History, Society, Cultures (HSC) Courses - Area VI
These include courses that focus on individuals and/or groups in society; courses that demonstrate how the social sciences use theory and methods to expand our understanding of social phenomena; courses that examine historical forces, cultural traditions, and human values; and related interdisciplinary courses. Requirement: Two courses.

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African American Studies
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This course introduces students to the multiple disciplines that comprise the field of African American Studies and the most salient themes and topics that continue to guide scholars' research interests.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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The course examines the experiences of African Americans from the emergence of the transatlantic slave trade to the end of the Civil War. Emphasizes social and cultural history and interpretation of race, class, and gender.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 238
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Examines African American history from 1865 to the present. Emphasizes regional, gender, and class distinction within African American communities, and the ways in which industrial transformations shaped African American life, thought, and resistance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 239
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Examines African American history from 1865 to the present. Emphasizes regional, gender, and class distinction within African American communities, and the ways in which industrial transformations shaped African American life, thought, and resistance.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 239W
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Relations between and within groups, and conflict and cooperation in light of a number of models of social interaction. Application of principles to racial, religious, and ethnic minorities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 247
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An exploration and analysis of the struggle for African American equality with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement's development, successes, failures and legacy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 267
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An exploration and analysis of the struggle for African American equality with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement's development, successes, failures and legacy.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 267W
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Students in this course will study representations of blacks in major forms of mass media, including newspapers, literature, radio, tv, and film. Students will explore the evolution of those representations and the impact of negative portrayals on the self-images of blacks and society at large.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Wide range of topics pertinent to the African American experience.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Wide range of topics pertinent to the African American experience.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Development of religion among African Americans; trends and tendencies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 320R
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Development of religion among African Americans; trends and tendencies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 320RW
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"Explores historical & contemporary notions of love with emphasis on love's powerful & controversial presence/absence in the lives of Black people in the North American context. Readings include religious studies, philosophical, historical, literary, social scientific and neurobiological texts."
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 325
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Politics of sub-Saharan Africa are examined, with emphasis on the major issues of social and political analysis as well as the African economic predicament and its political implications.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 334
- AFS 334
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Using insights from cultural anthropology, Black cultural studies, & geography, this course critically explores "Black geographies" to theorize the ways race and space are mutually constituted in our modern world. Students will analyze intersections of race, space, and place in contemporary Atlanta.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 344
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Students will explore the various typologies of African American resistance movements, including civil rights liberalism, Black nationalism, Black power, Black feminism, Black conservatism, and LGBT movements in the post-emancipation period.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Comprehensive examination of African American politics and its critical influence upon the American political system. Civil rights and black power movements; the voting rights act and redistricting; African American political participation, attitudes, and governance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 346
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African Americans created a model of educational excellence during de jure segregated schools whose historical practices link with West Africa and whose implications extend to Finland. The class explores the components of this model and considers their implications for contemporary practice.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course utilizes foundational qualitative research methodology and literature review skills to allow students to explore a variety of class-identified issues challenging the successful engagement of African American students in educational spaces.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Examines a variety of ethnic groups in terms of strengths as well as weaknesses, lodging these characterizations in historical socioeconomic contexts and focusing on the structure and functioning of family life.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 360
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Political, social, economic, and cultural history of sub-Saharan African civilizations, from the rise of the Sudanic empires through the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 364
- AFS 364
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Political, social, economic, and cultural history of sub-Saharan African civilizations, from the rise of the Sudanic empires through the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 364W
- AFS 364W
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This course examines the cyclical intersection of politics, education, and race in the history of public school education in Georgia from the Civil War to the present era, considering both the forms of systemic oppression as well as the continuity of community responses.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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The course examines how constructions of race and gender control the way black women are represented in literature, film and popular culture from the 19th c. to the present. Students will look carefully at American and Western ideologies of black women.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course explores the historical relationship between Blacks and chief executives and the range of presidential attitudes and actions pertaining to the problems of slavery and emancipation, segregation, discrimination, and economic exploitation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 381
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This course explores the ideological and structural foundations of race in American political culture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 382
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An in-depth study of the current historical knowledge of 19th century slavery in the southern United States; and how slavery has been depicted in popular culture, films and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 384
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This course explores one of a wide range of topics pertaining to the African American experience in the fields of human and civil rights, social and literary texts, and the social sciences.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course explores one of a wide range of topics pertaining to the African American experience in the fields of human and civil rights, social and literary texts, and the social sciences.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Intermediate level workshop in writing and researching Southern Georgia's Civil Rights history.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 387RW
- ENGCW 385RW
- AMST 387RW
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This course surveys and analyses the factors shaping the U.S. response in the 20th and 21st centuries to human rights, domestically and globally.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course surveys and analyses the factors shaping the U.S. response in the 20th and 21st centuries to human rights, domestically and globally. Writing requirement.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course will explore the development of international law, international consciousness and U.S. foreign policy on the two distinct but often related issues of war crimes and genocide during the late 19th and throughout the 20th centuries.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course will explore the development of international law, international consciousness and U.S. foreign policy on the two distinct but often related issues of war crimes and genocide during the late 19th and throughout the 20th centuries.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course will examine the ways in which the twentieth-century black Civil Rights Movement and the movement for LGBT rights have intersected through the activism of black LGBT activists in the city of Atlanta. Students will conduct ground-breaking research in Atlanta's black LGBT community.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course will examine the ways in which the twentieth-century black Civil Rights Movement and the movement for LGBT rights have intersected through the activism of black LGBT activists in the city of Atlanta. Students will conduct ground-breaking research in Atlanta's black LGBT community .
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This advanced course explores one of a wide range of topics pertaining to the African American experience in the fields of human and civil rights, social and literary texts, and the social sciences.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This advanced course explores one of a wide range of topics pertaining to the African American experience in the fields of human and civil rights, social and literary texts, and the social sciences.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Spring. Multidisciplinary in nature, the readings of the senior seminar reflect the centrality of the historical and cultural contributions of African Americans to American history and culture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Spring. Multidisciplinary in nature, the readings of the senior seminar reflect the centrality of the historical and cultural contributions of African Americans to American history and culture.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
African Studies
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Traces the gradual incorporation of Africa into an expanding world economy and examines the impact of this incorporation on the development of African societies and modern nation states.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 221
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Anthropological perspectives on the people and cultures on different regions of the world. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. HSC, may be repeated when topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 280R
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Introduction to the evolution, diversity, and social significance of human diet and nutrition.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 311
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The varied experience of women in Africa, with attention to the impact of colonization and decolonization on women's lives and cultures.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Politics of sub-Saharan Africa are examined, with emphasis on the major issues of social and political analysis as well as the African economic predicament and its political implications.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 334
- AAS 334
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This course will examine sexual violence and gender in conflict, transitional justice, and post-conflict.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 345
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This course is a systematic and empirical journey through the economic, political and governance landscapes of Europe, Middle East and North Africa through a comparative assessment of the evolution of state institutions and markets.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 353
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This course is a systematic and empirical journey through the economic, political and governance landscapes of Europe, Middle East and North Africa through a comparative assessment of the evolution of state institutions and markets.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 353W
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Political, social, economic, and cultural history of sub-Saharan African civilizations, from the rise of the Sudanic empires through the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 364
- HIST 364
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Political, social, economic, and cultural history of sub-Saharan African civilizations, from the rise of the Sudanic empires through the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 364W
- AAS 364W
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Slavery is not an unchanging systems rooted in the past. We will examine the nature and diversity of slavery in Africa, from 1300s to 1900s, and interrogate the significant role slavery, slave trades, racism, colonialism, and forced labor have played in shaping the African past and present.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 365
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Slavery is not an unchanging systems rooted in the past. We will examine the nature and diversity of slavery in Africa, from 1300s to 1900s, and interrogate the significant role slavery, slave trades, racism, colonialism, and forced labor have played in shaping the African past and present.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 365W
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This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to explore issues in economic development viewed from the perspective of sub-Saharan Africa from the impact of slavery and colonialism to the modern era of globalization.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON101/112/Bus 201 as prereq
- Cross-Listed
- ECON 366
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This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to explore issues in economic development viewed from the perspective of sub-Saharan Africa from the impact of slavery and colonialism to the modern era of globalization.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ECON101/112/Bus 201 as prereq
- Cross-Listed
- ECON 366W
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Evolution of South Africa from a society based on the principle of systematic racial segregation to a multiracial democracy. Origins of racial segregation and apartheid, nationalist struggles, challenges of post-apartheid development.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 367
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May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
American Studies
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This course introduces students to the history of people of Asian ancestry in the United States, including immigrants, students, professionals, and refugees from East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Thematically, it investigates timely issues facing the Asian American community today.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 228
- EAS 228
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An introduction to the study of popular culture--movies, pulp fiction, music, and television--in the context of historical analysis.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 253
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An introduction to the study of popular culture--movies, pulp fiction, music, and television--in the context of historical analysis.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 253W
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African Americans, Indians, Irish, and Jews in recent American history. Explores patterns of immigration and the limits of assimilation. Also treats anti-ethnic reactions such as racism and anti-Semitism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 348
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Intermediate level workshop in writing and researching Southern Georgia's Civil Rights history.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 387RW
- ENGCW 385RW
- AAS 387RW
Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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Social, anthropological, and cultural aspects of two or more ancient Mediterranean cultures from a comparative perspective.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Cultural history of the ancient Mediterranean through an examination of the materials, methods, and history of archaeology.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Anthropology
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Survey of the study of the human species: its evolution, prehistory, language, and comparative social and cultural systems.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course explores key concepts in cultural anthropology. Through engaging ethnographic accounts from different world areas, students will analyze anthropological debates about culture, race, religion, ritual, health, gender, sexuality, politics, and/or exchange and learn about fieldwork methods.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course explores key concepts in cultural anthropology. Through engaging ethnographic accounts from different world areas, students will analyze anthropological debates about culture, race, religion, ritual, health, gender, sexuality, politics, and/or exchange and learn about fieldwork methods.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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An introduction to the systematic study of human language, surveying the fields of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, child language acquisition, and historical linguistics.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 201
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Principles of archaeological analysis and field excavation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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An introduction to the overall field of global health, its history, methods, and key principles, with case studies illustrating the burden of disease in nations with strikingly different political-economic contexts.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HLTH 250
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Comparative study of disease ecology and medical systems of other cultures; sociocultural factors affecting contemporary world health problems; cultural aspects of ethnomedicine and biomedicine; ethnicity and health care.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Comparative study of disease ecology and medical systems of other cultures; sociocultural factors affecting contemporary world health problems; cultural aspects of ethnomedicine and biomedicine; ethnicity and health care.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course introduces the evidence base for the science of health and emphasizes STEM educational translations to the population, clinic and individual levels. Innovative efforts are needed to drive changes in health care from a reactive, disease-focused system to a proactive health-focused one.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HLTH 210
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Study of language in context, focusing on relations between language and culture, thought, social identity, and political process.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 240
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Study of language in context, focusing on relations between language and culture, thought, social identity, and political process.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 240W
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Course surveys cultural diversity in the contemporary world through current ethnographies from different world areas.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Course surveys cultural diversity in the contemporary world through current ethnographies from different world areas.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course introduces students to the cross-cultural study of gender and sexuality, providing anthropological perspectives on femininity, masculinity, heteronormativity, gender variance, same sex relations, and various theories and methods that are relevant to the study of these phenomena.Students who have taken ANT_OX 265 may not repeat this course for credit.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 265
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Anthropological perspectives on the people and cultures on different regions of the world. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. HSC, may be repeated when topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 280R
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Introduction to the evolution, diversity, and social significance of human diet and nutrition.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 311
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Cross-cultural study of gender and women's lives in diverse cultures, including the United States; comparative study of work, child-rearing, power, politics, religion, and prestige.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 340
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Cross-cultural examination of how language reflects, maintains, and constructs gender identities. Topics include differences in male/female speech, the grammatical encoding of gender and childhood language socialization.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 333
- LING 333
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Cross-cultural ethnographic study of women's religious lives, including ritual and leadership roles, forms and contexts of religious expression, and negotiations between dominant cultural representations and women's self-representations.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 328
- WGS 328
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Cross-cultural ethnographic study of women's religious lives, including ritual and leadership roles, forms and contexts of religious expression, and negotiations between dominant cultural representations and women's self-representations.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 328W
- WGS 328W
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Focuses on cultural approaches to mental health and illness.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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The course will take a contemporary view on how population genetics has changed our understating of the biological explanation of race.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- Juniors or Seniors only
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This class explores issues such as what makes for a healthy self or person, the role of religious practices and belief in healing, and the relationship of body and mind.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 337
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This course studies relations between language and society, relations between language and sociocultural context. Topics may include: language variation; multilingualism; verbal interaction; discourse analysis; ethnography of communication; sociolinguistics of Spanish.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 340
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This course studies relations between language and society, relations between language and sociocultural context. Topics may include: language variation; multilingualism; verbal interaction; discourse analysis; ethnography of communication; sociolinguistics of Spanish.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 340W
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In-depth study of the relationship between language and culture by examining anthropological approaches to the study of language. You will learn how language both reflects and creates thought, culture and power relationships. You will also learn basic ethnographic methodology through a research project.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 341
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Explores the sociocultural dynamics of media institutions and the everyday use of different media in diverse societies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Explores the sociocultural dynamics of media institutions and the everyday use of different media in diverse societies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Using insights from cultural anthropology, Black cultural studies, & geography, this course critically explores "Black geographies" to theorize the ways race and space are mutually constituted in our modern world. Students will analyze intersections of race, space, and place in contemporary Atlanta.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 344
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Anthropological perspectives on social change and economic development in the Third World today. Population growth, agricultural development, political instability, colonialism, imperialism, and urban problems in cultural context.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Anthropological perspectives on social change and economic development in the Third World today. Population growth, agricultural development, political instability, colonialism, imperialism, and urban problems in cultural context.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course explores the changing shape of the global economy and its relationships.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course explores the changing shape of the global economy and its relationships.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An exploration of the archaeological evidence for economic patterns in the ancient Mediterranean world, including the emergence of complex, hierarchized centers, long distance networks, maritime trade and predation, coinage, and slavery. Case studies range from Mesopotamia to the Roman world.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 355
-
Survey of the significance and functions of ritual in human life. Ethnographic accounts of sacred ritual followed by more theoretical readings dealing with the structure and function of human ritual, viewed as a special and primitive form of communication.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Close reading of selected plays of Shakespeare in which ritual and other performance genres become central issues and problems. Readings in performance theory parallel reading of the plays.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examination of the history of cooperative efforts between classics and anthropology, and focuses on ongoing efforts in studies of ritual and religion, kinship studies, and archaeological theory.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 368
-
Examination of the history of cooperative efforts between classics and anthropology, and focuses on ongoing efforts in studies of ritual and religion, kinship studies, and archaeological theory.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 368W
-
The course provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the universal human experience of death. It covers themes such as the process of death (biological and cultural), the human cadaver, grief and mourning, ritual responses, mass death, suicide, ethical issues, etc.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The course provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the universal human experience of death. It covers themes such as the process of death (biological and cultural), the human cadaver, grief and mourning, ritual responses, mass death, suicide, ethical issues, etc.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
How have anthropologists approached the study of Muslim cultures and politics and what have we learned from their scholarship about ritual and religion, gender and subjectivity, law and social justice, and the politics and poetics of "writing culture"?
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
(May be repeated for credit when topic varies.) Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / SNLW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines the social and cultural-political dimensions of law, discipline, and disorder in a wide variety of human societies, providing cross-cultural perspectives on how people manage conflict, construe justice, and organize and experience power, discipline, and resistance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines the social and cultural-political dimensions of law, discipline, and disorder in a wide variety of human societies, providing cross-cultural perspectives on how people manage conflict, construe justice, and organize and experience power, discipline, and resistance.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Arabic
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Arabic dialects have been spoken continuously from Mauritania in the west to Iraq in the east. This course combines a broad introduction to the field with concrete experience working with Arabic dialects, exploring the historical development of the dialects and their relationship to Literary Arabic.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 425R
Art History
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The material culture of the Greek Bronze Age architecture. ceramic, glyptic, sculpture, and metalwork; an investigation of the human activities surrounding these artifacts, the cultural systems in which they operated, the conditions and methods of production use and exchange.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 220
-
Painting in Italy, Spain, France, Flanders, Holland, and England to the time of the French Revolution. Emphasis on the production of such artists as Caravaggio, Rubens, Poussin, El Greco, Velasquez, Hals, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Vermeer, Watteau, Fragonard, Boucher, and Greuze.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The cultural context of selected traditions of European art and architecture, from ancient Mediterranean to eighteenth century, exploring the interplay of culture with historical circumstances. May be repeated when topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The cultural context of selected traditions of European art and architecture, from ancient Mediterranean to eighteenth century, exploring the interplay of culture with historical circumstances. May be repeated when topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics could include the treasures of Tutankhamun; images of women in Egyptian art; and the art of New Kingdom Egypt. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics could include ancient sanctuaries; early Greece: real and imagined and religious festivals; myth and art in ancient Greece; and Greek architecture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics could include ancient sanctuaries; early Greece: real and imagined and religious festivals; myth and art in ancient Greece; and Greek architecture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics include: Medieval Monumental Stained Glass, Hagiography,and Manuscript Illumination. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The cathedral is a symbol of the Heavenly Jerusalem, masterpiece of structural engineering, reflection of Scholastic ideals, visual Bible for the illiterate, and house of worship. This course will explore all these aspects in the earliest French monuments that gave birth to Gothic architecture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics in Italian or Northern art, ranging from Giotto to Pieter Bruegel. From artistic centers such as Florence, Rome, and Venice, to Bruges, Antwerp, and Haarlem. May be repeated for credit when topic changes up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics in Italian or Northern art, ranging from Giotto to Pieter Bruegel. From artistic centers such as Florence, Rome, and Venice, to Bruges, Antwerp, and Haarlem. May be repeated for credit when topic changes up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics could include problems in the study of Rubens; poetics and painting; the Carraci reform of art and its consequences; and problems in the study of Rembrandt. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Possible topics include Post-Impressionism and its consequences; Matisse & Picasso; Art and Politics between the Wars; Dada and Surrealism; the Avant-Garde; Abstract Art; What is Art?; Theories of Modernism. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Possible topics include Post-Impressionism and its consequences; Matisse & Picasso; Art and Politics between the Wars; Dada and Surrealism; the Avant-Garde; Abstract Art; What is Art?; Theories of Modernism. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Knowledge of Russian is not required. Introduction to interdisciplinary study of 20th-century Russian literature and the visual arts, with focus on issues of art and politics, time, space and identity in symbolist, supermatist, constructivist, socialist realist and post-Soviet "vision". In English.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- RUSS 373
- FILM 375
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Topics could include romanticism in England and the United States, issues in American painting; African diaspora ritual arts; and African American painting and sculpture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics could include African art and architecture; colonial and contemporary African art; and arts of ancient Africa. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Advanced seminars dealing with various specialized problems in the history of art from antiquity to modern times, such as individual artists, genres (e.g. portraiture, landscape); themes (e.g. theory, iconography); artistic movements and museum studies. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. Permission from instructor required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. Permission from instructor required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Advanced seminar with emphasis on critical texts, methods, and techniques of art historical investigation. For art history majors; open to others with permission from the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Open to candidates for honors in the senior year who are writing an honors thesis. For requirements and permission, consult the departmental honors coordinator.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Open to candidates for honors in the senior year who are writing an honors thesis. For requirements and permission, consult the departmental honors coordinator.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Visual Arts
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Offered once a year during the fall semester. This capstone course is required of all graduating IVAC co-majors and focuses on professional practices including documentation, research, development of an individual body of work situated in contemporary theory and methodology.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Community Building and Social Change
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Open only to undergraduate students by permission of the instructor. Additionally, this course is required for all students seeking to apply for the fellowship in Community Building and Social Change.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 370A
- SOC 370A
- ENVS 370A
-
Open only to students admitted as fellows in the program in Community Building and Social Change.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENVS 370B
- POLS 370B
- SOC 370B
-
Open only to students admitted as fellows in the program in Community Building and Social Change.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENVS 370BW
- POLS 370BW
- SOC 370BW
Chinese Language
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This course examines the manners and contexts in which the Chinese writing systems interface with other languages and cultures (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) and the cultural identities that the Chinese orthographic symbols come to represent at both personal and social levels in and beyond Asia.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 235
- LING 235
-
This course examines the manners and contexts in which the Chinese writing systems interface with other languages and cultures (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) and the cultural identities that the Chinese orthographic symbols come to represent at both personal and social levels in and beyond Asia.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 235W
- LING 235W
-
This course will emphasize transnational aspects of East Asian history, focusing on how the East Asian international system interacted with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Inner Asia, as well as with Europe and the U.S. from 1500 to the present.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 260
- EAS 260
- KRN 260
-
This course is an examination of twentieth-century Chinese society through cinematic productions and a critical reading of the writings of major Chinese writers in translation. Emphasis on self and society in a changing culture and the nature and function of literature in modern nation-building.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 271
-
This course is an examination of twentieth-century Chinese society through cinematic productions and a critical reading of the writings of major Chinese writers in translation. Emphasis on self and society in a changing culture and the nature and function of literature in modern nation-building.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 271W
-
This course is a general introduction to Chinese history, culture and literary tradition. It is designed to acquaint the students to ideas, institutions, aspects of life, literature and arts that are essential to an educated understanding of the Chinese world.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 273
-
Spanning the period that covers the First Sino-Japanese War (1895) through present, this course will explore the major transformations reshaping and reinventing cultural, political, and economic life in China through the shifting meanings of "revolution" and "republic."
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 278
- EAS 278
-
This course introduces students to the history, culture, society, and politics of China since 1976 through an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities knitting pre and post 1976 China.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 279
- EAS 279
-
This course introduces students to the history, culture, society, and politics of China since 1976 through an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities knitting pre and post 1976 China.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 279W
- HIST 279W
-
Examines the intersection of language, culture, and society in modern China. Investigates the linguistic construction of social identities based on gender, ethnicity, age, power relation, and other factors, and ideologies that shape language use in China and in the global Chinese diaspora.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 335
- LING 336
-
Examines the intersection of language, culture, and society in modern China. Investigates the linguistic construction of social identities based on gender, ethnicity, age, power relation, and other factors, and ideologies that shape language use in China and in the global Chinese diaspora.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 335W
- LING 336W
-
East Asian martial arts are often portrayed as ancient, timeless, and even mystical, but they have a history. In this course we explore how military techniques intended for use in war, policing, and banditry came to be practiced as methods of moral, spiritual, and physical self-cultivation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 350
- EAS 350
-
East Asian martial arts are often portrayed as ancient, timeless, and even mystical, but they have a history. In this course we explore how military techniques intended for use in war, policing, and banditry came to be practiced as methods of moral, spiritual, and physical self-cultivation.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 350W
- EAS 350W
-
How did war transform Chinese society? From 1937-1949, China was engulfed in war. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources, we explore both the major players and problems in wartime China, as well as the longterm social and cultural implications of war and society.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 358
- EAS 358
-
How did war transform Chinese society? From 1937-1949, China was engulfed in war. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources, we explore both the major players and problems in wartime China, as well as the longterm social and cultural implications of war and society.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 358W
- EAS 358W
-
This course covers the economic and political systems in the People's Republic of China. It first presents a history of their coevolution, and then examines different sectors in depth, including the opportunities and challenges involved, for Chinese leadership, people, and the world.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 & ECON 112 as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- ECON 363
- EAS 373
-
This course offers an introduction to the culture and literature of late imperial China. We will discuss a wide selection of literary works from the late 16th to 18th centuries as a prism to reflect on the broader intellectual, social, and cultural history of the period.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 365
-
This course offers an introduction to the culture and literature of late imperial China. We will discuss a wide selection of literary works from the late 16th to 18th centuries as a prism to reflect on the broader intellectual, social, and cultural history of the period.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 365W
-
Study of Chinese language, literature, thought or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Study of Chinese language, literature, thought or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
In this course, we will place food under analytic scrutiny and explore the variegated histories of food in East Asia. We will interrogate the different ways of imagining, understanding, and defining Asian foods and explore how human relationships to food in East Asia have changed over time.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 425
-
In this course, we will place food under analytic scrutiny and explore the variegated histories of food in East Asia. We will interrogate the different ways of imagining, understanding, and defining Asian foods and explore how human relationships to food in East Asia have changed over time.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 425W
Classics
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An introduction to the archaeological evidence of ancient Greek culture.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An introduction to the urban life and city planning of the ancient world, including the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A general survey of ancient Greek literature and culture. Study of the major texts of ancient Greece in their social, historical and archaeological context.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A survey of ancient Rome, from its origins in legend and myth to late antiquity, as seen through its principal literary texts in their historical, social, and cultural context.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Introduction to the religions of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds: ritual types, forms of evidence, and methods of investigation, from the Bronze Age to the early Christian era.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 215
-
Greek and Roman Historians: A survey of Greek and Roman history-writing, with attention to its development, narrative styles, and historical aims.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A survey of major intellectual developments in ancient Greece and of the individual thinkers that contributed to them.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The material culture of the Greek Bronze Age architecture. ceramic, glyptic, sculpture, and metalwork; an investigation of the human activities surrounding these artifacts, the cultural systems in which they operated, the conditions and methods of production use and exchange.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ARTHIST 220
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Literature, art, and culture from Homer's time to the early Presocratics. Includes examination of archaic conceptions of death, cosmos, community, beauty, justice, and intelligence as reflected in the art, literature, and philosophy of the period.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Greek literature, art, and culture in the time of Pericles and Socrates. The development of tragedy and comedy, participatory democracy, oratory, history and philosophy, painting, architecture, and sculpture in fifth-century Athens.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Greek literature, art, and culture in the time of Pericles and Socrates. The development of tragedy and comedy, participatory democracy, oratory, history and philosophy, painting, architecture, and sculpture in fifth-century Athens.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A study of Golden Age literature, art, and culture during the reign of Rome's first emperor.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A study of Silver Age literature, art, and culture during the reign of Nero.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Survey of social, cultural, and religious interaction during the Hellenistic and Roman period.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A comparative investigation of the relationship between science in the ancient world and the practice of science today.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / SNT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A comparative investigation of the relationship between science in the ancient world and the practice of science today.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW / SNTW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Study of one ancient literary genre in depth (genre topic varies).
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A comparative study of Greek and Roman law systems.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The roles and images of women in Greece and Rome as presented in literary, artistic, and documentary sources.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Development of an integrated understanding of social, cultural, and religious interaction during the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A study of the archeological, artistic, literary, and historical evidence for the ancient symposium (or drinking party) and its impact on ancient society.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Study of sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome through the examination of texts and material culture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Studies in warfare, both as it was practiced and as it was imagined in the Greek and Roman worlds, with examination of its cultural and social impact.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Greek and Roman Law: Introduction to the sources, principles, and development of Greek and Roman law.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Greek and Roman Historians: Reading of one or more books by ancient historians with attention to narrative styles, critical methods, and historical aims.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Advanced study of topics in Greek archaeology.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A study of the role of the Greco-Roman legacy during formative decades of the American republic and in shaping civic values in the United States.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 325
-
A study of the role of the Greco-Roman legacy during formative decades of the American republic and in shaping civic values in the United States.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 325W
-
Topic changes to meet current interest of students and faculty. Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topic changes to meet current interest of students and faculty. Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Development of an integrated understanding of social, cultural, and religious interaction during the Hellenistic and Roman periods with a thematic focus.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An exploration of the archaeological evidence for economic patterns in the ancient Mediterranean world, including the emergence of complex, hierarchized centers, long distance networks, maritime trade and predation, coinage, and slavery. Case studies range from Mesopotamia to the Roman world.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 355
-
Examination of the history of cooperative efforts between classics and anthropology, and focuses on ongoing efforts in studies of ritual and religion, kinship studies, and archaeological theory.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 368
-
Examination of the history of cooperative efforts between classics and anthropology, and focuses on ongoing efforts in studies of ritual and religion, kinship studies, and archaeological theory.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 368W
-
Advanced study of themes and topics from the Greek New Testament and the Latin Vulgate.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Greek and Latin Biography: Reading of one or more works by ancient biographers, with attention to historical and literary issues.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Comparative Literature
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Lively topical or theoretical approaches to a given set of literary texts or problems. May be repeated for credit when subject varies..
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Lively topical or theoretical approaches to a given set of literary texts or problems. May be repeated for credit when subject varies. Fulfills the post-freshman writing requirement.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course is designed to give advanced students the opportunity to investigate intensively an area of special interest. A reading knowledge of one foreign language is prerequisite. Topics may vary, but the goal of the course remains unchanged: the courses focuses on contemporary literary theory.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course is designed to give advanced students the opportunity to investigate intensively an area of special interest. A reading knowledge of one foreign language is prerequisite. Topics may vary, but the goal of the course remains unchanged: the courses focuses on contemporary literary theory.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Dance
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This course traces the development of Western concert dance from 19th century Romantic Ballet to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the development of American modern dance, post modern dance, and current trends and dance artists. This course is required for all dance and movement studies majors and minors. Students wishing to enroll must be a declared dance and movement studies major or minor, or obtain permission of the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Course based on selected topics in dance or movement studies. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Course based on selected topics in dance or movement studies. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
East Asian Studies
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Thematic study of at least two Asian religious traditions. Thematic emphasis may include relationships of text and context, pilgrimage, gender, epic performance, religious institutions, visual arts, or colonial and post-colonial identities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 212
-
Discussion-based course examining contemporary food media from and about Asian culinary traditions. Topics include global Asian culture, Asian America, diaspora, media circulation, race, and ethnicity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- KRN 227
-
Discussion-based course examining contemporary food media from and about Asian culinary traditions. Topics include global Asian culture, Asian America, diaspora, media circulation, race, and ethnicity.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- KRN 227W
-
This course introduces students to the history of people of Asian ancestry in the United States, including immigrants, students, professionals, and refugees from East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Thematically, it investigates timely issues facing the Asian American community today.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 228
- AMST 228
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This course examines the manners and contexts in which the Chinese writing systems interface with other languages and cultures (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) and the cultural identities that the Chinese orthographic symbols come to represent at both personal and social levels in and beyond Asia.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 235
- LING 235
-
This course examines the manners and contexts in which the Chinese writing systems interface with other languages and cultures (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) and the cultural identities that the Chinese orthographic symbols come to represent at both personal and social levels in and beyond Asia.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 235W
- LING 235W
-
This course will emphasize transnational aspects of East Asian history, focusing on how the East Asian international system interacted with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Inner Asia, as well as with Europe and the U.S. from 1500 to the present.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 260
- CHN 260
- KRN 260
-
This course explores various aspects of life and society in Japan, including writing, gender, memory and history, geography and the environment, aesthetics, and the formation of national identity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 270
-
This course explores various aspects of life and society in Japan, including writing, gender, memory and history, geography and the environment, aesthetics, and the formation of national identity.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 270W
-
This course is an examination of twentieth-century Chinese society through cinematic productions and a critical reading of the writings of major Chinese writers in translation. Emphasis on self and society in a changing culture and the nature and function of literature in modern nation-building.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 271
-
This course is an examination of twentieth-century Chinese society through cinematic productions and a critical reading of the writings of major Chinese writers in translation. Emphasis on self and society in a changing culture and the nature and function of literature in modern nation-building.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 271W
-
This course is a general introduction to Chinese history, culture and literary tradition. It is designed to acquaint the students to ideas, institutions, aspects of life, literature and arts that are essential to an educated understanding of the Chinese world.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 273
-
This course is designed as a foundation course on Korean history, preparing students for other Korean history courses, both pre-modern and modern, as well as students' individual research on Korean past. It surveys the major events and topics in Korean history from ancient times to the modern era.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 274
- KRN 274
-
This course is designed as a foundation course on Korean history, preparing students for other Korean history courses, both pre-modern and modern, as well as students' individual research on Korean past. It surveys the major events and topics in Korean history from ancient times to the modern era.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 274W
- KRN 274W
-
By drawing on a wide range of materials across various disciplines the course aims to provide a broad and coherent picture of the history of modern Korea since the late 19th century to the contemporary period.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- KRN 270
-
This course explores the historical dynamics of political change in Korea since the establishment of the First Republic up to the current period, the many factors that shaped its political trajectory and democratization, and the key issues that have defined South Korean politics to this day.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 271
- KRN 271
-
Spanning the period that covers the First Sino-Japanese War (1895) through present, this course will explore the major transformations reshaping and reinventing cultural, political, and economic life in China through the shifting meanings of "revolution" and "republic."
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 278
- CHN 278
-
This course introduces students to the history, culture, society, and politics of China since 1976 through an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities knitting pre and post 1976 China.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 279
- HIST 279
-
This course introduces students to the history, culture, society, and politics of China since 1976 through an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities knitting pre and post 1976 China.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 279W
- CHN 279W
-
The development of Buddhism in China and Japan, including examination of monasticism, ritual, ideas of Buddhahood, Zen, Pure Land, and Buddhist relations to the state and to other religions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 307
-
Suggested prerequisite: POLS 110 or 120. Intro to the contemporary politics of SE Asia. Focus on capitalist developing countries of the region - Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore. Approach is comparative, with focus on democratization, economic growth, and environmental issues.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 322
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 110 or 120. Examines politics of contemporary Japan, with stress on political bases of Japanese economic growth and in comparison with other East Asian economic successes (e.g., Taiwan, South Korea).
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 328
-
Examines the intersection of language, culture, and society in modern China. Investigates the linguistic construction of social identities based on gender, ethnicity, age, power relation, and other factors, and ideologies that shape language use in China and in the global Chinese diaspora.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 336
- CHN 335
-
Examines the intersection of language, culture, and society in modern China. Investigates the linguistic construction of social identities based on gender, ethnicity, age, power relation, and other factors, and ideologies that shape language use in China and in the global Chinese diaspora.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 336W
- CHN 335W
-
This class explores issues such as what makes for a healthy self or person, the role of religious practices and belief in healing, and the relationship of body and mind.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 337
-
East Asian martial arts are often portrayed as ancient, timeless, and even mystical, but they have a history. In this course we explore how military techniques intended for use in war, policing, and banditry came to be practiced as methods of moral, spiritual, and physical self-cultivation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 350
- HIST 350
-
East Asian martial arts are often portrayed as ancient, timeless, and even mystical, but they have a history. In this course we explore how military techniques intended for use in war, policing, and banditry came to be practiced as methods of moral, spiritual, and physical self-cultivation.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 350W
- CHN 350W
-
How did war transform Chinese society? From 1937-1949, China was engulfed in war. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources, we explore both the major players and problems in wartime China, as well as the longterm social and cultural implications of war and society.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 358
- CHN 358
-
How did war transform Chinese society? From 1937-1949, China was engulfed in war. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources, we explore both the major players and problems in wartime China, as well as the longterm social and cultural implications of war and society.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 358W
- CHN 358W
-
This course will use the text of the Tale of Genji as a centerpoint from which to explore various issues in poetry, aesthetics, the visual arts, religion, history, politics, and gender in Japanese cultural history.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 361
- WGS 361
-
This course will use the text of the Tale of Genji as a centerpoint from which to explore various issues in poetry, aesthetics, the visual arts, religion, history, politics, and gender in Japanese cultural history.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 361W
- WGS 361W
-
An examination of the image of the warrior in Japan through literature and its effect on many areas of Japanese culture, including philosophy, literary history, religion, music, and the visual arts. Emphasis is on the exploration of primary texts.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 362
-
An examination of the image of the warrior in Japan through literature and its effect on many areas of Japanese culture, including philosophy, literary history, religion, music, and the visual arts. Emphasis is on the exploration of primary texts.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 362W
-
This course offers an introduction to the culture and literature of late imperial China. We will discuss a wide selection of literary works from the late 16th to 18th centuries as a prism to reflect on the broader intellectual, social, and cultural history of the period.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 365
-
This course offers an introduction to the culture and literature of late imperial China. We will discuss a wide selection of literary works from the late 16th to 18th centuries as a prism to reflect on the broader intellectual, social, and cultural history of the period.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 365W
-
Open to all students regardless of Chinese language ability, basic language skills will be taught. This course examines the historical, social, and individual aspects of Chinese musical cultures through the use of English and Chinese sources.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MUS 372
-
Open to all students regardless of Chinese language ability, basic language skills will be taught. This course examines the historical, social, and individual aspects of Chinese musical cultures through the use of English and Chinese sources.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MUS 372W
-
This course explores how music creates differences between countries in East Asia and, at the same time, ties them together to create a distinct East Asian identity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MUS 371
-
This course explores how music creates differences between countries in East Asia and, at the same time, ties them together to create a distinct East Asian identity.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MUS 371W
-
An introductory survey of modern Japan (1850-1950), covering the late Tokugawa shogunate, the creation of the Meiji state, and the rise and fall of the Japanese empire.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 372
-
This course covers the economic and political systems in the People's Republic of China. It first presents a history of their coevolution, and then examines different sectors in depth, including the opportunities and challenges involved, for Chinese leadership, people, and the world.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 & ECON 112 as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- ECON 363
- CHN 363
-
Examines contemporary Chinese politics, covering regime institutions and processes, policies and their effects, and the dynamics of political development, including Chinese Communist party and central government, as well as the role of subnational government.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 375
-
This course examines the postwar Japanese experience through film, television, magazines, newspapers, music, and manga. We will explore the ways in which Japanese society has narrated its experiences of recovery after World War II, and the role these media sources have played in this reconstruction.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 378
-
This course examines the way the postwar Japanese experience has been reflected (and constructed) through various types of popular media. Through film, television, magazine, newspapers, music, and manga, we will explore the various ways in which Japanese society has narrated its experiences of recovery and rebuilding after World War II, and the role these media sources have played in this reconstruction.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 378W
-
China since the Opium War. Nineteenth-century dynastic decline, Western impact, and modernization efforts; Republican, Nationalist, and Communist revolutions of the twentieth century; and the development of the People's Republic of China since 1949.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 373
-
This course examines social movements in the East and West from a comparative perspective. The goal is to better understand the varying cultural, historical and institutional contexts and dynamics through which social movements emerge, evolve and leave traces.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 372
- KRN 372
-
This course examines social movements in the East and West from a comparative perspective. The goal is to better understand the varying cultural, historical and institutional contexts and dynamics through which social movements emerge, evolve and leave traces.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 372W
- KRN 372W
-
This course explores the origins of Korea's division system, the developmental path or each Korea, as well as the contemporary events that have been at the center of international debates, thereby challenging students to rethink the conventional framework based on binaries.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- KRN 382
-
Study of East Asian literature, history, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Study of East Asian literature, history, society, thought, or culture, alone or in conjunction with other literary or cultural trends. Topics to be announced in advance.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Korean culture and society. No knowledge of Korean is required. Topics to be announced each semester.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- KRN 386
-
An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Korean culture and society. No knowledge of Korean is required. Topics to be announced each semester.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- KRN 386W
-
In this course, we will place food under analytic scrutiny and explore the variegated histories of food in East Asia. We will interrogate the different ways of imagining, understanding, and defining Asian foods and explore how human relationships to food in East Asia have changed over time.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 425
-
In this course, we will place food under analytic scrutiny and explore the variegated histories of food in East Asia. We will interrogate the different ways of imagining, understanding, and defining Asian foods and explore how human relationships to food in East Asia have changed over time.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 425W
Economics
-
Introduction to the theory of markets, including consumer and producer choice and how they interact to determine prices and resource allocations. Applications include price controls, production, market structures, environmental economics, governmental regulation of the economy, labor and capital markets, and international exchange.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Covers current debates on the workings of the aggregate economy, including unemployment, inflation, economic growth, the national debt, financial markets, money and the banking system, and international trade.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 or BUS 201 as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Introduction to the role of various financial markets in an economy. Topics include the stock market, bonds, futures, options, and other derivative assets.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 or BUS 201 as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An introduction to international trade, capital flows, and finance. Topics include the impact of public policy decisions concerning protectionism, balance of payments, and foreign exchange markets on economic activities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 or BUS 201 as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Applies microeconomic theory to both market and non-market phenomena, including crime, sports, family, and sexuality. Explores facts and trends, theoretical and empirical studies, and the role of public policy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 or BUS 201 as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Applies microeconomic theory to both market and non-market phenomena, including crime, sports, family, and sexuality. Explores facts and trends, theoretical and empirical studies, and the role of public policy. (May be taught as a post-freshman writing requirement)
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ECON 101 or BUS 201 as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Economic analysis and public policy. Discussion of selected issues such as the economics of discrimination, environment, medical care, cultural arts, education, and social responsibility of business.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 or BUS 201 as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Economic analysis and public policy. Discussion of selected issues such as the economics of discrimination, environment, medical care, cultural arts, education, and social responsibility of business.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ECON 101 or BUS 201 as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Government implementation, regulation, and control of business enterprises, excluding banks and insurance companies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON101/112/Bus 201 as prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Economic history of the American South from the colonial era to the present. Topics include the development of the antebellum economy, Reconstruction, and the twentieth-century resurgence of the Southern economy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 and BUS 201 as Prereq
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 355
-
Economic history of the American South from the colonial era to the present. Topics include the development of the antebellum economy, Reconstruction, and the twentieth-century resurgence of the Southern economy.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ECON 101 and BUS 201 as Prereq
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 355W
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Examines the post-1800 development of industrial America. Topics covered include the rise of manufacturing, banking, the labor movement, agriculture, and foreign trade. Special attention is paid to the role of the government sector in the economy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 or FIN 201 as Prereq
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 356
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Introduction to theory of economic growth. The nature of economic development; factors influencing capital formation and technological advance; role of government in promoting development; relationship of international trade to growth; international economic policies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON101/112/Bus 201 as prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course covers the economic and political systems in the People's Republic of China. It first presents a history of their coevolution, and then examines different sectors in depth, including the opportunities and challenges involved, for Chinese leadership, people, and the world.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 & ECON 112 as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 373
- CHN 363
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Analysis of the evolution of economic development and underdevelopment in Latin America; and application of development paradigms to country-specific examples.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON101/112/Bus 201 as prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Introduction to the economics of natural resources and the environment. The course will focus on major resource and environmental problems and their economic solutions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 or BUS 201 as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to explore issues in economic development viewed from the perspective of sub-Saharan Africa from the impact of slavery and colonialism to the modern era of globalization.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON101/112/Bus 201 as prereq
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 366
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This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to explore issues in economic development viewed from the perspective of sub-Saharan Africa from the impact of slavery and colonialism to the modern era of globalization.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ECON101/112/Bus 201 as prereq
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 366W
English
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General history of the theater from its origins through the Renaissance, focusing on representative dramatic works and on the influence of actor, staging, and audience.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- THEA 215
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General history of the theater from French neoclassicism through the twentieth century, focusing on representative dramatic works and on the influence of actor, staging, and audience.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- THEA 216
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Readings in American literature, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Readings in American literature, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Readings in American literature from 1865 to the present, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Readings in American literature from 1865 to the present, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Readings in English literature written up to 1660, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Readings in English literature written up to 1660, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Readings in English literature written from 1660 to the early twentieth century, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Readings in English literature written from 1660 to the early twentieth century, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An introduction to the themes, texts, and methodologies of Irish studies. Required for the Irish studies minor but open to all students.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Long historical surveys of national, regional, or ethnic traditions; or of genres or subgenres. Examples: History of African Literature, History of Latinx Literature, History of Science Fiction, History of the Sonnet, History of Southern U.S. Literature, History of Drama.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Long historical surveys of national, regional, or ethnic traditions; or of genres or subgenres. Examples: History of African Literature, History of Latinx Literature, History of Science Fiction, History of the Sonnet, History of Southern U.S. Literature, History of Drama.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Structure and history of the English language.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 360
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Structure and history of the English language.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 360W
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Modern English grammar, with attention to phonology, morphology, and contemporary models of syntactic description.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Modern English grammar, with attention to phonology, morphology, and contemporary models of syntactic description.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Digital humanities involves the use of computational methods in humanistic research, and it analyzes the socio-cultural implications of digital technologies. This course introduces the field's central methods and debates about their use, culminating in a final project guided by the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Digital humanities involves the use of computational methods in humanistic research, and it analyzes the socio-cultural implications of digital technologies. This course introduces the field's central methods and debates about their use, culminating in a final project guided by the instructor.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course introduces students to the methods and materials of academic literary research and criticism. Focusing on a small body of literature and scholarship within one area of study, the course will teach students to engage with secondary sources, including contextual and/or archival material.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course introduces students to the methods and materials of academic literary research and criticism. Focusing on a small body of literature and scholarship within one area of study, the course will teach students to engage with secondary sources, including contextual and/or archival material.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Literary topics vary. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Literary topics vary. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Collaborative projects designed to deepen students' knowledge of a particular topic, and to develop individual & group research/presentation skills. Examples: archives; exhibitions; digital projects; anthologies; investigative journalism; large-scale textual analyses; public humanities projects.
- Credit Hours
- 3 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Collaborative projects designed to deepen students' knowledge of a particular topic, and to develop individual & group research/presentation skills. Examples: archives; exhibitions; digital projects; anthologies; investigative journalism; large-scale textual analyses; public humanities projects.
- Credit Hours
- 4 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Creative Writing
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Intermediate level workshop in writing and researching Southern Georgia's Civil Rights history.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 387RW
- AMST 387RW
- AAS 387RW
Environmental Studies
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Introduces theories of human interaction with the environment. Focus is on holistically examining the factors social science research suggests drives human behavior towards natural resources. Focused on Ostrom's IAD and SES Frameworks.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ENVS 131/BIOL_OX 111 as Prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Introduction to basic concepts of American environmental policy. Topics include: history of federal environmental policymaking, environmental policy tools, controversies in environmental policy, and U.S. environmental policy in the age of globalization. Field trips required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ENVS 131/BIOLOX111/POLS100
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 227
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Introduction to basic concepts of American environmental policy. Topics include: history of federal environmental policymaking, environmental policy tools, controversies in environmental policy, and U.S. environmental policy in the age of globalization. Field trips required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ENVS 131/BIOLOX111/POLS100
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 227W
-
Prerequisite: ENVS 131, POLS 100 or permission. An introduction to basic concepts of American environmental policy in the age of globalization. Topics include the history of federal policymaking, policy tools and controversies in environmental policy. Field trips and weekly lab required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 228
-
Prerequisite: ENVS 131, POLS 100 or permission. An introduction to basic concepts of American environmental policy in the age of globalization. Topics include the history of federal policymaking, policy tools and controversies in environmental policy. Field trips and weekly lab required.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 228W
-
Historical, philosophical, and ethical relationships between religion and ecology; other dimensions include Eastern thought, ecofeminism, animal rights, and literary nature writers.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 329
-
History of the relationship between the American people, land, weather, and natural resources, with special attention to the environmental movement since 1960.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 344
-
This course exposes students to philosophical and ethical dimensions of human-nature relationships. Students will consider their own views toward nature. Philosophical and ethical concepts are examined through readings, discussions, and group activities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ENVS 131/BIOL_OX 111 as Prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course exposes students to philosophical and ethical dimensions of human-nature relationships. Students will consider their own views toward nature. Philosophical and ethical concepts are examined through readings, discussions, and group activities.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ENVS 131/BIOL_OX 111 as Prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Open only to undergraduate students by permission of the instructor. Additionally, this course is required for all students seeking to apply for the fellowship in Community Building and Social Change.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 370A
- CBSC 370A
- SOC 370A
-
Open only to students admitted as fellows in the program in Community Building and Social Change.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 370B
- CBSC 370B
- SOC 370B
-
Open only to students admitted as fellows in the program in Community Building and Social Change.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 370BW
- CBSC 370BW
- SOC 370BW
-
Focuses on the complexity of policy problems surrounding international environmental issues, the fragility of international environmental institutions, and specific policy problems such as free trade, sustainable development, population growth, climate change, and endangered species.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ENVS131, POLS 110
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Focuses on the complexity of policy problems surrounding international environmental issues, the fragility of international environmental institutions, and specific policy problems such as free trade, sustainable development, population growth, climate change, and endangered species.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ENVS131, POLS 110
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 384W
Film and Media Studies
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Cinema from its origins in 19th century technological experimentation through the 1960s. Weekly screenings required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- FILM 101 or FILM_OX 270 prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Cinema from the 1960s through the present day. Weekly screenings required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- FILM 201 as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course looks at the nature and development of major institutions of American broadcasting and electronic media in order to ascertain the structure, function, and social significance of television programming in American society. Weekly screenings required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- FILM 101 or 102 or FILM_OX 270
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The history of non-fiction film and media from the perspective of documentary film and media makers.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- FILM 101 or FILM_OX 101 prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will pair a wide range of film/tv and social media texts that mis/represent Black girls/femmes, with the theoretical work that examines the complexities and intersections of race, personhood, sexuality, and authority. Course culminates in a creative final project. Weekly screenings required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- FILM 101 or FILM_OX 101 prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Rotating topics in film and media. May be repeated for credit when the topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- FILM 101 or FILM_OX 101 prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Rotating topics in film and media. May be repeated for credit when the topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- FILM 101 or FILM_OX 101 prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Knowledge of Russian is not required. Introduction to interdisciplinary study of 20th-century Russian literature and the visual arts, with focus on issues of art and politics, time, space and identity in symbolist, supermatist, constructivist, socialist realist and post-Soviet "vision". In English.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- FILM 102 &FILM 201/202/203/204
- Cross-Listed
- RUSS 373
- ARTHIST 373
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The structural dynamics of the studio system as both a film style and mode of production, with special emphasis on the development of narrative form. Weekly screenings required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- FILM 102 &FILM 201/202/203/204
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Close study of the development of a specific national or regional cinema in terms of aesthetic, theoretical, and sociopolitical dimensions. Weekly screenings required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- FILM 102 &FILM 201/202/203/204
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines American screen entertainment history, specifically the key trends, individuals, institutions and technologies that have shaped these different forms them from the 19th century through the present day. Students perform practical experiments in industrial analysis.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- FILM 301 or FILM 302 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Films, television programs, and other media forms analyzed in cultural, historical and political perspective with regard to how societal norms, visual style and aesthetics affect the representation of gender. Weekly screenings required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- FILM 301 or FILM 302 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A seminar in film and media historical methods for upper-level undergraduates that involves extensive reading and some primary research. Weekly screenings required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- FILM 301 or FILM 302 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Prerequisite: Admission to the Honors Program and approval of adviser. Open to students writing honors theses. This course fulfills the postfreshman year writing requirement.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Prerequisite: Admission to the Honors Program and approval of adviser. Open to students writing honors theses. This course fulfills the postfreshman year writing requirement.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
German
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Course offers an overview of the origins, development, and outcomes of National Socialism. It covers: the rise of Nazi Party, establishment of dictatorship, emergence of racial state, life of Jews and social outsiders, road to war, WWII, occupation of Europe, resistance, euthanasia, the Holocaust.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 218
- JS 218
-
Introductory study of issues central to the understanding of history, culture, and politics in German or Yiddish speaking countries. A given topic will provide the focus; the method of inquiry will be interdisciplinary.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines medicine in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and the extreme examples of the excesses of modern medical culture it provides.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 315
- IDS 315
- HIST 315
-
This course examines medicine in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and the extreme examples of the excesses of modern medical culture it provides.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 315W
- IDS 315W
- JS 315W
-
An investigation into the functioning of the natural world in Germanophone cultural documents to provide a critical and historical understanding of current debates on climate change, pollution, urban development, and other forms of nature-culture interactions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Political, intellectual, and social history of Germany since the eighteenth century. Particular emphasis on German unification, the Weimar Republic, and Nazi Germany.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 318
-
Taught in English. Interdisciplinary course with focus on current issues in German-speaking countries. Seminar format, with occasional lectures.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Explores encounters by Austro-German Jewish musicians and writers with ideas of modernity from 1900 through the 1950s, including responses to the Weimar Republic, the Holocaust, and postwar emigration. Cases studied include Gustav and Alma Mahler, Freud, Arthur Schnitzler and Arnold Schoenberg
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MUS 369
-
Explores encounters by Austro-German Jewish musicians and writers with ideas of modernity from 1900 through the 1950s, including responses to the Weimar Republic, the Holocaust, and postwar emigration. Cases studied include Gustav and Alma Mahler, Freud, Arthur Schnitzler and Arnold Schoenberg
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MUS 369W
-
Taught in English. An interdisciplinary course intended to provide in-depth study of formative elements, influences, and movements in German-speaking culture(s). May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Taught in English. An interdisciplinary course intended to provide in-depth study of formative elements, influences, and movements in German-speaking culture(s). May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Taught in English. In-depth study of issues central to the understanding of history, culture, and politics in German-speaking countries. A given topic (e.g., the Weimar Republic, 1968, Martin Luther) will provide the focus; the method of inquiry will be interdisciplinary.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An interdisciplinary course intended to provide a comprehensive, historically oriented overview of the formative elements, influences, and movements of German culture and civilization. Taught in German.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An interdisciplinary course intended to provide a comprehensive, historically oriented overview of the formative elements, influences, and movements of German culture and civilization. Taught in German.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Greek
-
Reading of Herodotus, Thucydides, or other historians, with attention to historical aims, critical methods, and literary art.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Reading of one or more works by the Attic orators, with attention to historical, legal, and literary issues.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Advanced readings in Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War, with attention to historical aims and context, critical methods, and literary art.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
History
-
This course introduces students to the academic study of History and the varied approaches historians use to make sense of the past. It explores the ways historians scrutinize evidence, use digital methods, analyze images, conduct oral history and borrow from other disciplines to study the past.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The course offers students not only an overview of postwar European history but also introduces them to ways of analyzing current events in regard to their deep roots in the continent's past.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Jewish history in the last two centuries. Emphasizes Jewish development, emancipation, assimilation, identity, and changing status in Europe, America, the Islamic world, and Palestine/Israel.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 170
-
An introductory course on a selected topic in history. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An introductory course on a selected topic in history. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in History for students who transfer to Emory from a different institution or who take courses for transient credit outside of Emory. Maybe be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in history for students in non-history originating (cross-listed) courses. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in history for students in non-history originating (cross-listed) courses. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in history for students in study abroad courses offered through Emory's Office of International and Summer Programs. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines the early forms of those societies that came to dominate the European continent and explores their early expansion and influence.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines major themes in European history during the modern era, roughly mid-seventeenth century to the present; special attention to conflicts in economic, political, social, and intellectual life.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines the interaction of European cultures with other world cultures, and considers that interaction's impact both on the "West" and on those regions it sought to dominate.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines history of Central Eurasia as nexus commercial, cultural and political exchange in Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the rise of European Imperialism. Topics include: nomadic empires, oasis merchants, barbarians and empires, Buddhism, Islam, European adventurers, pre-modern globalization.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course explores the history of Latin America from European contact to present. Major themes include Latin America's position in a wider world; class, ethnic, and race relations; state-society relations; the making of regional and national identities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course is a study of the American West between the Revolution and the early twentieth century. Themes include: Lewis and Clark, Indian wars, the fur trade, the Mexican war, the California gold rush, cowboys, the Mormon settlement of Utah, and transcontinental railroads.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Course offers an overview of the origins, development, and outcomes of National Socialism. It covers: the rise of Nazi Party, establishment of dictatorship, emergence of racial state, life of Jews and social outsiders, road to war, WWII, occupation of Europe, resistance, euthanasia, the Holocaust.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 218
- GER 218
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This course explores the global military, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural dimensions of the First World War. It engages with both recent scholarship and an array of textual and visual primary sources in order to understand the conflict and its transformative effects.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Traces the gradual incorporation of Africa into an expanding world economy and examines the impact of this incorporation on the development of African societies and modern nation states.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 221
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This course introduces students to the history of people of Asian ancestry in the United States, including immigrants, students, professionals, and refugees from East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Thematically, it investigates timely issues facing the Asian American community today.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 228
- AMST 228
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Considers the development of American society from tentative beginnings to Reconstruction. Special emphasis is given to certain critical periods including colonialism, the American Revolution, and the Civil War.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The course introduces the social, political, economic, and diplomatic forces that have shaped modern America. Special emphasis on how diverse components of the American population have interacted in American society.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The course examines the experiences of African Americans from the emergence of the transatlantic slave trade to the end of the Civil War. Emphasizes social and cultural history and interpretation of race, class, and gender.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 238
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Examines African American history from 1865 to the present. Emphasizes regional, gender, and class distinction within African American communities, and the ways in which industrial transformations shaped African American life, thought, and resistance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 239
-
Examines African American history from 1865 to the present. Emphasizes regional, gender, and class distinction within African American communities, and the ways in which industrial transformations shaped African American life, thought, and resistance.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 239W
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An introduction to the study of popular culture--movies, pulp fiction, music, and television--in the context of historical analysis.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AMST 253
-
An introduction to the study of popular culture--movies, pulp fiction, music, and television--in the context of historical analysis.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AMST 253W
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This second-year seminar explores the development of transregional economies and cultures through the study of commodities originating in the Middle East and the Indian Ocean region by examining environmental, historical and economic data and concepts.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 254
-
This course will emphasize transnational aspects of East Asian history, focusing on how the East Asian international system interacted with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Inner Asia, as well as with Europe and the U.S. from 1500 to the present.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 260
- CHN 260
- KRN 260
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"Plantation America", stretching from the American South, through the Caribbean to northern Brazil, comprises a geographical area that, as its name suggests, was dominated by the economic system of plantation monoculture. This course will attempt two inter-related tasks: it will firstly survey the unity and variety of the plantation as a form of socio-economic organization; secondly it will explicate the unity and variety of the political and cultural forms that have evolved alongside the plantation. The course will be interdisciplinary in nature, using texts from history, literature and anthropology.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LACS 263
-
"Plantation America", stretching from the American South, through the Caribbean to northern Brazil, comprises a geographical area that, as its name suggests, was dominated by the economic system of plantation monoculture. This course will attempt two inter-related tasks: it will firstly survey the unity and variety of the plantation as a form of socio-economic organization; secondly it will explicate the unity and variety of the political and cultural forms that have evolved alongside the plantation. The course will be interdisciplinary in nature, using texts from history, literature and anthropology.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LACS 263W
-
This course is designed to introduce students to important aspects of the colonial encounter on the Indian subcontinent. It is a survey of social and political movements that occurred during British colonial rule in India.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 235
-
An exploration and analysis of the struggle for African American equality with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement's development, successes, failures and legacy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 267
-
An exploration and analysis of the struggle for African American equality with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement's development, successes, failures and legacy.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 267W
-
This course offers a general overview of the history of Jews and Judaism, beginning with the Biblical period and ending with modern times.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 270
-
This course is designed as a foundation course on Korean history, preparing students for other Korean history courses, both pre-modern and modern, as well as students' individual research on Korean past. It surveys the major events and topics in Korean history from ancient times to the modern era.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 274
- KRN 274
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This course is designed as a foundation course on Korean history, preparing students for other Korean history courses, both pre-modern and modern, as well as students' individual research on Korean past. It surveys the major events and topics in Korean history from ancient times to the modern era.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- KRN 274W
- EAS 274W
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Spanning the period that covers the First Sino-Japanese War (1895) through present, this course will explore the major transformations reshaping and reinventing cultural, political, and economic life in China through the shifting meanings of "revolution" and "republic."
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 278
- EAS 278
-
This course introduces students to the history, culture, society, and politics of China since 1976 through an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities knitting pre and post 1976 China.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 279
- EAS 279
-
This course introduces students to the history, culture, society, and politics of China since 1976 through an exploration of the continuities and discontinuities knitting pre and post 1976 China.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 279W
- CHN 279W
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An introductory course on the nature and methods of history. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An introductory course on the nature and methods of history. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in History for students who transfer to Emory from a different institution or who take courses for transient credit outside of Emory. Maybe be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in history for students in non-history originating (cross-listed) courses. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in history for students in non-history originating (cross-listed) courses. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in history for students in study abroad courses offered through Emory's Office of International and Summer Programs. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Illuminates through art, literature, and archaeology the unfolding of the first European civilization, which gave rise to many enduring aspects of our world, including philosophy, natural science, urban planning, and the art of government.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Illuminates through art, literature, and archaeology the unfolding of the first European civilization, which gave rise to many enduring aspects of our world, including philosophy, natural science, urban planning, and the art of government.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
History of Rome and its civilization from earliest times to the accession of Constantine. Traces Rome's evolution from small town to world empire and the development of the arts and manners of the Greco-Roman world.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
History of the Byzantine Empire from Justinian to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Explores artistic, religious, and political achievements of one of the most magnificent and little-known civilizations in the Western tradition.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course covers the period 200-900 CE/AD and focuses on political, social and religious change in the late Roman empire and early medieval Europe. Topics include: the rise of Christianity, the fall of Rome and the barbarian invasions of the 4th-7th centuries.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
History 201 recommended as background. Examines developments in politics, society, and the economy that created a new cultural style in Italy between 1350 and 1530. Students have the option of some readings in Italian.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Causes, events, and consequences of the Revolution in France, and spread of the revolutionary movement through the Western world. The personality, statecraft, military triumphs and defeats, and significance of Napoleon.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines the growth of cities, the intensification of consumer culture among the middle classes, the revolutionary and "mass" politics of (and directed at) the working classes, anti-Semitism, imperialism, and fin-de-siecle cultural crisis.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Emphasizes social and cultural repercussions of the two world wars; origins of communism and fascism; and emergence of contemporary problems in European politics and society.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Postwar renaissance in European politics and culture; evolution of communism and social democracy; and internal and international forces for stability and change in Europe today.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines the fate of the different Celtic communities of the British Isles in response to growing English influence between the Middle Ages and the turn of the nineteenth century.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines the fate of the different Celtic communities of the British Isles in response to growing English influence between the Middle Ages and the turn of the nineteenth century.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines medicine in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and the extreme examples of the excesses of modern medical culture it provides.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 315
- IDS 315
- JS 315
-
This course examines medicine in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and the extreme examples of the excesses of modern medical culture it provides.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 315W
- IDS 315W
- JS 315W
-
French history since the Revolution portrayed through feature film, with emphasis on the tensions between tradition and change in French politics and culture.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Political, intellectual, and social history of Germany since the eighteenth century. Particular emphasis on German unification, the Weimar Republic, and Nazi Germany.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 318
-
Russian history from Peter the Great to the Revolution, with emphasis distributed among political, socioeconomic, intellectual, and cultural aspects, as well as external relations.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Russian history from Peter the Great to the Revolution, with emphasis distributed among political, socioeconomic, intellectual, and cultural aspects, as well as external relations.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Elements of continuity and change in twentieth century Russia. Focuses on twilight of the Old Regime; the 1917 revolution and civil war; Lenin's dictatorship and Stalin's transformation; the impact of World War II; and post-Stalin conservatism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Elements of continuity and change in twentieth century Russia. Focuses on twilight of the Old Regime; the 1917 revolution and civil war; Lenin's dictatorship and Stalin's transformation; the impact of World War II; and post-Stalin conservatism.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The Holy Roman Empire from Martin Luther to Napoleon. Topics include the Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, the rise of Prussia and Austria, and the German Enlightenment.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Herod the Great ruled Palestine between 40-4 BCE. He changed the face of the land by building magnificent structures, some still standing, across the land and the region. The course explores the historical-cultural backgrounds to this period, his successes and failures, and what motivated him.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 322
- MESAS 322
-
Herod the Great ruled Palestine between 40-4 BCE. He changed the face of the land by building magnificent structures, some still standing, across the land and the region. The course explores the historical-cultural backgrounds to this period, his successes and failures, and what motivated him.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 322W
- JS 322W
-
Examines the causes and consequences of the religious tumult known as the Reformation from a global perspective. Surveys the major theological differences that emerged between 1500 and 1650. Analyzes the impact on society, politics, and culture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Course examines the interplay of religion, war, and politics in early modern Europe. Major topics include Ottoman expansion, the expulsion of the Jews and Moriscos in Spain, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the French Wars of Religion, the Thirty Years War, and the rise of toleration.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Course examines the interplay of religion, war, and politics in early modern Europe. Major topics include Ottoman expansion, the expulsion of the Jews and Moriscos in Spain, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the French Wars of Religion, the Thirty Years War, and the rise of toleration.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A study of the role of the Greco-Roman legacy during formative decades of the American republic and in shaping civic values in the United States.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 325
-
A study of the role of the Greco-Roman legacy during formative decades of the American republic and in shaping civic values in the United States.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 325W
-
Russian history from its beginning to Peter the Great: first appearance of Eastern Slavs, Kievan Russia, Mongol conquest, rise of Moscow, and Muscovy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Russian history from its beginning to Peter the Great: first appearance of Eastern Slavs, Kievan Russia, Mongol conquest, rise of Moscow, and Muscovy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The military, political, economic, social, diplomatic and cultural effects of the Second World War on the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union experienced the worst casualties during the war and made the largest contribution to the defeat of Nazism. This class examines that story.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The military, political, economic, social, diplomatic and cultural effects of the Second World War on the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union experienced the worst casualties during the war and made the largest contribution to the defeat of Nazism. This class examines that story.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This class will examine the transformation of Central Asia's ancient cultures by Russian imperialism, Soviet domination and post-Soviet globalization. Topics include settler colonialism, revolution, the eradication of nomadism, the attack on Islam, and the rise of urban, industrialism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REES 328
-
This class will examine the transformation of Central Asia's ancient cultures by Russian imperialism, Soviet domination and post-Soviet globalization. Topics include settler colonialism, revolution, the eradication of nomadism, the attack on Islam, and the rise of urban, industrialism.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REES 328W
-
Survey of American Jewish history from colonial period to present, Jewish immigration to the United States, patterns of religious and cultural adjustment, social relations and antisemitism, Jewish politics, the construction of Jewish identities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 329
-
This course will provide a firm foundation for understanding S??o Paulo's unique cultural identity in the Americas and for analyzing its history in a Brazilian and global context. The course it is designed to introduce students to key political and economic developmentsthat have influenced contemporary Brazil.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- PORT 330
-
This course will provide a firm foundation for understanding S??o Paulo's unique cultural identity in the Americas and for analyzing its history in a Brazilian and global context. The course it is designed to introduce students to key political and economic developments that have influenced contemporary Brazil.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- PORT 330W
-
This course introduces you to the complexities of Gandhi's thought and his political action, his spiritual heights and his idiosyncrasies. We will read Gandhi's own writings, which include his autobiography, his Hind Swaraj, and several seminal articles from his journal Harijan.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 332
-
This course introduces you to the complexities of Gandhi's thought and his political action, his spiritual heights and his idiosyncrasies. We will read Gandhi's own writings, which include his autobiography, his Hind Swaraj, and several seminal articles from his journal Harijan.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 332W
-
This course will concentrate on the causes, course and consequences of the Russian Revolution from 1900 to the formation of the Soviet Union and Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will concentrate on the causes, course and consequences of the Russian Revolution from 1900 to the formation of the Soviet Union and Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
On the eve of the Holocaust, a majority of world Jewry lived in Eastern Europe (esp.Poland, USSR).This course explores the origins, dynamic growth, and near destruction of East European Jewry from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and the challenges to Jewish life in this region in the post-WWII era.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 338
-
On the eve of the Holocaust, a majority of world Jewry lived in Eastern Europe (esp.Poland, USSR).This course explores the origins, dynamic growth, and near destruction of East European Jewry from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and the challenges to Jewish life in this region in the post-WWII era.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 338W
-
This course explores the historical context linking Jews to commerce and finance, and how that link became a defining narrative of ??modernity??. We will use economic history to understand modern anti-Semitism, mass migration, Jewish leftist politics, and rise of international Jewish philanthropy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 339
-
Examines the intellectual and social context of the American Revolution. Issues covered include the causes and development of revolutionary sentiment, the military conflict, diplomacy, economics, and American constitutional government.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines the South from its colonial origins to the Civil War, with emphasis on the social, political, and economic development of a slave society.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
History of the relationship between the American people, land, weather, and natural resources, with special attention to the environmental movement since 1960.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENVS 344
-
Humanity has become more productive, wealthier, and healthier than ever before in the last 250 years. Many of these achievements can be traced to the industrial revolution, which began in Britain, spread to Western Europe and the United States, and now is being emulated through much of the world.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
African Americans, Indians, Irish, and Jews in recent American history. Explores patterns of immigration and the limits of assimilation. Also treats anti-ethnic reactions such as racism and anti-Semitism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AMST 348
-
The agrarian South and the growth of an industrial ideal, segregation, dilemmas of political reform, race and politics, assaults upon segregation and its defenders, and modernization and change.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
East Asian martial arts are often portrayed as ancient, timeless, and even mystical, but they have a history. In this course we explore how military techniques intended for use in war, policing, and banditry came to be practiced as methods of moral, spiritual, and physical self-cultivation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 350
- EAS 350
-
East Asian martial arts are often portrayed as ancient, timeless, and even mystical, but they have a history. In this course we explore how military techniques intended for use in war, policing, and banditry came to be practiced as methods of moral, spiritual, and physical self-cultivation.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 350W
- EAS 350W
-
Topics related to economic change outside the United States or in which the U.S. is only one area of comparison. Slave trade, global economies, economic thought, colonialism, or comparative economic systems.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics related to economic change outside the United States or in which the U.S. is only one area of comparison. Slave trade, global economies, economic thought, colonialism, or comparative economic systems.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Economic development in the nineteenth century and the spread of a world economy; economic consequences of the world wars; economic aspects of socialism and fascism; and economic nationalism and internationalism in the twentieth century.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines the place and significance of law and lawyers in American history and the evolution of the Constitution from Marshall to Burger.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Economic history of the American South from the colonial era to the present. Topics include the development of the antebellum economy, Reconstruction, and the twentieth-century resurgence of the Southern economy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 and BUS 201 as Prereq
- Cross-Listed
- ECON 355
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Economic history of the American South from the colonial era to the present. Topics include the development of the antebellum economy, Reconstruction, and the twentieth-century resurgence of the Southern economy.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ECON 101 and BUS 201 as Prereq
- Cross-Listed
- ECON 355W
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Examines the post-1800 development of industrial America. Topics covered include the rise of manufacturing, banking, the labor movement, agriculture, and foreign trade. Special attention is paid to the role of the government sector in the economy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ECON 101 or FIN 201 as Prereq
- Cross-Listed
- ECON 356
-
How did war transform Chinese society? From 1937-1949, China was engulfed in war. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources, we explore both the major players and problems in wartime China, as well as the longterm social and cultural implications of war and society.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 358
- CHN 358
-
How did war transform Chinese society? From 1937-1949, China was engulfed in war. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources, we explore both the major players and problems in wartime China, as well as the longterm social and cultural implications of war and society.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 358W
- CHN 358W
-
This course examines 500 plus years of Mexican history, from the Aztec Empire to today's "Narco State." Major themes include empire; colonialism; neocolonialism; class and ethnic relations; modernization; popular resistance; revolution; national identity; migration; neoliberalism; and drug trafficking.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Covering the history of Brazil since Portuguese colonization, this course addresses conquest, colonial structures and legacies, questions of race and identity, political institutions, and migration. Themes include slavery, cultural diversity, economic development, and Brazil's role in the world.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Development of the major islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, from colonial times to the present. Emphasizes evolution of plantation societies, slavery and race relations, international rivalries, economic dependence, political independence, and social revolutions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LACS 362
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Development of the major islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, from colonial times to the present. Emphasizes evolution of plantation societies, slavery and race relations, international rivalries, economic dependence, political independence, and social revolutions.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LACS 362W
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Sugar and rum were for centuries the quintessential Caribbean products, commodities which created fortunes for planters and merchants, while changing the lifestyles of the European working classes. This class will examine not only the development of sugar and rum production and its effect on the Caribbean??s socio-economic organization in the form of the plantation, but also how these commodities have come to define social status in the metropolis through changing patterns of consumption. Students will use materials from a variety of genres and disciplines, from social history to advertising, and from anthropology to popular music and film.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LACS 363
-
Sugar and rum were for centuries the quintessential Caribbean products, commodities which created fortunes for planters and merchants, while changing the lifestyles of the European working classes. This class will examine not only the development of sugar and rum production and its effect on the Caribbean??s socio-economic organization in the form of the plantation, but also how these commodities have come to define social status in the metropolis through changing patterns of consumption. Students will use materials from a variety of genres and disciplines, from social history to advertising, and from anthropology to popular music and film.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LACS 363W
-
Political, social, economic, and cultural history of sub-Saharan African civilizations, from the rise of the Sudanic empires through the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 364
- AFS 364
-
Political, social, economic, and cultural history of sub-Saharan African civilizations, from the rise of the Sudanic empires through the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 364W
- AAS 364W
-
Slavery is not an unchanging systems rooted in the past. We will examine the nature and diversity of slavery in Africa, from 1300s to 1900s, and interrogate the significant role slavery, slave trades, racism, colonialism, and forced labor have played in shaping the African past and present.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 365
-
Slavery is not an unchanging systems rooted in the past. We will examine the nature and diversity of slavery in Africa, from 1300s to 1900s, and interrogate the significant role slavery, slave trades, racism, colonialism, and forced labor have played in shaping the African past and present.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 365W
-
Survey of the history, cultures, and religions of Afghanistan and Central Asia including Tibet from antiquity to modern times. Topics will include the Silk Road, Buddhist, Christian, and Islamic cultures of the religion, and medieval, colonial, and modern history and politics.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 366
- MESAS 366
-
Evolution of South Africa from a society based on the principle of systematic racial segregation to a multiracial democracy. Origins of racial segregation and apartheid, nationalist struggles, challenges of post-apartheid development.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 367
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Topics include the fall of the Ottoman Empire; British presence and departure from Egypt; World War I diplomacy; the rise and development of Arab nationalism; the emergence of the Arab states of Turkey, Iran, Israel, and the Arabian peninsula countries; Islamic resurgence; inter-Arab political history; oil; and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Evolution and growth of Israel. Equal emphasis on Ottoman Palestine and on the mandatory and Israeli statehood periods. Topics include Zionism, Arab-Jewish relations, the British colonial presence, Israeli domestic issues, and foreign policy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 360
-
An introductory survey of medieval and early modern Japan (1100-1850), covering the Kamakura and Muromachie shogunates, the warring states era, and the Tokugawa periods.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An introductory survey of modern Japan (1850-1950), covering the late Tokugawa shogunate, the creation of the Meiji state, and the rise and fall of the Japanese empire.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 372
-
China since the Opium War. Nineteenth-century dynastic decline, Western impact, and modernization efforts; Republican, Nationalist, and Communist revolutions of the twentieth century; and the development of the People's Republic of China since 1949.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 379
-
This course is designed to take a comprehensive look at the social, political, cultural, and material lives of Choson Korea (1392-1910). This course aims to familiarize students with the core issues in Choson historiography, which will eventually help students to enrich their own research.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- KRN 374
-
This course is designed to take a comprehensive look at the social, political, cultural, and material lives of Choson Korea (1392-1910). This course aims to familiarize students with the core issues in Choson historiography, which will eventually help students to enrich their own research.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- KRN 374W
-
Through a series of thematic units, case studies, and analytical writing assignments, this course examines the emergence and evolution of modern terrorism in the United States and the impact of international terrorism on American society and foreign policy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Through a series of thematic units, case studies, and analytical writing assignments, this course examines the emergence and evolution of modern terrorism in the United States and the impact of international terrorism on American society and foreign policy.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course explores the historical relationship between Blacks and chief executives and the range of presidential attitudes and actions pertaining to the problems of slavery and emancipation, segregation, discrimination, and economic exploitation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 381
-
This course explores the ideological and structural foundations of race in American political culture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 382
-
Progression of the conflict from the 19th century to the present is reviewed in a multidisciplinary manner. Topics include political history, communal disparities, and the various wars and their diplomatic outcomes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 383
- JS 383
-
An in-depth study of the current historical knowledge of 19th century slavery in the southern United States; and how slavery has been depicted in popular culture, films and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 384
-
Selected topics in history for advanced students. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in history for advanced students. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An analysis of the sociopolitical background and the horror of the Holocaust, followed by the popular as well as the theological responses of the Jewish and Christian communities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Intermediate level workshop in writing and researching Southern Georgia's Civil Rights history.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 387RW
- ENGCW 385RW
- AMST 387RW
-
Selected topics in History for students who transfer to Emory from a different institution or who take courses for transient credit outside of Emory. Maybe be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in history for students in non-history originating (cross-listed) courses. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in history for students in non-history originating (cross-listed) courses. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in history for students in study abroad courses offered through Emory's Office of International and Summer Programs. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in history for students in non-history originating (cross-listed) courses. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in history for students in non-history originating (cross-listed) courses. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
For upper-level history majors with prior approval of instructor. Intensive research that results in the writing of a research paper of 8,000-10,000 words (30-40 pages) or scholarly equivalent.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
For upper-level history majors with prior approval of instructor. Intensive research that results in the writing of a research paper of 8,000-10,000 words (30-40 pages) or scholarly equivalent.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Human Health Program
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This course introduces the evidence base for the science of health and emphasizes STEM educational translations to the population, clinic and individual levels. Innovative efforts are needed to drive changes in health care from a reactive, disease-focused system to a proactive health-focused one.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 231
-
An introduction to the overall field of global health, its history, methods, and key principles, with case studies illustrating the burden of disease in nations with strikingly different political-economic contexts.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 205
-
This course emphasizes core issues in global health, explores the identification of global health priorities, the nature of global health organizations and the challenges to finding and implementing solutions. The focus changes with the instructor
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ANT205/HLTH250 prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course emphasizes core issues in global health, explores the identification of global health priorities, the nature of global health organizations and the challenges to finding and implementing solutions. The focus changes with the instructor
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ANT205/HLTH250 prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
We examine the language around health and health care as a type of intercultural discourse, including communication between doctors and patients, between health care providers, and discussions of health in the media. We also examine language as a diagnostic tool.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 350
Interdisciplinary Studies
-
This course examines medicine in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and the extreme examples of the excesses of modern medical culture it provides.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 315
- JS 315
- HIST 315
-
This course examines medicine in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and the extreme examples of the excesses of modern medical culture it provides.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 315W
- JS 315W
- HIST 315W
Italian
-
Interdisciplinary survey II: Humanism to 21st century. Investigating variety of Italian culture topics course examines intersections of Liberal Arts perspectives to enhance global understanding of others and self, critical reasoning skills. cross-cultural awareness fostered. In English, no pre-req.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Interdisciplinary survey II: Humanism to 21st century. Investigating variety of Italian culture topics course examines intersections of Liberal Arts perspectives to enhance global understanding of others and self, critical reasoning skills. cross-cultural awareness fostered. In English, no pre-req.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics to be announced each semester. Course is offered in English. Course content will vary, including topics of literature, history, culture, art history, political thought, current trends, and more. May be repeated for credit when syllabus changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics to be announced each semester. Course is offered in English. Course content will vary, including topics of literature, history, culture, art history, political thought, current trends, and more. May be repeated for credit when syllabus changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Japanese
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Prerequisite: Japanese 201 or consent of instructor. Provides an in-depth knowledge of the Japanese language in relation to culture and society, focusing on Japanese modes of thinking that lie behind language usage. Taught in English.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines aspects of Japanese language from a linguistic perspective. It will introduce basic concepts in linguistics such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, using examples from Japanese language. It aims to provide opportunities to deepen the understanding of the Japanese language as well as to deepen the understanding of world languages by examining Japanese. This course should be of interest to students who are learning Japanese and are interested in the structural aspect of the language and to those who are interested in broadening their knowledge of different languages.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 234
-
This course explores various aspects of life and society in Japan, including writing, gender, memory and history, geography and the environment, aesthetics, and the formation of national identity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 270
-
This course explores various aspects of life and society in Japan, including writing, gender, memory and history, geography and the environment, aesthetics, and the formation of national identity.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 270W
-
This course explores the sociolinguistic, cognitive, and cultural dimensions of bilingualism and multilingualism as they relate to Japan. Students will gain familiarity with the linguistic landscape of Japan and learn theoretical tools from the field of bilingualism to analyze linguistic diversity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 338
-
This course will use the text of the Tale of Genji as a centerpoint from which to explore various issues in poetry, aesthetics, the visual arts, religion, history, politics, and gender in Japanese cultural history.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 361
- WGS 361
-
This course will use the text of the Tale of Genji as a centerpoint from which to explore various issues in poetry, aesthetics, the visual arts, religion, history, politics, and gender in Japanese cultural history.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 361W
- WGS 361W
-
An examination of the image of the warrior in Japan through literature and its effect on many areas of Japanese culture, including philosophy, literary history, religion, music, and the visual arts. Emphasis is on the exploration of primary texts.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 362
-
An examination of the image of the warrior in Japan through literature and its effect on many areas of Japanese culture, including philosophy, literary history, religion, music, and the visual arts. Emphasis is on the exploration of primary texts.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 362W
-
An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Japanese culture. No knowledge of Japanese is required. Topics to be announced each semester.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Japanese culture. No knowledge of Japanese is required. Topics to be announced each semester.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines the postwar Japanese experience through film, television, magazines, newspapers, music, and manga. We will explore the ways in which Japanese society has narrated its experiences of recovery after World War II, and the role these media sources have played in this reconstruction.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 378
-
This course examines the way the postwar Japanese experience has been reflected (and constructed) through various types of popular media. Through film, television, magazine, newspapers, music, and manga, we will explore the various ways in which Japanese society has narrated its experiences of recovery and rebuilding after World War II, and the role these media sources have played in this reconstruction.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 378W
Jewish Studies
-
This course introduces students to the various questions, texts, methodologies, and perspectives that constitute the broad field of Jewish Studies. It presumes no prior knowledge of Jewish history, religion or culture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course is an introduction to the institutions and folklore of the ethnic communities in modern Israeli society and culture. In English; no knowledge of Hebrew required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 120
-
Jewish history in the last two centuries. Emphasizes Jewish development, emancipation, assimilation, identity, and changing status in Europe, America, the Islamic world, and Palestine/Israel.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 170
-
Variety of subjects pertaining to Jewish studies at the introductory level. Content will vary. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Variety of subjects pertaining to Jewish studies at the introductory level. Content will vary. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Course offers an overview of the origins, development, and outcomes of National Socialism. It covers: the rise of Nazi Party, establishment of dictatorship, emergence of racial state, life of Jews and social outsiders, road to war, WWII, occupation of Europe, resistance, euthanasia, the Holocaust.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 218
- GER 218
-
This course introduces students to the many political institutions, ideological visions, and demographic divisions that have driven Israeli politics from 1948 through the present day. It also gives students a broad understanding of how political institutions operate in Israel and beyond.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 223
- MESAS 223
-
This course introduces students to the many political institutions, ideological visions, and demographic divisions that have driven Israeli politics from 1948 through the present day. It also gives students a broad understanding of how political institutions operate in Israel and beyond.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 223W
- MESAS 223W
-
A careful examination of theory and methodology related to this branch of archaeology with special emphasis on famous discoveries, important sites, and the archaeological/historical background of Biblical events.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 260
- MESAS 250
-
Everyday life in ancient Israel (1200-586 BCE), including the economy, religion and culture, city planning, the Israelite kitchen, burials, status of women, and more.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 251
- REL 251
-
Everyday life in ancient Israel (1200-586 BCE), including the economy, religion and culture, city planning, the Israelite kitchen, burials, status of women, and more.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 251W
- REL 251W
-
A survey of the history of Jerusalem from its earliest times to the Crusader period through examination of archaeological remains and other ancient sources.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 252
-
A survey of the history of Jerusalem from its earliest times to the Crusader period through examination of archaeological remains and other ancient sources.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 252W
-
Summer. Excavations in the Middle East, especially with the Summer Abroad Program affiliated with the Lahav Research Project at Tell Halif.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 261R
- MESAS 259R
-
This course offers a general overview of the history of Jews and Judaism, beginning with the Biblical period and ending with modern times.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 270
-
Special Topics in Jewish History: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish History. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Special Topics in Jewish History: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish History. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Special Topics in Jewish Religion and Culture: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish Religion and Culture. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Special Topics in Jewish Religion and Culture: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish Religion and Culture. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Special Topics in Jewish Literature: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish Literature. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Special Topics in Jewish Literature: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish Literature. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A data field and not a discipline, Jewish studies is an area in many disciplines. This course explores methods for studying the data of Jewish studies: historical, exegetical, theological, feminist, legal, plus many others.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Explores the rituals and practices of Judaism, placing them in their historical context and examining the theological concepts that underpin them.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 308
-
Modern Jewish history, society, and thought, with emphasis on religious and secular reformulations of Jewish self-identity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 309
-
This course examines medicine in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and the extreme examples of the excesses of modern medical culture it provides.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 315
- IDS 315
- HIST 315
-
This course examines medicine in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and the extreme examples of the excesses of modern medical culture it provides.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 315W
- IDS 315W
- HIST 315W
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This course investigates Jewish culture and society in the Middle East, with special emphasis on the modern period. The approach is interdisciplinary (history, ethnography, religious study, and linguistics).
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 320
-
Herod the Great ruled Palestine between 40-4 BCE. He changed the face of the land by building magnificent structures, some still standing, across the land and the region. The course explores the historical-cultural backgrounds to this period, his successes and failures, and what motivated him.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 322
- HIST 322
-
Herod the Great ruled Palestine between 40-4 BCE. He changed the face of the land by building magnificent structures, some still standing, across the land and the region. The course explores the historical-cultural backgrounds to this period, his successes and failures, and what motivated him.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 322W
- MESAS 322W
-
An analysis of the sociopolitical background and the horror of the Holocaust, followed by the popular as well as the theological responses of the Jewish and Christian communities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 324
-
Summer. This course explores the nature of Israeli society, culture, and land, on location. Summer only; in Israel. In English. No knowledge of Hebrew required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 325
-
A course dealing with the history and structure of Judaic languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, and Ladino.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 326
- LING 326
-
A course dealing with the history and structure of Judaic languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, and Ladino.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 326W
- LING 326W
-
This course explores Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as well as other religious groups in the Holy Land on location. In Israel. In English. No knowledge of Hebrew required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 327
- MESAS 327
-
A six-week course devoted to Spanish Jewish culture in Europe. The program travels to Spain, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece, where Jews established thriving communities after expulsion from Spain in 1492.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 328A
-
A six-week course devoted to Spanish Jewish culture in Europe. The program travels to Spain, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece, where Jews established thriving communities after expulsion from Spain in 1492.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 328B
-
A six-week course devoted to Spanish Jewish culture in Europe. The program travels to Spain, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece, where Jews established thriving communities after expulsion from Spain in 1492.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 328BW
-
Survey of American Jewish history from colonial period to present, Jewish immigration to the United States, patterns of religious and cultural adjustment, social relations and antisemitism, Jewish politics, the construction of Jewish identities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 329
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On the eve of the Holocaust, a majority of world Jewry lived in Eastern Europe (esp.Poland, USSR).This course explores the origins, dynamic growth, and near destruction of East European Jewry from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and the challenges to Jewish life in this region in the post-WWII era.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 338
-
On the eve of the Holocaust, a majority of world Jewry lived in Eastern Europe (esp.Poland, USSR).This course explores the origins, dynamic growth, and near destruction of East European Jewry from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and the challenges to Jewish life in this region in the post-WWII era.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 338W
-
This course explores the historical context linking Jews to commerce and finance, and how that link became a defining narrative of ??modernity??. We will use economic history to understand modern anti-Semitism, mass migration, Jewish leftist politics, and rise of international Jewish philanthropy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 339
-
Construction of gender, definitions of the roles and status of women and men in a variety of traditions; women's and men's religious lives. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 352R
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Jewish mystical texts and themes, such as Zohar, Hasidism, and selected classical texts.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Analysis of methods and/or texts pertaining to ethical decision-making for individual and social problems such as race, sex/marriage, justice, war, biomedical technology, and environmental pollution. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 354R
-
Analysis of methods and/or texts pertaining to ethical decision-making for individual and social problems such as race, sex/marriage, justice, war, biomedical technology, and environmental pollution. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 354RW
-
Evolution and growth of Israel. Equal emphasis on Ottoman Palestine and on the mandatory and Israeli statehood periods. Topics include Zionism, Arab-Jewish relations, the British colonial presence, Israeli domestic issues, and foreign policy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 370
-
This course will focus on particular aspects of or themes in Judaism or Jewish culture and how it is practiced. Topics will vary.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will focus on particular aspects of or themes in Judaism or Jewish culture and how it is practiced. Topics will vary.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will focus on a specific period or dimension of Jewish history with an emphasis on the use of documents and other primary sources. Topics will vary.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will focus on a specific period or dimension of Jewish history with an emphasis on the use of documents and other primary sources. Topics will vary.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course explores how films and media shed light on the diverse ways Jews and Judaism are imagined, represented, and practiced.
- Credit Hours
- 3 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course explores how films and media shed light on the diverse ways Jews and Judaism are imagined, represented, and practiced.
- Credit Hours
- 3 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Progression of the conflict from the 19th century to the present is reviewed in a multidisciplinary manner. Topics include political history, communal disparities, and the various wars and their diplomatic outcomes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 383
- POLS 383
-
Special Topics in Jewish History: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish history. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Special Topics in Jewish History: Variety of subjects emphasizing Jewish history. Content will vary. May be repeated when the topic changes.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Korean
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Discussion-based course examining contemporary food media from and about Asian culinary traditions. Topics include global Asian culture, Asian America, diaspora, media circulation, race, and ethnicity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 227
-
Discussion-based course examining contemporary food media from and about Asian culinary traditions. Topics include global Asian culture, Asian America, diaspora, media circulation, race, and ethnicity.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 227W
-
This course will emphasize transnational aspects of East Asian history, focusing on how the East Asian international system interacted with Southeast Asia, South Asia, Inner Asia, as well as with Europe and the U.S. from 1500 to the present.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 260
- EAS 260
- CHN 260
-
By drawing on a wide range of materials across various disciplines the course aims to provide a broad and coherent picture of the history of modern Korea since the late 19th century to the contemporary period.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 276
-
This course explores the historical dynamics of political change in Korea since the establishment of the First Republic up to the current period, the many factors that shaped its political trajectory and democratization, and the key issues that have defined South Korean politics to this day.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 271
- EAS 277
-
This course is designed as a foundation course on Korean history, preparing students for other Korean history courses, both pre-modern and modern, as well as students' individual research on Korean past. It surveys the major events and topics in Korean history from ancient times to the modern era.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 274
- HIST 274
-
This course is designed as a foundation course on Korean history, preparing students for other Korean history courses, both pre-modern and modern, as well as students' individual research on Korean past. It surveys the major events and topics in Korean history from ancient times to the modern era.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 274W
- EAS 274W
-
This course introduces the critical role of the Korean language in culture and society, focusing on how language reflects, reinforces, and shapes the cultural values, standards, and structure of society.Topics include language policies/contacts, dialects, gender differences, and honorifics. Korean literacy or knowledge of Korean alphabet is necessary.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- KRN 101 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- LING 339
-
This course examines social movements in the East and West from a comparative perspective. The goal is to better understand the varying cultural, historical and institutional contexts and dynamics through which social movements emerge, evolve and leave traces.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 380
- SOC 372
-
This course examines social movements in the East and West from a comparative perspective. The goal is to better understand the varying cultural, historical and institutional contexts and dynamics through which social movements emerge, evolve and leave traces.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 372W
- EAS 380W
-
This course is designed to take a comprehensive look at the social, political, cultural, and material lives of Choson Korea (1392-1910). This course aims to familiarize students with the core issues in Choson historiography, which will eventually help students to enrich their own research.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 374
-
This course is designed to take a comprehensive look at the social, political, cultural, and material lives of Choson Korea (1392-1910). This course aims to familiarize students with the core issues in Choson historiography, which will eventually help students to enrich their own research.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 374W
-
This course explores the origins of Korea's division system, the developmental path or each Korea, as well as the contemporary events that have been at the center of international debates, thereby challenging students to rethink the conventional framework based on binaries.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 382
-
An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Korean culture and society. No knowledge of Korean is required. Topics to be announced each semester.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 386
-
An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to Korean culture and society. No knowledge of Korean is required. Topics to be announced each semester.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 386W
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
-
An interdisciplinary introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean and to the LACS Program at Emory. The course provides historical background and familiarizes students with contemporary political, social, economic, and cultural issues.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
"Plantation America", stretching from the American South, through the Caribbean to northern Brazil, comprises a geographical area that, as its name suggests, was dominated by the economic system of plantation monoculture. This course will attempt two inter-related tasks: it will firstly survey the unity and variety of the plantation as a form of socio-economic organization; secondly it will explicate the unity and variety of the political and cultural forms that have evolved alongside the plantation. The course will be interdisciplinary in nature, using texts from history, literature and anthropology.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 263
-
"Plantation America", stretching from the American South, through the Caribbean to northern Brazil, comprises a geographical area that, as its name suggests, was dominated by the economic system of plantation monoculture. This course will attempt two inter-related tasks: it will firstly survey the unity and variety of the plantation as a form of socio-economic organization; secondly it will explicate the unity and variety of the political and cultural forms that have evolved alongside the plantation. The course will be interdisciplinary in nature, using texts from history, literature and anthropology.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 263W
-
This course will bring together existing research to examine tourism as at one time an economic enterprise and also as a deeply significant cultural experience that has played an under-recognized part in shaping the cultural mores and lifestyles of both the island destinations and the home countries.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will bring together existing research to examine tourism as at one time an economic enterprise and also as a deeply significant cultural experience that has played an under-recognized part in shaping the cultural mores and lifestyles of both the island destinations and the home countries.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics: Latin Americn Issues. Topics vary.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics: Latin Americn Issues. Topics vary.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Development of the major islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, from colonial times to the present. Emphasizes evolution of plantation societies, slavery and race relations, international rivalries, economic dependence, political independence, and social revolutions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 362
-
Development of the major islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, from colonial times to the present. Emphasizes evolution of plantation societies, slavery and race relations, international rivalries, economic dependence, political independence, and social revolutions.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 362W
-
Sugar and rum were for centuries the quintessential Caribbean products, commodities which created fortunes for planters and merchants, while changing the lifestyles of the European working classes. This class will examine not only the development of sugar and rum production and its effect on the Caribbean??s socio-economic organization in the form of the plantation, but also how these commodities have come to define social status in the metropolis through changing patterns of consumption. Students will use materials from a variety of genres and disciplines, from social history to advertising, and from anthropology to popular music and film.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 363
-
Sugar and rum were for centuries the quintessential Caribbean products, commodities which created fortunes for planters and merchants, while changing the lifestyles of the European working classes. This class will examine not only the development of sugar and rum production and its effect on the Caribbean??s socio-economic organization in the form of the plantation, but also how these commodities have come to define social status in the metropolis through changing patterns of consumption. Students will use materials from a variety of genres and disciplines, from social history to advertising, and from anthropology to popular music and film.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 363W
-
Topics vary. Each colloquium treats a different theme in depth, often combining reading and seminar discussion with research and writing. If listed as WR, fulfills the post-freshman writing requirement.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Topics vary. Each colloquium treats a different theme in depth, often combining reading and seminar discussion with research and writing. If listed as WR, fulfills the post-freshman writing requirement.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
For LAS honors students only. Credit for undertaking supervised research and writing of the honors thesis, over the course of two semesters.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
For LAS honors students only. Credit for undertaking supervised research and writing of the honors thesis, over the course of two semesters.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Latin
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Reading of one or more books by Sallust, Livy, or Tacitus, with attention to narrative style, critical method, and historical aims.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Tacitus: Advanced study of one or more books by Tacitus, with attention to narrative style, critical method, and historical aims.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAL / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Linguistics
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A historical examination of the various languages and dialects used in American society and the development of an American identity through language use and language policy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An introduction to the systematic study of human language, surveying the fields of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, child language acquisition, and historical linguistics.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 203
-
This course examines aspects of Japanese language from a linguistic perspective. It will introduce basic concepts in linguistics such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, using examples from Japanese language. It aims to provide opportunities to deepen the understanding of the Japanese language as well as to deepen the understanding of world languages by examining Japanese. This course should be of interest to students who are learning Japanese and are interested in the structural aspect of the language and to those who are interested in broadening their knowledge of different languages.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 234
-
This course examines the manners and contexts in which the Chinese writing systems interface with other languages and cultures (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) and the cultural identities that the Chinese orthographic symbols come to represent at both personal and social levels in and beyond Asia.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 235
- EAS 235
-
This course examines the manners and contexts in which the Chinese writing systems interface with other languages and cultures (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) and the cultural identities that the Chinese orthographic symbols come to represent at both personal and social levels in and beyond Asia.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CHN 235W
- EAS 235W
-
Study of language in context, focusing on relations between language and culture, thought, social identity, and political process.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 240
-
Study of language in context, focusing on relations between language and culture, thought, social identity, and political process.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 240W
-
Explores language diversity around the world. Students learn about language families and historical relationships, linguistic typology and language universals, sound and structural features of languages, writing systems, language endangerment and field methods.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course is an introduction to the field of second language acquisition (SLA), which seeks to understand the linguistic, psychological and social processes that underlie the learning and use of second language(s).
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A course dealing with the history and structure of Judaic languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, and Ladino.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 326
- JS 326
-
A course dealing with the history and structure of Judaic languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, and Ladino.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 326W
- JS 326W
-
Linguists agree that languages change; they do not agree about how such change occurs. This course views that linguistic systems cannot be completely understood from a purely synchronic perspective. The course surveys types of change, which can affect the linguistic systems, using data from various languages.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Cross-cultural examination of how language reflects, maintains, and constructs gender identities. Topics include differences in male/female speech, the grammatical encoding of gender and childhood language socialization.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 333
- ANT 325
-
This course examines the emergence of modern languages in South Asia, the development of multilingualism, and the use of different languages in different social and cultural settings in this multilayered, multilingual, mobile environment.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 335
-
This course examines the emergence of modern languages in South Asia, the development of multilingualism, and the use of different languages in different social and cultural settings in this multilayered, multilingual, mobile environment.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 335W
-
Examines the intersection of language, culture, and society in modern China. Investigates the linguistic construction of social identities based on gender, ethnicity, age, power relation, and other factors, and ideologies that shape language use in China and in the global Chinese diaspora.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 335
- CHN 335
-
Examines the intersection of language, culture, and society in modern China. Investigates the linguistic construction of social identities based on gender, ethnicity, age, power relation, and other factors, and ideologies that shape language use in China and in the global Chinese diaspora.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 335W
- CHN 335W
-
This course explores the sociolinguistic, cognitive, and cultural dimensions of bilingualism and multilingualism as they relate to Japan. Students will gain familiarity with the linguistic landscape of Japan and learn theoretical tools from the field of bilingualism to analyze linguistic diversity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JPN 338
-
This course introduces the critical role of the Korean language in culture and society, focusing on how language reflects, reinforces, and shapes the cultural values, standards, and structure of society.Topics include language policies/contacts, dialects, gender differences, and honorifics. Korean literacy or knowledge of Korean alphabet is necessary.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- KRN 339
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This course studies relations between language and society, relations between language and sociocultural context. Topics may include: language variation; multilingualism; verbal interaction; discourse analysis; ethnography of communication; sociolinguistics of Spanish.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 340
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This course studies relations between language and society, relations between language and sociocultural context. Topics may include: language variation; multilingualism; verbal interaction; discourse analysis; ethnography of communication; sociolinguistics of Spanish.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 340W
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In-depth study of the relationship between language and culture by examining anthropological approaches to the study of language. You will learn how language both reflects and creates thought, culture and power relationships. You will also learn basic ethnographic methodology through a research project.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 341
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This course introduces and examines language attitudes, (the perceptions, beliefs, & stereotypes), that are commonly attached to language and language use. We investigate where such attitudes come from, how they are disseminated throughout a society, and how they affect linguistic choices.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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The course reviews sociolinguistic concepts including the study of linguistic, social, cultural, political, & historical aspects of bilingualism/multilingualism. Specific attention is given to linguistic variation, verbal interaction, code-switching/mixing, language attitudes & politics of language.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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We examine the language around health and health care as a type of intercultural discourse, including communication between doctors and patients, between health care providers, and discussions of health in the media. We also examine language as a diagnostic tool.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HLTH 379
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Structure and history of the English language.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENG 360
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Structure and history of the English language.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENG 360W
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American English from the colonial period to the present; the sources of its vocabulary, the characteristics of its dialects, and the linguistic distinctiveness of its literature.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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An exploration of advertising, including its historical development, its role in consumer society, and its rhetorical and linguistic aspects.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 383
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Investigation of a particular issue or topic in the study of language, linguistics, and communication. May be repeated when topic varies. Topics may include: the Romance languages; intercultural communication; words and the world; language and human nature.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Investigation of a particular issue or topic in the study of language, linguistics, and communication. May be repeated when topic varies. Topics may include: the Romance languages; intercultural communication; words and the world; language and human nature.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Arabic dialects have been spoken continuously from Mauritania in the west to Iraq in the east. This course combines a broad introduction to the field with concrete experience working with Arabic dialects, exploring the historical development of the dialects and their relationship to Literary Arabic.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ARAB 425R
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An interdisciplinary exploration of digital tools for analyzing and visualizing data in the humanities and social sciences.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 446
- QTM 446
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An interdisciplinary exploration of digital tools for analyzing and visualizing data in the humanities and social sciences.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 446W
- QTM 446W
Middle Eastern and South Asian
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Introduction to the history, geography, and religions of the Middle East from ancient to modern times, focusing on how this history helped shape the Middle East of today. Required of all Middle East studies majors.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course is a multidisciplinary introduction to the civilizations of South Asia, including an overview of the history and historiography of the region from its prehistory to the present.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course is an introduction to the institutions and folklore of the ethnic communities in modern Israeli society and culture. In English; no knowledge of Hebrew required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 120
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This course traces the place of women, men, and children in Islamic societies and examines gender perspectives in the writing of Islamic history via the site of the harem.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course examines the culture of Ancient Egypt and the process by which European societies
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course sets the story of the cultures and religions of ancient Iraq, including the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians, within the cultural and historical matricies in which they developed.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special topics in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, at the 100 level; may be repeated when content varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Exploration of themes such as identity, community, religion, and politics in the Middle East from ancient to modern times. Readings include historical and literary texts by various Middle Eastern authors. Required of all Middle East studies majors.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Exploration of themes such as identity, community, religion, and politics in the Middle East from ancient to modern times. Readings include historical and literary texts by various Middle Eastern authors. Required of all Middle East studies majors.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This course examines South Asian civilization from the perspective of the transition from medieval kingdoms to modern republics. It focuses on debates about history, community and identity to ask how South Asian societies conceived of belonging, power and prosperity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines South Asian civilization from the perspective of the transition from medieval kingdoms to modern republics. It focuses on debates about history, community and identity to ask how South Asian societies conceived of belonging, power and prosperity.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the national cinemas of Turkey, Egypt, India, Israel and Iran. It investigates how the various national film industries represent and encode questions of national identity, politics and society.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course introduces students to the main elements of Arab Culture and to the various aspects of social life in the modern Arab World. In English; no knowledge of Arabic required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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An introduction to the folklore and folkways of the Jewish people around the world. Students will also be introduced to the techniques and methodologies of folkloric studies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course introduces students to the many political institutions, ideological visions, and demographic divisions that have driven Israeli politics from 1948 through the present day. It also gives students a broad understanding of how political institutions operate in Israel and beyond.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 223
- JS 223
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This course introduces students to the many political institutions, ideological visions, and demographic divisions that have driven Israeli politics from 1948 through the present day. It also gives students a broad understanding of how political institutions operate in Israel and beyond.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 223W
- JS 223W
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This course is designed to introduce students to important aspects of the colonial encounter on the Indian subcontinent. It is a survey of social and political movements that occurred during British colonial rule in India.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 265
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A careful examination of theory and methodology related to this branch of archaeology with special emphasis on famous discoveries, important sites, and the archaeological/historical background of Biblical events.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 260
- JS 250
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Everyday life in ancient Israel (1200-586 BCE), including the economy, religion and culture, city planning, the Israelite kitchen, burials, status of women, and more.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 251
- JS 251
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Everyday life in ancient Israel (1200-586 BCE), including the economy, religion and culture, city planning, the Israelite kitchen, burials, status of women, and more.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 251W
- JS 251W
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A survey of the history of Jerusalem from its earliest times to the Crusader period through examination of archaeological remains and other ancient sources.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 252
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A survey of the history of Jerusalem from its earliest times to the Crusader period through examination of archaeological remains and other ancient sources.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 252W
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This second-year seminar explores the development of transregional economies and cultures through the study of commodities originating in the Middle East and the Indian Ocean region by examining environmental, historical and economic data and concepts.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 254
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This course will explore the archaeology of the ancient cultures located around the Mediterranean Sea and will transcend the east-west divide. Topics may include the world's first farmers and cities; palace and temple architecture; trade and travel across the Sea; and burials of royalty and slaves.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Summer. Excavations in the Middle East, especially with the Summer Abroad Program affiliated with the Lahav Research Project at Tell Halif.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 261R
- JS 259R
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This course introduces students to anthropological perspectives on the peoples and cultures of the Middle East (including North Africa). The purpose is to familiarize students with the cultural richness and diversity of this region.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Special topics in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, at the 200 level; may be repeated when content varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Special topics in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, at the 200 level; may be repeated when content varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines how South Asia and the Middle East have shaped each other's cultures and civilizations throughout history, focusing on politics, economic relations, literature, and material culture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines how South Asia and the Middle East have shaped each other's cultures and civilizations throughout history, focusing on politics, economic relations, literature, and material culture.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Explores various issues concerning Arab women through analysis of literary, documentary, critical, and film texts representing a wide range of social strata, genres, and points of view.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The Qur'an in translation, from historical and literary perspectives, looking at its use in Islam, its language, stylistics, modes of narrative, and its relationship to Jewish, Christian, and Arabian traditions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 315
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The Qur'an in translation, from historical and literary perspectives, looking at its use in Islam, its language, stylistics, modes of narrative, and its relationship to Jewish, Christian, and Arabian traditions.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 315W
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This course is a survey of the major issues in the history, religion, culture, and civilization of the Islamic world in the pre-modern period.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 316
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This course is a survey of the major issues in the history, religion, culture, and civilization of the Islamic world in the pre-modern period.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 316W
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This seminar analyzes the problem of Islam in modern history and focuses on religious responses to major events. Issues may include secularism and Post-Enlightenment modernism, reform movements, and Islamic liberalism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 317
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This course studies Islam through a legal lens. We explore the main sources of the Shari'a, and study examples of each in the spheres of ritual, criminal, family, and civil law. We also examine how tensions between law, morality, pragmatism, custom, and politics spur Islamic legal development.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 318
-
This course studies Islam through a legal lens. We explore the main sources of the Shari'a, and study examples of each in the spheres of ritual, criminal, family, and civil law. We also examine how tensions between law, morality, pragmatism, custom, and politics spur Islamic legal development.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 318W
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This course investigates Jewish culture and society in the Middle East, with special emphasis on the modern period. The approach is interdisciplinary (history, ethnography, religious study, and linguistics).
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 320
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Herod the Great ruled Palestine between 40-4 BCE. He changed the face of the land by building magnificent structures, some still standing, across the land and the region. The course explores the historical-cultural backgrounds to this period, his successes and failures, and what motivated him.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 322
- HIST 322
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Herod the Great ruled Palestine between 40-4 BCE. He changed the face of the land by building magnificent structures, some still standing, across the land and the region. The course explores the historical-cultural backgrounds to this period, his successes and failures, and what motivated him.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 322W
- JS 322W
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Summer. This course explores the nature of Israeli society, culture, and land, on location. Summer only; in Israel. In English. No knowledge of Hebrew required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 325
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A course dealing with the history and structure of Judaic languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, and Ladino.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 326
- JS 326
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A course dealing with the history and structure of Judaic languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, and Ladino.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 326W
- JS 326W
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This course explores Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as well as other religious groups in the Holy Land on location. In Israel. In English. No knowledge of Hebrew required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 327
- JS 327
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A six-week course devoted to Spanish Jewish culture in Europe. The program travels to Spain, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece, where Jews established thriving communities after expulsion from Spain in 1492.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 328A
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A six-week course devoted to Spanish Jewish culture in Europe. The program travels to Spain, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece, where Jews established thriving communities after expulsion from Spain in 1492.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 328B
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A six-week course devoted to Spanish Jewish culture in Europe. The program travels to Spain, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece, where Jews established thriving communities after expulsion from Spain in 1492.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 328BW
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This is an introductory course on Tibetan culture focusing on selected themes and perspectives of Tibetan culture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 330
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This course introduces you to the complexities of Gandhi's thought and his political action, his spiritual heights and his idiosyncrasies. We will read Gandhi's own writings, which include his autobiography, his Hind Swaraj, and several seminal articles from his journal Harijan.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 332
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This course introduces you to the complexities of Gandhi's thought and his political action, his spiritual heights and his idiosyncrasies. We will read Gandhi's own writings, which include his autobiography, his Hind Swaraj, and several seminal articles from his journal Harijan.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 332W
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This course examines the emergence of modern languages in South Asia, the development of multilingualism, and the use of different languages in different social and cultural settings in this multilayered, multilingual, mobile environment.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 335
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This course examines the emergence of modern languages in South Asia, the development of multilingualism, and the use of different languages in different social and cultural settings in this multilayered, multilingual, mobile environment.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 335W
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This course is intended to present an overview of the history of Tibet in an unbiased format. Beginning with an introduction to Tibet's geography, people, language and religion, students will then study selected events and episodes in the history of Tibet.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 338
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This course examines the role and practice of magic in the ancient Mediterranean world from the earliest civilizations through the Roman period. Topics include practitioners, magical techniques, possession, necromancy, human sacrifice, spells, rituals, curses, and miracles.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines the role and practice of magic in the ancient Mediterranean world from the earliest civilizations through the Roman period. Topics include practitioners, magical techniques, possession, necromancy, human sacrifice, spells, rituals, curses, and miracles.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
From the Garden of Eden to the Prophets, this course explores the cultural and historical milieu in which the Hebrew Bible took shape.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
From the Garden of Eden to the Prophets, this course explores the cultural and historical milieu in which the Hebrew Bible took shape.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course is a systematic and empirical journey through the economic, political and governance landscapes of Europe, Middle East and North Africa through a comparative assessment of the evolution of state institutions and markets.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 353
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This course is a systematic and empirical journey through the economic, political and governance landscapes of Europe, Middle East and North Africa through a comparative assessment of the evolution of state institutions and markets.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 353W
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This course surveys major categories of artifacts from the pre-modern Middle East and explores the ways in which these are used in historical interpretations of the societies that produced them. Architecture, ceramics, textiles, coins, and the arts of the book will be examined to reveal their economic, social, cultural, and ideological context and content.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This seminar explores the mechanisms and ramifications of overseas trade and travel in the Middle East and South Asia from antiquity to the seventeenth-century C.E.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Using Edward W. Said's Orientalism as a point of departure, this courses examines the politics and aesthetics of representation in South Asian and Middle Eastern Literature.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Using Edward W. Said's Orientalism as a point of departure, this courses examines the politics and aesthetics of representation in South Asian and Middle Eastern Literature.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Survey of the history, cultures, and religions of Afghanistan and Central Asia including Tibet from antiquity to modern times. Topics will include the Silk Road, Buddhist, Christian, and Islamic cultures of the religion, and medieval, colonial, and modern history and politics.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 366
- REL 366
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Special topics in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, at the 300 level; may be repeated when content varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Special topics in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, at the 300 level; may be repeated when content varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HSCW / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course provides a useful lens through which to examine the presence of Islam in European Societies. A Europe that has been swept by several dynamic forces of change: the consolidation of the European Union, a massive influx of Muslim immigrants, and the rising voice of Islamic fundamentalism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course is an introduction to Shiite Islam, including a historical survey with particular attention to the Twelver and Ismaili traditions, showing how Shiism has shaped Islamic history in general.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 414
-
This course is an introduction to Shiite Islam, including a historical survey with particular attention to the Twelver and Ismaili traditions, showing how Shiism has shaped Islamic history in general.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 414W
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This course uses feminist theoretical reading strategies to ask what we can learn about notions of gender and sexuality in Islamic cultures, thereby surveying changes in these concepts historically.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course uses feminist theoretical reading strategies to ask what we can learn about notions of gender and sexuality in Islamic cultures, thereby surveying changes in these concepts historically.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This seminar examines these two themes in the books of Exodus, Joshua, and Judges and then compares the biblical accounts with the archaeological record and extra-biblical materials from surrounding cultures.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines the neighbors of ancient Israel and their influence on Israel's history, culture and economy, using biblical, extrabiblical, and archaeological sources.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines the neighbors of ancient Israel and their influence on Israel's history, culture and economy, using biblical, extrabiblical, and archaeological sources.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Special topics in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, at the 400 level; may be repeated when content varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Music
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Students will be introduced to classical and vernacular traditions from throughout the world, and equipped with skills they need to research and write critically about musical cultures, repertoires, and practices. Designed for music majors/minors, it is a prerequisite for many other music courses.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Seminar or lecture series of topics in music. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Seminar or lecture series of topics in music. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Offers a detailed historical examination of Western classical music from antiquity through 1600, emphasizing both repertoire and the cultural practice of music-making.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Offers a detailed historical examination of Western classical music from 1600 through 1750, emphasizing both repertoire and the cultural practice of music-making. Assignments include midterm and final exams and one research paper.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Offers a detailed historical examination of Western classical music from 1750 through the 1820s, emphasizing both repertoire and the cultural practice of music-making. Assignments include midterm and final exams and one research paper.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Offers a detailed historical examination of Western classical music from the 1820s through 1900, emphasizing both repertoire and the cultural practice of music-making. Assignments include midterm and final exams and one research paper.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Offers a detailed historical examination of Western classical music composed since 1900, emphasizing both repertoire and the cultural practice of music-making. Assignments include midterm and final exams and one research paper.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
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This undergraduate course on the contributions of women in music explores the power of perspective in historical narrative, gender and control in music, how spiritual tradition is intertwined with music, and how women in music are perceived cross-culturally.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 356
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This undergraduate course on the contributions of women in music explores the power of perspective in historical narrative, gender and control in music, how spiritual tradition is intertwined with music, and how women in music are perceived cross-culturally.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 356W
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Explores encounters by Austro-German Jewish musicians and writers with ideas of modernity from 1900 through the 1950s, including responses to the Weimar Republic, the Holocaust, and postwar emigration. Cases studied include Gustav and Alma Mahler, Freud, Arthur Schnitzler and Arnold Schoenberg
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 369
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Explores encounters by Austro-German Jewish musicians and writers with ideas of modernity from 1900 through the 1950s, including responses to the Weimar Republic, the Holocaust, and postwar emigration. Cases studied include Gustav and Alma Mahler, Freud, Arthur Schnitzler and Arnold Schoenberg
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 369W
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Selected topics in Music. May be repeated when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics in Music. May be repeated when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course explores how music creates differences between countries in East Asia and, at the same time, ties them together to create a distinct East Asian identity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 371
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This course explores how music creates differences between countries in East Asia and, at the same time, ties them together to create a distinct East Asian identity.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 371W
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Open to all students regardless of Chinese language ability, basic language skills will be taught. This course examines the historical, social, and individual aspects of Chinese musical cultures through the use of English and Chinese sources.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 369
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Open to all students regardless of Chinese language ability, basic language skills will be taught. This course examines the historical, social, and individual aspects of Chinese musical cultures through the use of English and Chinese sources.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 369W
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This course explores the Silk Road from the perspective of musical interactions between different societies along the Silk Road. With a focus on music, students will examine the historical processes that have led to the formation of contemporary instruments, genres, styles, and performance aesthetics in modern nation-states whose cultural histories are connected to the ancient Silk Road.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course explores the Silk Road from the perspective of musical interactions between different societies along the Silk Road. With a focus on music, students will examine the historical processes that have led to the formation of contemporary instruments, genres, styles, and performance aesthetics in modern nation-states whose cultural histories are connected to the ancient Silk Road.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An introduction to musical narrative in cross-cultural perspective, exploring the qualities of music that make it a powerful and pervasive medium for storytelling around the world. Assignments will facilitate the development of world music listening, research, and analysis skills.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An introduction to musical narrative in cross-cultural perspective, exploring the qualities of music that make it a powerful and pervasive medium for storytelling around the world. Assignments will facilitate the development of world music listening, research, and analysis skills.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course surveys the principal performance genres, instruments, compositional and improvisational forms, and theoretical structures of art, folk music, and dance from both south and north India. Emphasis is placed on developing the ability to listen sensitively and critically to recorded and live performances. The social and religious context of the music and dance will be examined.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Introduces advanced undergraduates to music research using primary source materials from the 16th-20th centuries; taps the research potential of the special collections in Emory's libraries; provides the opportunity to pursue original research on musical topics in a writing-intensive seminar.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Introduces advanced undergraduates to music research using primary source materials from the 16th-20th centuries; taps the research potential of the special collections in Emory's libraries; provides the opportunity to pursue original research on musical topics in a writing-intensive seminar.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This is a variable topics course in music history and culture. Each study treats a special topic in the field by implementing various research methodologies, discussion sessions, and writing of papers.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This is a variable topics course in music history and culture. Each study treats a special topic in the field by implementing various research methodologies, discussion sessions, and writing of papers.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
How does sound organize the space we inhabit? This course examines different types of music to understand how sounds are incorporated into different facets of human expression.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
How does sound organize the space we inhabit? This course examines different types of music to understand how sounds are incorporated into different facets of human expression.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Special Topics in Music. May be repeated when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Special Topics in Music. May be repeated when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Philosophy
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An opportunity to explore special topics and thinkers not offered in the standard curriculum, or to explore aspects of the standard curriculum in greater depth and detail than the ordinary curriculum courses allow.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An opportunity to explore special topics and thinkers not offered in the standard curriculum, or to explore aspects of the standard curriculum in greater depth and detail than the ordinary curriculum courses allow.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will introduce the principal figures and topics in ancient Greek and medieval philosophy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- PHIL 100 level courses as prer
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will introduce the principal figures and topics in ancient Greek and medieval philosophy.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- PHIL 100 level courses as prer
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will introduce the principal figures and topics in Renaissance and modern philosophy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- PHIL 100 level courses as prer
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will introduce the principal figures and topics in Renaissance and modern philosophy.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- PHIL 100 level courses as prer
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will introduce the principal figures and topics in 19th and 20th century philosophy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- PHIL 100 level courses as prer
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will introduce the principal figures and topics in 19th and 20th century philosophy.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- PHIL 100 level courses as prer
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics and readings from such philosophers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics and problems in philosophy. Content will vary in successive offerings of this course. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Selected topics and problems in philosophy. Content will vary in successive offerings of this course. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course considers, in depth, particular facets of medieval philosophy.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- Two PHIL courses as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course considers, in depth, particular facets of medieval philosophy.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- Two PHIL courses as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course considers, in depth, particular facets of medieval philosophy.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- Two PHIL courses as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course considers, in depth, particular facets of medieval philosophy.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- Two PHIL courses as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course surveys important perspectives, ideas, and theories in the writings of major American writers. It will focus on pragmatism as developed by such thinkers as Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- Two PHIL courses as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course surveys important perspectives, ideas, and theories in the writings of major American writers. It will focus on pragmatism as developed by such thinkers as Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- Two PHIL courses as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Study of the philosophical significance of the ideas, images, symbolism, and methods of understanding in Taoism, Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism. May include attention to C.G. Jung's conception of archetypes of collective unconscious and to his commentaries on the classics.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- Two PHIL courses as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Experience and culture; institutions and historical processes; myth and symbol; and the origins of culture.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- Two PHIL courses as prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
Political Science
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Origins, principles, structures, processes, and practices of American national government. Stresses different perspectives on democratic theory and practice, and the adequacy of governmental institutions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Introduction to analytical concepts, nature of the interstate system, the assumptions and ideas of diplomacy, the determinants of foreign policy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The course is organized around the following questions: What is politics, and what is political science? How do political groups form? How do groups make decisions? How are group decisions implemented? We approach these questions using ideas that are found across the sub-fields of political science.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Political systems of major nations in comparative perspective.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Discussion based course on the foundational ideas that underlie American democracy and other major American political debates from the revolutionary era to the present. Readings drawn from classic texts and original documents, speeches and writings of leading American political figures.This course is part of Emory's Voluntary Core Curriculum program.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Fundamental concepts and quantitative techniques of empirical political inquiry. Introduction to concepts of measurement, parametric, and non-parametric statistics. Basic bivariate and univariate statistics used in political science.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- QTM 100 or 220 or ECON 220
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course introduces students to the many political institutions, ideological visions, and demographic divisions that have driven Israeli politics from 1948 through the present day. It also gives students a broad understanding of how political institutions operate in Israel and beyond.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 223
- JS 223
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This course introduces students to the many political institutions, ideological visions, and demographic divisions that have driven Israeli politics from 1948 through the present day. It also gives students a broad understanding of how political institutions operate in Israel and beyond.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 223W
- JS 223W
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Introduction to basic concepts of American environmental policy. Topics include: history of federal environmental policymaking, environmental policy tools, controversies in environmental policy, and U.S. environmental policy in the age of globalization. Field trips required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ENVS 131/BIOLOX111/POLS100
- Cross-Listed
- ENVS 227
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Introduction to basic concepts of American environmental policy. Topics include: history of federal environmental policymaking, environmental policy tools, controversies in environmental policy, and U.S. environmental policy in the age of globalization. Field trips required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ENVS 131/BIOLOX111/POLS100
- Cross-Listed
- ENVS 227W
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Prerequisite: ENVS 131, POLS 100 or permission. An introduction to basic concepts of American environmental policy in the age of globalization. Topics include the history of federal policymaking, policy tools and controversies in environmental policy. Field trips and weekly lab required.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENVS 228
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Prerequisite: ENVS 131, POLS 100 or permission. An introduction to basic concepts of American environmental policy in the age of globalization. Topics include the history of federal policymaking, policy tools and controversies in environmental policy. Field trips and weekly lab required.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENVS 228W
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The course examines the intersection of policing and politics. It addresses how politics influences the police and policing (e.g., stop-and-frisk) and how the police and policing influence politics (e.g., rhetoric of political campaigns, protests in response to killings of civilians, etc.).
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A deep examination of Abraham Lincoln's political thought, focused on his responses to problems that confronted him as president (e.g., slavery and the Civil War).
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 110. Examines general principles and problems of international conflict resolution, including strategic bargaining, issue linkage, third party involvement, and coalition formation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 110. Procedures and practices regarded by states as constituting international law, with major emphasis on contemporary problems and probable trends.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 110. Nature and development of international organization, with emphasis on the interaction between international systems and organizations.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- QTM 100 or 220 or ECON 220
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 110. Nature and development of international organization, with emphasis on the interaction between international systems and organizations.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- QTM 100 or 220 or ECON 220
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 110. Organizations and processes involved in the formulation and execution of United States national security policy. Topics include nuclear strategy, bureaucratic politics, and the programming and budgeting process.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Comparison of post-World War II foreign policies of selected states. Primary focus on developing an understanding of the impact of internal influences on external behavior.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Traditions and assumptions of American foreign policy; analysis of post-World War II policy, including nuclear deterrence, foreign aid, and alliance policies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 110. This course delves into the philosophical and contextual underpinnings of human rights in order to create a framework for understanding the increasing importance of human rights in the international system.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examination of United States foreign policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean from the Monroe Doctrine to the Reagan Doctrine. Emphasis on the evolution and formulation of United States policy, national security, and foreign economic policy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines interactions between economic developments (domestic and external) and political changes (domestic and external). Begins with general views and then examines particular issues (e.g., trade, monetary, development, environmental).
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 110 or 120. Reviews several theories of the causes and dynamics of political violence. Includes an exploration of the ethical and moral issues concerning the proper role of government, the question of ends versus means, and the value of human existence.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 120. Examination of the theoretical and substantive relationships between politics and economics from a comparative perspective, including macroeconomic policy, economic influence on the vote, and political control of economic behavior.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: POLS 110 or 120. Intro to the contemporary politics of SE Asia. Focus on capitalist developing countries of the region - Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore. Approach is comparative, with focus on democratization, economic growth, and environmental issues.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 322
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Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 120. This course looks at the role of political parties for democracies and at ways parties represent interests in democracies. It combines general literature on parties and detailed study of a few countries.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines the contemporary political systems of Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece, including the topics of authoritarian rule, transition to democracy, reform of government institutions, and other issues.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 110 or 120. An introduction to the politics and governments of Eastern Europe from World War I to the present.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 120. Comparative examination of the contemporary political systems of democratic Europe.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 120. Focuses on the breakdown of the postwar consensus and its replacement by Thatcherism in 1979. Three topics receive detailed attention: race relations, territorial politics, and radical critiques of British democracy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 110 or 120. Examines politics of contemporary Japan, with stress on political bases of Japanese economic growth and in comparison with other East Asian economic successes (e.g., Taiwan, South Korea).
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 328
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Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 120. Provides a survey and analysis of ways states undergo transitions from authoritarian to democratic regimes. Emphasizes interplay of elite and social factors, and addresses relationship between political and economic reform.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines those political, social, and economic conditions necessary for the successful implementation of a democratic form of governance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Overview of the major political systems in Latin America; emphasis on patterns of authority; development of groups; the nature of institutions; political culture; forces of change; and the role of the state.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An analysis of the Mexican, Cuban, and Nicaraguan revolutions, with emphasis on the sources and consequences of political change.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 120. Institutions and processes of the European Union including issues of membership, federalism, regional cohesion, effectiveness, accountability, and identity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Politics of sub-Saharan Africa are examined, with emphasis on the major issues of social and political analysis as well as the African economic predicament and its political implications.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 334
- AAS 334
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Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 120. Surveys the main contemporary theories of ethnic mobilization and nation building. Discusses the relationship between ethnicity and nationalism, and examines ethnic conflict and ways of resolving and preventing it.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 120. This course discusses the contemporary Russian political system, including major institutions and processes. Reviews development and collapse of the U.S.S.R. and briefly examines developments in other newly independent successor states.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A broad introduction to the relationship between Islam and politics in twentieth-century Iran, the Middle East, and North Africa.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Political Science 120 is recommended but not required. Introduces students to critical issues in Middle East politics. Central themes include the colonial encounter, the rise of the authoritarian state, Israel and Palestine, and the rise of political Islam.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines the connection between political activity and environmental management. Focus ranges from regulatory activity to the environmental consequences of particular electoral forms of democratic governance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An introduction to the structure and behavior of the American presidency. Examines presidential elections, the organization of the office, and its relations with the other national political institutions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Constitutional responsibilities of the federal legislature. Effects of internal procedures and organization, external links, and member goals on congressional decisions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examination of how and why national, state, and local governments in the American federal system interact (or fail to interact) to resolve important public policy problems.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Theories of leadership. Cultural and structural factors that influence leadership in the American political system. Leadership in American political institutions (national, state, and local), interest groups, and social movements.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Party organization, candidate recruitment, political campaigning, and legislative parties as facets of the total political system. Effect of parties in differing national and cultural contexts in fostering or inhibiting democratic values and practices.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Comprehensive examination of African American politics and its critical influence upon the American political system. Civil rights and black power movements; the voting rights act and redistricting; African American political participation, attitudes, and governance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 346
-
The changing roles of the South in national politics since World War II, with attention to presidential elections, the two-party system, and the United States Congress.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Voter and candidate decision-making during primary and general elections, patterns of partisan support in the electorate, and factors affecting campaign strategy in American elections.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- POLS 208 or POLS_OX 208
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Comprehensive examination of the significance of race in the development of the American political system. Topics include Reconstruction, the civil rights movement, and the contemporary political attitudes and behavior of black and white Americans.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 100. Basic concepts of American law, judicial selection, the legal profession, court systems, and judicial behavior.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Course focuses on the Supreme Court as an institution. Legal, attitudinal, and strategic models are employed to examine the court's history and processes, and its role in the political system.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 100. Basic principles of the Constitution and powers of the national and state governments, examined through Supreme Court decisions and secondary works.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Personal liberties guaranteed by the United States Constitution, including freedom of speech, religion, assembly, petition; the right of privacy; the right against age, sex, race, or economic discrimination.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examination of the various stages of the criminal justice process in the United States and the constitutional rights accorded to the criminally accused.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Identifies and examines the ways in which the nonprofit sector has and continues to organize communities for political action, foster citizen participation, promote social responsibility, influence local elections, inform public policy, and critique government decisions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Explores of how federal budget decisions are made and how formal budget institutions and processes are interwoven with political dynamics. Course explains how the federal budget process has evolved and analyzes recent developments in key areas: entitlements, defense, deficit/surplus and reforms.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Overview of the role of gender in defining and shaping politics, political systems, political beliefs, political behavior, and public policy in the American and/or international context.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 357
-
Comprehensive analysis of legal issues relevant to women's status in society. Constitutional and statutory law addressed.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 358
-
History, ideas and personalities of American radicalism, including utopianism, socialism, the Industrial Workers of the World, communism, and the New Left. American reactions to radicalism, including McCarthyism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
How national public policies develop. Focus on who American governing actors and elites are, what they control, how they work together, and how issues thereby develop, recur, and evolve into policy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 377
-
Comprehensive overview of public administration in our American system of government. Focuses on organization of bureaucracies, theories explaining services provision, and implementation of laws, regulations, court decisions and policies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines how American executive branch agencies behave as organizations and how they relate in practice to the rest of the people in government and the nation.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The nature, sources, and consequences of Americans' political preferences and beliefs. Topics include public opinion research methods, political socialization, self interest, reference groups, and voting behavior.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Focusing primarily on politics in the United States, this course examines the important roles played by organized interest groups and broader social movements in democratic politics.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Structures and political processes of state and local governments. Emphasis on the roles of state and local governments in the American federal system.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Introduction and overview to the politics and governance of American cities. Emphasis is on understanding the relationships among governing structures, decision-making processes, and policy outcomes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Overview of major public policy problems confronting American urban areas today and the responses city, state, and national governments have made to address these problems. Policy areas covered include poverty, education, crime, housing, and community development.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Overview of the quantitative and qualitative methodologies employed by analysts in determining whether public programs and policies work. Attention is also given to research utilization and the role of analysis in the policymaking process.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Open only to undergraduate students by permission of the instructor. Additionally, this course is required for all students seeking to apply for the fellowship in Community Building and Social Change.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CBSC 370A
- SOC 370A
- ENVS 370A
-
Open only to students admitted as fellows in the program in Community Building and Social Change.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENVS 370B
- CBSC 370B
- SOC 370B
-
Open only to students admitted as fellows in the program in Community Building and Social Change.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENVS 370BW
- CBSC 370BW
- SOC 370BW
-
This course examines the science, history, politics and policy of nuclear weapons.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 110 or 120. Describes the manifold consequences of war to the individual, the state, and the international system; reviews a variety of theories of war consequences and explores the possible political and moral implications.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This class covers a variety of topics regarding the nature, causes, prosecution, and consequences of war. Specific topics discussed include counterinsurgency, deterrence, public opinion and war, economic development and war, democracy and war, civil-military relations, civil war, ethnicity and war.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- POLS 110 as pre-requisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This class covers a variety of topics regarding the nature, causes, prosecution, and consequences of war. Specific topics discussed include counterinsurgency, deterrence, public opinion and war, economic development and war, democracy and war, civil-military relations, civil war, ethnicity and war.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- POLS 110 as pre-requisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines contemporary Chinese politics, covering regime institutions and processes, policies and their effects, and the dynamics of political development, including Chinese Communist party and central government, as well as the role of subnational government.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 375
-
Suggested prerequisite: Political Science 120. Analysis of the contemporary Spanish political system, including its transition to democracy, political institutions, and governmental processes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Suggested prerequisite: Sociology 214 or 311 or Political Science 321, 324, 326, or 327. Comparative sociology of state social and economic politics in advanced industrial democracies, 1880 to present.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 378
-
An examination of political information as it is conveyed through music and music video/film art forms. Course fulfills an elective requirement for the political science major.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Influence of political institutions (e.g. democracy), domestic interests, external constraints (e.g. global value chains), and structural factors (e.g. natural resources) on various types of development (e.g. GDP growth, economic upgrading, poverty alleviation, green growth, human development).
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines the logic and exercise of violence in contemporary Asia, including insurgency, terrorism, intervention, political violence during decolonization, conflict between regional powers, & social mobilization in e.g. Afghanistan, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, and North Korea.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Course focuses on economic development in post-World War II dictatorships, emphasizing conceptual issues, typologies of dictatorships, dynamics of dictatorships, and benefits of democracy vs. dictatorship for development.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Progression of the conflict from the 19th century to the present is reviewed in a multidisciplinary manner. Topics include political history, communal disparities, and the various wars and their diplomatic outcomes.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 383
- JS 383
-
Focuses on the complexity of policy problems surrounding international environmental issues, the fragility of international environmental institutions, and specific policy problems such as free trade, sustainable development, population growth, climate change, and endangered species.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ENVS131, POLS 110
- Cross-Listed
- ENVS 377W
-
Introduction to the subject of justice in contemporary Anglo-American political theory. Its aim is to provide students with an understanding of the current state of the theoretical literature on justice as well as to enable them to engage in their own critical thinking about the topic.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Open only to students selected to participate in the department's Honors Program. Basic social science research methods and preparation of an honors thesis on some previously uninvestigated or insufficiently investigated area of political science. This course is required for completion of the Honors Program in political science.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Open only to students selected to participate in the department's Honors Program. Basic social science research methods and preparation of an honors thesis on some previously uninvestigated or insufficiently investigated area of political science. This course is required for completion of the Honors Program in political science.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Portuguese
-
This course will provide a firm foundation for understanding S??o Paulo's unique cultural identity in the Americas and for analyzing its history in a Brazilian and global context. The course it is designed to introduce students to key political and economic developmentsthat have influenced contemporary Brazil.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 330
-
This course will provide a firm foundation for understanding S??o Paulo's unique cultural identity in the Americas and for analyzing its history in a Brazilian and global context. The course it is designed to introduce students to key political and economic developments that have influenced contemporary Brazil.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 330W
Psychology
-
Introduction to social behavior, development, and individual differences.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- If PSYC_OX100 then NO PSYC111
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course will focus on the original key writings and research articles in the history of Western psychology Readings will be discussed from scientific, historical, cultural and philosophical perspectives and placed within the larger context of Western Thought.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Introduction to basic methods and design of psychological research in the areas of learning, memory, sensation, perception, personality, and social processes. Laboratory exercises and fundamentals of scientific writing are emphasized.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- PSYC 110/111/230
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Introduction to basic methods and design of psychological research in the areas of learning, memory, sensation, perception, personality, and social processes. Laboratory exercises and fundamentals of scientific writing are emphasized.
- Credit Hours
- 5
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- PSYC 110/111/230
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Theories and research concerned with the development of human cognition, personality, and social behavior from infancy through early adolescence.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Description, classification, causal factors, and treatment approaches of abnormal behavior in children and adolescents.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
A general survey course in social psychology which includes coverage of the following topics: moral development, competition, aggression, attraction and love, prejudice, discrimination, attitude change, and their relevance to contemporary social issues.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Research and theory concerning the way information about the world is acquired and remembered.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Theories and research examining the development of gender roles from infancy through adulthood.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The application of psychological inventory methods to the study of developmental changes in family dynamics and structures, patterns of family interaction and communication, systems for classifying family
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- PSYC 110/111/230
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines the remarkable changes infants undergo during the first three years of life. Topics include: pregnancy, child birth, motor skills, perception, brain, memory, language, cognitive, social and emotional development.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Key concepts of several major theories of personality and their application to the study of the individual, along with techniques available for the assessment of personality.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Use of principles of behavior to enhance human functioning. Application of basic research and theory from experimental psychology to personal, social, and educational problems.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Quantitative Theory and Methods
-
An interdisciplinary exploration of digital tools for analyzing and visualizing data in the humanities and social sciences.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 446
- LING 446
-
An interdisciplinary exploration of digital tools for analyzing and visualizing data in the humanities and social sciences.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 446W
- SOC 446W
Russian, E European, Eurasian
-
This class will examine the transformation of Central Asia's ancient cultures by Russian imperialism, Soviet domination and post-Soviet globalization. Topics include settler colonialism, revolution, the eradication of nomadism, the attack on Islam, and the rise of urban, industrialism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 328
-
This class will examine the transformation of Central Asia's ancient cultures by Russian imperialism, Soviet domination and post-Soviet globalization. Topics include settler colonialism, revolution, the eradication of nomadism, the attack on Islam, and the rise of urban, industrialism.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 328W
Religion
-
An exploration of diverse ways of being religious (for example, in thought, action, community, and experience) as they are displayed in several traditions and cultures.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Variety of subjects pertaining to religion at an introductory level. Content will vary in successive offerings. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Variety of subjects pertaining to religion at an introductory level. Content will vary in successive offerings. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Religion and contemporary issues of human existence, the role of religion in politics and international conflicts, or the nature of contemporary religious movements such as fundamentalism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An examination of American religious history and culture from the colonial period to the present.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines western religions over a significant span of history, special emphasis on interactions between culture and religion and between religions; topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Thematic study of at least two Asian religious traditions. Thematic emphasis may include relationships of text and context, pilgrimage, gender, epic performance, religious institutions, visual arts, or colonial and post-colonial identities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 212
-
Introduction to the religions of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds: ritual types, forms of evidence, and methods of investigation, from the Bronze Age to the early Christian era.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- CL 215
-
Everyday life in ancient Israel (1200-586 BCE), including the economy, religion and culture, city planning, the Israelite kitchen, burials, status of women, and more.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 251
- JS 251
-
Everyday life in ancient Israel (1200-586 BCE), including the economy, religion and culture, city planning, the Israelite kitchen, burials, status of women, and more.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 251W
- JS 251W
-
A careful examination of theory and methodology related to this branch of archaeology with special emphasis on famous discoveries, important sites, and the archaeological/historical background of Biblical events.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 250
- JS 250
-
Summer. Excavations in the Middle East, especially with the Summer Abroad Program affiliated with the Lahav Research Project at Tell Halif.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 259R
- JS 259R
-
Variety of subjects pertaining to religion. Content will vary in successive offerings. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- HAP / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Variety of subjects pertaining to religion. Content will vary in successive offerings. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- HAPW / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Critical exploration of philosophical, theological, ethical, and social science theories of religions and methods for the interpretation of religious phenomena.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Hindu religious traditions from prehistorical times to the eighteenth century, including classical texts, rituals, ethical and social structures, institutions, and theologies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Hindu religious traditions from prehistorical times to the eighteenth century, including classical texts, rituals, ethical and social structures, institutions, and theologies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Historical survey of religion in India, 1756 to the present, focusing on the impact of British colonial and post-colonial settings on diverse religions in India and among Indians living abroad.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Hinduism in the modern period, from the early nineteenth century to the present, focusing on religious communities, rituals, modes of leadership, and the contemporary internationalization of Hinduism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Introduction to the practices, doctrines, literature and institutions of Buddhism, with particular focus on contemplative practices, ethics and methods of philosophical investigation, narrative traditions, and the transformation of Buddhism across cultures.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Introduction to philosophical, psychological, and contemplative dimensions of Tibetan Buddhism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The development of Buddhism in China and Japan, including examination of monasticism, ritual, ideas of Buddhahood, Zen, Pure Land, and Buddhist relations to the state and to other religions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 317
-
Explores the rituals and practices of Judaism, placing them in their historical context and examining the theological concepts that underpin them.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 308
-
Modern Jewish history, society, and thought, with emphasis on religious and secular reformulations of Jewish self-identity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 309
-
This seminar focuses on modern Buddhist history, society, and thought. Issues addressed may include colonization, women's ordination, meditation movements, conversion, eco-Buddhism, immigration, and globalization.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Christianity from the apostolic period through the Middle Ages, with emphasis on the contribution of major theologians.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Christianity from the apostolic period through the Middle Ages, with emphasis on the contribution of major theologians.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Representative types of modern Christianity, beginning with the Reformation in Germany and concluding with contemporary issues.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examination of major social, ethical, and theological issues confronting post-Vatican II Catholicism, including the intellectual and historical roots of contemporary debates.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examination of major social, ethical, and theological issues confronting post-Vatican II Catholicism, including the intellectual and historical roots of contemporary debates.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
The Qur'an in translation, from historical and literary perspectives, looking at its use in Islam, its language, stylistics, modes of narrative, and its relationship to Jewish, Christian, and Arabian traditions.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 315
-
The Qur'an in translation, from historical and literary perspectives, looking at its use in Islam, its language, stylistics, modes of narrative, and its relationship to Jewish, Christian, and Arabian traditions.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 315W
-
This course is a survey of the major issues in the history, religion, culture, and civilization of the Islamic world in the pre-modern period.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 316
-
This course is a survey of the major issues in the history, religion, culture, and civilization of the Islamic world in the pre-modern period.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 316W
-
This seminar analyzes the problem of Islam in modern history and focuses on religious responses to major events. Issues may include secularism and Post-Enlightenment modernism, reform movements, and Islamic liberalism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 317
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This course studies Islam through a legal lens. We explore the main sources of the Shari'a, and study examples of each in the spheres of ritual, criminal, family, and civil law. We also examine how tensions between law, morality, pragmatism, custom, and politics spur Islamic legal development.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 318
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This course studies Islam through a legal lens. We explore the main sources of the Shari'a, and study examples of each in the spheres of ritual, criminal, family, and civil law. We also examine how tensions between law, morality, pragmatism, custom, and politics spur Islamic legal development.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 318W
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Study of several Native American religious traditions in their historical contexts, with a focus on ritual, cosmology, and social life.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Development of religion among African Americans; trends and tendencies.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 320R
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Development of religion among African Americans; trends and tendencies.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 320RW
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Examination of religious existence and its relation to various aspects of human life by approaches developed in major traditions of psychological study.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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The relation of sexuality and the sacred in symbolism, attitudes and practice; authentic human communion; and specific problems of sexual ethics.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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The relation of sexuality and the sacred in symbolism, attitudes and practice; authentic human communion; and specific problems of sexual ethics.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Understanding death through a study of religious attitudes and practices, modern therapies for the dying, ethical issues, and Western and Asian theological perspectives.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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An analysis of the sociopolitical background and the horror of the Holocaust, followed by the popular as well as the theological responses of the Jewish and Christian communities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 324
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"Explores historical & contemporary notions of love with emphasis on love's powerful & controversial presence/absence in the lives of Black people in the North American context. Readings include religious studies, philosophical, historical, literary, social scientific and neurobiological texts."
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 325
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This course explores Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as well as other religious groups in the Holy Land on location. In Israel. In English. No knowledge of Hebrew required.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 327
- MESAS 327
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Cross-cultural ethnographic study of women's religious lives, including ritual and leadership roles, forms and contexts of religious expression, and negotiations between dominant cultural representations and women's self-representations.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 328
- WGS 328
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Cross-cultural ethnographic study of women's religious lives, including ritual and leadership roles, forms and contexts of religious expression, and negotiations between dominant cultural representations and women's self-representations.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 328W
- WGS 328W