Virginia Commonwealth University VCU Scholars Compass VCU Bulletins VCU University Archives 2007 Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate Bulletin Courses Virginia Commonwealth University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarscompass.edu/vcubulletins © Virginia Commonwealth University Downloaded from http://scholarscompass.edu/vcubulletins/25 This Bulletin is brought to you for free and open access by the VCU University Archives at VCU Scholars Compass. It has been accepted for inclusion in VCU Bulletins by an authorized administrator of VCU Scholars Compass. For more information, please contact libcompass@vcu. VCU Undergraduate Courses 2007-08 University College 1 VCU Undergraduate Courses 2007-08 1-credit course is opened to students after the first University College BIOL 151 exam.
UNIV 101 Introduction to the University UNIV 152 Focused Learning Workshop in Semester course; 1 lecture hour. Designed to BIOL 152 orient new students to the traditions, purposes and Semester course; 3 workshop hours. expectations of a university education. Students will Corequisite: BIOL 152.
Designed to assist students in assess their expectations and evaluate their academic improving their understanding of complex biology strengths and goals. Through lectures, guest speakers material. Will supplement the BIOL 152 class lecture. and individual projects, students will learn of VCU Course assists students with integrating how-to-learn resources designed to help them solve problems and to with what-to-learn for BIOL 152.
Includes both achieve a rewarding and successful academic program. discussion and study-skills strategies. Students This course is required for students admitted required to complete homework assignments and to conditionally to VCU; it is recommended for all demonstrate mastery of specific study techniques. In first-year students.
addition to the semester-long 2-credit offering, a 1-credit course is opened to students after the first UNIV 102 MINDSET for Academic Success BIOL 152 exam. Semester course; 1 lecture hour. Restricted to freshmen on warning after their first semester, UNIV 291 University Special Topics sophomores on warning or probation and students Semester course; variable hours. May be readmitted from academic suspension.
Through group repeated with different content. Specialized topics in activities and individual meetings with the instructor, subject and competency areas related to the core students identify reasons for their academic difficulties curriculum program not provided by an existing course and learn a new MINDSET (defined as habits and or program. May be multidisciplinary. Graded as pass/ attitudes) for achieving academic success.
The fail or normal letter grading at the option of the instructor will carefully monitor the students' progress instructor. in all their classes. The goal of the course is to assist students to return to good academic standing by the UNIV 391 University Special Topics conclusion of the semester. Semester course; variable hours.
May be repeated with different content. Specialized topics in UNIV 103 Education and Career Planning subject and competency areas related to the core Semester course; 3 lecture hours. A career curriculum program not provided by an existing course decision-making course for individuals focusing on the or program. May be multidisciplinary.
Graded as pass/ process of career planning. Through guest speakers fail or normal letter grading at the option of the and interviews with working professionals, students instructor. will discover all the educational and career options that exist. Through in-class activities, computer assessments and group projects, they will learn how to make informed decisions about their educational and career goals.
UNIV 111 Focused Inquiry I Semester course; 3 lecture hours. Utilizes contemporary themes to give students opportunities and practice in writing, critical thinking, oral presentation, collaborative learning, information retrieval and evaluation, and social and civic responsibilities. Incorporates common reading materials and course activities across all sections. UNIV 112 Focused Inquiry II Semester course; 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite: UNIV 111 or equivalent. Builds on skills introduced in UNIV 111 by providing practice in expository essays, argument and contextual analysis. Focuses on practice in writing in a variety of genres, framing writing according to both purpose and audience and identifying academically valid sources. This course is writing intensive.
UNIV 151 Focused Learning Workshop in BIOL 151 Semester course; 3 workshop hours. Designed to assist students in improving their understanding of complex biology material. Will supplement the BIOL 151 class lecture. Course assists students with integrating how-to-learn with what-to-learn for BIOL 151.
Includes both discussion and study-skills strategies. Students required to complete homework assignments and to demonstrate mastery of specific study techniques. In addition to the semester-long 2-credit offering, a 2 VCU Undergraduate Courses 2007-08 College of Humanities and Sciences 3 VCU Undergraduate Courses 2007-08 social change as it applies to Africa today will be AFAM 307/RELS 307/INTL 307 Black African American Studies explored. Religion Semester course; 3 lecture hours.
An analysis AFAM 103 Introduction to African-American AFAM 206/SOCY 206/WMNS 206 African of the role of religion in the lives of blacks with an Studies American Family Relationships emphasis on African religions and philosophies, the Semester course; 3 lecture hours. Using an Semester course; 3 lecture hours. Focuses on black church in America, and the roles of the various interdisciplinary approach, this course will familiarize the African American family from the 1940s to the faiths, sects and cults. students with important events, developments, present.
Examines the values and the interpersonal/role personalities and other phenomena that help facilitate relationships that are involved in forming and AFAM 308 Modes of Inquiry in the study and understanding of African Americans maintaining African American families in the African-American Studies from their African past to their present existence. contemporary United States. Topics include dating and Semester course; 3 lecture hours. sexual relationships, marital relationships, parent-child Prerequisite: AFAM 208.
This course introduces AFAM 104/SOCY 104 Sociology of Racism relationships and relationships with members of the students to the interdisciplinary processes whereby Semester course; 3 lecture hours. The course extended family. those working in the field develop their arguments and will explore the direct and indirect ways in which interpretations concerning the black experience. racial attitudes are acquired, their effect on individuals AFAM 208 African-American Social Thought Students will develop increased skills in library and society, and the institutional and ideological Semester course; 3 lecture hours.
research and an awareness of the importance of such manifestations of racism as a "faith system," as Prerequisite: AFAM 103. This course exposes students methodologies as archaeology, oral history, case exploitation and as a form of human conflict. The to the rich chronicle of the experiences and views of studies, participant observations, experiments and central focus of interest will be on black-white Africans in the United States that has been preserved surveys. Student will be introduced to the need for relationships.
in the writings of scholars, activists and creative critical analysis, the role of biases and frames of artists. The course introduces students to this body of references and the reason why scholars working in the AFAM 105, 106/HIST 105, 106 Survey of thought selecting a number of social critics and field often reach different conclusions with reference African History creative writers whose texts address persistent themes to issues of fact, interpretation and significance. Semester courses; 3 lecture hours. A that have shaped African-American life.
survey of African civilization from prehistory to the AFAM 314/ENGL 314 African-American present, emphasizing the events, ideas and institutions AFAM 250/MHIS 250 Introduction to Literature that have shaped, influenced and defined Africa's place African-American Music Semester course; 3 lecture hours. An in the world. First semester: To 1800. Second Semester course; 3 lecture hours.
An examination of the culture and literature of African semester: 1800 to the present. introductory survey of black involvement with the Americans from their roots in Africa and the African development of music in America from 1607 to the Diaspora to the present day. Authors may include AFAM 121, 122/DANC 121, 122 Tap present. African-American musical styles will be Wheatley, Jacobs, Wilson, Brown, Dubois, Hurston, Technique I studied from many aspects including their African Wright, Gaines and Morrison.
Semester courses; 1 lecture and 2 studio hours. 2, 2 roots and contemporary popular expression. Beginning study and training in the principles AFAM 315/ECON 315/INTL 315 Economic of tap technique with emphasis upon style, body AFAM 302/POLI 302 Politics of the Civil Development alignment, spatial patterning, flexibility, strength and Rights Movement Semester course; 3 lecture hours. kinesthetic awareness to move the body in the style Semester course; 3 lecture hours.
The main Prerequisites: ECON 210-211. An introduction to the required for tap dancing. objectives of the course are to introduce and examine process of economic development including a survey the personalities and activities of the modern Civil of development theory and a study of the experience of AFAM 126, 127/DANC 126, 127 Rights Movement. The course provides the historical both underdeveloped and developed countries.
African-Caribbean Dance I background leading up to the peak years of the Economic policies and tools of economic planning for Semester courses; 1 lecture and 2 studio hours. 2, 2 struggle for racial equality in America. It has special stimulating development will be presented. Dance based on the movements and rhythms of focus on the events of the 1960s and, particularly their Africa and the Caribbean.
implication for the current state of U. AFAM 318/POLI 318/WMNS 318 Politics of Race, Class and Gender AFAM 151, 152/DANC 151, 152 Jazz Dance AFAM 303/THEA 303 Black Theatre Semester course; 3 lecture hours. A study of Technique I Semester course; 3 lecture hours. A study of the racial, class and gender influences on the history Semester courses; 1 lecture and 2 studio hours.
2, 2 the major developments in the evolution of black and development of political values, conflicts, credits. Prerequisite: DANC 102 or permission of theatre through readings and studio performances in processes, structures and public policy in the United instructor. Study and training in the principles and black-related and black-theatre dramaturgy. concepts of jazz technique.
Emphasis on body alignment, flexibility, balance, rhythmic awareness AFAM 305/SOCY 305/WMNS 305 African AFAM 322/PSYC 322 Personality and and mastery of isolated movements of body parts. The American Family in Social Context Behavior of the African American course includes the exploration of the relationship Semester course; 3 lecture hours. Semester course; 3 lecture hours. between jazz music and jazz dance.
Prerequisite: SOCY 101 or SOCY/AFAM/WMNS Prerequisite: PSYC 101. A study of personality 206. A socio-historical examination of the factors, such as motivation, ego functioning, and the AFAM 200/ANTH 200/INTL 200 Introduction development of the family system of Americans from socialization processes with special emphasis on living to African Societies Africa. Focuses on large-scale (macro level) processes conditions of African Americans.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. This course such as changes in the major mode of economic introduces the student to the African continent, its production and in political systems and the AFAM 333/GEOG 333/INTL 333 Geography peoples and cultures. It covers such general corresponding changes in black family structure and of Africa characteristics as the physical and geographical functioning. Presents the theoretical material on Semester course; 3 lecture hours.
A study of features, climate, topography, traditional economies, African American families and social change that the land forms, climate, peoples, livelihoods, languages, religions, social systems and other cultural prepares students for further study of the family as a settlement patterns, and cultural groupings of features that are traditional to its people. social institution and for the study of family policy. sub-Saharan Africa. This course is designed to meet the needs of upper AFAM 204 Africa in Transition division social science majors.
AFAM 342/ANTH 342 African-American Art Semester course; 3 lecture hours. Semester course; 3 lecture hours. Prerequisite: AFAM 200 or permission of instructor. Prerequisite: Advanced standing.
A study of the art The impact of modern social change upon the forms produced by Americans of African origin from traditional aspects of African life. Various aspects of 4 VCU Undergraduate Courses 2007-08 the 17th-century to the present with an emphasis on with particular emphases on fiction and on West of the instructor. Explores issues surrounding the contemporary trends in black art. Some attention also will be given to orature.
