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GAME 320 Indie Game Sprint
Indie Game Sprint is a three-week (twice a week) intensive course in rapid independent game development. Under the guidance of an independent game developer, students learn to work with state-of-the-art tools and techniques to make a simple game or game prototype in the brief time allotted. Emphasis is placed on faster iteration techniques balanced against the requirement to maintain quality, integrity and artistic vision. Students taking this class are warned that a significant amount of non-classroom production time is required.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 36-3060J
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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GAME 330 Advanced 3D for Games
This course focuses on how to work between 3D applications and a game engines. Through this course, students will learn how to create high quality 3D assets and implement them into various game engines. Students will learn how to use basic scripting techniques for implementation and polish in engine. Students will work with engine specific visual effects and physics to create immersive and convincing environments using game engines.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 36-3302
Prerequisites GAME 210 2D Motion for Games
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 335 Shading and Surfacing for Games
In this course, students will learn the workflows necessary to create materials, textures, and shaders for physically based render systems. Students will learn how to edit shaders and materials through the creation and editing of textures in an image-editing program. Students will also be taught the theory behind physically based rendering and how it relates to rendering objects in real time through game engine technology.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 36-3315
Prerequisites GAME 201 Computer Animation: Modeling
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 336 Game Design II
Course furthers the student’s ability to develop games using a real-time engine and game development system. Course gives the designer the opportunity to develop derived game levels and content within already existing game platforms. The course surveys games that will impact their game design process and reflect on themes of pacing, level design, encounters, etc. They customize game components such as game feel, game control schemes, feedback, etc. They will make a series of gameplay examples which demonstrates their mastery of creating game content.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 36-2530
Prerequisites GAME 236 Game Design I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 337 3D Digital Sculpting
This course focuses on skills, techniques and concepts that pertain to 3D digital sculpting. In this class students learn how to concept, produce and present high quality 3d models created using specialized digital sculpting software.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 36-3350
Prerequisites GAME 201 Computer Animation: Modeling
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 340 Sound Design for Games II
Course follows on the first section by introducing more effective means of producing quality work. This is achieved through the use of original recordings and the implementation of these recordings into the game environment. A completed game level will be completed by the end of the semester.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 36-3400
Prerequisites GAME 240 Sound Design for Games I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 345 Advanced Game Scripting and Environments
This course builds on the gameplay scripting practices developed in Game Engine Scripting. They will learn confidence in developing 2D and 3D games, utilizing their own original, functional script elements and stock game assets and environments. Students learn programming design patterns and practice version control workflows with branches and code review. They will learn the basics of technical leadership in the context of game development. Using these skills, students create a new game project with an industry standard game engine.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 36-3510
Prerequisites GAME 225 Game Engine Scripting
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 350 Game Development Process
This course analyzes multiple methodologies of game production, from commercial to independent, both in terms of professional practices and their application in the game development senior capstone course sequence. Students also ideate and document multiple game ideas with regard to their viability as senior capstone projects in terms of production scope and scheduling. Lastly, students learn professional quality assurance and game testing practices through their supervision and responsibility for testing the current Indie Team Game Studio and Large Team Game Studio projects.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 36-3550
Prerequisites GAME 336 Game Design II or INMD 102 Fundamentals of Interaction and INMD 240 Story Development for Interactive Media
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 360 Advanced Topics in Game Art
This is an advanced topics course in Game Art. Different sections of this course will focus on different topic areas related to Game Production that are not taught in other classes. Please contact the department for specifics on the content of each topic.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 361 Advanced Topics in Game Design
This is an advanced topics course in Game Design. Different sections of this course will focus on different topic areas related to Game Design that are not taught in other classes. Please contact the department for specifics on the content of each topic.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 362 Advanced Topics in Game Sound
This is an advanced topics course in Game Sound. Different sections of this course will focus on different topic areas related to Game Sound that are not taught in other classes. Please contact the department for specifics on the content of each topic.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 370 Studio Collaboration
Students in Studio Collaboration act effectively as interns to the Game Studio 2 course, which is the senior capstone final class. Students will acquire the skills of Quality Assurance and Testing. They will continue to grow their personal leadership and social emotional skills such as communication, negotiation, coordination, and professionalism. They will learn to model the best practice software team processes such as Agile/Scrum. Finally they will begin to prototype their ideas for their Game Studio course.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 36-3650
Prerequisites GAME 371 Game Level Production
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 371 Game Level Production
In this production course, students will work on building a game level in phases from design to prototype to deployment. They will work to understand how space is used in a game and design the blocking and scale of elements in a game level. Students will use design pre-production techniques that optimize game production workflows. They will be introduced to theories of personal leadership using best social practices including decision making, emotional mastery, and normative professional behavior. They will learn best team practices used in the video game industry. The game level will be built using art and game editors suitable for use in their portfolio and capstone courses.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly GAME 470
Prerequisites ANIM 240 Computer Animation or GAME 225 Game Engine Scripting or PROG 310 Game Programming I
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 436 Advanced 3D Digital Sculpting
Digital sculpting is a cornerstone of 3D content creation and concept art creation for games. This course serves as a way for students to create more thoughtfully considered content using digital sculpting processes. Students will learn how to sculpt a series of 3D concepts and then develop a concept into a fully realized, hyper realistic piece of content for a game. This goal will be achieved by using more involved retopology and normal mapping techniques to translate high resolution from high polygon meshes to optimized, low polygon game meshes that can be translated to a game engine.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 36-3750
Prerequisites GAME 337 3D Digital Sculpting
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 440 Game Audio Studio
This course is the audio team management companion course to the senior year capstone classes Indie Team Game Studio and Large Team Game Studio. This course explores audio team leadership, administration, and cross-team communication with regard to the scheduling and implementation of audio production tasks related to the senior capstone project’s communication.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 36-3800
Prerequisites GAME 475 Indie Team Game Studio or GAME 485 Game Studio II
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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GAME 475 Indie Team Game Studio
Indie Team Game Studio is the final stage in the Indie Team senior/capstone sequence of the Game Design Major, continuing from Indie Team Game Project the previous semester. In this course, students complete work on multiple small to medium sized game concepts proposed or begun in the previous class. Students complete the class with multiple portfolio-worthy game examples in different emerging forms and the experience of small team collaboration and development.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 36-3995
Prerequisites GAME 470 Indie Team Game Project
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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GAME 480 Game Studio I
Course is the first stage of the senior/capstone experience of the Game Design/Programming/Art Majors. It represents the pre-production stage of the capstone project and is required for all students in Game majors. Students are exposed to best team practices and overall project management, art, sound, programming, and design pre-production techniques and requirements. They also participate in finalizing plans for launching their career in the context of the team. The demo games will be presented in a professional public context.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 36-3997
Prerequisites PROG 420 C++ Programming II or GAME 370 Studio Collaboration or GAME 330 Advanced 3D for Games
Requirements Senior Standing (SR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 485 Game Studio II
Complete a substantial game with market quality content in this intense capstone experience. You’ll use industry best practices and tools as you complete the project started in Game Studio I. Several disciplines (including game design, programming, game art, animation, and sound) work together as Yoyu Studio, and operate as a “team of teams”.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 36-3998
Prerequisites GAME 480 Game Studio I
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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GAME 495 Directed Study: Game Production
Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses, or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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GAME 496 Independent Project: Game Production
Course is an individualized project in Game Production, determined by interest and ability of the student, and carried out under the direction, guidance, and supervision of an instructor.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3
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GEOG 210 Urban Geography: The Study of Cities
Fifty percent of the global population and 80% of Americans live in cities. Urban geography is the social science that investigates the integration of built forms, human interactions and the environmental aspects of places. Course examines settlement patterns, the evolution of transportation, consumerism, neighborhood dynamics, urban planning issues, ethnic diversity, immigration and the built environment. This course will bring an understanding of what it means to be urban historically and in the 21st century.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 50-2703
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Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GERM 101 German I: Language and Culture
German I introduces students to the language and culture of the German speaking countries. In addition to the development of listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills, cultural aspects, and how they differ from American life, will be discussed simultaneously.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 47-1370
HU GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GERM 102 German II: Language and Culture
German II builds on the student’s proficiency in language and knowledge of culture. While the course centers on the development of the four language skills - listening, reading, writing and speaking - cultural aspects, and how they differ from American life, will be discussed simultaneously. In-class work will be devoted to intensive and specific communication practice, so that students will be able to develop and utilize the rules in talking about themselves and their interests in German.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 47-1371
HU GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRAD 610 Teaching Methods and Pedagogies
This course introduces graduate students from across the college to teaching methods and pedagogies, more broadly conceived, as well as in their home disciplines. Students will have the opportunity to work with a faculty member in an undergraduate classroom. Syllabus-writing, time management, and important theoretical and practical aspects of learning and teaching will be covered. Seminars will range from the practical concerns of constructing and conducting a class to the theoretical, thought-provoking issues centered on both teaching and learning.
Repeatable: N
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 131 Survey of Typography
This course allows students to investigate the basic aspects of letterforms and typography through a variety of projects. Students are exposed to the historical background, technical and aesthetic issues, and communicative abilities of typography as individual forms and as text.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-1310
Prerequisites GRDE 136 Design Lab
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 136 Design Lab
This course covers digital typesetting, layout, and image editing techniques for graphic design, illustration, and advertising. Topics covered include digital document construction and layout, typography formatting and specification, digital image editing, and application.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-1320
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 231 Graphic Design I: Form and Structure
As the basis for creating well-structured design outcomes, students in this course are provided opportunities to learn the basics of creating graphic design using the principles of form and structure. This course explores how graphic content informs the structure of visual compositions and client based outcomes. Instruction will engage students in developing conceptual thinking and problem-solving skills; observational and presentation skill; and knowledge of basic typography and color theory.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-2330
Prerequisites ARTS 105 Foundation Studio and GRDE 136 Design Lab or 22 1920 Making 2 and GRDE 136 Design Lab
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 232 Graphic Design II:Semiotics and Form
Graphic design as a discipline is highly focused on creating graphic language. This language helps to organize information and to tell a brand story through consistent use of symbols. In this course, concepts will be synthesized into graphic form by use of symbology and typography as the major components in developing a graphic language as essential to brand building. Students will explore basic concepts of symbology as it pertains to basic graphic structure and universal communication. Outcomes will include 2-D and 3-D design solutions.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-2350
Prerequisites GRDE 231 Graphic Design I: Form and Structure
Concurrent Requisite GRDE 238 Typography for Graphic Design
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 238 Typography for Graphic Design
This course examines the historical, aesthetic, and cultural development of typographic forms from their beginnings in 1455 to the 21st century. Projects involve the examination of historical styles and theories of type design and typographic layouts, and their influence on modern and contemporary typography.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-2340
Prerequisites GRDE 231 Graphic Design I: Form and Structure
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 240 Website Design I
This course covers website design topics, including hypertext, graphic style information, graphic file formats, digital imaging, and basic computer-user interface issues. Course assignments include design and execution of HTML documents and graphics.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-2375
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 252 Advertising Design
This course teaches conceptual and application skills in both verbal and visual advertising. Students create integrated campaigns across a spectrum of print, social media, out of home, and direct response advertising.
Repeatable: N
Formerly ADAD 252
Prerequisites ADVE 101 Advertising Principles
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 305 Publication Design
This course examines editorial operations, production procedures, and the roles of the art director and designer to familiarize students with theoretical and practical concerns of magazine and trade publication design and internet publishing. The course content emphasizes the identity of current publications as a result of design format and grid structure.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-3345
Prerequisites GRDE 238 Typography for Graphic Design and GRDE 232 Graphic Design II:Semiotics and Form
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 315 Book Design
This course begins with a brief history of bookmaking, publication presses, and critique of book classifications. Students focus on the relationship of content to layout and book cover design by examining the unifying elements of type, photos, illustrations, and other graphic devices.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-3347
Prerequisites GRDE 238 Typography for Graphic Design and GRDE 232 Graphic Design II:Semiotics and Form
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 317 Photo Communication
In this course, students develop advanced understanding of photographic imagery and their application to design. Students develop visual language by shooting their own photographs, enhancing photo selections, and improving their editing skills. The course provides students an opportunity to conceptualize designs and the structures and forms of the digital photography they shoot. Students explore location photography and studio practices. Alternative ways to generate photographic images are reviewed.
Repeatable: N
Formerly ADAD 317
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 325 Packaging Design
This course explores packaging materials, surface graphics, marketing, and production problems. Refinement and integration of many design principles are applied in a methodical design process. In-class workshops explore topics including: group critiques, prototyping, building consumer profiles, developing concept boards and visual style guides. In this course students will produce various physical prototypes, 3D renderings and documentation of their projects.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-3360
Prerequisites GRDE 232 Graphic Design II:Semiotics and Form
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 331 Graphic Design III: Visual Identity and Narrative
Building on Graphic Design I and II, students are provided the opportunity to understand methodologies and strategies used for building and maintaining narrative-based visual identities (branding). Students will employ advanced use of typographic skills; explore the development of culturally relevant messages and images, thus building longevity and viability in brand recognition. Corporate client projects focus on use of graphic design to express core values and impact consumer perceptions of the brand. Outcomes may include graphics and complete branding systems.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-3358
Prerequisites GRDE 232 Graphic Design II:Semiotics and Form and GRDE 238 Typography for Graphic Design
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 332 Graphic Design IV: Narrative and Research Studio
In this course students will use inquiry-based methods to find meaning and create narrative-based outcomes. Students are provided the opportunity to understand the importance of design research and information organization. Research phase includes: Data collection and analysis from various relevant sources. This highly intensive course employs advanced use of typography to create information graphics.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-3372
Prerequisites GRDE 331 Graphic Design III: Visual Identity and Narrative
Graphic Design Majors Only (M213)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 336 Design Lab II
This course covers advanced desktop publishing techniques, illustrative techniques, and imaging possibilities on the Macintosh computer. The software applications covered include Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. This course is designed for advanced-level students with a direction in graphic design or advertising art.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-3378
Prerequisites GRDE 136 Design Lab
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 340 Website Design II
This course covers advanced topics in website design, covering human-computer interface design, multimedia use in internet and intranet publications, and network systems design and functions. Course assignments include design and execution of HTML documents, graphics, and other media objects.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-3376
Prerequisites GRDE 240 Website Design I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 348 Experimental Typography
This course studies 20th- and 21st-century design philosophies and their influence on typography and typographic design. Projects allow students to experiment with type from a variety of approaches and examine its possibilities as expressive form in relation to syntax and visual communication.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-3370
Prerequisites GRDE 238 Typography for Graphic Design
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 350 Web Design III
This course covers advanced topics in website design for students in design and art fields. Studies include the creation and implementation of design templates to allow end user control over HTML-based content, files, documents in popular open source, industry standard content management systems. Course assignments include the merger of front end web technologies such as HTML/CSS and back end technologies including PHP/MySQL.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-3381
Prerequisites GRDE 340 Website Design II
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 431 Graphic Design V: Branded Environments
Branded environments are the most advanced form of graphic design as it pertains to all aspects of a complete branded experience. This advanced course encourages investigation and implementation of environmental graphics which impact spatial solutions, starting with narrative creation. In this course students will be given the opportunity to create branding solutions that will become environmental graphics. Students in this course will become familiar with different materials for printing and applying large-scale graphic solutions.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-4380
Prerequisites GRDE 332 Graphic Design IV: Narrative and Research Studio
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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GRDE 480 Graphic Design Practicum: Client Design Studio
This course will create a collaborative, hands-on, real work/real world learning experience for upper level students in graphic design and related disciplines, including illustration and photography. Students will form teams and meet with clients to develop design briefs. Students will be given the opportunity to research, plan, design and produce solutions based on project needs/brief.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 21-4300
Prerequisites GRDE 431 Graphic Design V: Branded Environments
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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HIST 101 African History and Culture to 1600
African civilizations from antiquity to the early modern era are explored to reveal features of selected societies and their major achievements. This course considers internal processes such as migration and cultural exchange alongside external exposures to Mediterranean, Atlantic and Swahili Coast worlds. This course introduces students to historical source material and interdisciplinary techniques relevant to investigating African history and culture.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1001
HI DEI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 102 African History and Culture Since 1600
This course investigates Africa from 1600 to the present. Key topics include, slavery, abolition colonialism, nationalism, liberation movements and modernity. We will emphasize African interaction with these wide ranging historical processes. European and Atlantic legacies in Africa are also examined. Within indigenous, colonial and post-colonial spaces we consider intersections of globalization and local and regional culture and history.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1002
HI DEI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 103 Asia: Early China, India & Japan
Course examines the rise of China, India, and Japan and their contributions to world history and culture from the earliest times to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Content considers how these countries influenced and were, in turn, influenced by the Western world.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1101
HI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 104 Asia: Modern China, India and Japan
Course examines interaction between China, India, Japan, and the Western world, emphasizing the influence of and reaction to imperialism, colonialism and industrialization on the development of these societies as well as the development of political and nationalist movements in modern times.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1102
HI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 121 Europe & the West: Ancient Civilizations
Students gain an understanding of the history and culture of Greece, Rome, and other civilizations of the ancient world.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1301
HI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 122 Europe & the West: Medieval Culture
The history of medieval Europe is illuminated through readings in primary and secondary sources providing students with a background to the culture and worldview of the Middle Ages.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1302
HI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 123 Europe & the West: Modern Europe
Events since the fifteenth century are surveyed, including the Reformation, Counter-Reformation, State Building, various revolutionary movements, industrialization, class conflict, modernization, and two world wars.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1303
HI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 131 Middle Eastern History and Culture: from Muhammad to 1800
From the rise of Islam to 1800, this course introduces unique yet interconnected political, economic, social and cultural histories that are often glossed over, obscured, or unknown. The course explores how far-reaching, yet interdependent geographical areas shaped and reflected networks of economic, intellectual and cultural exchange among and between diverse and robust peoples, societies, and cultures. The course uses primary and secondary sources to both reveal the breadth and depth of individual and collective intellectual, scientific, and artistic inquiry, problem-solving and expression, and how the use of stereotype, caricature and bias has influenced and shaped uninformed representations and understanding of the region, its inhabitants and their contributions to history.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1503
HI DEI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 132 Middle Eastern History and Culture: since 1800
A survey of Middle Eastern history and culture from 1800 to the present. This course examines Islam, Islamic culture, non-Muslim peoples, the Ottoman Empire and its successor nation-states, Western interests in the Middle East and current issues throughout the region.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1504
HI DEI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 141 Latin American History: To 1800
After the arrival of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere, often called the New World, many of the indigenous people who had created American societies were forced to change. This course explores Amerindian cultures and the first three centuries of contact between Native American, African, and European people in Latin America.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1401
HI DEI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 142 Latin American History: Since 1800
Course explores the past two centuries of Latin-American nations in their struggle to overcome their colonial past and establish modern societies. Topics include reform and revolution, the role of the military, dictatorship, underdevelopment, and the agrarian problem.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1402
HI DEI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 143 History of the Caribbean: To 1800
The Caribbean Islands were inhabited by free and independent communities when Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. By studying the people who welcomed Columbus and his successors we can gain a better understanding of the ways in which these and other people came to be dominated by Europeans. This course looks at three of the main themes in Caribbean history, namely, The Native Americans, Europeans and Africans; Comparative European Settlements; and Slavery and Sugar.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1410
HI DEI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 144 History of the Caribbean: Since 1800
The diverse elements that have shaped the Caribbean region since the late 18th century are studied in this course. The historical roots of economic, political, and social issues that have affected the Caribbean islands and mainland enclaves are also analyzed, as well as the impact of their relation to the United States of America.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1411
HI DEI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 151 U.S. History: To 1877
Course examines main lines of American development from the seventeenth century to 1877. Instruction addresses transition from colony to nation, development of an American character, growing pains of industrialization and nationalism that culminated in the crisis of the Civil War and its aftermath, and problems of minority acculturation and treatment before Reconstruction.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1601
HI
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 152 U.S. History: From 1877
Course studies impact of institutional development on American society and life. Content focuses on the past century of vast and far-reaching changes, including the birth of corporate capitalism, immigration and urbanization, the crises of two world wars, dynamic cultural upheavals, Cold War, and the mass movements of protest in the 1960s.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-1602
HI
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 199A Topics in History
Series of courses that deal with specific topics or themes in history. Course is repeatable as topic changes.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly HIST 199
GA
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 199B Topics in History
Series of courses that deal with specific topics or themes in history. Course is repeatable as topic changes.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 201 Nelson Mandela and the Anti-Apartheid Movement
There are times when specific people, places and moments in history capture the imagination of the world. This occurs when that specificity speaks volumes to the human condition and offers lessons that we all sense are important. Such has been the case with Nelson Mandela and South Africa. This course will use Mandela and the evolution of, and struggle against, apartheid as a window into some of the 20th century’s most complex issues such as colonialism, civil disobedience, cultural resistance, freedom, racial theories, election processes, post-war negotiations and social justice.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2026
HI GA
Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 202 Liberation and Resistance in Southern Africa
This course seeks to examine the processes of colonization and decolonization during the historical development of a specific region called Southern Africa. By Southern Africa we mean more than just the eleven countries beginning with Angola, Zambia and Malawi which stretch southwards and eastwards toward the island nation of Madagascar and the Republic of South Africa. We include, as well, the island nations of Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros and the Seychelles. But most significantly, we include the Congo as part of Southern Africa for we argue that the Congo has been and remains a key constituent element of that vast and powerful socio-economic complex historically dominated by the Witwatersrand mining conglomerates of Anglo-American, DeBeers, Union Miniere and American Metal Climax.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2027
HI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 221 Contemporary European Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
Contemporary European Nationalism is surveyed through analysis of the conflicts in Northern Ireland, former Yugoslavia, the Basque Regions of Spain and France, and Chechnya. Major issues examined include the ideological roots of nationalist movements in these areas, the characteristics and tactics employed by violent nationalist groups, the techniques governments have used to defeat nationalist insurgencies, and the ongoing efforts to bring about peace.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2310
HI DEI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 222 The French Revolution
The French Revolution marks the beginning of modern history, and has profoundly affected western society and culture. Endlessly debated since its outbreak in 1789, it has served as beacon for some, travesty for others, and artistic inspiration for many. In this course, we will seek to understand the Revolution’s causes, democratic and egalitarian promise, failures, and impact, exploring the birth pains of modern politics and some of their more intriguing cultural aspects, through the study and analysis of primary sources.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2303
HI GA
Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 223 Russian and Soviet History
Course covers history of Russia from the 1800s to the demise of the Soviet Union. Special emphasis is given to such concepts as the political and economic development of the Russian Empire and the U.S.S.R., the role of women in imperial and revolutionary Russia, the Great Reforms, the Russian Revolution, the Stalin Era, and the collapse of the Soviet system.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2302
HI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 224 German Culture in the Weimar Republic: 1919-1933
This course examines the turbulent history of Germany’s Weimar Republic from 1919 to 1933 and introduces students to the art, architecture, film, literature, music, and theater of this era. Through analysis and interpretation of selected works by various influential artists and writers such as Fritz Lang, Berthold Brecht, and Thomas Mann, this course explores the social, economic, cultural and political climate, as well as themes of class, gender, and race in Germany before Hitler came to power.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2311
HI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 225 Germany Since 1933: From the Third Reich to the Present
This course covers the past eight decades of Germany’s uniquely complicated history, from Hitler’s Third Reich to the present day Federal Republic, examining and analyzing the totalitarian policies of the Nazi regime, the events of World War II and the Holocaust, the division of Germany during the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and subsequent German reunification, as well as Germany’s current role in the European Union and on the world stage.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2312
HI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 227 The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
This course examines the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from the founding of Zionism in Europe in the 19th century and the rise of Arab Nationalism, to the ensuing conflict between Israel, the Palestinians, and other Arab states in the region. Events will be examined through the framework of other regional players: Former colonial powers, the former Soviet Union, and the United States. Proposals to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, e.g., the Two State Solution, One State Solution will be examined.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2501
HI DEI GA
Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 228 Reform, Revolution, and Jihad in the Middle East
Interweaving historical themes and contemporary issues, case studies of Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and other countries, this course explores movements, ideologies and programs of reform, revolution, and jihad in the modern Middle East from the end of WWI through and after the Arab Uprisings. These, and other, topics will be discussed: Western/U.S.-Middle East relations, authoritarianism, the security state, allocation economies, environmental degradation, Islamism, religious and ethnic minority-majority relations, gender, youth culture, social media, and democratization.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2520
HI DEI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 241 History of Mexico and Central America
Students gain a better understanding of Mexico and the nations of Central America through an examination of key historical events. Course focuses on Spanish invasion and conquest, struggles to gain independence from Spain, United States’ conquest of the Mexican Northwest, the Mexican Revolution, United States’ interventions past and present, the Sandinista Revolution, El Salvador’s civil war, and the struggles of indigenous peoples past and present.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2401
HI GA
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 251 African American History and Culture: To 1860
African background, Atlantic slave trade, slavery, and the free black experience are all examined in detail as students trace the history of black people from Africa to the Americas and explore the collective African-American experience from an ideological and philosophical basis.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2620
HI DEI PL
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 252 African American History & Culture: Since 1860
Course consists of a survey of modern African-American culture and a study of the black freedman and the political and economic development of black America. Principal topic of discussion is the meaning of freedom to emancipated African Americans.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2621
HI DEI PL
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 253 Writings of Black Protest: To 1860
Using the writings of African Americans during the era of slavery (1750 to 1860), content considers black protest thought in an historical perspective. Students use primary documents to discover the feelings of hope, fear, and frustration of free and enslaved blacks of this time.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2626
HI DEI PL
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 254 Writings of Black Protest: Since 1860
Writings of African Americans from the Civil War to the present are the focus of this confrontation with the realities of the black experience and thought in American perspective. Students use primary documents to examine black history and culture.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2627
HI DEI PL
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 255 The Civil Rights Movement in Biography & Film
Course focuses on the modern Civil Rights movement through the mediums of biography and film. Students learn to critically evaluate these historical sources as they explore basic issues, players, events, and ideologies of the Civil Rights movement.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2630
HI DEI PL
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 256 Hispanics in the U.S. Since 1800
Course tracks the growing importance of Hispanics in all aspects of American life. Their economic impact has become a topic of controversy. The development of a Latino ethnic consciousness has come into conflict with efforts to assimilate this minority group, thus raising the question of what an American really is. Instruction also addresses the controversial topic of their impact on the U.S. economy. These issues cannot be fully understood without an examination of where Hispanics have come from, their hopes, ways they are trying to achieve their dreams, and their continuing obstacles.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2632
HI DEI PL
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 257 Women in U.S. History: To 1877
Course examines the transformation of women’s lives in the U.S. from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century by focusing on both the evolution of gender roles and specific examples from the lives of ordinary and extraordinary women.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2641
HI DEI PL
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 258 Women in U.S. History: Since 1877
Course examines the transformation of women’s lives in the U.S. from the mid-nineteenth century to the present by focusing on both the evolution of gender roles and specific examples from the lives of ordinary and extraordinary women.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2642
HI DEI PL
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 259 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the U.S.
People with same-sex erotic orientations and people who are transgender have played a role in North American history since before the founding of the United States. This course will examine their history, and will focus on the many contributions of these men and women as well as the difficulties they faced from before the founding of the nation up to the present.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2680
HI DEI PL
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 260 Baseball in History and Literature: A Contested Narrative
This course will examine the dynamic cultural meaning of baseball in the United States, from the rise of the professionalism in the mid-19th century to the introduction of free agency and the rise of corporate competitions of the present. Through lectures, readings, and discussions on the history of baseball and analysis of the literary texts the sport inspires, students will explore issues of American identity and examine how sport can be a reflection of society as well as an instrument of change.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2639
HI
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 261 History of Sport in the U.S.
Course examines the history of sports in the U.S., from the informal games of the colonial period to the highly organized, often commercial, contests of the present. Students study the impact of industrialization and urbanization on the development of the nation’s tradition and explore issues of race, ethnicity, and gender in relation to social, political, cultural, and economic interests.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2656
HI DEI
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 262 History of the American City
Course examines the history of the development of the U.S. as an urban nation. It analyzes the rise and decline of various urban systems that developed over the course of American history. Students investigate the social, economic, political, technological, and demographic trends that have shaped the modern American city.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2683
HI DEI PL
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 262H History of the American City: Honors
Course examines the history of the development of the U.S. as an urban nation. It analyzes the rise and decline of various urban systems that developed over the course of American history. Students investigate the social, economic, political, technological, and demographic trends that have shaped the modern American city. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2683HN
HI DEI PL
Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 263 History of the American Working Class
Course studies workers and their communities in the U.S. in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students explore the impact of industrialization, technological change, immigration, migration, ethnicity, race, gender, and unionization as they examine the development of the American working class.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2659
HI PL
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 264 The Nineteen Twenties and the Birth of Modern America
A study on how the nineteen-twenties brought forth modern America. Prosperity and technological innovation resulted in the emergence of a consumer society. A more permissive society redefined gender roles, while an increasingly diverse, urban society introduced ideas and customs that changed the nation for good. Traditional, rural Americans, feeling threatened by so much that was new and foreign, fought back in an attempt to restore the pre-war world.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2691
HI DEI
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 264H The Nineteen Twenties and the Birth of Modern America: Honors
A study on how the nineteen-twenties brought forth modern America. Prosperity and technological innovation resulted in the emergence of a consumer society. A more permissive society redefined gender roles, while an increasingly diverse, urban society introduced ideas and customs that changed the nation for good. Traditional, rural Americans, feeling threatened by so much that was new and foreign, fought back in an attempt to restore the pre-war world. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2691HN
HI DEI
Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 265 The 1960s
Course traces and documents changes of the 1960s, an era that has quickly become covered in myth despite its nearness to our own times. The period from the election of John F. Kennedy (1960) to the fall of Saigon (1975) remains crucial for an understanding of current issues and attitudes. Those years reshaped American culture and society in many ways. Vivid events and slogans shattered the images of an earlier time and created a new America. Course goal is to trace and document these changes.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2660
HI
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 266 Cartoons and Satire in American History
A study of the American past through the humor and satire of the political cartoon. Humor is a political tool. Making fun of one’s opponents is a way of weakening their position. We make fun of that which we oppose, but also of that which we fear. Cartoons illuminate all aspects of the American past: from political battles in Congress to battles on the streets; from gender clashes at home to racial clashes in the workforce.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2675
HI DEI
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 267 Public History: Presenting & Interpreting the Past
This course introduces students to the field of Public History, ?a set of theories, methods, assumptions, and practices guiding the identification, preservation, interpretation, and presentation of historical artifacts, texts, structures, and landscapes in conjunction with and for the public.? (Public History Resource Center) Through field trips, readings, lectures and films, students explore how various stakeholders, both non-profit and commercial, conceive and convey history for public consumption. This is a Writing Intensive class that requires students to apply a range of writing styles to respond to materials presented throughout the semester. The course is ?hands-on? and takes full advantage of Columbia’s city campus through visits to museums, cultural institutions, architectural sites, historical monuments, libraries, etc.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2676
HI
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 267H Public History: Presenting & Interpreting the Past: Honors
This course introduces students to the field of Public History, a set of theories, methods, assumptions, and practices guiding the identification, preservation, interpretation, and presentation of historical artifacts, texts, structures, and landscapes in conjunction with and for the public.(Public History Resource Center) Through field trips, readings, lectures and films, students explore how various stakeholders, both non-profit and commercial, conceive and convey history for public consumption. The course is hands-on and takes full advantage of Columbia’s city campus through visits to museums, cultural institutions, architectural sites, historical monuments, libraries, etc. This is an Honors course and incoming freshman students need to be admitted to the Honors Program to register.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2676HN
HI
Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 268 The History of the Future
This course provides a historical survey of the way in which western people, from the ancient world to modern times, perceive and respond to ideas and visions of the future. Often these concerns are rooted in the problems the society is currently facing. This course is concerned with themes such as: utopian thought, robots, social reactions to technological change, science fiction, world’s fairs as cultural optimism, dystopian fears, and apocalyptic predictions and the techniques and literature of contemporary futurists.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-2776
HI
Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 269 The Afterlives of Slavery
This course introduces students to the history and afterlives of transatlantic slavery and the abolitionist movement. By focusing on key terms like (but not limited to) humanity, freedom, citizenship, labor, and culture, the course traces how the institution of slavery shaped or informed the early history of the United States and many of the beliefs and practices that emerged after the end of slavery.
Repeatable: N
HI DEI
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 270H Black Artistry and the Archive
Why do we remember certain artists and forget the names of others? What is the relationship between who we remember and how the past is preserved? How do we understand the importance of preservation from the perspectives of an artist, an archivist, and a researcher? With a focus on African American art, this course will address these questions by discussing the connections between history, creativity, and the archive (broadly defined).
Repeatable: N
HI
Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 321H The Enlightenment: Honors
Learning about the Enlightenment as a complex, trans-national intellectual movement, we will focus in this class on the Enlightenment in Paris, its heart. Issues studied will vary by semester, and may include science, social satire, women’s roles in the Enlightenment, the development of a public sphere, the use of fictional literature to ?do? Enlightenment, commerce, education and epistemology, political thought, penal reform, aesthetics, racial and gender theory, the transmission of ideas, and the question of how the Enlightenment may be linked to the French Revolution of 1789. This is an Honors class and students need a GPA of 3.50 or higher to register.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-3301HN
HI GA
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO) and 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 322H Taste and Consumption in French History: Honors
We tend to associate all things French, whether fashions, luxury goods, fine restaurants, champagne, or French women themselves, with good taste and chic. This course explores how notions of taste and practices of consumption have changed in France from ca. 1650 to ca. 1914, from the absolutist court to the modern department store. Against a historical background of dramatic economic, political, social and cultural change, we will explore how aesthetic, consumerist and critical practices associated with taste became shifting, highly charged and contested markers of individual and group (e.g., national, class and gender) identity and even political position, and will examine different historically-applied theories about the motives that have driven or inspired people to consume, use and display certain goods or appreciate particular aesthetic forms. We will read primary and secondary sources (none in French). This course provides comparative historical insight to help students understand the historicity of the contemporary classed and gendered consumption regimes in which we live today. This class may require a small amount of additional expenditure of monies for required excursions (usually no more than $30 This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-3353HN
HI GA
Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP) and Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 351 American Cultural History
This course examines major trends in American cultural and intellectual history from the Colonial period to the present. We explore the ideas of those who, either from a dominant or an alternative position, had an important impact on their contemporaries’ views, and who best reflected the spirit of their time. It is highly recommended that students have completed at least one prior course in U.S. History.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-3665
HI PL
Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 352 Harlem Renaissance: 1918-1935
Period of artistic experimentation among black creative artists in the 1920s is studied through the works of black writers from the Harlem Renaissance. Their relationship with emerging American avant-garde writers and the evolution of the Afro-American literary tradition is explored.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-3101
PL
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 353 Oral History: The Art of the Interview
After an introduction to the theoretical and philosophical concerns in the practice of oral history, various methods and uses of oral history will be explored. Students will learn the techniques of background research, script formulation, interviewing, transcribing, and editing. Each semester the class will partner with an existing oral history project and every student will contribute a fully transcribed, 60-90 minute interview to the project’s permanent collection. This course requires permission from the instructor.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-3672
HI
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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HIST 353H Oral History: The Art of the Interview: Honors
The foundation of this multi-layered, applied history course is immersion into a specific period in United States history to acquire the contextual knowledge necessary to conduct a well-informed oral history interview. After an extensive introduction into the field of oral history and the discipline’s methodology, a series of colloquiums on question formulation, script development, interviewing techniques, and transcription standards are held. Finally, after the interview and full transcription is completed, each student will present a content analysis and edit of their interview. All interviews will be archived with an established oral history project. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 49-3672HN
HI
Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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