I always tell people that you should have an understanding of where people are coming from before you decide to trust what they say. Below I will be listing some of the classes I have taken that apply to culture, DEI/JEDI/IDEA, and other related topics. I'm listing these to let people know my educational background in topics relating to the subjects of this blog. I also hold degrees in Anthropology and History and certification in Asian Studies.
Anthropology
ANTH 100 03. Introductory Cultural Anthropology. Human societies and their cultural settings; variation in beliefs, social customs, and technologies; human differences in anthropological terms. (NT-O)
ANTH 120 03. Human Origins and Variation. Mechanisms of evolution; genetics. Living primate biology, behavior, and history. Human evolutionary history. Human variation and adaptation. (NT-O)
ANTH 121 01. Human Origins and Variation Laboratory. Prerequisite: ANTH 120 or concurrent registration. Labs demonstrating genetic and evolutionary processes, comparative skeletal anatomy, human evolution through fossil casts, and modern human variation.
ANTH 140 03. Introduction to Prehistory. Origins of human society from the Stone Age to urban civilization using architecture, art, tools, and other material remains. (NT-O)
ANTH 200 03. Cultures and the Global System. Analyze diversity, cultural responses, and adaptations of smaller-scale societies to emerging global trends. (NT-O)
ANT 201 Intro to Forensic Anthropology (3). Studies the basic principles of forensic anthropology, an applied field within the discipline of physical anthropology. Includes the study of the human skeleton, practical application of physical anthropology and archaeology, and judicial procedure, as they relate to the identification of human remains within a medico-legal context.
ANTH 322 03. Religion, Culture, and Mind. F. Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 200. Major anthropological theories and descriptions of religious beliefs and practices. Intersection of religion, culture, and human psychology.
ANTH 324 03. Folk Religion. European folk beliefs and their carry-over into America; ghosts, vampires, trolls, elves, saints, rituals, witchcraft, sorcery, folk cures.
ANTH 329 03. Cultural Change. Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 200. Cultural change and effects of directed global forces; colonial origins of underdevelopment on small-scale societies.
ANTH 340 03. Medical Anthropology. Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 200. Cultural adaptation to disease; non-Western theories of health and disease: categories, causes, cures; learned roles of patients and healers.
ANTH 350 03. Archaeology of North America. Prerequisite: ANTH 140. Native American life, tools, architecture, religion, food-getting from cultures of 12,000 years ago or earlier until European contact.
ANTH 375 03. Evolution of Primate Behavior. Prerequisite: ANTH 120 or BZ 110 or LIFE 102. Primate behavior from an evolutionary perspective, drawing on a variety of studies of humans, primates, and mammals.
ANTH 400 03. History of Anthropological Theory. Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 200; ANTH 120; ANTH 121; ANTH 140; senior status. Anthropological theory from its beginnings in 19th century through recent developments in the latter half of the 20th century.
ANTH 493 01. Capstone Seminar. Prerequisite: Concurrent registration in a 4A course (see department list). Linkages between anthropological subfields and how professional anthropologists approach issues. Focus Medical Anthropology.
Ethnic Studies
ETST 205 03. Ethnicity and the Media. Ethnic representation across time as represented in auto/biography, fiction, poetry, and popular media.
ETST 210 03. Asian American Leaders and Leadership. Cultural, historical and social influences on Asian American leaders and leadership explored via personal histories, culture, and values.
ETST 320 03. Ethnicity and Film: Asian-American Experience. Asian American film image and film representation through both mainstream and independent movies.
History
HIS 111 The World: Antiquity – 1500 (3). Explores a number of peoples, groups, ideas, institutions, and trends that have shaped World History from the prehistoric era to 1500. Reflects the multiple perspectives of gender, class, religion, and ethnic groups in a broad global sense. Focuses on the common denominators among all people. This approach goes beyond political borders to provide a better appreciation for different cultures. Focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening the skills historians use while constructing knowledge in this discipline.
HIS 1040 World History since 1500 (3). This course provides an introduction to important theories, concepts, methods and content for understanding world history since 1500. Among others, it explores social, cultural, religious, economic, and political themes.
HIS 1210 American History to 1865 (3). This is an introductory course in the history of the American peoples and the development of the United States through the Civil War. It will present an interpretation of how North American cultures--indigenous, European, and African--converged and influenced one another. It will also focus on how the British colonies created a new social order, along with political institutions, that continually evolved until 1865.
HIS1220 American History Since 1865 (3). This course covers the background to the present-day United States beginning with the Civil War and culminating with recent times. It analyzes cultural, social, economic and technological change. Topics addressed include immigration, industrialism, emergence of the U.S. as a world power, Progressivism, the first World War, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War and its aftermath.
HIST 115 03. Islamic World to 1800. Religion, society, and culture in the Islamic world from the time of Muhammad to 1800.
HIST 120 03. Asian Civilizations I. Major traditional intellectual and cultural patterns of Asia during the formative years.
HIST 121 03. Asian Civilizations II. Transformation of major intellectual and cultural patterns and the process of globalization in Asia.
HIST 310 03. Medieval Europe. Prerequisite: HIST 100 or HIST 115 or HIST 120 or HIST 170; completion of 45 credits. Political, legal, socioeconomic development of Europe from 300-1500 emphasizing emergence of major states.
HIS 3031 Ancient Greece (3). The course will treat the history of the Greek world from late Neolithic period to the rise of Macedonia. The Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, the growth of the city states such as Sparta and the development of democratic institutions at Athens, the Peloponnesian Wars and the rise of the kingdom of Macedonia will be covered.
HIS 3090 Native Americans in American History (3). The purpose of this course is to examine the history of the cultural contact and confrontation between North American indigenous people and Europeans and Africans from Celtic times to the present. The course seeks to integrate ethnohistoric evidence from "traditional" Eurocentric accounts to provide as balanced an account as possible. (Multicultural) (Prerequisite: Completion of General Studies requirements in Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy)
HIS3430 American Revolution-Early Nation (3). This course examines politics, society, and economics during the Revolutionary and Early National periods. Major topics will include American society on the eve of the Revolution, the causes of the Revolution, military and diplomatic aspects of the eras, the development of political parties, reform movements, the changing status of Native and African Americans, and the position of women.
HIS 3520 Civil War and Reconstruction (3). This course traces the background of the Civil War, the war itself, and the aftermaths of the war. It also familiarizes students with Civil War and Reconstruction historiography.
HIS 3590 American Immigration History (3). This course concentrates on the historical movement of people into the United States. lt considers the factors which caused them to migrate, their adjustment to their new homes, and the interactions between them and other Americans. Students will explore the ethnic backgrounds, customs, and identities of diverse groups including Mexican and Asian Americans among others.
HIS 4820 Senior Seminar (3). This course refines students' knowledge of a historiography and their skills in the research and writing of history. As a culmination of the major, it asks students to think more analytically and extensively about a particular historical topic (labor).
HIST 507 Latino History (3). This course will give special attention to the loss of land in the late 19th century, community formation during the early twentieth century, and the Chicano Movement of the late 1960's and early 1970's. At a deeper level, this course explores both the strengths and weaknesses in the relevant historiography and fundamental questions about the practice of history and the forces that form and serve as custodians of memory.
HIST 521 Women in US History (3). This course examines the role of women in American history with special emphasis on how the story of women is told by historians over time. It examines not only the lives of many famous white women, but also the experiences of women from various ethnicities and economic backgrounds. In addressing how Americans construct their understanding of women's lives in the U.S., this course will also reassess how focusing on women's lives might alter one's understanding of the broader patterns and interpretations of American history.
HIST 568 U.S./Latin American Relations (3). The course will examine U.S./Latin Relations from the Monroe doctrine to the present with more intensive and analytical focus on cold-war relations and the shift to post-cold-war dynamics.
Political Science
POLS 131 03. Current World Problems. Background and nature of international political events.
Psychology
PSY 101 General Psychology I (3). Focuses on the scientific study of behavior including motivation, emotion, physiological psychology, stress and coping, research methods, consciousness, sensation, perception, learning, sexuality and memory.
PSY 102 General Psychology II (3). Focuses on the scientific study of behavior including cognition, language, intelligence, psychological assessment, personality, abnormal psychology, therapy, life span development, and social psychology.
PSY 228 03. Psychology of Human Sexuality. Physiology, psychology of human sexuality; cross cultural issues, development, social perspectives, values, sexual dysfunction.
PSY 2552 Psychopathology (3). Examines psychopathology and its classification, causes, treatment, and prevention.
Language/Culture
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