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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 Courses numbered from 101–299 are lower-division courses, primarily for freshmen and sophomores; those numbered from 300–499 are upper-division courses, primarily for juniors and seniors. The numbers 296, 396, 496, and 596 designate individual study courses and are available for registration by prior arrangement with the course instructor and approval of the department chair.

The number in parentheses following the course title indicates the amount of credit each course carries. Variable credit courses include the minimum and maximum number of the credits within parentheses.

Not all of the courses are offered every quarter. Final confirmation of courses to be offered, information on new courses and programs, as well as a list of hours, instructor, titles of courses and places of class meetings, is available online in My CWU which can be accessed through the the CWU home page, and go to www.cwu.edu/registrar/course-information

 

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS)

  
  • WGSS 398 - Special Topics


    Description:
    Formerly WGS 398; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • WGSS 399 - Seminar


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-5)

  
  • WGSS 488 - Capstone Project


    Description:
    This course serves as the culminating experience for the women’s and gender studies minor. Students will work with a faculty member on a service learning project, a research paper, or a creative project. Formerly WGS 488; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (2)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Synthesize the various approaches and ideas they have encountered in their previous coursework.
    • Display an understanding of those various approaches and ideas.
    • Apply what they have learned to their academic, professional and personal plans for the future.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/5/2008
  
  • WGSS 489 - Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Senior Capstone


    Description:
    The Capstone course provides WGSS majors the opportunity to synthesize and deepen understandings of gender-related issues through reading, writing and discussion. Students participate in a seminar, complete a research project, internship and/or service learning experience. Course will be offered every year (Spring).

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisites: WGSS 351 and WGSS 326 or WGSS 340.

    Credits: (3)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Explain the historical, social and political contexts of women’s movements and feminist thought
    • Identify and evaluate the social construction of gender and the ways gender intersects with other forms of identity
    • Identify and evaluate culturally and historically specific ideas of gender, sex and sexuality
    • Explain feminist theories and apply them across varied disciplines
    • Synthesize the knowledge and skill gained in WGSS major courses by completion of a 10-20-page paper based on a research based or applied project (internship/service learning), or creative work
    • Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, the results of their research based project, applied project or creative work
  
  • WGSS 490 - Cooperative Education


    Description:
    An individualized contracted field experience with business, industry, government, or social service agencies. This contractual arrangement involves a student learning plan, cooperating employer supervision, and faculty coordination. By permission. May be repeated for credit. Grade will either be S or U. Formerly WGS 490; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (1-12)

  
  • WGSS 491 - Workshop


    Description:
    Formerly WGS 491; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (1-6)

  
  
  • WGSS 497 - Honors


    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisite: admission to department honors program.

    Credits: (1-12)

  
  • WGSS 498 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • WGSS 499 - Seminar


    Credits: (1-5)


World Languages Cultures (WLC)

  
  • WL 200 - World Cultures and Globalization


    Description:
    This course will explore the interaction and interdependence of cultures and identities in a globalized world through examination of various forms of cultural production in a number of global contexts.

    Credits: (4)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify a number of important issues that affect cultures in today’s globalized world (such as globalization, migration, transnational popular culture, exile and diaspora, multiculturalism, virtual communities, etc.).
    • Identify and explain the significance of salient cultural details that appear in the various cultural products examined in class.
    • Interpret and analyze cultural texts (literature, film, digital and mass culture products, etc.) with attention to the formal characteristics of different media studied in the class.
    • Demonstrate critical thinking skills in regards to comparing and contrasting different cultural texts (i.e. comparative content analysis).
    • Apply what they learn about cultural difference and diversity to describe how their own lives are shaped by globalization.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    3/19/2015
  
  • WL 298 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • WL 299 - Seminar


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-5)

  
  • WL 396 - Individual Study


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • WL 397 - Honors


    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisite: admission to department honors program.

    Credits: (1-12)

  
  • WL 398 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • WL 399 - Seminar


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-5)

  
  • WL 401 - Introduction to Romance Linguistics


    Description:
    Analysis of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the romance languages. Credits to be counted toward either French or Spanish major or minor.

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisite: two years of a romance language.

    Credits: (3)

  
  • WL 481 - Methods and Materials for Language Teaching


    Description:
    Emphasizes the practical concerns of second- and foreign-language instruction. Explores as a group the theory underlying approaches incorporated into personalized teaching styles.

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisites: at least two 300-level courses or equivalent in a foreign language.

    Credits: (4)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Demonstrate different approaches, techniques and innovative methods in foreign language instruction related to models of linguistics and psychology.
    • Read, analyze and discuss readings and classroom activities related to the field.
    • Analyze and apply the theoretical issues and terminology in the field.
    • Employ the major professional journal and Internet resources in the field.
    • Develop lessons and original and interactive teaching material.
    • Evaluate videotaped peer teaching.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/6/2012
  
  • WL 482 - Second- and Foreign-language Acquisition (On reserve as of 9/16/15)


    Description:
    This course explores second and foreign language acquisition/learning from an applied linguistics perspective.  Formerly FNLA 482, students may not receive credit for both. The focus of this course will be on the learner. Put on reserve as of 9/16/15. Will go inactive 8/24/18.

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisite: WL 481.

    Credits: (4)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Read, analyze and discuss critically major readings in the field of second language acquisition (SLA)
    • Analyze and apply the theoretical issues and terminology in the field
    • Consult major library and Internet sources related to the field of SLA
    • Conduct empirical research by collecting and analyzing original language data, or by doing a traditional research paper/poster on a major topic in the field and presenting results to the class
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/6/2012
  
  • WL 483 - Sociolinguistics


    Description:
    Concepts and methods of sociolinguistic analysis in first and second languages. Will examine differences among cultures in the relationship between language usage and inequality. ANTH 483 and WL 483 are cross-listed courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisites: either ANTH 180, ENG 180, ANTH 381, or WL 481.

    Credits: (4)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Read, analyze and discuss critically major readings in the field of sociolinguistics
    • Analyze and apply the theoretical issues and terminology in the field
    • Consult major library and Internet sources related to the field of sociolinguistics
    • Conduct empirical research by collecting and analyzing original language data, or by doing a traditional research paper/poster on a major topic in the field and presenting results to the class
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/6/2012
  
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    WL 490 - Cooperative Education


    Description:
    An individualized, contracted field experience with business, industry, government, or social service agencies. This contractual arrangement involves a student learning plan, cooperating employer supervision, and faculty coordination. Department consent. May be repeated for credit. Grade will either be S or U.

    Credits: (1-12)

  
  • WL 491 - Workshop


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  
  • WL 497 - Honors


    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisite: admission to department honors program.

    Credits: (1-12)

  
  • WL 498 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • WL 499 - Seminar


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-5)

  
  • WLC 250 - Language and Power


    Description:
    This course surveys political uses of language and consequences for society.  It covers concepts in cultural politics, identity politics, and sociolinguistics. Students propose plans to use language to make societies more just and sustainable. WLC 250 and POSC 250 are cross-listed courses; a student may not receive credit for both. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Recognize, define, and explain key concepts in cultural politics, identity politics, and sociolinguistics
    • Recognize and reflect on how key concepts in cultural politics, identity politics, and sociolinguistics inform their own experiences with language, power, and wellbeing in their personal, social, professional and economic lives
    • Identify and describe relationships between the exercise of power and use of language in politics, public policy, education, the work place, media, and the arts
    • Recognize, appraise, and compare beneficial and detrimental consequences to individuals, communities, and societies of different uses of language for specific purposes and in different places and historical periods
    • Propose and outline plans to use language to improve political participation, systems of justice, community development, employment policies, public funding for the arts and media, K-12 education, second-language education, or language revitalization programs to make multicultural and multilingual communities and societies more healthy, just, and sustainable.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/21/17
  
  • WLC 311 - Popular Cultures of the World


    Description:
    This online course examines popular culture as a reflection of ideologies and value systems in different societies and cultural contexts. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify, describe and analyze major issues pertaining to the globalization of popular culture in different regions of the world today. Issues examined include: glocalization, grobalization, diaspora, hybridity, authenticity, the Global South, virtual communities, among others.
    • Demonstrate an understanding of multicultural models of gender, class, sexuality and ethnicity, as reflected in global popular cultural products. Demonstrate understanding of how these models impact social justice, diversity and inequality in different regions of the world within the social, economic and political conditions of globalization.
    • Demonstrate an understanding of processes involved in the consumption of global popular cultural products from the perspective of global economic inequality (i.e. the Global South). Reflect on their own participation in the global economy and demonstrate understanding of concepts linked to responsible global stewardship.
    • Explore and analyze local-to-global dynamics in production and consumption of popular culture products. Effectively address local and global impact of consumerism within globalization; its positive and negative effects, and identify strategies for how to address them on local and international level.
    • Demonstrate knowledge of and apply methods used in the field of Cultural Studies both analytically and creatively. Identify the value of Cultural Studies in addressing various aspects of the globalization (such as glocalization, hybridity, diaspora, cultural translation etc) of popular culture
    • Identify and recognize various cultural phenomena that contribute to social injustice in different cultural contexts. Demonstrate knowledge of multiple perspectives on social justice in different cultural contexts and how these perspectives are impacted by local-to-global dynamics.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    11/16/17
  
  • WLC 341 - Spells of Enchantment: Re-interpreting the Fairy Tale


    Description:
    The course is an introduction to the study of German and French fairy tales in translation, concentrating on the analysis and comparison of the traditional written form with today’s cinematographic and technological visual form. Course will be offered on odd numbered years (Spring).

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify, evaluate, and explain the fundamental concepts and characteristics of the fairy tale genre: both traditional and literary.
    • Describe, analyze, and compare the ways in which linguistic, religious, philosophical, and historical circumstances are reflected in traditional French and German fairy tales.
    • Identify and evaluate the personal, historical, and cultural issues found in the genre as a whole in order to compare them with current issues and processes.
    • Describe and evaluate the ways in which the human experience can be seen through the analysis of both traditional and contemporary fairy tales.
    • Identify one’s own assumptions and presuppositions about the social and cultural impact of fairy tales, and demonstrate a basic understanding of fundamental concepts and characteristics within the fairy tale genre.
    • Demonstrate knowledge of scholarly and creative methods used within the fairy tale genre, by identifying and examining the myriad ways fairy tales figure into historical as well as contemporary contexts.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/18/18
  
  • WLC 427 - Cross-Cultural Competence in a Globalized World


    Description:
    An overview of key disciplinary approaches to cross-cultural competence in a globalized world and their application in a variety of contexts. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Recognize and distinguish theoretical approaches to cross-cultural competence from the perspectives of different disciplines.
    • Demonstrate how conceptual tools from different disciplines apply to specific challenges that arise in multicultural and globalized encounters.
    • Compare and contrast theoretical approaches learned in the class in order to analyze different representations of global cross-cultural experiences.
    • Synthesize methods learned in the class in order to generate context-appropriate solutions to specific cross-cultural challenges.
    • Evaluate cross-cultural situations in personal experience.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/15/18

Yearlong Experience in Social Science (YESS)

  
  • YESS 101 - YESS Social Science Perspectives and Research I


    Description:
    This first course in the sequence is designed to offer students an overview of how the social sciences explore the world and will outline opportunities the social sciences have to offer students. Permission by department. Course will be offered every year (Fall).

    Credits: (2)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Name and identify social science concepts and processes to investigate a social, cultural and/or political problem important to society.
    • Identify quantitative and qualitative data to address social science questions.
    • Critically read and summarize social science literature.
    • Express social science concepts and processes to write a scientific proposal.
    • Find and apply social science literature to justify a research proposal.
    • Communicate in writing and orally to a social science audience.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/21/17
  
  • YESS 102 - YESS Social Science Perspectives and Research II


    Description:
    In this second course, students will apply skills learned to investigate the social world, where they will develop a research question and collect data for a supervised student project. Permission by department. Course will be offered every year (Winter).

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisite: YESS 101.

    Credits: (2)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Use social science concepts and processes to differentiate a scientific problem important to them.
    • Collect quantitative and qualitative data to address social science questions.
    • Collaborate with a team to investigate a problem.
    • Communicate in writing and orally to a scientific audience.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/21/17
  
  • YESS 103 - YESS Social Science Perspectives and Research III


    Description:
    Within this final course, students will apply skills learned in previous courses to investigate their social world. Students will apply these skills to carrying out a research project or service learning project. Permission by department. Course will be offered every year (Spring).

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisites: YESS 101 and YESS 102.

    Credits: (1)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Distinguish the objectives and results of research in different fields of social science.
    • Comprehend different social science career options relative to personal interest, knowledge, and skills.
    • Apply scientific concepts and processes to write a social science proposal.
    • Find and use social science literature to justify a proposal.
    • Communicate in writing and orally to a social science audience.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/21/17
 

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