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HIST 4251:U.S. Social and Cultural History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course explores the cultural history of the United States since inception. It considers the themes of nationality, immigration, ethnicity (Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Middle Eastern-Americans), the elderly, popular culture, and the environment.
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HIST 4255:Diplomatic History of the United States 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course examines major trends in U.S. diplomacy from 1890 to the present, emphasizing U.S. rise to world power, World Wars I and II, the Cold War and its end, and U.S. relations with developing world areas.
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HIST 4373:Modern India and South Asia 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have completed 45 credit hours.
This course covers major themes and events in the history of the Indian subcontinent from 1526, the beginning of the Mughal era, to 1947, the independence of India and creation of Pakistan. It explores the making of India as the process was continuously enmeshed with colonial modernity and the birth of nationalist movements. The course provides students with a solid introductory understanding of modern South Asian history and the exploration of historical methods.
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HIST 4374:History of Ancient and Medieval India 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have completed 45 credit hours.
This course introduces students to the history of India starting with the Indus River civilizations (c. 2500 before common era) to the advent of Islam and the eventual rise of the Mughal Empire. Students explore multiple religious traditions, ethno-linguistic communities, constant migrations of people, and how broader global forces beyond India shaped the subcontinent during this period.
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HIST 4375:Themes in Asian History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have completed 45 credit hours.
This course examines various themes in the social, political, and cultural history of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. Possible themes might include major historical figures in South Asian history, labor and subaltern studies, or Indian Ocean World.
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HIST 4391:Emerging Themes in African History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course is a survey of major themes in African cultural history from the earliest times to the beginning of European colonialism. The course introduces students to the peoples, societies, and cultures of the continent and emphasizes dominant themes such as cultural unity and diversity, empire and civilization, kinship and family, ethnic and nation building, Islam and traditional religions, indigenous institutions, slavery, and sociopolitical transformations before European colonialism.
Course may be cross-leveled with HIST 6391.
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HIST 4400:Directed Study 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Approval of the Department Chair
Covers special topics and seminars external to regular course offerings.
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HIST 4410:Colonial America to 1763 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
Starting in the pre-Columbian period, this course covers the American experience until 1763. It looks at Native American life, colonization and settlement by the Spanish, French and English, interaction with the Atlantic world, and the wars for imperial dominance fought in North America until 1763. Issues explored include class structure and family life, religion, politics, intellectual movements, society and culture, slavery, and treatment of minorities.
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HIST 4411:The American Revolution 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
Examines the American Revolution from the start of the colonists’ disputes with Britain through the ratification of the Constitution. Issues covered include the development of tensions between Britain and the colonies during the Seven Years’ War and decade-long dispute over taxation, the decision to declare independence and the Revolutionary War, the postwar Confederation government, and the creation of the Constitution. The roles of women, Native Americans, African Americans, and loyalists are also examined.
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HIST 4412:The Early Republic 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course will explore the history of the United States from 1787-1824. Topics and issues covered will include the creation of the Constitution, the formation of the first party system, the growth and development of the federal government, the young republic’s foreign policy, the War of 1812, the Market Revolution, the Era of Good Feelings, and the development of a uniquely American culture. Social, economic, political, and military aspects of the American experience will be addressed.
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HIST 4415:Jacksonian America 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course will explore the history of the United States from 1815-1848. Topics and issues covered will include the War of 1812, the Market Revolution, the Era of Good Feelings, the rise of Andrew Jackson, Indian Removal, the formation of the second party system, the rise of the reformist impulse, sectional disruptions caused by territorial expansion and slavery, the annexation of Texas, the Mexican War, and the continued development of a uniquely American culture. Social, economic, political, and military aspects of the American experience will be studied.
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HIST 4424:Museum Education 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course exposes students to both the theory and practice of education in museums, historic sites, and other public history and cultural institutions. An emphasis is placed on the way that museum educators combine theory with practice when implementing educational programming. Major trends in the field of museum education are explored including K-12 education, museum-community partnerships, online learning, and audience engagement.
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HIST 4425:Oral History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
Focuses on the methods of taking, processing, and utilizing oral histories. Additional emphasis is placed on the study of planning, development, and operation of oral history projects for libraries, museums, corporations, and public history agencies.
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HIST 4426:Documentation and Interpretation of Historic Sites 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
Explores the methods of documenting historic properties, especially as related to the National Register of Historic Places. Special emphasis is placed on completing a nomination for the National Register of Historic Places. Includes interpretation of historic sites for public exhibit.
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HIST 4427:Museum Exhibitions 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course examines the process by which museums create exhibitions, from planning and research through object identification and selection, community involvement, script and text preparation, design, fabrication, installation and maintenance. The course brings students into contact with theory, and provides application of theory through their conceptualization and installation of an interpretive history exhibition. Repeatable once for a total of six credits with approval of instructor.
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HIST 4428:The Third Reich 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course draws a wide range of texts to place the Third Reich (1933-1945) in a broad historical context to understand its rise, causes, consequences, and legacies.
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HIST 4430:Museum Studies 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
Provides a broad introduction to the museum world and the functions of museums in American society. Emphasis will be placed on historical museums. Subjects covered will include museum management, collections management, education, interpretation, exhibit design, ethics, and scholarly criticism of museums.
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HIST 4435:History and Memory 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This seminar experience examines the literature of public history and memory. Through readings and discussion the class will examine what we know about the past and how we know it, the changing interpretation of historical events over time, the shape and influence of historical memory, the politics of historical interpretation, and the public presentation of history.
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HIST 4440:Medieval Europe 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course is a survey of the origins of European culture, this course focuses on the period between the fourth and the fourteenth centuries, during which time Europe achieved its own form of cultural unity distinct from that of its Mediterranean neighbors.
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HIST 4441:The Holy Roman Empire 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned 45 credit hours.
This course provides a survey that examines the social, political and cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire from its medieval origins to its dissolution in 1806. This course emphasizes the impact that the Holy Roman Empire had on the development of European politics, ethnicity, and religion from the medieval era to the early modern period, with a particular emphasis on Central Europe.
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HIST 4442:History of Religious Tolerance 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course traces the origins of the concept of tolerance of the religious “other,” with a focus of content on medieval and Early Modern Europe. Besides the historical exploration of the topic and an examination of the emergence and development of the idea of religious toleration against a background of persecution and wars of religion, students also examine and discuss philosophical and practical aspects of religious tolerance today.
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HIST 4445:Age of Enlightenment 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
A contextualized discussion of major developments in European thought during the eighteenth century. Topics include rationalism and the notion of the social applicability of science, the idea of progress, the critique of established religion, economic theories such as those of the Physiocrats, and epistemological interests as expressed in the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert, as well as the increased cosmopolitanism and the importance of extra-European models (especially the Chinese Confucian model).
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HIST 4451:Civil War and Reconstruction 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
Causes and development of the U.S. Civil War from 1830. Includes an analysis of the political, social, and economic aspects of the Reconstruction Era.
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HIST 4453:World War I 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course provides an overview of the major issues and events surrounding the First World War, exposing students to its opposing governments, leaders, military forces, and major battles, aspects that shaped the conduct and outcome of this momentous international confrontation. It affords students an understanding of the political, military, and social histories of the war and the long-range political and social implications and consequences of the treaty that came at its conclusion.
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HIST 4454:Twentieth Century Europe 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
A survey of European history from 1914 to the present. The course focuses on the main forces that have shaped Europe such as the Second Industrial Revolution and the development of mass society. It examines women’s issues; the rise of Fascism; the impact of existentialism on philosophy, literature, and art; the collapse of Euro-communism; and progress toward European Union.
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HIST 4456:World War II 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
A survey of the causes, events, and results of World War II. The course emphasizes military history and the global nature of the conflict but also examines the economic, political, and diplomatic aspects of the war.
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HIST 4461:Gilded Age & Progressive Era 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
An examination of the expansion, industrialization, and urbanization of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and of the era’s cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social issues.
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HIST 4471:Recent United States History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
Recent United States History, 1939-present. Considers domestic political history, an overview of foreign policy, economic growth and change, and social and cultural reform movements.
Course may be cross-leveled with HIST 6471.
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HIST 4488:Approaches to World History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIST 3271 , and Permission of Program Coordinator
The course examines approaches to world history as a field of study, including important debates and controversies in the tradition, along with best practices in teaching world history. The course includes a consideration of recent developments on topics such as modernization and globalization and their significance in world history, philosophical perspectives on the importance of world history in today’s secondary classrooms, world history lesson planning and teaching, and a middle school field component.
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HIST 4490:Special Topics in History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
The course treats topics of interest to both students and faculty.
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HIST 4495:Research Seminar in US History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIST 3100 ; Departmental Approval.
This seminar introduces students to the historiography of a particular topic or theme in US History. It requires students to develop an original research paper on the topic or theme using primary and secondary sources and reflecting standard practices within the discipline.
Notes: This course should not be taken before the second semester of the junior year and may be repeated once for credit.
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HIST 4496:Research Seminar in European History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIST 3100 ; Departmental Approval.
This seminar introduces students to the historiography of a particular topic or theme in European History. It requires students to develop an original research paper on the topic or theme using primary and secondary sources and reflecting standard practices within the discipline.
Notes: This course should not be taken before the second semester of the junior year and may be repeated once for credit.
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HIST 4497:Research Seminar in non-Western History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIST 3100 ; Departmental Approval.
This seminar introduces students to the historiography of a particular topic or theme of a particular region in the non-Western world. It requires students to develop an original research paper on the topic or theme using primary and secondary sources and reflecting standard practices within the discipline.
Notes: This course should not be taken before the second semester of the junior year and may be repeated once for credit.
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HIST 4498:Research Seminar in World History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIST 3100 ; Departmental Approval.
This seminar introduces students to the historiography of a particular topic or theme in World History, using the approaches of cross-cultural, transnational, or transregional history. It requires students to develop an original research paper on the topic or theme using primary and secondary sources and reflecting standard practices within the discipline.
Notes: This course should not be taken before the second semester of the junior year and may be repeated once for credit.
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HIST 4499:Senior Thesis in History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIST 3100 and (HIST 4495 or HIST 4496 or HIST 4497 or HIST 4498 ) and approval of the department chair.
A combined tutorial and seminar in which students research and write a senior thesis in addition to making a computer based presentation in class.
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HIST 4501:Ancient Greece 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned 45 credit hours.
This is an upper-level history course on the history of the Greek world in the Bronze, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic ages (c. 3000 - 200 BC). In addition to core political and military developments, lectures cover Greek literature and extended forays into a range of important social and cultural topics including art, religion, and the family.
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HIST 4502:Ancient Rome 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned 45 credit hours.
This is an upper-level history of the Roman people and their empire from the foundation of the city of Rome to the end of the so-called Pax Romana (753 BC -180 AD). In addition to core political and military developments, this course covers literature, religion, imperial ideology, Romanization, and Roman daily life.
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HIST 4503:Twilight of Antiquity 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned 45 credit hours.
This is an upper-level history course on the final phase of the ancient Roman empire and the transition from antiquity to the early Middle Ages (c. 200 - 600 AD). Major topics include the fall of the western half of the empire, the survival of the East, the rise of new barbarian kingdoms, and the Christianization of the Roman world.
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HIST 4544:Renaissance Europe 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Completion of at least 45 credit hours
This course is an overview of European history ca. 1400 to ca. 1530, focusing on the Renaissance, a revival, originating in Italy, of ancient models for education, art, literature and politics. Among the topics the course covers are humanism, the transformation of art and architecture, Renaissance political models, the military and print revolutions, and the European voyages of reconnaissance and conquest. This course emphasizes the close reading of period texts and frequent critical writing.
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HIST 4545:Reformation Europe 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Completion of at least 45 credit hours
This course provides an overview of European history in the long sixteenth century, focusing on the religious upheavals known as the Reformations. It traces the emergence of the Protestant confessions, as well as Catholic reform and reaction. Examining both the actions of key figures and the broader social forces, the course assesses the immediate and enduring repercussions of the splintering of western Christendom.
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HIST 4555:Topics in European Culture 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have completed 45 credit hours.
This course introduces themes in early modern and modern European cultural history. It explores the premise that literary and artistic developments could drive-not just reflect-political, social, economic, and intellectual changes. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the use of popular song as political propaganda, changing gender norms in eighteenth-century literature, identity formation through music, culture as an industry, film and globalization, and the relationship between visual art and warfare.
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HIST 4558:The Holocaust 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course puts the Holocaust into historical perspective and reflects on what it reveals about genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The course examines the roots of anti-Semitism, the rise of fascism in Europe as it relates to the ideology of the Nazi Party, and the implementation of the Final Solution. The structure and purpose of the ghettos and death camps is studied, as well as efforts to resist. The course concludes by looking at what contemporary representations of the Holocaust mean for a post-Shoah generation.
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HIST 4633:Modern German History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours
This course examines German history from Napoleon to Hitler. It explores Germany’s ascent to global power and its dramatic losses in two world wars. Special attention is paid to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. This course situates the Nazis within the larger narrative of Germany history and demonstrates the global influence of Germany in many areas of life from gymnastics and corporate R&D to cinema and gay rights.
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HIST 4640:Modern Ireland 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course surveys Irish history from 1700 to the present. The primary emphasis is on the political history of Ireland, but the course also seeks to convey an understanding of Irish economic, social and cultural history, as well as of the influence of the Irish in America. Major topics include Irish nationalism, Ulster unionism, the Famine, Irish revolutions, the Irish Civil War, and the Troubles.
This course may be cross-leveled with HIST 6640.
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HIST 4654:Russia to 1861 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course is a study of Russian history to 1861 that examines the cultural, social and political history from the origins of the Russian State in Kiev to the emancipation of the serfs.
This course may be cross-leveled with HIST 6654.
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HIST 4655:Russia Since 1861 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course is a study of Russia since 1861 that examines the cultural, social and political history of Russia from the emancipation of the serfs to the present.
Course may be cross-leveled with HIST 6655.
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HIST 4760:The Age of Imperialism 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned 45 credit hours.
This course explores the Age of Imperialism in its political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions mainly from the 1870s through the 1960s. The course examines imperialism as a global phenomenon and utilizes inter-cultural, transnational, and transregional perspectives.
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HIST 4765:History of Terrorism 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Completion of at least 45 credit hours
This course studies the history of terrorism, analyzing how terrorist attacks and definitions of terrorism change over time. Students explore why people use certain types of violence in specific eras to achieve distinct goals. All terrorism is political, and terrorist attacks are deeply embedded in the politics of their day. Thus, students also examine the historical societies affected by terrorism and their reactions to attacks.
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HIST 4905:History of the Atlantic World 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course exposes students to the momentous socioeconomic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic basin in the wake of Christopher Columbus’s voyage of 1492. The changes were engendered by the convergence of diverse cultural groups and the complex social and economic networks that they established in the Atlantic basin. Students examine the complex interconnections, the consequences, and the resultant new social and economic institutions which significantly informed our contemporary world.
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HIST 4911:Themes in American Environmental History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Must have earned at least 45 credit hours.
This course focuses on the interaction of the natural environment and human societies in North America from approximately 1500 to the present. Topics include colonial and imperial expansion, industrialization and the rise of modern technological systems, agricultural intensification, the development of contemporary environmental thinking, and the origins of the modern environmental movement. Selected themes present American environmental history within a global context.
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HIED 4490:Special Topics in History Education 1-6 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor and department chair.
Selected special topics of interest to faculty and students.
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HIED 4498:Internship in Teaching Social Studies (6-12) 12 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Provisional teaching license issued by State of Georgia, full-time employment teaching social studies (7-12).
Student teaching experience in social studies for provisionally certified teachers. Supervision will be in collaboration with a mentor-teacher in a local school and a specialist in social studies education. Twelve (12) hours of this internship will automatically substitute for SSED 4475. Proof of professional liability insurance. Students are responsible for their own school placements.
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HIED 4550:Methods of History Education 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Pre-Service Certificate, Admission to Yearlong Clinical Experience, Permission of Program Coordinator Corequisite: HIED 4650 , INED 3300 , and EDUC 4610
This course is an examination and application of curriculum issues, learning theories, teaching strategies, instructional materials, and assessment procedures for teaching secondary social sciences in the multicultural and diverse classrooms of today. Emphasis is on those practices suggested by research in secondary social science education and encouraged by our accrediting agencies.
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HIED 4650:Yearlong Clinical Experience I 6 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to Yearlong Clinical Experience, Issued Pre-service Certificate, HIST 3271 , and HIST 4488 . Corequisite: EDUC 4610 , INED 3300 , and HIED 4550
This course is the first semester of an intensive and extensive co-teaching yearlong clinical experience in history education. Under the guidance of a collaborating teacher and university supervisor and working in a diverse environment that includes students with exceptionalities and English learners, candidates practice professional competencies that impact student achievement. This experience includes regularly scheduled professional seminars. Proof of liability is required.
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HIED 4660:Yearlong Clinical Experience II 6 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HIED 4550 , HIED 4650 , and permission of the program coordinator
This course is the second semester of an intensive and extensive co-teaching yearlong clinical experience in history education. Under the guidance of a collaborating teacher and university supervisor and working in a diverse environment that includes students with exceptionalities and English learners, candidates practice professional competencies that impact student achievement. This experience includes regularly scheduled professional seminars and the completion of a content pedagogy assessment. Proof of liability insurance is required.
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HON 1000:An Introduction to Honors Education 0 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admissions to the University Honors Program
This course introduces students to the philosophy of Honors education, the requirements of the University Honors Program, and the Honors Foundations. Students learn strategies for maximizing their academic opportunities at KSU through the Honors Program and developing the eight Honors Foundations: appreciation of diverse perspectives, creativity and innovation, critical thinking, effective communication, information fluency, interdisciplinary learning, leadership, and professionalism
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HON 1100:The First-Year Honors Colloquium: An Introduction to Honors Education 1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program.
This course introduces students to the educational philosophy of the Honors College. Students explore and engage in various forms of academic inquiry, guided by a member of the Honors Faculty. In addition, they learn strategies for building strong academic credentials, finding good leadership and service opportunities, and preparing effective scholarship applications, both for internal (KSU) awards and for Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, or other major scholarships they may decide to pursue later in their academic career.
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HON 2001:Introduction to Honors Research 1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
In this one-hour introduction to Honors research, students will learn how to find a wide array of credible sources for research in any discipline; how to construct a research question and a thesis/hypothesis; how to write a literature review; and how to document their sources correctly using the documentation manual specific to their disciplines.
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HON 2400:Honors Discovery 0 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
Honors Discoveries are short-term, not-for-credit learning experiences focused on topics outside the usual college curriculum. They often integrate disciplines, current events, or popular culture. Honors Discoveries involve small groups of Honors students learning through seminar discussion and experiential learning under the guidance of a KSU faculty member. May repeat once.
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HON 2800:Honors Applied Learning Experience 0 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admissions to University Honors Program
An Honors Applied Learning Experience is a way to acquire hands-on experience related to your major in a meaningful way that is less formal than an internship. Some common types of applied learning include volunteering, shadowing a professional in your future field, and observations. At least 48 hours of applied learning experiences are required, along with a written proposal within the first month of the semester and a written report and reflection on the experience by the final class day of the semester.
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HON 3000:Honors Colloquium 0-1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
In this seminar, selected faculty lead Honors students in an exploration of a topic of interest.
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HON 3002:Honors Research 0-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
This course enables Honors students to earn course credit and gain hands-on experience by assisting a professor with his or her research. Students work one-on-one within their major field or within a closely related field doing primary and/or secondary research for a research project conducted by the instructor. Both the student and the instructor are expected to present their findings to members of the campus community at the end of the semester.
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HON 3010:Ancient Classics I (Pre-5th Century BC) 1 Credit Hours
Concurrent:
HON 1100
This class will examine ancient classics prior to the 5th century BC. Themes may include, but are not limited to, the relation of religion and of poetry to both the family and the city, as well as to wisdom.
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HON 3020:Ancient Classics II (5th Century BC - 4th Century AD) 1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: A grade of “B” or higher in HON 1100
This class will examine ancient classics ranging from the 5th century BC to the 4th century AD through the analysis of themes including, but not limited to, nature, religion, politics, happiness, and wisdom.
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HON 3030:Modern Classics I (12th Century AD - 16th Century AD) 1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Grade of “B” or higher in HON 1100
This class will examine themes in modern classics from the 12th century AD to the 17th century AD. The themes explored include, but are not limited to, the nature of love and of marriage and their relation to nature, religion, politics, happiness, and wisdom.
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HON 3040:Modern Classics II (16th Century AD - 19th Century AD) 1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Grade of “B” or higher in HON 1100
This one-credit-hour course will examine modern classics from the period of the 17th century AD to the 19th century AD through the exploration of a variety of themes.
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HON 3100:Honors Research Methods 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
Students learn about conducting various kinds of research. Topics include advantages and disadvantages of different research methods, designs of studies, methods of collecting and analyzing data, ethical issues, application of findings, and protocols for writing reports and proposals. As their final project, students choose a topic and write a sample research proposal for the Honors Senior Capstone Experience.
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HON 3102:Honors Peer Mentoring 0-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
This course is intended to help students develop mentoring and leadership skills within their major field, a field of interest, or a KSU Journey Honors College or University service program (e.g., HON 1100, Student Affairs, or Housing and Residence Life). Guided by a professor, department chair, program director, or administrator, students develop and use interpersonal skills as well as a variety of teaching methods and study skills to assist a peer or a group of peers.
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HON 3203:Honors Teaching Assistance 0-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
This class is intended to help students develop teaching and leadership skills within their major field or a field of interest. Students will assist a professor in teaching duties. The class teaches students how to disseminate ideas and how to assess learning. It teaches communication skills since teaching assistants will work one-on-one, in small groups, and full class with students taking the course.
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HON 3301:Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
In this intensive reading and writing course, honors students will explore creative integrations of evidence from two or more disciplines, with emphasis on global learning. In addition to investigating the how and why of interdisciplinary thinking, they will examine the origins, consequences, and principles underlying their own assumptions about issues raised in class lectures and discussions.
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HON 3600:Introduction to Community, Service, and Leadership 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission into the President’s Emerging Global Scholars Minor
The purpose of this course is to enable students to prepare for a life of service, leadership and community engagement. The class will teach various leadership theories and how each theoretical approach is applied in a variety of organizations. Concepts learned through the course will be immediately applicable for students. Students will have the opportunity to place their theoretical learning in the context of active service.
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HON 3620:Issues in the Global South 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HON 3600
Students must gain global competencies and an inclusive worldview to help further their global citizenship and prepare them for leadership positions within their specific academic discipline and intended careers. This course examines global issues related to developing countries, or what are collectively called the “Global South.” The Global South numerically consists of the largest number of nations in the world encompassing more than 150 countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Despite their diversity, developing nations share several common characteristics. Common issues include war, poverty, oppressive gender norms, race and religious inequality, globalization, neo-liberalism, the impact of colonialism, and political and social instability. This course aims to help students identify and critically analyze the major issues and challenges facing developing nations in dialogue with specific contexts and greater global experiences. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course leads students in examining a specific developing country in the Global South as a case study for understanding common issues faced by developing countries.
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HON 3640:Introduction to Civic Engagement 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HON 3620
This course will explore theoretical and applied concepts in civic engagement. Students will choose from a variety of opportunities to investigate and select options to learn and serve in the community for causes and ideas in which they believe.
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HON 3660:The Developed World and Global Competency 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HON 3640
We live in a connected, complex world. Students must obtain global competencies to develop an inclusive worldview while maturing their commitment to responsible global citizenship in an integrated and interdependent world. They must master the skills necessary to become agents of change in leadership positions within their specific academic discipline and intended careers. Accordingly, students should understand how historical, political, economic, social, cultural, and other frameworks provide insights into developed countries, as they explore global issues, related challenges and their impact on the future. Through lectures, service engagements within a developed country, readings, and student led research and presentations, participants will increase their global knowledge while acquiring the analytical tools necessary to examine developed countries. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course leads students in examining competency frameworks by focusing on a specific developed country or region other than the United States.
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HON 4010:Dante’s Italy 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Grade of “B” or higher in HON 1100
This course will focus upon the social, religious, and political aspects of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Notes: This course will take place through a KSU Study Abroad experience. For students who do not wish to pursue experiences abroad, alternatives to the completion of this course include: HIST 4454: Renaissance Europe, HIST 4440: Medieval Europe, and HIST 4545: Reformation Europe.
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HON 4020:Modern Classics of the British Isles & Commonwealth 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Grade of “B” or higher in HON 1100
Students will be introduced to the literature of the British Isles & Commonwealth, emerging from the Romantic Era to the present day. As participants in a survey course conducted along the lines of a seminar, students will have the dual responsibility-and pleasure!-of reading and assimilating the literature of various eras and contributing to an ongoing, collective discussion of the cultural, political, and social elements that serve as creative bedrock for these texts.
Notes: This course will take place through a KSU Study Abroad experience. For students who do not wish to pursue experiences abroad, alternatives to the completion of this course include: ENGL 4380: World Literature Before 1800
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HON 4030:British Classics of Modern Democracy 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Grade of “B” or higher in HON 1100
This course examines the foundations of the Enlightenment and the reactions against it through the discussion of works such as those of Bacon, Hobbes, Swift, and Burke.
Notes: This course will take place through a KSU Study Abroad experience. For students who do not wish to pursue experiences abroad, alternatives to the completion of this course include: POLS 4423: Great Political Thinkers.
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HON 4400:Honors Directed Study 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
This independent study course is designed to accommodate independent study through traditional or applied learning honors experiences that are exclusive of those offered in other Honors courses.
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HON 4490:Honors Special Topics 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
This course addresses special topics of interest to Honors students and faculty.
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HON 4495:Honors Ancient and Modern Classics (AMC) Capstone Project 1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: A grade of “B” or higher in HON 1100
This course is the culminating experience of the AMC Minor. During this course, students develop a project that focuses on defining a fundamental issue or topic that first appears in AMC literature with the intention of exploring how the understanding of this issue may have evolved over time as well as explaining its relevancy to today’s world.
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HON 4497:Honors Senior Capstone Proposal 0-1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
To complete their Honors requirements, students design and execute a senior project reflecting original research; an original synthesis of existing research; an application of existing research to a new context; original creative work, or the design and coordination of a major-related service learning project. This first capstone course gives students credit for producing a substantive honors capstone proposal.
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HON 4499:Honors Senior Capstone Project 0-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
This final segment of the Honors Senior Capstone Experience requires an honors student to complete and submit the final capstone product(s): original research, an original synthesis of existing research, an application of existing research to a new context, original creative work, or the design and coordination of a major-related service learning project.
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HMGT 3300:Introduction to Hospitality 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Coles Undergraduate Professional Program or student in a Coles College Partner Program
This survey course provides students with an understanding of the hospitality industry and the role it plays in both the U.S. and global economies. This course offers an overview of the industry, its economic impact, its history, its current and future challenges, and its business characteristics. The main goal of the course is to expose students to the hospitality industry and provide an understanding of the unique aspects of managing businesses in this industry.
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HMGT 3397:Work Experience In Hospitality Management 0 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Hospitality management major and (admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program).
All hospitality majors, upon completion of 400 hours of verifiable work experience in the hospitality, tourism, or related industries must sign up for this course. The work experience may be obtained any time from the freshmen year at KSU to the semester of graduation at KSU and must be completed in its entirety before a degree will be awarded. This course carries no credit hours, and thus no tuition fees. Grading is Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory based on successful completion of the work-hour requirement and a reflection paper, which details work experiences and involves the students” self-critique of their skills and knowledge in preparation for a career in the hospitality industry.
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HMGT 3500:Guest Service Management 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HMGT 3300 and (admission to the Coles College undergraduate professional program or student in a Coles College Partner program).
This course explores the dimensions of successful service management of hospitality organizations. It also offers an in-depth study of the provision and management of high quality service provided within a hospitality business. It prepares students for enlightened guest service management and suggests creative approaches. The course will use an integrated viewpoint on issues of measurement, continuous service improvement, staff member training from a guest perspective, and the ability to benchmark among hospitality competitors are discussed.
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HMGT 4100:Hospitality Marketing and Revenue Management 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HMGT 3300 and (admission to the Coles College undergraduate professional program or student in a Coles College Partner Program).
Students in this course survey common marketing practices and revenue management issues that are unique to the hospitality industry. These practices include sales procedures, revenue management (i.e., setting room rates), the use of technology to maintain a leadership position compared to one’s competitors, building a loyal customer base, a discussion of the relationship of marketing to overall organizational success, and an analysis of a hospitality operation’s annual marketing plan.
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HMGT 4200:Hospitality and Travel Law 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: BLAW 2200 and (admission to the Coles College undergraduate professional program or student in a Coles College Partner Program)
This course acquaints students with the legal aspects of the hospitality and travel industry. Students examine laws and regulations governing the industry with specific emphasis on: sources and principles of hospitality and travel law; the hotel-guest relationships and the duty owed to each other; liability and sale of guestrooms, food and beverage; employment practices; government regulations; contracts; licensing and insurance; risk management; management and franchise agreements and; commercial and case law. At the completion of the course, students will be able to recognize and evaluate legal issues for the purpose of decision making in hospitality and travel work environments.
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HMGT 4201:Event Planning and Management 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or (60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0 and a student in a Coles College Partner Program that included this course)
The events industry is a multi-faceted, multi-billion-dollar industry. A keen understanding of the industry’s dynamics and complexities is essential for individuals planning to enter the industry. In this course, students analyze the steps in the events planning process and learn how to conceptualize events. The nature of the industry and the importance of risk management and sustainability are also explored. Upon completing this course, students will be able to plan, execute and evaluate events.
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HMGT 4202:Restaurant Concept Development and Management 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or (60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0 and a student in a Coles College Partner Program that included this course)
In this course, students will learn about restaurant concepts and their development and operation. Students will examine the key restaurant development and operational functions such as: concept development; restaurant opening; the legal and regulatory aspects of restaurant development and operations; equipment and design; menu design; marketing and promotion; financial statement analysis; restaurant analytics; pricing; supply chain management; customer experience management and employee staffing, engagement, and performance management. At the completion of the course, students will be able to implement strategies to effectively own, manage and operate a successful restaurant or food service business.
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HMGT 4203:Hotel Real Estate Investment and Asset Management 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Coles College Undergraduate Professional Program or (60 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0 and a student in a Coles College Partner Program that included this course)
Real estate represents one of the largest and most significant investment by firms and individuals in the hospitality industry. The course will also cover hotel market analysis and valuation techniques including estimating hotel occupancy and room rate, forecasting hotel revenue and expenses and the hotel valuation process. Students will learn how to perform a hotel valuation market study using the Hotel Market Study and Valuation Software. The course will also examine the components of hotel asset management, a service which has become a central tenet for several hotel ownerships.
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HMGT 4300:Hotel Management and Operations 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HMGT 3300 and (admission to the Coles College undergraduate professional program or student in a Coles College Partner Program).
This course examines hotels with students gaining a basic understanding of the various departments within these lodging venues. The relationship between major departments such as rooms division, and food and beverage are illustrated. Managerial and operational functions and decisions are identified and discussed. Students are exposed to key abilities and skill sets necessary to manage such facilities by familiarization with the role of a managerial position.
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HMGT 4490:Special Topics in Hospitality Management 1 to 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Coles College undergraduate professional program or student in a Coles College Partner program
Selected topics of interest to students and faculty in Hospitality Management.
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HMGT 4500:Strategic Analytics for Hospitality Managers 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HMGT 3300 , HMGT 4100 , and (admission to the Coles College undergraduate professional program or student in a Coles College Partner program)
This course focuses on the analysis of data as they apply to operational and financial decision making. Stemming from the operational hospitality manager’s perspective, industry-specific tools are used to conduct predictive and prescriptive analytics, and financial and non-financial performance analysis, including but not limited to, service measurement, expenses and profitability, turnover and human resources information, guest satisfaction, competitor performance data, and other measures of operational performance in hospitality.
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HS 2100:Overview of Human Services 3 Credit Hours
This required course provides students with an overview of helping professions. Topics include: philosophy of human services; characteristics of human service workers; careers in human services; description of public, nonprofit and for-profit agencies; theory; and cultural diversity. Human service majors are required to take this course prior to applying for admission into the HS program. This course is also a prerequisite for other HS courses. Students must complete 20 hours of volunteer service as a requirement of this class.
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HS 2200:Fundamentals of Nonprofits 3 Credit Hours
This introductory course is designed to provide knowledge, theory, and skills in the administrative/management aspects of nonprofit organizations.
Notes: This course is a required course for students seeking Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Certification.
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HS 2300:Cultural Competence in the Human Services 3 Credit Hours
This foundation required course in human diversity enhances students’ abilities to understand, evaluate, and provide culturally sensitive and competent human services to members of diverse groups. This course gives students the opportunity to reflect upon their own cultural development and to be more sensitive to others
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HS 2400:Interviewing Skills for the Helping Professions 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS majors or HS Interest or Non-Majors with permission of Department.
This required course introduces students to interviewing skills in non-crisis settings. Communication skills learned in the course include relation skills building techniques within a problem solving model. Additionally, students learn skills to identify client strengths and to work with resistant clients. Students are required to role-play, videotape, and critique skills learned in the course. The goal of this course is to expose the student to a variety of perspectives used by all human service workers.
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HS 2900:Working with Support Groups 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2400 and (HS Majors or Permission of Department)
This course introduces students to basic theory, skills, methods and values necessary to lead support groups. Students will develop, facilitate/co-facilitate issue oriented groups for different ages, genders, etc.
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HS 3000:Foundation Internship 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2200 , HS 2300 , HS 2400 , HS Majors only, Minimum 2.8 Institutional GPA
This course provides students the opportunity to begin to explore the helping professions by completing service learning while applying theoretical knowledge, skills and human services value systems. Specifically, HS majors will be expected to demonstrate knowledge content from prerequisite courses. Students will be expected to demonstrate beginning competencies in micro and macro practice.
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HS 3100:Poverty and Culture 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HS 2300 and (HS major or HS Interest or Non-major with permission of department)
This required course will provide an overview of poverty in the US, its causes, efforts to alleviate it, and its reflection in and by culture. Students will examine theories of the causes of poverty, insights into personal experiences of poor people, and critical thinking activities relative to this social issue.
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