Course Descriptions

GER 331 - Special Literary Topics (in trans.)

Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
(Not offered in 2016-17)

GER 332 - Modernism (in trans.)

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 requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
(Not offered in 2016-17)

GER 336 - Memory on Film (in trans.)

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 requirement.
May be counted toward the interdisciplinary minor in Film and Media Studies.

GER 341 - Nazi Art & Culture

In translation.  Analysis of the state-controlled culture industry in Germany, 1933 to 1945; examination of its dominant art forms, including literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, film, music, dance, theatre, and industrial art.

Provides credit for the German Studies major.
Provides credit for the History major.
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Taught in English

GER 343 - Special Topics in Film (in trans.)

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 requirement.
May be counted toward the interdisciplinary minor in Film and Media Studies.

Prerequisites & Notes
Taught in English.
(Not offered in 2016-17)

GER 350 - Modernes Drama

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 requirement.

 

Prerequisites & Notes
German 250 or permission of the instructor.
(Not offered in 2016-17)

GER 351 - Special Literary Topics

This course explores the cultural productions and political activism of minority voices in contemporary Germany (Turkish-Germans, German and Russian Jews, Afro-Germans, “ethnic German” repatriates, refugees, and others). We will investigate texts by immigrants; ethnic, national, and religious minority writers; and bilingual writers examining how immigrants and minorities have challenged and contributed to conceptions of German national and cultural identity in the late 20th and early 21st century. We will focus both on the political, social, and cultural context in which these texts emerged and on theoretical and critical approaches to minority writing in the German context

Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
German 260 or permission of the instructor. 

GER 354 - Contemporary German Literature

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 requirement.

 

Prerequisites & Notes
German 250 or permission of the instructor.
(Not offered in 2016-17)

GER 361 - Literary Topics: Imagining Berlin

Although the “Berlin Republic” is more than twenty years old, journalistic assessments of the city emphasize its youthful energy and the start of a new era. Yet literary and filmic representations of Berlin offer a more variegated picture, one both celebratory and critical. This course aims to get beyond the official hype by looking at recent novels and films and how they: represent Berlin topography; call upon historical and ideological perspectives as well as individual and collective memory; depict everyday life and fantasies in a multicultural city; allude to historical and/or continued divisions between East and West. In the process students will encounter both concrete and imaginary conceptions of what one critic has called “the capital of the 20^th century.” All readings, class discussions, and essays will be in German.

Satisfies the Liberal Studies requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
German 250 or 260 or permission of the instructor.

GER 363 - Special Topics in Film

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 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)

GER 380 - Studies in German Language, Literature, Culture

GER 398 - Independent Study

GER 430 - Seminars (in trans.)

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.

*Interlinked Memory Studies Courses
Five different courses that engage with phenomena of memory will link up once a week for common readings and discussions. Students will meet one day a week with their course instructor to engage in the discipline-specific study of memory. On the other day each week, students and faculty members in all five courses will meet together to compare and share different disciplinary and personal ideas about the study of memory; the creation and effects of memory; the representation of memory; and the social, cultural, and personal creative processes that make memory.  Participating courses are:

AFR 320 / EDU 320 / SOC 320 (Kelly) Growing Up Jim Crow
CIS 292 / PSY 292 (Multhaup) Collective Memory
ENG 204 (Parker) Introduction to Writing Fiction
GER 433 / HIS 433 (Denham) The Holocaust and Representation
​HIS 287 (Mortensen) Memory and Identity in the People’s Republic of China

Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of instructor required.

GER 438 - Seminar: Goethe, Schiller, Kleist

Introduction to the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), and Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)

GER 450 - Seminars

GER 460 - Contemporary Visual & Digital Culture in Germany

This course will provide advanced students of German on overview of visual and digital forms connected to contemporary issues. Two main areas of focus will be the wave of immigration that began in 2015 and the rise of right-wing political responses to it. The course will examine a variety of media forms: newspaper images representing the new “Welcome Culture”; political ads for the right wing Alternative for Germany; the annually televised Eurovision Song contest; works by bicultural video artist Hito Steyerl, who was ranked by ArtReview as the most influential artist of 2017; films that depict East/West divides, like the German/Turkish/French Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015) and the German/Turkish short film Fidelity (Ilker Catak, 2014); and the web series Polyglot, which documents young creatives of color in Berlin. It will also include recent scholarship, including a special issue of German Politics and Culture that focuses on German diversity, and journalism.
 

Satisifes a major requirement in German Studies.
Satisifes a minor requirement in German Studies.

GER 495 - Senior Colloquium

GER 498 - Independent Study

LIT 372 - Nabokov & Global Literature (=RUS 373)

Vladimir Nabokov–brilliant writer, outrageous literary gamesman, and cosmopolitan exile–is a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. His most famous novel, Lolita, propelled him to international stardom and changed the transnational literary landscape. Child of a turbulent century, Nabokov wrote exquisite and at times disturbing prose in Russian and English, balancing between imaginary worlds and harsh realities. This seminar offers a sustained exploration of Nabokov’s major Russian and American writings as well as film adaptations of his Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) and Lolita (Stanley Kubrick). In the second half of the seminar we turn to novels Nabokov haunts: Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran, J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence, and W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants. We will consider memory, exile, trauma, nostalgia, and identity as we read Nabokov, who saw existence as a “series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.” All readings and discussion in English.

Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.  

Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement.

LIT 432 - Theory and Practice of Literary Translation (Seminar)

This seminar addresses theoretical and practical aspects of literary translation, underscoring translation as both a distinctive form of creative writing and a demonstration of cross-cultural and linguistic competencies. Coursework includes regular literary translation, theoretical and historical readings, peer review, and a substantial final project and writing portfolio. The course explores translation across languages and cultures, but also issues of genre, adaptation, register, period, colonial and post-colonial literary and cultural relations, canonicity and innovation, for example.

Satisfies a requirement inthe English major.
Satisfies a requirement in the Chinese Language & Literature Major.
Counts as an elective in the German Studies major and minor.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
Intermediate competence (one course beyond 201) in at least one language besides English and prior satisfaction of the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.

GRE 103 - Intensive Introductory Greek

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 five days a week.
[Equivalent to Greek 101 and 102, counting for two courses.]

 

Prerequisites & Notes
(Offered annually, Spring only)

GRE 201 - Intermediate Greek

GRE 213 - Lyric Poetry

Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
 Students who have alrleady taken a GRE course beyond 201 should enroll in this course as GRE 313.

GRE 214 - Greek Tragedy: Sophocles’ Oedipus the King

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 requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Greek 201
Students who have already taken a GRE course beyond 201 should enroll in this course as GRE 314.
(Fall 2017)

GRE 218 - New Testament Greek

Studying the New Testament gives students an opportunity to (1) read in the original Greek the collection of books and letters that is the most frequently read of all ancient texts today; (2) learn about the history of the Greek language as it spread throughout the eastern Mediterranean after Alexander the Great’s conquests; (3) study and practice the principles of textual criticism, principles that apply to editing any ancient text, as we read a text that has a richer manuscript tradition than any Classical text, with more than 5,700 manuscripts.

This year we will begin with the book of Acts, a narrative about the spread of Christianity into the Greco-Roman world, before sampling the gospels, the letters, and the apocalyptic book of Revelation.

Prerequisites & Notes
 Students who have already taken a GRE course beyond 201 should enroll in this course as GRE 318.

GRE 233 - Greek Drama: Euripides’ Cyclops

We will read in Greek the extant literary accounts of the infamous one-eyed giant Polyphemus: Homer’s Odyssey, Theocritus’ Idyll 11, and Euripides’ only surviving satyr play (Cyclops), with special attention devoted to the last. Along the way, we will consider Polyphemus’ role in defining humanness, cultural identity, and morality; the forces behind his varied representation in the literature and art of antiquity and beyond; and the cultic function of the monster in an Athenian celebration of Dionysus.

Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor.

Prerequisites & Notes
Cross-listed with GRE 333.
Students who have already taken a GRE course beyond 201 should enroll in this course as GRE 333. 

GRE 244 - Greek Historians: Thucydides

Readings of select passages from Thucydides’ Histories, of the rest in English and of secondary literature for understanding of Thucydides’ style and importance for 5th century Greek history.

Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Students who have already taken a GRE course beyond 201 should enroll in this course as GRE 344. 

GRE 266 - Greek Philosophers: Plato’s Gorgias

Introduction to the Platonic dialogue, with special attention devoted to the relationship between philosophy, rhetoric, poetry, and desire.

Prerequisites & Notes
Greek 201
Students who have already taken a GRE course beyond 201 should enroll in this course as GRE 366.
(Spring 2018.)

GRE 313 - Lyric Poetry

Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.

GRE 314 - Greek Tragedy: Sophocles’ Oedipus the King

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 requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Greek 201
(Fall)

GRE 318 - New Testament Greek

Studying the New Testament gives students an opportunity to (1) read in the original Greek the collection of books and letters that is the most frequently read of all ancient texts today; (2) learn about the history of the Greek language as it spread throughout the eastern Mediterranean after Alexander the Great’s conquests; (3) study and practice the principles of textual criticism, principles that apply to editing any ancient text, as we read a text that has a richer manuscript tradition than any Classical text, with more than 5,700 manuscripts.

This year we will begin with the book of Acts, a narrative about the spread of Christianity into the Greco-Roman world, before sampling the gospels, the letters, and the apocalyptic book of Revelation.

GRE 333 - Greek Drama: Euripides’ Cyclops

We will read in Greek the extant literary accounts of the infamous one-eyed giant Polyphemus: Homer’s Odyssey, Theocritus’ Idyll 11, and Euripides’ only surviving satyr play (Cyclops), with special attention devoted to the last. Along the way, we will consider Polyphemus’ role in defining humanness, cultural identity, and morality; the forces behind his varied representation in the literature and art of antiquity and beyond; and the cultic function of the monster in an Athenian celebration of Dionysus.

Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor.

Prerequisites & Notes
Cross-listed with GRE 233.

GRE 344 - Greek Historians: Thucydides

Readings of select passages from Thucydides’ Histories, of the rest in English, and of secondary literature for understanding of Thucydides’ style and importance for 5th century Greek history.

Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.

GRE 366 - Greek Philosophers: Plato’s Gorgias

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 requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Greek 201
(Spring 2018)

GRE 399 - Independent Study in Greek

GRE 499 - Senior Thesis

HHV 110 - Introduction to Public Health

This course will introduce the fundamentals and core concepts of public health research and practice. As we explore the history, philosophy and different disciplines of public health, we will evaluate contemporary health issues in ongoing individual assignments as well as in group activities. This course will focus on introducing the principles and basic disciplines of public health:  epidemiology and biostatistics; environmental health sciences; social and behavioral health; and health policy, law and regulation.

Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.

HHV 120 - Introduction to Clinical Ethics

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.
Satisfies Philosophical and Religious Perspectives requirement.

HHV 130 - Sociobiology of Health and Illness

This course provides an exploration of biological mechanisms that underlie the effects of the psychosocial environment on chronic disease susceptibility in humans. 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 health and seek to refresh the knowledge they acquired in a high school biology course.  Faced with the new realities of aging and associated increase in the prevalence of chronic disease, 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 disease in order to reduce the burden of illness and disability on society. In this course, you will integrate your 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 you with the knowledge and skills you will need to be a thoughtful advocate for quality healthcare for yourself, your family and your community. 

Community-based learning is an important component of this course.  As such, it will require a field experience at a local hospital or clinic.

Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Not open to students who have credit for BIO 111/113 except by permission of the instructor.

HHV 220 - Health Psychology (= PSY 220)

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 requirement.
Health and Human Values interdisciplinary minor credit.

Prerequisites & Notes
PSY 101 or permission of the instructor.

HHV 232 - Introduction to Environmental Health with Community-Based Learning (=ENV 232)

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 requirement.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
ENV 232 may not be taken for credit after ENV 233.

HHV 233 - Introduction to Environmental Health with Laboratory-Based Learning (= ENV 233)

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 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.

HHV 234 - Genes, Environment and Health

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.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Bio 111/113 is a prerequisite for this course as it builds on content covered in Bio 111/113.

HHV 244 - Child Psychopathology (=EDU 234 and PSY 234)

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 requirement.
Educational Studies minor credit.
Health and Human Values interdisciplinary minor credit.
Psychology Major credit (Clinical column)

Prerequisites & Notes
PSY 101

HHV 250 - Methods in Health & Research

This course will focus on introducing fundamentals of methods used in modern public health research and practice. Through a variety of approaches to formal and experiential learning, you will develop your skills and knowledge in several core concept areas of public health methods: quantitative health data analysis, health surveys, policy analysis, environmental health risk assessment, qualitative data analysis, and health communications. One class per week (on average) will be a “workshop class”, in which you and your classmates will break out into groups to evaluate current topics and issues in public health using different methodological approaches.

Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.

Prerequisites & Notes
HHV 110 “Introduction to Public Health” or HHV 392 “Introduction to Epidemiology”

HHV 251 - Health Disparities in the U.S. and Beyond (=SOC 251)

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 requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
HHV 110 “Introduction to Public Health” or HHV 392 “Introduction to Epidemiology”

HHV 260 - Environmental Public Health

Environmental Public Health

HHV 280 - Introduction to Global Health (= SOC 280)

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.

Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
(Fall)

HHV 292 - Introduction to Epidemiology

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 requirement.
Satsifies a requirement in the Health and Human Values interdisciplinary minor.

Prerequisites & Notes
(Spring)

HHV 320 - Health, Culture and Illness in East Asia

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

HHV 354 - Medical Rehabilitation & Disability (=PSY 354)

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)

HHV 370 - The Obesity Epidemic

HHV 380 - Issues in Medicine

HHV 381 - Health Regulations and Public Policy

HHV 387 - Health Law, Policy and Ethics

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

HHV 388 - History of Medical Law

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.

HHV 389 - Neuroethics

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

HHV 390 - Health Care Ethics

Does not satisfy a requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
(Fall)

HHV 391 - Research Ethics

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.

HHV 393 - Infectious Disease Epidemiology

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.

HHV 395 - Current Issues in Public Health

The seminar class will examine current and emerging issues in field of public health. While our focus will be on the novel studies, models and concepts in the field, we will direct our attention towards developments in some specific focal areas. Foci for this class will include: infectious disease epidemics, health and public policy, environmental justice, health disparities, climate change, social determinants of health, early childhood development, among other topics.

The course is designed for students with prior exposure to public health issues and concepts. Enrollment in the course requires taking one or more of the following as a prerequisite, or obtaining the permission of the course instructor: Introduction to Public Health; Health Disparities in the US and Beyond; Introduction to Epidemiology; Genes, Environment and Health.

HHV 395 is repeatable for credit.

HHV 396 - Independent Study

Independent study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who reviews and approves the topic(s) of the independent study and who determines the basis for the evaluation of students’ work.

HHV 397 - Future of American Health Care

HIS 112 - Medieval Europe

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 119 - England to 1688

HIS 120 - Britain since 1688

HIS 121 - Early Modern Europe

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 122 - Europe since 1789

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 125 - History of Modern Russia, 1855-2000

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 requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 141 - American History to 1877

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 142 - The United States since 1877

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 162 - Latin America to 1825

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 requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 163 - Place & Nation in Modern Latin America

This course introduces students to Latin American history through themes related to place and space.  Newly independent nations were eager to defend, define, and regulate territory as well as public and domestic spaces.  By following the hows and whys of space and place from Independence to the late 20th century, we chart important political, social, economic, and cultural changes. Topics will include museums, schools, parks, prisons, transportation, maps, and borders. Through learning about the actions of governments and people in these places and spaces, we will analyze how national identity was defined and contested by individuals of multiple classes, races, genders.

Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Latin America/Caribbean).
Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major or minor.
Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 168 - Africa to 1800

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. 

Fulfills a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies interdisciplinary minor requirement in International Studies.
Satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 169 - The Making of Modern Africa

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. 

Fulfills a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement. 
Satisfies a requirement in the International Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement. 

HIS 171 - Taj Mahal to Terrorism: Modern India

What unfolded in South Asian history from the time the Taj Mahal was built in the seventeenth century to contemporary War on Terror?  Focuses on transition from Mughal to British Rule, British colonialism, Indian nationalism, rise of independent India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, in terms of social, economic, political, and cultural developments.

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfies interdisciplinary minor requirement in South Asian studies.

HIS 175 - The Middle East, 610-1453: The Formation of Islam

Satisfies a requirement in the Arab Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the Middle East interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 176 - The Middle East, 1453-Present: Islam in the Modern World

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfied a requirement in the Arab Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the Middle East Studies interdisciplinary minor.

HIS 183 - East Asian History to 1850

This course provides a broad overview of the important intellectual, cultural, economic, and political developments in China, Japan, and Korea from prehistoric times until 1850. Particular attention will be paid to philosophical traditions, political dynamics, material culture, the Mongol Empire, trade, women’s roles in society, literature, and social change.

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 184 - East Asian History 1850 to the Present

This course covers the societies, cultures, politics, and economies of China, Japan, and Korea from 1850 to the present. By reading a variety of primary and secondary sources, students will consider interpretations of the past that continue to influence how people in East Asia today perceive themselves, their countries, and international relations. We will also interrogate the ways in which historical events are interpreted by the hermeneutics of the present. Topics covered include imperialism, nationalism, World War II, revolution, economic development, political protests, and environmental challenges.

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement.

Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 207 - Digital Medieval History

An introduction to reading, writing and research in history with the help of digital methods. Students will study the primary sources and historiography of Medieval Europe (500-1500 C.E.) using digital methods of text mining, map making, sentiment analysis, network analysis and/or topic modeling. No prior experience expected. 

Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies a requirement in the Digital Studies interdisciplinary minor.

HIS 211 - Land and Power in the Middle Ages

A course on the exercise of power in Europe, ca. 750 - 1100 C.E   In the absence of what we would call state or public institutions, power in the Early Middle Ages was personal, fluid, expressed through elaborate rituals, and tied closely to the land. Students will investigate these topics through a careful study of primary sources as well as the historical scholarship they have inspired.

Satisfies a major requirement in History.
Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 218 - Jihad and Crusade

A study of the history of religious violence.  Topics include the relationship between religion and violence in a number of different traditions, with a special focus on the history of violent conflict between the Islamic world and the West.

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfies the Middle East Studies interdisciplinary minor.

HIS 225 - Women and Work: Gender and Society in Britain, 1700-1918

An examination of British women’s lives and social relations with regard to production-artistic, domestic, industrial, intellectual, etc.-in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. 

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Fulfills a requirement in the Gender & Sexuality Studies major and minor.

HIS 228 - The Modern Body: Gender, Sex, and Race in France

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Counts as an elective in the French & Francophone Studies major (prior departmental approval required).
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

HIS 230 - African Diasporas, German Encounters: Histories, Conflicts and Movements

Provides new perspectives on African Diasporas and Germany by exploring how Germans interacted with and impacted the lives of African Americans in North America and indigenous peoples on the African continent and how, in turn, African Americans and Africans in the German lands profoundly reshaped things German since the eighteenth century.  The course will examine these complex histories with a particular emphasis on the Black Atlantic, migration and labor, cultural practice and political activism, gender relations, racism, violence, war, and genocide.

Satisfies a major or minor requirement in History.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 242 - Origins of the American South

An introduction to the main events, ideas, and issues that have shaped the history of the American South from the era of first contact and colonial settlement through the era of Civil War and Reconstruction (1580s-1870s). Major topics include Anglo-Indian relations, colonialism, plantation agriculture, race and slavery, regionalism, violence, and warfare.

HIS 243 - Native Women

How have Indigenous, American Indian, Native American, and First Nations women constructed their identities, participated in their societies, and responded to common experiences, particularly those resulting from colonization? How did Indigenous women’s ancestors live, and how have cultural traditions and identities been lost, maintained, and reconfigured over time? Through historical scholarship, films, fiction, and autobiography, the voices of Indigenous women and their allies speak eloquently about the diversity and complexity of these women’s lives over time and across place.

Meets the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

HIS 244 - Settlement of the American West, 1800-1900

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.
Satisfies depth or breadth course requirement in the humanities track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.

HIS 245 - Digital History of Early American Knowledge

This course explores communication technologies and knowledge production in the antebellum United States, while introducing students to newer methods afforded by digital studies.  By the end of the course, students will understand how people parsed information, talked, wrote, and signaled one another in the past. They will also understand how new tools help us to communicate both with other scholars and with the public today.  Throughout the course they will engage in formal historical writing - historiography, primary source analysis, historical interpretation - as well as with the new opportunities for public engagement afforded by digital history.

We will examine both elite and non-elite modes of knowledge production and transmission, and how communication was used both to exert power and as a form of resistance.  Over the course of the semester, students will engage with primary sources, historical monographs and popular culture representations of communication and knowledge production in America’s past.

Satisfies a major requirement in History

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement

Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement

Satisfied an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Communication Studies

HIS 248 - The Native South

This course is an interdisciplinary analysis of the history of the Indigenous peoples of the American South. Throughout the semester, we will develop a sophisticated understanding of the development of Southeastern Indian societies over time and across place since prior to the arrival of Europeans until the modern day. Scholars of the Native South critique the “black and white” master narrative of Southern history and suggest that an inclusive perspective with Native people at its heart enriches the stories we tell about this region. We seek to understand how Native people in this region formed, maintained, and evolved as distinct groups united (and sometimes divided) by experience, belief, and action. This class is an immersion into the sixteenth through twentieth centuries as lived by the ancestors of those Native communities that call the South home today or look to it as their ancestral homeland. 

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 252 - The United States from 1900 to 1945

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 253 - The United States since 1945

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 255 - American Popular Culture

American popular culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include sports, popular music, theatre, motion pictures and television. 

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 

HIS 259 - US Latino/a History

This course contends that we cannot understand the history of the US without studying the history of Latin@s from the colonial-era Spanish possessions to the US-Mexican War era to the Bracero era and, finally, the beginnings of Latino Charlotte in the late 20thc. Themes include migration, labor, religion, cultural identity, political organization. Students will learn about the cultures and experiences of Latinos with the US as well as US government responses to Latinos.  Emphasis on Mexican-Americans with some attention to the Caribbean and South American experience. 

Satisfies a major credit in Latin American Studies.
Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement. 

HIS 262 - Piracy in the Americas

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 263 - Development and Dissent in Africa

In this course, we will examine a variety of projects for economic and social transformation in twentieth-century Africa. The guiding principle of this course is to consider development not as a pre-determined trajectory (from “traditional” to “modern” or “developing” to “developed”), but instead as a deeply contested set of ideas and practices that has shaped interactions among African people, African governments, and international and diasporic actors for over a century. The course will introduce students to the writings of pan-Africanist thinkers, architects of colonial rule, and theorists of development and underdevelopment. To develop our understanding and facility with historical analysis, we will then examine particular cases in which these theories were put into (messy) practice, using a variety of sources from print media, planning documents, scholarly publications, and records of oral historical research. As historians, we will grapple with the choices we face in reconstructing contested visions and exploring the sizable gap between theory and reality.

Satisfies a requirement in the History major.
Satisfies a requirement in the History minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the Historical & Geographical Investigations category of the Africana Studies major (Region: Africa).
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality and Community requirement.

HIS 264 - The Digital Mexican Revolution

In depth study of the Mexican Revolution through political as well as cultural history.  Emphasis on traditional and digital methodologies.  No digital skills required. 

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 267 - Health and Society in Africa

Histories of health, healing, and disease control in Africa from c. 1500 to the present.  Explores the ways African people and states have conceived of and responded to relationships between human and natural environment, between individual and collective well-being, and between bodily and social health.

Satisfies a major or minor requirement in History.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement