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HTY 275 - Geography of Globalization
Examines changing demographic, economic, political, and cultural connections across the globe over the past 500 years; their representation through maps; and our current awareness of the globe and the Earth’s environment. (GEO 275 and HTY 275 are identical courses.)
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Population and the Environment
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 278 - American Military History
America’s experience with warfare, from the colonial period through the Vietnam era. How American wars have been fought, and the complex interrelationship between American society and the military, including economic, political and social factors.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 279 - European Military History
A survey from the 18th Century to the present. Examines the causes and nature of war, the relationship of soldiers and civilians, and war’s impact on modern society.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years
Credits: 3
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HTY 281 - Military History of Modern Asia
The course explores the origins and historical developments in the military and strategic history of the Asia Pacific region. Students will begin by examining the regional strategic situation that existed in the aftermath of World War II in East Asia. Students will then move on to consider the origins of the Cold war in East Asia, the Chinese and Japanese Grand Strategy, and the modern history of the divided Korean nation. Students will also discuss the partition of British India in 1974 and the making of two countries (India and Pakistan), the historical rivalry between India and Pakistan, overt nuclearization in South Asia as well as evolving forces of nationalism and religious extremism in this region. Students will also concentrate on the transformations of Indian democracy, and the rise and fall of dictatorships in Pakistan. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of historical materials, including recently published historical works in history and strategic studies, as well as films and documentaries to frame and understand Asia Pacific history.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Course Typically Offered: Alternating years
Credits: 3
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HTY 311 - Research Seminar
A writing intensive seminar that introduces students to the historiography and methodology of important themes in history. Its topics vary. This is a required seminar for all History majors as preparation for the Senior Seminar. Utilizing secondary and selected primary sources students will consider how historians construct different interpretative narratives of past events.
General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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HTY 312 - Furs, Frontiers, and Fame: North American Exploration
This course examines the identities, practices, and spaces of exploration in North America from the late fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Different political, economic, scientific, and cultural motives for the exploration of Canada and the United States over time will be compared and contrasted. The experiences of Spanish, French, English, Russian, American, and Canadian explorers and expeditions will be situated in local, national, imperial, and global contexts. The course will broadly explore the themes of cross-cultural encounter, exploration and science, textual and visual representation, and the public commemoration of explorers and exploration.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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HTY 330 - Robber Barons, Reformers and Radicals 1877-1914
Traces the transformation of the United States into a modern nation by exploring themes of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, politics, and imperial outreach. Particularly focuses on the contest of power between so-called “Robber Barons”, or industrial leaders, and the reformers and radicals who challenged their vision for the nation.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 332 - Womanhood in America
Examines the changing experiences of American women from colonial times to the present. Emphasis on what women did and what they were told to do, the experiences of different groups of women, and the ways in which women worked to change their situation.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 341 - The Making of Modern China
A survey of social, economic, cultural and political development in China from 1600 to the present. Emphasis will be on the 20th century, especially on the Communist Revolution and the “market economy reform” period since 1978.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Social Contexts and Institutions
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 349 - Early Modern North America in Atlantic Perspective
Reflecting the increasing globalization of modern society, this course employs an Atlantic perspective to understand the international history of early modern North America. Focuses on the geography of the European empires that shaped North America, beginning with the Spanish and the French, and then focusing on the British and the revolt of the American colonies. (GEO 349 and HTY 349 are identical courses.)
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 365 - The American Immigrant Experience
Writing Intensive course that examines the many kinds of immigrant experiences in the American colonies and the United States from 1600 to the present day, drawing on first-person accounts and historians’ interpretations. Considers the influence of age, sex, legal status, race, religion, occupation, and class, as well as whether immigrants came voluntarily, as free persons, or by force, as slave labor.
General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive and Population & Environment
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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HTY 398 - Historical Issues
An exploration of selected contemporary historical issues not covered in existing courses. In some cases the specific topic and methodology may be chosen jointly by interested students and an instructor.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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HTY 402 - Roman History
The rise of ancient Rome from a small Italian town to mistress of the Mediterranean. Problems of excessive greatness including failure of a city-state republic to rule a vast empire and triumph of Caesarism. Covers the establishment of the “Roman Peace” under the emperors, “Christianization” and problem of the “Decline of Rome”.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 403 - Early Middle Ages
Europe from late antiquity to about 950, considering the social, economic, political, and intellectual developments during Merovingian and Carolingian times, emphasizing the early medieval agricultural revolution and reconstructing the factors affecting the lives of ordinary people.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 404 - Late Middle Ages
Social, economic, political, and intellectual history of Europe from 950 to the Renaissance, focusing on the medieval frontier period and the late medieval era of environmental crisis and economic contraction.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Population and the Environment
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 405 - Early Modern Europe: The Age of Reform
A survey of the cultural, religious, social, economic and political history of Europe from 1300 to the end of the period of religious wars. Emphasis on the cultural rebirth following upon the recovery of the art, literature and philosophy of cultural antiquity; on the Reformation and Counter-Reformation as marking the end of the “closed,” relatively homogeneous world of Medieval Christendom and an entrance into a more open universe of spiritual and intellectual possibilities; and on the economic, social and technological transformations that made possible and were in turn accelerated by the expansion of European societies into Africa, Asia and the Americas.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, Western Cultural Tradition and Writing Intensive
Prerequisites: Three Credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 407 - The Age of Monarchs and Revolution: Europe, 1648-1815
Covers the later part of Early Modern European history and the early years of modern Europe: 1648-1815. Discusses the concepts and significant social and political events and issues, such as absolutist monarchies, feudalism, nobility, the Church, peasantry, the Enlightenment, nationalism, liberalism, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Empire.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Corequisites: Not Regularly Offered
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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HTY 409 - European Society and Culture in the Age of Total War
Europe in the age of the two world wars, focusing on the causes and consequences of the wars themselves, concurrent political and social problems, and the intellectual and cultural contexts.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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HTY 411 - The Holocaust
The Nazi persecution and extermination of European Jews (1933-1945) including the exploration of modern anti-Semitism, Nazi ideology, the persecution of German Jews after 1933, and the extermination of six million European Jews in Nazi occupied Europe during the Second World War.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and the Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: Three Credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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HTY 415 - African-American History
Examines the African-American experience both thematically and chronologically, from slavery to emancipation, and the lives of African-Americans in the twentieth century. Includes African survivals and slave culture; the impact of racism, religion, and family on African-American lives; efforts by blacks to improve their lives; and the meaning of their history for contemporary African-Americans.
Prerequisites: Three credits in History or instructor permission.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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HTY 420 - Science and Society Since 1800
Examines the development of science, with emphasis on America, since the Scientific Revolution, both ‘internally’–as ideas and experiments–and ‘externally’–as related to America and other societies that have produced them and upon which they in turn have had impact.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: Three Credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 427 - Vikings!
Marauding barbarians with a lust for blood and plunder, the Vikings retain their grip on the popular imagination. To what extent are our images of the medieval Norse grounded in historical reality? This course will begin by asking what archaeological finds, runestones, skaldic poetry, and foreign chroniclers can tell us about the people of Viking Age Scandinavia. We will then explore how different societies and cultural groups have shaped and reshaped images of the Vikings to suit different agendas. Our investigation will range from thirteenth-century Iceland, where medieval Christian writers composed vernacular sagas about pagan heroes, to contemporary America, where Viking imagery appears on everything from football helmets to comic books.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 432 - History of Modern Ideas
This is a survey of some of the major currents of modern intellectual history. In the nineteenth century, Europe was filled with presumptions of its own ascendancy and world-superiority. These ideas were largely justified through an interpretation of history. This course will begin by looking at the dominant place of history in the nineteenth century and, in particular, its relation to God, nature, and the nation. It then turns to some of the grave doubts that emerged over Europe and its modes of thought. The twentieth century can be interpreted as a disintegration of meaning and understanding, and this course will assess various attempts to describe this crisis, including endeavors to find a new basis for coherent meaning. Such endeavors continue to the present, where this course concludes. Attention to the history of are will supplement the discussion of texts.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 433 - Greek and Roman Mythology
The study of classical myths as the poetic expression of the Greek and Roman spirit, as the depiction of everything considered sacred, and as the embodiment of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Discusses the major theories of myth. Uses modern psychology and anthropology to show how the myths reveal secrets of our emotional, intellectual, and spiritual lives.
Prerequisites: Three credits in History or instructor permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 437 - History of Modern Japan
Survey of social, economic, cultural and political development in Japan from the last period of feudalism to the present day. Social and political structures, value changes, the rise of militarism and fascism, the effects of the Pacific War, popular movements, modernization problems and progress, and relations with the United States and the rest of the world will be discussed.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 442 - The United States and Vietnam: A History
Focuses on key periods in the historical development of the United States and Vietnam and trace the history of their relations since the beginning of World War II. The economic, social, political, ideological, and cultural origins of the conflict, the conduct of the war and the aftermath in Vietnam, East Asia, and the United States will be examined.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Social Contexts and Institutions
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 446 - History of Modern Middle East, 1800-Present
The economic, social, and political transformations experienced by the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focus on the rise of Arab nationalism and the Israeli-Arab conflict.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 449 - History of South Africa
Examines the political, economic, and social history of South Africa from 1652 to the present. Emphasis on race relations from the establishment of the Cape Colony to the fall of Apartheid. Explores European colonization, the formation of the Zulu Empire, the South African War, and the birth of the New South Africa.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3
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HTY 450 - History of the British Empire
Examines the history of the British Empire from the late 15th century to the end of the 20th century. Emphasis on the 19th century, especially the period of rapid growth c. 1875-1914, in Africa and Asia.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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HTY 456 - History of Modern Britain
The political, socio-economic, and constitutional aspects of British history from 1700 to the present, emphasizing economic growth and the development of democracy.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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HTY 460 - Modern Canada
Canada’s history from Confederation to the present, emphasizing political, social, and economic developments and Canada’s relations with the United States.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Ethics
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 461 - Colonial British America to 1763
Examines the founding and development of English-speaking colonies in the New World. Themes include the trans-Atlantic context of colonization, Native Americans, the growth of slavery, and religious and regional variation in colonial America.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Writing Intensive
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 462 - The American Revolution
Explores the pivotal era that created the United States as an independent nation in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In addition to a traditional focus on the Revolutionary War and the Federal Constitution, the course also considers conflict within patriot ranks as well as the experience of people who did not necessarily benefit from the Revolution.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 463 - The Early Republic, 1789-1840
Explores the shaping of American society by people and events between the years 1789-1840. While paying due attention to political and economic changes during this period, the focus will be on the lives and experiences of ordinary people: their families, work, homelife, communities, attitudes and expectations.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition, Social Contexts/Institutions and Cultural Diversity/International Perspectives Requirements.
Prerequisites: Three credits in History or instructor permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 464 - America at the Crossroads: The Era of Civil War Reconstruction 1840-1876
Problems and processes involved in territorial expansion, economic growth, the slavery issue, civil war, and the reconstruction of American society.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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HTY 465 - American Landscapes
Investigates the shaping of American landscapes and interpretation of those landscapes in history, fiction and art. In particular, the course explores the ways in which Americans used idealizations of the physical environment to define certain cultural attributes and to explain social transformations.
General Education Requirements: Population and Environment
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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HTY 467 - Early 20th Century America, 1914-1945
Changes in American politics, economics, society, and culture including the Wilson era of reform and intervention in World War I, the age of business, depression and the New Deal of FDR, World War II and American global power.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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HTY 468 - America Since 1945
Changes in American politics, economics, society, and culture including the Cold War and McCarthyism, protest movements of the 1960s, Watergate, the energy crisis and economic recession, affluence and poverty in the 1980s.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 473 - History of U.S. Foreign Relations I
U.S. foreign relations from the Revolution to World War I. Explores the role of government and private individuals and groups (pioneers, businesspeople, missionaries) in shaping U.S. interactions with other societies and nations as it expanded across the North American continent and evolved into a world power. Includes critical examinations of U.S. foreign relations by Indian, Latin American, Asian and European nations, and by internal dissenters.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 474 - History of U.S. Foreign Relations II
Explores the role of the U.S. in international affairs from 1914 to the present. Considers formal U.S. diplomacy and military activities and role of private individuals and groups such as businesspeople, labor and peace activists, and peddlers of American cultural products (movies, jeans, etc.) in shaping U.S. interactions with other nations. Includes critical examinations of U.S. foreign relations by other nations and by internal dissenters.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 475 - History of Modern Warfare
The course explores the historical developments in the evolution of modern warfare and military thought over the last two centuries. Students will begin by examining the theoretical writings of classical military theorists and different outstanding historical cases of military innovation in modern warfare. Later, students will consider many topical segments from literature and films of major wars and will also examine the changing nature of war by analyzing new war-fighting domains such as cyberwar and space as the final frontier. In this class, students will be engage in activities designed to improve your reading, writing, and presentation skills. Students will also be provided an opportunity to study these materials in-depth and will be encouraged to conduct research on your own. By the end of the course, students will be able to analyze the evolution of modern war across the different military domains over the last two centuries.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Course Typically Offered: Alternating Years
Credits: 3
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HTY 476 - History of Modern Terrorism
This course focuses on the historical study of terrorism and political violence. Students will discuss the difference between state terror and terrorism perpetrated by non-state actors; however, the majority of the course material will focus on terrorism by the latter. The course offers a case study approach to the history of political violence from antiquity to the modern Islamic Jihad of the twentieth century. Each week students will explore the challenges and problems associated with conceptualizing terrorism through focusing on primary sources concerning key moments in the development of terrorism in a variety of historical contexts. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of political science and historical works such as Nechaev’s revolutionary catechism and classic writings on terrorism by Robespierre, Trotsky, and Qutb. In doing so, students will be provided with an opportunity to study the history of political violence in-depth and will be encouraged to conduct research on our own. The course begins with the study of “Terror Tyrannicide in the Ancient World” followed by the “French Revolution” then moving on to “Globalization of Islamic Jihad” in the late-twentieth century. Throughout the course, students will discuss both historical and social science approaches to the topic of terrorism, its political uses, ad reflect on how it has been represented in media and literature.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Course Typically Offered: Alternating Years
Credits: 3
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HTY 477 - The American Worker
Examines changes in the world of work during successive phases of capitalist development since the Revolutionary War. Focus on skilled and unskilled labor; the evolving factory system; public policies and effects of technological change; ethnicity, race, and gender on worker responses. Assesses contemporary workplace issues from an historical perspective.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition, Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 480 - Global Environmental History
Environmental history is the study of past interactions between humans and nature, and this course examines environmental historical processes on the global scale by comparing and contrasting on the local, regional, and national scales over time. While it is impossible to cover the environmental history of the whole globe, in-depth explorations of seven major themes, including agriculture and settlement, biological exchanges, and urbanization and industrialization, will thoroughly introduce students to the subfield of global environmental history. Students will also have the opportunity to analyze at length specific environmental historical subject matter and improve their digital literacy through group website projects.
General Education Requirements: Population and Environment and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: Three credits in History or instructor permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 481 - Amerindians of the Northeast: A History
Considers Amerindian history from a regional perspective, with emphasis on intersocietal and interethnic relations between the 16th and 19th centuries. It encompasses the Algonquian and Iroquoian speaking peoples from the Atlantic seaboard to the upper Great Lakes and from the Ohio Valley to the Hudson Bay.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 491 - Technology and Society Until 1800
Examines the development of technology from earliest times through the English Industrial Revolution, both ‘internally’, as tools and machines, and ‘externally’, as related to the societies that have produced them and upon which they in turn have had impact.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3
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HTY 492 - Technology and Society Since 1800
Examines the development of technology, with emphasis on America, since the English Industrial Revolution, both ‘internally’–as tools and machines–and ‘externally’–as related to America and other societies that have produced them and upon which they in turn have had impact.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3
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HTY 498 - Senior Seminar in History
Intensive reading, research, and writing under the close supervision of an instructor on a selected problem in American or European history. Required of History majors.
General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive and Capstone
Prerequisites: Restricted to history majors with senior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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IEI 027 - Travel Writing
The Travel Writing course is designed for visiting Exchange Students only. It provides an opportunity for students to visit various Maine locations over the course of a semester while also learning the art of travel writing. The class meets once a week for fifty minutes and the trips to Maine locations are offered every other week.
Prerequisites: Instructor permission required.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 0
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IEI 050 - Introductory English: Listening and Speaking
IEI 050 and IEI 051, which are taken together, are normally the first in a series of course modules designed to provide non-native English-speaking students with the necessary linguistic foundation to successfully transition to a university-level curriculum. The focus of the IEI program is primarily on academic language use, and includes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students are initially placed in courses in the IEI program based on the English language proficiency tests given by the IEI. In order to transfer to non-conditional status at the University of Maine, the student must complete the full sequence of courses from the initial course in which s/he is placed.
Prerequisites: Permission required.
Course Typically Offered: Summer
Credits: 0
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IEI 051 - Introductory English: Reading and Writing
IEI 050 and IEI 051, which are taken together, are normally the first in a series of course modules designed to provide non-native English-speaking students with the necessary linguistic foundation to successfully transition to a university-level curriculum. The focus of the IEI program is primarily on academic language use, and includes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students are initially placed in courses in the IEI program based on the English language proficiency tests given by the IEI. In order to transfer to non-conditional status at the University of Maine, the student must complete the full sequence of courses from the initial course in which s/he is placed.
Prerequisites: Permission required.
Corequisites: IEI 50
Course Typically Offered: Summer
Credits: 0
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IEI 060 - Elementary English: Listening and Speaking
IEI 060 and IEI 061, which are taken together, are normally the first in a series of course modules designed to provide non-native English-speaking students with the necessary linguistic foundation to successfully transition to a university-level curriculum. The focus of the IEI program is primarily on academic language use, and includes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students are initially placed in courses in the IEI program based on the English language proficiency tests given by the IEI. In order to transfer to non-conditional status at the University of Maine, the student must complete the full sequence of courses from the initial course in which s/he is placed.
Prerequisites: IEI 50 and IEI 51 and permission required.
Course Typically Offered: Fall and spring
Credits: 0
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IEI 061 - Elementary English: Reading and Writing
IEI 060 and IEI 061, which are taken together, are normally the first in a series of course modules designed to provide non-native English-speaking students with the necessary linguistic foundation to successfully transition to a university-level curriculum. The focus of the IEI program is primarily on academic language use, and includes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students are initially placed in courses in the IEI program based on the English language proficiency tests given by the IEI. In order to transfer to non-conditional status at the University of Maine, the student must complete the full sequence of courses from the initial course in which s/he is placed.
Prerequisites: IEI 50 and IEI 51 and permission required.
Corequisites: IEI 60
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Credits: 0
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IEI 070 - Intermediate English I: Listening and Speaking
IEI 070 and IEI 071, which are taken together, are normally the second in a series of course modules designed to provide non-native English-speaking students with the necessary linguistic foundation to successfully transition to a university-level curriculum. The focus of the IEI program is primarily on academic language use, and includes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students are initially placed in courses in the IEI program based on the English language proficiency tests given by the IEI. In order to transfer to non-conditional status at the University of Maine, the student must complete the full sequence of courses from the initial course in which s/he is placed.
Prerequisites: IEI 60 and IEI 61 and permission required.
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Credits: 0
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IEI 071 - Intermediate English I: Reading and Writing
IEI 070 and IEI 071, which are taken together, are normally the second in a series of course modules designed to provide non-native English-speaking students with the necessary linguistic foundation to successfully transition to a university-level curriculum. The focus of the IEI program is primarily on academic language use, and includes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students are initially placed in courses in the IEI program based on the English language proficiency tests given by the IEI.
Prerequisites: IEI 60 and IEI 61 and permission required.
Corequisites: IEI 70
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Credits: 0
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IEI 080 - Advanced English A: Listening and Speaking
IEI 080 and IEI 081, which are taken together, are normally the third in a series of course modules designed to provide non-native English-speaking students with the necessary linguistic foundation to successfully transition to a university-level curriculum. The focus of the IEI program is primarily on academic language use, and includes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students are initially placed in courses in the IEI program based on the English language proficiency tests given by the IEI. In order to transfer to non-conditional status at the University of Maine, the student must complete the full sequence of courses from the initial course in which s/he is placed.
Prerequisites: IEI 70 and IEI 71 and permission required.
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Credits: 0
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IEI 081 - Advanced English A: Reading and Writing
IEI 080 and IEI 081, which are taken together, are normally the third in a series of course modules designed to provide non-native English-speaking students with the necessary linguistic foundation to successfully transition to a university-level curriculum. The focus of the IEI program is primarily on academic language use, and includes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students are initially placed in courses in the IEI program based on the English language proficiency tests given by the IEI. In order to transfer to non-conditional status at the University of Maine, the student must complete the full sequence of courses from the initial course in which s/he is placed.
Prerequisites: IEI 70 and IEI 71 and permission required.
Corequisites: IEI 80
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Credits: 0
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IEI 090 - Advanced English B: Listening and Speaking
IEI 090 and IEI 191, which are taken together, are normally the fourth in a series of course modules designed to provide non-native English-speaking students with the necessary linguistic foundation to successfully transition to a university-level curriculum. The focus of the IEI program is primarily on academic language use, and includes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students are initially placed in courses in the IEI program based on the English language proficiency tests given by the IEI. In order to transfer to non-conditional status at the University of Maine, the student must complete the full sequence of courses from the initial course in which s/he is placed.
Prerequisites: IEI 80 and IEI 81 and permission required.
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Credits: 0
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IEI 091 - Advanced English B: Reading and Writing
IEI 090 and IEI 191, which are taken together, are normally the fourth in a series of course modules designed to provide non-native English-speaking students with the necessary linguistic foundation to successfully transition to a university-level curriculum. The focus of the IEI program is primarily on academic language use, and includes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students are initially placed in courses in the IEI program based on the English language proficiency tests given by the IEI. In order to transfer to non-conditional status at the University of Maine, the student must complete the full sequence of courses from the initial course in which s/he is placed.
Prerequisites: IEI 80 and IEI 81 and permission required.
Corequisites: IEI 90
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Credits: 0
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IMD 330 - Intermedia Topics in Technical Development
This class will provide diverse, topical explorations on fabrication process, tools for innovative development and technical means of production for creative work. Although topics will vary from semester to semester, all iterations will focus on giving students an in-depth exposure to a technical aspect of materials, tools and production skills relevant to Intermedial forms. In addition to technical modes of production, these classes will consider technological tools in relation to a variety of theoretical, practical and historical explorations of creativity that will help form the basis of a praxis model for Intermedia production. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: Sophomore Standing.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
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INA 101 - Introduction to International Affairs
Provides a common introduction to the interdisciplinary study of the field. Examines the core principles and concepts of the study of international affairs, the historical emergence and development of the contemporary global system, and the interaction between political actors and economic forces (especially between states and markets).
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions
Course Typically Offered: Every years
Credits: 3
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INA 201 - Topics in International Affairs
Offers a detailed examination of selected topics in international affairs, providing an opportunity for students to integrate what they have learned about international affairs by focusing in depth on a specific topic. Topics may include globalization and its impact, democratization, role of ethics in international affairs, global stability and peace and ecological environmental issues. (May be repeated if topics vary.)
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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INA 310 - Camden Conference Course
This course accompanies the Camden Conference held each spring. The topic changes yearly. The course prepares for the year’s topic with background readings and discussions. Students attend the conference and normally meet with conference participants. Subsequent meetings analyze the ideas presented during the conference.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity or International Perspectives
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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INA 401 - Advanced Topics in International Affairs
Offers an advanced examination of a selected topic in international affairs. Specific topics will normally change, depending on visiting faculty, faculty research, and student interests. (May be repeated if topics vary).
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Standing or permission
Course Typically Offered: Not regularly offered
Credits: 3
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INT 107 - Career Exploration in Health Professions
Students will explore career opportunities within the healthcare industry through course lectures, presentations from health professionals, assigned readings, as well as individual and team projects. This course will provide students with an understanding of the history, ethics, personal commitment, and other requirements for a career in the healthcare industry. BIO 100 is strongly recommended as a prerequisite for the course.
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission. BIO 100 is strongly recommended as a prerequisite for the course.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 2
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INT 121 - (CHB) Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
A survey of the various career options available through faculty discussions, laboratory interactions, presentation/discussions from outside field professionals and tours to area biomedical facilities.
Prerequisites: Engineering majors or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 1
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INT 125 - Experiential Program Innovation Central
This course is designed to provide an overview of experiential learning pathways for students at a 21-century land grant research institution. Students work in teams on a semester long project designed to train them on design thinking, and enhance communication and problem solving skills. Students will learn more about the research and experiential learning at the following University centers and will be trained on various topics including project initiation, management, implantation, and reporting Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC), Advanced Structures and Composite Center (ASCC), Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR), Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), Foster Center for Student Innovation, and Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center (IMRC).
General Education Requirements: Application of Scientific Knowledge and Ethics
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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INT 188 - Introduction to Integrated Science and Career Exploration
INT 188 is a variable credit course that involves lecture and laboratory instruction in a data collection and analysis, measuring and graphing techniques, scientific writing, evidence-based thinking, and includes group work, a research project, a career-planning assignment focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields including job-shadowing experiences, and a final Research Symposium at the end of the course.
Course Typically Offered: Summer
Credits: 1-3
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INT 192 - Introduction to Career Development
A 1 credit experiential course focused on assisting students with exploring and identifying their career interests and goals through the utilization of a structured career development process.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1
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INT 193 - Introduction to Career Exploration and Development
An experiential course designed to assist Early College students with exploring and identifying career interests and goals through the utilization of a structured career development process
Prerequisites: Early College Students
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 2
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INT 195 - (University Wide) Community Engagement / Service Learning
Community engagement opportunity for students seeking to participate in a service learning environment. Prior approval is required and will be based on a detailed written plan and documentation presented by the student. The course can be repeated up to 4 times for a total of 12 credit. Open to students in all majors as well as students with undeclared majors.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 1-3
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INT 196 - (University Wide) Academic and Career Exploration Internship
Internship for students seeking to explore their academic and career interests. Prior approval of the internship is required and will be based on a detailed written plan and documentation presented by the student and approved by the Career Center Director or the student’s Faculty Advisor or Academic Dean. Open to students in all majors as well as students with undeclared majors.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 0-3
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INT 200 - (SBE) Orientation to Health Professions
An exploration of career opportunities within the health care industry by course lectures, presentation from health professionals, assigned readings, as well as, individual and team projects. Provides students with an understanding of the history, ethics, personal commitment and other requirements for a career in the healthcare industry. Field (laboratory) experiences enhance course work by directly involving students in: first aid, CPR, patient care, medical records, medical laboratory and x-ray services, athletic trainer services, pharmacy, optometry, podiatry, nursing and ambulance services. These experiences prepare the student for future mentoring opportunities within the health professions community. Lec 3, Lab 1.
Prerequisites: BIO 100.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 4
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INT 207 - Orientation to Health Professions
This course will provide students with an understanding of the history, ethics, personal commitment, and other requirements for a career in the healthcare industry through participation in hands-on experiences and assignments. Students will develop content intended to prepare them for applying to health professions programs and/or careers in the healthcare industry.
Prerequisites: BIO 200 or BIO 208 or permission of instructor
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 2
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INT 398 - (BEN, CHE, CHY, ECE) Undergraduate Research Participation
Research topics chosen by students in consultation with faculty members. Students submit a final report describing their research and present an oral seminar.
Course Typically Offered: Summer
Credits: 1-3
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INT 410 - (ANT, ENG, MLC) Introduction to the Study of Linguistics
A survey of language structure and its socio-cultural, psychological and historical aspects. Provides conceptual and technical tools for understanding the phenomenon of language. No previous training in languages or linguistics is required.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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INT 421 - (CHB) Directed Study in Biomedical Engineering
A self-directed study opportunity coordinated by the biomedical engineering minor faculty.
Prerequisites: INT 121 or permission; engineering majors only.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer
Credits: 1-3
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INT 489 - Advanced Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies
Advanced work addressing topics with an interdisciplinary focus, bringing together 3 or more relevant disciplines.
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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INT 492 - Maine Learning Assistant Pedagogy Course
The Maine Learning Assistant Pedagogy Course is designed for students who are facilitating small-group discussions in lecture, recitations, and/or labs. This course explores issues of teaching and learning, and helps students connect with the science education literature in order to inform instructional practice. The course also covers aspects of educational theory and practical issues associated with helping students learn Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) content.
Credits: 1
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INT 494 - Field Experience
Students participate in a political or governmental organization. Readings and reports required in addition to meetings with faculty sponsor and/or other field experience participants. Six credit hours maximum for any single field experience registration. Majors within the department may not receive more than a total of 12 credit hours toward graduation for any combination of internships and field experience, and not more than 6 credit hours may be used toward the department major.
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: Ar
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INT 495 - Experiencing History, Culture, and Societal Differences Through Travel Study
This course is designed to give students the opportunity to directly experience history, culture, and societal differences through travel study. Previous sections have included the study of Incan History & Architecture in Peru or Germany’s culture and healthcare system. A more detailed course description can be found on the course syllabus.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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INV 101 - Exploring Innovation
This course is designed for students who are interested in finding out more about innovation, especially as it relates to startup businesses. The course will introduce ways of stimulating creativity, emphasize working in diverse teams and problem-solving to increase speed and decrease risk when it comes to innovation and new business opportunities. Students will 1) learn what is innovation and how to use a simple metric to identify innovation, 2) see/hear about applications of innovation in a variety of fields, 3) learn how to make smart decisions for investing in innovation.
Prerequisites: Permission
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Odd Years
Credits: 1
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INV 121 - Fundamentals of Innovation
Regardless of one’s field of study, students need to be able to identify problems and generate solutions, communicate these solutions effectively, and test and implement them successfully. In this course, you will use the Innovation Engineering process and system, that incorporates skills and teaches students how to rapidly innovate and solve everyday problems. This course is designed to provide a complete overview of the Innovation Engineering system.
General Education Requirements: Artistic & Creative Expressions and Social Context & Institutions requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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INV 180 - Create: Innovation Engineering I
Provides a systematic approach to creativity, the foundation for students to understand how to generate innovative ideas in any field. Gives students the theories behind and practice using tools to generate meaningfully unique ideas. These tools engage creative stimulus, diversity, and mining for technology and economic, social and cultural trends. Examines case histories that demonstrate how social and cultural contexts and human institutions have been influenced by innovative individuals who have realized original ideas in practice.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions
Prerequisites: INV 121
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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INV 282 - Advanced Innovation Skills
This course will provide students with advanced skills in innovation and a systematic approach to creativity, communication, bringing their idea to reality (commercialization) and systems thinking. In the first set of advanced skills (create), students are provided with theories behind and practice using tools to generate meaningfully unique ideas. These tools engage creative stimulus, diversity, and mining for technology and economic, social and cultural trends. The second set of skills (communicate), combines elements of several disciplines: the clarity of professional writing, the precision of technical writing, and the expressiveness of creative writing. The third set (commercialize), how do you quantify its risks and benefits? How can you reduce the unknown quantities in your process of creating and realizing? Students learn to apply principles of the scientific method and design of experiments for evaluating ideas and making them real. The fourth set of skills (Systems), students will learn how visually map the system, measure variation, and analyze system.
General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive and Quantitative Literacy
Prerequisites: INV 121
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring and Summer
Credits: 4
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INV 392 - Commercialize: Innovation Engineering III
So you have an exciting idea: how do you quantify its risks and benefits? How can you reduce the unknown quantities in your process of creating and realizing? Students learn to apply principles of the scientific method and design experiments for evaluating ideas and making them real. Students perform rapid test cycles using Fermi estimating, forecasting and statistical analysis to determine the feasibility, sustainability or profitability of ideas.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Quantitative Literacy
Prerequisites: INV 180
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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INV 401 - Systems: Innovation Engineering IV
In this course, students will learn how to apply the tools and strategies learned in earlier courses into a system approach to innovation. Through this process, students will learn to lead systems for building alignment, collaboration and capacity to generate and implement new ideas in a wide range of organizations. The course will also cover the fundamentals of systems thinking, tools for measuring the performance of a system, and practice developing innovation strategies.
Prerequisites: INV 180 and INV 282 and INV 392
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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INV 405 - Innovation Leadership
Students will learn how to apply the tools and strategies learned in earlier courses into a more advanced system approach to innovation. Through this process, students will learn to lead systems for building alignment, collaboration and capacity to generate and implement new ideas in a wide range of organizations. Students will then apply concepts explored in Innovation Engineering with the purpose of creating students’ own project proposals. Students will be expected to identify a problem or opportunity and to research existing solutions to the problem before developing their own ideas and testing idea using iterative cycles to help ensure success of the idea.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions
Prerequisites: INV 121 and INV 282
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring and Summer
Credits: 4
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INV 406 - Make It Real: Innovation Engineering VI
Students will have an opportunity during a full semester to take their own idea from proposal stage to prototype and beyond. Projects may be individual or team-based. (Pass/Fail Grade Only)
Prerequisites: INV 405 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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INV 471 - Special Topics in Innovation
Provides opportunities for reflective and theoretical approaches to topics in innovation. Topics might include: innovation and medicine, finding money for innovation, innovations and development in the third world, universal design and innovation, innovations in aquaculture.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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INV 480 - Internship in Innovation
With submission of proposal approved by the curriculum committee and director of the Innovation Engineering academic program, students working as interns with public or private sector organizations on projects aimed at innovation may register for credit hours. May be repeated for credit up to six credit hours.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1-6
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INV 490 - Independent Study in Innovation
With approval of curriculum committee and director of academic program, students may create a plan of study for one semester with the guidance of a faculty member in Innovation.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 1-3
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JST 200 - Introduction to Judaism
This course presents students with a survey of the developments in Jewish belief, practice, institutions and self-understanding from the Biblical period through the present day. Through the study of both primary and secondary sources, students will become familiar with the major canonical texts of Judaism, religious law, liturgy, rites of passage, the Sabbath and festivals. Students will learn how Jewish values, beliefs, philosophies, rituals and institutions developed within a variety of historical and cultural settings. Students will learn of the unique way in which Jews and Judaism engage with themselves, with G-d, and with humanity.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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JST 205 - Jewish History and Antisemitism from Antiquity to the Founding of the State of Israel
This course is a history of antisemitism, describing its manifestations from pre-Christian Alexandria to the founding of the State of Israel. Students will be exposed to several academic and popular theories of antisemitism, exploring debates about its proper scope and development, and integrate these ideas with a study of the arc of Jewish history, read closely together in primary sources.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Ethics
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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JST 383 - Topics in Judaic Studies
Topics in Judaic Studies
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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KPE 100 - Introduction to Athletic Training
Designed to encourage students to observe certified athletic trainers and other sports medicine professionals relative to athletic training. Areas of study include bloodborne pathogen training, rules of patient confidentiality, information about the National Athletic Trainer’s Association and other governing bodies for certified athletic trainers and other material as it relates to working in an athletic training setting.
Prerequisites: ATR major or permission of Athletic Training Education Director.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1
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KPE 201 - Athletic Training-Clinical Skills I
Lab based class with first clinical experience. Focuses on the critical thinking and application of injury prevention and immediate care of injuries and illnesses. Direct supervision by trained personnel during clinical experience.
Prerequisites: KPE 250 and KPE 100.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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KPE 202 - Athletic Training-Clinical Skills II
Introduction to assessing muscle strength, range of motion, and girth measurements. Students build on assessing a patient’s level of fitness learned in KPE 253. Clinical experience continues focus on immediate patient care and incorporates course content to patient care. Direct supervision of trained personnel during clinical experience.
Prerequisites: KPE 100 and KPE 253.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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KPE 207 - Wilderness First Aid
This course provides foundational knowledge and skills needed to deal with medical and traumatic emergencies in remote settings. Topics include patient assessment, musculoskeletal and soft tissue injuries, wound care and infection, environmental emergencies, spinal cord management and moving patients, anaphylaxis and other medical emergencies, and CPR/AED. Successful completion of this course carries a nationally-recognized Wilderness First Aid (WFA) certification, and meets the medical training requirements for being a Registered Maine Guide, Maine Camp Trip Leader, and Maine Educational Leader.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Alternating years
Credits: 1
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KPE 209 - Wilderness First Responder
This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to deal with medical and traumatic emergencies in remote settings. Topics include patient assessment, difficult extrication and patient movement, basic search and rescue, allergies (including anaphylaxis certification), toxins, burns, wounds, fractures, dislocations, shock, spinal assessment and management, brain/head injuries, respiratory distress, heat and cold injuries, BLS CPR, legal issues and treatment of common backcountry ailments such as lost fillings, fish hook removal, fever, etc. Successful completion of this course carries a nationally-recognized WFR certification, and exceeds the Maine Guides requirements for medical training. Additional certification fee required.
Prerequisites: Outdoor Leadership concentration or minor, or instructor permission required
Course Typically Offered: Spring Even Years
Credits: 3
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