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2018-2019 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENG 120-03 - Literary Analysis 4 credits (Spring)
This section will explore texts in which a main character or group of characters is dead from the beginning of the narration. Our primary texts will span a multitude of historical eras and literary forms, from drama to film, from the novel to poetry both contemporary and medieval. We will read how various theorists and critics have grappled with the ways in which death, loss, and nostalgia function in literature and in cultural life. Along the way, we will encounter questions of how art, religion, and social groups seek language for representing what no one has seen. Students will develop analytical skills through discussion and through writing their own critical essays.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Lorden
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ENG 121-01 - Introduction to Shakespeare 4 credits (Spring)
As we closely read some of Shakespeare’s most intellectually challenging plays, our major focus will be on analyzing elements of stage performance, learning about acting and theatrical production both in Shakespeare’s time and today. In fact, we will see the plays that we study come to life on stage during the semester. Over Spring Break, we will engage in course-embedded travel to trace Shakespeare’s footsteps in the contemporary United States. First, we will travel to Washington, DC, to examine rare books at the Folger Shakespeare Library and to see two live plays there. We will then interact with actors and creators at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA, where we will see plays at the Blackfriars Theater that replicates Shakespeare’s very own indoor theater as it had been in Renaissance London.
This course includes required travel over spring break. Students will be required to pay a $250 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 Zimmerman in the Financial Aid Office to discuss loan options to cover this additional cost for attendance.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Garrison
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ENG 210-01 - Studies in Genre 4 credits (Spring)
Saints and Superheroes. Superhuman heroes of different eras reflect and exaggerate the ideals of the worlds that produce them. Exploring the lives of these saints and superheroes, we will consider how sensational details shift, are censored, or are exaggerated for a given audience or by a given author, and how their fabulous adventures interact with genres such as romance, heroic literature, poetry, and history. Alternating between the distant and more recent past, we will discuss how the surprising adventures of supernatural figures reflect both otherwordly ideals and the worldly ideologies of the authorities and institutions who promoted them. We will read scholarship on both eras, questioning our assumptions of both past and present and what their impossible ideals may have to tell us about the lived history of their authors and audiences.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; or for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Instructor: Lorden
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ENG 223-01 - The Tradition of English Literature I 4 credits (Spring)
This course surveys works of English literature in conversation with the historical circumstances, social dynamics, and other texts that shape how traditions are written and understood. We will talk about how these texts came about, and what factors lead to their prominence and continuing influence upon those that come after them. With this in mind, we will read familiar works–Beowulf, Paradise Lost, selections from The Canterbury Tales–with texts written contemporaneously to complicate our ideas of what the tradition is and how it is formed.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Instructor: Lorden
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ENG 225-01 - Introduction to Postcolonial Literature 4 credits (Spring)
Postcolonial Literature: Where Aesthetics Meets Politics. Literary critics have often employed the term postcolonial to describe the consequences of occupation during and after colonization. The rise and fall of the British Empire contributed significantly to cultural hybridity, migration, political tension, national sovereignty, and socio-economic inequity that shapes the world as we know it today. Through short lectures, extensive discussion, and intensive writing assignments, we will cover the key concepts and categories used in postcolonial theory to help us investigate the relationship between colonial experience and the content, form, and style of the literature written to understand and comment upon it. Our course will begin by examining texts such as Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Daniel Defeau’s Robinson Crusoe, as a spring board to talk about how modernist and contemporary literature emerged as a product of and response to colonization. We will draw from a range of literary genres, covering work by English, Irish, Caribbean, South Asian, African, Australian, Maori, and Middle Eastern writers.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 , ENG 121 , or third-year standing.
Instructor: Sutaria
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ENG 325-01 - Studies in Ethnic American Literature 4 credits (Spring)
Translation Matters: The Task of the Ethnic American Writer. In this seminar, we will explore the literary, linguistic, and cultural matters of translation in ethnic American literature and examine how and why translation matters for reconceptualizing the relationship between “the ethnic” and “the American.” Drawing on the insights of translation theory, from Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator” to recent critical interventions by Lawrence Venuti, Gayatri Spivak, and Emily Apter, we will consider questions concerning the complex interplay between language, culture, and identity. Authors will likely include: Jhumpa Lahiri, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodriguez, Gloria Anzuldua, Aleksandr Hemon, Leslie Marmon Silko,Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Eduardo C. Corral, amongst others. For the final project, students will have the option of writing a longer research paper on a specific matter of translation in ethnic American literature or producing their own translation of a literary work, accompanied by a critical introduction. Students will be encouraged to read, think, and write across disciplinary boundaries, drawing on their own foreign language knowledge, academic studies, and cultural backgrounds-in short, to translate in their own terms what it means to be American, ethnic and otherwise.
Prerequisite: ENG 227 , ENG 228 , ENG 229 , ENG 231 , ENG 232 , or ENG 273 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Phan
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ENG 330-01 - Studies in American Prose I 4 credits (Spring)
Manifest Displacements: Piracy, Slavery and the Limits of Self Possession. In the 18th century, literary or maritime piracy was as common in the transatlantic commercial world as were barnacles on hulls shipwrecked along the Spanish Main. By 1820, Congress defined the slave trade itself as a form of piracy. Shift the word “pirate” to its synonym “freebooter,” and by the mid-19th century the seafaring pirate becomes the land-grabbing filibuster. Even more recent avatars of the pirate are the data hacker, the patent pirate, and, potentially, DNA data providers. These intersecting modes of piracy will enable us to look askance at American cultural production, the better to recognize the constitutive role that various forms of theft and their disciplinary correctives continue to play in the constitution of American selves. Course readings may include accounts of 18th century pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read; a “memoir” by Jean Lafitte; James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover; Lord Byron’s The Corsair; Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”; R.L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island; Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; William Gibson’s Neuromancer; Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; and Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous. We will conclude with a viewing of Paul Greenglass’s 2013 film, Captain Phillips. Grade to be determined by class discussion, collaborative group work, one mid-length paper and the equivalent of a 15-page final research project. N.B.: this course has been designed and scheduled to be team-taught with Prof. Kapila’s ENG 395. Since both classes will convene together for approximately ten class sessions, we recommend that you leave open whichever seminar slot is not taken by the course you enrolled in (if MW, reserve TTH, and vice-versa). We have also designed these courses to complement each other but to be different enough in content and approach so as to leave open the possibility of enrolling in both courses simultaneously.
Prerequisite: ENG 227 , ENG 228 , ENG 229 , ENG 231 , ENG 232 , or ENG 273 .
Instructor: Andrews
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ENG 331-01 - Studies in American Prose II 4 credits (Spring)
Neuroliterature. In a recent article in N+1, the critic Marco Roth describes the emergence of a new kind of literary work, the “neuronovel,” in which the protagonist sports an atypical brain. Whether Tourette syndrome or autism or Capgras syndrome or facial agnosia or paranoid schizophrenia, this difference, says Roth, offers the novelist an opportunity to reflect on the impact of scientific knowledge on the culture at large. Roth detects a shift from mind to brain in the province least likely to accede to a mechanistic understanding of human existence: namely fiction. In this course we will expand Roth’s term to include both memoir and poetry, and we will bring a disability studies perspective to the questions at hand. Possible literary texts include The Echo Maker; Motherless Brooklyn; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime; Lowboy; Twitch and Shout; Songs of a Gorilla Nation; and How Can I Talk If My Lips Don’t Move?
Prerequisite: ENG 227 , ENG 228 , ENG 229 , ENG 231 , ENG 232 , or ENG 273 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Savarese
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ENG 388-01 - Writing Seminar: Screenwriting 4 credits (Spring)
A seminar on the conception, writing, and production of low-budget, place-based independent films. Students will study acclaimed independent films while writing their own screenplays.
Prerequisite: ENG 205 , ENG 206 , or ENG 207 .
Instructor: Nutting
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ENV 495-01 - Senior Seminar: Gondwanaland 4 credits (Spring)
When the southern hemisphere protocontinent of Gondwanaland broke apart, it gave rise to South America, Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica. Today these continents share a common geological and biological heritage that explains some of the enduring conundrums of biogeography. The countries on these continents have some of the greatest biological diversity on Earth - and the least. They are some of the richest countries on Earth - and the poorest. They have suffered from colonialism and have been colonizers. Their citizens are among the least significant contributors to global climate change - and the most. The Seminar will examine the reasons for these similarities and contrasts.
Prerequisite: Open to Junior and Senior Environmental Studies Concentrators.
Instructor: Campbell
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FRN 350-01 - Advanced Topics in Literature and Civilization 4 credits (Spring)
Masculine/Feminine in French Literature and Film. Explores concepts of the masculine and the feminine from the Romantic era to the present in literature, art and film. Examines topics such as desire, ambition, sexuality, paternity, maternity, and the writing of the self. Authors and directors to be studied include Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, Colette, Godard, Truffaut, Duras, Jaoui, Denis, Toussaint, and Houellebecq.
Prerequisite: FRN 312 or FRN 313 .
Instructor: Moisan
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GLS 251-01 - Theoretical Approaches to Children’s and Young Adult Literature 4 credits (Spring)
See HUM 251-01 .
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GLS 281-01 - Major Russian Writers: Tolstoy 4 credits (Spring)
See RUS 281-01 .
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GLS 303-01 - Studies in Drama I: Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances 4 credits (Spring)
See THD 303-01 .
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GWS 495-01 & 02 - Senior Seminar: Bad Feminists, Bad Critics 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines the work of second wave feminist critics in the 1960s and 1970s whose work was either dismissed when it was first published or is out of critical favor in the present. By looking at why some feminists’ work has been left out of the field’s accepted history, we will learn as much (if not more) than we would by repeating the narratives of political progress that are often told about the development of feminism. Throughout the course, we will read texts that have always been “difficult” for feminism such as Mary Daly’s Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, which sparked a public debate about the role of race and racism in radical feminism. We will also examine authors who were labeled “bad” critics by the broader public, such as Kate Millett whose Sexual Politics was the subject of much derision in literary circles. As well, we will look at figures who have been bad for feminism, including Valerie Solanas and her little-known play Up Your Ass. Finally, we will close the semester with a unit on recent feminist interest in the 1960s and 1970s, and look at contemporary works that offer new ways of thinking about old histories.
Prerequisite: GWS 111 , GWS 249 , senior status, and Senior Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies major.
Instructor: Allen
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HIS 100-02 - Introduction to Historical Inquiry: European Revolutions 4 credits (Spring)
This course provides an introduction to issues of historical causation, argumentation, and evidence through the lens of European revolutions between the late eighteenth century and the early twentieth. After introductory units on historical methods and the phenomenon of revolution itself, we examine the French Revolution, the Revolutions of 1848-49, and the Russian Revolution as both profoundly local and decidedly transnational events. We work closely with primary sources and consider the political, social, cultural, intellectual, and psychological ramifications of these dramatic ruptures for their participants and subsequent generations.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Maynard
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HIS 309-01 - Latin America and the U.S. 4 credits (Spring)
As the saying goes, Latin America lies too far from God and too close to the United States. This proximity has affected Latin American economics, demographics, culture, and politics. The seminar will begin with common readings. This year those common readings will focus on US attempts–both official and unofficial–to democratize and modernize the region. Students will then write a research paper using primary documents. These papers could focus on any one of a number of issues that were central to US-Latin American relations such as hemispheric security, economic affairs, democracy, and socialism. A reading knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese is helpful but not required.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 and HIS 201 or HIS 202 .
Instructor: Silva
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HIS 323-01 - American Women Since WWII 4 credits (Spring)
Students in this seminar will explore the history of American women since the Second World War. The postwar decades and late twentieth century witnessed enormous changes in the lives of American women, including both expanding opportunities as well as rising expectations. We will consider how American women fomented and navigated these changes, paying careful attention to the significance of race, class, sexuality, and citizenship status in shaping their experiences. 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, in the theoretical basis of women’s history as a field, and in the special considerations of doing contemporary history. Students will conclude the semester by producing an article-length research paper and a 15-minute presentation of their historical research into this era. 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 or HIS 224 .
Instructor: Lewis
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HIS 325-01 - American Indian Reservations 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines the history of American Indian reservations from the late-nineteenth century to the present. The common readings will introduce students to the origins and major historical problems of reservation history, especially the tricky task of defining the relationship between American Indian reservations and the United States. Specifically, we will examine the end of treaty-making between the United States and Indian tribes, allotment of Indian land, federal assimilation programs, boarding schools, the meaning of U.S. citizenship for Native peoples, and the opportunities and challenges of casinos.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 and any 200-level history course.
Instructor: Lacson
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HIS 330-01 - Politics of Food in Early-Modern England 4 credits (Spring)
Through an examination of the conflicts surrounding the purchase, consumption, and production of food, as well as the processes by which food became politicized, classed, and gendered, this class offers a chronological and thematic look at the ‘century of revolutions’ in England beginning with Elizabeth I’s ‘second reign’ in 1590 and ending with the Act of Union in 1707. We will utilize case studies about food to explore how an early modern ‘moral economy’ and an ideology of governance centered on the person of the monarch gave way to a modern, commercialized economy and parliamentary politics. Students will develop a substantial research project over the course of the semester.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 and HIS 233 , HIS 234 , HIS-295 Global Cultural Encounters, or HIS-295 When the World Became Global.
Instructor: Chou
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HIS 371-01 - Human Rights in Asia 4 credits (Spring)
Few things are more prominent in contemporary political discourse than discussions of human rights. But which ideals are included at the core of this concept and what kinds of practices give it expression? In this seminar, students will first engage with the history of human rights as a category by exploring key foundational and contemporary texts. From there, we will explore the related concept of “international human rights”, a powerful idea in our time, but also the focus of numerous controversies. We will discuss issues of international law and political interests, universal standards and cultural relativism, civil society and social norms, and the challenges of contemporary advocacy. With these twin foundations established, students will embark on a series of case studies exploring the question of human rights in various Asian contexts, such as torture and capital punishment, religious freedom, economic justice, minority rights, gender equality, and freedom of expression. Along the way students will conceive and execute a research paper on a case study of their own choosing, with ample opportunity to workshop their research and writing in the context of the seminar’s ongoing readings and discussion.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level Asian History course.
Instructor: Luo
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HUM 251-01 - Theoretical Approaches to Children’s and Young Adult Literature 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 251-01 . This course takes a theoretical approach to canonical and contemporary children’s literature. This section will focus primarily on the history of constructions of race and gender in American children’s literature, primarily picture books.
Prerequisite: A course in English or another course in literature.
Instructor: Greene
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MAT 218-01 - Discrete Bridges to Advanced Mathematics: Number Theory 4 credits (Spring)
Number theory is one of the oldest branches of mathematics, far older than Calculus. The subject, at its most basic, asks questions about the integers. For instance, how are the prime numbers distributed among the integers? What are integer solutions to a particular polynomial equation? Which integers can be expressed as the sum of two squares? We will learn about topics such as divisibility, congruences, and quadratic reciprocity, which will help us answer questions like these. Along the way, we will discuss counting techniques and related discrete topics. Proof writing and creative problem solving will be heavily emphasized.
Prerequisite: MAT 215 .
Instructor: Paulhus
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MAT 314-01 - Topics in Applied Mathematics: Partial Differential Equations 4 credits (Spring)
Partial Differential Equations. This is a first course in partial differential equations. The development of the theory and techniques will revolve around several classical equations: Laplace’s equation, the heat equation (heat flow and diffusion), and the wave equation. Techniques will include separation of variables, Fourier analysis, Sturm-Liouville problems, and existence/uniqueness results.
Prerequisite: MAT 220 .
Instructor: Chamberland
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MAT 322-01 - Advanced Topics in Algebra: Elliptic Curves 4 credits (Spring)
Elliptic curves play a crucial role in modern mathematics from pure mathematics (the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem) to applied mathematics (elliptic-curve cryptography). These surprisingly sophisticated objects are solutions to cubic equations. To be able to understand how these curves are used, we need to develop their algebraic properties, particularly a beautiful group structure we can create on the solutions. There will be a research component to the class.
Prerequisite: MAT 321 .
Instructor: Paulhus
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MAT 444-01 - Senior Seminar: Geometric Group Theory 4 credits (Spring)
Despite its role as a cornerstone of abstract algebra, group theory is an intrinsically geometric subject. From the work of Klein in the late 19th century to Gromov’s foundational results nearly a century later, geometry has proven to be a powerful tool and a natural way to understand groups. The connections between these two areas, together with subjects such as topology, combinatorics, and formal language theory, form the basis for the field known as geometric group theory.
In this course we will take an in-depth tour of several topics in geometric group theory, focusing especially on the interactions between groups and graphs. As part of the course, students will have the opportunity to complete a research project which explores a chosen topic in detail, including its relevance to geometric group theory and neighboring fields.
Prerequisite: MAT 321 . Recommended - MAT 316 . Exposure to combinatorics will be useful, but not required.
Instructor: Dougherty
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MUS 201-01 - Intermediate Music Studies: Music, Society, and Gender 4 credits (Spring)
Music has been a cultural forum for producing, reproducing, circulating, and consuming ideologies of society in general and of gender and sexuality in particular. This course explores how music in Western culture-including classical, jazz, and popular examples-has interacted and intersected with values and issues related to society, gender, and sexuality. Drawing on readings in musicology, sociology, cultural studies, semiotics, feminist theory, queer studies, and other related disciplines, we will examine such topics as music and society, music and body, castrati, feminine and masculine music, lesbian and gay music, and music as a locus for negotiating gender, sexuality, and identity.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Cha
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MUS 201-02 - Intermediate Music Studies: Digital Music-Making 4 credits (Spring)
This course is intended to provide students with the skills and understanding to compose and perform music in a variety of styles using technology. Students will use the equipment available in the Electronic Music Studio, and the Ableton Live and Max for Live programs to create original musical works that combine live performance with digital materials. Exercises that explore the basic techniques used in a variety of popular musical styles (Hip-Hop, Trap Music, House Music, Dubstep, video game music, Rock Music) will serve to develop and expand the toolset available to the student. In addition to examining a wide range of interactive strategies, the course will include techniques for mastering and polishing tracks, and it will culminate in a concert of the students’ work.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Rommereim
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MUS 322-01 - Advanced Studies in Music: Baroque Improvisation 4 credits (Spring)
The art of improvisation - a vital aspect of music-making in many types of music today (e.g. jazz, North Indian classical music) - has virtually died out of Western classical music. Yet in earlier periods, the ability to improvise was an essential skill learned by every Western musician; J. S. Bach was famously able to improvise fugues for hours on end. In this course, we will study historical sources from the Baroque period (such as treatises and examples of written-out improvisation) plus the work of recent scholars and performers who have studied these sources. Students will then apply these ideas to their own performance medium. They will learn to ornament a melody in various Baroque styles, build variations over a standard harmonic pattern, realize a figured bass, and work towards improvising whole pieces. They will also complete a research paper that investigates the primary and secondary sources available for interpreting a selected piece of music.
Prerequisite or co-requisite: MUS 112 , MUS 213 , and facility on any instrument (including voice). Recommended: MUS 215 , MUS 216 , MUS 261 , or MUS 324 .
Instructor: Brown
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PHI 394-01 - Advanced Studies in Theories of Value: Habermas 4 credits (Spring)
This class will be devoted to the work of Juergen Habermas, a world renowned political theorist who works from within the tradition of German Critical Theory. We will begin with his early work on the student movements in the 1960’s where he develops his critique of the legacy of the Enlightenment, move to his middle period where he more fully works out the framework of discourse ethics, and then move to his defense of the universality of reason and its link to law and the norms of justice. We end the course with selections from his most recent work on multiculturalism and the place of religion in national and international politics.
Prerequisite: PHI 234 , PHI 235 , PHI 263 , PHI 264 , or PHI 268 .
Instructor: Meehan
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PHY 340-01 - Topics in Astrophysics: Galactc Astrophysics and Cosmology 4 credits (Spring)
An introduction to the subject of galactic astrophysics and cosmology from a theoretical and observational perspective. Topics covered include the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way galaxy, galaxy evolution, and the early history and cosmological expansion of the universe. The course will also touch upon relevant areas of current research in astrophysics.
Prerequisite: PHY 232 .
Instructor: Christensen
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REL 394-01 - Advanced Topics: Applying Religious Studies 4 credits (Spring)
This seminar is intended to create the context of a scholarly community in which participants explore how the study of religion may be applied in a variety of different contexts.
Prerequisite: REL 311 .
Instructor: Rietz
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RUS 281-01 - Major Russian Writers: Tolstoy 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 281-01 . Tolstoy’s artistic growth through the stages of the early autobiographical fiction, the major novels of the middle period, and the short works of his later life; spiritual development and crisis within context and structure of the literary works, including Childhood, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, the Death of Ivan Ilyich. Conducted in English.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Plus-2 option available in Russian.
Instructor: Herold
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RUS 389-01 - Advanced Russian Seminar 4 credits (Spring)
This seminar examines contemporary Russian detective novels. In particular, it covers their development as a genre and their place in the new Russia’s literary landscape. This semester we will examine the writing of Boris Akumin. Conducted in Russian.
Prerequisite: RUS 313 .
Instructor: Greene
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SPN 320-01 - Cultures of the Spanish Speaking World: Latinxs in the US: Issues for Social Change 4 credits (Spring)
This is an interdisciplinary course that brings awareness about issues that Latinxs face in the US and creates the cultural awareness needed to work effectively with them. Class discussions focus on the fields of health, law, immigration, education, and the economy. Within a cultural context, students also learn specialized vocabulary that is useful in professional settings. Experts in different fields share with students their professional and cultural experiences working with this population. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
Instructor: Valentin
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THD 211-01 - Performance Studies Survey
What does it mean to create performance from the words of real people? This class culminates in short student-created performances and examines contemporary verbatim plays produced in the US and elsewhere. It includes ethnographic plays like The Laramie Project and Anna Deavere Smith’s work, verbatim and tribunal (trial) plays, and devised/immersive works. We will study the literature, theory, and embodied practices of creating this work individually and collaboratively. Prerequisite: Any 100-level Theatre and Dance course or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: Any 100-level Theatre and Dance course.
Instructor: Delmenico
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THD 303-01 - Studies in Drama I: Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 303-01 . Study of Twelfth Night and selected comedies (MND, AYLI), so-called dark comedies (Measure for Measure, All’s Well) and late romances (including The Tempest) with reference to their sources in literature and folklore, intellectual backgrounds, cultural contexts, critical history, and ongoing life in landmark productions, including modern film performances. The seminar will pay close attention to dramatic structure and Shakespeare’s innovative experiments with genre, character, and language. Resources, both practical and critical, will include Granville-Barker, Northrop Frye (A Natural Perspective), Arden and critical editions, major scholarship on the plays. Our performance research seminar will complement the March Mainstage production of Twelfth Night. Seminar members are invited (not required) to participate in the production as actors, ADs, rehearsal assistants (scene study and scansion), management or crew.
Prerequisite: HUM 101 , HUM 102 , HUM 140 , ENG 121 , SST 140 , or 200-level course in Humanities or Social Studies disciplines.
Note: Plus-2 option available
Instructor: Mease
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THD 311-01 - Studies in Performance 4 credits (Spring)
Adapting and Performing Postcolonial Stories. In this class, we will learn how to adapt postcolonial short stories for the stage, centering on stories from Salman Rushdie’s East, West. All students will experience researching, writing, designing, directing, and acting in this course and draw on postcolonial, Brechtian, and adaptation theories and film as well as film and storytelling methodologies. We will explore adaptation as a way to expand the possibilities of theatre-making.
Prerequisite: THD 201 , THD 202 , THD 203 , THD 210 , or THD 211 .
Instructor: Delmenico
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ANT 104-02 & 03 - Anthropological Inquiries 4 credits (Spring)
Family. This course examines the social institution and symbolic meaning of family from an anthropological perspective. First, we examine how our early human ancestors and primate relatives form and perform “family.” Subsequently, we analyze how family, gender roles, sexuality and child-rearing practices vary cross-culturally and historically. In particular, we consider how recent developments in reproductive technology, cloning, adoptions, and same-sex marriage are reshaping the way we understand relatedness. Finally, we explore notions of “belonging” by looking at the relationship between family, race and nation.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Kulstad
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CSC 161-01 & 02 - Imperative Problem Solving & Data Structures (Robots) 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
This section of CSC 161 will utilize robotics as an application domain in studying imperative problem solving, data representation, and memory management. Additional topics will include assertions and invariants, data abstraction, linked data structures, an introduction to the GNU/Linux operating system, and programming the low-level, imperative language C. The course will utilize a workshop style, in which students will frequently work collaboratively on a series of problems. Includes formal laboratory work.
Prerequisite: CSC 151 .
Instructor: Johnson, Walker, Weinman
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HIS 100-01 & 02 - Introduction to Historical Inquiry: U.S. in the Age of Transatlantic Revolution 4 credits (Fall & Spring)
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.
Note: Section 02 in the fall, section 01 in the spring.
Instructor: Purcell
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MAT 218-01 & 02 - Discrete Bridges to Advanced Mathematics: Graph Theory 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
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 cycles.
Prerequisite: MAT 215 .
Note: Fall: Sections 01 & 02. Spring: Section 02
Instructor: Uzzell
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WRT 101 - Basic Principles of College Writing 1 credits (Fall and Spring)
In this course students attend a series of weekly workshops on the basics of academic composition as well as individual appointments in the Writing Lab to apply those basic principles to their assigned writing in other courses.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Half-semester deadlines apply. S/D/F only
Instructor: Staff
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WRT 102 - Advanced Principles of College Writing 2 credits (Fall and Spring)
Using both small group sessions and individual Writing Lab appointments, this course focuses on writing as a tool of analysis and critical thinking. Some required writing and revision.
Prerequisite: WRT 101
Note: Half-semester deadlines apply. S/D/F only
Instructor: Staff
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WRT 120 - Oral Communication Skills 2 credits (Spring)
Students will present a series of persuasive and informational speeches to a variety of audiences, receiving feedback from both instructor and classmates. Some reading and class preparation required.
Prerequisite: None.
S/D/F only
Instructor: Staff
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WRT 150 - Teaching Writing 2 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: EDU 150 . Students in Writing 150 will gain both theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience as they serve as writing mentors for college courses or teach writing as volunteers in other contexts (e.g., prison programs, schools, peer tutoring). They will read about theories of teaching writing, practice skills of tutoring, running workshops and facilitating peer review, observe the teaching of writing in several contexts, and engage in discourse (both oral and written) about the teaching and learning of writing skills.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
S/D/F only
Instructor: Carl
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