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Survey of East Asian History Government and Politics of Asia |
6 3 |
Elective Courses
ANTH 306-- Peoples and Cultures of Island Asia
ANTH 311-- Peoples and Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia
ANTH 320-- Art of the Islamic World
ANTH 381-- Asian Art
GOVT 433-- Political Economy of East Asia
GOVT 490-- Senior seminar if topic is on Asia
HIST 353-- History of Traditional China
HIST 354-- Modern China
HIST 356-- Modern Japan
HIST 451- The United States and China
RELI 314-- Chinese Philosophies and ReligiousTraditions
RELI 315-- The Buddhist Tradition
RELI 337-- Mysticism: East and West
Note: Language courses in Chinese or Japanese are strongly recommended, if available.
Contemporary Europe
Faculty
Brunette, Crampton, Deshmukh, Dinan (coordinator), Jensen, Katz, Levine, Orens, Verheyen, Wade
Requirements
The interdisciplinary minor in contemporary Europe requires a minimum of 18 credits: 6 credits of required courses and 12 credits of electives (at least 3 credits from Elective List I or Elective List II). Prerequisites for each course are listed in parentheses. Relevant special topics courses, seminars, independent study, internships, and study abroad courses may be also be taken for elective credits, with permission of the contemporary Europe coordinator.
Required Courses
GOVT 334-- Government and Politics of Europe
(GOVT 103 and 104 or permission of instructor)
HIST 309-- Contemporary Europe
(Six credits of HIST or permission of instructor)
Elective List I: History and Politics
GERM 302-- Germany Today
(Six credits of GERM or permission of instructor)
GOVT 338-- Government and Politics of the Former USSR
(GOVT 132 and 133 or permission of instructor)
GOVT 445-- Soviet/Russian Foreign Policy
(GOVT 132 and 133 or permission of instructor)
GOVT 490-- The European Union
(GOVT 103 and 104, or six credits of HIST,
or permission of instructor)
HIST 314-- History of Germany
(Six credits of HIST or permission of instructor)
HIST 322-- Modern Britain
(Six credits of HIST or permission of instructor)
HIST 329-- Modern Russia and the Soviet Union
(Six credits of HIST or permission of instructor)
RUSS 354-- Contemporary Post-Soviet Life
(Six credits of RUSS or permission of instructor)
Elective List II: Philosophy, Literature, the Arts
ARTH 362 20th-Century European Art
(24 credits of ARTH)
FREN 442 20th-Century Drama and Poetry
(18 credits of FREN or permission of instructor)
GERM 451 Modern German Literature
(15 credits of GERM or permission of instructor)
HIST 436 European Society and Culture
(Six credits of HIST or permission of instructor)
PHIL 336 Contemporary Continental Thought
(Three credits of PHIL or permission of instructor)
SPAN 484 Literature of Spain
(SPAN 311 or permission of instructor)
Film and Media Studies
Faculty
Brunette (co-coordinator), Burton, Christensen, Foreman, Fuchs (co-coordinator), Lont, Ricouart, P. Smith, Winkler
We are inundated on a daily basis with mass culture, especially as it is purveyed through the mass media. The effects of this inundation are enormous and often unconscious, and the Film and Media Studies (FAMS) interdisciplinary minor aims to develop in students a more informed awareness of the nature of this culture, its ideological tendencies, and its effects on daily life in our society. The program offers diverse perspectives on mass media in the belief that such juxtapositions are more productive than any single approach. Committed to interdisciplinary studies, the program addresses the increasing complexity and multiplicity of visual cultures.
The program's basic components are offered through the Departments of Communication, English, and Music, with other courses available through the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. This 18-credit interdisciplinary minor is designed to introduce and explore mass culture in its visual manifestations. The program offers students the tools with which to read a variety of texts, including film, television, video, news media, and architecture.
Requirements
A minimum of 18 credits of related course work is required, taken from two groups as follows:
Group 1: Required Courses
Two required courses (six credits) provide an introduction to the languages of film and popular media and to modes of analysis appropriate to each. These courses are prerequisites for all advanced work in the minor.
ENGL 332-- Introduction to Film (offered every semester)
COMM 380-- Media Criticism (offered every fall semester)
Group 2: Elective Courses
After completing the two required courses, students
select four additional courses (12 credits) from those listed
below. These courses are designed to introduce students to a
more specialized level of study. Students may decide to focus
on film, or may decide to emphasize the study of mass
culture. Or, they may choose some mixture of the courses that
suits their own interests.
Communication majors must choose at least six credits
outside of Communication for their FAMS elective courses.
COMM 302-- Foundations of Mass Communication
COMM 350-- Mass Communication and Public Policy
COMM 355-- Video I: Principles and Practices
COMM 358-- Video II: Editing and Directing (prerequisite: COMM 355)
COMM 360-- Video II: Intermediate Production (prerequisite: COMM 355)
COMM 365-- Women and Media
COMM 452-- Media Production Practice (prerequisite: COMM 355)
COMM 456-- Comparative Mass Media
COMM 502-- Theories of Mass Communication
COMM 555-- Theories of Visual Communication
ENGL 327-- Intro to Cultural Studies (may only be taken with approval of the coordinator, who will review the course to determine relevance to FAMS)
ENGL 334-- Literary Approaches to Popular Culture (may only be taken with approval of the coordinator, who will review the course to determine relevance to FAMS)
ENGL 421-- Topics in Film History (may be repeated if the topic is different) Sample topics include Italian Film, Films of the Fifties, and French Film.
ENGL 422-- Topics in Film Theory (may be repeated if the topic is different) Sample topics include Reading Television, and Hitchcock and Film Theory.
ENGL 490-- Special Topics in Film (may be repeated if the topic is different) Sample topics include The Horror Film, Queer Film and Theory, and African American Film.
ENGL 493-- Special Topics in Popular Culture (requires approval of FAMS coordinator)
ENGL 499-- Independent Study (requires approval of FAMS coordinator)
ENGL 499-- Internship (requires approval of FAMS coordinator)
MUSI 301-- Music in the Motion Pictures
RUSS 470 -- Topics in (Post) Soviet Cinema
For further information, contact Peter Brunette, Department of English, Robinson Hall, Room A465, (703) 993-1190, or Cindy Fuchs, Department of English, Robinson Hall, Room A458, (703) 993-2768.
Folklore and Mythology
Faculty
Burns, ffolliott, Fuchs, Gras, Johnsen-Neshati, Kendall, Mattusch (co-coordinator), Owens, Rutledge, Shiner, Todd, Winkler, Yocom (co-coordinator)
Stories told in both sacred and secular contexts, along with festivals, foods, music, material objects, and other traditional art forms, continue to influence our lives. This program offers students the tools with which to explore the compelling meanings within these seemingly simple, everyday cultural texts and to become more aware of the ways these texts are used by individuals and institutions for a variety of goals. Committed to interdisciplinary study, this program asks students to study folklore and mythology by juxtaposing the multiple viewpoints available from anthropology, art history, classical studies, literary studies, and religious studies.
A minimum of 18 credits of related course work is required, taken from three groupings of courses.
Required Courses
Group 1: 3 credits
ARTH 102-- Symbols and Stories in Art
CLAS 250-- Classical Mythology
RELI 100-- The Human Religious Experience
RELI 211-- Religions of the Near East
RELI 212-- Religions of the Orient
Students may take only one Group 1 course from a department for credit toward the minor. If any of these courses is taken for credit toward the B.A. literature requirement, it may not be taken for credit in the minor.
Group 2: 12-15 credits
ANTH 450-- Qualitative Methods in Sociocultural Research (note ANTH prerequisites)
ARTH 319-- Art of the Ancient Near East
ARTH 321-- Greek Art
ARTH 322-- Roman Art
CLAS 350-- Greek and Roman Tragedy
CLAS 340-- Greek and Roman Epic
ENGL 311-- Writing Ethnography
ENGL 333-- American Folklore
ENGL 337-- Special Topics in Myth and Literature
ENGL 491-- Special Topics in Folklore and Folklife
ENGL 513-- Advanced Special Topics in English: Studies in Folklore and Folklife
RELI 341-- Mythology of the Ancient Near East
Group 3: 0-3 credits
Independent Study and Internships: ANTH 299, ANTH 495, ARTH 393, ARTH 490, ARTS 491, ENGL 499,
ENGL 504, summer fieldwork schools offered by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and at other institutions approved by the faculty.
(To avoid duplication of courses, English majors who choose the folklore and mythology interdisciplinary minor should not elect the English Department's folklore, mythology, and literature concentration.)
For further information, contact Margaret Yocom, Department of English, Robinson Hall, Room A439, (703) 993-1172, or Carol Mattusch, Department of History and Art History, Robinson Hall, Room B355, (703) 993-1017.
Global Systems
Faculty
Clark (coordinator)
Requirements
The interdisciplinary minor in global systems consists of 18 credits of nonregion-specific courses that deal with global connections or transactions. It is ideal for majors in business disciplines, economics, modern and classical languages, geography, government and international politics, history, and other disciplines taking a global view of the world. The minor requires GOVT 149 Global Awareness, and 15 credits drawn from at least two of the following fields. At least nine credits must be at the 300 level or above.
Field A: Government and Geography
GEOG 101-- Major World Regions
GEOG 301-- Political Geography
GEOG 303-- Conservation of Resources and Environment
GEOG 304-- Geography of Population
GEOG 305-- Economic Geography
GOVT 132-- Introduction to International Politics
GOVT 348-- Competencies for the Global Arena
GOVT 349-- Issues in the Analysis of Global Systems
GOVT 444-- Issues in International Studies
Field B: Economics, Anthropology, Marketing, History, and Program on Social and Organizational Learning
ANTH 300-- Civilizations
ANTH 375-- Anthropological Perspectives on History
ECON 360-- Economics of Developing Areas
ECON 390-- International Economics
HIST 130-- History of the Modern Global System
HIST 387-- Topics in Global History
LRNG 572-- Taming the Electronic Frontier
MKTG 407-- International Business
Field C: Environmental Science, Nursing, Physics, Systems Engineering, Urban and Suburban Studies
BIOL 307-- Ecology
BIOL 377-- Applied Ecology
EVSC 206-- Environmental Science II
NURS/HSCI 543-- Global Health: Trends and Policy
SYST 201-- Systems Modeling I
USE 300-- Urban Systems Planning and ManagementI
USST 301-- Urban Growth in a Shrinking World
Field D: Communication and Foreign Languages
(*courses taught in a language other than English)
COMM 305-- Foundations of Intercultural Communication
COMM 456-- Comparative Mass Media
COMM 556-- Global Communication
FREN 376-- French Civilization*
FREN 580-- Contemporary French Society andCulture*
GERM 580-- Contemporary Germany*
SPAN 461-- Spanish Civilization and Culture*
SPAN 466-- Latin American Civilization and Culture*
SPAN 580-- Contemporary Hispanic Institutions*
Other courses such as UNIV or special topics courses may also fulfill the requirements of this program, with the written permission of the coordinator. Permission must be obtained before registration in the course.
For more information, contact the coordinator at the Department of Public and International Affairs, Robinson Hall, Room A201, (703) 993-1400.
Interdisciplinary Arts
Faculty
Brininger, Burton, Carbonneau, R. Davis, Haroutounian, Hazen, Mandes (coordinator), Rutledge
Requirements
The interdisciplinary minor in interdisciplinary arts consists of any 15 credits of courses with the ARIN designation.
Linguistics
Faculty
Broome, Chamberlain, Collier, Goldin, Golomb, Hamburger, Holisky, Jones (coordinator), Lazaraton, Levine, Rothbart, Sanford, Weinberger
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Language is studied in a variety of ways: descriptively, theoretically, computationally, psychologically, and as a social phenomenon. The field of linguistics thus informs and is informed by many other areas of study including philosophy, psychology, sociology, computer science, the study of individual languages and literatures, literary studies, and education.
The interdisciplinary minor in linguistics may be combined with a major in one of the areas listed above or in any other field. This minor introduces the student, through the required courses, to the fundamental concepts of modern linguistic theory and allows the student to explore, in the electives, how these concepts relate to various other disciplines.
Requirements
The interdisciplinary minor in linguistics consists of 15 credits, distributed as follows:
- Three credits in general linguistics
- Three credits from syntactic theory, phonological theory, or linguistic
semantics
- Nine credits of electives, chosen in consultation with an advisor in the linguistics minor. A list of approved electives is available from the coordinator.
Multimedia
Faculty
Chung, Crouch, Higgins, S. Kim, S. Martin, Montecino, O'Connor, L. Smith, G. White, J. Young
The multimedia minor seeks to use computer technologies for the convergence, integration, and fusion of images, sound, video, and text to better convey ideas, educate, and inform. Together with the student's major, the multimedia minor will provide the tools to comprehensively communicate findings and investigate new perspectives within the student's chosen discipline. Students minoring in this area augment their major by adding a new dimension of communication and investigation, aesthetics, citizenship, and community. In addition, students are preparing for graduate study in visual technologies, information design, multimedia design, new media concentrations, or employment in the growing high-tech multimedia/information technology industry.
Required Courses
The multimedia minor consists of nine core credits and nine credits of electives.
| Credits | |||
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| Core | ARIN 280 COMM 157 NCLC 249 |
Computers in the Creative Arts Video Workshop Internet Literary: HTML Tools and Virtual Communities |
9 __________ 3 1 5 |
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Students select courses in each knowledge area
(Practice, and Aesthetics and Theory) for a total of
nine credits of electives. |
9 |
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| Credits | |||
| Practice | ARTS 280 COMM 355 NCLC 195 NCLC 250 |
Computer Graphics I Video I: Principles and Practices Networked Graphics Introduction to Multimedia |
4 3 1 5 |
| Credits | |||
| Aesthetics and Theory | ARTS 382 ARTS 383 ARTS 390 ARTS 393 COMM 202 COMM 380 NCLC 350 NCLC 450 NCLC 390 |
Arts and Animation Internet-Multimedia Art Digital Media and Video Art Internship Mass Media and Communication Systems Media Criticism Counterculture, Cyberculture Special Topics in Multimedia Internship |
4 4 4 1-6 3 3 4 5 1-6 |
Study of the Americas
Faculty
Albanese, Berroa, Bergmann, Beyer, Black, L.A. Brown, L.P. Brown, Brunette, Burr, J.R. Censer, J.T. Censer, Cheng, K. Clark, R. Clark, Cohen, Cruz, Dennis, Dumont, ffolliott, Fonseca, Forche, Foreman, Francescato, Fuchs, Gerdes, Gilbert, Giles, Gortner, Hammond, Harsh, Henry, Hodges, Horton, Irvine, Irving, Jacobs, Karuch, Kelso, Klappert, Knight, Kuebrich, Lancaster, Lankford, Lavine, Levine, Lipset, Lont, Mellander, Meyer, Mobley, Moylan, Nadeau, O'Connor, O'Malley, Pacheco, Palkovich, Pfiffner, Rabin, Rader, Ricouart, Rosenblum, Rosenzweig, Ruth, Seligmann, P. Smith (director), S. Smith, Stewart, Taylor, Todd, Travis, Walker, Warner, Wilkins, J. Wood, Yocom, Zagarri, Zambrana
Course Work
The Study of the Americas program offers all course work designated STAM in the "Course Descriptions" chapter of this catalog.
Requirements
A minor in the Study of the Americas requires a minimum of 18 credits. All students take STAM 303, 304, and 410.
In addition, students take nine credits from the following: STAM 310, 320, 330, 340, or 490.
Two of the courses should be in the same regional area. The third may be in a different regional area. Different subtopics are offered each semester. For more information, contact the director of the Study of the Americas program.
Internships
Internships are possible with the U.S. Congress and with local governments, community organizations, environmental organizations, foundations, government and nongovernment agencies, human rights organizations, international business organizations, labor unions, legal organizations, libraries, media organizations, museums, political parties, public interest organizations, publications, and religious organizations.
Urban and Suburban Studies
Faculty
Clapsaddle, Clark, Dumont, ffolliott, Gifford, Hart-Nibbrig, K. Haynes, Horton, Hysom, Mattusch, Potter, Rosenzweig, Ryan, Schintler, Stough, Todd, Travis, Verheyen, Wong, J.Wood (coordinator)
Course Work
The Urban and Suburban Studies program offers all course work designated USST in the "Course Descriptions" chapter of this catalog.
Requirements
The interdisciplinary minor in urban and suburban studies requires a minimum of 18 credits of related course work from the list below.
Approved Courses
(Students should consult the "Course Descriptions" chapter of this catalog for course prerequisites.)
ARTH 311, 315
BULE 304
ECON 350
FNAN 351
GEOG 306, 357
GOVT 309, 357, 365
HIST 416, 417, 418
SOCI 332, 373
USE 300, 400
USST 301, 390, 401, 490
In addition, departmental directed-reading and special topics courses may be approved for USST credit at the discretion of the USST Coordinating Committee.
For more information, contact Joseph S. Wood, coordinator of Urban and Suburban Studies, Department of Geography and Earth Science.
Women's Studies
Faculty
Balenger, Bartholomew, Bateson, Beach, Bergoffen (coordinator), Brinig, Brown, Burr, Censer, Cherubin, Choi, Christenson, Cohen, Copelman, Cordero, Cruz, Eby, Erdwins, Fischer, ffolliott, Flieger-Samuelian, Francescato, Fuchs, Gilbert, Gunn, Hanrahan, Hodges, Horton, Irvine, Irving, Kaplan, Kirkland, Knight, Koch, Kolker, Liu, Lont, Melosh, Mobley McKenzie, Moylan, Oates, Rabin, Rader, Regan, Ricouart, Rosenblum, Rosenzweig, Samuels, Seligmann, Sypher, Taylor, Tichy, Todd, Travis, Weitzman, Williams, D. Wood, J. Wood, Yocom, Zambrana, Zawacki
Course Work
The women's studies faculty offers all course work designated WMST in the "Course Descriptions" chapter of this catalog.
Requirements
- Nine credits in women's studies seminars: WMST
200, 300, and 330
- Twelve credits selected from approved course offerings in other departments. No more than six of these credits may be taken in any one department.
George Mason University:1999-2000 University Catalog: Catalog Index: University Academic Programs and Resources: Interdisciplinary Minors