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4.00 Credits
Geography is the science that deals with the physical and human characteristics of the earth's surface including patterns, processes, variation and change in time and space. A central goal of Geography is to understand the interrelationships between physical and human environments. This course will expose students to the importance of a geographic perspective in understanding the human condition and make them aware of the environmental challenges awaiting us in this new millennium. This course will consist of the following three components: physical geography, human geography, and the overlap or interface between the physical and human realms, generally referred to as environmental geography. Major topics associated with the subfields in geography will be introduced while exploring the impacts of the environment, culture, and location on human affairs. Comparisons will be made between traditional and modern systems as a way of understanding variations in how people perceive and organize their territory. Geographic theories and real world situations will be presented at the micro (local) and macro (regional and world) level.
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4.00 Credits
Internships at this level are intended to allow a student to pursue specialized interests through a structure different from those of more traditional courses. Work at this level is exploratory in nature and need not be directly related to a major. No superior competence or experience on the part of the student is assumed.
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4.00 Credits
What are humans and how did we get to be the way we are? How do we live? What makes us act the way we do? Are we moral? How do we effect other species and the world around us? These are the questions we shall investigate in this course, and to answer them we will take an interdisciplinary approach drawing on the disciplines from both the natural (biology, ecology) and social (anthropology, sociology) sciences to provide insights into the heart and soul of the human species. After examining the process of natural selection we will explore how it forged modern Homo sapiens over the last 5 million years. We will then look at the finished product both in terms of our mental and physical characteristics. We shall complete this investigation by examining how we (humans) tend to interact with other species and our surrounding environment. It is hoped that many of the complexities and confusion about who we are will become more clear as we develop an understanding of both our capabilities as well as our limitations. Overall, students should gain a more complete comprehension of who they are as a member of the human species.
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4.00 Credits
Work at this level is designed to allow the student to gain experience and improve competency in an area of concentration. The activities associated with this type of internship require the student to have completed at least introductory concentration course work.
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4.00 Credits
Internships at this level involve a great degree of responsibility and involvement. Enrollment requires the student to have completed extensive course work in an area of concentration.
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4.00 Credits
Latin American government and society arises out of a tradition of centralized power that is vastly different from that of democratic society in North America. This course provides some insight into the often troubled relationship between the U.S. and its Latin American neighbors. It examines the development of this tradition in some classic statements by D. F. Sarmiento, José Martì and Octavio Paz, among others. The bulk of the reading is comprised of literary works that either support or subvert the authoritarian tradition of government and society in Latin America. Emphasis is placedon class discussion analyzing the ways in which the literary works in question tend to support or subvert the portrait of Latin America established at the opening of the semester.
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4.00 Credits
Latin music is a rapidly rising phenomenon. This course explores the roots and evolution of Latin musical styles from their origins in the Catholic cultures of southwestern Europe and its mixing with Native American and African cultures in the colonial Americas beginning in the 15th century. The focus is the urban popular musical styles that emerged in the late 19th century, and which developed into the famous regional styles of Argentine tango, Brazilian samba, Cuban son and salsa, Dominican merengue, Mexican rancheros and baladas, and many others over the course of the 20th century. Students will also consider the roles the Latin regions have had in other styles such as jazz, classical music, rock and roll, and rap. Students will assess the varying degrees of success Latin sounds are having in the major world musical markets today.
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4.00 Credits
The great Latin American "liberator," Simón BolÃvar, commented that, "The United States seems destined to plague us with miseries in the name of liberty." This course examines the historical development of the relationship between Latin America and the United States from Latin American independence to the present, concentrating mostly on the 20th century. It examines specific historical examples, including the Spanish-American War, the Panama Canal, the occupation of Haiti, the Cuban Revolution and the drug wars in Colombia. It looks at how this relationship developed in specific historical contexts, such as the Cold War. Students will discuss how the historic relationship and the present day context impact relations between Latin America and the U.S. today.
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4.00 Credits
The Caribbean is an incredibly diverse region that boasts a rich and complex history. This course examines the history of the Caribbean from the time of the indigenous groups up to the 20th century. Students look at the indigenous cultures that preceded Spanish colonization, the shock of colonization, the age of the pirates and buccaneers, the growth of the plantation economy and the slave trade, the age of independence and the modern period. They will examine the modern period by studying four case studies - Haiti/Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Commonwealth (English Speaking) Caribbean.
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4.00 Credits
This survey course examines Latin American history from the time of Columbus' first voyages to the end of the 19th century. The course discusses the contact between and mixtures of diverse peoples in the Americas, especially the pre-Columbian populations, the Spanish and Portuguese, and the Africans brought forcibly to the Americas as slave laborers. It covers period of conquest, the colonial period, the wars of independence and the first decades of nation building in Latin America in order to build a foundation in Latin American history. The course examines political, economic, social and cultural factors and how they played off one another throughout the 400-year period. The readings are a combination of primary texts and scholarly works on Latin American history. Film is used to explore parts of this history. The course format is a combination of lecture and discussion.
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