Human prehistory/history is marked by the impacts of migrations. Whether compelled or drawn beyond their places of origin, migrants have challenged borders through conquest, colonialism, post colonialism, exploitation, assimilation, and adaptation. As laborers, kin, refugees, and conquerors, they have spread technologies, ideologies, philosophies, and aesthetics.

Themes in General Education are Designed to:

 assist students in making systematic and deliberate connections between the ways various disciplinary perspectives address the same topic.

 provide a framework for faculty in different departments to collaborate on research projects and share innovative teaching strategies.

 encourage students to explore areas of specific interest at a deeper level .

ENG 2030 – World Literature 3 hours

Literary Studies Designation

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World literature in translation from its beginnings to the seventeenth century

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FCS – Family Development: Origins and Movement 3 hours

 A study, using the multicultural life span approach, of factors affecting human and family development. Theories, patterns, structures and functions of diverse family groupings and interactions and interrelationships in family processes and development will be considered in relation to current research. Students will research their individual family origins and movement over time to understand the current change in ethnic diversity. Students will also study and analyze critical family issues and compare these issues within different cultures in the United States and around the world. Lecture three hours.

GLS 2000 – Contemporary Global Issues 3 hours

 This course examines a selection of global issues from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. Students will be exposed to the complexities of these issues, which are the result of the confluence of historical, geographical, economic, cultural, and political factors. Emphasis will be placed on how different societies view global issues, as well as how different perspectives can alter one’s understanding of them.

HIS 1600 – Migration in World History 3 hours

Historical Studies Designation

 This course examines the role of human migration in world history. Starting with “peopling the planet” and using topics such as language diversity, diaspora, colonization and immigration, students will explore the dispersal of people, plants, animals, diseases, as well as cultural and technological diffusion. The emphasis is on evaluation of primary and secondary sources, development of analytical skills, and application of methods used in comparative histories clustered around these themes. Students have a semester long project of preparing their own family history that entails using data bases, oral interviews, and narrative writing that puts their own “local” history into the “global” context of the main events of the past century. NOTE: HIS 1600 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A HISTORY MAJOR OR MINOR .