, discussing, and cooking some of it in the nutrition sciences kitchen.  Topics include American Barbeque and borderlands, Tex-Mex, Soul Food and African influences on Southern foodways, Americanized “ethnic” food (i.e. Italian Beef, General Tso’s Chicken, Corned Beef), and more. Includes two hours of seminar discussion and two hours of laboratory (kitchen) session each week. Lab fee applies.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 333 - 19th Century American Popular Culture

    3 Credit Hours

    This class offers students an introduction to the main currents of American popular culture from the 19th century and the very early 20th century and its relationship to our current society. In addition to identifying the varied aspects of American popular culture and tracking the development of its many manifestations, this class will demonstrate how these aspects reflected and were shaped by historical trends and events.  We will also consider how entertainment, technology, consumerism, and mass communication mold the individual’s perceptions of his or her world. Some of the topics covered include the circus, P.T. Barnum’s world, the minstrel show, vaudeville, and burlesque.

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 333 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 334 - 20th Century American Popular Culture

    3 Credit Hours

    This class offers students an introduction to the main currents of American popular culture of the 20th century. In addition to identifying the varied aspects of American popular culture, and tracking the development of its many manifestations, this class will demonstrate how these aspects reflected and were shaped by historical trends and events. We will also consider how entertainment, technology, consumerism, and mass communication mold the individual’s perceptions of his or her world. Some of the topics covered include baseball, the blues, jazz, country and western music, rock and roll, the radio, television, and the comic strip. 

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 334 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 335 - Russian Politics and Culture: From Peter to Putin

    3 Credit Hours
    This course analyzes the evolution of Russian politics and society through its three key historical periods: the Russian Empire of the Romanovs beginning with the reign of Peter the Great, the Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia. Students will examine major themes across these periods, such as Russia’s relationship with West, the role of the intelligentsia, women and gender, modernization and Westernization, and Russia’s geographic and cultural identity.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 345 - From Crossroads to Metropolis: U.S. Urban History Since 1800

    3 Credit Hours

    Emphasizing Chicago, this course explores the historical development of American cities, focusing upon the interaction between the urban environment and its inhabitants and exploring reasons for the growth and development of cities as well as how this growth influenced culture. 

     

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 345 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 346 - Making a Living: U.S. Working-Class History

    3 Credit Hours

    This course examines the American working-class experience since the 19th century. Readings, films, and discussions will explore class formation, working-class communities, workplace culture and collective action including unionization.We will explore how industrialization, deindustrialization, and the construction of a service economy have shaped the experience of the American working class. How race and gender intersect with class will be central to our study. Americans are decidedly self-conscious and even anxious about discussing social class. This course will “make class visible” and explore the experience of American working-class people, their lives at work, at home, and in politics and popular culture.

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 336 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 348 - Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

    3 Credit Hours

    This course examines the role of ethnic and racial identity in American history, with a focus on the construction of “whiteness.” Readings and discussion for this course will address the immigration experience, the interaction among ethnic and racial groups in America, the creation of ethnic enclaves, and the development of unique hyphenated-American ethnic group identities and how these phenomena have changed over time.

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 348 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 350 - Medieval Women and Gender

    3 Credit Hours

    This course is a survey of the history of women and family in the Middle Ages. We will examine women from all levels of society and consider medieval constructions of gender and patriarchy.

    This course may be applied to the European history concentration.

    Listed also as SWG 350 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 354 - Inventing Victory: The United States in World War II

    3 Credit Hours

    This is the story of how the United States cooperated with Britain in formulating the grand strategy that eventually prevailed, and how its mighty industrial and agricultural arsenal was essential to victory in World War II.

    This course may be applied to the global or United States history concentration.

    Previously numbered asHIST 451

    Listed also as AMST 451 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 367 - The American West

    3 Credit Hours

    This course is an in-depth analysis of the American frontier as shared and contested space. Readings and discussion will address the meaning of contact between European-Americans, Native Americans, and African-Americans on the frontier, the changes to the landscape and environment, the “internal empire” of the American West in natural resources, and the myths of the American West including the place of the West in American identity.

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 337 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 368 - Gender and Urban Life

    3 Credit Hours

    This course addresses the relationship between urban America and ideas of gender as well as race and class. Through readings and discussion, students examine how the urban experience both reflects and influences cultural definitions of gender and sexuality. Critical themes under investigation include the commercialization of sexuality, the idea of the city as a place for personal freedom and institutional oppression for both men and women, and the city as a dangerous place for women.

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 338 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  
  

  • HIST 372 - European Popular Culture 1500-1900

    3 Credit Hours

    This course explores the fate of the oral cultures of Europe in the face of developing literacy and cultural commercialism. Topics include popular notions of self and community, popular religious beliefs and forms of popular resistance to authority.

    This course may be applied to the European history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
  

  • HIST 378 - Native American History

    3 Credit Hours

    This course introduces students to the complex and rich culture, history, and worldview of Native American peoples. The course will address the period from the ancient civilizations of North America to the European/Native American contact as well as life for native peoples under the aegis of the United States.  There will be a special focus upon the tribes of the arid Southwest, the woodland peoples of the Northeast, the agricultural societies of the Southeast, and the roving bands of the plains.

    This course may be applied to the United States history concentration.

    Listed also as AMST 378 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101  or CRWS 101  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.
 

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