FYS

Subject

FYS

Type

course

Edition

199184-undated-fallback-2fd7229a-uncsa.edu

Source

www.uncsa.edu

A collaborative, interdisciplinary, project-based seminar designed for students to engage in an exploration of art, life, and contemporary culture through experiencing, thinking, talking, making, reflecting, and writing. This course is designed to introduce students to a range of intellectual creative practices and processes. Students with 12 or more college transfer credits can replace this requirement with appropriate transfer credit or a General Education elective. FYS 1200 Engaging & Responding: 3 credits

Subject

FYS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

credits

Type

course

Edition

0019

Source

www.uncsa.edu

Engaging & Responding courses are small, writing-intensive topics seminars. Through interdisciplinary, project-based learning, students in Engaging & Responding will engage in sustained inquiry about a single topic. Over the course of the term, students will have the opportunity to develop a portfolio of work though a supported process of revision and reflection. Seminar topics will vary year to year based on the DLA faculty areas of study and research. Prerequisite: none GER 1101 Elementary German I 3 credits An introduction to the German language with emphasis on reading, writing, and above all listening and speaking German. Basic grammar and vocabulary building and the basic aspects of German-language culture will provide the student with necessary skills to function on a basic level in a German-speaking country. Prerequisite(s): GER 1102 requires passing GER 1101. GER 1102 Elementary German II 3 credits An introduction to the German language with emphasis on reading, writing, and above all listening and speaking German. Basic grammar and vocabulary building and the basic aspects of German-language culture will provide the student with necessary skills to function on a basic level in a German-speaking country. Prerequisite(s): GER 1102 requires passing GER 1101. GER 2088 Independent Study: 2088 Level 1 to 3 credits Independent Study is available in the following areas: ARH, FRE, GER, HIS, HUM, ITA, LIT, MAT, MST, PHI, PSY, SCI, THH, WRI. An Independent Study is a contract between a highly motivated student and a Liberal Arts faculty member available. It is entirely at the discretion of the faculty member whether or not to accept an Independent Study. Independent Study at the 2088-level is intended for second-year students with special academic interests not served by the regular schedule of classes. Independent Studies are not offered for courses already listed in the Bulletin. Students may earn a maximum of 6 semester hours in Independent Studies toward the degree. Independent Study forms can be obtained from the office of the Division of Liberal Arts. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200. GER 2101 Intermediate German I 3 credits Continued study and practice of German reading, writing, speaking and comprehension for expanded understanding and production of the German language. Students will also study contemporary and historical German-language cultural artifacts such as Lieder, operas, film, plays, etc. Prerequisite(s): Completion of both GER 1101 & 1102 with a C- or better in each, equivalent transfer or AP credits, or instructor permission/placement. GER 2102 Intermediate German II 3 credits Continued study and practice of German reading, writing, speaking and comprehension for expanded understanding and production of the German language. Students will also study contemporary and historical German-language cultural artifacts such as Lieder, operas, film, plays, etc. Prerequisite: GER 1102; GER 2102 requires passing 2101, placement test or permission of instructor. GER 3088 Independent Study: 3088 Level 1 to 3 credits Independent Study is available in the following areas: ARH, FRE, GER, HIS, HUM, ITA, LIT, MAT, MST, PHI, PSY, SCI, THH, WRI. An Independent Study is a contract between a highly motivated student and a Liberal Arts faculty member. It is entirely at the discretion of the faculty member whether or not to accept an Independent Study. Independent Study at the 3088-level is intended for third and fourth-year students with special academic interests not served by the regular schedule of classes. Independent Studies are not offered for courses already listed in the Bulletin. Students may earn a maximum of 6 semester hours in Independent Studies toward the degree. Independent Study forms can be obtained form the office of the Division of Liberal Arts. GER 3198 Topics in German Literature & Culture 3 credits A one-semester special topics course taught in German that focuses on a specific issue or issues in the study of German and/or German-language culture. Prerequisite(s): Completion of both GER 2101 & 2102 with a C- or better in each, equivalent transfer or AP credits, or instructor permission/placement. HIS 1198 Topics in History 3 credits An examination of a major historical issue or a specific historical period. HIS 1200 America Between the Wars 3 credits This course examines United States history between the close of the Great War (WWI) and the start of World War II, approximately 1920 to 1940. During this period, Americans engaged in a period of intense self-reflection and reorganization in economic, social, political, and cultural terms. Through primary and secondary readings, lecture, and discussion, this course aims to advance students' understanding of specific ways in which the United States changed during this period. Topics of study will include: the relationship between business and organized labor, the cultural life of the 1920s, immigration policy and anti-immigrant sentiment, debates over the meaning of “Americanism” and citizenship, the rise of mass consumer culture, the Great Depression and its myriad consequences, New Deal politics and culture, and the approach of another global war. Thoughtful examination of these issues will lead toward engagement with an even broader question about the historical legacy of this era. HIS 1300 US History: Colonial Era to the Present 3 credits This course offers a sweeping, fast-paced, one-semester survey of American history from the age of Anglo-European settlement to the beginning of the 21st century. Through primary sources and secondary readings, lecture, and discussion, students will gain a better understanding of the most important social, political, and cultural narratives with which historians organize and make sense of the American past. HIS 1400 The Rise of the Modern United States, 1890-1920 3 credits This course studies the period during which the United States became modern. Through close reading of primary historical documents, secondary readings, lecture, and discussion, students will better understand the major processes of modernization underway in this period, and the various political, social, and cultural responses those changes provoked. Topics will include industrialization and urbanization, Populist politics, immigration, the growth of corporations, the rise of commercial culture, new patterns of consumption and urban leisure, the growth of the bureaucratic state, the nation's embrace of an imperial foreign policy, nationalism, World War I and its broader consequences, and the emergence, in the Progressive Era, of new approaches to the problems experienced by workers, women, children, immigrants, and African-Americans. HIS 1800 The Politics of Memory: Shaping History at Monuments, Museums, and the Movies 3 credits Do Confederate monuments belong on college campuses and city plazas? How should museums and living history sites represent the horrors of the Holocaust or American slavery? When filmmakers, playwrights, composers, or choreographers explore historical events or people in their works, how do/should they navigate the intersecting terrain of historical ‘truth' and the imperatives of provocative storytelling? The work of history revolves around the question of “What happened in the past?” but also “How will/do we choose to remember the past?” What will be commemorated? What will be forgotten or erased? Whose stories get privileged, whose get silenced, and why? And how can we change those stories as time moves forward? Passionate debate flares around these questions, revealing lines of division, and providing us remarkable opportunities to study and participate in the evolving contours of American society and American democracy. This course will introduce students to the study of American memory practices through readings, viewings, field trips, and substantial reflection and discussion- focusing on signature case studies of tensions that have erupted around public monuments, museum exhibits, and feature films in the past century-as well as executing original research/design projects challenging them to create original, historically sensitive artifacts of public memory. HIS 2088 Independent Study 1 to 3 credits Independent Study is available in the following areas: ARH, FRE, GER, HIS, HUM, ITA, LIT, MAT, MST, PHI, PSY, SCI, THH, WRI. An Independent Study is a contract between a highly motivated student and a Liberal Arts faculty member available. It is entirely at the discretion of the faculty member whether or not to accept an Independent Study. Independent Study at the 2088-level is intended for second-year students with special academic interests not served by the regular schedule of classes. Independent Studies are not offered for courses already listed in the Bulletin. Students may earn a maximum of 6 semester hours in Independent Studies toward the degree. Independent Study forms can be obtained from the office of the Division of Liberal Arts. Prerequisite: ENG 1200. HIS 2198 Topics in History 3 credits

Subject

FYS

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

credits

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

www.uncsa.edu

Prerequisite

HUM 2101