Mar 29, 2024  
Academic Catalog 2019-2020 
    
Academic Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

History

  
  • HIST 115 - East Asian Civilization


    4 credit(s)
    A historical survey of three Asian countries: China, Japan, and Korea. We will begin with an introduction to the historical, cultural, and philosophical foundations of East Asia. Then we will examine how East Asia became modern, focusing on socio-economic transformations and geopolitical challenges from the 16th century to the dawn of the 21st century. Major themes include Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism; Imperial China and Korea; Tokugawa Japan; Pan-Asianism; Imperialism; and post-World War Two reconstruction and reforms.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: International Perspective and Historical Context.
  
  • HIST 141 - American History I


    4 credit(s)
    The first of a two-part survey of American history from European settlement to the Civil War, and from Reconstruction to the present. The parts may be taken separately.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
  
  • HIST 142 - American History II


    4 credit(s)
    The second of a two-part survey of American history from Reconstruction to the present. The parts may be taken separately.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
  
  
  • HIST 195 - Independent Study


    See department for details. Independent study contract required.
  
  • HIST 200 - The Geography and Politucs of Africa


    2 credit(s)
    A general survey of the geography of Africa and a more detailed analysis on the basic characteristics of politics in Africa with attention to the role of the military, violence, and ethnicity. Individual countries will be used to illustrate the great variety of politics, especially in comparing North Africa from sub-Saharan Africa. Ghana, South Africa, Egypt, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are usually covered in more detail.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
  
  • HIST 203 - History in the Pacific World


    4 credit(s)
    Reading seminar that examines transnational connections among Asia, Hawaii, and the United States. Major topics and themes include colonialism and resistance, global migration and diasporas, race relations, World War II, the Cold War, and globalization. Previously Listed As: HIST 415
    Offered: Offered alternate years.

    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Analyzing and Interpreting Texts and International Persepctives.
  
  • HIST 205 - History of the Crusades


    4 credit(s)
    This class is a history of the causes and course of the crusades (ca. 1070-1291) from the perspective of both the Christian Europeans and the Muslim Arabs and Turks. The class will cover Europe from the beginning of the eleventh century when the reform movements that set the crusades in motion began, until the end of crusading in the early thirteenth century; and the social/cultural history of the interaction between Muslims and Christians in the Holy Land during the period of the crusades. The focus will be on events in the Middle East rather than in Europe. Instruction will be based on lecture, discussion, videos, and writing assignments.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
  
  • HIST 208 - England From Rome to Revolution


    4 credit(s)
    This course covers the history and culture of England from the Roman period through the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Equal attention is given to political and social/cultural aspects of English history. Through reading of primary sources, discussions and lecture, the course deals with the distinctiveness of England, as well as placing the nation within a broad European historical context.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
  
  • HIST 211 - Japan Past & Present With Film


    4 credit(s)
    This class surveys Japanese history and culture using classical Japanese films as a primary text, supplemented with assigned readings. The goals of the class are to acquaint students with an overview of Japanese history and culture, and to learn to read films, particularly Japanese classical films, as text.
    Core Requirement(s): Comparative Cultural, International Perspectives, Historical Context
  
  • HIST 216 - History of Modern Japan


    4 credit(s)
    Introduces students to the history of modern Japan, from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to the present. Major themes and events include Japan’s development as a nation-state, its colonial empire, the Asia-Pacific War, and its “miraculous” postwar recovery and growth. Although the course ostensibly surveys the history of a single nation and society, the emphasis will be on how this history relates to broader socio-economic and political phenomena throughout the world. Offered alternate years. Counts toward core requirement: International Perspectives.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: International Perspectives and Historical Context.
  
  • HIST 217 - Making of Modern China


    4 credit(s)
    This course provides a survey introduction to the history of modern China from the Qing dynasty in the nineteenth century through China’s tumultuous twentieth century. Major themes include: the Opium War; the 1911 Revolution; China’s exploration of different systems of government like republicanism, militarism, nationalism, and socialism; intraregional cooperation and conflict; the battle between the Nationalists and the Communists; and urban-rural social divides. The latter part of the course will focus on the post-1949 era marked by state socialism and events such as the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and Tiananmen Square.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Historical Context and International Perspectives.
  
  • HIST 232 - The Holocaust


    4 credit(s)
    This course explores the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, the persecution of Jews and others in the Third Reich, and the ultimate extermination of the Jews of Europe, Gypsies, political enemies, and others deemed undesirable by the Nazi dictatorship of Europe during the Second World War.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Diverse Perspectives and Historical Context.
  
  • HIST 233 - WWII:Global & Social Issues


    4 credit(s)
    This class will analyze the origins and impact of the Second World War. We will begin in 1918 by looking at the Treaty of Versailles that ended the Great War, trace the rise of Mussolini and Hitler, examine the world-wide economic crisis in the 1930s, and isolationism in America. We will also investigate American life during the war, Japanese internment and negative portrayals of Japanese in US propaganda, the Holocaust, atomic warfare, the plight of gay and black soldiers, and the postwar world that led to American global power as well as a new Cold War with the Soviet Union.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Historical Context and Diverse Perspectives.
  
  • HIST 234 - The Trial of Galileo


    2 credit(s)
    The Trial of Galileo shows the confrontation between Copernicanism, as brilliantly propounded by Galileo, and the elegant cosmology of Aristotle, as defended energetically by conservatives within the Inquisition. The issues range from the nature of faith and the meaning of the Bible to the scientific principles and methods as advanced by Copernicus, Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Giordano Bruno, and Galileo. The course is organized as a role-playing game with each student adhering to individual game objectives with written and oral assignments specific to each role.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Analyzing and Interpreting Texts.
  
  • HIST 235 - Europe Since World War II


    4 credit(s)
    This course examines the history of Europe and its relation to the world at large from the close of World War II to the current examining questions of the continent’s future in the global community. Since 1945, Europe has struggled to redefine itself in the context of the war’s problematic legacy, the cold war’s competing ideologies, nationalist struggles of independence, discrepancies of affluence and poverty, and the difficulties of global market competition. It is a process that continues today as the continent moves slowly toward economic and political integration.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
  
  • HIST 239 - Latin America I: Conquest-Independence


    4 credit(s)
    Survey of Latin American history from 200 C.E. to 1810 C.E. with a focus on the pre-Columbian Mayan, Aztec, and Inca civilizations; the conquest and settlement of Mexico, Central America, and South America by the Spanish and Portuguese; and the colonial institutions in Spanish America and Brazil up to the beginnings of the movements toward independence. Special emphasis will be given to the clash of indigenous and European religious/spiritual outlooks, political economy, and the interaction of issues of race, class, and gender in the emergence of syncretic New World societies. Also listed as POLS 239 .
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: International Perspectives and Historical Context.
  
  • HIST 245 - African American History Since 1865


    4 credit(s)
    A history of African American politics, culture, and thought since the end of the Civil War.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Historical Context and Diverse Perspectives.
  
  • HIST 247 - Gender & Sexuality in Victorian America


    4 credit(s)
    This course treats the development and spread of Victorian culture in the United States during the nineteenth century, particularly as it defined ideas about gender and sexuality. Focus is on the creation of “women’s sphere” and ways in which women accommodated themselves to domesticity, rebelled against it, or used it themselves to discipline their husbands and sons. Also listed as GSS 247 .
    Core Requirement(s): Counts towards core requirements: Historical Context and Diverse Perspectives.
  
  • HIST 248 - Public Health, Private Bodies


    4 credit(s)
    This course explores the changing relationship between institutional and societal efforts to maintain public health, contemporary knowledge about human bodies, disease, and “health,” and the efforts by individuals and local communities to control their own health through the course of American history. Students will confront the efforts by the state and institutions to expand their power and deploy their knowledge in efforts to control unsanitary environments, the ways in which new forms of technology has transformed the healthiness of environments, as well as the ways in which that this knowledge of bodies and health was informed by historical understandings of poverty, of race, and of gender. Also listed as PH 248 .
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
  
  
  • HIST 256 - Leaders & Leadership


    4 credit(s)
    Provides an overview of leaders and leadership from ancient times to the modern era. We will assess how the historical context as well as notions of gender, race, sexuality, and class have shaped convictions about effective leadership. Reading texts from Herodotus, the Bible, Saint Augustine, Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and theories put forth in contemporary leadership studies, we will analyze the use of rhetoric, political skills, emotional intelligence, passion, team work, decision-making, conflict resolution, and grit that has propelled leaders in the fields of politics, business, the military, social movements, and religion. We will investigate the characteristics deemed necessary in a leader, various leadership styles (situational, autocratic, facilitative, cross-cultural, servant, transformational), the tension between effectiveness and ethics, and the emerging fields of thought leaders and “influencers.”
    Offered: Offered alternate years.

    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
  
  • HIST 260 - Sports in America


    4 credit(s)
    Course uses sports as a lens to understand the history and culture of American life from the Puritan era until the present. Football fields, ice rinks, baseball parks, and basketball courts hosted not only athletic competitions; they reflected and, in turn, influenced ideas about race, gender, class, and ethnicity. Through an analysis of newspaper articles, biographies, documentaries, and declarations, this class will  investigate how sports transformed from the  amateur ideal to a modern multi-billion dollar  industry of professionals. Athletics also plays a  ignificant role in the formation of personal  identity, loyalty (at the local, state, and national level), and in political protests for social justice.
    Offered: Offered alternative years.

    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Diverse Perspectives; Historical Context
  
  • HIST 275 - Internship


    1-4 credit(s)
    See department for details. Internship contract required.
  
  • HIST 295 - Independent Study


    See department for details. Independent study contract required.
  
  • HIST 301 - The Medieval World: 400-1500


    4 credit(s)
    This class treats the medieval world from the development of medieval institutions in the first century AD through the mid-fifteenth century. The class stresses social/cultural issues, but also provides an understanding of political and constitutional developments of the period. The class is run as a seminar with some lecture. Class discussions are based on reading of primary texts.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits).
  
  • HIST 305 - The History of Magic & Witchcraft


    4 credit(s)
    This course deals with medieval and early European conceptions of and reactions to magic, sorcery, and witchcraft from pre-Christian Late Antiquity through the early modern period. The major themes of the course are (1) the development of ecclesiastical/intellectual notions of magic and heresy, (2) popular beliefs and practices regarding magic and witchcraft, (3) placing the great witch trials of the late medieval/early modern periods in an historical context of contemporary persecutions of various minorities, (4) explication of the “mature witchcraft theory” and the process of the witch trials.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits).
  
  • HIST 306 - The Roman Empire


    4 credit(s)
    This course is a history of the Roman Empire in Western Europe beginning with its origins in the eighth century BCE and ending with the ethnic, political, and social changes in the fifth century CE. In addition to dealing with classical Rome, the course covers the rise of Christianity in the first century and the immigration of the so-call barbarians beginning in the third century. The course focuses equally on (a) institutional, military, and political developments, and (b) social, intellectual and cultural traditions. Class time is devoted to lecture, films, discussion of readings, and student presentations.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits) or HIST 101 .
  
  • HIST 313 - World War II in History & Memory


    4 credit(s)
    This course examines the changes in public memory of World War II in different countries in Asia, Europe, and North America from the immediate aftermath of the war to the present. It pays particular attention to the heightened interest in the war in recent decades and the intersections between memory and history played out in various media forms.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Historical Context and International Perspectives.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits), HIST 232 , or HIST 235 .
  
  • HIST 318 - The Business of Capitalism in East Asia


    4 credit(s)
    In the past sixty-odd years, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and, most recently, China, have all become leading economic powers in the world. How did this happen? Why did it happen? Is there such a thing as an “East Asian Business Model”? This course is a comparative history of how capitalism developed in East Asia, with a particular focus on the post-World War Two era. Topics will include the role of science and technology, the interwar economy, the so-called East Asian Model of development, the “Japanese miracle,” the rise of “Market Socialism” in China, the Japanese “bubble economy,” and the role of “traditional” Asian cultures and heritages.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Historical Context and International Perspectives.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing (60 or more completed credits).
  
  • HIST 319 - Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire


    4 credit(s)
    This course examines imperialism in East Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores colonial ideologies and structures of rule of Western imperialist powers compared to that of Japan. Major topics include Pan-Asianism, anti-colonial nationalism, wartime mobilization, life under colonial rule, and the postcolonial legacy of Japan’s empire.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Historical Context and International Perspective.
  
  • HIST 333 - History of the British Empire


    4 credit(s)
    This course examines the history of modern British Empire from the nineteenth century race for empire to the post-colonial world. Using the lens of the British Empire, the largest of all European empires, the course examines the political and economic impulses for imperialism, the nature of various imperial systems, the impact of imperialism on both the colonizer and the colonized, the turmoil of national independence and decolonization, and the lasting legacies of imperialism in the post-colonial world.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits) or HIST 103  or HIST 104  with a minimum grade of C-.
  
  • HIST 335 - The Era of the First World War


    4 credit(s)
    This course explores the historical period of the First World War in Europe. It focuses on the causes, course and effects of the war within a European perspective in terms of the political, social, cultural and intellectual contexts. It is designed to consider the impact of WWI on European society as the formative event of the 20th century
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits).
  
  • HIST 338 - Era of the French Revolution


    4 credit(s)
    This course explores the historical period of the French Revolution from the Enlightenment through the defeat of Napoleon. It focuses on the causes, course and effects of the Revolution in terms of the political, social, cultural and intellectual contexts. It is designed to consider the impact of the French Revolution as the defining moment of the modern period.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits).
  
  • HIST 341 - American Revolution & Constitution


    4 credit(s)
    This course covers the ideological, social, economic, and political causes of the American break with the British Empire, the democratizing influence of the revolution on the new state government, and the relationship between this tendency and the construction of the Constitution. The course incorporates research regarding women, African-Americans, and common people into the broader movement.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits) or HIST 141 .
  
  • HIST 342 - Civil War & Reconstruction


    4 credit(s)
    This course treats the Civil War and its aftermath in context of a broader Western move away from bonded servitude and reconstructions on human liberty toward free labor and democracy, and will measure successes and failures, particularly with regard to the legacy of racial division that the war was unable to eradicate. The course will cover the causes of sectional conflict, the military problems of the war, the political, social, and economic conditions within both North and South, and the cultural and political sources of support and opposition to Reconstruction.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits); or HIST 141  or HIST 142 .
  
  • HIST 343 - Industrialization, Labor & St in America


    4 credit(s)
    This course covers the rise of modern industry in the United States beginning with the 1870s, the struggles of workers in response to these changes, and the steps taken government, both at the state and federal level, to regulate the new economy, beginning with the laissez faire governance of the late nineteenth century and concluding with the full elaboration of FDR’s New Deal. The course focuses on social, economic, and political forces. Also listed as PSJ 343.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits) or HIST 142 .
  
  
  • HIST 361 - The Reagan Era


    4 credit(s)
    This class traces the significant developments in US politics, economics, and culture from Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal Coalition” to the Reagan presidency. 1980s culture and the neoconservative moral vision for foreign policy and domestic culture are the major focus.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits) and HIST 142 .
  
  • HIST 363 - Cold War America


    4 credit(s)
    A research seminar on the key developments in American foreign policy and domestic life from the Yalta Summit to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Analyzing and Interpreting Texts
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits) or HIST 142 .
  
  • HIST 365 - Civil Rights Movements


    4 credit(s)
    This course investigates the origins, major goals, and strategies of civil rights movements in the modern era, including Native American, women, LGBTQIA+, African American, disability and others. As a final project, students will conduct research on the movement of their selection. Previously Listed As: HIST 465
  
  • HIST 369 - Get Rich! Wealth in American History


    4 credit(s)
    An analysis of attitudes toward wealth from the Puritans to the present. The history of capitalism, labor, and poverty, and the role of gender and race in shaping views will also be addressed.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Historical Context.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits).
  
  • HIST 370 - Crime, Corruption, & Scandal


    4 credit(s)
    Using newspapers, speeches, sensational public trials, fiction, film, and scholarship this class will trace shifting concerns about crime and corruption from the Salem Witch trials through Jackson’s “Corrupt Bargain,” Indian wars, the lawless “Wild West,” as well as the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age. We will analyze how reform efforts from the Progressive era until today reflect convictions about human nature, gender, race, sexuality, class, and age. Primary topics include historical patterns of violence, the role and organization of the police, origins of the 2008 economic crash, and the National Security Agency’s unchecked surveillance of private citizens.
    Offered: Offered alternate years.

    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Diverse Perspectives and Historical Context.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing (60 or more completed credits).
  
  • HIST 391 - Research Methods in History


    4 credit(s)
    This course is an introduction to research methods for students in history and the humanities. It examines the principles of research design, methodology, and the analytic and theoretical frameworks of interpretation used by historians. In conjunction, it will study how historical methodology and patterns of interpretation have changed over time. It introduces students to the fundamentals of primary and secondary research conducted both in libraries and archives. It is required of all History majors.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Analyzing and Interpreting Texts.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits).
  
  • HIST 395 - Independent Study


    See department for details. Independent study contract required.
  
  • HIST 400 - Medieval Women


    4 credit(s)
    This course is a seminar on the attitudes towards, roles, work, and responsibilities of women in the period from the first century to the fifteenth century. Women in their roles as nuns, witches, prostitutes, brewers, mothers, queens, and consorts are discussed. The course is thematic rather than chronological, and investigates anthropological, feminist, and political theories and paradigms associated with the study of women generally. Assigned reading consists of primary sources, secondary monographs, and journals. Also listed as GSS 400 .
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits).
  
  • HIST 401 - The World of Charlemagne


    4 credit(s)
    This course is a seminar on the age of Charlemagne and the European empire he forged in the early Middle Ages. The course material starts in the early sixth century as the Roman West was mutating, and ends with the decline of the Carolingian Empire in the face of Viking attacks and fratricidal warfare. The class concentrates on political and social/cultural developments in this very important period which formed a bridge from the Classical world to the beginnings of the modern age. The class uses anthropological paradigms as one type of historical methodology. Assigned reading consists of primary sources, secondary monographs and journal articles.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Analyzing and Interpreting Texts.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits).
  
  • HIST 413 - History of Modern Drugs and Medicines


    4 credit(s)
    This interdisciplinary and interregional course explores drugs and medicines as commodities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first part of the course traces the commodity chain of well-known substances like opium, quinine, and cocaine – from production to distribution to consumption – in order to examine how drugs and medicines have influenced geopolitics, shaped social relations, and influenced peoples’ habits across the globe. The second part of the course involves applying concepts and ideas learned from part one to specific case studies around the world. The overall goal is to have students think and write critically about the role of drugs and medicines in relation to the larger questions concerning capitalism, colonialism, and modernity. How do different societies determine the difference between a drug versus a medicine?
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Analyzing and Interpreting Texts and International Perspectives.
  
  • HIST 435 - 1968:Youth and Social Change in World


    4 credit(s)
    This colloquium explores the historical scholarship surrounding the tumultuous events of 1968 in global perspective. It explores the events of 1968 as transnational phenomena with a particular emphasis placed upon the significant role played by youth in the various movements and uprisings worldwide. It will consider the emergence of youth as a social, political, and cultural force within the larger ferment of the late-sixties and early-seventies. Importantly, this is a rigorous readings course akin to a graduate colloquium.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Analyzing and Interpreting Texts.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits).
  
  • HIST 439 - World War II


    4 credit(s)
    This class is designed to help students understand the origins of totalitarianism, the causes, course, and consequences of World War II, Holocaust, the Cold War, and to analyze the morality of war. Through film, monographs, and on-line archives, students will assess the wide-ranging impact of war on the economy, gender, sexuality, race, and creation of the post-war world.
    Offered: Offered biennially.

    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Analyzing and Interpreting Texts.
    Prerequisite(s): HIST 104 , HIST 142 , or HIST 232 .
  
  • HIST 441 - Environmental History


    4 credit(s)
    This course focuses on historical scholarship that has addressed the changing relationship between human societies and “nature”. The course explores the development of ecological science and environmental politics; it also explores the ways in which Americans of European and indigenous background imposed their understandings on the landscape, and the consequences of these impositions. Other subjects include National Park Service policy, game conservation and class conflict, and the development of governmental agencies dedicated to protecting or controlling the environment. Also listed as ENV 441 .
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Sustainability and Analyzing and Interpreting Texts.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or above (60 or more completed credits).
  
  
  • HIST 475 - Internship


    See department for details. Internship contract required.
  
  • HIST 491 - Independent Research I


    1 credit(s)
    This is student-conducted individual research leading to a senior thesis. It is required of all History majors.
    Offered: Offered Fall semester.

    Prerequisite(s): Senior standing (90 or more completed credits) and declared History major.
    Corequisite(s): HIST 333  or HIST 365  
  
  • HIST 492 - Independent Research II


    1 credit(s)
    Serves as the senior capstone project and is required of History majors.
    Offered: Offered Spring semester.

    Prerequisite(s): HIST 491 .

Humanities

  
  • HUM 100 - Origins, Identity & Meaning


    4 credit(s)
    A required seminar for first-semester first-year students that introduces students to college academic life and the skills needed for success in that life. It is a humanities-based course in its content, intended to engage students in the task of personal and cultural critique, and designed to provide a common learning experience for the entire first-year class. Students will also experience the educational advantages of having a diversity of teaching methods and approaches both within and among various sections of the seminar; although cross-sectional themes, texts, and events may be adopted by current HUM 100 faculty, the course will be designed and taught in a manner thought most appropriate by the individual instructor. Fall semester. Does not meet Humanities core requirement.
  
  • HUM 195 - Independent Study


    See department for details. Independent study contract required.
  
  • HUM 200 - Material Science for Makers


    2 credit(s)
    Through the lens of cultural values, this interdisciplinary course introduces students to relationships between art, craft, design, and science as applied to processes and materials used for the production of functional objects such as tools, tableware, and clothing. Throughout history, scientific and empirical approaches have been used outside of the laboratory by artisans and craftspeople to improve our food, tools, and shelters for the benefit of our health and well-being. In this course, students will use the scientific method in their work as they explore how science and culture inform and influence our choices and treatment of physical materials used to make the things we need. We will evaluate these choices for their utility and investigate the materials and processes of making using the scientific frameworks of physics and chemistry. We will also assess methods of production while considering issues of sustainability and environmental stewardship. Using Japanese culture as a unifying thread through lecture, reading, written reflection, and hand’s on making, students will explore attitudes towards consumption and the science behind the processes of making objects of use in indigenous, traditional, and industrial cultures. Through the course of the semester, students will complete a simple sheath knife, a raku tea bowl, and a shibori-dyed article of clothing. The course will be team taught by faculty from both the School of Natural Sciences and the School of Humanities.
    Corequisite(s): SCI 200 .
  
  • HUM 204 - Chinese Cultural Study


    4 credit(s)
    This course offers students a general introduction to Chinese culture as a chance to improve their knowledge and understanding of Chinese people. Culture is understood as shared ideas and meanings which a people use to interpret the world and on which to pattern their behaviors. This concept of culture includes an understanding of the history, the land, thought and religion, literature and art, music and dance, food and clothing, architecture and housing, family and gender, and holiday and leisure activities. In addition to meeting as a class to discuss and present readings on Chinese culture and customs, hands on activities such as cooking Chinese food, practicing martial arts and calligraphy, as well as field trips to the Chinese Garden in downtown Portland will be important parts of the course. Students will also conduct interviews with people from China to explore their lifestyles and ways of thinking. Taught in English.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: International Perspectives.
  
  • HUM 207 - German Film in English


    4 credit(s)
    A general introduction to the film of people in the German-speaking countries, focusing on the time period from the early 20th century to the present. Special emphasis on the intersection of culture with historical, social, and political events.
    Offered: Offered intermittently.

    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: International Perspectives.
  
  • HUM 211 - Preparation for Travel in India


    2 credit(s)
    This is a course that will prepare students for Travel in India: Gender, Culture and Service, a Winter III course sponsored by the Center for Gender Equity. This course will provide students with the information necessary to help them get the most of their WIII experience. The content will cover the basic history, religion, culture, geography, and politics of India. Also listed as GSS 211 .
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: International Perspectives and Social Systems and Human Behavior.
  
  • HUM 213 - Introduction to Japanese Literature


    4 credit(s)
    This class is a survey course and will provide an introduction to Japanese literature from the earliest period to the modern era (Meiji Period). We are going to read translations of poetry and of passages from myths, plays, and novels - all in chronological order. Through reading texts in various literary styles, we will not only become familiar with cultural, historical, and social issues discussed in Japan, but more importantly, gain a skill to express our thoughts, perspectives, and beliefs in Japanese literary forms such as myths, diaries, noh, linked-poetry, haikai (haiku) and I-Novel. Understanding the unique literary styles along with their philosophical or religious background will be certainly beneficial for us to expand our worldview, learn to accommodate difference, and acknowledge humanistic issues beyond national boundaries.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: International Perspectives.
  
  • HUM 215 - Modernity in Japanese Narrative


    4 credit(s)
    This course will cover various thematic and stylistic expressions behind Japanese short stories and novels, and we will examine the meaning of modernity in the Japanese context. Special attention will be given to the establishment of modern Japanese literature, the rise of children’s literature and the impact of Japanese animations. During the Edo Period between the 17th and the early 19th centuries, Japan experienced the first rise of modernity in which various entertainment/art forms became popular among middle-class people - kabuki, ukiyo-zousi, and haikai. The second phase of modernity started in the late 19th century, when after the contact with the West, new literary genres such as I-novel, haiku, douwa (children’s literature) and animations were born as the result of unifying original and the Western literary and aesthetic traditions. By comparatively analyzing two phases of modernity in Japan, we will come to a further understanding of the role of popular literature in the construction of modernity.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: International Perspectives.
  
  • HUM 222 - Introduction to East Asian Studies


    4 credit(s)
    Provides a multidisciplinary approach to the study of East Asia. Through an examination of fiction, film, memoirs, historical documents, and scholarly writings, we will examine East Asia’s place in the modern world. We will begin with an examination of the shared cultural and philosophical foundations-i.e. Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism-that make East Asia a coherent region. We will focus on the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries, and particularly how various forms of media shed light on East Asian modernity. Also listed as IS 222 .
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: International Perspectives and Analyzing and Interpreting Texts.
  
  
  • HUM 260 - U.S. Latinas/os & Pop Culture


    4 credit(s)
    Introduces students to the varied historical, cultural and political experiences and expressions of Latinas/os in the United States through the study of diverse cultural texts. In particular, this course examines the diverse ways in which Latinas/os articulate their identities in music, film, television, literature and performance. The class explores the histories and experiences of non-migrant Latino populations in the U.S. as well as the roots of Latina/o immigrations to the U.S. by examining texts such as formal letters in the colonial period, songs and legends from the annexation period of northern Mexico to the U.S. to film, music and performances in the twentieth and twenth first centuries. Students learn to engage critically with forms of popular culture, viewing these texts as both part of “the practice of everyday life” and as sites for the construction and negotiation of identities and national discourses.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts towards core requirement: Diverse Perspectives.
  
  • HUM 275 - Internship


    1-4 credit(s)
    See department for details. Internship contract required.
  
  • HUM 295 - Independent Study


    1-18 credit(s)
    See department for details. Independent study contract required.
  
  • HUM 300 - Mentoring in the Humanities


    4 credit(s)
    Each student serves as a mentor in one section of HUM 100 , the required First-Year Seminar course. Mentors attend all HUM 100  classes and co-curricular events and complete all of the readings. They do not take exams, write papers, or participate in the evaluation of students in HUM 100 . The mentor is to act as a peer in helping first-year students make the transition from high school to college. They hold study sessions and help with note taking, writing assignments, and the development of proper study skills. They work closely with faculty in developing the means to good mentoring in their section of HUM 100 . They meet with the First-Year Seminar Coordinator one hour each week to review their work and to discuss pedagogical issues associated with teaching the humanities. Mentors are selected by an application process in the spring. Instructor’s consent required. Pass/No Pass.
    Offered: Offered Fall semester.

    Core Requirement(s): Does not meet Humanities core requirement.
  
  • HUM 306 - Latino Fiction


    4 credit(s)
    A study of the fiction of Latino writers representing the diverse Hispanic cultures of the U.S. with emphasis on the themes of immigration, culture adaptation, and the unique characteristics of the author’s Hispanic heritage.
    Offered: Offered intermittently.

  
  • HUM 310 - Travel in India: Gender Society Service


    2 credit(s)
    Travel in India: Gender, Culture and Service is a Winter term course sponsored by the Center for Gender Equity. It consists of two and a half weeks travel in southern India during the month of January. The bulk of the course is conducted at Lady Doak College, a small liberal arts women’s college in Madurai, India in Tamilnadu. The course consists of lecture and discussion by Lady Doak faculty, service learning, discussion with local service agencies, fieldwork on a topic of the student’s choice, and travel to sites of cultural and historic importance. The participant is required to register for HUM 211  the fall semester prior to the travel portion of the class. Also listed as GSS 310 .
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Civic Engagement (2010-17 catalogs); International Perspectives, Social Systems and Human Behavior.
    Prerequisite(s): HUM 211 .
  
  • HUM 311 - Globals Skills I: Prepare


    2 credit(s)
    In our globalized world, the ability to engage with cultural difference is a valuable skill. This course is designed to develop your intercultural communication skills and broaden your worldview for a smoother adaption to study abroad or other cross-cultural contexts. You’ll get the most out of your cross-cultural experience and learn to communicate in diverse social and cultural settings. “Global Skills I” is part of a 3-course program to maximize your learning experience; see IS 312 /HUM 312  and IS 313 /HUM 313 . Also listed as IS 311 .
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: International Perspective, Diverse Perspectives, and Social Systems and Human Behavior.
  
  • HUM 312 - Global Skills II:Engage


    1 credit(s)
    This is an online course to support Pacific students studying abroad or participating in a semester-long cross-cultural experience, and it is open to international students studying at Pacific. Through online discussions, experiential assignments and written re?ection, you will engage in processing your intercultural experiences while they are happening. As a result, you will adapt more effectively and deeply with your host culture. Global Skills 2 is part of a 3-course program to develop intercultural competence.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: International Perspectives and Diverse Perspectives.
    Prerequisite(s): IS 311  or HUM 311  
    Corequisite(s): Pacific University Study Abroad Program or other intercultural experience.
  
  • HUM 313 - Global Skills III: Leverage


    1 credit(s)
    In this course, you will learn how to articulate your intercultural experience as an advantage on resumes and during job interviews. Additionally, the course is designed to help you retain your intercultural communication skills, which typically fade after re-entry. The course will support you through your “reverse culture shock” and help you to transition from study-abroad or cross-cultural programs. GS 3 students may help mentor GS 1 students. Global Skills 3 is part of a 3-course program to develop intercultural competence. See descriptions for IS 311 /HUM 311  & HUM 312 .
    Core Requirement(s): Counts towards core requirements: International Perspectives and Diverse Perspectives.
    Prerequisite(s): IS 311  or HUM 311  AND IS 312  or HUM 312 .
  
  • HUM 351 - Traditional Theater of East Asia


    4 credit(s)
    This course introduces students to traditional theater of China, Korea, and Japan. Students learn historical backgrounds of the six main theatrical art forms, examine literary and aesthetic theories, and understand the establishment and the distinctiveness of cultural identities within East Asia. In addition to learning about traditional theatrical performances, students will read innovative, contemporary plays inspired by traditional theater of East Asia. The goal is to understand the essential aspects of traditional theater that could be accessible and appreciated beyond language and culture.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: Historical Context and International Perspectives.
    Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or above (30 or more completed credits).
  
  
  • HUM 360 - Advanced Topics:U.S. Latina/o Studies


    4 credit(s)
    This course offers advanced study on topics related to the varied historical, cultural and political experiences and expressions of Latinas/os in the United States. The class examines the histories and experiences of non-migrant Latino populations in the U.S. as well as Latin American immigrants, and how these histories and experiences are constructed in diverse cultural texts. Students learn to engage critically with various cultural texts, viewing them as sites for the construction and negotiation of identities and national discourses.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Diverse Perspectives.
    Prerequisite(s): HUM 260  or Sophomore Standing (30 or more completed credits).
  
  • HUM 370 - Travel Prep: Discovery of France & Beyond


    2 credit(s)
    Come discover France or a French-speaking destination through the lens of a particular theme (ex: cuisine) or discipline (ex: theater, media arts, anthropology).  This course is preparation for a 10-14 day short-term travel course to France or a Francophone region. (HUM 371  or FREN 371  ). Destination and theme may vary with each offering. Students wishing to travel are required to take this 2-credit preparation course. FREN 370  
    Offered: Every other year.

    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward Humanities Core, meets International Perspectives Cornerstone requirement
    Prerequisite(s): FREN 202   or instructor’s consent.
  
  • HUM 371 - Travel: Discovery of France & Beyond


    2 credit(s)
    Come discover France or a French-speaking destination through the lens of a particular theme (ex: cuisine) or discipline (ex: theater,
    media arts, anthropology). This course is a 10-14 day short-term travel course to France or a Francophone region. Destination and
    theme may vary with each offering. FREN 371  
    Offered: Every other year.

    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward Humanities Core, meets International Perspectives Cornerstone requirement.
    Prerequisite(s): FREN 370   or HUM 370  
  
  • HUM 395 - Independent Study


    See department for details. Independent study contract required.
  
  
  • HUM 475 - Internship


    See department for details. Internship contract required.
  
  • HUM 495 - Research


    See department for details. Independent study contract required.

Human Biology

  
  • HBIO 110 - Human Biology


    4 credit(s)
    An introduction to basic anatomy and physiology of the human organism. This course is designed for non-science majors. Laboratory is integrated with lecture. Students cannot receive for HBIO 110 and any combination of the following: BIOL 224, BIOL 240, BIOL 230, BIOL 231, HBIO 230  or HBIO 231 . Does not count toward a Biology major or minor.
    Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Scientific Perspectives of the Natural World.
  
  • HBIO 230 - Human Anatomy & Physiology I


    4 credit(s)
    Human Anatomy and Physiology is a year long course that explores the structure and function of the human body in an integrated fashion. We will cover the 11 anatomical systems and understand how the structure of the human body relates to and defines its function. Emphasis will be placed on integration of systems and information flow. Human Anatomy and Physiology I introduces cytology and histology while surveying the skeletal, nervous, muscular, endocrine and reproductive systems.
    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 200  or BIOL 201  with a minimum grade of C-.
    Corequisite(s): HBIO 230L .
  
  • HBIO 230L - Human Anatomy & Physiology I Lab


    Laboratory to accompany Human Anatomy & Physiology I lecture. Letter graded.
    Corequisite(s): HBIO 230 .
  
  • HBIO 231 - Human Anatomy & Physiology II


    4 credit(s)
    Human Anatomy and Physiology is a year long course that explores the structure and function of the human body in an integrated fashion. We will cover the 11 anatomical systems and understand how the structure of the human body relates to and defines its function. Emphasis will be placed on integration of systems and information flow. Human Anatomy and Physiology II emphasizes sensory physiology, circulatory, lymphatic, immune, respiratory, digestive and urinary systems.
    Prerequisite(s): HBIO 230  with a minimum grade of C-.
    Corequisite(s): HBIO 231L .
  
  • HBIO 231L - Human Anatomy & Physiology II


    LabLaboratory to accompany Human Anatomy & Physiology II lecture. Letter graded.
    Corequisite(s): HBIO 231 .
  
  • HBIO 440 - Advanced Human Anatomy and Lab


    4 credit(s)
    Advanced study of gross and histological structure of the human body. Focus is on musculoskeletal, nervous and cardiovascular systems.
    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 240 or BIOL 231 or HBIO 231  with a minimum grade of C-.

Human Performance

  
  • HPER 101 - Cardio Sculpt


    0-1 credit(s)
    Exercise emphasizing dance movements. May be repeated for credit. Up to 8 activity credits may count toward the 124 credits required for graduation. Pass/No Pass.
  
  • HPER 102 - Step Aerobics


    0-1 credit(s)
    Step aerobics. May be repeated for credit. Up to 8 activity credits may count toward the 124 credits required for graduation. Pass/No Pass.
  
  • HPER 104 - Circuit Training for Women


    0-1 credit(s)
    Multi-station fitness training with enrollment limited to women. Up to 8 activity may count toward the 124 required for graduation. May be repeated for credit. Up to 8 activity credits may count toward the 124 credits required for graduation. Pass/No Pass.
  
  • HPER 105 - Fitness Walk/Jog


    0-1 credit(s)
    Exercise emphasizing locomotor activities. May be repeated for credit. Up to 8 activity credits may count toward the 124 credits required for graduation. Pass/No Pass.
  
  • HPER 107 - Swimming


    0-1 credit(s)
    Aquatic exercise; not for non-swimmers. May be repeated for credit. Up to 8 activity credits may count toward the 124 credits required for graduation. Pass/No Pass.
  
  • HPER 108 - Weight Training


    0-1 credit(s)
    Basic resistance training. May be repeated for credit. Up to 8 activity credits may count toward the 124 credits required for graduation. Pass/No Pass.
  
  • HPER 109 - Tai Chi


    0-1 credit(s)
    Balance and stability exercise with an Eastern flair. May be repeated for credit. Up to 8 activity credits may count toward the 124 credits required for graduation. Pass/No Pass.
  
  • HPER 111 - Yoga


    0-1 credit(s)
    Develops balance, flexibility, and strength. May be repeated for credit. Up to 8 activity credits may count toward the 124 credits required for graduation. Pass/No Pass.
  
  • HPER 113 - Strength Training for Women


    0-1 credit(s)
    Resistance training class limited to women. May be repeated for credit. Up to 8 activity credits may count toward the 124 credits required for graduation. Pass/No Pass.
  
  • HPER 121 - Badminton


    0-1 credit(s)
    Basic instruction and play. May be repeated for credit. Up to 8 activity credits may count toward the 124 credits required for graduation. Pass/No Pass.
  
  • HPER 123 - Golf


    0-1 credit(s)
    Basic instruction and activity; off campus. Participation fee required. The fee is paid to the golf course and is for the use of golf course, rental clubs, and range balls during class times. If a student drops or withdraws from the class after some expenses have been accrued the student will be responsible for those expenses. to the golf course for May be repeated for credit. Up to 8 activity credits may count toward the 124 credits required for graduation. Pass/No Pass.
 

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