Sep 27, 2024  
2020-2021 University Bulletin 
    
2020-2021 University Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

Course Descriptions


 
  
  • FASH 450 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours 1-4
    Content and credit tailored to the individual needs of the student.

  
  • FASH 455 - Internship

    Credit Hours 2-8
    Training in a business establishment for a designated number of hours a week under the supervision of faculty member and the manager of the business establishment.

    Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing.

  
  • FASH 470 - International Sourcing and Brand Development

    Credit Hours 3
    An examination of the product development process and study of the roles of manufacturing, wholesaling, and retailing and the interrelationship of allied industries; development of a comprehensive merchandise plan for a product line with perspectives on the consumer, manufacturer, retailer, and international sourcing. Emphasis on understanding the industry through global social responsibility.

    Previously numbered as 370

    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing.

  
  • FASH 495 - Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation

    Credit Hours 1-3
    Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

  
  • FIN 301 - Corporate Finance

    Credit Hours 3
    This course examines important issues from the perspective of financial managers responsible for making investment and financing decisions. Students learn how to create a framework for understanding and addressing financial problems faced by corporate decision makers and then apply this framework to business situations. Topics in this course include time value of money, risk and return, valuation of debt and equity, capital budgeting, project risk analysis, and capital structure decisions. Students are strongly encouraged to complete QUAN 201  before enrolling in this course.

    Previously numbered as BAD 350

    Prerequisite(s): ACCT 101  

  
  • FIN 320 - International Finance

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    This course explores the financial decisions managers face, emphasizing how these decisions can create or destroy value. Students learn how to evaluate corporate projects and make decisions using financial data. Topics in this course include initial public offerings, mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, optimal capital structure, dividend policy, and working capital management. 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 322 - Investments and Portfolio Management

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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 - Insurance and Real Estate Finance

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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 490 - Special Topics: Finance

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 0
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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 - Health Care Finance

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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 205 - French Language

    Credit Hours 3
    Credit for this course is recorded for students who have earned a score of 4 or 5 on the AP language exam in French or have been awarded the Seal of Biliteracy in French. The three credits may be counted towards the major or minor in French. However, fulfillment of the language requirement and placement into the French language sequence is determined by Dominican University assessment.  

  
  • FREN 211 - Literary Topics: Les Miserables

    Credit Hours 1.5


    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 1.5
    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, if taken with FREN 292 Tahar Ben Jelloun.

    This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies, if taken with FREN 292 Tahar Ben Jelloun.
  
  • FREN 292 - Tahar Ben Jelloun: French Hospitality

    Credit Hours 1.5
    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 295 - Literary Paris

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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 357 - Literature and Colonialism: Chocolate

    Credit Hours 3


    Arriving in France after a complicated journey from the “New World” chocolate became a medical, social and cultural sensation when it took 17th century Paris 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. Students will hone their four language skills, develop cultural competence and practice critical thinking through research, writing and presentations. Literary excerpts (Mme. de Sévigné, Proust), theory (Barthes, Foucault, Glissant), and documentaries will be introduced. Students will reflect on the impact of climate change on cocoa and coffee bean and sugar cane production today.

    * 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

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 1-4
    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

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

  
  • FREN 455 - French Internship

    Credit Hours 1-8
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

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

  
  • GEOL 200 - Our Dynamic Planet

    Credit Hours 3-4
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    Listed also as ENVS 241  and NSC 241  

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

  
  • GEOL 251 - Hydrology

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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 103 - Ancient Western Civilization

    Credit Hours 3
    Credit for this course is recorded for students who have earned a score of 50 or higher on the Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648 CLEP exam. The credits may be counted towards the major or minor in history. However, this course does not fulfill the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 104 - Modern Western Civilization

    Credit Hours 3
    Credit for this course is recorded for students who have earned a score of 50 or higher on the Western Civilization II: 1648 to the Present CLEP exam. The credits may be counted towards the major or minor in history. however, this course does not fulfill the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 111 - World History Before 1500

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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 120 - Latinx Chicago

    Credit Hours 3
    Chicago has long been home to many vibrant Latino communities. This course will examine the development of Mexican Chicago in the early 20th century and the growth of the mid-century Puerto Rican community and will investigate the late 20th-century issues of gentrification, deindustrialization and the immigrant rights movement and their impact on Latino communities in the city and suburbs. Students will learn how to use historical resources; build important reading, critical analysis, and writing skills; and visit sites around the city to see firsthand the past and present of Latinx Chicago. Students will learn to use relevant primary and secondary sources in their own accounts of the past, analyze the significance of a given historical change, and formulate an argument about historical causality.

    Prerequisite(s): Open only to freshman and sophomores.

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 143 - History of the American People to 1877

    Credit Hours 3


    Beginning with the British colonization of North America, the course covers the issues leading to the American Revolution, as well as the development of the political, economic, intellectual, and cultural forces that led to the Civil War and the subsequent reconstruction of the nation.

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

    This course will not satisfy the history core area requirement.

    Listed also as AMST 143 .

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

  
  • HIST 144 - History of the American People From 1877

    Credit Hours 3


    At the end of Reconstruction, a new America emerged, marked by rapid expansion, industrial growth, and technological change. In the 20th century, America became a world power. Four wars, a major depression, and incredible scientific, technological, and industrial development altered the economic, social, political, and intellectual life of Americans in the second half of the 20th century.

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

    This course will not satisfy the history core area requirement.

    Listed also as AMST 144 .

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

  
  • HIST 152 - The Atlantic World 1400-1888

    Credit Hours 3
    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 154 - South Pacific World

    Credit Hours 3
    This course offers an overview of a roughly 200 year period (1700-1900) in the history of the South Pacific. It examines how the era of European expansionism through earlier periods of cartographic exploration (navigational mapping) culminated in the establishment of a network of colonial trading outposts in the 18th century and then transposed into a multi-purpose strategic, scientific, economic and imperial enterprise in the 19th century. In other words, our guiding question is, “How did the Pacific world change from its own pace of historically unfolding contexts to one that involved European colonialism and ultimately imperialism across approximately two centuries?” Our deeper purpose is two-fold: to examine how Europeans’ motives for sailing the Pacific Ocean underwent change as society itself changed back home in Europe, as well as to study broader processes of inter-cultural contact.

    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.

    This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
  
  • HIST 180 - Pre-Colonial Africa

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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 213 - Modern China Since 1800

    Credit Hours 3


    This course examines Chinese responses to westernization from the Opium War to the post-Mao era. The course places contemporary China in the intellectual, social, political, and economic framework of a century and a half of revolution.

    This course may be applied to the global history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 214 - Modern Japan Since 1800

    Credit Hours 3


    This course examines the background to and development of modern Japan from pre-Perry feudalism to present-day industrial prominence. The course stresses the influence of indigenous and foreign forces on Japanese modernization and traces Japan’s rise, fall, and resurgence as a great power in the 19th and 20th centuries.

    This course may be applied to the global history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

  
  • HIST 216 - Foundations of Islamic Civilization to 1456

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

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

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 219 - Islamic Civilizations in the Modern World

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 221 - American Encounters: The Colonial Age

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 222 - Building a Nation: The U.S. From Revolution to Reconstruction

    Credit Hours 3


    This course examines the tremendous changes the young United States experienced in its first century as a nation. We will explore topics such as the American Revolution, the market revolution, westward expansion, civil war, immigration, urbanization and middle-class family life from the end of the colonial era to the late 19th century.

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

    Listed also as AMST 343 

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

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

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 226 - The Modern Middle East

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 239 - Medieval Spain

    Credit Hours 3
    This course will examine the complex political, social, and religious interaction of cultures on the Iberian peninsula from the time of the Visigoths until the conquistadores (400s-1500s), focusing on the Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions. We will test various models used by historians to examine cultural relations within the Iberian peninsula and its inhabitants’ interactions with the wider world, including “convivencia,” holy war, persecution, trade and discovery.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 241 - Colonial Latin America

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 242 - Modern Latin America

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 261 - Greek Civilization Golden Age

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 262 - The Roman World

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 269 - Medieval England

    Credit Hours 3
    Politics, culture and society from the Anglo-Saxon conquest of England to 1485. Topics include the development of English monarchy and of the English constitution, such changes in the English social system as the development of serfdom and its decline in the later Middle Ages, and the relationship between changing English society and English achievements in politics intellectual life and the arts.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 270 - The Silk Road

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 271 - The Viking World

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 275 - Medieval and Renaissance Europe

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

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

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 280 - Colonial Africa

    Credit Hours 3


    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

    Credit Hours 3
    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. Students will work with faculty from History, Informatics and Education 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  

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 291 - Europe Between Popes and Kings

    Credit Hours 3


    History of Europe’s change from a universal Christian community of dynastic realms to a community of territorialized dynastic states and territorialized Christian sects.

    This course may be applied to the European History concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 292 - Making European National States 1688-1871

    Credit Hours 3


    This course studies the programs of sovereignty and popular sovereignty as they developed in Europe between the middle of the 18th century and World War I. Particular attention will be paid to the interaction of politics, class, and political institutions.

    This course may be applied to the European history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

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

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

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

    Credit Hours 3


    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 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 296 - American Mass Media History

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

    Listed also as CAS 294  and AMST 294 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

  
  • HIST 301 - Jerusalem From Antiquity to the Present

    Credit Hours 3


    This class examines the history of many people, states, conflicts, and beliefs through the story of Jerusalem. We begin with the founding of the city, and then study its fate when ruled by many outsiders, including the Babylonians, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, Ottoman Turks, and British. We conclude by looking at the divided city in the nation of Israel.

    This course may be applied to the global history concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

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

    Credit Hours 3
    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 

  
  • HIST 308 - The Catholic Church in the Middle Ages

    Credit Hours 3


    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 312 - American Intellectual History

    Credit Hours 3


    This course is an overview of intellectual trends and developments in America beginning with European inheritance and focusing upon the later development of ideas and value systems native to America. The course will attempt to tie ideological developments to actual events with a view to showing that ideas do have the power to affect events.

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

    Listed also as AMST 317 .

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 

    This course will satisfy the core area requirement in history.

 

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