What are the Courses?

Southwest Studies is composed of three University Arts courses.

English 215: Studies in Reading Film

An introduction to film as narrative. This course will examine the nature, characteristics, and language of film in relation to various film genres that are current today. Students are required to pay a modest material fee for this course at the time of registration. Prerequisite: six credits from ENGL 100, 150, 151, 153.

Geography 223: Physical Geography of the U.S. Southwest

This course examines the climate, geomorphology and geology of the U.S. Site visits include: Sunset Crater, Bonita lava flow, SP Crater, Grand Canyon, San Francisco Peaks, Sonoran Desert, Petrified Forest National Monument and the San Juan River. Geography 223 has the following prerequisites: 3 credits of either GEOG 111, GEOG 121, EESC 111 or EESC 121.

Philosophy 251: Environmental Ethics

This course is a study of moral problems arising in the context of human relationships to nature and to non-human living things. Principal among these problems are animal rights, obligations to future generations, pollution, use of hazardous materials, depletion of natural resources, treatment of non-living things, poverty as an environmental problem, and ecology of property rights. Philosophy 251 requires students have second year standing.