Courses Offered

Comprehensive chronological survey of major events, people, and ideas that have influenced the history, literature, art, and culture of Western Civilization. This course covers ancient civilization through the Renaissance.

• Gen Ed: HS1 - Survey of Western Civilization

Comprehensive chronological survey of major events, people, and ideas that have influenced the history, literature, art, and culture of Western Civilization. This covers the Renaissance up to the present.

• Gen Ed: HS1 - Survey of Western Civilization

Chronological survey of major events, people, and ideas that have influenced the history, literature, art, and culture of various world civilizations. This course covers the origins of civilization to the Age of Exploration.

• Gen Ed: HS1 - Survey of Western Civilization

Chronological survey of major events, people, and ideas that have influenced the history, literature, art and culture of various world civilizations. This course covers the Age of Exploration up to the present.

• Gen Ed: HS1 - Survey of Western Civilization

Study of language and linguistics, including basic principles and methods in structural linguistics, social and regional variation in language, historical change and introductory study of meaning.

Major methods and ideas of the western humanities, examined in selected works of literature, philosophy and fine arts, from Classical world through Renaissance.

• Gen Ed: HS2 - Literature, Film, and Culture

Major methods and ideas of the western humanities, examined in selected works of literature, philosophy and fine arts, from Baroque through the Modern Period.

• Gen Ed: HS2 - Literature, Film, and Culture

This course will explore some of the most fundamental questions of human values and meaning by studying the rich literature, history, and culture of one or more of the following groups of the United States: African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Latino.

• Gen Ed: Ethnic Studies

Global and discrete listening and speaking skills for ESL students based on content in intercultural communication. Emphasis on note-taking, listening for main ideas and key details, organizing and delivering speeches, and participating effectively in debates and small and large group discussions.

This course explores the intersection between the Humanities (literature and culture) and business. The course covers the time from the advent of the modern capitalism through to the 1990's and the unraveling of U.S. financial markets. By looking at economic structures through the Humanities and literature students will be able to see understand business ideas and how they play out in literary themes and through the practice of critical thinking.

Travel courses are conducted to various parts of the world and are led by one or more faculty members. May be repeated to different locations.

• Gen Ed: World Culture
• Travel Course
• Course is repeatable for credit.

Analysis and discussion of topics of central importance in applied linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). Possible topics include:Teaching Grammer to ELLs; Second Language Pragmatics; Second Language Writing; and others.

• Course is repeatable to 6 credits.

Overview of issues in second-language acquisition, including linguistic, cognitive, social, and affective factors. Students will examine and think about learner language, read research on learner language, and consider implications for second-language teaching.

An exploration of policies, procedures, and instruments in assessing English language proficiency. Focus will be on practical assessment strategies and their incorporation into instructional planning.

The study of language in relation to society, including social and regional dialects, bilingualism and language contact, speech communities, the ethnography of language, and applications such as language policy and planning.

• Gen Ed: World Culture

Interdisciplinary study of the Hebrew Bible (also called the Old Testament), read and discussed in English.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values

The origins of the Christian tradition as reflected in the primary texts of that tradition in the New Testament: The major divisions of the writings of the New Testament, the life of Jesus as recorded in the gospels, the importance of St. Paul and the apocalyptic writings of St. John.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values

The two major religions of the East, Hinduism and Buddhism: the richness, variety and flexibility of the faith and practice of Hinduism, with its belief in a multiplicity of gods and goddesses; and the various sects and schools of Buddhism--Theravadic, Mayahana, Zen and Tantric.

• Gen Ed: World Culture,HS3 - Individual and Social Values

This course considers sociological, class, and economic analyses of religion. Exploring how these approaches challenge religious belief, it also examines how modern religious thinkers respond to this challenge.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values

Focuses on the values of the world of classical Greece and Rome as reflected in its texts and fine arts.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values

Focuses on the history, society, culture and values of the middle ages as reflected in its literature and fine arts.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values

Explores human values as they appear in texts and fine arts in the 15th and 16th century European Renaissance.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values

Immerses in the ideas that fueled the enlightenment era in seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe. Focuses specifically on political turmoil amidst radical thinking, the revolution in the conduct of science, and the impact of these changes on the social world.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values

Interdisciplinary study of one or more works central to the Humanistic tradition. Variable content.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values
• Course is repeatable for credit.

Interdisciplinary examination of a single important theme in the Humanities. Variable content.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values
• Course is repeatable for credit.

The culture of the German-speaking world from the earliest periods to the present with a focus on how contemporary Germany has been shaped by issues of history, religion, art, music, philosophy, and commerce.

• Gen Ed: World Culture,HS2 - Literature, Film, and Culture

Historical and critical introduction to the work of prominent German filmmakers and to cinematic representations of German culture.

• Gen Ed: World Culture,HS2 - Literature, Film, and Culture

This course examines the phenomenon of globalization and its impact on cultural identity as well as the conflicts in values and belief-systems that have arisen in its wake. We will explore the notion of a clash of civilizations and cultures with particular emphasis on the supposed clash between the West and the Islamic world.

• Gen Ed: World Culture

Studies the challenge to tradition and reason and the response to that challenge from the development of romanticism in the late 18th century to the flowering of modernism in the early twentieth century.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values

A study of values shaping the contemporary world through reflection on historical, literary, philosophical, artistic, and other cultural products from the Second World War to the present.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values

Study of values and worldview of a culture other than those of Western Europe and the United States.

• Gen Ed: World Culture,HS3 - Individual and Social Values
• Course is repeatable to 12 credits.

Drawing upon American Indian oral traditions and Elder epistemology, this course will examine the diverse traditional, cultural, spiritual, and political values and world views of American Indian Nations.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values

A capstone seminar for humanities majors, examining basic questions and issues in the humanities. Course will emphasize student participation and a substantial term paper. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit when different topics are covered.

• Course is repeatable for credit.

Supervised practical experience in an organization or activity appropriate to a student's career and educational interests. Internships are supervised by faculty members and require periodic student/faculty meetings.

• Course is repeatable for credit.

Independent study is offered on an individual basis at the student's request and consists of a program of learning activities planned in consultation with a faculty member. A student wishing to study or conduct research in an area not represented in available scheduled courses should develop a preliminary proposal and seek the sponsorship of a faculty member. The student's advisor can direct him or her to instructors with appropriate interests. A written report or equivalent is required for evaluation, and a short title describing the program must be sent early inthe semester to the registrar for entry on the student's transcript.

• Course is repeatable for credit.

Travel courses are conducted to various parts of the world and are led by one or more faculty members. May be repeated to different locations.

• Gen Ed: World Culture
• Travel Course
• Course is repeatable for credit.