2015-2016 Undergraduate Course Catalog 
    
    Jun 25, 2024  
2015-2016 Undergraduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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French and Francophone Studies

  
  • FRE 411 - Moliere

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Double Numbered with: FRE 611
    Study of the playwright’s major works in light of contemporary political, social, and cultural trends. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 412 - French Women Writers

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Crosslisted with: WGS 412 
    Double Numbered with: FRE 612
    Trends in French feminine and feminist writing from the early modern period to the present. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 417 - “Impressions d’Afrique”:Caribbean Gazes

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Double Numbered with: FRE 617
    A survey of African issues through the eyes of Francophone Caribbean writers and their texts. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 419 - Sembene Ousmane and the African Cinema

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Double Numbered with: FRE 619
    A study of Sembene Ousmane’s work as an introduction to the aesthetics and politics of Black African Cinema, and to issues of film history and theory. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 421 - Francophone African Criticism

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Double Numbered with: FRE 621
    Major trends in Francophone African literary criticism. Conducted in French. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 427 - The Renaissance Body

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FRE 627
    Examines the body as a trope in French literature and culture of the late-medieval and Renaissance periods. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 431 - Montaigne and the New World of Renaissance Writing

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FRE 631
    Examines the modernity of Montaigne’s Essais (1580-92) by focusing on the author’s creation of a self-portrait in writing. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FRE 439 - Art in France from Impressionism to Surrealism

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: HOA 365 
    Focus on major painters who lived and worked in Paris from 1860 to 1945. Emphasis on analyzing and writing about painting. Field trip to Paris. Conducted in French. Offered in Strasbourg only.
    PREREQ: FRE 202 
  
  • FRE 441 - France Under the Occupation

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Interdisciplinary study of the Occupation period (1940-1945) through documents, films, and creative works. Offered in Strasbourg only.
    PREREQ: FRE 202  AND ANY FRE 300  LEVEL
  
  • FRE 443 - Modern French Drama

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Introduction to major French playwrights from the late nineteenth century to the present. Includes outings to productions in Strasbourg’s theaters. Offered in Strasbourg only.
    PREREQ: FRE 202  AND ANY FRE 300  LEVEL
  
  • FRE 447 - France from the Revolution to the Great War

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: HST 447 
    Study of the rise of the French Republic, its revolutions, and its recurrent lapses into authoritarian rule, notably under Napoleon I and III. Conducted in French. Offered in Strasbourg only. [Effective spring 2009]
    PREREQ: FRE 202 
  
  • FRE 449 - France from the Treaty of Versailles to European Integration

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: HST 449 
    Analysis of major events in recent French history, including the rise of the Popular Front, the Nazi Occupation, the end of colonial rule, and the process of European integration. conducted in French. Offered in Strasbourg only. [Effective spring 2009]
    PREREQ: FRE 202 

Forensic Science

  
  • FSC 206 - Intermediate Forensic Science

    College of Arts and Sciences
    4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Provides a detailed look at some of the scientific ideas behind crime detection and how they interact with the legal system. Provides a rational basis for scientific analysis and interpretation of forensic evidence. Reinforced through relevant case studies.
    PREREQ: CHE 113 
  
  • FSC 300 - Selected Topics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • FSC 406 - Advanced Forensic Science

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Double Numbered with: FSC 606
    Selected areas of current interest in forensic science presented. The application of scientific methods and techniques to crime detection and the law.
    PREREQ: CHE 106  OR CHE 109  OR CHE 113  OR BIO 121  
  
  • FSC 431 - Statistics for Forensic Science

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 631
    Statistical concepts and methods relevant to forensic science. Includes probability, error limits, confidence intervals. Correlation, regression, and calibration. Focus on practical application, including DNA population probabilities, evidence evaluation, and hypothesis testing. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 435 - Medicolegal Death Investigation I

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 635
    Medicolegal death investigation which deals with the history, purpose and legal underpinning of death investigations, effectively handling a death scene, and protocols for public safety and scene processing. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 436 - Medicolegal Death Investigation II

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 636
    Second course in the sequence dealing with information on medicolegal death investigation and deals with procedures for MDI processing and other topics for conducting scientific medicolegal investigations. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 437 - Medicolegal Death Investigation for Emergency Responders

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 637
    Course focuses upon the information needed by emergency responders in dealing with suspicious or unexpected deaths. Topics will include dealing with sudden or unexpected deaths, handling the scene, death investigation laws and other topics. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 440 - Special Topics in Advanced Forensics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Double Numbered with: FSC 640
    An in-depth study of scientific disciplines engaged in the criminal justice and legal systems by providing a rational basis for interpreting the scientific analysis of forensic evidence through relevant case studies. Additional work required of graduate students.
    Repeatable
  
  • FSC 444 - Forensic Chemical Analysis

    College of Arts and Sciences
    4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: CHE 444 
    Double Numbered with: FSC 644
    Lecture content, delivered online, and laboratory on analytical methods of forensic chemistry. Underlying theory and direct experience in various chemical tests and spectroscopic methods. Additional work required of graduate students.
    PREREQ: (CHE 116  AND CHE 117 ) OR (CHE 119  AND CHE 139 )
  
  • FSC 451 - Forensic Pathology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 651
    Introduction to forensic pathology and medi-colegal investigation of death. Role and jurisdiction of the Medical Examiner, including the autopsy. Specific patterns of injury, types of deaths referred to the Medical Examiner, postmortem decompositional changes, and special topics of interest in death investigation will be discussed. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 452 - Forensic Mental Health

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 652
    Role of consultation, research and clinical practice in areas in which psychiatry is applied to legal issues. Covers how mental health and legal systems function together; issues common to forensic psychiatric analyses. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 453 - Forensic Toxicology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 653
    Procedures utilized in forensic toxicology, including specimen types, sample preparation, instrumentation, analytical methods, and interpretation of findings. Knowledge of organic and analytical chemistry is strongly advised. Additional work required of graduate students.
    PREREQ: CHE 116 
  
  • FSC 454 - Nuclear Forensics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: FSC 654
    The science behind the detection, analysis, and source attribution of nuclear materials. Includes engineering, social, and governmental considerations in the wide range of circumstances encountered in this field. Offered only online. Additional work required of graduate students.
    PREREQ: CHE 116 
  
  • FSC 457 - Principles of Human Toxicology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: BIO 457 
    Double Numbered with: FSC 657
    This course examines key aspects of human toxicology, including dose-response relationships, absorption, distribution, biotransformation, elimination, toxicokinetics, molecular mechanisms of toxicity, pesticides, metals, and toxic responses in specific organ systems. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 461 - Firearms and Impression Evidence

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 661
    Forensic analysis of firearm and impression evidence and its presentation through court testimony. Manufacturing methods’ impact on identification. Serial number restoration, distance determination, full auto conversions, trace evidence, latent print analysis, laboratory quality assurance. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 462 - Forensic Entomology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Double Numbered with: FSC 662
    Application and utility of insects as evidence in criminal investigations. Biology and importance of different insect groups in decomposition process. Collection, identification, and processing of insect evidence. Temperature-time relationship in insect growth, its practical use in calculating post-mortem intervals. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 463 - Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 663
    A lecture and laboratory introduction to the analysis of bloodstain patterns in a forensic context. History, theory, and scientific principles behind the analysis methods are supported by laboratory creation and analysis of various types of bloodstains. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 465 - Latent Prints

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 665
    Biology of friction ridge skin including pattern class recognition. Digital imaging of latent prints, analysis and comparison, evidence processing including individual mock cases near the end of the semester. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 467 - Forensic Photography

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 667
    Use of photography in criminal and civil investigations and trials. Changing face of photography and how use of digital cameras has altered rules of evidence and admissibility. Proper use of digital single lens reflex cameras and digital flash. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 468 - Crime Scene Investigation

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FSC 668
    History and practice of crime scene investigation, including photography, sketches, note-taking, processing and collection of evidence. Includes bloodstain pattern interpretation, collision reconstruction, case studies, mock crime scenes, moot court. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 469 - Science of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Crosslisted with: BIO 469
    Double Numbered with: FSC 669
    Scientific basis and means for countering WMDs, including biological systems. Protective measures, proven doctrines, practical questions, and problem solving. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 470 - Experience Credit

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s)
    Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
    Repeatable
  
  • FSC 472 - Advanced Light Microscopy

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: BIO 472
    Double Numbered with: FSC 672
    Theory and practice of modern light microscopy, including the fundamentals of image formation and applications in the biological and biomedical sciences, including reviews of microscopy methods and analog and digital image capture. Additional work required of graduate students.
    PREREQ: BIO 327
  
  • FSC 476 - Cold Cases

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Crosslisted with: BIO 476
    Double Numbered with: FSC 676
    Methods and practice in solving unsolved cases using fundamental science, court documents, and other sources of information. Will include work on real cases. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FSC 480 - International Course

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-12 credit(s) Irregularly
    Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution’s practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student’s transcript.
    Repeatable
  
  • FSC 490 - Independent Study

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s)
    In-depth exploration of a problem or problems. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.
    Repeatable
  
  • FSC 498 - Capstone Seminar in Forensic Science

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Explore specific overlaps of primary major with forensic science, make contacts with practitioners in the field, complete a capstone project, and present findings. Project will be determined through consultation between the student, instructor, and at least one practitioner.
  
  • FSC 499 - Honors Capstone Project

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s)
    Completion of an Honors Capstone Project under the supervision of a faculty member.
    Repeatable

Fashion Illustration

  
  • FSH 271 - Fashion Illustr Basic Skills

    School of Art and Design
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Skills to produce sketches of live model. Techniques required for fashion illustration media reproduction.
  
  • FSH 272 - Fashion Illustr Various Media

    School of Art and Design
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Drawing the fashion model. Various media: black-and-white, color. Fashion trends, garment construction, fabrics, and texture.
  
  • FSH 371 - Intermediate Fashion Illustrat

    School of Art and Design
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Drawing the fashion model. Figure composition and layout. The male fashion figure. Second semester: current trends in fashion. Drawing the model. Developing a personal mode or style.
    PREREQ: FSH 272 
  
  • FSH 372 - Intermediate Fashion Illustrat

    School of Art and Design
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Drawing the fashion model. Figure composition and layout. The male fashion figure. Second semester: current trends in fashion. Drawing the model. Developing a personal mode or style.
    PREREQ: FSH 371 
  
  • FSH 471 - Advanced Fashion Illustration

    School of Art and Design
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Drawing the fashion model. Various styles for editorial, advertising, designer, and exhibition sketches. Second semester: portfolio preparation.
    PREREQ: FSH 372 
  
  • FSH 472 - Advanced Fashion Illustration

    School of Art and Design
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Drawing the fashion model. Various styles for editorial, advertising, designer, and exhibition sketches. Second semester: portfolio preparation.
    PREREQ: FSH 471 
  
  • FSH 570 - Fashn Illustratn Res Prob

    School of Art and Design
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Individual development in specialized areas of fashion illustration.
    PREREQ: FSH 471 

Food Studies

  
  • FST 100 - Selected Topics

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • FST 102 - Food Fights: Contemporary Food Issues

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Introduction to key issues of the contemporary food system. Explores various social, political, economic,and environmental dimensions of food production, distribution, and consumption with a focus on the United States.
  
  • FST 200 - Selected Topics

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • FST 201 - Professional Baking

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Fundamentals. Bakeshop production and control, formulas, basic measurement, conversions, ingredients, the baking process, basic mixes, and doughs.
  
  • FST 202 - Agroecology

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Explores the biological processes that undergird the food production system on which we depend. Topics include soil fertility and quality, pest ecology, nutrient cycling and socioeconomic and policy aspects of agricultural production.
  
  • FST 203 - Fine Pastries and Desserts

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This laboratory intensive course is designed to develop students’ fundamental working knowledge and practice of the traditional and modern methods of producing, finishing, and plating pastries and desserts.
  
  • FST 204 - Food, Identity, and Power

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Examines the relationship between food, identity, and power. How humans relate to food in the context of ethnicity, race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and migration.
  
  • FST 217 - World Cuisines

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Traditional foods of different countries and cultures. Equipment and ingredients unique to ethnic foods.
  
  • FST 222 - Introduction to Culinary Arts

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Culinary theory and practice. Ingredient identification, sensory evaluation, ethnic ingredients, cultural preparation methods, and plate presentation. Menu development for non-commercial applications. Laboratory intensive hands-on preparation and practice.
  
  • FST 300 - Selected Topics

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • FST 303 - Food Movements

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Examination of food movements, the various efforts to address public health, social, and environmental contradictions of the conventional food system.
    PREREQ: FST 102 
  
  • FST 304 - Farm to Fork

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Exploration of alternative food systems, including culinary theory and practice. Topics in contemporary food issues examined through systems perspective and practical applications. Includes field trips and cooking laboratory.
  
  • FST 306 - Food Cooperatives

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Introduction to marketing and bargaining cooperatives, farmers markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Topics will include the history and current state of agricultural and food cooperatives, community kitchens, farmer’s markets and CSAs.
  
  • FST 307 - Feeding the World: Global Agri-Food Governance

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course explores the interaction between the structure of the global food system and consumer food choices; and how that interactive process produces environmental, food safety, food security and nutrition outcomes for all stakeholders.
  
  • FST 309 - Philosophy & Practice of Locavorism

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    An examination, of the philosophy, politics and practice of eating locally produced food year-round. Emphasis placed on the understanding the societal ramifications of the practice of preserving locally-produced fruits and vegetables and processing game and other meat animals.
  
  • FST 310 - Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Examines labor across the US food system, including labor conditions and possibilities for reform throughout the food chain.
  
  • FST 312 - Emergency Food Systems

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Examination of domestic strategies to address chronic need for emergency food, with emphasis on emergency feeding in the food systems.
  
  • FST 400 - Selected Topics

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    1-3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • FST 402 - Feeding the City: Urban Food Systems

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Investigation of relationship between food and cities, including the many ways food shapes urban sustainability, public health, community, and economic development. Additional topics include municipal food policies and urban planning for community-based food systems.
  
  • FST 403 - The Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FST 603
    Evolution of human right to adequate food. Social, political, economic and cultural conditions influencing progressive realization of right to food and nutrition. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FST 412 - Wine Appreciation

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Wine types, varieties, terminology, labeling and regulation. Sensory evaluation of wines, wine lists and matching wine and food. Must be 21 years of age. Students can only receive credit for FST 412 or FST 422.
  
  • FST 416 - Cultural Cuisine

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    1-3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    An exploration of various cultural cuisines. Topics explored include food and cooking, history, menus, specialty foods and cooking techniques within the context of the culture. Permission of instructor.
    Repeatable 2 time(s), 3 credits maximum
  
  • FST 421 - Morality of a Meal:Food Ethics

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: FST 621
    Food consumption and production are explored in the context of community and environment with the application of ethical theories to broad food issues and challenges. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • FST 422 - Wine and Beer Appreciation

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    2 credit(s) Every semester
    Ingredients, processes and laws. Sensory evaluation and discussion of still and sparkling wines and beers. Student must be 21 years of age. Students may not take both FST 412 and FST 422.
  
  • FST 423 - Food in History

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Explore how food has shaped the world’s history from prehistoric times. Discover how it is shaping the ‘history’ of who you are. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
  
  • FST 485 - Research Experience in Food Studies

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Opportunities to conduct senior-level undergraduate research in Food Studies.
    PREREQ: NSD 457 
  
  • FST 486 - Food Studies Practicum

    Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Supervised 85 hour field experience in food studies plus weeklyseminar.
    PREREQ: FST 102  AND NSD 115  AND NSD 457 

Geography

  
  • GEO 103 - Environment and Society

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Relationship between society and the environment. Natural resource use, climate change politics, food and agriculture, energy, water, and sustainability.
  
  • GEO 105 - World Urban Geography

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Survey of world, urban geography. Major concepts of human geography for non-specialists.
  
  • GEO 155 - The Natural Environment

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Patterns of the physical phenomena at and near the surface of the earth. Surface configuration, climate, vegetation, and soil and their areal interrelationships.
  
  • GEO 171 - Human Geographies

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    An integrative overview to human geography. Topics include human-environmental relations, demographic change, cultural landscape; urban and agricultural land use and economic restructuring.
  
  • GEO 200 - Selected Topics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester. *
    Repeatable
  
  • GEO 203 - Society and the Politics of Nature

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Biophysical and social contexts of environmental problems and decision making. U.S. and international issues considered, linking local, regional, and global scales of analysis. Case examples include water management, energy policy, global warming, sustainable development.
  
  • GEO 215 - Global Environmental Change

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Focusing on physical processes and patterns of environmental change, changes occurring as a result of human activities, and the social consequences of environmental change.
  
  • GEO 219 - American Diversity and Unity (Honors)

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Ethnic and racial interactions that influenced American culture’s present form, both visible (i.e., landscape) and invisible. Contemporary sociocultural changes in the frontier/West/Alaska, southern California, and the South. For honors students.
  
  • GEO 270 - Experience Credit

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Participation in a discipline- or subject-related experience. Students must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Limited to those in good academic standing.
    Repeatable
  
  • GEO 272 - World Cultures

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The globalization of culture and the persistence of local cultures around the world. Case studies from different regions of the world examine geographical processes that shape ways of life.
  
  • GEO 273 - World Political Economy

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Survey of emergence of an integrated global political economy from the sixteenth century to the present. Creation of “developed” and “under-developed” regions. Case studies of the impact of global transformations on regions and institutions.
  
  • GEO 300 - Selected Topics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Selected Topics
    Repeatable
  
  • GEO 311 - The New North Americas

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Critical study of social, political, economic, and cultural processes across contemporary North America. Focus on geographies of globalization, transnationalism, economic restructuring, and new social movements, with particular attention to race/ethnicity, gender, power, and resistance.
  
  • GEO 313 - The United States

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Cultural, social, and regional approaches to understanding the geography of the United States. American national identity and cultural landscape, regional consumer behavior patterns, and current regional issues.
  
  • GEO 314 - Hazardous Geographic Environments

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Mapping and public policy for natural and technological hazards. Risk perception, geographic modeling, and vulnerability assessment. Mitigation measures, risk mapping, land-use restrictions, and emergency planning.
  
  • GEO 316 - River Environments

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Characteristics of river environments, including hydroclimatology, floods, landforms, vegetation, human impacts, and resource management issues.
  
  • GEO 317 - Geography of Mountain Environments

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Physical and human geography of mountain regions. Focus on tectonic, geomorphological, biogeographical, and climatic processes; resource use problems and patterns, conservation, and development; environmental hazards.
  
  • GEO 318 - Tropical Environments

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Tropical ecosystems and their human dimensions, with an emphasis on the Neotropics. Distribution, structure, and function of natural systems; human-environment interactions; management and significance.
  
  • GEO 319 - Cold Environments

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    An exploration of environmental processes, interactions, and environmental problems in the cold regions of the world, emphasizing the Arctic.
    PREREQ: GEO 155  AND (GEO 103  OR GEO 171  OR GEO 272 )
  
  • GEO 321 - Latin American Development: Spatial Aspects

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: LAS 321 
    Spatial dimensions of development process in Latin America since the 1930s in a variety of contexts and at several scales. Variety of spatial models that may be applied.
  
  • GEO 325 - Colonialism in Latin America

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Processes of geographical change in Latin America from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Reconstruction of geographies of Latin America at critical periods.
  
  • GEO 326 - The Geography of Climate and Weather

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Atmospheric dynamics emphasizing spatial distributions of energy and moisture at several scales. Weather phenomena, regional climates, and human-induced perturbations and modifications of climate systems. Land-use change, climate change and urban climatologies.
    PREREQ: GEO 155  OR EAR 101
  
  • GEO 327 - Geography of Coastal Environments

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Natural environmental processes in the coastal zone. Emphasis on coastal transformation due to climate variability and change, estuarine pollution and habitat destruction, human modification; and subsequent associated societal hazards and implications.
    PREREQ: GEO 155
  
  • GEO 331 - The European Union

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Geo- political foundations, economic and political developments, European community institutions, integration and external relations.
  
  • GEO 340 - Geography of Oil

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The topic of oil used to explore the concerns of human geography with society, space, and the natural environment. By learning about oil we will cover themes and concepts important to environmental, political, cultural, economic and urban geography.
  
  • GEO 347 - Art and Environment in American Culture Since 1800

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s)
    Crosslisted with: HOA 482
    Visual arts and environmental concern in the U.S. from the early national period to the present. Emphasizing diversity of artists and forms, the changing cultural constructions of nature, and tracing an ecological tradition in art.
 

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