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2020-2021 Interim Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MAT 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Discovering the Art of Mathematics 4 credits (Spring Term 2)
How can mathematics produce exotic origami? Why do the digits of Pi exhibit no apparent pattern? Can all maps be properly shaded with four colors? What is the Pizza Theorem? Assuming no mathematical background beyond basic arithmetic, this course will explore a host of topics connected to numbers, puzzles, games, geometry, and art. With a spirit of curiosity, collaboration, and persistence, the engaging and beautiful world of mathematics will be brought alive.
Prerequisite: None. Priority will go to the students with no math courses on the transcript beyond MAT/SST 115.
Instructor: Chamberland
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POL 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Democratic Decline in the US 4 credits (Spring Term 1)
Many popular and scholarly accounts have argued that American democracy is in decline. In this course we will explore the multiple quantitative and qualitative indicators of democratic corrosion (e.g., malfunctioning institutions, mass disillusionment, elites’ zero-sum tactics, representational inequality, etc.), examining the evidence to determine whether the U.S. has, in fact, backslid. Students will then apply these analytical tools to develop an intensive, independent research project that pertains to the Trump era.
Prerequisite: POL 216 , POL 219 , POL 237 , POL 239 , POL 255 , POL 258 , or POL 295 when offered as Public Opinion or Iowa Caucus Politics.
Instructor: Virgin
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AMS 130 - Introduction to American Studies 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
An examination of selected beliefs and values that have been central to the shaping of American life and culture. Core values such as equality, individualism, success, freedom, a sense of special mission, pastoralism, and others are treated in topical units that range over the totality of American experience.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Scott
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AMS 220 - Racing Through Genetics 4 credits (Spring)
See BIO 220 or ANT 220 .
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AMS 235 - The Anthropology of American Culture 4 credits (Spring)
See ANT 235 .
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AMS 245 - Shaping American Identities in Moving Images 4 credits (Fall)
This course explores representations of American identities and the binaries generated by these explorations including here/there, foreign/local, abroad/ home, American/Other. Films and readings will highlight the theme of amalgamation as an alchemic process (the melting pot) shaping Americanness and its association with characteristics such as respectability, recognition and their relationship to racism.
Prerequisite: one 100-level Humanities or Social Studies course.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Foreign language option available in any language for +2 only.
Instructor: Gibel Mevorach
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AMS 275 - Topics in American Culture 4 credits (Fall)
An interdisciplinary investigation of selected problems, trends, or themes in American culture, such as regionalism, popular culture, mass communication, minority cultures, women’s lives, and other engaging issues central to American experience.
Prerequisite: AMS 130 and second-year standing. American Studies Concentrators have first priority.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Staff
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AMS 305 - The Cultural Politics of Fashion 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See ANT 305 .
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ASC 101 - Scholar’s Seminar 1 credits (Fall and Spring)
This discussion seminar focuses on current theories of learning and on the personal and environmental factors that impact the learning process. Students will research and practice evidence-based strategies and apply them to their existing courses with opportunities for reflection and feedback. Open to all students.
Prerequisite: None.
S/D/F only.
Instructor: Backous
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Anthropology |
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ANT 104 - Anthropological Inquiries 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Demonstrates how the four fields of anthropology - archeology, biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology - can be collectively applied to enhance our understanding the human condition in broad historical and cross-cultural contexts. Individual sections focus on different topics. All introduce students to the holistic approach of anthropology, the application of anthropological theories and methods and relevant ethical questions, and a multiplicity of worldviews. For current course content, please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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ANT 200 - Cultural Politics of Hybridity 4 credits
This course examines anthropology’s contribution to the taxonomy and representations of “race” and “culture” and its role in prescribing and proscribing the idea of interracial intimacy. Over the course of the semester, we will examine how the topic of mixing and miscegenation was invented, elaborated, and obsessed over by anthropologists, philosophers, judges, policymakers, film directors, and people raced as “mixed.” Primary attention will be given to ideas about mixing in the United States as a location from which to compare perspectives of social difference, “purity,” and “hybridity” in other countries.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 , or SOC 111 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Gibel Mevorach
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ANT 201 - Leading Innovation and Entrepreneurship 4 credits
Cross-listed as: SST 201 . This course, sponsored by the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership, takes a case-study approach to understanding leadership and management of innovations, or generating solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems, using case studies by alumni innovators. We start, of course, with Grinnell’s most famous entrepreneur, Robert Noyce. This course covers a broad range of fields, bringing in new case studies each year. Many of the alumni from whom we draw case studies will visit class.
Prerequisite: One course in the social studies division (Anthropology, Education, History, Economics, Sociology, Social Studies or Political Science).
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Caulkins
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ANT 202 - Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Organizations 4 credits
Cross-listed as: SST 202 . Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership. The concepts of ecological, economic, and social sustainability in organizations will be examined in detail. Similarly, we will examine the expanding practice of corporate social responsibility, which was pioneered by Howard Bowen, President of Grinnell College from 1955 to 1963. We will find these practices of sustainability and social responsibility require leadership and innovation, practices embedded in Grinnell culture.
Prerequisite: One course in the social studies division (Anthropology, Education, History, Economics, Sociology, Social Studies or Political Science).
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Caulkins
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ANT 205 - Human Evolution 4 credits
An in-depth examination of the evolution of humankind as part of an evolutionary continuum of primates stretching back approximately 65 million years, with an emphasis on the hominids of the past 4 million years. There is a heavy emphasis on comparative anatomy. Topics covered include bipedalism, molecular data, the brain and language, and various interpretations of hominid origins.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Bentley-Condit
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ANT 210 - Illness, Healing, and Culture 4 credits
This course examines beliefs about illness, healing, and the body across cultures. We will examine how the body, illness, health, and medicine are shaped not only by cultural values, but also by social, political, and historical factors. The class will draw attention to how biomedicine is only one among many culturally constructed systems of medicine.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Tapias
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ANT 221 - Primate Behavior and Taxonomy 4 credits
A comparative survey of the taxonomy, behavior, and ecology of nonhuman primates. Topics include demography and life-history patterns, feeding behavior and competition, social organization, sexual behavior, infant development, communication, and cognition.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Instructor: Bentley-Condit
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ANT 225 - Biological Determinism and the Myth of Race 4 credits
We will critically assess biological determinism—explanations often invoked groundlessly—in relation to race, war, gender and sex, and economic inequality. Through the lens of biological anthropology, we will explore conflicting theories of “human nature,” the American eugenics movement, “medical apartheid,” modern “scientific” racism and sexism, environmental inequality, and the origin of the concept of race. Questions include, is inequality natural? Is xenophobia evolutionarily adaptive? Notwithstanding the absence of biological races in humans, how has pervasive inequality and racism been embodied by leaving measurable biological effects on members of racialized groups?
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Instructor: Marshack
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ANT 227 - Mothers and Infants 4 credits
In this course, we will examine mothers, mother-infant relationships and infant development across the primate order and cross-culturally from an evolutionary perspective and with focus on biology. Topics will include but are not limited to: parental investment theory, parent-offspring conflict theory, attachment theory, conception, pregnancy, gestation, lactation, human and nonhuman primate infant development and trajectories, infant sex differences, and infanticide.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Bentley-Condit
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ANT 235 - The Anthropology of American Culture 4 credits
Cross-listed as: AMS 235 . Focus on the U.S. American cultural meanings about national identity and citizenship, intersections of race and class consciousness, and the power of media to shape social attitudes, values, lifestyles, and political opinions.
Prerequisite: AMS 130 or ANT 104 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Foreign language option available in any language for +2 only.
Instructor: Gibel Mevorach
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ANT 238 - Cultural and Political Ecology 4 credits
Reviews various cultural anthropology approaches to understanding human/ environment interactions. Focus placed on case studies of small-scale societies from distinct environmental regions, the adaptations to those environments, how subsistence practices relate to other aspects of culture, and how these cultures and environments are affected by increasing integration into the world system (e.g., through globalization).
Prerequisite: ANT 104 or GDS 111 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Roper
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ANT 240 - Intentional Communities 4 credits
A cross-cultural and historical survey of attempts to achieve social harmony by creating small communities. Topics include: ideological foundations, alternative economic and political arrangements, experiments with sexuality and gender roles, responses of the wider society, and reasons for success and failure. Groups include the first-century Essenes, the Shakers, Amana, the Hutterites, the Amish, the kibbutzim, Japanese communes, hip communes, monastic groups, and New Age communities.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Andelson
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ANT 246 - Anthropology of the Modern Middle East and North Africa 4 credits
The modern Middle East in anthropological and historical perspective. Topics include nomadic, village, and urban lifestyles; ethnic interactions; Islam and its role in the social and political systems; the role of women; and cultural change.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Kamp
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ANT 250 - Language Contact 4 credits
Cross-listed as: LIN 250 . The course examines the linguistic varieties and practices that emerge when linguistically diverse groups come in contact with one another. We will discuss the types of situations that give rise to language contact and then turn to look at the linguistic effects that result from such contact at both the micro (e.g. borrowing, code-switching) and the macro (e.g. language shift, language death) level.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 or LIN 114 .
Instructor: Hansen
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ANT 252 - Culture and Agriculture 4 credits
An overview of the relationship of agriculture to other aspects of culture, through time and cross-culturally. The origins of agriculture, the role of agriculture in subsistence and trade, and its connection to social structure, religion, and values. The rise of industrial agriculture and agriculture in Iowa.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Andelson
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ANT 253 - Anthropology of Racism & Ethnicities 4 credits
Examination of shifts in theory and approach to studies of ethnicities. Topics include history of key concepts, including “ethnicity,” “ethnic identities,” and “culture,” as well as perspectives on racism as a system, education and acculturation, class and ethnicity, and nationalism.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Gibel Mevorach
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ANT 257 - Latin American Cultures 4 credits
Ethnographic and historic study of Latin American cultures. Description and analysis of native cultures and colonialism’s impact on native peoples’ lives. Current trends in Latin America analyzed, including family, economy, religion, environment, urbanism, and social issues. Women and gender issues in Latin America also considered.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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ANT 260 - Language, Culture, and Society 4 credits
The course provides an overview of current topics in linguistic anthropology, the study of human language in its structural and cultural contexts. Through class lectures, readings, and discussions, students will become familiar with key issues, themes, and theories about language in contemporary anthropological and sociolinguistic scholarship. Overall, the course is designed to encourage students to become critical thinkers about the ways that language and language use affect and are affected by grammatical structures, individuals, social groups, cultural practices, and politics.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 or LIN 114 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: French
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ANT 261 - Agriculture, Religion, and Empire: Old World Prehistory 4 credits
An archaeological perspective on major themes and trends in the development of Old World civilizations: agricultural origins, trade and migration, metal and other technological innovations, role of ideology and symbol systems in social change, religion as a power base, rise of elite leadership, and state-level society. Covers much of Old World with emphasis on particular areas.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Whittaker
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ANT 262 - Archaeology of North America 4 credits
Archaeological record from human entry into the area to European domination: hunting, gathering, and agricultural developments. Geographical and physical anthropological backgrounds presented.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Whittaker
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ANT 265 - Ethnography of Communication: Method and Theory 4 credits
This course explores human communication from an ethnographic perspective. It does so from a “discourse-centered” approach that conceptualizes language as meaningful social action situated in particular contexts used strategically by social actors. Building upon this framework, we will engage the ethnography of communication as both a particular theoretical orientation and a specific methodological approach to language use. Areas of emphasis include: relationships between linguistic forms and social functions, ethnography of speaking, communicative competence, multiple layering of context, performer/audience relationships, intentionality, and ideology.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 or LIN 114 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: French
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ANT 267 - Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas 4 credits
An examination of Aztec, Inca, and Maya cultures, including economics, politics, and religion. Concentrates on the dynamics of early states and explores reasons for their rise and fall.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Kamp
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ANT 280 - Theories of Culture 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
A survey of the history of anthropological theory from the Enlightenment to the present.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 and at least one 200-level anthropology course.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Andelson, French
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ANT 285 - Anthropology, Violence, and Human Rights 4 credits
This course is designed to address anthropological engagement with enduring forms of violence and efforts to intervene in them in a variety of cross-cultural contexts. The class begins by considering relationships among scholarly knowledge, history, and inequality to establish a foundation for thinking about research in post-Enlightenment sociopolitical contexts. It moves to examine tensions between cultural relativism and universal rights advocacy within Western intellectual thought. Next, it examines the concept of “legitimate” violence relative to state formation and power.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 and one 200-level Anthropology, Political Science, or Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies course.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: French
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ANT 290 - Archaeological Field Methods 4 credits
Archaeological survey, excavation, and artifact analysis as tools for reconstructing the lifestyles of extinct societies. Lab work includes lithic, faunal, and ceramic analysis. Field labs provide practice in finding, mapping, recording, and interpreting archaeological sites.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 , or upper-level (200 or 300) archaeology course.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Whittaker
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ANT 291 - Methods of Empirical Investigation 4 credits
See .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
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ANT 292 - Ethnographic Research Methods 4 credits
Cross-listed as: SOC 292 . The processes by which ethnographers construct an understanding of human behavior; what questions they ask and how they answer them. Students engage in ethnographic field studies.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 or SOC 111 and one 200-level course in Cultural Anthropology or Linguistic Anthropology.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Tapias
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ANT 293 - Applied Research for Community Development 4 credits
This course will train students in anthropological methods and explore the roles of anthropological research outside of academia, particularly that associated with local-level policy and community needs. Students will learn how anthropologists design, carry out, and present ethical research. Much of the learning will be done through experiential education, as students plan and undertake needs assessments, program evaluations, or some other research in coordination with and on behalf of a Grinnell community organization.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Not offered every year
Instructor: Roper
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ANT 305 - The Cultural Politics of Fashion 4 credits
Cross-listed as: AMS 305 . Everyone gets dressed: the creation of desire and cultivation of a consumer culture transcends geographic boundaries (from Dubai to Delhi, Paris to Tehran and NY to Tokyo). Fashion is personal, public and profitable: considering fashion and taste as a dialectic shaped by local and global networks, our point of departure is on interaction and fusion between companies and consumers, brands and boutiques, luxury malls and museums, and fashioning identities in print and moving images.
Prerequisite: A 200-level course in Humanities or Social Studies Division.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Gibel Mevorach
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ANT 321 - Human Ethology 4 credits
In this course we will explore: 1) the evolutionary bases for human behavior; 2) how to observe, record, and study human behavior; and 3) the benefits and shortcomings of an ethological approach through both readings and hands-on projects. Each student will design and conduct a short ethological study of human behavior. This course will be research-centered.
Prerequisite: ANT 280 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Bentley-Condit
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ANT 325 - Biological Basis of Human Society 4 credits
An assessment of biological factors in human social behavior through an examination of the social behavior of nonhuman primates and evidence from human ethnology and sociobiology. Topics include reproductive behavior, aggression, dominance, sex roles, and altruism.
Prerequisite: ANT 280 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Bentley-Condit
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ANT 326 - Anthropology of Religion 4 credits
Cross-listed as: REL 326 . The role and nature of religion. Origin of religious beliefs and customs. Structure and function of religious systems: beliefs, practitioners, supernatural power, totemism, and ritual change.
Prerequisite: ANT 280 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Andelson
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ANT 365 - Fighting Words: Conflict, Discourse, and Power 4 credits
This course is a seminar in linguistic anthropology. It focuses on conflict and power embedded in social uses of language and analyzes them in a variety of contexts. It highlights both interactional and institutional aspects of discourse and the ways in which they are implicated in reproduction of social relationships.
Prerequisite: ANT 265 or ANT 280 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: French
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ANT 375 - Experimental Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology 4 credits
Experiments with artifacts and observations of living peoples provide archaeologists with the basis for interpreting the remains of past cultures. This course examines the theoretical basis and practice of experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology. Course includes lab work and projects.
Prerequisite: ANT 280 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Kamp, Whittaker
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ANT 377 - War, Religion, and Politics in the Puebloan Southwest 4 credits
Major issues in anthropological theory in the context of the American Southwest, from the viewpoints of archaeology informed by cultural anthropology and history.
Prerequisite: ANT 280 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Whittaker
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ANT 324 - War, Peace, and Human Nature 4 credits
Are humans inherently warlike or peaceful? Through the lenses of the biological and cultural anthropology, the history and philosophy of science, and archaeology - you will seek answers to this and related questions. Together, we will investigate human conflict and cooperation across time and geographic space using research papers, podcast and infographic creation, cross-cultural comparisons, experimental archaeology, animal behavioral observation, and other hands-on projects. We will explore famous case studies, theories and models, including “the killer ape,” “the war of all against all,” and “man the hunted.” We will also see how revolutionary explanations for warfare and inequality implicating all of humanity equally may obfuscate the root causes of these phenomena and even confuse victims with perpetrators.
Prerequisite: ANT 280 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Marshack
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Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology |
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ANT 277 - Anthropology of Global Migrations 4 credits
The course offers an overview of relevant topics in the field of international migration including: the distinctions between economic migrants, political refugees as well as populations currently being displaced by environmental disasters; explanations for why migration occurs; and its social, political, economic, and cultural impacts.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 or SOC 111 .
Instructor: Escandell
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Anthropology: Linguistic Anthropology |
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ANT 268 - Language, Gender and Sexuality 4 credits
This course provides an overview of the major themes and issues related to language and gender, and sexuality research from anthropological and discursive perspectives. In particular, the class focuses on relationships between language and consciousness, gender socialization through language, cultural models and power-based models of gender difference in language use, and identity performance/enactment through discourse practices. It examines foundational feminist scholarship and contributions from queering the study of language, gender, and sexuality.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 , LIN 114 , or SOC 111 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Foreign Language option available in Spanish.
Instructor: French
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ANT 355 - Collective Memory in Anthropological Perspective 4 credits
This course addresses collective memory from theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. It locates memory in the social world, in the relevance of the past for the present, and in on-going struggles to represent and commemorate meaningful histories. It begins by addressing foundational theories and builds to consider: relationships between nationalism and memory, possibilities of representing violence, contestations and embodies performances of public memories. Particular attention is paid to language and semiotic systems in memory work.
Prerequisite: ANT 265 , ANT 280 , or ANT 285
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: French
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ARB 101 - Beginning Arabic I 4 credits (Fall)
Study of the fundamentals of spoken and written Modern Standard Arabic with emphasis on communication through oral-aural practice and awareness of cultural context. Acquisition of basic grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Youssef
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ARB 102 - Beginning Arabic II 4 credits (Spring)
This course is designed primarily as a continuation of ARB 101 . Emphasizes the development of oral-aural skills and of reading comprehension by providing communicative practice and attention to cultural context.
Prerequisite: ARB 101 or by placement.
Instructor: Youssef
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ARB 221 - Intermediate Arabic I 4 credits (Fall)
Conducted in Arabic. Emphasizes grammar and written and oral skills. Provides an introduction to the analysis of literary and cultural texts.
Prerequisite: ARB 102 .
Instructor: Youssef
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ARB 222 - Intermediate Arabic II 4 credits (Spring)
Conducted in Arabic. Focuses on the development of written and oral skills. Emphasizes vocabulary acquisition, discussion, and composition through the exploration of literary texts and contemporary media materials.
Prerequisite: ARB 221 .
Instructor: Youssef
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ARH: History and Theory |
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ARH 103 - Introduction to Art History 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
A thematic and cross-cultural study of art and architecture as expressions of diverse social, intellectual, religious, and aesthetic values, primarily in Western societies since antiquity, with reference to certain East Asian and African traditions. Emphasis on developing critical skills. Use of Grinnell College Art Collection.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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ARH 160 - An Introduction to Museum Studies 4 credits (Fall)
Introduction to Museum Studies explores a number of issues of museum history, theory, and practice, using public scholarship and research along with intensive class discussions. The content is directly applicable to students in art history, anthropology, education, history, studio art and sciences. The Grinnell College Museum of Art and Iowa museums provide examples and context. This course includes required travel as part of the prerequisite course. 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 Zimmermann in the Financial Aid Office to discuss loan options to cover this additional cost for attendance.
Prerequisite: Participation in an intensive 5 day, 1/2 credit course prior to first day of classes.
Instructor: Wright
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ARH 211 - Arts and Visual Cultures of China 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course explores the arts and visual cultures of China from the Neolithic period through the nineteenth century. We will consider diverse media including painting, prints, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, jade, and architecture, as well as works in the College Art Collection. A central theme will be the role that various (non-Han Chinese) ethnic groups played in shaping the arts of the Chinese court, with special emphasis on cultural exchange with Central Asia and the Steppe.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Shea
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ARH 212 - The Global Mongol Century: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
In this class, we will explore the arts and visual cultures of Mongol-controlled lands in Eurasia at the turn of the fourteenth century. Loosely following Marco Polo’s travels, we will travel from Italy to China, recreating the visual landscape of particular urban centers. Using primary sources and visual material, including illuminated manuscripts, textiles, paintings, ceramics, and metalwork, we will come to a clearer understanding of the interwoven networks in Eurasia during this period.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Instructor: Shea
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ARH 214 - Monastery and Cathedral in Medieval Europe 4 credits
Study of major developments in architecture and art from the Carolingian through Gothic periods (9th–14th centuries). Primary focus on architectural design and structure (as at Durham, Canterbury, Lincoln, Cluny, Paris, Chartres, Amiens), including the roles of sculpture and manuscript painting within their social, political, religious, and intellectual climates. Option of executing projects in architectural design or doing reading in French, German, Italian, Latin, or Spanish.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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ARH 221 - European Art 1789-1848: Figures & Ground 4 credits
Examination of 19th-century Romantic and Realist painting as critical responses to the period’s dramatic political, industrial, and cultural transformations and as the foundation of artistic “modernity.” Emphasis on issues of high and mass culture; art and political voice; representations of non-Europeans; relevance of the canon; tensions between the urban and natural worlds; and creation of the Avant-Garde. The French Revolution of 1789 marked the entrance on the world stage of a new concept of the modern, self-determining subject. During the first half of the nineteenth century, artists in France, England, Spain and Germany sought to discover an artistic language that would represent this new individual’s relationship to the natural and the built environment, a dialogue of figure and ground that this course studies in the mediums of painting, sculpture, printmaking, and photography.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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ARH 222 - Impressionism and Post-Impressionism 4 credits
A study of major artists, works, and issues in European Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting (ca. 1865–1900). Specific movements include Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Plus-2 option available.
Foreign language option available in French or German for course and +2.
Instructor: Anger
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ARH 231 - Modern Art in Europe, 1900–1940 4 credits (Fall)
An examination of major movements in European art from 1900–1940, including Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism, and Socialist Realism. Focus upon the historical contexts of art production and reception. Readings range from contemporary criticism to historical analysis. Investigation of recurrent problems such as primitivism, gender, authorship, and cultural politics.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Foreign language option available in French or German for course and +2.
Instructor: Anger
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ARH 232 - Art Since 1945 4 credits (Spring)
An examination of developments primarily in American and European art since 1945, from Abstract Expressionism to current trends such as the globalized art market. Particular attention to art since 1960: Pop, Happenings, Black Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Earth Works, Feminist Art, Video, and Installation. Readings range from contemporary criticism to historical analysis from a variety of perspectives (e.g., formal, multicultural, deconstructive).
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Foreign language option available in French or German for course and +2.
Instructor: Anger
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ARH 233 - American Art 4 credits
A survey of American art within its cultural, philosophical, and social contexts. Topics include: colonial portraiture; history painting, landscape, and vernacular expressions in the 19th century; and the sources and development of modernism and postmodernism.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Anger
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ARH 248 - Greek Archaeology and Art 4 credits (Spring)
See CLS 248 .
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ARH 250 - Roman Archaeology and Art 4 credits (Spring)
See CLS 250 .
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ARH 270 - Modern Architecture and Globalization 4 credits (Fall or spring)
This course offers a survey of developments in modern architecture from the 19th century to the mid-20th century, with a focus on globalization. We discuss the aesthetic, political and social contexts of architecture, including colonialism, urbanization, industrialization, authoritarianism and nationalism. We will use visual materials (floor plans, renderings, photographs, etc.), texts by architects, scholars and critics, and local/regional examples of architecture to examine the built environment, architectural movements, urban planning, landscape design and architectural technologies.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Foreign language option in Spanish available for Plus-2 option only.
Instructor: Rivera
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ARH 360 - Exhibition Seminar 4 credits (Fall)
An exploration of the materials and methods of primary art historical research and museum practice through the organization and presentation of an exhibition. Students work directly with art objects, using works in the Grinnell College Art Collection and/or borrowed from lenders. Topic and instructor vary; see current Schedule of Courses. Course may be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisite: One 200-level art history course.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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ARH 400 - Seminar in Art History 4 credits (Fall)
The seminar emphasizes research skills and art-historical methodology. Each student, in consultation with the professor, will select a special topic for research and critical evaluation. Final projects are expected to result in scholarly contributions equivalent to those of traditional senior thesis. Students are encouraged to find a public forum for presentation of their research.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing in art history major.
Instructor: Staff
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ARH 499 - Mentored Advanced Project — Art History 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
The preparation, writing, and public presentation of a piece of advanced art-historical research in any area of art history. Students must obtain approval of a department member as faculty director. The MAP application must be completed with the required project statement and with all faculty signatures before submission to the Office of the Registrar. All applications are subject to the approval of the associate dean of the College.
Prerequisite: Senior standing.
Instructor: Staff
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ART 111 - Introduction to the Studio 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Introduction to the Studio is a beginning level studio course designed to introduce and ground students in core principles of art making in a rigorous, hands-on studio. These principles will be taught though a series of practical exercises using traditional and digital tools. Emphasis will be placed on developing skills, knowledge of materials, methods of observation and translation, collaboration, discussion, and creative discipline.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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ART 134 - Drawing 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An introduction to observational drawing and contemporary drawing practice. Subjects will include architecture, objects, landscape, and the figure. Traditional and non-traditional media will be explored. Emphasis on technical skill, perceptual development, and critical skills.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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ART 236 - Print Media 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course involves an exploration of print processes. Emphasis is placed on the development of individual skills and an aesthetic appreciation of prints through creation, production, and study. This investigation includes historical and contemporary roles of multiples within the context of select media and broader artistic practices.
Prerequisite: ART 111 .
Instructor: Kluber
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ART 237 - Chemistry of Artists’ Materials 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: SCI 237 . This team-taught course will examine the physical properties of various artists’ materials and will use these materials to generate new creative work. Examples of materials to be investigated may include, but not be limited to: paper, plaster, paint binders, pigments and dyes. The class will be a combination of in-class discussion, laboratory, and studio practice; it will be a rare opportunity for students to learn from two inquiry-based disciplines in two different locations on campus.
Prerequisite: ART 111 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Running, Trimmer
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ART 238 - Painting 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course is an introduction to the materials, techniques, and practice of painting. Such a practice is concerned with issues, both technical and intellectual, that will give students the knowledge to transpose, construct, and execute using the medium of paint.
Prerequisite: ART 111 .
Instructor: Kaufman
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ART 240 - Ceramics 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Students develop sculptural forms with traditional and contemporary ceramic materials, processes and techniques. Focus is on volumetric form, surface texture, and various surface treatments emphasizing ceramics materials, processes and techniques within contemporary art. While respecting global ceramic craft traditions, students concentrate on experiential inquiry to encourage innovation and adaptation within the expanding ceramic field (including the use of digital tools). Students read, write, observe, present, experiment and construct within the studio setting to research and develop ceramic sculpture resulting in a small portfolio that reflects each student’s inquiry in individual and group work.
Prerequisite: ART 111 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Chen
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ART 242 - Sculpture 4 credits (Spring)
This course will explore techniques and concepts employed by contemporary sculptors. Students will utilize materials from the ephemeral to the permanent to explore issues of space and construction through a series of creative projects.
Prerequisite: ART 111 .
Instructor: Running
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ART 246 - Digital Media 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course explores contemporary digital media art practice. Students will work with a variety of software, hardware, and digital tools in addressing visual ideas. This course encourages students to employ the computer as a visual-thinking tool.
Prerequisite: ART 111 .
Instructor: Staff
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ART 310 - Advanced Studio: Hybrid Media 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This advanced studio course involves investigating and expanding a visual idea across a range of media. Students have an opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary, expansive approach to art making.
Prerequisite: 12 credits of 200-level studio art.
Instructor: Kluber
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ART 315 - Advanced Studio: Contemporary Practices 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An interdisciplinary studio course designed to introduce students to contemporary artistic practices and concepts. Emphasis is placed on ideation, concept, and form integration.
Prerequisite: 12 credits of 200-level studio art.
Instructor: Kaufman
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ART 320 - Advanced Studio: Site Specific 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An intensive practice based course in which the problem of place and location is examined in relation to the development of a student’s individual body of work.
Prerequisite: 12 credits of 200-level studio art.
Instructor: Running
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BCM 262 - Introduction to Biological Chemistry 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
An introduction to chemical properties and biological functions of proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids. Topics in lecture and lab include purifying and characterizing proteins, enzyme kinetics, and basic energy metabolism. Three lectures and one scheduled lab each week.
Prerequisite: BIO 251 , CHM 221 , and completion of or concurrent registration in CHM 222 .
Instructor: Levandoski, Trimmer
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BIO 150 - Introduction to Biological Inquiry 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
An introduction to how biologists pose questions, design experiments, analyze data, and communicate scientific information, for prospective biology and biological chemistry majors as well as nonmajors. Although individual sections will have different topics and formats, all sections will involve intensive student-directed investigation and include a laboratory component. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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BIO 220 - Racing Through Genetics 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: AMS 220 and ANT 220 . An interdisciplinary study of the role that science has played in the construction of race and ways that society uses such racial classifications. Historic cases including eugenics movement in the early 1990s and application of modern genetic technology will be explored. Students will consider genetic determinism in light of what is known about biology and historicize concepts based in science including the meanings they acquired when invoked to support judicial, political and social politics.
Prerequisite: BIO 150 and one upper level AMS, ANT, SOC, or GWSS course. (In the event of over enrollment, priority will be given to students who have completed BIO 251 )
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Gibel Mevorach, Gregg-Jolly
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BIO 240 - Animal Behavior 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Investigations of the causes, functions, and origins of animal behavior. We will use an evolutionary perspective to understand and integrate common behavioral adaptations, e.g., obtaining food, avoiding predators, living in groups, communicating, mating, and caring for offspring. Laboratory projects emphasize design, analysis, and communication of quantitative tests of hypotheses carried out in the lab and field. Three lectures and one scheduled lab per week.
Prerequisite: BIO 150 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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BIO 251 - Molecules, Cells, and Organisms 4 credits (Fall)
Investigations of the cellular and molecular basis of organismal structure and function, including studies of how organisms acquire and expend energy, acquire and transport materials, regulate internal conditions, transmit information, reproduce, develop, grow, and move. Three lectures and one scheduled lab each week.
Prerequisite: BIO 150 , CHM 129 , and completion of or concurrent registration in CHM 221 .
Note: Students who have completed the Biology 251/252 course sequence receive the equivalent of a standard undergraduate introductory genetics course, relevant for pre-professional programs and graduate schools.
Instructor: Staff
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BIO 252 - Organisms, Evolution, and Ecology 4 credits (Spring)
Investigations of the evolutionary causes and ecological consequences of organismal structure and function, including studies of why organisms acquire and expend energy, acquire and transport materials, regulate internal conditions, transmit information, reproduce, develop, grow, and move. Three lectures and one scheduled lab each week.
Prerequisite: BIO 251 and MAT 124 or MAT 131 .
Note: Students who have completed the Biology 251/252 course sequence receive the equivalent of a standard undergraduate introductory genetics course, relevant for pre-professional programs and graduate schools.
Instructor: Staff
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BIO 301 - History of Biological Thought 4 credits (Spring)
This seminar course will consider how biological theories emerge and change in a complex environment of empirical knowledge and social/political concerns. Areas of study may include reproductive biology, evolution, genetics, ecology and conservation, and medicine. Three lecture/discussion sections each week.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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BIO 305 - Evolution of the Iowa Flora 4 credits (Fall)
Investigations of the history of Iowa’s plant diversity from three perspectives: 1) taxonomy and systematics; 2) paleoecology and community assembly; and 3) population structure, biogeography, and conservation. Three lectures and one laboratory each week.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Eckhart
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BIO 325 - Fungal Biology 4 credits (Fall)
An integrative survey of the fungal kingdom, emphasizing current topics in developmental biology, physiology, genetics, evolution, systematics, ecology, and human interactions with fungi. Emphasis is on interactive learning through field and laboratory investigations. Combined lecture/lab periods meet two times each week for three hours.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: K. Jacobson
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BIO 334 - Plant Physiology 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An assessment of the physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms underlying the life processes of plants. This course will examine major plant functions with emphasis on the physiology and biochemistry of photosynthesis, respiration, nutrient metabolism, translocation, control of growth, and response of plants to environmental stress.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 or BCM 262 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: DeRidder
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BIO 339 - Biogeochemistry 4 credits (Spring)
Study of the effects of life on the Earth’s chemistry. This course will examine the interactions among biological and chemical processes that determine the cycling of biologically significant elements in soils, sediments, waters, and the atmosphere. Lectures and discussions focus on current topics, with particular emphasis on the effects of human activity on biogeochemical cycles. Field and laboratory investigations emphasize quantitative analysis and experimental design. Three lecture/discussions and one laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 , or BCM 262 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: P. Jacobson
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BIO 340 - Aquatic Biology 4 credits (Spring)
An examination of the biology of freshwater systems, including lakes, rivers, and streams, and the linkages between aquatic and terrestrial environments. Lectures and discussions focus on current topics in freshwater biology. Laboratory and field investigations emphasize quantitative analysis and experimental design and include an independent project. One laboratory meeting and two lecture/discussion sessions each week.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: P. Jacobson
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BIO 343 - Comparative Vertebrate Morphology 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This class will analyze the structure and evolution of the vertebrates, emphasizing functional morphology. We will consider vertebrate evolution and diversity, integument, biomaterials, and skulls; vertebral columns, lateral flexion, and the transition to terrestrial locomotion; circulatory systems; osmoregulatory structures; gas exchange; and sensory structures. In the lab, we will dissect animals such as sharks and cats and analyze other materials. We will close by focusing on morphological design and locomotion, and students will write a research proposal.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 , or BCM 262 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Queathem
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BIO 345 - Advanced Genetics 4 credits (Fall or spring)
Genetics is an experimental approach that has been applied to questions in all areas of biology, answering fundamental questions about inheritance, cell mechanics, human disease, and evolutionary change. This course will introduce students to advanced genetic principles and techniques. We will then explore how these techniques have been applied to answer fundamental questions in biology by reading both classic and recent papers from the primary literature that utilize genetic approaches. We will also discuss some of the limitations of genetics as a scientific approach. The laboratory will emphasize multiweek projects using genetic techniques to study biological problems. Two three-hour meetings per week.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 , or BCM 262 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Praitis
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BIO 355 - Developmental Genetics 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
We explore how scientists identify and characterize the genes required for animal and plant development, by reading and discussing papers from the primary literature that utilize molecular and classic genetic techniques. Topics include axis determination, cell fate decisions, tissue formation, sex determination, environmental influences on development, and evolutionary conservation of developmental mechanisms. In the laboratory, students do independent research projects on the model system C. elegans. Two three-hour meetings per week.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 , or BCM 262 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Praitis
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BIO 363 - Neurobiology 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines the structure, function, and development of the nervous system. Cellular and molecular mechanisms are emphasized and examples are drawn from throughout the animal kingdom. Three lectures and one scheduled laboratory each week.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 or BCM 262 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Lindgren
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BIO 364 - Animal Physiology 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines the integrated function of tissues, organs, and organ systems from a molecular, cellular, and organismal perspective. Emphasis is placed on mechanisms underlying physiological processes found throughout the animal kingdom. Three lectures and one laboratory each week.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Lindgren
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BIO 365 - Microbiology 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course examines the structure, physiology and genetics of microorganisms. Emphasis is placed on studying of the diversity of microbes and exploring how microbes shape the environments they inhabit. A significant component of this course will be the critical evaluation of primary literature, along with an emphasis on written and oral communication skills. In the laboratory, students conduct independent research projects involving culture-dependent and culture-independent techniques. Two lectures and one laboratory each week.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 or BCM 262 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Hinsa
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