HDFS 525 (1ON) - Human Development
Human Development
Term: Summer 2020 - Summer Session I (05/18/2020 - 06/19/2020)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
CRN: 70814
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5/18/2020 | 6/19/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
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5/18/2020 | 6/19/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
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5/18/2020 | 7/10/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
This course ends July 10th
It meets the ACLP requirements needed for child life certification.
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5/18/2020 | 6/19/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
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5/18/2020 | 8/7/2020 | Hours Arranged | TBA |
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5/18/2020 | 6/19/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
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5/18/2020 | 6/19/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
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6/22/2020 | 7/24/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
HIST 425: ENERGY & SOCIETY
Course Description: The course explores the historical relationship between human societies and energy. Consider the contemporary United States, for instance. Its citizens make up some 5 percent of the world’s population but account for a quarter of the world’s energy consumption. Why? Is there something in American society that predisposes it to high energy consumption, or did the high consumption make American society? In other words, what is the relationship between the political, economic, and cultural evolution of modern America, and the evolution of its energy systems? And what does that relationship look like in other parts of the world?
Over the course of the semester, we will examine the history of energy production, distribution, and consumption around the world, together with the varied and evolving sociotechnical systems built up around those activities. We will grapple with questions of technological and social determinism – whether certain technologies make certain societies inevitable, or whether perhaps it is the other way around. Each week, we will explore one or two sources of energy, and look at their impact on the societies and people involved in its generation, distribution, and consumption. We will see how energy can shed light on topics as varied as geopolitical power relations, war, labor organizing, gender roles, leisure activities, and the climate.
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5/18/2020 | 6/19/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
This course explores the historical development of American business institutions from the colonial era to the present. Thematic units organize the material focusing in turn on the most significant developments in the American business environment. The goal is a cumulative understanding of the development of the system. A great deal of our discussion and reading centers on the interaction of market operations and social values and how these interactions influenced the business environment at different times. It is the study of business in the context of past times that makes this course different from a course in business methods or institutions. Through the study of the past students develop their critical thinking and writing skills.
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6/22/2020 | 7/24/2020 | Hours Arranged | ONLINE |
In this course, students will explore the American past through the careful examination of 8 epidemics and disease outbreaks between the colonial era and the present: smallpox, yellow fever, polio, typhoid fever, influenza, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and very recent outbreaks of SARS, Zika and coronavirus. Students will use these case studies to uncover the impact of these diseases on American medicine, politics, economy, demographics, and the daily lives of affected individuals. Students will gain research skills through extensive use of primary sources including newspapers, diaries, archaeological findings, and oral traditions of illness as well as modern sources like photographs, blogs and digital media, and representations of disease on television and film. We will seek to explore the ways that past Americans reacted differently to outbreaks of disease, as well as the ways that modern experiences mirror the past.
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5/18/2020 | 6/19/2020 | Hours Arranged | TBA |
The Vikings spread terror and destruction for hundreds of years throughout modern Britain, northern France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Russia. They also developed remarkable art forms and cutting edge naval technology, constructed important new cities (such as Dublin) and new kingdoms, including Novgorod and Kiev, and explored the New World half a millennium before Columbus. So who were these fierce warriors, intrepid explorers, and famed poets? In this course, we will investigate the origins of the Vikings in Scandinavia, the impetus for their explosion onto the European stage, as well as their culture, technology, and art. Students will read scholarly articles about the Vikings as well as source materials produced by the Vikings, themselves, and their enemies. Students will write short response papers to scholarly articles and participate in live discussions via Zoom about important sources such as the Norse Sagas. This course fulfills the Historical Perspectives Discovery Category.