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Contour Diagrams. Linear Functions and Functions of Three Variables. Limits and Continuity of functions of two and three variables. Areas and Volumes. Basic Integration methods and Numerical Methods for Definite Integrals. Improper Integrals. Convergence of Series. Power Series. Taylor Polynomial and series. Applications.| Prerequisite: AP credit or transfer credit for Calculus I and II or MA-UY 1112 or (MA-UY 1054 and MA-UY 1154) | Corequisite: EX-UY 1.\", \n \"course_id\": \"072303\", \n \"course_title\": \"Numerical Methods for Calculus\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"072932\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 4, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course covers: Library of Functions, functions of one variable. Limits, derivatives of functions defined by graphs, tables and formulas, differentiation rules for power, polynomial, exponential and logarithmic functions, derivatives of trigonometric functions, the product and quotient rules, the chain rule, applications of the chain rule, maxima and minima, optimization. The definite integral, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and interpretations, theorems about definite integrals, anti-derivatives. MA-UY 1324 is for students who wish to take MA-UY 1024 but need more review of precalculus. MA-UY 1324 covers the same material as MA-UY 1024 but with more contact hours per week, incorporating a full discussion of the required precalculus topics. | Prerequisite: Placement Exam or MA-UY 912 or MA-UY 914 (with a grade of B or better). Corequisite: EX-UY 1\", \n \"course_id\": \"072932\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus I for Engineers\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"072933\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 4, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course covers techniques of integration, introduction to ordinary differential equations, improper integrals, numerical methods of integration, applications of integration, sequences, series, power series, approximations of functions via Taylor polynomials, Taylor series, functions of two variables, graphs of functions of two variables, contour diagrams, linear functions, functions of three variables. MA-UY 1424 is for students who wish to take MA-UY 1124 but need more review of precalculus. MA-UY 1424 covers the same material as MA-UY 1124 but with more contact hours per week, incorporating a full discussion of the required precalculus topics. | Prerequisites: MA-UY 1022 (with a grade of B or better) or MA-UY 1024 or MA-UY 1324 (with a grade of B or better). | Corequisite: EX-UY 1.\", \n \"course_id\": \"072933\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus II for Engineers\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"072934\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 4, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course covers: Library of Functions, functions of one variable. 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Corequisite: EX-UY 1.\", \n \"course_id\": \"072934\", \n \"course_title\": \"Integrated Calculus I for Engineers\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"072935\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 4, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course MA-UY 1424 is for students who wish to take MA-UY 1124 but need more review of precalculus. MA-UY 1424 covers the same material as MA-UY 1124 but with more contact hours a week, incorporating a full discussion of the required precalculus topics. | Prerequisites: MA-UY 1022 or MA-UY 1024 or MA-UY 1324. Note: credit for this course may be used to satisfy the minimum credit requirement for graduation. Corequisite: EX-UY 1\", \n \"course_id\": \"072935\", \n \"course_title\": \"Integrated Calculus II for Engineers\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"072944\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 4, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course covers: foundations of algebra, exponents, multiplication of algebraic expressions, factoring algebraic expressions, working with algebraic fractions, proportionality, rates of change, equations of lines, completing squares, the quadratic formula, solving equations, systems of linear equations, inequalities, domain and range of functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, compositions of functions, transformations of functions, right triangles, trigonometry of triangles.| Prerequisite: placement exam. Note: credit for this course may not be used to satisfy the minimum credit requirement for graduation. Corequisite: EX-UY 1\", \n \"course_id\": \"072944\", \n \"course_title\": \"Precalculus for Engineers\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"072945\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 4, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course covers limits, definition of the derivative, differentiation rules for polynomial and trigonometric functions, applications of the chain rule and introduction to optimization with a focus on Management and the Life Sciences. | Prerequisite: Placement exam or MA-UY 912 or MA-UY 954 or equivalent. Note: Course required only for specific Majors in place of MA-UY 1024/1324. Corequisite: EX-UY 1.\", \n \"course_id\": \"072945\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus I with Pre-calculus\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"073002\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course covers the first and second derivatives, optimization problems, antiderivatives, Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, techniques of integration, logarithmic and exponential functions, numerical methods of integration, applications of integration, introduction to differential equations, and introduction to series with a focus on Management and the Life Sciences. | Prerequisite: MA-UY 1054. Note: Course required only for specific Majors in place of MA-UY 1124/1424. 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Note: Course required only for specific Majors in place of MA 914. Credit for this course may not be used to satisfy the minimum credit requirement for graduation. Corequisite: EX-UY 1\", \n \"course_id\": \"074162\", \n \"course_title\": \"PRECALCULUS\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"074625\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 37.5, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course provides the mathematical foundations of Option Pricing models. The techniques covered include arithmetic and geometric Brownian motion, first passage time, the reflection principle, the stochastic Ito integral, Ito differential Calculus, change of probability measure, martingales, Stochastic Differential Equations and Partial Differential Equations. Some of the pricing models considered are the European, Barrier, Asian and American options. These problems are either solved analytically by the martingale approach or numerically, by applying approximation and simulation methods. Since the same techniques allow the treatment of more complex financial products, examples of credit derivatives will be also presented. 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Topics include Markov chains; Brownian motion; stochastic differential equations; the Ito calculus; the forward and backward Kolmogorov equations; and Girsanov?s theorem.\", \n \"course_id\": \"113881\", \n \"course_title\": \"Stochastic Calculus\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125451\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course focuses on assessment of and intervention with substance abusers and their families. It prepares students with the skills essential to a range of social work roles and practice modalities that can be used with this population. Stereotyped attitudes toward substance abusers are discussed. Special issues related to women, youth, the homeless, and dually diagnosed mentally ill/substance abusing populations are explored. Selected social policy and service delivery issues and research findings are considered.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125451\", \n \"course_title\": \"Clinical Practice With Substance Abusers & Their Families\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-19\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125461\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course examines the principles and techniques of couple intervention from a variety of theoretical frameworks. Intervention with traditional and nontraditional forms of couple relationships is considered in the light of the differing nature of clients' presenting problems, diversity, and the agency setting. The interventive process is examined in depth.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125461\", \n \"course_title\": \"Clin Prac With Couples\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-14\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125463\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The works of several theorists from both the object relations and ego psychology schools are studied. 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Practice principles and techniques that can be used in work with a variety of client problems are examined along with ethical issues.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125465\", \n \"course_title\": \"Cognitive & Behavioral Intervention\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125467\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course prepares students to understand how traumatic events and life stressors impact children and their families, and to learn about evidence-based models of intervention. A bio-psycho-social perspective with emphasis on emotional regulation is used to prepare students to work with trauma systems in context. Children\\u2019s coping mechanisms and resiliency are examined, particularly for children exposed to multiple and severe life stressors. 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Attention will be given to a variety of social work roles including, clinical practice with adolescents, parents, families, and groups; consultation and collaboration with interdisciplinary staff within schools and neighboring communities; as well as prevention, program development, and organizational/systems work within schools. Specific areas of focus will include: academic and learning problems, special education, depression and suicidality, acting-out behaviors, issues related to health and sexuality, bullying, violence prevention/intervention, and substance use/abuse.advocacy, and mediation are emphasized. The course addresses current urban issues that influence school practice such as violence, homelessness, AIDS, substance abuse, physical and sexual abuse, diversity, and cross-cultural communication.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125475\", \n \"course_title\": \"Social Work Practice with Adolescents in Schools\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-19\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125496\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course will offer students an introduction to social work practice with children and their families and will acquaint students with the diversity of family composition, family rules and family roles in the 2000's. Students will learn about conventional nuclear family composition, the single-parent home, foster and adoptive homes, homes where children and parents are cross-racial dyads and triads, and homes where lesbian or gay partners are engaged in rearing a natural-born and/or an adopted child. Engaging such families from diverse racial, ethnic, economic, religious and cultural backgrounds will be a major focus in this course, in order to promote students? Current Issues in Contemporary Family Life.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125496\", \n \"course_title\": \"Clinical Practice With Families\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-14\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125497\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course will introduce the student to the signs and affects related to grief, loss and bereavement. 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In addition, students will develop skills to read, interpret and evaluate health information from published epidemiological studies and mass media sources.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125701\", \n \"course_title\": \"Epidemiology\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125702\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course introduces students to key concepts, principles and practices in the field of health policy and management. The course will examine issues that concern quality, costs, access to healthcare and public health services for individuals and populations. The course emphasizes the need for leaders in today\\u2019s world of public health to understand central issues in both policy and management and, importantly, how these interact. The overall goal of the course is to provide information for students to build an understanding of the fundamental ideas, issues, and problems currently debated in health policy and management and to provide a foundation for practice in a range of careers in public health and health care policy and management.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125702\", \n \"course_title\": \"Health Care Policy\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125703\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course prepares students to critically examine public health issues from a global perspective. It will help you to understand how processes of socioeconomic development and globalization influence the health of populations throughout the world. This course prepares students to critically examine public health issues from a global perspective. It will present the state of the art in addressing global health problems, and introduce you to the primary actors involved in setting global health policies and in developing global health programs and services. The course will also touch upon the ethical dimensions of global public health, including conflicts between individuals, communities, and nations. The course is organized around four modules, three of which (Governance, Health Threats, & Opportunities), provide a critical lens for understanding global health today, and a fourth (Skills Building) that provides an introduction to the leadership skill sets required to address them. Pre-requisites: none\", \n \"course_id\": \"125703\", \n \"course_title\": \"Foundations of Global Health\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125707\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course will explore reseThis course will explore research and public policy issues related to the health and well being of the public in the international community. During the course, ethical principles will be explored in the context of goal-based, duty-based, and rights-based morality. Contemporary research studies, public policies (past and present), and private sector practices will be evaluated. Consideration will be given to important standards such as The Declaration of Helsinki, the Geneva Accords, (U.S.) National Research Act, and the Belmont Report as standards as well as the Code of Ethics for Public Health with regard to decision-making in research, public policy, and practice. The application of the ethical principles of Beneficence, Respect for Autonomy, and Justice will serve as the foundation for ethical reflection in this course. Aspects of social justice relevant in the international community will be studies, particularly applied to issues surround HIV, stem cell research, human rights, corporate conduct, and the conduct of clinical trials in developing countries. A case study approach will be used throughout the course to explore and elaborate these issues. Texts, movies, and readings will be studied to gain an understanding of global issues that influence public health principles and practice. Issues will be explored in a general manner that will apply to later reflection in concentration course work and in the integrated seminars. The course endeavors to be a vehicle which deepens understanding and expands individual student?s perspectives about the impact of public health and public health policy. Time will be devoted to exploring issues of man-made and natural catastrophes as a public health issue. Special topics like confidentiality, decision-making, informed consent, using confidential information in research, and requirements.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125707\", \n \"course_title\": \"Ethical Issues&Decision Making in Intl Pub Hlth\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-19\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125708\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This core course examines social, psychological and cultural factors that have an impact on public health in community, national and global contexts. These factors may include: population characteristics (social class, age, gender, culture, race/ethnicity), individual beliefs and behaviors, and socio-political systems and policies that affect public health problems and their solutions. Theories and perspectives drawn from sociology, anthropology, and psychology are applied to critical issues in global public health including the AIDs epidemic, mental illness, chronic disease, community violence, war and natural disaster trauma as well as behavioral health problems such as smoking and substance abuse.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125708\", \n \"course_title\": \"Global Issues in Social & Behavioral Health\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-23\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125711\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Environmental health sciences represent the study of biological, physical, and chemical agents that affect the health of both communities and workers. This course provides students with an introduction to key areas of environmental health. Students gain an understanding of the interaction of individuals and communities with their environment, the impact of environmental agents on human health, and specific applications of concepts of environmental health including exposure assessment and engineering controls. The impact of global environmental issues on health equity will be considered, as well as scientific, political, legal, and economic perspectives on global environmental health. Emphasis is placed on issues in environmental health that transcend national boundaries.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125711\", \n \"course_title\": \"Global Environmental Health\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125712\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course is devoted to flexible forms of inquiry suited to the local context of global public health research. Sometimes known as ?action research?, ?rapid assessment, and ?community-based participatory research? these approaches share a commitment to working closely with and in communities to identify health risks and effective interventions for ameliorating them. Although field research may include surveys and other forms of quantitative research, the emphasis in this class will be on qualitative methods with mixed method approaches included where appropriate. The focus will be on introducing the basic content/skills of on-the-ground field research under challenging conditions, i.e., shortages of time and resources as well as cultural/ linguistic differences. There are additional aspects to learning these methods (e.g., data analysis) that require much more time and skill development than is possible in this brief introductory course. Interested students are strongly advised to take additional coursework in qualitative methods.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125712\", \n \"course_title\": \"Qualitative & Field Methods\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-09\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125713\": {\n \"class_type\": \"WKS\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Workshop\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Public Health Informatics is a new field that is concerned with the systematic application of information and computer sciences to practice, research and learning. This course is created to ensure that graduates of the program have working knowledge of information resources available for program planning, surveillance and data management and working knowledge in the use of evidence-based public health information tools that ensure use of current best practices and for lifelong learning.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125713\", \n \"course_title\": \"Global Public Health Informatics\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-09\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125718\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Introduction to the concepts, principles, and scope of practice of public health nutrition. The course emphasizes the distinction between population-based and individual-based approaches to prevention and alleviation of diet-related conditions, and the societal, economic, environmental, and institutional barriers to improving the nutritional status and health of diverse population groups.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125718\", \n \"course_title\": \"Public Health Nutrition\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-09\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125721\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Community health assessments comprehensively identify the assets and needs of a defined group. When conducted in tandem with community members, community health assessments provide a window into how a community sees itself, the systems and patterns it functions by, and its assets and needs. Public health practitioners can use this information to work with a community to utilize its strengths to address mutually acknowledged needs. In this course, students will work in teams to conduct a community assessment of an assigned United Health Fund district within New York City. The focus of the course will be on introducing the basic content/skills of on-the-ground field research, collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data. Specifically, students will use primary data (surveys, in-depth interviews, observations) and secondary data (public data sets) collection along with systems thinking to describe and understand the health, demographics, and socio-economic profile of the community. Students will survey and/or interview community leaders, community based organization representatives, health practitioners, and/or community residents. Students will summarize the findings and offer recommendations in a final report and presentation.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125721\", \n \"course_title\": \"Assessing Community Health Needs\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125725\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety and substance use disorders are leading causes of disease burden in the world today, rivaling HIV, malaria and heart disease in that respect. They are associated with serious functional impairment, reduced quality of life, unemployment and homelessness and exacerbate risk for, and severity of, medical illness. Yet they tend to get lost on the global health agenda. Lack of familiarity with interventions, measuring challenges, and stigma are, in part, to blame. Public health approaches to common mental disorders are also only recently demonstrating new rigor and maturity. This course provides exposure to this increasingly relevant public health challenge from a global perspective, with a particular focus on the epidemiology, risk factors and consequences, individual- and population-level approaches to treatment and prevention, and delivery of care for mental health problems in different settings worldwide. This course will challenge students to think critically about the existing literature in this area and about the role of culture, context and stigma in shaping public health responses to mental disorders.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125725\", \n \"course_title\": \"Perspectives In Global Mental\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-19\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125740\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"125740\", \n \"course_title\": \"Global Health Governance and Management\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"125746\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Program evaluation is a critical component in designing and operating effective programs. Evaluations supply information to policymakers and program managers that can assist them in making decisions about which programs to fund, modify, expand or eliminate. Evaluation can be an accountability toolProgram evaluation is a critical component in designing and operating effective programs. Evaluations supply information to policymakers and program managers that can assist them in making decisions about which programs to fund, modify, expand or eliminate. Evaluation can be an accountability tool for program managers and funders. This course serves as an introduction to evaluation methodology and evaluation tools commonly used to assess publicly funded programs. Students will become familiar with the concepts, methods and applications of evaluation research; learn how to read evaluation research critically; understand how to use evaluation results to anticipate or improve program performance; and be able to propose an appropriate evaluation plan to assess the implementation and effectiveness of a program.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125746\", \n \"course_title\": \"Program Analysis and Evaluation\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129135\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Focus is on advanced composition and oral practices, with the aim of refining an understanding and general facility with written and spoken Greek. Course work is designed to help students develop a comprehensive vocabulary, improve pronunciation, and increase their effectiveness, accuracy, and fluency in writing and speaking the language. Enhances and perfects reading, speaking, conversational, and writing skills through the close study of selected modern Greek literary texts, current newspaper articles and essays, films, advertisements, and comprehensive discussions of contemporary Greek society. Explores major facets and phenomena of Greek culture: current social and political issues, events, and controversies in Greece; Greece's position \\\"\\\"in the margins of Europe\\\"\\\" and at the crossroads of East and West; gender politics; the educational system; the political landscape; discourses on the question of Greek identity; and topics in popular culture. Through individual projects, oral reports, class presentation, and written assignments, students are expected to pursue an in-depth \\\"\\\"reading\\\"\\\" of present-day Greece.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129135\", \n \"course_title\": \"Advanced Modern Greek I\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129142\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Topics in Hellenic Studies vary; please consult Notes section below for current course offering.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129142\", \n \"course_title\": \"Seminar On Modern Greek Culture\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129143\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Topics vary. Please consult the program for more information.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129143\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-09\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129144\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129144\", \n \"course_title\": \"Greek Drama: Aeschylus Sophocles, Euripides\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129147\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"A survey of the modern Greek novel, and to a lesser extent the short story, structured around narrative technique and the claim to fact(s) and/or fiction(s) in Greece?s turbulent modern history. Readings include some of the masterpieces from this tradition as well as the work of some promising contemporary writers. Selections also suggest some recurrent perspectives on questions of language, gender, and nation in Greece. Comparative reference is made to other Balkan, Mediterranean, European, and world literatures. Note: All texts are available in both Greek and English; critical texts in English only. Class discussion is conducted in English. No background specific to Greece is required.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129147\", \n \"course_title\": \"Modern Greek Novel and Prose\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129150\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129150\", \n \"course_title\": \"Greek History from The Bronze Age to Alexander\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129161\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129161\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129163\": {\n \"class_type\": \"IND\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Independent Study\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"n/a\", \n \"course_id\": \"129163\", \n \"course_title\": \"Internship\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129164\": {\n \"class_type\": \"IND\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Independent Study\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"n/a\", \n \"course_id\": \"129164\", \n \"course_title\": \"Independent Study\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-09\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129165\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"n/a\", \n \"course_id\": \"129165\", \n \"course_title\": \"Senior Honors Seminar\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129180\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Eustace, Hodes, W. Johnson. Offered every year. 4 points. Main currents of American historical development from the precolonial epoch to the Civil War. Analysis of the country's economic and political growth, intellectual traditions, and patterns of social development. Historical development, not as a series of discrete events, but as an unfolding process. Topics: Puritanism, mercantilism, the colonial family, the War for Independence, political party systems, the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras, free labor and slavery, Native American cultures, attitudes of race and gender, westward expansion, the industrial revolution, sectionalism, and the Civil War.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129180\", \n \"course_title\": \"The U.S. to 1865\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129200\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Africa, the \\u2018Dark Continent\\u2019 of the euro-American imagination, was long portrayed as a land without history. In this course we debunk the myths, exploring African civilization and culture in the centuries before European colonialism. We will examine how ecology, slavery and the slave trades, and Africa\\u2019s place in Atlantic and Indian Ocean networks shaped medieval Mali, the Swahilli Coast, the South African cape colony\\u2014and the world. There are no prerequisites for this course.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129200\", \n \"course_title\": \"Africa Before Colonialism\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-21\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129213\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129213\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129214\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129214\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics in Asian History\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129226\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Covers the period from the late 11th century to the close of the 14th century. Major topics and themes: the explosion of energy in the 12th century and the expansion of Europe on all levels, geographic (including the Crusades) as well as intellectual; development of agriculture and cities; the diversity that gave rise to our university system; movements of reform and dissent; and the waning of the Middle Ages.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129226\", \n \"course_title\": \"The High Middle Ages\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129229\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129229\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics in Religious History\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129235\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129235\", \n \"course_title\": \"Tpcs in Italian Culture:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-09\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129269\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129269\", \n \"course_title\": \"History of Medicine\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-21\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129280\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Examines the ways in which France?s development from a traditional into a modern society was highlighted at each stage by political revolutions, class antagonisms, and cultural innovations. Discusses the role of the state in society and France?s activities as a world and colonial power.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129280\", \n \"course_title\": \"Contemporary France\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-12\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129286\": {\n \"class_type\": \"CLQ\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Colloquium\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"n/a\", \n \"course_id\": \"129286\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129292\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The emphasis of this course varies by semester and is designed to allow flexibility in course offerings from visiting scholars and specialists in particular fields. Past examinations have included imagery and ideology of Irish nationalism, Irish American popular folk culture, and the Irish in America.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129292\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics in Irish History:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129293\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Examines the English conquest of Ireland from the reign of Elizabeth I to the last meeting of the Irish Parliament. Key themes include the plantation of Ireland with settlers from England, Scotland, and Wales, the decline of the Gaelic political order and culture, the religious reformation and Counter Reformation, Ireland as a site of English and European wars, the imposition of a penal code, and the vain attempt to rebel against British rule in the late 18th century resulting in the Act of Union, which disestablished the Irish Parliament in Dublin.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129293\", \n \"course_title\": \"Hist of Modern Ireland I: 1580-1800\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129296\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Topics will vary from semester to semester.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129296\", \n \"course_title\": \"Seminar:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-23\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129298\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course explores the impact of Irish immigrants on American popular culture. Focusing on ports of entry and urban centers of entertainment and migration over the past two centuries, the course looks at the ways in which the Irish and Irish-Americans have shaped American entertainment in the realms of music, dance, drama, film, recording, literature, festivals and sport. In addition, the course delves into issues of race surrounding the American reception of the early Irish immigrants through imagery and media depictions.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129298\", \n \"course_title\": \"The Irish in America\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129312\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"In the spring of 44 B.C., Julius Caesar was murdered by a group of senators disgruntled with his monarchic ways. However, Caesar?s adoptive son and heir, Octavian, was quickly on the scene and in little more than a decade managed to establish himself as Rome?s first emperor. About three centuries later, Constantine the Great would rise to imperial power and with him came a new state religion?Christianity. This course examines the social and political history of the Roman empire from the time of Augustus to that of Constantine and also closely observes the parallel growth of Christianity.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129312\", \n \"course_title\": \"History of The Roman Empire\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129320\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129320\", \n \"course_title\": \"Euro Reformations:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-09\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129324\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129324\", \n \"course_title\": \"Seminar:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129329\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Topics will vary from semester to semester.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129329\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129340\": {\n \"class_type\": \"CLQ\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Colloquium\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Covers a topic in medical history. 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Does not satisfy the capstone seminar (HIST-UA 4xx) requirement for majors.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129340\", \n \"course_title\": \"Seminar in History of Medicine\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-21\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129373\": {\n \"class_type\": \"CLQ\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Colloquium\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129373\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129375\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"n/a\", \n \"course_id\": \"129375\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129383\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129383\", \n \"course_title\": \"Mao and The Chinese Revolution\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129386\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Focuses on a particular aspect of Islamic, Ottoman, or modern Middle Eastern history, with an emphasis on historiographical and comparative issues. Intended primarily for advanced undergraduates in Middle Eastern studies and in history, but other students may register with permission of the instructor.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129386\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics in Middle Eastern History\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-23\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129392\": {\n \"class_type\": \"CLQ\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Colloquium\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129392\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129434\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"n/a\", \n \"course_id\": \"129434\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129452\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Survey of the experience of African Americans to 1865, emphasizing living conditions, treatment, images, attitudes, important figures and events, and culture using a chronological and topical approach. Topics include African way of life, initial contact between Africans and Europeans, slave trade, early slavery, freedom and control in slave society, abolitionism, slave resistance, free blacks, and gender.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129452\", \n \"course_title\": \"African-American History to 1865\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129456\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129456\", \n \"course_title\": \"Global Culture Wars\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129471\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129471\", \n \"course_title\": \"Seminar:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129492\": {\n \"class_type\": \"CLQ\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Colloquium\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course investigates how a visual medium (film), subject to the conventions of drama and fiction and a popular activity/institution (sport), often associated with frivolity, violence, and puerility, might be used as serious vehicles for conceptualizing and analyzing the past.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129492\", \n \"course_title\": \"Sem: Sport & Film in American History\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-21\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129493\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"n/a\", \n \"course_id\": \"129493\", \n \"course_title\": \"Seminar:Tpcs in American History\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129526\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Historical investigation of the evolution of Nazi policies toward Jews; of Jewish behavior in the face of those policies; and of the attitudes of other countries, both within and outside the Nazi orbit, for the situation of Jews under the rule of the Third Reich.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129526\", \n \"course_title\": \"The Holocaust: The Third Reich and The Jews\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129536\": {\n \"class_type\": \"CLQ\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Colloquium\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Covers a topic in the history of New York. Topics vary by semester. Does not satisfy the capstone seminar (HIST-UA 4xx) requirement for majors.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129536\", \n \"course_title\": \"Seminar in History of New York\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-12\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129545\": {\n \"class_type\": \"IND\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Independent Study\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Prerequisite: permission of the director of undergraduate studies. Open only to junior and senior history majors. Offered every term. 4 points per term. Enables advanced and qualified students to work on historical projects for credit for up to 12 hours per week in approved agencies or archival centers.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129545\", \n \"course_title\": \"Internship\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129551\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"n/a\", \n \"course_id\": \"129551\", \n \"course_title\": \"Honors Seminar\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129553\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129553\", \n \"course_title\": \"Honors Thesis/Tutorial\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129558\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"A survey of Europe from 1789 to the present. Investigates the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that shaped and continue to shape the modern age. Emphasis is on the evolution of the nation-state, on industrialization and its impact on society and politics, and on the intellectual responses to the rapid changes these developments inspired. Topics include Europe and the French Revolution; the rise of the nation-state, 1848-1914; the impact of totalitarian ideologies on 20th-century Europe, and Europe today.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129558\", \n \"course_title\": \"Modern Europe\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129561\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course explores the origins of Islam and the development of its rituals and doctrines to the 21st century. It assumes no previous background in Islamic studies. Students will learn about topics such as the Koran and the Prophet, Islamic law, the encounter of East and West during the Crusades, and Islam in Britain. They will find out how Muslims in different regions have interpreted and lived their religion in past and present. Readings will include not only scholarly works but also material from primary sources, for example the Koran, biographies and chronicles. The course consists of a combination of lectures, seminar discussions, field trips and includes other media, such as film.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129561\", \n \"course_title\": \"What is Islam?\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129562\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The course description for this Topics in History course varies depending on the topic taught. Please view the course descriptions in the course notes section below.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129562\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129566\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Wielding nearly unlimited authority over the lives - and the after-life \\u2013 of millions of Europeans, the Catholic Church was by far the most important political, as well as cultural, power of the Middle Ages. The only global institution of this era, the Church was at the same time able to nourish strong local roots: its cardinals and popes came from all over the continent and dealt with international politics at the highest level, while priests and friars brought home to the people a faith tied to the neighborhood church and confraternity, and personified by a saint\\u2019s shrine and relics.Through a combination of lectures, students\\u2019 presentations, films and site visits, this course will explore selected aspects of the Medieval Church\\u2019s history: its often rocky relations with the other supreme power of the time, the Holy Roman Empire; the rise of monasticism and its different versions; the spread of heretical movements and their repression by the Inquisition; sainthood, and how \\u201cheavenly\\u201d women and men could serve to articulate very earthly ideologies on state, society, gender roles.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129566\", \n \"course_title\": \"Mediev Church: Religious Hist of Crisis & Creativ\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129567\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course presents an overview of the political, social, and cultural history of Italy from roughly 1300 to 1600. Its aim is to provide students with a basic understanding of the forces and processes that shaped the states and the societies of the Italian peninsula in an era of extraordinary changes: from the developments of urban civilization and the rise of humanism in the fourteenth and early fifteenth century, to the political and religious crisis of the late Quattrocento and early Cinquecento, and finally to the establishment of a new balance of power and a new cultural climate in the course of the sixteenth century.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129567\", \n \"course_title\": \"Italy During The Renaissance: Florence\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129568\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course examines the growth and importance of London from the Roman invasion of 43 AD to the present day. Students will learn about London\\u2019s changing economic and political role, and will understand how London grew to dominate the commerce, industry and culture of England. They will find out how London became the biggest city the world had ever known, and how it coped (or failed to cope) with the social and environmental problems created by its enormous size. The classroom sessions will be divided between a lecture and a class discussion. From week two onwards the class will begin with a discussion of the topic or period covered in the previous week\\u201as lecture, in which students will be expected to use knowledge and ideas gathered from lectures and from their weekly reading. There will also be four walking tours of parts of London which relate to the period we are studying at a particular time.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129568\", \n \"course_title\": \"A History of London\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129569\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The history of Germany in the twentieth century offers rich material to explore various approaches to organizing modern society. Beginning with Imperial Germany in 1900 and moving forward to today\\u2019s reunited Germany, we will look at different ways in which the relationship between the state and the individual, and relationship between politics, economy, and society developed over five different political systems. We will interrogate how these institutional arrangements were envisioned and structured and how they were experienced in everyday negotiations. In this course, principle narratives and events will be situated in a European and global context, allowing us to place the concept of German modernity in a comparative framework. Lectures will provide an overview of Germany in the twentieth century; readings and in-class discussions will explore different approaches to analyzing German history and society. During museum visits and walking tours, we will analyze contestations over the various attempts to integrate \\u2013 both in concerted efforts to memorialize as well as to forget and erase \\u2013 Germany\\u2019s oft-problematic pasts within the narrative of Germany\\u2019s present.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129569\", \n \"course_title\": \"Comp Modern Societies: Pol & Soc in 20C Germany\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129575\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The course will begin with an examination of the background to and condition of Europe in 1945. The outbreak of the Cold War and the division of Europe will be discussed as will the promotion of European unity, the establishment of NATO and the emergence of COMECON and the Warsaw Pact. The pressures leading to the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC) will be considered together with the firm establishment of the democratic principle in Western Europe. The Suez Crisis and Decolonisation in Britain and France will be explored together with the corollary, the first application by Britain for membership of the EEC. The effect of President de Gaulle\\u2019s presidency on France, NATO and the EEC will be considered. The end of Stalinism in the USSR will be examined as will the first cracks in the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe in Hungary and Poland. This will be followed by a discussion of the merits and demerits of Khrushchev\\u2019s period in power, the U2 crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall. The Prague Spring off 1968 will be discussed. The continued integration of Europe will be analyzed together with the impact of Ostpolitik in Germany. Brezhnev\\u2019s domination of the USSR and D\\u00e9tente in the 1970s will be examined. Following this, the forces that led to the triumph of Neo-Liberalism in Britain will be considered, as will the return of conservatism in Germany and the cohabitation of Mitterrand\\u2019s France. The re-launch of the European Community in the 1980s will be analysed. In Eastern Europe the Gorbachev era and the rise of Solidarnosc will be explored and the course will conclude with an examination of the disintegration of the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet state and the conclusion of the Maastricht Treaty.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129575\", \n \"course_title\": \"Europe Since 1945\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129579\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course introduces contemporary Italy in all its complexity and fascination. Reviewing politics, economics, society, and culture over the past two centuries, the course has a primary goal -- to consider how developments since the 1800s have influenced the lives and formed the outlook of today's Italians. In other words, we are engaged in the historical search for something quite elusive: Italian \\u201cidentity\\u201d. Topics will include the unification of the country, national identity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the First World War, and Italian fascism, World War Two and the resistance, the post-war Italian Republic, the economic \\\"\\\"miracle\\\"\\\", the South, the Mafia, terrorism, popular culture, and the most recent political and social developments, including Italy and the European Union. Lectures combine with readings and films (taking advantage of Italy\\u2019s magnificent post-war cinema).\", \n \"course_id\": \"129579\", \n \"course_title\": \"Modern Italy\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129582\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course will examine the formation of modern national identities, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. After an in-depth study of the different scholarly theories on nationalism and of the relationships between the three fundamental concepts of nation, nationalism and state, the focus will be on the historical circumstances in which nationalism emerged and on the different ideological bases that supported the emergence of modern nations. We will first analyze the birth of the three first modern nations (England, the USA and France) and then place special emphasis on Central (Germany, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Lands) and Eastern (Russia) Europe. The question of the multinational states (especially the Habsburg Empire) and of the attempt to eliminate national tensions by trying to create nation-states after World War I will be analyzed, as well as the use of nationalism by the two main totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, National Socialism and Communism. We will also at colonial and post-colonial nationalism, as well as at the role played by nationalism in post-Communist Central Europe.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129582\", \n \"course_title\": \"Hist of Nationalism in Cent & Eastern Europe\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129593\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"To provide an understanding of the main immigration trends in Britain, France and Germany since 1850 To provide an understanding of the problems attending the social and political integration of immigrants in contemporary Western Europe To compare the experience and understanding of immigration in Europe with the experience and understanding of immigration in the United States To examine the ways in which the memory of immigration is represented in literature and contemporary culture.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129593\", \n \"course_title\": \"Immigration\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-09\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129595\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"A historical and political inquiry into the French system of relations with Francophone Africa from the \\u2018race to Empire\\u2019 in the 19th century to the current day. The main goals of the course are: to describe the historical development of French-African relations from the colonial to the post-independence era; to investigate the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of French influence in contemporary Francophone Africa; to understand the consequences for France of complex developments subsequent to colonialism, such as African immigration in France. Conducted in French.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129595\", \n \"course_title\": \"French-African Relations\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129600\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The course description for this Topics in History course varies depending on the topic taught. Please view the course descriptions in the course notes section below.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129600\", \n \"course_title\": \"History of Slavery:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129603\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The objective of the course is to analyze the social, cultural and political transformations experienced in Argentina during the XX century. The scheduled activities are divided into theory-practice classes and cultural visits. There are required readings for the classes which are usually based in a general bibliography that will give the student a factual context of each unit. Ideas exchange will take place, so the students should read the material in advance in order to continue with the course. The objective of cultural activities is to link the students with the material dimension of history, putting themselves in contact with crucial clues for its comprehension.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129603\", \n \"course_title\": \"Latin American History:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-12\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129610\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course examines significant moments in the development of Europe and America\\u2019s notions and images of one another from the 18th century to the present. The in-depth discussion will be based upon historical documents and cultural texts. It will pay equal attention to sources from America/the US and Europe/Germany in an effort to explore and evaluate the major theoretical and rhetorical paradigms (and the shifts therein) which inform the perceptions as well as cultural constructions of the \\u201cother\\u201d both in the past and present. Moreover, the course will investigate and evaluate recent manifestations of Anti-Americanism and analyse the ideological and cultural coordinates of current anti-American concepts in Europe/Germany as well as concepts of Europe as a socio-cultural model for the 21st century. In conclusion, the politics of the current US-Administration will be discussed in terms of their impact on transatlantic relations as well as on dealing with global challenges, particularly in the Middle East.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129610\", \n \"course_title\": \"Sem: Eur Dream of America/Amer Dream of Europe\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129619\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course introduces students to the rudiments of the Irish language, including phonemes and pronunciation, syntactical structure, and verbal conjugations. In addition, a history of the language is provided, as well as a general introduction to Irish culture, including discussions of family and place names. Students are encouraged to begin speaking with basic sentence structures.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129619\", \n \"course_title\": \"Modern Irish Language Elementary I\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129621\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"For the more advanced student of Irish, this course focuses on improving conversational fluency and on expanding vocabulary through reading more complex literature in Irish.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129621\", \n \"course_title\": \"Modern Irish Language Intermediate I\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129625\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the traditional and contemporary music of the Celtic areas of Western Europe?Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, and Galicia. Recordings and live performances present the extraordinary range of singing styles and the musical instruments employed in each culture, including harps, bagpipes, and a variety of other wind, free reed, keyboard, and stringed instruments. Forms and musical styles are explored in depth along with a study of their origin, evolution, and cultural links.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129625\", \n \"course_title\": \"Introduction to Celtic Music\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129628\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Identical to V57.0182. 4 points. Examines the English conquest of Ireland from the reign of Elizabeth I to the last meeting of the Irish Parliament. Key themes include the plantation of Ireland with settlers from England, Scotland, and Wales; the decline of the Gaelic political order and culture; the religious reformation and Counter-Reformation; Ireland as a site of English and European wars; the imposition of a penal code; and the vain attempt to rebel against British rule in the late 18th century, resulting in the Act of Union, which disestablished the Irish Parliament in Dublin.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129628\", \n \"course_title\": \"History of Modern Ireland I: 1580-1800\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129633\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"From the seventeenth century to the present, Irish people have been crossing the Atlantic to North America. They are one of the most significant ethnic groups to ever migrate from Europe to the United States. Their impact has been disproportional to their numbers but this only partially explains our contemporary understanding of \\u201cIrish America.\\u201d Ethnicity is an imprint and defining feature of American life yet the Irish experience with it over the past four centuries is a story complicated by multiple generations, diversity of class, continuing immigration, and rapid changes in both the homeland and the receiving country. This course will consider the factors affecting emigration from Ireland; examine the impact of the Irish on the development of the United States since the colonial period, particularly on its cities; study the changing Irish image in American popular culture; and consider what the Irish can teach us about the evolution of ethnic identity. The ultimate goal of this course is to learn to think historically.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129633\", \n \"course_title\": \"The Irish in America\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-20\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129642\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Emphasis varies by semester; designed to allow flexibility in course offerings from visiting scholars and specialists in particular fields. Past examinations have included contemporary Irish fiction and poetry, Irish women writers, and Northern Irish poetry.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129642\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics in Irish Lit:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129645\": {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129645\", \n \"course_title\": \"Interdisciplinary Sem:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129646\": {\n \"class_type\": \"IND\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Independent Study\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Prerequisite: permission of the director of undergraduate studies. 2 or 4 points per term. 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This sequence is equivalent to ITAL-UA 10.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129666\", \n \"course_title\": \"Elementary Italian II\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129667\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Open to students with no previous training in Italian and to others on assignment by placement test. Completes the equivalent of Elementary Italian I and II in one semester. Offered every semester. 6 points.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129667\", \n \"course_title\": \"Intensive Elementary Italian\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129903\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Prerequisite: Three years of high school math or permission of the department. An intensive course in intermediate algebra and trigonometry. Topics include algebraic, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions and their graphs.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129903\", \n \"course_title\": \"Algebra and Calculus\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129918\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Prerequisite: Any one of the following: a score of 650 or higher on the mathematics portion of the SAT, a score of 650 or higher on the SAT Subject Test in Mathematics 1, a score of 650 or higher on the SAT Subject Test in Mathematics 2, an ACT mathematics score of 30 or higher, a score of 3 or higher on the AP Calculus AB exam, an AB subscore of 3 or higher on the AP Calculus BC exam, a score of 3 or higher on the AP Calculus BC exam, a grade of C or higher in Algebra and Calculus (MATH-UA 9), or a passing score on a departmental placement exam. Derivatives, antiderivatives, and integrals of functions of one variable. Applications include graphing, maximizing, and minimizing functions. Definite integrals and the fundamental theorem of calculus. Areas and volumes.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129918\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus I\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129919\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Techniques of integration. Further applications. Plane analytic geometry. Polar coordinates and parametric equations. Infinite series, including power series.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129919\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus II\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-13\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129920\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Prerequisite: MATH-UA.0122 with a grade of C or better, departmental placement exam, or permission of the department. Functions of several variables. Vectors in the plane and space. Partial derivatives with applications. Double and triple integrals. Spherical and cylindrical coordinates. Surface and line integrals. Divergence, gradient, and curl. Theorem of Gauss and Stokes.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129920\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus III\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"129925\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This is the first semester of a year-long course that covers the essential content of Calculus II, Calculus III and Linear Algebra. The first 1/3 semester discusses sequences and series, Taylor's theorem, and power series. The next 1/3 semester introduces concepts from linear algebra including: linear systems of equations; matrices and LU decomposition; determinants; vector spaces; eigenvalues and eigenvectors. The last 1/3 semester introduces topics from vector calculus including: functions of several variables; vector-valued functions; partial derivatives; various applications including maxima and minima.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129925\", \n \"course_title\": \"Honors Calculus I\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-13\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"141742\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The course uses the framework of functions (linear, polynomial, exponential, and trigonometric) to analyze and draw conclusions about real life situations involving quantitative concepts. Mathematical ideas are presented in multiple ways (through graphs, formulas, and verbal descriptions). Classes are interactive and participatory.\", \n \"course_id\": \"141742\", \n \"course_title\": \"Precalculus\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"141745\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The course emphasizes the analysis of real-life situations using the tools of single-variable calculus (limits, derivatives, anti-derivatives, graphing, optimization). Classes are participatory and interactive, with lectures supplemented by in-class individual and group work. Students give oral presentations, both individually and in groups.\", \n \"course_id\": \"141745\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus W/Applications to Business & Economics\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-09\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1174\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Spring 2017\"\n }, \n \"153126\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"(Formerly MATH-AD 110) This course presents the foundations of calculus by examining functions and their derivatives and integrals, with an emphasis on proofs and theorems and an introduction to basic mathematical analysis. While the derivative measures the instantaneous rate of change of a function, the definite integral measures the total accumulation of a function over an interval. The relationship between differentiation (finding a derivative) and integration (determining an integral) is described in the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. In addition to two weekly lectures, students attend a weekly recitation that provides opportunities for rigorous analysis of proofs and theorems associated with the material. This course is primarily intended for students considering Mathematics as a major. Placement into Calculus is decided by discussion with mentors and the results of a mathematics placement examination. With permission of the Program in Mathematics, Calculus with Applications may substitute for Calculus. Note: Although the topics covered in this Calculus are the same as those covered in Calculus with Applications, Calculus places more emphasis on proofs, while Calculus with Applications places a relatively greater emphasis on examples and applications. Students who complete Calculus will be able to follow simple proofs and recognize different types of proofs, such as proofs by induction and proofs by contradiction.\", \n \"course_id\": \"153126\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"161412\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"(Formerly MATH-AD 112) This course explores functions of several variables and has applications to science and engineering. Specific topics include: vectors in the plane and space; partial derivatives with applications; double and triple integrals; spherical and cylindrical coordinates; surface and line integrals; and divergence, gradient, and curl. In addition, the theorems of Gauss and Stokes are rigorously introduced.\", \n \"course_id\": \"161412\", \n \"course_title\": \"Multivariable Calculus with Application to Science and Engineering\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"204520\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"(Formerly MATH-AD 111) This course presents the basic principles of calculus by examining functions and their derivatives and integrals with a special emphasis placed on the utilitarian nature of the subject material. Since the derivative measures the instantaneous rate of change of a function and the definite integral measures the total accumulation of a function over an interval, these two ideas form the basis for nearly all mathematical formulas in science, engineering, economics, and other fields. This course also provides instruction in how to model situations in order to solve problems. Applications include graphing, and maximizing and minimizing functions. In addition to two weekly lectures, students attend a weekly recitation focused on applications. Placement into Calculus with Applications is decided by discussion with mentors and the results of a mathematics placement examination. This course focuses on the needs of students in science and engineering. Note: Although the topics covered in Calculus with Applications (MATH-AD 111) are the same as those covered in Calculus (MATH-AD 110), this course is less based in proofs than is Calculus, placing more emphasis on examples and applications.\", \n \"course_id\": \"204520\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus with Applications to Science and Engineering\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"204791\": {\n \"class_type\": \"PRP\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Preparatory\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"204791\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus II Non-Credit Course (NCC)\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-19\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"204792\": {\n \"class_type\": \"PRP\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Preparatory\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"204792\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus III Non-Credit Course (NCC)\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-19\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"209162\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course explores calculus of functions of several variables. Topics covered include power series, differentiation and integration of functions of several variables, including directional derivatives, the gradient, line and multiple integrals, and the theorems of Green, divergence, and Stokes. Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in MATH-SHU 121. Equivalent to MATH-UA 123, MATH-AD 112.\", \n \"course_id\": \"209162\", \n \"course_title\": \"Multivariable Calculus\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"209694\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course is designed as a preparation for calculus, including study of basic properties of polynomials, rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, and trigonometric functions. Systems of linear equations and matrix operations are also covered. Prerequisite: Placement via NYU SH Mathematics Placement Examination.\", \n \"course_id\": \"209694\", \n \"course_title\": \"Precalculus\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"210105\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course presents the foundations of calculus for functions of a single variable. Topics addressed include limits, continuity, rules of differentiation, approximation,antiderivatives, indefinite and definite integrals, the fundamental theorem of calculus, integration techniques, and improper integrals. Prerequisite: Placement via NYU SH Mathematics Placement Examination or a grade of C or better in MATH-SHU 009.\", \n \"course_id\": \"210105\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"210107\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This is a rigorous course in single-variable calculus for mathematics majors, providing preparation for advanced courses in analysis. Topics covered include number systems, functions, graphs, vectors, conic sections, polar coordinates, limits, continuity, least upper bounds, the derivative, convexity and concavity, inverse functions, parametric curves, Riemann sums, integrals, and the fundamental theorem of calculus. Prerequisite: Placement via NYU SH Mathematics Placement Examination or MATH-SHU 121 Calculus with a grade of A- or better.\", \n \"course_id\": \"210107\", \n \"course_title\": \"Honors Calculus\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-23\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n \"211455\": {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Vectors in the plane and space. Partial derivatives with applications, especially Lagrange multipliers. Double and triple integrals. Spherical and cylindrical coordinates. Surface and line integrals. Divergence, gradient, and curl. 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MA-UY 1424 covers the same material as MA-UY 1124 but with more contact hours per week, incorporating a full discussion of the required precalculus topics. | Prerequisites: MA-UY 1022 (with a grade of B or better) or MA-UY 1024 or MA-UY 1324 (with a grade of B or better). | Corequisite: EX-UY 1.\", \n \"course_id\": \"072933\", \n \"course_title\": \"Calculus II for Engineers\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 4, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course covers: Library of Functions, functions of one variable. 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Topics: Puritanism, mercantilism, the colonial family, the War for Independence, political party systems, the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras, free labor and slavery, Native American cultures, attitudes of race and gender, westward expansion, the industrial revolution, sectionalism, and the Civil War.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129180\", \n \"course_title\": \"The U.S. to 1865\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Africa, the \\u2018Dark Continent\\u2019 of the euro-American imagination, was long portrayed as a land without history. In this course we debunk the myths, exploring African civilization and culture in the centuries before European colonialism. 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Major topics and themes: the explosion of energy in the 12th century and the expansion of Europe on all levels, geographic (including the Crusades) as well as intellectual; development of agriculture and cities; the diversity that gave rise to our university system; movements of reform and dissent; and the waning of the Middle Ages.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129226\", \n \"course_title\": \"The High Middle Ages\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129229\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics in Religious History\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129235\", \n \"course_title\": \"Tpcs in Italian Culture:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-09\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129269\", \n \"course_title\": \"History of Medicine\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-21\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Examines the ways in which France?s development from a traditional into a modern society was highlighted at each stage by political revolutions, class antagonisms, and cultural innovations. 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Key themes include the plantation of Ireland with settlers from England, Scotland, and Wales, the decline of the Gaelic political order and culture, the religious reformation and Counter Reformation, Ireland as a site of English and European wars, the imposition of a penal code, and the vain attempt to rebel against British rule in the late 18th century resulting in the Act of Union, which disestablished the Irish Parliament in Dublin.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129293\", \n \"course_title\": \"Hist of Modern Ireland I: 1580-1800\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Topics will vary from semester to semester.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129296\", \n \"course_title\": \"Seminar:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-23\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course explores the impact of Irish immigrants on American popular culture. Focusing on ports of entry and urban centers of entertainment and migration over the past two centuries, the course looks at the ways in which the Irish and Irish-Americans have shaped American entertainment in the realms of music, dance, drama, film, recording, literature, festivals and sport. In addition, the course delves into issues of race surrounding the American reception of the early Irish immigrants through imagery and media depictions.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129298\", \n \"course_title\": \"The Irish in America\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"In the spring of 44 B.C., Julius Caesar was murdered by a group of senators disgruntled with his monarchic ways. However, Caesar?s adoptive son and heir, Octavian, was quickly on the scene and in little more than a decade managed to establish himself as Rome?s first emperor. About three centuries later, Constantine the Great would rise to imperial power and with him came a new state religion?Christianity. 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Investigates the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that shaped and continue to shape the modern age. Emphasis is on the evolution of the nation-state, on industrialization and its impact on society and politics, and on the intellectual responses to the rapid changes these developments inspired. Topics include Europe and the French Revolution; the rise of the nation-state, 1848-1914; the impact of totalitarian ideologies on 20th-century Europe, and Europe today.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129558\", \n \"course_title\": \"Modern Europe\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course explores the origins of Islam and the development of its rituals and doctrines to the 21st century. It assumes no previous background in Islamic studies. Students will learn about topics such as the Koran and the Prophet, Islamic law, the encounter of East and West during the Crusades, and Islam in Britain. They will find out how Muslims in different regions have interpreted and lived their religion in past and present. Readings will include not only scholarly works but also material from primary sources, for example the Koran, biographies and chronicles. The course consists of a combination of lectures, seminar discussions, field trips and includes other media, such as film.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129561\", \n \"course_title\": \"What is Islam?\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The course description for this Topics in History course varies depending on the topic taught. Please view the course descriptions in the course notes section below.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129562\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Wielding nearly unlimited authority over the lives - and the after-life \\u2013 of millions of Europeans, the Catholic Church was by far the most important political, as well as cultural, power of the Middle Ages. The only global institution of this era, the Church was at the same time able to nourish strong local roots: its cardinals and popes came from all over the continent and dealt with international politics at the highest level, while priests and friars brought home to the people a faith tied to the neighborhood church and confraternity, and personified by a saint\\u2019s shrine and relics.Through a combination of lectures, students\\u2019 presentations, films and site visits, this course will explore selected aspects of the Medieval Church\\u2019s history: its often rocky relations with the other supreme power of the time, the Holy Roman Empire; the rise of monasticism and its different versions; the spread of heretical movements and their repression by the Inquisition; sainthood, and how \\u201cheavenly\\u201d women and men could serve to articulate very earthly ideologies on state, society, gender roles.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129566\", \n \"course_title\": \"Mediev Church: Religious Hist of Crisis & Creativ\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course presents an overview of the political, social, and cultural history of Italy from roughly 1300 to 1600. Its aim is to provide students with a basic understanding of the forces and processes that shaped the states and the societies of the Italian peninsula in an era of extraordinary changes: from the developments of urban civilization and the rise of humanism in the fourteenth and early fifteenth century, to the political and religious crisis of the late Quattrocento and early Cinquecento, and finally to the establishment of a new balance of power and a new cultural climate in the course of the sixteenth century.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129567\", \n \"course_title\": \"Italy During The Renaissance: Florence\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course examines the growth and importance of London from the Roman invasion of 43 AD to the present day. Students will learn about London\\u2019s changing economic and political role, and will understand how London grew to dominate the commerce, industry and culture of England. They will find out how London became the biggest city the world had ever known, and how it coped (or failed to cope) with the social and environmental problems created by its enormous size. The classroom sessions will be divided between a lecture and a class discussion. From week two onwards the class will begin with a discussion of the topic or period covered in the previous week\\u201as lecture, in which students will be expected to use knowledge and ideas gathered from lectures and from their weekly reading. There will also be four walking tours of parts of London which relate to the period we are studying at a particular time.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129568\", \n \"course_title\": \"A History of London\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The history of Germany in the twentieth century offers rich material to explore various approaches to organizing modern society. Beginning with Imperial Germany in 1900 and moving forward to today\\u2019s reunited Germany, we will look at different ways in which the relationship between the state and the individual, and relationship between politics, economy, and society developed over five different political systems. We will interrogate how these institutional arrangements were envisioned and structured and how they were experienced in everyday negotiations. In this course, principle narratives and events will be situated in a European and global context, allowing us to place the concept of German modernity in a comparative framework. Lectures will provide an overview of Germany in the twentieth century; readings and in-class discussions will explore different approaches to analyzing German history and society. During museum visits and walking tours, we will analyze contestations over the various attempts to integrate \\u2013 both in concerted efforts to memorialize as well as to forget and erase \\u2013 Germany\\u2019s oft-problematic pasts within the narrative of Germany\\u2019s present.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129569\", \n \"course_title\": \"Comp Modern Societies: Pol & Soc in 20C Germany\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The course will begin with an examination of the background to and condition of Europe in 1945. The outbreak of the Cold War and the division of Europe will be discussed as will the promotion of European unity, the establishment of NATO and the emergence of COMECON and the Warsaw Pact. The pressures leading to the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC) will be considered together with the firm establishment of the democratic principle in Western Europe. The Suez Crisis and Decolonisation in Britain and France will be explored together with the corollary, the first application by Britain for membership of the EEC. The effect of President de Gaulle\\u2019s presidency on France, NATO and the EEC will be considered. The end of Stalinism in the USSR will be examined as will the first cracks in the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe in Hungary and Poland. This will be followed by a discussion of the merits and demerits of Khrushchev\\u2019s period in power, the U2 crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall. The Prague Spring off 1968 will be discussed. The continued integration of Europe will be analyzed together with the impact of Ostpolitik in Germany. Brezhnev\\u2019s domination of the USSR and D\\u00e9tente in the 1970s will be examined. Following this, the forces that led to the triumph of Neo-Liberalism in Britain will be considered, as will the return of conservatism in Germany and the cohabitation of Mitterrand\\u2019s France. The re-launch of the European Community in the 1980s will be analysed. In Eastern Europe the Gorbachev era and the rise of Solidarnosc will be explored and the course will conclude with an examination of the disintegration of the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet state and the conclusion of the Maastricht Treaty.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129575\", \n \"course_title\": \"Europe Since 1945\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course introduces contemporary Italy in all its complexity and fascination. Reviewing politics, economics, society, and culture over the past two centuries, the course has a primary goal -- to consider how developments since the 1800s have influenced the lives and formed the outlook of today's Italians. In other words, we are engaged in the historical search for something quite elusive: Italian \\u201cidentity\\u201d. Topics will include the unification of the country, national identity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the First World War, and Italian fascism, World War Two and the resistance, the post-war Italian Republic, the economic \\\"\\\"miracle\\\"\\\", the South, the Mafia, terrorism, popular culture, and the most recent political and social developments, including Italy and the European Union. Lectures combine with readings and films (taking advantage of Italy\\u2019s magnificent post-war cinema).\", \n \"course_id\": \"129579\", \n \"course_title\": \"Modern Italy\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course will examine the formation of modern national identities, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. After an in-depth study of the different scholarly theories on nationalism and of the relationships between the three fundamental concepts of nation, nationalism and state, the focus will be on the historical circumstances in which nationalism emerged and on the different ideological bases that supported the emergence of modern nations. We will first analyze the birth of the three first modern nations (England, the USA and France) and then place special emphasis on Central (Germany, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Lands) and Eastern (Russia) Europe. The question of the multinational states (especially the Habsburg Empire) and of the attempt to eliminate national tensions by trying to create nation-states after World War I will be analyzed, as well as the use of nationalism by the two main totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, National Socialism and Communism. We will also at colonial and post-colonial nationalism, as well as at the role played by nationalism in post-Communist Central Europe.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129582\", \n \"course_title\": \"Hist of Nationalism in Cent & Eastern Europe\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"To provide an understanding of the main immigration trends in Britain, France and Germany since 1850 To provide an understanding of the problems attending the social and political integration of immigrants in contemporary Western Europe To compare the experience and understanding of immigration in Europe with the experience and understanding of immigration in the United States To examine the ways in which the memory of immigration is represented in literature and contemporary culture.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129593\", \n \"course_title\": \"Immigration\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-09\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"A historical and political inquiry into the French system of relations with Francophone Africa from the \\u2018race to Empire\\u2019 in the 19th century to the current day. The main goals of the course are: to describe the historical development of French-African relations from the colonial to the post-independence era; to investigate the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of French influence in contemporary Francophone Africa; to understand the consequences for France of complex developments subsequent to colonialism, such as African immigration in France. Conducted in French.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129595\", \n \"course_title\": \"French-African Relations\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-22\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The course description for this Topics in History course varies depending on the topic taught. Please view the course descriptions in the course notes section below.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129600\", \n \"course_title\": \"History of Slavery:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The objective of the course is to analyze the social, cultural and political transformations experienced in Argentina during the XX century. The scheduled activities are divided into theory-practice classes and cultural visits. There are required readings for the classes which are usually based in a general bibliography that will give the student a factual context of each unit. Ideas exchange will take place, so the students should read the material in advance in order to continue with the course. The objective of cultural activities is to link the students with the material dimension of history, putting themselves in contact with crucial clues for its comprehension.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129603\", \n \"course_title\": \"Latin American History:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-12\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course examines significant moments in the development of Europe and America\\u2019s notions and images of one another from the 18th century to the present. The in-depth discussion will be based upon historical documents and cultural texts. It will pay equal attention to sources from America/the US and Europe/Germany in an effort to explore and evaluate the major theoretical and rhetorical paradigms (and the shifts therein) which inform the perceptions as well as cultural constructions of the \\u201cother\\u201d both in the past and present. Moreover, the course will investigate and evaluate recent manifestations of Anti-Americanism and analyse the ideological and cultural coordinates of current anti-American concepts in Europe/Germany as well as concepts of Europe as a socio-cultural model for the 21st century. In conclusion, the politics of the current US-Administration will be discussed in terms of their impact on transatlantic relations as well as on dealing with global challenges, particularly in the Middle East.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129610\", \n \"course_title\": \"Sem: Eur Dream of America/Amer Dream of Europe\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-11\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course introduces students to the rudiments of the Irish language, including phonemes and pronunciation, syntactical structure, and verbal conjugations. In addition, a history of the language is provided, as well as a general introduction to Irish culture, including discussions of family and place names. Students are encouraged to begin speaking with basic sentence structures.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129619\", \n \"course_title\": \"Modern Irish Language Elementary I\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"For the more advanced student of Irish, this course focuses on improving conversational fluency and on expanding vocabulary through reading more complex literature in Irish.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129621\", \n \"course_title\": \"Modern Irish Language Intermediate I\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the traditional and contemporary music of the Celtic areas of Western Europe?Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, and Galicia. Recordings and live performances present the extraordinary range of singing styles and the musical instruments employed in each culture, including harps, bagpipes, and a variety of other wind, free reed, keyboard, and stringed instruments. Forms and musical styles are explored in depth along with a study of their origin, evolution, and cultural links.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129625\", \n \"course_title\": \"Introduction to Celtic Music\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Identical to V57.0182. 4 points. Examines the English conquest of Ireland from the reign of Elizabeth I to the last meeting of the Irish Parliament. Key themes include the plantation of Ireland with settlers from England, Scotland, and Wales; the decline of the Gaelic political order and culture; the religious reformation and Counter-Reformation; Ireland as a site of English and European wars; the imposition of a penal code; and the vain attempt to rebel against British rule in the late 18th century, resulting in the Act of Union, which disestablished the Irish Parliament in Dublin.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129628\", \n \"course_title\": \"History of Modern Ireland I: 1580-1800\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"From the seventeenth century to the present, Irish people have been crossing the Atlantic to North America. They are one of the most significant ethnic groups to ever migrate from Europe to the United States. Their impact has been disproportional to their numbers but this only partially explains our contemporary understanding of \\u201cIrish America.\\u201d Ethnicity is an imprint and defining feature of American life yet the Irish experience with it over the past four centuries is a story complicated by multiple generations, diversity of class, continuing immigration, and rapid changes in both the homeland and the receiving country. This course will consider the factors affecting emigration from Ireland; examine the impact of the Irish on the development of the United States since the colonial period, particularly on its cities; study the changing Irish image in American popular culture; and consider what the Irish can teach us about the evolution of ethnic identity. The ultimate goal of this course is to learn to think historically.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129633\", \n \"course_title\": \"The Irish in America\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-20\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Emphasis varies by semester; designed to allow flexibility in course offerings from visiting scholars and specialists in particular fields. Past examinations have included contemporary Irish fiction and poetry, Irish women writers, and Northern Irish poetry.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129642\", \n \"course_title\": \"Topics in Irish Lit:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-08\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"SEM\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Seminar\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"null\", \n \"course_id\": \"129645\", \n \"course_title\": \"Interdisciplinary Sem:\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"IND\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Independent Study\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Prerequisite: permission of the director of undergraduate studies. 2 or 4 points per term. Independent study with an Irish studies faculty member.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129646\", \n \"course_title\": \"Independent Study\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Open to students with no previous training in Italian and to others on assignment by placement test.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129665\", \n \"course_title\": \"Elementary Italian I\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-13\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Continuation of ITAL-UA 1. To continue on to the intermediate level, a student must complete both ITAL-UA 1 and ITAL-UA 2. This sequence is equivalent to ITAL-UA 10.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129666\", \n \"course_title\": \"Elementary Italian II\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"Open to students with no previous training in Italian and to others on assignment by placement test. Completes the equivalent of Elementary Italian I and II in one semester. Offered every semester. 6 points.\", \n \"course_id\": \"129667\", \n \"course_title\": \"Intensive Elementary Italian\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-01\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course focuses on assessment of and intervention with substance abusers and their families. It prepares students with the skills essential to a range of social work roles and practice modalities that can be used with this population. Stereotyped attitudes toward substance abusers are discussed. Special issues related to women, youth, the homeless, and dually diagnosed mentally ill/substance abusing populations are explored. Selected social policy and service delivery issues and research findings are considered.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125451\", \n \"course_title\": \"Clinical Practice With Substance Abusers & Their Families\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-19\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course examines the principles and techniques of couple intervention from a variety of theoretical frameworks. Intervention with traditional and nontraditional forms of couple relationships is considered in the light of the differing nature of clients' presenting problems, diversity, and the agency setting. The interventive process is examined in depth.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125461\", \n \"course_title\": \"Clin Prac With Couples\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-14\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The works of several theorists from both the object relations and ego psychology schools are studied. Theorists such as Jacobson, Hartmann, Klein, Fairbairn, Guntrip, and Winnicott are covered.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125463\", \n \"course_title\": \"Object Relations\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-09\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course considers the value base and theoretical and research underpinnings of cognitive and behavior intervention and the use and integration of these models within a biopsychosocial perspective. Practice principles and techniques that can be used in work with a variety of client problems are examined along with ethical issues.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125465\", \n \"course_title\": \"Cognitive & Behavioral Intervention\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course prepares students to understand how traumatic events and life stressors impact children and their families, and to learn about evidence-based models of intervention. A bio-psycho-social perspective with emphasis on emotional regulation is used to prepare students to work with trauma systems in context. Children\\u2019s coping mechanisms and resiliency are examined, particularly for children exposed to multiple and severe life stressors. Trauma situations that will be examined include community and family violence such as immigration, bullying, family violence and neglect as well as stressors such as poverty, illness and teen pregnancy.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125467\", \n \"course_title\": \"Social work Practice with Traumatized Children in Context\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-19\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course is a practice elective which focuses on social work practice within secondary schools (junior and senior high schools) as well as the normative developmental tasks and concerns/problems of early, middle, and late adolescents within school settings. The course will provide an overview of a wide range of social work roles, program models, modalities, and interventive strategies within schools. Attention will be given to a variety of social work roles including, clinical practice with adolescents, parents, families, and groups; consultation and collaboration with interdisciplinary staff within schools and neighboring communities; as well as prevention, program development, and organizational/systems work within schools. Specific areas of focus will include: academic and learning problems, special education, depression and suicidality, acting-out behaviors, issues related to health and sexuality, bullying, violence prevention/intervention, and substance use/abuse.advocacy, and mediation are emphasized. The course addresses current urban issues that influence school practice such as violence, homelessness, AIDS, substance abuse, physical and sexual abuse, diversity, and cross-cultural communication.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125475\", \n \"course_title\": \"Social Work Practice with Adolescents in Schools\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-19\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course will offer students an introduction to social work practice with children and their families and will acquaint students with the diversity of family composition, family rules and family roles in the 2000's. Students will learn about conventional nuclear family composition, the single-parent home, foster and adoptive homes, homes where children and parents are cross-racial dyads and triads, and homes where lesbian or gay partners are engaged in rearing a natural-born and/or an adopted child. Engaging such families from diverse racial, ethnic, economic, religious and cultural backgrounds will be a major focus in this course, in order to promote students? Current Issues in Contemporary Family Life.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125496\", \n \"course_title\": \"Clinical Practice With Families\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-01-14\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course will introduce the student to the signs and affects related to grief, loss and bereavement. Each will be defined, described, and presented in how it appears in latent or manifest form. The overall objective of this course is to help students understand acknowledged and unacknowledged grief and/or depression and the effects of significant losses in life. The process of mourning will be illustrated with case vignettes and presented with focus on the life cycle and examined in accord with particular developmental issues per age and stage of life.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125497\", \n \"course_title\": \"Grief, Loss and Bereavement\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-23\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"The overall objective of this course is to look at attachment in infancy and early childhood in a contemporary cultural context. Various theories and relevant research are reviewed from a critical perspective. The dialectic between attachment and separation will be explored. Attachment is viewed in the context of an expanding environment with consideration of multiple caretakers, multiple social roles, and diversity of family life and parenting roles.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125498\", \n \"course_title\": \"Theories of Attachment in Early Development\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course aims to prepare students for effective practice with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people by providing a deeper understanding of GLBT identities, families, health and mental health challenges, and issues of political advocacy. The course will examine a variety of issues that affect GLBT people in contemporary life, and will act as a springboard for students to engage in additional learning in a chosen area of interest. The course will use lectures, guest presentations by local and national experts, classroom discussions, student presentations, assigned readings, and written assignments in order to achieve its objectives.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125505\", \n \"course_title\": \"Contem Gay,Lesb,Bisexual and Transgender Issues\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-23\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course is aimed at developing the knowledge and skills necessary for working with individuals with a diagnosis of serious mental illness using recovery-oriented, evidence-based practices. It is designed for MSW students and MSW mental health practitioners. Students will become familiar with evidence-based practices, within a recovery-oriented paradigm, as a general approach to practice as well as specific evidence-based interventions to use for individuals with a diagnosis of serious mental illness. It is assumed that students will have a basic knowledge of serious mental illness as a pre- or co-requisite, however a review will be provided. Students will learn to examine research literature to determine the various levels of support for specific interventions and essential principles for translating research into practice. In addition, they will identify the appropriate treatment outcomes that reflect effective, quality mental health practice. Each evidence-based practice presented will also be examined for its utility with diverse groups. Providing assessment and treatment to a diverse group of individuals with a diagnosis of serious mental illness is the focus of this course and will be discussed in detail.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125514\", \n \"course_title\": \"Evidence Based Practice\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-05-07\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course will cover the application of creative arts therapy theory and practice within a social work framework. The class will focus primarily on the field of art therapy, but will also include some exposure, through guest lecturers, to other non-verbal creative arts modalities such as: music therapy, drama therapy, and movement/dance therapy. The class is designed to include a substantial amount of hands-on artmaking and role-play to provide students with practical tools for incorporating the arts into practice with a variety of populations. The course will utilize case material from students\\u2019 field work when appropriate to illustrate how to design effective art therapy interventions. The following populations and topics will be covered as they relate to art and therapy interventions: client engagement; treatment planning; developmental stages of drawing, work with children, adolescents, adults and families; trauma; relational abuse; cultural sensitivity, and the unique counter-transference issues of non-verbal therapies.\", \n \"course_id\": \"125530\", \n \"course_title\": \"Creative Arts Therapy in Clinical Social Work\", \n \"effective_date\": \"2020-08-21\", \n \"effective_status\": \"A\", \n \"term\": \"1168\", \n \"term_descr\": \"Fall 2016\"\n }, \n {\n \"class_type\": \"LEC\", \n \"class_type_descr\": \"Lecture\", \n \"course_contact_hrs\": 0, \n \"course_descr\": \"This course will introduce students to the foundations of clinical work with children focusing on the history and development of child therapy, including working with parents, therapy techniques and the therapeutic process. 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