BES 180 Introductory Biology (5) NW
For
students intending to take advanced courses in the biological sciences
or enroll in pre-professional programs. Mendelian genetics, evolution,
biodiversity of life forms, ecology, conservation biology. First course
in a three-quarter series (BES 180, BES 200, BES 220). Prerequisite: B
CUSP 152.
Instructor Course Description:
Martha Groom
BES 200 Introductory Biology (5) NW
For
students intending to take advanced courses in the biological sciences
or enroll in pre-professional programs. Metabolism and energetics,
structure and function of biomolecules, cell structure and function,
animal development. Second course in a three-quarter series (BES 180,
BES 200, BES 220). Prerequisite: BES 180.
BES 220 Introductory Biology (5) NW
For
students intending to take advanced courses in the biological sciences
or enroll in pre-professional programs. Animal physiology, plant
development and physiology. Final course in a three-quarter series (BES
180, BES 200, BES 220). Prerequisite: BES 200.
BES 301 Science Methods and Practice (5) NW/QSR
Overview of the scientific method, emphasizing the development of testable hypotheses, scientific writing and analysis.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel A Jaffe
Charles F Jackels
Warren G. Gold
BES 302 Environmental Problem Solving (5)
Introduces
different aspects of environmental problem solving. Uses real-world
situations for thinking quantitatively and creatively about such
environmental concerns as energy and water resources, food production,
indoor air pollution, acid rain, and human influences on climate.
BES 311 Environmental Chemistry (5) NW/QSR
Uses
fundamental chemical principles to examine fate, reactivity and
transport of environmental pollutants. Emphasis given to atmospheric
pollution, chemistry of natural and polluted waters, soil chemistry,
chemistry of organic and inorganic toxins. Required background: CHEM
142, CHEM 152, or equivalent.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel A Jaffe
Charles F Jackels
BES 312 Ecology (5) NW
Introduces
major concepts of ecology and relates these concepts to current
environmental issues. Topics include the relationship between organisms
and the physical environment, evolutionary processes, the structure and
function of ecosystems, population biology, forest management,
pesticide use, and global warming. Required background: two quarters of
college biology.
Instructor Course Description:
Martha Groom
Warren G. Gold
BES 315 Environmental Chemistry Laboratory (5)
Covers
the basic techniques for chemical analysis of environmental samples
including air, water and soil. Students learn to utilize electronic
data acquisition systems and further develop their scientific writing
skills. Required background: statistics (BIS 315 or equivalent);
prerequisite: BES 301; BES 311.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel A Jaffe
BES 316 Ecological Methods (7)
Introduces
students to methods used in the analysis of ecological systems and
their processes. Employs data analysis tools, graphic presentation, and
scientific writing in the presentation of results from laboratory and
field studies. Includes lectures, laboratory work, and field
investigations. Prerequisite: BES 312.
Instructor Course Description:
Warren G. Gold
BES 317 Soils Laboratory (5)
Introduces
the types of soils analyses necessary to understand the physical and
chemical state of soils. Includes an introduction to soils in general,
and local soils in particular. Required background: CHEM 142, CHEM 152,
or equivalent.
BES 362 Introduction to Restoration Ecology (6) I&S/NW
An
introduction to ecological restoration of damaged ecosystems. Students
learn about the philosophical base of restoration as well as the
social, biological and political forces that impact the success of any
restoration project. Includes lectures, readings, case studies and
field trips.
Instructor Course Description:
Martha Groom
BES 397 Special Topics in Environmental Science (3-5, max. 15)
Unique
course offerings designed to respond to faculty and student interests.
Possible topics may include economic and environmental issues, air
pollution, water quality, ecological restoration, global warming, or
conservation biology.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel A Jaffe
Amy M Lambert
BES 398 Directed Study in Environmental Science (1-5, max. 15)
Opportunity for directed group or individual research on a topic mutually agreed upon by instructor and student.
BES 415 Advanced Environmental Measurements Laboratory (5)
Analysis
of air, water, and soil samples using advanced methods. Instrumental
methods include: atomic absorption spectroscopy and liquid
chromatography. Prerequisite: BES 311, BES 315.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel A Jaffe
BES 430 Air Pollution and Health (5) NW
Examines
the relationship between atmospheric emissions, meteorology, chemical
processes, air quality, and human health with an emphasis on both
primary and secondary pollutants, photochemical oxidants and chemical
modeling of air pollution. Also addresses some of the legal and policy
implications of these issues. Required background: CHEM 142, CHEM 152,
or equivalent.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel A Jaffe
BES 439 Computer Modeling and Visualization in Environmental Science (5) NW/QSR
Addresses
the ways scientists use computer simulations and modeling. Uses case
studies from problem areas such as global climate change, regional air
and water pollution, and the interaction between biological species and
their environment. Recommended: BES 311; BES 312.
BES 459 Compost and Organic Soil Amendments (5) NW/QSR
Addresses
the management of organic wastes both as a feedstock for composting and
as a soil amendment. Provides students with an understanding of the
science of composting, the management of nutrients and contaminants,
and the benefits of organic soil amendments. Recommended: BES 301, BES
302.
BES 460 Water Quality (5) NW/QSR
Examines
the chemical and physical processes that influence the fate of
nutrients and contaminants in natural surface, ground, and soil waters.
Addresses basic environmental chemistry in natural waters and soils,
potentially important inputs, transformations and movement, and the
environmental impacts of nutrients and contaminants.
BES 462 Restoration Ecology Capstone: Introduction (2) NW
The
first of a three-course capstone sequence in restoration ecology.
Students review and assess project plans and installations. Class meets
with members of previous capstone classes to review their projects.
Prerequisite: BES 301; BES 362. Offered: jointly with ENVIR/ESRM/TESC
462.
Instructor Course Description:
Kern Ewing
Warren G. Gold
BES 463 Restoration Ecology Capstone: Proposal and Plan (3) NW
Student
teams prepare proposals in response to requests-for-proposals (RFPs)
from actual clients. Clients may be governments, non-profit
organizations, and others. Upon acceptance of the proposal, teams
prepare restoration plans. Prerequisite: BES 462. Offered: jointly with
ENVIR/ESRM/TESC 463.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel A Jaffe
Warren G. Gold
BES 464 Restoration Ecology Capstone: Field Site Restoration (5) NW
Teams
take a restoration plan developed in BES 463 and complete the
installation. Team participation may include supervision of volunteers.
Teams prepare management guidelines for the client and conduct a
training class for their use. Prerequisite: BES 463. Offered: jointly
with ENVIR/ESRM/TESC 464.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel A Jaffe
Kern Ewing
Warren G. Gold
BES 485 Conservation Biology (5) NW
Exploration
of the science underlying methods of species and ecosystem
conservation. Emphasis is placed on understanding the limits and
promise of scientific approaches to conservation, within the social,
political and economic context of conservation problems.
Instructor Course Description:
David L. Stokes
Martha Groom
BES 486 Watershed Ecology and Management (5) NW
Overview
of the ecology and management of watersheds. Explores physical,
biological, and ecological components of watersheds and their
interrelationships. Examines human and natural impacts on watersheds,
and planning and management through theory and case studies.
Prerequisite: either BIS 390 or BES 312.
BES 487 Field Lab in Wildland Soils and Plants (3) NW
Provides
direct field study of alpine soils and plants. Identify soils and
landscape/vegetation changes in remote areas where little information
is available about these ecosystems. Experience climate, relief, and
parent materials that form soils and their associated plant
communities.
BES 488 Wetland Ecology (5) NW
Examines
wetland types and their distribution as well as wetland functions for
habitat and human resources. Emphasizes the ecology and adaptations of
wetland plants and their interaction with soils and biogeochemical
processes. Discusses human impacts, wetland regulation, and management
approaches. Required field trips. Prerequisite: BES 312.
BES 489 Pacific Northwest Ecosystems (5) NW
Examines
major ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest to understand the structure,
function, and location of these characteristic ecosystems in our
region. Investigates the intersection of ecological knowledge,
environmental policy and management strategies in selected ecosystems.
Required background: one quarter college biology.
Instructor Course Description:
Warren G. Gold
BES 491 Undergraduate Research in Environmental Science (5, max. 10)
Capstone
course. Independent research projects in an area of environmental
science, based on mutual agreement with the instructor. Prerequisite:
BES 311; BES 312.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel A Jaffe
BES 492 Capstone Research in Environmental Science I (3)
The
first course of a two-quarter capstone sequence. Students plan and
develop a detailed proposal for their capstone environmental science
project. Prerequisite: BES 301; BES 311; BES 315.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel A Jaffe
BES 493 Capstone Research in Environmental Science II (7)
Second course of a two-quarter capstone sequence. Completion of projects planned in the previous quarter. Prerequisite: BES 492.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel A Jaffe
BES 497 Special Topics in Environmental Science (3-5, max. 15)
Topics
may include economic and environmental issues, air pollution, water
quality, ecological restoration, global warming, conservation biology
or other topics.
BES 498 Independent Research in Environmental Science (1-5, max. 15)
Individual advanced research conducted under the direction of one or more instructors.
BIS 202 Critical Reasoning (5) I&S,QSR
Engages
students as active thinkers in their reading, analysis of writing and
media, and writing. Emphasis is placed upon formulating, and critically
evaluating arguments in examples and essays typical of both academic
inquiry and active citizen engagement in everyday life.
BIS 203 History of Inter-Arts (5) VLPA Kochhar-Lindgren
Considers
InterArt forms as a method for creating new arts practices and cultural
insight. The range of intersections may include, arts and sciences,
literature and performance, film and dance, and painting and poetry.
Instructor Course Description:
Melanie K Kill
BIS 204 Introduction to Journalism (5) VLPA/I&S
Covers
the basic elements of reporting and writing for print media, as well as
meta-issues of ethics, the First Amendment, and a brief history of
American journalism. Teaches reporting skills and the cultural context
for the practice of those skills.
BIS 205 Technologies of Expression (5) VLPA/I&S Kochhlar-Lindgren
Explores
fundamental technologies of expression such as the book, film, and the
computer and their implications for social and individual
identity-formation, cultural critique, and art-making. Examines how
media functions to shape human identity.
BIS 206 Engaging Literary Arts (5, max. 10) VLPA Heuving
Foregrounds
questions about literary arts: What are the purposes of literary arts?
What approaches might we use to understand them? How to they relate to
the societies and cultures in which they are located? May focus on
individual writers, movements, historical periods, genres, or topics.
BIS 207 Introduction to Creative Writing: Words, Stories, Dialogues (5) VLPA Heuvingy
Inquires
into basic elements of creative writing that occur in multiple genres
and media. Studies and practices writing in a workshop atmosphere.
BIS 208 Experimenting Through the Arts (5, max. 15) VLPA Heuving
Explores
the relationship between creative arts and research. May focus on
performance, visual, or literary arts as well as diverse media.
Research may include study of artistic forms as well as specific
topics.
Instructor Course Description:
Stephanie Scopelitis
BIS 209 Engaging Visual Arts (5, max. 15) VLPA
Foregrounds
questions about visual arts: What are the purposes of the visual arts?
What approaches might we use to understand them? How do they relate to
the societies and cultures in which they are located? May focus on
individual writers, movements, historical periods, genres or topics.
BIS 212 Engaging Performing Arts (5) VLPA Kochhar-Lindgren
Foregrounds
questions about performing arts: What are the purposes of the
performing arts? What approaches might we use to understand them? How
do they relate to the societies and cultures in which they are located?
May focus on individual performers, movements, historical periods,
genres, or topics.
Instructor Course Description:
Jeanette M. Sanchez
BIS 215 Literature into Film (5) VLPA Behler
Studies
the process of artistic adaptation by examining how significant
literary works are translated into the medium of film. Explores the
respective strengths and possibilities as well as the unique
challenges, of literary and cinematic communication.
BIS 219 The Politics of Sex Education (5) I&S Lerum
Examines
the history and politics of sex education, reproduction, and sexual
health in the United States, with cross national/regional comparisons.
Explores how various cultural and ideological positions bring about
different concepts of sexuality, the body, rights, personhood, and
social and global responsibility.
BIS 220 Developmental Psychology (5) I&S
Overview
of the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social aspects of human
development over the lifespan. Facilitates a greater understanding of
children, adolescents, and adults as they develop and change over time
in specific cultural contexts.
Instructor Course Description:
Wadiya A Udell
BIS 221 Gender and Sexuality (5) I&S
Explores
gender and human sexuality by focusing on diversity and development.
Considers behavioral, social, historical, and cultural aspects.
BIS 222 Travel and Cultural Difference (5) I&S
Uses
historical, scholarly and popular sources to explore the purposes and
forms of travel. Asks how travelers meet and understand other people,
and how they explain those encounters. Travelers studied may include
pilgrims, migrant, refugees, missionaries, merchants, scientists,
colonial administrators, and tourists.
BIS 223 Introduction to Narrative Ethnography (5) I&S Seaburg
Introduction
to narrative ethnography. Focuses on the making of narrative
ethnographic knowledge (observing, asking, listening, analyzing,
writing up) through experiential exercises.
BIS 230 Mathematical Thinking for the Liberal Arts (5) NW/QSR
Develops
mathematics from historical, intellectual, and applied perspectives.
Designed to broaden concepts of the meaning of mathematics, develop
mathematical thinking, and encourage the use of mathematics in
meaningful applications.
BIS 231 Linear Algebra With Applications (5) NW,QSR Hillyard, Littig
Introduction
to linear algebra (i.e., concepts, tools, and operations related to
matrices and vectors) with emphasis on interdisciplinary applications.
Provides an interdiction to the mathematical concepts, arguments, and
proofs that occur in linear algebra. Prerequisite: B CUSP 124.
BIS 232 Using, Understanding, and Visualizing Quantitative Data (5) QSR Hillyard, Littig
Introduces
descriptive statistics and visual representations of quantitative data.
Examines data sets using graphing and statistical software packages.
Demonstrates how to present data in ways that are accurate, effective,
and visually appealing.
BIS 240 Introduction to Sustainable Practices (5) I&S/NW
Introduces
contemporary practices of environmental sustainability. Examines
permaculture, sustainable building, life cycle analysis, renewable
energy, soil amendments, and recycling. Provides hands-on experience in
the implementation of sustainable practices.
BIS 242 Environmental Geography (5) I&S/NW Turner
Investigates
the interactions of a dynamic planet and society. Analyzes geographic
variability and the human consequences of environmental phenomena such
as climate, natural resources, natural hazards, and infectious
diseases. Emphasizes the application of geographic tools and methods.
BIS 243 Introduction to Environmental Issues (5) I&S/NW Stokes, Turner
Introduction
to the major environmental challenges confronting society, and the
science of understanding and addressing those challenges. Provides an
overview of major issues such as global climate change, biodiversity
loss, and sustainability; as well as in-depth understanding of specific
issues.
Instructor Course Description:
David L. Stokes
Robert Joseph Turner
BIS 250 How Things Work: Motion and Mechanics (5) I&S/NW Collins
Introduces
basic scientific concepts needed to understand technologies encountered
in everyday life. Themes may include the physics of motion and
thermodynamics, and the applications in heating/coming and
transportation. Readings focus on the history of science and invention.
BIS 251 How Things Work: Electricity and Invention (5) I&S/NW Collins
Introduces
basic scientific concepts needed to understand technologies encountered
in everyday life. Focuses on electricity and its applications in
various electronic devices, appliances, and systems. Readings in the
history of technology develop the context in which discovery,
invention, and innovation unfold.
BIS 260 Introduction to World Religions (5) I&S
Explores
the world's major religious traditions. Stresses the wide range of
perspectives within each tradition, their porous boundaries, contested
beliefs, and multiple practices as they have adapted to new
circumstances and the needs of changing communities over time.
BIS 261 World History I (5) I&S
Situates
human history within broadest possible context - from beginning of the
universe, through early earth history and the origin and evolution of
earth's biomass and the human species to the development of the great
classical societies of China, India, Persia, and the Mediterranean.
Instructor Course Description:
Genevieve E Mc Coy
BIS 262 World History II (5) I&S
Explores
world history frm the time of the ancient classical empires to the
global Enlightenment periods of the Eighteenth century. Investigate the
interaction of different peoples with their social and natural
environments.
BIS 263 World History III (5) I&S
Explores
world history from the Enlightenment periods of the Eighteenth century
to the present. Investigates the interaction of different peoples with
their social and natural environments.
BIS 264 Africa on Film (5) VLPA/I&S Krabill
Introduces
historical and contemporary issues facing the continent of Africa
through an examination of films dealing with African themes. Addresses
the strengths and weaknesses of how African issues are depicted within
and outside the continent.
Instructor Course Description:
Ronald Stanley Krabill
BIS 270 Abnormal Psychology (5) I&S
General
instruction to the study and treatment of psychopathology. Covers
research on and theories about definitions and "causes" of
psychological problems from a variety of perspectives. Addresses some
of the major classes of mental health problems, such as mood and
anxiety disorders, their causes and treatment.
Instructor Course Description:
John Eric Stewart
BIS 271 History of Psychology (5) I&S Thomas
Examines
the roots of contemporary psychology as an academic discipline and as a
profession. Focuses on approaches to the history of psychology,
philosophical viewpoints that led to a new psychology in the late 19th
century, and major schools of thought in the 20th century psychology.
BIS 280 U.S. Political Processes (5) I&S
Studies
interaction between U.S. governmental institutions at all levels and
civil society. Examines a variety of theoretical viewpoints and the
relationships between private and public institutions, behaviors, and
traditions.
BIS 293 Special Topics (5, max. 15)
Examines different subjects or problems from an interdisciplinary framework.
Instructor Course Description:
John C Hanford
Robert Joseph Turner
BIS 295 Community-Based Practice (5, max. 15)
Links
academic study to experimental and community-based learning conducted
at on- or off-campus sites. Topics and sites may vary with instructor.
BIS 300 Interdisciplinary Inquiry (5)
Introduction
to advanced work in interdisciplinary studies centered on broadly based
questions and problems. Stresses the skills necessary to engage in
upper-division research and learning in the Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences Program.
Instructor Course Description:
Leslie Ashbaugh
Bruce Burgett
Constantin M. Behler
Cinnamon Hillyard
Colin Danby
David Steven Goldstein
Deborah Caplow
Charles F Jackels
Jeanne D. Heuving
Kanta A Kochhar
Peter J. Littig
Michael L. Gillespie
Michael L. Goldberg
Ronald Stanley Krabill
Robert Joseph Turner
BIS 301 Narrative Forms (5) VLPA Behler, Seaburg
Examines
the form, function, and textual conventions of such narrative forms as
(auto) biography, personal experience narratives, short stories, and
novels. Explores literary language useful for discussing narratives,
how narratives work for their readers/listeners, and what interpretive
tools readers/listeners bring to narratives.
Instructor Course Description:
William R Seaburg
BIS 302 Issues in Mathematics Across Cultures (5, max. 10) I&S Hillyard, Littig
Examines
the role of mathematics in informing and shaping human understanding of
the world. Explores contemporary and historical issues in the
development and application of mathematical theories and philosophies.
Focus varies with instructor and may include ethnomathematics, women in
mathematics, media representations of the mathematical sciences, and
mathematics and warfare.
Instructor Course Description:
Tana L. Hasart
BIS 303 History and Globalization (5) I&S
The
phenomenon of globalization has attracted the attention of many
academic disciplines which often attribute novelty to trends that have
in fact been around for centuries. Provides a historical perspective on
current debates about globalization. Approaches may vary with
instructor.
Instructor Course Description:
Alan T Wood
Genevieve E Mc Coy
Martha Groom
BIS 304 Institutions and Social Change (5) I&S
Explores
the patterns of power that create our social world and how those
patterns can be challenged or modified. Examines cultural,
institutional, and interpersonal ways that people gain, challenge, and
are affected by power and considers how and whether to bring about
social change.
Instructor Course Description:
Ronald Stanley Krabill
BIS 305 Issues in Social and Political Philosophy (5, max. 10) I&S
A
philosophical investigation of conceptual and normative issues
associated with one of several broad domains of social and political
thought: human rights, the varieties of human conflict, and war and
peace. Examines both classical and recent texts. Brings theoretical
perspectives to bear on contemporary issues.
Instructor Course Description:
David Watkins
Ronald Stanley Krabill
BIS 306 Marine Diversity and Conservation (5) I&S/NW
Exploration
of marine biodiversity of the Pacific Northwest. Basic concepts in
evolution, development, ecology, and conservation are introduced
through inquiry-guided exercises based in the marine environment.
Examination of human impacts on marine environments and subsequent
consequences for human health and welfare.
BIS 307 Technology and Society (5) I&S
Explores
the nature of technological creativity and its impacts on global
society from antiquity to the present. Topics include the sources of
technological innovation, the connections between inventions and
technologies across time and space, the impact of culture and geography
on technological change, and the social history of technological change
in the United States.
Instructor Course Description:
Steven W. Collins
BIS 308 Issues in Philosophy and Culture (5, max. 10)
Examines
a central problem associated with the nature, varieties, values, and
transmission of cultures. Alternative problems to be emphasized include
the cultural relativity of truth and value, multi-cultural education,
and knowledge and practice. Emphasizes philosophical texts. Also
considers writings from sociology, anthropology, history and
literature.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael L. Gillespie
BIS 309 History of Dance in Europe and America (5) VLPA
Discussion
of the major developments in European and American dance history.
Dances from the court, ballroom, and theater including masterpieces
from the modern repertoire. Based on primary source material and film
recreations that document dance's social and theatrical role from the
Renaissance to the present.
Instructor Course Description:
Jolynn Edwards
BIS 310 Creative Writing: Poetry (5) VLPA
Intensive study of the theories and practices of writing poetry.
Instructor Course Description:
Jeanne D. Heuving
BIS 311 Creative Writing: Prose (5) VLPA
Intensive study of the modes and means of composing creative, non-fictional prose.
Instructor Course Description:
Lidia Yuknavitch
BIS 312 Approaches to Social Research (5) I&S
Deals
with the why and how of social research. Covers two main themes: the
epistemology of social science and the logic of research design.
Students learn to assess the strengths of various methodologies,
evaluate research results, and initiate future inquiries of their own.
Instructor Course Description:
John Eric Stewart
Kari A Lerum
Rubye Elizabeth Thomas
BIS 313 Issues in Media Studies (5, max. 15) VLPA/I&S
Examines
a variety of issues involved in understanding different forms of media
and their impact on our lives, in contexts spanning from local to
global, using a wide range of theoretical, disciplinary, and
methodological approaches.
Instructor Course Description:
Georgia M. Roberts
Ronald Stanley Krabill
BIS 314 Topics in Geography (5, max. 10) I&S
Topics/areas of study may include: cultural geography, physical geography, geography of globalization.
Instructor Course Description:
Linda S Watts
Robert Joseph Turner
Sarah Starkweather
BIS 315 Understanding Statistics (5) I&S/NW/QSR
Presentation
of key concepts for understanding and judging reports of statistical
analyses and for performing and reporting valid statistical analyses
using a limited set of measures and tests.
Instructor Course Description:
John Rasmussen
Rubye Elizabeth Thomas
BIS 316 Topics in Psychology (5, max. 15) I&S
Examination
of a specific topic in order to provide a deeper understanding of a
particular aspect of psychology. Topics may include the history of
psychology; human memory; dreaming; cognitive psychology.
Instructor Course Description:
Mark V Calogero
John Eric Stewart
Wadiya A Udell
BIS 317 Language, Society, and Cultural Knowledge (5) VLPA/I&S
Explores
the determining role of language in human communication, culture and
worldview; and the implications of language structure and content to
forms of communicative interaction. Review and critique of theories of
language as a social phenomena.
Instructor Course Description:
Melanie K Kill
William R Seaburg
BIS 318 Performance, Identity, Community, and Everyday Life (5) VLPA/I&S
Examines
performance in everyday life, dance, theater, community-based arts
practices, and/or new media from a variety of perspectives. Considers
how performances act as sites for the revisioning of identity,
community, and cross-cultural exchange.
Instructor Course Description:
Jeanette M. Sanchez
Kanta A Kochhar
BIS 320 Comparative Political Economies (5) I&S
Examines
the production and distribution of goods, the organization of labor,
and systems of wealth and power in diverse cultural settings within and
outside the realm of "classical" capitalist development. Analyzes
interactions between political constituencies and the economies they
attempt to govern.
Instructor Course Description:
Steven W. Collins
BIS 321 U.S. Politics and Culture from 1865 (5) I&S
Survey
of U.S. history from the Civil War to the present focusing on the
interplay between political and cultural institutions, ideology, and
daily practice. Introduction to the practice of "doing history" by
examining a wide range of primary documents.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael L. Goldberg
BIS 322 Topics in Performance Studies (5, max. 15) VLPA
Examination
of a specific topic in order to provide a deeper understanding of a
particular aspect of the study of performance. Topics may include
transnationalism and performance; eco-performance, community
performance; African and Asian theatre. Topics and approaches may vary
with instructor.
Instructor Course Description:
Martha Groom
Jeanette M. Sanchez
Kanta A Kochhar
Robert Joseph Turner
BIS 323 U.S. Politics and Culture to 1865 (5) I&S
Survey
of U.S. history from pre-European and Native American contact to the
end of the Civil War, focusing on the interplay between political and
cultural institutions, ideology, and daily practice. Introduction to
the practice of "doing history" by examining a wide range of primary
documents.
Instructor Course Description:
Genevieve E Mc Coy
Michael L. Goldberg
BIS 324 International Political Economy (5) I&S/QSR
The
study of interrelations between international politics and economics.
Addresses the Bretton Woods institutions, differing political
conceptions of international economic relations, trade, trade
restrictions, trade agreements, global financial flows, migration, and
exchange rates. Methods emphasize institutional analysis, historical
analysis, accounting frameworks, and formal economic models.
Instructor Course Description:
Colin Danby
Robert Farkasch
BIS 325 Disability and Human Rights (5)VLPA/I&S
Considers
the intersections between human rights discourse and disability studies
in relation to questions of community formation and social action.
Addresses three primary areas: the arts, activism, and the law.
Instructor Course Description:
Kanta A Kochhar
BIS 326 Twentieth Century Eastern Europe (5) I&S
The
recent revolutions in Eastern Europe threw off totalitarian regimes and
replaced them with diverse and emerging cultural, political, and
economic forms. Examines the art, literature, politics, economics, and
ideologies of these new societies through film, reading seminars and
independent research.
BIS 327 History of U.S. Labor Institutions (5) I&S
Examines
the evolution of the institutions that have shaped labor. Discusses
indentured servitude, slavery, apprenticeship, schooling, wage labor,
unions, and the laws that surround each of these institutions.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel F. Jacoby
BIS 328 Contemporary European Politics (5) I&S
Explores
the historical context and social and economic transformations of
post-war Europe in order to compare current political processes and
policy issues within and between selected European countries. Analyzes
continuing differences and growing similarities in political cultures,
as well as possible futures for European politics and society.
Instructor Course Description:
Jane E. Decker
BIS 329 Topics in Mathematics Across the Curriculum (5, max. 10)
Examines
mathematical theories and concepts within their historical and cultural
contexts. Topics vary with instructor and may include mathematical
symmetries, the organization and modeling of space, cryptology,
mathematical models of social decision making, and/or theories of
change and strategy.
Instructor Course Description:
Cinnamon Hillyard
John Rasmussen
Peter J. Littig
BIS 330 Democratic Capitalism in the United States (5) I&S
Critical
examination of the relationship between three political perspectives
(libertarian, liberal and radical) and democratic capitalism.
Instructor Course Description:
Robert Farkasch
BIS 331 The Family in U.S. Society (5) I&S
Examination
of the historical development of the family, and the theoretical
underpinnings of family relationships. Discusses current trends and
changes in the family and family life.
Instructor Course Description:
Leslie Ashbaugh
Kari A Lerum
BIS 332 Rise of East Asia (5) I&S
Compares
the cultural, economic, and political development of the countries of
East Asia. Topics may include political institutions, religion,
business, economic development, trade and finance, science and
technology, and arts and literature.
BIS 333 The Individual and Society (5) I&S
Socialization
is the process by which individuals develop into social beings.
Examines various theories of socialization and human development.
Explores the role played by social structure and institutions in the
integration of the individual into society.
Instructor Course Description:
Leslie Ashbaugh
Diane Gillespie
Rubye Elizabeth Thomas
William R Seaburg
Wadiya A Udell
BIS 334 Traditional Chinese History (5) I&S
History
of traditional China from earliest times to the beginning of the Ch'ing
dynasty. Covers the birth and development of the principal social,
economic, and political institutions in China. Also treats the
principal cultural and scientific achievements of China, and the
philosophical traditions which have dominated East Asia.
Instructor Course Description:
Alan T Wood
BIS 335 Human Rights in America (5) I&S
Study
of the literature of civil liberties, civil rights, and human rights in
the United States. Examines the way writers try to justify specific
rights and to communicate the need for social change in American
society.
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce E. Kochis
BIS 336 Native American Cultures: The Northwest Coast (5) I&S
An
interdisciplinary introduction to the Native Cultures of the Northwest
Coast (northwestern California to southeastern Alaska). Combines an
areal-topical approach (language, subsistence, material culture, social
organization, religion, oral/literary traditions, visual arts) with a
more in-depth examination of several Northwest Coast culture groups.
BIS 337 Risk and Resilience (5) I&S Udell
Provides
an overview of the psychological study of development in the context of
adversity. Studies pathways that lead to maladjustment and processes
that lead to positive adjustment, and considers social policy and
preventative programs.
BIS 338 Political Institutions and Processes (5) I&S
Studies
the nature, structure, and functions of political institutions.
Develops a theoretical and empirical analysis of both formal (state and
government) and informal (non-state) institutions and actors:
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce E. Kochis
David Watkins
BIS 339 Issues in Global Cultural Studies (5, max. 15)
Examination
of various topics and approaches to the study of culture in a global
context. May include the study art, literature, theater, cultural
history, music history/ethnomusicology, and/or cultural
anthropology/geography. Topics and approaches may vary with instructor.
Instructor Course Description:
Leslie Ashbaugh
Genevieve E Mc Coy
Kanta A Kochhar
BIS 341 Topics in the Study of Culture (5, max. 15)
Examines
the study of cultural forms, artifacts, and practices. May include art,
art history, literature, theater, music history, ethnomusicology,
dance, and/or religion. Topics and approaches may vary with instructor.
Instructor Course Description:
Gray M Kochhar-Lindgren
Kanta A Kochhar
BIS 343 Community Psychology (5) I&S
Examines
the historical foundations, theory, methods, and practice that
constitute the interdisciplinary field of community psychology.
Students build upon an existing empirical knowledge base, including
effective modes of community intervention, and examine the relevance of
community psychology for addressing social problem.
Instructor Course Description:
John Eric Stewart
Rubye Elizabeth Thomas
BIS 344 International Relations (5) I&S
A
survey of basic themes in international relations within the context of
diplomatic history and American foreign policy. Emphasis is on basic
motivational drives of world politics, including national interests,
ideology, morality, and nationalism. Discussion of war, diplomacy,
American foreign policy, and international organization sheds light on
the perennial struggle for power among nations, the security dilemma
and instruments of global cooperation.
Instructor Course Description:
Robert Farkasch
BIS 346 Topics in Environmental Policy (5, max. 10)
Explores
specific topics in environmental policy in an interdisciplinary
context, combining considerations of politics, policy, economics, and
science. Emphasizes quantitative analysis and scientific method.
BIS 347 History of American Documentary Films (5)VLPA/I&S
Exploration
of the important technological and cinematic innovations of non-fiction
films within their cultural contexts, and examination of theoretical
issues such as objectivity and the blurred line between fact and
fiction. Stresses the skills necessary for the critical evaluation and
interpretation of documentary films.
BIS 348 Cultural Psychology (5) I&S
Addresses
the ways that cultural traditions and social practices both reflect and
transform psychological experience. Examines both new theoretical and
empirical work in cultural psychology and the intellectual roots of
cultural psychology. Explores the implications of a cultural
perspective for the larger projects/concerns of the field of
psychology.
Instructor Course Description:
Rubye Elizabeth Thomas
BIS 349 Hollywood Cinema and Genres (5) VLPA
Examines
Hollywood cinema as an institution of cultural affirmation and
contestation within modern society. Explores the foundational
methodology of cinema studies and employs a broad range of contemporary
approaches to cultural and textual analysis.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael L. Goldberg
BIS 350 The Concept of Number (5) NW/QSR
Explores
the concept of number from an historical perspective and the modern
mathematical perspective. Stresses the new properties of "number",
starting with counting numbers and progressing to the concept of a
field.
Instructor Course Description:
John Rasmussen
BIS 351 Topics in American Culture (5, max. 15)
Explore
a particular topic in American culture that highlights the
methodological tools needed to integrate the interpretation of cultural
texts, including literature, film, music, and art, with their
historical contexts.
Instructor Course Description:
David Steven Goldstein
Deborah Caplow
Georgia M. Roberts
Linda S Watts
Matthew T. Sneddon
BIS 353 Human Rights in Theory and Practice (5) I&S
Introduces
political, economic, legal, and cultural aspects of the theory and
practice of human rights. Students will explore, critique, and develop
theories of human rights.
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce E. Kochis
BIS 354 Modern European Intellectual History (5) VLPA/I&S
Study
of key figures and intellectual debates of Western modernity, and of
major literary movements (romanticism, realism, modernism). Analysis of
seminal texts such as Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, Flaubert's
Madame Bovary, Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, and Woolf's To the
Lighthouse.
Instructor Course Description:
Constantin M. Behler
BIS 355 History of Science and Technology (5) I&S
Introduces
the historical development of science and technology and their
interaction with social, cultural, and political forces across time and
space.
BIS 356 Ethics and the Environment (5) I&S
Examination
of the "environmental crisis" and associated social conflicts, tracing
them to their philosophical roots. Focuses on the facts of the current
situation, on classic and recent readings from the environmental
literature, and on ethical responses to current issues.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael L. Gillespie
BIS 357 Native American Religious and Philosophical Thought (5) I&S
An
exploration and comparison of religious and philosophical themes
developed by tribal people in the New World; an analytical examination
of various forms of religious and philosophical expression and how they
relate to our human sense of an existing moral order.
BIS 358 Issues in Environmental Science (5, max. 10)
Explores
environmental problems from stratospheric ozone depletion to the
preservation of endangered species to acid rain. Focuses on methods of
analysis from the physical and life sciences as well as economics,
psychology and related fields. Examines issues within their larger
social, historic, and political contexts.
BIS 359 Ethics and Society (5) I&S
Examination
of major ethical alternatives (egoism, utilitarianism, hedonism, virtue
ethics, relativism, emotivism) along with competing visions of the good
society (libertarian, communitarian, feminist). Analyzes several
contemporary problems, such as legal moralism, affirmative action,
euthanasia, capital punishment, corporate responsibility.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael L. Gillespie
BIS 360 Literature, Film and Consumer Culture (5) VLPA/I&S
Explores
innovative approaches to the study of literature and film in the age of
consumer culture. Focuses on literary and cinematic communication as an
important arena for the constitution of modern subjectivity and
personal identity.
Instructor Course Description:
Constantin M. Behler
BIS 361 Studies in American Literature (5, max. 10) VLPA I&S
Examines
important literary movements and literary genres with attention to
their historical context. Emphasizes issues of race, class, and gender.
Instructor Course Description:
Linda S Watts
BIS 362 Contemporary Political Ideas and Ideologies (5) I&S
Explores
the juncture of political ideology with political experience in the
context of such widespread ideas as nationalism, democracy, and
socialism, and their diverse manifestations in contemporary political
movements and systems.
Instructor Course Description:
David Watkins
Kevin Ramsey
Steven W. Collins
Robert Farkasch
BIS 363 Conflict and Connection in the Americas (5) I&S
Examines
the Americas as a geographical and historical region. Applies a variety
of approaches to specific topics and events, with particular attention
to the interplay of politics and culture. Stresses interaction of
local, regional, and global dynamics such as colonialism, migration,
and slavery. Stresses diverse interpretive approaches within American
Studies.
Instructor Course Description:
Colin Danby
Julie Shayne
BIS 364 Public Memory and Dissent in American Culture (5) VLPA/I&S
Examines
in detail one (or more) case of social, political, legal, and/or
cultural conflict, focusing on how it has been remembered,
reconstructed, and reimagined, both textually and institutionally.
Stresses diverse interpretive and methodological approaches within
American Studies.
Instructor Course Description:
Linda S Watts
BIS 365 Exploring American Culture: Popular and Consumer Culture (5) VLPA/I&S
Explores
the interaction between consumer culture and popular culture
emphasizing literature, history, and theory. Stresses diverse
interpretive approaches within American Studies.
Instructor Course Description:
Gray M Kochhar-Lindgren
Michael L. Goldberg
BIS 366 Exploring American Culture: Americans at the Margins (5) VLPA/I&S
Examines
a range of American folklore and folklife, including folk speech,
worldview, and folk medicine and religion. Focuses on the relationship
between the ideologies of official/institutional cultures and folk
cultures. Stresses diverse interpretive approaches within American
Studies.
Instructor Course Description:
William R Seaburg
BIS 367 Exploring American Culture: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration (5) VLPA/I&S
Examines
how contested discourses of racial, ethnic, and national difference
have shaped ideas about citizenship and "American" identities. Focuses
on the relationship between these discourses and social, economic, and
political practices and policies. Stresses diverse interpretive
approaches within American Studies.
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce Burgett
Sarah Starkweather
BIS 368 Sex, Love, Romance (5) VLPA/I&S
Examines
how ideologies and practices of sex, love, and romance have structured
American political relations and everyday life. Focuses on the
relationship between public and private life, social and gender roles,
race and reproduction, among other topics. Stresses diverse
interpretive approaches and methodologies within American Studies.
BIS 369 Women Across Cultures (5) I&S
Examines
the experiences of women around the globe from a variety of
disciplinary perspectives; world systems theory, feminist sociology and
anthropology. Examines women's lives with respect to various
institutions: politics, the family, education, as well as at the
micro-level in the home, in day-to-day interacting and in
relationships.
Instructor Course Description:
Leslie Ashbaugh
BIS 370 Nineteenth-Century American Literature (5) VLPA
Examination
of significant writers and literary developments within
Nineteenth-Century American culture and society. Addresses issues
surrounding the formation of an American literary canon. Stresses
themes and methods for advanced literary interpretation within American
Studies.
BIS 371 Twentieth-Century American Literature (5) VLPA
Examination
of significant writers and literary developments within
twentieth-century American culture and society. Addresses issues
surrounding the formation of an American literary canon. Stresses
themes and methods for advanced literary interpretation within American
Studies.
Instructor Course Description:
David Steven Goldstein
BIS 372 Comparative Arts in Eighteenth-Century Europe (5) VLPA
Examples
chosen from the realms of art, literature, and music produced during
the Enlightenment demonstrate both the multiplicity and the
interrelation of the three arts in Europe beginning with Watteau,
Addison, and Couperin and ending with David, Goethe, and Mozart.
Instructor Course Description:
Jolynn Edwards
BIS 373 Cultural History of Rome (5) VLPA/I&S
Intense
study of the urban space of Rome as a cultural center from its origins
to the modern era. Examines Roman influence over time covering the
republican, imperial, and papal phases of this city as illustrated
through the visual record of buildings, gardens, sculpture, mosaics,
and paintings.
Instructor Course Description:
Jolynn Edwards
BIS 376 Circa 1500: Arts of West and East (5) VLPA
Cultural
history through the arts with emphasis on the era of early European
expansion into Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Focuses on parts of the
Mediterranean and Northern Europe, Islamic spheres of the ancient Near
East and Africa, the Aztec and Inca cultures, Ming China, and Muromachi
Japan.
Instructor Course Description:
Jolynn Edwards
BIS 378 The Language of Poetry (5) VLPA
Study
of how poetic meanings are formed and interpreted. Explores different
forms of poetry within diverse cultures and historical times.
Instructor Course Description:
Jeanne D. Heuving
BIS 379 American Ethnic Literatures (5) VLPA/I&S
A
comparative study of multiple ethnic literatures within American
culture and society. Addresses issues surrounding the formation of an
American literary canon. Stresses themes and methods for advanced
literary interpretation within American Studies.
Instructor Course Description:
Kanta A Kochhar
BIS 380 Art and Its Context (5)VLPA/I&S
A
humanistic reading of the history of Western art as traced in ten
monuments from ancient Greece to twentieth-century America, supported
by contemporary source readings.
Instructor Course Description:
Jolynn Edwards
BIS 383 American Art and Architecture (5) VLPA
Major
trends in American art comprising painting, sculpture, architecture,
urban design, and the decorative arts from 1600 to the present.
Instructor Course Description:
Deborah Caplow
BIS 384 Literary and Popular Genres (5, max. 10) VLPA
Examines
the conventions that define genres and their historical evolution.
Focuses on one or two genres taken from the traditional modes of lyric
poetry, tragedy and comedy, and epic, or from the popular forms of
gothic romance, detective and mystery stories, and journalistic
fiction.
Instructor Course Description:
Jeanne D. Heuving
Joanne D Woiak
Melanie K Kill
BIS 385 Cross-Cultural Oral Traditions (5) VLPA
Examines
oral traditions from around the world. The primary focus is on
folktale, although the genres of myths, tales, personal experience
narratives, and jokes may be explored. Introduces several theoretical
approaches to analyzing the content, style, and structure of oral
traditions.
BIS 386 Global Environmental Issues (5) I&S/NW
Addresses
the connections between local activities and the global environment;
the scientific approach to these problems (both quantitatively and
qualitatively); and policy implications.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel A Jaffe
Emily V. Fischer
William Dean Hafner
BIS 387 Women and American Literature (5, max. 10) VLPA
Study
of women writers and the ways women have been portrayed in literary
texts. Focuses on certain themes, such as selves and subjectivities, or
on writers from specific historical, economic, ethnic, or racial
backgrounds.
BIS 388 The Philosophy and Science of Quantum Mechanics (5) NW/QSR
Explores
the basic philosophical and scientific concepts of quantum mechanics.
Uses the historical development of quantum mechanics to develop its
general principles and create an understanding of the scientific
method. Examines the relationships between scientific observations,
concepts, and theories.
Instructor Course Description:
Charles F Jackels
BIS 389 American Indian Literature (5) VLPA/I&S
A
survey of both traditional and contemporary American Indian Literary
genre; oral and written modes of expression, including oral narratives,
autobiography, oratory, traditional and contemporary poetry, fiction.
BIS 390 Ecology and the Environment (5) NW
A
general introduction to ecology. Introduces the principles that govern
how organisms interact with each other and with their surroundings.
Instructor Course Description:
Martha Groom
BIS 392 Water and Sustainability (5) I&S/NW
Provides
an understanding of past and present water challenges and some of the
possible opportunities for solving them. What is the state of water in
the United States and how did we get to this point? Examines the future
prospects for wisely using water resources.
Instructor Course Description:
Robert Joseph Turner
BIS 393 Special Topics (3-5, max. 15)
Various topics designed to respond to faculty and student interests and needs.
Instructor Course Description:
Rebecca M Price
Deborah Caplow
David L. Stokes
David Watkins
Genevieve E Mc Coy
Gray M Kochhar-Lindgren
Jonathan M Wender
John Rasmussen
Kanta A Kochhar
Peter J. Littig
Matthew T. Sneddon
Rebeca F Rivera
Robert Farkasch
Timothy P. Olson
Warren G. Gold
BIS 394 Comparative Economic Development (5) I&S
Introduces
a variety of issues affecting Third World economies in a framework that
emphasizes their particular and varied post-colonial histories. Draws
on economic theory, cultural and economic anthropology, literature, and
other sources to understand institutions and sources of change in these
economies.
Instructor Course Description:
Colin Danby
BIS 398 Directed Study/Research (1-5, max. 15)
Opportunity for directed group or individual research on a topic/theme mutually agreed upon by instructor and student.
BIS 400 Modern Japan (5) I&S
History
of Japan from the beginning of the Tokugawa period to the present.
Covers the principal ideas and institutions of the feudal period, and
the impact of the West during the Meiji period. Explores the struggle
of modern Japan to maintain its cultural identity while becoming a
powerful modern state.
Instructor Course Description:
Steven W. Collins
BIS 401 Topics in Economic History and Analysis (5, max. 10) I&S
Selected
economic studies. Possible topics include history of monopoly and
antitrust policy, economic regulation, structural change in the U.S.
economy, labor economics, and the Industrial Revolution. Recommended:
prior course in economics.
BIS 402 Modern China (5) I&S
History
of modern China since the beginning of the Ch'ing dynasty, 1644 to the
present. Focuses on the major social, political, and economic
developments, and on the relationships between ideas and institutions.
Topics include the impact of the West and changes resulting from
internal causes.
Instructor Course Description:
Alan T Wood
BIS 403 Washington D.C. Seminar on Human Rights (5)
Examines
human rights as a philosophical concept, an historical movement, and a
contemporary political phenomenon, both in its inherently international
scope and in its distinctly U.S. expression in congressional and
executive-branch processes. Uses expert guest speakers, both on campus
and in Washington, D.C., as major learning resources, along with
readings and written assignments.
BIS 404 Twentieth-Century Russia (5) I&S
History
of Russia from the reign of Nicholas II to the present. Covers the main
cultural, political, social, and economic events from the end of the
Imperial period through the founding of the Soviet Union to the
remarkable dismantling of Soviet institutions by Mikhail Gorbachev in
the present.
BIS 406 Modern France (5) VLPA/I&S
Interdisciplinary
examination of French political culture, interpreting contemporary
France in its larger historical context. Uses literature and the arts,
together with political, social, and economic studies to examine key
transforming eras and a legacy of conflict and change from the
Revolution of 1789 to France in the 1990s.
BIS 407 Children's Literature and Reader Response Criticism (5) VLPA Watts
Studies
children's literature and its use in classrooms. Explores theories of
reader response and the design of response-based activities.
BIS 408 Contemporary Britain (5) VLPA/I&S
Interdisciplinary
exploration of contemporary British political culture utilizing arts,
literature, social science, and history to understand the enduring
relevance of key features in British political experience, from the
height of industrial capitalism, parliamentary democracy and empire to
the post-war politics of consensus, the welfare state, economic
decline, and Thatcherism.
Instructor Course Description:
Jane E. Decker
BIS 409 Modern Germany (5) I&S
Interdisciplinary
study placing the emergence of contemporary Germany in its larger
historical context. Explores important eras of German history and
focuses on major aspects of post-war economic, political, and cultural
life in order to grasp the unique role that Germany has come to play in
the European community of today.
Instructor Course Description:
Constantin M. Behler
BIS 410 Topics in Qualitative Inquiry (5, max. 15) I&S
Provides
a background for understanding qualitative inquiry. Focuses on
ethnographic inquiry and interpretative cultural analysis. Discusses
forms of data collection such as observation, participant observation,
and interviewing. Also stresses strategies for data analysis and for
handling qualitative data.
Instructor Course Description:
Diane Gillespie
Kari A Lerum
BIS 411 Biotechnology and Society (5) I&S
Clarifies
the scientific, political, economic, and ethical dimensions of new
genetic technologies. Explores the tension between biotechnology as a
source of economic opportunity and as a potential threat to the
environment and human freedom, and the role of government in promoting
and regulating science and technology to resolve this tension.
Instructor Course Description:
Steven G. Gilbert
Steven W. Collins
BIS 412 Ideas in Political Economy (5) I&S
Surveys
the rich intellectual tradition in political economy, from classical
writings to the present. Provides a critical perspective on the
development of modern capitalism.
Instructor Course Description:
Colin Danby
BIS 413 Nations and Nationalism (5) I&S
Examines
modern nationalism as a vast, contested, and crucial subject. Addresses
current theories and historical evidence about the origin and nature of
nationalist ideologies and their relationships to the modern
nation-state.
Instructor Course Description:
Genevieve E Mc Coy
BIS 414 Topics in Human Rights (5, max. 10) I&S
Explores
a critical issue of human rights theory and practice and its
intersection with the other fields of thought and disciplines. Topics
may include such issues as the rights of children, workers, or women;
or the relationship of human rights to democracy, globalization, and
the arts.
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce E. Kochis
BIS 415 Public Policy and Law (5) I&S
Examines
the different histories of and processes by which law and public policy
create rules that govern a society. Discusses the nature and influence
of law and policy in our society via a sociological perspective.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel F. Jacoby
BIS 416 Problems in International Political Economy (5, max. 10) I&S
Problems
in world markets and political organization. Topics may include
comparative industrialization, economic imperialism, the capitalist
transition in Central Europe, and financial crises.
BIS 417 Paris: The City and Its History (5) VLPA/I&S
Explores
the issues of urban culture and history in the city of Paris. Uses
pertinent primary and secondary texts to explore why Paris has been
regarded as the jewel of European cities and what constitutes its sense
of place.
Instructor Course Description:
Jolynn Edwards
BIS 418 Masculinity, Homoeroticism, and Queer Theory in American Culture (5) VLPA
Exploration
of the shifting and contradictory images and ideas of masculinity in
American culture, focusing especially on the way masculinities are
constructed in relations between men. Emphasizes advanced methods in
American Studies.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael L. Goldberg
BIS 419 Urban Politics and Policy (5) I&S
Examines
the historical, economic and ideological foundations for urban
governance within the American political system. Compares and contrasts
urban politics and public policy implementation in selected U.S. cities
and regions. Special emphasis on policy issues affecting political and
economic development and the distribution of political power and social
benefits.
BIS 420 Colonizing History in Sub-Saharan Africa (5) I&S
Considers
the history o f colonization in Africa and the writing of that history,
dealing with debates around post-colonial theory. Provides a better
understanding of how relationships between Sub-Saharan Africa and other
parts of the world have developed, and how we have come to understand
those relationships.
Instructor Course Description:
Georgia M. Roberts
Ronald Stanley Krabill
BIS 421 Technology Policy (5) I&S
Examines
the role of public policy in managing the tradeoffs between benefits
and risks of new technology. Discusses how to evaluate U.S. technology
policies against the standards of democracy, economic efficiency, and
social justice.
BIS 423 The City in American Culture (5) VLPA/I&S
This
course explores the contested terrain of urban landscapes in American
culture by interpreting literature, film, and other cultural texts
within their historical and geographical context. Uses methods and
knowledge gained from introductory American Studies courses to focus on
specific themes.
Instructor Course Description:
Gray M Kochhar-Lindgren
Sarah Starkweather
BIS 424 Topics in American Studies (5, max. 15)
Examination of a specific topic in order to provide a deeper understanding of a particular aspect of American culture.
Instructor Course Description:
Genevieve E Mc Coy
BIS 425 Topics in U.S. Social and Political History (5, max. 15) I&S
Intensive examination of a particular topic on American institutions, ideologies, movements, and social conditions.
Instructor Course Description:
Genevieve E Mc Coy
Henry D Kamerling
BIS 426 Comparative Urban Politics (5) I&S
Compares
processes of urban governance and the politics of central-local
relations in various advanced industrial societies. Analyzes urban
public policies and the distributions and effects of political and
economic power in selected cities are analyzed. Draws contrasts with
Third World cities and explores global processes of urbanization.
BIS 427 Global History I (5) I&S
Provides
a global perspective on the history of the human community from
hunting-gathering times to the end of the formative stage of human
cultures. It is divided into eleven main areas of focus: world origins,
human origins, environment, society, politics, economics, technology,
art and religion, disease, and migration.
Instructor Course Description:
Alan T Wood
Genevieve E Mc Coy
BIS 428 Global History II (5) I&S
Provides
a global perspective on the human history to the beginning of the
modern age. It is divided into ten main areas of focus: indigenous
peoples, disease, gender, Indian Ocean, Arab Trading Network, maritime
exploration, Atlantic Trade, world population, the gun powder empires,
and the rise of the nation-state.
Instructor Course Description:
Alan T Wood
BIS 429 Global History III (5) I&S
Provides
a global perspective on human history from the scientific revolution to
the present. Explores ten main areas: the scientific revolution,
nationalism, the industrial revolution, the various economic systems,
colonialism, war, crisis if ideas, global society, the environment, and
a look into the twenty-first century.
Instructor Course Description:
Alan T Wood
Genevieve E Mc Coy
BIS 430 Social Theory and Practice (5, max. 10)
Focuses
on a particular concept or problem in social theory and practice, such
as the nature of community, the meaning and value of professionalism,
the varieties of human conflict, human rights.
BIS 431 Issues in Sexual Politics and Cultures (5, max. 10) I&S
Examines
the ways that sexual beliefs, practices, identities, and behaviors are
connected to various cultural, economic, political, and historical
forces. Ideally builds on students' previous critical study of sex and
sexuality, either at the UW or elsewhere. Specific focus and topic
varies with instructor.
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce Burgett
Kari A Lerum
BIS 432 Democracy in Asia (5) I&S
Explores
the institutional heritage of selected Asian countries, principally
China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and evaluates their suitability to
democratic institutions. Frequent comparisons with the growth of
representative democracy in the West.
BIS 433 Gender, Work, and Family (5) I&S
Examines
the interlocking institutions of gender, work, and family. Explores the
impact of changing patterns of work on the lives of men and women and
the effect of changes in work and occupations on demography and family
patterns.
BIS 434 Psychology and the Visual Arts (5) VLPA/I&S Thomas
Explores
the visual arts experience in many of its psychological, social, and
cultural dimensions. Topics include visual perception and cognition,
the process of assigning personal meaning and value to art, and the
role of the visual arts in individual and community identity
development and change efforts.
Instructor Course Description:
Rubye Elizabeth Thomas
BIS 435 Interactive Learning: Theory and Practice (5) I&S
Examines
theories that support interactive learning-including constructionist-,
critical-, and experientially based views. Emphasizes multiple
dimensions of the learning situation. Mainly theory, with opportunities
to relate practice to theory.
Instructor Course Description:
Diane Gillespie
BIS 436 Comparative Family Systems (5) I&S
Provides
comparative analyses of family life in various cultures and societies.
Topics include family organization, family and kinship structure,
marital and parent-child relationships, socialization, aging and
familial roles. Examines methods for conducting comparative research.
Instructor Course Description:
Leslie Ashbaugh
BIS 437 Narrative Psychology (5) I&S Gillespie
Examines
the ways narrative has been used in psychology theory, practice, and
research. Introduces narrative concepts and analysis techniques,
examines how diverse cultural contexts shape personal stories,
demonstrates narrative research strengths, and explores the ways larger
social narratives can affect individual actualization.
Instructor Course Description:
Diane Gillespie
BIS 440 Topics in Everyday Social and Cultural Life (5, max. 15) I&S
Intensive
examination of a particular theme, tradition or problem in everyday
social/cultural life. Topics may include living the good life; personal
and interpersonal ethics; body, gender, society, and symbol; and
psychology of gender.
Instructor Course Description:
Leslie Ashbaugh
BIS 441 Global Labor Markets (5) I&S
Explores
the history, theory, and institutions that affect labor's position in
an increasingly globalized labor market. Fosters critical inquiry upon
the globalization of labor markets and makes connections between global
markets and local employment conditions. Required background: BIS 324
or microeconomics or macroeconomics.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel F. Jacoby
BIS 443 Educational Policy and the American Economy (5) I&S
Examines
relationships between the economy and our educational and training
infrastructure: What are we doing and what should our educational
policy be?
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel F. Jacoby
BIS 444 Issues in Comparative History (5, max. 10) I&S
Explores
different special issues in comparative history. Topics include
histories of the world, imperialism and colonialism, nationalism and
nation states, and the history of gender in the east and west.
Instructor Course Description:
Leslie Ashbaugh
BIS 445 Meanings and Realities of Inequality (5) I&S
A
socioeconomic investigation into the meanings and realities of
inequality using a variety of theoretical frameworks and empirical
research. Focuses on the determinants of economic mobility and social
status. Addresses discrimination, poverty, welfare, and education.
Instructor Course Description:
Kari A Lerum
BIS 447 Topics in Quantitative Inquiry (5, max. 15) NW/QSR
Examines
methods for quantitative data analysis. Uses current software packages
to model data. Topics vary with instructor and may include probability,
surveys, regression techniques, forecasting and time series,
decision-making, or spatial analysis and data maps. Recommended:
previous coursework in quantitative methods such as BIS 315 or BIS 312.
BIS 450 Performance and Healing (5) VLPA/I&S
Investigates
performance and healing to understand how a variety of performance
forms including dance, theater, and music can provide vehicles for
personal, social, and cultural healing.
Instructor Course Description:
Kanta A Kochhar
BIS 451 Northwest Indian Myths and Tales (5) VLPA/I&S
Exploration
of the rich oral traditional heritage of the Native peoples of the
Pacific Northwest, emphasizing common features of content (plot,
themes, and characters), style, and performance. Includes folkloristic,
anthropological, and literary perspectives.
Instructor Course Description:
William R Seaburg
BIS 452 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (5) I&S
Study
of the challenges to the traditional Western conceptions of the self,
history, knowledge, and art by these classic authors of modernity.
Examines the critical impact of their writing within its historical and
cultural context and the ongoing significance of their work through the
study of prominent examples of contemporary theory.
Instructor Course Description:
Constantin M. Behler
BIS 455 Literature and Sexuality (5, max. 10) VLPA/I&S
Advanced
study of the changing definitions and discourses of sexuality in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries and their relationship to literary
representations. Stresses historical, psychoanalytic, and literary
perspectives.
Instructor Course Description:
Jeanne D. Heuving
BIS 457 Thinking and Decision Making (5) I&S
Survey
of research and theory on how people process information about others,
and themselves. Topics include attention and memory for person
information, social schemata, biases in attribution, perceived control,
heuristics for rapid inferences, and how cognition relates to emotion
and behavior.
BIS 458 Energy, the Environment and Society (5) I&S
Discusses
energy production, distribution, and consumption in modern society.
Topics include basic scientific, technological, economic, political and
environmental issues and questions raised by the utilization of
traditional and alternative energy sources.
Instructor Course Description:
Nives Dolsak
BIS 459 Conservation and Sustainable Development (5) I&S/NW Groom
Examines
the connections between human welfare and diverse and healthy
ecosystems. Considers tensions among economic development, poverty
eradication, and biodiversity conservation. Examines efforts to create
sustainable development solutions to easing poverty and protecting
biodiversity.
Instructor Course Description:
Martha Groom
BIS 460 Topics in Critical Theory (5, max. 10) VLPA
Investigates
theoretical approaches to the study of literature. Topics may range
from chronicles of critical theories to psychoanalysis and literature,
or the examination of individual theoreticians such as Michel Foucault.
Instructor Course Description:
Gray M Kochhar-Lindgren
BIS 461 Studies in U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History (5, max. 10) VLPA/I&S
In-depth
investigation of a particular topic, theme, or tradition in the history
of ideas or cultural practices in the United States. Builds on methods
and knowledge gained in introductory American Studies courses.
BIS 462 The Culture of Cold War America (5) VLPA/I&S
Examines
Americans' ideas, values, fears, and desires during the Cold war era by
considering the production, reception, and meaning of popular Hollywood
films in their historical context.
BIS 463 U.S. Women's History (5) I&S
Surveys
the place of women in the United States from Native American-European
contact to the present. Topics include comparative gender norms,
women's politics, gender and slavery, alliances and disagreements among
women, women and work, courtship, sexuality, and marriage.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael L. Goldberg
BIS 464 Topics in Advanced Cinema Studies (5, max. 15) VLPA
Builds
on the analytical and methodological skills gained in 300-level
cinema-studies courses. Focuses on specific topics which examine
cinematic texts and institutions and their complex interrelationships
within modern culture.
Instructor Course Description:
David Steven Goldstein
Linda S Watts
BIS 467 Post-1945 U.S. Youth Culture: Culture, Theory, and History (5) VLPA/I&S
Explores
the development of various youth cultures in post-World War II America.
Examines the relationship between youth cultures, mass culture, and
adult mainstream society, and the way each shapes and is shaped by the
other.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael L. Goldberg
BIS 470 Art, Politics, and Social Change (5) VLPA/I&S
Explores
art forms as windows on changing political cultures and the role of
artists as social critics and advocates of political change in diverse
historical epochs and societies and in conjunction with selected modern
political movements.
Instructor Course Description:
Deborah Caplow
BIS 474 Topics in European Cultural History (5, max. 10) VLPA/I&S
Advanced
interdisciplinary study of major periods, prominent movements, or
representative figures of European cultural history. Gives special
attention to the historical contexts and meanings of cultural life, as
well as to the interrelations between the arts.
BIS 476 Issues in Art History (5, max. 15) VLPA/I&S
Various
topics central to European art history including painting in the age of
Rembrandt, art under the Renaissance popes, Bernini's Rome, and French
art from Francis I to Louis XIV.
Instructor Course Description:
Deborah Caplow
BIS 478 Art Patronage and Markets - Seminar (5) VLPA/I&S
Examines
the changing patronage for the visual arts from its roots in the
privatized consumption of the early modern period to the development of
a modern commercial market. Considers the artist's place, market
manipulation, and the influence of museums and galleries on public
taste.
BIS 480 International Study Abroad (5)
Combines
study at UW-Bothell with seminars and field trips organized by the
faculties of host institutions in foreign countries such as Britain or
Japan. Topics include politics, political economy, public policy,
business, and literature and the arts.
Instructor Course Description:
Jane E. Decker
John Rasmussen
BIS 481 Modernism, Postmodernism, and American Literature (5) VLPA
An
investigation into the multiple descriptions and definitions of
Modernism and Postmodernism through the study of such twentieth-century
writersas Eliot, Pound, Willi Stevens, Moore, Stein, Ashbery, Creeley,
Antin, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Faulkner, Ellison, Barnes, Bowles, Paley,
Morrison, and Silko.
BIS 482 Problems in Interdisciplinary Science (5, max. 10)
Examines
contemporary issues such as genetic engineering, acid rain and
artificial intelligence through integrated perspectives from the
physical, life, and mathematical sciences. Uses appropriate methods of
analysis and evaluation that draw upon science, the social sciences,
and the humanities.
BIS 486 Studies in Women and Literature (5, max. 10) VLPA
Advanced
study concentrating on individual or a group of related women writers
with attention to such subjects as women and language, feminist
literary criticism, and canon formation.
Instructor Course Description:
Melanie K Kill
BIS 487 Topics in American Literature (5, max. 10) VLPA
Advanced
study in American literature concentrating on individual writers,
literary movements, specific critical approaches to literature, or
literary canons and their critics.
BIS 488 Topics in British Literature (5, max. 10) VLPA
Advanced
study of significant authors, issues and movements in English
literature. Topics include Shakespeare and the idea of tragedy,
Virginia Woolf as artist and cultural critic, and canon formation and
the Romantic movement.
Instructor Course Description:
Cheryl J Carvajal
BIS 490 Senior Seminar (5, max. 10)
Study of special topics in interdisciplinary arts and sciences.
Instructor Course Description:
Leslie Ashbaugh
Constantin M. Behler
Colin Danby
David Steven Goldstein
Diane Gillespie
Gray M Kochhar-Lindgren
Jeanne D. Heuving
Kari A Lerum
Linda S Watts
Michael L. Gillespie
Rubye Elizabeth Thomas
Ronald Stanley Krabill
William R Seaburg
Robert Farkasch
BIS 492 Senior Thesis (5-5, max. 10)
A
significant independent research project planned and carried out by the
student under the direction of two or more faculty on a significant
scholarly topic selected by the student in consultation with thesis
advisor.
BIS 493 Special Topics (3-5, max. 15)
Advanced
course offerings designed to respond to faculty and student interests
and needs. Topics include French Impressionism, social movements in
late nineteenth-century Japan, international business and the changing
European economic structure.
Instructor Course Description:
Leslie Ashbaugh
Deborah Caplow
David H. Kleit
Genevieve E Mc Coy
Gray M Kochhar-Lindgren
Jane E. Decker
John Eric Stewart
Kanta A Kochhar
Kari A Lerum
Linda S Watts
Nives Dolsak
Rubye Elizabeth Thomas
Ronald Stanley Krabill
William R Seaburg
Shauna Carlisle
BIS 494 Task Force (3-5, max. 15)
BIS 495 Internship (1-5, max. 5)
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce Burgett
Kari A Lerum
BIS 498 Undergraduate Research (1-5, max. 15)
Individual advanced research on topics conducted under the direction of one or more instructors.
BISSKL 302 Team Building (2)
Introduces
a theoretical and experiential understanding of team development,
consensus decision-making, sharing values, diversity, facilitation,
conflict resolution, and dialogue. Theory is based on emerging views of
teams and organizations as self-organizing systems.
Instructor Course Description:
Lynne M Baab
BISSKL 375 Academic Research and Writing Seminar (2)
Using
a research project from another course students refine writing skills
and expand skills in accessing, identifying, and critically evaluating
information. Must be concurrently enrolled in another IAS course.
Instructor Course Description:
Rebecca Reed Rosenberg
BISSKL 377 Quantitative Reasoning (2, max. 4)
Strengthens
quantitative reasoning and develops problem solving and critical
thinking skills through studying mathematics that can be used in
everyday lives and careers.
Instructor Course Description:
Cinnamon Hillyard
BISSKL 400 Policy Journal Editorial Board (2, max. 10)
Students
nominated by faculty may participate on the editorial board of the
Policy Journal. Board members are responsible for managing the content
and production of the Policy Journal with is produced at least once per
year, with the possibility of additional volumes if sufficient numbers
of quality submissions are received. Credit/no credit only.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel F. Jacoby
BISSKL 401 Literary Journal Editorial Board (2, max. 8)
Provides
opportunity to learn about publishing a literary journal by publishing
the UWB Literary Journal. Students gain skills in communication,
assessing and editing literary texts, layout design, technology for
creating and disseminating multi-media work, project management, and
teamwork. Credit/no credit only.
Instructor Course Description:
Rebecca Reed Rosenberg
Jeanne D. Heuving
BPOLST 492 Topics in Policy Research (3-5, max. 10)
Explores
topics in policy research to prepare students planning to enter a
graduate level policy program. Topics may include: quantitative
research methods, qualitative research methods, or research writing for
the social sciences.
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce E. Kochis
BPOLST 500 Policy Process (5)
Focuses
on political and institutional aspects of public policy processes.
Examines rationales for public policy and the processes in which they
are articulated and negotiated; formulation of policies; selection of
policy instruments; and policy implementation. Offered: A.
BPOLST 501 Public Finance and Budgeting (5) Jacoby
Analysis
of government expenditures and revenues. Uses economic theory to
examine key pubic policies in areas such as health, education, and
labor. Emphasizes policy rationales and impacts regarding efficiency
and equity. Develops accounting concepts necessary for budgeting
analysis. Prerequisite: Microeconomics. Offered: Sp.
BPOLST 502 Statistics for Policy Studies (5)
Surveys
important aspects of social science research for academic and practical
investigation. Focuses on gaining an understanding of research and
statistical analyses and their relationship to policy concerns.
Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.7 in BPOLST 500. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Anne F. Peterson
BPOLST 503 Policy Analysis (5)
Focuses
on methods and approaches used in policy analysis and program
evaluation. Examines and applies interdisciplinary approached and
methods for evaluating policy impacts and outcomes, including
cost-benefit analysis, randomized field experiments, quasi-experimental
assessment, and participatory assessment. Examines the role of policy
analysis in democratic governance. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Nives Dolsak
BPOLST 504 Management and Organizations (5)
Addresses
how organizational cultures, processes, and resources create and limit
policy options in local, state, and national context. Examines how an
organization's strategies, perspectives, and patterns of resource
management shape organizational responses to a variety of policy issues
and problems. Prerequisite: minimum grade of 2.7 in BPOLST 500, BPOLST
502, and BPOLST 503.
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce E. Kochis
BPOLST 505 Leadership and Organizations (5) Decker, Kochis
Explores
the human interactional dimension of organizational culture, behavior,
and outcomes. Special attention is devoted to how individual and group
dynamics frame the options open to leaders, managers, and employees in
public, private, and non-profit organizations, and how leaders and
managers shape the culture and behavior of organizations. Offered: W.
BPOLST 506 Capstone Research (5-)
Depending
of work experience, participate in an internship or field research in a
private, public, or non-profit organization to investigate a policy
problem. Conduct primary or secondary research, collecting data, and
selecting theoretical perspectives. Represents the first stage of the
Capstone project. Offered: A.
BPOLST 508 Capstone Project (-5)
Based
on data collected form their primary or secondary research
internship/field research, write a capstone paper which frames project
conceptual issues, its research findings, and produces a critical
analysis of a policy issue. Represents the second stage of the Capstone
project.
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce E. Kochis
BPOLST 520 Policy Internship (2-5, max. 10)
Student
arranged internship with a local organization or agency that
incorporates a "field-based" component into their learning. Includes a
policy project that benefits the organization and has academic merit.
Offered: AWSpS.
BPOLST 571 Policy Ethics (5) Kochis
Examines
the complex relationships between policy and ethics. These
relationships are grounded in moral and political theories about the
behavior of state and non-state actors. Offered: AWSp.
BPOLST 580 Study Abroad (5-15, max. 15)
Combines
study at UW Bothell with seminars and field trips organized by the
faculties of host institutions. Topics include politics, political
economy, public policy, human rights, environment, health, education
and labor.
BPOLST 581 Issues in Human Rights Policy (5, max. 10)
Explores
the theories and practices of implementing the international human
rights regime as government policy. Students engage in issues of
normativity in policy formation and the pathways by which certain norms
become domestic and global standards.
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce E. Kochis
BPOLST 582 Issues in Technology Policy (5, max. 10)
Explores
how science and technology contribute to economic growth and human
development, and how political processes shape and manage that impact.
Examines historical and contemporary issues.
Instructor Course Description:
Steven W. Collins
BPOLST 583 Issues in Environmental Policy (5, max. 10)
Analyzes current policy issues in the complex and every changing arena of environmental policy.
Instructor Course Description:
Nives Dolsak
BPOLST 584 Issues in Labor and Human Resources (5, max. 10) Jacoby
Examines issues in the changing arena of labor and human resource policy.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel F. Jacoby
BPOLST 585 Issues in Health Policy (5, max. 10)
Examines
relevant current issues in the changing arena of health policy
including managed care, public health and safety, and the ethical
dimensions of medical research and practice.
BPOLST 586 Issues in Education Policy (5, max. 10)
Examines issues in education policy in local and global contexts.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel F. Jacoby
George Thomas Bellamy
BPOLST 587 Issues in Cultural Policy (5, max. 10)
Addresses
faculty and student interests in the changing arena of cultural policy.
Analyzes relevant current issues in cultural policy including the role
of government, business, and civil society in arts and culture policy.
Instructor Course Description:
Jane E. Decker
BPOLST 591 Policy Studies Research Colloquium (1-2, max. 6)
Policy
researchers and practitioner experts present topics and/or research
projects in a variety of policy fields. Discussion regarding the
research and its broader implications to theory and/or practice follows
the presentation. Credit/no credit only.
BPOLST 592 Topics in Policy Research (3-5, max. 10)
Develops
advanced technical skills in policy research methods. Topics may
include various qualitative and quantitative methods of research.
Instructor Course Description:
Diane Gillespie
Daniel F. Jacoby
Rubye Elizabeth Thomas
BPOLST 593 Topics in Policy Studies (3-5, max. 10)
Examines
the changing arena of policy. Topics are relevant to current issues and
may include the following: policy and gender; transportation policy in
Puget Sound; policies of aging; and environmental policy.
Instructor Course Description:
Anne F. Peterson
Daniel F. Jacoby
Jane E. Decker
Shauna Carlisle
BPOLST 594 Research Design (5) Dolsak
Provides
grounding in research designs, such as experimental, longitudinal,
cross-sectional, case-study, and action research design. Helps
professionals design and evaluate research proposals and be astute
consumers of published research. Develops research proposals that can
be submitted for institutional review at UW. Offered: Sp.
BPOLST 598 Directed Research (1-5, max. 15)
Individual advanced research on policy topics conducted under the direction of one or more instructors.
