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2021 - 2022 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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SOC 260 - Human Sexuality in the United States 4 credits (Spring)
How do individuals develop attractions, make sexual choices, and define and enact their own sexuality? How do institutions and organizations influence, shape, and constrain sexual attitudes and behaviors? This course will examine the social construction of human sexuality in the United States with particular attention to gender, sexual orientation, commercial sex, and sexual education.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Erickson
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SOC 265 - Sociology of Health and Illness 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An examination of the social contexts of health, illness, and medical care, focusing on the debates and contrasting perspectives of medical sociology. Topics include the social, environmental, and occupational factors in health and disease; the politics surrounding breast cancer and the AIDS epidemic; the patient’s perspective on illness; the development of the health professions and the health work force; ethical issues in medicine as they relate to medical technology; and alternatives to current health care organizations. Emphasis is given to how the social categories of gender, race, social class, and sexual orientation affect both illness and health care.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Note: Not offered every year. Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Ferguson
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SOC 270 - Gender and Society 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
A sociological analysis of how gender is constructed and transformed in American society. This course will explore how both men and women come to know themselves as gendered beings, how gender is produced through interactions, in the media, in the workplace, and in families.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Erickson
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SOC 275 - Race and Ethnicity in America 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Introduces students to sociological perspectives on race, ethnicity, and racial inequality in American society. Examines the historical development of race-based barriers to achievement, the emergence and persistence of racial inequality, the character of racial beliefs, resistance to racial oppression, and current problems in American race relations. Emphasis on understanding individual attitudes and behaviors in relation to the structure of social institutions.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Scott
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SOC 280 - Bound By Borders: A Sociology of Law and Migration 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Laws bind people to each other and to their territory, and this has far-reaching consequences for people’s life chances and identities. Migrants test these ties and have been the motivation for the emergence and reconfiguration of important laws governing who can come and go. How and why this happens interests not only policymakers, government officials, and judges, but also individuals included or excluded by borders and scholars trying to understand laws. This course takes a sociological view of global migration to explain the origins of law and its effects.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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SOC 285 - Contemporary Sociological Theory 4 credits (Fall)
Contemporary sociological theory considered in light of classic theories. Emphasis on the conceptual adequacy and the logical consistency of major contemporary theoretical perspectives.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 and at least one 200-level sociology course.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Inglis, Haenfler
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SOC 291 - Methods of Empirical Investigation 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: ANT 291 . An overview of the research process in sociology and the social sciences, with emphasis on problems of epistemology, research design, techniques of sampling, methods of data collection, principles of measurement, basic methods of data analysis, and ethical considerations. This course will explore these topics through hands-on experiences including guided work on research methods through lab exercises.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 or ANT 104 ; and at least one 200-level sociology course; and MAT 115 , SST 115 , or STA 209 (preferred), MAT 336 , or STA 336 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Quinsaat, Pandian
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SOC 292 - Ethnographic Research Methods 4 credits (Fall)
See ANT 292 .
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SOC 300 - Practicum in Applied Sociology 4 credits (Spring)
Students work 10 hours each week at internship sites in Grinnell or surrounding areas (personal transportation required). Class discussions and assignments focus on internship experiences from a sociological perspective. Students must request and submit an application for this course from the Sociology Department in November, before spring semester registration begins. Students needing assistance in securing an internship are encouraged to visit the Center for Careers, Life, and Service prior to fall break.
Prerequisite: Any two 200-level or above sociology courses and third-year or fourth-year student status with good academic standing.
Instructor: Ferguson, Haenfler
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SOC 320 - The Family 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
A survey of the family from a sociological perspective, focusing on recent transformations of the family. Topics include historical origins of the family, traditional marriage and alternative processes of mate selection and family formation, parenting, divorce, family violence, racial-ethnic variations in family experience, and gay and lesbian families.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level or above sociology course.
Instructor: Ferguson
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SOC 350 - NGOs: Organizing To Do Good 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
People often join together in nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations to accomplish good for themselves or others. This seminar focuses on how such organizations are structured and how they operate. We will explore how NPOs and NGOs resemble, and differ from, other organizational forms in mission, leadership, organizational change, environmental constraints, and effects on members. Attention to practical managerial challenges. Cases may include human service organizations, community action agencies, foundations and funding organizations, fraternal organizations, nonprofit colleges, and international humanitarian NGOs.
Prerequisite: At least two 200-level sociology courses and third-year or fourth-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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SOC 360 - Work in the “New” Economy 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
What is the “new” global economy and how has it transformed the landscape of the American economy in the last three decades? How do individuals experience the consequences of globalization in their lives, both as workers and consumers? This course will examine recent transformations in the U.S. economy — including deskilling, downsizing, and the rise of the service sector — and will consider how each of these “transformations” relate to issues of identity, community, family formation, structural inequality, and national culture.
Prerequisite: Two 200-level sociology courses.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Erickson
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SOC 370 - Members Only: A Political Sociology of Citizenship 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Citizenship is a legal tie between an individual and a particular state, but it is also a category to which rights are attached, a basis for identification, and a set of participatory practices. It is shaped and expressed in the political sphere (through schools, military service, museums, censuses, and surveillance), the economic sphere (in labor markets), and in the civil sphere (through conventional participatory practices such as voting and the emergence of new domains of political engagement such as grassroots movements). This course takes a comparative-historical approach and uses the lens of political sociology to examine cases across the globe.
Prerequisite: Two 200-level sociology courses.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Foreign language option available in Spanish or Portuguese for course and +2.
Instructor: Staff
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SOC 390 - Advanced Studies in Sociology 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Seminar in current issues of sociological theory and research. Content of the course announced each year. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: Varies; at least one 200-level sociology course and third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Staff
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SPN 105 - Introduction to the Spanish Language I 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course is intended for students with no previous or very limited training in Spanish. Through total immersion in the target language, students will develop communicative competence in order to be active users of the language and gain confidence in speaking and interacting in real life situations. Students will gain cultural competence in the Spanish-speaking world, including the US, by reading cultural texts, researching cultural topics, and learning about customs and values of Spanish-speaking peoples.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Not regularly offered in the spring.
Instructor: Staff
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SPN 106 - Introduction to the Spanish Language II 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
This course is for students who completed SPN 105 or were placed at the 106 level by the Spanish Department. Through total immersion, students will develop communicative competence in order to become active users of the Spanish language and gain confidence in speaking and interacting in real life situations. Students will gain cultural competence in the Spanish-speaking world, including the US, by reading cultural texts, researching cultural topics, and learning about Spanish-speaking peoples and their societies, histories, and cultures.
Prerequisite: SPN 105 or placement by department.
Instructor: Staff
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SPN 204 - Communication in Spanish I 1 credits (Fall and Spring)
Work on improvement of speaking skills. Discussion and conversation based on various audiovisual cultural materials. Conducted in Spanish.
Co-requisite: Concurrent enrollment in SPN 217 .
S/D/F only.
Instructor: Staff
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SPN 205 - Communication in Spanish II 1 credits (Fall and Spring)
Work on improvement of speaking skills. Discussion and conversation based on various audiovisual cultural materials. Conducted in Spanish.
Co-requisite: Concurrent enrollment in SPN 285 .
S/D/F only.
Instructor: Staff
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SPN 217 - Intermediate Spanish 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Development of language skills through reading, oral practice, vocabulary building, grammar review, and short compositions. Materials include short literary, nonliterary, and visual texts. Conducted in Spanish. SPN 204 may be taken concurrently.
Prerequisite: SPN 106 or placement by department.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Staff
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SPN 285 - Introduction to Textual Analysis 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Development of students’ critical and interpretive commentary on literary and cultural texts from Latin America and Spain. Continued emphasis on language skills. Materials include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and film. Conducted in Spanish. SPN 205 may be taken concurrently.
Prerequisite: SPN 217 or placement by department.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Staff
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SPN 311 - Constructing Identities in Independent Latin America 4 credits (Spring)
A study of 19th- and early -20th-century literature in Latin America. Focus on the creation of national, racial, and gender identities in the newly independent republics through the analysis of narrative, poetry, drama, essays, and film. Conducted in Spanish. Students cannot take this course after taking a seminar course in literature (SPN 377 , SPN 379 , SPN 383 , SPN 385 , SPN 386 , or SPN 395 on literature).
Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Benoist
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SPN 312 - Women and Gender in Spanish Literature 4 credits (Fall)
This course introduces students to the works of prominent Spanish women writers from the 17th to the 21st century. While we will focus primarily on short stories, drama, and poetry, we will also consider films by women directors. Our readings will provide a representative sample of how women have developed as writers and individuals in Spain and how they have crafted gender issues into their writing. Conducted in Spanish. Students cannot take this course after taking a seminar course in literature (SPN 377 , SPN 379 , SPN 383 , SPN 385 , SPN 386 , or SPN 395 on literature).
Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Pérez
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SPN 314 - Studies in Modern Spanish Literature 4 credits (Fall)
A study of poetic, dramatic, and/or narrative texts from 18th- to 20th-century Spain. Topics of examination may include Romanticism; Realism; the poetic generations of 1898, 1927, and 1950; the novísimos; or contemporary narrative. Close readings and discussion focus on aesthetic, ideological, and historical aspects of the texts. Conducted in Spanish. Students cannot take this course after taking a seminar course in literature (SPN 377 , SPN 379 , SPN 383 , SPN 385 , SPN 386 , or SPN 395 on literature).
Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Phillips
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SPN 315 - Creativity and Dissidence in Modern Latin America 4 credits (Spring)
A study of selected, representative works from the 1920s through the 1960s. Emphasis on texts manifesting social conscience and artistic experimentation; treatment of the culture of protest and imaginative cultural expression. Consideration of poetry, narrative, and visual arts. Conducted in Spanish. Students cannot take this course after taking a seminar course in literature (SPN 377 , SPN 379 , SPN 383 , SPN 385 , SPN 386 , or SPN 395 on literature).
Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Aparicio
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SPN 317 - Readings in U.S. Latinx Literature and Culture 4 credits (Fall)
This discussion-based course provides a broad approach to U.S. Latinx literature. We will explore filmic and literary texts that voice the multiple and varied experiences of different generations of U.S. Latinxs from different national origins and cultures. We will pay particular attention to the construction of identity in terms of race, gender, sexuality, and class; bilingualism and code-switching; the experiences of the exile, the immigrant, and the refugee; the marketing of the U.S. Latinx identity; and the construction of community. Texts and films may be in English (with some Spanish) while discussions and written work will be in Spanish. Students cannot take this course after taking a seminar course in literature (SPN 377 , SPN 379 , SPN 383 , SPN 385 , SPN 386 , or SPN 395 on literature).
Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Petrus
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SPN 320 - Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World 4 credits (Fall and/or Spring)
Examines diverse cultures of the Spanish-speaking world, including Latin America, Spain and the United States. May focus on one or multiple regions. Possible topics include: food, cultures, immigration, visual cultures. May use academic articles, film, literary texts, music. Taught in Spanish. Variable content. May be repeated for credit when content changes. Up to 8 credits may count toward the major. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Staff
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SPN 343 - The Art of Language 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Study of Spanish grammar to improve ability to express oneself with ease. Students will review and strengthen their understanding and use of morphological and syntactic aspects of Spanish while developing their competence to explain how the structure of Spanish functions.
Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Valentín
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SPN 377 - Modernization and Innovation in Contemporary Latin America 4 credits (Fall)
A study of selected, representative works since 1960, including internationally respected literature of the “Boom,” subsequent fiction, and recent poetic revolutions. Conducted in Spanish.
Prerequisite: SPN 311 , SPN 312 , SPN 314 , SPN 315 , SPN 317 , or SPN-295 on literature.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Aparicio
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SPN 379 - U.S. Latinx Identities and Sexualities 4 credits (Spring)
This interdisciplinary course focuses on Latinx sexualities and identities. This course will focus on literary analysis of a variety of genres and cultural texts that have served as inspiration and influence for diverse communities of Latinxs. Students will explore artistic and theoretical contributions by Latinx scholars and artists related to the construction, the performance, and the questioning of gender roles. We will study the relation between literary works and the formation and conceptualization of Latinx and Chicanx identities and communities. Finally, we will focus on artistic-intellectual interventions that reflect the heterogeneity of more contemporary Latinx and Chicanx communities, with special attention to the diversity of thought on gender and sexuality. At the end of the course, students will present their research on gender roles, power, and sexual hegemonies based on literary analysis of Latinx cultural texts. Texts will be in English, Spanish, or Spanglish. Class discussion and all written work will be in Spanish.
Prerequisite: SPN 311 , SPN 312 , SPN 314 , SPN 315 , SPN 317 or SPN-295 on literature.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Petrus
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SPN 383 - The Latin American Colonial World 4 credits (Fall)
A study of the texts and debates surrounding initial encounters between Spaniards, indigenous and African peoples in the “New World,” and the establishment of Colonial culture and society. Spanish, indigenous, mestizo, and African perspectives are considered through the study of myth, narratives, poetry, autobiography, and film. Conducted in Spanish.
Prerequisite: SPN 311 , SPN 312 , SPN 314 , SPN 315 , SPN 317 , or SPN-295 on literature.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Benoist
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SPN 384 - Spanish Dialectology 4 credits (Spring)
This course will examine the history and diversity of the Spanish-speaking world, from both historical and synchronic perspectives. The diachronic perspective will focus on the historical, cultural, social, and linguistic factors that were involved in the origin of different Spanish dialects. The synchronic perspective will provide a linguistic description (phonological, morpho-syntactic, and lexical) of various Spanish dialects as spoken today. Students will work with oral and written texts produced in different varieties of Spanish in order to recognize those varieties and identify the linguistic features that characterize each of them.
Prerequisite: SPN 343 or LIN 114 and permission of instructor.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Valentín
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SPN 385 - Studies in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines Spanish narrative and film from the 20th and 21st centuries to explore the development of a modern, global Spain. Topics discussed include Franco’s dictatorship, the democratic transition, human rights, and the place of cultural production in social movements for “historical memory.” Conducted in Spanish.
In Spring 2022 this course will be traveling to Spain during either spring break or late May post-commencement. Students interested in this course will need to complete an application Fall 2021 in addition to doing the normal registration process. The application materials are available on GrinnellShare Academics>Centers>Center for International Studies>. Students selected will be required to pay a $400 participation fee (most other required travel expenses will be covered). This fee will be added to the student tuition bill and is due by the first day of classes. If payment of this fee causes you financial concern, please contact Megan Jones in the Financial Aid Office to discuss loan options to cover this additional cost for attendance.
Prerequisite: SPN 311 , SPN 312 , SPN 314 , SPN 315 , SPN 317 , or SPN-295 on literature.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Application and instructor permission required.
Instructor: Phillips
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SPN 386 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines medieval and early modern literature in its cultural and historical context. The specific topic of the course may vary to focus on a specific genre, author, or theme. Conducted in Spanish. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: SPN 311 , SPN 312 , SPN 314 , SPN 315 , SPN 317 , or SPN-295 on literature.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Pérez
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ANT 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Prehistoric Technologies 2 credits (Fall)
Archaeologists examine technology most effectively through direct experimentation. We will consider the nature of technology, learning, and skill in the context of several important prehistoric technologies: stone tools, pottery, fire, and others. There will be some theoretical reading and discussion of these technologies and experimental methodology, but the class will focus on hands-on experience.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: September 1 to October 13. Half-semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Whittaker
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ANT 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Global Cities and Inequality 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: GDS 395-01 . More than half of the world’s population live in cities, dynamic places shaped by a wide range of factors including globalization, capitalism and the political economy, global politics and local dynamics. This class will explore how anthropology understands cities, not as single static entities, but through everyday urban processes and actors. We will read case studies from across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Through topics including citizenship and belonging, gentrification and policing, and various types of infrastructures, we will consider the complex ways that inequality gets built into urban space and how people resist it.
Prerequisite: ANT 280 or GDS 111 and third-year standing.
Instructor: de Wet
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ANT 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Archaeology of Racialized Communities 4 credits (Fall)
This seminar class will explore the theories and methods that archaeologists have used to study the material record of racialized groups in the United States. Course readings will cover early archaeological investigations of racialized communities, how archaeologists have worked with descendant communities, the impacts of colonization, debates around acculturation and assimilation models, the archaeology of racialization, and studies of diaspora and transnationalism.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 or any 100-level social science course (with the exception of PHE 100 , PHE 101 , and WRT 101 ) and third-year standing.
Instructor: Ng
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ARH 295-01 - Special Topic: Questioning the Canon: Challenging Traditional Narratives in Medieval Art 4 credits (Fall)
Surveys of the art of Europe from the 9th-15th centuries often focus on developments in French and English church architecture/sculpture and illuminated manuscripts. This course moves beyond such a limited narrative by presenting works of various media from across Europe in addition to those of the medieval canon. Students are challenged to question traditional ways of categorizing and understanding medieval art through examining issues of nationalism, gender, race, and cross-cultural exchange.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Instructor: Crites
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ARH 295-02 - Special Topic: Pre-modern/Early Modern Islamic Art 4 credits (Fall)
Does the term “Islamic” contribute to our understanding of the secular and religious art associated with Muslim peoples dating from the 7th through 18th centuries and stretching from Spain to China, or does it cause us to oversimplify the complex and nuanced art of diverse cultures? Determining ways of defining Islamic art will be the central objective of this course as we identify major themes and developments in architecture, book art, textiles, and decorative art.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Instructor: Crites
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ART 295-02 - Fundamentals of Video Production 4 credits
This hands-on production course is designed to introduce students to the moving image as a form of contemporary art practice. Students will learn the skills, theories, and concepts used in digital video, participating in all aspects of production, including gathering ideas, writing a project description, storyboarding, shooting, editing, and screening. Students will be exposed to and research a range of moving image artists, gaining an understanding of the history of video art and related forms. Prerequisite: second-year standing. TAVARES
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BIO 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Entomology 4 credits (Fall)
Insects are among the most diverse and successful groups or organisms on the planet, and we are inextricably linked to them. In this course, we will examine the important relationship humans have with insects by studying insect physiology and anatomy, insect evolution, and insect ecology; learning insect taxonomy and identifying specimens using morphological characteristics; and using field collection trips and lab experiments to further our understanding of insects.
Prerequisite: BIO 251 and BIO 252 .
Instructor: Meyers
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CSC 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Human-centered Programming 4 credits (Fall)
Traditionally, the study programming languages lies at the intersection of systems and mathematical logic. However, what if we instead view a programming language as a general-purpose interface to a computational device? In this course, we will survey the field of human-computing interaction and apply its core principles towards building programming languages and tools that help make programming more accessible to everyone.
Prerequisite: CSC 207 .
Instructor: Osera
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EAS 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: East Asian Studies Gateway Seminar: Food in East Asia 4 credits (Fall)
This interdisciplinary gateway seminar is designed to introduce the students to the broad range of approaches to the study of East Asia, using variable topics. This rendition will analyze Chinese and Japanese foodways in various historical and contemporary contexts, through the disciplinary lenses of History, Art History, Religious Studies, Education, as well as Literature and Culture. The seminar provides a foundation for East Asian Studies while helping students develop critical thinking and writing skills.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Feng, Schimmel
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ENG 295-01 - Special Topic: Race, Gender, Migration, and Capitalism 4 credits (Fall)
See GWS 295-03 or HUM 295-01 .
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ENG 295-02 - Special Topic: Global Creative Writing 2 credits (Fall)
An introduction to creative writing from a global perspective. A special guest instructor from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (TJ Dema) will guide students as they explore readings from a diverse, international array of contemporary authors. Students will also engage in short creative writing exercises each week and examine ways writers work in political and social contexts outside of North America.
Prerequisite: ENG 205 , ENG 206 , or ENG 207 .
Note: Dates: October 12 to November 23. Half-semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Dema
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ENG 295-03 - Special Topic: Intermediate Fiction Workshop 2 credits (Fall)
In this intermediate fiction workshop, we’ll put our stories under a microscope and examine them piece by piece. We’ll break down the anatomy of our narratives to look at their basic mechanics (plot, dialogue, sentence-level writing, etc.) and also closely examine the more ethereal elements that bring a story to life (interiority and empathy, first and foremost). We’ll read some published works but focus primarily on our own, honing our skills as both writers and editors. Workshop submissions should be freestanding short stories only (no novel excerpts, please–though all of the concepts we discuss will apply to novel-length projects as well!).
Prerequisite: ENG 205 , ENG 206 , or ENG 207 .
Note: Dates: October 28 to December 9. Half-semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Staff
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ENG 395-01 - Studies in African Amer Literature 4 credits
Intensive study of an African American literary genre, movement, author, or a group of related authors. For specific content, see Schedule of Courses. Prerequisite: English 225, or 227, or 228, or 229, or 231, or 232, or 273. STAFF
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GDS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Global Cities and Inequality 4 credits (Fall)
SeeANT 395-01 .
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GLS 195-04 - Studies in Drama II 4 credits
See Theatre 304. Description not available. Prerequisite: May vary depending on topic but can include 200-level coursework in English, foreign languages, Classics, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Anthropology, Art, Theatre or dramatic literature/criticism/theatre history. May be repeated once for credit when content changes. STAFF.
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GLS 295-01 - Special Topic: The Force of German Literature 2 credits (Fall)
See GRM 295-01 .
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GRM 295-01 - Special Topic: The Force of German Literature 2 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: GLS 295-01 . This short course will focus on German literary influences on the instructor’ s work as a German-Irish novelist and memoir writer. Seminars will offer a wide-ranging discussion on German literature by authors such as Joseph Roth, Gunther Grass, Heinrich Boell, Peter Handke, and Herta Mueller. Discussions will focus on a number of specific extracts rather than entire novels. Taught in English. Grades based on engagement during the seminars as well as on short written contributions.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: September 14 to September 30. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Staff
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GWS 195-01 - Special Topic: Sexwork in the City 1 credits (Fall)
See THD 195-01 .
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GWS 295-02 - Special Topic: Chicana Feminist Thought 4 credits (Fall)
This course is an introduction to Chicana feminist writers and activists who emerged during the feminist and Chicano movements of the 70s and 80s in the United States. Using an intersectional approach, course participants will critically engage this foundational work and its connection to more recent works by Chicana feminists and activists. Students will study the contributions of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Emma Perez, and others whose work was and continues to be an influential source of feminist theory, method, and activism.
Prerequisite: GWS 111 .
Instructor: Johnson
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GWS 295-03 - Special Topic: Race, Gender, Migration, and Capitalism 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: ENG 295-01 or HUM 295-01 . This course looks into forced migrations on a global scale through an intersectional lens. From the transatlantic slave trade to recent migratory movements and refugee routes, the texts and visual art examined address how racial capitalism shaped historical and contemporary narratives of flight.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Nikolopoulou
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GWS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Sex and Enchantment 4 credits (Fall)
Following Foucault, scholars have overwhelmingly aligned modern sexuality with secularization. But the association of sexuality with the magical, paranormal, and otherworldly remains prominent across a range of supposedly “modern” locations. This class revisits sexuality’s supposed secularization narrative, surveying a range of secularism’s sexual “others,” ranging from 19th Century Spiritualism to contemporary feminist witchcraft. We’ll focus on enchantment in U.S. sexual politics, but emphasis will also be placed on postcolonial and indigenous studies.
Prerequisite: GWS 111 and GWS 249 .
Instructor: Lewis
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HIS 195-02 - Introductory Special Topic: Writing from the Margins 2 credits (Fall)
Whose lives get preserved in the historical record? How? Why? This short course incorporates autobiography and material culture to explore the stories of people who lived at the very margins of their social contexts. Through the ceramic work of an enslaved person in the U.S. named Dave and the embroidered jackets of a German psychiatric patient named Agnes Richter, we consider how, despite the odds, first-person traces of individual existence survive in the historical record. Students develop their own low-key research projects on the stubborn, willful interactions of hand, text, and material.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: August 30 to October 11. Half-semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Maynard
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HIS 295-02 - Special Topic: Kungfu Pandas: Chinese Environmental History 4 credits (Fall)
This class begins with the social, political, and economic challenges of the current environmental degradation in China, and moves backward in time to investigate the complex patterns of China’s environment through the lens of human conflicts and struggles. It addresses issues such as human law and natural law, people and wild animals, energy and resources, epidemics, warfare’s ecological consequences, Chinese medicine, and the environmental policies of different political regimes.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Luo
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HUM 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Digital Humanities: Ethics, Theory, and Practice 1 credits (Fall)
This course introduces students to the Vivero Digital Scholarship Fellows program. It addresses foundational ethical considerations, core theories, and best practices in digital humanities. Learning outcomes include recognizing the necessary connections between digital humanities and social justice, anti-racist
practice, and feminist practice; developing basic understanding of methods and tools in the field; and learning basic project management skills.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
S/D/F only.
Instructor: Rodrigues, Steelberg
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HUM 295-01 - Special Topic: Race, Gender, Migration, and Capitalism 4 credits (Fall)
See ENG 295-01 or GWS 295-03 .
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HUM 295-02 - Special Topic: Film Genres 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: ART 295-01 or GWS 295-04 . This course will examine the theory, criticism, and history of film genres, both domestic and transnational. We will take a comparative intersectional approach, analyzing the stylistic and narrative conventions of specific genres, and their relationship to historic and diachronic imaginaries of national identity, sociopolitical strife, cultural anxiety, and collective memory. We will discuss various film genres, both canonical and revisited. The objective of this course is to explore the question of genre through a range of theoretical rubrics and in so doing to address the social implications and the aesthetic properties of cinema. This course requires weekly screenings along with the assigned class reading.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Nikolopoulou
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LIN 295-01 - Special Topic: Morphology 4 credits (Fall)
What are the building blocks of words and how are the words of a language systematically related to one another? How do speakers understand unfamiliar words and coin new words of their language? In this course, we explore the diverse processes of word formation across languages. We learn techniques for analyzing the internal structure of words and apply them to a wealth of linguistic data from around the world.
Prerequisite: LIN 114 , LIN 270 , or CLS 270 .
Instructor: Glewwe
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PCS 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Ireland as Holocaust Sanctuary 1 credits (Fall)
This course will examine Ireland as a place of refuge for Jewish people fleeing the Holocaust. Even though Ireland remained a difficult destination for people fleeing Nazi occupied Europe, the testimony of survivors who arrived to the Irish free state in the 30s and 40s provides compelling evidence of Irish attitudes at that time. Students will be be offered a view into the complex historical and social context under conditions of neutrality in the independent Irish state.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: September 14 to September 30. Short course deadlines apply
Instructor: Doorley
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PHI 295-01 - Special Topic: Philosophy, Conflict and Peace 4 credits (Fall)
The purpose of this course is to investigate core concepts and arguments related to conflict, war, and peace. Through key figures in the history of political philosophy and political economy we will explore the following questions: What is war? What is conflict? What is the relationship between conflict and peace? What is the role of violence in emancipation, liberation and anti-colonial struggles?
Prerequisite: PHI 106 , PHI 111 , or PHI 121 (previously offered as PHI-195 Philosophy for Life).
Instructor: Mulaj
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POL 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Democratic Decline in the US 4 credits (Fall)
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 , or POL-295 when designated as American Politics.
Instructor: Virgin
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PST 395-01 - Applied Policy Analysis 4 credits
US health care policy. This course will apply theories and methods of policy studies to evaluating one overarching policy problem: the lack of universal health care in the United States. With a focus on the evolving institutional context of this problem and its possible solutions, we will examine four major historical junctures during which meaningful reforms were proposed: immediately after World War II under President Truman, the mid-1960s under President Johnson, the early 1990s under President Clinton and the late 2000s under President Obama. These historical case studies will provide the foundations for a final project in which each student will propose and assess a new policy that moves the US closer to the goal of universal coverage. Prerequisite: PST 220, POL 220, or ECN 220. LEAVITT
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PSY 295-01 - Special Topic: Social Development 4 credits (Fall)
This course covers social development from childhood to early adulthood. We will examine the socialization roles of the family, peers, schools, communities, and media for a range of developmental outcomes. We will consider various theoretical perspectives and research methods for studying social development. Throughout the course, we will also explore cultural and historical contexts and applied and policy implications of social development research for families, education, and society.
Prerequisite: PSY 113 .
Instructor: Yust
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PSY 295-02 - Special Topic: Psychology of Gender with Lab 4 credits (Fall)
This course is designed to introduce students to the theoretical and empirical issues related to the psychology of gender. Both traditional and contemporary theories that focus on the unique aspects in the psychological development of women, men, and nonbinary individuals will be examined. Intersectional factors will be examined. Laboratory work is required.
Prerequisite: PSY 113 . Prerequisite or co-requisite: MAT 115 , SST 115 , or STA 209 .
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REL 195-01 & 02 - Introductory Special Topic: Studying Religion: Europe 4 credits (Fall)
In this course, we approach introductory themes and central questions in the study of religion through examination of significant events, ideas, and tensions in European history and culture, broadly construed. We will examine ways that religions have shaped and been shaped by political and social phenomena, including revolution, philosophy, and art. This exploration allows us to consider a number of religious traditions, while also thinking more broadly about how to understand ”religion” as a category.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Blaber
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REL 295-01 - Special Topic: Guilt, Atonement, and Forgiveness After Atrocity 4 credits (Fall)
By what parameters should we assess guilt? What is required to atone for wrong done unto another? Under what circumstances should we forgive harm done to us? We will begin the course by carefully reading significant theological and philosophical accounts of ethics, asking specifically about what constitutes “guilt” in each. We will then draw on these accounts as we examine the ways that these ideas have shaped or emerged during efforts to grapple with atrocities.
Prerequisite: REL 101 , REL 102 , REL 103 , REL 104 , REL 105 , or second-year standing.
Instructor: Blaber
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RUS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Russian Translation Seminar 4 credits (Fall)
Designed to accommodate students normally planning to enroll in either Russian 313 or 389, this course offers an in-depth study of Russian in the context of translation. Students will work on a series of common texts drawn from Russian culture, with the goal of creating collaborative translations, and will also choose texts relevant to their own interests, and create individual translations. Of particular interest will be creative works or primary sources that students can use to support or further their research in other disciplines. Throughout the course, students will work to develop their skills in speaking, reading, writing, and aural comprehension. Special attention will be devoted to varying levels of proficiency and to gaps in Russian study caused by the pandemic.
Prerequisite: RUS 222 , RUS 313 , RUS 389 or the equivalent.
Instructor: Armstrong
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SOC 295-01 - Special Topic: Gender and Development 4 credits (Fall)
This course offers students a sociological perspective on gender and development with a focus on developing nations. After considering the theoretical foundations in the study of gender and development, we will examine issues related to gendered labor in the global economy, the interplay between gender, empowerment, violence, and health, the regulation of sex, marital behavior, and the politics of gender inequality.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Instructor: Pandian
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SOC 295-02 - Special Topic: Witches, Druids, and Heathens: Exploring Pagan Movements in the U.S. 4 credits (Fall)
Using case studies of Witches, Druids, Heathens, Kemetics, goddess movements, and others, this course will focus on paganisms in the United States and Europe in relationship with ritual, issues of identity, modernity, nationalisms, white supremacy, globalization, feminism, rationalization and other socio-historical processes. Students will have the opportunity for hands-on learning and interacting with practitioners and Pagan religious leaders as a means to explore this growing subset of New Religious Movements.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Instructor: Snook
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SOC 295-03 - Special Topic: Immigration & Transnationalism 4 credits (Fall)
Increased international migration is an important global phenomenon that has changed the demographic and cultural composition of many societies throughout the world. While the movement of people has always been a feature of the human condition, this course examines what is “new” about these contemporary transnational flows. The course will begin with 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 (earthquakes, droughts, etc); explanations for why migration occurs; social, political, economic, and cultural impacts; the second generation and their modes of incorporation; how migration is gendered and its impact on identities; diasporas, and citizenship.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Instructor: Escandell
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SOC 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Armed Conflict and the Environment 4 credits (Fall)
This course examines the relationship between armed conflicts and the environment including; the ecological costs of armed conflicts, eco-social drivers of armed conflicts, and the use of state-sanctioned violence in the repression of environmental protection movements.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 and SOC 291 or ANT 291 .
Instructor: Bacon
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SOC 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Global Ethnography 4 credits (Fall)
This class explores what is innovative (theoretically, methodologically and ethically) in approaches to global ethnography; the challenges scholars face; as well as the strengths and weaknesses of global ethnography. We will discuss how sociologists and other scholars have developed new approaches to ethnography such as multi-sited fieldwork or have navigated “newer” fields such as virtual worlds. Moreover the course provides a comparative multi-disciplinary perspective on global ethnography through the examination of a range of topics such as international social movements, global religions, global media, global environmentalism, as well as migration and immigrant settlement strategies.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Instructor: Escandell
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SPN 295-01 - Special Topic: Learning from the Latinx Comm I 2 credits (Fall)
The main goal of this course is to provide students with a long-year community-engaged practicum at a community organization serving Latinxs. In addition, the course will include talks by community experts about different topics related to the Latinx community. This course intends to promote social change through critical learning and reflection, respectful understanding of others, civic dialogue, and informed action while continuing to hone Spanish language skills. Enrollment and completion of the partner course in the spring semester is strongly recommended.
Prerequisite: SPN 285 or Native/Heritage Spanish speaker and instructor permission required.
Instructor: Valentin
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SST 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Intro to Entrepreneurship and Start-Up Weekend 1 credits (Fall)
Introduction to Entrepreneurship provides a framework and tools to explore contemporary and successful entrepreneurship. The application of proven and practical emotional intelligence skills help students navigate the different stages of entrepreneurship, including developing a business concept, leading teams, and overcoming challenges. The course culminates in the weekend-long start-up competition, Pioneer Weekend (10/1-10/3), where students will receive additional mentoring from alumni leaders and entrepreneurs. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: September 8 to October 3. Short-course deadlines apply. S/D/F only.
Instructor: Allen
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STA 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Bayesian Statistics 4 credits (Fall)
This course explores the Bayesian approach to statistical analysis. Students will learn the differences and similarities between classical and Bayesian methods, and how to conduct Bayesian analyses using software such as R, Stan or JAGS. Data from multiple disciplines will be used to illustrate the fundamentals, and we will also consider more advanced topics, such as multilevel models and meta-analysis, which are particularly suited to Bayesian analysis. This course was previously offered as MAT 444.
Prerequisite: MAT 335 , STA 335 , or STA 310 .
Instructor: Jonkman
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THD 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Sexwork in the City 1 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: GWS 195-01 How does sexwork, that most private of professions, negotiate urban spaces in which it operates? How does it advertise, under what spatial circumstances, and with what dangers is it performed? When women signal their availability by public presence, how do residents sharing the same neighborhoods respond? And what do sexworkers think about these issues? This course engages theories from gender studies, sociology, and urban geography on sexualities in city spaces, examining three plays about female prostitution in the UK. Anthropologist Kathy Kamp discusses prostitutes’ calling cards (formerly placed in red British phone booths) and contemporary internet work. Theatre professor Lesley Delmenico explores her play, No Bad Women (drawn from a landmark trial in which two sexworkers confront their rapist) and Cora Bissett’s immersive trafficking drama, Roadkill (National Theatre of Scotland). We also read and see London Road, by Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork, (National Theatre of Great Britain), the first verbatim musical, probing suburban residents’ reclamation of their street following the murders of three sexworkers. Viewpoints from the English Collective of Prostitutes on spatiality, visibility, and safety will be included.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates: September 1 to September 22. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Delmenico
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AMS 295-01 - Special Topic: The Power of the American Journey II: Social Justice and the Olympic Movement 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: PHE 295-01 and SOC 295-01 . This Journeys Course is an interdisciplinary examination of Social Justice and the Olympic Games. Personal journeys and athletic journeys can be studied through multi-disciplinary tools: embedded travel, primary and secondary sources such as autobiography, popular culture, film, scholarly essays, historical original documents, photography, “story-telling” and “lived experience.” Students will travel to Athens, Olympia, Krakow (Auschwitz), Berlin, and Munich over spring break.
This is an upper level GLP course with priority given to second-year students. Students interested in this course will need to complete an application in addition to doing the normal registration process. The application materials are available on GrinnellShare (Academics>Centers>Center for International Studies>Global Learning Program). Students selected to participate in the Global Learning Program will be required to pay a $400 participation fee (most other required travel expenses will be covered). This fee will be added to the student tuition bill and will be due by the first day of classes. If payment of this fee causes you financial concern, please contact Megan Jones in the Financial Aid Office to discuss loan options to cover this additional cost of attendance.
Prerequisite: AMS 130 , GDS 111 , or one 100-level Social science course with the exception of PHE 100 , PHE 101 , and WRT 101 , WRT 102 , and WRT 120 .
Instructor: Scott, W. Freeman
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ANT 295-01 - Special Topic: The Anthropology of Food 4 credits (Spring)
Food is a daily need, a cultural signifier, a means of structuring identity, value, race and gender, and a manifestation of inequality. We eat to survive, and we eat to celebrate. This course introduces students to a wide range of approaches to food studies in anthropology while also providing a new lens through which to see their own assumptions about, and relationships to food and eating practices. As an everyday practice, food is an ideal means for thinking through complex anthropological questions. We will explore food and eating practices through various individual and cultural identities as well as at larger scales, such as links between food and climate change, capitalism, and nation-building.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 or second-year standing
Instructor: de Wet
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ANT 295-02 - Special Topic: Historical Archaeology 4 credits (Spring)
Historical archaeology is the archaeological study of societies from 1500 CE to present. Readings will trace the development of historical archaeology as a discipline and cover a range of important theoretical topics, including colonialism, gender and sexuality, and race and racism. Laboratory sessions will introduce course participants to core methodologies used in historical archaeology, which include analyses of the material and documentary record.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
Instructor: Ng
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ANT 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Discourses of Time and the Politics of Hope 4 credits (Spring)
This course considers notions of time as historically contingent and culturally defined. It does so by looking at theoretical models and ethnographic examples of time as discourse. It then considers how notions of time, particularly the future, are related to hope. Other concepts addresses include: loss, nostalgia, remembering, and forgetting. Students learn how to discover and foreground multiple histories and narratives about humanity’s pathways, their cosmologies, ways of life, and pleas.
Prerequisite: ANT 260 , ANT 265 , or ANT 280 .
Instructor: French
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ARH 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Art of India 4 credits (Spring)
This course will cover the art of South Asia, from ancient Buddhism, to Hinduism, the Mughal Empire, to modern day art, architecture, and film. We will view and learn to analyze sculpture, architecture (including Buddhist and Hindu temples, Islamic architecture, and modern structures), painting, and the art of the book. We will also cover the basics of the many religious traditions practiced in South Asia.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Mackenzie
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ARH 295-01 - Special Topic: Blurring the Boundaries: Art of the late Middle Ages through the High Renaissance 4 credits (Spring)
Since Vasari heralded the “rebirth” of “excellent” art following the “barbarous” style of the “Goths,” art historians have often made a sharp distinction between what is considered medieval vs. Renaissance art. This course will question whether such a distinction is always valid by examining the art and visual culture of Western Europe from the Carolingians through the career of Michelangelo, emphasizing the 14th through 16th centuries.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Instructor: Crites
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ARH 295-02 - Special Topic: First World War in Art and Literature 4 credits (Spring)
The First World War was a momentously violent, destructive, but also transformative event, industrialized and mechanized to a degree, previously unimaginable. A generation of writers and artists struggled with the formal, intellectual, emotional, and ethical problems of representing their personal experience of it, and with giving the war meaning - or addressing its apparent meaninglessness. Modernist art and literature were to some extent responses to this problem. Examine questions of history and individual memory, and the limits of visual art and modern warfare.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Instructor: Mackenzie
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ARH 295-03 - Special Topic: Cross-cultural Exchange in Spanish Art from the Middle Ages to the Golden Age 4 credits (Spring)
This course will examine issues of cultural identity and cross-cultural exchange in the art of Iberia from the end of Roman rule through early Spanish colonialism around the world. Students will engage with multi-cultural artworks and monuments from the Iberian Peninsula and colonial Spain through a variety of art historical methodologies from formal to post-colonial in order to identify what these works reveal about the cultures that produced them.
Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
Instructor: Crites
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ART 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Studies in Film Theory 4 credits (Spring)
See HUM 395-01 and GWS 395-03 .
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BIO 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: New and Emerging Infectious Diseases 4 credits (Spring)
Half of the 108 billion humans who have ever lived, half have died of mosquito-vectored diseases.Indeed, throughout human history and prehistory, infectious diseases have determined the fates of cultures and of nations more than any army or political thrall ever could. This course will examine the fundamental pathogenesis, etiology and epidemiology of infectious diseases, human, plant and animal. It will also examine the geopolitical and social changes those diseases have wrought on human demography, history, economy and destiny. Field excursions will be conducted in Puerto Rico, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa and the Bronx. These excursions will occur over spring break and summer 2022.
Open to first-year students only. First-year students interested in this course will need to complete an application in addition to doing the normal registration process. The application materials are available on GrinnellShare (Academics>Centers>Center for International Studies>Global Learning Program). Students selected to participate in the Global Learning Program will be required to pay a $400 participation fee (most other required travel expenses will be covered). This fee will be added to the student tuition bill and will be due by the first day of classes. If payment of this fee causes you financial concern, please contact Megan Jones in the Financial Aid Office to discuss loan options to cover this additional cost of attendance.
Prerequisite: TUT-100 and application. Open to first-year students only.
Instructor: Hinsa, Campbell
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BIO 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Ornithology with Lab 4 credits (Spring)
This course will help students gain a broad appreciation and understanding of birds, including bird evolution, taxonomy and phylogenetics, anatomy and physiology (particularly in regards to bird flight and reproduction), and behavior and ecology. Students will accomplish this by participating in lecture and lab activities, including field work dedicated to bird identification. Students will also develop an appreciation for birds and bird watching through participation in citizen science-led research, using birds as study systems.
Prerequisite: BIO 252 .
Instructor: Meyers
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CHI 295-01 - Special Topic: The Chinese Language: Description and History 4 credits (Spring)
This course introduces the characteristics of the Chinese language. Students will learn about the sounds and word structure of modern standard Chinese, the history of Chinese, the Chinese writing system, Chinese dialects, the relationship of Chinese to its neighboring languages, language in Chinese society, and modern language planning, reform, and standardization. Readings and discussion in English.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing. No previous knowledge of Chinese is required.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Zhang
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CLS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Italy 4 credits (Spring)
An exploration of attested gender roles and expressions in ancient Greece and Italy in order to recover the gender identities and sexualites of the Greeks and Romans. Some discussion of socio-economics class and ethnicity. Consideration of diverse aspects of life as found in literary, scientific, and documentary texts, as well as art and archaeology. Application of theorticial approaches. Historical comparisons, with some discussion of typology.
Prerequisite: HUM 101 or GWS 111 .
Instructor: Mercado
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CSC 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Advanced Operating Systems 4 credits (Spring)
Students will build on their experience from CSC 213 by exploring prior work in operating systems research, and conducting their own OS research project. Readings will be drawn from classic and recent papers in OS research. Meanwhile, students will work in small teams to identify an important problem in the field, design and develop a solution to that problem, evaluate their work, and present their findings.
Prerequisite: CSC 213 .
Instructor: Curtsinger
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CSC 395-02 - Special Topic: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) 4 credits (Spring)
This is an introductory but in-depth study of reinforcement learning (RL) techniques and multiple applications. This course is divided into two parts. Part I focuses on the origins (psychology), foundations and traditional RL algorithms. Part II focuses on different applications of RL, such as: multi-agent tasks, robotic tasks, bio-inspired computational approaches, and deep learning. Another aspect of this course is to help students develop scientific skills. At the end of this course, students will be able to develop RL algorithms, use a proper machine learning terminology, and generate data graphics to discuss and analyze learning challenges driven by self-centered decision-making.
Prerequisite: CSC 161 and CSC 208 , MAT 208 , or MAT 218 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Eliott
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EDU 295-01 - Special Topic: Mapping Racialized Trauma in Schools 2 credits (Spring)
See HUM 295-01 or SST 295-01 .
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EDU 295-02 - Special Topic: Anti-Oppressive Education in “Elite” Schools: Impossible or Indispensable? 4 credits (Spring)
What does it mean for an “elite” school to commit to an education rooted in social justice? What motivates this commitment? How can it be done well? What can go wrong? And is it even possible? This course explores critiques of and attempts at anti-oppressive education in P-20 schools serving predominantly white, affluent students through course readings, virtual field trips, and conversations with students and teachers in the field.
Prerequisite: EDU 101 , ANT 104 , GWS 111 , or SOC 111 .
Instructor: Swalwell
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EDU 295-03 - Special Topic: Culture Wars in US Education: Critical Race Theory and Its Antecedents 4 credits (Spring)
Forty years after its conception, Critical Race Theory (CRT) has ignited a firestorm. In 2021 over twenty state legislatures proposed or passed anti-CRT bills prohibiting divisive teaching in public schools. In this course we explore the CRT controversy by comparing seminal CRT texts to its opponents’ claims. We also investigate prior culture wars in the history of US schooling (e.g. textbook debates, ethnic studies bans, and Civil Rights-era protests) to contextualize today’s controversy.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Instructor: Michaels
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