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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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Academic and Career Exploration |
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ACE 152 - Career & Major Engagement
Designed to aid students unclear of their major, this course utilizes experiential learning, class discussion, and reflective writing and projects to engage students in practical, real-world career and major engagement. Through this course, students will learn more about themselves by participating in a number of informative interviewing and career research activities to gain a better understanding of what majors they would like to explore and what career paths they may eventually decide to follow. By the end of the course, students will have participated and reflected upon a number of career experiences, participated in classroom discussion, and created a small portfolio displaying these experiences and growth. Course Typically Offered: Every fall. (in person), summer Term (online).
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 2
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ACE 194 - Career Development
This course helps students to prepare for careers, internships, and experiences in the world of work. To do this, the course provides opportunities for students to: assess their own work-related values, interests and skills and develop a professional identity; explore career options and associated pathways; and develop job acquisition skills, such as resume and cover letter writing, interviewing, and job search strategies. Students will gain practical experience interacting with others in a professional environment, interviewing and networking, and promoting their skills and assets. The course culminates in each student’s development of a career development portfolio which students can use to direct their job or internship search, assist with career decision-making, and support further career development. Junior or senior standing is strongly encouraged. Course Typically Offered: Every spring. (in person), May Term (online).
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 2
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Anthropology |
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ANT 101S - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
This cross-cultural course is one of the fundamental building blocks to understanding diversity in many different cultural and social contexts. We will discuss symbols and symbolic behavior, material culture, ethnicity, colonialism, gender roles, subsistence patterns, boundary markers and many facets of human adaptations through time and space. This course will also investigate issues of language in cultural and social context from a comparative perspective. Students will have the opportunity to conduct rudimentary ethnographic research in this course in order to provide them with the tools necessary for upper division courses in anthropology and other social science courses. Course Typically Offered: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 102S - Introduction to Archaeology
This course presents an overview of the discipline of archaeology and considers why it is essential in a modern, globalized world. Students learn basic methods, concepts and applications of archaeological inquiry. The course briefly considers the origin of agriculture and complex societies, while also examines issues related to antiquities, museums, applied archaeology, cultural heritage and the interaction of archaeologists with living descendants. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 103S - Human Origins
This course offers an overview of the discipline of biological anthropology. The course considers basic evolutionary theory, genetics, human diversity and ancestry of humans. The course tracks our evolutionary history from our divergence with the other Great Ape, through the age of hominins, and ultimately to the rise of agriculturally based sedentary societies. The course also explores the existing evidence and ongoing debates concerning present and future human evolution. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 202S - World Archaeology
The course examines the origins of complex societies and surveys the major developmental centers of prehistoric civilization around the globe. The course takes a comparative approach to understand how and why complex societies, such as states and empires, arose independently within several thousand years. Students will learn about complex societies of the New World (e. g., Aztec, Maya, Inca), Old World (e. g., Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus, China) and lesser known continents such as Africa. Course Typically Offered: Every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 210S - Latin America: Cultures and Contexts
This course provides an overview of the diverse peoples of Latin America from an anthropological perspective. Themes of particular focus include: conquest, colonialism, and resistance; cultural politics of race and ethnicity; cultural constructions of gender and sexuality; religion, health, and illness; food, dance, and pop culture; globalization, immigration, and labor; and civil war and social movements. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 215S - Social Problems and Social Change
Utilizing various anthropological theories, concepts and techniques, this course examines contemporary human problems and social change. Through an examination of the United States, as well as other regions around the world, students explore topics such as: environmental crises; poverty and conflict; crime and justice; healthcare; education; work and the family; among others. Students also explore various means to address human problems through social change. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 220S - Peoples and Cultures of North America
This course will focus on the various ethnic groups located in the United States. We will spend a good deal of time discussing diversity and minority issues, issues of stratification, power relations, ethnic boundary markers. This course will focus on either Native Americans or the wide variety of ethnic groups residing in the United States. Pass/Fail: Pass/Fail option Course Typically Offered: Every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 225S - Andean Explorations
This travel course explores the unique archaeology and anthropology of Peru. The course offers a comprehensive look at Andean cultures from prehistoric to historic and contemporary times. Students explore the dynamic cultural developments of the region through visiting a number of important coastal and highland archaeological sites, including Machu Picchu. Every experience is unique, but students typically visit various schools, health centers, regional open-air markets, a wide variety of museums, and other sites, which allow students to become immersed in contemporary Peruvian life while exploring the three major bioregions of Peru including the desert coast, highlands, and Amazon jungle. The course is open to students of any field, but is particularly well suited to students studying anthropology, history, international and global studies, geography, education, biology, and community health. Cross-Listed: Cross-listed with INS 280 . Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 230S - Linguistic Anthropology
Language and Culture are patently and intrinsically tied. This course will investigate issues of language and culture in cross-cultural settings focusing on a wide variety of topics affiliated with both Anthropological linguistics and sociolinguistics. We will discuss methodology, language and gender, language and power, language acquisition, and other related topics. Pass/Fail: Pass/Fail option Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 233S - Ancient North America
The course examines the archaeology and cultural developments of ancient North America. The course discusses the peopling of the continent, origins of agricultural and village life. Student will then learn about the cultural diversity of the continent across numerous regions including the Southeast (i. e. Hopewell, Mississippian), Northeast (i. e. Woodland), Northwest (i. e. coastal chiefdoms), Southwest (i. e. Ancestral Pueblo, Hohokam), as well as Canadian arctic (e. g., Inuit/Eskimo). Course Typically Offered: Every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 235S - The Culture of Capitalism
Capitalism has brought widespread economic development around the globe, and this in turn has profoundly changed the way humans live their lives. But the world is full of many masks, and behind the mask of economic prosperity lie numerous stories of colonization, war, forced “modernization,” poverty, hunger, disease, environmental degradation, religious fundamentalism, and social unrest. These stories, and their relationship to capitalist systems, are not always obvious to us; they seem far removed from our daily lives, appear to have little historical basis, and look as if they are isolated, encapsulated occurrences. In this course, we will peer behind the mask of the global expansion of capitalism and connect the dots. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 240S - Cultural Ecology
This course centers on the relationship between society and the environment, specifically focusing on literature from the growing field of political ecology. We will explore various environmental conflicts and management issues by careful consideration of particularities of place, culture and history. Using an anthropological perspective, nuances of local level details are set in relation to the broader political economy to explore not only environmental problems, but also potential solutions. Pass/Fail: Pass/Fail option Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 250 - Ethnography: In the Field
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to ethnographic research, description, and analysis. The very immersion into the everyday that constitutes what most ethnographers do-being a witness to the different ways that a range of people conveys the immediacy of human experience-will be our main framework. As such, in an effort to illuminate a small corner of humanity, students will develop and carry out an ethnographic exploration of a subculture of their choice. Adopting an ‘ethnographic perspective’ (one that considers both insider and outsider positions), students will conduct participant-observation in an attempt to get underneath the beliefs, values, rituals, behaviors, stories, and language patterns that make this particular subculture work. Methods of observing, participating, interviewing, taking field notes, and writing ethnographically will be discussed throughout the semester. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 101S or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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ANT 255S - Performance: Culture, Meaning and Society
The intention of this course is to expand and deepen our notion of performance and to address such questions as, “Why do people perform?” and “How does performance constitute our social and political worlds?” Using performance as an entry point for understanding texts, drama, culture, social roles, identity, resistance and technologies, and drawing from analytical principles embedded in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and performance studies, we will explore such diverse performance practices as ritual and social drama, multicultural and street performance, dance, theater, sitespecific performance, and a wide range of hybrid forms. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 260S - Violence, Warfare and Culture
This course explores processes of social conflict, including violence and warfare in past and present societies. By accessing cross-cultural case studies from archaeology, history and cultural anthropology, the course investigates the roots of human conflict and its development over time and space at a number of spatial and temporal scales. The course considers the causes and effects warfare, the role of power and social control, as well as how the environment, technology and poverty play into patterns of violence. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 265S - Climate Change and Society
This course examines how climate change has impacted society across time and space. Using a range of archaeological, historical and contemporary case studies, this course explores how climate change has served as an inhibitor (stressor) and stimulator (opportunity) in societal and cultural development in a range of different contexts (e. g., subsistence, economics, migration). The course examines important concepts of climate change (e. g., vulnerability, resilience, mitigation and adaptation), explores the myriad of human responses to climate change and concludes with an assessment of impacts of climate change in the state of Maine. Students may receive credit for only one of these courses. Cross-Listed: GEO 265S . Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 270S - Ancient Latin America
This course offers a synthesis of prehistoric cultures from the Latin America region and more specifically examines the patterns of cultural development in the Mesoamerican and Andean regions. The course tracks the rise of the earliest complex societies in Latin America, compares and contrasts the major sociopolitical developments in the central Andes and Mesoamerica and considers interregional and colonial contact. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 275S - Gender, Sexuality and Society
This course provides an introduction to the anthropology of gender, which draws from but is not reducible to feminist studies and activism, postcolonial studies, as well as recent work in globalization and transnationalism. Utilizing cross-cultural materials students explore topics such as: gender, healing and religion; gender identity and sexuality; colonialism, globalization and labor; gender-based violence; among others.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 277 - Elementary Topics in Anthropology
The study of a special topic in anthropology not offered in the regular anthropology curriculum. Course Typically Offered: Varies
Prerequisite(s): Varies with topic.
Credits: 4
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ANT 300 - Food and Culture
Food provides a window onto the human experience: how we find the means to survive and meet our basic needs; how we form communities; how we give our lives meaning and express our identities. Our relationships to food are individual and at the same time reflect our connections to local, national and global communities and networks. This course will consider what food-the ways we obtain and use it, and the meanings we give it-tell us about being human and being part of community. We will address topics including sources of food, the development of cuisines, food as an expression of identity and solidarity, body image and food, the ethics and politics of food choices, and the ritual uses of food. Pass/Fail: Pass/Fail option Course Typically Offered: Every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 310 - Field Methods in Archaeology
This course is an archaeological field school, which will expose students to intensive archaeological fieldwork. Student will learn a range of methodologies which may include field survey, site mapping, excavation and basic laboratory analysis of artifacts. Students will learn how to document cultural resources and how to synthesize and interpret material evidence. Course Typically Offered: Every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 6
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ANT 330 - Thinking Through Skin: Race in America
The American “skin game” of race. How do we even approach the vexing task of making sense of something that Michael Eric Dyson has characterized as “our most sturdy and endurable conundrum”? We begin, as is the intention of this course, by thinking through skin to spark and inform discussion about racialized difference. Where do our perceptions of racialized difference come from? Why were racial categories constructed in the first place? How is one’s lived experience of race here in Maine similar to, and different from, that of someone who lives in another part of the country? Why should we even care about the ways in which race operates in contemporary, everyday life? We’ll tackle these questions and more as we develop personal, critical inquiries into racial matters. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 333 - Visualizing Culture Through Film
This course borrows from anthropology, film, communication, media, and cultural studies in order to examine those aspects of culture that are accessible to us through the visual. Using early ethnographic films as a starting point, we will delve into such subject matters as anthropological film as a documentary genre and a research tool, the visual study of cultural patterns, the creation of subjective voices through film, and indigenous mediamaking. To better facilitate these explorations, this course will be run as an interactive seminar in which we will debate pertinent theoretical and methodological issues, with considerable class time devoted to screening and critiquing films. This course counts toward the Minor in Film Studies. Course Typically Offered: Every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 340 - Anthropological Theory
This course introduces students to some of the primary social theories and debates that inform anthropological analysis. Throughout the semester students explore a range of theoretical topics such as history, agency, structure, social change, power, and the politics of representation. By reading both classic and contemporary works students examine theoretical perspectives in terms of their explanatory power for understanding the social world and human behavior, the social and historical context in which they were produced, and as contributions to ongoing analysis and debate.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 360 - Social Science Research Methods
This course provides an introduction to social science research methods. Throughout the course students explore the history behind, ethical concerns inherent in, and types of social science research. Students also gain hands-on experience with different types of research methodologies (e. g., interviews, focus groups, observations, surveys). The course helps sharpen students’ ability to evaluate and critique research and think logically and critically. Additionally, students learn how they can apply the skills and knowledge gained in this course to a wide range of professions and fields.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 365 - Medical Anthropology
This course provides an introduction to the field of medical anthropology, which explores the intersection of biology and culture. Students examine how health, illness and healing are embedded within distinct social, cultural, and political worlds. The course considers social and political economic shaping of illness and suffering, local theories of disease causation and healing efficacy, structural violence, distribution of risk, meaning and effects of medical technology, and global health. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 377 - Special Topics in Anthropology
This course offers an in-depth exploration of a specialized topic in anthropology that is not offered in the usual anthropology curriculum. This course may offer a subject matter that is completely new or will serve as a continuation of a topic taught at the 200 level. These topics include but are not limited to the Ethnography of Maine’s People, Peasants and Small Scale Agriculture, Rural Maine Service Learning or Paleoanthropology. Pass/Fail: Pass/Fail option Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ANT 397 - Independent Study in Anthropology
The purpose of this course is to provide the exceptional student with an opportunity to explore specialized topics within the discipline of anthropology. Students are required to be involved in the design of the course; submitting in writing a detailed outline of their course of study to the instructor they are working with prior to registering for the course. Students require permission by the instructor to enroll in the course. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 101S , ANT 103S and permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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ANT 400 - Internship
Internships allow students to gain direct experience in areas that are relevant to their fields of study. Students work directly with faculty to determine which organization to work with as well as to determine what project(s) the student may do that is relevant to the internship. Internships must be approved by this faculty member as well as the site where students are performing their internship prior to registration. Students are strongly encouraged to establish these relationships at least one semester prior to enrolling in the internship. Pass/Fail: Pass/Fail option Course Typically Offered: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 101S , ANT 103S and permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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ANT 460 - Independent Research in Anthropology
This course is designed to provide an opportunity for advanced students seeking additional experience performing directed research. Students work individually with instructors on projects driven by the student’s interests or as part of larger on-going projects that the instructor is involved in. This course is particularly useful for students interested in attending graduate school. Pass/Fail: Pass/Fail option Course Typically Offered: Every semester.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 101S , ANT 103S , and ANT 360 or permission of the instructor. ANT 245 is highly recommended.
Credits: 4
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ANT 477 - Special Topics in Anthropology
The study of a specialized topic not offered in the usual curriculum. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 2-4
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ANT 480 - Senior Seminar/Capstone in Anthropology
This course is designed to be a culminating experience for students with an anthropology major. This seminar asks students to build upon previous coursework by conducting a research project of their own choosing. Students are also able to focus their research within a particular subfield of anthropology. Students work independently but discuss their work with one another, examining the process of research and their progress as a whole. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): ANT 340 , and ANT 250 or ANT 360 , or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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ART 112A - Digital Imaging
This class serves as an introduction to digital image-making for print, web and time-based media. This class focuses on the meaning of the constructed image as well as composition, color and visual balance. No experience or drawing skills are necessary, and all skill levels are welcome. Examples of software used: Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Course Typically Offered: At least once a year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 115A - Drawing I
An introduction to the basic principles, techniques and materials of drawing. Emphasis on drawing as a means of seeing and recording the physical world. The role of drawing in visual communication and creative exploration will also be emphasized. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 119A - Introduction to Sculpture
This introductory course explores the fundamental design principles, building strategies, and concepts of contemporary sculpture. Students will experiment with materials, techniques, and construction methods related to wood, cardboard, plastics, plaster, mold making, found objects, and improvised alternatives. Students will apply their own creative thought process to hands-on projects that will cover themes including material-asmetaphor, space, time, form, composition, and ephemerality. Reading, writing, discussion, and presentations will cover historical movements and contemporary topics in sculpture. No previous art experience is necessary. All skill levels are welcome. Course Typically Offered: Offered every semester.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 120A - C. R. A. P. P (Creative Relationship of Art and the Personal Politic)
It’s ART. It’s Boot Camp. It’s Total Immersion. It’s food. It’s sound. It’s text. It’s politics. It’s experimentation. It’s social interaction. It’s performance. It’s culture and IT IS ART. This class will examine art that lives on the fringes of traditional definitions. How does one define art beyond the language of medium or material? Painting, sculpture, and printmaking are a few of the traditional forms of art that we recognize, but art expands to include much, much more. In this course we will investigate art as communication, interaction and mediation. When we make and exhibit art we are engaging in a cultural conversation that has been evolving throughout the centuries. Understanding art and contextualizing our own practice means understanding what art is and what it can be. To understand a movement in art one must understand how it is influenced by the social, political, and theoretical climate of the time. Through a series of projects, readings, and material investigations this class will examine the social, political, and theoretical climate of our contemporary times and the visual conversations being formed in response to it. By investigating a variety of ways of working, students will learn to identify their own interests in making and acquire an understanding of ART and its cultural context. Course Typically Offered: Offered Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 121A - Painting I
Introduction to painting fundamentals and techniques working with acrylic or water-based oil paints. Emphasis on color theory, creative design and expression. Through discussion, demonstration and practice, the student becomes acquainted with the physical and conceptual problems of traditional and contemporary painting. The student must acquire necessary materials. Suggested sophomore level. Course Typically Offered: Offered Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 163A - Improvising Sound and Music
This course explores the ideas, practices, and techniques of improvising with sound or/and music. Any kind of aural improvisation will be accepted as valid coursework, and students will be rewarded for their willingness to experiment and innovate. This class is open to all and no prior music or sound experience is needed. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 177 - Topics in Art
The visual arts offer a variety of exciting and dynamic topics classes every semester. They range from interdisciplinary experiments like the making of a zombie movie, to a class on art and surrealism that produces the wildly popular “Surrealist Salon.” Be sure to click on “View Class Sections” and then click on the section number of the course for a description of each offering. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 209A - Installation Art I
Installation art is fundamental to contemporary art practice. Installation art could be be made from anything and is often constituted from an interdisciplinary use of material, media, and space. This course introduces issues, methods, and concepts surrounding installation art and will explore current shifts in the definition of installation as it relates to contemporary art-practice. Contextual significance of place and site will be explored through concepts such as immersion, performance, life=art and site-intervention. Installation art often uses a diverse use of media to demonstrate a concept or an idea. Students will be encouraged to create site-specific works and to explore various strategies, methods and materials that range from everyday found objects, sculpture, drawing, painting and new media such as video, sound and performance. All are welcome. No previous art experience is necessary. Course Typically Offered: Offered every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 219A - Sculptural Experiments I
This course will explore the experimental aspects and peripheral processes of contemporary sculpture. Could an interaction between a light-bulb and an app on your mobile device constitute a sculpture? What could be inventive about a community garden or a climbing wall? This course is devoted to making sculptural work on the fringe. We will work with unusual material and unorthodox building methods. We will collaborate with other course offerings to build sculptural projects on campus and in the Farmington community. This course will be an experiment in community building and interdisciplinary making. Course Typically Offered: Offered every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 220A - Film: A Cultural Affair
Film is a fantastic tool for social critique, and it is a tool that has been used for this purpose since its inception. This class will focus primarily on contemporary film makers within a strong theoretical context. We will view a variety of contemporary video shorts and full feature films while reading texts that offer a contemporary cultural critique. We will discuss how these complex ideas are investigated through the creative forms of moving image. This class will cover theorists as varied as Umberto Eco, Edward W. Soja and pop philosopher Slavoj Zizek. Through the lens, provided by these texts, we will analyze the works of international filmmakers such as Godfrey Reggio, Roy Andersson, David Cronenberg and Jerzy Stuhr. These readings and films investigate ideas as diverse as literary theory, geography, political science, and sustainability, and combine to paint an image of our contemporary landscape that will resonate as a surreal representation of our current social economic and political climate. This course will count as part of the film minor.
Prerequisite(s): No prerequisites; Sophomore standing or above recommended.
Credits: 4
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ART 223A - Robotic and Kinetic Art
This course will focus on kinetic and interactive sculpture and installation-art. As technology develops, artists employ the lo-tech and hi-tech approaches found within the DIY (do-it-yourself) culture to explore new avenues of dialogue and visual effects. By employing electronic devices, motors, and microcontrollers such as Arduino and Teensy, students will learn to hack objects and program open source electronics. Students will create projects that combine everyday junk with the technology of physical computing. All are welcome. No previous art experience is necessary. A basic understanding of computers is recommended but not required. Course Typically Offered: Offered every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 224A - Surrealism: The Permanent Revolution
This class will explore the revolutionary politics and radical aesthetics of Surrealism - perhaps the most long-lived and resilient of all the Modernist traditions - in the context of contemporary art and culture. Using the various Manifestos of Surrealism as our primary texts, this studio course will allow students to produce contemporary Surrealist works in various media, and will explore the ways in which such works can be extended into social networks, both actual and virtual.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 225A - Painting II
This class will examine a variety of painting traditions in the context of contemporary cultural theory, with particular emphasis on the ways in which social, political, and visual systems create, support, and inform each other. Students will be encouraged to approach their own work from a critically informed position, and technical skills will be developed in tandem with functional analytical strategies.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 226A - Painting off the Wall
Like most disciplines, painting can no longer be defined by its material, nor can it be held to a two dimensional plane. In fact a painting doesn’t need to include paint at all. So what is painting when it doesn’t involve paint and it isn’t held to a two dimensional plane? In this class we will investigate the language of painting through sculpture, installation, and new media. How do we define painting when it breaks out of the frame, crawls down the wall and envelops the viewer in a variety of materials including light and perhaps even sound? Through establishing an understanding of its historical concerns we will set out to stretch the definitive perimeters of painting, using objects as paint and space as canvas. Course Typically Offered: Offered every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 228A - Space and Place
This is an interdisciplinary course that examines space and its many manifestations and functions. We will examine physical space, pictorial space, political, social, psychological and cerebral space. Using Gastron Bouchard’s book The Poetics of Space in addition to other readings, we will investigate the ideas of the miniature, the gigantic, the hidden, the shared, the personal, and the public space. We will investigate the ideas of intimate space versus social space. We will examine image and object as space. What space do these things occupy in the construction of meaning and what space do they designate in the physical world. What happens when you change this designation? A series of projects will help us to further understand these ideas and share them with a broader audience. There will be a focus on the ideas in this class and projects may be constructed in a variety of media from painting to text , digital media, sculptural forms, performance, and social practice.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 229A - Digital Photo
This introductory course presents digital photography as a meeting place of images and ideas. Students will learn how to operate a DSLR digital camera, develop basic skills with Adobe Photoshop editing software, and explore ideas through visual language. Throughout this course, students will be challenged to apply formal design and technical knowledge to create concept-driven projects. Readings and lectures will introduce students to artists working in lens-based media and fuel class discussions regarding topics of contemporary photography and visual culture. Course Typically Offered: Every other year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 234A - Interactive Web Media
This course is an introduction to web based interactive media. Students will learn basic composition and interactivity as well as the construction of content and the principles of visual language. The class is designed to introduce students to web based technology while researching artists that use the web as a means of expression. (Examples of Software used: Flash, and audio programs). Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 239A - Animation
This class is an introduction to 2D digital animation for broadcast, video and web. Students will learn the basics of image construction, keyframe animation, digital sound and building content in time-based media. No experience or drawing skills are necessary, and all skill levels are welcome. (Examples of software used: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe AfterEffects) Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 241A - Video I
This fundamental video class introduces students to the basics of video & time-based media production and aesthetics. The course includes screening of video works, in-class demonstrations of equipment and techniques, discussions, and assignments of time-based media concerns in the creations of images and sound track for video and other media. Using digital video equipment class members produce works that pursue fine art and experimental directions. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and knowledge of the Macintosh OS.
Credits: 4
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ART 244A - Creative Imaging
An exploration of visual language designed to make use of advanced techniques in image manipulation, digital photography and multiple-page composition. The course is presented in an open format emphasizing experimentation, creative uses of the program and professional practices. Software used: Photoshop, InDesign. Fees $30 Course Fee. Course Typically Offered: Every other year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 260A - Language of Performance
This course challenges students to develop a greater understanding of the “language” of performance by exploring the numerous prisms (e. g. sound, image, space, language, text, etc.) through which performativity is/can be refracted. Does a sound carry meaning? What is the difference between space and place? What does the presence of stillness suggest? What does a piece of clothing reveal about its wearer? How does light shift our perspective? In order to foster a corporeal interrogation of these questions and others, this course will be run as an interactive workshop and seminar in which we will: engage in various forms of play; analyze and critically evaluate our ideas, arguments and points of view; and learn to apply course material to improve our own performance practices. Students have the option of signing up for this course under ART 260A or THE 260A , but may only receive credit for one. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 264A - Art and Social Change
This course challenges us to foster a historical, comparative, and tactile understanding of the relationship between art and social change. How do artists address social issues? Can art transform lives? How can art serve as a force for encouraging ethical dialogue and action within the public sphere? How do we make our ideas and revelations actually matter within our collective place and space? Through lectures, discussions, presentations, and projects we will set about to engage ourselves with the work of contemporary artists who have addressed issues related to the environment, racial and cultural identity, human rights, healthcare, and social justice.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 277 - Topics in Art
The visual arts offer a variety of exciting and dynamic topics classes every semester. They range from interdisciplinary experiments like the making of a zombie movie, to a class on art and surrealism that produces the wildly popular “Surrealist Salon.” Be sure to click on “View Class Sections” and then click on the section number of the course for a description of each offering. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 309A - Installation Art II
Installation art is fundamental to contemporary art practice. Installation art could be be made from anything and is often constituted from an interdisciplinary use of material, media and space. This course will address advanced methods and concepts surrounding installation-art and will explore current shifts in the definition of installation-art as it relates to contemporary art-practice. This 300 level course will further expand on the students’ use concept driven decision making and research based practices. Students will be required to write project and artist statements and lead class discussions. Students will be encouraged to create site-specific works and to explore various strategies, methods and materials that range from everyday found objects, sculpture, drawing, painting and new media such as video, sound and performance. Students will be expected to apply material and media practices relative to their prerequisite experience. This is a 300 level offering of this course, and students will be expected to work at this level. Course Typically Offered: Offered every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): ART 209A , ART 219A , or ART 241A .
Credits: 4
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ART 319 - Sculptural Experiments II
This course will explore the experimental aspects and peripheral processes of contemporary sculpture. Could an interaction between a light-bulb and an app on your mobile device constitute a sculpture? What could be inventive about a community garden or a climbing wall? This course is devoted to making sculptural work on the fringe. We will work with unusual material and unorthodox building methods. We will collaborate with other course offerings to build sculptural projects on campus and in the Farmington community. This course will be an experiment in community building and interdisciplinary making. This is a 300 level offering of this course, and students will be expected to work at this level. Course Typically Offered: Offered every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): Any 200 level studio art class.
Credits: 4
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ART 320A - Contemporary Theory and Practice
A truly interdisciplinary course that will examine advanced problems in creative practice and production that respond to and incorporate relevant contemporary social and cultural theory. With a focus on the relationship between author/producer and audience/reader we will investigate notions of truth, the real, the spectacle, the authentic, the utopian, and the post human. We will contemplate the meaning and purpose of our own practice in a post-structural society through reading presentations and the productions of a personal body of work. This course is open to students working in a variety of disciplines and a body of work extends to include writing in all forms from political essays to poetry as well as varieties of media in the arts from performance to new media. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing.
Credits: 4
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ART 323 - Robotic and Kinetic Art II
This course will expand on the students knowledge of kinetic and interactive sculpture and installation-art. As technology develops, artists employ the lo-tech and hi-tech approaches found within the DIY (do-it-yourself) culture, to explore new avenues of dialogue and visual effects. By employing electronic devices, motors and micro-controllers such as Arduino and Teensy, students will learn to hack objects and program open source electronics. Students will create projects that combine everyday junk with the technology of physical computing. This 300 level course will further expand on the students’ use concept driven decision making and research based practices. Students will be required to write project and artist statements and lead class discussions. Students will be expected to apply material and media practices relative to their prerequisite experience. This is a 300 level offering of this course, and students will be expected to work at this level. Course Typically Offered: Offered every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): ART 223A .
Credits: 4
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ART 324 - Surrealism II
This class will explore the revolutionary politics and radical aesthetics of Surrealism - perhaps the most long-lived and resilient of all the Modernist traditions - in the context of contemporary art and culture. Using the various Manifestos of Surrealism as our primary texts, this studio course will allow students to produce contemporary Surrealist works in various media, and will explore the ways in which such works can be extended into social networks, both actual and virtual. This is a 300 level offering of this course, and students will be expected to work at this level.
Prerequisite(s): Any 200 level studio art class.
Credits: 4
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ART 325 - Painting III
This class will examine a variety of painting traditions in the context of contemporary cultural theory, with particular emphasis on the ways in which social, political, and visual systems create, support, and inform each other. Students will be encouraged to approach their own work from a critically informed position, and technical skills will be developed in tandem with functional analytical strategies. This is a 300 level offering of this course, and students will be expected to work at this level.
Prerequisite(s): Any 200 level studio art class.
Credits: 4
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ART 326 - Painting off the Wall II
Like most disciplines, painting can no longer be defined by its material, nor can it be held to a two dimensional plane. In fact a painting doesn’t need to include paint at all. So what is painting when it doesn’t involve paint and it isn’t held to a two dimensional plane? In this class we will investigate the language of painting through sculpture, installation and new media. How do we define painting when it breaks out of the frame, crawls down the wall and envelops the viewer in a variety of materials including light and perhaps even sound. Through establishing an understanding of its historical concerns we will set out to stretch the definitive perimeters of painting, using objects as paint and space as canvas. This is a 300 level offering of this course, and students will be expected to work at this level. Course Typically Offered: Offered every 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): Any 200 level studio art class.
Credits: 4
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ART 328A - Space and Place II
This is an interdisciplinary course that examines space and its many manifestations and functions. We will examine physical space, pictorial space, political, social, psychological, and cerebral space. Using Gastron Bouchard’s book The Poetics of Space in addition to other readings, we will investigate the ideas of the miniature, the gigantic, the hidden, the shared, the personal, and the public space. We will investigate the ideas of intimate space versus social space. We will examine image and object as space. What space do these things occupy in the construction of meaning and what space do they designate in the physical world. What happens when you change this designation? A series of projects will help us to further understand these ideas and share them with a broader audience. There will be a focus on the ideas in this class and projects may be constructed in a variety of media from painting to text , digital media, sculptural forms, performance, and social practice. This is a 300 level offering of this course, and students will be expected to work at this level.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 334A - Introduction to Interactive Web Media
This class explores web as a medium for intellectual and artistic expression. This course will explore techniques ranging from basic website construction to podcasting to virtual presence to “whatever comes next.” The class is designed to introduce students to web-based technology while researching artists using the web as a means of expression. Examples of software used: Dreamweaver, Flash, and audio programs. Experience with the Macintosh is suggested. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 339A - Animation II
This course is designed as an advanced level compliment to ART 239A Animation I and continues both technical and conceptual study in the field of animation. Stop animation, frame-by-frame animation, rotoscoping and composting will be introduced, and keyframe animation will be investigated at an advanced level. Examples of software used: Final Cut Pro, Adobe AfterEffects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator. Course Typically Offered: Offered Every year.
Prerequisite(s): ART 239A Animation I.
Credits: 4
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ART 341 - Video II
An intensive video production course that utilizes the green screen, prop building, advanced shooting, and post-production techniques. Ideas and concepts associated with time-based art and video will be examined. Students will make their own short videos while researching contemporary artists who use video as a means to create art. Examples of software and techniques used: Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Soundtrack, green screen, props. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): ART 241A .
Credits: 4
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ART 344A - Creative Imaging II
This course is designed as an advanced-level complement to ART 244A Creative Imaging and ART 234A Interactive Web Media. The curriculum continues both technical and conceptual study in the field of digital print and interactive web media. Sequence, color, photography, concept, composition and technique will be investigated. Examples of software used: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator. Fees $30 Course Fee. Course Typically Offered: Offered Every year.
Prerequisite(s): ART 244A Creative Imaging or ART 234A Interactive Web Media.
Credits: 4
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ART 377 - Topics in Art
The visual arts offer a variety of exciting and dynamic topics classes every semester. They range from experiments like the making of a zombie movie, to a class on art and surrealism that produces the wildly popular “Surrealist Salon.” Be sure to click on “View Class Sections” and then click on the section number of the course for a description of each offering. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ART 397 - Independent Study in Art
Provides an opportunity to select and study, with individual guidance from a faculty member, a topic of mutual interest in art. A description of the project must be developed and submitted to an Art faculty member of the student’s choice. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): Acceptance of the student proposal and permission of the Division Chairperson.
Credits: 4
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ART 420 - Senior Seminar and Studio Practice
The emphasis of this course is on understanding aesthetics of contemporary art and applications to a personal body of work. An initial portfolio will be developed for ART 430 along with discussion of each student’s philosophy and aesthetic influences in relationship to his/her art. Academic and professional options for life post-B. A. will be explored. The readings, class discussions, and writing assignments will focus on the contemporary art processes, theory, and criticism. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): Art major and senior standing.
Credits: 4
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ART 430 - Senior Project and Studio Practice
Preparation and installation of artwork for public exhibition. In this course students will continue to develop an artist statement along with readings, class discussions, visiting artist critiques and group critiques on individual bodies of work. The student is responsible for securing an appropriate exhibition space and other needs contingent to the exhibition of his/her work. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): ART 420 , Art major, and senior standing.
Credits: 4
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ART 441 - New Media
This is an advanced studio course for students who have already developed a skill set in new media. Students will take on large projects in their respective area of interest with the help and support of the instructor. Each student will work with the instructor to develop an individual plan of study with conceptual, formal and technical development as the final goal. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): ART 339A , ART 344A or ART 341 .
Credits: 4
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ART 477 - Topics in Art
The study of a specialized topic not offered in the usual curriculum. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 2-4
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ARH 114A - Visual Culture I
This course focuses on art and architecture within ancient through medieval visual cultures. Students will look at the different ways in which images create meaning, form visual languages, and drive society and politics. Areas of study include the Paleolithic cave paintings and sculpture, ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome, and early and medieval Christian imagery and architecture. Writing-intensive. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 116A - Visual Culture II
This course focuses on art and architecture as part of the visual cultures of the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and modern world into the 19th century. Students will look at the different ways in which images create meaning, form visual languages, and drive society and politics. Students will study different ways of interpreting images and consider the both the historical and current contexts of the artworks and their own role as viewers. Writing-intensive. Course Typically Offered: Odd year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 170A - Art and Ideas
What is art? Why is art so powerful? How does art create meaning? In this course you will actively engage in the dialogue between philosophy and art by taking both sides on these and other questions. This course is team-taught by an art historian and a philosopher, and is intensive in reading, writing and participation. Cross-Listed: Cross listed with PHI 170H . Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 177 - Topics in Art History
Special topics in art history not covered in the regular curriculum. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 272A - History of Japanese Art
The history of Japanese art and visual culture from prehistory to the present with special attention to the Edo period onwards and to connections across art, literature and theatre. May require attendance at film screenings outside of class meeting times. Writing-intensive. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 274A - Modern Art
This course examines modernism and modern art in Europe and the United States from the mid-19th century to World War II. We will look at the rise of the avant-garde (cubism, dada, surrealism, etc.) and the dynamic new conversation among art, its public, its critics, and its theorists. Writing-intensive. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 276A - Contemporary Art
This course is a focused study of art and its dialogue with its viewers, its critics and society from modernism in the 1960s through postmodernism to the present day in the United States and Europe. Writing-intensive. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 277 - Topics in Art History
Covers specialized topics not covered in the regular art history curriculum. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 280A - World Film
This course critically examines issues in international cinema and provides an introduction to film theory. May require attendance at screenings outside of class meeting time. Writing-intensive. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 284A - History of Japanese Film
This course studies Japanese film within its social and cinematic context from the silent films of Ozu through the 1950s’ “golden age” of Ozu, Mizoguchi and Kurosawa, to the dystopic postmodernism of many directors today. This course provides an introduction to film theory. Writing-intensive. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 376A - History of Photography
The history and theory of photography from its origins to the present day. Writing intensive. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 377 - Topics in Art History
Covers advanced specialized topics not covered in the regular art history curriculum. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 378A - Contemporary Japanese Film
This course critically examines current Japanese cinema within its social, historical and literary contexts and provides an introduction to film theory. May require attendance at screenings outside of class meeting time. Course Typically Offered: Every 2 years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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ARH 397 - Independent Study in Art History
An opportunity to pursue a major independent research project in art history. Course Typically Offered: Varies.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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BIO 110N - Introductory Biology
An introduction to the content, methods, and philosophy of science with an emphasis on the principles of biology and their application to topics in research and current issues in science. Each instructor will focus on a specific area of biology and use inquiry in the field and laboratory to allow more in-depth study of a particular sub-discipline or interdisciplinary topic. Topics of focus may include such areas as Aquatic Biology, Human Biology, Microbiology, Animal Behavior, Marine Biology, or Ecology (students should check course listings for current offerings). Cannot be used as elective credit toward the biology major. This course may be repeated for General Elective credit when the topic differs. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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BIO 130N - Tropical Nature: Exploring Costa Rica
For two weeks, we will explore the astonishing diversity of many of Costa Rica’s ecosystems, including rain forests, cloud forests, mangrove swamps, and beach ecosystems. The course will emphasize natural history, field studies of ecological patterns, tropical conservation, and reflecting on and writing about your experiences. Students may receive credit for only one of the courses. Pass/Fail: Pass/Fail only Cross-Listed: ENV 130N . Course Typically Offered: Winter term, in odd years.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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BIO 141 - The Living Earth: Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity
This course explores the diversity of life from the perspectives of ecology and evolutionary biology, as well as the application of those concepts to environmental problems. General principles are illustrated with case studies from the geological record, the functioning of plants in comparison to other organisms, the behavior of animals, earth system science, and the ecological impacts of environmental change. The course emphasizes skills critical to biology, especially field identification, the process of science, analysis, and writing. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): science and secondary education science majors or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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BIO 142 - The Living Earth: The Cellular and Molecular World
An introduction to the molecular and cellular processes common to life, with an emphasis on systems biology. Central themes include cell structure and function, energy flow through living systems, and the central dogma of information transfer from DNA replication to protein synthesis. The application of these principles to organismal and evolutionary biology is emphasized through primary literature and class discussion. The laboratory is experiential and supports student learning of these important principles. Course Typically Offered: Every spring.
Prerequisite(s): Science and secondary education science majors or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4
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BIO 150N - Human Anatomy and Physiology I
This course provides an overview of the structure and functions of the human body, including the cellular and tissue organizations, as well as the integumentary (skin), skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems. Other body systems, such as the endocrine, cardiovascular, digestive, respiratory, urinary, and reproductive systems will be covered in a second semester course. The laboratory portion follows lectures closely. This course is designed for pre-professional track students and also for students wishing to acquire general education science requirements, or to explore the biology major. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): None.
Credits: 4
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BIO 212 - Principles of Ecology
Ecology investigates the interrelationships between species and their physical environment. These interactions form the foundation of our understanding of how the natural world functions, and thus are of fundamental importance to the study and conservation of natural systems. Students will be introduced to the theoretical underpinnings of ecology. Topics include, but are not limited to: hierarchical organization of biodiversity into populations, communities, and ecosystems; foraging; predation; competition; disease; parasitism and mutualism; food webs; successional processes; and nutrient cycling. Course content emphasizes both ecological literacy and experiential learning, with a focus on scientific inquiry. Intensive field labs and group research projects accelerate hands-on learning opportunities in skills such as study design, data collection, data analysis, and scientific communication. Field trips may be required. Students should plan to take this course in their second year. Course Typically Offered: Every year.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 141 and BIO 142 , or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4
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BIO 232 - Landscape Ecology
Habitat fragmentation and degradation is one of the driving forces of global biodiversity loss - as well as one of the drivers of naturally occurring biodiversity patterns. Landscape ecology investigates the influence of landscape heterogeneity, habitat fragmentation, and landscape permeability on species richness, community composition, dispersal, and functional connectivity. In addition, landscape ecologists provide practical solutions for mediating the effects of habitat fragmentation and reduced connectivity in an increasingly altered natural world. In this course, we will explore the fundamental concepts that inform landscape ecology, review the application of landscape ecology to contemporary conservation challenges such as reserve design, corridor identification and protection, and assess the role of landscape ecology in studying population and community adaptation to climate change and continued habitat loss. Course content is delivered via a combination of lecture, in-class discussion of scientific articles, guest speakers who will present their experience(s) applying landscape ecology to conservation projects, and a combination of field-based and computer labs. Students will engage in some of the standard analytical tools used by landscape ecologists, such as ArcGIS, Circuitscape, and R. Students may receive credit for only one of the courses. Cross-Listed: ENV 232 . Course Typically Offered: Every 2 to 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 141 , BIO 142 , BIO 212 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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BIO 240 - Accelerated Human Anatomy and Physiology
This course covers structural and functional relationships of the human body systems, including the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems. Regulatory processes that integrate body cells, tissues, and organs will be discussed. This course assumes a basic understanding of cellular physiology and is intended only for students in the nursing program. Course Typically Offered: Every fall.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 142 The Living Earth: The Cellular and Molecular World ; enrollment in the UMF-UMA Nursing Partnership
Credits: 4
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BIO 252 - Genetics
Designed to relate the mode of gene expression at the molecular, cellular, organism, and population levels. Laboratory experience introduces basic laboratory techniques and requires students to design and carry out small-scale research projects in genetics. Course Typically Offered: Odd fall semester.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 141 and BIO 142 .
Credits: 4
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BIO 253 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II
This course is a continuation of BIO 150N Human Anatomy & Physiology I and will focus on the endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems. The laboratory portion closely follows lecture content. This course is not designed to fulfill the science general education requirement and is designed for Pre-Professional tracks. Course Typically Offered: Every spring.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 150N Human Anatomy and Physiology I or permission of instructor
Credits: 4
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BIO 265 - Ecological Restoration
Ecological restoration seeks to aid ecosystems and their associated species in recovery after human-caused disturbance or degradation. While the process of ecological restoration is often focused on the recovery of degraded ecosystems, in this class we will broaden the scope to include speciesspecific restoration. Students will explore the biological and ecological foundations of restoration as well as the practical considerations of planning and implementing restoration projects, and what makes restoration projects succeed or fail. Special attention will be granted to ecological restoration in the context of sustainability and climate change. Students will also engage with the political and social aspects of restoration project development and implementation. Class content includes lecture, peer-to-peer teaching, review and discussion of scientific literature and restoration project planning documents, field trips to local restoration projects, guest speakers involved in ecological restoration programs, and team development of restoration planning documents. Limited (1-3) day-long field trips are required. Students may receive credit for only one of the courses. Cross-Listed: ENV 265 . Course Typically Offered: Every 2 to 3 years.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 141 , BIO 142 , BIO 212 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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