Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: FROM ANCIENT GREECE TO MEDIEVAL ISLAM: INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND PHILOSOPHY

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the foundational intellectual and artistic texts of the western tradition from Ancient Greece to Medieval Islam. Consideration of texts and images over time and in their historical development as we reflect on who we are and how we got here. Readings from Homer, Plato, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, Thucydides, Vergil, Augustine, and the Qu'ran.

Long Title: FROM RENAISSANCE TO PRESENT: INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND PHILOSOPHY

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the foundational intellectual and artistic texts of the Western tradition from the Renaissance to Einstein. Consideration of texts and images over time and in their historical development as we reflect on who are and how we got here. Readings from Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Kant, Flaubert, Nietzsche, Freud, Beauvoir, Einstein, Levi, Kuhn, Borges, and King, and images from such artists as Michelangelo, Goya, and Picasso.

Long Title: LIBERTY AND TERROR: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The French Revolution toppled an ancient monarchy and sent shockwaves throughout the world. We will interpret the historical sources, contexts, and problems of this watershed moment and investigate the problems by political, philosophical, literary, and visual documents regarding the pre-revolutionary status quo, the transformation of political liberty into repressive terror, the rise of Napoleon, worldwide warfare, and ideological struggle. The course will focus on historical contexts such as the influence of the Enlightenment; the emergence of citizenship and human rights; the development of social spectacles and the public sphere; the Reign of Terror and the regression to Tryanny; emancipationist discourses (the abolition of slavery, colonial revolt, radical feminism); and the contradictory figure of Napoleon. We will consider, finally, how the Revolution has come to be viewed, both within France and without, considering its many aftershocks and reverberations up until the present day.

Long Title: TRANSCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS: FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO CONTEMPORARY GLOBALIZATION

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explores interactions between cultures from early modern period to the present day through films, novels, memoirs and travelogues, bringing alive the experiences of historical and fictional figures, who, through colonialism, trade, war and conflict, travel, and migration, find themselves face to face with people who are not like them, and in particular, their responses to these new situations.

Long Title: BIBLE IN WESTERN TRADITION

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explores multiple roles the Bible has played in Western culture. Emphasis will be on the Bible as catalyst in media history, as generator of the artistic imagination, and as catalyst of ideas, and as shaper of religious and political history. Cross-list: RELI 200.

Long Title: ART IN CONTEXT: LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will be concerned with art, architecture, and history of the late middle-ages and Renaissance. We will employ historical texts, literature, and illustrations of works of art, showing how historical documents and sources can illuminate the culture context of art and architecture. Cross-list: HART 240, MDST 108.

Long Title: LITERATURE AND DEMOCRACY

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course examines how writers respond to the developments and problems of democratic societies. Topics include: civil disobedience and just dissent; the civil war and the extension of the franchise; cruel and unusual punishment exercised by governments; and the relationship between privacy and individuality. Requirements: two essays and one class presentation. Cross-list: FSEM 110.

Long Title: ROMAN CIVILIZTION AND ITS LEGACY

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will investigate central aspects of Roman civilization: politics, religion, law, oratory, private life, public entertainment, literature, and visual art and architecture. Through case studies, we will also examine the place of ancient Rome in the western imagination, and the influence of ancient Rome on later politics, literature, and art. Cross-list: CLAS 108.

Long Title: PUBLIC SPEAKING

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is designed to give the student exposure to and experience using basic principles and skills of oral communication in the public context. Emphasis will be on the development of speech organization, support, and delivery. Informative and persuasive speeches will be practiced. An important outcome of the course is that the student better understand and appreciate the important role public speaking plays in modern society.

Long Title: FORENSICS PRACTICUM

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course will focus on junior varsity intercollegiate speech and debate competition. Students will be required to prepare speeches and debate material for local, regional and possibly national competitions. Participation in intercollegiate competition is mandatory. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CAREER AND LIFE OPTIONS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This class is intended for freshmen and sophomores who are exploring careers and academic majors (juniors and seniors are also welcome to enroll). In the class students will learn about career options that match their interests, personality, and values; become more familiar with the world of work and various career options; understand the connections between careers and major choice; learn about services that will enhance their marketability and academic experiences (internships, study abroad programs, scholarships/grants); and develop an action plan to reach their goals. This class is ideally suited for students who have no idea what they want to do after they graduate.

Long Title: THE WORLD AND THE WEST

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the last 500 years of world history, focusing on those processes that define the modern period. Topics including industrialization, democratization, colonialism, and the emergence of new forms of cultural production with exploration of how and why such processes have come to divide the modern world into a west and non-west. Cross-list: HIST 235.

Long Title: WRITING FOR PRINT MEDIA

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to news gathering and writing, and the analytical skills needed to determine what constitutes news. The class will combine in-depth reporting assignments and critiques, lectures covering the breadth of news-gathering (print, broadcast and online), and discussions of the role of decision-making in shaping the news.

Long Title: PRINCIPLES OF TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Smart use of type communicates its message clearly. The digital age has spawned legions of new designers, but the old rules still apply. Through interactive lectures and hands-on exercises, students will develop sensitivity to the variables in typographic design (face, weight, size, leading, color) and learn to solve problems of visual communication.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY IN TYPOGRAPHY/DESIGN

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 2

Description: Independent study in Typography and Design. Primarily for students who have completed HUMA 251 and wish to continue their studies independently at an advanced level. Permission of instructor is required. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: GENOMICS AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will critically examine the transformative potential attributed to emergent genomic technologies in medicine and biomedical research. The course is intended for students in the humanities and natural sciences who want to learn more about the social and cultural meanings attributed to genomics.

Long Title: CURRENT ISSUES IN THE WORKPLACE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class is the companion course for the Joint Venture Liberal Arts Internship Program. It is intended to provide liberal arts majors an overview to the various career options available to them and introduce issues that are shaping the world of work. Each week, guest speakers will discuss different career alternatives, including banking, law, writing and journalism, non-profit management, and education. Additionally, students read current business articles to examine trends that are redefining how work is performed. All students enrolled in HUMA 295 must complete an approved internship. For more information, read about the Joint Venture Liberal Arts Internship Program. This class is taught during both the fall and spring semester; Joint Venture Internships are available during fall, spring and summer.

Long Title: RHETORICAL CRITICISM

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course emphasizes the study of historical and contemporary speech texts and other forms of public communication and surveys the major approaches in scholarly rhetorical criticism from ancient to contemporary times. The course will focus on learning and applying the methods to communication artifacts. Because rhetorical criticism is an interdisciplinary endeavor, the course will survey material from many fields. The goal of the course is to come away with basic knowledge of several approaches and detailed knowledge of at least one approach. A better understanding of the construction of public communication is an important outcome of the course.

Long Title: THEORIES OF RHETORICAL COMMUNICATION

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will survey major theorists of speech and public communication ranging from classical to contemporary thinkers. Emphasis will be on understanding speech and public communication from consumer and scholarly perspectives. Students are expected to read and discuss material with the goals of gaining basic understanding of major rhetorical theorists specifically engage a particular topic in rhetorical theory. Our central questions involve the nature of and relationship between speaker, text, and audience.

Long Title: PERSUASION AND POLITICAL RHETORIC

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will survey research and writing in the fields of persuasion and political communication. Of particular interest will be explanations of political communication based in rhetorical theory. Students will study historically important political speeches, debates, and advertisements. Emphasis will be on academic exploration of political rhetoric as human expression.

Long Title: ADVANCED PUBLIC SPEAKING

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Designed for students with at least two prior years of instruction or public speaking experience. Will address the ancient origins of speech theory and will require students to apply contemporary speech theory in the presentation of four in-class speeches. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: RHETORIC OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore the rhetoric of science and technology through examination of historically important speeches, campaigns, and other persuasive expression that has contributed to contemporary scientific and technological culture. Emphasis will be on the communication associated with scientific and technological culture rather than on the science or technology. The primary question for the course is, "How are science and technology expressed and persuasively promoted as human activities?

Long Title: BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL SPEAKING

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Practical application of communication theory with emphasis on oral presentations, interviewing and small group dynamics. The course will consider many aspects of the business and professional sphere as they pertain to public speaking and public discourse. Through a series of four or more in-class speeches, in-class group exercises, outside speaker presentations, reading, and writing, the course will serve as basis of instruction to ready the student for the public or private sphere. Class will focus particularly on aspects of business and professional leadership communication, and business and office communications both written and oral, toward a greater mastery of authentic organizational, management, competitive, and community discourse.

Long Title: ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Designed to help students develop communication, analysis, and research skills through the construction and presentation of arguments on questions of fact, value, and policy. Debate assignments will explore current issues. The course emphasizes argumentation exercises and in-class debates.

Long Title: ADVANCED FORENSICS PRACTICUM

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course will focus on varsity intercollegiate speech and debate competition. Students will be required to prepare speeches and debate material for local, regional, and possibly national competitions. Participation in intercollegiate competition is mandatory. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE LEADERSHIP OF RHETORIC

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the relationship between leadership and communication within organizations. Explore leadership as a communication phenomenon. Emphasis will be on leadership as a set of relationships that manifest themselves in practices that arise from the implementation of theory. Historical and contemporary leadership and communication theory will be surveyed. An important outcome is an increased understanding of the relationship between communication and leadership.

Long Title: EUROPEAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture. Filmmaking has celebrated its first hundred years. Women's contributions were significant and deserve to widen the film canon for all filmgoers. The course will concentrate on films by European women directors, taking into account aesthetic particularities, gender commitment, and post-feminist attempts. Importance will also be given to the contexts and conditions of women's film production. All films are subtitled in English. Taught in English with possible FLAC section. Cross-list: GERM 321, HART 385, WGST 358.

Long Title: MARX, FREUD, EINSTEIN, FOREBEARERS OF MODERNITY

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture. Like no others, these three thinkers of the 19th and 20th century have influenced the intellectual, historical, social, and cultural development not only of Germany, but of the entire world. The course examines the works of these authors in the context of their own time as well as their continued importance in the present. Works by Brecht, Christa Wolf, Schnitzler, Kafka will also be considered. Taught in English with possible FLAC section. Cross-list: GERM 322.

Long Title: BERLIN, RESIDENCE, METROPOLIS, CAPITAL

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture. The course offers an introduction to Germany history, politics, and culture as mirrored in the history of the old and new German capital. Berlin has always been a city of contradictions: from imperial glamour to proletarian slums, from the Roaring Twenties to Hitler's seizure of power. Emerging from the ruins of WW II Berlin became the both the capital of Socialism and the display window of the Free World. After the fall of the wall, Berlin is still looking for its role in the center of a reshaped Europe. Readings and discussions encompass fine arts and literature from the 18th century to the present, including film. Cross-list: GERM 324.

Long Title: GERMAN NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course will introduce biography of Alfred Nobel and the reasons for establishing his famous Nobel Prize. Most famous among German recipients were Thomas Mann (1929), Herman Hesse (1946), Heinrich Boll (1972) and Gunter Grass (1999). Their novel work will be analyzed as an artistic reflection of their socio-critical thoughts on the history of Germany. Taught in English with possible FLAC section. Cross-list: GERM 325.

Long Title: GERMAN ADAPTATIONS: TEXT TO FILM

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture. Prominent novels of the 20th century will be studied for their possibilities or impossibilities of rendition from print medium to cinematic medium. From the myriad of adaptations we will concentrate on Thomas Mann: Tod in Venedig; Franz Kafka: Das Schloss; Klaus Mann: Mehisto; Gunter Grass: Die Blechtrommel; H. Boll: Katharina Blum; Jurek Becker: Jacob der Lugner. All films are subtitled in English. Course taught in English with a possible FLAC section. Cross-list: GERM 328.

Long Title: LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST AND EXILE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture. Most of the authors from Germany and Austria, who were persecuted and fled into exile, used literature to search for meaning in life that apparently had been stripped of all meaning. Among these authors are the most distinguished writers of time, i.e. Th. and H. Mann, Brecht, Benjamin, Werfel, Doblin, J. Roth, S. Zweig, N. Sachs, Celan, Auslander. Taught in English with a possible FLAC section. Cross-list: GERM 329.

Long Title: MECOURTSHIP, LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN THE AGE OF CHIVALRY

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture. The literature of the High Middle Ages is the first since antiquity to probe the hazards and potentials of romance between men and women, as well as single-sex friendship and love. This course will show how the literary ideal of love emerged in a society that was torn apart by war and rivalry. The poems and stories we will read belong to the treasures of medieval literature from the German lands. Taught in English with a possible FLAC section. Cross-list: GERM 330, MDST 335, WGST 330.

Long Title: RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND COLONIALISM

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course includes a broad survey of postcolonial theories starting with Edward Said. This course is based on Ewa M. Thompson's "Imperial Knowlege: Russian Literature and Colonialism". Readings include Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Pushkin, Valentine Rasputin, Anatoly Rybakov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Ludmila Petrushevskaya, Tatiana Tolstaia and Valeiya Novodvorskaya. Cross-list: RUSS 331. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: WALTER BENJAMIN: AESTHETICS, HISTORY, AND POLITICS

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture. Benjamin has been celebrated as a revolutionary Marxist, a theologian of Jewish Messianism, and as an essayist and literary critic. The course offers an introduction to his writings by way of situating them in the historical background of the Weimar Republic and the crises of European society on the eve of WWII. Taught in English with a possible FLAC section. Cross-list: GERM 340.

Long Title: KOREAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of selections from modern Korean literature and watching Korean films. Includes background survey of Korean history, philosophy and religion. All texts and films in English translation. No previous knowledge of Korean required. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: ASIA 344, KORE 344.

Long Title: THE GERMAN FAIRY TALE: OLD AND NEW

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture. Discussion of several prototypes from the fairy-tale collection of the Brothers Grimm and the subsequent development of the "literary" fairy tale from Goethe and the Romantics to the 20th century. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 326.

Long Title: NEW GERMAN CINEMA

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Mapping German Culture. From the 1960 to 2000, Germany has developed a very distinct auteur cinema with independent filmmakers such as Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Adlon, Trotta, Sander, Brueckner, Doerrie, Garnier, Tykwer, and others. The first 20 years of German film were oriented on coming to terms with the fascist past; the second 20 years focused on more contemporary issues. Film critical readings and class discussion in English. All films are subtitled in English and will be assessed with podium technology. Taught in English with a possible FLAC section. Cross-list: GERM 338, WGST 361.

Long Title: DOSTOEVSKY

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the major works of Dostoevsky. No knowledge of Russian required. Novels discussed include The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; Notes from the Dead House, Notes from the Underground. Taught in English. Cross-list: RUSS 352.

Long Title: TOLSTOY

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of major works of Tolstoy. Novels and stories discussed include "War and Peace"; "Anna Karenina"; "The Kreutzer Sonata"; "Family Happiness"; "The Cossacks"; "The Devil"; "The Death of Ivan Llych"; "Father Sergius"; "The Confessions" and "Hadjj Murad." Taught in English. Cross-list: RUSS 351.