Communication
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 .
First-Year Writing Seminar
CAS CC 101 Core Humanities I: Ancient Worlds
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation First-Year Writing Seminar
An interdisciplinary study of the origins of narrative, epic, tragedy, and philosophical thought including works from ancient Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, and classical Greece. Focusing on close reading and effective writing, we consider the contrasting values of different cultures and explore the long-standing narrative and visual traditions motivated by creative readings and interpretations of these texts. A visit to the MFA Boston enables students to explore the rich interpretive visual traditions that follow these texts. 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. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation, a First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 120).
CAS CC 101S The Ancient World
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation First-Year Writing Seminar
Begins in the ancient Near East with the origins of Mesopotamian civilization and the Hebrew Bible. Continues with an overview of the beginning and development of Greek civilization and careful study of Homer, Greek tragedy, and Plato. Students also examine architecture and the visual arts, as well as the relation of beauty and mathematics, with a study of the Parthenon and its role in Athenian Imperialism. Students will be asked to listen to additional online lectures to augment 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, Creativity/Innovation. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation, a First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 120).
CAS EN 120 Freshman Seminar
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Limited enrollment. Variable topics. Through discussions and frequent writing assignments, students develop skills in the close reading of literary texts and learn to express their interpretive ideas in correct and persuasive prose. Satisfies CAS WR 120 requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: First-Year Writing Seminar.
CAS WR 120 First-Year Writing Seminar
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASWR 112, placement results, or transfer credit for WR 02TR (for English language learners only). - Topic-based seminar in critical reading and writing. Engagement with a variety of sources and practice in writing in a range of genres with particular attention to argumentation, prose style, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including individual conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: First-Year Writing Seminar.
CAS WR 120S First-Year Writing Seminar
4 credits. Summer
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASWR 112, placement results, or transfer credit for WR 02TR (for English language learners only). - Topic-based seminar in critical reading and writing. Engagement with a variety of sources and practice in writing in a range of genres with particular attention to argumentation, prose style, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including individual conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: First-Year Writing Seminar.
CGS RH 104E Rhetorical Practices from The Industrial Revolution through the Digital Revolution
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression First-Year Writing Seminar
Through class discussion and learning experiences, students explore connections between readings assigned in Rhetoric and those in other courses, focusing on themes drawn from the two units that comprise the semester's curriculum. The course further develops skills in expository writing and introduces exploratory essay writing. Students continue to explore the contemporary relevance and meaning of the interdisciplinary curriculum. Students refine their skills in grammar, style, organization, and document design. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: First-Year Writing Seminar, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Critical Thinking.
CGS RH 104S Rhetorical Practices from The Industrial Revolution through the Digital Revolution
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression First-Year Writing Seminar
Through class discussion and learning experiences, students explore connections between readings assigned in Rhetoric and those in other courses, focusing on themes drawn from the two units that comprise the semester's curriculum. The course further develops skills in expository writing and introduces exploratory essay writing. Students continue to explore the contemporary relevance and meaning of the interdisciplinary curriculum. Students refine their skills in grammar, style, organization, and document design. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: First-Year Writing Seminar, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Critical Thinking.
KHC ST 111 Studio 1
2 credits. Fall
In Studio I, Kilachand students hone their writing, critical reading and thinking, and analytical skills. Students explore fundamental ethical, aesthetic, and social concerns posed by challenging texts and events. They compose their own writing, with attention to the modes and genres of expression, media, and evidence appropriate to the goals of the piece and its designated audience. Students revise their writing with significant individual attention in conferences with their instructors. Students register for one section of Studio I in fall semester of their first year. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: First-Year Writing Seminar.
Writing, Research, and Inquiry
CAS CC 201 Core Humanities 3: Renaissance, Rediscovery, and Reformation
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CASCC 101 or WR 120). Encountering works by Petrarch, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Cavendish, and Descartes, we consider the revival and imitation of the classics and explore the formation of genre and the emergence of the self. A study of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and works by Rembrandt add a visual lens to our studies. A focus on writing and research complements our emphasis on authorship and source material. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research, and Inquiry; Research and Information Literacy. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy, Writing, Research & Inquiry (e.g., WR 150).
CAS CH 112 Intensive General Chemistry with Quantitative Analysis Lab 2
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCH111) - Second semester of intensive two-semester sequence for well-prepared students concentrating in chemistry or other sciences. Topics focus on physical and chemical equilibrium; acids, bases, buffers, and solubility; chemical kinetics and mechanism of reactions; electrochemistry; and case studies relating to advanced topics. The complementary laboratory experience emphasizes quantitative analysis and training in scientific communication. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, one hour lab lecture, and four hours lab. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Writing, Research and Inquiry, Research and Information Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS CH 182 Intensive General and Quantitative Analytical Chemistry 2
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: students in the Seven-Year Liberal Arts/Medical Education Program only . - Second semester of intensive two-semester sequence for well-prepared students concentrating in chemistry or other sciences. Topics focus on physical and chemical equilibrium; acids, bases, buffers, and solubility; chemical kinetics and mechanism of reactions; electrochemistry; and case studies relating to advanced topics. The complementary laboratory experience emphasizes quantitative analysis and training in scientific communication. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, one hour lab lecture, four hours lab. Carries natural science divisional credit (with lab) in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Writing: Research & Inquiry, Research and Information Literacy, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 220 Seminar in Literature
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120). - Fundamentals of literary analysis, interpretation, and research. Intensive study of selected literary texts centered on a particular topic. Attention to different critical approaches. Frequent papers. Limited class size. Satisfies WR 150 requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research and Inquiry, Research and Information Literacy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing: Research & Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 220S Seminar in Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120). - Topic for summer 2025: English and American Literature on Film. Why do we adapt books into movies' How does the experience of a story we first encounter as a text change when we see it on screen' Are filmmakers obligated to be "faithful" to their sources, or do they have artistic license to innovate' Is literature an inherently "higher" form of art than movies' In this course, we consider these and other questions about cinematic adaptation in order to develop our skills as critical readers of texts and movies, and as proficient researchers and writers. We examine film adaptations of work by English-language authors such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and August Wilson. Our goal is to produce well-researched, clear, and persuasive analyses of how film adaptation can enhance or sometimes challenge our understanding of literary masterpieces. Satisfies CAS WR 150 requirement. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research and Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 150 Writing, Research, & Inquiry
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS WR 120) or transfer credit for CA S WR 100, WR 13*, WR 150, or WR 16*. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, and writing. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, prose style, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including individual conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research, Inquiry, and Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 151 Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Oral and/or Signed Expression
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CASWR 120) or transfer credit for CASWR 13TR or CAS WR16TR. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, and oral communication. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, public speaking, prose style, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 151E Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Oral and/or Signed Expression
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS WR 120) or transfer credit for CA S WR 13* or CAS WR 16*. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, and oral communication. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, public speaking, prose style, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including individual conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 151S Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Oral and/or Signed Expression
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CASWR 120) or transfer credit for CASWR 13TR or CAS WR16TR. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, and oral communication. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, public speaking, prose style, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 152 Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Digital/Multimedia Expression
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS WR 120) or transfer credit for CASWR 13TR or CASWR 16TR. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, and digital/multimedia communication. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, prose style, digital/multimedia communication, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression; Writing, Research, and Inquiry; Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 152E Writing/Research/Inquiry DIG
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS WR 120) or transfer credit for CA S WR 13* or CAS WR 16*. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, and digital/multimedia communication. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, prose style, digital/multimedia design and communication, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including individual conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 152S Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Digital/Multimedia Expression
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS WR 120) or transfer credit for CASWR 13TR or CASWR 16TR. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, and digital/multimedia communication. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, prose style, digital/multimedia communication, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression; Writing, Research, and Inquiry; Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 153 Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Creativity/Innovation
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CASWR 120) or transfer credit for CASWR 13TR or CAS WR16TR. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, creativity, and innovation. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, prose style, creative process, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including conferences. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 153E Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Creativity/Innovation
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS WR 120) or transfer credit for CA S WR 13* or CAS WR 16*. - Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 153S Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Creativity/Innovation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CASWR 120) or transfer credit for CASWR 13TR or CAS WR16TR. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, creativity, and innovation. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, prose style, creative process, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including conferences. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Research and Information Literacy.
CGS RH 103 Rhetorical Practices from the Ancient World to Enlightenment
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
In Rhetoric 103, you will be taken chronologically through key periods in history to learn about the origin and development of the art of Rhetoric and its relevance today, ultimately in order to enable you to apply key rhetorical skills to your own textual and verbal practice. Students will receive semester-long instruction and practice in writing, oral communication, and research and information literacy. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
KHC ST 112 Studio 2
2 credits. Spring
In Studio 2, Kilachand students hone their writing, critical reading and thinking, and research skills. Students learn the fundamental techniques of academic research, develop their own research projects, and write and revise a research paper. This project is developed in stages throughout the semester with significant individual attention in conferences with Studio instructors. Students register for one section of Studio II in spring semester of their first year. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing: Research & Inquiry.
QST SM 275 Critical and Analytic Thinking for Business
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASWR 120; and QSTSM 131, or sophomore standing and QSTSM 131 previously or concurrently - Critical and analytic thinking skills are essential success in every business discipline. In this course, students will learn how to apply a structured problem-solving methodology that: defines the problem; identifies and prioritizes issues to assess; plans and conducts analyses; synthesizes findings; and communicates recommendations. Students will learn (a) how to evaluate evidence for business decision-making, not just passively accept information, and determine whether it is sufficient to prove their point. As well, they will learn how to assess the quality, credibility, and reliability of sources in researching relevant facts and data for business decisions. In addition to mastering frameworks for deductive and inductive arguments, students will master presentation delivery by connecting authentically to the audience, harnessing the power of storytelling, and using body language to positively reinforce the message. Finally, students will enhance professional skills that are integral to business success. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Writing, Research & Inquiry.
QST SM 275S Critical and Analytic Thinking for Business
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASWR 120 or sophomore standing and QSTSM 131 previously or concurrently. - Critical and analytic thinking skills are essential success in every business discipline. In this course, students will learn how to apply a structured problem-solving methodology that: defines the problem; identifies and prioritizes issues to assess; plans and conducts analyses; synthesizes findings; and communicates recommendations. Students will learn (a) how to evaluate evidence for business decision-making, not just passively accept information, and determine whether it is sufficient to prove their point. As well, they will learn how to assess the quality, credibility, and reliability of sources in researching relevant facts and data for business decisions. In addition to mastering frameworks for deductive and inductive arguments, students will master presentation delivery by connecting authentically to the audience, harnessing the power of storytelling, and using body language to positively reinforce the message. Finally, students will enhance professional skills that are integral to business success. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Writing, Research & Inquiry..
SHA HF 282 Hospitality Communications
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
This course is intended as a 'practicum' in hospitality communications. This course is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors. The focus is on the development of those communication skills that are critical to being effective managers. There will be readings on communication, but the majority of the course will focus on skills development. Each week students will be required to deliver presentations to the class. These presentations will be videotaped and critiqued. By the end of this course students will be much more comfortable, clear, and confident speakers in any situation. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Oral/Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Writing, Research, and Inquiry.
Writing-Intensive Course
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 210 American Minstrelsy
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - An American entertainment historically rooted in commodified performance of "blackness", this course engages with the complicated history of minstrelsy as both a racist and progressive art form. Course material surveys the minstrel tradition and its influence on popular entertainment. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information 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. Summer
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 356 Religion in the Digital Age
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - How has technology impacted religion' This hands-on course explores how digital technologies like the Internet, social media, gaming, and artificial intelligence have changed the way that people think about religion. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS AA 404 Seminar on Sociology of Families
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 420 African American and Asian American Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspective
4 credits. Spring
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. Summer
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 519 Inequality and American Politics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 523 Race, Ethnicity, and Childhood in US History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar. - The history of childhood in US History intersects with the interdisciplinary area of childhood studies. Within that, the histories of Black children and children of ethnic minorities and historically marginalized young people is a burgeoning subfield. This course examines how identities inclusive of (and structural inequities associated with) race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and sexuality have differently affected the lives and experiences of young people in the United States from the colonial period through to the 21st century. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness (HCO), Creativity/Innovation.
CAS AA 574 Introduction to Critical University Studies: Space, Place, and BU
4 credits.
This team-taught seminar uses the lens of "critical university studies" to consider the ways colonialism and white supremacy have shaped the history of American universities. Readings and archival research examine land appropriation, slavery and anti-slavery, segregation, and policing at Boston University. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AA 620 African American and Asian American Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspective
4 credits. Spring
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 656 Religion in the Digital Age
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR120) - How has technology impacted religion' This hands-on course explores how digital technologies like the Internet, social media, gaming, and artificial intelligence have changed the way that people think about religion. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS AH 354E Italian Art and Architecture
4 credits. Fall, Spring, Summer
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - VENETN ART/ARCH
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 528 Landscapes: Art and Environment in China
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or 120). - Examines art and ecology, power and cartography, and microcosms within the Chinese visual culture of landscapes. Topics include mountain cults, Daoist grotto-heavens, ink painting, gardens, multimedia panoramic views, and contemporary art projects that engage with environmental concerns. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AH 533 Seminar: Greek Art and Architecture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Topic for Fall 2025: Greek Art in Boston Area Museums. We investigate Greek art in the Boston area to understand and critique its display; compare local collections to others in the United States, Europe, west Asia, and Egypt; and learn about collections management using BU’s Gabel Museum of Archaeology. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 280 Eating and Drinking in the Ancient World
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Summer
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 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 309 Boston: An Ethnographic Approach (area)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Using the tools of ethnographic practice, explores Boston's multiple identities. Boston's patterns of immigration and demographic change are mapped through fieldwork and historical documentation. On site observations will help students understand local meanings of place and community. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II.
CAS AN 309S Boston: An Ethnographic Approach
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - An ethnographic approach to the city of Boston. Explores Boston as a set of ideas surrounding identity, ethnicity, race, class, religion, and politics. Topics for lecture and discussion include Boston's peculiar patterns of geographical development, industrialization, and immigration. The tools of anthropological observation and ethnography will provide students with the capacity to understand community, diversity, and the human geography of Boston.
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 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 339 Primate Biomechanics
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASAN102 OR CASBI107) or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - An introduction to the physical principles and anatomies underlying primate behavior, especially locomotion. Topics include mechanics, skeletal anatomy, primate locomotion, and the primate fossil record. Emphasis on bone biology and human bipedalism. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking.
CAS AN 344 Culture and Social Change in Japan (area)
4 credits. Fall
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 372 Psychological Anthropology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120), CASAN 101 and/or CASAN 210 are recommended. - Seminar-like, discussion-driven cross-cultural examination of psychological anthropology studies of care, personhood, emotions, gender and the body/mind, medicine, ethics, justice, politics, and the social relations between individuals and their communities or institutions. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Teamwork/Collaboration, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AN 462 Ethnography and Anthropological Theory 2
4 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASAN461) and First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Required of majors. Examines current anthropological theory and method. Discussion focuses on recent ethnographies and the anthropological debates they have provoked. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AN 508 Landscape Archaeology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or 120) - A seminar-style introduction to "landscape archaeology," a theoretical and methodological approach that explores how past and present communities create (and are in turn affected by) "cultural landscapes" formed through the interplay of sociocultural values and the natural environment. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS AN 556 The Evolution of the Human Diet
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASAN102 OR CASBI107 OR CASBI108) or consent of instructor. - An investigation of human dietary evolution including primate and human dietary adaptations, nutritional requirements, optimal foraging, digestive physiology, maternal and infant nutrition, hunting and cooking in human evolution, and impacts of food processing and agriculture on modern diets and health. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 556S The Evolution of the Human Diet
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASAN102 OR CASBI107 OR CASBI108) or consent of instructor. - An investigation of human dietary evolution including primate and human dietary adaptations, nutritional requirements, optimal foraging, digestive physiology, maternal and infant nutrition, hunting and cooking in human evolution, and impacts of food processing and agriculture on modern diets and health. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 562 The Origins of War
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Scientific Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - Did humans evolve to have war' Is war in human nature' We explore the foundations of war through reviewing studies of non-human animals and hunter- gatherers. Focus is on understanding how and why war evolved. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Scientific Inquiry II.
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 744 Modern Japanese Society: Family, School, and Workplace (Area)
4 credits. Fall
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 772 Psychological Anthropology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS AN 101 and/or CAS AN 210 recommended. Seminar-like, discussion-driven cross-cultural examination of psychological anthropology studies of care, personhood, emotions, gender and the body/mind, medicine, ethics, justice, politics, and the social relations between individuals and their communities or institutions. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Teamwork/Collaboration, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AR 230 Introduction to Greek & Roman Archaeology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - An archaeological journey from Bronze Age Greece to democratic Athens to Imperial Rome, tracking social upheaval and cohesion through religious, civic, and domestic spheres. Learn to read material remains to understand life in a complex past, a past that illuminates our own world today. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS AR 230S Introduction to Greek and Roman Archaeology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120) or consent of instructor. An archaeological journey from Bronze Age Greece to democratic Athens to Imperial Rome, tracking social upheaval and cohesion through religious, civic, and domestic spheres. Students learn to read material remains to understand life in a complex past, a past that illuminates our own world today. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS AR 280 Eating and Drinking in the Ancient World
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Summer
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 331 Early Greek Art and Architecture
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Examines a critical formative stage in Greek art. Analyzes the rise of identifiable artists, the relationship of art to epic, the evolution of the architectural orders, and the formation of Greek style in monumental stone sculpture. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AR 347 Egypt and Northeast Africa: Early States in Egypt, Nubia, and Eritrea/Ethiopia
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120)or consent of instr uctor. - This course focuses on early states in northeast Africa, in Egypt, Nubia, and Eritrea/Ethiopia. Comparative analyses include socio-economic institutions, kingship, burial practices and religions of these early states, concentrating on archaeological as well as textual evidence. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AR 508 Landscape Archaeology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or 120) - A seminar-style introduction to "landscape archaeology," a theoretical and methodological approach that explores how past and present communities create (and are in turn affected by) "cultural landscapes" formed through the interplay of sociocultural values and the natural environment. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS AR 533 Seminar: Greek Art and Architecture
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Greek stone architecture from its origins, including the emergence and development of the Doric and Ionic orders to the role of architecture in sanctuaries, forms of houses, invention of special buildings, accessibility, and scale. 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, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AR 551 Studies in Mesoamerican Archaeology
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASAR201 & CASAR250) or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Analysis of major events and processes of the Mesoamerican area. Topics include rise of towns, temples, and urbanism; the origin of state; and the development of empires. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II.
CAS AR 551E STDS MESO ARCH
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASAR201 & CASAR250) or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - STUD MESO ARCH
CAS AR 575 The Cosmopolitan Past: Material Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 594 Scientific Applications in Archaeology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) and AR 307, or graduate standing. - Seminar exploring new ways of addressing archaeological questions through the application of scientific techniques, focusing on cutting-edge methodologies and the most recent literature in the field. Students pursue questions of individual interest through readings, discussions, presentations, and research papers. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry II.
CAS AS 441 Observational Astronomy
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS AS 312; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Astronomical techniques. Photometry, spectroscopy, imaging, polarimetry and interferometry. Statistical methods for data reduction and analysis. Technical writing and oral/signed presentation. Strong laboratory component. 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, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BB 352 Junior Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 3
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing, First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120), major GPA of at least 3.0, junior standing and either BB 341 or BB 351 . - Third-semester research with junior standing, including required participation in group meetings. Application through the BMB Program. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Students expected to take a lead and make creative contributions to projects. Attendance at group meetings and final report required. Minimum 12 hours/week in lab or fieldwork, data analysis, and writing. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS BB 402 Honors Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120), senior standing, overall and BMB GPA of at least 3.5, and approval of application by th e BMB Research and Honors Committee. ; Undergraduate Corequisites: (CASBB498) - Second semester of independent laboratory research under the supervision of a faculty member in a two-semester course. Overall course grade is determined by laboratory performance, oral presentation, written thesis, and defense of the thesis before a committee of three BMB faculty members. Successful completion of both CAS BB 401 and BB 402, with a minimum grade of B , is required to graduate with honors in the major. Students must also present a research talk at the BMB symposium at the end of the Spring semester of the academic year. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BB 422 Biochemistry 2
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) and CASBI 421 or CASCH 421 or CASBB 421 or equivalent. Cell metabolism, with special emphasis on the uptake of food materials, the integration and regulation of catabolic, anabolic, and anaplerotic routes, and the generation and utilization of energy. Lectures include consideration of intermediary metabolism in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms with clinical correlations. Three hours lecture, one hour pre-lab discussion, four hours lab. Effective Spring 2025 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS BB 452 Senior Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 3
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing, First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120), major GPA of at least 3.0, and either BB 341, or BB 351, or BB 451. - Third-semester research with senior standing, including required participation in group meetings. Application through the BMB Program. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Attendance at group meetings and final report required. Students expected to take a lead and make creative contributions to projects. Minimum 12 hours/week in labwork, data analysis, and writing. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS BB 528 Biochemistry Laboratory 2
2 credits. Spring
Undergraduate prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) AND CASBB 421 or CASBB 527. Emphasizes protein, carbohydrate, nucleic acid, and lipid chemistry. Development and use of modern instrumentation and techniques. Four hours lab, one hour discussion. Same as laboratory portion of CASBB 422. Required for BMB students enrolled concurrently in MMEDIC. Four hours lab, one hour lecture. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU HUB area: Writing-Intensive.
CAS BB 622 Biochemistry 2
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) AND CASBB 421 or equivalent.- Cell metabolism, with special emphasis on the uptake of food materials, the integration and regulation of catabolic, anabolic, and anaplerotic routes, and the generation and utilization of energy. Lectures include consideration of intermediary metabolism in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms with clinical correlations. Three hours lecture, one hour pre-lab discussion, four hours lab. Effective Spring 2025 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS BI 116 Biology 2 with Integrated Science Experience 1 Lab
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Quantitative Reasoning II Scientific Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCH101) First Year 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 Bl 108 lecture), 3 hours lab. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Quantitative Reasoning II, Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking.
CAS BI 218 Cell Biology with Integrated Science Experience II Lab
5 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Quantitative Reasoning II Scientific Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS BI 116 and CAS CH 116 (or equivalent); or consent of instructor. F irst Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) ; Undergraduate Corequisites: CAS CH 218. - Integration of cell biology with organic chemistry and neuroscience, with emphasis on how each discipline interacts experimentally. Laboratory focuses on synthesizing compounds and testing in biological systems. 3 lecture hours, 1 discussion hour, 4 hours lab, 2 hour lab discussion. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Quantitative Reasoning II, Writing-Intensive Course, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS BI 225 Behavioral Biology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: CASBI 107 & CASBI 108 and First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120), and sophomore standing. - (Other students must fill out the waitlist - link in Notes. CASBI 225 and CASBI 407 cannot be taken concurrently and CASBI 225 cannot be taken following completion of CASBI 407.) Introduction to the genetics, physiology, neurobiology, ecology, and evolution of behavior. Topics include gene/environment interaction, hormones and behavior, neuroethology, communication, reproductive behavior, evolution of cooperation and altruism, cognition and brain evolution. Emphasis on integrative analysis. 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, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS BI 311 General Microbiology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Scientific Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI203 & CASBI206) or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - The biology of bacteria, viruses, fungi, algae, and protistans, including introduction to morphology, physiology, genetics, metabolism, ecology, and pathogenesis. Covers the basics of antibiotic resistance, motility, quorum sensing, symbiosis, epidemiology, and microbiome science. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Scientific Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS BI 311S General Microbiology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Scientific Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI203 & CASBI206) or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Biology of bacteria and related microorganisms; morphology, physiology, genetics, ecology, and control. Brief introduction to pathogenicity and host reactions. Students must register for two sections: lecture and a laboratory. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Scientific Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS BI 315 Systems Physiology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Scientific Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI108 OR ENGBE209) , and CASCH101 and CASCH102, or equivalent. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - An introduction to physiological principles applied across all levels of organization (cell, tissue, organ system). Preparation for more advanced courses in physiology. Topics include homeostasis and neural, muscle, respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, endocrine, gastrointestinal, and metabolic physiology. 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, Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS BI 315S Systems Physiology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Scientific Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI108 OR ENGBE209) , and CASCH101 and CASCH102, or equivalent. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Prereq: ((CAS BI 108 or ENG BE 209) and (CAS CH 101) and (CAS CH 102) or equivalent) and First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120). An introduction to physiological principles applied across all levels of organization (cell, tissue, organ system). Preparation for more advanced courses in physiology. Topics include homeostasis and neural, muscle, respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, endocrine, gastrointestinal, and metabolic physiology. Students must register for two sections: lecture and a laboratory. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS BI 352 Junior Research in Biology 3
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing, First-Year Writing (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120), and eith er BI 351 or 341. - Third semester research with junior standing including required participation in group meetings. Application through the Biology Department. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Attendance at group meetings and final report required. Students expected to take a lead and make creative contributions to projects. Attendance at group meetings and final report required. Minimum 12 hours/week in lab or fieldwork, data analysis, and writing. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS BI 402 Honors Research in Biology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing, overall GPA of at least 3.5, First Year Writing Semin ar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120), and approval of the Biology Research & Ho nors Committee. - At least one semester of prior undergraduate research for credit required. Mentored laboratory or field research with a faculty member of the Biology Department leading to graduation with Honors in Biology. Minimum 12 hours/week in lab or fieldwork, data analysis, and writing. Successful completion of this course, with a minimum grade of B , is required to graduate with honors. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 452 Senior Research in Biology 3
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI315) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120); senior standing a nd either BI 340, BI 350, BI 450, or full-time summer UROP. - Third semester research with senior standing, including the use of research literature. Application through the Biology Department. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Attendance at group meetings and final report required. Students expected to take a lead and make creative contributions to projects. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS BI 452S Senior Research in Biology 3
4 credits. Summer
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI315) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120); senior standing a nd either BI 340, BI 350, BI 450, or full-time summer UROP. - SENIOR BIO RES3
CAS BI 509 Metapopulation Ecology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Introduces students to metapopulation ecology through the lens of propagule dispersal and population connectivity. 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, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 565 Functional Genomics
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI552) or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Graduate Prerequisites: background in molecular biology. - This paper- and problem-based course focuses on functional genomics topics such as genetic variation, genome organization, and mechanisms of transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulation. Up-to-date methods include NGS, genome editing, ChIP-seq, chromatin accessibility assays, transcriptomics, and proteomics. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking.
CAS CC 102 Core Humanities 2: The Way: Antiquity and the Medieval World
4 credits. Spring
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. Summer
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 CC 202 Core Humanities 4: Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Modernity
4 credits. Spring
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 CC 211 Power, Political Forms, and Economics: Core Social Science 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Builds on CC 112, considering the major events and processes that have shaped the modern world, and looks at the roots of these changes in the works studied in first year Core. Ideas of human rights and self- determination, the relation of the individual and society, and the relation of power and economics to society. Readings are drawn from classic works of social and political theory: Thucydides, Ibn Khaldun, Hobbes, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Weber, Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, and Malinowski. The course is writing intensive. 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, Social Inquiry II, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS CC 221 Making the Modern World: Progress, Politics, and Economics
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS CC 101 or WR 120). Applying careful readings of Western social, political, and economic thinkers between 1600-1900, the course asks: How did "society" emerge as a distinctive object of political engineering, normative discourse, and social scientific inquiry? And what economic transformations helped shape theories of justice and social contract? Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry II.
CAS CC 318 Public Speaking
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
How can you make a connection with an audience when you speak? How can you find ways to make a rhetorical argument? This course puts students in conversation with texts and ideas that guide them to find authentic voices when constructing narratives, arguments, and presentations to different audiences. Students may not receive credit for both CASCC 318 and CASWR 318. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CH 232 Inorganic Chemistry
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCH102 OR CASCH110 OR CASCH112) ; CASCH211 or CASCH203; or consent of instructor. First Year Writing S eminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) ; Undergraduate Corequisites: (CASCH212 OR CASCH214)or consent of instructor. - The relation of atomic and molecular structure to chemical properties. Bronsted and Lewis acid/base behavior; redox reactions; bonding and reactions of main group elements; d-metal complexes, including bonding, spectra, and reaction mechanisms; and organometallic chemistry. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, four hours lab. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Writing- Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CH 354 Physical Chemistry Laboratory
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASCH102/201, CASCH110, CASCH112 or CASCH351. First Year Writing Semin ar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) ; Undergraduate Corequisites: (CASCH352) - Experiments in thermodynamics, vibrational and electronic, chemical kinetics and equilibrium, molecular modeling and structure determination. Statistics and error analysis of laboratory data. Six hours lab plus prelab lecture. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
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 325 Tradition and Modernity in Iranian Film and Literature
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 353 Stalin's Crimes: Gulag and Genocide
4 credits. Spring
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 387 The Holocaust Through Film
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 395 Inhuman Films: Genders, Animals, Machines
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or 120). - This course explores what happens to the "human" at the intersection of feminist theory and cinematic representation. How and why do films assign humanity to some figures and withhold it from others on the basis of race, gender, "ability," etc.' Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS CI 512 Film and Media Theory
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-year writing seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or 120) and CASCI 101, CASCI 102, CASCI 200, or COMFT 250. - Introduction to film and media theory as a mode of inquiry. What happens when we render the world as an image? How do cinematic images differ from other forms of image-making? What does it mean to be a spectator? Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CI 551 Studies in Auteur Filmmaking
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - Intensive study of a single filmmaker or group of filmmakers, paying special attention to theoretical problems of authorship and artistic control. How do filmmakers respond to studio pressure, historical events or government censorship' How do personal styles develop and transform in a collaborative medium' What does it mean to think of the director or writer or producer of a film as its author' Topic for Spring 2025, Section A1: Roberto Rossellini & Pier Paolo Pasolini. Survey of Italian filmmakers Roberto Rossellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini, from their similar roots in the (neo)realist tradition to their diverging paths, one would explore the pedagogical power of television while the other moved to literary adaptations and radical cinema. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CL 230 The Golden Age of Latin Literature
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
An in-depth exploration in English of some of the greatest poets from Ancient Rome, including Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid. Examines the Romans' engagement with Greek literature and the development of their own "Classics," from personal love poetry to profound epic. All texts in translation. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS CL 249 Classics in Popular Culture
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or 120) -
This course explores the ways in which modern myth-makers have reimagined ancient Greek and Roman legends for contemporary audiences. It examines a wide variety of popular artforms to investigate how to they use the past to interrogate the present. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CL 302 The Age of Augustus
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCL102 OR CASCL222) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) or consent of inst ructor - The culture of the age of Augustus; political institutions, literature, art, architecture, engineering works, coins, religion, social institutions and life, the role of women, and life in the Roman provinces. Some familiarity with the civilization of Ancient Rome recommended. All texts in translation. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CL 303 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 CL 305 Topics in Myth
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - This course may be repeated for credit as topics change. Topic for Fall 2025: The Iliad: translations, condensations, distillations. We consider some of the many and varied attempts to translate the Iliad and convey its essential qualities. Much of the course focuses on translations into English, from George Chapman to Emily Wilson. We also consider some smaller or more selective Iliads, including, for example, Alice Oswald's Memorial and visual representations of the poem. No knowledge of Greek required. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing- Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CL 305S Topics in Myth
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or WR 120) - Topic for summer 2025: Ancient Myth and Allegory. Looks at Greek myths and how ancient philosophers, Jews, and Christians read them. In class, we will discuss the myths themselves and the range of strategies used by ancient interpreters to make sense of them. Students will read selections in translation from texts from c. 500 BCE to 250 CE. Selections will include philosophical readings of the Odyssey; Orphic and Gnostic theogonies; and Jewish and Christian allegorical interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CL 310 The Classical Tradition in Modern Literature
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar - Explores the ways in which the theatre, myth, and literature of Ancient Greece and Rome have sparked ideas, debates, and conversations among contemporary authors and artists. Students analyze modern works of literature in different genres together with the classical works that inspired them. All Greek and Latin literature is read in translation. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CL 313 The "Odyssey" and "Ulysses"
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course consists of a close reading of James Joyce's Ulysses with particular attention to his use of the Odyssey. We also examine the relation of oral and book cultures and other works Joyce takes in, such as the Aeneid, Divine Comedy and Hamlet. 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, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CL 336 The Roman Empire: Society, Culture, Religion
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Perquisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or 120). - The culture of the age of Roman emperors; history, political institutions, literature, art, religion, social institutions and life, the role of women, and life in the Roman provinces. Some familiarity with the civilization of ancient Rome recommended. All texts in translation. Effective Summer 2025, this course fulfills a single requirement in each of the following BU HUB areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Writing Intensive.
CAS CL 348 Gods, Graves and Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Religion and Ritual
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) or consent of inst ructor - The beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, from their origins in Predynastic times to the development of the great temple complexes in the New Kingdom and later are studied in a broad synthesis of the data: archaeological, architectural and textual. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS CL 406 Advanced Topics in Classical Civilization
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two courses in classical civilization, or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - In depth examination of an aspect of classical civilization(s). All texts in translation. May be repeated for credit as topics change. Topic for Spring 2026: Sophocles’ Theban Plays (Antigone, Oedipus Tyannus, and Oedipus at Colonus), with particular emphasis on feminist perspectives. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication , Writing- Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CS 115 Academic Writing in Computer Science
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS WR 120 or equivalent; CAS CS 111. - Pre-req: WR 120 or equivalent, CS 111. This 2-credit course offers a Writing Intensive unit through the topic of computer science. Students engage with readings and discussions in current computer science issues. The course focuses on teaching critical reading, creating a strong argument, and engaging with a variety of sources. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
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 405 Applied Econometrics: Time Series
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Quantitative Reasoning II Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASEC 201 (or EC 221), CASEC 202 (or EC 222), and CASEC 204 (or EC 224). - Studies commonly used econometric models used with cross-sectional and panel data. Covers binary response models (Logit, Probit), panel data methods and instrumental variables estimation. The emphasis is on applications and data analysis using Stata. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Quantitative Reasoning II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EC 406 Applied Econometrics: Cross-Sectional
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Quantitative Reasoning II Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASEC 201 (or EC 221), CASEC 202 (or EC 222), and CASEC 204 (or EC 224). - Studies commonly used econometric models used with cross-sectional and panel data. Covers binary response models (Logit, Probit), panel data methods and instrumental variables estimation. The emphasis is on applications and data analysis using Stata.. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive, Quantitative Reasoning II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EE 230 Environmental Humanities and Society
4 credits. Spring
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 322 The Politics of Science, Care, and the Environment
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisite: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - This interdisciplinary course explores political conflicts over environmental problems as conflicts over science and care. Content ranges from concrete cases of U.S. environmental challenges (toxic exposure, wildlife in suburbs), to environmental political theory and the politics of climate change. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EE 509 Applied Environmental Statistics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Introductory statistics (CAS MA 115/116 or MA 213/124 or equivalent), Calculus I (CAS MA 121 or CAS MA 123 or equivalent), and First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120. - Survey of modern probability-based statistical methods in environmental science. Core concepts in likelihood and Bayesian approaches are used to address spatial, time-series, and latent variable models and non-Gaussian, non-linear, heterogeneous, and missing data. Project-based course focused on applications to data. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Writing-Intensive Course.
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 528 US Environmental Policy
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120); CAS EE 100 or equivalent; EE 309 or equivalent; or consent of instructor. - Survey and historical overview of key environmental policies and regulations in the United States. Emphasis on policy development, including formulation and implementation of federal pollution control regulations since the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970. Considers possible future policy needs. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information 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 201 Introduction to Literary Studies
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEN120) or another First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120) . - Introduction to literary analysis and interpretation. Variable topics. Through frequent writing assignments and discussion, students develop skills in the analysis of literary texts and learn to express their interpretive ideas in correct and persuasive prose. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS EN 201S INTMEDIATE COMP
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASEN120) or another First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120) . - INTERMED COMP
CAS EN 213 The "Odyssey" and "Ulysses"
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course consists of a close reading of James Joyce's Ulysses with particular attention to his use of the Odyssey. We also examine the relation of oral and book cultures and other works Joyce takes in, such as the Aeneid, Divine Comedy and Hamlet. 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, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 221 Major Authors
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASEN 120 or CASWR 100 or WR 120). - Introduction to the major works of ancient and medieval literatures that influenced later Continental, English, and American literature: the Bible, Homeric epic, Greek tragedy, Vergil's Aeneid, and Dante's The Divine Comedy. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS EN 221S Major Authors I
4 credits. Summer
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Introduction to the major works of ancient and medieval literatures that influenced later Continental, English, and American literature: the Bible, Homeric epic, Greek tragedy, Vergil's Aeneid, and Dante's The Divine Comedy. Required of concentrators in English. (Cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course by the same title that was formerly numbered CAS HU 221.)
CAS EN 230 Environmental Humanities and Society
4 credits. Spring
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 241 Jewish Humor and Satire: Stand-Up Comedy
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-Year writing seminar (CASWR 100 or 120.) - We begin with Freud's theories, illustrated by Viennese and Yiddish humor. The course then focuses on oral-style short fiction, the creation of a persona, and stand-up comedy routines. As we read texts and study performances, students write their own. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS EN 306 Introduction to Playwriting
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course teaches playwriting craft through lectures, readings, discussion of dramatic writing, writing workshops, attending theatrical events, individual conferences, and the writing of short plays culminating in a one-act. A portfolio of revised work is due at semester's end. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 340E WRITING LONDON
4 credits. Fall
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the London History & Literature Programme. First Year Wr iting Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - WRITING LONDON
CAS EN 354 The Poetry of War
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or WR 120). - Survey of narrative, lyric, and dramatic forms of war poetry, mostly in English, beginning with mythic war and then responding to four modern wars: the American Civil War, the First and Second World Wars, and the American war in Vietnam. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Writing Intensive.
CAS EN 360 Toni Morrison's American Times
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 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. Fall and Spring
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 379 American Poetry
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - A survey of American poetry, from the Revolutionary era up through the post- WWII period, introducing the fundamentals of poetic form and lyric practice, as well as the historical and cultural contexts surrounding the development of Romanticism, Modernism, and beyond. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS EN 383E Writing in Australia
4 credits. Fall, Spring, Summer
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - A critical introduction to the literature of Australia, surveying an indicative selection of texts written in English since the arrival of the country's first non-Aboriginal inhabitants in 1788. Addresses the critical examination of that literature in terms of Australia's history, views of Australia as a physical entity, and perspectives on Australia's people.
CAS EN 403 Advanced Writing of Poetry
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Writing-Intensive Course
This course is is intended for those who wish to learn to write in a variety of poetic forms, voices and styles, and who wish to further develop their skills in writing print-based verse and to deepen their familiarity with contemporary poetry. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 502 Reading and Writing Literary Nonfiction
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing; and Firs t-Year Writing (WR 120 or equivalent). - This reading and writing seminar explores literary nonfiction, a wide-ranging, sometimes controversial genre in which writers use techniques associated with fiction and poetry to make meaning of lives. How do writers describe their world, especially peoples, places, and things' What are different ways of using personal voice' Each weekly meeting includes discussion of published nonfiction along with writing short exercises, and workshopping writing. The learning goals of this course are to become better readers and more skillful practitioners of the craft of literary nonfiction. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 502S Reading and Writing Literary Nonfiction
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing; and Firs t-Year Writing (WR 120 or equivalent). - Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS EN 120 or CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120) and two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. This reading and writing seminar explores literary nonfiction, a wide-ranging, sometimes controversial genre in which writers use techniques associated with fiction and poetry to make meaning of lives. How do writers describe their world, especially peoples, places, and things' What are different ways of using personal voice' Each weekly meeting includes discussion of published nonfiction along with writing short exercises, and workshopping writing. The learning goals of this course are to become better readers and more skillful practitioners of the craft of literary nonfiction. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 510 Playwriting 1: Writing of Short Plays
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor, to whom a short play or scene from a play must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. First Year W riting Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - A seminar in the writing of short, original plays, addressing structure, language, and theme. Students read and discuss the masters of modern drama. Writing exercises are assigned to stir the imagination and develop craft. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 517 Drama in Theory and Practice 1: Structure and the Script
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or 120) and by consent of ins tructor, to whom a short play or scene from a play must be submitted d uring the period just before classes begin. - Structure and the Contemporary Script. A comparison and analysis of the design of plays from the last two decades, encouraging students to imitate the form, character, and plot from these plays while experimenting with their own narrative structures. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 519 Drama in Theory and Practice 2: Experiments with Character and Form
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS WR 100 or WR 120 along with the consent of the instructor, to whom a short play or scene from a play must be submitted during the period just before classes begin. - Course includes the reading and analysis of dramatic works. Classes allow experimentation with the full-length monologue and small cast plays while giving attention to dramatic structure and style. Students present their own work in a workshop format, and material is critiqued in class. Students also attend performances and write critiques of professional productions. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 520 Drama in Theory and Practice 3: Adaptation and the Theatre
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor, to whom a short play or scene from a play mustb e submitted during the period just before classes begin. First Year Wr iting Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This playwriting seminar focuses on translation versus adaptation, comparing the two, and culling material from other writing genres. Focusing on tone, imagery, stage design, and language, students write their own stage adaptations as well as read various texts translated from World Theatre. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 521 Literature of the Middle Ages 1
4 credits. Fall
Topic for Fall 2015: Lyric Romance Epic. Medieval writings on sex and violence. Readings among several genres: saints' lives, epic, romance, lyric. Texts include Beowulf, Song of Roland, Arthurian romances, Tristan, Parzival, Latin and vernacular lyric (troubadours, Carmina Burana.). Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 546 The Modern American Novel
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing; and First-Year Writing Seminar (CASWR 120 or equivalent). - Topics vary each semester but this course may be taken only once for credit. Topic for Fall 2025: Representative Works 1900 - 1950. Novelistic responses to American modernity, centered on idea that "the color line" is its central feature. How does racism structure modern economic, social, cultural change' Authors: James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Willa Cather, Faulkner, Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 546S The Modern American Novel
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing; and Firs t-Year Writing (WR 120 or equivalent). - From 1900 to 1950. Works by Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and others.
CAS EN 556 Faulkner and After
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - Four of Faulkner's major novels in dialogue with works by later authors who explicitly engage his fiction as they establish their own original projects: Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, and Jesmyn Ward. Opportunities to explore other writers as well. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 560 Disability Voices
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - Disability Studies theory and literature. Writing about dis/ability comes in many forms: autobiography, essay, fiction, graphic novel, visual arts, poetry, performance. An exploration of how texts, medieval to modern, replace, extend, critique or supplement normative narratives about the human person. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 562 Studies in Asexualities
4 credits. Spring
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 564 Studies in Auteur Filmmaking
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - Intensive study of a single filmmaker or group of filmmakers, paying special attention to theoretical problems of authorship and artistic control. How do filmmakers respond to studio pressure, historical events or government censorship' How do personal styles develop and transform in a collaborative medium' What does it mean to think of the director or writer or producer of a film as its author' Topic for Spring 2025, Section A1: Roberto Rossellini & Pier Paolo Pasolini. Survey of Italian filmmakers Roberto Rossellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini, from their similar roots in the (neo)realist tradition to their diverging paths, one would explore the pedagogical power of television while the other moved to literary adaptations and radical cinema. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 569 Film and Media Theory
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-year writing seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or 120) and CASCI 101, CASCI 102, CASCI 200, or COMFT 250. - Introduction to film and media theory as a mode of inquiry. What happens when we render the world as an image' How do cinematic images differ from other forms of image-making' What does it mean to be a spectator' Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 570 Studies in British Literary Movements
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (CASWR 100 or 120 or equivalent.) - Topic varies by semester. Past topics include Radical Reimaginings: Cavendish, Milton, and the Power of Literature. Please see English Department's website or contact instructor for current topic. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 582 Studies in Modern Literature
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: junior or senior or graduate standing; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120). - Specialized topics in literary texts from the turn of the 20th century to the present. Topic varies by semester. Past topics include Prophecy and Fiction, Irony and Belief. Please see English Department's website or contact instructor for current topic. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 582S Studies in Modern Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: junior or senior or graduate standing; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120). - Specialized topics in literary texts from the turn of the 20th century to the present. Topic varies by semester. Past topics include Prophecy and Fiction, Irony and Belief. Please see English Department's website or contact instructor for current topic. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 586 Studies in Anglophone Literature
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing; and Firs t-Year Writing (WR 120 or equivalent). - Caribbean Poetry. Study of twentieth-century Caribbean poetry written in English(es), surveying anthologies and concentrating on major figures (Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Lorna Goodison, Eric Roach). Emphases: the function of poets in small societies, and their choices concerning linguistic and aesthetic traditions. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 586S Studies in Anglophone Literature
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing; and Firs t-Year Writing (WR 120 or equivalent). - Prereq: junior or senior standing or two previous literature courses. Topic for summer 2021: Anglophone African Literature. Achebe writes, in a preface to a series of African novels: "The last five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light, and now the time has come for Africans to tell their own stories." This course examines the phenomenon Achebe describes, starting with a story by a European author that, arguably, presents Africa in a "bad light" (Conrad's Heart of Darkness), before moving on to a selection of twentieth- and twenty-first century novels by African authors written in English. Likely works include Achebe's Things Fall Apart, its "sequel" No Longer at Ease, and his later, blistering critique of post-colonial Nigeria, Anthills of the Savanah; Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat and Devil on the Cross (originally written in Gikuyu but translated by the author himself into English); Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North; and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah. Works are read carefully to discern the political, cultural, and aesthetic strategies employed by African novelists to "tell their own stories." Students also study debates among African authors about African literature, in particular the question of whether to write in English, as well as scholarship on issues such as colonialism and neo- colonialism. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS HI 200 The Historian's Craft
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Required workshop for majors, normally taken in the sophomore year. Gives students the opportunity to analyze original sources and engage with leading works of historical scholarship. Explores how historians reconstruct and interpret the past using creativity, deduction, and contextual analysis. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy, Writing Intensive.
CAS HI 205 Gender and Sexuality in Judaism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Explores the role of gender and sexuality in Judaism and Jewish experience, historically and in the present. Subjects include constructions of masculinity and femininity, attitudes toward (and uses of) the body and sexuality, gendered nature of religious practice and authority. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS HI 316 American Urban History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Examines cities in America, from colonial era forward, focusing on Boston, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit, and San Francisco in national and transnational context. Focus on social, political, and environmental change to understand present and past urban landscapes. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I.
CAS HI 320 Understanding Revolution: France and Algeria
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 335 International Nuclear Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course examines politics, history, and technologies surrounding nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. It foregrounds the "global atomic marketplace" with emphasis on the challenges and opportunities for nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation. Also offered as CAS IR 315 and CAS PO 358. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS HI 335S International Nuclear Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I 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 politics, history, and technologies surrounding nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Foregrounds the "global atomic marketplace" with emphasis on the challenges and opportunities for nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS HI 342E Camino de Santiago: A Pilgrim's Way Yesterday and Today
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Pre-requisites: Admission to the BU Study Abroad Program. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - This course provides a comprehensive approach to the phenomenon of the Camino de Santiago, integrating historical, cultural, social, and contemporary perspectives to offer students a well-rounded understanding of this significant European pilgrimage route. Effective Summer 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS HI 358 Twentieth-Century European Thought and Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
This course treats artistic, musical, literary, political, and philosophical works historically. Among its large themes are modernism and the discovery of the unconscious, the cultural effects of both World Wars, democracy and its critics, totalitarian culture, existentialism, and postmodernism. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Historical Consciousness. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS HI 376 The Israeli Settlement Project: History, and the Dynamics of Power
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - This course explores the Israeli settlement movement's evolution, focusing on the religious rights ideological, political, and societal impact from the 1970s to today. Students will analyze its historical roots, legal structures, and implications for Israeli-Palestinian conflict and dynamics. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry 1, Writing-Intensive Course.
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 401 Senior Honors Seminar 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing and departmental approval. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - The first of a two-semester seminar that guides students through the research and writing of an honors thesis grounded in primary historical research. Students participate in a workshop environment and are matched with an additional faculty advisor. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS HI 407 Topics in Medieval Religious Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar ( e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - Topic for Spring 2025: Marriage, Sex, and Ritual. Explores the ritualized nature of marriage and sex among Christians, Jews, and others. Topics include betrothals and weddings, religious authority and marriage, ritual power and sex, procreative `magic,¿ and objects used by people to ritualize their marital and sexual lives. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS HI 410 Religion, Community, and Culture in Medieval Spain
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Interactions between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in medieval Europe's most religiously diverse region -- from the establishment of an Islamic al-Andalus in 711 CE to the final Christian "reconquest" of the peninsula and expulsion of the Jews in 1492 CE. To enrich exploration of interrelated themes and learning outcomes, student registrants of RN/HI 410/RN 710 will meet with student registrants of LS 410 during scheduled class time on 2/21, 3/13, 3/27, 4/24, and 5/1 during the term. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS HI 432E ENGLISH HIST
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the London History & Literature Program. First Year Writ ing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - ENGLISH HIST
CAS HI 444 Transformation and Trauma: Living in Post-Communist Russia
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar. - Using letters, diaries, oral histories, film, and fiction, course explores how ordinary citizens tried to rebuild on the ashes of the USSR, and why hope for a democratic Russia gave way to Putin. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS HI 447 Born under a Red Star: Soviet Children at Home, School, & Play
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - In the USSR, children were the revolution's lifeblood. They were politically privileged, but also regular victims of poverty and political turmoil. Using schoolbooks, fairy tales, diaries, toys, and fashion, this seminar examines children's lives and childhood as a historically constructed phenomenon. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS HI 460 Animals in America
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 467 Postwar America: Issues in Political, Cultural, and Social History, 1945-69
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing course (WR 120 or equivalent) - Exploring a variety of source materials, analytic methods, and modes of writing, students investigate how, after the upheavals of World War II, American fought over and refashioned new norms and ideals in politics, daily life, and the home, Topics include Cold War culture, youth rebellion, the African American freedom movement, liberalism, the Vietnam war, and the counterculture. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS HI 503 Race, Ethnicity, and Childhood in US History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar. - The history of childhood in US History intersects with the interdisciplinary area of childhood studies. Within that, the histories of Black children and children of ethnic minorities and historically marginalized young people is a burgeoning subfield. This course examines how identities inclusive of (and structural inequities associated with) race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and sexuality have differently affected the lives and experiences of young people in the United States from the colonial period through to the 21st century. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness (HCO), Creativity/Innovation.
CAS HI 523 U.S.-Latin American Relations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores both sides of the U.S.-Latin American relationship, tracing its development over time and analyzing its current challenges. Each week focuses on a different theme--including imperialism, intervention, hemispheric security, trade, immigration, and drug trafficking--within a roughly chronological framework. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 526 Poverty and Democracy: Modern India and the United States in Comparative Perspective
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 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 HI 568 The Modern Metropolis: Approaches to Urban History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Cities such as New York, Paris, London, and Shanghai captured the worst problems and most exciting possibilities of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This course investigates how urban spaces facilitated commerce, social life, and the forging of modern identities. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS HI 568E MODRN METRPOLIS
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - MODRN METRPOLIS
CAS HI 574 Introduction to Critical University Studies: Space, Place, and BU
4 credits.
This team-taught seminar uses the lens of "critical university studies" to consider the ways colonialism and white supremacy have shaped the history of American universities. Readings and archival research examine land appropriation, slavery and anti-slavery, segregation, and policing at Boston University. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, Historical Consciousness.
CAS HI 575 The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing and consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - The political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States in the formative years of the early twentieth century. Topics include Progressivism, World War I, immigration, modernism, the Scopes Trial, suffrage, the Harlem Renaissance, and the emergence of modern business practices. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS HI 578 The United States as a Great Power
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
The course material is organized along a debate format. Although the course is primarily concerned with twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy, attention is also given to eighteenth-and nineteenth-century issues. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
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 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 315 International Nuclear Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course examines politics, history, and technologies surrounding nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. It foregrounds the "global atomic marketplace" with emphasis on the challenges and opportunities for nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation. Also offered as CAS HI 335 and CAS PO 358. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS IR 315S International Nuclear Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I 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 politics, history, and technologies surrounding nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Foregrounds the "global atomic marketplace" with emphasis on the challenges and opportunities for nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS IR 374 Introduction to Security Studies
4 credits.
Analysis of the factors determining national and international security. Examines the historical relationship between military power and politics. Topics include causes of war, conduct of war, prevention of war. Students cannot receive credit for both CAS IR 374 and CAS IR 385. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 374S Introduction to Security Studies
4 credits. Summer
Analysis of the factors determining national and international security. Examines the historical relationship between military power and politics. Topics include causes of war, conduct of war, prevention of war. Satisfies CAS social sciences divisional studies requirement. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 385 Foundations of Strategic Studies
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS IR 271 and First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Examines factors determining national and international security, and relationships between military power and politics. Topics include causes/conduct of war, civil-military relations, coercion in international relations, and grand strategy. Students cannot receive credit for both IR 374 and IR 385. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 401 Pardee School Honors Thesis 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing; permission required. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g ., WR 100 or WR 120) - IR 401 is the first semester of the two-semester Honors Program for students in any of the Pardee School's majors (Asian Studies, European Studies, International Relations, Latin American Studies, and Middle East & North Africa Studies). Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS IR 402 Pardee School Honors Thesis 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing; permission required. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g ., WR 100 or WR 120) - IR 402 is the second semester of the two-semester Honors Program for students in any of the Pardee School's majors (Asian Studies, European Studies, International Relations, Latin American Studies, and Middle East & North Africa Studies). 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.
CAS IR 410 Latin America Today: An Interdisciplinary Approach
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior or senior standing; or sophomore standing with consent of instr uctor.; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Examines the historical roots and contemporary realities of Latin American cultural, political, social and economic challenges. Brings to bear insights of classical and contemporary scholarship from multiple disciplines and traditions to provide deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the region. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 461 American Grand Strategy
4 credits. Fall
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120); junior standing o r consent of instructor. - Traces the United States' engagement in world affairs by evaluating U.S. grand strategy - its theory of how to 'create' security for itself in an often-threatening world. Using history and theory, identifies changes in U.S. strategy and evaluates policies today. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS IR 504 Politics of the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 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 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 520 The State and Public Purpose in Asia
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: juniors & seniors in Internat'l Relations, Pol. Science, and Asian Stu dies who have completed the 1st-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR100 or 1 20) & Writing, Research & Inquiry (WR150, 151, 152). - Meets with CAS PO 550. Comparative exploration of the economic and political institutions of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, drawing on political and economic theory. Addresses how relationships among state, business, and labor have affected industrial development and contemporary economic activity. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 522 Politics of Nuclear Weapons
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASIR376 OR CASPO366) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor. - This course examines politics, history, and technologies surrounding nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. It analyzes the "global atomic marketplace" with a particular focus on the challenges and opportunities for nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry II, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS IR 523 Cybersecurity and U.S. National Security
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration 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 the challenge of cybersecurity in times of war and peace, with particular focus on U.S. national security. Explores cyber weapon systems and doctrine, the problem of attribution, and "gray zone" issues including information operations and election interference. 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, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 526 National and Homeland Security Law
4 credits. Spring
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 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. Summer
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 533 Contentious Politics and the Arab Uprisings in the Middle East
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Analyzes divergent outcomes of the Arab uprisings by framing them along historic continuum of domestic, regional, and international political developments. Examines how linkages between regional and international states and actors have affected historical and contemporary statebuilding and transitional outcomes. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS IR 533S Contentious Politics and the Arab Uprisings in the Middle East
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Analyzes divergent outcomes of the Arab uprisings by framing them along historic continuum of domestic, regional, and international political developments. Examines how linkages between regional and international states and actors have affected historical and contemporary statebuilding and transitional outcomes. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS IR 534 Contemporary African Politics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-year writing seminar or graduate student standing. - Exploration of challenges facing African states, their sources, and possible solutions. Focus on colonial legacies, political change, democracy and authoritarianism, political violence, the politics of ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexuality, and political economy, drawing on specific country cases. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Research and Information Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS IR 539 History, Policy & Statecraft
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar ( e.g., CAS WR 100 or WR 120). - How can we use history to understand the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future' How effective is historical analysis to resolve contemporary policy problems' This course connects history with current policy problems to make sense of national statecraft. Effective Summer 1 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 539S History, Policy & Statecraft
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar ( e.g., CAS WR 100 or WR 120). - What can we learn from the past' How can we use history to understand the past, the present, and anticipate the future' This course introduces students to historical thinking to make sense of contemporary issues in national and international politics. Effective Summer 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 544 Solving Humanitarian Crises
4 credits. Fall
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 548 Peacekeeping and State-Building
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR120) - Pre-req: WR 120 or equivalent, CS 111. Examines the challenges facing the United Nations and other international organizations in preventing, containing, and ending armed conflict, as well as their role in creating conditions for reconciliation, transitional justice, institutions building. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS IR 552 Technology and War
4 credits. Fall
How do countries make choices between military technologies' How do they use them' What about emerging technologies' In this course, we examine the drivers behind countries¿ development of military technologies, how they operationalize them, and why they sometimes restrict them. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS IR 557 Guerrilla Warfare and Terrorism
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 558 Mapping Dangerous Online Speech
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 561 Religion and International Relations
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar ( e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores the role of religion in contemporary international relations in the context of questions about the common core of modernity. Reviews scholarly and policy literature, and case studies, in order to elucidate religion's intellectual and operational diversity in international relations. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 566 History of Deportation & Border Security in the Americas
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 568 U.S.-Latin American Relations
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores both sides of the U.S.-Latin American relationship, tracing its development over time and analyzing its current challenges. Each week focuses on a different theme--including imperialism, intervention, hemispheric security, trade, immigration, and drug trafficking--within a roughly chronological framework. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 568S U.S.-Latin American Relations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores both sides of the U.S.-Latin American relationship, tracing its development over time and analyzing its current challenges. Each week focuses on a different theme--including imperialism, intervention, hemispheric security, trade, immigration, and drug trafficking--within a roughly chronological framework.
CAS IR 572 Ballot or Bullet: The Global Struggle for Justice
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar. - How do people attain justice for issues with deep historical roots, such as colonialism, segregation, indigenous land rights, reparations, gender/race-based violence, and religious persecution' Explores the role of violence both in policing global morality and in popular responses to imposed universalist ideas. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II.
CAS IR 573 Seminar in Public International Law
4 credits. Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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 660 Rwanda: Genocide and Its Aftermath
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 IR 661 American Grand Strategy
4 credits. Fall
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Traces the United States' engagement in world affairs by evaluating U.S. grand strategy - its theory of how to 'create' security for itself in an often-threatening world. Using history and theory, identifies changes in U.S. strategy and evaluates policies today. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS JS 239 Jewish Humor and Satire: Stand-Up Comedy
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-Year writing seminar (CASWR 100 or 120.) - We begin with Freud's theories, illustrated by Viennese and Yiddish humor. The course then focuses on oral-style short fiction, the creation of a persona, and stand-up comedy routines. As we read texts and study performances, students write their own. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS JS 246 Jewish Mysticism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - This course explores the rich world of Jewish Mysticism from its earliest roots to its contemporary expressions in the 21st century. We look at the interaction between Jewish mystics and major western schools of thought such as Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Aristotelianism, and Sufism. The course also introduces students to the Kabbalistic tradition and its various historical manifestations. No prior knowledge of Hebrew or other themes in Jewish studies required. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS JS 283 Israeli Culture through Film (in English translation)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 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 348 Philosophy and Mysticism: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives
4 credits. Fall
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 365 Music and the Holocaust
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisite: First-Year writing seminar (CASWR 100 or 120.) - History and music of composers targeted during the Holocaust: classical music, jazz, and cabaret musical styles banned as "degenerate" by the Nazis. Particular focus on the art and music created in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS JS 367 The Holocaust Through Film
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 377 Gender, Sexuality, and Judaism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Explores the role of gender and sexuality in Judaism and Jewish experience, historically and in the present. Subjects include constructions of masculinity and femininity, attitudes toward (and uses of) the body and sexuality, gendered nature of religious practice and authority. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS JS 383 Israeli Culture through Film (in English translation)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 JS 388 The Israeli Settlement Project ¿ History, and the Dynamics of Power
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - This course explores the Israeli settlement movement's evolution, focusing on the religious rights ideological, political, and societal impact from the 1970s to today. Students will analyze its historical roots, legal structures, and implications for Israeli-Palestinian conflict and dynamics. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry 1, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS LC 316 Chinese Reading and Writing 3
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 318 Chinese through Public Speaking
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLC 311 and a First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CASWR 100 or WR 120) or consent of instructor. - As public speakers, how can we engage different communities at different times and places' This course explores theories concerning how to construct narratives and arguments that resonate with specific audiences in the Chinese-speaking world, and invites students to put such theories into performative practice in Chinese. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LC 451 Visual Politics: Propaganda Art, Literature, and "Model Films" during the Chinese Cultural Revol
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 LF 323 Creative Writing in French
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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 350 Reading the French Way
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Summer
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. Fall and Spring
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 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 483 Topics in Literature and Politics: Revolution, Power, Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Close interpretive, critical, and theoretical study of philosophical questions posed by selected works of literature [and related arts] with emphasis on the political. Themes such as vengeance, justice, and injustice; political theatre / theatre of politics; representations of war; exile and imprisonment as the scene of writing; cross-fertilization between law, diplomacy, and narrative; or transgression and invention. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LF 655 Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 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 LF 683 Topics in Literature and Politics: Revolution, Power, Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Close interpretive, critical, and theoretical study of philosophical questions posed by selected works of literature [and related arts] with emphasis on the political. Themes such as vengeance, justice, and injustice; political theatre / theatre of politics; representations of war; exile and imprisonment as the scene of writing; cross-fertilization between law, diplomacy, and narrative; or transgression and invention. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LG 235 Around the World in 40 Fairy Tales
4 credits. Fall
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or 120), or equivalent. - Traces how fairy tales influence each other within and across cultures and time periods and are adapted to changing socio-historical contexts. Students consider and write about a range of interpretational approaches and renderings in literature, the arts, and media. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS LG 283 The Faust Tradition
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one literature course or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Sem inar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Comparative study of the Faust theme, 1500 to present: Marlowe, Goethe, Mann, Gertrude Stein, Jan Svankmajer, others. Transmission and adaptation of literary themes within and between national traditions. Emphasis on close reading and research, use of theory and criticism. 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, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS LG 350 Introduction to German Literature
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 283 Israeli Culture through Film (taught in English)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 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 303E SLF EXPRES/ITAL
4 credits. Fall, Spring, Summer
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 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 336E Diversity and Multiculturalism in Italy
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 120) and enrollment in the BU Study Abroad (Padova) program. - A multidisciplinary approach to contemporary Italy's cultural diversity. Topics vary from history to literature, music, film, current day immigration and the diverse cultures that make up contemporary Italy. Students approach literature through concepts of race, racism, immigration, postcolonialism, and identity. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Historical Consciousness, Scientific Inquiry I, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS LI 354E CONTMP ITAL LIT
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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. Fall, Spring, Summer
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. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
ITA MIGR LIT
CAS LJ 360 Haiku
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - The history and evolving forms of haiku in Japan and around the world. Students write and workshop their own haiku in English or Japanese, learning from great poets how to focus attention, observe nature, read closer, and write better. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LJ 386 Japanese Translation/Interpretation Workshop
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) and CASLJ 212 or CASLJ 211 with consent of instructor. - Through training in translating and interpreting, the course enhances knowledge of Japanese language and culture and improves English writing skills. Students are given a wide variety of texts to translate and practice oral interpretation in a range of contexts. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LK 460 Korean Translation
4 credits. Fall
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Through training in translating from Korean into English, the course enhances knowledge of Korean language and culture and improves English writing as well as deepening the understanding of what is involved in translating one language into another. Students collaboratively translate a short-story by a South Korean author. In the Fall semester of 2024, this author participates in a workshop with the students and takes part in a public reading of the jointly prepared translation, to be published. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LK 475 Major Authors in Korean Literature
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Closely examines major authors in Korean literature through their representative works in English translation. Students analyze each author's writing style, themes, and characters while exploring various theoretical questions, institutional practices, and cultural praxes regarding literary authors and authorship. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LK 660 Korean Translation
4 credits. Fall
Graduate Prerequisites: Two 300-level Korean language courses such as LK 311, 312, 313, 319, 3 22, or consent of the instructor. Proficiency in contemporary Korean. Proficiency in Classical Chinese is welcome but optional. - Through training in translating from Korean into English, the course enhances knowledge of Korean language and culture and improves English writing as well as deepening the understanding of what is involved in translating one language into another. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LK 675 Major Authors in Korean Literature
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Graduate Prerequisites: Advanced Reading Proficiency of Korean, two or more 300-level Korean language courses such as LK 311, 312, 313, 319, and 322, or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 12 - Closely examines major authors in Korean literature through their representative works in English translation. Students analyze each author’s writing style, themes, and characters while exploring various theoretical questions, institutional practices, and cultural praxes regarding literary authors and authorship. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS LR 282 Russian Prose Classics of the Twentieth Century (in English translation)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 353 Stalin's Crimes: Gulag and Genocide
4 credits. Spring
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 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 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. Fall and Spring
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 318 Spanish through Public Speaking
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
As public speakers, how can we engage different communities at different times and places' This course explores theories concerning how to construct narratives and arguments that resonate with specific audiences in Spanish and invites students to put such theories into performative practice. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
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 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: CASLS 350 and First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - May be taken twice for credit if topics are different. 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. Topics Fall 2025: Section A1: Honor, Loyalty, & Betrayal. What do soldiers, lovers, or friends owe to one another in premodern Iberia? What do they owe themselves? We explore these moral and social obligations in literature, theater, and visual arts by Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Section B1: Under the Spotlight: Theater in the Age of Cervantes. Deep dive into the most important mode of mass entertainment in early modern Iberia: theater. From the classic five-act play to the revolutionary comedia nueva, this course explores themes such as humor, empire, gender and sexuality, stage technology, and race. 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 LT 389 The Interplay of Literature and History on the Turkic Silk Road
4 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Historical and literary interactions among residents, travelers, armies, and intellectuals throughout dramatic transformations of the Central Asian Silk Road. Daily life of individuals and families in collapsing empires, the Soviet era, and the emergence of new nation states. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration.
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 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 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 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 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. Summer
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 MA 301 Writing in Mathematics
2 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (WR120). - Prerequisite for this course: First Year Writing Seminar (WR120). Writing in mathematics is distinctive for at least two reasons: i) in addition to written language, mathematical writing involves numbers, symbols, and images; and ii) mathematicians write not only to communicate their work, but more perhaps importantly to clarify and refine their own thinking. In this class, we explore how writing is used to both communicate and facilitate mathematics by participating in the process of writing across a range of discipline-specific genres, including proof writing and expository writing, for pure or applied math majors who have not yet taken a course involving proof writing, but who intend to do so in the future. Students who do not meet these criteria may only take the course with instructor permission. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS MA 586 Stochastic Methods for Algorithms
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 120); and (CASCS 111 or CDSDS 110, or ENGEK 125) and (CASMA 225 or CASCS 235 or CDSDS 122) and (CASMA 242 or CASMA 442 or CASCS 132 or CDSDS 121 or ENGEK 103) and (CASMA 581 or CASCS 237 or ENGEK 381 or ENGEK 500) or consent of instructor. - Application of stochastic process theory to design and analyze algorithms used in statistics and machine learning, especially Markov chain Monte Carlo and stochastic optimization methods. Emphasizes connecting theoretical results to practice through combination of proofs, numerical experiments, and expository writing. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS MR 402 Senior Independent Work in Marine Science
4 credits.
Undergraduate prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Laboratory or field research projects chosen under supervision of a Marine Science associated faculty member. Research topic must be defined at time of registration. Course grade determined by laboratory performance, written report, and oral presentation to the faculty. Successful completion of the full 8-credit course (MR 401/402) may lead to a degree with honors in the major; credit does not count toward major or minor (unless taken during Marine Semester). Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU HUB area: Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS MR 402S Senior Independent Work
4 credits. Summer
Undergraduate prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Laboratory or field research projects chosen under supervision of a Marine Science associated faculty member. Research topic must be defined at time of registration. Course grade determined by laboratory performance, written report, and oral presentation to the faculty. Successful completion of the full 8-credit course (MR 401/402) may lead to a degree with honors in the major; credit does not count toward major or minor (unless taken during Marine Semester). Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU HUB area: Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS NE 102 Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology
4 credits. Spring
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. Spring
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 203 Principles of Neuroscience with Lab
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASNE101 & CASNE102) and First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Fundamentals of the nervous system, emphasizing synaptic transmission; hierarchical organization; automatic nervous system; mechanisms of sensory perception; reflexes and motor function; biorhythms; and neural mechanisms of feeding, mating, learning, and memory. Project labs focus on behavioral neurobiology through inquiry-based experiments. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS NE 218 Fundamentals of Neuroscience with Integrated Science Experience II Lab
5 credits. Fall
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS NE 116 and CAS CH 116, or consent of instructor. First Year Writin g Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) ; Undergraduate Corequisites: CAS CH 218. - This project focuses on the application of modern approaches and techniques of molecular and cell biology and neuroscience to study how drugs affect molecular mechanisms of neuronal function or degeneration. Applications in the field of Alzheimer's disease, therapy and diagnosis. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS NE 329 Experimental Psychology: Cognitive Neuroscience
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS PS231 (or instructor consent); PS339/NE202; either PS 211, PS/NE 2 12, or CAS MA 115 and MA 116;1st Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Laboratory course in human cognitive neuroscience. Emphasis on large-scale neural mechanisms of visual cognition using electrophysiological measurements of brain activity. Students critically engage with theories in psychological science, conduct cognitive neuroscience experiments, and learn to write experimental reports. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS NE 370 Neuroscience Communications
2 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASNE102 OR CASNE203) and First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120.). - Students explore diverse neuroscience career paths by practicing writing for different genres related to science journalism and business careers. Attention to stylistic revision and multimedia design and communication informed by the needs of the different audiences these careers reach. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS NE 402 Honors Research in Neuroscience 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: approval of NE Director of Undergraduate Academic and Research Affairs , and College Honors Committee. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 1 00 or WR 120) - For students with senior standing. Second semester of Honors-level mentored research (leading to graduation with Honors in Neuroscience) involving the writing of a senior thesis, preparation and delivery of a thesis defense presentation, and substantial independence. Application through the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Minimum 16 hours/week involving lab work, meetings, data analysis, and writing. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS NE 402S Honors Research in Neuroscience 2
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
For students with senior standing. Second semester of Honors-level mentored research (leading to graduation with Honors in Neuroscience) involving the writing of a senior thesis, preparation and delivery of a thesis defense presentation, and substantial independence. Application through the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Minimum 16 hours/week involving lab work, meetings, data analysis, and writing. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS PH 245 The Quest for God and the Good
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 266 Mind, Brain, and Self
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - This course is devoted to exploring the relationships among consciousness, the mind, and the brain, the nature of the self or person, and other related topics. This course will also examine whether and to what extent these issues can be addressed by contemporary natural science. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 266S Mind, Brain, and Self
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - This course is devoted to exploring the relationships among consciousness, the mind, and the brain, the nature of the self or person, and other related topics. This course will also examine whether and to what extent these issues can be addressed by contemporary natural science. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking.
CAS PH 300 History of Ancient Philosophy
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 426 Phenomenology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous PH courses, or consent of instructor.. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Rigorous examination of foundations of philosophical phenomenology in Husserl and others. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS PH 458 Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 PH 495 Philosophy and Mysticism: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives
4 credits. Fall
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 626 Phenomenology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Rigorous examination of foundations of philosophical phenomenology in Husserl and others. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS PO 249E Contemporary Spain: Political and Social Movements in the 21st Century
4 credits. Spring
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 322 The Politics of Science, Care, and the Environment
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisite: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - This interdisciplinary course explores political conflicts over environmental problems as conflicts over science and care. Content ranges from concrete cases of U.S. environmental challenges (toxic exposure, wildlife in suburbs), to environmental political theory and the politics of climate change. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS PO 331 Comparative Political Economy
4 credits. Spring
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 358 International Nuclear Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course examines politics, history, and technologies surrounding nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. It foregrounds the "global atomic marketplace" with emphasis on the challenges and opportunities for nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS PO 358S International Nuclear Politics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I 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 politics, history, and technologies surrounding nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Foregrounds the "global atomic marketplace" with emphasis on the challenges and opportunities for nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Writing-Intensive Course.
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 507 Development of American Constitutional Law
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPO111 & CASPO304) - A survey of the development of constitutional law and the exercise of power by the U.S. Supreme Court. The course is drawn entirely from decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and the principal theme is the development of national constitutions and power. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Historical Consciousness.
CAS PO 508 The Judiciary and Civil Liberties
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - First Amendment rights of speech, press, assembly, religion; rights of defendants in criminal cases; and the constitutional protection of racial minorities. Supreme Court decision-making processes and modes of compliance with its decisions are also considered. 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, Historical Consciousness.
CAS PO 508S The Judiciary and Civil Liberties
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - First Amendment rights of speech, press, assembly, religion; rights of defendants in criminal cases; and the constitutional protection of racial minorities. Supreme Court decision-making processes and modes of compliance with its decisions are also considered.
CAS PO 516 Gender and Politics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or above. - Analyzes the relationship between gender and politics, law and policy primarily in the United States. Considers inequalities based on gender and sexuality, women's changing political, gender- and sexuality-based political action and social movements. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PO 517 Urban Politics and Policy
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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. Fall
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 534 US Populism in Comparative Perspective
4 credits. Fall
Undergrad prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or 120). - This course examines the causes and consequences of rising populism in the US, Latin America, and Europe. Students learn how to identify and analyze populist leaders and movements and conduct original research on comparative populism. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PO 547 US Social Movements
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
This course explores the strategies and impacts of historic and contemporary social movements in the US, with attention to their interactions with the party system. Students write a major research paper applying social movement theory to a chosen social movement. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information 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. Summer
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 550 The State and Public Purpose in Asia
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: juniors & seniors in Internat'l Relations, Pol. Science, and Asian Stu dies who have completed the 1st-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR100 or 1 20) & Writing, Research & Inquiry (WR150, 151, 152). - Comparative exploration of the economic and political institutions of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, drawing on political and economic theory. Addresses how relationships among state, business, and labor have affected industrial development and contemporary economic activity. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
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 565 U.S.-Latin American Relations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores both sides of the U.S.-Latin American relationship, tracing its development over time and analyzing its current challenges. Each week focuses on a different theme--including imperialism, intervention, hemispheric security, trade, immigration, and drug trafficking--within a roughly chronological framework. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 565S U.S.-Latin American Relations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores both sides of the U.S.-Latin American relationship, tracing its development over time and analyzing its current challenges. Each week focuses on a different theme--including imperialism, intervention, hemispheric security, trade, immigration, and drug trafficking--within a roughly chronological framework. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 568.
CAS PO 571 Contemporary African Politics
4 credits.
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-year writing seminar or graduate student standing. - Exploration of challenges facing African states, their sources, and possible solutions. Focus on colonial legacies, political change, democracy and authoritarianism, political violence, the politics of ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexuality, and political economy, drawing on specific country cases. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Research and Information Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
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 577 Politics of the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 PO 578 The United States as a Great Power
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
The course material is organized along a debate format. Although the course is primarily concerned with twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy, attention is also given to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century issues. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PO 579 Political Biography and Statecraft
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Political biographies and memoir literature used to evaluate twentieth-century international relations and statecraft. Topics vary but may include biographical literature related to World War II, the Cold War, and Third World political leaders. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PO 589 Religion and International Relations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores the role of religion in contemporary international relations in the context of questions about the common core of modernity. Reviews scholarly and policy literature, and case studies, in order to elucidate religion's intellectual and operational diversity in international relations. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing- Intensive Course, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 596 Colonization/Decolonization
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 PS 324 Experimental Psychology: Developmental
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS PS 101; PS 241; either PS 211, PS/NE 212, or CAS MA 115 and MA 116 . ; 1st Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - This course is designed to provide students with the skills necessary for designing, conducting, evaluating, and communicating developmental science research. The class is a combination of lecture and discussion of research issues and methods, activity- based sessions, and implementation of individual and class research projects. Students conduct their own research project in collaboration with the Early Education Learning Lab and write an empirical paper as the final project. By the end of this course, students should be able to think and write like research psychologists. Please note that students will not receive credit for more than one of the following experimental psychology courses: PS 324, PS 325, PS 326. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PS 325 Experimental Psychology: Personality
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS PS101; PS251; either PS 211, PS/NE 212, or CAS MA 115 and MA 116.; 1st Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Systematic approaches to the study of personality. Experimental and observational investigations of selected aspects of personality. Demonstration of experimental procedures; student participation in laboratory and field studies. Please note that students will not receive credit for more than one of the following experimental psychology courses: PS 324, PS 325, PS 326. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PS 325S Experimental Psychology: Personality
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS PS101; PS251; either PS 211, PS/NE 212, or CAS MA 115 and MA 116.; 1st Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Prereq: (CAS PS 101 & CAS PS 251) and First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120). In addition, PS majors must complete (CAS PS 211 or CAS PS 212 or CAS NE 212 or (CAS MA 115 & CAS MA 116)); PS minors must complete (CAS PS 211 or CAS PS 212 or CAS NE 212 or CAS MA 115). Systematic approaches to the study of personality. Experimental and observational investigations of selected aspects of personality. Demonstration of experimental procedures; student participation in laboratory and field studies. Please note that students cannot receive credit for more than one of the following experimental psychology courses: CAS PS 324, CAS PS 325, CAS PS 326. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PS 326 Experimental Psychology: Social
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS PS101; PS261; either PS 211, PS/NE 212, or CAS MA 115 and MA 116. ; 1st Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Supervised experience in formulating, carrying out, interpreting, and critically evaluating social-psychological research. Students conduct research on such topics as attraction, impressions and stereotypes, helping, aggression, conflict, etc. Variety of research techniques examined. Please note that students will not receive credit for more than one of the following experimental psychology courses: PS 324, PS 325, PS 326. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PS 329 Experimental Psychology: Cognitive Neuroscience
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS PS231 (or instructor consent); PS339/NE202; either PS 211, PS/NE 2 12, or CAS MA 115 and MA 116;1st Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Laboratory course in human cognitive neuroscience. Emphasis on large-scale neural mechanisms of visual cognition using electrophysiological measurements of brain activity. Students critically engage with theories in psychological science, conduct cognitive neuroscience experiments, and learn to write experimental reports. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS PY 581 Advanced Laboratory
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPY351) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Classical experiments in atomic and nuclear physics, development of new experiments, basic research projects. Experiments include magnetic resonance, nuclear-decay studies, Zeeman effect, holography, black-body radiation, X-ray diffraction, Mossbauer studies, and flux quantization, positron annihilation. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 102 Encountering Religion: Topics in Religious Studies
4 credits. Spring
Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) or equivalent. - Introduces the ways religious ideas, beliefs, themes, practices, and histories shape our world in arenas as varied as popular culture and politics. Through exploration of a specific topic, students learn to think, write, and speak about religion and its effects. May be repeated for credit as topics change. Topic for Spring 2026: Writing Religion. Effective Spring 2026, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive.
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. Summer
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 245 The Quest for God and the Good
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 316 Modern Islam
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one course in RN or PH, or CC101/102, or consent of instructor. First- Year Writing Seminar" (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - Pre-Req: First-Year Writing Seminar" (CAS WR 120 or equivalent). Challenges students to sociologically evaluate the concept of meritocracy, its origins, its societal implications, and contemporary adoption as an ideal worth striving for. Reviews empirical research on perceptions around and explanations of social inequality. Explores how beliefs about inequality are mobilized in class and racial conflict and in what ways people's beliefs are or aren't likely to change. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry I, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 326 Jewish Mysticism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - This course explores the rich world of Jewish Mysticism from its earliest roots to its contemporary expressions in the 21st century. We look at the interaction between Jewish mystics and major western schools of thought such as Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Aristotelianism, and Sufism. The course also introduces students to the Kabbalistic tradition and its various historical manifestations. No prior knowledge of Hebrew or other themes in Jewish studies required. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS RN 337 Gender, Sexuality, and Judaism
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Explores the role of gender and sexuality in Judaism and Jewish experience, historically and in the present. Subjects include constructions of masculinity and femininity, attitudes toward (and uses of) the body and sexuality, gendered nature of religious practice and authority. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
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 350 Comparative Religious Ethics
4 credits. Spring
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 353E Camino de Santiago: A Pilgrim's Way Yesterday and Today
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Pre-requisites: Admission to the BU Study Abroad Program. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - This course provides a comprehensive approach to the phenomenon of the Camino de Santiago, integrating historical, cultural, social, and contemporary perspectives to offer students a well-rounded understanding of this significant European pilgrimage route. Effective Summer 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS RN 356 Religion in the Digital Age
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - How has technology impacted religion' This hands-on course explores how digital technologies like the Internet, social media, gaming, and artificial intelligence have changed the way that people think about religion. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS RN 400 Writing Religion
4 credits. Spring
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 410 Religion, Community, and Culture in Medieval Spain
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Interactions between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in medieval Europe's most religiously diverse region -- from the establishment of an Islamic al-Andalus in 711 CE to the final Christian "reconquest" of the peninsula and expulsion of the Jews in 1492 CE. To enrich exploration of interrelated themes and learning outcomes, student registrants of RN/HI 410/RN 710 will meet with student registrants of LS 410 during scheduled class time on 2/21, 3/13, 3/27, 4/24, and 5/1 during the term. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 427 Topics in American Religion
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 435 Women, Gender, and Islam
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking 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 Fall 2021, 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 452 Topics in Religious Thought
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 470 Topics in Medieval Religious Culture
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar ( e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - Topic for Spring 2025: Marriage, Sex, and Ritual. Explores the ritualized nature of marriage and sex among Christians, Jews, and others. Topics include betrothals and weddings, religious authority and marriage, ritual power and sex, procreative `magic,¿ and objects used by people to ritualize their marital and sexual lives. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 616 Modern Islam
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR120) - Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - Challenges students to sociologically evaluate the concept of meritocracy, its origins, its societal implications, and contemporary adoption as an ideal worth striving for. Reviews empirical research on perceptions around and explanations of social inequality. Explores how beliefs about inequality are mobilized in class and racial conflict and in what ways people's beliefs are or aren't likely to change. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry I, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 626 Jewish Mysticism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - This course explores the rich world of Jewish Mysticism from its earliest roots to its contemporary expressions in the 21st century. We look at the interaction between Jewish mystics and major western schools of thought such as Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Aristotelianism, and Sufism. The course also introduces students to the Kabbalistic tradition and its various historical manifestations. No prior knowledge of Hebrew or other themes in Jewish studies required. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration.
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 656 Religion in the Digital Age
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR120) - How has technology impacted religion' This hands-on course explores how digital technologies like the Internet, social media, gaming, and artificial intelligence have changed the way that people think about religion. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS RN 727 Topics in American Religion
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 752 Topics in Religious Thought
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 770 Topics in Medieval Religious Culture
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar ( e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - Topic for Spring 2025: Marriage, Sex, and Ritual. Explores the ritualized nature of marriage and sex among Christians, Jews, and others. Topics include betrothals and weddings, religious authority and marriage, ritual power and sex, procreative `magic,¿ and objects used by people to ritualize their marital and sexual lives. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 314 Social Problems and Social Change
4 credits.
Examines how certain issues come to be seen as social problems and the role of memory, identity, knowledge, and power in social change. Explores how individuals, organizations, and institutions respond to social problems and what produces meaningful change. We also consider the role of social science in creating a better world. 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 315 Technology and Society
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR120). An introduction to Sociology would be beneficial, although not absolutely necessary, for the course. - A sociological exploration of the complex relationship between society and technology. Examines technologies' explicit and hidden costs and their potential to improve the human condition as well as the evolution of the relationship between technology and society over time. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Social Inquiry I, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS SO 334 Sociology of Mental Illness
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: at least one previous Sociology course or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - An evaluation of current theories and research on the social sources and consequences of mental illness. Featured topics for discussion include social- psychological perspectives on the definition, diagnosis, etiology, and treatment of mental disorders. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 400 Advanced Research Practicum
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASSO303) and junior standing; or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Sem inar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Prepares students planning to conduct honors research project in their senior year. Students interested in developing a research project for alternate purposes are admitted with permission of the instructor. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 404 Seminar on Sociology of Families
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 415 Seminar: Sociology of Law
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and at least two previous Sociology courses: or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Classical and contemporary perspectives on law's development in society. Selected applications of law are then examined with attention to constraints on law's ability to achieve such societal goals as justice and equality and to alter social relations fundamentally. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 418 Seminar: Sociology of Medicine
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and at least two previous sociology courses; or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Focuses on major topics in the area of health and medicine, with different themes each semester. Topics have included Global Health; Health Disparities; and Death and Dying. Check with instructor for topic. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Writing- Intensive Course, 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 452 Contemporary Debates in Sexualities Research
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASSO241 OR CASWS200) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Engages sociological debates about sexual identities, politics, and practices. Students consider how sexualities are expressed and regulated through various institutions and how they intersect with race, class, gender, citizenship, and other domains of inequality. Also offered as CAS WS 452. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 459 Deviance and Social Control
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Explores sociological explanations for why attributes and behaviors are defined as deviant, the consequences of deviant labels, and how the state criminalizes and punishes people for deviant behavior. Examines how responses to deviance reflect the state's orientation to social marginality. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 490 Seminar: Global Health: Politics, Institutions, and Ideology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and at least two previous sociology courses ; or consent of the instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 1 00 or WR 120) - What is global health' Who are the main actors in global health debates' This seminar explores the politics of global health, providing students with sociological tools, concepts, and knowledge to help make sense of conflict in contemporary global health debates. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 818 Medical Sociology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Sociological factors in physical and mental illness as they operate in the community, hospitals, and interpersonal relations. Current research on selected topics in medical sociology; contributions to sociological theory and their practical application. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 852 SEX DEBATES
4 credits. Spring
SEX DEBATES
CAS SO 859 Deviance and Social Control
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing. - This seminar explores sociological explanations for why and how certain attributes and behaviors are defined as deviant, the consequences of deviant labels, and how rules and sanctions are created and enforced. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS SO 890 Seminar: Global Health: Politics, Institutions, and Ideology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - What is global health' Who are the main actors in global health debates' This seminar explores the politics of global health, providing students with sociological tools, concepts, and knowledge to help make sense of conflict in contemporary global health debates. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS TL 505 Literary Style Workshop
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Critical Thinking Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Admission to the MA program in translation or permission of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - Workshop cultivating awareness of and sensitivity to style, cohesiveness, and patterning in literary English. Topics range from text-type to subtle effects of rhythm and sound. Imitation practice. Emphasis on translators' process, from strategic decisions to editing. Workshop format. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Critical Thinking, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS WR 212 Translingual Writing
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 120). - Students analyze and produce writing that crosses, mixes, and plays with different languages, e.g. essays, poems; practice inclusive approaches to teaming; and apply translingual theory to help address social issues. Open to all, regardless of languages spoken, major, background. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Teamwork/Collaboration, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS WR 250 AI Literacy for Writing
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 WR 318 Public Speaking
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration 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). - How can public speakers engage different communities at different times and in different places? This course explores theories concerning how to construct narratives and arguments that resonate with specific audiences and invites students to put such theories into performative practice. Students may not receive credit for both CASCC 318 and CASWR 318. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS WR 320 Community Writing
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 415 Public Writing
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication 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); and junior or senior standing. - Students learn about the growing call for scholars to communicate their research to the public, study and practice several public genres, and learn to "translate" academic knowledge for public audiences. Occasional evening events required. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing- Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
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 377 Gender and Sexuality in Judaism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Explores the role of gender and sexuality in Judaism and Jewish experience, historically and in the present. Subjects include constructions of masculinity and femininity, attitudes toward (and uses of) the body and sexuality, gendered nature of religious practice and authority. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WS 395 Inhuman Films: Genders, Animals, Machines
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 120). - This course explores what happens to the "human" at the intersection of feminist theory and cinematic representation. How and why do films assign humanity to some figures and withhold it from others on the basis of race, gender, "ability," etc.' Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration.
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 452 Contemporary Debates in Sexualities Research
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASSO 241 or CASWS 200, First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - Engages sociological debates about sexual identities, politics, and practices. Students consider how sexualities are expressed and regulated through various institutions and how they intersect with race, class, gender, citizenship, and other domains of inequality. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, Research and Information Literacy.
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 562 Studies in Asexualities
4 credits. Spring
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 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 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 222 Introduction to Western Literatures
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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 230 Topics in Big Fat Books
4 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - Enters deeply into the world of one literary work and explores its reverberations across national and disciplinary boundaries. Topics for Fall 2025 & Spring 2026: TBD. Previous Topics: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Marcel Proust's Swann's Way. Death in Venice. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 230S Topics in Big Fat Books: The Iliad
4 credits. Summer
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - Homer's Iliad is the oldest work of Western literature. Across its three thousand years or more of life, the world around this song of heroes and gods has changed unrecognizably ¿ changed not once but over and over in just about every respect. And yet most readers of the Iliad today come to feel that this epic has if anything gained, not lost, in relevance and power. To read this tale of the Trojan War remains an absorbing, sometimes thrilling experience; the art of the poem, sophisticated almost beyond belief for a work so impossibly ancient, is as rich in irony and humor as it is in pathos; but in some way the book also seems to matter. This is a work that can touch us personally, with undiminished power and emotion, as a kind of truth. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 313 The "Odyssey" and "Ulysses"
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course consists of a close reading of James Joyce's Ulysses with particular attention to his use of the Odyssey. We also examine the relation of oral and book cultures and other works Joyce takes in, such as the Aeneid, Divine Comedy and Hamlet. 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, 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 335 Around the World in 40 Fairy Tales
4 credits. Fall
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or 120), or equivalent. - Traces how fairy tales influence each other within and across cultures and time periods and are adapted to changing socio-historical contexts. Students consider and write about a range of interpretational approaches and renderings in literature, the arts, and media. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 337 Jewish Humor and Satire: Stand-Up Comedy
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-Year writing seminar (CASWR 100 or 120.) - We begin with Freud's theories, illustrated by Viennese and Yiddish humor. The course then focuses on oral-style short fiction, the creation of a persona, and stand-up comedy routines. As we read texts and study performances, students write their own. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 377 Global Asian Literature
4 credits. Fall
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS WR 120, First-Year Writing Seminar. - This course explores 20th-and 21st-century ethnic Asian writers whose literary works help us question the paradigm of national literature and appreciate the power of border-crossing literature. Main topics include colonialism, racism, post-colonial politics, migration, World War II, and wars in post-1945 Asia. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 381 Topics in Gender and Literature (in English translation)
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CASWR 120 or equivalent) - Topics vary. May be repeated for credit if topic is different. Previous Topics: Gender and Genre in the Works of Natsume Soseki, Courtesans in World Literature. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS XL 387 The Holocaust Through Film
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 389 The Interplay of Literature and History on the Turkic Silk Road
4 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Historical and literary interactions among residents, travelers, armies, and intellectuals throughout dramatic transformations of the Central Asian Silk Road. Daily life of individuals and families in collapsing empires, the Soviet era, and the emergence of new nation states. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Aesthetic Exploration.
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. Fall and Spring
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 479 WLL Senior Seminar
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) and senior standing majors in WLL, or consent of instructor. - Through discussions of intercultural reading and translation, bibliographic assignments, student presentations, workshops, and work with a faculty language mentor, seniors majoring in WLL use this course to develop their final project: a substantial scholarly paper, translation, or creative work in a foreign language. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
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 332 Senior Painting Seminar 2 credits Spring term
2 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - In this thesis seminar for senior BFA Painting majors, students will explore the relationship between word and image, making and thinking, process and theory in the professional art world and in their personal studio practice. The thesis seminar helps prepare senior BFA students in studio degrees for writing appropriate to the field and for potential graduate study in art. Through a gradually built up process that leads to a visual and written thesis book, students will learn to write in a variety of forms. They will read and discuss related texts by artists, critics, poets and writers. The goal of the writing process is to help students recognize and clarify their artistic voice and communicate better about their own and others' work. The short and long-form writing process should help students feel more comfortable applying for residencies, grants, jobs and projects. Through this course in tandem with the senior studio course and the BFA thesis exhibition process, students will develop complexity of thinking about the intersection of professional practice, personal artistic voice, and a larger cultural context, all of which offer a culminating experience for the BFA degree. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
CFA AR 425 The Artist and the Book (4 credits Spring term)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Artist and the Book is a research based art course that covers the history of the book, iterative writing, both long and short papers, presentations and collaborative book arts projects, emphasizing a variety of historical binding techniques incorporating word and image. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation, Research and Information Literacy.
CFA AR 425S The Artist and the Book
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Create artist's books and explore the development of the serial image, written text, and spatial and conceptual aspects of communicating through a book structure. Students may work with collage and drawing, photo-based and traditional print forms, and digital processes to produce books using a variety of unique and historical book techniques. Assignments rely on individual concepts and how they work in book format.
CFA AR 450 The Art of the Multiple
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course investigates the history of printmaking, paper making, and the production of the multiple image from Johannes Gutenberg to the Internet. The contemporary multiple in printmaking, installation, photography, sculpture, book, and the digital forms will be studied. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
CFA AR 554 Art Education Seminar: Curriculum and Instruction 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
The Art Education seminar accompanies students through their second semester of practicum in a PreK- 12 school, providing community, structure, and opportunities for growth and reflection during their final semester in school. It is aimed at guiding students' understanding of educational philosophy, facilitating the setting of goals, and increasing skills and strategies for best practice in the art classroom. Students further develop their understanding of the visual art curriculum and its design as a vertical and horizontal sequence of learning established from a philosophical base. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
CFA AR 580 History of Graphic Design
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Summer
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 377S Arts Engagement as Active Hope: Attuning, Reflecting, and Writing Our Way Towards a Sustain Future
4 credits. Summer
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 MH 408 Bob Dylan: Music and Words
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course examines Bob Dylan's music and lyrics from 1962 to 1975 in the context of his life, artistic influences, and milieu. We will explore the wealth of criticism and reaction his songs have inspired, paying special attention to questions concerning the nature of his art--for example, his dependence on musical tradition or the relationship between song lyrics and poetry--and past and current critical discussion about his legacy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course.
CFA MH 412 Popular, Forgotten, and Misunderstood: Popular music of the 1950s
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - "Popular, Forgotten, and Misunderstood: Popular music of the 1950s" seeks to stimulate critical reflections about how popular music of "the Fifties" mirrors, challenges, and complicates conventional wisdom about the era (1945-63). Contemporary representations of the immediate post-world war two period often view the era with nostalgia and/or a sense of distance. We will continually question what people are nostalgic for and/or what they are seeking to distance themselves from. 4 cr
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. Fall
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 MP 332 Song Literature 2
2 credits. Spring
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 MP 416 Piano Pedagogy and Practicum 2
2 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Continuation of the topics begun in Pedagogy MP415 with a focus on the works of Ortmann and Schultz; team teaching focused on techniques pertaining to more advanced pianists; piano works of major composers are evaluated with emphasis on the different phases of pianistic development. 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, Historical Consciousness.
CFA MP 616 Piano Pedagogy 2
2 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Piano Pedagogy 1 (MP 415) and First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120)
Advanced piano pedagogy, continued from MP 415. This course explores topics in piano pedagogy specific to intermediate to early advanced students. Through class discussions, written assignments, projects, teaching observations, and oral presentations, students will explore the following areas: selecting appropriate repertoire; teaching piano technique, rhythm, and interpretation across varied repertoire; introducing practice strategies, performance psychology, and techniques for leading masterclasses. [2 units] 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, Historical Consciousness.
CFA MU 365 Music and the Holocaust
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisite: First-Year writing seminar (CASWR 100 or 120.) - History and music of composers targeted during the Holocaust: classical music, jazz, and cabaret musical styles banned as "degenerate" by the Nazis. Particular focus on the art and music created in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course.
CFA TH 102 Dramatic Literature 1: Greeks to the late 19th c
3 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - A survey of the development of theatre, its plays, trends, and technologies, from the Greeks to the late nineteenth century. Emphasis is on the total theatrical event, what the performance might have been, and how it might have related to its audience. 3.0 credits. Spring semester only. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course.
CFA TH 104 Dramatic Literature 1: Beginnings of Theatre to the Early 19th Century
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 120). - This course investigates dramatic texts and performance dating back to ancient India and Greece through the early nineteenth century, within local and global social, artistic, and political contexts. Special emphasis will be placed on tracing the transnational movement and dissemination of dramatic texts and artistic ideas, as well as methods of interpretation. Students will investigate material historically and historiographically. Required for BFA Theatre Core. Open to BU Community. 4.0 credits. Spring semester. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CFA TH 205 Dramatic Literature 2: 1850 to 1950
4 credits. Fall
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. Spring
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 228 Dramatic Writing 2: Adaptation
3 credits. Spring
Prerequisites: CFA TH 136 and First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent). This course is an experiential introduction to adaptation for the stage. Through class readings, writing assignments, devising, and theatrical excursions, students will begin to understand the nuts and bolts of translating work from one form (and/or medium) to another. Students will engage in writing exercises that reinvestigate pre-existing material, and will work as writers, performers, directors, and designers to create original theater pieces for the page. 3.0 credits. Spring semester. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
CFA TH 303 Playwriting 1
3 credits. Fall
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing (WR 120 or equivalent) - Prereq: CFA TH 227, CFA TH 228 or consent of instructor; Run like an intensive development workshop, this class offers students an introduction to the practice of playwriting through the exploration of dramatic texts and writing exercises. Students will develop writing processes conducive to accessing an authentic voice, rendering interesting characters, and building character relationships. Students should also develop a refined awareness of their artistic power to shape and control a theatrical reality. Students interested in developing original plays for thesis productions are encouraged to register. 3.0 credits. Fall semester. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA TH 303S Playwriting 1
3 credits. Summer
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing (WR 120 or equivalent) - Summer Session 1: Focuses on the craft of writing for the stage. This is a writing intensive course that highlights the opportunities of writing for performance. Through character-building exercises, set-up improvisations, and plot development, students master the basics of scene work. Plays by established playwrights are studied and read aloud in class as students become comfortable sharing their writing in this workshop setting. In addition to assignments, students are expected to complete a ten minute play, a short monologue, and the first draft of a one-act play. Summer Session 2: Explores the world of playwriting by drawing upon students' own life experiences. We begin by exploring plays that draw upon the playwrights' personal experiences, and proceed with various writing exercises that incorporate autobiographical material. Further into the course, students work on creating short plays based upon autobiographical material of their choosing.
CFA TH 401S Classic Theatre through a Contemporary Lens
3 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR120 or equivalent), CFA TH 101, and at least one of the following: CFA TH 102, CFA TH 201, CFA TH 202; or consent of instructor - Online offering. Explores and applies contemporary theories, ideas, and research to canonical works of theatre. Considers how race, gender, identity, nationality, structure, and politics consort in the making, production, distribution, reception, and legacy of classic works. Students learn to approach theatre as a dramaturg/scholar would: by reading texts and generating writing and projects with a theatrical sensibility, asking rigorous questions of all. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy
CFA TH 405 Classical Theatre Through a Contemporary Lens
4 credits. Fall
Undergraduate prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Explores and applies contemporary theories, ideas, and research to canonical works of theatre. Considers how race, gender, identity, nationality, structure, and politics consort in the making, production, distribution, reception, and legacy of classic works. Students learn to approach theatre as a dramaturg/scholar would: by reading texts and generating writing and projects with a theatrical sensibility, asking rigorous questions of all. 4.0 credits. Fall semester. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, Research and Information Literacy.
CFA TH 406 Contemporary Theatre
4 credits. Spring
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 626 Contemporary Theatre
4 credits. Spring
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 240 Imperial Era Global Folklore and Supernatural Fiction
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
This course examines people of color¿s supernatural fiction and corresponding folkloric traditions worldwide. Topics include the literary value, narrative voice(s), and cultural appropriation of Indigenous authors¿ works. Students will collaborate in groups to contribute inclusive scholarly materials for online publication. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration, Writing Intensive Course.
CGS IN 250 Cosmic Visions: The Science of Astronomy and the Arts
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Scientific Inquiry I Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - How has stargazing shaped understanding of our place within the world' Art draws inspiration from astronomy--and astronomy from art. This team-taught course traces the symbiotic history of these two ways of knowing and exploring the cosmos, culminating in a creative project. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Writing-Intensive Course. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Scientific Inquiry I, Writing-Intensive Course.
CGS SS 201 Radicals, Rebels, and Revolutionaries: Agents of Global Change
4 credits. Fall
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. Fall and Spring
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
CGS SS 202 American Foreign Policy Since World War II
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - SS 202 focuses on U.S. foreign policy since the late 1930's. After considering U.S. policy immediately before and during World War II, it explores how the United States responded to the global challenge posed by the Soviet Union and international communism during the long struggle known as the Cold War. The factors that led to the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, America's involvement in Vietnam, and, ultimately, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War are examined. The course concludes by analyzing challenges to American interests and security in the twenty- first century. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Writing- Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CGS SS 320 Identity Politics in the United States
4 credits. Spring
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 CM 331 Writing for Communication
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CO201 AND First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Intensive exposure to some of the basic writing formats in the communications profession: news releases, letters, features, and profiles. Lead writing, editing, and techniques of interviewing. Extensive writing and rewriting. Develops basic writing skills for different audiences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing- Intensive Course.
COM CM 331S Writing for Communication
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CO201 AND First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Prereq: (COM CO 201) and First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120). Intensive exposure to some of the basic writing formats in the communications profession: news releases, letters, features, and profiles. Lead writing, editing, and techniques of interviewing. Extensive writing and rewriting. Develops basic writing skills for different audiences. Effective Fall 2018, course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
COM CO 201 Introduction to Communication Writing
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - The College of Communication's core undergraduate writing course. Students refresh their grammatical and stylistic skills and apply those skills to professional writing assignments. Prepares students to write with clarity, conciseness, precision, and accuracy for the communication fields. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy. (Students on the Hub cannot take WR100 as a pre-requisite.)
COM CO 201S Introduction to Communication Writing
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120) or equivalent. - This is the College of Communication's core undergraduate writing course. Students refresh their grammatical and stylistic skills and apply those skills to professional writing assignments. The course prepares students to write with clarity, conciseness, precision, and accuracy within communication fields. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy. (Students on the Hub cannot take CAS WR 100 as a prerequisite.)
COM FT 310 Storytelling for Film & Television
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - An introduction to the art and craft of storytelling through the moving image. Particular emphasis will be given to writing short scripts. Topics covered include character development and narrative structure as it applies to shorts, features and episodic television. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
COM FT 310S Storytelling for Film and Television
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - An introduction to the art and craft of storytelling through the moving image. Particular emphasis is given to writing short scripts. Topics covered include character development and narrative structure as it applies to shorts, features, and episodic television. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
COM FT 411 Screenwriting 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (COMFT310) - Developing your first feature-length narrative screenplay; creation of characters, narrative outline, and scenes. . Each student will create a step outline, develop a treatment and write the first act of a feature- length screenplay. First draft screenplay pages will be discussed in class, and will be revised for the final project. Students will be advised to either work on a major rewrite of Act One or go deeper into Act Two, while outlining the remainder of the story. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
COM FT 415 Screening Ireland
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASWR120) - Ireland has a rich history of media production, stretching back to the early twentieth century and more recently has become a hub of animation, digital games and other 'new media'. Through the combination of critical theory and media praxis, this course will provide not only an introduction to screen media in Ireland but will also train students to be the next generation of influential media producers that shape public discourse. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive, Aesthetic Exploration, Teamwork/Collaboration.
COM FT 415E IRISH FILM/TV
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASWR120) - SCR'INGIRELAND
COM FT 585E CAREERHOLLYWOOD
4 credits. Fall and Spring
CAREERHOLLYWOOD
COM FT 586E Writing for Hollywood 1
4 credits.
Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Writing Intensive Course.
COM JO 200 Newswriting
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) and COM CO201. - Students acquire fundamental newsgathering and writing skills needed to thrive as a journalist working in any platform. The course is based in the classroom, but students are expected to learn and adhere to professional newsroom standards. The course focuses on essential practices and principles that apply to reporters, photographers, bloggers, producers and editors at newspapers, magazines, radio, television and online media. The class emphasizes news judgment, storytelling and reporting skills as well as writing clearly and quickly. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Critical Thinking, Research and Information Literacy.
COM JO 200S Newswriting
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) and COM CO201. - Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120) and COM CO 201. Students acquire fundamental newsgathering and writing skills needed to thrive as a journalist working in any platform. The course is based in the classroom, but students are expected to learn and adhere to professional newsroom standards. Focuses on essential practices and principles that apply to reporters, photographers, bloggers, producers, and editors at newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and online media. Emphasizes news judgment, storytelling, and reporting skills as well as writing clearly and quickly. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Critical Thinking, Research and Information Literacy.
COM JO 210 Reporting in Depth
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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 322 Smart Phone Reporting
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: JO200 - This course teaches video journalism- how to identify, research, shoot, write and edit accurate, compelling news videos on deadline, using smart phones equipped with Adobe software. Students will become informed citizen journalists as well as adopt the standards and skill sets of professional mobile, multimedia journalists. Smart Phone Reporting teaches news and visual literacy, multimedia expression and applied writing skills to non- journalism majors while also training students to acquire a multimedia skill set required to become journalists. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
COM JO 528E Travel Writing
4 credits. Summer
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - TRAVEL WRITING
COM JO 543 Rescuing Lost Stories: Writing Nonfiction Narratives from the Archives
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - The course will prepare students who are interested in writing nonfiction narratives to plan and conduct archival research, especially at BU's Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Students will learn to navigate the archives, then frame and develop historical narratives of significant contemporary events based on research of primary source materials such as personal letters, diaries, government documents and contemporaneous media reports. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
COM JO 543S Rescuing Lost Stories: Writing Nonfiction Narratives from the Archives
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. WR 100 or WR 120). Prepares students who are interested in writing nonfiction narratives to plan and conduct archival research, especially at BU's Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Students learn to navigate the archives, then frame and develop historical narratives of significant contemporary events based on extensive research of primary source materials such as personal letters, diaries, government documents, and contemporaneous media reports.
ENG BE 466 Biomedical Engineering Senior Project
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGBE465) Limited to biomedical engineering majors with senior standing. CAS WR15X required. - Completion of project in an area of biomedical engineering. Expanded training in technical project presentation techniques. Includes writing of progress reports, abstracts, final reports. Course culminates with an oral presentation at annual Senior Project Conference. Written final report must be approved by the faculty. This course is part of a Hub sequence with ENG BE 465. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG BE 466S Biomedical Engineering Senior Project
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGBE465) Limited to biomedical engineering majors with senior standing. CAS WR15X required. - Completion of project in an area of biomedical engineering. Expanded training in technical project presentation techniques. Includes writing of progress reports, abstracts, final reports. Course culminates with an oral presentation at annual Senior Project Conference. Written final report must be approved by the faculty. This course is part of a Hub sequence with ENG BE 465. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG EC 463 Senior Design Project 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGEK210) senior standing; CAS WR 150/1/2/3 required. - Development of the technical, communication, personal, and team skills needed for successful design in electrical and computer engineering. Specifications and standards, information collection, design strategies, modeling, computer- aided design, optimization, system design, failure and reliability, human factors. Oral and written communication of technical information. Team dynamics and ethical issues in design. Design project for a small-scale electrical or computer system. Preparation of detailed proposals for senior design projects in the following semester. Includes lab. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG EC 463E Senior Design Project 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGEK210) senior standing; CAS WR 150/1/2/3 required. - SR DES PROJ 1
ENG EC 464 Senior Design Project 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGEC463) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Continuation of a team project in an area of electrical and computer engineering, as proposed in EC 463. Application of technical, communication, personal, and team skills. Oral and written communication of technical information, including progress reports, technical memos, final report, and oral presentations. Includes lab. 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.
ENG EC 464E Senior Design Project 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGEC463) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - SENIOR DESIGN 2
ENG EC 467 Senior Thesis
Var credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGEC463) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) and senior standin g and departmental approval. - Well-prepared students may choose to do a formal senior thesis under the direct guidance of a departmental faculty member. Students selecting this option must obtain petitioned approval before the beginning of the semester of thesis registration. 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.
ENG ME 310 Instrumentation
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGEK307 & ENGEK381 & CASWR120); Undergraduate Corequisite: (ENGME303)- Designing, assembling, and operating experiments involving mechanical measurements; analyzing experimental data. Safety considerations in the laboratory. Mechanical and electrical transducers for flow, pressure, temperature, velocity, strain, and force. Electric circuits for static and dynamic analog signal conditioning. Computer use for digital data acquisition and analysis; instrument control. Introduction to frequency domain analysis. Professional standards for documenting experiments and preparing reports, including formal uncertainty analysis involving elementary stat Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
ENG ME 310E Measurement and Instrumentation
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGME303 & ENGEK307 & ENGEK381 & CASWR120) - Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
ENG ME 310S Measurement and Instrumentation
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGEK307 & ENGEK381 & CASWR120); Undergraduate Corequisite: (ENGME303)- Designing, assembling, and operating experiments involving mechanical measurements; analyzing experimental data. Safety considerations in the laboratory. Mechanical and electrical transducers for flow, pressure, temperature, velocity, strain, and force. Electric circuits for static and dynamic analog signal conditioning. Computer use for digital data acquisition and analysis; instrument control. Introduction to frequency domain analysis. Professional standards for documenting experiments and preparing reports, including formal uncertainty analysis involving elementary stat Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
ENG ME 461 Senior Design 2
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGME460) Senior standing; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - The main activity in this course is the planning, and execution of a capstone project that represents a culmination of the Mechanical Engineering program. Students work in teams on either a research or design problem in some area of Mechanical Engineering that builds upon previous coursework. Class time will be focused on weekly project meetings with faculty. The course includes lectures on ethics, entrepreneurship, project management and other professional topics. Oral and written communications will be emphasized. When taken with ENG ME 460, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG ME 461E Senior Design 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGME460) Senior standing; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - ME CAPSTONE EXP
HUB XC 410 BU Cross-College Challenge Projects (WIN)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Are you looking to take on a real-world challenge, build your collaboration, leadership, and written communication skills' Would you like to work with fellow students from across BU and with a community partner on an interesting and engaging project' Then the Cross-College Challenge (XCC) is for you! This particular course will focus on writing-intensive within the communication Hub area. Each semester there are exciting new courses offered in areas such as social equity, data science, sustainability, public health, and more. XCC courses are open to juniors and seniors from all schools and colleges at BU. For specific course offerings visit: bu.edu/xcc. Create-Communicate-Collaborate. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation, and Research and Information Literacy.
HUB XC 411 Back to the Past: Gaming and Design for Immersive Role Play
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
In this game-based Cross-College Challenge (XCC) course, students will play and then design an immersive role-playing game for the Reacting to the Past (RTTP) consortium, our community partner. RTTP uses active, experiential learning to help students engage with important social, political, historical, and cultural debates. Student teams will research, create, playtest, and pitch their own micro-games based on controversies broadly related to topics such as social justice, science and technology, law, and/or focused in the Northeast. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration, Writing-Intensive Course.
HUB XC 473 Justice Media Computational Journalism Co-Lab
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
This Cross-College Challenge (XCC) and BU Spark! course is a newsroom and a laboratory. If you have a background in computer and data science, statistics, computer engineering, or journalism-related disciplines, you will have an opportunity to work on interdisciplinary, student teams to co-produce a data-driven news investigation for one of our established media partners (like the Boston Globe, CBS Boston, GBH, USA Today, and more). You will work on computational investigations focused on issues of justice and accountability, and be guided by veteran faculty practitioners. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration, Writing-Intensive Course .
KHC FT 103 Screenwriting: Doing Justice Through Adaptation
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - This course will analyze the responsibilities of adapting socially significant source material for the screen. The lessons from case studies will assist students in their effort to identify impactful source material, research related topics, and develop a screenplay adaptation. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
KHC HC 451 Kilachand Keystone Proposal Workshop
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120), 3.0 cumulative GP A, B or better in prior Kilachand coursework. - KHC HC 451 will take students through the process of writing a research question or goal, doing preliminary research and writing an annotated bibliography, designing a feasible project, securing an advisor, and producing a convincing Keystone Project Proposal. Students will learn how to present the significance of their projects in clear language that non-specialists can understand. The Keystone Project Proposal is required of all students pursing the Kilachand Keystone Project, and is optional for students fulfilling the Kilachand Research Requirement through other pathways. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing- Intensive Course.
KHC HC 502 People in Process: Choice and Change - Writing Intensive
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores the challenges, choices, and influence of an individual who has had an impact on the student's educational decisions by crafting written arguments with attention to modes of expression and range of genres. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing- Intensive Course.
QST SI 352 Innovation & the Dynamics of Enterprise in America (IDEA)
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR100 or WR120); CAS EC101, QST SM13 1 - This course reviews the history of innovation in USA, focusing on 'golden era' of innovation from 1870--1940, as well as enabling innovations from 1776-1840 and subsequent innovations of 1940-present. For each innovation, we will explore nature of the technological advance, the historical circumstances giving rise to the innovation, and the economic, business, social, and ethical issues associated with the innovation, as well as modern-day analogs and implications of the innovation. Overall, this is designed to be a multi-disciplinary course that helps students understand the history of commercialized innovations and their impact on business and society. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Writing-Intensive Course.
QST SI 422 Strategy, Innovation, and Global Competition
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Summer
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.
SAR HP 252 Health and Disability Across the Lifespan
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Overview of health development across the lifespan followed by an examination of common conditions that typically begin in certain stages. Each condition will be examined for its individual, group and systemic impacts. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
SAR HP 252S Health and Disability Across the Lifespan
4 credits. Summer
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Overview of health development across the lifespan followed by an examination of common conditions that typically begin in certain stages. Each condition will be examined for its individual, group and systemic impacts. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
SAR HP 353 Organization and Delivery of Health Care in the U.S.
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - The focus of this interdisciplinary course is on increasing the student's understanding of the health care system, the social, environmental, and behavioral factors that affect health care, and on increasing the student's ability to work in interdisciplinary teams. The student will actively engage in individual work, group discussion and teamwork through written, oral, and web site assignments. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
SAR HP 353S Organization & Delivery of Healthcare in the U.S.
4 credits. Summer
Prereq: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120). Online offering. The focus of this interdisciplinary course is on increasing the student's understanding of the health care system, the social, environmental, and behavioral factors that affect health care, and on increasing the student's ability to work in interdisciplinary teams. The student actively engages in individual work, group discussion, and teamwork through written, oral, and web site assignments. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
SAR HS 429 Research Experience
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing-Intensive Course.
SAR HS 446 Research Experience
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course.
SAR HS 449 Research Experience
0 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course.
SAR HS 498 On Campus Directed Study
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - There are instances where an opportunity does not fit in a certain "box", but could be an invaluable tool for growth and learning. "Directed Study" is built for these instances. Most often, a directed study course is a semester-long project that is enhanced by a literature-based exploration. The common criteria for a direct study course will be that it culminates in a written report, article or proposal and that scaffolded, iterative feedback is provided on writing throughout the semester. Using this framework, the human physiology program encourages you to venture into uncharted territory. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing- Intensive Course.
SAR HS 499 Off-Campus Directed Study
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - There are instances where an opportunity does not fit in a certain "box", but could be an invaluable tool for growth and learning. "Directed Study" is built for these instances. Most often, a directed study course is a semester-long project that is enhanced by a literature-based exploration. The common criteria for a direct study course will be that it culminates in a written report, article or proposal and that scaffolded, iterative feedback is provided on writing throughout the semester. Using this framework, the human physiology program encourages you to venture into uncharted territory. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing- Intensive Course.
SHA HF 460 Experiential Marketing
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: SHA HF 100, and (SHA HF 260 or QST MK 323), and (CAS WR 150/151/152 or CGS RH 104); First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This is an advanced course focusing on hospitality marketing strategies for hotels, restaurants, tourist attractions or other related events and experiences. In this course we will build upon and integrate basic marketing principles into complex marketing strategies designed to capture market share. All projects are for real situations with real "clients" to be delivered in real time, enabling us to work with industry professionals. Special attention will be placed on market research, targeted marketing, digital marketing, and presentation skills. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing- Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation. 4 cr. Offered Fall & Spring.
SHA HF 460S Hospitality Strategic Marketing
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: SHA HF 100, and (SHA HF 260 or QST MK 323), and (CAS WR 150/151/152 or CGS RH 104); First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Students work with local hotel or restaurant sales and marketing groups to develop their strategies, plans, and programs for targeted market segments. Case studies and exercises are used to help develop necessary skills. Industry speakers bring the current market reality to the classroom. Permission required for non-SHA students. Contact the SHA advising office at 617-353-0930 for more information.
WED BI 535 Literacy Development for Bilingual Students: Instruction and Assessment
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Restricted to Juniors and Seniors. - This course is focused on theory, research, effective instructional practices in literacy instruction and assessment of bilingual students. This course examines the relationships among oral language, reading, writing, and content-area learning. Examines literacy skill development in first and second languages. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation, Teamwork/Collaboration.
WED BI 535S Literacy Development for Bilingual Students: Instruction and Assessment
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Restricted to Juniors and Seniors. - Focus on theory/research/effective instructional practices in literacy instruction and assessment of bilingual students. Examines the relationships among oral language, reading, writing, and content-area learning. Examines literacy skill development in first and second languages.
WED CH 300 Methods of Instruction: Elementary 1-6
10 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - Develops pre-service teachers' understandings of the content and methods of instruction in the language arts, social studies, and science. The course focuses on elements of curriculum design; teaching strategies, and institutional policies and practices at the elementary level. Attention is given to providing effective instruction across the curriculum to culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Instructor permission required. Seminar with fieldwork. 10 cr. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
WED CH 656S S/TCH ELEM 1-6
4 credits.
S/TCH ELEM 1-6
WED CT 575S General Methods of Instruction, 5-12
4 credits.
Development of teaching skills and classroom strategies common to a variety of teaching fields. Includes instructional planning, integrating subject matter with learner's age level and educational environment. Analysis of best practices across all academic areas, learning theories, evaluation, and specific teaching techniques.
WED CT 625S SP ED INCL SCI
4 credits.
SP ED INCL SCI
WED ED 200 Introduction to Justice-Based Education
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 220 Theme-Based Approaches to Studying Complex Issues of Language in Education and Human Development
4 credits. Spring
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 ED 431 CHILD POLICY: CREATING A SOCIETY WHERE CHILDREN THRIVE
4 credits. Fall
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent) - The course examines policies that address children's education, health, and social wellbeing in society. It takes an inter-disciplinary approach (developmental psychology, economics, sociology, and public health) to focus particularly on the needs, vulnerabilities, and strengths children. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
WED LR 501 Teaching of Reading
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - For upper level undergraduate and beginning graduate students without experience in teaching. Study of literacy development in childhood-early adolescence and implications for teaching and learning. Includes integration of educational media/technology, discussion of theory/research, and applications to effective lesson planning. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing- Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation. 4 cr. Either sem.
WED LR 501E TEACH OF READIN
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - TEACH OF READIN
WED LS 734S The Roles and Responsibilities of the Literacy Specialist: Leadership, Coaching, Teaching (Pre-Pract
4 credits. Summer
Observation of a literacy specialist with attention to how the literacy specialist acts as a school-wide leader, coaches teachers, and provides literacy instruction to children. Course readings and discussions examine the multiple roles of a literacy specialist. Contact Professor Jeanne R. Paratore at jparator@bu.edu for more information.
WED ME 508S ST/TCH MTH 8-12
8 credits. Summer
ST/TCH MTH 8-12
Oral and/or Signed Communication
CAS AH 113 Arts and Monuments of Asia
4 credits.
An introduction to the art and architecture of Asia from the earliest times to the present. Course addresses not only important cultural monuments but also portable art objects within museum collections. Course examines a wide range of media, including ink painting, ceramics, textiles, photography, as well as major architectural projects, monuments, and built environments. It aims to challenge and rethink monolithic definitions of "Asian art" by allowing students to understand the complex and sophisticated processes of interregional and global cultural exchange. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS AH 387 Boston Architecture and Urbanism
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry I Teamwork/Collaboration
This class presents a history of Boston from the seventeenth through twenty- first centuries, as seen through the region's architectural and urban history. Major buildings, architects, and urban planning schemes are examined in terms of economic, political, social, and institutional histories. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS AH 495 Seminar: Twentieth Century Art
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASAH111 & CASAH112) and two courses at the 200 level or higher, or consent of the instruct or. - Examines major artists and artistic currents of the twentieth century. Topics vary each year. Some background in the history of modern art is recommended. Topic for Fall 2020: Picasso. Explores more than eight decades of incessant art making by Pablo Picasso. How his friends, his lovers, and his preoccupation with eroticism and death affected his imagery. Students master fundamental currents of European Modernism. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Aesthetic Exploration, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AH 495S Seminar: Critical Issues in Painting Since 1945
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASAH111 & CASAH112) and two courses at the 200 level or higher, or consent of the instruct or. - Topic for Summer I 2011: Critical Issues in Painting since 1945. Explores major trends (Abstract Expressionism, Informel, Pop, Neo-Expressionism) and key figures (Picasso, Pollock, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Salle) in painting since WWII. Considers painting's moments of decline and revival in relation to social, political, and economic developments.
CAS AH 528 Landscapes: Art and Environment in China
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or 120). - Examines art and ecology, power and cartography, and microcosms within the Chinese visual culture of landscapes. Topics include mountain cults, Daoist grotto-heavens, ink painting, gardens, multimedia panoramic views, and contemporary art projects that engage with environmental concerns. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS AH 533 Seminar: Greek Art and Architecture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Topic for Fall 2025: Greek Art in Boston Area Museums. We investigate Greek art in the Boston area to understand and critique its display; compare local collections to others in the United States, Europe, west Asia, and Egypt; and learn about collections management using BU’s Gabel Museum of Archaeology. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 235 Introduction to the Primate Senses
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Scientific Inquiry I
This course focuses on the major special senses of primates, and how they have evolved in an ecological context. Students study the major sensory systems including vision, hearing, smell, and taste from a morphological, neurological, behavioral, and evolutionary perspective. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry I, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS AN 461 Ethnography and Anthropological Theory 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior or senior standing in the major. Required of majors. - Examines foundational social scientific and anthropological theories and methods from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. Discussion focuses on precursors to contemporary anthropological thought, including historical materialist, evolutionist, functionalist, structuralist, symbolic, and culture-and-personality theories and approaches. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS AN 555 Evolutionary Medicine
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Scientific Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASAN102 OR CASBI107) or equivalent, and one additional biological anthropology course; or c onsent of instructor. - Why do we get sick' Evolutionary medicine seeks to answer this question by applying modern evolutionary theory to understanding health and disease among contemporary human populations. Topics include chronic and infectious disease, mental illness, allergies, autoimmunity, and drug addiction. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS AN 557 Anthropology of Mental Health
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 558 The Evolutionary Biology of Human Sex Differences
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Research and Information Literacy
Are sex and gender instantiated in the body' This seminar explores evolutionary approaches to investigating sex differences in human behavior and physiology from phylogenetic, mechanistic, and developmental perspectives. Topics include gender expression, non-binary sex/gender, aggression, mate choice, cognition, and more. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AN 559 Evolutionary Endocrinology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Scientific Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASAN102) or equivalent. - Focuses on current research in the field of evolutionary endocrinology. Examines how hormones act as mediators of a variety of fundamental evolutionary phenomena from circadian rhythms to sexuality. Explores how and why natural selection shaped the "inputs" and "outputs" of the endocrine system. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS AR 533 Seminar: Greek Art and Architecture
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Greek stone architecture from its origins, including the emergence and development of the Doric and Ionic orders to the role of architecture in sanctuaries, forms of houses, invention of special buildings, accessibility, and scale. 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, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AR 594 Scientific Applications in Archaeology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry II Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) and AR 307, or graduate standing. - Seminar exploring new ways of addressing archaeological questions through the application of scientific techniques, focusing on cutting-edge methodologies and the most recent literature in the field. Students pursue questions of individual interest through readings, discussions, presentations, and research papers. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry II.
CAS AR 595 Professional Futures in Archaeology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 AS 414 Solar and Space Physics
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS PY 355; and CAS PY 212 or CAS PY 252. - The historical development of solar and space physics. Solar system plasma physics. The Sun, solar magnetic field, solar activity, and solar wind. Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. Magnetic storms and space weather. Research project relevant to solar and space physics. Oral and/or signed presentation on research project. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AS 441 Observational Astronomy
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS AS 312; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Astronomical techniques. Photometry, spectroscopy, imaging, polarimetry and interferometry. Statistical methods for data reduction and analysis. Technical writing and oral/signed presentation. Strong laboratory component. 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, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BB 341 Junior Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2 (2 Credits)
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: major GPA of at least 3.0, junior standing, and either BB 340, BB 350, full-time summer UROP, or any 4 credits of BB 140, BB 141, BB 240, an d BB 241, - Second-semester junior research including required participation in group meetings. Conduct research under supervision of faculty mentor. Application through BMB Department. Minimum 6 hours/week. Two-credit research does not carry major credit in BMB and cannot be combined with another 2-credit course for elective credit. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS BB 350 Junior Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 1 (4 Credits)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: major GPA of at least 3.0 and junior standing. - First-semester junior research including training in the use of research literature and active participation at group meetings. Application through the BMB Program. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Attendance at group meetings required. Minimum 12 hours/week in labwork and data analysis. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BB 350S JUNIOR BMB RES1
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: major GPA of at least 3.0 and junior standing. - JUNIOR BMB RES1
CAS BB 382S JR BMB RES 2
2 credits. Summer
JR BMB RES 2
CAS BB 401 Honors Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing, overall and BMB GPA of at least 3.5, and approval of application by the BMB Research and Honors Committee. ; Undergraduate Corequisites: (CASBB497) - First semester of independent laboratory research under the supervision of a faculty member in a two- semester course. Overall course grade is determined by laboratory performance, oral presentation, written thesis, and defense of the thesis before a committee of three BMB faculty members. Successful completion of both CAS BB 401 and BB 402 may lead to a degree with honors in the major. This course contnues in the Spring as BB 402 and recieves a J-grade if completed satisfactorily. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BB 450 Senior Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: major GPA of at least 3.0 and senior standing. - First-semester senior research including training in the use of research literature and active participation at group meetings. Application through the Biology Department. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Attendance at group meetings required. Minimum 12 hours/week in labwork and data analysis. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BB 450S SENIOR BMB RES1
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: major GPA of at least 3.0 and senior standing. - SENIOR BMB RES1
CAS BB 591 Graduate Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: admission to the combined BA/MA Biotechnology Program. - BMB laboratory research conducted under supervision of a faculty member. Externships are acceptable if approved and overseen by a BMB faculty member or the BMB Director. Minimum of 15 hours per week in the lab, culminating in submission to the BMB Director of a written progress report and research outline for CAS BB 592. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 126 Human Genetics
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry I
Classical and molecular genetics, advances in genetic technologies, and social/ethical issues related to genetic testing. Designed for science and non- science majors but cannot fulfill Biology/BMB major/minor or pre-medical requirements. Students cannot receive credit for both CAS BI 126 and BI 206/216. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry I, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 225 Behavioral Biology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Prerequisites: CASBI 107 & CASBI 108 and First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120), and sophomore standing. - (Other students must fill out the waitlist - link in Notes. CASBI 225 and CASBI 407 cannot be taken concurrently and CASBI 225 cannot be taken following completion of CASBI 407.) Introduction to the genetics, physiology, neurobiology, ecology, and evolution of behavior. Topics include gene/environment interaction, hormones and behavior, neuroethology, communication, reproductive behavior, evolution of cooperation and altruism, cognition and brain evolution. Emphasis on integrative analysis. 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, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS BI 230 Behavioral Endocrinology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Scientific Inquiry I Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI108 OR CASNE102) and sophomore standing. - Hormonal control of reproductive behaviors and social affiliation, aggression, fluid homeostasis and feeding, biological rhythms including seasonal reproduction, stress, learning and memory, psychiatric illness, and steroid abuse. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion. Also offered as CAS NE 230. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS BI 341 Junior Research in Biology 2 (2 Credits)
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing and one of the following: BI 340, BI 350, or full-time summer UROP. - Second semester junior research required participation in group meetings. Conduct research under supervision of faculty mentor. Group meeting participation required. Application through Biology Department. Minimum 6 hrs/wk. Not a Biology major/minor elective and cannot be combined with another 2-credit course for elective credit. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS BI 341S Junior Research in Biology 2 (2 Credits)
2 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing and one of the following: BI 340, BI 350, or full-time summer UROP. - Second semester junior research including use of research literature. Conduct research under supervision of faculty mentor. Group meeting participation required. Application through Biology Department. Not a Biology/BMB major/minor elective and cannot be combined with another 2-credit course for elective credit. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS BI 350 Junior Research in Biology 1 (4 Credits)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing. - First semester junior research including training in the use of research literature and active participation at group meetings. Application through the Biology Department. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Attendance at group meetings required. Minimum 12 hrs/wk in lab or fieldwork, data analysis, and writing. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 350S JUNIOR BIO RES1
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing. - JUNIOR BIO RES1
CAS BI 401 Honors Research In Biology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing, overall GPA of at least 3.5, and approval of the Biol ogy Research and Honors Committee. - Mentored laboratory or field research with a faculty member of the Biology Department leading to, but not required for, graduation with Honors in Biology. Minimum 12 hours/week in lab or fieldwork, data analysis, and writing. A minimum of B is required to continue to BI 402. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 448 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 450 Senior Research in Biology 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing. - First semester senior research including training in the use of research literature and active participation at group meetings. Application through the Biology Department. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Attendance at group meetings required. Minimum 12 hrs/wk in lab or fieldwork, data analysis, and writing. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 450S Senior Research in Biology 1
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing. - SENIOR BIO RES1
CAS BI 481 Molecular Biology of the Neuron
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASBI 203 - Topics include electrical properties of neurons, a survey of neurotransmitters, molecular structure and function of receptors, synaptic transmission, intracellular signaling, and the molecular biology governing neurodevelopment and neurological disorders. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 500 Shark Biology & Conservation
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: some background in ecology and/or evolution recommended. - Explores the natural history and behavior of sharks and their relationship to other animals in the ecosystem. Conservation of sharks and other elasmobranchs is crucial to ecosystem function and requires accurate scientific knowledge to implement the best conservation practices. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 507 Diversity of Sex
4 credits. Fall
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing, and one of the following: CAS BI 225, BI 309, BI 315, BI 407, or BI 410; or consent of instructor. - Examines the integrative and comparative biology of sex and sexes based on readings drawn from recent primary literature, review papers, and book chapters. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS BI 509 Metapopulation Ecology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Introduces students to metapopulation ecology through the lens of propagule dispersal and population connectivity. 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, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 520 Sensory Neurobiology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI325 OR CASNE203) or consent of instructor. - Animals receive a constant stream of sensory input that they use to adjust their behavior. In this course we explore how sensory systems translate the physical features of the outside world into meaningful patterns of neural activity. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II.
CAS BI 525 Biology of Neurodegenerative Diseases
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASNE 102 or CASBI 108, CASNE 203 or CASBI 325, and CASBI 203/213; and junior and 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. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASNE 102 or CASBI 108, CASNE 203 or CASBI 325, and CASBI 203/213; and junior and 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 530 Forest Ecology
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI107) and CASBI303 or CASBI306, or consent of instructor. - Prerequisites: CASBI107 and CASBI303 or CASBI306, or consent of instructor. The major biotic and abiotic factors influencing forest ecosystem composition, structure, and function. Role of solar radiation, hydrology, soils, succession, and management of forest ecosystems. Includes New England case study. Three hours lecture plus discussion. Meets with CAS GE 530. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 535 Translational Research in Alzheimer's Disease
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASNE 102 or CASBI 108, CASNE 203 or CASBI 325, and CASBI 203/213; and junior and 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 BI 542 Neuroethology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASBI 325 or CASNE 203 or consent of instructor. - An in-depth study of the neural mechanisms underlying natural behaviors in animals, integrating perspectives from behavioral ecology and neurobiology. Emphasizes behaviors central to fitness, including sensory and motor bases of prey detection, predator avoidance, communication, courtship, navigation, and migration. Covers non-model organisms (e.g., honey bees, owls, bats, and crickets). Lectures are integrated with student-led discussions of relevant research papers. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 565 Functional Genomics
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI552) or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Graduate Prerequisites: background in molecular biology. - This paper- and problem-based course focuses on functional genomics topics such as genetic variation, genome organization, and mechanisms of transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulation. Up-to-date methods include NGS, genome editing, ChIP-seq, chromatin accessibility assays, transcriptomics, and proteomics. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking.
CAS BI 572 Advanced Genetics
4 credits. Fall
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 589 Neural Impacts on Tumorigenesis
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASNE203 OR CASBI325) - Explores neuronal invasion and mechanisms of neurogenesis into solid tumors, cross-talk in tumor microenvironments, and nervous system influence on cancer modulators that enhance tumorigenesis. Enhancement of cancer from environmental stress at this interface is also examined. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS BI 594S Topics in Biology
4 credits. Summer
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 648 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 681 Molecular Biology of the Neuron
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Topics include electrical properties of single neurons, how neurons propagate electrical signals and communicate in synaptic transmission. The course will also examine the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodevelopment and study synaptic plasticity in relation to learning and memory and disease. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CC 102 Core Humanities 2: The Way: Antiquity and the Medieval World
4 credits. Spring
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. Summer
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 CC 318 Public Speaking
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
How can you make a connection with an audience when you speak? How can you find ways to make a rhetorical argument? This course puts students in conversation with texts and ideas that guide them to find authentic voices when constructing narratives, arguments, and presentations to different audiences. Students may not receive credit for both CASCC 318 and CASWR 318. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CH 142 Freshman Research in Chemistry 2 (2 Credits)
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Second semester of research including attendance with oral presentations at group research meetings, and the writing of a report at the end of semester as required by research group. Application must be made through the Department of Chemistry office. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS CH 161 Freshman Research in Chemistry 1 (4 Credits)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
First semester of research including the use of the research literature, attendance with oral presentations at group research seminars and the writing of a report at the end of semester as required by research group. Application must be made through the Department of Chemistry office. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CH 162 Freshman Research in Chemistry 2 (4 Credits)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Second semester of research including attendance with oral presentations at group research meetings, critical analysis of the research project, and the writing of a report at the end of semester as required by research group. Application must be made through the Department of Chemistry office. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
CAS CH 212 Intensive Organic Chemistry 2
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCH211) - Recommended for Chemistry majors. Organic compounds and their reactions; functional groups, stereochemistry, synthesis, reaction mechanisms, and laboratory methods including qualitative organic analysis. Industrial applications and relevance to biological systems. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, one hour prelab lecture, four hours lab. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CH 242 Sophomore Research in Chemistry 2 (2 Credits)
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Second semester of research including attendance with oral presentations at group research meetings and the writing of a report at the end of semester as required by research group. Application must be made through the Department of Chemistry office. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS CH 261 Sophomore Research in Chemistry 1 (4 Credits)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
First semester of research including the use of the research literature, attendance with oral presentations at group research seminars and the writing of a report at the end of semester as required by research group. Application must be made through the Department of Chemistry office. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CH 262 Sophomore Research in Chemistry 2 (4 Credits)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCH102 OR CASCH161) - Second semester of research including attendance with oral presentations at group research meetings, critical analysis of the research project, and the writing of a report at the end of semester as required by research group. Application must be made through the Department of Chemistry office. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
CAS CH 342 Junior Research in Chemistry 2 (2 Credits)
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Second semester of research including attendance with oral presentations at group research meetings and the writing of a report at the end of semester as required by research group. Application must be made through the Department of Chemistry office. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS CH 361 Junior Research in Chemistry 1 (4 Credits)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
First semester of research including the use of the research literature, attendance with oral presentations at group research seminars and the writing of a report at the end of semester as required by research group. Application must be made through the Department of Chemistry office. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CH 362 Junior Research in Chemistry 2 (4 Credits)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Second semester of research including attendance with oral presentations at group research meetings, critical analysis of the research project, and the writing of a report at the end of semester as required by research group. Application must be made through the Department of Chemistry office. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
CAS CH 402 Honors Research in Chemistry
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: 3.0 overall GPA, 3.2 GPA in required major courses, and approval of Honors application by Chemistry Department Undergraduate Programs Committee. - Minimum 16 hours per week of experimental or theoretical research, within a chemistry department research group or in another approved research group (outside the department) that is undertaking research in the chemical sciences. An Honors thesis is submitted at the end of the spring semester and defended before a committee of three faculty members. A grade of B or higher is required in both CAS CH 401 and CAS CH 402 in order to graduate with Honors in the Major in Chemistry. An oral presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at the end of the spring semester is also required. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, 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 313 The "Odyssey" and "Ulysses"
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course consists of a close reading of James Joyce's Ulysses with particular attention to his use of the Odyssey. We also examine the relation of oral and book cultures and other works Joyce takes in, such as the Aeneid, Divine Comedy and Hamlet. 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, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CL 406 Advanced Topics in Classical Civilization
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two courses in classical civilization, or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) - In depth examination of an aspect of classical civilization(s). All texts in translation. May be repeated for credit as topics change. Topic for Spring 2026: Sophocles’ Theban Plays (Antigone, Oedipus Tyannus, and Oedipus at Colonus), with particular emphasis on feminist perspectives. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication , Writing- Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CS 402 Senior Independent Work
4 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: approval of the Honors Committee. - Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
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 561 Data Systems Architectures
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CS 210 or equivalent and CAS CS 460/660. - Discusses the design of data systems that can address the modern challenges of managing and accessing large, ever-growing, diverse sets of data, often streaming from heterogenous sources, in the context of continuously evolving hardware and software. We use examples from several data management areas including relational systems, distributed database systems, key value stores, newSQL and NoSQL systems, data systems for machine learning (and machine learning for data systems), interactive analytics, and data management as a service. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EE 310 Climate and the Environment
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASMA 122 or MA 124 and PY 211; or consent of instructor. - Understanding physical processes of the atmosphere, ranging in scale from tornadoes to global winds. Emphasis on providing physical explanations of atmospheric phenomena and impact of weather on humanity. Satellite and weather modification technology. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EE 371 Introduction to Geochemistry
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASEE 105 or EE 107 or EE 142 or EE 144; and CASCH 101 or CH 111 or CH171 or CH131; or equivalent - Chemical features of Earth and the solar system; geochemical cycles, reactions among solids, liquids, and gases; radioactivity and isotope fractionation; water chemistry; origins of ore deposits; applications of geochemistry to regional and global problems. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EE 422 Aquatic Optics & Remote Sensing
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Quantitative Reasoning II Research and Information Literacy
An introduction to the use of optical measurements and remote sensing to study the biogeochemistry and water quality of aquatic environments. Covers fundamental concepts and measurements in optics/remote sensing and provides hands-on experience with real data. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Quantitative Reasoning II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EE 530 Forest Ecology
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: BI 107 and BI 303 or BI 306, or consent of instructor - Prerequisites: CASBI107 and CASBI303 or CASBI306, or consent of instructor. The major biotic and abiotic factors influencing forest ecosystem composition, structure and function. Role of solar radiation, hydrology, soils, succession, and management of forest ecosystems. Includes New England case study. Three hours lecture plus discussion. Also meets with BI 530. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EE 533 Quantitative Geomorphology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Quantitative Reasoning II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASMA121 OR CASMA123 OR CASMA127 OR CASMA129) - Quantitative analyses of surface processes that lead to landform evolution and landscape change. Emphasizes study of analytical techniques in understanding specific depositional and erosional processes; models of global landscape change; tectonic and climatic geomorphology. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
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 622 Aquatic Optics and Remote Sensing
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Quantitative Reasoning II Research and Information Literacy
An introduction to the use of optical measurements and remote sensing to study the biogeochemistry and water quality of aquatic environments. Covers fundamental concepts and measurements in optics/remote sensing and provides hands-on experience with real data. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Quantitative Reasoning II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EE 623 Marine Biogeochemistry
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CH 101 and 102, admission to BUMP or EE 144, or consent of instructor - Nutrient and biogeochemical cycles in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems; global biogeochemistry. Topics include anthropogenic effects on ecosystem cycles and productivity, wetland ecology and biogeochemistry, ecosystem restoration, ocean productivity, climate change and temperate, tropical, and aquatic ecosystems, oceans and the global CO2 budget, marine sediment chemistry.
CAS EN 142 Introduction to Poetry
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Introduction to the understanding, interpretation, and appreciation of a wide range of poetry. Focus on poetic form, genre, and style, with explorations of cultural and aesthetic contexts. Particular emphasis on close, careful reading and discussion. Topics vary by instructor. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS EN 142S Literary Types: Poetry
4 credits. Summer
This course description is currently under construction.
CAS EN 213 The "Odyssey" and "Ulysses"
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course consists of a close reading of James Joyce's Ulysses with particular attention to his use of the Odyssey. We also examine the relation of oral and book cultures and other works Joyce takes in, such as the Aeneid, Divine Comedy and Hamlet. 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, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 220 Seminar in Literature
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120). - Fundamentals of literary analysis, interpretation, and research. Intensive study of selected literary texts centered on a particular topic. Attention to different critical approaches. Frequent papers. Limited class size. Satisfies WR 150 requirement. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research and Inquiry, Research and Information Literacy. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing: Research & Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 220S Seminar in Literature
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., EN 120 or WR 100 or WR 120). - Topic for summer 2025: English and American Literature on Film. Why do we adapt books into movies' How does the experience of a story we first encounter as a text change when we see it on screen' Are filmmakers obligated to be "faithful" to their sources, or do they have artistic license to innovate' Is literature an inherently "higher" form of art than movies' In this course, we consider these and other questions about cinematic adaptation in order to develop our skills as critical readers of texts and movies, and as proficient researchers and writers. We examine film adaptations of work by English-language authors such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and August Wilson. Our goal is to produce well-researched, clear, and persuasive analyses of how film adaptation can enhance or sometimes challenge our understanding of literary masterpieces. Satisfies CAS WR 150 requirement. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research and Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 241 Jewish Humor and Satire: Stand-Up Comedy
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-Year writing seminar (CASWR 100 or 120.) - We begin with Freud's theories, illustrated by Viennese and Yiddish humor. The course then focuses on oral-style short fiction, the creation of a persona, and stand-up comedy routines. As we read texts and study performances, students write their own. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS EN 379 American Poetry
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - A survey of American poetry, from the Revolutionary era up through the post- WWII period, introducing the fundamentals of poetic form and lyric practice, as well as the historical and cultural contexts surrounding the development of Romanticism, Modernism, and beyond. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS HI 369 Empires and Modernity's in Motion: Modern Japan and the Asian World
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry I
Modern Japan is a story of miracles and tragedies, both to the extreme. This course explores the rise of the Japanese empire, the fall of its Pan-Asian intrigues, and the reconstitution of a nation on the ruins of empire. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry I.
CAS HI 369S Empires and Modernity's in Motion: Modern Japan and the Asian World
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry I
Modern Japan is a story of miracles and tragedies, both to the extreme. This course explores the rise of the Japanese empire, the fall of its Pan-Asian intrigues, and the reconstitution of a nation on the ruins of empire. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry I.
CAS HI 370 Samurai, Ships, and Soil: Japan Among the Empires of Asia, 1600-1950
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry I
Exotic as it may seem, Japan was never an isolated island country floating off the coast of Asia. This course offers a new narrative about the history of Japan in relation to the imperial orders and transnational spaces of Asia. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry I, 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 502 Drafts of History: Journalism and Historical Revisionism
4 credits.
Considers episodes from U.S. history, comparing the "draft" of journalists to subsequent historical accounts. Analyzes how new evidence alters understanding of events, but also how different eras ask questions about the past, interrogate different sources, and appeal to different audiences. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS HI 553 Transnational Histories of Asia: How Homo Sapiens Changed the Largest Continent on Our Planet
4 credits. Fall
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 IR 312 Comparative Development in the Middle East
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry I
This course surveys pertinent topics relating to the socio-economic and political development of the Middle East and North African throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will explore and critical analyze themes relating to colonialism and state formation and statebuilding, regime types, oil and rentierism, civil society, authoritarianism and democratization, military spending, gender relations, Islamist movements, elections, revolutions and social movements, territorial disputes, foreign intervention, and sectarianism and identity politics. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 312S Comparative Development in the Middle East
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry I
Surveys pertinent topics relating to the socio-economic and political development of the Middle East and North African throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will explore and critical analyze themes relating to colonialism, state formation, and statebuilding; regime types; oil and rentierism; civil society; authoritarianism and democratization; military spending; gender relations; Islamist movements; elections; revolutions and social movements; territorial disputes; foreign intervention; and sectarianism and identity politics. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
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 353 Nuclear Security
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 363 Economic Cooperation in East Asia
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Pre-requisites: CASIR 271/PO 171 and an international economics class (CASIR 292, CASIR 399, CASEC 392, or QSTIM 345). - Explores the growth of economic cooperation in East Asia and Asia-Pacific to promote trade, finance, development, and sustainability. Analyzes both economic incentives for cooperation and effects of political and economic competition among China, Japan, the U.S. and other regional actors. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 369 Southeast Asia in World Politics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASIR271 OR CASIR251) - Meets with CAS PO 354. Examines Southeast Asia as an important emerging political, economic, and security region in world politics. Background materials, including the region's history, cultural diversity, and geo- strategic position, are given weight in the course. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 369S Southeast Asia in World Politics
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASIR271 OR CASIR251) - Examines Southeast Asia as an important emerging political, economic, and security region in world politics. Background materials, including the region's history, cultural diversity, and geo-strategic position, are given weight in the course.
CAS IR 378 Intelligence in a Democratic Society
4 credits. Fall
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. Spring
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 389 Technology and Global Governance
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate prerequisite: One Social Inquiry I unit. - The international world order, largely forged after World War II, has come under increasing strain. The course critiques the traditional state-centric approach to global governance in which international organizations such as the United Nations and World Trade Organizations develop rules which nation-states follow. Provides an alternative approach of global governance - "experimental governance" - which can complement the state-centric approach. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry II.
CAS IR 402 Pardee School Honors Thesis 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior standing; permission required. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g ., WR 100 or WR 120) - IR 402 is the second semester of the two-semester Honors Program for students in any of the Pardee School's majors (Asian Studies, European Studies, International Relations, Latin American Studies, and Middle East & North Africa Studies). 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.
CAS IR 516 Intelligence and Homeland Security
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 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 521 Intelligence, Congress and the Formulation of National Security Policy
4 credits.
Examines the role and influence of Congress on the intelligence agencies of the US, Congress's oversight of intelligence collection, counterintelligence, covert action and surveillance in relation to the executive powers. Explores the influence of espionage on national security policy. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Oral and Signed Communication.
CAS IR 521S Congress and National Security
4 credits.
Seminar on the constitutional, historical, and practical role of the U.S. Congress in foreign defense policy. Analyzes the powers of the relevant committees and illustrates Congress' role in war making, treaties, appointments, and broad policy directions. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Oral and Signed Communication.
CAS IR 523 Cybersecurity and U.S. National Security
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration 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 the challenge of cybersecurity in times of war and peace, with particular focus on U.S. national security. Explores cyber weapon systems and doctrine, the problem of attribution, and "gray zone" issues including information operations and election interference. 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, Teamwork/Collaboration.
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 533 Contentious Politics and the Arab Uprisings in the Middle East
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Analyzes divergent outcomes of the Arab uprisings by framing them along historic continuum of domestic, regional, and international political developments. Examines how linkages between regional and international states and actors have affected historical and contemporary statebuilding and transitional outcomes. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS IR 533S Contentious Politics and the Arab Uprisings in the Middle East
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Analyzes divergent outcomes of the Arab uprisings by framing them along historic continuum of domestic, regional, and international political developments. Examines how linkages between regional and international states and actors have affected historical and contemporary statebuilding and transitional outcomes. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS IR 544 Solving Humanitarian Crises
4 credits. Fall
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 548 Peacekeeping and State-Building
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR120) - Pre-req: WR 120 or equivalent, CS 111. Examines the challenges facing the United Nations and other international organizations in preventing, containing, and ending armed conflict, as well as their role in creating conditions for reconciliation, transitional justice, institutions building. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS IR 557 Guerrilla Warfare and Terrorism
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Fall
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 561 Religion and International Relations
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar ( e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores the role of religion in contemporary international relations in the context of questions about the common core of modernity. Reviews scholarly and policy literature, and case studies, in order to elucidate religion's intellectual and operational diversity in international relations. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
CAS IR 573 Seminar in Public International Law
4 credits. Spring
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 583 Strategies of Defense Planning
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 584 Global Trade and Development
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry I Teamwork/Collaboration
Provides deep understanding into the impact of global trade on socio-economic development, emphasizing the role of global and regional institutions. Special attention is given to the transformative rise of global supply chain trade and its intricate links to development outcomes. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry I, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS IR 587 Global Energy History
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Prerequisite: one Social Inquiry I course. - This course traces global energy history from the Industrial Revolution to our era of climate change. We examine where energy resources come from, how they are acquired and moved, and why societies transition from one source of energy to another. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Social Inquiry II.
CAS IR 593 Technology and Economic Inclusion in the Developing World
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
How can firms and governments use new technologies to provide clean energy, drinking water, and other services to rural and frontier communities in the developing world' The course investigates how rural communities, particularly those without access to formal and other services, manage their money, provide energy and other services they need, and general live their lives. We will then examine how firms and governance can design products, governance mechanisms, and policies which can most effectively tap into such communities. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS JS 239 Jewish Humor and Satire: Stand-Up Comedy
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-Year writing seminar (CASWR 100 or 120.) - We begin with Freud's theories, illustrated by Viennese and Yiddish humor. The course then focuses on oral-style short fiction, the creation of a persona, and stand-up comedy routines. As we read texts and study performances, students write their own. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS JS 282 Sixth-Semester Hebrew: Food Culture in Israel
4 credits. Fall
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 460 Seminar on the Holocaust
4 credits. Spring
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 317 Chinese in Modern Society
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 318 Chinese through Public Speaking
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLC 311 and a First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CASWR 100 or WR 120) or consent of instructor. - As public speakers, how can we engage different communities at different times and places' This course explores theories concerning how to construct narratives and arguments that resonate with specific audiences in the Chinese-speaking world, and invites students to put such theories into performative practice in Chinese. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LC 322 Business Chinese
4 credits. Spring
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 416 Chinese through Literary Masterpieces
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two 300-level modern Chinese courses, or consent of instructor. - This content-based course introduces students to selected original works in modern Chinese poetry, short stories, novels, drama, letters, and prose. Through close reading, collaborative presentations and group discussions, students will examine how social realities and ideologies are reflected in these works and explore how these works reflect the author's sense of identity crisis. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LF 300 Living French in Paris: Practical Communication and Current Culture (Level 1)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 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 309 French in the World
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLF212) or equivalent; or placement test results. - Advanced study of French through the analysis of images, short stories, excerpts of novels and films that explore topics pertaining to the Francophone World. Specific regions vary by semester, but can include Africa, the Caribbean or North America. 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. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication (OSC), Historical Consciousness.
CAS LF 313 French Through Translation
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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 324 Advanced Spoken French
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one CAS LF 307-311 course, or equivalent or placement test results. - Advanced training in rapid and idiomatic French speech. Oral reports. Role playing; vocabulary building; targeted work on pronunciation, intonation, and aural comprehension. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LF 324E Advanced Spoken French
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one CAS LF 307-311 course, or equivalent or placement test results. - Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LF 342E Paris Esthtique
4 credits. Fall, Spring, Summer
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 613 French through Translation
4 credits. Fall
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 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 310 German Translation and Interpretation
4 credits. Fall
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 312 Sixth-Semester Hebrew: Food Culture in Israel
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 LI 303E SLF EXPRES/ITAL
4 credits. Fall, Spring, Summer
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. Summer
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. Summer
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. Fall
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 LJ 282 Samurai, Ships, and Soil: Japan Among the Empires of Asia, 1600-1950
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry I
Exotic as it may seem, Japan was never an isolated island country floating off the coast of Asia. This course offers a new narrative about the history of Japan in relation to the imperial orders and transnational spaces of Asia. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry I, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LJ 303 Third-Year Modern Japanese I
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 LJ 304 Third-Year Modern Japanese II
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 320 Conversational Japanese
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 386 Japanese Translation/Interpretation Workshop
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) and CASLJ 212 or CASLJ 211 with consent of instructor. - Through training in translating and interpreting, the course enhances knowledge of Japanese language and culture and improves English writing skills. Students are given a wide variety of texts to translate and practice oral interpretation in a range of contexts. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LK 312 Sixth-Semester Korean
4 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLK 311 or placement test results. Reading and discussing modern Korean texts in order to further develop reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills while enhancing the understanding of Korean culture. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LK 313 Korean through TV Drama
4 credits. Spring
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 322 Korean for the Professions
4 credits. Fall
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 410 Korean Conversation and Discourse
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLK312) or consent of instructor. - Introduction to linguistic, cultural, and conversational features of the Korean language. Students collect, transcribe, and analyze spoken-Korean data, gaining both a deeper understanding of Korean conversation and discourse norms and increased language proficiency at advanced levels or higher. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LP 308 Brazilian History and Contemporary Identities
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LP 212 or placement results or consent of instructor. - Students develop intercultural competence by analyzing the influence of history on on contemporary Brazilian identity. Written and oral work explores colonial legacy in relation to culture, race, and ethnicity. Readings and screenings present diverse voices within Brazil and interactions with other Portuguese-speaking countries. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS LR 311 Russian Youth Culture
4 credits. Fall
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 LS 306 Spanish Through Translation
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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. Fall, Spring, Summer
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. Summer
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 310 Spanish for the Professions
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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 318 Spanish through Public Speaking
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration Writing-Intensive Course
As public speakers, how can we engage different communities at different times and places' This course explores theories concerning how to construct narratives and arguments that resonate with specific audiences in Spanish and invites students to put such theories into performative practice. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LS 606 Spanish Translation Workshop
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 303 Understanding Modern Turkey through Film and Literature
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 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 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 303 Third-Year Modern Arabic 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Fall, Spring, Summer
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. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLY212) - MODERN ARABIC 5
CAS LY 411 Arab Society through Hip Hop and Cartoons
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 420 Arabic Media
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 572 Arabic Translation and Interpreting
4 credits. Fall
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 LY 720 Media Arabic
4 credits. Fall
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 MA 107 Mathematical Reasoning in the Elementary Grades: Number Systems
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Quantitative Reasoning I Teamwork/Collaboration
Mathematical Reasoning in the Elementary Grades: Number Systems Required for undergraduates seeking licensure in elementary education, early childhood education,special education, or deaf studies. Focuses on number systems, whole number, decimal and fraction concepts and operations, and number theory. Non-Wheelock students by signed permission only. Does not satisfy CAS Divisional Studies or Math/Stat major. 4 cr. 1st sem. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning I, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS MA 108 Mathematical Reasoning in the Elementary Grades: Algebra, Geometry, and Statistics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Quantitative Reasoning II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASMA107 OR SEDME503) - Required for undergraduates seeking licensure in elementary education, special education, or deaf studies. Focuses on topics in algebra, geometry, measurement, and statistics. Non-SED students by signed permission only. Does not satisfy CAS Divisional Studies or Math/Stat major. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS MA 111 Mathematical Explorations
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Quantitative Reasoning II
Students explore challenging mathematics problems chosen from an array of topics that can be solved in multiple ways. Includes making, testing, and modifying conjectures; constructing proofs; posing new problems; extensive classroom interaction; reflective and other writing. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS MA 402 Senior Independent Work
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: approval by the Director of Undergraduate Studies. - This course is the second in a two-semester sequence during which the student conducts a substantial research project under the supervision of a faculty advisor. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU HUB area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS MR 501 Marine Semester Co-Requisite
0 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Scientific Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: admission into the Marine Semester. - Co-requisite required of all students admitted into Marine Semester. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS NE 230 Behavioral Endocrinology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Scientific Inquiry I Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI108 OR CASNE102) and sophomore standing. - Hormonal control of reproductive behaviors and social affiliation, aggression, fluid homeostasis and feeding, biological rhythms including seasonal reproduction, stress, learning and memory, psychiatric illness, and steroid abuse. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion. Also offered as CAS BI 230. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS NE 372 Junior Research in Neuroscience 2 (2 Credits)
2 credits. Fall and Spring
For students with junior standing. Second semester of research in neuroscience, involving active participation at group meetings. Application through the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Attendance at group meetings, presentation at one or more group meetings, and final report required. Two- credit research does not carry major credit in Neuroscience. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS NE 372S JUNIOR NEU RES2
2 credits. Summer
JUNIOR NEU RES2
CAS NE 391 Junior Research in Neuroscience 1 (4 Credits)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor. - For students with junior standing. First semester of research in neuroscience, involving the use of research literature and active participation at group meetings. Application through the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Attendance at group meetings, presentation at one or more group meetings, and final report required. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS NE 391S Undergraduate Research in Neuroscience III
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor. - Research in neuroscience for students at the junior level. Students design and implement a research project with a faculty member.
CAS NE 393 Junior Research in Neuroscience 3
4 credits. Fall and Spring
For students with junior standing. Third semester of research in neuroscience, involving active participation at group meetings and significant creative contributions by the student. Application through the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Attendance at group meetings, presentation at one or more group meetings, and final report required. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS NE 393S JUNIOR NEU RES3
4 credits. Summer
JUNIOR NEU RES3
CAS NE 402 Honors Research in Neuroscience 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: approval of NE Director of Undergraduate Academic and Research Affairs , and College Honors Committee. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 1 00 or WR 120) - For students with senior standing. Second semester of Honors-level mentored research (leading to graduation with Honors in Neuroscience) involving the writing of a senior thesis, preparation and delivery of a thesis defense presentation, and substantial independence. Application through the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Minimum 16 hours/week involving lab work, meetings, data analysis, and writing. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS NE 402S Honors Research in Neuroscience 2
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
For students with senior standing. Second semester of Honors-level mentored research (leading to graduation with Honors in Neuroscience) involving the writing of a senior thesis, preparation and delivery of a thesis defense presentation, and substantial independence. Application through the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Minimum 16 hours/week involving lab work, meetings, data analysis, and writing. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS NE 456 Neurobiology of Sex and Aggression
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Scientific Inquiry II
Examines neurobiological and genetic factors that influence sex and violence. Students review primary literature from the past century that highlights major scientific discoveries that have reconceptualized our understanding of the origins of sexual-determination, -attraction and - aggression. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Historical Consciousness, Scientific Inquiry II.
CAS NE 456S Neurobiology of Sex and Aggression
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Scientific Inquiry II
Examines neurobiological and genetic factors that influence sex and violence. Students review primary literature from the past century that highlights major scientific discoveries that have reconceptualized our understanding of the origins of sexual-determination, -attraction and - aggression. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Historical Consciousness, Scientific Inquiry II.
CAS NE 481 Molecular Biology of the Neuron
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI203 OR CASNE102) - Topics include electrical properties of neurons, a survey of neurotransmitters, molecular structure and function of receptors, synaptic transmission, intracellular signaling, and the molecular biology of sensory transduction. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion. Also offered as CAS NE 481. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS NE 491 Senior Research in Neuroscience 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor. - For students with senior standing. First semester of research in neuroscience, involving the use of research literature and active participation at group meetings. Application through the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Attendance at group meetings, presentation at one or more group meetings, and final report required. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS NE 491S Senior Research in Neuroscience 1
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor. - Research in neuroscience for students at the senior level. Students design and implement a research project with a faculty member. A minimum of 12 hours per week in lab or field work, not including preparation or evaluation time. Research topic must be defined at the time of registration. Course grade is determined by laboratory performance and written report.
CAS NE 493 Senior Research in Neuroscience 3
4 credits. Fall and Spring
For students with senior standing. Third or more semester of research in neuroscience, involving active participation at group meetings and significant creative contributions by the student. Application through the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Students conduct research under supervision of a faculty mentor. Attendance at group meetings, presentation at one or more group meetings, and final report required. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS NE 493S SENIOR NEU RES3
4 credits. Summer
SENIOR NEU RES3
CAS NE 520 Sensory Neurobiology
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI325 OR CASNE203) or consent of instructor. - Animals receive a constant stream of sensory input that they use to adjust their behavior. In this course we explore how sensory systems translate the physical features of the outside world into meaningful patterns of neural activity. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II.
CAS NE 525 Biology of Neurodegenerative Diseases
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASNE 102 or CASBI 108, CASNE 203 or CASBI 325, and CASBI 203/213; and junior and 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. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASNE 102 or CASBI 108, CASNE 203 or CASBI 325, and CASBI 203/213; and junior and 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 535 Translational Research in Alzheimer's Disease
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Ethical Reasoning Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASNE 102 or CASBI 108, CASNE 203 or CASBI 325, and CASBI 203/213; and junior and 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 NE 542 Neuroethology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASNE102 & CASNE203) and NE major; and junior or senior standing. - An in-depth study of the neural mechanisms underlying natural behaviors in animals, integrating perspectives from behavioral ecology and neurobiology. Behaviors that are central to fitness will be studied in detail, including the sensory and motor bases of prey detection, predator avoidance, communication, courtship, navigation, and migration. A wide variety of non- model organisms such as honeybees, owls, bats, and crickets are discussed. Lectures are integrated with student-led discussions of relevant research papers. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS NE 589 Neural Impacts on Tumorigenesis
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS NE 102, NE 203, and NE major; and junior or senior standing. - Explores neuronal invasion and mechanisms of neurogenesis into solid tumors, cross-talk in tumor microenvironments, and nervous system influence on cancer modulators that enhance tumorigenesis. Enhancement of cancer from environmental stress at this interface is also examined. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Scientific Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PH 409 Maimonides
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPH300) - A study of major aspects of the thought of Maimonides. Primary focus on the Guide of the Perplexed, with attention to its modern reception in works by Baruch Spinoza, Hermann Cohen, Leo Strauss, and others. Also offered as CAS RN 420. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS PH 426 Phenomenology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous PH courses, or consent of instructor.. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Rigorous examination of foundations of philosophical phenomenology in Husserl and others. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS PH 609 Maimonides
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
A study of major aspects of the thought of Maimonides. Primary focus on the Guide of the Perplexed, with attention to its modern reception in works by Baruch Spinoza, Hermann Cohen, Leo Strauss, and others. Also offered as GRS RN 720. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS PH 626 Phenomenology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Rigorous examination of foundations of philosophical phenomenology in Husserl and others. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
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 301 Presidential Leadership
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Presidential power and functions; relations with Congress, political party, and the public; personality and leadership; and comparative study of selected presidents. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry II.
CAS PO 301S Presidential Leadership
4 credits.
Presidential power and functions; relations with Congress, political party, and the public; personality and leadership; and comparative study of selected presidents. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS PO 317.
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 346 Bombs and Bombshells: Gender, Armed Conflict, and Political Violence
4 credits. Fall
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 354 Southeast Asia in World Politics
4 credits.
Examines Southeast Asia as an important emerging political, economic, and security region in world politics. Background materials, including the region's history, cultural diversity, and geo-strategic position, are given weight in the course. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 356 Nuclear Security
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 369 Comparative Development in the Middle East
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry I
This course surveys pertinent topics relating to the socio-economic and political development of the Middle East and North African throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will explore and critical analyze themes relating to colonialism and state formation and statebuilding, regime types, oil and rentierism, civil society, authoritarianism and democratization, military spending, gender relations, Islamist movements, elections, revolutions and social movements, territorial disputes, foreign intervention, and sectarianism and identity politics. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 409 The Political Psychology of Group-Based Politics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing and one previous course in political science or social psychology; or consent of instructor. - The study of political psychology, integrating political science and social and cognitive psychology as it informs the dynamics of group-based politics, including especially race, gender, class, and political party affiliation. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Social Inquiry 2.
CAS PO 507 Development of American Constitutional Law
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPO111 & CASPO304) - A survey of the development of constitutional law and the exercise of power by the U.S. Supreme Court. The course is drawn entirely from decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and the principal theme is the development of national constitutions and power. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Historical Consciousness.
CAS PO 508 The Judiciary and Civil Liberties
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - First Amendment rights of speech, press, assembly, religion; rights of defendants in criminal cases; and the constitutional protection of racial minorities. Supreme Court decision-making processes and modes of compliance with its decisions are also considered. 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, Historical Consciousness.
CAS PO 508S The Judiciary and Civil Liberties
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - First Amendment rights of speech, press, assembly, religion; rights of defendants in criminal cases; and the constitutional protection of racial minorities. Supreme Court decision-making processes and modes of compliance with its decisions are also considered.
CAS PO 518 Causes and Consequences of Political Segregation in the United States
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry II
This seminar explores how political geography ¿ where different political, racial, economic, and social groups live in relation to one another ¿ shapes U.S. politics. The course covers trends shaping political segregation and its impacts on representation, elections, political campaigns, and polarization. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry II.
CAS PO 524 Local Policy Analysis Lab
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 547 US Social Movements
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
This course explores the strategies and impacts of historic and contemporary social movements in the US, with attention to their interactions with the party system. Students write a major research paper applying social movement theory to a chosen social movement. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PO 574 Decolonization and Democracy in Africa
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 589 Religion and International Relations
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores the role of religion in contemporary international relations in the context of questions about the common core of modernity. Reviews scholarly and policy literature, and case studies, in order to elucidate religion's intellectual and operational diversity in international relations. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing- Intensive Course, Critical Thinking.
CAS PO 595 Race and Capitalism
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication
Students engage with the political thought of philosophers, legal scholars, writers, and historians who have explored the global history of capitalism and race, covering topics such as labor, climate change, colonialism, slavery, and mass incarceration. In this course, students learn to compare different authors, place thinkers within their historical context, understand the roots of contrasting arguments, as well as develop their own questions, analysis, and arguments. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Historical Consciousness, Oral and Signed Communication.
CAS PY 392E D S FOR JUNIOR
Var credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Geneva Physics Program. - DIR CERN
CAS PY 401 Senior Independent Work
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: approval of CAS Honors Committee. - Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PY 581 Advanced Laboratory
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPY351) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Classical experiments in atomic and nuclear physics, development of new experiments, basic research projects. Experiments include magnetic resonance, nuclear-decay studies, Zeeman effect, holography, black-body radiation, X-ray diffraction, Mossbauer studies, and flux quantization, positron annihilation. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 102 Encountering Religion: Topics in Religious Studies
4 credits. Spring
Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) or equivalent. - Introduces the ways religious ideas, beliefs, themes, practices, and histories shape our world in arenas as varied as popular culture and politics. Through exploration of a specific topic, students learn to think, write, and speak about religion and its effects. May be repeated for credit as topics change. Topic for Spring 2026: Writing Religion. Effective Spring 2026, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive.
CAS RN 345 Shariah Law
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 420 Maimonides
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
A study of major aspects of the thought of Maimonides. Primary focus on the Guide of the Perplexed, with attention to its modern reception in works by Baruch Spinoza, Hermann Cohen, Leo Strauss, and others. Also offered as CAS PH 409. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS RN 450 Topics in Religion, Science, and Medicine
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication
May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Topic for Spring 2025: Healing and the Body in East Asian Religions. From Ayurveda to Zen, this course explores diverse healing practices and understandings of the human body across various East Asian religious traditions. Covering topics such as Buddhist medicine, Daoist remedies, Mongolian shamanism, and Shinto purification rituals, we discuss how different East Asian religions interpret the body within their philosophical and cosmological frameworks, as well as how practical healing applications were developed and performed. Effective Fall 2021, this course carries a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 460 Seminar on the Holocaust
4 credits. Spring
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 645 Shariah Law
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 720 Maimonides
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
A study of major aspects of the thought of Maimonides. Primary focus on the Guide of the Perplexed, with attention to its modern reception in works by Baruch Spinoza, Hermann Cohen, Leo Strauss, and others. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS RN 750 Topics in Religion, Science, and Medicine
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication
May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Topic for Spring 2025: Healing and the Body in East Asian Religions. From Ayurveda to Zen, this course explores diverse healing practices and understandings of the human body across various East Asian religious traditions. Covering topics such as Buddhist medicine, Daoist remedies, Mongolian shamanism, and Shinto purification rituals, we discuss how different East Asian religions interpret the body within their philosophical and cosmological frameworks, as well as how practical healing applications were developed and performed. Effective Fall 2021, this course carries a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
CAS RN 760 Seminar on the Holocaust
4 credits. Spring
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 SO 317 Gender and Crime
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 483 Gentrification Studies
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
This seminar explores the process of urban gentrification from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the variegated histories, geographies, and sociologies of gentrification globally, thinking through comparative urbanism. It considers definitions of gentrification, how theorizations developed over time, and key concepts. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS WR 151 Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Oral and/or Signed Expression
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CASWR 120) or transfer credit for CASWR 13TR or CAS WR16TR. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, and oral communication. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, public speaking, prose style, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 151E Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Oral and/or Signed Expression
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS WR 120) or transfer credit for CA S WR 13* or CAS WR 16*. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, and oral communication. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, public speaking, prose style, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including individual conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 151S Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Oral and/or Signed Expression
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CASWR 120) or transfer credit for CASWR 13TR or CAS WR16TR. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, and oral communication. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, public speaking, prose style, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 318 Public Speaking
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration 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). - How can public speakers engage different communities at different times and in different places? This course explores theories concerning how to construct narratives and arguments that resonate with specific audiences and invites students to put such theories into performative practice. Students may not receive credit for both CASCC 318 and CASWR 318. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS WR 415 Public Writing
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication 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); and junior or senior standing. - Students learn about the growing call for scholars to communicate their research to the public, study and practice several public genres, and learn to "translate" academic knowledge for public audiences. Occasional evening events required. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing- Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS WS 317 Gender and Crime
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 325 Bombs and Bombshells: Gender, Armed Conflict, and Political Violence
4 credits. Fall
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 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 347 Feminist Inquiry
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: sophomore, junior, or senior standing. - A survey of feminist theories and development of strands of feminist inquiry in the academy, movements, and politics. Considers the commonalities and contrast in gender relations across cultures and tensions between major feminist schools of thought. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry I.
CAS WS 456 Neurobiology of Sex and Aggression
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Scientific Inquiry II
Examines neurobiological and genetic factors that influence sex and violence. Students review primary literature from the past century that highlights major scientific discoveries that have reconceptualized our understanding of the origins of sexual-determination, -attraction and - aggression. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Historical Consciousness, Scientific Inquiry II.
CAS WS 456S Neurobiology of Sex and Aggression
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Scientific Inquiry II
Examines neurobiological and genetic factors that influence sex and violence. Students review primary literature from the past century that highlights major scientific discoveries that have reconceptualized our understanding of the origins of sexual-determination, -attraction and - aggression. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Historical Consciousness, Scientific Inquiry II.
CAS WS 460 Topics in LGBTQ History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergrad prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120). - Seminar examines topics in the history of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) people and cultural or political movements. May be repeated for credit if topics vary. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Oral and Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WS 507 Diversity of Sex
4 credits. Fall
Undergraduate Prerequisites: senior or graduate standing, and at least one of the following courses or equivalent: CAS BI 225, BI 309, BI 315, BI 4 07, or BI 410; or consent of instructor - Examines the integrative and comparative biology of sex and sexes based on readings drawn from recent primary literature, review papers, and book chapters. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS WS 617 Gender and Crime
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 645 Shariah Law
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 660 Topics in LGBTQ History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Undergrad prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR100 or WR120). - Seminar examines topics in the history of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) people and cultural or political movements. May be repeated for credit if topics vary. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Oral and Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS XL 313 The "Odyssey" and "Ulysses"
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - This course consists of a close reading of James Joyce's Ulysses with particular attention to his use of the Odyssey. We also examine the relation of oral and book cultures and other works Joyce takes in, such as the Aeneid, Divine Comedy and Hamlet. 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, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS XL 337 Jewish Humor and Satire: Stand-Up Comedy
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate prerequisites: First-Year writing seminar (CASWR 100 or 120.) - We begin with Freud's theories, illustrated by Viennese and Yiddish humor. The course then focuses on oral-style short fiction, the creation of a persona, and stand-up comedy routines. As we read texts and study performances, students write their own. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course.
CAS XL 342 Modern Travel Writing and the Muslim World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - How have modern Muslim travelers written about places and people they saw abroad, and how have Western travelers in the Muslim lands described their travels in "the East"? Readings include Zeyneb Hanoum, Tahtawi, Mark Twain, Malcolm X, Nawal Saadawi. 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 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS XL 342S Travel Writing and the Muslim World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - How have modern Muslim travelers written about places and people they saw abroad, and how have Western travelers in the Muslim lands described their travels in "the East"? Readings include Zeyneb Hanoum, Tahtawi, Mark Twain, Malcolm X, Nawal Saadawi. 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 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS XL 479 WLL Senior Seminar
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or WR 120) and senior standing majors in WLL, or consent of instructor. - Through discussions of intercultural reading and translation, bibliographic assignments, student presentations, workshops, and work with a faculty language mentor, seniors majoring in WLL use this course to develop their final project: a substantial scholarly paper, translation, or creative work in a foreign language. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
CFA AR 132 Drawing One: Drawing as Visual Language
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CFA AR131 - AR 132 Drawing One is a four-credit studio course designed to equip students with the formal elements of the language of drawing, and the ability to make independent critical decisions about their creative work and the works of others. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CFA AR 243 Photography 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication
You will acquire skills to properly expose, develop and print black and white 35mm film. Lectures will introduce historical and contemporary photographic practices. Students will have weekly assignments and should be prepared to develop their own ideas. The integration of historical, conceptual and technical skills will broaden your experience with the medium in hopes that you will gain an appreciation for photography as a fine art. In this course, you will gain skills and experience not only in making photographs, but also in the analysis and critique of photographic imagery. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 243S PHOTOGRAPHY 1
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication
Students learn to properly expose, develop, and print black and white 35mm film. Lectures introduce historical and contemporary photographic practices. Students have weekly assignments and should be prepared to develop their own ideas. The integration of historical, conceptual, and technical skills broadens experience with the medium and allows students to gain an appreciation for photography as a fine art. In this course, students gain skills and experience not only in making photographs, but also in the analysis and critique of photographic imagery. No previous experience is required, but access to a 35mm camera with manual exposure capability is necessary. Some material costs are expected. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 412 Architectural Design 1
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication
Introduction to architectural design at the scale of individual buildings. Students will learn how to analyze, represent, and create form and space through a series of projects that increase in complexity over the course of the semester. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 415 Photography 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication
You will acquire skills to properly expose, develop and print black and white 35mm film. Lectures will introduce historical and contemporary photographic practices. Students will have weekly assignments and should be prepared to develop their own ideas. The integration of historical, conceptual and technical skills will broaden your experience with the medium in hopes that you will gain an appreciation for photography as a fine art. In this course, you will gain skills and experience not only in making photographs, but also in the analysis and critique of photographic imagery. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 415S Photography 1
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication
Students learn to properly expose, develop, and print black and white 35mm film. Lectures introduce historical and contemporary photographic practices. Students have weekly assignments and should be prepared to develop their own ideas. The integration of historical, conceptual, and technical skills broadens experience with the medium and allows students to gain an appreciation for photography as a fine art. In this course, students gain skills and experience not only in making photographs, but also in the analysis and critique of photographic imagery. No previous experience is required, but access to a 35mm camera with manual exposure capability is necessary. Some material costs are expected. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 428 Architecture Site Design 1
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication
Introduction to architecture with a focus upon context and environment. Students will learn to analyze and design sited architecture in relation to various factors (e.g., climate, landscape, urbanism, and/or region). Work will incorporate drawing and modelling techniques, and will be advanced primarily through independent studio exploration guided by critical discussions and presentations with the instructor, guest critics, and the studio at large. 4cr Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 428E ARCH SITE DES 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication
ARCH SITE DES 1
CFA AR 470 Ceramics 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication
Introduction to methods and strategies for using ceramics as a sculptural medium. The course initiates the students to the process, vocabulary and techniques involved in all the steps of hand-building, glazing and firing. Students explore traditional and experimental techniques: coiling, slabbing, imprints, and molds, extruding, altered throwing, glazing and staining. The class includes experimentation with surface treatments and initiation to glaze chemistry. Lectures, museum visits and research on historical and contemporary ceramics sustain the studio work and provide context. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 470S Ceramics 1
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication
Introduction to methods and strategies for using ceramics as a sculptural medium. The course initiates the students to the process, vocabulary, and techniques involved in all the steps of hand-building, glazing, and firing. Students explore traditional and experimental techniques: coiling, slabbing, imprints, molds, extruding, altered throwing, glazing, and staining. The class includes experimentation with surface treatments and initiation to glaze chemistry. Lectures, museum visits, and research on historical and contemporary ceramics sustain the studio work and provide context. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 512 Architectural Design 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication
This course builds upon the foundational knowledge that is covered in the introductory level and aims to achieve a higher degree of architectural design sophistication through a series of projects. These design challenges increase in complexity and duration over the course of the semester. You are expected to have advanced skills in drawing and model making, which enable you to devote your time to developing and critiquing your own design process. You will delve deeper into issues of form, program, and space, and you will be expected to draw upon previous design work from related courses such as architectural history, sculpture, drawing, and others. This course is intended for students who have already taken Architectural Design or its equivalent at another institution. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 770 Ceramics 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication
Introduction to methods and strategies for using ceramics as a sculptural medium. The course initiates the students to the process, vocabulary and techniques involved in all the steps of hand-building, glazing and firing. Students explore traditional and experimental techniques: coiling, slabbing, imprints, and molds, extruding, altered throwing, glazing and staining. The class includes experimentation with surface treatments and initiation to glaze chemistry. Lectures, museum visits and research on historical and contemporary ceramics sustain the studio work and provide context. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA FA 520 Career Development in the Arts
4 credits. Fall and Spring
A blend of self-exploration and business skills that encourages arts leaders to "think like an entrepreneur" in defining their career and personal brand. Develop entrepreneurial skills like branding, networking, marketing, and budgeting. Learn financial basics, tools, and analysis. Apply quantitative reasoning skills to make informed decisions, and oral communication skills to be more persuasive and understood in everyday life. Students will apply these skills to all personal endeavors, from landing a dream job to building your own brand. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning I, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CFA MP 332 Song Literature 2
2 credits. Spring
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 MP 416 Piano Pedagogy and Practicum 2
2 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Continuation of the topics begun in Pedagogy MP415 with a focus on the works of Ortmann and Schultz; team teaching focused on techniques pertaining to more advanced pianists; piano works of major composers are evaluated with emphasis on the different phases of pianistic development. 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, Historical Consciousness.
CFA MP 616 Piano Pedagogy 2
2 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Piano Pedagogy 1 (MP 415) and First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120)
Advanced piano pedagogy, continued from MP 415. This course explores topics in piano pedagogy specific to intermediate to early advanced students. Through class discussions, written assignments, projects, teaching observations, and oral presentations, students will explore the following areas: selecting appropriate repertoire; teaching piano technique, rhythm, and interpretation across varied repertoire; introducing practice strategies, performance psychology, and techniques for leading masterclasses. [2 units] 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, Historical Consciousness.
CFA MP 737 CONV ITALIAN 2
1 credits. Fall and Spring
CONV ITALIAN 2
CFA TH 111 Voice and Speech 1: Experiencing Voice
2 credits. Fall
This course will explore sensing, freeing and developing the voice as a deep feature of the self and as a fundamental tool of the actor. This course provides a progression of exercises exploring vocal identity, how the voice works, self-observation, relaxation vs. tension, physical awareness, breath, sound, freeing the channel, releasing the voice from the body, self-expression, interpersonal communication, and autobiographical storytelling. Required for BFA Performance Core. 2.0 credits. Fall semester. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and.or Signed Communication.
CFA TH 158 Introduction to Design 2: 2D & 3D Design Fundamentals
3 credits. Spring
Prereq: CFA TH 157. Students will develop their individual artistic voice and approach to the creative process utilizing the fundamentals of the Seven Principles of Design in 2D & 3D visual design as well as their application in digital and multimedia. The class will also introduce how these design principles apply to the traditional design elements used in theatre: Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound. Through individual and group design projects, students will explore the visual and the conceptual nature of design and utilize peer and instructor critique to hone visual, aural, and oral communication skills. Required for BFA Design, Production & Management Core. 3.0 credits. Spring semester. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA TH 422 Acting 4: Professional Lifetime Skills
3 credits. Spring
Prereq: CFA TH421; For Senior Acting Majors or by instructor's permission. Focus on synthesizing the actor's training into the practical and artistic tools necessary to work creatively and collaboratively in the profession. Includes deepening and integrating skills in auditions, readings, and rehearsal process, as well as panel discussions on the business of theatre. 3.0 credits. Spring semester. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CGS RH 103 Rhetorical Practices from the Ancient World to Enlightenment
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
In Rhetoric 103, you will be taken chronologically through key periods in history to learn about the origin and development of the art of Rhetoric and its relevance today, ultimately in order to enable you to apply key rhetorical skills to your own textual and verbal practice. Students will receive semester-long instruction and practice in writing, oral communication, and research and information literacy. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
COM CM 211 Professional Presentation
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Students will learn the essentials of effective presentation, from preparation, audience analysis, and content development to critical thinking when presenting. Students will incorporate theories and skills of effective communication in a variety of contexts (e.g., common business and social settings). Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication. 4 cr. Either sem.
COM CM 211S Professional Presentation
4 credits.
Covers the essentials of effective presentation, from preparation, audience analysis, and content development to critical thinking when presenting. Students incorporate theories and skills of effective communication in a variety of contexts (e.g., common business and social settings). Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
COM CM 335E Advertising Strategy
4 credits.
Introduces advanced advertising and media theory, focusing on the role of advertising and its integration within contemporary marketing communications. To define the advertising management process, messages, media, measurement, and assess creative work critically in terms of strategy, objectives, and execution. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
COM CM 406E BRAND ADVT & PR
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BRAND ADVT & PR
COM CM 447E INTER BRAND MAN
4 credits. Fall, Spring, Summer
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry I
INTER BRAND MAN
COM CM 521E International Marketing Communications and Public Relations
4 credits.
A comprehensive overview of integrated marketing communications in the U.K. Focuses on advertising, sales promotion, public relations, and direct marketing. Using British and European case studies, students examine marketing strategy; brand identity; and market segmentation and product positioning within the framework of pricing, promotion, and placement relative to competition.
COM CO 201 Introduction to Communication Writing
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - The College of Communication's core undergraduate writing course. Students refresh their grammatical and stylistic skills and apply those skills to professional writing assignments. Prepares students to write with clarity, conciseness, precision, and accuracy for the communication fields. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy. (Students on the Hub cannot take WR100 as a pre-requisite.)
COM CO 201S Introduction to Communication Writing
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CAS WR 100 or CAS WR 120) or equivalent. - This is the College of Communication's core undergraduate writing course. Students refresh their grammatical and stylistic skills and apply those skills to professional writing assignments. The course prepares students to write with clarity, conciseness, precision, and accuracy within communication fields. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy. (Students on the Hub cannot take CAS WR 100 as a prerequisite.)
COM FT 402 Production II
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: FT353 with a grade of B- or higher and one of the following: FT502 or FT508 or FT526 or FT565 or FT592 or FT 593 - Intermediate motion picture production with an emphasis on narrative storytelling, high definition cinematography, sync-sound location recording, and multi-track editing. Students develop, produce, direct, shoot, record and edit medium-length productions that are of film festival quality, and which can be incorporated into highlight and demo reels. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
COM FT 527 Crowdfunding and Distribution
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: FT201 - Whether you're producing web series, long or short format fiction, documentaries or video games, media makers are expected to build and develop their own audience, as well as raise the funds necessary to produce and get their work out in the world. In other words, a media maker must be more than just a creator. To be truly successful, you must also become a creative entrepreneur. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
COM JO 519 Narrative Radio
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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.
COM JO 530 Drafts of History
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (COMJO357) - Journalism has been called "the first rough draft of history." We consider several episodes from U.S. history and examine how the first drafts written by journalists compare to subsequent drafts written by historians. We analyze how new evidence and chronological distance alter understanding of important events. Four credits, fall semester. (Undergraduate Prerequisite: COM JO 150.) Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
COM JO 539 Global Health Storytelling
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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.
ENG BE 466 Biomedical Engineering Senior Project
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGBE465) Limited to biomedical engineering majors with senior standing. CAS WR15X required. - Completion of project in an area of biomedical engineering. Expanded training in technical project presentation techniques. Includes writing of progress reports, abstracts, final reports. Course culminates with an oral presentation at annual Senior Project Conference. Written final report must be approved by the faculty. This course is part of a Hub sequence with ENG BE 465. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG BE 466S Biomedical Engineering Senior Project
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGBE465) Limited to biomedical engineering majors with senior standing. CAS WR15X required. - Completion of project in an area of biomedical engineering. Expanded training in technical project presentation techniques. Includes writing of progress reports, abstracts, final reports. Course culminates with an oral presentation at annual Senior Project Conference. Written final report must be approved by the faculty. This course is part of a Hub sequence with ENG BE 465. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG EC 464 Senior Design Project 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGEC463) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Continuation of a team project in an area of electrical and computer engineering, as proposed in EC 463. Application of technical, communication, personal, and team skills. Oral and written communication of technical information, including progress reports, technical memos, final report, and oral presentations. Includes lab. 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.
ENG EC 464E Senior Design Project 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGEC463) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - SENIOR DESIGN 2
ENG EC 467 Senior Thesis
Var credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGEC463) First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) and senior standin g and departmental approval. - Well-prepared students may choose to do a formal senior thesis under the direct guidance of a departmental faculty member. Students selecting this option must obtain petitioned approval before the beginning of the semester of thesis registration. 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.
ENG ME 461 Senior Design 2
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGME460) Senior standing; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - The main activity in this course is the planning, and execution of a capstone project that represents a culmination of the Mechanical Engineering program. Students work in teams on either a research or design problem in some area of Mechanical Engineering that builds upon previous coursework. Class time will be focused on weekly project meetings with faculty. The course includes lectures on ethics, entrepreneurship, project management and other professional topics. Oral and written communications will be emphasized. When taken with ENG ME 460, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG ME 461E Senior Design 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGME460) Senior standing; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - ME CAPSTONE EXP
ENG ME 785 No longer offered
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Graduate Prerequisites: (ENGME585) and consent of instructor. - No longer offered
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 XC 433 BU Cross-College Challenge Projects (OSC)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Are you looking to take on a real-world challenge, build your collaboration, leadership, and communication skills' Would you like to work with fellow students from across BU and with a community partner on an interesting and engaging project' Then the Cross-College Challenge (XCC) is for you! This particular course will focus on oral/signed communication within the communication Hub area. Each semester there are exciting new courses offered in areas such as social equity, data science, sustainability, public health, and more. XCC courses are open to juniors and seniors from all schools and colleges at BU. For specific course offerings visit: bu.edu/xcc. Create-Communicate-Collaborate. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
HUB XC 433S BU Hub Cross-College Challenge: Promoting the JFK Presidential Birthplace
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Are you looking to take on a real-world challenge, build your collaboration, leadership, and communication skills' Would you like to work with fellow students from across BU and with a community partner on an interesting and engaging project' Then the Cross-College Challenge (XCC) is for you! This particular course will focus on oral/signed communication within the communication¿Hub¿area. Each semester there are exciting new courses offered in areas such as social equity, data science, sustainability, public health, and more. XCC courses are open to juniors and seniors from all schools and colleges at BU. This project intends to have teams work with the leadership of the National Park Service (NPS) who operate the John F Kennedy Birthplace in Brookline, MA as it works to raise awareness about its opening after construction at the site and its new emphasis on a more diverse set of issues related to the house. Teams will design and develop a promotional video for the Birthplace¿s website and wider distribution based on research into the Kennedy family, other NPS sites' promotional efforts, and interviews. For specific course offerings visit: bu.edu/xcc. Create-Communicate-Collaborate. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU¿Hub¿areas: Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
HUB XC 434 Marketing and Social Equity in the Cannabis Industry
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
In this Cross-College Challenge (XCC) course, student teams will work with the leadership of cannabis industry organizations in Massachusetts as they seek to promote entrepreneurial interests among social equity applicants. Teams will design and develop marketing plans, materials, and other wrap around services, for approved applicants. As part of this course, XCC student teams will conduct market research, develop strategies, and offer creative solutions around what those clients can do to generate awareness and market for those new businesses. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
HUB XC 435 Spirit of Wonder: Cross-Cultural Storytelling
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
This Cross-College Challenge (XCC) course provides students with the opportunity to study and practice social cross-cultural research methodologies with the Spirit of Wonder project, including designing qualitative research questions, connecting and engaging with targeted populations, and conducting Spirit of Wonder¿s storytelling interviews, and to work collaboratively to present their findings in written and visual formats. Students receive the tools they need to interview candidates, analyze their stories and develop narratives, and work as a team to make presentations on various themes. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
HUB XC 436 Bike to BU
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
This XCC course partners with BU Sustainability¿s Division of Transportation Demand Management and Planning. Students engage in projects focused on increasing awareness and expanding opportunities to incorporate bicycling and other forms of accessible mobility into the commute of members of the BU community. By 2050 it is estimated 68 of the global human population will live in cities as compared to 55 today, leading to increased road congestion, commute times and greenhouse gas emissions. However, a 20 increase in cycling worldwide could cut CO2 emissions by nearly 11 by 2050. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
HUB XC 437 Environmental Justice and Urban Tree Canopies
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Students will learn about urban tree canopies, the environmental, socio-cultural, physiological, and psychological benefits of tree cover; understand the causes and effects of redlining and other policies that contribute to tree canopy variations and environmental injustice; gain insight into attitudes and values of residents and communities; and perhaps even plant trees. Working in teams, students will collaborate with community partners on projects relevant to the course and to those partners¿ goals. They will present their findings and report to their community partners. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
HUB XC 438 The Art and Science of Technology Consulting
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
This Cross-College Challenge (XCC) course introduces practical concepts of technology consulting using an experiential project which is developed and implemented in collaboration with course faculty, and community partners/clients, such as Innovate@BU. Each inter-disciplinary student team will act as a consulting firm, that understands and solves a given customer problem and proposes a solution and creates a detailed Requirement Specification for the customer. Students learn and develop collaboration, communication, problem-solving and leadership skills. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Oral and Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
HUB XC 475 Spark! Innovation Program
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
The Spark! Innovation Fellowship program supports student innovators passionate about solving problems through technology. The course provides a structured process where students advance a technology project of their own creation, or an innovative solution for a problem sponsored by an external partner. The goal is to design, develop, and deploy a working prototype in one semester with the support of industry mentors. Students can participate as part of a pre-formed team or they can be assigned to a team. There are two participant tracks for each team: developers and designers. Effective Summer 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
KHC HC 512 People in Process: Choice & Change - Oral/Signed Communication
2 credits. Spring
Explores the challenges, choices, and influence of an individual who has had an impact on the student's educational decisions through oral communication with attention to argumentation and public speaking. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
KHC IR 102 Spies and Terrorists of Boston
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 PO 102 How to Change the World
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Historical Consciousness Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Explores how everyday people shape global politics, drawing on classic studies of political anthropology as well as more recent examples of transnational and digital activism. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
KHC RH 101 Serious Comics: Graphic Narrative and the Representation of History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Oral and/or Signed Communication
This course explores the use of nonfiction comics (also known as graphic narrative) to represent catastrophic history. Assigned texts include book- length works that use the comics form to depict the Holocaust, the Islamic Revolution, Hiroshima, the Bosnian War, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Hurricane Katrina, the AIDS epidemic, and 9/11. Throughout, we will consider the impact of the comics form on our understanding of devastating history. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
QST MO 442 Leveraging Diversity for Team Performance
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing - Developing the ability to work effectively with global and diverse teams is essential for success in the 21st century workplace. This course uses a project-based experiential model to develop student skills while serving an organizational client in the community. In addition to exploring the challenges and opportunities of working with diverse teams, this course specifically focuses on interpersonal communications, conflict resolution, trust building, and creative problem solving within the context of diversity and inclusion. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
QST MO 460 The Leadership Challenge
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 SM 275 Critical and Analytic Thinking for Business
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASWR 120; and QSTSM 131, or sophomore standing and QSTSM 131 previously or concurrently - Critical and analytic thinking skills are essential success in every business discipline. In this course, students will learn how to apply a structured problem-solving methodology that: defines the problem; identifies and prioritizes issues to assess; plans and conducts analyses; synthesizes findings; and communicates recommendations. Students will learn (a) how to evaluate evidence for business decision-making, not just passively accept information, and determine whether it is sufficient to prove their point. As well, they will learn how to assess the quality, credibility, and reliability of sources in researching relevant facts and data for business decisions. In addition to mastering frameworks for deductive and inductive arguments, students will master presentation delivery by connecting authentically to the audience, harnessing the power of storytelling, and using body language to positively reinforce the message. Finally, students will enhance professional skills that are integral to business success. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Writing, Research & Inquiry.
QST SM 275S Critical and Analytic Thinking for Business
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASWR 120 or sophomore standing and QSTSM 131 previously or concurrently. - Critical and analytic thinking skills are essential success in every business discipline. In this course, students will learn how to apply a structured problem-solving methodology that: defines the problem; identifies and prioritizes issues to assess; plans and conducts analyses; synthesizes findings; and communicates recommendations. Students will learn (a) how to evaluate evidence for business decision-making, not just passively accept information, and determine whether it is sufficient to prove their point. As well, they will learn how to assess the quality, credibility, and reliability of sources in researching relevant facts and data for business decisions. In addition to mastering frameworks for deductive and inductive arguments, students will master presentation delivery by connecting authentically to the audience, harnessing the power of storytelling, and using body language to positively reinforce the message. Finally, students will enhance professional skills that are integral to business success. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Writing, Research & Inquiry..
SAR HP 151 Introduction to Health Professions
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Through readings, discussion and written work, we explore the functions of the health and rehabilitation disciplines. An introduction to the health care system and social impact of health and disability is also considered especially with respect to allocation of resources to improve outcomes. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
SAR HS 201 Introduction to Nutrition
4 credits. Fall and Spring
This course focuses on the components of a healthy, well-balanced diet to meet nutritional needs and avoid deficiencies and excesses. The basic concepts discussed will include: MyPlate, food labeling, recommended nutrient intakes for all age and gender groups, weight management, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and lifecycle nutrition. Special emphasis will be on nutrition and disease prevention and applying the nutrition knowledge learned to everyday living. Note: students who take SAR HS251 Human Nutrition Science for credit cannot also take this HS201 course for credit. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
SAR HS 201S Introduction to Nutrition
4 credits. Summer
Focuses on the components of a healthy, well-balanced diet to meet nutritional needs and avoid deficiencies and excesses. The basic concepts discussed include MyPlate, food labeling, recommended nutrient intakes for all age and gender groups, weight management, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and lifecycle nutrition. Special emphasis is placed on nutrition and disease prevention and applying the nutrition knowledge learned to everyday living. Note: students who take SAR HS 251 Human Nutrition Science for credit cannot also take SAR HS 201 for credit. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
SAR HS 222 Research Experience
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
SAR HS 241 Research Experience
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy
Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy.
SAR HS 242 Research Experience
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking.
SAR SH 110 Introduction to Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
4 credits. Fall
Introduction to various speech and language disorders found across linguistically and culturally diverse populations. Characteristics underlying biological systems and methods for evaluation and treating a variety of communication disorders are examined. Exploration of the professions of speech pathology and audiology. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
SAR SH 531 Introduction to Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences
4 credits. Fall
Introduction to various speech and language disorders found across linguistically and culturally diverse populations. Characteristics underlying biological systems and methods for evaluation and treating a variety or communication disorders are examined. Exploration of the professions of speech pathology and audiology. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
SHA HF 282 Hospitality Communications
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
This course is intended as a 'practicum' in hospitality communications. This course is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors. The focus is on the development of those communication skills that are critical to being effective managers. There will be readings on communication, but the majority of the course will focus on skills development. Each week students will be required to deliver presentations to the class. These presentations will be videotaped and critiqued. By the end of this course students will be much more comfortable, clear, and confident speakers in any situation. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Oral/Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy, Writing, Research, and Inquiry.
WED DE 382 American Sign Language 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Summer
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. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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. Summer
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. Fall
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 245 Theory and Practice of Peer Counseling
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Examines the theory of peer counseling and the development of specific counseling skills. Students enrolled in this class will serve as peer advisors in the CAS First Year Seminar course. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
WED EN 500 Lesson Design & Instruction Delivery in the Humanities
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Introduces students to different models of lesson planning and unit planning as well as research-based strategies for effective instructional delivery in the secondary humanities classroom. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
WED EN 503 Lesson Design & Instruction Delivery in the Humanities
Var credits. Fall
Introduces students to different models of lesson planning and unit planning as well as research-based strategies for effective instructional delivery in the secondary humanities classroom. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication. 2 cr.
WED HD 265 Social Science Research for Community Impact
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Oral and/or Signed Communication Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Students will collaborate with community organizations to design and conduct small-scale research projects (e.g., economic and educational equity, environmental justice, youth justice and mental health disparities). Research methodologies, qualitative and quantitative, will be determined based on the project. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
WED ME 363 Problem Solving in Mathematics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Quantitative Reasoning I
Engages in collaborative problem solving and problem posing while exploring the role of productive struggle in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Effective Spring 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Quantitative Reasoning I, Critical Thinking. 4cr. Either semester
WED ME 563 Problem Solving in Mathematics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Quantitative Reasoning I
This course engages participants in collaborative problem solving and problem posing while exploring the role of productive struggle in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Effective Spring 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Quantitative Reasoning I, Critical Thinking. 4cr. Either sem.
WED ME 563S Problem Solving in Mathematics
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Oral and/or Signed Communication Quantitative Reasoning I
This course engages participants in collaborative problem solving and problem posing while exploring the role of productive struggle in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Effective Spring 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Quantitative Reasoning I, Critical Thinking.
WED SC 523 Introduction to Mentoring
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (SEDSC521) - This course expands on skills learned in SCI521 and teaches experienced Learning Assistants (LAs) mentoring strategies as they work with first- semester LAs. Students are responsible for weekly readings, observations, and meetings with your mentee. Students meet with course faculty to provide insight into improved implementation of LAs. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication.
WED WL 511 Teaching Methods in World Language Education
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
This course examines pedagogical approaches in world language teaching and learning. Students explore standards-based instructional methods, models of teaching, discuss underlying theories, and examine current issues in the field. Students develop lesson plans and practice high-leverage teaching practices.
WED YJ 201 Intro to Youth Justice & Delinquency
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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.
WED YJ 360 Positive Youth Development
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Explores foundations of adolescent development and principles of positive youth development. Draws from multiple disciplines to examine roles of bio- psycho- social contexts and positive youth development practices and their impacts on the lives of developing adolescents. Applies developmental knowledge to current issues in adolescent development and youth justice and advocacy. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Social Inquiry I.
Digital/Multimedia Expression
CAS AA 287 Slavery and the In-Between
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness
Examines the space between freedom and enslavement known as recaptivity. Course discussions focus on conceptions of freedom and their relationship to recaptive status. Reviews recaptivity contexts in both the historical and archaeological record. Also examines the theme of return. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AA 296 Religion and Hip Hop
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
Uses digital media studies to explore diverse religious expressions in hip hop culture. Through critical reading, community field trips, and hands-on technology usage, students consider an often overlooked element in the study of hip hop culture: religion. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS AA 297 African American Women's History
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I
Survey of African American women's history from the slave trade to the present, investigating its critical role in shaping the meaning of race, gender, and sexuality during slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era. Also offered as CAS HI 297 and CAS WS 297. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I.
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 356 Religion in the Digital Age
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - How has technology impacted religion' This hands-on course explores how digital technologies like the Internet, social media, gaming, and artificial intelligence have changed the way that people think about religion. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS AA 371 Black Freedom Dreams: America and the World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Surveys the history of African diaspora peoples in the Americas from their African origins and the rise of the Atlantic slave trade through the age of emancipations, investigating the varied meanings of race, resistance, migration, and freedom. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork/Collaboration. Also offered as CAS HI 298.
CAS AA 371S Black Freedom Dreams: America and the World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: sophomore standing. - Surveys the history of African Americans from their African origins to the present, investigating their critical role in shaping the meaning of race, rights, freedom, and democracy during slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era.
CAS AA 656 Religion in the Digital Age
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR120) - How has technology impacted religion' This hands-on course explores how digital technologies like the Internet, social media, gaming, and artificial intelligence have changed the way that people think about religion. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS AH 228 Arts of the Silk Road
4 credits. Spring
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 317 From Morocco to Timbuktu: Art and Architecture at the Saharan Crossroads
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 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 352 Venetian Renaissance Art
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
A study of art and architecture in Renaissance Venice with focus on the "Myth of Venice," Byzantinne heritage, introduction of the oil medium, Scuole, and the work of the Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Palladio, Veronese, and Tintoretto. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS AH 353 Italian Renaissance Architecture and Theory
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
Italian Renaissance architecture and architectural theory from 1400 to 1600. Emphasis on individual buildings and urban planning in Rome, Florence, and Venice, and on treatises by Alberti, Serlio, and Palladio. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS AH 507 Digital Curation: Towards National Parks: Art and Nature, Nature and Nation
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
Prerequisite: CASAH 112, or at least one course on art or literature in Europe/US 1300-1750 or 1750-present. - Before national parks, wild locations attracted artists, photographers and poets. Their works made these areas known to tourist-viewers. Prepare a digital exhibition and map artist- advocates as they explored mountains, forests and waterfalls. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS AN 287 Slavery and the In-Between
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness
Examines the space between freedom and enslavement known as recaptivity. Course discussions focus on conceptions of freedom and their relationship to recaptive status. Reviews recaptivity contexts in both the historical and archaeological record. Also examines the theme of return. Effective Fall 2024 fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness.
CAS AN 565 Memory in 3-D: Memorials, Then and Now
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness
Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing. - Memorials and the spaces around them are charged zones, time portals where past and present co-exist. In this course we focus on the development of memorial culture in America, along with a comparative examination of the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. The distance afforded by stepping outside our own time and place provides perspectives on aspects of form and message, as well as on how the meanings of memorial can change. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
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 342 Archeology and Israeli Society
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 395 The Politics of the Past: Archaeology, Museums, and Identity
4 credits. Spring
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 505 Digital Archaeology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two archaeology courses or consent of instructor. - Graduate Prerequisites: two archeology courses or consent of instructor. - Lecture/laboratory course that introduces students to a broad range of digital techniques for collecting, visualizing, and analyzing objects, spaces, and landscapes. In addition to technical lab instruction, the course presents a series of research questions and case studies that explore how digital techniques can be used to investigate the material dimensions of social life. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS AR 565 Memory in 3-D: Memorials, then and now
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness
Memorials and the spaces around them are charged zones, time portals where past and present co-exist.The decision to erect a memorial is a statement on many levels -- of cultural stamina, political will, social need, and above all of historical consciousness. In this course we focus on the development of memorial culture in America, along with a comparative examination of the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. The distance afforded by stepping outside our own time and place provides perspectives on aspects of form and message, as well as on how the meanings of memorial can change. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Creativity/Innovation.
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 AS 311 Planetary Physics
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS MA 124; and CAS PY 211 or CAS PY 251. - Celestial mechanics, tides, resonances. Physical processes that affect atmospheres, surfaces, interiors of planets, and their satellites. Comets, asteroids, meteorites, and Kuiper belt objects. Formation and evolution of the solar system. Extra-solar planets. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Scientific Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS BB 498 Honors Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar 2
1 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Corequisites: Co-requisite for students taking CAS BB 402. - A one-credit continuation of BB 497 for students enrolled in Honors Research in BMB, CAS BB 402, in the spring. Students learn and present digitally produced descriptions of their research and prepare their theses for defense under the guidance of the Research and Honors Committee and present at the BMB Symposium at the end of the semester. A minimum grade of B in BB 497/498 and in BB 401/402 is required to graduate with Honors in BMB. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS BB 592 Graduate Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: admission to the combined BA/MA Biotechnology Program. - Continuation of the laboratory research project initiated in CAS BB 591, under supervision of a faculty member. Externships are acceptable if approved and overseen by a BMB faculty member or the BMB Director. Minimum of 15 hours per week in the lab, culminating in a presentation at the BMB symposium. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS BI 210 Human Anatomy
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI105) or equivalent. - Intensive preprofessional course for students whose programs require anatomy. Not for biology major or minor credit. Gross structure of the human body; skeletal, muscular, nervous, respiratory, circulatory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems. Three hours lecture, two hours lab (lab requires dissection). Carries natural science divisional credit (with lab) in CAS. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title formerly numbered CAS BI 106. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS BI 210S Human Anatomy
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI105) or equivalent. - Intensive preprofessional course for students whose programs require anatomy. Not for Biology or BMB major or minor credit. Gross structure of the human body; skeletal, muscular, nervous, respiratory, circulatory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems. Carries natural science divisional credit (with lab) in CAS. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title formerly numbered CAS BI 106. Students must register for two sections: lecture and laboratory. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS BI 211 Human Physiology
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI105 OR CASBI108) & (CASBI106 OR CASBI210); or equivalent. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) or equivalent. - Some knowledge of chemistry and anatomy assumed. Not for biology major or minor credit; Biology majors/minors should take CAS BI 315. Introduction to principles of systemic mammalian physiology with special reference to humans. 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, Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking, Teamwork/Collaboration. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Digital Multimedia Expression, Scientific Inquiry II.
CAS BI 211S Human Physiology
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI105 OR CASBI108) & (CASBI106 OR CASBI210); or equivalent. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) or equivalent - Some knowledge of chemistry and anatomy assumed. Intended mainly for students in health sciences. Not for Biology or BMB major or minor credit; Biology majors/minors should take CAS BI 315. Introduction to principles of systemic mammalian physiology with special reference to humans. Students must register for two sections: lecture and laboratory. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Writing-Intensive Course, Critical Thinking, Teamwork/Collaboration. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Critical Thinking, Digital Multimedia Expression, Scientific Inquiry II.
CAS BI 303 Evolutionary Ecology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Quantitative Reasoning II Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI107) ; CAS BI 206 and CAS MA121/123 recommended. - Investigation of ecological processes and patterns at the individual, population, and community level. An evolutionary approach is emphasized. Three hours lecture, three hours lab. One research paper and one daylong field trip required. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Quantitative Reasoning II, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS BI 310 Human Structure & Function: Anatomy, Histology and Pathology
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: BI 108 and 203, or equivalent. - Examines the cells and tissues that make up our organs (histology), the structure and interactions of the organ systems (anatomy), and how disease reshapes our bodies (pathology). As a secondary focus, this course also studies and critiques educational media related to human anatomy, and builds introductory competency in health communication. 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 I, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS BI 497 Honors in Biology Seminar
2 credits. Fall
Undergraduate Prerequisites: For students taking CAS BI 401, BI 402, BI 453, or BB 453. - A 2-credit weekly research seminar for students in CAS BI 401, BI 402, BI 453, or BB 453 in the Fall semester. Students learn and present digitally produced descriptions of their research and prepare their theses for defense under the guidance of the Research and Honors Committee. A minimum grade of B in BI 402 and this course or BI 498 is required to graduate with honors. Students participate in only one course, either BI 497 or BI 498. Effective Fall 2020, this course carries a single unit in the follow Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS BI 498 Honors in Biology Seminar
2 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: For students taking CAS BI 401, BI 402, BI 453, or BB 453. - A 2-credit weekly research seminar for students in CAS BI 401, BI 402, BI 453, or BB 453 in the Spring semester. Students learn and present digitally produced descriptions of their research and prepare their theses for defense under the guidance of the Research and Honors Committee. A minimum grade of B in BI 402 and this course or BI 497 is required to graduate with honors. Students participate in only one course, either BI 497 or BI 498. Effective Fall 2020, this course carries a single unit in the follow Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS BI 556 Drug Discovery in Neuroscience
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASNE 102 (or BI 108), CH 102, and NE/PS 333. - The process of drug discovery is complex especially when a drug is intended to treat a neurological disease. This discussion-heavy course examines the specific challenges of modern neuroscience drug discovery, including: target selection, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, modeling of disease states within the context of the drivers and limitations of the Drug Discovery Industry. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Scientific Inquiry II, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS BI 556S Drug Discovery in Neuroscience
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS NE 102/116, NE 333, CH 203. The process of drug discovery is complex especially when a drug is intended to treat a neurological disease. This discussion-heavy course examines the specific challenges of modern neuroscience drug discovery, including: target selection, pharmacodynamics, animal models, and clinical trials. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Scientific Inquiry II, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS BI 586 Ecological Genomics
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CAS BI 206 or BI 216) and (MA 115 or MA 213); or consent of instructo r. Also recommended are BI 303 and BI 309. - Course covers topics related to community ecology, population biology and organismal physiology. Lectures and readings are integrated with genomic analyses and statistics. Focus is on marine invertebrates; however, these tools are universal across microbes, fungi, plants and animals. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CC 220 Multimedia Encounters with Core Texts
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Allows Core students to reimagine a favorite Core text in a new, digital format. Each section has students develop a new mediation of a particular Core work to be made available to the Core community and beyond. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS CC 320 Extended Multimedia Encounters with Core Texts
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Teamwork/Collaboration
Invites students to re-imagine a favorite Core text in a new, digital format and context. Each section focuses on a particular Core text to consider, reflect and develop a new mediation of that work. Prerequisite: Students must demonstrate previous experience of studying, performing, or otherwise engaging with the text on a sophisticated level, or must receive consent from the instructor. In Fall 2025, sections individually focus on: Confucian Analects; in Spring 2026, sections focus on Hamlet and Don Quixote. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CC 320S Extended Multimedia Encounters with Core Texts
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CAS CC 201 or CAS EN 163 or CAS EN 363) or any previous experience reading or performing Hamlet. - This project-based course invites students to examine the legacy of a text from the Core Curriculum and re-imagine it in new, digital and multimedia formats and contexts through a variety of individual and group assignments. No prior experience with these digital and multimedia formats is required. In Summer I 2024, the focus is on Shakespeare¿s Hamlet. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CH 402 Honors Research in Chemistry
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: 3.0 overall GPA, 3.2 GPA in required major courses, and approval of Honors application by Chemistry Department Undergraduate Programs Committee. - Minimum 16 hours per week of experimental or theoretical research, within a chemistry department research group or in another approved research group (outside the department) that is undertaking research in the chemical sciences. An Honors thesis is submitted at the end of the spring semester and defended before a committee of three faculty members. A grade of B or higher is required in both CAS CH 401 and CAS CH 402 in order to graduate with Honors in the Major in Chemistry. An oral presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at the end of the spring semester is also required. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CH 442 Senior Research in Chemistry 2
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Senior research including attendance with oral presentations at group research meetings, creative contributions as a research team member, and the writing of a report at the end of semester as required by research group. Presentation at the semester's end Undergraduate Research Symposium is required. Application must be made through the Department of Chemistry office. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS CH 462 Senior Research in Chemistry 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Senior research including attendance with oral presentations at group research meetings, creative contributions as a research team member, and the writing of a report at the end of semester as required by research group. Presentation at the semester's end Undergraduate Research Symposium is required. Application must be made through the Department of Chemistry office. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CH 462S Senior Research in Chemistry 2
4 credits. Summer
Senior research including attendance with oral presentations at group research meetings, creative contributions as a research team member, and the writing of a report at the end of semester as required by research group. Presentation at the semester's end Undergraduate Research Symposium is required. Application must be made through the Department of Chemistry office. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CI 200 Introduction to Film & Media Aesthetics
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression
Introduction to fundamental concepts for the analysis/understanding of film and media. Key concepts of formal composition (e.g. editing, mise-en-sc'ne, cinematography, sound and more) over a diverse set of media texts. Foundational skills in analysis appropriate to film, television and moving-image media. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS CI 200S Introduction to Film & Media Aesthetics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression
Online offering. Introduction to fundamental concepts for the analysis and understanding of film and media. Key concepts of formal composition (e.g., editing, mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound and more) over a diverse set of media texts. Foundational skills in analysis appropriate to film, television, and moving-image media. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS CI 201 Literature and the Art of Film
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Provides an overview of fundamental concepts for the analysis and understanding of film. Films are screened weekly and in conjunction with works of literature. Students must register for screening, discussion, and lecture. Also offered as CAS EN 175. 4 cr. either sem. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS CI 201S Literature and the Art of Film
4 credits. Summer
Provides an overview of fundamental concepts for the analysis and understanding of film. Films are screened in conjunction with works of literature. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS CI 330 Film Genres & Movements
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
An intensive exploration of a particular cinematic genre or movement, paying special attention to how individual films respond to an existing traditions and to the historical and cultural contexts underpinning artistic change. How do genres grow and evolve across historical, cultural and institutional settings? How do particular cinematic movements respond to particular cultural challenges? Course content varies by semester. Topic for Fall 2025: Film Noir. A broad survey of one of the most stylish and influential genres. We watch important early examples of the genre before charting its baroque evolution into the late '40s and '50s and beyond, finally investigating the rise of international and contemporary neo-noir cinemas. Films by John Huston, Ida Lupino, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Jacques Tourneur, Carl Franklin, Howard Hawks, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Akira Kurosawa, among others. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CI 367 Studies in Non-Cinematic Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
This course covers a range of aesthetic and cultural issues related to non- cinematic media, encompassing the study of photography, television, video art, video and online gaming, new media and more. Topics vary by semester. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CI 380 Gender and Identity in Contemporary Middle Eastern Film
4 credits. Fall
An exploration of representations of gender and identity in contemporary Middle Eastern films by male and female directors reflecting on the impact of modernization, globalization, war and trauma through different visual genres. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS CI 389 World Cities: Istanbul
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
An examination of Istanbul in the global imaginary as it transformed from the Capital of the Ottoman Empire to the cultural capital of the Republic of Turkey through critical analysis of visual and literary texts. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS CI 395 Inhuman Films: Genders, Animals, Machines
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or 120). - This course explores what happens to the "human" at the intersection of feminist theory and cinematic representation. How and why do films assign humanity to some figures and withhold it from others on the basis of race, gender, "ability," etc.' Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS CL 108 Scientific Terminology from Greek and Latin Roots
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness
Introduction to Greek and Latin roots of English word elements and word origins with focused etymological and linguistic analysis of scientific terminology and systems, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, and medicine. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Critical Thinking.
CAS CL 322 Roman History
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry II
Introduction to the political, social, and economic history of Rome from the foundation of the city through the fall of the western empire. All texts in translation. Effective Spring 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
CAS CL 336 The Roman Empire: Society, Culture, Religion
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Writing-Intensive Course
Perquisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., CASWR 100 or 120). - The culture of the age of Roman emperors; history, political institutions, literature, art, religion, social institutions and life, the role of women, and life in the Roman provinces. Some familiarity with the civilization of ancient Rome recommended. All texts in translation. Effective Summer 2025, this course fulfills a single requirement in each of the following BU HUB areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Writing Intensive.
CAS CS 101 Introduction to Computing
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Quantitative Reasoning II
The computer is presented as a tool that can assist in solving a broad spectrum of problems. This course provides a general introduction designed to dispel the mystery surrounding computers and introduces the fundamental ideas of programs and algorithms. Carries MCS divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Digital/Multimedia Expression. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Quantitative Reasoning II, Critical Thinking.
CAS CS 101S Introduction to Computing
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Quantitative Reasoning II
The computer is presented as a tool that can assist in solving a broad spectrum of problems. This course provides a general introduction designed to dispel the mystery surrounding computers and introduces the fundamental ideas of programs and algorithms. Students must register for two sections: lecture and laboratory. Carries MCS divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Quantitative Reasoning II, Critical Thinking.
CAS CS 103 Introduction to Internet Technologies and Web Programming
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Quantitative Reasoning II
Introduction to the basic architecture and protocols underlying the operation of the Internet with an emphasis on Web design, Web application programming, and algorithmic thinking. General familiarity with the Internet is assumed. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Digital/Multimedia Expression. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Quantitative Reasoning II, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CS 103S Introduction to Internet Technologies and Web Programming
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Quantitative Reasoning II
Introduction to the basic architecture and protocols underlying the operation of the Internet with an emphasis on web design, web application programming, and algorithmic thinking. General familiarity with the Internet is assumed. Carries MCS divisional credit in CAS. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Quantitative Reasoning II, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS CS 132 Geometric Algorithms
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCS111 & CASMA123) - Basic concepts, data structures, and algorithms for geometric objects. Examples of topics: Cartesian geometry, transformations and their representation, queries and sampling, triangulations. Emphasis on rigorous reasoning and analysis, advancing algorithmic maturity and expertise in its application. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS CS 132S Geometric Algorithms
4 credits.
Prereq: (CAS CS 111; CAS MA 123 recommended). Basic concepts, data structures, and algorithms for geometric objects. Examples of topics: Cartesian geometry, transformations and their representation, queries and sampling, triangulations. Emphasis on rigorous reasoning and analysis, advancing algorithmic maturity and expertise in its application. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS CS 480 Introduction to Computer Graphics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCS112 & CASCS132) - Introduction to computer graphics algorithms, programming methods, and applications. Focus on fundamentals of two- and three-dimensional raster graphics: scan-conversion, clipping, geometric transformations, and camera modeling. Introduces concepts in computational geometry, computer-human interfaces, animation, and visual realism. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS CS 539 Spark! Data Science X-Lab Practicum
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASMA225 & CASMA242 & CASCS330) or consent of instructor. - Prereq: CASCS506 or equivalent preferred. CDSDSDS110 OR CASCS111 OR CASCS112 OR equivalent. CDSDS121 OR CASCS132 OR equivalent is required. Consent provided upon successful completion of pass/fail diagnostic test that will assess student readiness to take the course. This course offers students in computing disciplines the opportunity to apply their data science 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 communications skills, collaborative work processes and an assessment of the ethical considerations of their work. All students participating in the course are expected to complete a data science project 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: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS CS 680 Graduate Introduction to Computer Graphics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCS112) and CASCS132 or CASMA242. - Introduction to computer graphics algorithms, programming methods, and applications. Focus on fundamentals of two- and three-dimensional raster graphics: scan-conversion, clipping, geometric transformations, and camera modeling. Introduces concepts in computational geometry, computer-human interfaces, animation, and visual realism. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS EE 302 Remote Sensing of Environment
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Introduction to sensor systems, methodology of remote sensing, and basic concept of image analysis. Presents the ways in which remotely sensed data can be used in scientific investigations and resource management. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Scientific Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EE 302S Remote Sensing of Environment
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Prereq: (CAS EE 100 or CAS GE 100 or CAS EE 101 or CAS GE 101 or CAS EE 105 or CAS ES 105 or CAS EE 107 or CAS ES 107 or CAS BI 117 or CAS PY 105). Introduction to sensor systems, methodology of remote sensing, and basic concepts of image analysis. Presents the ways in which remotely sensed data can be used in scientific investigations and resource management. Students must attend both lecture and laboratory. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Scientific Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS EE 307 Biogeography
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: BI 107 and EE 101 - Analysis of local, regional, and global distributions of plants and animals. Environmental and human influences on those distributions considered; changes resulting from geologically recent climatic fluctuations. Field trips. Also offered as BI 307. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single requirement in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Scientific Inquiry 1.
CAS EE 310 Climate and the Environment
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASMA 122 or MA 124 and PY 211; or consent of instructor. - Understanding physical processes of the atmosphere, ranging in scale from tornadoes to global winds. Emphasis on providing physical explanations of atmospheric phenomena and impact of weather on humanity. Satellite and weather modification technology. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EE 375 Introduction to Quantitative Environmental Modeling
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS EE 270 or MA 115 or MA 213; or equivalent. - Introduces students to quantitative models of environmental systems. Emphasizes application of quantitative models to environmental problem solving. Includes computer exercises with examples from current environmental issues such as population growth, pollution transport, and biodiversity. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Quantitative Reasoning II.
CAS EE 508 Data Science for Conservation Decisions
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Quantitative Reasoning II Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS EE 270 or other intro to statistics; EE 375 or other intro to prog ramming. Recommended: EE 365, EE 505, or other intro to geospatial dat a. - Application of quantitative methods to support conservation decisions. Ecosystem value mapping, systematic conservation planning, policy instrument design, rigorous impact evaluation, decision theory, data visualization. Implementations in state-of-the-art open-source software. Real-life case studies from the U.S. and abroad. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Quantitative Reasoning II, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS EN 170 The Graphic Novel
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
Examination of the rise, nature, and status of the contemporary book-length graphic novel. Topics include graphic vs. traditional novel, word and image, style and space, representations of subjectivity, trauma, and history. Authors may include Spiegelman, Bechdel, Nakazawa, Sacco, Satrapi, Backderf. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 170S The Graphic Novel
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
Examination of the rise, nature, and status of the contemporary book-length graphic novel. Topics include graphic vs. traditional novel, word and image, style and space, representations of subjectivity, trauma, and history. Authors may include Spiegelman, Bechdel, Nakazawa, Sacco, Satrapi, Backderf. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 175 Literature and the Art of Film
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Provides an overview of fundamental concepts for the analysis and understanding of film. Films are screened weekly and in conjunction with works of literature. Students must register for screening, discussion, and lecture. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS EN 175S Literature and the Art of Film
4 credits. Summer
Provides an overview of fundamental concepts for the analysis and understanding of film. Films are screened in conjunction with works of 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, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS EN 176 Introduction to Film & Media Aesthetics
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression
Introduction to fundamental concepts for the analysis/understanding of film and media. Key concepts of formal composition (e.g. editing, mise-en-sc'ne, cinematography, sound and more) over a diverse set of media texts. Foundational skills in analysis appropriate to film, television and moving-image media. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 176S Introduction to Film & Media Aesthetics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression
Online offering. Introduction to fundamental concepts for the analysis and understanding of film and media. Key concepts of formal composition (e.g., editing, mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound and more) over a diverse set of media texts. Foundational skills in analysis appropriate to film, television, and moving-image media. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Critical Thinking.
CAS EN 329 Film Genres & Movements
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
An intensive exploration of a particular cinematic genre or movement, paying special attention to how individual films respond to an existing traditions and to the historical and cultural contexts underpinning artistic change. How do genres grow and evolve across historical, cultural and institutional settings' How do particular cinematic movements respond to particular cultural challenges' Course content varies by semester. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 365 Studies in Non-Cinematic Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one previous literature course or junior or senior standing. - This course explores the economic, political, and aesthetic implications of the ¿Marvel Cinematic Universe.¿ How does the MCU¿s interlocking multimedia meganarrative give the impression of a ¿universe,¿ and how does that universe interact with the one we live in'. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, 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 481 Performative Text and Design
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing. - Intersections of text, design, performance, publishing, and activism. Examinations of techniques, forms, media, and theoretical ideas--asking about the political potential of such practices. Students develop an interdisciplinary approach to thinking about the form a text might take as a spatial appearance (page or environment), through materials (costume, flags) or how it might be used as a performative object. Themes include: labour, liveness and documentation, ephemeral vs. permanent, alternative publishing, activist archiving. Lectures, project based, field trips, and studio visits. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 500 Henry James and New Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior status. - James's writing exposed moral and aesthetic dimensions of society's play with status, wealth, and romance. After exploring contemporary dating apps, social media, and films of James's works, students complete a video, graphic novel, or other form of "new media" criticism. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS EN 681 Performative Text and Design
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Graduate Prerequisites: Graduate standing. - Intersections of text, design, performance, publishing, and activism. Examinations of techniques, forms, media, and theoretical ideas--asking about the political potential of such practices. Students develop an interdisciplinary approach to thinking about the form a text might take as a spatial appearance (page or environment), through materials (costume, flags) or how it might be used as a performative object. Themes include: labour, liveness and documentation, ephemeral vs. permanent, alternative publishing, activist archiving. Lectures, project based, field trips, and studio visits. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS HI 191 What Is Europe'
4 credits. Spring
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. Summer
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 283 The Twentieth-Century American Presidency
4 credits.
Examines the shifting role of the presidency in American politics, especially over the course of the twentieth century. Considers not only the accomplishments of individual presidents and institutional changes in the executive branch but also the evolving place of the presidency in American popular culture. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry II.
CAS HI 283S The Twentieth-Century American Presidency
4 credits. Summer
Examines the shifting role of the presidency in American politics, especially over the course of the twentieth century. Considers not only the accomplishments of individual presidents and institutional changes in the executive branch but also the evolving place of the presidency in American popular culture. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry II.
CAS HI 297 African American Women's History
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I
Survey of African American women's history from the slave trade to the present, investigating its critical role in shaping the meaning of race, gender, and sexuality during slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era. Also offered as CAS AA 297 and CAS WS 297. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I.
CAS HI 298 Black Freedom Dreams: America and the World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Surveys the history of African diaspora peoples in the Americas from their African origins and the rise of the Atlantic slave trade through the age of emancipations, investigating the varied meanings of race, resistance, migration, and freedom. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS HI 298S Black Freedom Dreams: America and the World
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Surveys the history of African Americans from their African origins to the present, investigating their critical role in shaping the meaning of race, rights, freedom, and democracy during slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era.
CAS HI 303 Sex, Love, Family: American Relationships from Birth to Death
4 credits.
Explores Americans' intimate bonds and family dynamics throughout US history. Follows the life cycle from birth to death, surveying common milestones and rituals such as coming of age, coming out, getting married, or having a midlife crisis, and more. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS HI 303S Sex, Love, Family: American Relationships from Birth to Death
4 credits.
Summer description should be the same as AY: Explores Americans' intimate bonds and family dynamics throughout US history. Follows the life cycle from birth to death, surveying common milestones and rituals such as coming of age, coming out, getting married, or having a midlife crisis, and more. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS HI 312 Disability in American History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry II
Investigates disability as a crucial aspect of power and identity in American history. Considers how people's bodies and minds have been rendered disabled in specific contexts. Explores disabled people's historical survival strategies, community-building projects, and campaigns to claim rights. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry II.
CAS HI 332 Introduction History, Humanities, and Social Sciences Research in the Digital Age: Tools and Methods
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
Course 1 in two-semester-sequence (Fall: HI 332/XL 332; Spring: HI 333). Introduces principles and tools of digital research in history, the humanities, and social sciences. Through project-based learning, students combine skills in digital literacy, media creation, humanistic and social sciences inquiry. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS HI 343 Taste, Culture, and Power: The Global History of Food
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness
An exploration of the global history of food from prehistory to the present, considering the birth of agriculture, food in nations and empires, hunger and nutrition, and the future of eating, including examples from 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, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS HI 391 Media Revolutions in the Modern Middle East
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness
Examines how media revolutions in the modern Middle East have helped to garner state support and foment rebellions. Sources range widely from Lebanese civil war posters and state radio broadcasts to tourist campaigns, Turkish soap operas, and reality television competitions. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Critical Thinking.
CAS HI 482 Merchants, Pirates, Missionaries, and the State in Maritime Asia, 600-2000
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor. - Oceans connected the peoples of coastal Asia, Africa, and Oceania long before the arrival of Europeans in the 1500s. This course examines how commerce, piracy, religious contact, and imperialisms shaped maritime Asia, and how oceans facilitated our own era's global connections. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS HI 525 Development in Historical Perspective
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 120 or 150) - A critical investigation of modern "development" practices and projects in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Explores the rise of development paradigms in the nineteenth century and key twentieth-century transformations; interrogates challenges to, critiques of, and reaffirmations of global development schemes. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Social Inquiry II. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry II.
CAS HI 528 Engineering Boston
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
Examines how governments, companies and residents have constructed Boston, its neighborhoods and its transportation systems. The class studies shifting immigration and development patterns, produce photographic essays, and construct maps analyzing urban renewal, while visiting neighborhoods every week. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS HI 529 History Media Lab: Producing Public-Facing History
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness
Prerequisites: consent of instructor. Preference given to history majors and minors. - Advanced seminar exploring research and production of historical documentaries and podcasts. Students blend historical research with digital storytelling, developing skills in archival research, interviewing, and audio/video production while creating short-form media that bring critical historical narrative and debate to general audiences. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness.
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 IR 363 Economic Cooperation in East Asia
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
Pre-requisites: CASIR 271/PO 171 and an international economics class (CASIR 292, CASIR 399, CASEC 392, or QSTIM 345). - Explores the growth of economic cooperation in East Asia and Asia-Pacific to promote trade, finance, development, and sustainability. Analyzes both economic incentives for cooperation and effects of political and economic competition among China, Japan, the U.S. and other regional actors. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
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 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 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 LC 313 Chinese through Theater and Performance
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLC311) or consent of instructor. - This course explores communication through reading, writing, discussing and performing theater in Chinese. It focuses on linguistic, para-linguistic, and cultural aspects in authentic drama, and help learners express ideational, emotional, and social meanings in theatrical settings that simulate real life. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation, 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 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 310 French for the Professions
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASLF 212 or equivalent; or placement test results. - Advanced study of French as used in the professions in the francophone world. Readings, discussions, and assignments develop linguistic skills and cultural competence: current political and economic issues, familiarity with major French-language newspapers, creation of French CV and cover letter. Topic for Fall 2025: French for International Relations. This professionalizing course serves as an introduction to the specialized language employed in the fields of international relations and diplomacy. It provides students with the language tools and communication skills to perform common professional tasks in highly contextualized activities. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfill a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS LG 305 Science and Culture
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry I Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLG212) or placement test results or consent of instructor. - How do science, humanities, and arts intersect and influence cultural attitudes towards society, nature, and the environment' Students progress in all language skills and acquire reading and communicative strategies necessary to discuss the sciences in German. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LG 388 World Cities: Berlin
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
This course explores Berlin's urban imaginary, investigating cinematic, written and visual texts, architecture and urban planning to witness the complex, exciting, and sometimes tragic history of Berlin and to understand how people make sense of cities in general. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LH 311 Advanced Modern Hebrew: Voices in Israeli Society
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 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 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 LJ 388 World Cities: Tokyo
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
Explores the past and present of the vibrant city of Tokyo through literature and visual culture. Includes hand-on experiences mapping literary spaces. Reading and discussion in English. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LJ 441 Japanese through Media
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 311 Fifth-Semester Korean
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 319 Korean Language through Popular Music
4 credits. Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLK212) or consent of instructor. - Content-based advanced Korean language course designed to improve listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills while analyzing the lyrics to legendary Korean popular songs from the past to the contemporary. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LK 440 Korean Conversation and Composition through Media
4 credits. Spring
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 LP 307 Portuguese for Business and Professional Life
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASLP212) and consent of instructor. - This is a discussion-based course taught in Portuguese. It helps you develop effective reading, speaking and writing strategies needed to interpret authentic written and audio-visual sources, exploring different aspects of professional life in the Brazilian and the Portuguese-speaking world. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CAS LR 312 Russia on Screen
4 credits. Spring
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 442 Russian Media
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 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. Fall and Spring
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 LT 388 World Cities: Istanbul
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
An examination of Istanbul in the global imaginary as it transformed from the Capital of the Ottoman Empire to the cultural capital of the Republic of Turkey through critical analysis of visual and literary texts. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS LX 433 Experimental Pragmatics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Quantitative Reasoning II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS LX 331 (formerly CAS LX 502), or consent of instructor. - Covers recent developments in the theory of pragmatics and related empirical findings obtained through a variety of experimental methods. Topics include scalar implicature and its relation to vagueness and imprecision, hyperbole, metaphor, irony, politeness, and the pragmatics of reference to objects in visual scenes. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course entitled "Topics in Pragmatics" that was previously numbered CAS LX 504. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LX 733 Experimental Pragmatics
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Quantitative Reasoning II
Graduate Prerequisites: GRS LX 631 (formerly CAS LX 502), or consent of instructor. - Covers recent developments in the theory of pragmatics and related empirical findings obtained through a variety of experimental methods. Topics include scalar implicature and its relation to vagueness and imprecision, hyperbole, metaphor, irony, politeness, and the pragmatics of reference to objects in visual scenes. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS LY 304 Third-Year Modern Arabic 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Fall, Spring, Summer
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. Summer
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 420 Arabic Media
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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. Fall
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 402 Honors Research in Neuroscience 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: approval of NE Director of Undergraduate Academic and Research Affairs , and College Honors Committee. First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 1 00 or WR 120) - For students with senior standing. Second semester of Honors-level mentored research (leading to graduation with Honors in Neuroscience) involving the writing of a senior thesis, preparation and delivery of a thesis defense presentation, and substantial independence. Application through the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Minimum 16 hours/week involving lab work, meetings, data analysis, and writing. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS NE 402S Honors Research in Neuroscience 2
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Writing-Intensive Course
For students with senior standing. Second semester of Honors-level mentored research (leading to graduation with Honors in Neuroscience) involving the writing of a senior thesis, preparation and delivery of a thesis defense presentation, and substantial independence. Application through the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. Minimum 16 hours/week involving lab work, meetings, data analysis, and writing. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing- Intensive Course.
CAS NE 490 NeuroDiversity
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASNE 102, NE 202, NE 203, NE 212 and NE major; and junior or senior standing. Explore psychological disorders through a neurodiversity lens, engaging with case studies, films, and neuroscience research. This course offers tailored learning pathways, ensuring inclusive, meaningful engagement, and fostering deep understanding of neurodiversity, diagnosis, and treatment across diverse academic interests and careers. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Creativity/Innovation, Digital Multimedia Expression, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings.
CAS NE 556 Drug Discovery in Neuroscience
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS NE 102/116, NE 333, CH 203, NE major, and junior or senior standing g. - The process of drug discovery is complex especially when a drug is intended to treat a neurological disease. This discussion-heavy course examines the specific challenges of modern neuroscience drug discovery, including: target selection, pharmacodynamics, animal models, and clinical trials. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Scientific Inquiry II, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS NE 556S Drug Discovery in Neuroscience
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Scientific Inquiry II
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS NE 102/116, NE 333, CH 203. The process of drug discovery is complex especially when a drug is intended to treat a neurological disease. This discussion-heavy course examines the specific challenges of modern neuroscience drug discovery, including: target selection, pharmacodynamics, animal models, and clinical trials. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Scientific Inquiry II, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS PH 489 Henry James and New Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
James’s writing exposed the moral and aesthetic dimensions of social status, wealth, and romance. Exploring James’s works and film adaptations of them, as well as contemporaneous philosophy, we address how they anticipate the social media of our time. Students complete a video, graphic novel, or other form of “new media” for a final project. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS PH 689 Henry James and New Media
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
James's writing exposed moral and aesthetic dimensions of society's play with status, wealth, and romance. After exploring contemporary dating apps, social media, and films of James's works, students complete a video, graphic novel, or other form of "new media" criticism. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS PO 399 Data Science for Politics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Any 100-level course in Political Science. - Data science is changing how we understand and study politics, policy, and decision-making. This course introduces students to the fundamental tools of data science, including collecting, modeling, and visualizing data, and how to apply these tools to study political and policy questions. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Quantitative Reasoning I .
CAS PO 399S Data Science for Politics
4 credits.
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Any 100-level course in Political Science. - Prereq: any 100-level course in Political Science. Data science is changing how we understand and study politics, policy, and decision-making. This course introduces students to the fundamental tools of data science, including collecting, modeling, and visualizing data, and how to apply these tools to study political and policy questions. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Quantitative Reasoning I.
CAS PO 599 Data Science for Politics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: any 100-level course in political science and either enrollment in the PO Honors or BA/MA program, or consent of instructor. - Data science is changing how we understand and study politics, policy, and decision-making. This course introduces students to the fundamental tools of data science, including collecting, modeling, and visualizing data, and how to apply these tools to study political and policy questions. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning I, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS PY 355 Methods of Theoretical Physics
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: ( (CASPY251 & CASPY252 & CASMA225) OR (CASPY211 & CASPY212 & CASM A225)) or consent of instructor. - Survey of mathematical and computational methods used in modern theoretical physics. Vectors, fields, differential and integral vector calculus. Matrices, matrix transformations, rotations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Function spaces, orthonormal functions, Fourier analysis, bras and kets. Basics of ordinary and partial differential equations with solutions by series and numerical methods. Complex variables and analytic functions. Scientific programming in python, computational visualization and numerical methods complementing each of the analytic topics. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS PY 371 Electronics for Scientists
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASMA124 & (CASPY212 OR CASPY252)) or consent of instructor. - A survey of practical electronics for all College of Arts and Sciences science students wishing to gain a working knowledge of electronic instrumentation, and in particular, its construction. Two four-hour laboratory-lecture sessions per week. Effective Spring 2020 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS PY 485E COMP PARTCLE PY
3 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy
Undergraduate Prerequisites: enrollment in the Geneva Physics Program. - COMP PARTCLE PY
CAS PY 681 Electronics for Scientists
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy
Graduate Prerequisites: (CASMA124 & (CASPY212 OR CASPY252)) or consent of instructor. - A survey of practical electronics for all College of Arts and Sciences science students wishing to gain a working knowledge of electronic instrumentation, and in particular, its construction. Two four-hour laboratory-lecture sessions per week. Effective Spring 2020 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation, Research and Information Literacy.
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 296 Religion and Hip Hop
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
Uses digital media studies to explore diverse religious expressions in hip hop culture. Through critical reading, community field trips, and hands-on technology usage, students consider an often overlooked element in the study of hip hop culture: religion. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
CAS RN 312 Buddhism in America
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
The transplantation and transformation of Buddhism in the United States. Time period ranges from the eighteenth century to the present, but the emphasis is on contemporary developments, including the new Asian immigration, Jewish Buddhism, feminization, and engaged Buddhism. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 340 The Quran
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 356 Religion in the Digital Age
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (CAS WR 120 or equivalent) - How has technology impacted religion' This hands-on course explores how digital technologies like the Internet, social media, gaming, and artificial intelligence have changed the way that people think about religion. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
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 612 Buddhism in America
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
The transplantation and transformation of Buddhism in the United States. Time period ranges from the 18th century to the present, but the emphasis is on contemporary developments, including the new Asian immigration, Jewish Buddhism, feminization, and engaged Buddhism. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS RN 640 The Quran
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 656 Religion in the Digital Age
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR120) - How has technology impacted religion' This hands-on course explores how digital technologies like the Internet, social media, gaming, and artificial intelligence have changed the way that people think about religion. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation.
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 SO 240 Sexuality and Social Life
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry I
Introduction to sociological perspectives on sexuality. Historical and comparative analysis of sexuality, with a focus on the social and cultural institutions that shape sexuality in the contemporary U.S. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS SO 240S Sexuality and Social Life
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry I
Introduction to sociological perspectives on sexuality. Historical and comparative analysis of sexuality, with a focus on the social and cultural institutions that shape sexuality in the contemporary US. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
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. Summer
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 352 American Masculinities
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one 100- or 200-level course in either sociology or women's, gender, & sexuality. - Explores masculinity: as a historical, social construct and site of power and violence; as a facet of identity and system of oppression; as style, myth, and representation; as something perpetually in "crisis" and in need of recuperation; as a process that helps and harms; as a set of ideals, practices, and traditions; and as system that cuts across race, ethnicity, sexuality, social class, nation, geography and place, age, and other lines of difference. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS SO 352S American Masculinities
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one 100- or 200-level course in either sociology or women's, gender, & sexuality. - Considers the biological and social organization of masculinities; the ways culture reproduces/articulates masculinities, particularly with regard to race and class; how masculine identities are expressed; male privilege; alternative masculinities; and what is at stake in negotiating contemporary masculinities.
CAS WR 152 Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Digital/Multimedia Expression
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS WR 120) or transfer credit for CASWR 13TR or CASWR 16TR. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, and digital/multimedia communication. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, prose style, digital/multimedia communication, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression; Writing, Research, and Inquiry; Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 152E Writing/Research/Inquiry DIG
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS WR 120) or transfer credit for CA S WR 13* or CAS WR 16*. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, and digital/multimedia communication. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, prose style, digital/multimedia design and communication, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including individual conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing, Research, and Inquiry, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 152S Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Digital/Multimedia Expression
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Writing, Research, and Inquiry
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g. CAS WR 120) or transfer credit for CASWR 13TR or CASWR 16TR. - Topic-based seminar in critical reading, research, writing, and digital/multimedia communication. Practice in sustained inquiry, including scholarly research and communication of findings to different audiences. Attention to argumentation, prose style, digital/multimedia communication, and revision, informed by reflection and feedback, including conferences. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression; Writing, Research, and Inquiry; Research and Information Literacy.
CAS WR 415 Public Writing
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication 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); and junior or senior standing. - Students learn about the growing call for scholars to communicate their research to the public, study and practice several public genres, and learn to "translate" academic knowledge for public audiences. Occasional evening events required. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing- Intensive Course, Oral and/or Signed Communication.
CAS WS 200 Thinking Queerly: An Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
4 credits. Spring
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. Summer
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. Fall and Spring
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 240 Sexuality and Social Life
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry I
Introduction to sociological perspectives on sexuality. Historical and comparative analysis of sexuality, with a focus on the social and cultural institutions that shape sexuality in the contemporary U.S. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS WS 297 African American Women's History
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I
Survey of African American women's history from the slave trade to the present, investigating its critical role in shaping the meaning of race, gender, and sexuality during slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I.
CAS WS 313 Sex, Love, Family: American Relationships from Birth to Death
4 credits.
Explores Americans' intimate bonds and family dynamics throughout US history. Follows the life cycle from birth to death, surveying common milestones and rituals such as coming of age, coming out, getting married, or having a midlife crisis, and more. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
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 341 The Quran
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 352 American Masculinities
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one 100- or 200-level course in either sociology or women's, gender, & sexuality. - This course will explore masculinity: as a historical, social construct and site of power and violence; as a facet of identity and system of oppression; as style, myth, and representation; as something perpetually in "crisis" and in need of recuperation; as a process that helps and harms; as a set of ideals, practices, and traditions; and as system that cuts across race, ethnicity, sexuality, social class, nation, geography and place, age, and other lines of difference. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
CAS WS 352S American Masculinities
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: one 100- or 200-level course in either sociology or women's, gender, & sexuality. - Considers the biological and social organization of masculinities; the ways culture reproduces/articulates masculinities, particularly with regard to race and class; how masculine identities are expressed; male privilege; alternative masculinities; and what is at stake in negotiating contemporary masculinities.
CAS WS 380 Gender and Identity in Contemporary Middle Eastern Film
4 credits. Fall
An exploration of representations of gender and identity in contemporary Middle Eastern films by male and female directors reflecting on the impact of modernization, globalization, war and trauma through different visual genres. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
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 395 Inhuman Films: Genders, Animals, Machines
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 120). - This course explores what happens to the "human" at the intersection of feminist theory and cinematic representation. How and why do films assign humanity to some figures and withhold it from others on the basis of race, gender, "ability," etc.' Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration.
CAS WS 640 The Quran
4 credits. Fall
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 XL 332 Introduction History, Humanities, and Social Sciences Research in the Digital Age: Tools and Methods
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry I
Course 1 in two-semester-sequence (Fall: HI 332/XL 332; Spring: HI 333). Introduces principles and tools of digital research in history, the humanities, and social sciences. Through project-based learning, students combine skills in digital literacy, media creation, humanistic and social sciences inquiry. Effective Fall 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy, Social Inquiry I.
CAS XL 380 Gender and Identity in Contemporary Middle Eastern Film
4 credits. Fall
An exploration of representations of gender and identity in contemporary Middle Eastern films by male and female directors reflecting on the impact of modernization, globalization, war and trauma through different visual genres. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CAS XL 396 World Cities: Berlin
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
This course explores Berlin's urban imaginary, investigating cinematic, written and visual texts, architecture and urban planning to witness the complex, exciting, and sometimes tragic history of Berlin and to understand how people make sense of cities in general. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS XL 397 World Cities: Istanbul
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
An examination of Istanbul in the global imaginary as it transformed from the Capital of the Ottoman Empire to the cultural capital of the Republic of Turkey through critical analysis of visual and literary texts. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CAS XL 398 World Cities: Tokyo
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Research and Information Literacy
Explores the past and present of the vibrant city of Tokyo through literature and visual culture. Includes hand-on experiences mapping literary spaces. Reading and discussion in English. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.
CFA AR 123 Foundation Design: Introductory Principles, Practices
2 credits. Fall and Spring
This course introduces the basic principles of design, composition, and form making. We will investigate these principles holistically, beginning with their historical origination, spanning to contemporary usage, and finally in the context of your own visual arts practice. Digital and multimedia tools are introduced, and students will select the most appropriate tools for the specific design expression. Projects and class meetings will be structured to help you develop a design process and critique skills. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA AR 209S Puppets Make News: Crafting the Message in Digital Storytelling
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression
This course brings together critical thinking, multimedia storytelling, and exploratory making to create meaningful newscasts by filming handmade puppets and sets. Students research, craft, record, edit, and collaboratively animate important current events, while thinking critically and creatively about notions of representation. Effective Summer 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation, Critical Thinking.
CFA AR 224 New Genres in Sculpture
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression
This course investigates the language of Contemporary Sculpture and Installation Art from the perspective of new genres such as film, video and performance art. We will explore the ways in which these genres play an influential role in contemporary art production with a specific focus on the spatial-temporal relationship. This is a non-medium specific, portfolio- building, studio class with the objective of expanding and advancing students' already existing 3D language, methodologies, technical skills, and critiquing abilities. Students will learn the formal, historical and conceptual implications of mixed-media art production and understand these within a broad context of contemporary art. This class is divided into three parts: studio time with one-on-one meetings with the instructor; video editing and technical workshops; and mini-lectures and screenings. 4cr Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Critical Thinking.
CFA AR 225 Sophomore Graphic Design Fall: Form-Making, Communication
4 credits. Fall
Sophomore Graphic Design focuses on form making and conceptual problem solving. Image making techniques will be explored and integrated into graphic design contexts. Conceptual problem solving will be examined according to how forms suggest meaning. A student is expected to build upon the skills developed during foundation year to generate innovative and inventive form in both analog and digital formats. Emphasis will be on form making and typography using generative and iterative methods to explore new tools, design processes, and media. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA AR 225E SOPH DESIGN
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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CFA AR 225S Graphic Design
4 credits.
Sophomore Graphic Design focuses on form making and conceptual problem solving. Image making techniques will be explored and integrated into graphic design contexts. Conceptual problem solving will be examined according to how forms suggest meaning. A student is expected to build upon the skills developed during foundation year to generate innovative and inventive form in both analog and digital formats. Emphasis will be on form making and typography using generative and iterative methods to explore new tools, design processes, and media. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA AR 412 Architectural Design 1
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication
Introduction to architectural design at the scale of individual buildings. Students will learn how to analyze, represent, and create form and space through a series of projects that increase in complexity over the course of the semester. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 428 Architecture Site Design 1
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication
Introduction to architecture with a focus upon context and environment. Students will learn to analyze and design sited architecture in relation to various factors (e.g., climate, landscape, urbanism, and/or region). Work will incorporate drawing and modelling techniques, and will be advanced primarily through independent studio exploration guided by critical discussions and presentations with the instructor, guest critics, and the studio at large. 4cr Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 428E ARCH SITE DES 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication
ARCH SITE DES 1
CFA AR 508 The Experimental Photograph
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Teamwork/Collaboration
This course brings together the STEM disciplines with the art of photography through hands on experiments and explorations of neuroscience, engineering, and new media. From pinhole photography to 3D printing, students will gain skills in historical processes within the medium of photography as well as current technologies. Readings from both the natural sciences and critical theory will also be required. The interdisciplinary approach to the course aims to broaden students' understanding of the medium of photography and to appreciate an expanded view of the arts and sciences. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration.
CFA AR 512 Architectural Design 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication
This course builds upon the foundational knowledge that is covered in the introductory level and aims to achieve a higher degree of architectural design sophistication through a series of projects. These design challenges increase in complexity and duration over the course of the semester. You are expected to have advanced skills in drawing and model making, which enable you to devote your time to developing and critiquing your own design process. You will delve deeper into issues of form, program, and space, and you will be expected to draw upon previous design work from related courses such as architectural history, sculpture, drawing, and others. This course is intended for students who have already taken Architectural Design or its equivalent at another institution. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA AR 515 Digital Photo
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression
Throughout this course you will gain a basic technical and conceptual understanding of the medium of photography. Students will learn the basics of RAW image capture using a 35mm DSLR camera, non-destructive image file management, input and output resolution management, establishment of a digital workflow, adjustment and editing in Adobe Photoshop and high-end archival inkjet printing. Lectures will also introduce historical and contemporary photographic practices. Students will have weekly photographing and printing assignments, and you should be prepared to develop your own ideas. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Critical Thinking. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation, Critical Thinking.
CFA AR 515S Digital Photography
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression
Provides a basic technical and conceptual understanding of the medium of photography. Students learn the basics of RAW image capture using a 35mm DSLR camera, non-destructive image file management, input and output resolution management, establishment of a digital workflow, adjustment and editing in Adobe Photoshop, and high-end archival inkjet printing. Lectures also introduce historical and contemporary photographic practices. Students have weekly photographing and printing assignments, and should be prepared to develop their own ideas. Access to a digital SLR camera is necessary. Some material costs are expected. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation, Critical Thinking.
CFA AR 517 Digital Printmaking: Ink & Pixel 4 credits Spring term
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Digital media as a communicative tool in printmaking - digital imaging, mixed media processes, multimedia documentation, transformations with traditional print media. Course explores digital design/color, conceptual/technical skills, critique, and process-oriented project development through demonstrations, studio assignments, presentations, and critiques. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA AR 545 Performative Text and Design
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
Intersections of text, design, performance, publishing, and activism. Examinations of techniques, forms, media, and theoretical ideas--asking about the political potential of such practices. Students develop an interdisciplinary approach to thinking about the form a text might take as a spatial appearance (page or environment), through materials (costume, flags) or how it might be used as a performative object. Themes include: labour, liveness and documentation, ephemeral vs. permanent, alternative publishing, activist archiving. Lectures, project based, field trips, and studio visits. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Creativity/Innovation.
CFA FA 550 Arts Internship
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 344 Technology for Musicians
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Students will obtain essential skills in technologies to support music careers. Topics will include computer notation, audio and MIDI recording and editing, document design, self-promotion and responsible uses of social media. Students will also explore technologically enhanced and supported performance. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA ME 344E Technology for Musicians
2 credits. Fall
Students will obtain essential skills in technologies to support music careers. Topics will include computer notation, audio and MIDI recording and editing, document design, self-promotion and responsible uses of social media. Students will also explore technologically enhanced and supported performance. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression..
CFA ME 445 Technology for Musicians
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Students will obtain essential skills in technologies to support music careers. Topics will include computer notation, audio and MIDI recording and editing, document design, self-promotion and responsible uses of social media. Students will also explore technologically enhanced and supported performance. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA ME 544 Technology for Musicians
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Students will obtain essential skills in technologies to support music careers. Topics will include computer notation, audio and MIDI recording and editing, document design, self-promotion and responsible uses of social media. Students will also explore technologically enhanced and supported performance. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA MH 435 Music of Africa
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 MP 425 Digital and Multimedia Expression for Musicians
2 credits.
This course offers instruction in assembling essential and well-structured aural and visual materials, promotional materials, and online formats for aspiring performing musicians. Topics covered will include branding, website design, press kit design, live recordings with audiovisual design, studio recordings, as well as developing and maintaining social media. The Metaverse and NFTs will also be discussed and developed. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA MT 435 Composing with Electronic Sounds and Computers 1
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Offers aesthetic and technical knowledge for creative work in electronic media via computers, recording equipment, and digital audio software. Develops skills in synthesis, recording, and live sound. Assignments include literature, listening, aspects of acoustic and electronic theory, and creative work. Required for Music Composition and Theory Majors. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA MT 635 Composing with Electronic Sounds and Computers 1
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Aesthetic and technical knowledge needed to complete individual, creative work using electronic media alone or with acoustic instruments. Use of computers, recording equipment, digital editing software, and sound analysis software: developing basic skills in synthesis, sampling, digital recording and live performance techniques. Listening assignments provide an introduction to existing literature and relevant aspects of acoustic and electronic theory. May not be taken concurrently with CFA MT436. 2 cr. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA TH 158 Introduction to Design 2: 2D & 3D Design Fundamentals
3 credits. Spring
Prereq: CFA TH 157. Students will develop their individual artistic voice and approach to the creative process utilizing the fundamentals of the Seven Principles of Design in 2D & 3D visual design as well as their application in digital and multimedia. The class will also introduce how these design principles apply to the traditional design elements used in theatre: Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound. Through individual and group design projects, students will explore the visual and the conceptual nature of design and utilize peer and instructor critique to hone visual, aural, and oral communication skills. Required for BFA Design, Production & Management Core. 3.0 credits. Spring semester. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA TH 429 Understanding the Camera
2 credits. Fall
Introductory on-camera acting class providing the actor with fundamental building blocks to transition from theater to cinematic performance seamlessly. Through structured hands-on, learn by doing experience we aim to demystify the medium of television and film. This course deconstructs various on-camera techniques that allow the actor to explore and develop their own unique process. The actor will explore awareness of Self, type, range while learning the technical and design elements required for working in front of the camera relaxed and truthful, developing an intimacy with the camera. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
CFA TH 493 Production Management 1
3 credits. Fall
Study of the role of the Production Manager in the design, production, and rehearsal process, specifically concentrating on the roles and responsibilities of theatrical Production Managing on a professional level, including scheduling, staffing, budgeting, team building, time management and communication. Students will get hands-on experience in each of these through class-discussions, workshops, and the creation of a theoretical production process where they will produce digital media to effectively communicate their ideas and apply quantitative reasoning skills to make informed decisions. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Quantitative Reasoning I.
CGS RH 104E Rhetorical Practices from The Industrial Revolution through the Digital Revolution
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression First-Year Writing Seminar
Through class discussion and learning experiences, students explore connections between readings assigned in Rhetoric and those in other courses, focusing on themes drawn from the two units that comprise the semester's curriculum. The course further develops skills in expository writing and introduces exploratory essay writing. Students continue to explore the contemporary relevance and meaning of the interdisciplinary curriculum. Students refine their skills in grammar, style, organization, and document design. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: First-Year Writing Seminar, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Critical Thinking.
CGS RH 104S Rhetorical Practices from The Industrial Revolution through the Digital Revolution
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression First-Year Writing Seminar
Through class discussion and learning experiences, students explore connections between readings assigned in Rhetoric and those in other courses, focusing on themes drawn from the two units that comprise the semester's curriculum. The course further develops skills in expository writing and introduces exploratory essay writing. Students continue to explore the contemporary relevance and meaning of the interdisciplinary curriculum. Students refine their skills in grammar, style, organization, and document design. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: First-Year Writing Seminar, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Critical Thinking.
COM CM 413E ADV/PR ENGLAND
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry I
PRB SOL BRIT PR
COM CM 501 Design Strategy & Software
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. - Provides knowledge and practice for effective graphic design for all media. Develops a foundation in design principles and creative software skills including Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. Students create projects demonstrating how design strategies are used to engage audiences, and enhance comprehension of all forms of mass communication from traditional print to digital media. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
COM CM 501S Design Strategy and Software
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. - Provides knowledge and practice for effective graphic design for all media. Develops a foundation in design principles and creative software skills including Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. Students create projects demonstrating how design strategies are used to engage audiences and enhance comprehension of all forms of mass communication from traditional print to digital media. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation. (Formerly COM CM 323. Students cannot take COM CM 501 for credit if they have already taken COM CM 323.)
COM CM 510 Media Expression and Communication
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. - This course introduces students to using new media tools as a source and vehicle for creating expression and media communication. Students will acquire building blocks for design thinking and hands-on skills to successfully communicate ideas using media technology. Students will experience the design process: ideation to execution. Topics on media technology, interface design, information architecture, and interaction design will be covered. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
COM CM 510S Media Expression and Communication
4 credits. Summer
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. - Introduction to the personal computer as a tool for human communication. Shows how computers are used to design, produce, and deliver communication in publishing, advertising, entertainment, and education. Students learn to use basic computer tools to build works of communication in a variety of media, including text, images, numbers, sound, and video.
COM CM 518 Creative Video Development
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (COMCM217 & COMCM417) - Graduate Prerequisites: (COMCM708 & COMCM717) - Students develop concepts, create scripts and storyboards, and study execution-based challenges of video production. Students will create extendable advertising concepts for video, designed to succeed in a changing media landscape on multiple platforms.4 cr. Either sem. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation, Teamwork/Collaboration.
COM CM 518S Creative Video Development
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (COMCM217 & COMCM417) - Graduate Prerequisites: (COMCM708 & COMCM717)
COM CO 101 The World of Communication: The Human Storyteller
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Corequisites: Students must have taken or be taking CAS WR120 or equivalent while ta king COM CO101. - Introduces students to many fundamental principles of communication. Students also learn about the intertwined nature of communication professions as they explore the major fields of study in communication. Guest lectures from various industries inform students of potential future career paths. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
COM CO 101S The World of Communication
4 credits. Summer
Undergraduate Corequisites: Students must have taken or be taking CAS WR120 or equivalent while ta king COM CO101. - Introduces students to many fundamental principles of communication. Students also learn about the intertwined nature of communication professions as they explore the major fields of study in communication. Guest lectures from various industries inform students of potential future career paths. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
COM CO 305 Photography Fundamentals
4 credits. Fall and Spring
This course welcomes all students from the College of Communication as well as those throughout Boston University. In this course, students will learn traditional shooting and editing skills using a DSLR. Students can also use a smart phone and cloud-based editing to cover photo assignments. CO305 Photography Fundamentals covers: camera operation, image processing, image tagging, caption writing, and publishing. Assignments will be processed in black and white during the first half of the semester, color is introduced later in the course. We will cover the basics of file management and creating a photo portfolio. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
COM CO 305S Photography Fundamentals
4 credits. Summer
Open to all students. Introduces students to traditional shooting and editing skills using a DSLR. Students can also use a smart phone and cloud-based editing to cover photo assignments. The course covers camera operation, image processing, image tagging, caption writing, and publishing. Assignments are processed in black and white during the first half of the course; color is introduced later. Students learn the basics of file management and creating a photo portfolio. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
COM FT 201 Screen Language: The Aesthetics, Grammar and Rhetoric of the Moving Image
4 credits. Fall and Spring
In this course, students study and practice the art and craft of expressing themselves persuasively through audio-visual media. The aim is both to familiarize students with the conventions of screen language and to test the validity of those norms. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
COM FT 201S Screen Language: The Aesthetics, Grammar, and Rhetoric of the Moving Image
4 credits. Summer
Students study and practice the art and craft of expressing themselves persuasively through audio-visual media. The aim is both to familiarize students with the conventions of screen language and to test the validity of those norms. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
COM FT 352E FILM PROD/VIDEO
4 credits.
FILM PROD/VIDEO
COM JO 205 Visual Storytelling
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Required of journalism majors. An introductory course designed to provide students with a basic working knowledge of the media required for professional journalism, including photography, sound, video, and editing for production of multimedia packages. No previous experience in visual media is required. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
COM JO 205S Visual Storytelling
4 credits.
Required of journalism majors. An introductory course designed to provide students with a basic working knowledge of the media required for professional journalism, including photography, sound, video, and editing for production of multimedia packages. No previous experience in visual media is required. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
COM JO 322 Smart Phone Reporting
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: JO200 - This course teaches video journalism- how to identify, research, shoot, write and edit accurate, compelling news videos on deadline, using smart phones equipped with Adobe software. Students will become informed citizen journalists as well as adopt the standards and skill sets of professional mobile, multimedia journalists. Smart Phone Reporting teaches news and visual literacy, multimedia expression and applied writing skills to non- journalism majors while also training students to acquire a multimedia skill set required to become journalists. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG BE 466 Biomedical Engineering Senior Project
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGBE465) Limited to biomedical engineering majors with senior standing. CAS WR15X required. - Completion of project in an area of biomedical engineering. Expanded training in technical project presentation techniques. Includes writing of progress reports, abstracts, final reports. Course culminates with an oral presentation at annual Senior Project Conference. Written final report must be approved by the faculty. This course is part of a Hub sequence with ENG BE 465. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG BE 466S Biomedical Engineering Senior Project
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGBE465) Limited to biomedical engineering majors with senior standing. CAS WR15X required. - Completion of project in an area of biomedical engineering. Expanded training in technical project presentation techniques. Includes writing of progress reports, abstracts, final reports. Course culminates with an oral presentation at annual Senior Project Conference. Written final report must be approved by the faculty. This course is part of a Hub sequence with ENG BE 465. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG EC 463 Senior Design Project 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGEK210) senior standing; CAS WR 150/1/2/3 required. - Development of the technical, communication, personal, and team skills needed for successful design in electrical and computer engineering. Specifications and standards, information collection, design strategies, modeling, computer- aided design, optimization, system design, failure and reliability, human factors. Oral and written communication of technical information. Team dynamics and ethical issues in design. Design project for a small-scale electrical or computer system. Preparation of detailed proposals for senior design projects in the following semester. Includes lab. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG EC 463E Senior Design Project 1
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGEK210) senior standing; CAS WR 150/1/2/3 required. - SR DES PROJ 1
ENG ME 461 Senior Design 2
4 credits. Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGME460) Senior standing; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - The main activity in this course is the planning, and execution of a capstone project that represents a culmination of the Mechanical Engineering program. Students work in teams on either a research or design problem in some area of Mechanical Engineering that builds upon previous coursework. Class time will be focused on weekly project meetings with faculty. The course includes lectures on ethics, entrepreneurship, project management and other professional topics. Oral and written communications will be emphasized. When taken with ENG ME 460, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Writing-Intensive Course, Research and Information Literacy.
ENG ME 461E Senior Design 2
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Research and Information Literacy Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (ENGME460) Senior standing; First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - ME CAPSTONE EXP
HUB IC 203 Pitching Ideas for Success
4 credits. Fall and Spring
This course provides an introduction to formulating and pitching business ideas and starting your own ventures, including how to receive funding for, operate, and grow an enterprise. Through three different types of learning--lectures, case studies, and pitching and feedback--the course develops the skills needed to execute a future business plan. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Express, Quantitative Reasoning I.
HUB IC 205 America at War (and You)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Social Inquiry I
How has warfare, and the preparation for it, shaped the American experience' In this course, students explore how warfare and the building and sustaining of the American military as an institution has influenced the US economy, culture, and society along with issues that students care about today. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single requirement in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Social Inquiry I, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
HUB XC 420 BU Cross-College Challenge Projects (DME)
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Are you looking to take on a real-world challenge, build your collaboration, leadership, and multimedia communication skills' Would you like to work with fellow students from across BU and with a community partner on an interesting and engaging project' Then the Cross-College Challenge (XCC) is for you! This particular course will focus on digital-multimedia expression within the communication Hub area. Each semester there are exciting new courses offered in areas such as social equity, data science, sustainability, public health, and more. XCC courses are open to juniors and seniors from all schools and colleges at BU. For specific course offerings visit: bu.edu/xcc. Create-Communicate- Collaborate. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation, and Research and Information Literacy.
HUB XC 421 Unheard Voices: Deconstructing the Dominant Narratives by Inclusion
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Given the racial injustice and the current challenges society faces today, it is imperative that higher education institutions create equitable spaces and opportunities to include the voices and experiences of marginalized communities that feel secondary and peripheral in a dominant discourse. Student teams will work with community partners to create a series of podcasts that share knowledge and thoughts from communities that often feel marginalized and invisible in the national equity and democratic discourse. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
HUB XC 422 Exploring Walkability in Boston
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
This Cross-College Challenge (XCC) course will partner with WalkMassachusetts, a nonprofit that makes walking safer and easier in Massachusetts, to tell the fascinating and inspiring stories of the roads less traveled (by foot) in Boston. Through video storytelling, students will explore walkability through a diversity of perspectives. Engaging in all stages of production, student teams will create projects that strive for social justice through amplifying community voices or through actionable change. WalkMassachusetts will feature and promote videos on their website and social media. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration.
KHC AN 104 Wildlife Conservation
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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 HC 522 People in Process: Choice & Change - Digital/Multimedia Expression
2 credits. Spring
Explores the challenges, choices, and influence of an individual who has had an impact on the student's educational decisions through digital/multimedia design with attention to argumentation and communication technologies. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
KHC HI 105 The Zapatista Rebellion
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry I
This course will study the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico, 1994--2010. Out of what processes and conditions did it grow, with what actions and imaginaries on the part of indigenous activists and communities, as well as their allies and opponents' Studying one major historical event in depth will enable us to consider different ways of seeing and interpreting the event and to consider what it means to undertake wide-ranging social inquiry. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
KHC PO 103 Democracy and Capitalism in the United States
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings Teamwork/Collaboration
In this class, we will look at the relationship between capitalism and democracy in the United States. In what ways are capitalism and democracy complementary' In what ways are they in contraction' To address these questions, we will explore some of the philosophical and historical roots of both concepts through a series of case studies. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Teamwork/Collaboration.
KHC RH 104 The Pursuit of Happiness
4 credits. Fall
BU Hub Learn More Critical Thinking Digital/Multimedia Expression Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
What is happiness' Can we hope to achieve it and how should we pursue it' We will study how happiness has been understood by different cultures over time, and students will engage with diverse authors and genres from scripture, philosophy, and social science. Students will write three essays, and keep a reading journal. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.
KHC RH 105 The Lived City
4 credits. Fall and Spring
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.
KHC SO 102 Health Justice
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Social Inquiry II
This course puts five pressing social problems related to human, animal, and planetary health under a microscope, examining the dynamics that led to these problems and innovative policies and practices that are being developed to address them. Effective Spring 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy.
QST SM 303 Cross-Functional Core
0 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Cross-Functional Core is made up of FE323, MK323, OM323 and QM323 as well as a semester-long business plan project. The semester-long business plan project where students collect primary and secondary research explores the interactions and the cross functional integrations between marketing, operations, and finance, while leveraging business analytics. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation.
QST SM 323 Cross-Functional Core
16 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Research and Information Literacy Teamwork/Collaboration
Cross-Functional Core is made up of FE323, MK323, OM323 and QM323 as well as a semester-long business plan project. The semester-long business plan project where students collect primary and secondary research explores the interactions and the cross functional integrations between marketing, operations, and finance, while leveraging business analytics. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Research and Information Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation.
SAR HP 305 Foundations of Health Promotion
2 credits. Fall and Spring
This course provides students with an introduction to the principles of health promotion and an overview of strategies used to promote health at both the individual and population levels. The course will develop students' understanding of public health principles, health promotion and human behavior change models, as well as social determinants of health, and will explore how interactions among these factors impact health interventions and outcomes. Students will learn about methods to identify and assess the health needs of individuals across various contexts (health care facilities, schools, worksites, and communities); factors to consider when planning interventions tailored to the unique needs of specific populations (i.e. individuals with disabilities, male adolescents and young men, and communities of color); current evidence-based strategies to improve health outcomes and reduce the prevalence of chronic disease; and the effectiveness of select health promotion programs and strategies aimed at helping people make lasting healthy choices wherever they live, learn, work, and play. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration.
SAR HP 306 Foundations of Health Promotion
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Teamwork/Collaboration
This course provides students with an introduction to the principles of health promotion and an overview of strategies used to promote health at both the individual and population levels. The course will develop students' understanding of public health principles, health promotion and human behavior change models, as well as social determinants of health, and will explore how interactions among these factors impact health interventions and outcomes. Students will learn about methods to identify and assess the health needs of individuals across various contexts (health care facilities, schools, worksites, and communities); factors to consider when planning interventions tailored to the unique needs of specific populations (i.e. individuals with disabilities, male adolescents and young men, and communities of color); current evidence-based strategies to improve health outcomes and reduce the prevalence of chronic disease; and the effectiveness of select health promotion programs and strategies aimed at helping people make lasting healthy choices wherever they live, learn, work, and play. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration. Effective Fall 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation.
SAR HP 345 Introduction to Sports Medicine
2 credits. Spring
Intended for students interested in sports, coaching, medicine and exercise, this course provides an introduction to prevention of injury and illness, basic exercise principles, and first aid for an active population. This course will require students to create a digital info graphic or video disseminating health care or sports medicine information to a specific target audience. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
SAR HS 371 Pulmonary Pathophysiology
4 credits. Spring
How do humans breathe' How harmful are e-cigarettes to our body' What are the differences between an obstructive vs. a restrictive pulmonary disease' In Pulmonary Pathophysiology we will discuss these questions and more, developing an understanding of the physiological mechanisms underlying the function of the pulmonary system in health and disease. Through group discussion, active learning activities, and the creation of short films in small groups, we will take an in-depth look into the current understanding of pulmonary pathophysiology. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.
SAR HS 426 Research Experience
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
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 446 Research Experience
4 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course.
SAR HS 449 Research Experience
0 credits. Fall and Spring
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing-Intensive Course.
SAR HS 463 Beyond Germs and Genes
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry II Teamwork/Collaboration
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Seniors only. - This course will focus on the social determinants of health--the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, age and die. We will examine case studies from around the globe that reveal the ways in which health inequities are shaped by the distribution of resources, money, and power at the local, national and global level, and the critical role played by social policies in reducing or exacerbating these inequities. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
SHA HF 100 Introduction to Hospitality
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
This introductory course is open to all BU students and is the prerequisite for School of Hospitality courses. Students gain an historical perspective and identify current events and trends in lodging, restaurants and event management. It provides an overview of the global hospitality/tourism industry including the critical elements of managing services. The Boston market, multimedia assignments and team-based projects are integrated into the learning environment. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration. 4 cr. Offered in the Fall and Spring.
SHA HF 100E Introduction to Hospitality
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration. 4 cr. Offered in the Fall and Spring.
SHA HF 100S Introduction to Hospitality
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Historical Consciousness Teamwork/Collaboration
This introductory course is open to all BU students and is the prerequisite for School of Hospitality courses. Students gain an historical perspective and identify current events and trends in lodging, restaurants, and event management. Provides an overview of the global hospitality/tourism industry, including the critical elements of managing services. The Boston market, multimedia assignments, and team-based projects are integrated into the learning environment. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Teamwork/Collaboration.
SHA HF 150 Experience Management
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry II
Central to the hospitality industry is the provision of memorable, high-quality customer experiences across digital and physical touchpoints. This allows hospitality and other service organizations to turn satisfied customers into brand evangelists. This course introduces the emerging domain of customer experience management (CEM)--the discipline of understanding and managing customer interactions with the organization to improve satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy. CEM is a unique domain that draws on practices from the fields of marketing, marketing research, technology and data science, and operations and service science, with the aim of understanding and improving customer experiences with the organization. The course will cover the definitions and basic requirements of customer experience management, and also provide detailed frameworks and tools and techniques to allow students to gain proficiency in the language and practice of customer experience design and improvement. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry II, Creativity/Innovation.
SHA HF 150E Experience Management
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry II
Experience Management
SHA HF 150S Experience Management
4 credits. Summer
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Social Inquiry II
Central to the hospitality industry is the provision of memorable, high-quality customer experiences across digital and physical touchpoints. This allows hospitality and other service organizations to turn satisfied customers into brand evangelists. This course introduces the emerging domain of customer experience management (CEM)--the discipline of understanding and managing customer interactions with the organization to improve satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy. CEM is a unique domain that draws on practices from the fields of marketing, marketing research, technology and data science, and operations and service science, with the aim of understanding and improving customer experiences with the organization. The course covers the definitions and basic requirements of customer experience management, and also provides detailed frameworks and tools and techniques to allow students to gain proficiency in the language and practice of customer experience design and improvement. Effective Summer 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry II, Creativity/Innovation.
WED DE 351 Deaf Literature and Visual Arts
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Aesthetic Exploration Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression
An investigation of the narrative traditions of the Deaf community that weaves together threads from a variety of disciplines and analytical perspectives resulting in a comprehensive study of literature, visual arts, performance, as well as culture. The study will provide insights into the fundamental role that literature and artistic compositions play in revealing culture and the natural inclination humans have to share "stories." Students become more thoughtful consumers of creative art and enhance their appreciation for the contributions of the Deaf World. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Aesthetic Exploration, Creativity/Innovation.
WED ED 230 Introduction to Design as Educational Inquiry
4 credits. Spring
Students will learn how creating learning designs can facilitate understandings of participant learning. They will explore how a variety of learning settings have been designed and think critically about how to design future ones for care, dignity, and justice. Effective Spring 2026, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Creativity/Innovation, Digital/Multimedia Expression.
WED ED 506 Making Learning Visible: Exploring Multimedia Tools to Document and Deepen Learning
4 credits. Fall and Spring
What does collaboration, problem solving, and critical thinking look like' How can we communicate a learning process to deepen learning in varied contexts' Focusing on the tools of documentation and digital communication, students will work individually and in small groups to develop the basics of design needed to create and communicate this learning using digital multimedia expression (DME) in order to deepen and extend learning across a variety of settings. Relevant to educators, therapists, social workers, scientists, or anyone who wants to make learning processes visible in their field. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
WED HD 121 Launching Your Personal Brand
2 credits. Spring
This course focuses on building strategies for communicating your brand, expanding your social capital, and designing a career management plan. Students will learn how to use a range of digital media strategies to establish your professional image. Effective Spring 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
WED LR 501 Teaching of Reading
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - For upper level undergraduate and beginning graduate students without experience in teaching. Study of literacy development in childhood-early adolescence and implications for teaching and learning. Includes integration of educational media/technology, discussion of theory/research, and applications to effective lesson planning. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Writing- Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation. 4 cr. Either sem.
WED LR 501E TEACH OF READIN
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Creativity/Innovation Digital/Multimedia Expression Writing-Intensive Course
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First-Year Writing Seminar (WR 120 or equivalent). - TEACH OF READIN
WED ME 501 Methods for Tutoring Math Students
2 credits. Fall and Spring
Explores the mathematics tutoring profession and the methodologies that make for an effective grade 3-12 or undergraduate mathematics tutor. Students will gain field experience and have an option of becoming a Massachusetts Certified Tutor. 2cr. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU HUB area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
WED ME 501E Methods for Tutoring Math Students
2 credits. Summer
Explores the mathematics tutoring profession and the methodologies that make for an effective grade 3-12 or undergraduate mathematics tutor. Students will gain field experience and have an option of becoming a Massachusetts Certified Tutor. 2cr. Effective Fall 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU HUB area: Digital/Multimedia Expression.
WED SO 567S History Laboratory
2 credits. Summer
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. Fall and Spring
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. Fall and Spring
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 WL 511 Teaching Methods in World Language Education
4 credits. Fall and Spring
BU Hub Learn More Digital/Multimedia Expression Oral and/or Signed Communication Teamwork/Collaboration
This course examines pedagogical approaches in world language teaching and learning. Students explore standards-based instructional methods, models of teaching, discuss underlying theories, and examine current issues in the field. Students develop lesson plans and practice high-leverage teaching practices.