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2010-2011 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]
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PSY 1340 - Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Goals: To introduce the logic of statistical inference and apply that logic to statistical methods used in psychological research.
Content: The statistical tests covered include the z test, the t test, the correlation test, the chi-square test, and analysis of variance.
Prerequisite: PSY 1330 is recommended. Credit will not be given for both PSY 1340 and MGMT 1310 or PSY 1340 and MATH 1200.
(This course was previously titled Quantitative Methods.)
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 1350 - Research Methods in Psychology
Goals: To understand the logic of experimental methodology, basic principles of experimental design, data analyses, limitations of experiments, and ethical considerations related to psychology research.
Content: Correlational and experimental research methods, threats to good experimental design, and interpretation of results. Students conduct statistical analysis and write up their own experiment.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330 (or equivalent) and PSY 1340.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 1430 - Sensation and Perception
Goals: To introduce students to sensory systems (with primary emphasis on vision), how the functions of sensory mechanisms contribute to the structure of perceptual events, and how culture and learning shape the interpretative process we call perception.
Content: Psychophysics, signal detection theory, vision, hearing, the skin senses (including pain), attention, and states of consciousness.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330 and 1350 are recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 1460 - Theories of Personality
Goals: To provide an overview of major theories of personality; to evaluate theories of personality from a variety of psychological perspectives; to understand the application of theoretical principles to practical problems.
Content: Major theories of personality are presented, with an emphasis on analyses of personality organization, development, assessment, and change. Major theories include psychoanalysis, trait models, humanistic models, and behavioral and cognitive approaches.
Prerequisite: PSY 1330 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 1480 - Abnormal Psychology
Goals: To introduce students to current views of psychopathology, problems in assessment and classification, general characteristics and etiology of disorders, and accepted treatment procedures.
Content: Various forms of disordered behavior ranging from mild and common problems in living to seriously dysfunctional pathology; competing models for understanding disordered behavior, contemporary ethical issues in mental health.
Prerequisite: PSY 1330 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3410 - Theories of Learning
Goals: To define learning and to show how the learning process is studied; to place learning theory in historical perspective, showing how answers to ancient questions about ideas gradually evolved into what we now refer to as modern learning theory.
Content: The learning theories of Thorndike, Skinner, Hull, Pavlov, Guthrie, Estes, the Gestalt theorists, Piaget, Tolman, Bandura, and Hebb; the nature of learning, approaches to the study of learning, and early notions about learning; the application of learning principles to the solution of practical problems.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330 or equivalent. PSY 1340 and PSY 1350 are recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3420 - Cognitive Psychology
Goals: To introduce the important insights and theoretical principles of modern cognitive science.
Content: Students study evolution of human cognition, consciousness, perception and attention, memory, knowledge representation, language, reasoning, problem solving, cognitive development, learning, and individual differences in cognition.
Prerequisite: PSY 1330 is recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3440 - Advanced Child Development
Goals: To provide a broad overview of theories of child development and research in child psychology. To encourage students to explore a single issue in developmental psychology in depth.
Content: Research methods with children, genetics, learning and cognition development, moral development, socialization processes, family dynamics, and child-rearing.
Prerequisite: PSY 1330.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3510 - Psychology of Emotion
Goals: To examine major psychological theories of emotion, emotional development, and emotional competence, from infancy through adulthood.
Content: Individual differences in emotion, the role of emotions in social relationships, emotions across cultures, and emotions in psychopathology.
Prerequisite: PSY 1330.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3570 - Neuropsychology
Goals: To provide an understanding of the role of the brain in emotion, sleep, learning and memory, language, sexual behavior, aggression, and psychopathology.
Content: Neural mechanisms, subcortical function, basic neuroendocrinology, drug effects and brain functions, models of pathology in schizophrenia and depression, and hemispheric specialization and language.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330, PSY 1350, and PSY 1430 are strongly recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3600 - Psychological Tests and Measurements
Goals: To become familiar with issues in psychological testing such as validity and reliability, test development, item analysis, and the application of those concepts to evaluate achievement, aptitude, personality traits, personnel issues, and mental diagnosis.
Content: Psychometric theory, psychological scaling and norm development, reliability and validity of psychological tests, test development and item analysis. Analysis of testing principles using examples of tests employed in achievement, personnel, personality, and mental evaluations. Students use statistical software in the development of their own testing instrument.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330 or equivalent, and PSY 1340.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3640 - Theories of Psychotherapy
Goals: To provide an overview of the major approaches to psychotherapy; to compare and contrast models of psychotherapy; to become familiar with contemporary trends in psychotherapy.
Content: Major theories of psychotherapy are presented, including psychoanalysis, humanistic and existential models, behavioral models, cognitive models, feminist and multicultural approaches, and integrative models.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330 or equivalent, and either PSY 1460 or PSY 1480.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3670 - Theories of Motivation
Goals: To introduce students to a sampling of major theories of motivation with concentration on approaches most relevant to human behavior and to help them discover convergent positions and use motivation theory in self-discovery.
Content: Psychodynamic theory, physiological mechanisms, achievement theory, attribution theory, organizational behavior, and aggression and altruism.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330 and PSY 1350 are recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3700 - Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Goals: To familiarize the students with psychological theories and research applied to human behavior in organizational settings and to use this knowledge to solve problems in organizational behavior.
Content: Learning theories applied to organizational settings; motivation, perception, and communication in work settings; the nature and impact of work related attitudes (especially job satisfaction); individual differences and organizational behavior; the causes, impact, and management of stress; group dynamics at work; organizational culture, leadership, and decision making.
Prerequisite: PSY 1330 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3740 - Disorders of Childhood
Goals: To introduce students to current understandings of psychological disorders of childhood, problems in child assessment and classification, characteristics and etiology of disorders of childhood, and treatment options.
Content: Descriptions of psychological disorders from infancy through adolescence; context of normal development; neurobiological, genetic, psychological, family, peer and cultural influences on disorders of childhood; ethical issues in assessment and treatment.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330 or equivalent, and PSY 3440.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3800 - Social Psychology
Goals: To introduce the prominent social psychological theories and research relating to social behavior.
Content: A survey of classic and contemporary theories in impression formation, person perception, prejudice and stereotyping, interpersonal attraction and relationships, altruism and aggression, conformity and persuasion, and group processes.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330 or equivalent; PSY 1340 recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3820 - Cross-Cultural Psychological Science
Goals: To examine research and theory on cross-cultural psychology from international and domestic perspectives. To gain an overview of how cross-cultural issues relate to and affect different areas of psychology and to present methods psychologists use to study culture and its effects on behavior and emotion (from social psychology to clinical psychology).
Content: Topics include (but are not limited to) cultural universality and specificity of psychological theories, ethnic identity, cultural variations in human development, personality, emotion, cognition, social interactions and psychopathology, psychology of immigration and acculturation, mindfulness-based approaches, and psychological assessment and treatment of culturally diverse populations.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330 and PSY 1340.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3840 - College Drinking and Alcoholism: Psychological Theory and Research
Goals: To examine research and theory on the causes and consequences of alcoholism, drinking to get drunk, heavy drinking, and binge drinking.
Content: A wide variety of perspectives on alcoholism and college drinking will be covered including (but not limited to) behavioral genetics, neuroscience, clinical psychological treatment and prevention, psychophysiological research, environmental factors, psychiatry, epidemiological, social, emotional, attitudinal, and experimental studies. Students engage in psychological data analysis, write-up and interpretation of real data sets on addiction, alcohol and drug use, and read and critique research articles on the topic.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330 and PSY 1340
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 3950 - History of Psychology
Goals: To provide information that will allow the student to place modern psychology in historical perspective and thus to see it as a dynamic, evolving body of information that is subject to emotional and societal factors and is often characterized by fads and fashions.
Content: Early Greek philosophy; after Aristotle: a search for the good life; beginnings of modern psychology; empiricism, associationism, materialism, and positivism; rationalism, romanticism, and existentialism, early developments in physiology and the rise of experimental psychology; structuralism: psychology’s first school; the Darwinian influence; functionalism; behaviorism, neobehaviorism; Gestalt psychology; early treatment of the mentally ill and the events leading to the development of psychoanalysis; psychoanalysis; third force psychology; and psychology today.
Prerequisite: PSY 1330 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 5550 - Seminar: Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness
Goals: To introduce students to research and theories in the field of waking consciousness, sleep, and dreams.
Content: The course covers the nature and basis of human consciousness, the physiology and psychology of normal and disordered sleep, the function of sleep, the nature of dreaming, the meaning and function of dream content, and the waking imagination.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 5600 - Seminar: Advanced Topics in Social Psychology
Goals: To examine a specific topic in the area of social psychology such as an in-depth analysis of aggressive behavior as addressed by social psychological research.
Content: Variable from year to year.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330 or equivalent, PSY 1340, with 28 credits in psychology or senior standing.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 5700 - Seminar: Clinical Psychology
Goals: To introduce students to the field of clinical psychology as a science and a profession; to review theoretical models of psychopathology and intervention; to explore professional issues related to mental health services; to integrate, evaluate, and reflect on previous coursework within the framework of an advanced seminar in psychology.
Content: Contemporary approaches to clinical psychology; theoretical and practical issues in clinical education, ethics, and intervention; individual topics selected by students.
Prerequisites: PSY 1460 or PSY 1480, PSY 3640, with 28 credits or senior standing.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 5750 - Seminar: Positive Psychology
Goals: To critically examine the topic of positive psychology. To incorporate and expand on areas of research and applications related to human health and adaption.
Content: Variable from year to year.
Prerequisites: 28 credits in psychology or senior standing.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 5760 - Seminar: Advanced Topics in Cognitive Psychology
Goals: To examine a specific topic in the area of cognitive psychology, such as scientific inquiry into the nature of the unconscious mind.
Content: The course focuses on class discussion and includes an individual research project.
Prerequisites: 28 credits in psychology or senior standing.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 5770 - Seminar: Human Judgment and Decision Making
Goals: To acquaint the student with the psychological factors involved in decision making and gambling, to introduce the student to the use of mathematical models in psychology, and to help the student gain fluency in application of models to real data.
Content: Psychological decision theory, subjective probability, game theory, measurement, gambling, complexity theory, and experimental aesthetics.
Prerequisites: PSY 1330, PSY 1340, PSY 1350, with 28 credits in psychology or senior standing.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 5880 - Honors Research Seminar I
Goals: To begin research for departmental honors.
Content: Principles of experimental design, statistical analysis of data, completion of a literature review and research proposal in area of student’s interest, analysis of theory.
Prerequisites: PSY 1340, PSY 1350, and admission by application and approval of department sponsor.
Credits: 4 credits
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PSY 5890 - Honors Research Seminar II
Goals: To complete research for departmental honors, to produce a paper in publishable APA format, and to orally present research results.
Prerequisite: PSY 5880.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 1100 - Introduction to Religion
Goals: To examine both general theories about religion and autobiographical accounts of individual religious lives in an effort to define “religion,” to understand what it might mean to lead a religious life, to appreciate the various ways of being religious, and to explore the role of religion in society.
Content: A variety of religious traditions will be explored through various literary genres, autobiography in particular, as well as through films, field trips, and guest lecturers.
Taught: Every semester.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 1140 - Women and Religion
Goals: To introduce religious expressions of women and their role in religion; to analyze the roles religion plays in women’s lives; to explore ways women influence as well as rethink religious traditions and shape them.
Content: Cross-cultural examination of how religions function in women’s lives and the leadership roles women take in religion; analysis of gender structures in religion; and examination of such concepts as spirituality, community, authority, relationship, and images of the divine. The specific religious traditions and the cultural contexts of the women may vary in different years.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 1200 - Survey of the Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible
Goals: To survey the Jewish Scriptures/Christian Old Testament in historical context, exploring both the material’s literary characteristics—such as narrative plot and theme, poetic form and rhetoric—and its key theological emphases—such as the concept of God and the mission and destiny of Israel.
Content: Samples from the three main portions of the Old Testament: Pentateuch, Prophets, and Writings (Psalms and wisdom literature).
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 1220 - The New Testament
Goals: To develop an acquaintance with the literary and theological characteristics of the New Testament, and to understand the process of its formation. A student should develop skill as an interpreter (exegete) of the biblical text.
Content: The literature of the New Testament, using the methods of historical-critical analysis, answering questions such as: By whom written? To whom written? When written? Meaning to authors and to the Christian community to whom they were/are addressed?
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 1300 - Introduction to Theology
Goals: To introduce the student to theological language and argument through critical examination of historical and contemporary thinkers as well as schools of thought.
Content: Close reading and discussion of primary and secondary theological texts that explore central doctrinal claims as to the nature of God, Jesus Christ, creation, humanity, the church, sin, suffering, evil, and salvation. The literature surveyed will include both dominant and marginal (such as feminist and liberationist trajectories) of the Christian tradition.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 1400 - Christian Ethics
Goals: To provoke reflection on, and understanding of, the basis, nature, content, and consequences of Christian moral thinking. To appreciate the variety of viewpoints of moral issues within the Christian tradition and their relation to the larger society.
Content: Close reading and discussion of various approaches to Christian ethics followed by analysis of selected moral issues such as war, euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality, and racism.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 1500 - Introduction to Judaism
Goals: To introduce students to the Jewish world by putting them in touch with authentic Jewish texts, experiences, values, and insights, and by enabling them to compare Judaism with their own ways of living and believing.
Content: Analysis of the uniqueness and tragedy of Jewish history, issues of Jewish identity, the role of Jewish law in the life of the community.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 1510 - Jewish Ethics
Goals: To study the nature of the good in Judaism; to analyze such contemporary issues as war and peace, individual responsibility, sexuality, women’s issues, and related topics.
Content: Historical context and authority, including Bible, Talmud, Responsa, and Codes; classic and modern religious literature; contemporary Jewish bioethics texts.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 1520 - The World of Jesus
Goals: To understand the social, cultural, and political realities that comprised the world of Jesus, and to see him as an embodiment of that milieu.
Content: Movements in contemporary Judaism—Sadducees, Pharisees, Zealots, Essenes—as well as institutions like Temple, Torah, and Synagogue will be studied, along with the opportunities they presented to Jesus. Special emphasis will be placed on Jewish responses to Greek and Roman imperialism and culture, and to the ways in which these responses shaped Jesus’ environment.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 1560 - Islam
Goals: To gain an understanding of the history, texts, beliefs and practices of Islam. To explore the ways the commitment to the tradition is understood and expressed in the lives of Muslims from a variety of places and backgrounds. To gain an appreciation for both diversity and unity within the tradition.
Content: Close reading of portions of the Qur’an and other sacred writings, such as the Hadith; survey of the history of Islam; exploration of Islamic philosophy, law, art and literature. Special topics will include an examination of Sufism, the mystical tradition, and an analysis of contemporary issues relating to Islamic politics, the tension between tradition and modernization, and the growth of Islam in America. Teaching Methods: Lecture, small and large group discussion, videos; possible field trips and guest lectures.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 1620 - Religions of East Asia
Goals: To provide an introduction to the religious traditions of China, Korea and Japan. To examine continuity and diversity within each tradition and among the various traditions. To explore how religious themes and values are expressed in texts, rituals, symbols, art and architecture.
Content: We will look at both the indigenous religions of each culture (e.g. Chinese Daoism, Korean Shamanism, Japanese Shinto) as well as those traditions that all share in common (Confucianism and Buddhism). We will discuss beliefs and practices, major thinkers and texts, historical contexts, institutional developments and popular religious movements. Topics include Chinese cosmology, Zen meditation, Korean Christianity, religion and Communism, and Confucian capitalism in contemporary East Asia.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 1630 - Religions of South Asia
Goals: To provide an introduction the religious traditions of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh). To examine continuity and diversity within each tradition and among the various traditions. To explore how religious themes and values are expressed in texts, rituals, symbols, music, art and architecture.
Content: We will look at the Brahmanical, Jain, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and Sikh traditions. Topics will include yoga, renunciation, Hindu deities, caste and social structure, and women in Hinduism. The last part of the course will explore trends in the 19th and 20th century, during which the religious traditions of South Asia were connected with nationalism and the birth of modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. We will conclude by looking at the role that Hindu traditions, teachers and practices have played in modern America.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3150 - Religion and Literature
Goals: To show both how imaginative secular literature can be religious—e.g., communicate a religious vision, help shape one’s character and inform one’s deepest self-understanding, legitimate or de-legitimate social forms and practices—and how the study of such literature has become a key element in the field of religious studies.
Content: The specific topic and genre will vary from year to year. The focus may be plays, novels, short stories, poetry, or auto/biography. It may range in scope from an exhaustive study of a single literary work (e.g., Melville’s Moby Dick), to the works of a single author (e.g., Margaret Atwood, Jon Hassler, Flannery O’Connor), to a comparison of different authors (e.g., C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers and P. D. James). Or it may be thematically arranged: e.g., Jewish Stories of Wonder; The Poetry of Prayer (Donne, Herbert, Hopkins, Dickinson, Berryman); Love and the Novel: A Critique of Power; How We Die; Modern Apocalyptic Literature; or Living With the Land: An Ecology of Fiction.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3200 - Biblical Narrative: Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
Goals: To study in depth some portion of the narrative literature of the Jewish Scriptures/Christian Old Testament, with special attention to the issue of relevance posed by the antiquity of the texts, and to the issues posed by a sacred “literature-in-translation.” Emphasis will be given to developing close reading skills, a working acquaintance with critical methods of biblical studies, and intercultural competence.
Content: Course content may shift from year to year. It may focus on a large block of narrative, the Deuteronomic History (Joshua-2 Kings), for example, or on an individual book (e.g., Genesis), or on a piece of a book (e.g., the Jacob cycle). Alternatively, the course may adopt a thematic approach: e.g., “family, friend, and stranger,” “holy war and peace,” or yet other topics.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: REL 1200 or REL 1220, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3210 - Biblical Poetry: Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
Goals: To study in depth a selection of the poetic literature of Jewish Scripture/Christian Old Testament with particular attention to poetic form, function, and transformative power. Students will learn to recognize interpretations embedded in translations, will develop close-reading skills, and will be challenged to deepen their vision of the world and open the self to transformation.
Content: Course content may vary from a sampling of psalms, prophetic oracles, and proverbial wisdom to a closer focus on a single book (e.g, Isaiah), or on a comparison-contrast of two books (e.g., Proverbs and Ecclesiastes), or on some specific theme (e.g., protest and praise).
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: One of the following: REL 1200, REL 1220, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3220 - The Gospels
Goals: To understand the process by which the Gospels were formed, the intentions of the Gospel writers in recording the tradition from their perspectives, and the appropriate interpretation of these texts for today.
Content: The four Gospels of the New Testament using a “parallel” of the texts by which the student can see the “variations on the theme” of the message and ministry of Jesus presented through the Gospels.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: One of the following: REL 1200 or REL 1220, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3230 - The Letters of Paul
Goals: To explore the mind, method, and impact of the first Christian writer. To develop students’ abilities to read and interpret religious literature with critical appreciation.
Content: The Pauline Epistles, both those of Paul’s direct authorship and those of associates and later followers in the Pauline tradition. The letters will be analyzed and interpreted in their historical, social, and theological contexts. Secondary readings assessing Paul’s impact on the shape of Christianity and his contribution to the intellectual and social development of Western civilization will be included.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: One of the following: REL 1200 or REL 1220; or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3240 - The Problem of Evil
Goals: To chart the variety of biblical responses to the experience of suffering. To study in depth one of the key voices in that response. To reflect critically on the place of suffering in one’s own value system.
Content: Selected Old and New Testament texts, with special attention to the Book of Job. Views of suffering as demonic vengeance, just punishment, divine instruction, or occasion for communion with God will be inspected in their biblical contexts and evaluated in the light of contemporary experience.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3250 - Death and Dying
Goals: This course will examine death and dying from a range of perspectives and multiple methodologies.
Content: The texts we will read include a) philosophical and theological reflections on the meanings(s) of death, how we should live in the face of death, and the possibility and desirability of immortality; b) psychological analyses of death anxiety, grief, and mourning; c) anthropological and sociological examinations of death rituals, suicide, and institutions surrounding death; d) accounts from Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist, and Christian traditions about the nature of death and the after-life; and e) debates on controversial issues including euthanasia, war and pacifism, capital punishment and factory farming. We will also read literary treatments (short stories, poems, excerpts from novels) on many of these issues, and view films that focus on these topics.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisites: Any religion course
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3300 - Reformers and Revolutionaries in the Ancient and Medieval World
Goals: To explore the development primarily of Christian thought and practice in its relationship to culture from the first century B.C.E. through the medieval period.
Content: Persecution of the early church, formation of doctrine, Augustine and Constantinian Christianity, Monasticism, Thomas Aquinas and the medieval church, Martin Luther and the Reformation.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3310 - Reformers and Revolutionaries in the Modern World
Goals: To understand the persons and movements within Christianity that contribute to an ever-evolving and reforming understanding of faith, faith-based organizations, and social change movements, through biography to get in-depth glimpses of the challenges and opportunities that religious leaders face, and to think broadly about the concepts of reform and revolution within a religious context.
Content: Luther, Calvin, Wesley, 19th-century United States religious movements with special emphasis on African-American and women’s contributions, Martin Luther King, feminist/womanist theology, the challenges to and within Christianity in the last 500 years that have led to both reform and revolution.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3320 - Philosophy of Religion
Crosslisted
Listed under Philosophy as PHIL 3320.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3340 - Religion of North America
Goals: To trace the changing landscape of religion in North America, uncovering patterns and beliefs from the past in order to better understand current issues and trends.
Content: The value and ethics of indigenous peoples, colonization and mission, the development of Protestantism and its particular role in the shaping of the United States, African American religious expression, and recent diversity in faith expression.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3350 - Contemporary African-American Religious Thought
Goals: To understand how race in America—particularly the Black/White relationship—impacts religious thought in America; to encourage greater sensitivity to the ways in which religion is inextricably bound to culture, to politics, to economics, to American society as a whole.
Content: Pre-World War II to the present—from the non-violent, prophetic voices of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr., through the turbulent late 1960s with Malcolm X and the rise of Black Power—the influence of the protest movements on the creation of Black Theology and subsequently, of womanist theology; and the more recent critiques of capitalism by Cornel West and others.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3360 - Religion and Globalization
Goals: To examine the ways in which religious traditions have been transformed as they move into new cultural and national contexts, and how religions, in turn, transform cultures and nations. To study different forms of globalization in a range of historical periods and to reflect on how religion can act as an agent of, or an obstacle to, globalization.
Content: Theories of globalization and its relationship to religious traditions. In-depth studies of a number of traditions including Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3380 - Soren Kierkegaard: On Becoming a Person
Goals: To explore the thought of the founder of modern existentialism, with particular attention to his understanding of Christianity and what it means to have a self. To develop close-reading skills along with an appreciation of the literary, imaginative scope of Kierkegaard’s authorship.
Content: Selections from the following works will be studied in the context of Kierkegaard’s biography, 19th century Danish Lutheranism, and the task of becoming an individual in a mass society: Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Sickness Unto Death, Training in Christianity, and Works of Love. Note: When the course is taught in winter term, it will focus on only one of Kierkegaard’s works.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3400 - Contemporary Issues in Christian Ethics
Goals: To achieve a greater appreciation of the major approaches and sources utilized by contemporary Christian ethicists, and to apply that knowledge to in-depth research into one current ethical dilemma.
Content: The influence of scripture, philosophy, social, and natural science on the shape of Christian ethics in relationship to specific ethical issues such as sexuality, health care, politics, environment, economics.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3430 - Feminist/Womanist Theologies
Goals: To explore the traditional theological claims in light of feminist and womanist critiques and reformulations.
Content: Close reading and discussion of a variety of feminist and womanist theological works, especially focused on how gender, race, and class have affected religious language and imagery regarding God, Christ, power, sin, love, and redemption.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: REL 1330 or REL 1400 or instructor permission.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3570 - Religion, Culture, and the State
Crosslisted
Listed under Anthropology as ANTH 3570.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3620 - Seminar in Classical Chinese Religious Thought
Goals: To study in depth the most significant thinkers and texts of the classical period in China (6th-2nd century BCE), one of the liveliest and most important periods of philosophical debate in Chinese history. The schools of thought that emerged during this period had a profound effect on Chinese philosophy, religion, culture and politics that continues to the present day.
Content: We will focus primarily on the Confucian and Daoist traditions, although we will also look at the Mohist and Legalist traditions. While we will be thinking about these texts and philosophers, we will also be thinking along with them about the topics that concerned them. These are some of the most important topics that we as human beings must grapple with: What is human nature? What is a good person and how does an individual become one? How do we gain knowledge and how do we know when we have it (and what kind of knowledge is worth gaining)? What is a good death? We will see how the classical Chinese thinkers answered these questions and then look at how modern philosophers in the West have tried to understand, analyze and evaluate their positions. We will alternate between reading primary texts and reading secondary texts that interpret and critique the primary texts.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended: Previous religion course.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3630 - Seminar in Buddhism
Goals: To engage in an in-depth study of the Buddhist tradition, focusing on its origin in India, its development in Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Tibet, and the spread of Buddhism to America. We will look at both continuity and diversity within Buddhism, examining the different forms the tradition takes in various cultures and at the threads that run through all of them.
Content: We will examine various facets of Buddhism—e.g. meditation, ritual, ethics, devotion—and different types of Buddhist lives—e.g. Monastic and lay, contemplative and activist. We will read both primary texts (e.g. Sutras) and modern secondary literature, and will examine Buddhist thought and practice at the “elite” level as well as the popular level. A number of sub-themes and questions will run through the course: How has each culture been shaped by Buddhism, and how has Buddhism been shaped by the various cultures? What has been the interaction of Buddhism with other aspects of culture, and with the sociopolitical sphere, in each country? Special topics include women in Buddhism, conceptions of Nirvana, the ethics of Karma, Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, and Buddhism in contemporary America.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended: Previous religion course.
Credits: 4 credits
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REL 3900 - Junior Colloquium
Goals: The course will meet monthly to examine significant topics and developments pertinent to the formation, history, expression, and study of religion. It is designed to stimulate ideas for honors projects among junior majors in the class and to support the work of seniors who are undertaking honors projects.
Content: The idea of “service” as a religious concept will provide a unifying theme for the course, but monthly topics will depend on the interests of the student (or occasionally faculty person) who is presenting for the day.
Taught: Annually.
Required of majors: Two semesters of the junior and/or senior year, although more would be permitted.
Credits: 1 credit
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REL 5750 - Senior Seminar
Goals: To examine the concept of religious vocation in the contemporary context.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: Two 3000-level religion courses.
Credits: 2 credits
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REL 5900 - Senior Colloquium
Goals: The course will meet monthly to examine significant topics and developments pertinent to the formation, history, expression, and study of religion. It is designed to stimulate ideas for honors projects among junior majors in the class and to support the work of seniors who are undertaking honors projects.
Content: The idea of “service” as a religious concept will provide a unifying theme for the course, but monthly topics will depend on the interests of the student (or occasionally faculty person) who is presenting for the day.
Taught: Annually.
Required of majors: Two semesters of the junior and/or senior year, although more would be permitted.
Credits: 1 credit
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SOC 1110 - Introduction to Sociological Thinking
Goals: To introduce students to the basic sociological concepts. To show how these concepts are used to analyze society. To increase our knowledge of how society is organized and operates. To encourage creative and critical thinking.
Content: Study of culture, socialization, social institutions such as the family, religion, and government, race, gender, social class, and social change.
Taught: Annually, fall and spring terms.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 1120 - Social Problems
Goals: To understand why we have social problems and what we can do about them. To learn about selected social problems.
Content: Poverty, racism, sexism, urban issues, alcohol, and drug abuse. The social problems selected will vary with the instructor.
Taught: Annually.
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Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 1330 - Women, Men, and Society
Goals: To introduce students to gender as an area of sociological inquiry.
Content: The course will cover a variety of topics including crosscultural issues, socialization, education, communication, intimate relationships, employment, crime, politics, spirituality, and health.
Taught: Annually, fall or winter terms.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3000 - Society, Images and Perception
Goals: To deepen our sensitivities about the way in which people’s “perceptions” are constructed through the works of art, photography, and advertising. To show that images are not neutral objects, but social constructs which shape our attitude about ourselves and others.
Content: Various theoretical and historical works on photography, vision, and art by John Berger, Roland Barthes, Malek Alloula, Stuart Ewen, Susan Sontag, and others.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3250 - Juvenile Delinquency/Juvenile Justice
Goals: To understand the etiology of delinquency. To gain an overview of the juvenile justice system—the legal process and correctional systems. To evaluate intervention strategies.
Content: Brief history of juvenile justice; social deviance and psychopathology; crimogenic factors; principles of risk, need and responsibility; continuum of interventions, effective interventions, future trends; careers in juvenile justice.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: One of the following: SOC 1110, PSY 1330, CJFS 1120, or LGST 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3330 - Sociology of Gender
Goals: To understand and evaluate gender as a form of social structure and the consequences that structure holds for individuals and society. To understand gender as a social, rather than purely biological, construct.
Content: Covers a variety of topics including social constructionism, biological explanations of gender difference, feminist theory, and sexuality, as well as a selection of contemporary issues in gender studies.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Prerequisites: SOC 1110 and SOC 1330 or WSTD 1010.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3350 - Sociology of Racial and Cultural Minorities
Goals: To develop a critical understanding of the different racial, ethnic, and culturally distinct groups in society. To explore a range of theories which seek to explain the nature of minority relations.
Content: Topical focus will vary with the instructor.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110 or CJFS 1120.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3370 - Families in Crisis
Goals: To learn about the different types of family forms and changing functions of the family as a basic social institution. A social problems focus.
Contents: Dating, family violence, divorce, and alternatives to marriage.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110 or WSTD 1010.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3390 - Social Psychology
Goals: To provide an overview of sociological social psychology, specifically the perspective of symbolic interaction. To understand how we become social beings and how, through our everyday interactions with one another, we create and re-create both ourselves and the social world in which we live.
Content: The course will begin with a comparison of sociological and psychological theories of social psychology. We will then turn to symbolic interaction with topics that include meaning and symbols as human creations, language and cognition, impression management, the self, and the social construction of reality.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3440 - Urban Sociology
Goals: To explore the advent and growth of cities, the key organizations and concerns of everyday urban life, and the movement of people into and out of cities as well as regional shifts in the distribution of America’s population.
Content: Urban and suburban domination of American life, the way in which the distribution of power has influenced the shape of cities, gentrification, the rise and fall of the “Southern Rim,” the factors that make cities desirable places to live, the various political and social problems which affect all cities and the possible remedies for these problems.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3500 - Culture in Transition
Goals: To become familiar with changing patterns of organization in society. This would include changes in the normative order, the organization of cities, and especially globalization.
Content: The course examines different forms of social organization, ranging from the micro to the macro. We also look at the political and cultural systems of society.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3530 - Political Sociology
Goals: To analyze the distribution of power in society. To explore the role of the state and the ways the key institutions of society affect the potential stability of a social system.
Content: An overview of the field of political sociology and an examination of the reigning political ideologies in American society. The variety of available political ideologies, their dissemination, acceptance or rejection, significance of work, and movements for social change.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3750 - Criminology
Goals: This class addresses these basic questions: What is a crime? Why do people commit crime? Who commits crime? The goals are to acquire a theoretically- and empirically-based understanding of crime in American society.
Content: Crime statistics, theories about crime, specific forms of crime, such as murder, sexual assault, and consensual crime.
Taught: Annually, fall and spring terms.
Prerequisite: One of the following: SOC 1110, PSY 1330, CJFS 1120, or LGST 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Sociology sociology
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SOC 3930 - Social Research Methods
Goals: To learn how to design and implement a research project. To become familiar with limits and appropriateness of various qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Content: Various types of research methods such as field research, content analysis, and survey.
Taught: Annually, fall and spring terms.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 3950 - Critical Social Theory
Goals: To introduce students to sociological theories and to develop a scholarly sensitivity that is guided and shaped by critical concepts, ideas, and theories. Students will learn that understanding social reality is controversial and complicated.
Content: In order to teach students a sociological way of “thinking” and a critical examination of social issues, the course draws on the works of past and present sociologists.
Taught: Annually, fall and spring terms.
Prerequisite: SOC 1110.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 5330 - Sex and Sexuality: An American Perspective
Goals: To understand and evaluate sexuality as a form of social structure and the consequences that structure holds for individuals and society. To understand sexuality as a social, rather than purely biological, construct.
Content: The course will cover a variety of topics, providing a structural analysis of sexuality. Topics include social construction of sexuality, the history of sexuality in America, sexuality and religion, medicine, law, family, commerce, and education. Students have the option to complete the Leadership, Education, and Development (LEAD) component of the Hamline Plan.
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Prerequisites: SOC 1110 and SOC 1330 or WSTD 1010 and SOC 3330.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 5950 - World System Theory
Goals: To examine the notion of “social change” from a multidisciplinary viewpoint. The emphasis is on theoretical and historical understanding of the macrostructures that are changed from feudalism to capitalism. The major focus is on a world system. The purpose of the course is to equip students with a much broader understanding of the way society and its institutions function in a global perspective.
Content: Works by Wallerstein, Harvey, and others.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: SOC 3950 or GLOB 1910 and GLOB 1920.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOC 5960 - Senior Seminar
Goals: To synthesize the diverse sociology courses taken during the course of the major. To discuss the discipline of sociology—its major issues and debates, its applications, and its occupational relevance. To design and implement a research project or to complete an internship.
Content: Conceptualization, methodology, and analysis of research project, or completion of an internship. Students who complete an internship will fulfill the Leadership, Education, and Development (LEAD) component of the Hamline Plan.
Taught: Annually, fall and spring terms.
Prerequisites: SOC 1110, SOC 3930, and SOC 3950.
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Sociology sociology
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SOCJ 1100 - Introduction to Issues in Social Justice
Goals: This course will introduce students to major streams of social justice thought, including historical social justice movements, theoretical problems having to do with social equality, personal freedom, access to social resources, marginalization, and stigmatization, and the ways in which communities respond to these issues.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOCJ 1150 - Living on the Edge: The Asian American Experience
Goals: To familiarize students with various Asian American communities, their origins and immigration to the United States, current conditions in Asian American communities and the challenges they face.
Content: We will learn about Asian immigrants and refugees, read Asian American literature, experience Asian American art and meet members of the local Asian American community. Among the topics we will discuss are stereotype (such as the “model minority”), the role of women in the Asian American community, racism (including the American concentration camps) and assimilation. Students examine the role of cultural heritage in how one views oneself, one’s own ethnic group, and community cultures.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOCJ 3200 - Sexuality and the Law
Goals: To provide students with an overview of the way U.S. Federal and state law regulates sexuality and related aspects of social behavior. In particular, to examine the way that the law provides different rights, privileges, and responsibilities dependent upon one’s sexual orientation. To further one’s understanding of the relationship between the law, as part of the public sphere, and sexuality, which is generally perceived to be a part of the private sphere.
Content: Topical areas include, but are not limited to, the conceptualization of sexual orientation, historical trends, Constitutional law, employment, marriage, military policy, and hate crime legislation.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOCJ 3280 - Shelter for All
Goals: Students will learn about homelessness through the dynamic interplay between theory and practice.
Content: Through service-learning, speakers, and critical articles, students will examine the lived realities of homelessness, investigate its root causes, and identify responses and solutions. Students are required to complete 20 hours of service-learning at community agencies.
Taught: Winter term.
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 4 credits
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SOCJ 3360 - Philosophy of Nonviolence
Crosslisted
Listed under Philosophy as PHIL 3360.
Credits: 4 credits
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SOCJ 5900 - Social Justice Capstone
Goals: This course will permit major students to integrate theory, knowledge, and practical experience gained in their major using a series of readings, fieldwork experiences, and a major project.
Note: Students may request permission to substitute PHIL 5750: Senior Seminar with the permission of the faculty advisor and the course instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 1110 - Beginning Spanish I
Goals: To introduce students with little or no previous training in the language to the basic grammar and vocabulary necessary for a variety of common activities.
Content: Practical communication in such areas as greetings, descriptions, social and family life, food and restaurant needs, daily routines, the weather and the seasons, cultural values and leisure activities, machismo and feminism; occasional lectures concerning relevant aspects of Hispanic and Latino lives.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 1120 - Beginning Spanish II
Goals: To introduce students with little or no previous training in the language to the basic grammar and vocabulary necessary for a variety of common activities.
Content: Practical communication in such areas as greetings, descriptions, social and family life, food and restaurant needs, daily routines, the weather and the seasons, cultural values and leisure activities, machismo and feminism; occasional lectures concerning relevant aspects of Hispanic and Latino lives.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 1110 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 3210 - Intermediate Spanish I
Goals: To review and strengthen fundamental concepts. To increase writing and speaking skills. To develop an active vocabulary and improve pronunciation. To foster awareness and knowledge of Hispanic cultures and civilizations.
Content: Intensive review of the indicative mood, including the perfect and progressive tenses, and an introduction to the forms and uses of the subjunctive. Vocabulary building, including idiomatic phrases and readings to illustrate grammatical usage and introduce Hispanic topics. Classroom conversation and small group discussion.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 1120 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 3220 - Intermediate Spanish II
Goals: To develop skills in using compound tenses and the subjunctive in conversation and in writing. To increase vocabulary and fluency through extensive reading, writing, and conversation. Emphasis is given to self-correction and to paragraph-length speech.
Content: A comprehensive refinement of the use of all tenses, with emphasis on the subjunctive. Reading and discussion of short stories and articles to build vocabulary and facilitate oral communication, and explore different aspects of Latino culture. Compositions and some translation.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 3210 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 3350 - Advanced Communication in Spanish
Goals: To refine skills and attain near-native proficiency in pronunciation and in understanding native speakers.
Content: Concentrated practice with word and sound variations used by native speakers; an analysis of idiomatic material vital to understanding normal conversation; an awareness of the importance of gestures, speech patterns, personal space and body language; and sensitivity to the interplay of language and society as well as the impact of Spanish on English.
Taught: Periodically.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 3220 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5000 - Latin American Studies
(See listing in Latin American Studies, LSTD 5000.)
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5100 - Contemporary Issues in the Americas
(See listing in Latin American Studies, LSTD 5100.)
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5300 - La cultura popular en America Latina
Goals: To engage in the collaborative and interdisciplinary study of various forms of popular culture in Latin America (festivals, music, foods, television, sports, etc.). To appreciate how both the Humanities and the Social Sciences can help us understand the social, historical, political, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of cultural practices. To improve one’s spoken Spanish through class discussion and formal presentations on a research topic.
Content: In the first half of the semester we learn how popular culture is defined and studied, and through readings, lectures, and class discussion we examine a range of popular Latin American cultural figures and practices. By mid-semester students will have formed working groups and chosen study topics, which they will research individually and collaboratively for several weeks. Finally, in a graduated series of oral presentations, students will teach classes on the popular culture genre they researched (e.g., comic books), and will lead us in interpreting a specific example of that genre (e.g., the Chilean comic book Condorito). Although some course readings are in English, all lectures, writing assignments, exams and presentations will be in Spanish.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5400 - Borderlands
Goals: To explore and interpret cross-cultural Borderlands experiences as they relate to the Latino world, with a special focus on female iconography and folklore in Mexico and in the United States. This course is designed to help the student understand the role that icons play in forming models of behavior for women (and men) and how those models are perpetuated, challenged, or reinterpreted in our time. The objective is to explore, in theory and in practice, communication across cultural boundaries.
Content: Three female figures, La Llorona, la Malinche, and la Virgen de Guadalupe, are well known Mexican icons that are increasingly important in the U.S. due to the continuing borderlands immigration experience. Emphasis is placed on the origin of stories related to these female figures and to the evolution of the attitudes surrounding them. These icons are redefined according to the wants and needs of successive generations and play an important role in various aspects of social, political, and religious life. Concepts related to these icons are found and discussed in such disparate female figures as Frida Kahlo, Dolores del Rio, Selena, Lilith, Adam’s first wife, Medea and Madonna. Readings include works by Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, and Gloria Anzaldua. Films include the Life of Frida Kahlo, Lone Star, and the Forbidden Goddess.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 1120 or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5580 - Golden Age of Spanish Literature
Goals: To acquaint the student with Imperial Spain and its most productive and creative literary period. Major contributions are made to western culture: Cervantes writes the first European novel (El Quixote), Tirso writes the first Don Juan drama, Santa Teresa confronts the Catholic Church with quiet mysticism, and social protest comes from street urchins like Lazarillo de Tormes as the picaresque tradition begins. The major focus is on Golden Age plays by Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and Calderon de la Barca. Films of some plays are shown.
Content: Plays from the Golden Age which deal with honor, free will, cloak-and-dagger intrigue and history; establishment of a national theatre; mystical prose and poetry; picaresque novels.
Taught: Periodically.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910, or equivalent.
All coursework done in Spanish.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5600 - Student/Faculty Collaborative Research
Goals: To help interested students develop research skills through individualized independent study activities with one of the Spanish professors. Topics will be of mutual interest and research could potentially lead to student presentations at the yearly National Council for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) meetings. In the past several undergraduate research projects have also been given by students at professional conferences and later submitted for publication.
Content: Primary research on various topics, literary or nonliterary in nature, in collaboration with a faculty member interested in the area chosen by the student. Topics could include literature, culture, political and economic issues, films, or any other aspect of Hispanic or Latino culture.
Taught: Annually.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910, or equivalent.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5610 - The Generation of 1898
Goals: To understand the impact of Spain’s defeat by the United States in 1898, and how that defeat caused a generation of Spanish authors to re-examine traditional values and beliefs and initiate a renewal and change in Spanish letters and philosophy.
Content: A selection of texts including novels, short stories, essays, drama, and poetry by authors such as Azorin, Unamuno, Valle-Inclan, Machado, Baroja, and Ortega y Gassett. Excerpts from scholarly works on political and literary history. This intellectually vibrant literary movement led to innovation and enrichment, to a reassessment of Spain’s past and present, and it molded Spain into the country that it is today.
Taught: Periodically.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910, or equivalent.
All coursework done in Spanish.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5680 - Spanish Culture and Civilization
Goals: To expose the student to an overview of Spain through an account of its history, art, music, architecture, and customs; to increase the student’s awareness of cultural differences and the role Spain has had in the arts, literature, and international events.
Content: An account of Spain from Roman times to the present, including Islamic, French, and American influences on its culture and national identity. Characteristics of Imperial Spain during the Golden Age. The main literary, artistic, and historical issues of the 19th and 20th centuries prior to the Spanish Civil War.
Taught: Periodically.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910, or equivalent.
All coursework done in Spanish.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5800 - Latin American Novel and Short Story
Goals: To expose the student to the development from realism to magical realism in Latin American novels and short stories, to analyze the importance of the historical reality of the Mexican Revolution in literature, and to examine machismo and hembrismo in the culture and how they are reflected in literature.
Content: Through literature, students move north with the troops of Pancho Villa (Los de abajo), experience life in a machodominated pueblo where the dead speak (Pedro Paramo), examine choices that made a revolutionary into a politically powerful cacique in our modern world (La muerte de Artemio Cruz), observe the gender specific “painted woman” and “suffering mother” in relation to the macho male, and understand the impact that Mexican attitudes and customs have had on the United States.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910, or equivalent.
All coursework done in Spanish.
Credits: 4 credits
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SPAN 5810 - Modern Latin American Fiction
Goals: To explore different literary movements in the 20th century such as indigenismo, regionalismo, la novela psicologica, la vanguardia, lo real maravilloso, and feminismo; to seek connections between literary aesthetics and sociopolitical forces in Latin America; to develop through practice our ability to analyze, discuss, and write about art.
Content: Primary texts: original works of Latin American fiction. Secondary texts: historical, biographical, and analytical readings. Authors vary from year to year. Course may occasionally focus on one or more themes, such as women writers, the regional novel, exile literature, or others.
Taught: Alternate years.
Recommended prerequisite: SPAN 5900 or 5910, or equivalent.
All coursework done in Spanish.
Credits: 4 credits
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