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2020-2021 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

 

Finance
  

  • FIN 410 - Fintech, Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain (3 cr.)

    This course is an introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technologies, with particular emphasis on the blockchain of Bitcoin and Ethereum. The course will teach the theoretical concepts of the blockchain, the financial tools to analyze and trade cryptocurrencies, as well as the programming skills to write a smart contract.
    Prerequisite(s): FIN 355  
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FIN 420 - Portfolio Management Theory (3 cr.)

    Asset allocation and investment selection as well as the basics of security markets are studied with an emphasis on the implications of efficient market theory. The uses and limitations of asset pricing models are examined. Techniques employed in the management of investment portfolios and the measurement of portfolio performance are explored.
    Prerequisite(s): FIN 355 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FIN 480 - Financial Modeling and Investment Analysis (3 cr.)

    Provides students with hands-on experience in building computer-based models of financial systems to support managerial decision making.  Topics include: Financial statement forecasting, Discounted-cash-flow business valuation, Capital budgeting, Portfolio models, and Option pricing.  The primary software tool is Microsoft Excel, though other packages and programming languages may be included. 
    Prerequisite(s): FIN 385  or POI.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FIN 486 - Financial Derivatives (3 cr.)

    A study of options, futures, and other financial derivative contracts. The course includes the markets, valuation, and specification of these derivative contracts and their use in corporate financial risk management.
    Prerequisite(s): FIN 355 , ECO 260 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FIN 489 - Washington Internship Institute (3 to 15 cr.)
  

  • FIN 490 - Senior Seminar in Economics and Finance (3 cr.)

    Research seminar in finance. In consultation with the teacher, students conduct independent or group research in finance culminating in an original academic paper.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): ECO 470  or POI.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FIN 496 - Teaching Practicum (1 to 3 cr.)
  

  • FIN 498 - Internship (1 to 12 cr.)
  

  • FIN 499 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Fitness (MS Online)
  

  • FIT 501 - Fitness Leadership and Professionalism (3 cr.)

    This course focuses on the development and application of leadership skills for the fitness professional. Topics include: reviewing pertinent leadership theories to increase awareness of the psychodynamics of personal leadership development, building leadership communication abilities; and becoming aware of cultural and psycho-social patterns that foster and promote effective fitness leadership competencies that center on self-assessment, mentoring, reflection, and goal achievement.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FIT 505 - Advanced Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology (3 cr.)

    In this course, students will study various factors that affect human performance including regulatory mechanisms, responses, adaptations, and changes that occur as a result of physical activity. Topics include physiology demands of exercise, energy systems, effects on human development, functional anatomy, kinesiology, and implications for personal fitness and to fitness professionals.
    Liberal arts
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FIT 510 - Developing Health/Fitness Alliances (3 cr.)

    This course focuses on providing fitness professionals with the knowledge and practical experience to form public sector, corporate or small business, non-profit organizational and community based, sustainable alliances and networks. Specifically, students will learn how to build collaborative alliances through networking methodologies and techniques, that can be used to form meaningful relationships among individuals or organizations in the fitness profession and industry. Students will develop a strategic alliance and network action plan for a fitness related organization.
  

  • FIT 515 - Health Screening and Fitness Assessments (3 cr.)

    This course will provide the tools necessary for conducting an educational approach to the initial client consultation, proper pre-exercise screening, and assessment. In addition, this course provides the working knowledge of procedures to analyze client risk factors, informed consent, and selection of assessments into a medically-based fitness model.
  

  • FIT 520 - Biomechanics in Exercise Movements (3 cr.)

    The objective of this course is to study causes and consequences of human movement and body alignment from biomechanical and physiological perspectives. Emphasis will be placed on the muscles involved in human movement and biomechanical properties of joint alignment while performing exercise, functional training, and corrective performance movements.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FIT 525 - Fitness Management and Entrepreneurship (3 cr.)

    This course offers a comprehensive examination of all aspects of fitness management and starting a business in health and fitness. Topics include managing and operating facilities, marketing, sales, operations, financial management, legal issues, insurance, and implementing a business plan for establishing a modern health/fitness facility.
  

  • FIT 530 - Nutrition for Fitness Professionals (3 cr.)

    This course is designed to educate students about general nutrition recommendations to maintain health, body composition, and improve performance in their clients. Students will examine contemporary nutritional topics such as sports nutrition, vitamin/protein supplementation, functional food implementation, antioxidants, and working in collaboration with Registered Dietitians (RDs). Additional nutrition topics designed to inform individuals about the latest research on eating super foods, organically, and genetically modified foods.
  

  • FIT 540 - Advanced Personal Fitness Training (3 cr.)

    Students will learn business concepts and detailed insight into designing exercise programs to improve, maintain, and/or optimize health-related components of physical fitness for clients. Students will be shown a systematic approach to implement a personal trainer business model and design resistance training, cardiovascular, and flexibility programs. After completing this course, students will be prepared to sit for personal trainer certification exams that include the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), and others.
    Prerequisite(s): FIT 505 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FIT 550 - Older Adult Fitness-Gerontology (3 cr.)

    This course is designed to enhance the knowledge of the physical changes that occur with aging including its impact on the various body systems, psychological and social aspects, and predictors of successful healthy aging. Students will learn fitness instruction, testing protocols, and developing specialized exercise programs for older adults. After completing this course, students will be prepared to sit for certification testing from the American Senior Fitness Association.
    Prerequisite(s): FIT 505 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FIT 560 - Athletic and Sports Performance (3 cr.)

    This course is designed to enhance the knowledge of athletic and sports performance including testing and developing strength training programs to enhance specific performance profiles. In addition, students will learn to design programs for speed, agility, power, and quickness for athletes of various ages and development abilities. After completing this course, students will be prepared to sit for certification exams that include the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) CSCS and National Academy of Sports Medicine’s (NASM) PES.
    Prerequisite(s): FIT 505 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FIT 570 - Field Internship (3 cr.)

    Supervised field experience for graduate students; 120 hours on site. Students will be placed in a professional role in a fitness, health, medical site that serves clientele in a profit, non-profit, college, high school, senior, sport, clinical, or other setting.
    Prerequisite(s): Program Coordinator Approval, CPR Certification, and for MS fitness and wellness majors only.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • FIT 585 - Research Methods in Fitness (3 cr.)

    This course provides an overview of the basic fundamentals of quantitative and qualitative research methods for use in exercise science and fitness studies. In addition, select descriptive and inferential statistics will be presented. A special emphasis will be placed on understanding research methods embedded in exercise science and fitness related journal articles. The course will also investigate related topics such as ethical concerns in conducting research, and the use of human subjects in exercise and fitness related studies.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FIT 590 - Self-Assessment in Fitness (3 cr.)

    This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to reflect and self-assess their Fitness graduate program learning experiences. The course will focus on the physiological, technical, and leadership development fitness components. Students will summarize and appraise those learning experience by providing documentation that will maximize their knowledge base while enhancing their employability and professional expertise in the fitness field through a comprehensive project.
    Prerequisite(s): completion of 3 required courses in the MS in fitness and wellness leadership; and for MS fitness and wellness majors only.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Food & Nutrition
  

  • FNI 101 - Introduction to Careers in Nutrition and Dietetics (1 cr.)

    Introduction to the profession of nutrition and dietetics, including careers, course preparation and dietetic registration requirements.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FNI 191 - Nutrition and Well-Being (3 cr.)

    The relationship between food and health considering social, cultural, environmental and physiological factors.
    General Education Category: Natural Science and Technology
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FNI 199 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
  

  • FNI 211 - Human Nutrition (3 cr.)

    Introduction to the science of nutrition, with emphasis on nutrients, their actions, interactions, and balance in relation to health. Consideration given to selection of food to meet nutrient requirements.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): CHE 101  or CHE 106  or CHE 111  (each course may be taken concurrently).
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • FNI 241 - Nutrition in the Life Cycle (3 cr.)

    Nutritional needs throughout the life cycle including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and aging; physiological and environmental influences on food behavior and dietary recommendations for optimal health.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FNI 191  or FNI 211 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FNI 261 - Organization and Management (3 cr.)

    An overview of management theories and practices in food service operations, dietetics and community nutrition. Emphasis on application of theories to practice.
    Prerequisite(s): Nutrition majors only.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FNI 299 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
  

  • FNI 301 - Nutrition Education and Counseling (4 cr.)

    Application of current theories and techniques of counseling and education to the field of nutrition and dietetics. Experiential learning and practical application of instructional procedures, counseling methods, motivational interviewing and behavior change techniques will be a large component of the class. Students will have the opportunity to develop and use resources and materials appropriate for various ages, abilities and situations unique to the field of dietetics and nutrition.
    Prerequisite(s): FNI 211 , FNI 241  (FNI 241  may be taken concurrently), junior or senior status required.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FNI 340 - Sports Nutrition (3 cr.)

    Students will gain an enhanced understanding on how food, nutrients, sport supplements, and their interactions with the body’s biological systems can enhance exercise and sport performance. This course will provide practical, scientific information linking nutrition and exercise physiology, and apply the current nutritional recommendations to the diverse range of fitness enthusiast and competitive athletes.
    Prerequisite(s): FNI 191  or FNI 211 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FNI 350 - Research Methods in Health and Nutrition (3 cr.)

    This course is designed to introduce Nutrition students to quantitative research methods in health. It will explore concepts and skills relevant to human and animal study designs, critiquing the literature, developing research questions and data analysis, interpretation, and research ethics. It will also introduce students to current topics in the field of nutrition, to give them an insight into changing recommendations, diet trends and new research.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FNI 211 , FNI 241 , MAT 161 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FNI 362 - Food Preparation (4 cr.)

    Fundamental and scientific principles of food preparation, with emphasis on interpretation of chemical reactions in foods and the development of sound skills in food preparation. Lecture/Lab
    Prerequisite(s): FNI 191  or FNI 211 .
    Fees: Food Preparation $75.00
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FNI 399 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
  

  • FNI 441 - Community Nutrition (3 cr.)

    To provide an overview of community assessments, community nutrition needs, resources, program planning, funding and evaluation. To gain insight into the role of community nutritionist as a program planner.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FNI 211  and FNI 241  and junior or senior status.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FNI 443 - Food Science (4 cr.)

    The research method as applied to the discipline of the science of food. Discussion of the methods behind food manufacturing and food supply perspectives. Lecture/Lab
    Prerequisite(s): CHE 240 , FNI 362 .
    Fees: Food Preparation (FNI 362 /443) $75.00
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FNI 445 - Advanced Nutrition (4 cr.)

    Nutrition with emphasis on integration of biochemical, physiological and cytological aspects.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): BIO 327 , FNI 211  or FNI 191 , and CHE 371  (CHE 371  may be taken concurrently).
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FNI 446 - Medical Nutrition Therapy I (3 cr.)

    Introduction to the nutrition care process, nutrition assessment, and applications of medical nutrition therapy to selected disease states and conditions.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FNI 211  or FNI 191 , BIO 327 , and CHE 271  or CHE 371  (CHE 271  or CHE 371  may be taken concurrently).
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FNI 448 - Seminar in Dietetics (3 cr.)

    This course focuses on professional issues in dietetics, including preparing for professional status, career pathways, credentialing, code of ethics, and developing professional writing and oral communication skills and a portfolio. Discussion of selected contemporary topics. This course satisfies the advanced writing requirement for the College.
    Liberal Arts
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 , CMM 101 , nutrition major, junior standing.
    Meets Advanced Writing Requirement
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FNI 450 - Foodservice Delivery Management (4 cr.)

    Foodservice Delivery Management is the integration of nutrition science, food preparation and management with the practical application of quantity food preparation in a variety of areas. Emphasis is on menu planning, quantity food purchasing and production, delivery systems, sanitation, safety and financial control. Human resources, management and leadership, and marketing will also be discussed. In Lab, students will gain experience and skills in quantity food production from start to finish. Lecture/Lab
    Prerequisite(s): FNI 261 , FNI 362 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FNI 451 - Medical Nutrition Therapy II (3 cr.)

    Explores selected topics in clinical nutrition and the applications of medical nutrition therapy utilizing the nutrition care process. Topics include nutritional genomics, eating disorders, sports nutrition, adverse reactions to foods, higher risk pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, pulmonary disease, critical care, and neuro-muscular disorders.
    Prerequisite(s): FNI 446 , senior standing.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FNI 490 - Washington Internship Institute (3 to 15 cr.)
  

  • FNI 494 - Field Practicum in Nutrition (2 cr.)

    This course provides the students with the opportunity to integrate their academic learning in a nutrition practice setting under supervision. The field practicum requires a minimum of 90 hours of field practice and participation in field orientation. Each student will complete an educational plan of field practice activities consistent with the course objectives.
    Prerequisite(s): Nutrition student, senior standing, FNI 446  (may be taken concurrently) and departmental permission.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FNI 496 - Instructional Practicum (1 to 15 cr.)

    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FNI 498 - Internship (1 to 15 cr.)

    Internship individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Learning Contract and Internship Proposal form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean. Minimum total of 45 hours practice per credit.
    Prerequisite(s): Nutrition student, junior or senior standing, departmental permission.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FNI 499 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring

French
  

  • FRE 111 - Elementary French I (0 to 3 cr.)

    Beginning study of French with emphasis on speaking, listening, reading, writing, and the cultures of the French-speaking world. Open to students without previous knowledge of French or to those who have had no more than two years of French in high school.
    Liberal arts
    General Education Category: Foreign Lang 1st Level GE5
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring
  

  • FRE 112 - Elementary French II (0 to 3 cr.)

    Continuation of French I.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 111   or 85 or higher on the Regents Exam or placement by examination
    General Education Category: Foreign Lang 2nd Level GE5
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • FRE 150 - Intensive French Review (3 cr.)

    For students who have successfully completed 2-3 years of French in high school or have placed in this course by examination. A review and expansion of French linguistic structures and cultural studies. French 150 is the equivalent of French 111-112.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): 2-3 years of high-school French, or 85 or higher on the Regents Exam, or placement by exam.
    General Education Category: Foreign Language 2nd Level
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • FRE 199 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
  

  • FRE 213 - Intermediate French I (0 to 3 cr.)

    Sequel to FRE 112  or FRE 150  . Systematic review and practice of French language skills as well as expansion of cultural studies.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 112  , or FRE 150  or placement by exam
    General Education Category: Foreign Lang 2nd Level GE5
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FRE 214 - Intermediate French II (0 to 3 cr.)

    Continuation of FRE 213  and preparation for French composition and conversation.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 213  , or placement by exam
    General Education Category: Foreign Lang 2nd Level GE5
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FRE 299 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
  

  • FRE 316 - Conversation avancee (3 cr.)

    Expansion and improvement of oral expression through readings and discussions on specialized issues. Not for native speakers.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 214  , or POI.
  

  • FRE 319 - Composition et grammaire avancees (3 cr.)

    Extensive practice of writing in French, with readings and assignments involving a variety of genres, topics, and styles. Practical analysis of French grammatical structures to develop greater skill in written expression.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 , FRE 214  and one of the following courses: FRE 316 , FRE 333 , FRE 334 , FRE 335 .
    Meets Advanced Writing Requirement
  

  • FRE 322 - Lecture et interpretation (3 cr.)

    An introduction to literature in French. Emphasis will be on improving reading speed and proficiency and on developing skills for textual analysis involving a variety of forms and genres.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 214  .
  

  • FRE 333 - La France: Themes Varies (3 cr.)

    An introduction to French culture and literature from the earliest times to the present. (May be taken more than once different content).
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 214  .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FRE 334 - La Francophonie: Themes Varies (3 cr.)

    A survey of interdisciplinary issues in the French-speaking world exploring political and monetary institutions, literary, and socio-cultural aesthetics. Focused on such regions as the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Antilles, Europe, Southeast Asia, and North America rather than France and Quebec. (May be taken more than once with different content).
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 214  .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FRE 335 - Le Quebec (3 cr.)

    An overview of the history, culture, and literature of Quebec, involving issues in contemporary art, politics, and the French language in Canada.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 214  .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FRE 399 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
  

  • FRE 441 - Etudes Francaises (3 cr.)

    The examination of selected topics in advanced French studies. Topics may include historical periods, literary genres; or social, literary or intellectual movements. May be taken more than once with different content.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 322 ; FRE 333  or FRE 334  or FRE 335  or equivalent competency.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • FRE 470 - French and Francophone Interdisciplinary Studies (3 cr.)

    An examination of selected topics in French and Francophone Studies, viewed through an interdisciplinary perspective. (May be taken more than once with different content).
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 322 ; FRE 333  or FRE 334  or FRE 335 .
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FRE 496 - French Foreign Language Methodology (3 cr.)

    This course, conducted in a seminar setting, is designed to provide future foreign language teachers with communicative and proficiency-based pedagogical strategies pertaining to middle and high school foreign language classrooms. Although intended primarily for students completing adolescence education programs in French (or the BA/MST Adolescence Education program) French majors and minors meeting the prerequisite requirements may enroll.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): FRE 316 , FRE 319 , and two of the following: FRE 333 , FRE 334 , FRE 335 ; or 12 credits of upper-division French courses, or by advisement.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FRE 497 - French Practicum (3 cr.)

    For advanced students in French who will work under faculty supervision. In addition to conducting conversation sessions, students will gain experience in planning classroom activities, preparing materials for classroom use and working with various methodologies. A contract specifying the student’s responsibilities will be filed with the department chairperson.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): By faculty invitation only; ACTFL rating of intermediate-high oral skills, minimum; 3.3 GPA (B+ average) in FRE courses; 2.5 cumulative GPA.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • FRE 498 - Internship (3 cr.)

    For advanced students of French with background in education or business. Involves faculty-supervised field experiences, both on- and off-campus. Contract specifying student’s responsibilities, developed in consultation with the student, supervisor, and appropriate faculty advisor(s) will be filed with the department chairperson.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FRE 499 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
  

  • FRE 596 - French Methodology Practicum (3 cr.)

    Students will learn communicative and proficiency-based pedagogical strategies in a seminar setting and by conducting conversation sessions as part of regular beginning-level French courses under the close supervision of a faculty member. This course is designed for students in the MST program in French and French teachers seeking experience with new methodologies. Advanced undergraduates may enroll by faculty invitation only.
    Prerequisite(s): Advanced proficiencies in speaking, listening, reading and writing.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FRE 599 - Graduate Independent Study Course in French (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.

Freshman Seminar
  

  • FRS 101 - Freshman Seminar (2 to 3 cr.)

    Liberal arts
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • FRS 496 - Teaching Practicum (1 to 3 cr.)

Freshman Experience
  

  • FRX 100 - Freshmen Experience (1 cr.)

    Liberal arts
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall

Gender & Women’s Studies
  

  • GWS 101 - Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies (3 cr.)

    An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of gender and women’s studies. Topics include gender socialization, feminism, intersections of gender with race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, body image, reproductive rights, globalization, militarization, war and peace, men and masculinities, violence against women and struggles for gender equality and social justice.
    Liberal arts
    General Education Category: Social Sciences
  

  • GWS 104 - Sexuality, Power and Relationships (1 cr.)

    This course engages students in analysis of healthy and unhealthy relationships in general with special attention to college life. Students will examine current information about sexual assault and gender-based violence, including key resources for prevention, and response. In groups, students will experience discussions, role play, and simulations designed to raise awareness, build confidence, and develop skills for violence prevention and intervention on campus.
    Liberal arts
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • GWS 199 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
  

  • GWS 200 - Topics in Gender and Women’s Studies (1 to 3 cr.)

    Special topics, which may vary with offering, on women and gender. Topics may be biographical (Stanton & Anthony), thematic (women and the Constitution), methodological (material culture), or experiential (Women’s Self Defense).
    Liberal Arts
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • GWS 219 - Gender, Sexuality and Popular Culture (3 cr.)

    A critical examination of how gender and sexuality are represented in the media and in popular culture, both in North America and globally. Use of feminist and queer theories as well as cultural studies to analyze patterns of continuity and change in popular culture, including advertisements, TV shows, movies, magazines, athletics, toys, fashion, and social media.
    Liberal arts
    General Education Category: Humanities
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • GWS 240 - Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Film (3 cr.)

    An introduction to the representation of gender and sexuality in films of Spain and Spanish speaking Latin America.
    Liberal arts
    General Education Category: Humanities
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • GWS 275 - Gender in Education (3 cr.)

    Explores theories and experiences of how gender is socially constructed and practiced in educational settings–schools, day-care settings, higher education, prisons–as dominant institutions of North American and European societies. Introduces intersectional analysis–connecting patterns of gender with race, class, sexuality, place, and other vectors of identity–to examine personal narratives of schooling and to compare patterns across social groups. Considers current issues in relation to globalizing trends.
    Liberal arts
    General Education Category: Western Civilization
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • GWS 299 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
  

  • GWS 300 - Advanced Topics in Gender and Women’s Studies (1 to 7 cr.)

    The course will provide faculty and students with opportunities to explore topics, issues, or themes in women’s studies that are not emphasized in standard course offerings. Examples: “Women in the Bible,” “Gender and Science,” “Gender in the Elementary Classroom,” “Women Pulitzer Prize Winners,” “Gender and Sexuality.”
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101  (plus other prerequisites to be determined by course content).
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • GWS 301 - Global Gender Issues (3 cr.)

    A cross-cultural study of gender issues affecting the lives of women and men around the globe. Critical examination of the specific historical, political, and socioeconomic conditions that shape people’s identities and experiences and struggles for gender equality and social justice. Analysis of patterns of continuity and change and similarities and differences among women and men. Topics include women’s human rights, human trafficking, gendered aspects of globalization, gender and religion, gender and development, gendered dimensions of environmental issues and sustainability and gender, war and peace.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): Upper level standing and one of the following: PSY 101 , SOC 101 , HIS 101 , HIS 102 , ANT 102 , GWS 101 , or POI
    General Education Category: Global Issues
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • GWS 302 - Feminist Theory (3 cr.)

    An in-depth study of the development and expansion of feminist theory. Critical examination of multiple definitions of feminism, debates in feminist scholarship, and conflicts within the feminist movement.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): Restricted to gender and women’s studies majors and minors.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • GWS 310 - Women in Afghanistan: Tradition, Politics, and Religion (3 cr.)

    This course is intended to provide an introduction for students into Afghan women’s perspectives on their lives and the future of their country. The course will provide students with a better understanding of the challenges Afghan women are facing and will help students explore the self-generated transformation of women’s roles in Afghan society.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101  or ANT 102  or SOC 101  or HIS 132  or POI.
    General Education Category: World Systems
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • GWS 315 - Women and the Law (3 cr.)

    Law as it relates to women in the U.S. The ways women and the feminist movement have affected the law, in addition to the influences the law has in each of our lives. Examines such issues as employment opportunity, educational access, domestic violence, reproductive rights, child custody and support, divorce, sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography. How laws are made and changed, how legal arguments are constructed, and how social movements and individuals can influence our laws.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101  and/or upper-division standing.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • GWS 340 - Gender and Religion (3 cr.)

    Investigation of the impact of religious beliefs on gender issues and their manifestation in human social and political experience. Critical examination of the early emergence of the interplay between gender role ideologies and religious mythology from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Analysis of such contemporary religious traditions as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101  or one of the following: PSY 101 , SOC 101 , HIS 101 , ANT 102  or POI.
    General Education Category: Global Issues
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • GWS 345 - Gender-based Violence and Peer Education (3 cr.)

    This course is designed to prepare students to work as peer group leaders in educating the campus community about gender-based violence, with emphasis on prevention and survivor advocacy. As part of the course, students will serve as peer educators for the weekend class GWS104 Sexuality, Power, & Relationships.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101   and GWS 104  or POI.
    Semester(s) Offered: Every Semester
  

  • GWS 348 - Gender and Human Rights (3 cr.)

    This course begins with the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and examines how Western ideas of rights have influenced human rights movements around the world. The focus of the course is on gendered human rights violations and movements to end gendered human rights abuses. The primary objective of this course is to examine how Western frameworks of rights have been appropriated and criticized in human rights discourses, laws, and activism in both Western and non-Western nations, as well as transnational movements.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101   or one of the following: GWS 301  , PSY 101  , SOC 101  , HIS 101  , ANT 102  , or POI.
    General Education Category: Western Civilization
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • GWS 350 - Gender and Science (3 cr.)

    A feminist examination of the lives of women scientists and their under-representation in science, math, and technology. Emphasis on intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality and politics in historical and contemporary scientific practices. Analysis of the impact of women’s marginalization and the exclusion of gender issues on the quality and use of scientific research.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101  or one of the following; GWS 301 , PSY 101 , SOC 101 , HIS 102 , ANT 102 , BIO 100 , BIO 102 , BIO 103 , AST 102 , CHE 103  , ENV 101 , MAT 101  or POI.
    General Education Category: Western Civilization
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • GWS 360 - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Studies (3 cr.)

    An interdisciplinary introduction to the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lives, social movements, and issues in the United States and globally, including historical overview, debates about causes of sexuality and sexual orientation, impact of legal and social institutions, and the arts in LGBTQ communities.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): One of the following: GWS 101 , ANT 102 , HIS 101 , HIS 102 , PSY 101 , SOC 101 , NUR 313 , SWK 305 , or POI.
    General Education Category: Global Issues
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • GWS 380 - Men and Masculinities (3 cr.)

    A study of the interdisciplinary literature on men and masculinities. Critical examination of masculinity as a social construct and of the diverse experiences of boys and men in different domains and relationships. Analysis of dominant and alternative conceptions and displays of masculinity across cultures and contexts.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101  or one of the following PSY 101 , SOC 101 , HIS 101 , ANT 102 , or POI.
    General Education Category: Global Issues
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Winter
  

  • GWS 385 - Women, Gender, and Sexualities in India (3 cr.)

    An interdisciplinary introduction to women and gender issues in India with reference to historical and regional contexts. Emphasis on intersections of gender, sexuality, religion, place, caste and class in contemporary society. Feminist analysis of social and discursive practices involving concepts of modernity, nation and development in multiple contexts, including film, youth culture, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and conflict zones.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101  or SOC 101  or HIS 102  or ANT 102  or POI.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • GWS 386 - Transnational Queer Film (3 cr.)

    Examination of films dealing with sexuality, sexual orientation and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual (GLBT) identities and struggles. Comparative study of queer discourses representations and GLBT struggles for rights and recognition around the world.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101  or one of the following; GWS 301 , PSY 101 , SOC 101 , HIS 102 , ANT 102 , or POI.
    General Education Category: Global Issues
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall
  

  • GWS 390 - Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in the Middle East (3 cr.)

    An overview of key issues in the study of gender and sexuality in the Middle East. Critical examination of prevailing discourses, ideologies, social practices and trends within Middle East societies and politics. Special focus on social movements informed by feminist and queer perspectives.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101  or SOC 101  or HIS 101  or HIS 102  or ANT 102  or CMM 118  or POI.
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • GWS 399 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
  

  • GWS 445 - Gendered Violence Prevention and Intervention: Advanced Training (3 cr.)

    Advanced training to prepare students to work as peer educators on campus and in the broader community with a particular emphasis on advanced study of gendered violence and feminist pedagogies. Students in this course will serve as peer educators for GWS 345  Gendered Violence and Peer Education and in the intensive weekend course GWS 104  Sexuality, Power, and Relationships.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101 , GWS 104 , GWS 345 , GWS major or minor, and POI.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • GWS 455 - Feminist Studies: Integration and Application (3 cr.)

    Integration of knowledge and experiences acquired during coursework in gender and women’s studies. In-depth analysis of feminist theory, research, struggles for gender justice, and the historical and sociopolitical context within which they unfold. Design and implementation of a feminist research or activist project.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): Gender and women’s studies major or gender and women’s studies minor, GWS 302 .
    Meets Advanced Writing Requirement
    Semester(s) Offered: Spring
  

  • GWS 496 - Teaching Practicum (1 to 3 cr.)

    In depth study of interdisciplinary themes and pedagogical styles in women’s studies as a teaching assistant. Supervised practice in oral presentation, discussion facilitation, individual tutoring, and supportive critical analysis of student work. May be repeated once for credit.
    Liberal arts
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101 , POI.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  

  • GWS 497 - Women’s Studies Internship Seminar (3 cr.)

    Students will critically evaluate their internship experiences in the context of feminist scholarship. Issues will include the place of women in society, opportunities for and impediments to change, intersections of gender, race, and class, the ethics of applied research and activism. To be taken concurrently with GWS498.
    Prerequisite(s): GWS 101  , GWS201, POI.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • GWS 498 - Internship (1 to 12 cr.)

    Students and instructor will arrange placements in organizations providing services to or advocacy for women: health care, equal rights, rape crisis, battered women shelters, etc. Interns will provide assistance to the agency using their academic training in women’s studies as a resource. Must be taken concurrently with WMS 497.
    Prerequisite(s): WMS101, WMS201, POI.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • GWS 499 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

    Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
    Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
 

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