2014-2015 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    May 03, 2024  
2014-2015 Graduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


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History of Art

  
  • HOA 656 - Literature of Art Criticism

    3-4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Leading trends in art criticism from the 16th to the early 21st century.
  
  • HOA 657 - Contemporary Art Criticism

    3-4 credit(s) Irregularly
    Early 20th-century foundations and development of criticism within the past two decades. Interpretive strategies, such as meta history, feminism, poststructuralism, and the anthropology of art.
  
  • HOA 670 - Experience Credit

    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
    Repeatable
  
  • HOA 676 - Seminar in American Art

    3-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    A specified topic is announced each time the course is offered.
    Repeatable
  
  • HOA 680 - International Course

    1-12 credit(s)
    Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution’s practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student’s transcript.
    Repeatable
  
  • HOA 690 - Independent Study

    1-6 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
    Repeatable
  
  • HOA 720 - Seminar Medieval Art

    3-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    In depth exploration of a problem relating to medieval art and/or architecture. Topic determined each semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • HOA 740 - Seminar/Baroque Art

    3-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Selected topics in the arts of the 17th century. Topics determined each semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • HOA 756 - Seminar in Modern Art

    3-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Selected topics in the arts of the 20th century. Topics determined each semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • HOA 757 - Art History Symposium Project

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Final M.A. research project, equivalent to a thesis, in which students research, write and orally present substantial and original scholarly work in art history. Permission of director of graduate studies.
  
  • HOA 758 - Selected Readings in Arts & Ideas

    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Selected readings on the arts and their relationship to their times. Subject areas and readings determined each semester.

History of Music

  
  • HOM 500 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • HOM 512 - World Music and Film

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    The global flows of music explored through commercial, ethnographic, documentary, and animated films. How music and musicians outside the Euro-American mainstream have been represented, creatively adopted and recontextualized, and used to construct meaning.
    PREREQ: ANY HOM 100-699 LEVEL OR ANY MHL 100-699 LEVEL
  
  • HOM 541 - Art and Ideas in the 17th Century

    3-4 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: HOA 541 
    A consideration of music, literature, and the visual arts in the context of 17th-century life. A study of the interrelationship of the main forces in society and their expression in the arts.
  
  • HOM 560 - Arts and Ideas in the Nineteenth Century

    3-4 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: HOA 560 
    Music and the visual arts in 19th-century European culture.
  
  • HOM 561 - Music and Shakespeare

    3-4 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: DRA 561 
    A discussion-based course investigating the place of music in Shakespeare’s plays. Also considers the role of music in early modern English culture as well as later musical adaptations of Shakespeare.
  
  • HOM 562 - Bach and Handel

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Explores the careers and compositional output of Bach and Handel. Considers issues of genre, style, theology and religion, nationhood, and patronage.
    PREREQ: ANY HOM 100-699 LEVEL OR ANY MHL 100-699 LEVEL
  
  • HOM 563 - The Operas of Wagner

    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    The historical analysis, interpretation, and reception history of Wagner’s musical and dramatic work.
    PREREQ: HOM 165 OR 166 OR 266 OR HOM/MHL 267 OR MHL 168
  
  • HOM 568 - Music of Beethoven

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Life and works of Beethoven in their social context. Beethoven as cultural symbol and in the development of style. Intensive focus on specific works.
    PREREQ: MTC 146
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
  
  • HOM 571 - Popular Music Studies

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    A research seminar in the study of popular music with emphasis on methodologies from a variety of disciplines ranging from musicology and music theory to sociology and cultural studies.
    PREREQ: ANY HOM 100-699 LEVEL OR ANY MHL 100-699 LEVEL
  
  • HOM 573 - History of American Song

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    The American art song, emphasizing the 20th-century composers. Musical style of works, placed in their social and cultural contexts.
    PREREQ: MTC 146
  
  • HOM 575 - Arts and Ideas in Contemporary Culture

    3-4 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: HOA 575 
    Place of music and the visual arts in the context of contemporary life. Inter-relationship between the main forces of society and their expression in the arts.
  
  • HOM 592 - Music, Space and Place

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    An exploration of the relationships between music, space and place, considered from a variety of musical practices and scholarly methodologies.
  
  • HOM 600 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • HOM 680 - International Course

    1-12 credit(s) Irregularly
    Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution’s practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student’s transcript.
    Repeatable
  
  • HOM 685 - Contemporary Indigenous Soundscapes

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: HOM 485
    An interdisciplinary course about music and dance cultures of the world’s indigenous peoples in the context of contemporary social, cultural, and political issues: religion, identity, representation, globalization, tourism, political movements. Additional work required of graduate students.

Harpsichord

  
  • HPD 530 - Harpsichord Instruction

    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For non-music students.
  
  • HPD 535 - Harpsichord Instruction

    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For music students.
  
  • HPD 536 - Harpsichord Instruction

    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For music students.

Harp

  
  • HRP 550 - Harp Instruction

    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For non-music students.
  
  • HRP 555 - Harp Instruction

    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For music students.
  
  • HRP 556 - Harp Instruction

    1-4 credit(s) Every semester
    For music students.
  
  • HRP 655 - Harp Instruction

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For music majors.
  
  • HRP 656 - Harp Instruction

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For music majors.
  
  • HRP 755 - Harp Instruction

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For music majors.
  
  • HRP 756 - Harp Instruction

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    For music majors.

History

  
  • HST 500 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • HST 510 - Studies in African American History

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: AAS 510 
    Particular periods or aspects of African American history.
    Repeatable
  
  • HST 600 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • HST 615 - Graduate Preparation

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Sections offered corresponding to the major areas of history so graduate students may prepare for more advanced graduate study.
    Repeatable
  
  • HST 622 - Empire

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Seminar on classic texts about empire from Thucydides to The Federalist. Studied from 432 B.C. to the present.
  
  • HST 625 - The European Union

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: SOS 625 
    Interdisciplinary introduction to history, politics, and economics of the European community.
  
  • HST 634 - Underground Railroad

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: AAS 634 , ANT 694 
    Double Numbered with: HST 434
    Myth and history of the Underground in the context of African American freedom efforts. Emphasis on events, personalities, and sites in upstate New York. Student field research and exploration of archival and Internet resources. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • HST 635 - European Perspectives on Contemporary War and Conflict

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: PAI 635 
    Seminars conducted at the Syracuse University campus with a week in London to examine the evolution of armed interventions. Meetings with scholars and practitioners in London will bring European perspectives to contemporary conflicts.
  
  • HST 644 - Israel and Palestine: Historical Approaches

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: MES 644 
    A thorough historical grounding for understanding contemporary Israel and Palestine in terms of changing social, economic, cultural and political contexts.
  
  • HST 645 - History of International Relations

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: PAI 645 
    Provide professional masters-level students with a solid grounding in the history of international relations around a common theme of states and empires throughout various important time periods.
  
  • HST 682 - Foundations of American Political Thought

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: PSC 716 , SOS 716 
    American political thought to about 1820. Puritans, American Revolution, establishment of the Constitution, and thought of Hamilton and Jefferson.
  
  • HST 689 - Race and Law

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Race and law in American history, 1600-1960, the historical experience of African-Americans, the indigenous peoples, and Asian-Americans.
  
  • HST 690 - Independent Study

    1-6 credit(s)
    Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
    Repeatable
  
  • HST 693 - Oral History Workshop

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: DFH 693 
    Examines the practice of oral history from methodological and theoretical levels, the differences between individual and collective memories, and its application to analysis of events, ethical dimensions, and technological tools.
  
  • HST 695 - Historical Narratives and Interpretation

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: DFH 695 
    Comparison and exploration of the documentary and the written word as alternative formats for presenting history. Documentaries and historical writings are examined and discussed using case studies.
  
  • HST 700 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • HST 715 - Readings and Research in American History

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Repeatable
  
  • HST 725 - Readings and Research in Latin American History

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Secondary readings in Latin American history.
    Repeatable
  
  • HST 735 - Readings and Research in European History

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Repeatable
  
  • HST 738 - American Legal History: Modern Public Law

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    A history of American constitutional law from reconstruction to c. 1960.
  
  • HST 755 - Readings and Research in Eastern European History

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Secondary literature in Eastern European history.
  
  • HST 765 - Readings and Research in African History

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: AAS 765 
  
  • HST 775 - Readings and Research in South Asian History

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Crosslisted with: SAS 775 
    Graduate seminar introducing main debates in the historiography of late medieval and modern South Asia.
  
  • HST 800 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s)
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • HST 801 - Historiography

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
  
  • HST 802 - Modes of Analysis in History

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    The colloquium will discuss a large variety of articles and monographs in European and American history.
  
  • HST 803 - Theories and Philosophies of History

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    History of historical thought and practice in the development of modern historical method.
  
  • HST 804 - First-Year Graduate Research Seminar

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Seminar geared to particular research interests of first-year students.
  
  • HST 805 - Seminar in American History

    3 credit(s) Every semester
  
  • HST 806 - Seminar in European History

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
  
  • HST 950 - Documentary Film and History Program Paper

    3 credit(s)
    Alternative to TRF 650  for Documentary Film and History students. Substantial research paper with accompanying documentary treatment.
  
  • HST 990 - Independent Study

    1-6 credit(s)
    Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
    Repeatable
  
  • HST 996 - Graduate Readings

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    To be used for field exam study. One year of coursework in the Ph.D. program is required.
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
  
  • HST 997 - Masters Thesis

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Repeatable
  
  • HST 999 - Doctoral Dissertation

    1-15 credit(s) Every semester
    Repeatable

Health and Wellness

  
  • HTW 603 - Introduction to Trauma Studies

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: MFT 603 
    This course is an overview of trauma studies and examines trauma typology, prevention, and intervention and is taught through an ecosystemic lens.
  
  • HTW 604 - Comparative Health Policy

    6 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Double Numbered with: HTW 404
    Overview of health systems and policies of selected developed and developing countries. Policies and programs used to address a health problem in a selected country will be compared to policy approaches in other countries. Offered only overseas through Syracuse University Abroad.
  
  • HTW 605 - Cognitive Behavioral Approaches to Stress Reduction

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: HTW 405
    Students will learn mindfulness practices for professional self-care and as therapeutic modalities. Examining stressors mindfully through focused attention on the present. Separately observing the mind’s cognitive and emotive reactions to present, past and anticipated events. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • HTW 606 - Clinical Evaluation and Assessment of Addictions

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: HTW 406
    Pre-treatment tools for engaging individuals in the evaluation and assessment of potentially problematic use of addictive and other addictive behaviors. Emphasizes the bio-psycho-social underpinnings of addictions. Role of the counselor as change agent. Additional work required of graduate students.
    COREQ: HTW 618 
  
  • HTW 607 - Motivational Interviewing for Behavioral Change

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: HTW 407
    Philosophies, practices,and outcomes of behavioral change. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused approaches to addictions and related health counseling. Individual counseling, goal setting and relapse prevention techniques. Additonal work required of graduate students.
  
  • HTW 608 - Addictions in Cultural Context

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: HTW 408
    Exploration of the role played by drugs in different societies, and follows the dissemination of different substances in the process of cultural encounters. Additional work required of graduate students.
    COREQ: HTW 618 
  
  • HTW 609 - The Impact of Addictions on Families and Relationships

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: HTW 409
    Knowledge of effects of chemical dependency on family, significant others and the importance of family support in recovery. Knowledge of basic family treatment approaches. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • HTW 610 - Addictions Treatment Planning and Referral

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: HTW 410
    Treatment, planning, clinical record keeping, and discharge planning in addition to individual and group, recovery models, replacement therapy, and dual-diagnosis. Additional work required of graduate students.
    PREREQ: HTW 606 
  
  • HTW 612 - Global Perspectives in Alcohol & Other Drug Policies

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Double Numbered with: HTW 412
    Traveling throughout Europe, this seminar course examines historical and contemporary influences of public health, drug policies, the drug war and their connections with complex trans-national economic issues such as immigration, and human trafficking. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • HTW 615 - Public Health Ethics

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: HTW 415
    Ethical issues in public health, including legal and policy responses. Role of religious and social values in setting health policy. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • HTW 618 - Alcohol, Other Drugs, Sex and Gambling: Dynamics of Addiction

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Double Numbered with: HTW 318
    The biological, psychological, and social factors of substance use and related addictions that exist across cultures and species. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • HTW 621 - Research Methods in Public Health

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    This course will provide students with an introduction to research methods common in the field of Public Health. The course will focus on methods for community-based research involving human participants.
  
  • HTW 622 - Research Proposal Development

    2 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Planning, design, organization and management of a master¿s level research project or thesis in the public health, food studies and nutrition disciplines.
  
  • HTW 623 - Ethical Issues in Public Health, Food and Nutrition Research

    1 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Focuses exclusively on ethics in the conduct of research and includes a guided process to completion of an IRB application.
    PREREQ: HTW 622 
  
  • HTW 624 - Prevention in Addiction Services

    4 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: HTW 321
    Theories, principles and strategies relevant to addiction prevention services with diverse populations. Provides an overview to the design and evaluation of addiction prevention programs. 15 hours of community based prevention activities required.
    PREREQ: HTW 618 
  
  • HTW 636 - Ethics in Addiction Services

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: HTW 436
    Application of professional codes of ethics and ethical standards using case studies of ethical dilemmas within the addiction services. Additional work required of graduate students
  
  • HTW 638 - Native American Health Promotion

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: NAT 638 
    Double Numbered with: HTW 438
    Examines Native American culture and its contribution to wellness, including indigenous foodways, fitness and indigenous knowledge as an adjunct to chemical dependency treatment. Includes the historical roots of trauma as social determinants of health disparities. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • HTW 661 - Development and Evaluation of Global Health Programs

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Use of common paradigms employed by global agencies promoting best-practice in program design, implementation and evaluation. Students analyze a range of global health programs, reflecting direct service, prevention, partnership, capacity building, and systems strengthening.
  
  • HTW 662 - Culture and Reproductive Health and Medicine

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: ANT 662 
    Double Numbered with: HTW 462
    Cultural anthropological approaches to cross-cultural variations in reproductive practices (pregnancy, childbirth, infertility, etc.) Impact of globalization, biomedicalization, international development on reproduction and reproductive health. Medical anthropology and gender studies.
  
  • HTW 663 - Global Health

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: ANT 663 
    Double Numbered with: HTW 463
    Global health in anthropological perspective. Examines how culture affects people’s experience and response to morbidity and mortality. Considers topics like gender and health, reproductive health, infectious disease, health and inequality and health and war.
  
  • HTW 664 - Social & Behavioral Determinants in Global Health

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Child and family health problems and issues over the lifespan with particular attention to main biomedical and biosocial causes of poor health and shortened survival. Examples from local, national, and international settings reviewed in depth.
  
  • HTW 665 - Applied Global Health Practice and Policy

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: PAI 665 
    Applied practice of global health, focused in developing countries, through grounding in current global health practice and policy review and multidisciplinary global health classroom projects.
  
  • HTW 667 - Graduate Practicum in Global Health

    4 credit(s) Every semester
    An opportunity for students to understand and apply global health competencies through direct experience in a global setting, providing cross-cultural experience and understanding of global health policies and practices in the field.
    PREREQ: HTW 661  AND HTW 664  AND HTW 665  AND HTW 668 
  
  • HTW 668 - Applied Epidemiology in Global Health

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Epidemiological methods used in the study of the etiology, distribution, and control of child, family and global community health problems. Topics will be illustrated with examples from local, national and global settings.
  
  • HTW 669 - Disability, Food, and Health

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: DSP 669 
    Major theories, historical events, law, services, and research related to health and wellness for persons with disabilities including disparities, health promotion, ethics, aging, violence, and disaster preparedness.
  
  • HTW 670 - Experience Credit

    1-6 credit(s)
    Repeatable
  
  • HTW 690 - Independent Study

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
    Repeatable
  
  • HTW 702 - Child and Family Health Policy in the Global Community

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Overview of the major health and welfare policies and programs for children and families in the U.S. and other global settings. Students will learn about issues around community participation in selected global contexts.
  
  • HTW 704 - Epidemiology of Modern Plagues

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    An introduction to topics and methods in infectious disease epidemiology. Includes the use of geographic information systems to visualize infectious disease trends and estimating the importance of risk factors associated with the disease.
 

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