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2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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FRE 499 - Senior Honors Thesis Seniors who satisfy requirements for admission to the departmental honors program enroll in 499. A written request containing a brief description of the thesis project and a working bibliography is submitted to the department for consideration no later than the fifth week of the fall semester of the senior year. Approval of project proposal constitutes permission to enroll in 499. An oral defense of the thesis is required.
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GER 101 - Elementary German I Instructor
Ellis
For beginners. Introduction and development of the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, along with presentation of the fundamental structures of German. Each course requires online work and participation in AT sessions.
Prerequisites & Notes (Fall)
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GER 102 - Elementary German II Instructors
Denham, McCarthy
For beginners. Introduction and development of the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, along with presentation of the fundamental structures of German. Each course requires online work and participation in AT sessions.
Prerequisites & Notes German 101 or placement. (Spring)
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GER 103 - Intensive Elementary German (2 credits) Instructor
Staff
For beginners. Introduction and development of the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing along with presentation of the fundamental structures of German. Requires online work and participation in AT sessions. Meets six class hours per week. [Equivalent to German 101 and 102, counting for two courses.]
Prerequisites & Notes (Spring)
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GER 230 - German Literary Masterpieces (in trans.) Instructor
Staff
This course offers students an overview of some of the major authors and works of German literature that are significant (1) in their own right, (2) for the German literary tradition, and (3) because of their relationship to English and American literature. We will explore a variety of periods (Enlightenment, Romanticism, Poetic Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism) and genres (drama, novella, novel, opera, poetry, and film).
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes Taught in English. (Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 232 - Burning Books (in trans.) Instructor
Henke
Would the six million Jews have lived had the estimated 100 million books not been destroyed? What is it about books that suggests such a link to the human condition? Using the 1933 book burnings as its point of departure, this course explores the nature of literature in the context of the Third Reich. As you learn about Nazi Germany and the imaginary, and literary resistance to it, you will also be introduced to some basic methods of literary criticism. The end of the course is devoted to literary representations of the Holocaust.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes Taught in English.
(Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 240 - German for Economics and Policy Instructor
Denham
This advanced intermediate language course provides an introduction to the economic and political structures in Germany and the EU. Covered topics include the history and current state of the most important political structures (parties, governmental structures in Germany and Europe), economic structures (trade agreements, finance, corporate and business structures), the role of the press and political foundations and non-governmental think thanks, and the transatlantic relationship. The course involves case studies: small groups of students will coordinate with a local German (or Swiss or Austrian) company in the Charlotte region and do an in-depth study of the company in the context of the course; this involves on-site visits and interviews and networking with German business leaders. The course culminates with a student-designed Davidson German Business Forum: a symposium and poster session in which students present their case studies with the German business leaders present. The course offers intensive work in German in the course topics. Taught in German. Prerequisite: German 201 or the equivalent.
Satisfies a major requirement in German Studies
Satisfies a minor requirement in German Studies
Satisfies a minor requirement in International Studies
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Liberal Studies distribution requirement
Fulfills the foreign language requirement
Prerequisites & Notes Taught in German. German 201 or the equivalent.
(Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 241 - Special Cultural Topics (in trans.)
Instructor
Staff
Selected topics in German, Austrian, or Swiss culture. Covers various aspects of culture and society, such as history, politics, economics, literature, film, art and architecture, music, and mass media. Sample topics include The Holocaust and Vienna at the Turn of the Century.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 243 - Special Topics in Film (in trans.) Instructor
McCarthy
Selected topics primarily in German and Austrian film that introduce students to genres, historical periods, and methods of film analysis. Classes focus on close readings and discussions.
Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts distribution requirement.
May be counted toward the interdisciplinary minor in Film and Media Studies.
Prerequisites & Notes Taught in English.
(Not offered in 2016-17)
GER 243 Gender in Film topic counts towards the Gender and Sexuality Studies major.
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GER 250 - Introduction to German Literary Studies Instructor
Ellis
An introduction to authors, genres, and periods in German literature as well as methods of literary criticism. Close reading, discussion, and analytical writing in German about key original texts from various periods and traditions.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes German 201 or placement. (Spring)
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GER 251 - Special Literary Topics Instructor
Staff
Selected topics in German, Austrian, or Swiss literature. Sample topics include the Bildungsroman, crime fiction, Theory of Drama, Literature as Resistance, Rainer Maria Rilke, Bertolt Brecht.
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies the Literature distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes German 250 or permission of the instructor. (Not offered 2016-17.)
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GER 263 - Special Topics in Film Instructor
McCarthy
Selected topics primarily in German and Austrian film which introduce students to genres, historical periods, and methods of film analysis. Sample topics include an overview of German cinema, as well as German popular film. Classes are taught in German and focus on close readings and discussions.
Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts distribution requirement.
May be counted toward the interdisciplinary minor in Film and Media Studies.
Prerequisites & Notes German 201 or placement test.
(Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 270 - Contemporary Germany Instructor
Staff
Examination of contemporary life in Germany. Texts include current newspapers and magazines, supplemented by video and film. Emphasis on composition and conversation. Strongly recommended for students planning to study in Germany.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes German 201 or placement.
(Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 298 - Independent Study Instructor
Staff
Independent study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who reviews and approves the topics of the study, reviews the student’s work on a regular basis, and evaluates the student’s accomplishment. Either one major paper or a series of shorter ones will be among the requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes Permission of the instructor and the department chair. (Fall and Spring)
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GER 332 - Modernism (in trans.) Instructor
Denham
An interdisciplinary study in English of modernist movements in Central Europe between 1890 and 1940. Topics covered include literary movements (Naturalism, Expressionism, New Realism); artistic movements (Blue Rider, the Bridge, Jugendstil, Neue Sachlichkeit, Bauhaus); music (Neo-Romanticism, Second Viennese School, Jazz); culture and politics (Freud, fascism, urbanism, film, anti-Semitism). Some key figures include: Kandinsky, Klee, Gropius, Rilke, Kafka, Luxemburg, Modersohn-Becker, Th. Mann, Musil, Döblin, Nietzsche, Lasker-Schüler, Hitler, Riefenstahl, Trakl, R. Strauss, Torberg, Jünger.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 341 - Borderland Europe: Cultural Productions on the Move
Instructor
Ellis
Framed by the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, this course will engage with contemporary and historical discourses of borders, migration, and belonging in Europe through the lens of cultural production. By examining key developments since WWII - including post-colonial migration, guest-worker programs, the end of the Cold War, and the rise of the European Union - we will situate current debates within a longer historical trajectory. Looking at films by Stephen Frears and Fatih Akın, music videos by Advanced Chemistry and M.I.A., literary texts by Yoko Tawada and Amara Lakhous, and a variety of online content, we will ask how these works respond to and intervene in political discussions of Europe’s borders. In doing so, we will attend to transnational circulations, supranational institutions, as well as the ongoing significance of the nation-state; countries of focus will include Greece, Italy, Germany, France, and the U.K.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
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GER 343 - Special Topics in Film (in trans.) Instructor
McCarthy
Selected topics primarily in German and Austrian film that introduce students to genres, historical periods, and methods of film analysis. Classes focus on close readings and discussions.
Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts distribution requirement.
May be counted toward the interdisciplinary minor in Film and Media Studies.
Prerequisites & Notes Taught in English.
(Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 346 - Memory on Film (in trans.) Instructor
McCarthy
Examines personal and collective memory in a variety of cultural contexts and the strategies that film and literature use to represent it. We will also analyze the roles that truth-telling, trauma and national narratives play in memory’s construction. From the German context, we will look specifically at cultural and social memory in understanding Germany’s twentieth-century history. More generally, and in light of James Frey’s controversial autobiography, we will examine general assumptions around memory and the extent to which it can be accurately rendered.
Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts distribution requirement.
May be counted toward the interdisciplinary minor in Film and Media Studies.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 350 - Modernes Drama Instructors
Henke
Overview of modern German drama in the context of major developments in German, Swiss, and Austrian theater. Playwrights discussed include: Büchner, Brecht, Fleißer, Dürrenmatt, Frisch, Weiß, Bernhard, Tabori, Meinhof, and Jelinek. Taught in German.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes German 250 or permission of the instructor.
(Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 351 - Special Literary Topics Instructor
Staff
Selected topics in German, Austrian, or Swiss literature. Sample topics include the Bildungsroman, crime fiction, Theory of Drama, Literature as Resistance, Rainer Maria Rilke, Bertolt Brecht.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes German 250 or permission of the instructor. (German 351: “Modernes Theater” offered in the spring.)
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GER 354 - Contemporary German Literature Instructor
McCarthy
Overview of German literature since 1989, with particular emphasis on prose fiction and popular literature. Authors discussed include: Günter Grass, Judith Hermann, Florian Illies, Daniel Kehlmann, and Juli Zeh, among others. Taught in German.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes German 250 or permission of the instructor.
(Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 361 - Vienna 1900 - Now Instructor
Ellis
This course-which is taught in German-will focus on Austrian cultural productions such as literature, visual art, and film since 1900, examining these works in the context of Austria’s tumultuous 20th-century history and in relation to more recent political developments. We will study how Austrian artists have responded to and intervened in key historical and political debates regarding the dissolution of the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire, the social democratic interwar period, Austria’s absorption into the Third Reich, questions of memory, guilt, and national identity after the Second World War, and contemporary issues of immigration, asylum, and the rise of the political far right. Special attention will be given to Vienna, Austria’s political and cultural capital, beginning with the modernist art that flourished there at the turn of the 20th century. Objects of study will include paintings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, architecture by Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, performance art by Christoph Schlingensief and Elfriede Jelinek, literary texts by Arthur Schnitzler, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Thomas Bernhard, and films by Anja Salomonowitz, and Ulrich Seidl. All readings, class discussions, and writing assignments will be in German.
Pending funding, students in the course will be able to apply to participate in an interdisciplinary study trip to Vienna in late May, which will also include students from Professor Ceka’s POL 242: West European Politics.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes German 260 or permission of the instructor.
(Spring)
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GER 363 - Special Topics in Film Instructor
McCarthy
Selected topics primarily in German and Austrian film which introduce students to genres, historical periods, and methods of film analysis. Sample topics include an overview of German cinema, as well as German popular film. Classes are taught in German and focus on close readings and discussions.
Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts distribution requirement.
May be counted toward the interdisciplinary minor in Film and Media Studies.
Prerequisites & Notes German 260 or permission of the instructor.
(Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 380 - Studies in German Language, Literature, Culture Instructors
Staff
Courses numbered 380-389 are taken with Duke/Davidson in Berlin.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 398 - Independent Study Instructor
Staff
For majors, minors, and other advanced students. Independent study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who reviews and approves the topics of the study, reviews the student’s work on a regular basis, and evaluates the student’s accomplishment. Either one major paper or a series of shorter ones will be among the requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes Permission of the instructor and the department chair. (Fall and Spring)
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GER 430 - Seminars (in trans.) Instructor
Staff
Courses numbered 430-449 are seminars taught in translation. Specific topics are announced in advance of registration.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 433 - The Holocaust and Representation (=HIS 433) Instructor
Denham
History and historiography of the origins and execution of the Nazi genocide during World War II, with a focus on representations of the Holocaust and cultural memory practices in popular and public history, in the visual and performing arts and in literature, and especially in memorial structures and spaces.
This seminar includes a required study trip (at no cost to participants except for food) during the week of spring break. Students must agree to participate in the study trip in order to receive permission to add the course to WebTree.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 438 - Berlin (=HIS 338) Instructor-Denham
The Berlin Republic of the Federal Republic of Germany is the seat of economic, political, and cultural power in Europe and the EU today. Key to understanding the role of Germany and Berlin in the world now is a historical understanding of how Berlin got to be what it is now. The course will also introduce students to the uses and methods of cultural geography, maps, various kinds of sources (diplomatic, cultural, geographic), and to competing historiographies and their politics in the context of Berlin, Germany, and Europe. The on-site component (pending funding) will allow students access to the “laboratory” for the course: archives, museums, people, memorial sites, architecture, the densely layered artifact that is Berlin now.
Satisfies a major requirement in German Studies
Satisfies a major requirement in History
Satisfies a minor requirement in German Studies
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement
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GER 450 - Seminars Instructor
Henke
Courses numbered 450-479 are seminars taught in German. Specific topics are announced in advance of registration.
Prerequisites & Notes German 250 or permission of the instructor. (German 455: “Poetik des Mordes” offered in the fall.)(Not offered in 2016-17)
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GER 495 - Senior Colloquium Instructor
McCulloh
The Senior Colloquium will explore issues pertinent to German Studies and discuss research strategies. Each student will complete a thesis, in German (preferred) or in English, directed by an appropriate department member. Defense upon invitation only.
Prerequisites & Notes (Spring)
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GER 498 - Independent Study Instructor
Staff
For majors or minors. Independent study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who reviews and approves the topics of the study, reviews the student’s work on a regular basis, and evaluates the student’s accomplishment. Either one major paper or a series of shorter ones will be among the requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes Permission of the instructor and the department chair. (Fall and Spring)
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GRE 103 - Intensive Introductory Greek Instructor
Neumann
For beginners. Introduction and development of basic skills, particularly reading, along with presentation of the fundamental structures of Greek. Requires participation in AT sessions. Meets six class hours per week. [Equivalent to Greek 101 and 102, counting for two courses.]
Prerequisites & Notes (Offered annually, Spring only)
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GRE 201 - Intermediate Greek Instructor
Toumazou
Readings in Greek literature.
Prerequisites & Notes (Offered annually, Fall only.)
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GRE 211 - Homer Instructor
Cheshire
Close readings of Homeric poetry in light of current scholarship and the epic cycle.
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes Students who have already taken a GRE course beyond 201 should enroll in this course as GRE 311. (Fall)
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GRE 214 - Greek Tragedy: Sophocles’ Oedipus the King Instructor
Cheshire
A close reading in Greek of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King in light of its context and current scholarship.
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes Students who have already taken a GRE course beyond 201 should enroll in this course as GRE 314. (Tentatively scheduled for Fall 2017.)
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GRE 244 - Greek Historians: Herodotus Instructor
Toumazou
Readings of select passages from Herodotus’s Histories, of the rest in English and of secondary literature for understanding of Herodotus’s style and importance.
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes Students who have already taken a GRE course beyond 201 should enroll in this course as GRE 344. (Spring)
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GRE 266 - Greek Philosophers: Plato’s Gorgias Instructor
Toumazou
Introduction to the Platonic dialogue, with special attention devoted to the relationship between philosophy, rhetoric, poetry, and desire.
Prerequisites & Notes Students who have already taken a GRE course beyond 201 should enroll in this course as GRE 366. (Tentatively scheduled for Spring 2018.)
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GRE 314 - Greek Tragedy: Sophocles’ Oedipus the King Instructor
Toumazou
A close reading in Greek of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King in light of its context and current scholarship.
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Tentatively scheduled for Fall 2017.)
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GRE 344 - Greek Historians: Herodotus Instructor
Toumazou
Readings of select passages from Herodotus’s Histories, of the rest in English and of secondary literature for understanding of Herodotus’s style and importance.
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Spring)
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GRE 366 - Greek Philosophers: Plato’s Gorgias Instructor
Toumazou
Introduction to the Platonic dialogue, with special attention devoted to the relationship between philosophy, rhetoric, poetry, and desire.
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Tentatively scheduled for Spring 2018.)
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GRE 399 - Independent Study in Greek Instructor
Staff
Readings and research on Greek texts, under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who reviews and approves the topic(s) and evaluates the student’s work.
Prerequisites & Notes Greek 201 and permission of the instructor.
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GRE 499 - Senior Thesis Instructor
Staff
Writing of a thesis under the supervision of an appropriate professor. Oral defense before the entire classics faculty required. Admission by unanimous consent of the Department of Classics.
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GSS 101 - Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies Instructor
Tilburg, Fackler, Gonzalez
This class provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the analytical tools, key scholarly debates, history, and research subfields of gender and sexuality studies. It pays particular attention to the construction and deployment of gender as a cultural category across various social institutions. Students will learn to assess and analyze documents pertaining to the history of and contemporary state of feminisms and women’s rights, masculinity, queer theory, disability studies, body image and consumer culture, intersectionality, as well as a host of gendered questions related to health, work, the family, violence, and politics.
Students entering 2012: Satisfies Liberal Studies distribution requirement
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GSS 201 - Feminist and Queer Theories Instructor
Tilburg, Boyer, Horowitz
This class explores the epistemological and theoretical foundations of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Students will become familiarized with the different theoretical traditions that inform contemporary gender analysis, and examine scholarly definitions of gender and sexuality. We discuss the means by which gender and sexuality are produced and reproduced at the individual and institutional levels, their intersection with other dimensions of social difference, as well as various related approaches to and interpretations of equality, justice, and freedom.
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GSS 220 - Topics in Queer Studies Instructor
Staff
This course provides an introduction to the field of queer studies by way of a specialized topic. Course content and emphasis will vary with instructor, but sample topics include queer theories, queer of color critiques, queer popular culture, transgender studies, and queer activism.
Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies - content course for society and politics of trade
Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies-elective
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Liberal Studies distribution requirement
Gss Topics in Queer studies-
This course provides an introduction to the field of queer studies by way of a specialized topic. Course content and emphasis will vary with intructor, but sample topics include queer theories, queer of color critiques, queer popular culture, transgender studies and queer activisim.
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GSS 321 - Sex Outside the City Instructor
Horowitz
Since the early 1990s, many queer theorists have reasserted the centrality of western cities to the formation of queer subjectivities. But more recent scholarship has challenged this assumption, suggesting that not only have LGBTQ identities historically developed in suburban, rural, and non-western locales, but that the dominant urban narrative reinforces white, upper-class maleness as the norm of queer life. This course examines the ways in which space is queered and queerness emerges in response to metropolitan, non-metropolitan, Western, and non-Western space. We will examine the queer convergence of the public and the private, the processes by which space is simultaneously raced and gendered, the relationship between sexuality and built environments, and the role of capitalism and neoliberalism in producing queer individuals and networks.
Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies -Histories and Geneologies Track
Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies - elective
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies liberal studies distribution requirement.
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GSS 324 - Sex, Law, Modernity (= HIS 324) Instructor
Boyer, Tilburg
This course, team-taught by a historian of European gender and a legal and literary scholar of the Hispanic world, will introduce students to the ways that early modern and modern Western societies have intervened in and defined categories of illicit sexual desire, identity, and conduct. Modern European states took an abiding interest in regulating what they considered to be disordered and deviant sexual persons- the Homosexual, the Prostitute, the Intersexed. These same states took a marked interest in enforcing public health and hygiene by way of laws targeting private sexual behavior, from birth control to interracial relationships. These interventions expressed sharp anxieties about the character of modern life: urbanization, industrialization, democratization, the rise of the middle classes, empire. The course will combine an interrogation of primary texts from the early modern and modern periods with secondary and theoretical works dealing with history, law, and sexuality.
Satisfies a major requirement in History
Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Only counted in one track.
Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies Only counted in one track.
Satisfies a distribution requirement in Historical Thought
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GSS 340 - Transnational Sexualities Studies Instructor
Horowitz
This course surveys a number of emerging frameworks for rethinking the concept of queerness from a transnational perspective. Our investigations will move between theory and lived experience, within and across national borders, and will challenge key Western assumptions about sexual development, freedom, identity, and citizenship. We will consider questions such as: To what extent do Western paradigms of sex, gender, and sexuality limit our understanding of non-Western sexual cultures? How does the relationship between sexual practice and sexual identity shift across cultures? How do tourists and migrants negotiate, adapt, and remake sexual discourses and economies as they move in and through new spaces? How has the legacy of colonialism shaped and been shaped by sexual practice? How is sexuality used to articulate national, racial, class, and ethnic identities?
Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement
Students entering before 2012: satisfies social science distribution requirement
Satisfies cultural diversity requirement
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GSS 350 - Sex Radicals! Instructor
Horowitz
When we think about queer and feminist politics, we typically think of the processes by which women and LGBT people have effected change through legislation, court cases, and supporting candidates friendly to their causes. But much U.S. queer and feminist thought and activism has taken root outside the bounds of liberal electoral politics. This course centers on the fringes. It surveys the writings of less-palatable political actors: punks, anarchists, communists, anti-capitalists, sex workers, black radicals, and prison abolitionists. In exploring these political genealogies, we will ask: How does the personal constitute the political? What counts as (legitimate) political action according to whom? (How) can social change be effected outside of electoral politics and state institutions? What should be the role of the state in regulating labor and distributing rights and entitlements? What priorities have animated the various radical traditions within queer and feminist thought, and how have they addressed or failed to address race, class, ethnicity, and disability? How have these traditions intersected and diverged? Why have contemporary queer radicals come to focus on issues less obviously connected to gender and sexuality like global capitalism, drone warfare, and police militarization?
Satisfies a requirement for the Gender and Sexuality Studies major and minor.
Satisfies a Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement.
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GSS 390 - Sexuality and Public Discourses in the United States Instructor
Hillard
This course examines the history of sexuality in the United States from 1642 to the present through the lens of primary documents, analyzed using rhetorical methods.
Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement.
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GSS 431 - The Science of Sex Instructor
Staff
Contemporary understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality are shaped by a long history of scientific work in fields as diverse as sexology, genetics, phrenology, eugenics, biology, and more. This course traces how these understandings shaped and were shaped by sex, gender, and sexuality. The course begins with early work in the field of feminist science studies, then turns to questions of taxonomy and difference before interrogating the role of nationalisms in sex-related sciences. The class also explores American eugenics, early work in sexology and the study of homosexuality, sex and the brain in the contemporary U.S., problems with sex differentiation, the role of sex in current ecological sciences, assisted reproductive technologies, posthuman bodies, and feminist interventions in technosciences.
Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies
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GSS 440 - Matters of Life and Death: Biopower, Necropolitics, Sex Instructor-Horowitz
In this course, we will investigate how definitions of life and death have evolved over the last two centuries and how those definitions have shaped American culture and policy. We will ask who is empowered to make decisions about who lives and who dies and by what authority; what bodies are included and excluded in discussions of bio- and necropolitics; and how gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion frame and become framed by matters of life and death.
Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement
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HHV 120 - Introduction to Clinical Ethics Instructor
Eijkholt
This course will introduce students to the history, evolution and current topics relevant in clinical ethics. Topics will include issues around birth, reproduction, organ donation, refusal of vaccinations and blood transfusions, experimental treatments, alternative medicine, euthanasia, physician assisted suicide, and issues around death. Students will navigate ethical principles from a theoretical perspective, such as autonomy (self-determination), beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. At the same time they will discuss these principles in practical applications through case analysis and they will examine the tension between theory and practice. The course seeks to create awareness of the health care setting as an enterprise with different stakeholders and tensions, and to develop methods and analytical reasoning skills to discuss value-based conflicts in the health care setting.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Philosophical and Religious Perspectives distribution requirement.
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HHV 130 - The Sociobiology of Health and Illness Instructor
Mamoon
The median age of Americans is steadily rising. Faced with the new realities of aging and associated increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases, how do we as individuals, families and communities manage our health? We need a vision of health care which allows effective and efficient management of chronic diseases in order to reduce the burden of illness and disability on society. Many in the healthcare community are looking to primary care to serve the basic healthcare needs of the population. In this course, students will learn about the biological and chemical bases of disease manifestation, diagnosis and treatment, psychosocial and cultural factors that impact health and wellness, and disparities in health status and access to healthcare amongst various populations in the US. However, emphasis will be given to the fundamental concepts in biology; this course has been specifically designed for students who are interested in future careers in healthcare and seek to refresh the knowledge they acquired in a high school biology course. Students will integrate their knowledge of the natural, clinical, and social sciences to understand select chronic illnesses and consider primary care as an effective, equitable and sustainable chronic care management model. The goal of the course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills they will need to be thoughtful advocates for quality healthcare for themselves, their families, and communities.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.
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HHV 220 - Health Psychology (= PSY 220) Instructor
Stutts
Health Psychology uses the biopsychosocial approach to examine how psychological factors influence health and how they can be used to change health behaviors. Specific emphasis will be placed on pain, chronic illness, nicotine use, and obesity. This class also includes a community-based learning experience.
Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement
Health and Human Values interdisciplinary minor credit
Public Health Major elective credit
Prerequisites & Notes PSY 101 or permission of the instructor.
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HHV 232 - Introduction to Environmental Health with Community-Based Learning (=ENV 232) Instructors
Staff
Students will apply biological, chemical and epidemiological content to environmental health case studies and community-based learning projects. This is an introductory course designed to expose students to different scientific disciplines within the context of environmental health.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.
Satisfies depth or breadth course requirement in Natural Science Track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes ENV 232 may not be taken for credit after ENV 233.
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HHV 233 - Introduction to Environmental Health with Laboratory-Based Learning (= ENV 233) Instructors
Staff
Students will apply biological, chemical and epidemiological content to environmental health case studies and laboratory projects. This is an introductory course designed to expose students to different scientific disciplines within the context of environmental health.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.
Satisfies the Natural Science distribution requirement.
Satisfies depth or breadth course requirement in Natural Science Track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.
Prerequisites & Notes ENV 233 may not be taken for credit after ENV 232.
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HHV 234 - Genes, Environment and Health Instructor
Mamoon
This course introduces students to the role of epigenetic changes - mechanisms that regulate gene expression by altering chromatin structure and function in the absence of changes in DNA base sequence - in mediating the long-term effects of early life environment and variations in social experience across the life span on human health.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values. Satisfies an interdisciplinary major requirement in Public Health.
Prerequisites & Notes Bio 111/113 is a prerequisite for this course as it builds on content covered in Bio 111/113.
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HHV 244 - Child Psychopathology (=EDU 234 and PSY 234) Instructor
Stutts
An overview of the psychological disorders of childhood, including their description, classification, etiology, assessment and treatment. Emphasis will be placed on the theoretical and empirical bases of these disorders, focusing on relevant research methods and findings as well as case history material.
Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Educational Studies minor credit.
Health and Human Services interdisciplinary minor credit.
Psychology Major credit (Clinical column)
Prerequisites & Notes PSY 101
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HHV 251 - Health Disparities in the U.S. and Beyond (=SOC 251) Instructor
Baron
This course will explore connections between race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and U.S. social policy with the historical and current trends in health disparities in the USA. This course will offer a foundation in both core concepts and theoretical frameworks for understanding health disparities in the US. Additionally, this course will introduce theory and strategies for developing health interventions and policies to address the crisis of racial, ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities in the USA.
Satisfies a major requirement in Sociology
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values
Satisfies Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement
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HHV 280 - Introduction to Global Health (= SOC 280) Instructor
Orroth
Global health is an emerging interdisciplinary field that approaches health issues as transnational challenges requiring multi-level, community-based solutions. This course introduces its major concepts, tools, and debates. Topics include global health inequities, historical and ongoing strategies for control of communicable diseases from smallpox to HIV/AIDS, the global rise in prominence of non-communicable disease, connections between social structures and the global distribution of disease, and debates over health as a human right. Students will learn to interpret and evaluate population health indicators, interact with WHO datasets, and analyze health interventions and policies from both solutions-oriented and critical perspectives.
Prerequisites & Notes (Fall)
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HHV 320 - Health, Culture and Illness in East Asia Instructor
Staff
This seminar explores the health systems of East Asia using Arthur Kleinman’s definition of a health system as the complex social system of healing supported by culture-bound understandings of health and illness, not merely the institutions that provide health services. Readings and discussion cover the major cultural and institutional characteristics of health, illness, and health care in Japan and mainland China, with more limited attention to Taiwan and South Korea. Discussion topics include the role of Chinese medicine, cultures of biomedicine, rapid demographic change, environmental/industrial diseases, and infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Particular attention is paid to the role of “plural” medical cultures in many East Asian contexts and how such syncretic health systems shape health practices and policies across the region.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in East Asian Studies.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.
Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement
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HHV 354 - Medical Rehabilitation & Disability (=PSY 354) Instructor
Stutts
This course addresses the conceptualization, assessment, and treatment of chronic health conditions, traumatic injuries, and disabilities. The readings will include an evidenced-based handbook on psychosocial adjustment to illness; peer-reviewed articles; and memoirs from the vantage point of the patient, caregiver, and healthcare provider. This course is community-based; therefore, it will also include a field experience at a local rehabilitation hospital.
Fulfills a credit in the Psychology major.
Fulfills a credit in the Health and Human Values interdisciplinary minor.
Prerequisites & Notes PSY 101
(Fall)
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HHV 380 - Issues in Medicine Instructor
Staff
The purpose of Issues in Medicine is to critically evaluate the external influence of social values, culture, political climate, technological development, population characteristics, and global concerns on shaping health care systems and delivery. Implications for the patient and health care provider will be discussed. By participating in clinical rotations, students are expected to apply concepts learned in class to real world experiences.
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HHV 381 - Health Regulations and Public Policy Instructor
Eijkholt
Topics in health care law including: HIPPA, EMTALA, ADA, CLIA.
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HHV 387 - Health Law, Policy and Ethics Instructor
Eijkholt
This survey course will introduce students to contemporary issues in health law, policy and ethics. Topics will address the history, evolution of legislation, policy and case law in areas of individual health care, as well as the public health law sphere.
Topics will include issues in the patient-physician relationship, such as reproduction, experimental treatments, medical error and death. Other topics relate more to the relationship individual-state and include quality of health care provision, organ donation and vaccinations. Students will navigate legal principles and statutes, and will develop critical thinking towards policy and legal regimes. This course seeks to create awareness of policies and legislations in health care. It will combine theory and practice and stimulate critical thinking. The goal of this course is to develop methodic and analytical reasoning skills to discuss value-based conflicts in the health care setting.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values
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HHV 388 - History of Medical Law Instructor
Staff
This course examines the interrelationship between law and medicine in the United States and how physicians’ roles in the legal system have evolved through U.S. history. The course considers physicians as medical examiners, expert witnesses, defendants, and politicians; the course looks at issues or incidents in which physicians have had a large impact on the law.
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HHV 389 - Neuroethics Instructor
Eijkholt
Neuroethics is a young and multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It has developed at a time that neuroscience is making significant discoveries and developments at a rapid pace. New drugs and treatments for mental and neurological disorders appear on the horizon every day. As new types of interventions are being translated from bench to bedside, the public’s awareness of ethical issues surrounding neuroscientific developments has been growing. Neuroscience brings hypes and hopes, and neuroethics reflects on these. Neuroethics asks questions about: What can and should be done with the developments in neuroscience? Is neuroscience moving too fast? Topics for inquiry include addiction, deep brain stimulation, free will, enhancement and consciousness.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Neuroscience
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HHV 391 - Research Ethics Instructor
Staff
This course provides students with a comprehensive overview of the responsible conduct of research. Students will learn the conventions for appropriate animal and human research. They will also develop critical thinking and moral reasoning skills to resolve situations that may arise during the course of research. The course will address the following topics: historical and social context of science; government oversight and regulation of research; guidelines for research involving animals; and guidelines for research involving human subjects. Special consideration will be given to topics in which moral dilemmas in research are more likely to occur, including conflicts of interest, informed consent, confidentiality, data ownership and intellectual property, disclosure, and dissemination of results.
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HHV 392 - Introduction to Epidemiology Instructor
Orroth
Epidemiology is the systematic and rigorous study of health and disease in a population. According to the Institute of Medicine, epidemiology is the basic science of public health. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to core concepts in epidemiology, including history, philosophy, and uses of epidemiology; descriptive epidemiology, such as patterns of disease and injury; association and causation of disease, including concepts of inference, bias, and confounding; analytical epidemiology, including experimental and non-experimental design; and applications to basic and clinical science and policy. The course is designed to require problem-based learning of epidemiological concepts and methods, so that students can use epidemiology as a scientific tool for addressing the health needs of the community.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Health and Human Values interdisciplinary minor credit.
Prerequisites & Notes (Spring)
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HHV 393 - Infectious Disease Epidemiology Instructor
Orroth
The objective of this course is to introduce students to the epidemiology of infectious diseases. The emphasis of the course will be on the common factors that unite infectious diseases, using particular diseases as examples to illustrate the epidemiologic principles and methods to study infectious diseases. The goal is to introduce students to analytical approaches used to study infectious disease transmission in a population. After reviewing basic epidemiology and microbiology, the course will cover specific issues relating to infectious diseases. These include the natural history of infectious diseases, detection and analysis of outbreaks, surveillance, measuring infectivity, seroepidemiology, vaccines, mathematical models for epidemics, and the study of contact patterns.
Satisfies Health and Human Values interdisciplinary minor requirement.
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HHV 395 - Capstone Seminar Course: Workshop for Senior Theses on Health Topics Instructor
Baron
This course is open to seniors completing a thesis and/or capstone project on health-centric topics. In a collaborative, workshop-style setting, the course will draw its content from the capstone and thesis projects being carried out by Davidson seniors. Students will analyze and critique each other’s projects and progress throughout the term; students will incorporate class feedback and analysis into their senior thesis. Each class will focus on 1-2 student projects, and will feature regular class presentations and class leadership by senior students presenting on their topics and the progress of their project.
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HHV 397 - Future of American Health Care Instructor
Staff
This course reviews the origins and concepts of primary care medicine in America in its present state and proposes models which might better serve a majority of the basic health care needs of America’s population in the new millennium. By the end of the course, students are expected to be creative in articulating a workable primary care system for the next century.
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HHV 440 - The Obesity Epidemic Instructor
Stutts
This course will focus on the public health problem of obesity. It will examine the causes and consequences of obesity in various cultures. Public health prevention/intervention campaigns as well as individual interventions for obesity will be explored. This course also includes a community-based learning experience.
Satisifies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement
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HIS 119 - England to 1688 Instructor
Dietz
Political, constitutional, religious, and social history of England from Roman times through the medieval and early modern periods.
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
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HIS 120 - Britain since 1688 Instructor
Dietz
The rise of the first urban industrial society, its period of world dominance, and the effects of its subsequent loss of status as a world power. Special emphasis on the political and social development of Britain since the Revolution of 1688.
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
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HIS 125 - History of Modern Russia, 1855-2000 Instructor
Staff
Survey of modern Russia from the “Great Reforms” under Tsar Alexander II up to the struggles of the “Second Russian Republic” headed by President Boris Yeltsin.
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
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HIS 162 - Latin America to 1825 Instructor
Mangan
A survey of Latin American history from the eve of Spain’s conquest of the Americas to the era of Latin American independence from Spain. An introduction to the societies of the Americas and the major social, political, and economic themes following the arrival of Europeans to the Americas.
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
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HIS 163 - Latin America, 1825 to Present Instructor
Mangan
Introduction to the history of modern Latin America, emphasizing major political events, economic trends, and important changes in Latin American society, with particular attention to ethnicity, class, and gender.
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
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HIS 168 - Africa to 1800 Instructor
Wiemers
Introduction to the major civilizations and cultures of Africa from prehistoric times through the Transatlantic slave trade, examining changes in economy, ecology, and societies as Africa became involved in the global economy.
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfies interdisciplinary minor requirement in International Studies and Ethnic Studies.
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HIS 169 - The Making of Modern Africa Instructor
Wiemers
Survey of African history from the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present, emphasizing major trends in economic, political, and social life in colonial and post-colonial Africa. Introduces students to critical historical debates and a range of historical artifacts including oral histories, African literature, and popular culture.
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfies interdisciplinary minor requirement in International Studies and Ethnic Studies.
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