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Undergraduate Bulletin 2022-2023 Archived Bulletin
Course Descriptions
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L.ENG 292 - Ancient Latin Literature-EC
Credits: 3
An introductory course in ancient Latin literature in English translation, with a focus on understanding the fundamental nature and conventions of literature as an art form and field of study, including the ways in which literature both reflects and shapes human experience. Readings will include epic and lyric poems, tragic and comic plays, and ancient critical works about literature. Authors may include Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Longinus, Catullus, Plautus, Terence, Seneca, and Propertius. Students will engage with the literary works they read by asking questions and discussing them, by writing critical and personal essays, and also by memorizing and reciting poems or passages from plays using performance techniques.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 293 - Art of Living Ethics & Literature-VX
Credits: 3
This course explores the question of how to live by reading great works of world literature that present a variety of ethical world-views, including, for example, Catholicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Taoism, Hinduism, Existentialism, and Feminism. Students will develop the ability to make decisions by applying, analyzing, and reflecting on ethical values and principles drawn from some of the world’s great wisdom literature.
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Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Values in Action-VX
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L.ENG 325 - American Literature: 1820-1860
Credits: 3
This course surveys the literature and culture of the American Renaissance, focusing on Romantic and Transcendental writers and texts, as well as on the literature of Abolition and of women’s rights. Short stories, novels, creative nonfiction, essays, and political documents will be examined. Representative authors: Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson, Sedgwick, Melville, Thoreau, Stowe, Dickinson, Fuller, Whitman.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 326 - American Literature: 1861-1900
Credits: 3
This course surveys the literature and culture of the Civil War and Reconstruction era, focusing on the slave narrative, Realism, Naturalism, Children’s fiction, and the American Gothic. Psychology, gender, race, class, religion, and other themes are considered as they influenced writers and literature from the time period. Representative authors: Howells, Alcott, Twain, James, Crane, Chopin, Gillman.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 328 - American Literature: Modern & Contemporary Poetry
Credits: 3
An intensive study of several major twentieth-century American poets, such as Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, Robert Hayden, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, and Sylvia Plath. The focus will be on learning how to read, understand, and take pleasure in each of these poets by exploring his or her characteristic techniques and themes in the context of his or her life and literary milieu. The course will include online films as well as student-led classroom discussions and much challenging and rewarding reading. Assignments may include memorization and performance of poems, a narrative-critical essay, a written abstract and oral summary of a critical essay, an oral interpretation of a poem, a critical paper, and a final exam.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 329 - American Literature: Modern & Contemporary Drama
Credits: 3
Representative dramatists: O’Neill, Glaspell, Hellman, Williams, Shange, Miller, Albee, Rabe, Wilson, Howe, Wasserstein.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 330 - American Literature: Modern Prose, 1900-1945
Credits: 3
Representative authors: Wharton, Dreiser, Cather, Stein, Anderson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wright, Porter.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 331 - American Literature: Contemporary Prose, 1945-Present
Credits: 3
Representative authors: Ellison, Baldwin, Malamud, Bellow, Welty, Carver, Cheever, Oates, Tyler, Mason, Walker, Morrison, Kincaid.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 332 - Major American Authors
Credits: 3
A study of significant authors, their texts and recent critical biographies. Authors vary. Students may take this course twice, for different authors.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 333 - Shakespeare Before 1600
Credits: 3
An intensive study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and some of the plays Shakespeare wrote before the year 1600, such as Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Much Ado about Nothing, Julius Caesar, and As You Like It. The focus will be on learning how to read, understand, and take pleasure in these poems and plays by exploring Shakespeare’s characteristic techniques and themes in the context of his linguistic, theatrical, and literary milieu. The course will include films as well as classroom discussions and much challenging and rewarding reading. Assignments may include memorization and performance of sonnets and passages from the plays, a narrative-critical essay, a written abstract and oral summary of a published critical essay, an oral interpretation of a scene from a play, a critical paper, and a final exam.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 334 - Shakespeare After 1600
Credits: 3
An intensive study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and some of the plays Shakespeare wrote around and after the year 1600, such as Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest. The focus will be on learning how to read, understand, and take pleasure in these poems and plays by exploring Shakespeare’s characteristic techniques and themes in the context of his linguistic, theatrical, and literary milieu. The course will include films as well as classroom discussions and much challenging and rewarding reading. Assignments may include memorization and performance of sonnets and passages from the plays, a narrative-critical essay, a written abstract and oral summary of a published critical essay, an oral interpretation of a scene from a play, a critical paper, and a final exam.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 337 - Medieval & Renaissance British Literature
Credits: 3
A study of British literature from Beowulf to Spenser, in modern translation from Irish, Welsh, Latin, French, and Old and Middle English, as well as some in the original Middle English and much in early modern English. Representative authors: Bede, the Beowulf-poet, Marie de France, Langland, Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, Malory, Julian of Norwich, More, Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Raleigh, Campion, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 340 - Romantic Age: 1798-1832
Credits: 3
A study of English romantic theory and practice. Representative authors: Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, P. Shelley, M. Shelley, Keats.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 341 - Victorian Age: 1832-1901
Credits: 3
A study of the poetry and prose of the age. Representative authors: Carlyle, Mill, Tennyson, Browning, Barrett Browning, Arnold, C. Rossetti, Ruskin.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 342 - Victorian Age Novel
Credits: 3
Focuses primarily on the Victorian Age novel. Representative authors: Brontes, Dickens, Collins, Eliot, Hardy.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 343 - British/Irish Poetry 1900-Present
Credits: 3
Representative authors: W.B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, T.S. Eliot, Patrick Kavanagh, W.H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 344 - British Fiction 1900-Present
Credits: 3
Representative authors: Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Huxley, Greene, Rhys, Lessing, Fowles, Byatt.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 345 - British Drama 1890-Present
Credits: 3
Representative authors: Wilde, Shaw, Osborne, Delaney, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Shaffer.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 351 - Milton & 17th Century Literature
Credits: 3
A survey of 17th century English poetry with emphasis on Milton’s Paradise Lost. Representative authors include Donne, Herbert, Jonson, Herrick, Lovelace, Marvell, Mary Sidney Wroth, and Katherine Philips.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 352 - 18th Century British Literature
Credits: 3
A survey of 18th-century English literature. Representative authors include Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Blake, Mary Wortley Montagu and selected women poets.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 355 - English Novel: 1800-1840
Credits: 3
A study of pre-Victorian trends in the novel. Representative authors include Austen, Edgeworth, Godwin, Scott, Shelley.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 370 - Fantastic Fiction
Credits: 3
A creative writing workshop in which students will study, write, revise and critique genre fiction and/or literary fiction informed by genre tropes. Specifically, the course will focus on science fiction, fantasy, and horror, or work that combines elements of literary fiction with these genres. Students will write three original works which will be submitted to, and critiqued by, the class, in addition to reading a variety of genre fiction with the purpose of learning the conventions of each genre and critiquing one another’s work in formal assignments presented to the class. Lastly, students will learn the protocols of submitting genre work to reputable markets.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 371 - Screenwriting
Credits: 3
A writing workshop focusing on the creation, critique, and revision of an original screenplay in this case, for a short film. This will involve learning the industry-appropriate format and terms and learning the conventions of writing in screenplay form. ENG 371 also carries a critical component, in which students will analyze the themes, techniques, and style of a particular multi-credited screenwriter, and analyze the structure and strengths/weaknesses of an already-produced short film.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 380 - Nature Writing
Credits: 3
An advanced-level workshop course in nonfiction nature writing. Students write in various subgenres of creative nonfiction, and also study technique and theme in contemporary nonfiction nature writing.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 383 - Nonfiction Literature & Workshop
Credits: 3
An advanced-level workshop in which students write memoir, meditative, and literary journalism essays while analyzing the works of published authors.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 384 - Advanced Fiction Writing
Credits: 3
An advanced course in the art and craft of writing fiction.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 237 or equivalent
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Repeatable May be taken twice.
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L.ENG 385 - Advanced Poetry Writing
Credits: 3
This is an advanced workshop course in the art of writing poetry, with an emphasis on poetics and technique. There will be regular reading and writing assignments, and three individual conferences with the professor. The course is open to any student who has passed L.ENG 238 - Poetry Writing .
Prerequisite: L.ENG 238 or equivalent; OR Instructor Permission
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Repeatable May be taken twice.
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L.ENG 389 - Revision, Editing & Publishing
Credits: 3
An advanced workshop seminar devoted to a detailed study of writing style, grammar and mechanics, based on original and extensively revised student work.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 ; at least one (1) 200-level writing class; Recommended: one (1) 300-level writing class
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 390 - Writing as Social Action
Credits: 3
In this course students learn how to apply rhetorical concepts to community needs by partnering with local organizations on projects related to social justice, civic engagement, and public dialogue.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 391 - Language Theory & Teaching of Writing
Credits: 3
An exploration of language and composition theory, research and pedagogy.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 468 - Thinkers, Critics, and Public Intellectuals
Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the advanced study of literature, to prepare them for civic engagement, social contribution, and professional life. Students will read works from different genres and periods. They will also learn and apply a variety of practical critical approaches, and consider the values and purposes of these approaches in various social contexts. The course introduces students to several critical schools and methods, with the aim both of familiarizing them with these methods in the work of other critics, and of enabling them to make use of these approaches in their own critical writing. By studying the influential ideas of past and present literary theorists, rhetoricians, critics, book reviewers, and public intellectuals, as well as such ethical values as intellectual integrity and the critic’s obligations to the reader, students will reflect more deeply on their own practices as readers and writers, and more fully understand the fundamental history, methods, and values of their discipline. This course is a requirement for both the Literature and Creative Writing majors.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 145
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 490 - Senior Literature Capstone-IN
Credits: 3
This course is the required capstone for English literature majors. It is designed to assist students in demonstrating the transferable knowledge and skills that they have developed through their liberal arts education at Loras College. This is an opportunity for students to refine and expand an essay they have already written. In addition, the course provides students with the opportunity to professionally present their strengths and accomplishments through the development of a cover letter and resume. Completion of College portfolio. Culminates in Capstone Defense.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
Co-requisite: L.ENG 490D
General Education Classification: Integrative Capstone-IN
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L.ENG 490D - Capstone Defense
Credits: 0
Students should register for ENG 490D Capstone Defense in the fall or spring, whichever semester they will defend the Capstone Project undertaken in L.ENG 490 .
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
Co-requisite: L.ENG 490
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 491 - Senior Thesis Seminar-IN
Credits: 3
Students will workshop thesis drafts and reflective essays in a workshop setting in consultation with a thesis director. Culminates in Thesis Defense.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing; English: Creative Writing Majors Only
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Integrative Capstone-IN
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L.ENG 491D - Thesis Defense
Credits: 0
Students should register for ENG 491D Thesis Defense in the fall or spring, whichever semester they will defend the creative thesis undertaken in L.ENG 491 .
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 493 - English Practicum: Literary Journal Editing & Production
Credits: 1
This course is an experiential learning practicum wherein students will contribute to the production of a nationally-read, undergraduate-only literary journal. Students will take part in every aspect of the publishing process: solicitation, selection of submissions, ordering, layout, proofing, and final publication. Catfish Creek is a unique opportunity for students to experience the publishing process from the other side of the submissions queue. Instructor permission required.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Repeatable Can be repeated up to four times for credit.
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L.EXP 100 - Foundations for College Success
Credits: 1
This course is designed to help first-year students develop the skills, behaviors, and attitudes that lead to college success. Topics will include time management, critical reading, test & note taking strategies, using campus resources, and effective communication. This course is designed to serve as a supplement to the Modes of Inquiry course, providing more in depth discussion and exploration of transitional and academic success topics.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 140 - Health Profession Experience: CNA
Credits: 3
This course, intended for those interested in healthcare, allows students an opportunity to experience healthcare from the inside. Students will learn the skills and knowledge necessary to be a Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) and put these lessons into practice during supervised clinical work. Upon successful completion of the course students will be eligible to take the Iowa written and skills competency exams required to be a certified nurse aide. Students will use this experience to develop a clearer picture of the healthcare field and reflect on their future role in it. Training and clinical work will occur locally but off campus.
Prerequisite: Tuberculosis screening and background check.
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 151 - DuSTEM Seminar I
Credits: 1
The DuSTEM seminar series promotes developing skills to succeed in STEM fields. In this course, students will both interact with STEM majors as well as develop skills to improve academic success. This is the first part of the series focusing on development of general academic skills.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission Required; DuSTEM Only
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 152 - DuSTEM Seminar II
Credits: 1
Effective oral communication is viewed as an essential life skill that every person must possess in order to function in contemporary society. This experiential course engages literary analysis and communication for oral interpretive performance, and aims to balance the development of both analytic and performance skills. The course endeavors to develop, reinforce and evaluate communication for public settings, with a view of public communication as a form of performance (not conversation), and narrative as the most resonant form of public communication. The course content and experiences will enable students to assume their responsibilities as message interpreters/creators, senders, receivers and evaluators. Hence, the course is designed to make students competent, critical, confident, literate and highly engaging communicators.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission Required; DuSTEM Only
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 194 - Exploratory Internship
Credits: 1-2
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 200 - Leadership Seminar
Credits: 1
This course studies leadership styles, skills, and functions of leadership. The purpose of the Leadership Seminar is to prepare students to assume increasingly responsible leadership roles in their personal, professional, and academic lives. As such, this course will engage students to think critically about the subject matter and how these concepts have bearing on their lives. The interdisciplinary approach of this class makes the course a valuable elective for any major. Instructor permission required.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 201 - Topics in Leadership
Credits: 1
Topics in Leadership is a class during which a student or a small group of students learn how to function as leaders in specific settings. Students work directly with a professional in a particular field (for example, Residence Life or Campus Spiritual Life) to identify, read, and discuss the literature and guidelines that define professional leadership in that designated area. Distinct from a practicum, this course does not evaluate student abilities to apply information in practical settings; rather, it assesses whether or not a student has processed the knowledge necessary to function effectively (ethically, responsibly, and according to best practices) in settings that will require them to direct others. The course is a one credit offering, but students may take it in three iterations (L.EXP 200 , L.EXP 201, L.EXP 202, L.EXP 203) and up to three separate times for a total of three credit hours. In all cases, the Associate Dean of Academics will approve individual sections to ensure the courses meet objectives and outcomes. Instructor permission required.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 240 - Global Service Learning-VX
Credits: 3
This study travel course focuses on learning about culture with a significant portion of the learning coming from travel to a developing area and performing service to a community in need. During the pre-travel portion of the course, students will research and present information about aspects of the destination country’s culture and the factors that have helped shape that culture, in particular its history. The travel component of the course will focus on performing significant community service and post-travel, students will reflect on how their first-hand experiences enhanced learning about the destination culture as well as their own cultures.
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Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Values in Action-VX
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L.EXP 273 - The Sustainable Community: The Real & the Ideal
Credits: 3
This course explores the essential features of a sustainable community (i.e., a community that meets the basic needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of subsequent generations to meet their needs) by examining the key dimensions of sustainability as they are currently practiced in Dubuque and by studying current “best practice” sustainability measures and policies.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 288 - Patel Interfaith Seminar: Appreciative Knowledge
Credits: 1
This introductory blended course (taught in the classroom and online) for the Interfaith Leaders Cohort Program is designed to help students begin to learn both basic conversational skills associated with gathering stories of religious identity from individuals and basic writing skills needed to tell those stories to different audiences. It includes a reflective dimension in which students are asked to consider their own learning - what skills they have developed, how individual stories relate to what they have discovered about traditional religious beliefs and practices, and their own personal vocation in the world. Instructor permission required.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 294 - Internship
Credits: 1-12
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 359 - Project Design Implementation/Evaluation
Credits: 3
Experiential learning course. This intensive field-based course focuses on the nature of project design by providing students with a full-time off-campus cross-disciplinary opportunity (involving a minimum of 120 on-site hours and including on-site supervision) to apply the knowledge and skills from their major to a defined project, ordinarily defined by a discrete set of outcomes or a specific product. The defined project should be experiential in nature and occur in a professional setting. In addition, students will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of professional settings, organizational culture, formal and informal modes of communication, ethics, and diversity (in the broadest sense). Students must register for EXP-359 through the Center for Experiential Learning.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 394 - Study Abroad Internship
Credits: 1-12
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 395 - Topics.
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 397 - Independent Study
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EXP 488 - MLK Interfaith Seminar: Applying Knowledge
Credits: 1
This advanced blended course (taught in the classroom and online) for the Interfaith Leaders Cohort Program is designed to help students both refine basic conversational skills associated with gathering stories of religious identity from individuals and improve writing and speaking skills needed to tell those stories in ways that reflect an awareness of traditional and cultural elements in both the subject of the story and its audience. It includes a public dimension in which interfaith stories are shared with an audience. It also includes a reflective dimension that asks students to consider growth in their understanding of interfaith leadership and relate their experience to their sense of vocation in the world. Instructor permission required.
Prerequisite: L.EXP 288 ; L.RST 201
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CFP 300 - Financial Planning & Risk Management
Credits: 3
The Minor in Financial Planning & Wealth Management is open to students of all majors and interests. CFP 300 provides an introduction to knowledge students will need working as financial services’ professionals. Course includes: the financial planning process; legal, ethical, and regulatory issues affecting personal financial planners; and time value of money concepts. The course continues with a discussion of the principles of risk management and insurance, allowing the student to identify a client’s risk exposure and select appropriate risk management techniques concerning life, accident/health, disability, property and casualty, and long-term care insurance. Topics covered align with the requirements of the CFP Board’s Principal Topics List.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CFP 310 - Portfolio Management & Communication
Credits: 3
The Minor in Financial Planning & Wealth Management is open to students of all majors and interests. Course will teach students how to educate, guide, and advise clients on goals-based portfolio management. Instruction is designed to provide students with an introduction to modern portfolio theory, measuring risk and return, portfolio development and analysis, asset allocation and portfolio diversification, equity and bond valuation and derivatives. Intention is for students to gain enough familiarity with investment concepts to form their own opinions to aid in career direction. Topics covered align with the requirements of the CFP Board’s Principal Topics List. Note: Students can also take L.BUS 352 - Investments to satisfy this component of the Minor in Financial Planning & Wealth Management. L.BUS 352 will count as part of the CFP® education coursework.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CFP 320 - Personal Tax Planning
Credits: 3
The Minor in Financial Planning & Wealth Management is open to students of all majors and interests. This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to individual income tax fundamentals and the calculation of income tax. In addition, the tax issues surrounding business entities, disposition of property and tax basis is discussed. Students are introduced to AMT, passive activity rules, charitable contributions and tax minimization strategies. Topics covered align with the requirements of the CFP Board’s Principal Topics List. Note: Students can also take L.ACC 455 - Federal Income Tax I to satisfy this component of the Minor in Financial Planning & Wealth Management. However, L.ACC 455 - Federal Income Tax I will not count as part of the CFP® education coursework.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CFP 330 - Retirement Planning & Employee Benefits
Credits: 3
The Minor in Financial Planning & Wealth Management is open to students of all majors and interests. This course will provide students with an introduction to retirement planning and employee benefits, including public and private retirement plans as well as group and fringe benefits. Specifically, the course will cover the public retirement plans including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as well as the private plans including both defined benefit and defined contribution plans. In addition, the course will provide students with an understanding of the regulatory provisions associated with the installation, administration and termination of retirement plans, the specific characteristics of the various plans available including qualified, non-qualified and other tax advantaged plans. Finally, the course will detail employee group and fringe benefits and the taxation of these benefit plans, and the issues that individuals face in retirement. Topics covered align with the requirements of the CFP Board’s Principal Topics List.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CFP 340 - Estate Planning
Credits: 3
The Minor in Financial Planning & Wealth Management is open to students of all majors and interests. The estate planning course cultivates a foundation of knowledge students need working as financial services professionals. Topics will include: the estate planning process and the basic documents needed for an estate plan, such as a will, durable power of attorney for healthcare and an advanced medical directive. The course continues with a discussion regarding property ownership, assets that pass through and around the probate process, gift and estate taxes, and planning techniques to reduce an individual’s tax liability. Topics covered align with the requirements of the CFP Board’s Principal Topics List.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CFP 490 - Applications in Financial Planning & Wealth Management
Credits: 3
The Minor in Financial Planning & Wealth Management is open to students of all majors and interests. The estate planning course cultivates a foundation of knowledge students need working as financial services professionals. Topics will include: the estate planning process and the basic documents needed for an estate plan, such as a will, durable power of attorney for healthcare and an advanced medical directive. The course continues with a discussion regarding property ownership, assets that pass through and around the probate process, gift and estate taxes, and planning techniques to reduce an individual’s tax liability. Topics covered align with the requirements of the CFP Board’s Principal Topics List.
Prerequisite: L.CFP 300 ; L.CFP 310 ; L.CFP 320 ; L.CFP 330 ; L.CFP 340
Co-requisite: One prerequisite can be taken concurrently with CFP 490
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.GRS 101 - First Year Ancient Greek
Credits: 3
An elementary introduction to ancient Greek grammar and vocabulary, accompanied by simple readings that illustrate basic aspects of ancient Greek culture.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.GRS 102 - First Year Ancient Greek
Credits: 3
An elementary introduction to ancient Greek grammar and vocabulary, accompanied by simple readings that illustrate basic aspects of ancient Greek culture.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.GRS 105 - First Year Latin I
Credits: 3
An elementary introduction to Latin grammar and vocabulary, accompanied by simple readings that illustrate basic aspects of ancient Roman culture.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.GRS 106 - First Year Latin II
Credits: 3
An elementary introduction to Latin grammar and vocabulary, accompanied by simple readings that illustrate basic aspects of ancient Roman culture.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.GRS 205 - Second Year Ancient Greek
Credits: 3
Intermediate level study of ancient Greek grammar and syntax, with selected readings from poets and prose authors.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HON 101 - Engaging Differences-FD
Credits: 3
The First Year Experience begins in August when students arrive on campus and engage in an immersive experience with their Engaging Differences class. This course emphasizes active learning through critical thinking and reading and the development of the foundational skills of information literacy. The course will ask students to explore their lived experiences of diversity, equity and inclusion through exposure to Loras College’s distinctive mission.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Engaging Differences-FD
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L.HON 102 - Engaging Communities-FC
Credits: 3
Engaging Communities guides students in the ability to participate in productive dialogue with peers on a multitude of issues. By applying critical perspectives through multiple lenses of inquiry, students will explore the reciprocal relationship between self and community. This exploration will include participation in activities that encourage students to reflect on the significance and trajectory of their own life (or leading lives that matter).
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Engaging Communities-FC
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L.HON 230 - Catholic Traditions-CT
Credits: 3
Catholic Traditions is the introductory category within the Vocations area, and serves as a pre-requisite to both Values in Action and Call to Participation. By promoting reflective thinking about the religious dimensions of human experience, courses within the category introduce students to the Catholic worldview, in which God’s love can be seen and experienced in and through all tangible things. Regardless of whether courses analyze the Catholic worldview from within Catholicism or compare and contrast it to religious traditions beyond Catholicism, courses in the category will further students’ self-understanding of their capacity to contribute responsibly to society through their discerned call to participation in the world. Courses within the category are taught from diverse disciplinary perspectives.
Prerequisite: and
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Catholic Traditions-CT
Requirements: Not open to students who have completed L.HON 235
Cross-listed: L.HON 235
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L.HON 235 - Catholic Traditions-CT
Credits: 3
Catholic Traditions is the introductory category within the Vocations area, and serves as a pre-requisite to both Values in Action and Call to Participation. By promoting reflective thinking about the religious dimensions of human experience, courses within the category introduce students to the Catholic worldview, in which God’s love can be seen and experienced in and through all tangible things. Regardless of whether courses analyze the Catholic worldview from within Catholicism or compare and contrast it to religious traditions beyond Catholicism, courses in the category will further students’ self-understanding of their capacity to contribute responsibly to society through their discerned call to participation in the world. Courses within the category are taught from diverse disciplinary perspectives.
Prerequisite: and
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Catholic Traditions-CT
Restrictions: Not open to students who have completed L.HON 230
Cross-listed: L.HON 230
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L.HON 250 - Honors Research Seminar
Credits: 1
Each honors student will be part of a small learning community dedicated to discovering a meaningful social, community, or global problem, researching its context, and designing a solution. Honors Inquiry will evolve small groups of students from diverse academic interests through a process of reflection, investigation, and large group discourse. Formed in the sophomore year, these small groups will focus attention in the first year to developing questions and arriving at strategies for further study. In the second year, these small groups will explore the contexts for the problems they have identified in order to establish a thorough understanding of the complex and inter-related issues related to their problems. Finally, during their last year groups will design detailed plans for solving the problems they confront.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HON 350 - Honors Research Seminar
Credits: 1
Each honors student will be part of a small learning community dedicated to discovering a meaningful social, community, or global problem, researching its context, and designing a solution. Honors Inquiry will evolve small groups of students from diverse academic interests through a process of reflection, investigation, and large group discourse. Formed in the sophomore year, these small groups will focus attention in the first year to developing questions and arriving at strategies for further study. In the second year, these small groups will explore the contexts for the problems they have identified in order to establish a thorough understanding of the complex and inter-related issues related to their problems. Finally, during their last year groups will design detailed plans for solving the problems they confront.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HON 450 - Honors Research Seminar
Credits: 1
Each honors student will be part of a small learning community dedicated to discovering a meaningful social, community, or global problem, researching its context, and designing a solution. Honors Inquiry will evolve small groups of students from diverse academic interests through a process of reflection, investigation, and large group discourse. Formed in the sophomore year, these small groups will focus attention in the first year to developing questions and arriving at strategies for further study. In the second year, these small groups will explore the contexts for the problems they have identified in order to establish a thorough understanding of the complex and inter-related issues related to their problems. Finally, during their last year groups will design detailed plans for solving the problems they confront.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HON 488 - Capstone Abstract & Presentation
Credits: 1
Each honors student will supplement the senior capstone project in their major by taking this one (1) credit course, usually in the same semester as the major project is completed. This course will require a student to produce an abstract and an annotated bibliography, provide a public presentation of the work open to all members of the Loras community and especially the Honors Program, and participate in a defense of the work with a committee of faculty.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 116 - Ancient Greek Civilization
Credits: 3
A survey of ancient Greek history and culture from the Bronze Age of heroes of the Trojan War through the Hellenistic period ushered in by Alexander the Great. The course will try to answer the questions “who were the ancient Greeks and why are they worth studying today?” by examining the history, art, and literature they produced.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 117 - Roman Civilization
Credits: 3
A survey of Roman history and culture from the mysterious Etruscan period and the legendary founding of Rome through the fall of the western half of the Empire. The course will try to answer the questions “who were the Romans and why are they worth studying today?” by examining the history, art, and literature they produced.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 121 - United States To 1877
Credits: 3
The founding, expansion, and development of the United States from discovery and colonization to the Reconstruction era.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 122 - United States Since 1865
Credits: 3
United States history from the end of the Civil War to the present.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 125 - The Forgotten Burial Ground: Understanding Dubuque through the Third Street Cemetery
Credits: 3
This in-depth January term study course focuses on the Third Street Cemetery, a lost burial ground in Dubuque. Located directly west of St. Raphael’s Cathedral on top of the bluff, a human bone discovered in 2007 led to a five-year salvage excavation by the Office of State Archeologist Burials Program. When the team began the project they believed that they would remove a few burials missed during the disinterment following the closure of the graveyard. Because they found 939 graves, the developer, hoping to build a condominium complex, called off the project. Through an exploration of American ideas of death and burial practices as well as contemporary conversations about balancing development with the preservation of sacred spaces, L.HIS 125 introduces students to the history of Dubuque and to vocations in the field of public history.
Prerequisite: First-Year Students Only
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 140 - Europe To 1750
Credits: 3
A study of the political, cultural and intellectual developments of Europe to 1750.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 141 - Modern Europe Since 1750
Credits: 3
A study of the political, cultural, and intellectual development of Europe.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 148 - Russian History through Novels-EC
Credits: 3
Students in this class will read Russian novels (in English translation) and study themes in Russian history related to the novels they read. They will develop literary and historical analyses of the novels and learn how to use a novel as a source in the examination of a particular historical problem. In this process, students will gain insightful knowledge of some important themes in Russian history, explore relations between literature and society, and develop a basic understanding of conventions in novel writing and historical writing.
Prerequisite: First-Year Students Only
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.HIS 161 - Modern Africa since 1800
Credits: 3
A survey of sub-Saharan Africa during the age of European exploration, conquest, and colonization. Topics include the revolutions in West and Southern Africa; abolition of the slave trade; European exploration and trade; military conquest and African resistance; white settlers in Africa; British, French, and German colonial rule; the economics of western colonialism; the emergence of African elites and the growth of African nationalism.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 162 - The Scramble for Africa
Credits: 3
This course will offer an in-depth investigation into the “Scramble for Africa” which took place during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as European powers arbitrarily carved up the continent and created approximately 40 colonies and protectorates. The material will critically engage with the proliferation of European geographic societies, the culture of maps and cartography, and how the cultural, social, economic, and geopolitical consequences behind the creation of these former colonial borders continue to significantly influence and impact many present-day issues throughout the continent. Students will use resources in the campus library and other online map collections to conduct research and produce a work of digital history as well as participate in a role-playing simulation of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 which set up the parameters for the partition of the African continent.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 175 - Themes in World History-EI
Credits: 3
Instead of striving for a comprehensive coverage of world history, this course focuses on a few selected themes, such as migration, gender, warfare, and revolutions. Each theme will be examined in global and comparative perspectives. The emphasis of the course is placed on the modern world, but pre-modern influences and patterns will also be explored in some of the themes.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.HIS 178 - East Asian History in Hollywood Films-EC
Credits: 3
Students in this class will examine how the modern history of China and Japan is represented in Hollywood films. In order to do so, they will learn about the basic techniques of filmmaking and develop a basis understanding of the key terms used in film studies. More importantly, they will develop an in-depth understanding of the large themes in the modern history of China and Japan that are related to the Hollywood films they will watch and critique.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.HIS 182 - Islamic Civilizations-EI
Credits: 3
This course introduces students to important cultural, social, and religious trends in the history of this fascinating religion and relates them to key events. In addition to major themes such as Muhammad and the early history of Islam, the Sunni-Shi’ite divide, European colonialism, an introduction to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the rise of Fundamentalism, the course may address other important topics such as women in Islam, examples of religious cooperation in Islamic Spain and Mughal India, pan-Arabism and nationalism, and heresy and dissent.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.HIS 229 - African American History-EI
Credits: 3
This course studies the African American experience from slavery to the present, focusing on the formation of both personal and community identities in light of the experience of slavery and racism. Key to our exploration of African American identity will be resistance and reform. The course will also place a heavy emphasis on African American musical traditions.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.HIS 230 - Community & Identity in the American West-EI
Credits: 3
This course focuses primarily on the interaction of Native Americans, Hispanics and the diverse population of immigrants (Euro-American, African-American, Chinese and European) who settled in United States territories west of the Mississippi River during the nineteenth century. Through primary source texts, objects, artwork and music, students will explore individual identity and how a group of individuals uses culture to build community. We will study how the interactions within a shared culture transform personal identities as well as how interactions across cultures shape each community.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.HIS 232 - Herbert Hoover & the Great Depression
Credits: 3
When elected in 1928, people perceived Herbert Hoover as a caring, compassionate, humanitarian. By 1932, American citizens believed he did not care about the people some blamed him for the depression and to others his name became synonymous with Satan. Why did this transformation in public opinion happen? This J-term course will explore this question by studying the effects of the Great Depression on the American populace and their response. It also examines the character and actions of Herbert Hoover both before and during his presidency. Key to our study will be the archival collections of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum in West Branch, Iowa.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 235 - Race & Gender Reform in the United States-EI
Credits: 3
The course focuses on the struggles for racial and gender equality that took place during slavery–the abolition movement–contributed to the evolution of a women’s rights movement; more recently, the civil rights movement helped stimulate the women’s liberation movement. This course compares and contrasts these movements for racial and gender justice. We will study the past, but also bring our historical query to the present with a study of contemporary social movements.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.HIS 239 - United States Women’s History-EI
Credits: 3
This course focuses on the evolving concept of gender identity in American society. We will compare and contrast the experiences of women of varying ethnic, class, racial, and regional identities. Women labored at home and for wages. They built and influenced families, communities and organizations. They worked to reform society, shaping the social, political and economic world through their efforts. We will trace the evolution of women’s rights and gender equity from the early 1600s to the present.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.HIS 243 - The Crusades-EI
Credits: 3
This course will examine the history of the Crusades, its role in the emergence of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and its relationship to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (especially Just War Theory). The chronological focus will be on the first hundred and nine years of crusading, from the summons to the First Crusade and the conquest of Jerusalem to the fall of Jerusalem and the sack of Constantinople, the world’s greatest Christian city at the time. It will look at the lives of famous characters such as the Norman general Bohemond, the remarkable queen Melisande, the Leper-King, and the romantic favorites Richard the Lionheart and Saladin; and it will listen to the voices not only of European Christians, but also of Jews and Muslims.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.HIS 245 - The Celts-EI
Credits: 3
The Celts- Hags, Druids, and Saints pace the pages of Celtic myth and folklore, entrancing audiences and readers with stories of personal dilemmas, heroism, and magic. This course will analyze comparatively some Irish and Welsh myths, study the evolution of the legend of St. Patrick, and read fairy tales in an effort to understand important cultural realities and the social changes they reflect.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.HIS 246 - Gollum, Gandalf, and Galadriel: JRR Tolkien Research-EC
Credits: 3
Gollum, Gandalf, and Galadriel builds archival research skills through examining the fantasy writing of J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and Farmer Giles of Ham. The course centers on a week-long experience in the Tolkien archives at Marquette University, where students will use the author’s original notes and manuscripts to develop questions and discover the roots of his beloved characters, places, and events. In addition to inquiry, students will explore the craft of writing, witnessing the evolution of passages and characters through examining Tolkien’s revision process. The course explores three elements of JRR Tolkien’s fantasy work: literary craft, historical vision, and moral imagination. Much of what makes Tolkien’s fantasy work so compelling is the degree to which it was informed by his own historical and philological studies and his personal reflection on the emerging aspects of modernism in the 20th century. Through archival and non-archival research, students will analyze the development of Tolkien’s characters over multiple drafts and in his letters.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.HIS 255 - United States/Latin American Relations
Credits: 3
A survey of Interamerican relations with emphasis on the period from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the present and on U.S. relations with Latin America.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 275 - History As Film: East Asia
Credits: 3
This course examines themes in East Asian history dramatized in select feature films. Films to be viewed and critiqued in class include Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea and The Last Samurai. A feature film on a historical theme is a piece of art, but it interprets history. While it is not a source of historical knowledge, its interpretation of history can and should be evaluated or critiqued; such evaluations or critiques would help us develop a more sophisticated understanding of the past.
Prerequisite: L.LIB 101
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 279 - Gandhi the Interfaith Peace-Builder-VX
Credits: 3
This is a January term study travel course that links Gandhi’s teachings on non-violence and interfaith peace-building to site visits in India related to his personal history, his historical environment, and the context of religious pluralism in India. The course will involve community based learning as students hear lectures from peace-building experts in India, conduct interviews related to understanding the social ecologies of the subcontinent’s diverse cultural landscape, and visit organizations whose mission is to address injustice and religious discord. Approximately three days of the course will be spent on campus and 18 days spent in India or in travel to India.
Approved for Community Based Learning.
Prerequisite:
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Values in Action-VX
Restrictions: Not open to First-Year Students
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L.HIS 285 - The Arab-Israeli Conflict-EI
Credits: 3
The Arab-Israeli Conflict is an interactive course that will educate students about the complexities of the relationship between Israel, Palestinians, and their Middle Eastern neighbors and will engage students interactively with sources and people through reading, role play, and personal contact with people who are impacted by the situation, institutional peace efforts, grass-roots action toward reconciliation, and voices of dissent in both Palestinian and Jewish communities.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.HIS 288 - The Historian as Investigator
Credits: 3
This course surveys the vocations available through the discipline of history and overviews a range of methodological approaches. It also provides form skills training in research and writing.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 320 - Native American Archeology
Credits: 3
Native Americans settled in North America at least 15,000 years ago. This course explores the ancient history of what became the continental United States, focusing on the Native American occupants of the Upper Mississippi River Valley. The course utilizes the discipline of archeology to explore the many different peoples who inhabited the United States prior to European colonization. We end our study with the peoples encountered by Europeans at contact in the 1600s.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 329 - The Enlightenment
Credits: 3
An examination of the major institutions of eighteenth-century European society and the social history of ideas, particularly the contrast between elite and popular culture, and the primary social criticisms and reforms proposed by Enlightenment writers such as Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, and the Encyclopedists.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.HIS 333 - Imperial Geographies
Credits: 3
This course will study how the aesthetics of urban design and architecture from the late 19th century to present are symbolic of key questions that speak to imperialism, colonialism, nationalism, and the postcolonial condition. The course material will consider how architects, geographers, urban planners, and certain political and social classes engaged the legacy of colonialism and the politics of nationalism in their work and practices. Attention will be paid to the spatial organization of colonial and postcolonial cities, the politics of architectural and urban design, and the aesthetic nature of urban iconography. Case studies will be drawn from various cities throughout Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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