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| ANTH | 307-1 | 43174 | Ancient Egypt | 3 | Special topic description: Ancient Egypt through an archaeological lens. Early settlements through the rise of Pharaonic empires - economic and political organization, intercultural interactions, subsistence, art, architecture, writing, and religion.
ANTH 307 will hold no synchronous meetings; all course work is asynchronous online. |
| ANTH | 339-1 | 43243 | Evolutionary Anatomy | 3 | Special Topic: Evolutionary Anatomy (3 units). Description: Human anatomy from an evolutionary and functional perspective. Emphasis on systems and topics essential to applied and/or evolutionary biological anthropology. Focus is on humans, with comparison to other vertebrates.
The class will hold no synchronous meetings; all course work is asynchronous online. |
| ANTH | 339-2 | 43573 | Comparative Osteology | 1 | Special Topic: Comparative Osteology Lab (1 unit). Description: Hands-on workshop focusing on identification of whole and fragmentary human skeletal remains and of nonhuman skeletal remains common in forensic and archaeological contexts.
The class will meet in BSS 310 on Saturday, October 23, 9:00 AM to 4:50 PM and on Sunday, October 24, 9:00 AM to 12:50 PM. The rest of the course work will be asynchronous online. |
| ANTH | 390-1 | 42879 | China Dreaming | 4 | Special Topic: China Dreaming - Perspectives on contemporary China's diverse and changing culture. We consider emerging social and political institutions, media, literature, film, and ethnographic accounts to gain perspective on aspirations, ideologies, and grounded experience.
ANTH 390 is fully online. The class will meet synchronously online Mondays, 1:00-2:50 PM. The rest of the course work will be asynchronous online. |
| ART | 301-1 | 43005 | Museums & Politics of Display | 3 | Special Topic Description: From cabinets of curiosity to contemporary art fairs, this course will explore the history of exhibition practices and how techniques of display influence our interpretation of objects and cultures. |
| ART | 301-2 | 43006 | Art + Technology | 3 | Special Topic Description: This course will examine the ways that art and technology have interfaced over time ¿ from the invention of paper in the 2nd century to the use of 3D printing today. |
| ART | 304-1 | 43517 | The West | 3 | Special Topic Description: Using the Smithsonian exhibition The West as America, Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820¿1920 as a framework, this course will explore the mythology of ¿The West¿ in American art. |
| ART | 321-1 | 43007 | Comics | 3 | Create original works of sequential art by responding to a series of prompts. Instruction in ink, color watermedia, and basic drafting tools. Explore the work of historical and contemporary cartoonists. Repeatable. |
| ART | 321-2 | 43247 | The Natural World | 3 | Create a series of drawings informed by a study of images and ideas about nature. Instruction in both black and white and color media on paper. Explore the work of historical and contemporary artists who take the natural world as a primary subject. Repeatable. |
| ART | 330-1 | 43011 | Etching | 3 | Special Topic Description: Emphasis on intaglio printmaking processes such as drypoint, engraving, etching and collagraph. Single and multi-plate color printing and techniques such as using chine collé will be covered.
Hybrid with Student Rotation |
| ART | 337-1 | 43012 | Photo: Alternative Processes | 3 | Hybrid with Student Rotation
Special Topic Description: Explore analog photography through non-silver darkroom processes such as cyanotypes, tintypes, and gum bichromates. Repeatable! |
| ART | 349-1 | 43015 | Fabrication Techniques | 3 | Hybrid with Student Rotation |
| ART | 367-1 | 43021 | Experimental Lighting & Printg | 3 | Hybrid with Student Rotation
Special Topic Description: This course is an introduction to archival pigment printing with inkjet printers, on-location lighting and studio lighting. All assignments in this course will have both a strong technical and as well as creative problem-solving component. Repeatable! |
| ART | 372-1 | 43250 | Animation | 3 | Special Topic Description: This class explores the medium of animation as an art form and tool for creative expression. Combine foundational skills and interests as well as observational, manual and critical thinking skillsets with digital tools from Adobe CC to achieve your creative vision. |
| ART | 395-1 | 43022 | Art and Place | 3 | Special Topic Description: Examine the potential of lens-based visual practices to examine the concept of place. Explore image making as a document tool, the means for artistic expression, and an interdisciplinary medium that transcends traditional boundaries of art making. |
| BIOL | 180-2 | 43579 | Among Giants BOG | 1 | AG Biol/Bot/Zool-Small number of optional face-to-face, socially distanced activities TBD (field trips, outdoor class, or possibly indoor activities). |
| BIOL | 180-3 | 43580 | Among Giants BOG | 1 | AG Biol/Zool-Small number of optional face-to-face, socially distanced activities TBD (field trips, outdoor class, or possibly indoor activities). |
| BIOL | 685-1 | 41871 | Visual Pres of Scientific Data | 1 | Virtual synchronous instruction. |
| BIOL | 685-2 | 41872 | Biology of the Chiroptera | 1 | Through selected readings and student presentations, this seminar will cover bat natural history, study methods, ecology, community and social behavior, and specialized adaptations such as physiological torpor, flight, and echolocation. |
| CHEM | 480-1 | 43685 | Organic Laboratory Techniques | 1 | face to face on Saturday and/or Sunday for 3 hours throughout the semester 8 times based on student and faculty availability.
Social distancing and mask required. |
| COMM | 480-1 | 43119 | The Rhetoric of Well-Being | 4 | Special Topic Description: This course will explore a diverse array of human symbolizations of well-being, its meaning, purpose, expression, and attainment. The course design combines discussion, independent study, group work, and lecture to engage students in an in-depth study of what well-being is and how people say they have achieved it. |
| CRGS | 480-1 | 43255 | Radical Futures | 3 | Special Topic Description:
This course will examine local and transnational social movements responding to histories and conditions of colonialism, racial capitalism, and globalization as they relate to the environment today. |
| DANC | 380-1 | 43633 | Aztec Dance | 1 | Special Topic Description: Learn and practice the movements, language, rhythms, rituals, drumming and use of percussive instruments in Aztec dance. Understand Aztec dance as a means of cultural and spiritual revitalization and decolonization of the Nahua and other indigenous peoples of Mexico. |
| ENGL | 336-1 | 43096 | Multicultural Queer Narratives | 4 | Special Topic Description: Fiction, memoir, poetry, film and performances that subvert conventions of sexuality, ethnicity, identity, and narrative. Audre Lorde, Denise Frohman, Deborah Miranda, Franny Choi, Tim'm West, Carla Trujillo, Cherríe Moraga, the film Moonlight, and more. |
| ENGL | 350-1 | 43261 | Witches and Witchcraft | 4 | Special Topic Description: This semester we will draw on a multitude of texts¿literary, legal, religious, and scholarly¿to trace the history of the figure of the witch. Our key questions will be: what is a witch and how, when, and why are witches viewed as a threat? For much of our semester, we will focus of representations of witches and witchcraft in the early modern period, roughly 1490-1650, which was the height of the "witch craze" in England; however, we will end the semester with a look at more contemporary representations of witches in order to think through own cultural fascinations with them. |
| ENGL | 370-1 | 43098 | Power in and of the Home | 4 | Special Topic Description: A place is a space made meaningful and few places are as meaningful as the home. The household or home is a geographical and metaphorical space that is socially, politically, and historically constructed; it can be a place of nurturance, love, and refuge as well as a place of alienation, horror, and violence. We will engage with a variety of texts and disciplines in order to investigate different conceptions of the household and home as well as representations of power within (and without) the home in relation to identity, history, and geography. |
| ENGL | 570-1 | 42663 | Power in and of the Home | 4 | Special Topic Description: A place is a space made meaningful and few places are as meaningful as the home. The household or home is a geographical and metaphorical space that is socially, politically, and historically constructed; it can be a place of nurturance, love, and refuge as well as a place of alienation, horror, and violence. We will engage with a variety of texts and disciplines in order to investigate different conceptions of the household and home as well as representations of power within (and without) the home in relation to identity, history, and geography. |
| ENGR | 280-1 | 41302 | First Year ERE Seminar | 1 | First two weeks of semester, labs will meet virtually during the scheduled meeting time. For the remainder of the semester, students are encouraged to attend in person but will have the option to attend virtually during the scheduled meeting time. In-person attendance will not be not required; however, if attending in person, COVID safety protocols will be required. |
| ENST | 123-1 | 43030 | Fndtns of Organic Gardening | 1 | This is an asynchronous class that runs (Sep 13 - Nov. 19, 2021).
Facilitator: Delaney Schroeder-Echavarria
Email: das21@humboldt.edu |
| ENST | 123-3 | 43434 | Green Building | 1 | This is an asynchronous class that runs (Sep 13 - Nov. 19, 2021).
Facilitator: Klara Hernandez
Email: kh240@humboldt.edu |
| ENST | 123-5 | 43716 | Cooking and Sustainability | 1 | This is an asynchronous class that runs (Sep 13 - Nov. 19, 2021).
Facilitator: Brittany Long
Email: bl154@humboldt.edu |
| ENST | 480-1 | 43436 | Arts, Climate & Health Justice | 3 | Special Topic Description:
ENST480 Arts, Climate & Health Justice (3). A course for anyone interested in climate change, health, and any of the arts. Climate justice is an issue of health justice, and the arts have a role in intervening in systems of injustice. |
| ES | 336-1 | 43097 | Multicultural Queer Narratives | 4 | Special Topic Description:
Fiction, memoir, poetry, film and performances that subvert conventions of sexuality, ethnicity, identity, and narrative. Audre Lorde, Denise Frohman, Deborah Miranda, Franny Choi, Tim'm West, Carla Trujillo, Cherríe Moraga, the film Moonlight, and more. |
| ES | 480-1 | 42886 | Campus Dialogue on Race | 1 | Special Topic Description:
Dynamic speakers, workshops, exhibits and screenings that relate to racial justice, civil rights, democracy, intersectional analysis, and strategies for transformation.
Attend Campus Dialogue on Race events TBA. |
| FREN | 340-1 | 43510 | Mémoires d'immigrés | 2 | Special Topic Description: Mémoires' immigrés: Through novels and films, the class will explore how immigrants, via their own experiences, tell stories that challenge the demonization to which immigrants of color are subjected in the media.
FREN 340 is fully online. The class will meet virtually on Tuesdays, 11:00-12:50. |
| FREN | 390-1 | 42966 | The Arab Spring and Beyond | 1 | Special Topic Description: The Arab Spring and Beyond - This seminar assesses the outcomes of the revolution in light of two of the most notorious social movements of the past fifty years: "May 68" and the 2011 "Occupy" movement.
FREN 390 will be fully online. Class will meet virtually on Tuesdays, 9/7 to 9/28, from 6:00 to 8:50 PM. The remaining coursework will be conducted asynchronously. |
| GEOG | 471-1 | 43042 | Humboldt Geographic | 3 | Special Topic: Work on an editorial team producing a geography-based journal featuring department news, features, geographic research, alumni updates, maps, and geovisualizations. Each student also produces written copy and conducts layout.
Class will meet online on Mondays, 3:00-4:20. The rest of the course work will be asynchronous online. |
| GEOG | 472-1 | 43671 | African History & Civilization | 4 | The class is fully online, and will meet virtually on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 AM to 12:50 PM. |
| GEOG | 472-1 | 43671 | African History & Civilization | 4 | Special Topic: African History & Civilization. This is an upper division survey course that explores key developments in Sub-Saharan history since the Berlin Conference of 1885. The course will focus on the effects of colonialism, the struggle for independence, issues of human rights, careful analyses of interactions between the former colonizers and colonized nations. |
| GEOL | 380-1 | 42092 | Hydrogeology | 3 | Face-to-face lecturers. Must be taken concurrently with Geol 380L Hydrogeology Lab. |
| GEOL | 380L-1 | 42093 | Hydrogeology | 1 | Face-to-face labs and field trips. Must be taken concurrently with Geol 380 Hydrogeology. |
| GEOL | 531L-1 | 43399 | Adv Skills in Prof Geology | 1 | Face-to-face field trips.
There is a $25 class fee associated with this class. |
| HIST | 392-1 | 43487 | History of Science | 4 | Special Topic Description:
HIST 392-History of Science from the Renaissance to Alexander von Humboldt This course surveys the history and historiography of science, ideas, and scholarship (intellectual history) from the Italian Renaissance until the turn of the nineteenth century: Renaissance classical humanism, the scientific revolution, and Enlightenment. Special emphasis is placed on the patronage of scholarship, alchemy, witchcraft/demonology, secularization/disenchantment, intellectual infrastructure (the invention of the scholarly journal and the research university), and the pseudo-science of race in the eighteenth century. This course satisfies History Department major requirements for the ¿European Area.¿ |
| HIST | 397-1 | 43230 | Nazism in 18th Century: FIlm | 1 | Special Topic Description:
This film seminar examines the Nazi portrayal of the eighteenth century in film. King Frederick II "the Great" (1712-1786) was one of the favorite historical subjects of Nazi film propaganda, and this seminar will examine several of the feature films in the "Prussian" series, such as "The Hymn of Leuthen" (1933), "The Old and the Young King" (1935), "Fridericus" (1937), and "The Great King" (1942). Moreover the seminar will view and discuss "Jud Süß" (1940), the Nazi retelling (in film) of the story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (1698-1738): the Jew who served as the chief financial officer of the Duke of Württemberg, but was then accused of fraud, embezzlement, and lechery and brutally executed. This course fulfills part of the "practicum" requirement for the History major. Trigger Warning: This course will closely examine and discuss material that is objectionable on several levels, from the mendacity, brutality, and popularity of the Nazis to their vociferous and earnest anti-Semitism. Expect to be appalled.
Class meets 9/24/21 from 5:00-8:00PM & 9/25/21 from 9:00AM to 5:00PM & 4 hours ONL/TBA |
| INTL | 480-1 | 43294 | IEW Leadership | 1 | International Education Week occurs in the fourth week of classes in the spring semester. This special topics class is the planning hub for IEW programming. As such, the work is spread across both fall and spring semesters. Students are expected to help plan/organize/promote the event and participate in one IEW session. During IEW, students will help ensure the event runs smoothly. IEW is an annual event at HSU that seeks to find the global in the local and to bring the global here to Humboldt (see: https://iew.humboldt.edu/). Space is limited and a permission number is required so email asap: alison.holmes@humboldt.edu. |
| MATH | 485-1 | 41077 | Seminar In Math - Colloquium | 1 | First two weeks of course is online. Remaining semester students will have the option to attend either in person or virtually during the scheduled meeting time. In-person attendance will not be not required; however, if attending in person, COVID safety protocol is required. |
| MUS | 180-1 | 43637 | Mariachi de Humboldt | 1 | Special Topic Description:
An ensemble exploring various mariachi styles with authentic instrumentation. Open to all levels of experience with guitar, violin, trumpet, or singing |
| MUS | 180-2 | 43638 | Fundamentals of Music Support | 1 | Special Topic Description:
Extra assistance and practice for MUS 110 Fundamentals of Music |
| PSCI | 485-10 | 43091 | Democracy and Populism | 4 | Special Topic Description: Many say we are living in a "populist moment." To some, this is a threat to democracy and inclusion, in favor of charismatic leaders and post-truth politics. To others, populism allows ordinary people to challenge domination by ruling elites. We¿ll develop our understanding of both democracy and populism in order to examine the relationship between them. This seminar will enable every student to formulate their own capstone project that addresses some element of this theme.
Face-to-face class meeting once a week (social distance and masks required) with asynchronous virtual work |
| RS | 393-1 | 42700 | Cults & NewReligiousMovements | 3 | Special Topic Description:
How do you tell if you or a loved one is a member of a doomsday cult? Why did people join People's Temple, Branch Davidians, or Heaven's Gate? How did Scientology, Jehovah's Witness, and Mormonism grow from small cults into global religions? What are guru-ism, New Age, Neopaganism, and Wicca? Which cults target HSU students? What is intentional living? Hasidic Judaism, Pentecostal Christianity, and Shi'a Islam are also introduced. Course will benefit psychology, biology, and anthropology majors. |
| WLDF | 480-1 | 41681 | Selected Topics Wildlife Mgmt | 1 | F2F in-person class (Saturday 9/11/21 & Saturday 9/18/21, times TBD) with 1 online synchronous planning meeting before 9/11/21 and 1 online meeting after 9/18/21. Activities will include camera trapping and radio telemetry at Arcata Community forest and Ma-le'l Dunes. |
| WLDF | 480-2 | 43628 | Selected Topics Wildlife Mgmt | 1 | F2F in-person class (Saturday 9/11/21 & Saturday 9/18/21, times TBD) with 1 online synchronous planning meeting before 9/11/21 and 1 online meeting after 9/18/21. Activities will include camera trapping and radio telemetry at Arcata Community forest and Ma-le'l Dunes. |
| WLDF | 480-3 | 43629 | Selected Topics Wildlife Mgmt | 1 | F2F in-person class (Friday 9/25/21 5:30 - 7:30 PM, Saturday 9/26/21 & Sunday 9/27/21, times TBD) with 1 online synchronous planning meeting before 9/25/21 and 1 online meeting after 9/27/21. Activities will include small mammal trapping and camera trapping at Ma-le'l Dunes. |
| WLDF | 480-4 | 43630 | Selected Topics Wildlife Mgmt | 1 | F2F in-person class (Saturday 10/2/21 & Saturday 10/9/21, times TBD) with 1 online synchronous planning meeting before 10/2/21 and 1 online meeting after 10/921. Activities will include point counts and vegetation surveys at Ma-le'l Dunes, mist-netting and herp cover boards at Wright Refuge. |
| WLDF | 480-5 | 43631 | Selected Topics Wildlife Mgmt | 1 | F2F in-person class (Saturday 10/2/21 & Saturday 10/9/21, times TBD) with 1 online synchronous planning meeting before 10/2/21 and 1 online meeting after 10/921. Activities will include point counts and vegetation surveys at Ma-le'l Dunes, mist-netting and herp cover boards at Wright Refuge. |
| WS | 336-1 | 42893 | Multicultural Queer Narratives | 4 | Special Topic Description:
Fiction, memoir, poetry, film and performances that subvert conventions of sexuality, ethnicity, identity, and narrative. Audre Lorde, Denise Frohman, Deborah Miranda, Franny Choi, Tim'm West, Carla Trujillo, Cherríe Moraga, the film Moonlight, and more. |