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2008-2009 University Catalog [Archived Catalogue]
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IDES 371 - Architectonics
An elective course intended as a multidisciplinary forum for the investigation, appreciation, and design of architectural space, structures, and systems. Using in-class exercises as a laboratory for creative and collaborative exchange, students learn alternative design processes, design vocabulary, user-centered experience and design. This course develops concepts and analytical studies of objects/spaces through various 2D and 3D drawing/modeling techniques and culminates in an actual built/altered environment. Graduate students may register for this course under GRID 624. Formerly ID 312
Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
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IDES 402 - Studio 5: Projects Studio
These studio courses focus on decisive and responsible positions in formulating new design directions. Building upon past learning, projects sharpen fundamental skills of sketching (2D & 3D), design drawing, computer modeling, prototyping and conceptual diagramming. Students are encouraged through critical discourse and research on historical and contemporary material of cultural shifts to formulate their own ideology. Project proposals forward questions such as social context, ergonomics, and ecological consequences. Students are expected to identify local stakeholders (industry, users, designers, etc.) and ask them to be topic advisors as appropriate. First semester projects are dedicated to three fast-paced, highly theoretical, predefined topics. The next semester is devoted to further development of one of these projects. This final semester-long project works toward project closure and pragmatic articulation, ready to be shown both inside and outside an academic context. Formerly ID 400B
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: IDES 401 Open to Industrial Design majors only.
Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
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ILUS 101 - Foundation Illustration
Within the context of illustration assignments, students are introduced to a variety of media, methods, styles, and techniques used to create both black-and-white and color illustrations. The course includes conceptual, perceptual, and technical problems. The development of narrative skills, logical steps to problem solving, research, and creative thinking is also covered. Numerous presentations are made by guest illustrators. Formerly IL 100
Prerequisites & Notes
Priority enrollment to Foundation majors.
Credits: 1.5 cr, 3 hrs
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ILUS 690 - Independent Study
Independent Study offers a matriculated student the opportunity to initiate individual research or advanced projects that are beyond the limits of the standard curriculum, with limited supervision. Independent Study is available to Junior and Senior undergraduate students who have a minimum 2.5 GPA and to graduate students in good standing. Each Independent Study may be taken for one to three credits in Liberal Arts, 1.5 to six credits in CAD, and one to six credits in CPA and CMAC. Independent Study cannot fulfill major requirements. Independent Study may serve as free, studio, and liberal arts electives, depending on the topic of investigation. Students cannot apply more than 12 total credits of independent study towards their degree requirements.
Credits: 1.5 - 6 cr
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LAAH 111 - Art History Survey I
A survey of Western visual arts and architecture from the earliest extant examples, cave painting and sculpture from Austrian and southern Europe, to the arts of the Renaissance in Europe in the fourteenth-fifteenth centuries. Students will be asked to visit and do research on the art in local museums and galleries in order to gain a foundation for the work from their textbook, and asked to place, evaluate, and comprehend the history of the world in which many of them make their art. Formerly HU 140A
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment in BS, BFA, or BM degree program required. Successful completion of LACR 009 or LACR 100 where required as a result of English placement exam.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 112 - Art History Survey II
Following the first half of the Survey of Western Art, this course will consider Western visual arts and architecture from the Renaissance in Europe in the fourteenth-fifteenth centuries to the present. As in the first semester, students will be asked to visit and do research on the art in local museums and galleries, and consider this more modern world as it relates to their own art and thought. They will be tested regularly and expected to write short essays about the work they have studied firsthand. Formerly HU 140B
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment in BS, BFA, or BM degree program required. Successful completion of LACR 009 or LACR 100 where required as a result of English placement exam.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 811 - Ancient Art
A consideration of art and myth in Western Civilization as they are represented in their earliest forms beginning in ca. 3000 BCE in the cultures of the Ancient Middle East, Egypt, and the Aegean. It concludes with the arts of Classical Greece in the fifth-fourth centuries BCE in recognition of their seminal influence on the arts of the West.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 813 - Medieval Art
This course examines the sculpture, architecture, painting and decorative arts of Europe from the early Christian period in the third century C.E. to the proto-Renaissance in Italy in the fourteenth century. The course focuses on the emergence and flowering of a European mystical Christian vision as distinct from the earlier monumental classical vision Greece and Rome.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 815 - Art in Renaissance Europe
The painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the major artistic centers of Northern Europe and in Italy are studied. The course compares and contrasts the works of painters such as Jan Van Eyck and Masaccio; and sculptors such as Claus Sluter and Donatello, who enriched both the habitations and churches of their secular and religious patrons and the proud and expanding mercantile cities in which they lived. Formerly HU 242
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 817 - Baroque Art
This course studies the work of the major European painters and sculptors of the seventeenth century; Bernini, Rubens, Velasquez, Rembrandt, Poussin and Vermeer. More specialized artists - painters of landscape, still life genre, and the portrait - will also be considered.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 819 - 19th Century Art
An investigation of change and diversity as represented by the major painters, sculptors and architects of Europe and America in this emerging Modernist century. Style categories under consideration include Neo-classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 821 - American Art to 1945
A survey of American art, architecture, and design, emphasizing the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The material covered is divided into a series of sections or themes and is considered in relation to tradition. Each section or theme is studied through the work of the major artists who best represent it. Formerly HU 348
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 830 - Modern Art
At the beginning of the twentieth century, artists responded to new technological forces and the pressures of mass culture in styles such as cubism, constructivism, and surrealism – styles that are still being explored by our contemporaries. The course surveys the period 1880-1980, emphasizing the continuity of the modern artist’s situation and role. Formerly HU 357
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 831 - American Art Since 1945
In 1945, World War II ended and the focus of modern art shifted from Paris to New York City. The course begins with Abstract Expressionism; studies other major American styles, such as pop art and minimalism; and concludes with post-modernist development such as performance and decoration by artists. Graduate students may register for this course under GRLA 631. Formerly HU 448A
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 832 - European Art Since 1945
Art since World War II has been dominated by the New York market and by the issue of abstraction; in Europe, however, artists continued to use the human figure as a vehicle for social and ethical concerns, and, more recently, their engagement has become a model for younger artists in both Europe and America. The course will look at crafts and book arts as well as fine arts; it will also make use of plays and films. Formerly HU 448B
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 851 - History of Industrial Design
A survey of industrial design in the West, paying particular attention to developments in the twentieth century. Formerly HU 251
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102 Priority enrollment to Industrial Design majors.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 854 - History of Communication Design
A survey of two-dimensional design in the West, with particular attention to developments in the twentieth century. Formerly HU 254
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102 Priority enrollment to Graphic Design majors.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 855 - History of Photography
An introduction to the significant photographers and their work in the history of the medium, including technical developments and their impact, the major visual and aesthetic trends in the development of photography and their relationship to art in general, and the larger social context in which photography has developed. Formerly HU 255
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102 Priority enrollment to Photography majors.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 861 - Arts of China
This course covers ceramics, sculpture, painting, and other arts of China from the Neolithic through the last Chinese dynasty, that is from roughly 10,000 BCE to 1911. (If time permits some comments may be made about twentieth century Chinese art.) A brief introduction to the historical and social background of each period will be presented as the outstanding arts and art styles of each period are examined. Particular attention will be paid to what, if any, uniquely Chinese characteristics are evident in the arts of China. Art recovered from major archaeological discoveries in China including the “terra cotta” warriors found near the tomb of China’s first emperor will be introduced and reviewed. Important masterworks of Chinese art in all media will also be analyzed and discussed. The influence of religion on Chinese art, particularly Buddhism, will be addressed, and we will also look at Chinese painting in some detail, especially at how figure painting came to be eclipsed by landscape painting. One quiz, mid-term and final examinations and one short paper. Formerly HU 342
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 862 - Arts of Africa
Artistic, religious, sociological, and geographic aspects of societies in sub-Saharan Africa are studied in order to establish continuity as well as distinction between their art forms. Black American folk art, an extension and transformation of African art, is analyzed. Formerly HU 347
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 863 - Arts of India
Painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Indus Valley civilization of the second millennium B.C.E. through the different periods of the Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic dominance to the Raiput painting of the eighteenth century C.E. The different art styles are related to their historical, religious, and social background. Formerly HU 450
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 864 - Art of Islam
The course covers architecture, architectural decoration, calligraphy, book illustration, textile and ceramic art of the Middle Eastern countries from the beginning of the Islamic era (seventh century C.E.-eighteenth century C.E.). It studies the impact of Islamic religion on the character of Islamic art and architecture. It also studies the various regional styles within this unified visual mode of expression. From time to time Islamic and Christian cultures will be compared so as to understand better the similarities and differences of the two. Formerly HU 451
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 865 - Arts of Japan
This course covers the architecture, ceramics, painting, and sculpture of Japan from 11,000 BCE to the nineteenth century CE, and if time permits into the twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. It considers and examines the special characteristics of Japanese art, and analyzes the influence of Chinese art and culture on Japanese art and culture. Particular attention will be paid Buddhist art, especially that influenced by Zen Buddhism. In addition, Japan’s unique achievements in illustrated narrative hand-scrolls of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and decorative screens of the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries will be highlighted. One quiz, one paper, a mid-term, and final examination.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 931 - History and Aesthetics of 20th Century Performance Art
This course traces the evolution of Performance Art including its roots in Futurism, Constructivism, the Bauhaus, Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus movement, parallel movements in Japanese Butoh dance, European Figuren theater, developments of media in performance, autobiographical performance, and spectacle. Video slides are shown to portray the visual impact of the genre. Formerly HU 256
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 933 - Modern Architecture
The course investigates modern architecture, its theoretical premises, and the social context that generated it. Students will also inquire into modern architecture’s legacy: postmodern architecture. Formerly HU 345
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 935 - Dada and Surrealism
The history of the post-World War I antirational movements Dada and Surrealism. Since these were literary and political as well as artistic movements, attention is given to texts by such authors as Artaud, Breton, Freud, Jarry, Rimbaud, and Tzara, as well as to works of art. Formerly HU 355
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 937 - Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism was the most important movement in post-WWII American art. This course surveys its origins, accomplishments, and decline. Formerly HU 442
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 970 - Major Artists
The course concentrates on a single artist or a group of related artists. Among the artists who have come under this intense investigation have been Donatello, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Picasso. The course has been designed to give students an in-depth knowledge of one artist’s life and art or the artists of a single school. Formerly HU 456
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102 Repeatable for credit.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 973 - Women Artists
A chronological survey of professional female painters and sculptors active in Western Europe and the United States, from the sixteenth century to the present. The role played by women artists in earlier ages, other nations, and different media is also examined. Three written assignments. Formerly HU 354
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 974 - Topics in Design
A seminar in the history of design. Each semester the course is taught, a different aspect of design history is studied. Individual designers under consideration have been Wright, Le Corbusier, and Aalto; other topics have been particular design histories: crafts history, graphic design history, industrial design history; and particular styles of design: The Arts and Crafts movement, Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, de Stijl and Constructivism, Art Deco, and Post-Modernism. Formerly HU 452
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LAAH 975 - “Dirty Pictures” A History of Art Censorship
There has been some form of art censorship, virtually everywhere in the world, as long as there has been art. For centuries visual artworks deemed offensive have been altered or destroyed, their audiences restricted and their creators fined, imprisoned, harassed, and/or physically harmed. The purpose of this course is to examine important cases of art censorship, to try and understand why this phenomenon has been so widespread and long-lasting and to consider its implications within, and beyond, the art community today and for the future.
After briefly surveying the history of art censorship in the Western world from antiquity through the mid-20th century, this course will focus on five recent case studies - [particularly notorious instances of art censorship that occurred in the U.S. between 1982 and 2004. We will examine the basic facts of each case, then review and discuss the principal responses it has generated and its subsequent implications, from several points of view. Some of the complex questions to be explored will include: Exactly what constitutes “censorship”? Under what circumstances might censorship be justified? Should different criteria be applied to potentially controversial public art, vs. the art displayed in art galleries and museums?
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LACR 007 - English as a Second Language I
Prepares students for whom English is a second language to produce the kinds of writing and presentations expected of them on the college level, and to improve their reading and critical thinking skills. This is a two-semester requirement. LACR 007 provides review of English grammar, sentence structure, and paragraph development. It focuses primarily on the development of fluency in writing, speaking, listening and reading. The second semester, LACR 008, focuses on the different kinds of prose techniques and on responding in writing to readings and to the work of other students. A workshop format engages students in collaborative learning activities. Credits for LACR 007 or LACR 008 do not count toward graduation. On rare occasions, students may be exempted from LACR 008 by the instructor. LACR 007, 008 are graded on a pass/fail basis. A student who successfully completes the sequence enters LACR 101.
Prerequisites & Notes
Credits for LACR 007 or LACR 008 do not count toward graduation.
Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
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LACR 008 - English as a Second Language II
Prepares students for whom English is a second language to produce the kinds of writing and presentations expected of them on the college level, and to improve their reading and critical thinking skills. This is a two-semester requirement. LACR 007 provides review of English grammar, sentence structure, and paragraph development. It focuses primarily on the development of fluency in writing, speaking, listening and reading. The second semester, LACR 008, focuses on the different kinds of prose techniques and on responding in writing to readings and to the work of other students. A workshop format engages students in collaborative learning activities. Credits for LACR 007 or LACR 008 do not count toward graduation. On rare occasions, students may be exempted from LACR 008 by the instructor. LACR 007, 008 are graded on a pass/fail basis. A student who successfully completes the sequence enters LACR 101.
Prerequisites & Notes
Credits for LACR 007 or LACR 008 do not count toward graduation.
Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
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LACR 009 - Fundamentals of Composition I
This course is designed to help students improve reading, writing, and study skills. The emphasis is on the technical aspects of technical aspects of writing, specifically grammar, punctuation, spelling, and paragraph construction, along with reading comprehension, vocabulary, sentence structure, logical relationships, and usage. Students may work on particular problem areas in the Learning Resource Center. This course does not count for credit toward graduation. LACR 009 is graded on a pass/no grade basis. Students who pass LACR 009 enter LACR 100. On rare occasions, a student may pass, with the instructor’s recommendation, from 009 to LACR 102. Such a student must take an additional LA elective to fulfill the 42 credit requirement in Liberal Arts. Enrollment in LACR 009 is based on performance on a placement test. Formerly HU 009
Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
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LACR 100 - Fundamentals of Composition II
Continuation of LACR 009. Successful completion of this course counts for credit toward graduation and permits the student to enter LACR 102 in the following semester. Formerly HU 109B
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 009
Credits: 3 cr, 6 hrs
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LACR 101 - First-Year Writing I
First part of a year-long writing, reading and research course that teaches the fundamental skills of the responsible student-scholar. Students practice the kinds of academic writing, textual analysis, and library and Internet research required of university students and curious learners of any age. The first term explores writing from literature, philosophy, and art.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment in BS, BFA, or BM degree program required. Successful completion of LACR 009 or LACR 100 where required as a result of English placement exam.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LACR 102 - First-Year Writing II
Continuation of LACR 101. During this term an inquiry-based research paper is the focus. A similar curriculum is examined in the context of history, literature, theory, philosophy, and art from a chosen period.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 101 or LACR 009
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LACR 210 - Texts & Contexts: Perspectives on the Humanities
Perspectives on the Humanities addresses significant works from the ancient world, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and Romantic periods, and the present day. The course serves five functions: to help students develop their skills in critical reading and writing; to introduce study of traditionally defined periods in the history of culture; to introduce a thematic approach to Humanities topics; to examine key primary texts from various periods and consider them alongside comparable art works; to explore the possibility that conventional ideas of period studies are open to challenge and reinterpretation.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102 Enrollment in BS, BFA, or BM degree program required.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LACR 221 - SIFT: Problem Solving
This course is one of the options in the Scientific Inquiry Foundation Track (SIFT). It serves as a foundation for future studies in the natural and social sciences, mathematics and life-long learning. Students will explore the basics of scientific method and research. They will learn how to frame questions that can be investigated empirically. The results of these “pilot studies” will be written up as papers and discussed in class presentations. The idea of intimate engagement will be introduced to enhanced the student’s ability to problem solve more effectively.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment in BS, BFA, or BM degree program required. Successful completion of LACR 009 or LACR 100 where required as a result of English placement exam.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LACR 222 - SIFT: Human Adaptability
A examination of the relationships between environmental resources, technology and power in production systems ranging from hunter-gatherer to industrial. Jared Diamond’s GUNS, GERMS and STEEL forms the core of the course with his discussion of the geographical context of domestication of plants and animals and how they might have ultimately affected the world distribution of power. Various ecosystems (deserts, grasslands, arctic, tropical and temperate forest and high altitude) are considered along with their advantages and disadvantages for domestication and human adaptation. The scientific questions underlying these geographic and ecological investigations are considered throughout the term.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment in BS, BFA, or BM degree program required. Successful completion of LACR 009 or LACR 100 where required as a result of English placement exam.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LACR 223 - SIFT: Life Science Concepts
This course introduces learners to issues of critical and contemporary significance in the life sciences. In this context, students will learn about the scientific method, experimental design, data analysis, ethical considerations and critical thinking, particularly in the framework of environment and human health. In addition, the course encourages research and dialogue regarding the role of society in these issues. Several key environmental issues are highlighted in the course, and students are encouraged to research additional topics in more detail through their assignments. Students will keep a journal of relevant articles in recent news as well as learn about aspects of biological sciences that impact their lives. The final two weeks of the course will be dedicated to student led presentations on these topics. Topics covered in the course include: a) historical and ethical perspectives of the environment, b) ecological principles, c) biodiversity and endangered species d) renewable and nonrenewable environment resources, e) resource management and quality, f) environmental law, g) human health and toxicology, h) waste management, i) air and water pollution, and j) environmental sustainability.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment in BS, BFA, or BM degree program required. Successful completion of LACR 009 or LACR 100 where required as a result of English placement exam.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LACR 224 - SIFT: Death and Ritual
This course examines death with the tools of physical and cultural anthropology. Students will learn the scientific process of forensics and the utilization of evidence. They will also engage in analytical methods of examining cultural and social practices. The course will be project-based: In the realm of physical anthropology, projects will include analyses of mummified and other human remains, as well as funerary structures; in the cultural anthropological field, projects will focus on critical looks at beliefs about death, burial, reincarnation, eternal recurrence, and other socio-cultural phenomena.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment in BS, BFA, or BM degree program required. Successful completion of LACR 009 or LACR 100 where required as a result of English placement exam.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LACR 225 - SIFT: Observing Humans
This course presents several different social science frameworks and seeks to uncover what can be learned about human behavior by people watching. Students choose places for brief weekly observation and use their own art skills to document what they see.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment in BS, BFA, or BM degree program required. Successful completion of LACR 009 or LACR 100 where required as a result of English placement exam.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LACR 226 - SIFT: Fundamentals of Mathematics
An introduction to the fundamental mathematical principles and operations used in undergraduate courses in the physical and social sciences. Topics include sets, logic, probability, statistics, number theory, algebra and geometry. The course includes a module on scientific method which is common to all SIFT courses.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment in BS, BFA, or BM degree program required. Successful completion of LACR 009 or LACR 100 where required as a result of English placement exam. Open to all students. LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LACR 227 - SIFT: Discovering America
Are most Americans middle class? Are college students elite? Do most Americans believe in God? Are Democrats a majority? Are UArts students strange? The knowledge we have about society typically comes from generalized personal experience and/or media accounts, both of which often suffer from idiosyncrasy, ideological bias, or some other distortion. This course introduces the student to the scientific approach to knowledge by investigating society on several dimensions selected from the following: income, class, education, religion, occupation, political orientation, family structure, sexuality, crime and deviance, and social attitudes and beliefs on a variety of issues. The first half of the course focuses on the nature of science, social science, and sociology and its methods. The second half examines specific examples of sociological research and findings about American society to understand both what the facts are and how they are discovered and validated.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment in BS, BFA, or BM degree program required. Successful completion of LACR 009 or LACR 100 where required as a result of English placement exam.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LACR 229 - SIFT: Science and Contemporary Society
An introduction to the scientific approach to knowledge by exploring sociology and some of its findings about contemporary society. Students begin by considering the distinctive nature of science as a way of discovering verifiable knowledge about the empirical world. Historical and contemporary examples of scientific discoveries as well as examples of pseudo-science supplement the theoretical discussion. Students then focus on the science of sociology. Case studies from sociological research illustrate the perspective and methods of sociology as an example of the scientific approach. Students also examine different aspects of contemporary American society like inequality and social class, sexuality and conceptions of the family, racial and ethnic diversity, changing levels of educational attainment, varieties of religious participation and belief, rates of deviance and crime, and political identification. In the last part of the course the context in which science develops and operates, both social and cultural is considered. Social values, political ideologies, and religious beliefs are examined for the ways in which they can affect science as well as the ways in which science can affect them.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment in BS, BFA, or BM degree program required. Successful completion of LACR 009 or LACR 100 where required as a result of English placement exam.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 801 - French I
Students study the basic elements of French grammar through conversation and drills derived from readings of easy modern prose and from a cultural reader. Formerly HU 130A
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 802 - French I
Students study the basic elements of French grammar through conversation and drills derived from readings of easy modern prose and from a cultural reader. Formerly HU 130B
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 803 - German I
One-year course of basic grammar. The aim of the course is to develop reading, writing, and conversing skills of the first-year German student. Formerly HU 131A
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 804 - German I
One-year course of basic grammar. The aim of the course is to develop reading, writing, and conversing skills of the first-year German student. Formerly HU 131B
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 805 - Italian I
This course covers conversation about everyday Italian life and culture and basic grammar through reading of Italian prose. Formerly HU 132A
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 806 - Italian I
This course covers conversation about everyday Italian life and culture and basic grammar through reading of Italian prose. Formerly HU 132B
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 807 - Spanish I
This introduction to Spanish is open to students who have had little to no previous Spanish language experience. In this course, the fundamentals of Spanish grammar, pronunciation and Spanish culture are introduced. Students will develop listening comprehension, speaking and writing skills. Emphasis on conversational Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 808 - Spanish II
Spanish II is the continuation of Spanish I. It is open to students who have had Spanish I or equivalent high school experience. In this course, the fundamentals of Spanish grammar, pronunciation and Spanish culture are further developed. Students will improve listening comprehension, speaking and writing skills. Emphasis on conversational Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR102, LALL 807 or permission from the department.
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 811 - Western Literary Masterpieces I Ancient to Medieval
Works from antiquity through the Middle Ages that form the foundation of Western literature. Focuses on the creation of character, the structure and form of the works and the perspectives and values they reveal. Examines the questions asked by different cultures and how human potential, fate, and reality are defined. Formerly HU 320A
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 812 - Western Literary Masterpieces II Renaissance to Neoclassical
Works from the Renaissance through the Neoclassical period that form the foundation of Western Literature. Focuses on the creation of character, on structure and form, but also on tone (humor, parody, satire, and irony) and the perspectives and the values that the works reveal. Formerly HU 320B
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 821 - Lyric Poetry
A survey of lyric poetry, with particular emphasis on a single period or a group of poets, e.g., Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and the English Romantics. Formerly HU 201
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 822 - Haiku: Classical to Contemporary
A survey of Haiku poetry from its development in Japan to its influence on American and world poets of the twentieth century. This short, enigmatic poetic form is approached from three perspectives. First, we will focus on understanding the craft of haiku and the use of that knowledge to interpret the individual poems. Second, the foundations of haiku’s aesthetic principles as they developed over the centuries in Japan. And third, the influence of Japanese haiku on such twentieth century poets such as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens and the Beat poets. Throughout the course, English language haiku of contemporary North American poets is read, and students write their own haiku verses.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 823 - Women Writers
This course explores and perhaps reclaims the provocative treasures of women writers, ancient and contemporary and their potential capacity to transform us as human beings. The various woks studied, from the ancient poetic fragments of Sappho to the solitary lyrics of Emily Dickinson from the fictional classic of Bronte, Austen, Wharton and Virginia Woolf to the twentieth century voices of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, and Julia Alvarez, all give us the spectrum of authenticity in the female voice. In our reading, the questions will emerge: Do women think/write differently from men? What is the role of gender in artistic imagination? As a counter example, students will also look at Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women with its classic work in feminine psychology and Gilbert and Gubar’s groundbreaking textual analysis on women writers.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 825 - The Short Story
A study of the short story from Poe to the present. Samplings from the British, the American, and the European, with particular attention to the major authors who reinvented the genre. At the end of the semester, students look at developments in contemporary fiction, the anti-story, the new wave, the surreal, the minimal, the mythic. Formerly HU 216
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 831 - 19th Century American Writers
From the Gothic darkness of Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen Crane’s Red Badge, from Irving’s mystic Sleepy Hollow to Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, from Thoreau’s idyll on Walden Pond to Melville’s terror rounding Cape Horn, from Whitman’s barbaric shout to Emily Dickinson’s lyric whisper, from Emerson’s “Self Reliance” to Mark Twain’s despairing loss of innocence, the trajectory of American Literature in the nineteenth century traces a movement from the past to the future. This course looks at the major writers of nineteenth century America, a fascinating and revolutionary period in American art, where an American past becomes an American Voice and our Original Sins form our future.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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LALL 832 - 20th Century American Writers
An introduction to twentieth century American literature and its roots. What can be traced in that literature is a movement from idealism to cynicism or, perhaps, from idealism to realism. As America from an agrarian, small town culture to an increasingly urban and industrialized society, the American Dream of infinite potential and freedom for each citizen was re-mapped, just as the Western movement changed the geographical landscape of America. How the individual - the “little guy” marginalized from self and society - reacted to this aloneness, this powerlessness is the focus of the course. We ask, as a new American century begins, what does it mean now to dream Dreams, to endure Nightmares? What truths do Americans continue to hold as self-evident in the wake of international terrorist violence and the uncharted seas of a new future? Of what use is literature in this?
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LACR 102
Credits: 3 cr, 3 hrs
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