2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog

May 10, 2024

2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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	RELG 1000 - Introduction to Religion Hours: 4 This course is an introduction to the academic study of religion. It treats religion as a significant phenomenon in the historical development of humanity, and therefore as a subject worthy of serious critical investigation. The course approaches religion from standpoints derived from a number of disciplines (including history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and comparative religions), and takes into account a wide variety of perspectives on the subject, even those of such radical critics of religion as Freud, Marx, and Richard Dawkins. The course examines both the practical and the conceptual aspects of religion, and considers such important issues as the origins and development of religion; similarities and differences between Eastern and Western types of religion; varieties of religious experience and expression (including symbol, myth, ritual, community, and ethics); and the relationship between religion and contemporary life, science, sexuality, the occult, dreams, and belief in life after death.
	RELG 1300 - Philosophy of Religion Hours: 4 This course begins with a survey of the various ways human beings understand the nature of the Ultimate, among them: theism, polytheism, deism, monism, pantheism, and kathenotheism. In addition, it addresses a variety of questions about religious belief: arguments for and against the existence of God, the nature of religious faith and mystical experience, the problem of evil, the conflict between belief in miracles and the scientific world view, reasons for accepting and rejecting the notion of life after death. While courses of this sort typically confine themselves to Western and theistic concerns, students can expect a much more global approach to this topic in this course.
	RELG 2150 - History of Modern Christianity Hours: 4 This course is a survey of Christian institutional and intellectual history from the Reformation to the present day. The institutional history of Christianity involves issues such as: How did the Christian church change during and after the Reformation? How did the various denominations of modern Christianity begin, and how did they spread? The intellectual history deals with the important ideas connected with these historical developments, for instance the response of Christian theologians to the Enlightenment, the beliefs of Christian Liberalism and Fundamentalism, and the Liberation Theologies that appeared in the last half of the twentieth century. The course balances these historical and theological issues with detailed examinations of the lives and thought of important Christian theologians. Students need not have any background in Christianity to do well in this course. The textbooks and the lectures all presume that the student has very little knowledge of Christianity. In addition to lectures, films and class discussions are used to present the course material. Notes: Beginning Fall Semester 2012 (not retroactive), for all students except those majoring in Nursing, this course may be used as a substitute for the INST Reflection and Responsibility requirement.
	RELG 2200 - Religion in America Hours: 4 This course surveys religion in America by examining both major and minor traditions, movements, persons, and ideas that have made significant impact on the spiritual landscape of the United States from pre-Columbian times to the present. Key themes to be addressed in the course include: the roots of American Judaism and Catholicism; the origins and dominance of Protestantism; the rise of pluralism and denominationalism; the sources and persistence of Liberalism; the impact of the American frontier on religious structures; the importance of rational religion (e.g., Deism) at the nation’s founding; the religious significance of the “Manifest Destiny” idea; the emergence and spread of revivalism; the rise and proliferation of America’s many and diverse indigenous Christian denominations; the Social Gospel; Fundamentalism; immigrant religions of the late 20th and early 21st centuries; and so-called New Age spirituality. Notes: Except for Nursing majors, this course may be used as a substitute for the INST Reflection and Responsibility (INST 2200’s) requirement.
	RELG 2300 - Introduction to Judaism and the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Hours: 4 This introductory course will consist of two major components of the study of Judaism: a concentration on the stories of the ancient Israelites that come to us in the form of the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament and the complex world of modern Judaism. The world of ancient Near Eastern literature will form the background of a discussion about the origins and development of early Jewish monotheism. The question of the “historicity” of Israel will also be considered as we study historical-critical methods for understanding ancient texts. Contemporary issues in the land of Israel-Palestine will be discussed and a visit to Temple Israel will be scheduled. Notes: Except for Nursing majors, this course may be used as a substitute for the INST Reflection and Responsibility (INST 2200’s) requirement.
	RELG 2400 - Introduction to the New Testament/Christian Origins - Writing Intensive Hours: 4 An introductory study of the major theological insights of the twenty-seven writings of the canonical New Testament as well as other manuscripts from early Christian origins. The focus will be on the streams of apostolic tradition that influenced the writers of these works, the communities in which they lived, and the issues that were addressed. In addition, the relationship of the canon as an authoritative collection of sacred books will be compared to extra-canonical writings resulting in an awareness of the variety of methods used to interpret religious texts as well as the diversity reflected in early Christian literature. Notes: Except for Nursing majors, this course may be used as a substitute for the INST Reflection and Responsibility (INST 2200’s) requirement.
	RELG 2500 - The Muslim Faith and Its Place in the Modern World Hours: 4 This course examines Islam, the fastest growing religion in the world, and now (according to some) the second largest in the United States. Islam’s key scripture, the Qur’an, will be read and analyzed with respect to recurring themes, and the beliefs, practices and history of Islam will be examined in light of its major expressions, Sunni and Shi’a, but with some attention paid the faith’s mystical minority, the Sufis. The course will also examine the role that this faith has played in the politics of the United States and the world community, particularly in the wake of the relaxation of immigration policies in the mid-1960s, the World Trade Center attack on 9/11/01, and the subsequent U.S.-led military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. The format of the course will combine lectures, outside readings, multimedia presentations, guest speakers, and in-class discussions.
	RELG 2600 - Introduction to Buddhism Hours: 4 This course will introduce students to the basic ideas, history and practices of the Buddhist tradition. We will begin by considering the Buddha’s life story and the doctrines he espoused. Following this, the course will examine the historical development of the many forms of Buddhism in Asia and, more recently, the west. Finally, the course will look at the role meditation, philosophy, morality and other ‘technologies of enlightenment’ play in Buddhism. This course serves as a general introduction to the Buddhist tradition and provides the necessary background for advanced study of Buddhist thought, history and practice.
	RELG 3100 - Paul and His Letters Hours: 4 The letters of Paul and the several letters written in his name after his death, as well as one sermon mistakenly ascribed to Paul, constitute nearly half of the writings of the New Testament. Moreover, Paul is the hero of the Acts of the Apostles. Therefore, Paul, as a man and a theologian, dominates the New Testament and was a major force in the development of Christian thought as we know it. This course will emphasize how to understand each letter in its original context and situation, and as gathered into a Pauline collection and then into the Bible. We will also study the writings’ use of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and relationship to their times. We will pay particular attention to what the letters and the Acts have to tell us about Paul himself, what they reveal about developing Christian churches in his time and how they present the theological ideas for which Paul is not only our earliest Christian representative, but also a most popular component of modern Christian thought and practice. Notes: Paired with INST 4100 to fulfill the dyad requirement.
	RELG 3150 - History of Early Christianity Hours: 4 This course is a survey of the rise and expansion of Christianity from the beginning of the second century to the Reformation, and it details both the institutional and the intellectual history of the Christian Church during those centuries. Institutional history involves questions such as: When and how did the Papacy first appear? What events precipitated the Protestant Reformation? Intellectual history focuses on the important theological ideas one finds in early Christianity such as how did early Christian thinkers understand the nature of the soul, the imperfection of the physical world, and human sinfulness? The course balances these historical and theological issues with detailed examinations of the lives and thought of important Christian theologians. Students need not have any background in Christianity to do well in this course. The textbooks and the lectures all presume that the student has very little knowledge of Christianity.
	RELG 3200 - Life and Teachings of Jesus Hours: 4 A study of the ancient communities of faith that describe the earthly life of Jesus. This course seeks to identify the distinctive raw materials that the gospel writers used in their stories and to investigate both the social context and the political history that are reflected in each gospel. The Gospel of Thomas and other extra-canonical gospels such as the Gospel of Mary and Gospel of Judas will also be considered. A distinction between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith will be central to the discussion. Topics of study include biblical scholarship, historical concerns and theological interpretations surrounding the figure of Jesus, and modern challenges to traditional religious faith and practice. Notes: Paired with INST 4100 to fulfill the dyad requirement.
	RELG 3300 - Native American Religions Hours: 4 This course is a survey of the recorded world views, spiritual beliefs and practices of Native American Indians. Students should be aware that Native Americans are deeply concerned that many of their ceremonies and traditions have been shamelessly exploited and distorted by non-natives, and that the course has been designed to be as sensitive and respectful as possible to these issues. Topics covered during the term include the catastrophic results of European entry into the Americas, ancient Indian civilizations, the ways various Native American cultures understand the world around them, beliefs about the Creator and other spiritual beings, beliefs about life after death The course concludes with intentionally general descriptions of Native American ceremonies and myths with examples drawn from specific cultures. In the belief that Native American voices are crucial to a course like this one, roughly half of the term is devoted to films in which Native Americans share what they can about their cultures and beliefs. Most of these films are produced by Native Americans. In addition, there are Native American guest speakers in the class. Notes: Paired with HIST 4310 or INST 4035 to fulfill the dyad requirement.
	RELG 3400 - Buddhism and Daoism in Dialogue Hours: 4 When Buddhism was introduced to China, sometime around the second century CE, it encountered a culture with strong Daoist roots. As these two traditions developed over the ensuing centuries, each contributed to the other, so that by the end Daoism came to embody many Buddhist practices, and vice versa. This course will track the history of this interaction, from its first moments to the present day. We will address ways in which these traditions influenced each other, as well as moments of sometimes violent antagonism. Throughout, the emphasis will be on understanding the forces that shape a religious tradition, be those theological influences from alternate traditions, competition for cultural and financial resources or shifting political forces. While the focus of the course will be on the Buddhist and Daoism traditions of China, the intellectual tools we develop can be also be applied to other traditions as well. Some background in the Buddhist and Daoist traditions is desirable, but not required.
	RELG 3600 - Weaving Women’s Mythologies: Ancient and Modern Hours: 4 This course examines with a consciousness of gender and with an acute awareness of multiple cultures the international myths, goddesses, and heroines that make up the spinning and weaving of our mythological heritage and cultures. We will acquaint ourselves with and gain a broader understanding and appreciation of the power of myth in our world cultures, specifically the role that female-centered mythologies have played in the status and role of women throughout history. Since the goddess can be known only indirectly, we will attempt to find her by observing the different forms she takes in rituals, statues, paintings, hymns, buildings, and, most importantly, myths and stories. As the theistic male god is being challenged more and more in today’s scientific world, the attractiveness of recovering the goddess figure as maiden/mother/crone will be examined. An end result will hopefully be that of stretching one’s mind about definitions, attributes, and the contributions of myth. Notes: This course is also included in the Women’s Studies Minor.
	RELG 3700 - Women and Religion Hours: 4 This course explores the status and roles that women have played and continue to play in the religions of the world and to historically reconstruct their unrecorded roles. Major texts will be examined in an attempt to recover the lost female voices of the great religious traditions: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, pagan, ancient, African and other indigenous. This is a polymethodic, interdisciplinary and multitraditional course in which the horizons and perspectives of women’s status, role and image in society are expanded. In grappling with the many questions this course will raise, one result may be that of discovering implications for understanding oneself, whether female or male.
	RELG 3800 - Special Topics in Religion Hours: 4 This course is an advanced seminar on a specific topic in the study of religion. While the topic itself will vary, the purpose remains the same: to take on a specific issue within the field of religious studies and examine it in a seminar format. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on this topic and its importance at length, leading to a detailed, complex understanding. Notes: Course is repeatable for credit so long as the specific topic is different.
	RELG 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4 Opportunity for work in topics of special interest; by initiative of student and agreement of instructor. Intended to guide students in discussion and independent research in areas of philosophical thought.
	RELG 4000 - Seminar in Religion - Writing Intensive Hours: 4 This course is designed to give students an opportunity to study, in a deep and sustained way, some particular topic in religious studies that is of interest to them. As students move through the semester, they will gain greater knowledge of that topic, greater expertise as writers and researchers, and will be provided with opportunities to present their work in a public setting. Students will leave the course with a highly polished piece of writing and a greater facility with the craft of academic work. Notes: This course is required for Religion majors though it is open to non-majors with permission of the instructor.
	RELG 4900 - Internship Hours: 1-16 Internships are available to majors upon submission of documents described on the internship website of the Center for Career and Professional Development. They are arranged individually usually with local organizations, agencies or companies. Permission of instructor and department chairperson required.
	SLD 1000 - Exploring Majors, Internships, and Careers Hours: 2 This course serves as an introductory career development course and to assist students with understanding how their interests, values, skills, personality, and self-concept relate to decisions regarding academic, career and life planning. Topics will include analyzing personal career interests, values, and abilities; surveying and researching occupational interests; practicing the decision-making process; discussing the importance of internships and how to make the most out of the experience; and learning basic job search skills such as developing resumes and cover letters and practicing networking and interviewing.
	SLD 2000 - The Helping Relationship Hours: 0 or 2 This course is designed for students who will be applying to be a Resident Assistant. Topics include social issues, communication, mediation, diversity, and counseling skills. Active participation and a willingness to examine one’s own values and leadership style are required. The class objectives will provide you with practical based opportunities to learn about community development, helping skills, social issues/justice, and much more to be a well-developed student leader. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required.
	SLD 2100 - History and Leadership in Fraternities and Sororities Hours: 2 A study of personal leadership practices within student organizations affiliated with the fraternity/sorority community. Through activities, assignments and discussions, students will enhance their leadership skills and community involvement.
	SLD 2200 - The Peer Mentor Experience Hours: 2 This course is for students serving as Peer Mentors in the First Year Experience program. Students will learn about first year student transitions, support resources on campus, and how to successfully connect and coach peers to success. Students will also serve as resources and connections to First Year Seminar instructors and assist in the implementation of co-curricular programming. The course does not meet regularly, but the students will fulfill their obligations to the course through individualized learning agreements. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required.
	SLD 2300 - Serve the City Practicum: The Role of the Citizen Scholar Hours: 1-4 Students will examine local community issues (e.g, hunger, immigration, poverty, environmental degradation, and human inequalities) through a social justice lens as they explore their own responsibility as both a citizen and a scholar. Topics of exploration include decreasing social capital, the soul of a citizen, the call for service, and civic engagement. Students will actively participate in the community through service-learning residencies at local schools, non-profits, and government agencies. Students will be trained in advocacy, leadership, community-organizing, and cross-cultural skills before moving out into the non-profit sector. Weekly on-line reflection seminars will promote critical thinking, problem solving, and the development of civic competencies, advocacy skills, and a renewed sense social responsibility.
	SLD 2400 - Exploring Diversity: Developing Intercultural Competency Hours: 2 With the goal of increasing intercultural competency, students will explore their own attitudes about diversity while enhancing their knowledge and comprehension of the many forms that diversity takes in our society. In this course students will be introduced and have the opportunity to practice and apply skills that will help them successfully navigate the complexities of diversity.
	SLD 2500 - Guiding the New Student Transition Hours: 0, 1 or 2 This course is designed for students who will be serving as orientation leaders. Topics include communication, student development theory, diversity, personal leadership, personal strengths and values. Active participation and a willingness to examine one’s own values and leadership style are required. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Notes: Course is repeatable for credit.
	SMGT 1400 - Sport Law and Governance Hours: 4 An overview of the legal aspects related to the sport and recreation environments. Areas of study include constitutional law, legislative enactments, and case laws related to sport and the administration of sport programs; contracts, labor agreements, product liability, tort law, and risk management. Students will become aware of the rights of participants, athletes, coaches, managers, referees, and others engaged in amateur and professional sport. Case studies based on lower court decisions are identified and discussed. This course will also take an in-depth look at the various agencies that govern international, professional, collegiate, scholastic, and recreational sports. Students will develop an understanding of various sport governing agencies authority and functions, requirements necessary to become a member of the sport league/organization, rules and regulations of each sport governing body; and current issues and future trends for each governing agency.
	SMGT 1800 - Professional Perspectives in Sport Management Hours: 4 An introductory course where the students are oriented to the academic and professional field of sport management and given a realistic glimpse into the challenges and opportunities that exist within the world of sport and sport-related organizations. Historical and current trends in the field as well as sport facility and event management, sport marketing and promotion, sport finance and economics, sport sociology, psychology, and communication; sport media, professional, collegiate, and international sport, ethics in sport and sport-related governing bodies are examined. In addition, students will develop networking skills and partake in experiential learning exercises.
	SMGT 2500 - Sociology and Psychology of Sport Hours: 4 A course designed to examine the interplay and impact of various sociological groups’ behaviors and individual psychological profiles upon Domestic and International sport. Regarding the psychological aspect of the course, both individual and team psychological behaviors are examined. Topics include the psychology of competition, motivation, leadership, and aggression, anxiety, performance enhancement, character development, and sportsmanship. As for the sociological aspect of the course, students are introduced to the role of sport in society including issues in politics, economics, women’s concerns, sexism, racism, religion, and media and social problems for athletes. Notes: This course has an additional fee.
	SMGT 2900 - Practicum in Sport Management Hours: 4 This seminar, combined with field experience, will provide students the opportunity to apply theories, concepts, and terminology into a practical experience in the field of sport management. Under the direction of the course instructor, students will complete 210 hours in a combined classroom (50/210 hours) and sport industry setting (160/210 hours). Students will be provided with a mentor and colleagues to learn about management, leadership, decision making, communication, customer service, etc. and to develop as a future professional in the field. Prerequisites: SMGT 1800; Sophomore Standing; 2.7 GPA. Notes: This course has an additional fee.
	SMGT 3550 - Finance and Economics of Sport Hours: 4 The financial concepts and theories and their application in the professional, collegiate, recreational and commercial sport industries. Topics include revenue and expenses of professional, collegiate, and private sport industries; issues affecting these revenues and expenses; merchandising and fundraising at the intercollegiate level; ownership in sport, and public and private funding for non-profit sports programs. The course also discusses how economic theory applies to sport and recreation and includes topics such as cost and market structures of professional sport, the economics of stadiums and arenas, and the economic impact of sport teams on a local economy. Prerequisites: ACCT 2000, ECON 2100. Notes: This course has an additional fee.
	SMGT 3600 - Fundraising in Sport Hours: 4 Fundraising and development is an important growth area within Sport Management. Behind every good athletic program is an effective fund raising and development program. Continued financial support is needed from existing donors, and new support is eagerly sought. This course is designed to expose the student to strategic and comprehensive fundraising management principles and practices with an emphasis on intercollegiate athletics at all levels. Topics will include prospect identification, information management, relationship management, and major gift programs. The course will also cover grantsmanship and grant-writing as well as planned giving and capital campaigns. Prerequisites: SMGT 1800 and SMGT 3800. Notes: This course has an additional fee.
	SMGT 3800 - Organization and Management of Sport Hours: 4 This course presents the foundations of the history, theory, and applications of organizational behavior including personality, stress, motivation, job design, delegating, change management, behavior modification, group behavior, power, leadership, organizational structure, strategic planning, organizational effectiveness, management ethics, and decision making in sport-related settings. This course provides an in-depth analysis of the sport industry with special emphasis given to the sport manager’s roles and functions of planning, organizing, leading, controlling, staffing, directing, and evaluating, etc. Emphasis is also placed on the management of personnel, facilities, finances and the related legal issues that apply to sport and recreational activities. Prerequisites: Open to junior and senior departmental majors or permission of instructor. Notes: This course has an additional fee.
	SMGT 3850 - Sport Marketing Hours: 4 A course that focuses on the application of marketing principles and practices to the sport industry. Theoretical and practical applications of marketing professional and collegiate sports are examined. Consideration is given to marketing sport, both as a spectator and participatory activity. This course explores the marketing process relative to sports in collegiate, recreational, commercial, and professional environments. Topics include SWOT analysis, market research techniques, identifying target markets and market segmentation, distribution, packaging, promotional developments and strategies, positioning, pricing, and advertising. Unique aspects of sport marketing and applying marketing concepts to sport as a product and the promotion of sports activities is discussed. Students will understand sport consumer behavior, sponsorship, licensing, and media relations. Prerequisites: SMGT 1800, ECON 2100. Notes: This course has an additional fee.
	SMGT 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4 This course affords sport management students the opportunity to engage in a minimum of 240 hours of non-classroom learning and/or career exploration under the supervision of a qualified individual. Students are expected to analyze critically and evaluate their practical experiences in light of their coursework and career plans. Prerequisites: SMGT 2900; Sophomore standing, minimum GPA of 2.7 and permission of instructor.
	SMGT 3920 - Event Planning - Writing Intensive Hours: 4 This experiential course introduces students to special event planning, processes, and management practices. Students will develop the skills necessary to manage virtually any aspect of a sporting or special event, including contingency plans, logistics, working with vendors, financing, ticketing and admissions, seating design and controls, sponsor and supplier agreements, risk management and insurance, marketing events and licensed merchandise; finding sponsorships, working with governmental agencies, scheduling, and evaluation. Students are provided with actual, hands-on experience volunteering at sport, fitness, or recreational-related events, and are directly involved with planning, organizing, managing, and evaluating a special event during the semester. Prerequisites: SMGT 1800 and 3800. Notes: This course has an additional fee.
	SMGT 3930 - Sport Facility Design and Management Hours: 3 The purpose of this course is to provide students with the knowledge, understanding, and competence required for the management of a sport, fitness, recreation, or public assembly facility (including auditoriums, convention centers, high school and college arenas and stadiums; bowling alleys, health clubs, sportsplexes, parks, race tracks, speedways, natatoriums, etc.). The course focuses on elements of planning, designing, constructing, equipping, operating, staffing, scheduling, financing, marketing, and managing a facility; while examining functions related to maintenance, security, risk management, concessions, merchandising, and evaluation. The course also emphasizes problem solving utilizing class discussions, case studies, interviews with facility management professionals and facility site visitations as feasible. Prerequisites: SMGT 1800 and 3800. Notes: This course has an additional fee.
	SMGT 4800 - Principles and Practices of Sport Management - Writing Intensive Hours: 4 A reflective study of the underlying principles and the nature of sport as it relates to the issues and trends of contemporary sport in our culture. This is a reading intensive course that initially focuses on ethics, then explores current topics in management that students will be able to apply as they begin their careers as (sport) managers. Topics include ethics, decision-making, business philosophy, civility in the workplace, and career fulfillment, etc. This course serves as a capstone course of the student’s professional development. Prerequisites: SMGT 3800; Open to seniors only.
	SMGT 4900 - Sport Management Internship Hours: 1-16 This course is the culminating field experience where students work full-time for a minimum of 14 weeks with a site supervisor in an approved sport-related business organization. Students are exposed to organizational structures and functions, gain additional work experience, enhance their employability skills, etc. This course provides the sport management students with 540 supervised hours of well-planned and organized practical experience in an area of their career interest. Students elect 12 credit hours, submit a written proposal, and seek approval by an HSS Department faculty member. Internships are done within 1 academic semester and are available in recreation, athletics, corporate fitness centers, athletic clubs, professional sports, country clubs, etc. Prerequisites: SMGT 2900; Senior standing required. Open to majors only who have minimum GPA of 2.7. Notes: Students must obtain a SMGT 4900 Sport Management Internship Guidelines Manual and apply one term in advance of the internship.
	SOAN 3000 - Social Research Methods - Writing Intensive Hours: 4 A study of the basic quantitative and qualitative methods used in contemporary research in social sciences. The course covers research design, methods of data collection, sampling techniques, probability theory, data analysis, ethical issues in research, and writing the research report. Prerequisites: SOCL 1000; or ANTH 1000 and MATH 1240. Notes: Sociology majors must earn a grade of C or better.
	SOAN 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4 Course designed to provide an opportunity to engage in independent study in an area not otherwise available. Prerequisites: Faculty member who will supervise.
	SOAN 4000 - Sociological and Anthropological Social Theory - Writing Intensive Hours: 4 This course provides in depth study of the fundamental perspectives that historically and presently shape the foundation of sociological and anthropological inquiry and research. Students learn about the origin of the disciplines, central debates in the field, the production of knowledge in the field and the continually evolving state of Sociology and Anthropology. Prerequisites: SOCL 1000 or ANTH 1000 and junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. Notes: Sociology majors must earn a grade of C or better.
	SOCL 1000 - Introductory Sociology Hours: 4 This introduction to the sociology presents basic concepts such as structure, culture and the organization of societies. Students are introduced to the interaction of major social institutions such as family, education, politics, religion, economy and work, and health and medicine. The presence of inequality in class, race, gender, age and sexual orientation is considered. Also featured are sociological theories, research methods and critical analysis of domestic and global society.
	SOCL 1200 - Sociological Practice in Human and Community Service Hours: 4 This course introduces students to the major human needs and related social issues around which communities organize and will examine the myriad ways communities, organizations, and public policies respond to such issues. Students will be introduced to several organizations and groups individually or in teams to explore their structures, perspectives, and strategies for service.
	SOCL 2000 - Social Problems Hours: 4 This course provides an overview of the sociological approach to the study of selected social problems in local, national, and global contexts. Course content includes a critical analysis of the political economy, an exploration of the processes by which difference is redefined as deviance, and an overview of the institutional and individual sources of inequality. Topics for review range across issues such as environmental degradation, racism, sexism, homophobia, poverty, health care crises, immigration, and substance abuse.
	SOCL 2040 - Sociology of Gender Hours: 4 This course explores the social institutions and cultural norms governing gender relations. Structural inequalities informed by gender, as well as forms of sexism, are reviewed in a variety of cultural and social groups, with a special emphasis on the unequal consequences of gendered social expectations. The course will examine the changing roles of gender and sexuality in major institutions such as education, media, government, politics, religion, the economy, and family life. Guest speakers, films, research, and theory will be included.
	SOCL 2050 - The Criminal Justice System Hours: 4 The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the complex realities of the modern American criminal justice system. The course focuses on similarities among the wide variety of local, state, and federal justice systems, and tries to illustrate some of the differences, paying special attention to the role of class and race in the operations of these systems. Comparison with justice systems around the world will be an on-going concern. We will use recent cases, readings, discussions, and direct experience to help us in this. Some outside-of-class experiences will be required. Prerequisites: SOCL 1000 or ANTH 1000.
	SOCL 2060 - Environmental Sociology Hours: 4 Constructs a framework for the study of how cultures and societies influence, and in turn are shaped, by the natural environment. This course examines the natural environment as it relates nationally and globally to culture, societal organization, and social, economic and political policies. Students integrate course knowledge in collaborative local projects to advance sustainability in the community.
	SOCL 3020 - Sociology of Family Diversity Hours: 4 This seminar investigates the diversity of contemporary families through an examination of relevant research and theory. The links between families and the economy, as well as changing family structures and gender patterns are analyzed. Films, speakers, and a variety of multimedia approaches may be included. Prerequisites: SOCL 1000 or permission of instructor.
	SOCL 3030 - Poverty, Wealth, & Inequality Hours: 4 This seminar is designed to explore the paradox that lies in the persistence of poverty in the United States, one of the wealthiest nations in the world. The course will reflect on the ways in which poverty and social class in the United States are informed by other structures of inequality such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, national origin, and citizenship status. In order to do so, we will review a number of perspectives on the ways the institutional structures that drive socioeconomic inequality impact access to resources and “life chances” for both groups and individuals. Both historical and comparative perspectives will be employed to examine U.S. public policies designed to address systemic socioeconomic inequalities (such as cash assistance, social security, unemployment insurance, parental leave, and health care policy). The various ways poverty intersects with family concerns and influences outcomes at various stages in the life cycle are central points of inquiry. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or higher.
	SOCL 3040 - Global Social Change Hours: 4 Students examine the forces that shape global patterns and effects of social change such as globalization, environmental issues and the increasing gap between the global north and global south. Special attention is devoted to theoretical perspectives that illuminate and explain change and the variety of global response to such change. Case studies and team service projects incorporate course knowledge and draw attention to the ways that global change manifests on the local level. Prerequisites: SOCL 1000 or permission of instructor.
	SOCL 3050 - Criminology Hours: 4 Types of criminal behavior, theoretical explanations of crime, victimization, and society’s responses to crime will be explored. Prerequisites: SOCL 1000 or ANTH 1000, or permission of instructor. Prior completion of SOCL 2050 or SOCL 2070 is recommended.
	SOCL 3060 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Hours: 4 This course examines racial and ethnic relations in national and global society. Students are introduced to the unique histories of numerous cultural groups and theories and cultural dynamics of prejudice and intergroup relations. Historical and contemporary patterns of discrimination are explored in law, education, employment, housing, health and the media. Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing, or permission of instructor.
	SOCL 3070 - Corrections Hours: 4 In this course students will build upon theories and concepts introduced in introductory sociology, criminology, social justice and other related courses as they explore the corrections system in the broader context of the American and international criminal justice systems. Students will become familiar with the history, unfolding philosophy, institutions, institutional operations and problems facing the American criminal justice system in a globally comparative context. This course places significant emphasis on maintaining a historical, sociological perspective of the American corrections and criminal justice system in the emergent global context of corrections.
	SOCL 3100 - Human and Community Service: Organizing Across Race, Class, Gender and Age Hours: 4 This seminar examines the ways in which axes of social difference both divide and unite individuals and communities. Students are introduced to the varied forms and roles of non-profit and advocacy organizations to prepare students for work in human and community services. Students focus on organizations that represent the interests of diverse groups of people to achieve social justice and self-determination, as well as how the persistence of community-based efforts may create positive change. The course has both theoretical and practical components to allow students to gain field experience while studying critical social theory, research, and films related to community service and community activism. Notes: This course fulfills the dyad requirement when paired with one course from among INST 4045, JAMC 4600 and LEAD 3000.
	SOCL 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4 This course is designed to enable students to engage in individual study and research in a subject area already familiar through previous course work. During the first week of the course, and in consultation with the instructor, students prepare a prospectus on previous related academic work, or special area of interest, specific research topic, and an outline for proposed research report.   Prerequisites: SOCL 1000 and permission of the instructor, and a Sociology course in the area of the student’s independent study.   Notes: The course may be repeated on a different topic in a subsequent term.
	SOCL 4010 - Children in the Justice System Hours: 4 This course explores the unique position of juveniles within the context of crime, dependency, and criminal justice. Topics to be covered include changing expectations of adolescents, the development of the juvenile justice system and comparison with the adult criminal justice system, and a discussion of the rehabilitative philosophy of juvenile corrections. Class activities may include field trips to juvenile justice facilities. Prerequisites: ANTH 1000 or SOCL 1000 or SOCL 3050; or permission of instructor.
	SOCL 4020 - Global Social Movements Hours: 4 This course examines contemporary social movements, grassroots resistance and struggles for social justice in global society since the late 20th century. These unique movements comprise distinct cultural, political and social response to an increasingly global civil society. This course explores theories, research, analysis and case studies to understand how such contemporary movements manifest, organize, and mobilize to confront effects of globalizing change such as rising economic disparity, indigenous, cultural and human rights, and environmental degradation. Of special interest is how people cultivate community survival and sustainability and even work to establish alternative forms of community in the face of a globalizing world. Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing, or permission of instructor.
	SOCL 4030 - Families in Global Perspective Hours: 4 This seminar explores family life in various forms using a global and dynamic point of view. More recent sociological research has made use of cross cultural theoretical frameworks on family life, some of which involves feminist and postmodern perspectives. Within the academy and the global community at large, there is a need to focus increasingly on the family as a social institution and socializing agent. Such insight is necessary for students in the social sciences, as well as those seeking to prepare for professional positions in social service agencies involving work with culturally diverse groups and communities. Prerequisites: SOCL 1000 or permission of instructor.
	SOCL 4098 - Capstone Field Experience Hours: 4 Students will secure and complete an internship meaningful to their interests. In addition to conforming to college internship requirements established by the college, (see internship packet), students will produce a minimum of a 10 page research paper that integrates their intern experience with the essential knowledge they have gained from sociology, as well as relevant knowledge gained from other disciplines. The final project allows students to apply disciplinary knowledge to the issues relevant to the intern experience in a manner that indicates the student is capable of critical integration, synthesis and analysis of ideas and practical experience. When combined with SYE 4900, this course fulfills the Senior Year Experience requirement. Prerequisites: MATH 1240, SOCL 1000, SOAN 3000, and SOAN 4000.
	SOCL 4099 - Capstone Research Experience Hours: 2 Students will complete a 4-hour independent research project (2hrs in fall and 2hrs in spring) on a topic meaningful to their interests. Students are required to complete a minimum of a 20-page research paper that examines a social problem, policy or some aspect thereof. Students will conduct library research, as well as interviews with relevant professionals, individuals and organizations. Students may construct their own research tools, such as surveys, secondary data analysis or observations to support their research. It is expected that the projects will demonstrate the essential knowledge students have gained from sociology, as well as relevant knowledge gained from other disciplines. The paper should evidence an integration of theory and research. It should apply disciplinary knowledge to the relevant issues in a manner that indicates the student is capable of critical integration, synthesis and analysis of ideas in a practical manner thereby evidencing some mastery of the discipline. Prerequisites: MATH 1240, SOCL 1000, SOAN 3000, and SOAN 4000.
	SOCL 4900 - Internship Hours: 1-16 Internships are available to majors upon submission of a written proposal as described in the internship packet that must be obtained from the Office of Academic Affairs. They are arranged individually usually with local organizations, agencies or companies. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and department chairperson required.
	SPAN 1000 - Elementary Spanish I Hours: 4 An introduction to the Spanish language and Hispanic culture for students with little or no knowledge of the language. Through partner and group work, readings, films, internet exploration, online exercises and modules, and brief writing assignments, students will develop and practice the four skills—oral (speaking and listening) and literacy (reading and writing)—and will be introduced to culture in Spanish speaking communities.
	SPAN 1050 - Spanish Language and Culture Hours: 4 An interdisciplinary study of the cultures of Spanish-speaking peoples. Using literature, nonfiction, cinema, music, and art, this course examines some of the foundational contexts—socioeconomic, national, colonial, gender—that influence the construction and expression of Spanish and Latin American identity in the modern world. Though taught in English, this course focuses additionally on the way the Spanish language influences our understanding of these questions and contexts.
	SPAN 1100 - Elementary Spanish II Hours: 4 The second semester of an introduction to the Spanish language and Hispanic culture. Students will continue to learn the foundations of Spanish, with the goal of achieving an intermediate level of proficiency. This course continues to engage students with partner and group work, readings, films, internet exploration, online exercises and modules, and brief writing assignments to deepen competency with reading, writing, speaking, and listening as well as to increase knowledge of culture, history, and politics. Prerequisites: SPAN 1000.
	SPAN 2000 - Intermediate Grammar, Conversation, Reading, and Composition Hours: 4 This course acquaints students with the major structures of the Spanish language, including all verb forms. Students will advance their proficiency in Spanish by communicating orally and by writing simple compositions and story completion activities. This course will also deepen students’ understanding of cultural, geographical, and historical aspects of Spanish-speaking countries. Prerequisites: SPAN 1100 or placement through the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures survey.
	SPAN 2100 - Advanced Grammar, Conversation, Reading, and Composition I Hours: 4 This course aims to sharpen student capacity to converse, debate, and write compositions on issues of contemporary concern to the Spanish-speaking world. Resources such as Spanish language films and short readings will be used as points of departure for discussion. This course also will review complex grammatical structures, including subjunctive mood and compound tenses. Prerequisites: SPAN 2000. This course may be taken concurrently with SPAN 2000.
	SPAN 2200 - Advanced Grammar, Conversation, Reading, and Composition II Hours: 4 This course shall bring students to an advanced capacity to comprehend and interpret short literary or journalistic texts written by first-language speakers of Spanish and intended for readers for whom Spanish is their first language. Students will learn how to bring to their reading of such texts their knowledge of the Spanish-speaking cultures to which they belong. Students will also deepen their vocabulary as well as reflect on their own previous experience as readers and speakers of Spanish. This course will engage students in interactive reading through advanced conversation, debate, and compositions. Grammar points will be reviewed as needed. This course aims to prepare students for reading longer and more complex literary texts, such as novels, in advanced, seminar-style courses in the major. Prerequisites: SPAN 2000.
	SPAN 3000 - Latin American Civilization and Culture Hours: 4 This course is an intensive exploration of Latin-American history, institutions and traditions through films, documentaries and readings. This course acquaints students with the foundational events, contexts and interpretive skills required to effectively understand, analyze and evaluate the complexity, influence, and ongoing vitality of Latin America through its cultural products. Prerequisites: SPAN 2100 or permission of instructor.
	SPAN 3100 - Spanish Civilization and Culture Hours: 4 This course is an intensive exploration of Spanish history, institutions and traditions through films, documentaries and readings. This course acquaints students with the foundational events, contexts and interpretive skills required to effectively understand, analyze and evaluate the complexity, influence, and ongoing vitality of Spain through its cultural products. Prerequisites: SPAN 2100 or permission of instructor.
	SPAN 3200 - Latin American Literature and Film Hours: 4 The focus of this course is the powerful role played by literature and film in the construction and expression of distinctive Latin American identities and realities. The course features the most distinguished authors of Latin American literature from the pre-colonial period to the present. Readings will be from many different genres— letters from the first explorers and missionaries, essays, poems, and short fiction. The singular voices and visions of these authors will be placed in dialogue with canonical and thematically-affiliated films from Latin America to deepen student understanding of key questions, moments and movements in Latin American history and culture. Prerequisites: SPAN 3000.
	SPAN 3600 - Discovering Latin America Hours: 4 An interactive learning experience that involves international travel, this course seeks to challenge and strengthen student linguistic proficiency in Spanish, while at the same time exposing students to the tremendous historical and cultural richness of South America. Students in the course will travel to countries such as Chile and/or Argentina and will interact with the peoples and cultures of these countries in ways that will broaden their understanding of the global world and give them new insights into their own cultures. Pre and post activities of the course will include tasks and instruments meant to catalyze self-reflection, self-discovery, and the acquisition and comprehension of values, skills, and knowledge content. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
	SPAN 3700 - Content Teaching Methods: Spanish and Latin American Studies Hours: 4 This course is the content-area methods course for students seeking preK-12 teacher education licensure in Spanish. Students will gain a basic knowledge of language learning theory and national standards, and will design language learning activities based on the theory and standards. Major assignments will include a) a unit on an interdisciplinary theme and b) a unit on a contemporary cultural issue. Students will present the lessons from these units during their field experience. Notes: This course is to be taken concurrently with EDUC 3700.
	SPAN 3800 - Special Topics in Spanish and Latin American Studies - Writing Intensive Hours: 4 A focused, seminar-style study of a single author, set of literary texts, or key movement in Spanish and/or Latin American literature, this course seeks to give students a deeper and more complex understanding of a specific question or topic. Course foci will be chosen with an eye toward writers or texts or movements that are central or emergent in the discipline of Spanish and Latin American Studies. Prerequisites: SPAN 3000.
	SYE 4001 - Communication and Society Hours: 4 This SYE focuses on the interaction between communication practices in the 21st century and people as they act in social contexts. Communication is still the social glue that holds together nations, corporations, scientific disciplines, and families. Communication also remains the source of problems when people fail to understand each other, fail to agree, and fail to act. New communication technology does not necessarily make communication more effective, more persuasive or more ethical. We will explore the role communication plays in our lives as professionals and individual actors, across a wide variety of contexts: entertainment, information and social media, business and organizational life, politics, family life, globalization. We will 1) consider seminal theories about why we communicate, what we communicate about and how we communicate to individuals and large populations; 2) analyze cases in 21st century communication situations and how our disciplinary backgrounds influence what we understand and how we understand it; 3) assess how each of us relate to the personal and social communication networks in which are we enmeshed; and 4) evaluate how all of this bears on our development as persons and professionals acting in the communities in which we live. The goal of this course is to empower you to make better informed choices as you engage messages and technologies, and individuals, groups, and communities as a citizen whose choices will affect the lives of the people and organizations you interact with on a daily basis.
	SYE 4002 - Inventing the Self and the Future Hours: 4 The world we experience is the product of our individual perceptions. We invent this world through our emerging sense of self. This development is not created in isolation; rather we incorporate influences of family, gender roles, ethnic heritage, personal surroundings, and culture. We accept and react to those influences; we frame personal myths and rituals; we shape our strengths and dreams; and from these, we devise our self-driven perceptions—our worlds—forming narratives of our individual pasts and our futures. SYE 4002 is an inquiry; we will discover the individual worlds we have created—the individual selves we have invented and will invent—largely through personal narratives which will serve as a means of tracing the development of the selves we inhabit and projecting the selves we will create into the future. Then as part of this process—through a service-learning experience—we will take a group of senior citizens through a similar set of brief narratives through which they will also examine their personal narratives. We will write a series of life stories—memoirs/personal essays—all from the class by class series of brief personal reflections—some of which will be written in class—and a final essay aimed at projecting our individual pasts and our learning at Otterbein into our futures. Self-reflection and insight gained from these explorations will help us to understand our individual places in the Postmodern, Post-9/11 world where truth is not found, but made. The class will be conducted, primarily, as a workshop.
	SYE 4003 - Toward Peace and Justice: Living and Leading in Community Hours: 4 Through an active participation outside the classroom and through a theoretical and reflective investigation in the classroom, Toward Peace with Justice, will explore some of the issues which current face our society (e.g. poverty, wealth, distribution of wealth, hunger, homelessness, class, etc.) and in turn, how each individual can make a difference in the day-to-day lives of others. The class will promote a theoretical and pragmatic approach through reading and action, reflection and writing, using the service learning model of preparation, action and reflection. The model will be a process in which academic instruction is integrated with volunteerism/service.
	SYE 4005 - Living in the Middle Age: The Sandwich Generation Hours: 4 In this course, students examine the roles of people with both children and aging parents, those in what’s known as the “sandwich generation.” Calling on several perspectives, including their own experiences and education, the course asks students to use sociology, psychology, literature, communication, science, nursing, education and business to consider the social, emotional political, and financial issues facing people in the middle. Students must be active participants in the class, committed to acting upon what they learn. Students study academic materials, investigate agencies, practice ethnographic description, and work together to propose solutions to the problems and issues they themselves discover and consider important. Students also reflect often on the course theme and on their own life stages and transitions as they study and observe the life stages and transitions of others. (Students need not be in the “sandwich generation” themselves to enroll in the course.)
	SYE 4006 - Community Leadership and Change in Non-Profit Organizations Hours: 4 This course is an integrated service-learning course which establishes the conceptual basis and need for forming, joining, and participating in non-profit and social service organizations. Students examine the history of these endeavors, survey concepts and reflect on form and reflect on their definitions of “altruism” and “community,” and review the current status of their participation in volunteer and non-profit organizations. Then, students concentrate their efforts on group consulting projects. Students work as members of a small group consulting team or as members of the whole-class consulting team. The team or teams will be assigned a non-profit or social service organization that wishes to improve its effectiveness as an organization, and each group applies Appreciative Inquiry or another highly recognized consulting strategy in developing a plan for leading the organization through a change process. The course requires weekly personal response papers. These individual essays will be folded into the group organizational development plans. Students create autobiographical portfolios which include their personal conceptions of the transitions they will experience as they are graduated from Otterbein and their projections of the roles they will play in the future. Group and individual presentations are required.
	SYE 4007 - Cultural Encounters: Appalachia in the City Hours: 4 In this course, students examine the historical migration of Appalachians into Midwestern cities and the contemporary experiences of Appalachians in Cincinnati and Columbus. The course asks students to call on many perspectives, including their own, and to use many disciplines, including sociology, psychology, literature, communication, science, nursing, education, and business, to consider the nature and results of cultural encounters between rural and urban in Westerville and Columbus, a microcosm for such encounters in national and global contexts. Students must be active participants in the class, committed to acting upon what they learn: they will have the opportunity to serve on-site with a local non-profit agency that helps to meet the needs of local people with Appalachian histories, and they have numerous chances to engage with readings, caes studies, and problem-solving activities. They also have the opportunity to work toward earning a “card” in Community Engagement if they choose. Students study academic materials, read literature, investigate policies and agencies, practice ethnographic description, and work together to propose solutions to problems and issues they themselves discover and consider important within Appalachian communities. Students also reflect on their own cultural encounters and transitions as they study and observe the cultural encounters and transitions of others.
	SYE 4008 - Media for Social Change Hours: 4 Also called Edu-tainment and Entertainment-Education, Media for Social Change uses the techniques of drama, advertising print and broadcasting to weave education messages into entertainment programs. The class is open to students from all disciplines. The class will partner with a local community organization to develop a viable media project available to the public. Projects will be group-driven with most of the work done in class. Depending upon the size and talents of the group, the class may produce any of the following: self-contained soap opera, mini-drama, commercial-length public service announcements or an entire package of media approaches focused on one social issue.
	SYE 4009 - Structural Inequalities and Professional Life Hours: 4 Various kinds of systemic inequality persist in contemporary American society. That is, some forms of inequality are not merely a matter of personal behavior, belief, or preference; rather, they are deeply ingrained in our institutions and/or belief system. Examples (or symptoms) of such inequities include income inequality between men and women, racism in the criminal justice system, racial and ethnic biases in hiring by private companies, cultural bias in standardized testing, unequal access to basic health care, radical differences in funding between public schools, and the practice of “redlining” by banks and insurance companies. In this course, students spend the first part of the semester studying racial inequality in twentieth-century America, focusing on historical, literary, and social scientific literature written by Americans of various ethnicities. This historical inquiry will focus on specific events, including the Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924, the G. I. Bill, Brown v. Board of Education and the desegregation of schools, and the “War on Drugs.” This part of the course will culminate with small groups choosing a major event from twentieth-century American history and creating a study of how this event was impacted by beliefs about race and ethnicity, and/or how this event changed or affected understandings of race and ethnicity. Each such analysis must include at least three different disciplinary perspectives on the chosen event. Students will work with students from other disciplinary backgrounds. In the second part of the course, each student will identify a structural inequality that exists in contemporary society, and that she will encounter in her professional life. Each student will write a factual report in which she defines and explains this form of inequality. The student will then put together an action plan in which she will outline some form of action to redress the chosen issue, aimed at the reform of workplace or professional practices.
	SYE 4010 - Media and the Law Hours: 4 This course is designed to introduce graduating seniors to media and the law, in both their advocacy and adversarial relationships. Students will learn the basics of news reporting and media coverage of events, as well as a cursory knowledge of our judicial system. Conflicts between freedom of the press (First Amendment) and the right to a fair trial (Sixth Amendment) are a major component of this discussion.
	SYE 4011 - Religion and Secular Society Hours: 4 In this course we will discuss the apparent tension between religion and a secular or scientific world view. We will focus on three key themes. First, we will discuss recent atheist criticisms of religious belief from the new “brights” movement. Then we will turn our attention to the question of the role of personal religious belief in public life, and attempt to answer questions like the following: Is it appropriate to support public policies that are based in religious beliefs that aren’t shared by all members of a society? How should we understand restrictions on the establishment of religion found, for instance, in the United States constitution? How can we best organize a religiously diverse society? Finally, we will look at the global level and the interactions between secular and religious states. Here we will try to come to a better understanding of the diversity of religious practices and customs, and attempt to come up with a set of policies that might help us guide the interactions between states and cultures with diverse religious practices and beliefs.
	SYE 4012 - High Stakes: The 2012 Presidential Election Hours: 4 The proposed course is designed to educate students on the social and political correlates of the presidential election process, focusing on the presidential election in November 2012. Special topics will include voting behaviors, the role of PACs and special interest groups, political advertising, and the Electoral College. Because the election takes place before the end of the semester, students will have an opportunity to also analyze the outcomes of the elections in terms of the above topics as well. Students will also get hands on experience by working at polling places or volunteering with campaigns of their choice.
	SYE 4013 - The United Brethren Church and Otterbein’s Tradition of Service Hours: 4 This course will first of all explore the historical roots of our tradition of service. We will study the origin and growth of the United Brethren in Christ in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including its involvement in the causes of Abolition and of missions, and its response to liberal theology and the social gospel, its stance on Prohibition, and its engagement with education. On that basis we will explore the church’s continuing involvement in issues of social and economic morality and justice and the continued evolution of missions and international service, through two church mergers that eventually brought the United Brethren in Christ together with the Methodists to form the United Methodist Church.
	SYE 4014 - Health Equity: Issues in Minority Health Hours: 4 This course focuses on the issues related to Minority Health. Topics discussed will include the health care system and how it relates to and affects the health of minority populations. Other topics will include a review of chronic and infectious diseases, personal behaviors, and their relationship to minority health.
	SYE 4015 - The Neighbor, From the Bible to Beyond Hours: 4 To the question, “Which of the commands is the greatest?” Jesus answered, “To love your God…and the second, which is like it, to love your neighbor as yourself.” This class examines the Judeo-Christian injunction to neighbor-love. It examines the question of who is one’s neighbor, and what it means to love one’s neighbor. The class begins with Biblical sources, but it also examines the reception of this injunction in secular philosophical and theoretical sources. Students are required to develop and complete a group action project that applies the injunction.
	SYE 4016 - Environmental Sustainability: Brown to Green Hours: 4 This class is intended to have students gain “real world” experience related to decision-making and project management issues typically encountered by environmental professionals and citizens. The structure of the class emphasizes the multidisciplinary approach to solving environmental problems with participants having varied levels of experience. Specific projects and case studies are selected to demonstrate that economic and social issues are often much more difficult than the environmental solutions. This class is open to all students and is recommended for Sustainability Studies majors. Prerequisites: Instructor permission or Senior standing.
	SYE 4017 - Discovering Chili in the 21st Century Hours: 4 This Senior Year Experience is designed to introduce students from any major to the potentially life-changing nature of experiencing the world outside our comfort zones. We will explore the country of Chile as a microcosm for the study of a variety of cultural, political, environmental and economic issues in our times. Students will explore their own imagined “life maps” and sense of place, engaging notions of difference and dislocation in our times. The course will offer an introduction to recent Chilean history and culture, from the fall of Salvador Allende’s presidency to the 17-year dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and on into the “Chilean Miracle” up into our times. We hope to offer visits from at least two Chilean artists to provide direct experience in “viewing the country from within.” The class will conclude with presentations on the various strands of contemporary issues as related to the students’ own majors and interests.
	SYE 4018 - Artists in the Schools: A Multidisciplinary Approach Hours: 4 Artists in the Schools is an Senior Year Experience course designed to provide students interested in such programs as Creative Writing, Theater, Visual Arts, Dance or Music with the skills needed to conduct hands-on workshops teaching their art forms in schools and other community centers. Students will learn about the history of “artist residencies” as well as hear from experienced teaching artists concerning methods of presenting their art to a wide variety of audiences. After preparing their own lesson plans, students will conduct residencies in area schools and other sites to gain practice in teaching their art from a personal point of view. Notes: This course is open to all majors.
	SYE 4100 - 1900-Vienna-2000: Culture, Conflict, and Identity in Central Europe at the Turn of Two Centuries Hours: 4 A century ago, Vienna explodes with creative energy-psychologists, composers, painters, writers, natural scientists, medical pioneers. Then, the shot, the blood, the open car speeding away for help… Sarajevo in 1914. The killing of the heir to the Austrian throne sends Central Europe down a death spiral that will lead to global horrors and slaughter on a monstrous scale, and end with wide-spread devastation and the stench of rotting flesh in 1945. In many views, another 30 Year’s War. Students will explore the history, the environment, the culture of the city, and the events of 1914. They will engage the centennial commemorations of 1914 and compare and contrast the Vienna a century later while we live and study in a historic monastery in the heart of Vienna. A weekend in Budapest will add a Hungarian dimension. With the help of Austrian professors students will use an interdisciplinary approach, including history, the arts, business and economy, and the social scene. As part of the SYE Program, this course requires reflection, creates a lively interdisciplinary learning experience, and helps to “top off” your Otterbein experience. It addresses “Global and Intercultural Engagement” of the 5 Cardinal Experiences. Admission to the course is by permission of the instructor; criteria include academic achievement, focused interest in the course, campus citizenship, balance among disciplines, and availability of rooms for men and women. Previous study of German is “a plus,” but not required. Notes: International travel required; extra fee required.
	SYE 4101 - An Immersion Experience in Uruguayan and Argentine Cultures, Language and Professional Life Hours: 4 This four-credit hour course is to provide the students with a one-month immersion experience in Argentina and Uruguay. In addition to incorporating the SYE processes of Act, Reflect, and Transition, students will attend language classes that develop their communication skills in Spanish, at their own personal level of ability. Students will work on mentored projects that combine their areas of interest with a broader interdisciplinary theme. This experience will allow students to learn about the culture of the region in the context of their major, whether nursing, business, humanities, science, sciences, communications, fine arts, and modern language. This course combines four pre-departure and one post-travel set of classes, and four weeks off campus. The pre-travel classes in the fall will give students the opportunity to explore the historical, political, cultural and economic attributes of the region, facilitate team building; cultivate intercultural skills and awareness, and discuss different aspects of the international experience. The travelling part of the course will be offered in J term for 4 weeks; three weeks will include extensive immersion in language courses and project- based learning. Students will immerse themselves in Argentinian cultural events, music, dance, art, history, contemporary political and economic issues. Students will experience life in Argentina and what it means to live and work as a member of their chosen profession in Latin America. Permission of instructor required.
	SYE 4401 - Social Justice, Responsibility and Change Hours: 4 This course examines causes of social oppression and specific tenets and models of social justice, social responsibility, and social change. Through course readings, films, discussions, guest speakers, visits to and/or volunteer work at local nonprofit organizations, students will form their understanding of social justice and practice social responsibility. Then for a week, the class will travel to an off-site location where students will immerse themselves in visiting and volunteering with organizations that are working to promote social justice. As part of this experience, students will begin to understand some of the root causes of specific social challenges and be introduced to agencies and individuals who are working on behalf of those who are impacted. As part of the course content, students will explore specific tenets and models of social oppression, social justice, and social change from their individual academic disciplines. In the process, the students will identify their personal spheres of influence and specific action steps they may ultimately take to transform the social fabric. In addition to the weeklong trip, students are required to meet for a final wrap-up session upon their return to campus.
	SYE 4501 - SYE: Africa Hours: 4 SYE Africa is a service-learning travel senior year experience in which students bring to bear both their major and general education programs of study to seek understanding of contemporary Africa. SYE Africa offers a powerful life-changing and life-affirming experience that serves as a capstone to students’ undergraduate experience as well as a steppingstone to life beyond Otterbein. A single Africa national will be selected each year. These will include but are not anticipated to be limited to Rwanda and Malawi. Notes: International travel required; extra fee required.
	SYE 4502 - Understanding the Nature of Belize: Ecological and Psychological Perspectives Hours: 4 This SYE course will examine how humans understand and relate to the nature of Belize. The course will integrate a scientific perspective of how reefs and rainforest function, and a psychological perspective of how humans relate to nature, from the vantage of Americans and several different Belizean ethnic groups. The course is a travel SYE designed to follow the Integrative Studies and Understanding Nature: Ecological and psychological perspectives with a dual focus. Notes: The first offering in January 2012 will not have the Integrative Studies dyad as a requirement.
	SYE 4503 - Middle East Hours: 4 This course seeks to lead students into an exposure and understanding of the complexities of Middle East cultures in today’s world. It will go beyond cursory understandings of a region outside the western hemisphere by challenging students’ knowledge and relation to societies other than their own. The course will be naturally interdisciplinary and inclusive of many fields of study, including religion and philosophy, environmental science, political science, economics, art history, archaeology, anthropology and sociology, foreign languages, geography, history, literature, and music. This class will include three days of intense consciencitization on campus, followed by fourteen days of travel and engagement in social and cultural awareness in the chosen Middle East country, and then four days of synthesis and reflection back on campus that will focus on how a transformation of knowledge will lead to future calls to action. Notes: International travel required; extra fee required.
	SYE 4504 - Threads, Gold and Marigolds: Rasa in 21st Century India Hours: 4 SYE 4504 students will learn about themselves as they make connections between art and culture in traditional and contemporary India. This J-term class will include on-campus class time intended to provide students with background information about the geography, social and political history and culture of India. The Indian aesthetic concept of rasa will be introduced. Each student will identify a personal research topic to investigate while visiting the Sanskriti International Artist Residency Program near Delhi, India. Sanskriti maintains an excellent art library and several on-site museums: The Museum of Everyday Life, The Museum of Terra Cotta and the Museum of Indian Textile. The two and a half week travel segment will include a series of art workshops and field trips that will invite participants to create their own artworks in a variety of traditional styles and media. Upon their return, students will present an exhibition of their artwork accompanied by a poster session about both their academic research and their creative production. Notes: International travel required; extra fee required.
	SYE 4505 - The New Europe: The Challenge of Diversity, Integration, and Globalization Hours: 4 Using an interdisciplinary appreciation of the Western tradition as developed in Europe and practiced in the United States students will via classroom readings, discussion and a week-long study seminar in Berlin and Prague prepare a portfolio on the challenges of the “New World Order.” The diversity as represented by the myriad ethnic and religious factions of the European Union will be studied with an eye toward improving the integration of minorities in the United States. In addition the strengths and weaknesses of an increasing global and open society including markets will be studied first hand as a tool to better understand current shifts in American society. Based on Otterbein course work and prior experience students will prepare a portfolio reflective of their personal growth and newly discovered opportunities for both career success and the building of just society. The week study seminar in Europe will include over 40 contact hours of site visits to business and governmental organizations, historical and cultural events including major museums in Berlin and musical performances as well as a side trip to a concentration camp either Sachsenhausen or Theresienstadt. Notes: International travel required; extra fee required.
	SYE 4506 - Examination of History, Culture and Health Care in England Hours: 4 This course explores the history, culture and health care of Britain organized around several on-line assignments, several in person classes and a two-week tour of England. Through course assignments and visits, students examine British history, culture, and health care. They compare how recent changes in health care delivery have impacted both British and American societies. The students complete a course project and a reflective assignment as part of the course requirements. Notes: International travel required; extra fee required.

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RELG 1000 - Introduction to Religion

RELG 1300 - Philosophy of Religion

RELG 2150 - History of Modern Christianity

RELG 2200 - Religion in America

RELG 2300 - Introduction to Judaism and the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

RELG 2400 - Introduction to the New Testament/Christian Origins - Writing Intensive

RELG 2500 - The Muslim Faith and Its Place in the Modern World

RELG 2600 - Introduction to Buddhism

RELG 3100 - Paul and His Letters

RELG 3150 - History of Early Christianity

RELG 3200 - Life and Teachings of Jesus

RELG 3300 - Native American Religions

RELG 3400 - Buddhism and Daoism in Dialogue

RELG 3600 - Weaving Women’s Mythologies: Ancient and Modern

RELG 3700 - Women and Religion

RELG 3800 - Special Topics in Religion

RELG 3900 - Independent Study

RELG 4000 - Seminar in Religion - Writing Intensive

RELG 4900 - Internship

SLD 1000 - Exploring Majors, Internships, and Careers

SLD 2000 - The Helping Relationship

SLD 2100 - History and Leadership in Fraternities and Sororities

SLD 2200 - The Peer Mentor Experience

SLD 2300 - Serve the City Practicum: The Role of the Citizen Scholar

SLD 2400 - Exploring Diversity: Developing Intercultural Competency

SLD 2500 - Guiding the New Student Transition

SMGT 1400 - Sport Law and Governance

SMGT 1800 - Professional Perspectives in Sport Management

SMGT 2500 - Sociology and Psychology of Sport

SMGT 2900 - Practicum in Sport Management

SMGT 3550 - Finance and Economics of Sport

SMGT 3600 - Fundraising in Sport

SMGT 3800 - Organization and Management of Sport

SMGT 3850 - Sport Marketing

SMGT 3900 - Independent Study

SMGT 3920 - Event Planning - Writing Intensive

SMGT 3930 - Sport Facility Design and Management

SMGT 4800 - Principles and Practices of Sport Management - Writing Intensive

SMGT 4900 - Sport Management Internship

SOAN 3000 - Social Research Methods - Writing Intensive

SOAN 3900 - Independent Study

SOAN 4000 - Sociological and Anthropological Social Theory - Writing Intensive

SOCL 1000 - Introductory Sociology

SOCL 1200 - Sociological Practice in Human and Community Service

SOCL 2000 - Social Problems

SOCL 2040 - Sociology of Gender

SOCL 2050 - The Criminal Justice System

SOCL 2060 - Environmental Sociology

SOCL 3020 - Sociology of Family Diversity

SOCL 3030 - Poverty, Wealth, & Inequality

SOCL 3040 - Global Social Change

SOCL 3050 - Criminology

SOCL 3060 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

SOCL 3070 - Corrections

SOCL 3100 - Human and Community Service: Organizing Across Race, Class, Gender and Age

SOCL 3900 - Independent Study

SOCL 4010 - Children in the Justice System

SOCL 4020 - Global Social Movements

SOCL 4030 - Families in Global Perspective

SOCL 4098 - Capstone Field Experience

SOCL 4099 - Capstone Research Experience

SOCL 4900 - Internship

SPAN 1000 - Elementary Spanish I

SPAN 1050 - Spanish Language and Culture

SPAN 1100 - Elementary Spanish II

SPAN 2000 - Intermediate Grammar, Conversation, Reading, and Composition

SPAN 2100 - Advanced Grammar, Conversation, Reading, and Composition I

SPAN 2200 - Advanced Grammar, Conversation, Reading, and Composition II

SPAN 3000 - Latin American Civilization and Culture

SPAN 3100 - Spanish Civilization and Culture

SPAN 3200 - Latin American Literature and Film

SPAN 3600 - Discovering Latin America

SPAN 3700 - Content Teaching Methods: Spanish and Latin American Studies

SPAN 3800 - Special Topics in Spanish and Latin American Studies - Writing Intensive