Course Listings

For the latest information on UK Core course offerings please refer to the links below:

UK Core - Approved Courses (this information is kept up to date as new courses are approved throughout the semester)
Fall 2013 courses highlighted - http://www.uky.edu/sites/www.uky.edu.registrar/files/UKCoreF13.pdf
Fall 2013 courses highlighted (with course descriptions) - http://www.uky.edu/sites/www.uky.edu.registrar/files/ukcoredesc.pdf

UK Core - Online Course Catalog
https://myuk.uky.edu/zapps/slcm_coursecatalog/default.aspx

Fall 2013 UKC course descriptions:

UKC 100 – Multimedia Sandbox [Inquiry - Arts & Creativity]
This course is an eight week studio class focusing on creative production with multimedia communication tools such as photography & photoshop, video & video editing, and creative data visualization. Students will recognize and develop their own strengths and interests through project-based learning, and leave the class with multimedia skills and creativity exercises that they will be able to immediately apply to classes within their own major, and to their future careers. 

UKC 110 – The Structure and Use of English [Inquiry - Humanities]
This course is an eight week studio class focusing on creative production with multimedia communication tools such as photography & photoshop, video & video editing, and creative data visualization. Students will recognize and develop their own strengths and interests through project-based learning, and leave the class with multimedia skills and creativity exercises that they will be able to immediately apply to classes within their own major, and to their future careers.

UKC 111 – A History of World Religions: Christianity From Jesus to the Reformations [Inquiry - Humanities] MOVED TO HIS 191
A historical introduction to the development of Christianity from social, cultural, and institutional perspectives.  The study of Christianity will commence from its origins in the first century of the Common Era to its fragmentation at the time of the Reformations in the 16th century.  A special focus of this investigation will be the changes Christianity underwent as it spread through different cultures, evolved over time to new contexts, and reacted to political changes.  It will be important to trace the impact of varying cultural forces (e.g., first century Jewish thought, Greco-Roman philosophy and other cultural elements (Germanic migrations, rise of feudalism, etc.) on the formation of Christian thought, religious practices, and institutional structures to the period of the Reformations.

UKC 120 – Disease Detectives: Epidemiology in Action [Inquiry - Natural, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences] MOVED TO CPH 310
This course will outline the history of epidemiology as a science and examine its wide-ranging contributions to the fields of public health, medicine, and the social sciences. This course will focus on epidemiological methods to investigate health outcomes and identify associated and causative factors of disease in populations.

UKC 130 – Public Health through Popular Film [Inquiry - Social Sciences] MOVED TO CPH 202
This course will provide students with an introductory understanding of public health concepts through critical examination of popular cinema and instruction in basic public health principles, disease principles, and behavioral and social interactions related to the movie topics. A combination of lectures, readings and film viewing will enable students to understand the relationship between behavioral, environmental, biological and other risk factors with disease, injury or other health outcomes. The effect of social, economic and health systems context will also be examined. In addition, students will learn to distinguish between fact and fiction with regards to the science and activities of public health as portrayed in cinema.

UKC 131 – Sexual Health [Inquiry - Social Sciences] MOVED TO CPH 203
This course will provide students with an in-depth treatment of all sex-related topics that influence the health and wellbeing of humans.  Emphasis is placed on healthy sexual expression in the context of global HIV and STD epidemics as well as global issues with unintentional pregnancy and cervical cancer – all of which are highly preventable.  Students will also gain an in-depth education about human sexual functioning (physiology and neural pathways), sexual pluralism (diversity in sexual expression), issues pertaining to gay and lesbian health, and the science of understanding relational issues and gender role issues in US culture.

UKC 180 – The World Today [Community, Culture and Citizenship in the USA] CANCELLED
This course is an eight week studio class focusing on creative production with multimedia communication tools such as photography & photoshop, video & video editing, and creative data visualization. Students will recognize and develop their own strengths and interests through project-based learning, and leave the class with multimedia skills and creativity exercises that they will be able to immediately apply to classes within their own major, and to their future careers.

UKC 300 – Introduction to Documentary [Inquiry - Arts & Creativity]
This course is dedicated to critical examination of approaches to the documentary, and the construction of a documentary of one's own. Students will examine different strategies, structures, and topics, with an eye to production. Prereq: Completion of Composition and Communication requirement or consent of instructor.

UKC 310 - Art and Epidemics: A Writing Class [Inquiry - Humanities] CANCELLED
This unique writing course bridges the humanities and sciences.  In this class, registered students will use one of five disease states to write creative prose as well as scientific reviews.  This class uses team based learning principles and provides many opportunities to be creative, including role play.  This course will benefit students majoring in the humanities and the sciences.

UKC 311 - Jewish Rhetorics [Inquiry - Humanities]
In this course, we will investigate the history of rhetoric in Jewish rhetorical traditions in both historical and contemporary contexts - we will ask such questions as: What constitutes the canons of Jewish rhetoric?  How do Jewish rhetorics fit within or complicate Greco-Roman and/or other rhetorical traditions?  What does it mean to think about Jewish Rhetorics as part of a larger discourse on cultural rhetoric?  We will also learn about contemporary debates in rhetorical historiography as well as contrastive and comparative approaches to studies in rhetorical history and theory.

UKC 330 – Hip Hop Videos and Hardee's Commercials: The Social Psychology of Stereotypes in Media [Inquiry - Social Sciences]
This seminar course is designed to enrich your understanding of the social psychology of stereotypes. We will focus on the positive and negative stereotypes associated with race/ethnicity, gender, nationality, and religion. To explore stereotypes in popular media, we will read and discuss empirical research within social psychology about stereotyping, prejudice, and group identity and we will watch movies, music videos, television shows, and commercials that discuss or portray stereotypes. We will link what we are  watching within popular media with what we can learn from research.

UKC 370 - Statistical Thinking for Population Health [Statistical Inferential Reasoning] MOVED TO BST 330
This course provides students with an introduction to statistical concepts that are important for solving real-world public health problems.  This course will present statistical principles and associated scientific reasoning underlying public health practice and health policy decision-making.

UKC 380 – Autobiographical Composition [Community, Culture and Citizenship in the USA]
In this class, we will compose autoethnographic research that frames, conceptualizes, interprets, and critiques the social aspects groups influencing our lives. We will employ critical autoethnographic methodologies both to understand and implicate our positions as researchers in relation to the communities we engage. We will critically enlist autoethnography and its probity for enabling researchers to recover hidden social and personal springs (the auto-) of our investigations. The critical aspect situates our inquiries within broader projects of social analysis within theories of narratives, languages, citizenship, education, and inequality. Our research will involve applying such critical social analyses to various qualitative data, including interviews, artifacts, observations from memories, and fieldnotes. We will design our own research digital archive based on our own interests that documents our community fieldwork.

UKC 381 – Argumentation [Community, Culture and Citizenship in the USA]
This class examines how key cultural issues (from historical issues like slavery to current issues like immigration) have been argued in the public sphere.  We will look at how differences are discussed, negotiated, contested, and challenged through the act of argumentation and debate.  Specifically, the class examines three different types of rhetorical argument: deliberation, persuasion, and what philosopher Harry Frankfurt infamously labeled "bullshit."  Students will discuss how arguments are often related to issues of power, and how social justice has been both the subject and the goal of public argumentation throughout US history.