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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Healthcare Administration |
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HA 150 Introduction to Healthcare Services
This foundation course provides an overview of the current health delivery system, including healthcare institutions, long-term care, healthcare workforce, financing and managed care. Students also are introduced to diverse topics such as quality care, health policy and ethics.
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HA 320 Healthcare Planning and Policy
This course covers the theoretical and historical foundations of healthcare planning and policy development as well as current concepts and controversies. Case Studies provide an opportunity for students to apply both healthcare strategic planning models and policy development skills.
Prerequisite: HA 150 , BA 201 , and junior standing.
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HA 385 Selected Topics in Healthcare Administration
This senior-level course provides the Healthcare Administration major with up-to-date perspectives on current issues such as reimbursement, healthcare financial management compliance, healthcare marketing, healthcare laws, healthcare ethics, and healthcare systems design. This course serves as a foundation for HA 490 .
Prerequisite: HA 320 or permission of the instructor.
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HA 470 Internship in Healthcare Administration
Prerequisite: HA 320, completion of two 300-level HA courses, junior standing. Students who do not meet the prerequisites must gain permission from the department Chair.
Students will complete 100+ hours of internship work in a professional healthcare setting. The internship course is designed to have the student apply academic concepts in a work environment. The student is required to find and secure a legitimate internship related to his/her major and career goals. In addition to the work component at the internship site location, the student will complete several assignments designed to help bridge the transition from college to career.
Prerequisite: HA 320 , completion of two 300-level HA courses, junior standing. Students who do not meet the pre-requisites must gain permission from the department Chair.
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HA 490 Seminar in Healthcare Administration
This Capstone course in Healthcare Administration requires students to see organizations from a total management point of view and to integrate their learning from prior courses. The students work in teams to generate a business plan for an organization in the healthcare industry.
Prerequisite: BA 340 , BA 380 , HA 320 , senior standing or permission of the Program Chair.
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Honors |
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HN 380L The Color of Poverty
The course is designed to connect the classroom to the community through service learning and collaborative leadership experiences. The focus is to create a mindfulness among students regarding issues of social justice and how to address them through a creative and compassionate lens. Students will research and discuss issues that affect the global community, such as sex trafficking, child brides, clean water issues, and access to healthcare in developing countries. They will also learn how aesthetic entrepreneurship can be used to make an impact in the social justice context. Students will be provided the opportunity to use the arts to influence social impact locally and globally and use their leadership strengths to influence change.
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HN 382 Social Justice and the Opportunity Gap: An Unfiltered Look at American Education
Using HBO’s The Wire Season 4 as a roadmap, this course will explore the current landscape of American Education with an emphasis on examining the structural variables affecting access to quality education. The Wire’s dramatic narrative will be complemented by readings and other media to offer the student an interdisciplinary perspective of our education system and its political, economic, social and cultural dimensions. Students will also gain valuable insight into the internal and external forces that shape the day to day realities of students and families living in distressed communities. We will examine the notion of the “opportunity gap” through many lenses, including resource allocation, accountability, expectations, equality and socioeconomic status. Students will actively participate in activities and discussions aimed at deconstructing the variables affecting quality education. Every class will begin and end with the same fundamental question: How does a student with limited resources but unlimited potential achieve the American Dream?
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HN 384L Craftivism
Craft + Activism = Craftivism is a course utilizing art and craft materials (often fiber based) to create “gentle” protests to a variety of injustices and issues in our world today. The projects for this course are inspired by books, articles, websites and a variety of social media accounts from around the world that have been written and published since 2001, the unofficial “beginning” of craftivism. Over the course of the semester, students will read several books and articles on the history and rise of craftivism. There will be planned class trips and invited guest speakers to round out our understanding of this movement. Students will create approximately 8 projects, including one self-designed and one larger
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HN 397l A Closer Look at the Extinction of Earth’s Edibles
This class will study the history of the Slow Food Movement especially as it pertains to the preservation of unique ecosystems, the recovering of traditional processing methods and the safeguarding of native livestock breeds and local plant communities. Case studies will include an examination of various cultures and their food practices – not just the items of food themselves but the traditions associated with cultivating and preparing the foods as well. Examples include South African raw milk cheese, the Argania tree from Morocco and the milpa method of agricultural production in Central America. In addition, students will become familiar with the Ark of Taste and its mission which is, in part, to “provide an ethnobotanical and historical characterization of cultivars, local breeds and products as a measure for the recognition of what is typical and/or traditional” as applied to the production of food.
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HN 398 Eat, Memory: Reading, Watching & Writing Food Memoir
We all have to eat, right? However, food in our culture has become more than just about eating, it’s become art, entertainment and a personal and political statement. Another hot cultural phenomenon is the popularity of the memoir, explorations of themes and moments in people’s personal lives. We’ll also look at how food is intimately connected to memory, both physIn this class we will read food memoirs by writers such as Diana Abu Jabar, Ntozake Shange, MFK Fisher and others and we’ll write our own as well. We’ll exercise our senses with tastings and smellings, have field trips and guest speakers. For the final project we will write a short memoir about, make, and share in a communal feast the recpies that are connected to our memories and identity. As the French chef and writer Brillat-Savarin said, “Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are.”
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History |
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HS 102 Medieval Civilization
Not regularly scheduled.
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HS 104 European Civilization, 1789 to Present
In this study of the evolution of modern Europe from the French Revolution to the present, topics include: rise of nationalism; new political ideologies; imperialism; world wars; consumer and sexual revolutions; the Cold War; the fall of communism; terrorism and the recent turmoil in West/non-West relations.
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HS 108 World History: 5000 BCE to 1400 C
Not regularly scheduled.
This course is a survey of world history from its origins until the 16th century C.E. It will cover the dawn of civilizations through the Renaissance. The course emphasizes social, cultural, economic, and political developments on the Asian, American, European, African and Pacific island landmasses. A special emphasis is given to comparing cultures over time and space. The rise and decline of major civilizations, the transition from an agrarian to an urban economy, the role of women, and the origins of globalization are some of the major features discussed.
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HS 110 The West in the World, From the Great Voyages of Discovery to 9/11
This course typically examines the rise to global power of the West (primarily Europe and North America and their offshoots) after about 1500, its impact on the world, and the response of non-Western societies, until and including 9/11. Topics may include the Spanish conquest of central and south America; the trans-Atlantic slave trade; the Opium Wars against imperial China; the world wars; the decline of Europe’s overseas empires and the rise of the superpowers (the United States and the Soviet Union); the liberal transformation of the United States (1950s-1970s); U.S. foreign policy and the 9/11 attacks.
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HS 117 American History to 1865
This course is a summary of the colonial period, followed by more intensive study of the revolutionary, early national and middle periods, It includes lectures, readings and discussions on such topics as constitutional development; territorial expansion; foreign relations; political parties; social, economic and intellectual movements and the origins and course of the Civil War.
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HS 118 American History Since 1865
This study of the evolution of modern America from the Civil War considers the impact on American life of such developments as reconstruction, industrial growth, overseas expansion, social and political movements, economic depressions and the emergence of the United States as a world power.
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HS 130 Where Continents Meet: Contact, Coexistence and Conflict in the Modern Mediterranean World
(also listed as IS 130 )
Three continents converge on the Mediterranean Sea: Europe, Africa and the Middle East/Asia. This makes the region unequaled in the world for interactions across race, religion, and culture. Europeans, Africans and Asians have jostled together, coexisting, cooperating and clashing in unique and fascinating ways. The course is organized around five case studies: how France has responded to having the largest Muslim minority in Europe, mainly of North African descent; the origins and course of the Arab-Israeli situation in the Middle East; the rise of organized crime and the mafia in Italy; the fall of Yugoslavia into ethnic-religious wars in the 1990s, the worst conflicts in the region since World War II; and the migrant/refugee/terrorism crisis of the early 21st century, spilling over from tensions both within the region and from elsewhere.
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HS 211 The Modern Middle East
(also listed as PS 212 )
This survey of the history, culture, religion and politics of the region in the modern era includes study of the growth of nationalism and creation of sovereign states, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian problem, war, terrorism, and the impact of foreign powers.
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HS 216 Modern East Asia
This course examines the modern histories of China and Japan in the Age of Western Imperialism. It seeks to explain why China fell into turmoil and turned to communism while Japan embraced modernization to become an economic superpower. Focus may vary on Japan or China, but their interconnection is stressed, as is the impact on east Asia by the Western Great Powers, especially Britain and the United States. Also discussed is how Japan has become a global pop culture powerhouse and how China has begun its own march toward global economic power
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HS 218 The Rise and Fall of a Racial State: South Africa’s Long March in Global Context
Southern Africa has been one of the most important and fascinating regions in modern world history. The first place in Africa to be colonized by Europeans, it became a pioneering model for creating a race-based system. This system culminated in what became known as apartheid (a mixture of segregation and discrimination), which governed South Africa until the 1990s. It was only with the election of Nelson Mandela as President in the country’s first free democratic elections that the Black, Colored and Asian majority was finally able to dismantle centuries of institutionalized racism. In this course, we will follow the rise and fall of South Africa’s race-based system and place it in global context. It’s a fascinating story of Western empire-building and colonialism; the rise of capitalism and the discovery of the world’s largest diamond and gold deposits; the battles not only between whites and non-whites for dominance in the region but also between rival white European groups; the apex of the racial system under apartheid; how and why that system declined and fell; the rise of Nelson Mandela to power; and, finally, how South Africa has reckoned with the legacy of its difficult past in the years since the fall of the white supremacist regime.
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HS 220 Ancient Civilization
This course is a survey of cultural changes in the Neolithic and Sumerian societies of the Near East, life in Pharaonic Egypt, the world of pre-classical and classical Greece, and the growth of Rome from village to Empire.
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HS 224 Conflict and Inequality in Latin America
(also listed as IS 225 )
This class presents an overview of Latin America by focusing on the historical processes and contemporary socio-political practices that produce conflict and inequality in the region. Why has a region so rich in resources been historically underdeveloped? What issues have recurred across contexts as causes of conflict and inequality in the region? And how have people mobilized to address these causes? Through an examination of several specific case studies, from the Zapatista rebellion in Mexico to community health care activism in Chile, we will explore the similarities and differences in the nature of conflict and inequality found in countries across Latin America. As part of this, we will consider the role the United States has played in shaping the political economy of the region.
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HS 225 World War II
not regularly scheduled.
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HS 226 Plague Times: Epidemics in History, From the Black Death to Covid-19
This course examines the history of epidemic diseases since the arrival of the Black Death in Europe in the 14th century. We focus on a number of key issues: the nature of the particular disease in question; how epidemics were understood and grappled with, in terms of contemporary cultural and medical understandings; which groups within society tended to be impacted by epidemics and why; the development of treatments; who and what were blamed for the outbreak of epidemics; and, ultimately, the accumulating legacies of all this as epidemics continued inexorably to break out over the 750-year period we cover.
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HS 228 America as Empire
This course examines the evolution of the United States’ complex relationship with the rest of the world during the 20th and early 21st centuries – both how the United States impacted other nations and how other nations impacted the United States. This history of the United States’ multi-dimensional international presence explores traditional political and military topics but also traces the flow of such things as money, people, ideas, armaments, consumer products, natural resources, and culture back and forth between the United States and the rest of the world.
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HS 230 Cultural History of Modern Africa
This cultural history of contemporary Africa explores how political and economic processes have historically influenced social structures, institutions and cultural patterns. We look at imperialism, colonialism, independence, international aid, economic globalization and various global conflicts all of which have shaped and been shaped by the history of the continent. The course focuses on three interrelated themes: cultural processes and social institutions just prior to European colonization of Africa, the ruptures of these cultural processes and social institutions caused by colonialism, and the legacy of the ruptures during the post-colonial era. We pay particular attention to the integration of Africa with other parts of the world and the centrality of Africa to global political, economic and social processes.
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HS 234 Modern Russia: Tsars to Stalin
This study of Russia from the late 19th century to the death of Stalin emphasizes the decline of imperial Russia and the rise of the communist regime. The key questions of the course are: How and why did the Czarist regime fall into decline and fall? Why was there a communist revolution in 1917? How was communism able to consolidate its grip on Russia? How did Stalin rise to dominate the communist regime for so long? How did all this impact people’s lives? What has been Stalin’s impact and legacy?
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HS 235 Sports in America
Sports are a multibillion dollar part of America culture in the 21st century. Sports have been integral to this nation’s development. This course traces how sports developed from informal activities to the spectacle of today’s professional sports and how they have impacted society. All of the social movements of the 20th century find sports as an important aspect, from the Progressive Era through the fight for homosexual rights. Students also view sports movies to analyze how sports and history are portrayed on film.
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HS 238 Prejudice and Persecution in Western History
Prejudice has been expressed in different forms throughout Western history. We examine how prejudice is activated into actual persecution in five case studies according to specific criteria, from ancient to modern times: religion; gender; anti-Semitism; race; and sexuality. Our case studies are: ancient Roman persecution of Christians; the ‘great witch-hunt’ in late medieval/early modern Europe; hatred of Jews, from the ancient world to the Holocaust; racism in America against people of African descent, from slavery to the present; and homophobia, particularly since the late 19th century until the present. We will establish the main facts of each case, the nature of the particular prejudices or prejudices present, how these were turned into actions and policies, their impact, and, ultimately, attempt to theorize what prejudice is, how best to explain it, and why, in certain situations, it is activated into persecutory actions and policies.
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HS 239 United States Foreign Policy
(also listed as PS 240 )
This course covers the foreign policies of each U.S. presidential administration from Truman to the present day. Drawing extensively upon theories of foreign policy and detailed study of historical events, the course explores continuity and change in the crafting of foreign policy strategy and the implementation of policy over time.
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HS 240 Jacksonian America and Second American Party System
Not regularly offered.
From 1828 to 1861, dramatic changes came to the United States led by the uniquely American Andrew Jackson. The politics of the country were transformed forever, and many issues that are still debated today were born during this era. This course looks into the political changes and issues that brought about the Second American Party system and the causes of its demise by the Civil War. This course also looks at the reform movements of the period and in some cases those that continue to the present day.
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HS 242 America in the 1960s
This course examines the political, social and cultural history of America during the 1960s era from 1954 to 1974. It considers a range of topics including the civil rights movement, the Great Society, the rise of the New Rights, the debate over Vietnam, feminism and sexual liberation movements, black power, the counterculture, the urban crisis, and white backlash. The course emphasizes the transformation of liberalism, the revitalization of conservatism, and the many tensions that both shaped the social movements of the times and profoundly transformed the nation.
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HS 250 Inequality in Modern America
(also listed as PS 250 )
This course examines inequality in modern America, focusing primarily on economic inequality. This class explores the state of inequality in the U.S. and the evolution of economic inequality over time. Further, the course investigates the relationship between economic inequality and political inequality, examining how economic inequality affects civic engagement and political participation. Finally, students will explore how and why participation matters for representative democracy, public policy, and governance.
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HS 260 F.D.R. to Obama: US Politics and Reform
(also listed as PS 260 )
This course explores American politics and domestic policy reforms from Presidents Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama by focusing on the evolution of American liberalisms and conservatisms. With a particular eye on understanding the contemporary political scene and how and why it emerged, students examine a range of eras including the New Deal, the Great Society and the tumultuous 1960s, the so-called “Reagan Revolution” of the 1980s and its consolidation under George W. Bush, as well as the meaning of Barack Obama’s presidency. Emphasis is given to the importance of an interrelationship between the political leaders, ideas and institutions that shape what different groups of Americans have wanted from their government and what government has provided for them.
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HS 265 Women in American Politics
(Also listed as PS265)
This course is designed to discuss women, gender, and American politics. This course analyzes the participation of women in American public and political life. From the fight for suffrage through Hillary Clinton’s nomination by the Democratic Party, the readings and discussions in this class are historical and contemporary, as well as theoretical and empirical.
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HS 285 Special Topics in History
(3 or 4 credits)
The content and prerequisites for this course vary on the nature of the topic covered.
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HS 324 Troubled Giant: America from the Cold War to Covid-19
The history of the United States since World War Two presents us with a striking paradox: while becoming ever more prosperous at home and powerful abroad, it has also become ever more unequal and divided, beset by a relentless succession of social problems, foreign policy disasters and angry political polarization.
In this course, an advanced level undergraduate course also open to graduate students, we examine the story of America, the ‘troubled giant’, from the communism-obsessed era of the Cold War, through the 9/11 attacks, globalization and the advent of the internet, into the current ferment over change, diversity and the very foundations of liberal democracy itself.
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HS 325 European Fascism: Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Not regularly scheduled.
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HS 326 Hitler and Stalin—Age of Dictators
Not regularly scheduled.
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HS 329 American Political Thought
(also listed as PS 180 )
This is an examination of ways in which American political thinkers, leaders and contemporary commentators have dealt with the issues of power, equality, sovereignty and representation. It focuses on the relationship between abstract political concepts and practical politics in American political thinking.
Prerequisite: Junior standing; or permission of the instructor. PS 101 American Politics strongly recommended.
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HS 330 America from 1877-1945: Gilded Age to Global War
This seminar is on selected political, economic, social and foreign policy problems in American history from the Progressive Movement to the end of World War II. It includes supervised reading, research and group discussions.
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HS 331 Contemporary America, 1945 to Present
This intensive seminar examines the events and issues of the post-war era. Possible topics for research and discussion include the Cold War, the Fair Deal, McCarthyism, Vietnam, the New Left, Watergate, Reagan and the revival of conservatism, the end of the Cold War, and America’s new status as the world’s sole superpower.
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HS 335 The Vietnam Wars
This course examines the origins, experiences, and consequences of the Vietnam War. Readings, discussions and assignments focus on the political, social, and military forces that shaped the contours of the conflicts between 1945 and 1975. Central themes include the emergence and evolution of Vietnamese nationalism, the global Cold War, the American anti-war movement, and how tens of millions of Southeast Asian and American lives were transformed by the conflicts. In addition, significant attention also is paid to the ways that the war has continued to have an important impact in the years since the cessation of fighting – from Vietnam’s postwar economic development and lingering social and environmental scars to the United States’ Vietnam-influenced foreign policy, domestic politics and popular culture.
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HS 340 Ancient Greece, Homer to Alexander the Great
Not regularly scheduled.
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HS 341 Ancient Rome: Rise and Fall
This course discusses the rise and fall of Ancient Rome and the emergence of early Christianity. Topics include: Rome’s rise to empire; gladiators; slavery; everyday life and sexuality; persecution of early Christianity; the rise and triumph of the Christian Church; and the destruction of the Western Roman empire by German invasions.
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HS 342 The Italian Renaissance
Not regularly scheduled.
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HS 345 Urban and Suburban America
Not regularly scheduled.
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HS 350 Turning Points in Western History
This course examines key turning points in Western History. It begins with Ancient Israel and its religious revolution, then discusses the rise and impact of ancient Greece, the triumph of Christianity in the Mediterranean world, the rise of the West to global dominance and the struggles of the colonized peoples for political independence, the global expansion of Western (especially American) popular culture after World War II, the impact of the new globalization and global mobility, and finally 9/11 and the current United States-led war on international terror.
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HS 355 The World at War, 1914 to 1945
This course examines the origins, impact and legacy of the multiple wars from World War I to World War II. It focuses on: World War I; the communist idea of revolutionary class warfare to force-march modernization, as applied in the Soviet Union; the rise of Fascism/Nazism and the idea of war as national rejuvenation and empire-building; Japanese imperialism and Japan’s attempt to take control of Asia and the Pacific region; World War II, including the Holocaust as Hitler’s war against the Jews; and, finally the aftermath and legacy of this uniquely destructive age of warfare. We pay attention not only to the elites who launched and led the wars but also to their impact on the lives of ordinary people called to fight and bear the costs.
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HS 356 American Civil War
This course is an intensive examination of the origins and course of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the emergence of an industrial society on the verge of great power status.
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HS 360 Modern Italy
Not regularly scheduled.
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HS 365 Rebellions in the United States
This course examines cases where internal political, social, cultural and economic disagreements led to serious conflict. Students will examine how rebellions in the US have taken many forms. At the very beginning of the Republic, they took the form of military force against the government. After the ratification of the Constitution, this type of rebellion virtually disappeared. After that, rebellions took the form of nullification, Native American resistance, slave rebellions, labor uprisings and women asserting political rights. The course will include a study of these conflicts, examining the ideas and forces behind them.
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HS 366 World in Turmoil: The Mediterranean World, from the Fall of Rome to the First Crusade
The period from the fall of Rome and triumph of Christianity through the rise of the Arabs and Islam and thence the collision of the two faiths inthe first crusade is of momentous historical significance. It saw: the shattering of a 600 year old empire that had embraced the entire Mediterranean world; the replacement of a classical pagan civilization by a new otherworldly religious vision; a time of troubles plagued by mass migrations, wars and invasions; the rise of yet another monotheistic religion which, with the Arab invasions, would come to dominate huge swathes of the Mediterranean world; and the paradigmatic collision of the two rival exclusivist monotheisms in the era of the crusades.
By the end of the 11th century, the world that Rome had unified for six centuries had fragmented into Latin/Germanic kingdoms in the West, the Greek/Byzantine empire in the east, and the Arab empire in Iberia, north Africa, and the Middle East. Thus was set the fundamental juxtaposition of civilization in the Mediterranean world that endures through to the present. We will discuss this era of profound transformation through key episodes and turning points that illuminate the essence of the transformations that took place.
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HS 370 Race in America: Slavery to DuBois
This course includes a brief consideration of African roots, and examines the African American experience throughout American history from colonial days to the dawn of the twentieth century. Special emphasis is given to the periods of the Revolution, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Post-Reconstruction up to the conflict between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois.
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HS 375 Turning Points in Modern History
This course focuses on the main turning points in the world’s “long twentieth-century”: Europe’s global empire-building, World War I, communist revolution in Russia, World War II, the Holocaust, decolonization and the rise of Third World countries, the sudden fall of communism, the rise of America to sole superpower status, the 9/11 attacks, globalization and the surging patterns of mass migration.
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HS 377 Labor in American History
This course traces the history of labor in America and how economic, technological, and political changes have transformed the nature of work in America. The course readings explore industrialization, the origins and development of labor organizations, the decline of manufacturing, the rise of a service economy, and the impact of globalization on labor in America.
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HS 380 Dangerous Continent: Europe, 1945-2005
This course examines Europe’s main events and processes during the years from 1945 to 2005. Coming after a disastrous half-century of Great Depression, political extremism, and two world wars, Europe’s history after World War II is often seen as less momentous and essentially peaceful. In fact, this view is something of an illusion. True, there were no world wars or great economic disasters between 1945- and 2005; but Europe continued to be a key flashpoint for crucial, sometimes truly historic, developments- from the beginnings of the Cold War to the European powers’ loss of their vast overseas empires, from the fall of communism in the miraculous revolution of 1989-91 to the disastrous disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, from the sudden, unexpected presence of a large Muslim minority and all the tensions and dilemmas this presented to the al-Qaeda attacks of 2004 and 2005 in Madrid and London.
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HS 385 Special Studies in History
The content and prerequisites for this course vary depending on the nature of the topic covered. Courses have included: The World at War, 1914 to 1945; Turning Points in Western History, Western History, from Ancient Israel to 9/11.
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HS 388 Embattled World: From the Cold War to the War on Terror
This course examines the origins, course and demise of the Cold War. We discuss the beginnings of the Cold War in Europe, its global expansion with the outbreak of the Korean War, the political paranoia of the 1950s (McCarthyism, etc.), the near outbreak of nuclear war over the Cuban Missiles Crisis, the global interventions of the US in the name of anti-communism (peaking with the Vietnam War), the superpowers’ attempts to normalize relations (detente), the resurgence of the Cold War under President Reagan, and the stunningly sudden and unexpected end of the Cold War with the demise of communism in Europe and the Soviet Union. We will then discuss the 9/11 attacks, the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; the War on Terror, and controversies over government deception, torture and civil liberties.
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HS 389 Independent Study
(4 credits)
Directed in-depth reading and research is devoted to specific topics or periods in history.
Prerequisite: approval of the adviser and Chair.
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HS 490 Senior Thesis Seminar
A two-semester capstone course, the first semester focuses on developing a research project. Thesis topics are chosen by students through discussion with the seminar professor. They may take the form of original research-based papers or discussions of the historical literature on an issue of interest and controversy. The second semester focuses on completing the research project, including in-class presentations of research findings, poster presentation, and the completion of the senior essay.
Prerequisite: senior standing in history; or permission of the instructor.
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HS 491 Senior Thesis Seminar
A two-semester capstone course, the first semester focuses on developing a research project. Thesis topics are chosen by students through discussion with the seminar professor. They may take the form of original research-based papers or discussions of the historical literature on an issue of interest and controversy. The second semester focuses on completing the research project, including in-class presentations of research findings, poster presentation, and the completion of the senior essay.
Prerequisite: senior standing in history; or permission of the instructor.
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PL 201 Philosophy
This course provides students an intensive introduction to discipline-focused research and writing in History. Students are introduced to a variety of types of primary and secondary sources. They learn about how to search for and locate these different sources, how to evaluate them, and how to utilize the sources in their research-based writing. Students learn how to develop research projects from the initial topic of interest through to the final written product; this work includes the generation of research proposals, re-drafting of papers, and practice in formulating different kinds of arguments depending on audience, sources, and written form.
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Interdisciplinary Note: See Undergraduate Curriculum section for First-Year Seminars and University Seminars.
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ID 100A Becoming a Lifelong Learner
(1 credit)
Designed to assist incoming Gateway to Success Summer Bridge Program students in becoming acclimated to the university culture and its academic expectations. Students will critically examine themselves as lifelong learners, exploring techniques and strategies to use as they adapt to the structures, routines and expectations of college life. Students examine their academic goals, personal strengths, and identify areas for further development; become familiar with college resources and services through in-class presentations from campus staff. The course guides students to explore various time management strategies, examine their values, and strengthen their knowledge of effective study techniques.
This course is required for all students admitted to the University who attend the Gateway to Success Summer program.
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ID 100B Becoming a Lifelong Learner
(1 credit)
Designed for students to examine their academic goals, personal strengths, and identify areas for further development, this proactive course guides students in reviewing learning strategies and study skill techniques. This course assists students to recognize their learning style and learn how other factors such as health & wellness, and finances affect a student’s academic success and satisfaction in college. Students will convert their theoretical knowledge of learning strategies to practical application in the college classroom. Ultimately, the goals of this course are to help facilitate a smooth transition to college and lay the foundation for a successful college career. This course is required for all students admitted to the University via the Gateway to Success Program.
This course is required for all students admitted to the University via the Gateway to Success program.
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ID 101 Science in Civilization I
In this course, students learn and apply basic concepts of physics and chemistry. The interrelationships among the fields of science are stressed, and concepts are reinforced throughout the semester. Basic problem-solving skills are emphasized in both lecture and the required laboratory component. The goal of the course is to produce scientifically literate students who are able to make informed decisions in an increasingly technologically oriented world. This is a one-semester, stand-alone course for non-science majors, including those who are preparing for the teaching profession. Topics covered include the nature of science, the scientific method, motion, gravity, energy, laws of thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, waves, light, chemical reactions and nuclear energy. Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: Satisfactory performance on the mathematics placement inventory or successful completion of MA 100 is required.
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ID 102 Science in Civilization II
In this course, students learn and apply basic concepts of astronomy, geology and biology. The interrelationships among the fields of science are stressed, and concepts are reinforced throughout the semester. Basic problem-solving skills are emphasized in both lecture and the required laboratory component. The goal of the course is to produce scientifically literate students who are able to make informed decisions in an increasingly technologically oriented world. This is a one-semester, stand-alone course for non-science majors, including those who are preparing for the teaching profession. Topics covered include astronomy, the origin and evolution of life, the nature of living things, geology, weather, aquatic systems, human biology and genetics.
Three class hours and three laboratory hours weekly.
Prerequisite: Satisfactory performance on the mathematics placement inventory or successful completion of MA 100 is required. ID 101 is not a prerequisite for this class.
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ID 125 Strategic Career Planning
(2 credits)
This course is designed to broaden the scope of the professional decision-making process and develop competencies in successfully transitioning from college to career. Emphasis is placed on developing a solid foundation for major selection, career exploration, job and internship search strategies, self-assessment, and interview preparation. The class requires students to develop professional branding materials and explore careers of interest. All students enrolled in the course are required to complete assignments that culminate with the development of a personalized strategic career plan. This course is open to all class levels.
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ID 135 AU Blueprint
(2 credits)
This course is designed to assist you in establishing good academic standing as well as gain insight on skills that will strengthen your academic acumen and become self-responsible learners. You will be provided with tools you need to design your educational goals at Arcadia. Discussions and activities will revolve around seizing opportunities, strengthening organizational skills, discovering new ways of learning, uncovering pathways for major and career, connecting you to campus resources and becoming resilient.
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ID 228 Shakespeare on Stage with Seniors
The class offers students the opportunity to engage in a cross-cultural and cross-generational experience using a dramatic text as the initial point of contact. Students will study, analyze and discuss the text; learning skills necessary create and perform as the characters from Shakespeare’s plays. They will, as a class, work with the senior citizens as they rehearse and perform scenes from the chosen Shakespeare comedy reversing age appropriate roles with the senior citizens. At the end of the semester, Arcadia students and senior citizens will perform selected scenes from the chosen Shakespeare comedy. The purpose is to engage and connect with the members of a community outside of their own and participate in the creation of a theatrical experience along with that community.
Prerequisite: EN 101
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ID 325 Artist in the Community
This course fulfills the Global Connections Experience requirement and has been designed with the criteria for those experiences in mind. It provides a sustained cross-cultural experience in conjunction with local schools and community organizations. Students engage in personal creative development through various hands-on art projects within the first section of the course. Beginning in weeks five or six, the second section provides the opportunity for students to take that creative expression to the community in order to explore the power of art to bring people together, create connections across differences, and re-create community spaces. Community service hours in organizations occur primarily during class time. The course concludes with an art exhibit of student work to be shared with the Arcadia community, friends and family. Students from a variety of disciplines are invited to enroll and no particular prior background experiences in the arts are required. All students are required, however, to make a commitment to stretching beyond the familiar as they meet new people and engage in individual and community art making.
Note: Background checks and child abuse clearances are required for some locations.
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ID 330 Inside Out
This unique, experimental course is affiliated with the national Inside/Out program. The class meetings will take place at a Philadelphia-area correctional facility. where students have the opportunity to learn about the criminal justice system in the United States. The class is composed of Arcadia students (outside) and incarcerated individuals (inside). Inside and outside students meet once a week inside the facility to discuss readings related to the course topic and to work on research projects. Students must be willing to abide by the rules and procedures of the prison and the Inside/Out program. Enrollment in the course is by permission of the Arcadia Inside Our program coordinator only.
NOTE: If for any reason, such as public health issues, outside groups are not permitted to enter the facilities, Inside-Out courses may take place on Zoom with formerly incarcerated people participating as “inside” students.
Note: An approved application and background checks are required for course enrollment . The course also requires travel time to and from the facility, which are usually at the Philadelphia Department of Prison’s complex in Northeast Philadelphia.
Note: An approved application and background checks are required for this course.
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ID 330A Inside Out: Art (Representational Drawings)
Many advanced drawing classes focus on developing personal vision and style. In Representational Drawing, participants will review drawing basics – line, tone, perspective and composition, but the class will emphasize specific techniques required to render textures, surfaces, transparency, etc. – in fact, various ways to produce realistic still life subjects in graphite, charcoal and ink. Though the class is considered to be “advanced,” this label primarily reflects its discrete goal – i.e., the generation of accurate, realistic drawings. There are no prerequisites, though Drawing I (FA 104 ) and Drawing II (FA 105 ) are recommended.
Goals:
- To provide students with a comprehensive repertoire of techniques required to generate representational images.
- To foster an environment for exchange of creative solutions and discussion related to the value of representational art.
- To encourage thought and discussion of the relevance of art-making in restrictive settings and attitudes toward art produced in such settings.
- To foster connections between participants on the inside and on the outside.
- To promote creative problem solving within the perceived limitations associated with representational drawing.
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IS 100 Introduction to International Studies
(3 credits)
See description under IS 101 .
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IS 101 Introduction to International Studies
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of International Studies. Key themes and issues focused on include globalization, development, poverty, and human rights. The course explores how political, social and economic inequalities are produced and how they affect a variety of peoples and regions differently. Students examine the evolution of nation-state sovereignty and the inter-related impacts of other subnational and supra-national actors, groups and forces such as those of global markets and non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations. In addition, students learn how the disciplines of history, anthropology, political science and economics engage the central topics of International Studies in distinct ways.
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IS 120 Global Public Health
This course introduces students to critical challenges in global health using multidisciplinary perspectives. Issues at the nexus between development and health are explored through millennium development goals, disease burden, environmental health and safe water, epidemiology and demography of disease, AIDS and HIV prevention, chronic diseases, nutritional challenges, social determinants of global health, harm reduction and behavioral modification, health professionals and capacity development, as well as human rights and bioethical issues in a global context.
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IS 130 Where Continents Meet: Contact, Coexistence and Conflict in the Modern Mediterranean World
(also listed as HS 130 )
Three continents converge on the Mediterranean Sea: Europe, Africa and the Middle East/Asia. This makes the region unequaled in the world for interactions across race, religion, and culture. Europeans, Africans and Asians have jostled together, coexisting, cooperating and clashing in unique and fascinating ways. The course is organized around five case studies: how France has responded to having the largest Muslim minority in Europe, mainly of North African descent; the origins and course of the Arab-Israeli situation in the Middle East; the rise of organized crime and the mafia in Italy; the fall of Yugoslavia into ethnic-religious wars in the 1990s, the worst conflicts in the region since World War II; and the migrant/refugee/terrorism crisis of the early 21st century, spilling over from tensions both within the region and from elsewhere.
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IS 201 International Studies Research Writing
This course provides students an intensive introduction to discipline-focused research and writing in their International Studies field(s) of interest. Students are introduced to a variety of types of primary and secondary sources. They learn about how to search for and locate these different sources, how to evaluate them, and how to utilize the sources in their research-based writing. Students learn how to develop research projects from the initial topic of interest through to the final written product; this work includes the generation of research proposals, re-drafting of papers, and practice in formulating different kinds of arguments depending on audience, sources, and written form.
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IS 220 Global Environment
(also listed as PS 221 )
This course focuses on global interconnections and the consequences of humans’ use and frequent degradation of natural resources around the planet. All continents are explored. Readings, discussions, and written assignments examine such topics as the shifting demand for and politics of resource extraction, trends in energy use (past, present and future), environmental health and justice, and how and the extent to which ecological balances have been imperiled by human economic and social development.
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IS 225 Conflict and Inequality in Latin America
(also listed as HS 224 )
This class presents an overview of Latin America by focusing on the historical processes and contemporary socio-political practices that produce conflict and inequality in the region. Why has a region so rich in resources been historically underdeveloped? What issues have recurred across contexts as causes of conflict and inequality in the region? And how have people mobilized to address these causes? Through an examination of several specific case studies, from the Zapatista rebellion in Mexico to community health care activism in Chile, we will explore the similarities and differences in the nature of conflict and inequality found in countries across Latin America. As part of this, we will consider the role the United States has played in shaping the political economy of the region.
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IS 265 Migration Politics in the Americas
This course examines the politics of migration with a focus on the dynamics of national identity and national belonging within migrant communities and between those communities and the countries to which they migrate. A central objective of the class is to investigate how language practices-from people’s routine talk, to media coverage, to immigration policies-shape migration politics. Through this investigation, the course explores the historical formation and contemporary realities of migration and its related language practices, highlighting that “politics” refers not only to the workings of government. It is also a feature of everyday life that is shaped by language. The course concentrates on migration between Latin America and the United States. However, during class discussions and in their coursework, students have the opportunity to explore other migrations in the Americas, if they choose.
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IS 320 Global Poverty and Inequality
Debates that surround poverty and inequality are some of the most urgent in our time. This advanced seminar critically analyzes the causes of poverty and inequality and applies this analysis to new approaches to development around the world. Students explore historical efforts to address poverty as well as contemporary texts that offer cutting edge solutions to development challenges.
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IS 340 Law, Disorder and Globalization
In the late 20th century, there was a global turn towards criminalization and incarceration as responses to social problems-to “disorder.” While justified by claims about increases in crime, this “penal turn” often precedes such increases, and so cannot be explained by crime rates alone. The politics of crime are a useful way to examine many social and political changes, such as the criminalization of poor and African-American youth and “urban decline” in U.S. inner cities. This course will examine how these politics help construct inequality in the U.S.; we will also consider how they shape international relationships between the U.S., Europe, and nation-states in Latin America and Africa. As part of this, we will examine how criminalization creates social hierarchies, in which some types of people and some nation-states are seen as inherently criminal and disorderly. We will discuss a range of specific cases that allow us to understand the factors that motivate the penal turn, exploring the ways the penal turn has material consequences that encourage future criminalization, such as for-profit prisons.
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IS 355 Environmental Racism
PS355
This seminar explores the origins and solutions to environmental racism and injustice. In particular, we examine the Environmental Justice Movement, the political economy of environmental injustice, and institutionalized racism that contribute to the degradation of environmental conditions in low income and BIPOC communities in North America and around the world. By discussing local and global case studies of environmental injustice and by taking virtual toxic tours we think through possibilities for resistance and sovereignty. The seminar materials draw from Native American and Indigenous studies, Black studies, environmental anthropology, and feminist theory to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on the ongoing project for environment justice.
Prerequisite: There are no prerequisites although students are encouraged to have interest in environmental justice issues and/or previously taken US219 - The Politics of Climate Change.
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IS 425 Post-Conflict Reconstruction
This course introduces students to the main issues in post conflict reconstruction and the multiple challenges facing societies emerging from conflict. The objective of the course is to highlight the various dilemmas and needs of reconstruction and how these are generated by the specific dynamics of conflict. To do so, we adopt a comparative political economy approach that addresses many of the key issues affecting post conflict reconstruction in different conflict spaces, including the role of international actors; the relationship between socio-political peace and economic stability; the financing of reconstruction; the challenges of reconstituting domestic political relations after conflict; governance and institutional development; and the importance of social policy in facilitating reconstruction. This course also places emphasis on the applied side of post conflict reconstruction by introducing some of the techniques, policies and needs assessment strategies employed by international organizations in advancing reconstruction policies and strategies.
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IS 430 Social Life of War: Political, Cultural and Identity Process in Global Conflict
This course explores war and violent conflict from a socio-cultural perspective. The course explores the ways in which war and violent conflict reshape social structures, create new cultural processes in reaction to altered reality, and reconstitute identities. Students read and discuss ethnographic accounts that show how war and violent conflict are experienced at the personal, cultural and social level. This course enhances and complicates understanding of what conflict is and what it means for people and social groups who are forced to endure it.
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IS 490 International Studies Senior Thesis Seminars
In this two-semester Capstone course, students explore research methods and develop and complete a substantial research project. Project topics are chosen by students in consultation with the seminar professor.
(490 in fall only; 491 in spring only)
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IS 491 International Studies Senior Thesis Seminars
In this two-semester Capstone course, students explore research methods and develop and complete a substantial research project. Project topics are chosen by students in consultation with the seminar professor.
(490 in fall only; 491 in spring only)
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IT 101 Beginning Italian I
Courses introduce understanding, speaking, reading and writing skills. Basic vocabulary and grammatical structures are studied. At the end of IT 102 students are expected to advance to an intermediate-low level by ACTFL standards.
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IT 102 Beginning Italian II
Courses introduce understanding, speaking, reading and writing skills. Basic vocabulary and grammatical structures are studied. At the end of IT102 students are expected to advance to an intermediate-low level by ACTFL standards.
Prerequisite: IT 101 or equivalent
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IT 201 Intermediate Italian I
Course continues practice in listening, conversation, reading and writing in Italian while presenting advanced grammatical structures. At the end of IT 201, students are expected to advance to an intermediate-mid level by ACTFL standards.
Prerequisite: IT 102 or equivalent.
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IT 202 Intermediate Italian Language and Culture
Capstone course designed to further develop students with language proficiency. At the end of IT 202 students are expected to advance to an intermediate-high or advanced level by ACTFL standards. Cultural knowledge is advanced through more advanced reading, listening, speaking and writing exercises.
Prerequisite: A grade of at least a C- in IT 201 or equivalent.
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IT 203 Italian Conversation and Diction I
Conversation in Italian for students who want to improve their conversational Italian as well as expand their knowledge of Italian culture by analyzing current issues and situations of Italian society.
Prerequisite: IT 102 or equivalent.
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IT 204 Italian Conversation and Diction II
Conversation in Italian for students who want to improve their conversational Italian as well as expand their knowledge of Italian culture by analyzing current issues and situations of Italian society.
Prerequisite: IT 102 or equivalent.
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IT 216 Italian through Art
The course aims at expanding students’ knowledge of the Italian language and culture through one of the most representative features of the Italian cultural tradition: Art. Throughout the semester students will develop the skills of reading, writing and speaking while analyzing some of the most famous Italian artists of all times and their major artworks.
Prerequisite: IT 201 or equivalent level or authorization from the instructor and/or the department.
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IT 226 Italian Language and Culture through Cinema
A view of Italian language and culture through contemporary Italian films. Italian society as represented by the most prominent Italian directors in the cinema.
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IT 231 The Mafia and Beyond
The course examines the Sicilian mafia and other criminal organizations (camorra and ‘ndrangheta) in their historical and social context in Italian culture: their origins, development into powerful criminal syndicates with political ties, and expansion to North America. The course looks at organized crime through the lens of literature, film, and popular media, to examine how the mafiosi have been alternatively a target of civic indignation and an object of endless fascination in Italian (and Italian-American) popular culture. Course taught in English.
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IT 285 Special Topics in Italian
(3 to 4 credits)
Exploration of selected topics such as Italian civilization: history, geography, literature, art and culture. Topics vary according to student and faculty interests. May be elected for more than one topic.
Prerequisite: IT 202 or equivalent level.
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