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2.00 Credits
Prereq. For GLS majors/supports: HUM 350 or GLS/MGT/MIB 396; GLS/POL 410 or concurrent registration; for MGI majors, MGT 310 - This capstone seminar focuses on contemporary global issues like globalization or regional integration. The student draws upon concepts and frameworks from a variety of disciplines, including history, economics, political science, and the humanities, to analyze issues related to the core focus of the seminar.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. FA 110; HUM 150; CM 112 or IN 130 - In this course the student examines the relationships among human behavior, cultural expressions, and the social environment during a specific era of U.S. history. Emphasis is placed on the student critically analyzing historical monographs, historical documents, cultural artifacts, and artistic works to construct and effectively communicate her own understanding and interpretation of aspects of U.S. history. The student examines how U.S. society and culture at a specific time in history shaped, and was informed by, the individuals living at that time. She also analyzes and responds to artistic expressions to expand her understanding of an era of U.S. history.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. FA 110; HUM 150; CM 112 or IN 130 - In this course the student examines the relationships among human behavior, cultural expressions, and the social environment during a specific era of European history. Emphasis is placed on the student critically analyzing historical monographs, historical documents, cultural artifacts, and artistic works to construct and effectively communicate her own understanding and interpretation of aspects of European history. The student examines how a European society and culture at a specific time in history shaped, and was informed by, the individuals living at that time. She also analyzes and responds to artistic expressions to expand her understanding of an era of European history.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq. FA 110; HUM 150; CM 112 or IN 130 - This course provides the student with a chronological and thematic approach to world history from prehistoric times to 1500 C.E. By examining the first civilizations more than 5,000 years ago as well as succeeding civilizations, she learns that many of the institutions, practices, and beliefs of her own society today are not universal and unchanging, but were devised gradually to meet particular needs. A sense of how the world happened to evolve, and particularly how different cultures of the world took different approaches to understanding and dealing with the common problems of living, help her temper her assumptions about the universality and inevitability of life today.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq. FA 110; HUM 150; CM 112 or IN 130 - This course provides the student with a chronological and thematic approach to world history since the mid-18th century. She examines varied perspectives on individual, social, economic, and political life through an analysis of human thought, belief, and behavior. She learns how people from a variety of cultures and nationstates have shaped and responded to common challenges, developments, and events in the past and uses that historical understanding to increase her understanding of the contemporary world.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq. FA 110; HUM 150; Communication Level 2 - In a chronological overview of American history from colonial times to 1900, the student examines a number of important themes and topics in the growth of the United States. Concentration is on the social and intellectual development of the contemporary United States. Fulfills the Wisconsin requirement for all levels of teacher licensure.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq. FA 110; HUM 150; Communication Level 2 - This course is a survey of 20th-century America with particular emphasis on the maturation of an urban/industrial society, the impact of race and ethnicity, the changing nature of American democracy, and the rise of the United States as a world power. Fulfills theWisconsin requirement for all levels of teacher licensure.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. Integrated Communication Level 3; one 210-level humanities/fine arts elective - In this course the student studies the worldview of a society or a segment of a society in relation to other worldviews. The course compares different societies, historical epochs, or points of view within a given society to encourage her to recognize that what people know to be "true" is a particularperspective of the world. This perspective may be expressed in a variety of ways: through culture, politics, art, social institutions, and humanistic works, for example. Having come to recognize and appreciate the multiple perspectives that underlie the social construction of reality in a given society, the student examines what it means to commit oneself to choices and judgments within this multiplicity.
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2.00 Credits
Prereq. Integrated Communication Level 3; one 210-level humanities/ fine arts elective - The student engages in a comparative study of the First People from two specific regions and time frames. She begins her study with an in-depth examination of the First People who inhabit one North American region and era, examining different cultural expressions of art and artifacts, written and oral histories, and religious ritual. The student considers ways that spirituality, mythology and a sense of place, technological change, cultural interdependence, and confrontation shape perspective and influence decision making among native people and between them and the emerging Euro-American culture. She then studies the history and contemporary lives of a second grouping of people, applying more independently the analytical tools and valuing abilities practiced in the first half, and exploring their understanding of what shapes differences and similarities between and among native people through time and place.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq. HS 250 or HS 251 or HS 310; Integrated Communication Level 4; Analysis Level 4; Aesthetic Engagement Level 4 - Through the examination and evaluation of diverse and conflicting narratives about significant themes and issues in American history, the student enters into the critical process by which historians debate and refine our collective understanding of America's past. She reads and evaluates various historical interpretations and examines key sources that historians have used to formulate their interpretations. She is expected to communicate coherently her critical evaluations of historical works to varied audiences and begins to construct her own interpretations of the theme or period being studied. Finally, she examines how dominant historical interpretations have shaped the nation's self-concept and how historians' challenges to these dominant narratives have involved them in cultural and professional conflicts. The specific focus of the course varies from year to year.
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