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	AIS104A: Diné Bizaad (Navajo Language)
	Study of the sound system and spelling conventions of Diné Bizaad (Navajo Language), and acquisition of basic oral and literacy skills. Cultural and grammatical information is conveyed by using situations in Diné life as topics. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	AIS104B: Beginning Diné Bizaad (Navajo)
	Study of the sound system and spelling conventions of Diné Bizaad (Navajo language), and acquisition of basic oral and literacy skills. Cultural and grammatical information is conveyed by using situations in Diné life as topics. Terms offered: Spring 2023

AIS160A1: Many Nations/Native Am
An interdisciplinary survey of native peoples in North and Central America, from their origins to present. This course is structured around the themes of sovereignty, cultural diversity, native epistemologies, the Columbian exchange, and cultural transformation and survival. These themes integrate our examination of seven native Nations, ranging from the Aztec of Central Mexico to the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic. The course focuses on homelands and origins, intercultural exchange, demography, ecological transformation, the impacts of introduced epidemic diseases, processes of colonialism, social organization and culture, education, and contemporary issues. Terms offered: Fall 2023
AIS200: Intro Amer Indian Stds
This course introduces student to various approaches and theories involved in American Indian studies. Intended for those minoring in American Indian studies, courses serve as basis for further upper division course work. Provides overview of tribes in U.S. their languages, histories, cultures. Large component focuses on colonialism and U.S. policy toward Native Americans and its affect within Native communities. Terms offered: Fall 2023

	AIS204A: Intermediate Diné Bizaad
	Continuation of vocabulary development, oral skills enhancement and mastery of Diné Bizaad (Navajo language) verb paradigms. Native speakers undertake original research and writing in Diné Bizaad. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	AIS204B: Intermediate Diné Bizaad
	Continuation of vocabulary development, oral skills enhancement and mastery of Diné Bizaad (Navajo language) verb paradigms. Native speakers undertake original research and writing in Diné Bizaad. Terms offered: Spring 2023

AIS210: Amer Indian Languages
This course surveys American Indian languages and the communities that speak them, focusing on a representative sample for closer study. The role of language in maintaining cultural identity is examined, and prospects for the future of American Indian languages are assessed. Terms offered: Fall 2023
AIS212: American Indian Religions
This course offers a broad introduction to the diversity and complexity of American Indian religious traditions historically and in the contemporary. Students will explore general themes in the study of American Indian religions and spirituality along with analyzing specific examples. Of particular importance are the history and effects of colonialism and missionization on Native people, continuing struggles for religious freedom and cultural survival, and historical and contemporary religious responses to social, cultural, political, and geographical changes. Terms offered: Fall 2023

	AIS220: Contemp Am Indian Issues
	This course introduces student to various approaches and theories involved in American Indian studies. Intended for those minoring in American Indian studies, course serves as basis for further upper division course work. Provides overview of current issues affecting tribes in U.S. Large component focuses on contemporary U.S. policy toward Native Americans and its affect within Native communities. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	AIS295A: American Indian Studies
	An analysis of historical and current issues affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives. Topics may vary and will focus on the exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Topic areas will be discussed within the framework of federal treaties with tribal nations, the federal trust relationship, sovereignty and self-determination, federal Indian policies, jurisdiction and federal tribal recognition, and Indian identity. Terms offered: Spring 2023

AIS307A: Elem O'Odham Language
Speaking, reading, writing, and oral comprehension in the Tohono O'Odham (Papago) language. Terms offered: Fall 2023
AIS307B: Elem O'Odham Language
Speaking, reading, writing, and oral comprehension in the Tohono O'odham (Papago) language. Terms offered: Spring 2023

	AIS336: Hist/Phil of Dine People
	A study of events in Dine history in relation to the political, societal and economic context of American history. A review of Dine philosophical and world views, examination of the history and federal Indian policy as applied to the Dine. Interactive in nature. Terms offered: Spring 2023

AIS346: SW Migrations and Landscapes

People have lived in the Greater Southwest for at least 12,000 years. Because written records on the Southwest began in A.D.1540 with European colonization, an important way of understanding American Indian occupation is through archaeology. Even following initial colonial period occupation of the Southwest, records were sparse and did not record the same information that archaeological research can provide. Tin addition, archaeology uses techniques from the social and natural sciences to describe past environments. This course provides an archaeological overview of American Indian societies in the Southwest from the earliest occupation to the colonial period, including where, when, and how they lived.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS348A: Educating Native Americans

The history of Native American education reveals a struggle for power: Native communities fighting to retain or regain control over the education of their children. This course presents a survey of education, from the perspectives of Native educational theories and practices 'education BY Native peoples' and from the perspective of imposed systems of schooling, education developed FOR Native peoples. We begin in the early colonial era and survey changes and continuities over time, concluding with current educational research and educational issues in Native America. Along the way, we consider: · Community-based systems of Indigenous education; · Models of so-called 'appropriate education' developed by colonial nations (including the U.S.) for Indian people and children, as well as educational models developed for black Americans and immigrant populations. For each educational system and model we examine, we will discuss (1) the philosophical background and development of theories and policies (2) educational practices, how theories/policies are implemented, and (3) American Indian experiences within, and responses to, varied educational settings.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS399: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Spring 2023

AIS403: Globalization & Indigen People

Globalization is a term often heard and read in academic circles and in national news, but less often understood by the average person. However, because it is the world political, economic, and social system currently in place as the next evolution of capitalism, everyone should have a basic notion of the definition, and what effects it has and will continue to have on the lives of everyone. Indigenous People of the world are the human population most adversely affected by globalization and the group that has the most experience in sometimes resisting, sometimes adapting, and sometimes creating a syncretism of responses to changing world situations. This course first gives an introduction to the history, politics, and economics of globalization, then moves on to discuss both the benefits and challenges of globalization through the perspectives of global Indigenous peoples.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

AIS418: Southwest Land+Society
The course encompasses the greater Southwest, including northern Mexico from pre-Columbian times to the present. Evidence from archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and biological anthropology is integrated. Emphasis is placed on the interaction of Indian, Hispanic, and Euroamerican peoples and their adaptation to and exploitation of the natural environment through time. Terms offered: Spring 2023
AIS426A: Indigenous Economics
Indigenous and aboriginal peoples in the Americas developed distinctive economic systems prior to contact with Europe. As the world economic system developed, indigenous peoples attempted to preserve their ways of life as best they could, with some success. This course examines the ontological, epistemological and moral bases of indigenous economic theory with application to contemporary problems. Terms offered: Spring 2023

	AIS427: Ling. for Native American Com.
	Introduction to descriptive linguistics for Native Americans; practical linguistic and social issues in Native American languages; phonetics and phonology; orthography; dialects and language change; classroom applications. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	AIS428: Indigenous Research and Ethics
	This course examines research ethics and review processes through an Indigenous lens. Utilizing research and ethics frameworks from a diverse array of disciplines and geographies, this course explores the history of research and ethics by, with, and for Indigenous Peoples, communities, and nations, and investigates the current practices and future of research ethics and review processes from Indigenous perspectives. Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS431A: Tradition Ecological Knowledge
An introduction to the growing literature on traditional ecological knowledge and its relationships to the ecological and social sciences. Terms offered: Fall 2023
AIS434: Tribal Government
This course will provide students with a comprehensive overview of the development of modern tribal governments, their powers, and the problems they face. Course requires a historical examination of North American indigenous societies from Pre-colonial times to the present. Indigenous groups prior to 1492 will be examined. Emphasis on traditional social and political institutions and practices. Historical development of Indian-Anglo relations, European contact to present, U.S. Indian policy, tribal sovereign powers, political economic and cultural implications toward tribal societies. Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS437: Indigenous Health

This course introduces students to health issues facing Indigenous populations. The course itself is divided into four units. Unit 1 is a general review of the definition, conceptualization, and everyday experience of Indigeneity. It provides an overview of colonization with an emphasis on its ongoing impact on health care and health research with Indigenous populations. Unit 2 discusses what health might mean from an Indigenous perspective. Unit 3 presents ethical considerations that may be especially important when working with Indigenous populations. Finally, Unit 4 offers a hopeful look toward the future of Indigenous health as Indigenous people continue to move forward in claiming their health and empowering their communities. For your final paper you will conduct a content analysis (this is your original Sociological research!) of media clippings from two recent Indigenous-led efforts that can have a positive impact on Indigenous health, broadly defined.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

AIS437A: Nation Building I

This course explores critical nation-building issues confronting Indigenous peoples in North America, with a primary focus on Native peoples in the United States. The course will examine multi-dimensional settings that confront Native societies and their social, cultural, political, educational, and economic leaders. The issues to be analyzed include: economic development, politics, culture and identity; and leadership and institution-building. Issues, concepts, and theories examined in the course will provide a basis for examining current Indigenous institutions of self-government; assessing policies of federal, First Nation/tribal, and state/provincial governments; analyzing how to enhance the foundational capacities for effective governance and for strategic attacks on education, economic, and community development problems of Native nations; and augmenting leadership skills, knowledge, and abilities for nation-building. Course participants will link concepts of politics, economics, and culture, with nation-building and leadership through readings, discussions, case studies, short assignments, mid-term exam, and a final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

	AIS450: American Indian Women
	Interdisciplinary exploration of new information available on American Indian women, especially materials written by Indian women and investigation of the status, experience, and contributions of American Indian women from pre-contact to contemporary times. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	AIS450A: Native American Law & Policy
	Explores the place and status of Tribal Governments in our federal system, focusing in particular on federal policy decisions underlying various laws and statutes. The course examines ways to interpret and apply the relevant laws and explores the impact that would be result from changing the policy behind those laws. Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS467: Race + Ethnic Relations
Social processes involved in minority groups in terms of race, caste, class, ethnicity, politics, and religion. Terms offered: Spring 2023
AIS477: Studies Native Amer Lit
Terms offered: Spring 2023

	AIS493: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	AIS495A: American Indian Studies
	The exchange of scholarly information on important disciplinary topics, usually in a small group seminar setting with occasional lectures. The course content, as taught in any one semester, depends on student need and interest, and on the research/teaching interests of the participating faculty member. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of results through discussion, reports, reviews, and/or papers. Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS497F: Comm/School Garden Workshop

This workshop-based course is designed to enable UA undergraduate and graduate students to work in Tucson-area schools and community sites helping stakeholders to plant, harvest and prepare foods from their garden as well as use the garden as a learning space. As a member of a school or community garden team, students are likely to cover a wide range of activities from maintaining a compost pile to administering lesson plans for teaching in the garden to weeding, planting, and organizing work crews. In addition to attending one 3-hour weekend workshop, students are required to attend weekly class meetings on the UA campus. Most of the course, however, revolves around independent and sustained involvement with a Tucson school or community garden. No teaching or gardening experience is required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

	AIS498H: Honors Thesis
	An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	AIS499: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS499H: Honors Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Spring 2023

AIS503: Globalization & Indigen People

AIS504A: Fund of American Indian Study

This class is the introduction for all M.A. and Ph.D. students in American Indian Studies and is intended to present the main ideas and theories that are important for all graduates of the program and interested others to know and understand as being the core concepts of American Indian communities. Self governance/sovereignty Land and sustainability Native epistemologies and philosophies Story Identity While these five main themes are listed separately, in fact they are all interconnected and are broadly constructed with each theme embracing multiple categories of knowledge and information. These themes are present in all of the five focus areas offered in AIS: American Indian Education; American Indian Law and Policy; Literature; Natural Resource Management; and Societies and Cultures. Texts are chosen to represent these themes with most of the texts demonstrating at least two of the core values as well as presenting these values from a diversity of American Indian cultures. Students will read and discuss the texts and complete assignments on these themes.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

	AIS517: Indigenous Public Health
	Examining public health from Indigenous perspectives, this course will address competencies across public health disciplines and apply them to work by, with, and for Indigenous communities toward improved health and wellness. The course will include tribal-specific, US-based, and international examples. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	AIS518: Southwest Land+Society
	The course encompasses the greater Southwest, including northern Mexico from pre-Columbian times to the present. Evidence from archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and biological anthropology is integrated. Emphasis is placed on the interaction of Indian, Hispanic, and Euroamerican peoples and their adaptation to and exploitation of the natural environment through time. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth familiarity with a subfield of choice through preparation of a substantial research paper (15-25 pages) and submission of weekly critical memos on required readings. Terms offered: Spring 2023

AIS525: Native Economic Develpmt
This course examines the issues surrounding economic development as indigenous peoples and their respective organizations enter the 21st Century. The course will cover a broad range of issues including sovereignty, constitutional reform and by-law development, cultural preservation, securitization of resources, intellectual property, religious freedom, health, social welfare and education. Terms offered: Spring 2023
AIS526A: Principles of Indigenous Econ
Indigenous and aboriginal peoples in the Americas developed distinctive economic systems prior to contact with Europe. As the world economic system developed, indigenous peoples attempted to preserve their ways of life as best they could, with some success. This course examines the ontological, epistemological and moral principles of indigenous economic theory with application to contemporary problems. Terms offered: Spring 2023

	AIS527: Intro to Desc Native Amer Lang
	Introduction to descriptive linguistics for Native Americans; practical linguistic and social issues in Native American languages; phonetics and phonology; orthography; dialects and language change; classroom applications. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	AIS528: Indigenous Research and Ethics
	This course examines research ethics and review processes through an Indigenous lens. Utilizing research and ethics frameworks from a diverse array of disciplines and geographies, this course explores the history of research and ethics by, with, and for Indigenous Peoples, communities, and nations, and investigates the current practices and future of research ethics and review processes from Indigenous perspectives. Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS531A: Tradition Ecological Knowledge
An introduction to the growing literature on traditional ecological knowledge and its relationships to the ecological and social sciences. Graduate-level requirements include preparing for and leading a class discussion on a specific topic. Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS537A: Nation Building I

This course will explore critical nation-building issues confronting Indigenous peoples in North America, with a primary focus on Native peoples in the United States. The course will examine multi-dimensional settings that confront Native societies and their social, cultural, political, educational, and economic leaders. The issues to be analyzed include: economic development, politics, culture and identity; and leadership and institution-building. Issues, concepts, and theories examined in the course will provide a basis for examining current Indigenous institutions of self-government; assessing policies of federal, First Nation/tribal, and state/provincial governments; analyzing how to enhance the foundational capacities for effective governance and for strategic attacks on education, economic, and community development problems of Native nations; and augmenting leadership skills, knowledge, and abilities for nation-building. Course participants will link concepts of politics, economics, and culture, with nation-building and leadership through readings, discussions, case studies, short assignments, mid-term exam, and a final exam.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS548: Rsrch Design+Methodology

This integrative course is designed to help students become professional and ethical researchers who produce the highest quality scholarship. The identification of significant research problems and the choice of appropriate and rigorous methodologies and techniques will be discussed. Students will gain experience in formulating a research problem that is theoretically important to American Indian Studies, well focused, and can be done in a reasonable amount of time. Special attention will be given to formulating a realistic Master's thesis project.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS550: American Indian Women

This course examines and appraises the historical and contemporary place of American Indian women in Native communities and mainstream society. This is accomplished through written documents, storytelling, and other mediums with a focus on Native women's roles, status, influence, and contributions as Nation builders before contact, during colonization and decolonization. Central to the course are current issues of importance to American Indian women living on and near reservations, in urban and rural areas. Students enrolled for graduate credit are responsible for: - Research Paper: Research and analyze an issue of importance to American Indian women historically or contemporary. The paper should be 20-25 pages not including references. The paper needs to be doubled spaced, 12 font, and 1 inch margins. References documentation should be in APA, Chicago or MLA. Topics must be approved by instructors. - A formal class presentation of your research paper (20 minutes) - Book Review: A 5-8 page critique of the book, No Turning Back. Doubled spaced, 12 fonts, 1 inch margins, documentation style of APA, Chicago or MLA. Specific guidelines will be distributed in class. - A level of participation and engagement in the course on par with general expectations of graduate students
Terms offered: Spring 2023

AIS550A: Native American Law & Policy
Explores the place and status of Tribal Governments in our federal system, focusing in particular on federal policy decisions underlying various laws and statutes. The course examines ways to interpret and apply the relevant laws and explores the impact that would be result from changing the policy behind those laws. Graduate students will be assigned differential graduate-level coursework outlined in the course syllabus. Terms offered: Fall 2023
AIS577: Stdy American Indian Lit
In-depth study of works by and/or about American Indian writers. Terms offered: Spring 2023

	AIS593: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	AIS595A: American Indian Studies
	The exchange of scholarly information on important disciplinary topics, usually in a small group seminar setting with occasional lectures. The course content, as taught in any one semester, depends on student need and interest, and on the research/teaching interests of the participating faculty member. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of results through discussion, reports, reviews, and/or papers. Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS597A: Desc Ling Native Am Lang
Workshop includes methods and techniques on how to describe a language in the four basis sub-areas of linguistics: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics; terminology and general processes associated with the four sub-areas. Terms offered: Fall 2023

AIS597F: Comm/School Garden Workshop

AIS599: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Spring 2023
AIS631B: Tribal Courts+Tribal Law
Terms offered: Spring 2023

	AIS638: Culture Contact+Colonial
	This course focuses on anthropological approaches to the study of culture contact and colonialism. Particular emphasis is placed on archaeological and ethnohistorical approaches to the relationships between native peoples and Europeans in the 16th through 18th centuries in southeastern and southwestern North America. The course includes a history of theoretical perspectives in sociopolitical context as well as a critical review of contemporary culture contact and colonialism theory. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	AIS678: Cntmp Am Indian Ed+Rsrch
	Contemporary American Indian/Alaskan native education in two parts: (1) the current state of native education and its effectiveness in meeting the needs of native students; (2) current research in the area of American Indian/Alaskan native education and its implications for future research. Terms offered: Spring 2023

AIS679: Amer Indian Higher Educ
Development of higher education for American Indians/Alaskan natives from the earliest efforts to contemporary times. Issues and their implications for the education of American Indians in institutions and agencies of higher education. Emphasis on tribally controlled colleges and universities, and the development of American Indian studies programs in higher education institutions. Terms offered: Fall 2023
AIS694: Practicum
The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation. Terms offered: Spring 2023

	AIS697A: College Teaching Methods
	The practical application of theoretical and student-centered learning within various classroom settings. The class involves an exchange of ideas about theory, goals, values, and ethical concerns for teaching courses concentrating on American Indians and provide training in practical methods, teaching strategies, and action-learning skills in a lecture and seminar format. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Students will begin to accumulate materials for a teaching portfolio. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	AIS699: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Summer 2023

AIS900: Research
Individual research, not related to thesis or dissertation preparation, by graduate students. Terms offered: Spring 2023
AIS909: Master's Report
Individual study or special project or formal report thereof submitted in lieu of thesis for certain master's degrees. Terms offered: Spring 2023

	AIS910: Thesis
	Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing). Maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	AIS920: Dissertation
	Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing). Terms offered: Summer 2023

Anthropology

ANTH150A1: Race, Racism, & American Dream

This course offers a critical analysis of race and racism in the United States through an anthropological lens. We explore everyday experiences of race and racism and set these in dialogue with historical and contemporary patterns of racial inequality, asking who has access to the proverbial "American Dream." Course themes include: (1) the social and historical construction of race; (2) the systemic nature of racism and the marginalization of Black, Indigenous, Latino/x/e, and Asian American people from the past to the present; and (3) the racial ideologies upholding white supremacy and white privilege. Students in this class will reflect on their own lived experiences in addition to exploring how we are constantly exposed to cultural and political messages about race, racism, and privilege. This class will address contemporary issues of racial justice and expose students to foundational texts in critical race studies written by scholars of color.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH150B1: Many Ways of Being Human
This course introduces the student to anthropological perspectives on cultural diversity. The course focuses on gender, race, ethnicity and class through readings by and about peoples throughout the world. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH150C1: Humanity: A How to Guide
Anthropology is the integrative study of who we are and where we come from. Anthropologists study all aspects of human life, including evolution, language, material culture, social institutions, health, genetics, and many other topics. Drawing on core readings and case studies from within the four sub fields of anthropology, biological, archaeological, linguistic, and socio-cultural perspectives, this course examines human origins, diversity, and culture. Throughout this course, we emphasize current global approaches to studying humanity with the goal of better understanding our place in the world. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH160A1: World Archaeology

Archaeology reveals the human story of curiosity, innovation, exploration, and adaptability preserved in geologic layers around the world. Adaptions to different ecological zones and environmental regimes has produced the bewildering phenotypic and cultural variability observed in humans today. Telling the story of our past requires finding and connecting clues to the timing and origin of adaptations such as the first stone tools around 3.3 mya, animal and plant domestication, large scale settlements and political bodies, and now our modern global civilization. While cultural variability among modern humans often divides us and highlights our differences, we all share common themes among us such as the search for food, need for companionship, and the necessity to support the next generation of the human species. This course takes an explicitly thematic approach as we explore some of the major questions related to topics in Anthropological Archaeology such as becoming human, the search for food, migration and exploration, food production, the rise of the state, food and culture, warfare, and the modern world. Throughout the course students will engage with basic archaeological concepts, methods, and theories to build an understanding of how archaeologists investigate the human condition. Students will also engage with the ethics and importance of telling diverse stories, connecting people to their past, and preserving cultural properties and traditions around the world.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH160D2: Origins of Hum Diversity

Our story begins around seven million years ago as the human lineage began to diverge from the great apes. Our story is one of curiosity, innovation, exploration, expansion, and diversity. Early humans, including our direct ancestors, accumulated a vast spectrum of complex cognitive, physical, behavioral, and cultural traits as they spread across the face of the Earth and adapted to environments in every corner of the planet. Understanding the bewildering phenotypic and cultural variability observed in humans today requires a Bio-Cultural perspective, integrating theories, methods and data from the natural and social sciences. While variability in appearance and practice sometimes divides us and highlights our differences, humans today share ~99.9% of our DNA, and we are united by common concerns such as the search for food, love, need for companionship, and the necessity to support the next generation of the human species. This course takes a chronological approach as we explore the hominin family tree through the study of fossil species, critical cultural developments including the origins of technology and changes in diet, economy and social relationships. Within this framework we will cover the basics of Darwinian evolution, highlighting the interaction of biological and cultural forces in shaping what we are today. Throughout this course, we will also examine how societal values, inequality, racism, and colonialism have impacted our understanding of what it means to be human. The signature assignment for this course will involve a deep look at how our evolutionary past, and how different conceptualizations of it resonate in the contemporary world.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

	ANTH170C1: The Nature of Humans
	In this course students will identify and apply the approaches of a biological anthropologist to investigate a) how our evolutionary history has shaped our biology, b) how and why there are similarities and differences between humans and other species, and) how and why there are similarities and differences between humans. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH197: Intro UA Anthropology
	ANTH 197 is designed to assist incoming School of Anthropology (SOA) students throughout their careers at the University of Arizona andy beyond. ANTH 197 will provide them with the information they need to become the best students they can be, to find their true calling, and to achieve their chosen careers. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH199: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH199H: Honors Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

	ANTH200: Cultural Anthropology
	Contemporary theories and methods in use among cultural anthropologists. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH201: Resources and Civilizations

The availability and use of metals, petroleum, coal, industrial minerals, and other nonrenewable resources has shaped the history of world societies from the Stone Age to the present, and will continue to be a core part of future human development. This course covers how nonrenewable resources form and how they are extracted; the diverse ways that global civilizations have extracted and used nonrenewable resources over time, and how resource use shaped their history; and how the distribution of resources and the development of resource technology around the world created our modern global sociopolitical and economic framework. Other topics covered include nonrenewable resource exhaustion, space mining, resource substitution and associated energy costs, and unintended social and environmental consequences of nonrenewable resource extraction and use.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

	ANTH202: Applying Anth Globl Cntx
	Course introduces students to the orders of meaning and power that influence human living and working conditions, as well as the capacity of human beings to alter those conditions. A combination of lectures, readings, films, class discussions and exercises will familiarize students with approaches to global problems in applied anthropology and the solutions that the discipline has proposed. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ANTH203: Caribbean/Cannibal-Regga
	The systematic study of processes of culture change. Course focuses on an ethnographic region - the Caribbean - which has been the site of intense culture contacts. Terms offered: Spring 2023

ANTH220: Contemp Am Indian Issues
This course introduces student to various approaches and theories involved in American Indian studies. Intended for those minoring in American Indian studies, course serves as basis for further upper division course work. Provides overview of current issues affecting tribes in U.S. Large component focuses on contemporary U.S. policy toward Native Americans and its affect within Native communities. Terms offered: Summer 2023
ANTH222: Afr Am Std:Hist of Ideas
This course is concerned with the history of oppression of African and other Indigenous peoples in the world and examines ideas by radical philosophers and scholars from the African Diaspora directed toward liberation from oppression. Terms offered: Fall 2023

	ANTH235: Principles Archaeology
	Anthropology 235 provides a survey of basic archaeological theories, methods, and practices. Intended for majors and minors in Anthropology and closely related fields, this course seeks to describe the current state of archaeological studies, in part by exploring the discipline's historical roots and presenting case studies from around the world. The course is designed to help students achieve intellectual independence in the field of archaeology- that is, you will not only learn about archaeology, you will learn how to think like an archaeologist. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH261: Evolutionary Bio and Health
	This course explores a) how our evolutionary history informs us about modern human biology, b) how this history applies to modern health and social problems, and c) how knowledge about human's evolutionary history can be used to more effectively address modern human health and social problems. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH265: Human Evolution
Neontological and paleontological approaches to human evolution and variation, nonhuman primate studies, bio-molecular and anatomical variation, bio-cultural responses to environmental stress. Terms offered: Spring 2023
ANTH276: The Nature Of Language
An introduction to the basic concepts of linguistic anthropology and their implications for the study of culture and society. Terms offered: Spring 2023

	ANTH299: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH299H: Honors Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH301: Conservation and Community
Explores the roots of conservation in Western society, examines its impact on the lives of rural peoples, and analyzes its discursive strategies/relations of power across the globe, with a particular emphasis on the American West. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH303: Gender + Language
Gender differences in language use among adults and children and their socio-cultural bases. Terms offered: Fall 2023

	ANTH304: Intro Archeologic Fldwrk
	This classroom-based course prepares students for archaeological fieldwork, including archaeological field schools. It provides an overview of archaeological methods such as: excavation strategies, survey, mapping and artifact analyses. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH305: Cultural Change
	A review of theories of cultural and social change with case studies. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH306: Health, Harm, and Healing

What does a pandemic like Covid-19 teach us about health today? As we continue to grapple with the tragedies and drastic changes to social life induced by the Corona virus, this course invites students to reconsider health and medicine in Latin America through the concept of the pandemic. This course, however, does not offer a comprehensive account of historical and contemporary pandemics in the Latin American region. Instead, it asks students to analyze the idea of the pandemic itself--an injurious force that spreads across land masses, oceans, and national borders--- to reassess our understanding of health today. The course will argue that in order to analyze health problems in Latin American localities, we must always hold in mind the figure of the pandemic or, in other words, to imagine how the global is always constitutive of local dynamics of health.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

	ANTH307: Ecological Anthropology
	Cultural adaptation with emphasis on the systematic interaction of environment, technology, and social organization among hunter-gatherers, nomadic herders, and peasant farmers. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	ANTH310: Culture + the Individual
	Cultural and psychological dimensions of human development and human behavior. Terms offered: Summer 2023

ANTH311: Urban Anthropology
Introduction to the anthropology of urban areas around the world, including space, diversity, and the economic and racial formations that constitute "inner" and "edge" cities. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH313: Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
The course examines the mythology and practice of medicine in Greek and Roman times from Asclepius to Hippocrates and Galen, medical instruments and procedures, the religious manifestation of healing in Greek and Roman sanctuaries, the votive dedications by patients and cured, midwifery and child care, public hygiene and diseases. The topics cover a large spectrum of the medical practice and public health in the ancient societies of Classical antiquity, as well as how ancient worldviews, including religion and religious practice, shaped health and medicine in Greek and Roman civilization. Terms offered: Fall 2023

	ANTH317: Latin American Immigration
	Migration is currently re-shaping American cities, families, urban landscapes, rural areas, politics, and altering the nation's racial and cultural make up. In response, societal attitudes and power dynamics that structure their incorporation shift, often engendering competing perspectives about immigrants' efforts to belong and carve out a place for themselves within the United States as "A nation of Immigrants." This course will focus on the quasi-permanent presence of undocumented immigrants and other vulnerable noncitizens living in the United States, focusing in particular on those who come from Latin America. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH319: Mexican American Culture
	Historical background, cultural institutions, identity problems, social relations, and expectations of people of Mexican ancestry in the United States. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH321: Sacred Places
This course introduces students to the anthropology of religion by examining the ways that sacred places reflect and shape the people who use and create them. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH323: Ancient Empires

During this class, we will be exploring the diverse nations of the Mediterranean that pursued the acquisition of empire in the ancient world: Pharaonic Egypt, Achaemenid Persia, 5th century Athens, 4th century Macedon, and Imperial Rome. More than only the respective "rise and fall" of each empire, we will examine how the rulers of each civilization depicted and justified their policies of conquest, how the pursuit of empire changed the cultures of these civilizations, and how each empire paved the way for the next. In the end, we will be learning how empires in general (mis)function, and how empires are justified to their participants, subjects, and enemies.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH325: Bodies in Medicine

This course introduces students to fundamental questions in medical anthropology through an engagement with surgical procedures that remake the body and its world. A practice at once familiar and strange, we center surgical interventions to ground abstract concepts of social and political relations firmly in the materiality of the human body. We examine the concepts of belief and belonging through analyzing male circumcision; cultural relativism and its limits through female genital cutting; the constitution of race through cosmetic procedures that reshape the eyes and nose; nationalism and patriotism through the rehabilitation of soldiers' bodies; the constitution of sex and gender through trans- and intersex genital surgeries; the ethical pull of kinship through in-family kidney donation; economic globalization through surgical tourism; and the concept of the individual subject through post-amputation phantom limb pain and the medical imperative to separate conjoined twins. These procedures invite us to consider the body as a site at which particular ideas about what is "normal" and what is "good" quite literally find their form. They make manifest the economic, racial, political and ethical forces through which contemporary life and value unfold. Building on the foundations of Tier I anthropology courses, this course introduces students to the unique ways that anthropology engages the practices and beliefs at the heart of medicine. This is a Tier II GenEd course.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH328: Whiteness and Racial Violence

This upper-level course offers students a chance to explore critical race theory and racial inequality with a focus on whiteness and its relation to centuries of racial violence. What is whiteness based on? How is it created, and what gives it its power? How are notions of white superiority produced around the globe, not only through state power and violence, but also through far more mundane behaviors of individuals? In taking up scholarship that draws on the now much discussed topic of "critical race theory," we will examine the ways race is built into American culture and society, while also exploring other contexts around the world. This class will introduce students to recent readings and theories of white supremacy, antiblackness, and settler colonialism. In addition, we will also explore how whiteness impacts a wide range of racialized communities both in the United States and in other countries, in the current moment and over time. This class will draw on interdisciplinary scholarship (from history to cultural and medical anthropology), and students will be encouraged to analyze examples of their choosing through an anthropological lens that explores the daily work that white people do to reproduce racial ideologies, racial hierarchy, and the hyper-valuation of whiteness.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

ANTH333: Intro Archaeol Analysis
Introduction to laboratory analyses of archaeological materials, including stone tools, ceramics, animals, plants, and architecture. Uses lectures and hands-on exercises to illustrate the collection and interpretation of archaeological data. Terms offered: Spring 2023
ANTH334A: Mesoamerican Civil:Maya
The course provides an overview of Maya archaeology from the origins of agriculture through the Spanish Conquest. Terms offered: Summer 2023

ANTH337: Language & Power in MENA

This course examines the complex and multifaceted interplay between language and politics. It explores the key topics that lie at the intersection of language and politics, including language choice as a manifestation of self and group identity, linguistic ideology, censorship and hate speech, the performance of ethnic and national identity in language, gender politics and powerful language, rhetoric and propaganda, and changing conceptions of written language. Taking a broad sociolinguistic approach that incorporates theoretical frameworks such as pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography, Critical Discourse Analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis, we will consider the relationship between language and politics by investigating language use in various genres of political discourse, including speeches, debates, advertising, and print and broadcast media coverage of political events, focusing on how various linguistic features serve to shape political identities and stances. The course aims toward refining students' critical and analytical abilities in the study of language in its social context. In addition to theoretical and topical readings, lectures, and class discussions, students take part in hands-on data analysis projects and group presentations. The course culminates in a final empirical research project, in which students pursue a topic of their choice related to the course in further depth. Findings will be presented in a formal paper and class presentation. The course requires knowledge of basic sociolinguistic concepts covered in MENA/Anth/Ling 330 Language and Society in the Middle East. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you take 330 prior to this course, or take both simultaneously.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

ANTH338: Intro Roman Art+Arch
This course provides an overview of the culture of ancient Rome beginning about 1000 BCE and ending with the so-called "Fall of Rome". It looks at some of the key people who played a role in Rome, from the time of the kings through the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. It will also focus on the city of Rome itself, as well as Rome's expansion through Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond. Terms offered: Summer 2023
ANTH340A: Intro Greek Art+Arch
This course surveys the art and archaeology of Greece from the Early Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period (ca. 3000 BC-31 BC), focusing on iconic monuments in architecture, sculpture, ceramics, and minor arts that shaped ancient Greek civilization. Monumental projects, such as temples, tombs, fortifications, as well as miniature creations in luxurious materials will be examined within their larger political, social, religious, technological, and economic contexts in Ancient Greece. Athens, Delphi, Olympia, Crete, and the Aegean are just a few of the celebrated places explored in this course. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH346: SW Migrations and Landscapes

ANTH348: Drug Wars/Oil Fortunes Lat Am
With a focus on Latin America, this course examines the historical, comparative, and current dynamics of two global commodities: illicit drugs and oil. These commodities--which depend on a U.S. consumer base--generate unfathomable wealth and unrelenting violence at local, national, and international levels. We follow them from extraction and production through consumption, examining socioeconomic and environmental impacts, their relationship to state corruption, and possible strategies for responding to the problems they create. Terms offered: Summer 2023
ANTH353: The Anthropology of Food
This course offers a review of approaches to understanding and documenting human diversity through the lens of food practices. Students will learn to think about food in new ways to gain a better understanding of the diversity of social and cultural norms, beliefs, and habits that shape foodways and our relationships to food. Terms offered: Spring 2023

	ANTH354: Middle East Food Traditions
	This course will examine different "foodscapes" created over time in the region. We will examine the interactions of variety of factors in the development of culinary cultures: geography and environment; religion, language and cultural practices; history; social organization, ethnicity, status and gender; science and technology and consider particular ritual practices, feasting and fasting customs and dietary rules. How have authors used the topic of food in their writings? Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH363: #Black Lives Matter Across Am
	How are race and racism perceived and experienced in countries in Latin America particularly such as Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia where a mixed-race ideology and the myth of racial equality have traditionally been at the core of national identity? This class critically analyzes notions of race and anti-racist activism to examine the ideologies and circumstances of the political structure, race-targeted public policies, and black activism in contemporary Latin America. Terms offered: Summer 2023

ANTH365: Forensic Anthropology

This course provides an introduction to the field of Forensic Anthropology and the anthropology of mortality through lectures, discussion, guest lectures from local practitioners, and hands-on experience with skeletal remains, models, and casework scenarios. Forensic Anthropology, a specialization within Physical Anthropology, is applied in the modern medicolegal context to address questions relating to the cause of death or identity of decedents. This course will cover the history, significance, and various applications of the field, including domestic casework, mass disaster settings, and state-perpetrated human rights abuse contexts, with a particular focus on locally-relevant issues. It will cover introductory human osteology and odontology, methods for the recovery and location of human remains, the biological profile, sensitivity to grieving and traumatized families and communities, and the basic methods forensic anthropologists use to determine identity and cause of death. In addition to familiarity with human skeletal biology and examination methods, students will come away with a basic understanding how the broader field of anthropology approaches issues of death, mourning, and mortality.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

ANTH372: Critical Issues for Museums

Museums of the 21st century are increasingly complex organizations, engaged with the critical issues of the day, whether by design or necessity. Few museums today can afford the luxury of being the "temples of treasures" of past centuries, with collections tended and displayed for the elite who have the leisure of appreciating them. Museums in the 21st century have been thrust onto the global stage and are dealing with issues resulting from political and religious conflicts, questions of legal and ethical rights to ownership of collections, international treaties and laws, recognition of native peoples and their voice in the disposition of their cultural patrimony, as well as engagement with local communities through exhibitions and public programming on issues such as poverty, homelessness, health, the environment, and many other challenges in both rural and urban settings. Globalization and technology have brought the world closer together, with resulting demands for greater accessibility to museum collections and curatorial knowledge. Museums, whether public or private, local or international, are more than ever accountable to and dependent upon multiple, often competing, constituents, and on communities and public engagement, while resources for the support of those museums are, in many cases, shrinking.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH380: Global Agri+Intl Rel
The importance of agriculture to the cultures, political structures, and economies of developing countries in Africa, Asia, South America, and Oceania. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH389: Mid East Ethnic+Rel Minr
Overview of ethnic and religious minorities in the contemporary Middle East, study of ethnic and religious diversity and its origin and manifestations in the modern Middle East. Examination of how the concept of religious and ethnic minority has emerged as a key factor in state policies towards minorities as well as the cultural, economic, political, religious, and educational lives of its people. Terms offered: Fall 2023

	ANTH392: Directed Research
	Individual or small group research under the guidance of faculty. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH393: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH395B: Spec Top Cultural Anth
The course as taught in any one semester depends on student need and interest, and the research/teaching interests of the participating faculty member. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH399: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

	ANTH399H: Honors Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH408A: Islamic Mvmnts Muslim World
	The course objectives are (1) to acquaint students with traditional literature and contemporary research on Islamic movements, and 2) to introduce students to the historical and ideological basis of an emerging globalized political Islam. Terms offered: Spring 2023

ANTH409: Economic Anthropology
Analysis of production, exchange, distribution, consumption, property, economic surplus, inheritance, and types of economic structure. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH417A: North African Societies
The objectives are to highlight the thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches and contributions in the field of North African studies and to underline the relationship, continuities, and discontinuities between the colonial past and postcolonial realities. Terms offered: Spring 2023

	ANTH418: Southwest Land+Society
	The course encompasses the greater Southwest, including northern Mexico from pre-Columbian times to the present. Evidence from archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and biological anthropology is integrated. Emphasis is placed on the interaction of Indian, Hispanic, and Euroamerican peoples and their adaptation to and exploitation of the natural environment through time. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ANTH420: Archaic Grk Sanctuaries
	This course therefore concentrates on the evidence for Greek sanctuary sites between 1000 and 600 B.C. We examine the excavated material from numerous sanctuary sites, including architectural remains (temples and/or altars), votive offerings of bronze and clay, and any other evidence revealing religious practices during these formative years. The role the sanctuaries played in society is also considered with a view to their political, social, economic and spiritual implications for Archaic Greek life. Terms offered: Spring 2023

ANTH424A: Political Ecology
This course introduces a variety of environmental thought linking the political sphere and the biosphere. It examines ecological economics, environmental history and ethics, theoretical ecology, ecofeminism, political ecology in anthropology and intellectual property law. Terms offered: Spring 2023
ANTH425A: Anth Of Japan:Imag+Real
This course explores Japanese society employing anthropological methods. Topics include politics, social structure, gender, sociolinguistics, education, religion, and popular culture. The main theme of this course is to learn how to distinguish between images and realities. Terms offered: Fall 2023

	ANTH430A: Lang+Society/Middle East
	Explores the social and linguistic aspects of the languages and cultures of Middle Eastern countries with the central goal of introducing students to the correlation between social and linguistic variables from a contemporary sociolinguistic perspective. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH431A: Tradition Ecological Knowledge
	An introduction to the growing literature on traditional ecological knowledge and its relationships to the ecological and social sciences. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH434: Repro Pol+Househld Econ
Principles in the comparative study of social systems, types of social structure. Terms offered: Spring 2023
ANTH436: Japanese Sociolinguistic
Introduction to Japanese sociolinguistics: questionnaire studies, variation analysis, ethnography of communication, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, and language and social interaction. Terms offered: Fall 2023

	ANTH438A: Wmn Health Global Persp
	Biocultural perspective on health issues/risks women face around the world using a life cycle approach beginning with the birth of girl babies through the aging process. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	ANTH439A: Intro Dendrochronology
	Survey of dendrochronological theory and methods. Applications to archaeological, geological, and biological dating problems and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Emphasis on dating methods, developing tree-ring chronologies, and evaluating tree-ring dates from various contexts. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH440A: Cultural Resource Mgmnt
Cultural Resource Management (CRM) involves research to identify, evaluate, and register historic properties, and mitigate adverse impacts to them. The course reviews the legislation, method and theory of CRM to develop the practical skills needed in professional applications. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH465: Greek Pottery: Craft & Society

This course surveys the development of ancient Greek pottery from c. 3000 to 400 BCE, with a focus on the period 1200-400 BCE (Mycenaean-Late Classical). Topics to be addressed include stylistic and typological developments, uses of ceramics within historical settings, iconography and meaning, materials and manufacturing techniques, organization of ceramic workshops, and potters and their social status. Key goals of the course include gaining an appreciation for the great importance of pottery in establishing and verifying the foundations of chronology in Greek archaeology as well as illuminating fundamental aspects of Greek society and culture. Opportunities for hands-on experiences in UA ceramics labs and museum collections will be available.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

ANTH467: Race + Ethnic Relations
Social processes involved in minority groups in terms of race, caste, class, ethnicity, politics, and religion. Terms offered: Spring 2023
ANTH472: Zooarchaeo+Taphonomy:Lab
Identification and classification of faunal remains from prehistoric and historic sites; investigation of the circumstances of faunal assemblage formation; introduction to quantitative and qualitative analysis of faunal data. Course work emphasizes hands-on experience in laboratory methods, analysis exercises and short research paper assignments. Terms offered: Spring 2023

	ANTH477: Greek Architecture
	This course examines the architectural developments in the Greek world from the Neolithic and Bronze Age through to the Classical and Hellenistic periods (6000-31 BC). We look at the various types of building structures including palaces, tombs, temples, theaters, town planning, and domestic architecture, and discuss sites such as Knossos, Mycenae, Pylos, Delphi, Athens, Corinth, and Olynthos. Students will consider issues such as the manner of construction of these buildings, the contexts in which they they were commissioned, built and used, and some of the architectural problems facing the architects. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH487: Fem Interpretations of Health
	This course examines health as a biomedical and ideological category in relation to questions of gender, race, class and sexuality. Issues include the social, cultural, and institutional contexts shaping health and disease patterns; societal understandings of those contexts and patterns; and relationships between health and social inequality. Terms offered: Summer 2023

ANTH490: Women Mid East Societ
Middle Eastern society viewed from the perspective of women. Examines the extent to which formal definitions of women's nature and roles coincide with women's self-images and activities. Terms offered: Spring 2023
ANTH492: Directed Research
Individual or small group research under the guidance of faculty. Terms offered: Fall 2023

	ANTH493: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH495A: Sp Top Archaeology
	The course content, as taught in any one semester, depends on student need and interest, and on the research/teaching interests of the participating faculty member. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH498A: Senior Thesis
This course is normally taken as a two-semester sequence. In the first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member. During the second semester, the student writes a thesis that presents the result of their research. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH498H: Honors Thesis
An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis. Terms offered: Fall 2023

	ANTH499: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH499H: Honors Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

ANTH508: Mex-Am Cultural Perspect
A critical examination of Mexican American culture as portrayed in the social sciences. An assessment of the social, political, and economic factors influencing representations of Mexican Americans. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH508A: Islamic Mvmnts Muslim World
The course's objectives are (1) to acquaint students with traditional literature and contemporary research on Islamic movements, and 2) to introduce students to the historical and ideological basis of an emerging globalized political Islam. Graduate-level requirements include a 12 page student essay and final paper 25-30 pages. Terms offered: Spring 2023

	ANTH509: Economic Anthropology
	An analysis of the social and cultural construction of gender across cultures. Emphasis will be on preindustrial societies, using data to test theories of gender. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH517A: North African Societies
	The objectives are to highlight the thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches and contributions in the field of North African studies and to underline the relationship, continuities, and discontinuities between the colonial past and postcolonial realities. Graduate-level requirements include a 12 page bibliographic essay and a 25 page final paper. Terms offered: Spring 2023

ANTH518: Southwest Land+Society
The course encompasses the greater Southwest, including northern Mexico from pre-Columbian times to the present. Evidence from archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and biological anthropology is integrated. Emphasis is placed on the interaction of Indian, Hispanic, and Euroamerican peoples and their adaptation to and exploitation of the natural environment through time. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth familiarity with a subfield of choice through preparation of a substantial research paper (15-25 pages) and submission of weekly critical memos on required readings. Terms offered: Spring 2023
ANTH520: Archaic Grk Sanctuaries
This course concentrates on the evidence for Greek sanctuary sites between 1000 and 600 B.C. We examine the excavated material from numerous sanctuary sites, including architectural remains (temples and/or altars), votive offerings of bronze and clay, and any other evidence revealing religious practices during these formative years. The role the sanctuaries played in society is also considered with a view to their political, social, economic and spiritual implications for Archaic Greek life. Graduate-level requirements include a more extensive paper than undergraduates. Terms offered: Spring 2023

	ANTH525A: Anth Of Japan:Imag+Real
	This course explores Japanese society employing anthropological methods. Topics include politics, social structure, gender, sociolinguistics, education, religion, and popular culture. The main theme of this course is to learn how to distinguish between images and realities. Graduate-level requirements include fulfilling the assignments in the syllabus and writing longer papers. Graduate students meet with the instructor six times for additional instruction and may be asked to conduct a lecture. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH526A: Principles of Indigenous Econ
	Indigenous and aboriginal peoples in the Americas developed distinctive economic systems prior to contact with Europe. As the world economic system developed, indigenous peoples attempted to preserve their ways of life as best they could, with some success. This course examines the ontological, epistemological and moral principles of indigenous economic theory with application to contemporary problems. Terms offered: Spring 2023

100

ANTH530A: Lang+Society/Middle East
Explores the social and linguistic aspects of the languages and cultures of Middle Eastern countries with the central goal of introducing students to the correlation between social and linguistic variables from a contemporary sociolinguistic perspective. Graduate-level requirements include additional readings and meeting with the instructor biweekly to discuss the readings of which written critiques will be submitted. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH531A: Tradition Ecological Knowledge
An introduction to the growing literature on traditional ecological knowledge and its relationships to the ecological and social sciences. Graduate-level requirements include preparing for and leading a class discussion on a specific topic. Terms offered: Fall 2023

101

	ANTH536: Japanese Sociolinguistic
	Introduction to Japanese sociolinguistics: questionnaire studies, variation analysis, ethnography of communication, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, and language and social interaction. Graduate-level requirements include a substantial term paper and may include extra readings and an additional weekly meeting when the class is convened with JPN 436. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH539A: Intro Dendrochronology
	Survey of dendrochronological theory and methods. Applications to archaeological, geological, and biological dating problems and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Emphasis on dating methods, developing tree-ring chronologies, and evaluating tree-ring dates from various contexts. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper reviewing critically some aspect of dendrochronology. Terms offered: Fall 2023

102

ANTH540A: Cultural Resource Mgmnt

Cultural Resource Management (CRM) involves research to identify, evaluate, and register historic properties, and mitigate adverse impacts to them. The course reviews the legislation, method and theory of CRM to develop the practical skills needed in professional applications. Graduate-level requirements include extra reading assignments, more class discussion and higher standard for written assignments.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

103

ANTH565: Greek Pottery: Craft & Society

104

ANTH570: Primate Behavior

This course examines the extensive diversity of the living primates, including aspects of their behavior and ecology, with emphasis on natural history and adaptation to the environment. The course begins with an introduction to the primates, their evolution, taxonomy, and adaptations, and then delves into the ways in which individuals interact with each other as well as ecological factors, to yield the various societies and strategies we see among primates in nature. We will also consider how our studying of living primates can help us gain insight into human adaptation and behavior. Graduate-level requirements include a 15-20 page research paper instead of an 8-10 page paper, and in-class presentation.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

105

	ANTH572: Zooarchaeo+Taphonomy:Lab
	Identification and classification of faunal remains from prehistoric and historic sites; investigation of the circumstances of faunal assemblage formation; introduction to quantitative and qualitative analysis of faunal data. Course work emphasizes hands-on experience in laboratory methods, analysis exercises and short research paper assignments. Graduate-level requirements include an additional long research paper and/or annotated bibliography. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ANTH577: Greek Architecture
	This course examines the architectural developments in the Greek world from the Neolithic and Bronze Age through to the Classical and Hellenistic periods (6000-31 BC). We look at the various types of building structures including palaces, tombs, temples, theaters, town planning, and domestic architecture, and discuss sites such as Knossos, Mycenae, Pylos, Delphi, Athens, Corinth, and Olynthos. Students will consider issues such as the manner of construction of these buildings, the contexts in which they they were commissioned, built and used, and some of the architectural problems facing the architects.. Graduate-level requirements include extensive reading and an in-depth paper. Terms offered: Fall 2023

106

ANTH585: Ling Analysis of Soc Meaning

The main goal of this seminar is to discuss a range of theories and approaches in relation to what is generally called "social meaning" in language use/practice, in contrast to "referential/denotational meaning" or "content meaning". Particular attention will be given to research and literature in the overlapping fields of linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics. In terms of theoretical issues that are important in understanding how linguistic forms and practices take on meaning and become meaning-making resources, we will deal with indexicality, indexical order, indexical field, enregisterment, style, stance, interdiscursivity and dialogism, metadiscourse, and language ideology (as it plays a crucial role in all of the foregoing areas). In addition, by drawing on the insights from these theoretical and conceptual tools, we will discuss how to link linguistic analysis at the so-called "micro" level to socio-cultural processes and structures at the "macro" level. With regard to analytical approaches to social meaning, we will discuss research in sociolinguistic variation (quantitative analysis of meaning), discourse analysis, and experimental studies on perception and interpretation of meaning. In addition to familiarizing with the theories and analytical approaches, we'll also analyze data from the participants' ongoing projects or linguistic materials that are potentially interesting to students. The course provides both an opportunity to survey the latest developments in the investigation of meaning-making through language as well as an opportunity to (re)examine our own data by applying some of the theories and methods learned from the course. By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with a conceptual and methodological tool kit for investigating the social meaning of language in use. This course would be of interest to students at various stages of their graduate career: pre-dissertation and Master's students, students writing research grants, and those in post-fieldwork and write-up stage.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

107

	ANTH590: Women Mid East Society
	Middle Eastern society viewed from the perspective of women. Examines the extent to which formal definitions of women's nature and roles coincide with women's self-images and activities. Graduate-level requirements include an additional paper. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ANTH595A: Sp Top Archaeology
	The course content, as taught in any one semester, depends on student need and interest, and on the research/teaching interests of the participating faculty member. Graduate-level requirements include extra sessions with instructor, additional readings, and a major research paper. Terms offered: Fall 2023

108

ANTH595N: Environ+Conflict Lat Am
This course examines how environmental, social, cultural, and political factors in Latin America intersect with processes of globalization to impact conflict over scarce natural resources and socioeconomic uncertainty. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH596B: Spcl Tops Caribbean Stds
The Caribbean along with other Spanish and Portuguese territories have been heavily influenced by the English, Dutch and French. This course looks at the settlement of the Caribbean with reference to those processes which frame contemporary society and public issues. Terms offered: Fall 2023

109

	ANTH596D: Paleontol Sediment Geol
	The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ANTH597A: Global Change Decision Making
	Integrative experience for natural and social science students with focus on local and regional consequences of global change and the application of global change research to decision making. Terms offered: Spring 2023

110

ANTH597C: Dendochronology
Hands-on, quantitative construction and assessment of dendrochronologies using software of the Dendrochronological Program Library and other computer resources. Terms offered: Spring 2023
ANTH597J: Dendroarchaeology
An intensive introduction to the practical application of dendrochronology to a selected topic drawn from archaeology, ecology, forest science, or geoscience. Graduate-level requirements include synthesis and presentation of analytical results. Terms offered: Summer 2023

111

	ANTH599: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH604: Pwr+Viol Cntrl Am+Mexico
	This course examines recent approaches to politics, culture, and power in Central America and southern Mexico from the perspective of sociocultural anthropology and history. Terms offered: Spring 2023

112

ANTH605: Qual Rsrch Meth+Prop Wrt

This is a skills-based class designed to (1) help students conduct independent ethnographic fieldwork and (2) learn how to write an effective grant proposal. Research skills to be discussed include: sampling and research design; selecting methods appropriate for particular populations; questionnaire development; interviewing skills (including key informant interviews and focus groups); collecting narrative data; participant observation; the use of visuals and card sorts in fieldwork, and other methodological areas. Students will gain experience in using an ethnographic software package (Atlas.ti) and will learn how to code transcribed interview data. Other issues to be addressed include one's social identity as a researcher and ethical issues working with the IRB and in the field.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

113

	ANTH608B: History Of Anthro Theory
	An overview of early theoretical tools used in anthropological research. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ANTH637: Archaeol Methodology
	Surveys the fundamental principles, methods, and techniques of archaeological analysis and inference from a multidisciplinary perspective. Terms offered: Spring 2023

114

ANTH638: Culture Contact+Colonial
This course focuses on anthropological approaches to the study of culture contact and colonialism. Particular emphasis is placed on archaeological and ethnohistorical approaches to the relationships between native peoples and Europeans in the 16th through 18th centuries in southeastern and southwestern North America. The course includes a history of theoretical perspectives in sociopolitical context as well as a critical review of contemporary culture contact and colonialism theory. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH673: Stress, Dev., and Health
In this course we take a lifespan/life history and evolutionary-developmental perspective to examine how environmental information guides the developing phenotype. The course begins with an overview of basic evolutionary-developmental concepts. Then we take up the great challenge in developmental science: Understanding the operation of the genome and how analysis of genetic and epigenetic variation contributes to our understanding of individual differences in brain development and function, from cell biology to physiology to emotional-cognitive states to behavior. We then move to examine how cues that guide developmental pathways shape health and well-being across the lifespan. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	ANTH680: Found Linguistic Anth
	An introductory survey of the major linguistic-anthropological theories and modes on analysis as these have developed over the last century, with a textual focus on original articles. Topics include: language; culture and thought; semiotics; social interaction; verbal art. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH681: Keywords Linguistic Ant
	This course probes the critical connections between language and culture through the keywords of culture, community, identify, heteroglossia, power, and ideology and includes the work of influential social theorists such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu. Terms offered: Spring 2023

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ANTH693: Internship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH694: Practicum
The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	ANTH696B: Cultural Anthropology
	The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ANTH696M: Gender/Sex+Intrnl Migrat
	The course examines sexuality as the site where multiple concerns about international migration (including social, cultural, political, economic and national) are expressed and contested, in the context of globalization and transnationalism. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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ANTH699: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ANTH900: Research
Individual research, not related to thesis or dissertation preparation, by graduate students. Terms offered: Fall 2023

119

	ANTH909: Master's Report
	Individual study or special project or formal report thereof submitted in lieu of thesis for certain master's degrees. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ANTH910: Thesis
	Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing). Maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department. Terms offered: Fall 2023

120

ANTH920: Dissertation
Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing). Terms offered: Fall 2023

121

Arabic

122

ARB101: Elementary Arabic I
Conversation and readings in modern standard Arabic. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ARB102: Elementary Arabic II
Conversation and readings in modern standard Arabic. Terms offered: Fall 2023

123

	ARB199: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ARB399: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

124

ARB401: Intermediate Arabic I
Intermediate conversation and readings in modern standard Arabic. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ARB402: Intermediate Arabic II
Intermediate conversation and readings in modern standard Arabic. Terms offered: Spring 2023

125

	ARB405: Advanced Arabic I
	The course promotes multiple literacies in an integrated approach to Arabic language and culture studies and builds students' ability to function at the advanced level in a variety of topics. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ARB406: Advanced Arabic II
	The course promotes multiple literacies in an integrated approach to Arabic language and culture studies and builds students' ability to function at the advanced level in a variety of topics. Terms offered: Spring 2023

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ARB407: 4th Year Arabic I
This course is aimed at students with solid advanced level language skills. Building on this foundation, the course is designed to promote the development of superior level proficiency by increasing students' vocabulary, strengthening reading ability, strengthening writing ability, refining and expanding knowledge of sentence structure and the mechanism of the Arabic verb system. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ARB408: 4th Year Arabic II
The course is designed to promote the development of superior level proficiency in all four-language skills by increasing students' vocabulary, strengthening the reading abilities, refining and expanding students' knowledge of sentence structure and the mechanism of the Arabic verb system. Terms offered: Spring 2023

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	ARB424A: Levantine Arabic
	Extensive oral drill with emphasis on the acquisition of facility in normal conversation and comprehension. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ARB427A: Colloq Moroccan Arabic
	Introduction to Moroccan, its vocabulary, structure and sound system through a communicative learning approach. Terms offered: Spring 2023

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ARB450: Arabic Language Variation

This course (content course to be offered in Arabic) is aimed at both native Arabic-speaking students and advanced-level Arabic language learners. It focuses on aspects of Arabic linguistic variation in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. It is designed to enhance all the four language skills at the advanced level. Special focus is given to strengthening students' strategies of academic reading and writing. As a content course, it aims at deepening students' knowledge of Arabic linguistic variation. The course adopts three approaches to the study of linguistic variation: linguistic-comparative, sociolinguistic, and discourse-based. The linguistic-comparative approach employs a descriptive method that examines aspects of linguistic variation in the linguistic features (lexicon, grammar, phonology, and morphology) of Standard Arabic and in the dialects. Special focus is given to the differences between Standard Arabic and the dialects in the above features. The sociolinguistic approach examines how linguistic variation can be explained by certain sociolinguistic factors (speaker-oriented and hearer-oriented) such as gender, class, education, and context of use. The discourse-based approach examines the alternation in use between Standard Arabic and the vernacular dialects in literary, religious, political, and educational discourses/texts.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

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ARB460: Diversity In ARB World

This course is aimed at both native Arabic-speaking students and advanced-level Arabic language learners. It will provide a comprehensive overview of ethnic, religious and linguistic groups in the contemporary Arab World. It will investigate the modern representations and lived realities of these communities from diverse political, cultural, and historical perspectives. The course is designed to strengthen all four language skills by increasing Arabic vocabulary, enhancing reading abilities, and refining listening skills. In addition to academic articles and book chapters, the assigned materials will draw on a wide range of genres including newspaper articles, memoirs, documentaries and other visual media.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

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ARB490: Advanced Arabic Media

Arabic Media content encompasses a wide variety of themes and styles that may come across as hard to decipher for Arabic learners. However, media language can become largely predictable once students possess a "toolkit" that they can use to navigate each theme and accompanying style. This course will address a variety of themes ranging from current affairs to sports and natural disasters that will offer students the opportunity to tackle content that is typical of media texts and prepare them for reading authentic news by themselves. Students will learn how to discuss these topics as well as describe and narrate events both orally and in writing and in multi-modal form. The course embraces the diglossic nature of Arabic by explicitly integrating and welcoming use of materials that include Modern Standard Arabic as well as the various Arabic dialects. It is aligned with ACTFL's updated Arabic guidelines that perceive the Arabic language as a continuum in which both the local varieties and Modern Standard Arabic constitute a whole in terms of usage. Moreover, the course builds students' digital literacy by providing them opportunities for research as well as oral and written production in Arabic using technology. This is also intended to support student autonomy, learning inside and outside the classroom and their ability to continue using these skills beyond this course. In fact, it is expected that students will start using Arabic news sources as one of the venues where they will get their news especially if they are interested in getting multiple perspectives on the same story. Active participation is expected from all members of the class. Students get a chance to choose the news stories that interest them for their homework as long as they are related to the theme of the week. They read, watch, or listen to the stories then briefly present and discuss them with classmates in class. Where disagreement on issues occurs, respectful behavior that is inclusive of all is expected from all participants in the discussions. The themes that will be covered in the course include the following and may be modified to include others as needed: Elections, Diplomacy, Violence, War and Military Action, Economy, Law, Trade and Industry, and Natural Disasters. Each theme will take about 1.5 weeks on average (3 sessions) to complete followed by projects and presentations that integrate themes covered till then.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	ARB498H: Honors Thesis
	An honors thesis is required of all students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ARB499: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

132

ARB499H: Honors Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Spring 2023
ARB505: Advanced Arabic I
The course promotes multiple literacies in an integrated approach to Arabic language and culture studies and builds students' ability to function at the advanced level in a variety of topics. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	ARB506: Advanced Arabic II
	The course promotes multiple literacies in an integrated approach to Arabic language and culture studies and builds students' ability to function at the advanced level in a variety of topics. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ARB507: 4th Year Arabic I
	This course is aimed at students with solid advanced level language skills. Building on this foundation, the course is designed to promote the development of superior level proficiency by increasing students' vocabulary, strengthening reading ability, strengthening writing ability, refining and expanding knowledge of sentence structure and the mechanism of the Arabic verb system. Graduate-level requirements include three additional essays (1-2 typed pages each.) Terms offered: Fall 2023

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ARB508: 4th-Year Arabic II

The course is designed to promote the development of superior level proficiency in all four-language skills by increasing students' vocabulary, strengthening the reading abilities, refining and expanding students' knowledge of sentence structure and the mechanism of the Arabic verb system. Graduate-level requirements include three additional essays (1-2 typed pages each).
Terms offered: Spring 2023

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ARB550: Arabic Language Variation

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ARB560: Diversity In ARB World

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ARB590: Advanced Arabic Media

138

ARB599: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ARB699: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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Bilingual Journalism

140

BJP410: Latinx & News Media in US

This course is divided into two main parts. In the first part, students explore and analyze the history of Latinxs in the United States as well as U.S.-Latin American economic and political relations and the ways in which they have intertwined over the past two centuries. In the second part, students explore and analyze the history and economics of Latino-oriented, Spanish-language and bilingual news media, as well as news coverage of Latinos and Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S., in order to understand both how this major ethnic group has produced news media and how Latinxs have been represented.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

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BJP411: Global Latinx

This seminar introduces students to the interdisciplinary study of contemporary migrations, diasporic transnationalism and the media in Latin America. The course will examine historical perspectives and contemporary trends on migration from Latin America to Europe, Asia and North America (South-North) as well as migrations within Latin American (South-South). The seminar will analyze how global news media cover Latin American migrants and how this coverage has evolved in relation to journalistic ownership, funding, audiences and professional practices. When possible, University of Arizona students will engage with students in Latin America or other parts of the world via online discussions. Students may use digital technologies to map Latinos in global media using archives from different parts of the world.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

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BJP412: Covering Latinx Affairs I

This course focuses on the practice of bilingual journalism in Latinx communities, which goes far beyond simply translating editorial content from one language to another. This class is hands-on and experiential, and as a result, students will do much of their work outside of the classroom. As the first in a series of two skills courses, this class emphasizes bilingual multimedia writing and audio production. Working in teams, students will conduct interviews, write audio scripts and produce podcasts or radio pieces in Spanish and English, and Portuguese, when applicable. Students will also write bilingual stories for the web to accompany their audio projects. Students will learn to exercise news judgment and ethical decision-making when covering Latino affairs in the United States and abroad. Students will be encouraged to look for new models of producing high-quality journalism. This class includes lectures, readings and practical experience in the field. To the extent possible, the classroom will function as a newsroom.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

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BJP510: Latinx & News Media in US

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BJP511: Global Latinx

145

BJP512: Covering Latinx Affairs I

146

Care, Health, and Society

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CHS202: Connecting Society & Health

Why are some people healthier than others? Biology and medicine tell us that some people are biologically or genetically predisposed to be more or less healthy. Psychology tells us that some personality traits are healthier than others. Sociology argues that health is also shaped by powerful social forces like culture, social relationships, and social inequality according to race, gender and socioeconomic status. This course connects different perspectives on health. Analyzing social causes of health adds to or complements our understanding of the biological and psychological causes. To understand, contrast, and connect knowledge from multiple disciplines on health, students will read health-related research and view documentaries and engage in discussions with peers and instructors. Scaffolded learning approaches will take students from the biological basis of selected illnesses to the sociological factors that lead to divergent health outcomes of affected individuals and communities. Students will create a social initiative that helps tackle a current public health issue.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

148

CHS204: Intro to Helping Professions
What makes people want to help others? What are the different ways that workers are socialized to care for clients? How do bureaucracies and technologies structure the delivery of care? How do helping professionals understand the meaning of their work and the conditions of those they serve? What are the different career options for individuals interested in caring for others? This survey course provides students an opportunity to explore these and other issues and to learn from representatives of the various helping professions. Terms offered: Fall 2023
CHS215: Sociology of Aging and Health
This course explores how the process of aging through a sociological lens. We will examine a variety of gerontological theories, with a focus toward life course and critical perspectives. This course will require students to think critically about social forces that shape the aging experience and individual health outcomes. Students are expected to complete the readings prior to class in the week they are assigned and be prepared to engage in class discussion. Terms offered: Fall 2023

149

	CHS299H: Honors Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	CHS303: Health and Society
	Organization of health care in the U.S.; its impact on patients and society; health care practitioners; medical industries; policy debates. Terms offered: Fall 2023

150

CHS305: Suffer+Care In Society
How societies interpret the reality of human suffering; the organization and politics of care; the status and experiences of individuals whose work involves caring for others. Terms offered: Fall 2023
CHS306: Interprofessional Care
This course prepares students who are pursuing a career in the helping professions to work as members of interdisciplinary teams. Terms offered: Fall 2023

151

	CHS309: Ethical Issues-Helping Profess
	This course examines ethical dilemmas common to paid care professionals. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	CHS313: Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
	The course examines the mythology and practice of medicine in Greek and Roman times from Asclepius to Hippocrates and Galen, medical instruments and procedures, the religious manifestation of healing in Greek and Roman sanctuaries, the votive dedications by patients and cured, midwifery and child care, public hygiene and diseases. The topics cover a large spectrum of the medical practice and public health in the ancient societies of Classical antiquity, as well as how ancient worldviews, including religion and religious practice, shaped health and medicine in Greek and Roman civilization. Terms offered: Fall 2023

152

CHS334: Community Health

This course introduces students to the challenges faced by low-income populations when utilizing -- and failing to utilize -- the American healthcare system. Each class session will present an actual case study drawn from the community of Tucson. Students will have the opportunity to learn the details of the case, explore the past and present real-life world of the patient, examine the specific barriers to treatment, investigate the resources -- or lack thereof -- available, and then create a proposed healthcare solution specific for that patient. Ongoing topics will include the lived experiences of low-income populations and the co-morbid effects of drug use, alcohol abuse, mental illness, physical trauma, nutritional deficits, sexually transmitted disease, and societal stigmatization.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

153

	CHS350: Environment, Health, & Society
	This course examines the relationships between human health and the environment from a sociological viewpoint. Using an interdisciplinary sociological perspective, we will explore the increasing number of illnesses linked to environmental contamination and disasters. Since this is a course in the social sciences, only a basic understanding of the biological and chemical nature of environmental pollution will be needed. Our focus will be on the socioeconomic production of environmental health risks and how science and public policy are contested by various stakeholders. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	CHS391: Preceptorship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Teaching formats may include seminars, in-depth studies, laboratory work and patient study. Terms offered: Fall 2023

154

CHS393: Internship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023
CHS394: Practicum
The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation. Terms offered: Fall 2023

155

	CHS399H: Honors Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	CHS401: Health Disparities in Society
	This course introduces students to the sociological study of health disparities. The purpose of the course is to examine the link between social position and health patterns in the US population. Specific topics include, for example, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, gender, aging, family, and religious involvement. Terms offered: Fall 2023

156

CHS404: Sociology of Mental Health

What is mental illness? Who is likely to become mentally ill? Poor mental health and mental illness are often viewed as biological or genetic flaws. Sociologists, however, argue that mental illness is socially constructed, and that population mental health is profoundly shaped by social conditions. In this course, we will explore sociological understandings of mental health and illness.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

157

CHS405: Disasters, Health & Society

Disasters can be triggered by all sorts of causes: from forces of nature, such as viruses, floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and earthquakes; to technological accidents, such as plane crashes, oil spills, and chemical releases; or terrorism and acts of violence. Disasters may be slow-moving in their onset or sudden and unexpected. But what all types of disasters have in common is the potential to cause widespread community disruption, displacement, economic loss, property damage, death and injury, and profound emotional suffering. What is also clear is that disaster risk is on the rise in the United States and around the world. At the same time, disasters reveal a great deal about the social world in which we live. Disasters peel back layers of complexity that normally obscure our vision of social relations. After a disaster occurs, we can see society for what it really is. Disasters therefore provide us with a unique opportunity to refine and reassess our ideas and assumptions about social life.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

158

CHS406: Reproduction and Society

Reproductive health and well-being involve a responsible, safe and satisfying sex life, the capability to reproduce, and the freedom to control one's reproductive capabilities. This implies access to safe, effective, and affordable methods of fertility regulation and appropriate health care services that enable women to safely experience pregnancy and childbirth. In this course, we examine the social context of various reproductive health issues, including pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, reproductive rights, and traditional and alternative ways of creating families. We will also address the social and political implications of reproductive health practices like abortion, social freezing, surrogate motherhood, and determinants of poor reproductive health outcomes, including violence towards women, sexually transmitted diseases, and social, environmental, and behavioral hazards.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

159

CHS410: The Hospital: A Small Society

The study of the hospital's capacity to recontextualize legal mandates, instill larger social values, and ration care can provide a sense of how healing is choreographed in its most complex environment. In this course we will investigate the hospital as a strategic entrance point for understanding the social organization of contemporary medicine. We will pay special attention to the ways in which the hospital's agents are authoritative in their choreography, that is, how its professionals and administrators get people to do things they wouldn't otherwise do, especially those things that are inconvenient or uncomfortable. In our exploration of the causes and consequences of authority in the hospital, we will examine such topics as: how institutions produce insanity, how doctors seek to generate compliance, and how medical students manage the uncertainty implicit in interpreting science and performing professionally.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

160

CHS411: Careers in Helping Professions

This course engaged students in preparing for a career in the helping professions through hearing from local professionals about their educational and career decisions and participating in a series of online workshops designed to familiarize students with the internship and job search process, timelines, resources, and expectations of a successful search. Students will engage in refection assignments to help them develop a career plan that lays out how they might explore and pursue professional opportunities and be open to iteration in the process. By the end of this course, students will be able to present themselves professionally through their application documents (resume, cover letter, etc.) and in an interview. Ideally, students will take this course when they would like to begin a search for an internship or job in the helping professions. It is recommended that students be in their junior or senior year in the Care, Health, and Society major or related field.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

161

CHS421: Sociology of Drugs

This course is an overview of the sociological research related to drug use. We will study the historical significance and social construction of drug use, users, abuse, and addiction. We will cover sociological perspectives on drug use, correlates of drug use, drug lifestyles, and the societal response to drug use. Students are responsible for assigned readings and should ask questions to clarify material in the book. In addition, some of the material required to complete course requirements will be discussed in class and may not be in the book. At the end of the semester students will have a better understanding of drug use from a sociological perspective. This will be accomplished by exposing students to both classic and contemporary sociological research on drug use.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

162

CHS426: Health Care Fraud & Compliance

This class will look at the devastating effects that healthcare fraud has on the financial resources of the United States. We will review cases of healthcare fraud that involved more than just money - the ultimate price - human lives. As of 2015, the government has collected and returned over $29.4 billion to the Medicare Trust Fund. This does not take into account repayment to the Medicaid fund or other commercial payers. In 2017, the USA has budgeted 28% of the federal budget for healthcare. This amount is highest of all the other categories including defense (21%) and pensions (Social Security 25%.) We will review healthcare fraudulent schemes and methods to detect these schemes. Who are the perpetrators? Who are the victims? Methods of investigation will be explored to look at how to prevent fraud with current laws, task forces and compliance efforts. Whistleblowers will be discussed regarding their efforts to stop healthcare fraud and the risks they took to come forward. The class will also examine the many free resources available to the public on the topic of healthcare fraud. Students will have a chance to investigate possible career paths related to fighting healthcare fraud.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

163

CHS437: Indigenous Health

164

CHS460: Self-Care - Helping Profession
The emotional, physical and spiritual demands of the caring and health professions are significant. Students are introduced to the importance of wellness and self-care practices as they consider careers in the helping professions. This course will explore the impact of cultivating compassion vs. empathy in working with clients/patients, as well as offer students an opportunity to cultivate a wellness/self-care practice in their own lives. The course culminates in a research paper on the student's selected wellness/self-care practice. Terms offered: Fall 2023
CHS476: Rsch & Analysis of Health Data
This course introduces students to the quantitative analysis of health disparity data. Specific topics include data processing, data description, bivariate analysis, and multivariate analyses. The course emphasizes reading, conducting, and interpreting quantitative research. Terms offered: Fall 2023

165

CHS480: Qual Analysis of Health Data

Qualitative, non--statistical social science research can form the basis of important discoveries about individuals, organizations and societies. Qualitative methods help to better understand `how' and `why' we do things in a certain way rather than `how often', `how many' or `how much'. The field of health, illness and care generates complex research questions about behaviors, perceptions and practices, which sometimes cannot be fully and appropriately addressed by quantitative methods alone. Therefore this course introduces students to the theoretical and practical principles and approaches of qualitative research methods and provides an overview of the most commonly used qualitative research techniques. During the semester students will reflect on formulating research questions in their field of interest and selecting appropriate research designs. Students will identify research topics, develop research questions, and learn how to generate, analyze and write up qualitative data. Furthermore, students will practice their skills in the critical appraisal of qualitative research studies. Students will have the possibility to acquire methodological skills of qualitative research by conducting their own research project.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

166

CHS497B: Transitions Workshop

Have you ever wondered, does it seem like individuals with mental illness have more frequent interactions with the justice system? What happens after individuals are released from jail? This engaged experiential learning course explores the complexities of justice involvement for adults who experience mental illness at the point of community transition within the city of Tucson. The course combines in-class lectures on jail to community transitions with training on collection of survey data, as well as in-depth reflection and resiliency building for the helping professional. Through the partnership of community-based nonprofits, this course includes a period of field research where students learn from various helping professionals who assist individuals moving through the transition from jail to community. Students will also conduct an interview with individuals who are experiencing the jail to community transition. Field research will be conducted outside of the traditional course meeting times. This collected data will help our community partners better understand the facilitators and inhibitors surrounding jail to community transitions.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

167

	CHS498H: Honors Thesis
	An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis. Terms offered: Spring 2023

168

Communication

169

	COMM101: Intro to Study of Comm
	This course offers a general introduction to the systematic study of human communication. It is intended to provide a overview of communication study, including definitions of key terms, explanations of foundational concepts and assumptions, a brief history of the discipline, methods of research, and areas of specialized scholarship. Terms offered: Fall 2023

170

COMM113: Intro Small Group Comm

This course explores how communication functions in small groups. Readings, assignments, and activities are designed to help observe and understand the communication processes and outcomes that occur in small groups. Aspects covered include: verbal and nonverbal communication in groups, the structure and environment of groups, group member roles, group decision making, leadership, conflict management, group development, and meeting management. In this course you will apply communication concepts to actual situations as you participate in small groups throughout the semester. Since you will be building on the material learned in COMM 101, you must have completed, or be enrolled in, COMM 101 to take this class.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

171

	COMM114: Intro Interpersonal Comm
	An introductory course in interpersonal communication. It is expected that you will finish the course with knowledge of basic interpersonal communication principles, as well as practice in applying those principles in everyday interpersonal settings. To that end, the class will combine readings, lectures, in-class activities, and out-of-class assignments. Emphasis will be on understanding and achieving communication goals in interpersonal relationships, including the following areas: effective listening, emotional expression, self presentation, self disclosure, initiating relationships, maintaining relationships, gaining compliance, and managing conflict. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	COMM117: Culture + Communication
	This course provides an overview of culture and communication, isolating similarities and differences across cultures, which affect cultural intergroup and intercultural communication. We address the challenges one faces in attempting to communicate across cultures, and present ways to address these challenges. Students practice intercultural communication to improve their skills and sensitivity. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM119: Public Speaking

This course is designed to help students become more comfortable with speaking in public, and to familiarize them with the theory-based, basic skills of public speaking. It will also help to increase students' communication, competence, and effectiveness, as well as improve capabilities in research, and critical thinking. This course will expose students to a variety of everyday speaking occasions.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM201: Intro to PR

This is a fundamental course in public relations that is designed to offer students a broad overview of public relations as a field and help them to set up a solid foundation for upper level Public Relations courses. It's intended to develop in students a broad and basic understanding of public relations -- what it encompasses, its history and influences, and its practices and processes in the contemporary business world and in society at large. Ethical issues for public relations practitioners will be considered, as well as the impact of globalization and new technologies in this field, through examination of current events and case studies.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

174

COMM209: Intro to Comm Technology
An overview of new communication technology and the process of adoption of new technologies in groups, organizations, and communities. Terms offered: Fall 2023

175

COMM228: Intro Rsrch Methods Comm

This course will expose students to the logic and conduct of research that is aimed at producing generalizable knowledge about human communication. The goal of the course is to develop students' ability to understand and evaluate social scientific research. Toward that end, students will be exposed to the logic of scientific investigation, different research methods common to the field of communication, statistics, and several special topics in social scientific research. By the end of the semester students will be able to interpret information presented in fundamental statistics and will be able to conduct elementary statistical analyses, in addition to understanding the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations inherent in different research designs.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM300: Intro Communication Thry
Origin and development of basic concepts in communication theory and research; survey and analysis of theories and models in research. Terms offered: Fall 2023
COMM301: Survey/Mass Communicatn
A survey course in mass communication designed to give students an overview of the field. This includes an examination of: (1)fundamental terms, concepts,& theories (2) key figures, events & milestones (3) social, cultural, & technological implications (4) effects & consequences of exposure/use (5) ethical parameters This course explores the historical, social, economic, and cultural forces that have influenced the development of the media. Individual media institutions are examined in terms of the information they distribute, the entertainment they provide, and the influence they bring. Special attention is paid to the audience/medium relationship, as well as to improving audience members' media literacy. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM309: Intro Mass Media Effects

This course examines the role of the mass media in the evolution of society and as they impact individuals and groups. It follows an analysis of the process, content, and effects of mass media. Topics covered include news, advertising, and entertainment media content; violent, sexual, and political content and effect; media technologies; cultivation; diffusion of innovations; media events; etc. The course focuses on some major questions, including: (1) What is the role of the media in bringing about shifts and changes in people and social institutions? (2) How do individuals and groups, as media consumers, respond to the content to which they are exposed in the media? and (3) What are some explanations for how media effects on individuals and society occur?
Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM310: Intro to Org Comm
This course is designed to help students become more effective and successful employees and organizational communication professionals by teaching principles and practices in the areas of effective supervisor-subordinate communication, effective coworker communication, participating in formal and informal communication networks, information sharing, intercultural communication in diverse workplaces, conflict management, ethical workplace communication, and a variety of other important communication practices. Terms offered: Summer 2023
COMM311: Comm Technology Theory
This course will investigate the role that information and information technology plays in our social and communicative processes. It will look at the affects of information access/aggregation and instantaneous communication on management styles, the shape, functionality and utility of modern organizations and societies, the changing role of individuals and the issues of anonymity, privacy and security. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	COMM314: Creative Professional Comm
	The discovery and development of effective creative communication for undergraduate students. The class includes an overview of creativity and communication strategies that relate to personal and professional situations. Learning modules include creative development, promotion techniques and skills as well as focus on establishing, maintaining and leading relationships through the integrated marketing communications process. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	COMM318: Persuasion
	Theories of Social Influence with particular attention to the means of changing attitudes and behaviors. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM319: Advanced Public Speaking
Offers the opportunity to develop one's communication skills by incorporating communicative practice. This is an advanced public speaking course. Students should be familiar with the fundamentals of public speaking and have taken an introductory public speaking course. Knowledge of public speaking principles is presumed. Terms offered: Spring 2023
COMM325: Argumentation
Study of the philosophy, theory and practice of argumentation; analysis and comparison of classical and contemporary models of advocacy and evidence; examination of argument in public policy, legal, and debate settings. Practical experience in developing and presenting arguments. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	COMM369A: Health Communication
	The discipline of health communication focuses on the unique structure and function of communication processes within such areas as physician-patient interactions, public health awareness/prevention/intervention campaigns, community health education, multimedia presentations of health information, and hospital and health-care organizations. This course is designed to: (1) facilitate student learning in the arena of health care communication and (2) provide the opportunity for students to collaborate with at least one Tucson community health group in designing the plans for a health communication campaign. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	COMM393: Internship
	This course focuses on specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM399: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
COMM399H: Honors Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	COMM402: Comm & Music
	This course focuses on the connections between music and Communication from a social scientific perspective. The course includes three broad sections: 1. Music as communication discusses the definition of music as a form of communication, and its connections to verbal and nonverbal communication. 2. Music as mass communication examines social scientific research on motivations for producing and consuming music, as well as music's content and effects. 3. Music as intergroup communication considers music as a communication phenomenon in the context of intergroup relations, focusing on music's role in exacerbating and ameliorating intergroup conflict. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	COMM403: Theory Small Group Comm
	Theory and research on social control and deviance in groups from the perspective of communication behavior. Terms offered: Spring 2023

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COMM404: Comm & Leadership
This course introduces students to the role of communication in organizational leadership. Students learn current theory, strategies and tactics for effective leadership communication. Terms offered: Spring 2023
COMM405: Mass Comm And Children
This course employs a developmental perspective to examining the relationship between the mass media and young audience members. Major topics covered include issues related to children and adolescents as a unique audience (e.g., media use habits, attention and comprehension of media content), media and their content (e.g., media violence, advertising, educational programming), media effects (e.g., fear reactions, construction of role and reality perceptions), and intervention issues (e.g., parental mediation of media exposure, media literacy, and relevant public policy). Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	COMM407: Family Communication
	Focus on issues related to family interaction, functioning, and communication. We will examine research and theories from communication, sociological, and psychological perspectives. Readings and discussions will include coverage of marital, parent-child, sibling, and intergenerational interactions in the family. Research on topics such as marital satisfaction, divorce, courtship, and the impact of the family on its children (and vice versa) will be examined. We will also focus on the nature of family interaction as it is associated with family dysfunction. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	COMM408: Comm & Social Media
	This course will introduce students to theories and research investigating the social psychological, political and economic implications of social media use by drawing from scholarship in the fields such as communication, political science, journalism, and marketing. Students will be reading both classic and current research in this area while paying particular attention to distinguishing what is new or enduring about social media practices. Through intense reading, discussion and research, by the end of the semester, students will gain a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of social media practices as well as social media-related research skills. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM410: Struggle for Presidency
Examination of the campaign strategies and tactics of those seeking the nation's most powerful office from 1960 to the present. Terms offered: Summer 2023
COMM411: Comm+Conflict Management
Consideration of theory and research pertaining to the handling of conflict across diverse contexts. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	COMM415: Nonverbal Communication
	Theory and research on nonverbal communication codes (kinetics, touch, voice, appearance, use of space.) and social functions (impression formation and management, relational communication, emotional expressions, regulation of interaction, social influence). Terms offered: Summer 2023
	COMM417A: Rel Comm:Close Relations
	The relational communication process and messages people use to define interpersonal relationships, including dominance-submissiveness, affection, involvement and similarity in close relationships. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM420: Comm + the Legal Process
Presents a number of accomplishments and challenges in the social scientific study of law, with special emphasis on the effects of communication and social structure on the legal processes. Terms offered: Fall 2023
COMM422: Presidential Lrdshp+Comm
Examination of presidential leadership and communication strategies of the modern presidents from Kennedy to the present. Terms offered: Spring 2023

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	COMM424: Media & Politics In Amer
	Survey of field; media in political campaigns; media coverage of leaders, issues and institutions; leadership strategies to influence media. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	COMM450: Communication+Cognition
	Interrelations between human communication and cognitive processes. Emphasis on theory and research in social cognition. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM451: Comm & Emotion
This course focuses on the role of emotion in the communication process. We will examine various theoretic perspectives that explain what emotions are and what they do. We will articulate the roles of each class of emotions (joyful, hostile, social, etc.) in human communication, and adjudicate various applications of emotion research and theory in effective communication practice. Terms offered: Fall 2023
COMM493: Internship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	COMM493L: Legislative Internship
	Working experience at the Arizona State Legislature; responsibilities draw upon student's area of major expertise and include preparing written and oral reports, summarizing legislative proposals, and providing information to legislators and legislative committees. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	COMM496Z: Topics in Communication
	Course is designed to provide a flexible topics seminar for undergraduates across several domains in the field of Communication. Particular emphasis will be placed on the following communication areas: interpersonal, mass, health, political, gender and social influence. Although these topics will be given precedence, other areas such as small group communication, intergroup communication, family communication, and new media/technologies may also be addressed depending on available personnel. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM498H: Honors Thesis
An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis. Terms offered: Fall 2023
COMM499: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	COMM499H: Honors Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	COMM500: Intro Grad Studies/Comm
	Familiarize students with the structure of the discipline, prominent theorists and historical developments, as well as beginning to understand more about the process of research and writing in the discipline of Communication. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM524: Media & Politics In Amer
Survey of field; media in political campaigns; media coverage of leaders, issues and institutions; leadership strategies to influence media. Graduate-level requirements include producing a 15 to 20 page research paper involving the application of two major, competing theories to a study of nightly network news. Terms offered: Fall 2023
COMM550: Communication+Cognition
Interrelations between human communication and cognitive processes. Emphasis on theory and research in social cognition. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research project on a single issue in communication and cognition. Terms offered: Spring 2023

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	COMM561: Rsrch Methodologies I
	This course will expose students to the logic and conduct of research that is aimed at producing generalizable information about human communication. The goal of the course is to develop student's ability to conduct and evaluate social scientific research. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	COMM571: Rsrch Methodologies II
	This course will expose students to fundamental and intermediate techniques for the analysis of quantitative data. Descriptive statistics, univariate, and multivariate statistics will be covered throughout the semester. In addition to examining different analytical techniques, students will be exposed to computer programs for statistical analyses. Terms offered: Spring 2023

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COMM599: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023
COMM609: Mass Comm Theory
This course is designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the prominent social scientific theories of mass communication. It will address the development of media theories from the early stages to the contemporary models. Particular emphasis will be placed on the most notable theories. Upon completion of the course, students should have extensive knowledge of how media theory and research can be applied to explaining the impact of media exposure on individuals and society. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	COMM610: Communication Theory I
	An overview of theoretical perspectives on the role of verbal and nonverbal communication in the process of generating and understanding development of interpersonal relationships. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	COMM640: Rsrch Methodologies III
	Issues in measurement and sampling in laboratory and field research in communication. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM696C: Cultural/Intercultural Comm
Course is a graduate-level seminar in Cultural/Intercultural Communication. Students will read primary research in Communication relating to Culture and Communication and learn the key theoretical perspectives in the area. They will become familiar with current areas of interest in the topic area and future directions. Course will involve lecture, discussion, and the production of graduate level coursework. Specific content areas will vary by semester and instructor. Terms offered: Spring 2023
COMM699: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	COMM900: Research
	Individual research, not related to thesis or dissertation preparation, by graduate students. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	COMM910: Thesis
	Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing). Maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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COMM920: Dissertation
Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing). Terms offered: Fall 2023

201

Development Practice

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DVP601: Prin of Social Science for Dev
This course will introduce students to key social science analytical tools relevant to development. It provides training in major development theories and practices through a social justice and rights-based lens and prepares students to understand how relations of power at local and global scales intersect with and shape development efforts. Terms offered: Spring 2023
DVP602: Culture in Sustain Development
This course emphasizes the cultural and spatial dimensions to development practice and promotes sensitivity to the unique development practice challenges related to language and culture. Students are exposed to a range of regional contexts and are expected to expand their knowledge and understanding of a specific cultural area. The specific regional themes focus on the impacts of culture on problems related to health and nutrition, natural resource management, governance, and economic decision-making, among other. Faculty from different core competency disciplines will participate in this course. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	DVP642A: Cross Cohort Workshop
	The course will co-convene first and second year MDP students. It is designed to promote a collaborative learning environment for both cohorts. First year students will be expected to prepare for an intensive summer field practicum and produce a proposal for their field projects. Second year students will analyze and present the findings of their projects conducted the previous summer and help to orient the first-year cohort in proposal development and field work. This course will provide a concrete context around which analytical concepts and methodological tools can be evaluated and refined. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	DVP693: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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DVP694A: Summer Field Practicum
A core element of the Arizona MDP program is its field practicum. The purpose of the field practicum is to create a structured opportunity for field-tested learning on a closely mentored individual basis. The practicum experience engages students in an on-going specific development practice activity that utilizes cross-disciplinary skills, provides a concrete methodological experience, and involves collaboration and field interaction with local colleagues. The field practicum will be carried out with one of University of Arizona's long-term institutional partners in one of several countries including Brazil, Ethiopia, and Guatemala, or with the international development group TANGO International Terms offered: Fall 2023
DVP699: Independent Study
Qualified Development Practice students will work on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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DVP909: The MDP Culmination Project

The Field Practicum will culminate with a Master's Project. In collaboration with field-partners and faculty advisors, students will develop a report on the field research objectives, methods, and outcomes. The Master's project will be refined in the cross-cohort seminar and presented to program faculty and first year students in class as part of the seminar requirements. Additionally, it is anticipated that the Master's Report will reflect each student's chosen second-year specialization within MDP. The project will be presented formally at the annual University of Arizona MDP Forum, involving faculty and leading representatives of the international development community and the MDP network. Student papers will contribute to the MDP Discussion Paper Series, available online as a forum for collaboration among students and faculty engaged in the MDP network and the broader international development community.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

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English

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	ENGL101: First-Year Composition
	Emphasizes genre, rhetorical situation, and discourse communities. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL101A: 1st-Year Comp with Discussion
	Exposition, emphasis on essays with writing discussion. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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ENGL102: First-Year Composition
English 102 teaches rhetoric and research across contexts. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL106: Fnd Wrt Engl Additional Lang
In this course, international students for whom English is an additional/second language develop academic literacy skills for university writing. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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ENGL107: Fnd Wrt Engl Additional Lang

English 101/107 familiarizes students with the social and situated nature of writing--that is, with the ways in which writing is tied to purpose, audience/community, and topic/content. As such, there is a heavy emphasis on community, genre, and rhetorical situation. Through informal and formal writing, students will write in several genres, analyzing how purpose, audience, and context shape research, strategies for organization, and language usage, components that will be developed further in the second semester class. In addition, the course introduces practices of research inquiry in writing. Reflection on students' writing is also formally built into the entire course, culminating in a final portfolio.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

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ENGL108: Fnd Wrt Engl Additional Lang
English 102/108 emphasizes rhetoric and research across contexts. Through reading and discussion of content, students engage in rhetorical analysis, research, persuasion, reflection, and revision. It is designed to help students recognize and learn to write for a variety of rhetorical situations, including different audiences, purposes, contexts, and genres. Students will conduct research inquiries, find and evaluate sources, and make critically aware decisions about how best to achieve their purposes. Further, it helps students become aware of their own writing processes and adjust them to whatever demands a particular writing situation places on them. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL109H: Adv First-Year Compositn
Emphasizes academic research writing, argumentation, rhetorical awareness, and genre. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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ENGL150B2: Social Justice Rhetorics

This course examines how activists have mobilized social justice movements, including those that have defended the rights of women, immigrants, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ+ people. Students will learn about the history of human rights philosophies and the ways changes in media, society, and culture have shaped the rhetorical strategies used by younger generations of activists in movements such as Black Lives Matters and #MeToo.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

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ENGL160A2: Food Writing

ENGL 160A2 explores food writing and its relationship to culture. Exploring food as both personal and cultural symbol, students will develop an appreciation for how food traditions reflect and shape cultural societies and diverse worldview. Course materials will include diverse perspectives with emphasis on marginalized groups such as migrant, incarcerated, and Indigenous food communities. Students will explore their own food memories in reflective writing and storytelling to find connections between personal food histories and social or environmental justice. Using various rhetorical strategies and drawing from research, field study, oral history, and lived experiences/traditional knowledge, students will practice food writing for a variety of audiences in four key genres: recipe card, podcast, food memoir, and manifesto. Workshop and revision will be important aspects of the course.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

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ENGL160D1: Critical Cultural Concepts

This course examines--through literature, film, art, and philosophy-different concepts critical to the shaping of primarily "Western" culture(s), with a glance at similar concepts in "non-Western" cultures. The course is also "critical" in the sense that it asks students, through virtually weekly take-home quizzes, to critique these concepts, taking the wheat and letting the chaff be still. Topics may include the ideology of war or human rights; the problem of evil; the figure of the Trickster; and others.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

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ENGL160D2: Nonhuman Subjects

Monsters are cool--but they're also interesting, and also sometimes deeply problematic. The category of the "non-human" (or, more broadly, "the Other") raises key questions about human identity, human values, and the cultural boundaries we construct to cordon off the horrific, the weird, the frightening, the monstrous, or the non-human. As a result, we won't focus simply on particular monster-types like the zombie, the vampire, or the cyborg. Instead, we'll look at the monster-figure in literature and film as a key indicator of cultural history: the symbolic carrier of cultural values, problems, and ideological tensions. These cultural issues can include things like political dissension, systems of religious belief, social order and disorder, human nature, or distinctions of race/class/gender. As we'll see, monsters often become symbols in the cultural, political, and intellectual clashes that mark Western history. In order to better understand our cultural roots, then, we have to come to terms with the historical and ideological tensions behind those clashes. In this course, we'll demonstrate that through well-organized analytical arguments that present strong textual evidence and display critical thinking.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	ENGL175A: Thinking + Writing
	The practical application of theoretical learning within a group setting and involving an exchange of ideas and practical methods, skills, and principles. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL197B: Writing Studio
	Supplemental writing workshop for designated sections of English 101 Terms offered: Fall 2023

216

ENGL197C: Academic Writing

This 1-credit co-curricular writing course supports courses from a variety of disciplines and academic programs across the university. Students will be able to tailor the activities of this course to the writing projects of another course in which they are currently enrolled. Students will be introduced to the role of rhetorical features like audience and purpose in academic composition. Students will also explore how genre conventions like style and tone are impacted by the audience and purpose of their writing. These lessons on rhetoric and genre will guide their writing process as they take the initial steps to create a research paper for the corresponding co-curricular course.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

217

	ENGL197W: Writing Skills Tutorial
	Develop skills in punctuation, basic grammar, and style. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	ENGL199: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

218

ENGL201: Intro Writ Creat Nonfict
Beginning techniques of creative nonfiction writing taught through exercises, the writing of original nonfiction, workshop and reading in contemporary nonfiction. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL209: Intro Creative Writing: Poetry
Beginning techniques of poetry writing taught through exercises, the writing of original poetry, workshop and reading in contemporary poetry. Terms offered: Fall 2023

219

	ENGL210: Intro Writing Of Fiction
	Beginning techniques of fiction writing taught through exercises, the writing of original fiction, workshop and reading in contemporary fiction. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL215: Creative Writing: Craft
	Multi-genre creative writing course introducing the craft of creative writing (craft elements and aesthetic strategies) via intensive reading as writers in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Terms offered: Fall 2023

220

ENGL216: Intro Writing for Young Adults

In this course student will become familiar with the beginning techniques of writing for young adults taught through exercises, the writing of original stories, workshop, and reading contemporary works in this genre. Children's literature scholar Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop says, Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. This is especially true of literature written for young audiences. In this class, students will learn to write for young adults. We will learn elements of craft, including character, plot, setting, narrative voice, and dialogue. Through writing prompts and exercises, we will tap into our imagination and find inspiration to write stories. We will read current young adult publications as models for our own work. Then we will develop a process for reading, critiquing, and revising our own work as well as the work of our peers. In this multi-genre class, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will be welcome in workshop
Terms offered: Spring 2023

221

	ENGL217: Grammar and Editing in Context
	An English grammar and editing course in which students will learn and apply contextual strategies for editing their own writing, as well as the writing of others, for grammar, style, and format. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL220B: Literature Of The Bible
	New Testament: The Gospels, the Epistles of Paul, and Revelation. Terms offered: Spring 2023

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ENGL228: Crossing the Border

This course will integrate the study of border and migration themed literature with a service-learning component, and a final student-directed symposium that will bring the ongoing dialogue of the class to the community. The concept of the border will be addressed as both a political reality and an imaginative construct - an organizing principle for our desire to seek and transmit diverse experiences and knowledge-systems across thresholds. The guiding question for this course will be, what does it mean to be a crosser of borders? In order to answer this question in its widest sense, we will operate in an intermediate space between academic discipline and community engagement, research and creative practice. Authors will include: Gloria Anzaldúa, Junot Diaz, Karen Tei Yamashita, C.S. Giscombe, Mahmoud Darwish, and more.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

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	ENGL230: Intro:African Literature
	Anglophone and Francophone literature. Focuses on major authors; Achebe, Soyinka, Head, Wa Thiong'O, Brutus, Emecheta. Employs bio-literary analysis. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	ENGL245: African Literature Matters
	Introduction to African literature coming from the African continent and the diaspora, which explores the representation of Black experience in a variety of geographical and cultural settings. Select themes (such as liberation, oppression, identity) will invite students to reflect on current debates in historical perspective. Taught in English. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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ENGL248B: Intro to Fairy Tales
Follows fairy tales from their beginnings in storytelling circles into the literary culture and new media. Terms offered: Summer 2023
ENGL255: Intro To Engl Language
Basic concepts in the study of the English language: history, semantics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse. English in its social context: regional and social varieties, language acquisition, and English as an international language. Terms offered: Fall 2023

225

	ENGL263: Tpcs Children Literature
	Topics in children's literature, may include "Poetry for children," "Adapting literary classics for children," and others. Terms offered: Fall 2023

226

ENGL264: U.S. Popular Culture

What can the study of popular cultural forms like Advertisements, Television, Toys, Video Games, YouTube videos, Films and Facebook as well as cultural practices like shopping, viewing habits, and other modes of consumption reveal about US American Values? How do representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality disseminated within these popular texts shape the way we come to see others and ourselves? These are some of the guiding questions we will be exploring in our study of US popular culture. Through an examination of both critical essays and primary texts, students in this course will learn not only how to critically read and interpret various cultural forms, but also will come to understand the ways in which popular culture structures our day to day lives.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

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	ENGL265: Major American Writers
	This class will introduce students to the study of American writers working in English. Through a specialized selection from the many interweaving traditions that make up American Literature, students will be introduced to the beauty, strangeness, pleasure, and difficulty of this diverse field. In these seminars, students will engage with the work of specific authors, explore new methods for understanding their work, and ask important questions about the significance of literature for human life. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL280: Intro To Literature
	Stories, poems, plays: literature is the art of putting words together to make meaning. Through literature, humans have explored the deepest human questions of beauty, life, meaning, politics, ethics, and belonging. This class introduces students to the significance and study of imaginative literature. In these seminars, students will read literary texts, analyze their form and content, and write creative and critical interpretations based on textual evidence. Terms offered: Fall 2023

228

ENGL300: Literature and Film
Comparative study of literature and cinema as aesthetic media. Given the breadth and complexity of film and literature, including historical, technical, and narrative elements, class is broken into three modules "Film, Literature, and Aesthetics," "Adaptation and Intertextuality," and "Cultural and Ideological Connections." Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL301: Intermed Nonfiction Writ
Practice in writing nonfiction. Terms offered: Fall 2023

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	ENGL302: Magazine Article Writing
	Course covers publication for general audiences, including book reviews, scientific articles, profiles and features, and holiday articles. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	ENGL303: Black Womanist Writers
	This course examines the lives and writings of Black women from selected ethnicities such as Caribbean, Canadian, Latin American and African American who, despite geography, form bridges to meet and develop a dialogue which enlightens us. Terms offered: Fall 2023

230

ENGL304: Inter Fiction Writing
Practice in writing short fiction. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL306: Advanced Composition
Study of genre and rhetorical situation; advanced practice in expository writing. Terms offered: Fall 2023

231

	ENGL307: Business Writing
	Business writing is an Engaged Learning course that provides applied, hands-on experiences with professional business writing. The course explores how to address ethics of communication and how to navigate opportunities and challenges presented when writing business correspondence. Students engage in rhetorical analysis, research, persuasion, reflection, and revision in professional contexts. Students write a variety of workplace genres, including emails, memos, proposals, resumes, cover letters, white papers, and digital web spaces. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL308: Technical Writing
	Technical Writing is an interdisciplinary professional writing course where students use a rhetorical lens to explore the conventions and practices of STEM fields. Working both individually and in collaborative teams, students analyze scientific and technical information and learn how to compose, format, and design scientific and technical documents for STEM audiences. Students learn to translate technical information for various audiences--subject matter experts, non-specialists, users with special needs--in ways that are engaging, accurate, and understandable. Terms offered: Fall 2023

232

ENGL309: Poetry Writing
Practice in writing poetry. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL310: Studies in Genres
The origin and evolution of genres in literature, rhetoric, and nonfiction prose, among others. Terms offered: Fall 2023

233

ENGL311: Sci Fi Short Story

In this class we will explore the literary and cultural phenomenon that is the science fiction short story. You don't have to be a science-fiction reader to enjoy and learn from the work in this course. In fact, a central focus of the class will be to use and to investigate SF-genre reading values and literary reading values simultaneously. We will learn about the deep history of the genre then trace its development from the mid-19th century to the rise of the pulp magazines -- especially Amazing, Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction -- before moving into the highly literary and experimental New Wave of the 1960s. We'll end our survey in the 1980s, perhaps with a brief glance at the present. We'll become familiar with such SF historians, critics and theorists as James Gunn, Brian Aldiss, Darko Suvin and Farah Mendelsohn. We'll delve into one short-story collection, Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, and we'll read work by such authors as Philip Jose Farmer, Clifford Simak, J.G. Ballard, Harlan Ellison, Bob Shaw, Pamela Zoline, Pamela Sargent and Carol Emshwiller.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

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ENGL312: Latina/O Popular Culture

This course examines how Latinas/os have been a major force in the production of popular culture. In particular we will critically examine discourses of "Latinidad" (a seamless construction of Latinos as a monolithic group) in the corporate production of identities. Latinidad also provides the contradictory grounds where consumer culture meets Latina/o performance. Some artists choose to reappropriate commercial spaces as sites of empowerment, while others are complicit in perpetuating stereotypical representations of Latinas/os. We will explore the construction of Latina/o identities as they influence and produce particular racial, sexual and gendered identities. Furthermore, the course focuses on the real-world implications for these performances as they commodify Latina/o culture. Over the course of the semester, students will be introduced to Latina/o/Chicana/o musical production, movies, television, advertising, magazines, literary texts, performance art, murals, installation art, music videos, and animation within a historical context.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

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	ENGL313: Intro Prof+Techn Writing
	An introduction to key concepts and practices of professional and technical writing. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL314: Prison Writing
	The Prison Writing Course encourages reflection and response to "narratives" about prison and inmates and examines larger societal issues surrounding this topic. The lectures and main assignments will encourage students to look at received perspectives of prison and prison issues (past), allow for response to issues raised in the readings and within class discussions (present), and then give students the opportunity to propose a community project that addresses some issue raised or encountered throughout the course (future). Terms offered: Fall 2023

236

ENGL321: Sound and Literature

Alexander Pope claimed that in poetry sound must seem an echo to the sense. But how exactly does this echo work? And what happens if we reverse the order and say, sense must seem an echo to the sound, as often happens in nursery rhymes, nonsense verse, experimental writing, and song lyrics? In this class, we will examine the ways in which the new and rapidly expanding field of sound studies can help us answer these and many more questions about the work of sound in, and on, literature. Sound studies combines a variety of disciplines in order to listen to the ways in which different theories and practices of sound connect with each other. It combines literature, poetics, music, performance, film studies, linguistics, acoustics, environmental studies, recording arts, history, philosophy, and more. In this class, we will deepen our knowledge about the relationship between sound and literature by listening closely to poetry, prose, songs, performances, and musical works. We will also read statements and essays that will deepen and complicate our sense of the world in and through sound. Ultimately, we will think through the ways in which literature helps us hear our environments' and each other with a critical and empathetic ear.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

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ENGL322: Word Meaning & Structure

An in-depth introduction to the sounds, structures, meanings and history of English words. Why are English alphabet letters pronounced the way they are? How do we use our mouths to make the sounds of English? What makes certain poems/song lyrics sound rhythmic and others not? What are the rules that govern the construction of English words from suffixes and prefixes? How do children identify and acquire words from the speech they hear? How did English come to be the language spoken in England? How have different speech communities changed and expanded their English variety? Why is English full of borrowed words? Why is English spelling so inconsistent? How does language ideology about 'proper English' affect speakers of different varieties of English?
Terms offered: Fall 2023

238

ENGL325: Contemp. Lit and Digital Media

How have literary expression and our understandings of the self changed alongside the media technologies of the twenty-first century? This course examines the place of fiction among social media, big data, fan fiction, video games, and the many other forms of entertainment that compete with it today. To do so, we'll learn about the history of media forms, and some of the methods of media studies, which consider how media forms shape the stories they convey. We will read novels, a play, poetry, and experimental forms that ask what technology might be changing about the human condition, including concerns about privacy, identity, politics, memory, and more. Along the way, we will encounter some of the history of experimental literature and we'll consider what forms the future of literary expression will take.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

239

	ENGL340: Topics In Prof+Tech Wrtg
	An advanced topics course on professional and technical writing Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ENGL342: Writers, Women+The Gods
	In order to conceptualize the way gender and ethnicity has shaped women's lives in the public and private domain students will "hear" the voices of African American women in ethnography, history and literature as we discuss the Africana concepts of life, health, beauty and family. The experiences of these women, as expressed in literature have become "formidable" presences in African American culture and history. The self-expression and self-definition, expressed by African American women's voices have generated social and political changes in American history that have also impacted the dominant Euro-American culture of American society. Terms offered: Fall 2023

240

ENGL348: Israeli Fiction+Poetry
The course provides an introduction to major trends in Israeli fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. It also provides a historical background on ideological context and cultural identity formation by learning about Israeli literary accomplishments beginning in the 1880's and ending in the 1990's. Terms offered: Summer 2023
ENGL351B: Topics LGBTQQC Texts
Survey with emphasis on writers in their literary and historical contexts. From 1950s to contemporary. Terms offered: Spring 2023

241

	ENGL355: English Sociolinguistics
	Study of English form and use in relation to social and cultural contexts. Topics include regional and social dialectology, attitudes toward variation and change, strategies of interaction, gender and language use, and politeness, power and politics. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ENGL360: 21st Century British Lit
	This course aims to provide students with an overview of contemporary work produced in Britain and/or by British authors across a variety of genres (including, but not limited to, drama, fiction, and poetry). The course will contextualize this work within longer traditions of English-language literature and cultural institutions, and in terms of a variety of topics and concerns confronting contemporary British culture, society, and politics. Terms offered: Fall 2023

242

ENGL362: Rhetorical Theory/Inquiry/Prac
This course examines historical trends in rhetoric, both as a field of study and as a practical art. The course connects theories of rhetoric to the historical development of literacy, print and electronic media, forms of public discourse, and literature. Terms offered: Fall 2023

243

ENGL364: Social Justice Rhetorics

This course examines the rhetorical strategies that have been used to mobilize social movements aimed at claiming human rights, including those for women, workers, immigrants, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ+ people. Readings will include testimonios and other forms of creative nonfiction, fiction, speeches, and political philosophy. Students will compose personal and research-based essays and a multimedia project. In these readings and assignments, we will explore the broader history of concepts of human rights and social justice, including related discussions of empire, slavery, capitalism, and globalization. We will also examine more recent social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and immigrant rights movements. We will compare these movements to those of the 1960s to consider how new media, changing concepts of race and gender, and changing demographics have led younger Americans to view political rights and social justice in ways that differ from prior generations.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

244

ENGL373A: Brit+Am Lit:Beowulf-1600
A survey of British and American literature to 1660, with emphasis on major writers in their literary and historical contexts. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL373B: Brit+Am Lit:Rest-19th C
A survey of British and American literature from 1660 to the Victorian period, with emphasis on major writers in their literary and historical contexts. Terms offered: Fall 2023

245

	ENGL373C: Brit+Am Lit:Rts Mod-Pres
	A survey of British and American Literature from the roots of modernism to the postmodern and contemporary period, with an emphasis on major writers in their literary and historical contexts. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL378: Fantasy Fiction
	Reading course in the major exemplars of Epic Fantasy Fiction. Terms offered: Summer 2023

246

ENGL379: Lit & Film: Hist\Theory\Critic
Study of literary and cinematic forms in relationship to each other, with attention to history and theory. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL380: Literary Analysis
Introduction to the various modes, techniques, and terminology of practical criticism. Terms offered: Fall 2023

247

	ENGL389: Introduction to Publishing
	This course will consist of both hands-on and academic experience and training in journal publishing; specific sections will be tied to one particular English Department journal. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL393: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023

248

ENGL394: Practicum
The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL396A: Junior Proseminar
This junior-level proseminar introduces students to methods and materials of literary research. Content of individual seminars will vary, based upon instructor. Terms offered: Fall 2023

249

	ENGL399: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL399H: Honors Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

250

ENGL401: Adv Crtv Non-Fict Writ
Writing-Emphasis Course for creative writing majors. Terms offered: Spring 2023
ENGL404: Advanced Fiction Writing
This is a Writing Emphasis Course for the Creative Writing Major. Discussion of student stories in a workshop setting. Terms offered: Fall 2023

251

ENGL407: Writing Queer Autohistoria

The course is a seminar and intensive writing workshop for students who want to mine their life-stories and draw from their imaginations to write an autohistoria, which may also be considered a memoir. Memoir is a genre that may be defined as autobiography without attention to precise details like dates and names. Like memoir, autohistoria can be life-stories that you take in many directions because memory operates in various ways at different times in our lives. Autohistoria is similar to memoir in using imagination to create a story from one's past yet different in using a mixed genre of fiction, poetry, and personal essays. . We will read various forms of queer autohistoria and memoir to study structure and content. We will analyze how queer writers have addressed the complexities of race, class, genders, sexualities, ableism, etc. and how they take from complex histories to interpret and write their life stories. Students will think about the writing process and write their own opening chapter to an autohistoria
Terms offered: Spring 2023

252

ENGL409: Advanced Poetry Writing
This is a Writing Emphasis Course for the Creative Writing Major. Discussion of student poems in a workshop setting. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL413: PTW For Diverse Audiences
In this course, students learn how to apply localization strategies to the development, editing, and management of content in ways that are responsive to and inclusive of linguistic and cultural differences. Terms offered: Spring 2023

253

	ENGL430: User Experience Research
	This course offers students an opportunity to learn and practice methods and skills in engaging user communities at every step of their writing and design processes and reporting effectively on their research. The course provides a user-centered, collaborative space for students to gain research skills, get hands-on experience, and develop communicative, cultural, and technological resources in and beyond the classroom. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL431A: Shakespeare
	Twelve comedies, histories and tragedies from the period 1590-1600 (including Hamlet). Terms offered: Fall 2023

254

ENGL431B: Shakespeare
Ten comedies, tragedies and tragicomedies from the period 1601-1613. Terms offered: Fall 2023

255

ENGL436: Technical Editing

The course will introduce students to the professional practice of technical editing. After learning about the history of the profession, the impact of the digital age, and current employment expectations, students will work in two modules on editing projects and produce an organizational style guide. Beginning with higher level editing concerns, students will evaluate, design, and produce documentation to address varied audiences and situations and attend to legal, ethical and accessibility issues. Students will work together to practice effective commenting strategies that engage authors and other editors in both one-to-one and networked collaborations. They will then proceed to copyediting and proofreading texts using editing tools in industry-standard software and specific sets of usage conventions. In the final module, students will become familiar with editing digital content that will be reused in different iterations across multiple platforms. Using an open source management system, they will create a site in which they will tag content for easy retrieval and potential reuse.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

256

ENGL444: Milton
Survey of Milton's English poetry, with emphasis on Paradise Lost. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL455: Tchng Engl As Sec Lang
A general overview of the profession covering prominent theories, methodologies, and procedures influencing the field. Terms offered: Spring 2023

257

	ENGL467: Tops French Linguistics
	Examines in detail current topics in the linguistic analysis of French. May be repeated when topics vary. Taught in French, with readings in both French and English; non-French majors may write their assignments in English. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ENGL477: Studies Native Amer Lit
	Terms offered: Spring 2023

258

ENGL478: African American Lit
The study of novels, drama and poetry by leading Black writers. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL488B: Am Poetry:20th Century
The Twentieth Century: Frost, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, and others. Terms offered: Spring 2023

259

	ENGL490: Career Development for English
	Senior-level workshop in translating, adapting and applying English major skills to multiple career paths. Students will research graduate and pre-professional programs as well as entry-level positions in fields they choose. Students will finish with an informed and workshopped set of application materials for an entry-level career position or a graduate program. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL493: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023

260

ENGL493H: Honors Internship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL493L: Legislative Internship
Working experience at the Arizona State Legislature; responsibilities draw upon student's area of major expertise and include preparing written and oral reports, summarizing legislative proposals, and providing information to legislators and legislative committees. Terms offered: Fall 2023

261

	ENGL494P: Portfolios Prof./Tech. Writing
	Students will explore the theories and practices of professional and academic portfolios while simultaneously designing and developing an adaptive identity and a professional persona for post-graduate settings. Students will synthesize work from past and present courses and experiences. They will make complex composition decisions about content, design, structure, and media of their portfolios in connection with identifiable elements of a given rhetorical situation. Students will discuss and apply legal and ethical issues related to portfolio development and publication of 21st century digital identities. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ENGL495A: Career/Prof Dev for CW Majors
	Junior/Senior-level colloquium in translating, adapting, and applying Creative Writing major skills to multiple career paths. Students will research career fields and graduate and preprofessional programs and be in conversation with professionals from these fields. Students will finish with an informed and workshopped set of application materials for an entry-level career position or a graduate program. Terms offered: Fall 2023

262

ENGL496A: Auth,Period,Genres+Theme
The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL498: Senior Capstone
A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing required. Terms offered: Spring 2023

263

	ENGL498H: Honors Thesis
	An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL498P: Capstone in PTW
	In this course, students complete a capstone project and compile a portfolio of their work in professional and technical writing. Terms offered: Spring 2023

264

ENGL499: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL499H: Honors Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

265

	ENGL501: Adv Crtv Non-Fict Writ
	For M.F.A. candidates working toward book-length writing project in nonfiction. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL510: Teaching Of Composition
	Theory and practice of teaching writing in secondary schools and colleges. Graduate-level requirements include a special topics paper. Terms offered: Spring 2023

266

ENGL533: Studies-Renaissance
Terms offered: Fall 2023

267

ENGL536: Technical Editing

268

ENGL555: Intro to TESL
The course will provide a general overview of the TESL profession covering prominent theories, methodologies, and issues in the field. Coursework will cover the major methods, including Grammar-Translation, the Direct Method, Audiolingualism, and Communicative Language Teaching. In addition, issues of learner variables, motivation, and contexts of teaching and learning will also be addressed. Students will participate in mock lessons, tutoring sessions, and observations. Graduate level requirements include a 12-15 page research paper with bibliography of at least eight sources. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL565: Stds In Am Lit To 1900
Reading course in American literatures before 1900. Terms offered: Fall 2023

269

	ENGL566: Stds In 20th Cent Am Lit
	Reading course in twentieth century American literatures. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL567: Tops French Linguistics
	Examines in detail current topics in the linguistic analysis of French. May be repeated when topics vary. Taught in French with readings in French and English. Graduate-level requirements include higher level of oral and written work. Terms offered: Spring 2023

270

ENGL577: Stdy American Indian Lit
In-depth study of works by and/or about American Indian writers. Terms offered: Spring 2023

271

ENGL580: Second Language Writing

This course provides an introduction to the teaching of second, foreign, or additional language (L2) writing in diverse contexts. Through readings, discussions, and activities, you will develop your understanding of the theory, research, and practice of L2 writing. We will explore a range of issues, including L2 writing development, culture and identity, pedagogical approaches, course design, feedback on student writing, and writing assessment. While we will work to develop familiarity with L2 writing research and theory and its inter-relations with L1 composition, the course will be grounded in practical and hands-on work with the goal of building your pedagogical knowledge as well as tools and strategies for working with second language writers across settings.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

272

ENGL587: Assessment in 2nd/Foreign Lang

The primary objective of this course is the development of language teachers' assessment literacy, which includes knowledge of key assessment principles and skill in creating or adopting assessment tools and procedures for the language classroom. Participants in this course will develop their knowledge and skills related to assessing all skill areas in the language classroom, including productive skills (writing, speaking), receptive skills (reading, listening), and assessing grammar and vocabulary. Grading and student evaluation will also be important topics of consideration and exploration in this course. Designed specifically for in-service (and pre-service) language teachers, the course combines theory with practice by covering essential principles of effective classroom assessment and the development of effective assessment tools for classroom use. Participants completing this course will become more assessment literate and better able to evaluate student performance in their classrooms fairly and effectively.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

273

	ENGL593: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL595A: Professional Studies
	The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons. Research projects may or may not be required of course registrants. Terms offered: Fall 2023

274

ENGL595P: Creative Writing Pedagogy
This is a phase 2 pilot of a creative writing pedagogy course that supports graduate instructors facilitating our 200-level introductory workshops. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL596G: Comparative Literature
The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Terms offered: Spring 2023

275

	ENGL596H: Modern Literature
	The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	ENGL596J: Second Lang Acquisition
	The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Terms offered: Fall 2023

276

ENGL596O: Top in Sec Lang Teaching
The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL596Y: Prosem Sec Lang Acqsn+Tchng
The purpose of the Proseminar is to provide incoming SLAT major and minor students with a forum in which they can acquire knowledge about current major issues in the field of Applied Linguistics and methods applied to investigate them, critically engage with research and scholarship, and develop a stance in relation to these major issues. Please register through the SLAT Program Coordinator. Terms offered: Fall 2023

277

	ENGL597R: Rsrch Mthd Rhetoric+Comp
	This course surveys quantitative and qualitative methods in composition and rhetoric in order to introduce students to different communities of inquiry and basic questions about the nature of research. Terms offered: Fall 2023

278

ENGL598: Approaches to Teaching Writing

English 598 connects composition theory to praxis. Through a number of activities, we will think carefully about our inclinations, actions and reactions as teachers in the writing classroom. Required of all graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in their first year of teaching in the Writing Program, preceptorship provides a brief introduction to theory in writing studies and pedagogy as well as embedded support for classroom management. During the course, you will be asked to reflect on the teaching of first-year writing, and we encourage collaboration as we develop our teaching philosophies and approaches to first-year writing. A major objective of 598 is to embed support within your first year of teaching. You will meet twice weekly with your Mentor, who will provide practical support for your teaching of English 101 and 102. These mentor sessions should be a safe space to reflect on and discuss your experiences with teaching.. It is in these sessions that you will respond to any immediate questions or concerns teaching English 101 and 102. One of the major tasks of mentor groups is arranging a mentor class visit.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

279

	ENGL599: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL604: Writing Project Fiction
	For M.F.A candidates working toward book-length writing project in fiction. Terms offered: Fall 2023

280

ENGL609: Writing Project Poetry
For M.F.A candidates working toward book-length writing project in poetry. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL612: Grammatical Analysis
Advanced English grammatical analysis in relation to the acquisition of English as a second language. Terms offered: Fall 2023

281

	ENGL613: Meth Tch Engl:Spkr Other
	Foundations, theory, and methodology in English as a second language. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ENGL615: Second Lang Acqsn Thry
	Survey of major perspectives on second language acquisition processes, including interlanguage theory, the Monitor Model, acculturation/pidginization theory, cognitive/connectionist theory, and linguistic universals. Analysis of research from the different perspectives includes consideration of grammatical, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic dimensions of language learning. Terms offered: Spring 2023

282

ENGL620: Cult Dim:Sec Lang Acqsn
Relationships between language and culture. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL693A: Applied Esl
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Spring 2023

283

	ENGL696A: Latina/o Lit+Cultrl Stdy
	This course will analyze Latina/o cultural production through a variety of Cultural Studies approaches. Whether Latina/o literary representations can help us move beyond some of the impasses of Cultural Studies will be considered. Readings include R. Williams, C. Sandoval, C. Pineda. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ENGL696E: Studies in Rhetoric+Comp
	The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Terms offered: Fall 2023

284

ENGL696G: Queer Theories
This seminar examines theories of sexuality, focusing on relations between sexuality, gender, race, and economic processes. The course may include foundational theorists such as Foucault, Butler, and Sedgwick as well as the most recent publications in the field. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL696J: Sexuality and Aesthetics
The study of sexuality as it pertains to cultural and aesthetic production. Topics may include camp, kitsch, "subcultures," film, music, and popular culture. Terms offered: Spring 2023

285

	ENGL696M: Gender/Sex+Intrnl Migrat
	The course examines sexuality as the site where multiple concerns about international migration (including social, cultural, political, economic and national) are expressed and contested, in the context of globalization and transnationalism. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ENGL909: Master's Report
	Individual study or special project or formal report thereof submitted in lieu of thesis for certain master's degrees. Terms offered: Fall 2023

286

ENGL910: Thesis
Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing). Maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ENGL920: Dissertation
Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing). Terms offered: Fall 2023

287

eSociety

288

ESOC150B1: Social Media and Ourselves

This course is designed as a gateway to understanding how social media sites influence and are impacted by our selves, as well as the role of social media in our relationships. This course with its focus on social media sites in particular, will examine the various implications and functions of social media in contemporary times. The study of new media takes place across disciplinary divides and from multiple theoretical perspectives. This course will thus explore social media research from across academic traditions. With a focus on both theory and practical applications, this course gives learners opportunities to think intellectually about how mobile technologies and being online impacts daily living, personal health, individual success, and interpersonal relationships.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

289

ESOC210: Hacking & Open Source Culture

The course explores the history, development, and evolution of our digital society by examining the early hackers, geeks, innovators and renegade hippie technologists that shaped our current digital reality. In addition, the course introduces students to theories and practices of information sharing including the public domain, information as a common public good, hacking and collaborative innovation, copyleft, open source software, open access publishing, and the creative commons.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

290

ESOC211: Collaborating: Online Commun

With the increasing reliance on new media for collaborative work, social connection, education, and health-related support, this course will analyze human collaboration and community processes online. By considering how people create a sense of community, maintain group connections, and cooperate with others to bring about a particular outcome, this class will focus on what humans do, how they present themselves, and how they do the work of collaboration in online contexts. In addition to focusing on how humans work together in online in communities, this course will examine the many theories and interdisciplinary bodies of literature that pertain to 'community' generally, and 'online communities' specifically. With a focus on both theory and practical applications, this course gives learners opportunities to think intellectually about technology-based collaborations and to apply course-based knowledge in their mediated social lives. This course is not a technical experience, rather it focuses on the theories pertaining to and the processes in play when humans engage in group collaborations (e.g., gaming, teaching, learning, working, or gaining health-related support) via mobile technologies and online sites.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

291

	ESOC212: Social Media Strategies
	This course offers a broad survey of contemporary thinking about social media and examines mediated practices across sectors such as health care, education, government, museums, tourism, and business. Students will be exposed to a range of applicable theories, will be introduced to contemporary notions of information behavior (i.e., seeking, using, and negotiating information), will consider the historical evolution of new media environments, and will become familiar with information and social media literatures. In focusing on how people share social and practical information online, this course will examine how people aim to bring about particular outcomes via social media. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ESOC213: The Past and New Media
	This course explores the emergence of contemporary visual culture and technological changes over time as well as how these shifts have and continue to impact human events, societal eras, and the `telling' of human stories. Specifically, this course offers an introduction into thinking critically about past events and related interpretations, handling archival materials, and visualizing human activity over time with new media technologies. Students will consider the function of digital narratives in processing, creating, and representing understandings of historical, personal, or location-based events and experiences. Terms offered: Fall 2023

292

ESOC214: Intro to Data Science

As data continue to grow in volume and penetrate everything we do in contemporary work across many professions, employers are seeking data scientists to extract meanings and patterns from large quantities of data. This user-friendly course will provide an introduction to a variety of skills required for data analytics in organizations, education, health contexts, and the sciences. Specifically, this course examines information management in the context of massive sets of data, provides students proficiency with a variety of data analysis tools, and exposes learners to varied data platforms as well as skills and concepts related to data mining and statistical analysis. Particular attention will be given to toolkits imbedded in R and other platforms.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

293

ESOC300: Digital Storytelling & Culture

This course will lay a foundation for understanding how stories shape communities, identities, memories, and perspectives on our lives. In addition, this course will provide opportunities for the theoretical analysis of self representation, composite narratives on behalf of others, cultural heritage, and memories as they are preserved and performed within stories and through narrative. Influences on digital digital storytelling such as the sociocultural context, the institutional contexts of production the audience, and the needs or goals of the digital storyteller will be examined. Students will be required to call on their own intellectual, emotional, and imaginative processes, as well as to develop their own skills in digital storytelling, interviewing, oral history collection, and the use of relevant digital storytelling tools.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

294

ESOC301: Qualitative Internet Research
This course will lay a foundation for understanding how to design and conduct qualitative research in the digital age. This course will focus on such practices as digital ethnography, online discourse or text analysis, web-based survey research, virtual interviewing, and data collection via mobile technologies. Broad paradigmatic assumptions underpinning interpretive inquiry will also be examined. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ESOC302: Quantitative Methods
This course will explore broad research paradigms and theoretical approaches that inform contemporary social research, varying study designs, as well as the systematic methods utilized in differing types of data analyses. Though this course will introduce research processes across the academic spectrum, quantitative analysis of both small and large data sets will be emphasized. Therefore, students will learn about basic statistical analyses and will be introduced to the emerging worlds of data science and social media analytics. Students will also consider related topics such as data visualization or research presentations. Terms offered: Fall 2023

295

ESOC313: Digital Discourse and Identity

The focus of this course is on how social information is produced though language and identity work online, focusing on patterns of talk and interactional rules and practices across contexts (e.g., text-messaging, online communities, personal identity work, and transnational blogs). As part of this focused study of talk, this course will explore how online language use can create, maintain, reproduce, or disrupt roles and related norms (e.g., those of a friend, student, expert, or political agent), as well as identities and social categories (e.g., gender, sexuality, race, disability, or nationality). This course will also focus on the broader discourses on a 'global' level, examining human collaboration online for practices tied to elitism, the movement of social capital, racism, power, and the cultural production of inequalities.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

296

ESOC314: Theories of New Media

This course will lay a foundation for theoretical analyses of how people socially create and negotiate information in the digital age. In addition, this course investigates a variety of approaches ranging from critical/cultural studies to positivist/behavioral research, considering the differing ways to think about social life and information in contemporary times. Broader paradigmatic assumptions (e.g., feminist theory, systems research) as well as specific theoretical topics (e.g., interactivity, mobility, telecommunity) will be examined. In addition, this class will survey the theoretical underpinnings of new media research across a variety of topic areas to include gaming, digital labor, communities, and global culture online.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

297

ESOC315: Publishing:Papyrus to E-Books

In the early 21st Century, we see publishing in the throes of dramatic changes, from print to electronic most obviously but also in who authors books, the economics of publishing, and how books get to readers. These changes remind us that the dynamics of the movement of the written word to its audience are an integral part of the society in which books are written, produced, and circulate. This 3-credit course takes an historical perspective on publishing, which we will define as the processes by which books come into being in multiple copies and are distributed to reach their audiences. We will start with ancient societies all over the world, and we will investigate the circumstances across societies in which books distinguish themselves from administrative records and begin to serve the needs of the literate elite. We will examine the way the physical form of the book and the technologies for producing it arise from the circumstances of each society, and in turn, how that physical format conditions the character of books and their use. We will trace the rise of publishing practices and identify the factors necessary for the reproduction and distribution of books to form an actual trade in books in varying societies. As we work our way from the ancient world to the early modern world, we will compare publishing practices in different societies and explore commonalities and differences in the relationships that develop between the creation, reproduction and distribution of books. Of particular focus will be our comparison of the rise of publishing and book trades in Europe, Asia, and the Arab world before 1450. After the introduction of printing with metal moveable type in Europe, associated with Gutenberg in approximately 1450, we will have an opportunity to observe the changes that this new technology makes in publishing and the book trade, by comparing the mature manuscript book trade of the late middle ages to that of the hand-press book publishing of early modern Europe. In the run up to the mid-term we will see the effect of monetary capital on the book trades and the shaping of the function of the publisher (although not yet called that). We will also examine related publishing matters such as art and decorative print production as well as the emergence and social role of pamphlets.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

298

ESOC316: Digital Commerce

This course will look at how commerce in information content (websites, books, databases, music, movies, software, etc.) functions. We will discuss things like switching costs, net neutrality, the long tail, differential pricing, and complementary goods. We will address the following sorts of questions: - Why do so many information producers give away content (such as "apps" for mobile phones) for free? How do companies (such as Google and Facebook) stay in business when no one has to pay to use their services? - What are contemporary practices with regard to purchasing access to information content? For instance, why do we tend to buy books, but only rent movies? Also, how do new modes of content provision (such as Pandora and Spotify) change the way that creators get paid for their work? - Why are there restrictions on how information content can be used? For instance, why can you play the DVD that you bought on your trip to Europe on the DVD player that you bought at home in the United States? But why should anybody other than an economist care about the answers to these sorts of questions? The world now runs on the production, dissemination, and consumption of information. All of us constantly access all sorts of information, through all sorts of devices, from all sorts of providers. We read and interact with websites, we query databases, and we communicate with each other via social media. These sorts of activities permeate both our personal and professional lives. In order to successfully navigate this digital world, information consumers, information producers, and information policy makers need to understand what sorts of information goods are likely to be available and how much they are likely to cost. We cannot learn enough about digital commerce simply by studying the various information technologies that are now available to create and disseminate information content. What matters most is how people choose to spend their time using these technologies, and what sorts of content can provide earning potential for its creators. What also matters are the unique properties of information content that make it very different from other sorts of goods. For instance, while only one person at a time can drive a particular car or eat a particular hamburger, millions of people can simultaneously read the same book, listen to the same song, and use the same software. These are issues that are part and parcel to living, working, purchasing, and being entertained in an eSociety; these are the issues addressed in this course.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

299

ESOC317: Digital Crime & Social Media

This course provides a powerful introduction to some of the criminal activities taking place in relation to digital information, big data, and social media. Related to the exploration of criminal activity in an eSociety, this course focuses on some of the most common legal issues faced today, with regard to our own personal data (e.g., our health histories, our genetic make up, our cloud-based photos and messages, our past) and in relation to organizational or political data on social media and in society. In this course, students as future technologists, will be exposed to the 'dark side' of this current 'information society' (e.g., deception, cybercrime) as well topics such as big data privacy, digital disruptions, consumer data and related sales, gaming protections, youth safety online, big science data sharing issues and related trust, digital security, as well as how certain groups -- law firms, advocacy groups, marketing professionals, and political or lobbying groups -- are mining data for particular use. Students will be required to consider recent court cases and contentions around the use, management, and protection of data in society as well as the risk humans face in this digital information and mediated age.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

300

ESOC318: Disruptive Technologies

This course introduces key concepts and skills needed for those working with information and communication technologies (ICT). Students will be exposed to hardware and software technologies, and they will explore a wide variety of topics including processing and memory systems, diagnostics and repair strategies, operating systems in both desktop and mobile devices. As part of this course, students will consider current technological disruptions, those issues emerging as technologies and social needs collide. Students we also learn about design issues and user needs tied to mobile or computer applications and web-based tools, sites, games, data platforms, or learning environments.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

301

ESOC325: Contemp. Lit and Digital Media

302

ESOC330: Digital Dilemmas

This course focuses on the ethical issues that arise in the context of new and emerging information technologies-- e.g., threats to privacy of ubiquitous technological surveillance, limitations on access created by digital rights management. The course will use the framework of ethical theory to analyze these issues and to propose policy solutions. The goal of the course is to give students the necessary theoretical foundation to be involved in the evaluation and construction of information policies at the local, national, and international level. The course will focus on three core areas where digital dilemmas arise--information access, information privacy, and intellectual property. In order to achieve depth as well as breadth, the course will put one of these issues at the center and discuss the others in relation to it. So, for instance, the course may focus on Intellectual Property looking at the threats and benefits of IP to privacy and access. This syllabus provides an overview of the range of topics that may be discussed.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

303

ESOC340: Info MM Design & Moving Image

We are living in a time when nearly everyone has the means to make movies, music and photos using just their own personal tools like smartphones, iPads, and similar mobile gadgets. This course will develop and refine skills and understanding of multimedia in contemporary culture. Offering a survey of innovative works in film and information arts, this course will allow students a hands-on opportunity to respond to concepts covered in class using self-produced media. This course will address how information functions in time-based forms of multimedia and video in this era of interactive information and displays. Drawing on historical precedents in the media and computational arts, this course focuses on both linear and non-linear approaches of using image, sound and text to create critical and creative works that function in a the context of social media and our contemporary digital society. How and why do certain images, music or films affect us so profoundly? We will address this question through a study of the components of media literacy that include: Production, Language, Representation, and Audience. These concepts will be examined through a cross-section of writers including: Marshall McLuhan, John Berger and Susan Sontag.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

304

ESOC393: Internship

This course is designed to provide space for students to engage themselves in community work and real-world discovery in a context beyond the classroom. Working in an unpaid or paid internship that is loosely tied to studies of Information will involve such activities as social media marketing, managing web pages or online imagery, organizing information and utilizing databases, collecting or working with artifacts and archival material, media, or artistic computing. While these activities are just examples of the kind of work internship students will do, the scope and nature of the work will be agreed upon by a supervising faculty member and also a representative in an out-of-class or organizational context.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

305

ESOC414: Computational Social Science

This course will guide students through advanced applications of computational methods for social science research. Students will be encouraged to consider social problems from across sectors, like health science, education, environmental policy and business. Particular attention will be given to the collection and use of data to study social networks, online communities, electronic commerce and digital marketing. Students will consider the many research designs used in contemporary social research and will learn to think critically about claims of causality, mechanisms, and generalization in big data studies.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

306

ESOC477: Information Security

Security is about protecting assets, such as money and physical possessions. For instance, we use walls, locks, burglar alarms, and even armed guards to keep other people from stealing and/or destroying our stuff. These days, information is typically one of our most important assets. Thus, we have to worry about the possibility of other people stealing and/or destroying it. For instance, criminals threaten our data with scareware or ransomware in order to extort money from us. Also, they use phishing scams and spyware in order to steal our personal information (including passwords), which they can then use to access our computer systems and even steal our identities.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

307

ESOC478: Science Information

In today's digital society, people have access to a wide variety of information sources and scientific data. In this course, students will learn about the role of science and scientific data in society, and they will consider means for making science information findable and understandable for a wide variety of audiences. This course will provide students an interdisciplinary experience for considering science data and how that information gets shared across contexts.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

308

ESOC480: Digital Engagement

This course is designed to be a culminating experience for the eSociety degree program, a course that engages students in practical activity as well as prepares learners for contemporary work. eSociety major and minor students as well as other undergraduates preparing for work relating to digital information or related fields can enroll in and will benefit from this course. Students will be given opportunities to discuss, review and reflect on their learning in their undergraduate work relative to an eSociety and will be provided the mechanisms through which their coursework can be applied to `real-world' contexts (e.g., internships, interviews with leaders in their area of study, professional shadowing experiences, service learning projects, or community-based event planning). Ultimately, this course provides students the opportunity to learn about what it means to be prepared in an eSociety as well as reflect on their own skill sets and the professional preparation needed for career satisfaction and success.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

309

	ESOC495: Special Topics
	Special topics courses are offered to allow students to explore specialized topics not covered in the program curriculum. Multiple topics might be offered in any given year, and specialized topic descriptions will be advertised by the School for students interested in enrolling in the course. Terms offered: Spring 2023

310

Environmental Studies

311

	EVS150C1: Environment and Society
	This course introduces students to the study of relationships between people and the environment from a social science perspective, and provides a context for thinking about the social causes and consequences of environmental changes in different parts of the world. It focuses on how and why the human use of the environment has varied over time and space; analyzes different approaches to decision-making about environment issues and examines the relative roles of population growth, energy consumption, technology, culture and institutions in causing and resolving contemporary environmental problems around the world. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	EVS260: Envir Stds: Ideas/Institutions
	This class analyses the key ideas, individuals, and institutions that have shaped environmental studies and policies in the US and globally. The course provides an introduction to environmental writings that have shaped attitudes to the environment, an overview of the most important US and international institutions that have been established to manage the environment, and the exploration of critical and iconic environmental cases and problems. The course is intended to provide the social science foundations and basic environmental literacy for the degree in environmental studies. Terms offered: Fall 2023

312

EVS302: Intro to Sustainable Dev
Introduction to Sustainable Development is a foundational course in understanding the policies and strategies that constitute "smart" regional development in US metropolitan areas. Terms offered: Fall 2023
EVS304: Water,Environmnt+Society
The course explores human and natural systems and their dependence on freshwater at multiple scales. Topics of interest include global change, ecosystem services, groundwater, urbanization, land use, watershed and river basin management, stakeholder processes, and water policy. Terms offered: Fall 2023

313

EVS353: Coffee: From Crop to Cup

Ever wondered where your coffee comes from and how it ends up in your cup? This course is about all things coffee. In 1824, President Jefferson deemed coffee "the favorite drink of the civilized world." Indeed, as one of the most consumed drink after water and the one of the most traded commodities after oil, coffee has an undeniable impact globally. In this class, students will learn about the coffee supply chain from crop to cup. We will examine how coffee is involved in global power structures and assess the extent to which consumers and specialty coffees can influence change. We will explore many topics, including producer livelihoods, consumer health and wellness, coffee standards, coffee-related jobs and careers, and sustainability outcomes. Each of these areas will be explored in detail, with a focus on positive developments as well as challenges.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

314

EVS362: Environment and Development
This course evaluates theories and practices aimed at addressing the complex relationship between economic development and environmental protection in both industrialized and developing world contexts Terms offered: Summer 2023

315

EVS363: Climate and Society

Climate change has social causes and consequences, and the responses and solutions involve changes in human behavior, institutions, and technologies. This course analyses the social causes of climate change including the economic, political, social and cultural drivers of greenhouse gas emissions and land use, and the impacts of climate change on society such as vulnerability and impacts in sectors such as food, water, health, cities and sustainable development. It also discusses solutions and responses to climate change such as changing policies, behavior and attitudes, climate mitigation and adaptation, and the role of governments, cities, the private sector, social movements and individuals from the local to the global level.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

316

EVS374: Geog, Social Justice & Env
Introduction to theories of social justice with application to social, cultural, and economic geography. What are the prevailing theories of social justice and how can we draw on them to assess movements and goals for social change? How do different geographical contexts inform our assessment of social justice concepts? Course will address theory, moral questions, and specific case studies equally. Terms offered: Fall 2023
EVS393: Internship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023

317

	EVS399: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	EVS461: Environ+Resource Geog
	Examines physical resources (e.g. distribution, quantities, and availability) and the human factors which may contribute to their completion and deterioration as well as protection and maintenance. Terms offered: Spring 2023

318

EVS493: Internship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023
EVS498: Senior Capstone
A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior Standing required. Terms offered: Spring 2023

319

	EVS498H: Honors Thesis
	An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	EVS499: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Spring 2023

320

Food Studies

321

FOOD101: Intro to Critical Food Studies

This interdisciplinary course introduces students to a broad range of topics in food studies using a critical social science approach. It focuses on the whole agri-food system from farm to fork to landfill to explore questions related to sustainability and equity. Using different academic lenses, students evaluate the challenges of achieving food security, social justice, and sustainability within a globalized, capitalist system.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

322

FOOD102: Introduction to Food Systems

Introduction to Food Systems addresses historical perspectives as well as the current significance of agriculture and the food supply chain in the United States and beyond. Through an exploration of livestock and food crop production, human labor in agriculture, food processing and technology, human nutrition, and the connection between food and the environment, the student will gain insight into how food moves from the producer to the processor, the distributor and finally to consumer. The course work encourages students to reflect and consider their personal food choices and perspectives about food. Throughout this course students will apply scientific thinking and ethical principles as they consider the role food systems play in everyday life and health, both personally and environmentally.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

323

	FOOD199: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professional who has agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	FOOD299: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

324

FOOD300: Food Justice, Ethics &Activism

The many social and environmental problems related to how we produce, distribute, and consume food force us to grapple with wide-ranging questions about the proper relationships between humans and food. Students in this course will explore cultural, environmental, and ethical disputes around food, including local and global food (in)security, the role of food in cultural preservation and revitalization, and approaches to sustainable food production. Students will evaluate ethical questions related to hunger, food labor, food technologies, and food markets. Students will also learn about the organizing strategies, ethical positions, and challenges of different efforts to achieve food justice both locally and internationally.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

325

FOOD302: Critical Food Practices

Our current food system significantly impacts our environmental and physical health. This course examines overarching concepts related to global, national, and regional food security, the consequences and challenges we face today, and tools to help us better navigate and respond to change to build a healthier and more equitable tomorrow. Students will unpack the complexity of our food system. In this process they will confront topics including values, language, systems of distribution, myths, assumptions, food assistance, and food movements. Students will explore best practices for working in community, improve their written communication, and develop more confidence and ease in oral communication and presentations.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

326

FOOD350: The Geographies of Beer

This course uses beer -- and other foods and beverages -- to examine fundamental geographical questions of change, globalization, and human-environment relations. Using a spatial perspective, we explore the history, economics, cultural, and environmental aspects of beer and brewing to better understand our world. We'll explore the links of beer to colonization, globalization, and commodification; migration and national identities; the impact of transportation and technologies on the spatial economies of beer; consolidation, neolocalism, and beer tourism; the impact of climate change and the physical geographies of key ingredients such as hops, barley, and water. Throughout the semester we'll use comparative perspectives provided by beverages such as cocoa, wine, coffee, whisk(e)y, and rum.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

327

FOOD353: Coffee: From Crop to Cup

328

FOOD360: Food Fights

This course explores contemporary debates about the future of food. Students will learn about food systems and apply different lines of inquiry to understand the social and environmental impacts of various food practices and technologies. Questions we will consider include: Should we eat meat? How will robots, drone bees, and other technologies transform our food system? What does the future of farming and farm labor look like? What are the environmental and social implications of new food products such as lab-grown meats? Will genetically modified organisms (GMOs) help us to feed a global population of 10 billion people? Students will learn from diverse voices and multiple disciplinary perspectives to examine and debate these questions in both written and oral formats.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

329

FOOD393: Internship

Through specialized work in professional settings, students are exposed to the day-to-day experiences that cannot be gained from the traditional classroom setting. Students gain individual training and service in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Internships can be paid or unpaid positions that relate to topics covered in Food Studies and/or Food Systems and Nutrition majors. Activities may include research, hands-on support, social media initiatives, organizing information, and overall collaboration with a broad variety of food-related institutions and initiatives. The specific scope and nature of the work will vary depending on the agreement established between the student, the supervising faculty member, and a representative from the out-of-class or organizational context.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

330

FOOD399: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professional who has agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

331

FOOD405: Sabores de Mexico

Mexico has one of the world's most accomplished food heritages. Many people in the U.S. are unaware that in ancient times the country's native peoples domesticated many important food crops that are of great importance today: corn, tomato, avocado, squash, pinto beans, and cacao (chocolate), to name a few. As in other countries, Mexican food is not an incidental component of life, but an essential part of how Mexico is structured; what people eat represents a confluence of power, culture, technology, and taste. In this course, we take a critical look at Mexican food production, processing, and consumption through a political ecology approach that includes an examination of important historical developments that provide context to more contemporary processes. These include Mexico's Green Revolution; the impact of globalization and new conceptualizations of food; the North American Free Trade Agreement; and migration in and out of Mexico. This course includes a 10-day optional field trip to Oaxaca, Mexico during the spring break for 1 extra credit. In combination with field activities, the course will also include a section on qualitative methods for the study of food.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

332

FOOD405C: Food in the Global Middle Ages
Food and cuisine are foundational to knowledge of the human past and link the past with the present. In this course we explore the importance of food in its various roles (alimentary, cultural, economic, environmental, religious, social, political, etc.) in shaping the history of the late antique, medieval, and early modern world (ca. 300 to 1700). Terms offered: Fall 2023

333

FOOD428: Food, Health & Enviro in Hist

Does food have a history? While seemingly a mundane aspect of everyday life, food has been central to cultural meaning, political conflict, religious life, and economic and social systems. Food has also been closely connected, both materially and in the realm of ideas, to bodily health and the natural environment, which will be the key themes of this course. Topics may include: the creation of the modern food system, the relationship between food production and landscape change, the shift from local to long-distance food procurement, the transformation of diet, the industrialization of agriculture, farm labor, the history of nutritional science and expert advice about what kinds of foods to eat, the development of global commodity chains, the environmental consequences of changes in the food system, the origins of public policy initiatives such as the school lunch and farm programs, and the rise of movements to challenge the conventional food system, such as vegetarianism, organic agriculture, and the local food movement. We will focus on historical experiences in their global and comparative context. Through this course, we will explore how a historical perspective can be insightful in understanding the food system.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

334

FOOD435D: Food Journalism
Our relationship with food--and the way we discuss it--is complicated and deeply personal. We filter everything from restaurant reviews to nutritional news through the lens of our past and present circumstances, bringing class, history, economics, culture, race, and even DNA to the table. In this course, we'll parse out these perspectives, the array of assumptions we make when we sit down (or stand up) to eat. Terms offered: Fall 2023
FOOD498: Senior Capstone
This course is the culminating experience for majors in the BA in Food Studies and the BS in Nutrition and Food Systems. It involves a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the majors, including comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing is required. Terms offered: Spring 2023

335

	FOOD499: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professional who has agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

336

FOOD505: Sabores de Mexico

337

Geography & Development

338

GEOG150B2: Crime and the City

In this course, we will discuss social, cultural, political, and geographical issues related to contemporary crime, criminality and criminalization in the Unites States. This course covers myths and misunderstandings about crime, national crime statistics, as well as social theories about urban crime and policing, with an emphasis on criminalization and criminality in the context of historical neighborhood development and place-making in US cities such as Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, Phoenix, and Tucson. During the semester we will focus in on gangs and gang policing in the context of gentrification and the enforcement of civil gang injunctions. Students will come away from this course with an understanding of the complexity and realities of crime from a social scientific (geographical, sociological, criminological, social psychological, and legal) perspective.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

339

	GEOG150C1: Environment and Society
	This course introduces students to the study of relationships between people and the environment from a social science perspective, and provides a context for thinking about the social causes and consequences of environmental changes in different parts of the world. It focuses on how and why the human use of the environment has varied over time and space; analyzes different approaches to decision-making about environment issues and examines the relative roles of population growth, energy consumption, technology, culture and institutions in causing and resolving contemporary environmental problems around the world. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG170A1: Earth Systems Geography
	The course is an introduction to the fundamental physical processes that govern the spatial distribution of Earth's land, sea, air, and biological environments. The class takes a spatial and temporal perspective on the characteristics of an variability in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere as well as the fluxes, interactions, and feedbacks among these Earth systems. The course also focuses on how humans have influenced and modified all components of the Earth system. Terms offered: Fall 2023

340

GEOG205: Places in the Media
This course is an introduction to media and geography. Students will develop critical frames for evaluating how places are represented in media such as television, film, music videos, blogs, and advertisements. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG210: Pol+Cult Geog/Globaliz
This course examines how systems of difference provide revealing analytical categories for understanding the political and cultural geography of globalization and develops critical thinking skills that can be used effectively beyond this course. Terms offered: Fall 2023

341

	GEOG220: Our Diverse Biosphere
	The strategy is to immerse non-science majors in the biological aspects of Physical Geography and, through lively debate and discussion, maps and images, to enhance critical thinking skills students need to make decisions about the world around them. Terms offered: Fall 2023

342

GEOG222: Fundamental Geog. Techniques

Data literacy is essential for navigating today's digitally-mediated world. In this course, students explore and apply quantitative data to investigate real-world geographic problems. Operating in a two-part sequence, students first learn foundational data skills for accessing human and physical geographic data, as well as analyzing data through basic statistical methods. Specific emphasis is placed on both the strengths and limitations of quantitative data. The concluding section of the course introduces students to principles of effective data visualization, essential for communicating data-driven analysis to policymakers, community members, and other stakeholders. These skills, which are foundational for upper-level classes in the social sciences and policy analysis more broadly, also help students prepare for the employment market.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

343

	GEOG230: Our Changing Climate
	Climate change is among the most important issues of our time. In this course students will learn and apply the perspective of the climate scientist to answering questions about the natural systems, physical processes, and human dimensions of climate change, its impacts, and pathways to solutions. Students will put this perspective into practice using the tools and approaches of the climate scientist, working with quantitative information such as analyzing and interpreting data, as well as linking science to solutions through interactive activities. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG250: Env & Soc in SW Borderlands
	A Tier Two, Individuals and Societies course explores the broader trends shaping the US Southwest and Borderlands, with particular emphasis on the region's human-environment tradition. It exposes students to a variety of methods for understanding how humans have organized in the Southwest to gain access to resources critical for their survival, both in the past and in the present context. Geog 250, likewise, focuses on the social, cultural, and political dimensions of human-environmental transformation. Terms offered: Fall 2023

344

GEOG251: Wrld Reg:Comp+Glob Persp
Survey and comparison of major world regions with a focus on how global processes, regional interconnections, and local geographic conditions create distinctive regions and landscapes. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG256: Sustainable Cities+Socs
Cities around the globe are working to be more sustainable in response to social, economic and environmental challenges. This course explores thow residents and decision makers in cities respond to these challenges. Students will learn to view urban problems through the perspectives of urban planners and designers, as well as local residents for cities both in the US and internationally. Terms offered: Fall 2023

345

	GEOG270: Sports Geographies
	Sports are a central part of landscapes and everyday lives around the world. They reflect and shape individual and national identities, historical and contemporary global political economies, and the places in which we live. This class explores these connections, places, and landscapes through the lenses of geography. Topics include the siting of stadiums and urban development; geographies of identity and nationalism; traditional/indigenous sports; transnational sports and migration; the political economy of megaevents such as the Olympics and World Cup; spaces of race/ethnicity and gender/sexuality; and the landscapes of outdoors sports. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	GEOG301: Intro Regional Planning
	Introduction to the principles and techniques used for planning in metropolitan and rural regions. Terms offered: Summer 2023

346

GEOG302: Intro to Sustainable Dev
Introduction to Sustainable Development is a foundational course in understanding the policies and strategies that constitute "smart" regional development in US metropolitan areas. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG303: Fld Stdy Enviro Geog
Methods used in environmental geography, including mapping techniques, use of global positioning systems, collection of various types of environmental data and basic data analysis methods. Terms offered: Fall 2023

347

	GEOG304: Water,Environmnt+Society
	The course explores human and natural systems and their dependence on freshwater at multiple scales. Topics of interest include global change, ecosystem services, groundwater, urbanization, land use, watershed and river basin management, stakeholder processes, and water policy. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG305: Economic Geography
	Analysis and modeling of the spatial structure of primary, secondary, and tertiary economic activities; location theory and regionalization in economic systems. Terms offered: Fall 2023

348

GEOG311B: Geog Cntrl Am&Carribean
Land, people and politics in Central America and the Caribbean. Major themes include colonialism, race and national identity, development, revolution and counterrevolution, globalization and migration. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG312: Native American Geography
This course looks at environment and human relationships on the North American continent with an emphasis on Native nations and indigenous perspectives. Major topics include sacred spaces, colonialism, politics and law, race and power, cultural landscapes, governance and self-determination. Terms offered: Fall 2023

349

	GEOG330: Intro to Remote Sensing
	Introduction to remote sensing principles, techniques, and applications, designed principally for those with no background in the field. Terms offered: Fall 2023

350

GEOG338: Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the spatiotemporal distribution of living things. Biogeographers map and examine the distributions of organisms today and reconstruct those of the past. They also conduct research into how physical and biological factors and processes influence distributions of organisms and they study how geographic distributions affect the evolution and extinction of species. Earth is a dynamic, wondrous, and complex planet. The diversity we see in the living systems, i.e. the Earth's biosphere, is the result of many processes studied individually among many disciplines including hydrology, geology, ecology, and soil science. In this course, we will take a holistic and integrative look at the complex spatial variations in the elements of Earth's biosphere. This course is designed to explore how biogeographic processes influence the evolution of species, communities, and ecosystems and provides background and analytical techniques for studying the effects of global change on biota. This involves the study of the interplay between biota and environment through time and space. This course will combine evolutionary and ecological perspectives in the field of biogeography and show how Earth history, contemporary environments, and evolutionary and ecological processes have shaped species distributions and nearly all patterns of biodiversity. General patterns in space and time from a diversity of organisms across the Earth's aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems will be used to illustrate this broad field of biogeography.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

351

GEOG350: The Geographies of Beer

352

GEOG353: Coffee: From Crop to Cup

353

	GEOG357: Geograph Research Method
	Formulation and solution of geographic problems; models, research design, and methods of gathering, analyzing, and portraying geographic data. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG362: Environment and Development
	This course evaluates theories and practices aimed at addressing the complex relationship between economic development and environmental protection in both industrialized and developing world contexts Terms offered: Spring 2023

354

GEOG363: Climate and Society

355

GEOG365: Hmn Rts Imm Enfcmt & US/MX Bdr

The American immigration and border enforcement systems have undergone radical changes in the last several decades and have become flashpoints of controversy across the political spectrum. Using a human rights frame, this class will take a critical look at the development of these policies and the ways in which they have impacted immigrants and their families. Using the latest scholarship and recent in-depth journalism, we will explore the component policies of these complicated systems, their dramatic consequences for undocumented and documented people alike, and possible avenues for change within a human rights framework.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

356

GEOG367: Population Geography

In this course, students explore the characteristics, geographic distribution, and growth/decline of population at local, regional, national, and global scales. Students learn the components of population change--fertility, mortality, migration, and immigration--by considering relationships to political, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions. Specific emphasis is placed on demographic processes and contemporary population issues throughout the world through the lens of social/racial justice, diversity and equity. These include, but are not limited to urbanization, food security, domestic migration, aging, public health, morbidity and mortality, family planning, the decennial census, and immigration. The applied framework of the course helps students identify sources of data, measures, and methods of analysis commonly used in population geography.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

357

	GEOG371: Princ+ Prac Regional Dev
	Introduction to basic concepts, objectives, practices and techniques of regional and industrial development as a professional activity, with emphasis on development problems and solutions. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG373: Political Geography
	Explores links between global economic and political processes, national affairs and local politics. Designed to foster participation; assessment is via essays and assignments. Terms offered: Fall 2023

358

GEOG374: Geog, Social Justice & Env
Introduction to theories of social justice with application to social, cultural, and economic geography. What are the prevailing theories of social justice and how can we draw on them to assess movements and goals for social change? How do different geographical contexts inform our assessment of social justice concepts? Course will address theory, moral questions, and specific case studies equally. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG379: Urban Growth+Development
Location patterns in urban areas and processes of growth; historical development of U.S. cities, rent theory, housing markets, commercial and industrial location, the role of transportation, urban finance, New Urbanist planning and sustainable development concepts. Terms offered: Fall 2023

359

	GEOG380: Global Agri+Intl Rel
	The importance of agriculture to the cultures, political structures, and economies of developing countries in Africa, Asia, South America, and Oceania. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG391: Preceptorship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Teaching formats may include seminars, in-depth studies, laboratory work and patient study. Terms offered: Fall 2023

360

GEOG391H: Honors Preceptorship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Teaching formats may include seminars, in-depth studies, laboratory work and patient study. Terms offered: Spring 2023
GEOG392A: Directed Rsrch In Geog
Course offers rotating topic explorations of themes in human geography, physical geography, human-environment geography, and regional development. Serves as an research-oriented introduction to the major themes resonating throughout contemporary geography. Terms offered: Spring 2023

361

	GEOG393: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG395A: Current Topics/Geography
	Exchange of scholarly information and/or primary research through the Department's regularly scheduled Colloquium Series. Student responsibilities include critical reviews of presentations by local and visiting faculty. This course gives students a broad survey of the latest research within the subdisciplines in Geography. Terms offered: Fall 2023

362

GEOG399: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG399H: Honors Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

363

	GEOG403: Appl Geog Info Sys
	General survey of principles of geographic information systems (GIS); applications of GIS to issues such as land assessment and evaluation of wildlife habitat; problem-solving with GIS. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG413: GIST Programming I
	This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of programming for Geographic Information Systems using Python. Students will be taught elements, methods and theories of scripting in Python including how to write and manipulate functions, loops, strings, lists, dictionaries, and classes with an emphasis on how to apply these tools to writing scripts in the ArcGIS environment. The only way to learn programming is by doing, and therefore this course is based on weekly coding assignments, supplemented by traditional readings and lecture materials that will build students' conceptual understanding of their burgeoning skills. Terms offered: Spring 2023

364

GEOG414: Web Mobile GIST
GIST 414 Web and Mobile Design is a required skills course for the BSGIST major. GIST 414 introduces students to the expanding field of web and mobile-based mapping applications development. Students will apply skills gained in GIST I and Programming I and II to learn how to build interactive web and mobile apps that use geospatial data in an attractive format. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG415: Open Source GIS
This course provides students a brief introduction about Open Source software for both desktop and internet GIS applications. Main objective of the course is to expose students to alternative open source tools for practicing GIS besides licensed and conventional GIS software. Students will go through hands on learning about applications hosting, data development, processing, and sharing using open source tools and technologies such as GITHub , Quantum GIS (QGIS), Python, GeoServer and PostGIS. Students will apply technology in lab assignments using real-world data Terms offered: Spring 2023

365

	GEOG416A: Computer Cartography
	Introduces the principles of map design, production and analysis. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG416C: Urban Geog Info Systems
	Introduces concepts and application skills for use of geographic information systems to investigate a range of urban spatial issues and decision-making processes. Emphasis on complete process of GIS-based problem solving, including project planning, spatial data sources/acquisition, preparation/coding, analysis, representation, and communication. Terms offered: Fall 2023

366

GEOG416E: Geovisualization (GIS)
Introduces principles and practices of Geovisualization (Geoviz) and softwares (Community and ERDAS Image). Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG416F: GIS for the Social Sciences
An advanced course for students who want to integrate social science data and geographic information science into their research or work life. The course is presented in a lecture/laboratory format. The lecture portion will deal with conceptual issues necessary for the integration of social science data and approaches within a GIS framework. The laboratory portion will provide practical experience with GIS software products used for the development and analysis of spatially-referenced social science data sets. Terms offered: Spring 2023

367

	GEOG417: Geog Inf Sys/Nat+Soc Sci
	Introduction to the application of GIS and related technologies for both the natural and social sciences. Conceptual issues in GIS database design and development, analysis, and display. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG419: Cartographic Mod Nat Res
	Computer techniques for analyzing, modeling, and displaying geographic information. Development of spatially oriented problem design and the use of logic are applied to the use of GIS programs. Emphasis on applications in land resources management and planning. Terms offered: Fall 2023

368

GEOG420: Adv Geographic Info Syst
Examines various areas of advanced GIS applications such as dynamic segmentation, surface modeling, spatial statistics, and network modeling. The use of high performance workstations will be emphasized. Terms offered: Spring 2023
GEOG422: Resource Mapping
This course combines aspects of remote sensing, GIS, and biogeography in an interdisciplinary framework to elucidate how land use and land cover can be monitored using UAS. Links will be made with field and satellite-based monitoring techniques to cross-validate landscape maps. Students that take this course will develop a solid scientific and applied basis to address geospatial landscape monitoring questions. They will do this by safely flying a drone, acquiring data in the field and with the drone, processing GPS and multi-sensor data, analyzing these data and creating landscape maps and products. Terms offered: Fall 2023

369

	GEOG430: The Climate System
	Systematic examination of processes and circulations comprising Earth's climate. Emphasis on circulations influencing geographic processes using examples of atmospheric environmental issues. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	GEOG431A: Tradition Ecological Knowledge
	An introduction to the growing literature on traditional ecological knowledge and its relationships to the ecological and social sciences. Terms offered: Fall 2023

370

GEOG439A: Intro Dendrochronology
Survey of dendrochronological theory and methods. Applications to archaeological, geological, and biological dating problems and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Emphasis on dating methods, developing tree-ring chronologies, and evaluating tree-ring dates from various contexts. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG456: The American City
An integrated approach to the built environment with special emphasis on the historical, social, and political aspects of American urban development. Terms offered: Fall 2023

371

	GEOG457: Stat Tch Geog,Reg Dev+Pl
	Methods of gathering and analyzing data for the solution of geographical, urban, and regional planning problems, with emphasis on quantitative and statistical techniques used in spatial analysis and cartography, on the one hand, and program planning, on the other. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG461: Environ+Resource Geog
	Examines physical resources (e.g. distribution, quantities, and availability) and the human factors which may contribute to their completion and deterioration as well as protection and maintenance. Terms offered: Spring 2023

372

GEOG465: Global Cities: Urban/Glbl/Citi

This course explores contemporary urban processes in transnational and cross-cultural perspective. Drawing on theories and histories of globalization, development, modernity and migration, we will consider how the global context shapes debates about cities and social life. How have contemporary urban places developed and what problems and solutions are articulated around these sites?
Terms offered: Fall 2023

373

GEOG470: Geo-Databases

This course introduces fundamentals of database design, development, and analysis for Geographic Information Systems. Emphasis is on geospatial data and suitable database designs, and on database administration for GIS Enterprise. Topics include requirements engineering for geo-databases, database design using the Entity-Relationship model, object-relational database implementation, database normalization, database optimization, data handling, security risk management, and IT auditing. Database technologies will be demonstrated with two Spatial Database Management Systems: PostgreSQL/PostGIS and ArcGIS Server/Enterprise. Database programming will make use of Python, SQL, and Procedural SQL in PostGIS. A business case is developed as part of coursework, to train the student in the database lifecycle that supports organizational operations, planning, and data management in GIS.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

374

GEOG476: Land Development Process
A case-oriented approach to site selection, rezoning, financing, architectural design, economic feasibility, and other facets of the land development process. Terms offered: Spring 2023
GEOG482: Integrated Geospatial Technolo
The course will cover resource mapping concepts and technologies. Students are expected to have a background in GIS and remote sensing. Topics will include survey methods (e.g. GPS), Internet Mapping Technologies (e.g. Google Earth), remoting sensing technologies such as LiDAR and digital imagery, classification methods, and data integration. Students will be required to complete an independent mapping project. Terms offered: Fall 2023

375

	GEOG483: Geog Aplcn Remote Sens
	Use of aircraft and satellite imagery for monitoring landforms, soils, vegetation and land use, with the focus on problems of land-use planning, resource management and related topics. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	GEOG490: Remote Sens Planet Earth
	Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth introduces basic and applied remote sensing science as a means to explore the diversity of our planetary environments (biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere) within the radiometric, spectral, spatial, angular and temporal domains of remote sensing systems. This survey course strikes a balance between theory, applications and hands-on labs and assignments. We explore how you can download, process, analyze and interpret multi-sensor data and integrate online remotely sensed data sources/products into your research of interest. Terms offered: Fall 2023

376

GEOG492A: Directed Rsrch In Geog
Individual or small group research under the guidance of faculty. This course explores emerging new themes in geographic research. Small group or individual interactions provide the context for in-depth studies not feasible in a colloquium setting. Terms offered: Summer 2023
GEOG493: Internship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023

377

GEOG497F: Comm/School Garden Workshop

378

GEOG497S: Sustain Urban Develop & Design
Examines contemporary competition between environment, resources (water, energy), social equity, and economic viability in the community development and revitalization arena. Public policy, planning initiatives, design strategies and technical solutions that bridge the conflicting agendas are analyzed. Field investigation of contemporary cases. Appropriate for students specializing in planning, architecture and landscape architecture. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG498H: Honors Thesis
An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis. Terms offered: Fall 2023

379

	GEOG499: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG499H: Honors Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

380

GEOG500: Research Design
Focus on conceptualizing research projects and on writing and presenting a research proposal. Terms offered: Spring 2023

381

GEOG501A: Planning Theory and Practice

This course is designed for advanced undergraduate students seeking careers in urban/regional planning, architecture, real estate development, and related fields. The primary objective of the course is to introduce students to the planning profession and the tracks of study within the University of Arizona's Planning Degree Program. Some of the topics covered during the semester include: the scope and objectives of urban planning; the evolution of the city and the profession of planning; ethics in planning; the place of planning within the government and the law; and selected topics of interest to planners. Graduate-level requirements include one additional project and leading in-class exercises.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

382

GEOG503: Appl Geog Info Sys
General survey of principles of geographic information systems (GIS); applications of GIS to issues such as land assessment and evaluation of wildlife habitat; problem-solving with GIS. Graduate-level requirements include completion of a project on the use of GIS in their discipline or an original GIS analysis (100 points) in coordination with the instructor. Terms offered: Fall 2023

383

GEOG514: Methods in Urban Planning

This course explores the practical methods used in urban planning from policy analysis to survey development and administration to comprehensive plan making. While many of your initial classes discuss theory and purpose (the why) and others emphasize products and applications (the what), this class provides skill-building in the connecting those two things (the how). Students will be expected to read texts that describe the purpose of various planning analyses, examine the supporting data and research, and explore common approaches to achieving various goals. This class emphasizes the physical practice of finding/making data, doing analysis, and documenting for various public and semi-public audiences "limiting `lecture time" in lieu of practice and doing. As such, students will investigate a variety of urban planning problems and questions by completing tasks such as: analyzing and summarizing research and white-paper reports, searching for and acquiring data, analyzing and graphically displaying data, and documenting results in both inform and formal ways. A portion of this class emphasizes data, methods, and tools used specifically to support comprehensive plan making (e.g., population forecasting, demographic analysis, housing analysis, growth impact analysis, impact fee estimation).
Terms offered: Fall 2023

384

GEOG516A: Computer Cartography
Introduces the principles of map design, production and analysis. Graduate-level requirements include an instructor approved 5-8 page paper on a related topic and analytical cartography demonstrating scholarly analysis in contemporary analytical cartography. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG516C: Urban Geog Info Systems
Introduces concepts and application skills for use of geographic information systems to investigate a range of urban spatial issues and decision-making processes. Emphasis on complete process of GIS-based problem solving, including project planning, spatial data sources/acquisition, preparation/coding, analysis, representation, and communication. Graduate-level requirements include writing an original research papers based on original data collected in the field. Terms offered: Fall 2023

385

	GEOG516E: Geovisualization (GIS)
	Introduces principles and practices of Geovisualization (Geoviz) and softwares (Community and ERDAS Image). Graduate-level requirements include an instructor-approved, scholarly paper on a related topic in Geoviz. The paper will be 5-8 double-spaced, typewritten pages and provide a scholarly analysis and critique of a significant real-world Geoviz application. Terms offered: Fall 2023

386

GEOG516F: GIS for the Social Sciences

An advanced course for students who want to integrate social science data and geographic information science into their research or work life. The course is presented in a lecture/laboratory format. The lecture portion will deal with conceptual issues necessary for the integration of social science data and approaches within a GIS framework. The laboratory portion will provide practical experience with GIS software products used for the development and analysis of spatially-referenced social science data sets. Graduate-level requirements include a 15 page term paper dealing with the integration of social science and GIS. Specific topics must be agreed upon in advance with the instructor. The paper will be completed in stages and due dates for selecting a topic, and for the completion of a précis, an outline and the paper will be posted on the course D2L site.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

387

	GEOG517: Geog Inf Sys/Nat+Soc Sci
	Introduction to the application of GIS and related technologies for both the natural and social sciences. Conceptual issues in GIS database design and development, analysis, and display. Graduate-level requirements include a thorough bibliographic review and a scholarly paper on a current application of geographic information systems in the student's major field. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG519: Cartographic Mod Nat Res
	Computer techniques for analyzing, modeling, and displaying geographic information. Development of spatially oriented problem design and the use of logic are applied to the use of GIS programs. Emphasis on applications in land resources management and planning. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper. Terms offered: Fall 2023

388

GEOG520: Adv Geographic Info Syst
Examines various areas of advanced GIS applications such as dynamic segmentation, surface modeling, spatial statistics, and network modeling. The use of high performance workstations will be emphasized. Graduate-level requirements include a more extensive project and report. Terms offered: Spring 2023
GEOG522: Resource Mapping
This course combines aspects of remote sensing, GIS, and biogeography in an interdisciplinary framework to elucidate how land use and land cover can be monitored using UAS. Links will be made with field and satellite-based monitoring techniques to cross-validate landscape maps. Students that take this course will develop a solid scientific and applied basis to address geospatial landscape monitoring questions. They will do this by safely flying a drone, acquiring data in the field and with the drone, processing GPS and multi-sensor data, analyzing these data and creating landscape maps and products. Terms offered: Fall 2023

389

	GEOG529: Obj Analy/Atmo+Rel Sci
	This graduate course provides an overview of statistical methods used to interpret datasets in the atmospheric and related sciences. The objective is to provide a working knowledge of the statistical tools most commonly used. Topics include application of basic statistics (composite analysis; significance testing; curve fitting; regression analysis; correlation; and non-normal distributions), non-parametric statistical significance testing (e.g. Monte-Carlo methods and field significance), matrix methods (principal component analysis; SVD analysis; CCA), and time series analysis (harmonic analysis; power spectra; data filtering; cross-spectrum analysis; singular spectrum analysis; and wavelet analysis). Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG530: The Climate System
	Systematic examination of processes and circulations comprising Earth's climate. Emphasis on circulations influencing geographic processes using examples of atmospheric environmental issues. Graduate-level requirements include the completion of a term paper. Terms offered: Spring 2023

390

GEOG531A: Tradition Ecological Knowledge
An introduction to the growing literature on traditional ecological knowledge and its relationships to the ecological and social sciences. Graduate-level requirements include preparing for and leading a class discussion on a specific topic. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG536A: Fndmtls of Atmo Sciences
Broadly covers fundamental topics in the atmospheric sciences. Topics include composition of the atmosphere, atmospheric thermodynamics, atmospheric chemistry, cloud physics, radiative transfer, atmospheric dynamics, and climate. Graduate-level requirements include additional questions on homework and exams plus a term paper on a specialized research topic. Terms offered: Spring 2023

391

	GEOG539A: Intro Dendrochronology
	Survey of dendrochronological theory and methods. Applications to archaeological, geological, and biological dating problems and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Emphasis on dating methods, developing tree-ring chronologies, and evaluating tree-ring dates from various contexts. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper reviewing critically some aspect of dendrochronology. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG557: Stat Tch Geog,Reg Dev+Pl
	Methods of gathering and analyzing data for the solution of geographical, urban, and regional planning problems, with emphasis on quantitative and statistical techniques used in spatial analysis and cartography, on the one hand, and program planning, on the other. Graduate-level requirements include the completion of several data-intensive research projects. Terms offered: Fall 2023

392

GEOG575: Econ Eval Wtr+Env Policy
Economic incentives, tradable permits and markets for ecosystem services are pivotal in contemporary water and environmental policy. This class covers theory and application of economic concepts needed to evaluate water and environmental laws and policies; including ecosystem service provision, tradable use permits, benefit cost analysis, externalities, public goods and valuation methodologies. Case studies include federal, state, tribal and international water and environmental policies. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG576: Land Development Process
A case-oriented approach to site selection, rezoning, financing, architectural design, economic feasibility, and other facets of the land development process. Graduate-level requirements include the completion of a series of research projects. Terms offered: Spring 2023

393

	GEOG578: Global Change
	Analysis of the Earth system through an examination of its component parts (particularly climate and biogeochemistry) and their interactions with human activities, emphasizing information needed to understand modern and future environmental changes. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth written exercise and additional activities as described in the syllabus. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG583: Geog Aplcn Remote Sens
	Use of aircraft and satellite imagery for monitoring landforms, soils, vegetation and land use, with the focus on problems of land-use planning, resource management and related topics. Graduate-level requirements include the completion of a project report. Terms offered: Spring 2023

394

GEOG590: Remote Sens Planet Earth
Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth introduces basic and applied remote sensing science as a means to explore the diversity of our planetary environments (biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere) within the radiometric, spectral, spatial, angular and temporal domains of remote sensing systems. This survey course strikes a balance between theory, applications and hands-on labs and assignments. We explore how you can download, process, analyze and interpret multi-sensor data and integrate online remotely sensed data sources/products into your research of interest. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG593: Internship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023

395

	GEOG594: Practicum
	The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG596B: Water Policy in AZ & Semi-arid
	This course focuses on current water policy in Arizona, the Colorado River Basin, and other semi-arid regions from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Through readings, research, lectures, discussions, and presentations, the student is exposed to major, current water resource issues and policies to address them. The professor and guest lecturers draw upon their experiences to demonstrate the development, analysis and implementation of real-world water policy. Terms offered: Spring 2023

396

GEOG596I: Comp & Int Water Policy
This course examines major issues in comparative and international water policy, including water markets, privatization, dams and river basin management, environmental flows, social equity, and water governance. The course is interdisciplinary and builds on law, geography, political economy, and institutional economics. Terms offered: Fall 2023

397

GEOG597F: Comm/School Garden Workshop

398

GEOG597S: Sustain Urban Develop & Design
Examines contemporary competition between environment, resources (water, energy), social equity, and economic viability in the community development and revitalization arena. Public policy, planning initiatives, design strategies and technical solutions that bridge the conflicting agendas are analyzed. Field investigation of contemporary cases. Appropriate for students specializing in planning, architecture and landscape architecture. Graduate-level requirements include a case study paper and formal class presentation. The study should include a literature review, and assessment methodology and critical comment. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG599: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023

399

	GEOG611: Planning Projects
	Studio-based projects covering various aspects of professional practice. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	GEOG641: Water Law
	The course in Water Law traditionally emphasizes state law rules that govern rights to use surface water and groundwater throughout the country. Although we will give ample attention to the prior appropriation doctrine, riparian water rights, and various systems for regulating groundwater use, this course will also emphasize how federal law may impact water rights. Increasingly, environmentalists and others claim that there are public rights to water that may take precedence over rights under the prior appropriation system. Terms offered: Spring 2023

400

GEOG689: Hist Geographic Thought
History of geographic philosophy and methodology. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG695A: Current Topics/Geography
The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons. Research projects may or may not be required of course registrants. Terms offered: Fall 2023

401

	GEOG695B: Prp Fut Fac Geog:Prf Dev
	A course designed to assist advanced graduate students in obtaining academic employment. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG695D: Writ Wrkshp/Proposal Dev
	Course is to assist advance graduate students in writing up a geographic research project or developing a proposal. Terms offered: Spring 2023

402

GEOG696A: Economic Geography

Based on the exchange of information, usually in a small group setting, this course examines contemporary developments in economic geography. The selected topics rotate according to the interests of the faculty convener and the graduate student enrollees. Generally grounded in economic theories of space and place, typical topics include regional inequalities and development; location theory, urban economics, and transportation; marxist and post-marxist political economy; retailing and consumption; alternative economies; resources and agriculture; gender and work; migration and economic change; institutional approaches; the intersection of culture and economy; and money, finance, and trade. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

403

	GEOG696C: Physical Geography
	Based on the exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting, this course examines contemporary developments in physical geography. The selected topics rotate according to the interests of the faculty convener and the graduate student enrollees. Generally grounded in theories of biophysical space, typical topics include coupled natural and human systems, ecosystem disturbance and resiliency, energy and mass transfers, measurement and modeling of physical systems. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG696H: Political Geography
	This course will consist of a seminar format allowing different topics in political geography to be presented. Topics offered will likely include the state, governance, critical geopolitics, social movements, or an exclusive focus on a number of key political/social theorists inside and outside of the discipline of geography from Frederich Ratzel, to Karl Marx to David Harvey. Terms offered: Fall 2023

404

GEOG699: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GEOG900: Research
Individual research, not related to thesis or dissertation preparation, by graduate students. Terms offered: Fall 2023

405

	GEOG910: Thesis
	Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing). Maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GEOG920: Dissertation
	Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing). Terms offered: Fall 2023

406

Geographic Information Systems Technology

407

	GIST214: Intro. to Map Science
	This course is intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to the use of maps and map-like images for communication, analysis, and decision support.. Students will learn to acquire, read and interpret visual representations of the earth. These scientific principles are required for advancement and understanding of all geospatial technologies including geographic information systems, global positioning systems, and remote sensing. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GIST314: Cartographic Design/Production
	Cartography is a fundamental tool of geography; it is also a science and art in its own right. Cartography uses principles of design, perception, statistics, and communication. This course introduces students to the design, production and interpretation of maps, a fundamental skill in GIST. Laboratory exercises give students additional experience with GIS-based skills, through the use of ArcGIS software. Terms offered: Summer 2023

408

GIST330: Intro to Remote Sensing
Introduction to remote sensing principles, techniques, and applications, designed principally for those with no background in the field. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GIST413: GIST Programming I
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of programming for Geographic Information Systems using Python. Students will be taught elements, methods and theories of scripting in Python including how to write and manipulate functions, loops, strings, lists, dictionaries, and classes with an emphasis on how to apply these tools to writing scripts in the ArcGIS environment. The only way to learn programming is by doing, and therefore this course is based on weekly coding assignments, supplemented by traditional readings and lecture materials that will build students' conceptual understanding of their burgeoning skills. Terms offered: Spring 2023

409

	GIST414: Web Mobile GIST
	GIST 414 Web and Mobile Design is a required skills course for the BSGIST major. GIST 414 introduces students to the expanding field of web and mobile-based mapping applications development. Students will apply skills gained in GIST I and Programming I and II to learn how to build interactive web and mobile apps that use geospatial data in an attractive format. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GIST415: Open Source GIS
	This course provides students a brief introduction about Open Source software for both desktop and internet GIS applications. Main objective of the course is to expose students to alternative open source tools for practicing GIS besides licensed and conventional GIS software. Students will go through hands on learning about applications hosting, data development, processing, and sharing using open source tools and technologies such as GITHub , Quantum GIS (QGIS), Python, GeoServer and PostGIS. Students will apply technology in lab assignments using real-world data Terms offered: Spring 2023

410

GIST416E: Geovisualization (GIS)
Introduces principles and practices of Geovisualization (Geoviz) and softwares (Community and ERDAS Image). Terms offered: Fall 2023
GIST417: Geog Inf Sys/Nat+Soc Sci
Introduction to the application of GIS and related technologies for both the natural and social sciences. Conceptual issues in GIS database design and development, analysis, and display. Terms offered: Fall 2023

411

	GIST419: Cartographic Mod Nat Res
	Computer techniques for analyzing, modeling, and displaying geographic information. Development of spatially oriented problem design and the use of logic are applied to the use of GIS programs. Emphasis on applications in land resources management and planning. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GIST420: Adv Geographic Info Syst
	Examines various areas of advanced GIS applications such as dynamic segmentation, surface modeling, spatial statistics, and network modeling. The use of high performance workstations will be emphasized. Terms offered: Spring 2023

412

GIST422: Resource Mapping
This course combines aspects of remote sensing, GIS, and biogeography in an interdisciplinary framework to elucidate how land use and land cover can be monitored using UAS. Links will be made with field and satellite-based monitoring techniques to cross-validate landscape maps. Students that take this course will develop a solid scientific and applied basis to address geospatial landscape monitoring questions. They will do this by safely flying a drone, acquiring data in the field and with the drone, processing GPS and multi-sensor data, analyzing these data and creating landscape maps and products. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GIST457: Stat Tch Geog,Reg Dev+Pl
Methods of gathering and analyzing data for the solution of geographical, urban, and regional planning problems, with emphasis on quantitative and statistical techniques used in spatial analysis and cartography, on the one hand, and program planning, on the other. Terms offered: Fall 2023

413

GIST470: Geo-Databases

414

GIST482: Integrated Geospatial Technolo
The course will cover resource mapping concepts and technologies. Students are expected to have a background in GIS and remote sensing. Topics will include survey methods (e.g. GPS), Internet Mapping Technologies (e.g. Google Earth), remoting sensing technologies such as LiDAR and digital imagery, classification methods, and data integration. Students will be required to complete an independent mapping project. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GIST483: Geog Aplcn Remote Sens
Use of aircraft and satellite imagery for monitoring landforms, soils, vegetation and land use, with the focus on problems of land-use planning, resource management and related topics. Terms offered: Spring 2023

415

	GIST498: Senior Capstone
	A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the majors, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing is required. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GIST519: Cartographic Mod Nat Res
	Computer techniques for analyzing, modeling, and displaying geographic information. Development of spatially oriented problem design and the use of logic are applied to the use of GIS programs. Emphasis on applications in land resources management and planning. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper. Terms offered: Fall 2023

416

GIST601A: GIS

This course will introduce the fundamental concepts of geographic information systems technology (GIST). It will emphasize equally GISystems and GIScience. Geographic information systems are a powerful set of tools for storing, retrieving, transforming and displaying spatial data from the real world for a particular set of purposes. In contrast, geographic information science is concerned with both the research on GIS and with GIS. As Longley et.al., notes (2001, vii) "GIS is fundamentally an applications-led technology, yet science underpins successful applications." This course will combine an overview of the general principles of GIScience and how this relates to the nature and analytical use of spatial information within GIS software and technology. Students will apply the principles and science of GIST through a series of practical labs using ESRI's ArcGIS software.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

417

	GIST601B: Remote Sensing Science
	This course provides an introduction to the scientific principles and practices of remote sensing. Topics that will be covered in this course include issues of spatial resolutions, the electromagnetic spectrum, remotely sensed sensors, spectral characteristics, digital and digitalization issues, multispectral and LiDAR image processing and enhancement, and land-use and land-cover classifications (LULC) and change detection. The course also emphasizes integration issues and analysis techniques that arise when merging remotely sensed data with geographic information systems (GIS). Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GIST602A: Raster Spatial Analysis
	This course exams the principles and practices associated with raster data development and analysis, particularly the development of real world surfaces and statistical analysis based on these surfaces. The course is presented in a lecture/laboratory format. The lecture portion will deal with conceptual issues necessary for the use of raster approaches within a GIS framework. The laboratory portion will provide practical experience with rasters in an ArcGIS environment. Terms offered: Summer 2023

418

GIST602B: Vector Spatial Analysis
This course focuses on providing students with an introduction vector based spatial analysis and their application in GIS software. Students will learn about how to analyze distribution, direction, orientation, clustering, spatial relationships and processes, and how to render analytic outcomes into cartographic form. This course provides foundational knowledge of global positioning systems, data collection, geodatabase development, and georeferencing. Terms offered: Summer 2023
GIST603A: GIS Programming and Automation
The goal of this course is to gain an introductory understanding of geographic programming and data automation techniques using ModelBuilder and the Python language. Terms offered: Fall 2023

419

	GIST603B: WebGIS
	The goal of this course is to gain an understanding of web mapping using applications like ArcGIS for Server, ArcGIS Online (AGOL), WebAppBuilder (WAB), web-enabled geoprocessing, Story Maps, AppStudio, and the Javascript API Terms offered: Fall 2023

420

GIST604A: Cartography

This course focuses on an applied project GIS project that simulates a "real world" application of GIS towards a practical problem. On the first few nights in the course a specific geographic problem will be presented, data needed to address the problem will be reviewed, and key deadlines for the course will be set. No late assignments will be accepted unless circumstances are related to the course attendance policy. As this course simulates a business environment, deadlines must be met which will be used to evaluate your course grade and your progress toward completing the project on time. The first deadline requires two items to be evaluated: (1) a GIS database you will construct to address the geographic problem; (2) a review of your maps that will form the basis of your final presentation.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

421

GIST604B: Open Source GIS

The focus of this class is to examine and apply GIS open source programming. We will examine common languages used like Python, Java, html 5, as well as APIs, JSON, html, and SQL, to automate workflows, extend the tools, and create interactive web and mobile GS platforms. Topics include preparing data as strings, lists, tuples, and dictionaries prior to use, using Python to run SQL queries, working with roasters in Python, automating mapping tasks, and developing custom scripting tools. In addition to weekly assignments and readings, assessment will be oriented around a single, student-directed project that will take the second half of the semester to complete. It will require students to write a simple script to accomplish a specified task in ArcGIS and present the results of their work to peers.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

422

GIST909: MA Project in GIST

The Master's Project includes a formal report and presentation submitted in lieu of a Master's Thesis and reflects what a student has learned from the MS in GIST program. This course requires a student to formulate, design, implement and present results related to a specific normative and/or scientific geographic problem. This course will involve data capture, compilation and manipulation, and formulating methods and analysis to address a geographic problem in a given timeline. The geographic problem under investigation will require research to be completed out side of class in the form of field work, ground truthing, or background research in the library or through other sources. Your Master's Project can focus on subjects related to personal interests, work done through an employer or an internship, or work that is supervised by a faculty or staff members on campus.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

423

Studies of Global Media

424

GLO101: Studies of Global Media

From cave paintings to the printing press and transnational digital media, humans with their "awareness instinct" have always sought accurate information upon which to make sense of their world and base their decisions and actions. This survey course explores the foundations and contemporary role of types of professional and citizen media and their interaction with culture, societies, economics and politics. This course focuses on the processes journalists employ worldwide to gather, produce and disseminate information to various publics around the world. Through films, podcasts, lectures, and readings, students will come to understand the special position that news media hold in many societies and will learn to navigate the complex world of competing narratives, filter bubbles, disinformation campaigns and talking heads, to become critical and engaged consumers of information in a global media environment.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

425

GLO201: Visual Journalism

This course will examine the history of visual journalism through the medium of documentary photography from its origins in the 1800s to the present-day digital revolution in multimedia production and data visualization around the world. This survey course is designed to broaden students' understanding of the role of visual journalism in societies, and across societies, and its power to affect scientific, political, economic, cultural and social change. Class lectures, readings and films will provide a deeper understanding of this complex media form and a vocabulary to communicate visually in today's global society.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

426

GLO301: Media, Culture & Societies

The course provides historical and contemporary perspectives on the concepts of power, globalization, networked societies, and diffusion of cultural values through various forms of media and how these factors influence news media reporting, digital ecosystems, discourse, and communities around the world. The course utilizes a number of frameworks, including models that examine the global flow of information, to study the impact of these phenomena on communities and societies. The political economy of exporting and importing cultural and news media values, and other media norms, and the concept of hybridity also will be studied in the context of social change. Micro and macro levels of analysis will examine gender, race/ethnicity, cultural identity and expression, language, geographical location, socio-economic, and generation-related factors that are considered in the process of gathering and producing news. Course content also will utilize concepts including national identity, social ordering, representation, place, and boundaries to analyze social and cultural issues related to news media reporting around the world.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

427

GLO402: Future of Media & Technology

Can you think of a time when technology did not influence the media you use? Be it your device--computers, cell phones, television--or your platform--websites, social media, apps--media use is influenced and assisted by these technologies. This course examines this intersection and influence of media over technology, and vice versa. Specifically, this course delves into the various facets of this intersection and relationship and what that means in terms of the media people use, the technology they use and the kind of discourse and society they create as a result of digital affordances and advances. More importantly, this course will teach students to look beyond the surface and examine media and technologies for the way they are designed to operate, as well as the manner in which users operate them.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

428

GLO403: Media and Global Terrorism

This course investigates the history of acts of state and non-state terror, the interplay between terrorism around the world and media content about acts of terror and terror groups. The course analyzes the varying ways terrorism has been defined and how this impacts news coverage. Course content also focuses on how news media portray terrorism and terrorists, and how that impacts public perception. Through case studies, film, readings, and in-depth research, the class will explore the dynamic interplay among global media elites, local and citizen journalism, social media and terrorist entities. The use of propaganda and new forms of digital media by terror groups and other entities also will be explored as will global norms for responding to these phenomena.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

429

GLO405: Media and Climate Change

From human health to vanishing species, climate change is one of the major challenges facing people around the world. A vast majority of scientists agree that human-made climate change is a major factor threatening the planet's future, but they worry that measures to stop or modify climate change are not taken seriously enough. What role do media play in this respect, and what role can they play in the future to communicate climate science and alert people of the challenges? How can media connect people's everyday experiences to the global climate processes? Our exploration of different types of media will take us on a global odyssey into how media portray the problem, its causes and effects, what the future holds and what can be done.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

430

GLO407: Building Digital Audiences

The course focuses on crafting and promoting media content in ways that seek to develop and monetize global networks of influence. Rather than assuming mass audiences wait passively for content, this course covers audience development including audience engagement tracking. This studies of global media course also discusses the history of audience research and broad concepts having to do with the global attention economy. Finally, it covers in some depth how to conduct a critical analysis of the potential social ramifications of building online audiences at scale. Globally, vast networks of people have been mobilized for good and for ill by means of engaging them with verified information and misinformation. This course addresses head on the dichotomy of the need for global media professionals to develop audiences in online networks using influencer-like practices while also paying attention to the many reasons why we do not feed the trolls.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

431

GLO430: Social Movement Media

This course will survey the history and functions of social justice media to contemporary times around the world. Students will consider the theoretical and practical frameworks of social justice media, which serve a swathe of social movements involving human and civil rights, education, labor, immigration, globalization, feminism, environmentalism, ethnic and racial equality, transgender rights, and global inequity. This course will provide students with the historical and theoretical frameworks necessary to evaluate and publish social justice media.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

432

GLO445: Media, War and Peace

This course examines the rapidly-shifting arena of armed conflict and political violence in an intensively and expansively mediated era. It explores traditional journalistic business, culture and ethics in covering war and the more recent impact of technological transformations, focusing on new digital and social media forms employed by all actors. Through case studies, film, readings, and in-depth research, the class will explore the dynamic interplay among global media elites, local and citizen journalism, military communication, and state and non-state actions with intelligence gathering, security and propaganda, and the intersection of all this with public understanding of the conflict from within and without. It will also consider the character and value of 'peace journalism' and the roles various media forms might play in conflict escalation or in resolution, reconciliation and community-building.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

433

GLO455: Media and Human Rights

This course is the study of the role and responsibility of national, transnational and social media in promoting human rights and cultural understanding, and in documenting human rights violations at varying levels, such as government oppression, civil or political turmoil, armed conflict, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Conversely, it will also examine the role of human rights instruments and monitoring in protecting media workers and rights to free expression. Through audio, visuals, readings, discussions and case studies, students will develop the skills needed to identify, understand and critically evaluate abusive situations and to analyze the character of media coverage of human rights challenges and the global impact of, and response to, the coverage.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

434

GLO460: Disinformation & Info Security

This course explores the history and concepts of disinformation and theories of propaganda to contextualize contemporary issues in cases around the world, where ways of obtaining information have become multifaceted and increasingly complex. The course will include analyzing the dynamics of the spread of online misinformation and disinformation and the growing issue of information security in open and closed media ecosystems in democracies and autocracies. The course also examines environments in which disinformation and information insecurity thrive. Research examining public receptiveness to correcting misinformation and disinformation also will be studied along with various news media organizations, approaches to audience engagement and building awareness about these issues. State and nonstate surveillance tactics targeting journalists also will be studied. Various tools for verifying information in text, images, video, and audio will be utilized. Methods and processes for securing online information will be explored and applied.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

435

GLO470: Documentary Studies

This course will begin with a selective overview of the history of documentary journalism beginning in the 1920s. The aim of the course will be to familiarize students with a multi-cultural global perspective of documentary work by comparing and contrasting efforts from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and North America. The documentary genre has long focused on social, cultural, political, economic and environmental issues. By emphasizing a global comparative viewpoint of these issues, students will come away with a broad perspective that no longer emphasizes a media environment solely driven by western points of view.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

436

GLO475: Media Entrepreneurship & Innov

For individuals who would like to start their own media company, or want to create a new product or service within existing media companies, or they want to learn what it takes to become a media entrepreneur, then this course will help start them off on the path. In seven weeks, students will work towards creating and presenting the business plan for a new news media or other media venture, or a digital product of their choice, such as podcasts or mobile apps. Along the way, they will gain knowledge about the current state of the field, what qualities does an entrepreneur possess, what kind of ventures are launched in the (mostly western) media market, different revenue and business models utilized in extant media ventures and the toolkit they need to plan and pitch their entrepreneurial offering. Students will learn to write a business plan that not only explains their new idea/venture but also the market, the competition, the revenue model and their strategy for the project's sustainability. This business plan will serve as students' final deliverable for the course.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

437

	GLO480: Digital Media Law
	This course will take you on a global journey through the law of digital communications, including but not limited to free speech v. hate speech, intellectual property, defamation, privacy, the right to be forgotten, access to information, media regulatory mechanisms and frameworks promulgated by governmental bodies as well as those regulatory mechanisms and frameworks used by non-governmental bodies (such as the platform "law" concept used by Facebook and Twitter.) You will learn about comparative historical and theoretical legal concepts important to media professionals and responsible digital citizen-scholars. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GLO490: Media & Humanitarian Crises
	Students examine the role and responsibility of global news organizations and citizen-based social media in reporting on humanitarian crises that may stem from natural disaster, climate change, the impact of globalization, conflict or social upheaval. This course explores the dynamic interaction among news producers, relief organizations, policymakers, the public and those directly affected by humanitarian crises. Terms offered: Spring 2023

438

GLO499: GLO Independent Study
An individual studies course taught on an individual basis. Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Undergraduate and graduate students doing independent work will register for credit under course number GLO 499 or GLO 599. Terms offered: Fall 2023

439

GLO502: Future of Media & Technology

440

GLO503: Media and Global Terrorism

441

GLO505: Media and Climate Change

442

GLO507: Building Digital Audiences

443

GLO530: Social Movement Media

444

GLO545: Media, War and Peace

445

GLO555: Media and Human Rights

446

GLO560: Disinformation & Info Security

447

GLO570: Documentary Studies

448

GLO575: Media Entrepreneurship & Innov

449

	GLO580: Digital Media Law
	This course will take you on a global journey through the law of digital communications, including but not limited to free speech v. hate speech, intellectual property, defamation, privacy, the right to be forgotten, access to information, media regulatory mechanisms and frameworks promulgated by governmental bodies as well as those regulatory mechanisms and frameworks used by non-governmental bodies (such as the platform "law" concept used by Facebook and Twitter.) You will learn about comparative historical and theoretical legal concepts important to media professionals and responsible digital citizen-scholars. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GLO590: Media & Humanitarian Crises
	Students examine the role and responsibility of global news organizations and citizen-based social media in reporting on humanitarian crises that may stem from natural disaster, climate change, the impact of globalization, conflict or social upheaval. This course explores the dynamic interaction among news producers, relief organizations, policymakers, the public and those directly affected by humanitarian crises. Terms offered: Spring 2023

450

GLO599: GLO Independent Study
An individual studies course taught on an individual basis. Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Undergraduate and graduate students doing independent work will register for credit under course number GLO 499 or GLO 599. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GLO698: GLO Capstone
Studies of Global Media M.A. students who have finished a minimum of 21 units of credit are able to enroll in the one-credit capstone being offered through the School of Journalism. The one-credit capstone is required for the M.A. in Studies of Global Media and may be a professional portfolio, professional internship/apprenticeship/mentorship, professional project, an academic paper or another capstone proposal activity approved by the School of Journalism. Terms offered: Fall 2023

451

Gender & Women's Studies

452

GWS150B1: Gender & Contemporary Society

Over the past 20 years, we have seen a proliferation of new terms to help keep pace of the shifting meanings of and experimentations with gender: gender non-binary; gender fluid; transgender; racialized gender; and, cisgender, to name a few. Never has there been a more urgent (and exciting!) time to take a class that carefully navigates these terms and the important subject positions they represent. How have these shifts influenced the work of visual artists? What new tools do literary scholars need in order to analyze innovative creative writing that seeks to destabilize gender? How have sociologists expanded their presuppositions about the social transmission of gender roles? And how can we, as students of this class, build connections between the artists, literary scholars, and sociologists in order to create our own robust interdisciplinary frameworks that are capacious enough to apprehend new and dynamic gender formations? In addition to exploring these questions, we will consider the ways that gender influences, and is influenced by, social differences, social status, and political and economic systems. We will track the connections between the individual and institutions such as mass media, science, education, and the family. By the end of the semester students should have developed a facility with gender as a key term of interdisciplinary analysis and should have a good understanding of the dynamic interactions between gender, race, sexuality, nation, embodiment, and socio-economic class.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

453

	GWS150B2: Sex, Health and AIDS
	Recognizing that HIV/AIDS has irretrievably changed the lives of individuals and societies across the globe, this course sets out to explore this social and disease phenomenon from a number of perspectives. Most importantly, the course approaches the topic with the recognition that most areas of concern surrounding HIV and AIDS are controversial and under debate, including the origins of the virus, ways to change behavior and conditions of sexual exchange, the social and economic causes of HIV transmission, funding allocations for research, and foreign policy concerning AIDS testing and funding. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	GWS150B4: LGBTQ Studies
	Introduction to the study of sexual identities, communities and politics as they relate to gender, race and class in different cultural contexts. Special attention is given to social justice perspectives. Course is interdisciplinary in its approach, using literature, history, arts, and social science. Terms offered: Fall 2023

454

GWS200: Gender, Identity, and Power
This course examines how ideas about women, gender, and sexuality have been created through the arts, literature, laws, and science. The course explores these ideas as both concepts and lived experiences from multiple perspectives and considers how they inform power, knowledge, and identity. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GWS201: Intro Chicana/Latina Studies
This course on Chicana women introduces students to basic concepts, categories and issues organized around the concept of gender. We examine gender and power relations within various institutions: the home, the school system, university, the church, the environment, and various human work spheres. Terms offered: Fall 2023

455

GWS240: Gender in Transnational World

This interdisciplinary course provides an introduction to concepts of gender as understood in U.S. society, economy, politics, and culture. The course examines gender through complex relations of power such as race, class, sexuality and considers historical and transnational contexts. Engaging multiple fields, texts, and approaches, students gather a conceptual tool box with which to explore gender and make connections to the world around them.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

456

GWS242: Gender & Education

Recently, there has been an increasing focus on gender in educational research and practice. Scholars and practitioners are taking note not only of the differential outcomes for students in relation to gender, but are also discussing how systems of privilege and oppression (e.g., sexism, heteropatriarchy, transgender oppression) mediate educational environments. Furthermore, there has been a call by some to address gender in expansive, non-binary ways that include students with diverse genders beyond just thinking about "men" and/or "women." In this class, students will survey the current literature regarding gender in education--both K-12 and postsecondary education--as well as discuss how policies and practices both inhibit and promote expansive understandings of gender as a social identity. Students will also develop educational interventions that reflect this literature.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

457

GWS252: Women's Work: Past & Present

Why should we study women's work? Is work the key to women's power or to their continuing subordination? What defines "women's work" and do only women do it? Are gendered divisions of labor an inescapable fact of nature, or can we discover their origin? What types of work have women performed from society to society, across time and space? How have historical and cultural contexts affected women's work? In this course we will examine women's work in a variety of geographical regions in the past and the present, asking how women's lives were shaped by their work, and how their work in turn made a difference in shaping their societies. We will also attempt better to understand what features and meanings may be common to women and their work in different places and times, and how to account for the many differences.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

458

GWS254: Hist Wmn US:1890-Present
Survey of diverse groups of women throughout colonial America and United States and their influence upon tribes, race, empire, politics, labor, economies, and society, 1890 to the present. Terms offered: Spring 2023

459

GWS260: Sex, Gender, and Technology

This Tier Two course draws on a variety of texts and media to explore the ways in which sex, gender, and the body are not as "natural" as we generally assume, and are in fact "always already" shaped by technology. To bring these ideas into sharper focus, we will pay attention to the ways that boundaries between humans, animals, and machines are constructed, and how they are broken down. Topics may include assisted reproduction, biotechnology, biological bodily differences, cosmetic and reconstructive surgeries, intersex and transgender issues, queer theory, sexual diversity in nature, sex toys, robotics, artificial intelligence, biopolitics and other similar issues.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

460

GWS299: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GWS299H: Honors Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Summer 2023

461

	GWS303: Gender + Language
	Gender differences in language use among adults and children and their socio-cultural bases. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GWS305: Feminist Theories
	Explores feminist theories from various disciplines, analytical frameworks, and subject areas. Examines the construction, differentiation, and representation of the genders in different cultural settings, and the ways that race, class, sexuality, and geopolitics inform gender. Terms offered: Fall 2023

462

GWS306: Afr Am Autobiog:Wmn+Hist
Students will gain insight into the historical and cultural factors that have created, and continue to perpetuate gender and ethnic inequity. Students will come to understand African American writers, particularly women, as historical agents and self-defined individuals. While the course will emphasize the multiple roles of African American women, as portrayed autobiographically it also incorporates the historical struggles of those around them. It is my goal that through the course material students will see how African Americans are constantly recreating themselves in the face of adversity. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GWS307: Chicana Fem:Hst,Thr+Prac
This course will examine the varied and evolving concerns of Chicanas as they forge new visions of feminism through the Chicano Movement of the 1960s; organizing among Chicana lesbian communities; Chicanas' entrance into academic, literary and artistic arenas; diverse community and national activist efforts in the 1980s; and current transnational initiatives. Terms offered: Spring 2023

463

GWS309: Queer Theories

Explores theories and critiques of sexuality, gender, race and nation, as they have been organized under the concept of `queer theory.' Topics include: historical emergence of queer theory in relation to histories of feminism, lesbian & gay studies, and social activism; queer of color critique; transgender activism and studies; theories of sexuality; the critique of identity; sexual cultures; and similarities and differences within lesbian, gay, trans, and queer theories.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

464

GWS310: Transgender Studies

Working with the assertion that "the personal is political" that emerged from Feminist of Color scholarship, this course will introduce students to transgender identity and politics through memoir, autobiography, and self-narrative. Students will learn how transgender people require a story that authenticates their identification in order to receive medical, legal, and social care. From questions about pronoun use to "When did you know" or "How do you know," transgender identity has a unique relationship with self-narrative and the biographical. How has this biographical imperative of transgender subjectivity shaped theoretical, political, and aesthetic debates in Transgender Studies? Attentive to questions of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and ability, this course will study how "the story of self" reveals the bond between embodiment and subjectivity, the experiential and the social, inside and outside, and semiotics and materiality.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

465

GWS312: Latina/O Popular Culture

466

GWS320: Gender-Based Violence and HRTS
An introduction to gender-based violence topics, including nature and scope, prevention and response, and anti-violence activism. Using intersectional and feminist frameworks, students will work on projects aimed at increasing awareness about gender violence and/or supporting survivors. Terms offered: Fall 2023

467

GWS321: Women In Judaism

This course examines religion and gender through the study of women in Judaism. How do scholars construct a history of women in ancient Judaism when Jewish sacred texts are written by and for men? How have modern Jewish women accommodated feminist ideals without undermining the authority of the established tradition? What impact has the feminist movement had on Jewish communal institutions in the United States and Israel? In this course, we explore these questions and others by examining the influence Jewish religious beliefs and practices have played in the formation of Jewish women's identities, image and their understanding of power and authority. Students study the role of women in the formation of Judaism and Jewish society as a culturally constructed and historically changing category through archaeology, biblical studies, rabbinics, theology, folklore, social and political movements.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

468

GWS328: Women In Russ Lit+Cultr
Images of Russian women as reflected in literary, historical, and religious texts. Cultural attitudes revealed help to understand the status and role of women in today's Russia. Terms offered: Spring 2023
GWS330: Feminist Philosophy
This course explores the ways in which philosophers contributed to the development of feminism, and the ways in which feminist theory is expanding and challenging mainstream philosophy in turn. Terms offered: Fall 2023

469

	GWS342: Writers, Women+The Gods
	In order to conceptualize the way gender and ethnicity has shaped women's lives in the public and private domain students will "hear" the voices of African American women in ethnography, history and literature as we discuss the Africana concepts of life, health, beauty and family. The experiences of these women, as expressed in literature have become "formidable" presences in African American culture and history. The self-expression and self-definition, expressed by African American women's voices have generated social and political changes in American history that have also impacted the dominant Euro-American culture of American society. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GWS351B: Topics LGBTQQC Texts
	Survey with emphasis on writers in their literary and historical contexts. From 1950s to contemporary. Terms offered: Spring 2023

470

GWS358: U.S. Third World Feminisms
This interdisciplinary course examines key works by those women of color whose political and cultural investments in a collaborative, cross-cultural critique of U.S. imperialism and heteronormativity has been called "U.S. Third World Feminisms." Terms offered: Fall 2023
GWS386: Race/Gendr:Gene,Form,Pol
This course examines the gendered constitution of race in the U.S., from 18th century naturalism and 19th century scientific racism, to 20th and 21st century eugenics, multiculturalism, neoliberalism, and "color blindness". Terms offered: Fall 2023

471

	GWS391: Preceptorship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Teaching formats may include seminars, in-depth studies, laboratory work and patient study. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GWS393: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023

472

GWS399: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GWS399H: Honors Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

473

	GWS400: Spcl Tpcs Women Studies
	Topics will vary. Terms offered: Fall 2023

474

GWS404C: Cleopatra: Power, Passion, Pro

This course focuses on Cleopatra VII (69-30 BCE), the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt and one of the best-known women in history and a key powerbroker during a period of important political change, one with enduring repercussions for the western world. She has been, however, deliberately memorialized as a "romantic" agent, a deployer of "feminine wiles", whose gender and political toolbox rightly doomed her efforts to failure. Students will interrogate the process of transforming a historical individual into an object lesson, a trope of femininity, and a cinematic legend, unpacking the messages crafted for a range of audiences and purposes by multiple creators, including Cleopatra herself. We begin with the historical background of the Hellenistic period, cosmopolitan and multicultural, focusing especially on the dynamism of women in the ideology of royal power and as image-makers in their own right, developing special forms for female authority and female patronage. A number of earlier Cleopatras establish context and particular precedents, creating official personae to engage effective interactions with fundamental groups; these include the resilient Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra II (r. 175-116 BCE) and Cleopatra Thea, token in a dynastic alliance who became Great Queen of Syria, dominating the Seleucid throne for a generation. Students will then sift through the evidence for Cleopatra VII, both the contentious (and largely hostile) material for her Mediterranean activities as well as the Egyptian record that may represent the specific efforts of the queen herself, utilizing then-ancient symbol and ritual to assert her legitimate imperial authority and structure her collaboration with major stakeholders in the Nile realm. The last section of the course looks to the lingering memory of Cleopatra long after her death, closely examining images in drama, art, and film to explore how the story of Cleopatra has been crafted and recrafted to represent different "truths" about sex, power, and identity.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

475

GWS407: Writing Queer Autohistoria

476

GWS438A: Wmn Health Global Persp
Biocultural perspective on health issues/risks women face around the world using a life cycle approach beginning with the birth of girl babies through the aging process. Terms offered: Summer 2023
GWS448: Sociology of the Body
Sociology of the Body examines the relationship between society and the human body, from broad issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality, to everyday trends such as dieting, body building, and tattooing. Terms offered: Spring 2023

477

	GWS450: American Indian Women
	Interdisciplinary exploration of new information available on American Indian women, especially materials written by Indian women and investigation of the status, experience, and contributions of American Indian women from pre-contact to contemporary times. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	GWS459: Constructions of Gender
	This course uses the concept of social construction to analyze how gender organizes our social experiences. It shows how cultural understandings of gender, particularly those that permeate language, media representations, and socialization processes, impact how individuals understand the self, interpret the social world, and interact with social institutions. It encourages students to move beyond an understanding of gender as an individual attribute, and towards understanding gender as a broad and enduring social structure that operates at multiple levels. Terms offered: Fall 2023

478

GWS460: Film and Fem in Latin America
What do we learn about Latin America if we examine it from a woman's perspective? How is our knowledge enhanced if we watch films instead of studying only academic texts? To address these questions we will watch multiple award-winning films. The readings and films cover three main topics: women and revolution; women, class and race; women and men. Students will write two short papers and a longer one. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GWS463: Gender Issue+Women's Lit
This course introduces Middle Eastern women's issues through a critical reading of literary works written by women in the major languages of the Near East (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish) that are available in translation. Readings include poetry, short stories, and novels all analyzed within their social context. Terms offered: Spring 2023

479

	GWS487: Fem Interpretations of Health
	This course examines health as a biomedical and ideological category in relation to questions of gender, race, class and sexuality. Issues include the social, cultural, and institutional contexts shaping health and disease patterns; societal understandings of those contexts and patterns; and relationships between health and social inequality. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	GWS490: Women Mid East Societ
	Middle Eastern society viewed from the perspective of women. Examines the extent to which formal definitions of women's nature and roles coincide with women's self-images and activities. Terms offered: Spring 2023

480

GWS493: Internship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GWS493L: Legislative Internship
Working experience at the Arizona State Legislature; responsibilities draw upon student's area of major expertise and include preparing written and oral reports, summarizing legislative proposals, and providing information to legislators and legislative committees. Terms offered: Spring 2023

481

	GWS496A: Senior Capstone Seminar
	A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including comprehensive knowledge of the GWS field and its methodologies. Students will reflect on what is means to do feminism as they move on from life in the university. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	GWS498H: Honors Thesis
	An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis. Terms offered: Fall 2023

482

GWS499: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GWS499H: Honors Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

483

	GWS500: Spcl Tpcs Women Studies
	Topics will vary. Graduate-level requirements include additional readings, a book review, and a paper. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GWS539A: Feminist Theories
	The course covers major issues, debates and texts of feminist theory and situates feminist theory in relation to a variety of intellectual and political movements. The course is a discussion format and requires active participation of all students. Terms offered: Fall 2023

484

GWS539B: Feminist Theories II
This course is Part 2 of a two-semester survey of feminist theories. The course covers major issues, debates and texts of feminist theory and situates feminist theory in relation to a variety of intellectual and political movements. The course is a discussion format and requires active participation of all students. Terms offered: Spring 2023
GWS560: Film and Fem in Latin America
What do we learn about Latin America if we examine it from a woman's perspective? How is our knowledge enhanced if we watch films instead of studying only academic texts? To address these questions we will watch multiple award-winning films. The readings and films cover three main topics: women and revolution; women, class and race; women and men. Students will write two short papers and a longer one. Terms offered: Fall 2023

485

GWS563: Gender Issue+Women's Lit

This course introduces Middle Eastern women's issues through a critical reading of literary works written by women in the major languages of the Near East (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish) that are available in translation. Readings include poetry, short stories, and novels all analyzed within their social context. Graduate-level requirements include additional reading from the suggested bibliography, longer written papers, an oral presentation and bi-weekly meeting with instructor. Theoretical issues will be addressed and presented in additional material.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

486

GWS570: Feminization of Migrate

Worldwide human migration and displacements are at an all time high because of political, economic, and environmental upheavals. In the Americas, in particular, there has been a steady increase in migration to the U.S. from Mexico and Latin America since the 1960s. The most significant change has been the greater participation of women due in part to the negative impact of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) resulting in the impoverishment of agricultural sectors and lack of employment opportunities, a combination known to produce the feminization of migration. In this class, we will explore this phenomenon and the various challenges borne by women and youths. We will consider relevant theories, such as structural violence, as well as a wide range of perspectives, combining demography, history, ethnography and public policy analysis to better understand issues of borders, transnational identities, human rights, labor rights, and responsibilities of host and sending states.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

487

GWS585C: History of Migrations

Population movements constitute the bedrock of humankinds' history and have assumed a wide range of guises: epic wanderings, pilgrimage, pastoral nomadism, transhumance, voluntary relocation, forced expatriation, trade diaspora, travel, tourism, and labor movements of many kinds, notably slavery. In taxonomies of motion, the critical elements: are the relative presence or absence of force, the motivations and objectives of those favoring departure over staying put, the duration and patterns of expatriation, and whether the place of exile became over time a space of belonging. To these considerations must be added variables, such as gender, age and generation, social class, family structure, religion, and race, that determined how individuals or groups perceived their subjective situation and embraced the idea of temporary or permanent expatriation, however alluring or frightening. Until (and even after) the nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, countless enslaved persons were forced to move against their own will. These diverse manifestations of mobilities were not necessarily distinct. Yet no matter how or why they departed, the people in motion introduced wide-ranging social changes to new lands or host societies as well as to those left behind. This course grapples with a range of historical, methodological, and theoretical problems associated with "people and things on the move" in MENA and globally. Employing the concepts of migration and mobility as theoretical perspectives, we examine the major forces at work from about 1800 until the present: modernities, imperialisms/settler colonialism, changing forms of capitalism and labor markets, shifting gender norms, education, environments/ecologies, debates about cultural/religious authenticity, globalization, and state formation & legal systems. In thinking about migration, modern states, and legal regimes, there are at least two dimensions of migration law: laws that govern entry and exit; and laws that govern life, incorporation, and citizenship within nations.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

488

GWS587: Fem Interpretations of Health
This course examines health as a biomedical and ideological category in relation to questions of gender, race, class and sexuality. Issues include the social, cultural, and institutional contexts shaping health and disease patterns; societal understandings of those contexts and patterns; and relationships between health and social inequality. Terms offered: Spring 2023
GWS590: Women Mid East Society
Middle Eastern society viewed from the perspective of women. Examines the extent to which formal definitions of women's nature and roles coincide with women's self-images and activities. Graduate-level requirements include an additional paper. Terms offered: Spring 2023

489

	GWS591: Preceptorship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Teaching formats may include seminars, in-depth studies, laboratory work and patient study. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GWS593: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023

490

GWS599: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GWS691: Presceptorship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Teaching formats may include seminars, in-depth studies, laboratory work and patient study. Terms offered: Fall 2023

491

	GWS696A: Latina/o Lit+Cultrl Stdy
	This course will analyze Latina/o cultural production through a variety of Cultural Studies approaches. Whether Latina/o literary representations can help us move beyond some of the impasses of Cultural Studies will be considered. Readings include R. Williams, C. Sandoval, C. Pineda. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	GWS696G: Queer Theories
	This seminar examines theories of sexuality, focusing on relations between sexuality, gender, race, and economic processes. The course may include foundational theorists such as Foucault, Butler, and Sedgwick as well as the most recent publications in the field. Terms offered: Fall 2023

492

GWS696J: Sexuality and Aesthetics
The study of sexuality as it pertains to cultural and aesthetic production. Topics may include camp, kitsch, "subcultures," film, music, and popular culture. Terms offered: Spring 2023
GWS696M: Gender/Sex+Intrnl Migrat
The course examines sexuality as the site where multiple concerns about international migration (including social, cultural, political, economic and national) are expressed and contested, in the context of globalization and transnationalism. Terms offered: Fall 2023

493

	GWS699: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	GWS799: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023

494

GWS910: Thesis
Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing). Maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department. Terms offered: Fall 2023
GWS920: Dissertation
Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing). Terms offered: Fall 2023

495

History

496

HIST150C2: Modern Latin America
An interdisciplinary introduction to Latin American societies from the 1820s to the present that gives special emphasis to diversity within Latin America and to dynamic and, hence, historical processes of social, political, cultural, and economic change over time. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST150C3: U.S.Society+Inst Snc1877
This course examines and analyzes the social, political, and economic transformations of American Society since Reconstruction. It focuses on multiple levels of society as well as the groups and individuals who comprised it. Terms offered: Spring 2023

497

	HIST150C4: World Hist 1600-Present
	An introduction to concepts and methods from the humanities and social sciences for exploring world history since the trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific voyages of the late fifteenth century. Topics include: the origins of global trade circuits; the rise of empires; the environmental impact of colonialism and cultural exchange; patterns of international migration; industrialization and urbanization; political philosophies and popular movements; constructions of race, class, and gender; war and geopolitics; technology and culture; and the place of fine art and music in social and political life. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST160A1: Colonial Latin America
	This course examines 1) the history of Spanish and Portuguese exploration, conquest, settlement, and state-building in the Americas; 2) the impact of European colonization on indigenous American cultures and civilizations, especially the acts of native resistance, accommodation and adaptation that shaped the consequences of this cultural encounter; 3) the forced migration of African peoples to the Americas, including the development of slave societies, and the emergence of regional African-Latin American cultural traditions; and 4) the growth of multiracial social groups who developed new and distinctive cultural forms of their own and eventually came to challenge the cultural and political hegemony of Spain and Portugal. Terms offered: Spring 2023

498

HIST160A2: Asia and the World

This course explores social, cultural, and political currents in Asia from the fifteenth century to the present. Asia is far too large and diverse to be studied thoroughly in one single semester, and thus this course will serve as an introduction to a number of important themes and topics in the study of East, South, and Southeast Asia. In particular, we will focus on the dynamic movement of people and ideas to investigate multiple sites of interaction within Asia and between Asia and other parts of the world. We will begin with an exploration of the Mughal and Manchu empires in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and conclude with the popularity of Indian Bollywood and Japanese Anime in the twenty-first-century United States. Because this is a course that traces both the outlines of Asian history but also, and perhaps more importantly, the interaction of Asian cultures with global trends and patterns as well as the construction of 'Asia' in the rest of the world, the texts we will read are not restricted to archival sources from Asia. You will use first-hand accounts, film, literature, and material artifacts to trace the development and significance of various trans-cultural connections that have shaped histories and identities within Asia and around the world.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

499

	HIST160B1: Hist Westrn Civilization
	This course explores the civilizations of the West by considering the development of the ideas and ideologies that shaped the institutions of the West, development directed by Human interaction and conflict on a social, political, religious, and cultural level, in addition to the intellectual. Themes of particular interest include the structure and dynamics of power, competing configurations of deity and ritual, image and architecture as tools in the acquisition of authority, and the construction of a social normative on the grounds of class, culture and gender. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST160B2: World History to 1600
	Survey of topics in world history to 1600. Terms offered: Fall 2023

500

HIST160C1: Making Am Cult:1600-1877

This course introduces students to the history of the United States before 1877. It focuses on the creation of a distinctive set of American cultures. Central themes include the colonial meeting of Spanish, French, English, native American, and African American cultures; the development of distinctly American Creole cultures in the eighteenth century; race and conquest; the American Revolution and the creation of a republican political culture; the transformation of that political culture through struggles over industrialization and wage labor, slavery, and women's rights; and the revolution in American political culture and social relations during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

501

HIST160D1: Food & Power in Global History

Are we really what we eat? Why do certain foods appeal and others repel? How do foods move from their original homes into our own? How has our cuisine evolved? And how do food and consumption reflect status and power? Food & Power in Global History takes a world history approach to investigate these and other questions by considering the cultural, economic, and geopolitical discovery, evolution, and migration of food and drink from pre-modern times to the present. We explore the discovery, invention, and adaptation of new foods from early human history to our own post-Columbian era, when local foods have become truly global. Food and drink have transformed continents and trading networks, and made and broken empires. Food is a site of cultural exchange and interaction, and it is also an expression and marker of identities. Wars have been fought to control food access. Dining, retail, and industrialization have reshaped the way we look at food. We will trace the origins, migration, and reinvention of global foods to understand how it is that food choice, food waste, and famine are more abundant today than at any point in human history.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

502

HIST203: Anct Medt:Power+Identity
This course will focus on the ancient Mediterranean and adjoining regions from 800 BCE to the third century CE of the Roman Empire, emphasizing concepts of power and identity in their Mesopotamian, Greek, and Roman contexts. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST204: Ancient Hist: Greek Hist
A political, social and cultural history of Greek civilization from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander the Great. Terms offered: Fall 2023

503

HIST205: Ancient Hist: Roman Hist

This course offers a survey of Roman History from the prehistoric settlements in the area of the Seven Hills to the deterioration of the western Empire in the fifth century C.E. Special topics of interest include the material culture of the Roman world; the use of images in the pursuit of political agendas; classical notions of the divine; and concepts of gender, power, and identity. Popular representations of ancient Rome, specifically in film, will provide another area of consideration for comparison throughout the semester.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

504

HIST206: Intro to Central Amer. Studies

This course focuses on the social, cultural, linguistic, and historical roots of contemporary Central American identities. As the introductory course in Central American Studies Certificate offered through the Center for Latin American Studies, this course takes an interdisciplinary look at the evolution and development of Central American peoples and nations, with particular emphasis on the indigenous foundations of the region. We begin by situating Central America in broad Latin American historical contexts with examinations of colonialism, nation-building, and the modern political economies of the region. We then turn to topical examinations of indigenous identity, culture, and languages. Through individual and collective research and analysis, students will examine the following themes of this course: colonization and imperialism; indigenous identity and culture; race and mestizaje; migration and human rights; and indigenous movements of Central America.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

505

HIST207: Games in Medieval Europe

Games and play are important aspects of all cultures. They provide entertainment and recreation, but they also reflect and influence many other aspects of life. We will investigate the importance of games and play in shaping medieval and early modern societies by exploring a wide variety of leisure activities, including board games (like chess), equestrian sports (like hunting), ball games (like skittles), and gambling (with dice, cards, and just about anything else imaginable!). We will also explore what role people at this time believed games and play had in maintaining health. Through our examination of games and play, we will explore the cultural, social, political, religious, economic, legal, military, environmental, and intellectual history of the medieval and early modern world. We will critically engage (and also play!) with a wide selection of medieval and early modern texts, images, and material objects from around the world; and you will use these sources (and ones you discover!) to do your own historical research on games and play.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

506

HIST209: Afr-Am Hist (1440-1877)
This course evaluates the early experiences of peoples of African descent in North America. The culture of African captives, their daily lives under different slave regimes, slave resistance, free blacks, and emancipation are the main subjects addressed in this class. Terms offered: Summer 2023
HIST210: Afr-Am Hist(1865-Presnt)
This course evaluates the experience of peoples of African descent in the United States after the Civil War. Reconstruction, "Jim Crow" segregation, "New Negro" Movement, Cold War, Civil Rights Movement, and the "Great Society" are the main subjects addressed in this class. Terms offered: Fall 2023

507

	HIST246: History of American Capitalism
	This course provides a long-term historical perspective on the origins and development of American capitalism, combining three interrelated thematic fields in U.S. history: economic history, business history, and labor history. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST247: Nature & Technology in US Hist
	This course explores the development of technology and concepts of nature in the United States, from the eighteenth century to the present. It interprets the historical roots of the relationship between human knowledge and the environment by examining how science and technology have shaped our understanding, use, and control of nature. Terms offered: Fall 2023

508

HIST252: Women's Work: Past & Present

509

	HIST254: Hist Wmn US:1890-Present
	Survey of diverse groups of women throughout colonial America and United States and their influence upon tribes, race, empire, politics, labor, economies, and society, 1890 to the present. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	HIST255: Life in Early Modern Europe
	An introduction to the early modern period between c. 1450 and c. 1800. Analysis of long-term characteristics of the period, like social structure, religion, politics and economics, will be combined with exploration of the lives of individuals and their experiences in this era. Terms offered: Spring 2023

510

HIST269: Latin American Cultural Hist.
Latin American Cultural History is a course designed to introduce some of Latin America's most prevalent themes that express everyday life, common customs, major festivals, and national expressions of pleasure and mourning. In this sense, cultural history captures the life of the people in general, not just the rich and powerful, but the ordinary in both the city and country. Terms offered: Spring 2023
HIST270: War & Revolution in East Asia
This course examines conflict, typically expressing itself in violence and often resulting in wars and revolutions, as defining moments in the modern history of East Asia when opposing social movements, and their affiliated ideas about political, cultural, and economic organization, confront one another over questions of power and autonomy. The course explores how conflict introduces new social dynamics that may have led to revolutionary changes in ideas and institutions. Terms offered: Fall 2023

511

	HIST272: Japanese Civilization
	The study of the evolution of Japanese social values, aesthetic expression, religion and political institutions in order to understand Japan's cultural heritage and contemporary society. Terms offered: Spring 2023

512

HIST277A: Hist Mid East 600-1453

In this course, students take a humanistic disciplinary perspective to explore the cultural products of the pre-modern Middle East and answer questions about its historical development. Using primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship, students will explore the context of the rise of Islam; the process of conversion and expansion across the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; the crystallization of Shi'ism and changing notions of religious authority; and the impact of Turkish migrations and Mongol conquests. They will become familiar with major genres of pre-modern Middle Eastern literary, religious, and scientific writings, and use techniques of close reading to answer questions about those texts' ideological positions and contexts.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

513

HIST277B: People's History Middle East

This course approaches the history of the modern Middle East through a Humanist perspective. We consider the Ottoman Empire, the Arab lands, and Iran from 1453 to the present through the interconnected spheres of political, economic, and social history. We will identify major historical periods, figures, geographical features, and movements that have shaped the region and assess the effects of colonialism and imperialism. Lectures, readings, writing, and discussions develop case studies to emphasize the interplay between individual lives, structural diversity and inequality, and historical contingency. Through guided primary source analysis and close readings of a range of texts, students will develop the tools to consider different temporal and spatial scales. Finally, students will consider their own positionality as historical actors in relation to the people of the modern Middle East.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

514

HIST280: Sports & Ethnic Amer, 1900-Pre

Social history course that examines racial, ethnic and gender history in the U.S. through the lens of sport from the turn of the twentieth century through the present. May include themes such as: Native American boarding schools, Japanese American internment and World War II; racial segregation and integration; Cold War nationalism and steroids; immigration and Americanization; 1960s political activism; sexuality and sport; Title IX and sexism; "melting pot" themes; Native American mascot controversies; mixed-race athletes and identity.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

515

HIST297B: AoE IV Playing/Making History

This course builds upon the skills you learned in HIST 297A: An Introduction to the History of the Middle Ages, which was based on completing The University of Arizona Enhanced Experience for Age of Empires IV. HIST 297B is designed as a bridge course that will show you how refining the skills you developed in HIST 297A can help you succeed in your college career. This is an active learning course designed to be a bit like a research and writing boot camp for historians. You will learn how to: use a variety of databases and other library materials to study history; summarize and critique scholars' arguments; and do original research and share it with classmates through fun and engaging research projects based on playing and making pedagogies. You will be doing just as much learning and research as in a traditional history course. But, instead of presenting your learning and research in tests and term papers, you will present your research through experiential learning activities like cooking medieval recipes, creating medieval objects, or making your own games. You are not just going to be consuming history. You are going to be producing it! Let's make history your story by making history together!
Terms offered: Fall 2023

516

HIST301: Intro Study of History
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the nature and practice of writing history and to teach critical reading, writing, research and analytical skills necessary for history majors. Required course in the history major. Terms offered: Fall 2023

517

HIST303: Crime/Punishment Ancient World

This course explores the history of criminal justice systems in the ancient Mediterranean through close examination of select primary sources. Its primary focus is Greece and Rome, but it will also cover Pharaonic Egypt and the Ancient Near East. We shall move chronologically, geographically, and topically, treating a broad range of literary and archaeological evidence. Of central importance to the course will be the issue of boundaries: between right and wrong, imprisonment and freedom, individual and state. Law codes from Mesopotamia, tomb robbery in the Egyptian New Kingdom, the trial and execution of Socrates, police in the streets of Rome, execution by gladiator, spiritual and allegorical punishment: the course encompasses it all!
Terms offered: Fall 2023

518

HIST306: Afr Am Autobiog:Wmn+Hist

Students will gain insight into the historical and cultural factors that have created, and continue to perpetuate gender and ethnic inequity. Students will come to understand African American writers, particularly women, as historical agents and self-defined individuals. While the course will emphasize the multiple roles of African American women, as portrayed autobiographically it also incorporates the historical struggles of those around them. It is my goal that through the course material students will see how African Americans are constantly recreating themselves in the face of adversity.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

519

HIST309: Hist of Censorship in Americas

In this course we start with an exploration of some of the formal prohibitions of "subversive" texts, images, and sounds. We then move on to identify multiple types of censorship aimed at controlling the circulation of information within different societies. We compare changing historical contexts in which political or religious leaders banned information or activities of individuals and groups and examine the usefulness of dichotomies that juxtapose censorship and freedom. How can the lens of censorship help us explore constructions of political power? What were some of the changing political interest or fears that triggered acts of censorship? What were different forms of violence that accompanied such acts? How can we identify the gendered aspect of censorship, and in what way was censorship shaped by such categories as race, ethnicity, class, geography, age, and experience? Under what circumstances were people prepared to resist censorship, either individually or collectively? Themes include censorship and self-censorship in people's religious practices, politics, and corporate censorship. We will examine evidence from the worlds of art, humor, public rituals, mass media, and education.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

520

HIST310: The Black Death
A lecture course focusing on Europe in the age of bubonic plague (from 1348 to 1720), with emphasis on changes in climate, food supplies, public health, epidemic disease, demography, and economy. The last third of the course will be devoted to the religious and artistic responses to disaster. Terms offered: Fall 2023

521

HIST311: History of Epidemics

In the 14th century, an infectious disease that came to be known as the Black Death emerged in Asia and spread along trade routes to Europe, killing an estimated 60% of the population in about a year. Using the Black Death as a starting point, this course will examine the history of epidemics across the globe from 1350 to the present day using five case studies: Black Death (14th century); Smallpox (1775-82); Cholera (mid 19th century); Spanish Influenza (1918); and HIV/AIDS (1980s to the present). We will spend a significant amount of the course analyzing primary sources from those who witnessed epidemics, treated the sick, and lived and died during various epidemic outbreaks and attempted to understand them from a range of personal, literary, film, medical, media, museum, and public health perspectives. Over the course of the semester, we will analyze how epidemic and infectious diseases created historical watersheds that have shaped our world history socially, politically, environmentally, and economically to the present day. We will also examine human responses to epidemics in artistic, cultural, and intellectual realms, and the ways in which politicians, medical doctors, national and international bureaucracies, religious personnel, scholars, and everyday women and men debated their philosophical and moral implications. The final weeks of the course analyze contemporary "pandemic preparedness" policy and responses to health threats including vaccine controversies, ebola, and H1N1.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

522

HIST313: Health & Med in Clas Antiquity
The course examines the mythology and practice of medicine in Greek and Roman times from Asclepius to Hippocrates and Galen, medical instruments and procedures, the religious manifestation of healing in Greek and Roman sanctuaries, the votive dedications by patients and cured, midwifery and child care, public hygiene and diseases. The topics cover a large spectrum of the medical practice and public health in the ancient societies of Classical antiquity, as well as how ancient worldviews, including religion and religious practice, shaped health and medicine in Greek and Roman civilization. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST315: U S Military History
Survey of American wars from colonial times to the present; military institutions, doctrine, application of the principles of war, campaign strategies and tactics, technology, and leadership. Terms offered: Summer 2023

523

HIST316: Warfare and Violence

From the time of our stone-age ancestors violence has been an integral feature of human societies. Variously expressed as the organized violence of state-directed warfare, the smaller-scale conflicts of tribes and clans, or the actions of lone individuals, violence is a depressingly-common feature of the human experience. This course analyzes the impact and function of violence from the late-Neolithic onwards, culminating with the more-complex state structures, legal systems, and military bureaucracies that have emerged in the modern age. Topics of particular focus will include how technology relates to and facilitates violence; the impact of warfare on civilian populations; the effect of violence on individuals; legal efforts to frame and define "legitimate" violence; and the mythologizing of violent acts (and actors) in historical memory. Students will gai a broad understanding of warfare and violence as expressed in a variety of Western and non-Western contexts including Europe, Africa, the Near East and the Americas. By taking this course students will develop a greater understanding of the concept of violence as a historical phenomenon, and be better prepared to analyze the place and function of modern/contemporary expressions of violence, both between and within human societies.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

524

HIST321B: Britain 1914 - Present

Britain in 1914 was the wealthiest society in the world, with the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet this society was riven by class inequality and social and gender upheaval at home, while facing threats from overseas rivals and anticolonial agitation. In this course, we will explore how global war and economic upheaval produced cultural crisis and change; struggles over power and resources among different social groups; and changing understandings of government's responsibility for human welfare. We will also address impacts on the family and gender, as well as Britain's changing relations with the continent of Europe, its empire, and the wider world.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

525

	HIST335: Western America: Law and Order
	History of law and order in western North America in the context of the political, economic, environmental, social, and cultural history during the long nineteenth century, from the Land Ordinance of 1785 to the war between capital and labor. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	HIST349: Hist Crime Am:1607-Pres
	A history of crime in America from early Virginia through the present, with emphasis on violent crime, regional differences in crime, chronological changes, and causes of the same Terms offered: Fall 2023

526

HIST351: Race + Class In Lat Am
The impact of commercial expansion, urbanization, industrialization, and ideological change on race and class relations in Latin America from the 16th to early 20th century. Terms offered: Summer 2023
HIST352: Slavery In Latin America
A broadly comparative introduction to slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. Exploration of slavery, the use of slave labor, and the daily lives of slaves and slave owners in different settings and different cultures. Terms offered: Spring 2023

527

	HIST354: U.S. History Future Educators
	This one-semester, 3-unit, U.S. History survey is designed for history and education majors who anticipate teaching U.S. history in elementary, middle and/or high schools. The course units are aligned with the Arizona Social Studies State Standards, and the U.S. history content is linked to relevant Arizona and Southwestern history. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST355: U.S. Environment History
	Examines the history of changing relations between human society and the natural world in North America. Terms offered: Summer 2023

528

HIST356: Global Environmntl Hist
This course will examine the ways in which different societies have defined, understood, valued, mapped, and made their livings in their environment. Also, it will explore how societies and environments mutually transform one another. Terms offered: Spring 2023

529

HIST358: Natural History of Disasters

This one-semester, 3-unit undergraduate course examines the history of natural disasters. Earthquakes, storms, floods, fires, and droughts have all disrupted and transformed lives, environments, and societies. What defines a "natural" disaster? How have individuals, groups and nations understood and responded to these events? How have ideas about natural disasters changed over time? What are human responsibilities for natural disasters? Taking an environmental history approach, this course offers broadly based coverage of major topics in disaster studies, including cultural and political responses; disaster narratives and representations; changing scientific, technological and cultural interpretations of nature; memory and remembrances; impact of disasters on policy, economy, planning and society. We will explore and compare case studies through time and space. Throughout we will examine disasters as social, cultural and environmental phenomena, develop skills in analysis and interpretation, and consider the changing meanings of disasters.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

530

HIST361: U S Mexico Border Region
Evolution of the borderlands since the mid-nineteenth century, with emphasis on bi-national interaction and interdependence. Terms offered: Fall 2023

531

HIST362A: Culture Food & Health in Japan

How do we know what is good for us, who gets to decide, and how does "healthy" change over time? This seminar explores these basic questions through the lens of Japanese food culture: the dietary trends, choices, and ideas of proper consumption that help shape the relationship between people's bodies and the world around them. We will discuss how and why "eating right" became such an important issue in Japan from the seventeenth century to the present and ask what the everyday experience of eating can tell us about the core themes, concepts, and events in Japanese and East Asian history. By putting Japanese foodways in conversation with global gastronomy, we will investigate what makes food cultural and what makes it historical. This course welcomes undergraduates of all interests and majors, and no prior knowledge of Japanese language or history is required. Additional materials in East Asian languages will be made available upon request.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

532

HIST370A: Modern Jewish History
Survey of major political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments in the history of Diaspora Jewry: Modern Jewish history. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST370B: History of the Jews
Survey of major political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments in the history of Diaspora Jewry from the Middle ages to the French Revolution. Terms offered: Summer 2023

533

	HIST372A: Hist+Reli:Israel Anc Tim
	Survey of the history and religion of ancient Israel. Biblical period through the Babylonian Exile; introduction to the Hebrew Bible. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	HIST372B: Hist+Reli:Israel Anc Tim
	Survey of the history and religion of ancient Israel. Ezra-Nehemiah to the Roman Empire, with emphasis on the formation of rabbinic Judaism. Terms offered: Fall 2023

534

HIST373: Politics of Health & Medicine

In this course we will examine the history of health - and health care - as well as the political dimensions of scientific research and medicine. Based on the understanding that health and health care are subject to political competitions on the nation state level and are mediated by changing global paradigms, we will use readings and class discussions to draw conclusions about citizenship rights in the Americas. We will start with a number of broad questions to make specific links: When did the responsibilities for citizens' health shift from being rooted in notions of charity to a sense of citizens' entitlement to state services? When, and under what circumstances, can people put pressure on their political leaders and make states accept increased responsibility for citizens' health? How can we best understand the links between global paradigm shifts and nation-state policy changes that protect public health as citizens' entitlement and a human right? And what are the historical reproductions of inequality that we find as we trace health policies in specific regions or nations? In 1946, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined health to be "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." The WHO also provided a definition of public health, referring to "all organized measures (whether public or private) to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the population as a whole. Its activities aim to provide conditions in which people can be healthy and focus on entire populations, not on individual patients or diseases." The WHO's definition of health has been praised for its holistic vision; simultaneously it was condemned for being unrealistic, or, in the words of historian Robert Hughes, for being "more realistic for a bovine than a human state of existence." What are the political, economic, and social factors that make holistic approaches to disease (and to the protection of health) so difficult? Why would it be unrealistic to protect the health of all humans, and to assure that all populations have access to appropriate and cost-effective care, including health promotion and disease prevention services? How are the difficulties of protecting human health linked to competing definitions of disease, and how have the definitions of disease changed over time? We will explore how outcomes of scientific and medical research - as well as health policies, and the practice of medicine -- are shaped by historical subjectivities and are linked to such categories as race, class, gender, age, experience, and ability. Subjects will include (but are not limited to) social and socialized medicine, epidemics and diseases as "unequal killers," racial profiling, the projects of "missionaries of science" and "health internationalists," definitions of madness and sanity, competitions between traditional medicine and "modern" medical practice, and power struggles and political rivalries over the role of the state in welfare and the protection of public health.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

535

HIST376: Communist China

This course looks at history of post-1949 China from two different perspectives. Students will read "proper" historical texts: political and intellectual essays, government documents, social reports, and scholarly historical monographs. These will be juxtaposed to different forms of narrative construction: movies, novels, and autobiographical accounts. With this integrated approach, the course examines the history of the People's Republic of China but also the continuous interplay between historiography and politics, history and memory, popular culture and learning.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

536

HIST376A: Contemp China in Hist Perspect

The People's Republic of China has emerged as the second largest economy in the world and a major player on the global stage, and that has quickly turned it into an object of both admiration and fear, appreciation and vilification. How we view China depends in part on our political leanings, what kind of media we consume, but, most importantly, on what we actually know about the country, its people, and its history. This course explores some of the most important issues concerning today's China and its relationship with the rest of the world, by viewing them in a longer historical perspective and focusing on the complex legacy of the last two hundred years. While we will adopt a historian's approach, we will read and use works by sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists. And while the focus of the course is China, the methodology we deploy here can and should be applied to other cases.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

537

	HIST377: Modern Israel
	Evolution of the State of Israel from the rise of Zionism in 19th Century Europe to the present. Survey of the origins of the State of Israel from the rise of Zionism in 19th Century Europe to the Declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. Evolution of the State of Israel from 1949 to the present. Emphasis on interactive generative processes and understanding of the interplay between past processes and present socio-political realities. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST380: ME & N Afr since "Arab Spring"
	The revolutions and uprisings of the 2011 "Arab Spring" are undoubtedly the most significant democratic transformations since the fall of the Soviet Union. The extent of such revolutions has yet to be realized, yet it is essential to understand their origins and developments. This course will use "Arab Spring" as a lens for introducing students to the political systems, social issues, youth culture, new social media, international alliances, and cultural values of the Arab world. Terms offered: Fall 2023

538

HIST385: Intro to Political Islam

Political Islam has become one of the most ubiquitous forces across the Muslim world in the last four decades. While most of these movements share a common commitment to promoting Islamic morality and resisting external forces, there is enormous diversity and change within what is generalised as "Islamism". Student will learn to grasp the basic differences as well as overlaps in identity and approach between the major streams of contemporary political Islam with regard to popularity and location, preference for armed vs. political strategies, nationalism vs. Pan-Islamist orientation, sectarian attitudes, levels of pragmatism, etc. Students are expected to be familiar with basic history, geography and religious terminology of the Muslim world prior to taking this course.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

539

	HIST386: Race/Gendr:Gene,Form,Pol
	This course examines the gendered constitution of race in the U.S., from 18th century naturalism and 19th century scientific racism, to 20th and 21st century eugenics, multiculturalism, neoliberalism, and "color blindness". Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST387: History of Anti-Semitism
	This course examines various definitions of anti-Semitism and traces the history of anti-Semitism (or "anti-Judaism") from the earliest arguments between Christianizing Jews and Judaizing Christians to the birth of Islam, through the period of Muslim expansion and the Crusades, to the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the Holocaust. It looks at the differences among various types of Christian anti-Semitism, Muslim anti-Semitism, and Jewish anti-Semitism, and concludes with a look at contemporary forms of anti-Semitism. Terms offered: Summer 2023

540

HIST389: Mid East Ethnic+Rel Minr
Overview of ethnic and religious minorities in the contemporary Middle East, study of ethnic and religious diversity and its origin and manifestations in the modern Middle East. Examination of how the concept of religious and ethnic minority has emerged as a key factor in state policies towards minorities as well as the cultural, economic, political, religious, and educational lives of its people. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST399: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Spring 2023

541

	HIST399H: Honors Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST403A: History of Greece
	Beginning with Herodotus' history of the Persian Wars and concluding with Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War, you will read and discuss various types of ancient sources in order to write your own history of the growth of democracy, the spread of empire, and the persistence of war in Classical Greece. Terms offered: Spring 2023

542

HIST404A: History Of Rome
The Republic to the death of Caesar. Terms offered: Spring 2023

543

HIST404C: Cleopatra: Power, Passion, Pro

544

HIST405C: Food in the Global Middle Ages
Food and cuisine are foundational to knowledge of the human past and link the past with the present. In this course we explore the importance of food in its various roles (alimentary, cultural, economic, environmental, religious, social, political, etc.) in shaping the history of the late antique, medieval, and early modern world (ca. 300 to 1700). Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST408: The Renaissance
Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries with special emphasis on Italy as the seat of the Renaissance. Topics include the city states, humanism, the Church in an age of Schism and secularization, Renaissance art, the New Monarchies and European exploration and imperialism. Terms offered: Spring 2023

545

	HIST408A: Islamic Mvmnts Muslim World
	The course objectives are (1) to acquaint students with traditional literature and contemporary research on Islamic movements, and 2) to introduce students to the historical and ideological basis of an emerging globalized political Islam. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	HIST417A: North African Societies
	The objectives are to highlight the thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches and contributions in the field of North African studies and to underline the relationship, continuities, and discontinuities between the colonial past and postcolonial realities. Terms offered: Spring 2023

546

HIST422: History of Russia to 1917
Political, socio-economic and cultural history of Russia and its expansion into an empire from the 10th century to 1917. Terms offered: Summer 2023
HIST425: History of Soviet Union
The Bolshevik Revolution and problems of Soviet and Russian history from 1917 to the present. Terms offered: Fall 2023

547

HIST428: Food, Health & Enviro in Hist

548

HIST436: Civil War+Reconstruction
Political, constitutional, economic, and military developments in the U.S. and the Confederacy during and after the Civil War. Terms offered: Summer 2023
HIST438: U.S. 1918-1945: WW I/WW II
Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal in peace and war. Terms offered: Spring 2023

549

	HIST440: United States: 1945 to Present
	American society and the role of the United States in world affairs from the Yalta Conference to the present. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST441: Hist African Am Women
	The objective of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of the history of Black people in American with a particular eye towards the experiences of Black women. The course will review some of the major historiographical issues presented by scholars of African American Women's History. Terms offered: Fall 2023

550

HIST450: Foreign Relations Since 1914
Examines the pivotal role played by the United States in world affairs since 1898, focusing on America's struggle with revolutionary movements in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST461: The Spanish Conquest
The impact of conquest and Spanish rule on the native peoples of Mexico, Central American, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Topics include: conquest and ecology; land and labor; religion and culture; adaptation and resistance. Terms offered: Spring 2023

551

HIST462C: History Modern Japan, Meiji

This course offers students an in-depth look at the history and historiography of Modern Japan (1868-Present), with a special emphasis on the relationship between empire and everyday life in Japan's modern experience. The course is divided into four chronological units spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and students will have the opportunity to crowdsource their reading materials from a list of recommended and representative books within each unit. Class discussions will provide an overview of the latest English-language scholarship on Japan's modernity to familiarize advanced undergraduates and graduate students with the styles of research and interpretation that inform our understanding of history today.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

552

HIST465Z: History Central America
A survey of the history of Central American from the Spanish conquest to the present, focusing on regional economies, ethnic and class conflict, and the politics of state formation. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST472: History Medieval India
Survey of Indian history from the 7th century to 1750. Terms offered: Fall 2023

553

	HIST477: Comp Hist World Revolutn
	This course examines the historical context against the theoretical, cultural, political, social, and economic elements of sudden revolutionary upheaval. Revolutions from the French Revolution of 1789 to the Cuban Revolution of 1959 will be studied. Terms offered: Summer 2023
	HIST479: Ottoman Empire To 1800
	History of Ottoman Empire from its origins through the direct Western European impact, focusing on the political and social history of the empire in Europe and Asia. Terms offered: Spring 2023

554

HIST480: Middl East In 20th Cent
The modern Middle East in the age of imperialism, world wars, state formation, decolonization, and Islamic resistance. Terms offered: Spring 2023

555

HIST483: History of Cartography

This interdisciplinary one-semester, 3-unit, readings and discussions seminar is designed for upper division undergraduate students with interests in history, geography and cartography. It offers broadly-based coverage of major topics in the history of cartography, including the theoretical turn in the "new cartography," the cultural history of cartography, and the role of GIS. Using case studies from the Anglo-European world, we will examine the role of maps in exploration, colonization, and imperialism; cartographic representation of the New World from European and indigenous perspectives; Humboldtian traditions in the Americas; nation-state border projects; and various genres of mapping. Throughout we will examine maps as evidence, develop skills in spatial analysis and interpretation, and consider how maps can be used by historians and other scholars.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

556

HIST485A: History of the Iranian Plateau

This course examines the history of the Iranian plateau from the rise and spread of Islam until the establishment of the Safavid Empire (1501).Thematically, it focuses on the impact of geography and the environment on social and political history; the conversion and Islamicization of local populations; the proliferation of communities and institutions of Islamic knowledge; the development of Persian Sufi literature and brotherhoods; state legitimization through the patronage of literature, court chronicles, and art; the rise of Shi`i messianic movements; and the role of women at court and in society.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

557

HIST485C: History of Migrations

558

HIST485P: Palestinian Culture & Soc

How have Palestinians constructed and maintained their sense of peoplehood across wide geographic expanses over the past century? How do we understand multiple cultural manifestations of Palestinians' life across time and place? How do we compare and contrast Palestinian societies around the world? This interdisciplinary course examines various dimensions of Palestinian cultures and societies from the late Ottoman period to the present. While major political events figure prominently into our material, we will be primarily concerned with how these events reflect on Palestinians themselves. A central premise of this course is that Palestinians can and should be studied on their own terms, not just in terms of conflict with adversaries. Topics covered in this course include class intersections and tensions, secularism and religiosity, multiple understandings of resistance, and questions of migration, displacement and transnational modes of identity-building. In addition to academic studies (primarily in the fields of history, anthropology, and cultural studies) we will also examine aspects of Palestinian cultures and societies through digital archival material and multi-modal cultural productions.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

559

HIST486: The Ancient World in Film

This course will explore the ways in which the ancient Mediterranean has been represented in film, from Ben-Hur (1925, 1959) to The Mummy (1932, 1999) to HBO's Rome (2005, 2007). The course will begin with a brief introduction to the visual language of film, how the framing and editing of shots and the movement of camera convey particular meanings about character motivation and emotional overtones of human interactions. Successive weeks will then focus on ancient events and narratives as depicted in individual filmed narratives, analyzing how choices made for plot and character development affect producers' selection and interpretation of ancient material. Some specific issues to be investigated include the role of the archaeologist in connecting to the ancient past, the meaning of graphic violence (realism? Social decay?), the presentation of Egypt as a font of mystic (and doomed!) power, the Roman past as a site of voyeuristic seduction and the presentation of Roman spectacle as an emblem of ruthless imperialism. Readings will include both ancient authors in translation and modern analyses of specific films.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

560

HIST493: Internship
A work-related learning experience involving hands-on work and training in a history-related establishment, such as a museum, archives, historical society. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST493L: Legislative Internship
Working experience at the Arizona State Legislature; responsibilities draw upon student's area of major expertise and include preparing written and oral reports, summarizing legislative proposals, and providing information to legislators and legislative committees. Terms offered: Spring 2023

561

	HIST495E: Strggl+Surv Mod Me+N Afr
	The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons. Research projects may or may not be required of course registrants. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST495K: Colloquium on World Hist
	A colloquium or small lecture class intended for majors and upperclassmen; topics vary by instructor. Terms offered: Fall 2023

562

HIST496S: Colonialism+Critique Mod
What modernity is and how it came about have long been hotly contested questions. The relationship between modernity and colonialism has often been central in these debates. The course considers this relationship by investigating how intellectuals in colonized lands have understood and critiqued modernity in comparison with Western theories. Terms offered: Spring 2023

563

HIST498: Senior Capstone

The culmination of the History Major, HIST 498 allows students to pursue in depth the research interests they have developed in other history classes. The department offers several sections of various topics each semester. Usually taken in the last year in college, this research seminar teaches students to organize, research, and write a substantial paper (at least 20 pages) or, occasionally, its equivalent in a different form. This project will constitute original research: it will base its argument substantially on a critical evaluation of primary sources (in the original languages when possible, or in translation). It will also actively and critically engage secondary scholarship. Although the research paper is the final product, students will work toward this through a series of structured, graded stages--for example, a research proposal, historiographic essay, rough draft(s), class presentation, and final draft--each of which may involve giving and receiving peer commentary.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

564

HIST498H: Honors Thesis
An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST499: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

565

	HIST499H: Honors Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST504A: History Of Rome
	The Republic to the death of Caesar. Graduate-level requirements include an additional in-depth research paper. Terms offered: Spring 2023

566

HIST504C: Cleopatra: Power, Passion, Pro

567

	HIST505C: Food in the Global Middle Ages
	Food and cuisine are foundational to knowledge of the human past and link the past with the present. In this course we explore the importance of food in its various roles (alimentary, cultural, economic, environmental, religious, social, political, etc.) in shaping the history of the late antique, medieval, and early modern world (ca. 300 to 1700). Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST508: The Renaissance
	Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries with special emphasis on Italy as the seat of the Renaissance. Topics include the city states, humanism, the Church in an age of Schism and secularization, Renaissance art, the New Monarchies and European exploration and imperialism. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper. Terms offered: Spring 2023

568

HIST508A: Islamic Mvmnts Muslim World
The course's objectives are (1) to acquaint students with traditional literature and contemporary research on Islamic movements, and 2) to introduce students to the historical and ideological basis of an emerging globalized political Islam. Graduate-level requirements include a 12 page student essay and final paper 25-30 pages. Terms offered: Spring 2023
HIST517A: North African Societies
The objectives are to highlight the thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches and contributions in the field of North African studies and to underline the relationship, continuities, and discontinuities between the colonial past and postcolonial realities. Graduate-level requirements include a 12 page bibliographic essay and a 25 page final paper. Terms offered: Spring 2023

569

HIST528: Food, Health & Enviro in Hist

570

HIST541: Hist African Am Women
The objective of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of the history of Black people in American with a particular eye towards the experiences of Black women. The course will review some of the major historiographical issues presented by scholars of African American Women's History. Graduate-level requirements include additional research papers. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST550: Foreign Relat Since 1914
Examines the pivotal role played by the United States in world affairs since WWI, focusing on America's struggle with revolutionary movements in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper and additional course readings. Terms offered: Spring 2023

571

HIST562C: History Modern Japan, Meiji

572

HIST572: History Medieval India
Survey of Indian history from the 7th century to 1750. Graduate-level requirements include additional research or writing. See instructor for details. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST573: Hist India+Pak:1750-Pres
Survey of political, social and economic developments in South Asia from the mid-18th century to the present. Writing emphasis for India-Pakistan specialization. Graduate-level requirements include additional research or writing; see instructor for details. Terms offered: Spring 2023

573

	HIST579: Ottoman Empire To 1800
	History of Ottoman Empire from its origins through the direct Western European impact, focusing on the political and social history of the empire in Europe and Asia. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	HIST580: Middl East In 20th Cent
	The modern Middle East in the age of imperialism, world wars, state formation, decolonization, and Islamic resistance. Graduate-level requirements include additional readings on selected topics and an extensive research paper. Terms offered: Spring 2023

574

HIST583: History of Cartography

575

HIST585A: History of the Iranian Plateau

576

HIST585C: History of Migrations

577

HIST585P: Palestinian Culture & Soc

578

HIST586: The Ancient World in Film

579

	HIST593: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST593L: Legislative Internship
	Working experience at the Arizona State Legislature; responsibilities draw upon student's area of major expertise and include preparing written and oral reports, summarizing legislative proposals, and providing information to legislators and legislative committees. Terms offered: Fall 2023

580

HIST595E: Strggl+Surv Mod Me+N Afr
The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons. Research projects may or may not be required of course registrants. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST596S: Colonialism+Critique Mod
What modernity is and how it came about have long been hotly contested questions. The relationship between modernity and colonialism has often been central in these debates. The course considers this relationship by investigating how intellectuals in colonized lands have understood and critiqued modernity in comparison with Western theories. Graduate-level requirements include reading secondary articles, a five-page paper for discussion, lead weekly readings, a more substantial final paper. Terms offered: Spring 2023

581

	HIST599: Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST693: Internship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Terms offered: Fall 2023

582

HIST695A: Adv Studies in U.S. Hist
The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons. Research projects may or may not be required of course registrants. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST695K: Historiography
The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons. Research projects may or may not be required of course registrants. Terms offered: Fall 2023

583

	HIST696F: Early Modern Europe
	The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST696J: Latin Am: Modern Period
	The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Terms offered: Spring 2023

584

HIST696M: Gender/Sex+Intrnl Migrat
The course examines sexuality as the site where multiple concerns about international migration (including social, cultural, political, economic and national) are expressed and contested, in the context of globalization and transnationalism. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HIST699: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799. Terms offered: Fall 2023

585

	HIST900: Research
	Individual research, not related to thesis or dissertation preparation, by graduate students. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	HIST910: Thesis
	Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing). Maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department. Terms offered: Fall 2023

586

HIST920: Dissertation
Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing). Terms offered: Fall 2023

587

Health Sciences Design

588

HSD392: Directed Research
Individual or small group research under the guidance of faculty. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HSD392H: Honors Directed Research
Individual or small group research under the guidance of faculty. Terms offered: Fall 2023

589

HSD401: Design for Health Workshop

In this course, you will gain creative confidence and hands-on problem-solving experience as a member of an interdisciplinary team. Your team will work on addressing health seekers' experiences within the healthcare system that requires you to apply the design thinking process "Notice, Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, and Reflect" to understand and clearly define the real (as opposed to the perceived) need, explore design options/concepts, analyze options, prototype your design, and pitch your design recommendation and implementation plan. Using project-based learning techniques, this experiential learning course will enable you to learn about a subject through the experience of exploring an open-ended, student-driven topic in healthcare delivery and patient-centered service experiences. Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline, through enhanced group collaboration, you will build intellectual and practical skills in inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, written and oral communication, teamwork, and problem solving.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

590

HSD492: Directed Research
Individual or small group research under the guidance of faculty. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HSD492H: Honors Directed Research
Individual or small group research under the guidance of faculty. Terms offered: Fall 2023

591

	HSD496: Topics in HSD
	This course addresses a unique topic in health sciences design that is appropriate for undergraduate students. The course will emphasize a specialized aspect of health sciences design not routinely offered in the general curriculum. Terms offered: Spring 2023

592

HSD497: Design for Health Workshop

593

HSD501: Design for Health Workshop

594

HSD592: Directed Research
Individual or small group research under the guidance of faculty. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HSD596: Topics in HSD
This course addresses a unique topic in health sciences design that is appropriate for graduate students. The course will emphasize a specialized aspect of health sciences design not routinely offered in the general curriculum. Terms offered: Spring 2023

595

HSD597: Design for Health Workshop

596

HSD692: Directed Research
Individual or small group research under the guidance of faculty. Terms offered: Fall 2023
HSD900: Research
Individual research, not related to thesis or dissertation preparation, by graduate students. Terms offered: Fall 2023

597

School of Information

598

INFO392: Directed Research
Individual or small group research under the guidance of faculty. Terms offered: Fall 2023
INFO402: Data Ethics
This course explores ethical challenges stemming from data-driven decision making in society. Students will focus on important topics like bias, fairness, privacy, surveillance, discrimination, as well as data collection, storage, and management. Exploring dilemmas tied to data science, artificial intelligence, robotics, etc. will allow students to consider their own data behaviors as well as trends and problems across contexts like organizations, social media, health, and education. Special attention in the class will be given to matters of policy and governing protocols around the world. Related challenges tied to Internet governance, misinformation, fake video, automation, etc., will also be explored. Terms offered: Fall 2023

599

	INFO420: Ethical Issues in Information
	This course presents an overview and understanding of the intractable and pressing ethical issues as well as their related policies in the information fields. Emerging technological developments in relation to public interests and individual well-being are highlighted throughout the course. Special emphasis is placed on case studies and outcomes as well as frameworks for ethical decision-making. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	INFO492: Directed Research
	Individual or small group research under the guidance of faculty. Terms offered: Fall 2023

600

INFO493: Internship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Such work must be approved and supervised by a School of Information faculty member. Terms offered: Fall 2023
INFO499: Independent Study
Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Fall 2023

601

	INFO502: Data Ethics
	This course explores ethical challenges stemming from data-driven decision making in society. Students will focus on important topics like bias, fairness, privacy, surveillance, discrimination, as well as data collection, storage, and management. Exploring dilemmas tied to data science, artificial intelligence, robotics, etc. will allow students to consider their own data behaviors as well as trends and problems across contexts like organizations, social media, health, and education. Special attention in the class will be given to matters of policy and governing protocols around the world. Related challenges tied to Internet governance, misinformation, fake video, automation, etc., will also be explored. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	INFO505: Foundations of Information
	This course introduces fundamental ideas of the Information Age, focusing on the value, organization, use, and processing of information. The course is organized as a survey of these ideas, with readings from the research literature. Specific topics (e.g., visualization, retrieval) will be covered by guest faculty who research in each of these areas. Terms offered: Fall 2023

602

INFO507: Information Research Methods

This seminar introduces fundamental methods for both qualitative and quantitative research in information studies. Additionally, the seminar introduces the student to established and emerging areas of scholarly research in Schools of Information to encourage her to identify a personal research agenda. The seminar is organized in two main parts: the first part introduces relevant research methods (quantitative and qualitative), whereas the second part overviews specific research directions currently active in the School of Information. The second part of the seminar will be covered by guest faculty who research in each of the covered areas.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

603

INFO514: Computational Social Science

604

INFO515: Organization/Information
Introduction to the theories and practices used in the organization of information. Overview of national and international standards, practices and ethical challenges for access to information in collections. Terms offered: Fall 2023

605

INFO516: Intro: Human Computer Interact

The field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) encompasses the design, implementation, and evaluation of interactive computing systems. This course will provide a survey of HCI theory and practice. The course will address the presentation of information and the design of interaction from a human-centered perspective, looking at relevant perceptive, cognitive, and social factors influencing in the design process. It will motivate practical design guidelines for information presentation through Gestalt theory and studies of consistency, memory, and interpretation. Technological concerns will be examined that include interaction styles, devices, constraints, affordances, and metaphors. Theories, principles and design guidelines will be surveyed for both classical and emerging interaction paradigms, with case studies from practical application scenarios. As a central theme, the course will promote the processes of usability engineering, introducing the concepts of participatory design, requirements analysis, rapid prototyping, iterative development, and user evaluation. Both quantitative and qualitative evaluation strategies will be discussed. This course is co-convened: Upper-level undergraduates and graduate students are encouraged to enroll. Graduate students will be expected to complete more substantial projects and will be given more in-depth reading assignments.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

606

INFO517: Intro to Digital Cultures
Digital information technologies shape our lives. The benefits and the possible dangers of digital information technologies will be explored from a multidisciplinary perspective, looking at the insights into our digital age from history, linguistics sociology, political theory, information science, and philosophy. Students will have opportunities for active reflection on the ways in which digital technology shapes learning and social interaction. Graduate-level requirements include different percent break-down of requirements and more stringent expectations in work produced. Terms offered: Spring 2023
INFO520: Ethical Issues in Information
This course presents an overview and understanding of the intractable and pressing ethical issues as well as related policies in the information fields. Emerging technological developments in relation to public interests and individual well-being are highlighted throughout the course. Special emphasis is placed on case studies and outcomes as well as frameworks for ethical decision-making. Terms offered: Fall 2023

607

INFO521: Intro to Machine Learning

Machine learning describes the development of algorithms which can modify their internal parameters (i.e., "learn") to recognize patterns and make decisions based on example data. These examples can be provided by a human, or they can be gathered automatically as part of the learning algorithm itself. This course will introduce the fundamentals of machine learning, will describe how to implement several practical methods for pattern recognition, feature selection, clustering, and decision making for reward maximization, and will provide a foundation for the development of new machine learning algorithms.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

608

INFO523: Data Mining/Discovery

This course will introduce students to the concepts and techniques of data mining for knowledge discovery. It includes methods developed in the fields of statistics, large-scale data analytics, machine learning, pattern recognition, database technology and artificial intelligence for automatic or semi-automatic analysis of large quantities of data to extract previously unknown interesting patterns. Topics include understanding varieties of data, data preprocessing, classification, association and correlation rule analysis, cluster analysis, outlier detection, and data mining trends and research frontiers. We will use software packages for data mining, explaining the underlying algorithms and their use and limitations. The course include laboratory exercises, with data mining case studies using data from many different resources such as social networks, linguistics, geo-spatial applications, marketing and/or psychology
Terms offered: Fall 2023

609

	INFO524: Virtual Reality
	Virtual reality is an emerging technology that has been widely used in recent years in various areas, such as education, training, well-being, and entertainment. Virtual reality offers a highly immersive experience as the head mounted displays replace the vision of the users with digital imagery. It encompasses many disciplines, such as computer science, human computer interaction, game design and development, information science, and psychology. This course merges a theoretical and practical approach to give students the necessary knowledge to design, develop, and critique virtual reality games and applications. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	INFO525: Algorithms for Games
	Algorithms is a crucial component of game development. This course will provide students with an in-depth introduction to algorithm concepts for game development. The course will cover basic algorithm and data structures concepts, basic math concepts related to game algorithms, physics and artificial intelligence based game algorithms that are supplemented with modern examples. Unity Game Engine along with C# programming language will be used throughout the class. Terms offered: Fall 2023

610

INFO526: Data Analysis and Visualizatio
This course provides an overview of the various concepts and skills required for effective data visualization. It presents principles of graphic design, programming skills, and statistical knowledge required to build compelling visualizations that communicate effectively to target audiences. Visualization skills addressed in this course include choosing appropriate colors, shapes, variable mappings, and interactivity based on principles of color perception, pre-attentive processing, and accessibility. Terms offered: Fall 2023
INFO531: Data Warehousing in the Cloud
Data Warehousing and Analytics In the Cloud will utilize concepts, frameworks, and best practices for designing a cloud-based data warehousing solution and explore how to use analytical tools to perform analysis on your data. In the first half of the course, I will provide an overview of the field of Cloud Computing, its main concepts, and students will get hands-on experience through projects which utilize cloud computing platforms. In the second half of the course, we will examine the construction of a cloud-based data warehouse system and explore how the Cloud opens up data analytics to huge volumes of data. Terms offered: Fall 2023

611

	INFO539: Stat Nat Lang Processing
	This course introduces the key concepts underlying statistical natural language processing. Students will learn a variety of techniques for the computational modeling of natural language, including: n-gram models, smoothing, Hidden Markov models, Bayesian Inference, Expectation Maximization, Viterbi, Inside-Outside Algorithm for Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars, and higher-order language models. Graduate-level requirements include assignments of greater scope than undergraduate assignments. In addition to being more in-depth, graduate assignments are typically longer and additional readings are required. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	INFO540: Introduction To Archives
	Provides an introduction to the archival profession with focus on theory and practice in the areas of appraisal and acquisition, arrangement and description, reference, preservation, exhibitions, outreach, and electronic resource development. Terms offered: Fall 2023

612

INFO550: Artificial Intelligence

The methods and tools of Artificial Intelligence used to provide systems with the ability to autonomously problem solve and reason with uncertain information. Topics include: problem solving (search spaces, uninformed and informed search, games, constraint satisfaction), principles of knowledge representation and reasoning (propositional and first-order logic, logical inference, planning), and representing and reasoning with uncertainty (Bayesian networks, probabilistic inference, decision theory). Graduate-level requirements include additional reading of supplementary material, more rigorous tests and homework assignments, and a more sophisticated course project.sophisticated application and technique.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

613

INFO551: Game Development

This course provides an introduction to video game development. We will explore game design (not just computer games, but all games) and continue with an examination of game prototyping. Once we have working prototypes, we will continue with the development of a complete 2D computer game. The remaining course topics include: designing the game engine, rendering the graphics to the screen, and artificial intelligence. Students will be given periodic homework that reinforces what was learned in class. Homework will include developing a game prototype, game design documentation, some programming tasks. Students will work in small teams to develop a working game as a term project. Grades will be primarily based on the term project with some small amount of weight to homework. The examples provided in class will be programmed in Java and available for execution on any operating system. Programming homework assignments will be done in either Java or the language chosen by the instructor. The term project can be written in any programming language with instructor permission.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

614

INFO552: Advanced Game Development

Game development is a vast field with many advanced concepts. This course aims to teach students such concepts, techniques and mechanisms in Unity, covering procedural content generation, design patterns, artificial intelligence, shaders and postprocessing effects, animation, custom interactions and gestures, and performance optimization. The students are expected to have fundamental game development knowledge in Unity and C#. The course is heavily hands-on and project oriented. Students will implement the covered concepts on small-scaled Unity project templates using C# and also develop a larger-scaled final term project. At the end of the course, students will have gained advanced game development skills that can be applied to future jobs or self-development.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

615

	INFO555: Applied NLP
	Most of the data available on the web or managed by institutions and businesses consists of unstructured text. Natural language processing tools help to organize such texts, extract relevant information from them, and automatize time-consuming processes. This course will teach the fundamental knowledge necessary to design and develop end-to-end natural language understanding applications, drawn from examples such as question answering, sentiment analysis, information extraction, automated inference, machine translation, chatbots, etc. We will use several natural language processing toolkits and libraries. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	INFO557: Neural Networks
	Neural networks are a branch of machine learning that combines a large number of simple computational units to allow computers to learn from and generalize over complex patterns in data. Students in this course will learn how to train and optimize feed forward, convolutional, and recurrent neural networks for tasks such as text classification, image recognition, and game playing. Terms offered: Fall 2023

616

INFO558: Social Justice in Info Service

This course considers the ethical issues that arise in serving diverse user groups and their members, including but not limited to, children, women, people with disabilities, the LGBTQ community, the poor, ethnic groups, and Indigenous peoples. Differing information needs and ways of knowing are considered. The role of library and information professionals in promoting and supporting the rights of such groups to access and control information is emphasized. The course explores the ways in which groups of persons may be knowers and what information rights this knowledge might give them, within groups defined by their ethnic or cultural origin, e,g., indigenous peoples, ethnic and racial groups. In addition, libraries and other information services can be designed so as to foster the development and preservation of group knowledge and respect for group information rights.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

617

INFO567: Leadership & the Info Org

All information organizations (libraries, archives, museums, and public and corporate organizations involved in information management) have leadership expectations of their professional employees whether they are in management positions or not. This course focuses the theories, principles, and practices of leadership in these organizations. The course will cover what is leadership and how it differs from management. It will identify what it means to be a professional-- career versus job orientation; understanding personal strengths and management styles (Myers-Briggs, Emotional Intelligence); and professional values-- customer focus, continual learning, diversity. It will also cover understanding organizations and organizational cultures; working on teams; collaboration and negotiation; project management; data based decisions; program development and budgeting, assessment and evaluation; communication skills and interpersonal skills-- including giving and receiving constructive feedback; managing conflict; relationship building and networking; leading change and managing up; and what to look for in a new position.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

618

INFO570: Database Dev And Mgmt
This course covers theory, methods, and techniques widely used to design and develop a relational database system and students will develop a broad understanding of modern database management systems. applications of fundamental database principles in a stand-alone database environment using MS Access and Windows are emphasized. Applications in an Internet environment will be discussed using MySQL in the Linux platform. Graduate-level requirements include a group project consisting of seven sections: Database Design; Implementation (Tables); Forms; Data Retrieval (Queries/Reports); Project Presentation; Project Report; and, Peer Evaluation. Terms offered: Fall 2023
INFO571: Intro Info Technology
This course is designed to introduce the basic concepts and applications of Internet-related information technology and its impacts on individual users, groups, organizations, and society. The topics in this survey course include computing basics, network applications, human computer interactions, computer-support cooperative work, social aspects of information systems, information ethics, and other economic legal issues and ethical issues related to digital services and products. Terms offered: Fall 2023

619

INFO577: Information Security

620

INFO578: Science Information

621

INFO579: SQL/NoSQL Databases

This course provides an overview of modern database systems at the time. Both relational databases (SQL) and a few non-relational databases (NoSQL) are covered, including topics on data warehouses. The focus of the course is on the practical skills of the design and implementation of data storage and access for data and information sciences. Topics covered include ER-diagrams, database normalization, data modeling in NoSQL databases, SQL and other query languages, and data warehousing. The course will selectively cover one or two types of NoSQL databases, for example, document-oriented, key-value pair, column-oriented, or graph databases. Database platforms used in this course could change with time, some examples include MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache HBASE, Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4J.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

622

INFO584: Intellectual Property/Copyrigh

The owners of intellectual property have moral and legal rights that constrain how information can be disseminated. Those working in libraries, archives, or other information services should understand when and why these constraints apply to advocate for a robust and equitable cultural and intellectual commons. Digital content creators should also be aware of the licenses, networks, and creative practices at play in the circulation and reuse of audio, video, photographic and multimodal works. In this course, we will discuss the various legal aspects of copyright (e.g., fair use, the first-sale doctrine) in the context of information services and content creation as well as the ways intellectual property rights affect information services and shape media reuse in the 21st century.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

623

INFO587: Info Seeking Behaviors

Information-seeking theories, methods, and user behaviors will be covered in order to gain an understanding of how people seek, gather, retrieve and use information. Information-seeking behavior draws on literature from library and information science, psychology, and communications. Graduate-level requirements include conducting a real-world experience or evaluation of information seeking behaviors in a self selected social context and information system. The project will include a two-page proposal of the experience due at the mid term and an online presentation to the class of the findings of the study, including; problem/issue studies, research question, data collected and analyzed, significance to the social context, and a statement of personal relationships to the topic and participants.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

624

INFO595: Special Topics in Information

Special topics courses are offered to allow students to explore specialized topics not covered in the program curriculum. Multiple topics might be offered in any given year, and specialized topic descriptions will be advertised by the School for students interested in enrolling in the course. A specific course syllabus will be published prior to the offer of a special topic course.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

625

INFO608: Managing the Information Org

This course is designed to provide new information professionals with a basic understanding of ethical dilemmas and management concepts and theories as they are practiced in information organizations and to build some beginning management skills and competencies. By the end of the course, students should have a broad understanding and be able to discuss the difference between leadership and management, the types of organizational structures and cultures, the value of diversity and inclusion to organizational effectiveness, strategic planning and decision-making structures and ethical decision-making. Basic development in budgeting, project management, human resource management, and effective self-management are part of the course. Students will develop an awareness of personal strengths, professional values and leadership styles and competencies. The course is intended to help students be effective in a variety of organizations and build skills that will lead to middle level management positions and beyond.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

626

INFO640: Adv Archives: Apprsl & Dscr

This course examines the archivist's `first' responsibility - the appraisal of records for long-term preservation. Appraisal is first in the sequence of archival functions and, therefore, influences all subsequent archival activities. Importantly, appraisal is integral in archiving as, through it, archivists determine what sliver of the total human documentary production will actually become `archives' and thus part of society's historical narrative and collective memory. By performing appraisal and selection, archivists are thereby actively shaping the future's history of our times. Topics covered in this course include: Historical Foundations, Key Ideas, and Debates in Appraisal; Appraisal Methods and Strategies; Appraisal for Specific Formats and Genres; and Issues Relating to Appraisal, Democratization, Ethics, and Social Justice. Course readings, assignments, lectures, and discussions will provide students with a thorough knowledge of the basic theories, strategies, professional practices and discourses concerning appraisal with an orientation to doing this job well as working archivists. This is a reading intensive course. Students are expected to attend all classes, do all assigned readings, and participate in in-class and online discussions. Discussions are an integral part of this class as we make sense of our readings and everyday practices together. Participation is absolutely necessary for success. Students are encouraged to integrate relevant prior classroom learning, and personal, professional, and research experiences and reflect upon how these might be utilized or translated in order to work with communities, their archives, and archival materials.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

627

INFO671: Intro Digital Curation/Preserv

LIS/INFO 671 introduces the basic functions of: * digital curation, a term that refers to the full set of management processes needed to create, select, describe, preserve and facilitate access to all types of digital collections, and * digital preservation, a formal endeavor to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable. We will focus primarily on digital curation and preservation in archives, libraries and museums, but we will also explore and compare digital curation and preservation practices from other disciplines, such as e-commerce, government documents and various business document systems and collections, in order to understand both the differences and similarities in the organization, management and preservation of different digital collections. By concentrating on common principles of information organization and information life cycles, you will be able to translate your learning and skills to many kinds of digital collections across disciplines and institutional cultures. This course will also introduce the basic problems associated with digital preservation. It will give students a thorough orientation to the technological and organizational approaches, which have been developed to address long-term preservation concerns. Finally, the course will examine the current state of the art in digital preservation and assess what challenges remain in research and implementation, policy, and ethical challenges in digital curation and preservation efforts. This course is designed to help new information professionals identify roles to play in managing and preserving digital objects and collections, and at the same time to enhance their effectiveness in working across organizational and technical boundaries.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

628

INFO672: Intro Applied Technology
This course provides a basic understanding of technology in the digital information environment along with an introduction to practical hands-on skills needed to manage digital information. The course combines reading, discussion, collaboration, project work, independent study, and guided hands-on practice. The course covers the basic installation, setup and maintenance of key systems found in the digital information environment today. Linux is used as a foundation for learning while drawing parallels to the Windows server operating system, Unix operating systems, and other operating systems. Terms offered: Fall 2023
INFO673: Managing Digital Info
This course provides you with a basic understanding of the theory and practical approaches to the management of information and technology in the digital information environment. Management topics considered in this course range from the strategic (planning, leadership, and policy development) to the tactical (project management, the acquisition and deployment of technology) and ethical challenges and decision making for administrators, group leaders and project managers. The course combines reading, discussion, collaboration, project work, independent study, and guided hands-on practice in order to reinforce the concepts described in the project objectives. Terms offered: Fall 2023

629

INFO675: Adv Digital Collections

This three-credit course is one of six required for completion of the Certificate in Digital Information Management (DigIn). This course will provide an in-depth look at the processes involved in building and managing digital collections and institutional repositories. The course will have a strong hands-on component in which students will apply advanced resource description methods to a collection, and then build a prototype repository along with a basic access system. Students will also analyze and discuss case examples of digital collections, focusing on technology management issues and organizational strategies for building different types of collections.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

630

INFO692: Directed Research

Directed Research courses are intended to cover advanced material outside of or beyond the scope of current course offerings. In such courses, the student will work on a research project under the direct supervision of a School of Information faculty member. The research topic should be relevant to MS degree competencies and contribute to the development of the student's knowledge and skill sets in the field of Information Science. The student should propose a research plan including the expected outcome and the faculty advisor should approve it before registration. The research plan should include a problem statement, proposed research methods, expected outcome, a schedule of research activities and meeting schedule between the student and the faculty advisor, and the assessment of the student performance. The amount of the work should be appropriate for the requested credits. The primary faculty advisor must be an SI faculty, but faculty members from other units may participate in advising the student.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

631

INFO693: Internship

Internship is intended to provide an opportunity for students to build on what they have mastered in the program and practice the knowledge and skills in the real world. The Internship should be relevant to student's degree competencies and contribute to the development and enforcement of the student's knowledge and skill sets in the field of Information Science. The student should propose an internship plan and the identify an internship site supervisor, who typically is external. The site supervisor and the graduate advisor of the school need to approve the plan prior to course registration. The plan should include goals for the internship, degree competencies addressed by the internship, expected tasks to be completed, work schedule, and the assessment plan. The amount of the work should be appropriate for the units registered (3 units = 135 hours). The internship may be paid or unpaid. Student may take an internship in the same organization where student is employed, but work planed for the internship need to have a clear separation from the work expected by the employment. At the conclusion of the internship, the site supervisor is expected to submit a written assessment of student's work.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

632

INFO696E: Graduate Seminar
The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Terms offered: Spring 2023

633

INFO698: Capstone

Capstone Project is intended to provide an opportunity for students to show off what they have mastered in the program. The project should be relevant to MS degree competencies and contribute to the development and enforcement of the student's knowledge and skill sets in the field of Information Science. The student should propose a project plan and the faculty advisor should approve it before registration. The project plan should include goals for the project, MS competencies addressed by the project, system design, an implementation schedule, and the assessment plan. The project plan should also include reasonable milestones and check points. The amount of the work should be appropriate for a 3-unit course. The primary faculty advisor must be an SI faculty, but faculty members from other units may participate in advising the student.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

634

INFO699: Independent Study

Independent studies are intended to cover advanced material outside of or beyond the scope of current course offerings. The topic should be relevant to MS degree competencies and contribute to the development of the student's knowledge and skill sets in the field of Information Science. The student should propose a study plan and the faculty advisor should approve it before registration. The study plan should include learning objectives, readings and/or activities, a schedule of the meetings between the student and the faculty advisor, and the learning outcome and its assessment. The amount of the work should be appropriate for the requested credits. The primary faculty advisor must be an SI faculty, but faculty members from other units may participate in advising the student.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

635

	INFO920: Dissertation
	Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing). Terms offered: Fall 2023

636

Information Resources & Library Science

637

	IRLS441: Children's Lit in Span
	Terms offered: Spring 2023
	IRLS600: Intro Grad Stdy In Music
	Bibliographical materials; research resources, techniques, and problems directed toward graduate study in music. Terms offered: Fall 2023

638

Information Science, Technology & Arts

639

	ISTA100: Great Ideas of the Info Age
	Important ideas and applications of information science and technology in the sciences, humanities and arts. Information, entropy, coding; grammar and parsing; syntax and semantics; networks and relational representations; decision theory, game theory; and other great ideas form the intellectual motifs of the Information Age and are explored through applications such as robotic soccer, chess-playing programs, web search, population genetics among others. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ISTA116: Statistic Foundations Info Age
	Understanding uncertainty and variation in modern data: data summarization and description, rules of counting and basic probability, data visualization, graphical data summaries, working with large data sets, prediction of stochastic outputs from quantitative inputs. Operations with statistical computer packages such as R. Terms offered: Fall 2023

640

ISTA130: Computational Thinking & Doing
An introduction to computational techniques and using a modern programming language to solve current problems drawn from science, technology, and the arts. Topics include control structures, elementary data structures, and effective program design and implementation techniques. Weekly laboratory. Terms offered: Fall 2023

641

ISTA131: Dealing with Data

At the core of Information Science lies the digital data that is the object of study. This course aims to introduce the tools, techniques, and issues involved with the handling of this data: where it comes from, how to store and retrieve it, how to extract knowledge from the data via analysis, and the social, ethical, and legal issues involved in its use. Throughout the course, students will be given hands-on experience with actual datasets from a variety of sources including social media and citizen science projects, as well as experience with common tools for analysis and visualization. Students will also examine topical case studies involving legal and ethical issues surrounding data.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

642

ISTA161: Ethics in a Digital World
This course explores the social, legal, and cultural fallout from the exponential explosion in communication, storage, and increasing uses of data and data production. In this class, we emphasize the opposing potentials of information technologies to make knowledge widely available and to distort and restrict our perceptions. In a world of rapid technological change, topics include (but are not limited to): eavesdropping and secret communications, privacy; Internet censorship and filtering, cyberwarfare, computer ethics and ethical behavior, copyright protection and peer-to-peer networks, broadcast and telecommunications regulation, including net neutrality, data leakage, and the power and control of search engines. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ISTA230: Intro Web Design-Development
An introduction to web design and development, with an emphasis on client-side technologies. Topics include HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, and web design best practices. Terms offered: Spring 2023

643

	ISTA251: Introduction to Game Design
	This course provides an introduction to game design and teaches students the fundamental concepts for creating games. Students will survey many different games, exploring the issues game designers face when designing games in different genres. Students will participate in a series of game design challenges and will be responsible for designing and prototyping simple games using a game building tool. Students will present their solutions to these challenges in front of the class for general discussion and constructive criticism. Terms offered: Spring 2023
	ISTA263: Learning in Information Age
	Students will examine how the human learning process has been impacted by digital technologies; compare the learning adaptation skills of people from various generations and cultures; explore how the process of human learning is informing the development and design of computers that learn; and identify the moral and ethical implications of using computers that learn within our culture. Terms offered: Fall 2023

644

ISTA301: Computing and the Arts

This course examines the ways in which computing and information science support and facilitate the production and creation of art in current society. A particular focus of the course will be to discuss how artists have used advances in technology and computing capacity to explore new ways of making art, and to investigate the relationships between technical innovation and the artistic process.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

645

ISTA302: Technology of Sound

This course will provide the student with the information and experience necessary for the creation and manipulation of digital audio. Students will have the opportunity to experience the music-making process with the technology tools and techniques that are common in both home and professional studios. The class will make use of a variety of software packages designed for contemporary music production, explaining the universal techniques and concepts that run through all major software programs. Topics will include musical analysis, MIDI control, synthesis techniques, audio editing, and audio mixing. Lab assignments will emphasize hands-on experience working with musical hardware and software to provide the necessary skills to create music based on today's musical styles. The course provides the foundation for further study, creative applications, and personal expression.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

646

ISTA320: Applied Data Visualization

This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts and tools used to convey the information contained within large, complex data sets through a variety of visualization techniques. Students will learn the fundamentals of data exploration data via visualizations, how to manipulate and reshape data to make it suitable for visualization, and how to prepare everything from simple single-variable visualizations to large multi-tiered and interactive visualizations. Visualization theory will be presented alongside the technical aspect of the course to develop a holistic understanding of the topic.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

647

ISTA321: Data Mining and Discovery

This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of data mining for knowledge discovery. This includes methods developed in the fields of statistics, large-scale data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence for automatic or semi-automatic analysis of large quantities of data to extract previously unknown interesting patterns. Topics include understanding varieties of data, classification, association rule analysis, cluster analysis, and anomaly detection. We will use software packages for data mining, explaining the underlying algorithms and their use and limitations. The course include laboratory exercises, with data mining case studies using data from biological sequences and networks, social networks, linguistics, ecology, geo-spatial applications, marketing and psychology.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

648

ISTA322: Data Engineering
This course will be inviting for a wide variety of students from across disciplines, and they will learn how to use industry standard tools and practices to make large data sets usable for scientists and other decision makers. From data collection and preparation, to the creation of big data stores, databases, or systems to make data flow, this course will focus on the practical work needed to prepare big data for analyses across contexts. Students will be introduced to a variety of technical tools for data management, storage, use, and manipulation. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ISTA329: Intro Web Design-Development
An introduction to web design and development, with an emphasis on client-side technologies. Topics include HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, and web design best practices. Terms offered: Fall 2023

649

ISTA331: Princ Data Science

ISTA 331 explores the ideas and techniques that businesspersons and scientists alike use to exploit data in order to create knowledge and make money. Topics and projects may include recommender systems (which powered Amazon's rise to global retail dominance), spam filters (the first machine learning application that affected our daily lives), topic extraction from documents, and an introduction to neural networks.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

650

ISTA350: Prog for Informatics Apps

This course will provide an introduction to informatics application programming using the python programming language and applying statistical concepts from a first semester statistics course. A key goal of this course is to prepare students for upper division ISTA courses by expanding on the skills gained in ISTA 116 and 130 but will be broadly applicable to any informatics discipline. Throughout the semester students will be faced with information application problems drawn from several different disciplines in order to expand their breadth of experience while simultaneously increasing their depth of knowledge of scientific and informatics programming methods. Students will practice problem decomposition and abstraction, gaining experience in identifying commonly occurring information processing issues and in applying well-known solutions. In addition, students will design their own algorithmic solutions to problems and will learn how to effectively compare different solutions, evaluating efficiency in order to choose the best solution for a given problem. Periodic code reviews will be held in order to expose students to a range of different solution methods, which will aid them in discovering weaknesses in their own work and will improve their ability to communicate with others on technical topics. The course will include an introduction to the python scientific computing libraries and other statistical packages. Additional course topics will include the use of version control systems, software profiling, general software engineering practices and basic shell scripting.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

651

ISTA352: Images: Past, Present, Future

A significant portion of the human brain is devoted to understanding spatial data and its relation to the world. Through the ages humans have naturally developed external representations of such information for communication, planning, understanding, and entertainment. Further, the digital age has led to an explosion of images available to everyone in forms that are convenient to share, manipulate, and automatically mine for information. In this thematic course we will study images from perspectives that transcend disciplines, and applicable to many of them, including the arts, science and biomedicine, computational intelligence, geography, and security. We will study what images are, how images are stored and distributed, the reproduction of images, how they can be manipulated, using images for visualization, and extracting semantics from images.
Terms offered: Summer 2023

652

ISTA391: Preceptorship
Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Teaching formats may include seminars, in-depth studies, laboratory work and patient study. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ISTA401: Installation Design
This course is a hands-on, project-based approach to understanding and designing art installations. Enrollees will learn principles, tools, and techniques of rapid prototyping and installation design, and will collaborate to design and implement a large-scale installation by the end of the semester. The course lectures will also provide an overview of the history, theory, and aesthetics of installation art. Terms offered: Spring 2023

653

ISTA416: Intro: Human Computer Interact

654

ISTA421: Intro to Machine Learning
Machine learning describes algorithms which can modify their internal parameters (i.e., "learn") to recognize patterns and make decisions based on examples or through interaction with the environment. This course will introduce the fundamentals of machine learning, will describe how to implement several practical methods for pattern recognition, feature selection, clustering, and decision making for reward maximization, and will provide a foundation for the development of new machine learning algorithms. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ISTA424: Virtual Reality
Virtual reality is an emerging technology that has been widely used in recent years in various areas, such as education, training, well-being, and entertainment. Virtual reality offers a highly immersive experience as the head mounted displays replace the vision of the users with digital imagery. It encompasses many disciplines, such as computer science, human computer interaction, game design and development, information science, and psychology. This course merges a theoretical and practical approach to give students the necessary knowledge to design, develop, and critique virtual reality games and applications. Terms offered: Fall 2023

655

	ISTA425: Algorithms for Games
	Algorithms is a crucial component of game development. This course will provide students with an in-depth introduction to algorithm concepts for game development. The course will cover basic algorithm and data structures concepts, basic math concepts related to game algorithms, physics and artificial intelligence based game algorithms that are supplemented with modern examples. Unity Game Engine along with C# programming language will be used throughout the class. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ISTA431: Data Warehousing in the Cloud
	Data Warehousing and Analytics In the Cloud will utilize concepts, frameworks, and best practices for designing a cloud-based data warehousing solution and explore how to use analytical tools to perform analysis on your data. In the first half of the course, I will provide an overview of the field of Cloud Computing, its main concepts, and students will get hands-on experience through projects which utilize cloud computing platforms. In the second half of the course, we will examine the construction of a cloud-based data warehouse system and explore how the Cloud opens up data analytics to huge volumes of data. Terms offered: Fall 2023

656

ISTA450: Artificial Intelligence

657

ISTA451: Game Development

658

ISTA455: Applied NLP
Most of the data available on the web or managed by institutions and businesses consists of unstructured text. Natural language processing tools help to organize such texts, extract relevant information from them, and automatize time-consuming processes. This course will teach the fundamental knowledge necessary to design and develop end-to-end natural language understanding applications, drawn from examples such as question answering, sentiment analysis, information extraction, automated inference, machine translation, chatbots, etc. We will use several natural language processing toolkits and libraries. Terms offered: Spring 2023
ISTA457: Neural Networks
Neural networks are a branch of machine learning that combines a large number of simple computational units to allow computers to learn from and generalize over complex patterns in data. Students in this course will learn how to train and optimize feed forward, convolutional, and recurrent neural networks for tasks such as text classification, image recognition, and game playing. Terms offered: Fall 2023

659

	ISTA491: Preceptorship
	Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of instruction and practice in actual service in a department, program, or discipline. Teaching formats may include seminars, in-depth studies, laboratory work and patient study. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	ISTA495: Special Topics in Information
	Special topics courses are offered to allow students to explore specialized topics not covered in the program curriculum. Multiple topics might be offered in any given year, and specialized topic descriptions will be advertised by the School for students interested in enrolling in the course. A specific course syllabus will be published prior to the offer of a special topic course. Terms offered: Spring 2023

660

ISTA498: Senior Capstone
A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing required. Terms offered: Fall 2023
ISTA498H: Honors Thesis
An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis. Terms offered: Fall 2023

661

	ISTA499H: Honors Independent Study
	Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Terms offered: Spring 2023

662

Journalism

663

	JOUR105: Principles of Journalism
	This survey course provides an overview of news journalism, its history, future and role in a democratic society. It will cover the basics of journalism values, principles, law, ethics, writing and reporting. Terms offered: Fall 2023

664

JOUR150C1: News in Society

From accusations of fake news and biased reporting to sensationalism, trust in media has never been lower. But the importance of quality information sources has never been higher. This course will explore media from the perspective of the journalist, the news consumer and society as a whole. We will analyze how the news media as an influential institution shapes political, social and cultural conversations in society and acts as a check on government power. The course will provide a behind-the-scenes look at how journalists do their job and let you experience being a reporter first-hand. We will explore the sometimes-deadly clash between individual expression and government control, your rights under the First Amendment, and analyze why campus preachers can say hateful things but you can't shout "fire" in a crowded theater. Students who complete the course will understand the role media plays in a society and be able to navigate the complex world of fake news, filter bubbles and talking heads, becoming engaged and educated consumers of information.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

665

	JOUR203: Photojournalism
	Reporting news through images and graphics; introduction to all aspects of photojournalism, including law, ethics, history and critical decision-making. Terms offered: Fall 2023

666

JOUR204: Do no Harm

Journalism is an exciting, versatile and demanding career. Journalists are taught to ask tough questions, hold the powerful accountable and report on varied communities--even some that are experiencing trauma. It can be easy to get burned out in the process of telling tough stories while also being mindful of not inadvertently amplifying the trauma of your sources. This class will equip students with practical skills to protect the emotional wellbeing of your sources and yourself by learning how to grow your career sustainably. Topics include: Juggling different assignments, working with editors and teams, reporting with/for communities, sourcing stories with people who don't look like you, burnout, unionizing, pay, contracts, negotiation, PTSD, trauma and more.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

667

	JOUR205: Reporting the News
	Gathering, evaluating, and writing news. Completion of this course with a grade of C or better also satisfies the Mid-Career Writing Assessment (MCWA) requirement. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	JOUR280: Broadcast Writing
	This course is an introductory class on broadcast news writing, focusing mainly on writing for television with some instruction on writing for audio/radio. Students spend the semester learning basic television and audio/radio writing formats. Ethics in broadcast journalism are introduced and discussed. Toward the end of the semester, students may combine their own original video to use in some assignments. Terms offered: Fall 2023

668

JOUR303: Sports and the Media
Whether you are aspiring to be a sports journalist or just a more well-rounded sports fan, this course will help you look at sports and the media in a more critical and engaged manner. This course will explore the nexus between sports and media, focusing on the glory days of print journalism to the 24-7 news cycle. It will address race, gender and coverage bias issues and examine ethical cases that involve controversy. And finally, the course will expose challenges facing the sports media, while offering ways to improve the industry. Terms offered: Summer 2023
JOUR306: Advanced Reporting
Comprehensive and accurate news presentation with emphasis on interview techniques and coverage of major news stories. Completion of this course with a C or better also satisfies Mid Career Writing Assessment (MCWA). Terms offered: Fall 2023

669

	JOUR307: Principles of Multimedia
	This is a multimedia course that will introduce you to multimedia reporting which is some combination of text, still photographs, video clips, audio, graphics and interactivity presented on a Web site in a nonlinear format in which the information in each medium is complementary, not redundant. Through interactive exercises you will learn about four basic elements: audio; shooting still photographs and video; editing; and storytelling using a variety of multimedia platforms. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	JOUR308: Sports Journalism
	Gathering, evaluating and writing sports news in an ethical and effective manner. Terms offered: Fall 2023

670

JOUR313: Reporting Public Affairs
Study and practice of newsgathering on executive, legislative, and judicial levels in city, county, state and federal governments, with emphasis on both deadline writing and in-depth stories. Terms offered: Fall 2023
JOUR320: Editing
Theory and techniques of copy editing and headline writing; introduction to layout and design. Terms offered: Fall 2023

671

	JOUR385: Beg TV Reporting+Prodctn
	Course introduces students to television reporting and production and the ethical decision-making skills needed to success in the advanced TV course, JOUR 490C Arizona Cat's Eye. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	JOUR393: Internship
	Work during the summer on-site for a news or news-related organization under the supervision of an experience communication professional. Repeatable once plus one 1-unit part-time internship, for a total of 7 units. Terms offered: Fall 2023

672

JOUR399: Independent Study
An extended exploration of a journalistic topic under the supervision of a full-time faculty member. The project can take many forms -- research paper, investigative news stories, photo essay, broadcast documentary or online report. Terms offered: Fall 2023
JOUR405: Media Apprenticeship
Internship with a news organization supplemented with professional development, analysis of industry trends and best practices. Graduate-level requirements include a major research paper. Terms offered: Fall 2023

673

	JOUR411: Feature Writing
	Writing the feature articles for newspapers, magazines or other media; specialized reporting and writing techniques. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	JOUR428: Product Dev. in Journalism
	This course will be a hands-on class in which you research and develop an idea for a news product and begin implementing the necessary steps to see your idea launch. By the end of the class you should have a beta version of your product that serves your identified audience. Terms offered: Spring 2023

674

JOUR435D: Food Journalism
Our relationship with food--and the way we discuss it--is complicated and deeply personal. We filter everything from restaurant reviews to nutritional news through the lens of our past and present circumstances, bringing class, history, economics, culture, race, and even DNA to the table. In this course, we'll parse out these perspectives, the array of assumptions we make when we sit down (or stand up) to eat. Terms offered: Fall 2023
JOUR439: Ethics + Diversity in the News
Analysis of ethical theory and how it relates to journalists' roles and responsibilities in a democratic society. Case studies involve questions of bias, accuracy, privacy and national security. Terms offered: Summer 2023

675

JOUR465: Issues in Covering Sci & Env

Science is one of the most powerful forces of change in the world. This discussion course introduces students to the professional, legal, economic and ethical factors that affect the science news agenda and the work of science journalists. We'll study the principles of science journalism, the scientific process and the differences between science journalism and science communication. We'll examine reporting methods used by print, television and online news organizations. Guest speakers -- prominent science journalists and scientists -- will explore the ways in which science news both reflects and influences the attitudes of the public and policymakers. Readings, case studies and discussions will look at issues of balance, scientific uncertainty, accuracy and ethical codes for science journalists.
Terms offered: Spring 2023

676

JOUR472: Science Journalism

Science is one of the most powerful forces of change in the world. This applied course covers the fundamental elements of producing news reports about science events and issues. We will examine the principles of journalism, the scientific process and the differences between science journalism and science communication. Guest speakers--prominent science journalists and scientists--will explore key issues involved in communicating with the public about science. Readings, case studies and discussions will examine issues of balance, scientific uncertainty, accuracy and ethical codes for science journalists. You'll write professional-quality science articles for general interest and specialized news media. You'll learn how to gather, evaluate and organize information in ways that will produce accurate, comprehensive information for the public. Each student will write one short piece, and in pairs you'll research and produce an in-depth article.
Terms offered: Fall 2023

677

	JOUR473: Reporting U.S.-Mexico Border
	Students will gain an understanding of best practices and challenges specific to reporting in the borderlands, and will conduct research in and about the border region, including interviews with area residents. They will report findings in the form of essays, oral histories, research projects and in-depth reporting projects. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	JOUR482: Drone Zone
	Drones or sUAVs are increasingly common in many industries including; journalism, engineering, research, agriculture, commerce and more. In this course you will learn about the current requirements for operating a drone for work or profit, how drone controls work, videography techniques and the rules and laws governing safe sUAV flight. This course will prepare you to pass the FAA's Drone License program and legally fly a drone for commercial purposes. Terms offered: Summer 2023

678

JOUR489: Survey/Research Methods
Students will be exposed to qualitative and quantitative research methods, such as journalism backgrounding, media analysis, content analysis, and in-depth interviewing. Terms offered: Spring 2023
JOUR490C: Arizona Cat's Eye
Through extensive hands-on experience in this capstone course, students learn how to write, report, shoot, produce and edit news for broadcast. Terms offered: Fall 2023

679

	JOUR490F: Arizona-Sonora News
	Students in Arizona Sonora News produce strong enterprise stories in written and multimedia formats, which are then provided to media for professional publication. Students learn the techniques of search engine optimization and key word construction, and apply what they have learned in their other classes through the major. This engaged learning news service class enables students to demonstrate that they can produce professional quality work. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	JOUR493: Internship
	Work on-site for a news or news-related organization under the supervision of an experienced communication professional. If combined with two 3-unit summer internships only a total of 7 units is acceptable. Terms offered: Fall 2023

680

JOUR493H: Honors Internship
Work on-site for a news or news-related organization under the supervision of an experienced communication professional, performing to the standards of the Honors College. Terms offered: Fall 2023
JOUR493L: Legislative Internship
Spend a semester working for Arizona Capitol TV, a nonpartisan office of the state legislature in Phoenix. Research, write and produce video segments. 12 credit units, usually split between two departments. Journalism usually uses this course as a substitute for JOUR 380, with the other units counted as upper-division elective credit. Terms offered: Spring 2023

681

	JOUR498H: Honors Thesis
	An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	JOUR499: Independent Study
	An extended exploration of a journalistic topic under the supervision of a full-time faculty member. The project can take many forms -- research paper, investigative news stories, photo essay, broadcast documentary or online report. Terms offered: Fall 2023

682

JOUR499H: Honors Independent Study
A rigorous in-depth exploration of a journalistic topic that meets Honors College criteria. The project can take many forms -- research paper, investigative news story, photo essay, broadcast documentary or online report. Terms offered: Spring 2023
JOUR505: Media Apprenticeship
Internship with a news organization supplemented with professional development, analysis of industry trends and best practices. Graduate-level requirements include a major research paper. Graduate-level requirements include a major research paper. Terms offered: Fall 2023

683

	JOUR506: Intro + Adv Reporting
	This course is both an introductory and advanced reporting course for graduate students in the School of Journalism. It is intended for first year graduate students. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	JOUR507: Report with Multimedia
	This course is designed to give graduate students an intensive hands-on introduction to multimedia reporting. Multimedia reporting is defined as the effective and ethical use of text, still photographs, video clips, audio, graphics and interactivity for the Web. Terms offered: Fall 2023

684

JOUR508: Jour Theory & Practice
This course introduces graduate students to the major theories related to the critical study of the media. Fieldwork may include publication of conclusions. Requirements include a major research paper. Terms offered: Fall 2023
JOUR509: Internatnal+US Media Law
Basic legal concepts for media in an international and U.S. context, including access to courts, public records and meetings; subpoenas and shield laws; prior restraint; libel; privacy; source confidentiality; intellectual property; obscenity; and broadcast regulations. Terms offered: Spring 2023

685

	JOUR511: Feature Writing
	Writing the feature articles for newspapers, magazines or other media; specialized reporting and writing techniques. Graduate-level requirements include additional in-depth assignments. Terms offered: Fall 2023
	JOUR528: Product Dev. in Journalism
	This course will be a hands-on class in which you research and develop an idea for a news website and begin implementing the necessary steps to see your idea become a real website. By the end of the class you should have a website, which you can launch and begin publishing content and start generating revenue. Graduate students will be required to research an emerging trend in journalism entrepreneurship. The student will write an eight-page paper on the subject and present findings to the class and local media outlets. Terms offered: Spring 2023

686

JOUR535D: Food Journalism
Our relationship with food--and the way we discuss it--is complicated and deeply personal. We filter everything from restaurant reviews to nutritional news through the lens of our past and present circumstances, bringing class, history, economics, culture, race, and even DNA to the table. In this course, we'll parse out these perspectives, the array of assumptions we make when we sit down (or stand up) to eat. Terms offered: Fall 2023
JOUR539: Ethics + Diversity in the News
Analysis of ethical theory and how it relates to journalists' roles and responsibilities in a democratic society. Case studies involve questions of bias, accuracy, privacy and national security. Graduate-level requirements include a research paper examining a major ethical issue and providing a critique regarding how the media covered the issue. Terms offered: Summer 2023

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AIS104A: Diné Bizaad (Navajo Language)

AIS104B: Beginning Diné Bizaad (Navajo)

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AIS160A1: Many Nations/Native Am

AIS200: Intro Amer Indian Stds

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AIS204A: Intermediate Diné Bizaad

AIS204B: Intermediate Diné Bizaad

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AIS210: Amer Indian Languages

AIS212: American Indian Religions

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AIS220: Contemp Am Indian Issues

AIS295A: American Indian Studies

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AIS307A: Elem O'Odham Language

AIS307B: Elem O'Odham Language

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AIS336: Hist/Phil of Dine People

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AIS346: SW Migrations and Landscapes

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AIS348A: Educating Native Americans

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AIS399: Independent Study

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AIS403: Globalization & Indigen People

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AIS418: Southwest Land+Society

AIS426A: Indigenous Economics

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AIS427: Ling. for Native American Com.

AIS428: Indigenous Research and Ethics

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AIS431A: Tradition Ecological Knowledge

AIS434: Tribal Government

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AIS437: Indigenous Health

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AIS437A: Nation Building I

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AIS450: American Indian Women

AIS450A: Native American Law & Policy

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AIS467: Race + Ethnic Relations

AIS477: Studies Native Amer Lit

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AIS493: Internship

AIS495A: American Indian Studies

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AIS497F: Comm/School Garden Workshop

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AIS498H: Honors Thesis

AIS499: Independent Study

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AIS499H: Honors Independent Study

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AIS503: Globalization & Indigen People

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AIS504A: Fund of American Indian Study

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AIS517: Indigenous Public Health

AIS518: Southwest Land+Society

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AIS525: Native Economic Develpmt

AIS526A: Principles of Indigenous Econ

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AIS527: Intro to Desc Native Amer Lang

AIS528: Indigenous Research and Ethics

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AIS531A: Tradition Ecological Knowledge

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AIS537A: Nation Building I

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AIS548: Rsrch Design+Methodology