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B.S. in Actuarial Science

Otterbein University Course Catalogs

2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Apr 20, 2024  
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS


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  • FYS 1008 - Finding Voice; Making Noise

    Hours: 3
    In his self-help/management book, “The 8th Habit,” Steven Covey states, “the crucial challenge of our world today is to find our voice and inspire others to find theirs.” While Covey brings the concept of voice into popular culture, critical scholars in many disciplines have wrestled with the notion of voice, specifically seeking to hear and understand the voices of marginalized individuals, who have often been silenced. This course will examine power and identity. Through readings, activities and lectures, student will explore the concept of voice, and uncover how those who have been silenced have found and used their voices. The ultimate goal is for students to apply the lessons to their own experiences, discovering their own voices and the power that they have to be heard and make a difference on campus and in our society.
  
  • FYS 1009 - Screening Teens/Scripting Identity

    Hours: 3
    “All we are not stares back at what we are.” - W.H. Auden. Contemporary teen film - films that take adolescence and adolescents seriously - and the identity scripts that “stare back” at us. Teen cinema’s depictions of what we are, and what we aren’t, as we come of age. How movies document the “identity assemblages” of youth, gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, ability, etc. that are written on teen cinematic bodies. How film dramatizes the realities of a twenty-first-century adolescence: sex, drugs, love, rage, violence, poverty, alienation, rebellion, etc. Screening films, such as: The Breakfast Club, Heathers, Thirteen, Elephant, Almost Famous, Juno, Pariah, and Winter’s Bone. Reading relevant theory and criticism.
  
  • FYS 1010 - How Green Do I Have to Be? The Psychology Behind Environmental Decision-Making

    Hours: 3
    “Being green” is a term that conveys many ideas, labels and ecological connotations. The term can be used to describe environmental behavior, such as recycling, consumer conduct, dietary choices, and resource conservation. It can also be used as a persuasive technique to guide consumer attitude, behavior and purchasing choices, which may or may not be environmentally sound. The decisions we make are based on our early influences (family), our learning experiences (schooling), our personal experiences, our cognitive abilities as well as the social relationships we form and develop. Discussions will focus on the most predominant environmental issues faced by consumers on a daily basis, including consumer spending habits, such as clothing choices, water ethics, food production, energy choices, and recycling. Consideration of environmental decision-making in issues concerning environmental justice, global justice, NIMBY, and pro-environmental behavior.
  
  • FYS 1012 - The Journeys and Stories of Our Lives

    Hours: 3
    Our lives are filled with journeys, both those experienced and those observed by others. Exploring the journeys that students have taken as well as those in their families and those in course readings. Seeking to understand how those journeys have shaped one’s sense of self and the way in which they experience the world. Through this reflection, defining our own sense of personal identity and perspective of the world. Finally, reflecting upon our own transition journeys to Otterbein and seeking to discover the resources and support on campus to assist.
  
  • FYS 1013 - Women’s Leadership

    Hours: 3
    The meaning and significance of leadership in general, as well as the historic, current, and future challenges and opportunities associated with women seeking and fulfilling leadership roles in their professions and in society. Examining various perspectives on leadership and advice on how to become a leader today and in the future, as well as the social, cultural and economic factors associated with women and leadership. Speakers who work in different sectors will discuss their individual views and experiences related to women and leadership roles.
  
  • FYS 1014 - Race, Gender, and Class in American Sports

    Hours: 3
    How sports can be used as a lens to view our rapidly changing world. Growing up in both a local and global sports culture. How sports are used in education and whether they reflect or help define cultural values and gender roles.
  
  • FYS 1018 - The Hero’s Journey Through College

    Hours: 3
    The myth of the hero involves a central character who must leave behind the ordinary world to complete a series of physical or psychological tests. The hero’s courage, strength and resolve are all required to successfully overcome the dangers and pitfalls of this journey. If all the challenges are met successfully, the hero undergoes a spiritual or emotional transformation and is returned to the ordinary world a stronger and wiser person, often using the skills he or she has gained to restore order in the community. An introduction to the hero myth throughout history and across cultures. Investigating depictions of the hero’s journey in American culture, with special attention paid to cinematic representations. Identifying and analyzing the components of the heroic narrative in literature and film. Considering the myth of the hero as a metaphor for the student’s journey through his or her college education. Investigating the ways in which college, like the hero’s quest, can be a challenge leading to a transformation of the self from an untested novice to an educated and experienced adult.
  
  • FYS 1021 - Don’t Drop Your Cell Phone in the Outhouse: Viewing Other Cultures

    Hours: 4
    A Peace Corps volunteer recently told me, “I make sure my cell phone accompanies me on each trip to the outhouse. After all, if I were to fall into the eight foot hole how would I ever get out unless I called for help?” The seeming contradiction of owning a cell phone but using an outhouse stuck with me. How could a country with no plumbing available have consistent cell phone use among their general population? Likewise, how could 60 percent of the population be living in tents but have available internet connections in those tents? Examining our own ideas, thoughts, impressions, values and priorities. Through discussion and perusal of blogs, research articles, DVDs and literature, identifying cultural “contradictions” and exploring reasons for these “contradictions.” Answering the question: “How do our own backgrounds and beliefs shape the way in which we view others? How can we take these understandings and become viable members of the Otterbein, local and global communities?”
  
  • FYS 1022 - Revolutions

    Hours: 3
    A study of selected revolutions in physics, specifically the Copernican revolution, the theory of relativity, and quantum theory. Developing a concrete understanding of the basic physical principles that underlie these developments. Consideration of how these discoveries illuminate the nature of science, and discuss the impact they have had (and continue to have) on our conception of the natural world, on philosophy and on society generally.
  
  • FYS 1023 - To Infinity and Beyond

    Hours: 3
    Concepts of infinity trace back at least as far as the ancient Greeks, with significant connections to philosophy, theology, and mathematics. Infinity also has strong metaphorical connotations in modern culture. Tracing the historical development of infinity while also exploring the 20th century revolutions in understanding the nature of the infinite in logic and mathematics.
  
  • FYS 1024 - Leadership Pathways

    Hours: 3
    The formative paths toward an understanding of leadership principles and practices. Examining and experiencing emergent ways of seeing ourselves, others, and human situations defined locally and globally - all against a background of traditional and non-traditional leadership roles and models. Through critical self-reflection, identifying pathways for joining the sides of the self, achieving common purposes, collaborating, effecting change, and accepting the responsibilities of the engaged citizen. Introduces students to the goals of the Integrative Studies program. Includes participation in FYE and service-learning activities.
    Prerequisites: Not open to students with credit for LEAD 1000.
  
  • FYS 1025 - Discovering and Developing Your Strengths

    Hours: 3
    While most of us know the benefits of physical strengths and fitness many do not know or understand personal talents and strengths. The connections between physical strengths, academics and social behaviors as well as discovering personal strengths. Investigating, analyzing, and activating these strengths in academics, career exploration, relationships, wellness, and community engagement. Exploring the connection between our own personal strengths and those of others. How do these strengths currently influence our choices, behaviors and relationships and how can we use these strengths to shape our futures? This is a service-learning course.
  
  • FYS 1028 - The Other in World Literature, Art, and Cinema

    Hours: 3
    Introduces first-year students to academic discourse using world art (Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portraits and her Diary, literature (Lispector’s The Passion according to G. H., Oyono’s Houseboy), and film (Ozon’s The New Girlfriend, Denis’s Chocolate) to explore the relationship between the self and the other. Taking the other as it appears in the world as a concrete person, this seminar begins with Jacques Lacan’s mirror stage scenario to lay out the framework for subsequent discussions of those moments of “selfi(e)ng” and “othering” that inform our discussions of otherness in terms of gender, race, and sexuality. Going beyond Lacan’s egoistic image of the subject, we will examine the relationship between the self and the other in a wider context, in which the other’s gaze plays a crucial role in the way the subject constitutes an identity sexually, racially, ethically, or socially. These perspectives inform not only how the self relates to others in the real world, but also how this relationship should be lived ethically: How should one approach the other? How does one respond when the other is abusive or violent? Or, what can you do for the other that would have a positive impact on her/his life?
  
  • FYS 1033 - Arts are Alive

    Hours: 3
    The arts are alive in all cultures. Exploring the cultural, sociological and aesthetic aspects of the arts through listening to music, viewing visual art, discussing current economic issues related to the arts, and analyzing and critiquing the arts. Enjoying art exhibits, workshops, and performances on the Otterbein campus that will introduce to the many opportunities in and through the arts.
  
  • FYS 1035 - Political Scandals: The Consequences of Temporary Gratification

    Hours: 3
    Examines political scandals of the 20th and 21st century to evaluate why political officials and decision makers risk their political careers and personal lives for sex, money and power.
  
  • FYS 1036 - Reading for Our Lives

    Hours: 3
    Many of us grow up liking to read, but begin to see reading as a chore at some point, a requirement for school or an obstacle between us and other, more exciting activities. Others of us have never liked to read or struggle with it. Yet we know reading is important and often wish we could be better at it and even like it more. What would happen if we read for our lives? How might reading and our attitudes about it change if we changed our questions, approaches, and aims? Students will read a couple of books together (the common book and one other), choose other books they would like to read from lists in pre-determined categories (going through a transition, growing up, being different, helping others), and bring ideas to class for other books to read in categories they determine. Books will be read in book clubs, sharing discoveries with other clubs and the class, and discussing how reading for one’s life differs from other kinds of reading. Different technologies of reading will also be explored: books, internet, portable reading devices, and phones.
  
  • FYS 1037 - The Soundtrack of Your First Year

    Hours: 3
    Creating an online record of the first year at Otterbein. Self-reflection will play a great role in creating this virtual mirror of “freshman personas”. Musical examples will be used as part of this reflection on this time in our lives and essays will provide a virtual time capsule to be kept forever. Focuses on campus resources, participating in campus activities, and viewing ourselves as part of the larger Westerville community.
  
  • FYS 1038 - Identities, Dwellings and off the Grid Living

    Hours: 3
    Exploring a new approach to residential dwelling design aligned with personal identity and energy efficiency. By meeting the certification standards of the Passive House Institute, United States (90% efficiency), it is possible to construct a building that requires no furnace or a/c units. Examining the role of “Identity” as a marketing objective in our society and reviewing the applications where it is most prevalent. Investigating a design of a residential dwelling aligned with our personal identities. The design will also explore sustainable building materials and techniques. Intended for anyone who is interested in contemporary home design. One need not be overly concerned with technical abilities. Rather, we will focus primarily on creative ways to incorporate unique and energy efficient design into a home as well as reducing material and energy cost significantly making unique home ownership accessible to more individuals.
  
  • FYS 1039 - The 411 on Election 2014

    Hours: 3
    It is easy to be disillusioned by politics and to convince ones’ self that individual citizens are not empowered to make improvements. However, this situation seems hopeless because of how the election and daily governance are portrayed by the media. Restoring lost hope by analyzing some of the challenges the media faces by examining the candidates’ communication in the context of the 2014 Election. Exploring recurring communication strategies in candidates’ advertising, speeches, and presidential debates. Examining strategies and gaffes that emerge in this particular campaign.
  
  • FYS 1041 - Transitions through International Comparisons

    Hours: 2-3
    Reading literary, philosophical, and religious texts that introduce and illustrate important traditions in the Western world and in other parts of the world, with an emphasis on China. Focusing on Confucianism, Christianity, and Existentialism. Texts will include sayings, parables, stories, speeches, and an autobiographical philosophical essay. Key ideas in those texts will be the used to better understand the traditions. Considering possible similarities and differences among traditions. Key concepts will include the Confucian idea of ren (including the question of how to translate this into English), the Christian idea of love (agape), and the existentialist idea of freedom. Figures will include Confucius, Mencius, Martin Luther King, and Victor Frankl. Designed for Otterbein’s international students, but also open to American students who have an interest in global issues and working with a cohort of international students. Must be taken in both Fall Semester and Spring Semester.
    Notes: Repeatable to a maximum of 4 hrs.
  
  • FYS 1042 - Music and Ideology

    Hours: 3
    Examining ways in which philosophy, art, literature, and mathematics have altered the course of Western music history. Using a chronological approach, examining the effects of Enlightenment thought, Romanticism, ‘Sturm und Drang’, Nationalism, Symbolism, Modernism and other seminal ideas and philosophical approaches. Key topics from mathematics and music, including temperament and the golden ratio, will be included.
  
  • FYS 1044 - Evolution and Identity in Science Fiction

    Hours: 3
    Since the mid-nineteenth century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection and other theories of evolution have been central to our understanding not only of the natural world, but of human nature and humanity’s place in the universe. Examining evolutionary theories from Lamarck, Darwin, and Dawkins (and some offshoots of these theories, such as Social Darwinism, free market economics, and the meme) through the prism of science fiction and imaginative fiction. Investigating ways that evolutionary theory informs our understanding of who we are (and who we are not) by framing how we think about identity and difference, nationalism and war, what constitutes an ideal society, and what the future might hold for humankind.
  
  • FYS 1045 - Alcohol and Food in History and Culture

    Hours: 3
    Examining the roles that food and alcohol play in shaping societies and culture. Exploring questions of how food and alcohol consumption shapes and reflects our individual and cultural identity as well as differences in gender, class and race. Tracing the history of food and alcohol production and consumption and reflecting on how the modern food system (including science) shapes our behavior. Exploring the roots of contemporary issues related to cultural identity, industrialization, globalization, and sustainability.
  
  • FYS 1046 - Eastern Encounters: Identity and Change in Modern East Asian History

    Hours: 3
    An examination of Asian history through the lens of identity. How personal and collective identity interacts with and informs larger political, social and cultural transformations. Inquiring into the nature of political power, the succession of dynasties and military regimes, the assertion of territorial and ethnic boundaries in the past and in the present, and the transformation of family structures, economies, and diplomatic relations. Focuses on the modern history of East Asia (China, Japan, and Korea) from the eighteenth century onward, including the national histories of each of these countries, and also develops a comprehensive understanding of the broad and lasting cultural heritage of East Asian civilizations.
  
  • FYS 1047 - Politics of Equality and Inequality

    Hours: 3
    Equality is considered one of the basic elements necessary for democracy. Yet, especially since the recent “Great Recession,” the United States has been marked by growing economic inequality. The richest 1% of Americans are increasingly wealthy and the remainder are relatively less wealthy than in the past. A discussion of whether recent economic trends threaten democracy in the United States.
  
  • FYS 1048 - Are We Alone Together? How Global Travel Impacts Your Identity

    Hours: 3
    Technological advances brought to sea, land, and air travel have led humans out of their comfort zones, out of their villages, towns, countries and continents, and have confronted them with cultures that were at the same time familiar and different. The question of identity has gradually become more and more important as humans have tried no only to define one another, but also to better understand themselves through the eyes of the others. Investigating the many ways in which cultural encounters influence identity and asks questions such as: Can travelling enrich our understanding of the self and the world? Do intercultural encounters lead to mutual understanding or also to conflict? What do national identities mean in a global world? Is the individual identity threatened by other identities? Reflecting on a number of relevant resources, including books, films, and hybrid (web-based) sources.
  
  • FYS 1050 - Baseball in the Negro League

    Hours: 3
    Tracing the story of Negro League Baseball, emphasizing the social, cultural and historical circumstances which gave rise to the phenomena starting with the growth of local all-black independent teams in the 1880’s through the waning years of the leagues in the 1950’s. Topics such as the plight of the black athlete, social and civil rights, segregation, the business side of sports, evolution of the game and its equipment, breaking of the color barrier, and the reasons why the Major Leagues originally chose to disenfranchise black players will be addressed.
  
  • FYS 1053 - Orientation to Media Genres

    Hours: 3
    The far-reaching impact of the modern day media landscape is enough to make someone say “OMG!” An orientation to media genres that encourages a deeper understanding of today’s media platforms as an interconnected global industry. Gaining an appreciation for the importance of media professionals to actively pursue public engagement and social responsibility. Reflecting on how media programming provides images, lifestyles, and stories that relate to the identity of the human self and its place in the world.
  
  • FYS 1054 - The History of Rock and Roll

    Hours: 3
    An introduction to the history and culture of rock and roll. An overview of ancestors and influences: blues, boogie-woogie, jazz, country and western, and gospel, in particular, and the success in the 1950s of rhythm and blues musicians that marked the birth of rock and roll. The musical and social trends of the 1960s, including the influence of the British Invasion, the rock explosion and social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the emergence of new genres such as punk, reggae, disco, funk, new wave, heavy metal, and grunge during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. An exploration of current musical trends and genres including rap and hip-hop. Exploring the historical progression of rock and roll while also examining topics such as cultural geography; rock and roll as a working-class art form; race, gender, and class relations; generational conflict; youth cultures and subcultures; and the business of rock and roll.
  
  • FYS 1055 - Asking the Big Questions

    Hours: 3
    College is the time for asking big questions: Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? Who will I love? Exploring these questions, and the ways we can use them to make meaning from our experiences in college. What do these questions mean to us as individuals? What do they mean to us as members of a community? How do these questions help us think about the world around us and help us understand the concept of the common good? Service, discussion, readings, films and activities are used to consider the implication of these questions for first year students. Issues of identity, vocation, and relationships will also be explored.
  
  • FYS 1058 - Climbing Mountains

    Hours: 3
    Forget the analogies, and pass on the virtual experiences. Focus on the very real endeavor of getting one’s body to the top of an actual geologic cliff, peak or summit. Examining the many aspects of climbing including: the geology of cliffs and mountains, the biomechanics of training, the psychology of risk taking and perseverance, the physiology of going to altitude, the cultures that live in mountains, and the techniques of actually climbing. Includes two optional climbing field trips.
    Corequisites: LFW 1004
  
  • FYS 1059 - Adolescence: Crisis or Transition?

    Hours: 3
    Is adolescence just a transition in life, a place you pass through on your road to adulthood? Or is adolescence a discrete stage of life, a discontinuity from the childhood that came before and the adulthood that follows? Or, finally, was G. Stanley Hall, the father of American Psychology and the first to write about the Psychology of Adolescence, correct when he described adolescence as a time of “Sturm und Drang” (“Storm and Stress”)? Exploring adolescence from a diversity of psychological perspectives, as well as its representation in popular culture (autobiographical, literary, historical). Comparing insights from those representations with the observations, research and fieldwork drawn from psychology. Focusing on the intersections with gender, global culture, race/ethnicity and class as they overlap, compete and reinforce the developing adolescent identities.
  
  • FYS 1061 - Highway to Health: Your Personal Wellness Journey

    Hours: 3
    The 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. Exploring how personal, social and environmental health issues affect your personal health. Individual strategies for reducing prevalence of health risk factors and incidence of disease and injury. Learning experiences and a service-learning component aid in application of health education skills including hands-on assessment of personal needs, and possible program planning, implementation and evaluation of health initiatives.
  
  • FYS 1062 - Health in the 21st Century

    Hours: 3
    Healthcare leadership and health issues from the viewpoint of the professionals who work in healthcare settings. Issues and conditions that are representative of healthcare in the 21st century in the United States and the world. Developing an understanding of how individuals and groups have used innovation to combat real world problems and answer the question “Can one person affect the health of others?”
  
  • FYS 1063 - Once Upon a Time: Adventures in Multi-Literacies for the 21st Century Reader/Author

    Hours: 3
    What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century? How does the way we tell a story influence the message conveyed? What strategies and techniques should we use to critically analyze multimedia texts? Reflecting on the literacy tools and practices we bring to Otterbein. Identifying literacy tools and strategies we know and need to learn in order to access information and communicate while learning at Otterbein. Hands-on experience in a wide range of multimedia literacy tools, including tools that facilitate research (database, websites, and eTexts,) collaboration (Diigo social bookmarking, Google Docs, Wikis, Voicethreads), and communication (Audacity, PowerPoint, Movie Maker, Photostory, BlogSpot, and Digication ePortfolio). Using these tools to identify an idea or question to explore related to the first year experience, researching information in support of that story, and communicating what was learned in a multimedia storytelling festival complete with red carpet, awards, and after party. Think: This American Life meets Independent Lens. How to conduct inquiry using known and new media literacy tools and processes to research, collaborate, and construct a story.
  
  • FYS 1064 - Monsters, Freaks and Outcasts

    Hours: 3
    Common preconceptions about science and scientists are ingrained within us; from Frankenstein to Dexter’s Laboratory we are presented with very specific ideas about who a scientist is. Exploring our expectations of what a scientist is, their identity, behavior, and motivations. Answering questions such as: Are there really mad scientists? What are women in science really like? Why do we think of Albert Einstein when asked to picture a famous scientist? Examining common archetypes in books, television, and movies and compare these to real life examples. The changing identity of scientists through history, efforts to introduce diversity into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, and examples of minorities (race and gender) in science. Learning the true identity of scientists through “big picture” discussions, including specific scientists and their contributions to science. The impact of our perceptions and preconceived notions at the individual level to the global scale.
  
  • FYS 1065 - History Mysteries

    Hours: 3
    Who built Ohio’s mounds and why? What happened at the Salem Witch trials? Where did the Lost Colonists go? Exploring these and other historical mysteries while becoming a historical investigator. Our understanding of history is always flawed and incomplete, so it takes some creative sleuthing to better understand what happened in the past and why. How to identify good history mysteries, how to find clues and investigate these mysteries, and how to propose your own solutions to what happened.
  
  • FYS 1066 - Global Flash Points

    Hours: 3
    Contemporary political flash points in a global perspective. How conflicts arise within and between states across the world. The causes and contexts of conflicts as well as the means and prospects for their resolution, including the role that other states and organizations like the United Nations, and NGOs can and do play in resolving tensions. Contemporary problems, such as nuclear proliferation, migration, disease, economic development, social justice, and/or food security in these conflicts. Areas may include the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Ukraine, and Latin America.
  
  • FYS 1067 - Uses of Enchantment: The Literary and Cultural Legacy of Fairy Tales

    Hours: 3
    There is no culture on the planet that does not have some tradition of folk or fairy tales. Originally fairy tales were not intended for children, as throughout most of their history they were told to adult audiences for entertainment and education. Many of the popular fairy tales we know today were originally transcribed and collected by two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, who edited and shaped them from their original and sometimes lewd, violent content into narratives more suitable for younger minds. While the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm reflected many of the specific values of their Germanic culture, fairy tales are now widely viewed as raising universal and archetypal questions about human nature, culture, and morality. Exploring and analyzing the cultural purposes of fairy tales from around the globe by examining their history, narrative forms, and traditions, and how they have continued to develop and change over time. Modern adaptations of traditional tales, and how they reveal themselves in contemporary literature, film, television, gaming, and advertising. Engaging with the tales from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including literature, psychology, feminist and film studies, anthropology and sociology in order to appreciate how fairy tales help us understand the human condition.
  
  • FYS 1068 - Skepticism in the “Information Age”

    Hours: 3
    The earth is flat, vaccines cause autism, and global climate change is a hoax. All of these claims, rejected by mainstream science and refuted by voluminous evidence, are alive and well in the digital realm. But how, if we live in the so-called Information Age, can such obviously wrong claims persist? While it is tempting to dismiss these falsehoods as mere quackery, a critical mind would seek to understand how these ideas gain a foothold, and what they can tell us about the way that we all acquire and communicate knowledge. An introduction to areas of commonly held erroneous belief, cognitive errors that contribute to misinformation, and the importance of testable hypotheses and conclusions supported by data.
  
  • FYS 1069 - How to Succeed in Business

    Hours: 3
    An introduction to business and the effects business operations has on its leaders, employees, stakeholders, and the society it serves. The essential functions of business operation, the impact operations have on the local community and overall society, the impact business has on the culture of the regions it markets to, and the ethical questions businesses encounter. Topics include introductions to accounting, finance, economics, business planning, human resources, strategy, marketing, international business, and management. Questions of individual ethics and social responsibility, and understanding the basic rudiments of business, the basic operations of a business, and the challenges faced by businesses in terms of the general components that impact business decision-making.
  
  • FYS 1070 - How to Date Like an Animal

    Hours: 3
    How our mating and dating behaviors also exist in the animal world. Grounded in reproductive biology and evolutionary theory, how our mate preferences, courtship behavior and reproductive strategies can lead to successful outcomes. Exploration of a diverse number of topics in a safe and respectful manner using popular science texts, scientific literature, journals, and observations.
  
  • FYS 1071 - The Ways We Create: Building Intentional Lives

    Hours: 3
    Building a community centered on creative and innovative approaches to living. Interrogating the meanings of “creativity,” “art,” and “innovation,” and exploring the radical notion of living one’s life with intentional purpose. Thinking about art, making art, and promoting the thinking about and making of art. Becoming familiar with numerous theories of and approaches to creativity, experimenting with methods for incorporating innovation into our daily lives, investigating the power of art to shape perceptions of the world, and inspiring moments of intentionality and creativity across campus.
  
  • FYS 1072 - Fake News and Political Conspiracy Theories: Critical Thinking Strategies to Unmask the Truth

    Hours: 3
    Controversy has recently erupted regarding conspiracy theories, fake news, and the fourth estate. The media plays a crucial role in America’s checks and balances by helping to inform citizens. However, with the explosion of the internet and an information glut in contemporary society, it is difficult to know what sources to trust. Developing critical thinking skills and unmasking sources that lack credibility. A campus, community, national, or international problem area to focus on will be chosen in development of research, critical thinking, and argumentation skills.
  
  • FYS 1073 - The Evolution of Health Promotion: Community, Charity and Consumerism

    Hours: 3
    Public Health, health promotion, and physical wellness are all championed in American culture, but where did these notions come from and how does their history impact what we value personally, socially, and politically?  The roots of public health and health promotion, focusing specifically on the development of grassroots networks within communities, the rise of charity faith-based care, and the socialization and modernization of the medical and health education network. The role of public health as an agent of social change will be explored in the context of the dichotomous influence of health inequality and the wellness industry.
  
  • FYS 1074 - History of Musical Theatre

    Hours: 3
    Musical theatre is a complex and absorbing art form that has existed since the creation of opera in the Italian Renaissance of the early 1600s. Three hundred years later, American musical theatre has drawn on the talents and sensibilities of creative and insightful composers, lyricists, directors, choreographers and performers throughout the twentieth century and into the present. In this course, we will survey the entire history of musical theatre, beginning with a unit on the current state of the art and Lin-Miranda’s Hamilton. We will then travel back to trace that history from the first operatic masterpiece, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo(1607) through the twentieth century. Instead of spending a few moments with many works, we will explore in some detail a series of epochal masterworks, which hold a mirror to American society, and provide a framework for discussion of race, class, gender, ethnicity and the American project.  Shows we will discuss and view in part include:  Show Boat, Porgy and Bess, Oklahoma!, West Side Story and Cabaret.
  
  • FYS 1075 - Examining Mercy and Justice through Self Reflection and Exploration

    Hours: 3
    Building upon the themes, issues and experiences presented through Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. Through additional readings, films, lectures and materials that expand the primary common book topics, engaging in discussion and presentations, research, writing, and experiential learning that challenge you to examine yourself and your responsibilities to local and global communities. Includes a strong “community” commitment and will engage in service, possible field trips, invited guest speakers, and viewing films that expand our views of communities.
  
  • FYS 3900 - Independent Study

    Hours: 1-3
    Independent study.
  
  • GEOG 1000 - World Regional Geography

    Hours: 3
    The basic principles of geography and how they relate to the study of world regions. How physical and human characteristics affect each other to make regions distinctive. The physical environment includes landforms and climate while the human landscape is characterized by culture, language, religion, diet, and economic development. How globalization is transforming the traditional forces that served to create nation-states.
  
  • GERM 1000 - Elementary German I

    Hours: 3
    An introduction to German language and cultures 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, developing and practicing the four skills: oral (speaking and listening), and literacy (reading and writing). Introduces the cultures of German-speaking communities.
  
  • GERM 1100 - Elementary German II

    Hours: 3
    The second semester of an introduction to German language and culture. Continuing to learn the foundations of German with the goal of achieving an intermediate level of proficiency. Engaging in 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. Increasing our knowledge of culture, history, and politics.
    Prerequisites: GERM 1000.
  
  • GERM 3900 - Independent Study

    Hours: 1-3
    An opportunity to engage in independent study in an area not otherwise available.
    Prerequisites: Instructor permission.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • GLST 1000 - Introduction to Global Studies - Writing Intensive

    Hours: 3
    An introduction to the interdisciplinary understanding of the world as a single, interrelated system. Confronting issues of the global system including economic development, environmental challenges, war, poverty, pandemic diseases, imperialism, human rights, and the transnational migration of laborers and refugees.
  
  • GLST 3900 - Independent Study

    Hours: 1-3
    Independent Study.
    Prerequisites: Open to Global Studies majors only, and permission of instructor.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • GLST 4900 - Internship

    Hours: 1-16
    Available upon submission of a written proposal. Arranged individually usually with local organizations or agencies.
    Prerequisites: Open to Global Studies majors only.
    Notes: This course is repeatable.
  
  • GLST 4950 - Capstone: Global Citizenship

    Hours: 3
    An opportunity to synthesize academic studies and internship or study abroad experience with others. Critically reflecting on experiences and future goals, and developing a research paper or appropriate project.
  
  • HIST 1100 - American History to 1865

    Hours: 3
    Surveys the history of the United States from the earliest days of contact and colonization to the era of the Civil War. The ways in which the process of building an independent and unified America was neither steady nor assured. Exploring major social, political, and economic developments. Considers sources of both unity and fragmentation among Americans including people’s competing visions of the nation, how and why those visions changed over time, and ultimately how those very tensions helped to define an American nation.
  
  • HIST 1200 - American History Since 1865

    Hours: 3
    American history since 1865 with an emphasis on the often intense battles that Americans fought over what constituted “the good society.” Topics covered include the Second Industrial Revolution, U.S. imperialism, the two world wars, and the post-World War II “rights revolution.” Examines how race, class, gender, and sexuality have shaped the modern United States.
  
  • HIST 1350 - Europe from the Renaissance to the Nuclear Age

    Hours: 3
    Historical changes in Europe from the humanist movement of the Renaissance to the global awareness of the nuclear era. Traces fundamental transformations in religious life, the development of scientific thought and method, and the origins of modern industrial and technological society.  It examines movements for citizen and human rights, the formation of nation-states, the expansion and decline of European empires, and the nature and consequences of war in the recent past.
  
  • HIST 1400 - The Early Asian World

    Hours: 3
    Survey of the history of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea) from the sixth century B.C.E. through the end of the eighteenth century. The histories of each of these countries and some of the shared historical elements, such as political philosophies, religions, government structures, and writing systems that have shaped the region over time. A broad understanding of Asian history and a foundation for subsequent upper-division study in the field. 
  
  • HIST 1500 - African History to 1800

    Hours: 3
    The first in the Honors program four-year course sequence. Builds a critical intellectual foundation and community for subsequent honors requirements. Consideration of the interplay of individual and social identities, and studying the self as a catalyst of voice, action, and purpose. Considering questions like: How can I identify and shape my core commitments, both as an individual responsible for my own life, and as a participant in the wider world? How can I participate in an intellectual community with a shared responsibility for the public good? How will I become a responsive and responsible member of a community of critical inquiry? Emphasizes critical inquiry, participation in the Honors Community of Scholars, and foundational expository writing skills.
    Notes: Not open to students with credit for INST 1501, 1502, or 1503.
  
  • HIST 1910 - Experimental Course Topics

    Hours: 1-3
    Experimental course topics. 

    This course is repeatable.

  
  • HIST 2100 - Historical Methods and Theory - Writing Intensive

    Hours: 3
    Basic viewpoints, processes, materials and research tools used by historians. The development of history as a discipline.
  
  • HIST 2200 - Ancient Greece and Rome

    Hours: 3
    The political and cultural history of ancient Greece and Rome. Topics include the emergence of the Greek city-state and evolution of Greek democracy; the rise and fall of the Roman republic and imperial state; the role of education and philosophy in political culture; and the evolution of the mythic, dramatic, and historical worldviews. Examines the development of the discipline of ancient studies and the legacy of ancient history in modern politics and culture. 
  
  • HIST 2300 - European Overseas Encounters

    Hours: 3
    How Europeans and Westerners came to view other peoples and societies and how this helped define their views and practices of what it was to be European, beginning with the earliest European voyages to Africa and the Americas. Comparing and contrasting the descriptions and viewpoints concerning these parts of the world with the beliefs and views Europeans developed about Asia before 1800. How European viewpoints of other peoples and societies developed in the 19th century.
  
  • HIST 2350 - Politics and Society in Modern Britain

    Hours: 3
    The political, social, and international history of Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the European Union. Explores the development of parliamentary democracy, the emergence of industrial class society, the expansion and decline of the British Empire, and the nature and impact of Britain’s experience of two world wars. Topics include Irish independence and the conflict in Northern Ireland, social reform after the Second World War, the fate of the union with Europe, and the evolution of conservative, liberal, and radical political traditions in the post-industrial era.
  
  • HIST 2400 - The Making of Modern America

    Hours: 3
    Surveying the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877), the Gilded Age (1877-1890s), the Progressive Era (1890s-1920), the Roaring ‘20s (aka the Jazz Age), and the era of the Great Depression and the New Deal (1930s). During these decades, the United States transitioned from a primarily rural, traditional, and Anglo-Saxon Protestant nation with a small federal government to an urban, industrial, and multicultural nation with a large federal bureaucracy and a welfare state. This transition heralded the emergence of the modern United States. Modernization changed fundamentally the relationships between urban dwellers and rural folk, workers and their employers, citizens and their government, and the state and society. It also raised troubling questions about whether democracy could survive the transition to modernity. Investigating the major events of this period including the Second Industrial Revolution, 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. The years 1865 to 1941 are bookended by the two bloodiest wars the United States has fought, but violence, the use of military force, and war were also chief characteristics of this period. Investigating why modernization produced so much violence in the United States.
  
  • HIST 2450 - Southern Africa 1700 to Present

    Hours: 3
    Southern Africa has been a multi-cultural area for centuries. Examining the cultures of some of the indigenous nation-states and societies that existed in southern Africa. Topics include 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. Exploring 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.
  
  • HIST 2460 - Health and Society in Africa

    Hours: 3
    Exploring 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 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 and 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), and politics of health care in contemporary Africa. Challenging the lines between human and natural environment, between individual and collective well-being, and between bodily and social health.
  
  • HIST 2500 - Modern China

    Hours: 3
    A history of China from the Qing dynasty (established in 1644) to the present. Examines major Chinese political and cultural transformations over time, from the establishment and expansion of Manchu-led Qing rule to the creation of the Republic of China, the 1949 the Chinese Communist Revolution and beyond. How Chinese domestic policies, priorities and culture have changed over time, as well as China’s evolving role in global politics.
  
  • HIST 2600 - Women’s History

    Hours: 3
    An introduction to women’s history as an historical approach. Explores the lived experiences of a variety of women in different places and times. Considers how and why definitions of gender roles have changed over time. Women’s common experiences and critical factors like race, class, and location that often made their lives quite different.
  
  • HIST 2910 - Experimental Course Topics

    Hours: 1-3
    Experimental course topics. 

    This course is repeatable.

  
  • HIST 3100 - Medieval History

    Hours: 3
    The formation of Latin Christendom and the Western tradition between the fourth and fifteenth centuries. 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), flowering of Medieval society and culture during the High Middle Ages (1100-1350), and the political, social, and economic developments of the Late Middle Ages (1350-1500). 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 knighthood and of the arts.
  
  • HIST 3150 - Renaissance and Reformation

    Hours: 3
    The origins of the Renaissance and Reformation in Europe and the impact of these movements on European society and Western Culture. The origins and history of the Italian Renaissance and the impact of this movement on European culture, society and politics. Examining the religious, social, political, and cultural background of the Reformation and the linkages between humanism and leading reformers. The social and political context in which the Reformation developed and consequences of the Protestant and the Catholic Reformations for European politics and society and their global impacts.
  
  • HIST 3200 - Global Capitalism

    Hours: 3
    Today it is taken for granted that we live in a global economy: jobs and the standard of living in America are directly affected by economic developments elsewhere in the world and the benefits of global trade are disputed. Exploring the history of the development of the modern global economy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include how and why global trade networks grow, how industrial economies develop, and the differential processes and impacts of globalization, including in the United States. The history and political economy of economic integration and disintegration in the long-20th century; including rise of a global economy before WWI, the collapse of the global economy in the 1920s and 1930s, the development of communism and capitalism following WWII, and the reshaping of global capitalism between the 1970s and the present. Explores the different policies and viewpoints of developed and developing nations regarding capitalism and the domestic and international impacts of capitalism, including on the environment and culture.
  
  • HIST 3350 - Modern Japan

    Hours: 3
    The formation and rise of Japan as a nation-state, covering the period from 1600 to the present. Emphasizes the last 150 years of Japanese history, in particular 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 path to World War II, the U.S. occupation, and the political, cultural, and social history of post-war and post-occupation Japan, culminating in the present day.
  
  • HIST 3355 - Slavery and Slave Trades in African History

    Hours: 3
    Examining slavery and slave trades in African history, with a focus on changing relationships between global trade and local systems of social belonging. Slavery and slave trades in early African history, including trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean commercial systems.  Exploring the trans-Atlantic slave trade and related transformations in African slavery, and 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. Analyzing primary sources on enslavement and slavery, key theoretical texts on slavery and freedom, and recent scholarly work on local histories of slavery.
  
  • HIST 3400 - War and Revolution

    Hours: 3
    The relationship between war and revolution in modern European history, focusing on the eras of the French Revolution and Russian Revolution. Rural rebellion, urban revolt, and revolutionary movements that accompanied wars both within Europe and within European empires. The emergence of anti-revolutionary tendencies in the 20th century and traces the development of new revolutionary directions during the era of the Cold War.
  
  • HIST 3450 - Nationalism and Internationalism in Europe

    Hours: 3
    The conflict between nationalism and internationalism in the creation of modern European republics. Exploring the concept of the nation as it emerged in the late 19th century and examining the rise of extreme nationalist movements following the First World War, including the emergence and spread of fascism. The evolution of international law after the Second World War, analysis of the post-Cold War revival of nationalist movements, and tracing the history of the European Union.
  
  • HIST 3502 - The Civil War and Reconstruction

    Hours: 3
    The Civil War fascinates many contemporary Americans. 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. Issues are considered from a variety of viewpoints including leaders and common folk, women and men, white Americans and African Americans, Northerners and Southerners.
  
  • HIST 3503 - The History of Sexuality in the United States

    Hours: 3
    The history of sexuality examines how Americans have imagined, represented, embodied, used, and resisted different ways of understanding sexuality. Focusing on U.S. history from the nineteenth century through the 1990s, an examination of the history of sexual ideology and regulation; changing sexual practices; the emergence of distinct sexual identities and communities; the politics of sexuality; sexual representation and censorship; sexual violence; the politics of reproduction; gay and lesbian sexualities; sexually transmitted diseases; and the relationship between sexuality and gender, race, class, and power in the United States.
  
  • HIST 3550 - African American History

    Hours: 3
    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.
  
  • HIST 3580 - Environmental History

    Hours: 3
    The interaction between human beings and their natural surroundings through time. Explores environmental history on a global scale, 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, new perspectives of both history and contemporary environmental issues may be discovered.
  
  • HIST 3610 - Colonizing America

    Hours: 3
    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. 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.
  
  • HIST 3650 - African Encounters with Development

    Hours: 3
    Has development been a blessing or a curse for Africa and Africans in the 20th century? How development programs have been conceived and carried out in the colonial and post-colonial periods, and how their impact on Africans’ lives has been represented and understood by African people, African governments, and international actors. The interaction of ideas and experiences from macro theories of production, growth, and well-being to the micro practices of farmers, bureaucrats, activists, and scholars. Considering the “colonial roots of development,” covering themes such as agricultural improvement, migration, urban sanitation, and famine relief. Examining diverse post-colonial experiences of development, from nationalism to neoliberalism and beyond.
  
  • HIST 3710 - Special Topics in History

    Hours: 3
    Special topics in history.

    This course is repeatable.

  
  • HIST 3800 - U.S. Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity

    Hours: 3
    Most of us either came to these shores ourselves or have ancestors who came to the New World at some point in the not-too-distant past. It is often the case, however, that we might know something (and often not that much) about the experience of our own families and ancestors, but little about why other racial, ethnic, and national groups came to the United States, what they encountered when they arrived, and how they adapted—or did not adapt–to life in the United States. This blind spot helps create the conflicted feelings that so many Americans have about immigrants and immigration even as they celebrate the country as a “nation of immigrants.” Exploring this blind spot by examining the experiences of a wide array of immigrant groups. Focusing on Irish, Asian, African, southern and eastern European, and Latin American immigrants and migrants to the United States, and touching on many issues: 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.
  
  • HIST 3850 - Public History

    Hours: 3
    The practice and theory of public history. Insight into the operation and mission of cultural and historic institutions, including museums and historical societies, which present history to the public. Includes public history methodologies, educational programming, and practical knowledge in public history.
  
  • HIST 3900 - Independent Study

    Hours: 1-3
    Independent Study.
    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and department chair.
    This course is repeatable.

  
  • HIST 3910 - Experimental Course Topics

    Hours: 1-3
    Experimental course topics.

    This course is repeatable.

  
  • HIST 4050 - European Intellectual History

    Hours: 3
    Exploring topics in the history of modern European thought, including the lives and works of theorists and writers, the development of ideological movements, and the formation of intellectual systems, including Marxism, psychoanalysis, and existentialism. Analyzing intellectual currents within the humanities, social sciences, and visual culture, including political theory and criticism, psychological science, philosophy, journalism, drama, and film and photography.  Interpreting the meaning of ideas within their historical contexts, focusing on periods of crisis and recovery.
  
  • HIST 4100 - The Holocaust in Contemporary History

    Hours: 3
    The history of the Holocaust and how that history has compelled a re-examination of society, behavior, and values since 1945. Analyzing the rise of Nazism, the nature of political anti-Semitism, the phenomenon of wartime occupation, and the meanings of collaboration and resistance. Exploring contemporary Jewish history and examining the significance of Holocaust memory in post-1945 collective culture, including its role in movements to protect stateless persons and confront crimes against humanity.
  
  • HIST 4210 - The Industrial Revolution in a Global Perspective

    Hours: 3
    The British Industrial Revolution and how the British economy was transformed from a pre-industrial economy into an industrial economy, including the related social and political changes. The technological and institutional settings in which industrialization occurred and its social and political consequences, including the standard of living. The spread and dynamics of industrialization across the globe, including in Western Europe, The United States, the Soviet Union, China and India.
  
  • HIST 4250 - Revolutions in the Early Modern Era: 1500-1815

    Hours: 3
    The early modern era was filled with political revolutions that transformed societies and states leading to the development of the modern nation state, including in Great Britain, France and the United States. Examining the ideological, political, economic, and cultural origins and consequences of Europe’s early modern revolutions. Analysis of a set of significant revolutions, including the Glorious Revolution in Britain and the French Revolution.
  
  • HIST 4310 - American Indian History

    Hours: 3
    The history of native people living within the present­-day boundaries of the United States, from the origins of their habitation to the present day. The nature of Indian cultures prior to the advent of European colonization, and the historical development of the colonial encounter as it unfolded over several centuries, looking for evidence of both continuity and change among native peoples. How the United States became a powerful influence on American Indian life, and dissecting that relationship. How the history of American Indians paralleled, intersected, diverged, and generally became increasingly intertwined with the history of the United States during the twentieth century. The familiar story of native loss, but also native survival, revitalization, and transformation.
  
  • HIST 4350 - The Era of the American Revolution

    Hours: 3
    The American Revolution is much more than just a war of independence. It has come to symbolize the birth of a new political order, and it remains the foundation of American identity, but the real Revolution is shrouded by myth, making it difficult for most Americans to truly understand this important historical event. Just how revolutionary was the Revolution? And for whom? How do we separate the myth from the reality? And what do the myths tell us about ourselves? Recapturing what it meant to make the difficult decision of choosing sides in an uncertain rebellion. Evaluating the Revolution from political, social, and cultural standpoints, and analyzing what the Revolution meant to Americans in the past and continues to signify today.
  
  • HIST 4400 - Riots, Reds, and Riffraff: A History of the American Working Class

    Hours: 3
    Today, the richest 10% of Americans control more wealth than at any other time in U.S. history, and the wealthiest 400 Americans hold more wealth than the bottom 50% of income earners. At the same time, the wages of working-class Americans have not increased in real dollars since the 1970s. Today’s widening gap between the rich and the rest of us, and the yawning chasm that separates the rich from the poor, looks much like the class structure that emerged in the last four decades of the nineteenth century, when a few Gilded Age robber barons came to control enormous wealth while working-class Americans toiled for meager wages. Examining how and why this class structure developed, how working-class Americans understood and experienced work and their class status, and how the working class managed to organize themselves and their communities around the mission of democratizing the American workplace while also creating the idea of the American Dream. How and why, since the 1970s, the American working class has, in many ways, gone back to experiencing the massive inequities of the Gilded Age.
  
  • HIST 4450 - The African American Civil Rights Movement

    Hours: 3
    This course examines what historians call the “long civil rights movement.” We will explore the origins of the movement in the early 20th century, especially in relation to the Great Migration, the World Wars, the New Deal, and anti-colonialism. We won’t ignore the best-known events of the 1950s and 1960s - these are incredibly important for understanding the movement - and along the way, we will examine how and why people became engaged in the movement and why other people fought so hard against it. We will also explore the relationship between the state and the civil rights movement to assess how state action both helped and hindered the movement. Finally, we will pay close attention to how issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality shaped the movement and the opposition to it.
  
  • HIST 4510 - East Asian History and Film

    Hours: 3
    East Asian history through the lens of film, emphasizing questions of nationalism and identity. How China, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong have evolved in the modern era, providing a basis with which to explore Asian cinema. Examining 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. Through popular Asian film genres, such as martial arts films, animation and monster movies, analyzing genre as a cinematic mode of representing ideas about nationalism and identity.
  
  • HIST 4560 - Modern Korea

    Hours: 3
    Modern Korea, covering the period from late 1800s to the present. The features of Korea’s long-lived and stable Choson dynasty, as well as the internal and external pressures that led to its collapse. The impact of subsequent colonization, how the Korean War divided Korea into the two very different nation-states we see today, and exploring how both North and South Korea have evolved since the division.
 

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