Domestication of dogs from wolves started many tens of thousands of years ago. This class explores the domestication process, wild wolf behavior, dog behavior, genetics of dog breeding, the cultural significance of dogs, the complexity of human-wolf interactions in North America and Europe and dog cognition in a larger comparative framework, including chimpanzees and other primates.
Focuses on safe and effective dance practices supporting longevity and wellness. Areas explored include: experiential anatomy, conditioning, alignment, nutrition, injury prevention, care of common dance injuries, and experience with various somatic practices. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of DNCE 2021 or DNCE 3041 or DNCE 4061 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to Dance (DNCE or DBFA, excludes DNCE-MIN) majors only.
Analyzes the form and structure of narrative, experimental non-narrative, and documentary films. Familiarizes students with the general characteristics of the classic three-act structure, principles of adaptation, form and content of experimental films, structural approaches, and the basic formal, narrative, and rhetorical strategies of documentary filmmaking. Requisites: Requires prerequisite or corequisite course of FILM 1502 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Provides introduction to the classification, composition, and properties of the materials that compose the Earth, how these materials are studied, and how they are used to interpret Earth history and processes. The course is required for the Geology major. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of GEOL 1010 or GEOL 2100 and CHEM 1113 and CHEM 1114 (all minimum grade D-).
Detailed consideration of human biology, the place of humans in the animal kingdom, primate ecology, and fossil evidence for human evolution. Credit not granted for this course and ANTH 2050. Required for ANTH majors. Approved for GT-SC1. Meets MAPS requirement for natural science: non-lab. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science.
Introduces modern cosmology to nonscience majors. Covers the Big Bang; the age, size, and structure of the universe; and the origin of the elements and of stars, galaxies, the solar system, and life. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science.
Lect. Describes how the natural environment is currently stressed by a variety of human actions. Examines the nature of these environmental problems and their impact on living organisms, both human and nonhuman species.
Examines basic concepts of microeconomics, or the behavior and the interactions of individuals, firms, and government. Topics include determining economic problems, how consumers and businesses make decisions, how markets work and how they fail, and how government actions affect markets. Credit not granted for this course and ECON 1000 and 1001. Meets MAPS requirements for social sciences: general. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: contemporary societies.
Provides students with artistic foundational hands-on experience in integrated use of media software in both the PC and Mac creative imaging making digital working environments. Includes fundamentals in general computer maintenance, creative and practical audio editing, image management and manipulation, and creative moving image practice. Requisites: Restricted to Film (FILM or FMST) majors only.
Continuation of Beginning Finnish 2. Provides practical, communicative language skills for use in a variety of situations. Examines intermediate language structure and grammatical forms. Introduces students to Finnish history and contemporary culture and society. Directed independent language study course, requires work outside of class. Department enforced prereq., FINN 1020 (minimum grade C-). Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: foreign language.
Review and continuation of basic skills begun in the first year: reading, writing, speaking, and oral comprehension. Department enforced prereq., GRMN 1020 or 1030 (minimum grade C-). Approved for GT-AH4. Meets MAPS requirement for foreign language. Satisfies arts and sciences language requirement. Credit not granted for this course and GRMN 2030.
Introduces national and international security studies to students. The course examines the influence of history, domestic politics, and international events and actors on the development of security policy. Requisites: Restricted to Global Studies Residential Academic Program (PGST) students only.
Aims to increase the students' proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in modern Indonesian. Students will use only Indonesian in class. Evaluation based on classroom performance, homework, tests, and final project. Students will be provided with opportunities to participate in local Southeast Asian cultural events. Students with previous experience with Indonesian or Malay should contact the instructor for placement. Meets MAPS requirement for foreign language. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: foreign language. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of INDO 1010 and 1020 (all minimum grade C).
Introduces a small group of lower-division students to current research topics in integrative physiology. Emphasizes relevant applications to real-world situations. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours when topics vary.
Three demonstration lect., one two-hour lab/rec. week, plus three evening exams in the fall and spring semesters. Covers mechanics, heat, and sound. Elementary but thorough presentation of fundamental facts and principles of physics. Natural science majors with a knowledge of calculus and others taking calculus are urged to consider taking the calculus-based courses PHYS 1110, 1120, 1140, and 2130, rather than PHYS 2010 and PHYS 2020. This course is designed for premed students in the biological sciences. Department enforced prereq., ability to use high school algebra and trigonometry. Approved for GT-SC1. Meets MAPS requirements for natural science. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science.
Review and continuation of basic skills learned in the first year: reading, writing, speaking, and oral comprehension. Departement enforced prereq., RUSS 1020 or 1050 (minimum grade C-). Approved for GT-AH4. Meets MSPS requirement for foreign language. Satisfies arts and sciences language requirement.
Discusses how human communication (the process by which a thought is transmitted from the brain of a speaker to the brain of a listener) involves a complex interaction of acoustics, anatomy, physiology, neurobiology, and psychology. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science.
Continuation of SWED 1120 DILS. Provides practical, communicative language skills for use in a variety of situations. Examines basic language structure and grammatical forms. Introduces students to Swedish history and contemporary culture and society. Department enforced prereq., SWED 1120 (minimum grade C-). Credit not granted for this course and SWED 2110. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: foreign language.
Aims at increasing students' proficiency in colloquial forms of Tibetan. This course expands knowledge of the vocabulary and grammar of spoken Tibetan and engages in more advanced conversation topics while also continuing to develop reading knowledge of modern Tibetan. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of TBTN 1010 and 1020 (all minimum grade C).
Review and continuation of skills begun in the first year: reading, writing, speaking, and oral comprehension. Provides an intensive introduction to cultural and literary texts of central and eastern European Jewish culture. Department enforced prereq., YIDD 1020 (minimum grade C-).
Explores contemporary societies on a global scale. Focuses on such issues as capitalism, socialism, race and ethnic problems, sex discrimination, poverty and the concentration of wealth, crime and deviance, human rights and human values, peace and war.
Most countries confront a variety of common political problems, including how to gain popular support, what kinds of political institutions are most appropriate, and how to distribute burdens and benefits to different segments of the population. Concentrates on learning how to compare different political systems and provides illustrative examples from several countries in both the industrialized and nonindustrialized world. Approved for GT-SS1. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: contemporary societies.
Surveys biological bases of learning, motivation, emotion, sensory processes and perception, movement,comparative animal behavior, sexual and reproductive activity, instinctual behavior, neurobiology of language and thought, and neurophysiology and neuroanatomy in relation to behavior. Recommended prereq., PSYC 1001. Approved for GT-SC2. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science.
Explores a series of issues including regulations of population, land and resource holdings, water rights, education, religious freedom, military obligations, the sociopolitical role of men and women, self-governance, and legal standing as these pertain to American Indian life. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity or United States context.
Concerns the subjectivity and relativity of truth. Focuses on how and why we pursue (or fail to pursue) the truths about ourselves and about the people and events around us, and how and why such truths are often elusive, fragmentary, and impermanent. Formerly FILM 2013. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values. Requisites: Restricted to Libby Residential Academic Program students only.
