2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
Course Descriptions
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HIST 2300 - European Overseas Encounters Hours: 4
This course explores how Europeans and Westerners came to view other peoples and societies and how this helped define their view of what it was to be European. We start with the earliest European voyages to Africa and South America and compare and contrast the descriptions and viewpoints of these parts of the world with the beliefs and views Europeans developed about Asia before 1800. The course also examines how European viewpoints and identity shifted during the 19th century.
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HIST 2350 - Politics and Society in Modern Britain Hours: 4
The course examines the political, social, and international history of Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the present. It explores the development of parliamentary democracy, the emergence of modern class structures, the growth and decline of the British Empire, and the nature and influence of Britain’s experience of two world wars. It traces the movement for Irish independence and examines the conflict in Northern Ireland to the present. It charts the fate of social reform after the Second World War and the evolution of conservative, liberal, and radical traditions in politics and culture into the post-industrial era.
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HIST 2400 - The United States Between the Wars, 1865-1941 Hours: 4
This course will focus on the crucial decades between the two bloodiest wars the United States has fought. During these years, the reunited United States transitioned from a primarily rural, traditional, and Anglo-Saxon nation to a modern, urban, industrial, and multicultural one. This transition heralded the emergence of modern America. This class will investigate the major events of this period including the Second Industrial Revolution, the “new” immigration, the Great Migration, the Spanish-American-Filipino and First World Wars, the Great Depression, and the New Deal to understand how and why this transition took place and how it changed the political, social, economic, and cultural fabric of the country.
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HIST 2450 - Southern Africa 1700 to Present Hours: 4
Southern Africa has been a multi-cultural area for centuries. Students will learn about the cultures of some of the indigenous nation-states and societies that existed in southern Africa. This class will cover competitions between Europeans and Africans over resources in the region. Cultural contact issues about assimilation, resistance, co-existence, nationalism, and the creation of new cultures will be addressed as we study the choices made by African leaders and groups to advance their monarchies, federations and republics in times of warfare and in times of calm. These histories, along with the rise and fall of the apartheid system, laid the foundations for the nation of South Africa as we know it in the twenty-first century.
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HIST 2460 - Health and Society in Africa Hours: 4
This thematic course explores African social, cultural, and environmental history by investigating the history of health, disease, and disease control in Africa from c. 1500 to the present. The course explores the changing ways African people and states have conceived of, responded to, and tried to control changing patterns of health and disease. Topics covered include: pre-colonial environmental change & epidemic disease; rainmaking and social health; colonial epidemics and disease control; urban sanitation and segregation; agrarian change and famine; post-colonial epidemics (AIDS, TB, malaria); politics of health care in contemporary Africa. The theme of health gives students a central focus as the course challenges lines between human and natural environment, between individual and collective well-being, and between bodily and social health.
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HIST 2500 - Modern China Hours: 4
A history of China from the Manchu Qing dynasty (1640s) to the present. Emphasis on the events leading up to the Chinese Revolution, as well as the philosophy and policies of Mao Zedong following the Revolution. The course will examine the role China plays in the globalization of the world economy, as well as the efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to maintain domestic control in the post-Mao era.
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HIST 2600 - Women’s History Hours: 4
This course provides an introduction to women’s history as an historical approach. It explores the lived experiences of a variety of women in different places and times. It also considers how and why definitions of gender roles have changed over time. Particular attention is paid to both women’s common experiences and critical factors like race, class, and location that often made their lives quite different.
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HIST 3100 - Medieval History Hours: 4
This course examines the formation of Latin Christendom and the Western tradition between the fourth and fifteenth centuries. The course explores the transition between late antiquity and the early medieval era; the development of political, religious and social institutions during the early Middle Ages (500-900); and the flowering of Medieval culture during the High Middle Ages (1100-1350). Particular attention is focused on the intersection between classical, Christian and Germanic traditions, the geographic, social and economic development in Europe, the relation between the Church and political institutions, and the flowering of chivalry and of the arts.
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HIST 3150 - Renaissance and Reformation Hours: 4
An exploration of the origins of the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe and the impact of these movements on European life and subsequent Western Culture. The course investigates the origins and aims of the Italian Renaissance and the impact of this movement on European culture, society and politics; the social and cultural background to the Reformation and the linkages between Renaissance humanism and leading reformers; and the origins and consequences of the Reformation and the Catholic Reformation for European politics and society.
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HIST 3200 - Global Capitalism Hours: 4
Today it is taken for granted that we live in a global economy: jobs and the standard of living in American are directly affected by economic developments elsewhere in the world and the benefits of global trade are disputed. Starting with the major regional economic systems in the world during the 13th century, this course explores how the modern global economy was created. Viewed from a global perspective, topics covered include how pre-industrial economies develop, how and why global trade networks grew, and the differential processes and impacts of industrialization in the 19th century. The course also focuses on processes of economic integration and disintegration in the 20th century, including the different policies and viewpoints of developed and developing nations to international trade and the impact of globalization on the environment and culture.
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HIST 3350 - Modern Japan Hours: 4
This class will study the formation and rise of Japan as a nation-state, covering the period from 1600 to the present. Students will focus primarily on the last 150 years of Japanese history, learning why the Tokugawa government fell and how Japan reinvented itself as a modern power with overseas colonies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The course will examine the path to the Second World War, the U.S. occupation, and the political, cultural, and social history of post-war and post-occupation Japan. Students will discuss the historiography of modern Japan, examining not only how different historians writing in English have approached seminal historical events such as the Meiji Restoration but also how trends in American politics have shaped the ways in which Japan has been researched, written about, and understood in the U.S.
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HIST 3355 - Slavery and Slave Trades in African History Hours: 4
This course will examine slavery and slave trades in African history, with a focus on changing relationships between global trade and local systems of social belonging. The course will first examine slavery and slave trades in early African history, including trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean commercial systems. Next, the course will explore the trans-Atlantic slave trade and related transformations in African slavery. Finally, the course will study 19th-century transformations in labor, migration, and social belonging that reflect histories of enslavement, including: West African Jihads, emerging ideas of diaspora, and the beginnings of European imperialism. The course will analyze primary sources on enslavement and slavery, key theoretical texts on slavery and freedom, and recent scholarly work on local histories of slavery.
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HIST 3400 - War and Revolution Hours: 4
The course traces the relationship between war and revolution in European history from the era of the Russian Revolution to the present. It covers late 19th-century rural rebellion as well as urban revolt and explores 20th-century revolutionary movements that accompanied civil war in Spain and the collapse of European empires. It examines the emergence of anti-revolutionary tendencies that reacted against movements for revolutionary change and it traces the development of new revolutionary directions in the era of the Cold War.
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HIST 3450 - Nationalism and Internationalism in Europe, 1870-Present Hours: 4
The course studies the conflicts between nationalism and internationalism in the struggles to create modern political republics and achieve European federation. It explores concepts of the nation, national self-determination, and the nation-state as they emerged in the late 19th century. It examines the rise of extreme nationalist movements in the years following the First World War, including the emergence and spread of fascism. It charts the development during the 20th century of internationalist responses to the consequences of contemporary warfare, the evolution of the idea of international law, the post-Cold War revival of nationalist movements, and recent efforts at sustaining a European Union.
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HIST 3502 - The Civil War and Reconstruction Hours: 4
This course explores the war that still fascinates so many contemporary Americans by examining the causes of this fateful conflict, the nature of the war itself for combatants and civilians, and the challenges Americans faced in reuniting themselves into a single nation. These issues are considered from a variety of viewpoints including leaders and common folk, women and men, white Americans and African Americans, Northerners and Southerners.
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HIST 3503 - The History of Sexuality in the United States Hours: 4
This course examines how Americans have imagined, represented, embodied, used, and resisted different ways of understanding sexuality. Focusing on key historical moments from early America to the present, the course situates sexuality in relationship to constructions of gender, race, and class and explores the connections between sexuality and power.
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HIST 3550 - African American History Hours: 4
Students will study the political, intellectual and social history of the African-American community from its roots in Africa, through the period of slavery, to the struggle for civil rights in the present day. Topics include Africans as explorers of New World, African Americans as patriots, pioneers, and politicians in the early American Republic, comparative slavery systems, the rise and fall of Jim Crow segregation, gender issues, borderlands issues, and key intellectual debates such as those of DuBois/Washington, Herskovits/Frazier, and King/Malcolm X.
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HIST 3580 - Environmental History Hours: 4
Environmental history is the study of the interaction between human beings and their natural surroundings through time. This course explores American environmental history from before European arrival in North America to the present. It takes a chronological view of North American history, focusing on the ways in which people adapted to, thought about, and shaped the natural world around them. By examining history in an environmental context, not simply a humanistic one, we can discover new perspectives of both history and contemporary environmental issues.
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HIST 3610 - Colonizing America Hours: 4
This course explores the complexities of cultural contact that occurred between Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans in the early days of North American colonization, the kinds of communities that emerged from these contacts, and the major challenges facing these colonial communities as they matured in the eighteenth century. Throughout, the course focuses attention on the tensions that underlay the colonization of America related to key issues such as land, race relations, economic systems, class structures, and political ideologies.
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HIST 3650 - African Encounters with Development Hours: 4
Has development been a blessing or a curse for Africa and Africans in the 20th century? In this course, we will examine how development programs have been conceived and carried out in the colonial and post-colonial periods, and ask how their impact on Africans’ lives has been represented and understood by African people, African governments, and international actors. This course will explore the interaction of ideas and experience-from large-scale theories to the daily practices of farmers, bureaucrats, activists, and scholars. The first half of the course will consider the “colonial roots of development,” covering themes such as agricultural improvement, migration, urban sanitation, and famine relief. In the second half of the course we will examine diverse post-colonial experiences of development, from nationalism to neoliberalism and beyond.
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HIST 3720 - The Islamic Golden Age (1000-1500 CE) Hours: 4
This course examines several medieval Saharan empires such as Ghana, Mali, the Almoravids, Almohads, Fatimids, and the Hausa-Bornu states. Students will read about key features of these empires, including some of their cultural, intellectual and religious values, as well as some of the political and economic structures and institutions that they developed to facilitate their expansion. Once students have familiarity with these concepts, they will then learn of the interaction of these empires with other states such as medieval Castile and some other European Crusading states, the Seljuks, the Ottomans, and even Gujarat, India. Students will explore the world as seen and understood by Africans of that era.
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HIST 3800 - U.S. Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity Hours: 4
This course will examine the experience of Irish, Chinese, southern and eastern European, and Latin American immigrants and migrants to the United States. It will also examine the factors that have driven immigration; immigrant work, family, and community life; racial identity and discrimination; ethnicity and assimilation; and the history of immigration restriction and exclusion.
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HIST 3850 - Public History Hours: 4
This course explores the practice and theory of public history. Students will gain insight into the operation and mission of cultural and historic institutions, including museums and historical societies, which present history to the public. Students will study public history methodologies and educational programming and gain practical knowledge in public history.
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HIST 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4
Independent Study.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and department chair.
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HIST 4050 - European Intellectual History Hours: 4
The course traces how new ideas about the mind, self, and society emerged in Europe in response to periods of political and social crisis. It analyzes works of political and social theory, psychology, philosophy, and literature, as well as examines intellectual systems, including Marxism, psychoanalysis, and existentialism. It explores various cultural media, including journalism, film, and drama, and studies diverse methods for interpreting the origins and meaning of ideas and ideologies.
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HIST 4100 - The Holocaust in Contemporary History Hours: 4
The course studies the history of the Holocaust and how that history compels a re-examination of human society, behavior, and values. It analyzes the rise of Nazism, the nature of political anti-Semitism, the phenomenon of wartime occupation, and the meanings of collaboration and resistance. It explores contemporary Jewish history and the significance of the Holocaust in post-1945 collective culture, including how memory of the Holocaust influences global movements for the protection of stateless persons and confronting crimes against humanity. It studies the history and consciousness of the Holocaust through diverse sources and media, including historical testimony, memoirs, literature, film documentaries, visual art, and memorials.
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HIST 4210 - The Industrial Revolution in a Global Perspective Hours: 4
This course focuses on the British Industrial Revolution and examines how the British economy was transformed from a pre-industrial economy into an industrial economy, including the related social and political changes. Particular attention is focused on the technological and institutional settings in which industrialization occurred and its impact on the standard of living. The origin and development of British industrialization is set in a global context, including the economic development of China and India.
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HIST 4250 - Revolutions in the Early Modern Era: 1500-1815 Hours: 4
The early modern era was filled with political revolutions that transformed societies and states leading to the development of the modern nation state. This course examines the ideological, political, economic, and cultural origins and consequences of these revolutions. A comparative framework is employed to analyze a set of significant revolutions, including the Glorious Revolution in Britain and the French Revolution.
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HIST 4310 - American Indian History Hours: 4
Ignored for generations by historians, American Indian history has become one of the most exciting and prolific fields of historical inquiry. As scholars now recognize, Indian peoples have fundamentally shaped and defined our nation’s past. From the founding of the first European settlements in North America to continuing debates over the meaning of American democracy, Indian history remains integral to understanding American history and culture. This course will take a roughly chronological look at this long ignored field of study from the time of European colonization through the 1970s.
Notes: Paired with INST 4035 or RELG 3300 to fulfill the dyad requirement.
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HIST 4350 - The Era of the American Revolution Hours: 4
In a few short decades, eighteenth-century American colonists staged the modern world’s first successful colonial rebellion and created their own new political, economic, and social structures. This course examines the origins of their rebellion, the war that they waged to secure their independence, and the global ramifications of their actions.
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HIST 4400 - Riots, Reds, and Riffraff: A History of the American Working Class Hours: 4
This course explores three related topics: the history of work in American life since the mid-nineteenth century; the role of class and class consciousness in American society; and the history of the American labor movement. The following questions will guide us through these three topics: how and why work has changed over the last 150 years; whether there was in the past a distinct and self-conscious “working class”; and how and why labor unions sought to transform the relations of power in American workplaces and in the larger society; We will also examine how and why race and gender have shaped the workplace and class relations.
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HIST 4450 - History of U.S. Social Protest Movements Hours: 4
This course will focus on a variety of social movements including the African-American civil rights movement, the gay and lesbian civil rights movement, the labor movement, and various anti-war movements. The emphasis will be on how and why people became engaged in these movements and why others fought so hard against them. The course will also explore the relationship between the state and the social movements under examination. Finally, the course will pay close attention to how race, class, gender, and sexuality shaped these movements and the opposition to them, the causes of success or failure, and the long-term impact of these movements on American society.
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HIST 4510 - East Asian History and Film Hours: 4
This course examines East Asian history through the lens of film, emphasizing questions of nationalism and identity. The course analyzes how China, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong have evolved in the modern era, providing a basis with which to explore Asian cinema. The course examines concepts of “national” and “trans-national” cinema by studying the history of the film industry in Asia and focusing on film directors who are seen as representative of their respective national cinematic traditions. By studying popular Asian film genres, such as martial arts films, animation and monster movies, the course also analyzes genre as a cinematic mode of representing ideas about nationalism and identity.
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HIST 4560 - Modern Korea Hours: 4
This class will study the formation and rise of modern Korea, covering the period from late 1800s to the present. Students will examine the internal and external pressures that caused Korea’s long-lived and stable Chosŏn dynasty to collapse and study how subsequent colonization and war ultimately divided the Korean peninsula into the two very different nation-states we see today. In addition to studying historical events and trends, students will also analyze the philosophical principles underpinning systems of thought that have shaped life on the Korean peninsula, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, and Communism.
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HIST 4630 - African Independence Movements: 1940s-1970s Hours: 4
This course explores the strategies and choices made by African leaders and groups that led to the emergence of independent African nations. We will look at some of the intellectual, economic, religious, social and military strategies employed in the pursuit of freedom in North, East and West Africa.
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HIST 4660 - African History: Era of New Nations Hours: 4
This course explores some of the challenges and successes faced by some post-independence African nations such as the creation of national identity, the restructuring of the economy, the outbreak of some civil wars, and the creation of the African Union.
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HIST 4800 - Research Seminar - Writing Intensive Hours: 4
The seminar provides an opportunity for independent historical research. Participants explore methodological approaches from history and related social sciences by directly applying these approaches to self-designed projects. Students familiarize themselves with classic and current directions of inquiry in their areas of concentration, and define their own research questions and strategies. Course develops skills of professional historical writing. Seminar is highly recommended to undergraduate students who intend to pursue graduate studies in history or related fields.
Prerequisites: Senior standing or permission of instructor.
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HIST 4900 - Internship Hours: 1-16
Internships are available to majors upon submission of a written proposal. They are arranged individually, usually with local organizations or agencies, such as the Ohio Historical Society.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and department chairperson.
Notes: The number of credit hours varies with the program agreed upon.
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HLED 1111 - Anatomy and Physiology I Hours: 4
The first semester of a two-semester lecture and laboratory sequence of courses in anatomy and physiology with an introduction to chemistry, cells and tissues, the integumentary system with special emphasis on the bony skeleton, joints, and the muscular system.
Prerequisites: EXSC 1800, MATH 1210 or 1220.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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HLED 1112 - Anatomy and Physiology II Hours: 4
The second semester of a two-semester lecture and laboratory sequence of courses in anatomy and physiology with a focus on the systems including the nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, digestive, respiratory, and urinary systems.
Prerequisites: HLED 1111 or permission of instructor.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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HLED 1400 - Individual and Community Health Hours: 4
This course focuses on personal health risk factors associated with nutrition, physical activity, substance use, sexuality, and mental health, and how they relate to injury and chronic and communicable diseases. The course also explores how personal, social and environmental health issues affect community/public health. Roles of public health agencies and organizations, and the function of Coordinated School Health Programs (CSHP) will be discussed. Students will be exposed to individual and population-based strategies for reducing prevalence of health risk factors and incidence of disease and injury in various population groups and settings. Learning experiences and a service-learning component involve students in application of health education skills including hands-on assessment of personal and population needs, program planning, implementation and evaluation of health initiatives.
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HLED 2100 - Fundamentals of Nutrition Hours: 4
This course focuses on the science of nutrition and the impact of daily food choices and eating patterns on long-term health. The course examines nutrient sources and functions, energy balance, links between diet and chronic diseases, diet and exercise, nutrition throughout life stages, nutrition myths and misinformation, and food-borne illness. Nutrient analysis of a student’s diets provides opportunities to improve nutritional health.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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HLED 2525 - Medical terminology Hours: 4
This course is designed for future allied health professionals and medically based degree seeking students, and is a student-centered online computer-based classroom course. It is designed to help prepare and meet the criteria needed to seek graduate school acceptance. It is also designed to help students enhance their knowledge base in medically based terms that will in turn enable them to understand a more diverse array of medical professions.
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HLED 2950 - Group Fitness Practicum Hours: 2
As participants in Group Fitness Practicum, students will identify and demonstrate necessary skills for development and implementation of safe and effective group exercise programs. Students will engage in methods of group fitness leadership, program development, and practical application of leading group exercise. Topics addressed will include exercise safety, monitoring, cuing, music, equipment, choreography, and sequence. Students will be evaluated, in part, on leading portions of a group fitness class.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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HLED 3200 - Applied Performance Nutrition Hours: 4
This seminar course increases knowledge and application of nutrition principles learned in the introductory nutrition course. Emphasis will be on the role of nutrition in health and wellness, disease prevention and obesity. Students will gain additional knowledge in principles of sports nutrition and its role in performance. We will also explore food sustainability and food safety. Current issues in nutrition will be discussed. Students will improve their confidence in applying nutrition principles based on evidence-based nutrition research and practice.
Prerequisites: HLED 2100 or NURS 2400. Open to Nutrition minors only (or by permission of instructor).
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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HLED 3440 - Weight Management and Supplements Hours: 4
This course studies principles of healthy approaches to weight loss and weight gain by understanding the physiological and psychological issues that affect weight. Components of effective programs for obesity and overweight will be studied. A 6-week “healthy habits” program will then be implemented by students enrolled in the course. Dietary supplement claims, recommendations and controversies will also be evaluated according to evidence-based research on safety and efficacy. The role of supplements in weight loss/weight gain, disease prevention and athletic performance will be analyzed according to nutrition requirements for optimum health. Laws and regulations governing supplements and the weight loss dietary industry will be reviewed.
Prerequisites: HLED 2100 or NURS 2400. Open to Nutrition minors only (or by permission of instructor).
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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HLED 3800 - Organization and Management in Health and Sport Sciences Hours: 4
The nature, culture, and mechanisms of organizations, leadership and management as it relates to health and sport science careers. Course will focus on understanding and applying individual strengths and personality traits, investigating leadership theories, understanding organizational theories, cultures and techniques of interpersonal and cross-cultural communication, synthesizing ones role in local and global health issues, and understanding and valuing ethical responsibilities.
Notes: Open to juniors and seniors. This course fulfills the dyad requirement if taken with MGMT 3555 or INST 3555. This course has an additional fee.
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HLED 4110 - Strength and Conditioning II Hours: 2
This elective course prepares the student for expected knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) to be competent as a strength and conditioning coach according to the National Strength and Conditioning Association. It is intended to prepare students to work more specifically in the area of strength and conditioning programming as opposed to the more general nature of personal training. It is the second in a series of strength and conditioning classes offered as part of the Health Promotion and Fitness major at Otterbein. By its nature it is more in-depth and intensive, and with more of an application component. Only the most serious minded student interested in working at a collegiate/university level strength and conditioning program and/or graduate school in sport physiology should attempt this class. It is an elective as opposed to the previously required prerequisite/co-requisite course, Strength and Conditioning I.
Prerequisites: EXSC 4100.
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HLED 4901 - Health Education: Public Health Concentration Internship - Writing Intensive Hours: 1-16
The Health Education internship provides an opportunity for students to apply all or most of the seven health education areas of responsibility in a dedicated, 320-hour culminating experience with a community health agency or organization. All seven areas of responsibility and related competencies for NCHEC, and all standards for AAHE may potentially be applied.
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HNRS 1500 - The Critical Spirit - Writing Intensive Hours: 4
This requirement emphasizes the student’s emerging identity as both an independent researcher and a member of a wider community of scholars and researchers. In these sections students will compare how various disciplines have defined the critical function and spirit of inquiry as a source of identity. Sections will emphasize ways in which researchers have pursued knowledge of both self and society. The course will begin to develop advanced expository writing and research skills and begin to prepare students for independent projects.
Notes: This course may be used to fulfill the INST Identity Projects requirement.
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HNRS 2000 - Inquiry and Society: Social Sciences Hours: 4
These sections examine how inquiry into politics and society has developed through history and across cultures. They will explore transformations in theories of the state, law, justice, and human rights.
Notes: This course may be used to fulfill the INST Interconnections (NST 2000’s) requirement.
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HNRS 2200 - Inquiry and Society: Humanities Hours: 4
These sections explore the nature of free inquiry within contemporary society. It examines how society promotes, reinforces, or constricts diverse types of inquiry.
Notes: This course may be used to fulfill the INST Reflection and Responsibility (INST 2200’s) requirement.
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HNRS 2400 - Inquiry and Society: Natural Sciences Hours: 4
These sections explore the scientific inquiry as both an individual and social process. They examine the intellectual and social demands on science within the contemporary world.
Notes: This course may be used to fulfill the INST Natural Foundations (INST 2400’s) requirement.
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HNRS 2600 - Inquiry and Society: Fine Arts Hours: 4
These sections examine art as a method of self-exploration and social inquiry. They analyze creative works as raising questions and defining problems that continue to demand the attention of researchers.
Notes: This course may be used to fulfill the Creativity and Culture INST 2600’s) requirement.
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HNRS 3500 - Junior Honors Project Seminar - Writing Intensive Hours: 2
Students explore research methods across disciplines and write proposals for their Honors thesis projects. Members of the Honors Committee lead the seminar and guide students through the process of exploring literature in their fields, framing research and creative questions, and constructing a thesis proposal. During the seminar, Honors students will identify a faculty thesis advisor in their field who will help to determine the subject, nature, and length of the thesis project and will continue to work with the student in the Senior year. All students who intend to graduate with Honors must register for this junior year seminar in both fall and spring semesters.
Notes: This course and HNRS 4500 may be used to fulfill the SYE requirement.
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HNRS 4500 - Senior Honors Thesis Project Hours: 4
Having designed their Honors theses in the Junior year, Honors students devote the entire Senior year to in-depth work with their thesis advisors and completion of their thesis projects. Completion of the Honors thesis allows students to achieve independent scholarly and creative goals within their own academic or professional fields and confers on them a unique sense of accomplishment and confidence. All thesis projects require the writing of a final paper.
Notes: This course and HNRS 3500 may be used to fulfill the SYE requirement.
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IBM 3700 - International Business and Management Hours: 4
A study of the dynamic political, economic and cultural factors shaping the international business environment, and their implications for managers charged with making decisions in today’s increasingly global firms. Topics addressed include an overview of trade and foreign direct investment theory, and the importance of foreign currency, intellectual property, basic global competitive strategies and foreign entry modes as firms engage in business across borders.
Prerequisites: ECON 2200.
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IBM 3850 - Cross-Cultural Management and Organization Hours: 4
This course addresses in depth the role of culture in shaping the context and practice of management in today’s increasingly global businesses and organizations. Drawing on many fields- management, organizational behavior, human resource management, etc.- it focuses on the special challenges and opportunities created when people from different cultures interact in an organizational setting. Explores the theory and practice of how organizations differ across countries, important frameworks for assessing these differences, and the importance of sociocultural and historical factors in shaping the evolution of organizations and management practice.
Prerequisites: Senior standing or IBM 3700.
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IBM 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4
An opportunity for students to engage in intensive independent study on a business topic of their choice within the field of international business & management. The study will be completed under the direction of a faculty member.
Prerequisites: Completion of most core business courses and junior or senior standing, or permission of Instructor.
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IBM 4900 - Internship Hours: 1-16
Experience with an organization that offers an exposure to business practices relating to the field of international business & management. Students may design their own internship experience within departmental guidelines.
Prerequisites: Junior, Senior status; Permission of instructor and department chairperson required.
Notes: Open to juniors and seniors with better than average academic performance. Credit cannot count toward satisfying to minimum number of courses required for the concentration, major or minor.
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IBM 4920 - International Business Seminar Hours: 4
International business seminar held in a designated foreign country. Course includes lectures, plant tours and corporate/institutional/governmental site visits, city tours, historical site visits and cultural events. Course requires a pre-study on country or region, attendance at all seminar activities during overseas portion and an individual research paper concluded upon return.
Prerequisites: Junior/senior standing required or permission of Instructor. Course may be repeated once with departmental permission.
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INST 1501 - Self Discoveries Hours: 4
These courses will invite you to consider how personal identities are created, transformed, or complicated. They may explore the formation, expression, or evolution of individual identity. Or they may center on dilemmas of identity, including questions of individual meaning, purpose, power, and justice. Subtopics may include “Revolution and Resistance,” “Turning Points,” “Sacred Selves,” “Death Sentences,” or “Personal Narrative in the Digital Age.” Students will read novels, plays, memoirs, essays, poems, or short stories. Courses will nurture expository, reflective, persuasive, imaginative, and autobiographical writing skills, including at least two thesis essays.
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INST 1502 - Situated Selves Hours: 4
These courses will explore identity in a rich range of local and global contexts. Classes may center on interpersonal identities, engaging the intricacies of love, family, or friendship. They may examine social categories of identity—gender, sexuality, race, class, ethnicity, age, nation, and more—or investigate cultural constructions of difference. Or they may examine political identities, studying identity in national and transnational frameworks. Subtopics may include “Identity and Intimacy,” “Criminal Identities,” “The Stranger,” “Disaster Narratives,” “Identity and Human Rights,” “Our Monsters, Our Selves,” or “How Sports Explains Us All.” Students will read novels, plays, memoirs, essays, poems, or short stories. Courses will nurture expository, reflective, persuasive, imaginative, and autobiographical writing skills, including at least two thesis essays.
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INST 1503 - Past Lives Hours: 4
These courses will explore historical expressions of identity, engaging a rich, fascinating and often alien past. Courses may trace the influence of earlier notions of identity on contemporary selfhood, recognizing some kinship between past and present. Or courses may examine the particularity of identity as conceived by other historical periods. Subtopics may include “Epic Identities,” “Inventing Childhood,” “The Libertine,” “Flappers and Gangsters,” “Arthurian Subjects.” Students will read novels, plays, memoirs, essays, poems, or short stories. Courses will nurture expository, reflective, persuasive, imaginative, and autobiographical writing skills, including at least two thesis essays.
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INST 2001 - The Making of Global Society Hours: 4
This course explores the rise of a global society across time and focuses on key historical forces and movements throughout the past that have shaped, sustained, redefined, or threatened to destroy global connections. Sections of this course will explore these larger issues by focusing on a particular theme—migrations, cultural encounters, the rise and fall of empires, or the impact of war on society.
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INST 2002 - Turning Points Hours: 4
This course investigates historical moments of intensive global transformation. It traces the process of change across national and geographic boundaries and it explores the influence of global change in political, social, economic, and cultural life. Sections of this course will focus on a moment of particularly intense and significant transformation that helped bring about the contemporary global world such as the age of Atlantic revolutions, the era of colonial independence, the Great Depression, the Cold War, or the nuclear age.
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INST 2003 - Topics in Psychology and Society Hours: 4
Focusing on the common theme of psychology and society, sections of this course examine the relationship between the individual and social structures, such as families, communities, and cultures. Particular attention will be paid to positive and negative consequences of these shared social experiences on the thoughts and behavior of the individual. Each section of the course will have a special topical focus selected from the following: the influence of media on our lives, social representations of childhood, the psychology of prejudice, close relationships, social control of individual behavior, individual and collective memory, or the ethical considerations of experiments with human participants.
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INST 2004 - Psychological Perspectives Hours: 4
This course examines theoretical perspectives and bodies of evidence within psychology in order to understand individuals and their roles in local and global communities. Focusing on biological, behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic, and socio-cultural perspectives, the course examines the interactions among individual behaviors and the activities of larger groups and societies. The major psychological perspectives will be investigated as a way of better understanding one’s self and others.
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INST 2005 - Politics, Democracy, and Civic Engagement Hours: 4
This course explores the nature and importance of political and democratic participation in public life from local to global levels. While voting is often seen as the primary way to become involved in politics, this course will investigate what it means to be a citizen in many contexts and examine the critical role that politics plays in shaping the world in which we all live.
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INST 2006 - Dimensions of Culture and Society - Writing Intensive Hours: 4
This course broadly examines elements of culture and diversity in domestic and global society as they intersect with structural issues associated with rapidly changing fundamental institutions, the distribution of wealth and power, and access to community, technological and environmental resources. The course explores the intersection of structure and culture in real world terms and everyday issues that we often take for granted (such as life cycle, youth, aging and death, health and health care, immigration and impacts of technology). At the same time, the course will introduce students to basic elements of the social sciences-structure and culture-as we shape them and as they shape societal perceptions and expectations of our present and future lives.
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INST 2007 - The “Other” in Society Hours: 4
Students will learn about the myriad connections that undergird society by studying those who lack such connections. This course will introduce students to the study of those individuals, groups, and behaviors that fall outside the boundaries of society. We will explore how society decides who is “in” and who is “out,” and how other factors such as race, gender, and class, among others, influence these patterns. Included will be discussion of the process of defining behaviors as “acceptable” or “unacceptable,” theories about the genesis of such behaviors and definitions, and exploration of the identities and subcultures where those without connections to the broader society find and forge their own connections and communities.
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INST 2008 - China: History, Culture and Economic Development Hours: 4
This course explores China’s history, culture and economic development and the long-term interactions between China and the West. Since the 1980s, China has emerged as a global and economic power and a major trading partner of the United States. In exploring China’s role in the world today, we will explore China’s rich traditions from the early dynasties through the present. The course is organized with class sessions and assignments during the spring semester and 16 days of required travel in China during the May Term. The course has an additional fee for the travel component.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
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INST 2201 - Theology of Social Justice Hours: 4
This course seeks to identify theological threads that are woven into the fabric of human responsibility toward the inhabitants of the earth and the earth itself. Students will be required to think critically about the complexities of social justice through topical emphases, such as the environment, religious violence, and institutional history (i.e., Otterbein University). Although focusing predominantly on the Christian tradition, the course will also consider other religions and spiritualties. While the course is grounded in religious and theological underpinnings, many disciplines including history, environmental science, geography, political science, and literature will be included. Students will be active participants in the learning process as service-learning projects are developed within each section of this course.
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INST 2202 - The Responsible Self in Hinduism and Buddhism Hours: 4
This course examines the intertwined issues of the nature of the self and the role of duty in human life from the standpoints of Hinduism and Buddhism. Attention will be directed first to Hinduism and its notions of the non-personal spiritual energy-essence that constitutes one’s core self and true identity, and of the importance of duty within the contexts of caste and karma. Attention will then shift to Buddhism’s radical rethinking of the human being as an essentially empty “not-self” that is, despite its name, something very positive. The Buddhist concept of human responsibility will be explored with special attention to the crucial notions of compassion, loving-kindness, and giving. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to think about their own views of self and responsibility in light of the Indian perspectives being explored, and to adopt any that may appear compatible with and complementary to their own.
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INST 2203 - Ethics in a Global Context Hours: 4
The class focuses on different ways of thinking about cross-cultural ethical conflict. Specifically, we will look at relativist and cosmopolitan alternatives to understanding the nature of cross-cultural, moral disagreements. We will also discuss ethical questions that arise due to increased global economic interdependence and consider issues of environmental ethics within an international context, including questions related to population growth and global environmental degradation.
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INST 2204 - Happiness and the Good Life Hours: 4
This course examines, from multiple philosophical perspectives, what it is to lead a happy life, how human beings can best achieve that life for themselves, and to what extent philosophy itself can help us be happy. Throughout the course we shall be concerned both with understanding what various thinkers have said about happiness as well as figuring out how we can apply these lessons to live happier lives ourselves. Some of the themes the course may address include the connection between a happy life and a life that is meaningful, the relevance of recent scientific work on human happiness, the views of the Stoics and other ancient philosophers, the views of medieval and modern philosophers, Buddhist-inspired approaches to happiness, the importance of ethics in finding a good life.
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INST 2205 - Engaged Lives Hours: 4
This course invites students to critically examine their own civic roles and social responsibilities by being directly engaged in local community action. The course will challenge students to become critically aware of their own values, to understand the ethical dimensions of working in communities at a local level, and to ponder the purpose and meaning of such engagement. Students will have an opportunity to reflect regularly on their community experiences and to understand related larger social, cultural, economic, or political issues from a variety of disciplinary viewpoints. Topics of focus for sections of this course may include homelessness, health, poverty, youth empowerment, or food security.
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INST 2206 - Buddhist Ethics and Personal Responsibility Hours: 4
As one of the world’s great religions, Buddhism has a rich and complex ethical structure. This course will introduce students to the basic ideas that support this ethical structure, including karma, rebirth, compassion and emptiness. During the first half of the course, we will read a variety of Buddhist scriptures and commentaries, seeking to understand these ideas as richly as possible. After gaining a deep understanding of these ethical norms, we will then turn our attention to their practical ramifications, analyzing a variety of case studies where Buddhist ethical ideas directly influenced real world conduct. These cases will be drawn from both Asian and western contexts and include questions related to environmental destruction, gender inequality and economic globalization. Throughout the semester we will emphasize the connections between Buddhist ethical norms and action in the world. Students will also, in line with the goals of the Reflection and Responsibility Thread, be asked to reflect on their own internalized ethical norms and how those are reflected in their actions.
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INST 2401 - Life and Earth Systems Hours: 4
This course explores the biological and geological systems and processes that form the foundations of life and our environment. The course emphasizes how scientific data is collected, analyzed, and applied to pressing issues in today’s society. Individual sections will address specific topics such as evolution, the human species, the science of the environment, a naturalist’s view of ecosystems, and medicine in the 21st century.
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INST 2402 - The Matter of Chemistry Hours: 4
Grounded in explorations of the nature of matter, how matter can be transformed, and the relationship of matter with energy, sections of this course encourage students to understand the role that chemistry plays in our understanding of the world. Students will explore topical chemistry issues from a variety of scientific, socioeconomic, and ethical perspectives and will be challenged to examine and question how and why chemistry has advanced and to identify needs for future progress.
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INST 2403 - The Expanding Universe Hours: 4
“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible” –Albert Einstein. This course engages students in a bottom-up study of the universe. Starting on planet Earth, we trace our expanding understanding of the cosmos from its intellectual and methodological beginnings. Students participate in several observational and experimental activities.
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INST 2404 - Physics for Modern Society Hours: 4
Physics is the liberal arts of high technology, that is, most modern advancements in the tools that drive society forward are further developed or inhibited by the laws of physics. Our society is rapidly moving in the direction of being science-oriented, and it is important for future leaders to base their decisions on facts. This course focuses on many fundamental aspects of physics in the framework of how they apply to modern issues in society such as debates over fossil and alternative fuels, nuclear programs, and climate change.
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INST 2405 - Fearless Investigators: How to Ask Questions About Energy Hours: 4
This course is a study of energy, the underlying unifying concept for the natural sciences (chemistry, physics, life sciences, geology, meteorology, etc.). Students learn primarily through investigations–that is, students will design experiments and other investigations to develop and deepen understanding of energy-related concepts. Study centers on the first and second laws of thermodynamics, including: conservation of energy, transformation of energy from one form to another within a system, transfer of energy from system to system, and the concept of entropy. These concepts are recruited in the analysis of complex problems such as sustainable energy sourcing and global climate change.
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INST 2406 - The Nature of Light Hours: 4
Much of what we experience on a daily basis comes from our interactions with light. This course will focus on the physics of light, and will build a fundamental understanding of what light is and how it behaves. Students will examine how light allows us to uncover the fundamental properties of the universe and will investigate its applications in various contexts such as biology, art, climate change, and technology.
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INST 2407 - Garbage and Other Wastes Hours: 4
We all produce wastes but most of us never really consider what happens to them. This hybrid format class explores the world of wastes (garbage, human, hazardous, etc.) and the human connection to those wastes. Students explore environmental processes related to soil and water resources. Impacts from mismanagement of wastes are then connected to the soil and water resource processes, which are then related to impacts to the environment and humans. Field trips to local waste management/treatment facilities provide students with direct observations of local waste management operations.
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INST 2408 - Chemistry in Art Hours: 4
An art project is a chemistry experiment in disguise: the molecular interactions of a dye on fabric and paint on a canvas are what allow these familiar artistic media to be employed. The overlap between chemistry and art provides a fascinating area to explore in an interdisciplinary course. In this INST course, which fulfills the Natural Foundations requirement, students will use exploratory art projects (such as making pigments and mixing paints) as frameworks in which to view molecular behaviors and chemical reactions. Guest speakers will discuss related topics such as art conservation and forgery detection, as the class explores the underlying chemistry.
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INST 2601 - Art and Contemporary Culture Hours: 4
Artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engage in the conversations and debates of contemporary society, sometimes by reinforcing mainstream beliefs and values, other times subverting or challenging those values. Contemporary visual arts take many forms; photography, film, design, painting, sculpture, installation, craft, and printmaking are just some of the media of today’s art world. Sections of this course explore various aspects of the role of art and the contributions of artists to our contemporary world. They ask questions about how images help us communicate, create meaning, and understand local and global relationships.
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INST 2602 - Making Meaning, Making Art Hours: 4
How do artists use the creative process to explore aspects of human meaning and purpose? In this course, students will engage their own creative potential through studio-based projects in order to examine the meaning and nature of human creativity. By working in a particular medium or media such as painting, drawing, photography and others, you will consider the role of art in contemporary culture and the ways it helps us understand ourselves and the world around us.
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INST 2603 - Art, History, and Cultural Identity Hours: 4
This course focuses on topics in the visual arts across different historical periods and locations. Students will consider the multiple functions of art in human cultures and communities while examining how images and objects help to communicate, make meaning, and engage in enduring questions of human existence. Sections of this course will also encourage students to think about our responsibilities for maintaining and preserving cultural heritage.
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INST 2604 - Literary Arts and Culture Hours: 4
This course explores questions of human meaning, identity, community, and responsibility through creative writing. Students will study the tools and strategies literary artists use to reveal, transform, and reimagine human conditions and cultures, and will produce original fictions, poems, personal essays, plays, and/or screenplays.
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INST 2605 - Composing a Musical Life Hours: 4
Over the past one hundred years, technology has influenced the role of music in our lives. With the rise of recording technologies and portable music players, music can now be anywhere; the acts of listening and creating are no longer dependent on live performance. This course will examine the landscape of music in the 21st century. Students will learn the vocabulary for discussing the basic elements of music and practice listening skills across a variety of genres,
particularly those whose existence is dependent upon electronically‐reproduced sound. They will learn the basics of composing music using the computer and make their own pieces to share online. Finally, students will consider the ramifications of consuming and distributing music in a global media culture.
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INST 2606 - Encountering World Music Hours: 4
This course explores the dynamic relationship between world music, its indigenous origins, and its cross-cultural influences. Students will develop a vocabulary for describing each culture’s music and approaches for studying music in a socio-cultural context. Students will attend live music events and reflect upon their experience in discussion and writing.
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INST 2607 - Music in History and Culture Hours: 4
This course focuses on music across different historical periods, primarily exploring music of the European classical tradition. It will ask students to ponder the relationship of these traditions to questions of human meaning and purpose and to explore the connections between music history and cultural history as a whole. The course will include music of other cultures, especially those traditions contributing to American popular music. It will also provide the vocabulary for discussing the basic elements of music and how to incorporate these elements to build their listening skills. Students will attend live music events and reflect upon their experience in discussion and writing.
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INST 2608 - Theatre: Performing/Reforming Society Hours: 4
There is much to learn about a society through its theatre. In this course, we will study plays from around the world, focusing on the human and social issues—both unique and universal—reflected in them. We will explore theatre’s inherent ability to “hold the mirror up to man” and we will challenge ourselves to look deeply into this mirror in order to better understand the human condition. We will also examine ways in which theatre has been used as a powerful vehicle for social change. Finally, we will turn our attention to specific problems facing our Columbus-area community and consider ways in which theatre could be used to address these concerns.
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INST 2609 - The Art of Film Hours: 4
This course will study film as an art form from a variety of cultural, historical, and national and global perspectives. The course will introduce students to basic film terminology and techniques such as mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, narrative, sound, and genre. Students will study film from a range of styles and time periods, including the silent era, classical Hollywood cinema, “indie” cinema, anime, or world cinema. Possible topics of the course could include a focus on film genres (such as film noir, the western, the gangster film, or the woman’s picture) or film directors (such as Alfred Hitchcock, Todd Haynes, Akira Kurosawa, or Ousmane Sembène). Course topics will be offered in a range of areas and may include courses on world cinema, masculinity in cinema, horror film and contemporary culture, or theories of documentary, for examples. The course will examine film from both a formal perspective and as an ideological construct in relation to gender, class, and globalization.
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INST 2610 - Contemporary Thai Cinema Hours: 4
Contemporary Thai Cinema will examine contemporary Thai film in the context of both global and local issues. Topics and genres include the basics of film language, gender and identity, rural vs urban, martial arts, horror and art house films.
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INST 2611 - Japan and the Beauty of Ambiguity Hours: 4
“Boiling water, serving tea.” - Sen no Rikyu. How is this an act of profound beauty? And, in turn, what is considered beautiful in the context of tea. In this course we seek to answer this question, by examining the artistic traditions of Japan, especially those influenced by Shinto and Zen Buddhism. In the process, we will look at how the arts of Japan have developed over time, exerting considerable influence on Western art and in turn being influenced by principles from the West. From the nature of gardens to the global reach of anime, we engage in the rich, diverse artistic visions of Japan.
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INST 2612 - Special Topics: Art & Art History International Travel Course Hours: 4
This course focuses on the study of art, architecture, and cultural heritage beyond the United States. Following a period of study at Otterbein’s campus, students and faculty will travel to an international location to deepen their knowledge by studying the culture’s art and architecture in person. No previous knowledge of art or art history is needed to take this course. Locations for travel may vary by year and course section; possible travel destinations include Spain, Italy, or Thailand, amongst others. Length of travel may vary, but will in general be short-term travel for 10 - 14 days. Permission of the instructor is required for registration. Payment of a course fee to cover travel costs is required for this course.
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INST 3501 - Inscribing the Body: Sexual Identity in Contemporary German Women’s Fiction Hours: 4
This course will explore the fiction of German-language women authors in English translation whose prose confronts issues of sexuality and identity formation from the pre-feminist period to the present. Course texts will focus on unconventional and experimental conceptions of the self in relationship and investigate the implications of these for both feminist theory and women’s studies in German-speaking Europe and the United States. Through these authors, we will make relevant connections between the German and American women’s movements of the 1960s and 1970s through the “post-feminist” period of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Works by canonical authors on postwar identity politics as well as sexually explicit novels by lesbian, bisexual and heterosexual writers from popular culture will be included.
Notes: This course fulfills the dyad requirement when paired with one course from among ARTH 3300, COMM 4100, FMST 3281, INST 3504, INST 4011, WGSS 3010, WGSS 4026.
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INST 3502 - Culture or Civilization? A War of Words and Ideas Hours: 4
This course will investigate some of the questions pertaining to the birth of the concept of culture in opposition to civilization: What is culture? How rational are we? What role does the subconscious/collective unconscious play in our society? What is the role of the masses in democracy? What are the values of our modern society? How justified is a notion of popular culture? We will explore the war of words and ideas spun around the conflict between “culture” and “civilization” in literature, history, art, cinema and political philosophy. We will provide answers to some of the old questions and ask new, up-to-date questions that are relevant for our global world, such as: Can we talk about a global culture? What are the values of a future global society? Is a collapse of civilization possible? Why do we fear an apocalyptical scenario? (Paired with INST 4002 to fulfill the dyad requirement.)
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