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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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 18-19 Academic Disciplines Chart  

 

(ARTD) Art Design/Graphic

  
  • ARTD 259 - Intersections in Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Investigations into the role of design in a broader context.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 150 or permission of instructor.
  
  • ARTD 293 - Independent Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Instructor.
  
  • ARTD 350 - Graphic Design Portfolio Review

    0 Credit Hours
    Review of prior work in graphic design.

    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated once.
    (RE) Corequisite(s): 251 and 255.
    Comment(s): Successful completion required prior to registration for junior and senior courses.
  
  • ARTD 351 - Intermediate Graphic Design I

    4 Credit Hours
    Intermediate study of graphic design including research methodologies and practices as they relate to the design process. In-depth investigations into audience and context in relationship to form and meaning.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 252, 350.
    (RE) Corequisite(s): 400.
  
  • ARTD 352 - Intermediate Graphic Design II

    4 Credit Hours
    Continued intermediate study of graphic design with an emphasis on the visual, technical, and theoretical aspects of representing information and managing visual complexity.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 351.
  
  • ARTD 400 - Typography

    4 Credit Hours
    Principles of typography, as well as classical and contemporary type forms, as vehicles for communication. An intensive introduction to the fundamentals of type, from individual letterforms to large bodies of textual information. Attention to formal, technological, rhetorical, and historical issues.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 252 and 405.
    (RE) Corequisite(s): 351.
  
  • ARTD 401 - Experiments in Sequencing

    4 Credit Hours
    (See Art Four-Dimensional Arts 401.)
  
  • ARTD 402 - Experiments in Space

    4 Credit Hours
    (See Art Four-Dimensional Arts 402.)
  
  • ARTD 403 - Experiments in Systems

    4 Credit Hours
    (See Art Four-Dimensional Arts 403.)
  
  • ARTD 405 - Interaction Design

    4 Credit Hours
    Exploration of current technologies and their significance to interactive and screen-based design.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 251 and 350.
    (RE) Corequisite(s): 252.
  
  • ARTD 410 - Advanced Typographic Investigation

    3 Credit Hours
    Expands on principles introduced in Typography (Art Design/Graphic 400). Projects will include work in reflective as well as electronic environments with an emphasis on personal exploration.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 400.
  
  • ARTD 425 - Illustration

    3 Credit Hours
    Develops skills and critical analysis for effective visual communication. Projects will explore the relationship between image and meaning. Students will explore a variety of media as they develop a personal visual vocabulary.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): Art 101, Art 102, and Art 103.
  
  • ARTD 444 - Graphic Design Research

    1-6 Credit Hours
    Active research investigations in faculty-led initiatives.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ARTD 444R - Graphic Design Research

    1-6 Credit Hours
    Active research investigations in faculty-led initiatives.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ARTD 450 - Design in Culture

    3 Credit Hours
    A consideration of design as an act of cultural interpretation. Historic and contemporary design and design issues are examined through presentations, discussions, readings, and writings. Student assessment will come from writing, projects, presentations, and contributions to class discussion.

  
  • ARTD 451 - Advanced Graphic Design

    6 Credit Hours
    Advanced design investigations into the theory and techniques of visual problem-solving as applied across many applications of design. Emphasis on the study of identity and systems.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 352.
  
  • ARTD 452 - Graphic Design Capstone

    6 Credit Hours
    Student-led project under faculty direction including advanced application of research, project-development and execution. Includes individual presentations to professional panels.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (OC)
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 451.
  
  • ARTD 452R - Graphic Design Capstone

    6 Credit Hours
    Student-led project under faculty direction including advanced application of research, project-development and execution. Includes individual presentations to professional panels.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 451.
  
  • ARTD 455 - Graphic Design Professional Seminar

    3 Credit Hours
    Professional practices including client relationships, design management, and business practices. Assembly, organization, and editing of the professional portfolio.

    (RE) Corequisite(s): 452.
  
  • ARTD 456 - Graphic Design Practicum

    1-12 Credit Hours
    On-site, practical work designed to bridge the university experience with the workplace prior to graduation. Must be pre-arranged with the department.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 351 and 400.
  
  • ARTD 459 - Intersections in Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Advanced investigations into the role of design in a broader context.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 350 or permission of instructor.
  
  • ARTD 493 - Independent Study

    1-6 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ARTD 494 - Individual Problems

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ARTD 495 - Visiting Artist Seminar

    2 Credit Hours
    Study and discussion of contemporary art issues conducted by different visiting artists each semester.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 8 hours.
    Credit Restriction: May not be applied toward the art history requirement.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.

(ARTH) Art History

  
  • ARTH 162 - Art of Africa, Oceania, and Pre-Columbian America

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of the traditional arts of the cultures of Black Africa, the Pacific and the Americas (focusing primarily on the period before the European conquest). Sculpture, painting, pottery, textiles, architecture, and human adornment will all be examined.

    (Same as Africana Studies 160.)
    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
  
  • ARTH 167 - Honors: Art of Africa, Oceania, and Pre-Columbian America

    3 Credit Hours
    Consent of instructor required. Survey of the traditional arts of the cultures of Black Africa, the Pacific and the Americas. Study grounded in reading, writing, and discussion. Writing-emphasis course.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
  
  • ARTH 172 - Western Art: Ancient through Medieval

    3 Credit Hours
    Major monuments in Western art with emphasis on Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
  
  • ARTH 173 - Western Art: Renaissance to Contemporary

    3 Credit Hours
    Major monuments in the history of European and American art from the Renaissance to the present.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
  
  • ARTH 177 - Honors Western Art: Ancient through Medieval

    3 Credit Hours
    Consent of Department required. Major monuments in Western art with emphasis on Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages. Study grounded in reading, writing, and discussion. Writing-emphasis course.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
  
  • ARTH 178 - Honors Western Art: Renaissance to Contemporary

    3 Credit Hours
    Consent of Department required. Major monuments in the history of European and American art from the Renaissance to the present. Study grounded in reading, writing, and discussion. Writing-emphasis course.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
  
  • ARTH 183 - Asian Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Selected major monuments of South and East Asian art (archaeological material, sculpture, architecture, painting, prints) in their social, political, and religious contexts.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
  
  • ARTH 187 - Honors: Asian Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Consent of instructor required. Selected major monuments of South and East Asian art (archaeological material, sculpture, architecture, painting, prints) in their social, political, and religious contexts. Study grounded in reading, writing, and discussion. Writing-emphasis course.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
  
  • ARTH 279 - Special Topics in Art History

    3 Credit Hours
    Student- or instructor-initiated course offered at convenience of department.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
  
  • ARTH 375 - Seminar in Art History I

    3 Credit Hours
    Seminar for majors. Introduction to the practice and methodology of art history. Writing-emphasis course.

    Recommended Background: 9 hours of art history courses, 3 of which must be upper-division.
    Registration Restriction(s): Art history majors and minors only or consent of instructor.
  
  • ARTH 402 - Seminar in Art History II

    3 Credit Hours
    Seminar for majors. Builds on 375 but with an emphasis on research and effective written and oral presentation. Capstone class.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (WC)
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 375; English 102, 132, 290, or 298.
    Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level – junior.
  
  • ARTH 403 - History of Photography

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of the history of photography from the introduction of the daguerreotype and calotype to more recent trends. Emphasis will be placed on aesthetics and the use of photography as a medium for artistic expression.

  
  • ARTH 411 - Art of South and Southeast Asia

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of the art and architecture of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The major achievements of each period are examined in relation to their religious, political, and social contexts. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 413 - Art of China: Neolithic Period Through the Song Dynasty

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of the art and architecture of China up through the 13th century including early bronze-casting, funerary arts, Buddhist arts, painting, and ceramics. Selected major monuments are examined in relation to their religious, political, and social contexts. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 414 - Art of China: Yuan through Qing Dynasties

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of the art and architecture of China from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries including painting, religious and secular architecture, woodblock prints, and ceramics. Selected major monuments are examined in relation to their religious, political, and social contexts. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 416 - Chinese Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of Chinese art from the late 19th century through the present. Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and expatriate artists are also considered. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 419 - Art of Japan

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of the art and architecture of Japan from the Neolithic period to the 19th century. The major achievements of each period are examined in relation to their religious, political, and social contexts. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 421 - Greek Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Achievements of Greek art in architectural decoration, sculpture, minor arts, and painting from their beginnings in the Geometric period, through the Classical periods of the fifth century BC, to their dissemination during the Hellenistic period across the Mediterranean, Europe, and the Near East. Special emphasis on stylistic developments, the contributions of known artists, and the relationship between art and various aspects of Greek life and thought.

  
  • ARTH 422 - Roman Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Architecture, sculpture, and painting during the 1000+ years of Rome’s cultural dominance from the hyper-realism of the Republic, to Classical beauty of the Augustan age, and abstract symbolism in Late Antiquity. Considers how adaptations of earlier traditions such as the Greek and Etruscan and the diverse artistic heritages encompassed within the empire fused into something new and substantially different than what had come before.

  
  • ARTH 425 - Early Christian and Byzantine Art to 1350

    3 Credit Hours
    Art in Italy and the Eastern Empire from the beginnings of Christian art to c. 1350. Mosaic and painting, sculpture and architecture. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Judaic Studies 426 and Middle East Studies 425.)
  
  • ARTH 431 - Medieval Art of the West, 800-1400

    3 Credit Hours
    Western European art of the Dark Ages, Romanesque, and Gothic periods. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Judaic Studies 432; Medieval and Renaissance Studies 432.)
  
  • ARTH 433 - History of Film and Modern and Contemporary Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Study of the development and interaction between the cinematic arts and the visual arts within the context of 20th- and 21st-century art history.

    (Same as Cinema Studies 433.)
  
  • ARTH 441 - Northern European Painting, 1350-1600

    3 Credit Hours
    From courtly art of late Middle Ages to Northern Renaissance. Jan van Eyck, Roger van der Weyden, and Durer; early printmakers. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Medieval and Renaissance Studies 442.)
  
  • ARTH 442 - Art of Northern Europe, 1600-1675

    3 Credit Hours
    Concentrated study of Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt, Georges de La Tour, Vermeer, Poussin, and Hals. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 451 - The Art of Italy, 1250-1450

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of exploration of naturalism. Revival of antiquity and development of theories of perspective in the Early Renaissance. Including Duccio, Giotto, Masaccio, Donatello, Botticelli. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Medieval and Renaissance Studies 452.)
  
  • ARTH 452 - Art of Italy, 1450-1575

    3 Credit Hours
    Concentrated study of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael, Pontormo, and Giorgione. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 453 - Art of Southern Europe, 1575-1700

    3 Credit Hours
    Concentrated study of Caravaggio, Bernini, and Italian Baroque developments in all media. Spanish Baroque painting and sculpture with special attention to Velazquez. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 454 - Renaissance and Baroque Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Addresses the theory of Western art in the early modern period with emphasis on the development and evolution in European art during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Writing-emphasis course.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 172 and 173.
  
  • ARTH 461 - Art of Southern and Eastern Africa

    3 Credit Hours
    Art traditions of the eastern and southern regions of Africa. Sculpture, painting, pottery, textiles, architecture, and human adornment will be examined. Some ancient Stone and Iron Age traditions will be examined, but the main emphasis will be on the diverse ethnic and regional art traditions practiced in the area from the 19th century to the present. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Africana Studies 464.)
  
  • ARTH 462 - Art and Archaeology of Ancient Africa

    3 Credit Hours
    Historical art traditions of sub-Sahara Africa. Topics to be covered include prehistoric rock paintings, art from archaeological sites and ancient kingdoms. The time period covered ranges from the first and second millennia BC for some of the early terracotta sculpture and rock paintings, the 11th through 19th centuries AD for the later ancient kingdoms. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Africana Studies 465.)
  
  • ARTH 463 - Arts of the African Diaspora

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines the aesthetic, philosophical, and religious patterns of the African descendants of Brazil, Surinam, the Caribbean, and the United States. Emphasis will be placed on the full range of art forms, including the sculptural and performance traditions, as well as architecture, textile, basketry, and pottery art forms. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Africana Studies 466.)
  
  • ARTH 464 - Oceanic Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Concentrated study of selected sculpture, textiles, architecture, and other traditional art forms of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Objects are discussed on the basis of style, style relationship, iconography and the uses to which they were put in their traditional religious, political, and social contexts. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 470 - African American Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Traces the artistic and social legacy of African American art from the eighteenth century to the present day. Specifically, this class will focus on the ways in which artists used creativity to confront, deny, or complicate understandings of racial identity and racism. Examines broad scope of artistic production including painting, sculpture, photography, multi-media, fiction writing, and video art. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Africana Studies 471.)
  
  • ARTH 472 - History of 20th-Century American Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Developments in architecture, painting, and design from 1900. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 473 - 19th-Century American Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines painting, sculpture, and print culture from the Revolutionary War to the turn of the 20th century. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 474 - Transatlantic Modernism

    3 Credit Hours
    American-European artistic exchange during the first three decades of the 20th century leading to the creation of an art that was both modern and American. Considers Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gerald Murphy, Marsden Hartley, Gertrude Stein, Josephine Baker, Arthur Dove, Marcel Duchamp, and others.

  
  • ARTH 475 - History of 19th-Century Painting and Sculpture in Europe

    3 Credit Hours
    The evolution of Romanticism, Neoclassicism, and Realism in Europe, including the innovations of Manet, Impressionism, Cezanne, Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau, and Symbolism. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 476 - History of 20th-Century Painting and Sculpture in Europe

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of the Modern and Post-Modern movements in Europe. Investigation of the progression of abstraction through more recent conceptual trends. Analysis of the work of individual artists such as Picasso, Matisse, and many others. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • ARTH 479 - Special Topics in Art History

    3 Credit Hours
    Student- or instructor-initiated course offered at convenience of department.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
  
  • ARTH 489 - Studies in Art History

    3 Credit Hours
    Concentration in individually selected area.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ARTH 493 - Independent Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ARTH 494 - Individual Problems

    3 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.

(ARTN) Art Non-major

  
  • ARTN 211 - Non-Major Intro to Drawing

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of drawing skills from a variety of sources including life drawing. Projects will emphasize composition, technique, and content. This section is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to drawing.

  
  • ARTN 213 - Non-Major Intro to Painting

    3 Credit Hours
    Capacities of oil and acrylic painting on canvas. This section is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to painting.

  
  • ARTN 221 - Non-Major Intro to Ceramic Sculpture

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to sculptural formats with a focus on ideas and ceramic process. This course will address clay preparation, clay finishing, and kiln firing. This section is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to ceramic sculpture.

  
  • ARTN 222 - Non-Major Intro to Pottery

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to clay with an emphasis on utilitarian form. This course will address pottery wheel techniques, clay preparation, glazing and kiln firing. This section is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to ceramic pottery.

  
  • ARTN 231 - Non-Major Intro to Photography

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to the art of photography. Taking and processing of photographs through both traditional film/darkroom and digital. This section is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to photography.

  
  • ARTN 232 - Non-Major Intro to Performance and Sound

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of basic concepts and techniques for the creation of performance and sound art. This section is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to performance and sound art.

  
  • ARTN 239 - Non-Major Intro to Special Topics in Four-Dimensional

    3 Credit Hours
    Student- or instructor-initiated course offered at convenience of department for non-art majors.

  
  • ARTN 241 - Non-Major Intro to Sculpture

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to the materials, concepts, technical processes, and history of sculpture. Materials include wood, plaster, steel, and plastics. This section is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to sculpture.

  
  • ARTN 255 - Non-Major Intro to Graphic Design Production

    3 Credit Hours
    Traditional and computer-generated techniques for the production of print and digital media in graphic design. Introduction to computer systems, software, and techniques. This class is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to software and visual language.

  
  • ARTN 262 - Non-Major Intro to Intaglio

    3 Credit Hours
    Metal plate intaglio printing in traditional and contemporary techniques of etching, soft ground, drypoint, aquatint, and color methods. This section is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to intaglio printing.

  
  • ARTN 263 - Non-Major Intro to Lithography

    3 Credit Hours
    Stone and aluminum plate lithography applying traditional and contemporary techniques of crayon, tusche, transfer methods, state proofs, and photolithography. This section is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to lithography.

  
  • ARTN 264 - Non-Major Intro to Screen Printing

    3 Credit Hours
    Screen printing as a fine art medium including development and application of various basic stencils in compositional printing. This section is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to screen printing.

  
  • ARTN 265 - Non-Major Intro to Relief

    3 Credit Hours
    Relief printing in traditional and contemporary techniques from wood, linoleum, and plastics. This section is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to relief printing.

  
  • ARTN 291 - Non-Major Intro to Book Arts and Papermaking

    3 Credit Hours
    Book arts and papermaking as a medium for two- and three-dimensional art. Emphasis on development of a personal form. This section is for non-art majors who would like an introduction to book arts and papermaking.


(ASL) American Sign Language

  
  • ASL 111 - Elementary American Sign Language I

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of expressive and receptive sign language skills. Video text and interactive teaching method used. Class conducted totally in sign.

    Comment(s): Deaf education majors, educational interpreting majors, and American Sign Language minors must earn a minimum grade of B or a satisfactory grade (S) on the departmental placement exam to advance to 112. Non-majors must earn a minimum grade of C or a satisfactory grade (S) on the departmental placement exam to advance to 112.
  
  • ASL 112 - Elementary American Sign Language II

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of expressive and receptive sign language skills. Video text and interactive teaching method used. Class conducted totally in sign.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 111 with a grade of C or better, or a satisfactory grade (S) on the departmental placement exam.
    Comment(s): Deaf education majors, educational interpreting majors, and American Sign Language minors must earn a minimum grade of B or a satisfactory grade (S) on the departmental placement exam to advance to 211. Non-majors must earn a minimum grade of C or a satisfactory grade (S) on the departmental placement exam to advance to 211.
  
  • ASL 211 - Intermediate American Sign Language I

    3 Credit Hours
    Sequence (211-212) stresses fluency of expressive and receptive sign language skills. Using language in context is emphasized. Grammatical structures of ASL and cultural implications of the Deaf Community.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 112 with a grade of C or better, or a satisfactory grade (S) on the departmental placement exam.
    Comment(s): Deaf education majors, educational interpreting majors, and American sign language minors must earn a minimum grade of B, and non-majors must earn a minimum grade of C to advance to 212.
  
  • ASL 212 - Intermediate American Sign Language II

    3 Credit Hours
    Sequence (211-212) stresses fluency of expressive and receptive sign language skills. Using language in context is emphasized. Grammatical structures of ASL and cultural implications of the Deaf Community.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 211 with a grade of C or better.
    Comment(s): Deaf education majors, educational interpreting majors, and American sign language minors must earn a minimum grade of B, and non-majors must earn a minimum grade of C to advance to 311.
  
  • ASL 311 - Advanced American Sign Language I: Educational Contexts

    3 Credit Hours
    This course emphasizes advanced expressive and receptive American Sign Language skills in an educational context. Review of grammatical structures.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 212 with a grade of C or better.
    Comment(s): Deaf education majors, educational interpreting majors, and American Sign Language minors must earn a minimum grade of B.
  
  • ASL 421 - History and Culture of the Deaf

    3 Credit Hours
    Comprehensive overview of historical and socio-cultural aspects of the Deaf. Students will explore beliefs, theories, and evidence about the historical experience of Deaf people; the influence of geographic, cultural, educational, and economic forces on Deaf people; concepts and implications of disability theory; social and medical models as ways of defining the Deaf population; demographics including the various subcultures and under-represented groups in the larger Deaf community; impact of Deaf education on the history and organizational structure of the Deaf community.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 211.
    Comment(s): This course is offered in summer only.
  
  • ASL 422 - Deaf Literature and ASL Folklore

    3 Credit Hours
    This course provides an opportunity for ASL students to explore various genres of literature by and about d/Deaf people. Concentrates on d/Deaf characters and the influences of Deaf culture and Deaf history on literacy works from early 1900s to the present. There will be extensive use of videotaped materials. The course content will include viewing and discussing works performed by Deaf poets, writers, dramatists, and storytellers. Taught in ASL.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 212.
  
  • ASL 435 - Linguistics of American Sign Language

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to grammatical and linguistic structures of ASL. Language variations, discourse, bilingualism, and language contact also covered. Conducted in ASL.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 211.
  
  • ASL 445 - Teaching of American Sign Language: Grade Pre K-5

    3 Credit Hours
    ACTFL standards-based pedagogy, research, assessment, curricula, and instructional materials for the Pre K-5 ASL classroom.

    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 311.
    Registration Restriction(s): Admission to teacher education or consent of instructor.
  
  • ASL 455 - Teaching of World Languages

    3 Credit Hours
    (See World Language and English as a Second Language 455.)

(ASST) Asian Studies (145)

  
  • ASST 161 - Elementary Persian I

    4 Credit Hours
    Taped language program.

    (Same as Persian 161.)
  
  • ASST 162 - Elementary Persian II

    4 Credit Hours
    Taped language program.

    (Same as Persian 162.)
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 161.
  
  • ASST 261 - Intermediate Persian I

    4 Credit Hours
    Taped language program.

    (Same as Persian 261.)
    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
  
  • ASST 262 - Intermediate Persian II

    4 Credit Hours
    Taped language program.

    (Same as Persian 262.)
    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 261.
  
  • ASST 301 - South Asian Cinema: Bollywood and Beyond

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduces classic, Bollywood, and diasporic South Asian film. Presents films beloved by diverse audiences across the globe for their entertainment values but that also pose questions of identity, nationalism, and modernity. Examines why the storytelling in the films viewed is so compelling and how the films are situated in the social, cultural, and historical contexts in which they were created.

    (Same as Anthropology 301 and Cinema Studies 301.)
  
  • ASST 332 - Introduction to Islam

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Religious Studies 332.)
  
  • ASST 339 - Islam in the Modern World

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Religious Studies 339.)
  
  • ASST 374 - Emerging Landscapes of East Asia

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Geography 374.)
  
  • ASST 471 - Selected Topics in Asian Studies

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • ASST 491 - Foreign Study

    1-5 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 5 hours.
 

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