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American University Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Anthropology (Undergraduate Courses) |
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ANTH-311 Anthropological Studies: Turkana Basin Institute (3)
Topics vary by section. Offered through AU Abroad at the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI), Turkana, Kenya. Students attend lectures at TBI and conduct research and fieldwork in the Turkana basin. Topics includes paleoanthropology, archaeology, and human evolution as influenced by evidence uncovered in East Africa. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-331 Taboos (3)
Exploration of those persons, items, experiences, and acts which so frighten and repel humans that they try to prohibit them. Includes discussion of subjects rich in taboo and sensitivity including sexuality, witchcraft, cannibalism, human-animal relations, madness, and death. Why taboos emerge, how they are enforced, and when they are violated. Prerequisite: ANTH-251 .
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ANTH-334 Environmental Justice (3)
Focuses on issues of inequalities attending the destruction of resources, the siting of dangerous facilities, dumping of toxic wastes, and the development of technologies that harm some people while benefitting others. Case studies from North America, Latin America, Africa, the Arctic, Pacific, and Caribbean examine questions about history, social relations, power, connections among the world’s societies, and competing values.
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ANTH-337 Anthropology of Genocide (3)
Examines questions concerning how individuals, groups, and social institutions legitimize the power to repress, coerce, and kill, how victims experience and interpret their suffering, how “ordinary people” come to accept and justify violent regimes, and the possibility of constructing an understanding of genocide that extends across cultures and from individual impulse to global conflict. Case studies include genocide in the Americas, the Nazi Holocaust, and ethnic cleansing in Central Africa and Eastern Europe.
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ANTH-350 Special Topics (3)
Topics vary by section. Cross-cultural comparison and analysis within selected culture areas. Rotating topics include human osteology, language and sexuality, student activism and social justice, and archaeology of the Chesapeake Bay region. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-365 Social Ecology of Food (3)
This course surveys theory and ethnography at the intersections of food and ecology and explores the importance of food to local and global ecologies, interrogates the relationship of food production and consumption to political and environmental factors, and develops an understanding of ways food influences global and personal politics. Readings draw from anthropology, political ecology, and geography. Usually Offered: alternate springs.
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ANTH-394 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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ANTH-396 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-421 Health Geographies (3)
Surveys theory and ethnographic accounts of geographically-concentrated health disparity. Examines geographic patterns impacting health differences and inequities. Readings draw from human geography, political economy, ethnography, and human health. Subject matter reflects how space is constructed, transformed, inter-connected and experiences as a variable of health. Incorporates training in mappying methodologies. Crosslist: ANTH-621 . Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-422 Neoliberal Globalization and Health (3)
Provides grounding to central theories of globalization as neoliberalism as they relate to health, focusing on their global, domestic, and historical dimensions. Contextualizes neoliberal globalization and its effects through an examination of healthcare provisioning, the healthcare field, and the current global health landscape. Crosslist: ANTH-622 . Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-423 Militarization and Health (3)
Explores intersections of militarization, technological innovation, civil unrest and health through a survey if international conflicts. Analyzes the ways that profit-based, technology-driven processes of militarization effect and shape processes of statecraft, displacement, and gendered and racial violence, and examines how these combined processes impact health, healthcare and patient advocacy globally. Crosslist: ANTH-623 . Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-424 Science, Technology and Health (3)
Grounded in critical medical anthropology, this course draws upon the philosophy of science, the history of science, and the sociology of knowledge to examine the interlinkages of science and technology and the implications of their relationship for the healthcare industry, healthcare practitioners, and human health. Crosslist: ANTH-624 . Usually Offered: spring.
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ANTH-425 Health, Care, and Social Movements (3)
Explores key theories of social change and surveys historical and contemporary social movements, with a particular focus on the relationship between technological innovation, health, and social struggle. Students analyze historical and structural determinants of health and conceptualize movement-based action as a means of collectively caring for individuals and communities. Crosslist: ANTH-625 . Usually Offered: spring.
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ANTH-439 Culture, History, Power, Place (3)
Topics vary by section. Examination of a particular culture area to provide insight into the conditions that produced distinctive cultures in certain geographical regions. Rotating culture areas include North American Indians, Latin America, Mexico and Central America, African American women, India, Africa, China, and Japan. Crosslist: ANTH-639 . Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-440 Contemporary Ethnographies (3)
Surveys theory through the original writings of anthropologists. Contemporary perspectives and debates in anthropology examined through close, critical readings of cutting-edge studies. These readings reflect current approaches in the field such as culture and political economy, postmodern multi-vocal texts, feminist ethnographies, and post-colonial writing. How ethnographies are crafted, including how authors contexualize their subject and their own involvement, uses of evidence, and literary devices. Prerequisite: ANTH-251 .
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ANTH-442 Public Anthropology (3)
Explores efforts to build a public anthropology that advances popular struggles for economic freedom, human rights, and social justice while maintaining a critique of state power. The course also examines how such work engages conventional approaches to research, publication, and career advancement, and suggests pathways to alternative anthropological careers. Crosslist: ANTH-642 .
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ANTH-450 Senior Seminar in Anthropology (3)
This capstone seminar is the culmination of undergraduate studies in anthropology. Students pursue senior capstone projects while consolidating knowledge about key concepts and topics in public anthropology including power, inequality, social justice, race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Usually Offered: spring. Restriction: Anthropology (BA) .
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ANTH-452 Anthropological Research Methods (3)
An introduction to research methods used within the field of anthropology, including ethnography, the distinctive tool of the field. Includes research design, data collection, quantitative and qualitative analysis. Ethics and pragmatics of research are discussed, including research funding and proposal writing. Prerequisite: ANTH-251 and one other anthropology course. Note: Prepares students for ANTH-450 .
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ANTH-490 Independent Study Project in Anthropology (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ANTH-491 Internship in Anthropology (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ANTH-494 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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ANTH-496 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-498 Senior Thesis in Anthropology (1-6)
Opportunity for qualified undergraduates to carry out anthropological research under supervision of members of the faculty. Development of a written paper and participation in senior thesis seminar are required. Repeatable for credit. Permission: department chair.
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Anthropology (Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Courses) |
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ANTH-060 Summer Field School: Archaeology (0)
Noncredit participation in the excavation of an archaeological site. Training varies depending on the site, but usually includes site surveying, archaeological engineering, techniques of excavation, flora, fauna, and soil analysis, field laboratory practice, and on-site computer data processing. Usually Offered: summer.
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ANTH-096 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (0)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-531 Topics in Archaeology (3)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics include historical archaeology, artifact analysis, archaeology of the Chesapeake, archaeology of the Potomac Valley, Aztec, Inca, and Maya, and archaeology and politics. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-534 Class and Culture (3)
Discussion of the way that anthropologists have used and developed the concept of class as a way to understand patterns of social inequality. The variation in relationships of class to economic, social, and political structures in different societies and how class experiences and struggles influence and are influenced by the cultural norms and values in different social systems.
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ANTH-535 Ethnicity and Nationalism (3)
Ethnicity has become a universal means for groups to defend their interests, avoid alienation, and create powerful rituals of self-preservation and defense. This course examines ways that groups in complex societies and new nations use ethnicity and nationalism to express and enact community and identity, similarity and difference, peaceful social relations, warfare, and genocide.
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ANTH-537 Topics in Language and Culture (3)
Topics vary by section. Comparative perspectives on the interrelationships of cultural and linguistic patterns in different societies. Case studies focus on language variation and pluralism, social hierarchies, gender diversity, language history, colonialism, and nation building. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-541 Public Anthropology and State Policy (3)
This course traces shifting relationships among governments, anthropologists, and ordinary people. Readings and class discussions explore the rise of “applied” anthropology as part of the processes of colonialism and capital accumulation. Also covered are colonial encounters, immigration and internment, neocolonialism, and structural adjustment.
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ANTH-543 Anthropology of Development (3)
Anthropological approaches to the analysis of economic development and change, with attention to both theory and practice. Development problems as perceived at the local level, contemporary development concerns, and the organization of development agencies and projects. Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-544 Topics in Public Anthropology (3)
Topics vary by section. The application of anthropological method and theory to solving problems in contemporary society. Rotating topics include anthropology of education, health, culture and illness, public archaeology, media activism, and anthropology of human rights. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-550 Ethnographic Field Methods (3)
Using a series of research exercises, students learn how to collect genealogies, gather censuses of research populations, conduct directed and nondirected interviews, map research areas, work with photographic data, collect life histories, observe as participants, write research proposals, and evaluate data. Ethical and methodological fieldwork problems are stressed throughout.
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ANTH-560 Summer Field School: Archaeology (1-9)
Topics vary by section. Active participation in the excavation of an archaeological site. Training varies depending on the site, but usually includes site surveying, archaeological engineering, techniques of excavation, flora, fauna, and soil analysis, field laboratory practice, and on-site computer data processing. Usually Offered: summer. Repeatable for credit.
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ANTH-590 Independent Reading Course in Anthropology (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ANTH-596 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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Anthropology (Graduate Courses) |
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ANTH-601 The Craft of Anthropology I (6)
This intensive seminar provides broad intradisciplinary theoretical and methodical training to prepare students to become anthropologists. Students explore central anthropological themes through classic and contemporary texts in sociocultural anthropology, archeology, bioanthropology, and linguistic anthropology, and conduct research using diverse methodologies. Usually Offered: fall. Grading: A-F only.
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ANTH-602 The Craft of Anthropology II (6)
Continuation of ANTH-601 . This intensive seminar provides broad intradisciplinary theoretical and methodical training to prepare students to become anthropologists. Students explore central anthropological themes through classic and contemporary texts in sociocultural anthropology, archeology, bioanthropology, and linguistic anthropology, and conduct research using diverse methodologies. Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only. Prerequisite: ANTH-601 .
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ANTH-621 Health Geographies (3)
Surveys theory and ethnographic accounts of geographically-concentrated health disparity. Examines geographic patterns impacting health differences and inequities. Readings draw from human geography, political economy, ethnography, and human health. Subject matter reflects how space is constructed, transformed, inter-connected and experiences as a variable of health. Incorporates training in mappying methodologies. Crosslist: ANTH-421 . Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-622 Neoliberal Globalization and Health (3)
Provides grounding to central theories of globalization as neoliberalism as they relate to health, focusing on their global, domestic, and historical dimensions. Contextualizes neoliberal globalization and its effects through an examination of healthcare provisioning, the healthcare field, and the current global health landscape. Crosslist: ANTH-422 . Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-623 Militarization and Health (3)
Explores intersections of militarization, technological innovation, civil unrest and health through a survey if international conflicts. Analyzes the ways that profit-based, technology-driven processes of militarization effect and shape processes of statecraft, displacement, and gendered and racial violence, and examines how these combined processes impact health, healthcare and patient advocacy globally. Crosslist: ANTH-423 . Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-624 Science, Technology and Health (3)
Grounded in critical medical anthropology, this course draws upon the philosophy of science, the history of science, and the sociology of knowledge to examine the interlinkages of science and technology and the implications of their relationship for the healthcare industry, healthcare practitioners, and human health. Crosslist: ANTH-424 . Usually Offered: spring.
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ANTH-625 Health, Care, and Social Movements (3)
Explores key theories of social change and surveys historical and contemporary social movements, with a particular focus on the relationship between technological innovation, health, and social struggle. Students analyze historical and structural determinants of health and conceptualize movement-based action as a means of collectively caring for individuals and communities. Crosslist: ANTH-425 . Usually Offered: spring.
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ANTH-635 Race, Gender and Social Justice (3)
Topics vary by section. This seminar explores the disjunction between biological myths of race and gender and their social construction as credible institutions; the historical, economic, and political roots of inequalities; the institutions and ideologies that buttress and challenge power relations; and the implications of social science teaching and research for understanding social class, race, and gender discrimination. Issues of advocacy for social change are also explored. Usually Offered: spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Permission: instructor.
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ANTH-637 Discourse, Text, and Voice (3)
Topics vary by section. This seminar reviews current approaches to studies of narrative and conversation, and the insights into social location, ideology, and claims to power which such studies disclose. Usually Offered: spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Restriction: graduate anthropology program.
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ANTH-639 Culture, History, Power, Place (3)
Topics vary by section. Examination of a particular culture area to provide insight into the conditions that produced distinctive cultures in certain geographical regions. Rotating culture areas include North American Indians, Latin America, Mexico and Central America, African American women, India, Africa, China, and Japan. Crosslist: ANTH-439 . Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-640 Current Issues in Anthropology (3)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics include issues such as social inequality, urban nature, militarism and state violence, reading/resisting neoliberalism, and Southwest archaeology. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Restriction: graduate anthropology program.
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ANTH-642 Public Anthropology (3)
Explores efforts to build a public anthropology which advances popular struggles for economic freedom, human rights, and social justice While maintaining a critique of state power. The course also examines how such work engages conventional approaches to research, publication, and career advancement, and suggests pathways to alternative anthropological careers. Crosslist: ANTH-442 .
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ANTH-652 Anthropological Research Design (3)
An introduction to research methods used within the field of anthropology, including ethnography, the distinctive tool of the field. Includes research design, data collection, quantitative and qualitative analysis. Ethics and pragmatics of research are discussed, including research funding and proposal writing. Usually Offered: spring. Restriction: graduate anthropology program.
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ANTH-653 Advanced Methods: Ethnographic Writing (3)
This seminar explores the craft, art, and politics of ethnographic writing through intensive ethnographic research, writing, and reading, with a focus on the importance of echography and its potential as a force for social justice. Students conduct an ethnographic study and produce frequent writing assignments while dissecting exemplary ethnographic texts from anthrophony and related disciplines including sociology, investigative journalism, narrative nonfiction, fiction, radio/podcasts, and film. Usually Offered: alternate falls. Grading: A-F only. Prerequisite: ANTH-652 .
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ANTH-654 Topics in Environmental Anthropology (3)
Topics vary by section. Surveys theory and ethnography in environmental anthropology. Rotating topics explore important themes in environment anthropology including environmental conservation, socionatural disasters, and systems of food production and consumption. Readings draw from anthropology, political ecology, and geography. Usually Offered: alternate springs. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Grading: A-F only.
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ANTH-690 Independent Study Project in Anthropology (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ANTH-691 Internship in Anthropology (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ANTH-693 Master’s International (1-6)
Repeatable for credit. Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: program director. Note: For students in the MA in Public Anthropology AU/Peace Corps program.
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ANTH-696 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-796 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-797 Master’s Thesis Seminar (1-6)
Usually Offered: fall and spring. Grading: SP/UP only.
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ANTH-897 Dissertation Preparation Workshop (1-9)
This course facilitates preparation of the doctoral dissertation proposal and achievement of candidacy and includes strategies for preparation for comprehensive examinations, getting external funding, practical preparation for fieldwork, meeting challenges to doing research, analyzing data, and completing the dissertation in a timely fashion. Grading: Pass/Fail only. Restriction: PhD program.
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ANTH-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment (1-9)
May be taken by doctoral students completing coursework, exams or proposals in preparation for advancement to candidacy. It is a 1-9 credit course that can be repeated once and may be taken with or without regular coursework. Tuition is assessed at the 1 credit rate. The course is graded SP/UP and students must have the approval of their Program Director. Academic load will be determined by total enrolled credits for the semester. This course may not be used to establish full-time status for merit aid except for students with a half-time appointment who have an approved plan to distribute a total of 18 credits over one calendar year (6 credits during Fall, Spring and Summer semesters). Grading: SP/UP only. Restriction: PhD students. Permission: program director.
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ANTH-899 Doctoral Dissertation (9)
May be taken by doctoral students who are advanced to candidacy with the approval of the faculty supervising the dissertation (or designee). It is a 9 credit course, but tuition is assessed at the 1 credit rate. The course is graded SP/UP and students will be deemed full-time. The Office of the Registrar must be notified when a student has advanced to candidacy. Grading: SP/UP only. Restriction: doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy. Permission: program director.
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Agile Project Management (Graduate Courses) |
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APM-600 Introduction to Adaptive Project Management (3)
This course introduces students to the concepts, principles and methods of the foundations of all project management and development. Learners examine traditional, agile, and adaptive styles of management. The course explores the advantages and disadvantages of Agile development, including variants such as Scrum, and discusses and demonstrates how to apply best practices from various methodologies to organize and lead an Agile team. The emphasis is adaptive project management, which is based on Agile principles but blends traditional methods as needed to adapt to particular environments and management needs.
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APM-610 Information Technologies and Organizations (3)
This course examines IT governance, finance, portfolio management, team designs, metrics, and culture. It also looks at the organization’s ability to respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging software trends as projects move through the lifecycle. Through case studies and problem based learning, students examine project and program governance and financial management as well the influence and impact of systems’ architecture and organizational culture.
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APM-620 Agile, DevOps, and Risk Assessment (3)
This course focuses on the elements of Agile that are of relevance to risk assessment and management including requirements gathering and estimation, contracting, cost accounting, and the handling of operational and capital expenditure, return on investment (ROI), financial decision making, the impact of budgetary practices, and financial uncertainty. The course introduces students to software development and information technology operations (DevOps) as related to the importance of the relationship and communication between development and operations.
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APM-630 Advanced Agile Methodologies (3)
Agile is an established methodology used to cope with change and uncertainty. It has proved popular in product development and project management across a wide variety of sectors. This course examines both the role of the project manager in Agile and the similarities between Agile, Six Sigma, and Lean practices. It examines Total Quality Management and the characteristics of the Principles of Systems Engineering. Finally, this course conducts an in-depth exploration of Agile metrics and different approaches to testing and problem solving.
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APM-640 Emerging Trends in Agile and Solutions Architecture (3)
This course provides students with training in the design of proposals, project management plans, and budgets from the unique perspective offered by Agile philosophy and practices. It discusses the critical importance of engaging stakeholders in these processes, including donor agencies and local community members. Students become familiar with donor processes and practices as they relate to project design and proposal development.
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APM-700 Agile Project Management Capstone (3)
The final capstone is a culminating project that utilizes a set of skills that demonstrate maturity and professionalism in strategic thinking in Agile project management. Informed by an understanding of data, technology, emerging trends in Agile project management, leadership and information technology, the course focuses on high-level independent document delivery and writing, applied research and analysis, and the creation of a polished, professionally written business plan.
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Art: Art History (Undergraduate Courses) |
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ARTH-105 Art: The Historical Experience FA1 (3)
Introduction to Western art and architecture from ancient times to the twentieth century, with some discussion of non-Western cultures. Case studies of major works and artists such as the Great Pyramids, the Parthenon, Chartres Cathedral, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Picasso provide a foundation for understanding art in its aesthetic, historical, social, and political contexts. Also covers materials, techniques, and practices of art-making, and introduces key stylistic innovations. Usually Offered: fall and spring.
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ARTH-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTH-205 Art of the Renaissance FA2 (3)
Architecture, sculpture, painting, and prints of renaissance Italy and Northern Europe. Considers the interplay of art with philosophy, theology, and social change, and examines the artistic legacy and rich creative achievements of a culture inspired by classical antiquity. Usually Offered: spring.
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ARTH-210 Modern Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries FA1 (3)
Introduction to the art of the modern period, primarily in Europe. Presents major artists in aesthetic, cultural, historical, and political contexts and addresses issues of avant garde change, critical imagination, and gender difference in relation to expanding conceptions of creative self-expression. Usually Offered: fall and spring.
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ARTH-225 Buddhist Arts of Asia FA1 (3)
An introductory survey of Asian art that emphasizes Buddhist painting, architecture, calligraphy, and sculpture of India, China, Korea, and Japan from ancient to contemporary. Explores religious meaning, spiritual aesthetics, and the reinvention of religious tradition.
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ARTH-255 Art History of the World Regions FA1 (3)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics offered through various AU Abroad programs, including analysis of major artists, groups, and stylistic developments of a specific region and time period. Topics explore the historical, cultural, and social contexts of the artists and works discussed and may focus on several forms of visual art/culture, including architecture, sculpture, painting, prints, and installations, and include on-site visits to museums and galleries, as well as architectural and archeological locations. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTH-296 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTH-303 Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic (3)
Surveys painting, sculpture, architecture, the book arts, and stained glass across Europe from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries. The course examines relationships between the visual arts and the social, political, and religious influences at specific historical moments; investigates material and stylistic complexities of art-making and interpretive contexts; and explores transnational interactions and influences. Usually Offered: alternate springs. Prerequisite: ARTH-105 .
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ARTH-307 International Baroque Art (3)
Explores developments in seventeenth-century northern and southern European (Italy, France, England, Spain, and the Netherlands) art, including works by Bernini, Artemisia Gentileschi, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velazquez, and Poussin. Evaluates rise of Baroque art through intersecting cultural and social ideologies, including religion, politics, economics, race, gender, and art theory. Prerequisite: ARTH-105 or ARTH-205 .
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ARTH-320 Introduction to the Arts of Japan (3)
A survey of the arts in Japan from ancient to contemporary that covers a wide range of materials, including sculpture, calligraphy, ink, paintings, architecture, photography, and woodblock prints. Emphasizes historical and social contexts and the relations of power involved in the viewing and collection of Japanese art.
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ARTH-335 Twentieth Century Women Artists of the Americas (3)
This course focuses on women artists’ contributions to twentieth century art in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Latin America. It examines women’s struggles and successes, their iconographic and stylistic interests, and the analysis of their works in relation to theories of gender, feminism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism. Usually Offered: alternate springs. Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-210 .
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ARTH-350 Regional Studies in Art History (3)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics offered through various AU Abroad programs, including analysis of major artists, groups, and stylistic developments of a specific region and time period. Topics explore the historical, cultural, and social contexts of the artists and works discussed and may focus on several forms of visual art/culture, including architecture, sculpture, painting, prints, and installations, and include on-site visits to museums and galleries, as well as architectural and archeological locations. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTH-396 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTH-400 Approaches to Art History (3)
Reading, discussion, and written work based on subjects such as style, iconography, semiotics, the art museum, and social, psychological, and feminist approaches. Attention to critical interpretation and writing research papers. Crosslist: ARTH-600 . Prerequisite: four art history courses.
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ARTH-401 Italian Art: Early Renaissance (3)
Developments in Florence, Siena, and Venice in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, including the classical revival, narrative, linear perspective, and the role of social and theoretical factors in the practice of art. Emphasis on major figures such as Giotto, Duccio, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, and Giovanni Bellini. Crosslist: ARTH-601 . Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-205 .
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ARTH-402 Italian Art: High Renaissance (3)
Development of high Renaissance and early Mannerist styles in Rome, Venice, and Florence in the first half of the sixteenth century. Major artists emphasized include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, and Titian. Includes consideration of issues such as the elevation of artists’ social status and the emergent concept of artistic genius. Crosslist: ARTH-602 . Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-205 .
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ARTH-403 Italian Art: Late Renaissance and Early Baroque (3)
Examines Italian art from the mid-sixteenth through early seventeenth centuries, considering the flourishing of art theory, late Mannerist and early Baroque style, and the significant emergence of female artists. Artists include Bronzino, Vasari, late Titian and Michelangelo (sculpture and painting), Tintoretto, Veronese, Sofonisba Anguissola, the Carracci, Caravaggio, and Artemisia Gentileschi. Crosslist: ARTH 603 . Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-205 .
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ARTH-411 Modern European Art: Rococo to Realism (3)
A survey of European art from 1760 to 1848, with attention to the social role of art in the age of revolutions. Includes the creation of art academies and public art exhibitions; the Industrial Revolution and landscape painting; and the effects of nationalism and colonialism on European identity. Crosslist: ARTH-611 . Usually Offered: alternate years. Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-210 .
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ARTH-412 Modern European Art: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (3)
A survey of European art from 1848 to 1900, with emphasis on stylistic innovations in art and contexts in which works were produced, exhibited, and debated. Includes changing concepts of modernity and its relationship to modernism; shifting experiences of city and country life; and new roles for men and women in public and private. Crosslist: ARTH-612 . Usually Offered: alternate years. Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-210 .
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ARTH-413 Modern European Art: Expressionism to Surrealism (3)
A survey of European art from 1900 to 1945, tracing radical changes in conception of art as well as social and political contexts that shaped it. Includes the rise of abstraction; antimodernism and the “primitive”; and the notion of an artistic avant-garde. Crosslist: ARTH-613 . Usually Offered: alternate years. Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-210 .
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ARTH-414 Women and the Avant-Garde (3)
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed increasing professional opportunities for women artists, yet the status of women in Impressionism, Expressionism, Constructivism, and Surrealism remained ambivalent. This course explores the complex experiences of such avant-garde artists as Berthe Morisot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Camille Claudel, Sonia Delauney, and Frida Kahlo. Crosslist: ARTH-614 . Usually Offered: alternate springs. Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-210 .
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ARTH-415 Museums and Society (3)
Explores the intersection of the museum and its public from the late eighteenth century to the present. Topics include the formation of collections and organization of exhibitions; changing modes of display; architecture and wall text; the economics of the art world; politics and cultural property; and race, gender, and national identity. Crosslist: ARTH-615 . Usually Offered: alternate springs. Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-210 .
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ARTH-423 East-West Photography (3)
Examines the emergence of photography and the medium’s pivotal role in shaping relations between Asia and the West. Examines early portraiture, architectural sites, colonial tourism, photojournalism, family photographs, and contemporary photography. Crosslist: ARTH-623 . Usually Offered: alternate years. Prerequisite: ARTH-225 or ARTH-320 .
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ARTH-424 Envisioning the Nation: Modern and Contemporary Art in Asia (3)
Explores nationhood, nationalism, and the body politic as represented in Asian art and visual culture. Focuses on modern and contemporary art in China, Japan, India, and other parts of Asia, including film, prints, painting, photography, architecture, performance art, and propaganda. Crosslist: ARTH-624 . Prerequisite: ARTH-225 or ARTH-320 .
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ARTH-431 Visual Arts in the United States to 1890 (3)
Covers portraiture, landscape, and genre painting from the early Colonial period to the late nineteenth century. Examines major artists and movements including Colonial portraiture (Copley, Peale), Hudson River School and Luminist landscape (Cole, Church), sculpture, photography, and late nineteenth century artists including Eakins, Homer, and Cassatt. Emphasizes cultural politics of colonialism, slavery, Native Americans, gender issues, and relationships between American and European art. Crosslist: ARTH-631 . Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-210 .
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ARTH-432 Visual Arts in the United States: 1890 to 1935 (3)
Covers art from the Gilded Age through mid-1930s. Examines major artists and movements, including American Impressionism, Ashcan School, American modernist abstraction, Harlem Renaissance, Mexican muralists, Regionalism, WPA art and photography. Focuses on relation to European modernisms and U.S. cultural politics, including gender and racial issues and the rise of major museums, dealers, and collectors. Crosslist: ARTH-632 . Usually Offered: alternate springs. Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-210 .
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ARTH-433 Visual Arts in the United States: 1935 to 1970 (3)
Covers dramatic changes in realism and modernism in the mid-twentieth century including WPA art and leftist politics, the Great Depression and federal support, geometric modernisms, Abstract Expressionism, New Realism, Pop Art, and photography. Emphasizes major artists and cultural politics including the New Deal, Cold War, gender and racial difference, and contributions of art critic and dealers. Crosslist: ARTH-633 . Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-210 .
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ARTH-434 Contemporary Visual Art and Postmodernism (3)
Covers contemporary art since 1970 created in the United States by American and international artists. It examines movements including Minimalism, Earth Art, Photorealism, Neo-Expressionism, feminism, new abstraction, identity politics, installation and performance art. Emphasizes critical understanding of postmodernist theory related to multiculturalism, racial/ gender difference, queer theory, censorship, ecology, and social/political critique. Crosslist: ARTH-634 . Usually Offered: alternate springs. Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-210 .
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ARTH-477 Museum Management (3)
This course explores major issues in museum management, including current thinking on museology, technological issues affecting visual arts management, the balance between curating, education, and public programs, and the changing role of museum directors. The course also addresses ethical issues concerning looting and repatriation and earned income activities in museums. Crosslist: ARTH-677 and PERF-477 /PERF-677 . Grading: A-F only. Permission: instructor.
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ARTH-490 Independent Study Project in Art History (1-3)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ARTH-491 Internship (3)
Prerequisite: four art history courses. Permission: art history internship coordinator.
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ARTH-496 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ARTH-516 Northern Renaissance Art: Texts and Contexts (3)
Explores key approaches in the scholarship on northern European art, c. 1375-1550, by investigating patronage in court, urban, and monastic contexts; workshop practices; church contexts and devotional images; the rise of portraiture; the development of printmaking; and the relationship of the arts to gender, sexuality, and race. Usually Offered: alternate springs. Grading: A-F only. Prerequisite: five art history courses.
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ARTH-517 Northern Renaissance Art: Sex and Gender (3)
Investigates sex and gender in northern European art of the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, c. 1300-1550. Topics include femininity and masculinity across court, urban, and monastic contexts and sexual practices and prohibitions, including possibilities of same-sex desire. Identity, agency, compliance, and transgression are interrogated across the artistic media. Usually Offered: alternate springs. Grading: A-F only. Prerequisite: five art history courses.
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