Arts and Culture

Introduces students to analytical tools to critically observe the visual world. By studying arts media, artists and designers, creative and technical processes, principles of design, as well as major works of art, students will express their own ideas about the visual experience in written and visual form.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Exploration of fundamental principles of drawing. Develop skills in representational drawing, perspective, and composition. Develop creative and modern drawing techniques using a wide range of subject matter. Presentations and discussions illustrate classic principles. Course encourages development of individual expression.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Summer

Introduction to art and design. Explores design principles and creative problem solving using multiple materials. Students also examine design's ability to shape and interpret information. Hands-on studio work, lectures, and discussions. Emphasizes creativity, inventiveness, and experimentation.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: Fall
• Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Senior

Observational and imaginative drawing including the human figure and abstraction techniques. Contemporary drawing systems, concepts, and processes. Emphasis is on proportion, structural framework, visual measurement, movement, and relationships. Students work in a variety of drawing media.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: Spring
• Pre-Requisite(s): ART 1100 or ART 1110 or ART 2130 or ART 2160 or ART 2190 or ART 2195 or ART 3130 or ART 3180 or ART 3190 or ART 4450

Focused on making works of art "on location" - in forests, community centers, museums, theatres, and as special projects in unique spaces. Students explore different materials, and ask open-ended ideas about how art is made and what it can be.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-3)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, Summer, in even years

Introduces hand building ceramic techniques, including coil, slab, pinch and wheel throwing. The goal is to allow students to be individually creative through experimenting with the possibilities in three-dimensional form. Historical, contemporary, functional and sculpture processes will be explored.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Students will learn the fundamental techniques of using a pottery wheel, as a tool, to shape clay into utilitarian and sculptural forms. Historical and contemporary practices will support each individuals' creative abilities.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

A foundation course in fiber art techniques, concepts, history, and theories. Conceptual development will be emphasized as students learn to use contemporary fiber techniques in their studio arts practice. Media covered includes sewing and embroidery, dyeing, felting, knitting and crocheting, printing, and soft sculpture.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman

Immersive field trips to nature spaces and gardents provide opportunities for basic photography and sun printed Cyanotypes. Make natural ink from flora gathered from wild sources. Work with foundational principles of art and design while developing your artistic sensibility.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: Fall
• Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Junior, Senior

Large-scale drawing and painting for theatre, opera, museums, and special projects, such as community murals. Emphasis is on matching a designer's vision or "scaling up" a designer's rendering to very large scale. Includes a community/professional painting project.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-3)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years

Experiential arts learning. Students attend local/regional gallery exhibits, museums, design festivals, music events, and performances on campus and off; participating in and reflecting on cultural life. Art, music, theatre, and arts engagement. Includes events, discussions, and creative projects.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: Spring

Concentrated instruction on realistic drawing is combined with methods for abstraction and seeing the world anew. Experiment with perceptual skills that inspire 'flow' and drawing with ease. Use a variety of media to make drawings only you can imagine.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years
• Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
• Pre-Requisite(s): ART 1100 or ART 1110 or ART 2100 or ART 2195 or ART 3180 or ART 4450 or ART 2310 or ART 2160

Addresses ceramic theory, history, and science, and aims to develop the content and quality of students' work in clay. Students will learn new ways of creating forms through use of the wheel, molds, and study of clay and glaze technologies.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: Spring
• Pre-Requisite(s): ART 1110 or ART 2140 or ART 2145 or ART 2160 or ART 2190 or ART 2195 or ART 3190 or ART 3410 or ART 3420

Introduction to contemporary sculpture using a range of materials and practices: wood, fiber, paper, found objects. Emphasizes sculptures' ability for storytelling and student's personal creative language. Class is in Rozsa student gallery; includes student exhibit at end of semester.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years

Examines important themes, processes, and issues in art, including local and global traditions. Spans a variety of creative practices. Creative projects, lectures, readings, and discussions. May be repeated if topic differs.

• Credits: variable to 6.0; Repeatable to a Max of 9
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Restrictions: Permission of instructor required

Upper-level sculpture course focused on student's personal arts language and an open-ended idea of what "sculpture" can be. Class takes place in the Rozsa student gallery, and includes exhibit at end of semester.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Restrictions: Permission of instructor required
• Pre-Requisite(s): ART 3140 or ART 3410 or ART 3420

Students build on skills from prior hand-building, throwing, and ceramic sculpture coursework, developing greater technical skills and aesthetic sensibilities. Class also studies historic and contemporary ceramics, art criticism, and student's personal creative language.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: Spring
• Restrictions: Permission of instructor required; May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
• Pre-Requisite(s): ART 2140 or ART 2145 or ART 2190 or ART 3140 or ART 3410 or ART 3420 or ART 3190

Explores contemporary and traditional drawing and painting practices. Develops students' own arts language. Experiments with varied materials. Prepare to unlock your creativity and expand your definitions of "drawing" and "painting". Course emphases change each semester.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-4)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years
• Restrictions: Permission of instructor required; May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman, Sophomore
• Pre-Requisite(s): (ART 1100 or ART 2100 or ART 2130 or ART 2195 or ART 2350 or ART 3130) or ART 3180 or ART 1110 or ART 2160

Introduction to the study of global Hispanic, Francophone, and Germanic cultures as expressed in film, literature, and language. Emphasis on cultural awareness and understanding of cultural differences. Taught in English.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall

This course provides students with a better understanding of underrepresented populations within the United States by examining the social, cultural, and personal consequences of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, and other significant identities.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

A survey of major works in American Literature from origins to the present. Focuses on historical trends in the development of literature and culture in the Americas with particular emphasis on the United States.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years

Survey of transnational or transatlantic literary traditions, highlighting select historical periods such as Romanticism, and/or movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

A survey of selected works of British literature from its origins to the present. Focuses on historical trends in the development of the English language and the cultures of Great Britain.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in even years, Spring, in even years

Reading, reflecting on, and responding to age-appropriate adolescent literature. Works include authors from different races, cultures, historical periods, and genders. Discussion may be supplemented with films. Appropriate for students who plan to be parents, community volunteers, and teachers.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand

Explores the history, aesthetic, theory, and practice of digital imaging. Students learn to find, make, and analyze images.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-2-2)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

A computer-intensive introduction to the principles for creating clear, effective graphic communication. Students critique the work of other designers in terms of the work's audience and intended effect, and they construct and critique their own design projects as well.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Introduction to the ways that communication creates and maintains culture. Considers a variety of perspectives on the significance of communication. Explores the importance of communication for understanding culture

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Review and continued study of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in less commonly taught language. Students learn how to communicate in target culture. Includes study of various aspects of the culture in which the language is used.

• Credits: variable to 3.0
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): HU 2242

Further study of less commonly taught language. Includes study of vocabulary, idioms, and sentence structure to improve conversational reading and writing abilities and discussions of various aspects of culture in which the language is used.

• Credits: variable to 3.0
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): HU 3241

Concluding study and review of the basics of the German language. Includes study of vocabulary, idioms, and sentence structure to improve conversational and reading abilities, and discussion of various aspects of contemporary German culture.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall
• Pre-Requisite(s): HU 2282 or Language Placement German >= 321

Study of German film, news and media. Topics may include feature films, documentaries, and other audio-visual and digital texts. Readings, discussion, and writing in German.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring
• Pre-Requisite(s): HU 3282 or HU 3283 or Language Placement German >= 561 or CEEB German Language >= 3

Review and continued study of grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Spanish. Includes written compositions and oral presentations. Cultural focus on several Spanish-speaking regions. Students completing this course may apply for placement credit.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
• Pre-Requisite(s): HU 2292 or HU 2293 or Language Placement Spanish >= 321

Continued study of grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Spanish. Includes written compositions, oral presentations, and readings of short literary and documentary texts. Strong cultural focus on several Spanish-speaking regions. Students completing this course may apply for placement credit.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
• Pre-Requisite(s): HU 3291 or Language Placement Spanish >= 401

Focus on film style and genre with an emphasis on study of directors, movements, and aesthetics and their technological, theoretical, and socio-cultural contexts. Includes small lab projects.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-2-3)
• Semesters Offered: Spring
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

Examines an important theme of topic in the Humanities, such as theory, language, literature and culture. May be repeated for up to nine credits if topic differs.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 9
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

Examination of the novel in world literature with special attention to the historical, cultural, and personal contexts within which the author is writing. Film versions may be examined.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

This course examines one or more literary forms, genres, and modes such as tragedy, satire, romance, science fiction, fantasy, comedy, epics, novels, short stories, poetry, and/or creative nonfiction.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

An intensive study of the life and works of one or more significant literary figures. This course will also focus on the social and historical contexts that shaped the author's reputation and standing in the literary, theatrical, or cinematic canon.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

Examines post-Shakespearean drama and the cultural history of theatre. Courses will focus on a selection of plays each semester, and address a range of topics, including theatre history and performance theory.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

In-depth study of a limited number of Shakespearean plays with special attention to dramatic structure, character development, theme presentation, and theatre history. Includes extensive study of Renaissance influences, possibly film versions of selected plays, and examination of current critical theories.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

Focuses on depictions of science in literature and literary features of scientific texts from a range of historical periods, genres, and nationalities. May include the influence of scientific methods on literature and vice versa (for instance, narrative medicine).

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

Principles of information selection, editing, layout, and graphics essential to the scheduling, budgeting, and production of various print and digital publications.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): HU 2633 or HU 2645

Examination of problems involved in scientific methodology such as theory structure, concept formation, scientific explanation, hypothetico-deductive model, role of experimentation, function of paradigms and analogies, distinction between science and pseudoscience, extent to which science is value-free or value-laden, social responsibility of scientists, and aims of science.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

A study of philosophical analyses of technology. Topics may include: the essence and nature of technology, technology and human existence; the notion that we live in a technological age; and ethical issues surrounding the use, abuse, and ubiquity of technology.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

An examination of some philosophical questions in diverse religious traditions including the existence of God, the problem of evil, and the nature of religious experience.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

An introduction to the philosophical issues raised by current and future AI systems with a special focus on ethical foundations and general normative concerns. Including AI prediction, classification, manipulation, surveillance; AI agency, responsibility moral status; the future of work; human rights; use of AI in governance, health, education, and more.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

A study of ethical approaches to issues in media and communication. Issues may include bias, objectivity, and neutrality; conflicts of interest; advocacy; privacy; ethics photojournalism; diversity and representation; AI; use of data in health, science, and environmental journalism.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall

A study of several important ethical and philosophical issues that arise in medical practice and in biomedical science. Issues may include euthanasia, abortion, the physician-patient relationship, experimentation involving human subjects, and allocation of scarce biomedical resources. General ethical theories and concepts are used to shed light on those issues.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

Examines the development of modern international communication systems, the rise of transnational media industries and technologies, and debates about their global impacts.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand, in odd years
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

Considers surveillance practices and media representations of surveillance. Covers perspectives such as those of the watchers and the watched; kinds and purposes of surveillance; and practices of freedom versus control.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

Explores media histories of visuality and their contemporary significance. Covers media technologies and their development, use, and decay in art, photography, popular culture, and politics.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

Examines economic, political, and cultural aspects of media industries (cinema, broadcasting, music, gaming, telecommunications, and advertising) from historical and contemporary contexts.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

Production-intensive focus on how media producers use audio, video, and digital platforms to tell a story, realize a creative vision, and engage an audience.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-2-3)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): HU 2324

Advanced work in documentary production and storytelling. Students will research, develop, and produce documentary films, with an emphasis on visual storytelling, sound design, and narrative, as well as documentary process and ethics. Study of history and theory of documentary sub-genres.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-2-2)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years
• Pre-Requisite(s): HU 2633 or HU 3370

Critical and/or applied topics in advanced media, theory and development. Topics may include game design, mobile media, color, photography, film, or graphic design.

• Credits: 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 6
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-2-3)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): HU 2633 or HU 2645

Issues in political philosophy, such as the moral foundations of political systems, the proper relation between the individual and the state, and the justification of social institutions. Philosophers studied may include Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Marx, de Tocqueville, Mill, Dewey, and Rawls.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

Overview of key composers, works, styles, and aesthetics in classical music, from Middle Ages plainchant to John Cage's experimental works in the 1940s-60s. Students will find compelling connections between music of the past and today's pop music.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

This course provides the means for gaining a foundational knowledge of Western musical theory principles. The course includes study in improvisation, aural skills, composition using industry standard notation software and functional harmony within the framework of Western tonal music. Prior experience reading notated music recommended.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall

This course is for students seeking to learn about popular music. The course will examine three aspects of music: the societal and cultural context that produces musical style, the technical construction of music itself, and the resultant ideas that music expresses. To gain a deep understanding of these, the student will listen to and analyze historical musical examples and engage in hands-on work, using software applications to compose and produce songs.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (1-0-3)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Summer

The fundamentals of speech and singing including information about the vocal instrument, the vocal process, vocal technique, and how to learn and perform simple solo songs.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring

Developments in western classical music from the 1770s to 1970s in Europe, Russia, and America. Concentrates on music, style, aesthetics, culture, and biographies of major composers from the Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth-Century periods.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring

This course surveys the development of film music. Students will learn how music functions to support the aesthetic/narrative elements of the story. Students will learn skills to identify how music manipulates the listener and how composers shape that manipulation.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years

Discussion and analysis of the most influential rock artists, songs, and albums from the 1920s to the 1990s. Genres include blues, rhythm & blues, big band, country & western, Chicago electric blues, rock & roll, folk, rock, hard rock, heavy metal, hair bands, punk, disco, new wave, synthpop, hip hop, grunge, and mainstream pop.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Summer

Covers the musical, historical, and sociological elements of America's only original musical art form, jazz. Focuses on the major stylistic eras from 1900 to the present in addition to the major artists and their contributions. Emphasizes developing interactive, aural, and critical skills.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years

This course introduces the student to the diversity of traditional music from around the globe. Students will explore the universal importance of music, its place within a global community, and effects of technology on the cross pollination of musical styles.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring

This course covers jazz harmony, chord/scale theory, ear training, spelling chords, writing original chord progressions, analyzing jazz solo transcriptions, and analyzing jazz standards.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years
• Pre-Requisite(s): MUS 1100 or FA 2501

Critical analysis of the best songs and albums of The Beatles and The Beach Boys from the period 1965-1968, including discussion of their social and historical impact.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Summer

Students learn to improvise in a variety of keys and styles. Emphasis will be placed on learning the idiomatic use of the major scale, associated modes, and the blues. Students will learn a series of blues tunes by ear, in different keys, and will gain tools for navigating different types of blues (traditional, jazz blues, bird blues, etc.). Students will arpeggiate chords of the blues learning to utilize chord tone enclosures. Students will explore the styles of swing, bebop, blues, Latin and rock/funk. Emphasis on the II-V-I progression in major and minor keys.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in even years
• Pre-Requisite(s): MUS 2103

Introduction to the history of, and practices of making, electronic music. This course presents a survey of the most significant artists in the history of electronic music. Provides hands-on training and projects in electronic music production.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, Summer, in even years
• Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
• Pre-Requisite(s): (FA 1601 and FA 1602) or (SND 1101 and SND 1102)

Tutorial, seminar, or class study of a topic of special interest and importance in visual and performing arts.

• Credits: variable to 3.0; May be repeated
• Semesters Offered: On Demand

Explores elements of jazz arranging and composition while developing creative ideas in the individual musician. Emphasis on learning to arrange for jazz combo and traditional big band. Includes developing the shape concept of triad use, 4-part and 5-part chord voicing, construction of an arrangement, and competence with FINALE notational software.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years
• Pre-Requisite(s): MUS 2103

Explores concepts of friends and friendship from psychological and social perspectives. Students gain perspective on how friendships form and function as a result of who they are as individuals and will recognize the impact of healthy and unhealthy friendships.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): PSY 2000(C) or HF 2000(C)

Examines theory, research, and evidence-based practices in the psychology of happiness and well-being. Students will gain a broader and more nuanced understanding of what happiness is, how to study it, and the range of issues it interacts with including of wealth, relationships, technology, health, global happiness, spirituality, and mental health.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): PSY 2000 or HF 2000

An examination of theory, research, and issues in the psychology of death and dying. Topics may include the development of death concepts, death anxiety in society, the needs of the dying person, the psychology of grieving, and unexpected losses.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): PSY 2000

The class examines the application of theories of psychology and principles of communications to understand the interaction between media use, message content, and the effects on users. Social media is studied through the lens of theories such as social cognitive theory, perceived reality/cultivation theory, and the theory of planned behavior.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): PSY 2000 and UN 1015

A hands-on introduction to mixing music with emphasis on the support of musical principles and style. Students develop a technical understanding and practice the manipulation of volume, frequency, dynamics, pitch, and time to support the focus, rhythm, melody, and mood of a wide variety of musical styles.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall

An introduction to hands-on creative and technical work in sound. Work covers script analysis, storytelling approaches, dialog direction and editing, sound effect and ambiance design, music integration and DAW based mixing.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring

Examines important themes, processes, and issues in sound, including local and global traditions. Spans a variety of creative practices. Creative projects, lectures, readings, and discussions. May be repeated if topics differs.

• Credits: variable to 3.0; Repeatable to a Max of 9
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Restrictions: Permission of instructor required

Introduction to the field of cultural anthropology with a focus on human diversity, patterns of culture and human organization, globalization, and social change.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

This broad historical survey will examine the social, political, and economic development of North America and the US from initial human settlement through the civil war.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall

This broad historical survey will examine important intellectual, political, and social changes and events in the United States over the course of the twentieth century and beyond, representing the perspective of a wide variety of diverse individuals and groups.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring

A survey of the history of Europe from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. Covers political, social, intellectual, religious, economic, and artistic developments on the European continent.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in odd years

An introduction to the basic themes and content of world history from antiquity to 1500 CE.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in even years, Spring, in even years

Survey of world history from 1500 CE to the present. Traces the evolution of different societies from around the world, emphasizing exchanges, interactions, and conflicts that produced global change.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years, Spring, in odd years

This course has two main goals: to explore the relationship between gender in the past and present; and to evaluate the actual empirical evidence that speaks to people's gendered lives in many times and places.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in even years

This course introduces the ways in which cultural rules and biases in fluence the awareness of us vs. others, the global or regional variety of existing cultural systems, the impact of this diversity on the understanding of the world, local systems, and/or current power structures.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall

Examines historical relationships between skill, tool use, embodied knowledge, and the design process in America from the colonial era to today. Includes production techniques, distribution systems, technological changes, industrialization, post-war globalization, and current craft and design.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in even years

Examines the automobile in diverse ways, seeing it as a complex product to be manufactured, as a stimulus to reshaping the environment, as an object that has altered social behavior, and as a problem solver and problem maker.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, Summer

The history of Michigan from before European settlement to the present.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand

An exploration of the history of technology, both mechanical and digital, and society. The course looks at ways technology influenced development of civilization and ways societal values of civilzation have conditioned technology. Topics covered may be from Plato to Nato.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in even years

A survey of the development of scientific ideas (abstractions about how nature is and behaves) from the Greeks to the modern world, including major physical and life science revolutions by natural philosophers like Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring, in even years

A seminar on the study of culture and politics in marginal environments and disadvantaged communities. Draws upon research in anthropology and geography to examine the interaction in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, the Pacific, and the Arctic.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall
• Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
• Pre-Requisite(s): SS 2100 and UN 1015

This course explores themes concerned with the intellectual development of archaeology, including research methods, theoretical concepts, and problems that have characterized the history of the discipline. Particular emphasis is placed on the broader social contexts in which archaeology has developed.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in even years
• Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman, Sophomore

This course examines the relevance of archaeology and the varied approaches archaeologists use in examining our Modern World. How do archaeologists interpret the archaeological record and how do archaeological perspectives effect the questions, interpretations, and meanings we bring to understanding the past, the present, and the future.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman, Sophomore

Advanced reading and research in material culture studies. Learn to interpret the cultural and historical meanings in physical objects such as tools, housewares, memorials, furniture, etc. Emphasis on American craft, industry, and deindustrialization. Methodologies from archaeology, American studies, museum studies, public history, art history, etc.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (3-0-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years, Spring, in odd years
• Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman, Sophomore
• Pre-Requisite(s): SS 3513

This course is an advanced exploration of the industrial past using archaeological perspectives. It is a seminar combining scholarship from different fields and using material evidence to examine the evolution of work and production in industrial society.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-0-3)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in even years, Spring, in even years
• Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Junior, Senior
• Pre-Requisite(s): SS 2200 or SS 3200 or SS 3230 or SS 3270

An original study of an anthropological problem, including literature search, data collection, and analysis, culminating in a research report.

• Credits: variable to 3.0
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
• Restrictions: Permission of instructor required; Must be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Senior
• Pre-Requisite(s): UN 1015

Students engage theatre as a phenomenon precipitating experiences affirming life and sparking insight. Exploration of creativity comes through play writing; critical thinking is practiced in analyses of scripts and recorded performances, and learning key moments in theatre history. Aesthetics and production roles are applied through role projects showcasing directing, acting, set, lighting, props, costume, makeup/hair, sound, and dramaturgy.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Through partnered and/or solo exercises, scene study students build on the fundamental skills gained in Acting I. Character relationship, subtext, and techniques for preparing a role are examples of topics.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Spring
• Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Class(es): Freshman
• Pre-Requisite(s): THEA 1400

Tutorial, seminar, or class study of a topic of special interest and importance in visual and performing arts.

• Credits: variable to 3.0; May be repeated
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Restrictions: Permission of instructor required

Provides knowledge and experience reading, analyzing and performing period works, with a special focus on Shakespearean verse and prose.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: On Demand
• Pre-Requisite(s): (THEA 2600 or THEA 1400) and THEA 3400

Provides specialized experience in performance styles of the musical theatre through scene-study and process from sheet music to the stage.

• Credits: 3.0
• Lec-Rec-Lab: (0-3-0)
• Semesters Offered: Fall, in odd years
• Pre-Requisite(s): THEA 1400