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2013-2014 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • 50-1602 Women’s Health Care Issues

    Course takes an interdisciplinary social-scientific approach to covering many contemporary medical issues facing women in America. Content examines past and present institutional nature of the American medical profession and its delivery of health care for women. Class analyzes various other health care organizations and the quality of health care offered women. Other topics include women’s responsibility and autonomy in relation to their health; family, work, and other societal factors affecting women’s health; violence against women; women’s health care centers; and how women are changing health care institutions.

    3 Credits
    PL SS
  

  • 50-1603 Human Sexuality Seminar

    Course takes an interdisciplinary social-scientific approach to analyzing past and current research and historical and cultural perspectives on contemporary American sexuality. Content examines the broad range of attitudes, behaviors, knowledge, practices, and myths pertaining to sexuality. Topics of analysis include psychological, emotional, physiological, and developmental aspects of human sexuality. Content also covers sexuality over the life cycle, socialization, dating, marriage, family, different sexual orientations, law, relationships, contraceptives, and sexual responsibility.

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-1702 Social Cultural Geography

    Beginning with discussion of Chicago’s neighborhoods and developing into national and international basic geography, the early part of the course is designed to accustom students to the major geographic regions, countries and cities as well as the vocabulary and terminology of social geography. The body of the course involves students in investigating global patterns, such as nation-states, religion, and the environment, to further their understanding of global cultures and major issues of the 21st century.

    3 Credits
    GA SS
  

  • 50-1703 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.

    3 Credits
    SS
  
  

  • 50-2105 Anthropology of Communication: Voices, Gestures, Silences

    Course investigates various ways we express our attitudes, ideas, thoughts, and feelings to each other. Using anthropological research in communication, course introduces students to theories of phonetics, language acquisition, verbal and non-verbal communication, and social structure. We study how humans communicate directly, using means like stories, jokes, and gossip, and information dissemination via media like television and the internet. Language is a primary way humans communicate, so course examines how it is formed, acquired, and utilized; additionally, course addresses non-verbal communication (like gesture and dance), and combinations of verbal and non-verbal systems (like animation and advertising).

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-2110 Gender and Culture

    Course studies the social construction of gender definitions. All cultures assign gender-specific roles and expectations to women and men to create a gender system designed and changed through cultural processes. Content examines gender role acquisition, individual and social consequences of gender roles, socialization theories on gender, and how gender roles in the family and workplace are constructed. Course also examines gender in American culture and other societies and explores possibilities for role change, especially in the arts and media.

    3 Credits
    GA SS
  

  • 50-2170 Anthropology of Performance

    Course considers performance in the arts and performance of activities in everyday life in several cultures of the world, with an emphasis on ritual behavior, liminality, values, customs, and taboos. Anthropologists study human behavior in order to understand actions from the point of view of actors, using the ethnographic method to interpret significance and meaning in people’s lives. Course includes study of texts, film, and music from cultures in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-2170HN Anthropology of Performance: Honors

    Performance in the arts, performance of ritual, and performance in everyday life are considered in several cultures of the world, with an emphasis on liminality, values, customs and taboos. Anthropological study of human behavior leads to understanding actions from the point of view and cultural contexts of the actors, using ethnographic method to interpret significance and meaning in the conduct of people’s lives. Organized as a seminar, the course includes study of texts, film, theatre and music from cultures in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. 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.

    3 Credits
    SS
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA and >= 15 earned credits
  

  • 50-2171 Anthropology of Tourism

    Studying tourism is no vacation. To study one of the fastest growing international industries means understanding that tourism has tremendous impacts on the global economy, on the natural and cultural environments, and on the individual lives of the tourists and those they visit. This course will investigate what motivates tourists to travel and also what enables them to do so. We will examine not only the social, economic, environmental and cultural consequences of tourism on host communities but those communities’ responses to it as well. Is there such a thing as culturally and environmentally sustainable tourism The course will explore key research in the field, using case studies in the Pacific, Asia, Africa and the Americas to anchor our investigations

    3 Credits
    WI GA SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II 
  

  • 50-2201 Money, Jobs, and Economic Crises

    This course offers an in-depth study of political/economic issues that are currently debated such as economic crisis, public debt, foreclosures and unemployment. Not only causes of these issues but also the policies and institutional reforms to address them will be at the center of discussion. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to make more informed judgments about the issues relevant to their lives and society-at-large.

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-2201HN Money, Jobs, and Economic Crises: Honors

    This course offers an in-depth study of political/economic issues that are currently debated such as economic crisis, public debt, foreclosures and unemployment. Not only causes of these issues but also the policies and institutional reforms to address them will be at the center of discussion. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to make more informed judgments about the issues relevant to their lives and society-at-large. 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.

    3 Credits
    SS
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 50-2301 Politics and Civil Rights

    This course introduces students to the Supreme Court and to the main outlines of American constitutional law. Emphasis will be on the political role of the Supreme Court and the development of American ideas about civil rights. Issues will include race relations, privacy rights, sexuality and marriage, civil liberties in wartime, and the law of criminal procedure.

    3 Credits
    PL SS
  

  • 50-2302 U.S. Constitution: Limiting Power

    The Constitution was written to limit governmental intrusion on citizens’ liberties, while encouraging republican responsibility. This course will survey the Constitutional protections of all citizens and serve as a sounding board for the concerns, rights and responsibilities of Americans. Topics to be addressed and discussed include: support of civil rights in the courts; USA Patriot Act; individual rights to privacy. By the end of the semester, students will have a stronger and clearer understanding of government’s impact on their lives.

    3 Credits
    SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced  or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English  or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
  

  • 50-2311 Human Rights

    The term ‘human rights’ tends to be employed as if we all agree on its meaning; it is a concept often wielded but rarely defined. Because of its uses and abuses (historic and current), it is a term that is ripe for manipulation. Using examples from contemporary global events, the course provides students with a thorough background for understanding how the term ‘human rights’ can both support particular political agendas and also frame objective legal investigations.

    3 Credits
    GA SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced  or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English  or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or Writing SAT score >= 710
  

  • 50-2312 Media, Politics and Intervention

    There is a belief that media attention can shame people and governments into stopping human rights abuses. Yet, when examining reality: from past ‘genocides’to current ‘unexplained killings’to ongoing systemic ‘abuses’- we know that media attention alone is not sufficient. This course will explore how intervention - by individuals, domestic/international advocacy groups and governments - does or does not occur. The focus will be on the successful and unsuccessful use of media to provoke and sustain tangible respect for human rights.

    3 Credits
    GA SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112 and 50-2311 Human Rights  or 52-112 and 49-2310 Contemporary European Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict  or 52-112 and 51-2220 The Holocaust (1939-45)  or 52-112 and 50-1302 U.S. Foreign Policy  or 52-112 and 51-2211 Urban Images in Media & Film  or 52-112
  

  • 50-2313 Politics of Poverty in Developing Nations

    An examination of the socioeconomic circumstances and political challenges facing ‘developing nations’today, focusing on poverty, as well as related issues of gender relations, inequality, health, and education. Course will cover (a) the concrete challenges that poverty presents to much of the world’s population, (b) the complex variety of causes and factors contributing to global poverty, and (c) the range of actors and approaches to responding to these challenges.

    3 Credits
    GA SS
  

  • 50-2314 Power and Freedom on Screen

    Americans cherish individual freedom, while remaining suspicious of power. Yet individual freedom and choice are always exercised within contexts and conditions that are not only unchosen but also saturated with power. This course explores individuals negotiations with power and the unchosen through a series of films paired with theoretical readings. Films will include Into the Wild, Mystic River, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and Wendy and Lucy, while theoretical authors will include Mill, Marx, Foucault, and Butler.

    3 Credits
    WI SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  and 46-1100 Introduction to Cultural Studies 
  

  • 50-2314HN Power and Freedom on Screen: Honors

    Americans cherish individual freedom, while remaining suspicious of power. Yet individual freedom and choice are always exercised within contexts and conditions that are not only unchosen but also saturated with power. This course explores individuals negotiations with power and the unchosen through a series of films paired with theoretical readings. Films will include Into the Wild, Mystic River, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and Wendy and Lucy, while theoretical authors will include Mill, Marx, Foucault, and Butler. This is an Honors course and students need special permissions (GPA of 3.50 or higher) to register.

    3 Credits
    SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 50-2315 Comparative Politics of Ethnic Minorities

    Issues of ethnic minorities are crucially important for democratization and for political stability of the countries. Drawing on the examples from the US and worldwide, this course discusses how states deal with ethnic diversity, evaluates different ways to protect minority rights, and debates territorial versus non-territorial solutions to the demands of the minorities, assimilatory versus multicultural policies towards minorities, ways of defining and realizing minority rights, and the role of international organizations in ensuring global minority rights.

    3 Credits
    GA SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112
  

  • 50-2316 Modern Germany and the European Union

    Course provides students with a focus on the growth of post-World-War II German political institutions and society. The split and reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, the role of Germany in the European Union, and European Union governmental institutions will be studied in light of historical and current events, drawing on sources from political science, social science, history, literature, and film.

    3 Credits
    GA SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112
  

  • 50-2401 Theories of Personality

    Course surveys major theoretical approaches to the study of personality. Applying theories of personality structure, students examine topics such as human nature, motivation, development, learning, and change. Instruction examines traditional personality models, including psychoanalytic, Adlerian, and behavioral, and more recent models, such as transactional, analytic, gestalt, and cognitive.

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-2402 Abnormal Psychology

    Content covers assessment, description, theory, research, causes, and treatments of various psychological maladaptive behaviors and disorders. Some mental health problems studied include anxiety disorders, depression, neuroses, psychoses. Students learn of classifications and definitions of mental illness and acquire a broader understanding of human nature.

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-2403 Self Identity and the Mind-Brain Question

    A study in the interrelationship between the workings of the brain and the life of the mind; the incredible experience of neurology transforming into a mental happening. Particular attention will be placed on two questions. Is self a spirit, a computer, a material quality of reflective consciousness Are people by nature determined to be selfish These considerations will be placed in the context of the possibilities of the future for the human species.

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-2405 Psychology of Women

    This course examines the social construction of gender and its impact on the psychology of women. In addition to gender, the course explores the ways constructs such as race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation and age interplay and operate at individual, interpersonal and systemic levels to modify women’s experiences. Topics include traditional and contemporary feminist theories, gender stereotypes and differences, victimization of women and mental health of women. Finally, it examines the social and political implications of our cultural understandings gender, and raises questions about the possibilities for change.

    3 Credits
    PL SS
  

  • 50-2409 Introduction to Creative Arts Therapies

    The purpose of this course is to understand the healing process of the arts. Expressive therapeutic modalities can expand the client’s level of understanding and healing by offering both nonverbal and verbal understanding of concerns. Creative approaches to problem solving and well-being are also enhanced by these modalities. We are all artists in our everyday lives. For example, we create friendships, schedules, job opportunities, personal identities, and sometimes art, music, dance, theater, poetry, among others. Expressive arts therapists tap into this universal ability to create in order to help heal, teach, and inspire. They specialize in art therapy, dance/movement therapy, music therapy, poetry therapy, and psychodrama. In this class, students will explore each of the Creative Arts Therapies, as well as their own personal creativity.

    3 Credits
    SS
  
  
  

  • 50-2421 Conflict Resolution

    In many American communities, particularly its inner cities, violence is epidemic. Globally, declared and undeclared armed conflict continues. Our communities and world are in great need of change agents and communicators who can understand the methods of conflict resolution, the complexities surrounding human rights issues, and the consequences of apathy and indifference. This course takes a social psychological approach in examining several different models of conflict resolution/mediation in families, the workplace, the community and globally, noting distinctions among social, ecological, political, spiritual, and economic contexts.

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-2431 Positive Psychology

    Historically, and understandably, psychology focuses on decreasing maladaptive emotions and behaviors. This focus will not and should not be abandoned. However after WWII a need emerged to study how human beings prosper in the face of adversity. Consequently, the area of Positive Psychology emerged to identify and enhance the human strengths and virtues that make life worth living and allow individuals and communities to thrive. This research-based course examines the different assumptions and questions resulting from this change in perspective.

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-2501 Law and Society

    This course examines the structure and function of the law in the United States. Law is examined as a foundational force in the creation of social relationships and values. In turn, political and social trends are forces that challenge the law and influence its evolution into areas like same-sex marriage and drug legalization. Students will be introduced to the way laws are made and enforced in the United States through the understanding that law is by its very nature contextualized within the complex matrix of power and society.

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-2502 Women and Law

    This course examines the legal status of women in contemporary America. It will cover women’s legal rights and inequalities in family law, in employment law, in education, in the judicial system and in the military. It will also cover women’s reproductive rights and the development of women’s statutory and constitutional rights in the late 20th century.

    3 Credits
    PL SS
  

  • 50-2512 Family and Society

    Family, the basic unit of society, is studied from a social, economic, psychological, and multicultural framework. Family is examined as a cultural construction, and interactive system, and organization, and a social institution. Topics include family patterns in various cultures, relationships within the family, family influences on personality development, marital roles, mate selection, parent-child relations, family dissolution, and reorganization.

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-2514 Marriage and Family

    This Course will specifically examine the major challenges, and changing trends facing families and marriages. Families and marriages will be studied as dynamic systems, as social organizations, and as social institutions. The course will explore the changing nature of family patterns and marriages in the U.S., as well as some comparisons to non-Western cultures. Areas of study include the family in historical perspective, family life course, socialization within families, gender roles, parent-child relations, sexual orientation, non- traditional families, alternative unions, marital interaction and power, and reconstituted families.

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-2515 Cyberspace and Society

    The Internet is more than just technology: it is a set of social relations that incorporate the use of technology. The course analyzes information society, its impacts, links with emerging forms of digital culture, and sociological debates about individualization, consumerism, and globalization. A series of contemporary case studies focuses on topics such as social media in collective action and online intimacy. The course includes student study of a virtual community or online world. Laptop ownership not required; computer access is.

    3 Credits
    SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced  or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English  or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710
  

  • 50-2631 Arts & Community Development

    Course introduces students to theory and practice of the arts as social action. Students undertake fieldwork in one of several on-going arts-based community projects. This practical work in a real-world situation is supported by readings and discussions in social and community psychology, the role of the arts in community development and methods of community research. Students will design a community research project and create personal narratives in their chosen medium reflecting some aspect of the course.

    3 Credits
    SS
  
  

  • 50-3090 Independent Project: Social Sciences

    1-6 Credits
    Repeatable
  
  
  

  • 50-3102 Visual Anthropology

    Course examines ways in which visual representations are manifestations of cultural values, customs, and actions. By exploring films, photographs, and material arts of a variety of cultures, course encourages discussion of key anthropological theories and concepts. Students will investigate relationships between what is seen and what is known, between sign systems and the communication of meaning, and between societies and their representations of self and other. Readings in anthropological literature on arts and semiotics, films on cultures (their interactions and their objects), and graphic representations from a variety of human societies are included in the coursework.

    3 Credits
    WI GA SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II  or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English  or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning 
  
  

  • 50-3104 Social Objects: Exploring Material Culture

    The social value of physical things (sometimes called material culture by anthropologists) is often overlooked in the study of human interactions. Course will investigate how objects mediate relationships between individuals and social groups. Current theories in the anthropology of material culture will help students examine ethnographic case studies about the manufacture and the trade of objects from several different world areas. Students will be encouraged to develop broader understandings of the ways in which objects are used in their own lives.

    3 Credits
    SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112
  

  • 50-3105 Writing Anthropology

    Anthropologists communicate about cultures in many forms: visual, aural,written. Ethnography refers to both the act of studying a culturein its own setting and the actual written description of a culture. Here,we’ll explore ways to responsibly describe culture through words.We’ll investigate the connection of politics and ethnography, themeaning of author

    3 Credits
    WI GA SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112
  
  
  
  

  • 50-3203 Irrational Economics: Why We Mak e Bad Decisions

    We may not be the rational calculating machines maximizing their satisfaction to perfection, as economists would like to believe. This course sheds lights on the psychological and evolutionary foundation of our apparently irrational economic decisions. A more nuanced understanding of the intricacies of our decision-making process could potentially inform an array of policies that would improve our well-being.

    3 Credits
    WI SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112
  

  • 50-3203HN Irrational Economics: Why We Mak e Bad Decisions: Honors

    We may not be the rational calculating machines maximizing their satisfaction to perfection, as economists would like to believe. This course sheds lights on the psychological and evolutionary foundation of our apparently irrational economic decisions. A more nuanced understanding of the intricacies of our decision-making process could potentially inform an array of policies that would improve our well-being. 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.

    3 Credits
    WI SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 50-3301 Politics of Money

    Initially examining two prominent commodities, food and weapons, this course looks behind these commodities purchased with money in order to see the social, political, and economic structures that produce them. Course interrogates the ways in which the money we spend works within an political-economic system that appears to be natural yet is saturated with social and political power. Using films, books, and articles, the course covers contemporary, historical, and theoretical understandings and ideological critiques of the political economy of money.

    3 Credits
    SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 50- and 52-112 and 49- or 52-112 and 50- and 51-
  
  

  • 50-3401 Psychology of Creativity

    Definitions of creativity range from genetic attributes to learned behavior and to spiritual transcendence, from product-oriented (e.g., the arts) to process-oriented (e.g., self-actualization). Course examines psychology of creativity from analytic, behavioral, cognitive, existential, humanistic, and physiological theories, noting their practical application in arts production, intellectual and personal growth, and community development.

    3 Credits
    SS
  

  • 50-3403 Creativity and Multiple Intelligence

    Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligence challenges the traditional notion of intelligence as too limited in its focus on verbal and logical-mathematical skills. With the addition of six different intelligences, an expanded understanding of creativity emerges as seen in the comparative-analysis of the creative personality, process, product and social-cultural-historical context.

    3 Credits
    SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112 and 50- or 52-112 and 51-
  

  • 50-3403HN Creativity and Eminent People: Towards An Anthology: Honors

    This special Honors course focuses on the social impact of certain eminent people of the 1960’s and 1970’s whose creative work transformed the work done in their particular area. The list of such vital individuals might include the everlasting iconic actress Marilyn Monroe or actor/musician Elvis Presley. Included might be the director Augusto Boal who transformed theater as a form of community theater and social change and musician/sound artist Pauline Oliveros contributed to creation and use of technology in music and sound exploration as well as deep listening practice as a form of self and social healing or others such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, whose differential approaches to social change transformed cultural behavior in the United States. The list might also include Rachel Carson, who introduced the link between environmental toxins and cancer, Paul McCartney and John Lennon, whose songs transformed music, fashion, and social attitudes towards recreational drugs. John Cage’s experimental use of natural and created sounds in music, poetry, art, performance, and philosophy, while Jane Goodall’s work with chimpanzees revolutionized our understanding of the relationship between their social system and ours. In consultation with the professor each student in this Social Science course will identity one or two people on which to conduct a biographical analysis following the principles of Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory. The end goal is to develop an anthology for professional publication. 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.

    3 Credits
    SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112
  

  • 50-3404 The Psychology of Consciousness

    The most vexing scientific mystery in the world today is Consciousness. Attempts to study consciousness continue to stretch the boundaries of science to such an extent that its very method comes into question. This course offers an introduction to the wide array of theories as to the origins, nature, and function of consciousness, as well as altered states of consciousness, the paranormal, and Artificial Intelligence.

    3 Credits
    SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112 and 50- or 52-112 and 51-
  

  • 50-3405 Freud and his Legacy in 20th Century Arts

    The unconscious, the uncontrollable Id, sexual repression, hypnosis. This course will explore these often misunderstood concepts of Sigmund Freud and their powerful influence on Western art, academics, and popular culture. The course begins with a study of Freud’s life and basic texts. The remainder of the course explores 20th century artistic, academic, and popular reactions to Freud. In each unit, students will be exposed to different mediums of art and thought influenced by Freud’s revolutionary conception of the mind.

    3 Credits
    SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112 and 50- or 52-112 and 51-
  

  • 50-3406 Drugs and the Brain

    Ranging from socially accepted and legal drugs, like nicotine and caffeine, to medication, recreational and spiritual substances, this course explores the effects of drugs on the brain, body, and the mind in the context of the individual and society. This scholarly and scientific course offers students the opportunity to gain a scientific understanding of the precise neurological effects of a range of pharmacological substances.

    3 Credits
    SS
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112 and 50- or 52-112 and 51-
  

  • 50-3407LDM The Resonance of the Renaissance: A Psychological Legacy

    This course explores the resonance of the Italian Renaissance in modern Western culture, with particular attention to its psychological legacy. Topics covered include Renaissance conceptions of the individual, rationalism, religion, and aesthetics. A focus will be placed on how their conception of human nature, and the accompanying humanist ethic, suffused cultural, political, social, psychological, and philosophical thought in the modern West.

    3 Credits
    WI GA SS
  

  • 50-3950 Undergraduate Research Mentorship

    The Undergraduate Research Mentorship connects talented students interested in the experience of conducting academic research in particular disciplines with faculty in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. This course, available to students from across the College, gives students the opportunity to gain real-world experience and learn research and scholarly techniques from practitioners in academic and integrative disciplines based in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. The experience will prove valuable to students as they enter professional fields or pursue higher academic degrees. Faculty members will gain assistance in completing their innovative research and scholarship while mentoring students in fields of specialization within the academic community.

    1-3 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requirements Department Permission
  

  • 51-1101 Western Humanities

    This course introduces the historical, intellectual, and aesthetic development of the ideas, values, arts, and traditions of western culture through a survey of art, architecture, literature, music, philosophy, and religion.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-1102 Eastern Humanities

    Eastern Humanities is designed to introduce students to some of the major issues and works in Eastern humanities through, among other things, popular, everyday cultural texts and practices, the media, literature (oral and written), philosophy, music, and the arts-and also, to begin to acquaint them with the wider historical, social, political, and cultural context of these works, as well as with the enormous diversity and complexity of Eastern societies and cultures.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-1103 Humanities for the Performing Artist

    Major texts of literature, philosophy, and theology are studied as examples of humanistic inquiry, providing the context for performance pieces expressing universal themes. Guest artists from the Dance, Theater, and Music Departments assist advanced performing arts students in deepening their artistic understanding by widening their humanistic context.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-1104 Humanities for the Visual Artist

    Poems, masterpieces of fiction and philosophy, and a Shakespearean play are the bases for an exploration of imagery as a vehicle for interdisciplinary humanistic study. Course is ideal for art, film, and photography students who want to place their disciplines within a larger humanistic context.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-1110 United States in Art, Lit and Music

    Course presents a representative selection of American paintings, folk and folk-derived music, and readings in poetry and the short story to enhance the students’ understanding of each period in American social history.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
  

  • 51-1111 Latin American Art, Literature, and Music

    Interdisciplinary humanities course provides an overview of the rich and diverse contributions of art, literature, and music of Mexico, Central America, and South America. Students learn the terminology used to describe, interpret, and appreciate these arts in the context of the culture they reflect.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-1112 Women in Art, Literature, and Music

    Course examines the professional development of women, the impact of images of women on art and society, and the role of cultural contexts for artistic expression.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
  

  • 51-1113 Latin American Women in the Arts

    This course is designed to study the contributions which Latin American women have made (and continue to make) through literary and visual arts. We will examine issues of cultural identity, feminism, and representation through various genres including drama, essays, film, literature, mythology, photography, poetry, and theology.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-1113HN Latin American Women in the Arts: Honors

    This course is designed to study the artistic contributions that Latin American women have made (and continue to make) through literary, visual and performing arts. From Mexican nuns in the 17th century to Colombian punk rockers in the 1990s and Argentine digital filmmakers in the 2000s, the course will examine theoretical issues of subjectivity and cultural identity; feminist positionings and political agency; and the complex representations of femininity/masculinity, motherhood and patriarchy. 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.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA and >= 15 earned credits
  

  • 51-1114 Italian Art, Literature, and Music

    This is an interdisciplinary humanities course based on the rich contributions of the art, literature and music of Italy, whose artistic achievements have been the source of inspiration for many artists worldwide.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-1210 Introduction to Cultural Studies

    This course introduces students to the terms, analytical techniques, and interpretive strategies commonly employed in cultural studies. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to exploring how cultural processes and artifacts are produced, shaped, distributed, consumed, and responded to in diverse ways. Through discussion, research, and writing, class members investigate these varied dimensions of culture; learn to understand them in their broader social, aesthetic, ethical, and political contexts; and thereby prepare for more advanced coursework in Cultural Studies.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-1211 Introduction to Women and Gender Studies

    This course will introduce students to the broad variety of scholarship on women through an interdisciplinary approach. The course will begin with an exploration of the history of women’s rights movements. It continues with the examination of the social construction of gender, gender roles, sexuality and power. With this background, we will explore a wide variety of topics, ranging from media to spirituality, using the tools of feminist analysis.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
  

  • 51-1221 Topics in Humanities

    Topic changes.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-1270 Gay and Lesbian Studies I: 1600 to 1980

    This course is Part I of a two-part course called Gay and Lesbian Studies. The material in Part I focuses on the GLBT community from 1600-1980. The course explores the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals to historical and contemporary U.S. culture. Readings, films, and guest lecturers will help establish the necessary sociological and historical context for the course.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
  

  • 51-1271 Gay and Lesbian Studies II: 1980 to Present

    The course explores contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered individuals to contemporary culture (1980-Present). An interdisciplinary course, the final class project encourages students to work within their fields of interest. Several films are viewed in class; some are assigned for out-of-class viewing. Class visitors from Columbia College Chicago and other Chicago-area institutions will address issues covered in class. A visit to the University of Chicago’s Lesbian and Gay Studies Project is included.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
  

  • 51-1390 Mexican Culture and the Arts: Study in Mexico

    This is an interdisciplinary humanities course in the rich and diverse contribution of the art, music and literature of Mexico, and will be held in Cuernavaca at the Kukulkan Educational Community. The arts of Mexico have been acknowledged worldwide, and Cuernavaca, located one and one half hours from Mexico City with its many museums, provides an ideal setting for fostering an appreciation of Mexican history, literature, music, dance, folklore and film. Students will learn the terminology essential to describe, interpret, and explain these arts in the context of Mexican culture and will increase their cultural knowledge through living with host families.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-1401 Philosophy I

    Course focuses on the nature of careful inquiry and some of the enduring philosophical questions of the ages. Content examines classical and contemporary issues in philosophy, such as the existence and nature of God, the concept of human freedom, the existence and nature of the soul, and the value and meaning of artistic expression.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-1410 Critical Thinking

    Each student’s skill in critical reasoning is developed by analysis of basic patterns of argument, evidence, and fallacies. Examples are drawn from such sources as speeches, advertising, journalism, and essays to clarify what is implicit in the claims being made and the reasons used to support them.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-1411 Ethics and the Good Life

    Course examines major philosophical works to provide insight into human action as the basis of a good and happy life.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-1501 World Religions

    Framed by history, geography, and contemporary society, this course examines key figures, beliefs, and practices of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other religious traditions and movements.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-1603 Fundamentals of Communication: Race, Gender & Film

    Media produces messages that shape our attitudes and behaviors towards others. This class allows students to assess their social attitudes and express more informed opinions about society. By investigating the permeation of race and gender in the history of the film industry, students in this course will develop and demonstrate public speaking and writing skills that are essential to our diverse society.

    3 Credits
    SP
  

  • 51-1801 Introduction to Linguistics

    This course introduces participants to the general and scientific study of language. The science of linguistics attempts to study the human language in all its aspects and to understand what every human being implicitly knows about language. Linguistics is a fundamentally interdisciplinary study because language intersects and mediates all human endeavors.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2101 Harlem: 1920’s Black Art and Literature

    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.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
  

  • 51-2102 Black World Ritual Performance

    An exploration of the acts and meanings of performance and ritual in the Black world. Study of sacred and secular practices that influence theatre, ritual, ceremony, carnival, rites of passage, the blues, improvisation, Negro Spirituals, the word (as in: spoken-word, playwriting, use of physical voice as a tool, of specific characters in film), performance art, representation and perceptions of the black body, performance as expressed in sports culture, hip-hop, storytelling, and other performative modes of expression rooted in the ancestral ethos of Africans in the Diaspora.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
  

  • 51-2103 Critical Vocabulary for the Arts

    Course probes ideas and terminology that help students enjoy and appraise achievements in the arts. Students experience performing and visual arts and explore how art is created and perceived.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2104 Black Arts Movement

    The 1960s was a period when many revolutionary Black Americans, artists, dramatists, writers, critics and philosophers engaged in intense debates over the role of the artist in the making of a cultural revolution, and over what constitutes a genuine or true black aesthetic. The Black Arts Movement explicitly targeted a number of long-standing assumptions of literary critics and historians; in particular, the role of the text, the timelessness of art, the responsibility of artists to their communities, and the significance of oral forms in cultural struggles.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
  

  • 51-2105 Introduction to Black World Studies

    In this interdisciplinary survey course, students are introduced to the socio-political history and culture of black peoples around the world and the concept of blackness. The course is team taught and divided up into units that cover inter-related components: history, humanities, and social sciences. The course is divided into seven units, beginning with a history of the field of Black Studies. Students will then be taken through the history and historiography of the peoples and their expressive arts.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-2110 Twentieth-Century Music

    Twentieth century classical music demands that we listen in new ways, that we test our assumptions regarding sound, and that we question our understanding of aesthetics. It may be described as the expansion, emancipation and re-merger of those features defining music prior to the 1900s: melody, harmony, form, timbre, texture and orchestration. We will examine this transformation, highlighting the events that catalyzed new directions in composition and performance. Wherever possible, the music examined is tied to general historical developments at the period of its conception. Ancillary figures, those generating functions or art achievements not strictly related to music, are studied whenever their activity seems to be germane to heightened understanding on the part of the student. All concert music heard is primarily of a classical. genre. Whenever any other music is referred to, such as jazz, folk or world, brief examples are used.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2111 Revolution and Art: Latin America

    What do revolutions do to the arts How does a radical change in society affect the production, distribution and consumption of the arts What do the arts do to revolutions This course is a study of artistic production during twentieth-century revolutionary periods in Latin America. Students examine issues of popular/official culture, censorship, propaganda, and the main contributions of these revolutions in literature, film, music, and the visual arts. This is a rotating topics course.

    3 Credits
    GA Repeatable HU
  

  • 51-2112 Contemporary Africa: Life, Literature, and Music

    This course presents the major issues, as well as the regional and cultural differences that exist amongst the peoples of present-day Africa. The class will critically review the stereotypical myths which are usually associated with Africa. Through a variety of multi-disciplinary approaches, including literary and musical analysis, students will be introduced to the diverse cultures and traditions across Africa as well as the important political, social, and economic issues of post-colonial African nations.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  
  

  • 51-2213 The Simpsons as Satirical Authors

    This course will study the postmodern satirical presentations and commentary which The Simpsons has made (and continues to make) through its utilization of the humanities. We will examine how The Simpsons raises and comments on issues of civic, cultural, gender, global and political identities using traditional humanities studies including artistic, film, literary, philosophical and religious critiques. Special emphasis will focus on self-referentiality and how The Simpsons satirizes both itself and its characters as an operative principle and strategy.

    3 Credits
    HU
  

  • 51-2214 Doing Time in America: An Interdisciplinary Approach

    In this class, students will explore prison culture in America by examining the history and philosophy of prisons, and the way prisons are portrayed in literature, film, and television, including popular shows such as Prison Break and OZ. Given America’s fascination with crime and the swelling number of incarcerated individuals (over two million in America), the class raises important questions and issues about poverty and privilege; punishment and redemption. Students will discuss the similarities between prisons and various dissimilar institutions (such as colleges) that also have their own language, rituals, and hierarchy. In addition to readings, screenings, and discussions, the class will host guest speakers (such as a prison guard, a former inmate, a public defender, and a prison minister) who work closely with prison populations. Students will read one novel about crime and punishment in America, as well as articles, essays, stories, poems, prison narratives, song lyrics and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction about prisoners and life behind bars, as well as about the culture that surrounds those incarcerated.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II  or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning  or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English  or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II 
  

  • 51-2215 Soul, Country, & the U.S.A.

    Soul and country are musical genres that are unmistakably and proudly native to the United States. Yet they often appear to be poles apart in terms of their audiences, aesthetics, messages, and most importantly how they communicate the notion of what it is to be an American and how to achieve the ultimate American Dream. This course will examine the musical cultures that are signified by soul and country. Students will study the evolution and aesthetics of these genres and will interrogate how they deal with concepts like identity, class, race, and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; politics and patriotism.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
  

  • 51-2216 Afro-Futurism: Pathways to Liberation

    Afro-Futurism provides artistic methods for the exploration of Black liberation. The creative ability to manifest transformation has been essential to the survival of Blacks in the Diaspora. This course considers what Blackness and liberation could look like in the future, real or imagined. It is rooted African cosmologies, using pieces of the past, technological and analog, to build the future. Themes include: identity; hybridity; alien and alienation; belonging, immigration, and migration; and the vessel–corporeal and metaphoric–as vehicle of liberation.

    3 Credits
    PL HU
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced  or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or Writing SAT score >= 710
  

  • 51-2217 Hip Hop: Global Music and Culture

    Hip hop has captured the minds of youth worldwide spawning themes, trends, attitudes, and behaviors that are similar to but distinct from the manifestation of hip hop in the US. This course is designed as an intellectual excursion to explore the global creation and consumption of hip hop through the lens of cultural studies. Class will study processes of imitation, appropriation, translation, and customization and their impact on themes of gender, hegemony, commercialism, sexuality, race, and identity.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-2218 Caribbean Art, Literature and Music

    This course surveys art, literature, and music in Caribbean culture. Students learn to understand historical references within countries represented in this survey. Students will develop an appreciation for the Caribbean art forms by surveying and recognizing important artistic movements, literary works, and cultural revolutions in which artists played a role in influencing 20th century and 21st century art in the Greater and Lesser Antilles.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  

  • 51-2219HN The Italian Renaissance: Honors

    This is an interdisciplinary humanities class in the Italian Renaissance, a period of time that marked a shift in sensibilities in which human values in all fields were reborn and reaffirmed amidst political and religious crises. A new self-awareness, the return to humane letters and to classical antiquity created an outburst of creativity. During a time of rapid change, mankind discovered a capacity to improve, to change the world, to grow, learn and to create. We will examine how artists, bankers, diplomats, courtiers, princes, philosophers, merchants, patrons and religious leaders responded to these new values through which they affirmed their individualism, often through many-sided achievements, to wit, Michalangelo ( sculptor, painter, poet) DaVinci (painter, scientist, inventor) Alberti (painter, architect, humanist) the Medici (bankers, poets, patrons). This class integrates readings in literature, art history, history, philosophy and political science. Through readings, lectures, images and class discussions we will study how political, religious and historical events contributed to the artistic achievements of the Italian Renaissance and its lasting impact in today’s 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.

    3 Credits
    HU
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA
  

  • 51-2220 The Holocaust (1939-45)

    Course is guided by two major questions: Why did the Holocaust occur How did it happen Because the answers are complex and multifaceted, our effort to explore and understand the Nazi extermination of six million Jews draws on several kinds of material.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
  
  

  • 51-2222 Transnational and Global Feminisms

    This course will explore the meaning of feminism when considered from diverse cultural, political and economic perspectives and circumstances, and how feminism takes on new forms of resistance in global contexts. Students will analyze those cultural, economic, and political conditions that promote, inhibit, and incite activism on behalf of women’s rights.

    3 Credits
    GA HU
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced  or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English  or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or Writing SAT score >= 710
 

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