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2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PCS 295-01 - Special Topic: Migrants, Refugees, and Diasporas 4 credits
See SOC 295-01 or AMS 295-01 .
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PHE 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Historical and Contemporary Issues of Women’s Sports in America 2 credits (Spring)
A discussion based short-course exploring women’s sports from long before Billy Jean King up to Serena Williams. This course will take a closer look at the start of women’s collegiate sports and the post-Title IX women’s sport experience. We will also examine the role of women in the greater sports industry.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: April 2 to May 11. 1/2 semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Koester
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PHI 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Greek Ethical Thought 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: CLS 395-01 . The development of ancient Greek thinking about the goals of life and the motivations toward or away from them. Extensive study of Plato and Aristotle, with comparative material from Greek literature and from other Greek philosophers as well as from Roman writers who adopt Greek moral ideas. Some present-day revisiting of Greek approaches to ethics.
Prerequisite: CLS 231 , CLS 263 , PHI 231 , PHI 263 , or POL 263 . HUM 101 recommended.
Instructor: J. Cummins
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PHY 395-01 - Advanced Special Topics: Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics 4 credits (Spring)
An introduction to the subject of stellar and planetary astrophysics from a theoretical and observational perspective. Topics covered include stellar structure and evolution, the physics of interstellar material, extrasolar planets, and observational technology and techniques. The course will also touch upon relevant areas of current research in astrophysics.
Prerequisite: PHY 232 .
Instructor: Kempton
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POL 295-01 - Special Topic: American Urban Politics 4 credits (Spring)
This course introduces students to the structure and operation of local government, the tensions that exist between the centralizing tendencies of federal power and the desire for local autonomy, and the unique set of policy concerns that drive the politics of local communities across the country. The overarching theme of this course is the intersection of local politics and economics reveals the origins of American inequality.
Prerequisite: POL 101 .
Instructor: Dawkins
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POL 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Voting Rights and Election Policy 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines the politics and history of voting rights and election policy in the US. Many essential aspects of a democracy are related to the fundamental right to vote. Voting rights will be defined broadly to include voter registration, ballot access, the casting of votes, and other matters of election administration. Principles of fair elections and the design of elections will also be covered.
Prerequisite: POL 216 , POL 219 , POL 222 , POL 237 , or POL 239 .
Instructor: Hess
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POL 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Advanced Seminar in Comparative Politics 4 credits (Spring)
A research-oriented advanced course in comparative politics. The first half of the course will examine a selection of primary theories and methodological approaches taken in comparative politics. In the second half of the course, students will develop an independent research project that builds on earlier work conducted at the 200-level. The course emphasizes empirical political science employing a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches.
Prerequisite: POL 255 , POL 257 , POL 258 , POL 261 , POL 262 , or POL 273 . Completion of MAT 115 or MAT 209 is strongly recommended.
Instructor: Lussier
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POL 395-03 - Advanced Special Topic: Public Opinion and Political Behavior 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines public opinion and political behavior in American politics, and it facilitates your own semester-long research project. The course is divided into two parts. The first provides an overviews of the contours of public opinion-including attitude stability and change, ideology, approval toward national institutions, and vote choice-as well as trends in political participation. The second focuses on the elements of good research design as you develop your own project.
Prerequisite: POL 216 , POL 237 , POL 239 , or POL-295 Political Psychology (offered Fall 2017) and MAT 115 , SST 115 , or MAT 209 .
Instructor: Dawkins
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PST 295-01 - Special Topic: Unlocking Policy Neglect: Comparative Agenda Setting 4 credits (Spring)
Why are global challenges like climate change, human rights abuses, and inequality treated with little urgency by policymakers? This course examines how policy agendas are set in the public, the media, and ultimately in important decision-making institutions as well as why some problems face challenges in making it onto the policy agenda. The course will be taught from Leiden University College in the form of a small, online personal course. In that setting, Grinnell students will interact with peers from LUC, a liberal arts college in The Hague with strengths in interdisciplinary policy approaches. The course will be sponsored by Grinnell College professor Wayne Moyer.
This class includes course-embedded travel during the first week of Spring Break to Leiden University in the Netherlands. Students will engage in dialogue on course materials and research projects with their Leiden University peers and with Professor Zicha. They will also conduct a few visits to local organizations that work in related policy areas. Participation is required. Student will be required to pay a $400 participation fee (most other required travel expenses will be covered). This fee will be added to the student tuition bill and is due by the first day of classes. If payment of this fee causes you financial concern, please contact Gretchen Zimmermann in the Financial Aid Office to discuss loan options to cover this additional cost for attendance.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing and ECN 220 , POL 220 , or PST 220 and MAT 209 . Recommended: POL 255 , POL 257 , POL 258 , POL 261 , POL 262 , POL 273 , or POL 295 (Politics of the Middle East or Intro to South Asian Politics).
Instructor: Zicah
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PSY 295-01 - Special Topic: The Self 4 credits (Spring)
This course reviews classic theories and current issues regarding the psychology of self and identity, defining the uniquely human self and its functions. The structure, content, and consequences of the self are covered with an emphasis on writing, and discussion that deconstructs and analyzes the arguments underlying these concepts. Students will examine work from various subfields that inform the creation of the self, its biological underpinnings, and it social cognitive functions.
Prerequisite: PSY 113 .
Instructor: O’Malley
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PSY 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Longitudinal & Time-Series Analysis w/Lab 4 credits (Spring)
This course covers statistical models for data sampled repeatedly from the same participants over time. This couches statistical concepts in the (often interdisciplinary) practical applications that inspired them and addresses how they help test behavioral, medical, or psychological hypotheses. We will consider how different analyses of over-time data depend on theories of development and have implications for growing interest in data science.
Prerequisite: PSY 225 and two additional PSY courses at the 200-level.
Instructor: D. Kelty-Stephen
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REL 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Nonviolent Action for Social and Religious Change 2 credits (Spring)
Work directly with a leading, international expert on Nonviolent social movements, Srdja Popovic, to analyze present-day conflicts and social change. The course emphasizes strategic elements of nonviolent tactics such as cyber security as well as religious dimensions, questions, histories. Students will have the opportunity to put their creative approaches to nonviolent direct action into practice. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: January 23 to March 8, including intensive weekend January 26, 27. 1/2 semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: T. Dobe
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REL 295-01 - Special Topic: Religious Violence and Nonviolence 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines the often surprising intersections between violence and nonviolence in and around religious traditions. We will focus on Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism, as we engage theories of violence, nonviolence and social change. The course will be framed historically, critically, and practically at the intersection of religious identity, peace studies and postcolonial critique. Together we will debate questions of terrorism, anticolonial and anti-racist revolution, militant nonviolence and the embodied practice of conflict transformation.
Prerequisite: REL 101 , REL 102 , REL 103 , REL 104 , REL 105 , or second-year standing.
Instructor: T. Dobe
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REL 295-02 - Special Topic: Intersections of Religion, Self, and Society 2 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: HUM 295-02 and SST 295-02 . This course combines academic and co-curricular, religious life perspectives to explore the place of religion in understandings of the self and the social settings of which we are a part. We will begin with sociological questions on religion in public life and move toward an examination of religion in campus culture at Grinnell College, using our own small community/communities as a field/s for thinking together about these complex intersections.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Instructor: Elfenbein, Shorb
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REL 295-03 - Special Topic: Spirituality 4 credits (Spring)
Over the past two hundred years, the discourse of “spirituality” has moved from the edges of theological and philosophical reflection on the essence of religion and the intersection of western and eastern religions, to become a way of thinking and living beyond religion, as “spiritual, not religious”. Where does “spirituality” come from? What are the various meanings it holds for people? How is it contemporary practices of selfhood, political engagement, and economic investment?
Prerequisite: REL 101 , REL 102 , REL 103 , REL 104 , REL 105 , or second-year standing.
Instructor: Roberts
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REL 295-04 - Special Topic: Religion in Modern China 4 credits (Spring)
The course surveys the main religious issues in China from the late imperial period to the present. It examines a number of topics, including the status of local and foreign religions, the political control of new religious movements, the relationship between religious institutions and the state, the impact of modernization, the rise of religious tourism, and the resurgence of traditional Chinese religions. Students explore the multifaceted religious life in modern China by reading the primary and secondary sources, analyzing films, and studying the extant religious artwork.
Prerequisite: REL 101 , REL 102 , REL 103 , REL 104 , REL 105 , or second-year standing.
Instructor: Y. Chen
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REL 295-05 - Special Topic: Zen Buddhism 4 credits (Spring)
Chan-more popularly known as Zen-is one of the most popular modes of Buddhist traditions. The course explores the history, doctrine, literature, institution, and art of Chan and Zen Buddhism in Asia and in the United States. It includes reading and discussion of religious, cultural, and political issues related to the development and transmission of this renowned tradition. It is divided into four main sections: (1) Chinese Chan, (2) Japanese Zen, (3) American Zen, and (4) Chan/Zen and Art. Students will become acquainted with the origins of the Chan school in China, the development of Zen in Japan, and Zen’s transformation in the United States. The purpose of the first three sections is to survey how various factors have shaped contemporary views of Zen. The final section of the course is to survey how various factors have shaped contemporary views of Zen. The final section of the course examines Chan/Zen style of paintings and literature.
Prerequisite: REL 101 , REL 102 , REL 103 , REL 104 , REL 105 , or second-year standing.
Instructor: Y. Chen
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RES 295-01 - Special Topic: The Cold War: Russia and the US
See RUS 295-01 .
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RUS 295-01 - Special Topic: The Cold War: Russia and the US 2 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: RES 295-01 . This course will explore the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia from its origins in the mid-1940s to its dramatic end in recent years. It will analyze how relations between these nations and their leaders affected perceptions of the other and consequent actions during the 45 years that the Cold War dominated American foreign policy.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: January 22 to March 14. 1/2 semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Staff
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SOC 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Global Health: Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, and the United States 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: BIO 195-02 . This Global Learning Program course focuses on issues relating to health. Utilizing international course-embedded travel, we will examine the nexus of global health care systems in terms of actual health outcomes, the training of health care workers, social and economic policy, and the state. The content of the course covers material examining well established health care systems, and will include travel to Costa Rica, Cuba and Denmark for site-specific research and learning opportunities. First-year students interested in this course will need to complete an application in addition to doing the normal registration process. The application materials are available on GrinnellShare (Academics>Centers>Center for International Studies>Global Learning Program). Students selected to participate in the Global Learning Program will be required to pay a $400 participation fee (most other required travel expenses will be covered). This fee will be added to the student tuition bill and will be due by the first day of classes. If payment of this fee causes you financial concern, please contact Gretchen Zimmermann in the Financial Aid Office to discuss loan options to cover this additional cost of attendance.
Prerequisite: TUT-100 and application. Open to first-year student only.
Instructor: Ferguson, Hinsa-Leasure
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SOC 295-01 - Special Topic: Migrants, Refugees, and Diasporas 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: AMS 295-01 and PCS 295-01 . This course offers an introduction to the study of voluntary and forced migration from a global and transnational sociological perspective. In the last century, large-scale cross-border movement of people has transformed both receiving and send societies, from patterns of majority and minority relations to national identity formation. Drawing from cases in Europe, North America, and Asia, we will examine the behaviors and interactions of actors and institutions as they grapple with changes in their societies due to global migration. We will also explain the construction of migrants, refugees, and diasporas as social problems and seek to understand the sociological underpinnings of power in issues such as assimilation, development, loyalty, racism, and security. The emphasis of this course is on exploring theoretical and methodological debates in order to develop our critical and reflexive capacities in analyzing the global forces that shape our increasingly interconnected societies.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Instructor: Quinsaat
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SOC 295-02 - Special Topic: Sociology of Tourism 4 credits (Spring)
This course is an examination the relationship between tourism and social life from a sociological perspective. The root idea being that it is natural for human beings to make contact with other human beings and for societies to create leisure institutions to engage in cultural exchange and enjoyment. But what is the consequence of “instiutionalizing” tourism as an industry? This course will examine tourist practices, they are shaped, and how they are made meaningful within a social context. As we investigate why people travel, how they travel, and what they do while they are “on the road”, we will see that tourism is not on the margins of the social world, but rather deeply interconnected with everyday social life, from the personal to the global. Through scholarly readings, discussing and writing, we will explore the ways tourism is a material, symbolic, and political representation of many of the features of contemporary society’s achievements and ills:modernity and post modernity, consumption and cultural commoditization, the aestheticization of everyday life, democratization and social inequalities, questions of authenticity, embodiment and identity, gender relations, technology, social mobility and power, and globalization. We will review the tourist-related discourses and research literatures to instill the directions these conversations are taking in the 21st century. Finally, we will study the tourist practices in each country we visit as a unique case study of global leisure life.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Instructor: Scott
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SOC 295-03 - Special Topic: Comparative Social Inequalities 4 credits (Spring)
This course provides an overview of global social inequalities from a sociological perspective with an emphasis on public policies. It explores the extent, causes, and consequences of social and economic inequalities worldwide and their trends. We begin with a brief discussion of key concepts and measures used to assess inequalities across countries. Then we will look into inequalities as experienced in different world regions and in different dimensions and axes of stratification, including economic inequalities, social class and mobility, education, gender, race and ethnicity, and age. The course also covers modernization theory, dependency theory, world systems theory as well as approaches to Welfare State models and post-colonial and decolonial perspectives to understand past and current realities across the globe.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Instructor: Padilla
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SOC 295-04 - Special Topic: Gender Across the Globe 4 credits (Spring)
Gender is a main organizer of social relations and symbolic systems across the globe. Departing from the basic concepts around the sociology of gender, this course draws on comparative literature including ethnographic, sociological, political, and activist examples, to examine issues of gender from a global perspective. In this sense, gender is not the sole point of interest, but it will be grasped in connection with race, ethnicity, social class, geopolitical location, among other factors. This course departs also from the social and historical construction of gender toward a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective, bringing into discussion how globalization processes and neoliberalism have influenced the understanding of gender and the challenges to feminism and feminist agenda.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 or GWS 111 .
Instructor: Padilla
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SOC 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Neoliberalism: Ideology, Crisis, and Resistance 4 credits (Spring)
The term “neoliberalism” is typically associated initiatives and strategies intended to recognize the functions of the state in line with corporate interests, and in ways that diminish life chances for poor and working people and increasing inequality, overall. But how did this shift in policy preferences come about? Where did it emerge, and why, and with what implications, domestic and global? What is “new” about neoliberalism? How does it differ from what came before? The course sets out to answer these questions beginning with a look into increased competition between industrial powers in the US and Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. The course continues with an assessment of the technological, financial, and communications innovations that followed, and which reverberate to this day. We will then seek to connect these innovations and related shifts in the functions of the state and actions of political and economic elites to a series of economic crises: Latin America, in the 1980s; Asia, in the 1990s; the United States, in 2008; and in Greece and China, more recently.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 , ANT 104 , ECN 111 , PHI 111 , or POL 101 .
Instructor: Inglis
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SPN 295-01 - Special Topic: Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction 2 credits (Spring)
A creative writing workshop conducted entirely in Spanish, this course guides students as they produce a highly-polished, original work of fiction. Through the perspective of craft, students analyze fiction by accomplished authors, practice storytelling techniques via focused writing exercises, and revise a short story from its rough, exploratory state to a focused final draft. The course emphasizes revision, creativity, and experimentation, while providing an introduction to basic fiction writing concepts and methodologies.
Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
Instructor: D. Perez
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SST 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: The Cypher Paradigm: Hip Hop, Education, Praxis & Action 1 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: HUM 195-02 and MUS 195-01 . This course examines the power of the Hip Hop Elements (MCing, DJing, graffiti, breakdancing, beatboxing, beatmaking, archiving) as a framework for teaching, learning and activism agency. Grounded in inquiry, students will develop an analytic lens used to “close read” the world and respond to social justice issues on artistic and educational platforms. We will merge an exploration of the cultural, social, political histories of Hip Hop with liberatory pedagogical practices. Includes art creation and performance. This course is sponsored by the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: April 2 to April 30. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Sellers
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SST 195-02 - Introductory Special Topic: Human Centered Design for Global Social Transformation 1 credits (Spring)
Join social entrepreneur and societal engineer Megan Goering ‘08 to build awareness, skillset, and practice in Human Centered Design, a set of tools for bringing big ideas into reality in a way that works for real people. Every student will leave with a framework for quickly moving big ideas from concept stage to implementation in creating more creative, strategic, egalitarian and co-active campaigns and new products and programs for social change. This course is sponsored by the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: January 30 to February 22. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Goering
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SST 195-03 - Special Topic: Winning Social Movement Campaigns 1 credits (Spring)
Using the groundbreaking legislative victories by domestic workers (2010) and nail salon workers (2015) in New York State, and other contemporary campaigns as examples, the course will look at the nuts and bolts of a successful campaign and its impact on creating a collaborative ecosystem that can help strengthen individual organizations and build a larger movement to implement and sustain campaign victories. Students will have hands-on experience, choosing an issue of their interest and collectively designing a campaign. This course is sponsored by the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: April 9 to May 7. Short course deadlines apply. S/D/F only.
Instructor: Ranjit
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SST 195-04 - Introductory Special Topic: Leadership in a Future of Automation and Income Inequality 1 credits (Spring)
Explore how we can contribute to and guide our global society in an almost certain future of widespread automation, job displacement, and accelerated inequality in the distribution of key resources. Hear from entrepreneurs, historians of the industrial revolution, and futurists. Students will leave with a framework and direct experiences with leadership models that allow for transformative activism in a time of grave uncertainty and certain change. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: February 5 to February 26. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Mellin
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SST 295-01 - Special Topic: Politics of Human Thriving 2 credits (Spring)
See HUM 295-01
Instructor: Elfenbein
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SST 295-02 - Special Topic: Intersections of Religion, Self, and Society 2 credits (Spring)
See REL 295-02 or HUM 295-02 .
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SST 295-03 - Special Topic: Journal PublishingL Building Community in the Prairie Region 4 credits (Spring)
See HUM 295-03
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SST 295-04 & 05 - Special Topic: Multi-Media Workshop through a Virtual Global Grinnell 1 credits (Spring)
This online course uses multi-media methods to foster engagement with peoples and places where students are studying, especially off-campus. Drawing inspiration from the tradition of ethnographic film and its concerns with styles and forms of representation, as well as with current conversations about cross-cultural collaborations through technology, the course pursues three objectives. First, students will develop skills with tools of representation including still images, audio, and short videos. Second, students will use their multi-media assignments and comparative discussion with Grinnellians in other locations to deepen ties with different peoples and places. Third, the course provides a unique cross-program platform that creates a new form of global Grinnell learning community.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Section 04 - Dates: January 22 to March 16/ 1/2 semester deadlines apply.
Section 05 - Dates: April 2 to May 11. 1/2 semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Larson
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THD 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Native American Performance: Playwrights + Mediamakers 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: HUM 195-01 . Cherokee lawyer and playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle connects performance with Native American policy and political reality, declaring “In a country where the Supreme Court continues to define us as ‘racially inferior,”heathens,’ and ‘savages,’ and in a country where redface remains a popular performance, the absence of our voices from the American stage constitutes nothing less than a constitutional crisis.” Nagle is one of the many prolific Native playwrights whose work deserve more attention from producers, publishers, and scholars–and one of many Native activists who also wage their battles through social media, launching for instance the hashtag #InsteadOfRedFace. From the podcast network Indian & Cowboy Media to the irreverent videos of the 1491s, to the music of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, to the multimedia art of Sterlin Harjo and Mona Smith, to playwrights finding homes for their work on YouTube and/or incorporating multimedia into their plays, this course will examine works for both conventional stage and newer digital media venues. Students will also make digital and live media, specifically in collaboration with the new #InsteadOfRedFace Digital Commons.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Shook
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THD 295-01 - Special Topic: Choreolinguistics: Bridging the Art and Science of Language and the Body 4 credits (Spring)
See LIN 295-01 .
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THD 295-02 - Special Topic: Just for You: Between Art and Performance 2 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: ART 295-02 . For this interdisciplinary course, eight students from Theatre and Dance, Art, and Music will explore the theoretical framework and creative process of staging performances for an audience of one as they work to blur the boundaries between the visual and performing arts. Students enrolled in the six-week short course will design and stage their own original work at the College during the first six weeks of the spring semester. They will then travel to Taiwan to collaborate with professors Craig Quintero and Andrew Kaufman and members of Riverbed Theatre in creating a site-specific performance/ installation at the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art. Enrollment is limited to eight students and requires permission from Professor Kaufman or Quintero. Participants will be selected based on an audition/portfolio presentation that will be held on Tuesday, November 7th from 2-6 PM in the Wall Theatre. The sign-up sheet for auditions will be placed on the Flanagan Theatre callboard on November 1. If you have any questions, please contact [quintero]. Students selected to participate in this course will be required to pay a $400 participation fee (most other required travel expenses will be covered). This fee will be added to the student tuition bill and is due by the first day of classes. If payment of this fee causes you financial concern, please contact Gretchen Zimmermann in the Financial Aid Office to discuss loan options to cover this additional cost of attendance.
Prerequisite: Participants will be selected based on an audition/portfolio presentation that will be held on Tuesday, November 7th from 2-6 PM in the Wall Theatre. The sign-up sheet for auditions will be placed on the Flanagan Theatre callboard on November 1.
Note: Dates: January 30 to March 6. 1/2 semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Quintero, Kaufman
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TEC 154 - Evolution of Technology 4 credits (Spring)
To make wise decisions about future technologies, we must understand the past and the present: what drives and influences technological change? How do technologies affect individuals and society? How do we make decisions about technology? Who decides? Although individual section offerings will consider different technologies and issues, all offerings will explore such questions through readings and case studies from a variety of disciplines, along with writing and discussion.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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TEC 215 - Solar Energy Technologies 4 credits (Spring)
An investigation of the technology related to the utilization and storage of solar energy, including consideration of scientific, technical, economic, and social concerns. Study of the broad energy resource and use picture, including calculations, followed by an in-depth study of solar thermal conversion, photovoltaic devices, photochemical conversion, biomass, and wind power. Underlying principles and quantitative reasoning stressed.
Prerequisite: CHM 129 or PHY 131 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Swartz
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TEC 232 - Human-Computer Interaction 2 credits (Fall or Spring)
See CSC 232 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
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THD 100 - Performance Laboratory 1 or 2 credits (Fall and Spring)
Guided participation, for major theatre and dance productions, in theatrical performance, choreography, assistant directing, stage managing, dramaturgy, or design and crew work on sets, lights, props, costumes, or makeup. Qualified students examine problems of production in the theatre while solving these problems in rehearsal and performance. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Note: (A maximum of 8 practica credits may count toward graduation.) S/D/F only.
Instructor: Staff
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THD 104 - Dance Technique I 2 credits (Fall and Spring)
Beginning dance technique; the principles, terminology, basic history, developing a physical and kinesthetic understanding of concert dance techniques. Areas of emphasis include but are not limited to ballet or modern dance. Consult the Schedule of Courses for the specific area of emphasis each semester. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Hurley
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THD 111 - Introduction to Performance Studies 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An examination of dramatic performance in its broadest cultural contexts. This foundational course is designed to encourage critical thinking about the inclusive field of performance and how it is created, including orality, festivals, living history museums, trials, political conventions, and sporting events. Students explore both texts and performance events to analyze “What makes an event performance?” and “How is performance made and understood?” Because knowledge is embodied as well as textualized, students will both write and perform components of their final class projects.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Delmenico
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THD 113 - Movement for the Performer 4 credits (Fall)
Practical exploration of movement and bodily-based trainings based on Nikolais and Laban techniques as an alternative means to theorize the integration of mind and body. Students develop greater physical awareness and articulation for stage, athletics and other applications. Studio-based exercises and activities investigate daily movement practices, improvisation and an introduction to composing in movement.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Miller
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THD 115 - Theatrical Design and Technology 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
A hands-on, experiential introduction to the design elements of theatre and dance production. Topics include a history of Western theatre architecture and stage forms, scene painting, properties, lighting, sound, drafting, makeup, and costuming. Emphasis is placed upon the design and implementation of theatrical scenes from a variety of historic eras and the analysis of the ways in which the design elements influence performance style.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Thomas
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THD 117 - Introduction to Acting 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
A practice-based exploration of the theories and techniques of acting. Using Stanislavksi’s seminal text An Actor Prepares as the foundation, students develop their skills at transforming dramatic texts from the page to the stage. The course culminates in publicly staged scenes.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Delmenico, Quintero
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THD 201 - Dramatic Literature I 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: GLS 201 . Study of major works in Western dramatic literature to 1850, with reference to cultural contexts, interpretive problems, and dramatic theory, beginning with Aristotle’s Poetics. Includes plays and performances (in translation) of Greek tragedy and Aristophanic comedy, English medieval cycle plays, Machiavelli, Marlowe, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tempest, Webster’s White Devil, Ben Jonson, Spanish Golden Age, Racine and Moliere, a Restoration comedy, the Brook Mahabharata, and Goethe’s Faust.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Mease, Delmenico
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THD 202 - Dramatic Literature II 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 202 . Study of major works in Western dramatic literature from 1850 to the present, with reference to cultural contexts, interpretive problems, and dramatic theory. From the “classic moderns” of realism and naturalism through the Symbolists, Expressionists, Surrealists and Absurdists; dramatists and theorists include Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Yeats, Synge, Shaw, Buechner, Kaiser, Artaud, Pirandello, Lorca, Brecht, Sartre, Genet, Beckett, Grotowski, Weiss, Pinter, Cixous, and Stoppard.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Mease
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THD 203 - American Theatre 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 203 . A study of American theatre from the early 20th century to the present. Students examine a variety of different theatrical styles, ranging from plays by canonical authors (including O’Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Wilson, Mamet, and Shepard) to experimental works by artists who challenged the conventions of mainstream theatre (including Cage, Kaprow, Beck, Finley, and Wilson).
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Quintero
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THD 204 - Dance Technique II 2 credits (Fall and Spring)
Intermediate and advanced dance technique; physical and kinesthetic study involving more complex movement patterns and sequences, phrasing, musicality, and stylistic considerations. Areas of emphasis include but are not limited to ballet or modern dance. Consult the Schedule of Courses for the specific area of emphasis each semester. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: THD 104 or equivalent experience.
Instructor: Hurley
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THD 205 - Dance Ensemble 2 credits (Fall and Spring)
Dance Ensemble is a performing ensemble engaged in the development, rehearsal and production of contemporary dance works choreographed by faculty and guest artists. Exposure to diverse choreographic approaches provides the opportunity to expand technical, stylistic and interpretive range. Students gain collaborative skills through improvisation and the contribution of movement material to certain choreographic projects. Dance ensemble is open to students with previous dance and theatre background, and students interested in applying themselves as invested movers.
Prerequisite: Entry into Dance Ensemble takes place at an Audition/Informational Workshop held at the beginning of each semester. Course registration closes at end of Add/Drop period.
Note: (A maximum of 8 practica credits may count toward graduation.) S/D/F only.
Instructor: Miller
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THD 210 - Contemporary Dance in a Global Context 4 credits (Fall)
Contemporary dance practices have been challenging deeply held beliefs on art and life since the early 19th century. This hard to define genre has roots in modern and post-modern dance theory, and draws from dance disciplines as diverse as Ballet, Modern, Bharantanatyam, Butoh, Hip-Hop; as well as other disciplines. This course explores origins, styles, icons, purpose, myths and key concepts of the form from a survey of work produced by contemporary choreographers across the globe.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Miller
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THD 211 - Performance Studies: Traditions and Innovations 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines non-naturalistic forms of theatre and performance-making. It can explore the work of foundational avant-garde director/theorists and performance practices that have developed since the 1960s, including performance art, site-specific, and community-based theatre. It can also focus on postcolonial and non-Western performances, including textual and nontextual practices, and the ways in which Western and non-Western performance has intersected during the last century.
Prerequisite: Any 100-level Theatre and Dance course.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Delmenico
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THD 217 - Intermediate Acting 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An intensive performance laboratory for students to explore different modes of performance and further develop and refine their acting skills. With an emphasis on psychological realism, students stage a series of individual and group performances designed to enhance their critical engagement of performance as both the subject and method of their study.
Prerequisite: THD 117 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Quintero
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THD 225 - Choreography: Developing Physical Ideas 4 credits (Spring)
This course focuses on the fundamentals and theories of choreographic processes explored through formal and experimental models and their socio-historical contexts. Improvisation and composition are used to explore the structural elements and movement vocabularies that are used to devise physical ideas for the stage that emerge as choreography and staged direction for theatrical works. Students will present their work in an end of the semester showing.
Prerequisite: THD 104 , THD 113 , or any 200-level Theatre and Dance course.
Instructor: Miller
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THD 235 - Directing 4 credits (Fall)
A theoretical and practical investigation of the responsibilities and techniques of the director in the theatre. Classroom exercises are supplemented by readings addressing different theories of directing. The final project is the directing of a one-act play.
Prerequisite: THD 117 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Quintero
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THD 240 - Design for Performance I 4 credits (Fall)
An exploration of the design fundamentals common to each facet of theatrical design: scenery, lighting, costumes, and makeup. Such elements as design procedure from conception to realization, research techniques and materials, period style, and design history are emphasized.
Prerequisite: THD 115 or ART 111 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Thomas
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THD 245 - Lighting for the Stage 4 credits (Fall)
Introduces the student to the art of lighting design, process, and the practice of lighting the stage for the theatre, opera, dance, industrials, television, and video. Students develop the knowledge, vocabulary, and skills necessary to become a master electrician, assistant lighting designer, and beginning lighting designer.
Prerequisite: THD 115 or THD 240 , or ART 111 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Thomas
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THD 303 - Studies in Drama I 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 303 . A seminar-style course in dramaturgy, focusing on a central topic in the history and theory prior to 1850. The course will emphasize the development of methodologies and research strategies useful for the theatre practitioner and the researcher. Past topics for this variable-content course have included Greek Drama, Theory of Comedy (Aristophanes to Stoppard), English Medieval and Renaissance Drama; Hamlet and Revenge Tragedy, Shakespeare’s Comedies and Tragedies. May be repeated once for credit when content changes. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: May vary depending on topic but can include 200-level coursework in English, foreign languages, Classics, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Anthropology, Art, Theatre or dramatic literature/criticism/theatre history.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Mease, Delmenico
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THD 304 - Studies in Drama II 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 304 . A seminar-style course in dramaturgy, focusing on a central topic in the history and theory of theatre and performance. Studies in Drama II covers topics after 1850. The course will emphasize the development of methodologies and research strategies useful for the theatre practitioner and the researcher. Past topics for this variable-content course have included Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov; Beckett’s Prose and Plays; Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd; British Drama since World War II; and Postcolonial Theatre. May be repeated once for credit when content changes. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: May vary depending on topic but can include 200-level coursework in English, foreign languages, Classics, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Anthropology, Art, Theatre or dramatic literature/criticism/theatre history.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Mease, Delmenico
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THD 310 - Studies in Dance 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
A combined seminar and practice course for advanced study of a selected topic in dance or contemporary performance that will be detailed each time the course is offered (topics are announced in the Schedule of Courses). The course will employ a variety of materials and methods for advanced research in dance as a cultural, social, historical, and artistic phenomenon. Topics could include: Dance and Technology, Community and Performance; Dancing Gender and Sexuality; and The Choreography of Political Protest. May be repeated once for credit. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level Theatre and Dance course.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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THD 311 - Studies in Performance 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An advanced-level, variable-topic course that combines theoretical and historical study with practical investigation. Possible topics include adaptation and performance of literature or nonfiction and devised or community-based performance. Students will work as individuals or within groups to research, create, and present a final performance project.
Prerequisite: THD 201 , THD 202 , THD 203 , THD 210 , or THD 211 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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THD 317 - Advanced Performance 4 credits (Spring)
This variable topic course focuses on classical and contemporary modes of performance. Possible areas of emphasis include Greek, Elizabethan, French neoclassic, contemporary docudrama theatre, Asian theatre, and performance art. Course emphasis is on scene study, performance, and directing. May be repeated when content changes.
Prerequisite: THD 210 , THD 211 , THD 217 , or THD 235 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Quintero
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THD 340 - Design for Performance II 4 credits (Fall)
An in-depth exploration of designing for the stage, with the specific area of design (scenery, lighting, costumes) announced each time the course is offered. Emphasis is on script or dance “text” analysis and the evolution of design from first reading to first performance.
Prerequisite: THD 240 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Thomas
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AMS 275-01 - Topics in American Culture: American Journey 4 credits (Fall)
What do an Ex-radical Black Panther member (Kesho Scott) and an Ex-International athlete (Will Freeman) have in common and how did a chance luncheon change them? This course will answer that question. It is a sharing of journeys as well as a survey of the power of the American Journey to the American experience and identity. Come join us! Why do we explore what is out there? What is your story, your journey thus far? How have previous road trips shaped you? How do our journeys help us answer the larger questions of meaning and purpose in our lives? This course is an interdisciplinary examination of journey and road trips through deep introspection, self-discovery, and transformation narratives. American journeys and road trips find themselves in history, literature, psychology, film, and popular culture. Through these disciplinary lenses, students will compare and contrast, and critically examine the journeys and road trips of both groups and individuals like J.B. Grinnell, Joseph Campbell, Lewis and Clarke, Daniel Boone, Thoreau, Lindbergh, Heat-Moon, Kerouac, Strayed, Mills, Steinbeck, and the larger journeys of women and slaves in this country’s history. Even the journeys of YOUR professor will be examined. The themes of the course include: Defining the Journey-The Hero’s Journey and Learning about ourselves through our journeys; Tourist Vs Traveller; Individual and Collective Journeys and how they have shaped us; Gender Dynamics and the Road Trip; The Intersection of Risk, Transformation, and National Identity; Self-Development through the Road Trips-How our journeys define us; Building Community through journeys across generations.
Prerequisite: AMS 130 and second-year standing.
Instructor: Scott, W. Freeman
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ANT 104-01 & 02 - Anthropological Inquiries 4 credits (Fall)
Family. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to anthropology through a specific thematic lens: families. What is family? Who is family? How is family life similar and/or different in different societies and cultures? In this course, we will attempt to answer these questions through anthropology’s holistic, cross-cultural perspective. Among the specific topics we will look at are the social institutions of family, love, gender roles, childhood, migration, etc.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Kulstad
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ANT 104-03 - Anthropological Inquiries 4 credits (Fall)
Community. This course considers the origin, development, and transformation of human social groups over time and space. It begins with attention to early human ancestors and evolving relationships among social organization, subsistence strategies, and environmental conditions. It then considers variation in forms and functions of social communities and the multiplicity of meanings communities have for kin, local, linguistic, ethnic, religious, national, and transnational groups and institutions.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: B. French
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BIO 150-01 - Introduction to Biological Inquiry 4 credits (Fall)
Prairie Restoration. As a way to explore how biologists ask questions and develop answers to them, this class will focus on the biological problems involved in the restoration of tallgrass prairies. It will be taught in “workshop” format at Grinnell College’s Conard Environmental Research Area (CERA), where we will use the college’s prairie and savanna restorations as our laboratory. Students will be required to formulate research questions based on readings of the scientific literature, design experimental or observational studies to test these hypotheses, and communicate the results of these studies after the conventions of professional biologists. Papers resulting from a substantial independent project will be published in the class journal, Tillers.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Brown
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BIO 150-03 - Introduction to Biological Inquiry 4 credits (Fall)
The Language of Neurons. In this course students will actively learn how biologists study the nervous system. Specifically, students will work as neuroscientists for a semester and will attempt to learn something novel about how nerve cells communicate with one another at chemical synapses. Students will present their findings at the end of the semester via both oral and written presentations. Papers resulting from a substantial independent project will be published in the class journal, Pioneering Neuroscience: The Grinnell Journal of Neurophysiology. Students with a strong background in high school physics will benefit most from this section of Biological Inquiry.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Rempel-Clower
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BIO 150-04 - Introduction to Biological Inquiry 4 credits (Fall)
The Effects of Climate Change on Organisms. We will examine the effects of predicted changes in temperature, moisture and carbon dioxide levels on organismal and ecosystem function through experimental investigation. We will focus on the effects of such changes on the physiology and metabolic functioning of organisms, as well as on biogeochemical processes of ecosystems. This course will be taught in a workshop format, meeting twice a week for three hours. Class time will be devoted primarily to discussions and lab work, examining theoretical aspects of organismal and ecosystem functioning, design and implementation of lab-based experiments, and the interpretation of our results in the context of extensive ongoing climate change research.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: K. Jacobson
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BIO 150-05 - Introduction to Biological Inquiry 4 credits (Fall)
Animal Locomotion. As a way to explore how biologists ask questions and develop answers to them, this class will focus on the biomechanics and physiology of animal locomotion. We will begin at the level of the muscle, and go on to consider how the heart and lungs function during exercise in vertebrates. We will also consider the effects of exercise on mood, stress, and anxiety, and analyze the kinematics of locomotion using digital video. Students will begin learning how to use the scientific literature to study the physical, physiological, and biomechanical principles that cause or result from the ways animals move. The emphasis of the course will be on asking questions, designing experiments to answer those questions, and communicating results of the experiments in a variety of formats. Each class period will combine lab, lecture, and discussion.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Queathem
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BIO 390-01 - Readings in Biology 2 credits (Fall)
Cancer Biology. Cancer is a broad class of diseases with significant human health impacts. This course will explore a selection of the mechanisms by which genetic changes permit uncontrolled cell growth. We will examine how altered cell-cell interactions and physiology permit cancer cells to metastasize to multiple tissues. Additionally, we will discuss immunological defenses and modern treatment approaches that limit cancer cells’ growth and spread. This seminar-style course will emphasize reading and discussion of primary literature.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 .
Instructor: Thu
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ENG 120-01 - Literary Analysis 4 credits (Fall)
This section of literary analysis will introduce students to critical reading, thinking, and writing in the context of literary works from a number of genres. We will begin by looking at critical and theoretical approaches to a single novel (E. Brontë’s Wuthering Heights) and then turn to short fiction, poetry, and drama (Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night), building on what we have learned while focusing on genre-specific vocabulary and strategies of interpretation. Graded assignments will include short writing assignments and three papers.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Jacobson
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ENG 120-02 & 04 - Literary Analysis 4 credits (Fall)
This course focuses on analytical writing and close reading of fiction, drama, poetry, and literary criticism, with an emphasis on further development of critical writing and research skills. We will read the work of authors and poets like Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and William Shakespeare. Through this investigation, students will gain more extensive experience with academic writing, a keener insight into literature, and an understanding of the way arts and culture can help us to understand change and social difference.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Moriah
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ENG 120-03 - Literary Analysis 4 credits (Fall)
Adaptation & Multimedia Storytelling: As Angels in America declares about them party costumes, “it’s all been done before.” Yet when a story or idea moves from genre to genre, form to form, audience to audience, place to place, time to time, it transforms into something new. This course will examine adaptation processes and examples, including theatre, poetry, fiction, dance, music, film, and digital storytelling. In addition to writing essays and short response posts, students will create their own adaptations inspired by materials from the College Archives and drawing upon digital and non-digital methods.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Shook
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ENG 121-01 & 02 - Introduction to Shakespeare 4 credits (Fall)
This course will examine a selection of Shakespeare’s work that spans his career. Applying key terms and concepts for the study of literature, we will read representative plays and consider some of the most important poems. Part of our focus will be on understanding the plays in their performative contexts, reading the texts very closely and imagining performance possibilities. Together, we will explore how original audiences may have responded to Shakespeare’s work, as well as how the poems and plays have taken hold of our contemporary imagination.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Garrison
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ENG 210-01 - Studies in Genre 4 credits (Fall)
The Graphic Novel. This course will use various modes of literary theory –psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory critical race theory, disability studies – to read a selection of graphic novels. We’ll consider how these tools open up ways of reading text and image in this genre. The course will begin with memoirs: Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home. We will then examine the representation of non-normative bodies in superhero books. The final few weeks of the course will be dedicated to serious theoretical examination of Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Along with writing traditional academic essays, students will be able to present their critical analysis in the form of a digital graphic essay.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; or for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or any course in the study of literature in another language department.
Instructor: Arner
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ENG 223-01 - The Tradition of English Lit I 4 credits (Fall)
This course will survey English literature written during the medieval and early modern periods, grounding that literature in the historical, political, social, and linguistic contexts from which it emerged. We will explore how literature reflected – and also shaped – cultural debates regarding such diverse issues as chivalry, nationalism, scientific discovery, gender, and sexuality. We will read drama, prose, and poetry from authors with whom students may already be familiar (e.g., Chaucer, Shakespeare) and from lesser-known writers whose work gives us unique insight into English literary history.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 , or any course in the study of literature in another language department.
Instructor: Garrison
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ENG 227-01 - American Literary Traditions I 4 credits (Fall)
From Captivity to Captivation: In this course, the question of a distinctly American literature is explored from the perspective of the captivity narrative that has its origins in the struggle between Christians and Muslims in the Mediterranean world of the 16th and 17th centuries. Early in the semester we focus on Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok in order to analyze the aesthetic techniques that turn the violence of seventeenth century transatlantic captivity into the captivating pleasures of nineteenth century American historical romances. The middle portion of the course focuses on two novels of the early Republic: Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Mervyn and Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive. Discussion of the transatlantic trade in slaves and its impact on republican virtue and textual self-fashioning will be supplemented by selections from Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The course will conclude with a discussion of Emerson’s “The American Scholar,” in which he urges liberation from “our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands.” Readings from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman will provide the basis for discussing how much has been done and what is left to do as “American” literature continues to acknowledge its multicultural and transnational relations in its ongoing attempt to confront the “infidelism” that Whitman insisted imprisons too many of us. Grade to be determined by class discussion, collaborative work with peers, and three formal writing assignments.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or any course in the study of literature in another language department.
Instructor: Andrews
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ENG 229-01 - The Tradition of African American Literature 4 credits (Fall)
In this course we will analyze African American literature from the long nineteenth century. Our reading list will include work by figures like Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass as well as less frequently considered writers like Nancy Prince and John Marrant. Our investigation will encompass a consideration of non-canonical texts so that we can develop a richer sense of African American literary culture during the period. Thus, we will take seriously the suggestion of scholar Eric Gardner that we must look in “unexpected places” to fully understand African American literary history. Students will also engage with a wide range of scholarly criticism.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or any course in the study of literature in another language department.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Moriah
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ENG 327-01 - The Romantics 4 credits (Fall)
Electric Romanticism: The Technologies of the Romantic Period and of Romantic Studies. This course will involve a two-pronged approach to the relationship between British Romanticism and technology. On the one hand, we will study texts of the Romantic period that address technological innovation themselves; these texts will include, for example, a unit placing Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in the context of Romantic-era science and technology. We will also address other scientific innovations at the time, such as the discovery of oxygen, the development of the difference engine, and early evolutionary theory. On the other hand, we will examine and use contemporary technologies that enable new ways of studying Romantic texts, from online editions and databases to new tools for analyzing individual texts and large corpuses of texts. We will weave these threads together with critical and theoretical readings about Romantic and present-day technologies, and students will have the option to write a conventional term paper or to develop a digital project based on the course readings.
Prerequisite: ENG 223 , ENG 224 , ENG 225 , ENG 227 , or ENG 228 .
Instructor: Simpson
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ENG 328-01 - Studies in American Poetry II 4 credits (Fall)
Beat, Black, and (Sometimes) Blue: Poetry of the ‘50s and ‘60s from San Francisco, Black Mountain, and the Black Arts Movement. In this course we will explore poetry that breaks out of what Robert Bly called “the new critical jail,” as well as poetry that resists what Haki Madhubuti called the “protective custody” of cultural institutions dominated by white wardens and masters. Some members of this generation went from “liking Ike” to hiking out, as far out as words and rucksacks could take them, while others, such as Amiri Baraka, hoped to “clean out the world for virtue and love” by writing “poems that kill.” Our discussions of such raptures and ruptures will begin with an analysis of two seminal anthologies, both published in 1960-the 3rd edition of Understanding Poetry, edited by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren; and The New American Poetry, 1945-1960, edited by Donald Allen. Many of the poets listed in Allen’s anthology-Ginsberg, Snyder, Kerouac, Levertov, Olson, Creeley, Jones (Baraka), O’Hara, and Ashbery, to name a few-are now safely ensconced in the American literary canon; none were included in Understanding Poetry. As a way of better understanding this schism, we will apply a historicist approach to New Critical assumptions about the writer, the reader, and the “public” nature of poetry and compare those assumptions with the theory and practice propounded by the writers in New American Poetry. By the ‘60s, many of these poets were actively engaged in merging poetics with politics, as they acted out the affirmations of language, place, and civil rights within an often bewildering juxtaposition of “American” spaces stretching from Piute Creek to the moon and back and from Newark to Viet Nam. Readings to include works from the writers mentioned, as well as memoirs by Joyce Johnson, Diane di Prima, and Amiri Baraka. Grade to be determined by class discussion/facilitation, two medium-length papers and a final research project.
Prerequisite: For majors any 200-level English course; for non-majors, any 200-level or higher course in the study of literature in another language major.
Instructor: Andrews
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ENG 331-01 - Studies in American Prose II 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: GWS 331-01 . A study of contemporary memoirs by feminist writers exploring gender, identity, sexuality, race, and culture. In addition to critically analyzing the memoir as a literary form, students will examine how feminist writers have used memoir to describe both personal and political experiences, to theorize from these experiences, and to develop concepts of feminist subjectivity. Readings will include a diverse range of memoirs such as Hunger by Roxane Gay, Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale by Bell Yang, and The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, as well as critical essays on memoir, graphic memoir, autobiography, and feminist/queer theory.
Prerequisite: ENG 227 , ENG 228 , ENG 229 , ENG 231 , ENG 232 , or ENG 273 .
Instructor: Nutting
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ENV 495-01 - Senior Seminar: Food, Energy, Water Nexus 4 credits (Fall)
Food, energy, and water systems (FEWs) are intimately interconnected. In this seminar, we will explore problems related to building sustainable and resilient FEWs within the context of a nexus framework. Topics will include: water scarcity and water resource allocation, the impacts of fuel extraction (e.g., “fracking”) and agriculture on water quality (e.g., eutrophication), food security and obesity, and the impacts of climate change on the FEWs nexus. The seminar emphasizes close reading of contemporary peer-reviewed literature and includes a major term-writing project.
Prerequisite: Open to Junior and Senior Environmental Studies Concentrators.
Instructor: A. Graham
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GWS 331-01 - Studies in American Prose II 4 credits (Fall)
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HIS 100-01 - Introduction to Historical Inquiry: U.S. in the Age of Transatlantic Revolution 4 credits (Fall)
This course provides an introduction to issues of historical causation, argumentation, and evidence, through the lens of U.S. History in the age of the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions (1763-1815). After introductory units on historical methods and the concept of transatlantic history, we will spend the bulk of the semester considering U.S. history in a global context to understand how Revolutions shaped politics, culture, social relations, race, and gender. Students will work intensively with primary sources.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Purcell
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HIS 100-02 - Introduction to Historical Inquiry: The Conservation Movement 4 credits (Fall)
This course provides an introduction to issues of historical causation, argumentation, and evidence through the lens of the Conservation movement (1870-1940) which aimed to transform societies’ use of natural resources. After an introductory unit on historical methods, we will examine how various efforts to conserve nature unfolded in American cities, rural landscapes, and national parks. We will also explore the international dimensions of this story, tracing the growing role of conservation in European imperialism around the globe.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Guenther
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HIS 100-03 - Introduction to Historical Inquiry: After the Great War 4 credits (Fall)
This course provides an introduction to issues of historical causation, argumentation, and evidence, by exploring the impact of the First World War (1914-18) on the political, social, and cultural institutions of Europe and the wider world, and using the current centenary of the war to consider its legacy. After introductory units on historical methods and the experience of the war, we will investigate how European citizens and subjects attempted to reconstruct, reinvent, and make sense of “a world undone.” Topics will include cultural memory and modernism; gender and the “New Woman”; the rise of Nazism; internationalism and the League of Nations; colonialism and nationalism.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Prevost
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HIS 100-03 - Introduction to Historical Inquiry: Europe under the Great Dictators 4 credits (Fall)
This course provides an introduction to issues of historical causation, argumentation, and evidence, through the lens of two of the most repressive dictators in all of world history–Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. After an introductory unit on historical methods, we will use a variety of primary and secondary texts to investigate the workings of the Nazi and Stalinist dictatorships, examining subjects like everyday life in a dictatorship, the personal role of Hitler and Stalin in determining state policy, the use of state terror and the secret police, the rise of the leader cult, the origins of the Holocaust, and the nature of Stalin’s Great Purges.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Cohn
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HIS 322-01 - 20th Century American Sexualities 4 credits (Fall)
Students in this seminar will explore the history of sex and sexuality in the twentieth century United States. We will identify changes, contradictions, and continuities in sexual ideals as well as the even more complicated realities of Americans’ sexual experiences. Topics will include desire, pleasure, violence, marriage, dating, identity, laws, cultures, and more. Students will begin the semester by engaging in a close reading of historical texts, both primary and secondary, to establish a shared foundation in the historiography of this period. Students will conclude the semester by producing a 20-page research paper and a 15-minute presentation of their original historical research into this era. Shorter writing assignments will be completed throughout the semester. Students will be expected to mine digital archives as well as traditional collections in order to locate sufficient primary sources for their project.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 and HIS 222 , HIS 224 , or GWS 211 .
Instructor: Lewis
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HIS 326-01 - 19th Century American Pop Culture 4 credits (Fall)
Students in this seminar will examine the creation and expansion of American popular culture in the nineteenth century as they focus on diverse cultural forms: dime novels, newspapers, music, sports, cartoons, material culture, theater, minstrel shows, magazines, etc. The seminar will focus particularly on how ideas and structures of race, class, and gender were changed and reinforced by American popular culture. Research papers will analyze popular culture in a historical context to consider how popular culture created or changed power dynamics in American society.
Prerequisite: Any 100-level history course or any 200-level American History course.
Instructor: Purcell
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MAT 218-01 - Discrete Bridges to Advanced Mathematics: Graph Theory 4 credits (Fall)
Graph Theory. A graph consists of a set of vertices and a set of edges - you can draw a graph simply by placing some dots on a page to represent vertices, and then connecting certain pairs of dots with lines to represent the edges. Graphs are useful for understanding any kind of networks - the internet itself could be viewed as a graph, with links between pages representing edges; in fact Google’s PageRank algorithm makes heavy use of ideas from graph theory. In this course, we will use graphs as a means to develop problem solving skills and to improve our ability to construct logical mathematical arguments. After beginning with basic topics including the chromatic number, planarity, trees, Euler circuits, and Hamiltonian paths, we will move on to more advanced topics in which we apply techniques from Linear Algebra, such as eigenvalues and inner products, to obtain deeper and less intuitive results about graphs.
Prerequisite: MAT 215 .
Instructor: C. French
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MAT 218-02 - Discrete Bridges to Advanced Mathematics: Number Theory 4 credits (Fall)
Number Theory. This course will provide an introduction to fundamental concepts in number theory. Time permitting, we will study: natural numbers and divisibility, linear equations, basic properties of prime numbers, modular arithmetic and congruences, Fermat’s Little Theorem, Euler’s Theorem, public key cryptography, primitive roots, and quadratic reciprocity. Among core goals of this course is to practice, and improve, the communication of rigorous mathematical arguments.
Prerequisite: MAT 215 .
Instructor: M. Ortz
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MAT 317-01 - Advanced Topics in Analysis: Complex Analysis 4 credits (Fall)
Theory of analytic functions of a complex variable. Students will pursue an independent project in analytic number theory or iterated function systems.
Prerequisite: MAT 316 .
Instructor: Shuman
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MUS 201-01 - Topics in Music & Culture: Music, Mind and Brain 4 credits (Fall)
This course explores the rapidly growing field of music perception and cognition. In light of the advances in psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and music theory, we will examine scientific foundations of how humans perceive, understand, and create music. Topics to be covered include evolutionary origins of music, music and emotion, musical learning and development, music and the brain, the perception and cognition of music structure, and the psychological and neurological processes involved in composition, improvisation, and performance.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Cha
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MUS 202-01 - Topics in American Music: Hip Hop 4 credits (Fall)
Hip-hop is one of the critically vital and commercially visible cultural phenomena in the world today. This class will consider the historical sweep of hip-hop culture - from the burnt-out projects of the South Bronx to the steel-and-glass office towers of Manhattan and L.A., from D.J. Kool Herc to Kendrick Lamar, from the U.S. to all points around the world - while also focusing on key issues related to race, gender, sexuality, and capitalism.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Laver
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PHI 393-01 - Advanced Studies: History of Philosophy: Spinoza/Mental Health 4 credits (Fall)
In this course we will do a careful reading of Spinoza’s Ethics and Theological Political Treatise. In particular, we will consider the implications of Spinoza’s philosophy of mind and theory of the affects to mental health and wellbeing. We will consider how Spinoza’s epistemology, political philosophy, and views on relational autonomy can inform mental health policy. Students interested in the Plus 2 Option: Students will produce digital products (e.g., brief videos, podcasts, infographics, etc.) to explain Spinoza’s concepts to mental health policy makers. This plus 2 option requires attendance to HUM 295-02 - Special Topic: Mental Health Policy and Outreach (Fridays 9-11:50 am first half of semester) in order to learn the necessary data analysis and digital humanities skills.
Prerequisite: PHI 233 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Nyden
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PST 320-01 - Applied Policy Analysis 4 credits (Fall)
International Adoption, Reproductive Technologies, and the Implementation of Policy. Is access to reproduction a basic human right? How do people seek to have the “experience” of reproduction? How should access to that experience be regulated? Surrogacy has become a common term within the discourse of reproduction, and it can range from adopting other people’s children to buying other people’s gametes and even to renting out other people’s bodies. Given the various forms of appropriation, expropriation and commodification that now attend this discourse, how do we define the boundary between surrogacy as slavery and surrogacy as entrepreneurship? This course will explore the policy ramifications of these and other questions as we reflect on the concurrent and often conflicting interrelationship between “market” and “polis” models in regard to the policy-making process. To that end, perspectives from economics, biology, and literature will be brought to bear on behalf of the urgencies that compel relief and the cautionary tales that give us pause.
Prerequisite: PST 220 . Any interested student is strongly encouraged to contact one of the professors.
Instructor: Andrews, Powell, Queathem
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RUS 389-01 - Advanced Russian Seminar 4 credits (Fall)
Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita will be the focus of this seminar. Each class will be devoted to discussion of several chapters: their literary and political themes, as well as intertextual connections and cultural allusions. Towards the end of semester students will also read critical works about the novel in Russian. Conducted in Russian.
Prerequisite: RUS 313 .
Instructor: Vishevsky
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SPN 320-01 - Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World 4 credits (Fall)
Gender and Latinx Cultures in the US: Models and Expectations in Film. This course stems from the theory that gender is culture–a social construct (in)formed by models, patterns, and ideals that we observe and imitate. Gender construction is informed by many forms of media, but film has been of particular influence with respect to the transmission of gender ideals and expectations. In this course, using cultural studies methodologies, we will concentrate on representations of latinxs in the United States and the cultural messages that accompany these representations from the 40s to the present day. In particular, we will analyze the relation between representations and self-perceptions of latinx subjects through stereotypes and gender models.
Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
Instructor: Petrus
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