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University of Pittsburgh Greensburg    
2017-2018 Greensburg Campus Catalog 
    
 
  Jun 26, 2024
 
2017-2018 Greensburg Campus Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Course Information


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.

Departmental Course Listings

Please note, when searching courses by Catalog Number, an asterisk (*) can be used to return mass results. For instance a Catalog Number search of ” 1* ” can be entered, returning all 1000-level courses.

 

German

  
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    GER 0004 - INTERMEDIATE GERMAN 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Conducted entirely in German, this course enables students to describe in past, present, and future time, and to initiate and sustain a conversation. They discuss contemporary texts and topics, participate in small group activities, and strengthen their writing skills through journal writing.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: GER 0003 or 0211
  
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    GER 0011 - CONVERSATION 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is intended to assist novice level students to strengthen their communicative proficiency. Students learn to handle their needs adequately for travel in Germany or a German-speaking country. In order to encourage oral communication, there is extensive use of audio-visual teaching aids.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    GER 0012 - CONVERSATION 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Like its companion course, German 0011, this course emphasizes oral proficiency. The course enables students to converse in formal and informal situations, resolve problems, deal with unfamiliar topics, provide explanations, describe in detail, offer supported opinions, and hypothesize. Areas of context are practical, social, professional, and abstract topics, particular interests, and special fields of competence.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    GER 0021 - GERMAN READING 1


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    The objective of this course is to develop a basic reading knowledge of German. It is a beginning course which introduces all the structures of German grammar. German 0021 is designed for students who wish to acquire basic reading skills in the shortest possible time.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    GER 0022 - GERMAN READING 2


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    This course is designed to help students obtain an intermediate reading knowledge of German. Students read unedited texts from general fields and from their own areas of specialization. The course includes a systematic review of grammar.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    GER 0041 - ELEMENTARY GERMAN 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    First 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
  
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    GER 0042 - ELEMENTARY GERMAN 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Second 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
  
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    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
  
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    GER 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 15
    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
  
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    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

  
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    HCM 0100 - INTRODUCTION TO HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT


    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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    HCM 1100 - MANAGEMENT, DESIGN, AND OPTIMIZATION OF HEALTHCARE PROCESSES


    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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade

History

  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    HIST 0405 - RELIGION IN ASIA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An overview of the nature and role of religion in India, China, and Japan set against societal and cultural developments.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0410 - HISTORY OF ANCIENT CHINA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will survey China’s history from the Neolithic Age through the Late Imperial Age and focus on the political, social, and religious evolution of Chinese civilization.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0500 - COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    History of Latin America during the period of Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Rule, from 1500 to 1825.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    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
  
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    HIST 0505 - UPG EXCHANGE: HISTORY OF MEXICO


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The Study Abroad office has approved the general agreement of collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and the Universidad de Guanajuato in which faculty and students will be exchanged.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    HIST 1338 - WEIMAR AND NAZI GERMANY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Focuses on the factors in German life that made Hitler’s success possible and on the Nazi episode in German history. Also covers Hitler’s Germany.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Junior
  
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    HIST 1340 - TOTALITARIANISM


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores the nature of totalitarianism in the 20th century (i.e. Hitler’s Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Russia). Some of the topics which will be covered will include the political and ideological dimensions of totalitarianism, the cult of the leader, and the totalitarian system of governance, terror, and propaganda. Most importantly, the class will focus on human agency: the ways in which individuals participated in totalitarian regimes as perpetrators, collaborators, resisters, bystanders, and victims.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: HIST 0101 or HIST 0130 or HIST 1338 or HIST 1367
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    HIST 1618 - THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ROARING TWENTIES THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION, 1919-1941


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An examination of the social, economic and political development of the United States between the end of World War I and the nation’s entrance into World War II. An effort will be made to compare developments in the United States between 1919 and 1941 with developments in Europe.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    HIST 1623 - THE UNITED STATES DURING WORLD WAR 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A detailed study of the United States during World War II focusing on U.S. diplomatic activity in the years preceding and during the war, military strategy and tactics and the social, economic and political development of the ‘home front.’
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
    Course Requirements: LVL: Junior
  
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    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

  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    HAA 0060 - MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN PAINTING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will help students with no experience in the arts feel comfortable when they visit a museum or discuss paintings, upon completing this course a student should not only have an easy familiarity with some of the greatest masterpieces of European and American painting, but he or she should also have attained the background and skill to understand and to discuss paintings they might discover in a gallery, antique shop or home. This course is especially intended for students without background in the arts.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    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
  
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    HAA 0370 - REMBRANDT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This core level art history course, intended for a beginning student with no background in art history (but also open to devotees and majors), offers an introduction to Rembrandt by an intensive examination of his life, and his art; paintings, drawings, and etchings. The course is arranged chronologically, so that as the term proceeds we follow Rembrandt from his earliest training and his fascination with baroque dynamism through his greatest success as Amsterdam’s most popular portraitist to his moving and universal final works.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HAA 0402 - WOMEN ARTISTS, 1550-1800


    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, eE. 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
  
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    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
  
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    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 filmmakers’ 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
  
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    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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    HAA 1010 - APPROACHES TO ART HISTORY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    HAA 1010 is the capstone research seminar required of all HAA majors and is an official w-course. Students in this class will conduct extensive readings on a special topic devised by the course instructor. Each student in the class will be required to produce a substantive research paper under the guidance of the instructor. Students will work to master the skills that are fundamental to the discipline and broader arts related professions: critical thinking, research, and written and oral communication.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: PREQ: at least one HAA course; LVL: junior
 

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