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GLS 100 - Global Cities
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course introduces students to the study of global cities through the intensive study of one city. It combines classroom work with on-site travel and study in the city.
Note: It can be given for three to nine credits depending on the intensity of the field work. The course is open to all Oswego students, but preference will be given to freshman and sophomores.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3 to 9
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GLS 200 - Introduction to Global Issues
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course has been designed to introduce students to various points of view on Contemporary International Issues. The issues considered will vary from semester to semester to reflect the world scene.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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GLS 300 - Issues in the Global Economy
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course engages students in the pressing debates about the global economy. It is an interdisciplinary course involving economics, political science, sociology and history. Students will study the theoretical and historical background necessary to understand the complexity of the current global economy and to make informed judgments about current controversies. The course will include research and discuss issues of trade, finance, the global division of labor, the transformation of firms from international to global corporations, the meaning of development, and the controversies over state regulation. ECO 101 or 200 is recommended prerequisite.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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GLS 301 - Globalization and Global Cultures
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course explores the processes and consequences of globalization. By investigating the rapid flow of capital, people, goods, images, and ideologies across cultures, societies, and nations, it pays careful attention to ideas about culture, modernity, tradition, colonialism/post-colonialism, capitalism, identity change, nationalism/transnationalism, Diaspora, and the creation of a “global culture.”
Prerequisite: ANT 112 or GLS 200; or instructor permission.
Equivalent Course: ANT 395
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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GLS 305 - Topics in Global and International Studies
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course examines varying topics in global and international studies, depending on faculty and student interest.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing; or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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GLS 316 - Impact and Infulence of Fermentation Science in a Global Society
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An investigation of the impact and influence of fermentation science on a global society. The course will address the production of alcohol, bread, cheese, and other fermented products and the role in global societies for fuel, subsistence, pleasure, and commerce. This course will meet as a quarter course and involves a mandatory international trip to learn how other cultures and societies make use of this science.
Prerequisite: CHE 101 OR CHE 111 and either BIO 101 OR BIO 120.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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GLS 318 - Exploring Culture in the Cuban Context
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The purpose of this course taught in Spanish is to promote the in-depth examination of Cuban culture through in-country study, living, and travel experiences. It is intended to promote the development of conceptual understandings in regard to culture, approaches for examining culture complexly, active engagement in cultural and cross-cultural comparisons, and preparation to teach in a diverse world. Students will systematically explore authentic Cuban cultural practices and products and analyze underlying cultural perspectives.
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the SUNY Oswego Cuba Summer Study Abroad Program, which requires demonstrated Intermediate High or above Spanish language proficiency and junior, senior, or graduate standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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GLS 400 - Seminar in Global Studies
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
In this seminar students will critically examine, analyze, and interpret concepts and theories of the academic field of global and international studies.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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GLS 401 - Internship in Global and International Studies
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Internship in Global and International Studies.
Note: Departmental Approval required. Variable credits 3 to 6 with maximum of 15, may be repeated 3 times.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
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GLS 402 - Practicum in International Development
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Students will engage in research projects overseas addressing issues such as human rights, health, women’s rights, poverty, economic development, and the environment. Students enrolled in this course study the cultural context of the project’s country while contributing to a community defined project.
Prerequisite: GLS 200 or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: –3 to 6–
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HSC 101 - Introduction to Health Promotion and Wellness
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An introduction to health promotion and wellness as a profession and career. Topics include competencies for health professionals (CHES), history of health promotion and wellness, health determinants, philosophical bases of health, theories of behavioral/organizational change, resources and professional organizations. Particular emphasis on the process and practice of health promotion in society, the organization, and the individual.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HSC 120 - Human Body Systems
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to wellness, movement and exercise.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HSC 230 - Health and Technology
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The use of technology and its potential influence on population health both in terms of positive and negative effects. Students learn to create a healthier world by leveraging social influence to engage people in healthy activities. This can be accomplished through gaming, mobile devices, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards via technology and social networks.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HSC 232 - Introduction to Personal Training
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course is designed to give students the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to prepare for the American Council of Exercise (ACE) Personal Trainer Certification Exam (or other related certifications) and become effective personal trainers.
Prerequisite: Minimum second semester freshmen
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HSC 241 - Critical Health Issues
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The course confronts the vital health issues of our time—drug use and abuse, human sexuality, mental health, pollution problems, consumer health and common health problems of students.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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HSC 250 - Concepts of Peer Health Education
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course provides an opportunity to explore the history of peer influence on health promotion planning and programming. It will examine the methods and means of applying peer to peer outreach on health related issues and trends from the elementary to post-secondary student populations. Particular emphasis will investigate various relationships between health behavior choices and practices which are shaped by values, norms and society.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HSC 300 - Emergency Medical Technician-Basic
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course is a study of the methods and techniques involved in emergency assessment, care and transport of the sick and injured. Topics include assessment techniques and principles of treatment for medical and traumatic emergencies. In addition to lecture and lab sessions, internships in both clinical and field settings are required. Successful completion of this course results in certification as an Emergency Medical Technician by the New York State Department of Health.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Note: Lecture and lab.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 6
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HSC 310 - Disease: Lifestyle and Environment
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Principles of environmental health and safety, and disease prevention and control will be examined. Topics include epidemiology, occupational health and safety, and disease prevention. The role of society, the work-place, and the individual in relationship to disease prevention will be explored.
Prerequisite: BIO 101 OR 120 OR 203.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HSC 315 - Nutrition Concepts
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course focuses on current nutritional concepts and controversies related to human health and nutritional requirements. The material provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain and adopt healthy nutritional behaviors, as well as the ability to determine their own dietary needs now and in the future.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HSC 325 - Women’s Health Issues
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course is designed to identify and discuss various women’s health issues relevant to our every day lives. This course is designed to help persons develop and maintain a sense of responsibility for their physical, mental, sexual, and social well-being and to make sound decisions based on accurate information of women’s health-related issues.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HSC 332 - Essentials of Exercise Physiology
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Exercise physiology examines the physiological responses and adaptations of the human organism to physical activity.
Prerequisite: BIO 101 or BIO 203 or BIO 120
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HSC 333 - Human Response to Stress
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course focuses on the variables and issues that affect how humans respond to stress on the personal, behavioral, social, and organizational levels; provides practical and theoretical aids for coping with and managing the stress response; and, provides students with the opportunity to assess their own responses to stress, and to apply management techniques to moderate these responses.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HSC 334 - Applied Kinesiology
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An introduction to biomechanical principles applied to human movement exercise sport, rehabilitation and physical activity.
Prerequisite: HSC 120 or ZOO 305
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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HSC 343 - Drug Use and Abuse in Society
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The course explores the social, psychological, pharmacological and legal aspects of the use by humans of chemical agents, i.e., drugs and narcotics, alcohol and tobacco, which affect their behavior. The role of education will be stressed.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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HSC 353 - Wellness and Aging
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An overview of healthy aging and wellness promotion for the older adult. Topics include healthy aging, health perspectives and aging, eight dimensions of wellness, and age-associated diseases and prevention strategies.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HSC 363 - Emotional Wellness
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course will be an examination of emotional, spiritual, social and mental wellness. This course will emphasize primary and secondary prevention strategies. Topics include: Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, Empowerment, Happiness, Anger and Anger Management, Relationships, Life Goals, and Self-Actualization.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HSC 386 - Wellness for Contemporary Living
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course emphasizes wellness as a positive approach to health through improving oneself beyond the absence of disease. The course is designed to develop awareness, self responsibility, strategies and techniques of managing one’s own health. It will explore such topics as caring for the physical self, using the mind constructively, channeling stress energies positively, expressing emotions effectively, becoming creatively involved with others, and staying in touch with the environment.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HSC 397 - Exploratory Practicum in Wellness Management
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course provides students an experiential learning opportunity through fieldwork in real-life health promotion/wellness settings. Students observe and participate in day-to-day work assignments under the supervision of one or more practicing professionals.
Note: Students may receive one to three credit hours of academic credit. Forty hours of professional contact hours are required for each credit earned. Students must apply for admission to the course during the semester preceding their practicum.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HSC 399 - Independent Study
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Individual study in the field of health science under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing and instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 1 to 3
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HSC 415 - Nutrition Controversies
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course focuses on some of the current controversies and research in areas of nutrition, diet, and health. In addition to becoming more aware of these controversies, students in this course will gain experience interpreting scientific literature to determine whether or not there is support for making statements for use by the general public.
Prerequisite: HSC 315.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HSC 425 - Sports Nutrition
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Explore the role nutrients play in physical activity, exercise/recovery and human performance. Integrate nutrition and sports with the physiology of exercise and sport training. An emphasis on macronutrient, micronutrients and water as related to wellness, physical fitness and sports performance. Explore sport specific improvement trends and ergogenic aids.
Prerequisite: HSC 315
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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HSC 435 - The Science of Nutrition
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The purpose of this course is to introduce upper-level students to the science of nutrition with an emphasis on incorporating optimal nutrition values into their day-to-day life. This upper-level nutrition course covers such topics as the basics of nutrition, nutrition and disease prevention, weight management, nutrition throughout the life cycle, and more.
Prerequisite: HSC 315
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HSC 448 - Health Promotion Program Planning
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course will focus on the development of the knowledge and skills necessary to plan and implement Health Promotion/Wellness Programs in a variety of settings. Issues of interest to health professionals such as: health care cost containment, goal setting, assessing organizational needs, program evaluation, and marketing program interventions are addressed. Students will learn how to plan and implement different health promotion programs to effectively meet the health care needs of an organization.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HSC 460 - Exercise Prescription and Leadership
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Exercise theory, programming, and prescription will be the focus of this course. Experiential learning activities will focus on the principles and practices of assessing, screening, and conducting health related adult physical fitness programs. Injury prevention, emergency procedures, and legal issues for the exercise leader will be addressed. Ideal for those considering national certification as personal trainers or aerobic instructors.
Prerequisite: HSC 332
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HSC 470 - Wellness Skills: Application and Assessment
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Students develop needs assessment instruments, and implement, conduct, and evaluate health promotion/wellness programs for specific community and campus worksites. Skill development may include smoking cessation, health risk appraisals, fitness programming, nutritional education, hypertension screening, cholesterol screening, cancer detection, HIV/AIDS education (blood borne pathogens), back safety, and first aid and CPR.
Prerequisite: HSC 448.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HSC 488 - Evaluation and Research in Health Promotion
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course covers various evaluation and measurement concepts in wellness and fitness programs. Provides students the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion programs in the work place. Emphasis is on computerized health information retrieval systems, selection of evaluation instruments, reading, writing, and interpreting research literature. Basic statistics are studied and applied with attention given to the administration, scoring, statistical analysis, and interpretation of results.
Prerequisite: HSC 448.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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HSC 498 - Internship in Wellness Management
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An upper division course designed for students who wish to take part in a semester long internship designed to provide a pre-professional experiential learning opportunity related to the academic major or minor or an area of career interest. Students will work full-time or part-time in a position which will provide opportunities to apply classroom learning and to analyze and synthesize that knowledge in an approved internship setting.
Note: Repeatable for a total of 12 credits.
Prerequisite: Completion of 60 cr of course work, HSC 448 and a minimum GPA of 2.5.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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HSC 499 - Independent Study
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Individual study in the field of health science under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 1 to 3
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History |
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HIS 100 - The West and the World to 1500
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course will explore the origins and development of Western Civilization to 1500, analyze the relationship of the emerging cultures in the West to the cultures of Asia and Africa, and introduce students to history as a discipline. Students will analyze several approaches to historical research and various types of historical writing, and will use primary and secondary sources in studying history.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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HIS 101 - The West and the World, 1500-1900
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course will deal with the historical development of modern Western civilization and the interrelationship between the West and the world during the period 1500—1900.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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HIS 102 - World History in the Twentieth Century
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course introduces students to the major events, movements, and personalities of the twentieth century. The objective of the course will be to critically examine the events, ideas, conflicts, movements, and inventions which have shaped human civilization in the 20th century.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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HIS 202 - History of the United States to 1865
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course explores the making of American society and culture the product of cooperation and conflict among peoples from three continents (Europe, Africa, and North America)’from the 1500’s to the end of the Civil War. The focus is on economics, religion, values, community, politics, gender, and race.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HIS 203 - History of the United States Since 1865
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Introductory survey of the history of the United States since the Civil War.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HIS 206 - Africa to 1800
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course surveys the history of selected regions of Africa from about the eighth to the early nineteenth century. Students are introduced to some of the most important sub- Saharan states and their cultures through the three basic sources for sub-Saharan African history before European influence: Oral tradition, archaeology, and Arabic chronicles. We explore the environmental and economic circumstances that account for the rise of these states, we proceed to acquaintance with their people, accomplishments and contributions, and we encounter the main factors involved in means of understanding major historical events.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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HIS 207 - Africa since 1800
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A survey of the history of selected regions of Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this course deals with the events and processes leading to the European colonization of Africa and subsequent changes in African societies under colonial rule. This is a course about Africans and how they responded to the challenges and opportunities presented by foreign influences such as those accompanying colonialism. It is basically concerned with African initiatives in a rapidly changing political, economic and social context.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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HIS 208 - Modern Asia
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Emphasis on Communist China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 209 - Traditional Asia and Its Legacy
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A comparison of traditional civilizations in China and India. Topics include religious systems, formation of empires, expansion of commerce, development of social institutions and foundations of Modern Asia.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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HIS 212 - Women in History
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A study of the position and role of women in different civilizations with emphasis on women and work.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 215 - Introduction to Latin American Civilizations
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course will provide a general introduction to the culture, history, and societies of the immense geographic area collectively known as Latin America. A thematic approach focusing on gender, social upheavals, economic and political crises will serve to facilitate the inclusion of the many countries in the region. The chronology of the course extends from the pre-contact period to the twentieth-century.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HIS 230 - The Western Heritage I
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Survey of the basic ideas in Western Civilization from the earliest times to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 231 - The Western Heritage II
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Survey of the basic ideas in Western Civilization from the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century to the present.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 244 - Introduction to Global Sport History
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The course serves as an introductory survey of the history of global sport from the 18th century to the present. The course focuses on the origins of sport, the diffusion of sport around the globe in soccer, baseball, and the Olympics, and the role of sport in discussions of race, gender, class and ethnicity in global history.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 248 - Women in American History to 1865
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course will survey the history of women in the United States from the colonial era through the Civil War. Particular attention will be given to the diversity of American women’s experience.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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HIS 249 - Women in American History, 1865 to Present
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course will survey the history of women in the United States from the end of the Civil War through the present. Particular attention will be given to the diversity of American women’s experience and women’s participation in movements for equality.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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HIS 298 - Historical Methods
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course is an introduction to research methods and critical inquiry for major and minor students in history. It focuses on the nature of historical thinking and the historian’s craft such as how to form a valid research question, to conduct research, and to write/present findings in an original manner.<br>Prerequisite: Sophomore standing; a minimum of 27 credits.<br>
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing; a minimum of 27 credits.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 300 - European Intellectual History in the 19th Century
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Romanticism, conservatism; German idealism; liberalism, Utopian socialism; Marxism; evolutionary socialism, nationalism; positivism anarchism; impact of Darwin; collapse of absolutes.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 301 - European Intellectual History in the 20th Century
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Collapse of absolutes; pessimism and optimism; dystopias; Nazism; Fascism; Communism; existentialism; emergent evolution; new liberalism; crisis theology; post-industrial society.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 302 - Historiography: Perspectives on Historians and Histories
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course presents an introduction to the history, method, and practice of writing history (historiography) from the Enlightenment era to the present. Through textual readings, research in primary sources, and oral presentations on aspects of historiography that have sparked controversy, students gain familiarity with the problems and pleasures of historical research and a new appreciation of how our historical knowledge is created.
Prerequisite: Minimum second semester sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HIS 307 - World War I
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A survey of the causes, course and results of World War I.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 308 - Jews, Christians, and Muslims to 1500
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
In this course we will compare the development of the three great religions of western Asia: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will examine the evolution of ideas about God, tenets of belief, expressions of faith, and other aspects of religious life, and analyze how the three faith communities influenced each other. We will explore how communities with related but distinct religious beliefs developed in Asia, lived together in Europe, encountered each other, and tolerated or confronted one another during the ancient and medieval periods.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 311 - Europe in an Age of Revolution, 1789 - 1848
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course is an upper-division survey of the revolutionary era in European history from 1789-1848. Students will explore the major developments of the age through an examination of political, cultural and economic history. Upon completion, students will be able to demonstrate a greater understanding of the myriad forces that contributed to the emergence of the modern world.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 312 - Early Middle Ages
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
From the decline of the Roman Empire to the First Crusade; Analysis of religious, social, economic, and technological factors, influencing the development of medieval European Civilization.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 313 - High and Late Middle Ages
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The flowering and decline of the Middle Ages; Emphasis on cultural developments with analysis of social, political, religious, and economic factors affecting medieval European Civilization.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 314 - Ancient Greece
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
From origins to conquest by Rome; emphasis upon cultural and political developments.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 315 - Ancient Rome
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
From Prehistoric Italy to 565 A.D.; analysis of Rome’s rise and decline.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 317 - Renaissance Europe
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Cultural, social, and economic life of fourteenth and fifteenth century Western Europe with particular emphasis on cultural life in Italy.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 318 - Reformation Europe
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Cultural, social, and economic life of sixteenth century Western Europe with particular emphasis on late humanism, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 323 - Europe Between the World Wars, 1917-1939
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A comprehensive survey of European history from the Russian Revolution to the outbreak of the Second World War with emphasis on ideological movements (Communism, Fascism and Democracy).
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 324 - Europe Since 1945
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A survey of the major events and issues of European history since 1945.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 326 - World War II
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A survey of the major events and issues of World War II. Comparisons will be drawn between the European and Asian war theatres.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 329 - The Cold War
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The course offers an in-depth look at the Cold War, probably the single most important foreign relations factor influencing the US and the Soviet Union during the period 1946-1991.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 330 - History of Russia to 1917
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course will deal with the origins and development of Russian history up to 1917.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 331 - Twentieth Century Russia
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Political, social, economic development from the reign of Nicholas II to the present with particular emphasis on the Russian Revolution and formation of Stalin’s totalitarian regime.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 337 - Social and Cultural History of Sport
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The course focuses on the development of modern sport in England in the 18th century and its diffusion across the globe through the lenses of class, race, ethnicity, and gender. Upon completion, students will understand how social and cultural beliefs, behaviors, and practices influenced the development of sport and in turn the dynamic impacts of sport on social, cultural, and political practices.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing; or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall.
Credit: 3
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HIS 341 - America’s Vietnam War
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course will deal with the origins, development, and outcome of America’s involvement in Vietnam, 1945—1973
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 342 - United States Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A study of the factors explaining the emergence of the United States as a world power, and an analysis of the relationships between internal developments, dominant personalities, foreign events and specific foreign policies in the twentieth century.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 344 - American Immigration and Ethnic History
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course examines the history of migration to colonial North America and the United States. The course addresses differences in the voluntary immigration experience, forced migration, and “migration” through conquest. The development of ethnic and racial identities in the United States are linked to these immigration/migration patterns and to legal constructions conceived in immigration and naturalization law. Other themes include internal migration, the history of nativism up to present debates regarding “illegal immigration,” and the development of racial/ethnic communities.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 345 - The Early Republic: US 1789-1848
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course covers one of the most complex periods in U.S. history, a time marked by democratic ferment, territorial expansion, increased national- ism and growing sectionalism. Through lectures, group discussions, various readings, papers and essay exams, students will learn about the people, ideas, institutions and events that shaped the new nation.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 348 - Women in Twentieth Century United States
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course examines the role women have played in the United States in the twentieth century. Migration and immigration, politics, labor (in and outside the home), economics, and race will be discussed, with particular attention paid to the construction of gender roles and its effect on the behavior and expectations of both men and women, as well as children. The transformation of the meaning of “feminism” over the course of the twentieth century will frame much of the course.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 350 - Slavery In America to 1865
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A historical analysis of the development of black communities from colonization to the end of Reconstruction. The major theme will be the mutual impact that blacks and whites have had upon each other.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 352 - The Gilded Ages and Progressive Era
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course examines the period between the end of Reconstruction (1877) and 1920. Migration and immigration, politics, labor, social movements, economics, gender and race will be discussed. The transformation of the country from agricultural to industrialized, inhabited from coast to coast, comes at large social, educational and reform costs.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing. Â
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 353 - The Black Power Movement
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course explores and analyzes the origins, development, and legacy of the watershed Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The course examines how Black Power represented a critical turning point in black-white relations in the United States, as well as in how African Americans viewed themselves.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 354 - Native American History
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The epic conflict of Indians and non-Indians and its impact on more widely known American white history.
Note: Slide lectures.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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HIS 356 - Civil War and Reconstruction
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An in-depth study of the factors that caused the American Civil War, and the efforts to restore the Confederate States, with an emphasis on the varying historical interpretations.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 358 - American Urban History
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course examines the growth of cities from the late eighteenth century to the present. It will examine the roles that cities have played in the United States’ economic, social, cultural, environmental, and political history. The course will pay particular attention to urban areas as contested spaces and incubators of ideas and movements that have shaped the nation.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing; or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 363 - The American Revolution
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Causes, dramatic events, and consequences of the American Revolution from the Salem witch trials through the Constitution.
Note: Slide lectures.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 367 - Global Disease
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course will examine global health crises, examining the same disease across temporal and spatial dimensions. The objective of this course are to critically examine the events , ideas, movements and understandings of science, health and illness that have shaped how society responds to disease.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 368 - Issues in American Medicine
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course examines the American medical system, and how the medical care received today is a legacy of the system’s evolution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Alternative medical treatments and questions about the value of medical technology have long been concerns in our health care system. The notion of who or what is healthy is influenced by geography, race, gender, and ethnic class. Combined, these many factors also affect the care one might receive, in the nineteenth or the twenty-first century.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 369 - The United States Since 1945
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Intermediate level study of the history of the United States since 1945. Focuses on political, diplomatic, economic, social and cultural change.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 370 - Topics in History
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Topics in history.
Note: Variable credit one to three repeatable for a total of 15 credits.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
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HIS 373 - History of Mexico
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Beginning with a brief introduction to the country’s great pre-Hispanic civilizations, the course moves toward the creation of new societies and cultures characteristic of the colonial period. The 19th and 20th centuries will serve to discuss the political struggles over the definition of nation and citizen.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 382 - The State and Society in Late Imperial China
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to examine the Late Imperial Chinese society through analyzing source materials. It also exposes students to intellectual debates such as: the origin of underdevelopment, the nature of the late imperial state, Chinese demographic patterns, gender relations, violence and crime, collective action, and state making.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 383 - Modern China
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A brief sketch of traditional society followed by analysis of China’s reaction to the Western assault, revolution, the role of the Japanese, the Communist Era, and China’s position in the 1970’s.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 384 - Contemporary Chinese History Through Film: 1900 to Present
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course uses visual materials as historical sources to introduce themes in contemporary Chinese history from ca. 1900 to present. The course investigates the following subjects: the injustice of the “feudal” society, imperialism and nationalism, the CCP Revolution, Mao’s Socialist China, Post-reform life in China.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 385 - Modern Japan
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course surveys the culture and history of modern Japan from 1850 to present. The theme of this course is modernity and tradition/identity. The discussion will focus on how Japan insisted on its tradition in the course of seeking modernity and whether modernity undermines or strengthens the tradition.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 386 - Mapping Islamic Slavery in a Global Context
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course examines the origins and development of the Islamic interpretation and regulation of slavery in a variety of Muslim societies and states in comparison to Atlantic and Eurasian practices of slavery.
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 389 - History of the Middle East
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An examination of the development of Islam and history of the Islamic peoples from Muhammed to World War I, with emphasis on the nature of the religion, its spread and its impact on institutions.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 390 - Harems, Bathhouses, and Brothels: Society, Gender, and Sexuality in the Early Modern Islamic World
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This interdisciplinary course focuses on histories and conceptualizations of gender and sexuality in early modern Muslim societies from a comparative, thematic, and innovative perspective.
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 391 - Modernization and Development in Africa
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course is a survey of the various theories of Development and Modernization designed to bring about social change in Africa and the history of their application since the end of the Atlantic Slave trade. Prerequisites: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 392 - History of Islam in Africa
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course focuses on the history of Islam in Africa and African influences on Islamic institutions and practices in and outside Africa. Islam is a major world religion practiced by a quarter of Africa’s population. Islam contributed immensely and still contributes to shaping Africa’s history.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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