Four additional hours must be selected from the following interdisciplinary electives:
Exploration of liberal studies topics relating to Boyer Categories. You may enroll in LIS 360 and 460 mulitple times as long as the topic varies.
Themes in Western Culture - The course aims to improve knowledge and appreciation of themes in western culture. Readings are selected from a wide range of authors who are generally considered to be part of the cultural and literary heritance. The rationale is that a good education is a life long asset and enriches life and living.
Stress And You - Stress is one of the major public health issues in America today. Stress contributes to heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, substance abuse, interpersonal violence, unsuccessful interpersonal relationships, etc. In addition, absenteeism, turnover and loss of productivity as well as work-related accidents cost businesses billions of dollars each year. Students will study the causes and consequences of stress socially and personally. In addition, students will complete a self-assessment, develop a stress reduction program and learn holistic approaches to stress reduction.
Memiors Across Cultures - This is a course about reading, analyzing, writing, and redefining memoir. Autobiographical writings look at the inner life of the authors as well as the outer events. They can be told in the first, second, or third person, or from multiple narrative perspectives. We will read life stories from different cultures and written in different times. Their lengths vary from one page to over three hundred page. Most of the memoirs we will read focus on a specific time period and/or important persons or events in one’s life. We will examine how historical context, cultural memories, and identities are represented in these personal narratives, and in the process redefine the genre of memoir.
Medical Anthropology - This course introduces the field of Medical Anthropology, which is, loosely defined, the study of culture and health. It is a broad field engaged in a wide variety of theoretical and practical issues, from symbolic constructions of the physical and social body to strategies for promoting bednet use, from cultural models of body, health, and disease to understanding why some people won't take red pills against malaria, from embodied experience of the sick role and illness narratives to the politics of responsibility for health and financial strategies of pharmaceutical companies.
Expatriate Paris 1900-1940 - This course will study the works of artists and writers from all over the world who settled in Paris between 1900 and 1940. We will concentrate on works by Foujita, Modigliani, Chagal, Picasso, Brancusi, Hemingwary, Henry James, Bunin, Tsvetaeva, Appolinaire.
LIS 471 Honors Thesis (Online/On Campus, 2 hours)
*LIS 301 must be completed before enrolling in additional coursework toward the major.
Please consult the Online Course History (on Advising page) to learn more about specific course descriptions.
