Assumes a basic knowledge of stage lighting; concentrates on advanced technology, processes, and design projects. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of THTR 3055 (minimum grade C-).
Help communities in need, with credit hours varying according to time commitment. The practicum provides experiential and intellectual understanding of the discourses and dynamics that maintain major cultural hierarchies of values and of resource distribution. Requisites: Requires a corequisite course of HONR 4055. Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Covers topics not otherwise listed in the curriculum. Topics for each semester are specified in the online Schedule Planner. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
Overview of the evolution of human diet and ecological and cultural factors shaping modern diets. Introduces fundamentals of nutrition and analysis of nutritional status. Analyzes ecological, social, and cultural factors leading to hunger and undernutrition, as well as biological and behavioral consequences of undernutrition. Recommended prereqs., ANTH 2010 and 2020 or EBIO 1210 and 1220 or EBIO 1030 and 1040. Same as ANTH 5060. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Studies distributional patterns of communities and ecosystems, ecological processes that affect those patterns, and changes in pattern and process over time. Consideration of spatial and temporal scales in ecological analyses is required to understand and predict response to broad-scale environmental change. Recommended prereqs., EBIO 1210 and EBIO 1220 and EBIO 1230 and EBIO 1240 and EBIO 2040 pr EBIO 2640 (min. grade C-). Same as EBIO 5070.
Critiques how economists model and judge behavior. How we judge is contrasted with other moral philosophies. Economists assume individuals behave in their own best interests. What does this mean and is it true? Looks at research from psychology and neuroscience. Quizzes and a multi-step research paper, designed for students who love to question, research, write and rewrite. Recommended prereq., ECON 3080. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ECON 3070 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).
Examines the ocean as a system influencing the Earth's surficial processes and climate. Composition and properties of seawater, ocean circulation, waves, tides, coastal-, shallow-, and deep-water processes, biogeochemical cycles, deep sea sediments. Laboratory emphasizes the use of oceanographic data. Department enforced prereq., one semester chemistry or physics or geology. Same as GEOL 5060.
Explores, through guided discussions, the concept of theory itself and how a theory is constructed. Emphasizes the close reading of theory in order to learn to analyze critically, considering theory as something to be thought about rather than simply applied. Requisites: Requires either prerequisite course of HUMN 2000 (minimum grade D-) or restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).
Enhances heritage student competence and performance in Russian language. The course offers intensive review of Russian grammar and focuses on developing advanced reading, writing and translation skills. Readings are selected from a wide range of contemporary writings that reflect current issues in Russia. Department enforced prereq., RUSS 3060 or RUSS 4010 (minimum grade C-). Credit not granted for this course and RUSS 4020/5020.
Develops skills in English-Spanish and Spanish-English translation and interpretation. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of SPAN 3040 (minimum grade C-).
Explores the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire in the western Mediterranean and its survival in the East as Byzantium. Emphasizes Christianity; barbarians; social, economic, and cultural differences; contemporary views of Rome; and modern scholarship. No Greek or Latin is required. Same as CLAS 5061 and HIST 4061.
Explores the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire in the western Mediterranean and its survival in the east as Byzantium. Emphasizes Christianity; barbarians; social, economic, and cultural differences; contemporary views of Rome; and modern scholarship. No Greek or Latin is required. Same as HIST 5061 and CLAS 4061.
Theory and practice of directing for the stage. Recommended rereqs., two semesters of THTR 3035. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of THTR 1003 or THTR 2003 and THTR 1105 and THTR 1115 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Theatre (THTR or TBFA) majors and minors.
Provides an introduction to the concept of stress and the physiological systems involved. Factors modulating stress vulnerability versus resilience, and stress interactions with other systems with health relevance will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on current research on brain mechanisms. A strong foundation and interest in biological psychology, neuroscience, and physiology is recommended. Formerly PSYC 4062. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of PSYC 2012 or NRSC 2100 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).
Studies developments in the former Soviet satellites and Yugoslavia, their governmental organizations, and their relation to the former Soviet Union and the West. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: contemporary societies.
Examines how modern societies understand and respond to the reality of human suffering, how care systems are organized, and the experiences of professional caregivers. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Explores the growing dangers of modern life and the ability of society and its members to recover from epidemics, terrorism, financial disasters, natural catastrophes and other harmful events. Special attention is given to the social (as opposed to the individual) sources of risk and resilience and their implications for the helping professions.
Prepares students for the demands of the acting profession. Trains students in various audition techniques including general auditions, prepared auditions, cold readings, on-camera auditions, andcommercial auditions. Shows how to prepare and perfect audition material in a professional and exemplary way. Discusses agents, casting directors, and the process of becoming a professional actor. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of THTR 1003 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Theatre (THTR or TBFA) majors only.
Surveys decorated books from late antiquity to the advent of the printing press. Examines the various roles manuscripts played within different medieval communities. Same as ARTH 5069. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ARTH 1300 and 1400 (all minimum grade D-).
Provides laboratory-based research experience in selected areas of biological anthropology. Research designs, methods and applications will be used to develop research skills. Students will read original research papers and carry out a research project of their own design. Area of emphasis within biological anthropology will depend on instructor. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Recommended prereqs., ANTH 2010, 2020, 2030, 2040, and 4000. Recommended restriction: students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Same as ANTH 5070.
Acquiring skill with molecular methods in ecology and conservation biology is most quickly accomplished with hands-on experience. This course combines classroom lectures with collecting in the field and laboratory exercises to provide experience extracting DNA, amplifying DNA with the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), designing PRC primers, sequencing DNA and editing and aligning sequences with the Sequencher software. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of EBIO 2070 (minimum grade C).
Studies utility maximization under uncertainty, risk, game theory, moral hazard, and adverse selection. Applications include insurance markets and the theory of contracts. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ECON 3070 (minimum grade C-).
Covers the primary forcings and feedbacks that determine Earth's energy balance and the resultant climate system on decadal to millennial time scales. Covers ocean/atmosphere circulation, the role of ice sheets in the climate system, monsoons, Holocene climate change and 20th Century warming. Includes coverage of the proxies available to reconstruct climates of the past and the archives that contain these proxies. Recommended for natural science majors only. Department enforced prereq., environmental science or geology introduction sequence courses. Credit not granted for this course and GEOL 3040.
