May 19, 2024

2021-2022 Academic Catalog

2021-2022 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

Any course listed in this catalog with a prerequisite assumes a grade of C– or better in the prerequisite course, unless specified otherwise by the department or program in its course listings.

Courses numbered 1 to 99 are lower-division; courses numbered 100 to 199 are upper-division; courses numbered 200 to 599 are graduate. Course numbers which are hyphenated (e.g., ACCTG 160 -ACCTG 161 ) indicate that the course is continued from the previous term, and that the first part is normally prerequisite to the second part. Credit is given for each part.

Final information concerning course offerings and class schedules will be issued at the time of registration for each term. January Term courses are listed separately in a special on-line catalog published each fall. The College reserves the right to cancel any course for enrollment or administrative purposes.

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Global and Regional Studies - Upper Division
	GRS 196 - Capstone Experience Upper Division As a culmination of their studies, students are required to complete a senior thesis on a topic of their choice in consultation with the instructor. The thesis demonstrates the student’s ability to conduct independent research, and to think and write critically about salient issues related to their chosen track of studies. Core Curriculum Designation(s) WID - Writing in the Disciplines Additional Notes This course should be taken in the senior year. This course may only be completed at Saint Mary’s College. Course credits: 1
	GRS 197 - Special Study Upper Division Prerequisites Permission of instructor and chair required. An independent study or research course for students whose needs are not met by the regular courses in the curriculum. Course credits: 1
	GRS 199 - Honors Independent Study Upper Division Prerequisites Permission of instructor and chair required. An independent study or a research course for upper-division students with a B average in the major. Course credits: 1
Greek - Lower Division
	GREEK 001 - Elementary Greek Lower Division Beginner’s course. Morphology, syntax, introduction to the reflective and scientific analysis of language. Cross-Listing Cross-listed as INTEG 051 & 052 Course credits: 1
	GREEK 002 - Elementary Greek Lower Division Prerequisites GREEK 001 . Continuation of GREEK 001 . Reading of texts of Plato and Aristotle. Cross-Listing Cross-listed as INTEG 051 & 052 Course credits: 1
	GREEK 003 - Intermediate Greek Lower Division Prerequisites GREEK 002 . Reading of selected authors, study of various types of discourse. Reading of Plato, Aristotle, lyric poetry and drama. Discussion of logic, rhetoric and dialectic. Cross-Listing Cross-listed as INTEG 053 & 054 Course credits: 1
	GREEK 004 - Intermediate Greek Lower Division Prerequisites GREEK 003 . Continuation of GREEK 003 . Cross-Listing Cross-listed as INTEG 053 & 054 Course credits: 1
Greek - Upper Division
	GREEK 101 - Plato Upper Division Prerequisites GREEK 003 & GREEK 004 , or acceptable equivalents A reading of a shorter and a longer dialogue with consideration of the contemporary background, and the range of philological and philosophical questions. A number of the dialogues that are lesser-known are read and considered in translation. An attempt is made to view the totality of Plato’s work and life. Course credits: 1
	GREEK 102 - Homer Upper Division Prerequisites GREEK 003 & GREEK 004 , or acceptable equivalents A study of epic dialect and technique of composition; methods of historical and literary interpretation. The nature of myth and a comparison of the diverse forms of ancient epic in various cultures are topics. Course credits: 1
	GREEK 103 - Greek Historians Upper Division Prerequisites GREEK 003 & GREEK 004 , or acceptable equivalents The history of Greek historiography is studied by examples of the methods of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Polybius from their texts. Course credits: 1
	GREEK 105 - Greek Orators Upper Division Prerequisites GREEK 003 & GREEK 004 , or acceptable equivalents. Why rhetoric was the major science of antiquity is investigated. Examples are taken from the canon of Attic orators. Course credits: 1
	GREEK 106 - Greek Dramatists Upper Division Prerequisites GREEK 003 & GREEK 004 , or acceptable equivalents Greek playwrights are studied in as broad a representation as possible: the tragedians, Aristophanes and Menander. Course credits: 1
	GREEK 107 - Aristotle Upper Division Prerequisites GREEK 003 & GREEK 004 , or acceptable equivalents A study of Aristotle’s scientific method and its relationship to metaphysics as exemplified in the PhysicsandMetaphysics,as well as of his concept of dialectic as opposed to that of Plato. Course credits: 1
	GREEK 110 - New Testament Greek Upper Division Prerequisites GREEK 003 & GREEK 004 , or acceptable equivalents A sampling of Hellenistic Greek is studied as background, and the course then concentrates upon the Gospels and Paul in selection. Course credits: 1
	GREEK 115 - Greek Lyric Poets Upper Division Prerequisites GREEK 003 & GREEK 004 , or acceptable equivalents Special attention is accorded Pindar. The history of Greek lyric is studied in examples. Course credits: 1
	GREEK 199 - Special Study - Honors Upper Division An independent study or research course for upper- division majors with a B average in Greek. Permission of the instructor and department chair is required. Course normally requires Greek composition. On an individual basis, students work with composition textbooks to submit for revision their own renderings into Classical Greek. Course credits: 1
History - Lower Division
	HIST 001 - World History to 1500 Lower Division An introduction to the study of world societies from a global perspective, dating from the Paleolithic age to the 16th century, and focusing on the development of civilizations, the rise of world religions, and the interactions and exchanges among peoples in Eurasia, Africa, India, Southeast Asia and the Americas. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives Course credits: 1
	HIST 002 - World History since 1500 Lower Division An introduction to the study of world societies from a global perspective, dating from the 16th century to today, focusing on colonialism, political revolutions, industrialization, imperialism, the North-South divide, and twenty-first century globalization. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives Course credits: 1
	HIST 004 - Western Society and Cultures to 1500 Lower Division An introduction to history through the study of Western civilization from its origins in the Mediterranean world to the age of discovery in 15th-century Europe. Readings include primary sources as well as works dealing with issues of interpretation. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; TCG - The Common Good Course credits: 1
	HIST 005 - Western Society and Cultures since 1500 Lower Division This course will introduce students to “Western Civilization” as an evolving idea to be followed, contested, and redefined from the religious, social, and political upheavals of sixteenth-century Europe to contemporary debates over the role of Western values and traditions in an increasingly global society. Topics and themes may include: state-building, daily life and popular culture, war and revolution, nationalism and imperialism, and European/global integration. Through historical narratives, primary sources, literature, and multimedia, we will consider how questions over political and cultural borders, social and economic stratification, and shared and contested values pushed and pulled the people of “Western Civilization” closer together and farther apart-from each other and the rest of the world. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; TCG - The Common Good Course credits: 1
	HIST 017 - History of the United States to the Civil War Lower Division A chronological survey of American history from European colonization to the Civil War, with an emphasis on racial, ethnic, class and gender relations, immigration and migration, the rise and impact of social movements, and the relationship between North America and the world. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity Course credits: 1
	HIST 018 - History of the United States since Reconstruction Lower Division A chronological survey of American history from Reconstruction to the present, with an emphasis on racial, ethnic, class and gender relations, immigration and migration, the rise and impact of social movements, and the relationship between the United States and other nations. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity Course credits: 1
History - Upper Division Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses.
	HIST 100 - Topics in World History Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by regular course offerings of the department. Topics are announced prior to registration each semester. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives Repeatable May be repeated as topics vary. Course credits: 1
	HIST 101 - Historical Methods and Practices Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Drawing upon historical narratives, theoretical essays, and primary-source documents covering a wide range of periods and places, this course engages students with key concepts of historical method and practice. These include issues of analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and inquiry into varied approaches and genres, from recent scholarly innovations to popular and public history. Attention is also given to students’ research strategies and skills of writing and documentation. Taught mainly by discussion in a small-group setting, the course aims to facilitate history majors and minors’ transition from lower-division study to upper-division work. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; WID - Writing in the Disciplines Term Offered Offered once a year. Course credits: 1
	HIST 104 - Historical Interpretation Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. This seminar on historiography addresses questions of historical methods, focusing on methodological controversies and interpretations within a specific area of history. Topics vary according to instructor. Course credits: 1
	HIST 105 - Modern Approaches to History Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A study of the development of history as a scholarly discipline beginning with fundamental questions of method and research, followed by analysis of major controversies stemming from contemporary approaches to historical research and to public history. In addition, resident historians discuss the problems they encounter in their research and writing. Core Curriculum Designation(s) WID - Writing in the Disciplines Course credits: 1
	HIST 106 - Seminar in Historical Research Upper Division Prerequisites HIST 010 or HIST 101 . Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. The capstone of the History department, this seminar expects students to demonstrate that they have mastered the skills of the discipline: using primary sources and interpreting them to make a historical argument that contributes to the historiography. Each student does a research paper (30 pages of text) under the guidance of the professor. Topics vary according to instructor. Course credits: 1
	HIST 110 - Topics in Ancient and Medieval European History Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by the regular offerings of the department. Repeatable May be repeated as topics vary. Course credits: 1
	HIST 111 - The Birth of Europe Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A study of the early development of medieval society and institutions, emphasizing the formative influences of classical, Christian, and Germanic culture in the creation of the Middle Ages. The course traces the Middle Ages from A.D. 300 to 1000, considers such issues as medieval monasticism and the papacy, the rebirth of empire under Charlemagne, the origins of feudal society, and the effects of Byzantine culture and the rise of Islam upon the Latin West. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 112 - Europe in the High and Later Middle Ages Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A study of the years A.D. 1000 to 1450, that period in which the seeds of medieval culture, sown during the 700 preceding years, come into full flower-the age of the Crusades and chivalry, Romanesque and Gothic architecture, St. Francis, St. Thomas and Dante. The course is divided into thematic sections treating the relationship between the Christian and Muslim worlds, papal-imperial politics, social and economic changes, the rise of the universities, and the waning of the Middle Ages. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 113 - The Age of the Renaissance Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. An exploration of the rise of humanism in Europe between 1350 and 1550. The course focuses upon the educational and artistic movements that began in Italy and spread north to the rest of Europe. Attention is given to providing a social and political context for the cultural achievements of the period. Renaissance culture will be examined in light of its classical and medieval roots. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 114 - Warfare in Medieval Europe Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A study of the broad developments of medieval warfare in its many aspects including but not limited to the rules of warfare from terrorism to chivalry; the fate of non-combatants in scorched-earth policy and siege warfare; technological and strategic developments; social classes; women and warfare; infantry and cavalry; the moral cost of war; perceptions of the enemy; the warrior ethos; and pacifism. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 120 - Topics in Modern European History Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by the regular offerings of the department. Repeatable May be repeated as topics vary. Course credits: 1
	HIST 121 - Revolt and Revolution in Early Modern Europe Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. This course focuses on case studies of violence and disorder in Western Europe from the late fifteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth century. Described in many standard histories as an age of religious wars, our study will take a broader view and examine social, political, and economic developments as equally important factors in the tumults and disturbances of the period. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 122 - 19th Century Europe Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A survey of the formation of modern European society from the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I, emphasizing political, social, and cultural responses to industrialization, urbanization, and nationalism. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 123 - 20th-Century Europe Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A survey of European society from the outbreak of World War I to the present. Major themes include the failures of international stability, the problems of technological society, the effects of the Russian Revolution, the rise of fascism, the phenomenon of decolonization, and the development of the European Community, World War II and the Holocaust, the Cold War, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet system. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; TCG - The Common Good Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 124 - Transnational Origins of the Welfare State Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. The European welfare state of the post-World War II era has been praised as the hallmark of post-war socio- economic recovery and stability, generous state-funded systems of education, health-care, and social safety nets, and models of social justice and human equity. Yet, critics see a system plagued by inefficiency, bloated government bureaucracies, discredited forms of socialism, and ongoing threats to individual liberty. This course will explore the origins and development of European social welfare out of the early industrialized economies of Great Britain, the United States, and Germany, and modern debates over the ideal level of government intervention and obligations to its citizens and non-citizens. Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 125 - Women in European History, 1500-Present Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. This course traces the foundations and evolution of gender theories and patterns of everyday life for women of various classes, regions, and eras in Europe since 1500. It illuminates particular moments of significant historical change in how European women were viewed and how they viewed the world around them, such as democratic revolutions, European imperialism, women’s suffrage movements, welfare state formation, and human rights. Scholarly essays introduce students to the historical context and debates from a diversity of scholars’ perspectives. Primary sources highlight the historical contributions of individuals and groups of women, and offer students their own opportunities to practice critical thinking and analytic skills necessary for independent historical interpretation and synthesis through written and oral communication. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; TCG - The Common Good Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 126 - Nations, Nationalism, and Citizenship Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. This course will address major theoretical and historiographic debates over national identities, nation-state formation, and citizenship. Drawing upon the case studies of France and Germany, we will trace the processes of defining European nationhood and citizenship since the end of the eighteenth century. Themes will include revolutions, the unification of people and political entities, imperialism and irredentism, domestic tensions between majority and minority interests, and steps toward European integration culminating in the European Union. We will examine changing definitions of French, German, and European citizenship to discuss how nations perpetually construct and redefine boundaries of inclusion and exclusion based on gender, class, race, ethnicity, and religion. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 127 - The Victorian Empire Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. The “sun never set” on the global British empire of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, but its scale alone makes it difficult to comprehend from the multiplicity of local and global perspectives involved in its construction, contestation, and evolution. This course will trace the development of the British Empire before, during, and after the heyday of Queen Victoria’s empire (1837-1901) from geographic, demographic, and temporal vantage points. We will explore the intertwined nature of imperial, national, and racial identities in the British Empire, political contestations over citizenship and belonging, imperial wars and revolutions, industrialization and class conflicts, changing gender roles and sexual mores, and the flourishing of popular imperial literature and culture around the world. Students will also engage independently and collaboratively with children’s and adult literature, historical and contemporary films, museum and cultural exhibits, and both scholarly and primary texts from and about the Victorian Era that continue to shape our own historical consciousness of the British, their empire, and the era. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 128 - German History Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. If national histories serve to reinforce common identities and traditions within the context of the modern nation- state, then what are we to make of the diverse central European peoples tied together by the questionable force of the German imperial state in 1871, only to be characterized by brutal dictatorship(s) and re-fragmented states throughout the twentieth century? This course seeks to understand how aspects of tradition within the predominantly German-speaking regions of central Europe were weighed and mobilized in order to answer the questions of who are the Germans and what is or where is Germany? To this end, our course materials will explore the making of what have become trademark German political, social, and cultural traditions (poetry, fairy tales, music, militarization, environmentalism, and beer drinking) within particular eras of German history since 1500. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; TCG - The Common Good Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 130 - Topics in American History Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by the regular offerings of the department. Repeatable May be repeated as content varies. Course credits: 1
	HIST 131 - Colonial History of the United States Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. This course examines the collision of peoples in colonial North America from the first contacts between Europeans and Native Americans through the importation of African slaves to the establishment of enduring white colonial settlement. Emphasis is placed on the global context of European expansion, the changing nature of Indian-white relations, the diversity of colonial settlements, the rise of North American slavery, Britain’s ascendancy over its European rivals, and colonists’ connections to British imperial and mercantile systems. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 132 - The American Revolution and the Early Republic Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Spanning the period from the 1750s to the 1830s, this course examines the transformations brought to colonial America by the Revolution, the establishment of nationhood and the Constitution, and the development of political and social democracy. Emphasis is placed on the international context of revolution and independence, the founding generation’s debates and documents, the course of American race relations, and the rise of popular religion and politics. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity Course credits: 1
	HIST 133 - Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. An examination of American society and politics from the Age of Jackson to the end of Reconstruction. Major focus is on the Civil War as the great crisis of national unity. Topics include slavery and other sectional differences that underlay the conflict; the political events that led to war; the struggle on the battlefield and home fronts; emancipation and its effects; and the new nation that emerged after the “failed revolution” of Reconstruction. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 134 - Recent History of the United States Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A study of the United States from 1890 to the present with an emphasis on America’s rise (and potential fall) as a global superpower, and its struggle to address inequalities of race, gender and income, and competing visions of the “American dream.” Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 135 - America in the World: The History of U.S. Foreign Relations Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. An examination of the nation’s foreign relations, broadly defined, from commerce, wars, and imperialism in the 19th century through the challenges of war, hegemony, and global integration in the 20th century. The roots of U.S. policies are traced to domestic political, economic, and cultural influences as well as geopolitical considerations, and America’s growing impact abroad is examined and assessed. Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 136 - Immigration and Ethnic Relations in American History Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A study of immigrant groups in the United States from early nationhood to the present, assessing their response to and impact upon American society. Topics discussed include the global context of migration to America, “colonized” vs. immigrant minorities, problems of adjustment and assimilation in comparative perspective, ethnic politics and culture, nativism and conflicts over citizenship, black migration to the North, and competing theories of American ethnic and race relations. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 137 - United States History in Comparative and Transnational Perspective Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. This course integrates American history into global frameworks of analysis by exploring connections and comparisons between the United States’ historical development and that of other nations. Topics include common experiences with European colonization, revolution and nation-building, political systems, frontiers and native peoples, slavery and race, reform and women’s movements, transatlantic and transpacific migration, industrialism, imperialism, and the rise and fall of the welfare state. Attention is also paid to the impact of American culture abroad. Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 138 - The Development of Modern American Culture Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. This course draws on documentary sources that illustrate and dissect American ways of life from the late 1800s to the present. It analyzes popular novels, movies, oral histories, art, and social criticism to determine the changing shape of American culture, the various subcultures that compose it, and the relationship of culture to social and economic forces. Special attention will be given to race, region, class, gender, and religion as agents of diversity, and conversely, the influence of ideology, mobility, consumerism, and mass culture in unifying Americans. Offered in alternate years. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity Course credits: 1
	HIST 139 - History of Women in America Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A survey of American women’s history from 17th century colonial encounters to the present with an emphasis on ethnic and class diversity, shifting definitions and cultural representations of womanhood, and the efforts of women to define their own roles and extend their spheres of influence. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 140 - African-American History: 1619 to 1865 Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A survey of African American history from the late 15th century through the Civil War with an emphasis on comparative slave systems, slave culture and resistance, free black communities, black abolitionist thought and its connections to the broader Atlantic world, and the transition from slavery to freedom. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 141 - African-American History: 1865 to the Present Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A survey of African American history from Reconstruction to the present with an emphasis on structural barriers to full equality, black migration, institution building, the enduring struggle for economic, political, and social equality, and the transnational dimensions of the black freedom struggle. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 142 - History of California Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A chronological survey of California history from its pre-contact beginnings to the present, with an emphasis on ethnic diversity, national and transnational interactions, environmental problems, social movements, competing visions of the “California dream,” and contestations over the allocation of economic, social, and political power. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; AD - American Diversity Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 150 - Topics in Latin American History Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by the regular offerings of the department. Repeatable May be repeated as content varies. Course credits: 1
	HIST 151 - Women in Latin American History Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. An examination of the participation of women in struggles for social justice in Latin America, asking what motivates women to abandon traditional roles and how they shape debates about human rights, democracy, feminism, ecology, and socialism in selected Latin American countries. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives; TCG - The Common Good Course credits: 1
	HIST 152 - Revolution in Latin America Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A study of the struggle for social justice in Latin America, with an emphasis on origins, class and gender participation, global contexts, successes and failures of revolutions in Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, and selected contemporary countries. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives; TCG - The Common Good Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 153 - The African Diaspora in Latin America Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. The course follows the African heritage of the Caribbean, Brazil, and the Atlantic coast of Central and South America. It examines the origins of the African population, the roles it has played in economic, political, and cultural developments in the region, as well as the ongoing struggle for social justice against racism and discrimination. Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 154 - Latin America, the United States, and the Drug Trade Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. An examination of the origins and development of the north-south drug trade, exploring the roles played by countries like Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico; and the impact of the trade and the drug wars on U.S.-Latin America diplomatic relations, democracy, and human rights. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 155 - Latin American Environmental History Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A review of the latest scholarship in the field, including topics such as the role of disease in the Spanish conquest, monocrop plantation agriculture, conservation, the destruction of the tropical rainforest, the ecological effects of oil extraction, nuclear power, chemical and pesticide use, and the meanings of sustainable development. Countries covered will vary from year to year. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Additional Notes This course is Sustainability related. Course credits: 1
	HIST 160 - Topics in Asian History Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by the regular offerings of the department. Repeatable May be repeated as content varies. Course credits: 1
	HIST 161 - Modern Japan Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. The course begins in 1603 with the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate and ends with present-day Japan. Emphasis is placed on social, cultural, environmental and economic history. Special attention is given to the transformations of Japanese society and the changing nature of its interactions within the region of Asia and across the globe over the course of this historical period. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 162 - Modern China Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. The course begins in 1911 with the toppling of the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty and ends with the split identity of present-day Communist China and the Republic of China in Taiwan. Emphasis is placed on social, cultural, environmental, political, and economic history. The course examines one of the most tumultuous eras of Chinese history and traces China’s emergence from a struggling young republic to a growing superpower. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 163 - Ethnic Identity and Conflict in China Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. This course explores how ethnicity played a role in the construction of empire and nation in Chinese history during ancient, imperial, modern, and contemporary periods. The course explores concepts of difference, race, ethnicity, and identity and how the definitions of these ideas changed over time. We will examine the ways that specific groups tried to become part of mainstream Chinese society and/or tried to distinguish themselves from it to demonstrate the historical complexities of the multicultural societies in China and Taiwan. Core Curriculum Designation(s) SHCU - Social, Historical, and Cultural Understanding; GP - Global Perspectives Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 170 - Topics in African History Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Analysis of a selected theme, problem, era, or region not covered by the regular offerings of the department. Repeatable May be repeated as content varies. Course credits: 1
	HIST 171 - African History to 1850 Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A study of human origins in Africa, black migration, the expansion of Islam in Africa, the slave trade, and the rise of ancient kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, Zulu. The course searches for and establishes the cultural identity of Africa before slavery, and the influence of ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Meroe cultures on subsequent sub-Saharan civilization. Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 172 - African History Since 1850 Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. A study of the major themes of state building, Islamic revolutions, colonialism, nationalism and pan-Africanism, the role of the military in recent decades, African decolonization and economic development in the context of the modern world. The course emphasizes the development of African contemporary culture in comparison with that of select nations and regions of the developed world. Term Offered Offered in alternate years. Course credits: 1
	HIST 181 - Public History Upper Division Prerequisites ENGL 005 Public history studies the preservation, interpretation, and (re)presentation of historical narratives in public spaces such as museums, multi-media, memorials, popular literature, genealogy projects, and commercial use of historical themes or narratives. The content of the course is the specific experiences and narratives of immigration, ethnic identity, community and social movement formation, political citizenship, cultural traditions, economic and labor patterns, and popular culture of ethnic groups in the Bay Area Core Curriculum Designation(s) CE - Community Engagement Course credits: 1
	HIST 195 - Internship Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Permission of instructor and department chair required. Work-study program conducted in an internship position under the supervision of a faculty member. Course credits: Credit may vary
	HIST 197 - Special Study Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Students must submit a proposal the semester prior. HIST 101 and approval by the instructor and department chair required. An independent study or research course in subject matter not offered by the department. Additional Notes See the department chair for details and forms. Course credits: Credit may vary
	HIST 199 - Special Study - Honors Upper Division Prerequisites Students must have sophomore standing to enroll in upper-division courses. Students must submit a proposal the semester prior. HIST 101 and approval by the instructor and department chair required. An independent study or research course for upper-division history majors with at least a 3.0 GPA in history. Additional Notes See the “Independent Study in History” section on the departmental website before meeting with the department chair. Course credits: Credit may vary
History of Art - Lower Division
	AH 001 - Survey of World Art: Europe and the United States Lower Division This course, intended for beginning students in any major, examines the evolution of the arts in Europe and the United States, from prehistory until the 20th century. The course offers students a general introduction to the history and methodology of art inquiry in the West. Core Curriculum Designation(s) AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); CP - Artistic Understanding (Creative Practice) Term Offered Course offered once a year Fee $30 Course credits: 1
	AH 002 - Survey of World Arts: Africa, and the Americas Lower Division This interdisciplinary course, intended for beginning students in any major, examines the evolution of the arts, design, and architecture of Asia, Africa and the Americas. The course offers students a general introduction to the methodology of art history in non-Western countries. Core Curriculum Designation(s) AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); GP - Global Perspectives Term Offered Course offered once a year Fee $30 Course credits: 1
History of Art - Upper Division
	AH 100 - Women and Art Upper Division Prerequisites ENGL 005 This course focuses on women both as subjects and creators of art in Europe and the United States. It is organized chronologically and thematically, involving a historical survey of women artists and their artistic contributions, as well as an examination of the religious, mythological and secular images of women in art. Extensive attention will be given to the creation, modification and persistence of these images throughout history, due to social, economic, psychological and intellectual conditions. This course trains students in art history writing and research, continuing the work begun in ENGL 005 . Core Curriculum Designation(s) WID - Writing in the Disciplines Fee $20 Course credits: 1
	AH 144 - Issues in Non-Western Art Upper Division This interdisciplinary course examines a variety of topics within the history of visual and performing arts in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Central and South America. This course provides students with a focused study of a specific movement or time period of art within the history of art. Topics include The SIlk Road, Islamic Art, Asian Art, Museum and the Construction of the Other, Non-Western Film, North African Art, Art of the Americas. Core Curriculum Designation(s) AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); GP - Global Perspectives Term Offered Course offered every term. Repeatable May be repeated as content varies. Fee $30 Course credits: 1
	AH 145 - Issues in Medieval, Renaissance or Baroque Art Upper Division AH 145 is a general reference number for a sequence of three separate courses on European art. Each individual course covers either Medieval, Renaissance or Baroque art history. The courses are offered on a three-year rotation and do not need to be taken in sequence, although chronological order is recommended. AH 145 can be taken up to three times, covering the three different artistic periods. Topics include Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art. Core Curriculum Designation(s) AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); CP - Creative Practice Term Offered Offered every year, three-year rotation. Repeatable Can be taken up to three times. Fee $30 Course credits: 1
	AH 165 - Issues in American Art Upper Division This course examines a variety of topics within the history of art in the United States. This course provides students with a focused study of a specific movement or time period of art within the history of American art. Topics include Politics and the American Artistic Landscape and Popular Culture and the American Imagination. Core Curriculum Designation(s) AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis); AD - American Diversity Term Offered Course offered every other year. Fee $30 Course credits: 1
	AH 166 - Issues in Modern Art Upper Division This course examines the history of avant-garde art movements in the 19th and 20th century, with a specific focus on Modern Art. Core Curriculum Designation(s) AA - Artistic Understanding (Analysis) Term Offered Course offered every other year. Repeatable May be repeated as content varies. Fee $30 Course credits: 1
	AH 188 - Applied Research: Community Service Upper Division This community-based research course bridges art historical research methodology with the research needs of local non-profit arts organizations. By doing research for grant proposals, documenting community-based art initiative and creating arts assessment instruments, students are able to apply their in-class research methodologies to assist community arts organizations serving diverse populations. Core Curriculum Designation(s) CE - Community Engagement Course credits: 1
	AH 190 - Research and Writing Methods in Art History Upper Division This course is intended primarily for majors and minors in the History of Art. Students will be introduced to some of the major methodologies that have shaped the field: formalism, biographical analysis, iconographical analysis, psychoanalysis, Marxism and the social history of art, feminism, post-colonialism and semiotics. Course credits: 0.25
	AH 193 - Museum Internship Upper Division Prerequisites Permission of instructor and department chair , required. Work-practice program conducted in an appropriate, , museum internship position. Normally open to , junior and senior art and art history majors. , Permission of instructor and department chair , required. Course credits: 1
	AH 194 - Interdisciplinary Topics in Art History Upper Division This course examines a specific research topic in depth. This course provides students with a focused study of a theme within the history of art. Fee $20 Course credits: 1
	AH 195 - Academic Internship Upper Division Prerequisites Permission of instructor and department chair required. Work-practice program conducted in an appropriate art- related internship position. Normally open to junior and senior art practice majors. Repeatable May be repeated as content varies. Cross-Listing Cross-listed with: ART 195 Course credits: 1
	AH 196 - Senior Thesis Upper Division Prerequisites Permission of instructor and department chair required. As a capstone to their studies, art history majors are required to complete a thesis that displays their ability to think, read and write about art, as well as create works of art that express their own beliefs and interests. Term Offered Once a year Course credits: 1
	AH 197 - Independent Study Upper Division Prerequisites Permission of instructor and department chair required. An independent study or research course for students whose needs are not met by the regular course offerings of the department. Course credits: 1
	AH 199 - Special Study Honors Upper Division Prerequisites Permission of instructor and department chair required. Directed capstone project under the supervision of a department faculty member, culminating in the production of an honors-level arts history project. Course credits: 0.25
Integral - Lower Division
	INTEG 011 & 012 - First-year Seminar Lower Division Homer, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Euripides. Course credits: 1
	INTEG 031 & 032 - First-year Mathematics Lower Division The Elements of Euclid, the Almagest, Book 1, of Ptolemy. Course credits: 1
	INTEG 051 & 052 - First-year Language Lower Division Grammar and expression: introduction to Greek vocabulary, morphology and syntax, the nature and function of parts of speech, phrases and clauses; thought and the author’s language: exercises taken from Herodotus, Plato, Sophocles, Thucydides, the New Testament, Aristotle, Euripides, and Sappho. Course credits: 1
	INTEG 071 & 072 - First-year Laboratory Lower Division Observation, description and measurement in optics, astronomy, statics, and acoustics. Field and laboratory study of plants and birds. Readings: Aristotle, Galen, Archimedes, Euclid, Ptolemy, and Harvey. Fee Fee: $75 per term. Course credits: 1
	INTEG 074 - Music I Lower Division Introduction to basic terminology, notation, diatonic scale, rhythm, and chords. Reading of early texts on music and group participation in making music. Fee Fee: $75. Course credits: 1
	INTEG 082 - Introduction to Choral Singing Lower Division An introduction to choral singing and the basics of musical notation and terminology. For students in the Integral Program without prior musical training, this course prepares for success in the Music Tutorial (INTEG 074 ). Course credits: 0.25
Integral - Upper Division
	INTEG 053 & 054 - Sophomore Language Lower Division Prerequisites INTEG 011 & 012 , INTEG 031 & 032 , INTEG 051 & 052 Logic and dialectic: analysis and translation of Greek authors, with emphasis on dialectical investigation in Plato’s Phaedo, Theatetus, Sophist, Phaedrus, and in Aristotle’s Prior and Posterior Analytics. Course credits: 1
	INTEG 113 & 114 - Sophomore Seminar Upper Division Prerequisites INTEG 011 & 012 , INTEG 031 & 032 , INTEG 051 & 052 The Law and Prophets, Psalms, Gospels and selected Epistles, Virgil, Lucretius, Tacitus, Plotinus, Epictetus, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Rabelais, Machiavelli, Luther, Montaigne, and Shakespeare. Course credits: 1
	INTEG 115 & 116 - Junior Seminar Upper Division Prerequisites INTEG 053 & 054 , INTEG 113 & 114 , INTEG 133 & 134 Cervantes, Descartes, John of the Cross, Milton, Spinoza, Pascal, Corneille, Racine, Moliére, Hobbes, Swift, Locke, Berkeley, Fielding, Leibniz, Hume, Boswell, Kant, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Blake, and the Federalist Papers. Course credits: 1
	INTEG 117 & 118 - Senior Seminar Upper Division Prerequisites INTEG 115 & 116 , INTEG 135 & 136 , INTEG 155 & 156 Goethe, Austen, Bernard, Hegel, Flaubert, Marx, Dostoevski, Kierkegaard, Melville, Twain, Tolstoi, Nietzsche, William James, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Heidegger, and a selection of modern authors. Course credits: 1
	INTEG 133 & 134 - Sophomore Mathematics Upper Division Prerequisites INTEG 011 & 012 , INTEG 051 & 052 , INTEG 031 & 032 The Almagest, the Conic Sections of Apollonius, selections from Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. Course credits: 1
	INTEG 135 & 136 - Junior Mathematics Upper Division Prerequisites INTEG 053 & 054 , INTEG 113 & 114 , INTEG 133 & 134 The Geometry of Descartes, Newton’s Principia Mathematica, an introduction to calculus. Course credits: 1
	INTEG 137 & 138 - Senior Mathematics Upper Division Prerequisites INTEG 115 & 116 , INTEG 135 & 136 , INTEG 155 & 156 Lobachevsky’s Theory of Parallels, Dedekind’s Theory of Numbers (selections), Einstein’s Relativity, selections from Hilbert, Poincaré, Coexter, and Feynman. Course credits: 1
	INTEG 155 & 156 - Junior Language Upper Division Prerequisites INTEG 053 & 054 , INTEG 113 & 114 , INTEG 133 & 134 English and American poetry and rhetoric; close reading and discussion of a comedy, a tragedy and a romance of Shakespeare, poems of Wordsworth, Keats, Dickinson, Stevens, Yeats; political rhetoric in Jefferson, Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr.; works on prejudice by Melville, Hawthorne, Douglass, and O’Connor. Course credits: 1

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Course Descriptions

GRS 196 - Capstone Experience

GRS 197 - Special Study

GRS 199 - Honors Independent Study

GREEK 001 - Elementary Greek

GREEK 002 - Elementary Greek

GREEK 003 - Intermediate Greek

GREEK 004 - Intermediate Greek

GREEK 101 - Plato

GREEK 102 - Homer

GREEK 103 - Greek Historians

GREEK 105 - Greek Orators

GREEK 106 - Greek Dramatists

GREEK 107 - Aristotle

GREEK 110 - New Testament Greek

GREEK 115 - Greek Lyric Poets

GREEK 199 - Special Study - Honors

HIST 001 - World History to 1500

HIST 002 - World History since 1500

HIST 004 - Western Society and Cultures to 1500

HIST 005 - Western Society and Cultures since 1500

HIST 017 - History of the United States to the Civil War

HIST 018 - History of the United States since Reconstruction

HIST 100 - Topics in World History

HIST 101 - Historical Methods and Practices

HIST 104 - Historical Interpretation

HIST 105 - Modern Approaches to History

HIST 106 - Seminar in Historical Research

HIST 110 - Topics in Ancient and Medieval European History

HIST 111 - The Birth of Europe

HIST 112 - Europe in the High and Later Middle Ages

HIST 113 - The Age of the Renaissance

HIST 114 - Warfare in Medieval Europe

HIST 120 - Topics in Modern European History

HIST 121 - Revolt and Revolution in Early Modern Europe

HIST 122 - 19th Century Europe

HIST 123 - 20th-Century Europe

HIST 124 - Transnational Origins of the Welfare State

HIST 125 - Women in European History, 1500-Present

HIST 126 - Nations, Nationalism, and Citizenship

HIST 127 - The Victorian Empire

HIST 128 - German History

HIST 130 - Topics in American History

HIST 131 - Colonial History of the United States

HIST 132 - The American Revolution and the Early Republic

HIST 133 - Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction

HIST 134 - Recent History of the United States

HIST 135 - America in the World: The History of U.S. Foreign Relations

HIST 136 - Immigration and Ethnic Relations in American History

HIST 137 - United States History in Comparative and Transnational Perspective

HIST 138 - The Development of Modern American Culture

HIST 139 - History of Women in America

HIST 140 - African-American History: 1619 to 1865

HIST 141 - African-American History: 1865 to the Present

HIST 142 - History of California

HIST 150 - Topics in Latin American History

HIST 151 - Women in Latin American History

HIST 152 - Revolution in Latin America

HIST 153 - The African Diaspora in Latin America

HIST 154 - Latin America, the United States, and the Drug Trade

HIST 155 - Latin American Environmental History

HIST 160 - Topics in Asian History

HIST 161 - Modern Japan

HIST 162 - Modern China

HIST 163 - Ethnic Identity and Conflict in China

HIST 170 - Topics in African History

HIST 171 - African History to 1850

HIST 172 - African History Since 1850

HIST 181 - Public History

HIST 195 - Internship

HIST 197 - Special Study

HIST 199 - Special Study - Honors

AH 001 - Survey of World Art: Europe and the United States

AH 002 - Survey of World Arts: Africa, and the Americas

AH 100 - Women and Art

AH 144 - Issues in Non-Western Art

AH 145 - Issues in Medieval, Renaissance or Baroque Art

AH 165 - Issues in American Art

AH 166 - Issues in Modern Art

AH 188 - Applied Research: Community Service