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Sewall Courses, Fall 2008

CAMW 2001: The American West (3 credit hrs.)Dr. Ramirez

CAMW 2001: The American West (3 credit hrs.)Dr. Aiken

CAMW 2001: The American West (3 credit hrs.)Dr. Lewis

HIST 1015: U.S. History to 1865 (3 credit hrs.) Dr. Helm

HIST 1025: U.S. History since 1865 (3 credit hrs.) Dr. Funk

HIST 2117: History of Colorado (3 credit hrs.)Dr. Aiken

HIST 2215: Era of the American Revolution (3 credit hrs.)Dr. Helm



Non-U.S. Context Courses

NOTE: If you take a US Context course at Sewall in the Fall, you
must take a non-US Context course in the Spring.
Choose from these courses below:

EBIO 1030: Biology: Human Approach 1 (3 credit hrs.) Dr. DiDomenico

ECON 1000: Introduction to Economics (4 credit hrs.) Dr. Sharma

ENGL 1191: Introduction to Creative Writing (3 credit hrs.) Dr. McVey

ENGL 1800: American Ethnic Literature (3 credit hrs.) Dr. Moore

GRMN 1602 : Metropolis and Modernity (3 credit hrs.) Dr. Julien

HIST 1010: Western Civilization I (3 credit hrs.) Dr. Jobin

HIST 2543: Medieval Societies (3 credit hrs.) Dr. Jobin

IPHY 3420: Nutrition, Health, & Performance(3 credit hrs). Dr. Murphy

SEWL 2000: America, the Environment, (3 credit hrs.) Dr. Lewis
and the Global Economy

Required Course

SEWL 2020: Exploring the New West -- Community Conversations:
Citizenship through Place-based Learning (1 credit hr.)

Elective Courses after Required Courses are Met

After you register for your Sewall US Context Course OR your Sewall Non-US Context Course, you may then register for SEWL 2020 “Choosing a Major” and/or a “Writing” Course:

SEWL 1020: Meaningful Careers and My Major (1 credit hr.)Sue Frederick

Writing Classes

(May be taken only as a 2nd Sewall Course in either Fall or Spring Semester)

WRTG 1150: First Year Writing and Rhetoric (3 credit hrs.) Ferrell

WRTG 1150: Writing in the Arts & Sciences (3 credit hrs.) Doersch

WRTG 1150: First Year Writing and Rhetoric (3 credit hrs.) Hansen

WRTG 1150: First Year Writing and Rhetoric (3 credit hrs.) Hightower

WRTG 1150: First Year Writing and Rhetoric (3 credit hrs.) Quinlan

Sewall Course Descriptions:


CAMW 2001: The American West: Understanding Today's West
(3 credit hrs.)

CAMW 2001-711 1000-1050 MWF -- Dr. Ramirez
CAMW 2001-713 1100-1150 MWF -- Dr. Ramirez

Engage your mind.  Explore your world.  Expand your possibilities.
“The American West Today” aims to engage first- and second-year students and enrich their undergraduate experience by linking classroom learning to field study. This interdisciplinary course introduces the West as a unique region and explores key issues that westerners face today, including land use and public lands policy, energy development, and cultural conflict over land and resource allocation.  The West holds 80% of the nation’s public lands, most of its energy resources, and one of the most culturally and politically diverse populations in the U.S.  The decisions that Westerners make today will shape our nation’s future.  This course underscores the complexity of public policy decisions and the promise of engaging in the decision-making process.  It also puts students in contact with public officials, educators, scientists, and citizens engaged in making policy decisions today.  

This class also serves as the foundation course for the Western
American Studies Certificate program, offered by CU's nationally
recognized Center of the American West. The Center, in partnership with
Sewall, provides first-year students with opportunities to join the
university's lively discourse on the past, present, and future of the West.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: U.S. Context




CAMW 2001: The American West: The West at Close Range
(3 credit hrs.)

CAMW 2001-7120200-0315 TR -- Dr. Aiken

This interdisciplinary course introduces the West as a unique region made up of distinctive sub-regions.  As we study the West, we will place particular emphasis on the relationship between people from a variety of cultures and the landscapes in which they settled.  We will also explore the origins and development of key issues that westerners face today.  Topics include cross-cultural conflict, land use and public lands policy, and water management.  In order to enrich students' learning, this course will link classroom study to learning experiences outside of the classroom through field study and special events. Field trips include hiking on Boulder Mountain Parks and Open Space lands and visiting local museums.  This course is designed for students who are curious, engaged, and motivated to learn about the American West through first-hand experience.  Welcome to this exploration of the West!  

This class serves as the foundation course for the
Western American Studies Certificate program offered by CU's nationally recognized Center of the American West. The Center, in partnership with Sewall, provides first-year students with opportunities to join the university's lively discourse on the past, present, and future of the West.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: U.S. Context



CAMW 2001: The American West

CAMW 2001-7100900-0950 MWF -- Dr. Lewis
CAMW 2001-7141100-1150 MWF -- Dr. Lewis

This is the introductory course for the "certificate program in Western American Studies." Using an interdisciplinary focus, we will study the growth and development of the American West as a culture, economy, and society. The American West is both a physical region and a cultural landscape, containing both a geography and a regional--at times mythical--culture. The West is both a microcosm of American culture and history and its own unique cultural region. The American West has always been, and continues to be, a region that draws diverse peoples and cultures from around the world. We will debate and study what is the past, present, and future of the American West. (See the course website:
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/west/index.htm )

This class serves as the foundation course for the
Western American Studies Certificate program offered by CU's nationally recognized Center of the American West. The Center, in partnership with Sewall, provides first-year students with opportunities to join the university's lively discourse on the past, present, and future of the West.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: U.S. Context

EBIO 1030 Biology: Human Approach 1 (3 credit hrs.)

EBIO 1030-710  0930 - 1045 TR --  Dr. DiDomenico

This course can either serve as a natural science sequence course with EBIO 1030 or as a stand alone core natural science course. The focus of EBIO 1040 is the human body and physiology. We will cover all the major organ and physiological systems from the brain and nervous system to reproduction. A practical approach using examples of health and medicine are discussed to ensure that the information in this class will be useful to you in your daily life. During the semester groups of 3-4 students will serve as weekly experts for the organ of the week. These students will do some presenting of material and will also answer their peer's questions (and maybe some of my own).

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: Natural Sciences

ECON 1000: Introduction to Economics (4 credit hrs. )

ECON 1000-710  TBA --  Dr. Sharma
Recitation - 1000-711 TBA -- Dr. Sharma

This course introduces an economic way of thinking about the world we live in, emphasizing the human desire to make oneself as well off as possible in the face of scarce resources. Topics include scarcity, decision making, market mechanisms, competition, and the role of government. The study of economic thought will be extended to issues particular to the American West, including an historical examination of economic booms and busts, a study of thriving industries of the West, and finally, an analysis of government policies and regulations unique to the region.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: Contemporary Societies

ENGL 1191 Introduction to Creative Writing

ENGL 1191-710  0200 - 0315 MWF --  Dr. McVey

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences:

ENGL 1800 American Ethnic Literatures

ENGL 1800-710  1100 - 1150 MWF --  Dr. Moore

This course introduces significant fiction (short stories and novels and some films) by ethnic Americans.  It explores both the literary and the cultural elements that distinguish works by these writers.  Some of these issues are ethnic identity, multiculturalism, cultural difference, language, cultural contestation, assimilation and acculturation and resistance, and “race” and gender matters as they are manifested in literary forms.  We will read work by African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic, Jewish, and Native Americans.  These are all broad and multiply inclusive categories.  We will attempt to recover and uncover people and work long overlooked and “invisible” to myopic mainstream America .

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: Cultural & Gender Diversity

GRMN 1602 : Metropolis and Modernity (3 credit hrs.)

GRMN 1602 - 710  1100 - 1215 TR -- Dr. Julien

In this course the focus is on Berlin, Chicago, and Denver with discussion focused on how the metropolis is shown in literature, movies, architecture, and articles. We will explore why the metropolis became such a pivotal site in the construction of modern Western life. What attracted artists, musicians, performers, intellectuals, inventors, critics, entrepreneurs and many others to the "bright lights" of the big city?  Students will learn about issues that address all of us as citizens and inhabitants of a city, such as: What is the modern urban condition? What are the ways in which national or regional identity is expressed by means of urban architecture? Can community be fostered in the city? How is globalization affecting cities today?

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: Elective

HIST 1010: Western Civilization I

HIST 1010-710  1000-1050 MWF -- Dr. Jobin

In Western Civilization I, we will examine the origins of  Western culture from the beginning of written history in  the Middle East until the Protestant Reformation of the  16^th century.  We will study the Hebrews, Greeks, and  Romans of the ancient world, Europe in the Middle Ages,
 the early modern expansion of Europe, the reasons why the European influence dominates the global village, and the causes of the spectacular technological and economic growth of Western civilization.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: Historical Context

HIST 1015: U.S. History to 1865 (3 credit hrs.)

HIST 1015-710  1230-0145  TR -- Dr. Helm

This course tells the story of one of the most exciting and interesting periods in American history. It is about the American people, natives and newcomers, and how their combined experience shaped and defined a nation. It is about idealism and high hopes, but it is also about theoften painful struggle to make those ideals and hopes a reality for all Americans. We begin with the first contact between Indians and Europeans in 1492, look at the development of the British North American colonies, trace the events and ideas that led to the American Revolution, establish the United States of America, expand the new nation’s boundaries from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and finally we will examine the terrible Civil War that tore the nation apart in the 1860s.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: U.S. Context

HIST 1025: U.S. History since 1865

HIST 1025-710  1000-1050  TR -- Dr. Funk

This course surveys American history since the Civil War.  We will be covering the major historical periods since 1865—Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the consensus driven Fifties, the Civil Rights movement, and the protest dominated Sixties.  We will also be looking at American foreign policy issues since the Civil War, especially the Spanish American War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam and the current “War on Terrorism.”   I prefer a social history approach that includes the voices of everyday Americans, not just the words and actions of the political elite.  Using a variety of sources—written and otherwise--we will try to gain a better understanding of our shared American past.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: U.S. Context

HIST 2117: History of Colorado (3 credit hrs.)

HIST 21117-7100930-1045 TR -- Dr. Aiken

The primary goal of this course is to examine Colorado 's past from the beginning of human occupation to the present.  We will identify key events and consider major issues in Colorado history and, at the same time, view Colorado 's past within the larger contexts of regional and national history.  Emphasis will be placed on interactions between humans and the environment and on interactions among Colorado 's principal cultural groups. 

The secondary goal of this course is to become familiar with the tools and techniques of historical inquiry, analysis, and interpretation.  In particular, we will attend to the ways in which Colorado 's history has been interpreted in museums and understood through local history.  To this end, we will be taking a number of  field trips to museums and historic sites in and around Boulder . 

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: U.S. Context

HIST 2215: Era of the American Revolution (3 credit hrs.)

HIST 2215-710  0100-0150  MWF-- Dr. Helm

Many scholars agree that there is no more important event in American history than the American Revolution. The war not only created the United States, but also established the ideals, hopes, and values that define the American nation. This course examines the concepts that set the colonists of British North America on the road to rebellion; it traces the events, problems, and challenges that occurred during one of the most exciting and interesting periods of American history; and finally, it investigates the meaning of American Independence for the revolutionaries of 1776 and for us today.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: U.S. Context

HIST 2543 Medieval Societies (3 credit hrs.)

HIST 2543-710  0900-0950 MWF -- Dr. Jobin


Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: Historical Context

IPHY 3420: Nutrition, Health, and Performance (3 credit hrs.)

IPHY 3420-710 0200 - 0315 TR -- Dr. Murphy

This class will provide you with an overview of nutrition concepts related to health and sports performance. We’ll discuss the basic chemistry and physiology of nutrition, weight management issues, macro and micronutrient needs, sports performance concepts, and agriculture/ food supply issues. The class project is designed to educate you about your current health status. Discussion will include: Macro and micronutrients – functions, sources, needs; digestion and absorption – basic anatomy, physiology; healthy choices – nutrition standards and guidelines, food labels, advertising; weight management – energy balance, misunderstandings, recommendations; nutrition and lifestyle-related diseases – diabetes, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis;
sports performance – training principles, optimal nutrition, ergogenic aids; and farm-to-table – organic vs. conventional vs. genetically-modified agriculture.


Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences:  Natural Science




SEWL 1020: Meaningful Careers and My Major

SEWL 1020-710 0300-0445  M  Sue Frederick

Discussing, writing and participating in career exercises clarify the
student’s meaningful career path and illuminate the necessary
academic choices to get there. In this 8 week interactive course,
students learn to identify current career trends; individual talents
and interests; and the necessary steps to launch a meaningful career.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences:  Elective





SEWL 2000: America, the Environment, and the Global Economy

SEWL 2000-7100100-0150 MWF -- Dr. Lewis
SEWL 2000-7110200-0250 MWF -- Dr. Lewis

This course examines the debate over globalization, global economic development, and the global environmental crisis. Does increasing global economic development threaten to undermine the global
environment? Is global development threatening the well-being and survival of future generations? Can we create an environmentally sustainable global society that preserves the Earth for future generations? What is sustainable development? What role should
Americans play in helping to shape and develop a sustainable global economy? The larger goal of this course is to understand how the choices we make in the present shape the future of our global
industrial civilization. Do we really desire the future our present actions are creating? (See the course website:
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/ecology/index.htm )

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences:  Ideals and Values

SEWL2020: Exploring the New West -- Community Conversations:
Citizenship through Place-Based Learning (1 credit hr.)

SEWL 2020-710 TBA
SEWL 2020-711 TBA

Required of all Sewall residents in either the Fall or Spring semester.

Community Conversations is a 1-credit civic engagement course offered through the Sewall Academic Program at the University of Colorado-Boulder. This Sewall course is a collaboration between the Sewall Academic Program and CU's nationally recognized Center of the American West, an outreach organization that has promoted civic engagement and informed citizenship among Westerners since its founding in 1989. Community Conversations offers Sewall students an opportunity to explore the concepts of community and citizenship through place-based learning and volunteering. The course incorporates theoretical considerations of citizenship and place with hands-on experience. Working in small groups, each under the guidance of a Sewall faculty mentor, students discuss course readings and choose a local community organization to work with as they put citizenship into practice and develop a stronger sense of place. Guided by their readings, students will learn about their community partners, become actively involved in its programs, and present their work at a culminating symposium open to the public. Community Conversations provides students with a foundation for understanding the role that individual citizens play in addressing key local and regional issues. By asking participants to collaborate with local organizations, and then to reflect on their experiences in a final symposium, this course also introduces students to the Center of the American West's mission of fostering the respectful exchange of differing perspectives in order to “point the way towards solutions” to the region's difficulties.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: Elective

WRTG 1150 -- First Year Writing and Rhetoric: (3 credit hrs.)

WRTG 1150--7111000-1050 MWF -- Ferrell

A rhetorically informed, interdisciplinary introduction to college writing. The course focuses on the writing process, critical reading skills, engaged inquiry, connections between academic writing and civic life,and information literacy skills. Taught for the most part as a writing workshop, the course places a premium on thoughtful revision. Meets MAPS requirement for English.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: Lower Division Writing

WRTG 1150 -- First Year Writing and Rhetoric: (3 credit hrs.)

WRTG 1150--7122000-0250 MWF -- Dr. Doersch

A rhetorically informed, interdisciplinary introduction to college writing. The course focuses on the writing process, critical reading skills, engaged inquiry, connections between academic writing and civic life,and information literacy skills. Taught for the most part as a writing workshop, the course places a premium on thoughtful revision. Meets MAPS requirement for English.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: Lower Division Writing



WRTG 1150 -- First Year Writing and Rhetoric: (3 credit hrs.)

WRTG 1150--7131100-1215 TR -- Dr. Hansen

A rhetorically informed, interdisciplinary introduction to college writing. The course focuses on the writing process, critical reading skills, engaged inquiry, connections between academic writing and civic life,and information literacy skills. Taught for the most part as a writing workshop, the course places a premium on thoughtful revision. Meets MAPS requirement for English.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: Lower Division Writing



WRTG 1150 -- First Year Writing and Rhetoric: (3 credit hrs.)

WRTG 1150--71412300-0145 TR -- Dr. Hightower

A rhetorically informed, interdisciplinary introduction to college writing. The course focuses on the writing process, critical reading skills, engaged inquiry, connections between academic writing and civic life,and information literacy skills. Taught for the most part as a writing workshop, the course places a premium on thoughtful revision. Meets MAPS requirement for English.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: Lower Division Writing



WRTG 1150 -- First Year Writing and Rhetoric: (3 credit hrs.)

WRTG 1150--7150200-0315 TR -- Dr. Quinlan

A rhetorically informed, interdisciplinary introduction to college writing. The course focuses on the writing process, critical reading skills, engaged inquiry, connections between academic writing and civic life,and information literacy skills. Taught for the most part as a writing workshop, the course places a premium on thoughtful revision. Meets MAPS requirement for English.

Requirement filled for Arts & Sciences: Lower Division Writing