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2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PHI 393-01 - Advanced Studies: Kant’s System 4 credits (Spring)
In this seminar we will carefully piece together Immanuel Kant’s multi-dimensional philosophical system in an effort to examine his answers to three pressing questions: “What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?” We begin with the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/7), which marks his “critical turn” and aims to establish the boundaries of human knowledge. As we move on to his practical/moral philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology and political philosophy we will consider the tensions between and among the various elements of his system that eventually incite German Idealists (such as Fichte, Schelling and Hegel) to provide more “complete” systems. Of particular interest to us will be the ways his conceptions of human nature and moral and political freedom accommodate racial and gender inequality. In addition to Kant’s first Critique, primary readings will be drawn from the Critique of Practical Reason, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of the Power of Judgment, Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, the Metaphysics of Morals, “Perpetual Peace,” and “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim,” among others. Critical engagement with secondary literature will also be central to the work for this course.
Prerequisite: PHI 233 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: J. Dobe
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REL 394-01 - Advanced Topics: Putting Religious Studies to Work 4 credits (Spring)
This course provides an opportunity for students to reflect on their previous theoretical and methodological work over their undergraduate career by putting it into practice. Students will be responsible to plan and carry out their own advanced research project from the start to the end of the term on a topic of their own choosing. Along the way students will need to make choices about and present their individual theoretical commitments, specific methodology, professional possibilities, and how best to present themselves and their semester-long work. Class sessions will alternate between group discussions and presentations, mentored project meetings and research time.
Prerequisite: REL 311 .
Instructor: T. Dobe
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RUS 389-01 - Advanced Russian Seminar 4 credits (Spring)
Issues of Diversity in Today’s Russia. The seminar addresses questions of race and ethnicity in modern Russian literature and culture. We will examine the depiction of Russia’s non-Slavic communities in contemporary Russian literature and artistic and media outlets. This will include news broadcasts, talk shows, podcasts and film. Emphasis will be placed on developing writing skills in Russian. Conducted in Russian.
Prerequisite: RUS 313 .
Instructor: Greene
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SPN 320-01 - Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World 4 credits (Spring)
Gender and Latinidad are social constructs in)formed by models, patterns, and ideals that we observe and imitate. Film has been of particular influence with respect to the transmission of gender ideals and expectations–as well as the coding of latinx bodies. In this course, using cultural studies methodologies, we will concentrate on representations of latinxs in the United States and the cultural messages that accompany these representations from the 40s to the present day. In particular, we will analyze the relation between representations and self-perceptions of latinx subjects through stereotypes and gender models.
Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Petrus
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SPN 386-01 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature 4 credits (Spring)
This advanced seminar focuses on the literature produced in Spain between 1492 and 1700. The course will address issues of race, class, identity, and gender in early modern poetry, theater, prose, and visual texts. Close attention will be paid to the cultural and historical context of the era. Conducted in Spanish.
Prerequisite: SPN 311 , SPN 312 , SPN 314 , SPN 315 , SPN 317 or SPN 295 on literature.
Instructor: Pérez
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THD 240-01 - Interdisciplinary Performance Theory and Praxis: Archives & Cultural Memory 4 credits (Spring)
An examination of theoretical topics and perspectives in performance studies, with specific attention to interdisciplinary innovations relevant to analyzing performance. This course introduces research methodologies for interrogating and creating performance, as well as how to critique, reshape, and transform the world through performance. Course topics center on examining, historicizing, and theorizing performance in both the aesthetic and the everyday. Course projects extend performance theory into original scholarly writing and creative work. In Spring 2023 the topic will center Archives & Cultural Memory in performance, from archival studies theory to artistic engagements in reconciliation movements, to the relationship between technologies of memory and historiographic remediation, to performance studies angles on tourism, place, and cultural site visitor experience. Students will apply archival research to the creation of exhibits and performance installations.
Prerequisite: Any 100-level Theatre and Dance course.
Instructor: Staff
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THD 350-01 - Critical Approaches to Theatre Methods: Dramaturgy 4 credits (Spring)
While actors, dancers, choreographers, directors, and designers contribute their perspective, dramaturgs advocate on behalf of the performance work itself. Rarely seen onstage, a skilled dramaturg is essential in any rehearsal room, be it dance, devised, or script-centered work, and their tasks change with every project. They collaborate, they research, they facilitate, they edit, they teach, they respond, they question, all while moving nimbly across departments and disciplines. In this interdisciplinary course, we will focus on the process of dramaturgy as an art in its own right, and practice the skills necessary to work across the field (and beyond!). Students will explore the dramaturg’s many functions, both within and without the fascinating architecture and context of performance texts and works.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level THD course except THD 200 or THD 201 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: K. Miller
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ANT 104-01, 02 & 03 - Anthropologicial Inquiries 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Migration. This course will provide an introduction of the four major subfields of anthropology (archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology) to examine human similarities and differences through the lens of human migration. We will discuss how mobility and information sharing with other groups have impacted materials and manufacturing, disease, cultural traditions, and language throughout time.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Sections 01 and 02 - Fall
Section 03 - Spring
Instructor: Holmstrom
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BIO 150-01 & 02 - Introduction to Biological Inquiry 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
The Effects of Climate Change on Organisms. We will examine the effects of predicted changes in temperature, moisture and carbon dioxide levels on organismal and ecosystem function through experimental investigation. We will focus on the effects of such changes on the physiology and metabolic functioning of organisms, as well as on biogeochemical processes of ecosystems. This course will be taught in a workshop format, meeting twice a week for three hours. Class time will be devoted primarily to discussions and lab work, examining theoretical aspects of organismal and ecosystem functioning, design and implementation of lab-based experiments, and the interpretation of our results in the context of extensive ongoing climate change research.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Fall - section 02
Spring - section 01
Instructor: K. Jacobson, P. Jacobson
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CSC 151-01, 02, & 03 - Functional Problem Solving 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Digital Humanities. In this section of CSC 151, we will ground our study of functional problem solving in approaches related to the digital humanities, investigating ways in which computing changes the ways in which people write and analyze texts. In particular, we will examine models of documents, develop dynamic narratives, and design algorithms and visualizations that help us explore and analyze corpora and individual texts. The course employs a workshop format: In most class sessions, students will collaborate on a variety of problems. Includes formal laboratory work.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Sections 01, 02, 03 offered both fall and spring
Instructor: Autry, Jimenez Pazmino, Osera
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CSC 161-01, 02, & 03 - Imperative Problem Solving w/lab 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
This section of CSC 161 will utilize robotics as an application domain in studying imperative problem solving, data representation, and memory management. Additional topics will include assertions and invariants, data abstraction, linked data structures, an introduction to the GNU/Linux operating system, and programming the low-level, imperative language C. The course will utilize a workshop style in which students will frequently work collaboratively on a series of problems. Includes formal laboratory work.
Prerequisite: CSC 151 .
Note: Fall - Section 01 & 02
Spring - Section 01, 02 & 03
Instructor: Eliott, Johnson
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ENG 120-03 - Literary Analysis 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
In this course we will read travel writing by novelists, journalists, and explorers in different historical periods. Before the great upsurge in tourism in nineteenth-century Europe, travelers who ventured across the seas in search of trading opportunities or on journeys of exploration recounted tales of different people and their cultures, which are satirized in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. We will begin with the poetic journeys of William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson, W.B. Yeats, and Derek Walcott, which range over continents, cultures, geographies, and postcolonial histories. Travel becomes a personal quest for identity in M. Scott Momaday’s “The Way to Rainy Mountain” or an existential journey in Flannery O’ Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” If Jamaica Kincaid’s satirizes tourists in A Small Place, Salman Rushdie directs us to a journey that reflects on the meaning of artistic and political freedom in Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Teju Cole’s Open City is a contemporary meditation on layered and palimpsestic histories of New York seen through the eyes of its migrant protagonist.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Kapila
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ENG 121-01 & 02 - Introduction to Shakespeare 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
The Globe’s Shakespeare. Everyone’s heard of Shakespeare’s Globe, the theater he wrote for: the name already tells you a lot about how he thought about the plays being performed there and what they could do. Four hundred years later, the names are reversed: Shakespeare now belongs to the globe, with his plays produced and adapted in virtually every corner of our world. Yet that dissemination raises important questions, which this class will take up. To what extent are reproductions and inspired works meant to convey the “real” Shakespeare, and to what extent is “Shakespeare” a kind of language other cultures can use to tell their own stories? Do we learn about the past or the present in studying Shakespeare, and how does his global reception change that question? We will read five pairs of plays with contemporary works adapting or inspired by them, from around the world. Our goal is to investigate the plays for what they can tell us about what the “globe” meant in Shakespeare’s day and our own, and the ways this increasingly-important concept is inflected by gender, race, nation, language, and medium. Students will write a midterm and a final paper, as well as several short writing assignments.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Fall - section - 01
Spring - sections 01 & 02
Instructor: Likert
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WRT 101 - College Writing in the Liberal Arts 1 credits (Fall and Spring)
WRT 101 introduces students to academic writing at the college level. Emphasizing writing as a process, the course provides opportunities for students to collaboratively practice writing principles in class and apply them to writing assignments in other courses through individual writing center appointments. Students must be enrolled in Tutorial or another writing intensive course to take WRT 101.
Prerequisite: None.
S/D/F only
Instructor: Staff
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WRT 102 - Voice and Style for the Academic Writer 2 credits (Fall and Spring)
This course emphasizes individuality and creativity within the conventions of academic writing. Students write analytically, while infusing their work with their own personality, voice, and style. Through craft exercises and workshops, students experiment with more advanced writing techniques, like guiding metaphors and narrative vignettes, to vividly convey their ideas and engage readers.
Prerequisite: None.
S/D/F only.
Instructor: D. Perez
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WRT 120 - Oral Communication for Academic Purposes 2 credits (Spring)
In this course, students will approach oral communication from a writerly perspective by drafting and delivering speeches on a variety of academic topics. Special attention will be paid to audience consideration as students learn to provide effective feedback on peers’ speeches.
Prerequisite: None.
S/D/F only
Instructor: Staff
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WRT 301 - Teaching and Tutoring Writing 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Cross-listed as: EDU 301 . In this course, we will study and discuss theories of writing, revising, teaching, and tutoring; learn practical strategies for effective commenting on drafts and conferencing with writers from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds; identify and investigate intriguing questions and scholarly debates related to writing, teaching, and tutoring; present the results of that research both orally and in writing; examine and reflect on our own experiences as writers, tutors, and learners.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or completion of 200-level writing intensive course.
Instructor: Turk
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