2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENG 2300 - Memoir Writing: Writing from Inside Out
The craft of personal writing turns the messy and elusive facts of our life experience to compelling account. Our memories can be not merely “reduced” to writing but enlarged by it-we don’t just write what we know; we write to find out what we know. We try to elicit and shape the vivid details of our life stories and see what coherence, resonance, and even self-discovery emerge. Through writing assignments and selected readings, we seek in this workshop to discern what makes certain writing fresh, intimate, provocative, graceful, funny, poignant or otherwise effective. Work is read aloud, in a congenial setting, with a focus on voice, pace, compression, metaphor, dialogue, point of entry, word choice, and other elements. We explore what it is we like about certain work, how the work might be improved, and what challenges the author may have faced in the process of composition. Pre-requisite: A composition course.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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ENG 2310 - Topics in Journalism Offers students an expanded look at various kinds of stories that appear in newspapers, including hard news, features, columns, analysis and reviews. Focus this semester will be on coverage of foreign policy.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 2420 - Modern Monsters: The Serial Killer in Literature and Film The genre of serial killer fiction is a direct descendent of Gothic fiction, with the serial killers as updated models of Gothic villains. Like their Gothic predecessors, fictional serial killers are mythologized, folklorized and, in some cases, supernaturalized. Beginning with Psycho, students will critically analyze serial killer fiction novels and films of the mid-20th century to the present while investigating the following themes: American notions and expressions of individuality; the sociopolitical climate in which the serial killer is defined and the ways in which the narratives criticize this climate; changing notions of gender roles and anxieties therein; sexual anxieties; the expressions of cultural desires; and how myth informs the serial killer narratives.
Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018
Course Designation/Attribute: VE (Summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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ENG 2510 - Beat Generation Literature The beat Generation’s influence on American culture is still evident today, over 50 years after a group of young men- Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others-first met in New York City. These radical writers shook up the literary world with their disregard for traditional literary styles and themes and their blatant rejection of the cultural values of postwar America. We will focus on the following : notions of defiant individuality; alternative conceptions of religion , sexuality, and politics; the glorification of the drug culture and of criminality, and how pop culture factors into texts. Among the work studied in this class are Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and William S. Burrough’s Naked Lunch.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 2520 - Modern Irish Literature An introduction to the major authors of Irish Literature during the early 20th century (known in part as the Irish Literary Revival.) In addition to analyzing texts in a general context. we will focus on how texts and authors represent Ireland’s past, present, and future in relation to Ireland’s status in the period. Discussion topics will include Ireland’s relationship with England, historical events, gender, Irish mythology and folklore, and Irish nationalism. Authors to be discussed include, not not limited to: George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, James Joyce, and Sean O’Casey.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 2590 - Voices of Protest “We the People” have lived up to our responsibilities per the U.S. Constitution’s Preamble to “establish Justice,…promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” When we feel these goals are being threatened, we protest. This course will focus on people who have protested and have helped start grassroots movements. This study will help us understand how pertinent legal, social, and economic policies have been shaped and influenced by common people, and how current perceived injustices might be approached.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 2680 - The American Dream What is the “American Dream”? Has it changed through the years? Whose dream is it? Is it dead or alive in 2014? How does it function in American society? Does it help individuals succeed? How is it connected with immigration? We’ll study the American Dream in literature, film, and other arts (photography, painting, music).
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 2770 - 21st Century Ethnic American Literature Our focus in this course is a study of ethnic American literature from the 21st century. Each week is broken down into a theme: Home, Heritage, Language, Crossing, and Americans. Through these lenses, students will investigate readings by Asian American, African American, Native American, and Hispanic American authors. With the weekly writing assignments, students will develop their ideas about the literature, forming critical analyses of the works. By the end of this course, students will not only be more well read in the ethnic American literature canon, but they will also be well-versed in the important political, social, and historical contexts of those works. As this is a course that will emphasize the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, and class, students will also be able to recognize and articulate trends in contemporary literature, politics, media, and society that exist in American literature.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENG 2800 - Virginia Woolf Fueled by creative genius and mental instability, the writing of Virginia Woolf was cutting edge in the 1920s and ‘30s and remains stimulating to this day. Woolf’s profound influence on modernism and on literary and social criticism make her a significant force in Western literature. Woolf’s writing was devoted to the examination of women’s place in modern society and the nature of women’s desire. Focusing on individual women’s lives, her writing investigates the complexities of personal identity, the fluidity of gender and sexuality and women’s need for artistic and intellectual expression as well as psychological and financial independence. Deeply introspective, Woolf kept extensive personal diaries, which we will study in addition to her fiction and nonfiction.
Prerequisites: Intermediate Composition.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ENT 105 - Creating a Culture of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
This course explores the basic phases of entrepreneurship and innovation - identification, ideation and implementation. Students will identify a problem, ideate solutions to the problem, and implement the solution, which will bring about change. Students will gain a greater understanding of, and appreciation for, entrepreneurship and innovation by the act of doing. Entrepreneurship and innovation concepts presented in this course are supportive of intrinsically motivated issues, while helping others, the understanding of ones own constraints and resources, and the importance of self-awareness. This course is typically taught as a first-year intensive for incoming students in the fall semester, and for ENT elective credit in the spring. This course can be used as an elective course as found in Exploring Entrepreneurship (electives). It is also approved for a Values Perspective (VP) in support of the program of liberal studies requirements.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every semster
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ENT 115 - Entrepreneurship: Art of the New Successful entrepreneurship begins with a vision. Like an artist, the entrepreneur must be able to translate creative vision into something tangible and real. This course focuses on the foundations of entrepreneurship and is appropriate for students from any major. It is designed to introduce students to the entrepreneurial process so that they may begin to shape their own entrepreneurial vision. Course objectives include a realistic preview of the challenges of entrepreneurship, an understanding of the legal and ethical environment within which entrepreneurs operate, the skills to think critically and work toward the ability to evaluate opportunities in the business or nonprofit sectors. This is a course includes experiential entrepreneurship-related activities where students work individually to test ideas and practice entrepreneurship. The course will also include self-assessment activities designed to help students assess their own entrepreneurial potential. This course is the prerequisite for many ENT elective courses.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every semester
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ENT 202 - Entrepreneurial Marketing and Communications
The goal of this course is to explore the application of marketing and communication techniques in student-owned, or managed, entrepreneurial ventures, as well as collaborating with community entrepreneurs, to develop effective marketing and communication campaigns. This course practices and develops application based skills using current marketing and communication methods and platforms. Student will create and communicate a compelling vision of their entrepreneurial venture through the use of digital and traditional marketing platforms. Entrepreneurs must be able to effectively communicate their venture to a wide variety of audiences through a wide array of platforms. Through intensive classroom work, role playing, and real-world applications, students will explore and participate in sales, marketing and promotional activities as they relate to communicating entrepreneurial goals.
Prerequisites: ENT 115 or MGMT 100
Course Designation/Attribute: POP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered in the spring
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ENT 203 - Art of the Pitch Successful entrepreneurship is successful pitching. Whether you are soliciting support of a social cause, selling yourself in a job interview, or actively searching for backing of your business venture, you are pitching. This course is designed to introduce students, from all majors and minors, to the art of effective communication and public speaking to convey passions and interests, with emphasis on elevator pitches, presentations with props, video and recording, and TedTalks.
Course Designation/Attribute: VE, POP
Anticipated Terms Offered: every semester
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ENT 205 - Innovating in Organizations
Organizational innovation is the implementation of a new idea, object, or practice that is created within the realm of employment for the good of self and the organization. Organizations must innovate to maintain a competitive edge in a fast-paced, technology-driven, global economy. Innovating thinking skills are in high demand by today’s employers. This course is designed to help students expand their divergent thinking skills to apply within an organization.
This is a .5 unit course and is also repeatable (up to two times).
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 or ENT 115.
Course Designation/Attribute: POP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically, Spring preferred
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ENT 211 - Creating a Movement Successful implementation of change, whether it is entrepreneurship (as in the adoption of a new product or service), or social innovation (people coming together to make a positive impact) involves having people join and support you towards a common goal, or movement. This course is designed to develop your understanding of the decision-making process involved when people decide to buy a product or join a movement. This problem-based course allows you, the student, to bridge the theory/practice divide by developing real solutions, which are tested using the following tools; empathy mapping, customer adopting behavior, and interview guide.
Anticipated Terms Offered: fall
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ENT 212 - Marketing to You This course will familiarize students with strategies and practices in the ever-changing field of marketing to young consumers from middle school to graduate school. Some of the best known brands are laser focused on resonating and relating to this young generation. This generation influences around a quarter of all purchases in the US. This course will utilize lectures and spirited discussions, guest lectures, group and individual presentations to the class.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Module A in spring
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ENT 216 - Financial Intelligence This course is an introduction to financial matters that affect the individual and the entrepreneur. Students will learn the importance of making informed financial decisions when planning for the future. Using this foundation, students will leave the course with the ability to make financially intelligent and informed decisions about personal and organizational finances through the continued development of a student identified business venture. Additional topics and skills covered - financial statements, Excel, QuickBooks, and other financial and budgeting software.
Course Designation/Attribute: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall
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ENT 245 - Social Entrepreneurship ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ explores the relationship between the social issues confronting our global community and the use of business creation to stimulate ( “creatively disrupt”) local and world change. This course challenges the student to look beyond well-established business objectives - the creation of wealth - and investigate how wealth creation can impact public good. A review of global social entrepreneurial initiatives is an important focus of the course. Students consider such diverse social issues as environmental degradation, poverty, homelessness, lack of potable water, world health and education concerns, microcredit and more.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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ENT 250 - Entrepreneurial Mentoring This course is designed as a self-directed course for undergraduate students who are interested in volunteering to serve as mentors for high school students working on business plans. As a college mentor, your “classroom” will be at the designated high school. Travel to New York City and high schools in the Worcester area is necessary depending on who the partner schools are in a given semester. This is a repeatable, quarter-unit course for a maximum of 1 unit and graded as Pass/Fail.
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 and ENT 115 .
Anticipated Terms Offered: periodically
Placement Guidelines Students must receive permission from the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager to take this course.
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ENT 262 - Global International ELab This course will take place during Module 2 of the fall semester, with travel to Sierra Leone & Ghana in early January. This course is designed for students with an entrepreneurial spirit and interest in understanding and examining social entrepreneurship outside of the United States. This course will prepare students to apply, compare, contrast and examine business models from a global and international perspective. This course will require students to use problem solving, creative thinking and critical inquiry to examine international entrepreneurial opportunities around topics such as markets, competition, power and political considerations, social and cultural dynamics, ethical dilemmas, resources, sustainability and feasibility. Students will travel to another country and have direct interaction with entrepreneurs and small business owners in that country.
This course is offered during Module 2 of fall semester, and will continue into January with travel to Sierra Leone & Ghana. Anticipated travel dates are: January 2-11th, 2020.
Additional fees for travel apply to this course!
Prerequisites: ENT 115 and ENT 245
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall Semester
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ENT 264 - Community-Based Entrepreneurship This course provides an opportunity for students to expand their creativity and community entrepreneurship by consulting and mentoring primarily Main South , as well as, in Worcestersmall businesses. Students will partner with local businesses or organizations to develop the venture that supports ongoing operations, by using skills gained while pursuing a minor in Entrepreneurship. Students will collaborate over the course of the semester with their partner organization to deliver ongoing instruction and mentoring for business development. This course is an excellent opportunity to build a stronger community by linking students with local organizations and small businesses in a collaborative process to help grow Worcester and Main South business. You will directly work with Main South small businesses. This course is offered periodically and students can receive entrepreneurship minor capstone credit upon successful completion.
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 and ENT 115
Course Designation/Attribute: POP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring 2016/ Periodically
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ENT 265 - Entrepreneurial Experience
Every student who elects the minor is expected to complete a culminating experience as part of their coursework. This course is designed to be an incubator or collective workspace to continue to grow and develop your business venture that you have worked on throughout your minor. This element of the program allows students to demonstrate synthesis and mastery of learning outcomes from the ENT minor program such as idea generation, collaboration, implementation, market testing, marketing, primary and secondary customer and product research, market analysis, and customer engagement.
Prerequisites: MGMT 100 , ENT 115 and progress in required Exploring/electives courses.
Course Designation/Attribute: POP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall Semester or Every Semester depending enrollment projections
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ENT 299 - Directed Study Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Students should contact faculty member directly to discuss title.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall and Spring
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ES 1210 - Journey to Sustainability “Journey to Sustainability” is designed for people interested in learning about the concept of sustainability and why sustainability is important for human survival. Simply put, is sustainability still possible, given that seven billion people are living on the planet? While this question may seem scary, the main goal of this course is to leave you with a feeling of hope for our environmental future. We will begin with a basic background in ecology and Earth’s systems. This background will provide the tools needed in order to develop one’s own conclusions when learning about current issues in environmental science. The second part of this course will focus on current environmental issues, which are mostly a result of humans using natural resources unsustainably. Issues studied will include climate change, overfishing, pollution, and energy. The last part of this course will focus on creating individual sustainability goals and assessing the current state of the planet.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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ES 1240 - Our World, Our Future: THe Philosophy and Politics of Sustainabliltiy We live in a world that is slowly coming to terms with its own limitations. Whether in scientific journals, or in the daily news, the future looks pretty bleak. We constantly hear about the environmental crisis, the climate crisis, the ecological apocalypse and the energy crisis. While we are plagued by crises, questions about our common future have once again gained immense political currency and popular traction. In such a time, it becomes important to ask ourselves questions about sustainability so that we can act in ways that remediate our current crises, and offer alternatives to prevent them in the future. In this course, we start to do so by first exploring the concept of sustainability as it is understood in various philosophical traditions. We then explore the politics of sustainability in the context of various environmental issues to understand why sustainability is such a pressing issue by looking at the consequences of various unsustainable practices and actions. These issues range from global climate change, mining, pollution and waste, to energy and food systems. In the final part of the course, students will develop their own toolkit for sustainable living, connecting their individual lives with larger systemic conditions.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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ES 1970 - Sustainability and the Sacred Indigenous cultures relied on three basic concepts to live sustainably: community, exchange and relationship. In this course we will experience and explore these three concepts. The interconnectedness of all life - the sacred - is the “technology” which lay at the heart of all indigenous cultures. It is all available to each of us still. Connecting to the plants, the animal kingdom, and one another as equals bring the tools we need to embrace earth changes and all that the future holds. Through this course you will be empowered to engage with Sustainability on your own terms. Please be advised that some class meetings will take place outdoors.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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ES 2000 - Exploring Nature of Central Massachusetts In this practical, hands-on course, you will learn how to identify common animals that live in a variety of ecosystems, discover edible wild plants are more widespread than you think, and experience exciting outdoor activities such as map & compass navigation, canoeing, and fishing. Explore the natural beauty of Central Massachusetts hidden within suburbs just minutes outside of Worcester and become familiar with the plants and wildlife that call this region home.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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FILM 1150 - Exploring Hispanic Culture The Hispanic culture is rich and vibrant and we will come to a greater appreciation and understanding of it through an examination of its literature, poetry and films. The films we will view will be both popular and famous in Latin America and Spain and our readings will be from writers, contemporary and historic, that are well known not only in their own country but around the world (Isabel Allende, Vargas llosa, Gracia Lorca, Cervantes, etc.). Through our assignments there will be an opportunity for us to participate in a more in depth study of various aspects of Hispanic culture and traditions. By the end of the semester you will have acquired a greater understanding, interpretation and response to the Hispanic culture.
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FILM 1640 - Chinese Film Studies This class aims to familiarize students with not only the overall history of Chinese cinema but also recent significant filmmakers and their works in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The class will begin with a brief and general survey of Chinese films since the 1920s to the present. As the semester continues our main focus will include films directed by the fifth generation and other important filmmakers in Mainland China as well as award-winning filmmakers in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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FILM 2680 - The American Dream What is the “American Dream”? Has it changed through the years? Whose dream is it? Is it dead or alive in 2014? How does it function in American society? Does it help individuals succeed? How is it connected with immigration? We’ll study the American Dream in literature, film, and other arts (photography, painting, music).
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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FIN 5405 - Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers & Acquisitions is a case-based examination of the factors that contribute to a successful transaction. After establishing why a corporation would entertain a merger or acquisition in the first place, emphasis will be given to candidate selection, valuation, negotiation, post-transaction integration, and satisfying the needs of the many stakeholders involved in a deal. Every class meeting will feature discussion of an assigned case, and students will also engage in team projects in which they research a recent transaction and will participate in mock negotiations. Students will have met the prerequisites prior to enrolling in the course to ensure that they are comfortable with the common tools of finance, especially discounted cash flow analysis.
Prerequisites: ACCT 4100 OR ACCT 4101 and FIN 4200 , OR FIN 5401 .
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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FIN 5408 - Risk Management This course will provide an understanding and application of quantitative (Financial) and qualitative (Enterprise) methods of analyzing and managing risk within organizations. Learn to apply multiple risk management tools to make high quality decisions for balancing corporate risk and reward tradeoffs. Financial risk topics will include the examination of derivative application uses for hedging risk, measuring Value at Risk and exploring external impacts such as market, credit and systemic risks. Enterprise risk topics will include constructing frameworks for managing strategic, operational and other business risks. Students will examine ways to assess and measure risk along with organizing corporate governance policies.
Prerequisites: FIN 4200 OR FIN 5401
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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FIN 5900 - Special Topics in Finance Each year, the School of Management offers courses under the “special topics” category. These courses are often different each semester and can be either .5 or one unit courses.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites vary depending on the course.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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FIN 5910 - Directed Research For a directed research course, a student and professor design a self-study course based around a common research interest shared by both. A directed research must be approved by the professor and the Associate Dean of GSOM. It can be designed as either a 0.5 unit or 1 unit course. For questions or additional information, contact your academic advisor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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FREN 103 - Elementary French Intensive An accelerated elementary course, intended for students who have had no more than one year of high school French or the equivalent. Focuses on communicative proficiency through the development of basic oral and written skills; self-expression and cultural insight are also cultivated. Course meets three days per week. Students must also register for a weekly discussion section with a French teaching assistant.
Prerequisites: 0-1 years of French, or equivalent. Permission required.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall semester; some Spring semesters
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 105 - Intermediate French I For students with 2 to 3 years of French. Consolidates basic skills for students who have completed FREN 103 or the equivalent. Emphasizes communicative proficiency: the development of oral and written skills, self-expression and cultural insight. There is a weekly discussion section with a French teaching assistant.
Prerequisites: FREN 103 or equivalent, or permission.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every semester
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 106 - Intermediate French II For students with 4 to 5 years of French. Builds on skills and knowledge gained at Intermediate I level. Continued emphasis on communicative proficiency: the development of oral and written skills through study of grammar, vocabulary, short texts. Greater emphasis on self-expression, interpersonal communication, cultural competency. There is a weekly discussion section with a French teaching assistant.
Prerequisites: FREN 105 or equivalent, or permission.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every semester
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 124 - Popular Culture in France For students with 4 to 5 years of French or AP credit. An exploration of the multiple manifestations and transformation of French popular culture, from the 1940s to today, as disseminated in film, music, the media, cartoons, bande dessinée and popular literature. Examines aspects of French culture such as youth culture, slang, sports, food and humor, and the common portrayal of topics such as family, love, foreigners and other social issues in the media.
Prerequisites: FREN 106 or equivalent; AP French language; or permission.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 132 - Readings in Francophone Literature Introduces analysis and understanding of francophone literature and their visions of the world and of the self. Readings include a wide range of complete texts across the genres, with an emphasis on works from French-speaking countries outside Europe. The focus of the course may vary from year to year. We may examine a theme encountered in literature across the francophone world, or study a variety of literary works from one specific region.
Prerequisites: FREN 120 , FREN 124 or above, or permission. Fulfills the Literature Requirement for majors.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 137 - Studies in Contemporary French Culture Addresses questions of cultural identity and cultural differences, with particular attention to France and foreigners, Franco-American (dis)connections and issues of immigration.
Prerequisites: FREN 120 , FREN 124 or above, or permission. Fulfills the Culture Requirement for majors.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 140 - Francophone Writing and Film Offering an overview of the French-speaking world that spans from South East Asia to the Caribbean, North and sub-Saharan Africa, and North America, this course celebrates the diversity of francophone cultures through literature and film. It also seeks to examine and interrogate the ties of these former colonies with France and Belgium, the paths they have followed since independence, and their current socio-economic and political situation.
Prerequisites: FREN 120 , FREN 124 or above, or permission. Fulfills the Culture Requirement for majors.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 144 - French Societies Through Film This course analyzes Francophone societies and discusses specific social issues of contemporary Francophone countries through their representation in cinema. One of the ongoing themes will be the distinction between cinematic representation of Francophone societies and the social reality. The focus of the course may vary from year to year. The course may take a look across the Francophone world or focus on a specific country or region, it may adopt a thematic approach, it may take a historical approach outlining key historical moments that have shaped Francophone societies into what they are today, or it may examine the dominant values and institutions in the Francophone world.
Prerequisites: FREN 120 , FREN 124 or above, or permission.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 146 - Advanced Oral Expression - Lecture/Discussion This course is designed to help students improve their fluency in French. A variety of materials including films, newspaper articles, current events and literary texts will be used to help students perfect pronunciation and intonation, communicate opinions and engage in debate. Other topics may include phonetics, levels of discourse, public speaking, and dramatic interpretation.
Prerequisites: FREN 120 , FREN 124 or above.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 164 - Haiti and the French Antilles This course examines the societies, cultures and literatures of Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guyana. It begins by tracing the history of the area, including the consequences of the Haitian Revolution in the Caribbean. The course then goes on to explore the cultures of the region, notably the cultural links with both ancestral Africa and France, the status of the Creole language, Haitian vodun, Haitian visual arts, and French Antillean carnival practices. Other topics discussed include gender relations, emigration and diaspora, Haiti’s political trajectory since independence, and the political status of the French Caribbean territories.
Prerequisites: FREN 131 or above, or permission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 165 - Theater Workshop in French A workshop course using scene study to provide direct experience of the theatrical synthesis within which play, actor and spectator operate. Emphasizes vocal delivery through intensive work on diction, phrasing, rhythm and gesture. Explores various approaches to the play’s staging. Typically one playwright is studied and topics of theatrical practice are combined with theoretical issues concerning the social background and artistic conventions of the playwright’s period. Playwrights studied may be: Molière, Marivaux, Ionesco, Beckett.
Prerequisites: FREN 120 or higher, or permission.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 249 - The French-Speaking World In the 21st Century An interdisciplinary analysis of the effects of globalization in French-speaking countries around the world. Through literature, social texts, and fiction film and documentaries we explore such issues as the rise of religious extremism; the Algerian civil war; the problematic role of French language and culture in former French colonies decades after independence; the social, economic and cultural consequences of globalization; the intersection between the local and the global; migration patterns from or within the francophone world; and other contemporary issues which the postcolonial francophone world is facing.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
Placement Guidelines Majors and non-majors welcome. Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 256 - Education in 20th Century French Novel and Film. An exploration of literary and cinematic portrayals of youth with a focus on the role of the school and other sources of learning. Topics include gendered identity, social structures and narrative strategies. Authors may include Colette, Alain-Fournier, Gide, Sagan, Ernaux and Duras. Majors and non-majors welcome.
Prerequisites: FREN 131 or FREN 132 or permission.
Course Designation/Attribute: LP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 297 - Honors This honors program is for language, literature and culture majors only. By November 1 of the capstone semester, faculty will identify qualified senior majors (with a minimum GPA of 3.5) and invite them to submit a proposal for a semester-long honors thesis during the spring of their senior year. Other students who wish to take honors should identify an area of interest during the capstone semester, consult with the capstone professor and/or an appropriate honors adviser, and submit a proposal (by December 1) to the professor they would like to direct the project.*
- Proposals will be approved at the discretion of the individual professor.
- The Department Chair must also approve the project.
- The honors candidate and adviser will decide on a work schedule, but a preliminary draft must be completed by the first week of April.
- The final version is due one week before the last day of classes.
- A second faculty reader will participate in the final evaluation of the honors project.
- An honors project counts as one unit of credit.
*Students graduating early and wishing to do an honors project should see their adviser during the fall of their junior year and get approval for the project from the thesis director and the department chair.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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FREN 299 - Directed Study Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit. May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Language, Literature, and Culture for the language placement guidelines.
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GEOG 016 - Introduction to Economic Geography This course is built on the assumption that we live in a world whose societies, cultures, governments, and environmental relationships are most significantly shaped by the mechanisms and influences of global capitalism. A fuller understanding of the dynamics of the world economy requires that we not isolate them from the political, cultural, social, and ecological contexts through and within which they are situated. Deeper contextual understandings are what economic geographers seek to achieve and this course surveys these perspectives with a focus on the locations and distributions of economic activities and the flows, interconnections, and drivers of uneven development in the global economy. Fulfills the Global Comparison Perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 020 - American Cities: Changing Spaces, Community Places This course examines the history and contemporary processes of urbanization, primarily in the North American context, with particular attention to the geography of these processes, which results in the differentiation of space and the creation of distinct places. The course covers a range of topics relevant to cities, including historical development, governance, social patterns, economics, planning, contemporary problems and the linkages among all of these. We examine the geography of urbanization at several scales, ranging from the development of the North American urban system to the experiences of neighborhoods within cities. A core course in Globalization, Cities and Development in the geography major. Fulfills the Historical Perspective (HP) requirement.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 022 - Why Global Warming Matters I Climate change (global warming)is the single greatest problem facing the planet today. Or is it? In this seminar students will peel away the rhetoric surrounding global climate change, so that they may be able to understand why this issue matters not only to international policy makers but also to individuals and their daily lives. Topics for exploration will focus on the causes and consequences of climate change and justification (and options) for action. The breadth of areas the climate-change issue intersects - including but not limited to politics, economy, ecology, epistemology, ethics - suggests that global warming is a crucial integrating theme for the discipline of geography and, more importantly, the intellectual foundation of a well-rounded student. Fulfills the Values Perspective (VP). Offered periodically as a first year seminar and as a lecture course.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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GEOG 028 - Discover Worcester What is this city of Worcester? Discover it! In this class, we will explore and learn about Worcester using a variety of lenses: field trips, historical accounts and documents, contemporary statistical data, and scholarly analyses of broader US urban trends. We will visit cultural institutions such as the Art Museum, document social life via photography of streets and parks, and learn about the city from local experts. At the end of the course, you will be able to describe and critically assess Worcester in terms of US urban development, institutional and neighborhood resources, and your own experiences of its many landscapes. Fulfills the History Perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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GEOG 050 - Africa Today Sub-Saharan Africa is arguably one of the most poorly understood, misrepresented, and oversimplified regions of the world. This course will apply geographic theories and ideas to the study of Africa with the broad objective of building students’ geographical literacy and their understanding of contemporary issues and circumstances influencing African peoples, communities, cultures, and environments. Through in-depth discussions, debates, and analyses of case-studies detailing challenges and opportunities in the region, students will study Africa’s geography, explore Africans’ everyday lives and their visions for its future, and critically examine the causes for and prospective solutions to economic, political, and social challenges facing the sub-continent today. In doing so, students will confront mainstream stereotypes about African peoples, societies, politics, and economies and will encounter some of the interconnectivities and interdependencies between their lives and those of Africans.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: occasionally
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GEOG 052 - Global Change, Regional Challenges Applies a regional perspective to explore important questions related to our planet and its people including: What are the key challenges facing communities, environments and societies in different regions of the world today? Is the world becoming more culturally homogenous or more fragmented? Why is the global distribution of wealth so uneven and how might poorer regions “catch up” to wealthier regions? How does the physical and human context of a region influence its ability to benefit from globalization? What factors are driving regional conflicts and how might peaceful resolutions be achieved? Focuses on eight regions – Europe, Russia/Central Asia, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and South/Southeast Asia. One or two significant issues will be focused on in each region such as gender equality, human rights, environmental sustainability, political change, economic development, public health, and/or human rights. Fulfills the Global Comparative Perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 075 - Americans and the Environment This first-year intensive, run as a seminar, will immerse students in the study of how Americans have interacted with their environments, ending in the present and looking to the near future. It will focus on key themes, moments, and debates, with a particular emphasis on New England and the Worcester region. Local and regional field trips to key sites will complement the readings. It will encompass aspects of environmental history; the evolution of US environmental law, policy, and social movements; and the role of both the United States as a country, and individual Americans as citizens and consumers, in contemporary environmental politics and interactions
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every other year
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GEOG 080 - Reading the Forested Landscape
This First Year Intensive course will introduce students to the field of forest ecology, the process of scientific inquiry, and New England’s forest ecosystems. Understanding how ecosystems function and change in response to human activities and normal Earth system fluctuations is among the most important contemporary topics. Beyond having inherent scientific value, such knowledge has become integral to national and international policies and practices of ecosystem management. This intensive course will focus on forest ecosystems, which are one of the most important ecosystem types on Earth, and will consider fundamental ideas regarding how forests function, how they change, and how they are studied. As a First Year Intensive, this course will employ dialogical teaching, collaborative learning, and will also support students’ transition to college and the development of foundational skills necessary to succeed.
Course Designation/Attribute: SP
Anticipated Terms Offered: occasionally
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GEOG 087 - Introduction to Environmental Information Science An introduction to fundamental concepts of environmental geographic information science, and a comprehensive survey of the technologies and institutions involved in producing and using geographic data. These include the global positioning system, aerial surveys and photogrammetry, topographic mapping, social surveys such as the U.S. Census, and satellite remote sensing. Overall, this class is a combined introductory class to Geographic Information Science (GISc), cartography and remote sensing. Fulfills the Science Perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: SP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered Periodically
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GEOG 101 - Food Justice and Food Movements In this course we will be examining the meaning of “food justice” and the multiple movements attempting to change the highly destructive existing industrial food system in the US and elsewhere. At the same time, we will be working on the Real Food Challenge at Clark. The Real Food Challenge is a US student-led campaign to shift institutional purchasing toward food that is more humane, worker friendly, environmental sound, and advancing of local economies. In signing the Challenge Clark University committed to having 20% “real food” by 2020. “Real food” consists of food that has certain certifications to qualify it as local, fair, humane, or ecologically sound. This class will incorporate the practical work that goes along with the commitment, working on the real food calculator and raising campus awareness of the Challenge, with learning the intricate world of the global productive system. This means looking through the lens of the Real Food Wheel to examine all of the different facets that make the food system. This means producers, earth, consumers, customers, and earth. The Real Food Wheel will act as the vehicle for explaining the social, cultural, ecological, moral, and economic impacts of the modern food system.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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GEOG 102 - Weather and Climate Understanding controls of weather: insolation, evaporation, wind, and topography; the climates that result; and how they influence human activities. Students are also introduced to fundamentals of scientific inquiry and knowledge with exposure to observational methods, data analysis, and forecasting. Fulfills the Science Perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: SP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 104 - Earth System Science This course introduces the structure and function of the earth system, with a focus on how the Earth system sustains life. Topics include (1) connections among terrestrial surface, oceans, and atmosphere and (2) how these connections create and sustain climates, biomes, and ecosystem services. Fulfills the Science Perspective requirement.
Course Designation/Attribute: SP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year.
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GEOG 106 - Water and the City: A Socio-Hydrology of Worcester and its Environs The course offers a historical and contemporary exploration of the social relationships between our city-region and its water (as lifeline, right, cultural and ecological resource, economic engine, waste, and central to politics, regulation, management and future climate vulnerability and resilience). We draw widely from the academic literature on urban nature, urban development and change, planning, environmental justice, and climate and environmental history, as well as from popular literature and periodicals (newspapers, regional watershed-related blogs and websites, policy briefs). This scholarship is used to establish a foundational framework of urban socio-hydrology. We strongly integrate our academic work with field experiences in Worcester, the Blackstone River Valley and the Central New England region as a living laboratory, in order to witness key moments and features that have shaped regional history as well as current issues in water (and wastewater) management, conservation, and planning. We will undertake visits to sites such as the Clark campus rain garden and public parks and locations throughout Worcester, the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Historical Museum, the Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park and the Millville Lock, regional watershed associations, the Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, The Harvard Forest Fisher Museum and the City of Worcester Water Treatment Plant. These experiences of regional land use, watershed change and urban water management will be threaded through and complement our academic investigation of urban socio-hydrology.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP, POP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 107 - Miracles of Asia: Economic Growth in Global Contexts Explores the reasons behind the rapid rise of Asian economies and their sudden crises. Discussions include the impacts of rapid industrialization on the standard of living, housing, role of the state, multinational corporations, urban problems and ethnic relations in east, southeast and south Asian countries. Examines the role of Japan and the United States in Asia’s industrialization, the impacts of colonialism in socio-economic-political transformation in the Asia-Pacific region, business-government relations in Newly Industrializing Economies, and the recent phenomenal growth of China and India. Fulfills the Global Comparison Perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 110 - Introduction to Quantitative Methods
GEOG110 is an introductory course in applied statistical analysis with emphasis on computer skills. Students gain proficiency in using spreadsheets to organize data and to perform the most common statistical procedures such as univariate analysis, hypothesis testing, estimation of means, regression, and association. Undergraduate students receive credit for a Formal Analysis perspective. Geography majors receive credit for a skills course. Environmental Science majors receive credit for a statistics course. Graduate students receive credit by registering for GEOG311. Prerequisites are high school math such as Algebra 2 and/or pre-calculus.
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Prerequisites are high school math such as Algebra 2 and/or pre-calculus.
Course Designation/Attribute: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered at least once per year
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GEOG 116 - Forest Ecology Understanding how ecosystems function and how they change in response to human activities and normal Earth system fluctuations are important themes in contemporary natural sciences. Beyond having inherent scientific value, such knowledge has become integral to national and international policies and practices of ecosystem management. This course provides a foundation in forest ecology by considering the function, structure, and composition of forest ecosystems. Topics include forest succession, long-term ecological variability, disturbance ecology, ecological resilience, and the influence of climate and environmental heterogeneity on forest patterns and dynamics.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 119 - The Arctic in the Anthropocene The Arctic is currently experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on Earth. The most profound environmental changes that will occur in your lifetime are undoubtedly those resulting from climate warming in the Arctic: loss of Arctic sea ice, melting of glaciers/ice caps/ice sheets, thawing of carbon-rich permafrost, extinction of species, among numerous other impacts. However, what happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic - these changes have far-reaching implications across the planet. For instance, loss of arctic snow and ice exacerbates global climate warming, thawing of arctic permafrost carbon contributes vast quantities of greenhouse gases to the global atmosphere, and the melting of land ice in the Arctic is the largest contributor to expected global sea level rise over the next century. Furthermore, climate warming in the Arctic has significant implications for native communities and subsistence hunting activities, fisheries, oil and gas exploration, and shipping routes. This course focuses on understanding the Arctic as a system, including land-atmosphere-ocean-ice-human interactions. Topics include arctic hydrology, climatology, biogeochemical cycling, permafrost, glacier/ice sheet dynamics, terrestrial and marine ecology, sea ice, physical oceanography, and human-environment interactions.
Course Designation/Attribute: SP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 126 - Living in the Material World: The Political Geography of Resource Development Focuses on consumption and production systems that determine the development, allocation and use of natural resources like water, minerals, trees and animals. Emphasizes approaches used by geographers to study natural resources (e.g., commodity chains, geopolitical analysis, ecological footprints). Case studies provide an opportunity to examine differences between societies (or economies) and between specific resource issues. Oil and gas in the Middle East and the Caspian, water in the western United States, Israel or India; gold in Tanzania, the United States and South Africa; and animal use in India, Great Britain and China are some examples of typical cases. Fulfills the Global Comparison Perspective.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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GEOG 136 - Gender and Environment Explores the gendered nature of environments we inhabit, represent, and transform through everyday practices, as well as the gendered power relations implicated in the politics of resource access, use, and control at the local and the global level. Spans a number of interrelated themes, including feminist environmentalism, ecofeminism, feminist political ecological concerns on food, water, the body, and human-animal relations, masculine environments, queer ecologies, and environmental and gender justice movements. Combines lectures, discussions, films, student presentations, and group debates.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP, DI
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 152 - Geographies of Globalization An introduction to the study of globalization and geographical variations in its impacts. Examines the issues of development, income disparity across regions and nations, the emergence of multinational corporations, the impacts of government policy and the role of information technologies in globalization.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall 2016
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GEOG 157 - Psychogeography and Cultural Spaces
Human are forever inscribing themselves in the landscape; whether it be particular architectural forms or certain crop formations, the result is a complex palimpsest that records social life. Cultural geographies have unpicked this record, studying how and why grandiose monuments signify social status and, conversely, why other groups have been resigned to a ghostly presence. And yet these complex and intriguing geographies too often become buried underneath daily routines and multimedia bombardment. Psychogeographers look to reignite our awareness and engagement with the human environment; as one of its founders stated, psychogeography is “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals”. This course continues on in this tradition. It does not simply look to engage with questions of how to identify and examine cultural geographies, rather it enlists students in an attempt to interact with the shaping of landscapes; recognizing how daily routines make our world and how critical understandings of cultural geographies can help effect social change. After an introduction to the psychogeographical and cultural geography literatures, students will engage in their own urban explorations and interactions; navigating Worcester via Berlin, partaking in “urban drifting” and constructing their own “detourements”. The course will therefore provide a foundation in cultural geography and connect classroom to outside world through the practice of psychogeography. Fulfills the Values Perspective (VP) requirement.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 0170 - Environment and Society Relationships between human societies and the natural environment are central to the discipline of geography. Geography 017 introduces students to these relationships and to the analysis of them, integrating perspectives from the natural and social sciences. We examine questions such as: how do environments shape societies; how do societies transform environments; are there environmental limits to economic growth; how does culture shape our relationships with our environments; and what sorts of human-environment relationships are sustainable and just? We examine these questions at many different geographic and temporal scales: from pre-history up to the present, from very local cases to the entire planet, and from pre-industrial or rural landscapes to suburban and urban ones. Cases and discussions will span the entire globe, but will include examples from the Americas, the United States, and New England in order to ground our discussions in the places we know best.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP (summer only)
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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GEOG 172 - City Planet: Urban Challenges in a Globalized World We now live on a City Planet: the majority of the world’s population are ‘urbanite’ and their numbers continue to grow. Yet this symbolic tipping point in human settlement comes with significant challenges. Most people within this urban majority live in ‘slums’, with many of the economic and cultural opportunities associated with cities in western thought being pure fantasy in the face of daily struggles for survival. Furthermore, given cities are the primary emitters of greenhouse gases, all urban dwellers are united, if not equally, in being responsible for climate change and its potential mediation. This course examines the emergence of a City Planet through: an examination of the ways in which geographers have understood cities and their relationships in an era of globalization; the tracing of global urban relations with respect to capital, labor, communications and culture; and the consideration to two of the major challenges currently faced: growing social inequalities and mounting sustainability requirements. A core course in Globalization, Cities and Development in the geography major. Fulfills the Global Comparative (GP) requirement.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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GEOG 179 - Global and Local Environmental Justice Integrates ecology, culture and political economy from local to global scale through case studies. Starts from a view of people in environmental “hot spots,” following links to world economy and planetary ecosystems. Explores connections of international environmental, economic and social policy with everyday realities and possible futures of people from the Amazon rain forest to the streets of Worcester. Fulfills the Values Perspective (VP) requirement. Normally offered as lecture/discussion course.
We will offer hands on field research to support local solutions to pollution along the Tatnuck Brook and specifically Coes Pond, as well as a module on local/global food connections and three international case studies of local and global resistance to environmental damage and resource depletion by indigenous peoples, peasants and community organizations from forest and agrarian landscapes to urban neighborhoods.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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GEOG 180 - The Earth Transformed by Human Action Traces the course of human modification and transformation of the earth since antiquity, but with particular emphasis on the last 300 years. The major causes and consequences of these changes are explored from global climate change to the sustainability of life.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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GEOG 186 - Special Topics: Devoted to a specific topic unique for each semester and instructor. FALL 2018 TOPIC: GEOGRAPHIES OF POVERTY & INEQUALITY
The gap between the rich and poor is growing, prompting concerns about what intensifying inequality and poverty might mean for society. This course will provide students with an opportunity to think deeply about the diverse causes, consequences and experiences of inequality and poverty. We will focus primarily on the United States, but we will also look at historical and global examples for context. Throughout the semester, we will move through a series of inquiries to explore how housing, food, transportation, health, the environment, and work and wages are related to course themes. We will use academic articles, maps, videos, short stories, reputable news sources, policy briefs, art and in-class discussion to help us identify and analyze the underlying structural causes and consequences of poverty and inequality so we might envision alternatives.
May be repeateable for credit.
Course Designation/Attribute: VP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Occasionally
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GEOG 190 - Introduction to Geographic Information Science This course introduces Geographic Information Science (GIS) as a powerful mapping and analytical tool. Topics include GISc data structure, map projections, and fundamental GISc techniques for spatial analysis. Laboratory exercises concentrate on applying concepts presented in lectures and incorporate two widely used GISc software packages - IDRISI (created by Clarklabs) and ArcGIS (created by ESRI). These exercises include examples of GISc applications in environmental modeling, socio-demographic change and site suitability analyses. Although the course is computer-intensive, no programming background is required. A formal-analysis course. Counts as skills course or core course in mapping sciences/spatial analysis in geography major.
Course Designation/Attribute: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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