Current Semester Information

Spring 2012

Two different Integrated Studies options are available in spring 2012, as well as a couple of stand-alone course offerings. 

Option 1: 10 credit Integrated Studies Program
Courses:
   Hum 102: Humanities II (4 credits, Arts & Humanities humanities Essential Studies course)
   Hum 225: Advanced Integrated Social Science (3 credits, Social Sciences & "G" global diversity Essential Studies course)
   Hum 270: Integrated Life Science (3 credits, Math/Science/Technology Essential Studies course)

Theme: "Stories"

Class Meeting Schedule:
   Mondays & Wednesdays, 10:00-11:50
   Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30-noon

Booklist:
   The Odyssey, Robert Fagels (tr.)
   The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
   Six Questions of Socrates, Christopher Phillips
   The Last American Man, Elizabeth Gilbert
   The Double Helix, James D Watson
   Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin
   Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: Graphic Adaptation, Michael Keller
   The Culture Code, Clotaire Rapaille
   A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
   The Tempest, William Shakespeare
   The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula LeGuin

Option 2: 7 credit Integrated Studies Program
Courses:
   Hum 102: Humanities II (4 credits, Arts & Humanities humanities Essential Studies course)
   Hum 270: Integrated Life Science (3 credits, Math/Science/Technology Essential Studies course)

Theme: "All Too Human: Part God, Part Animal?"

Class Meeting Schedule:
   Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays 2:00-3:50

Booklist:
   Loneliness, John T Cacioppo & William Patrick
   The Fall, Albert Camus
   Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life, Douglas T Kendrick
   Life of Pi, Yann Martel
   Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative, Herbert Mason
   Ten Theories of Human Nature, 5th edition, Leslie Stevenson & David Haberman
   Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
   My Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
   No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre

Stand-alone courses available:
  Hum 102: Introduction to Humanities II
     4 credits (Arts & Humanities humanities Essential Studies course); meets Tuesdays, 3:15-5:15
     Booklist:

 

   Hum 212: Integrated Cultural Experience-Drama & Poetry
      3 credits (Arts & Humanities fine arts Essential Studies course); meets Mondays, 2:30-4:30
      Booklist:
         The Shape of Things, Neil Labute
         The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
         Seascape, Edward Albee
         Macbeth, William Shakespeare

   Hum 271L: Integrated Studies Lab
      1 credit (Math/Science/Technology lab Essential Studies credit, if taken with or after Hum 271)
      meets Fridays, 9:00-11:30

   Hum 408: Writing Across the Disciplines
      3 credits (Essential Studies capstone course); meets Mondays & Wednesdays, 1:00-2:30
      Booklist:
         The Essential Guide: Research Writing Across the Disciplines, 5th edition,
            James D Lester & James D Lester Jr.
         They Say, I Say, 2nd edition, Gerald Graff & Cathy Birkenstein
         Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
         A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut
         O₂xygen, Carl Djerassi & Roald Hoffman
         Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010, Freeman Dyson and Tim Folger (ed.)

   ISP in Norway
       Three courses are also being offered at the American College of Norway in Moss, Norway: Hum 225, 270, and 212.