Courses

Variety of courses in criminology to be taught by visiting lecturers. See current departmental announcements for specific content. May be repeatedup to 9 total credit hours for different topics. Formerly SOCY 5004.

Allows students to undertake a design project, normally within the theatre season, that requires detailed preparatory research, testing of ideas, and public presentation of theories and concepts in practice. Students work under faculty supervision, and prepare a documented written report and evaluation of the research, design, and realization process, as well as fully rendered designs and/or plots. Projects may be in costumes, lights, or scenery. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides advanced study in hearing science, including physical, physiological, and psychological acoustics of both normal and impaired auditory systems. Prereq., graduate standing in SLHS; undergraduate course work in biology or anatomy.

Provides overview of environmental sociological theory and research including topics such as: public environmental perception, concern, and knowledge; environmentalism as a social movement; environmental justice; energy, technology, and risk; human dimensions of environmental change; and natural hazards and disasters. Same as SOCY 6007.

Provides overview of environmental sociological theory and research including topics such as: public environmental perception, concern, and knowledge; environmentalism as a social movement; environmental justice; energy, technology, and risk; human dimensions of environmental change; and natural hazards and disasters. Same as ENVS 6007. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Students work as production dramaturgs for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, developing detailed textual, historical, and critical research for CSF productions, participating in education and outreach programs, and writing production-related articles for publication. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

Restricted to graduate students. Same as THTR 6009. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Examines research methodologies appropriate to the performing arts, particularly theatre and dance. Projects are aimed at familiarizing graduate students with the library and other resources, andthe development of thesis and dissertation prospectuses. Same as DNCE 6009. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides an integrative overview of approaches and areas of study in communication. Required for MA and PHD communication students. Prereq., graduate standing in COMM. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Presents special topics in integrative physiology. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies the computable and uncomputable. Shows that there are undecidable problems, and from there builds up the theory of sets of natural numbers under Turing reducibility. We will study Turing reducibility, the arithmetical hierarchy, oracle constructions, and end with the finite injury priority method. Recommended prereq., MATH 6000. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Examines primary texts in queer studies and queer theory while challenging colonial heteronormative and homonormative studies that exclude queers of color and their life experiences. Readings include works by Gloria Anzaldua, Jose Munoz, Audre Lorde, David Eng, Judith Butler, Judith Halberstam, and Michel Foucault. Topics such as queer borderlands, citizenship, racialized and transgender identities will be interrogated. Restricted to grad students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies classical and neoclassical drama in performance, with particular attention to 20th century productions and the critical and scholarly responses to these productions.

Prerequisites: Restricted to History graduate students only.

Presents contemporary perspectives on relations between population and society. Focuses on mortality, fertility, and migration, the major demographic areas, with reviews of specific demographic phenomena and controversies. Formerly SOCY 5012.

Provides opportunity to apply principles and skills introduced in DNCE 5036. Participating students share the responsibility for teaching a lab class that meets twice a week. Focuses on analysis and evaluation of teaching skills. Restricted to graduate students.

Covers diverse specializations of faculty in the area of sex and gender. See current departmental announcements or online Schedule Planner for specific content. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours for different topics. Formerly SOCY 5016. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Surveys dance literature including an opportunity for graduate students to familiarize themselves with resources, current publications, theoretical materials, and professional organizations in dance. Restricted to graduate students in dance. Formerly DNCE 6019. Prerequisites: Restricted to Dance graduate students only.

Focuses on the structural forces affecting environmental degradation and environmental behaviorby examining the relationships between a) inequality and democratic decision making and b) undemocratic economic and political decision making, U.S. and corporate food and energy policy; and global environmental degradation. Focus will also be placed on the role that global inequality plays in fostering environmental degradation. Prereq., graduate standing. Formerly SOCY 5137.

Prereq., graduate standing.

Studies an area of current research in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences. Students read selected papers from the literature. Students and faculty give presentations and participate in discussions. May be repeated for a total of 6 credit hours within the degree. May be repeated for a total of 3 credit hours within a semester. Prereq., graduate standing and instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces students to the practice of quantitative research in communication: conceptualization and critique of research projects, coding, experimental and survey approaches, reliability and validity, and statistical reasoning and methods of analysis. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces major topics and themes in imperial history. Reviews central theories of modern colonial empire, ranging from economic and political motivations for expansion, to the cultural and social impact of empire, to post-colonialism.

Lect. Subjects of current interest in inorganic chemistry. Primarily used for graduate-level presentations of special topics by visiting and resident faculty. Variable class schedule. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

Studies Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic texts as playscripts for performance, with particular attention to contemporary Shakespeare criticism and landmark Shakespeare productions over the last two centuries.