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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with a background in cross-cultural aspects of both exterior and interior design. The main emphasis is on the use of space and symbolism as both conscious and subliminal forms of communication within a cultural and ritual context. Topics include: symbolic and cultural templates on the image of the home; geomantic/feng shui logic inexterior and interior layout in different cultures; analysis of how pervasive cultural aspects of design, especially spatial and symbolic, are in all societies; the power and significance of symbols and icons in human habitation. The major areas from which course material is drawn include the Americas (both pre-contact and Euroamerican), East Asia and the Pacific. This course meets the Behavioral Science student learning outcomes: 2) human and cultural Diversity; 3) social and individual dynamics; 4) the relationship between the self and the group. Fulfills interdisciplinary course requirement. Cross-listed as ID 335. Course offered annually in the Spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
('Olelo Hou) Introduction to conversational Hawaiian, a member of the Malayo-Polynesian family of languages; emphasis placed on the oralaural approach and the application of new sounds and speech patterns; develops the ability to recognize, process, and use the language in its oral as well as written form; provides the context to demonstrate how nature affected the native Hawaiians and their oral traditions. Offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
('Olelo Hou) Introduction to conversational Hawaiian, a member of the Malayo-Polynesian family of languages; emphasis placed on the oralaural approach and the application of new sounds and speech patterns; develops the ability to recognize, process, and use the language in its oral as well as written form; provides the context to demonstrate how nature affected the native Hawaiians and their oral traditions. Offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
('Olelo Hou) Emphasis on acquiring oral fluency, creative writing, and translations from oral traditions and written records; the grammatical orthography and phonology of spoken Hawaiian; active participation in chants, songs, dances, field trips, and language conferences with the Hawaiian community. Offered when a viable cohort of students is put together.. Prerequisite: HA 102 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
('Olelo Hou) Emphasis on acquiring oral fluency, creative writing, and translations from oral traditions and written records; the grammatical orthography and phonology of spoken Hawaiian; active participation in chants, songs, dances, field trips, and language conferences with the Hawaiian community. Offered when a viable cohort of students is put together.. Prerequisite: HA 102 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
A multicultural approach to studying the world's modern civilizations, it examines their political, social, economic and cultural evolutions. It focuses on modern moral and ethical dilemmas such as the colonization of peoples, world wars, genocide programs, women's rights and the ecological consequences of industrialization. Along with historical knowledge, the course emphasizes the development of reading, writing, speaking, cognitive and collaborative skills crucial to success in college and beyond. Offered every semester. This course satisfies the History general education requirement.
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3.00 Credits
American history from 1492 to 1815, analyzing the formation and growth of European colonies in America, their break with the British Empire and the formation of the United States of America. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Any 100 or 200 level history course.
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3.00 Credits
American history from 1815 to 1877, examining the Age of Jackson, the growth of sectionalism, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Any 100 or 200 level history course.
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3.00 Credits
American history from 1917 to 1945, it examines the Prohibition, organized crime, the Ku Klux Klan, the 'monkey trial' over the teaching of evolution, the migration of African- Americans from the rural South to the urban North, the Great Depression, the New Deal and the isolationist foreign policy of the 1920s and 1930's. This course integrates history and literature through the writings of Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Zora Neale Hurston. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Any 100 or 200 level history course.
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3.00 Credits
Analyses of the forces that shaped contemporary America, focusing on the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the counter-cultural movements of the 1960's. Fulfills interdisciplinary course requirement. Crosslisted as POL 305. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: any 100 or 200 level history or political science course.
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