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Fairhaven Courses numbered X37; X97; 300, 400 are described in the University Academic Policies section of this catalog.
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FAIR 314 - Field Recording, Podcasting, Digital Radio, and Social Activism
From pirate radio to commercial mass media operations, the airwaves have always been a way for individuals to communicate their ideas to the community. The current wide dissemination of digital radio formats can and does play a central role in the self-identity, external identity, and informed nature of large and small communities focused on a wide range of social and political issues. In this course, students will learn foundational technical aspects that are involved with field recording and editing as well as aspects specific to the production of audio programs and individual shows/podcasts. We will also learn about the current rules, regulations, and policies for internet broadcasting, and consider the impact of radio on a range of social and political issues from its past and onwards to the future. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A; FAIR 203A with concurrency; or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 314B - Advanced Interdisciplinary Topics in American Experience
Study of events, movements, art genres, or other phenomena in America. Employs interdisciplinary approaches and social theory to deeply explore topics. Topics might include the art deco movement, nativist movements, or war. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 314E - Critical Pedagogy
This course helps students, who may or may not be looking toward a professional career in schools, develop the knowledge and skills necessary to critically examine and evaluate various classroom practices using the theories and practice of critical pedagogy. Analyses will focus on those practices which are conceptually sound, ethically responsible, and culturally responsive, or will consider the various ways to make them so.
Prerequisites & Notes: AMST 301 or FAIR 366E.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 319B - Current Issues in Law
A look at one or two current legal issues being addressed by US courts (including federal, state and/or tribal) today. Study of the cases surrounding the legal issue, popular opinion about the issue, and current cases testing the legal issue. Examples of possible topics include abortion, immigration, criminal law and procedure. 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 319E - Advanced Topics in Popular Culture
Advanced course studying major popular culture theorists and applying those theories to the study of popular culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A and FAIR 203A
Credits: 2-5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 322M - Memoirs and Memory: Childhood in America
Using literature, film and theoretical readings, investigates the ‘idea’ of childhood and, using other cultures and historical periods as lenses, examines how today’s American society constructs the ideal and implements the reality. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A and FAIR 203A or equivalent or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 323G - Imaginative Writing II
An opportunity to continue development of creative skills in fiction, poetry or writing for children, including the revision of promising works for publication. Repeatable with different topics. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 222G or FAIR 222H, creative writing course, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 323H - Elements of Style II
An exploration into the art of syntax and sentence-making. Builds on the exercises and concepts examined in Fair 223g Elements of Style. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 223g or permission of instructor.
Credits: 1
Grade Mode: S/U
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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 Northwest 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 334B - Transitional Justice
This course examines different approaches taken by countries and the international community in dealing with gross violations of human rights (civil and political). It also explores the processes by which formerly repressive States transform themselves into societies based on democracy and the rule of law. It examines the various means of establishing accountability including truth, reconciliation and historical commissions; national, international and hybrid prosecutions of perpetrators of human rights abuse; reparation for victims of human rights and humanitarian law violations; “lustration” laws and institutional reforms. It also considers the obstacles to these processes including political instability, amnesty laws, and the lack of engagement by the international community. The course will explore the possibility of accountability processes for gross violations of economic, social and cultural rights. S/U grading. Also offered as HGST 334.
Prerequisites & Notes: One course from: FAIR 203A, FAIR 334C, FAIR 334J, FAIR 334L, INTL 336 or INTL 340; or instructor permission. Enrollment in HGST minor is preferred for HGST students.
Credits: 5
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 effects of genocide; how to define and the possibility of predicting and preventing genocide; and the multiple impacts of genocide on victims, perpetrators, bystanders and the society/country in which it occurs. Also offered as INTL 340.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or FAIR 334C or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
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: 5
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 or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
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
The primary objective of this course is to give students theoretical and practical skills for pursuing ethical education and engagement, particularly in international contexts. The course will also offer a variety of logistical tools for envisioning, designing, applying for and executing international fieldwork. One intended goal is to take the mystery out of applying for an Adventure Learning Grant. To expand our perspective and set of skills, there will be a series of guest speakers who will share their experiences with travel and research under a wide variety of conditions, and their thoughts about general principles, methods, and practicalities for responsible global study and travel. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A or equivalent.
Credits: 5
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 Conservation: 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
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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
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FAIR 339 - Folk and Traditional Music in the U.S.
Students in this course will examine a wide range of folk and traditional music practices in the United States from bluegrass festivals to mariachi music to local punk scenes in settings ranging from urban night clubs to rural front porches. Students will examine these cultural events and practices through an ethnographic perspective and focus on the relationship between music production and participation and the broader cultural contexts in which they occur. Through the discussion of course readings, audio and video examples, and primary ethnographic research, students will both become more familiar with a number of specific folk and traditional music practices and also gain a clearer understanding of the roles these music traditions play in their specific performance contexts as well as the broader cultural systems with which they interact every day. It is also the aim of this study to enable students to more clearly understand their own participation in the folk and traditional music cultures of the United States and to more closely consider the role of this music in their own lives and cultural practices as well as in the lives of others both nearby and across the country. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A; FAIR 203 or social science equivalent; or instructor permission.
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
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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 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
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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
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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 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 364 - World Music and Culture
This course examines various non-Western music traditions, along with their many surrounding cultural contexts. The study of specific musical styles and traits will be accompanied by an examination of its use in society, the role of the performer, performance settings, and other similar topics. The course will focus on various traditional and popular musics of India, Africa, Indonesia, and the Middle East. Special focus will be given to ways of thinking about music that fall outside of the standard conceptions of Western music. This includes West African concepts of time in music, which are often cyclical rather than linear, or the Indian raga, which is an abstract concept with no Western analog that defines many fundamental aspects about how a song is performed. Specific topics will include Indian Bollywood film music, Indonesian puppet theatre (Wayang kulit), and West African storytelling music of the Griot. This course will also examine basic concepts surrounding ethnomusicology: the academic field involving the study of music in its cultural context. What are some common ethnographic methods for studying a culture and their music? What are the implications of the roles of outsider and insider with regards to a music and its surrounding culture? S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A with concurrency; FAIR 203A with concurrency; or instructor permission.
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
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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.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 370J - Studio Recording
Studio Recording 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 - Advanced Studio Recording
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. Instructor permission required. Repeatable up to 12 credits including the original course. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: Instructor permission.
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 their own personal identity. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 203A or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 377 - Music in Film
The enormous expressive and narrative power of music has been joined with dramatic theatrical forms for centuries (Japanese Noh theatre, European opera), and has been intimately linked with filmmaking
from the beginning of that medium’s development in the early 20th century. This course will examine the central role music plays in the interdisciplinary medium of filmmaking, ranging from the live musical accompaniment of silent films, to the epic modern action scores of Hans Zimmer. Through analysis of various films, their music, and the unified artwork they create, we will attempt to better understand how music is used as an expressive tool in filmmaking. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 380A - Digital Music Production and Composition
Digital music composition and sound design. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: 270H with concurrency.
Credits: 4
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 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 411 - De-Colonial Feminist Praxis: Research & Writing Workshop
This praxis-based advanced course will provide a deliberate space for the further cultivation of de-colonial feminist research projects.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 336B or AMST 317 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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 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 10 credits, including original course. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 201A and FAIR 202A, and 300-level writing course.
Credits: 5
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 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
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.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 441U - The Relational Self: Theories and Research
Study of new paradigms of the self, including revisions of familiar concepts of identity, self-knowledge and self-esteem. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: previous courses in psychology or instructor permission
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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FAIR 451X - Resistance Art of the Indigena
Examines contemporary visual and literary arts of indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States. Emphasis on artwork that reflects personal and cultural histories, government and state relations, and Western misrepresentation of Native peoples in the media and academia. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: FAIR 218C or AMST 202 or FAIR 399B or AMST 315; studio art courses or experience above the 200-level
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: S/U
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