Liberal Arts & Sciences Courses

An examination of current theory, research and practice pertaining to curriculum development in art education. Including an exploration of traditional and innovative approaches to curriculum development in art education, problems and issues relevant to art curricula design and implementation, critical examination of existing curricula, and practice in developing and evaluating art curricula. Art education majors, art certification students or by instructor's permission only.

Advanced seminar and workshop with research projects in art education and related areas. Specific topic to be announced or arranged. The course may be repeated once for credit.

A survey course focusing on the nature of culture, similarities and differences among the world's cultures, relationships among cultures, and culture change. Required for Anthropology majors.

Introduces current topics in human biology and evolution including human origins and the fossil record, human genetics and population variability, and human and non-human primate behavior.

A survey of the different genres of folklore, its forms, uses, functions and modes of transmission. Emphasis on belief, custom and legend.

This upper-level seminar course introduces students to the anthropological study of migration. Joining scholars in related fields such as Sociology and Geography, anthropologists considered migration to be an essential topic of inquiry from the 1950s onwards, corresponding with massive population upheaval wrought by World War I and II, as well as decolonization. While early social scientific inquiries considered migration in the context of global economic and geo-political flows, more recent scholarship has investigated the everyday lives of individual migrants and migrant communities, as well as the political, social and legal construction of ¿migrant¿ as a consequential, and often violent, category of state exclusion or ¿exception.¿ In this course, students will study both early and contemporary trends in migration scholarship, including foundational concepts such as ¿globalization,¿ ¿transnationalism,¿ ¿diaspora,¿ ¿borderlands,¿ ¿transmigration,¿ and ¿imagined community,¿ among others. In addition to reviewing the field¿s range and genealogy, we will consider how notions of ¿legality¿ and ¿illegality¿ are constructed and deployed in the U.S. and Europe; how migrant experience impacts family organization, political engagement, racial identity, religious belonging, and labor regimes; how migrants and their ¿host¿ societies mutually react and respond to one another; and how migrants negotiate, transcend, and blur borders between ¿home¿ and ¿host¿ societies.

The history of North American native peoples from the first evidence to the arrival of the Europeans. Emphasis on major culture areas and issues such as glacial and postglacial adaptation, development of agriculture, and the emergence of sedentism.

This senior research seminar is designed to give students an opportunity to draw on their academic experience and explore a particular anthropological topic or debate of their choice. Throughout the course of the semester, students will conduct research and work toward the completion of a research project. This project will allow students to gain valuable hands-on experience designing, researching, writing, and presenting your work while building relationships with faculty and peers. The course will allow students to engage in anthropological inquires and debates while honing skills in communication, argumentation, and problem solving that will be useful beyond the classroom. Weekly discussions, journal entries, a final project (submitted in stages), and a presentation will be used to assess student progress.

This seminar course for graduate students emphasizes the integration of social science theories and methods for the development of research proposals. In this course, students define a research problem, identify a set of research questions or hypotheses, and design a plan of action to carry out their own research. In the process, students become familiar with research ethics, IRB protocols, an a suite of methodological tools used by anthropologist and others to produce social science research. In class discussions allow students to critically assess benefits and limitations of various field methods, qualitative vs quantitative approaches, and analytical techniques. In-class workshops allow students to discuss their own research ideas on a regular basis with classmates and instructor while turning those ideas into a proposal. By the end of the course, students will have a solid research proposal that can be adapted for submission to various funding agencies.

Thesis work Note: Students who have not yet completed a "Responsible Conduct of Research" course approved by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and the Graduate School (https://umaine.edu/graduate/students/rcr/) must receive permission to enroll in thesis/ research credits. Students must enroll in an RCR course before or concurrent with their third credit of thesis/research.

Introductory survey of painting, sculpture, architecture, and forms of visual and material culture in their various contexts from the Paleolithic and Ancient Worlds to the end of the Middle Ages.

Surveys the historical artifacts and monuments of culture not covered by the regular rotation of Department offerings, such as those by African, Asian or Pre-Columbian peoples. Students may repeat this course for credit to study different cultures. Course note: May be repeated for 9 completions with a total of 27 credits.

Advanced independent study or research and writing projects in the history of art and related areas. May be repeated for credit.

Entails advanced research and writing projects in the history of art.

The fundamentals of drawing through creative exercises exploring the principles of line, value, texture, space, and form. Examines various media and their relationship to expression and composition.

Fundamentals of basic design through studio experience. Covers analysis of design, composition and basic perceptual and aesthetic aspects of color. Uses a series of problems that explore the areas listed above.

A studio art course that explores the fundamentals of black-and-white photography. Students develop an understanding of the 35mm film camera; lighting, composition, and content; film processing and printing in the darkroom; and how photography is a medium of fine art practice and personal expression. Lab 6.

A continuation of the fundamentals of drawing in black and white media and the introduction of a variety of color media with continued emphasis on their relationship to expression and composition.

The introductory course in painting. Students learn the fundamental processes of opaque and/or transparent painting media through intensive studio practice, lecture and demonstration.

A series of projects that investigate the techniques and process approach in sculpture. Includes welding, carving, casting, forming and other forms of fabrication. General use of hand and power equipment.

Painting in oil or acrylic paint. Fundamentals of color mixing, paint application, composition and expressive content.

Explores the principles of applied design as used in the production of brochures, catalogues, magazines, newspapers, etc. Exercises in type, layout and issues of technology will be covered.

The concepts and techniques of drawing are reintroduced through studio sessions. Students draw with a variety of media from life and from conceptual/creative models. Emphasis in this class is on the development of facility, style, and self-expression for specific illustrative uses. May be repeated twice for a total of 6 credits.

A thematic and process approach to exploring concepts allowing students to pursue selected individual projects. Introduction to additional materials and techniques.

Further development of painting concepts with emphasis on the characteristics of materials. Individual investigations of technical and expressive issues.

Continued study of graphic design.

Individual and group collaborative projects working with site specific sculpture or installations. Emphasis on process including scale models and other considerations for final presentation for jurying. Prepares artists, engineers, architects in universal commission procedures. Field trips to research existing projects may be included in this course. Repeatable for credit when the student takes it with different media with 9 total completions and 27 total credits allowed.

Guided study in painting stressing individual growth through special projects. Emphasis on conceptual as well as technical development. May be repeated for credit with a total of 9 completions and 27 credits.

Students engaged in professional activities related to their area of study may apply for supervision and credit for the project. Course note: May be repeated for credit.

Advanced study and research in studio art or related areas directed by a faculty member. Course Note: May be repeated for credit.

A descriptive survey of astronomy including contemporary views of the universe. Topics include the solar system, stars, galaxies, black holes, quasars, and cosmology. May be taken without AST 110.

An introduction to one or more of: stars, galaxies, quasars, and/or cosmology. Not given every year. This course is independent of AST 221 which is not a prerequisite.

A study of selected Canadian Studies topics. May be taken for a total of 9 completions and 27 total credits if topics differ.

Contract work for an external employer. Integrate academic and professional experience. Complete a daily journal and a final project. Eligibility: students from any graduate program whose studies relate to Northeastern Americas.

Second semester of a two-semester sequence covering fundamental principles in chemical science presented in quantitative terms. Topics include gases, intermolecular forces, properties of solutions and solids, kinetics, equilibrium, acid-base chemistry, aqueous ionic equilibria, thermodynamics, and electrochemistry. This course and CHY 124 (taken concurrently) provide the foundation for all further studies in chemistry.