May 18, 2024  
2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

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  • HIS 363 - Democracy, Reform, and Slavery: America from Washington to Lincoln


    3 credit(s)
    Area/Group Designation: American History
    This course deals with the period between the administration of George Washington and the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. During these years, the United States grew rapidly; experienced a religious awakening and a market revolution; established the legitimacy of its federal government; fought wars against Indians, Great Britain, and Mexico; expanded the democratic rights of white men; and thrived economically from the enslavement of millions of African Americans.


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  • HIS 364 - The Experience of the American Civil War


    3 credit(s)
    Area/Group Designation: American History
    This course examines the central event in American history: the Civil War. Rather than focus on the war as strategy, tactics, and battles, the course treats the context and course of the war, its causes and consequences. Students use documentary and secondary sources to understand how all Americans – slave and free, women and men, blacks and whites, Northerners and Southerners, combatants and civilians – experienced and struggled to understand our greatest and deadliest conflict.


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  • HIS 365 - The Creation of Industrial America


    3 credit(s)
    Area/Group Designation: American History
    This course examines the creation of modern industrial America between the end of Reconstruction and the end of World War I. During these years, the nation was transformed from a predominantly rural and agricultural country with few interests overseas into a victorious global and urban industrial power. A huge wave of immigrants and migrants had built and changed American cities; American labor and farmer radicalism had flowered and died; and a new mass culture was born.


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  • HIS 366 - Twenties and Thirties America


    3 credit(s)
    Area/Group Designation: American History
    This course explores American society, culture, and politics between the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II. During this period, the United States experienced the flowering of a mass consumer culture, the rise of religious fundamentalism and corporate power, the greatest depression in the country’s history, an upsurge of labor and political radicalism, and the creation of the modern welfare state.


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  • HIS 441W - Making History


    3 credit(s) Writing Intensive
    In this course students make history. They choose topics and conduct primary and secondary historical research on them, including how historical interpretations of their topics have changed over time. Students find and interpret primary sources, identify and report on the relevant historical scholarship, and ultimately seek to make and substantiate an original argument based on this research. In the end, students have “made history” and created their own contributions to scholarly literature on their topics. Weekly class discussions provide students with tools for locating and analyzing sources and learning how to write a coherent and well-argued historical article.
    Prerequisite(s): HIS 100   or HIS 101 , and HIS 130 , HIS 131 , and HIS 241W .


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  • HLM 474 - String Quartet Literature


    3 credit(s)
    This course helps string players to develop and synthesize their historical, analytical, and rehearsal skills through guided sight reading of the quartet literature. Stylistic roblems encountered while reading the course repertory initiate class discussion of topics such as historical context, notational practice, phrase structure, and articulation. Individual practicing of repertoire is not required. Open to undergraduates majoring in violin, viola, or violoncello.


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  • HS 111 - Healthcare Concepts


    3 credit(s)
    A general overview of the healthcare system in today’s society. Working in teams, students investigate current healthcare issues and must demonstrate competency in oral and written communication and use of the library. Topics include healthcare systems, healthcare reform, medical ethics, universal precautions, AIDS, alternative medicine, and the roles and responsibilities of allied health professionals.


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  • HS 140 - Introduction to Healthcare Professions I


    2 credit(s)
    An introductory course for all first-year students in the Department of Health Sciences. This course addresses issues of being a new college student as well as a student within the health professions. Topics related to healthcare are covered within the framework of providing students with skills essential for success as a college student (research, group work, in-class presentations, writing assignments, and class discussions). This fall semester is linked with a spring-semester course that continues with topics related to professionalism, patient care, and healthcare system.


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  • HS 210 - Advanced Healthcare Concepts


    3 credit(s)
    The US Healthcare system consists of multiple financing, insurance, delivery, and payment mechanisms based around the common goal of delivering high-quality and cost-effective healthcare services to individuals. The US system is also subject to major reforms due to criticisms associated with cost, patient care, and structure. This class provides an in-depth understanding of the US Healthcare system and these proposed reforms as well as a focus on major political, social and economic programs and debates associated with this unique and complex system.
    Prerequisite(s): Either HS 140  and HS 141 , or HS 111 .


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  • HS 285 - History of Disease


    3 credit(s)
    A reflection on the history of disease for the purpose of discovering principles that may be useful in the future. Before mid-20th century, little could be done to alter the course of infection, which was by far the most common cause of death. The growing pandemic of antibiotic resistance will resurrect that old era. It is essential that we learn all that we can from history in order not to repeat its errors.
    Prerequisite(s): BIO 110 , or a higher level biology course.


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  • HS 310 - Cardiovascular Disease: A Global Epidemic


    3 credit(s)
    According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular disease kills nearly 17 million people around the world each year. In the United States, heart disease has been the leading underlying cause of death nearly every year since 1900, and heart disease takes an American life every 36 seconds. This course therefore provides a comprehensive presentation of cardiovascular diseases. The focus is on disease prevalence, mechanisms underlying disease and common treatments as a basis for understanding chronic diseases prevalent in patients treated by health care professionals. Discussions and research focusing on emerging medical therapies, controversial practices, and disease prevention help students think critically about our ability to counter the epidemic of cardiovascular disease.
    Prerequisite(s): BIO 212  and BIO 213 .


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  • HS 340 - Introduction to Public Health


    3 credit(s)
    This course provides an overview of the history and current events of public health. Epidemiology, outbreak investigation techniques and chronic and communicable disease prevention are explored. Students gain an understanding of health disparities and the role of public health in emergency preparedness. Students explore the role of law and government in public health and the many challenging public health policy issues related to spiraling healthcare costs and an aging population. Students examine environmental and occupational health, and learn about future challenges for public health.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior status and M 114 .


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  • HS 475 - Genomics: A Critical Perspective


    3 credit(s)
    The Helsinki Accord of 1962 expanded upon earlier documents ensuring that all subjects of human investigation would be informed of risks, and freely consent to those risks, before being subject to any experimental protocol. But genetic engineering is an experimental protocol and, on the scale currently in vogue, it subjects us all to unquantifiable risks without our consent. This course investigates these risks and weighs them objectively against imagined benefits. It encourages students to reclaim their right to give informed consent before being subjected to these risks.
    Prerequisite(s): Either BIO 272W  or permission of instructor.


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  • HSB 135 - United States History I: Origins to 1877


    3 credit(s)
    This course is a survey of the first 350 years of American history, with significant emphasis on the dynamics of race, class, and gender in early American society. It examines the European conquest of the New World, the growth of colonial society in British North America, and the period of the nation’s founding. The course also discusses the impact of early industrialization, the expansion of slavery, and the growth of sectional tension. The course concludes with a discussion of the Civil War and Reconstruction.


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  • HSB 145 - United States History II: 1865 to the Present


    3 credit(s)
    This course is a survey of American history from the end of the Civil War to the present. It examines the integration of the South and West into the national economy after the Civil War and the challenges that the second wave of industrialism brought to the nation during the Gilded Age. The problems of urbanization, immigration, unemployment, and class conflict at the turn of the century are studied, as well as the efforts by Populists, Progressives, and New Dealers to find solutions to these problems. The course places significant emphasis on America’s growing role in world affairs during both world wars and the Cold War; the second half of the course focuses particularly on the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.


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  • HSB 155 - Global History I


    3 credit(s)
    This course introduces students to the history of global exchange and interaction from 1300 to 1850. Topics include the conquest of the Americas, the Atlantic slave trade, European cultural and economic exchanges with China and India, colonialism and imperialism, and the global integration of finance, trade, and culture. The course examines the way that non-Western peoples have responded to globalization by accommodating, resisting, and transforming the process of Western expansion.


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  • HSB 210 - Modern Ireland


    3 credit(s)
    Modern Ireland examines the development of Irish history from the early 19th century to the recent past. Topics include the 1798 United Irish Rising, the creation of the United Kingdom, the development of Irish Catholic nationalism, the Great Famine, the Irish Diaspora, the Easter Rising, the creation of an independent Irish state, and the troubles in Northern Ireland. Recurring themes include the controversial roles that religion, violence, ethnic identity, and imperialism have had in the creation of modern Ireland.
    Prerequisite(s): Any HSB 100-level course.


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  • HSB 215 - Diplomats and Dreamers


    3 credit(s)
    This course studies European history from the end of the 19th century to the outbreak of World War I and through the postwar peace and the developments of the 1920s and 1930s. Private and official correspondence of diplomats and their governments is used as a starting point for a much deeper investigation into the society, culture, economy, and arts of the period. A study of the experience of the common soldier and those who remained at home, as well as of the diplomats and dreamers, elucidates the roles of nationalism, militarism, and ideology in shaping the world.
    Prerequisite(s): Any HSB 100-level course.


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  • HSB 225 - John Brown’s Body: Political Violence in American History


    3 credit(s)
    The role of political violence in shaping American society, culture, and politics is explored. Topics may include the Whiskey Rebellion, Nat Turner, violence by and against abolitionists, draft resistance, lynching, the Ku Klux Klan, the Los Angeles riots, Timothy McVeigh, and 9/11, with discussion of the causes, justification, and costs of political violence as well as the responses to it.
    Prerequisite(s): Any HSB 100-level course.


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