May 17, 2024

2017-2018 General/Graduate Catalog - Expires August 2023

2017-2018 General/Graduate Catalog - Expires August 2023 [Archived Catalog]

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	ITAL 326 - Topics in Italian Culture This course addresses various aspects of Italian culture through the centuries. Areas of concentration can include visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and film. One of the principal themes is regional diversity and the historic intersections between popular and hegemonic cultures. Taught in English. Three classroom hours per week are required. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Aesthetic: Visual and Performing Arts Mode of Inquiry and the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. ** This course counts toward the 63-hour Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement.
	JAPN 101 - Elementary Japanese I Emphasis is placed on the development of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Japanese behavioral culture, along with the four basic language skills, is developed in order to use the language properly. Three classroom hours, extensive computer-based work, and peer tutoring are required. Credits: 4 NOTE: * Successful completion of JAPN 101 and the continuing course JAPN 102 fulfills the Foreign Language Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * The Foreign Language Instruction Course Fee applies to this course.
	JAPN 102 - Elementary Japanese II Emphasis is placed further on the development of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Japanese behavioral culture along with the four basic language skills is developed in order to use the language properly as in Elementary Japanese I. Three classroom hours, extensive computer-based work, and peer tutoring are required. Prerequisite: JAPN 101 - Elementary Japanese I . Credits: 4 NOTE: * Successful completion of JAPN 102 fulfills the Foreign Language Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * The Foreign Language Instruction Course Fee applies to this course.
	JAPN 201 - Intermediate Japanese I Instruction in intermediate-level spoken Japanese and training in Japanese written forms. Introduction to translation of Japanese modern texts. Prerequisite: JAPN 102 - Elementary Japanese II . Credits: 3 NOTE: This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. NOTE: The Foreign Language Instruction Course Fee applies to this course.
	JAPN 202 - Intermediate Japanese II Instruction in intermediate-level spoken Japanese and training in Japanese written forms. Translation of Japanese modern texts. Prerequisite: JAPN 201 - Intermediate Japanese I . Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. ** The Foreign Language Instruction Course Fee applies to this course.
	JAPN 301 - Advanced Japanese I Instruction in advanced-level spoken Japanese and continued training in reading and writing Japanese. Credits: 3 NOTE: * Honors Scholar Course. ** This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement.
	JAPN 302 - Advanced Japanese II Continuation of instruction in advanced-level spoken Japanese and continued training in reading and writing Japanese. Credits: 3 NOTE: * Honors Scholar Course. ** This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement.
	JAPN 325 - Japanese Culture This course surveys the culture and society of Japan from the earliest to the present times drawing on the disciplines of history, visual as well as performing arts, thought, religion, and literature. The class consists of lectures, complemented by videos, pictures, film presentations, class discussions, and student presentations. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. ** This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement.
	JAPN 340 - Topics in Japanese Specialized topics unavailable in other courses. Topics include: Japanese culture and sociolinguistics; Japanese language and linguistics; Japanese film; translation in Japanese; introduction to Japanese literature. Course may be repeated for credit under different topics. Prerequisite: JAPN 102 - Elementary Japanese II or permission of instructor. Credits: 3 NOTE: * Honors Scholar Course. This course counts toward the 63-hour Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This course fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program.
	JAPN 401 - Fourth Year Japanese I The goal of the course is to further advance Japanese abilities that have been acquired through previous Japanese courses. The course aims at enhancing fluency in Japanese and at refining grammar and sociocultural knowledge of Japanese. Particular emphasis is placed on increasing vocabulary knowledge and on improving reading proficiency in authentic Japanese texts. Class activities include role plays in pair and small group, discussions of reading materials and presentations. NOTE: Prerequisites: JAPN 302 - Advanced Japanese II or permission of instructor. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement.
	JINS 300 - Cultural Crossroads (template course) Cultural Crossroads is an interdisciplinary analysis of a geographical configuration. From this analysis, students compose a bibliography that draws on methodologies of at least two disciplines and deals with an aspect related to the course’s specific topic. Possible topics: Cairo - An interdisciplinary analysis of the largest city in Africa and the Middle East from prehistory to the Twenty-first Century. Istanbul - An interdisciplinary analysis of Istanbul from prehistory to the Twenty-first Century. Peruvian Culture - A detailed examination of the culture of Peru, its origins, evolution, and present-day composition. In this course we read pages on customs, history, literature, anthropology, archaeology, politics and economics. The Many Faces of Spain - A panoramic view of the origin and evolution of the many cultures of Spain, as well as its contemporary society. Students examine the history, traditions, art, music, literature, geography, politics, and economics of Spain through topical discussions to reflect on today’s Spanish cultural mosaic. Jerusalem/Al Quds - An interdisciplinary approach to understanding the 4000-year-old city, a center of strife for much of its history, and essential to the political and religious aspirations of many groups with apparently conflicting goals. Salvador da Bahia - A study of the intersection of African, Native American and European cultures in the city of Salvador da Bahia from pre-Columbian times to the present, with special emphasis on the role played by African slaves and their descendants in the formation of Brazil’s unique New World character. The American West - An interdisciplinary approach to the West through American literature, American film, American History, and American Politics. Students study the reasons why people move to the West and the interaction of these economic and environmental cultures. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 301 - Music in Religious Thought and Practice Music in Religious Thought and Practice explores and analyzes links that occur and are made between sacred music and religious ideologies. During the seminar, students examine published literature in the disciplines of Music and Religious Studies about a specific historical place and geographical time and place and develop writing projects within that area. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 302 - Wilderness Leadership Wilderness Leadership is an interdisciplinary analysis of small group (team) leadership dynamics in a wilderness setting, emphasizing the interplay of factors (psychological, physiological, sociological) in extreme conditions. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 303 - Computers and Natural Language This seminar examines how computers do (and perhaps someday will) use human language (spoken and written), and how computers affect use of language. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 304 - Native American Conflict Through reading, researching, and writing about reports of the conflicts between Indians and Whites throughout American history, students learn more about their own cultural assumptions as well as the perspectives and methodologies of the disciplines of history, anthropology, ethnology, and literary studies. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 305 - Issues in Democratic Institutions An interdisciplinary confrontation with issues currently affecting the institution of American public education on every level, the seminar challenges students to define for themselves what the aims of American education should be (what should be taught, whom society should educate) and to analyze specific individual and group responsibility for the education of a democratic society. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 306 - The Rock Generation The Rock Generation seminar focuses on the rock music and social relationships between the United States and the United Kingdom from 1960-1980 using analysis and exploration of the perspectives of musicology and sociology. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 307 - Friendship Friendship in the contemporary U.S. has been called “the neglected relationship” because few social ceremonies mark the beginning, development, or ending of friendships as significant relationships despite the reality that many of us identify it as the relationship most necessary for survival and happiness. Seminar members scrutinize the nature and varieties of friendship from a number of perspectives (philosophy, psychology, sociology). Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 309 - Decision Making Seminar This course examines the perspectives of several social science disciplines, including economics, sociology, psychology, and political science, as they relate to the understanding of decision making. Students consciously integrate the concepts of several disciplines to study and help explain a decision in the individual, organizational, or political arena. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 311 - Race, Class, and Gender Using the perspectives of multiple disciplines, students in the Race, Class, and Gender Seminar explore race, class, gender and sexuality as socially constructed categories that continue to wield considerable power over a person’s chances for success. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 When Offered: Online - summer NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 312 - American Social Character Drawing upon different conceptual paradigms, from multiple disciplines, students further develop critical, sympathetic, and reflective understanding of the American social character and the ways in which it has changed through history. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 314 - Economics of Gender This seminar explores male/female interrelationships with an emphasis on workplace environments. It calls on several disciplinary perspectives regarding issues of gender. Selected topics include: household formation, labor force participation, market work, income determination and earnings differentials. Prerequisites: Junior status and STAT 190 - Basic Statistics . Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 315 - Nuclear Weaponry We study nuclear weapons from the discovery of the atomic nucleus to the present. A given instantiation of the course may also approach the subject from the point of view of the physicist, the culture-critic, or other ways of knowing that instructor and students bring to the conversation. The class is discussion-oriented, and a few labs may be incorporated into the class meetings, with a considerable amount of reading and writing. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 316 - Portrayals of Women (template course) This course examines depictions of women in a variety of literary, artistic, and cultural contexts from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Themes may vary from section to section, but the inquiry, research, writing, reflection, and discussion is interdisciplinary. Possible topics: Ancient Greece - This course focuses on depictions of women in Greek literature and art from Homer to Aristophanes, but also addresses other related themes in order to elucidate cultural phenomena of Ancient Greece. Such themes include the following: mythology and religion, warfare and social/political theory, art and architecture, philosophy and scientific inquiry. Corsets and Kimonos: Victorian Britain and Edo Japan - Compares and contrasts the portrayals of women in two distinct cultures: Great Britain during the reign of Victoria (1837-1903) and Japan during the Edo period (1615-1868.) The Middle Ages - This course focuses on depictions of women and women’s roles in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries. C.E. These depictions may come from the women authors themselves, from male contemporaries, or from less literary portrayals in sources such as canon law, visual art, musical compositions, medical treatises, etc. Victorians and Pre-Raphaelites - This course focuses on the cultural contexts, especially class-related conventions, about gender roles and performance that circumscribed women’s lives in 19th Century Britain, and were reflected in the many images of women popularized by the pre-Raphaelite painters. It also inquires into the effects these expectations had on real-life Victorian women, such as somatic responses and strategies for effecting personal, professional, and economic sufficiency. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 317 - Women’s Movement in Intercultural Perspective: The U.S. and South Africa This course traces progress toward gender equality in the U.S. and South Africa, as it is achieved both through grassroots activism and through other types of strategic movement by women to empower themselves. Cultural and economic differences between the two countries and among the women within them are examined as possible barriers to female solidarity. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 318 - Classical Athenian Humanism An examination of the humanistic movement in Fifth Century B.C.E. Athens. All readings are in English translation. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 319 - Human and Computer Cognition An interdisciplinary course that addresses the issue of how humans and (perhaps) computers are able to reason. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 320 - Development of the Book An interdisciplinary investigation of the forces which have conditioned the composition, production, and consumption of the Western book from antiquity to the present, with particular emphasis upon transitional moments such as the fourth-century replacement of the roll by the codex and the Fifteenth Century advent of print. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 321 - Leadership Analysis JINS 321 - Leadership Analysis examines leadership and decision-making, particularly as they relate to those operating in extreme environments (e.g., aerospace,alpine, desert, hyperbaric, polar, tropical, etc.). The course expands upon knowledge learned in the modes of inquiry in an in-depth exercise in writing and critical thinking. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 When Offered: Online - summer NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 322 - Architecture: Forms and Structures This course stresses a critical approach to architecture through an analysis of historical context, function, materials, patronage, structure, architectural theories and styles. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 323 - Dress and Self Image This course examines clothing from the social psychological, aesthetic and communicative points of view. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 324 - Contexts of Disability The interactions between various disciplines are explored in order to understand disability as a cultural phenomenon shared by civic contexts. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 325 - Rural America This course explores ways of conceptualizing and defining “rural,” describes the geographic, social, economic, and political characteristics found in rural places, and discusses the implications of using alternative perspectives. Beyond this common introduction, specific sections of the course examine in more detail selected contemporary issues relevant to rural people and places. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 326 - On Human Nature When we inquire about being human, what is the contribution of the sciences and of the humanities respectively? In this course, we investigate whether the two fields make mutually exclusive assertions or whether some form of mediation is possible, particularly between biological perspectives on human nature on the one hand and religious and philosophical perspectives on the other. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 327 - Illuminations A writing workshop and studio art course in which students explore the relations of written and graphic interpretations of literary texts, and how these shape the meaning of a text. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 329 - Language and Meaning This course is an interdisciplinary approach to studying language as a medium of communication. It includes both a survey of various theories of meaning and a study of symbol systems in the creation, maintenance, and change of a culture or social group (such as an academic discipline). Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 330 - Environmental Economics: Issues and Policies This course examines the environmental issues and resulting problems facing the world today, as well as the policy issues involved in solving these problems. It emphasizes applying the economist’s decision-making model to environmental issues and advantages and disadvantages of the economist’s analysis. Prerequisites: ECON 130, ECON 200, ECON 201 or ECON 205; Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 331 - The Chemistry of Art This course examines the interaction and manipulation of matter (chemistry) in order to make an aesthetically pleasing form (art), including the interaction of light with matter to produce color and the examination of materials used in such artworks as paintings, dyes, glasses and ceramics. Direct experimentation with these media occurs in a laboratory component. Prerequisites: CHEM 100 or CHEM 131; Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 332 - Death and Dying This course examines the historical and current perspectives on death from both philosophical and behavioral science points of view. The primary emphasis is to understand death in relation to ourselves and the social organization in which we have our identity. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 333 - Conflict, Cooperation, and Choice This course is an interdisciplinary study of rational choice as the basis for predictive models of human behavior. We use economics and game theory as our primary vehicles for understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the rational choice assumptions, but we also survey the way other disciplines (e.g., political science, anthropology, sociobiology, etc.) use this assumption in their models. Prerequisites: completion of statistics requirement and mathematical mode requirement of the LSP and junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 334 - Geometry of the Universe In this course students explore our evolving perceptions of the nature and origins of the universe from scientific, philosophical, and historical perspectives. The concepts of space, time, and infinity are particularly emphasized. Prerequisites: fulfillment of the Mathematics Essential Skills requirement of the LSP and junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 335 - Ecology versus Land Use Through the disciplines of ecology and politics, this course examines our society’s efforts to preserve wildlife habitat and maintain biodiversity, while also protecting the property rights needed for economic productivity. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 336 - The Environment (template course) This course investigates the natural environment from a variety of perspectives, focusing especially on the interaction between humans and the natural world. Possible topics: Border Crossings in South and Southeast Asian Forests - An exploration of diverse disciplinary perspectives on South and Southeast Asian forests (from Pakistan to Indonesia), including readings from anthropology, biology, geography, history, and literature. Change in the Great Plains After Lewis and Clark - In this course we link scientific knowledge with choices and behavior to examine the human impact on the Great Plains. We examine some of the ecological principles relevant to human existence in the environment and the human perspective on these principles, be they economic, philosophical, political, religious, sociological or psychological. Students write responses to resource management dilemmas based on solid reasoning accounting for scientific knowledge and human perspective. The Neotropics in Literature and Science - This course examines the New World tropics through the dual perspectives of literary and scientific disciplines. We use these disciplines to examine the commonality of relationships in the Neotropics, both the relationships between the organisms that comprise the complex ecosystems of this region and the constantly evolving relationship between human beings and the environment. Water World-Human Influences on Aquatic Ecosystems - Water World is designed to make students aware of the variety, complexity, magnitude, and immediacy of water-related issues that modern human societies must cope with. The two main disciplinary approaches are biology and political science. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 337 - Musical Theatre This course examines the musical theatre form from aesthetic, historical, structural, sociological, and auteur/stylistic perspectives. Viewing of classic performances and group critiques and presentations are also special features of this course. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 338 - Race and Ethnicity (template course) This course examines how the construction and evolution of racial and ethnic identities have affected human society over time. Possible topics: Latin America - This course examines race and ethnicity in a Latin American context. This includes the region’s rich racial diversity, the emergence of new forms of ethnic identity, and the politicization of these identities. Throughout this entire process we constantly critique our assumptions of racial and ethnic categories. Latino Health Care in America - Latino Health Care in America presents interdisciplinary perspectives of health care for Latino cultural groups in America. Students analyze health care issues for selected cultural groups within Mexico and the United States from the theoretical and investigative modes for nursing and anthropology. Hispanics in the United States - This course provides a panoramic view of the three most widely represented Hispanic cultures in the United States. Students ponder the cultural, economic, and political ramifications for Hispanics in the US, trace their immigration patterns, their motivations and successes. By examining the inter-ethnic relations, students attain a deeper understanding of the current status of their Hispanic compatriots and their rich and variegated history. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 When Offered: Fall, Spring and online over the Summer NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. The “Latino Health Care in America” section fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 339 - Gender and Culture (template course) Examination of the intersections of issues of gender and cultural anthropological and literary/artistic conceptions of “culture.” Possible topics: Women of the Middle East - The study of women in the modern Middle East and North Africa through the examination of culture, both as an anthropological concept and as an artistic category (including literature and the “fine arts”). Students examine historical, religious, and political issues through literature, theatre, music, and the visual arts, comparing the self-presented image of the women of the area with anthropological-derived descriptions and data. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. The “Women of the Middle East” section fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 340 - German-Jewish Identities This course examines the problems that German Jews have faced in establishing a sense of identity in the 20th century. The first part focuses on the “Jewish Question;” the second half focuses on the holocaust and holocaust memory among German-Jewish intellectuals. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 341 - Sport and Society (template course) This course investigates the relationship between sports and the societies that produce them. Many peoples and civilizations have practiced competitive and recreational athletics throughout human history, but the forms, functions, and ideologies of sports have differed considerably. This class focuses on key aspects of athletics using a variety of different disciplinary methodologies. Possible topics: The Olympics - The purpose of this class is to fully explore the Olympic Games as an intersection among the disciplines of history, political science, sociology, and sport. Through this exploration process, the course seeks to improve both the critical thinking and writing skills of its participants. Twentieth Century America - This course considers the impact of a variety of sports-related issues, using both “functional” and “conflict theory” approaches to trace the effects of sport upon both society at large and specific social, economic, racial, and gender-based practitioners and audiences. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 342 - The Indo-Europeans This course uses evidence from linguistics, archaeology, and history (among other disciplines) to explore the origins and identity of the speakers of Indo-European, a language spoken over five millennia ago, which gave rise to modern languages such as English, Russian, Hindi, the Romance Languages, etc. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 343 - The Horse in Art, Science, and History This course examines how human perception of horses has changed over time, how art reflects the historical uses of the horse since its domestication, and how humans have utilized horses historically. Science is used to consider unique equine anatomical, physiological, and behavioral adaptations that predestined this species to play a central role in human history. Historically, students consider how various cultures have used horses to advance political and geographic aspirations. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 345 - From Page to Stage and Screen (template course) Students analyze a substantial literary work of recognized merit as well as several of its musical and cinematic adaptations, to determine the role visualization plays in understanding and adapting a literary work. Lectures, readings, and assignments draw from the disciplines of literary theory, cognitive science, psychology, film theory, and dramaturgy. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 346 - Varieties of Non-Violence (template course) An examination of the varieties of non-violence, civil disobedience, conscientious objection, and related subjects, ideas, figures, and movements. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 When Offered: Online - summer NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 347 - Religion, Health, and Healing This course explores the ways in which religious beliefs, social roles, and symbolic practices play a part in constructing a culture’s understanding of health and illness, through the disciplines of biomedicine, religious studies, psychology, and sociology. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 348 - The Visual World: Color and Symmetry The “Visual World” is an interdisciplinary course whose main objective is to study aspects of the visual world of concern to both scientists and artists. The modules under investigation for “Color and Symmetry” are: Perspectives and Space; Color Theory; Symmetry - particularly in relation to plane patterns; Case Studies of Islamic art, African art, and Modernist Western art. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 349 - Bodylore/Brainlore: Thinking with the Body Through a combination of theoretical readings, writing, movement, dance and discussion, this course is intended to examine past and present attitudes and ideas surrounding the body and its connection (or perceived lack thereof) to the mind. The course is interdisciplinary both in its examination of debate surrounding the mind/body split and in the kinds of practices we join with our theoretical investigations. Drawing from such disciplines as philosophy, sociology, physiology, literature, the fine arts, and movement, the course includes theoretical readings, writing and discussion, as well as creative writing forms and physical movement forms. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 350 - Science and Society (template course) Courses in the Science and Society template apply multiple disciplinary perspectives to explore the ways in which scientific knowledge, theories and worldviews have affected, and been affected by, other elements of culture. Possible topics: Astronomy in Early Human Culture - An exploration of the role of astronomy in early human cultures through an analysis of the scientific, historical, and social contexts in which these cultures existed. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 351 - The Faust Tradition This course traces and examines the Faust Tradition from the historical Faust through the literary Fausts of Spies, Marlowe, Goethe, and Mann. We analyze the readings as literature and as philosophical and cultural-historical artifacts of the Renaissance, Enlightenment/Romanticism, and late Modernism. Supplemental readings/films also required and discussed. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 352 - Why You’re Wrong (template course) An examination of the way attitude, opinions, and politics change in the face of data, and how arguments are won and lost, using a particular discipline or area of expertise (depending on instructor). A given instantiation of the course looks at several controversies in detail, and explore the nature of truth, the history of discussion on the topic, and how arguments might be sustained or refuted using the evidence and canons of proof from (for example) history, statistics, science, ethics, etc. A term paper focuses on an area of interest to the student and the ramifications of existing and potential data upon the area. Possible topics: Changing the World Through Data - The explosion of science can be linked to the explosion of statistics. Some of the best and worst policies of the 20th Century can be linked to claims made by statistical analysis. What makes statistics convincing (or not)? Why are they both revered and reviled by policy-makers and laypeople alike? How does the internet’s quick spread of information help and hinder the believability of statistics? How can someone tell when statistics are useful and when they are not? What ethical dilemmas arise from faith in statistics? How do people make decisions given contradictory information? Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 When Offered: online in the summer. NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 353 - Ethical Implications of the Human Genome Project Students gain an understanding of the scientific methods and techniques involved in the Human Genome Project and the results that are being obtained. They are able to discuss and defend, from a variety of philosophical viewpoints, different issues that have arisen as a result of this information, such as: genetic testing, cloning, genetic discrimination, forensic DNA testing, genetic evolution, and genotherapy. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 354 - Insects, Disease, and Human Affairs This course examines the relationship between humans, insects, and disease from a biological and historical perspective. The course includes field and laboratory activities. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 355 - Creativity in Arts and Sciences This course is an interdisciplinary examination of creativity in which students (1) examine creative contributions to society (2) investigate the conditions and the habits of thought, attitude, and behavior that enhance or inhibit creativity (3) consider the ethical responsibilities of creators for their work (4) apply what has been learned through creations (5) observe, reflect, and write on the process of applying theory to one’s own practices and (6) research and analyze creative influences. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 356 - The Art and Science of Humor This course is designed to allow students the opportunity to look at the human phenomenon of humor through the lenses of research in the hard and soft sciences. Students come to understand what makes something humorous as well as the impact of humor on the mind and body. This course draws on the fields of sociology, psychology, physiology, medicine, communication, political science, business, education, linguistics, and literature. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 When Offered: Online - summer NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 357 - Bayou Blues: French Music in Louisiana An interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between music and culture in the French-speaking region of Louisiana. We use the methodologies of musicology and sociology to examine the establishment of distinct Euro-American and African-American musical styles that have developed within a French-speaking society. The emphasis is upon the analysis of a body of music, and the people who make this music, to examine the impact of culture and the transitions of musical style in this region. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 358 - Textiles as Cultural Documents: Hanging by a Thread This class compares and contrasts the use of textiles for form and function, reflection of cultural identity, gender and identity, and as historical documents. Students analyze textiles to understand the aesthetic production and experiences of sociocultural groups from Africa, Asia, and Central and South America. Students explore the social, political, and economic complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions of the personal, national, global cultural belief systems. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 359 - Exploration into the Origin of Life This course explores the concept of the origin of life from literary and scientific perspectives. The literary aspect comprises literature as cultural studies, particularly folklore and mythology, and draws on philosophical and religious texts of various cultures. The scientific perspective looks into the development of our concepts about the origin of the universe and the origin of life in the universe. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 360 - Amish History and Culture This class examines the history and culture of the Old Order Amish in Europe and North America. Beginning with the sixteenth-century Anabaptist movement, we trace Amish history in Europe until they disappear from the European stage, and Amish history in North America as they establish a durable and successful culture. We pay some attention to related groups, such as the Hutterites and Mennonites. We also examine Amish history and culture from the perspectives of anthropology and sociology. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 362 - Extraterrestrial Life Does life or intelligence exist outside the earth? This course consists of readings and discussion of approaches to this question from historical, scientific, philosophical, and theological perspectives. Topics include the emergence of the “Copernican Principle,” the search for life on Mars, the study of the origin of life, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) program. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 363 - Class in America Class in America employs a variety of (objective) disciplinary perspectives and (subjective) individual perspectives to show how class location continues to shape people’s opportunities, attitudes, and quality of life in the United States. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 364 - The Aesthetics of Food This course studies the aesthetics of food beginning with the question, “Can there BE an aesthetic of food?”, and then proceeding to aesthetic analysis of food and representations of food in art (literary and visual). From the intersection of food and art the course scrutinizes the meanings of both food and art in American culture and in other cultures as we contemplate the question “what is good” in regard both to food and to art. Readings that address these issues are drawn from the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy (aesthetics). Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 366 - Potent Potables: A Reflection on America American culture is fascinated with beer. The manufacturing and marketing of this potent potable has developed from being an illegal, black market enterprise to a billion dollar industry that has become interwoven into the fabric of America. The influence of beer can be felt in our sporting arenas, government policies, and in our social behaviors. Thus, beer is more than a beverage; it is an influential aspect of our own culture. This course is the exploration of the culture of beer as an intersection between the disciplines of political policy, physiology, sociology, chemistry, and sport. This course is an investigation into the place beer holds in American culture - it does not advocate, in any way, individual decisions regarding alcohol consumption. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 368 - Women and Science This seminar explores two facets of women and science: the roles women have played historically in science and the issues facing contemporary women in science careers. The achievements of notable women in science, particularly Nobel Prize Winners, are examined and discussed. The lives of these women are examined from historic, cultural, and scientific viewpoints. Contemporary women working in science address the class. Students also conduct an interview project of working women in science. The intersection between gender and science, ecofeminism, and the gender gap in science education are also addressed in this course. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 369 - Why We Fight (template course) War is a mystery. No one suggests it’s a good thing, but the world is rarely free of it. Why do we fight wars - in general, or particular wars? What, beyond thrones filled or emptied, territory gained or lost, do wars accomplish? How is war, or a given war, part of our thinking, our equipment for understanding the world? How does the remembrance of a given war condition our experience of the present? In “Why We Fight,” a given war is examined in terms of its identifiable material causes, the motivations of leaders and followers, the accounts of contemporaries and the interpretations of scholars and artists afterwards, as well as its lasting consequences and effects in the present. Various instantiations of the course may involve history (plus history of art), psychology, rhetoric and communication, engineering, military science, popular culture, film, history of religion, geography, economics, women’s studies, and other areas of specialization. The Crusades - In 1095, Urban II preached the first Crusade; for the next two hundred years, Christians would leave Europe to deliver the Holy Lands from what they saw as Islamic tyranny. Kingdoms would be founded and lost, and both sides would furnish enduring examples of both chivalry and barbarism. The course invokes history, religious studies, art, film, and other disciplines to inquire into the antecedents, conduct and outcome of a conflict whose results have powerful effects in the present day politically, economically and conceptually. The Civil War - Of all wars in United States history, the Civil War was the most disruptive, the most destructive of life and property, and most enduring in its material, sociological and psychological effects. The course focuses on the psychology of individual and collective military action, and examines the literary, artistic and historiographic legacy of the conflict. The Great War - The First World War brought the United States decisively into prominent participation in world affairs, and the whole planet was forced to contemplate conflict and destruction on a scale never before seen. Individual and national participation required a rethinking of the uses of military force. This course focuses on the psychology of individual and collective military action, and examines the literary, artistic and historiographic legacy of the conflict. World War II - Hitler. Stalin. Hirohito. FDR. Mussolini. Churchill. Fascism, communism, capitalism, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere…World War Two was a clash of arms, ideology, and economic systems that led to over sixty million military and civilian deaths, and transformed the world. This course focuses on the psychology of individual and collective military action, and examines the literary, artistic and historiographic legacy of the conflict. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 370 - Economic Growth and Political Instability This course exposes students to some economic and political policies that countries can utilize to promote economic growth. The economic aspects of growth consist mainly of changes in per capita ADP largely from changes in employment, capital, and technology. The political science aspect of the course makes forays into such institutional political structures as democracy and non-democratic arrangements that inform political stability and corruption, and how they intersect with economic variables that promote growth. Students prepare a written work that integrates conceptions related to growth performance from models drawn from political science and economics. The final five weeks of the course review the political and economic discussions that impact the growth process. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 371 - Arrest the Music! Music and Political Protest An interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between music and political protest in the regions of Africa, China, Latin America and the US (for example). We use the methodologies of musicology, which investigate connections between musical style and culture, political science and history, to examine the role that music has played in the protest movements of selected countries within chosen regions. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 372 - Communication and the Face An interdisciplinary course that addresses the importance of the human face to communication, both verbal and nonverbal. The goal of the course is to examine the role of the face in human communication through an analysis of the anatomy and physiology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and cultural aspects of the face. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 373 - Stress in America An examination of the psychophysiology of the stress response and sources of stress in American culture. The sometimes conflicting contributions of various disciplines such as physiology, public policy, psychology, education, and sociology to the study of stress are reviewed and assessed. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 374 - The Parenting Process Deciding to have children is a life-changing decision affecting many aspects of life. This course explores parenting from the initial attempt of getting pregnant to raising the children utilizing the viewpoints of health science, biology, finance, religion, psychology, and philosophy. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 375 - Weird Science A study of the fringes of science which highlights the role of criticism in attaining reliable knowledge. The course surveys claims made on behalf of creationism, parapsychology and UFOlogy, together with mainstream scientific responses. In the process, students explore questions about the nature and boundaries of science. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 376 - Women’s Health This course integrates biomedical perspectives on topics relevant to women’s health with sociohistorical perspectives on the construction of clinical knowledge. Participants explore critical analyses of global health disparities associated with gender, race, class, disability, and sexual orientation. Participants also expand their knowledge and appreciation of culturally diverse concepts of health and gender. Topics may include, but are not limited to, cardiovascular health, violence against women, childbearing, body image, sexual expression, breast health, variations in the menstrual cycle, fertility control, and mental health. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 377 - Serial Killers and Psychopaths This course utilizes knowledge from several different disciplines to investigate the motivation, background, and prompting factors that contribute to the development of a psychopathic personality, sexual sadism, and the serial killer phenomenon. It involves case studies, lectures, and research on both well-known and unfamiliar serial killers. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 378 - Visual Music: From Mimesis to Abstraction Through readings, listening assignments, analysis of images, discussion and writing, this course examines explicit relationships between music and visual art. Beginning with Plato’s characterization of the arts as mimesis or representation of hypothesized realities, extending to Wagner’s conception of Gesamtkunstwerk (“total work of art”), as well as to painter Kandinsky’s obsession with synesthesia or “colors of sound,” the course concludes with an overview of contemporary artworks - some digital - inspired by Kandinsky’s approach. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 379 - The Epic Tradition What is epic? What do we mean when we describe a story as an epic tale? What differentiates epic from other types of narrative? What is the secret of its enduring appeal? Who is the epic hero? Is he or she someone we should try to emulate? In “The Epic Tradition”, we examine epic stories of a variety of time periods and cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective. We examine the role of each epic within the community and society that engendered it, and consider what cultural significance modern epics in novel and movie format have for us today. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 380 - Roads to Dictatorship-Germany This JINS course explores the evolution of dictatorship in German culture by tracing the literary, artistic and societal influences that documented and often contributed to a nationalistic mentality receptive to absolute rule and social conformity. During the first half of the course, students examine (1) the Holy Roman Empire of Karl the Great (Charlemagne) and Frankish nation building- unjust seizure, compulsory conversion and educational reform as control mechanisms, and (2) the German empire of Friedrich Barbarossa and the rise of knightly- and crusading culture as an imperial ideology. During the second half, the despotic regimes of Friedrick the Great, Wilhelm II (the Second Reich), and Adolf Hitler (the Third Reich) reveal similar literary and social phenomena - the reverence for authority, conformity, all things military, and finally, an acceptance and cultivation of xenophobia. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 381 - Public Issues and Political Rhetoric What is a public issue? What role does political rhetoric play in defining (or obscuring) public issues? In particular, what role does campaign rhetoric play in consolidating or polarizing public opinion with respect to the issues people come to think of as important? This course addresses these questions by analyzing the rhetoric of politicians, the content of media coverage, and the political representation of several public issues of importance (as determined by consulting multiple media outlets, representing a variety of points of view). Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 382 - Cybernations and Cyberculture: The Computerized Society This course explores how computers have changed the world and the cultural, social, political, philosophical, and economic effects of technology on individuals, groups, and society. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 383 - Years of Change: 1968 (template course) Social-cultural change, like its analog in the natural world, is not always a linear process. Most of the important changes are relatively sudden, catastrophic, chaotic and wasteful. The status quo endures, while, unnoticed, pressures build, and the resulting tectonic event distorts or destroys institutions. Destabilized governments often react violently. A Machiavellian desire for order is opposed to the forces of change, and a sharp polarization creates new social geographies that may last for generations. 1968 was such a year. We explore the motivations of the major figures involved, their successes and failures, and the new social algorithm that emerged as expressed politically, in the literature and music of the time here in the U.S., and its surprising impact worldwide. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 384 - Drugs, Society, Crime, & Treatment: Interconnected Paths & Theories This course explores the numerous facets of illicit drug use and its connection to the criminal justice system and beyond. Foci of interest include the physiological effects of drug use and addictions, the etiology of drug use, the treatment of addiction, micro and macro societal impact of illicit drug use, the historical and contemporary legal reaction to drug use, the economic impact of legal intervention and the future options in terms of legal policy. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 385 - Controversial Issues in Children’s and Young Adult Literature This course provides students opportunities to think critically and interdisciplinarily about the role of the adult in relationship to works of children’s and young adult literature that are seen as controversial. Students in this course will use writing as a means of “visible thinking” in order to read and consider these issues as they affect children’s and/or young adult literature. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 When Offered: (spring only) NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This course is writing-enhanced.
	JINS 386 - Christmas: Culture, Consumerism, and Controversy This course aims to explore the Christmas holiday, and the events surrounding it, from a variety of perspectives. Few holidays have received the level of scholarly and literary treatment that Christmas has. Students approach the study of this pivotal holiday from the perspectives of the theologian, the historian, the sociologist, the economist, the public relations and marketing specialist, the human resources practitioner, the politician, and the anthropologist, among others. While acknowledging Christmas’ religious significance for many, students approach Christmas first and foremost as the cultural artifact that it is, attempting to better appreciate how it produces, maintains, and transforms aspects of society. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 387 - Reel Africa: (De)constructing History in Film This course examines the history and culture of Africa through the perspective of filmmakers. Using cinematography (the art and science of film photography) we trace the portrayals of major epochs and historical moments in Africa, from the 19th century to present, with emphasis on the communication process between the filmmaker and his or her audience. In particular, we pay special attention to the filmmakers’ interpretations of issues such as race, class, gender, ethnicity, and resistance and how they intersect with African history and culture. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 388 - Hunting in America This course explores the nature and identity of hunting in America from the Colonial Period to the present day. Students engage in this exploration by examining hunting-related works - written and visual - and pivotal points in the evolution of American conservation that grow from the efforts of hunters. Special emphasis is given to evolving positions on nature and wildlife held by American hunters and the significant role of hunters in conservation. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 389 - Influence of the Gene This junior interdisciplinary seminar explores the influence that the concept of the gene and the field of Genetics in general have had on society. The seminar begins by exploring the literature regarding the definition of the gene from pre-Mendelian thought to our modern molecular understanding. The seminar reviews the early roots of genetics as a sub-discipline of biology and how the practical application of plant and animal breeding in the context of the newly conceived genetic principles lead to positive and negative eugenic practices. The seminar explores the historical and contemporary view of the interrelationship between the gene, environment and phenotype. Lastly, the seminar focuses on the more subtle examples of biological determinism that have been pervasive in societies (e.g., cultural practices, literature and mass media), and discuss how these stereotypes can and have influenced human thought including prejudice, racism, ideology and individual and collective world views. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 When Offered: (fall, odd years) NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 390 - Prisoner Reentry: Policy and Procedure This course focuses on issues surrounding the methods used to prepare inmates for their return to society. Major emphasis is placed on understanding the difference between incarceration and rehabilitative corrections, economic factors that affect prison programming and the prisoner’s experience, issues created by prison overcrowding, and the initiatives used to prepare prisoners for release. Students use current research to critically evaluate and analyze the relationships between the correctional agency, community, and individual prisoners. Prerequisite: Junior status. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 391 - Contentious Politics and the Collective Experience This course looks at contentious politics and social movements in the United States and other regions of the world. We will begin by looking at contentious politics from a political science perspective, allowing for a social scientific understanding of this phenomenon. In addition to a political science approach, historical and economic lenses will be used to investigate several specific protest movements. Culture influences protest and vice versa, and the course will also investigate connections to literature, film, music, art, and digital media in these specific protest movements. Prerequisite: Junior Status Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 392 - Nature and Human Nature Nature and human nature examines the complex relationships between humans and the natural world - across historical time and from several disciplinary entry points – while guiding students towards greater familiarity and identification with the natural world around them. How has “Nature” shaped us? How has Homo sapiens influenced “Nature”? Our relationships with the non-human world will be examined objectively through selected readings, lectures, and writing assignments, as well as subjectively, through group discussions, journaling, creative writing, and direct outdoor experiences. The course tends to provide a structured opportunity for students to engage meaningfully with the natural world while exploring the scientific, esthetic and philosophical implications of doing so. Prerequisite: Junior Status Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This course is writing-enhanced.
	JINS 393 - Historic Trials This course studies historic American trials and legal cases, from the Colonial Era to the present. the cases selected are chosen in part due to their intrinsic interest and drama, but also due to their historical significance, to illustrate the historical development of legal and constitutional doctrines, and to demonstrate the relevance of other areas of knowledge to the law. Prerequisite: Junior standing Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 394 - Biography: (template course) An interdisciplinary examination of a single historical or contemporary figure (or in special cases, of groups of people whose stories provide a subset of the biographical genre; see Slave Narratives below). While any human life is amenable to such an examination, the lives of historically significant figures bring a variety of methodologies into the class. Students will use two (or more) disciplinary lenses or practices to come to grips with the life of an individual and the context in which she or he lived it. In addition to the various interdisciplinary topics that may naturally be associated with any person’s life, biography itself will be a topic self-consciously considered by each iteration of this template. These interdisciplinary practices will be brought to bear in composing a major written project, in any of a number of genres of writing, on the scale of a term paper, related to the course’s specific subject. Thus, while traditional academic research will be engaged in, so too–depending upon the skills and interests of the instructors–might creative nonfiction and/or biography as such. Possible topics include: Leonardo, Rev. DeLaine Prerequisite: Junior Status Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-hour Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 395 - Connectivity and the Unsustainable: A Food System in Crisis This interdisciplinary seminar will examine the food system as it is most commonly carried out in the developed world, with particular emphasis upon the United States. Several contemporary crises have led researchers from a wide variety of academic disciplines to question, criticize and challenge our dominant systems of producing, accessing and consuming food. From the rise in chronic, debilitating diseases such as diabetes and heart disease to the dramatic surge in antibiotic resistant pathogens; from public discoveries of cruel and illegal practices widespread in industrial animal production to increasing awareness of alternative models for food production; and from wider understandings of the ways that class and race determine who lives and eats healthily to the implication of industrial agriculture’s contribution to global warming, this course will engage topics that raise heated and often bitter debate. The goal of the course is to examine the primary evidence in each case, though the disciplinary lenses of medicine, dietetics, agricultural science, animal ethology, philosophy, political science and climate science. Students will be asked to engage with what “counts” as evidence in several different fields, and to evaluate the public debates on the basis of that evidence. Prerequisite: Junior Status Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JINS 396 - The Languages of Speculative Fiction Language and communication have long been central concerns in works of science fiction and fantasy. this interdisciplinary class examines classics, modern examples, and some little-known works of speculative fiction (both written and filmed), using and integrating the lenses of aesthetic analysis and linguistic analysis, and extending into some issues from the philosophy of language, to explore how a given created language reflects the culture and society of the people (or non-humanoid species) that uses it, and how the created language contributes to the success of the fictional work as a whole. Credits: 3 NOTE: * This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Liberal Studies Program. This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement. * This is a writing-enhanced course.
	JUST 205 - Introduction to Justice Systems This course is an introduction to the various components of the justice system. It introduces the student to the law enforcement and police system, the court system, the correctional and rehabilitative system, as well as the juvenile justice system. Enrollment priority given to freshmen and sophomores. Credits: 3

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ITAL 326 - Topics in Italian Culture

JAPN 101 - Elementary Japanese I

JAPN 102 - Elementary Japanese II

JAPN 201 - Intermediate Japanese I

JAPN 202 - Intermediate Japanese II

JAPN 301 - Advanced Japanese I

JAPN 302 - Advanced Japanese II

JAPN 325 - Japanese Culture

JAPN 340 - Topics in Japanese

JAPN 401 - Fourth Year Japanese I

JINS 300 - Cultural Crossroads (template course)

JINS 301 - Music in Religious Thought and Practice

JINS 302 - Wilderness Leadership

JINS 303 - Computers and Natural Language

JINS 304 - Native American Conflict

JINS 305 - Issues in Democratic Institutions

JINS 306 - The Rock Generation

JINS 307 - Friendship

JINS 309 - Decision Making Seminar

JINS 311 - Race, Class, and Gender

JINS 312 - American Social Character

JINS 314 - Economics of Gender

JINS 315 - Nuclear Weaponry

JINS 316 - Portrayals of Women (template course)

JINS 317 - Women’s Movement in Intercultural Perspective: The U.S. and South Africa

JINS 318 - Classical Athenian Humanism

JINS 319 - Human and Computer Cognition

JINS 320 - Development of the Book

JINS 321 - Leadership Analysis

JINS 322 - Architecture: Forms and Structures

JINS 323 - Dress and Self Image

JINS 324 - Contexts of Disability

JINS 325 - Rural America

JINS 326 - On Human Nature

JINS 327 - Illuminations

JINS 329 - Language and Meaning

JINS 330 - Environmental Economics: Issues and Policies

JINS 331 - The Chemistry of Art

JINS 332 - Death and Dying

JINS 333 - Conflict, Cooperation, and Choice

JINS 334 - Geometry of the Universe

JINS 335 - Ecology versus Land Use

JINS 336 - The Environment (template course)

JINS 337 - Musical Theatre

JINS 338 - Race and Ethnicity (template course)

JINS 339 - Gender and Culture (template course)

JINS 340 - German-Jewish Identities

JINS 341 - Sport and Society (template course)

JINS 342 - The Indo-Europeans

JINS 343 - The Horse in Art, Science, and History

JINS 345 - From Page to Stage and Screen (template course)

JINS 346 - Varieties of Non-Violence (template course)

JINS 347 - Religion, Health, and Healing

JINS 348 - The Visual World: Color and Symmetry

JINS 349 - Bodylore/Brainlore: Thinking with the Body

JINS 350 - Science and Society (template course)

JINS 351 - The Faust Tradition

JINS 352 - Why You’re Wrong (template course)

JINS 353 - Ethical Implications of the Human Genome Project

JINS 354 - Insects, Disease, and Human Affairs

JINS 355 - Creativity in Arts and Sciences

JINS 356 - The Art and Science of Humor

JINS 357 - Bayou Blues: French Music in Louisiana

JINS 358 - Textiles as Cultural Documents: Hanging by a Thread

JINS 359 - Exploration into the Origin of Life

JINS 360 - Amish History and Culture

JINS 362 - Extraterrestrial Life

JINS 363 - Class in America

JINS 364 - The Aesthetics of Food

JINS 366 - Potent Potables: A Reflection on America

JINS 368 - Women and Science

JINS 369 - Why We Fight (template course)

JINS 370 - Economic Growth and Political Instability

JINS 371 - Arrest the Music! Music and Political Protest

JINS 372 - Communication and the Face

JINS 373 - Stress in America

JINS 374 - The Parenting Process

JINS 375 - Weird Science

JINS 376 - Women’s Health