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Pre-requisites: Student has satisfied all of the following: [Student has completed or is in process of completing 60 Credits] [Students who specified one or more of these Programs of Study or Program Foci: Geology]
This course will explore advanced topics in various areas of geosciences at the junior-senior level. Class schedules will indicate the focus of each class. The course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits provided the topics are different.
Pre-requisites: Student has satisfied all of the following: [Students who specified one or more of these Programs of Study or Program Foci: Geology] And Student has satisfied all of the following: [Student has completed or is in process of completing 60 Credits]
This course will explore advanced topics in various areas of geosciences at the junior-senior level. Class schedules will indicate the focus of each class. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits provided the topics are different. (3-3)
Pre-requisites: Student has completed all of the following course(s): ADMN 000 - Instructor Permission
Advanced study and individual research on a topic directed by participating faculty. Research will be conducted and the results will be presented in writen and presentation format. (3-0)
Required for students intending to participate in study abroad programs, international exchanges, or direct enrollment agreements with foreign institutions. Designed to help students investigate the destinations and programs available to them and understand transferability guidelines and how these programs fit within FLC curriculum. Covers general information on foreign academic systems, passports, visas, financial aid, and health and safety.
Pre-requisites: Student has completed all of the following course(s): GS 250 - Exploring Study Abroad
This course is required for students the semester directly preceding a study abroad experience. Admission requirements, housing information, travel arrangements and visa procedures change frequently and information is time-sensitive. Students will be required to research their prospective programs, becoming informed on the current political, cultural and bureaucratic specifics of their chosen country and region. While enrolled in this course, students will complete the application process for... their selected programs, as well as a pre-departure orientation. The International Programs Office will only process student applications submitted through this class. Students must be enrolled in this course in order for the International Programs Office to work as their advocate and liaison between FLC administrative offices, faculty, staff and international partners. (0-0) Read more
This course will explore sex, gender, and sexuality through a feminist social constructionist lens. Students will be introduced to the central role of gender and women's studies and feminist scholarship in making sense of sex, gender, and sexuality and how they intersect with a wide range of experiences, from the local to the global. (3-0)
A study of literature by and about women (3-0)
This course explores issues relating to the multiple forms of marriage, families, and intimate relationships in contemporary society. Through a close examination of the ever changing terrain of the meaning of family and marriage, we explore the social and structural forces which intersect to shape the lived experience of family life, marriage, and intimate relationships. (3-0)
Race, ethnicity, class and gender are social constructions that are not real in any physiological sense. Yet, these social constructions have real impacts on our sense of identity as well as social opportunities. This course will explore the importance jof these categories both in terms of identity and empowerment and inequality. (3-0)
The purpose of this class is to examine theories and research concerning human sexuality. We will examine topics including (but not limited to) sexual behavior, reproduction, sexual orientations, sexual relationships, and sexual violence. The psychological aspects of sexuality will be supplemental with relevant perspectives from biology, medicine, history and ethics. (3-0)
This course provides an introduction to US immigration politics, policy, and theory with a particular emphasis on gender and sexuality. We examine the history of US immigration and the concepts of membership, belonging, and citizenship through a gendered lens, paying particular attention to the ways in which gender normativity has been constructed through, and reinforced by, immigration law and politics. (Crosslisted with PS)
This interdisciplinary course moves away from the axiom that masculinity is exclusively aligned with men. Students will examine the ways in which ideas of masculinity have been utilized by different populations to create structures of power and thought, organize societies, perform gender, and transgress traditional notions of masculinity (e.g., female masculinities). This seminar emphasizes critical thinking and independent research. (3-0)
Pre-requisites: Student has completed any of the following course(s): COMP 250 - Academic Inquiry and Writing, COMP 252 - Professional & Tech. Writing, COMP 253 - Action Research, COMP 254 - Writing in the Disciplines, ENGL 268 - Sophomore Seminar, SOC 210 - Ethnography and Writing
Focusing on the intersectionality of Indigenous women's lives, this course examines the social, cultural, and political status of Indigenous women. This course also examines the critical contributions of Indigenous feminism to the dominant discourse on feminism. (3-0)
Pre-requisites: Student has satisfied all of the following: [Student has completed or is in process of completing 30 Credits] Or Student has satisfied all of the following: [Student has completed any of the following course(s): ENV 100 - Intro to Environmental Studies, ENV 110 - Intro to Environmental Science]
We explore environmental justice as a strategy for community empowerment, and examine cases from local, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives to understand the importance of community participation and knowledges in decision-making, and the application of justice frameworks to future environmental questions. We examine how intersectional identities (e.g. gender, race, Indigeneity, sexuality, class, etc.) form and inform our experiences of the environment. (3-0)
Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives inform our journey into the fascinating complexities of sex, gender, and sexuality. We study not only the gendered nature of cosmologies and language, but also seek possible solutions to ongoing, gender-based inequalities and violence by drawing on insights provided by our primate relatives, our human ancestors, and recent and contemporary human societies living across the globe. (3-0)
This course examines a variety of philosophical frameworks for thinking about gender, women's movements, the problems of sexism, and proposed solutions to those problems. Students explore the complexity and diversity of feminist thought by examining many different philosophies of feminism including liberal, radical, cultural, Marxist/socialist, existentialist, postmodern, ecological, and indigenous perspectives. (3-0)
Pre-requisites: Student has completed or is in process of completing 30 Credits
This course invites students to think critically about the roles images play in constructing or deconstructing our concepts of gender. Drawing from contemporary cultural and gender theory, it surveys a diverse range of visuals from mass media to high art. Students build a historically and culturally nuanced understanding of gender as a central issue in visual representation. (3-0)
Pre-requisites: (( Student has satisfied any of the following: [Institution has received a(n) FLC_Placement test result with a(n) Composition Placement score equal to 4.] [Student has completed all of the following course(s): COMP 150 - Rhetoric and Research] [Student has completed any of the following course(s): COMP 250 - Academic Inquiry and Writing, COMP 252 - Professional & Tech. Writing, COMP 253 - Action Research, COMP 254 - Writing in the Disciplines, ENGL 268 - Sophomore Seminar, SOC 210 - Ethnography and Writing] ) And ( Student has satisfied all of the following: [Student has completed any of the following course(s): HIST 150 - World Civilization I, HIST 151 - World Civilization II, HIST 160 - Western Civilization I, HIST 181 - US/SW Environmental History, HIST 270 - Colonial Latin America, HIST 271 - Modern Latin America, HIST 280 - U.S. History to 1877, HIST 281 - U.S. History Since 1877, NAIS 123 - Native American History] ))
Course exposes students to higher-level, specialized concepts about medieval women and gender theories building on prior coursework. Students investigate roles of women in medieval society through activities and structures of their lives. Students examine how women expressed themselves during this period and how they engaged in active agency regarding their own lives. This course counts for the GWS major as well. (3-0)
This course will examine literature from the 19th century to the present, tracing LGBTQ+ themes across fiction, poetry, drama, and other media. Students will explore how these texts have represented non-normative sexualities and gender expressions over time, whether explicit or “queer coded.” Readings will also include some foundational queer theory to contextualize literary expression and cultural resistance.
The Greater Southwest is distinguished by cultural pluralism. Many different cultures have interacted continuously for centuries, sometimes in cooperation, often in conflict. From Ancestral Puebloans to the Atom Bomb, we’ll study how human history has shaped the Southwest and how the landscape has shaped human events. (3-0)
Course develops foundational knowledge and skills by tracing the rise of civilizations throughout the world to 1500 C. E. It delves into the life and thoughts of ancient peoples from the civilizations of the Near East, Greece, Rome, India, Africa, America, and Asia. The course is inherently multicultural and global, emphasizing major stages in the interactions among different societies. (3-0)
This course develops foundational knowledge and skills by studying development of world civilizations since 1500, emphasizing major stages in the interactions among different societies. Most of the world's major civilizations are examined, including those in the Western tradition but also those sometimes neglected. Independent developments in each civilization are balanced with comparative analysis of the results of global contact. (3-0)
Course teaches foundational knowledge about origins of Western Civilization from Mesopotamia and Egypt, tracing development through Greece and Rome to the European Middle Ages. Students learn foundational skills in recognizing and articulating how various Western Civilizations constructed, deployed, and challenged various articulations of class, race, gender and other identity positions. (3-0)
This course is an introduction to the cultural, economic, intellectual, political, religious, and social life of Western Civilization from the Renaissance, into the Protestant Reformation, to absolutism in early modern Europe, the French Revolution and the birth of Liberalism, the Industrial Revolution, European imperialism and Social Darwinism, and the two world wars of the 20th century. (3-0)
This course develops foundational knowledge and skills in environmental history of U.S. from failure of Jamestown, VA settlement (1607) through Manifest Destiny, westward expansion, and end of the frontier in 1890. Students learn about conservation and environmental movements and public land legislation, up to modern American issues of sustainability. Case studies will focus on environmental history on the Colorado Plateau. (3-0)
Course focuses on Public History concepts and their connections within History and other disciplines by examining how Public Historians take stories of the past outside the academy and present them to the general public (in the U.S. and the world). Students will analyze concepts and ideas central to Public History through archives, museums, historical sites, businesses and mass media. (3-0)
Introduction to Museums enables students to learn about a wide facet of museum careers in art, culture, and history museums and in the interpretation of culture and historic sites. Students get hands-on experience with the numerous collections at the Center of Southwest Studies. (3-0)
