Diversity, Civic Engagement, and Global Citizenship
Below is a full list of courses that fulfill requirements in a given Hub area.
Hub requirements will continue to be added to some courses throughout the academic year, so be sure to confirm the Hub requirements for your courses prior to registration. To explore courses further, please see the Class Search in MyBU Student or the Bulletin . In addition, you can find information about Hub courses offered during the summer on the Summer Term website .
The Individual in Community
CAS AA 113 Introduction to Antiracism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
This course introduces students to the concept of antiracism, particularly its historical contours in the United States. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 132 Write Back Soon: Blackness and the Prison
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking The Individual in Community
This course interrogates the theme of black containment from slavery and Jim Crow to, principally, mass incarceration. Students explore the topic alongside the development of open letter writing skills. This form explores the persuasive impact of personal relationships and the politics of public vulnerabilities. Readings include letters to and from prison, documentaries, poetry, short stories, anthologies, memoirs, comics, visual art, and critical interventions. We also look at contemporary projects organizing for abolition and prisoner support.. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 207 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Examines the fundamental theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity and the current state of race relations in the U.S. that explore both contemporary social problems. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AA 207S Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Examines the fundamental theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity and the current state of race relations in the U.S., exploring both contemporary social problems and the deep historical roots of those problems through a sociological lens. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AA 310 Civil Rights History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
This course examines the U.S. Civil Rights and the struggle for black freedom movements. From the late nineteenth century through the twenty-first century, we consider events, organizations, "leaders" and organizers, legal campaigns, and political protests to answer the questions: What were the race, class, and gender dynamics within the movements' What were the changing definitions of freedom' The course treats the movement's roots, goals, ideologies, and cultures, and includes a comparison of the struggles for equal rights of Mexican Americans, Native Americans, LGBT folks, and other groups. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS AA 310S History of the Civil Rights Movement
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
This course examines the U.S. Civil Rights and the struggle for black freedom movements. From the late nineteenth century through the twenty-first century, we consider events, organizations, "leaders" and organizers, legal campaigns, and political protests to answer the questions: What were the race, class, and gender dynamics within the movements' What were the changing definitions of freedom' The course treats the movement's roots, goals, ideologies, and cultures, and includes a comparison of the struggles for equal rights of Mexican Americans, Native Americans, LGBT folks, and other groups. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS AA 335 Sociology of Race, Class & Gender
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: At least one prior 100- or 200-level sociology course, or CAS WS 101/1 02. - No one of us is one thing, one identity, nor motivated by one singular interest, nor privileged or subjugated by one singular form of power, but how do those multiple forms of ourselves affect how we are advantaged, disadvantaged, viewed, and understood by the social world' Our social world, is, by default, a vast web of social intersections between and across groups with shared, overlapping, and conflicting identities. Race, class and gender affect nearly all of our lived experiences and greatly complicate and nuance concepts of diversity and difference. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression , The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AA 335S Sociology of Race, Class & Gender
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: At least one prior 100- or 200-level sociology course, or CAS WS 101/1 02. - Prereq: (CAS WS 101/102), at least one prior 100- or 200-level sociology course, or consent of the instructor. Examines race, class, gender, and sexuality as intersecting axes of stratification, identity, and experience -- acknowledging that no one of us is one thing, one identity, nor motivated by one singular interest, nor privileged or subjugated by one singular form of power. This course studies how these multiple forms of ourselves affect how we are advantaged, disadvantaged, viewed, and understood by the social world. Our social world is, by default, a vast web of social intersections between and across groups with shared, overlapping, and conflicting identities. Within this framework, we investigate the various ways that race, class, and gender affect nearly all of our lived experiences and greatly complicate and nuance concepts of diversity and difference. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AA 383 African Diaspora Religions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
This course introduces students to religions of the African Diaspora, with a specific focus on the Caribbean and the Americas. Religious traditions such as Africanized Christianity, Cuban Santer¿a, Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candombl¿ and African American Spiritualism will be explored. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AA 430 Black American Cinema
4 credits.
A survey of important genres and movements in the history of Black American cinema, with possible focus on race films, civil rights dramas, horror and Blaxploitation films, postcolonial cinema, the LA Rebellion school, Black independent film, afrofuturism, and/or more. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS AA 477 Critical Studies: Black Diaspora Theory and Practice
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking The Individual in Community
Explore "diaspora" as a keyword for black studies, intervene in the term's emergence, usage, and many theorizations. Beginning with Paul Gilroy's take on diasporic culture and consciousness, course goes on to complicate/extend/challenge through lens of black gender and sexuality studies. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 519 Inequality and American Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course examines the role of income inequality in shaping American politics and policy. Combining research from history, political science, economics, and public policy scholars, we will consider a range of important topics, including inequality in public voice, money and politics, and attitudes towards redistribution. We will apply this knowledge as part of a final paper project in metropolitan Boston. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Writing- Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AA 630 Black American Cinema
4 credits.
A survey of important genres and movements in the history of Black American cinema, with possible focus on race films, civil rights dramas, horror and Blaxploitation films, postcolonial cinema, the LA Rebellion school, Black independent film, afrofuturism, and/or more. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS AA 677 Critical Studies: Black Diaspora Theory and Practice
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking The Individual in Community
Explore "diaspora" as a keyword for black studies, intervene in the term's emergence, usage, and many theorizations. Beginning with Paul Gilroy's take on diasporic culture and consciousness, course goes on to complicate/extend/challenge through lens of black gender and sexuality studies. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 683 African Diaspora Religions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
This course introduces students to religions of the African Diaspora, with a specific focus on the Caribbean and the Americas. Religious traditions such as Africanized Christianity, Cuban Santer¿a, Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candombl¿ and African American Spiritualism will be explored. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AH 486 Architecture Capstone
4 credits.
This course guides senior and eligible junior architectural studies majors through a capstone experience, which may be an internship or a research project. Open only by application. Interested students contact Professor Abramson by Nov. 1, 2025. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS AN 103 Anthropology Through Ethnography
4 credits.
Examines the diversity of human lifeways and cultures across a variety of societies and through time, as well as the social processes that shape individuals. Seminar-style introduction to cultural anthropology through the reading of ethnography, with discussion and debate. (For anthropology majors, this course can serve as a substitute for AN 101.) Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS AN 220 Urban Anthropology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
An introduction to classic and contemporary definitions of the city and ethnographic approaches to the study of urban life. Examines urban inequalities and the stratification of space by immigration, gender, racialization, and poverty. Participants conduct mini- ethnographic projects in the city of Boston. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 250 The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors: Archaeology of Mesoamerica
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Overview of the Aztecs, Mayas, and other native peoples of Mexico and Central America, including the chronological development of cultures and key topics. Focus on variability in individuals and groups by age, gender, ethnicity, class, and polities pre- and post-conquest. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AN 252 Ethnicity and Identity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Explores anthropological approaches to community, belonging, and difference using case studies from Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Special attention paid to how contemporary economic and political changes impact the ways people think about and belong to communities. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life¿s Meanings
CAS AN 252S Ethnicity and Identity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Explores anthropological approaches to community, belonging, and difference using case studies from Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Special attention paid to how contemporary economic and political changes impact the ways people think about and belong to communities. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life¿s Meanings.
CAS AN 302 Transforming Life: Anthropology of Gender and Medical Technologies
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). CAS AN 101 and/or AN 210 recommended. - Seminar anthropologically compares the role of science and medicine in society and troubles what is natural and moral, e.g., about gender, personhood, kinship, and community, using case studies of reproductive and end-of- life technologies in Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS AN 312 Peoples and Cultures of Africa (area)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Explores the ethnolinguistic diversity of Africa, traditions of the Akan, Joola, Wolof, Yoruba, and other African ethnolinguistic groups, the coexistence between Muslims and non-Muslims in Africa, and the historical events and figures that have shaped the continent. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 348 Investigating Contemporary Globalization
4 credits.
Contemporary ethnographic investigation of globalization. Special attention to the impact of global capitalism on local communities, identity and reflexivity, transnational populations, women and work, cultural authenticity, tourism, and the relationship between social media and changing cultural norms and experiences. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS AN 348S Investigating Contemporary Globalization
4 credits.
Ethnographic and historical investigation of globalization. Special attention to the impact of global capitalism on indigenous communities; popular culture and consumerism; transnational populations; women and work; and relationships between novel forms of communication (i.e., Facebook and email) and changing cultural norms. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS AN 351 Language, Culture, and Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
Examines the ways that language both reflects and shapes thought, culture, and relations of power. Particular emphasis is placed on three broad topical areas: language, ethnicity and race; language and the performance of gender; and the linguistic performance of youth identities. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 355 Religious Fundamentalism in Anthropological Perspective
4 credits.
Anthropological study of the global phenomenon of religious fundamentalism. A product of the modern world, fundamentalism is perceived as counter- cultural and anti-nationalist [should be "anti-rationalist". Cases drawn from North America and the Islamic world, with special attention to women's interpretation of religion. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS AN 560 Brave New Worlds: Bioethics as State and Cultural Practice
4 credits.
Explores the various ways that nation-states, cultural communities, and individuals negotiate the ethics and use of biomedical technologies, old and new. Asks what kinds of "moral registers," including religious traditions, state histories, political ideologies, and forms of market engagement shape when and why certain biotechnological developments are denounced as ethical threats or embraced as empowering forms of progress. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community.
CAS AN 755 Religious Fundamentalism in Anthropological Perspective
4 credits.
Anthropological study of the global phenomenon of religious fundamentalism. A product of the modern world, fundamentalism is perceived as counter- cultural and anti-nationalist. Cases drawn from North America and the Islamic Middle East, with special attention to women's interpretation of religion. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS AR 250 The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors: Archaeology of Mesoamerica
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Overview of the Aztecs, Mayas, and other native peoples of Mexico and Central America, including the chronological development of cultures and key topics. Focus on variability in individuals and groups by age, gender, ethnicity, class, and polities pre- and post-conquest. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CG 111 Beginning Modern Greek 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: For beginners only. - Course may not be elected by anyone with previous study of modern Greek without consent of the department. Provides a basic reading knowledge of modern Greek (demotic) and introduces students to the spoken language. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS CG 111S Beginning Modern Greek 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: For beginners only. - Pre-req: for beginners only. Course may not be elected by anyone with previous study of modern Greek without consent of the department. Provides a basic reading knowledge of modern Greek (demotic) and introduces students to the spoken language.
CAS CG 112 Beginning Modern Greek 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCG111) or equivalent. - Review of grammar and syntax of modern Greek, reading in both prose and poetry, intensive oral practice. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS CG 112S BEG MOD GRK 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCG111) or equivalent. - BEG MOD GRK 2
CAS CG 211 Intermediate Modern Greek 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCG112) or equivalent. - Intensive review of modern Greek grammar and syntax and drill material from CAS CG 111 and 112. Development of advanced oral and reading skills. Reading in both prose and poetry, intensive oral practice. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS CG 212 Intermediate Modern Greek 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCG211) or equivalent. - Discussion in Greek on everyday themes. Development of reading skills through the analysis of contemporary texts. Analysis of contrasting modes of expression and their influence on separate national cultures in Greek and in English. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CI 430 Black American Cinema
4 credits.
A survey of important genres and movements in the history of Black American cinema, with possible focus on race films, civil rights dramas, horror and Blaxploitation films, postcolonial cinema, the LA Rebellion school, Black independent film, afrofuturism, and/or more. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS CL 111 Latin 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Beginners only. - Introduction to grammar, forms, and vocabulary of classical Latin with reading of adapted passages from ancient texts. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 111S Latin 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Beginners only. - Introduction to grammar, forms, and vocabulary of classical Latin with reading of adapted passages from ancient texts. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 161 Greek 1
4 credits.
Introduction to grammar, forms, and vocabulary of ancient Greek with reading of adapted passages from ancient texts. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, The Individual in Community.
CAS CL 161S Greek 1
4 credits.
Introduction to grammar, forms, and vocabulary of ancient Greek. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, The Individual in Community.
CAS CL 162 Greek 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCL161) or equivalent. - Further study of ancient Greek grammar, forms, and vocabulary with reading of both adapted and original passages from ancient texts. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, The Individual in Community.
CAS CL 237 Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Greece and Rome
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry I Teamwork/Collaboration
Students explore and better understand the changing conceptions, motives, and effects of racial and ethnic formations and categorizations with a primary focus on the views presented in ancient Greek and Roman literature and art and the influence which those views have had in later historical periods and places, especially the United States. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EC 325 The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination in the United States
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Quantitative Reasoning II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC201 & CASEC305) (or CASEC203 or CASEC303). - Examines who is poor in the United States and how the evidence of poverty has changed over time. Various economic theories for the causes of poverty and discrimination are presented for examination and discussion. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Quantitative Reasoning II, Critical Thinking.
CAS EC 325S The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination in the United States
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Quantitative Reasoning II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC201 & CASEC305) (or CASEC203 or CASEC303). - Prereq: (CAS EC 201) and (CAS EC 305 or CAS EC 203 or CAS EC 303). Examines who is poor in the United States and how the evidence of poverty has changed over time. Various economic theories for the causes of poverty and discrimination are presented for examination and discussion.
CAS EE 522 The Development of Sustainable Environmental Responsibility
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
In-depth look at environmental policy and decision-making: how society addresses environmental problems. Includes discussion of the environmental movement, law, science, technology, economics, and international relations. Examines new issues facing environmental professionals and approaches to creating a sustainable world. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EE 522S The Development of Sustainable Environmental Responsibility
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
In-depth look at environmental policy and decision-making: how society addresses environmental problems. Includes discussion of the environmental movement, law, science, technology, economics, and international relations. Examines new issues facing environmental professionals and approaches to creating a sustainable world. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EE 524 Environmental Justice
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor; First Year Writing Seminar ( e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Exploration of the origins of and current trends in environmental justice activism and scholarship. Introduces empirical evidence of environmental (in)justice, links contemporary environmental problems to historical and broader political-economic processes, and explores a range of responses to environmental injustice. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II.
CAS EE 538 Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - Students gain professional experience by working in teams on research projects that assist environmental and public health officials in achieving the missions of their agencies. Research areas may include solar energy, environmental justice, toxics, water quality, and lead poisoning. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration, The Individual in Community.
CAS EE 538S Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - Students gain professional experience by working in teams on research projects that assist environmental and public health officials in achieving the missions of their agencies. Research areas may include solar energy, environmental justice, toxics, water quality, and lead poisoning. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration, The Individual in Community.
CAS EE 552 Reconstructing Environmental Governance
4 credits.
Helps those who seek a future of participation in the reconstruction of systems and expectations for consumer, health, and environmental protection, that have been dismantled in recent years and can be restored to function better than before. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 127 Reading American Literature
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Readings may include works of fiction, poetry, or drama composed in America from the colonial period to the present. Attention to a wide range of literary works and historical and cultural contexts. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing- intensive Course. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community.
CAS EN 127S Readings in American Literature
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course description is currently under construction.
CAS EN 128 Representing Boston
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Literary and cultural geography of Boston, from Puritan sermons to modern crime fiction. Readings by Winthrop, Wheatley, Emerson, Hopkins, Antin, Lowell, Lehane and others; required fieldwork, including four Saturday excursions: Freedom Trail, Black Heritage Trail, MFA, and Fenway Park. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EN 128S Representing Boston
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Literary and cultural geography of Boston, from Puritan sermons to modern crime fiction. Readings by Winthrop, Wheatley, Emerson, Hopkins, Antin, Lowell, Lehane and others; required fieldwork, including: Freedom Trail, Black Heritage Trail, MFA, the North End, and the West End. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EN 132 Write Back Soon: Blackness and the Prison
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking The Individual in Community
This course interrogates the theme of black containment from slavery and Jim Crow to, principally, mass incarceration. The topic is explored in tandem with the development of open letter writing skills. This epistolary form allows both for the intimate engagement of individual, familiar contact and the deft inclusion of targeted eavesdroppers in order to raise the consciousness of listeners and affirm the value of personal relationships. Course texts include letters to and from prison, poetry, short stories, memoir, social science, documentaries, and critical theory. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 177 Introduction to Asian-American Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: None - Explores Asian American literature from the early twentieth century until today. Addresses questions of identity, immigration, national belonging, diaspora, war, and global capitalism. Authors include John Okada, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-Rae Lee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Monique Truong, and Ha Jin. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-intensive Course. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EN 215 Global Modernist Fiction
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
A comparative study of five modernist authors from different world cultures: Faulkner, Kafka, Chang, Rushdie, and Murakami. Examines experiments in narrative technique as differently situated responses to the major events and legacy of the twentieth century. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 326 Arts of Gender
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - Examines representations of gender and sexuality in diverse art forms, including drama, dance, film, and literature, and how art reflects historical constructions of gender. Past topics include Gendered Utopias, Gendered Dystopias, the Nature of Gender. Please see English Department's Website for current topic. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community.
CAS EN 326E ARTS OF GENDER
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - ARTS OF GENDER
CAS EN 328 Women's Literary Cultures
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - Writings by women in diverse literary forms, including drama, poetry and prose. How does women's literary culture reflect historical constructions of gender and sexuality' How do writers engage with new literary forms, like the lyric, political treatise, or the novel' Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS EN 349 Contemporary American Fiction
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - US prose fiction from the last few decades, exploring questions of individualism, community, identity, technology, media, religious belief, violence, post-WWII political changes, and our relation to history. Authors may include Roth, Robinson, DeLillo, Pynchon, Morrison, and Lahiri, among others. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community.
CAS EN 356 Drama and Performance, 1945 - Present
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - Theater history and performance art from 1945 to today. Analysis of plays through the lens of performance theory, blurring the line between the aesthetic and the social. Playwrights may include Brecht, Hansberry, Valdez, Moraga, Beckett, Kane, Deveare Smith, Shange, Parks. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 393 Technoculture and Horizons of Gender and Race
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - Explores new media theory, postmodernist thought, social media, and video games to confront gender, race, and sexuality. Through critical reading, writing, and hands-on digital technology use, students consider how race, sexuality, and gender live in virtual worlds. Also offered as CAS WS 393. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS EN 397 Black American Cinema
4 credits.
A survey of important genres and movements in the history of Black American cinema, with possible focus on race films, civil rights dramas, horror and Blaxploitation films, postcolonial cinema, the LA Rebellion school, Black independent film, afrofuturism, and/or more. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS EN 452 Asian American Studies: Theory and Methods
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
A brief overview of the theories and methods of Asian American studies, reading theory, literature, history, culture, sociology, and legal study to define a mode of inquiry and action inspired by a legacy of activism and survival from the Asian diaspora. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS EN 477 Critical Studies: Black Diaspora Theory and Practice
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - Explore "diaspora" as a keyword for black studies, intervene in the term's emergence, usage, and many theorizations. Beginning with Paul Gilroy's take on diasporic culture and consciousness, course goes on to complicate/extend/challenge through lens of black gender and sexuality studies. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 538 Teaching American Literature
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - This course focuses on teaching American literature at the high school level. Goals include building a knowledge base in American literary history, modeling deep learning with selected texts, addressing theoretical questions in English Language Arts pedagogy, and learning practical classroom skills. 4 cr. 1st sem. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EN 539 Marxist Cultural Criticism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
An introduction to Marxist cultural criticism that examines the transformation of concepts in classic Marxism (Marx, Lukacs, Althusser, Adorno, and Gramsci) into contemporary debates about race, gender, sexuality, colonialism, modernity, and language (Said, Zizek, Spivak, and others). Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 562 Studies in Asexualities
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Pre- Requisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Writing intensive seminar that explores asexuality studies as well as various kinds of sexual and romantic absences in contemporary literature, literary analysis, and critical theory with particular attention to race and disability. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS EN 652 Asian American Studies: Theory and Methods
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - A brief overview of the theories and methods of Asian American studies, reading theory, literature, history, culture, sociology, and legal study to define a mode of inquiry and action inspired by a legacy of activism and survival from the Asian diaspora. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS EN 677 Critical Studies: Black Diaspora Theory and Practice
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Graduate standing. - Explore "diaspora" as a keyword for black studies, intervene in the term's emergence, usage, and many theorizations. Beginning with Paul Gilroy's take on diasporic culture and consciousness, course goes on to complicate/extend/challenge through lens of black gender and sexuality studies. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 113 Introduction to Antiracism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
This course introduces students to the concept of antiracism, particularly its historical contours in the United States. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 190 History of Boston: Community and Conflict
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores the history of Boston and the city's changes over time. Students work with archival objects, maps, and manuscripts. Topics include Native American history, colonial settlement, revolution, immigration, urban development, and race. Students visit nearby historical sites and museums. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS HI 192 American Popular Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking The Individual in Community
Examines how Americans have changed (and haven't) since the nineteenth century by exploring their curious beliefs, social and sexual practices, and changing understandings of selfhood. Topics include Victorian etiquette, modern city pleasures, racial stereotyping, dating rituals, family dynamics, and more. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking, Individual and the Community.
CAS HI 291 Politics of the American Environment
4 credits.
When have Americans addressed declining resources and ecological deterioration' Why did demands for environmental justice develop' We explore how the United States has distributed environmental risks and rewards from the country's beginning to the present. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community.
CAS HI 291S AFRICAN POST
4 credits.
POLIT AM ENVIR
CAS HI 299 Civil Rights History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
This course examines the U.S. Civil Rights and the struggle for black freedom movements. From the late nineteenth century through the twenty-first century, we consider events, organizations, "leaders" and organizers, legal campaigns, and political protests to answer the questions: What were the race, class, and gender dynamics within the movements' What were the changing definitions of freedom' The course treats the movement's roots, goals, ideologies, and cultures, and includes a comparison of the struggles for equal rights of Mexican Americans, Native Americans, LGBT folks, and other groups. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS HI 299S Civil Rights History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
This course examines the U.S. Civil Rights and the struggle for black freedom movements. From the late nineteenth century through the twenty-first century, we consider events, organizations, "leaders" and organizers, legal campaigns, and political protests to answer the questions: What were the race, class, and gender dynamics within the movements' What were the changing definitions of freedom' The course treats the movement's roots, goals, ideologies, and cultures, and includes a comparison of the struggles for equal rights of Mexican Americans, Native Americans, LGBT folks, and other groups. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS HI 386S MOD LATIN AMER
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
NZ: HIST & CULT
CAS HI 392 Israel: History, Politics, Culture, Identity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Using a broad array of readings, popular music, documentaries, film and art, this course explores Israel's political system, culture, and society, including the status of minorities in the Jewish state; post-1967 Israeli settlement projects; and the struggle for Israel's identity. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 458 American Migrations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
Mass migrations have been central to American history from the colonial era to the present. This course investigates why people pick up their lives to travel vast distances, often at great risk, and how such journeys have changed over time. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS HI 459 Paper Children and Tiger Parents: Capitalism and Asian American Families
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry I
How does capitalism condition the bonds, structures, or feelings in Asian immigrant and diasporic families' Explores how patterns of empire, war, and immigration lead to new family formations and how families adapt to this trauma through interdisciplinary texts ranging from history, literature, psychology, and sociology. Through sources like memoirs, scholarly works, literature, and film, we discuss dynamics such as intergenerational trauma, sexuality, and childhood. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
The Individual in Community, Oral and/ Signed Communication, Social Inquiry 1.
CAS HI 527 Getting Around: Transportation, Cars, and Community in the Modern World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: "First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or 120)" - Explores the history of transportation and mobility and its impact on daily life, community, environment, and justice, examining automobiles, walking, biking, and mass transit in diverse global contexts from the nineteenth century to the present day. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II.
CAS ID 116 Africa Today: The Beat of Popular Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the dynamics of contemporary Africa. Examines Western preconceptions, then turns to contemporary literature, film, television, music, dance, and the visual arts from across the continent as a means of listening to diverse African voices. Core course in the African Studies minor. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS IR 322 History of the Climate Crisis
4 credits.
Explores how the tools of history can help navigate our present-day climate crisis, how factors like colonialism, capitalism, and fossil fuel extraction contributed to global warming, and strategies to seek climate justice in the face of business-as-usual opposition. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community.
CAS IR 334E EUR POL MIGRTN
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Padua Italian & European Studies Program. - EUR POL MIGRTN
CAS IR 337 Religion and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to the comparative study of the political role of religious institutions and beliefs. Covers issues such as religion's relationship to violence and terrorism, democracy and human rights, group identity, gender and sexuality, and modernity and secularism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 337S Religion and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to the comparative study of the political role of religious institutions and beliefs. Covers issues such as religion's relationship to violence and terrorism, democracy and human rights, group identity, gender and sexuality, and modernity and secularism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 350 History of International Relations since 1945
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
This is a foundational course in international history since 1945. We follow a basic timeline of major world events and international developments in the eight decades since the Second World Wars end while also familiarizing ourselves with the tools of the historians craft. Students learn how to navigate databases, deploy evidence, and understand the nature of arguments about causality, contingency, and change over time. We are attentive to the way events were narrated at the time as well as the way they are remembered retroactively. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy, The Individual in Community .
CAS IR 350S History of International Relations since 1945
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
This is a foundational course in international history since 1945. We follow a basic timeline of major world events and international developments in the eight decades since the Second World Wars end while also familiarizing ourselves with the tools of the historians craft. Students learn how to navigate databases, deploy evidence, and understand the nature of arguments about causality, contingency, and change over time. We are attentive to the way events were narrated at the time as well as the way they are remembered retroactively. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy, The Individual in Community .
CAS IR 393 Technology and Economic Development
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry I Teamwork/Collaboration
We use breakthroughs in New Institutional Economics, social network analysis and contract theory, to study new technological innovations in Africa and other developing regions. These include 'mobile money' in Kenya and Hello Tractor (an 'Uber for Tractors') in Nigeria. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 418E Politics, Nations and Identity in the New Europe: Switzerland and the European Union
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: admission to the Geneva Internship Program. - The course aims to provide students with a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary understanding of politics, nations and identity in contemporary Europe and the role Switzerland has to play in this regard. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS IR 426 NGO Management and Leadership
4 credits.
Examines roles and methods of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in social change and international development. Reviews theory and practice of NGOs in development, NGO strategies, and internal management. Students will engage directly with international development NGOs. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 531 Intercultural Communication
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - Examines communicative problems that arise in contact between people from different cultural backgrounds in everyday life, social service encounters, and business transactions. Uses interdisciplinary approaches to study how verbal and nonverbal presentation, ethnic, gender, and cultural differences affect communication. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community.
CAS IR 558 Mapping Dangerous Online Speech
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Experiential course in which students of international relations and computer science collaborate to map online hate speech. Assesses causes of hate speech, dynamics of viral content, and approaches to prevent harm. Evaluates attempts to automate identification of hate speech and measure its prevalence. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 626 NGO Management and Leadership
4 credits.
Examines roles and methods of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in social change and international development. Reviews theory and practice of NGOs in development, NGO strategies, and internal management. Students will engage directly with international development NGOs. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS JS 100 World Cultures of the Jews
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduces students to the study of Judaism in its many forms, by exploring Jewish communities across the globe today, their different historical origins and cultural contexts, and strategies of preserving cohesion and transnational solidarity. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS JS 250 Holy City: Jerusalem in Time, Space, and Imagination
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking The Individual in Community
Transformation of an ordinary ancient city into the holy city of Jews, Christians, and Muslims; and development of modern Jerusalem, as shaped by British rule, Zionism, and Palestinian nationalism. Jerusalem's past, present, and meanings considered through analyses of religious and secular rhetoric. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS JS 285 Israel: History, Politics, Culture, Identity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Using a broad array of readings, popular music, documentaries, film and art, this course explores Israel's political system, culture, and society, including the status of minorities in the Jewish state; post-1967 Israeli settlement projects; and the struggle for Israel's identity. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS JS 379 Islamophobia and Antisemitism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores historical and contemporary manifestations of Islamophobia and Antisemitism. Students are exposed to wide range of relevant written and visual texts as well as theoretical approaches. Includes active learning component and collaborative presentations by students. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LC 111 First-Semester Chinese
4 credits.
Essentials of structure, oral practice, introduction to the writing system.Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LC 111E First-Semester Chinese
4 credits.
Essentials of structure, oral practice, introduction to the writing system. Lab required. Four hours weekly. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LC 111S First-Semester Chinese
4 credits.
Online offering. Essentials of structure, oral practice, introduction to the writing system. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LC 112 Second-Semester Chinese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC111) - Essentials of structure, oral practice, introduction to the writing system.Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LC 112E Second-Semester Chinese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC111) - Essentials of structure, oral practice, introduction to the writing system. Lab required. Four hours weekly.
CAS LC 112S Second Semester Chinese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CAS LC 111) or equivalent. Online offering. Essentials of structure, oral practice, introduction to the writing system. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LC 116 Chinese Reading and Writing 1
4 credits.
Intensive course covering first-year Chinese in one semester for students who speak Mandarin but possess limited or no reading and writing skills. Listening and speaking skills are also developed; aspects of students' Chinese heritage are explored. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LC 211 Third-Semester Chinese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC112) - Review of structure and grammar, practice in conversation and writing, introduction to reading. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LC 211E Third-Semester Chinese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC112) - Review of structure and grammar, practice in conversation and writing, introduction to reading. Lab required.
CAS LC 211S Third-Semester Chinese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC112) - Review of structure and grammar, practice in conversation and writing, introduction to reading.
CAS LC 212 Fourth Semester Chinese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC211) - Review of structure and grammar, practice in conversation and writing, introduction to reading. Satisfactory completion of CAS LC 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 212E Fourth-Semester Chinese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC211) - Review of structure and grammar, practice in conversation and writing, introduction to reading. Lab required. Satisfactory completion of CAS LC 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement.
CAS LC 212S Fourth-Semester Chinese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC211) - Review of structure and grammar, practice in conversation and writing, introduction to reading. Satisfactory completion of CAS LC 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement.
CAS LC 216 Chinese Reading and Writing 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC116) , or placement test results. - Intensive course covering second-year Chinese in one semester for students who speak Mandarin. Training in listening and speaking, but emphasis is on reading and writing; aspects of students' Chinese heritage are also explored. Satisfactory completion of CAS LC 216 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 319 Practical Chinese: Chinese in Intercultural Communication
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC311) or consent of instructor. - Develops students' intercultural competence and Chinese skills. Explores cross-cultural themes (e.g., verbal and nonverbal communication, identity and multilingualism, family, stereotypes, values, etc.). Learn Chinese through reading/viewing and discussing authentic materials (movies, comic books, TV episodes, stories) and conducting community engagement projects. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community.
CAS LD 111 Amharic 1
4 credits.
First semester four-skill Amharic course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, cultural understanding, and writing using the Amharic alphabet. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LD 111S Amharic 1
4 credits.
First semester four-skill Amharic course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, cultural understanding, and writing using the Amharic alphabet.
CAS LD 112 Amharic 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD111) or consent of instructor. - This second semester four-skill Amharic course leads toward proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, cultural understanding, and writing using the Amharic alphabet. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LD 112E AFRICAN LANG 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD111) or consent of instructor. - AMHARIC 2
CAS LD 112S Amharic 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD111) or consent of instructor. - Continuation of CAS LD 111. Second semester four-skills Amharic course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, cultural understanding, and writing using the Amharic alphabet.
CAS LD 115 Zulu 1
4 credits.
First-semester four-skill Zulu course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and cultural understanding. Course combines face-to-face classes with internet instruction. Students are required to have a computer with microphone, webcam, and a reliable Internet connection. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LD 115S Zulu 1
4 credits.
First semester four-skill Zulu course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and cultural understanding.
CAS LD 116 Zulu 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD115) - Second-semester four-skill Zulu course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and cultural understanding. Course combines face-to-face classes with internet instruction. Students require a computer with microphone, webcam, and a reliable Internet connection. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LD 116S Zulu 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD115) - Prereq: (CAS LD 115) or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Continuation of CAS LD 115. Second semester four-skills Zulu course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, cultural understanding, and writing.
CAS LD 119 Igbo 1
4 credits.
First semester four-skill Igbo course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and cultural understanding. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LD 119S Igbo 1
4 credits.
First semester four-skill Igbo course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and cultural understanding.
CAS LD 120 Igbo 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD119) or equivalent, or consent of instructor. - Second-semester four-skills Igbo course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and cultural understanding. This course builds on the first semester, expanding students' ability to communicate in everyday contexts. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LD 120E AFRICAN LANG 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD119) or equivalent, or consent of instructor. - IGBO 2
CAS LD 120S Igbo 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD119) or equivalent, or consent of instructor. - Continuation of CAS LD 119. Second semester four-skills Igbo course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, cultural understanding, and writing.
CAS LD 211 Amharic 3
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD112) or consent of instructor. - This third-semester four-skill Amharic course develops competence and confidence in the use of Amharic in reading, writing, speaking and listening in culturally acceptable ways. Students learn to communicate at an intermediate mid level of proficiency. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LD 211E Third Semester Study of an African Language
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD112) or consent of instructor. - AMHARIC 3
CAS LD 211S AMHARIC 3
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD112) or consent of instructor. - AMHARIC 3
CAS LD 212 Amharic 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD211) or consent of instructor. - This fourth-semester four-skill Amharic course develops competence and confidence in use of Amharic in reading, writing, speaking and listening in culturally acceptable ways. Students learn to communicate at an intermediate high level of proficiency. Satisfactory completion of LD 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LD 212S AMHARIC 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD211) or consent of instructor. - AMHARIC 4
CAS LD 215 Zulu 3
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD116) - Continued conversational practice with particular focus on grammatical structures. Readings, writings, and discussions concerning traditional, contemporary, and oral literature. First language speaker available. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LD 216 Zulu 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD215) - This four-skills African language course in fourth-semester isiZulu develops communicative competence and confidence in the use of isiZulu in reading, writing, speaking and listening in culturally acceptable ways. Students learn to communicate at an intermediate high level of proficiency. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LD 219 Igbo 3
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD120) or consent of instructor. - This third-semester four-skill Igbo course develops competence and confidence in the use of Igbo in reading, writing, speaking, and listening in culturally acceptable ways. Students learn to communicate at an intermediate mid-level proficiency. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LD 220 Igbo 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD219) or consent of instructor. - This fourth semester four-skills Igbo course develops communicative competence and confidence in the use of Igbo in reading, writing, speaking, and listening in culturally acceptable ways. Students learn to communicate at an intermediate high-level of proficiency. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LE 111 Swahili 1
4 credits.
Introduction to spoken Kiswahili. Emphasis on communicative skills. Exposure to full system of noun classes and introduction to tense-aspect system. Cultural and historical readings, films, and other visual aids included. Lab required. Four hours weekly. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LE 111E First-Semester Swahili
4 credits.
Introduction to spoken Kiswahili. Emphasis on communicative skills. Exposure to full system of noun classes and introduction to tense-aspect system. Cultural and historical readings, films, and other visual aids included. Lab required. Four hours weekly.
CAS LE 112 Swahili 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLE111) - This four-skill African language course in second-semester Kiswahili leads toward proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, cultural understanding, and writing. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LE 211 Swahili 3
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLE112) - Intermediate study of Kiswahili. Continued emphasis on oral communication skills and the development of reading and writing skills. Exposure to all compound tenses. Readings from traditional Kiswahili literature, oral and written. Lab required. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LE 211E Third-Semester Swahili
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLE112) - Intermediate study of Kiswahili. Continued emphasis on oral communication skills and the development of reading and writing skills. Exposure to all compound tenses. Readings from traditional Kiswahili literature, oral and written. Lab required.
CAS LE 212 Swahili 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLE211) - This four-skill African language course in fourth-semester Kiswahili emphasizes oral communication skills and the development of reading and writing skills. It exposes students to all compound tenses of the language, and develops students' reading skills in traditional Kiswahili literature. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LF 111 First-Semester French
4 credits.
A multimedia approach for students who have never studied French. A variety of communicative tasks develop speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LF 111E First-Semester French
4 credits.
1ST SEM FRENCH
CAS LF 111S First-Semester French
4 credits.
A multimedia approach for students who have never studied French. A variety of communicative tasks develop speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LF 112 Second-Semester French
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF111) or placement test results. - Continues CAS LF 111. A multimedia approach which develops speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills, together with the grammar and vocabulary needed for more complex communicative tasks. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LF 112E Second-Semester French
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF111) or placement test results. - 2ND SEM FRENCH
CAS LF 112S Second-Semester French
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF111) or placement test results. - Continues CAS LF 111. A multimedia approach which develops speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills, together with the grammar and vocabulary needed for more complex communicative tasks. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LF 113 Intensive Beginning French
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: placement examination results. - Intensive French course for beginners or according to placement test results. Introduction to grammar, vocabulary, and structure of French, emphasizing the basic communication skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. (If CAS LF 111, 112, or a more advanced college-level course has been completed, this course cannot be taken for credit.) Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LF 113E Intensive Beginning French
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: placement examination results. - REV FRENCH 1&2
CAS LF 211 Third-Semester French
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF112) or placement test results. - Advances proficiency in speaking, writing, reading, and listening in a communicative classroom setting. Grammar studied is used in context through thematic discussions on topics ranging from daily life to Francophone culture, in short readings, and through diverse written tasks.Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LF 211E 3RD SEM FRENCH
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF112) or placement test results. - 3RD SEM FRENCH
CAS LF 211S Third-Semester French
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF112) or placement test results. - Advances proficiency in speaking, writing, reading, and listening in a communicative classroom setting. Grammar is studied in context, through thematic discussions on topics such as daily life and Francophone culture, through short readings, and through diverse written tasks. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LF 212 Fourth-Semester French
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF211) or placement test results. - Advances proficiency in French in a communicative setting through thematic discussions on diverse, contemporary topics and media, short readings, and written tasks. Fulfills CAS second language requirement, prepares for Level 1 Advanced Courses (CAS LF 307 -- LF 311). Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LF 212E 4TH SEM FRENCH
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF211) or placement test results. - 4TH SEM FRENCH
CAS LF 212S Fourth-Semester French
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF211) or placement test results. - Advances proficiency in French in a communicative setting through thematic discussions on diverse, contemporary topics and media, short readings, and written tasks. Fulfills CAS second language requirement; prepares for Level 1 Advanced Courses (CAS LF 307 through LF 311). Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LF 341 French Trends
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one CAS LF 307 - 311 course, or equivalent or placement test results. - Through current articles and headlines, films and songs, this advanced French course explores the meaning and preservation of French "Culture" while investigating areas of social debate from a French perspective. Designed for but not limited to students returning from abroad. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community.
CAS LF 441 Topics in Urban Imgainaries in Literature and Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF350 OR CASLF351) or consent of instructor. - Students examine the filmic and literary representations of urban environments in France and the francophone world; the phenomenon of urbanization, the historical development, cultural and artistic context of its attractive power; fluxes of migration of the city; streets and monuments as characters. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LF 478 Topics in The Voice in the Text: Gender and Authorship
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Explores how French and Francophone women writers and theorists engage with cultural, social, and political issues. Draws on works such as novels, autobiographies, plays, and essays, situating these writings at the intersection of gender, language, nationality, and collective memory. Topic for Spring 2024: Traces how French women writers explore key questions about identity by engaging with contemporary literary and social movements. Novels from the eighteenth to twentieth century exploring love, marriage, betrayal, and work-life balance, with readings from newspapers and women¿s magazines. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LF 641 Topics in Urban Imaginaries in Literature and Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF350 OR CASLF351) or consent of instructor. - Students examine the filmic and literary representations of urban environments in France and the francophone world; the phenomenon of urbanization, the historical development, cultural and artistic context of its attractive power; fluxes of migration of the city; streets and monuments as characters. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LF 678 Topics in The Voice in the Text: Gender and Authorship
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Explores how French and Francophone women writers and theorists engage with cultural, social, and political issues. Draws on works such as novels, autobiographies, plays, and essays, situating these writings at the intersection of gender, language, nationality, and collective memory. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LG 111 First-Semester German
4 credits.
For beginners or according to placement test results. Introduction to grammar, vocabulary, structure of German, emphasizing the four basic skills: speaking, writing, listening, and reading. (If CAS LG 112 or a more advanced college- level course has been completed, this course may not be taken for credit.) Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LG 111S First-Semester German
4 credits.
For beginners or according to placement examination results. Introduction to grammar, vocabulary, and structure of German, emphasizing the four basic skills: speaking, writing, listening, and reading.
CAS LG 112 Second-Semester German
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG111) or placement test results. - Continues study and practice of the basic skills of speaking, writing, and reading German. Conversational dialogues, reading of short texts, grammar sessions, compositions. Conducted in German. (If a more advanced college-level course has been completed, this course may not be taken for credit.) Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LG 112S Second-Semester German
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG111) or placement test results. - Continues study and practice of the basic skills of speaking, writing, and reading German. Conversational dialogues, reading of short texts, grammar sessions, compositions. Conducted in German.
CAS LG 211 Third-Semester German
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG112) or placement test results. - Further development of communicative skills acquired in the first year, emphasizing both production (speaking, writing) and comprehension (listening, reading). Grammar review. Reading and discussion of selected short stories, poetry, and plays as well as nonliterary texts. Conducted in German. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LG 211S Third-Semester German
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG112) or placement test results. - Further development of communicative skills acquired in the first year, emphasizing both production (speaking, writing) and comprehension (listening, reading). Grammar review. Reading and discussion of selected short stories, poetry, and plays as well as nonliterary texts. Conducted in German.
CAS LG 212 Fourth-Semester German
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG211) or placement test results. - Continued development of communicative skills and strategies for functioning socially in German-language contexts. Students learn to understand literary and nonliterary texts. Conducted in German. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LG 212S Fourth-Semester German
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG211) or placement test results. - Continued development of communicative skills and strategies for functioning socially in German-language contexts. Students learn to understand literary and nonliterary texts. Conducted in German.
CAS LG 310 German Translation and Interpretation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: any course from CAS LG 302-345; or consent of instructor. - Advanced German language training. Pleasures and frustrations of the incommensurability of German and U.S. cultures, investigated through systematic practice in translating and interpreting from German into English. Translation and interpretation as technical skill and creative performance. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS LH 111 Fundamentals of Modern Hebrew 1
4 credits.
For students with no previous knowledge of Hebrew or minimal background. Introduction to the language of contemporary Israel. Fundamentals of grammar, extensive practice in speaking, reading, and writing about topics such as getting acquainted, learning and living situations. Curriculum incorporates technology and original Israeli materials. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LH 111S First-Semester Hebrew
4 credits.
Introduction to modern Hebrew, including a balanced treatment of the basic language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
CAS LH 112 Fundamentals of Modern Hebrew 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH111) or the equivalent as determined by placement test. - Builds on vocabulary, grammar and skills acquired in LH111. Students learn to read and converse about topics related to friendship, family, hobbies and travel. Curriculum incorporates Israeli materials and communicative and technology-based activities. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LH 112S Modern Hebrew 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH111) or the equivalent as determined by placement test. - MOD HEBREW 2
CAS LH 139 Intensive First-Year Hebrew
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Hebrew vocabulary of 50-100 words; basic reading skills; cursive scrip t; or permission of instructor. - Intensive beginning Hebrew for students with some prior knowledge. Equivalent to Fundamentals of Modern Hebrew 1 & 2 (CAS LH 111 & 112). Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LH 211 Intermediate Modern Hebrew 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH112) or the equivalent as determined by placement test. - Reinforces and expands vocabulary, grammar and language structures, leading to a deeper comprehension of style and usage. Focuses on language skills (speaking and writing) and performing more complex tasks such as comparing, narrating, describing, reasoning, and discussing topics beyond the immediate environment. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LH 211S Intermediate Modern Hebrew 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH112) or the equivalent as determined by placement test. - Reinforces and extends skills in reading, conversation, writing, and grammar. Conducted in Hebrew.
CAS LH 212 Intermediate Modern Hebrew 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH211) or the equivalent as determined by placement test. - Expands vocabulary, grammar, language structures and communicative skills to enable students to achieve solid proficiency. Develops students' ability to respond orally and in writing to literary texts and audio- visual material such as Israeli films, television clips, and news. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LH 212S Intermediate Modern Hebrew 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH211) or the equivalent as determined by placement test. - INTERMED HEBR 2
CAS LH 284 Israel: History, Politics, Culture, Identity (taught in English)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Using a broad array of readings, popular music, documentaries, film and art, this course explores Israel's political system, culture, and society, including the status of minorities in the Jewish state; post-1967 Israeli settlement projects; and the struggle for Israel's identity. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS LI 111 First-Semester Italian
4 credits.
For students who have never studied Italian, or by placement test results. Introduction to grammatical structures used in written exercises. Emphasis on aural comprehension, speaking, and pronunciation. Readings on contemporary Italian culture. Meets three days a week. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LI 111E First-Semester Italian
4 credits.
For beginners only, or placement examination results. Grammar, conversation practice, written exercises, and compositions. Conducted in Italian. Lab required. Four hours weekly. (If CAS LI 131 or a more advanced college-level course has been completed, this course cannot be taken for credit.)
CAS LI 111S First-Semester Italian
4 credits.
For students who have never studied Italian, or by placement test results. Introduction to grammatical structures used in written exercises. Emphasis on aural comprehension, speaking, and pronunciation. Readings on contemporary Italian culture. Meets three days a week. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LI 112 Second-Semester Italian
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI 111) or placement test results. - Continues study of basic grammatical structures used in written assignments. Emphasis on speaking, aural comprehension, and pronunciation. Readings on contemporary Italian culture. Meets three days a week. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LI 112E Second-Semester Italian
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI111) or placement test results. - Continues the CAS LI 111 basic text: grammar, conversation, compositions. Conducted in Italian. Lab required. Four hours weekly. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LI 112S Second-Semester Italian
4 credits.
Prerequisites: (CAS LI 111) or placement test results. Continues study of basic grammatical structures used in written assignments. Emphasis on speaking, aural comprehension, and pronunciation. Readings on¿¿ contemporary Italian culture. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community..
CAS LI 130E Introduction to Italian Language and Culture
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Padua Management Internship Program. - Introduction to Italian language and culture with emphasis on oral comprehension, writing and intercultural communication. Readings on contemporary Italian culture and classwork are designed to prepare students for professional internship while studying in Padua, Italy. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LI 211 Third-Semester Italian
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI112) or placement test results. - Intended for students with a satisfactory background in elementary Italian who wish to continue study of grammatical structures. Emphasis on speaking, pronunciation, and aural comprehension. Reading about Italian culture and contemporary short stories. Compositions and oral assessments including interviews and/or presentations. Meets three days a week. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LI 211E 3RD SEM ITALIAN
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI112) or placement test results. - 3RD SEM ITALIAN
CAS LI 211S Third-Semester Italian
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI112) or placement test results. - Intended for students with a satisfactory background in elementary Italian who wish to continue study of grammatical structures. Emphasis on speaking, pronunciation, and aural comprehension. Reading about Italian culture and contemporary short stories. Compositions and oral assessments including interviews and/or presentations. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LI 212 Fourth-Semester Italian
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI211) or placement test results. - For students who wish to build active use of Italian in speaking, writing, and reading. Intensive practice of spoken and written language. More advanced readings from Italian culture. Writing involving more complex grammatical and syntactical patterns. Oral assessments including interviews and/or presentations. Meets three days a week. Satisfactory completion of CAS LI 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LI 212E 4TH SEM ITALIAN
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI211) or placement test results. - 4TH SEM ITALIAN
CAS LI 212S Fourth-Semester Italian
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI211) or placement test results. - For students who wish to build active use of Italian in speaking, writing, and reading. Intensive practice of spoken and written language. More advanced readings from Italian culture. Writing involving more complex grammatical and syntactical patterns. Oral assessments including interviews and/or presentations. Satisfactory completion of CAS LI 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 111 First-Semester Japanese
4 credits.
Introduction to spoken and written Japanese and to fundamentals of Japanese grammar with oral drills and written exercises. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LJ 111S First-Semester Japanese
4 credits.
Introduction to spoken and written Japanese and to fundamentals of Japanese grammar with oral drills and written exercises. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LJ 112 Second-Semester Japanese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ111) - Introduction to spoken and written Japanese and to fundamentals of Japanese grammar with oral drills and written exercises. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LJ 112S Second-Semester Japanese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ111) - Prereq: (CAS LJ 111) or equivalent. Introduction to spoken and written Japanese and to fundamentals of Japanese grammar with oral drills and written exercises. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LJ 211 Third-Semester Japanese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ112) or equivalent. - Elaboration and refinement of the fundamental skills introduced in CAS LJ 111, 112 with an introduction to reading and composition. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LJ 211S Third-Semester Japanese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ112) or equivalent. - Elaboration and refinement of the fundamental skills introduced in CAS LJ 111 and CAS LJ 112 with an introduction to reading and composition. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LJ 212 Fourth-Semester Japanese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ211) or equivalent. - Elaboration and refinement of the fundamental skills introduced in CAS LJ 111, 112 with an introduction to reading and composition. Satisfactory completion of CAS LJ 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 212S Fourth-Semester Japanese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ211) or equivalent. - Elaboration and refinement of the fundamental skills introduced in CAS LJ 111 and CAS LJ 112 with an introduction to reading and composition. Satisfactory completion of CAS LJ 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 303 Third-Year Modern Japanese I
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLJ 212 or equivalent placement test results. - Reading and viewing modern Japanese texts and media in order to develop advanced reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, as well as familiarity with contemporary cultural topics. Prepares for working with authentic Japanese materials. Opportunity for engagement with Japanese speakers. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LK 111 First-Semester Korean
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Placement examination, or for those who have never studied Korean. - Course intended for those who have no or minimal knowledge of Korean. Starting from the Korean alphabet learning, develops elementary-level proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LK 111S First-Semester Korean
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Placement examination, or for those who have never studied Korean. - For beginners or according to placement exam. Elementary grammar, conversation, reading, writing. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LK 112 Second-Semester Korean
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLK111) or placement test results. - Continuing from CAS LK 111, further develops elementary-level proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LK 112S Second-Semester Korean
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLK111) or placement test results. - Continues the text from LK 111; grammar, conversation, reading, writing.
CAS LK 116 First Year Korean for Heritage Speakers
4 credits.
Designed for students who understand spoken Korean but need more practice in reading, writing, and speaking. Comprehensive coverage of Korean grammar, reading, writing, and speaking. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LK 211 Third-Semester Korean
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLK112) or placement test results. - Development of communicative skills acquired in the first year. Speaking, writing, and reading exercises designed for intermediate level vocabulary and grammar practice. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LK 212 Fourth-Semester Korean
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLK211) or placement test results. - Further review of the structures of Korean. Practice solid intermediate level communication skills in conversation and writing in specialized topics. Discussion and project on Korean culture. Satisfactory completion of LK 212 fulfills the CAS second language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LK 216 Second-Year Korean for Heritage Speakers
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLK116) or equivalent proficiency, or consent of instructor. - Continues from CAS LK 116. Designed for students who are fluent in spoken Korean but need more practice in grammar, reading, and writing. Review of contemporary Korean media presentations and composition. Comprehensive coverage of second-year Korean grammar, reading, writing, and speaking. Successful completion of CAS LK 216 fulfills the CAS second language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LM 111 First-Semester isiXhosa
4 credits.
Fundamentals of isiXhosa, a widely spoken African language. Focuses on developing basic communicative skills (reading, listening, speaking, and writing). Also explores aspects of the culture of the amaXhosa. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LM 112 Second-Semester isiXhosa
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLM111) - This four-skill African Language course in second-semester IsiXhosa leads toward proficiency in oral expression, second-semester listening comprehension, reading, cultural understanding, and writing. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LM 211 Third-Semester isiXhosa
4 credits.
This third semester four-skill African language course develops communicative competence and confidence in the use of IsiXhosa in reading, writing, and speaking and listening. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LM 212 Fourth-Semester isiXhosa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLM211) or the equivalent. - This fourth semester four-skills IsiXhosa course develops communicative competence and confidence in the use of IsiXhosa in speaking, reading, writing, and listening in culturally acceptable ways. Students learn to communicate at an intermediate high level of proficiency. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LN 111 First-Semester Hindi-Urdu
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: placement examination, or for those who have never studied Hindi. - Elementary grammar, conversation, reading, writing. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LN 112 Second-Semester Hindi-Urdu
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLN111) or placement test results. - Continues the text from CAS LN 111; grammar, conversation, reading, writing. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LN 211 Third-Semester Hindi-Urdu
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLN 112 or placement test results. - Development of communicative skills acquired in the first year. Readings in Indian civilization. Practice in conversational Hindi-Urdu. Writing exercises involving more complex grammatical patterns. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LN 212 Fourth-Semester Hindi-Urdu
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLN211) or placement test results. - Further review of the structures of Hindi-Urdu. Practice in conversation involving specialized topics. Advanced readings in Hindi. Frequent compositions. Satisfactory completion of LN 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LP 111 First-Semester Portuguese
4 credits.
Introduction to grammatical structures. Fundamental communications skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Exposure to the culture and civilization of the Portuguese-speaking world through media broadcast, literature readings, films, music, and videotapes. Lab required. Four hours weekly. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LP 111S First-Semester Portuguese
4 credits.
A multimedia approach for students who have never studied Portugeuse. A variety of communicative tasks develop speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.
CAS LP 112 Second-Semester Portuguese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLP111) or consent of instructor. - Covers the important grammar points not studied in CAS LP 111. Further develops the four communicative skills while expanding students' background knowledge of the history and cultures of the Portuguese- speaking world. Lab required. Four hours weekly. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LP 112S Second-Semester Portuguese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLP111) or consent of instructor. - Completes study of basic grammatical structures. Emphasis on speaking and aural comprehension. Readings on contemporary culture. Writing assignments.
CAS LP 211 Third-Semester Portuguese
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLP112) or placement test results. - Promotes cross-cultural understanding of the Luso-African-Brazilian cultures through authentic literary texts, multimedia, film and music. Completes study of grammatical structures and syntactical patterns. Emphasizes reading, writing and conversational competency. Conducted in Portuguese. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LP 212 Fourth-Semester Portuguese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLP211) or consent of instructor. - Review of the grammar and syntax of Portuguese. Further develops reading, writing, and conversational competency while expanding students' knowledge of history and culture. Conducted in Portuguese. Fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LP 212E Fourth-Semester Portuguese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLP211) or consent of instructor. - Further review of the structures of Portuguese. Intensive practice of spoken language. Different levels and styles through recorded materials. Advanced cultural readings. Frequent compositions. Lab required. Satisfactory completion of CAS LP 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement.
CAS LP 231 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: native or near-native speakers of Spanish only. - Designed to develop speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in Portuguese for Spanish speakers. Focuses on comparisons between Spanish and Portuguese language systems for students to communicate accurately and effectively within a diversity of cultural situations. Effective Fall 202, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LP 232 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers 2
4 credits.
Designed to continue to developing speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in Portuguese. Focuses on comparisons between Spanish and Portuguese language systems for students to communicate accurately and effectively within a diversity of cultural situations. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LP 631 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: native or near-native speakers of Spanish only. - Designed to develop speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in Portuguese for Spanish speakers. Focuses on comparisons between Spanish and Portuguese language systems for students to communicate accurately and effectively within a diversity of cultural situations. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LP 632 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers 2
4 credits.
Designed to continue to developing speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in Portuguese. Focuses on comparisons between Spanish and Portuguese language systems for students to communicate accurately and effectively within a diversity of cultural situations. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LR 111 First-Year Russian 1
4 credits.
An introduction to the fundamentals of Russian grammar. Extensive practice in orthography and pronunciation, development of comprehension and conversation skills. Reading of simple texts. If you have previous experience with Russian, a placement test is required. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LR 111E First-Year Russian 1
4 credits.
An introduction to the fundamentals of Russian grammar. Extensive practice in orthography and pronunciation: oral drills, development of comprehension and conversation skills. Reading of simple texts. Lab required.
CAS LR 111S First-Year Russian 1
4 credits.
An introduction to the fundamentals of Russian grammar. Extensive practice in orthography and pronunciation, development of comprehension and conversation skills. Reading of simple texts. If you have previous experience with Russian, a placement test is required. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LR 112 First-Year Russian 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLR111 or placement) - An introduction to the fundamentals of Russian grammar. Extensive practice in orthography and pronunciation: oral drills, development of comprehension and conversation skills. Reading of simple texts. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LR 112S First-Year Russian 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLR111) - 1ST YR RUSSN 2
CAS LR 211 Second-Year Russian 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLR112 or placement) - The fundamentals of Russian grammar and syntax. Development of reading and oral skills. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LR 212 Second-Year Russian 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLR211 or placement) - The fundamentals of Russian grammar and syntax. Development of reading and oral skills. Satisfactory completion of CAS LR 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LR 212E Second-Year Russian 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLR211) - The fundamentals of Russian grammar and syntax. Development of reading and oral skills. Satisfactory completion of CAS LR 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement.
CAS LR 445 Russian in Boston: Advanced Experiential Russian
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLR 311) or consent of instructor. - In this immersive experiential course, students connect classroom learning to hands-on work in the community. Students are expected to help and learn from members of the Boston Russian community, and to reflect creatively on real- life experiences. Taught entirely in Russian. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LS 111 First-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
For students who have never studied Spanish, or by placement test results. Introduction to grammatical structures. Emphasis on aural comprehension, speaking, and pronunciation. Introduction to Hispanic culture. Lab required. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LS 111E First-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
For students who have never studied Spanish or placement test results. Introduction to grammatical structures. Emphasis on aural comprehension, speaking, and pronunciation. Introduction to Hispanic culture. Lab required.
CAS LS 111S First-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
For students who have never studied Spanish, or by placement test results. Introduction to grammatical structures. Emphasis on aural comprehension, speaking, and pronunciation. Introduction to Hispanic culture. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LS 112 Second-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS111) or placement test results. - Completes study of basic grammatical structures. Emphasis on speaking and aural comprehension. Readings on contemporary Hispanic culture. Writing assignments. Lab required. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LS 112E Second-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS111) or placement test results. - Continues study of basic grammatical structures. Emphasis on speaking and aural comprehension. Readings on contemporary Hispanic culture. Writing assignments. Lab required.
CAS LS 112S Second-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
Completes study of basic grammatical structures. Emphasis on speaking and aural comprehension. Readings on contemporary Hispanic culture. Writing assignments. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LS 123 First-Year Spanish
8 credits.
For beginners only. Intensive equivalent of one year of college Spanish. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LS 123S First-Year Spanish
8 credits.
For beginners only. Offered in Summer Term, this courses is the equivalent of one year of college Spanish. Students enrolled in LS 123 are eligible to apply to live in a summer residence dedicated to speaking Spanish and understanding the Spanish culture.
CAS LS 211 Third-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS112) or placement test results. - Completes study of grammatical structures of Spanish. Use of spoken language in conversation. Reading in Hispanic civilization and of contemporary short stories. Writing exercises involving more complex grammatical and syntactical patterns. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LS 211E Third-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS112) or placement test results. - THIRD SEM SPAN
CAS LS 211S Third-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS112) or placement test results. - Completes study of grammatical structures of Spanish. Use of spoken language in conversation. Readings on Hispanic civilization and contemporary short stories. Writing exercises involving more complex grammatical and syntactical patterns. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LS 212 Fourth-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS211) or placement test results. - Review of the structures of Spanish. Intensive practice of spoken language. More advanced readings from Hispanic culture. Frequent compositions. Satisfactory completion of CAS LS 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LS 212E Fourth-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS211) or placement test results. - FOURTH SEM SPAN
CAS LS 212S Fourth-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS211) or placement test results. - Review of the structures of Spanish. Intensive practice of spoken language. More advanced readings from Hispanic culture. Frequent compositions. Satisfactory completion of CAS LS 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LS 309 Spanish for Heritage and Native Speakers
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). Not open to stude nts who have completed any 300- level Spanish Language course. - Designed for heritage speakers who have lived part of their lives in Spanish-speaking settings (including Spanish-speaking households in the U.S.), who speak at an advanced level, and who wish to strengthen their reading and writing skills while exploring Hispanic cultures. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS LS 309E Composition for Native Speakers of Spanish
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). Not open to stude nts who have completed any 300- level Spanish Language course. - Emphasis on written and oral skills. Contemporary literary and cultural texts used as the basis for class discussions and written exercises.
CAS LT 111 First-Semester Turkish
4 credits.
Introduction to spoken and written Turkish and fundamentals of Turkish grammar, with oral drills and written exercises. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LT 111S First-Semester Turkish
4 credits.
Introduction to spoken and written Turkish and fundamentals of Turkish grammar, with oral drills and written exercises.
CAS LT 112 Second-Semester Turkish
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT111) or equivalent. - Completes introduction to modern Turkish grammar, with emphasis on development of aural and written comprehension, as well as writing and speaking abilities. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LT 112S Second-Semester Turkish
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT111) or equivalent. - Completes introduction to modern Turkish grammar, with emphasis on development of aural and written comprehension, as well as writing and speaking abilities.
CAS LT 211 Third-Semester Turkish
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT112) or equivalent. - Further, intermediate-level, development of Turkish language skills through textbooks and readings including literary works, internet-based exercises, and Turkish audio and visual materials. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LT 211S Third-Semester Turkish
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT112) or equivalent. - Further, intermediate-level, development of Turkish language skills through textbooks, authentic readings including literary works, internet-based exercises, and the use of Turkish audio and visual materials. Offered in conjunction with the Eastern Consortium in Persian and Turkish (ECPT).
CAS LT 212 Fourth-Semester Turkish
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT211) or consent of instructor. - Completes presentation of structures of Turkish. Students achieve "intermediate-high" levels of proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community.
CAS LT 212S Fourth-Semester Turkish
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT211) or consent of instructor. - Completes presentation of structures of Turkish, to "intermediate-high" levels of proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Offered in conjunction with the Eastern Consortium in Persian and Turkish (ECPT).
CAS LW 111 First-Semester Wolof
4 credits.
For beginners. Develops proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and cultural understanding. Uses the communicative approach to cover the three main varieties of Wolof as spoken in the Senegambian region. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LW 111S First-Semester Wolof
4 credits.
For beginners. Develops proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and cultural understanding. Uses the communicative approach to cover the three main varieties of Wolof as spoken in the Senegambian region.
CAS LW 112 Wolof 2
4 credits.
This four-skill African language course in second-semester Wolof leads toward proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, cultural understanding, and writing (using both the Latin alphabet and the Arabic-based script known as Wolofal or Ajami). Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LW 112S Second-Semester Wolof
4 credits.
Prereq: CAS LW 111. Continuation of CAS LW 111. This four-skill African language course in second-semester Wolof leads toward proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, cultural understanding, and writing (using both the Latin alphabet and the Arabic-based script known as Wolofal or Ajami).
CAS LW 115 Akan Twi 1
4 credits.
First-semester four-skill Akan Twi course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and cultural understanding. Course combines face-to-face classes with internet instruction. Students require a computer with microphone, webcam and a reliable Internet connection. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LW 116 Akan Twi 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLW115) or consent of instructor. - Second-semester four-skill Akan Twi course leading to proficiency in oral expression, listening comprehension, reading, writing, and cultural understanding. Course combines face-to-face classes with internet instruction. Students require a computer with microphone, webcam, and a reliable Internet connection. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LW 116S AKAN TWI 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLW115) or consent of instructor. - AKAN TWI 2
CAS LW 211 Wolof 3
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLW112) or equivalent. - This third semester four-skills Wolof course develops communicative competence and confidence in the use of Wolof in speaking, reading, writing, and listening in culturally appropriate ways. Students learn to communicate with native speakers at an intermediate mid level of proficiency. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LW 212 Wolof 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLW211) or consent of instructor. - This fourth semester Wolof course develops communicative competence, cultural literacy, and confidence in the language in reading, writing, speaking and listening. Students learn to communicate at an intermediate high level of proficiency. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LW 215 Akan Twi 3
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLW116) or consent of instructor. - Third-semester four-skill Akan Twi course emphasizes oral expression, listening, reading and writing skills, focusing on the culture and the day-to-day life of Akan people. In-class discussions are learner- centered, drawing on experiences of both urban and rural speakers. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LW 216 Akan Twi 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLW215) or consent of instructor. - Fourth-semester four-skill Akan Twi course continues emphasis on oral expression, listening, reading and writing skills, focusing on the culture and day-to-day life of both urban and rural Akan people. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LX 110 Say What' Accents, Dialects, and Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
Exploration of how variation in accents and dialects interacts with various aspects of society and human life. Students examine how dialect variation arises, how it can be described, and how it interacts with literature, film, humor, and music. Cannot be taken for credit by students who have previously taken, or are currently taking, CAS LX 250 or a higher-level linguistics course. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LX 331 Semantics & Pragmatics: Introduction to Linguistic Meaning
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLX250) or consent of instructor. - Systematic examination of how meaning is encoded in words and sentences, and how it can emerge from the complexity of the grammar. Also touches on various aspects of pragmatics--the study of how meaning is shaped by context. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork and Collaboration.
CAS LX 349 Bilingualism
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLX250) or consent of instructor. - The psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics of life with two languages. Topics include bilingual language use, processing, acquisition, organization; effects of bilingualism on cognition and development; the bilingual brain; the bilingual speech community; bilingual education; bilingualism in the media and public eye. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS LX 631 Semantics & Pragmatics: Introduction to Linguistic Meaning
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Systematic examination of how meaning is encoded in words and sentences, and how it can emerge from the complexity of the grammar. Also touches on various aspects of pragmatics--the study of how meaning is shaped by context. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course entitled "Semantics I" that was previously numbered CAS LX 502. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork and Collaboration.
CAS LX 649 Bilingualism
4 credits.
The psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics of life with two languages. Topics include bilingual language use, processing, acquisition, organization; effects of bilingualism on cognition and development; the bilingual brain; the bilingual speech community; bilingual education; bilingualism in the media and public eye. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS LX 545. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS LY 111 Elementary Modern Arabic 1
4 credits.
Advances proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic to the Novice Mid level. Builds vocabulary repertoire. Practice speaking, listening, reading, writing using engaging materials and real-life communicative activities. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LY 111E Elementary Modern Arabic I
4 credits.
The essentials of standard Arabic, the idiom used in public communications throughout the Arab world. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Lab required.
CAS LY 111S Elementary Modern Arabic 1
4 credits.
Advances proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic to the Beginner Mid level. Expands vocabulary repertoire. Students practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing using engaging materials and real-life communicative activities. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LY 112 Elementary Modern Arabic 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY111) - Advances proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic to the Novice High level. Expands vocabulary repertoire. Practice speaking, listening, reading, writing using engaging materials and real-life communicative activities. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LY 112E Elementary Modern Arabic 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY111) - The essentials of standard Arabic, the idiom used in public communications throughout the Arab world. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Lab required.
CAS LY 112S Elementary Modern Arabic 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY111) - Advances proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic to the Beginner High level. Expands vocabulary repertoire. Students practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing using engaging materials and real-life communicative activities. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LY 139 Intensive First-year Arabic for Heritage Learners
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: placement exam results. - Intensive first-year Arabic for students already knowing the Arabic alphabet and possessing some colloquial Arabic conversation skills. Advances reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension to Novice High. One semester covers all material taught in CAS LY 111 and LY 112. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS LY 111 or LY 112. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LY 211 Second-Year Modern Arabic 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY112) - Advances proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic to the Intermediate Low level. Expands vocabulary repertoire. Practice speaking, listening, reading, writing using engaging materials and real-life communicative activities. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LY 211E Second-Year Modern Arabic 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY112) - Completes the process of presenting the basic structures of modern formal Arabic, concentrating on weak verb forms, more complicated sentence formation, and more sophisticated expression in speech and writing. Vocabulary expansion and better root-pattern identification skills are also stressed. Lab required.
CAS LY 211S Second-Year Modern Arabic 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY112) - Completes the process of presenting the basic structures of modern formal Arabic, concentrating on weak verb forms, more complicated sentence formation, and more sophisticated expression in speech and writing. Vocabulary expansion and better root-pattern identification skills are also stressed.
CAS LY 212 Second-Year Modern Arabic 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY211) - Advances proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic to the Intermediate Mid level. Expands vocabulary repertoire. Practice speaking, listening, reading, writing using engaging materials and real-life communicative activities. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LY 212E Second-Year Modern Arabic 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY211) - Completes the process of presenting the basic structures of modern formal Arabic, concentrating on weak verb forms, more complicated sentence formation, and more sophisticated expression in speech and writing. Vocabulary expansion and better root-pattern identification skills are also stressed. Lab required.
CAS LY 212S Second-Year Modern Arabic 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY211) - Completes the process of presenting the basic structures of modern formal Arabic, concentrating on weak verb forms, more complicated sentence formation, and more sophisticated expression in speech and writing. Vocabulary expansion and better root-pattern identification skills are also stressed.
CAS LY 214 Levantine Colloquial Arabic 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLY 112, or equivalent. - To enhance oral communicative ability in colloquial Levantine Arabic. Introduces vocabulary, grammatical features, and cultural skills essential for informal communication with speakers of Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Jordanian Arabic. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LY 572 Arabic Translation and Interpreting
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY304) - Graduate Prerequisites: three years of Arabic or consent of instructor. - Training in strategies of written translation between Arabic and English, and introduction to the challenges of oral interpreting. Exercises drawn from various contemporary materials including print and broadcast media as well as literary texts. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
CAS LZ 111 First-Semester Modern Persian (Farsi)
4 credits.
For beginners. Introduction to spoken and written Persian and to fundamentals of Persian grammar, with oral drills and written exercises. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LZ 111S First-Semester Modern Persian
4 credits.
For beginners. Introduction to spoken and written Persian and to fundamentals of Persian grammar, with oral drills and written exercises.
CAS LZ 112 Second-Semester Modern Persian (Farsi)
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLZ111) or equivalent. - For beginners. Continues CAS LZ 111. Spoken and written Persian and fundamentals of Persian grammar, with oral drills and written exercises. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LZ 112S Second-Semester Modern Persian
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (C ten Persian and fundamentals of Persian grammar, with oral drills and written exercises.
CAS LZ 211 Third-Semester Modern Persian (Farsi)
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLZ112) or equivalent - Development of communication skills acquired in the first year (CAS LZ 111 and 112). Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS LZ 211S Third-Semester Modern Persian
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLZ112) or equivalent - Development of communication skills acquired in the first year (LZ 111 and 112). Offered in conjunction with the Eastern Consortium in Persian and Turkish (ECPT).
CAS LZ 212 Fourth-Semester Modern Persian (Farsi)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLZ112) or equivalent - Continues CAS LZ 211. Development of communication skills acquired in the first year (CAS LZ 111 and 112). Satisfactory completion of CAS LZ 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LZ 212S Fourth-Semester Modern Persian
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLZ112) or equivalent - Continues LZ 211. Development of communication skills acquired in the first year (CAS LZ 111 and 112). Satisfactory completion of CAS LZ 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Offered in conjunction with the Eastern Consortium in Persian and Turkish (ECPT).
CAS PH 256 Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
This course analyzes gender and sexuality from an intersectional perspective. We focus on metaphysics, epistemology, and semantics to understand gender and sexuality as they exist within interlocking systems of oppression including racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and fatphobia. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 256S Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Explores philosophical questions that arise about gender and sexuality. What is sexism' What is oppression' What is the relationship between sexism and other forms of oppression' What is the correct response to sexism and oppression' How many sexes are there' How many genders' What is sexual orientation' What is sexual perversion' What are sexual ethics, including questions about the value and status of monogamy, polyamory, promiscuity, and adultery' What is the moral status of practices such as sex work and pornography' Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 427 Heidegger and Existential Philosophy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two philosophy courses. - This course critically examines what, in the case of human beings, it means to be, based upon Heidegger's "existential" posing of this question in his early, but unfinished work, Being and Time. Effective Spring 2026, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Research and Information Literacy, The Individual in Community.
CAS PH 458 Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous PH courses, or consent of instructor. First Year WritingS eminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course will explore philosophical questions about the criminal justice system, both in its ideal form and as it exists today. We will examine historical and contemporary writings on punishment, focusing on concepts of punishment, justifications for punishment, preventative detention, the death penalty, and alternatives to punishment. We will also ask how deep historical and contemporary injustices, including institutionalized racism, affect how we should theorize about institutions of punishment, their possible reform, or perhaps even their abolition. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II.
CAS PO 247E Politics, Nations and Identity in the New Europe: Switzerland and the European Union
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: admission to the Geneva Internship Program. - The course aims to provide students with a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary understanding of politics, nations and identity in contemporary Europe and the role Switzerland has to play in this regard. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PO 323 Local Policy Analysis Lab
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPO111) - Experiential learning by doing research for local governments. In this class students will learn about local government and policy research and apply what they learn to help local government partners solve real problems through serious policy research. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 355 War and Memory in the American Experience
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
This seminar examines three questions: How do we remember (and forget) war' Who does the remembering' What is the relationship between war memory and war making' The relationship between war and memory is explored via the American experience. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Individual in Community, Creativity & Innovation
CAS PO 379 Religion and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to the comparative study of the political role of religious institutions and beliefs. Covers issues such as religion's relationship to violence and terrorism, democracy and human rights, group identity, gender and sexuality, and modernity and secularism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 379S Religion and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to the comparative study of the political role of religious institutions and beliefs. Covers issues such as religion's relationship to violence and terrorism, democracy and human rights, group identity, gender and sexuality, and modernity and secularism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 396 Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
This course analyzes gender and sexuality from an intersectional perspective. We focus on metaphysics, epistemology, and semantics to understand gender and sexuality as they exist within interlocking systems of oppression including racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and fatphobia. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 497 Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPH350) and two other philosophy courses. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course will explore philosophical questions about the criminal justice system, both in its ideal form and as it exists today. We will examine historical and contemporary writings on punishment, focusing on concepts of punishment, justifications for punishment, preventative detention, the death penalty, and alternatives to punishment. We will also ask how deep historical and contemporary injustices, including institutionalized racism, affect how we should theorize about institutions of punishment, their possible reform, or perhaps even their abolition. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II.
CAS PO 517 Urban Politics and Policy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: at least one 100-level and one 300-level PO course, or consent of the instructor. - Explores the impact of American urban politics on the implementation of local policy. Topics include deindustrialization, white flight, neighborhood effects, housing policy, schools, regionalism, and factors that constrain policy-making capacities. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Writing-Intensive Course, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 519 Inequality and American Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course examines the role of income inequality in shaping American politics and policy. Combining research from history, political science, economics, and public policy scholars, we will consider a range of important topics, including inequality in public voice, money and politics, and attitudes towards redistribution. We will apply this knowledge as part of a final paper project in metropolitan Boston. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PO 523 Infrastructure and Land Use Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 120 or 150) - An introduction to infrastructure and land use politics in relation to federal, state, and local policy in the U.S. We explore topics such as transportation, housing, sustainability, and other infrastructure. Culminates in a research-based paper and an oral presentation of research findings. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PO 524 Local Policy Analysis Lab
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Experiential learning by doing research for local governments. In this class students will learn about local government and policy research and apply what they learn to help local government partners solve real problems through serious policy research. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 526 US Identity Politics
4 credits.
Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) and at least one prior political science course. - Students explore how race, class, gender, sexuality, partisanship and other identities jointly inform their views and have led to historical patterns of conflict and oppression. We read perspectives from authors with varying identities, and discuss contemporary identity politics conflicts. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community.
CAS PS 261 Social Psychology
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPS101) - Provides an understanding of how behavior, feelings, and thoughts of individuals are influenced and determined by characteristics of the situation. Topics: attraction, attitudes, prejudice, social roles, aggression, person perception, and groups. Readings cover theories, experimental research, and application. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills units in the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry 1, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS PS 261S Social Psychology
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPS101) - Provides an understanding of how behavior, feelings, and thoughts of individuals are influenced and determined by characteristics of the situation. Topics: attraction, attitudes, prejudice, social roles, aggression, person perception, and groups. Readings cover theories, experimental research, and application. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills units in the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry 1, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS PS 365E Toward an Experimenting Society: Psychology Applied to Social Problems
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the London Internship Program. - PSYCH/SOC ISSUE
CAS RN 111 Religion in American Culture
4 credits.
Introduction to American religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, with an emphasis on developments after 1965, when new legislation opened up immigration and dramatically altered the American religious landscape. Exploration of interreligious interactions: conflict, cooperation, and creolization. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community.
CAS RN 111S Religion in American Culture
4 credits.
Introduction to American religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, with an emphasis on developments after 1965, when new legislation opened up immigration and dramatically altered the American religious landscape. Exploration of interreligious interactions: conflict, cooperation, and creolization. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community.
CAS RN 220 Holy City: Jerusalem in Time, Space, and Imagination
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking The Individual in Community
Transformation of an ordinary ancient city into the holy city of Jews, Christians, and Muslims; and development of modern Jerusalem, as shaped by British rule, Zionism, and Palestinian nationalism. Jerusalem's past, present, and meanings considered through analyses of religious and secular rhetoric. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 220S The Holy City: Jerusalem in Time, Space, and Imagination
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking The Individual in Community
Transformation of an ordinary ancient city into the holy city of Jews, Christians, and Muslims; and development of modern Jerusalem, as shaped by British rule, Zionism, and Palestinian nationalism. Jerusalem's past, present, and meanings considered through analyses of religious and secular rhetoric. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
CAS RN 248 Food and Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Explores the intersection of religion and food, using food to learn about religion and religion to study the role of food in human societies. Topics include feasting; fasting; feeding God(s), spirits, ancestors; eating/not eating animals; ingesting alcohol and psychoactive plants. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS RN 249 Islamophobia and Antisemitism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores historical and contemporary manifestations of Islamophobia and antisemitism. Students are exposed to wide range of relevant written and visual texts as well as theoretical approaches. Includes active learning component and collaborative presentations by students. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 250 Introduction to the Sociology of Religion
4 credits.
Explores the role of religion in the organization of meaning within human societies and its contribution to the construction, maintenance, and transformation of the social order. Ways in which religion provides specific sets of solutions to the problems of social order are also explored. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 379 Religion and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to the comparative study of the political role of religious institutions and beliefs. Covers issues such as religion's relationship to violence and terrorism, democracy and human rights, group identity, gender and sexuality, and modernity and secularism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 379S Religion and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to the comparative study of the political role of religious institutions and beliefs. Covers issues such as religion's relationship to violence and terrorism, democracy and human rights, group identity, gender and sexuality, and modernity and secularism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 383 African Diaspora Religions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
This course introduces students to religions of the African Diaspora, with a specific focus on the Caribbean and the Americas. Religious traditions such as Africanized Christianity, Cuban Santer¿a, Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candombl¿ and African American Spiritualism will be explored. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 427 Topics in American Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Topic for Spring 2024: Black Religion and Black Politics. Delves into the intricate and interconnected relationship between politics and religion within the Black experience. This course challenges the conventional notions of "politics," "religion," and "blackness," and instead encourages students to critically engage with these concepts through a diverse range of multimedia sources, including literature, film, performances, and modes of discourse. By exploring the complexities, controversies, and nuances of the relationship between religion and politics, this seminar invites students to grapple with the indeterminate and contested nature of this connection in the modern world. By examining historical and contemporary examples, students will gain insights into the challenges, conflicts, and possibilities that arise from the interplay between religion and politics within Black populations throughout the African diaspora. This critical examination will shed light on how blackness disrupts and reshapes traditional academic approaches, creating new avenues for understanding and engaging with the complexities of religion and politics. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 466 Religion and the Problem of Tolerance
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores the religious roots of tolerance as an alternative to secular, more liberal foundations for pluralism. Grapples with the challenge of tolerance to the revealed religions and the ways different societies have met or failed to meet this challenge. Presents multiple case-studies and contemporary connections, explores relevance to students own experiences. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 494 Magical Texts: Literature & Practice
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: prior coursework in theory of religion (e.g., RN 200 or 242), ancient religions, or anthropology of religion recommended. - An advanced course in the interpretation of ancient magical texts that emphasizes the use of theoretical models (Malinowski, Levi-Strauss, Tambiah, J.Z. Smith, et al.) for understanding the complementary uses of sound and symbol, myth and nonsense, and forms of verbal/scribal efficacy in magic, all with attention to social context. Texts include a selection of ritual manuals, amulets, binding tablets, and mystical ascent texts from Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian antiquity. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I.
CAS RN 683 African Diaspora Religions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
This course introduces students to religions of the African Diaspora, with a specific focus on the Caribbean and the Americas. Religious traditions such as Africanized Christianity, Cuban Santer'a, Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candombl' and African American Spiritualism will be explored. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 727 Topics in American Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: WR 120 or equivalent. - Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - Topic for Fall 2023: TBA. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 735 Women, Gender, and Islam
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - Investigates the way Muslim religious discourse, norms, and practices create and sustain gender and hierarchy in religious, social, and familial life. Looks at historical and contemporary challenges posed to these structures. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 766 Religion and the Problem of Tolerance
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores the religious roots of tolerance as an alternative to secular, more liberal foundations for pluralism. Grapples with the challenge of tolerance to the revealed religions and the ways different societies have met or failed to meet this challenge. Presents multiple case-studies and contemporary connections, explores relevance to students own experiences. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 794 Magical Texts: Literature & Practice
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: prior coursework in theory of religion (e.g., RN 200 or 242), ancient religions, or anthropology of religion recommended. - An advanced course in the interpretation of ancient magical texts that emphasizes the use of theoretical models (Malinowski, Levi-Strauss, Tambiah, J.Z. Smith, et al.) for understanding the complementary uses of sound and symbol, myth and nonsense, and forms of verbal/scribal efficacy in magic, all with attention to social context. Texts include a selection of ritual manuals, amulets, binding tablets, and mystical ascent texts from Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian antiquity. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I.
CAS SO 100 Principles in Sociology
4 credits.
An introduction to the major theories and basic principles of sociological analysis. Explores culture, media, socialization, race and ethnicity, globalization, capitalism, gender and sexuality, inequality and poverty, power in American society, and health and medicine from a sociological perspective. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS SO 100E Principles in Sociology
4 credits.
An introduction to the major theories and basic principles of sociological analysis. Subjects include methods of social research and investigation; role of individuals in groups, organizations, and society; socialization and education; stratification; race and ethnicity; science, culture, and religion; formal and informal organization; and economic and political systems.
CAS SO 100S Principles in Sociology
4 credits.
Introduces the major theories and basic principles of sociological analysis. Explores culture, media, socialization, race and ethnicity, globalization, capitalism, gender and sexuality, inequality and poverty, power in American society, and health and medicine from a sociological perspective. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS SO 207 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Examines the fundamental theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity and the current state of race relations in the U.S. that explore both contemporary social problems. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 207S Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Examines the fundamental theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity and the current state of race relations in the U.S., including contemporary social problems. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 225 Law and Society
4 credits.
The development and impact of law as an institution. Analysis of the social and political foundations of law, the legal profession and the legal system in the U.S. context. Examination of law in everyday life and in social change. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS SO 241 Sociology of Gender
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
An introduction to the social construction of sex and gender with a focus on the economic, political, social, and cultural forces that shape gender relations. Examines gender as a social structure that patterns institutional inequalities and everyday interactions on society. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS SO 241S Sociology of Gender
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Online offering. Introduces the social construction of sex and gender with a focus on the economic, political, social, and cultural forces that shape gender relations. Examines gender as a social structure that patterns institutional inequalities and everyday interactions on society. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS SO 244 Urban Sociology
4 credits.
Explores urban growth and dynamics, delving into how cities reproduce inequalities, and foster culture. Additional topics include public space, crime and policing, gentrification, segregation, housing, and climate change. Students will collect original data and explore policy solutions for urban issues. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking, Social Inquiry I.
CAS SO 244S Urban Sociology
4 credits.
Explores urban growth and dynamics, delving into how cities reproduce inequalities, and foster culture. Additional topics include public space, crime and policing, gentrification, segregation, housing, and climate change. Students collect original data and explore policy solutions for urban issues. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking, Social Inquiry I.
CAS SO 250 Introduction to the Sociology of Religion
4 credits.
Explores the role of religion in the organization of meaning within human societies and its contribution to the construction, maintenance, and transformation of the social order. Ways in which religion provides specific sets of solutions to the problems of social order are also explored. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS SO 250S INTRO SOC RELG
4 credits.
INTRO SOC RELGN
CAS SO 253 Sociology of Popular Culture
4 credits.
Sociological perspectives on popular culture and mass media, with a focus on the consumption and production of cultural goods; the effects of popular culture on politics and inequalities; and the mutual interdependence of consumer identities and cultural fields. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I.
CAS SO 253S Sociology of Popular Culture
4 credits.
Sociological perspectives on popular culture and mass media, with a focus on the consumption and production of cultural goods; the effects of popular culture on politics and inequalities; and the mutual interdependence of consumer identities and cultural fields. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I.
CAS SO 280 Global Urban Studies
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Looks at theoretical and methodological debates concerning the nature of global urbanization and global urbanism. It looks at cities globally, both historically and contemporary, and investigates the economic, political, spatial, and cultural processes involved in their making. Effective Fall 2025 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship, The Individual in Community.
CAS SO 303 Substantive Themes in Sociological Theory
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASSO203) or consent of instructor. - Critique and application of major sociological theories to key themes and topics. Connections between classical and modern arguments, syntheses of alternative perspectives, and gaps between various perspectives. Themes include the maintenance of social order, power and authority, conflict and change, and sources of alienation. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community.
CAS SO 306 Boston's People and Neighborhoods
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASSO244) or consent of instructor. - Via readings, field trips and documentaries, the course explores Boston neighborhoods, tracing their history and dynamics. We identify forces that shape Boston, garner insight into how different groups experience the city, and grapple with the challenges that Boston faces. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS SO 317 Gender and Crime
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Examines social forces shaping gender discrepancies in crime. Using a feminist lens, students explore how cultural ideologies about masculinity and femininity shape criminalization, victimization, and offending. Topics include the gendered contexts of crime and punishment, gender-based violence, and intimate labor. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS SO 317S GENDER & CRIME
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
GENDER & CRIME
CAS SO 335 Sociology of Race, Class & Gender
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: At least one prior 100- or 200-level sociology course, or CAS WS 101/1 02. - No one of us is one thing, one identity, nor motivated by one singular interest, nor privileged or subjugated by one singular form of power, but how do those multiple forms of ourselves affect how we are advantaged, disadvantaged, viewed, and understood by the social world' Our social world, is, by default, a vast web of social intersections between and across groups with shared, overlapping, and conflicting identities. Race, class and gender affect nearly all of our lived experiences and greatly complicate and nuance concepts of diversity and difference. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness.
CAS SO 335S Sociology of Race, Class & Gender
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: At least one prior 100- or 200-level sociology course, or CAS WS 101/1 02. - Prereq: (CAS WS 101/102), at least one prior 100- or 200-level sociology course, or consent of the instructor. Examines race, class, gender, and sexuality as intersecting axes of stratification, identity, and experience -- acknowledging that no one of us is one thing, one identity, nor motivated by one singular interest, nor privileged or subjugated by one singular form of power. This course studies how these multiple forms of ourselves affect how we are advantaged, disadvantaged, viewed, and understood by the social world. Our social world is, by default, a vast web of social intersections between and across groups with shared, overlapping, and conflicting identities. Within this framework, we investigate the various ways that race, class, and gender affect nearly all of our lived experiences and greatly complicate and nuance concepts of diversity and difference. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness.
CAS SO 341E IRISH SOCIETY
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
CONTEMP IR SOC
CAS SO 391 Social Inequality in America
4 credits.
Students learn about sociological theories and read empirical research describing how social inequality in the US is produced and reproduced in various institutions and through different mechanisms. We explore what it would take to address these different sources of social inequality in the American context and learn from comparisons with other countries and historical moments. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I.
CAS SO 411 Seminar: Sociology of the Nonprofit Sector
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to sociological research on that part of society known as the nonprofit sector, including nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, voluntary associations, and social movements. Focus on some of the literature's major themes: civil society, social capital, and nongovernmental organizations. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS SO 425 Seminar: Sex and the City
4 credits.
Explores the relationship between sexualities and place. Taking us from big city "gayborhoods" to rural hamlets, the course considers how sexual identities and behaviors interact with place ecologies and processes, from gentrification to suburbanization. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS SO 431 Seminar: Genders, Sexualities, and Youth Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing or consent of instructor. - Investigates the social construction of gender and sexuality in adolescence. Engaging critical approaches to youth cultures, the course examines the structural conditions that shape gender and sexuality norms, and the ways youth navigate and redefine their social worlds. Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 463 Social Status
4 credits.
Social status is the uneven distribution of honor or prestige. This course is designed to introduce students to contemporary and classical debates in sociological literature on the origins and implications of status distinctions. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS SO 631 Seminar: Genders, Sexualities, and Youth Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing or consent of instructor. - Graduate Prerequisites: graduate student standing or consent of instructor. - Investigates the social construction of gender and sexuality in adolescence. Engaging critical approaches to youth cultures, the course examines the structural conditions that shape gender and sexuality norms, and the ways youth navigate and redefine their social worlds. Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 811 Seminar: Sociology of the Nonprofit Sector
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to sociological research on that part of society known as the nonprofit sector, including nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, voluntary associations, and social movements. Focus on some of the literature's major themes: civil society, social capital, and nongovernmental organizations. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS TL 541 Translation Today
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Corequisites: (CASTL542) - Weekly lectures and discussions with prominent literary translators from Boston and elsewhere. Students engage with a variety of languages and several genres: poetry, drama, essay, fiction, and more. Focus on concrete, practical translation issues arising from the speakers' work. Students are required to register for co-requisite CAS TL 542. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS WR 111 Academic Writing for ELL Students
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: placement results. - Study of academic conventions and effective strategies of academic reading and writing, along with needs-based review of grammar and mechanics. Emphasis on comprehension, summary, and analysis. Focus on fluency and accuracy in writing and speaking. Frequent papers and in-class writing. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS WR 111S Academic Writing for ELL Students
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: placement results. - Academic Writing for ELL Students
CAS WR 320 Community Writing
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CASWR 120); Writing, Research, and Inquiry (e.g., CASWR 151, WR 152, or WR 153). Students explore concepts of community, creativity, and positionality; study and practice creative and metacognitive genres; and establish writing partnerships with a local organization as a form of community building and social action. Regular meetings with the community partner outside of class required. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS WR 599 Tutoring in the Global University
2 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CASWR 120); Writing, Research, and Inquiry (e.g., CASWR 151, WR 152, or WR 153); and consent of instructor. - Provides instruction and support for CAS writing tutors. Students learn strategies for leading writing consultations, meeting the needs of ELL students, and navigating multimodal assignments. They also explore how their identities and experiences shape their roles as peer mentors. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS WS 200 Thinking Queerly: An Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
4 credits.
Explores historical and contemporary debates regarding LGBTQ identity, community, and politics through the relevant interdisciplinary (and often, competing) theories and research. Students gain skills in digital/multimedia expression through the development of a collaborative LGBTQ online magazine. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS WS 200S Thinking Queerly: An Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
4 credits.
Explores historical and contemporary debates regarding LGBTQ identity, community, and politics through the relevant interdisciplinary (and often, competing) theories and research. Students gain skills in digital/multimedia expression through the development of a collaborative LGBTQ online magazine. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS WS 201 Introduction to Trans Studies
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression The Individual in Community
This course introduces students to the field of trans studies alongside the increasing precarity and hypervisibility of trans bodies in public life. Students become familiar with intersectional issues of trans representation, healthcare, cissexism, bathroom legislation, book bans, and more. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Digital/Multimedia Expression, The Individual in Community.
CAS WS 241 Sociology of Gender
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
An introduction to the social construction of sex and gender with a focus on the economic, political, social, and cultural forces that shape gender relations. Examines gender as a social structure that patterns institutional inequalities and everyday interactions on society. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS WS 241S Sociology of Gender
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Online offering. Introduces the social construction of sex and gender with a focus on the economic, political, social, and cultural forces that shape gender relations. Examines gender as a social structure that patterns institutional inequalities and everyday interactions on society. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS WS 317 Gender and Crime
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Examines social forces shaping gender discrepancies in crime. Using a feminist lens, students explore how cultural ideologies about masculinity and femininity shape criminalization, victimization, and offending. Topics include the gendered contexts of crime and punishment, gender-based violence, and intimate labor. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS WS 317S GENDER & CRIME
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
GENDER & CRIME
CAS WS 326 Arts of Gender
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: at least one prior literature course, or CASWS 101, or junior or senior standing. - Examines representations of gender and sexuality in diverse art forms, including drama, dance, film, and literature, and how art reflects historical constructions of gender. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community.
CAS WS 326E Arts of Gender
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: at least one prior literature course, or CAS WS 101, or junior or seni or standing. - ARTS OF GENDER
CAS WS 333 Queering Health
4 credits.
This course is about the unique physical and mental health needs, health disparities, and resiliency within the LGBTQ community. Students will learn about the psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity, intersectionality in LGBTQ communities, gender identity and sexual orientation development models, queer families and relationships, minority stress, hetero/cis-sexism, and other relevant topics. Students will also learn about LGBTQ affirming therapies, healthcare, public policy, and legislation. This course will take a constructively critical lens to medicalized/pathologizing constructions of sexual and gender diversity and examine topics within historical and modern social context. This course will explore strategies for advocacy, improving the healthcare experience of LGBTQ people, and addressing barriers to accessing healthcare from local, national, and global perspectives. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II.
CAS WS 335 Sociology of Race, Class & Gender
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: At least one prior 100- or 200-level sociology course, or CAS WS 101/1 02. - No one of us is one thing, one identity, nor motivated by one singular interest, nor privileged or subjugated by one singular form of power, but how do those multiple forms of ourselves affect how we are advantaged, disadvantaged, viewed, and understood by the social world' Our social world, is, by default, a vast web of social intersections between and across groups with shared, overlapping, and conflicting identities. Race, class and gender affect nearly all of our lived experiences and greatly complicate and nuance concepts of diversity and difference. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness.
CAS WS 335S Sociology of Race, Class & Gender
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: At least one prior 100- or 200-level sociology course, or CAS WS 101/1 02. - Prereq: (CAS WS 101/102), at least one prior 100- or 200-level sociology course, or consent of the instructor. Examines race, class, gender, and sexuality as intersecting axes of stratification, identity, and experience -- acknowledging that no one of us is one thing, one identity, nor motivated by one singular interest, nor privileged or subjugated by one singular form of power. This course studies how these multiple forms of ourselves affect how we are advantaged, disadvantaged, viewed, and understood by the social world. Our social world is, by default, a vast web of social intersections between and across groups with shared, overlapping, and conflicting identities. Within this framework, we investigate the various ways that race, class, and gender affect nearly all of our lived experiences and greatly complicate and nuance concepts of diversity and difference. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, The Individual in Community, Historical Consciousness.
CAS WS 382 Women's Literary Cultures
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - Writings by women in diverse literary forms, including drama, poetry and prose. How does women's literary culture reflect historical constructions of gender and sexuality' How do writers engage with new literary forms, like the lyric, political treatise, or the novel' Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS WS 393 Technoculture and Horizons of Gender and Race
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - Explores new media theory, postmodernist thought, social media, and video games to confront gender, race, and sexuality. Through critical reading, writing, and hands-on digital technology use, students consider how race, sexuality, and gender live in virtual worlds. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS WS 396 Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Analyzes gender and sexuality from an intersectional perspective. Focus on metaphysics, epistemology, and semantics to understand gender and sexuality as they exist within interlocking systems of oppression including racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and fatphobia. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CAS WS 400 Gender and Healthcare
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASWR 120 or equivalent. - Focuses on strengthening students' knowledge, skills, and ability to construct a critical appraisal of all the determinants, distribution, causes, mechanisms, systems, and consequences of health inequities related to gender including how gender influences and is influenced by healthcare systems. Effective Summer 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WS 400S Gender and Healthcare
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASWR120) or equivalent. - Focuses on strengthening students' knowledge, skills, and ability to construct a critical appraisal of all the determinants, distribution, causes, mechanisms, systems, and consequences of health inequities related to gender, including how gender influences and is influenced by healthcare systems. Effective summer 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WS 420 Queer Theory
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Surveys major texts and arguments in queer theory from Butler's Gender Trouble to contemporary discussions of cisnormativity, homonationalism, affect, pinkwashing, crip theory, and queer-of-color critique. Explores different uses of queer theory in legal debates, literary analysis, and cultural criticism. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
CAS WS 425 Sex and the City
4 credits.
An exploration of sexualities and place from an interdisciplinary perspective. Examines a broad range of places to consider how sexual lives and identities and place-related processes -- from gentrification to suburbanization -- interact. Considers the emplaced lives of a variety of actors, from transgender individuals to sex workers and cisgender heterosexual patrons of gay bars. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CAS WS 431 Seminar: Genders, Sexualities, and Youth Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing or consent of instructor. - Investigates the social construction of gender and sexuality in adolescence. Engaging critical approaches to youth cultures, the course examines the structural conditions that shape gender and sexuality norms and the ways youth navigate and redefine their social worlds. Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WS 445 Women, Gender, and Islam
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or 120). - Investigates the way Muslim religious discourse, norms, and practices create and sustain gender and hierarchy in religious, social, and familial life. Looks at historical and contemporary challenges posed to these structures. - Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WS 562 Studies in Asexualities
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Pre- Requisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Writing intensive seminar that explores asexuality studies as well as various kinds of sexual and romantic absences in contemporary literature, literary analysis, and critical theory with particular attention to race and disability. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS WS 617 Gender and Crime
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Examines social forces shaping gender discrepancies in crime. Using a feminist lens, students explore how cultural ideologies about masculinity and femininity shape criminalization, victimization, and offending. Topics include the gendered contexts of crime and punishment, gender-based violence, and intimate labor. Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS WS 631 Seminar: Genders, Sexualities, and Youth Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Investigates the social construction of gender and sexuality in adolescence. Engaging critical approaches to youth cultures, the course examines the structural conditions that shape gender and sexuality norms, and the ways youth navigate and redefine their social worlds. Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WS 635 Women, Gender, and Islam
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or 120). - Investigates the way Muslim religious discourse, norms, and practices create and sustain gender and hierarchy in religious, social, and familial life. Looks at historical and contemporary challenges posed to these structures. - Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS XL 325 Global Modernist Fiction
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
A comparative study of five modernist authors from different world cultures: Faulkner, Kafka, Chang, Rushdie, and Murakami. Examines experiments in narrative technique as differently situated responses to the major events and legacy of the twentieth century. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
CAS XL 420 Queer Theory
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Surveys major texts and arguments in queer theory from Butler's Gender Trouble to contemporary discussions of cisnormativity, homonationalism, affect, pinkwashing, crip theory, and queer-of-color critique. Explores different uses of queer theory in legal debates, literary analysis, and cultural criticism. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
CAS XL 525 Judith Butler
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate prerequisites: two previous XL, WS, or PH courses; or consent of instructor. Graduate prerequisites: graduate standing. - An intensive study of Judith Butler's philosophical thought and social theory from the 1990s to the present, with an emphasis on the continuities and discontinuities between Butler's early work on gender performativity and more recent writings on racial justice, war, and violence. Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, The Individual in Community .
CAS XL 530 Marxist Cultural Criticism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
An introduction to Marxist cultural criticism that examines the transformation of concepts in classic Marxism (Marx, Lukacs, Althusser, Adorno, and Gramsci) into contemporary debates about race, gender, sexuality, colonialism, modernity, and language (Said, Zizek, Spivak, and others). Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
CAS XL 541 Translation Today
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Weekly lectures and discussions with prominent literary translators from Boston and elsewhere. Students engage with a variety of languages and several genres: poetry, drama, essay, fiction, and more. Focus on concrete, practical translation issues arising from the speakers' work. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 121 Foundation Sculpture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation The Individual in Community
In this course, the students explore extensively the fundamentals of 3D design and construction while cultivating the capacity for visual and critical thinking. The students investigate the structural, compositional and conceptual roles of basic materials. A variety of techniques are used to articulate projects in three dimensions and to address fundamental ideas and issues that define the role of art and design in the community and the society we inhabit. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 121S Foundation Sculpture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation The Individual in Community
In this course, the students explore extensively the fundamentals of 3D design and construction while cultivating the capacity for visual and critical thinking. The students investigate the structural, compositional and conceptual roles of basic materials. A variety of techniques are used to articulate projects in three dimensions and to address fundamental ideas and issues that define the role of art and design in the community and the society we inhabit. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 369 Art, Community, and Social Engagement
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
The course provides opportunities for experiential learning, research, reflections, guest lectures, and discussions as tools to understand the creative approaches and philosophies represented in the community art engagement and social practices of cultural workers in contemporary, global and national contexts. A finely crafted final project allows for the demonstration of intercultural literacy, through an innovative execution- ready community- based project proposal designed in collaboration with peers or members of a local community. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA FA 550 Arts Internship
4 credits.
Designed to allow sophomores, juniors, and seniors in the Arts Leadership Minor to receive course credit while working in a professional setting. Internships provide exposure to a workplace environment and offer the opportunity to use creative problem solving skills. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA ME 306 Elementary General Music Methods
4 credits.
Use research and theory on musical development to select instructional approaches, plan learning activities, and create assessments for kindergarten through grade 5 general music. Practice pedagogical skills in class and in field placements. Required for Music Education Majors who seek licensure. 4 cr. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CFA ME 374 Arts Engagement: Cultivating a Deeper Relationship with the Natural Environment to Foster Sustain
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community
In this course, you will explore the arts to contemplate nature, identify unsustainable practices, propose viable alternatives, and share your results with the community via a multimedia arts exhibit. This course is open to juniors/seniors of any major and ability. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning, Creativity/Innovation. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA ME 377S Arts Engagement as Active Hope: Attuning, Reflecting, and Writing Our Way Towards a Sustain Future
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120). Online offering. Explore the arts and writing to contemplate nature, identify unsustainable practices, and propose viable alternatives. Learners of all ability levels in the arts are welcome. Effective Summer 1 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA ME 505 Elementary General Music Methods
3 credits.
Philosophy and goals of the general music program from kindergarten through grade 9. Techniques and experiences employed to implement the development of musical concepts and skills; activities and teaching materials related to the musical development of the child. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CFA ME 506 Elementary General Music Methods
4 credits.
Use research and theory on musical development to select instructional approaches, plan learning activities, and create assessments for kindergarten through grade 5 general music. Practice pedagogical skills in class and in field placements. Required for Music Education Majors who seek licensure. 4 cr. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CFA MH 404 Approaches to Sacred Music East and West
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
This course aims to develop a cultural awareness of diversity and global citizenship through a deeper understanding of diverse religious beliefs and sacred music practices. Students will explore civic engagement through participation in several musical subcultures in the Boston area. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CFA MP 446 String Pedagogy and Practicum 2
2 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community
Teaching methods and materials for use in private instruction; literature concerned with leading pedagogues' approaches to teaching musical skills and understanding. 2 cr. Effective Fall 2019, this course is part of a Hub sequence: when taken with CFA MP 445, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Ethical Reasoning, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA MP 646 String Pedagogy and Practicum 2
2 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community
Teaching methods and materials for use in private instruction; literature concerned with leading pedagogues' approaches to teaching musical skills and understanding. 2 cr. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Ethical Reasoning, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA TH 171 Language & Craft of Theatre 1
2 credits.
The goal of this course is to introduce students to the foundational vocabulary and skills essential to the craft of theatre making to gain an overview of the people and the physical techniques involved in each major area of theatrical production: scenery, lighting, costumes, sound, properties, scene painting and management. The students will also have a hands-on lab experience in technical theatre and have the opportunity to intersect with multiple facets of the School of Theatre community. The Laboratory experience will include evenings and weekends depending on assignment(s). Required for BFA Theatre Core (Design, Production & Management Core and Performance Core). 2.0 credits. Fall semester.
CFA TH 406 Contemporary Theatre
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g WR120) and at least one of the following: CFA TH 101, CFA TH 104, CFA TH 205, CFA TH 206 or permission of instructor. -This discussion course explores the most current trends in theatre from the United States and United Kingdom, with particular attention paid to the voices of African-American, Asian-American, Disabled, Feminist, Gay, and Lesbian playwrights, as well as to plays that break the standard molds of realism and naturalism. The course pairs close reading and analysis with other dramaturgical methods in order to provide students with intellectual depth and practical skill for the professional theatre. Attendance of selected performances at B.U. and in Boston-at-large is required. 4.0 credits. Spring semester. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: The Individual in Community.
CFA TH 430 Professional Theatre Initiative Lab
2 credits.
PTI Lab introduces students to the many aspects of professional theatre practices as an actor, including but not limited to best practices, next practices, industry norms, agents, managers, unions, auditioning, casting, health, goal setting, financial planning, equity, diversity and inclusion in the field, and community building through ongoing conversations with working artists in the field. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
CFA TH 590 Theatre Management
3 credits.
This course is designed to provide an introduction to the managerial, administrative, and leadership aspects of both for-profit and non-profit theater. This class will consist of lectures on the fundamentals of arts management, case studies, project work, and a series of in-depth conversations with leaders in the field of theater and/or performing arts management. Emphasis will be placed on: marketing, PR, budgeting, audience development, producing, fundraising, education, and community relations. Producing work today, the challenges and opportunities, will be a theme throughout the semester. 2.0 credits. Spring semester. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Individual in Community, Quantitative Reasoning II.
CFA TH 626 Contemporary Theatre
4 credits.
This discussion course explores the most current trends in theatre from the United States and United Kingdom, with particular attention paid to the voices of African American, Asian-American, Disabled, Feminist, Gay, and Lesbian playwrights, as well as to plays that break the standard molds of realism and naturalism. The course pairs close reading and analysis with other dramaturgical methods in order to provide students with intellectual depth and practical skill for the professional theatre. Attendance of selected performances at BU and in Boston-at-large is required. 4.0 units. Spring semester. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: The Individual in Community.
CGS HU 450 Giving Well
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Giving Well is a class that explores the theory and practice of impactful charity. Students will read influential texts on philanthropy and apply ideas from these texts as they evaluate the effectiveness of existing charities. The course is supported by a grant from the Philanthropy Lab, and it culminates with the disbursement of potentially upwards of $50,000 to causes selected by students. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, The Individual in Community, Ethical Reasoning.
CGS SS 103 Politics, Economies, and Social Change in the West: The Ancient World Through the Enlightenment
5 credits.
This interdisciplinary course examines social change in the politics, economies, social structures, and culture of the West from the ancient world through the Enlightenment. Students look at developments in governance, trade, social inequalities, and ideas that gave the West its distinctive character, including the rise of its key institution, democracy. To interpret historical change critically, students are introduced to the social science "toolkit" of analytical concepts. Assignments outside the classroom will encourage students to consider how history has shaped today's world. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
CGS SS 320 Identity Politics in the United States
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course explores the politics of race, gender, class, sexuality, religion and more, focusing on the history, dynamics and contemporary issues surrounding identity formation and mobilization. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Writing-Intensive Course.
COM JO 210 Reporting in Depth
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: JO 200 and JO 205 - In J0210 you will learn and practice in-depth reporting in a community. You will develop sources, walk the streets, cover a beat, attend meetings, shoot photos and provide readers with public interest journalism. This is a working newsroom. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Writing- Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
COM JO 210E Reporting in Depth
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: JO 200 and JO 205 - REPORT IN DEPTH
COM JO 210S Reporting in Depth
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: JO 200 and JO 205 - Prereq: (COM JO 200 & COM JO 205). Students learn and practice in-depth reporting in a community. They develop sources, walk the streets, cover a beat, attend meetings, shoot photos, and provide readers with public interest journalism. This is a working newsroom. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
COM JO 300 Media and Democracy - Journalism in an Age of Disinformation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: JO150 and at least junior standing. - This course is for anyone who reads the news or produces it, for those who want accurate information and those who want to provide it. Students will gain a true-north understanding of the role of the free press in a democracy, the rise and allure of online fake news, and how empowered individuals and the news media can push back against this 21st century threat to freedom. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
COM JO 519 Narrative Radio
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication
It used to be commonly accepted that if you wanted to work in audio journalism, then you were likely looking for a career in radio news. But the nature of audio ¿ and journalism ¿ continues to evolve.
Now, legacy media outlets like newspapers have entire audio divisions producing daily and longform podcasts while news radio stations are re-thinking their broadcasts and attracting new audiences via streaming apps. But no matter the platform, there are certain tenets of audio storytelling and production that make for great listening and powerful journalism.
This class combines the highest editorial standards of public radio with the best practices of digital audio production. You will learn how to write effectively for radio, incorporating in-depth reporting techniques with creative audio storytelling. The goal of this course is to produce a variety of high-quality audio pieces that could potentially be aired on a public radio program or serve as a launching off point for a longer form project. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
ENG EK 490E INTERNSHIP/DRES
Var credits.
ENG INTERNSHIP
HUB FY 101 Cocurricular: The First Year Experience
0 credits.
Through discussions, activities, and field trips, students investigate the social, academic, and cultural dimensions of student life at BU. Students join a small community of peers who serve as conversation partners as together they learn how to leverage BU's resources to create a richer and fuller college experience. Students explore personal values and goals and how they interact with their communities of choice at BU. Effective Fall 2019, this Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
HUB SA 230 The Individual in Community with Study Abroad
0 credits.
0-credit course for BU students studying abroad to fulfill a Hub requirement in the Individual in Community (IIC). Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single requirement in the following BU Hub area: the Individual in Community.
HUB SA 300E KYOTOLAANG
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication
KYOTOLAANG
HUB SJ 102 Social & Racial Justice: Advocacy and Action
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Social Inquiry I Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: HUB SJ 101 - This course provides students with opportunities to engage the principles, theories, and practices of social and racial justice. Areas of focus will include effective evidence-based research to identify and articulate social problems; and a study of the role of the individual in social justice movements and organizations. Students explore how to engage in advocacy and action to challenge inequity. HUB SJ 101 is a prerequisite. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I, Teamwork/Collaboration.
KHC AM 101 Whose Schools: Power, Equality and Public Education
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
How can we fulfill Thomas Jefferson's promise for public schools "which shall reach every description of our citizens'" The course examines significant eras, debates, and struggles for equality in U.S. education, with a particular focus on current policies in Boston. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
KHC AN 104 Wildlife Conservation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression The Individual in Community
Through team-based approaches, students learn about threats to wildlife and natural habitats, identifying community-based root causes. They apply their own disciplinary expertise and passions to develop creative solutions to these problems, culminating in the production of a final conservation video. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
KHC AN 105 Conflict: The Human Condition
4 credits.
What can we learn about the human condition when we think through conflict' Unlike premodern forms of political authority and social organization, modern sociopolitical forms sanction specific forms of adversarial interaction as positive, regulative forces while banning forms of conflict as unwanted, corrosive influences on sociopolitical order. Students will engage with a rich array of multidisciplinary writings on human conflict as well as theatrical, literary, and cinematic takes on the primacy of adversarial relations for understanding the human condition. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
KHC EN 103 Poetry as Activism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation The Individual in Community
Do artists have a responsibility to bear witness to their times' This course explores the work of contemporary poets who directly engage the current moment, who show us that art can function as political action. Among the controversial topics that these authors draw attention to and comment on are racial injustice, mass incarceration, war, LGBTQ rights, immigration policy, and environmental devastation. Through our course texts and students' own poems, we will consider the ethics of appropriation and representation, as well as the use of personal experience and found documents in poetry. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
KHC EN 105 The Romance Novel
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Romance novels have been scorned, adored, and most of all, widely read. This course examines the history, artistry, and social significance of the genre, with attention to the ways in which romance novels have variously reinforced and disrupted norms of r not only on the world’s problems but also on the world’s pleasures? Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
KHC PH 103 Seeing Poverty
4 credits.
How do we understand poverty in modern America' Images of poverty might lead us to believe poverty is exclusively a problem of urban people of color, but what do historic and modern depictions of poverty in popular culture -- reality TV shows, or films tell us' How is data on poverty calculated and understood' This course will explore the ever-changing and ever-political sociological and public health issues of measuring poverty in America today. Using literature, film, photography, and public data sets, the course will explore the true meaning of "poverty." Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
KHC PO 104 War and Memory in the American Experience
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
This seminar examines three questions: How do we remember (and forget) war' Who does the remembering' What is the relationship between war memory and war making' The relationship between war and memory is explored via the American experience. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Individual in Community, Creativity & Innovation
KHC RH 102 A Nation Riven: Turbulence and Transformation in 1960s America and Today
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
What can the social and political ferment of the Sixties teach us about the issues of the present day' Do the ideals of 1960s radicals still ring true' Why did the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1965 lead to racial unrest rather than reconciliation, and how does this history resonate in the rhetoric of Black Lives Matter' Why did foundational American beliefs like Free Speech place idealists at odds with mainstream American society, and what lessons does the campus free speech movement of the 1960s have for student activists today' Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
KHC RH 103 A Reexamination of Childhood through Children's Literature and Community-Based Learning
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking The Individual in Community
How have authors of classic works of children's literature addressed the liminal space between childhood and adulthood' How might this study give us insight into our own experiences' By studying childhood at the intersection of children's literature and community-based learning, students will deepen their understanding of how individuals are shaped by the stories that define their childhood. The course traces the development of children's literature in Western culture from classic fairy tales to the development of the novel and short story to today's picture books. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking.
KHC RH 105 The Lived City
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression The Individual in Community
What makes cities thrive' How do cities foster community or how do they fail to do so' How does the way a city is built and designed inform these questions' Readings by some of the great urban thinkers and planners of the 20th century (Baudelaire, Benjamin, Wirth, Gehl, Whyte, Chakrabarti), case studies of urban activists and innovators (Riis, Olmsted, Jacobs), guided group walks of the city, and lessons in close observation, culminating in a creative map making project. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
QST MO 460 The Leadership Challenge
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing - Required for Organizational Behavior concentrators. Do you want to develop your leadership skills' Are you interested in learning more about what makes an effective leader' Would you like to lead an initiative that has direct, real-world impact in the community' Then take on the Leadership Challenge! This course dives into the theory and practice of leadership, emphasizing the perspective that leaders are needed at all levels in organizations and society. In addition to studying the practices of effective leaders, the course focuses on developing your leadership competencies through active experimentation and reflection, designing and leading a team community service project, and building leadership, communication, and collaboration skills. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, The Individual in Community. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
QST OM 351 Supply Chain Risk and Sustainability
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: QSTSM 131 and sophomore standing - This course explores initiatives that enable a company to reduce its environmental impact. We will study the initiatives based on where the impact occurs in the supply chain: within the four walls of the company, at extended suppliers, in logistics, and at customer or use phase. We will start with making a business case for sustainability, learning about the complex structure of supply chains, and different ways to assess environmental impact. In addition, we will cover food waste, sustainable agriculture, green product design, eco-labeling, sustainable business models, and supply chain risk management. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community.
QST OM 451 Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: QST SM131 and sophomore standing - This course explores initiatives that enable a company to reduce its environmental impact. We will study the initiatives based on where the impact occurs in the supply chain: within the four walls of the company, at extended suppliers, in logistics, and at customer or use phase. We will start with making a business case for sustainability, learning about the complex structure of supply chains, and different ways to assess environmental impact. In addition, we will cover food waste, sustainable agriculture, green product design, eco-labeling, sustainable business models, and supply chain risk management. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community.
QST SI 250 Ideas to Impact
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation The Individual in Community Social Inquiry I
This course is required for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship minor. The goal of this course is to expose students to the conceptual frameworks that guide ideation and innovation. Thus it will include all five learning principles the guide design of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship minor. The course analyzes the conditions that foster innovation as well as the process by which ideas progress from conception to implementation and execution, and the creation of either economic or social impact. Students will be exposed to theories on the conditions that affect the generation and development of creativity and innovation within individuals, teams, cities, and regions. To foster experiential learning, the whole class will be structured around the process of innovation with a "live case" that focuses on creating social innovations for the City of Boston. When people think about great social challenges, they often look afar to distant countries. Yet, many social problems lie right around the corner from students' daily lives. Students will develop a toolkit comprised of brainstorming, design thinking, human centered design, prototyping, storyboarding and field research. Students will conduct original field research within the City of Boston and identify a challenge or problem to address which they will focus on for the duration of the course, culminating in final presentations. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
QST SI 250S Ideas to Impact
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation The Individual in Community Social Inquiry I
Required for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship minor. Open to visiting students during the summer. Explores the conceptual frameworks that guide ideation and innovation, focusing on the five learning principles of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship minor. Analyzes the conditions that foster innovation as well as the process by which ideas progress from conception to implementation and execution, along with their economic or social impact. Students study the conditions that affect the generation and development of creativity and innovation within individuals, teams, cities, and regions. To foster experiential learning, the course is structured around the process of innovation with a "live case" that creates social innovations for the City of Boston. Students develop a toolkit comprised of brainstorming, design thinking, human centered design, prototyping, storyboarding and field research. Students conduct original field research within the City of Boston and identify a challenge or problem to address for the duration of the course, culminating in final presentations. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
SAR HS 332 Analyzing Bias and Discrimination in Medicine, Health, & Science
2 credits.
This interdisciplinary course will take a scientific approach, within an antiracist, anti-imperialist, intersectional framework, to uncover instances of bias and discrimination in medicine, health, and science; will commit to confronting these injustices; and will discuss how to move forward. We will work together to develop skills to help us recognize discrimination in our surroundings, understand systemic patterns of oppression, self-reflect on our own implicit biases, and advocate for social change. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Individual in Community
SAR HS 333 Queering Health
4 credits.
This course is about the unique physical and mental health needs, health disparities, and resiliency within the LGBTQ community. Students will learn about the psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity, intersectionality in LGBTQ communities, gender identity and sexual orientation development models, queer families and relationships, minority stress, hetero/cis-sexism, and other relevant topics. Students will also learn about LGBTQ affirming therapies, healthcare, public policy, and legislation. This course will take a constructively critical lens to medicalized/pathologizing constructions of sexual and gender diversity and examine topics within historical and modern social context. This course will explore strategies for advocacy, improving the healthcare experience of LGBTQ people, and addressing barriers to accessing healthcare from local, national, and global perspectives. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II.
SAR HS 400 Gender and Healthcare
4 credits.
This course focuses on strengthening students' knowledge, skills, and ability to construct a critical appraisal of all the determinants, distribution, causes, mechanisms, systems, and consequences of health inequities related to gender including how gender influences and is influenced by healthcare systems. Effective Summer 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
SAR HS 400S Gender and Healthcare
4 credits.
Prereq: (CAS WR 120) or equivalent. Focuses on strengthening students' knowledge, skills, and ability to construct a critical appraisal of all the determinants, distribution, causes, mechanisms, systems, and consequences of health inequities related to gender, including how gender influences and is influenced by healthcare systems. Effective summer 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
SAR HS 408E MEDITERRAN DIET
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
MEDITERRAN DIET
SAR HS 410 Field Experience: Human Physiology
Var credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and consent of instructor - The focus of this internship course is to provide the student with an experience that is different from the classroom in which the student can apply much of the knowledge gained in previous class work. Exposure to a hospital setting, research laboratory, clinical environment and direct patient contact are within the realm of available experiences. The internship will provide the student a stronger sense of the careers available in the health professions while providing valuable first-hand experience. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
SAR HS 410E FLD EXP HUM PHY
Var credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and consent of instructor - FLD EXP HUM PHY
SAR HS 410S Field Experience: Human Physiology
Var credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and consent of instructor - Prereq: junior or senior standing and consent of instructor. Practical experience in a research laboratory, clinic, community, and/or industrial setting, as appropriate.
SAR HS 418S Health Sciences Field Experience: Health Sciences
Var credits.
This internship course provides experience that is different from the classroom in which the student can apply much of the knowledge gained in previous class work. Exposure to a hospital setting, research laboratory, clinical environment and direct patient contact are within the realm of available experiences. The internship offers the student a stronger sense of the careers available in the health professions while providing valuable first-hand experience. Please note: this course does not fulfill HS 405 for HS Majors but may be taken in addition to this required course. Effective summer 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
WED AP 555S The History of Boston University
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness The Individual in Community
How did Boston University evolve from a rural seminary to an elite research university' What implications could the study of BU history have on the practice of professional education' This course explores the intellectual and institutional changes that occasioned "the spectacular development" of BU and then uses this history as a reflexive tool. Students access archival materials, tour historic sites, and construct historical narratives. Students also reflect on both their experiences and the work of education to enhance future practice. Effective Summer 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
WED DE 300 Introduction to the Deaf World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Designed to provide a general overview to the lives, orientations and typical experiences of American Deaf people who use American Sign Language. This course aims to understand some of the fundamental factors that impact the lives of Deaf People, both positively and negatively. Finally, we will generate ideas about how to enhance the general perspective of the Deaf World as a vibrant cultural and linguistic minority. The intention is for students to be better equipped to be advocates and partners with Deaf People. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
WED DE 350 Deaf History and Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Analysis and discussion of the historical and cultural aspects of Deaf Culture; the influence of geographic, cultural, educational, and economic forces on Deaf people; and the patterns of social change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Introduces students to specific cultural and historical experiences and acquaints them with literature in the field. 4 cr Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
WED DE 382 American Sign Language 2
4 credits.
This is the second level of American Sign Language (ASL). It is designed for the further development of students' proficiency in ASL, focusing on somewhat less frequently used signs, more complex lexical and grammatical structures, and more advanced conversational skills. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Oral and/or Signed Communication. 4cr. Prereq: SED DE 381/581. 4 cr.
WED DE 382S American Sign Language 2
4 credits.
This is the second level of American Sign Language (ASL). It is designed for the further development of students' proficiency in ASL, focusing on somewhat less frequently used signs, more complex lexical and grammatical structures, and more advanced conversational skills. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Oral and/or Signed Communication. Prerequisites: SED DE 381 or SED DE 581.
WED DE 384 American Sign Language 4
4 credits.
An advanced course designed for students who have completed a minimum of American Sign Language 3. ASL 4 offers a more in-depth discussion in ASL with an emphasis on receptive and expressive skills. This course will present further exposure to more sophisticated dialogues, vocabulary, acquiring ASL expressions, proficiency in ASL grammar and basic ASL discourse as well as register forms, pragmatics, and storytelling. Prereq: SED DE 383/583. 4 cr. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
WED DE 582 American Sign Language 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (WED DE 381 or WED DE 581). - This is the second level of American Sign Language (ASL). It is designed for the further development of students' proficiency in ASL, focusing on somewhat less frequently used signs, more complex lexical and grammatical structures, and more advanced conversational skills. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
WED DE 582S American Sign Language 2
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (WED DE 381 or WED DE 581). - This is the second level of American Sign Language (ASL). It is designed for the further development of students' proficiency in ASL, focusing on somewhat less frequently used signs, more complex lexical and grammatical structures, and more advanced conversational skills. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
WED EC 350 Introduction to Early Childhood Education
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Presents key topics in early childhood education so that students establish basic understandings of the field, including: historical foundations, the role of the teacher, nature of the young child and the role of play in early education. This course is designed for students who are majors in Early Childhood Education or are considering this field of study. 4 cr. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
WED ED 110 Introduction to Education
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
This exploratory course introduces students to the profession of teaching through discussions and a field experience at a local school. From this experience, students begin to cultivate a reflective stance toward themselves, curriculum, schools, and society. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings and, The Individual in Community.
WED ED 200 Introduction to Justice-Based Education
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - This exploratory course introduces students to a critical history of schooling in America and the extent to which various philosophies of education can work (and have worked) in service of or in opposition to democratic and justice- oriented ends. Students will begin to cultivate a critically reflective stance toward classroom experiences, educational policies, their identities, and the intersection among them. This course requires 4 hours of field-based experience. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, The Individual in Community, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
WED ED 225 Project Citizen: Promoting Civic Engagement
2 credits.
The course examines how a model of citizen action (Project Citizen) can be used to promote active and informed citizenship among youth and adults. Students apply that model to analyze and influence a current public policy of their choice. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
WED EN 512 Methods of Teaching Writing in Secondary English Language Arts
4 credits.
Introduces aspiring middle and secondary English/Language Arts teachers to research-based practices for effective writing instruction. Topics include writing workshop, mentor texts, genre study, strategy instruction, process- based instruction and revision. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation. 4 cr.
WED EN 538 Teaching in American Literature
4 credits.
This course focuses on teaching American literature at the high school level. Goals include building a knowledge base in American literary history, modeling deep learning with selected texts, addressing theoretical questions in English Language Arts pedagogy, and learning practical classroom skills. 4 cr. 1st sem. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
WED EN 712 Methods of Teaching Writing in Secondary English Language Arts
4 credits.
The course introduces graduate aspiring middle and secondary English/Language Arts teachers to research-based practices for effective writing instruction and contains opportunities for application in a field experience. Topics include writing workshops, mentor texts, genre study, strategy instruction, process-based instruction, and revision. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU 4 cr.
WED HD 327 Asian American Psychology
4 credits.
This course examines the psychological experiences of Asian Americans, including historical, sociopolitical, and cultural influences that shape lived experiences and mental health. Students will critically explore concepts such as culture, ethnicity, race, as they pertain to diverse Asian Americans. They will self-reflect and gain knowledge about cultural competence and advocacy in working with diverse Asian American individuals and communities. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I.
WED HD 330 Psychology of Race
4 credits.
Interdisciplinary investigation of the historical, ideological, structural, and individual manifestations of race and racism in society. The course will also examine how the intersection of race with factors such as social class, gender, ethnicity, and identity shape the human experience. 4 cr. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry I.
WED HD 331 African American School Achievement
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
How do schools shape the lives of African Americans' Who are the teachers that best educate African American students' How do African American parents shape learning' What are the characteristics of a "good" school for African Americans' In this course, students will address these questions and more. Drawing from the disciplines of psychology and education, students will examine historical and contemporary factors that shape school achievement for African Americans. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
WED ME 200 Introduction to Mathematics Education
2 credits.
The course will provide students with an introduction to the field of K-12 mathematics education, focusing on current issues such as standards, curriculum, diversity, student achievement, parental involvement, instructional methods, and the nature of learning mathematics with understanding. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
WED SC 521 Introduction to STEM Education Theory and Practice
2 credits.
This course provides an introduction to modern learning theory emphasizing inquiry learning in the classroom for science, engineering and mathematics. 2 cr. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
WED SC 521E Introduction to STEM Education Theory and Practice
2 credits.
This course provides an introduction to modern learning theory emphasizing inquiry learning in the classroom for science, engineering and mathematics. 2 cr. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
WED SE 250 Disability, Education, and Public Policy
4 credits.
Students will examine how disabilities impact students, their families, and their educational/community participation; analyze the historical treatment of individuals with disabilities; discuss contemporary ethical issues; learn federal legislation; and develop a foundational understanding of inclusive educational practices. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Ethical Reasoning.
WED SE 251 Special Education and Adolescents
2 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: SED ED100 - Students will analyze the impact of disabilities on adolescents, their families, and educational/community participation; learn federal legislation; and, explore behavior support/instructional strategies to ensure that future secondary education teachers will work effectively with all individuals within a diverse student body. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community.
Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
CAS AA 103 Introduction to African American Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - What is the African American literary tradition' In this course, we will read poetry, slave narratives, essays, speeches, tales, short stories, and novels and consider how culture, politics, and history shape African American literature. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 103S Introduction to African American Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - What is the African American literary tradition' How does it change over time' This course introduces the cultural, political, and historical contexts of the African American experience through readings of literature. Readings include poetry, slave narratives, essays and speeches, tales, short stories, and novels. In examining these texts, students consider how culture, politics, and history shape African American literature. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 114 Kongo to Cuba: Art, Exchange, and Self-Determination in Africa and Latin America
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
This course introduces the arts of Africa and Latin America. It explores the rich diversity of each continent's artistic production and highlights the impact of their intertwining histories on visual expression in the wake of transcontinental exchange and globalization. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 215 Arts of Africa and Its Diaspora
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Exploration of a diversity of visual and performing arts from Africa, including royal regalia, masquerades, and contemporary painting. Examines how the dispersal of Africans, due to the transatlantic slave trade and immigration, contributed to the cultural richness of the Americas. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 234 African Americans in Global Perspective: Slavery and the Creation of Race
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
A study of how chattel slavery in the Americas led to racialization as a primary tool in the creation of American society and New World capitalism. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 234S African Americans in Global Perspective: Slavery and the Creation of Race
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Studies how chattel slavery in the Americas led to racialization as a primary tool in the creation of American society and New World capitalism. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 237 Reconstructing the African Past
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Explores the richness and diversity of a continent where oral histories and environmental settings have shaped society as much as written records. Considers Africa's critical place in the world from ancient Egypt and Ghana to the Asante and Ethiopian empires. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AA 237S Reconstructing the African Past
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Explores the richness and diversity of a continent where oral histories and environmental settings have shaped society as much as written records. Considers Africa's critical place in the world from ancient Egypt and Ghana to the Asante and Ethiopian empires. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AA 238 Modern Africa
4 credits.
Provides an introduction to African history over the past 175 years, including the end of slavery, colonial rule and anti-colonial revolt, decolonization and nationalism, and the opportunities and challenges of life in postcolonial Africa. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS AA 270 Race, Sex and Science Fiction
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Science Fiction has always been engaged in complex conversations about culture and the fate of the human species. This course takes seriously the presence of issues such as race, sex and gender, which have become increasingly foregrounded in the genre. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 301 African Diaspora Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to the archaeology of the African diaspora, the global displacement of African people and their descendants. Reviews findings, methodology, and theory around key burial contexts. Emphasis on shifting dialogues, such as human remains stewardship, community engagement, and reburial. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AA 304 Introduction to African American Women Writers
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (ex. WR 120) - This course studies the cultural contexts and the ongoing relevance of significant works by African American Women Writers. Works by Jacobs, Butler, Harper, Hurston, Brooks, Kincaid, Morrison and Marshall complemented by critical articles lay out this rich tradition. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 304S Introduction to African American Women Writers
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (ex. WR 120) - Examines the African American female literary tradition through selected texts by African American women, written from slavery to the present. Themes include Women in Bondage (Harriet Jacobs and Octavia Butler); Into the Twentieth Century (Frances E. W. Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gwendolyn Brooks); and The Diaspora (Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, and Paule Marshall).
CAS AA 305 Toni Morrison's American Times
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. First-Yea r Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - Using historical and literary sources to make visible the interactions between the world of the novel and that of American history, the course examines how Morrison's Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, and Love depict crucial times in American history. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 305S Toni Morrison's American Times
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. First-Yea r Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - Examines how Morrison's Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, and Love depict crucial times in American history, using historical and literary sources to make visible the interactions between the world of the novel and that of American history. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 382 History of Religion in Pre-Colonial Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
The study of the development of religious traditions in Africa during the period prior to European colonialism. An emphasis on both indigenous religions and the growth and spread of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the continent as a whole. Also offered as CAS HI 349 and CAS RN 382. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AA 388 Transnational Black Radicalism from the 19th Century to the Present
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Explores black cultural and political movements and examines how they interacted in ways that establish ideas crucial to our contemporary moment through readings in literature and history, film and popular culture productions. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 404 Seminar on Sociology of Families
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and at least two previous Sociology courses; or consent of instructor. First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equi valent) - Explores the rise of "modern" families and the plurality of contemporary family forms and processes in global contexts. Particular attention to intersections of race, class, and gender inequalities and their implications for family life. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AA 411 Race, Memory, and Diaspora in US Popular Music
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Examines selected popular and vernacular musical cultures in the U.S. within a broad historical, political, and economic context; how global musical practices brought by people to the U.S. have been shaped by the unique space of the nation; and how these styles are the product of interracial and intercultural dialogues, struggles, and negotiation processes that continue to produce new hybrid forms. Will develop ability to hear and appreciate entanglements that immerse music-making within competing interests and sensibilities, using key concepts on race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AA 415 Fictions of Race and Migration
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Just as immigration is central to American literature, much African American literature has been produced by Blacks from outside the United States. This class explores the history and presence of these migrants and their impact on language, culture and politics. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 416 Religion, Race, and Climate Change
4 credits.
A multi-disciplinary course delving into the influence of religion and race on human behavior and non-human, planetary realities at local and global scales. It focuses on the historical, systemic, and societal implications associated with ongoing climate change debates. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS AA 420 African American and Asian American Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspective
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - Examines literary representations of race, ethnicity, gender and class through the lens of cross-cultural connections between African Americans and Asian Americans. Which strategies do these women writers use to speak to their often- mainstream readers' How do they challenge traditional gender roles' Effective Fall 2021, this course this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 507 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120). - An exploration of the literature of the "New Negro Renaissance" or, more popularly, the Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1935. Discussions of essays, fiction, and poetry, three special lectures on the stage, the music, and the visual arts of the Harlem Renaissance. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 507S Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120). - Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS EN 120 or CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120). An exploration of the literature of the "New Negro Renaissance" or, more popularly, the Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1935. Discussions of essays, fiction, and poetry, three special lectures on the stage, the music, and the visual arts of the Harlem Renaissance. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 514 Labor, Sexuality, and Resistance in the Afro-Atlantic World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing. - The role of slavery in shaping the society and culture of the Afro-Atlantic world, highlighting the role of labor, the sexual economy of slave regimes, and the various strategies of resistance deployed by enslaved people. Also offered as CAS HI 584. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AA 616 Religion, Race, and Climate Change
4 credits.
A multi-disciplinary course delving into the influence of religion and race on human behavior and non-human, planetary realities at local and global scales. It focuses on the historical, systemic, and societal implications associated with ongoing climate change debates. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS AA 620 African American and Asian American Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspective
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - Examines literary representations of race, ethnicity, gender and class through the lens of cross-cultural connections between African Americans and Asian Americans. Which strategies do these women writers use to speak to their often- mainstream readers' How do they challenge traditional gender roles' Effective Fall 2021, this course this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AH 114 Kongo to Cuba: Art, Exchange, and Self-Determination in Africa and Latin America
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
This course introduces the arts of Africa and Latin America. It explores the rich diversity of each continent's artistic production and highlights the impact of their intertwining histories on visual expression in the wake of transcontinental exchange and globalization. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS AH 114S Kongo to Cuba: Art, Exchange, and Self-Determination in Africa and Latin America
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
This course introduces the arts of Africa and Latin America. It explores the rich diversity of each continent's artistic production and highlights the impact of their intertwining histories on visual expression in the wake of transcontinental exchange and globalization. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS AH 205 History of World Architecture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
An examination of patterns in world architecture and urbanism from pre-history to the twentieth century. Lectures and discussions address questions of program, spatial composition, structure, technology, iconography, and cultural context for the examples considered Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AH 215 Arts of Africa and Its Diaspora
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Exploration of a diversity of visual and performing arts from Africa, including royal regalia, masquerades, and contemporary painting. Examines how the dispersal of Africans, due to the transatlantic slave trade and immigration, contributed to the cultural richness of the Americas. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
CAS AH 220 Islamic Art and Architecture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Examines key monuments of Islamic art and architecture within their historical and cultural context, and emphasizes the diversity within the visual cultures of the Islamic world. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AH 220S Islamic Art and Architecture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Examines key monuments of Islamic art and architecture within their historical and cultural context, and emphasizes the diversity within the visual cultures of the Islamic world. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AH 228 Arts of the Silk Road
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
This course is an introduction to the arts along the "Silk Roads". Focusing on objects situated in-between cultures and societies, students explore important questions of cultural exchange, trade, diplomacy, faith, identity, and gender. Tracing the production and circulation of artworks along landbound and maritime trade routes, from Samarkand to Manila, students engage with and reflect upon deep connections between local communities and global networks. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS AH 258E The Spaces of Art: from Velazquez to the Private Gallery in Spain
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AH 317 From Morocco to Timbuktu: Art and Architecture at the Saharan Crossroads
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Cultural exchange between North and West Africa, and its impact on art and architecture from the medieval period to the present; the interaction between Islam and other modes of African religious practice and how this interaction influenced African aesthetic expression. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS AH 327 Arts of China
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Explores major works of Chinese art, from bronze vessels, Buddhist caves, ink painting, to contemporary performance. Addresses topics such as constructions of monumentality, cultural exchange, displays of power, literati identity, feminine space, and quests for modernization. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AH 328 Modern Japanese Architecture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
An introduction to major architects, buildings, theories, and critical issues of Japanese architecture from 1850 to the present. Focus on the development of new forms in response to interchanges with the West, new technologies, earthquakes, nationalism, international wars, and colonialism. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS AH 364E Art & Architecture Madrid
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Madrid Spanish & European Studies Program. - ART&ARCH MADRID
CAS AH 368 Graffiti, Street Art, and Independent Interventions in Public Space in Madrid
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to graffiti and street art through case studies in Madrid. Combines contextual and aesthetic analysis with hands-on activities. Focus on artistic interventions in public spaces through the lenses of activism, the right to the city, and public space management. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AH 368E Graffiti, Street Art, and Independent Interventions in Public Space in Madrid
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in BU's Study Abroad program. - Introduction to graffiti and street art through case studies in Madrid. Combines contextual and aesthetic analysis with hands-on activities. Focus on artistic interventions in public spaces through the lenses of activism, the right to the city, and public space management. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AH 374E Australian Art and Architecture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Examines the complexity of Australian artistic life and cultural tradition over the past two centuries. Considers both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal art, with particular focus on different media and art forms.
CAS AH 398 Global Modern and Contemporary Architecture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate prerequisites: CASAH 201 and CASAH 205 are recommended. This course provides an introduction to major developments in architecture and urban planning from the 19th century to the present. It challenges canonical history of architecture by showcasing global perspectives on and struggles for/against modernity, colonialism, decolonization, nationalism, and more. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AH 398S Global Modern and Contemporary Architecture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
This course provides an introduction to the major developments in architecture and urban planning from ca. 1900 to the present. It traces the proliferation of modernist thought through key projects but also to everyday buildings and landscapes. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AH 399 History and Theory of Landscape Architecture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Explores man's relationship with nature by a study of selected built environments from antiquity to the present. Focus on both the private garden and the public park--here considered as works of art--and their changing forms, meaning, and interpretations. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS AH 727 Colloquium in Chinese Art
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Graduate Corequisites: (GRSAH728) - (Students must also register for required co-req GRS AH 728.) This graduate-level colloquium will critically examine issues of Chinese art covered in AH327 Arts of China. Special attention will be given to recent scholarship that engages with Chinese art in a greater socio-cultural context. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy. Must attend MWF section with AH327.
CAS AN 101 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
Introduction to the basic concepts, principles, and problems of sociocultural anthropology, emphasizing the study of traditional and complex societies. Special attention to the organization and meaning of religion, economic life, kinship and political order; and the problem of cultural variation in the contemporary world. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 101S Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
Introduces the basic concepts, principles, and problems of sociocultural anthropology, emphasizing the study of both traditional and complex societies. Special attention to the organization and meaning of religion, economic life, kinship, and political order. Explores the problem of cultural variation in the contemporary world. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 201 Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
4 credits.
An introduction to the archaeology and Indigenous peoples civilizations of the Americas, with a focus on the precolonial era. Topics progress chronologically as well as comparatively, with cases drawn from Native American cultures of the North America, Mesoamerica, and South America. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Scientific Inquiry I.
CAS AN 250 The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors: Archaeology of Mesoamerica
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Overview of the Aztecs, Mayas, and other native peoples of Mexico and Central America, including the chronological development of cultures and key topics. Focus on variability in individuals and groups by age, gender, ethnicity, class, and polities pre- and post-conquest. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AN 260 Sex and Gender in Anthropological Perspective
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
Cross-cultural examination of gender roles, expectations, and practices. Focuses on economic, social, political, and ideological determinants that structure the hierarchy of power and privileges accorded the activities and experiences of women, men, and non-binary people in various societies. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy,
CAS AN 260S Sex and Gender in Anthropological Perspective
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
Cross-cultural examination of changing gender roles, expectations, and practices. Focuses on economic, social, political, and ideological determinants that structure the hierarchy of power and privileges accorded the thoughts, activities, and experiences of women and men in various societies. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 262 The Evolution of Culture and Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Where do culture and society come from' Are there common patterns that underlie social diversity' This course explores the origins of human societies, from our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the development of contemporary industrial nations. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I (SO1), Critical Thinking.
CAS AN 280 Eating and Drinking in the Ancient World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) or consent of instructor - Survey of the archaeological evidence of the diets of human societies, from earliest humans to the present. Emphasis on the remains of plants, animals, and humans and what they tell us about ancient food and drink within their social contexts. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AN 280S Eating and Drinking in the Ancient World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) or consent of instructor - Survey of the archaeological evidence of the diets of human societies, from earliest humans to the present. Emphasis on the remains of plants, animals, and humans and what they tell us about ancient food and drink within their social contexts. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AN 283 North American Archaeology
4 credits.
North American prehistory from initial peopling of continent to development of complex societies. Explores human entry into the New World; migration across North America; subsistence changes; human effects on landscape; encounters with Europeans; role of archaeology in contemporary Native cultures. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I
CAS AN 290 Children and Culture
4 credits.
Cross-cultural exploration of caregiving and child development from infancy to adolescence. Topics include beliefs about infants and children; the acquisition of culture; gender socialization; moral development; and the influence of schooling, nation-making, and media on childhood. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AN 290S Children and Culture
4 credits.
Cross-cultural exploration of caregiving and child development from infancy to adolescence. Topics include beliefs about infants and children; the acquisition of culture; gender socialization; moral development; and the influence of schooling, nation-making, and media on childhood. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AN 301 African Diaspora Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to the archaeology of the African diaspora, the global displacement of African people and their descendants. Reviews findings, methodology, and theory around key burial contexts. Emphasis on shifting dialogues, such as human remains stewardship, community engagement, and reburial. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AN 302 Transforming Life: Anthropology of Gender and Medical Technologies
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). CAS AN 101 and/or AN 210 recommended. - Seminar anthropologically compares the role of science and medicine in society and troubles what is natural and moral, e.g., about gender, personhood, kinship, and community, using case studies of reproductive and end-of- life technologies in Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS AN 308 Food in Place(s): Identity, Location, and the Cultures of Taste
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores historical and cultural ecologies of foodways. Field trips focus on history, immigration, and taste identity in Boston¿s neighborhoods. Main text: Wurgaft and White, Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AN 308S Food in Place(s): Identity, Location, and the Cultures of Taste
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores historical and cultural ecologies of foodways. Field trips focus on history, immigration, and taste identity in Boston¿s neighborhoods. Main text: Wurgaft and White, Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course
CAS AN 312 Peoples and Cultures of Africa (area)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Explores the ethnolinguistic diversity of Africa, traditions of the Akan, Joola, Wolof, Yoruba, and other African ethnolinguistic groups, the coexistence between Muslims and non-Muslims in Africa, and the historical events and figures that have shaped the continent. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 316 Contemporary European Ethnography
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASAN 101 and First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - What and where is Europe? Who is European? As authoritarianism rises, this class asks what is happening to belonging across Europe? Are old forms of racism and xenophobia returning? Or are new modes of exclusion appearing? Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AN 318 Southeast Asia: Tradition and Modernity (area)
4 credits.
Examines the dynamics of politics, religion, class, and gender across Southeast Asia today. Using both literature and film media, pays particular attention to the forces that have made Southeast Asia one of the most dynamic regions in the world today. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS AN 319 Anthropology of Muslim Cultures and Politics (area)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Examines the history and contemporary dynamics of religion and politics across the entire Muslim-majority world. Special attention to the changing nature of religious observance and authority, and its implications for citizenship, democracy, youth culture, and gender relations. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AN 319S Anthropology of Muslim Cultures and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Prereq: (CAS AN 101) or other anthropology course. Examines Muslim societies' ongoing struggle over the forms and meanings of Muslim culture and politics, as well as its implications for religious authority, gender ideals, and new notions of citizenship, civil society, and democracy.
CAS AN 320 Women in the Muslim World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
A cross-cultural approach to the diversity and complexity of women's lives in the Muslim world, including the United States. Looks at issues such as gender equality, civil society and democracy, sex segregation and sexual politics, kinship and marriage, and veiling. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 327 Islam in Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
Examines the Islamization of Africa and the processes of adaptation of Islam in the continent. It examines the religious beliefs, cultures, and histories of Muslim communities in Morocco, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, Senegal, and the Sudan, among others. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 344 Culture and Social Change in Japan (area)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Contemporary Japanese society examined through social institutions such as family, school and workplace. Looking at social and historical change through critical moments in Japan's modern history, we examine the experiences of individuals through social class, gender, and the impact of globalization. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AN 347 Afghanistan (area)
4 credits.
Ethnographic and historical examination of Afghanistan's traditional social, political and economic organization as a basis for understanding an era of political turmoil, civil wars and foreign interventions in that country over the past 50 years and the country’s future. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU HUB area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AN 349 Challenging Xenophobia: Perception, Prejudice, Performance
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Examines imaginings and stereotypes of savagery in change, comparing and contrasting them with real humans. Treats African, Native American, and European civilizations and their interrelations of perception, prejudice, and performance. Links history and human geography; connects culture, society, and psychology. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS AN 363 Food and Water: Critical Perspectives on Global Crises
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Examines how people, past and present, have interacted with food and water. Explores multiple causes and consequences of global food and water inequities. Considers the cultural politics of food/water production, consumption, and distribution in different parts of the world. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS AN 368E AUSTRL CULT&SOC
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
AUSTRL CULT&SOC
CAS AN 369 Indigenous Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to Indigenous archaeology, which seeks to realize a more ethical engagement with Indigenous communities by conducting research "with, for, and by" Indigenous descendant communities. Reviews key theoretical frameworks (e.g., traditional knowledge systems, collaboration, repatriation) and explores the ways this approach is being put into action through case studies. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS AN 375 Culture, Society, and Religion in South Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Ethnographic and historical introduction to the Indian subcontinent with a focus on the impact of religion on cultural practices and social institutions. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS AN 375E CULT&SOCOFSASIA
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
CLTR/RN S.ASIA
CAS AN 379 China: Tradition and Transformation (area)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Examines daily life in China and Taiwan, tracing how opposed economic and political paths transformed a common tradition. Topics include capitalism and socialism; politics and social control; dissidence; gender relations; religion, arts, and literature; and pollution. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 379S China: Tradition and Transformation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 532 Literacy and Islam in Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
Examines the Islamization of Africa and literary traditions. Students learn about African texts written in the Arabic script (Ajami) and the spread of Islam and its Africanization throughout the continent. Texts written by enslaved Africans in the Americas are examined. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 563 Religion and Politics across Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior or senior standing; or consent of instructor. - Explores the role of religion, religious movements, and secularism in modern politics, citizenship, gender politics, and public life. Case studies draw from Muslim-majority lands, Africa and Latin America, East-Southeast Asia, and the modern West. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II.
CAS AN 568 Symbol, Myth, and Rite
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Historical overview of ritual behavior, the role of symbolism in the study of culture, and the narrative quality of worldview and belief. Emphasis on verbal performance and public display events in specific cultural contexts. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 571 Anthropology of Emotion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Advanced seminar on the study of emotion as culturally and historically specific experience, cognition and symbolic system. Focus on specific emotions including shame, anger, melancholy, hope, hate and love. Special attention to affect and the politics of emotion. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS AN 573 The Ethnography of China and Taiwan (area)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior or senior standing or consent of instructor; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR100 or WR120). - Reading of major ethnographies and modern histories as a basis for examining changing Taiwanese and Chinese culture and society. Attention to ethnography as a genre, as well as to the dramatic changes of the past century. (Counts towards the East Asian Studies minor.) Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II.
CAS AN 575 The Cosmopolitan Past: Material Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Using archaeology to understand the cosmopolitan world of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, from Alexander through the Romans. We travel to cities and sanctuaries, estates and farmsteads, to learn how people at all levels of society displayed their affiliations, ideals, and personas. Through the prism of personal identity we track cultural capital: what that meant, how it changed, and how people used it in order to assert who they were and how they mattered. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AN 708 Food in Place(s): Identity, Location, and Cultures of Taste
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Explores historical and cultural ecologies of foodways. Field trips focus on history, immigration and taste identity in Boston¿s neighborhoods. Main text: Wurgaft and White, Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS AN 708S Food in Place(s): Identity, Location, and Cultures of Taste
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Study of foodways, culinary social history, and diet and food ecology with special attention to Asian societies and Boston's food culture. Examines the use of food and cuisine as a focus for identity, national development, and social change.
CAS AN 718 Southeast Asia: Tradition and Modernity (Area)
4 credits.
Provides an in-depth introduction to the culture, politics, religions, and gender realities of modern Southeast Asia. Using both literature and film media, pays particular attention to the forces that have made Southeast Asia the dynamic and deeply plural region it is today. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS AN 719 Anthropology of Muslim Cultures and Politics (Area)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. CAS AN 101 or another anthropology course is strong ly recommended. - Explores Muslim societies' ongoing struggle over the forms and meanings of Muslim culture and politics. Examines the implications of these struggles for religious authority, gender ideals, citizenship, civil society, and democracy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AN 720 Women in the Muslim World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
A cross-cultural approach to the diversity and complexity of women's lives in the Muslim world, including the United States. Looks at issues such as gender equality, civil society and democracy, sex segregation and sexual politics, kinship and marriage, and veiling. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy
CAS AN 744 Modern Japanese Society: Family, School, and Workplace (Area)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Approaches diversity and change in contemporary Japanese society through a focus on the life course, family, school, and workplace. Also explores popular and material culture, and the social history of urban life. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AN 747 Afghanistan (area)
4 credits.
Ethnographic and historical examination of Afghanistan's traditional social, political and economic organization as a basis for understanding an era of political turmoil, civil wars and foreign interventions in that country over the past 50 years and the country’s future. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU HUB area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AN 749 Challenging Xenophobia: Perception, Prejudice, Performance
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Examines imaginings and stereotypes of savagery in change, comparing and contrasting them with real humans. Treats African, Native American, and European civilizations and their interrelations of perception, prejudice, and performance. Links history and human geography; connects culture, society, and psychology. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS AN 775 Culture, Society, and Religion in South Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Ethnographic and historical introduction to the Indian subcontinent with a focus on the impact of religion on cultural practices and social institutions. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS AN 791 Theory in Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: at least two archaeological studies courses at the 200 level or above, senior status, or consent of instructor. - Seminar dealing with the intellectual history of the discipline, research methods, concepts, and problems in archaeological theory, and the formulation of research designs. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship, Social Inquiry II.
CAS AR 201 Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
4 credits.
An introduction to the archaeology and Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a focus on the precolonial era. Topics progress chronologically as well as comparatively, with cases drawn from Native American cultures of the North America, Mesoamerica, and South America. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AR 215 The Contested Past
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Examination of the diverse and often conflicting values associated with archaeological objects, ancient monuments, and cultural sites. Case studies (including the Elgin Marbles) highlight contemporary controversies over ownership, appropriation, use, and abuse of the material remains of the past. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Research and Information Literacy. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AR 215S The Contested Past
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Examination of the diverse and often conflicting values associated with archaeological objects, ancient monuments, and cultural sites. Case studies (including the Elgin Marbles) highlight contemporary controversies over ownership, appropriation, use, and abuse of the material remains of the past. Course fulfills Archaeology undergraduate topical requirement. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following HUB areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiries I, and Research and Information Literacy. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AR 250 The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors: Archaeology of Mesoamerica
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Overview of the Aztecs, Mayas, and other native peoples of Mexico and Central America, including the chronological development of cultures and key topics. Focus on variability in individuals and groups by age, gender, ethnicity, class, and polities pre- and post-conquest. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AR 280 Eating and Drinking in the Ancient World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) or consent of inst ructor - Survey of the archaeological evidence of the diets of human societies, from earliest humans to the present. Emphasis on the remains of plants, animals, and humans and what they tell us about ancient food and drink within their social contexts. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AR 280S Eating and Drinking in the Ancient World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120) or consent of instructor. Survey of the archaeological evidence of the diets of human societies, from earliest humans to the present. Emphasis on the remains of plants, animals, and humans and what they tell us about ancient food and drink within their social contexts. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AR 283 North American Archaeology
4 credits.
North American prehistory from initial peopling of continent to development of complex societies. Explores human entry into the New World; migration across North America; subsistence changes; human effects on landscape; encounters with Europeans; role of archaeology in contemporary Native cultures. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AR 290 Human Impacts on Ancient Environments
4 credits.
Examination of human-environmental interactions in the global landscape over the past 10,000 years through migration, hunting, disease, agriculture, and other cultural activities; implications for contemporary and future resources management and environmental policy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AR 301 African Diaspora Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to the archaeology of the African diaspora, the global displacement of African people and their descendants. Reviews findings, methodology, and theory around key burial contexts. Emphasis on shifting dialogues, such as human remains stewardship, community engagement, and reburial. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AR 369 Indigenous Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to Indigenous archaeology, which seeks to realize a more ethical engagement with Indigenous communities by conducting research "with, for, and by" Indigenous descendant communities. Reviews key theoretical frameworks (e.g., traditional knowledge systems, collaboration, repatriation) and explores the ways this approach is being put into action through case studies. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS AR 390 The Archaeology of Southeast Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Examines the evidence for prehistoric and historic cultural sequences across Southeast Asia, presented chronologically and comparatively. Topics include emergent complexity, trade networks, urbanism, metallurgy, public architecture, the rise and fall of early states, the ethics of maritime archaeology and the international antiquities market, and the complex politics of cultural heritage management issues. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AR 395 The Politics of the Past: Archaeology, Museums, and Identity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Historical exploration of the interplay among political/nationalistic pressures and the design, implementation, and interpretation of archaeological research and its public presentation through publications, museum exhibitions, and international expositions. Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AR 450 Methods and Theory of Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: at least two archaeological studies courses at 200 level or above, sen ior status, or consent of instructor. - Senior capstone seminar dealing with the intellectual history of the discipline, research methods, concepts, and problems in archaeological theory, and the formulation of research designs. Effective Fall 2018 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AR 575 The Cosmopolitan Past: Material Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two CAS AR courses at the 200 level of above, or consent of instructor . First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Using archaeology to understand the cosmopolitan world of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, from Alexander through the Romans. We travel to cities and sanctuaries, estates and farmsteads, to learn how people at all levels of society displayed their affiliations, ideals, and personas. Through the prism of personal identity we track cultural capital: what that meant, how it changed, and how people used it in order to assert who they were and how they mattered. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AR 591 Theory in Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: at least two archaeological studies courses at the 200 level or above, senior status, or consent of instructor. - Seminar dealing with the intellectual history of the discipline, research methods, concepts, and problems in archaeological theory, and the formulation of research designs. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship, Social Inquiry II.
CAS AR 795 The Politics of the Past: Archaeology, Museums, and Identity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - Historical exploration of the interplay among political/nationalistic pressures and the design, implementation, and interpretation of archaeological research and its public presentation through publications, museum exhibitions, and international expositions. Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CC 102 Core Humanities 2: The Way: Antiquity and the Medieval World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CASCC 101 or WR 120). Reading late antiquity and medieval texts in conversation, students compare and contrast pre-modern values of "The Way" one should live and asks: What is the best human life? A focus on oral and written communication helps students to articulate and interpret the influence these texts have had globally, and a visit to the MFA Boston enables students to explore the rich interpretive visual traditions that follow these texts. Authors include: Aristotle, Confucius, Laozi, Virgil, select Gospels, Hrotsvitha, Dante, and the Bhagavad Gita. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: First-Year Writing Seminar, Oral and/or Signed Communication. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing- Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CC 102S Antiquity and the Medieval World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
UUndergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - What is the best human life' Reading classical texts in conversation, students compare and contrast pre-modern values of "The Way" one should live. A focus on oral and written communication helps students to articulate and interpret the influence these texts have had globally. Authors include: Aristotle, Confucius, Laozi, Virgil, Hrotsvitha, the Gospels, Dante, and texts from ancient India. Students also explore the rich interpretive visual traditions of these texts. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: First-Year Writing Seminar, Oral and/or Signed Communication. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing- Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CG 101 Modern Greek Language, Culture, and Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
This course develops students' awareness of Greek language, history, literature and culture. It focuses on contemporary life in Greece while paying attention to aspects of the past that are connected to Greek reality today. Taught in English. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS CG 105E BUPH SUM LNG
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
BUPH SUM LNG
CAS CG 212 Intermediate Modern Greek 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCG211) or equivalent. - Discussion in Greek on everyday themes. Development of reading skills through the analysis of contemporary texts. Analysis of contrasting modes of expression and their influence on separate national cultures in Greek and in English. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CG 350 The Modern Greek Short Story
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
A study of Greek short fiction from its beginnings to the present with emphasis on its historical context and cultural ideologies. Close reading of Papadiamantis, Vizyenos, Myrivilis, Venezix, Nollas, Gritse-Milliex, and others. Conducted in English. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS CG 357 Modern Greek Culture and Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Introduction to Greek cultural, social, historical, political, economic, and religious issues through a range of films that have reflected and shaped contemporary Greek society. Entertainment, education, popular culture, propaganda, and identity- and nation-building practices as reflected in Greek cinema. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CG 357S MODGRKCLTR&FILM
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
MODGRKCLTR&FILM
CAS CG 359 Cavafy and History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
A study of the Modern Greek poet, Konstantinos Kavafis (Cavafy), addressing the historical background, themes, and settings of his works, which treat periods ranging from the Trojan War through the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity. Taught in English. Also offered as CAS CL 359. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CI 260 Modern Japanese Culture in Cinema (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Japanese film from the silent era to contemporary animation, with attention to the intersection of cinematic and cultural analysis and genres such as yakuza movies. Directors studied may include Ozu, Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Miyazaki Hayao. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CI 260S JPN CLT FILM ET
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
JPN CLT FILM ET
CAS CI 270 Israeli Culture through Film (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - Israeli society, from its origins to contemporary times, through the medium of film. Topics include immigration; war; the ongoing impact of the Holocaust on Israeli society; trials of women; war; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Introduction to film analysis and interpretive methods. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS CI 283 Arab Cultures Through Film (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores Arab cultures with a focus on key historical and social issues through the lens of Arabic films, both as historical artifacts and artworks. Diverse cinematic works from Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and beyond are discussed and analyzed. No prior knowledge of the Arab world or Arabic is required. Effective Fall 2024 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CI 283S Arab Cultures Through Film (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores Arab cultures with a focus on key historical and social issues through the lens of Arabic films, both as historical artifacts and artworks. Diverse cinematic works from Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and beyond are discussed and analyzed. No prior knowledge of the Arab world or Arabic is required. Effective Summer 2024 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CI 321 Introduction to Brazilian Cinema
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
An overview of Brazilian cinema in the 60s, 70s and 80s, its discourse on revolution and marginality, as well as its connection to artistic, musical, and literary movements. Focus on the work of avant-garde filmmakers and younger generations. Also includes attention to Cuban cinema. Taught in English. Also offered as CAS LP 360. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CI 325 Tradition and Modernity in Iranian Film and Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course examines how competing notions of tradition and modernity are presented in Iranian cinema. Drawing on both classical and modern Persian literary works to draw out underlying connections between the readings and the films. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS CI 325S Tradition and Modernity in Iranian Film and Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - This course examines how competing notions of tradition and modernity are presented in Iranian cinema by drawing on both classical and modern Persian literary works to draw out underlying connections between the readings and the films. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS CI 363 Screening Modern China (in English Translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Major Chinese films interpreted in light of modern Chinese history and culture. Focus on questions of national and cultural identity in films from the 1980s to the present day by directors from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. In English. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CI 363S Screening Modern China (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Major Chinese films interpreted in light of modern Chinese history and culture. Focus on questions of national and cultural identity in films from the 1980s to the present day by directors from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. In English. Students who have completed CAS LC 480 cannot take CAS LC 287 and vice versa. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CI 378 Modern Greek Culture and Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Introduction to Greek cultural, social, historical, political, economic, and religious issues through a range of films that have reflected and shaped contemporary Greek society. Entertainment, education, popular culture, propaganda, and identity- and nation-building practices as reflected in Greek cinema. Also offered as CAS CG 357. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CI 378S Modern Greek Culture and Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Introduction to Greek cultural, social, historical, political, economic, and religious issues through a range of films that have reflected and shaped contemporary Greek society. Entertainment, education, popular culture, propaganda, and identity- and nation-building practices as reflected in Greek cinema. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CI 381 Modern India through Bollywood
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Explores the social history and culture of modern India through the lens of popular Hindi cinema, commonly called Bollywood. We analyze Bollywood films both as forms of art and as cultural texts, and examine how they reflect and interpret modern Indian society. Course readings focus on theoretical approaches to Hindi cinema, and also shed light on the larger historical and social context that surrounds it. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS CI 387 The Holocaust Through Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - An examination of film using the Holocaust as its central topic. What are the political and cultural effects when genocide is represented through film? Can feature films portray history, and if so, what are the consequences for an informed society? Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS CI 480 Modern Chinese Literature & Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
A seminar on the major works of modern Chinese literature and cinema from the May Fourth period to the present, with a focus on close reading and visual analysis. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CI 482 Cinema-Monde: Mapping French Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Spanning from the silent era to the present-day, this course reframes the key movements of French cinema through the lens of the global. Directors include Georges Melies, Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Chantal Ackerman, Agnes Varda, and the Dardenne brothers. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CL 106 The Others: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Ancient World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
An overview of enemies and neighbors of ancient Greeks and Romans such as Lydians, Phrygians, the Phoenicians, Persians or the Gauls with a special emphasis on the contrast between so-called "classical" and "indigenous" sources in each case. All texts in translation. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CL 205 Origins of Writing
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Overview of the world's major writing systems: Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs; Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform; West Semitic consonantal scripts (abjads); East Asian scripts; runes; Greek and Roman alphabets. Considerable linguistic component supplemented by historical information about ancient languages and cultures. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 205S Origins of Writing
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Overview of the world's major writing systems: Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs; Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform; West Semitic consonantal scripts (abjads); East Asian scripts; runes; Greek and Roman alphabets. Considerable linguistic component supplemented by historical information about ancient languages and cultures. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 211 Latin 3: Prose
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCL112) or equivalent. - Reading of selections from Latin prose. Authors read may include Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Petronius, and Pliny. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 211S Latin 3: Prose
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCL112) or equivalent. - Reading of selections from Latin prose. Authors read may include Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Petronius, and Pliny. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 212 Latin 4: Verse
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCL211) or equivalent. - Reading of selections from Latin poetry. Authors read may include Catullus, Ovid, and Vergil. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 212S Latin 4: Verse
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCL211) or equivalent. - Reading of selections from Latin poetry. Authors read may include Catullus, Ovid, and Vergil. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 227 Rome and the Chinese World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Explore the cultural and intellectual worlds of ancient Rome and ancient East Asia (including China, Korea, and Japan), comparing world views, ethical values, political dynamics, and social functions of literature in these great Eurasian civilizations. Includes creative and performative assignments. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CL 261 Greek 3: Prose
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCL162) or equivalent. - Reading of selections from Greek prose. Authors read may include Herodotus, Plato and Lysias, as ,well as selections from the New Testament. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 261S Greek 3: Prose
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCL162) or equivalent. - Reading of selections from Greek prose. Authors read may include Plato and Lysias, as well as selections from the New Testament. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 262 Greek 4: Homer
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCL261) or equivalent. - Reading of selections from the Iliad or Odyssey. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 262S Greek 4: Homer
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCL261) or equivalent. - Reading of selections from the Iliad or Odyssey. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 359 Cavafy and History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
A study of the Modern Greek poet, Konstantinos Kavafis (Cavafy), addressing the historical background, themes, and settings of his works, which treat periods ranging from the Trojan War through the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity. Taught in English. Also offered as CAS CG 359. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS CL 534 Historical and Comparative Linguistics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Introduction to language change and the methodology of historical linguistic analysis, using data from a wide array of languages. Investigates genetic relatedness among languages, language comparison, historical reconstruction, and patterns and principles of change in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EC 102 Introductory Macroeconomic Analysis
4 credits.
The second semester of a standard two-semester sequence for those considering further work in management or economics. National economic performance; the problems of recession, unemployment, and inflation; money creation, government spending, and taxation; economic policies for full employment and price stability; and international trade and payments. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Social Inquiry I. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS EC 102S Introductory Macroeconomic Analysis
4 credits.
The second semester of a standard two-semester sequence is for those considering further work in management or economics. National economic performance; the problems of recession, unemployment, and inflation; money creation; government spending and taxation; economic policies for full employment and price stability; and international trade and payments. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship, and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS EC 330E EURO BUS MRKT
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the London Internship Program. - EURO BUS ENVMT
CAS EC 364E European Economic Development
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in BU's London Internship Programme. - Examines the political economy of contemporary Europe. Concentrates on Western Europe (although the situation and policy developments in Eastern Europe and the former USSR are also touched on), and within that, on the European Economic Community (EEC)--its institutions, policies, and their impact, and its development.
CAS EC 368 Contemporary East Asian Economics
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC101 & CASEC102) - Meets with CAS IR 368. An introduction to the economic history and institutions of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China. Topics include structural change, trade, labor markets, corporate organization, financial systems, and macroeconomic and industrial policy. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS EC 368S Contemporary East Asian Economics
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC101 & CASEC102) - An introduction to the economics of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Topics include Japanese firms, labor markets, finance, monetary and fiscal policies, industrial policies, and Taiwanese and Korean post-1960 economic development.
CAS EC 369 Economic Development of Latin America
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC101 & CASEC102) - Contemporary issues of economic and social policy. Macroeconomic issues: inflation, stabilization, and the debt crisis. Foreign trade and economic restructuring. Poverty and income distribution. Role of the state. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS EC 371 Environmental Economics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC201) - Role of economics in environmental planning. Economic analysis of the causes of pollution and its control through taxes, the use of property rights, and standards. Application of cost-benefit models as an aid in policy decisions affecting the environment. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EC 371S Environmental Economics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC201) - Role of economics in environmental planning. Economic analysis of the causes of pollution and its control through taxes, the use of property rights, and standards. Application of cost-benefit models as an aid in policy decisions affecting the environment. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EE 250 The Fate of Nations: Climate, Resources, and Institutions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Relationships among environment (e.g. climate), natural resources (e.g. energy, water), and human societies (hunter-gatherers to industrial economies). Principles from thermodynamics, climatology, ecology, and economics used to evaluate the role of environment and resources in the success and failure of societies. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS EE 347 Water Resources and the Environment
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Examines global water resource systems, with emphasis on questions of culture, development, gender, social inequality, politics. Analyzes social relations and historical legacies that shape water infrastructure, distribution, and meaning. Cases from Africa, Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, South America. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
CAS EE 512 Urban Climate
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one semester of physics (PY 211, 212 or 251) is required, one semester of calculus (MA 123 or 124, or 127, or 129) is recommended, prior coding experience is strongly encouraged, or consent of instructor - Introduction to urban microclimate within the context of global climate change. Basic climate processes in urban systems; urban heat islands; mixing and dispersion; modeling and observational techniques; anthropogenic emissions; climate change impacts on cities; mitigation and adaptation. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Scientific Inquiry I, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 121 Reading World Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Study of literature in English or English translation -- poetry, drama, and prose narrative -- outside of British and American traditions. Attention to such topics as cultural self-construction, relationships of historical context to artistic expression, and development of literary forms. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 121S READ WLD LIT I
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
READ WORLD LIT
CAS EN 126 Jewish Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - How do changing notions of ethnicity and race, religion, and gender, as well as geographical place define Jewish family and community' Topics include immigration, diaspora, and national culture; patriotism, antisemitism, and multiculturalism; Jewish identities and gender; conversion, assimilation, and acculturation. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-intensive Course. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS EN 129 Introduction to African American Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - What is the African American literary tradition' In this course, we will read poetry, slave narratives, essays, speeches, tales, short stories, and novels and consider how culture, politics, and history shape African American literature. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 129S Introduction to African American Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - What is the African American literary tradition' How does it change over time' This course introduces the cultural, political, and historical contexts of the African American experience through readings of literature. Readings include poetry, slave narratives, essays and speeches, tales, short stories, and novels. In examining these texts, students consider how culture, politics, and history shape African American literature. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 178 Introduction to Latinx Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Survey of U.S. Latinx literature that introduces students to the major trends in the tradition. Course emphasizes the historical and aesthetic networks established in the Latinx literary canon that continue into the present, while also exploring the relationship between genre and socio-historical issues. We begin with readings from contemporary scholars who attempt to define what Latinx is and can be, establishing a foundation for thinking about the shifting definitions of "Latinx" in the U.S. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EN 347 Topics in Contemporary Global Fiction
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - May be repeated for credit as topic varies. Introduction to contemporary fiction by authors outside Europe and North America. Themes addressed include migration, hybridity, cosmopolitanism, decolonization, citizenship, ethnic conflict, and changing notions of cultural identity. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS EN 360 Toni Morrison's American Times
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Using historical and literary sources to make visible the interactions between the world of the novel and that of American history, the course examines how Morrison's Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, and Love depict crucial times in American history. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 369 Haruki Murakami and His Sources
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - Students read works by Haruki Murakami and by writers who shaped him or were shaped by him, reflect on the nature of intertextuality, and gain a perspective on contemporary literature as operating within a global system of mutual influence. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 370 Introduction to African American Women Writers
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course, or junior or senior standing. First-Ye ar Writing Seminar (e.g., WR120) - This course studies the cultural contexts and the ongoing relevance of significant works by African American Women Writers. Works by Jacobs, Butler, Harper, Hurston, Brooks, Kincaid, Morrison and Marshall complemented by critical articles lay out this rich tradition. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 370S Introduction to African American Women Writers
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course, or junior or senior standing. First-Ye ar Writing Seminar (e.g., WR120) - Prereq: junior or senior standing or one previous literature course. Topic for summer 2021: Toni Morrison's American Times. Examines how Morrison's Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, and Love depict crucial times in American history, using historical and literary sources to make visible the interactions between the world of the novel and that of American history. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 371 African American and Asian American Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspective
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. First-Ye ar Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - Examines literary representations of race, ethnicity, gender and class through the lens of cross-cultural connections between African Americans and Asian Americans. Which strategies do these women writers use to speak to their often- mainstream readers' How do they challenge traditional gender roles' Effective Fall 2021, this course this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 377 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - An exploration of the literature of the "New Negro Renaissance" or, more popularly, the Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1935. Discussions of essays, fiction, and poetry, three special lectures on the stage, the music, and the visual arts of the Harlem Renaissance. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 377S Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS EN 120 or CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120) and one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. An exploration of the literature of the "New Negro Renaissance" or, more popularly, the Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1935. Discussions of essays, fiction, and poetry, three special lectures on the stage, the music, and the visual arts of the Harlem Renaissance. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 392E MOD IRISH LIT
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
MOD IRISH LIT
CAS EN 395 Race, Sex and Science Fiction
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Science Fiction has always been engaged in complex conversations about culture and the fate of the human species. This course takes seriously the presence of issues such as race, sex and gender, which have become increasingly foregrounded in the genre. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 398 Global Shakespeares
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Why do contemporary writers parrot and parody "Shakespeare," and how much of this activity is about Shakespeare at all' This seminar provides an introduction to reading and writing about Shakespeare's plays. But it also takes a step back to consider Shakespeare as a phenomenon, inspiring adapters around the world. Beyond learning about particular offshoots and adaptations, the deeper point is to explore how playwrights think about their sources, their audiences, and their art. Effective Summer 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 399 Fictions of Race and Migration
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Just as immigration is central to American literature, much African American literature has been produced by Blacks from outside the United States. This class explores the history and presence of these migrants and their impact on language, culture and politics. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 471 Critical Studies in American Literary Movements
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Two previous literature courses or junior or senior status. - Transatlantic Revolutions. An introduction to the literatures and histories of the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, focusing on the historical conditions that unite the Atlantic World into a united yet heterogeneous culture. Readings include Defoe, Franklin, Paine, Louverture, Christophe, Vastey, Wollstonecraft, Bronte, and Melville. 4 cr. Either sem. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS HI 175 World History to 1500
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Explores historical and environmental factors influencing how cultures take shape and impact each other. Examines early global connections and conflicts between people of different continents as well as between humans, other species, the natural environment, and the planet as a whole. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 176 World History 1500-Present
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Examines the religious encounters, economic rivalries, and military battles produced by European imperialism in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia since 1500. Analyzes how European colonialism came to dominate the world and nationalist movements succeeded in gaining independence. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS HI 176S World History 1500-Present
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Examines the religious encounters, economic rivalries, and military battles produced by European imperialism since 1500 in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Analyzes how European colonialism came to dominate the world and how nationalist movements succeeded in gaining independence. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS HI 191 What Is Europe'
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores key moments in history when cultural contact prompted Europeans to reconsider how they defined themselves culturally and geographically. Lectures and discussions are combined with trips to local museums/archives to analyze the material remains of this process of self-definition. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS HI 191S What Is Europe'
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores key moments in history when cultural contact prompted Europeans to reconsider how they defined themselves culturally and geographically. Lectures and discussions are combined with trips to local museums/archives to analyze the material remains of this process of self-definition. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS HI 226 Cities and Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Examines the relationship between cultural expression and political, social, and economic change by focusing on cities such as Boston, Paris, London, Casablanca, and Johannesburg during times of intense creativity and upheaval. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS HI 226S Cities and Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Examines the relationship between cultural expression and political, social, and economic change by focusing on cities such as Boston, Paris, London, Casablanca, and Johannesburg during times of intense creativity and upheaval. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS HI 227 Living in the City
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Gateway to international urban history. Case studies of selected cities -- from ancient Uruk to modern Shanghai -- through scrutiny of histories and documents. Discussion of important themes for our urban future: justice, health, worship, entertainment, human rights, city planning, beauty. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS HI 234 Introduction to India and South Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
A survey of South Asian history from antiquity to the present. Considers pre- modern empires, the rise of the British Empire in South Asia, and the struggle for independence. Explores the modern politics and culture of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS HI 237 Reconstructing the African Past
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Explores the richness and diversity of a continent where oral histories and environmental settings have shaped society as much as written records. Considers Africa's critical place in the world from ancient Egypt and Ghana to the Asante and Ethiopian empires. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS HI 237S Reconstructing the African Past
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Explores the richness and diversity of a continent where oral histories and environmental settings have shaped society as much as written records. Considers Africa's critical place in the world from ancient Egypt and Ghana to the Asante and Ethiopian empires. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS HI 238 Modern Africa
4 credits.
Provides an introduction to African history over the past 175 years, including the end of slavery, colonial rule and anti-colonial revolt, decolonization and nationalism, and the opportunities and challenges of life in postcolonial Africa. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS HI 239 African History through Popular Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to African history through works of popular culture (novels, films, graphic novels), with a focus on oral traditions, slavery, colonialism, independence struggles, and postcolonial life. Final project centered on proposing a future work of popular culture. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS HI 246E LON SINCE 1666
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the London History & Literature Programme. - LON SINCE 1666
CAS HI 247 The Making of Modern Britain
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
How did a small island nation develop into a global superpower, and at what costs' This course charts Britain's ascendancy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a focus on industrialization, colonial expansion, democratic institution building, and enlightenment thought. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 247S The Making of Modern Britain
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
How did a small island nation develop into a global superpower, and at what costs' This course charts Britain's ascendancy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a focus on industrialization, colonial expansion, democratic institution building, and enlightenment thought. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 321.
CAS HI 248 Modern Britain, 1867 to Present
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
A political, social, and cultural history of England with emphasis on the impact of the two world wars, the emergence of the welfare state, the loss of empire, and Britain's relations with Europe. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 248S Modern Britain, 1867 to Present
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
A political, social, and cultural history of England with emphasis on the impact of the two world wars, the emergence of the welfare state, the loss of empire, and Britain's relations with Europe. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 251E POP CULT:LONDON
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the BU London Internship Programme. - POP CULT:LONDON
CAS HI 252E HST BRIT GENIUS
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the BU London Internship Programme. - CLASS,POWER,BRT
CAS HI 256E HISTORY SPAIN
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Madrid Spanish & European Studies Program. - HISTORY SPAIN
CAS HI 260E HIST OF VENICE
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Enrollment in the BU Padova Language & Liberal Arts Program. - VEN REPUB
CAS HI 272 Russia's Empire under the Tsars
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Focuses on the history of Russia under the Romanov Dynasty and its establishment as a Eurasian power and empire. Emphasizes issues of religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity, modernization, reform and revolt, and the vexed question of Russian identity. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS HI 273 The History of the Soviet Union
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Examines the tumultuous history of Russia's revolutions and its 74-year experiment with socialism. Explores the new revolutionary state's attempt to create a utopia by re-engineering human bodies, behaviors, and beliefs, and the successes and failures of that project. Effective Fall 2018, this course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same number that was previously entitled "Russia and Its Empires Since 1900." Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship an Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS HI 273S The History of the Soviet Union
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Examines the tumultuous history of Russia's revolutions and its 74-year experiment with socialism. Explores the new revolutionary state's attempt to create a utopia by re-engineering human bodies, behaviors, and beliefs, and the successes and failures of that project. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same number that was previously entitled "Russia and Its Empires Since 1900." Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS HI 320 Understanding Revolution: France and Algeria
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Freedom! Liberty, equality, fraternity! National liberation! These slogans have inspired violent revolutions around the world. What do they really mean, and what have they really led to' We will investigate these questions by role-playing and historical analysis of two case studies: the French Revolution (1789-1794) and the Algerian Revolution (1954-62). Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS HI 349 History of Religion in Precolonial Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
The study of the development of religious traditions in Africa during the period prior to European colonialism. An emphasis on both indigenous religions and the growth and spread of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the continent as a whole. Also offered as CAS AA 382 and CAS RN 382. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS HI 351 Environmental History of Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Focus on the African environment and ecological systems over the past 150 years. Topics include climate change, hydrography, agriculture, deforestation, soil erosion, disease, conservation, famine, and the role of colonialism and government policy in environmental change. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS HI 356E The American Revolution, 1750-1800
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Sydney Internship Program. - The political, economic, and ideological causes of the American War for Independence; the construction of a new political system amid the passions of a revolutionary upheaval; and the gradual emergence of a new economic and cultural order in the United States.
CAS HI 363 Early Chinese History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
From the Bronze Age to the seventeenth century, China changed dramatically yet maintained political and cultural cohesion, unlike any other civilization. This course explores both diversity and unity in early Chinese society as well as their historical legacies. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 363S US 1900-1945
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
ERLY CHINESE HI
CAS HI 364 Modern Chinese History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
A hodgepodge of lands and seas between the Pamir and the Pacific, China is ten thousand worlds folded into one. We trace the people who animated those worlds: Manchus, Maoists, and the many. Featuring fun stories and deep thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 364S Modern Chinese History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Since 1600, China experienced Manchu imperial expansion, conflict with the West, two revolutions, and the construction of a socialist society now dominated by authoritarian capitalism. Explores the interplay between enduring traditions, upheaval and modernity, and their consequences for our world. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 367 The Odd Couple: China and the USA, 1776 to the present
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
The USA, a bastion of capitalism, and China, the largest communist state on earth, are the two major global powers today. It was not always this way, and the course will map three centuries of this complex historical relationship, filled with mutual admiration and misunderstanding. Effective Spring 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS HI 372 Power and Pleasure in Asian America
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I Teamwork/Collaboration
How have Asians and Asian Americans endured and survived US empire, war, and anti-Asian discrimination' Ranging across law, politics, and culture, this course reveals the complicated position of Asian Americans in the US racial order since the nineteenth century. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single requirement in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy (, Social Inquiry I, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS HI 386S MOD LATIN AMER
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
NZ: HIST & CULT
CAS HI 389 Americans and the Middle East
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Examines the intersecting histories of America and the Middle East from the late eighteenth century to the present, focusing first on American missionary and educational efforts in the region and then on American political and military involvement after World War II. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 393 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, analysis of conflicting narratives through primary sources and film. Students present their own reflections on the conflict and debate possibilities of resolution. Counts toward majors and minors in History, International Relations, Middle East & North Africa Studies, and Jewish Studies. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS HI 393S ISR-PAL CONFLIC
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
ISR-PAL CONFLIC
CAS HI 399 Introduction to Latin American Politics and International Relations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
(Meets with CAS IR 367 and CAS PO 360.) Examines patterns and complexities of Latin American politics and foreign policies. Focuses on a range of Latin American political and historical experiences, from colonization to global inequality to the impact of Indigenous, Black, feminist and other social movements in the region. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS HI 399S INTRO LA POL&IR
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
INTRO LA POL&IR
CAS HI 434 Monarchy in Modern Britain
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
A seminar probing seminal moments in the history of modern British sovereignty, when the politics of the court intersected with the politics of the people. Particular consideration is given to how monarchy has survived as an institution. Also offered as CAS WS 434. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 451 Fashion as History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
This seminar treats clothing and other products of material culture as historical documents. Explores what clothing can tell us about key developments in the modern period relating to trade and commerce, empire, gender, class, industry, revolution, nation-building, identity politics, and globalization. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 553 Transnational Histories of Asia: How Homo Sapiens Changed the Largest Continent on Our Planet
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication
From archaic humans roaming the woods of Siberia to the thunderous call of the modern revolutions, the story of the Asian continent is the story of our species and its aspirations. This course tells that story from a transnational perspective. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and Signed Communication.
CAS HI 559 Wars, Peace, and Diplomacy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Why do wars occur' What constitutes peace' How is peace maintained or lost' What are the virtues and deficiencies of diplomacy as practitioners have implemented it' How do memory, justice, and the requirements of security interact in the international arena' Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS HI 581 Global Borderlands: Building Walls or Building Bridges'
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Introduces students to a diversity of border regions around the world and explores the ways in which borders and migration across those borders have occurred in historical and contemporary periods, using case studies from the U.S., Latin America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Europe. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing Intensive.
CAS HI 584 Labor, Sexuality, and Resistance in the Afro-Atlantic World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing. - The role of slavery in shaping the society and culture of the Afro-Atlantic world, highlighting the role of labor, the sexual economy of slave regimes, and the various strategies of resistance deployed by enslaved people. Also offered as CAS AA 514. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS HI 595 Morocco: History on the Cusp of Three Continents
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor. - Explores the range and limits of social mixture -- cultural, political, economic -- as three civilizations met at the northwest corner of Africa and influenced one another from the 8th to the 21st centuries. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS ID 116 Africa Today: The Beat of Popular Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the dynamics of contemporary Africa. Examines Western preconceptions, then turns to contemporary literature, film, television, music, dance, and the visual arts from across the continent as a means of listening to diverse African voices. Core course in the African Studies minor. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS IR 230 Fundamentals of International Politics
4 credits.
Introduction to basic concepts of international politics: the state system and types of states, modern ideologies, legal frameworks of international transactions, and political regions. Also raises key issues such as population, the environment, war, and international law. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS IR 230S Fundamentals of International Politics
4 credits.
Introduction to basic concepts of international politics: the state system and types of states, modern ideologies, legal frameworks of international transactions, and political regions. Also raises key issues such as population, the environment, war, and international law. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS IR 238 Modern Africa
4 credits.
Provides an introduction to African history over the past 175 years, including the end of slavery, colonial rule and anti-colonial revolt, decolonization and nationalism, and the opportunities and challenges of life in postcolonial Africa. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS IR 251 Introduction to Comparative Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate core course. Meets with CAS PO 151. Examines different patterns of political development and contemporary politics in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Introduces the comparative method in political science and competing theories of political development and political change. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 251S Introduction to Comparative Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate core course. Examines different patterns of political development and contemporary politics in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Introduces the comparative method in political science and competing theories of political development and political change. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 271 Introduction to International Relations
4 credits.
Explores major issues in international relations, including conflict, cooperation, and governance. Addresses dominant international relations theories and their application. Investigates state system, international law and organization, transnational actors, state behavior, and globalization. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS IR 271S Introduction to International Relations
4 credits.
Explores major issues in international relations, including conflict, cooperation, and governance. Addresses dominant international relations theories and their application. Investigates state system, international law and organization, transnational actors, state behavior, and globalization. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS IR 275 The Making of Asia
4 credits.
Explores the diverse experiences of modernization and development in China, Japan, Korea, as well as the countries of Southeast Asia. Also examines the domestic and international impacts of growing social-economic ties, as well as the complex security challenges among Asian states. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS IR 275S The Making of Asia
4 credits.
Explores the diverse experiences of modernization and development in China, Japan, Korea, as well as the countries of Southeast Asia. Also examines the domestic and international impacts of growing social-economic ties, as well as the complex security challenges among Asian states. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS IR 302 Campaigns and Elections Around the World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASIR251) or consent of instructor. - Meets with CAS PO 325. Electoral campaigns in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Changes in campaigns over time; role of international political consultants; influence of party systems, electoral systems, campaign finance regulation, vote buying, and mass media; campaign effects on voting behavior and public opinion. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 302S Campaigns and Elections Around the World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASIR251) or consent of instructor. - Electoral campaigns in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Changes in campaigns over time; role of international political consultants; influence of party systems, electoral systems, campaign finance regulation, vote buying, and mass media; campaign effects on voting behavior and public opinion.
CAS IR 319 Southeast Asia: Tradition and Modernity
4 credits.
Provides an in-depth introduction to the culture, politics, religions, and gender realities of modern Southeast Asia. Using both literature and film media, pays particular attention to the forces that have made Southeast Asia the dynamic and deeply plural region it is today. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS IR 324E American Policymaking
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
AM POLCY-MAKING
CAS IR 330 Diplomatic Practice
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
The course is designed to get students familiarized with the "art of the possible," emphasizing how diplomatic practice has evolved so far. Students will be able to understand how foreign policy is formulated and promulgated and how diplomacy works on a daily basis.They will demonstrate a clear understanding of the role and importance of multilateral diplomacy/international organizations (liberalism) in today's world and examine how multilateral diplomacy functions. Students will be able to grasp the core principles of diplomatic negotiations and demonstrate them in the simulations. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 330S Diplomatic Practice
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Familiarizes students with the "art of the possible," emphasizing the evolution of diplomatic practice. Students learn how foreign policy is formulated and promulgated and how diplomacy works on a daily basis. Explores the role and importance of multilateral diplomacy/international organizations (liberalism) in today's world and examines how multilateral diplomacy functions. Students study the core principles of diplomatic negotiations and demonstrate them in simulations. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 335E Britain and Europe: A New Beginning
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Examines the changing social, cultural, political, and economic structures of Britain at the end of the twentieth century. Introduction to current debates about the future of the United Kingdom in its relationship with Europe.
CAS IR 336E EURO BUS MRKT
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the London Internship Program. - EURO BUS ENVMT
CAS IR 337 Religion and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to the comparative study of the political role of religious institutions and beliefs. Covers issues such as religion's relationship to violence and terrorism, democracy and human rights, group identity, gender and sexuality, and modernity and secularism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 337S Religion and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to the comparative study of the political role of religious institutions and beliefs. Covers issues such as religion's relationship to violence and terrorism, democracy and human rights, group identity, gender and sexuality, and modernity and secularism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 339E ASIA PACIF SEC
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in Study Abroad's Sydney Internship Program. - ASIA PACIF SEC
CAS IR 349 History of International Relations, 1900-1945
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
What were the causes and the consequences of the two World Wars' What was the nature of political, economic, and military relations among the major powers of the world from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of the Second World War' What was the effect of domestic factors (political, economic, religious, and ideological) on the foreign policies of individual states' Seeking to provide a genuinely multinational perspective on world affairs, this course will assess the ways in which powerful nation-states in this period competed and cooperated in the international system. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS IR 349S History of International Relations, 1900-1945
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
What were the causes and the consequences of the two World Wars' What was the nature of political, economic, and military relations among the major powers of the world from the beginning of the twentieth century to the end of the Second World War' What was the effect of domestic factors (political, economic, religious, and ideological) on the foreign policies of individual states' Seeking to provide a genuinely multinational perspective on world affairs, this course assesses the ways in which powerful nation-states in this period competed and cooperated in the international system. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS IR 352 International Human Rights: Applying Human Rights in Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Meets with CAS PO 378. Studies the growing international influence on politics of human rights principles, documents, and organizations, drawing especially on African cases such as Congo, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The class explores the relationship between civil and political rights and economic, social, and culture rights. We consider debates over claims of universality vs. cultural relativism, individual vs. group rights, and ways to improve human rights enforcement well respecting local cultures. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 352S International Human Rights
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Studies the growing international influence on politics of human rights principles, documents, and organizations, drawing especially on African cases such as Congo, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. Topics include universality vs. cultural relativism, individual vs. group rights, and issues in human rights enforcement.
CAS IR 354 Gender & Global Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to gender and global politics, across both developing and advanced industrial democracies. Focuses on political and economic underpinnings of gender inequality. Students propose and analyze policy solutions to address political gender inequality around the globe using data and cases. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 359E British Political Institutions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the London Internship Program.
CAS IR 365 Rise of China
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
How has China risen economically in the last four decades' How different was the Chinese economic model compared to other Asian nations and western models' In what aspects has China's political system been changed or unchanged during its economic rise' what opportunities and challenges are presented with the economic rise of China in the region and in the world' The course offers foundational knowledge on China's economic reform, domestic politics, and global implications, evaluates public and policy debates, and applies the process and methods of social research. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS IR 365E History of American Foreign Relations Since 1898
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
Analysis of the history of American foreign policy from the perspective of the changing world and regional international systems; emphasis on the effect of these systems and the impact of America on the creation and operation of international systems.
CAS IR 365S Rise of China
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
China's political, economic, and strategic development since the late nineteenth century, with emphasis on the period since 1949. Examines three questions: In what ways is China rising' How did it happen' What are the impacts of China's rise on the U.S. and the global system'
CAS IR 367 Introduction to Latin American Politics and International Relations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
(Meets with CAS HI 399 and CAS PO 360.) Examines patterns and complexities of Latin American politics and foreign policies. Focuses on a range of Latin American political and historical experiences, from colonization to global inequality to the impact of Indigenous, Black, feminist and other social movements in the region. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS IR 367S INTRO LA POL&IR
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
INTRO LA POL&IR
CAS IR 368 Contemporary East Asian Economics
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC101 & CASEC102) - Meets with CAS EC 368. An introduction to the economic history and institutions of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China. Topics include structural change, trade, labor markets, corporate organization, financial systems, and macroeconomic and industrial policy. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS IR 368S Contemporary East Asian Economics
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC101 & CASEC102) - An introduction to the economics of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Topics include Japanese firms, labor markets, finance, monetary and fiscal policies, industrial policies, and Taiwanese and Korean post-1960 economic development.
CAS IR 373 Global Governance and International Organization
4 credits.
Introduces the concept of global governance and examines roles of international organizations in select issue areas, taking into account perspectives of both industrialized and developing countries. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS IR 377 Global South Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASWR150 OR CASWR151 OR CASWR152) - What were the characteristics of U.S. foreign policy in South Asia during the Cold War' What was U.S. response in the various interstate wars in the region, particularly the 1962 war, the 1965 war, the 1971 war and the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan' What are the long-term trends that we can infer from studying the Cold War history of the region that allow us to draw policy lessons for understanding the current foreign policy and security issues in South Asia' These are some of the questions that this course will examine. No background in South Asia is required for taking this course. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS IR 418E Politics, Nations and Identity in the New Europe: Switzerland and the European Union
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: admission to the Geneva Internship Program. - The course aims to provide students with a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary understanding of politics, nations and identity in contemporary Europe and the role Switzerland has to play in this regard. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS IR 427E SEMINAR:INT BUS
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the London Internship Programme. - SEMINAR:INT BUS
CAS IR 502 Latin American Political Parties
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Meets with CAS PO 561. Parties and party systems of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. Historical origins and labor incorporation. Populist, working-class, and hegemonic parties. Market reform and party system transformation or collapse. Ethnic parties, clientelism, rise of a new Left. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS IR 504 Politics of the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Limited to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Graduate Prerequisites: Limited to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Meets with CAS PO 577. An in-depth examination of the political, economic, and societal evolution and interactions of states and non-state actors in the Persian Gulf and Arabian. Critically assesses dominant political narratives. Considers factors ranging from politics and history to demography and resources. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 517 Balkan Politics and International Relations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First-Year Writing Seminar ( e.g., WR120) - Examines history and current state of international relations and security issues in the Balkans. Addresses both intra-Balkan relations and Balkan states' security options, with particular focus on EU, European security architecture, NATO, and the role of Russia and China. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS IR 527 Political Economy of China
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - Provides a historical and comparative study of China's rise domestically and internationally and introduces China's national power, local governments, globalization, finance, and strategic concerns. Students learn to evaluate scholarly and policy pieces, compile evidence, and write research reports. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II.
CAS IR 527S Political Economy of China
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120) and junior standing or consent of instructor. Provides a historical and comparative study of China's rise domestically and internationally and introduces China's national power, local governments, globalization, finance, and strategic concerns. Students learn to evaluate scholarly and policy pieces, compile evidence, and write research reports. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II.
CAS IR 531 Intercultural Communication
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - Examines communicative problems that arise in contact between people from different cultural backgrounds in everyday life, social service encounters, and business transactions. Uses interdisciplinary approaches to study how verbal and nonverbal presentation, ethnic, gender, and cultural differences affect communication. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community.
CAS IR 563 Religion and Politics across Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - This course examines the changing role of religion and secularism in modern politics, citizenship, and public life. It explores the causes of the global resurgence in religiosity and its implications for democracy, tolerance, and gender equality. It compares the public role of religion in Western liberal democracies with that of other world regions, including the Muslim world, Christianity in the global south, "Confucian" East Asia, India, and Buddhist Southeast Asia. The course asks whether an equitable and inclusive citizenship is possible in an age of deep ethico-religious plurality. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II.
CAS IR 564 Political Economy of Rising Powers
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - Offers historical and comparative examination of industrialization and globalization in the contemporary world. Focusing on rising powers, the course examines different waves of industrialization, immigration, and globalization, as well as the business-state relations in different regions and nations. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS JS 100 World Cultures of the Jews
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduces students to the study of Judaism in its many forms, by exploring Jewish communities across the globe today, their different historical origins and cultural contexts, and strategies of preserving cohesion and transnational solidarity. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS JS 110 Judaism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Systematic and historical introduction to doctrines, customs, literature, and movements of Judaism; biblical religion and literature; rabbinic life and thought; medieval mysticism and philosophy; modern movement and developments. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS JS 121 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in historical and cultural context, origins to the present. Examines diversity of practices, belief systems, and social structures within these religions. Also addresses debates within and between communities as well as contemporary controversies and concerns. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS JS 130 Masterpieces of Modern Hebrew Literature (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Narrative prose by major writers from the revival of Hebrew culture in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe to present-day Israel, including works of Peretz, Agnon, Yehoshua, Oz, Shalev, Keret, Kashua, and Castel-Bloom. Special focus on the struggle to forge modern identity in the domains of family, nation, religion and in the broader Middle East. Required for the minor in Hebrew. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS JS 136 Jewish Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or WR 120). - How do changing notions of ethnicity and race, religion, and gender, as well as geographical place define Jewish family and community' Topics include immigration, diaspora, and national culture; patriotism, antisemitism, and multiculturalism; Jewish identities and gender; conversion, assimilation, and acculturation. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS JS 255 Modern Judaism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Encounters between Judaism and modernity from the Renaissance and Reformation; the Spanish expulsion and creation of Jewish centers in the New World; emancipation and its consequences; assimilation, Reform Judaism, Zionism, the American Jewish community, non-European communities, Jewish global migration, and modern antisemitism. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS JS 280 Israeli Popular Music
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH212) or equivalent. - Advanced-intermediate Hebrew language and culture course for those who have completed at least four semesters' college Hebrew or equivalent. Introduction to Israeli cultural history through music. Students expand vocabulary and further develop writing, reading, listening, and conversational skills in Hebrew. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS JS 281 Advanced Modern Hebrew: Voices in Israeli Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH212) or the equivalent as determined by placement test. - This course provides advanced language practice and introduction to globally diverse groups in Israeli society: Orthodox and secular, immigrants and veteran immigrants, Mizrahi and Ashkenazi Jews, Arab-Israelis and more. Through reading a variety of academic and newspapers articles, short stories, poems and viewing interviews, documentaries and movies, students will enhance their interpretation, writing and oral skills while acquiring fundamental knowledge about ethnic/religious/national/social diversity in Israel. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS JS 282 Sixth-Semester Hebrew: Food Culture in Israel
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH311) or placement test results. - This course is taught in Hebrew. Israel has a rich cuisine that reflects the diversity of Israeli society, Jewish and Arab culinary traditions, and a wide range of regional influences. Through reading/viewing a variety of authentic materials, students will enhance their language and cultural proficiency. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS JS 283 Israeli Culture through Film (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - Israeli society, from its origins to contemporary times, through the medium of film. Topics include immigration; war; the ongoing impact of the Holocaust on Israeli society; trials of women; war; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Introduction to film analysis and interpretive methods. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS JS 286 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, analysis of conflicting narratives through primary sources and film. Students present their own reflections on the conflict and debate possibilities of resolution. Counts toward majors and minors in History, International Relations, Middle East & North Africa Studies, and Jewish Studies. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS JS 286S Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
ISR-PAL CONFL
CAS JS 311 Dead Sea Scrolls
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Examination of the ancient Hebrew documents discovered in the Judean desert. Their authorship; the religious significance of the Scrolls; their relations to Ancient Judaism and early Christianity; the controversy over their release and publication. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS JS 343 Jewish Fundamentalisms
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Exploration of Jewish Fundamentalist identities: diverse global communities reflecting a strict interpretation of Jewish law, the formation of Haredi societies in the 19th century, unprecedented growth, marriages and family life, religious studies' social and symbolic centrality, economy, and Haredi trans-national communities. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork and Collaboration .
CAS JS 348 Philosophy and Mysticism: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar; and one course from among the following: P hilosophy, Religion, Core Curriculum (CC101 and/or CC102) - A thematic introduction to mysticism and philosophy, with a focus on the dynamics of religious experience. Readings will be drawn from medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy; Sufi mysticism and philosophy; Kabbalah, Sufi poetry, Hebrew poetry from the Golden Age of Muslim Spain. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS JS 367 The Holocaust Through Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - An examination of film using the Holocaust as its central topic. What are the political and cultural effects when genocide is represented through film? Can feature films portray history, and if so, what are the consequences for an informed society? Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS JS 383 Israeli Culture through Film (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH311) First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - Israeli society, from its origins to contemporary times, through the medium of film. Topics include immigration; war; the ongoing impact of the Holocaust on Israeli society; trials of women; war; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Introduction to film analysis and interpretive methods. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LC 212 Fourth Semester Chinese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC211) - Review of structure and grammar, practice in conversation and writing, introduction to reading. Satisfactory completion of CAS LC 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 212E Fourth-Semester Chinese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC211) - Review of structure and grammar, practice in conversation and writing, introduction to reading. Lab required. Satisfactory completion of CAS LC 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement.
CAS LC 212S Fourth-Semester Chinese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC211) - Review of structure and grammar, practice in conversation and writing, introduction to reading. Satisfactory completion of CAS LC 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement.
CAS LC 216 Chinese Reading and Writing 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC116) , or placement test results. - Intensive course covering second-year Chinese in one semester for students who speak Mandarin. Training in listening and speaking, but emphasis is on reading and writing; aspects of students' Chinese heritage are also explored. Satisfactory completion of CAS LC 216 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 250 Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Literature (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Overview of three thousand years of Chinese literature from its beginnings to the threshold of modernity. Discusses masterpieces of one of the world's oldest continuous traditions in their cultural context and in the context of literatures around the world. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 251 Masterpieces of Modern Chinese Literature (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Modern Chinese literature tells stories of trauma, accommodation, and resistance. It offers private and public records of tumultuous transitions. This course focuses on great works of transformative importance. Authors include Lu Xun, Wang Meng, and Jin Yong. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 260 Gateway to Asian Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Panoramic introduction to the cultures of East and South Asia in comparative perspective (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India). Examines shared foundations, transformative inflection points, sites, peoples, and ideologies over the past two millennia through primary texts and media. Effective Spring 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 261 S24: Chinese Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
A historical survey of Chinese religions from the ancient period to modern times. Covers cosmology, divination, philosophy, divine kingship, ancestors, art, the Silk Road, death and afterlives, popular deities, Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LC 280 Chinese Classics in Today's World (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Discusses canonical texts and authors that for millennia have defined Chinese culture and reflects on their appeal, significance, and current comeback in today’s pop culture and politics in and beyond China. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 281 Chinese Theater
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to the theatrical performance of Chinese opera and the canonical works of Chinese drama. Close reading of well-known dramatic works in their social and historical contexts, with special attention to themes such as illusion, identity, and gender. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 287 Screening Modern China (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Major Chinese films interpreted in light of modern Chinese history and culture. Focus on questions of national and cultural identity in films from the 1980s to the present day by directors from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. In English. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 287S Screening Modern China (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Major Chinese films interpreted in light of modern Chinese history and culture. Focus on questions of national and cultural identity in films from the 1980s to the present day by directors from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. In English. Students who have completed CAS LC 480 cannot take CAS LC 287 and vice versa. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 311 Third Year Modern Chinese 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC212) - Readings and discussion in modern Chinese of a range of authentic materials, including essays, newspaper articles and multi-media recourses. Explore social issues in contemporary Chinese society (e.g. love and marriage, education, employment, population, housing problem, etc.) and compare them with the other countries. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 311S 3RD YR CHIN 1
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC212) - 3RD YR CHIN 1
CAS LC 314 Classical Chinese 1 for Students of East Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC112 OR CASLJ212) or advanced Korean with consent of instructor. - Introductory readings in Classical Chinese for students of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Learn the shared literary language of premodern East Asia and read masterpieces of East Asian philosophy, history, poetry, and fiction in the original. Also offered as CAS LJ 314 and CAS LK 314. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 315 Classical Chinese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLC 212 or CASLC 216 or consent of instructor. - Learning the basic syntactical, lexical, and semantic features of classical Chinese by reading original texts from Pre-Qin and Han China, and examining how active classical Chinese is in modern Chinese, in order to understand this cultural and linguistic heritage. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 316 Chinese Reading and Writing 3
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: CASLC 216 or consent of instructor. - Intensive course covering third-year Chinese in one semester for students who speak Mandarin. Training in listening and speaking, but emphasis is on reading and writing; aspects of students' Chinese heritage are also explored. Effective Fall 2025 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS LC 317 Chinese in Modern Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC311) or consent of instructor. - Explore a wide range of social issues that contemporary China confronts today through media, press, movie, literature and art. Students continue developing Chinese communication skills and cultural awareness. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LC 319 Practical Chinese: Chinese in Intercultural Communication
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC311) or consent of instructor. - Develops students' intercultural competence and Chinese skills. Explores cross-cultural themes (e.g., verbal and nonverbal communication, identity and multilingualism, family, stereotypes, values, etc.). Learn Chinese through reading/viewing and discussing authentic materials (movies, comic books, TV episodes, stories) and conducting community engagement projects. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community.
CAS LC 320 Advanced Classical Chinese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Prerequisites: CASLC 311, CASLC 314, CASLC 315, or consent of instructor. - Readings of classical Chinese poetry, philosophy, and short and long fiction for students with a foundation in literary Chinese. Selected materials address perennial human questions and are drawn from the past three millennia of the Chinese textual tradition. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 322 Business Chinese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC311) or consent of instructor. - Advanced Chinese language course focuses on both oral and written communication to prepare students for employment or research in a variety of China-related fields or in Chinese-speaking communities. Specific topics vary by semester. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LC 420 Topics in Chinese through Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two 300-level modern Chinese courses or consent of instructor. - Specific topics vary by semester. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS LC 451 Visual Politics: Propaganda Art, Literature, and "Model Films" during the Chinese Cultural Revol
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS WR 100, CAS WR 120 or equivalent. - A study of "model films," poster art, and literature during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. A critical approach to the larger cultural and political context of socialist art and literature as well as its legacy in China today. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LC 480 Modern Chinese Literature & Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
A seminar on the major works of modern Chinese literature and cinema from the May Fourth period to the present, with a focus on close reading and visual analysis. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LC 586 Chinese Literary Translation Workshop
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLC 311 or equivalent. - A workshop on translating literary works from Chinese to English designed for MFA students and advanced undergraduate students. Discusses strategies for rendering context-dependent and idiomatic expressions, translating different literary genres, and syntactical and stylistic choices for the translator. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LD 212 Amharic 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD211) or consent of instructor. - This fourth-semester four-skill Amharic course develops competence and confidence in use of Amharic in reading, writing, speaking and listening in culturally acceptable ways. Students learn to communicate at an intermediate high level of proficiency. Satisfactory completion of LD 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LD 212S AMHARIC 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD211) or consent of instructor. - AMHARIC 4
CAS LD 216 Zulu 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD215) - This four-skills African language course in fourth-semester isiZulu develops communicative competence and confidence in the use of isiZulu in reading, writing, speaking and listening in culturally acceptable ways. Students learn to communicate at an intermediate high level of proficiency. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LD 220 Igbo 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLD219) or consent of instructor. - This fourth semester four-skills Igbo course develops communicative competence and confidence in the use of Igbo in reading, writing, speaking, and listening in culturally acceptable ways. Students learn to communicate at an intermediate high-level of proficiency. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LE 212 Swahili 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLE211) - This four-skill African language course in fourth-semester Kiswahili emphasizes oral communication skills and the development of reading and writing skills. It exposes students to all compound tenses of the language, and develops students' reading skills in traditional Kiswahili literature. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LF 212 Fourth-Semester French
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF211) or placement test results. - Advances proficiency in French in a communicative setting through thematic discussions on diverse, contemporary topics and media, short readings, and written tasks. Fulfills CAS second language requirement, prepares for Level 1 Advanced Courses (CAS LF 307 -- LF 311). Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LF 212E 4TH SEM FRENCH
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF211) or placement test results. - 4TH SEM FRENCH
CAS LF 212S Fourth-Semester French
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF211) or placement test results. - Advances proficiency in French in a communicative setting through thematic discussions on diverse, contemporary topics and media, short readings, and written tasks. Fulfills CAS second language requirement; prepares for Level 1 Advanced Courses (CAS LF 307 through LF 311). Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LF 299E CONTEMP FRANCE
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Grenoble Science Program. - CONTEMP FRANCE
CAS LF 300 Living French in Paris: Practical Communication and Current Culture (Level 1)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF212) and enrollment in the Paris Internship Program. - This course aims to refine students' written and oral expression by improving their overall level of French (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation) with a special emphasis on better integrating them into their daily, academic or professional environments, through linguistic and cultural activities. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LF 300E FRENCH IN PARIS
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF212) and enrollment in the Paris Internship Program. - FRENCH IN PARIS
CAS LF 301E PARIS: SPEAKING
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF212) and enrollment in the Paris Internship Program. - PARIS: SPEAKING
CAS LF 302E PARIS: WRITING
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF212) and enrollment in the Paris Internship Program. - PARIS: WRITING
CAS LF 307 French Arts and Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Prerequisites: CASLF 212 or equivalent; or placement test results. Advanced study of French language through the analysis of a topic or theme in the arts and society. Students advance in speaking, reading, writing, and listening through the analysis of literary, historical, and cultural texts. Specific themes vary by semester. Topic for Fall 2025: Food & Culture in France. Study of French culture through the lens of food. Topics include regional and artisan specialties; sustainability and social justice initiatives; global influences; literary and cinematic depictions. Assignments include cooking workshops outside of class, one with students in CASLG 308. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LF 307E French Arts and Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF212) or equivalent; or placement test results. - Advanced study of French language through the analysis of a topic or theme in the arts and society. Students advance in speaking, reading, writing, and listening through the analysis of literary, historical, and cultural texts. Specific themes vary by semester. Topic for Spring 2024: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties. Through discussions of films, short stories, and other texts, students examine why people lie or keep secrets and how this behavior contributes to various patterns of communication originating in the family and extending to other relationships. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LF 308 French through Film and Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Prerequisites: CASLF 212 or equivalent; or placement test results. With the goal of better understanding French and Francophone culture and society, students study various media forms that can include film, written and broadcast press, television, podcasts, blogs, and social media. Topic for Fall 2025: Quebec Culture Through Its Films. Why is French spoken in North America? What makes Quebec's French different from France's? What does "chu tanne" mean? Explore Québec's rich history and culture through films that highlight its unique language and diverse people. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LF 313 French Through Translation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF212) and placement test results, one other LF course at the 300-level, or c onsent of instructor. - Graduate Prerequisites: for GRS LF 613 only: advanced proficiency in French. - Students develop language skills and cultural awareness by exploring literary, technical, legal, and audiovisual texts. Students translate from different genres with special emphasis on prose, analyze essays on translation, and prepare a substantial translation from French into English, learning how to develop their own voice. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LF 320E PARIS:LANG&CLTR
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF212) and enrollment in the Paris Internship Program. - PARIS:LANG&CLTR
CAS LF 323 Creative Writing in French
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one CAS LF 307-311 course, or equivalent or placement test results. Fi rst Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Intensive study of the art of writing through the development of individual style through readings, analysis of genre, free composition, translation exercises and class discussion. Formerly LF305. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LF 323E CREATIVE FR WTG
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one CAS LF 307-311 course, or equivalent or placement test results. Fi rst Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - CREATIVE FR WTG
CAS LF 341 French Trends
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one CAS LF 307 - 311 course, or equivalent or placement test results. - Through current articles and headlines, films and songs, this advanced French course explores the meaning and preservation of French "Culture" while investigating areas of social debate from a French perspective. Designed for but not limited to students returning from abroad. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community.
CAS LF 342E Paris Esthtique
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF212) and enrollment in the Paris Internship Program. - Follows the politics of culture, notably through works of literature and film currently the object of interest in Paris. Reflects on how these chosen works are of socioeconomic concern. Also assesses the state of politics of culture peculiar to France.
CAS LF 343E FRANCE IN PARIS
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Paris Internship program. - FRANCE IN PARIS
CAS LF 349 The History of the French Language
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate pre-requisites: CASLX 250. - Overview of socio-historical and linguistic factors underpinning the emergence, development, and spread of the French language over time. Study of historical, societal, and political events, along with phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and orthographic changes. Representative texts demonstrate stages of language change. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LF 350 Reading the French Way
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: At least one Level 1 Advanced Course (CAS LF 303, 307, 308, 309, 310,3 11) or equivalent; or placement test results. First Year Writing Semin ar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Development of techniques for reading and interpreting French literary texts. Special attention to the study of lyric poetry, drama, and short narrative. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS LF 350E INTRO FR TEXTS
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: At least one Level 1 Advanced Course (CAS LF 303, 307, 308, 309, 310,3 11) or equivalent; or placement test results. First Year Writing Semin ar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - RDG FRENCH WAY
CAS LF 350S Introduction to Analysis of French Texts
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: At least one Level 1 Advanced Course (CAS LF 303, 307, 308, 309, 310,3 11) or equivalent; or placement test results. First Year Writing Semin ar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Prereq: (CAS LF 303) or 5 semesters of college French for non-BU students or placement test results. Develops techniques and skills for use in reading and interpreting French literary texts. Special attention to lyric poetry, theater, and short narratives. Theme for Summer 2015: "Freedom." Required for French Studies majors, counts for minor. Carries CAS humanities divisional credit.
CAS LF 351 Introduction to the French Novel
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF350) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Close readings in the French novel from 19th century to contemporary times. Attention to narration, themes, symbols, and schools. Investigation of the roman d'analyse, realist fiction, anti-colonialist, and other types of narrative. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS LF 455 Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF350) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Examines major themes and works in the literature of nineteenth-century France. Attention to cultural context and dialogue between the arts, literature, politics, and popular culture. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LF 462 Cinema-Monde: Mapping French Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Spanning from the silent era to the present-day, this course reframes the key movements of French cinema through the lens of the global. Directors include Georges Melies, Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Chantal Ackerman, Agnes Varda, and the Dardenne brothers. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LF 464 Author/Auteur
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - In-depth study of a single author or film maker. Attention to critical/theoretical debates about the author's work(s); their relation to aesthetic, political, and/or historical debates of the time; and questions about relation to tradition and/or legacy and ongoing influence. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LF 479 Fatal Women and Dangerous Bodies
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - Examines depictions of the femme fatale and fears of female sexuality in realist, naturalist and decadent French fictions. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS LF 613 French through Translation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: for CAS LF 313 only: CASLF212 and placement test results, one other LF course at the 300-level, or consent of instructor. - Graduate Prerequisites: for GRS LF 613 only: advanced proficiency in French. - Students develop language skills and cultural awareness by exploring literary, technical, legal, and audiovisual texts. Students translate from different genres with special emphasis on prose, analyze essays on translation, and prepare a substantial translation from French into English, learning how to develop their own voice. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication , Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LF 655 Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Examines major themes and works in the literature of nineteenth-century France. Attention to cultural context and dialogue between the arts, literature, politics, and popular culture. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LF 662 Cinema-Monde: Mapping French Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Spanning from the silent era to the present-day, this course reframes the key movements of French cinema through the lens of the global. Directors include Georges Melies, Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Chantal Ackerman, Agnes Varda, and the Dardenne brothers. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LF 664 Author/Auteur
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - In-depth study of a single author or film maker. Attention to critical/theoretical debates about the author's work(s); their relation to aesthetic, political, and/or historical debates of the time; and questions about relation to tradition and/or legacy and ongoing influence. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LG 212 Fourth-Semester German
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG211) or placement test results. - Continued development of communicative skills and strategies for functioning socially in German-language contexts. Students learn to understand literary and nonliterary texts. Conducted in German. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LG 212S Fourth-Semester German
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG211) or placement test results. - Continued development of communicative skills and strategies for functioning socially in German-language contexts. Students learn to understand literary and nonliterary texts. Conducted in German.
CAS LG 220 Introduction to German Linguistics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Introduction to major subfields of German linguistics: phonetics/ phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, regional variation, and sociolinguistic aspects such as gender and English influence. Course also aims to improve students' German proficiency and pronunciation. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research & Information Literacy .
CAS LG 250 Masterpieces of German Literature (in English Translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to the major works of German literature, emphasizing methods of close reading and the art of critical writing. Texts by Johannes von Saaz, J.W. Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Georg Buchner, Robert Musil, Ingeborg Bachmann and others. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LG 260E INTCTL COM
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in BU's Study Abroad Dresden Programs. - INTCTL COM
CAS LG 307 Modern Society and Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG212) or placement test results or consent of instructor. - Exploration of life and social issues in the German-speaking world through media, press, and a recent novel and film. Students progress in all language skills and acquire reading and communicative strategies necessary to discuss complex cultural topics. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LG 308 Food Culture in German-Speaking Countries
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG212) or placement test results or consent of instructor. - What is German food culture' How does regional and global food shape our community, culture and identity' Debates on sustainable food choices and food waste initiatives. In this advanced language course, students progress in all language skills through analyses of media, images, a graphic novel, short stories and film, and acquire reading and communicative strategies necessary to discuss food-related and complex cultural topics. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LG 309 German for the Professions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG212) - Advanced study of German through analysis of materials ranging from expository texts, advertisements, and business case studies to current events. Students acquire professional communication strategies and gain sophistication in written communication, intercultural analysis, interviewing techniques, and presentation skills. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LG 335 Music, Art, and History in the German-Speaking World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one course numbered CASLG 302-309, or consent of instructor. - Introduction to works, lives, and times of some composers and artists who have shaped the cultures of the German-speaking world. Conducted in German, the course aims to deepen students' cultural awareness as well as the sophistication of their language skills. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LG 350 Introduction to German Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: any course numbered CAS LG 302-345 or equivalent; or permission of in structor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). ; Undergraduate Corequisites: (CASWR100)or equivalent, or permission of instructor. - Masterpieces of German literature representing major eras and genres from the eighteenth century to the present. Practical introduction to methods of close reading and literary interpretation; class discussion. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS LH 212 Intermediate Modern Hebrew 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH211) or the equivalent as determined by placement test. - Expands vocabulary, grammar, language structures and communicative skills to enable students to achieve solid proficiency. Develops students' ability to respond orally and in writing to literary texts and audio- visual material such as Israeli films, television clips, and news. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LH 212S Intermediate Modern Hebrew 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH211) or the equivalent as determined by placement test. - INTERMED HEBR 2
CAS LH 250 Masterpieces of Modern Hebrew Literature (taught in English)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Narrative prose by major writers from nineteenth-century Eastern Europe to present-day Israel, including works of S.Y. Agnon, Dvora Baron, A.B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, Shalev, Etgar Keret, Sayed Kashua, and Orly Castel-Bloom. Focus on the struggle to forge modern identity in the domains of family, nation, religion and Middle East. Required for the minor in Hebrew. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LH 283 Israeli Culture through Film (taught in English)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - Israeli society, from its origins to contemporary times, through the medium of film. Topics include immigration; war; the impact of the Holocaust; trials of women; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Introduction to film analysis and interpretive methods. Required for the Hebrew minor. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LH 311 Advanced Modern Hebrew: Voices in Israeli Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH212) or the equivalent as determined by placement test. - This course provides advanced language practice and introduction to globally diverse groups in Israeli society: Orthodox and secular, immigrants and veteran immigrants, Mizrahi and Ashkenazi Jews, Arab-Israelis and more. Through reading a variety of academic and newspapers articles, short stories, poems and viewing interviews, documentaries and movies, students will enhance their interpretation, writing and oral skills while acquiring fundamental knowledge about ethnic/religious/national/social diversity in Israel. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS LH 312 Sixth-Semester Hebrew: Food Culture in Israel
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH311) or placement test results. - This course is taught in Hebrew. Israel has a rich cuisine that reflects the diversity of Israeli society, Jewish and Arab culinary traditions, and a wide range of regional influences. Through viewing and reading a variety of authentic materials, students will enhance their language and cultural proficiency. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LH 330 Israeli Popular Music
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH212) or consent of instructor. - Advanced-intermediate Hebrew language and culture course for those who have completed at least four semesters of college Hebrew or equivalent. Introduction to Israeli cultural history through music. Students expand vocabulary and develop writing, reading, listening, and conversational skills in Hebrew. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LI 212 Fourth-Semester Italian
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI211) or placement test results. - For students who wish to build active use of Italian in speaking, writing, and reading. Intensive practice of spoken and written language. More advanced readings from Italian culture. Writing involving more complex grammatical and syntactical patterns. Oral assessments including interviews and/or presentations. Meets three days a week. Satisfactory completion of CAS LI 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LI 212E 4TH SEM ITALIAN
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI211) or placement test results. - 4TH SEM ITALIAN
CAS LI 212S Fourth-Semester Italian
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI211) or placement test results. - For students who wish to build active use of Italian in speaking, writing, and reading. Intensive practice of spoken and written language. More advanced readings from Italian culture. Writing involving more complex grammatical and syntactical patterns. Oral assessments including interviews and/or presentations. Satisfactory completion of CAS LI 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LI 303E SLF EXPRES/ITAL
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI212) or placement test results. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - EXPL PAD
CAS LI 308E VEN LAND CONT
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
VEN LAND CONT
CAS LI 308S VEN LAND CONT
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
VEN LAND CONT
CAS LI 312 Italian for the Professions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI212) and First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120), or placement exam results, or consent of instructor. - Students explore how Italy has become one of the world leaders in the fields of technology, science, fashion, food production and design. They acquire knowledge of contemporary issues in Italian society and learn how to communicate in professional environments. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LI 313 Italian Media and Popular Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLI212) or placement exam results - Students analyze how print, audiovisual, and digital media impact Italian culture and society. Through viewing, discussing, and writing students examine how television, advertising, and folklore represent current social phenomena, and make comparison between Italian and US cultures. Effective Fall 2018 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing- Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LI 354E CONTMP ITAL LIT
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Padua Italian Studies Program. First Year Writing S eminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - CONTMP ITAL LIT
CAS LI 355 Italian Migrant Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Padua Italian Studies Program. First Year Writing S eminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - While at the end of the Nineteenth Century and the first half of the Twentieth Century, Italy was a country of emigration, recent history shows that it has become the country of destination for many people. This change concerns diverse aspects of life at various levels: social, anthropological, economic, but also linguistic and cultural. The course introduces students to different aspects of Italian migrant literature (e.g. history, style, topics) from its appearing in the late Eighties to today. Students will approach literary works written by authors with different intercultural backgrounds. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LI 355E MIGRNT ITAL LIT
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Padua Italian Studies Program. First Year Writing S eminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - MIGRNT ITAL LIT
CAS LI 355S ITA MIGR LIT
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
ITA MIGR LIT
CAS LJ 212 Fourth-Semester Japanese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ211) or equivalent. - Elaboration and refinement of the fundamental skills introduced in CAS LJ 111, 112 with an introduction to reading and composition. Satisfactory completion of CAS LJ 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 212S Fourth-Semester Japanese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ211) or equivalent. - Elaboration and refinement of the fundamental skills introduced in CAS LJ 111 and CAS LJ 112 with an introduction to reading and composition. Satisfactory completion of CAS LJ 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 250 Masterpieces of Japanese Literature (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
An introduction to Japanese literary history using Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji as the core text. Use of literary and visual materials. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 251 Modern Japanese Literature (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to modern Japanese literature. Topics may include naturalism, the I-novel, modernism, proletarian literature, postwar and post-recession crises of cultural identity. Authors may include Higuchi Ichiyo, Natsume Soseki, Dazai Osamu, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, and works of contemporary fiction. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 260 Gateway to Asian Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Panoramic introduction to the cultures of East and South Asia in comparative perspective (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India). Examines shared foundations, transformative inflection points, sites, peoples, and ideologies over the past two millennia through primary texts and media. Effective Spring 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 261 Rome and the Chinese World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Explore the cultural and intellectual worlds of ancient Rome and ancient East Asia (including China, Korea, and Japan), comparing world views, ethical values, political dynamics, and social functions of literature in these great Eurasian civilizations. Includes creative and performative assignments. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LJ 283 Modern Japanese Culture in Cinema (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Japanese film from the silent era to contemporary animation, with attention to the intersection of cinematic and cultural analysis and genres such as yakuza movies. Directors studied may include Ozu, Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Miyazaki Hayao. Also Offered as CAS CI 260. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 283S Modern Japanese Culture in Cinema (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Japanese film from the silent era to contemporary animation, with attention to the intersection of cinematic and cultural analysis and genres such as yakuza movies. Directors studied may include Ozu, Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Miyazaki Hayao. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 304 Third-Year Modern Japanese II
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ303) - Reading and viewing modern Japanese texts and media in order to develop advanced reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, as well as familiarity with contemporary cultural topics. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LJ 314 Classical Chinese I for Students of East Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ212 OR CASLC112) or advanced Korean with consent of instructor. - Introductory readings in Classical Chinese for students of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Learn the shared literary language of premodern East Asia and read masterpieces of East Asian philosophy, history, poetry, and fiction in the original. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 316 Classical Japanese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLJ 212 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. - Introduction to Classical Japanese, Japan's written language from the seventh until the twentieth century. A systematic study of grammar and lexicon enriched by original readings from major works of Japanese literature such as Man’yoshu, Pillow Book, Genji, and Heike monogatari, Hojoki. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 320 Conversational Japanese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ211) or consent of instructor. - Advanced training to increase fluency in spoken Japanese with an emphasis on different levels of politeness in speech and cultural awareness. Role playing; vocabulary and expression building; and aural comprehension. Concurrent enrollment in a four-skills language course is encouraged. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LJ 322 Japanese for the Professions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ303) or equivalent. - Advanced Japanese language course to prepare students to use workplace Japanese and to understand Japanese business culture and the economic landscape. Discussions and assignments facilitate communication, presentation, reading/writing, cross-cultural understanding, and collaboration skills. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LJ 385 Intensive Kanji
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Prerequisites: CASLJ 212 or CASLJ 211 with consent of instructor.- Intensive study of 1000-plus Kanji to build additional proficiency in reading and writing for advanced Japanese language students. The course also explores the history and aesthetics of kanji characters. Intended for students without heritage knowledge of Chinese characters. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LJ 385S Intensive Kanji 1
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Prerequisites: CASLJ 212 or CASLJ 211 with consent of instructor.- Intensive study of 1000-plus Kanji to build additional proficiency in reading and writing for advanced Japanese language students. The course also explores the history and aesthetics of kanji characters. Intended for students without heritage knowledge of Chinese characters. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LJ 410 The History of the Japanese Language
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ212) or consent of instructor. - Overview of major issues in the history of Japanese: genetic relationships, changes in sound system, word and sentence structures, and pragmatics. Special attention to the process leading to the current writing system. Representative texts used to demonstrate different literary languages. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LJ 460 Haruki Murakami and His Sources
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Students read works by Haruki Murakami and by writers who shaped him or were shaped by him, reflect on the nature of intertextuality, and gain a perspective on contemporary literature as operating within a global system of mutual influence. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LK 212 Fourth-Semester Korean
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLK211) or placement test results. - Further review of the structures of Korean. Practice solid intermediate level communication skills in conversation and writing in specialized topics. Discussion and project on Korean culture. Satisfactory completion of LK 212 fulfills the CAS second language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LK 216 Second-Year Korean for Heritage Speakers
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLK116) or equivalent proficiency, or consent of instructor. - Continues from CAS LK 116. Designed for students who are fluent in spoken Korean but need more practice in grammar, reading, and writing. Review of contemporary Korean media presentations and composition. Comprehensive coverage of second-year Korean grammar, reading, writing, and speaking. Successful completion of CAS LK 216 fulfills the CAS second language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LK 250 Introduction to Korean Literature (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
What is Korean literature? How has it evolved through interaction with Chinese, Japanese, European and American literatures and cultures? What roles have regional and global changes played in shaping Korean imaginative writing? No prerequisites; readings and discussion in English. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship, and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LK 260 Gateway to Asian Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Panoramic introduction to the cultures of East and South Asia in comparative perspective (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India). Examines shared foundations, transformative inflection points, sites, peoples, and ideologies over the past two millennia through primary texts and media. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Spring 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LK 261 Rome and the Chinese World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Explore the cultural and intellectual worlds of ancient Rome and ancient East Asia (including China, Korea, and Japan), comparing world views, ethical values, political dynamics, and social functions of literature in these great Eurasian civilizations. Includes creative and performative assignments. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LK 311 Fifth-Semester Korean
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLK 212) or consent of instructor. - Reading and discussing modern Korean texts in order to develop reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills while enhancing the understanding of Korean culture. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LK 313 Korean through TV Drama
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLK212) or consent of instructor. - Content-based advanced-level Korean language course. Uses recent South Korean TV drama series as primary texts to elevate Korean proficiency level and increase cultural awareness. A special emphasis on speaking and listening. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LK 314 Classical Chinese 1 for Students of East Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC112 OR CASLJ212) or advanced Korean with consent of instructor. - Introductory readings in Classical Chinese for students of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Learn the shared literary language of premodern East Asia and read masterpieces of East Asian philosophy, history, poetry, and fiction in the original. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LK 322 Korean for the Professions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLK 212 or CASLK 261 or consent of instructor. - Content-based advanced Korean language course focusing on developing communication skills needed in a variety of professional environments in Korea. Helps students prepare for job applications, interviews, professional meetings and presentations. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LK 375 Growing Up in Korea
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Examining memoirs, biographies, prose fiction, poetry, films, television dramas, and graphic narratives asking: How have Korean women recounted women’s lives through media? What roles have gender and sexuality played in stories of "growing up" from the late 1800s to today? Effective Spring 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LM 212 Fourth-Semester isiXhosa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLM211) or the equivalent. - This fourth semester four-skills IsiXhosa course develops communicative competence and confidence in the use of IsiXhosa in speaking, reading, writing, and listening in culturally acceptable ways. Students learn to communicate at an intermediate high level of proficiency. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LN 212 Fourth-Semester Hindi-Urdu
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLN211) or placement test results. - Further review of the structures of Hindi-Urdu. Practice in conversation involving specialized topics. Advanced readings in Hindi. Frequent compositions. Satisfactory completion of LN 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LN 260 Gateway to Asian Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Panoramic introduction to the cultures of East and South Asia in comparative perspective (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India). Examines shared foundations, transformative inflection points, sites, peoples, and ideologies over the past two millennia through primary texts and media. Effective Spring 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LN 260E Gateway to Asian Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
ASIAN CULTURE
CAS LN 380 Modern India through Bollywood
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Explores the social history and culture of modern India through the lens of popular Hindi cinema, commonly called Bollywood. We analyze Bollywood films both as forms of art and as cultural texts, and examine how they reflect and interpret modern Indian society. Course readings focus on theoretical approaches to Hindi cinema, and also shed light on the larger historical and social context that surrounds it. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS LN 381 Language and Identity in India: Exploring the Phenomenon of Hinglish
4 credits.
Explores how the history and contemporary usage of Hinglish reflect India's postcolonial and globalized identity. Readings on sociolinguistic theories and linguistic rules of Hinglish, with examples from cinema, advertising, social media, and popular fiction. Course taught in English. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS LN 470 Topics in South Asian Literature and Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Topics vary. May be taken multiple times for credit if topic is different. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LP 212 Fourth-Semester Portuguese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLP211) or consent of instructor. - Review of the grammar and syntax of Portuguese. Further develops reading, writing, and conversational competency while expanding students' knowledge of history and culture. Conducted in Portuguese. Fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LP 212E Fourth-Semester Portuguese
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLP211) or consent of instructor. - Further review of the structures of Portuguese. Intensive practice of spoken language. Different levels and styles through recorded materials. Advanced cultural readings. Frequent compositions. Lab required. Satisfactory completion of CAS LP 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement.
CAS LP 305 Topics in Portuguese Language and Culture
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLP212) or advanced Portuguese proficiency. - Taught in Portuguese. Can be repeated for credit as topics change. Explores historical, social, and political, aspects of Brazilian language and culture. Designed to increase fluency and accuracy in written and spoken Portuguese, broadening vocabulary and mastery of syntax. Topic for Fall 2023: Examines major Brazilian historical, political, and social developments through videos, films, literature, and media. Promotes intercultural competence and advances Portuguese proficiency skills in reading, writing, and speaking. Analyzes some important questions relating to contemporary Brazilian Identity. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LP 352 Tropical Metropolis and Brazilian Modernity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLP212) or consent of instructor. - Focus on aesthetic and thematic changes in Brazilian art and literature during the country's waves of modernization, with attention to the repercussion of those themes in film production, music, and performance. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LP 360 Introduction to Brazilian Cinema (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
An overview of Brazilian cinema in the 60s, 70s and 80s, its discourse on revolution and marginality, as well as its connection to artistic, musical, and literary movements. Focus on the work of avant-garde filmmakers and younger generations. Also includes attention to Cuban cinema. Taught in English. Also offered as CAS CI 321. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LP 362 Inventing Brazil (in English Translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
This course focuses on the main figures who undertook the task of forging the national image of Brazil in the 20th century. It encompasses several cultural realms and intellectual disciplines -- literature, history, art, film, sociology, and anthropology. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LP 580 Music and Politics in Brazil
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLP212) or Portuguese proficiency, or consent instructor. - Studies the relationship between Brazilian music and politics, from the modernist revolution with Villa-Lobos to Carioca funk. Other music genres are also studied, such as bossa nova, tropicalia, samba, rock, heavy metal, (hardcore) punk rock, and hip-hop. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LR 212 Second-Year Russian 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLR211 or placement) - The fundamentals of Russian grammar and syntax. Development of reading and oral skills. Satisfactory completion of CAS LR 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LR 212E Second-Year Russian 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLR211) - The fundamentals of Russian grammar and syntax. Development of reading and oral skills. Satisfactory completion of CAS LR 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement.
CAS LR 250 Classics of Russian Prose (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Prose works that define the Russian literary tradition, including Pushkin's Queen of Spades, Gogol's Overcoat, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LR 282 Russian Prose Classics of the Twentieth Century (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - Introduction to the major writers of twentieth-century Russian prose and to the literary traditions that they represent through a close reading of selected texts. Authors include Chekhov, Tolstoy, Babel, Bulgakov, Kharms, Pasternak, Shalamov, Solzhenitsyn, Petrushevskaya, Sorokin. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS LR 311 Russian Youth Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLR 212 or placement. - Explores the literature, culture, politics, and art of contemporary Russian youth throughout the former Soviet world; includes short stories, poems, paintings, photographs, and cinema. Consolidates and builds competencies in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Russian. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LR 312 Russia on Screen
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLR 311 or placement. - Watch original unabridged Russian films and read scripts. Intensive work on improvement of fluency and quality of expression in Russian; special attention to pronunciation. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS LR 327 Immigrant Women in Literature: Found in Translation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
This course explores literature about migration created by women primarily from Eastern Europe. We read autobiographical narratives that focus on the shaping of transcultural identity with an eye to the problem of translation as a linguistic, cultural, and personal phenomenon. Conducted in English. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS LR 442 Russian Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLR 312 or placement. - A multimedia exploration of post-Soviet Russian mass media and pop culture. Engages in collaborative and in-depth study of contemporary Russian media sources (including print, music, television, film, and internet) while building and strengthening Russian proficiency. Taught in Russian. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS LR 457 Advanced Russian Language and Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Introduces students to major works of Russian literature in the original: stories, poems, and prose excerpts from writers such as Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Akhmatova, Kharms, Shalamov, Petrushevskaya. Emphasis on speaking and writing. Discussions provide historical and cultural context.' Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS LS 212 Fourth-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS211) or placement test results. - Review of the structures of Spanish. Intensive practice of spoken language. More advanced readings from Hispanic culture. Frequent compositions. Satisfactory completion of CAS LS 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LS 212E Fourth-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS211) or placement test results. - FOURTH SEM SPAN
CAS LS 212S Fourth-Semester Spanish
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS211) or placement test results. - Review of the structures of Spanish. Intensive practice of spoken language. More advanced readings from Hispanic culture. Frequent compositions. Satisfactory completion of CAS LS 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LS 241E CIV OF SPAIN
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
CULTURES SPAIN
CAS LS 306 Spanish Through Translation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLS 212 or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher, or placement test results. - Not open to students for whom Spanish is a first language. Advanced study of the Spanish language through the translation of written texts. Analysis of the theory and practice of translation as a catalyst of cultural transfer. Taught in Spanish. Topic for Fall Fall 2025: Techniques of Literary Translation. Practice in translating different forms of literary prose including novels, short stories, letters, speeches, plays, children’s literature, songs and poetry from and into Spanish. Students explore key elements of cultural transfer while analyzing translation challenges and solutions of major translation theorists. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LS 306E Spanish Through Translation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS212) or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher, or placement test results. - Not open to students for whom Spanish is a first language. Advanced study of the Spanish language through the translation of written texts. Analysis of the theory and practice of translation as a catalyst of cultural transfer. Taught in Spanish. Topic for Spring 2024: Going between Two Languages: Translation Techniques and Challenges: An introduction to translation theory and practice, which will help students build vocabulary in Spanish and progress toward advanced proficiency through essay writing, written assignments and translations of different genres by well-known authors from and into Spanish. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LS 307 Spanish Through Literature and the Arts
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Prerequisites: CASLS 212 or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher, or placement test results. - Not open to students for whom Spanish is a first language. Advanced study of the Spanish language through the analysis of literature in its relations to the arts and society. Topics for Fall 2025: Section A1: This course explores Darwin's experiences, observations, and discoveries during his voyage to South America aboard the Beagle in 1831. We use Darwin's diary to map his trajectory, yet focus on original works written by naturalists, scientists, and authors of fiction. Section B1: Spanish through music and literature. Students study music videos, lyrics, criticism, and literature to better understand how musicians in Latin America and Spain have engaged with social movements that question discourses of politics, power, race, and gender. Creative work encouraged. Section C1: Visual Creations in the Hispanic World: In this advanced course of Spanish language, we analyze and discuss works of art, including paintings, street art, sculptures, architecture, and film from the Hispanic World with an emphasis on the thematic and cultural messages contained within them. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LS 307E Spanish Through Literature and the Arts
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS212) or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher, or placement test results. - Not open to students for whom Spanish is a first language. Advanced study of the Spanish language through the analysis of literature in its relations to the arts and society. Topics for Spring 2024: Section A1: If you have ever wondered why stories make us laugh, cry, and feel deeply connected, this course is your gateway to understanding the art of storytelling. Explore the intricacies of literary games, deciphering the secrets behind surprise and emotion. Section B1: We Are Maps. Are there maps that lie or maps that should be forbidden' This course invites you to unveil the stories concealed within maps, question how we represent space, and explore the connections between maps and human experiences in the Hispanic culture. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LS 307S Spanish Through Literature and the Arts
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS212) or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher, or placement testr esults. - Prereq: (CAS LS 212) or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher, or placement test results. Not open to students for whom Spanish is a first language. Advanced study of the Spanish language through the analysis of literature in its relations to the arts and society. Topic for summer 2022: Detective Fiction. Refines speaking and writing skills through the analysis and writing of short stories--particularly detective stories--from the Spanish- speaking world. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LS 308 Spanish Through Film and New Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Prerequisites: CASLS 212; or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher, or placement test results. - Advanced study of the Spanish language through the analysis of films and media of the Spanish- speaking world: cinema, the internet, and social media. Topics for Fall 2025: Section A1: La Road Movie. The course analyzes how films from Hispanic countries portray these quests for meaning and/or change. Students learn to analyze socio-political, narrative, and cinematographic elements of each film. This knowledge informs their own multimedia projects. Section B1: Hispanic Culture on Screen. This course explores contemporary Hispanic culture through films from Spain and Latin America, including Pan’s Labyrinth and La Llorona, examining social, political, and cultural changes of the past two decades. Students complete a multimedia project inspired by the films. Section C1: A rebel tour through Spanish-language cinema—from silent ghosts to today’s vanguard. Meet the artists who broke rules, reimagined literature, and turned film into a battleground of power, language, and desire. Explore Spanish as shape and substance of artistic expression. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship & Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship & Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LS 308E Spanish Through Film and New Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Prereq: CAS LS 212; or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher , or placement test results. - Advanced study of the Spanish language through the analysis of films and media of the Spanish- speaking world: cinema, the internet, and social media. Topics for Spring 2024: Section A1: La Road Movie. The course analyzes how films from Hispanic countries portray these quests for meaning and/or change. Students learn to analyze socio-political, narrative, and cinematographic elements of each film. This knowledge informs their own multimedia projects. Section B1: Digital Storytelling in Latin American Film. From Amores perros to Roma, this section studies Latin American films from the last 20 years, analyzing the innovative ways in which they tell stories. Students create original short films based on the techniques learned in the course. Section C1: Exile, voyage and queer bonds. Through documentaries and films, we explore the experience of Latin American and Spanish writers who left their places of origin (forcibly or voluntarily) to explore new territories of affection, sex, politics and writing, creating new types of bonds and kinships. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship & Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship & Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LS 308S Spanish Through Film and New Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Prereq: CAS LS 212; or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher , or placement testresults. - Topic for Summer 2019: The Road Movie. Prereq: (CAS LS 212) or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher, or placement test results. Explores how films from Spanish-speaking countries reveal quests for change and lead to cross-cultural (mis)communication around a number of themes. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship & Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship & Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LS 309 Spanish for Heritage and Native Speakers
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). Not open to stude nts who have completed any 300- level Spanish Language course. - Designed for heritage speakers who have lived part of their lives in Spanish-speaking settings (including Spanish-speaking households in the U.S.), who speak at an advanced level, and who wish to strengthen their reading and writing skills while exploring Hispanic cultures. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS LS 309E Composition for Native Speakers of Spanish
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). Not open to stude nts who have completed any 300- level Spanish Language course. - Emphasis on written and oral skills. Contemporary literary and cultural texts used as the basis for class discussions and written exercises.
CAS LS 310 Spanish for the Professions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS212) or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher, or placement test results. - Not open to students for whom Spanish is a first language. Transition to advanced study of Spanish as used in the health and business world. Analysis and discussion of intercultural professional communication, acquisition of specialized vocabulary, and interpretation of authentic materials in the context of the healthcare and business professions. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LS 310E SPAN FOR PROFES
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS212) or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher, or placement test results. - SPAN FOR PROFES
CAS LS 311 Spanish Through Performance: The Theater of Everyday Life
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLS 212 or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher; or placement test results. - Invites students to tap into their creative, playful and risk- taking selves to gain confidence, fluency and expressiveness in their communicative skills in Spanish, while exploring drama, music, dance, and the performance of family, work, gender, and social roles. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LS 312E Spanish through Cultural Destinations: Madrid en Vivo
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Madrid Spanish Studies (Summer) Program or the Madrid Spanish and European Studies Program. - Students improve their oral and written Spanish skills by exploring the cultural and social aspects of the city of Madrid through immersion in its history, neighborhoods, art, and literature. Effective Fall 2023 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LS 350 Introduction to Analysis of Hispanic Texts
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Prerequisites: any 300-level Spanish language course or placement exam results. - Development of techniques for reading and interpreting Hispanic literary texts; reading of lyric poetry, drama, and fictional narrative. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LS 350E Introduction to Analysis of Hispanic Texts
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: any 300-level Spanish language course or placement exam results. - Development of techniques for reading and interpreting Hispanic literary texts; reading of lyric poetry, drama, and fictional narrative.
CAS LS 350S Introduction to Analysis of Hispanic Texts
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: any 300-level Spanish language course or placement exam results. - Development of techniques for reading and interpreting Hispanic literary texts; reading of lyric poetry, drama, and fictional narrative. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
CAS LS 410 Religion and Literature in Medieval Spain
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: CASLS 350 and a first-year writing seminar (e.g. CAS WR 100). Explores religion and literature in medieval Spain through a critique of Convivencia, the notion of a peaceful coexistence among Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Close readings of medieval literary works that imagine religious identity and relationships across religious boundaries. To enrich exploration of interrelated themes and learning outcomes, student registrants of LS 410 will meet with student registrants of RN/HI 410/RN 710 during scheduled class time on 2/20, 3/6, 3/27, 4/24, and 5/1. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LS 449E CTMP SPAN NOVEL
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Madrid Internship Program or Madrid Spanish and Euro pean Studies Program. - CTMP SPAN NOVEL
CAS LS 452 Topics in Latin American Literature and Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Prerequisite: CASLS 350 - May be taken twice for credit if topics are different. Provides new and contemporary perspectives on Latin American literature and culture. Can focus on some specific works through their connection to avant-garde movements, questions of identity and politics, media and the arts, canonical and marginal authors. Topic for Fall 2025: Tell Me Your Story. Creative writing and translation. Bilingualism, travel, communication. Students interview and write each other’s stories as well as their own. Exercises in flash fiction and popular lyrics in Spanish and English. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS LS 452E TPCS LAT AM LIT
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) - TPCS LAT AM LIT
CAS LS 456 Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) and First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or WR 120). - A literary and cultural approach to Iberian writers of the medieval and early modern periods. Explores interactions between the literary production of Christians, Jews, and Muslims and their diverse linguistic, historical, and cultural contexts. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration .
CAS LS 457 Twentieth Century Spanish American Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) - Representative literary works written in Spanish America during the twentieth century. Special attention to the relationship between modernity and identity, and the connection of literature with other cultural expressions, particularly film. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS LS 459E Crisis and Literature in Contemporary Spain
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
Pre-requisite: admission to BU Study Abroad program (Madrid). 5th semester Spanish language course or equivalent. - "Crisis" is defined as "a profound change with significant consequences in a process or situation." This course studies how these changes are reflected through Spanish literature, press, cinema, music, and other artistic media of the 20th and 21st centuries. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LS 477 Contemporary Spanish Cinema
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
An overview of Spanish contemporary cinema and the variety of genres that have emerged in the last decades. Using different resources from films and literature, students will be able to better understand the diversity of Spanish society, which they will experience for themselves on the streets of Madrid. This course also explores how the technical elements of film (camera shots, angles, etc.) can express emotions as well as cultural and social values. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LS 477E Contemporary Spanish Cinema
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LS 568 Prose Fiction of the Spanish Middle Ages
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) and two LS 400-level courses, or consent of instructor. - Explores the development of medieval Iberian prose traditions in Castilian, Latin, Arabic and Hebrew through oral storytelling, translation, and manuscript culture. Readings in genres such as framed narratives and chronicles in the context of religious, linguistic, and gender difference. Exact texts vary by semester. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LS 579 Topics in Hispanic Cinemas
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLS350) and at least two 400-level LS course. - Cinema as a perspective from which to analyze cultural and socio-political developments within the Spanish- speaking world. Topics drawn from the history of specific national cinemas, individual filmmakers or particular "schools," relations between literature and film, and political uses of film. Topic for Spring 2024: The Unthinkable ¿ How Latin American Cinema Represents and Produces Reality. This course examines audiovisual works that approach experiences in Latin America that defy representation, such as state violence, memory, posthuman phenomena, physical and affective traumas. It explores how directors deployed aesthetic techniques to represent a reality doomed to be unthinkable. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking
CAS LS 606 Spanish Translation Workshop
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Graduate Prerequisite: Advanced proficiency in Spanish. - Advanced study of the Spanish language through the translation of written texts. Analysis of the theory and practice of translation as a catalyst of cultural transfer. Taught in Spanish.
CAS LT 212 Fourth-Semester Turkish
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT211) or consent of instructor. - Completes presentation of structures of Turkish. Students achieve "intermediate-high" levels of proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community.
CAS LT 212S Fourth-Semester Turkish
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT211) or consent of instructor. - Completes presentation of structures of Turkish, to "intermediate-high" levels of proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Offered in conjunction with the Eastern Consortium in Persian and Turkish (ECPT).
CAS LT 303 Understanding Modern Turkey through Film and Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLT212) - Exploration of contemporary Turkish culture and society through an examination of the literature, music, film, and cuisine of Republican Turkey. Students will gain a deeper understanding of complex issues faced by Turkish people and society while improving their Turkish language skills. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LW 212 Wolof 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLW211) or consent of instructor. - This fourth semester Wolof course develops communicative competence, cultural literacy, and confidence in the language in reading, writing, speaking and listening. Students learn to communicate at an intermediate high level of proficiency. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LW 216 Akan Twi 4
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLW215) or consent of instructor. - Fourth-semester four-skill Akan Twi course continues emphasis on oral expression, listening, reading and writing skills, focusing on the culture and day-to-day life of both urban and rural Akan people. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LX 205 Origins of Writing
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Overview of the world's major writing systems: Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs; Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform; West Semitic consonantal scripts (abjads); East Asian scripts; runes; Greek and Roman alphabets. Considerable linguistic component supplemented by historical information about ancient languages and cultures. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Also offered as CAS CL 205. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LX 205S Origins of Writing
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Overview of the world's major writing systems: Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs; Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform; West Semitic consonantal scripts (abjads); East Asian scripts; runes; Greek and Roman alphabets. Considerable linguistic component supplemented by historical information about ancient languages and cultures. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LX 250 Introduction to Linguistics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Scientific Inquiry I
Properties that languages share and how languages differ with respect to structure (sound system, word formation, syntax), expression of meaning, acquisition, variation, and change; cultural and artistic uses of language; comparison of oral, written, and signed languages. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS LX 250S Introduction to Linguistics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Scientific Inquiry I
Properties that languages share and how languages differ with respect to structure (sound system, word formation, syntax), expression of meaning, acquisition, variation, and change; cultural and artistic uses of language; comparison of oral, written, and signed languages. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS LX 331 Semantics & Pragmatics: Introduction to Linguistic Meaning
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLX250) or consent of instructor. - Systematic examination of how meaning is encoded in words and sentences, and how it can emerge from the complexity of the grammar. Also touches on various aspects of pragmatics--the study of how meaning is shaped by context. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork and Collaboration.
CAS LX 360 Historical and Comparative Linguistics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLX250) or consent of instructor. - Introduction to language change and the methodology of historical linguistic analysis, using data from a wide array of languages. Investigates genetic relatedness among languages, language comparison, historical reconstruction, and patterns and principles of change in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Carries humanities divisional studies credit in CAS. Also offered as GRS LX 660. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS LX 535. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LX 360S Historical and Comparative Linguistics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLX250) or consent of instructor. - Introduction to language change and the methodology of historical linguistic analysis, using data from a wide array of languages. Investigates genetic relatedness among languages, language comparison, historical reconstruction, and patterns and principles of change in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Carries humanities divisional studies credit in CAS. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS LX 535.
CAS LX 367 Indigenous Languages of Latin America
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLX250) and First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS WR 100; WR 120) - Exploration of the structure, history, and varieties of indigenous languages of Latin America, and of the communities that speak them. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LX 375 The History of the French Language
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate pre-requisites: CASLX 250. - Overview of socio-historical and linguistic factors underpinning the emergence, development, and spread of the French language over time. Study of historical, societal, and political events, along with phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and orthographic changes. Representative texts demonstrate stages of language change. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LX 391 Linguistic Field Methods
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLX250) or consent of instructor. - A team-based in-depth investigation of the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and lexicon of an African or other non-Indo-European language. Bi-weekly sessions with language consultant. Weekly trainings on methodology, ethics, analysis, and presentation of results. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LX 631 Semantics & Pragmatics: Introduction to Linguistic Meaning
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Systematic examination of how meaning is encoded in words and sentences, and how it can emerge from the complexity of the grammar. Also touches on various aspects of pragmatics--the study of how meaning is shaped by context. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course entitled "Semantics I" that was previously numbered CAS LX 502. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork and Collaboration.
CAS LX 660 Historical and Comparative Linguistics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Introduction to language change and the methodology of historical linguistic analysis, using data from a wide array of languages. Investigates genetic relatedness among languages, language comparison, historical reconstruction, and patterns and principles of change in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Carries humanities divisional studies credit in CAS. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS LX 535. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LX 660S HISTORICAL LING
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
HISTORICAL LING
CAS LX 667 Indigenous Languages of Latin America
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLX250) and First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS WR 100; WR 120) - Graduate Corequisites: (GRSLX677) - Exploration of the structure, history, and varieties of indigenous languages of Latin America, and of the communities that speak them. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy. Students must also register for GRS LX 677.
CAS LX 675 The History of the French Language
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate pre-requisites: CASLX 250. - Overview of socio-historical and linguistic factors underpinning the emergence, development, and spread of the French language over time. Study of historical, societal, and political events, along with phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and orthographic changes. Representative texts demonstrate stages of language change. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LX 691 Linguistic Field Methods
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
A team-based in-depth investigation of the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and lexicon of an African or other non-Indo-European language. Bi-weekly sessions with language consultant. Weekly trainings on methodology, ethics, analysis, and presentation of results. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LY 212 Second-Year Modern Arabic 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY211) - Advances proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic to the Intermediate Mid level. Expands vocabulary repertoire. Practice speaking, listening, reading, writing using engaging materials and real-life communicative activities. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LY 212E Second-Year Modern Arabic 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY211) - Completes the process of presenting the basic structures of modern formal Arabic, concentrating on weak verb forms, more complicated sentence formation, and more sophisticated expression in speech and writing. Vocabulary expansion and better root-pattern identification skills are also stressed. Lab required.
CAS LY 212S Second-Year Modern Arabic 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY211) - Completes the process of presenting the basic structures of modern formal Arabic, concentrating on weak verb forms, more complicated sentence formation, and more sophisticated expression in speech and writing. Vocabulary expansion and better root-pattern identification skills are also stressed.
CAS LY 215 Levantine Arabic 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY214) or novice-high proficiency level in the Levantine dialect. - Advances communicative proficiency in Levantine colloquial Arabic to the intermediate level. Using engaging materials and activities, students learn and practice vocabulary and grammar essential for practical everyday communication with Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians, Jordanians. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication .
CAS LY 283 Arab Cultures Through Film (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores Arab cultures with a focus on key historical and social issues through the lens of Arabic films, both as historical artifacts and artworks. Diverse cinematic works from Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and beyond are discussed and analyzed. No prior knowledge of the Arab world or Arabic is required. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LY 283S Arab Cultures Through Film (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores Arab cultures with a focus on key historical and social issues through the lens of Arabic films, both as historical artifacts and artworks. Diverse cinematic works from Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and beyond are discussed and analyzed. No prior knowledge of the Arab world or Arabic is required. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LY 303 Third-Year Modern Arabic 1
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY212) - Advances proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic to the Intermediate Mid level. Expands vocabulary repertoire. Practice speaking, listening, reading, writing using engaging materials and real-life communicative activities. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LY 303E MODERN ARABIC 5
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY212) - MODERN ARABIC 5
CAS LY 303S MODERN ARABIC 5
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY212) - MODERN ARABIC 5
CAS LY 304 Third-Year Modern Arabic 2
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY303) - Advances Arabic speaking, listening, reading, writing, and multimedia skills to the Advanced level. Students virtually travel to several Middle Eastern countries, exploring major cities, attractions, historical background, cultural traditions, and various purposes of travel through authentic audiovisual materials. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS LY 304E MODERN ARABIC 6
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY303) - MOD ARAB:TRAVEL
CAS LY 304S Third-Year Modern Arabic II
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY303) - Continuing advanced reading, advanced composition; grammar review, listening skills, and conversation in Modern Standard Arabic as well as major dialects such as the Cairine or the Gulf dialect.
CAS LY 350 Introduction to Arabic Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY303) or equivalent. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Selection of Arabic poetry, short stories, novels, and drama. Focus on development and refinement of Arabic reading strategies, literary analysis of short passages, and writing and speaking skills. Readings and assignments in Arabic and English. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS LY 411 Arab Society through Hip Hop and Cartoons
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY304) or ACTFL Intermediate Mid level and higher, or consent of instructor. - Develop advanced Arabic linguistic skills and cultural knowledge, especially the ability to discuss topics on social, cultural, and political problems in the Arab World. Texts include: hip hop music and lyrics, editorial cartoons, and news articles in Arabic. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LY 441 1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two literature courses or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - What is The Thousand and One Nights? How has this ever-expanding collection appealed to its diverse audiences? Focus on Nights' structure and themes, notable translations and offshoots in western literature and art, and later appropriations by Arab and Muslim writers. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS LY 741 1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two literature courses and consent of instructor. First Year Writing S eminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - What is The Thousand and One Nights' How has this ever-expanding collection appealed to its diverse audiences' Focus on Nights structure and themes, notable translations and offshoots in western literature and art, and later appropriations by Arab and Muslim writers. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS LZ 212 Fourth-Semester Modern Persian (Farsi)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLZ112) or equivalent - Continues CAS LZ 211. Development of communication skills acquired in the first year (CAS LZ 111 and 112). Satisfactory completion of CAS LZ 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LZ 212S Fourth-Semester Modern Persian
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLZ112) or equivalent - Continues LZ 211. Development of communication skills acquired in the first year (CAS LZ 111 and 112). Satisfactory completion of CAS LZ 212 fulfills the CAS language requirement. Offered in conjunction with the Eastern Consortium in Persian and Turkish (ECPT).
CAS LZ 315 Tradition and Modernity in Iranian Film and Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
This course examines how competing notions of tradition and modernity are presented in Iranian cinema. Drawing on both classical and modern Persian literary works to draw out underlying connections between the readings and the films. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LZ 315S Tradition and Modernity in Iranian Film and Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - This course examines how competing notions of tradition and modernity are presented in Iranian cinema by drawing on both classical and modern Persian literary works to draw out underlying connections between the readings and the films. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LZ 380 Persian Epic and Romance (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to the heroic and romantic narrative literature of Iran and Afghanistan. Readings include: the Persian epic Shahnameh, romances by Gorgani, Nezami and Jami. Discussion of the endurance of Persian myths and tales in world literature and visual forms. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS LZ 381 Rumi and Persian Sufi Poetry (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to the Persian Sufi poet Rumi's narrative and lyric writings. Focus on Islamic mysticism, the innovative aspects of Rumi's poetry, and the problem of profane vs. sacred love. All readings in English translation. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PH 245 The Quest for God and the Good
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisite: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - An interactive seminar, investigating the meaning and purpose of human life, the significance of God or an Absolute, the role of contemplation and action in the spiritual quest, relationships between philosophy and religious thought, East and West. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS PH 246 Indian Philosophy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one philosophy course or sophomore standing. - This course introduces traditions of philosophical thought from the Indian subcontinent, including Buddhist and other traditions, from Vedic (ancient) times to the present day. Key topics may include the causes of suffering, the nature of the self, and others. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 247 Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Is human nature fundamentally good or fundamentally bad' How can we best achieve an enduring social order' What is the shape of a life well lived' This class examines such questions in the context of the classical period in Chinese philosophy, focusing on (1) Kongzi (Confucius), (2) Mozi, (3) Mengzi (Mencius), (4) Zhuangzi, and (5) Xunzi. A primary goal of the course is to expose students to the richness, vitality, and plurality of the philosophical scene in ancient China. Topics discussed include moral virtue, music, education, and the ethics of war. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 247S Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
An introduction to the Chinese philosophical tradition, including a study of classical Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Mohism, Legalism, and modern developments. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
CAS PH 300 History of Ancient Philosophy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one philosophy course or sophomore standing. First Year Writing Semina r (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - A survey of ancient Greek philosophy, with an emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. Topics will include: the fundamental nature of reality, how we know anything about it, wisdom, virtue, and human happiness. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PH 300S History of Ancient Philosophy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one philosophy course or sophomore standing. First Year Writing Semina r (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Prereq: one philosophy course or sophomore standing and First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120). A survey of ancient Greek philosophy, with an emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. Topics include the fundamental nature of reality, how we know anything about it, wisdom, virtue, and human happiness. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PH 456 Topics in Philosophy and Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Topic for Fall 2024: Why are we here' Alongside philosophers and religious thinkers, this course explores different versions of this question. Why are we here reading and talking' Why are we at BU' Why are we here at all' Does life have some meaning' Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 495 Philosophy and Mysticism: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar; and one course from among the following: P hilosophy, Religion, Core Curriculum (CC101 and/or CC102) - A thematic introduction to mysticism and philosophy, with a focus on the dynamics of religious experience. Readings will be drawn from medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy; Sufi mysticism and philosophy; Kabbalah, Sufi poetry, Hebrew poetry from the Golden Age of Muslim Spain. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS PH 496 Topics in Religious Thought
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASWR 120 or equivalent and one course from among the following: Religion, Philosophy, Core Curriculum (CASCC 101 and/or CC 102). - Topic for Spring 2025: Happiness, East and West. What is happiness' How can we achieve a balanced, healthy, fulfilling life' Classical thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato, Chuang Tzu; Stoic, Confucian, Buddhist paths; comparison with contemporary studies on happiness and mindfulness. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS PH 656 Topics in Philosophy and Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Topic for Fall 2024: Why are we here' Alongside philosophers and religious thinkers, this course explores different versions of this question. Why are we here reading and talking' Why are we at BU' Why are we here at all' Does life have some meaning' Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 695 JUD/ISLAM PHIL
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
JUD/ISLAM PHIL
CAS PO 151 Introduction to Comparative Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate core course. Meets with CAS IR 251. Examines different patterns of political development and contemporary politics in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Introduces the comparative method in political science and competing theories of political development and political change. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 151S Introduction to Comparative Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate core course. Examines different patterns of political development and contemporary politics in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Introduces the comparative method in political science and competing theories of political development and political change. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 171 Introduction to International Relations
4 credits.
Undergraduate core course. Explores major issues in international relations, including conflict, cooperation, and governance. Addresses dominant international relations theories and their application. Investigates state system, international law and organization, transnational actors, state behavior, and globalization. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PO 171S Introduction to International Relations
4 credits.
Undergraduate core course. Explores major issues in international relations, including conflict, cooperation, and governance. Addresses dominant international relations theories and their application. Investigates state system, international law and organization, transnational actors, state behavior, and globalization. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PO 220 Britain and Europe: A New Beginning'
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in London Internship Program. - What is Britain' What is Europe' Where did Brexit come from, and where could it go' Understand the origins and evolution of the United Kingdom's complex relationship with Europe, and with (as well as within) the European Union. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS PO 220E BRIT & EUROPE
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in London Internship Program. - BRIT & EUROPE
CAS PO 221E BR POLTCL INSTS
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the London Internship Program. - BR POLTCL INSTS
CAS PO 240E PARIS POLITIQUE
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Paris Internship Program. - PARIS POLITIQUE
CAS PO 247E Politics, Nations and Identity in the New Europe: Switzerland and the European Union
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Prerequisites: admission to the Geneva Internship Program. - The course aims to provide students with a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary understanding of politics, nations and identity in contemporary Europe and the role Switzerland has to play in this regard. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PO 249E Contemporary Spain: Political and Social Movements in the 21st Century
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or 120) and enrollment in BU's Study Abroad Program. - This course analyzes the transformation of Spain in the past 50 years. It presents a general scope of the country including topics such as recent history, political systems, cultural diversity, religious pluralism, regional claims, and social movements. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas:
Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS PO 260E AUSTRALPOSYS
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in Sydney Internship Program. - AUSTRALPOSYS
CAS PO 280 American Policymaking in the Global Era: American Grand Strategy and Decision Making in a Rapidly C
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Washington, DC Internship Program. - The United States is no longer the unrivaled global superpower. While it remains the most consequential actor in the international system today, it is not the only voice that matters, and U.S. policymakers must contend with competition from rising powers and global organizations. The aim of the course is to put these debates in a global context by giving you an overview of international relations, grounding you in the many factors that influence international decision making in Washington, and providing you with a sense of how key parts of Washington work to address the challenges we face today. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PO 280E PERUVIAN POL
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
AM POLCY-MAKING
CAS PO 325 Campaigns and Elections Around the World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Meets with CAS IR 302. Electoral campaigns in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Changes in campaigns over time; role of international political consultants; influence of party systems, electoral systems, campaign finance regulation, vote buying, and mass media; campaign effects on voting behavior and public opinion. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 329 International Political Economy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Emphasizes the dynamic interaction between politics and economics to understand and explain historical and contemporary issues in international political economy, including international monetary, trade, investment, financial, and environmental relations. Considers emerging challenges and structures in the international political economy. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II.
CAS PO 329S International Political Economy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Emphasizes the dynamic interaction between politics and economics to understand and explain historical and contemporary issues in international political economy, including international monetary, trade, investment, financial, and environmental relations. Considers emerging challenges and structures in the international political economy. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II.
CAS PO 331 Comparative Political Economy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisite: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or WR 120) - Introduces students to comparative political economy from a historical perspective, covering the early development of capitalism, industrialization, the welfare state, and the evolution of industry regulation, continuing to topics like deindustrialization, economic stagnation, and the rise of economic inequality. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS PO 333 Democratic Erosion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Trends in American and European politics have engendered fears about a turn toward authoritarianism where it was once unthinkable. This course explores the causes and consequences of democratic erosion, helping students to put recent developments into comparative and historical perspective. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PO 334 Political Violence
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Explores the concept of political violence and the dynamics of violent political behavior. Critically examines the causes and consequences of political violence around the world. Topics include civil war, government repression and disciplining, electoral violence, riots and demonstrations, vigilante and intercommunal violence. Comparative perspectives with a particular emphasis on the Global South. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 335 Gender & Global Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to gender and global politics, across both developing and advanced industrial democracies. Focuses on political and economic underpinnings of gender inequality. Students propose and analyze policy solutions to address political gender inequality around the globe using data and cases. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 338 Urban Politics of the Global South
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
The majority of the world's population now lives in cities. Course explores the origins and history of cities in global south (Latin America, Africa, Asia), with particular attention to colonialism and its effects on contemporary inequality and democracy. Looks at questions of citizenship, governance, informality, democracy, and the role of civil society, in dealing with challenges of urban inequality and climate change. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I .
CAS PO 344 Democracy: Its Origins, Breakdown and Outcomes
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPO151 OR CASSO100) - How do political scientists explain the emergence of democratic regimes' And what factors explain their breakdown' We look at these questions across a range of countries in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and other regions of the world. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 346 Bombs and Bombshells: Gender, Armed Conflict, and Political Violence
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: sophomore, junior, or senior standing. - Interdisciplinary course surveying women's relationship to political violence with a focus on the evolution of women's international participation in non-state, religiously-motivated groups. Women's roles in political violence throughout Western Europe, North America, and the Middle East are explored. Effective Summer 2025 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 346S Bombs and Bombshells: Gender, Armed Conflict, and Political Violence
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: sophomore, junior, or senior standing. - Interdisciplinary course surveying women's relationship to political violence with a focus on the evolution of women's international participation in non-state, religiously-motivated groups. Women's roles in political violence throughout Western Europe, North America, and the Middle East are explored. Effective Summer 2025 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 350 The Making of Asia
4 credits.
Explores the diverse experiences of modernization and development in China, Japan, Korea, as well as the countries of Southeast Asia. Also examines the domestic and international impacts of growing social-economic ties, as well as the complex security challenges among Asian states. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PO 352 Rise of China
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
China's political, economic, and strategic development since the late nineteenth century, with emphasis on the period since 1949. Examines three questions: In what ways is China rising' How did it happen' What are the impacts of China's rise on the U.S. and the global system' Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PO 352E North-South Relations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
(Meets with CAS IR395.)Employs a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the relations between the industrialized nations of the "North" and the developing nations of the "South." Addresses historical and current issues in North-South relations, including trade, investment, migration, regional economic integration, and the environment.
CAS PO 360 Introduction to Latin American Politics and International Relations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Examines patterns and complexities of Latin American politics and foreign policies. Focuses on a range of Latin American political and historical experiences, from colonization to global inequality to the impact of Indigenous, Black, feminist and other social movements in the region. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS PO 360S INTRO LA POL&IR
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
INTRO LA POL&IR
CAS PO 375 Democracy and Protest in the Global South
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Explores roots, dynamics, and implications of recent popular protests both for democracy (e.g. 2011 Arab Spring) as well as challenges to established democracies (e.g. South Africa, Brazil). Focus on North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Asia. Effective Fall 2023 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship, Social Inquiry I.
CAS PO 375S Democracy and Protest in the Global South
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
Explores roots, dynamics, and implications of recent popular protests both for democracy (e.g. 2011 Arab Spring) as well as challenges to established democracies (e.g. South Africa, Brazil). Focus on North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Asia. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship, Social Inquiry I.
CAS PO 378 International Human Rights: Applying Human Rights in Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Meets with CAS IR 352. Studies the growing international influence on politics of human rights principles, documents, and organizations, drawing especially on African cases such as Congo, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The class explores the relationship between civil and political rights and economic, social, and culture rights. We consider debates over claims of universality vs. cultural relativism, individual vs. group rights, and ways to improve human rights enforcement well respecting local cultures. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 378S International Human Rights
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Studies the growing international influence on politics of human rights principles, documents, and organizations, drawing especially on African cases such as Congo, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. Topics include universality vs. cultural relativism, individual vs. group rights, and issues in human rights enforcement.
CAS PO 379 Religion and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to the comparative study of the political role of religious institutions and beliefs. Covers issues such as religion's relationship to violence and terrorism, democracy and human rights, group identity, gender and sexuality, and modernity and secularism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 379S Religion and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to the comparative study of the political role of religious institutions and beliefs. Covers issues such as religion's relationship to violence and terrorism, democracy and human rights, group identity, gender and sexuality, and modernity and secularism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 384 Global Governance and International Organization
4 credits.
Provides an overview of major theoretical perspectives on the creation and function of international organizations, comparative case studies of selected organizations, and an examination of present and future roles of international organizations in selected issue areas. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PO 542 Immigration: Politics and Policy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - Immigration has become a subject of much debate and controversy in democratic polities. This course explores the politics, economics, and social consequences of immigration policies across a number of countries, including European states and the United States. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PO 548 Political Economy of China
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - Provides a historical and comparative study of China's rise domestically and internationally and introduces China's national power, local governments, globalization, finance, and strategic concerns. Students learn to evaluate scholarly and policy pieces, compile evidence, and write research reports. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II.
CAS PO 548S Political Economy of China
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120) and junior standing or consent of instructor. Provides a historical and comparative study of China's rise domestically and internationally and introduces China's national power, local governments, globalization, finance, and strategic concerns. Students learn to evaluate scholarly and policy pieces, compile evidence, and write research reports. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II.
CAS PO 559 Wars, Peace, and Diplomacy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Why do wars occur' What constitutes peace' How is peace maintained or lost' What are the virtues and deficiencies of diplomacy as practitioners have implemented it' How do memory, justice, and the requirements of security interact in the international arena' Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS PO 561 Latin American Political Parties
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Parties and party systems of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. Historical origins and labor incorporation. Populist, working-class, and hegemonic parties. Market reform and party system transformation or collapse. Ethnic parties, clientelism, rise of a new Left. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PO 574 Decolonization and Democracy in Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Course looks at comparative legacies of colonialism, race, and decolonization in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and their implications for democracy and inequality today. Focus on incorporating African scholars and voices in addressing comparative social science questions. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS PO 577 Politics of the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Limited to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - An in-depth examination of the political, economic, and societal evolution and interactions of states and non-state actors in the Persian Gulf and Arabian. Critically assesses dominant political narratives. Considers factors ranging from politics and history to demography and resources. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 100 Introduction to Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Religion matters It makes meaning and provides structure to life, addressing fundamental questions about body, spirit, community, and time. But what is it' How does it work in our world' This course explores religion in ritual, philosophical, experiential, and ethical dimensions. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS RN 100S Introduction to Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Religion matters It makes meaning and provides structure to life, addressing fundamental questions about body, spirit, community, and time. But what is it' How does it work in our world' This course explores religion in ritual, philosophical, experiential, and ethical dimensions. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS RN 103 Religions of Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Study of Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Shinto. Focus on the world view of each tradition and the historical development of that world view. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 103S Religions of Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Online offering. Study of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Shinto. Focus on the world view of each tradition and the historical development of that world view. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 104 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in historical and cultural context, origins to the present. Examines diversity of practices, belief systems, and social structures within these religions. Also addresses debates within and between communities as well as contemporary controversies and concerns. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS RN 104S Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
The study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Introduction to the development, thought, practices, and influences of these religions. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
CAS RN 105 Introduction to the World's Religions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Explores the symbols, beliefs, stories, and practices of the world's religions with attention to both historical development and contemporary practices. Possible traditions include: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and African/African diaspora religions. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS RN 105S Introduction to the World's Religions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Explores the symbols, beliefs, stories, and practices of the world's religions with attention to both historical development and contemporary practices. Possible traditions include: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and African/African diaspora religions. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS RN 106 Death and Immortality
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Examines death as religious traditions have attempted to accept, defeat, deny, or transcend it. Do we have souls' Do they reincarnate' What to do with a corpse' Other topics include mourning, burial, cremation, martyrdom, resurrection, near-death experiences. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS RN 106S Death and Immortality
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Examines death as religious traditions have attempted to accept, defeat, deny, or transcend it. Do we have souls' Do they reincarnate' What to do with a corpse' Other topics include mourning, burial, cremation, martyrdom, resurrection, near-death experiences. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS RN 206 Scriptures in World Religions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Introduction to scriptures in world religions, investigating the ways sacred books express, interpret, and make possible religious experience and ethical reflection. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Writing-Intensive Course. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS RN 206S Scriptures in World Religions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Introduction to scriptures in world religions, investigating the ways sacred books express, interpret, and make possible religious experience and ethical reflection. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Writing-Intensive Course. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS RN 210 Buddhism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
A historical and critical introduction to the major themes of Buddhist thought and practice in India and Southeast Asia, with special attention to the transmission of Buddhism to Tibet and the modern West. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 210S Buddhism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
A historical and critical introduction to the major themes of Buddhist thought and practice in India and Southeast Asia, with special attention to the transmission of Buddhism to Tibet and the modern West. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 211 S24: Chinese Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
A historical survey of Chinese religions from the ancient period to modern times. Covers cosmology, divination, philosophy, divine kingship, ancestors, art, the Silk Road, death and afterlives, popular deities, Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS RN 216 Judaism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Systematic and historical introduction to doctrines, customs, literature, and movements of Judaism; biblical religion and literature; rabbinic life and thought; medieval mysticism and philosophy; modern movement and developments. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 245 The Quest for God and the Good
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120), - An interactive seminar, investigating the meaning and purpose of human life, the significance of God or an Absolute, the role of contemplation and action in the spiritual quest, relationships between philosophy and religious thought, East and West. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS RN 248 Food and Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Explores the intersection of religion and food, using food to learn about religion and religion to study the role of food in human societies. Topics include feasting; fasting; feeding God(s), spirits, ancestors; eating/not eating animals; ingesting alcohol and psychoactive plants. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS RN 328 Modern Judaism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Encounters between Judaism and modernity from the Renaissance and Reformation; the Spanish expulsion and creation of Jewish centers in the New World; emancipation and its consequences; assimilation, Reform Judaism, Zionism, the American Jewish community, non-European communities, Jewish global migration, and modern antisemitism. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 334 Dead Sea Scrolls
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Examination of the ancient Hebrew documents discovered in the Judean desert. Their authorship; the religious significance of the Scrolls; their relations to Ancient Judaism and early Christianity; the controversy over their release and publication. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 338 Philosophy and Mysticism: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar; and one course from among the following: P hilosophy, Religion, Core Curriculum (CC101 and/or CC102) - A thematic introduction to mysticism and philosophy, with a focus on the dynamics of religious experience. Readings will be drawn from medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy; Sufi mysticism and philosophy; Kabbalah, Sufi poetry, Hebrew poetry from the Golden Age of Muslim Spain. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS RN 343 Jewish Fundamentalisms
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Exploration of Jewish Fundamentalist identities: diverse global communities reflecting a strict interpretation of Jewish law, the formation of Haredi societies in the 19th century, unprecedented growth, marriages and family life, religious studies' social and symbolic centrality, economy, and Haredi trans-national communities. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork and Collaboration .
CAS RN 348 Rumi and Persian Sufi Poetry (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to the Persian Sufi poet Rumi's narrative and lyric writings. Focus on Islamic mysticism, the innovative aspects of Rumi's poetry, and the problem of profane vs. sacred love. All readings in English translation. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS RN 349 Islam in Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
Examines the Islamization of Africa and the processes of adaptation of Islam in the continent. It examines the religious beliefs, cultures, and histories of Muslim communities in Morocco, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, Senegal, and the Sudan, among others. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 350 Comparative Religious Ethics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - This course invites students to consider what organized religion has to offer those seeking to live a good life by looking at the ethical teachings of two Western (Judaism and Christianity) and two Eastern (Confucianism and Buddhism) traditions. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS RN 361 Chinese Classics in Today's World (in English Translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Discusses canonical texts, such as the "Five Confucian Classics" and "Four Books," which for millennia have defined Chinese culture, and reflects on their appeal, significance, and current comeback in Chinese pop culture and politics. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS RN 375 Culture, Society, and Religion in South Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Ethnographic and historical introduction to the Indian subcontinent with a focus on the impact of religion on cultural practices and social institutions. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS RN 379 Religion and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to the comparative study of the political role of religious institutions and beliefs. Covers issues such as religion's relationship to violence and terrorism, democracy and human rights, group identity, gender and sexuality, and modernity and secularism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 379S Religion and Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to the comparative study of the political role of religious institutions and beliefs. Covers issues such as religion's relationship to violence and terrorism, democracy and human rights, group identity, gender and sexuality, and modernity and secularism. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 382 History of Religion in Pre-Colonial Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
The study of the development of religious traditions in Africa during the period prior to European colonialism. An emphasis on both indigenous religions and the growth and spread of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the continent as a whole. Also offered as CAS AA 382 and CAS HI 349. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS RN 397 Topics in Philosophy and Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Topic for Fall 2024: Why are we here' Alongside philosophers and religious thinkers, this course explores different versions of this question. Why are we here reading and talking' Why are we at BU' Why are we here at all' Does life have some meaning' Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 400 Writing Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - A writing-intensive seminar focused on the close reading and careful writing on spirituality and religion in various non-fiction genres (memoir, Instagram essays, op-eds, academic articles). Possible authors: Ann Lamott, Jeff Sharlet, J. Z. Smith, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Annie Dillard. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS RN 416 Religion, Race, and Climate Change
4 credits.
A multi-disciplinary course delving into the influence of and race on human behavior and non-human, planetary realities at local and global scales. It focuses on the historical, systemic, and societal implications associated with ongoing climate change debates. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS RN 432 Gender, Sexuality, and Buddhism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Examines gender and sexuality in various Buddhist cultures from a broad range of time periods such as ancient India, medieval China, and modern America. Topics include: family, the body, lust, abortion, and menstruation. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 452 Topics in Religious Thought
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASWR 120 or equivalent and one course from among the following: Religion, Philosophy, Core Curriculum (CASCC 101 and/or CC 102). - Topic for Spring 2025: Happiness, East and West. What is happiness' How can we achieve a balanced, healthy, fulfilling life' Classical thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato, Chuang Tzu; Stoic, Confucian, Buddhist paths; comparison with contemporary studies on happiness and mindfulness. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS RN 468 Symbol, Myth, and Rite
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Historical overview of ritual behavior, the role of symbolism in the study of culture, and the narrative quality of worldview and belief. Emphasis on verbal performance and public display events in specific cultural contexts. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 628 Modern Judaism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Encounters between Judaism and modernity from the Renaissance and Reformation; the Spanish expulsion and creation of Jewish centers in the New World; emancipation and its consequences; assimilation, Reform Judaism, Zionism, the American Jewish community, non-European communities, Jewish global migration, and modern antisemitism. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 634 Dead Sea Scrolls
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Examination of the ancient Hebrew documents discovered in the Judean desert. Their authorship; the religious significance of the Scrolls; their relations to Ancient Judaism and early Christianity; the controversy over their release and publication. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 638 Philosophy and Mysticism: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
A thematic introduction to mysticism and philosophy, with a focus on the dynamics of religious experience. Readings will be drawn from medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy; Sufi mysticism and philosophy; Kabbalah, Sufi poetry, Hebrew poetry from the Golden Age of Muslim Spain. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS RN 675 Culture, Society and Religion in South Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Ethnographic and historical introduction to the Indian subcontinent with a focus on the impact of religion on cultural practices and social institutions. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS RN 697 Topics in Philosophy and Religion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Topic for Fall 2023: Why are we here' Alongside philosophers and religious thinkers, this course explores different versions of this question. Why are we here reading and talking' Why are we at BU' Why are we here at all' Does life have some meaning' Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.Topic for Fall 2024: Why are we here' Alongside philosophers and religious thinkers, this course explores different versions of this question. Why are we here reading and talking' Why are we at BU' Why are we here at all' Does life have some meaning' Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 716 Religion, Race, and Climate Change
4 credits.
A multi-disciplinary course delving into the influence of religion and race on human behavior and non-human, planetary realities at local and global scales. It focuses on the historical, systemic, and societal implications associated with ongoing climate change debates. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS RN 732 Gender, Sexuality, and Buddhism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Examines gender and sexuality in various Buddhist cultures from a broad range of time periods such as ancient India, medieval China, and modern America. Topics include: family, the body, lust, abortion, and menstruation. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 752 Topics in Religious Thought
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASWR 120 or equivalent and one course from among the following: Religion, Philosophy, Core Curriculum (CASCC 101 and/or CC 102). - Topic for Spring 2025: Happiness, East and West. What is happiness' How can we achieve a balanced, healthy, fulfilling life' Classical thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato, Chuang Tzu; Stoic, Confucian, Buddhist paths; comparison with contemporary studies on happiness and mindfulness. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS SO 206 Introduction to the Sociology of Globalization
4 credits.
A sociological introduction to globalization. Explores the roles of technology, transnational corporations, and the state. Considers globalization's impacts on the workplace, the environment, and other institutions as well as the emergence of global social movements. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS SO 280 Global Urban Studies
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Looks at theoretical and methodological debates concerning the nature of global urbanization and global urbanism. It looks at cities globally, both historically and contemporary, and investigates the economic, political, spatial, and cultural processes involved in their making. Effective Fall 2025 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship, The Individual in Community.
CAS SO 308E AUST SOC POL
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Admission into Sydney Internship Program. - AUST SOC POL
CAS SO 341E IRISH SOCIETY
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
CONTEMP IR SOC
CAS SO 404 Seminar on Sociology of Families
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and at least two previous Sociology courses; or consent of instructor. First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equi valent) - Explores the rise of "modern" families and the plurality of contemporary family forms and processes including gay and lesbian families and new reproductive technologies. Particular attention to social and economic inequalities and their implications for family life. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 438 Seminar on International Migration
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and at least two previous sociology courses; or consent of instructor. - Explores key themes in international migration. It emphasizes connections between current topics in immigration, and sociological theories that explain immigrant pathways, mobilities, and outcomes. Students engage in analytical memo-writing that make these links, and write a final term paper. Throughout, the course emphasizes how the intersection of inequalities--of legal status, gender, race and class--shape immigration processes. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 442 Seminar: Urban Inequality in the Americas
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course examines major theoretical approaches to the study of the city and uses them to explore key features of urban inequality in the United States and in Latin America. In the first part of this course, we examine the strengths and weaknesses of five core theoretical paradigms for studying the city and how these have been challenged over time. In the second part of this course, we use these theoretical tools to examine distinct examples of urban segregation in American and Latin American cities. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 838 Seminar on International Migration
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - The course will explore key themes in international migration. It will emphasize connections between current topics in immigration, and sociological theories that explain immigrant pathways, mobilities, and outcomes. Students will engage in analytical memo-writing that make these links, and write a final term paper. Throughout, the course will emphasize how the intersection of inequalities--of legal status, gender, race and class--shape immigration processes. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS TL 541 Translation Today
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Undergraduate Corequisites: (CASTL542) - Weekly lectures and discussions with prominent literary translators from Boston and elsewhere. Students engage with a variety of languages and several genres: poetry, drama, essay, fiction, and more. Focus on concrete, practical translation issues arising from the speakers' work. Students are required to register for co-requisite CAS TL 542. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS WR 112 Critical Literacies for ELL
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASWR 111, placement results, or transfer credit for WR 01TR. - Critical reading and analytical writing in response to various theme-based texts. Review of grammar and mechanics in context. Practice in the patterns of academic argumentation through multiple assignments of increasing complexity. Refinement of speaking skills through discussions and oral presentations. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS WR 112S Critical Literacies for ELL
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASWR 111, placement results, or transfer credit for WR 01TR. - Critical reading and analytical writing in response to various theme-based texts. Review of grammar and mechanics in context. Practice in the patterns of academic argumentation through multiple assignments of increasing complexity. Refinement of speaking skills through discussions and oral presentations. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS WS 213 Resistance, Protest, and Empowerment: Global Women's Movements
4 credits.
Explores how global expressions of sexism shape all of our lives, experiences, and life chances, with particular attention to how race, class, and sexuality intersect with gender to shape social inequalities. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS WS 213S Sexism in the 2lst Century
4 credits.
Examines the dynamics of contemporary institutions as they affect women's and men's lives, particularly in the United States -- the economy, politics, mass media and culture, the beautification industry, sex industries, and hook-up culture -- through the intersections of race, class, ethnicity, and sexual identity. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS.
CAS WS 270 Race, Sex and Science Fiction
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Science Fiction has always been engaged in complex conversations about culture and the fate of the human species. This course takes seriously the presence of issues such as race, sex and gender, which have become increasingly foregrounded in the genre. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
CAS WS 325 Bombs and Bombshells: Gender, Armed Conflict, and Political Violence
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: sophomore, junior, or senior standing. - Delve into the world of Black Widows and Demon Lovers. Using empirical research, case studies, and drama, this course separates fact from fiction to examine gender and its intersections between recruitment, motivations, and conditions under which women behave violently. Effective Summer 2025 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS WS 325S Bombs and Bombshells: Gender, Armed Conflict, and Political Violence
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: sophomore, junior, or senior standing. - Interdisciplinary course surveying women's relationship to political violence with a focus on the evolution of women's international participation in non-state, religiously-motivated groups. Women's roles in political violence throughout Western Europe, North America, and the Middle East are explored. Effective Summer 2025 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS WS 327 Immigrant Women in Literature: Found in Translation'
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
This course explores literature about migration created by women primarily from Eastern Europe. We read autobiographical narratives that focus on the shaping of transcultural identity with an eye to the problem of translation as a linguistic, cultural, and personal phenomenon. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS WS 330 Transforming Life: Anthropology of Gender and Medical Technologies
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120); recommend CAS AN1 01 and AN102 - Seminar anthropologically compares the role of science and medicine in society and troubles what is natural and moral, e.g., about gender, person hood, kinship, and community, using case studies of new reproductive technologies in Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing- Intensive Course. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS WS 375 Growing Up in Korea
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Examining memoirs, biographies, prose fiction, poetry, films, television dramas, and graphic narratives asking: how have Korean women recounted women’s lives through media? What roles have gender and sexuality played in stories of ‘growing up' from the late 1800s to today? Effective Spring 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS WS 432 Gender, Sexuality, and Buddhism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Examines gender and sexuality in various Buddhist cultures from a broad range of time periods such as ancient India, medieval China, and modern America. Topics include: family, the body, lust, abortion, and menstruation. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS WS 434 Monarchy in Modern Britain
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Seminar probing seminal moments in the history of modern British sovereignty, when the politics of the court intersected with the politics of the people. Particular consideration is given to how monarchy has survived as an institution. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS WS 451 Fashion as History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
This seminar treats clothing and other products of material culture as historical documents. Explores what clothing can tell us about key developments in the modern period relating to trade and commerce, empire, gender, class, industry, revolution, nation-building, identity politics, and globalization. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS WS 479 Fatal Women and Dangerous Bodies
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - Examines depictions of the femme fatale and fears of female sexuality in realist, naturalist and decadent French fictions. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS WS 679 Fatal Women and Dangerous Bodies
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - Examines depictions of the femme fatale and fears of female sexuality in realist, naturalist and decadent French fictions. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 100 Leaving Home: Explorations in World Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Growing up. Moving to the big city. Wisdom quest. Immigration. Tourism. How have the world's great literatures portrayed and shaped these experiences' How have literary works themselves found new worlds through translation and adaptation' Counts for credit toward all WLL majors. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS XL 222 Introduction to Western Literatures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Introduces basic methods of comparative literary study through close readings of influential texts of the Western tradition from antiquity to present. Topics include genre, translation, appropriation, interpretation, theories of literary production and effect. All works read in English. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 223 Introduction to Middle Eastern Literatures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Introduces basic methods of comparative literary study through close readings of some of the most influential texts of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew literature. Readings may include The Arabian Nights, Shahnameh, lyric poetry, and novels from the twentieth century. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 224 Introduction to East Asian Literatures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Explores why and how to compare literatures and cultures and envisions the place of East Asia's traditions in World Literature. Embarks on theoretical reflection and close reading of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts from three millennia. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 225 Introduction to South Asian Literatures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Introduces basic methods of comparative literary study through close readings of some of the most influential texts of Indian and other South Asian literatures. Readings may include Shakuntala, The Ramayana, bhakti and Sufi literatures. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 225S Introduction to South Asian Literatures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120). Introduces basic methods of comparative literary study through close readings of some of the most influential texts of Indian and other South Asian literatures. Readings may include Shakuntala, The Ramayana, bhakti and Sufi literatures. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 236 Jewish Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
How do changing notions of ethnicity and race, religion, and gender, as well as geographical place define Jewish family and community' Topics include immigration, diaspora, and national culture; patriotism, antisemitism, and multiculturalism; Jewish identities and gender; conversion, assimilation, and acculturation. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS XL 260 Gateway to Asian Cultures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Panoramic introduction to the cultures of East and South Asia in comparative perspective (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India). Examines shared foundations, transformative inflection points, sites, peoples, and ideologies over the past two millennia through primary texts and media. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS XL 261 Rome and the Chinese World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Explore the cultural and intellectual worlds of ancient Rome and ancient East Asia (including China, Korea, and Japan), comparing world views, ethical values, political dynamics, and social functions of literature in these great Eurasian civilizations. Includes creative and performative assignments. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS XL 315S Tradition and Modernity in Iranian Film and Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120). Examines how competing notions of tradition and modernity are presented in Iranian cinema. Explores both classical and modern Persian literary works to draw out underlying connections between the readings and the films. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS XL 327 Immigrant Women in Literature: Found in Translation'
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
This course explores literature about migration created by women primarily from Eastern Europe. We read autobiographical narratives that focus on the shaping of transcultural identity with an eye to the problem of translation as a linguistic, cultural, and personal phenomenon. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS XL 341 Medieval Travel Writing and the Muslim World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate prerequisites: CASWR 120 or 150. - How did medieval and early modern Muslim travelers describe the places they visited and people they encountered, and how did Western travelers describe their travels in the Middle East and Asia? Readings include Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo, Evliya Celebi, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness.
CAS XL 343 Alexander the Great in the East
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing (WR 120 or equivalent) - Study of the various narratives about Alexander the Great, also known as Sikandar or Iskandar, as conqueror, philosopher-king, and hero, in medieval Middle Eastern and Asian literatures. Modern filmic representations of the historical figure are also compared. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS XL 344 Global Shakespeare
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Why do contemporary writers parrot and parody "Shakespeare," and how much of this activity is about Shakespeare at all? This seminar provides an introduction to reading and writing about Shakespeare's plays. But it also takes a step back to consider Shakespeare as a phenomenon, inspiring adapters around the world. Beyond learning about particular offshoots and adaptations, the deeper point is to explore how playwrights think about their sources, their audiences, and their art. Effective Summer 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS XL 387 The Holocaust Through Film
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - An examination of film using the Holocaust as its central topic. What are the political and cultural effects when genocide is represented through film? Can feature films portray history, and if so, what are the consequences for an informed society? Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS XL 441 1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two literature courses or consent of instructor and First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - What is The Thousand and One Nights? How has this ever-expanding collection appealed to its diverse audiences? Focus on the Nights' structure and themes, notable translations and offshoots in western literature and art, and later appropriations by Arab and Muslim writers. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 451 Visual Politics: Propaganda Art, Literature, and "Model Films" during the Chinese Cultural Revolut
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS WR 100, CAS WR 120 or equivalent. - A study of "model films," poster art, and literature during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. A critical approach to the larger cultural and political context of socialist art and literature as well as its legacy in China today. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS XL 541 Translation Today
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
Weekly lectures and discussions with prominent literary translators from Boston and elsewhere. Students engage with a variety of languages and several genres: poetry, drama, essay, fiction, and more. Focus on concrete, practical translation issues arising from the speakers' work. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS XL 741 1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two literature courses and consent of instructor. First Year Writing S eminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - What is The Thousand and One Nights' How has this ever-expanding collection appealed to its diverse audiences' Focus on Nights structure and themes, notable translations and offshoots in western literature and art, and later appropriations by Arab and Muslim writers. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CFA AR 369 Art, Community, and Social Engagement
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
The course provides opportunities for experiential learning, research, reflections, guest lectures, and discussions as tools to understand the creative approaches and philosophies represented in the community art engagement and social practices of cultural workers in contemporary, global and national contexts. A finely crafted final project allows for the demonstration of intercultural literacy, through an innovative execution- ready community- based project proposal designed in collaboration with peers or members of a local community. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 501 DRW VEN
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Students learn how to translate the experience of living in Venice into a drawing language, go beyond the stereotyped images of Venice, what elements of the past and present of the city can enrich their personal drawing style. Students will expand their technical skills by both drawing in class and on- site, through targeted exercises and creative and innovative projects. On-site practice, discussions and critiques allow students to make experience and instinctively reinterpret Venice in a set time, immersed in historical places, museums and art galleries, artist studios and artisan workshops. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 501E DRAWING VENICE
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
DRW VEN
CFA AR 558 Contemporary Issues in Art Education (4 credits; fall semester)
4 credits.
This is an arts-based research course that allows students to explore and respond to course content through reflective artmaking, as well as traditional research. The course surveys the 20th century roots of contemporary art and pedagogical practices and the shift to the condition of postmodernism, with a focus on the impact of influential theories, trends, and events on art education. A deep-dive investigation of the mask as a universal, complex, and powerful cultural phenomenon serves as a model for examining thematic curriculum design practices that incorporate pressing issues and opportunities that are part of the twenty- first century art classroom and other learning environments. With an interdisciplinary, global art focus, emphasis is placed on developing strategies for the inclusion of African contemporary artists and African masking within a broad, transnational context. Students create a final project that takes on the complexities of appropriation, othering, and ahistoricism in a multi-cultural and global curriculum. Students enrolled in the Art Education BFA or Masters will also complete a gateway assessment that prepares them to enroll in pre-practicum courses during CFA AR 559. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CFA AR 580 History of Graphic Design
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Course (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - This foundational course presents a chronological and thematic survey of graphic design and design culture from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Through slide lecture, reading and writing assignments, and discussion groups, students actively investigate how graphic design responded to and influenced the social, political and technological world around it. While, emphasis had been on European and American design histories, as well as major movements in Russia and the East this course will implement a plural pedagogy as a method to include more multicultural voices. Particular effort will be made toward showing, discussing, and including artists, designers, and writers who represent people, cultures, and aesthetics historically excluded from Eurocentric narratives about art and design. Comparative and symbiotic relationships between graphic design and other visual arts and design disciplines such as architecture and industrial design will be analyzed. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CFA AR 580S History of Graphic Design
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Course (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120) or equivalent. A chronological survey of theory and practice of graphic design from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Through slide lecture, reading assignments, discussion and a studio project, students actively investigate how graphic design responded to and influenced the social, political, and technological context. Emphasis is on European and American design histories, in addition to major movements in Russia and the East. Comparative and symbiotic relationships between graphic design and other visual arts and design disciplines such as architecture and industrial design are analyzed. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CFA ME 307 Secondary General Music Methods
2 credits.
Philosophical foundations and objectives of music programs in grades 5 through 12. Development of teaching materials and presentation of representative lessons; techniques of analysis and evaluation. Learners will participate in a semester-long Living Learning Community alongside Boston- residents as a way to study local and global issues that may be addressed by art educators 2cr. [Required for Music Education Majors.] Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CFA ME 408 Supporting Students with Dis/Abilities in Music
4 credits.
In this course students will identify major issues embedded in communities that affect how individuals with disabilities are included or excluded through the social forces and social structures that exist in society, particularly in school settings and music education. Students will examine major social theories related to identity in the disability community, and the role of individuals both internally and externally to the disability community. Effective Spring 2026, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CFA ME 507 Secondary General Music Methods
2 credits.
Philosophical foundations and objectives of music programs in grades 5 through 12. Development of teaching materials and presentation of representative lessons; techniques of analysis and evaluation. Learners will participate in a semester-long Living Learning Community alongside Boston- residents as a way to study local and global issues that may be addressed by art educators 2cr. [Required for Music Education Majors.] Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CFA MH 403 Latinos Making Music in the United States
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
What impact have Latinos and Latinas had on the popular music of the United States' More than you might think. Not only have Latinos in the United States been instrumental in creating globally popular Spanish-language music like salsa, norteno, and reggaeton, they are also central, if usually unacknowledged, in the histories of jazz, rock and hip hop. The history of US music is usually told as the story of interactions between black and white Americans, so what does a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual music history reveal about music in the United States' To answer these questions, we will trace the participation of Latinos, alongside other ethnic groups, in the creation of US popular music from the 19th to the 21st centuries, surveying the musical styles of Latinos in the US and discussing the role of these musics in articulating race, class, gender and sexual identities for US Latinos, their circulation along migration routes, their role in identity politics and ethnic marketing, and their commercial crossover to Anglo audiences. But then, what is Latino in the first place' Many Latinos are of Mexican descent, others from the Caribbean, and others from elsewhere. Some are Spanish-dominant and some only speak English. Some have been here for generations an others arrived last year. Some have been reticent to highlight their Latino identities, and others have put Latino identity and identity politics at the center of their musical projects. How do these different ways of being Latino manifest themselves in musical activities and musical taste' and how, since the early 2000s boom of Latin artists like Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, and Jennifer Lopez, has the music industry sought to market to all of them' Above all, how can we tell these stories in all their richness and complexity' Case studies may include Mexican- American/Chicano, Puerto Rican/Nuyorican and Cuban/American musics; Latin music in golden age Hollywood; Latin dance crazes from mambo to the Macarena; rock en espanol; reggaeton, race politics, and the creation of the "Hurban" market; and the transnational Latin music industries of Los Angeles, New York, and Miami. 4cr Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CFA MH 404 Approaches to Sacred Music East and West
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
This course aims to develop a cultural awareness of diversity and global citizenship through a deeper understanding of diverse religious beliefs and sacred music practices. Students will explore civic engagement through participation in several musical subcultures in the Boston area. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CFA MH 407 Sonic and Visual Culture and Modern East Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
This is a course about music as sonic and visual culture. Focusing on East Asian cultures in the Boston Area, students in the course will explore a diverse range of sounds, images and ideas across geographies. Effective Spring 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CFA MH 411 Race, Memory, and Diaspora in US Popular Music
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Examines selected popular and vernacular musical cultures in the U.S. within a broad historical, political, and economic context; how global musical practices brought by people to the U.S. have been shaped by the unique space of the nation; and how these styles are the product of interracial and intercultural dialogues, struggles, and negotiation processes that continue to produce new hybrid forms. Will develop ability to hear and appreciate entanglements that immerse music-making within competing interests and sensibilities, using key concepts on race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy.
CFA MH 415 Music and Social Protest: Music, Politics, and Identity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar - This writing-intensive course investigates global music cultures in various contexts of political representation, social resistance, identity formations, colonial influence, or affective politics in the U.S., Africa, Cuba, South America, Indonesia, South Asia, Morocco, Australia, England, France, Poland, and Spain. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CFA MH 417 Experimental Music Since 1960
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
The seminar will be a reading, writing, and research-intensive course that builds capacities for critical social, cultural, and musical analyses of experimental music and music since 1960. Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CFA MH 435 Music of Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
No prereq; open to all students. A survey of traditional and popular music traditions throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora. Emphasis is on music making within its cultural context. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills one unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression, and Creativity/Innovation. 4 cr
CFA MH 436 Musical Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
This course offers both an introductory look at four selected regions/countries among the diverse musical cultures around the world: West Africa, Bulgaria, Brazil, and Korea. Through these musical practices, we will investigate the ways in which many of these styles are the product of long running intra/intercultural dialogues, struggles, and negotiation processes that continue to produce new hybrid forms. Because of the vast array of people and cultures within each selected area, this course is necessarily selective and introductory. A variety of scholars and performing artists will be invited to give a workshop on music/dance and discuss their lives as musicians. Over the course of the semester, you will gain an understanding of the myriad ways people use music to construct and individual group identities, the diverse ways groups incorporate music into their lives, and how to understand music within a broader historical, political, and economic context. You will also be introduced to basic musical concepts and terminology, and acquire listening skills that will enable you to better encounter and understand music in this course and beyond. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CFA MP 332 Song Literature 2
2 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - The development of the melodie genre will be traced from the 19th through 20th centuries, focusing on the poetry and musical setting, as well as an overview of Russian art song. Study and performance, including works of Berlioz, Faure, Duparc, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky. 2 cr. The development of the Lied genre will be traced from the 18th through 20th centuries, focusing on the poetry and musical setting. Study and performance of Lieder, including songs of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf and Schoenberg. 2 cr. This course is part of a Hub sequence. Effective Fall 2020, this course, when taken with MP 331, fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CFA MT 411 Music Theories of the World
3 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
In "Music Theories of the World" we study music theory from within a variety of traditions, from different parts of the world and with focus on different elements, such as rhythm, instrumentation, tuning, mode, melody, and harmony. The goal is to learn theories indigenous to each tradition, coming from practitioners rather than being imposed from a foreign tradition. By learning many different such theories in one course, we will discover not only the diversity of human music thought but also how many concepts are shared between makers of often very different kinds of music. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA MT 611 Music Theories of the World
3 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
In "Music Theories of the World" we study music theory from within a variety of traditions, from different parts of the world and with focus on different elements, such as rhythm, instrumentation, tuning, mode, melody, and harmony. The goal is to learn theories indigenous to each tradition, coming from practitioners rather than being imposed from a foreign tradition. By learning many different such theories in one course, we will discover not only the diversity of human music thought but also how many concepts are shared between makers of often very different kinds of music. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA TH 165 DP&M Community Forum 1: Discovering Theatre through History
2 credits.
This course will look at the development and importance of Theatre in America during the 20th and the beginning of the 21st Century and how these developments and theatrical movements shape and inform the work that is being created today. The class will look at the various cultural, racial, and global influences that shaped the rise of the American Theater and center our conversation on the most significant playwrights, directors, designers, producers, and institutions that have shaped the medium we know today. Required for BFA Design, Production & Management Core. 2.0 credits. Fall semester. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CFA TH 166 DP&M Community Forum 2: Contemporary Theatre Makers
2 credits.
This course will look at contemporary theatre artists, productions, and aesthetics to gain a greater understanding on the impact of Theatre as an art form in today's culture and society. The class will look at significant productions, playwrights, directors and designers from around the World and examine innovative ways the Theatre is being used to tell stories and challenge audiences. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Required for BFA Design, Production & Management Core. 2.0 credits. Spring semester.
CFA TH 201 Dramatic Literature 2: 1850 to 1950
3 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
A survey of important plays and trends of the theatre from 1850 to 1950, with an emphasis on American and European dramatists. Students should expect frequent writing assignments. 3.0 credits. Fall semester. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CFA TH 205 Dramatic Literature 2: 1850 to 1950
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Introduction to the value of modern theatre texts, performances, history, and theories from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, examining work created in the US and internationally, with discussions on the material and concepts through theoretical, practical, sociopolitical, and cultural lenses. By the conclusion of this course, you will have the working tools to communicate about the relevance of modern drama and theatre to your given course of study and further developed skills in research, inquiry, and analysis. Pre-req: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 120). Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CFA TH 206 Dramatic Literature 3: 1950 to the Millennium
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
This course introduces students to the value of modern to postmodern theatre texts, performances, history, and theories from the mid-20th century to the millennium. We will examine work created from around the world through theoretical, practical, sociopolitical, and cultural lenses and discuss how it is in conversation with each other. By the conclusion of this course, you will have the working tools to communicate about the relevance of modern drama and theatre and further developed skills in research, inquiry, and analysis. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CFA TH 331 Movement 5: 360 Physical Storytelling
2 credits.
Prereq: CFATH232 or consent of the instructor. Inspired by the genre of black and white silent film, where expressive movement was paramount, this course is an immersive amalgamation of movement practices, styles and ideas to develop an ecstatic, informed, imaginative and truthful actor as artist - transitioning the actor into an artistic movement instrument with the ability to transcend through physical storytelling. 2.0 credits TH Only, Junior Act, Permission Req for Junior TA. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU HUB area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CGS SS 104E Politics, Economies & Social Change in the West: Industrial Revolution to the Digital Revolution
5 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
This interdisciplinary course examines social change in the politics, economies, social structures, and culture of the West from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Students consider the impact of technological innovation, industrial capitalism, global war, genocide, and the ideologies that shaped these developments. The course concludes with the globalization of economies and social structures in an era of rising inequality. Visits to relevant sites in Britain will supplement classroom instruction. Class meets twice a week for 2h with two additional contact hours as assigned. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CGS SS 104S Politics, Economies, and Social Change in the West: The Industrial Revolution to the Digital Revol
5 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
This interdisciplinary course examines social change in the politics, economies, social structures, and culture of the West from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Students consider the impact of technological innovation, industrial capitalism, global war, genocide, and the ideologies that shaped these developments. The course concludes with the globalization of economies and social structures in an era of rising inequality. Visits to relevant sites will supplement classroom instruction. Class meets twice a week for 2h with two additional contact hours as assigned. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CGS SS 201 Radicals, Rebels, and Revolutionaries: Agents of Global Change
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - SS201 explores the historical roots of our global political and economic scene from a comparative perspective. Students will examine the radical movements, ideologies, and revolutions that have shaped the contemporary world, focusing on a comparison of two or more nations or regions. Topics may include the history and power of nationalism, the legacy of imperialism, competing political ideologies, the rise of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, terrorism and state violence, and the role popular collective action plays in effecting change. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CGS SS 201E REVO RUS/CHINA
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - REVO RUS/CHINA
COM CM 370E MULTCULTRL WRLD
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I Teamwork/Collaboration
MULTCULTRL WRLD
COM CM 457E SEM GLOBL STRTG
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
SEM GLOBL STRTG
COM FT 344E EUROPEAN CINEMA
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
EUROPEAN CINEMA
COM JO 358E British Journalism, Culture, and Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Provides an opportunity for intensive study of British media in the context of the political, cultural, and social life of the United Kingdom. Close attention is paid to the practical aspects of television, radio, and newspapers, together with the social, economic, and commercial background against which the British media function.
COM JO 539 Global Health Storytelling
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
GLOBAL HEALTH STORYTELLING marks our first effort to present an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to address core concepts in both public health and journalism, and to prepare students to make the truly exciting--but often untold--stories of public health available to a wide public Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
HUB SA 220E CULTRS IN CNTXT
0 credits.
CULTRS IN CNTXT
HUB SA 225 Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy with Study Abroad
0 credits.
0-credit course for BU students studying abroad to fulfill a Hub requirement in Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy (GCI). Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single requirement in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
HUB SA 300E KYOTOLAANG
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Oral and/or Signed Communication
KYOTOLAANG
HUB SA 301E KYOTO ELCTV 1
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
KYOTO ELCTV 1
HUB SA 302E KYOTO ELCTV 2
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry II
KYOTO ELCTV 2
HUB SA 303E KYOTO ELCTV 3
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
KYOTO ELCTV 3
HUB SA 304E KYOTO ELCTV 4
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I
KYOTO ELCTV 4
HUB SA 305E KYOTO ELCTV 5
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I
KYOTO ELCTV 5
HUB SA 306E KYOTO ELCTV 6
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I Social Inquiry II
KYOTO ELCTV 6
HUB SA 307E KYOTO ELCTV 7
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
KYOTO ELCTV 7
HUB SA 308E KYOTO ELCTV 8
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
KYOTO ELCTV 8
HUB SA 309E KYOTO ELCTV 9
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
KYOTO ELCTV 9
HUB SA 310E KYOTO ELCTV 10
0 credits.
KYOTO ELCTV 10
HUB SJ 101 Social & Racial Justice: Systems and Structures
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
This course provides students with foundational knowledge in the historical and systemic bases of social and racial inequities as well as the efforts to build a more just world. It will assist students in critically assessing inequities and efforts towards justice in social systems such as education, environment/sustainability, health, housing, and entertainment. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
KHC AN 102 The Lives of Others: The Power, Politics, and Ethics of Storytelling
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry I Teamwork/Collaboration
This course delves into the ethical and political dimensions of storytelling, explores various cultural and historical forms of storytelling, and examines the deployment of storytelling in applied contexts such as narrative medicine. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
KHC AN 103 Animals among Humans
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
This course, "Animals among Humans," complements a hitherto existing course, KHC AN 101, Human among Animals." Comparing and contrasting humans and (other) animals, It explores the relations between them, with emphasis on the experiences of the nonhuman animals themselves. [The other course, Humans among Animals, also explores human-animal comparisons, contrasts, and interactions, but it does so with emphasis on the experiences of the humans involved.] Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
KHC BI 105 The Dynamics of Society in Nature
0 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry I
In this course we explore the dynamic relationship between human society and the natural ecosystems in which they are embedded, and of which they are today an integral part. This is the science of sustainability. We cover the theory, the gathering of empirical data from peoples and ecosystems, and types of dynamic modeling and scenario-forecasting, both heuristic and computational, that aid in good decision making. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy, Scientific Inquiry I.
KHC HC 302 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Challenges II
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
68.5 million people were displaced from their homes by wars and persecution by the end of 2017. What disciplines and methodologies will help us understand this unprecedented global crisis' A premise of this course is that any understanding of the contemporary refugee crisis requires interdisciplinary study, and the most effective solutions are developed by teams like the interdisciplinary groups you will form in this class. The refugee crisis will provide a lens through which to understand nation/states, culture, identity, technology, trauma, and human resilience. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
KHC HI 104 Urban Youth in the Middle East
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Examines social, economic, political, religious, and gender issues urban youth in the Middle East face in the 21st century given the escalation of violence and the stark economic inequalities impinging upon them, but also the many new opportunities available. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
KHC HI 106 Solving the Problem of Cornerville' Street Corner Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
This seminar will examine ¿The Problem of Cornerville¿ (Boston¿s North End) as formulated by William Foote Whyte in his 1943 ethnography Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. In the process we will explore a variety of topics including immigration policy and history, the early Progressive movement, `slumming,¿ urban sociology, theories of crime and deviance, racial formation, and gentrification. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
KHC IR 104 The Ethics of War and Political Violence
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
This course surveys key debates in the ethics of war and political violence. When, if ever, is resorting to war justifiable' How should wars be fought' Are these two questions at all interrelated' Does it even make sense to speak of the ethics of war and political violence' Are arguments for pacifism or nonviolence, for example, more compelling' Are these hopelessly political questions, unsuitable for ethical consideration' Throughout this course, we will study a range of perspectives on these issues¿many of which have informed international law, including the Charter of the United Nations and the Geneva Conventions. In the process, we will also address topical debates in international ethics, including the ethics of self-defense and preemptive war; humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect; combatant liability and noncombatant immunity; ¿proportionality¿ in collateral damage; guerrilla warfare and terrorism; and more. Course materials draw widely from political philosophy, international law, literature, and film. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Critical Thinking, , Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
KHC MD 101 Fractured Lives and Bodies: Forensic Anthropology, Disasters, and Human Rights
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Scientific Inquiry I
This course will explore the roles and responsibilities of forensic anthropology - a sub-discipline of anthropology that addresses medico-legal issues - in the context of global disasters, forced and voluntary displacements and migrations, and human rights. Namely, what are the varied geopolitical contexts in which forensic anthropologists participate in humanitarian response' What are the ethical issues involved in humanitarian work' How does forensic science in global human rights contexts differ from local applications' How can forensic anthropology contribute to post- disaster recovery' Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
KHC MU 104 Race, Gender, Music, and the Making of Latin America
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
Students will examine the relationship between musical practice and ideas of race and gender in Latin America from the 16th century to the present day, with particular focus on the process by which music is enlisted in nationalist projects. They will consider the ways in which music dramatizes gender roles and relations -- of attraction, repulsion, and separation -- among people of European, African, Amerindian, and mixed descent in Latin American societies and discover music's role in projects of missionization, racial "whitening," cultural nationalism, and cultural tourism. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
KHC PH 105 Speech and Freedom
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Why have we come to understand freedom through the ability to speak without restraints' What does speech have in common with freedom' Taking the phrase 'free speech' as a starting point, this course investigates the significance of these two concepts for our modern and contemporary ideas of democracy, globalization, cultural difference, and public ethics. In doing this, the course will cultivate students' knowledge of notable works in philosophy, literary theory and political science, bringing this proficiency to bear on their analysis of real-world debates and philosophical questions. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
KHC PO 100 Democracy & the Climate Crisis: Politics on a Changing Planet
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I
Course explores how democratic societies can respond to and survive the unprecedented disruptions of the climate crisis. Students will trace the global history of government by consent, the evolution of the climate crisis, and weigh possible reforms to protect democratic norms and institutions on a changing planet. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
KHC RN 102 Sacred Spaces
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Comparative approach to sacred space in world religions, examining pilgrimage, shrine architecture, literary and artistic representations, living saints, and violent incidents. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
KHC RN 103 Islam in the Eyes of the West
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
An introduction to how and why Islam came to be viewed as a static, essentialized tradition opposed to the West. Covers Orientalist and neo- Orientalist debates about Islam and provides a historical survey of the texts, practices, and beliefs of the Islamic tradition, from the 7th century to the present, in the Middle East, South Asia, North Africa, and the U.S. through a study of the Quran, poetry, philosophy, and political treatises. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
KHC SM 102 Reforming the U.S. Health Care System
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
In this seminar, students explore the U.S. health care system and those of six other nations, analyzing policy challenges through team projects that evaluate evidence-based reform strategies, and take into account economic, social, political, managerial, ethical, legal, and regulatory factors. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
KHC VA 104 More than a Face: What Masks Reveal
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Other faces, frames, transformations and disguises, masks speak to what it is to be human among other humans, unifying the body and the psyche in ways few objects do. Participants study the complexity of masks as a cross- disciplinary nexus. Effective Spring 2021 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
KHC XL 101 Global Shakespeares: Text, Culture, Appropriation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Why do contemporary writers parrot and parody "Shakespeare," and how much of this activity is about Shakespeare at all' This seminar provides an introduction to reading and writing about Shakespeare's plays. But it also takes a step back to consider Shakespeare as a phenomenon. Among others we'll look at feminist Shakespeare, postcolonial and nationalist Shakespeare, and sci-fi Shakespeare. Beyond learning about particular offshoots and adaptations, the deeper point is to make sure you never read a "Great Book" the same way again. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
QST IM 475 Global Management Experience
4 credits.
The Global Management Experience is a four-credit course that involves analytical work throughout the spring semester, and culminates in spring break travel to Asia. Each year the countries, cities, and companies studied are changed. Coursework includes an exploration of the economic, governmental and social factors that affect the conduct of business, and ethics, in a variety of industries and contexts. The course features presentations and Q&A with different business executives, government leaders and entrepreneurs, providing an opportunity for first-hand observation around the application of management principles and strategies in the global arena. Please see our website for details: https://questromworld.bu.edu/udc/gme/
GME 2025 will travel to Ho Chi Minh and Hong Kong. The course is by application only (due November 1st) and requires a course fee of $3,900 to cover the cost of travel and expenses.
Effective Spring 2024 this course fulfills a single unit the following BU Hub area: Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
QST SI 340 Family Business Management
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Sophomore standing - This course explores the dynamic and complex world of family businesses across the globe. The course is primarily intended for students who have experience of a family business as well as students who are considering joining a family-owned enterprise or starting one. It counts toward the Innovation and Entrepreneurship minor and the Questrom Business minor. Family business historically represents a significant part of the U.S. economy and an even larger proportion of the global economy. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
QST SI 422 Strategy, Innovation, and Global Competition
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: QST FE323, MK323, OM323, and QM323; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Provides students with a powerful set of tools which will prepare them to analyze, formulate, and implement business firm strategy with the aim of attaining sustainable competitive advantage. Adopts the perspective of the general manager, challenging student knowledge in each functional area in the effort to create integrative strategies that serve the needs of shareholders, as well as other stakeholders inside and outside the company. The course includes conceptual readings, which elucidate the fundamental concepts and frameworks of strategic management, as well as case analyses. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
QST SI 422S Strategy, Innovation, and Global Competition
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: QST FE323, MK323, OM323, and QM323; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Prereq: (QST FE 323, QST MK 323, QST OM 323 & QST QM 323) and First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120). Provides students with a powerful set of tools which prepares them to analyze, formulate, and implement business firm strategy with the aim of attaining sustainable competitive advantage. Adopts the perspective of the general manager, challenging student knowledge in each functional area in the effort to create integrative strategies that serve the needs of shareholders, as well as other stakeholders inside and outside the company. The course includes conceptual readings, which elucidate the fundamental concepts and frameworks of strategic management, as well as case analyses. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
QST SI 475 Global Management Experience
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: QST SM131 and junior standing - The Global Management Experience (GME) is a four-credit course that emphasizes analytical work during the first half of the spring semester on campus, and culminates with a field study to Asia during Spring Break. Each year the countries and cities are changed. Pre-travel course work includes exploration of economic, governmental, and social factors that affect the conduct of business, and ethics, in a variety of industries and contexts. During our week abroad, you'll visit business executives, government leaders and entrepreneurs, observing first-hand the application of management principles and strategies in the global arena. The course is by application only and incurs an additional fee (some financial aid may be available). Please click here for additional information - https://questromworld.bu.edu/udc/gme/. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit the following BU Hub area: Course, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
SAR HS 251 Human Nutrition Science
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Prerequisites: CAS BI105 OR CAS BI108. This course draws on principles of anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry to deepen students’ understanding of macro- and micronutrients, digestion, and metabolism in preparation for applied discussions on individual- and policy-level tools to support healthy eating, dietary patterns for chronic disease prevention, and global nutrition challenges. This course is intended for pre-health and nutrition majors. For non-majors, see SAR HS 201 – Intro to Nutrition. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, lobal Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Scientific Inquiry II.
SAR HS 251S Human Nutrition Science
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Prerequisites: CAS BI105 OR CAS BI108. This course draws on principles of anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry to deepen students’ understanding of macro- and micronutrients, digestion, and metabolism in preparation for applied discussions on individual- and policy-level tools to support healthy eating, dietary patterns for chronic disease prevention, and global nutrition challenges. This course is intended for pre-health and nutrition majors. For non-majors, see SAR HS 201 – Intro to Nutrition. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, lobal Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Scientific Inquiry II.
SAR HS 325 Introduction to Global Health
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
This course will provide students with an overview of the complex social, economic, political, environmental, and biological factors that structure the origins, consequences, and possible treatments of illness worldwide, as well as the promotion of health. Students will learn about the major themes and concepts shaping the interdisciplinary field of global health, and will gain an understanding of solutions to health challenges that have been successfully implemented in different parts of the world. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
SAR HS 325S Introduction to Global Health
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Provides students with an overview of the complex social, economic, political, environmental, and biological factors that structure the origins, consequences, and possible treatments of illness worldwide, as well as the promotion of health. Students learn about the major themes and concepts shaping the interdisciplinary field of global health, and gain an understanding of solutions to health challenges that have been successfully implemented in different parts of the world. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
SAR HS 345 Global Environmental Public Health
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Environmental health is associated with recognizing, assessing, understanding and controlling the impacts of people in their environment and the impacts of the environment on the public health. The complexity of the problems requires multidisciplinary approaches. This course will provide an introduction to the principles, methods, and issues related to global environmental health. This course examines health issues, scientific understanding of causes, and possible future approaches to control of the major environmental health problems internationally. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
SAR HS 348 Global Mental Health
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
This course provides an overview of critical issues in mental health and mental illness worldwide from a public health perspective. Globally, mental and neurological conditions are the leading cause of disability, and the World Health Organization estimates depression to be the largest contributor to the global disease burden by 2030. The burden of mental disorders on low- and middle-income countries is especially great while a large treatment gap persists. The course covers the concept of mental health, conceptualization and classification of disorders, cultural context, social determinants, causes and consequences of mental health disorders, strategies for intervention, policy development and implementation, human rights, women's mental health and research priorities. Special attention will be paid to the unmet need for mental health care globally (using case studies), disparities in access and use of services, stigma and attitudes towards treatment seeking. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II.
SAR HS 348S Global Mental Health
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
This course provides an overview of critical issues in mental health and mental illness worldwide from a public health perspective. Globally, mental and neurological conditions are the leading cause of disability, and the World Health Organization estimates depression to be the largest contributor to the global disease burden by 2030. The burden of mental disorders on low- and middle-income countries is especially great while a large treatment gap persists. The course covers the concept of mental health, conceptualization and classification of disorders, cultural context, social determinants, causes and consequences of mental health disorders, strategies for intervention, policy development and implementation, human rights, women's mental health and research priorities. Special attention will be paid to the unmet need for mental health care globally (using case studies), disparities in access and use of services, stigma and attitudes towards treatment seeking. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II.
SAR HS 408E MEDITERRAN DIET
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community
MEDITERRAN DIET
SAR HS 425 Healthcare Policy and Practice in Ireland
4 credits.
Available in Dublin Health Science program onlyHow can healthcare policy and practice in Ireland be described' What are its origins and how has it evolved, specifically related to cultural, political, social and economic developments' How can the current fragmented and two-tiered system be improved' These are key questions, especially following the launch in 2017 of the ten-year Sl¿intecare healthcare programme. During this course students will discuss these questions, using the six building blocks of the World Health Organisation (WHO) health system framework, comparing the Irish health systems with other health systems. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
SAR HS 425E HLTH POL IRLAND
4 credits.
HLTH POL IRLAND
SAR HS 442 Healthcare Interventions in Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
This course will introduce students to healthcare delivery in low (LICs) and lower middle income countries (LMICs). Students will become familiar with aspects of surgical interventions, pharmaceutical provision, cell phone technology, and global health programming. We will examine healthcare delivery and practices through case studies focused on the prevention and treatment of malnutrition, infectious diseases, and non-communicable diseases. Through this course, students will learn from past and existing healthcare delivery techniques, difficulties, and successes for some of the largest global health challenges such as: cholera, malaria, HIV/AIDS, Type 1 and 2 Diabetes, tobacco use, aging populations, and malnutrition. Students will use these skills to develop healthcare delivery strategies of their own. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration.
SAR HS 480 Comparative Healthcare Systems
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II
Health systems play an important role in improving life and well-being. Yet there is a profound gap between the potential of health systems and their actual performance. Today, countries around the globe face difficult choices and increasing challenges in organizing, delivering, and funding high- quality health care. In this course students will: understand the components, determinants, and approaches to the structure and outcomes of health care systems in low- and middle-income countries; learn trends in global health care reform and reform outcomes in country-specific contexts; and gain basic knowledge and skills to understand health care systems evaluations with a goal toward designing effective policy strategies that would improve health system performance. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Creativity/Innovation.
SAR SH 415 Senior Seminar: Internship
2 credits.
The goal of this capstone seminar is to provide SLHS students with knowledge and skills in professionalism and the application of different types of evidence as a basis for practice in a variety of clinical and research settings. The course involves internships related to the disciplines of speech language and hearing sciences and is for students in their final year of these majors. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
SAR SH 642 Senior Seminar
2 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: SLHS & LX Major and Minor only; senior status - The goal of this capstone seminar is to provide SLHS students with knowledge and skills in professionalism and the application of different types of evidence as a basis for practice in a variety of clinical and research settings. The course involves internships related to the disciplines of speech language and hearing sciences and is for students in their final year of these majors.
SHA HF 231 Talent and People Strategies
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: SHA HF 100 - This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of human resource management, especially for consumer services such as hotels, restaurants, tourism and events. Explores contemporary human resource management relative to the hospitality industry, with emphasis on planning, job analysis, recruitment, selection, hiring, placement, and ethnic diversity in the workplace. Specifically, the course examines employee motivation, leadership, training, team building, employee performance and retention. Management philosophies of work compensation, discipline, and labor relations are discussed as they affect current hospitality industry strategies to attract and retain a quality workforce. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. 4 credits. Offered Fall & Spring.
SHA HF 231S Talent and People Strategies
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: SHA HF 100 - Prereq: (SHA HF 100). An introduction to the theory and practice of human resource management, especially for consumer services such as hotels, restaurants, tourism, and events. Explores contemporary human resource management relative to the hospitality industry, with emphasis on planning, job analysis, recruitment, selection, hiring, placement, and ethnic diversity in the workplace. Specifically, the course examines employee motivation, leadership, training, team building, employee performance and retention. Management philosophies of work compensation, discipline, and labor relations are discussed as they affect current hospitality industry strategies to attract and retain a quality workforce. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
SHA HF 260 Introduction to Hospitality Marketing
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: SHA HF 100 ; Undergraduate Corequisites: SHA HF 220. Note: Students must take SHA HF 220 and HF 260 concurrentl y in the same section(e.g. A1/A1). Contact your academic advisor with any questions. - This course provides an understanding of the role & function of marketing in the hospitality industry. It offers an overview of generic principles of marketing for any industry (including consumer products & manufacturing) and introduces specialized principles for the hospitality industry. For all topics, it uses examples taken primarily from the hospitality industry. Subjects covered include marketing strategy, marketing research, consumer behavior, segmentation, positioning, product and concept development, pricing, distribution, & marketing communications (including advertising & PR). Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. 4 cr. Offered Fall and Spring.
SHA HF 260E MKTG PRINCIPLES
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: SHA HF 100 ; Undergraduate Corequisites: SHA HF 220. Note: Students must take SHA HF 220 and HF 260 concurrentl y in the same section(e.g. A1/A1). Contact your academic advisor with any questions. - Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
SHA HF 260S Hospitality Marketing Principles
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: SHA HF 100 ; Undergraduate Corequisites: SHA HF 220. Note: Students must take SHA HF 220 and HF 260 concurrently in the same section(e.g. A1/A1). Contact your academic advisor with any questions. - Provides an understanding of the role and function of marketing in the hospitality industry. Offers an overview of generic principles of marketing for any industry (including consumer products and manufacturing) and introduces specialized principles for the hospitality industry. For all topics, this course uses examples taken primarily from the hospitality industry. Subjects covered include marketing strategy, marketing research, consumer behavior, segmentation, positioning, product and concept development, pricing, distribution, and marketing communications (including advertising and public relations). Class discussion, lectures, and case studies. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
SHA HF 329 Intro to Fine Wines
2 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: . - This course, open to all BU students, offers a complete, introductory-level overview of the fine wines of the world. The purpose of the course is fourfold: 1. Ensure a thorough knowledge of the world's major wine-producing regions, their noble grape varietals, their classification systems and quality control laws. 2. Build basic understanding of the wine-making process, its variations and its pitfalls, thus aiding in the ability to appreciate a great wine and spot a flawed one. 3. Illustrate techniques of quantified sensorial assessment of wine so that the student may perform the buying function knowledgeably and confidently. 4. Acquire an understanding of how to perform job functions related to wine, such as writing a wine list, in the hospitality industry. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. 2 cr. Offered Fall semester.
SHA HF 365E BRITISH TOURISM
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Historical Consciousness
BRITISH TOURISM
WED CF 510 Child and Adolescent Mental Health
4 credits.
Provides students with initial competencies to understand, assess, and critique diagnostic issues of the major psychological disorders of childhood and adolescence. Cross-cultural comparisons introduce students to a wide variety of help-seeking and help-giving models to assist children and adolescents coping with adversity. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
WED DE 300 Introduction to the Deaf World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Designed to provide a general overview to the lives, orientations and typical experiences of American Deaf people who use American Sign Language. This course aims to understand some of the fundamental factors that impact the lives of Deaf People, both positively and negatively. Finally, we will generate ideas about how to enhance the general perspective of the Deaf World as a vibrant cultural and linguistic minority. The intention is for students to be better equipped to be advocates and partners with Deaf People. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
WED DE 350 Deaf History and Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Analysis and discussion of the historical and cultural aspects of Deaf Culture; the influence of geographic, cultural, educational, and economic forces on Deaf people; and the patterns of social change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Introduces students to specific cultural and historical experiences and acquaints them with literature in the field. 4 cr Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
WED ED 206 Family & Community Engagement
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Students will be invited to explore their own positionality towards and definitions of engagement, community, schools, and family, and learn how to best sustain and affirm the families and communities that they endeavor to serve. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
WED HD 384 Restorative Justice in Youth-Serving Settings
4 credits.
Explores ethics, principles and practices of restorative and healing justice by drawing from various current and historical cultural understandings of justice practices across the globe, including First Nations and US criminal justice system. Special focus on applications in youth-serving settings. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
Ethical Reasoning
CAS AA 234 African Americans in Global Perspective: Slavery and the Creation of Race
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
A study of how chattel slavery in the Americas led to racialization as a primary tool in the creation of American society and New World capitalism. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 234S African Americans in Global Perspective: Slavery and the Creation of Race
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Studies how chattel slavery in the Americas led to racialization as a primary tool in the creation of American society and New World capitalism. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 301 African Diaspora Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to the archaeology of the African diaspora, the global displacement of African people and their descendants. Reviews findings, methodology, and theory around key burial contexts. Emphasis on shifting dialogues, such as human remains stewardship, community engagement, and reburial. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AA 308 Race and Politics
4 credits.
Combining research from history, political science, sociology, and economics, this course examines the role of race and ethnicity in shaping American politics and policy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 313 The Politics and Policy of HBO's The Wire
4 credits.
HBO's television series The Wire is used to explore politics and policy. A number of interdisciplinary topics are covered, including the war on drugs, urban elections, bureaucracy, rational choice theory, and the decline of American cities. Also offered as CAS PO 313. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS AA 319 Race and the Politics of Criminal Justice Policy
4 credits.
How many people are affected by the criminal justice system' What is the relationship between crime and race' What criminal justice policies, if any, should change' In this course, students will grapple with these questions. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS AA 319S Race and the Politics of Criminal Justice Policy
4 credits.
Online offering. Considers the following questions: How many people are affected by the criminal justice system' What is the relationship between crime and race' What criminal justice policies, if any, should change' Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS AH 330 Greek Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Teamwork/Collaboration
A survey of Greek material culture of the first millennium BCE emphasizing methods, ethics, and narratives of Classical archaeology. Critically engages with anthropology, art history, history, literature, museums, and digital presentations of the Greek past. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS AH 333 Arts of Classical Greece
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness
Examines architecture, sculpture, painting, and metalwork of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in their original contexts. Addresses such larger issues as development of portraiture; tension of "real" and "ideal"; roles and shifting iconographies of myth; and political use of monuments. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AH 486 Architecture Capstone
4 credits.
This course guides senior and eligible junior architectural studies majors through a capstone experience, which may be an internship or a research project. Open only by application. Interested students contact Professor Abramson by Nov. 1, 2025. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS AN 210 Introduction to Medical Anthropology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
This lecture and discussion-driven course uses ethnographic case materials and active learning strategies to introduce students to socio-cultural anthropological modes of understanding and analyzing health-related experiences and institutions, including political and ethical dimensions of illness and suffering around the globe. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 210S Introduction to Medical Anthropology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
This lecture and discussion-driven course uses ethnographic case materials and active learning strategies to introduce students to socio-cultural anthropological modes of understanding and analyzing health-related experiences and institutions, including political and ethical dimensions of illness and suffering around the globe. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 211 Humans Among Animals
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Examines how humans understand (other) animals and their thought, feeling, and communication and the ways we humans in varied cultures and societies use animals for interaction and self-understanding. Interdisciplinary approach that considers language, aesthetics, ideology, practice, and regulation. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills units in the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, and Critical Thinking.
CAS AN 233 The Evolutionary Biology of Human Variation
4 credits.
Addresses human biological variation. An introduction to the fundamentals of comparative biology, evolutionary theory, and genetics and considers how research in these fields informs some of our most culturally-engaged identities: race, sex, gender, sexuality, and body type. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS AN 240 Legal Anthropology
4 credits.
Introduction to legal anthropology that investigates the role of law and legal systems in a variety of historical and contemporary societies from a cross-cultural perspective. It examines how different societies generate and maintain mechanisms to deal with competition and conflict. (Counts towards the Minor in African American & Black Diaspora Studies.) Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS AN 301 African Diaspora Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to the archaeology of the African diaspora, the global displacement of African people and their descendants. Reviews findings, methodology, and theory around key burial contexts. Emphasis on shifting dialogues, such as human remains stewardship, community engagement, and reburial. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AN 311 Culture and Biotech: Beyond the Nature/Culture Divide
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - The class explores some biotechnological innovations and the cultural variability around the ethical dilemmas those innovations provoke. It asks what this variability might mean for thinking about the supposedly fixed dichotomy between “nature” and “culture”? Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Writing-Intensive Course. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS AN 357 Bioarchaeology and the Body
4 credits.
Introduction to the study of human remains in bioarchaeological contexts. Course reviews key theoretical frameworks and methodologies in interpreting valuable information about demography, gender differences, social identities and the daily lives of past peoples, as well as ongoing ethical concerns in bioarchaeological practice. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS AN 362 Culture and Environment
4 credits.
Examines mutually transformative relations between human societies and their environments. Shows how social constructions of environment, nature, and culture vary cross-culturally. Topics include: political ecology, environmental conservation, agriculture, climate, bioprospecting, relations with other animals, pollution. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II.
CAS AN 362S Culture and Environment
4 credits.
Examines how the social construction of environment, nature, and culture varies cross-culturally and historically as well as how it influences economic change, environmental movements, international politics, and public policy. Primary examples include several African countries, Papua New Guinea, and the United States; as well as contemporary global climate change.
CAS AN 369 Indigenous Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to Indigenous archaeology, which seeks to realize a more ethical engagement with Indigenous communities by conducting research "with, for, and by" Indigenous descendant communities. Reviews key theoretical frameworks (e.g., traditional knowledge systems, collaboration, repatriation) and explores the ways this approach is being put into action through case studies. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS AN 550 Human Osteology
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASAN 102 or CASAN 331 or consent of instructor. - Development and structure of the human skeleton in anthropological and archaeological contexts. Basic processes of bone biology and how they are affected by lived experience. Meetings are lab-oriented and develop skill in whole and fragmentary skeletal identification. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Scientific Inquiry I. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Scientific Inquiry I.
CAS AN 557 Anthropology of Mental Health
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASAN101 OR CASAN210) or consent of instructor. - Advanced seminar examining global and local challenges and connections that shape patterns of illness/health around the world, including international responses to mental health crises and moral quandaries through ethnographies of mental health care in different settings and treating different conditions. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS AN 560 Brave New Worlds: Bioethics as State and Cultural Practice
4 credits.
Explores the various ways that nation-states, cultural communities, and individuals negotiate the ethics and use of biomedical technologies, old and new. Asks what kinds of "moral registers," including religious traditions, state histories, political ideologies, and forms of market engagement shape when and why certain biotechnological developments are denounced as ethical threats or embraced as empowering forms of progress. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community.
CAS AR 100 Archaeology Today
4 credits.
Introduction to how archaeologists use material culture to study inequality, diet, gender, religion, identity, and sustainability in global case studies from the origins of humans to the present. Looting, heritage, and repatriation are addressed with the perspectives of descendant communities. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Digital/Multimedia Expression. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AR 100S Archaeology Today
4 credits.
Introduction to how archaeologists use material culture to study inequality, diet, gender, religion, identity, and sustainability in global case studies from the origins of humans to the present. Looting, heritage, and repatriation are addressed with the perspectives of descendant communities. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Digital/Multimedia Expression. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AR 215 The Contested Past
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Examination of the diverse and often conflicting values associated with archaeological objects, ancient monuments, and cultural sites. Case studies (including the Elgin Marbles) highlight contemporary controversies over ownership, appropriation, use, and abuse of the material remains of the past. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Research and Information Literacy. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AR 215S The Contested Past
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
Examination of the diverse and often conflicting values associated with archaeological objects, ancient monuments, and cultural sites. Case studies (including the Elgin Marbles) highlight contemporary controversies over ownership, appropriation, use, and abuse of the material remains of the past. Course fulfills Archaeology undergraduate topical requirement. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following HUB areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiries I, and Research and Information Literacy. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AR 301 African Diaspora Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to the archaeology of the African diaspora, the global displacement of African people and their descendants. Reviews findings, methodology, and theory around key burial contexts. Emphasis on shifting dialogues, such as human remains stewardship, community engagement, and reburial. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AR 330 Greek Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Teamwork/Collaboration
A survey of Greek material culture of the first millennium BCE emphasizing methods, ethics, and narratives of Classical archaeology. Critically engages with anthropology, art history, history, literature, museums, and digital presentations of the Greek past. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS AR 333 Arts of Classical Greece
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness
Examines architecture, sculpture, painting, and metalwork of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in their original contexts. Addresses such larger issues as development of portraiture; tension of "real" and "ideal"; roles and shifting iconographies of myth; and political use of monuments. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AR 342 Archeology and Israeli Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: sophomore, junior, or senior standing. - In Israel, archaeology is part of current events. The study of remains from the Israelite to the Muslim conquests (c. 1200 BCE -- 640 CE) to learn how material evidence created and still plays a role in a larger historical drama. Also offered as CAS RN 390. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS AR 357 Bioarchaeology and the Body
4 credits.
Introduction to the study of human remains in bioarchaeological contexts. Course reviews key theoretical frameworks and methodologies in interpreting valuable information about demography, gender differences, social identities and the daily lives of past peoples, as well as ongoing ethical concerns in bioarchaeological practice. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS AR 369 Indigenous Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to Indigenous archaeology, which seeks to realize a more ethical engagement with Indigenous communities by conducting research "with, for, and by" Indigenous descendant communities. Reviews key theoretical frameworks (e.g., traditional knowledge systems, collaboration, repatriation) and explores the ways this approach is being put into action through case studies. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub area: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS AR 390 The Archaeology of Southeast Asia
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Examines the evidence for prehistoric and historic cultural sequences across Southeast Asia, presented chronologically and comparatively. Topics include emergent complexity, trade networks, urbanism, metallurgy, public architecture, the rise and fall of early states, the ethics of maritime archaeology and the international antiquities market, and the complex politics of cultural heritage management issues. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS AR 395 The Politics of the Past: Archaeology, Museums, and Identity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Historical exploration of the interplay among political/nationalistic pressures and the design, implementation, and interpretation of archaeological research and its public presentation through publications, museum exhibitions, and international expositions. Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AR 480 Archaeological Ethics and the Law
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - In this course students examine archaeology and professional ethics; archaeology as public interest; legal organization of archaeology; international approaches to heritage management; looting, collecting and the antiquities market; maritime law and underwater archaeology; cultural resource management in the United States. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Ethical Reasoning.
CAS AR 592 Archaeological Ethics and Law
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - In this course students examine archaeology and professional ethics; archaeology as public interest; legal organization of archaeology; international approaches to heritage management; looting, collecting and the antiquities market; maritime law and underwater archaeology; cultural resource management in the United States. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Ethical Reasoning.
CAS AR 595 Professional Futures in Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
A degree in archaeology can get you in the door at museums, the National Park Service, US Customs and other federal agencies, research laboratories, international NGO's, organizations focused on international art law, historical site management, heritage tourism -- and more. For such careers, you need skills that allow you to build on your understanding of archaeological remains and techniques, communicate to a wider public, and create pathways that link subjects and remains of the past to interests and needs in the present. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS AR 795 The Politics of the Past: Archaeology, Museums, and Identity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - Historical exploration of the interplay among political/nationalistic pressures and the design, implementation, and interpretation of archaeological research and its public presentation through publications, museum exhibitions, and international expositions. Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS AR 892 Archaeological Ethics and Law
4 credits.
In this course students examine archaeology and professional ethics; archaeology as public interest; legal organization of archaeology; international approaches to heritage management; looting, collecting and the antiquities market; maritime law and underwater archaeology; cultural resource management in the United States. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Ethical Reasoning.
CAS BI 306 Biology of Global Change
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI107) Recommended: CASCH101 or CASCH171. - The ecological impacts of human activity on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Climate change, forest decline, eutrophication, acidification, loss of species diversity, and restoration of ecosystems. Three hours lecture, three hours lab. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 309 Evolution
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI107 & CASBI108) or equivalent. - Introduction to modern concepts, controversies, and analytical approaches in evolutionary biology. Topics include adaptation, natural and sexual selection, species and speciation, phylogenetics, comparative analysis, basic population and quantitative genetics, origin of novelty, adaptive radiation, development and evolution. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Ethical Reasoning.
CAS BI 309S Evolution
4 credits.
Introduction to modern concepts, controversies, and analytical approaches in evolutionary biology. Topics include adaptation, natural and sexual selection, species and speciation, phylogenetics, comparative analysis, basic population and quantitative genetics, origin of novelty, adaptive radiation, development, and evolution. Students must attend both lecture and discussion. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Ethical Reasoning.
CAS BI 407 Animal Behavior
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI107) or equivalent. - Ethological approach to animal behavior; physiological, ontogenic, and phylogenic causes; and adaptive significance of behavior examined within an evolutionary framework, minimally including humans. Three hours lecture, three hours lab. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 407S Animal Behavior
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI107) or equivalent. - Ethological approach to animal behavior; physiological, ontogenic, and phylogenic causes; and adaptive significance of behavior examined within an evolutionary framework, minimally including humans. Students must register for two sections: lecture and laboratory. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 410S Developmental Biology
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CAS BI 203) or equivalent or consent of instructor. Contemporary aspects of embryonic development, drawing from current literature. Emphasis on the use of experimental approaches to address topics such as polarity in the egg, body axis specification, embryonic patterning, and organogenesis. Students must register for two sections: lecture and discussion.
CAS BI 448 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI303 OR CASBI306) or consent of instructor. - The study of biological diversity and modern methods to protect endangered plant and animal species. The environment, population, and genetic and human factors that affect the survival of species are examined for temperate and tropical communities, as well as terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS BI 525 Biology of Neurodegenerative Diseases
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASNE102 & CASNE203) and NE major; and junior or senior standing. - An in-depth look at molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and their impact and relevance in clinical diagnosis and treatment. Topics include the molecular pathways of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Creuztfeldt-Jacob Disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 525S Biology of Neurodegenerative Diseases
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequsites: (CAS NE 102 or CAS BI 203) and (CAS NE 203 or CAS BI 325). An in-depth look at molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and their impact and relevance in clinical diagnosis and treatment. Topics include the molecular pathways of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Students must register for two sections: lecture and discussion. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 535 Translational Research in Alzheimer's Disease
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI203 OR CASNE102) AND (CASBI325 OR CASNE203). - An introduction to translational research focused on the search for new therapeutic targets in Alzheimer's disease. Emphasis on the development of cellular and animal models for preclinical research, and on past and current clinical trials in Alzheimer's patients. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 572 Advanced Genetics
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI206 & CASBI203) CAS BI 552 is recommended. - An in-depth study of eukaryotic genetics, ranging from the history and basic principles to current topics and modern experimental approaches. Genetics of Drosophila, C. elegans, mice, and humans are explored in detail, including readings from primary literature. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS BI 594S Topics in Biology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Topic for Summer 2020: The Neurobiology of Consciousness and Evolution of Language. Prereq: Any college-level neuroscience, psychology, or physiology course. Explores the neuroscience of imagination from neurons to memory to neurological control of novel conscious experiences. Covers what makes the brain and human language unique as well as the selectional forces that shaped the brains of our ancestors. Students must attend both lecture and discussion.
CAS BI 607 Animal Behavior
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Research and Information Literacy
Ethological approach to animal behavior. Physiological, ontogenic, and phylogenic causes and adaptive significance of behavior are examined within an evolutionary framework, minimally including humans. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 607S Animal Behavior
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Research and Information Literacy
Prereq: (CAS BI 107) or equivalent. Ethological approach to animal behavior; physiological, ontogenic, and phylogenic causes; and adaptive significance of behavior examined within an evolutionary framework, minimally including humans. Students must register for two sections: lecture and laboratory. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 648 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
4 credits.
The study of biological diversity and modern methods to protect endangered plant and animal species. The environment, population, and genetic and human factors that affect the survival of species are examined for temperate and tropical communities, as well as terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS CC 202 Core Humanities 4: Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernity
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS CC 101 or WR 120). - IIn this fourth semester of Core humanities, we explore works of philosophy and literature that interrogate Enlightenment and Romantic ideals of social hierarchy, what it means to know, the relations of subjectivity to reason, and how freedom can be found. Works by Voltaire, Kant, Austen, Shelley, the English Romantic Poets, Beethoven, Goethe, Whitman, Dickinson, and Douglass are included. We cross the threshold of the twentieth century with drama by Chekhov, the perspectivism of Nietzsche, and a critique of inequality by W.E.B. Du Bois. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Writing- Intensive Course..
CAS CI 269 Representations of the Holocaust in Literature and Film
4 credits.
How can we understand the impact of the Holocaust and its ongoing legacies' Holocaust representation in literature, film and memorials, including discussions of bystander complicity and societal responsibilities, testimonial and fictive works by Wiesel and Levi, documentaries and feature films. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS CI 319 Disability and Queerness in Speculative Fiction
4 credits.
This course examines how LGBTQ2IA speculative fiction engages with disability and other intersecting frameworks of difference to present alternate, parallel, or invented worlds. This course provides opportunities for students to strengthen ethical reasoning, cultural analysis, and aesthetic exploration. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS CI 353 Stalin's Crimes: Gulag and Genocide
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar CAS WR 100 or 120 or equivalent. - History, poetry and prose written in the genocidal conditions of Stalinist Russia, when the revolutionary euphoria and artistic innovation of the 1920s came up against the political repression and violence of the modern totalitarian state. Readings and films from some of the greatest poets, directors and prose writers of the 20th century display the richness of modern Russian literature as well as the complex interplay of political power, cinema and the written word, of murderous history and the creative imagination, during the Ukraine famine-genocide and the gulags. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS CI 365 Modern Korean Culture through Cinema (in English translation)
4 credits.
Introduction to Korean Cinema from the early 20th century to the present. Discussion and essays on ethics of representation, colonialism, wars, state violence against citizens, psychological violence, sexual violence. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS CL 121 What Is a Good Life' Ancient Wisdom and Modern Insights
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Close examination of literary and philosophical texts from the ancient world and modern psychology that address the question of what constitutes a good life. Themes include: selfhood and the pursuit of happiness, individualism and communities, love, and health. All texts in translation. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS CL 121S What is a Good Life' Ancient Wisdom and Modern Insights
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Close examination of literary and philosophical texts from the ancient world and modern psychology that address the question of what constitutes a good life. Themes include selfhood and the pursuit of happiness, individualism and communities, love, and health. All texts in translation. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS CL 224 Greek Drama in Translation
4 credits.
The history and development of ancient Greek theater; study of important plays in the genres of tragedy, comedy, and satyr drama by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 229 Roman Comedy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Selected plays. Explores the Roman adaptation of Greek comic forms, the development of a Roman point of view, practical aspects of staging plays, and the influence of early Roman comedy on later literature. All texts in translation. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CL 300 The Age of Pericles
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCL101 OR CASCL321) or consent of instructor. - History, literature, and culture of Athens during the mid-fifth century BCE. Development of the empire, the rise of democracy, the Sophistic movement, tragedy, the construction of the Parthenon and other monuments. Readings (in translation) from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, and fragmentary sources. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CL 303 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCL102 OR CASCL322) or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - The causes and consequences of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Topics include Romans and barbarians; the rise and spread of Christianity; Constantine the Great; the death of classic paganism; theories of decline; the grand strategy of the Roman Empire; monasticism; the emergence of Byzantium and Constantinople; the origins of Islam; and the transformation of classical art, literature, and thought and their influence on Christianity. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS CS 519 Spark! Software Engineering X-Lab Practicum
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCS411 OR CDSDS310) or equiv. experience in software development and consent of instructor . - Consent provided upon successful completion of pass/fail diagnostic test that assesses student readiness to take the course. This course offers students in computing disciplines the opportunity to apply their programming and system development skills by working on real-world projects provided from partnering organizations within and outside of BU, which are curated by Spark! The course offers a range of project options where students can improve their technical skills, while also gaining the soft skills necessary to deliver projects aligned to the partner's goals. These include teamwork and communications skills and software development processes. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CS 549 Spark! Machine Learning X-Lab Practicum
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCS505 OR CASCS542 OR CASCS585) or consent of instructor. Consent provided upon successful completion of pass/fail diagnostic test that will assess student readiness to tak e the course. - The Spark! Practicum offers students in computing disciplines the opportunity to apply their knowledge in algorithms, inferential analytics, and software development by working on real-world projects provided from partnering organizations within BU and from outside. The course offers a range of project options where students can improve their technical skills, while also gaining the soft skills necessary to deliver projects aligned to the partner's goals. These include teamwork and communications skills and software development processes. All students participating in the course are expected to complete a project focused on an application of inferential analytics or machine learning, including a final presentation to the partner organization. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EC 101 Introductory Microeconomic Analysis
4 credits.
The first semester of a standard two-semester sequence for those considering further work in management or economics. Coverage includes economics of households, business firms, and markets; consumer behavior and the demand for commodities; production, costs, and the supply of commodities; price determination; competition and monopoly; efficiency of resource allocation; governmental regulation; income distribution; and poverty. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking. In 2019-20 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS EC 101S Introductory Microeconomic Analysis
4 credits.
The first semester of a standard two-semester sequence is for those considering further work in management or economics. Coverage includes the economics of households, business firms, and markets; consumer behavior and the demand for commodities; production, costs, and the supply of commodities; price determination; competition and monopoly; efficiency of resource allocation; governmental regulation; income distribution; and poverty. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS EC 320 Economics of Less-Developed Regions
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC101 & CASEC102) - Theoretical and empirical examination of the structural changes associated with the process of economic development; special reference to poor regions and countries; rigorous analysis of criteria for policy judgments in developing planning and programming. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II.
CAS EC 320S Economics of Less-Developed Regions
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC101 & CASEC102) - Theoretical and empirical examination of the structural changes associated with the process of economic development; special reference to poor regions and countries; rigorous analysis of criteria for policy judgments in development planning and programming.
CAS EC 333 Market Organization and Public Policy
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC201 OR CASEC332) - Introduction to antitrust and regulatory policy. Studies sources of market inefficiency and historical and current policy towards topics such as collusion, merger, monopolization, and regulatory treatment of competition issues. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS EC 337 Economic Analysis of Legal Issues
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC201) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Economic analysis of current important legal issues. Contributions of economics to analysis of contracts, torts property, and crime. Effects of property rights on allocation of resources and distribution of income. Market and nonmarket schemes of regulating the environment. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EC 337S ECON: LEGAL ISS
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC201) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - ECON: LEGAL ISS
CAS EC 371 Environmental Economics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC201) - Role of economics in environmental planning. Economic analysis of the causes of pollution and its control through taxes, the use of property rights, and standards. Application of cost-benefit models as an aid in policy decisions affecting the environment. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EC 371S Environmental Economics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEC201) - Role of economics in environmental planning. Economic analysis of the causes of pollution and its control through taxes, the use of property rights, and standards. Application of cost-benefit models as an aid in policy decisions affecting the environment. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EE 100 Environmental Change and Sustainability
4 credits.
Introduces the distinctive ways that environmental change and sustainability are studied across the environmental social sciences and humanities, focusing on the contested meanings as much as material realities and policy responses to global challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EE 100S Environmental Change and Sustainability
4 credits.
Introduces the distinctive ways that environmental change and sustainability are studied across the environmental social sciences and humanities, focusing on the contested meanings as much as material realities and policy responses to global challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EE 142 Introduction to Beach and Shoreline Processes
4 credits.
Coastal processes including tidal currents, wave action, longshore transport, and estuarine circulation; barrier island and spit formation; study of beaches, dunes, and marshes; effects of tectonics, glaciers, and rivers on beaches and coastal morphology. Cape Cod field trip. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS EE 144 Introduction to Oceanography
4 credits.
Undergraduate Corequisites: (CASMR144)is required of all Marine Science majors registering for CAS EE 144. - Examines the physical, geological, chemical, and biological processes that govern that oceans with a focus on how the ocean is impacted by and also moderates the pace of global change. Dynamic nature of the oceans on both a short- and a long-term scale is emphasized. Marine Science majors are required to register for co-req CAS MR 144 as well. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS EE 144S Introduction to Oceanography
4 credits.
Undergraduate Corequisites: (CASMR144)is required of all Marine Science majors registering for CAS EE 144. - Examines the physical, geological, chemical, and biological processes that govern the oceans with a focus on how the ocean is impacted by and also moderates the pace of global change. Dynamic nature of the oceans on both a short- and a long-term scale is emphasized. Carries natural science divisional credit (without lab) in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS EE 230 Environmental Humanities and Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Ethical Reasoning Writing-Intensive Course
Pre- Requisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Introduces students to Environmental Humanities as an interdisciplinary field exploring our understandings of diverse social, cultural, and aesthetic relationships to lived environments, environmental change, and environmental justice. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, Ethical Reasoning, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS EE 328E Australia Global Environment
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Study Abroad enrollment.
CAS EE 385 Israel and the Environment
4 credits.
Natural, social, and political factors in Israeli environmental resource management, impact on vulnerable populations, and opportunities for post- conflict, cross-border cooperation, environmental justice, and equitable division of scarce resources. Considers possibilities for a new paradigm in Middle Eastern sustainable development. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II.
CAS EE 387 Environmental Law in Israel and the Mediterranean
4 credits.
Principles, theories and tools for environmental law and regulation, and implementation through cases in Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean. Through case studies, students critically analyze a range of environmental issues: nature protection, air pollution, marine protection, climate change and more. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS EE 585 Ecological Forecasting and Informatics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASBI 303 or BI 306; CASMA 121 or MA 123; CASMA 115 or MA 213 or CASEE 375; or consent of instructor. - The statistics and informatics of model-data fusion and forecasting: data management, workflows, Bayesian statistics, uncertainty analysis, fusing multiple data sources, assessing model performance, scenario development, decision analysis, and data assimilation. Case studies highlight ecological forecasting across a range of subdisciplines. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EE 594 Global Environmental Negotiation and Policy
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - Provides an overview of key actors, issues, and treaties in global environmental governance, paying particular attention to historical and contemporary differences in perspectives and interests of industrialized and developing countries. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II.
CAS EN 125 Reading Modern Literature
4 credits.
Introduces key concepts for understanding major developments in modern literature. Readings in poetry, drama and fiction from varying traditions, designed to motivate an interest in some of the most engaging, and challenging, works of our time. Topics vary by instructor. In the 2018-19 Academic year, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing- Intensive Course. In the 19-20 academic year, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS EN 125S Reading Modern Literature
4 credits.
Introduces key concepts for understanding major developments in modern literature. Readings in poetry, drama, and fiction from varying traditions, designed to motivate an interest in some of the most engaging, and challenging, works of our time. Topics vary by instructor. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing- intensive Course.
CAS EN 130 Science/Fiction
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: None - Through readings in British and/or American literature, an exploration of some of the following topics: science and technology as literary themes; historical construction of science and art; similarities and differences between literary and scientific methods; the development of science fiction. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning, Writing-Intensive Course. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS EN 130S Science/Fiction
4 credits.
Through readings in British and/or American literature, an exploration of some of the following topics: science and technology as literary themes; historical construction of science and art; similarities and differences between literary and scientific methods; the development of science fiction. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning, Writing-Intensive Course. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS EN 141 Introduction to Fiction
4 credits.
Introduces critical concepts for analyzing works of fiction. Readings in different periods, genres, and traditions, ranging from canonical masterpieces to unheralded literary gems, aimed to cultivate an appetite for the pleasures, and rigors, of narrative art. Topics vary by instructor. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS EN 141S Introduction to Fiction
4 credits.
Introduces critical concepts for analyzing works of fiction. Readings in different periods, genres, and traditions, ranging from canonical masterpieces to unheralded literary gems, aimed to cultivate an appetite for the pleasures, and rigors, of narrative art. Topics vary by instructor. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same number that was previously titled "Literary Types: Fiction." Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS EN 162 The Ethics of Art
4 credits.
Does art make you good' How does it shape our values and sense of justice' Ancient thinkers (Plato, Horace) and modern theorists (Wollstonecraft, Wilde), followed by contemporary case studies. Topics may include propaganda, body aesthetics, animals, disability, pornography, graffiti, censorship. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS EN 180 Post-Apocalyptic Narratives
4 credits.
Why is contemporary culture drawn to stories of zombies, social collapse, and environmental disaster' What fascinates us about dystopia' Stories, novels, graphic novels, film, and television all examined to explore questions of narrative, interpretation, genre, politics, "high" vs. "popular" culture. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS EN 230 Environmental Humanities and Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Ethical Reasoning Writing-Intensive Course
Pre- Requisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Introduces students to Environmental Humanities as an interdisciplinary field exploring our understandings of diverse social, cultural, and aesthetic relationships to lived environments, environmental change, and environmental justice. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, Ethical Reasoning, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS EN 343 Modern Irish Writers
4 credits.
Readings in Irish fiction, drama, and poetry, with attention to historical context, aesthetics forms, and values, from 1890 to the present, by such writers as Wilde, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Joyce, Bowen, Beckett, Heaney, Boland, Muldoon, and Carr. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS EN 357 Modern British Drama: A Critic's Perspective
4 credits.
This course offers an aesthetic and ethical understanding of postwar and contemporary British drama, as well as the interpretation of its literary genres, plus knowledge of critical tools -- including journalistic reviewing skills -- for the analysis of current shows. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 357E Modern British Drama
4 credits.
Offers a broad study of major developments in British drama over the past fifty years as they relate to British society. The work of specific writers is analyzed in detail. Prerequisites: advanced (junior or senior) standing; previous coursework in British drama, British literature, or theatre arts. Enrollment is limited to 15 students. A course fee will be charged in London to cover the costs of theatre excursions.
CAS EN 548 Joyce and After
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - Readings in transatlantic modernism (Irish, British, American) from 1922 forward. Joyce's Ulysses is central. Other readings from authors such as James Baldwin, Alison Bechdel, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bishop, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, and Virginia Woolf. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS HI 207 Game of Thrones: Power and Politics in Pre-Modern Europe
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness
This course employs medieval and early modern authors, as well as contemporary scholars, as vehicles for understanding the dynamics of power, gender, violence and politics in George Martin's novel, Game of Thrones. Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS HI 207S Game of Thrones: Power and Politics in Pre-Modern Europe
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness
This course employs medieval and early modern authors, as well as contemporary scholars, as vehicles for understanding the dynamics of power, gender, violence, and politics in George Martin's novel, Game of Thrones. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS HI 209 The Reformation: Religious Conflict in Early Modern Europe
4 credits.
Examines religious change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, particularly the origins and causes of the Protestant Reformation, the parallel Catholic Reformation, and the consequent military conflicts in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Also offered as CAS RN 310. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS HI 209S The Reformation: Religious Conflict in Early Modern Europe
4 credits.
Examines religious change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, particularly the origins and causes of the Protestant Reformation, the parallel Catholic Reformation, and the consequent military conflicts in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Also offered as CAS RN 310. Effective Spring 2024 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS HI 228 Nationalism in Spain within the European Context
4 credits.
This course examines peripheral nationalist movements in Spain -Catalu¿a, Galicia and Basque Country- and its political, social, economic, and cultural implications. These identities are also studied from a wider European perspective with references to the political situation in the USA. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS HI 228S HIST MOD DIPLOM
4 credits.
NATIONLSM SPAIN
CAS HI 271 The Nazis
4 credits.
Explores the rise and fall of Europe's most notorious mass movement through film, diaries, party documents, and other sources. Considers the impact of Nazi rule on art, finance, politics, and family life. Analyzes the mass murder and destruction caused by Nazi rule. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 305 American Thought and Culture, 1776-1900
4 credits.
History 305 examines how major American thinkers and intellectual movements of the "long nineteenth century" constructed an "exceptional" national identity by adjusting their culture's provincial Protestant and Enlightenment traditions to the challenges of transnational democratic, Romantic, and secular modes of thinking. Specific topics include Transcendentalism, evangelical and liberal Protestantism, pro- and anti- slavery arguments about "freedom," race and gender theory, philosophical idealism, literary realism, scientific Darwinism, and evolutionary social science. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 306 American Thought and Culture, 1900 to the Present
4 credits.
History 306 examines American thought in the 20th century when thinkers anointed their times "modern" and themselves "modernists" in revolt against the moral certainties and progressivist faiths of the 19th century. Four discourses driving this turn are spotlighted in the course's first half: philosophical pragmatism, social science relativism, non-rational modern art, and debates over America's role in the world. In the second half we consider post-World II conservative, multicultural, and postmodernist challenges to modernist norms in science, religion, liberal politics, and popular culture. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 331 Drugs and Security in the Americas
4 credits.
(Meets with CAS IR 290). Drug trafficking has become a dominant issue in U.S.- Latin American relations. This class examines the War on Drugs from both U.S. and Latin American perspectives in order to draw out racial, socio-economic, political, and gender-based dimensions and explore alternatives. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS HI 347 Bodies, Drugs, and Healing: A Global History of Medicine
4 credits.
An introduction to the history of medicine in global contexts, offering a broad perspective on the ways that bodies, healers, drugs, and health have been conceptualized, from antiquity to the present day, in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS HI 449 The History of Soviet Terror
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: sophomore standing. - Examines how terror became a tool of revolutionary transformation in the USSR, one which first strengthened, then unseated Soviet state power. Explores how Soviet people experienced and participated in such violence as a part of their everyday lives. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS HI 460 Animals in America
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Examines the place of animals in North American culture and society from pre- colonial times to the twentieth century, to shed light on popular beliefs, social relationships, environmental change, and politics. From hunting to husbandry, pet keeping to popular entertainment, we will look at animals to understand larger trends in American history. Topics include pigs in New York City, Jumbo the Elephant, and Bambi. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS HI 526 Poverty and Democracy: Modern India and the United States in Comparative Perspective
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Through an examination of historical, empirical, and journalistic evidence, students examine the peculiar and pernicious nature of modern and contemporary poverty in the context of two large democracies, India and the United States. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II.
CAS HI 559 Wars, Peace, and Diplomacy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Why do wars occur' What constitutes peace' How is peace maintained or lost' What are the virtues and deficiencies of diplomacy as practitioners have implemented it' How do memory, justice, and the requirements of security interact in the international arena' Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS HI 609 Christendom Divided: Reformation and Religious Conflict in Early Modern Europe
4 credits.
Examines religious change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, particularly the origins and causes of the Protestant Reformation, the parallel Catholic Reformation, and the consequent military conflicts in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Also offered as CAS RN 310. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS HI 705 American Thought and Culture, 1776 to 1900
4 credits.
Examines how intellectuals constructed an "exceptional" American identity by adjusting provincial Protestant and Enlightenment traditions to the challenges of transnational democratic, Romantic, and secular thought. Topics include Transcendentalism, pro- and anti-slavery movements, philosophical idealism, literary realism, and Darwinian theories. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 706 American Thought and Culture, 1900 to the Present
4 credits.
Investigates how American thinkers brought about an intellectual revolution in three challenging moments: the naturalist revolt in pragmatic philosophy and modern art; progressive liberals' confrontations with radicalism and new conservatisms; and post-structuralists' uncertain leap beyond modernist science, religion, and humanities. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course entitled "Intellectual History of the United States, 1900 to the Present" that was previously numbered GRS HI 706. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 234 Fundamentals of Strategic Intelligence
4 credits.
What do intelligence agencies do and why' Intelligence is a crucial but widely misunderstood element of foreign policy decision making. Addresses intelligence gathering, analysis, and covert action, as well as key legal and ethical issues. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS IR 242 Globalization and World Poverty
4 credits.
Addresses enduring global poverty and race, ethnic, gender, and class inequalities, especially in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Focuses on colonialism and post-colonialism, strategies of development, urbanization, immigration, religion, politics, women, drugs, social justice, and health issues. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS IR 290 Drugs and Security in the Americas
4 credits.
(Meets with CAS HI 331). Drug trafficking has become a dominant issue in U.S.- Latin American relations. This class examines the War on Drugs from both U.S. and Latin American perspectives in order to draw out racial, socio-economic, political, and gender-based dimensions and explore alternatives. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS IR 305E COMP EUROPE POL
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Paris Internship Program. - COMP EUROPE POL
CAS IR 306E INTL HUM RIGHTS
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Dublin Internship Program. First Year Writing Semina r (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - INTL HUM RIGHTS
CAS IR 311 Climate Change and Development Policy
4 credits.
Explores global and regional policy responses to the twin challenges of sustainable development and adaptation to climate change from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Critically examines existing policies and radical alternatives to these challenges at global, regional and national scales. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 311S Climate Change and Development Policy
4 credits.
Explores global and regional policy responses to the twin challenges of sustainable development and adaptation to climate change from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Critically examines existing policies and radical alternatives to these challenges at global, regional and national scales. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 347 Causes of War and Peace
4 credits.
War is the most destructive social act in which humanity engages. Why does war happen' This question is addressed by focusing on a variety of scholarly explanations. Theoretical discussions are paired with an examination of historical cases. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS IR 347S Causes of War and Peace
4 credits.
War is the most destructive social act in which humanity engages. Why does war happen' This question is addressed by focusing on a variety of scholarly explanations. Theoretical discussions are paired with an examination of historical cases.
CAS IR 352 International Human Rights: Applying Human Rights in Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Meets with CAS PO 378. Studies the growing international influence on politics of human rights principles, documents, and organizations, drawing especially on African cases such as Congo, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The class explores the relationship between civil and political rights and economic, social, and culture rights. We consider debates over claims of universality vs. cultural relativism, individual vs. group rights, and ways to improve human rights enforcement well respecting local cultures. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 352S International Human Rights
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Studies the growing international influence on politics of human rights principles, documents, and organizations, drawing especially on African cases such as Congo, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. Topics include universality vs. cultural relativism, individual vs. group rights, and issues in human rights enforcement.
CAS IR 353 Nuclear Security
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Meets with CAS PO 356. Provides students with the foundation for understanding nuclear security in the twenty-first century. Emphasis on the American Cold War experience, the growing threat of nuclear proliferation, the renaissance of civilian nuclear power, safeguards, and nuclear weapons under budget constraints. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 354 Gender & Global Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to gender and global politics, across both developing and advanced industrial democracies. Focuses on political and economic underpinnings of gender inequality. Students propose and analyze policy solutions to address political gender inequality around the globe using data and cases. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 361E POLICYMAKNG
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the London Internship Program. - POLICY MAKING
CAS IR 378 Intelligence in a Democratic Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASIR271) - The intelligence process and its role in democratic societies; the organization and functions of the U.S. intelligence community; techniques of intelligence collection, analysis, counterintelligence and covert action; assessment of problems and attempted solutions in the United States and other democracies. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 378S Intelligence in a Democratic Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASIR271) - The intelligence process and its role in democratic societies; the organization and functions of the U.S. intelligence community; techniques of intelligence collection, analysis, counterintelligence and covert action; assessment of problems and attempted solutions in the United States and other democracies.
CAS IR 379 Civil-Military Relations: Theory and Practice
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Examines the tension between political leadership and the military force in the U.S. and the world. Students analyze civil-military relations theory and history, and the responsibilities of the military, civilian leadership, and the public. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 391E Democratization
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Washington, DC Internship Program. - DEMOCRACY 21STC. Effective Fall 2023 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Creativity/Innovation, Social Inquiry I.
CAS IR 444E The Activities of International Organizations
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: admission to the Geneva Internship Program. -
The purpose of this course is to examine and problematize the way in which international organizations, governmental and non-governmental alike but the United Nations in particular, have shaped international relations and international law. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS IR 505 Arms Control and Proliferation of Weapons
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar ( e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Examines why and how arms control, disarmament, and non-proliferation have become important issues in modern diplomacy. Analyzes the progress made in concluding global and regional agreements, verification and compliance techniques, and their role in post-Cold War security issues. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II.
CAS IR 516 Intelligence and Homeland Security
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication
Introduces students to the interplay of intelligence and homeland security by answering questions such as: Who threatens' How and why do they threaten' Who protects the homeland' How do they protect us' What ethical framework should we apply' Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS IR 525 21st Century Deterrence: Nuclear, Space, Cyber
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - Examines the challenges of deterrence in an era of multipolarity, proliferation, and technological change, with a particular focus on nuclear weapons, the militarization of space and cyber warfare. Analyzes strategic planning and posture reviews and their consequences for deterring adversaries. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 526 National and Homeland Security Law
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: limited to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) and CAS IR 271. - This course examines national and homeland security law as the balance between the state's requirement for security juxtaposed against civil liberties. We study the Constitution, judicial cases, and other primary sources focusing on specific topic areas. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS IR 544 Solving Humanitarian Crises
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar ( e.g., CAS WR 100 or WR 120). - Humanitarian crises inflict vast suffering on people, upend economies, and threaten regional stability. This course investigates how diplomacy involving diverse stakeholders and tools can support solutions, even when conflicts evade comprehensive resolution, focusing on the Syrian and Rohingya refugee crises. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS IR 557 Guerrilla Warfare and Terrorism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Why do terrorists do what they do' How can their threat by reduced' The course examines the history and evolution of political terrorism, assesses terrorists' motivations and "marketing," and explores risk factors ranging from the global to the personal level. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS IR 559 Leadership and Cultural Change in Large Organizations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - Analyzes the determinants of successful leadership and the importance of diversity in large organizations, with focus on how to transform dysfunctional cultures. Using military and corporate case studies, addresses how to identify root causes of problems and impediments to change. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 566 History of Deportation & Border Security in the Americas
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the U.S. has deported over 10 million Latin Americans. Drawing on history, anthropology, sociology, and films, this course explores how certain people--mostly Latin Americans--came to be considered deportable over time. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS IR 573 Seminar in Public International Law
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - Overview of the rules, principles, and institutions of public international law. Surveys the basic doctrinal architecture of the field and examines rapidly developing subfields and controversies. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS IR 573S Introduction to Public International Law
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - The role of international law in efforts to solve current problems of world order. Emphasis on environmental protection and the regulation of ocean space and resources. The role of law in conflict and cooperation, and the quest for international security.
CAS IR 581 The Evolution of Strategic Intelligence
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: limited to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) and CAS IR 271. - With emphasis on U.S. intelligence activities from the American Revolution through the Cold War, IR 581 examines various aspects of intelligence practices, principles, organizations, activities, and events and the impact intelligence has had on global events. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS IR 581S EVOL/STRAT INT
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: limited to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) and CAS IR 271. - STRATEGIC INTEL
CAS IR 583 Strategies of Defense Planning
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: open to juniors and seniors in International Relations and Political S cience who have completed the First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or 120) and Writing, Research & Inquiry (WR 150, 151, 152). - It is highly-recommended that students have previously taken a 200 or 300-level IR course. Students who have not met these requirements need instructor approval to take this course. Addresses principles and practices of U.S. defense planning. Investigates how the Department of Defense receives and develops strategic direction, builds military capability and executes operational missions. Examines the requirements, acquisition, and resource allocation process for new weapon systems. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing- Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS IR 591 Political Economy of Gender Inequality
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior or senior standing; or consent of instructor. - Gender inequality is an enduring social phenomenon, despite variation over time and place. This course analyzes the political, economic, and social dimensions of gender inequality. It follows a comparative approach, focusing particularly on empirical analysis while also addressing fundamental normative issues of fairness. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 594 Global Environmental Negotiation and Policy
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - Provides an overview of key actors, issues, and treaties in global environmental governance, paying particular attention to historical and contemporary differences in perspectives and interests of industrialized and developing countries. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II.
CAS IR 660 Rwanda: Genocide and Its Aftermath
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Freshman Writing Seminar. - Explores the factors that led to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, how Rwanda compares to other cases of genocide and extreme violence, and the efforts in post-genocide Rwanda to rebuild, pursue justice, and promote reconciliation. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS JS 260 The Holocaust
4 credits.
Rise of German (and European) antisemitism; rise of Nazism; 1935 Nuremberg Laws; the initial Jewish reaction; racial theory; organizing mass murder including ghettos, concentration camps, killing squads, and gas chambers; bystanders and collaborators (countries, organizations, and individuals); Jewish resistance; post-Holocaust religious responses; moral and ethical issues. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS JS 261 Representations of the Holocaust in Literature and Film
4 credits.
How can we understand the impact of the Holocaust and its ongoing legacies' Holocaust representation in literature, film and memorials, including discussions of bystander complicity and societal responsibilities, testimonial and fictive works by Wiesel and Levi, documentaries and feature films. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS JS 369 Primo Levi Within Holocaust Literature
4 credits.
Levi's writings employ scientific, literary, ethical, theological and philosophical approaches to the Holocaust. An examination of Levi's works both within the context of other writers such as Elie Wiesel, and within the practice of Holocaust testimony, ethics, and witnessing. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS JS 379 Islamophobia and Antisemitism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores historical and contemporary manifestations of Islamophobia and Antisemitism. Students are exposed to wide range of relevant written and visual texts as well as theoretical approaches. Includes active learning component and collaborative presentations by students. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS JS 380 Israeli Culture though Media
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH212) or equivalent. - An advanced Hebrew language course, which uses as its "textbook" Israeli newspapers, television, and online news media. Students follow current events in Israel (politics, business, sports, etc.); compare coverage in diverse outlets; speak and write knowledgeably about Israeli society. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS JS 385 Israel and the Environment
4 credits.
Natural, social, and political factors in Israeli environmental resource management, impact on vulnerable populations, and opportunities for post- conflict, cross-border cooperation, environmental justice, and equitable division of scarce resources. Considers possibilities for a new paradigm in Middle Eastern sustainable development. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning. Social Inquiry II.
CAS JS 387 Environmental Law in Israel and the Mediterranean
4 credits.
Principles, theories and tools for environmental law and regulation, and implementation through cases in Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean. Through case studies, students critically analyze a range of environmental issues: nature protection, air pollution, marine protection, climate change and more. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS JS 389 Archeology and Israeli Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: sophomore, junior, or senior standing. - In Israel, archaeology is part of current events. The study of remains from the Israelite to the Muslim conquests (c. 1200 BCE -- 640 CE) to learn how material evidence created and still plays a role in a larger historical drama. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS JS 416 Biblical Fakes and Forgeries
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Religion, philosophy, or archaeology majors or minors with junior or s enior standing, or consent of instructor. - Examines issues regarding forged documents and artifacts relating to the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. Examples of forgeries (alleged and certain) include: book of Daniel, Letter of Aristeas, Gnostic Gospels, Secret Gospel of Mark; forged Scrolls in museum collections. Proposed Edit: Examines forged documents and artifacts relating to Hebrew Bible and New Testament, probing historical and ethical questions they raise. Examples (alleged and certain forgeries) include: book of Daniel, Gnostic Gospels, Secret Gospel of Mark, and forged Dead Sea Scroll fragments. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS JS 460 Seminar on the Holocaust
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication
This course will examine historical, ethical and religious issues arising from the Holocaust. We will discuss antisemitism and ideology; what communities were considered "other"; human motivation regarding collaborators, perpetrators and bystanders; the role of individuals, organizations and governments; the treatment of women; the ethics of resistance; the behavior of the Jewish Councils; and attitudes to the existence of God during and after the Holocaust. We will also compare the Holocaust to contemporary crises now occurring around the world. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS LC 426 Chinese American Stories: History, Identity, and Community
4 credits.
Undergraduate prerequisite: two 300-level modern Chinese courses or consent of instructor. - When and why did certain Chinese people choose to immigrate to the US for a new life' What were their stories upon arrival' Students develop all language skills and communicative strategies to explore the Chinese American experience in Chinese. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LF 487 Topics in Memory & Monument
4 credits.
Through interdisciplinary, in-depth study, explores the history, legacy, and future of a single 'lieu de memoire'--an iconic 'site of memory' that serves as a cultural touchstone. Sources include manuscripts, architecture, literary texts, music, film, photography, and others. Taught in English. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LF 687 Topics in Memory & Monument
4 credits.
Through interdisciplinary, in-depth study, explores the history, legacy, and future of a single 'lieu de memoire'--an iconic 'site of memory' that serves as a cultural touchstone. Sources include manuscripts, architecture, literary texts, music, film, photography, and others. Taught in English.
CAS LG 463 German Theatre
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG350) or consent of instructor. - Masterpieces from the German theater viewed chronologically (from Lessing to the present) or according to a particular period. Development of the theater, history of acting. Relationship between genre (puppet theater, bourgeois and classical tragedy, comedy) and class. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LH 340 Israeli Culture though Media
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLH212) or consent of instructor. - An advanced Hebrew language course, which uses as its "textbook" Israeli newspapers, television, and online news media. Students follow current events in Israel (politics, business, sports, etc.); compare coverage in diverse outlets; speak and write knowledgeably about Israeli society. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS LI 459 Primo Levi Within Holocaust Literature
4 credits.
Levi's writings employ scientific, literary, ethical, theological and philosophical approaches to the Holocaust. An examination of Levi's works both within the context of other writers such as Elie Wiesel, and within the practice of Holocaust testimony, ethics and witnessing. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS LJ 441 Japanese through Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLJ303) - Analysis and discussion of authentic print, digital, visual, and social media while developing a high level of Japanese proficiency, and gaining knowledge of current issues and media literacy. Develops critical reading/viewing skills as well as communicative and intercultural proficiency. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS LK 383 Modern Korean Culture through Cinema (in English translation)
4 credits.
Introduction to Korean Cinema from the early 20th century to the present. Discussion and essays on ethics of representation, colonialism, wars, state violence against citizens, psychological violence, sexual violence. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS LK 440 Korean Conversation and Composition through Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLK312) or consent of instructor. - Intensive practice of both oral and written forms of Korean. Survey of important cultural, social, political, and economic issues in Korea as portrayed in films, television, and periodicals. Development of effective written and spoken communication. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS LR 353 Stalin's Crimes: Gulag and Genocide
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar CAS WR 100 or 120 or equivalent. - History, poetry and prose written in the genocidal conditions of Stalinist Russia, when the revolutionary euphoria and artistic innovation of the 1920s came up against the political repression and violence of the modern totalitarian state. Readings and films from some of the greatest poets, directors and prose writers of the 20th century display the richness of modern Russian literature as well as the complex interplay of political power, cinema and the written word, of murderous history and the creative imagination, during the Ukraine famine-genocide and the gulags. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS LS 548 Topics in Text/Image/Spectacle in the Hispanic World
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLS 350 and one CASLS 400-level course, or consent of instructor. - May be taken twice for credit if topics are different. Explores literature from the Spanish-speaking world and its relation to visual and performance art. Combines critical inquiry with creative practices to explore dynamics of influence, appropriation, and transformation across time and space. Topic for Fall 2025: The Middle Ages at the Movies. Investigates the history and legends of medieval Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal) and their modern film and television adaptations. Close readings of medieval and modern narratives about the Cid, Averroes, Inês de Castro, and Isabel I of Castile reveal a historical imagination at work. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation, Ethical Reasoning..
CAS LX 235 Language in the Contemporary World: Language, Society, and the Law
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Exploration of the role of human language in society, focusing on language in legal settings. Addresses governmental policy on language; language crimes such as perjury, solicitation, and bribery; the meaning of consent; and the linguistics of legal interpretation. Carries humanities divisional studies credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LX 391 Linguistic Field Methods
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLX250) or consent of instructor. - A team-based in-depth investigation of the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and lexicon of an African or other non-Indo-European language. Bi-weekly sessions with language consultant. Weekly trainings on methodology, ethics, analysis, and presentation of results. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LX 691 Linguistic Field Methods
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
A team-based in-depth investigation of the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and lexicon of an African or other non-Indo-European language. Bi-weekly sessions with language consultant. Weekly trainings on methodology, ethics, analysis, and presentation of results. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LY 420 Arabic Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY304) or consent of instructor. - This advanced Arabic language course builds skills in reading, listening, discussion, presentation, and composition while familiarizing students with a broad range of Arab online media, their coverage of current socio- political and cultural issues, and their impact on Arab public opinion. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS LY 720 Media Arabic
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY304) or consent of instructor. - This advanced Arabic language course builds skills in reading, listening, discussion, presentation, and composition while familiarizing students with a broad range of Arab online media, their coverage of current socio- political and cultural issues, and their impact on Arab public opinion. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS NE 102 Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Scientific Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - An introductory class examining the molecular and cellular mechanisms that govern a cell's life, including mechanisms of neuronal function and disease. Project labs are intertwined with lectures and focus on experimental modeling of Alzheimer's disease. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single Hub unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Writing- Intensive Course, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS NE 116 Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology with Integrated Science Experience 1 Lab
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Scientific Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCH101) and acceptance into the Integrated Science Experience (ISE). First Ye ar Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) ; Undergraduate Corequisites: (CASCH116) - Integration of general chemistry with biology and neuroscience, with an emphasis on how each discipline interacts experimentally. Laboratory focuses on projects relating to enzymes and their function. 3 lecture hours (meets with CAS NE 102 lecture), 3 hours lab. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS NE 525 Biology of Neurodegenerative Diseases
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASNE102 & CASBI203) and NE major; and junior or senior standing. - An in-depth look at molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and their impact and relevance in clinical diagnosis and treatment. Topics include the molecular pathways of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Creuztfeldt-Jacob Disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS NE 525S Biology of Neurodegenerative Diseases
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CAS NE 102 or CAS BI 203) and (CAS NE 203 or CAS BI 325). - An in-depth look at molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and their impact and relevance in clinical diagnosis and treatment. Topics include the molecular pathways of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Students must register for two sections: lecture and discussion. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS NE 535 Translational Research in Alzheimer's Disease
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASNE102 & CASNE203) and NE major; and junior or senior standing. - An introduction to translational research focused on the search for new therapeutic targets in Alzheimer's disease. Emphasis on the development of cellular and animal models for preclinical research, and on past and current clinical trials in Alzheimer's patients. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PH 100 Introduction to Philosophy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Introduces the nature of philosophical activity through careful study of major philosophical topics. Topics may include the nature of reality, knowledge, God's existence, and the significance of human life.Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking and Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meaning. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 100S Introduction to Philosophy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Introduces the nature of philosophical activity through careful study of major philosophical topics. Topics may include the nature of reality, knowledge, God's existence, and the significance of human life. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 150 Introduction to Ethics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
This course focuses on a set of interrelated questions about morality: What is morality? How should I live? What does morality require of us in our daily lives, if it requires anything at all? Are there any universal moral truths? Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 150S Introduction to Ethics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
This course focuses on a set of interrelated questions about morality: What is morality? How should I live? What does morality require of us in our daily lives, if it requires anything at all? Are there any universal moral truths? Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 155 Politics and Philosophy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
What is justice' What are the foundations of property rights, liberty, and equality' Are anarchism and utopianism defensible' This course is an introduction to major themes and questions in political philosophy. It includes a study of classical and modern texts, as well as contemporary political issues. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 155S Politics and Philosophy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Online offering. What is justice' What are the foundations of property rights, liberty, and equality' Are anarchism and utopianism defensible' This course is an introduction to major themes and questions in political philosophy. It includes a study of classical and modern texts, as well as contemporary political issues. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 248 Existentialism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one philosophy course or sophomore standing. - This course examines how existentialist thinkers grappled with some of the most problematic aspects of the human condition. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 248S Existentialism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one philosophy course or sophomore standing. - Examines how existentialist thinkers grappled with some of the most problematic aspects of the human condition. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 251 Medical Ethics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one philosophy course or sophomore standing. - This course will survey ethical issues that arise in connection with medicine and emerging biotechnologies. It will examine topics such as the right to healthcare, research on human subjects, euthanasia, abortion, cloning, genetic selection, disabilities, and the biomedical enhancement of human capacities. Students can expect to gain not only training in the concepts and methods of moral philosophy and the logic of argumentation, but also the resources needed for assessing ethically difficult questions that healthcare professionals routinely face. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 251E Medical Ethics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one philosophy course or sophomore standing. - Examination of a number of value problems arising within the context of medicine and health care. Particular ethical problems of euthanasia, abortion, human experimentation, reproduction, and allocation of scarce resources; critiques of contemporary medicine as an institution.
CAS PH 251S Medical Ethics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one philosophy course or sophomore standing. - Surveys ethical issues that arise in connection with medicine and emerging biotechnologies. Examines topics such as the right to healthcare, research on human subjects, euthanasia, abortion, cloning, genetic selection, disabilities, and the biomedical enhancement of human capacities. Students can expect to gain not only training in the concepts and methods of moral philosophy and the logic of argumentation, but also the resources needed for assessing ethically difficult questions that healthcare professionals routinely face. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 255S Law, Philosophy, and Society
4 credits.
Examines issues concerning law and its place in society, such as law's relation to democracy, the nature of constitutional rights, and legal (especially constitutional) interpretation. Readings include social theory and judicial opinions as well as more narrowly philosophical sources. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 300 History of Ancient Philosophy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one philosophy course or sophomore standing. First Year Writing Semina r (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - A survey of ancient Greek philosophy, with an emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. Topics will include: the fundamental nature of reality, how we know anything about it, wisdom, virtue, and human happiness. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PH 300S History of Ancient Philosophy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one philosophy course or sophomore standing. First Year Writing Semina r (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Prereq: one philosophy course or sophomore standing and First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120). A survey of ancient Greek philosophy, with an emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. Topics include the fundamental nature of reality, how we know anything about it, wisdom, virtue, and human happiness. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS PH 350 History of Ethics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one philosophy course or sophomore standing. - Are there fundamental principles for determining the right way to act ethically' How do different eras answer this question' What is the significance of these differences' This course addresses these questions by examining classical ethical texts from different historical traditions. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 350S History of Ethics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one philosophy course or sophomore standing. - A critical and comparative examination of the ideas of representative moral philosophers, including Plato, Kant, and John Dewey.
CAS PH 436 Gender, Race, and Science
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous PH courses, or consent of instructor. - The goal of this course is to come to a deeper understanding of the concepts of race and gender, the problematic roles they played in the history of philosophy and history of science, and what roles they still play today. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 436S Gender, Race, and Science
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous PH courses, or consent of instructor. - The goal of this course is to come to a deeper understanding of the concepts of race and gender, the problematic roles they played in the history of philosophy and history of science, and what roles they still play today. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 453 Classical to Early Modern Political Theory
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPH350) - Focuses on philosophical subjects relevant to ethics and politics, such as virtue and happiness; human nature and reason; qualifications of leadership; aims and means of civic education; and conceptions of law (man-made, natural, divine). Texts by Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 454 Community, Liberty, and Morality
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: and two other philosophy courses, or consent of instructor. - This course studies the relationship between liberalism and fascism, framed in light of the Foucauldian concept of “politics as war by other means.” What is power and how is it related to politics? What is fascism and when does a state count as becoming fascist? Liberalism vs. neoliberalism; ideal theory vs. non-ideal theory; freedom, rights, equality, democracy—what are they and what does it take to ensure they exist in the future? Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 191 Introduction to Political Theory
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate core course. Fundamental questions of political life are addressed by analyzing works of political philosophy. Historical and contemporary events and issues illustrate and complicate analysis of conceptions of authority, justice, liberty, and equality. Many definitions of government, law, and rights are considered. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 191S Introduction to Political Theory
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Major works of political philosophy are considered to address fundamental questions of political life. Looks at different conceptions of authority, justice, liberty, and equality, including how they justify and define government, law, and rights and how they pertain to current issues. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS.
CAS PO 225E POLICY MAKING
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the London Internship Program. - POLICY MAKING
CAS PO 242E The Activities of International Organizations
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: admission to the Geneva Internship Program. - The purpose of this course is to examine and problematize the way in which international organizations, governmental and non-governmental alike but the United Nations in particular, have shaped international relations and international law. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS PO 245E NATIONLSM SPAIN
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Madrid Spanish & European Studies Program. - NATIONLSM SPAIN
CAS PO 246E Democracy 21st Century
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Washington, DC Internship Program. - Effective Fall 2023 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Creativity/Innovation, Social Inquiry I.
CAS PO 248E COMP EUROPE POL
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Paris Internship Program. - COMP EUROPE POL
CAS PO 303 It's a Free Country: Civil Liberties in America
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
An accessible introduction to American civil liberties. Students will read a sampling of key Supreme Court cases about issues including speech, religion, privacy and equality. They will understand the key the debates, considerations, and decisions about old and new civil liberties challenges in the U.S. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 304 The Judicial Process
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPO111 OR CASPO141) or consent of instructor. - Introduction to the judicial process. Topics include the role of lawyers and judges, the structure of the court system, juries, and legal reasoning. Primarily intended for students who have little or no exposure to law courses. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 308 The Politics of Race and Ethnicity
4 credits.
Combining research from history, political science, sociology, and economics, this course examines the role of race and ethnicity in shaping American politics and policy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 308S The Politics of Race and Ethnicity
4 credits.
Definitional hypotheses of race and ethnicity based on cultural, sociological, and biological determinants tested against concrete examples of plural societies in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Correlations between racial/ethnic differentiation and sociopolitical stratification and cleavages examined. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 351.
CAS PO 313 The Politics and Policy of HBO's The Wire
4 credits.
HBO's television series The Wire is used to explore politics and policy. A number of interdisciplinary topics are covered, including the war on drugs, urban elections, bureaucracy, rational choice theory, and the decline of American cities. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 313S The Politics and Policy of HBO's The Wire
4 credits.
HBO's television series The Wire is used to explore politics and policy. A number of interdisciplinary topics are covered, including the war on drugs; urban policing and education policy; and race, politics, and poverty. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 316 Race and the Politics of Criminal Justice Policy
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPO111 OR CASPO141) - How many people are affected by the criminal justice system' What is the relationship between crime and race' What criminal justice policies, if any, should change' In this course, students grapple with these questions. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 316S Race and the Politics of Criminal Justice Policy
4 credits.
Online offering. Considers the following questions: How many people are affected by the criminal justice system' What is the relationship between crime and race' What criminal justice policies, if any, should change' Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 321 Foundations of American Public Policy
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPO 111 or 151). - This course investigates the social and political roots of US public policies. We use historical perspectives and social scientific analysis to shed light on the seemingly unique American solutions to pressing social and economic problems. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS PO 335 Gender & Global Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Introduction to gender and global politics, across both developing and advanced industrial democracies. Focuses on political and economic underpinnings of gender inequality. Students propose and analyze policy solutions to address political gender inequality around the globe using data and cases. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 336 Voting Rights
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS PO 111 or CAS PO 151 - Examines voting rights in the United States, including the social, legal, and political movements that have affected who has the right to vote; how that right is exercised; and current legal and political developments. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS PO 356 Nuclear Security
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Provides students with the foundation for understanding nuclear security in the twenty-first century. Emphasis on the American Cold War experience, the growing threat of nuclear proliferation, the renaissance of civilian nuclear power, safeguards, and nuclear weapons under budget constraints. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 357 Causes of War and Peace
4 credits.
War is the most destructive social act in which humanity engages. Why does war happen' This question is addressed by focusing on a variety of scholarly explanations. Theoretical discussions are paired with an examination of historical cases. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS PO 357S Causes of War and Peace
4 credits.
War is the most destructive social act in which humanity engages. Why does war happen' This question is addressed by focusing on a variety of scholarly explanations. Theoretical discussions are paired with an examination of historical cases.
CAS PO 378 International Human Rights: Applying Human Rights in Africa
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Meets with CAS IR 352. Studies the growing international influence on politics of human rights principles, documents, and organizations, drawing especially on African cases such as Congo, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The class explores the relationship between civil and political rights and economic, social, and culture rights. We consider debates over claims of universality vs. cultural relativism, individual vs. group rights, and ways to improve human rights enforcement well respecting local cultures. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PO 378S International Human Rights
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Studies the growing international influence on politics of human rights principles, documents, and organizations, drawing especially on African cases such as Congo, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. Topics include universality vs. cultural relativism, individual vs. group rights, and issues in human rights enforcement.
CAS PO 388 Justice in an Unjust World
4 credits.
A search for justice is the origin story of political science. We seek to understand what it means to be just in contemporary politics, laws, workplaces, families, and across borders, among many other sites. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS PO 389 Citizenship: Who Belongs' Who Decides'
4 credits.
Undergraduate prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - This course explores the history of citizenship, migration, and border enforcement primarily in the US. We ask: who is entitled to citizenship, what justifies excluding people, what are rights and duties of citizenship, and what do societies owe refugees, and asylum seekers' Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness.
CAS PO 391 Classical to Early Modern Political Theory
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Fundamental questions of ethics and politics are addressed by analyzing early works of political philosophy. Considers their various conceptions of: human nature and reason; qualifications of leadership; aims and means of civic education; and natural, human, and divine law. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 392 Modern Political Theory
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Fundamental questions of ethics and politics are addressed by analyzing works of political philosophy from the Enlightenment in the 17th century through the 20th century. Considers their various conceptions of human nature, the social contract, rights, government, justice, and revolution. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 395 Domination/Liberation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
In this political theory course, we examine dilemmas surrounding domination and liberation in political theory and practice. We will ask what liberation is, how diverse forms of domination obstruct it; and whether freedom can be sustained in a lasting way. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 395S Domination/Liberation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
This political theory course examines dilemmas surrounding domination and liberation in political theory and practice. We ask what liberation is, how diverse forms of domination obstruct it, and whether freedom can be sustained in a lasting way. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 398 Feminist Political Theory
4 credits.
Introduces students to key texts, problems, and debates in western feminist political theory. Students study major feminist thinkers, and explore diverse approaches to crucial topics in the field: such as ¿white feminism,¿ marriage, disability, sex, and pornography. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Ethical Reasoning.
CAS PO 526 US Identity Politics
4 credits.
Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) and at least one prior political science course. - Students explore how race, class, gender, sexuality, partisanship and other identities jointly inform their views and have led to historical patterns of conflict and oppression. We read perspectives from authors with varying identities, and discuss contemporary identity politics conflicts. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community.
CAS PO 559 Wars, Peace, and Diplomacy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Why do wars occur' What constitutes peace' How is peace maintained or lost' What are the virtues and deficiencies of diplomacy as practitioners have implemented it' How do memory, justice, and the requirements of security interact in the international arena' Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS PO 560 Rwanda: Genocide and Its Aftermath
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Freshman Writing Seminar. - Explores the factors that led to the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, how Rwanda compares to other cases of genocide and extreme violence, and the efforts in post-genocide Rwanda to rebuild, pursue justice, and promote reconciliation. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PO 573 Race and Racism in International Relations
4 credits.
Undergraduate prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Race is a central organizing feature in world politics yet ignored in the discipline of International Relations. Course addresses the global racial contract, how race shaped the contours of American expansion, and how American experiences abroad shape race at home. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Writing Intensive Course.
CAS PO 596 Colonization/Decolonization
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisite: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - This seminar introduces you to the political, theoretical, and historical study of colonization and decolonization. Topics include various kinds of colonialism, such as settler colonialism, internal colonialism, and domestic colonialism, as well as debates over the contemporary call to decolonize. Effective Spring 2024: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS PO 598 Power, Identity, Equality
4 credits.
Examines classic and contemporary theories of identity as well as their manifestation in political practice. We critically examine specific manifestations of identity including the role of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, ability, and foreignness in democratic politics. Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Ethical Reasoning.
CAS PS 101 General Psychology
4 credits.
Basic introduction to field of psychology; topics include theories and findings governing learning, memory, perception, development, personality, social and abnormal psychology. Three hours large lecture and one hour discussion section or three hours of small lecture class with no discussion sections. Students are required to participate as subjects in psychology studies. 4 cr. either sem. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2019, this course will fulfill a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS PS 101S General Psychology
4 credits.
Basic introduction to the field of psychology. Topics include theories and findings governing learning, memory, perception, development, personality, and social and abnormal psychology. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS RN 206 Scriptures in World Religions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Introduction to scriptures in world religions, investigating the ways sacred books express, interpret, and make possible religious experience and ethical reflection. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Writing-Intensive Course. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS RN 206S Scriptures in World Religions
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Introduction to scriptures in world religions, investigating the ways sacred books express, interpret, and make possible religious experience and ethical reflection. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Writing-Intensive Course. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
CAS RN 209 Religion, Health, and Medicine
4 credits.
How religious and moral narratives inform approaches to biomedicine from the nineteenth century to the present, including understandings of disease, illness, health, sexuality, and the body. Topics include medicine and prayer, alternative medicine, and boundaries between medicine and religion. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 214 Islam
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Teamwork/Collaboration
The rise and spread of Islam from the seventh century to the present; introduction to its central beliefs, institutions, and practices, and its impact on the religious and cultural history of Asia and Africa. Continuity and change in the modern period. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 239 Religion and Science
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Teamwork/Collaboration
Examines the complex relationship between science and religion, focusing on historical episodes (e.g., the "Galileo Affair") and current controversies (e.g., "Intelligent Design" movement's influence on school curricula, "Spirituality and Health" research, and "Ecology and Religion.") Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 239S Religion and Science
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Teamwork/Collaboration
Examines the complex relationship between science and religion, focusing on historical episodes (e.g., the "Galileo Affair") and current controversies (e.g., "Intelligent Design" movement's influence on school curricula, "Spirituality and Health" research, and "Ecology and Religion"). Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
CAS RN 246 S24: Sex, Death, and the Buddha
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Teamwork/Collaboration
An exploration of various Buddhist understandings of the ideal human life. Topics examined include: karma and rebirth, nonviolence and war, human and animal rights, suicide and euthanasia, as well as abortion and contraception. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 249 Islamophobia and Antisemitism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores historical and contemporary manifestations of Islamophobia and antisemitism. Students are exposed to wide range of relevant written and visual texts as well as theoretical approaches. Includes active learning component and collaborative presentations by students. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 310 The Reformation: Religious Conflict in Early Modern Europe
4 credits.
Examines religious change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, particularly the origins and causes of the Protestant Reformation, the parallel Catholic Reformation, and the consequent military conflicts in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Also offered as CAS HI 209. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS RN 310S The Reformation: Religious Conflict in Early Modern Europe
4 credits.
Examines religious change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, particularly the origins and causes of the Protestant Reformation, the parallel Catholic Reformation, and the consequent military conflicts in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Also offered as CAS HI 209. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS RN 340 The Quran
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy
The emergence of the Quran as a major religious text, its structure and literary features, and its principal themes and places within the religious and intellectual life of the Muslim community. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy .
CAS RN 345 Shariah Law
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Shariah Law looks behind the stereotypes and headlines--despotic rulers, barbaric punishments, women's oppression--to understand the origins, history, and structure of Islamic law. Explores its implementation in various times and places, modern transformations, and contemporary debates over legal reform. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 350 Comparative Religious Ethics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - This course invites students to consider what organized religion has to offer those seeking to live a good life by looking at the ethical teachings of two Western (Judaism and Christianity) and two Eastern (Confucianism and Buddhism) traditions. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS RN 384 The Holocaust
4 credits.
Rise of German (and European) antisemitism; rise of Nazism; 1935 Nuremberg Laws; the initial Jewish reaction; racial theory; organizing mass murder including ghettos, concentration camps, killing squads, and gas chambers; bystanders and collaborators (countries, organizations, and individuals); Jewish resistance; post-Holocaust religious responses; moral and ethical issues. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 390 Archeology and Israeli Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: sophomore, junior, or senior standing. - In Israel, archaeology is part of current events. The study of remains from the Israelite to the Muslim conquests (c. 1200 BCE -- 640 CE) to learn how material evidence created and still plays a role in a larger historical drama. Also offered as CAS AR 342. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 406 Biblical Fakes and Forgeries
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Religion, philosophy, or archaeology majors or minors with junior or s enior standing, or consent of instructor. - Examines issues regarding forged documents and artifacts relating to the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. Examples of forgeries (alleged and certain) include: book of Daniel, Letter of Aristeas, Gnostic Gospels, Secret Gospel of Mark; forged Scrolls in museum collections. Proposed Edit: Examines forged documents and artifacts relating to Hebrew Bible and New Testament, probing historical and ethical questions they raise. Examples (alleged and certain forgeries) include: book of Daniel, Gnostic Gospels, Secret Gospel of Mark, and forged Dead Sea Scroll fragments. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 453 Topics in Religion and Sexuality
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness
Exploration of key topics and themes in the study of religion and sexuality, especially as they intersect with gender, race, and politics. Historical periods and religious contexts vary according to instructor. Topic for Spring 2025: Queer and Trans Religion. Religious language figures prominently in both attacks on and affirmations of queer and trans existence. We use religious studies and queer and trans studies to analyze fiction, film, and poetry that explores the relationships between gender, sexuality, and religion. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS RN 460 Seminar on the Holocaust
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication
This course will examine historical, ethical and religious issues arising from the Holocaust. We will discuss antisemitism and ideology; what communities were considered "other"; human motivation regarding collaborators, perpetrators and bystanders; the role of individuals, organizations and governments; the treatment of women; the ethics of resistance; the behavior of the Jewish Councils; and attitudes to the existence of God during and after the Holocaust. We will also compare the Holocaust to contemporary crises now occurring around the world. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS RN 466 Religion and the Problem of Tolerance
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores the religious roots of tolerance as an alternative to secular, more liberal foundations for pluralism. Grapples with the challenge of tolerance to the revealed religions and the ways different societies have met or failed to meet this challenge. Presents multiple case-studies and contemporary connections, explores relevance to students own experiences. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 640 The Quran
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy
The emergence of the Quran as a major religious text, its structure and literary features, its principle themes and places within the religious and intellectual life of the Muslim community. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 645 Shariah Law
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Shariah Law looks behind the stereotypes and headlines--despotic rulers, barbaric punishments, women's oppression--to understand the origins, history, and structure of Islamic law. Explores its implementation in various times and places, modern transformations, and contemporary debates over legal reform. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 684 The Holocaust
4 credits.
Rise of German (and European) antisemitism; rise of Nazism; 1935 Nuremberg Laws; the initial Jewish reaction; racial theory; organizing mass murder including ghettos, concentration camps, killing squads, and gas chambers; bystanders and collaborators (countries, organizations, and individuals); Jewish resistance; post-Holocaust religious responses; moral and ethical issues. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 685 Representations of the Holocaust in Literature and Film
4 credits.
Questions of representation in literature and film about the Holocaust, including testimonial and fictive works by Wiesel and Levi, Ozick, and others; films include documentaries and feature films. Discussions of the Holocaust as historical reality, metaphor, and generative force in literature. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS RN 690 Archeology and Israeli Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Teamwork/Collaboration
Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - In Israel, archaeology is part of current events. We study material remains from the Israelite to the Muslim conquests (c. 1200 BCE -- 640 CE) to learn how physical evidence is created and still plays a role in a larger historical drama. Also offered as GRS AR 742. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 706 Biblical Fakes and Forgeries
4 credits.
Graduate Prerequisites: GRS religion or STH graduate students, or consent of instructor. - Examines issues regarding forged documents and artifacts relating to the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. Examples of forgeries (alleged and certain) include: book of Daniel, Letter of Aristeas, Gnostic Gospels, Secret Gospel of Mark; forged Scrolls in museum collections. Proposed Edit: Examines forged documents and artifacts relating to Hebrew Bible and New Testament, probing historical and ethical questions they raise. Examples (alleged and certain forgeries) include: book of Daniel, Gnostic Gospels, Secret Gospel of Mark, and forged Dead Sea Scroll fragments. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 753 Topics in Religion and Sexuality
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness
Exploration of key topics and themes in the study of religion and sexuality, especially as they intersect with gender, race, and politics. Historical periods and religious contexts vary according to instructor. Topic for Spring 2025: Queer and Trans Religion. Religious language figures prominently in both attacks on and affirmations of queer and trans existence. We use religious studies and queer and trans studies to analyze fiction, film, and poetry that explores the relationships between gender, sexuality, and religion. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS RN 759 Primo Levi and Holocaust Literature
4 credits.
A study of Primo Levi's writings and scientific, theological, and philosophical approaches to the Holocaust. Other theorists (Arendt, Wiesel, Müller-Hill) and other survivors' testimonies (Delbo, Borowski, Fink) are read in conjunction with Levi's works.
CAS RN 760 Seminar on the Holocaust
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication
This course will examine historical, ethical and religious issues arising from the Holocaust. We will discuss antisemitism and ideology; what communities were considered "other"; human motivation regarding collaborators, perpetrators and bystanders; the role of individuals, organizations and governments; the treatment of women; the ethics of resistance; the behavior of the Jewish Councils; and attitudes to the existence of God during and after the Holocaust. We will also compare the Holocaust to contemporary crises now occurring around the world. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness.
CAS RN 766 Religion and the Problem of Tolerance
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
Explores the religious roots of tolerance as an alternative to secular, more liberal foundations for pluralism. Grapples with the challenge of tolerance to the revealed religions and the ways different societies have met or failed to meet this challenge. Presents multiple case-studies and contemporary connections, explores relevance to students own experiences. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS SO 215 Sociology of Health Care
4 credits.
Social, cultural, and intercultural factors in health and illness. Training and socialization of medical professionals, roots of medical power and authority, organization and operation of health care facilities. U.S. health care system and its main problems. Comparison of health care systems in the U.S. and in other countries. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS SO 215S Sociology of Health Care
4 credits.
Social, cultural, and intercultural factors in health and illness. Training and socialization of medical professionals, roots of medical power and authority, organization and operation of health care facilities. US health care system and its main problems. Comparison of health care systems in the US and in other countries. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS SO 242 Globalization and World Poverty
4 credits.
Addresses enduring global poverty and race, ethnic, gender, and class inequalities, especially in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Focuses on colonialism and post-colonialism, strategies of development, urbanization, immigration, religion, politics, women, drugs, social justice, and health issues. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS SO 313 Economic Sociology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: at least one previous Sociology course or consent of instructor. - Presents the sociological approach to the study of production, distribution, consumption and markets, emphasizing the impact of norms, power, social structure, and institutions on the economy. Compares classic and contemporary approaches to the economy by the social science disciplines. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 314 Social Problems and Social Change
4 credits.
Focuses on social problems such as ethnic and sexual discrimination, deviance and crime, and mental disorders. A theoretical approach is taken to identify and interpret changes generated by the contradictions of industrialization and modernization. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Writing Intensive.
CAS SO 314S PROBS & CHANGE
4 credits.
Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Writing Intensive.
CAS SO 322 Gender and Health
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Prerequisites: at least one previous sociology course or consent of instructor. - Gender power relations and inequalities in health, healthcare institutions, medical research, public health policy, and global health politics. Examines the intersection of gender with other systems of power in medical practice, research, and the experience of health and illness. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 323 Markets in Biomedicine and Healthcare
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: at least one previous Sociology course or consent of instructor. - Complex ways in which market exchange impacts commodification of the human body, the practice of medicine (assisted reproduction, organ transplantation) and drug clinical trials. Theoretical discussion of market exchange from an interdisciplinary perspective, brief overview of the US health care system and global medical tourism. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS SO 333E The Italian Food Industry: Economics, Culture and Society
4 credits.
The Italian food industry from economic, cultural, and social perspectives. Special attention paid to producers, product quality and certification, and relationships to the land and regional cultures. How is the industry evolving to offer consumers up-to-date products while remaining anchored in Italian tradition' Taught through a combination of lectures, seminars by industry experts, case studies, and company visits. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
CAS SO 460 Seminar: Economic Sociology
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing and at least two prior sociology courses, or consent o f instructor. - Introduction to core theoretical perspectives and debates in contemporary economic sociology (structural/network, cultural, institutional/political, and performativity) with a special attention paid to morality of markets, commensuration and construction of value, money, credit and finance and inequality. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
CAS SO 860 Seminar in Economic Sociology
4 credits.
Introduction to core theoretical perspectives and debates in contemporary economic sociology (structural/network, cultural, institutional/political, and performativity) with a special attention paid to morality of markets, commensuration and construction of value, money, credit and finance and inequality. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
CAS WR 250 AI Literacy for Writing
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 120); Writing, Research, and Inquiry (e.g., CASWR 151, WR 152, or WR 153). This course provides a foundational understanding of generative AI and its impact on the writing landscape and society. Students explore generative AI tools, addressing ethical considerations and real-world applications, and create projects blending traditional writing with multimodal approaches. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Ethical Reasoning, Writing Intensive.
CAS WS 233 The Evolutionary Biology of Human Variation
4 credits.
Addresses human biological variation. An introduction to the fundamentals of comparative biology, evolutionary theory, and genetics and considers how research in these fields informs some of our most culturally-engaged identities: race, sex, gender, sexuality, and body type. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CAS WS 319 Disability and Queerness in Speculative Fiction
4 credits.
This course examines how LGBTQ2IA speculative fiction engages with disability and other intersecting frameworks of difference to present alternate, parallel, or invented worlds. This course provides opportunities for students to strengthen ethical reasoning, cultural analysis, and aesthetic exploration. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS WS 330 Transforming Life: Anthropology of Gender and Medical Technologies
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120); recommend CAS AN1 01 and AN102 - Seminar anthropologically compares the role of science and medicine in society and troubles what is natural and moral, e.g., about gender, person hood, kinship, and community, using case studies of new reproductive technologies in Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Writing- Intensive Course. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, The Individual in Community, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS WS 341 The Quran
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy
The emergence of the Quran as a major religious text, its structure and literary features, its principle themes and places within the religious and intellectual life of the Muslim community. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WS 345 Shariah Law
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Shariah Law looks behind the stereotypes and headlines--despotic rulers, barbaric punishments, women's oppression--to understand the origins, history, and structure of Islamic law. Explores its implementation in various times and places, modern transformations, and contemporary debates over legal reform. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WS 453 Topics in Religion and Sexuality
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning Historical Consciousness
Exploration of key topics and themes in the study of religion and sexuality, especially as they intersect with gender, race, and politics. Historical periods and religious contexts vary according to instructor. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS WS 640 The Quran
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy
The emergence of the Quran as a major religious text, its structure and literary features, its principle themes and places within the religious and intellectual life of the Muslim community. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WS 645 Shariah Law
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Shariah Law looks behind the stereotypes and headlines--despotic rulers, barbaric punishments, women's oppression--to understand the origins, history, and structure of Islamic law. Explores its implementation in various times and places, modern transformations, and contemporary debates over legal reform. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS XL 244 Greek Drama in Translation
4 credits.
The history and development of ancient Greek theater; study of important plays in the genres of tragedy, comedy, and satyr drama by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS CL 324. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS XL 281 Representations of the Holocaust in Literature and Film
4 credits.
How can we understand the impact of the Holocaust and its ongoing legacies' Holocaust representation in literature, film and memorials, including discussions of bystander complicity and societal responsibilities, testimonial and fictive works by Wiesel and Levi, documentaries and feature films. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning.
CAS XL 459 Primo Levi Within Holocaust Literature
4 credits.
A study of Primo Levi's writings and scientific, literary, theological, and philosophical approaches to the Holocaust. Other theorists (Arendt, Wiesel, and Muller-Hill) and other survivors' testimonies (Delbo, Borowski, Fink) are read in conjunction with Levi's works. Also offered as CAS LI 459 and RN 459. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning.
CFA AR 331 Contemporary Issues: Interpretation
2 credits.
This seminar course for senior BFA Painting and Sculpture students introduces students to the current discourse and contemporary issues in art by guiding them through diverse ways of understanding the construction of meanings. It is designed to have students question the complex position of an artist as producers and readers of a culture to which they are participants. Students will learn to establish a philosophy on their studio practices, gain a broad knowledge in art theory, expand their existing critiquing abilities, and develop ethical reasoning. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Ethical Reasoning.
CFA AR 565 Art, Access, and Inclusion (4 credits; spring semester)
4 credits.
The class is designed to help prepare pre-service art educators to work with all students by addressing some of the individual needs for modifications and accommodations that students bring to the classroom: neurological, cognitive, physical, emotional, and linguistic. The course focuses on the social model of disability and students investigate the complexity of individual students' lives, strengths, and challenges, through an intersectional lens. It specifically addresses some of the needs of learners that are related to disability, mental health history, and/or English language skills.
CFA ME 374 Arts Engagement: Cultivating a Deeper Relationship with the Natural Environment to Foster Sustain
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community
In this course, you will explore the arts to contemplate nature, identify unsustainable practices, propose viable alternatives, and share your results with the community via a multimedia arts exhibit. This course is open to juniors/seniors of any major and ability. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Ethical Reasoning, Creativity/Innovation. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA MP 446 String Pedagogy and Practicum 2
2 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community
Teaching methods and materials for use in private instruction; literature concerned with leading pedagogues' approaches to teaching musical skills and understanding. 2 cr. Effective Fall 2019, this course is part of a Hub sequence: when taken with CFA MP 445, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Ethical Reasoning, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA MP 646 String Pedagogy and Practicum 2
2 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community
Teaching methods and materials for use in private instruction; literature concerned with leading pedagogues' approaches to teaching musical skills and understanding. 2 cr. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Ethical Reasoning, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA TH 101 Introduction to the Study of Theatre and Performance
3 credits.
This course aims to acquaint students to theory and practice related to performance, dramatic literature, and theatre history and studies. On successful completion of this class, students will aesthetically and ethically explore artistic work relying on critical thinking and analytical acumen. Our study relies on analysis, civil discourse, reading dramatic literature and performance theory, as well as seeing, reading, and experiencing various works addressing identity theory and cultural studies. Required for BFA Theatre Core (Design, Production & Management Core and Performance Core). Open to BU Community. 3.0 credits. Fall semester. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CFA TH 399 Stage Management 3: Types & Styles
3 credits.
Prereq: CFA TH 299 or Permission of Instructor. Stage Management 3: Types & Styles examines approaches to leadership, management, communication, critical thinking, and ethics for the stage manager. Through the lens of the artful application of these skills to the different types of live performance the stage manager may encounter, such as new works, musicals, opera, dance, and event work, students will strengthen and hone their personal stage management style. This course requires additional work outside of class time for engagement in practice-based exercises and rehearsal/performance observations. Fall Semester. 3.0 credits. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CFA TH 459 Social Change Through Theatre of the Oppressed
4 credits.
An active, experiential learning course for theatre and non-theatre students that explores Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed and Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. This course engages and challenges students' minds, bodies and creativity as we read, discuss and apply the political, social and educational theories and ethics through Boal's physical theatre gamesercises, image techniques, and Forum Theatre. These techniques serve to "democratize theatre" by transforming the "monologue" of traditional performance into a dialogue for social change between audience and stage. 4.0 credits. Spring semester. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA TH 659 Social Change Through Theatre of the Oppressed
4 credits.
An active, experiential learning course for theatre and non-theatre students that explores Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed and Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. This course engages and challenges students' minds, bodies and creativity as we read, discuss and apply the political, social and educational theories and ethics through Boal's physical theatre gamesercises, image techniques, and Forum Theatre. These techniques serve to "democratize theatre" by transforming the "monologue" of traditional performance into a dialogue for social change between audience and stage. 4.0 units. Spring semester. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Creativity/Innovation.
CGS HU 201 History of Ethics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
A rigorous course in the history of ethical thought from the ancient world through the nineteenth century. The course also includes selected films and literary works that embody philosophical ideas and ethical dilemmas. Primary texts are used throughout. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
CGS HU 201E HIS WEST ETH I
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
HIS WEST ETH 1
CGS HU 202 Modern and Applied Ethics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
The course focuses on the application of philosophical ideas to various areas of modern life, such as politics, science, business, personal development, education, and religious faith. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Creativity/Innovation.
CGS HU 450 Giving Well
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Giving Well is a class that explores the theory and practice of impactful charity. Students will read influential texts on philanthropy and apply ideas from these texts as they evaluate the effectiveness of existing charities. The course is supported by a grant from the Philanthropy Lab, and it culminates with the disbursement of potentially upwards of $50,000 to causes selected by students. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, The Individual in Community, Ethical Reasoning.
COM CM 525 Public Relations Ethics
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CM215 or CM701 - This course will acquaint students with ethical standards and expectations society has for public relations practitioners. Through the study of case studies and other readings it will prepare students so they can adequately wrestle with ethical complexities, dilemmas and ambiguities so as to form personal ethical underpinnings for their future careers. 4 credits. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Ethical Reasoning.
COM CM 525S Public Relations Ethics
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CM215 or CM701 - Acquaints students with ethical standards and expectations society has for public relations practitioners. Through the study of case studies and other readings, the course prepares students to adequately wrestle with ethical complexities, dilemmas, and ambiguities so as to form personal ethical underpinnings for their future careers.
COM JO 300 Media and Democracy - Journalism in an Age of Disinformation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: JO150 and at least junior standing. - This course is for anyone who reads the news or produces it, for those who want accurate information and those who want to provide it. Students will gain a true-north understanding of the role of the free press in a democracy, the rise and allure of online fake news, and how empowered individuals and the news media can push back against this 21st century threat to freedom. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Research and Information Literacy.
COM JO 350 Law and Ethics of Journalism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
This interactive course introduces the core legal and ethical issues affecting how journalists, including the student press, gather, verify and communicate news. This course offers an exciting deep-dive into the key concepts affecting newsgathering and dissemination today.Students will discover the underpinnings of a free press as well as practical tools to use when confronted with government efforts to block legitimate newsgathering. Students will gain a working knowledge of how and why the First Amendment protects them as they gather, verify and disseminate the news. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
COM JO 350S Law and Ethics of Journalism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Introduces the core legal and ethical issues affecting how journalists, including the student press, gather, verify, and communicate news. Offers an exciting deep-dive into the key concepts affecting newsgathering and dissemination today. Students discover the underpinnings of a free press as well as practical tools to use when confronted with government efforts to block legitimate newsgathering. Students gain a working knowledge of how and why the First Amendment protects them as they gather, verify, and disseminate the news. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG BE 400 Undergraduate Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASMA226) - Globally more than a 100 million people are forcibly displaced from their homes due to conflict, climate change and persecution. Health challenges faced by these displaced persons are complex and multi-faceted. This course will focus on understanding the health challenges of forcibly displaced persons, identifying why existing solutions may not work, and designing robust, effective and context appropriate solutions for these settings. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single requirement in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
HUB IC 211 Engaging with Communities: Ethics and Skills
4 credits.
Introduces students from all disciplines to basic principles of ethical community engagement and prepares them to apply acquired skill sets to practical situations such as internships. Students learn to apply, interact with, and critically reflect upon themes related to community engagement and service, ethics, professionalism, social categories of advantage and disadvantage, and social justice and power in society. Students are encouraged to incorporate their own cases and prospective community engagement into discussions and assignments. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry 1.
KHC CH 140 The Material World
4 credits.
Discussion of how matter (gas, liquid, solid) is cycled within the earth's systems in the context of human use of the earth's resources and contemporary concerns about sustainability e.g. ozone layer, rare-earth elements, hydrocarbon combustion, potable water, plastic recycling. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
KHC HC 301 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Challenges I
4 credits.
In this course, students will develop an understanding of global public health from interdisciplinary perspectives. Specifically, the course will foster students¿ ability to critically consider key contemporary issues in global public health with a lens on ethical considerations, and in turn make links to policy and practice implications. Students will take on a range of issues that go well beyond the study of public health itself, raising questions such as those around identity, childhood, mental health, historical legacies of colonialism, and contemporary inequalities. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
KHC HI 106 Solving the Problem of Cornerville' Street Corner Society
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Research and Information Literacy
This seminar will examine ¿The Problem of Cornerville¿ (Boston¿s North End) as formulated by William Foote Whyte in his 1943 ethnography Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. In the process we will explore a variety of topics including immigration policy and history, the early Progressive movement, `slumming,¿ urban sociology, theories of crime and deviance, racial formation, and gentrification. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
KHC IR 102 Spies and Terrorists of Boston
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course will examine various important, impactful, and, in some ways, underappreciated espionage activities and terrorist events that germinated, received support, or otherwise occurred in the Boston metropolitan area. Please note: This course requires students to (1) take a mandatory four-hour field trip of Boston spy sites with the professor on a weekend and (2) participate in three one-hour oral briefing practice sessions with the professor to be scheduled in the evenings outside of class. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
KHC LW 102 Marriage, Families & Gender: Contemporary Legal and Social Controversies
4 credits.
This seminar will critically examine the family, marriage, and gender by asking several basic questions: What is family' What is marriage' Why do family and marriage matter to individuals and to society' What role does or should law have in supporting and regulating families and marriage' In defining parenthood' How do new technologies that provide new pathways to parenthood (assisted reproductive technology, or "ART") and new forms of control over reproduction (such as genetic testing and screening) pose ethical and legal challenges and how should law address those challenges' Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
KHC LW 104 Citizenship, Immigration, and the Constitution
4 credits.
In this seminar, we will examine constitutional questions concerning (1) the acquisition and loss of citizenship status, and (2) the privilege or right of entry into the United States. Throughout, we will consider the ethical and constitutional principles that have shaped rules governing national membership and entry into the United States. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
KHC PY 104 Energy and Society
4 credits.
"Energy powers the world." This seminar explores that pithy statement, beginning with basic concepts and definitions. Students examine the history of human uses of energy, how energy arises in different realms (physical, chemical, biological), the primary sources of energy, how to transmit and store energy, and the politics of energy, seeking to answer the ultimate question: "What should be the path forward to a sustainable, environmentally sound, equitable energy future'" Students will demonstrate their understanding through problem sets/short essays, a mid-term exam, and a final project. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Scientific Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
KHC UC 104 The Ethics of Food
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Choices about what food to eat pervade our everyday lives. This course explores the ethics of such choices. We'll examine arguments for vegetarian and vegan diets, for eating organic, for eating local, and for restricting oneself to only humanely raised and slaughtered meat. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
KHC UC 105 Liberty, Fanaticism & Censorship
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
From Socrates's execution for speech that 'corrupted the youth' and Jesus's crucifixion for claims that threatened empire to today's debates about cancel culture, disinformation, and social media censorship, questions about free speech and its political, ethical, and religious consequences have been central to western history. This course examines some of the enduring issues animating these questions with an eye to their ongoing significance. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
KHC UC 106 Biomedical Enhancement and the Future of Human Nature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Biomedical technologies are increasingly being used to enhance the biological, cognitive, and psychological capacities of otherwise healthy human beings. Although the enhancement enterprise aims to increase levels of human wellbeing, it also raises a host of ethical concerns, such as worries that it will exacerbate inequality, undermine authenticity, devalue diversity, or even pose an existential threat to the human species. This course will survey the ethics of biomedical enhancements carried out through the administration of drugs, genetic modifications, and human-machine interfaces. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
KHC UC 107 Sexual Ethics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Ethical Reasoning Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Sexual activity has attracted a bewildering range of preoccupations. These shifting concerns raise questions about what ¿sex¿ means, how it becomes ethically problematic, and how it might still matter to our lives. We will pursue these questions through current debates around sexual identity, monogamy, polyamory, sexual violence, sex work, pornography, and erotic desires across the stages of a human life. You will be encouraged to use the course material to clarify and refine your own ethical reasoning about sex. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
QST BE 101 Introductory Microeconomics for Business and Strategy
4 credits.
Business economics provides students with an intellectual framework for understanding how businesses work: how firms interact in markets, and how markets respond to regulation and policy. Business economics has a dual mission: it is both a social science that describes how markets function and a framework that provides practical guidance for business leaders. This course focuses on business-relevant questions of how markets and businesses interact to create and distribute value. The course takes a data-based, empirical approach to these questions and uses experiential learning and interactive activities to enhance students' applications of economics to BU business problems. The course describes how social value is created via innovation and economic growth and how social value can be destroyed through harmful externalities. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
QST MO 356 Leadership and Management of Social Enterprises
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: QST SM131 or QST SI250 or QST SI480 or COM FT591 or SHA HF231; Sophomo re standing - A well-managed social enterprise can translate idealism into action. It can help create a world that is more sustainable, more compassionate, and more just. This course will explore the distinctive aspects of launching, leading, and growing an enterprise -- nonprofit or for-profit -- whose primary goal is social impact. We will study mission, strategy, marketing, ethics, entrepreneurship, and scaling. We will learn that success for social enterprise is driven less by a compelling story or a charismatic advocate than by diligent management and insightful, ethical leadership. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Ethical Reasoning.
QST MO 456 Leadership and Management of Social Enterprises
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: QST SM131 and at least two semesters of full-time coursework - A well-managed social enterprise can translate idealism into action. It can help create a world that is more sustainable, more compassionate, and more just. This course will explore the distinctive aspects of launching, leading, and growing an enterprise -- nonprofit or for-profit -- whose primary goal is social impact. We will study mission, strategy, cause marketing, social entrepreneurship, and scaling. We will learn that success for social enterprise is driven less by a compelling story or a charismatic advocate than by diligent management and insightful leadership. The course will use a variety of lively in-class learning activities and assignments, including debates, role plays, case studies, site visits, and guest experts. All students will conduct a research project on a social enterprise of their choice, culminating in a final paper. Entrepreneurship concentrators can use this course to help fulfill their elective requirements. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Ethical Reasoning.
QST SM 131 Business, Markets, and Society
4 credits.
Undergraduate pre-requisite: Required of all Questrom first year students in their first term. Open to non-Questrom students who have completed one full-time term at Boston University. - SM131 provides students with a philosophical, economic, and applied foundation for understanding the functions of business and the role of business, markets, governments, and other stakeholders in society. It is the first course in the Questrom BSBA curriculum and is a required course for the Minor. It introduces the functions of business, explains the roles of businesses in markets, and explores the roles of business in society and the interactions between business and other economic actors. Along the way, the course introduces students¿ to Questrom¿s critical and analytic thinking, communication curriculum (including both written and verbal communication), teaming curriculum, and fosters civil discourse on issues related to the strategic conduct of business and the roles of business and markets in society. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
QST SM 131S Business, Ethics, and the Creation of Value
4 credits.
Undergraduate pre-requisite: Required of all Questrom first year students in their first term. Open to non-Questrom students who have completed one full-time term at Boston University. - SM131 provides students with a philosophical, economic, and applied foundation for understanding the functions of business and the role of business, markets, governments, and other stakeholders in society. It is the first course in the Questrom BSBA curriculum and is a required course for the Minor. It introduces the functions of business, explains the roles of businesses in markets, and explores the roles of business in society and the interactions between business and other economic actors. Along the way, the course introduces students¿ to Questrom¿s critical and analytic thinking, communication curriculum (including both written and verbal communication), teaming curriculum, and fosters civil discourse on issues related to the strategic conduct of business and the roles of business and markets in society. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
SAR HP 522E HEALTH/LIFESPAN
4 credits.
HEALTH/LIFESPAN
SAR HS 325 Introduction to Global Health
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
This course will provide students with an overview of the complex social, economic, political, environmental, and biological factors that structure the origins, consequences, and possible treatments of illness worldwide, as well as the promotion of health. Students will learn about the major themes and concepts shaping the interdisciplinary field of global health, and will gain an understanding of solutions to health challenges that have been successfully implemented in different parts of the world. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
SAR HS 325S Introduction to Global Health
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Provides students with an overview of the complex social, economic, political, environmental, and biological factors that structure the origins, consequences, and possible treatments of illness worldwide, as well as the promotion of health. Students learn about the major themes and concepts shaping the interdisciplinary field of global health, and gain an understanding of solutions to health challenges that have been successfully implemented in different parts of the world. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
SAR HS 345 Global Environmental Public Health
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Environmental health is associated with recognizing, assessing, understanding and controlling the impacts of people in their environment and the impacts of the environment on the public health. The complexity of the problems requires multidisciplinary approaches. This course will provide an introduction to the principles, methods, and issues related to global environmental health. This course examines health issues, scientific understanding of causes, and possible future approaches to control of the major environmental health problems internationally. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
SAR HS 422 Ethics in Health Care
4 credits.
Available in Dublin Health Science program onlyIntroductory course developing a critical awareness of issues arising in biomedical ethics. Contemporary issues will be used to examine ethical reasoning, ethical theories, ethical principles, and cases and narratives in ethics. Special attention will be paid to developing skills of critical thinking through an examination of philosophical arguments and practical exercises. Learners are also provided with a theoretical grounding in classical and contemporary schools of ethical reasoning. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
SAR HS 444 Child Health Programs in Low Resource Settings
4 credits.
This health science senior seminar will explore programs and policies that impact child health in Low and Middle Income Countries. We will cover infectious diseases - including HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, respiratory infections and diarrhea - as well as major non-infectious causes of child morbidity and mortality, including nutrition, early child development and mental health. We will discuss the full life cycle of global health programs from building the evidence base through epidemiological studies through implementation science and monitoring and evaluation. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
SHA HF 323E ITLFOODINDUSTRY
4 credits.
Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I.
SHA HF 328E AUS WINE INDSTY
4 credits.
AUS WINE INDSTY
WED CE 342 Anti-Oppressive Practice: Education & Applied Psychology
4 credits.
Students will be introduced to various cultural perspectives and social constructs in order to promote respectful and effective interactions with children, families, and colleagues from multicultural backgrounds and diverse social locations. Analysis of issues of social justice will be scaffolded within critical multicultural and equity literacy frameworks. 4 cr. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
WED DE 340 Dynamics of Diversity, Oppression, and Social Justice within Deaf Communities
4 credits.
Examines theories and applications of diversity, dynamics of oppression, and social justice through a Deaf Studies lens. Explores the interrelated principles of social justice, equity, access, participation, and human rights, and the impact of these movements on Deaf communities. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
WED DE 640 Dynamics of Diversity, Oppression, and Social Justice within Deaf Communities
4 credits.
Examines theories and applications of diversity, dynamics of oppression, and social justice through a Deaf Studies lens. Explores the interrelated principles of social justice, equity, access, participation, and human rights, and the impact of these movements on Deaf communities. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
WED ED 206 Family & Community Engagement
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
Students will be invited to explore their own positionality towards and definitions of engagement, community, schools, and family, and learn how to best sustain and affirm the families and communities that they endeavor to serve. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy.
WED ED 220 Theme-Based Approaches to Studying Complex Issues of Language in Education and Human Development
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (WR120) - Prerequisite for this course: First Year Writing Seminar (WR120). Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.
WED HD 331 African American School Achievement
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning The Individual in Community Teamwork/Collaboration
How do schools shape the lives of African Americans' Who are the teachers that best educate African American students' How do African American parents shape learning' What are the characteristics of a "good" school for African Americans' In this course, students will address these questions and more. Drawing from the disciplines of psychology and education, students will examine historical and contemporary factors that shape school achievement for African Americans. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, The Individual in Community, Teamwork/Collaboration.
WED SE 250 Disability, Education, and Public Policy
4 credits.
Students will examine how disabilities impact students, their families, and their educational/community participation; analyze the historical treatment of individuals with disabilities; discuss contemporary ethical issues; learn federal legislation; and develop a foundational understanding of inclusive educational practices. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Ethical Reasoning.
WED SO 567S History Laboratory
2 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Teamwork/Collaboration
Provides practice working with historical documents, objects, and places and developing instructional materials based on those resources. The course is situated at and materials are drawn from a local historic site. Emphasis on integrating historical analytical methods, research-based historical pedagogy, and instructional practice. No prerequisites, but recommended to be taken concurrently with SED SO 572, SED CT 575, or CAS HI 200.
WED SO 571 Curriculum & Special Methods for History & Social Sciences, 5-12
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Teamwork/Collaboration
Examines curriculum and teaching methods in social science education, grades 5-12. Students develop and present research-based lessons and unit plans in history, civics, economics, geography, and other social sciences. Development of teaching materials and classroom techniques for social studies education. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration.
WED SO 572 Curriculum and Special Methods for History and Social Science, 5-12
Var credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Ethical Reasoning Teamwork/Collaboration
Reviews traditional and recent Examines curriculum materials in history or curriculum and teaching methods in social science education for middle, junior, and senior high school. Students develop competencies in developing and presenting research-based lessons and unit plans in history, civics, economics, geography, and the other social sciences. Analysis of curricular goals for grades 5-12. Development of new teaching materials and classroom techniques for social studies education at various age levels. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration. This course must be taken for 4 credits.
WED YJ 201 Intro to Youth Justice & Delinquency
4 credits.
Overview of juvenile justice and the nature, extent, and causes of juvenile delinquency. Considers topics of delinquency prevention, youth-police interaction, juvenile court process, correctional intervention, and multi- systemic interactions. Includes an experiential component. 4cr. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning.