2020-2021 Catalog

Jun 03, 2024

2020-2021 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

Undergraduate Courses

000 to 499 subdivided as follows:

000 to 099 designate courses which normally are not counted towards a student’s baccalaureate.
100 to 299 designate Lower Division courses. This category is further subdivided as follows:
100 to 199 designate undergraduate Lower Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at a freshman or sophomore level. Such courses generally do not require any prerequisite course work for fully matriculated students.
200 to 299 designate undergraduate Lower Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at sophomore level. Courses in this category require specific or general prerequisites which are usually completed at the freshman level.
300 to 499 designate Upper Division courses. This category of courses is further subdivided as follows:
300 to 399 designate undergraduate Upper Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at a junior or senior level. These courses presume specific or general prerequisite course work at the Lower Division level.
400 to 499 designate undergraduate Upper Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at the senior level. Courses in this category have prerequisites which students have usually completed at the junior level.

Graduate Courses

500 to 899 subdivided as follows:

500 to 599 designate courses offered at the graduate level which prepare students for a graduate degree program or designate professional teacher-training courses.
600 to 699 designate courses at the master’s and credential level.
700 to 799 designate courses at the doctoral level.
800 to 899 designate courses at the School of Law.
5000 to 6999 designate courses at the MBA level.
7000 to 7999 designate courses at the doctoral Nursing level.

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History
	HIST 390 - Special U. G. Studies Unit(s): 2 to 4 Experimental course focusing on exploration and discussion of material which complements that found in the regularly offered history curriculum. Topics are variable; the course involves the study of rarely-taught subject matter and/or innovative approaches to traditional historical themes. College of Arts and Sciences
	HIST 396 - History Internship Unit(s): 4 Provides an overview of the many ways that history is practiced in the field of public history. Includes supervised work at a public history placement, such as museums, archives, and historical sites. Prerequisite: HIST 210 College of Arts and Sciences
	HIST 398 - Directed Study Unit(s): 1 to 9 The written permission of the instructor and the dean is required. Offered under special circumstances. College of Arts and Sciences
	HIST 400 - Senior Seminar in History Unit(s): 4 Research seminar on a specialized historical topic culminating in seminar paper and oral presentation. Topics vary. College of Arts and Sciences
	HIST 410 - European History Seminar Unit(s): 4 Topics will be announced before the seminars are offered, and range from Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the early Modern period, to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. College of Arts and Sciences
	HIST 420 - United States History Seminar Unit(s): 4 Topics vary. College of Arts and Sciences
	HIST 421 - Native Americans in U.S. History: Seminar Unit(s): 4 Readings and discussions of major recent works exploring the place of Native American peoples in the history of the United States. The course will survey the field both chronologically and geographically, but will focus intensively on the impact of the dominant American culture on a selection of particular tribes. Offered intermittently. College of Arts and Sciences
	HIST 430 - UG Seminar in Latin Amer Hist Unit(s): 4 A reading and research seminar focused on specific geographical areas - the Southern Cone, Brazil, the Andean Region, Central America and the Caribbean, Mexico, the Borderlands - or on particular comparative themes relevant to Latin America - Revolution, Religion, Labor and Politics, Women, Race and Class. Offered once per year. College of Arts and Sciences
	HIST 470 - Honors Senior Thesis Unit(s): 4 College of Arts and Sciences
Honors College
	HONC 099 - Immersion Program Unit(s): 0 Immersion Program College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 101 - More Than a Meal: Thailand Unit(s): 2 This two-week immersion course will examine the role of food in shaping culture, politics, and society’s relationship with the environment in Thailand. We will examine food production, exchange, and consumption to better better understand the role of cultural practices, gender norms, and technology in shaping how people produce the sustenance they need to survive. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 102 - Global Citizenship Unit(s): 2 This global education course in Colombia empowers the student to understand the concept of global citizenship and the shared experiences and concerns of the worldwide community through the specific case side study of Colombia. The course blends reading, research, writing, seminar discussion and studio workshop, excursions, on-site service learning and presentations to investigate social and political questions. We visit Cali, Colombia for two full weeks at Javeriana University Campus where we will settle and learn. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 103 - Photography in Budapest Unit(s): 2 A city of tensions and contradictions with a complex and multilayered historical past, Budapest is the Central European city to watch in order to comprehend, not only the current appeal of the Alt-Right in Europe, but also citizen engagement and creative grass root resistances to these global trends. With an urban studies focus and a practicum in photography, this class first introduces students to various aspects of the Hungarian capital, including a brief introduction to Budapest’s contemporary history. Special attention is paid to the rise of nationalism and the Alt-right, the Roma question, the refugee situation, the struggle to preserve the urban and historical heritage of the city, the role of arts in advancing or resisting the current political landscape. Walking the city helps us discover how these pressing issues are apparent in the very façades of buildings, in ruins from its past and in the dynamic urban life of the city by the Danube. During the last third of the class, we use the city as a canvas to document with cameras or smart phones the complex and current reality of this fascinating Central European city. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 104 - Biology of Cancer Unit(s): 2 This course covers current concepts and knowledge of cancer, including cancer research and cancer treatment. We explore the different types of cancers; learn why cancers form and investigate whether there is an inheritance link to cancer; and cover cancer treatments, from chemotherapy to targeted therapy and future therapies. Using examples from San Francisco and the ‘Biotech Bay’ (e.g. Genentech, Amgen, Merck) as well as examples from New Zealand biotechnology companies, we investigate how cancer therapies are developed and how drugs are brought to market. We further explore the ethics and economics of cancer, alternative medicine, medical practices of the Maori people and the cultural dimension to cancer, while exploring our surroundings in New Zealand. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 105 - S. Korean Health & Well-being Unit(s): 2 This two week global immersion course explores health and well-being in South Korea, with special attention given to cultural influences on health beliefs, behaviors and indigenous health practices, and current health research and services in South Korea. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 130 - Rhetoric Across Borders Unit(s): 4 HONC 130/131 is a two-semester-long course that works towards meeting Core A requirements for writing and public speaking, while also building reading, listening, languaging and digital literacy skills. In the first semester, students develop arguments around ‘glocal’ issues through storytelling, debates, historical research, and argument analysis. In the second semester, students apply their issue expertise and their rhetorical skills to real-world advocacy. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 131 - Rhetoric Across Borders II Unit(s): 2 In the second semester of this year-long course, students explore how local entities are addressing an aspect of their ‘glocal’ issue. Students analyze rhetorical issues in the outreach and advocacy strategies of their chosen entity, and create a public-facing project (website, event, podcast) that furthers their entity’s mission and reflects the group’s evaluation of optimal rhetorical strategies. Prerequisite: HONC 130 Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 200 - GTWY: Global Humanities Unit(s): 4 This seminar introduces interpretive methods of the global humanities, critiques ofEurocentrism, and non-Western humanities traditions as living traditions that speak to contemporary issues. Speci\c topics vary by instructor. It is a requirement of the Global Humanities track. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Global Humanities), Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 201 - GTWY: Decolonizing Humanities Unit(s): 4 This course offers an intercultural, transdisciplinary study of the humanities with five broad domains of inquiry: a critical reassessment of Eurocentrism; West African religion in Cuba; Chicana spirituality and art; Freireian pedagogy; and the activist “Theater of the Oppressed” of Augusto Boal. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 202 - GTWY: Global Poetry Unit(s): 4 This gateway seminar in the Honors College has three main goals. First, this class is an immersion in poetic theory, vocabulary, structure, and history. Second, we read, write about, and talk about poems written across the globe in order to better understand the international impact of poetry. Lastly, we look at the ways poets have turned to poetry as a means of taking on global issues such as climate change, colonialism, discrimination, genocide, censorship, and war. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 203 - GTWY: Western Civ, Wider World Unit(s): 4 We critique the concept of Western Civilization while studying its history from antiquity to modernity. Themes include religion, politics, and society; gender, race, and sexuality; everyday life; concepts of civilization and barbarity; and contemporary debates about the West in a global perspective. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Global Humanities), Honors College Curric Priority, and St. Ignatius Institute College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 204 - GTWY: Performing Sexuality Unit(s): 4 In this honors level seminar course, we explore the fascinating and ever-changing relationship between sexuality, gender and society through the lens of theater. By reading and seeing a range of plays written by American playwrights, as well as examining critical essays written by queer and feminist thinkers, we consider how evolving American perspectives about sexuality and gender impact our culture and our individual and collective identities. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors Getty Scholars, and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 205 - GTWY: Decolonizing Languages Unit(s): 4 What languages do we use or consume in our daily lives, in our academic work, our leisure activities? What languages dominate others in the spaces we inhabit? All languages have evolved over time, sometimes as a result of violent encounters, and stand in relationship of power to other languages. Given the recent history of colonization in Africa, language debates have great pertinence and urgency on the continent. We study these debates in the context of African literary production. Understanding the historical evolution of language in Africa and studying current usages helps raise awareness of, and provide tools for thinking about, the politics of language in other contexts. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 206 - GTWY: Humans, Nature, & Art Unit(s): 4 This course investigates the relationship between humans and nature through both comparative and cross-cultural examination of visual depictions of nature and landscape from multiple artistic traditions. Topics include questions of representation in East Asian and European traditions, images of landscape and nature in various contexts of colonization and moments of cultural encounter across Asia, Europe, and the United States, the role of landscape photography in documenting natural disaster, and contemporary environmental art in the age of climate crisis. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 302 - Gospel Portraits of Christ Unit(s): 4 This course introduces the primary historical-critical methods of biblical interpretation in order to illuminate the distinctive literary portraits of Christ presented in the four canonical gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 310 - Satire from Athens to SNL Unit(s): 4 This course examines the voices of those who criticize, lampoon, mock, praise, and generally comment upon Greek, Roman, and modern heroes, rulers, and social climbers. We begin with the comic tradition of Classical Athens, considering the social function of Aristophanes’ satirical (and often cruelly personal) invective in the Athenian democracy. We then move onto the biting satire of Rome-the genre that the Romans claimed as “wholly ours.” Through the works of Horace, Petronius, Juvenal, and others, we examine how satire’s biting wit reflected the changing values of the Roman world as it transitioned from Republic to Empire, saw new social arrivals attain unprecedented wealth and power, and discovered new targets and topics of poetic rage. Along the way, we consider the place of satire and self-construction in the modern world as we think about the interaction of the collective and the personal voice in this most modern of ancient genres. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restrictions exclude Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 312 - Ancient Greece & Rome Unit(s): 4 The classical experience and imagination as the formative beginning and paradigm of Western civilization is traced through the study of select major literary works of Greek and Roman literature. The historical context, literary style, and intellectual influence of these works are explored and analyzed. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 316 - Late Anti/Dawn of Middle Ages Unit(s): 4 Ranging from the conversion of the Roman Empire to the death of Charlemagne, this course examines the role of the humanities during the last days of the classical world and the beginning of the Middle Ages. Along with an examination of some of the most important works written during this 500-year period, the fine and minor arts and architecture are considered. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 318 - Wisdom’s Lovers: Ancient & Med Unit(s): 4 In this introductory course, students study Ancient and Medieval philosophers including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, Aquinas, Maimonides, and Averroes while reflecting upon appearance and reality, ignorance and knowledge, innocence and suffering, evil and a good God, and allied themes. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 320 - Slavery & Race in the Americas Unit(s): 4 This comparative reading and research seminar explores the history of slavery in the Americas, and tracks the emerging and evolving sense of race in various national locations. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 321 - Early Modern Art & Science Unit(s): 4 This interdisciplinary honors seminar explores the complex relationships between the visual arts, knowledge, and science in Europe, c. 1450-1700. Topics include: STEAM to STEM and Back Again: An Introduction to Early Modern Art and Science; Structuring the Visible World in the Renaissance; Making and Knowing through Craft and Materials; Early Printing Technologies in Europe; Constructing Knowledge: Engineering, Architecture & Machines; Anatomy, Physiognomy & Medicine; The Science of Light: Optics and Art; Global and Visual Explorations; Mapping and Astronomy; Botany; and Leonardo da Vinci: Between Art & Science. Class discussions are supplemented by class visits to the Donohue Rare Book Room on campus and to local museums with relevant early modern art collections. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 322 - Romance, Revolution, and Exile Unit(s): 4 This course examines the themes of romance and exile in an age of global revolution (1776-1848) by closely tracking the lives and works of several authors from the period. The course first tracks the writings and lives of eminent “romantic” individuals in exile (the first true celebrities) and then investigates the representations of romance and exile through the birth of science fiction writing in the hands of Mary Shelley. The “revolutions” the course considers are several: the political independence movements around the world; the advancements in science, technology, and literature; the birth of celebrity culture and how it transformed the public sphere; the emergence of a free-market (and capitalist) economic system; and the rise of the aristocratic vampire legend that forever changed literary and popular culture. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restrictions exclude Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 323 - Renaissance Art and Culture Unit(s): 4 This interdisciplinary seminar is designed to explore the religious and cultural values, political and historical conditions, and philosophical, literary and artistic trends prevalent in Europe, especially in Italy and northern Europe, circa 1400 - 1600, primarily through the lens of Renaissance visual culture. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 324 - Renaissance England/Its Roots Unit(s): 4 This seminar explores the English Renaissance from social, historical, artistic, and literary perspectives and provides both an overview of Renaissance art and an examination of new conceptions of ‘the universe,’ ‘art’ and ‘man’. Topics include: humanism; religious skepticism; political theory; the situation of women. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 325 - Opera and Society Unit(s): 4 In this class we examine operas from 1600 to today, discussing not only musical and dramatic elements but also the social and political questions raised by the works; racial and gender issues; the environment in which they were created; and the status of musicians, impresarios, theater managers, and others. We also attend performances at the San Francisco Opera. No knowledge of music is necessary. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors Getty Scholars, and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 329 - New World Encounters Unit(s): 4 Examines conquest and colonization of Spanish Americas from 1492-1700 from European, African, and Native American perspectives. Themes include violence and coexistence; race, gender, and ethnicity; religious change; slavery and labor. Sources include historical, literary, and visual materials. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 332 - The American Experience Unit(s): 4 Through a reading (and viewing) of classic American works, including the autobiographies of Malcolm X and Richard Rodriguez, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poetry of Emily Dickinson, the novels of Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton and Saul Bellow, the films and plays of Frank Capra and Sam Shepard and the painting of Edward Hopper, this seminar explores fundamental themes, tensions and values in U.S. culture. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 338 - The Modern Period Unit(s): 4 This seminar attempts to clarify the characteristically ‘modern’ ways of defining and shaping reality through an examination of significant intellectual and imaginative works of our century, especially the ‘classical modern’ period (1890-1950). What dominant insights do we inherit from living in (or just after?) an era which has self-consciously called itself ‘modern’? Works of fiction are synthesized with readings selected from the physical and social sciences as well as the humanities. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 351 - Rethinking Islam Unit(s): 4 This course examines the invention of ‘Islam’ as an object of study in relation to the history of European and U.S. imperialisms and Muslims’ resistance to them. It also provides an introduction to global Islamic traditions, examining key beliefs, texts, rituals, and practices of Muslims. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 352 - Visual Arts East & West Unit(s): 4 This course examines cross-cultural artistic exchanges between the West (Europe, US) and Asia (India, China, Japan) ca. 1500-1960. Focus is on how visual art facilitated cultural interaction and artistic encounters helped to shape national and cultural identities in Early Modern and Modern periods. College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 354 - Liberating Theologies Unit(s): 4 This course surveys theologies of liberation in Latin America, the United States, Africa, and Asia, in terms of the vital social movements in which they were born. Students become acquainted with inter-disciplinary theological methods; liberationist Catholic-Christian perspectives on faith, society, culture, and justice; and the decolonial social movements with which liberation theologies dialogued. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 355 - Global History of Food Unit(s): 4 This seminar examines the relationship between human societies and the food we eat. Students learn about the development of food production systems, the role of crop, technology and ideological exchange, how politics affects food production and how food availability affects politics, the industrialization of food production systems, and the development of today’s global food economy. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 356 - Narratives of Freedom Unit(s): 4 This course puts in conversation key Enlightenment-era (late 17th-18th Century) texts from political philosophy’s “Social Contract” tradition and key texts from the Black Atlantic and American slave narrative tradition. Learning these two traditions together magnifies the ideas they contain, criticize and defend: domination, natural law, liberty, equality, democracy, political representation, civic fraternity and sorority, individual civil rights, slavery, property, consent, and tolerance. We consider the ways these two traditions present both political treatises and “narratives” about the emergence of free, equal, and enlightened modern “men,” the birth of civil society, and the justification of political power. These treatises and narratives lead us to confront a conceptual conflict behind centuries of racial, class, and gender domination, and understand more deeply the struggle for liberty, equality, political revolution and reform. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 357 - Romance, Revolution, and Exile Unit(s): 4 This course examines the themes of romance and exile in an age of global revolution (1776-1848) by closely tracking the lives and works of several authors from the period. The course first tracks the writings and lives of eminent “romantic” individuals in exile (the first true celebrities) and then investigates the representations of romance and exile through the birth of science fiction writing in the hands of Mary Shelley. The “revolutions” the course considers are several: the political independence movements around the world; the advancements in science, technology, and literature; the birth of celebrity culture and how it transformed the public sphere; the emergence of a free-market (and capitalist) economic system; and the rise of the aristocratic vampire legend that forever changed literary and popular culture. College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 360 - City Life in Africa & Diaspora Unit(s): 4 An interdisciplinary exploration of urban life in Africa and the Diaspora. The course is organized around the in-depth study of two cities in Central Africa (Kinshasa and Brazzaville) and their relationships with the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and the former colonial capitals Brussels and Paris. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Global Humanities), Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 365 - Global Ethics Unit(s): 4 This course explores different ethical theories from around the globe. Themes of individualism and the self are discussed within the contexts of Western and Asian approaches. In particular the course studies classical ethical theories from the Western philosophical cannon (Aristotle, Kant, and Mill), Confucianism and Buddhism. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 371 - From Acupuncture to Yoga Unit(s): 4 This course examines complementary and integrative health (CIH) from a social scientific perspective. Students will study how everyday people understand, use, and debate the use of CIH especially in comparison to biomedicine. Many weeks, a CIH practitioner will come to class for hands-on demonstrations of different health modalities. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 380 - The Art of Protesting Unit(s): 4 This course stresses the relationship of the fine art printing with the social revolutions, as it explores the studio discipline of making fine art prints. Lectures and guest master printers help students understand this multi-disciplinary art rooted on east and west traditions. Practical understanding with new environmentally safe methods, complemented with a working knowledge of traditional techniques will be investigated. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 390 - Special Topics Unit(s): 1 to 4 This course focuses on a special subject in Global Humanities. Course may be repeated for credit as subject varies. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Global Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HONC 390L - Special Topics Lab Unit(s): 0 College of Arts and Sciences
Honors/Humanities
	HON 314 - Origins Judaism/Christianity Unit(s): 4 The intersection of the history, politics, religion, and culture of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World from 500 BCE to 500 CE is examined on the basis of primary literary and extra-literary sources. Particular attention is given to the origin and development of Judaism and Christianity within the course of empire building. Offered every Fall. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HON 318 - Mediaeval Wayfare Unit(s): 4 This seminar discusses the phenomena of knight and court as fundamental social and civilizing processes in European culture (10th-14th Centuries) and the modern indebtedness to these phenomena. The seminar examines the concepts of kingship and its classical inheritance, and the aristocratic family as a culture of power. Special consideration is given to the characteristically medieval interrelationships between literature, art and music. Offered every Fall. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HON 322 - Renaissance Culture Unit(s): 4 The relation of works of literature and art to the culture from which they arise is explored through the readings of Renaissance literary works and a stylistic analysis of Renaissance paintings. Students investigate the intricate ways in which the characteristic style of an age is manifested in its literature, politics, art, and other cultural phenomena. Offered every Spring. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HON 326 - From Baroque to Enlightenment Unit(s): 4 Works of principal eighteenth century French and English studies on the nature of human society are read and discussed, and their influence on America considered. Styles of eighteenth-century art, literature and music, especially the opera, are examined as well. Offered every Fall. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HON 328 - Soc Implications/Sci Rational Unit(s): 4 This seminar examines whether the Enlightenment-based progressive ideal of technological and scientific modernism has led to human happiness, justice, and progress, or alienation and destruction. Readings in science, social science, and philosophy (e.g., Kant, Condorcet, Weber, Foucault); studies in modern art. Offered every Spring. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HON 334 - Romanticism/Revolution: Europe Unit(s): 4 This seminar explores selected nineteenth century European classics that mirror the social mores and artistic revolution-texts prophetic and pre-modern. Major figures include Marx, Darwin, Freud, Ibsen and Dostoevsky. Offered every Fall. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HON 336 - The Socialist Tradition Unit(s): 4 This seminar examines the key writings of the Socialist tradition in Europe, the U.S., and around the world. Readings will include classic works of socialist non-fiction, socialist biography and autobiography, and socialist perspectives on areas such as art, music, literature, film, photography, community, work, gender, race, class and political consciousness. Socialism’s historical development and impact, and its present condition, will also be examined. Offered every Fall. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HON 339 - 20th C. Intellectual History Unit(s): 4 The course takes as its focus the question of how to live an ethical and meaningful life in a world no longer moored to universally accepted transcendental truths. The ancient Greeks called the search for practical wisdom phrónêsis, and modern philosophy has witnessed a renewed interest in practical questions about the art of living. The main reading will be taken from texts by the so-called ‘proto-existentialists,’ Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, as well as famous twentieth century existentialists such as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and other French feminists. Besides European philosophy, the course will also include readings, viewings and presentations from modern and postmodern art, photography, music, film and drama. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
	HON 498 - Directed Research Unit(s): 1 to 4 After the completion of five seminars, students have the option of engaging in an approved research project under the direction of the Honors Program faculty. Written permission of instructor and dean required. Offered every semester. Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority College of Arts and Sciences
Information Systems-Master
	MSIS 611 - Database Unit(s): 3 Presents the concepts, principles, issues, and techniques for managing corporate data resources; techniques for managing design and the development of large database systems. The emphasis is on developing a thorough understanding of the principles of data modeling and the conversion of data models into working database systems. Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 612 - Analysis, Modeling & Design Unit(s): 3 Studies the systems development life cycle, analysis and design techniques, information systems planning and projects identification and selection, requirements collection structuring, process modeling, data modeling, interface design and data management, system implementation and operation, system maintenance, and change management implications of systems. The course utilizes current methods and tools, such as rapid application development, prototyping, and visual development. Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 613 - Communications & Networking Unit(s): 3 Examines telecommunication fundamentals, including data, voice, image, and video. The concepts, models, architectures, protocols, standards, and security for the design, implementation, and management of digital networks are studied, as well as local and wide networks, transmission and switching efficiency, and regulatory and technical environments. Topics include security, e-commerce, web sites, and middleware. Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 624 - Managing Projects & Change Unit(s): 3 Explores the managing of projects within an organizational context, including the processes related to initiating, planning, executing, controlling, reporting, and closing a project. Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 625 - IT Policy & Strategy Unit(s): 3 Examines the top management perspective for aligning competitive strategy, core competencies, and information systems; the development and implementation of policies and plans to achieve organizational goals; defining the systems that support the operational, administrative, and strategic needs of the organization, its business units, and individual employees. Approaches to managing the Information Systems function in organizations are also explored, including examination of the dual challenges of effectively controlling the use of well-established information technologies while experimenting with emerging technologies, as well as the role of the CIO. Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 626 - Capstone Project Unit(s): 3 This course provides a broad survey of the individual, organizational, and cultural impact of information technology, in order to stimulate thoughtful reflection and debate upon the social issues provoked by current and projected uses of information technology. As part of this course, students will complete a capstone project. Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 631 - e-Business Unit(s): 3 This course provides a comprehensive overview of the organizational structures and the technologies that support e-business. Topics covered include, e-business strategy, business models, governance structures, electronic markets, and e-business technological infrastructure. Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 656 - BusinessIntellgnce&DataWa Unit(s): 3 Modern technology has the means of collecting every minute detail of a corporations activity. To turn raw data into useful information and knowledge requires a judicious approach to extracting, cleansing, and aggregating data so that it can be used to support strategic decision making (e.g. forecasting and trend analysis, performance monitoring, etc.). This course builds on the Database course and extends the concepts learned there. Prerequisite: MSIS 611 Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 660 - Business Analytics for IS Unit(s): 3 This course will provide a foundation for performing, supporting, and evaluating business analytic work, and prepare you to learn advanced business analytics. You will learn structured approaches for performing business analysis, including approaches to integrate data, judgment and managerial knowledge in the form of a high-quality analytical spreadsheet model; to analyze that model to quantify the financial and operational implications of managerial choices; and to articulate business insight. You will explore the management of analytic model assets and spreadsheet information systems, including productivity, accuracy, reuse, and stewardship. Restriction: Field of Study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 661 - Information Architecture Unit(s): 3 Well-organized data is fundamental to organizational success. This course examines how large volumes of raw data are acquired and transformed to become useful to business processes and the people who operate the business. Topics include business process protocols, logical data structures, policies, rules and standards that govern what organizational data are collected and related ethical issues, and how the data are stored, arranged, integrated, and put to use in data systems. Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 662 - The Information of Biotech Unit(s): 3 Surveys the creation, storage and analysis needs of the information generated by the biotech industry, including the data collection requirements of Phase I, II & III clinical trials, the information requirements for drug and device submissions to the FDA, the EU, and other agencies on the global landscape, the digital representation of DNA, and the biotech computer applications available from major software/hardware manufacturers, including Dell, Intel, Google, Oracle and Microsoft. Professionals from the biotechnology field will present on a variety of topics.Course References include:Putting the Pieces Together: Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, International BIO Organization, Manufacturers/service-provider’s technical materials. MSIS students will have a ‘hands-on’ experience programming DNA micro-arrays courtesy of the NSF-funded Bio-Link, housed at UCSF. Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 663 - Legal Social & Ethical Imp Bio Unit(s): 2 Studies biotech intellectual property and patents on a national and global basis, the privacy and security regulations from HIPAA and GINA (Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act), the societal implications of the development and use of biotechnology in both the developed and developing world, ethical concerns and human use regulations for clinical studies, and the implications for information systems designers and managers. Professionals from the biotechnology field will present for a portion of every class session. Course References include: BIO Statement of Ethical Principles, International BIO Organization , Biotech Issues and Concerns, The NOAH Gene-technology Group, The Vatican Paper on Biotech: Regarding the Instruction, Dignitas Personae, September 8, 2008. Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture Collide, Dr. Maryam Wahrman, Brandeis, 2004. Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), Public Law 110-233. Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 667 - IT Infrastructure Unit(s): 3 This course provides a broad overview of technologies and systems that are the underpinnings of the modern IT business environment. Students will explore three primary areas, computing and cloud resources; network communications fundamentals; and approaches for providing e-commerce capabilities. Areas of study will include concepts, principles, issues, and techniques for managing organizational information resources, and developing a managerial level of technical knowledge and terminology for data, voice, image, video and computer networks, and an understanding of e-commerce business models and technology. School of Management
	MSIS 670 - Analysis Modeling & Design Unit(s): 3 Studies the systems development life cycle, analysis and design techniques, information systems planning and projects identification and selection, requirements collection structuring, process modeling, data modeling, interface design and data management, system implementation and operation, system maintenance, and change management implications of systems. The course utilizes current methods and tools, such as rapid application development, prototyping, and visual development. Restriction: Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 672 - Data Architecture & Mngmt Unit(s): 3 Data architecture is the creation of the rules & structure of an enterprise‐wide computing system. It consists of models, policies, rules and standards that govern which data are collected, and how they are stored, arranged, integrated, and put to use in data systems and in organizations. This course will help students prepare for the Salesforce ‘Data Architecture and Management Designer’ certificate. Restriction: Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 673 - Managing Projects & Change Unit(s): 3 Examines the managing of projects within an organizational context including the processes related to initiating, planning, executing, controlling, reporting and closing a project. Project integration, scope, time, cost, quality control, and risk management, as well as managing the changes in organizations resulting from introducing or revising information systems are studied. Students will form into teams and manage a project with a real client associated with a community organization as part of the university’s commitment to service learning. Restriction: Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 674 - Social Media as a Tool Unit(s): 3 Social media is a broad term used to describe a host of online tools that propel social interaction. While Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter are used most frequently, the world of social media encompasses so much more. This course will provide a unique opportunity to understand how social media is fundamentally changing the way companies operate. Students will examine and assess the roles of the consumer, online communities, crowd sourcing, and the impact of new technologies and changing lifestyles. In the process, they will identify market leaders & key tools, and learn how to effectively integrate them into their business environment. Restriction: Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 675 - IT Policy, Strategy & Economic Unit(s): 3 Examines the top management perspective for aligning competitive strategy, core competencies, and information systems; the development and implementation of policies and plans to achieve organizational goals; defining the systems that support the operational, administrative, and strategic needs of the organization, its business units, and individual employees. It also provides an overview of modern economic and financial theories relevant to understanding the costs, benefits, and processes by which proposed or current information systems can be evaluated. Restriction: Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 676 - Information Security Unit(s): 3 Studies contemporary issues of information security, including effective information security policies, risk assessment factors, internal application security, relevant information security models, intranet vs. extranet security, firewalls and internet security, response to breaches of security, and operating a secure organizational network. Included also are hands-on analyses of information system vulnerabilities, techniques for exploiting such weaknesses, as well as the countermeasures for addressing information security flaws. Restriction: Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 680 - Digital Business Success Unit(s): 3 This course provides a broad overview of technologies and systems that are the underpinnings of the modern IT business environment. Students will explore three primary areas, computing and cloud resources; network communications fundamentals; and approaches for providing e-commerce capabilities. Areas of study will include concepts, principles, issues, and techniques for managing organizational information resources, and developing a managerial level of technical knowledge and terminology for data, voice, image, video and computer networks, and an understanding of e-commerce business models and technology. Restriction: Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 681 - Capstone Project Unit(s): 3 This course provides a broad survey of the individual, organizational, and cultural impact of information technology, in order to stimulate thoughtful reflection and debate upon the social issues provoked by current and projected uses of information technology. As part of this course, students will complete a capstone project. Restriction: Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 682 - MSIS Internship Unit(s): 1 to 3 In select cases, internships with a detailed deliverable component may qualify for credit. Meeting and approval of Graduate Student Affairs Office and Program Director required prior to receiving faculty sponsorship. The faculty sponsor must be a full-time faculty member. Restriction: Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
	MSIS 683 - Practical Application Unit(s): 1 Students apply and integrate knowledge from program coursework to a practical application, through participation in a supervised work program, or structured experiences and research. Prerequisite: (MSIS 670 and MSIS 672 and MSIS 675 and MSIS 676) School of Management
	MSIS 698 - MSIS Special Topic Unit(s): 3 This course will provide a foundation for performing, supporting, and evaluating business analytic work. You will learn structured approaches for performing business analysis in commercial software including Microsoft Excel for expressing your quantitative ideas, and SAS JMP for predictive analytics and data mining. You will understand the mindset and data needs of the business analyst, and the limitations of analytical work. You will explore the business analysis lifecycle and the necessity to perform analytical work iteratively, and the characteristics of high-quality analytics model assets that are suitable for reuse and transfer to others. School of Management
	MSIS 699 - Directed Study Unit(s): 1 to 4 By special arrangement. Restriction: College restricted to School of Management; Field of study restricted to Information Systems Major School of Management
Intensive English Program
	IEP 31 - Integrated Skills Unit(s): 0 College of Arts and Sciences
	IEP 32 - Oral Communication Skills Unit(s): 0 College of Arts and Sciences
	IEP 41 - Integrated Skills I Unit(s): 0 Low intermediate level. Focus is on improving students’ basic English skills of grammar, reading, vocabulary, and writing. College of Arts and Sciences
	IEP 42 - Oral Communication Skills I Unit(s): 0 Low intermediate level. Focus is on conversational skills, pronunciation, and vocabulary in daily situations. College of Arts and Sciences
	IEP 51 - Integrated Skills II Unit(s): 0 Intermediate level. Focus is improving students’ basic English skills of grammar, reading, vocabulary, and writing with some discussion. College of Arts and Sciences
	IEP 52 - Oral Communication Skills II Unit(s): 0 Intermediate level. Focus is on listening and speaking skills in daily situations. Academic oral skills are also introduced. College of Arts and Sciences
	IEP 61 - Integrated Skills III Unit(s): 0 Low advanced level. Focus is on integration of the basic English skills of grammar, reading, vocabulary, and writing. College of Arts and Sciences
	IEP 62 - Oral Communication Skills III Unit(s): 0 Low advanced level. Focus is on listening and speaking skills in daily situations and academic settings. College of Arts and Sciences
	IEP 71 - Integrated Skills IV Unit(s): 0 High advanced level. Focus is on integration of the basic English skills of grammar, reading, vocabulary, and writing for academic purposes. College of Arts and Sciences
	IEP 72 - Oral Communication Skills IV Unit(s): 0 High advanced level. Focus is on listening and speaking skills in daily situations and academic settings. College of Arts and Sciences
	IEP 81 - Integrated Skills V Unit(s): 0 College of Arts and Sciences
	IEP 82 - Oral Communications V Unit(s): 0 College of Arts and Sciences
Interdisciplinary Studies
	INTD 50 - College Success I:Succ.Strat. Unit(s): 1 College of Arts and Sciences
	INTD 53 - CSC II: Explore Mjrs & Careers Unit(s): 1 College of Arts and Sciences
	INTD 54 - College Success for Athletes Unit(s): 2 College of Arts and Sciences
	INTD 55 - Peer Assistance & Education Unit(s): 1 College of Arts and Sciences

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Course Descriptions

Undergraduate Courses

Graduate Courses

HIST 390 - Special U. G. Studies

HIST 396 - History Internship

HIST 398 - Directed Study

HIST 400 - Senior Seminar in History

HIST 410 - European History Seminar

HIST 420 - United States History Seminar

HIST 421 - Native Americans in U.S. History: Seminar

HIST 430 - UG Seminar in Latin Amer Hist

HIST 470 - Honors Senior Thesis

HONC 099 - Immersion Program

HONC 101 - More Than a Meal: Thailand

HONC 102 - Global Citizenship

HONC 103 - Photography in Budapest

HONC 104 - Biology of Cancer

HONC 105 - S. Korean Health & Well-being

HONC 130 - Rhetoric Across Borders

HONC 131 - Rhetoric Across Borders II

HONC 200 - GTWY: Global Humanities

HONC 201 - GTWY: Decolonizing Humanities

HONC 202 - GTWY: Global Poetry

HONC 203 - GTWY: Western Civ, Wider World

HONC 204 - GTWY: Performing Sexuality

HONC 205 - GTWY: Decolonizing Languages

HONC 206 - GTWY: Humans, Nature, & Art

HONC 302 - Gospel Portraits of Christ

HONC 310 - Satire from Athens to SNL

HONC 312 - Ancient Greece & Rome

HONC 316 - Late Anti/Dawn of Middle Ages

HONC 318 - Wisdom’s Lovers: Ancient & Med

HONC 320 - Slavery & Race in the Americas

HONC 321 - Early Modern Art & Science

HONC 322 - Romance, Revolution, and Exile

HONC 323 - Renaissance Art and Culture

HONC 324 - Renaissance England/Its Roots

HONC 325 - Opera and Society

HONC 329 - New World Encounters

HONC 332 - The American Experience

HONC 338 - The Modern Period

HONC 351 - Rethinking Islam

HONC 352 - Visual Arts East & West

HONC 354 - Liberating Theologies

HONC 355 - Global History of Food

HONC 356 - Narratives of Freedom

HONC 357 - Romance, Revolution, and Exile

HONC 360 - City Life in Africa & Diaspora

HONC 365 - Global Ethics

HONC 371 - From Acupuncture to Yoga

HONC 380 - The Art of Protesting

HONC 390 - Special Topics

HONC 390L - Special Topics Lab

HON 314 - Origins Judaism/Christianity

HON 318 - Mediaeval Wayfare

HON 322 - Renaissance Culture

HON 326 - From Baroque to Enlightenment

HON 328 - Soc Implications/Sci Rational

HON 334 - Romanticism/Revolution: Europe

HON 336 - The Socialist Tradition

HON 339 - 20th C. Intellectual History

HON 498 - Directed Research

MSIS 611 - Database

MSIS 612 - Analysis, Modeling & Design

MSIS 613 - Communications & Networking

MSIS 624 - Managing Projects & Change

MSIS 625 - IT Policy & Strategy

MSIS 626 - Capstone Project

MSIS 631 - e-Business

MSIS 656 - BusinessIntellgnce&DataWa

MSIS 660 - Business Analytics for IS

MSIS 661 - Information Architecture

MSIS 662 - The Information of Biotech

MSIS 663 - Legal Social & Ethical Imp Bio

MSIS 667 - IT Infrastructure

MSIS 670 - Analysis Modeling & Design

MSIS 672 - Data Architecture & Mngmt

MSIS 673 - Managing Projects & Change

MSIS 674 - Social Media as a Tool

MSIS 675 - IT Policy, Strategy & Economic