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Corequisites

A corequisite identifies another course or courses that should be taken concurrently with the listed course. A student who enrolls in a listed course with corequisites must also enroll in those corequisite courses. A student who has previously completed a corequisite course may not need to repeat it; he or she should consult with an academic adviser before registering to determine specific requirements.

Course Credit Hours

The total semester hours of credit for each course are shown in parentheses immediately following the course title.

Prerequisites

A prerequisite identifies a course or other requirements that a student must have completed successfully before enrolling in the listed course. Any student who has not met prerequisites for a course may be administratively withdrawn from that course at the discretion of the instructor. It is the policy of some university departments to withdraw automatically any student who enrolls in a course without first meeting its prerequisites.
 

Accounting
  

  • ACCT 2101 - Principles of Accounting I

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Principles of Accounting I is an introduction to the principles of financial accounting. The course focuses on analyzing business transactions to chart their effects on the results of operations, the cash flows, and the financial position of businesses organized for profit. Emphasis is on using financial information from a decision-making perspective to optimize the outcomes of business decisions. Topics include recording, reporting, and analyzing assets, liabilities, stockholders’ equity, revenues, and expenses.

  

  • ACCT 2102 - Principles of Accounting II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ACCT 2101 .
    Description
    Principles of Accounting II is an introduction to the principles of managerial accounting. Emphasis is given to the development and use of accounting information to support managerial decision-making in manufacturing, service, and merchandising operations. Topics include managerial concepts and systems, analyses for decision making, and planning and control.

  

  • ACCT 4101 - Essentials of Financial Reporting I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ACCT 2101  and ACCT 2102  with a grade of B or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    In this course students will learn how to value and record operating activities in the accounting cycle, analyze data to provide insights about business operations and performance, and apply critical thinking to support evidence-based conclusions including ethical dimensions.

  

  • ACCT 4102 - Essentials of Financial Reporting II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ACCT 2101  and ACCT 2102  with a grade of B or higher. ACCT 4101  and BCOM 3950  with a grade of C- or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    In this course students will learn how to identify, analyze and record the assets, liabilities and equity of an enterprise, account for and report complex business transactions and disclosures, apply financial accounting theory, professional standards and judgment to real world business transactions, and analyze firm performance using financial accounting information.

  

  • ACCT 4111 - Intermediate Accounting I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ACCT 2101  and ACCT 2102  with a grade of B or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Students will learn the environmental and theoretical structure of financial accounting, the accounting process, and preparation of an income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows. Students will also learn to measure income, do profitability analysis, apply time value of money concepts to financial accounting measurements, account for cash, receivables and inventories, and learn to research financial accounting issues using the FASB Codification Database.

  

  • ACCT 4112 - Intermediate Accounting II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ACCT 2101 , ACCT 2102  and BCOM 3950  with grade of B or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Students will learn how to account for the economic resources and liabilities of an enterprise. Topics studied will include operational assets, investments, current liabilities, bonds, and leases. Students will also learn rudimentary financial statement analysis pertaining to these topics, analyze real world cases and learn to research financial accounting issues using the FASB Codification Database.

  

  • ACCT 4113 - Intermediate Accounting III

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ACCT 2101 , and ACCT 2102  with grade of B or higher and ACCT 4111 , and MGT 3100  with grade of C- or higher.
    Description
    Students will study accounting for income taxes, pensions, shareholders equity, share-based compensation, accounting changes, error corrections, and derivatives. Students will also learn the computation of earnings per share and the preparation of a complex statement of cash flows. Students will also learn rudimentary financial statement analysis, analyze real world cases pertaining to these topics and learn to research financial accounting issues using the FASB Codification Database.

  

  • ACCT 4210 - Cost / Managerial Accounting

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Grade of B or higher both in ACCT 2101  and ACCT 2102 .
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    Students study the information needed by managers to plan, monitor, and improve their critical processes, products, and services. This course stresses the application of information technologies to tasks such as measuring costs to produce, market, and deliver products and services; planning via flexible budgets and cost-volume-profit analysis; implementing activity-based management systems; and measuring and performance. Students communicate implications of their analyses to stakeholders using database, spreadsheet, and word processing skills.

  

  • ACCT 4310 - Accounting Information Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: CIS 2010 , MGT 3100 , and ACCT 4210  with a grade of C- or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper-division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    This course develops skills required by accountants as users, managers, designers, and evaluators of information systems in business environments. The skills include choosing, extracting, and analyzing information to solve business problems, modeling technology-enabled business processes, and evaluating internal control in business environments.

  

  • ACCT 4389 - Directed Readings in Accounting

    1 to 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ACCT 2101  and ACCT 2102  with a grade of B or higher, and consent of instructor.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    This course may include a Signature Experience component.

  

  • ACCT 4391 - Field Study in Accounting

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ACCT 4112  with a 3.0 GPA or higher and enrolled as an undergraduate accounting major and consent of instructor.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    The field study is a supervised, employer-site learning experience. In this experience, students have the opportunity to apply accounting skills in a professional setting. Students must consult with the instructor or with the School of Accountancy’s Undergraduate Program Coordinator before registering to determine whether their employment internship experiences will qualify for credit. This course may include a Signature Experience component. (May be repeated once.)

  

  • ACCT 4411 - Financial Reporting Issues in the European Union

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ACCT 2101  and ACCT 2102 .
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    This course provides an opportunity to examine the business climate in the European Union with a special emphasis on the Netherlands. The course emphasizes the financial reporting aspects of a business. Students will gain insight into the financial reporting of small and medium sized businesses in the Netherlands as well as European multinationals and U.S. multinationals operating in the Netherlands. Students will learn the benefits of being in the European Union and how it facilitates the movement of money, people, goods and providing services across countries in the European Union.

  

  • ACCT 4510 - Introduction to Federal Income Taxes

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ACCT 4101  with a grade of C- or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    This course introduces students to the federal tax concepts applicable to sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, estates, and trusts. Emphasis is placed on differences between tax and financial accounting concepts. In addition, students are exposed to accounting periods and methods, deferred compensation, tax planning, ethical practices, and tax research.

  

  • ACCT 4610 - Introduction to Assurance Services

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ACCT 4102  and ACCT 4310  with a grade of C- or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    This course develops students’ knowledge of auditing, attest, and assurance services in traditional and e-business environments. Topics include the role of such services in society, evidence relevance and reliability, materiality, risk and control, information integrity, and methods of verification.

  

  • ACCT 4750 - Technology and Values in the Accounting Profession

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: MATH 1070 , ACCT 4101 , and ACCT 4102  with a grade of C- or higher.
    Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours.

    Description
    The objective of this capstone course is to prepare the undergraduate student in accounting for a professional career of technological and cultural change. This course focuses on creating, managing, and controlling such change to achieve superior performance. It uses an economic decision-making approach to demonstrate the value of recent information technologies and the importance of maintaining social and professional norms.


Acting
  

  • ACT 2100 - Play Analysis for Production

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course includes a textual analysis of play scripts, with an emphasis on the perspective of the practitioner of theatre for production purposes.

  

  • ACT 2210 - Beginning Acting

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    The fundamentals of acting theories and techniques are taught through improvisation, character development, monologue, and scene-work.


Africana Studies
  

  • AAS 1141 - Introduction to African and African American History to 1865

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    An introductory survey of African-American History that provides engagement with significant topics, themes and issues in the African American experience from pre-colonial Africa, through enslavement in North America.

  

  • AAS 1142 - Introduction to African American History Since 1865

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    An introductory survey of African-American History that provides engagement with significant topics, themes and issues in the African American experience from Reconstruction into the present.

  

  • AAS 2010 - Introduction to Africana Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Intellectual and social origins of African-American Studies. Key concepts, themes, and theories of the discipline.

  

  • AAS 2140 - Africana Literature in the Americas

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Historical survey of English-language literature by people of African descent in the Americas, particularly in the U.S., with consideration of literary genres, conventions, and modes. Issues such as periodization, canon formation, national identity, and the interrelationships between literature and other elements of culture will be explored.

  

  • AAS 3000 - African-American Family

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as SOCI 3162 .) Contemporary theories and research of the African-American family.

  

  • AAS 3010 - Narratives of Race, Gender and Sexuality: Quare Readings

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Focuses on recognizing and employing various reading practices and themes of intersectionality within a number of literary narratives.

  

  • AAS 3050 - Introduction to African-American Psychology

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 2010 , AAS 1140, AAS 1141 , AAS 1142 , Hist 1140, HIST 1141 , or HIST 1142  with a D or higher.
    Description
    (Same as PSYC 3520 .) Examination of theory and research pertaining to African-American psychology. Special emphasis on the Afrocentric perspective.

  

  • AAS 3070 - African-Americans in the Criminal Justice System

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    An examination of the relationship between the African-American community and the criminal justice system.

  

  • AAS 3120 - African Diaspora

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 2010 , AAS 1140, AAS 1141 , AAS 1142 , Hist 1140, HIST 1141 , HIST 1142 , or ANTH 2020  (each with a D or higher).
    Description
    (Same as ANTH 3120 .) Investigates the dispersal, growth, and influence of people of African descent throughout the world. A comparative analysis of historical, political, cultural, economic, and social development of the African diaspora. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 3124 - Diversity and Aging

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as GERO 3124  and SOCI 3124 .) This course examines aging as a social process and focuses on the influence of ethnicity and race, as well as other key social relations in shaping the life course. We will define and examine diversity and disparity and consider many of the socio-cultural factors that give rise to differences across the life course and in later life.

  

  • AAS 3240 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as ANTH 3240.) Origins, adaptations, and contemporary social, economic, political, and belief systems of the indigenous and mixed populations of Africa. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 3450 - History of African-Americans in Georgia

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Examination of the political, economic, and social development of African-Americans in Georgia.

  

  • AAS 3500 - Jazz History

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as Mus 3500.) Study of the development of jazz from its origins to current trends including stylistic periods such as New Orleans, swing, bop, cool, avant garde, and fusions. Emphasis on evolution of form, improvisational style, and influential artists.

  

  • AAS 3670 - Social Justice in Sports

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course examines the impact that sports activism has had on global issues.

  

  • AAS 3750 - Race and Racism

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as PHIL 3750 .) Study of philosophical issues related to race and racism. Topics may include philosophical analysis of concepts such as oppression, race, racism, discrimination, and stereotyping as well as critical investigation of practices and institutions related to racism and ending it, such as the ethics of racial profiling, racism and mass incarceration, and racism and social integration.

  

  • AAS 3810 - History of African-American Music

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as MUA 3810 .) History and styles of African-American music.

  

  • AAS 3880 - African-American Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as ENGL 3950 .) History and development of African-American literature, with emphasis on major writers.

  

  • AAS 3960 - African-American Literature by Women

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as ENGL 3960  and WGSS 3960.) Survey of literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Includes such authors as Wilson, Wheatley, Larsen, Hurston, Dove, Hansberry, and Morrison.

  

  • AAS 3975 - Concepts and Theories in Africana Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Either AAS 1140, AAS 1141 , or AAS 1142 ; and AAS 2010  and AAS 3120 , each with a C or instructor approval.
    Description
    Examination of the major concepts and theoretical orientations used in Africana Studies.

  

  • AAS 3980 - Research Methods in Africana Studies-CTW

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 2010  with a C or higher.
    Description
    Qualitative and quantitative research techniques employed to generate knowledge in the interdisciplinary field of Africana Studies.

  

  • AAS 4000 - Issues in the African-American Community

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as SOCI 4310 .) Examination of the impact of major societal issues on the African-American community.

  

  • AAS 4010 - Civic Engagement in Africana Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    An experiential course where students develop civic responsibility and utilize their skills and talents to the service of community organizations with the specific goal of helping to empower them to address African American and broader community needs. This course may include a Signature Experience component.

  

  • AAS 4030 - African-American Relationships

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as SOCI 4311 .) Explores historical, social, psychological, and economic factors affecting African-American relationships. Issues include negative images and stereotypes, color, beauty and pornography, sex-gender and role identity, consumerism and narcissism, and employment.

  

  • AAS 4105 - Race & Health

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Critical exploration of the frameworks used to explain racial differences in health in the African-American community through the examination of contemporary health issues.

  

  • AAS 4110 - Black Women and Health

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as WGSS 4110.) This course examines the intersections of race, gender, and health with a critical focus on the health experiences of women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4120 - African-American Political Thought

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as POLS 4560.) Examination and critical analysis of African-American political and social issues.

  

  • AAS 4125 - Black Feminist Thought

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 2010  with a C or higher.
    Description
    (Same as WGSS 4750 .) Explores the tradition of Black feminism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will critically read, discuss, and respond in writing to a series of texts representing Black feminist thought and its relationship to other feminisms. Students will be expected to demonstrate their knowledge of the Black feminist tradition and their ability to query, compare, and extend Black feminist theories.

  

  • AAS 4140 - Black Women Politics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course focuses on the historical and contemporary world of Black women politics in the United States. Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) course.

  

  • AAS 4160 - African-American Politics

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 2010 , AAS 1140, AAS 1141 , AAS 1142 , Hist 1140, HIST 1141 , or HIST 1142  with a D or higher.
    Description
    (Same as POLS 4165 .) Analysis of the ideology, public opinions, and political behaviors of African Americans. African-American impact on the electoral system.

  

  • AAS 4170 - Hip-Hop and Politics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This is a course designed to discuss the historical and contemporary world of Hip-Hop music in the United States. Topics covered in this class deal with rap music, attitudes, stereotypes, behavior, political participation, and overall perception. Critical Thinking Through Writing course.

  

  • AAS 4180 - Politics of the Civil Rights Movement

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as POLS 4157 .) Examinations of the underpinnings, leadership, political strategies, and outcomes of the modern civil rights movement.

  

  • AAS 4200 - Critical Pedagogy and African American Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 1140, AAS 1141 , or AAS 1142 , or AAS 2010  with a D or higher.
    Description
    This course will explore the principles and practices of critical pedagogy theory as it has developed both internationally and in the United States. This theory will be particularly focused on its application in the historical and current education in the African American community. The course will examine applications of critical pedagogy in both primary and higher education arenas with a particular focus on what it means to “teach for freedom. The course will review applications of critical pedagogy and its focus on cultural and social context of both students and teachers and the relationship of education to social development and social change. This course includes both class participation and class room participant observer research..

  

  • AAS 4230 - Religions of the African World

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as RELS 4230 .) An overview of religion from Africa to the Diaspora. African cosmology and religions among various African peoples such as the Yoruba and the Dogon of Mali. African origins of Western religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Various religions among African peoples in the Diaspora such as Santeria, Voodooism, Rastafarianism, as well as Christianity, Black Judaism, and the Nation of Islam. Special attention to African survivals in religion in the Diaspora. The role of religion as a tool of liberation and community and economic development. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4250 - African-American Religion

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as RELS 4250 .) A survey of the development of African-American religion from colonial times to present, including an examination of both the theoretical arguments of religious elites and the spiritual experience of laypersons.

  

  • AAS 4255 - Religion, Race, Nation

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as RELS 4255 .) From colonialism to black nationalism to globalization, how do the three issues of religion, race, and nation affect each other? The course will discover the role religion plays in shaping racial and national identity and explain how the concepts of race, religion, and nation reconfigure issues of power, privilege, and public life. We will explore these concepts using theory, world literature, and film.

  

  • AAS 4280 - African-American Anthropology

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as ANTH 4280 .) Major writings in the field of African-American studies; theories, categories, and methods used in studying complex societies are brought to bear upon the literature; use of ethnographies to provide a comparative perspective for understanding African-American cultures.

  

  • AAS 4285 - Womanism and Social Change

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This upper level course will explore womanism and social change as revealed in the oral histories and autobiographies of women of color who utilize religion or spirituality as a basis for their social justice commitments. This course will investigate activists from the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, Standing Rock, and Black Lives Matter movements amplifying research on queer women and women of color in non-violent social movements. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4330 - The Black Arts Movement

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course explores and examines the ideas, major artists and institutions, artistic practices, political context and enduring legacy of the most important multi-discipline artistic movement in African American history.

  

  • AAS 4340 - The Africana Experience through the Documentary Lens

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course provides an opportunity to critically examine the Africana experience through the use of documentary films paired with critical readings.

  

  • AAS 4350 - Black Visual Representation

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    The Iconography of the African Diaspora. This course will use interdisciplinary methods to study racialized iconic figures, the production of their images, and their impact across the world. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4360 - Studies of Black Dance

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Examines the centrality of movement in the social, cultural, and spiritual practices of black populations across the world. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4400 - Geography of Africa

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as GEOG 4402 .) An overview of the physical, economic, and cultural geography of Africa, including North Africa. Emphasis on relationships between Africa’s resources, both human and physical, and the development process. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4550 - Black Activism

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 1140, AAS 1141 , AAS 1142 , or AAS 2010  with a D or higher.
    Description
    Examination of 20th and 21st century Black movements for social justice. The course focuses on investigation of insurgent movements that primarily worked outside of parliamentary politics and taking a multi-disciplinary approach by the study of theories and histories of social movements of African descendants in the United States.

  

  • AAS 4600 - Enslavement and Resistance in North America

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as HIST 4280 .) Examines the character of the system of chattel slavery and racial oppression in Colonial America and in the United States and insurgent responses to it by the captive and free population of African descent in North America. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4620 - Enslavement and Resistance in the Americas

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as HIST 4290 .) Comparative examination of systems of captivity and forced labor in the western hemisphere and the social development and popular responses of captive Africans and their descendants to these systems. Emphasis on the continuities of African culture and the unique adaptation of culture and social organization in each country. The nature of resistance and the process of eliminating the system of captivity, with a focus on Maroon nations in the Americas. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4625 - Atlanta and Black Culture

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 1140, AAS 1141 , AAS 1142 , or AAS 2010  with a C or higher; and at least 48 undergraduate credit hours.
    Description
    This course focuses on the history, politics and culture within the “Black New South”, a subfield within the academic field of African American Studies. With an interdisciplinary approach the focus will be on the major issues involved in the study of the African American experience, both the objective issues being analyzed in the research literature and the subjective issues of how the world sees Atlanta, Georgia as the Black Mecca.

  

  • AAS 4640 - African-American People

    4 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as HIST 4270 .) Major topics and themes in African-American history, including slavery, development of American racism, urbanization, civil rights, and black contributions to American culture. City Scholars Course.

  

  • AAS 4650 - African-American Theatre

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as THEA 4090 .) Examination of the history and contributions of African-Americans to the American theatre.

  

  • AAS 4660 - African-American Women

    4 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as HIST 4260 .) Examination of the varied history of African-American women. Centered in the tradition of race and gender protest; how women have generationally developed agendas and forums around social justice reform; exploration of themes, individuals, and collective action, revealing the impact of race, class, and gender on the lives of African-American women.

  

  • AAS 4771 - Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: WGSS 2010  with a C or better.
    Description
    (Same as WGSS 4770 .) This course thinks about the kinds of conceptual tools: questions, methods, theories, histories, geographies, time periods, and social/cultural movements needed in order to understand the dynamic and shifting terrain of gender and sexuality in the African Diaspora. Colonialism, slavery, social movements as well as transnational circuits of music, self-expression, desire and consumption/production will frame our approach to theorizing gender and sexuality in the actual and imagined spaces of the African Diaspora. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4772 - Women in Africa

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as HIST 4772 .) An examination of African women’s roles in domestic production, their relationship to the state, and the effect of social change on women from the pre-colonial period to the contemporary era. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4774 - African Rebellions

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    An examination of African resistance in the colonial and post-colonial contexts. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4776 - Africa and Hollywood: Myth, Romance, and Savage Imagery

    4 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course explores the image of Africa projected into American mass culture through the vehicle of commercial films produced about Africa.

  

  • AAS 4780 - African-American Lesbian and Gay Activism

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 2010 .
    Description
    (Same as WGSS 4780 .) Examines the speeches, writings, and other public communication of African-American lesbians and gay men who promote democratic ideals. Surveys historical and contemporary issues confronting this marginalized population. Emphasis on thematic and cultural critical approaches.

  

  • AAS 4870 - Honors Thesis I

    1 to 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Good standing with the Honors College and consent of the instructor and the Honors College.
    Description
    Readings or research preparatory to honors thesis or project. Signature Experience course.

  

  • AAS 4880 - Honors Thesis II

    1 to 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Good standing with the Honors College and consent of the instructor and the Honors College.
    Description
    Writing or production of honors thesis or project. Signature Experience course.

  

  • AAS 4890 - Caribbean Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 2010 , AAS 1140, AAS 1141 , AAS 1142 , Hist 1140, HIST 1141 , or HIST 1142  (each with a D or higher).
    Description
    (Same as ENGL 3970 .) Survey of twentieth-century literature of the English-speaking or Commonwealth Caribbean. Includes such writers as Prince, Brathwaite, Kincaid, Naipaul, and Walcott. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4900 - African-Americans in Film

    4 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as FLME 4760 .) Mainstream Hollywood representation of African-Americans and the alternative film portrayals by African-American producers.

  

  • AAS 4940 - African-American Achievement

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: Either AAS 1140, AAS 1141 , AAS 1142 , or AAS 2010  with a C or higher; and at least 48 undergraduate credit hours.
    Description
    Examination of the various contexts of African-American academic performance.

  

  • AAS 4950 - African-American Popular Culture

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    (Same as JOUR 4590 .) Intellectual debates over the definitions and diversities of everyday African-American cultural production.

  

  • AAS 4970 - Topics in Africana Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 2010 , AAS 1140, AAS 1141 , AAS 1142 , Hist 1140, HIST 1141 , or HIST 1142  (each with a D or higher).
    Description
    Intensive treatment of selected topics in African-American studies. May be repeated for 12 credit hours.

  

  • AAS 4975 - Race, Class and Gender in Contemporary South Africa

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    In this course students learn how class, gender and racial categories have impacted the lives of South Africans. Global Scholars course.

  

  • AAS 4980 - Seminar and Practicum in Africana Studies-CTW

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 3980  with a C or higher.
    Requirements: Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW courses required of all African-American Studies majors).

    Description
    Integration and application of discipline knowledge in a field setting with nonprofit community organization. (CTW course). This course may include a Signature Experience component.

  

  • AAS 4995 - Directed Readings B.I.S.-CTW

    3 to 4 Credit Hours
    Requirements: This course may satisfy the Critical Thinking Through Writing requirement.

    Description
    Directed Readings designed for Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies students.


Anthropology
  

  • ANTH 1102 - Introduction to Anthropology

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course is designed as an introduction to the discipline of anthropology through a survey of the five subfields: cultural, biological, archaeological, linguistics, and applied anthropology. The course will use a holistic and comparative approach to study the human condition with emphasis on human cultural, behavioral, and biological variation across place and time.

  

  • ANTH 2010 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This evidence-based course is designed to introduce students to the general concepts of biological anthropology. The course will use lecture and hands-on activities to explore major topics in evolution and natural selection, variation and adaptation, molecular and population genetics, the intersections of biology and cultural behavior, and the fossil record from early hominins through modern populations.

  

  • ANTH 2020 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course examines the theories, methods, and basic issues in contemporary cultural anthropology, stressing comparison and interpretation of contemporary social problems cross-culturally. An emphasis will be placed on applied methodologies used in cultural studies such as fieldwork, participant observation, ethnography, and ethnology. Topics include culture and cultural diversity, cultural categories of race, ethnicity, gender, as well as social institutions such as marriage, family, religion, and subsistence patterns.

  

  • ANTH 2030 - Archaeology and Prehistory

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Brief overview of archaeological methods and concepts followed by an examination of major cultural developments including the geographical spread of humans and the emergence of agriculture and complex societies. Implications for understanding contemporary humanity are included.

  

  • ANTH 2040 - Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Linguistic anthropology is broadly understood as the study of language as a part of culture. This course shows how language constitutes social action. Language is much more than a transparent medium for communicating ideas. Rather, the way we speak can have profound implications in terms of community membership, social exclusion, economic opportunity, identity, the way we view and understand the world. This course will cover the complexity of human languages and the significance of linguistic and cultural difference.

  

  • ANTH 3033 - The Anthropology of Violence-CTW

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ANTH 2010 , ANTH 2020 , or ANTH 2030  with a grade of C or higher, or consent of instructor.
    Requirements: Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all anthropology majors.

    Description
    Drawing on three subfields of anthropology (biological anthropology, archaeology, and sociocultural anthropology), this course takes a holistic approach to the study of violence. The course fosters critical thinking through writing, and it promotes the understanding of how scholarly-scientific and popular interpretations of violence are rooted in the ideological paradigms of their time. Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) course.

  

  • ANTH 3050 - Anthropology of Religion

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course provides an introduction to the comparative study of the world’s religions, a discipline that has its roots in the fields of anthropology, philosophy and sociology. The course will explore the role that the invention of writing played in the emergence of scriptural religions, as well as provide an introduction to some of the key categories in comparative religion, including: athletics, civil religion, ethics, gender, modernity, prophecy, ritual, sainthood and time. The course will conclude with a three-week ethnography of a Vodou priestess (“Mama Lolaâ€in the Haitian diaspora of New York City. Global Scholars course.

  

  • ANTH 3075 - Greek Mythology

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course explores the lives, and long afterlives, of certain canonical mythic cycles such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad and the Odyssey, or the Ramayana. The course will use the Greek case study as exemplary.

  

  • ANTH 3100 - Sex, Culture, and Sexuality

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course takes a comparative, cross-cultural approach to understanding sex and sexuality/sexualities in anthropological and historical perspective. This will include an examination of beliefs about sex, sexuality, and the body; the interaction of culture and biology in the shaping of sexual identity; the many roles of sex in both nonhuman and human primate societies; evidence of sexual attitudes and practices based on the material culture of past societies; and the variety of sexual practices and their meanings around the world in contemporary society.

  

  • ANTH 3120 - African Diaspora

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 1140, AAS 1141 , AAS 1142 , AAS 2010 , HIST 1140, HIST 1141 , HIST 1142 , or ANTH 2020  with a grade of C or higher.
    Description
    (Same as AAS 3120 .) Investigates the dispersal, growth, and influence of people of African descent throughout the world. A comparative analysis of historical, political, cultural, economic, and social developments of the African diaspora. Global Scholars course.

  

  • ANTH 3500 - Culture and Change in Africa

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: AAS 1141 , AAS 1142 , AAS 2010 , ANTH 2020 , SOCI 1101 , or WGSS 2010  with a C or higher; or consent of instructor.
    Description
    (Same as WGSS 3500 .) Provides an introduction to the ethnography of Sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights change and resistance to change and seeks to understand the historical and cultural conditions underpinning current predicaments facing African societies, as well as the fact that tragedy is only one facet of African lives and experiences. Suitable for students majoring in Global Studies, Anthropology, Africana Studies, History, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Global Scholars course.

  

  • ANTH 3770 - Tragedy and Comedy in Cultural Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    This course offers a history of the way tragedy emerged as a major theoretical preoccupation in the 19th century in Europe, and returned to ethical theory in the US in the late 20th century. Attention will focus on the cultural reasons for this preoccupation.

  

  • ANTH 4020 - Anthropological Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ANTH 2020  with a grade of C or higher, or consent of instructor.
    Description
    Historical treatment of the major theoretical trends in anthropology.

  

  • ANTH 4040 - Race, Class, and Gender in Global Perspective

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ANTH 2020  with a C or higher, or consent of instructor.
    Description
    (Same as WGSS 4040  and GLOS 4040 .) Exploration of the various ways that perceptions and designations of race, class, and gender intersect with each other and shape the human experience. This includes an analysis of how categories of class, ethnicity, and gender affect daily life for people in multi-ethnic, stratified societies, particularly in terms of how inequities of access to wealth, power, and resources have emerged on global and local levels. Structural violence is an important theme of many of the readings in the class. The idea of race as a social construct rather than a biological phenomenon is another key topic. We will examine how gender identity and gender roles are shaped by culture. Globalization and immigration, and their relationship to gender, race, and class, are foci of the latter part of the course. City Scholars course. Global Scholars course.

  

  • ANTH 4060 - Environmental Anthropology

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ANTH 1102 , ANTH 2010 , ANTH 2020 , or ANTH 2030  with a grade of C or higher, or consent of instructor.
    Requirements: City Scholars course.

    Description
    During this course we will examine how humans interact with and are influenced by environmental resources, as well as how our actions impact natural resources and ecological systems. Human populations and cultural groups are therefore (re)situated in nature. To explore environmental anthropology as a sub-field, the course is structured as a survey of the discipline, examining topics such as historical ecology, population ecology, cultural constructions of “nature,” the anthropology of environmentalism, political ecology, and global environmental issues.

  

  • ANTH 4070 - Ethnobotany

    3 Credit Hours
    Description
    Ethnobotany is the study of the use of plants by humans. This course provides an overview of the field of ethnobotany and its methods. Students will explore how ethnobotanists collect, analyze, and interpret data and will learn some of the applications of ethnobotany outside of an academic setting.

  

  • ANTH 4080 - Consumption and Material Culture

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ANTH 2020  with a C or higher.
    Description
    This course examines anthropological approaches to material culture and consumption: the practices, relations, and rituals through which things (from food and clothing to shell valuables or moneybecome meaningful and are used in the organization of social life. Readings include classic works of anthropology and social theory as well as recent ethnographies of western capitalist, colonial/postcolonial and post-socialist settings. Global Scholars course.

  

  • ANTH 4111 - Anthropology of Self and Emotion

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: ANTH 2020  with a C or higher, or consent of instructor.
    Description
    (Same as WGSS 4111 .) This course draws upon readings in anthropological theory and ethnography to consider the cultural construction of self-hood, identity, and feelings, with an emphasis on the historical specificity of particular experiences, how they may be influenced by factors such as capitalism, how they may change over time, and the significance of gender.

  

  • ANTH 4112 - Modernity and Identity

    4 Credit Hours
    Description
    Representations of modernity in postcolonial and metropolitan nation-states. National identities and their articulations with gender, class, and race. Global Scholars course.

 

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