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Special Courses

Pitt-Greensburg offers a variety of special courses that students may use to enhance their educational experience. The special courses include independent studies, internships, excellence courses, study abroad courses, and capstone courses. Most of the special courses are optional, but for some majors (e.g. criminal justice) an internship is required, and the capstone course is required of all majors.

An independent study allows a student to explore a topic for which no course is available at Pitt-Greensburg or extend the exploration of a topic begun in a regular course. To arrange for an independent study, a student must find a faculty sponsor and work with the sponsor to develop a course plan. Independent study courses are available in every department. See an advisor for more details.

Internships allow students to earn credits toward graduation while gaining on-the-job experience in their majors. An internship is required in some majors (e.g. criminal justice and the journalism track in English writing), but it is available as an elective in most majors. Students are expected to find their own internship opportunities, but faculty advisors and the Office of Career Services may be aware of employers looking for interns and can provide suggestions about seeking an internship. Some departments ask students to complete an internship application. See a faculty advisor for more information.

Pitt-Greensburg students have an opportunity to study abroad in a country/region of their choice. Academic credits are earned while abroad and will transfer directly back into the student’s academic degree requirements. See the study abroad coordinator for more information.

As part of the new Pitt-Greensburg curriculum that took effect in fall 1999, every Pitt-Greensburg student must complete a senior seminar or a senior project as a capstone to the work in the major program. The faculty views the capstone course as a significant enhancement to the UPG degree program because it provides students with the opportunity to bring together the themes and skills of the major. Capstone work typically involves research and both written and oral reports.

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German
	GER 0043 - ELEMENTARY GERMAN 3 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Third of three courses designed to develop skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing in German. A systematic presentation of grammar will accompany language instruction. Understanding of German culture is emphasized as part of language skill. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: GER 0042 with grade of C or better
	GER 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 5 A course designed for students who wish to work independently on individually designed projects. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Independent Study Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	GER 1902 - DIRECTED STUDY Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 15 A course for students who wish to work on individually designed projects under the supervision of a faculty member. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Directed Studies Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Healthcare Management
	HCM 0100 - INTRODUCTION TO HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course offers an overview of the evolution of the health care industry’s components and describes the technical, economic, political, and social forces that shaped their development. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	HCM 0200 - HEALTHCARE ISSUES AND CONCEPTS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will provide a current and comprehensive overview of the basic structures and operations of the U.S. Health System. It will explore the historical developments that have shaped the U.S. health care delivery system including the concepts of health and disease and the role of health promotion and disease prevention leading to new trends in how care is delivered and the prospects of the new health care reform efforts. This course will also explore the evolution of healthcare financing and its impact on managed care development, healthcare professional shortages, medical technology and the delivery of inpatient, outpatient and long-term care services. This course will also explore how Health Policy impacts the health and wellness of all populations and the future of healthcare delivery in America. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	HCM 0210 - HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
	HCM 0220 - HEALTHCARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
	HCM 0230 - HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
	HCM 0240 - GERIATRIC AND LONG-TERM CARE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will provide updated knowledge and skills to prepare the next generation of Long-Term (LTC) Administrators. This course will explore how to adapt an existing facility to the growing demands of culture change; details the organization and delivery of services; and furnishes the essential skills necessary to manage all aspects of LTC Administration. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	HCM 1100 - MANAGEMENT, DESIGN, AND OPTIMIZATION OF HEALTHCARE PROCESSES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The course will provide students with knowledge of operations management in health care and the background on flow process improvement in healthcare, health provider productivity and benchmarking overview, project management, and lean management, and six sigma tools for healthcare organizations. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Requirements: LVL: Junior
	HCM 1110 - HEALTHCARE POLICY, LAW AND ETHICS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course provides the student with an understanding of how the law and ethics intertwine as related to healthcare dilemmas. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	HCM 1120 - MANAGED CARE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course provides the student with a broad and sufficiently detailed overview of the key elements of health insurance and managed health care. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	HCM 1130 - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course provides the student with an overview of the rules, regulations, policies and procedures that reflect the current healthcare financial field. Information is provided in the format of a common financial reporting period, a year. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	HCM 1950 - SENIOR PROJECT/HEALTHCARE INTERNSHIP Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 3 To be a successful healthcare management professional, one needs to practice. This course is designed for students to review healthcare management information learned, analyze that information in a different context and learn new relevant information. This course allows the student to take either the 1-3 credit Healthcare Internship or the 3-credit Senior Project Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
History
	HIST 0100 - WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The study of others leads back to ourselves. We learn about men and women from the past in order to compare their experience to our own, hoping that the comparison will make us more aware of the opportunities and limitations of present-day life. As an introduction to history, this course tries to suggest the excitement and uncertainties of studying the past. We begin at the time of the crusades, and continue through Renaissance and Reformation to the eve of Industrial Revolution. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 0101 - WESTERN CIVILIZATION 2 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A history of the West from the Industrial Revolution to the late Twentieth Century, the period when Europe and its overseas extensions dominated world history. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 0125 - RELIGIONS OF THE WEST Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is a historical introduction to the religious traditions that developed in ancient Near East and the Mediterranean. Our major emphasis is on the history of the religious traditions that emerged in late antiquity in this area and which continue to be major world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will also touch on Zoroastrianism. We focus on key concepts, historical developments, and contemporary issues. Throughout the course, we also examine interactions among these religious traditions. In the last part of the course we examine the issue of globalization and the spread of these religions around the world as well as the presence of “non-Western” religion in the “West.” The course also serves as an introduction to the academic study of religion and provides a foundation for further coursework in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. No prior knowledge of any of the religions studied is expected or assumed. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 0180 - 19TH CENTURY EUROPE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Through textbook and lecture, the students will become familiar with the major political developments that took place in Europe between the French Revolution and World War I. Original source material will be used to acquaint the students with social roles and attitudes during the period. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HIST 0187 - WORLD WAR II-EUROPE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The causes of WW II are surveyed, including World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Great Depression, and the rise of fascist regimes. The determinants of German expansionism will be discussed and related to the outbreak of war in 1939. The military struggle receives attention, but such topics as economic mobilization, propaganda, occupation policies, resistance movements and the Holocaust are also discussed. The course concludes with an analysis of war time diplomacy, the Postwar settlement, and the onset of the Cold War. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 0302 - SOVIET RUSSIA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the history of the USSR from 1917 to the present. Particular attention is paid to the revolutionary transformation of society, the construction of the Soviet state and Soviet society, and to the ways in which state and society relate. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 0500 - COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the material history of Latin America during the period of Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Rule, from 1500 to 1825. In it, we will examine the interplay between material conditions (climate, natural resources, flora and fauna, and geographic features) and material culture (built space, technology, commodities, agriculture, as well as cultural products), asking how they shaped human action. Weekly case studies-ranging from pre-contact indigenous agriculture, through the role of technology in the success of Spanish conquistadors, to the impact horses on the Spanish frontier-prompt students to engage with the lived experience of a broad range of people living in pre-independence Latin America. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, Latin American Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 0501 - MODERN LATIN AMERICA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 History of the Latin American republics from independence, in 1825, to the present. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Latin American Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 0575 - HISTORY OF MODERN CENTRAL AMERICA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will cover the history of Central America from conquest to the present day. Emphasis will be on the social and economic development of indigenous peoples, national identity and human rights in the 19th and 20th centuries. The course will also study the history of the influence of the US on the region; with stress on the history of social movements, revolution, tenuous peace agreements, globalization and the continuation of social unrest still present in Central America today. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HIST 0600 - UNITED STATES TO 1877 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is an introductory, lower division, course that develops the history of United States from the 1400s through the 1880s. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 0601 - UNITED STATES 1865-PRESENT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 An introduction to American history from the Civil War to the present which emphasizes selected topics on changes in American society and politics as an earlier agrarian society became an industrial-urban one and as the nation took up an ever larger role in world affairs. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 0640 - AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A survey of the American military experience from the early colonial period to the most recent experiences in the Gulf War and Afghanistan. The course explores the impact of warfare and military forces in the development of the United States. Emphasis is placed on the context of American warfare and how it has influenced our history and way of life. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 0675 - WITCHES TO WALDEN POND Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A survey of American religious history from the colonial period through the civil war. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 0700 - WORLD HISTORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is an introductory survey of world history, by which is meant an overview of major processes and interactions in the development of human society since the development of agriculture some 10,000 years ago. It is a selective overview, emphasizing large-scale patterns and connections in political, social, cultural, technological, and environmental history, yet it also provides balance among regions of the world. It encourages students to apply historical techniques to issues of their own interest. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 0710 - WORLD HISTORY TO 1500 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is an introduction to the global history of humanity from its beginnings to about the year 1500, emphasizing common trends across regions and cultures. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 0711 - WORLD HISTORY 1500 TO THE PRESENT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is an introduction to the last five centuries of human history: the rise of the Western powers, continuity and change elsewhere in the world, and the emergence of modernity. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 0756 - INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course aims to introduce students to Islamic and Middle Eastern History from the time of the Prophet (ca. 600 C.E.) to the Iranian Revolution in 1979. We will proceed chronologically, focusing mainly on political events. However, a special emphasis will be given to the formation of the Islamic tradition, its evolution across different regions and cultures in time, and its interaction with other traditions. In the modern era, we will particularly explore the Islamic societies’ political, cultural, and military encounter with the rising power of the West in the Middle East. In addition to the several historical processes and developments such as modernization, nation-building, Islamic fundamentalism and globalization, which have shaped the history of the Middle East in the last two centuries, our class discussions will also touch on the main theoretical perspectives that have stamped the studies of Islam and the Middle East. Here, concepts such as orientalism, defensive development, and modernity will constitute our main focus. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 0810 - ENGLAND SINCE 1689 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Surveys the development of English social, political, economic and cultural history to the present. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
	HIST 1005 - SPECIAL TOPICS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course entails the exploration of a special topic chosen by the instructor. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Directed Studies Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
	HIST 1007 - SPECIAL TOPICS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course entails the exploration of a special topic chosen by the instructor. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Directed Studies Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1010 - HISTORICAL INQUIRY AND METHODS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course introduces students to the historian’s craft. Students will learn the nature of historical knowledge, how to locate, document, and interpret a diverse array of historical evidence, and how to produce a research proposal using primary and secondary sources. It emphasizes that history is both a social science and an interpretive art. Accordingly, it will expose students to recent interdisciplinary trends in historical methodology and historical schools of thought and debate. The primary aim of this course is to instruct prospective and actual history majors in what it means to think, write, and verbally communicate like a historian. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL; Junior or Seniors only
	HIST 1031 - A HISTORY OF CURRENT EVENTS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is designed to open students’ eyes to the often misunderstood fact that we do not study history for history’s sake, but to better understand the present. The course will be offered with varying themes, each time zooming in on one important present-day issue. Students will have the opportunity to explore topics that have been making the national and international headlines by engaging with the oftentimes complex historical developments that led to the current situation. They will leave the course with a better understanding of both the past and the present. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HIST 1035 - 20TH-CENTURY WORLD Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A history of the world between the years 1900 and 2000. Takes a broad, global approach to the political, social, and cultural developments that characterize the twentieth century. The course covers developments in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, and emphasizes the ideological systems that motivated many of the great conflicts of the century. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HIST 1075 - SLAVERY IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Examines slavery in the Americas from the Atlantic perspective (including Africa and Europe) from the fifteenth century through the present, with special emphasis on slave trades, the plantation systems, daily life, slavery and race, resistance, and abolition. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL; Junior
	HIST 1087 - WORLD WAR 2 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Examines the Second World War as a global phenomenon, including the Eastern and Western fronts in Europe, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Pacific War. Covers the origins of conflict in the various theaters, the course of the war, and its consequences. While some attention is given to military strategy, emphasis is also placed on the social and political dimensions of the conflict. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: SOPHOMORE
	HIST 1090 - HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Provides an overview of the social history of medicine from prehistory to the present. Focuses on the emergence of medical institutions, education, theories, practices and the Orthodox and irregular medical sects. Describes the growth of the separate health disciplines of nursing, pharmacy and public health. Examines the impact of socioeconomic factors, religions and war on the evolution of medical science. Discusses the changing roles of government in the development of the American health care system. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
	HIST 1104 - THE CRUSADES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 An examination of the crusades from both Christian and Muslim perspectives. Emphasizes crusading in and around the holy land, but also gives some attention to crusades within Europe. Considers political, social, and religious contexts in both Latin Europe and the Islamic Middle East. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: Sophomore
	HIST 1123 - MODERN BRITAIN Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Political, economic and social change in Britain from the early 18th century to the present are examined in depth. Topics include the pre-industrial social structure, the origins of political stability, the making of the Industrial Revolution, popular protest and political reform, Britain’s supremacy during the Victorian era, imperialism and the rise of labor, the impact of total war, and the emergence of the welfare state. A discussion of Britain’s future prospects concludes the course. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1140 - HISTORY AND CULTURE OF SPAIN Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will survey the history and culture of Spain from medieval times to the present. Emphasis will be placed on Spanish geography, the interaction between the different cultures that lived in Spain, as well as Spanish art, architecture, and literature. The highlights of the course include the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire, the Spanish Civil War, Spain under Franco, Redemocratization and Modern Spain in the 21st century. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HIST 1197 - BLACK DEATH: PLAGUE AND HISTORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The Black Death, the great epidemic of 1347-1350’s was the most profound epidemiological-ecological crisis Europe had ever experienced. Between 30 and 70% of the population of the western world vanished. In the wake of this demographic disaster economic, psychological, social, literary and even artistic processes were profoundly altered. This epidemic can be traced through extensive primary sources ranging from literature to art history - from population statistics through village desertions. This course will introduce these data and examine the consequences of the Black Death. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: SOPHOMORE
	HIST 1222 - NARCOS AND JUSTICE: THE FAILED DRUG WARS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the history of narco trafficking and the justice systems in both Latin America and the United States from the 1960s to the present. The course emphasizes how different Latin American countries and the United States responded and continue to respond to the proliferation of the illicit drug trade and its consequences, including the increase in violence and criminal activity. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HIST 1313 - HISTORY OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the origins, contours, and dynamics of the Russian Revolution of 1917, as well, as the period 1918-1921 during which the new Soviet State fought for its survival. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1314 - USSR 1918-1932 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the first 15 years of Soviet rule during which the fate of the Revolution of 1917 was determined. The Civil War, new economic policy, collectivization of agriculture, five-year plan, and cultural revolution receive concentrated attention. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1315 - STALIN Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the USSR during Stalin’s reign, 1929-53. Each facet of his reign—industrial development, collectivization, class war, and repression—receive detailed attention as does WWII and the Cold War. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1367 - 20TH CENTURY EUROPE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Explores the most significant and dramatic episodes of contemporary history, both political and intellectual, including World Wars I and II, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, inflation, depression, and the explosion of cultural modernism. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HIST 1400 - COLONIAL AMERICA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is an upper division course that develops the history of the North American English colonies from around 1400 through the early 1760s. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
	HIST 1423 - MODERN CHINA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 China’s abandonment of its traditional political culture and its emergence in the Twentieth Century as a modern nation-state ruled by the Chinese communist party is the primary theme of this course, which will include lectures, readings, films, and classroom discussion. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 1522 - BRAZIL Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The course begins with an overview of Brazilian culture and of the country’s enormous resource base. Cultural change is traced through the pre-Columbian, colonial, imperial, and republican periods. A major theme throughout is the evolution of a Portuguese heritage into today’s distinctive Brazilian national culture. The country is then divided into five regions as a means of understanding its internal diversity. Popular American ideas about subjects like carnival, the Amazon Rainforest, coffee, Copacabana Beach, and the huge foreign debt are also dealt with. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 1525 - MEXICO, AZTECS TO THE PRESENT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Mexican history from the Aztecs to the present. We will discuss the conquest, the Colonial Era, the struggle for independence, nineteenth-century liberalism, the porfirian dictatorship, the Twentieth-Century Revolution, the formation of a single party state, the temptations of socialism, the oil boom, the debt crisis, and the “crisis of the system” now being experienced by Mexico. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 1560 - WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A course tracing the history of women in Latin America from the conquest to the modern day. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 1580 - 19TH CENTURY LATIN AMERICA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course discusses the major political, economic, social and ideological developments of the Latin American world from the Independence Wars (1810-1825) to the first decade of the Twentieth Century. Emphasis will be placed on the similarities and differences among the newly emerging nations as they sought to find individual and recognizable status in the industrialized Western world. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HIST 1583 - 20THC LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A comparative examination of instances of social and political revolution in 20th Century Latin American history. Cases considered include the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917), the Bolivian Revolution (1952), the Cuban Revolution (1959), and the Nicaraguan Revolution (1979). Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HIST 1585 - US-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A survey of US-Latin American from 1800 to the present. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HIST 1586 - LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A comparative examination of instances of social and political revolution in Latin American history. Cases considered include the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917), the Bolivian Revolution (1952), the Cuban Revolution (1959). Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1610 - UNITED STATES COLONIAL Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is an upper division course that develops the history of the North American English colonies from around 1400 through the early 1760s. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 1611 - AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1763-1791 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is an upper division course that considers the history of Revolutionary America between the 1750s and the 1790s. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 1612 - UNITED STATES 1789-1840 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A history of ideas — social, literary, scientific, political — that expressed and shaped the culture. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1614 - CIVIL WAR HISTORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is an upper division course that considers the impact of the Civil War upon the development of the United States. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1615 - THE UNITED STATES DURING THE GILDED AGE & PROGRESSIVE ERA (1875-1920) Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will cover the technological, demographic, and ideological sources and character of economic growth during the gilded age (1875-1900) as well as the social and economic problems that American society experienced during the period. In addition, the course will focus on the attempts of reformers to rectify the nation’s social and economic problems during the progressive era (1900-1920). Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1616 - ANTEBELLUM AMERICA: FROM THE 1790S TO THE WAR WITH MEXICO Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is a course in the history of the United States from the late 1780s through the late 1840s. It will focus on the processes involved in the evolution of the United States from a pre-industrial, relatively traditional society into a more modern, industrializing nation. We will consider topics involving commercial, manufacturing, agricultural and demographic development, changes in gender, social-economic and racial relationships, the creation of partisan politics and an analysis of American expansion. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HIST 1619 - UNITED STATES SINCE 1945 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Social, economic, and political changes in American society since World War II. Topics include the post-industrial economy, urbanization, women, minorities, education, political movements, government, parties, and political participation. Emphasis is on the massive changes during those years and the impact on people, institutions and government. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 1620 - THE VIETNAM WAR Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is designed to acquaint the student with American involvement in Southeast Asia, in particular with the second Indochina War. Some attempt will be made to provide a background of Vietnamese historical and cultural perspective. The major portion of the course will focus on American policy, at home and abroad, and the manner in which five American presidents tried to deal with the “Indochina problem”. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HIST 1625 - HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the settlement and development of frontier regions across the continent, emphasizing 19th century experiences. Diverse and distinctive frontier societies emerged from the processes associated with land acquisition, exploration, Indian relations, Westward migration, economic development, social organization, governance, and urbanization. The different and conflicting interpretations of the frontier experience raise important questions and perspectives about the character of American society. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1645 - AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The course presents a survey of the strategic factors in the economic development of the United States from colonial times to the great depression. The topics covered include the record of economic growth, the process industrialization and its major phases, British mercantilism, the role of technological change, demographic history, the slave economy, distribution of income, urbanization, and the financial sector. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 1655 - AMERICAN WORKERS 19TH CENTURY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines American working class formation, development, and recomposition during the nineteenth century, and workers’ impact on American economic, political, and cultural development. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1656 - AMERICAN WORKERS 20TH CENTURY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the experiences of American workers during the second Industrial Revolution of the early Twentieth Century, the emergence of a government-sponsored national system of labor relations in the 1930s and 1940s, the structural changes in the economy and labor force since 1950, and the subsequent breakdown of the new deal formula for class relations. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., Urban Studies
	HIST 1660 - GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE US TO 1865 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This upper-level course is part of a two-course sequence which surveys the history of women in the United States. Part 1 focuses on women’s experiences from the 1600s to the 1880s with special attention to class, ethnic, and geographic differences among women. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1661 - GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE US SINCE 1865 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This upper-level course is part of a two-course sequence which surveys the history of women in the United States. Part 2 focuses on women’s experiences from 1865 to the present with special attention to class, ethnic, and geographic differences among women. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1668 - HISTORY OF PITTSBURGH Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the development of Pittsburgh’s life and landscape from its frontier origins in the 18th century to its Renaissance of the mid-20th century. The city and its region are addressed as a case study in American social history and urbanization. Pittsburgh offers the opportunity to examine the transformation from a commercial city to an industrial metropolis with the attendant social, political, labor, and redevelopment issues which characterize American urban life. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1715 - EMPIRES IN THE MODERN WORLD Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Through lecture and discussion, this course reviews empires in world historical context. Themes of governance, economy, war, culture, social organization, and colonies and decolonization are explored in three segments: empires 1400-1800, 1800-2000, and the future of empire. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	HIST 1730 - THE MONGOLS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Explores the political and social histories of the Mongol Empire and its successor states across Eurasia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and considers their larger world historical context. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: Sophomore
	HIST 1745 - SPECIAL TOPICS - STUDY ABROAD Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 3 The study of special topics related to a study abroad experience. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Directed Studies Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1753 - THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (1300-1923) Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course traces the history of the Ottoman Empire from its origins as an obscure band of frontier warriors, to the highpoint of its geopolitical power in the sixteenth century, and on to its further evolution as an increasingly complex and peaceful society, down to the opening of the period of European imperialism and nation building. It will address not only the Ottomans’ political power, but also those economic, social, and cultural factors that helped explain that power and gave the empire such a distinctive place in the history of Western Europe, Balkans and the Middle East. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: Sophomore Course Attributes: Russian & East European Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	HIST 1768 - CHRISTIANS MUSLIMS JEWS IN THE MIDDLE AGES: CONNECTION & CONFLICT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Was the world of Europe and the Middle East before the Enlightenment a period of unending religious conflict and intolerance? Were Jews the victims of severe persecution and violence everywhere during this period? Did Christians and Muslims engage in unceasing religious wars? The answer to all three of these questions is no. While the Middle Ages were a period of conflict and competition between the three major western religious groups, they were also a time of coexistence and cooperation. This class shifts from extreme dichotomies and simplistic stereotypes to deeply examine the period in all of its complexity: what were the theological, political, and legal contexts in which Christians, Muslims, and Jews interacted in both Christian Europe and the Muslim world? How did these deeply religious societies organize themselves to tolerate the religious “Other”? When and why did toleration break down and lead to expulsion, forced conversion, or violence? What kinds of cross-cultural exchanges and cooperation take place in economic, cultural, intellectual, and social life? We will also look at new ideas of toleration (and intolerance) that emerged at the end of the Middle Ages and examine aspects of inter-religious encounters and dialogues today. We will discuss not only the significance of Jewish-Christian-Muslim interactions in the Middle Ages but also assess these encounters as a case study in the broader history of religious diversity, pluralism, and conflict. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
	HIST 1775 - ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course presents a historical-critical investigation of Christian origins. Special attention is paid to varieties of 1st century Hellenistic and Palestinian Judaism within the Greco-Roman world. Primary readings include selected Biblical passages and apocrypha, 1st century historians and philosophers (Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Philo), the New Testament corpus (including Paul and the Pastorals), and selected readings from the Dead Sea Scrolls. In addition there will be assignments from various modern New Testament critics, historians, and theologians. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
	HIST 1793 - HISTORY OF IRAN Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Surveys the long history of Iran, also known as Persia, from ancient times to the present. Covers the Persian Empire of antiquity and traces the introduction of foreign cultures over the centuries - Greeks, Arabs, Turks, and Europeans to create the multifaceted society of Modern Iran. Classical culture and religious history are discussed, as are modern political developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: SOPHOMORE
	HIST 1900 - HISTORY INTERNSHIP Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 6 This course enables students to combine academic training and practical work experience related to the major. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Internship Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
	HIST 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 9 Individual project administered under the supervision of a faculty member. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Independent Study Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1947 - RISE OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the history of the National Security State in the United States, tracing its origins from the early 20th century with a particular focus on the rise and expansion at the federal level after WWII. Areas of focus will also include the increasing use of surveillance in the United States, including those by various federal and state agencies, corporations, organizations, and individuals. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: SOPHOMORE
	HIST 1955 - HISTORY CAPSTONE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is to be taken by majors in the senior year. It will presume a basic knowledge of historical information and technique. Utilizing a research seminar format, students will develop a substantial group or individual research project. Following discussion and revision, they will complete this research project. The project will be presented to the seminar in both written and oral form. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1969 - STUDY ABROAD CONFLICT & PEACEBUILDING IN IRELAND & NORTHERN IRELAND Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 1 This course explores the sources and development of conflict and subsequent peace-building in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The focus is on the development of the Irish state, the rise of conflict during the Troubles in Northern Ireland between the 1960s and 1990s, and finally the establishment of a peace process and system of governance from the 1990s to present. The course includes a one week study abroad component in Ireland and Northern Ireland during Spring Break. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Directed Studies Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HIST 1970 - UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT EXPERIENCE Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 3 This course involves student participation as an undergraduate teaching assistant (UTA) for a history course under the supervision of a faculty member. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
History of Art and Architecture
	HAA 0010 - INTRODUCTION TO WORLD ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the question `what is art through a close analysis of select art works from around the globe, introducing students to the types of questions art historians bring to the images, objects and sites human beings have taken particular care to craft and conceptualize. What role has art played in a diverse range of human cultures across time? Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
	HAA 0030 - INTRODUCTION TO MODERN ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The course will present a chronological survey of Western European, Russian, and American art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present (impressionism to post-modernism). In addition to charting the dramatic stylistic and conceptual changes in art during this time period, the course will consider the historical circumstances which caused a disintegration in accepted notions of what constituted a significant work of art. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
	HAA 0050 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A survey of the architecture, painting, sculpture and minor arts of the medieval world from ca. 300 To ca. 1450 With the emphasis on visual analysis of period styles. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HAA 0090 - INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the latest developments in contemporary art in the context of changes in world visual cultures since the 1960s. The first weeks will concentrate on the transformations of artistic practice that occurred initially in pop art, and on the minimal-conceptual shift in Western art. This will be followed by a survey of the diversification of artistic practice in the 1980s and 1990s, including the emergence of new internationalisms reflecting postcoloniality, global contemporary art and digital media. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	HAA 0150 - ANCIENT ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The Mediterranean Sea is a lake and its shores have produced many important cultures and artistic traditions. The course will survey the artistic and cultural traditions of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Aegean, from the Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 6000-1200 BCE), a formative period for the cultures that developed in these regions. Special attention will be paid to: 1) the relationship between the artistic traditions of these areas and the societies which produced them, and 2) the way in which influences from one culture were transformed by another. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
	HAA 0225 - MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course offers a survey of architecture, sculpture, painting and mosaics from the medieval period, dating from the 4th through the 13th centuries. The transformation of artistic styles during these 10 centuries used the stylistic foundations of the early Christian period as a point of departure, as medieval styles evolved into the Hiberno-Saxon Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque and gothic movements. Socio-economic developments and religious philosophies will also be examined from these periods. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HAA 0302 - RENAISSANCE ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 We will explore the arts - painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts - that flourished in Italy between 1250 and 1590. The renaissance is one of the great epochs of western culture; this course offers an introduction to the visual evidence that reveals the development of new attitudes about human life and its meaning. Emphasis will be on works of those revolutionary individuals who transformed the arts - Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Bellini, titian, and Palladio, to name only the most important. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
	HAA 0304 - VISUAL CULTURE AND GLOBAL IDENTITY IN FLORENCE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Florence, the regional capital of Tuscany, is located in central Italy and is considered by many the birthplace of the Renaissance. Florence lays claim to innovators of culture and science such as Dante, Giotto, Brunelleschi, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Galileo, and many more. Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century artist and biographer, attributes this confluence of talent to God’s divine will and grace, and affixes the identity of Florence with the Renaissance. Using the theoretical construct of semiotics, that is, the play of word and image relationships, students will examine the rich written and visual culture of Florence to formulate an understanding of Florentine identity. Trips to Siena and Pisa will provide contrasting examples of Tuscan identities. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	HAA 0306 - STUDY ABROAD: EXPLORING ART IN ITALY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Florence, the regional capital of Tuscany, is located in central Italy and is considered by many the birthplace of the Renaissance. This course will explore the art of the Renaissance highlighting innovators Giotto, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael with onsite lectures and visits in Florence, Rome, and Milan. Special attention will be given to the context of art and its relationships to its original location, and to the role and influence of humanism and Neoplatonism on the development of the style of the Renaissance. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Directed Studies Grade Component: Letter Grade
	HAA 0350 - BAROQUE ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will consider the careers of the major painters and sculptors of Italy (Caravaggio, the Carracci, Bernini, Cortona, Gaulli), Spain (Ribera, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Montanes, Murillo), France (G. De la Tour, P. De Champaigne, Poussin, Claude, le Brun, Puget), Flanders (Rubens, van Dyck, Jordaens) and Holland (Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Ruisdael) in the 17thC. It will also consider definitions of the term “baroque” in relation to the history of taste and later responses to 17thC artistic achievement. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
	HAA 0402 - WOMEN ARTISTS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will focus on women artists from the late renaissance, when they first emerged and achieved some success, to the present. The social context in which women artists functioned and the roles played by the most successful women of each century in opening opportunities for the succeeding generation will be considered. Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabetta Sirani, Judith Leyster, Rachel Ruysch, Rosalba Carriera, Angelica Kauffman, e\E. Vigee Lebrun, Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot and many 20thC women artists will be covered. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HAA 0501 - AMERICAN ART Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will introduce students to American painting, sculpture, and architecture, with an emphasis on painting, from the colonial period to the post-World War II era. Students will also learn the vocabulary of visual analysis and become familiar with the scope of art historical methodology. Students should leave the class with a broad understanding of the contexts in which American artists worked, a fund of information about artists and monuments of art in the American heritage, skills in visual analysis, and the capability to focus several types of critical questions. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	HAA 0810 - EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the development of experimental cinema beginning in Europe in the 1920s with dada and surrealist films by Marcel Duchamp, Luis Bunuel and others, and continuing in the U.S. and elsewhere after World War II. The films, many of which are non-narrative and some of which are “abstract”, will be examined for the ways in which cinema is used for the filmmakersâ?? personal expression. Consideration will be given to the artistic and cultural contexts in which the films were made, and comparisons will be made with other media, especially painting and sculpture. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
	HAA 1005 - ART AND FORENSIC ANALYSIS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 “Each work of art tells a story, “… The story of its making and meaning, of the material choices made by the artist, and of its survival more or less unharmed, through time. Object-based research can be used to establish the story line, and aided by scientific analysis, art historical and art technological source research, the plot may be revealed.” [University of Glasgow, website for technical art history] this course will examine the mysteries of works of art from the medieval and early modern periods, roughly CA. 1000-1800. How were they made? What materials and techniques were used? Does the work of art look how it did originally? Why, or why not? What do historic and modern methods of conservation and restoration reveal about the object? We will explore these questions through readings, videos, and hands-on examination of materials and conservation techniques. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore

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GER 0043 - ELEMENTARY GERMAN 3

GER 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

GER 1902 - DIRECTED STUDY

HCM 0100 - INTRODUCTION TO HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT

HCM 0200 - HEALTHCARE ISSUES AND CONCEPTS

HCM 0210 - HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS

HCM 0220 - HEALTHCARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT

HCM 0230 - HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

HCM 0240 - GERIATRIC AND LONG-TERM CARE

HCM 1100 - MANAGEMENT, DESIGN, AND OPTIMIZATION OF HEALTHCARE PROCESSES

HCM 1110 - HEALTHCARE POLICY, LAW AND ETHICS

HCM 1120 - MANAGED CARE

HCM 1130 - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE

HCM 1950 - SENIOR PROJECT/HEALTHCARE INTERNSHIP

HIST 0100 - WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1

HIST 0101 - WESTERN CIVILIZATION 2

HIST 0125 - RELIGIONS OF THE WEST

HIST 0180 - 19TH CENTURY EUROPE

HIST 0187 - WORLD WAR II-EUROPE

HIST 0302 - SOVIET RUSSIA

HIST 0500 - COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA

HIST 0501 - MODERN LATIN AMERICA

HIST 0575 - HISTORY OF MODERN CENTRAL AMERICA

HIST 0600 - UNITED STATES TO 1877

HIST 0601 - UNITED STATES 1865-PRESENT

HIST 0640 - AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY

HIST 0675 - WITCHES TO WALDEN POND

HIST 0700 - WORLD HISTORY

HIST 0710 - WORLD HISTORY TO 1500

HIST 0711 - WORLD HISTORY 1500 TO THE PRESENT

HIST 0756 - INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION

HIST 0810 - ENGLAND SINCE 1689

HIST 1005 - SPECIAL TOPICS

HIST 1007 - SPECIAL TOPICS

HIST 1010 - HISTORICAL INQUIRY AND METHODS

HIST 1031 - A HISTORY OF CURRENT EVENTS

HIST 1035 - 20TH-CENTURY WORLD

HIST 1075 - SLAVERY IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD

HIST 1087 - WORLD WAR 2

HIST 1090 - HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE

HIST 1104 - THE CRUSADES

HIST 1123 - MODERN BRITAIN

HIST 1140 - HISTORY AND CULTURE OF SPAIN

HIST 1197 - BLACK DEATH: PLAGUE AND HISTORY

HIST 1222 - NARCOS AND JUSTICE: THE FAILED DRUG WARS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES

HIST 1313 - HISTORY OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

HIST 1314 - USSR 1918-1932

HIST 1315 - STALIN

HIST 1367 - 20TH CENTURY EUROPE

HIST 1400 - COLONIAL AMERICA

HIST 1423 - MODERN CHINA

HIST 1522 - BRAZIL

HIST 1525 - MEXICO, AZTECS TO THE PRESENT

HIST 1560 - WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

HIST 1580 - 19TH CENTURY LATIN AMERICA

HIST 1583 - 20THC LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS

HIST 1585 - US-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS

HIST 1586 - LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS

HIST 1610 - UNITED STATES COLONIAL

HIST 1611 - AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1763-1791

HIST 1612 - UNITED STATES 1789-1840

HIST 1614 - CIVIL WAR HISTORY

HIST 1615 - THE UNITED STATES DURING THE GILDED AGE & PROGRESSIVE ERA (1875-1920)

HIST 1616 - ANTEBELLUM AMERICA: FROM THE 1790S TO THE WAR WITH MEXICO

HIST 1619 - UNITED STATES SINCE 1945

HIST 1620 - THE VIETNAM WAR

HIST 1625 - HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER

HIST 1645 - AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY

HIST 1655 - AMERICAN WORKERS 19TH CENTURY

HIST 1656 - AMERICAN WORKERS 20TH CENTURY

HIST 1660 - GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE US TO 1865

HIST 1661 - GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE US SINCE 1865

HIST 1668 - HISTORY OF PITTSBURGH

HIST 1715 - EMPIRES IN THE MODERN WORLD

HIST 1730 - THE MONGOLS

HIST 1745 - SPECIAL TOPICS - STUDY ABROAD

HIST 1753 - THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (1300-1923)