Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course investigates Arab women through fourteen women pioneers in fields such as literature, economics, law and human rights, etc. while building an understanding of the complexities of the various Arab societies� expectations of women. It provides students with the legal context that govern those expectations and explores gender relations while highlighting their tumultuous journeys.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This accounting internship is designed for College of Business students who desire to gain real-world experience in the accounting field through on-the-job practice. Students work under the direction of an approved industry professional, a faculty advisor, and the internship director. S/U grade only.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This foundation course in advertising explores creativity in a workshop environment. It provides a framework for understanding the strategy behind the creative in the greater context of advertising and marketing decisions. Its focus is brand-initiated communication within the interconnected network of paid, owned and earned channels.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

The Hispanic Marketing course provides students the opportunity to identify and embrace the differences and find the similarities at the same time by acquiring knowledge on (1) cultural theories associated with Hispanic values, artifacts, and traditions; (2) the acculturation processes; (3) socialization; (4) importance of diversity and culture as effective communication tools; and (5) the impact of religion, family formation, gender and sexual orientation, social mobility, and age groups on consumer behavior and media habits. This course prepares undergraduate students to become educated decision makers and consumers of information regarding U.S. Hispanic marketing communication issues.

Course Area: General Education Elective (no area) Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course is the second of a two course sequence. This course focuses on campaign execution. The advertising team course is an application-based class, which provides students with the opportunity to develop a complete Integrated Marketing Communication campaign plan as part of the National Student Advertising Competition sponsored by the American Advertising Federation. The class is set up as hierarchy based advertising agency with some students in leadership positions and others working in departments that are managed by student directors.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course integrates African authors, pre- and post-Apartheid, to demonstrate the problems of living in a diverse world. It fosters awareness and acceptance of people different from students through the study of the African-American culture, and stimulates an appreciation and respect for people of all cultures.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

An interdisciplinary examination of African-­American culture. Students submit “reaction” papers in which they record and assess their response to issues and experiences. Unannounced quizzes, assigned readings, a midterm, and a final examination.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course will engage theories of race discrimination and oppression as it relates to African Americans. We will systematically and objectively examine the sources of American oppression and explore how it shapes the life chances of African Americans from just prior to the Reconstruction Era to the twenty-first century. More specifically, we will explore the timing and manner of their entry into U.S. society, conflicts with other groups, encounters with prejudice and discrimination, as well as the extent to which they have secured access to cultural, economic, political, and social assimilation into U.S. society.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course uses hip hop music and culture as conceptual lenses for analyzing and interpreting the life experiences of people of African descent throughout the African diaspora. Drawing mainly on psychology as well as other social sciences, this course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the psycho-historical and psycho-social development of African Americans relatively.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course is intended to build on the African American Studies curriculum to provide a solid foundation for subsequent applied work in this interdisciplinary field. As students near the completion of formal course work, an internship in the field affords the opportunity to put what was learned into practical use in applied settings, and to develop professional skills and competencies.

Course Area: History Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course introduces students to the history of British North America and the United States through the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Course Area: History Designations: Statewide Core

This course surveys the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present with emphasis on social, economic, and political problems of the 20th century. May not be taken by students with test credit in American history. We will be using pivotal moments to investigate these histories, asking ourselves how these moments illuminate a particular time and place. In addition, students will learn how historians construct arguments.

This course is approved as meeting the Civic Literacy requirement. To demonstrate civic literacy competency as required by the State of Florida, the student must earn a “C-” or higher in the course.

Below is a sample syllabus for AMH2020. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course examines, both chronologically and thematically, the experience of African Americans in the United States and their role in shaping the nation's history. The course does not count as credit toward the history major.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course surveys American-Indian relations with the people and the government of the United States, beginning in the 1760s and continuing to the present. Topics cover the Indians' diplomatic and military struggles, as well as to the Indian perspective on familiar historical events such as the Civil War, the New Deal, and the 1960s.

Developed by: Maxine Jones
Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Black Women in America examines (chronologically and thematically) the unique experience of the African American woman in the United States and the role they have played in shaping this nation's history. Particular attention is paid to the double burden that black women have experienced because of their race and gender. This course will not count as credit toward the history major.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The history of immigration to the United States. Includes the evolution of ethnic cultures and the role of race in adjustment, and related conflicts from colonial times to the present. Course will not count as credit toward the history major.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity

This course explores the history of the Seminoles and other Southeastern Native Americans in the territory that is now known as the American South. The course covers the pre-contact era to the present with an emphasis on tribal perspectives.

Course Area: History Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course provides an overview of key issues in environmental policy, primarily in the United States but placed with transnational and global contexts, from the start of the twentieth century to the present.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Major figures and works in the American literary tradition, from colonial era through romanticism and the decade following the Civil War. Typically includes Franklin, Irving, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Midterm and final will consist of short answer and essay questions. One or two analytical essays outside of class.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Introduction to African-American Literature offers a historical survey of canonical texts that represent the richness and variety of black writing in the United States. Our focus on black writing in the United States is chronological, with an emphasis on the successive moments in the evolution of African-American literary and cultural history. Ultimately, our readings will provide a general overview of the development of the Black literate tradition, from the slave narrative to the contemporary era.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Major figures and works in the American literary tradition from the post­Civil War realists and the local colorists through the literary naturalists and more contemporary writers. Typically includes Twain, James, Crane, Eliot, Hemingway, Frost, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Baldwin, Morrison, and O’Connor.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course examines selected works of major American writers.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Introduction to landmark Latino/Latina works written in English.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

For too long the canon of American Literature marginalized the works of minority writers who bore witness to the rich and essentially diverse American experience as well as the struggles and contributions of the marginalized. This course is designed to expose students to the central role that minority expression plays in the makeup of what we call American Literature. This class will focus on how dominant cultures configure ethnicities as “other” and how multi-ethnic expression responds to, resists, and reconfigures those imposed identities. The works we will study in this course utilize the conventions of American literary genres but also blur the boundaries of these genres to reinterpret the past, critique the present, and reimagine the future as they carve out a space within and ultimately transform the canon of American Literature.

Developed by: Maxine Montgomery
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity, Upper Division Writing Competency

The African-American Literary Tradition is an upper-level course that offers an intensive focus on selected works by United States authors of African descent. Our readings will move beyond a historical survey of the black literate tradition to include a close interrogation of tropes of migration, exile, and home, the predominant concerns defining the African-American Literary Tradition. Central to our discussion are issues such as cultural hybridity or double-consciousness, border-crossing, language use, memory, and history. Ultimately, our readings will allow a scholarly consideration of the ways in which black writers utilize language creatively, if not subversively, in an attempt to come to terms with the condition of being at once both at home and in exile.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Statewide Core

This introductory course offers a holistic approach to understanding what it means to be human, studying humans and human behavior from the perspectives of evolution and genetics, the archaeological record, and language and culture. Below is a sample syllabus for ANT2000. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science

This course is an introduction to modern anthropological archaeology. The course introduces students to the interdisciplinary scientific approaches employed in contemporary archaeological research and provides students with an overview of the origins and evolution of human social and economic systems.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

This is a lab course is to be taken simultaneously with ANT 2100, Introduction to Archaeology. The course is designed specifically for first- and second-year undergraduates with no experience in anthropology or archaeology. ANT2100L will introduce students to the various multi-disciplinary techniques carried out in modern archaeological science. Students will receive hands-on training in a variety of different data recovery, cataloguing, and analytical procedures commonly employed in modern archaeological studies. The students will get an opportunity to record and analyze artifacts to model prehistoric environments and lifeways. In addition, they will learn basic techniques of paleobotanical and zooarchaeological analysis, and receive instruction on geophysical techniques (remote sensing) and Geographic Information Systems.

Course Area: Natural Science

This course is an examination of human sexuality from an evolutionary perspective. Some of the topics covered include sexual selection, mating systems, mate preferences, and sexual orientation.

Developed by: Amy Kowal
Course Area: Social Science Designations: Diversity

This course is an introduction to global diversity through the discipline of cultural anthropology which explores and analyzes the commonalities across societies as well as the unique diversity of human societies and cultures. It offers tools for understanding the distinctive ways in which people make sense of their world while framing our own world in a new perspective. This course introduces key concepts including kinship, gender, culture, religion, race, consumption, nationalism, and globalization and provides an opportunity to learn more about these concepts in a variety of social and cultural contexts around the world.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Diversity

This course examines the variety of ways the childhood is experienced in cultures around the world. It allows students without a background in anthropology to develop an appreciation for the nature of culture, the nature of childhood and the pivotal role of childhood in maintaining cultural continuity and influencing cultural evolution. Examination of the scientific evidence for the nature of children will alternate with cinematic dramatization and discussion of relevant readings.

Course Area: Natural Science

This course introduces theory and principles of genetically based evolution. It reviews fossil evidence for human evolution and competing ideas about the specific pathways to modern humans. It emphasizes the genetic unity of humankind and the universal features that underlie individual and cultural diversity.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

This 1-credit optional co-requisite laboratory course to ANT2511 “Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Prehistory” provides students with hands-on exercises that are designed to enhance their grasp of fundamental techniques and principles that form the basis for studying physical anthropology and prehistory. Exercises focus on the nature and dating of the archaeological record, techniques for assessing and measuring skeletal material, heredity and evolutionary processes, comparative anatomy of primates, and criteria for recognizing and interpreting fossil australopithecines and Homo. This laboratory provides an opportunity for students to handle and measure artifacts, skeletal material, and fossil hominin casts which will enable them to gain insight into the scientific procedures that are used to interpret the nature and causes of human evolution.

Developed by: Jessi Halligan
Course Area: History

This course is a survey of the history, theory, methods, and problems of underwater archaeology, with attention given to the types of investigations and environments in which underwater archaeology is conducted and to the field's particular contributions to anthropology.

Developed by: Amy Kowal
Course Area: History Designations: Diversity

This course outlines the major events in human cultural and social evolution and includes a brief presentation of general archaeological methods and objectives. The course focuses on the evolution of civilization in the Middle East, Europe, China, Africa, and the Americas.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Diversity

This course is a survey of the world's cultures by major geographic regions. The purpose is to familiarize the student with range and variety of the human condition and at the same time instill in the student a respect and admiration for humankind. Lectures, readings, and visual materials are utilized.

Developed by: Geoffrey Thomas
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This class undertakes an integrative account of what it means to be a man. We draw upon comparisons with other animals, insights into the physiology of social behavior, cross-cultural accounts of masculinity, and U.S. studies of male behavior, all within an overarching evolutionary perspective. Topics focus on central concerns over masculinity: friendship, sexuality, politics, violence, education, work, sports, fatherhood, and health. Discussion highlights the relevance of male studies to individual and social meaning, and informs contemporary societal concerns over men.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course examines human sexuality from an anthropological point of view. Students will examine a wide range of human sexual experiences across cultures and over the evolutionary history of our species. We will apply a holistic perspective to the genetic, physiological, psychological, social, and cultural dimensions of human sexuality.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Diversity

Sport is a cultural phenomenon that unites, and divides people simultaneously, but rarely is sport the research topic in anthropology. An anthropologist analyzes aspects of sport including the evolution of sport, culture, ethnicity and race, gender, family, health, religion, politics, agency, and community. You will use primary experiences and ethnography to study sport in cultures today.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course examines the concept of race from the perspectives of biological and cultural anthropology, beginning with the study of modern human biological variation and its clinical distribution. This biological patterning is then contrasted with the social categories of race. The final section of the course covers the history of the concept of race, the ways humans culturally construct divisions in different societies, and the continued effectsof racial concepts on science and modern cultures.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course is an introduction to and examination of human language, its relation to perception and cognition, and its role in social interaction. This includes verbal as well as nonverbal communication modes, their variety and complexity, the evolution of language, and language change.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

Museums are active centers of our communities as sites of social and historical production in diverse cultural and national settings using exhibitions, education, interactive presentations, including multiple audiences, and increasing the accessibility. This course is a process of active student engagement in critically integrating anthropological approaches to the public through museum practices.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Diversity, Upper Division Writing Competency

The focus of this course is to provide a basic understanding of the current anthropological issues of religion within cultures around the world. The principles of cultural anthropology theory are emphasized and how they apply to the different peoples, genders, political systems, and the human experience. It enables students to consider religion’s major role in contemporary world affairs. Themes that are addressed include religion’s relation with society, environment, supernatural beings, specialists, rituals, altered states, sickness and health, religious evolution and revitalization movements. There is an emphasis on indigenous religious experience, as well as an examination of world religions. This course has a prerequisite of ANT2410 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.

Developed by: Kristin Dowell
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course explores the cultural ways of life of the indigenous inhabitants of this land, the peoples of Native North America. We will examine the cultural traditions, contemporary issues, and historical policies that have shaped the social experiences of Native peoples in the United States and Canada with attention to: tribal sovereignty, residential schools, reservations, the legislation of Native identity, gender, urban identity, land and language. Through readings, class discussion, ethnographies, newspaper articles, and films we will examine the distinctive cultural practices of Native communities in different geographic areas as well as explore the ways in which Native people today maintain cultural identity and sovereignty in response to the ever-changing social conditions of life in the 21st century. Although it is impossible to comprehensively cover all of the cultures and traditions in Native North America in one semester, this course will provide a solid introduction to topics in the anthropology of Native North America.

Course Area: Natural Science

This course introduces students to Paleopathology. Bone, Bodies, and Disease shows how the latest scientific and archaeological techniques can be used to identify the common illnesses and injuries that humans suffered in antiquity. In order to give a vivid picture of ancient disease and trauma, results of the latest scientific research that incorporate information gathered from documents are presented. This comprehensive approach to the subject throws fresh light on the health of our ancestors and on the conditions in which they lived, and it gives us an intriguing insight into the ways in which they coped with the pain and discomfort of their existence.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course specifically covers the study of the human skeleton. Students will learn: 1) how to identify skeletal elements, both whole and fragmentary; 2) how to estimate age, sex, ancestry, and stature of an individual; 3) how to reconstruct populations, particularly in terms of diet and disease; and 4) real-world applications of human osteology.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

This course provides a theoretical foundation for understanding what children know and learn through artistic inquiry and expression. The course emphasizes practical application of this knowledge to curriculum development and lesson planning. Observation in public schools is required.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Diversity

This course is an exploration of contemporary art and public pedagogy. Students will use public pedagogies to explore their own identity in relationship to the big ideas of: race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, religion, ability, and language. Students will produce an original project that engages a public in learning through participatory art.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This seminar style course introduces students to arts administration by exploring basic administration and management principles as they relate to the visual and performing arts. The course also features off-campus site visits to local arts and culture organizations and applied hands-on interactions.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity, Statewide Core

This course focuses on a thematic approach to the understanding and appreciation of works of art.

Below is a sample syllabus for ARH2000. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course introduces students to the history of Western art from the prehistoric period to the 14th century. Through classroom lectures and discussions, readings, and written assignments, all participants will consider the meaning and function of art objects within the social, religious, political, and technological contexts surrounding them. Rigorous writing assignments develop students’ critical and analytical skills.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course introduces students to the history of Western art from the early Renaissance through the modern period. Through classroom lectures and discussions, readings, and written assignments, all participants will consider the meaning and function of art objects within the social, religious, political, and technological contexts surrounding them. Rigorous writing assignments develop students’ critical and analytical skills.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course investigates the meaning and the role of archaeology in shaping our past and present lives. In particular, we will ask questions about the purpose, the means, and the agencies behind the excavation process, and thus touch upon the theoretical underpinnings of archaeology as a science. The course is a comprehensive survey that begins with the basics of human evolution and covers the history and material culture of key ancient civilizations, not least those that populated the Mesopotamian and Mediterranean basins.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course introduces students to computer-based research, writing, and presentation tools essential in art history. It fulfills the university's computer literacy requirement for undergraduates, with a focus on computer applications that are particularly useful in the field of art history. The course is open to all majors and required for art history majors.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

A survey of Greek art from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period and important archaeological discoveries in Greek lands.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

A study of Etruscan, early Italian, and Roman art and archaeology crucial in the formation of the Western humanistic tradition. A short paper is required. Essay and objective tests.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

The Renaissance Apprentice: Artistic Practice in Fifteenth Century Florence Description: A course that combines an art historical and artistic approach to studying Renaissance art. Students will study traditional techniques using the same master-apprentice system used in the Renaissance. They will begin with basic drawing exercises then advance to sculpting and painting using the city of Florence as their classroom.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course surveys the history of African art, covering numerous regions of the vast continent. We will examine artistic expressions and visual traditions in the Sahara; along the Nile, Congo, and Niger rivers; in the Central and Western Sudan; the Atlantic Forests; the Cameroon grasslands; and eastern and southern Africa, among others. Based on the undocumented nature of so much African history, the course does not follow a chronological model, but rather adopts a regional approach. We will consider the development of known traditions and their legacy in modern and contemporary art and architecture, where possible. The course covers a range of visual and material expressions, including painting, sculpture, architecture, costuming, ritual implements, cultural landscapes, and ephemera.

Developed by: Lynn Jones
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity

This course surveys the history of Islamic art, covering numerous cultures on several continents. We will examine the development of artistic expressions and visual traditions in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Spain. The course does not follow a chronological model, but rather adopts a regional and thematic approach. We will study the development of known traditions and their legacy in modern and contemporary art and architecture. The course covers a range of visual and material expressions, including painting, sculpture, architecture, textiles, cultural landscapes, and ephemera.

Developed by: Paul Niell
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course surveys the art, architecture, and visual culture of Spain's overseas colonies during the period of early exploration and Austrian Hapsburg rule in Spain (1506–1700). It examines a wide array of visual expressions, including painting, sculpture, architecture, urban space, prints, ephemera, ceramics, furniture, and clothing. In the course of this survey, the relationship between art and such issues as colonialism, race, gender, and social hierarchy are considered.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course surveys the art, architecture, and visual culture of Spain's overseas colonies during the period of Bourbon imperial rule (1700-1821/1898). It examines a wide array of visual expressions, including painting, sculpture, architecture, urban space, prints, ephemera, ceramics, furniture, and clothing. In the course of this survey, the relationship between art and such issues as colonialism, race, gender, and social hierarchy are considered.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course is an undergraduate seminar in art history with changing topics.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course engages the visual cultures of the African Diaspora with geographic attention to the contemporary nations of Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Jamaica. After background on the visual cultures of West Africa, particularly those of Yoruba origin, we discuss the transformative impact of Atlantic World slavery and colonial institutions on African traditions. We consider the material and visual landscapes of new African ethnic formations in the Americas in relation to slavery, religious institutions, such as confraternities, ritual life, and the formation of symbolic economies. We then investigate how various religious traditions and their attendant visual cultures were remade in the post-slavery era.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course is an internship in a collaborative museum to provide students with firsthand knowledge of, and practical experience in, museums.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course offers an introduction to the theory and practice of digital imaging.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This class introduces students to the myriad ways that artists create contemporary art. This intuitively designed course is taught through a series of multi-media lectures and interactive discussions and culminates with a student-designed virtual curatorial project. The small class size facilitates meaningful peer interactions and allow for active instructor feedback. Offered to all non-art majors.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

Through critiques of visual and written work, this course is structured to provide analysis of the individual student's artistic progress. In support of the student’s studio practice, writing assignments will develop their descriptive, conceptual, and critical analysis of art. This class assists the BFA art student in preparing for all aspects of their Advancement Review in preparation for the BFA Thesis course.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

Operating under the belief the college experience is preparatory, we will investigate both your personal artistic practice and the various ways that a BA in studio art can prepare you for future endeavors. To facilitate this, we will bring in guests to talk about a full range of opportunities and resources, as well as explore basic tools for sustaining a life in the arts post-graduation. At the end of this course students will have constructed a thoughtful discourse around their art practice, gained exposure to a range of future prospects, outlined a future direction artistically and professionally, and developed specific materials in application for personally defined opportunities.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course facilitates internships in a variety of work situations. Must be approved by department chair. Preference given to seniors.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course is the capstone course for all BFA students in the Department of Art. Students develop and execute a capstone thesis project to be exhibited publicly. Additionally, students organize an artist's talk to be delivered to an audience.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This introductory course is on Middle Eastern history and culture with a considerable emphasis on the impact of religion: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The primary emphasis of the course is to understand the historical and cultural background of the major problems facing the Middle East today. The course does not count as credit toward the history major.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course is an introduction to political, cultural, and economic Asian history from antiquity to the present. It places special emphasis not only on the study of important Asian kings and leaders but also on the various religions which originated in Asia.

Developed by: Will Hanley
Course Area: History Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

This seminar surveys regional studies methodology by introducing a dozen examples of a domain of Middle Eastern studies (for example, cities, biographies, countries, sects, dialects), using a variety of lecturers and approaches. Students will a) become familiar with the particular characters of dozen instances of a Middle Eastern domain, in this way learning something of the diversity of the region, b) encounter a variety of approaches to the study of the region, and c) develop deep knowledge of one instance, which they will study over the course of the semester.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course examines the history of Turkey from its emergence as one of the successor states of the Ottoman Empire to the contemporary era. This history has been marked by conflicts among the political elites about issues such as modernization, Westernization, secularism, and the role of the military in civilian politics. The course will situate these conflicts in the broader context of society, culture, and economy through an examination of changing gender roles, ethnic and religious tensions, cities and urbanization, and art and literature. Sample topics include the Kurdish political movement, the Armenian Genocide, Alevi identity in an overwhelmingly Sunni state, and the headscarf issue.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

The course investigates the history of the US and Modern East Asia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, covering political interactions and cultural encounters between Americans and Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese.

Course Area: History Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course surveys the history of pre-modern China with some comparative notes on Japan and Korea.

Developed by: John Justl
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course acquaints students with the political, cultural, educational, and social parameters of Deaf Culture. Students will develop knowledge regarding the cultural perspective of deafness held in the United States of America and in less depth, worldwide. In comparison, perspectives opposing the cultural view of deafness will also be explored.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity

The course introduces the humanities traditions of China, Japan, and Korea through major works in literature, philosophy, religion, history, and arts. It studies each tradition in its own sociopolitical contexts from antiquity to the 19th century, and also examines the historical patterns of contact and influence among these traditions.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course examines the content, function, and limits of the “imagination” in the Chinese, Japanese, and English literary traditions. It concentrates on poetry and literary works that are “poetic,” or that which makes us think of poetry. By reading literary criticism and exploring how other literary forms, genres, and media are informed by the poetic tradition, students will develop a thick description of the “imagination.”

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Statewide Core

This course provides general acquaintance with some of the facts, concepts and scientific methods of astronomy. As a liberal study course, the goal is to help you learn some basic facts of astronomy as well as gain an appreciation of astronomy as a science, the universe, and the current scientific ideas about its history and its future.

Below is a sample syllabus for AST1002. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

This course, which consists of outdoor and indoor labs, provides a hands-on introduction to astronomy as an observational science. In the outdoor labs you will learn how to make observations and measurements of planetary, stellar and galactic objects using either your unaided eyes, binoculars or a telescope. The indoor labs will acquaint you with the telescope, the coordinate system used to locate astronomical objects on the sky, the motion of objects in the sky and other basic concepts of astronomy.

Course Area: General Education Elective (no area) Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course offers an introduction to experimental methodology, data analysis and interpretation, calibration techniques, scientific model validation, as well as data presentation and communication of results. The laboratory experiments have astrophysical relevance.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course is designed for athletic training/sports medicine students to investigate and research athletic training/sports medicine special topics through individual study and seminars. Enrollment is allowed by permission of the athletic training/sports medicine curriculum coordinator.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course offers a study of the cognitive, affective, and motor skills required to perform athletic-training techniques in practice settings. Techniques reflect those presented in the lecture and laboratory courses taken the previous semester.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

General Biochemistry Lab is the laboratory course associated with the General Biochemistry lecture series (BCH4053 and BCH4054). It is designed to teach students fundamental laboratory approaches and techniques in protein biochemistry, molecular biology, and DNA manipulation. These techniques form the foundation for many of the experiments of a contemporary biochemical research laboratory. This course will cover many techniques including protein purification, quantification, and analysis; DNA manipulation and molecular cloning; and immunobiochemistry.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

Structured programming techniques; numerical techniques useful in the solution of biomedical engineering problems: root finding techniques, direct and iterative approaches to solve linear systems, linear and nonlinear regression, interpolation, numerical differentiation and integration, statistical analysis of data; numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations. Applications from physiological, cell, and molecular systems.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

This is the first course of a two-semester sequence on the design of biomedical engineering processes and products. Students will arrive at a technologically feasible solution to an engineering design problem using a methodical approach to gather and evaluate available information leading to a prototype product or process.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Oral Communication Competency

This course is the second of a two-semester sequence on the design of biomedical engineering processes and products. The second term focuses on the actual design of a biomedical engineering process or product using computer-aided design calculations. This is the capstone senior design course in biomedical engineering. An individual design project is completed by each student.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Statewide Core

This course consists of four units of contemporary biology topics, taught by biology professors/researchers who specialize in the subject matter. Topics vary each semester. The course emphasizes the development of science proficiency by teaching students to understand, use, and interpret scientific explanations of the natural world and apply this knowledge to social, environmental, political or wellness issues.

Below is a sample syllabus for BSC1005. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

BSC1005 Sample Syllabus

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

This course will emphasize the development of multiple aspects of science proficiency for all students: knowing, using, and interpreting scientific explanations of the natural world; generating and evaluating scientific evidence and explanations; understanding the nature and development of scientific knowledge; and participating productively in the practices and discourses of science. Specifically, this course includes multiple investigations of the core concepts in biology that engage students in the practices of scientific inquiry. Biological systems will be analyzed through experimentation, dissection, observation, and modeling.

This course may be taken concurrently with lecture or subsequent to completion of lecture with passing grade.

Developed by: Scott Steppan
Course Area: Natural Science

This class will explore Darwin’s world and demonstrate why this statement is even more apt today. The foundation for all of modern biology is evolution, and evolutionary thought stands out from other important scientific principles by the way in which it transformed how science and the society in general view the natural world. This class will trace the origins of biological thought from the explosion of discoveries about biological diversity arising from the Age of Exploration by northern European countries, especially the UK, the early development of natural history as a field and specifically of natural history museums as a repository of those discoveries, and how these museums and global exploration set the stage for the intellectual transformation that followed.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Statewide Core

This is the first part of a two-semester introductory biology course designed for those interested in pursuing a career in life sciences. The intention of this course is to provide the building blocks necessary for a student to gain a strong foundation in general biology. Topics covered will provide an overview of biological processes and function at the molecular, cellular and organismal level: 1) Atoms and Biological Molecules, 2) Cellular Biology, 3) Biochemistry and Energy Transformation 4) Molecular Genetics and 5) Physiology. The diversity of knowledge gained in BSC 2010 will aid understanding in more advanced biology classes.

Below is a sample syllabus for BSC2010. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Computer Competency, Natural Science Lab

This course introduces basic chemistry, energetics, metabolism, and cellular organization; molecular genetics and information flow; animal and plant function.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Statewide Core

This is the second part of a two-semester introductory biology course designed for those interested in pursuing a career in life sciences. This course provides an overview of the processes underlying animal embryonic development, inheritance genetics, evolution and ecology. The diversity of knowledge gained in this course will aid understanding in more advanced biology classes.

Note: The accompanying lab BSC2011L will satisfy the Scholarship-in-Practice requirement when taken together with BSC2011.

Below is a sample syllabus for BSC2011. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Natural Science Lab

This course focuses on reproduction and development, transmission (Mendelian) genetics, population biology, ecology, and evolution.

Note: this satisfies the Scholarship-in-Practice requirement only if taken with BSC2011.

Developed by: Yung Su
Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Statewide Core

This course is the first of a two-semester human anatomy/physiology sequence emphasizing the cell, stimulus- response concept, and the skeletal-muscular and first half of the nervous system. Some of the information from this course will provide students with background information that will be used in anatomy and physiology II (BSC 2086).

Below is a sample syllabus for BSC2085. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

This course is the first of a two-semester human anatomy/physiology sequence emphasizing the cell, stimulus-response concept, and the skeletal-muscular and first half of the nervous systems.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency, Oral Communication Competency

The experimental biology course is designed to teach students about the process of biological research. Each section of the course is organized around a particular biological concept. Our focus in this course is twofold. First, we need to provide students with basic background in the topic through field work, lab work, and lectures. Second, and more important, is the development of skills in biological research through laboratory and lecture exercises as well as outside assignments, culminating in an independent research project which students will present both orally and in writing. This course meets the University’s Oral Communication Competency Requirement; developing oral communication skills is a major component of this course.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

Students in this course serve as Laboratory Assistants in BSC1005L or as Tutors in BSC2010 or BSC2011, or BSC1005. Students in BSC4945 receiving training in interactive teaching techniques and use this training to lead classroom discussions and interactive exam review sessions.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Social Science

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge of terminology, classification systems, trends, and theories of criminal justice.

Course Area: Social Science

This course offers an examination of the field of criminology, including its theories, basic assumptions, and definitions.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course introduces the major issues, influences and trends considered in the criminal justice system. Course material will include explanation and analysis of theory as it applies to the construction and function of the application of criminal justice.

Developed by: Mark Feulner
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course provides students with an understanding of the impact of the media on crime, criminals, the criminal justice system, and the general public. The focus of this course is the historical impact of media and its influences on the outcomes of both routine and sensational cases within the American criminal justice system and how media reporting affects the policy making processes and the social definitions of crime.

Developed by: Banyon Pelham
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course is designed to prepare the student for the use of IT in various professions within the Criminal Justice community. This includes, the fundamentals of computing, the use of data processing, word processing, email, Computer Automated Dispatch, Records Management Systems, use of the Internet and IT Security protocols.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course explores the relationship between how police are portrayed in cinema and how they are regarded by American society. It delves into the influence of film over time as it both reflects and shapes public perception of law enforcement and cultural attitudes towards it within the United States.

Course Area: Ethics

This course explores ethics for both the criminal justice system and intelligence professionals. It compares and contrasts the differing roles ethics plays in policing and intelligence communities. The course probes significant past and current events to illuminate issues relevant to ethics in intelligence and policing.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course provides students with a theoretical and practical foundation for addressing issues of diversity as public safety and security practitioners. Focus is on an analysis of current local, regional, and national demographics regarding the impact of race, ethnicity, gender, and religion in criminal justice as both producers and victims for crime. Students explore some of the various strategies municipalities have implemented to better serve diverse populations such as policies, laws, and procedures.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course examines the involvement of minorities, especially African-Americans, in crime and in the criminal justice system. Special attention is paid to the role of racism in theories of crime and in American law and to the treatment of minorities by the various components of the criminal justice system. May require community service hours.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

The internship will allow students to gain invaluable experience, develop professional relationships with potential employers and bridge the gap between academia and the professional world by applying their classroom knowledge and developing an awareness of the responsibilities to be encountered upon entering the field of criminology/criminal justice. As a full-time intern (CCJ 4940) you will be expected to work 40 hours per week for a criminology or criminal justice affiliated agency and complete the academic requirements of this course. Upon successful completion of the program, students earn 15 credit hours: 3 credit hours toward major requirements and 12 toward general electives. The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice requires students to complete either an internship or a minor, although students can do both.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

The internship will allow students to gain invaluable experience, develop professional relationships with potential employers and bridge the gap between academia and the professional world by applying their classroom knowledge and developing an awareness of the responsibilities to be encountered upon entering the field of criminology/criminal justice. As a part-time intern (CCJ 4942), you will be expected to work 20 hours per week for a criminology or criminal justice affiliated agency and complete the academic requirements of this course. Upon successful completion of the program, students earn 8 credit hours: 3 credit hours toward major requirements and 5 toward general electives. The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice requires students to complete either an internship or a minor, although students can do both.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course is for students in the Public Safety & Security program who are working on an honors thesis. The thesis will allow the student to conduct a scholarly exploration of current issues within the criminal justice system, crime scene investigation, or the intelligence community.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course explores methods and procedures of surface mapping and subsurface sectioning including distance measurements, traverse computations and topographic mapping, and Global Positioning Systems. Use of field equipment and procedures to measure distances, elevations, angles, and perform complete surveys. Computer Aided Design (CAD) Laboratory for basic engineering drafting.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

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Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course presents a rigorous study of object oriented design techniques and an introduction to current practices in Software Engineering.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

In this course students will apply their software engineering, programming, and teamworking skills in a semester-long group project to design and implement an original software system from scratch. The team project is designed to expose students to working in groups on a larger project and the complexity of communications among multiple participants.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency, Oral Communication Competency

This course covers issues relevant to professional engineering practice, including codes of ethics, licensure and life-long learning. Oral/written communications and group collaboration are emphasized as inter-disciplinary teams work to prepare and present formal pre-design and schematic design documents addressing engineering challenges posed by the senior design project completed in CGN 4802 Senior Design II.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Oral Communication Competency

This capstone senior-level design course integrates knowledge and skills gained in undergraduate studies of civil and environmental engineering. The course involves completion of a team-based interdisciplinary design project started in CGN 4800. Project includes industry and professional participation.

Note – To satisfy the Oral Communication Competency requirement, both CGN4800 and CGN4802 must be taken.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

CGS2060 Computer Fluency teaches important computer and digital technology concepts and skills necessary to succeed in careers and in life. Course topics range from computer literacy basics, to today's technologies, end to the information systems on which today's businesses and organizations depend. This course is designed to provide relevant technology coverage for all degree programs.telecommunications, the Internet and the Web, management information systems, digital media, information security, digital society, as well as ethics.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course enables students in business and economics to become proficientwith microcomputer hardware and software applications that are typically used in the workplace. The following topics are covered: hardware concepts, operating systems, word-processing, spreadsheets, databases, networks, Internet, world wide web, multi-media presentations, and information systems. May not be applied toward computer science major or minor. Not open to students with credit in CGS 2060.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course provides an in-depth study of spreadsheets utilizing a problem-solving approach. Spreadsheet-based solutions are explored for common business tasks and problems. The course presents a thorough coverage of spreadsheet functions and tools, along with a deep understanding of their purpose in a business environment. The course is ideal for students with professional interests related to business and economics, as well as for students wishing to obtain a deeper understanding of spreadsheets in general.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course covers a brief introduction to computers, C++ basics, procedural abstraction and functions, an introduction to the object-oriented paradigm, namespaces, arrays, strings and vectors, pointers, and recursion. Emphasis is on program problem-solving. May not be applied toward a computer science major.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course includes Python basics, use of Python control and data structures, use of Python functions, Python I/O, and implementation of basic Python programming tasks.

Developed by: Yanning Wang
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

Advanced Chinese I is an upper-level language course designed to enhance the comprehensive language skills of students who have taken Chinese language courses for three years or have acquired equivalent language ability before this course. By increasing vocabulary extensively, students will raise their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills to an advanced level. At the end of the course, students will be able to develop the knowledge and skills of Chinese vocabulary, grammar and sentence patterns; discuss various topics on contemporary China in global context; read articles in Chinese at an advanced level, and compose essays in Chinese on topics concerning contemporary Chinese culture.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course provides academic credit for students working in governmental agencies or private business where students employ the foreign language. Departmental permission required.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course is designed for students in the Chinese Program who wish to receive honors in the major by working on an honors thesis or project. Students will spend two-to-three semesters developing a thesis or project that will further consolidate their knowledge of Chinese language and culture, as well as contribute to Chinese studies.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Statewide Core

This course introduces basic chemical principles without an extensive use of mathematics and illustrates with applications in health, energy, and the environment. The course strives to show chemistry as a human endeavor that provides insight into the natural world and informs our decisions as citizens and consumers. Specific topics vary by semester. Designed as a course for students who wish to fulfill the liberal studies science requirement with chemistry and will take no further chemistry courses, not as a preparatory course for CHM 1045. Credit not allowed for CHM 1020 after successful completion of CHM 1032, 1045, or equivalent.

Below is a sample syllabus for CHM1020. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Computer Competency, Natural Science Lab, Statewide Core

This course introduces basic chemical principles without an extensive use of mathematics and illustrates with applications in health, energy, and the environment. This course strives to show chemistry as a human endeavor that provides insight into the natural world and informs our decisions as citizens and consumers. Specific topics vary by semester. Designed as a course for students who wish to fulfill the liberal studies science requirement with chemistry and will take no further chemistry courses, not as a preparatory course for CHM 1045. Credit is not allowed for CHM 1020 after successful completion of CHM 1032, 1045, or equivalent.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Below is a sample syllabus for CHM1020C. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

This laboratory emphasizes major topics from CHM 1020 relating chemistry concepts and techniques to everyday life experiences. This laboratory-based course meets two hours a week. No credit allowed after taking CHM 1045.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Statewide Core

Lecture, three hours; recitation, one hour. This course includes topics such as chemical symbols, formulas, and equations; states of matter; reactivity in aqueous solution; electronic structure, bonding, and molecular geometry. Students taking CHM 1045 after taking CHM 1020 and/or CHM 1032 may register for reduced credit, as indicated in the department's policy on reduced credit.

Below is a sample syllabus for CHM1045. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Computer Competency, Natural Science Lab

This laboratory offers an introduction to quantitative techniques and to the chemical laboratory. Topics include stoichiometry, atomic spectra, thermodynamics, gases, as well as acids and bases, chemical structures and reactivity. Safety goggles, a lab coat and a scientific calculator are required for every class. Lab meets three hours a week.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Statewide Core

Lecture, three hours; recitation, one hour. This course includes topics such as intermolecular forces, chemical kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, elementary thermodynamics, and electrochemistry.

Below is a sample syllabus for CHM1046. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

This laboratory offers an introduction to quantitative techniques and to the chemical laboratory. Topics include Intermolecular forces, solutions, kinetics, equilibria, acids and bases, buffers, solubility, thermodynamics and electrochemistry. Safety goggles, a lab coat and a scientific calculator are required for every class. Lab meets three hours a week.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Statewide Core

This course is a first general chemistry course for honors students. Topics include kinetic theory, atomic theory of matter, atomic structure and the periodic chart condensed phases, introductory chemical bonding.

Below is a sample syllabus for CHM1050. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

This laboratory offers an introduction to quantitative techniques and to the chemical laboratory. Topics include stoichiometry, atomic spectra, thermodynamics, gases, as well as acids and bases, chemical structures and reactivity. Safety goggles, a lab coat and a scientific calculator are required for every class. Lab meets three hours a week.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Statewide Core

Lecture. This course is a continuation of general chemistry for honors students. Topics include solution equilibria; acid/base chemistry; oxidation, reduction, and electrochemical cells; chemical analysis; hydrides and oxides of the elements; kinetics; advanced bonding and structure.

Below is a sample syllabus for CHM1051. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science

Laboratory conference, one hour; laboratory, five hours. This laboratory is an opportunity for research-based special projects. Safety goggles and scientific calculator are required for every laboratory.

Course Area: Natural Science

This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of chemical science by using a wealth of examples from our everyday experiences in the kitchen. Chemical reactions will be discussed as relevant to the food preparation and food ageing processes. The concepts of atoms and molecules, temperature and pressure, acids and bases, solutions and concentrations will be covered using the familiar everyday environment.

Course Area: Natural Science

This course will introduce students to fundamental chemical concepts and phenomena that underlie the emergence and appearance of various forms of art. The course will teach students to appreciate the atomic nature of matter, how atoms come together to make chemical compounds and generate particular properties that are reflected in the artwork and in our perception of art forms.

Course Area: Natural Science

CHM2047 is the one semester general chemistry course which provides a strong chemistry foundation for undergraduate students in the pre-medical school majors. The primary objective is to develop a thorough understanding of chemistry and its applications to medicine. Prerequisites: MAC1105 or better with a grade "C–" or better; And AP Chemistry Test Score of 4 or better; Or IB Chemistry Test Score of 5 or better; Or satisfactory score on placement exam. Lecture, three hours; recitation, one hour. This course includes topics such as electronic structure, molecular structure, intermolecular forces, chemical kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, elementary thermodynamics, materials and electrochemistry.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

CHM2047L is a one semester laboratory designed for the pre-medicine and related Life Science majors. This course assumes a previous knowledge of chemistry based on your achieving high marks in your high school chemistry courses or exams. The lab explores the concepts and techniques each of you will need most as you progress through the rest of your chemistry curriculum. The lab was developed around on three key concepts: 1) the experiments should challenge the student to think independently about chemistry both in the lab setting and in the world environment, 2) the experiments should support and expand upon the material that is being covered in the classroom, and 3) the experiments should build the student’s skills in basic chemistry techniques. Pre- or Co-requisite CHM 2047.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

Organic Chemistry II laboratory is a one semester laboratory for majors in the physical and life sciences that is used to give students experience in the basic organic laboratory techniques such as extraction, distillation, recrystallization, chromatography and multi-step synthesis required for research and industrial careers in chemistry. Laboratory conference, one hour; laboratory, seven hours.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency, Natural Science Lab

This first course in analytical chemistry covers statistical analysis of analytical data, acid-base equilibria, acid-based titrations, electrochemistry, analytical seperations, as well as atomic and molecular optical spectroscopy.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

Students perform basic organic lab techniques synthesis, recrystallization, separations,extraction, chromatography; introduction to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and infrared (IR) spectroscopy.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Developed by: Yanning Wang
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity

This course acquaints students with the selected literary works from early China to the nineteenth century. It will provide the knowledge of pre-modern Chinese literature and culture and the analytical skills necessary for examining Chinese literary texts. Major literary genres (poetry, fiction, drama, and prose) and representative writers will be discussed. This course can be taken to fulfill the requirements for Chinese or Asian Studies major/minor, liberal studies and multicultural awareness. This course is taught in English and has no prerequisites.

Developed by: Feng Lan
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity

This course introduces students to Chinese literature at the modern time spanning from the early twentieth century to the present. The course explores modern Chinese literature in its historical and sociopolitical contexts and, in particular, examines its role in the nation-building process of Modern China. Students will read English translations of Chinese works that were created by major writers during this period mainly from mainland China, as well as from Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora, and cover the primary literary genres—the novel, poetry, essay, and drama. The course can be taken for major or minor credits in Chinese and in Asian studies, and it meets the requirements of Liberal Studies For the 21st Century Competencies in the areas of Cultural Practice and Cross-cultural Studies. No knowledge of the Chinese language is required.

Developed by: Yanning Wang
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

Chinese folklore reveals intriguing and multifaceted traditions of China. Within this very broad and captivating field, we will focus on myths, legends, fairy tales, and some other popular components of folklore, such as cultural symbols, which can be constantly observed in present-day Chinese communities. Probing the cultural roots, transformations and adaptations of Chinese folklore, the subject matter of this course will span from antiquity to the present. This course can be taken to fulfill the requirements for Chinese or Asian Studies major/minor and multicultural awareness (Diversity X). This course is taught in English and has no prerequisites.

Developed by: Feng Lan
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity

This course examines representative films produced in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from diverse critical perspectives and in proper historical contexts. Studies Chinese cinema as both a unique genre of modern arts and a powerful sociopolitical discourse. Taught in English.

Developed by: Yanning Wang
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity

This course introduces students to Chinese women’s writings up to the nineteenth century. Readings will also include some men’s writings on women to assist students with the exploration of women’s culture in pre-modern society, especially how women negotiated gender power as active agents rather than passive victims. This course can be taken to fulfill the requirements for Chinese or Asian Studies major/minor, liberal studies, and multicultural awareness. This course is taught in English and has no prerequisites.

Developed by: Feng Lan
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

The course introduces students to the foundational elements of Chinese civilization from a historical perspective. It focuses on major topics concerning China’s social, political, intellectual, religious, and literary traditions, and examines their formations and evolutions in historical contexts spanning from antiquity to the early 20th century. The selected course readings provide students with the opportunity to engage with primary source materials fundamental to Chinese civilization, and the pedagogy of the course enables students to develop adequate analytical and critical skills in dealing with sociohistorical issues that inform the cultural practices of the Chinese people. The course can be taken to fulfill the requirements for Chinese or Asian Studies major/minor and liberal studies (Diversity X). The course is taught in English and has no prerequisites.

Course Area: Ethics

This course presents basic ethical theories and analysis methods as they apply to ethical, social, and legal issues in computing and information technology. Case studies and hypothetical scenarios are discussed for their social, ethical, and legal implications, as well as analyzed through various ethical-analysis methodologies. The course fosters the development of skills in logical and critical analysis of issues and viewpoints.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

The purpose of this class is to understand and apply the basic principles of effective public speaking and of audience analysis. This course is an introduction to speech communication which emphasizes the practical skill of public speaking, including techniques to lessen speaker anxiety, and the use of visual aids to enhance speaker presentations. Civility and ethical speech-making are the foundations of this course. Its goal is to prepare students for success in typical public speaking situations and to provide them with the basic principles of organization and research needed for effective speeches. Students will be expected to plan, research, organize and give presentations to audiences of their peers. Students will also be required to give feedback to other students and use the feedback they get in improving their own abilities.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course involves field placement in an approved industry or government entity having a significant information technology or computer science component by approval only. May be taken for variable credit and repeated (with departmental approval) but only three semester hours may count towards graduation. Successful completion requires satisfactory job evaluation and demonstration of educational value of placement, usually via a paper and/or presentation.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course offers a critical examination of the assumptions about female victimization, women encountering and moving through the criminal justice system and as criminal justice professionals. Students will examine current research and review individual experience through writings of women on all sides of the law.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course will provide students the skills and knowledge to recognize their own implicit biases and develop techniques for recognizing everyone has unconscious biases and how not to allow it to impact decision making. Students learn that one of the most reliable strategies for successful contacts with individuals from differing cultural, racial, or ethnic backgrounds is to treat all individuals and groups with dignity and respect. Students will understand how the fundamental legitimacy of the criminal justice system requires unbiased judgement.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

This course introduces students to the dynamics of conducting interviews and interrogations (via internet conference) from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Emphasis is on both collecting reliable information by means of interviewing and interrogation for use in public safety and security investigations and on evaluating that reliability through a scientific approach.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course provides an introduction to the model and methodology of investigation of cold cases.

Course Area: Ethics

A high degree of professionalism is expected from those who work in crime scene investigation. This course emphasizes the qualities that mark a true professional in the field. It covers crime scene safety, chain of custody, ethics, impartiality, the manipulation and mishandling or misinterpreting of evidence. There is a focus on preventing contamination, report writing and courtroom reputation and presentation.

Course Area: Natural Science

This course combines the understanding of how physical evidence is produced during the commission of a crime and how forensic examinations are performed to yield scientific analysis and data for aid in the investigation and prosecution of criminal activity.

Course Area: Natural Science

This lab combines the understanding of how physical evidence is produced during the commission of a crime and how forensic examinations are performed by crime laboratories to yield scientific analysis and data for aid in the investigation and prosecution of criminal activity.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course offers an important examination of the inequalities in black victimization, black individuals encountering and moving through the criminal justice system and black criminal justice professionals. Students will examine current research, data and statistics and review individual black experiences on all sides of the law.

Course Area: Natural Science

This course focuses on the production of evidence from people, objects, and information, the practice of which is commonly termed “forensic science.” This course emphasizes decision-making in forensic science examinations and evaluation of reliability for court. It uses the scientific method of hypothesis, testing, and analyzing results. The major forensic disciplines are covered and the course articulates the interaction of math, chemistry, biology, physics and earth science as the underpinnings of forensics.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

This laboratory applies various techniques for the examination of physical materials generated during the commission of a crime in order to produce information required to detect and investigate criminal activity. This laboratory emphasizes the implementation of scientific protocols for collection and analysis of evidence and the calculation of associated error rates.

Developed by: Banyon Pelham
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course focuses on the integration of knowledge, skills, and capabilities learned in the program through a capstone project thought working with a Public Safety & Security Agency or Guided Research.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

The Youth Culture and Crime explores the unique characteristics of juvenile offending and victimization by examining the cultural traits that differentiate youths from society in general. In doing so, the class investigates various distinct subcultures globally and the relationship between specific forms of offending and the subcultural traits. The course offers a new perspective to explaining delinquent behaviors and suggests alternative paths for dealing with it.

Developed by: Krista Flannigan
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

This course examines the role of courts in determining social policy as it relates to criminology. Emphasis is directed toward the political and social inputs that influence judicial decision making and the role of democracy and punishment in the courts. These topics are examined using current social policy.

Course Area: History Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This introductory level course engages with the Roman world from the point of view of the people who lived there. Students will study the different kinds of people who inhabited the Roman Empire, focusing on its multiethnic and diverse populaces, and on the ways in which, as in a modern city, rather different groups may have come into contact with one another. While the ancient Roman world will be the primary subject of study, the class will regularly draw on modern notions of identity formation and definition.

Course Area: History Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Oral Communication Competency

This course is an introduction to different aspects of Greek, especially Athenian, culture, society, history and literature from the archaic age (8th-6th centuries BCE) through the classical era (5th-4th centuries BCE) and beyond. Our goal is to understand the Greeks through their words and the views of modern scholars, which students will encounter in their assigned texts, translations of primary sources, and through lectures.

Course Area: History Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Oral Communication Competency

This course is an introduction to different aspects of Roman culture, society, history, and literature from the period of the monarchy (roughly eighth century BCE) through the Late Empire (fifth century CE). Our goal is to understand the Romans through their words and the views of modern scholars, which students will encounter in their assigned texts, translations of primary sources, and through lectures. Students will also sharpen their oral competency skills through participation in debates in a variety of roles.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course introduces students to the history of moden science in the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman world, the world of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Although we tend to think of the modern world as the age of scientific reason, the foundation of our knowledge of the physical world and the diversity of on the planet Earth was built by man's unceasing curiosity to understand and control the environment, in both what he could see and what he could not see. Working with limited technology and resources, the people who studied the physical environment and life organisms in antiquity put together a working body of scientific knowledge from which the modern science disciplines grew.

Developed by: James Sickinger
Course Area: History Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course surveys the history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age (3000-1000 B.C.) through the Hellenistic period and the Roman conquest of Greece (2nd century BC). It begins with the palace civilizations of Bronze Age Greece and traces the subsequent emergence of the Greek city-states in the Dark Ages and Archaic periods. Special attention is given to political, social, and economic features of the Greek city-states during the Classical period (ca. 480-323 BC). The course concludes with an examination of the transformation of the Greek world wrought by the emergence of Macedonia and Rome as major powers in the Mediterranean world.

Course Area: History Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course surveys the history of ancient Rome from the Iron Age through Late Antiquity. Emphasis is on political, social, and economic developments.

Developed by: Christopher Pfaff
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course will introduce students to a wide variety of sporting events, especially those associated with the ancient Greek festival games, such as the Olympics, and the Roman gladiatorial arena and circus, and will consider a broad range of related topics, including: professionalism in ancient sports, rewards and prizes for victors, athletic training, facilities for training and competition, and the religious dimension of ancient sports. To explore these various topics, students will be exposed to a wide variety of evidence, including inscriptions, literary sources, architectural remains, vase-paintings, sculptures, and other types of archaeological finds. Modern athletic practice and sporting events, including the modern Olympics, Extreme Fighting, and NASCAR will provide an implicit, and sometimes explicit, field of comparison throughout.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course examines the concept of gender, and how attention to it can contribute to a better understanding of Greek literature, mythology, and culture in general. It explores how the construction of gender ideals informed works of Greek art and literature, and what role gender played more broadly in the legal, political, and social realms. The images, stereotypes, and experiences of female characters and Greek women receive a significant amount of attention, but the course also explores Greek concepts of masculinity, and what it meant to “be a man” (ἀνδρίζεσθαι) in ancient Greece.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Examines the Roman family in its various facets. The focus will not only be on the nuclear family but also on the broader concept of family which includes slaves and dependents. Midterm and non-­cumulative final; project required.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This fieldwork course affords students the experience of excavation through an approved archaeological fieldschool or project.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

The seminar in Classics is designed as a capstone course and is required for all Classics majors. Students must have completed at least 9 hours of coursework in departmental classes before the term in which they enroll in the seminar.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

Course Area: History
Humanities and Cultural Practice

Since the meaning of the words in Latin and Greek is fixed, medical terminology, based on these words, is also stable in meaning. By teaching you how to break down any medical term into its composing elements (prefix, word root, and suffix), you will acquire the necessary skills to analyze and learn technical vocabulary, for your future career in medicine and/or its related sciences. The course will present medical terminology in the comprehensive method of a capite ad calcem (with the skills you will develop in this class, you will recognize this phrase as meaning “from head to toe”).

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The study of Greco-Roman mythology offers an excellent window into the past by providing us with a unique opportunity to examine how the Greeks and Romans attempted to answer questions about the nature of the universe and mankind's place in it. The myths of any people betray attitudes concerning life, death, life after death, love, hate, morality, the role of women in society, etc.; we will pay particular attention to how Greco-Roman mythology addresses these important issues.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course provides students with an introduction to the mythological traditions from a diverse group of ancient cultures, including those of Greece and Rome, the Near East, Northern Europe, India, China, Africa, and the Americas. We will read extensively in translation from works of world literature on mythological subjects, in order to answer larger questions about how various cultures create the stories they live by. We will focus especially on narrative threads that appear in very differing cultures, as a main goal is to explore the ways in which a wide variety of societies share variants upon a basic story theme.

Developed by: James Sickinger
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course examines representations of the ancient Greco-Roman world in modern cinema. It is chiefly concern with the survival and reception of classical culture in twentieth and twenty-first century America. Students will read select works of ancient literature to gain some background in the ideals, values, and history of Greek and Roman culture. At the same time we will also consider how modern filmmakers have interpreted these works, and what their interpretations suggest about the changing meaning(s) of classical civilization in modern times. Some attention will be paid to questions of historical “fidelity”; i.e., how closely modern works “stick” to their ancient models. But our attention will also focus on how cinematic representations adapt and diverge from their classical counterparts, and how ancient Greece and Rome have served as vehicles for exploring contemporary concerns. Special attention will be paid to depictions of race, slavery, and sexuality, topics that figure prominently in ancient literature and that form central themes in modern film adaptations, ranging from Troy and 300 to Gladiator.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course examines the lyric and elegiac genres in their cultural and performance contexts in Greece and Rome, with attention to meter, language, and poetic voice, and their relevance to Greek and Roman politics and society. Students will read major surviving works of lyric and elegiac poets and will learn skills of historical and literary analysis through a variety of written assignments.

Developed by: Erika Weiberg
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

In this course, we explore two ideas central to Greek myth: home and homecoming. Again and again Greeks told stories—in Greek, mythoi—about a hero’s return home to his family and city after war and other adventures abroad. We will examine different versions of this story pattern, beginning with Odysseus’ return home from the Trojan War in Homer’s Odyssey. Together we will ask why the Greeks repeatedly told this story. What elements changed with each retelling? How do ancient concepts intersect with modern concepts of home and homecoming? What can we learn from the Greeks’ stories?

This course will challenge you to relate Greek myth to your own life in both creative and analytic writing assignments. Anyone interested in literature, psychology, theater, history, war and combat trauma, or gender studies will find a home here.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

This course provides students with theoretical background and practical experience in constructing messages for online communication, as well as managing self-presentation and professional relationships in the online environment. Coursework includes critical analysis of information sources and audiences and the development and delivery of online oral presentations.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course introduces contemporary issues in communication, including communication as an academic discipline, a major business and governmental policy sector, and a professional career. The class will review some historical and predominantly current issues, policies and practices that are central to the field of communication. The class will be organized around a series of faculty lectures and visiting professional presentations. Students will also have opportunities to participate in communication-related activities and events occurring during the semester.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

This workplace-oriented course provides practical education and experience in the performance of informative, persuasive, and special occasion speeches through individual and group presentations. Fulfills OCCR requirement.

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Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

A review and exploration of foundational concepts of queer theory and queer history.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course introduces students to important ethical issues in developing digital media campaigns as well as gives them practical experience writing

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course combines some classroom lecture with other types of instruction that allows students to apply a variety of communication skills in diverse settings. The course is meant for groups of students rather than individuals. The other types of instruction can be a combination of any or all of the following: internship, directed individual study, project implementation, laboratory, and other instructional modes tailored to the specific topic of the course and the educational goal of the students.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course is designed to facilitate study abroad on a Global Exchange. Students enroll in classes at an international partner institution and are immersed in the cultural setting of the host institution. Experiential learning occurs throughout the Global Exchange as students are forced out of their ‘comfort zones’ and of necessity encounter people, cultures, and experiences outside of their normal, daily lives. The course provides students with basic tools for positive interaction with people from other cultures by introducing students to concepts and strategies for intercultural communication, dealing with culture shock, and safety and security abroad. For more information on FSU's Global Exchange program, see https://global.fsu.edu/exchange-programs.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course provides overview of operations and applications of software packages; principles of design and presentation for print-based as well as audio-visual productions.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

The course teaches students how to identify and apply the persuasive techniques and strategies for writing in a way that influences audiences to think and act in certain ways.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

Students select a topic of interest to pursue under supervision of a faculty member. Could be research/creative, pedagogy, service, or applied. Results in final project, scope and type to be defined by student and faculty supervisor.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course offers experience in methods and strategies of research in communication concepts. Individually designed to accommodate student's background and objectives.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course is to provide experience in methods and strategies of teaching communication concepts within the University context. Individually designed to accommodate student's background and objectives.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

Supervised internship. Credit proportional to scope and significance of work. Credit may not be applied to graduate degrees. Individually designed to accommodate student's background and objectives.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

The ability to solve problems creatively using computational methods has become important to professionals in many disciplines. This interdisciplinary course is designed for students who are not necessarily intent on becoming computer programmers but are interested in understanding the principles that govern Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and software development in order to assist with problem-solving in their own disciplines.

The course addresses a variety of topics including algorithm building principles, problem-solving strategies, how to analyze problems to identify requirements, and how to design an object-oriented solution. Students design, write, and debug computer programs. This course is open to all majors.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course covers fundamental concepts and skills of programming in a high-level language. Flow of control: sequence, selection, iteration, subprograms. Data structures: arrays, strings, structs, ADT lists and tables. Algorithms using selection and iteration (decision making, finding maxima and minima, basic searching and sorting, simulation, etc.). Good program design using a procedural paradigm, structure and style are emphasized. Interactive and file I/O. Testing and debugging techniques. Intended primarily for computer science or computer engineering majors, or anyone who is required to take COP 3330.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

Fundamental concepts and skills of programming in C++ in the Unix Environment. This course is primarily intended for Computer Science majors who will be taking upper division CS courses. Students will also be instructed on efficient program design using a combination of procedural and Object Oriented paradigms. Satisfies the FSU computer skills competency requirement.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Social Science

This course addresses government institutions and current political parties throughout the world, as well as theories that explain similarities and differences among countries. Topics may include electoral systems, parliamentary systems, causes of political change, democratization, political culture,ideologies, and economic and social policy. Examples are drawn from Western democracies and developing countries.

Course Area: Social Science

This course examines Latin American politics after the mid-twentieth century. The course also examines the historical, economic, and international contexts in which Latin American political systems function, and identifies challenges to democracy and development. The specific Latin American countries covered will vary.

Course Area: General Education Elective (no area) Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

Writing Florida will build on the fundamental elements of fiction writing and will help students gain an overview of, and cultivate their own, aesthetically unique style that informs their Florida fiction. Through workshops and revisions, students will complete three written works set in Florida, either novel chapters or short stories.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

Fiction Workshop is a course on the craft and art of fiction writing, only available for those students who have already satisfactorily completed Fiction Technique (CRW 3110). This course assumes you have a serious interest in fiction writing, as well as in discussing the writing of fiction with others likewise engaged. Our concerns are mainly practical and craftbased: where you as author wish to go with a particular draft, and how we, as readers and writers engaged in a common cause, might help you get there.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course is for poets who approach excellence and aspire toward publication. Poetry Workshop (CRW 4320) is a course on the art and craft of poetry, only available for those students who have already satisfactorily completed Poetic Technique (CRW 3311).

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course is a presentation and explanation of major theories and concepts that are important to understanding the relationships between dress and human behavior. The course will cover clothing and appearance as important contributors to human interactions with consideration of the importance of clothing in individual and collective behavior.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course covers computer and digital technology skills for retail entrepreneurship students that will prepare them for the textile and apparel industry. Students will demonstrate these skills by creating a word document, spreadsheets, and fashion design projects. Students will complete a capstone activity in the form of creating a final portfolio which will include all of the projects created during the semester. Students will gain exposure to software utilized in the textile and apparel industry including Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Cloud.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course explores the development of Western dress from the 15th centuryto the present as a reflection of socio-cultural factors including cultural values, ethnicity, gender, class, art, customs, economy, politics, religion, geography, and technology.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course is a survey of the development of dance in human culture with emphasis on dance as an art form. The major periods of dance history, choreographic masterworks, and artists in choreography and performance are explored through readings, discussion, media presentation, live performances, and movement laboratories. No prior dance experience is required.

Developed by: Hannah Schwadron
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course surveys approaches to the study of global dance perspectives and practices through emphasis on dance as expression of cultural, historical, social and political forces. Issues of tradition and innovation in select dance phenomena are especially explored through readings, discussion, media presentation, embodied experiences, and movement laboratories. While movement is a key component of this course, no prior dance experience is required.

Developed by: Jennifer Atkins
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course introduces students to the history of ballet through a comparative study of classical dance forms around the world. Exploring what constitutes “classical” and reinventing classical, the course also focuses on larger cultural and historical movements as they influenced (or reflected) the codification of dance technique, gender theories of performance, and the role of dance in society. We will investigate these concepts through open, in-class conversations, the screening of classical dance works, and the reading and writing of critical essays and dance reviews.

Developed by: Hannah Schwadron
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course introduces students to a comparative study of contemporary dance forms, predominantly in Western culture. The course traces the development of modern and contemporary dance as reflective of larger cultural and historical movements, focusing on the codification of dance technique, gender theories of performance, and the role of dance in society. We will explore the articulation of these concepts through open, in-class conversations, the screening of contemporary dance works, and through the reading and writing of critical essays.

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Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity

This course examines how cultural and artistic expression can both integrate and divide different groups of people along lines of race, gender, and class using African American dance as the central focus.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course provides training and aesthetic guidance for dance artists through the generation of computer-assisted imagery. It sets a foundation for future work in the areas of dance documentation, preservation, creation, promotion and multimedia performance.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

The internship experience provides students with professional experience related to their field of study. The School of Dance at Florida State University offers internship placements with a variety of dance- and arts-related organizations. The internship enables the student to receive valuable networking connections, hands-on training, and the opportunity to work closely with professionals on meaningful projects.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course will provide senior dance majors with opportunities to develop a significant, original project through the cultivation of an individual studio or related studies practice and semester portfolio. The aim is to prepare students for entering the field after graduation from the BFA program. Emphasis is placed on verbal articulations of creative process as well as thoughtful critiques of dance works. Discussions and assignments on topics such as choreographers, dance company structures, contracts, mission and artist statements, the audition process, and current trends in the field will be included in the course. Studio time will be allotted for rehearsals, small group work and labs, informal presentations of in-process work, and critical response and feedback sessions.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

This course includes techniques for effective oral communication in settings most frequently encountered by the practicing engineer. Speaking skills will be applied in informal presentations, formal presentations, and interviews.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

Design and conduct experiments on fluid mechanics and heat transfer; analyze and interpret data, applying spreadsheets, statistical methods, and process models. Gain proficiency in operating basic chemical engineering equipment and instruments. Emphasis on safety, professionalism, teamwork, and oral & written communication.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

Structured programming techniques; numerical techniques useful in the solution of chemical engineering processes: root-finding techniques, direct and iterative approaches to solve linear systems, linear and nonlinear regression, interpolation, numerical differentiation and integration, statistical analysis of data; solutions of ordinary differential equations.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Developed by: Kimberly Hunter
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

Design and conduct experiments in reaction kinetics and chemical separations; analyze and interpret data, applying spreadsheets, statistical methods, and process models. Gain proficiency in operating basic chemical engineering equipment and instruments. Emphasis on safety, professionalism, teamwork, and oral & written communication.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This is the first course of a two-semester sequence on the analysis, synthesis, and design of chemical processes. This sequence prepares students for engineering practice. Students will integrate knowledge from prior courses with process economics, computer-aided design, engineering standards, and realistic constraints to solve open-ended process problems.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This is the second course of a two-semester sequence on the analysis, synthesis, and design of chemical processes. This sequence prepares students for engineering practice. Students will integrate knowledge from prior courses with process economics, computer-aided design, engineering standards, and realistic constraints to the design of chemical process facilities.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Social Science

This course is a survey of the discipline for people taking only one economics course. Historical perspective and major principles of theory are presented. Not to be taken by students who have had or who must take ECO 2013 and 2023. Not applicable to the economics major nor the economics minor.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Statewide Core

This course explores aggregate economics and national income determination,money and monetary theory, present macroeconomic conditions, and aggregative policy alternatives; theory of international trade and the balance of payments; economic growth and development.

Below is a sample syllabus for ECO2013. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Social Science

This course covers consumption, production, and resource allocations considered from a private and social point of view; microeconomic problems and policy alternatives; economics of inequality and poverty; and comparative economic systems.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course introduces statistical inference, estimation theory, model building, and forecasting methods. Emphasis is on model building and policy analysis. Extensive use is made of PC econometric software.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course is research-based, intended to provide the student an introduction into the world of scholarly research in economics.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course is an academic course related to the internship experience. Students are required to submit a weekly description of their internship activities, duties, and responsibilities; to complete a set of assignments; and at the end of the semester, to submit a paper that describes in detail the tasks they performed during the internship and discusses the skills and information required to accomplish each task. Students enrolled for six hours credit must also complete a research paper that integrates their classroom knowledge and work experience.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course uses economic theory to analyze urban land and housing markets in an applied, interdisciplinary framework. Students will use economic models to examine current issues in housing and land economics. Students will apply these theories to explain and critically examine the development of a simulated city based on parameters established in class.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course is designed to equip students with the skills needed to communicate economic policy ideas through policy writing for non-academic audiences with little background in economic theory or empirical techniques while focusing on writing in a policy-oriented work setting, developing critical thinking skills, identifying and applying creative uses of data to problems, and working as analysts.

Developed by: Katie Sherron
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

The course provides an overview of the U.S. health care system and the role that economics plays in advancing our understanding of it. Our topics will include the demand for medical care and health insurance, the role and impact of government in funding health care services (Medicare and Medicaid), cost benefit analysis, pharmaceuticals and the FDA, organ donation and vending, as well as health care and insurance in other developed countries. Throughout the course, you will have opportunities to improve your writing through instruction and assigned papers.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course explores the use of quantitative research methods to evaluate and understand the performance of economies with a focus on land use, housing, urban economic growth, housing finance and public finance. Each student will identify a topic, define the question, and conduct original research through a workshop format supervised by the instructor.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Developed by: Ella-Mae Daniel
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course examines the complexity of the full range of human groupings and cultural perspectives, as well as the complex relationships among them. Students will gain self-understanding in becoming culturally conscious participants in the global community through examining the differences between individuals and peoples, comparing cultures within the global community, and investigating diversity within Florida populations in general and school community populations in particular.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

This course is designed to provide specific knowledge and opportunities to apply skills in preparation for entering the education profession. Topics include classroom management, classroom routines, organizing for instruction, planning for instruction, effective communication, knowledge of legal and ethical responsibilities of teachers, and safe learning environments.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course covers fundamental topics in digital logic design, algorithms, computer organization, assembly-language programming, and computer engineering technology.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course introduces the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively complete a capstone project. Concepts in design, systems engineering, project management, engineering team organization, ethics, and professionalism are presented. Periodic written reports are required and used to satisfy the upper division writing (UDW) competency.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Oral Communication Competency

Senior students are exposed to the concepts in design, project management, engineering team organization, and professionalism. Students are grouped into design teams where these principles are put into practice in organizing, proposing, and developing an engineering project. Periodic written reports and oral presentations, and a final written report are required. The lecture material and texts provide instructions on project management, ethics, and design skills.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

Senior students are exposed to the concepts in design, project management, engineering team organization, and professionalism. Students are grouped into design teams where these principles are put into practice in organizing, proposing, and developing an engineering project. Periodic written reports and oral presentations, and a final written report are required. The lecture material and texts provide instructions on project management, ethics, and design skills.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

Senior students are exposed to the concepts in design, project management, engineering team organization, and professionalism. Students are grouped into design teams where these principles are put into practice in organizing, proposing, and developing an engineering project. Periodic written reports and oral presentations, and a final written report are required. The lecture material and texts provide instructions on project management, ethics, and design skills.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This practicum provides experience with individuals with high incidence disabilities.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This class, EGN 3XXX Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Global Grand Challenges of Engineering, delves into the engineering challenges of the 21st Century and considers how these challenges can be overcome at the global scale.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

This course will mainly teach, from an engineering viewpoint, fundamental topics that are important for the practicing industrial engineer, including technical writing, oral communication and presentation of technical topics, managerial and cost accounting for production organizations and databases and management information systems. (Majors only)

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course is the first in a two-part course sequence, this capstone class represents the culmination of the industrial-engineering design sequence and draws upon student training from all previous courses. This course utilizes the six-sigma methodology to reduce variation and defects in order to deliver products and services that meet customer requirements.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course is the second in a two-part course sequence, this capstone class represents the culmination of the industrial-engineering design sequence and draws upon student training from all previous courses. This course utilizes the six-sigma methodology to reduce variation and defects in order to deliver products and services that meet customer requirements.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course is an introduction to the use of educational technology in teaching and learning. Students learn to use personal computers and other technology for communication, presentations, and resource acquisition.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course is an introduction to thermal-fluid engineering necessary to understand the principles of operation of the engine built and modeled in the laboratory course.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This lab course is designed to give students practical hands-on experience in measurement techniques and experimental methods in solid mechanics and materials science. The course will be used as a basis for students to meet the Liberal Studies requirements for Upper-Division Writing and thus is designed to help students become flexible and proficient writers for professional purposes.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Oral Communication Competency

This course is the first in a two-part course sequence presenting an integrated system design approach for engineering product realization. Course blends the perspectives of market research and planning, design cycle, project management and teamwork, and technical reporting. This is the ‘capstone’ course for mechanical engineering students. The course offers weekly sessions in which teams are coached during the different phases of the project, plus frequent and extensive design reviews. The course is structured to closely resemble ‘on the job’ engineering education.

Note – To satisfy the Oral Communication Competency requirement, both EML4551C and EML4552C must be taken.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Oral Communication Competency

The second in a two-part course sequence presenting an integrated system design approach for engineering product realization. Course blends the perspectives of market research and planning, design cycle, project management and teamwork, and technical reporting. This is the “capstone” course for Mechanical Engineering students. The course offers weekly sessions in which teams are coached during the different phases of the project, plus frequent and extensive design reviews. Otherwise, this course does not have traditional lectures/tests, but is rather structured to closely resemble ‘on-the-job’ engineering education.

Note – To satisfy the Oral Communication Competency requirement, both EML4551C and EML4552C must be taken.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: English Composition Designations: Statewide Core

This course stresses the importance of critical reading, writing, and thinking skills, as well as the importance of using writing as a recursive process involving invention, drafting, collaboration, revision, rereading, and editing to clearly and effectively communicate ideas for specific purposes, occasions, and audiences. No auditors.

Below is a sample syllabus for ENC1101. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: English Composition

ENC 2135 is the second of two required composition courses at Florida State University. While continuing to stress the importance of critical reading, writing, and thinking skills emphasized in ENC 1101, as well as the importance of using writing as a recursive process involving invention, drafting, collaboration, revision, rereading, and editing to clearly and effectively communicate ideas for specific purposes, occasions, and audiences, ENC 2135 focuses on teaching students research skills that allow them to effectively incorporate outside sources in their writing and to compose in a variety of genres for specific contexts.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course is for upper-level undergraduate students interested in writing nonfiction prose, especially but not exclusively what has come to be called “creative nonfiction,” such as the personal essay. The class is designed to help students improve their nonfiction writing through discussions of their work, exercises to practice craft, and explorations of published essays for techniques—ie. learning to read as writers.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course focuses on the principles of composing, especially across different composing spaces. Students create works in several different media, including (1) in print, (2) on the screen, and (3) for the network, while also learning how to edit the works deployed in each medium appropriately. In addition, students repurpose at least one of these works for another medium. Students conclude the course by creating a digital portfolio.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

Advanced Article & Essay Workshop is a course on the craft and art of creative nonfiction writing, only available for those students who have already satisfactorily completed Article & Essay Technique (ENC 3310). The concerns are mainly practical and craft-based: where you as author wish to go with a particular draft, and how we, as readers and writers engaged in a common cause, might help you get there.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

The goal of your internship is to provide you with practical experience in professional editing or writing. Students will gain valuable professional experience as well as learn about who they are as a writers, editors, and professionals. Although the FSU Career Center English Department Liaison and Seminole Link are great resources for helping students secure their internships, students are ultimately responsible for finding their own internship sites. Editing, Writing, and Media majors are required to complete 3 hours of ENC 4942 credit.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice

This course examines comics, graphic novels, words-and-pictures as an imaginative art from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice

This course will study cinema’s ability to use documentary form to question the nature of truth, the politics of representation, the construction of the real, and the sociology of the image.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice

This course is an introduction to the history of the changing technologies that humans have used to record and transmit their experiences across time and space. It surveys the variety of forms this effort has taken from tattoo to TikTok and from papyrus scrolls to iPads. Students investigate how culturally diverse technologies have shaped the way we produce, transmit, and receive texts.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course is a practicum intended to provide each student with practical experience in the field of literary editing. Students will work under the direction of the Senior Editor throughout the process of soliciting, judging, and editing manuscripts for the Kudzu Review. Students will also work together throughout the process of magazine lay-out as well as magazine printing and distribution.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This upper-division Scholarship In Practice course is designed to engage students in the authentic work of scholarly research in Renaissance/early modern literature. Hands-on work in research archives and databases will build toward a final research project with multimedia components.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

Topics vary. Required for senior English majors concentrating in literature.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course is a survey of English masterworks intended for students in liberal studies and those exploring a literature major. Among the authors typically considered are Wordsworth, Dickens, and Conrad.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Introduction to the study of Shakespeare at the college level. Consideration of representative genres – comedy, history, tragedy, tragicomedy – drawn from throughout the playwright’s career. Tests and critical papers will be required.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

Intensive focus on aspects of orality in Shakespeare's Sonnets, with some complementary work in theory, acoustics, and rhetoric. Requires oral presentations as 40% of grade; fulfills OCCR requirement. Explicit instruction in writing and presenting original critical talks, with specific feedback on them, plus chances to incorporate that feedback in another oral presentation.

Course Area: General Education Elective (no area) Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course provides a broad overview of the creation and concepts that drive the themed experience. Discussions will include historical themed spaces and current industry trends in retail venues, theme parks to formal gardens, instillation art and theatrical venues. Students will gain understanding of storytelling through designed placemaking.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

Students focus on the most current thoughts, ideas, and industry practices relevant to entrepreneurship.This course provides an understanding of start-up and how to grow one’s firm as well as providing a hands on experience for a variety of topics all which are relevant to the student’s success as an entrepreneur.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

The objective of this course is to build a foundation in marketing and sales for entrepreneurs to be successful. Students will focus on Marketing Strategy, 4 Ps of Marketing, Creating your Sales Strategy, and Tactics for making the Sale. This course will have the focus of a new venture and must understand the practical aspects of these Marketing and Sales topics.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

In this course, students will learn the systems innovation process and develop solutions to systemic problems in areas such as education, transportation, housing, environment, health and employment. Student teams will identify relevant components of the system, recognize cause and effect relationships and feedback loops, build a systems map, and unveil levers to improve system performance.

Developed by: Ken Baldauf
Course Area: General Education Elective (no area) Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course teaches methods common to human-centered innovation frameworks such as Design Thinking: empathizing with people in given situations, framing and reframing problems, ideating, prototyping and testing solutions. Students will learn the process of developing products, services, systems and other solutions from the initial discovery of needs, to presenting a tested solution ready for deployment. This course features learning by doing with the vast majority of class time dedicated to collaborative exploration, supported by inspirational case studies, insightful video lessons from thought-leaders in the field, and abundant online resources.

Developed by: Ron Frazier
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course gives you the opportunity to critically assess current and emerging technologies you may want to be the cornerstone(s) of your professional career! You will learn a defined process for efficiently and effectively coming up to speed on new technologies and how to think critically about the economic potential, societal impact, and ethical considerations of new technologies.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

The objective of this course is to help students appreciate the purposes of the business plan and its potential audience. Also, to aid students in understanding the structure and content of a business plan, including the reasons for the organization and substance of the work. The course will guide participants in preparing their own business plan and aid them in its critical evaluations.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

In this course, students will work in interdisciplinary teams using innovation frameworks such as Design Thinking and Systems Thinking, to confront a unique grand challenge. The grand challenge will be provided by a community partner and will differ from semester to semester. Each team will be made up of specialists with at least one member that is familiar with Design Thinking.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course is designed to provide an experiential learning lab on how to perform business research and to apply that research to the Internship Sponsor. You will learn basic competitive intelligence techniques and utilize critical thinking skills to synthesize data and intelligence into a presentation that will provide a useful and practical result to the Internship Sponsor. These techniques can be applied to a wide range of industries.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course is for students in the Jim Moran School who wish to receive honors in the major by working on an honors thesis or project. This course may be repeated for a maximum of six semester hours.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

The Experience Recognition Program (ERP) Certificate Recognition Option allows all FSU degree-seeking students the opportunity to earn a certificate of recognition for engaging in a semester-long paid or unpaid career-related experience through which students develop knowledge, skills, and values from direct experiences outside a traditional academic setting. There is no academic credit, cost, or tuition associated with the ERP Certificate Recognition Option. Students who complete the ERP can have this count as a Formative Experience. For more information on the Experience Recognition Program, please contact the Career Center or visit career.fsu.edu/ERP.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Statewide Core

This course is an introduction to the study of planet Earth, its internal dynamics, and surficial weathering, erosion, sedimentary processes, the composition and motion of its oceans and atmosphere, and its origin as part of the solar system. Course credit may not be received for this course and also GLY 1000, 1030 or 2010C.

Below is a sample syllabus for ESC1000. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

This course is a laboratory introduction to earth science as the study of planet earth, specifically a study of minerals, rocks, maps, oceans and the atmosphere. Course prerequisite or corequisite: GLY 1030 or ESC 1000.

Course Area: History Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course provides a survey of Western traditions from the beginnings through the end of the Middle Ages. Emphasis is on patterns of thinking and on those institutions most distinctive for the Western tradition. Students who have previous college credit in Western civilization courses covering the same general chronological period cannot receive credit for EUH 2000. May not be taken by students with test credit in European history.

Course Area: History Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course provides a survey of Spanish history from the beginnings through to the early twenty-first century. The emphasis is on Spain's position as an economic and cultural crossroads linking human societies along the Atlantic seaboard, the Mediterranean, North Africa and subsequently across the globe.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

Robin Hood, the most famous medieval hero, was a friend of the poor, a thief, an expert archer, a devotee of the Virgin Mary, and an outlaw. This liberal studies course examines Robin Hood stories, their appeal, and their legacy in medieval Europe and beyond.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course is an introduction to key themes and problems in the social, political, and cultural history of Europe from the era of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I. Although this is an upper-level course, no prior background in European history is required.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This Liberal Studies �W� course introduces undergraduates to several broad themes in the history of twentieth-century Europe. Themes include communism, decolonization, democracy, fascism, imperialism, war.

Course Area: History
Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity

The course uses texts as well as films to examine major themes in the study of civil wars and world wars in twentieth century Europe.

Course Area: History Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

In this class we explore the recent history of Spain including the establishment of the Second Republic, the reasons for its collapse in the Civil War and the consolidation of authoritarian government after the War.

Course Area: History Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Diversity

This course provides an introduction into how the Second World War developed and evolved in Italy from 1940 until 1945. While students will begin by examining the origins of fascism and the radicalization of Italian foreign policy in the 1930s, the course will focus on how Italy was affected by war between 1940-1945 when long-standing political, social, and economic divisions in Italian society.

Course Area: History Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course offers a history of the expansion of the British Empire and its evolution into the Commonwealth from the early eighteenth century to the present. It examines the complex set societies, governing structures, economic systems, and geographic locations encompassed by British overseas expansion.

Developed by: Nathan Stoltzfus
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

Who was Hitler, how did he come to power and what was his Nazi movement? Why did Germany slip so quickly from democracy to dictatorship? What chances did the German Weimar Republic have of surviving under the conditions that followed World War I? Why did Germans see Hitler as such a magnificent leader, and mobilize national energies around his programs? Was this due mostly to Nazi terror, anti-Semitism, and propaganda, or more to collaboration, social conformity, and willing participation? Did Hitler ever compromise? How did so many Germans find themselves supporting, directly or indirectly, the war crimes and genocide often characterized as the worst crimes of history? What was the Holocaust, and what did Germans know about it? Why are comparisons to Hitler so common (“he’s worse than Hitler”), and can they ever be relevant? Why is Hitler such a popular issue almost a century later? This course examines the background of the Nazi regime, the character of Hitler’s dictatorship, and the origins and course of WWII in its European context. Also examined is National Socialism’s impact on German institutions and racial consequences.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Statewide Core

This class is an Introduction to Environmental Science and will cover the basic functioning of the earth's environmental system and human effects on that system.

Below is a sample syllabus for EVR1001. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Computer Competency, Natural Science Lab

This fully on-line, virtual-reality lab course has 8 lab modules covering various aspects of environmental science. Students submit lab reports on-line for each module that include data analysis and graphical interpretation.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Developed by: Jeremy Owens
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Course allows students an opportunity to apply knowledge from coursework to a number of individual and group projects. There is a strong field component conducted on and off campus using techniques in basic surveying, sampling, and safety. Meets Liberal Studies upper division writing skills requirement.

Course Area: Social Science

Examines the dynamics of contemporary family life and interpersonal relationships in a changing society and over the life course.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course is reading and writing intensive and provides students with a critical understanding of both the theoretical and the interdisciplinary nature of aging, the aging process (physical, cognitive, social-emotional), and challenges of adulthood as a period of the lifespan. Further, this course is designed to focus on critical issues in aging while strategically focusing on writing and communicating aging issues for the Human Sciences field.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

For Family and Child Sciences majors. This course is designed to provide students with experience in a community setting serving children and/or their families. These experiences will provide students with opportunities to relate class materials with the work environment of child and family services and to develop basic intervention skills. In addition to experience in the field, class discussions focus on topics relevant to work with children and families. These include professional and social issues as well as the planning, implementing, and evaluating of appropriate activities and services.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice

Introduces students to Cinema Studies theories and techniques (e.g. narrative structure, cinematic language, formal analysis, cultural analysis). Through film screenings, discussion, and film analysis exercises, students compare and interpret films representing a variety of genres, aesthetic traditions, and cultural contexts.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Computer Competency

This course introduces computer graphics in the context of historical approaches to visual effects and animation. Students supply historical techniques to create original animations and visual effects. Credit may vary from 1 to 6 credit hours.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

This course provides instruction in oral presentation and communication skills for professional settings in the motion picture industry.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice

This course allows students to analyze motion picture form and content through the styles of selected filmmakers with emphasis on genres, national movements, and other topics of interest.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course teaches conceptual and practical approaches to developing stories intended for short films. Students develop an original screenplay through multiple drafts and iterations.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

Production management for BFA thesis films.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This practicum course focuses on all creative aspects of BFA thesis production. Students will work in a variety of creative roles on thesis projects, which may include directing, producing, cinematography, production design, below-the-line crew, editing, visual effects and/or animation. Students will build upon their technical, aesthetic, and professional skill sets in the art of filmmaking, engaging in research, planning, director preps, principal photography, picture editing, asset construction, shot production, and other tasks as needed.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This internship is designed for College of Business students who desire to gain real world experience in the finance field through on-the-job practice. Students work under the direction of an approved industry professional, a faculty adviser, and the internship director.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course invites students to think about literature in global terms, beyond the so-called "classics" of the English canon. Students will critically examine texts from the diverse language traditions represented by faculty in the Modern Languages and Linguistics department, studying various cultural-historical contexts while developing their skills in close literary analysis and writing.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

In this course we study how modern Western fiction represents sexuality in a socio-cultural and political context. The course focuses on the modern novel and the ways in which it represents, questions, and critically dissects a variety of themes related to sexuality, such as sexual repression, sexual exclusion and victimization, sexuality and spirituality, the political implications of gender and sexual identity, etc.

Developed by: Marie-France Prosper
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

This class is about oral expression, listening skills and vocabulary acquisition in French in a variety of domains. We will read, analyze, discuss, and debate articles from French magazines and newspapers. In addition, we will view TV programs and other resources available online. The topics deal with various socio-cultural realities of today’s Francophone world and are chosen for their general interest (allowing us to expand on some global issues and make comparisons with the US), and their relevance to you. The course will also include the viewing and discussion of at least one French or Francophone movies, listening to songs, presentations, and vocabulary building activities.

Developed by: Marie-France Prosper
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course is designed to help advanced-level French students improve their written and oral communication. In addition to two grammar and stylistics tests, and two research papers, the course will include two oral interviews, the second being an exit interview with the instructor and another professor in the department.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This internship provides academic credit for students working in governmental agencies or private business where students employ the foreign language. Departmental permission required.

Course Area: Ethics Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course is a survey of selected masterpieces of French literature, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present. The readings and instruction are in English. Can be used for minor credit in French with permission of the coordinator.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course provides an overview of Caribbean cultures, geography, and history through an analysis of texts, films, music, and performances. It focuses on how aesthetic practices shape and are shaped by transnational cultural exchanges and by colonialism in its past and present forms.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity

This Francophone cinema course is offered in two versions: one focusing on the relationship between cinema and Francophone cultures and societies, and another taking a chronological and thematic approach to the movements and directors of metropolitan French cinema. This course is taught in English and, with instructor permission, three hours may be used for major or minor credit. May be repeated to a maximum of six semester hours.

Developed by: Virginia Osborn
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course addresses issues of race, gender, and class in a selection of works originally written in French by prominent women writers from different historical periods and geographical areas (France, French colonies, and French territories). The novelists chosen portray female protagonists struggling with what it means to be other than the norm: female, black, immigrant, and/or lower-class. In addition, we will consider whether gender influences writing. Are there recurrent plots, motifs or strategies in literature written by women? What can books by French women writers tell us about their experiences of social exclusion and self-determination in specific historical circumstances?

Developed by: Aimée Boutin
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course is a survey of French literature in context from the French Renaissance to the French Revolution. It introduces you to the major literary genres (poetry: lyric poetry, the sonnet, the fable; theater: comedy and tragedy; prose: the letter, the epistolary novel, the fairy tale) and aesthetic movements of each period, while perfecting your command of written and spoken French. This course has an important cultural component: beginning with the rise of humanism under King François I^e and continuing with the consolidation of absolute royal power under Louis XIV, students will be introduced to the historical context of each of the works we read. Activities will include reading a play together in class, learning seventeenth-century penmanship, and analyzing a variety of other cultural materials relating to early modern France (visual arts, architecture, music, etc.).

Developed by: Aimée Boutin
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course will introduce you to a selection of well-known works of French Literature and their cultural contexts. The readings have been chosen to exemplify the most significant literary movements of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including le siècle des Lumières, le romantisme, le réalisme, la modernité, le surréalisme, l’existentialisme, and la francophonie. This course has an important cultural component: beginning with the rise of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, continuing with the modernization of post-Revolutionary society, (de)colonization, and the explosion of war on a world-wide scale, students will be introduced to the historical context of each of the works we read.

This course will be taught in French. By reading, writing, and participating in French, you will increase your comprehension and oral proficiency in the language. Although there will be key lectures in class every week, a substantial amount of time is devoted to discussion in French. It is essential that you do the assigned readings and come to class prepared to discuss them.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Diversity

This course is a regional survey of the human occupation of the face of the earth, local cultures, political systems, and development problems.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Diversity

This is a regional geography course on Latin America; an area of South, Central and North America bound by the common languages of Spanish and Portuguese. Emphasis is given to the region’s uniqueness–particularly the fragile ecosystems, colonial legacies, land reform, trade, conflict, inequality and political stability–and its international standing–both within the western hemisphere and its relationship with the US, and globally within other economically developing regions.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency, Oral Communication Competency

The course will help students develop and employ critical thinking, writing, verbal and interpersonal skills that are essential for a successful career in the business field.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency, Oral Communication Competency

This course is designed to help business students develop the writing, verbal, and interpersonal skills that are necessary for a successful business career. To enroll in this course, students must be upper-level business majors having completed the common prerequisites for business majors and the liberal studies English requirements.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course provides students with the "soft skills" critical for success in the business world. Students will spend time on campus during the spring semester studying a variety of topics to help facilitate the transition from college life to the professional world. During spring break, students will travel abroad to gain a global perspective of the business world.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course will examine experiential learning concepts in business and allow students to reflect on past experiences while engaging in meaningful practices designed to help prepare them for the workforce.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This business internship is designed for College of Business students who desire to gain real-world experience in the accounting field through on-the-job practice. Students work under the direction of an approved industry professional, a faculty advisor, and the internship director.

Course Area: Social Science

This course explores the causes of local and global environmental problems and their impacts, including resource use, pollution, ecosystems, and population growth.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Diversity

This course is an introductory survey of geographic theories, issues and applications from the human perspective. In particular, how people interact with each other politically, economically, culturally and socially across distances, scales and within various physical environments. In addition, global contrasts are examined using urban versus rural habitation, local versus transnational trade, and uneven economic development.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Diversity, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course studies the processes by which various cultural features have diffused throughout the world. Emphasis is on the contemporary cultural landscape.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course provides students with an opportunity to apply skills in supervised situations off-campus.

Developed by: Birgit Maier-Katkin
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

In this course, the objective is the ability to write and converse on general cultural topics at a level which demonstrates near mastery of German grammar and the beginning of a personal style in the language. The course is conducted in German.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

In this course, students will develop their German writing skills by exploring seven different writing genres (the review, the report, the journal, the case study, the essay, the research paper outline, and the debate). Additionally, students will prepare class presentations about specific advanced grammar and syntax topics and practice their language skills in language exercises and class activities. Students should also expect graded and ungraded in-class examinations, for example quizzes, dictations, and ungraded editing assignments. The course is taught in German.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This internship provides academic credit for students working in governmental agencies or private business where students employ the foreign language. Departmental permission required.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The course offers introduction to masterpieces of German literature from the nineteenth century to the present. As it uses works by authors of various ethnic, minority, and gender backgrounds that bring forth German representations of gendered or cultural “Others” and transcultural issues, the course enables students to develop critical competence in both literary analysis and diversity in Western (here: German) culture. By placing emphasis on cultural context and engaging students’ creative interaction with the material, the course offers non-German speakers general knowledge of German literary masterpieces and promotes their skills of understanding, interpreting, and writing about multicultural literature. The course also offers credit for German majors and minors.

Developed by: Christian Weber
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity

This course covers the contextual and stylistic features of German cinema from its classical period, in the 1920s, to the New German Cinema, through the present. The course focuses on methods of film analysis and on film criticism. Taught in English.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course is an introduction to the acquisition, processing, and presentation of cartographic data.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Computer Competency

This course is a survey of GIS topics, including locational control, spatial data structures, modeling and analysis, and future trends in decision support, sensors, and geographic methods.

Note – Not all Computer Competency courses will fulfill the Computer Competency graduation requirement for all majors. Consult with your advisor to see if this course will satisfy this requirement for your major.

Course Area: Natural Science

This course is an introduction to geology as the study of planet Earth, its internal dynamics, and its surficial weathering, erosion, and sedimentary processes. Course credit may not be received for this course and also GLY 1030 or 2010C.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

This course is a laboratory introduction to geology as the study of planet earth, specifically a study of minerals, rocks, maps. Course prerequisite or corequisite: GLY 1030 or GLY 1000.

Course Area: Natural Science

This course examines environmental issues as they relate to geological phenomena, which include volcanic and earthquake hazards, resource and land-useplanning, air and water pollution, waste disposal, glaciation and sea-levelchange, landslides, flooding, shoreline erosion, and global change issues. Course credit may not be received for this course and also GLY 1000 or 2010C. Credit can be received for taking GLY 1000L.

Course Area: Natural Science

This course examines the history of the earth and its organisms as recordedin the fossil and rock record; principles of geological and paleontologicalresearch; evolution of the dinosaurs, mass extinctions, and effects of pastcontinental movements on the diversity of life. Course credit may not be received for this course and also GLY 2100. GLY 2100L recommended.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: Natural Science Lab

This course is an introduction to surficial and internal processes affecting a dynamic planet Earth. For majors in geology and natural sciences. Two hour laboratory required. Course credit may not be received for this course and also GLY 1000 or GLY 1030.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course surveys sedimentary rock types, principles of description and classification,sediment genesis and origin of sedimentary deposits, analysis and synthesis of stratigraphic sequences. Topics include: depositional systems; physical and biostratigraphy; geochronology and chronostratigraphy; magnetic, seismic, and sequence stratigraphy; and tectonic vs. climatic controls. Term paper required.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course is a series of field problems based largely on exposures of strata and structures. Preparation of geologic maps, sections, and reports.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course includes projects in the EOAS department arranged in advance between the student and a member of the teaching faculty of the department.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course consists of a written report and an oral presentation discussing research work done under GLY 4915r. The grade is assigned by a committee of three faculty members.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

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Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course is delivered online through Blackboard and is an introduction to coffees and teas of the world with a focus upon their importance to global cultures found in many regions. Students learn about these beverages and their unique interrelationship with their regional culture, heritage, and environment. Each beverage focuses upon specific regions of the world. Other non-alcoholic beverages, including energy drinks, bottled water, and carbonated beverages will also be explored.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course is an introduction to ales and lagers of the world with a focus upon their importance to global cultures found in many regions. Students learn about these regional beers and the interrelation with their culture, including food, heritage, and festivals.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course is an introduction to wines of the world with a focus upon the importance to global cultures. Students learn about these regional wines and the interrelationship with their cultures and heritage.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This is a course delivered online through Blackboard and is an introduction to distilled spirits of the world with a focus upon their importance to global cultures found in many regions. Students will learn about these regionally distilled beverages and their interrelationship with their culture, heritage, and environment. This class presents distilled spirits from various regions and countries of the world representing the USA, Canada, South and Central America, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, among others.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course is designed to explore the diverse verbal and non-verbal Western cultural habits, dress, behaviors, beliefs, service delivery expectations, and codes of conduct compared to the cultural mores, dress, traditions, political structure, behaviors (both verbal and non-verbal), travel, service delivery styles, and expectations of people from various international cultures.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Diversity

This course develops the skills needed for analyzing issues pertaining to the development and participation in eco-tourism. Special emphasis will be placed on the particular conditions in Costa Rica and how they are similar and dissimilar from conditions in the United States from both an environmental and social perspective.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

The course is designed to explore the world’s cuisines with a focus on the history of culinary arts, indigenous ingredients, customs, protocol, celebrations, religions, and various cooking methods and terminology.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the principles of communication in the hospitality and tourism industries, and to maximize student’s confidence when communicating in the hospitality environment. The topics and activities included in this course will inspire students to deliverer excellent customer service focusing on three overall mediums of communication: written communication, oral communication, and generational communication.

The written communication module is designed to teach hospitality students the fundamental written communication skills that will allow them to express their ideas effectively and efficiently, preparing them for the demands of the workplace. This module focuses on three areas central to professional writing: knowledge of the types of writing central to hospitality communication, mastery of the techniques for persuasive argumentation, and understanding of the fundamentals of writing clearly, specifically, and concisely.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This internship is designed to gain real world experience in the business field though on-the-job practice. Students work under the direction of an approved industry professional and the internship director.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Developed by: Kristine Harper
Course Area: History Designations: Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Students in this course will learn how to conduct original research. These skills will help students from various backgrounds learn how to ask questions, gather and assess data, and then employ them to make convincing arguments.

Developed by: Andrew Frank
Course Area: History Designations: Scholarship in Practice

The course teaches how to conduct ethnohistorical research on Native Americans in the United States. The course culminates in the annotation and interpretation of a set of primary sources.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course will examine a range of pandemics and how societies and governments have responded to them. You will be doing so using the tools of a historian: investigate the past through the collection of multiple primary sources and construct a reasonable analysis based on your investigation.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course traces the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Western Europe and North America from the eighteenth century to the present day. With particular attention to the ways that sexual identity intersects with race, class, and gender, the course showcases the historically contingent nature of not only homosexuality, but also heterosexuality and gender identity. By emphasizing the gradual emergence of “modern” sexual identities in dialog with other social phenomena and historical events, we will understand the central role that sexuality has played in shaping political, social, and cultural history. Topics include male and female homosexuality, transgender identity, race and sexuality, sexual policing, heterosexuality and marriage, the AIDS crisis, and queer politics.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This class surveys the connections that together formed an Atlantic world between the Americas, Africa, and Europe in the era from 1500 to 1800. It focuses upon two foundational patterns: 1) patriotism, and related efforts to build identities, nation-states and empires, and legal/constitutional orders, and 2) piracy, including efforts to detach and/or reconfigure those empires and orders.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The History of Science reveals the many ways in which the analytical categories of race, class, gender, and ethnicity have played a role in the modern science. The subject is replete with references to and judgments of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Though scientists have claimed objectivity, at times their views have been shaded by prevailing societal perspectives. By directly engaging the dynamic between science and society, this course provides students with a deeper understanding of science and society as well as race, class, gender, and ethnicity.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course examines the development of public health and the history of medicine in the United States from the colonial period to the present. Topics cover changes in medical knowledge, the medical profession, government responsibilities, and public responses; how individuals accept, modify, or reject medical authority; how race, class, gender, and ethnicity shape health practices and the delivery of medical care; how the health of a community can be protected; and what constitutes a public health hazard.

Developed by: Kristine Harper
Course Area: History Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course examines the interrelationship between science, mathematics, and society from the time of the Babylonians to the present day, and how these lessons related to placing the secondary math and science curriculum into historical context.

Developed by: Jennifer Koslow
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

This course offers an overview of the different specialties of public history, the historic preservation movement in the US, archives, history museums, oral history, commemoration, and the use of new media for public presentations of history.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course provides students with the opportunity to engage in a formative active learning experience: designing history-focused content for social media. Students will combine historical skills and knowledge with the practices of social media to research and produce history-related content. May be repeated up to nine semester hours. Only three can count toward the History major.

Developed by: Jennifer Koslow
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course examines the theory and practice of the ways in which history is collected, preserved, and interpreted using digital mediums.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

An upper division Scholarship in Practice and Writing Competency course, the senior seminar provides advanced training in historical methods. Topics vary from seminar to seminar depending upon the instructor's area of expertise.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course is open to participants in the University's and departmental honors program. The student must complete between six and nine thesis hours. The course does not count as credit toward the history major.

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course provides students with the opportunity to engage in a formative active learning experience: working in a cultural institution that collects, preserves, and presents history for general audiences. It exposes students to the diversity of possible career paths related to the field of public history.

Course Area: Ethics Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course examines how cinema has provided a unique framework for wrestling with the implications of the modern scientific enterprise, examining how easily scientific rationality can be harnessed to both moral and immoral ends and what kind of world that science has produced. By probing a variety of genres - including biography, documentary, historical drama, science fiction, political satire, and horror - this course observes the cinematic and cultural desire to make sense of science. A critical element of the course is diversity in the Western culture through the lens of race, class, gender, and ethnicity.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: "W" (State-Mandated Writing), Statewide Core

This course offers an introduction to the thought, literature, and arts of Western culture from Antiquity to the Present Day. Beginning with the contemplation of the Book of Job, students will become acquainted with a variety of ways human beings have searched for meaning. In this course, students will gain an overview of the development of Western culture from Antiquity to the present as it is expressed through the arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, film and the performing arts), and especially through literature. Students will study and analyze a variety of texts (either as excerpts or full text) of the Western world along the lines of: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Iliad, Oedipus Rex, Aeneid, Song of Roland, Beowulf, Inferno, Hamlet, Frankenstein, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Metamorphosis, and works by selected Western poets. From the earliest examples of Roman and Greek art, this course introduces students to the cultural and artistic movements of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment, Rococo, Neoclassical, Romantic, Realist, Impressionist, Modernist, and Post-Modern, to the present day. This course examines the human condition through culture and the arts to better understand how the humanities are interconnected. The chief goal and focus of this course is to show how the past forms the basis of Western present-day values, artistic expression, and institutions.

Below is a sample syllabus for HUM2020. Students should reference the section syllabus provided at the beginning of the semester for specifics regarding assignments and grade assignments.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course traces the origins of humanistic thought and human achievement from the dawn of human civilization through the fall of the Roman Empire. In this class, students will encounter the fundamental origins of many of Western Civilization's most cherished political, philosophical, and religious ideas, through reading the great literature of this period and studying the developments in art and architecture for which the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome are so justly famous. Students will emerge from this class with a greater understanding of the cultural, ideological, and artistic directions taken by modern Western culture.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course offers an introduction to the thought, literature, and arts of Western culture from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Students will gain an overview of the development of Western culture from A.D. 565-1750, as it is expressed through the arts (painting, sculpture, architecture; literature, and music), and especially through literature. Students will study and analyze some of the great literary works of this time period, including The Song of Roland, Dante's Inferno, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and selections from St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Beowulf. Beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire and continuing through Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, this course examines the human condition through culture and the arts to better understand how the humanities are interconnected. The chief goal and focus of this course is to show how the past forms the basis of Western present-day values, artistic expression, and institutions.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

In this course, students will gain an overview of the development of Western culture from A.D. 1666 to the present as it is expressed through the arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, film and the performing arts), and especially through literature. Students will study and analyze some of the great literary works of this time period, including Frankenstein, The Queen of Spades, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Metamorphosis, The Guest, and works by selected Western poets. Beginning with the end of the Baroque era and rise of the Enlightenment, and continuing through the Rococo, Neoclassical, Romantic, Realist, Naturalist, Impressionist, Modernist, and Post-Modern, to the present day, this course examines the human condition through culture and the arts to better understand how the humanities are interconnected. The chief goal and focus of this course is to show how the past forms the basis of Western present-day values, artistic expression, and institutions.

Developed by: Aimée Boutin
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice

This course explores mobility in the big city through the eyes and ears of the flâneur who saunters aimlessly and leisurely as he or she observes scenes in the big city. We will investigate the political, aesthetic, sociological, and historical meaning of walking in London by reading influential works from a range of disciplines—as well as by doing it.

The course will combine theory with practice: students will learn how the term flâneur or “man about town” became shorthand for modernist notions of leisure, spectacle, and elite urban experience across a range of disciplines, from literary studies and art history to urban studies and media theory. Using tools of keen observation, critical awareness, and discussion to think about how, where, and why we walk, students will develop a keener sense of the changing meanings of mobility; of the treatment of national identity, gender, class, and race in relation to urban mobility and sense of place; and of sensory interactions with the social or built environment.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Computer Competency

To be literate in the 21st century means to understand not only characters on the page but also the bits and bytes of the digital world now permeating every human activity. Such digital literacy requires both knowledge of technologies and the ability to ask penetrating questions of the sort that humanists have traditionally asked about communities, cultures, power, responsibility, and human values. In this class, students are introduced to the inner workings of digital technologies which organize and define our current digitally-experienced world, with a view to the implications of such technology, both as consumers and as producers of digital data.

Developed by: Helen Burke
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity

This course will introduce students to the rich traditions and culture of Ireland with particular emphasis on the country’s performative and visual arts (theatre, traditional music, dance, film, illuminated manuscripts, architecture). Students will live in the heart of Dublin, a lively and fast-paced European city but by visiting galleries, exhibitions, and formal as well as more informal sites of performance, they will become acquainted with the historic, cultural, and artistic traditions that make the Irish capital and Ireland itself distinctive. Excursions to culturally and historically significant sites and events outside Dublin will also be included to provide insight into Irish culture as it is practiced in the other parts of the country. Supplemental readings will be assigned to provide historical and critical context for all these experiences, and through group discussion, discussion board entries, and reflection papers, students will be encouraged to interpret and reflect on the cultural works/events they have witnessed or experienced. Some of the questions we will explore are as follows: How does a knowledge of Ireland’s history enhance your understanding of a given artifact/cultural event? Have you observed variation (across time, region, generation, sexual orientation, class, religion) in the practices of Irish culture? Are there differences between Irish and American culture? To what extent do these two cultures overlap?

Developed by: Kathryn Stoddard
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course is designed to develop writing skills by exploring the development of the idea of humanism from its pre-Greek form in the Ancient Near East to the present day. Students will become familiar with the central works of humanistic literature and art from each period, as well as the evolution of the concept of “human rights.” By the end of the course, students will be able to express in lucid English prose how the concept of humanism arose, how it has evolved, and the way in which it continues to shape and define Western Civilization through the humanities.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course examines the impact of American Cinema on social relations and on the reproduction of power. By watching movies with a better understanding of their biases and prejudices we may confront them and contest them in order to celebrate the cultural diversity of the United States. The student will benefit from this course by learning a matrix of movie history, movie genres, and approaches to multiculturalism by which to judge movies, cultural representation and the cultural experiences of life. The movies provide a window into middle and late 20th century cultures, which serve as comparisons and contrasts for culture in the 21st century.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Oral Communication Competency

This course develops the knowledge, skills, and perspectives needed to be a Peer Instructor for an Engage 100 course. Instruction covers general information needed to support the values of this unique liberal arts educational endeavor.

Course Area: Natural Science

The Science of Nutrition covers elements of nutrition and factors influencing the ability of individuals to maintain good nutritional status. The course enables students to conceptualize connections between nutrition science and allied sciences such as basic chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, anatomy and physiology in discussions such as the scientific method of investigation as a means of understanding nutrition. Emphasis is placed on the use of scientific evidence to determine nutrient needs, compare procedures for testing the validity of possible explanations for a hypothesis related to nutrient needs, and critically evaluate the type of nutrition information gained from animal experiments versus human experiments.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity

This course examines the impact of society on human food ways, role of foodand nutrition in national development and global politics. For nonmajors.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences, Upper Division Writing Competency

Completion of an Honors in the Major Thesis will count for both Upper-Division Writing and Formative Experiences. This process normally takes two to three semesters, during which you will register for six to nine hours of 4000-level thesis credit. The Honors in the Major Program is open to all qualified students. Students do not need to be part of the University Honors Program to begin work on an Honors Thesis, but there are specific admission requirements that must be met. For more information on the program and the application process, please see http://honors.fsu.edu/honors-major.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This practicum consists of supervised field experience with a selected government or non-government agency at the local or state level.

Developed by: Susan Baldino
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Note: This course is NOT a part of the Honors Experience Program even though it currently has the IDH prefix. Museums: Three Promises for Humanity provides an in-depth view of museums and their commitment to learning, equality and social advancement. The seminar traces the development of museums from early traditions through the paradigm shift of the past two decades that has produced uniquely humanistic and socially responsible institutions. Through investigations of museum environments and interaction with museum professionals, the class examines how museums can build a healthy, safe and meaningful future for diverse regional and global communities. Students of all majors will find a stimulating curriculum that can be customized to their academic goals.

Developed by: Lisa Tripp
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Note: This course is NOT a part of the Honors Experience Program even though it currently has the IDH prefix. “The media” are often a blamed in contemporary discourses for contributing to a wide range of social problems with today’s youth ranging from bullying and social alienation to rampant consumerism and poor body image. But what’s really going on in practice? How are children and youth actually interacting with media and how do those interactions influence their lives, identities, and cultures? To answer these questions, this course examines media ranging from X-Men and Dora the Explorer to Facebook and youth-produced media, introduces practical research methods for studying young people’s media practices, and provides hands-on practice developing media products intended for child and youth audiences.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Diversity

This course is designed to help you explore how creative freedom, cultural identities and difference are represented in the American Musical. In this course we will explore canonic American musicals ranging from Broadway’s Golden Age to the present that demonstrate evolving views of difference and identity onstage.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Diversity

This course is designed to help you better understand the political, artistic and cultural forces that created the expansive range of musical and theatrical styles, genres, and performance in the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). We explore the complex relationship between musical theatre (broadly defined) and its relationship to politics, censorship, and collective identities such as nationalism, religion, gender, sexuality and ethnicity. Special focus will be given to the works of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Note: This course is NOT a part of the Honors Experience Program even though it currently has the IDH prefix. While biological technology progresses at a dizzying rate the US lags behind many industrial nations in scientific literacy. This produces a disconnect between new scientific discoveries and a society without the proper tools to understand and evaluate their potential. This course will ground students in the scientific principles of some current biotechnology encourage debate regarding the reception of this technology by the media and society.

Course Area: Ethics Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Oral Communication Competency

Contemporary society is deeply polarized along political, cultural, regional, religious, racial, and socioeconomic lines. In this course, students will learn about the roots of those divisions. They will also practice developing strategies to navigate our divided society.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course explores how U.S. intellectuals, artists, and activists have responded to the devaluation of marginalized lives by creating radical visions of freedom that call into question the foundations of our social, economic, and legal institutions.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course focuses on sustainability in public discourse, with particular attention to three different spheres: scientific and technical writing, environmental rhetoric, and public policy. Students will develop expertise in analyzing public genres for hidden and explicit sociocultural agendas, in order to construct effective arguments for various public audiences.

Course Area: History Designations: Diversity

This course will examine the history of U.S. presence abroad by analyzing cultural texts produced by and/or for a U.S. audience. Engaging feminist, queer, and ethnic studies insights into transnational power relations, we will consider how race, gender, class, and sexuality dynamics inform how U.S. presence abroad has been represented in different time periods.

Course Area: History Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

For centuries, the Greek and Roman worlds have been used to legitimize white supremacy, misogyny, xenophobia, and bigotry by those who seek to adopt the Mediterranean as the birthplace of what they view as the greatest civilization. This course examines evidence from the ancient world which challenges these views and presents diverse perspectives of Greek and Roman history, society, and culture.

Developed by: Azat Gundogan
Course Area: Social Science Designations: Diversity, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course explores the structures and institutions of social inequality along the intersectional axes of class, race, and gender/sexuality by focusing on how these categories are socially constructed, maintained, and experienced.

Developed by: Azat Gundogan
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Upper Division Writing Competency

As models of a perfect society or fictional contemplations of bleak futures, utopias and dystopias shed light on our present condition. This course examines utopian thinking and differing perspectives on state-society relations and the question of individual freedom within society through various materials such as political manifestos, movies, novels or poems.

Course Area: Ethics Designations: Diversity

This course uses superhero mythology as a lens through which to view the historical development of ethical norms in the United States. Students will unpack the ideological meanings of these stories while thinking critically about the political, historical, philosophical, psychological, and religious ideas that are reflected in the mythology. Special attention is paid to race, gender, and religion.

Course Area: Ethics Designations: Diversity, Upper Division Writing Competency

By addressing issues such as free speech, sexual mores and identity, and compulsory military service, this course examines the ways that religious norms and practices across the globe sometimes come into conflict with the norms of liberal democracy.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Upper Division Writing Competency

This course, in a sense, defamiliarizes the familiar by looking at the routine aspects of everyday life through broader sociological perspectives and theories of everyday life, social space, and power. The main goal of the course is to explore how political and economic institutions order objects and discipline human bodies and activity, arrange time, and embed power in places and spaces.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Scholarship in Practice, Diversity, Oral Communication Competency

What is the role of youth subculture in challenging and reproducing structures of inequality? To address this question, this course will examine how youth subcultures are embedded within their particular sociohistorical contexts, indexing not only intergenerational difference but also changing race, gender, sexuality, and class relations.

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Course Area: Ethics
Social Science Designations: Diversity, Upper Division Writing Competency

By focusing on the roles that feminized and sexualized laborers play within the global economy, this course engages feminist debates about the ethics of globalization, the challenges of transnational activism, and the potential complicities of U.S. citizens in maintaining global structures of inequality.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Diversity, Upper Division Writing Competency

This course engages with the history, core concepts, and effects of the environmental justice movement, examining how race and class interact to produce and sustain environmental inequities. It highlights the need to address the disproportionate burdening of historically marginalized communities with environmental harms.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity, Upper Division Writing Competency

Oral history is a research method of documenting personal experiences through interviews and has been used since the early 20th century to augment the historical record with life stories otherwise not sufficiently documented. For LGBTQ people, oral history has been used to form community history projects and create archives that highlight and preserve first-person memories of queer and trans lives over the last half century. In this class students will be trained in oral history theory, method, and interpretation and will use these skills to contribute to a LGBTQ oral history project at Florida State University. We will look at the emergence of oral history practice in the 20th century and the specific relevance of the method to queer and trans experiences. We will cultivate our understanding of queer and trans memories, histories, and lives in the latter half of the 20th century by reading scholarship, listening to oral histories, and examining various LGBTQ oral history projects and archives. And finally, we will practice oral history interviewing and interpretation.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: Diversity

In this course, students will focus on the great urban diversity (e.g., language, citizenship, religion, ethnicity/race, class and socioeconomic status, gender, and sexuality). Through class materials and assignments, students will acquire a solid perspective on how urban diversity is transformed into inequalities and exclusion in the cities.

Course Area: History Designations: Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course explores the basis of popular pseudoscientific claims about the past and uses the principles of archaeology and the historical method to interrogate those claims. Students gain an understanding of why these claims have become so popular, how they are affecting public understanding of the past, and how the fields of archaeology and history can better disseminate scholarly knowledge.

Course Area: History Designations: Scholarship in Practice

This course explores how the history of the ancient world is represented in both table-top (board) and video games. It follows a pattern of learning the history behind a selected game, playing the game, and then engaging in discussion on the accuracy of the game and how and why it adapts ancient history. This course culminates in the design and construction of a tabletop game.

Course Area: Social Science
Ethics

This course focuses on global inequalities and takes them as an outcome of the long-term, large-scale transformation of the modern world system. It examines various ethical perspectives regarding globalization and developmentalism.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Diversity, Oral Communication Competency

Focusing on the legacies of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, this course explores the ways that appeals to religious concepts and identities have influenced racial relations and politics in America.

Developed by: Jeannine Turner
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Note: This course is NOT a part of the Honors Experience Program even though it currently has the IDH prefix. How do you motivate yourself and others to attain high performance goals and accomplishments? The purpose of this course is to examine theories and research that focus on aspects of self-motivation as well as motivating groups. The course will cover topics in the domains of educational psychology, leadership studies, sport psychology, counseling psychology, and social psychology. The overall intent of the course is to help students understand underlying mechanisms of becoming, and being, leaders within their domains.

Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

This course meets the university Formative Experience requirement and can count toward points for completion of the honors program. Students can work with honors faculty while embarking on independent experiential learning projects including internships, student leadership (e.g., Honors Colloquium Leader, executive board service), research, or international experiences.

Developed by: Christina Carroll
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: Formative Experiences

Taken in conjunction with a Study Abroad course offering. Study your study-abroad country through first-hand encounters and engagement. The coursework gives you the opportunity to study your country's unique customs, values, and traditions and compare it with your own through actively participating in cultural experiences. In addition to weekly reflective assignments, the course will ask you to choose a specific custom to report on, such as looking at race and social class through the football and cricket sporting cultures in England or the significance of the patriarchal society through the courtship dances in Italy.

Please note that IDS2060 is not an E-Series course.

Developed by: Daniel Maier-Katkin
Course Area: General Education Elective (no area) Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The purpose of this seminar is to advance library research, writing skills, and critical thinking skills among lower division students. Through participation in the seminar and research activities, students will learn to develop and improve their capacity to communicate complex ideas about a topic of their choosing in speech and in writing.

Developed by: Joab Corey
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course is designed to help students develop the ability to make sound decisions for getting the most out their limited resources. This includes learning the basics of cost-benefit analysis and other fundamental economic principles that are necessary for getting the most out of everyday decisions as well as budgeting and investing strategies for maximizing the return on one's financial portfolio. This course will also provide students with entrepreneurial strategies for starting and developing business ideas.

Developed by: John Schwenkler
Course Area: Ethics Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This is a course about self-knowledge – specifically, what does it mean to "know oneself", and what makes the knowledge of oneself different from knowledge of other sorts. We will read a range of philosophical and literary works that explore these questions, and students will write papers and prepare a creative work to showcase their own thinking about them.

Developed by: Randy Blass
Course Area: General Education Elective (no area) Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course is intended for all students regardless of major and is designed to foster critical thinking by providing a framework for analysis that will allow students to compare multiple perspectives on historical and contemporary issues in entrepreneurship. This course explores how entrepreneurship in contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental shift towards a powerful new kind of consumer called the "prosumer." Additionally this course seeks to explore how innovation and lean concepts are leading to successful commerce and how that commerce impacts our culture and daily lives. Topics include the process of innovation, the nature of entrepreneurialism, the essence of the Problem-Opportunity-Venture-Sustainment (POVS) model, the lean start-up business model, different kinds of entrepreneurship (commercial, social, scientific, and artistic), and an introduction to competencies that have facilitated success in other entrepreneurs. This course is designed to be thought-provoking and enlightening and will provide students from any discipline with a unique perspective for examining the impact of entrepreneurship throughout history and in our everyday lives.

Developed by: Michael Trammell
Course Area: Ethics Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

What happens when business and culture collide? We will explore the intersections of communication, culture, and business and address the often surprising problems that arise. Students will grapple with these issues in both an international and domestic context. As a class, we will study business environments and negotiation scenarios rife with cross-cultural miscommunication and conflict. Through experiential exercise and discussion sessions, we will learn ways to overcome these problems through understanding the importance of respecting other cultures' norms. Through a half dozen writing assignments, two to three presentations, and a group project, students will become sensitized to the urgency and challenges of international business for U. S. enterprise; have a strong understanding of fundamentals of international business with respect to world markets and environments; and learn to fit in quickly and perform in the international business marketplace.

Developed by: Marie Charrel-Dennis
Course Area: Natural Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

In “Busting Common Biology Myths”, we will explore areas of biology popularized in the media, politics and global health policies. We will determine strengths and weaknesses of opposing arguments of controversial current biological issues using information found in the scientific literature to support or critique positions. Popular biological issues such as pros and cons of vaccination, the use of stem cells or the dangers of genetically modified organisms will be studied. The overarching goal of the class is to discuss the relative influence of popular arguments in the shaping of global health policies compared with scientific discoveries and their analysis. Topics related to ethics, public policy in biology as well as human health will be covered. Students will learn to engage these real-world problems through lectures, class discussions, team project and oral presentation. Grades will be assigned based on an individual presentation, class participation as well as an essay on a popular representation of a scientific problem.

Developed by: William Parker
Course Area: Natural Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Prehistoric animals have captured the public imagination since their first discovery. Many appear so exotic that they challenge our understanding of “how life works.” This course will include an overview of the scientific method, geologic time, fossils and the history of life on earth as a prelude to examining dinosaurs (the “stars” of the course) and their near relatives. Through this course you should develop an understanding of what dinosaurs were (are?), how extinct animals fit into the tapestry of life, and what their demises might tell us about our own future.

Developed by: David Houle
Course Area: Natural Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This online course introduces the study of evolution as it applies to the practice of medicine. We will investigate what constitutes scientific evidence, how to use evidence, the evidence concerning biological evolution, and the implications of evolution for the practice of medicine.

Developed by: David Gilbert
Course Area: Natural Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

One of the biggest challenges to future generations is our newfound ability to read and manipulate our own genomes, and to alter the course of human development. Choosing the sex or genetic composition of our children, human cloning, rebuilding defective organs and tissues from stem cells, and altering our own genetic constitution are all within the realm of the near future. This class is intended to help you understand the science behind major issues that are likely to evolve into increasingly important moral, political, and public policy decisions in your lifetime.

Developed by: Steven Marks
Course Area: Natural Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

While biological technology progresses at a dizzying rate the US lags behind many industrial nations in scientific literacy. This produces a disconnect between new scientific discoveries and a society without the proper tools to understand and evaluate their potential. This course will ground students in the scientific principles of some current biotechnology encourage debate regarding the reception of this technology by the media and society.

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Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice, Computer Competency, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Students work with emerging tech that encourages critical thinking, interdisciplinary perspectives, and lifelong learning skills. It introduces students to tools and techniques used to design, develop, and evaluate innovative technologies, guides students through the development of their own innovations, and offers students a perspective on tech innovation through a wide variety of emerging techs.

Developed by: Kathleen Burnett
Course Area: Ethics Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Identify current information ethics challenges; gain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to make informed ethical decisions in the digital age, through observation, practice, comparison, reading, and analyzing the literature about information ethics. Demonstrate the importance of information ethics in ensuring global digital literacy through completion of substantial writing assignments.

Developed by: Frederick Davis
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Environment & Society asks, "What is the relationship between humans and the natural world?" Environmental History explores how nature has helped to shape culture as well as how humans have modified the natural world and transformed the land in the process of extracting resources, building structures, producing pollution, and importing exotic species. This interdisciplinary course in environmental history explores numerous diverse perspectives of the environment: history, ethics, literature, art, and, of course, science.

Developed by: Candace Ward
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Living in Florida, we are all familiar with tourists and tourism. We are less familiar, perhaps, with the history of tourism, of the relationship between tourism and colonialism and imperialism, of the impacts of tourism on communities and peoples where tourists visit, and of the broader impact of tourism at individual, regional, national, and global levels. Through an exploration of travel writing, journalism, literature, film, and music, we will explore questions—sometimes uncomfortable questions—about the good, the bad, and the ugly of tourism and tourists.

Developed by: Michael Trammell
Course Area: Ethics Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

We will study the intersections between communication, business, intercultural business, sustainability, social responsibility, ethics, and professional leadership. One facet of the course will explore the communication issues and challenges that managers of businesses and other organizations face. Additionally, we will discuss sustainability issues through the lens of Permaculture and Transition Town philosophies, tackling topics such as “peak oil,” permaculture design, local and alternative currencies, and the “triple bottom line” ideal; these topics will also be examined via a global perspective.

Developed by: Kathryn Cashin
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Visual Arts may sometimes be seen as merely things to hang on a wall or placed in a room to be passively viewed. However significant works of art, particularly at the time of their creation, have the power to shape ideology, cultural trends and even politics. Selected works will be examined not only for their aesthetic value but also for their impact on society, as well as their use as propaganda.

Developed by: Christopher Witulski
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course provides an introductory survey of various musical traditions in a global perspective, exploring music both as a phenomenon of sound and as a phenomenon of culture. As we survey music from around the world, we will emphasize the social context of music, including social structure, geography, globalization, mass mediation, concepts of religion, instruments, aesthetic priorities, and cultural beliefs that inform music within given cultural contexts. The focus, therefore, is on how music works in the world. This leads us to also ask how the world works within music.

Developed by: Jane Clendinning
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course engages ways other than standard Western music notation that music may be represented visually, including tablatures, analytical graphs and diagrams, graphic and text scores, and notation methods for world or popular musics and works in the art music tradition pre- and post-dating the development of standard Western music notation. We will consider the meaning, implications, and purposes of various types of visual music representations, and will create our own visual representations of music for analysis, listening, and performance. This E-series Honors course is not limited to music majors, though they are welcome, and does not require participants to be able to read traditional Western music notation.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course offers an introduction to the history of American popular music and examines how cultural, social, economic, and political issues are intertwined with various musical styles that have been integral to popular culture in the United States. By studying specific artists and works representative of these various styles, and placing them within their proper historical and cultural context, you will gain a deeper understanding of the music and its significance to American society. Through readings, listening exercises, concert attendance, and written assignments, you will develop critical listening skills and learn how to discuss and write about music using appropriate terminology.

Developed by: Joseph Pierce
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Can cities like Detroit be saved, or are they destined to become ghost towns? This course explores the nature of urban poverty, the relationship between poverty and urban success, and the reasons why some cities “fail” and shrink while others “succeed” and grow. Students will learn how scholars and planners understand urban decay, and propose an intervention in a specific city to help reverse (or reduce the negative implications of) shrinking cities.

Developed by: George Bishop
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course explores essential questions of the “immigrant experience” in contemporary American literature. Students will engage a variety of texts, including novels, films, memoirs, essays and historical / documentary materials.

Developed by: Katherine Mooney
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This class traces the evolution of two foundational questions: 1) how have Americans defined themselves and their nation in the last 150 years; and 2) how have racial, sexual, and other forms of difference been dealt with in this country. The course analyzes athletics, music, movies, and other popular forms and pastimes as evidence of how Americans have answered these questions differently over this period. Students will be reading, viewing and listening to a variety of primary sources (sources created in the time we’re talking about) and secondary sources (sources created by later folks analyzing the time we’re talking about). Some of class will be lecture-based, as I offer you context for what you’re examining (so don’t be worried about how much or how little American history you already know!). But we’ll also be discussing what you’re reading and looking at as well as doing daily exercises that will help you practice the skills you’ll need to succeed in the course and in other courses.

Developed by: Guenter Piehler
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This seminar will focus on the social history of the American GI in World War II by reading their letters, diaries, and other documents they created. It will consider the demographic profile of the men and women who served in the American military, why they fought, and how they coped with the experience of total war. Special attention will be given to the religious experiences of the GI at war and issues of race, ethnicity, and gender. This seminar will also examine the reintegration of the American GI into American society after 1945. It will explore the impact of the GI Bill of Rights, as well as issues of physical disability and post-traumatic stress that afflicted millions of veterans.

The issues examined in this course address persistent issues and real world problems that still impact the US and the FSU community. Today, American men and women continue to fight in war and they face many of the challenges faced by the World War II generation.

Developed by: Tingting Zhao
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Students will have opportunities to observe and inquire about sustainable practices through field studies at local organic farm, hydro-power station, new urbanism community, and recycling facilities etc. as well as through interactions with community-based programs. Students will be engaged in critical thinking about sustainability of human society and environment from various aspects that include producers, consumers, public service sectors, and policy makers. This course also offers opportunities to learn and use qualitative and quantitative research methods commonly adopted in social science disciplines.

Developed by: Jeff Chanton
Course Area: Natural Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The allocation of food and water for our increasing human population is stressed. Some of the factors creating this stress include climate change, resource depletion, waste, chemical and anti-biotic drug pollution, dysfunctional farm policies, loss of biodiversity and the treatment of animals and workers. This class will provide an overview of the issues involved in food and water security on a planet where a billion people are malnourished, while at the same time another billion are overweight. The class will examine the science of the food production, water quality, soil development and these can be done in a sustainable manner.

Course Area: Natural Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

In this course, the students will learn about new alternative solutions to phase out non-sustainable chemical items and discover how to develop new strategies for planning innovative entrepreneurial green business opportunities based on the commercialization of ecofriendly chemical products and services.

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Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course explores how languages are born, the ways and reasons why they change, and the limits of language learning and teaching. This course also examines the factors leading to language loss and language death, the reasons why we, as global citizens, should care, and how language specialists and activists attempt to bring dying languages back to life.

Developed by: Michael Wallace
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The ballroom dance world represents a unique social system, and for this course, will serve as the foundation to touch different aspects of communication. Coursework will include weekly, in-class experiential learning activities ranging from learning basic dance elements to participation in a choreographed group demonstration of the Royal Waltz. The course will focus on three separate emphasis areas: (1) the individual; (2) partnerships, and; (3) groups and social settings. The communication concepts learned through dance in this course will be applied to other social situations and settings.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice
Ethics Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

What are rape myths? How are myths about rape portrayed in Western culture? Even a cursory view of literature, art and music beginning with the Greeks to the present day reveals that rape and violence, particularly toward women, are common cultural themes depicted in the many myths, legends, paintings, sculptures and music that have endured. This course identifies cultural representations of rape and violence in literature, music and the arts and discusses current research in rape myth recognition to explain how these areas are interrelated.

Developed by: David McNaughton
Course Area: Ethics Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course examines three main questions: (1) Can we explain the existence of our earth, and the universe as a whole, without recourse to God? (2) Can there be an objective moral code that we all have good reason to follow even if there is no God? (3) Can we have a spiritual or religious attitude to the world in the absence of belief in God? Until recently, most people thought that the answer to each of these questions was, No. But these answers are open to challenge. Scientists have claimed that we can have a complete and satisfying explanation of the existence and nature of everything without appealing to intelligent design. Moral philosophers have claimed that right and wrong are wholly independent of God’s will. Indeed, some have thought that religion has retarded ethical development and understanding. Finally, and perhaps most intriguingly, many thinkers now suggest that agnostics and atheists can have a religious attitude of awe and reverence to the universe, and find life fully meaningful, without any belief in supernatural beings.

Developed by: Mickey Damelio
Course Area: Not a general education course Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Blindness, of all disabilities, arguably generates a powerful emotional reaction in our society. There are many misconceptions, myths, fears, and expectations associated with blindness. In this course, we will explore blindness, talk with people who are intimately familiar with blindness (both blind themselves, and also those in a family or relationship with someone who is blind), and experience adventure under blindfold. We'll explore our society's reaction to blindness, probing its roots, and take a closer look at how views of blindness are shaped when experienced through the lenses of gender, race, class, religion, and ethnicity. Through blindfold experiences, students will have opportunities to learn about braille and the activities of daily life necessary, learning that blindness does not change the ability to be independent, and that disability doesn't prevent anyone from being an equal player in our society.

Developed by: Any Burdette
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course will focus on a number of modern sexual and reproductive health issues including: demographic trends in fertility, the social construction of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive rights and child health movements, the medicalization of sexual functioning, and the effects of racism, poverty and sexism on sexual health and reproduction. Students in this course will analyze and synthesize information centering on a number of current sexual and reproductive health issues. Course materials will include the interdisciplinary theorizing of feminists, medical social scientists, anthropologists, demographers, and public health scholars. We will explore a variety of topics including: demographic trends in fertility, the social construction of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive rights and child health movements, the medicalization of sexual functioning, and the effects of racism, poverty and sexism on sexual health and reproduction. Students will learn to engage these issues through lecture material, media presentations, daily student led discussions, intensive writing assignments, evaluating the written work of others in the class, and individual presentations.

Developed by: Anne Barrett
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course examines how gender—as it is embedded in individual, interactional, and institutional dimensions of society—gets woven into experiences of our bodies over the entire life course. We’ll explore two major themes: Our bodies bear the imprint of gender inequalities, and efforts to control or contain bodies—as well as resistance to these efforts—reflect gender politics. In exploring these themes, we will cover a wide range of substantive topics spanning the life course, including gendered bodies in preschool, menarche, childbirth, breastfeeding, cosmetic surgery, transsexuals, anorexia, sports, violence, Viagra, and widowhood. Course assignments include collecting and analyzing data for individual and group projects, keeping a sociological observation log, and taking field trips (e.g., art museums, a retirement community, and a toy store).

Developed by: María del Rocío Grimaldo
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course gives an overview of Central American Cinema and provides the student with an opportunity to understand and apply basic film analysis tools as well as to understand the socio-political and cultural contexts under which films from six different countries of the region were produced.

Developed by: Kathryn Tillman
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Racial inequality has been a persistent problem since the beginning of our history as a nation. Despite a move towards greater equality since the Civil Rights Movement, we continue to see significant and enduring racial/ethnic gaps in employment, education, and health outcomes, as well as many other indicators of well-being. In this E-series honors seminar we will explore the issue of contemporary racial inequality and the social factors that influence relations between and among different ethnic and racial groups in our country. Specifically, this course has been designed to provide students with information about trends and patterns of racial inequality in the U.S. today, allow them to explore competing explanations for continuing racial inequality, and challenge them to propose and critically assess ideas about potential mechanisms for change.

Developed by: Nari Jeter
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Relationships are complicated! In this course students will examine how to build and maintain key relationships through understanding themselves and critical relationship process. These key relationships include intimate relationships (dating/marriage partners, children, parents) and professional relationships (clients, coworkers, supervisors). Course content emphasizes the importance of making purposeful choices in building and maintaining personal and professional relationships. Issues of race, ethnicity, and gender are integrated throughout course content, as are positioning these key relationships within the context of social, cultural, political, and economic realities of contemporary life of the 21st century.

Developed by: Matthew Goff
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Noah's Flood has been a topic of enduring interest for over 2,000 years. It sparks the imagination with issues such as the rise of evil in the world and God's re-creation of the earth. In this class we will examine the biblical flood story in a broad context. We will examine other flood stories from the ancient Near East that influenced how the biblical story of the flood was written. We will look at how the flood story in the Bible was interpreted, from antiquity up until today. We will also examine how the flood story had been a locus for contemporary debates involving religion and science since the 1600s.

Developed by: B.J. Biringer
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course will be a Trans- Atlantic view of some celebrations and festivals that currently shape society and individuals in the modern Western World. The course will closely examine the historical, social, religious, and economic motives that have developed them into international tourist attractions. Supporting areas of study within the festivals will be dedicated to the music, literature, performing and plastic arts that contribute to the overall scope of the festivals covered in the course.

Developed by: Michael Buchler
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

What is national identity and how is it reflected in our culture? America is a nation that has embraced an influx of different cultures. In Great Britain, however, much of the cultural diversity stems from the long history of imperialism: of conquering other nations and importing their cultural norms and cultural artifacts back to England. This course will focus on British traditions, both innate and imported, and on the very notion of how national identity can expanded and transformed. This course will be offered prior to and after a London Spring Break Program and thus includes a weeklong visit to London where students will visit many of the venues that we study: from the British Museum to the West End Theatre District to the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. This course is geared toward current and former Cawthon Hall Music LLC residents, so we will focus more on music (especially musical theater and opera) than on literature and the plastic arts, but all three will be studied.

Developed by: Iain Quinn
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The central question of the course is “How does Western music relate to contemporary society?” In answering this question students examine the reception of musical performance and contemporary music in the late nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through this study they also select their own research projects and evaluate the influences of society on music and music on society through the reception of music in the Western canon. Programming trends, performing traditions, the role of criticism, and the perception of the musician in critical literature are interwoven in an interdisciplinary course that engages students from all fields. Students also assess recordings of live performances, which they discuss in class, crossing the line from music appreciation to critical reception. The course also includes attendance at performances of new music which the students assess in the context of their broader studies.

Developed by: Jennifer Atkins
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Beyoncé and other pop culture icons are incredibly important in understanding our cultural attitudes, especially in relation to gender and the body. By examining popular culture (TV shows, movies, music videos, and more), this class aims to use theories of the body and interpretations of bodies in performance to investigate American gender in the 21st century and to question what our bodies reveal about identity. Because of this, the course begins by looking at the world of concert and social dance to begin to understand how the human body is “staged” and how bodies in motion are intimately connected to issues of gender and other cultural concerns, such as race and class.

Developed by: Krzystof Salata
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This is an interdisciplinary course that combines performance and performance theory with critical theory and philosophy. The course will focus on the phenomenon of the human encounter: What does it mean to meet? What is at stake in the encounter? The students will read excerpts from modern and postmodern philosophy and create simple short performances in response. They will examine the potentiality and relevance of the encounter in today’s society.

Developed by: Robin Goodman
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice
Ethics Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course will train students in the uses of analytical languages and concepts. We will seek to define useful terminologies like “colonialism,” “imperialism,” “postcolonialism,” “globalization,” and “neoliberalism.” The course will also teach students how to use such concepts to analyze visual works, and will give students the tools for analyzing visual works in relation to histories of conflict and struggles over power. By learning how seminal issues within postcolonial and film studies are framed, students in this course will be able to apply some of these languages and concepts in the construction of their own arguments, the analysis of texts, and methods of inquiry both in this field and others. **This class requires viewing of often violent and disturbing images.**

Developed by: Kathleen Paul
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course will explore the construction and use of the varied notions of national identity and Britishness in modern Britain. Analyzing aspects of identity such as gender, race, class, religion, ethnicity, we will attempt to understand something of the contested terrain of citizenship and national identity in contemporary Britain. This is course typically taught at the International Programs London Study Centre.

Developed by: Brad Gomez
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

In this E-series honors seminar, we will explore the factors that structure individuals' attitudes towards politics and how the distribution of public opinion on major issues affects government. More specifically, the course has been designed to provide students a critical examination of the psychology of political attitude formation, the opportunity to gather and analyze—both independently and as a group—data about citizens' political beliefs, and an empirical evaluation of government responsiveness toward citizens' demands. In short, we will investigate issues that are critical to the performance of democracy.

Developed by: Joab Corey
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course is designed to help students understand current economic issues so that they can become more informed citizens and voters. The student will learn the basics of economic thinking and how markets and the political process work, and then apply these concepts to current economic issues such as minimum wage, legalization of drugs, trade restrictions, and fiscal and monetary policy during an economic crisis.

Developed by: Deana Rohlinger
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course is an introduction to the sociological study of collective behavior and social movements. This course is organized to highlight themes in the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins as they relate to social movement theory. The course cover theories related to collective behavior, revolutions, and social movements in order to better understand contemporary change.

Developed by: Eric Walker
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Human reproduction and parenting in the 21st century are wildly perplexing mash-ups of practices including sperm and/or egg donation, wombs for hire, artificial reproduction technology (ART), kinship adoption, transracial adoption, international adoption, single parent adoption, LGBTQ adoption, child trafficking, foster care systems, celebrity adoption, and a legion of other ethically complex and often vexed behaviors. This course samples prominent cultural representations of adoption and surrogacy in recent literature and film and explores forms of public debates about these headline-grabbing issues.

Developed by: Eric Chicken
Course Area: Quantitative and Logical Thinking Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Can we understand random events well enough to predict how they will happen in the future? Well enough to maximize a desired goal when the future is unknown? Well enough to determine when two different occurrences are really different? To answer these questions this course introduces and employs two mathematical tools useful in quantifying uncertainty: probability and statistics. The questions posed above will be considered in the context of games of chance, such as card and casino games, and games of skill, such as sporting events.

Developed by: Kathleen Clark
Course Area: Quantitative and Logical Thinking Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

In this course, students will develop mathematical knowledge through problem posing, problem solving, extending problems, and developing profound understanding of fundamental mathematics concepts. The course is designed to engage participants in inquiry about mathematics, driven by their own interests and curiosity in mathematics. The course is also designed to give students authentic experiences of “doing mathematics” – and to instill dispositions towards mathematics as a product of human thought, as opposed to determining a single, correct answer.

Developed by: Christine Andrews-Larson
Course Area: Quantitative and Logical Thinking Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing), Oral Communication Competency

This course offers an introduction to ways in which mathematics can be used to examine current social and environmental issues. In this course, students will explore the relationship between mathematics and a range of topics such as Gerrymandering, voting systems, and ways of modeling one’s own carbon footprint. Students will learn mathematical tools for exploring specific issues and use those, along with their own research on local social contexts, to formulate and defend positions related to social and environmental policies.

Developed by: Mary Stewart
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Creativity fuels innovative thinking. In our primary course text (titled Sparks of Genius), physiologist Robert Root-Bernstein and historian Michele Root-Bernstein explore thirteen characteristics of creativity that are applicable to any field. In our secondary text (Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas Are Born), trial lawyer Denise Shekerjian interviewed forty MacArthur Prize winners—from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to clown Bill Irwin—seeking to determine “how great ideas are born.” Each interview expands and enriches our exploration of creativity. Additional readings (and possibly, guest speakers) will take our ideas even further. A dialog between hands-on experiments with visual composition, writing, and targeted research will provide students with multiple means of exploring both the topic and developing their own creative processes. No prior experience with art is needed: just a willingness to get involved and deeply explore the sources and implications of creativity.

Developed by: Jessica Clark
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

In this class, we will explore current controversial issues in American society through their counterparts in ancient Greece and Rome. Many of the same topics that divide us today were also the subject of intense debate in the past, such as capital punishment, voting rights, the use of military force, sexualities, religion, and the relationship between individual rights and collective interests. We will extract selections of debates from great works of Classical literature, explore the strengths and weaknesses of opposing arguments, and engage with the parallels that have ensnared political culture in our own day. Throughout, we will be concerned with the question of whether political conflict is integral, or an obstacle, to the embodiment of democratic principles.

Developed by: Natalia Piombino
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Broad Curriculum Program in Florence." placeholder="Course Description...">The course takes a multidisciplinary approach, considering the historical determinants of the mafia as presented by the current literature. A major focus is the identification of the root causes of the mafia and the political, social, historical factors that made possible its genesis and development. Typically offered as part of the International Programs Broad Curriculum Program in Florence.

Developed by: Keith Howard
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Spaniards “discovered” and named Florida in the early sixteenth century and ruled over it for three centuries after that. In this class we will explore how the idea of Florida took shape and shifted in the minds of Spaniards throughout the three centuries that it was a colonial possession of the successive Spanish monarchs. To this end, we will read and discuss a selection of texts (in English translation) that reveal these Spainards’ hopes, triumphs and failures as they surveyed the land, fought with and evangelized the native populations, and defended their monarchs’ possession. Throughout, we will consider how our reconstruction of the Spanish vision of Florida may enrich and even alter our understanding of Florida today.

Developed by: Pamela Robbins
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Political and social protests are a fact of life in the United States. Protest movements have effectively used songs in the past to convey their message and will continue to do so in the future. This course challenges students to consider how songs may be created or adapted to protest movements.

Developed by: Andrew Frank
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Osceola is the most famous Seminole Indian and widely known for leading a campaign of resistance during the Second Seminole War. This is the case even though he was not a national or tribal leader, village chief, leading warrior, or medicine man. This class unravels this contradiction and asks how and why it came to be.

The course uses the Seminole Osceola to understand how historical “truths” are transferred into the present. The class reexamines Osceola’s place within Seminole society and explores how his reputation emerged after his death and continued to grow in decades that followed. Students will determine who was responsible for creating Osceola’s reputation and the particular stories that accompany it. We will also explore the motives for making him or remembering him as “Chief.” In the process, we will grapple with the connections between modern memory and historical evidence.

Developed by: John Marincola
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course offers a comparison of the ways in which societies respond to defining, and sometimes traumatic, events in their histories. Using the Persian Wars of the 5th c., in which a small and often disunited group of Greeks successfully fought off the invasions of the powerful Persian Empire, and the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 as the major touchstones for our investigations, we shall look at some of the important ways in which societies remember, memorialize, and try to come to grips with major events in their histories. These occurrences are both literally epoch-making for their respective societies, and both are represented in a wide variety of artistic and cultural media. Our main topics of focus will therefore be formal literary texts and monuments, but also the contemporary debates surrounding how to construct memorials to remember the victims and events of 9/11. We shall employ recently developed historical methodologies on collective memory by Maurice Halbwachs, on constructed history by H. J. Gehrke, and on places of memory (lieux de memoire) by Pierre Nora.

Developed by: Alexander Avina
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course explores the history of Cold War Latin America through two analytical lens that fueled much of the political and socio-economic struggles of the era: Empire and Revolution. Students will analyze why and how Latin Americans used revolutionary methods to change their everyday lives—and the imperial responses of the United States government.

Developed by: Frederick Davis
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Cultures of Medicine asks, “What is the relationship between humans and disease?” The History of Medicine and Disease explores the relationship between various groups of humans and the microbes they encounter. This interdisciplinary course in medicine and culture explores numerous diverse perspectives on medicine and disease: history, ethics, literature, art, and, of course, science. Through a variety of case studies in medicine and disease, students will develop skills of analysis, synthesis, reflection, and exposition.

Developed by: Adam Gaiser
Course Area: History Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Over the centuries the Islamic community has fragmented into sects, denominations and schools who have disagreed and fought with each other over who preserves the truest and most correct form of Islam. How did this variety come about? How did different Muslims come to view the questions of “orthodoxy” and “heresy”? How can scholars account for the many Islamic outlooks within the Islamic world? How does militancy play a role in the manifestation of sectarianism? In recent years these questions have taken on an even more urgent tone as sectarian and Islamist violence affects different parts of the globe.

This course addresses some of these questions about the variety of Islamic religious perspectives. We will evaluate the topics of Islamic sectarianism and denominationalism by tracing the main sectarian movements among medieval and modern Muslims. Students will engage in broad, critical and creative thinking about the creation of “orthodoxy” and “heresy,” the development of religious differences, the interaction between politics, culture and religion, and the issue of religious violence. They will gain knowledge and critical thinking skills that will assist them as they navigate a range of perspectives and trajectories related to the world’s many different Muslims.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The course is designed to introduce the students to the basic concepts, theories, functions, and behaviors associated with intercultural communication, and is applicable to any major and any student who is interested in increasing their awareness of the world. Throughout the course, students will increase knowledge, understanding, and awareness of different cultures and countries, interpret cultural values and communication strategies used across cultures/countries, and engage in a variety of social, cultural, and experiential activities on campus as they learn how to effectively use intercultural communication in an increasingly interconnected and globalized 21st century. Students will explore questions of world dynamics, interactions, and relationships from multiple perspectives in order to increase their understanding of the growing interdependence of nations and peoples, think critically about the world, and develop a comparative perspective to broad cross-cultural social, economic, and political perspectives.

Developed by: Emiliano Frutta Wass
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

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The central issue of the course is the ancient political question: how can we live together? In the 21st century new forms of participation are developing which should make us question the traditional political paradigms. The course addresses these problems by examining evidence from different contexts and by adopting a multidisciplinary approach. Typically offered as part of the International Programs Broad Curriculum Program in Florence.

Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course is designed to provide you with a general knowledge of the behavioral and substance addictions from a historical, psychological, biological, sociological, and legal perspectives. This course consists in: individual written assignments, portfolio, group written projects, student presentations, exams and lectures by the professor.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

If one chooses to go to a local multiplex in America, it's most likely that half the films showing are adaptations. In this course, students read original texts in different genres (eg. mystery, children's fantasy novel, play, choreopoem, film, short story) and then watch and analyze films based on those texts. In doing so, students explore two major questions: Why are cinematic adaptations so prolific in America? and Why do we like (or hate) film adaptations of texts we've already read?

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Documentary is increasingly serving as long form journalism, filling a gap left by understaffed newsrooms and sound-bite journalism. The struggle over questions of truth, objectivity and social activism were present in the earliest documentary films and continue to be important themes today. Through lecture, discussion, hands-on experience and film screenings, we will explore the past, present and future of the documentary film tradition.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Persistent Issue or Real World Problem: Cinema is a powerful medium that shapes how people understand themselves as well as how they understand other people and cultures. Through representations of reality and illusion, cinema is used to enlighten, inform, incite, and manipulate audiences. This course explores this elusive and continually shifting boundary between reality and illusion, with a focus on world cinema. The course asks students to analyze and reflect on questions including: How do films offer insight into the cultures and periods in which they are produced? How do films portray social attitudes and reveal cultural assumptions? How does the ability of film to stage, manipulate, and distort events, emotions, and attitudes negate or contaminate the ability of film to build understanding, empathy, and credibility? This examination of cinema will be expansive and generous, ranging from contemporary and historical international films to documentaries and experimental work. Each week, students will view films from around the world, exposing them to a large diversity of cultures, experiences, politics, languages, beliefs, and traditions. Each screening will provide a unique and creative approach to storytelling and the craft of filmmaking often not implemented in traditional Hollywood or American independent film productions. Critical reading and writing assignments will help students analyze, compare, and reflect on films in their cultural, historical, and ideological contexts. In this way, students will be able to investigate and deepen their awareness of how cinema as an art form influences and shapes our understandings of others and ourselves.

Developed by: Tracie Mahaffey
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The representations of women and girls in popular culture shape the common view of femininity, girlhood, beauty, and sexuality. Throughout the semester, we will make use of traditional philosophical texts as well as non-traditional materials, such as film, literature, television, and comics, to examine questions of women’s nature, girlhood, beauty, violence, oppression, and sexual agency.

Developed by: David Kirby
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

While we might not admit it, every thinking person wants to be a public intellectual, that is, somebody who deals with the best ideas but in a way that speaks to the broadest possible audience. In this class students will read, discuss, and write about six public intellectuals, each of whom is a thinker who, rather than merely contributing to a particular discipline (though they have certainly done that), has used that discipline to explicate the world, thereby making both more alive and dynamic.

Developed by: Maria Morales
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The language of human rights has shaped international political discourse since the end of World War II. Yet who counts as human? In 1979 the international community first adopted the Convention Against All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which is informally considered the international bill of women's rights. In 1995 the Beijing Declaration specifically recognized women's rights as human rights and gender equality as a matter of grave international concern to be treated as in everybody's interest. The target of many international documents then and since, as well as of analyses of global gender inequality, has been primarily arguments from custom and tradition as key sources shaping the theory and practice of the gendered lives of women everywhere.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course is for students interested in learning how to communicate with those who are culturally different. As such, it is designed to introduce and expose students to worldviews, traditions, and values, etc. from the perspective of cultures other than their own. A major world problem is the lack of understanding (and tolerance) of individuals and groups from other cultures which can lead to choices not to communicate with and ultimately, not to build effective relationships with those who are culturally different. A theme that will persist in the course is to provide opportunities for each student to identify and express their own worldview regarding selected topics such as verbal and nonverbal expressions through messages, cultural dilemmas, dealing with cultural conflict, etc. and then to explore other cultures' world views as expressed by individuals engaged by the student within those cultures.

Developed by: Frank Gunderson
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice
Ethics Designations: E-Series, Diversity, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Music is powerful in its ability to communicate and persuade. Music is also inherently political. Political commentators, leaders, and organizations (from Aristotle to the Taliban), and politically-oriented musicians (from Bob Marley to Ani DiFranco), have long understood the power of music to question, rally, cajole, pacify, and destroy. Musicians throughout history and across the globe are often the first to speak out against the injustices of the world, and they are the first to be silenced. This course investigates the role music plays worldwide in negotiating, consolidating, and questioning power between powerful macro-reaching political entities (corporations, nation states) and micro-locales (villages, regions, sub-cultures).

Developed by: John Roberts
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

What shape does a properly led life take? That is the fundamental question we all face. Socrates pursued a particular approach to this question, and philosophers have been pursuing it ever since: To know how we are to live we need to know what we are. Knowing what we are will tells us what sort of life is fit for us. This course explores and evaluates accounts of human nature that key, historically influential philosophers have given to this question and the ways in which their answers are reflected in contemporary debates about what we are.

Developed by: Douglass Seaton
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

In this seminar you will have the opportunity to read writings about music from different cultural perspectives and in different media—essays, poetry, fiction, drama, journalism. Class discussion and written responses will enable you to share your interpretations of these readings. You will get to develop your own writing skills and musical understanding by writing about your musical experiences in a variety of forms.

Developed by: David Nordlund
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Broad Curriculum Program in Valencia." placeholder="Course Description...">Federico García Lorca and Ernest Hemingway are two of the most internationally recognized literary and cultural figures of the 20th century. By studying and analyzing Lorca in America and Hemingway in Spain students will explore an inter-cultural journey that reaches the core of how many Spaniards view America and how many Americans view Spain to this day. Typically offered as part of the International Programs Broad Curriculum Program in Valencia.

Developed by: Meegan Kennedy
Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The orphan, the child laborer, and the child adventurer are still figures that rouse debate in our time, but as protagonists they have deep roots in the nineteenth century. This course examines the child protagonist in British fiction from 1830–1914 and in the cultural context that gave rise to it.

Course Area: Humanities and Cultural Practice Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice

In this course, students engage with central areas of German culture in order to learn about German Studies as an interdisciplinary field. Students will conduct fieldwork research and other scholarly and creative research in this field on a self-chosen topic.

Developed by: Nora Underwood
Course Area: Natural Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Food production is arguably humanity's oldest and most central use of ecological science to manage nature. In this course we will explore the basic ecology of agriculture and fisheries and consider how conventional and alternative food-production practices generate and solve ecological problems. We will focus on several major current issues (e.g. genetically modified organisms, pollinator declines, organic agriculture, and fisheries), and for each we will learn the science behind the issue and the social forces shaping the problem. We will learn through discussions of scientific and popular writings, lectures, hands-on and written projects, oral presentations, local speakers and field trips.

Developed by: Richard Miller
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course will acquaint you with the National Parks of the United States and their geographic significance. With the plethora of scientific diversity within the 59 National Parks, the course will cover a range of topics that mold both their physical structure (glaciers, volcanoes, mountains geology, plate tectonics, ground water, climatology, and geomorphology, botany, biology, and ecology) and their usage and maintenance (recreation, anthropology, social & political geography). The course will be conducted with seminars (i.e. minimal lectures) with and lots of class participation. Students will be assigned a National Park to explore, examine, and present to the class. The emphasis and focus of these research presentations will be on a branch of science appropriate to the Park assigned.

Developed by: David Rasmussen
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

The purpose of this seminar is to advance library research and writing skills among freshmen and sophomores. Each student will be working throughout the semester on a major term paper, and all of the assignments in the class will be aimed at developing the quality of that paper. Throughout the semester students will focus on writing and making in-class presentations about how they are undertaking the research for their term papers, and what they are finding. At the end of the semester each student will have authored a 15-page paper with an abstract, extensive footnotes and thorough bibliography.

Students will have considerable latitude in selecting a topic for their research on the general notion of how “rights” evolve in the U.S. There are many examples of the changing saliency of rights over time. Perspectives on the rights of women, racial and ethnic minorities are obvious examples as are issues of product safety and the rights of workers. Contemporary environmental concerns were unimaginable a century ago, LBGT rights were not part of the policy landscape a few decades ago and issues related to obesity are emerging. Research can focus on historical developments, contemporary debates, or factors such as economic development, cultural change, entrenched interests, interest groups or legislative change that affected the emergence of new rights.

Developed by: Stephanie Pau
Course Area: Natural Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Science does not always involve a white lab coat. The scientific process often begins with making observations of the natural world. This course addresses scientific research design and field data collection for the natural sciences through hand-on field labs, with a focus on sampling design and survey methods for plant populations. The principles covered in this course will address real world environmental problems such as monitoring endangered species, habitat management for wildlife populations. Opportunities for discussion and interaction occur during the 8 field labs, where students have the opportunity to apply methods that have been covered in lectures and readings, and discuss the biases and tradeoffs in different approaches with the instructor and other students.

Developed by: Mark Zeigler
Course Area: Ethics Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing), Oral Communication Competency

The course addresses the role of public communication in a democratic form of government. It acquaints students with the principles of public speaking and role the practice plays in all professions. In addition to learning all the skills necessary to become effective public speakers, the student will gain knowledge of the role the skill plays in the origination and success of social justice movements. A particular emphasis is placed on the importance of public speaking in social justice movements, the rhetoric of social responsibility, and on how we engage issues of social responsibility in our formal communication.

Developed by: Michelle Laurents
Course Area: Ethics Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing), Oral Communication Competency

This course focuses on the speaker’s role and responsibilities in the creation of shared meaning. Participation in this course will help students build and practice essential public speaking skills, and prepare students to engage in responsible persuasion, to use communicative action to create understanding in contentious issues, to exercise personal responsibility in all communication contexts, and to better serve as engines of democracy.

Developed by: Victor Mesev
Course Area: Ethics Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course explores where sports are played, in which competitive capacity, and within which levels of fairness. It will investigate how sport and attitudes to sport are unevenly distributed around the world; where money drives competition, and where culture dictates ‘acceptable’ levels of competition. Students will evaluate the ethics and fairness of gamesmanship and sportsmanship, and how ‘success’ in sport can have various definitions, including personal satisfaction, tribal coherence, and externalities linked with ‘psychic income.’

Course Area: General Education Elective (no area) Designations: E-Series, Scholarship in Practice, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

This course will delve deeply into themed and immersive entertainment and other experiences, providing students an opportunity to see the creative possibilities through different forms of expression. Students will explore Experiential Design, from large-scale highly themed experiences, such as a museum visit or theme park trip, to everyday interactions, such as stop at a coffee shop or gym. Why does magic feel magical? Why do Haunted Houses scare us and why do we want to be scared? What about the DMV could really use a makeover, and why? Class will focus on the necessary collaboration across disciplines for success in the field, the "human" part of all experiences, and will include individual evaluation of a variety of scenarios as well as original proposals / designs of visitor experiences. Facets of storytelling, teamwork, research, human behavior, presentation skills, peer-review, and out of class explorations will all be part of the curriculum.

Developed by: Sherry Southerland
Course Area: Ethics Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

How are mathematics and science being taught? How should they be taught? In what ways may mathematics and science teaching change in the coming years? This course offers an introduction to pressing issues in mathematics, science, and mathematics and science education. These include the role of these disciplines in the 21st century, disparate educational opportunities, the nature of mathematics and science, what it means to learn, innovative instructional approaches, the role of assessment, and the motivations for and implications of recent reform movements. These ideas will be explored through a variety of forms of interaction, including lecture portions, individual and group activities, and whole-class discussions.

Developed by: George Boggs
Course Area: Social Science Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

Technology is changing the way we learn and what we need to know. Participants in this course select an area to investigate—a career or academic area—and then get to know disruptive innovations, such as repurposed social networking tools, people are using to gain access to and change their fields. Participants gain a critical understanding of the way knowledge is produced, valued, and networked in academic, career, and other focus areas.

Developed by: Nathanael Stein
Course Area: Ethics Designations: E-Series, "W" (State-Mandated Writing)

What is called the Classical Period in Indian philosophy could be said to have lasted more than 1,500 years, from roughly the 7th Century BCE through the 9th Century CE, though these dates are of course to some extent arbitrary. Philosophical activity in India was and is an extensive enterprise. This class will not be an attempt to survey it, but rather to engage with it on its own terms on some key issues. Since these philosophers advance claims that they hold to be true for all people at all times and in all places, to engage with their work on its own terms means to treat it the way we treat any philosophical work: that is, to discuss and evaluate their main claims and the arguments advanced for them, to see what we find plausible and what we do not, and to argue for our own responses.