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GG 207 - Economic Geography
A geographic perspective on the central economic issues facing human societies. This course covers conflicting arguments and theories for comprehending a world in rapid transition, ranging from spatial applications of neoclassical economics to political economy perspectives on underdevelopment. Possible topics include population dynamics and policy; pollution and resource depletion; food and famine; transportation; patterns of production and land use; economic justice; social and economic development; and multinational and international commerce.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Global Issues that Impact the Common Good or Social and Institutional Dimensions/ NA
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GG 211 - Water Resources
A geographical examination of human-environment relations in the context of water. Built on a foundation of hydrology/water resource management, the course examines the development and resolution of conflict over this critical natural resource. Possbile topics include the hydrological cycle; surface and groundwater processes; the distribution and development of water resources at a variety of spatial scales; water quality and human health; water law; globalization and the commodification of drinking water supplies; international conflict over water supplies; water and human rights.
Credits: 4
Crosslisted: ES-211
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GG 220 - Maps and Apps: Space and Place in Electronic Environments
An exploration of maps and mapping in electronic environments. Students will explore the fundamental premises of cartography and apply them in various Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environments. Course topics include map creation and analysis, virtual globes, exploration and use of online “public” mapping and spatial analysis services, and basic use of GIS software. The principle objective is to investigate an array of mapping and spatial display environments rather than develop expert GIS users.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions:
Notes: This course will not be open to students to have already received credit for ES-260: Geographical Information Systems. (Students who complete ES-220/GG-220 may, however, move on to complete ES-260).
Crosslisted: ES-220
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GG 311 - Community and Environmental Planning
An introduction to community and environmental planning from an applied geography perspective. Foundational topics include the evolution of the American urban system and the internal structure of cities; the evolution of planning as a legal and regulatory facet of American society; planning techniques and tools; approaches to environmental problem solving at local and regional scales. Supplementary emphases may include housing and community development, economic development, historic preservation and transportation. The class has a fieldwork component. Students are introduced to the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: At least one geography course or permission of the instructor.
Crosslisted: ES-311
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GG 317 - Advanced Topics in Geography
Intermediate seminar, the subject matter of which will vary from year to year. Consult with the instructor before enrolling to ascertain topics to be studied.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: At least one geography course or permission of the instructor.
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GG 417 - Directed Readings in Geography
Directed study for advanced students in human geography. Focused on major themes and literature in the field, this seminar includes design and completion of a research project.
Credits: 2
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Enrollment by permission of the instructor.
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GL 201 - Foundations of Global Studies
Students learn theories and methodologies of critical thinking about globalization. They study the interdependence of people and places, and increasing global interconnectedness through economic, political, cultural, and environmental change. Students think globally about the fast-paced transfer of ideas, products, labor, and money and their vital impact on local communities.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Global Issues that Impact the Common Good/ History & Society
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GL 255 - South Africa: Apartheid – Resistance, Revolution and Representation
This course analyses the ways in which media was used to promote, maintain and then dismantle apartheid in South Africa. What role did media play in influencing people’s views of the systemic injustices and how was media utilized in the fight against apartheid? How does media shape post-apartheid South Africa?
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: NA/Engaging Diverse Identities
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GL 270 - Senegalese Culture
This course will give you a solid introduction to West African culture through the study of Senegal in an interdisciplinary approach (history, religious and film studies, literature, sociology, linguistics.) in order to get a good understanding of what Senegalese society is like today.
Credits: 2
LSC/Core: Students must also complete GL-271 or FR-271 to earn LSC/CORE credit.
Crosslisted: FR-270
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GL 271 - Service and Culture in Senegal
You will spend two weeks in Senegal and learn about Senegalese culture through an interdisciplinary approach and by having excursions and visits, lectures by guest speakers, service and hands on activities, interactions with the locals, and class discussions.
Credits: 2
Prerequisites/Restrictions: GL-270 or FR-270
LSC/Core: NA/ History & Society AND Engaging Diverse Identities
Crosslisted: FR-271
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GL 301 - Advanced Topics in Global Studies
An examination of a topic not offered by the department on a regular basis. Topics will vary depending on instructor and student interest and demand, but all topics will at a minimum employ a multi-disciplinary and comparative perspective to examine an issue of global relevance in or across two or more cultures, nations or institutions.
Credits: Variable
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GL 330 - City of Joy! Seeking to Understand Kolkata, India (Pre-Trip)
In this course we explore the rich culture, art, religions and poverty of Kolkata, India. Each week we will uncover different stories, from streetlife to language and sounds in a city where 15 million people coexist with sacred cows and booming technology, and where Mother Theresa established her lifework.
Credits: 2
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GL 331 - Kolkata, India: Immersion through Service in the City of Joy (Study Trip)
Merging cultural exploration of this ancient city with service at various organizations, including Mother Theresa’s Missionaries of Charity, we will explore what makes an NGO effective-a focus on immediate needs or sustainable change? This trip is largely defined by an immersive experience with significant time spent serving vulnerable populations.
Credits: 2
Prerequisites/Restrictions: GL-330
LSC/Core: NA/Engaging Diverse Identities (Upon completion of both GL-330 and GL-331).
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GL 340 - Preparation for International Service
Students prepare for travel to an international location by learning about the history, economics, politics, culture, and society of that location, and by carefully exploring the challenges of engaging in service work in developing countries. This course provides an opportunity for team-building, logistical preparation, and intellectual grounding in philosophical ethical theory, as applied to international service. The course is restricted to students planning to enroll in GL 341 “A Study in Service: Guyana” or another international service experience.
Credits: 2
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GL 341 - A Study in Solidarity: Guyana
Students travel to an international location for two weeks (Guyana, if political conditions allow) and engage in service-learning, working with individuals facing marginalization based on race, poverty, age, and illness. Daily writing and group discussion will consider global social, political, and economic marginalization and Emmanuel Levinas’ theory of infinite responsibility.
Credits: 2
Prerequisites/Restrictions: PH 351
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GL 355 - South Africa: Resistance, Revolution, & Representation Study Trip
This course analyses the ways in which media was used to promote, maintain and then dismantle apartheid in South Africa. What role did media play in influencing people’s views of the systemic injustices and how was media utilized in the fight against apartheid? How does media shape post-apartheid South Africa?
Credits: 2
Prerequisites/Restrictions: GL-255 or MJD-255
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GL 358 - Power, Resistance, & Race
This course examines questions about race, identity, power, oppression, resistance, and liberation. Is race central to subjectivity? Are we free in determining who we are, given powerful forces of socialization and domination in our racialized world? Does human nature lead to conformity and oppression? Does human nature lead to resistance? How can we overcome oppression? How can we achieve liberation? We will examine ideas from thinkers and leaders in the US and around the world who have challenged systems of racial and ethnic domination and inspired movements for liberation.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: PH-103
LSC/Core: NA/ History & Society AND Engaging Diverse Identities
Crosslisted: PH-358
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GL 410 - Advanced Integrations
This is the capstone course for the Global Studies minor. Students will have the opportunity to synthesize theoretical material from this and previous courses, and apply it to cases and issues facing cultures worldwide. Students will be expected to use research, writing and presentation skills to complete projects related to their geographic and topical areas of interest.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: GL-201; Seniors Only; Juniors by Permission of Instructor As this is a capstone experience, students should complete all other coursework for the Global Studies Minor prior to enrolling in this course.
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GR 101 - Elementary Greek
An introduction to Ancient Greek. Students will learn the fundamentals of Greek grammar through drill, and translation and composition exercises. Students will get a taste of simple Greek, through sentences and very short passages from the New Testament and ancient Greek authors, such as Menander, Homer, Herodotus, and Xenophon. Students will also be introduced to the history of Greek literature.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Second Language/ Second Language for B.A.
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GR 201 - Intermediate Greek
Continued intensive study of the fundamentals and nuances of ancient Greek. Selected readings may include Xenophon, Herodotus, and the New Testament.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: GR 101
LSC/Core: Second Language/ Second Language for B.A.
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GR 310 - Directed Readings in Greek Literature
Students will read and discuss texts by a Greek author. This course may be taken more than once, and normally students will work with one author in a semester. Recent offerings have been Homer, Plato, and Herodotus.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: GR 101 and GR 201 or equivalent.
LSC/Core: NA/ Literature & The Arts
Notes: May be repeatable as long as the topic is different.
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GS 101 - Gender Studies: Foundations
This course introduces students to the history, theories, methodologies, vocabulary, and classic readings in gender studies, usually with concentration on one theme such as health, labor, or suffrage. The course materials have broad applicability to other courses and will provide a useful foundation for students who plan to major or minor in Gender Studies.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Social and Institutional Dimensions of Human Behavior/ History & Society AND Engaging Diverse Identities
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GS 203 - Gender Issues in Society
Explores the significance and intelligibility of gender by examining, from an interdisciplinary and global perspective, how gender differentiation is experienced, understood, expressed, valued, and lived out in cultures.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Social and Institutional Dimensions of Human Behavior/ History & Society AND Engaging Diverse Identities
Notes: Fulfills Written Communication requirement for the Gender Studies major.
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GS 204 - Men & Masculinities
Explore the myriad definitions, pre-conceived notions, constructions and consequences of both our subjective and objective “experiences” of the two vastly misunderstood terms - men AND masculinities. Global, national and local interpretations of these terms will be explored through the use of texts, discussions, lectures, videos and guest speakers.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: NA/ History & Society AND Engaging Diverse Identities
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GS 208 - Topics in Gender Studies
This topics course may change from year to year as professors offer introductory level courses on a topic related to the study of gender. These courses are designed to include all undergraduates, not just Gender Studies minors, who are interested in the particular special topic relating to gender offered that year.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: NA/ Engaging Diverse Identities
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GS 308 - Advanced Topics in Gender Studies
This advanced topics course may change from year to year as professors offer advanced level, theoretical courses that reflect current work in the discipline of Gender Studies. A current special topic course is, for example, Feminist Theory and the Body. A past course was Sex and Sexuality from a Gender Perspective. These courses are designed to help Gender Studies minors do advanced reading and work in the field.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: NA/ Engaging Diverse Identities
Notes: May be repeatable as long as the topic is different.
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GS 410 - Senior Capstone
Each student designs a senior project by working with the director of the program and a Gender Studies advisor. It must include a research thesis or project and an internship or community-based learning component linking theory and praxis. Students will give a presentation of their work at a symposium in the Women’s Center at year’s end.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Permission of Instructor Only.
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HI 101 - U.S. History to 1865
A survey of American history from the beginnings of colonization through the Civil War.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Historical Studies/ History & Society
Notes: No credit given for HI-101 if credit has been given for AP U.S. History.
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HI 103 - U.S. History since 1865
A survey of American history from the end of the Civil War to the present.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Historical Studies/ History & Society
Notes: No credit given for HI-103 if credit has been given for AP U.S. History.
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HI 105 - Early Modern Europe
A survey of the social, economic, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Europe from the end of the Hundred Years’ War in the fifteenth century to the eve of the French Revolution in the eighteenth century.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Historical Studies AND Study of Christian Traditions and Thought/ History & Society AND Catholic Intellectual Traditions
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HI 107 - Modern Europe
This course is a survey of political, economic, social and cultural forces that have changed the course of European and western civilization since the French Revolution. This course will investigate the people and events that shaped European landscapes, boundaries, and economics, as well as the European mindset over the period.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Historical Studies/ History & Society
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HI 108 - Medieval World
An interdisciplinary survey of significant developments in the history of Europe, Islam, and Byzantium from the fifth through the fifteenth century (from the collapse of the Roman Empire through the Hundred Years War and the rise of the Ottoman Empire).
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Historical Studies AND Study of Christian Traditions and Thought/ History & Society AND Catholic Intellectual Traditions
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HI 113 - History of Rome
The goal of this course is to survey the richness and complexity of all of Roman history. The major focus will be to consider the Roman Empire from the settlement of Augustus in the first century B.C. to the fall of the Western half of the Empire in the fifth century A.D.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Historical Studies/ History & Society
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HI 121 - The Modern Middle East: An Introduction
A survey of the history of the Middle East, from the rise of Islam in the seventh century to the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Global Issues that Impact the Common Good or Historical Studies/ History & Society
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HI 141 - Traditional East Asia
An intellectual adventure across time and space into the distant past of China and Japan, from their prehistoric beginnings to approximately 1800 A.D. A comparison between China and Japan will highlight the shared characteristics as well as the diverse experiences of East Asian societies.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Historical Studies/ History & Society
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HI 143 - Modern East Asia
A survey of social, political, and cultural changes in China and Japan from the eighteenth century to the present. We will compare the paths of development the two nations have taken in the past two centuries. The hallmark of this course will be the critical examination of the contemporary relevance of China’s past and its implications for the future of our shared humanity.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Global Issues or Historical Studies/ History & Society
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HI 161 - Early Latin America
A survey of Latin American history from the emergence of pre-Columbian societies to independence, with an emphasis on the effects of “empire” on pre-Columbian and Latin American societies and on Indian-European relations after 1492.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Historical Studies/ History & Society AND Engaging Diverse Identities
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HI 215 - Women in American Society
An introductory course for students to explore the major themes and experiences of American women from the colonial period to the present.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Historical Studies/ History & Society AND Engaging Diverse Identities
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HI 216 - Native Peoples of North America
A survey of indigenous people of North America from 1400 to the present day, with emphasis on cultural diversity among native groups, the impact of colonization, rebirth of social and cultural identity/ political sovereignty in the twentieth century, and present day issues.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Global Issues that Impact the Common Good or Historical Studies/ History & Society AND Engaging Diverse Identities
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HI 218 - History of Modern Ireland
A survey of Irish history from the mid 16th to the early 21st century. Topics include the Tudor revolutions, English colonialism and penal laws, Irish republicanism and home rule movements, the partition of Ireland, creation of the Irish republic, and the question of the North.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Historical Studies/ History & Society
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HI 221 - Early Caribbean History: Swashbucklers, Slaves, and Servants
Survey spanning the pre-colonial era through the mid-nineteenth century examining the diverse Caribbean region. Explores political, social and cultural events through the experiences of the diverse peoples and cultures of the region. Major themes include colonial history, slavery, race relations, political processes, relations with the United States, and immigration.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Historical Studies/ History & Society AND Engaging Diverse Identities
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HI 223 - Modern Caribbean History: Cannons to Cricket
Survey spanning the nineteenth century through the present examining the diverse Caribbean region. Explores political, social and cultural events through the experiences of the regions diverse peoples and cultures. Major themes include colonial history, slavery, race relations, political processes, religion, culture, tourism, relations with the United States, and immigration.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Global Issues that Impact the Common Good or Historical Studies/ History & Society
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HI 320 - American Society and Culture since 1865
This course explores the social and cultural history of the US since 1865 through the lens of the American Dream, continually evolving, in part, because of an on-going tension between the values of two cultures, an older one of scarcity and production and a newer one of affluence and consumption.
Credits: 4
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HI 332 - History of the American Family
This course will explore the functions of the institution, changes in the structure, size and character of the family, roles and relationships within the family and the institution of the family as a reflection of the broader social and historic trends in American culture and society. It will also consider methodologies and perspectives in American social and cultural history.
Credits: 4
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HI 335 - China in the Twentieth Century
An analysis of recent Chinese history from the Boxer uprising in 1900 to the return of Hong Kong in 1997. This course examines the interplay of imperialism and nationalism, and the mixture of socialism and capitalism, that has shaped China’s experience in modern times.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Global Issues that Impact the Common Good/ NA
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HI 338 - Tiananmen in History and Memory
In spring 1989, millions of Chinese took to the streets calling for reforms. The nationwide Movement, highlighted by a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, ended on June 4 with the People’s Liberation Army firing on unarmed civilians. Over 200,000 soldiers, equipped with tanks and machine guns, participated in the lethal action. Student leaders, intellectuals, workers, and citizens were subsequently purged, imprisoned, or exiled. This seminar explores the Tiananmen Movement in history and memory as well as its long-term impact.In 1989, millions of Chinese demonstrated for political reform. Protests and the hunger strike by students on Tiananmen Square ended with the army’s firing on unarmed civilians. Leaders were purged, imprisoned, or exiled. This seminar explores the Tiananmen Movement in history and memory as well as its long-term impact.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Global Issues that Impact the Common Good/ NA
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HI 339 - East Asia and the West
From Marco Polo to Toyota. A topical analysis of the history of cultural, economic, and diplomatic relations between East Asia and the Western world, with an emphasis on the experience from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Global Issues that Impact the Common Good/ NA
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HI 341 - Advanced Topics in East Asian History
Critical inquiry of social and political issues in the history of China or Japan.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Global Issues that Impact the Common Good/ NA
Notes: May be repeatable as long as the topic is different.
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HI 345 - The Black Death
An interdisciplinary study of disease in Europe before, during, and after the outbreak of the plague pandemic in the mid-fourteenth century. Among the topics examined are the causes and spread of the contagion throughout Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century, the outbreak of peasant revolts, the effect of the plague on painting and literature, and the role of disease in history.
Credits: 4
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HI 353 - Presidential Elections
A seminar that views US history through the lens of presidencies and presidential elections. From the era of George Washington to the present, it explores a number of topics related to running for and serving as president, including the evolution of campaign styles, the rise and decline of parties; the spread of democracy; the effect of questions about character, personality, peace, and the economy; the growth of television, the airplane, and the internet; and the role of the mass media.
Credits: 4
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HI 363 - Race, Class, and Gender in the Atlantic World
Historical and contemporary study of gender, class, and racial/ethnic relations as distinct, but linked dimensions of social inequality in multiple Atlantic World communities. Intersections of these identities contributed to both diversity and discord. Examines historic underpinnings of discrimination by race, class, gender and explores the present status of these issues.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Global Issues that Impact the Common Good/ NA
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HI 365 - Public History
Public history is a broad category that refers generally to the study and presentation of history to a broad, general, and non-academic public. Public historians work in a variety of areas including, but not limited to, libraries, museums, historic sites, historic houses, for the federal and state governments, corporations, and as historic preservationists in public and private capacities. Primarily, these various roles require that the public historian can use historical methodology, content, and skills to identify, illustrate and convey the results to a non-academic audience. This course is intended to explore the broad scope of public history, the significance of being a public historian, and provide a basis for a career path that explores history outside of the traditional classroom.
Credits: 4
When Offered: Spring
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HI 374 - Witches, Indians, and Swashbucklers: the remaking of the New World, 1607-1763
This course will explore the political, social, economic and intellectual life of the American colonial period. Topics may include, but not be limited to, Puritanism, Indian-white relations, slavery, western expansion, and religious movements.
Credits: 4
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HI 393 - The Historian’s Craft: Theory and Methodology
An examination and analysis within a global perspective of selected influential works of historical writing since antiquity. The seminar will examine these texts as models of historical literature as well as explore the various theories and methodologies they propose. Topics examined may include (and are not limited to) the following: ancient and medieval historiography, Marxism, feminism, positivism, and postmodernism.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: One HI Course; Juniors and Seniors Only.
Notes: This course is not open to students who have taken JS-309.
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HI 394 - Britain’s 19th Century
Using gender and class as organizing concepts, this course focuses on the social history of the British people during the Nineteenth Century. Explores the pivotal moments and debates of the era, including the Industrial Revolution, Empire, responses to poverty and welfare, as well as the everyday experience of being British.
Credits: 4
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HI 395 - Crime & Society in Victorian Britain
This seminar explores the rise of modern policing and considers the impact of gender, class, sexuality and race on definitions of crime and the treatment of offenders at home and in the Empire. It will also examine popular
representations of crime, policing, trial and punishment in Victorian society.
Credits: 4
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HI 410 - Senior Seminar
This course requires students to prepare a senior thesis in a selected area of history under the close supervision of a faculty member in the Department of History. All students will also be members of a seminar that will assist them to complete their theses.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: History and American Studies Majors Only; Seniors Only.
Notes: Fulfills intensive writing requirement for History majors and American Studies majors.
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HI 414 - African Slavery in the Atlantic World
An examination of the intricacies of the Atlantic slave trade from the arrival of the first slaves in Santo Domingo until 1888 and the final abolition of slavery in the Western Hemisphere.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: NA/ Engaging Diverse Identities
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HI 422 - Advanced Topics in American History
The examination of a particular topic in American history. Topics will vary but may include higher education, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, and Vermont.
Credits: 4
Notes: May be repeatable as long as the topic is different.
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HI 425 - Europe During the Second World War
A social, cultural, and political study of the Second World War in Europe. Focusing primarily on Germany, France, Britain, and the Soviet Union, this course will consider the origins of the conflict, the experience of war and reconstruction in Europe, and the war’s global impact on the rest of the 20th century.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions:
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HI 427 - The Age of FDR, 1932-1945
The Great Depression, which seemed to mark the collapse of capitalism, and World War II, which brought total, global war, posed some of the most difficult challenges in U.S history. The response of the American people has indelibly shaped the world in which we live. This course is a wide-ranging exploration of politics, the economy, society, culture, diplomacy, and war.
Credits: 4
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HI 461 - Society and Culture in Medieval Italy
An exploration of the relationship between culture (literature, law, philosophy, and the visual arts) and society (politics, economy) in medieval Italy before, during, and after the age of the communes (with particular attention to the achievements of Dante, Giotto, and Boccaccio).
Credits: 4
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HI 463 - The Franciscans
An interdisciplinary, topical, and chronological approach to the history of the Franciscan Order, with particular attention to its origins, the lives of Saints Francis and Clare, the development of gendered models of spirituality, and the impact of the Franciscans on the religious, political, and cultural development of medieval Europe.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Study of Christian Traditions and Thought/ Catholic Intellectual Traditions
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HI 497 - Independent Research in History
An independent research project in History under the direction of a History instructor.
Credits: Variable
Prerequisites/Restrictions: B average or higher in History major and permission of instructor.
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HI 499 - History Internship
Internships may be offered both on- and off-campus. Students may apply to a history faculty member and the college internship office. At a minimum the faculty supervisor will expect the student to produce weekly journal entries and a research paper.
Credits: Variable
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Three courses in history, at least Junior standing, 2.7 GPA, faculty supervisor, approval of academic advisor and department chair.
Notes: May be repeatable.
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HO 301 - Honors Colloquium
A multidisciplinary seminar designed to engage Honors Program students in readings and discussion with peers, some based on arts and academic events offered in the greater Burlington area.
Credits: 2
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Honors Program Students Only; Juniors and Seniors Only.
Notes: This course is required of all students enrolled in the Honors Program.
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HU 101 - Ancient and Medieval Civilization
A chronological and interdisciplinary study of significant texts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages, primarily in the Western tradition but not excluding the non-Western. Readings may include Virgil’s Aeneid, Saint Augustine’s Confessions, the Rule of Saint Benedict, the Lays of Marie de France, an Arthurian romance, and Dante’s Inferno.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: (Literary Studies or Historical Studies) AND Study of Christian Traditions and Thought/ (History & Society or Literature & The Arts) AND Catholic Intellectual Traditions
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HU 102 - Modern Civilization
A continuation of HU 101 (Ancient and Medieval Civilization). Its focus is the intensive study of key and significant texts, and films, primarily in the Western tradition but not excluding the non-Western. Texts chosen may include a selection of the following: Machiavelli’s The Prince, a play by Shakespeare, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Marx’s Communist Manifesto, Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Literary Studies or Historical Studies/ History & Society or Literature & The Arts
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HU 203 - Renaissance and Reformation
An interdisciplinary survey of some of the most important influential texts and works of art in European history from about 1350 to 1650. Authors studied may include Machiavelli, Christian humanists (Erasmus and/or More), Catholic and Protestant thinkers (Luther, Ignatius Loyola, Calvin), Marguerite of Navarre, Montaigne, Descartes, and Shakespeare.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: (Literary Studies or Historical Studies) AND Study of Christian Traditions and Thought/ (History & Society or Literature & The Arts) AND Catholic Intellectual Traditions
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HU 205 - Enlightenment and Revolution
Covers the years from the seventeenth century to 1815. The major areas of consideration are: the Industrial and French Revolutions, and the causes and effects of the Enlightenment through the Napoleonic Era. Readings may include The New Science (Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, Locke, and/or Newton), and selections from the area of society and politics (Locke, Pope, Voltaire, and/or Rousseau). The second half of the course concerns the Romantic reaction against the Enlightenment and focuses on the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Byron.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Literary Studies or Historical Studies/ History & Society or Literature & The Arts
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HU 207 - The Nineteenth Century
The Nineteenth Century is an interdisciplinary study of the main intellectual and literary currents in nineteenth century thought. Readings include Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche as well as representative
English, French and Russian novels.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Historical Studies OR Literary Studies/ History & Society or Literature & The Arts
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HU 209 - The Twentieth Century
A cross-cultural, interdisciplinary course that draws on a wide variety of artistic manifestations in literature, art, music, and cinema.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Literary Studies or Historical Studies/ History & Society or Literature & The Arts
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HU 225 - Environmental Humanities
An introductory study of the natural environment from a diverse range of perspectives across the humanities.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: Literary Studies or Historical Studies/ History & Society or Literature & The Arts
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HU 350 - Advanced Academic Writing
This course is designed to support students working on an extended writing project in their major. The course is a workshop in which students improve and polish their research and writing skills in preparation for graduate school or a career that involves writing.
Credits: 2
Notes: This course is designed primarily for Juniors and Seniors.
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ID 220 - Peer Tutoring Practicum
Students are expected to work concurrently as peer tutors while taking this course. Course topics include: tutoring techniques, learning theory, learning styles, handling difficult situations, setting goals, active listening and paraphrasing, using probing questions, study skills, metacognition, and strategies for tutoring ESL students and students with learning differences.
Credits: 2
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Permission of Instructor Required (Contact instructor 2 weeks prior to registration)
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ID 498 - Internship Practicum
This course offers opportunities for supervised work experience. Interns focus on integrating theory and practice while developing skills required for success in a business environment. This course is designed for a student’s first internship experience.
Students must have an internship in place by the second week of the semester. They can contact the instructor for guidelines, or the Career Education Office by making an appointment in Handshake.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: 2.0 GPA or higher ; Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors only. Not open to student who’ve already completed an academic internship, ID-498, or BU-498. Students who have completed or are currently enrolled in BU-498/ID-498 should meet with a Career Coach to learn alternatives to receive credit for an additional internship.
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ID 499 - Internship
This course offers opportunities for supervised work experience for students in any major. Interns focus on integrating theory and practice while developing skills required for success in a professional environment.
Upon registration for this course, you will need to make an appointment with a Career Coach in the Career Education Center. This meeting will lead to your permission to enter the Experience section of Handshake to complete the forms necessary to do your internship for academic credit. The process will take several weeks and needs to be completed prior to the
start of the semester.
Registration is contingent upon securing an internship site and meeting with a Career Coach to complete the necessary forms through Handshake. Registration is final AFTER this process has been completed.
Credits: Variable
Prerequisites/Restrictions: 2.0 GPA; Juniors and Seniors only.
Notes: May be repeatable
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JS 300 - Media, Technology, Health & Happiness
In this junior seminar, interdisciplinary approaches are used to explore the rapid and far-reaching influences which new digital media systems and new technological networks are having on humans’ mental and physical health in the 21st century.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
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JS 301 - Land, Sea, Sky
This course highlights cultural works dedicated to land, sea, and sky, in a seminar format. Internationally prominent creators have used Chile’s striking geography to explore topics – and tensions – of multidimensional interest. Shorter readings give students access to introductory historical, social, and political contexts for use in projects. The course is taught in English translation; however, students with Spanish competence are encouraged to draw on it for some assignments.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
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JS 302 - The Art of Living, Aging, & Dying
This course offers an interdisciplinary exploration of aging, using Western theory and Buddhist theory. How do our societal and personal beliefs/values regarding age & aging impact our sense of self? Do we fear older age?
Why? How might we find peace with aging, and even with death/finitude? How might our relationship with our own death impact the way we live? Do we have a responsibility to address the way people in their older years are treated in
our society? This course includes a semester-long Community-Engaged Learning project with St. Joseph’s Residential Care Home, an assisted-living facility for seniors in Burlington.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: PH-103 or Permission of Instructor; Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: Philosphy
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JS 303 - A Nation Inside and Out
In this seminar, we will use a general introduction to Cuba as a backdrop for student explorations of cultural themes, works,and makers. In the United States, Cuba tends to be represented in clashing images of a tourist pleasure mecca and/or a mysterious political universe where time has come to a stop. Becoming informed about Cuba’s complex culture and history makes it possible to develop more thoughtful, useful commentaries. Since the course is taught in English, we open by reflecting on the necessity and complexity of translation, as a mode of access to a larger world.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: American Studies (Americas, or Race and Ethnicity
sequences), Global Studies.
This course is not open to students who have taken AM-229.
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JS 304 - Data Visualization
Techniques for creating effective visualizations of data based on principles from graphic design, psychology, and statistics. Topics include statistical graphics and information graphics (or infovis) for univariate and multivariate data,
visual encoding models, exploratory data analysis, visualization software, interaction techniques, graphical perception, color, animation, high-dimensional data, cartography and spatial data, network visualization, and text visualization.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: Statistics, Data Science
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JS 305 - The Politics of Queer Cinema
This course examines queer politics as radical and intersectional through key films over the course of 100 years that are critical of their societies. More than lesbian and/or gay, queer is an understanding of sexuality and gender
identity that seeks to disrupt structures that enforce race, gender, sexual, and class differences. In film, this might be done through stories normalizing queer love, fantasizing a radical equality, dismantling normalcy, or celebrating violence and disruption.
We will begin by examining key texts in the development of queer theory. After the recovery of LGBT culture and history in the 1970s and 80s, queer scholars and activists in the 1990s promoted confrontations with structural oppression as a challenge to shame, self-doubt, and power. These efforts sought a radical queer politics that harkened back to the 1960s, took up the anger of the AIDS movement, and pushed forward into a reflexive and antagonistic future that decentered sexual and gender binaries. Turning to film, we trace the evolution of outside voices in cinema, from its origins in Germany and France through mainstream Hollywood’s The Wizard of Oz, and to the global voices taking undoing gender and sexual norms as a confrontation with established orders.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar AND Engaging Diverse Identities
Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: Gender Studies, International Relations, Political Science
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JS 306 - Don’t Throw It All Away
How do conceptualize and interpret waste? From waste water to household waste to industrial and toxic waste, getting rid of stuff is part and parcel of organized society. This seminar conceptualizes the status of waste - from sewage
and water treatment, to landfills, to recycling, to incineration - we will look at waste from cradle to grave and explore the new field of Discard Studies. The content will involve complex intersections of politics, economics, and
environmental topics through case studies and placebased exploration.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: N/A
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JS 307 - Rhetorics of Craft
This course explores the politics and rhetorics of craft in an industrial and post-industrial age. By what means and methods does craft intervene in contemporary discourse? A central goal of our inquiry will be to map the radical potential of
aesthetics in the service of revolt, remediation, attention, and identity formation, especially when practiced and received by otherwise underrepresented or overlooked individuals and groups. This course is interdisciplinary in approach and active in its method. Expect in-class demos and experimentation in most of the crafts we study.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: American Studies, Gender Studies, English
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JS 308 - Ethics, Science and Technology
This seminar will consider the impact of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics on our society and ethics. An examination of the philosophy of science will accompany our discussions. We will consider both recent and historical impacts of technological innovation on the American landscape as well as the broader and more recent influence of globalization. Course participants will study current research and trends in order to consider their impact on our society and the world. We will consider the ethical, sociological and economic dilemmas created by the introduction of new technologies.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: N/A
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JS 309 - The Historian’s Craft: Theory and Methodology from Antiquity to the Present
This is a course that emphasizes the reading of key and well written texts by historians who use an interdisciplinary lens to study the way we talk about and understand the past today. It will analyze and discuss in chronological fashion
selected models of historical literature and historical thinking from Antiquity to the Modern Era. Study of these texts will focus on themes, methodologies, styles, and approaches to the past, not on the memorization of facts and details.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: History
This course is not open to students who have taken HI-393.
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JS 310 - A Case for Reparations?
This course will analyze, explore, discuss, and debate the broad topic of reparations from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives (historical, sociological, economic, political, etc.). Should the United States make reparations for slavery and subsequent racist policies and practices? Why or why not? What precedents exist? What factors should be considered? If reparations were to be made, what form might they or should they take? The course will begin with Ta-Nehisi
Coates’s article “The Case for Reparations” (2014) and will then go on to examine examples and sources that Coates evokes, as well as a range of other examples and sources.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar AND Engaging Diverse Identities
Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: N/A
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JS 311 - 21st Century Broadway Musical
This Seminar examines recent Broadway musicals and musical-theater works that challenge ideas about that musical genre. Some of these works address potentially disturbing or offensive topics, others violate norms of representation in
musical theater, or expand the range of musical theater into novel realms of music and subject matter. In class, we will ask questions about the interaction between popular entertainment and social issues. To what extent can and should theater break taboos or offend? How do music, musical style, and songs change the way the messages of theater, culture, and even activism are delivered and received?
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: Music
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JS 312 - Voices of Resistance
Voices of resistance are those endeavoring to put an end to injustice and are raised against demands to submit and be silent, by people who refuse to yield to oppression. They are not welcome by those who would prefer to ignore or stifle them, however, voices of resistance continue to emerge from the Francophone world. From slavery and colonialism to today’s racist Western societies and partial or biased history, these voices of protest have refused to keep quiet and continue to denounce various forms of unacceptable oppression.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: International Relations, Global Studies
This course is not open to students who have taken FR-297.
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JS 313 - Wisdoms of the East
The seminar focuses on two philosophical traditions of the East: Vedanta (India) and Taoism (China). Questions raised include: Does a shared experience underlie cultural difference? If so, can it be identified? What can be identified? What cannot? What do Vedanta and Taoism teach regarding identity and difference?
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors Only
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: Philosphy
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JS 314 - Radical Love, Liberation, & Justice
This course explores the radical roots of yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and engaged Buddhism, and investigates the power of these practices for personal and social/ collective liberation, transformation, and revolution. Our focus will be liberation from racism, the transformation to anti-racism, and the radical struggle for racial justice, equity, and freedom.
Credits: 4
LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar
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JS 325 - Economics of Health Care
Description: Study of economic aspects of health care, weighing cost, quality and access. Topics include theory and evidence on access problems; the applicability of competition models to health care; the efficacy of health care in improving health; causes for high costs and wasted care; an international comparison of health care systems; and an exploration of the effects of Affordable Care Act.
Credits: 4
Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only
LSC/Core: Junior Seminar
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