Special and intensive study of selected topics in 19th century Latin American literature and culture. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 credits when taught under different subtitles.
What do you think when you hear AFRICA? This course goes beyond the words, images and stereotypes that we typically learn from western news reports, popular media and mainstream descriptions of issues on the continent. Our goal will be to examine, and challenge, many of the popular portrayals of Africa, and thus build a more realistic and grounded understanding of the region. We will consider issues of geography, social organization and family life, health and food security, economy and ecology, and politics and identity.
What do you think when you hear AFRICA? This course goes beyond the words, images and stereotypes that we typically learn from western news reports, popular media and mainstream descriptions of issues on the continent. Our goal will be to examine, and challenge, many of the popular portrayals of Africa, and thus build a more realistic and grounded understanding of the region. We will consider issues of geography, social organization and family life, health and food security, economy and ecology, and politics and identity.
Provides an understanding of the life and landscapes in East Asian nations, with special focus on China and Japan. Emphasis is placed on contemporary issues of sustainable development, environmental management, minority groups, human rights and gender relations.
Study of topics relevant to Appalachian Studies, such as gender, folklore, literature, religion, community development, public policy, social movements and social change. May be repeated to a maximum of twelve credits under different subtitles.
This course is an introduction to health and disease from a geographical perspective. It provides an introduction to globalization; global health; epidemiology; the immune system; major pandemics of the 20th and 21st centuries; and, global attempts to confront current and future pandemics. Connections are made to medicine, nursing, public health, and related fields. Fulfills the Global Dynamics requirement of Gen Ed.
This course is an introduction to research statistics. Topics include exploratory data analysis, random variables (binomial and normal distributions), estimation of proportions and means, correlation, regression, chi-squared tests, and ANOVA. Examples will be drawn from biomedical or professional applications with analysis illustrated in software common to data analysis.
Introduces graduate students to the historical literature on 20th century African-American history and major historiographical issues.
An in-depth study of black American literature, with concentration on major texts by major black writers.
This course focuses on the revival of Islam in the 20th century and the various responses of Islam to modernism and western political and intellectual domination. Particular attention will be given to the rise of militant Islam and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The original writings of major thinkers will be read and discussed.
