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HHP 287 Create Holistic Practice
0.5 Credit
This course teaches the skills necessary to
start an independent practice. The course
includes self-assessment of professional skills,
the business plan for marketing and finance
and the actual design of the practice.
HIS - HISTORY
HIS 101 Western Civilization I
(Core)
3 Credits
This course surveys a number of events,
trends, peoples, groups, ideas and institutions
that have shaped Western Civilization from
the prehistoric era to 1650. The course
reflects the multiple perspectives of gender,
class, religion and ethnic groups. A principle
focus of this course is on developing, practicing
and strengthening the skills historians use
while constructing knowledge in this discipline.
HIS 102 Western Civilization II
(Core)
3 Credits
This course surveys a number of events,
trends, peoples, groups, ideas and institutions
that have shaped Western Civilization from
1650 to the present. The course reflects the
multiple perspectives of gender, class, religion
and ethnic groups. A principal focus of this
course is on developing, practicing and
strengthening the skills historians use while
constructing knowledge in this discipline.
HIS 116 The Native American
Experience
3 Credits
This course is an introduction to the Native
Americans’ historical and socio-cultural
development with emphasis upon those
processes and relations with non-Native
Americans, which have contributed to the
current conditions.
HIS 137 Contemporary World
History
3 Credits
This course investigates the major political,
social and economic developments, international
relationships, scientific breakthroughs
and cultural trends that have shaped the various
global regions and nation-states from
1900 to the present. Emphasis is placed on
the interactions of global regions and nation
states.
HIS 201 United States History I
(Core)
3 Credits
This course surveys events, trends, peoples,
groups, cultures, ideas and institutions in
North American and United States history,
including the multiple perspectives of gender,
class and ethnicity, between the period when
Native Americans were the sole inhabitants of
North America and the American Civil War.
A principle focus of this course is on developing,
practicing and strengthening the skills
historians use while constructing knowledge
in this discipline.
HIS 202 United States History II
(Core)
3 Credits
This course surveys events, trends, peoples,
groups, cultures, ideas and institutions in
United States history, including the multiple
perspectives of gender, class and ethnicity,
between the American Civil War and the present.
A principal focus of this course is on
developing, practicing and strengthening the
skills historians use while constructing knowledge
in this discipline.
HIS 215 Women in U.S. History
3 Credits
This course surveys women’s changing roles
in American history from the pre-colonial
period to the present. Special emphasis is
placed on the nature of women’s work, gender
relationships and the participation of
women in the family, political, religious and
cultural activities and reform movements.
HIS 225 Colorado History
3 Credits
This course presents the story of the people,
society and cultures of Colorado from the earliest
Native Americans through the Spanish
influx, the explorers, the fur traders and the
mountain men, the gold rush, railroad
builders, the cattlemen and farmers, the silver
boom, the tourists and the modern state.
HIS 236 Contemporary United
States History
3 Credits
This course surveys the major political, economic,
social and cultural developments that
have shaped modern America.
HIS 276 History of Meso-America
3 Credits
This course traces the history of the indigenous
people of Mexico from the first inhabitants
through the conquest by the Spanish in
1521 A.D.Special emphasis is placed on such
cultures as the Olmec, Maya, Toltec, Totonac,
Teotihuccan and Aztec.Topics include the
daily life, religion, art, social and political
organization and other historical characteristics
of these groups of people.
HUM - HUMANITIES
HUM 118 Religion in American
Culture
3 Credits
This course investigates the various ways in
which religion and American culture interact.
Beginning with the religion of Native
Americans, which existed in a pre-modern
society where religion went unchallenged as
the preeminent organizing principle, to our
post-modern era, where religion competes
with a multiplicity of other belief systems in a
complex societal matrix. This course pays
close attention to the ways in which religion
and American culture interface.
HUM 119 Early Christian Literature
3 Credits
This course surveys the literature of the early
Christian era, from its inception to approximately
150 C.E. The New Testament, as well
as selected noncanonical writings from this
period are examined. The course focuses on
the interpretation of these texts in light of the
cultural milieu from which they arose.
Particular attention is paid to the influence of
ancient literary conventions upon the
Christian writers of this time.
HUM 121 Survey of Humanities I
(Core)
3 Credits
Through a study of the visual arts, literature,
drama, music and philosophy of early civilizations,
Greek and Roman antiquity and
Christian eras, this course introduces students
to the history of ideas in Western cultures.
The course emphasizes connections among
the arts, values and diverse cultures.
HUM 122 Survey of Humanities II
(Core)
3 Credits
This course examines the Medieval,
Renaissance and Baroque periods through a
study of the visual arts, literature, music and
philosophy.The course compares and contrasts
diverse cultural ideas and feminine and
masculine viewpoints.
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