Courses

    Explores the experience of Jews in the United States from the 1880's when the great migration of Jews from Eastern Europe began, through the twentieth century. Students will explore the changing ways in which Jews adapted to life in the U.S., constructed American Jewish identities, and helped to participate in the construction of the United States as a nation. Recommended prereq., HIST 1025, HIST/JWST 1818 or 1828, or HEBR/JWST 2350. JWST 4827 and HIST 4827 are the same course. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Studies an approved Asian topic, following guidelines established by the program director. Undertaken as an independent study with an Asian studies faculty member. Required for Asian Studies major. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Asian Studies (ASIA) majors only.

    Students accepted to English Departmental Honors are enrolled in this course.

    Required for students who elect departmental honors. Students write an honors thesis based on independent research under the direction of a faculty member. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.

    Critical in-depth examination of a selected philosophical topic. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., 15 hours of philosophy. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Philosophy (PHIL) majors only.
    Topics and instructors vary. Brings advanced majors together in order to focus their major experience onsignificant topics and issues of common interest. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior).

    Acquaints students with the most representative works of Russian writers from the 1960s to the present in a broad historical and political perspective. Examines the relationships between ideological concepts and aesthetics, and the treatment of moral and social issues in recent literary works. All readings are provided in translation. Taught in English. Recommended prereq., lower level literature course. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts or contemporary societies.

    Rigorously examines contemporary Tibetan society, culture, and nature from a geographical perspective. Uses readings on contemporary Tibet as an entry point into scholarly research about nationalism, representation, diaspora, landscape and place, sustainable development, natural resource management, identity, and environmentalism. Prereqs., GEOG 3822 or other classes on China. Same as GEOG 5832.

    Provides a theoretical understanding of heightened awareness arising from literary and sociological investigations of contemporary sources of social violence (gang culture, racism, domestic violence), combined with the concrete knowledge offered by an internship in a social service agency. Optional internship credit is available. Restricted to sophomores/juniors/seniors. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: contemporary societies.

    Teaches basic concepts in Java programming applied to economic models. Development of Web pages and dynamic modeling will be introduced. Students will gain a foundation that can be applied to creating advanced applications relating to analysis of statistical data and custom projects. Prereqs., ECON 3070 and ECON 3818.

    For upper-division undergraduate students. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.

    Introduces undergraduate students to the research foci of the Department of Applied Mathematics. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prereq., APPM 3310 or MATH 3130. Recommended prereq., a course in ordinary or partial differential equations.

    Instructor consent required. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

    Provides an independent study opportunity, by special arrangement with Asian Studies faculty, for students with particular Asian Studies interests. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Restricted to Asian Studies majors.

    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Instructor consent required.

    Recommended prereq., CAMW 2001, junior or senior standing.

    No Greek or Latin required. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.

    Note that the 14-hour limit in the major applies to any combination of independent study and internship credit. This course does not count toward the 33 credit hours required for the major. Recommended prereq., COMM 3210 and COMM 3300. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Communication (COMM) majors only.

    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. .

    Creative writing. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours.

    May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Prereq., ENVS 1000.

    Upon consultation only and at the undergraduate level. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.

    Time and credit to be arranged. Numbered GEOL 4840 through GEOL 4849. For advanced undergraduates who have high scholastic standing. Open only upon consultation with department advisor. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.

    May be repeated for a maximum of 6 total credit hours.

    May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.

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