Provides an in-depth study of the work of one or two major authors in the Anglo-American tradition after 1900. May be repeated for a total of 9 units for different topics. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors).
Focuses on the development of scientific writing skills. Enhances student ability to write professionally, revise text, and review the work of others. Writing assignments integrate the subject matter of different topics in earth science. Department enforced prereq., a lower division writing course and one of the following: GEOL 2001 or 2005 or 2700 or 3010 or 3030 or 3120 or 3320 or 3430 or 3820. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: written communication.
Advanced topics course providing intensive, specialized writing instruction in selected topics. Check with the program for semester offerings. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours if the topics are different. Does not fulfill core requirements. Department enforced prereq., WRTG 3007 or WRTG 3020 or 3030 or WRTG 3035 or WRTG 3040 or instructor consent required.
Examines theoretical and empirical research on social movements from a U.S. perspective. Considers why social movements arise, who participates in them, the tactics they employ, obstacles they face, and their political impact. Recommended prereq., PSCI 1101.
Students should check with the department for specific semester offerings. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours, provided the specific offerings vary. Requisites: Requires either prerequisite course of HUMN 2000 (minimum grade D-) or restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).
Presents theories on the interaction between policies and economics, economic models of politics, and familiarizes students with an approach that will prove useful in understanding current developments in both economics and politics. Explores relationships between financial markets, currency regimes, and politics with some special consideration of the behavioral foundations of political and economic developments. Recommeded prereq., PSCI 2012.
Students should check with the department for specific semester offerings. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours, provided the specific offerings vary. Requisites: Requires either prerequisite course of HUMN 2000 (minimum grade D-) or restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).
Introduces timely subjects in fine arts that cannot be offered on a regular basis. Information concerning the topics offered in any given semester is available prior to preregistration from the Department of Art and Art History. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ARTS 1010, 1020, and ARTH 1300 or 1400 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to Studio Arts (AASA) or Fine Arts-Studio (BASA and BFAS) or Fine Arts-Art History (BAAH) or Art History (AAAH) majors only.
Examines culture and politics in Africa through works by anthropologists and historians, as well as novels, films, and journalistic accounts. Special attention is devoted to the ways in which various African cultures have creatively and resiliently responded to the slave trade, European colonialism, and post-colonialism. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Teaches students how to write academic papers related to race, class, gender, sexuality, and other areas of cultural identity. Students acquire expertise on issues through readings, guided discussion, and research and practice oral presentation skills, drafting, and workshopping of papers. Prereq., lower level writing course(s) or waiver. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: written communication. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Covers a variety of topics not currently offered in the curriculum; offered depending upon instructor availability and student demand. Fulfills application requirement for Environmental Studies major. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours, provided topics vary. Recommended prereq., ENVS 1000.
Study of French literature through close readings of representative examples of major literary forms (poetry, fiction, drama, essay) and through the composition of critical writings in French. Required for French majors. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of FREN 3060 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Explores Jewish religious experience and its expression in thought, ritual, ethics, and social institutions. Same as RLST 3100. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: historical context.
Examines important doctrines and arguments in various areas of theoretical ethics, such as the normative ethics of behavior, axiology, virtue theory and metaethics. Recommended prereq., 6 hours of Philosophy course work. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: ideals and values. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Explores Jewish religious experience and its expression in thought, ritual, ethics, and social institutions. Same as JWST 3100. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: historical context.
Students read short stories and other brief narrative texts, critical and creative essays, short plays, and poems to facilitate the acquisition of critical skills in identification of basic ideological and formalistic issues within texts being studied. Department enforced prereq., SPAN 3000 or equivalent.
Explores a variety of alternative systematic accounts of, and explanations for, gender inequities. Social norms of both masculinity and femininity are analyzed in relation to other axes of inequality such as class, sexuality, race/ethnicity, neocolonialism, and the domination of nonhuman nature. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of WMST 2000 or WMST 2020 or WMST 2050 or WMST 2600 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Practical studio training in ballet at the advanced/professional level with a professional company. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours. Designed for dance majors. Enrollment by audition only. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of DNCE 2141 or DNCE 3161 or DNCE 4181 (minimum grade C-).
Intensive examination of a particular topic, theme, issue, or problem in ethnic studies as chosen by the instructor. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours on different topics. Recommended prereq., ETHN 2001.
Examines structure of political, social, and economic influence in urban areas. Focuses on the relationship of political processes to governmental, social, and economic institutions and contemporary policy processes in American cities. Recommended prereq., PSCI 1101. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Intensive examination of a particular topic, theme, issue, or problem concerning the African American presence, as chosen by the instructor. Sample offerings could include African American Pop Culture, the Civil Rights Movement, or other African American issues. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours on different topics. Recommended prereq., ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001. Formerly ETHN 3022.
Examine the diverse political trajectories of four South Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Using a comparative lens, we will take into account historical, cultural, and economic, in addition to political, factors in deciphering this diversity of political paths. Recommended prereq., PSCI 2012 or IAFS 1000.
Introduces the basic principles of genetics, covers how these principles can be used in the study of behavior, and evaluates the evidence for genetic influences on behavioral characteristics. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of PSYC 2111 (minimum grade C-).
Explores mining related issues that have pronounced impact on the environment, economy and politics of the Four Corners region. Students apply their basic knowledge of environmental science, policy and values toward the understanding of and productive discourse about the conflicts and opportunities brought about by the mining industry in the Four Corners region. Course includes a seven day field trip, visiting mining and reclamation sites in New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. Fulfills application requirement for Environmental Studies majors. Recommended prereq., ENVS 1000 and one year natural science.
