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Fairhaven Fairhaven’s 2014-2015 Curriculum. The courses and studies listed in this catalog will be offered during the 2013-2014 academic years. Additional classes will be announced and described in the Fairhaven College Quarterly Class Description booklet, available at Fairhaven College Office and at http://www.wwu.edu/fairhaven/academics/courses/.
At Fairhaven, new courses are constantly being developed by faculty and account for about one-half of the course offerings.
Courses numbered X37; X97; 300, 400 are described in the University Academic Policies section of this catalog.
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FAIR 325J - Studies in Myth and Mythology
Literary and artistic archetypes, world mythology, comparative cosmology, symbols and the unconscious. Repeatable with various topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: Background in humanities or cultural history.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 328M - American Lives
Examines the lives and work of Americans. Subjects may include artists, environmentalists, writers, scientists, civil rights activists, athletes, children, and so on. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 202A or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 330D - Natural History and Environmental Issues of NW Washington
This field course will introduce students to the natural history and environmental issues of Northwestern Washington. S/U grading.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 330E - Ethnobotany
Study of how people use plants–as food, medicine, material goods, and symbolic and ceremonial elements of human culture. Includes a focus on plant identification, historical exploration of plant uses, and hands-on learning about wild edibles, plant domestication, herbal medicines, fibers and more. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A or equivalent.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 331N - Natural History
An experiential and literary investigation into the science of natural history, its roots, and the diverse ways it is being applied to our contemporary lives and world. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A or equivalent or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 332N - Current Environmental Topics
The interdisciplinary context of current environmental issues, including the scientific basis for concern. Examples include acid rain, loss of genetic diversity, climate modification by logging, global warming, ozone depletion, overpopulation, nuclear waste disposal. Repeatable with various topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A or instructor permission.
Credits: 2-5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 334B - Transitional Justice
This course examines different approaches taken by countries and the international community in dealing with past serious violations of human rights, and the process by which formerly repressive States transform themselves into societies based on democracy and the rule of law. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 334C - International Human Rights
This course examines the idea of human rights, its historical, philosophical and legal origins. It explores the notion of universal rights and examines the relativity debate. It will introduce students to rights that are guaranteed and selective substantive rights will be examined - civil and political rights; economic, social and cultural rights, and other classes of rights. Other considerations include national, regional and international institutions created to supervise implementation of and compliance with those rights. It will also consider the role of non-governmental organizations and activists who seek to enforce human rights. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203a or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 334D - State Failure and State Collapse
Exploration of State failure and State collapse; considers the causes and consequences of State collapse and related issues of anarchy, civil war and the emergence of strong non-State actors. It also examines the regional implications of State collapse and the possibility of predicting and preventing failure and collapse. Student cannot receive credit for both this course and Fair 334e. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or permission of instructor.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 334E - State Collapse and State Reconstruction
Exploration of State failure and collapse and the prospects for reconstruction in these States. It examines the causes and consequences of State failure and collapse; the possibility of predicting and preventing failure or collapse; and various State rebuilding models. Focuses on contemporary cases of failure and collapse and State reconstruction. Student cannot receive credit for both this course and either FAIR 334D or FAIR 334G. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or permission of instructor.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 334F - International Law
Introduction to public international law, which governs the relations of States and increasingly, other non-State actors. Covers the basic doctrines of public international law and the international legal system, which will be applied to contemporary issues of international law. S/U grading. Also offered as INTL 334.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or permission of instructor.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 334G - State Reconstruction
This course considers the prospects for rebuilding failed and collapsed States. It examines various state-building models and focuses on contemporary cases of reconstruction in the aftermath of failure and collapse, and other post-conflict reconstruction situations. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and FAIR 334E. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 334D or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 334H - Human Rights in Africa
This course examines the state and contemporary practice of human rights in Africa. It reviews efforts aimed at human rights promotion and protection, in the context of colonialism and neo-colonialism, apartheid, the authoritarianism of the post-colonial African State and recent public health challenges that threaten the welfare and dignity of individual Africans. Topics to be covered include the role of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights; human rights and democracy; the NEPAD initiative; economic, social, and cultural rights; the public health challenge – HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; human rights of women, children, and other vulnerable groups; human rights and armed conflict in Africa; challenges to and future prospects for human rights in Africa. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or FAIR 334C or SSC GUR course or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
GUR Attributes: ACGM
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FAIR 334J - Genocide
The course will explore the relationship between genocide and newer forms of mass violence, state-sponsored and non-state terror. Students will gain an understanding of the background, causes and effect of genocide; how to define and the possibility of predicting and preventing genocide, and the multiple impact of genocide on victims, perpetrators, bystanders and the society/country where it occurs.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or FAIR 334C or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 334K - Human Trafficking and Smuggling
Interdisciplinary examination of the various manifestations of human trafficking and human smuggling: human trafficking, bonded labor, forced labor, worst forms of child labor, organ trafficking, prostitution and sexual slavery. Examines the rise and growth, and the cross-sectoral consequences of trafficking and smuggling. Examines the challenges of addressing human trafficking and human smuggling, and the appropriate policy responses to the problem by State and non-State actors around the world. Also offered as INTL 335. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or INTL 201.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
GUR Attributes: ACGM
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FAIR 334L - The Holocaust
Interdisciplinary examination of the origins, course, and aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust. Situates the Holocaust within the multiple genocides around the world in the twentieth century. Examines the responses of targeted groups, survivor accounts (including the impact on children of the victims and perpetrators), and issues of memorialization, politicization, representation, and sacralization of the Nazi Holocaust. Also offered as INTL 336. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or INTL 201.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
GUR Attributes: BCGM
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FAIR 334N - Topics in Evolutionary Biology
Explores evolutionary theory, the history of evolutionary thought, and the relevance of biological evolution to the modern human condition. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A.
Credits: 4-8
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 334P - Field Studies in Science
Systematic studies of quantitative natural history, employing field techniques from biology, chemistry, physics, and interdisciplinary science. Repeatable to a maximum of 20 credits. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A.
Credits: 3-8
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 334Q - The Science and Music of Natural Sounds
Recording sounds in local natural settings with a focus on how and why animals produce sound, how sound travels through the environment, how we can use the sound for biological survey work and to estimate environmental degradation, how urban sounds differ from natural areas, and using recordings to compose and perform music. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 334R - Olympic National Park Natural History and Ecology
This field course introduces the natural history and ecology of the Olympic National Park through a weeklong camping trip including visits and study in old growth forest, beaches, montane, and river systems. Offered summer quarter only. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A or Permission of Instructor.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 334S - Holocaust Film
Focuses on cinematic treatments and complex issues surrounding the representation of the Holocaust. Highlights the representation in films of how the victims attempted to hide; how the Germans rounded them up, took them to camps and killed them, as well acts of courage and resistance by victims, perpetrators and bystanders. Examines how cinematic ‘kitsch’ and the voyeurism of uninformed audiences around the world have adulterated public memory of the Holocaust. Also offered as INTL 338.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A or ENG 101 or INTL 201.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
GUR Attributes: HUM
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FAIR 335B - Global Inquiry
Preparation for global studies and travel abroad. Repeatable to a maximum of 4 credits, including original course. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201a or equivalent
Credits: 2
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 335C - Multicultural Psychology
Interpersonal and intergroup mechanisms that can have the cumulative impact on the health, performance outcomes, and acceptance of various racial minority groups and Whites in the United States, the intersectionality between race, gender, social class, and other social group memberships will be examined.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203a or equivalent or instructor permission
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 335H - HIV and AIDS in a Global Context
Students will learn the biology of HIV and AIDS as well as the social and political factors that affected the spread, positively or negatively, of HIV in a global context. Topics will include the typology of the HIV virus, how the virus interacts with the human host, the spread of HIV, the process of moving from HIV infection to an AIDS diagnoses, the history of HIV from an American perspective, the history of HIV from a non-Western perspective, the current approach to HIV treatment, and the future direction of HIV prevention and treatment programs. Links between the biology, social, political, and historical aspects of HIV in a global context will be emphasized throughout the course – as well as with other infectious diseases. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 335M - Nutrition and Public Health
This course will discuss the biology of nutrition and its impact on the individual, society, and the global community. Students will build an understanding of nutrition and various types of malnutrition, such as starvation, eating disorders, and obesity; as well as a variety of metabolic disorders and food allergies. This class will include discussions on the impact of diet on health with every topic covered. The class will also explore inequities in nutrition – why they might exist and what types of programs have been piloted to address the inequities.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A or instructor permission
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 335N - Visioning Sustainable Futures
A critical examination of alternative futures envisioned by various writers representing the world views of diverse cultures and communities of interest, in light of present-day sociopolitical, economic and environmental realities. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A or ENG 101, and previous course work/experience in sociopolitical/environmental issues from sociopolitical perspective
Credits: 4-5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 335P - Global Biodiversity Science and Policy
Introduction to the science of documenting, describing, categorizing, and measuring biological diversity globally, from genes and species to eco-regions and biomes. Includes an examination of 1) biodiversity’s importance for human welfare and 2) current policies and approaches for conserving and sustaining biological diversity worldwide. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A or equivalent.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 335Q - Qualitative Research Methods
Students in this course will learn how to design qualitative studies, collect and analyze data, and write a report on qualitative findings. Each student will work with a team of other students on a topic of their choice. This study will be a quarter long project for each team of students – ending in a culminating presentation and research paper on the study findings at the end of the term. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 336B - Topics in Social Issues
An interdisciplinary exploration of specific topics in the social sciences, including studies in economics, political science, international studies, social theory, ethnicity, race, culture, gender, class, law, psychology, and social activism. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203a or equivalent
Credits: 4-5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 336H - Topics in Performance
Stories matter. An interdisciplinary exploration of specific topics in performance, including studies in economics, political science, international studies, social theory, ethnicity, race, culture, gender, class, law, psychology, and social activism and how they are represented through performance. Will include performance components; no performance experience necessary. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A.
Credits: 2-6
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 336M - Topics in Music & Society
An interdisciplinary exploration of specific topics in the social applications and context of music, including studies of varied music genres and their roles in society as entertainment, as cultural representation and as tools for social critique. Repeatable with different topics up to 12 credits. S/U grading.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 336N - Topics in Science
The interdisciplinary exploration of specific topics in science, including health, reproductive science, ecology, energy, natural history, animal studies, botany, sustainability, the history of science, and science and society. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206a or equivalent
Credits: 4-5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 336V - Topics in Art
An interdisciplinary exploration of specific topics in the arts, including music, art, creativity, dance, theatre, and performance. Approaches may be historical, theoretical, literary, cultural, or political, or through studio work. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 202a or equivalent
Credits: 4-5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 338P - Cultural and Biological Perspectives on Pregnancy and Childbirth
The biology of pregnancy and childbirth, including the development of the fetus, morphological, physiological and psychological changes women experience during pregnancy and childbirth, and the co-evolutionary relationship between mothers and fetuses. Explores childbirth from cross-cultural and historical perspectives, and focuses on the ways American medicine has viewed and treated childbirth and recent changes in American childbirth practices. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A and 206A or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 340P - Sustainable Forestry
An examination of the development of forestry as an applied science in Europe & the U.S. and of forest management worldwide, asking what common conditions favor or promote sustainable approaches to forest management? Critical examination of sustainability itself as a guiding concept in natural resource management. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 341R - Psychology of Mindfulness and Well-Being
Numerous studies show that ‘mindfulness,’ an ancient practice now widely used in the West, offsets stress and leads to health, focus, and feelings of well-being. This course examines the origins, techniques and effects of mindfulness. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A and psychology related course or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 341T - Awareness Through the Body II
A continuation of FAIR 243T with deeper attention, experiential and cognitive, to the philosophical concepts introduced in the first course, to psychophysical integration, and to the underlying principles, methods and theories in somatics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 243T or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 342U - The Body Speaks: Culture and Eating Disorders
Examines eating disorders in the United States and developing countries from cultural and gender perspectives, as well as controversies regarding origins and treatments. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: previous course in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 343R - Death and Dying
The implications of one’s death for philosophy, culture, art, literature, aging, economics, psychology, medicine and living. Draws upon books, essays, films, field trips and personal experience. S/U grading.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 343U - Advanced Topics in Mind and Body
An advanced examination of specific mind-body topics. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A
Credits: 3-5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 344P - Asian-American Psychology
This course examines the current psychological research on Asian American individuals and the community, with an emphasis on social psychological research. Topics will include the model minority myth, stereotypes of unassimilation, multicultural identities, perceived exemplary family values, and stigma and mental health. Also offered as AMST 344. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: AMST 205 or FAIR 215F or PSY 101.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
GUR Attributes: BCGM
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FAIR 344U - Cross-Cultural Psychology
Introducing non-Western perspective of human behaviors. Culture’s influences on human thinking, feeling, and action. Learning diversity in understanding societies and human beings. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: any psychology course
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 345A - Principles of Social Entrepreneurship
This course is an introduction to the principles and practices of social entrepreneurship. The emphasis is on understanding systems changes to improve the lives of people and the planet in the face of current local and global problems. The course will analyze social entrepreneur’s current efforts to address and solve these problems by through socially responsible and sustainable systems.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or other introductory social theory/responsibility class approved by instructor.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 349V - Art During Wartime
This class will explore how various artists, composers and filmmakers have expressed enthusiasm and disdain for war and its injustices throughout history. We will discuss potential contemporary applications for art during wartime and create three art projects based upon reading and discussions. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 202a or equivalent
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 351V - Art, Race and Gender
This combination studio art and seminar course explores how artists and theorists address issues of race and gender identity through art. Students will research numerous artists and theorists while creating artworks that explore and express their own identities. Strategies for creating dialogues through art will also be discussed. Offered every other year. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: Either FAIR 220A or Art History, and one art studio course or instructor permission. Some familiarity with race or gender issues is recommended.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 351W - Printmaking Narratives
Exploration of and experimentation with advanced printmaking techniques emphasizing the four-color technique. Relief, intaglio, drypoint, woodcut collagraph and monotype illustrating personal narratives and themes. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 254X or two design or two studio art courses.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 353V - Art in Public Sphere
Explore history and concepts behind public art, create proposals and models for public art projects, and research artists who work within public space. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: Introduction to drawing and one of: FAIR 355Y, FAIR 359V, FAIR 355W or permission. Background in art history recommended.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 353Y - Songwriting Workshop
Examination of the elements of songwriting: discussing techniques, strategies and blocks; the roles and inter-relationships of melody, rhythm, and lyric; and song forms and styles. Through a series of exercises, development of a portfolio of songs. S/U grading.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 354V - Scriptwriting Workshop I
Practice in the art and craft of writing for the dramatic media: theater, film, television and radio. Intensive writing and rewriting experience with a supportive group of other writers. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: previous course work or experience with creative writing or instructor permission
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 356V - Site-Specific Art
Students will explore the creation of three-dimensional art installations, environments and/or performances developed for specific locations outside of the traditional art gallery paradigm. Students will research histories of prospective sites and communities in order to write proposals and create thematic and socially relevant artworks. S/U grading. Repeatable up to 8 credits, including original course.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 202A and one studio art course or instructor permission. ART 109 recommended.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 356W - Video, Performance & Sound Art
Students will explore and develop ideas and existing skills in the areas of video, performance and/or sound art within the context of contemporary art; culminating in a public screening, exhibition or performance of a final project. Students will present proposals and timelines to the instructor, give regular progress reports to the class, and write artist statements for each of their projects. Experimentation and creative risk-taking is highly encouraged. Emphasis will be placed upon stepping outside of traditional and popular genres in order to challenge both artist and audience. S/U grading
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 202A or one course in either music, art or theater/dance history, and previous course in either audio, video or performance practice.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 356X - Dreams, Imagination and Creativity
A study, through readings, discussion, experiences, of the content and interrelationships between dreams, imagination and creativity to enhance the intuitive dimension of daily life. Extending the range of imagination through practice: visualization techniques, artistic expression, journal writing. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or FAIR 243R or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 357V - Topics in Studio Art II
An interdisciplinary exploration of specific topics in studio art, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, and mixed media for students with some studio art background. Approaches may include historical, theoretical, literary, cultural, or political readings. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 202A and previous experience in studio art or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3-8
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 357Y - Theatre/Film Production
An opportunity to work with intensive instruction on production of student-written dramas or films. Repeatable twice. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: previous work in theatre/film production or instructor permission
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 358V - Intermediate Acrylic Painting
Intermediate acrylic painting techniques and elements of form composition and color using still life, photographs and live models. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 258W
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 361E - Race In/To the Movies II: Race Relations on Film: 1950-1980
Explores race relations in America between 1950 and 1980, using film as one source of historical documentation. Films such as Raisin in the Sun, Twelve Angry Men and various ‘Blaxploitation’ movies will demonstrate how movies both reflect and reinforce contemporary perceptions on inter- and intra-race relations. Readings will place the films into a broader historical context. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 261E or other film studies class.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 362F - We’re Not for Sale: History of Asian Women in America
Explores the history and experiences of Asian women in America from the mid-19th century to the present. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 215F or AMST 205 or course in history of American women.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 363B - Suzie Wong to Miss Saigon: Asian Presence in Hollywood
Explores the different perspectives of, and attitudes toward, Asian Americans and Asians in America from 1915 to the present, using film as a main source of historical documentation. S/U grading.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 364C - El Movemiento Chicano
Examines the sociohistorical, political and cultural characteristics of the Chicana/o Movement from 1848 to present. Formation and symbolic evolution of the United Farmworkers’ Movement, the Chicana/o cultural renaissance of the ‘60s and ‘70s, the Chicana/o student movement for educational liberation and the roots of the Chicana/feminist and lesbian movements from the ‘70s through the ‘90s. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or FAIR 218C or AMST 203 or HIST 463.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 365C - Contemporary Voices of Latin American Resistance
This course will look at the formative structure of Latin American leftist, political ideology by examining the writings of Theotonio Dos Santos, Paolo Freire, Che Guevara, Jose Marti and Antonio Gramsci. It will further focus on contemporary authors and the present course of Latin American politics by reflecting upon the political beliefs and perspectives of such authors as: Comandante Marcos, Elena Poniatowska, Eduardo Galeano, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva and Michelle Bachelet. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 366E - Comparative Cultural Studies
Interaction of immigrant and indigenous cultures with the developing American cultural patterns. Emphasis on modes and concepts of interaction, especially related to African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos. Also offered as AMST 301. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: Also offered as AMST 301
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 367B - Issues in Political Economy
Upper division seminar in political economy. Course themes may include, but are not limited to: labor market stratification by race and gender; trade and globalization; human and political development; varieties of capitalism; and varieties of welfare states. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or permission.
Credits: 3-6
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 369C - Vietnam War Redux
This course examines the war in Vietnam from 1962-1975 from the under/other side. It does not focus on whether or why the United States lost the war. Rather, it explores the tragic costs of the war from usually marginalized perspectives: Vietnamese fighters and civilians, American families, and women and minorities who served. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or instructor permission
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 369D - American War Stories: The Great War to Iraq
This seminar presents an exploration of the major stories (literature, cinema, arts) and social movements produced by American wars since WWI. Rather than a traditional history of the wars aimed at discovering how and why someone lost and why others won, the seminar examines the impacts war has had on American and opponents’ veterans, families, arts and ideals. We will learn how war affects people at the individual and family level, how movements of support and resistance develop and what have been the wars’ major influences on popular culture. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 370I - Introduction to Pro Tools
This course will introduce students to mixing and editing audio with Avid’s Pro Tools software. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 270H or concurrent.
Credits: 2
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 370J - Studio Recording I
Studio Recording I takes the concepts introduced in FAIR 270H and FAIR 370I and allows the student to apply and practice them in a hands-on manner, with the goal of becoming familiar and competent in the use of all the gear in the Fairhaven Recording Studio. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 370I or FAIR 370P.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 370K - Studio Recording II
This class will give students with advanced recording experience the opportunity to record and mix on an industry standard Pro Tools HD system. Students will enhance their knowledge of Pro Tools and learn how to use the software in conjunction with a large-format analog mixing console. Repeatable up to 6 credits. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 370J or FAIR 370H.
Credits: 2
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 370T - World Issues Group Study
As engaged citizens, what do we know and understand about global issues and ourselves in a world faced with the complex issues of growing economic disparities, fragile democracies, environmental degradation, wars, human rights, globalization, and ethnic/religious conflicts? What is our awareness of and participation in local and global efforts for peace and justice? Students in the class join campus and community members in the weekly World Issues Forum with guest speakers. As a class, students research, discuss and reflect on the forum topic and find ways to respond through social justice/service learning in the community. Repeatable up to 12 credits. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A; or a social science GUR course.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 371B - Topics in Middle East Studies
Seminar in Middle East studies. Course themes may include, but are not limited to, a survey of the history and political economy of the Modern Middle East; the colonial past and present in the Middle East; Orientalism; US policy toward the Middle East; State-society Relations in the Middle East; and case studies of specific countries and conflicts. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or permission.
Credits: 3-6
Grade Mode: S/U
GUR Attributes: ACGM
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FAIR 371E - Nations and Nationalism
Survey course on the development of national identity since the late eighteenth century and the rise of the nation-state. Focus on the slippage between national and ethnic identities and the predicaments of stateless nations. Comparative case studies of various nationalisms in the United States, Europe, and the post-colonial world. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 372F - Race and Society Within the Latino Caribbean
The purpose of the course is to examine the past and present context of how race and cultural fusion have been experienced among peoples and nation states within the Latino Caribbean. Particular emphasis will be placed on the various ways in which racial/cultural identities are complicated by questions of gender, religion, politics, class and sexuality both in the Caribbean as well as those Latino-a Caribbean populations now residing in the United States. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: One of ANTH 101, ANTH 104, ANTH 201, FAIR 201a, FAIR 203a, AMST 203 or HIST 273.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 374B - The Cultural Creation of Identity
How ethnic, racial and cultural identity is created by society. Includes a study of the social construction of identity from a scholarly perspective, but will also require the student to examine his or her own personal identity. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 381G - Topics in Literature
An exploration of writers, periods, genres, theories or comparative studies which engage the student in the careful reading and critical discussion of literature, and in writing clearly about the works and issues involved. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Credits: 3-5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 384J - Writing Nature
Workshop on creative nonfiction writing focusing on natural history, nature, wildness, environment, conservation, science, medicine, landscape or place. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 386E - Topics in Humanities
An interdisciplinary exploration of specific topics in the humanities, including history, philosophy, religion, literature, and mythology. Repeatable to a maximum of 15 credits with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 202A or equivalent
Credits: 4-5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 387K - Grant Writing Workshop
Focuses on the basics of grant writing, including seeking funding sources, reading and interpreting funding guidelines, developing and refining proposals, and tricks of the trade. Development of, either individually or as a group, two small grant proposals. S/U grading.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 388M - Oral History
Study in methods for conducting, editing, and interpreting oral interviews. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 223 or instructor permission
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 393B - Rights, Liberties and Justice in America
Study of American ideas of rights and liberties; what they mean in practice; competing principles and ideologies at work in the arena of constitutional rights; history of our justice system with regard to rights and liberties and directions it seems to be heading. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: upper-division courses in social science or history highly recommended
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 399B - Contemporary American Indian Issues
Presents timely issues in Indian-White relations. Emphasis on case studies of issues of sovereignty, land claims, treaty rights, cultural appropriation, economic development, health, education, and environment. Also offered as AMST 315. Repeatable with various topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: AMST 202 or FAIR 263 or HIST 275; or instructor permission. Also offered as AMST 315
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 400 - Directed Independent Study
An individualized course of study not available through or replacing existing curriculum, to be arranged between one matriculating student and sponsoring faculty member. All academic policies and registration deadlines apply. Directed Independent Study courses cannot substitute for General University Requirements and are not eligible for tuition waiver. S/U grading.
Credits: 1-15
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FAIR 401A - Core: Senior Project
Independent study required of students undertaking an Interdisciplinary Concentration. See the Fairhaven College Guidelines for Concentrations for more information. S/U grading.
Credits: 1-18
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 403A - Core: Advanced Seminar
Required of all Fairhaven College students. A forum in which students are required to reflect on, summarize and evaluate their major or concentration programs and to consider their education in relation to the world they are entering. Course must be taken in final quarter before graduation. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: Required by all Fairhaven students. Senior status.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 412D - Global Justice
Examination of the question of justice in a globally interconnected world, including the moral duties we as individuals, societies and governments have to those disadvantaged by world economy and global institutions. Also offered as INTL 412. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 210A or INTL 201 or FAIR 203A.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 412E - Advanced Topics in Law
Investigation of an area of the law using a law school class format and text. Examples of topics include Federal Indian Law II, Property Law, Current Issues in the U.S. Supreme Court, and critical legal studies. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 311B or PLSC 311 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 2-5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 413A - International Childhood
An examination of a wide range of children’s experiences around the world, including a cultural analysis of middle-class American childhood, to unpack constricted, culture-bound conceptions of childhood and to illustrate the diverse forms of children’s development and societal roles.
Prerequisites & Notes: INTL 201 or FAIR 203A
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 413E - Curers, Clients and Culture: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Health and Illness
Examines health belief systems in cross-cultural perspective, including the roles of practitioner and patient; explanation, diagnosis and treatment of disease; the impact of modernization on non-Western medical systems, and ethnicity and health care in the U.S. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: cross-cultural study or instructor permission
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 414B - Vietnam on Film
Exploration of the cinematic interpretations of the Southeast Asian war as a process of rationalizing and renegotiating American interests and history to suit contemporary political and cultural purposes. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 369C or HIST 104 or evidence of familiarity with the Vietnam War or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 414D - Special Topics in Social Justice Education
Specific issues in social justice education will be used as lenses for analyzing, evaluating and transforming interlocking systems of power, privilege, oppression and discriminatory institutional structures and cultural practices and social behavior. Also offered as EDUC 414.
Prerequisites & Notes: AMST 301 or FAIR 366E; FAIR 314E; and EDUC 411.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 419F - Cross-Cultural Shamanism
Cross-cultural comparison of the roles, recruitment, techniques and performances of shamans, those ceremonial practitioners who move in a state of ecstasy between various spiritual realms. The relationships between healing, magic, sorcery and alternative states of consciousness in cultural context. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A and either ANTH 201 or a course in cross-cultural studies, or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 421H - Advanced Topics in Literature
In-depth consideration of a small number of works, with theoretical or comparative analysis and intensive work with critical discussion and writing. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: 300-level course work in literature
Credits: 3-5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 422J - Art of the Essay
An advanced course in the art of writing essays. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A and FAIR 202A, and 300-level writing course.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 422K - Advanced Legal Writing and Analysis
Explores persuasive legal writing, researching and writing an appellate brief on a current legal issue. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 311B or PLSC 311 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 423K - Space, Place and Imagination
An advanced exploration of the relationship between who we are and where we are, between self and place, imagination and landscape. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: 300-level Humanities course.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 432Q - Ecological Restoration
Introduces students to the science and practice of restoring ecological integrity and health to natural landscapes. The approach of the course will be philosophical as well as empirical. This course is repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A or equivalent, a course in biology or ecology, and upper level standing, or instructor’s permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 433P - Advanced Topics in Evolutionary Biology
Explores advanced and specific topics in evolutionary theory, the history of evolutionary thought, and/or the application of biological evolution to the modern human experience. Repeatable with different topics to a maximum of 8 credits. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: Any course in evolution or permission of instructor.
Credits: 1-8
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 434P - Advanced Studies in Field Science
In-depth quantitative field study, including study design, data collection and analysis, and the writing of a scientific paper to report the findings. Repeatable with various topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A, or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 5-8
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 436B - Advanced Topics in Social Issues
An advanced examination of specific topics in the social sciences. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A; 300-level social science course or equivalent
Credits: 4-8
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 436N - Advanced Topics in Science
An advanced examination of specific topics in science. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A; 300-level science course or equivalent
Credits: 4-8
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 436V - Advanced Topics in Art
An advanced examination of specific topics in the arts. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 202A; 300-level art course
Credits: 4-8
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 440N - Ethnoecology: Conservation and Development
Exploration of the role of traditional ecological knowledge in maintaining and restoring healthy ecological relationships between communities and the environment. Taught every other year. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 206A or equivalent or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
Grade Mode: S/U
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