Courses

A seminar-type course at the advanced level. Open to environmental studies and urban studies majors as well as sustainable cities minors. Research into an actual policy or management problem related to urban sustainability through interactive, self-directed investigations by student teams. Oral and written presentations will be required. (May be repeated for credit provided the project is different.)

Advanced work with software where a student has already demonstrated a high level of skill and where a suitable instructor is available. The student will, in general, meet with the instructor during a regularly scheduled section of an appropriate imaging course. May be taken up to three times for credit if the subject is different.

Exploration through multimedia of the role, function, and impact of one of the arts such as fashion, music, painting, cabaret, theatre, dance, in narrating and shaping European identities and culture. This course may be repeated once provided the topic is different. Two semesters of instruction in one foreign language or permission of the department is required.

Exploration through multimedia of the role, function, and impact of one of the arts such as fashion, music, painting, cabaret, theatre, dance, in narrating and shaping European identities and culture. This course may be repeated once provided the topic is different. Two semesters of instruction in one foreign language or permission of the department is required.

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Exploration of major topics African history. These may include precolonial states and commercial empires, resistance to colonialism and apartheid, religious movements, peasant uprisings, labor organizing, nationalism, Pan-Africanism and African history through literature and film. May be repeated for credit, provided the thematic focus of the course is different.

A study of literature written for children, with such topics as the rise of children’s literature as a separate genre, changing visions of childhood, the relationship of text to image in illustrated books, and the various controversies that have arisen around children’s literature. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

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Examination of the different interpretive frameworks that have been used to study Middle Eastern peoples, cultures and topics through readings from ancient, medieval and contemporary sources that describe or define elements of Middle Eastern cutlure or propose research models for the interpretation of Middle Eastern topics.