Liberal Arts and Management Program
Bachelor of Arts in Management and Human Organization
Students on Summer 2021, Fall 2021, or Spring 2022 requirements MGTHORGBA
Requirements
The major requires at least 42 credit hours (44 with Additional Requirement), including the requirements listed below.
- MHO Core.
- Communication. One (1) course:
- LAMP-M 201 Arts of Communication
LAMP-M 201 Arts of Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces communication as a core practice in management and the workplace. Students work intensively to develop first simple, then increasingly complex, liberal arts communication competencies for business. These include formal presentations, one-on-one discussions, small-group work, and mediated communications.
- Ways of Knowing. One (1) course:
- LAMP-M 301 Evidence, Analysis, and Ways of Knowing
LAMP-M 301 Evidence, Analysis, and Ways of Knowing
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores how researchers from different disciplines and different methodological traditions frame research questions and use evidence to answer them. Reviews the strengths and weaknesses of each and shows that different kinds of questions lead to different methodological choices. Through an examination of a series of cases about social issues, economic life, and workplace dynamics, students learn that different disciplinary/ methodological perspectives can be brought to bear on the same issue.
- Ethics. One (1) course:
- LAMP-M 302 Ethics and Responsible Management
LAMP-M 302 Ethics and Responsible Management
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Completion of the English composition requirement
- Description
- Addresses the ethical dimensions of management and social responsibilities within the public and private sectors. Examines the legal and regulatory requirements of ethical conduct, including the establishment and use of codes of conduct by various organizations and industry groups. Particular emphasis placed on examining the processes managers may use to confront conflicts that arise in organizational settings between individual values and organizational goals. Evaluates case studies involving alleged breaches of ethical conduct.
- Diversity, Difference, Conflict. One (1) course:
- AAAD-A 355 African American History I
- AAAD-A 356 African American History II
- ANTH-E 344 On The Move Across Asia: Gender, Migration, Mobility
- LAMP-M 303 Business and Inequality in the 21st Century
- HIST-A 355 African American History I
- HIST-A 356 African American History II
- POLS-Y 301 Political Parties and Interest Groups
- POLS-Y 316 Public Opinion and Political Participation
- POLS-Y 353 The Politics of Gender and Sexuality
- PSY-P 304 Social Psychology and Individual Differences
- SOC-S 217 Social Inequality
- SOC-S 230 Society and the Individual
- SOC-S 335 Race and Ethnic Relations
- SOC-S 338 Sociology of Gender
AAAD-A 355 African American History I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of blacks in the United States. Slavery, abolitionism, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction to 1900.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 355 or HIST-A 355.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 356 African American History II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: AAAD-A 355
- Description
- 1900 to the present. Migration north, NAACP, Harlem Renaissance, postwar freedom movement.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 356 or HIST-A 356.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 344 On The Move Across Asia: Gender, Migration, Mobility
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines how changing ideas about gender and family have influenced Asia's economic "miracles." We will study how gender and sexuality have organized mobility and migration across Asia, examining the effects of industrialization, global capitalism, and militarization. Topics include domestic and factory labor, sex work, and human trafficking debates.
LAMP-M 303 Business and Inequality in the 21st Century
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the complex interrelated dynamics of modern wealth production, competition, and inequality, both within organizations and in their social environments. Exposes students to the many different kinds of inequality that are systemic in society and the economy today, and asks them to think about whether inequality is good or bad for business.
HIST-A 355 African American History I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of blacks in the United States. Slavery, abolitionism, Reconstruction, post-Reconstruction to 1900.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 355 or HIST-A 355.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 356 African American History II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of blacks in the United States 1900 to present. Migration north, NAACP, Harlem Renaissance, postwar freedom movement.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 356 or HIST-A 356.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 301 Political Parties and Interest Groups
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Theories of American party activity; behavior of political parties, interest groups, and social movements; membership in groups; organization and structure; evaluation and relationship to the process of representation.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 316 Public Opinion and Political Participation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The nature of public opinion on major domestic and foreign policy issues; mass political ideology; voting behavior and other forms of political participation; political culture; and the impact of public opinion on political systems.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 353 The Politics of Gender and Sexuality
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of how different social, economic, and political practices have influenced the construction of gender and sexuality outside of the United States. Examines the interplay between gender relations and characteristics of public and private institutions.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
PSY-P 304 Social Psychology and Individual Differences
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- PSY-P 101 and PSY-P 102; or PSY-P 155
- Description
- A foundations course illustrating how psychological questions and problems can be addressed from the social, group, and individual differences level of analysis.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of PSY-P 304 or PSY-P 320.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 217 Social Inequality
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Why are income, wealth, and status distributed unequally? Is social inequality good for society? Explores the economic basis of social class, education, and culture; social mobility; social inequality in comparative and historical perspective.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 230 Society and the Individual
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Personality and its development; relationship to culture and communication and to social settings; deviant types.
- Repeatability
- Credit not given for both SOC-H 230 and SOC-S 230.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 335 Race and Ethnic Relations
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Relations between racial and ethnic minority and majority groups; psychological, cultural, and structural theories of prejudice and discrimination; comparative analysis of diverse systems of intergroup relations.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 338 Sociology of Gender
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Sociological perspectives on gender in contemporary societies. Examination of norms regarding gender and how these norms influence and are influenced by individual behavior, group interaction, and social institutions. Topics to be discussed may include family, education, work, media, and other social institutions.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Business Concepts. Both of the following:
- Accounting. One (1) course:
- BUS-A 200
- BUS-A 304 FINANCIAL REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
- BUS-A 306
BUS-A 304 FINANCIAL REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
- Credits
- 3–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- None
- Management. One (1) course:
- BUS-F 300 INTRODUCTORY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
- BUS-J 306 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
BUS-F 300 INTRODUCTORY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
- Credits
- 3–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- None
BUS-J 306 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
- Credits
- 3–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- None
- Accounting. One (1) course:
- Microeconomics. One (1) course:
- ECON-B 251 Fundamentals of Economics for Business I
- ECON-E 251
ECON-B 251 Fundamentals of Economics for Business I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- First course in a two-course sequence that introduces business students to essential economic concepts. Examines the economic notions of cost and gains from trade, determinants of economic growth, consumer and firm behavior in competitive and non-competitive environments, the effects of taxation, externalities, moral hazard and adverse selection, and basic game theory.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ECON-B 251 or ECON-E 251.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Professional Writing. One (1) course:
- ENG-W 231 Professional Writing Skills
- ENG-W 240 Community Service Writing
- ENG-W 321 Advanced Technical Writing
- ENG-W 350 Advanced Expository Writing (only when it includes a service learning component)
ENG-W 231 Professional Writing Skills
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Completion of the English composition requirement
- Description
- Designed to develop research and writing skills requisite for most academic and professional activities. Emphasis on methods of research, organization, and writing techniques useful in preparing reviews, critical bibliographies, research and technical reports, proposals, and papers.
ENG-W 240 Community Service Writing
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Completion of the English composition requirement
- Description
- Integrates service with learning to develop research and writing skills requisite for most academic and professional activities. Students volunteer at a community service agency, write an assignment for public use by the agency, and perform coursework culminating in a research paper on a related social issue.
ENG-W 321 Advanced Technical Writing
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ENG-W 231
- Description
- Offers instruction in preparing technical proposals and reports, with an introduction to the use of graphics.
ENG-W 350 Advanced Expository Writing
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Completion of the English composition requirement
- Description
- Advanced writing course focuses on the interconnected activities of writing and reading, especially the kinds of responding, analyzing, and evaluating that characterize work in many fields in the university. Topics vary from semester to semester.
- Statistics. One (1) course:
- ANTH-A 306 Anthropological Statistics
- CJUS-K 300 Techniques of Data Analysis
- ECON-E 370 Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics
- ECON-S 370 Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics: Honors
- POLS-Y 395 Quantitative Political Analysis
- PSY-K 300 Statistical Techniques
- PSY-K 310 Statistical Techniques
- SOC-S 371 Statistics in Sociology
- STAT-K 310 Statistical Techniques
- STAT-S 300 Introduction to Applied Statistical Methods
- STAT-S 301 Applied Statistical Methods for Business
ANTH-A 306 Anthropological Statistics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Fundamentals of univariate and bivariate statistics, construction and interpretation of graphs, and computer-assisted data analysis. Both statistical methodology and theory will be emphasized as well as computer literacy. Students will examine the primary literature in all branches of anthropology to familiarize themselves with the role of statistics in anthropological research.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
CJUS-K 300 Techniques of Data Analysis
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: To be successful in this course, students should have an understanding of basic algebra.
- Description
- CJUS-K 300 covers the properties of single variables, the measurement of association between pairs of variables, and statistical inference. Additional topics, such as the analyses of qualitative and aggregated data, address specific criminal justice concerns.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
ECON-E 370 Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- MATH-M 118, MATH-S 118, or MATH-V 118
- Notes
- R: ECON-E 252 or ECON-B 252 and MATH-M 119
- Description
- Lectures emphasize the use of basic probability concepts and statistical theory in the estimation and testing of single parameter and multivariate relationships. In computer labs, using Microsoft Excel, each student calculates descriptive statistics, probabilities, and least squares regression coefficients in situations based on current business and economic events.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
ECON-S 370 Statistical Analysis for Business and Economics: Honors
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- MATH-M 118, MATH-S 118, or MATH-V 118; and Hutton Honors student
- Notes
- R: MATH-M 119 and ECON-E 252 or ECON-B 252
- Description
- Honors course. Designed for students of superior ability. Covers same core material as ECON-E 370.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
POLS-Y 395 Quantitative Political Analysis
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to methods and statistics used in political inquiry, including measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, sampling, statistical inference and hypothesis testing, measures of association, analysis of variance, and regression.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
PSY-K 300 Statistical Techniques
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- One of MATH-M 106, MATH-M 118, MATH-M 119, MATH-M 211, MATH-M 212, MATH-S 211, MATH-S 212, MATH-V 118, or, MATH-V 119
- Description
- Introduction to statistics; nature of statistical data; ordering and manipulation of data; measures of central tendency and dispersion; elementary probability. Concepts of statistical inference and decision: estimation and hypothesis testing. Special topics include regression and correlation, analysis of variance, non-parametric methods.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
PSY-K 310 Statistical Techniques
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- One of MATH-M 106, MATH-M 118, MATH-M 119, MATH-M 211, MATH-M 212, MATH-S 211, MATH-S 212, MATH-V 118, or, MATH-V 119
- Description
- Introduction to probability and statistics; elementary probability theory, conditional probability, independence, random variables, discrete and continuous probability distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion. Covers concepts of statistical inference and decision; estimation and hypothesis testing; Bayesian inference; and statistical decision theory. Special topics include regression and correlation, time series, analysis of variance, non-parametric methods.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SOC-S 371 Statistics in Sociology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces the logic of statistical inference. Students will learn how to use sample data to reach conclusions about a population of interest by calculating confidence intervals and significance tests. Estimating the effects of multiple independent variables using cross-tabulations and/or regression.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
STAT-K 310 Statistical Techniques
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- MATH-M 119 or equivalent
- Description
- Introduction to probability and statistics. Elementary probability theory, conditional probability, independence, random variables, discrete and continuous probability distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion. Concepts of statistical inference and decision: estimation, hypothesis testing, Bayesian inference, statistical decision theory. Special topics discussed may include regression and correlation, time series, analysis of variance, nonparametric methods.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
STAT-S 300 Introduction to Applied Statistical Methods
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Mastery of high school algebra; or MATH-M 014. Lecture and laboratory
- Description
- Introduction to methods for analyzing quantitative data. Graphical and numerical descriptions of data, probability models of data, inference about populations from random samples. Regression and analysis of variance.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
STAT-S 301 Applied Statistical Methods for Business
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Math-M 118 or equivalent
- Description
- Introduction to methods for analyzing data arising in business, designed to prepare business students for the Kelley School\'s Integrative Core. Graphical and numerical descriptions of data, probability models, fundamental principles of estimation and hypothesis testing, applications to linear regression and quality control. Microsoft Excel used to perform analyses.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
- Capstone. One (1) course:
- LAMP-M 401 Capstone Seminar
LAMP-M 401 Capstone Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Senior major in Management and the Liberal Arts, or consent of instructor
- Description
- Students address and analyze a complex, real-world problem related to management, business, and/or economic enterprise. Emphasis on identifying appropriate research strategies, finding relevant data/information, participating actively in collegial discussion and critique, working collaboratively, and communicating findings to diverse audiences.
- Communication. One (1) course:
- Liberal Arts.
- Liberal Arts 1. One (1) course:
- AAAD-A 332 Art of the Civil Rights Movement
- AAAD-A 380 Contemporary Black American Writing
- ARTH-A 203 Machine Age Modern: European Modernism, 1848-1939
- ARTH-A 393 Museums: The Display of Culture
- CJUS-P 316 Crime in the Movies
- EALC-E 100 East Asia: An Introduction
- EALC-E 271 Modern and Contemporary Japanese Culture
- EALC-E 333 Studies in Chinese Cinema
- ENG-L 240 Literature and Public Life
- ENG-L 389 Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism
- ENG-L 396 Studies in African American Literature and Culture
- ENG-R 224 Persuasion
- ENG-R 321 Rhetoric, Law, and Culture
- ENG-R 398 Culture, Identity, and the Rhetoric of Place
- FOLK-E 345 Hip Hop Music and Culture
- FOLK-F 377 Popular Culture and Politics in the Middle East
- HISP-P 412 Brazil: The Cultural Context
- JSTU-C 340 The Kibbutz in Fact and Fiction
- PHIL-P 240 Business and Morality - Ethics in Context
- PHIL-P 342 Problems of Ethics
- PHIL-P 375 Philosophy of Law
- PHIL-P 376 Leadership and Philosophy
- POLS-Y 212 Making Democracy Work
- POLS-Y 379 Ethics and Public Policy
- POLS-Y 383 Foundations of American Political Thought
- POLS-Y 384 Developments in American Political Thought
- REL-C 320 African American Religions
- REL-C 323 Jews and Race in the United States
- REL-C 325 Race, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Americas
- REL-C 330 Evangelical America
- REL-D 350 Religion, Ethics, and the Environment
AAAD-A 332 Art of the Civil Rights Movement
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers visual artistic production (painting, sculpture, photography, and film) during the American Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 380 Contemporary Black American Writing
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: AAAD-A 379
- Description
- The black experience in America as it has been reflected since World War II in the works of outstanding African American writers: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
ARTH-A 203 Machine Age Modern: European Modernism, 1848-1939
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores visual culture in Europe from the introduction of photography through the rise of cinema. Considers the dynamics of modernism in relation to processes of modernization, such as technological innovation, the advent of mass culture and spectacle, and socio-political change.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ARTH-A 203 or FINA-A 203.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ARTH-A 393 Museums: The Display of Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines what is chosen for displays of other cultures in museums, how those materials are presented, and how displays representative of world cultures may be overtly politicized. Investigates some of the most potent presentations in the history of museums and exhibitions and engages with questions of colonialism, cultural capital, nation-building and self-identity.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
CJUS-P 316 Crime in the Movies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course is designed to examine the way that crime and criminals have been portrayed throughout the last 80 years in popular movies. Crime has always been a favorite source of material for Hollywood, and we will be exploring the way that the depiction of criminal activity reflects the social mores of a particular era. Thus, this course draws from a variety of disciplines as we critique the films and analyze the messages they convey about crime and criminals in society.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 100 East Asia: An Introduction
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Basic introduction to China, Japan, and Korea. Intended to help students understand the unique character of each of these three cultures within the general framework of East Asian civilization, comprehend the historical importance of the three countries, and appreciate the crucial role they play in the world today.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
EALC-E 271 Modern and Contemporary Japanese Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of a range of Japanese culture expressions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, such as literature, theater, film, popular culture, and their historical contexts.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
EALC-E 333 Studies in Chinese Cinema
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Critical and historical perspectives on Chinese cinema from 1900 to the present, including cinema from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and beyond. Course topics include the silent era, melodrama, musicals, minority films, adaptation, filmmakers and generations, and urban cinema.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
ENG-L 240 Literature and Public Life
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of literary works that feature situations, issues, and problems of values or ethics in public life as seen from a variety of viewpoints. Discussion and writing will be directed to the works themselves and to the questions they raise for contemporary life.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-L 389 Feminist Literary and Cultural Criticism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected critical approaches to the issue of gender over time and in various cultural settings. Topics vary, but may include feminist criticism and popular culture, the history of feminist expository prose, or deconstructionism and feminism.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-L 396 Studies in African American Literature and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of a coherent phenomenon of African American literature and culture (such as Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, African American women’s autobiographies, black popular culture and literary expression, recent black fiction or poetry, or a cluster of major authors).
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
ENG-R 224 Persuasion
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Motivational appeals in influencing behavior; psychological factors in speaker-audience relationship; contemporary examples of persuasion. Practice in persuasive speaking.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 324 or ENG-R 224.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 321 Rhetoric, Law, and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the range of ways in which rhetoric, law, and culture intersect in the production and maintenance of social and political community.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 321 or ENG-R 321.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 398 Culture, Identity, and the Rhetoric of Place
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Invites advanced undergraduate students to consider the rhetorical dimensions of places with a particular focus on theories of culture and identity (e.g., race, gender, and nationality). Students will critically examine how places are the product of strategic communication choices that have been made to influence how human beings think and behave.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 425 or ENG-R 398.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
FOLK-E 345 Hip Hop Music and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Junior or senior standing
- Description
- Examines rap music as artistic and sociological phenomena with emphasis on its historical and political contexts.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 345, AAAD-A 489, FOLK-E 345, or FOLK-F 389.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
FOLK-F 377 Popular Culture and Politics in the Middle East
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Through ethnographic case studies, this course examines the dynamics of popular culture and mass media in the Middle East, including the Arabic speaking nations of Israel, Turkey, Iran, and North Africa.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
HISP-P 412 Brazil: The Cultural Context
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Integrates historical, social, and cultural information about Brazil. Taught in English.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
JSTU-C 340 The Kibbutz in Fact and Fiction
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of the representation of kibbutz ideology and community in Hebrew fiction and anthropological and sociological studies. Compares early representations of the kibbutz with its recent transformations to acquaint students with the impact of this unique social system in Israeli society and culture.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
PHIL-P 240 Business and Morality - Ethics in Context
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Fundamental issues of moral philosophy in a business context. Application of moral theory to issues such as the ethics of investment, moral assessment of corporations, and duties of vocation.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
PHIL-P 342 Problems of Ethics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: 3 credit hours in Philosophy or 300-level work in a related field such as religious studies or political theory. Students without this background should take PHIL-P 140
- Description
- May concentrate on a single large issue (e.g., whether utilitarianism is an adequate ethical theory), or several more or less independent issues (e.g., the nature of goodness, the relation of good to ought, the objectivity of moral judgments, moral responsibility, moral emotions, concepts of virtue, cultural conflicts of value, the nature of moral discourse).
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
PHIL-P 375 Philosophy of Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: 3 credit hours of philosophy
- Description
- Selective survey of philosophical problems concerning law and the legal system. Topics include nature and validity of law, morality and law, legal obligation, judicial decision, rights, justice, responsibility, and punishment.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
PHIL-P 376 Leadership and Philosophy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Allegiance to a philosophical vision of "the right" and "the good" seems to be an important foundation for successful leadership. This course aims to study the connections between leadership and philosophy, by focusing on diverse and illuminating case studies of philosophically-informed leaders such as George Washington, Mahatma Gandhi, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 212 Making Democracy Work
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Nature and justifications for democratic politics and the problems confronting democracy today. Demise of liberalism in America; rise of identity politics and its significance; racial inequality and the problems of deliberative democracy; problems of political alienation and participation.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
POLS-Y 379 Ethics and Public Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course examines the ethical responsibilities of public officials in democratic societies. It explores such topics as the meaning of moral leadership, the appeal to personal conscious in public decision making, and the problem of "dirty hands" among others. A special concern is how institutional arrangements affect moral choices.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
POLS-Y 383 Foundations of American Political Thought
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the evolution of American political ideas from colonization through ratification of the Constitution and its implementation.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
POLS-Y 384 Developments in American Political Thought
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the evolution of American political ideas under the Constitution of the United States, and its promises and problems.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
REL-C 320 African American Religions
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the varieties of African American religions, especially Christianity, Islam, Yoruba, Vodun, and Humanism, from the colonial era to the present. Methodologies will also be critically examined.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of REL-C 320 or REL-R 321.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
REL-C 323 Jews and Race in the United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the spectrum of Jewish thought on race and ethnicity from historical and regional perspectives. Addresses the questions "Are Jews white?" and "Are Jews a race?" looking at both contemporary and historical sources to see how the answers differ in relation to the specific racial landscapes of particular times and places.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of JSTU-J 310 or REL-C 323.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
REL-C 325 Race, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Americas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A comparative study of the role religious narratives and beliefs have played in the shaping of racial and ethnic boundaries.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
REL-C 330 Evangelical America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Assesses the causes, nature, and implications of evangelical influence from the Great Awakening to the present.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of REL-C 330 or REL-R 337.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
REL-D 350 Religion, Ethics, and the Environment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of relationships between religious worldviews and environmental ethics. Considers environmental critiques and defenses of monotheistic traditions, selected non-Western traditions, the impact of secular \"mythologies,\" philosophical questions, and lifestyle issues.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of REL-D 350 or REL-R 371.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Liberal Arts 2. One (1) course:
- AAAD-A 382 Black Community, Law, and Social Change
- AAAD-A 420 Transforming Divided Communities and Societies
- ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture
- ANTH-E 420 Economic Anthropology
- ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- ANTH-P 332 Industrial Archaeology
- CJUS-P 311 Private Security
- CJUS-P 380 Dispute Management
- CJUS-P 408 Mass Imprisonment
- CJUS-P 457 Seminar on White-Collar Crime
- EALC-E 190 The Rise of China: Challenges and Opportunities for East Asia
- EALC-E 342 Modern Korean History
- EALC-E 369 Modern Japanese History
- EALC-E 386 United States-East Asian Relations
- EALC-E 393 China's Political Economy
- EALC-E 395 Japan in World Trade and Politics
- ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
- GEOG-G 332 Geographical Globalization
- GEOG-G 352 Food and Poverty in America
- GEOG-G 417
- GEOG-G 448 Capitalism and Nature
- GEOG-G 469 Food and Global Poverty
- GEOG-G 478 Global Change, Food, and Farming Systems
- HIST-A 200 Issues in United States History (Approved topics: "HISTORY OF CAPITALISM" (TPC 57); "US HISTORY & CURRENT EVENTS" (TPC 53))
- HIST-A 363 Hoosier Nation: Indiana in American History
- HIST-A 385 America's Pacific
- HIST-A 386 History of the American Home
- HIST-G 200 Issues in Asian History (Approved topics: "BUSINESS IN CHINESE HISTORY" (TPC 303))
- HIST-G 369 Modern Japan
- HIST-G 385 Modern China
- HIST-J 300 Seminar In History (Approved topics: "HISTORY OF CAPITALISM" (TPC 134))
- HIST-W 225 The Rich
- HIST-W 330 Money and History
- INST-I 320 Contemporary India: History, Politics, and Society
- POLS-P 302 The Politics of Economic Crisis and Reform
- POLS-Y 324 Gender and Politics
- POLS-Y 326 American Social Welfare Policy
- POLS-Y 332 Russian Politics
- POLS-Y 333 Chinese Politics
- POLS-Y 337 Latin American Politics
- POLS-Y 338 African Politics
- POLS-Y 340 East European Politics
- POLS-Y 343 The Politics of International Development
- POLS-Y 350 Politics of the European Union
- POLS-Y 374 International Organization
- POLS-Y 376 International Political Economy
- POLS-Y 399
- PSY-P 323 Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- SOC-S 210 Economic Sociology
- SOC-S 315 Work in the New Economy
- SOC-S 326 Law and Society
- SOC-S 339 The Sociology of Media
AAAD-A 382 Black Community, Law, and Social Change
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Legal evolution of civil rights and analysis of specific relevant legal decisions that stimulated social change (the role of slavery, racial segregation, inequality of educational opportunity, and voting laws).
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 420 Transforming Divided Communities and Societies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Histories, theories, policies, and citizen, state, corporate, nonprofit sector models of transforming past and present societies divided by race, ethnicity, gender, class, caste, tribe, and religion through restorative and distributive justice movements and policies such as civil rights, affirmative action, reparations, and reconciliation tribunals.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the challenges that focusing on the mass media--including technologies, production processes, content, and reception--present for studying cultures. Explores the relationship between media and culture to understand people's experiences and conceptualization of time, space, communities, families, and identities.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 317 or CMCL-C 310.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnographic study of how people learn to work in a range of real jobs around the world. Focuses on how people learn to do a job and get along with co-workers in different cultures. Shows how much a country's legal or economic policies can affect daily work lives.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines processes of globalization and economic and cultural integration, including the origin and spread of mass-consumer society. Topics include the theories of consumption, mass media and advertising, and the relationship between modernity and consumerism. Includes examples from societies around the world.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 420 Economic Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers the ways in which anthropology has addressed economic questions. Topics may include contemporary and classic debates in the field; gendered forms of (re)production and labor; environmental sustainability; social justice; nutrition and food politics; shifting notions of currency; cultures of consumption; and global trade and value.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the everyday issues surrounding public speech in new media: how people establish appropriate behavior in new media and respond to new possibilities for deceptive behavior; how ideas of what counts as 'public' and 'private' change as the result of changes in the way communication circulates; why scholars believe public speech and democracy are so intertwined.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 438 or CMCL-C 429.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 332 Industrial Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-P 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Explores the material character and social context of industrial heritage in North America including resource extraction, manufacturing, and transportation. Studies the record that industry leaves on the landscape including quarries, factories, office buildings, mills, railroads, and worker housing. Analysis of documents, images, material remains, archaeological sites, and ethnographic sources.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
CJUS-P 311 Private Security
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines individuals, not-for-profit agencies, and corporations that supplement the efforts of the traditional criminal justice system. Private components of each major segment of the criminal justice system are explored. The course specifically highlights private policing, alternative dispute resolution, private prisons, and private juvenile centers.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
CJUS-P 380 Dispute Management
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course examines the processes through which individuals and groups publicly manage and settle their conflicts. Concentration on the processes of negotiation, mediation, and adjudication. Types of social and cultural situations in which these processes are used and developed to settle disputes. Processes that are most effective in settling particular types of disputes.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
CJUS-P 408 Mass Imprisonment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- From 1970 to 2010, the United States quintupled its prison population. This course investigates the factors (cultural, legal, political, and economic) that led to the incarceration boom and provides students with the empirical and normative tools to evaluate its causes and consequences.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
CJUS-P 457 Seminar on White-Collar Crime
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The nature and incidence of white-collar crime. In addition to studying the etiological theories relating to white-collar crime, the course will also focus on both the criminal and civil (regulatory) processes used to control corporate, organizational, and elite misconduct.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 190 The Rise of China: Challenges and Opportunities for East Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to issues relating to China's rise in the context of East Asia. Covers the regional implications of China's rise and the myriad drivers of China's domestic political, economic, and foreign policy trajectory in comparison to other East Asian nations.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 342 Modern Korean History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Modern Korean history 1876-2010. Major themes: Korea's inclusion in world system, intrusion of capitalism and transformation from agrarian to industrialized/consumer society. Course will explore modern systems (colonialism/neocolonialism, capitalism, social revolution/socialist economic experiments, Cold War, and globalization) through the study of Korean history.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of EALC-E 342 or HIST-G 372.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 369 Modern Japanese History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Japanese history within the broader developments of modern world history: the Tokugawa regime; the Meiji Revolution; modern nation-state building; empire; capitalism; social movements; democracy; Japan\'s modern wars; U.S.-Japan relations and related cultural, political, and economic changes. Emphasizes post-World War II era, visual culture, Japan in global popular culture, and environmental history.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of EALC-E 369 or HIST-G 369.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 386 United States-East Asian Relations
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- We will examine the love-hate relationship between East Asia and the U.S. since 1945. Security, economic, and political ties between the U.S. and the individual East Asian countries, and with the region as a whole are considered. Particular attention is given to the diverse Asian perspectives of the relationship.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 393 China's Political Economy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines key aspects of China's political economy: the obstacles and sources of economic development, the foundations for democratization, the distribution of political power, and the forces affecting national unity. Use of comparative and historical perspectives, with emphasis on the Reform era. Sources range from macro analyses to company case studies.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 395 Japan in World Trade and Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines Japan's foreign relations. After a brief historical survey, the course covers Japan's contemporary relations with the United States, China, Korea, Russia, and Southeast Asia. Topics include economic as well as military and political relations, which have undergone much change in recent years.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This class is grounded in the perspective that symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted and therefore, the ways we communicate about and with the environment are vital to examine for a sustainable and just future. The focus of the class may vary to engage topics such as environmental tourism or environmental disasters.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 348 or ENG-R 348.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 332 Geographical Globalization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The importance of the geopolitical and geo-economic/ecological nature of the global reorganization of the world’s systems. Course moves from the treatment of geographies of global change to a critical examination of the many dimensions of today’s globalizing world—economic, technological, social, political, cultural, a state of affairs that is unruly and unprecedented.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 352 Food and Poverty in America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course examines the experience of food insecurity in the USA, the role of poverty in food production and consumption, and the current mitigation strategies and social movements challenging the global food regime. Students will learn the differences and connections between concepts of food security, food justice, and food sovereignty. Relationships between food and gender, race, and ethnicity will be explored, along with the geographical and social concepts of food deserts and food choice.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 448 Capitalism and Nature
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How has nature been appropriated, reworked, and produced under capitalism; conversely, how does the materiality of nature shape the conditions of capitalism? In this seminar, we will investigate how relations between capitalism and nature have evolved from the end of feudalism through the current neoliberal era.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 469 Food and Global Poverty
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How is the production and consumption of food related to poverty and development? Explores how global food systems affect farmers, farmworkers, retailers and consumers; the ways scientific advances changed rural economies in the Third World; and the history of famine and contemporary food security issues.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SLcourse
GEOG-G 478 Global Change, Food, and Farming Systems
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to food production and consumption systems, emphasizing linkages to land use and social change on food/farming system sustainability. Topics include urbanization, population growth, and economic liberalization; farming livelihoods, gender, and poverty; biotechnology; agro-ecology, global health.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 200 Issues in United States History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics vary from semester to semester but are usually broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 363 Hoosier Nation: Indiana in American History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Indiana history and life, from early human interactions to our own time. Emphasis on the relationship of distinctive regional traits and challenges to broader transformations in American and global culture.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 385 America's Pacific
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The Pacific has been critical to the United States' emergence as a global power over the past 120 years. This course explores the historical problems posed by American ambitions in this region, using case studies such as Hawai'i, Japan, and the Philippines.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 386 History of the American Home
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers the changing ways in which various Americans have defined "home." Topics include colonial households, nineteenth-century middle-class homes, "modern" early twentieth-century homes, and post-World War II suburbia. Devotes considerable attention to residences excluded from dominant definitions, including slave cabins, tenements, utopian communities, boardinghouses, apartments, institutions, internment camps, dormitories, and communes.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-G 200 Issues in Asian History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics vary from semester to semester but usually are broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-G 369 Modern Japan
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian studies course related to Japan
- Description
- Western impact and social and intellectual change in late Tokugawa Japan from about 1720. The Meiji Restoration. State capitalism and the Japanese development process. Empire, war, defeat, U.S. occupation, and renewal in the twentieth century, social and economic structures, religious systems, gender, science and art, and Japan\'s interaction with its East Asian neighbors.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of EALC-E 369 or HIST-G 369.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-G 385 Modern China
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China
- Description
- A survey of the final century of dynastic rule and the rise to power of the Nationalist and Communist parties, highlighting social and cultural developments, the impact of Western imperialism, and the evolution of revolutionary ideologies.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-G 385 or HIST-G 485.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-J 300 Seminar In History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The refinement of students\' skills as historians; will focus on the skills of writing, interpretation, historical reasoning, discussion, and research.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic and the authorization of the history undergraduate advisor for a total of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-W 225 The Rich
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the history of wealthy men and women around the world from antiquity to today. Learning about monarchs, warriors, capitalists, and communists, explores the changing nature of and attitudes toward wealth, and its impact on the rich themselves, their families, and their society.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-W 330 Money and History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers exchange, commerce, and payment from the Ancient World to the contemporary context. Uses money as a way to compare various historical moments and history as a way of understanding money. Covers many of history's most important topics, including slavery, globalization, economic growth and decline.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
INST-I 320 Contemporary India: History, Politics, and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Critical survey of social, economic, and political trends in modern India (1947-present), primarily through the study of relevant novels. Lectures and readings provide students with knowledge of modern Indian history and politics, caste and class relations, the evolution of India\'s political institutions since independence, and current debates in Indian society.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-P 302 The Politics of Economic Crisis and Reform
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the politics of crisis and reform from a comparative and international political economy perspective. In addition to learning general theories of crisis and reform, students will study in-depth case studies of important crisis episodes in the era of industrial capitalism, and seek to understand both the causes and consequences of crisis events.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 324 Gender and Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of women in contemporary political systems, domestic or foreign, with emphasis on political roles, participation, and public policy. Normative or empirical examination of how political systems affect women and the impact women have on them. Topics vary semester to semester.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 326 American Social Welfare Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Values and social welfare policy. Development, current status, politics and proposals for reform of social security and private pensions, income maintenance policy, health care, and housing. The future of the welfare state.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 332 Russian Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Political process and government structure in the Russian state. Political institutions inherited from tsarist empire and the Soviet state (1917-1991), history of subsequent political reform. Political problems of ethnic conflict, creating democratic institutions, and of transition from socialism to market economy.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 333 Chinese Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores contemporary politics and policy issues in the People\'s Republic of China. Influence of revolutionary practice and ideology; analysis of contemporary economic, political and social organizations; examination of policy issues including social reforms, economic growth, and democratization and globalization.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 337 Latin American Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Comparative analysis of political change in major Latin American countries, emphasizing alternative explanations of national and international developments; examination of impact of political parties, the military, labor and peasant movements, Catholic Church, multinational corporations, regional organizations, and United States on politics; public policy processes in democratic and authoritarian regimes.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 338 African Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Examines relevance of "traditional" political systems; impact on colonialism; building new nations and states; authoritarian regimes; process of democratization; management of ethnic, regional, religious and class conflict; political challenges of economic development; role of international actors, including the United States, United Nations, World Bank, and non-governmental organizations; and globalization.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 340 East European Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Compares political change in the East European states, and emphasizes the legacies of authoritarianism and communism and the post-communist transition to democracy. Topics include the building of political institutions, the inclusion of citizens into the polity, the reform of the economy, the management of ethnic and social conflicts, and integration into the European Union.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 343 The Politics of International Development
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the key debates and issues regarding how "poor" countries develop economically and socially. Analyzes the interactions between politics and economics in the development process at the global, national, and local levels. Cases for comparison will include countries from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 350 Politics of the European Union
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of the politics of the European Union (EU). Assesses past and present dynamics of economic and political integration in Europe, the structure and work of European Union institutions, and EU public policies such as the Single Market, the common currency, common foreign and security policy, and trade.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 374 International Organization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines assumptions about the causes, functions, results, and structures of international (intergovernmental) organizations. Theory is combined with case study of the United Nations particularly. The European Community and regional organization examples provide a basis for understanding an evolving phenomenon.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 376 International Political Economy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Theories about the interaction between the international economic and political systems are the subject of this course. Works from each of the main traditions -- liberal, Marxist, and statist -- will be assigned. Specific topics covered will include (among others): the politics of trade, aid, foreign investment, and international monetary affairs; theories of dependency and imperialism; the politics of international competition in specific industries; the stability/ instability of international economic regimes.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
PSY-P 323 Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- PSY-P 101 and PSY-P 102; or PSY-P 155
- Description
- The application of psychological data and theory to the behavior of individuals within organizational settings. Special emphasis on critical assessment of applied techniques.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 210 Economic Sociology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the sociological study of economic action. Provides an overview of the sociological perspective of the economy on all levels--from the actions of individuals in economic situations, to organizational behavior, to the dynamics of markets and global capitalism.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 315 Work in the New Economy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Sociological perspective on work roles within such organizations as factory, office, school, government, and welfare agencies; career and occupational mobility in work life; formal and informal organizations within work organizations; labor and management conflict and cooperation; problems of modern industrial workers; and how work has changed over time.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 326 Law and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Social origins of social bases of legal decision-making, and social consequences of the application of law.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 339 The Sociology of Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The mass media (print, radio, and television) have come to play an increasingly important role in society. This course explores the effects of the mass media on public opinion, crime and violence, social integration, and values. Mass media messages and audiences will also be considered.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Liberal Arts Electives. Two (2) courses:
- Additional course(s) from Liberal Arts 1 list
- Additional course(s) from Liberal Arts 2 list
- Liberal Arts 1. One (1) course:
- Disciplinary or Interdisciplinary Knowledge. One (1) of the following:
- Non-College Option. Complete any minor from Kelley School of Business or the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
- College Option. With approval of the Program Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies, complete a minor, certificate, or second major or degree in the College of Arts and Sciences, including the Media School, Hamilton-Lugar School of Global and International Studies, or Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture, and Design
- Additional Requirement*.
- Careers Course.
- ASCS-Q 296 College to Career II: Navigate Your Arts and Sciences Experience (Approved topics: "MANAGEMENT AND HUMAN ORGANIZATION" (TPC 10))
ASCS-Q 296 College to Career II: Navigate Your Arts and Sciences Experience
- Credits
- 2
- Prerequisites
- At least sophomore standing
- Description
- Explores the relationship between academic and extracurricular choices and life after graduation. Students assess their skills, develop a portfolio to highlight them, and create a plan to address gaps. Focuses on a paradigm of job searching that emphasizes research and highly customized, focused application materials.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of the following: ASCS-Q 296, BUS-T 275, or SPEA-V 252.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
- Careers Course.
- Major GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Major GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the major—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Major Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the major.
- Major Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Major Residency. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- College Breadth. At least 58 credit hours must be completed in courses from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines outside of the major area.
Notes
Major Area Courses
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Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
LAMP
subject area prefix—as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent - Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
This program of study cannot be combined with the following:
- Certificate in Liberal Arts and Management (LAMPACRT)
Exceptions to and substitutions for major requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Bachelor of Arts degree requires at least 120 credit hours, to include the following:
- College of Arts and Sciences Credit Hours. At least 100 credit hours must come from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines.
- Upper Division Courses. At least 42 credit hours (of the 120) must be at the 300–499 level.
- College Residency. Following completion of the 60th credit hour toward degree, at least 36 credit hours of College of Arts and Sciences coursework must be completed through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- College GPA. A College grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.000 is required.
- CASE Requirements. The following College of Arts and Sciences Education (CASE) requirements must be completed:
- CASE Foundations
- CASE Breadth of Inquiry
- CASE Culture Studies
- CASE Critical Approaches: 1 course
- CASE Foreign Language: Proficiency in a single foreign language through the second semester of the second year of college-level coursework
- CASE Intensive Writing: 1 course
- CASE Public Oral Communication: 1 course
- Major. Completion of the major as outlined in the Major Requirements section above.
Most students must also successfully complete the Indiana University Bloomington General Education program.