2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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This section of the Catalog includes course descriptions, listed alphabetically by discipline. The descriptions provide information on course numbers, titles, the level of instruction, credit, course sequence, content, and prerequisites as shown in the following example:
CHE 2100 Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry
Credits: 5
Prerequisite: CHE 1100
Description: A study of the elements of organic and biological chemistry. This course satisfies requirements for nursing programs and other fields requiring a survey of organic and biological chemistry.
The first two to four letters, called the course subject code, represent the area of study or discipline, e.g., CHE represents chemistry. The course number follows the course subject code, e.g., 2100. The first digit in a four-digit course number designates the level of instruction. Only courses numbered 1000 or above will be included in credits toward a degree. Courses with numbers up to and including 1999 are primarily for freshmen, 2000 through 2999 primarily for sophomores, 3000 through 3999 primarily for juniors, and 4000 through 4999 primarily for seniors. In general, students should not take courses above the level of their class (based upon semester hours earned), but they may do so at one level above if they have the specified prerequisites. In special cases, students may be permitted to take courses more than one level above that designated for their class if they obtain the permission of their advisor and of the faculty member teaching the course and if they meet the prerequisite requirements. Course descriptions provide a summary of the content of the course. If a prerequisite must be met before a student can register for a course, this information is listed above the course description. Attributes, such as Ethnic Studies & Social Justice, General Studies, or Guaranteed Transfer, are listed after the course description. A list of courses being offered in a given semester, instructors, class meeting times, and locations is described in the Class Schedule.
Types of Courses
- Regular courses appear in this section of the University Catalog and are offered on a regular basis.
- Independent study courses provide students the opportunity to pursue in-depth study of a topic of special interest. Independent study courses are specified as 498_ and include an alpha character in the course number. Independent study courses are published in the Class Schedule.
- Special topics or omnibus courses are temporary courses that are not listed in the Catalog. They may be used to pilot-test a course, present a special topic, or provide a unique, experiential-learning opportunity. Omnibus courses use a specified range of course numbers: 190_, 290_, 390_, 490_ and include an alpha character in the course number. Omnibus courses are published in the Class Schedule.
- Variable topics courses allow courses of varying titles under an overall theme or “umbrella” course. Variable topic courses include an alpha character in the course number and are published in the Class Schedule.
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GWS 1550 - Introduction to Transgender Studies
Credits: 3
Description: This course explores the transgender experience, focusing on Western cultural definitions and concepts. The course covers transgender basics, including definitions and language; the history of the transgender movement; the legal, social, and medical aspects of transition; current political issues within and for the movement; cultural aspects of gender diversity; well-known trans people in Western culture; working with transgender populations; and being a good ally and advocate. By the end of the course, students possess the language, knowledge, and skills to work with transgender populations in a variety of settings and understand the diversity of the transgender experience.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS3
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GWS 1600 - Women in World History
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Minimum performance standard scores on reading and writing pre-assessment placement tests
Description: This course will explore the role, experiences, and contributions of women in the family, the economy, the culture, the religions and the political structure from a broad, comparative framework. Students will become familiar with how women’s history modifies the traditional interpretations of historical events.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: HIS or GWS.
General Studies: Historical, Global Diversity
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-HI1
Cross Listed Course(s): HIS 1600
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GWS 2010 - Interdisciplinary Research Methods in Social Issues
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or AAS 1010 or CHS 1000 or Permission of instructor
Description: This course focuses on the interdisciplinary study of methods, analyses and critiques used by scholars to study social issues within and across a range of disciplines (e.g., history, arts, humanities, sciences, education, health, economics, law and social/ behavioral sciences). Research designs and general statistical interpretation will be reviewed for each methodology. Techniques for laboratory and field research, conducting qualitative and quantitative studies, and writing research reports will also be included.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: GWS or AAS or CHS.
Cross Listed Course(s): AAS 2010, CHS 2030
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GWS 2100 - Women of Color
Credits: 3
Description: Though U.S. women share much in common, their differences are salient to a thorough understanding of all these women’s experiences. Comparative analysis of women’s race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation are central to this course. The similarities among diverse groups of women are also examined in order to better understand the complexity of women’s lives. The course addresses issues of work, health, interpersonal violence, globalization, as well as resistance, activism, and social change across identities.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS, CHS, or GWS.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS3
University Requirement(s): Ethnic Studies & Social Justice
Cross Listed Course(s): AAS 2100, CHS 2100
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GWS 2200 - Feminist and Queer Research Methods
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): GWS 1001 or GWS 1200
Description: This course focuses on feminist and queer research methods and methodologies specific to interdisciplinary research. It includes an overview of basic quantitative methods and analyses, along with an in-depth exploration of qualitative and mixed-methods research design. The course also covers topics such as: standpoint and critical theories, research ethics, feminist ethnography, and community research. The course provides a queer framework for critiquing power, authority, and knowledge, all of which are essential concepts in feminist and queer research design and analyses.
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GWS 2400 - Women’s Folklore and Folklife
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020
Description: This course provides an exploration of folklore in everyday life, folk narrative, and other verbal genres, cultural forms, and manifestations of traditional expressive behaviors as they pertain to reinforcing and resisting gender norms and practices within diverse cultures. It offers a critical examination of how women creatively use folklore to affirm and subvert their roles within sexist, racist, classist, and heterosexist cultural systems.
Note: Credit will be granted for one prefix only: ANT or GWS.
General Studies: Arts and Humanities
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-AH1
Cross Listed Course(s): ANT 2400
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GWS 2450 - Contemporary Women’s Literature
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1009 or ENG 1010
Description: In this course, students study various texts by women writers with an emphasis on contemporary writing, or writing from the 20th Century to the present. Students read, analyze, discuss, and write about women’s texts through gender studies and feminist studies theoretical lenses. Students focus on different sociocultural and sociopolitical issues that exist and surface in women’s writing. Course content is themed around issues that are most relevant and prevalent to women and their stories.
Note: Credit granted for only one prefix: ENG or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 2450
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GWS 2600 - Meditation and Activism
Credits: 2
Description: Students in this course explore basic lay meditation techniques and how they can support various forms of social justice activism. It explores the centrality of the body in the workings of oppression and privilege and organized social change through readings and mindfulness exercises. Through this focus, we familiarize ourselves with the texts of environmental and racial justice activists, and feminists, queer, and other gender justice advocates who have integrated meditation and mindfulness in their academic and activist work. This course provides students an introduction to the literature on mindful anti-oppression work and basic self-care through simple meditation practices.
Note: Credit granted for only one prefix.
Cross Listed Course(s): CPD 2600
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GWS 2770 - Gender and Communication
Credits: 3
Description: This course explores the relationship of gender to the communication process examining issues of power, conflict, sex role stereotypes, and cultural patterns of interaction on relationships and identity. Students explore the multiple ways that masculinity and femininity are created and sustained through communication in such contexts as families, schools, the workplace, and the media. Students use feminist theoretical perspectives and interpretive approaches from communication studies to analyze cultural assumptions and the relationships of notions of gender to class, sexuality and race.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: COMM or GWS.
General Studies: Arts and Humanities
Cross Listed Course(s): COMM 2010
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GWS 3050 - Psychology of Gender
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): PSY 1001
Description: This course presents a survey of major contemporary approaches to gender, including a range of scientific and theoretical work. A constructionist approach is utilized to synthesize the views. The course then reviews several major areas of application, including relationships, health, violence, workplace, and achievements.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: PSY or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): PSY 3050
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GWS 3070 - Psychology of Sexual Orientation
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): PSY 1001
Description: This course explores psychological theory and research dealing with sexual orientation, with an emphasis on lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) identity. Topics include historical and theoretical frameworks, homophobia and heterosexism, origins of sexual orientation, LGB identity development and coming out, diversity, relationships and parenting, the role of community, and others.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: GWS or PSY.
Cross Listed Course(s): PSY 3070
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GWS 3130 - Independent Study in Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies
Credits: 1-6
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or permission of instructor
Description: This course engages students in an in-depth, faculty-guided conversation on Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies theories and practices. In collaboration with their GWS faculty mentor, students will develop a comprehensive course proposal, with student learning objectives and detailed course schedule specific to their area of interest. Through the selections read, students will learn the theory, history, and scope of the literature in the field and will develop an extensive research project about their specific topic. This course offers individualized instruction and personal consultation with faculty.
Note: This course may be repeated for a total of 6 credits.
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GWS 3170 - Social Justice, Self, and Citizenship: A Service Learning Course
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or PSY 1001 and six additional semester hours in Women’s Studies or six additional semester hours in Psychology
Description: Social justice encompasses research, activism and current events about manifestations of social oppression and social change. This course focuses upon psychological theory and self-identity in the context of multicultural and social justice issues (e.g., classism, racism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism). Lectures, readings, and discussions are integrated with a required service learning placement involving 30 hours of volunteer work in a setting for the underserved. Students have the opportunity to a) reflect on their values, assumptions, place within, and emotional reactions to social oppressions; b) analyze the political systems that surround their communities and institutions; and c) apply their reflections to their career goals and personal development.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: HON, PSY, or GWS.
Some sections of this course may be taught as Service Learning.
University Requirement(s): Ethnic Studies & Social Justice
Cross Listed Course(s): HON 3170, PSY 3170
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GWS 3180 - Feminist Philosophy
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): PHI 1010 or 1030 and junior standing are recommended
Description: This course involves an examination of traditional philosophical topics and questions from the perspective of contemporary feminist theory. Special consideration is given to feminist critiques of logic, rationality and scientific objectivity and to feminist approaches to ethical, social and political thought.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: PHI or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): PHI 3180
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GWS 3220 - Prejudice and Discrimination
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): SOC 1010, GWS 1001, AAS 1010 or permission of instructor, and completion of General Studies requirements in Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy
Description: Explore the origins and characteristics of bias, prejudice and discrimination in society; social constructions of race, ethnicity, and gender; and the impact of social forces on social structure, institutions, and access to life opportunities.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS, SOC or GWS.
University Requirement(s): Ethnic Studies & Social Justice
Cross Listed Course(s): AAS 3220, SOC 3220
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GWS 3230 - Bodies and Embodiment
Credits: 3
Description: Students in this course examine multiple interdisciplinary discourses about gendered, sexed, raced, classed, and able bodies, beginning with Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. Through discussion, lecture and critical evaluation of key theories in Body and Embodiment Studies (by Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Susan Bordo, bell hooks, and Iris M. Young) students in this course explore the inscribed, as well as the lived, body–bodies that are gazed at, desired, fashioned, heard, and eroticized. In order to historically situate these discourses, the body is presented as a social construct that is controlled and manipulated but that also has unique experiences which cannot be verbalized and/or managed.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ITP, SOC, or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): ITP 3230, SOC 3230
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GWS 3240 - American Indian Women
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or NAS 1000 Recommended
Description: This course is designed to expose the student to the diverse and varied works of American Indian women. By studying the literature, music, and dance of the American Indian woman, students explore the historical factors that have impacted the lives of both American Indians and non-native people. This course also examines the transition that American Indian women have made in order to survive and attempt to understand their struggles for freedom.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: NAS or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): NAS 3240
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GWS 3250 - Black Women Writers
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): AAS 1010 or ENG 1020
Description: The course studies selected works chosen as representative of the issues and concerns of Black women worldwide as voiced by Black women writers from Africa and the Diaspora.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS, ENG, GWS, or HON.
Cross Listed Course(s): AAS 3250, ENG 3250, HON 3250
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GWS 3260 - Gender, Social Justice and the Personal Narrative
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020 or ENG 1021
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): ENG 1020 or ENG 1021
Description: This course explores personal narrative as a vehicle for discovery and dissemination of social justice themes as they connect to the lived experiences of the authors. Students take part both as readers and authors, narrating excerpts from their own lives as they relate to social justice themes.
University Requirement(s): Arts and Humanities
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GWS 3270 - Beauty Cultures
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020 or ENG 1021
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): ENG 1020 or ENG 1021
Description: This course explores contemporary and historical beauty cultures (both in the U.S. and in a global context), their critiques, and their impact on the lived experience of individuals, including students enrolled in the course. Students discern and untangle the interplay between individual aesthetic impulses and larger cultural and structural forces as they pertain to the beautification of the human face and body.
University Requirement(s): Arts and Humanities, Global Diversity
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GWS 3280 - Queer Theory
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or GWS 1200 or GWS 1550
Description: In this course, students survey a broad array of scholarship in queer theory, as well as applications of queer theory to explore the ways individuals, groups and communities form and resist norms. Ultimately, students analyze a variety of issues such as sexuality and gender, race and nation, medical and carceral practices, trans studies, disability studies, and decolonial practices, using queer theories.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: SOC or GWS.
Course Modified on June 29, 2023
Cross Listed Course(s): SOC 3280
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GWS 3300 - Women’s Leadership
Credits: 2
Description: This course will examine the various roles, models, and guiding principles of women in leadership. The discussions will be intentionally interactive as students share their own experience of women’s leadership ranging from traditional to unconventional. Students will identify the values most clearly associated with women’s leadership crossculturally and read diverse women’s experiences in their communities. Each student will interview a woman whom they deem to be in a leadership role, though not necessarily a formal position, and will present his or her findings to the class. All class members will reflect on their own leadership values in relation to the course material.
Note: Credit will be granted under one prefix only: CPD or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): CPD 3300
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GWS 3310 - Women and the Law
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or CJC 1010 or Permission of instructor
Description: This course introduces students to basic concepts that define the relationship of women to the law. Students will learn about the historical conditions and legal perspectives that affect women’s rights in the U.S. This course deals specifically with women’s equal participation in citizenship, work, education, reproductive rights, and protection from violence.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CJC, PSC, SOC, and GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): CJC 3710, PSC 309J, SOC 365B
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GWS 3350 - Gender and Society
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): SOC 1010 or GWS 1001; or Permission of instructor
Description: Explore what it means to live gendered lives in a gender-conscious society in which cultural, political and economic forces intersect with race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality and other social positions to affect the self, our opportunities and our life chances.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: SOC or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): SOC 3430
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GWS 3360 - Women in European History
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1009 or ENG 1010 or equivalent with a grade of D or better, and any course with HIS prefix or that is crosslisted with HIS prefix, or permission of instructor
Description: This course provides an historical analysis of the role and contribution made by women in the development of Western civilization from Neolithic times to the present.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: GWS or HIS.
Cross Listed Course(s): HIS 3360
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GWS 3365 - Structural Violence, Poverty and Human Rights
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1009 or ENG 1010
Description: In this course, students apply a structural violence framework to make visible the power inequalities that result in producing and reproducing injustices and violations of socioeconomic rights. The use of ethnographic case studies allows students to explore a human rights-based approach to collective actions for justice. Through group discussion, analysis, and workshops, student learn to take political responsibility for injustices beyond those we individually witness or experience.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix.
Cross Listed Course(s): ANT 3365, PSC 3365
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GWS 3395 - Transnational Genders and Sexualities
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or GWS 1200 or ANT 1310 or ANT 2500 or ENG 1020 or ENG 1021
Description: This course explores the transnational production of gender and sexualities. It examines how people, ideas and capital moving across borders play a role in the development of gender and sexual identities, practices, and communities. Through this focus, the course engages transnational phenomena such as tourism, migration, global LGBT communities, colonization and human rights.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ANT or GWS
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Global Diversity
Cross Listed Course(s): ANT 3395
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GWS 3430 - LGBT Literature
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 2000 or ENG 2100 or GWS 1200
Description: Students read, analyze, and write about various forms of literature produced by and about the LBGT experience with consideration of historical and social contexts. Course content includes important LBGT writers in a variety of literary periods and cultures, critical readings on LGBT history and pertinent theory, and explore how historical contingencies and political debates inform literature, as well as how literature and culture inform and challenge public and political opinion.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ENG or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 3360
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GWS 3460 - Women and the Social Sciences: Variable Topics
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001, SOC 1010, or permission of instructor; completion of General Studies requirements in Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy.
Description: These courses focus on women in relation to the social sciences under such titles as: Women and the Family; Women and Addictions; Women in the Criminal Justice System; Domestic Violence; Cross-Cultural Roles of Women; Women and Politics. Check Class Schedule for each semester’s offerings.
Note: This course may be repeated once for credit under different topics.
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GWS 3470 - Biology of Women
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): BIO 1000 or GWS 1001 or Permission of instructor
Description: An examination of the anatomy and physiology of sex in humans, the mechanisms involved in formation of sex and gender, and the interactions between science, society, and medical practice with regard to issues of sex and gender.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: BIO or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): BIO 3471
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GWS 3490 - Queer Sexualities and Identity
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020, SOC 1010, or GWS 1200; or permission of instructor
Description: This course explores the various ways lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other sex/gender minorities represent themselves vis-a-vis the social construction of identity. The course analyzes the general strategies lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) individuals (and their communities) utilize to self-identify, as well as resist simplistic notions of self in a post-modern context. We explore issues of queer self-presentation and performance in relation to the intersections between queer identity and race/ethnicity, class, and nationality, as well as social control and power and privilege.
Note: Credit will be granted under one prefix only: GWS or SOC.
Cross Listed Course(s): SOC 3490
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GWS 3500 - Social Work Practice with LGBTQ People
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1009 or ENG 1010 and ENG 1020 or ENG 1021
Description: This course explores concepts and methods useful is assessing and addressing the strengths, developmental needs, and social issues pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) as well as other sexual minority identities. Multiple levels of practice issues are explored, including individual, group, family, policy, and community. Concepts of oppression and privilege are explored as they relate to LGBTQ people’s experiences as well as experiences within LGBTQ communities.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: GWS or SWK.
Cross Listed Course(s): SWK 3500
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GWS 3510 - Feminist Theories and Practices
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001, GWS 2100, and 6 additional hours of upper-division, GWS coursework; or permission of instructor
Description: This course examines some of the key areas of inquiry in contemporary feminist theories and practices. Specifically, we reflect on feminist histories and question the notions of being, knowing, desiring and moving as sexed, gendered, raced, and classed beings. The course investigates the transformative contributions of liberal feminism, radical feminism, postcolonial and decolonial feminisms, queer theory and transnational feminisms to all academic disciplines. We identify how feminist theories and practices illuminate some of the pressing issues of our time, such as neocolonialism, environmental degradation, war, poverty and violence.
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GWS 3530 - Gender and Global Politics
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or PSC 1020
Description: This course introduces students to the application of feminist theorizing of international relations to critical global issues. The first part of the course examines feminist international relations theory to ascertain how gender reinforms global politics. The second part of the course examines a variety of global issues, such as war, global economic relations, human trafficking, and the environment, to see how the ways we understand, and therefore construct policies to deal with these issues, are gendered.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: GWS or PSC.
Cross Listed Course(s): PSC 3530
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GWS 3540 - Women in the Developing World
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or PSC 1020 or ANT 1310
Description: This course presents a cross-cultural study of women’s lives in the developing world by examining two main issues: the influence of culture on women’s issues and politics’ impact on women. By the end of this course students will not only learn about the lives of women in the developing world but also become familiar with how women across the globe articulate the desire for equality.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix.
Cross Listed Course(s): ANT 3540, HON 3540, PSC 3540
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GWS 3550 - Chicana Feminisms
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHS 1000 or GWS 1001; or permission of instructor
Description: This course will provide students with a general background on Chicana feminist thought. Chicana feminism has carved out a discursive space for Chicanas and other women of color, a space where they can articulate their experiences at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality, among other considerations. In the process, Chicana feminists have critically challenged Chicano nationalist discourse as well as European and North American feminism. The course will address the diversity in thinking and methodology that defines these discourses thus acknowledging the existence of a variety of feminisms that occur within Chicana intellectual thought. The course will also explore the diversity of realms in which this feminist thinking is applied: labor, education, cultural production (literature, art, performance, etc.), sexuality, and spirituality, among others.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CHS, GWS, or HON.
Cross Listed Course(s): CHS 3460, HON 3460
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GWS 3560 - Sociology of Sexuality
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): SOC 1010 or permission of instructor
Description: This course is a survey of historical, cultural, and social aspects of human sexuality. The interplay between sex and society will be the major focus. Cross-cultural and historical analysis of sexual values and behavior will be examined. Competing and conflicting sexual value systems in contemporary societies will be analyzed. Other topics include: sexual scripts, sexual deviance and social control, sexual socialization processes, and the social bases of sexual dysfunction.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: GWS or SOC.
Cross Listed Course(s): SOC 3460
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GWS 3600 - Gender in Social Work Practice
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1009 or ENG 1010 and ENG 1020 or ENG 1021
Description: This course examines social work practice from a feminist theoretical perspective. It examines issues of equality, social justice, policy and practice within a patriarchal society. This course examines how gender is produced and reproduced in contemporary society, and how gender matters for social work practice. Multiple levels of practice issues are explored, including individual, group, family, policy, and community. Concepts of oppression and privilege are explored as they relate to people’s gendered experiences.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: GWS or SWK.
Cross Listed Course(s): SWK 3600
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GWS 3650 - Economics of Race and Gender
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ECO 1040 or ECO 2010 or ECO 2020; or permission of instructor
Description: This course applies the tools of economic analysis to issues that relate to African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and women. The course analyzes labor markets and how occupational choices and earnings vary systematically by these groups of color and by gender. The course also examines in detail the intended and unintended consequences of several policies that have addressed this situation. Finally, economic tools are applied to non-labor market behavior and are used to examine other outcomes that vary by race, ethnicity and gender.
University Requirement(s): Ethnic Studies & Social Justice
Cross Listed Course(s): ECO 3600
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GWS 3651 - U.S. Women’s History
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1009 or ENG 1010 or equivalent with a grade of D or better, and any course with HIS prefix or that is crosslisted with HIS prefix, or permission of instructor
Description: This course emphasizes women’s changing roles in American history. Students examine women’s status, image and legal rights and how they evolved due to social and economic changes and as a result of activism of reformers and writers. Students study the nuances and differences between and among American women, assessing the intersectional relationship between gender, race, class, and sexuality. The course stresses both the changes and the continuities over the last 300 years.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: GWS or HIS.
Cross Listed Course(s): HIS 3650
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GWS 3655 - Women of the American West
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1009 or ENG 1010 or equivalent with a grade of D or better, and any course with HIS prefix or that is crosslisted with HIS prefix, or permission of instructor
Description: This course will provide students with an overview of the ways in which women of many cultures shaped the North American West. Women developed the West as a home place, borderland, and frontier. Course themes that will be explored in lectures, discussion, and assignments include gender, masculinity, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, labor, and environment.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: GWS or HIS.
Cross Listed Course(s): HIS 3655
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GWS 3660 - Poverty, Race and Gender
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): SWK 1010 or permission of instructor
Description: This course introduces the student to the relationship between race, gender and poverty and examines the underlying causes of the “feminization of poverty” in the United States. Social, economic, age-based and ethnic factors are explored in detail. The differences between prevailing stereotypes and current realities are highlighted.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CHS, GWS, SOC, or SWK.
Cross Listed Course(s): CHS 3660, SOC 3660, SWK 3660
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GWS 3670 - Contemporary Issues in Women’s Studies: Variable Topics
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or Permission of instructor
Description: Objectives vary with course title, but generally focus on current issues that are constantly changing and developing in this area. Check Class Schedule for each semester’s offerings.
Note: This course may be repeated once for credit under different topics.
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GWS 3700 - Psychology of Group Prejudice
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): PSY 1001 or AAS 1010 or GWS 1001
Description: This course covers psychological theory and research that examines causes, effects, expressions, and reduction of group prejudice. Various types of group prejudice are addressed, most notably prejudice against cultural and ethnic minorities in the United States (i.e., Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans). Sexism and heterosexism also are discussed.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: AAS, GWS, or PSY.
University Requirement(s): Ethnic Studies & Social Justice
Cross Listed Course(s): AAS 3700, PSY 3700
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GWS 3780 - Gender and Disaster
Credits: 3
Description: This course analyzes gender’s shaping global development and disaster vulnerability by focusing on the experiences of girls and women before, during, and after disastrous events. It examines intersecting patterns of vulnerability and response based on gender, class, race/ethnicity, age, nationality and other factors. Students examine gender-focused case studies from developed and developing societies and investigate the practical implications of gender-sensitive sociology of disaster.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ANT, GWS, or SOC
Cross Listed Course(s): ANT 3361, SOC 3780
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GWS 3910 - Women’s Spirituality
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 Recommended
Description: This course explores the spiritual, psychological, social, political, and cultural aspects of the women’s spirituality movement through reading, research, critical reflection, writing, and optional creative /experiential projects. Students engage these concepts and theories in relation to women’s experiences within diverse religious traditions, as well as personal spiritual understanding and practices. In addition, students apply a spiritual feminist critique to gender socialization, body image, cultural constructions of power and subordination, social activism, and personal agency.
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GWS 3920 - Gender Politics of Health
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or SOC 1010 or PSY 1001
Description: This course focuses on health issues specific to women and the challenges historically faced by women in the health care arena. Students will learn about the role of patriarchal medical mythologies that exist throughout various cultures in the oppression of women, especially minority women, and how women have reclaimed healing, health, and communities of medical knowledge production. This course specifically explores feminist, physiological, psychological, and sociological factors in women’s health within a global context.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: PSY, SOC, GWS, or ITP
Cross Listed Course(s): PSY 3920, SOC 3920, ITP 3920
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GWS 3930 - Theories of Love and Sex
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020 or permission of instructor
Description: This course synthesizes interdisciplinary theories about love and sex. It explores the complexities of love and sex, including their fundamental meanings, contemporary understandings, identity implications as well as their historical constructions. An important dimension of this exploration is the source and meaning of the moral valuation assigned various forms of sexual activity.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Global Diversity
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GWS 3940 - Victim Advocacy for Survivors of Interpersonal Violence
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 and six additional hours in Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies or HSP 1010 and six additional hours in Human Services
Description: This course provides a foundation to the field of interpersonal violence victim advocacy to complement trainings provided by local victim advocacy agencies and police departments. The primary focus is victim advocacy as it relates to interpersonal violence (i.e., relationship violence, sexual violence, and stalking). This course helps prepare students to engage in advocacy by providing a broad understanding of the role of power and control in violence and its root causes, the historical perspective on anti-violence movements, the impact of trauma and biopsychosocial considerations, intersectional identities and vulnerability, laws and policies surrounding interpersonal violence, methods of justice and healing, community activism, and resources available to survivors.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: GWS or HSP.
Cross Listed Course(s): HSP 3940
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GWS 3960 - Feminist Art Since 1960
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 2080 or GWS 1001 with “C-” or better; Completion of General Studies requirements in Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy; or permission of department
Description: This course examines the various intersections between art and feminism beginning with the rise of second-wave feminist politics and continuing to the present. Work by artists who self-consciously identified as feminist or work that has been meaningfully read through feminist theories is the focus. The course covers competing and diverse definitions of feminism and analyzes the ways race, class and gender are intertwined and represented by artists globally. Students evaluate art’s relationship to changing social, political, and philosophical conditions throughout the period.
Note: Credit will only be granted for one prefix: ARTH or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): ARTH 3385
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GWS 4100 - Women’s Holistic Health
Credits: 3
Description: This course takes an in-depth, holistic approach to women’s health. While highlighting new research findings, the class will explore the optimal integration of conventional medicine and complementary modalities for common women’s health concerns. Students will deepen their awareness of tools women can utilize to maintain health and prevent illness.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: GWS or ITP.
Cross Listed Course(s): ITP 4100
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GWS 4160 - Human Trafficking
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001, or AAS 1010, or CJC 1010, or HSP 1010, or SWK 1010; upper-division standing; or permission of instructor
Description: This course explores human trafficking on international and local levels. A review of multidisciplinary perspectives on labor and sex trafficking provides comprehensive understanding of this human rights issue. Students examine the tactics used by traffickers to recruit and control victims and the effects of abuse on victims. This course provides an overview of U.S. federal and local laws to curb trafficking, including federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Finally, students evaluate global and local efforts of the current anti-trafficking movement, including ways to be involved.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix.
Cross Listed Course(s): AAS 4160, CJC 4160, HON 4160, HSP 4160, SWK 4160
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GWS 4210 - Chicanas and the Politics of Gender
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): CHS 1000 or GWS 1001, CHS 3460
Description: This course is designed to further the theoretical understandings of Chicana Feminisms. The course spends a considerable amount of time dealing with the construction of gender in Chicana/o and Latina/o communities, and how the construction of gender has impacted the daily, lived experiences of not only Chicanas and Latinas, but also of gay, lesbian, transgendered, and queer identified Chicanas/os and Latinas/os. The course examines the social construction of gender within Chicana/o and Latina/o communities through cultural texts such as academic production, art, film, popular culture, and spirituality.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CHS or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): CHS 4210
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GWS 4230 - The Female Offender
Credits: 3
Description: This course examines the nature and causes of female criminality and the responses to female offending by all areas of the criminal justice system e.g. policing, courts and prisons. It blends an in-depth analysis of historical methods of addressing female criminality with an intersectional approach to finding solutions to modern-day problems that can influence criminality among girls and women such as intimate partner violence, poverty, mental illness, and the feminization of work. Topics will include gender norms, girl fights, women who kill, prostitution, human trafficking, women’s prisons and women on death row. The course will also address methods for correcting and preventing female criminality from an intersectional approach.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CJC or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): CJC 4230
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GWS 4240 - Gender and Violence
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or GWS1200 or GWS 1550 or CJC 1010 or PSC 1020 or SOC 1010 or permission of instructor
Description: Students analyze key patterns and structures of gender and sexual violence, with a special focus on the diverse experiences of women, queers and gender-variant people. Students draw from disciplines such as queer/trans theory and transnational feminism to illuminate iterations of and resistance to gender-based violence, including how ‘safety’ and ‘precarity’ are distributed unevenly across groups due to various social formations. Topics in this course include sexual violence, interpersonal violence, family violence, trafficking, state violence (including carceral, medical and military violence), among others.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: CJC, GWS, PSC, or SOC.
Cross Listed Course(s): CJC 4240, PSC 4240, SOC 4240
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GWS 4750 - Feminist Research and Activism
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 2200, GWS 3510, completion of General Studies requirements, and senior standing; or permission of instructor.
Description: Designed primarily for Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies majors and minors, this seminar serves as the program capstone. The seminar focuses on interdisciplinary research writing and activism that students apply to a senior thesis and presentation. Thesis papers should reflect each student’s particular focus area within the program (e.g., Transnational and Cultural Diversity, Social Justice and Activism, Bodies and Sexualities, and Interdisciplinary) and represent the broader context of gender, women, and sexualities studies and feminist theory and praxis.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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GWS 4830 - Workforce Diversity
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Senior Standing
Description: This course provides an integrated perspective on the management practices and systems that influence the development and contributions of individuals within a culturally diverse workforce. The focus is on those practices that enhance an organization’s effectiveness in the increasingly competitive domestic and global marketplace.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: GWS, HON, or MGT.
University Requirement(s): Ethnic Studies & Social Justice, Senior Experience
Cross Listed Course(s): HON 4830, MGT 4830
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GWS 4970 - Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Training
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001, GWS 1200, or GWS 2100 and GWS course for which the student will serve as TA with a grade of B or better
Description: This course provides students with an intensive experience as an undergraduate teaching assistant in courses offered through Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies (GWS) either on campus or online. Under close faculty supervision, this course provides training and support for students to learn about feminist pedagogy and processes involved in teaching gender, women, and sexualities studies courses. Students utilize what they have learned in previous GWS courses to assist other students enrolled in these classes. The experience includes workshop attendance with additional hours of application in the course. Students need to have already taken the course for which they will be serving as a Teacher Assistant.
Note: Students may take the course for a maximum of six credit hours
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GIS 1220 - Digital Earth: Geospatial Technologies
Credits: 4
Description: This course serves as an introduction to technologies used for visualization, measurement, and analysis of geographical features that occur on earth. Students learn basic concepts needed to understand maps, global positioning system (GPS), geographic information science (GIS) and remote sensing of the environment. Topics include the nature and characteristics of geospatial technologies, concepts of spatial data, principles and methods of capturing and representing spatial data, and methods of analysis and interpretation of maps and visualizations. This course addresses basic analysis and spatial problem-solving skills. Intermediate spatial analysis skills are taken up in subsequent GIS courses.
Note: Students may not receive credit for GEG 1220 and GIS 1220.
General Studies: Natural and Physical Sciences
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GIS 2250 - Geographic Information Systems
Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): Quantitative Literacy General Studies requirement should be completed before taking this class.
Description: This is a foundation course that provides students with the basic knowledge of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with regard to theoretical, technical, and application issues. It introduces and provides direct experience with the techniques used to analyze and display spatial data using GIS. The skills and knowledge developed in this course will be used to support upper-division courses.
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GIS 2710 - Global Positioning Systems
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): GIS 1220 with a grade of “C-” or better
Description: This course is an introduction to the science of land navigation using maps and a Global Positioning System (GPS), Students navigate positions in the field and apply cartographic principles to GPS lab and field exercises. Emphasis is given to the integration of GPS data with Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
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GIS 3250 - Cartography
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GIS 2250 and MTH 1210 with grades of “C-” or better; or permission of instructor
Description: This course focuses on basic cartographic and visualization concepts and techniques to convey spatial information. Students will critique and design basic cartographic products such as dot, choropleth, contour, and proportional symbol maps using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). They will explore advanced visualization techniques such as integrating data, text, and graphics, developing web maps, and animating maps to show temporal change. Cartographic applications for natural resource management and planning are stressed.
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GIS 3410 - Web Mapping
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): GIS 2250
Description: This course is an introduction to creating web mapping applications on the Internet and serves as an introduction to Spatial Data Infrastructures. Students design, develop, and implement web mapping applications using ESRI software and open source software. Students work with web authoring tools, learn basic javascript, and work with basic visualization tools. Lectures focus on the theories and principles behind web mapping, distributed and cloud computing, graphic design, and other principles of web-based cartography.
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GIS 3920 - Directed Study in Geospatial Sciences
Credits: 1-6
Prerequisite(s): GIS 3250 and Instructor Approval
Description: This course provides an opportunity for upper-division students to independently study a specific topic, initiate their own research or creative project, or assist with a research project initiated by a faculty member in the Geospatial Sciences. Proposals including expected milestones and deliverables will be developed in cooperation with a faculty advisor. The course requires permission of the instructor to enroll.
Note: This course may be repeated for up to 6 semester hours toward the degree.
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GIS 4810 - GIS Programming
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GIS 2250 with a grade of “C-” or better
Description: This course is an introduction to programming and scripting for intermediate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) users. The fundamental concepts of scripting and object-oriented programming will be developed using the Python programming language. This course teaches students to design and write clearly structured programs in Python in the ArcGIS environment. Students will develop programs to manage geospatial data, perform geoprocessing analysis to solve spatial problems, and automate mapping and visualization tasks.
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GIS 4840 - Remote Sensing
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GIS 2250 with a grade of “C-” or better and (MTH 1110 or MTH 1112 or MTH 1120 or MTH 1400 or MTH 1410) with a grade of “C-” or better
Description: This course provides an overview of photogrammetry and remote sensing principals as well as practical experience in the extraction of earth surface information from hardcopy and digital imagery. Topics include electromagnetic radiation principles, aerial cameras, photo interpretation and measurement, satellite collection systems, digital imagery characteristics, and image processing. The application of remote sensing technologies to land management fields and the integration of digital imagery within Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is emphasized.
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GIS 4850 - Spatial Modeling in Raster
Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): GIS 2250 with grade of “C-” or better and (MTH 1110 or MTH 1112 or MTH 1120 or MTH 1210 or MTH 1400 or MTH 1410) with grade of “C-” or better or permission of instructor
Description: This is an upper-division course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with an emphasis on spatial analysis and modeling. The underlying foundations of map algebra are discussed along with practical exercises that allow the student to develop familiarity with those procedures. This course offers an opportunity for students with a solid background in the fundamentals of GIS to apply the analytical capabilities of this technology to model real-world situations in support of decision-making. Application of GIS to the fields of Land Use Planning and Natural Resource Management are emphasized.
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GIS 4860 - GIS Applications
Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): GIS 2250 with a grade of “C-” or better, upper division standing; or permission of instructor
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): GIS 3250
Description: This course provides advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), with emphasis on vector data models. Students will gain conceptual knowledge about the advantages and limitations of various vector GIS data models (shapefiles, coverages, geodatabases) in support of land management and scientific applications, as well as practical exercises using Arc/Info and ArcGIS software. Students will gain advanced experience in spatial data management, spatial analysis, and project management. Students will be responsible for a GIS application project of their own creation.
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GIS 4870 - Spatial Databases
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GIS 4860 with a grade of “C-” or better, and upper division standing; or permission of instructor
Description: This upper-division course emphasizes the challenges and uniqueness of spatial data organization from specific database models to national spatial data infrastructures. Students will gain theoretical and practical experience designing, implementing, and managing georelational and object-relational databases for planning and natural resource applications. Practical experience in spatial database creation using Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Database Management Systems (DBMS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) will be stressed.
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GIS 4880 - Current Topics in GIS: Variable Topics
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisite(s): GIS 2250 with a grade of “C” or better
Description: This course covers important topics in GIS and remote sensing, emphasizing new concepts and technological developments. The course content will vary, and the course may be repeated for credit as the course topic changes with a maximum of six credits earned.
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GIS 4890 - Advanced GIS Project
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GIS 4860 with a grade of “C” or better, or permission of instructor
Description: This is a senior-level capstone course for land use majors with a concentration in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Students serve as GIS specialists working on individual or group projects with emphasis on land use applications. Students manage a project from inception to completion, including databases and maps, as well as a final report and presentation.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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GIS 4910 - Satellite Image Processing and Analysis
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GIS 4840 with grades of “C-” or better and senior standing, or permission of instructor; GIS 4860 or GIS 4850 with grade of “C-” or better.
Description: This course focuses on current techniques and concepts for processing and analysis of digital satellite remote sensing imagery. The class covers both theoretical and practical applications of image processing techniques for land cover classification and land condition analysis. Topics include image preprocessing, enhancements, indices, and classification. Students conduct an original research project in addition to reviews of current literature.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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GIS 4920 - Advanced Directed Study in Geospatial Sciences
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GIS 4860 with a grade of “C-” or better, senior standing, and permission of instructor
Description: This course provides an opportunity for students with senior standing to create, initiate, manage, and analyze data for a unique undergraduate research project in Geospatial Sciences, with guidance from a faculty advisor. A review of scientific literature relevant to the research topic is required, along with a research proposal outlining objectives, methods, and deliverables. A written scientific report is also required at the conclusion of the project. Students must obtain permission from the instructor in order to enroll in this Senior Experience course.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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GIS 4950 - Internship in GIS
Credits: 1-12
Prerequisite(s): Departmental or Instructor permission
Description: This course provides an on-the-job internship experience with a Geographic Information Science-related company or agency. The experience must be done under qualified supervision and under the direction of an Earth and Atmospheric Sciences faculty member.
Note: Students may not receive more than 12 hours of credit for this course.
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GEG 1000 - World Regional Geography
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Minimum performance standard scores on reading, writing, and mathematics preassessment placement tests
Description: This course presents the study of the formation, behavior, and interaction of social, political, cultural, and economic regions throughout the world.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Global Diversity
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS2
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GEG 1100 - Introduction to Physical Geography
Credits: 3
Description: This course explores the various elements of the physical environment and interactions between the elements. The course emphasizes the atmosphere (weather and climate), the lithosphere (soils, geology, and landforms), and the hydrosphere (oceans, streams, and groundwater).
General Studies: Natural and Physical Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SC2
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GEG 1120 - Orienteering
Credits: 1
Description: This course familiarizes students with the reading and interpretation of topographic maps and the use of the compass. Orienteering exercises are conducted in the field.
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GEG 1300 - Introduction to Human Geography
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Minimum performance standard scores on reading, writing, and mathematics preassessment placement tests
Description: This course provides an introduction to geographic perspectives, concepts, and methods as they apply to the study of human activities. Emphasis is placed on explaining human spatial patterns and their consequences. Topics covered include population, migration, language, religion, folk and economic development, political systems, and resources.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Global Diversity
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS2
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GEG 1610 - Introduction to Planning
Credits: 1
Description: This course provides an overview of the role of planning in land use, different types of planning processes, public and private sector actors, skills required of planners, and planning documents and maps.
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GEG 1700 - Principles of Sustainability
Credits: 3
Description: This course is an introduction to the transdisciplinary field of sustainability that examines current debates about how to respond to the problems of climate change, environmental degradation, and social inequalities from the local to the global scales. The course begins with an overview of the historical conditions that continue to shape the current human imprint on the global environment. It also explores how different perspectives from the natural and social sciences can be used to examine the environmental implications of human endeavors. Throughout the course, emergent sustainable practices, such as renewable energy, sustainable agriculture and food systems, and urban sustainability, are discussed to show how communities across the world are finding sustainable and equitable solutions.
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS2
University Requirement(s): Social and Behavioral Sciences
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GEG 1910 - Global Water Concerns
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Minimum performance standard scores on reading and writing placement tests
Description: In this course, water is examined as a natural and societal resource using local, national, and international examples. Landforms and processes related to water such as the hydrologic cycle, watersheds, surface water, and groundwater are surveyed. Students learn about water use in early civilizations, water and culture, water quality and treatment, and water law. The critical issue of water conservation and scarcity is reviewed in the context of the social, legal, political, economic, and physical infrastructure that controls water around the world.
General Studies: Natural and Physical Sciences, Global Diversity
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SC2
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GEG 2020 - Geography of Colorado
Credits: 3
Description: Geography of Colorado presents the study of the physical, economic, and cultural features of Colorado. These features include climate, landforms, history, water resources, energy and minerals, mining, soil, natural vegetation, agriculture, population characteristics, the economy, current issues, as well as their interactions, and the overall geographic setting.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS2
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GEG 2200 - Geography of the United States
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Six hours of earth science courses
Description: This course is a survey of the geography of the U.S., including an overview of the physical characteristics, landforms, climate, soil, vegetation, and natural resources. Regions of the U.S. are studied, including the distribution of population, agriculture, industry, transportation, and culture. Geographic problems and issues are raised.
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GEG 2300 - Geographic Analysis of Social Issues
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEG 1300
Description: This course is a geographic analysis of current social issues. Topics include urban spatial problems such as crowding and crime, drugs and gangs, population growth, environmental perception, resource use, and culturally based land-use patterns. The administration of space, boundaries, territoriality, and spatial learning are discussed.
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GEG 2700 - Geographies of Environmental Justice
Credits: 3
Description: This class explores why people of color and lower income populations are subject to the disproportionate burden of pollution and contamination and analyzes collective struggles of affected people to democratize access to a clean environment. Environmental justice is at the intersection of social justice and environmentalism and helps us to better understand geographies of socio-environmental injustices and how people take actions to make the places where they live, work, and play safer. Students learn how issues such as air pollution, waste management, unsafe drinking water, working conditions on farms, food deserts, climate change, and other environmental hazards affect people living in low income communities across the United States.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix, GEG or NAS.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS2
University Requirement(s): Ethnic Studies & Social Justice
Cross Listed Course(s): NAS 2700
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GEG 3000 - Historical Geography of the U.S.
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Six hours of geography or permission of instructor; GEG 1300, GEG 2200, or HIS 1210 recommended
Description: This course examines the unique interrelationships between geography and history. Topics covered include frontiers and boundaries, settlement patterns, environmental perception, sequent occupancy, changing land-use practices, migration, and urban growth. Further, the course addresses the interrelationships between different physical environments and cultural landscapes.
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GEG 3100 - Geography Methods and Applications
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEG 1000 or GEG 1100 or GEG 1300 or GEG 1700 or GEG 1910 or GIS 2250, or permission of the instructor
Description: What does it mean to be a Geographer? Geography bridges the social and natural sciences. It focuses on spatial analysis, and on understanding and solving human-environmental problems. In this course, students are introduced to the theory, methods and applications of Geography. Students explore the common perspectives and themes that underlie this broad discipline, and examine how Geography is applied to improve conditions in the world today paying particular attention to contemporary topics and local applications.
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GEG 3120 - Geomorphology
Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): GEL 1010 or GEG 1100 or permission of instructor
Description: This course explores Earth’s landforms, including their origins and evolution over time. Maps and remote imagery are used in geomorphologic interpretations.
Field Trips: Field trips are required
Cross Listed Course(s): GEL 3120
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GEG 3230 - Latin American Geographies
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Junior or higher standing
Description: Students in this course learn how nature, culture, and socio-political relations have shaped the landscapes of Middle and South America from a geographical perspective. The emphasis of the course is to examine the intersection of environment and society; that is, how power relations are imbricated with people’s use of environments and access to resources. Specifically, the course focuses on how major regional patterns of political ecologies of development have shaped and continue to define Latin America’s geography. Topics include development conditions, resource use and environmental politics, extractivism, deforestation and biodiversity conservation, agrarian and environmental struggles, indigeneity politics, and climate change-induced disruptions, and emigration and refugees. Within this perspective, the course provides an understanding of how sociopolitical and economic issues with environmental factors are part of the connections between the United States and Latin America.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Global Diversity
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GEG 3300 - Indigenous Geographies of North America
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEG 1300 or NAS 1000 or PSC 1010 or junior or higher standing
Description: In this course, we examine Indigenous Peoples’ relationships to land and power in North America with a focus on the United States. Colonial legacies of dispossession, genocide, and the reservation system frame how we discuss and interpret physical and symbolic violence against Indigenous Peoples. We begin with a historical geographic exploration of Indigenous land use patterns and how European arrival and invasion radically destabilized Native cultures. U.S. government policies and actions including the establishment of reservations and Tribal governments illustrate how institutions shape contemporary political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental relationships. Contemporary issues such as natural resource extraction, economic development, intersectionality, and cultural resilience influence the experiences of Native Americans on and off reservations.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences
University Requirement(s): Ethnic Studies & Social Justice
Cross Listed Course(s): NAS 3300, PSC 3300
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GEG 3330 - Climatology
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MTR 1400 or GEG 1100, and completion of quantitative literacy
Description: Climatology examines the characteristics, distribution, and causes of global and regional climate. Physical and dynamic mechanisms of climate are emphasized. The course also explores the spatial and temporal distributions of the main climate elements. Climate change topics include paleoclimatology, observed shifts in climate, climate model projections, and potential impacts of global warming.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix
Cross Listed Course(s): MTR 3330
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GEG 3360 - Economic Geography
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEG 1300 or junior or higher standing
Description: This course investigates the economic landscape and global patterns of spatial interdependence and fragility from a political economic perspective. Major themes explored include uneven economic development, the role of state and non-state actors, how social identities influence economic geographies, the commodification of nature, and alternative and more sustainable development paths. Key ideas and case studies are used to analyze contemporary policies, patterns, and relationships seen in local, national, and global economies.
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GEG 3410 - Biogeography
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEG 1100 or GEL 1010 or MTR 1400 or ENV 1200
Description: This course examines past and present geographic patterns of biodiversity, emphasizing the physical and ecological conditions and processes that influence the distribution of organisms, communities, and ecosystems. Topics include past climates and continental configurations, dispersal and invasion, speciation and extinction, biogeographic responses to anthropogenic climate change, island biogeography, and application of biogeographic concepts to environmental conservation.
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GEG 3420 - Soil Resources
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENV 1200 or GEL 1010 or GEG 1100
Corequisite(s): ENV 3422 or GEL 3422 or GEG 3422
Description: This course analyzes the materials and processes that combine to produce various soil types. Soil types are examined in relationship to climate, landforms, vegetation, and geology, as well as in relation to land-use patterns.
Note: This course is cross-listed as GEG 3420, ENV 3420, and GEL 3420. Students can only take one of the courses for credit.
Cross Listed Course(s): ENV 3420, GEL 3420
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GEG 3422 - Methods of Soil Analysis and Sampling
Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): ENV 1200 or GEG 1100 or GEL 1010
Corequisite(s): GEL 3420 or GEG 3420 or ENV 3420
Description: This course surveys measurement techniques and principles used in characterizing the physical and chemical properties of soils. It includes soil sampling techniques, analysis of experimental design, sources of experimental error, and standard and instrumental methods of chemical analysis.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix, ENV, GEL, or GEG
Lab Fees: $25
Cross Listed Course(s): ENV 3422 , GEL 3422
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GEG 3440 - Energy and Mineral Resources
Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): GEL 1010 or GEG 1100 or ENV 1200 or permission of instructor
Description: This course provides an overview of the Earth’s energy and mineral systems with an emphasis on origin, characteristics, distribution, and the interaction of people and geologic resources.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix.
Field Trips: Field trips are required.
Cross Listed Course(s): ENV 3440, GEL 3440
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GEG 3520 - Regional Geography: Variable Topics
Credits: 2-3
Prerequisite(s): Six hours of earth science courses Specific regions of the world will be selected for in-depth study
Description: Topics will include physical and cultural geography, demographics, economic activity, urbanization, political geography, and environmental issues.
Note: The course may be repeated for credit as a different region is studied.
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GEG 3600 - Urban Geography
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEG 1300 or Junior or higher standing
Description: The course surveys the theories and debates in urban geography - an interdisciplinary and continually changing body of knowledge that aims to analyze and to interpret the form, function and structure of cities. The course covers a range of theoretical topics relevant to the study of cities, which include urban form and design, culture and society, urban space, and urban politics and economics. Besides this theoretical background, the course provides an empirical analysis of the main issues concerning the contemporary process of urbanization in developed and developing societies, with an emphasis on urban poverty, inequality and housing; and the role of urban social movements and activist urbanists in finding innovative solutions to persistent problems.
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GEG 3610 - Principles of Land Use Planning
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEG 3600
Description: In this course students learn basic land-use planning concepts and how to analyze land-use patterns, interpret land-use maps, and analyze existing land-use plans. Further, students learn how to collect relevant data, prepare a comprehensive land-use plan, and predict future planning issues. Special attention is paid to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in land-use planning.
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