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VICO 220B - Topic Seminar
Prerequisites: VICO 120 & 121
Credit Hours: 2 - 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
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VICO 221 - Introduction to Visual Communication Skills
An introduction to visual communication skills through audio, still photography and motion images. Student work is reviewed and critiqued for composition, content, technical excellence, and the ability to communicate the information of the original subject to the viewer.
Prerequisites: VICO MAJOR & C OR BETTER IN VICO 120
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 222 - Introduction to Visual Communication Tools
(cooperative buying fee) A foundation class in the basic imaging tools and techniques used for visual communication. The course will examine methods for effective communication using images as a language. Students will be required to have a digital SLR camera with manual exposure and focus capabilities.
Prerequisites: VICO MAJOR & C OR BETTER IN VICO 221
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 311 - Informational Graphics
(cooperative buying fee) The visual presentation of quantitative and spatial information. Examines the planning, design, and computer preparation of charts, graphs, diagrams, and maps for use in newspapers and magazines.
Prerequisites: JOUR 233 & C OR BETTER IN VICO 314
Credit Hours: 5
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 314 - Introduction to Publication Design
(cooperative buying fee) An introduction to the production, design, and techniques of communication publication design. Explores the theory and practice of packaging content for presentation in both printed and electronic media.
Prerequisites: VICO MAJOR & C OR BETTER IN VICO 120
Credit Hours: 5
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 315 - News Page Design
Introduces and explores news design principles, practices, and visual journalistic decision making involved in presenting news.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 335
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 320 - Topic Seminar
A flexible format for examining current and future topics in visual communication. Because of constantly changing trends in the profession, topics will vary as an area of need not covered in an existing class is identified. Topics will include the areas of rapid change such as technology, techniques, ethics, and aesthetics.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 221
Credit Hours: 2 - 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
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VICO 321 - Introduction to Photographic Illustration
(cooperative buying fee) Introduction of the basic tools of photographic illustration including approaches to fashion, still life, and lighting as basic tools of the medium format.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 222
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 322 - News Page Design
This course introduces and explores news design principles, practices, and visual journalistic decision making involved in presenting news.
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 323 - Publication Layout and Design
(cooperative buying fee) Examines historic and contemporary theories of layout and make-up design. Using computer systems that simulate pagination programs, students will investigate methods of combining type, graphics, and photographs on the printed page.
Prerequisites: VICO 314 & 371 & C OR BETTER IN (VICO 335 OR JOUR 235)
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 324 - Portraiture
This course provides students with an overview of the techniques used in photographic portraiture. Portraiture skills are essential to both photojournalists and commercial photographers. This class offers skills in natural and artificial lighting, working effectively with the subject/model, and the development of portraiture concepts. Students will be required to seek out portraiture subjects and produce photographs on location and in the studio.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN (VICO 321 OR 390)
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 327 - Photo Illustration: Fashion
(cooperative buying fee) The exploration and interpretation of the interaction of gesture, movement, and light in relation to capturing the essence of people and garments.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 321
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 328 - Photo Illustration: Still Life
(cooperative buying fee) An exploration of the principles of light and its effect on surfaces and shapes in studio lighting.
Prerequisites: VICO 371 & JOUR 133 & C OR BETTER IN VICO 321
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 330 - Architectural and Interior Photography
This course explores architectural and interior photography from a commercial perspective with an emphasis on lighting, composition, and situation-specific training.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 328
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 335 - Picture Editing
The theory, principles and practices of picture editing. Includes consideration of picture sources, assignment, and handling. Emphasis on single and paired images for print in journalistic publication.
Prerequisites: JOUR 231 & C OR BETTER IN VICO 314
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 336 - Advanced Picture Editing
Advanced course in visual editing with emphasis on multiple image, audio, and motion image presentations in newspaper, magazine, and electronic delivery streams.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN (VICO 335 OR JOUR 235)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 350 - Traditional Darkroom
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 328 OR 392
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 361 - Introduction to Web Design
(cooperative buying fee). Introduction to Web design will provide an overview of Internet design and user-interface and provide students with the analytical and technical skills, aesthetic and creativity needed to design for the World Wide Web.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 371
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 371 - Digital Imaging
(cooperative buying fee) Advanced class introducing the computer as a tool for digital alteration of images to create composite and altered photographic images. Uses Macintosh computers and production quality scanners to alter and manipulate photographic images for creative and illustrative presentation.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 314
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 390 - Introduction to Photojournalism
(cooperative buying fee) Introduction to the photographic techniques, tools, and content issues in visual communication for publications.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 222
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 391 - Intermediate Photojournalism I
(cooperative buying fee) This class will examine single image photography as it is used in journalism and publications. The emphasis will be on using the photographic medium to communicate ideas, information, and emotions.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 390
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 392 - Intermediate Photojournalism II
(cooperative buying fee) An examination of multiple sequential imaging as used in the photographic narrative form–picture story.
Prerequisites: JOUR 231 & C OR BETTER IN VICO 391
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 393 - Intermediate Photojournalism III
(cooperative buying fee) The use of audio, and both still and motion photography reportage. The class will examine the various problems and explore solutions to using multiple media for a journalistic publication.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 391
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 394 - Small Systems Lighting
This course will explore the history, aesthetics and techniques of using artificial strobe light as it applies to the still photographic image. Students will learn to operate small lighting systems by using strobes and flashes to practice with the latest equipment and experiment with lighting styles.
Prerequisites: VICO 321 OR 390
Credit Hours: 2
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 412 - Advanced Informational Graphics
(cooperative buying fee) Visual presentation of spatial information with emphasis on design and production techniques as they pertain to newspapers, magazines, and animated web delivery.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 311 & SR
Credit Hours: 5General Education Code: T3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 421 - Documentary/Essay
(cooperative buying fee) The use of still photography as a tool for social, anthropological, and journalistic investigation of contemporary issues. Using methods defined by traditional field researchers, the class will expand the use of the photograph for collection and interpretation of selected subjects.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 392
Credit Hours: 5
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 426 - Advanced Publication Layout and Design
(cooperative buying fee) Advanced study in the use of computers as a tool for layout, design, and pagination for print media.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 323
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 427 - Advanced Photographic Illustration:Business Practices
(cooperative buying fee) An investigation of the principles of studio management. Areas of study will include copyright, computer usage, self promotion, and financial management.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 328
Credit Hours: 5
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 428 - Advanced Photographic Illustration: Studio Practices
(cooperative buying fee) Advanced studio methods in the design and execution of illustration images. Particular emphasis will be placed on the professional performance in producing images using advanced equipment and techniques.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 427
Credit Hours: 5
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 429 - Advanced Photographic Illustration:Applications
(cooperative buying fee) A synthesis of business and photographic skills. Students will be given simulations based on a complete project concept that reflects the realities of working professionally.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 428 & SR
Credit Hours: 5General Education Code: T3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 441 - Editorial Illustration
Application of industry-specific tools and techniques for illustrative visual communication of story concepts in both magazine and newspaper environments. Students will understand the process and application of both traditional and digital techniques of illustration.
Prerequisites: (C OR BETTER VICO 311) & 371
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 462 - Advanced Web Design
(cooperative buying fee) This class will provide students with advanced skills which include the utilization of the human interface, design, Web delivery, information architecture, creation/production of multimedia-based visuals for Internet delivery.
Prerequisites: VICO 311 & C OR BETTER IN 361
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 470 - Graphics Systems Management
(cooperative buying fee) Planning, configuration and maintenance of computer and communication systems used in the graphic arts industry. Course will survey electronic production methods and examine technical and practical issues of graphics computers, peripherals, applications, and system hardware.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 371
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 473 - Interactive Media
(cooperative buying fee) Introduction to planning, media integration, and production techniques and tools of interactive multimedia. Through practical exercises this course will expose students to major component media, including computer text, graphics, photography, animation, speech, sound, and video. Technical and human interface issues are also covered.
Prerequisites: MDIA 240 & C OR BETTER IN VICO 462
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 481 - Professional Development
(cooperative buying fee) Preparation for entry into the profession. Course will detail finishing and preparation of portfolio material, presentation skills, and knowledge of entry level professional employment possibilities.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 371
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 486 - Advanced Photographic Reportage I
(cooperative buying fee) Advanced visual production work in newspaper photographic reportage, with particular emphasis on the picture story or photographic essay. This documentary photojournalism class will use a wide range of color and/or black and white material. Finished projects will incorporate the use of computers and scanned images for final portfolio production.
Prerequisites: VICO 335 & C OR BETTER IN 392 & SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 487 - Advanced Photographic Reportage II
(cooperative buying fee) Advanced visual production work in magazine design, with particular emphasis on the picture story or photographic essay. This class will use a wide range of skills to produce a prototype magazine publication within a 10-week quarter. The class demands audience research, visual content focus, field research, photography, writing, design, and production. The class involves the use of computers and film scanners for production.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 486
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 488 - Advanced Interactive Media
(cooperative buying fee) Advanced visual photographic production using a time-based media (slide shows or CD-ROM), with particular emphasis on the picture story or photographic essay. This documentary photojournalism class will use a wide range of photographic materials. Finished projects will incorporate the use of computers and scanned imaged into time-based visual presentations.
Prerequisites: C OR BETTER IN VICO 473 & SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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VICO 491 - Individual Study
Individual course of study agreed upon with the permission and guidance of a faculty member.
Prerequisites: 16 HRS VICO & WRITTEN PROPOSAL
Credit Hours: 1 - 5
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours.
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VICO 492H - Honors Project
Departmental honors project resulting in a creative piece or original work, the result of supervised research or a collection of artistic endeavors.
Prerequisites: (JR OR SR) & PERMISSION REQUIRED
Credit Hours: 1 - 6
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours.
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WOL 301 - Elementary Wolof 1
Beginning course of 3-quarter sequence. Does not fulfill Arts & Science Language or Humanities Requirements.
Prerequisites: JR OR SR (DOES NOT FULFILL A&S LANGUAGE OR HUMANITIES REQUIREMENTS)
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WOL 302 - Elementary Wolof 2
Second course of 3-quarter beginning sequence. Does not fulfill Arts & Science Language or Humanities Requirements
Prerequisites: WOL 301 (DOES NOT FULFILL A&S LANGUAGE OR HUMANITIES REQUIREMENTS)
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WOL 303 - Elementary Wolof 3
Third course of 3-quarter beginning sequence. Does not fulfill Arts & Science Language or Humanities Requirements.
Prerequisites: WOL 302 (DOES NOT FULFILL A&S LANGUAGE OR HUMANITIES REQUIREMENTS)
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WOL 304 - Intermediate Wolof 1
First course of 3-quarter intermediate sequence. Does not fulfill Arts & Science Language or Humanities Requirements.
Prerequisites: WOL 303 (DOES NOT FULFILL A&S LANGUAGE OR HUMANITIES REQUIREMENTS)
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WOL 305 - Intermediate Wolof 2
Second course of 3-quarter intermediate sequence. Does not fulfill Arts & Science Language or Humanities Requirements.
Prerequisites: WOL 304 (DOES NOT FULFILL A&S LANGUAGE OR HUMANITIES REQUIREMENTS)
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WOL 306 - Intermediate Wolof 3
Third course of 3-quarter intermediate sequence. Does not fulfill Arts & Science Language or Humanities Requirements.
Prerequisites: WOL 305 (DOES NOT FULFILL A&S LANGUAGE OR HUMANITIES REQUIREMENTS)
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 100 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
An interdisciplinary fundamentals course in which students explore a range of perspectives regarding social, political, and cultural constructions of gender, race, and sexuality.
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2HL
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 200 - Issues in Women’s and Gender Studies
Critical analysis of 3-4 contemporary issues pertaining to women and gender, such as: work, health and reproduction, politics, education, violence, women in the arts, women in athletics, women in science, gender, and aging.
Prerequisites: WGS 100
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 210 - Women, Gender, and Rock and Roll
An analysis of the extent to which rock and roll has challenged the boundaries of women and gender by exploring the relationship between feminism and rock. Topics may include blues, jazz, girl groups, folk, soul, punk, rap, MTV, and riot grrl.
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 320 - Sexual Revolutions
Course examines various sexual revolutions, past and present, through differing disciplinary lenses.
Prerequisites: WGS 100 OR 200
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 350 - Feminist Theory
An introduction to feminist theory. Examines feminist theoretical concepts in Europe and the U.S. from their inception in early 20th century through the present. Includes discussions of women and the vote, sexuality, identity politics, and girl culture. Texts are theoretical, historical, and literary. Film and video clips may be used to enhance course lectures.
Prerequisites: WGS 100 OR 200 & NOT 250
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 360 - Internship in Women’s and Gender Studies
Includes a two-hour seminar and a six-hour work experience. The seminar will focus on applying and evaluating ideas learned in Women’s Studies courses to the “real world” experience of women’s organization and feminist practice. The seminar and supervised job placement are designed to help students make a successful transition into the competitive work world by testing personal strengths, clarifying preferences and sharing reflections on work experiences with the instructor and other students.
Prerequisites: WGS 100
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 410 - Global Feminisms
Considers women’s issues and feminist movements from a global and non-Western perspective. Includes discussion of the globalization of feminism; the relationship between feminism and colonialism; the connection of women’s movements to national/independence movements and revolutionary movements; and specific issues such as work/labor, sexuality, reproduction, and religion.
Prerequisites: WGS 350
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 411 - Women and Globalization
Explores how globlization has affected the social status of women, their economic resources, their rights, and their opportunities. Focus is on the economic effects of the spread of free market capitalism.
Prerequisites: WGS 100 OR 200
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 450 - Advanced Feminist Theory
An exploration of post-1980s feminist theory. Begins with key Continental thinkers and moves to American theorists. Course looks at important ways in which social construction has shifted the discussion of race, ethnicity, and postcoloniality away from identity and other concerns of the early Second Wave.
Prerequisites: WGS 250 OR 350
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 460 - Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
Draws upon theoretical, historical, and aesthetic texts in order to discuss the relationship between gender, sexuality, and diverse forms of cultural representation.
Prerequisites: WGS 250 OR 350
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 461 - Queer Theory
Examines the intellectual and activist roots of queer theory, some of its most consequential statements, and current issues and debates within this body of literature.
Prerequisites: WGS 250 OR 350
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 480 - Capstone in Women’s and Gender Studies
Guides students in identifying and researching a topic and producing a scholarly paper of 20 or more pages. Ideally the topic will build on previous work and thus involve significant revision in order to further refine the scope of research. The development of research skills is emphasized.
Prerequisites: 12 HRS IN WGS INCL (250 OR 350) & NOT 400 OR T365 400 & SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 481 - Writing Gender
A creative writing workshop concerning the intersection of writing and politics. Exploration of intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Fiction and nonfiction.
Prerequisites: 12 HRS WGS & SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: T3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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WGS 490 - Independent Reading
Directed individual reading or research.
Prerequisites: PERMISSION REQUIRED, MAX 4 HOURS
Credit Hours: 1 - 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 hours.
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WGS 493 - Special Topics
Focuses on specific topics of interest in the field of Women’s Studies.
Prerequisites: WGS 100 & (JR OR SR)
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
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WGS 499H - Honors Project
Completion of individual writing project for B.A. with honors in Womens and Gender Studies.
Prerequisites: PERMISSION REQUIRED
Credit Hours: 1 - 5
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours.
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CLWR 181 - Introduction to Religion
Definition of religion and analysis of its various aspects, including ritual, social, experiential, and symbolic.
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2HL
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 221 - Difficult Dialogues: Religious Beliefs
Introduction to serious, informed discussion of basic intellectual issues in religious belief.
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 222 - Difficult Dialogues: Religion, Gender and Sexuality
Examine the history of our most deeply rooted religious beliefs about gender and sexuality. How is religious experience gendered? What do scriptures in different traditions say about women? How have religious traditions changed in the way women and their role in society are viewed? Why are celibacy and virginity considered to be sacred? Why are divorce, contraception, abortion, and homosexuality so hotly contested in religious traditions?
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2HL
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 301 - Old Testament
Background and development of Old Testament; its philosophical, moral, and religious significance.
Credit Hours: 5General Education Code: 2HL
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 302 - New Testament
Background and development of New Testament; philosophical, moral, and religious significance of beliefs of Jesus, Paul, and early church.
Credit Hours: 5General Education Code: 2HL
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 305 - Asceticism: Virgins, Monks, and Hermits
Examination of asceticism–the rejection of physical pleasure and material wealth–as philosophical and religious ideal in pagan and Christian communities in the world. Focus is on reading ancient texts in translation.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken three times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 306 - Religion and Violence
Examines religious violence by studying historical case studies from different religious traditions. Themes include divine punishments against humans, martyrdom, forced conversions, persecutions, holy wars, and the importance of religion in contemporary conflicts.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 311 - Islam
Introduction to basic ideas, history, and background.
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 321 - Hinduism
Vedic religion, Hinduism, Jainism.
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 331 - Buddhism
Introduction to doctrines, origins, and varieties.
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 341 - Taoism
A historical survey of philosophical and religious Taoism from the 3rd century B.C. to the 18th century A.D.
Prerequisites: JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 5
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 361 - American Religions
Christianity, Judaism, and other religions and developments in U.S.
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 385J - Writing on Religion
Study of vocabulary and communication problems in written description and analysis of religious phenomena. Writing projects in various styles, from reports of personal experience to scholarly research.
Prerequisites: JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 1J
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 387 - Theories of Religion
Introduces students to the major theories of religion, the hermeneutics of suspicion, the hermeneutics of the sacred, the sociology of religion, historical approaches to the study of religion, and the feministic critique.
Prerequisites: JR & NO CREDIT IF PHIL 160
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 412 - Political Islam
Why have Muslims turned to religion as a source for political identity? What types of individuals and groups have embraced this religio-political renewal? In what directions have the renewal movements developed? What concepts and concerns animate this revitalization? These questions are addressed by exploring the historical and intellectual background of Islamist revival relative to specific case studies (e.g. the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, al-Qa’ida, the Taliban).
Prerequisites: CLWR 311 OR HIST 337C
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 413 - Sufism-Mysticism and Asceticism in Islam
This course introduces students to the mystical dimension of Islam, known as Sufism. It begins by probing key terms such as Sufism, asceticism, and mysticism. It then traces the emergence of Sufism during the formative period of the Islamic political and religious systems. The bulk of the course explores contemporary manifestations of Sufism in Indonesia, Morocco, Turkey, and the US/UK.
Prerequisites: CLWR 311 OR HIST 337A OR 337B OR 337C
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 432 - Women in Buddhist Traditions
This course will illuminate Buddhist concepts of gender and sexuality, views of women’s spiritual capacities, the diversity of women’s images, roles, experiences, concerns and contributions in Buddhist societies, and scholarly approaches to women in Buddhism. Special attention will be given to how gender is constructed in each cultural and religious context encountered, with particular emphasis on Buddhist women in Southeast Asia. We will investigate ways to uncover the hidden voices of women through alternative.
Prerequisites: CLWR 331
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 442 - Confucianism
Examination of the texts associated with Confucius and the religious, social, and intellectual aspects of their history.
Prerequisites: 3 COURSES CLWR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 471 - African Religions
Study of the world views of African traditional cultures expressed in myths, art, beliefs, and practices.
Prerequisites: 3 COURSES CLWR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 481 - Myth and Symbolism
Characteristic expressions of thought in primitive societies and theories concerning primitive mentality.
Prerequisites: 3 COURSES CLWR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 482 - Thinking About Death
Survey and analysis of human thought and practice regarding death.
Prerequisites: 3 COURSES IN CLWR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 483 - Contemporary Religious Thought
Representative thinkers, such as Tillich, Buber, and others.
Prerequisites: 3 COURSES CLWR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 484 - Women and Religion
Examines the ways in which women exercise authority in religious traditions and the ways they have been innovative and reinterpreted or reappropriated patriarchal texts or structures.
Prerequisites: 3 COURSES CLWR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken 4 times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 485 - Religious Experience: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Familiarizes the student with a range of academic approaches to the study of individual religious experience. Central questions are addressed from an integrated, multidisciplinary standpoint that includes perspectives from scholars in seven major world religions, Philosophy, Phenomenology, Comparative Religion, Sociology, and Psychology. Many types of religious experience, including the numinous, the noetic, the ecstatic, and the mystical are examined.
Prerequisites: JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 490 - Senior Research
Research on a selected topic in World Religions.
Prerequisites: CLWR MAJOR & SR
Credit Hours: 2
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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CLWR 498 - Independent Study
Directed individual reading and research for students who wish to study an area of World Religions not covered by a regular course.
Prerequisites: ONE CRSE CLWR & PERMISSION REQUIRED
Credit Hours: 1 - 8
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 hours.
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CLWR 499H - Honors Thesis
This course is for World Religion majors who have been accepted into the Classics and World Religions Honors Program to write an honors thesis.
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 12 hours.
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ES 490 - Environmental Studies Leadership Experience
Experiential learning for students pursuing leadership emphasis in the undergraduate Environmental Studies Certificate Program. Work with external organization(s) to solve environmental problems.
Prerequisites: POLS 488 & PERMISSION REQUIRED
Credit Hours: 1 - 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 hours.
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