ANTH 1150

Exploring a Non-Western Culture: Regional Cultures of Africa

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: This course focuses on areas of Dr. DeLuca's research, including Sudan/South Sudan, South Africa and Tanzania. Further, this is a highly participatory class in which every student will join a debate team that focuses on issues in the aforementioned countries. The class also discusses several films. All these activities are supplemented by lectures and classroom discussions. When possible the class goes to Ras Kassas for an Ethiopian meal and cultural immersion experience. If students take the related FARR 1000 service learning 1 credit course, they will work at a Boulder or Denver non-profit organization. In the past students have worked with African Refugees or Bead for Life.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Literature and the Arts (6 hours required) or Historical Context (3 hours required). Note that this course fulfills all of the Literature and the Arts requirement, both the upper- and lower-division halves.

Note: This course fulfills the first-year Farrand Culture and Society requirement.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

730

1230-145

T/R

DeLuca

FARR Reynolds

FARR 1000-735

Flexible Time According to Your Schedule

T/R

DeLuca

FARR Reynolds

ARSC 1150

Writing in Arts and Sciences

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: This course introduces the basic elements of effective writing. Students will learn to apply various composition strategies to diverse topics. Through continuous writing practice, students will learn to select and focus a subject, establish a writing voice, relate form and content, organize information, and incorporate textual support. To strengthen writing skills through reading, students will analyze professional essays for subject, structure, and style. Students will also conduct and participate in peer-review and strategy workshops. By becoming conscious of themselves as writers, students will learn to approach writing as a series of decisions that work to communicate meaning.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Lower-division written communication (3 hours required).

Note: This class fulfills the first-year Farrand Culture and Society requirement.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

731

MFW

Stockho

FARR McCaulley

CLAS 1100

Greek Mythology

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: We will read and discuss a variety of literary works pertaining to Greek and Roman mythology, from Homer's Iliad about combat, the allure of violence, and its costs, to Sophocles' tragedy of extreme physical and psychological trauma, Oedipus Rex, to Ovid's exquisite etiological poem, Metamorphoses. (For a complete list of the texts, see the Course Description and Requirements.) We will also discuss a film that draws on the archetypal narrative patterns and themes of classical myth. All discussions will include reference to a variety of material in addition to the readings and film, ranging from ancient art (viewed through digital slides) to modern works of art and literature. The latter should help place our classical readings in their cultural context, and highlight some of the similarities as well as significant differences between ancient Greek and Roman cultures and our own. We will also take account of different approaches to interpreting literature, many of which apply very well to written works and film of today.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Literature and the Arts

Note: This course fulfills the first-year Farrand Culture and Society requirement.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

730

2-250

MWF

Fredricksmeyer

FARR Reynolds

ENGL 1260

Introduction to Women Literature

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: Introduces literature by women in England and America. Covers both poetry and fiction and varying historical periods. In this course we will study a trans-historical and trans-national range of women's writing in English. The course will grapple with the following questions: What is women's writing? Is it appropriate for such a category to exist at a university like CU? How do you define a canon of women's writing? What are the benefits and disadvantages of doing so? What books and authors would you include? Ultimately, the goal of the course is to provide a framework for you to continue considering and evaluating women's writing outside of this specific list of authors.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Literature and the Arts (6 hours required) or Historical Context (3 hours required). Note that this course fulfills all of the Literature and the Arts requirement, both the upper- and lower-division halves.

Note: This is a "Plus" course.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

730

930-1045

T/R

Anderman

FARR McCaulley

ENGL 1500

Masterpieces of British Literature

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: In this course we will explore the relationships among reading, community and the world. We will investigate how reading (and reading these masterpieces in particular) positions you, as a CU student today, in the world. We will also question the fundamental premise of the course by asking: What makes a masterpiece? We will try to understand what is at stake when you read and when a professor picks a group of texts and labels them "masterpieces." Which communities does this choice empower and which does it dis-empower? How do those texts relate to our lives and how much are they anchored in their own time?

We will also investigate how masterpieces change across time by comparing them to related texts and movies We will consider how the themes of Shakespeare's The Tempest and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales were and are taken up by poets, science fiction writers, and contemporary cinema.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Literature and the Arts

Note: This course fulfills the first-year Farrand Culture and Society requirement.

Note: This is a "Plus" course.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

730

11-1250

T/R

Anderman

FARR McCaulley

FARR 1562

Gandhi's "Satyagrah": Love in Action for Humans and
Other Creatures

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: We will study Gandhian nonviolence in regard to Gandhi's life story and values and how they might apply to our own lives. We will also consider the application of nonviolent theory to the world today, especially in regard to sustainable community, the ecology, and animals. We will put our concern into action as well, as Gandhi always urged us to do, through outreach work in the community. Thus, students interested in volunteerism of any kind may want to take this course.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: None. This course is elective credit only.

Note:This course fulfills the first-year Farrand Culture and Society requirement.


Note: This is a "Plus" course.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

730

100-150

MWF

Comstock

FARR Baur

GRMN 2501

20th-Century German Short Story: Germany and its Discontents

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: We will read and think critically about a cross-section of stories from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the former East Germany from 1925-1995. Our perspective will be a double one. First, what makes German culture different, alien, "other?" What specifically German issues do these writers confront? (The Holocaust and the Nazi past, reunification and its aftermath). Second, given this tortured past and the difficult path to democracy in the 20th century, what lessons were learned? What contributions can these same writers make to our current global situation, current struggles for justice and democracy, and the search for new models of community? Requirements: two in-class exams and two 4-6 page papers.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Literature and the Arts.

Note: This course fulfills the first-year Farrand Culture and Society requirement.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

730

12-1250

MWF

Maier

FARR Craven

GRMN 3502

Literature in the Age of Goethe: Reason, Revolution, Romantics

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: The half-century from 1770-1820 saw profound and lasting changes in Europe: the breakdown of aristocratic privilege and emancipation of the middle classes, The French Revolution, the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. The Age of Reason became the Age of Revolution. German writers, in the midst of their own country's remarkable literary and cultural revival, posed most of the important questions we still wrestle with today: What is human nature? Are we primarily rational creatures or creatures of feeling? Does faith in reason exclude or include religious faith? Is there progress in human affairs? Do we really have the power to reshape our world according to our vision of the greater good? Is the pen really mightier than the sword? It has been said that the German Romantics discovered the unconscious, and invented the first modern aesthetics centered on the creative imagination. In this course we will test these claims while reading a selection of plays and stories which still have broad popular appeal. We will ask ourselves: what can the Romantic generation still teach us about the role of the artist in a time of social upheaval, the relationship of art to politics, and whether art can really change the world.

A&S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Literature and the Arts.

Note: This is a "Plus" course.

Note: This course fulfills the first-year Farrand Culture and Society requirement.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

730

1000-1050

MWF

Maier

FARR Craven

HUMN 1010

Introduction to Humanities 1

Credit Hours: 6

Course Description: Humanities 1010 provides a chronological, concentrated and integrated study of art, music, and literature in their cultural context. The course is a combination of art and music lectures (3 times a week at noon ) and small discussion sections focusing on the literature (3 times a week at 11:00). Humanities 1010 begins with Ancient Greece, proceeds through the Middle Ages and ends with the Renaissance.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Literature and the Arts (6 hours required). Note that this course fulfills all of the Literature and the Arts requirement, both the upper- and lower-division halves.

Note: This course fulfills the first-year Farrand Culture and Society requirement.

Note: This is a linked course. Register for recitation section 731, and you are automatically enrolled for the lecture.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

Linked to recitation

1200-1250

MWF

Eddy

MATH 100

Rec 731

1100-1150

MWF

Carnahan

FARR Reynolds

IPHY 2420
FARR 1000-737

Nutrition, Health and Performance

Credit Hours: 4
3 Lecture, 1 Practicum

Course Description: This course takes a practical look at nutrition and how it affects health. We will explore sugars and fiber, dietary fat and cholesterol, and the amount of protein one needs. The relationship of nutrition to heart disease, cancer and other diseases is included. In addition, current topics such as vegetarian diets, athletic performance and sensible weight control will be covered in depth. Each student will survey his or her own eating habits and assess the nutritional adequacy of the diet. Contemporary videos on nutrition will be shown.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Natural Sciences (13 hours required)

Note: This course is an elective for Integrative Physiology majors.

Note: This course fulfills the first-year Farrand Culture and Society requirement.

Practicum FARR 1000-737: In 2007 Boulder Valley School District introduced its Healthy Lunch initiative, an effort to improve the nutritional quality of the school lunch program for elementary schools. Students participating in the Healthy Lunch initiative service program will be working directly with staff at University Hill Elementary School, assisting pre-K through grade 5 students with the newly-implemented Harvest Bar during school lunch times. Additionally, volunteers will assist students with learning how to compost their waste after lunch, as part of the Green Initiative Program of BVSD. University Hill Elementary School is a bilingual (English/Spanish) school located directly across from the UMC Building, at Broadway /16th street intersection.

In addition to volunteering with the Healthy Lunch Program, volunteers in this service section will assist Uni Hill students with PE classes. The overall goal of this program is to increase health of these elementary school students, through a healthier lunch and increased physical activity. As volunteers, you will act as "Healthy Lifestyle Ambassadors" and talk to students about the importance of healthy nutrition and physical activity habits.

In practicum FARR 1000-739, students will volunteer 2 hours per week in the community gardening program called Growing Gardens. This will include work in the gardens in north Boulder (weeding, food harvesting, general garden maintenance), as well as occasional office work in the Growing Gardens office in Boulder. Students will learn about organic gardening practices and will work directly with a group of high school students as part of the Cultiva Youth project. As part of Cultiva, students learn not only gardening practices but also important skills such as meal planning and food preparation (with the help of some wonderful local chefs). Students will be involved in all aspects, from garden to the table. Focus is on sustainable agricultural practices and foods that are healthy for the body and for the environment.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

IPHY 2420-730

T/R

Lynch

FARR Reynolds

IPHY 2420-731

T/R

Lynch

FARR Reynolds

FARR 1000-737

TBA

M-F

University Hill Elementary School

FARR 1000-739

TBA

W

Growing Gardens

WMST 2200

Women, Literature, and the Arts

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: Representations of women are everywhere in the culture. We will take a contemporary approach to the way(s) women express themselves and are interpreted by others. We will do this by exploring various media, including video, film, blogs, literature, and music. Topics may include: spirituality and faith, race, ethnicity, culture and location, class, humor, 'low' and 'high' art, violence against women and girls, the art of memory, and street art and graffiti.

By taking this course, students should acquire:

-A vocabulary for discussing the arts, entertainment and media

-The ability to identify the nexus between the personal, social, and political forces at work in the lives of women artists

-The ability to critically analyze how women are depicted in literature and the arts.

A&S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Cultural and Gender Diversity or Literature and the Arts.

Note: This course fulfills the first-year Farrand Culture and Society Course requirement.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

730

930-1045

T/R

FARR Craven

WRTG 1150

Writing in Arts and Sciences

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: Besides helping you become a confident and competent writer, this dynamic course will put to good use the writing skills you learn by inviting you to "adopt" one of the numerous student organizations here on the CU campus. Class teams will design and implement projects that actually will help adopted organizations. Does your organization need a poster campaign to raise awareness about an important issue? You can help! In contributing to the well-being of student organizations, you will enjoy learning about the privileges and responsibilities of living in a democracy. By becoming part of your organization's community, you will form bonds with students from across our campus.

Writing for this class focuses on critical analysis, argument, inquiry, and information literacy. Taught as a writing workshop, the course places a premium on invention, drafting, and thoughtful revision. The course meets the MAPS requirement for English and is approved for Arts and Sciences core curriculum: written communication.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Lower-division written communication (3 hours required).

Note: This class fulfills the first-year Farrand Culture and Society requirement.

Practicum Description: Reading Buddies, the FARR 1000 service practicum, must be taken with this section of ARSC 1150. The practicum is offered as pass/fail only. In the practicum, students will work as tutors with children in the Boulder Learning to Read Literacy Program. The practicum includes 4 hours of training in literacy theory, skill development, and community illiteracy. Meeting times for the practicum are 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. on Mondays or Tuesdays. Students need to choose only one of these times.

There will be a MANDATORY training session for practicum students on Saturday, September 8th, 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Boulder Public Library with the Directors of the Learning to Read Program. Students not attending the session will be administratively dropped from the practicum.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

730

MW

Kunce

FARR Craven

FARR 1000-731

TBA

ECON 2010

Principles of Microeconomics

Credit Hours: 4

Course Description: This course introduces principles of economics with an emphasis on individual economic units. It discusses supply and demand and the method of price determination in a market system and also discusses the models of behavior of households and firms that choose to maximize their intended objective from a given limited amount of resources. The course is divided into four principal sections: basic economic concepts and market price determination, consumer choice theory, producer choice theory, and the market's successes and failures in efficient allocation of resources. It also explores the issues of determination of wages and factor prices and the distribution of income and wealth.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Contemporary Societies

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

ECON 2010-730

2-250

MWF

Sharma

FARR McCaulley

REC 731

3-350

M

Sharma

FARR McCaulley

FARR 2660

Ethics of Ambition

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: How can we live a meaningful life? In every society, there are certain people who aggressively pursue ambition and others who are not so aggressive. You may have the talent, dreams, energy and skills, but all ambition is not equal. In literature, unbridled ambition has felled many a Shakespearean character. However, in contemporary times, unharnessed ambition can land one a talk show or a Forbes magazine cover shot. Even altruistic ambition may violate the ethical obligations owed to family and community.

In this seminar, we will explore the moral ambiguities inherent in ambitious pursuits. Our primary resources will be films, fiction, articles, blogs, and spiritual texts, all of which will be used to critically analyze and evaluate the decisions made by others and by us. We will also consider how race, gender, sexual orientation, class, geography, religion and culture inform one's formation of ambitions and ethics.

Our core goal in this course will be to consider the following question: How might we become moral agents, models of principle and conscience?

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Ideals and Values.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

11-1215

T/R

Simpson

FARR Craven

MATH 1012

Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematical Skills

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematical Skills 1010 is a mathematical literacy course designed for Liberal Arts students, most of whom will study no more mathematics. The mathematical skills portion of the course contains topics from arithmetic, algebra, probability and statistics. While these skills are a central focus of the course, it is assumed that many of the students have encountered this material before and that simple drill and (re)explanation are not enough to guide them in using the skills to address quantitative problems that arise within their disciplines of interest. The quantitative reasoning aspect of the course is focused on this link between skills and applications. Examples drawn from such diverse fields as physics, astronomy, environmental studies, philosophy, chemistry, and population studies provide students with examples of these connections. More importantly, students are challenged with open-ended problems and directed journal writing to formulate quantitative questions from their own areas of interest--questions that illustrate the use (and shortcomings) of the mathematical skills studied within the context of their own knowledge and interest.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Fulfills the QRMS requirement.

Note: This is a "Plus" course.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

733

1100-1150

MWF

Gillett

FARR McCaulley

734

1200-1250

MWF

Gillett

FARR McCaulley

MATH 1150

Precalculus Mathematics

Credit Hours: 4

Course Description: : Precalculus Mathematics. Develops techniques and concepts prerequisite to calculus through the study of trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic, polynomial, and other functions. Prereq., one and a half years of high school algebra. Students having credit for college algebra and trigonometry may not receive additional credit for MATH 1150. Students similar to MATH 1000 , 1010, 1020, 1011, 1030, and 1040. Meets MAPS requirement for mathematics. Approved for Arts and Sciences core curriculum: quantitative reasoning and mathematical skills.

Math 1150 is intended to prepare you for a first semester calculus course such as MATH 1300, Math 1310, or APPM 1350. You will be expected to already be familiar with basic algebra concepts and to have already mastered basic algebra skills. The prerequisite for this course is one and a half years of high school algebra' you'll be successful in this course if you've truly understood the material presented in your high school algebra classes.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: QRMS requirement.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

3-450

T/R

Becker

FARR McCaulley

PSCI 1101

American Political System

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: Using both contemporary and historical approaches, PSCI 1101 focuses on the structure and political processes of the United States' government. It explores the constitutional basis of government and the federal system and examines contemporary issues involving civil liberties and civil rights. Along with the major institutions of American government, we will examine case studies of ethical problems confronting contemporary government and political leaders.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: United States Context (3 hours required) or Contemporary Societies (3 hours required).

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

330-445

T/R

Young

FARR Reynolds

SOCY 1001

Introduction to Sociology

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: : The basic concepts of the science of sociology are introduced as a means to examine society, evaluate social conditions, and formulate rational solutions to social problems. Topics include social theories, institutions, stratification, social interaction and social change. Meets MAPS requirement for social science: general.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: QRMS requirement.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

2-315

T/R

Watterworth

FARR Craven

SOCY 2031

Social Problems

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description: : This course surveys some of the key challenges facing United States. First, it explores a number of institutional sites that play a critical role in an individual's life-cycle. Our emphasis will be on education, work, and health care. Our next goal will be to search main obstacles that sustain unequal distribution of individual chances in these fields. We will direct our attention in particular to two main processes, economic disparities and political choices that favor privileged groups. The third part of the class examines social and generational tensions in contemporary United States. It highlights an agreeing society where the meaning of family is subject to change and the society becomes more diverse as a result of immigration. In the final part, the course turns to challenges broader in scope and addresses environmental issues and security threats that are global in nature and require international cooperation.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: Contemporary Societies

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

1230-145

T/R

Emrence

FARR McCaulley

Nonviolence for Everyday: Meditation and Other Approaches toward Peace

Credit Hours: 1

Course Description: In our efforts to shape a more nonviolent world, one of our greatest challenges can be the question of how to create and sustain a compassionate, peaceful frame of mind in our moment-to-moment everyday life. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other great leaders have found that meditation is essential to tapping the unusual energy and good will needed to support their efforts. The book we will be reading for the course will also discuss other ways to train the mind so that we can live our lives more effectively.

A & S Core requirement fulfilled by this course: None. This course is elective credit only.

Note: This is a "Plus" course.

Section

Time

Days

Instructor

Building and Room

731

4-450

T

Comstock

FARR Baur

732

4-450

M

Comstock

FARR McCaulley