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Fitchburg State University 2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog

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Fitchburg State University 2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Humanities Concentration, Interdisciplinary Studies, B.S.

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Chairperson
Petri Flint
Professors	Associate Professors	Assistant Professor	Instructor
Rala Diakité	Yasser Derwiche Djazaerly	Karina Bautista	John Nolan
Robin Dinda	Petri Flint	Jonathan Harvey
Jane Fiske	Keyvan Karbasioun
Walter Jeffko	Sarah (Sally) Moore
Susan Wadsworth	Jessica Robey
	David Svolba

This major gives students a strong interdisciplinary grounding in the Humanities through 36-42 credits of coursework in Art, Music, Philosophy, and/or World Languages:

Choose a University-approved Humanities minor in Art, Music, Philosophy, or World Languages. (Humanities minors include Art, Studio Art, Art History, Asian Studies, Italian Studies, Spanish, Romance Languages, Music, and Philosophy - see catalog for the specific requirements of each minor.) 18 credits.

(AND)

Choose either:

Option 1 - 18 credits in one of the other three disciplines, at least 9 of which must be at the 2000+ level. (OR)
Option 2 - 12 credits in two of the other three disciplines, at least 6 of which must be at the 2000+ level in each discipline. (24 cr.)

When not chosen as the discipline for the minor, the course requirements for each field are:

Humanities Concentration

Art

Choose any courses in Art listed below:

ART 1300 - Introduction to Studio Art: Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture 3 cr.
ART 1400 - Drawing 3 cr
ART 1600 - Design 3 cr.
ART 1650 - Three-Dimensional Design 3 cr.
ART 2004 - Ceramics 3 cr.
ART 2020 - Ancient Art 3 cr.
ART 2030 - Sculpture I 3 cr.
ART 2100 - Asian Art 3 cr.
ART 2102 - Introductory Painting 3 cr.
ART 2150 - The Art of Puppetry 3cr.
ART 2200 - Life Drawing 3 cr.
ART 2250 - Intermediate Drawing 3 cr.
ART 2350 - American Art I: Colonial to 1900 3 cr.
ART 2360 - American Art II: 1900 to Present 3 cr.
ART 2450 - Water-Based Media 3 cr.
ART 2570 - Northern Renaissance Art 3 cr.
ART 2700 - Baroque Art 3 cr.
ART 2850 - Italian Renaissance Art 3 cr.
ART 2900 - Nineteenth Century Art 3 cr.
ART 3000 - Contemporary Art 3 cr.
ART 3010 - Sculpture II 3 cr.
ART 3020 - Intermediate Painting 3 cr.
ART 3100 - Art Criticism 3 cr.
ART 3150 - Early Twentieth Century Art 3 cr.
ART 3200 - Advanced Open-Media Studio Art 3 cr.
ART 3300 - History of Architecture 3 cr.
ART 3500 - History of Modern Architecture 3 cr.
ART 3700 - Women, Art, and Society 3 cr.
ART 4950 - Museum Internship 3 cr.

Music

Choose any courses in Music listed below:

MUSC 1000 - Art of Music 3 cr.
MUSC 1100 - From Woodstock to the iPod: A Social History of American Popular Music 3 cr.
MUSC 1400 - Introduction to Music Technology 3 cr.
MUSC 1500 - World Music 3 cr.
MUSC 2300 - Choral Arts 1 cr.
MUSC 2400 - Instrumental Arts 1 cr.
MUSC 3100 - Symphony 3 cr.
MUSC 3200 - Opera 3 cr.
MUSC 3400 - Twentieth-Century Music 3 cr.
MUSC 3450 - Appreciating the American Musical 3 cr.
MUSC 3500 - American Music 3 cr.
MUSC 3600 - Bach to Beethoven 3 cr.
MUSC 3650 - Romanticism to Rock 3 cr.
MUSC 3700 - 19th Century Music 3 cr.
MUSC 3750 - Music in Film 3 cr.
MUSC 3760 - Film Scoring 3 cr.
MUSC 3800 - History of Jazz 3 cr.
MUSC 3900 - Women, Music, and Society 3 cr.

World Language

Choose any courses in World Language listed below:

ARAB 1026 - Arabic for Beginners I 3 cr.
ARAB 1100 - Arabic for Beginners II 3 cr.
ARAB 2030 - Contemporary Arab World 3 cr.
FREN 1000 - French for Beginners I 3 cr.
FREN 1100 - French for Beginners II 3 cr.
FREN 2000 - Intermediate French I 3 cr.
FREN 2100 - Intermediate French II 3 cr.
FREN 3500 - French Conversation and Composition 3 cr.
ITAL 1000 - Italian for Beginners I 3 cr.
ITAL 1100 - Italian for Beginners II 3 cr.
ITAL 2000 - Intermediate Italian I 3 cr.
ITAL 2100 - Intermediate Italian II 3 cr.
ITAL 2500 - Italy Through Film 3 cr.
ITAL 3000 - Italian Culture (in English) I—From Antiquity to 1800 3 cr.
ITAL 3100 - Italian Culture (in English) II—From 1800 to the Present 3 cr.
ITAL 3300 - Women in Italy 3 cr.
ITAL 3500 - Italian Conversation and Composition 3 cr.
SPAN 1000 - Spanish for Beginners I 3 cr.
SPAN 1100 - Spanish for Beginners II 3 cr.
SPAN 2000 - Intermediate Spanish I 3 cr.
SPAN 2001 - Spanish for Heritage Students 3 cr.
SPAN 2100 - Intermediate Spanish II 3 cr.
SPAN 2600 - Hispanic Culture 3 cr.
SPAN 2700 - Hispanic Literature 3 cr.
SPAN 3000 - Cinema for Spanish Conversation 3 cr.
SPAN 3500 - Spanish Conversation and Composition 3 cr.

Philosophy

Required courses (6 cr.):

PHIL 2500 - Contemporary Ethical Problems 3 cr.
* PHIL 2600 - Philosophy of Human Nature 3 cr.

Choose additional courses in Philosophy from those listed below:

PHIL 1000 - Introduction to Western Philosophy 3 cr.
PHIL 1100 - Logic 3 cr.
PHIL 2000 - Philosophy of Education 3 cr.
* PHIL 2001 - Medical Ethics 3 cr.
PHIL 2200 - Theories of Knowledge 3 cr.
PHIL 2550 - Introduction to Ethics 3 cr.
PHIL 3600 - Philosophy of Religion 3 cr.
PHIL 3610 - World Religions 3 cr.
PHIL 4100 - Philosophy of Art 3 cr.
PHIL 4200 - Political and Social Philosophy 3 cr.
PHIL 4300 - Philosophy of Science 3 cr.
PHIL 4500 - Philosophy of Love 3 cr.
PHIL 4700 - Ethical Issues in Business 3 cr.
* These courses, when taken in the Philosophy cluster, cannot be used as core electives as well.

IDIS Major Core Course Requirements (15 credits):

Required IDIS Seminars (6 cr.):

IDIS 3004 - Interdisciplinary Studies Research Seminar 3 cr.
IDIS 4004 - Capstone Seminar 3 cr.

Required Interdisciplinary course (3 cr.):

IDIS 1600 - Critical and Creative Thinking 3 cr.

Required Commonwealth of the Arts course - choose one of the following (3 cr.):

MUSC 2000 - Commonwealth of the Arts 3 cr.
MUSC 2100 - Commonwealth of Ancient Arts 3 cr.
MUSC 2120 - Commonwealth of Asian Arts 3 cr.
MUSC 2130 - Commonwealth of the Modern Arts 3 cr.
MUSC 2210 - Commonwealth of the Renaissance Arts 3 cr.

Required - choose any one of the following Interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary courses (3 cr.):

AMST 1800 - Introduction to American Studies I 3 cr.
ARAB 2030 - Contemporary Arab World 3 cr.
ART 2150 - The Art of Puppetry 3cr.
GEOG 1100 - Principles of Human Geography 3 cr.
GEOG 2056 - Climate Change and Human History 3 cr.
HIST 2056 - Climate Change and Human History 3 cr.
IDIS 1000 - Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 3 cr.
IDIS 1002 - Introduction to Disability Studies 3 cr.
IDIS 1200 - Introduction to International Studies 3 cr.
IDIS 1800 - Global Issues 3 cr.
IDIS 1900 - Introduction to Peace Studies 3 cr.
IDIS 2030 - Contemporary Arab World 3 cr.
IDIS 2100 - Dilemmas of Peace and War 3 cr.
IDIS 2501 - Italy Through Film 3 cr.
IDIS 2540 - Global Issues in Film 3 cr.
IDIS 3001 - Italian Culture (in English) I - From Antiquity to 1800 3 cr.
IDIS 3100 - Italian Culture (in English) II - From 1800 to the Present 3 cr.
IDIS 3300 - Women in Italy 3 cr.
ITAL 2500 - Italy Through Film 3 cr.
ITAL 3000 - Italian Culture (in English) I—From Antiquity to 1800 3 cr.
ITAL 3100 - Italian Culture (in English) II—From 1800 to the Present 3 cr.
ITAL 3300 - Women in Italy 3 cr.
MUSC 2000 - Commonwealth of the Arts 3 cr.
MUSC 2100 - Commonwealth of Ancient Arts 3 cr.
MUSC 2120 - Commonwealth of Asian Arts 3 cr.
MUSC 2130 - Commonwealth of the Modern Arts 3 cr.
MUSC 2210 - Commonwealth of the Renaissance Arts 3 cr.
MUSC 3750 - Music in Film 3 cr.
MUSC 3760 - Film Scoring 3 cr.
PHIL 2001 - Medical Ethics 3 cr.
PHIL 2600 - Philosophy of Human Nature 3 cr.
PHIL 3020 - Consciousness 3 cr.
PSY 3010 - Consciousness 3 cr.
PSY 3050 - Cognitive Neuroscience 3 cr.

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