Download New General Education List C (Second Group of Courses)

List C - General Education Courses Approved by the LAS EPC: Discussed
The following courses were discussed by the LAS EPC before they were approved.
The justifications below include categories which were not approved but were considered by the LAS EPC (crossed-out red text).
Unit
Subject No.
English
ENGL
English
LING
Title
Justification
115 Understanding Understanding the Creative Arts--This course studies
the Bible as
the various literary genres represented in the Bible
Literature
such as myth, parable, poetry, historical narrative, and
the epistle.
Understanding the Past--This course provides a broad
introduction to the basic concepts and values that have
helped to shape Western thought and builds an
awareness of many of the values and traditions that
have been influential in the historical development of
Western and Middle Eastern Civilization.
Exploring World Cultures--This course studies the
values and traditions represented in the Bible that
have been influential not only in the historical
development of Western and Middle Eastern
Civilization but also on World Cultures up to the
present time. Understanding the Creative Arts
Understanding the Past Exploring World Cultures
150 Introduction to Analyzing the Natural World--This course explores language from
a scientific perspective, applying linguistic tools to analyze data
the Study of
from languages around the world. It addresses the biological basis
Language
of language and communication systems in other species. It
Category
Understanding the Creative Arts
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Understanding the Individual and
Society
explores the structural characteristics that all languages share.
Understanding the Individual and Society--This course
explores the relationship between communities and
the languages they use.
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Unit
Subject No.
History
HIST
Title
100 Western
Civilization to
1648
Justification
Category
Past. The course examines cultural change within Understanding the Past
world regions currently considered part of emergent
Western civilization from 1000BCE through 1648CE
Individual and society. The course analyzes the changing
relationship over time of individuals to each other and to
social organizations such as the state, institutionalized
religion and the family.
Creative arts. Readings for the course include seminal
esthetic and philosophical texts such as Gilgamesh,
Sophocles, More, and Voltaire.
History
HIST
103 American
Civilization to
the Late
Nineteenth
Century
Past--The course examines change over time in North
America from the pre-colonial period through the late
19th century.
US--The course focuses on the political, economic and
social histories of the US.
Understanding the Past
Understanding U.S. Society
Individual and society--The course examines the emerging
and contested idea and role of the individual in US society,
and the role of political, economic and social identities and
groups in US history.
History
History
HIST
HIST
104 American
Civilization
Since the Late
Nineteenth
Century
Past--The course examines changes over time in late
19th century and 20th century US society.
U.S.--The course focuses on the political, economic
and social histories of the US.
106 The World
Since 1400
Past--The course examines world systems and major
global economic, cultural and religious processes as
they change over time from the 14th century through
the 20th century
World--The course both compares world cultures and
examines how cultural interactions transmit and
transform ideas, institutions and technologies across
time and space.
Understanding the Past
Understanding U.S. Society
Individual and society. The course examines political,
economic and social movements and cultural change in the
20th century US, as well as the role of the US state,
corporations and individuals in a global context.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Individual and Society. The course explores the varying
organization of people into political and social groups
globally, and the interaction between social, economic and
gender groups within and between world regions.
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Unit
Subject No.
History
HIST
Title
109 East Asian
Civilization:
China
Justification
Category
Past--The course examines economic, cultural and
religious processes in China from prehistoric times
through the present.
World--The course explores the history of Chinese
cultural, institutional, political, and social forms.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Individual and Society. The course explores social and
political processes over time in China, and the interaction
between the Chinese state and social, economic and
gender groups.
History
HIST
110 East Asian
Civilization:
Japan
Past--The course examines economic, cultural and
religious processes in Japan from the origins of
Japanese history through the present.
World--The course explores the history of Japanese
cultural, institutional, political, and social forms.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Individual and Society. The course explores social and
political processes over time in Japan, and the interaction
between the Japanese state and social, economic and
gender groups.
History
HIST
114 Topics in
World History
Past--The course introduces students to the history of
major global processes (depending on the topical
focus) from the 14th century through the present.
Understanding the Past
World. The course explores how major global processes
such as imperialism or industrialism both informed local
histories and were articulated and transformed in different
ways in different global settings.
Individual and Society. The course explores the
relationships between individual agency and major global
change.
History
HIST
115 Introduction to
North
American
Indian History
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Past--The course examines North American Indian
history from the 15th century through the present.
World--The course includes a comparative history of
various native American groups in terms of cultural,
institutional, political, and social organization,
interactions between these groups and the histories of
European colonization.
US--The course places native American history in the
context of US history, the impact of the establishment
of the US nation state on indigenous groups, and
resistance to US colonization.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Understanding U.S. Society
3
Unit
Subject No.
Title
Justification
Category
Ind. and Soc. Examines the history of status, gender and
ethnicity among Native American groups and the
relationship of individuals to historical change.
History
HIST
History
HIST
116 Freshman
Past--Introduction to the theories and methods of
Seminar:
historical research and thinking. Thematic so could be
Special Topics US or world focused.
Ind. and Soc.--Focus on change over time of
relationships between institutions and individuals.
141 African
Past--This course is a broad-based introduction to the
Civilization
history of the Africa from the pre-colonial through the
present with a focus on historical methods.
World--The course introduces students to a diversity of
African cultures, state organizations, economic and
social systems.
Understanding the Past
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. And Society. The course both compares the role of
individuals and social groups within African polities and
examines varying economic, religious and political
institutions.
History
HIST
161 Introduction to
Latin
American
History
Past--This course examines change over time in
Central and South America from the pre-Columbian
period through the present.
World--The course compares cultural formations
throughout Central and South Americas and traces
responses to global processes such as European
conquest and industrialization.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. And Soc. The course examines individual responses to
local and global change and institutional power over
individuals’ productive and reproductive powers.
History
HIST
177 Middle
Eastern
Civilization
Past--The course introduces students to the history of
Southwest Asia from the pre-Islamic period through
the 20th century.
World--The course examines both culture diversity
within southwest Asia and responses to global
processes such as Islam and industrial capitalism.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. And Society. The course traces the relationship
between states’ powers and individual religious, economic
and political action.
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Subject No.
History
HIST
Title
202 The Ancient
World: Greece
Justification
Category
Past. Course examines change over time in ancient
Greece.
Understanding the Past
Ind. And Soc. Analysis of institutions, social groups and
individual actors within the Hellenistic world.
World--Culture, social power structures, economy and
politics of ancient Greece.
History
HIST
203 The Ancient
World: Rome
Past--Course on Roman history from the Etruscan
period through 4th century late empire.
Understanding the Past
Ind. And Soc. Course examine imperial power, polical,
religious and economic institutions, social groups and
individual actors within the Roman world system.
World. Culture, social power structures, economy and
politics of Rome 300BCE through 400CE.
History
HIST
211 Europe: 1500
to 1715
History
HIST
241 Pre-Colonial
Africa
Past--Examines change over time in Europe from 1500
through the 18th century.
Ind. And Soc.--Course traces intellectual and cultural
movements within Europe and how individuals’
economic and social experiences both inform these
movements and are informed by them.
Creative arts--Readings for the course include seminal
esthetic and philosophical texts such as Locke,
Erasmus and Luther.
Past--This course is a history of the Africa to 1800
emphasizing pre-colonial identity and community
formation, migrations, and global connections.
World--The course draws on oral and material
evidence to explore the economic, political and social
histories of various African groups before modern
European colonization.
Understanding the Past
Understanding the Individual and
Society
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. And Society--The course looks at gendered and status
groups within pre-colonial Africa and how economic,
environmental and religious changes impact social power
relations.
History
HIST
242 Modern Africa
Past--Traces change over time in Africa in the 19th
and 20th centuries.
World--Examines various African groups’ roles in
global historical changes such as colonization,
decolonization and the cold war
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. And Soc. Explores connections between individual
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Unit
Subject No.
Title
Justification
Category
experiences, local and regional change, and global
processes.
History
HIST
255 History of
Chicago
Past--History of the emergence and flourishing of the
city of Chicago through the present.
US--Focus on role of Chicago in the economic and
social history of the US.
Understanding the Past
Understanding U. S. Society
Ind. And Soc.--Traces ethnic, economic and cultural groups
interacting and changing over time in the Chicago urban
area.
History
HIST
259 The History of
American
Women
History
HIST
261 Latin America
to 1850
Past--Explores the history of Gender in north America
from the colonial period through the present.
US.--Gender as a major transformative issue in US
history.
Ind. and Soc.--Traces gender relations and the
relationship between gender, race and class as well as
women's political and social movements in the US.
Past--History of diversity of peoples of Latin America
from the pre-colonial through 1850.
World--Compares and contrasts histories of various
groups in Latin America.
Understanding the Past
Understanding U.S. Society
Understanding the Individual and
Society
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. and Soc.--Groups and individual responses to major
global processes such as colonialism, nation-building and
industrialization.
History
HIST
262 Latin America
Since 1850
Past--Patterns of change in Latin America from 1850
to the present with a focus on social and cultural
histories.
World--Ethnic and class interactions and tensions both
within the region and locating issues of Latin America
in a modern global context.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. and Soc.--Traces issues of race, ethnicity, class and
gender in Latin American history.
History
HIST
265 Mexico: 1400
to 1850
Past--Traces history of Mexico from pre-colonial states
through colonization and nation-building.
World--Relationship between various ethnic groups
and state power.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. and Soc.--Individual experiences with changing political
and economic conditions within early modern Mexico
through 1850.
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Unit
Subject No.
History
HIST
Title
266 Mexico Since
1850
Justification
Category
Past--Change over time in Mexico with attention to
shifting social and cultural forces.
World--History of groups within Mexico as well as
Mexico's role in world history.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. and Soc.--Examination of major historical processes
with this multicultural nation-state.
History
HIST
271 Late Imperial
Past--Histories of Ming and Ching Imperial China.
China: 1500 to World--Imperial structures and social and economic
1911
diversity within China.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. and Soc.--Major social and political movements within
late imperial China with particular attention to state
structures and poular rebellion.
History
HIST
272 China Since
1911
Past--History of China from 1911 with attention to
political revolution and economic transformation.
World--Examination of centralizing power in China as
well as ethnic and economic diversity.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. and Soc.--Changing role of state in organizing social
and cultural life within China and individual experiences with
and resistance to state power.
History
HIST
273 Japan to 1600
Past--Economic, political and environmental change
over time in Japan from pre-history through 1600.
World--Forces of unification and division within the
History of Japan.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. and Soc.--Histories of relationships of individuals to
political and religious organizations in Japan.
History
HIST
274 Japan since
1600
Past--The history of early modern and modern Japan.
World--Examination of major moments in the history of
Japan and Japans' role in modern world history.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. and Soc.--Social and political change over time in
Japan with attention to econoic and cultural histories.
History
HIST
275 History of
South Asia
Past--explores the diverse histories of the Indian
subcontinent from pre-historical migrations, through
Mughal and British empires and nation-building.
World--compares religious and social organization of
groups living on the Indian subcontinent.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
C. Ind. and Soc. The impact of empires and independence
on economic and gendered groups within India.
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Unit
Subject No.
Title
History
HIST
277 The Middle
East to 1258
History
HIST
278 The Middle
East Since
1258
Justification
Category
Past--Explores early history of southwest Asia with
particular attention to the origins and rise of Islam and
early Islamic empire through 1258.
World Cultures--Examines cultures and major
historical processes of southwest Asia.
Ind. and Soc.--Examines change over time within
social and religious structures for a variety of groups in
southwest Asia.
Past--Course explores emerging social, economic and
cultural structures and relationships in Southwest Asia
since 1258.
World--Traces imperial and national histories within
Southwest Asia comparing national, ethnic and
religious histories.
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Understanding the Past
Exploring World Cultures
Ind. and Soc.--Relationships between state and imperial
structures and individual economic and social lives.
Performing MUS
Arts
100 Introduction to
Music I
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Understanding the Creative Arts is the most significant
description of this course. It is a "music appreciation"
course in which music of many cultures, but primarily
of the Western World, is explored over a period of
several hundred years. The course entails an
exploration of the musical works of composers, a
primer in reading music, expanding understanding of
the elements of music, and listening to both recorded
and live musical performances.
Understanding the Creative Arts
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