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| AFRSTY102 The History of African-American Education | Y Nurrudin | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-1-045
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 045
| F | 6:00 - 9:00pm | 3 | 4573 |
Description for AFRSTY102:
A comparative study of the history of African-American education from earliest times to 1954.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3 |
| AFRSTY220 Free and Slave in the New World, 1492-1888 | Staff | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-1-057
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 057
| F | 2:30 - 5:30pm | 3 | 3989 |
Description for AFRSTY220:
A survey of African-American and Afro-Caribbean societies from the European settlement of the Americas to the abolition of slavery in Brazil. The geographical focus is on Canada, the United States, Mexico, Guyana, Brazil, Cuba, and the English-speaking Caribbean-primarily Trinidad, Jamaica, and Barbados. The course introduces students to the historical debate over the varieties of slave systems.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3 |
| AMST301L Childhood in America | R Sieber | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-1-010
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 010
| F | 2:30 - 5:30pm | 3 | 3608 |
Description for AMST301L:
An interdisciplinary treatment of conceptions and practices of child nature and nurture in the United States, viewed in the context of American culture and history. The course begins with an historical overview of child life in America, with special attention to Puritan New England, nineteenth century industrialization and urbanization, and twentieth century trends. In treating contemporary childhood, the course examines mainstream patterns of the middle and working classes, both rural and urban; African-American child and family life; Hispano-American child and family life; enculturation among selected American Indian groups; the importance of gender as a variable in childhood experience; and the growing importance of formal institutions-such as schools, youth organizations, and medical institutions-as environments for young people. Children’s own cultural constructions, in the form of games and folklore, are also considered. The course concludes with an examination of selected policy issues affecting children, such as child abuse, medical intervention, day care, and the Children’s Rights Movement.
Prerequisite: a minimum of 30 credits or Permission of Instructor.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Diversity: United States focus
Cross listed: ANTH 301L. |
| ANTH301L Childhood in America | R Sieber | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-1-010
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 010
| F | 2:30 - 5:30pm | 3 | 3609 |
Description for ANTH301L:
An interdisciplinary treatment of conceptions and practices of child nature and nurture in the United States, viewed in the context of American culture and history. The course begins with an historical overview of child life in America, with special attention to Puritan New England, nineteenth century industrialization and urbanization, and twentieth century trends. In treating contemporary childhood, the course examines mainstream patterns of the middle and working classes, both rural and urban; African-American child and family life; Hispano-American child and family life; enculturation among selected American Indian groups; the importance of gender as a variable in childhood experience; and the growing importance of formal institutions-such as schools, youth organizations, and medical institutions-as environments for young people. Children’s own cultural constructions, in the form of games and folklore, are also considered. The course concludes with an examination of selected policy issues affecting children, such as child abuse, medical intervention, day care, and the Children’s Rights Movement.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Diversity: United States focus
Cross listed: AMST 301L. |
| CRMJUS465L The Police in Society | G Walsh | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-1-034
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 034
| F | 2:30 - 5:30pm | 3 | 3619 |
Description for CRMJUS465L:
An examination of police as a system of social control; a survey of major studies of police by sociologists and government commissions. Emphasis placed on police organization, patterns and consequences of police training, historical and cross-cultural perspectives of police systems and studies of police discretion and police-citizen interaction.
Prerequisite: SOCIOL 101 and CRMJUS/SOCIOL 262L.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Cross listed: SOCIOL 465L. |
| DANCE132 Ballet I | E Lapuh | Feb 8 - May 3 | M-3-612
McCormack Bldg, 3rd Floor, Room 612
| F | 2:30 - 5:30pm | 3 | 7509 |
Description for DANCE132:
This course is an introduction to the study of ballet; emphasis on performance.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution: Arts |
| HIST358 War in the Twentieth Century | R Sauer | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-1-058
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 058
| F | 2:30 - 5:30pm | 3 | 4599 |
Description for HIST358:
A study of military plans, strategy and weapons employed in twentieth century wars, and their consequences on the battlefield, together with their larger impact on the societies involved. Emphasis on the two world wars and the Vietnam War. The course concludes with a review of current military plans and weapons systems of the world powers in the perspective of military history since 1914.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3 |
| MATH115 College Algebra | C Agunwamba | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-2-198
Wheatley Bldg, 2nd Floor, Room 198
| F | 6:00 - 9:15pm | 3 | 1029 |
Description for MATH115:
Designed primarily but not exclusively for students seeking a stronger foundation in algebra before taking MATH 129 or MATH 130. Topics include basic algebra concepts, linear equations and inequalities and inequalities, properties of functions, linear and quadratic functions, absolute value equations and inequalities, systems of equations.
Prerequisite: MATH 125 or appropriate scores on the Math Placement Test.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3 |
| MUSIC111 An Introduction to Music | M Heller | Feb 8 - May 3 | M-2-423
McCormack Bldg, 2nd Floor, Room 423
| F | 6:00 - 9:00pm | 3 | 1034 |
Description for MUSIC111:
Basic music materials, principles of design, and the cultural significance of representative works in historical sequence. Designed primarily for non-music majors.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution: Arts |
| PHIL222 Moral Issues in Medicine | J Bayne | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-1-060
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 060
| F | 2:30 - 5:30pm | 3 | 1088 |
Description for PHIL222:
Concepts of health, illness and healing, under different paradigms of medicine. Is medicine an art or science? What is the impact of medical technology on human life and death? What is considered "natural"? Attention is given to issues in human reproduction (e.g. in vitro fertilization, conception, abortion). Questions of authority, accountability in doctor-patient relationships, patient advocacy, self help, right to health care or to refuse treatment. Social and political questions of health care organization.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution: Humanities |
| PSYCH234 Psychology of Cross-cultural Relations | S Dale | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-1-010
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 010
| F | 6:00 - 9:00pm | 3 | 3869 |
Description for PSYCH234:
This course examines the nature and dynamics of inter-group relations within a multicultural context, studying relations among diverse cultures and racial groups in the United States and globally. The course looks at cross-cultural relations from an interdisciplinary perspective, discussing psychological and sociopolitical perspectives.
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or 101.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Diversity: United States focus |
| PSYCH315 Abnormal Psychology | F Lorimer | Feb 6 - May 8 | W-1-063
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 063
| F | 2:30 - 5:30pm | 3 | 3870 |
Description for PSYCH315:
This course examines the range of common psychological disorders, their characteristic symptoms, possible causes, and treatment. It takes a critical scientific approach to the criteria used to define psychological abnormality, the theories used to explain it, and the therapies used to treat it. Etiology, dynamics and treatment of psychopathology.
Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or 101.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3 |
| SOCIOL261 Social Deviance and Control | J Overton | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-1-046
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 046
| F | 2:30 - 5:30pm | 3 | 3623 |
Description for SOCIOL261:
This course examines the conditions and processes underlying social conformity and deviance. Discussion topics include social definitions of deviance, societal reactions to deviant behavior, deviant subcultures, and social control processes.
Prerequisite: SOCIOL 101.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3 |
| SOCIOL465L The Police in Society | G Walsh | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-1-034
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 034
| F | 2:30 - 5:30pm | 3 | 3620 |
Description for SOCIOL465L:
An examination of police as a system of social control; a survey of major studies of police by sociologists and government commissions. Emphasis placed on police organization, patterns and consequences of police training, historical and cross-cultural perspectives of police systems and studies of police discretion and police-citizen interaction.
Prerequisite: SOCIOL 101 and CRMJUS/SOCIOL 262L.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Cross listed: CRMJUS 465L. |
| WOST110 Women in Global Perspectives | Staff | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-1-020
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 020
| F | 6:00 - 9:00pm | 3 | 2923 |
Description for WOST110:
This interdisciplinary course explores multiple meanings of gender in a transnational world. Topics include: contradictory meanings of traditional femininity across cultures; global media representations of the female body, beauty, sexuality; impacts of colonialism, nationalism, patriarchy, and the global economy on women’s work and family lives; women’s rights as human rights; and local and transnational feminist activisms.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Diversity: International focus |
| WOST200 Twentieth Century Women Writers: A Feminist Perspective | P Stuelke | Feb 8 - May 3 | W-1-047
Wheatley Bldg, 1st Floor, Room 047
| F | 2:30 - 5:30pm | 3 | 4657 |
Description for WOST200:
An intermediate-level course which examines the ways women writers in this century have dealt with some important themes of contemporary feminism. Novels, short stories, some analytical essays and autobiographies are used.
Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution: Arts
Diversity: United States focus |
