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2013-2014 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HIS 295-03 - Special Topic: Sex, Gender, and Family in Europe 1300-1700 4 credits (Fall)
What did it mean to be a child, woman, or man in medieval and early modern Europe? This course explores the experiences and perspectives of conventional, exemplary, and deviant sorts including crusaders, nuns, washerwomen, courtesans, convicted sodomites, apprentices, slaves, child-kings, physicians, schoolboys, saints, witches, and conquistadors. It examines the construction and reconstruction of identity and sexual and familial relationships in a period of dramatic economic, political, and religious change and increasing entanglement with non-Christian cultures.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Pollnitz
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HIS 295-04 - Special Topic: Modern Japan, 1868 to Present 4 credits (Fall)
As a child, Katayama Sen (1859-1933) experienced the dismantling of Japan’s samurai government, and the “restoration” of the emperor to power in 1868. By the time he traveled all the way to Grinnell College to study as a young man at the end of the nineteenth century, Japan had given up swords for guns, and it was already well on its way to becoming the most powerful nation in Asia. In 1922, he helped found the Communist Party in Japan, and though he died 11 years later, the party survived him. It continued on through Japan’s prosperous “economic miracle” in the post-war era, and it has remained active today in the midst of the “lost decades” of economic stagnation in the 1990’s and 2000’s. This course examines the experiences of ordinary people like Katayama, whose lives were deeply impacted by radical transformations in political behavior, social structures, and economic conditions. In particular, it will focus on relationships between the state and its citizens. Some of the topics covered will include yakuza, prostitution, law, business, and popular culture.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Mayo
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HIS 295-05 - Special Topic: East Asia in World History: 1500-Present 4 credits (Fall)
The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries witnessed Europeans arriving not only on the shores of the Americas, but on the ones of East Asia as well. They came bearing commerce and Christianity, and their presence irrevocably altered the civilizations they encountered. East Asian countries were by no means defined solely by their interactions with the West, but the ties they formed would become increasingly important over the centuries. This course examines relationships that East Asian countries had with the rest of the world, and with one another other from ca. 1500 to the present in order to trace their development as modern nations. In lectures and discussions we will examine interconnections, and will focus on comparisons that can be drawn from the different experiences that China, Japan, and Korea have had with modernity. Topics covered will include the silver trade, firearms, imperialism(s), revolutions, and human rights.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Mayo
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HUM 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: An Introduction to Modern Russian Culture 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: RUS 195-01 and GLS 195-01 .
This course is intended to give students an introduction to the major issues in development of Russian Culture from 1800 to the present, with some attention to earlier periods. The particular focus will be on the thorny relationship between the artist and the state. Drawing on a range of literary texts, music, art, film, and popular culture, students will gain insights into the development of major trends of Russian Culture. All course materials are in English translation. No prior knowledge of Russian necessary.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Armstrong
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JPN 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Japanese Popular Culture & Society 4 credits (Fall)
This course will explore Japanese society and its cultural identity through their various manifestations through popular culture, including food, fashion, visual culture, comedic entertainment, pop music, and otaku fandom. Through the examination of various artifacts of Japanese popular culture and the reading of critical essays, students will gain an in-depth knowledge about Japanese popular culture and familiarize themselves with some important concepts in cultural studies.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Schimmel
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LIN 295-01 - Special Topic: Language Contact 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: ANT 295-01 . The course examines the linguistic varieties and practices that emerge when linguisticailly diverse groups come in contact with one another. We begin by discussing 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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LIN 295-02 - Special Topic: Phonology 4 credits (Fall)
In this course, we will investigate the way that sounds behave in spoken human languages and how they are distributed in the world’s languages. We will explore and theorize how the mind organizes sound, and we will identify common phonological processes by doing problem sets on a variety of languages. We will also consider the relationship between sound and other levels of linguistic description and explore different models for explaining the behavior of sounds within a given language.
Prerequisite: LIN 114 .
Instructor: Hansen
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POL 295-01 - Special Topic: Contesting Citizenship in India 1 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: SOC 295-01 . This three-week short course, taught by a Visiting Political Scientist from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, will introduce students to the conflicts over citizenship in independent India. Three major dimensions will be explored: citizenship as legal status; citizenship as rights and entitlements; and citizenship as identity and belonging. The first section of this module will encourage students to engage with questions of immigration, alienage and emigration, and the rights implications of these. The second section of the module will consider the rights of citizenship, and especially the historically embattled quest for social and economic rights. It will focus on the idea of social citizenship, and the new generation of rights to work, education and food security that have found support in civil society and the judiciary, before being enacted as law. The third section of the module, finally, will examine the Indian debate, traversing a century, between universal and group-differentiated notions of citizenship. Does group-differentiated citizenship satisfactorily resolve the problems of discrimination and disadvantage? Is it compatible with the construction of a civic community? Do the claims of cultural and social citizenship conflict?
Prerequisite: One course in the social studies division (Anthropology, Education, History, Economics, Sociology, Social Studies or Political Science) and second-year standing.
Note: Dates: September 10 to September 26. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Staff
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POL 295-02 - Special Topic: African Politics 2 credits (Fall)
An overview of the major phenomena in contemporary African politics and an assessment of competing explanation for those phenomena. Among the topics discussed are democratization, economic development, state collapse and intra-African wars. Among the explanatory possibilities, colonialism/neocolonialism, the end of the Cold War and ethnic diversity.
Prerequisite: POL 101 .
Note: Dates September 16 to October 18. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Grey
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PSY 395-01 - Special Topic: Counseling Psychology w/lab 4 credits (Fall)
A survey of major counseling theories and techniques, with emphasis on the key concepts, the role of the counselor, therapeutic goals, and the main techniques derived from each theory. Issues pertaining to the ethical application of counseling approaches to diverse populations will be a major focus throughout. Class time will focus on the merits of each approach through review of research literature. Further, students will learn basic counseling skills through observation, case study, and supervised role-plays. Laboratory work may be required.
Prerequisite: PSY 225 and PSY 248 .
Instructor: Ralston
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PSY 395-02 - Special Topic: Atypical Development 4 credits (Fall)
This course will cover research on situations in which children develop atypically. We will read empirical research on development disorders such as autism and Down syndrome, and discuss the etiology of such disorders, as well as cognitive, social, and linguistic outcomes. We will also discuss atypical development resulting from impoverished environments, and read how children’s development is affected in the short and long term by such influences.
Prerequisite: Two 200-level psychology courses.
Instructor: E. Kelty-Stephen
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REL 295-01 - Special Topic: Jewish Life in Europe 1 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: HIS 295-01 . This short course will focus on Jewish life in Europe from the 17th century through the present day to examine the claim that “the modern age became the Jewish age” (Slezkine) and how this transition could only be possible in the context of European history - from the most distinct “other” in European societies to the present day construction of Jewish hybrid identities. We will discuss themes such as the relationship between cultural/ethnic diversity and nationalism, the development of modern anti-Semitism, and the question of minority rights within a majority society. The course will in particular examine the crucial role of German Jewry for these European phenomena, but will also include discussions of British, French, and Polish-Russian Jewish experiences. The process of cultural transfer of ideas and practices within European Jewry and the impact of these developments on the American Diaspora and Israel in the 20th century will be examined as well. The instructor is an Associate Professor of European History on the DIS Program in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Note: Dates November 7 to November 26. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Staff
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RUS 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: An Introduction to Modern Russian Culture 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: HUM 195-01 and GLS 195-01 . This course gives students an introduction to the major issues in development of Russian Culture from 1800 to the present, with some attention to earlier periods. The particular focus will be on the complex relationship between the artist and the state. Drawing on a range of literary texts, music, art, film, and popular culture, students will gain insights into the development of major trends of Russian Culture. All course materials are in English translation. No prior knowledge of Russian necessary.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Armstrong
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SCI 295-01 - Special Topic: Perceptual Control Theory 2 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: SST 295-01 . Explores widely interdisciplinary applications of an innovative approach to psychology that understands behavior as dynamic control of perceptual input, rather than discrete responses to stimuli. Topics covered include negative-feedback systems, physical mechanisms of control, mathematical modeling of control systems, fundamentals of William T. Powers’ perceptual control theory, and applications of this theory to animal behavior, clinical psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, education, and sports performance. Relevant findings in neuroscience are also reviewed.
Prerequisite: MAT 124 , MAT 131 , or the equivalent, plus completion of a 200-level course in at least one of the following fields: Anthropology, Biology, Psychology, or Sociology.
Note: Dates: October 29 to November 22. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: McClelland
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SOC 295-01 - Special Topic: Contesting Citizenship in India 1 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: POL 295-01 . This three-week short course, taught by a Visiting Political Scientist from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, will introduce students to the conflicts over citizenship in independent India. Three major dimensions will be explored: citizenship as legal status; citizenship as rights and entitlements; and citizenship as identity and belonging. The first section of this module will encourage students to engage with questions of immigration, alienage and emigration, and the rights implications of these. The second section of the module will consider the rights of citizenship, and especially the historically embattled quest for social and economic rights. It will focus on the idea of social citizenship, and the new generation of rights to work, education and food security that have found support in civil society and the judiciary, before being enacted as law. The third section of the module, finally, will examine the Indian debate, traversing a century, between universal and group-differentiated notions of citizenship. Does group-differentiated citizenship satisfactorily resolve the problems of discrimination and disadvantage? Is it compatible with the construction of a civic community? Do the claims of cultural and social citizenship conflict?
Prerequisite: One course in the social studies division and second-year standing.
Note: Dates: September 10 to September 26. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Staff
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SOC 295-02 - Special Topic: Sociology of Education 4 credits (Fall)
Educational opportunity has long been considered the lynchpin of mobility in the United States, and yet education paradoxically reproduces inequalities across generations. This course explores the sociological study of education, focusing on the crucial question of when and how schooling ameliorates or exacerbates inequalities. Topics to be addressed include: social mobility and stratification; social reproduction; the dynamics of race, class, and gender in education; social capital; school choice; social and generational change; and higher education.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Note: This course will begin on August 22nd, one week before the start of the official fall semester.
Instructor: Devine-Eller
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SOC 295-03 - Special Topic: The Asian Megacity 4 credits (Fall)
This course will review theories, methods, and modes of analysis useful to understanding the unprecedented social change and economic growth now gripping Asian megacities of ten million or more inhabitants. Drawing on sociology, history, and economics, we will consider competing meanings attached to such megacities as Dhaka, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Mumbai, and Tokyo. Our task will be to weigh popular and scholarly representations against lived experience on the ground, within and across classes, as depicted in various media. Periodically, readings will be paired with journalism, fiction, and films illustrative of key themes, including effective governance, informal economies, labor standards, and land and water rights, to name a few. Whether, and how, existing political structures in Asian megacities enable fairness, equality, and social justice will serve as a guiding question throughout.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Instructor: Inglis
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SST 295-01 - Special Topic: Perceptual Control Theory 2 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: SCI 295-01 . Explores widely interdisciplinary applications of an innovative approach to psychology that understands behavior as dynamic control of perceptual input, rather than discrete responses to stimuli. Topics covered include negative-feedback systems, physical mechanisms of control, mathematical modeling of control systems, fundamentals of William T. Powers’ perceptual control theory, and applications of this theory to animal behavior, clinical psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, education, and sports performance. Relevant findings in neuroscience are also reviewed.
Prerequisite: MAT 124 , MAT 131 , or the equivalent, plus completion of a 200-level course in at least one of the following fields: Anthropology, Biology, Psychology, or Sociology.
Note: Dates: October 9 to November 22. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: McClelland
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SST 295-02 - Special Topic: Managing Enterprise & Innovation 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: ANT 295-02 . This course, sponsored by the Donald L. Wilson Program in Enterprise and Leadership, takes a case-study approach to the management of innovations, or generating solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems, using case studies by alumni innovators, many of whom will visit class. Innovations include changes in products, processes, and organizational structures, in such fields as social enterprise, education, biotechnology, community action organizations, web-based businesses, conservation organizations, and high technology firms. Alumni will participate throughout the course.
Prerequisite: Two courses in the social studies division.
Instructor: Caulkins
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SST 295-03 - Special Topic: So You Want to Start a Business 1 credits (Fall)
This course, sponsored by the Donald L. Wilson Program in Enterprise and Leadership, identifies the challenges and rewards, the successes and failures that face every entrepreneur starting up a business. The example used will be a computer services company, but the lessons generalize to most kinds of start-ups. The students will see business foundation as the realization of an “idea”. Business ideas, like most ideas, are ultimately based on an underlying philosophy that guides key decisions and operations.
Prerequisite: One course in the social studies division.
Note: Dates October 28 to November 13. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Inglis
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AMS 295-01 - Special Topic: Placing, Projecting, and Protecting American Identities in Movies 4 credits (Spring)
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 respect. Questions to be addressed include: who are the models and what are the multiple meanings of “being AN American,” being IN America and imagining these distinctions in different circles and at different moments?
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Instructor: Gibel Mevorach
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AMS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: The Cultural Politics of Fashion 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: ANT 395-01 . 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. This seminar considers fashion and taste as a dialectic shaped by local and global networks: we consider links between companies and consumers, bodies, brands and boutiques, luxury malls and museums, and examine fashioning identities (age, gender, class, ethnicities)in print and moving images.
Prerequisite: A 200-level course in Humanities or Social Studies Division.
Instructor: Gibel Mevorach
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ANT 295-01 - Special Topic: Sustainability: Managing Organizations and Innovation 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: SST 295-04 . Sponsored by the Wilson Program in Enterprise and Leadership. An analysis of management issues in non-profit, for-profit organizations and social enterprises, whether the organizational section is local or international, including problems of meshing organizational cultures with local cultures. Approximately a dozen alumni will participate in class to discuss their organizations. We focus on issues of creating effective and sustainable organizations and will survey alumni on their experience in organizations and on skills needed for effective participation in organizations. Especially appropriate for students preparing for or returning from Internships.
Prerequisite: One course is social studies division.
Instructor: Caulkins
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ANT 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: The Cultural Politics of Fashion 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: AMS 395-01 . 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. This seminar considers fashion and taste as a dialectic shaped by local and global networks: we consider links between companies and consumers, bodies, brands and boutiques, luxury malls and museums, and examine fashioning identities (age, gender, class, ethnicities)in print and moving images.
Prerequisite: A 200-level course in Humanities or Social Studies Division.
Instructor: Gibel Mevorach
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ANT 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Approaches to Collective Memory 4 credits (Spring)
This course addresses forms of 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. It builds upon them to consider: the relationship between nationalism and memory, the limits and possibilities of representing genocide, the on-going contestation of public memories, and embodied performances of memory.
Prerequisite: ANT 280 .
Instructor: French
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ANT 395-03 - Advanced Special Topic: Anthropology of Warfare and Violence 4 credits (Spring)
Not all pre-modern societies live in peace. Internal violence and warfare between groups are common and of recent anthropological interest. We will discuss anthropological theories about the evolutionary origins of violence in non-human primates, and current attempts to explain violence in ethnographic societies. The course will have an archaeological emphasis, especially as we consider evidence.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 and ANT 280 .
Instructor: Whittaker
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ARB 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Advanced Arabic: Language and Culture II 4 credits (Spring)
Conducted in Arabic. An integrated approach to the development of aural-oral, reading and written skills. Class activities include phonetic exercises, oral exposes, advanced-level grammar, composition, and the analysis of cultural documents and literary texts.
Prerequisite: ARB 395-01 Special Topic: Advanced Arabic: Language and Culture .
Instructor: Al-Seoudi
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ART 295-01 - Special Topic: Chemistry of Artists’ Materials 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: SCI 295-01 . 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, clay, and rubber. 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 .
Instructor: Running
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ART 295-02 - Special Topic: Gender, Race and Fashion in Western Portraiture, 1550-1950 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines portrayals of race, gender, and fashionable dress. For elite early modern sitters, portraits were a valued means of constructing a public image, securing a spouse, memorializing the dead, and emphasizing political and dynastic relationships. Taking as our point of departure Renaissance and Baroque notions of likeness, otherness, and verisimilitude, we will investigate the problems of mimesis and self/representation through various artistic subgenres as they alter and re-imagine themselves over the course of five centuries.
Prerequisite: ART 103 .
Instructor: Lyon
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ART 295-03 - Special Topic: Artistic Modernities from Realism to Impressionism 4 credits (Spring)
During the second half of the nineteenth century in Europe, artists experimented with techniques for the representation of a world perceived as distinctly modern. In this course, we will study the artistic response to radical changes in the organization of social, cultural, and political life, from depictions of the urban environment, to portrayal of the optical and psychological processes of seeing itself, to the creation and depiction of fanatical worlds, divorced from contemporary reality.
Prerequisite: ART 103 .
Instructor: Knowles
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ART 295-04 - Special Topic: History and Theory of Photography 4 credits (Spring)
Since its invention in 1839, the medium of photography has spawned an enormous body of theoretical literature intended to describe the appearance, the meaning, and the consequences of the photographic image. This course surveys the chronological history of photography in Europe and America in tandem with readings in the theory of photography. Students will gain an understanding of both the artistic evolution of the medium as well as the critical discourse invented to account for its revolutionary identity.
Prerequisite: ART 103 .
Instructor: Knowles
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CHM 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Chemistry Problem Solving 1 credits (Spring)
This course will focus on developing problem solving skills to promote success in Chemistry 129. Weekly meetings will focus on how to strategies for problem solving for the topics covered in Chemistry 129.
Co-requisite: CHM 129 .
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Note: This course begins on January 31st, the second week of the semester, and has an extended add deadline of February 21st. S/D/F only.
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CLS 295-01 - Special Topic: Introduction to Indo-European 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: LIN 295-01 . Many ancient and modern languages, including Greek, English, German, Latin, French, Spanish,and Russian, are “sisters” in a language family called “Indo-European.” Although no documents written in their “mother” tongue survive, linguists can reconstruct many aspects of Proto-Indo-European by working backwards from the “daughter” languages. This course explores how the historical development of phonology, morphology, and syntax allows us to reconstruct a completely extinct language, as well as features of its literature and culture.
Prerequisite: Second year standing. Recommended: at least one from GRE 101 , LAT 103 , ENG 230 , FRN 221 , GRM 221 , RUS 221 , SPN 217 , ANT 260 , LIN 114 .
Instructor: Mercado
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CSC 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Research Techniques - Media Scripting 1 credits (Spring)
Students who participate in research projects must often master a wide range of concepts, technologies, and research methodologies. Such knowledge and skill can also be useful for a number of other domains. This course provides students with the opportunity to develop such skill and knowledge relating to the Media Scripting project. Topics will include source code control systems, inter-application communication, markup and programming languages, and the internal architecture of applications used in the project.
Prerequisite: CSC 151 and completion of or concurrent registration in CSC 161 .
S/D/F only.
Instructor: Rebelsky
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CSC 295-01 - Special Topic: Roots of Professional Practice: A Philosophy of Unix 4 credits (Spring)
Practicing programmers must master languages, algorithms, and software design methodologies. However, the most successful practitioners incorporate a systematic approach to development and draw upon a wide variety of tools to support that practice. In this course, we explore “The Unix Philosophy” - a long-standing, successful approach to building software. Along the way, we explore a variety of tools, including task automation tools, revision control systems, shell scripting, and the basic Unix commands.
Co-requisite: CSC 207 .
Prerequisite: CSC 161 .
S/D/F only.
Instructor: Rebelsky
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EAS 295-01 - Special Topic: Language and Culture of Japan 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: JPN 295-01 . This course is designed to explore the contemporary Japanese culture and language from historical, social, and linguistic aspects. The course will especially emphasize the linguistic aspect of contemporary Japanese society and culture y drawing examples from the anthropological, linguistic, and socio-linguistic studies. Major topics are traditional and modern writing systems, diversity among speakers, and language in pop culture. Additional topics include gender differences, geographical differences, style shifting, and register.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Instructor: Onishi
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ECN 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Seminar in Macro Finance 4 credits (Spring)
This course will familiarize students with the theory and application of economics to analyze issues in Macro and Financial Economics. It will focus on regulatory and strategic issues impacting investment decisions and aggregate fluctuations and will explore how information availability, agency conflicts, and regulatory structures impact aggregate economic outcomes through their influence on institutional decision-making. Topics include governances, bailouts, bankruptcy, restructuring, corporate control, shareholders and stakeholders, boards of directors, agency conflicts, and information transmission.
Prerequisite: ECN 282 .
Instructor: Stroup
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ECN 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Advanced Econometrics 4 credits (Spring)
This course extends the analysis from ECN 286 to include a matrix reformulation of standard regression analysis plus additional work in time series. We also explore the analysis of limited dependent variables and discrete choices using Maximum Likelihood techniques. We use linear algebra to review Ordinary Least Squares and methods of coping with violations of the Gauss-Markov conditions including heteroskedasticity, serial correlation, multicollinearity, and endogenous independent variables, along with maximum likelihood estimation, Tobit, probit and multi-nominal Logitech.
Prerequisite: ECN 280 , ECN 286 , and MAT 215 .
Instructor: Montgomery
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ENG 295-01 - Special Topic: How to Be an Elizabethan 4 credits (Spring)
This course will focus upon early modern England but especially London, the country’s principal cultural and intellectual center then as now, where almost all the important writers lived and worked. We’ll cover many relevant topics including notions of chronology, the structure of the cosmos, the influence of the planets, the humoral basis of physiology, and the nature of the soul; and we’ll consider the bearing of all this on the character of daily life in London and its impact on various writers.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 .
Note: Dates: March 31 to April 17. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Ingram
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ENG 295-02 - Special Topic: Advanced Poetry Seminar 2 credits (Spring)
Visiting professor Richard Kenney offers a six-week short course in poetry writing. This course will review elements of composition in verse, with associated exercises.
Prerequisite: ENG 205 or ENG 206 .
Note: Class meetings will take place on January 25, January 31, February 7, February 14, February 21, and March 7th. Half semester deadlines apply. S/D/F only.
Instructor: Staff
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ENV 495-01 - Senior Seminar:Africa 4 credits (Spring)
All humans are Africans. More than any other continent, our natal continent faces a troubling and uncertain future in the 21st Century. For example, it is the only continent where per capita food production has dropped in recent decades; it is ravaged by parasitic disease (500,000 children die every year from malaria alone in subSaharan Africa); by viral disease (the populations of some districts in southern Africa are declining because of HIV); by the lingering ravages of colonialism and slavery; by debilitating wars over scarce resources; by international debt; and by droughts, famines and floods that are more extreme than in any other place on Earth. On the other hand, Africa is place of resplendent cultural diversity, a proud (and underappreciated) pre-colonial history, and transcendent natural beauty. The seminar will discuss the geography, natural history and historical ecology of Africa and Madagascar. Topics include the biogeography of Guineo-Congolean tropical forest and East African montane forest islands; fish speciation in the Rift Valley Lakes; desertification and famine; the challenges of survival and development in forest, savanna and desert; savanna ecology, including the inverse relationship between fire and tsetse flies: cattle vs. game ranching; demographics, including the effects of slavery and disease on current population sizes; women’s rights and reproductive self-determination; patterns and evolution of epidemic and chronic disease (including zo”noses such as nagama, sleeping sickness, and rinderpest), among many others.
Prerequisite: Senior status, regardless of major, and permission of the instructor.
Instructor: Campbell
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FRN 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Phonetics and Advanced Oral Expression 2 credits (Spring)
Conducted in French. This intensive course is designed to enhance students’ aural and oral skills in order to prepare them for discussion and presentations at the 300 level. Class activities include phonetic exercises, oral exposes, debates, and dictations.
Prerequisite: FRN 222 .
Note: Dates: January 20 to March 14. Half semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Moisan
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FRN 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Advanced Reading & Written Expression 2 credits (Spring)
Conducted in French. This course is designed to prepare students for written work at the advanced level in French. It includes an intensive review of grammar and emphasizes the writing process through composition exercises and multiple revisions.
Prerequisite: FRN 222 .
Note: Dates: March 31 to May 9. Half semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Moisan
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FRN 395-03 - Advanced Special Topic: Representing the Body in Contemporary Literature and Film 2 credits (Spring)
Conducted in French. Meets for seven weeks. This seminar will examine representations of the body in novels and films from diverse areas of the French-speaking world. Topics will include gender roles, inter-generational relations, migration, illness, aging, love, and war.
Prerequisite: FRN 312 or FRN 313 .
Note: Meets for 7 weeks. Dates: February 18 to April 24. Half semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Ireland
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GDS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Sustainable Development in Costa Rica 4 credits (Spring)
The goal of this course is to gain a better understanding of the theory and application of sustainable development, with a particular emphasis on grassroots rural development and the case of Costa Rica. Each student will develop an independent research project on a relevant theme (e.g. tourism, agriculture, health, education, etc.). Students registering for section 01 will travel to Costa Rica over spring break to conduct research in and around a rural agricultural cooperative on the west coast. Students traveling to Costa Rica will be required to pay a $400 deposit to register for the course. Funding is available to cover the deposit for students with financial need. Most other required expenses will be covered.
Prerequisite: GDS 111 and ANT 238 , ECN 230 , ECN 233 , ECN 240 , EDU 217 , POL 251 , POL 257 , POL 259 , SOC 220 , SOC 240 , or SST 230 .
Instructor: Roper
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GDS 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Sustainable Development in Costa Rica 4 credits (Spring)
The goal of this course is to gain a better understanding of the theory and application of sustainable development, with a particular emphasis on grassroots rural development and the case of Costa Rica. Each student will develop an independent research project on a relevant theme (e.g. tourism, agriculture, health, education, etc.). Students registering for section 01 will travel to Costa Rica over spring break to conduct research in and around a rural agricultural cooperative on the west coast. Students traveling to Costa Rica will be required to pay a $400 deposit to register for the course. Funding is available to cover the deposit for students with financial need. Most other required expenses will be covered.
Prerequisite: GDS 111 and ANT 238 , ECN 230 , ECN 233 , ECN 240 , EDU 217 , POL 251 , POL 257 , POL 259 , SOC 220 , SOC 240 , or SST 230 .
Instructor: Roper
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GLS 295-01 - Special Topic: Age of Revolution: 19th Century England 4 credits Spring
A multidisciplinary intellectual history coursein the thought of the 19th century, principally England during the period of revolutionary changes in literature and the arts (Romantic poetry and music, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice or Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Shaw’s Man and Superman), in natural science (Darwin’s origin of Species), in the sciences of man (Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents), in political theory (Marx), in philosophy (Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra).
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Mease
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GWS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Feminist & Queer Disabiity Studies 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines the social, historical, cultural, and political constructions of the intersecting categories of gender and disability. Through a wide variety of texts and cultural examples, we will explore how disability is gendered, gender is disabled, and both are interwoven by race, ethnicity, class, nationality, sexuality, and subcultures. The course is interdisciplinary and will use popular cultural texts including reality television, history, ethics, and autobiography to aid our exploration.
Prerequisite: GWS 249 .
Instructor: Gill
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GWS 495-01 - Senior Seminar: Chicana Feminist Thought 4 credits (Spring)
This course explores Chicana Feminist writers and activists who emerged during the Feminist and Chicano Movements of the late 1960s and 70s 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.
Prerequisite: GWS 249 , senior status and GWSS major.
Instructor: Johnson
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HIS 295-01 - Special Topic: Advanced Tutorial: Modern Classics of Historial Writing 4 credits (Spring)
A survey of some of the great recent works of historical scholarship. This class will be useful to students who plan to go on to graduate school in history, but it is intended for all students who would like to improve their ability to write analytically about history. The course will be taught tutorial style, mostly in small group meetings with the instructor. It serves as useful preparation to all advanced seminars in history.
Prerequisite: Two 200-level History courses.
Instructor: Silva, Pollnitz
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HIS 295-02 - Special Topic: Science and Society: From the Age of Newton to the Age of Darwin 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines the rise of modern science in Europe and the Americas over roughly two centuries (c. 1660-1880), a key period when science not only emerged as the most authoritative form of knowledge, but also began to transform the very fabric of western society. Accordingly, we will explore how revolutionary developments in the physical, biological and human sciences were connected to profound changes in the social and political world, such as the Enlightenment, the industrial revolution, new forms of imperialism and statecraft, religious debates, democratization, and the growing emphasis on racial and sexual difference.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 , or second-year standing.
Instructor: Guenther
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HIS 295-03 - Special Topic: Early-Modern Japan, 1600-1868 4 credits (Spring)
Wikipedia tells us that “sakoku” was the policy “under which no foreigner could enter nor could any Japanese leave the country on penalty of death.” There is more “truthiness” to this statement than truth, and a careful reader will recognize numerous passages in the Wikipedia article that contradict the initial claim about the state’s capacity to seal its borders. Why is it so difficult to explain Japan’s foreign policies? In this class we will examine cultural encounters by residents of the Japanese archipelago with Portuguese, Spanish, British, Dutch, Chinese, Koreans, Americans, and others from 1600 to 1868. We will explore attitudes and behaviors exhibited in these interactions, the effect (or lack thereof) that these encounters had on society, and how Japan’s exclusionary policies affected the process of modernization at the end of the period.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Mayo
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HIS 295-04 - Special Topic: Historical Trauma, Memory, and Identity in East Asia 4 credits (Spring)
It is inconceivable to talk about contemporary America without mentioning 9/11. In the same way that this event has defied understanding, and continues to produce an emotionally lived sense of loss today, East Asian nations have also experienced traumas that have helped to define them. Could we talk about modern Korea without the Korean War, Japan without Hiroshima, or China without the Cultural Revolution? In lectures and discussions we will examine how historical traumas from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been remembered, and the ways in which they have shaped individual and collective identities over time.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Mayo
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HUM 295-01 - Special Topic: Age of Revolution: 19th Century England 4 credits (Spring)
A multidisciplinary intellectual history course in the thought of the 19th century, principally England during the period of revolutionary changes in literature and the arts (Romantic poetry and music, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice or Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Shaw’s Man and Superman), in natural science (Darwin’s origin of Species), in the sciences of man (Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents), in political theory (Marx), in philosophy (Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra).
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Mease
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HUM 295-02 - Special Topic: Fashion and the Cinema: One Hundred Years of Rivalry 2 credits (Spring)
This course will examine a range of films from world cinema, exploring how the two art forms, born approximately at the same time at the end of the nineteenth century, from the outset competed with one another for a leadership role in what we wear. In addition to theoretical readings, weekly film screenings and a final paper will be required for this short course.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Instructor: Staff
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HUM 295-03 - Non-fiction Video: Informing the World through Form 2 credits (Spring)
In this short course students will learn the basics of short documentary production, from development to production to completion. Working with digital video and non-linear editing software, students will produce a short video piece; in addition, exercises, screenings, readings, and workshops will broaden students’ awareness of cinematic possibilities, with special attention to formal properties and documentary’s unique relation to social and political reality.
Prerequisite: HUM 185 or ART 246 .
Note: Dates: February 14 to March 7. Half semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Staff
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JPN 295-01 - Special Topic: Language and Culture of Japan 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: EAS 295-01 , This course is designed to explore the contemporary Japanese culture and language from historical, social, and linguistic aspects. The course will especially emphasize the linguistic aspect of contemporary Japanese society and culture y drawing examples from the anthropological, linguistic, and socio-linguistic studies. Major topics are traditional and modern writing systems, diversity among speakers, and language in pop culture. Additional topics include gender differences, geographical differences, style shifting, and register.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Instructor: Onishi
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LAT 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Roman Elegy 4 credits (Spring)
Readings in the elegiac poems of Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Sulpicia and Ovid; introduction to Latin meter and the elegiac couplet, with discussion of the style, language and recurrent themes of the poems and of modern critical approaches. Review of grammar as needed.
Prerequisite: LAT 222 or LAT 225 and HUM 101 .
Instructor: Hughes
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LIN 295-01 - Special Topic: Introduction to Indo-European 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: CLS 295-01 . Many ancient and modern languages, including Greek, English, German, Latin, French, Spanish, and Russian, are “sisters” in a language family called “Indo-European.” Although no documents written in their “mother” tongue survive, linguists can reconstruct many aspects of Proto-Indo-European by working backwards from the “daughter” languages. This course explores how the historical development of phonology, morphology, and syntax allows us to reconstruct a completely extinct language, as well as features of its literature and culture.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing. Recommended: at least one from GRE 101 , LAT 103 , ENG 230 , FRN 221 , GRM 221 , RUS 221 , SPN 217 , ANT 260 , LIN 114 .
Instructor: Mercado
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LIN 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Linguistics Seminar: Documenting Endangered Languages 4 credits (Spring)
Students in this course will explore the complex dynamics that contribute to language endangerment and will also develop skills in language documentation using a corpus of data provided by the instructor. Together we will discuss various approaches to developing successful documentation projects and assess current effors as well as future plans.
Prerequisite: LIN 216 - Syntax (previously offered as LIN-295 spring 2012, 2013), LIN-295 Phonetics & Phonology (offered spring 2012, fall 2012), or LIN 295-02 .
Instructor: Hansen
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PSY 295-01 - Special Topic: Language Development 4 credits (Spring)
The purpose of this course is to explore the psychological processes involved in children’s language acquisition. We will read and discuss major findings in the development of sounds, words, grammar, and social use of language. The course will cover major research methods in the study of children’s language development; students may have the opportunity to visit the college preschool and collect language samples from children as examples of the topics we discuss in class.
Prerequisite: PSY 113 .
Instructor: E. Kelty-Stephen
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PSY 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Advanced Health Psychology 4 credits (Spring)
This course will provide an advanced study of the psychology of obesity. Possible topics may include stigma and weight status, disparities in obesity rates, and obesity and chronic illness, among others. Emphasis is placed on theory, primary research, and future directions/challenges. Laboratory work may be required.
Prerequisite: PSY 250 .
Instructor: Seawell
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PSY 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Psychopharmacology 4 credits (Spring)
An investigation of the biological mechanisms and behavioral effects of psychoactive substances. Topics covered will include principles of pharmacology, research methods in psychopharmacology, mechanisms of drug action, drug abuse and addiction, and clinical applications. Required laboratory work using animal models will focus on the use of behavioral tools to characterize drug effects and the use of pharmacological tools for understanding brain-behavior relationships.
Prerequisite: NRS 250 or PSY 246 .
Instructor: Tracy
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PSY 395-03 - Special Topic: Ecological Psychology 4 credits (Spring)
This course will present a survey of ecological psychology from its roots in such early, disparate psychological traditions as functionalism, behaviorism, and Gestalt psychology to its formulation by James and Eleanor Gibson, and it will review recent directions such as embodied cognition, dynamical systems theory, and probabilistic epigenesis. A key theme that will emerge across this work is the “perception-action cycle,” a conceptual suggestion of how perception might arise from the coordination of motor behavior with action-specific information called “affordances.”
Prerequisite: Two 200-level Psychology courses.
Instructor: D. Kelty-Stephn
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PSY 395-04 - Special Topic: Neural Plasticity 4 credits (Spring)
This course will consider changes in the brain resulting from the interaction between an organism and the environment throughout the lifespan. The focus will be on critical analysis of empirical evidence, methodologies, and theoretical approaches through examination of the primary literature.
Prerequisite: PSY 246 or NRS 250 .
Instructor: Rempel-Clower
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REL 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Bodies and Souls: An Introduction to Judaism and Christianity 4 credits (Spring)
This course introduces students to the various ways that Jews and Christians have sought to shape themselves, in body and soul, as individuals and communities, in accordance with what they have understood to be God’s Word. With attention to the historical development of these traditions and using original and contemporary sources, the course explores the spiritual practices, theologies, and forms of worship that have defined these traditions.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Roberts
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REL 195-02 - Introductory Special Topic: Religion in East Asia 4 credits (Spring)
This course will investigate various East Asian religions, including Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto and “folk religions.” We will consider who these traditions have been shaped by and have helped to shape the worldviews of individuals and communities. We will also interrogate the categories of “religion” and “philosophy” as they apply to these traditions. Themes for the course will include: cosmological worldviews; veneration of ancestors; self-cultivation and sagehood; ritual and performance; and society, social order, and the state.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Sorensen
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REL 295-01 - Special Topic: Gender and Religion in Asia 4 credits (Spring)
How do religious teachings, texts, and practices contribute to our understandings of who we are as women and men? How do our understandings of ourselves as men and women contribute to our interpretations of religion? In this course we will consider these questions in dialogue with theoretical texts, religious teachings and practices, and cultural studies. Our Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Prerequisite: Second year standing.
Instructor: Sorensen
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SCI 295-01 - Special Topic: Chemistry of Artists’ Materials 4 credits (Spring)
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, clay, and rubber. 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 .
Instructor: Running
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SOC 295-01 - Special Topic: Global Perspectives on Racisms, Science, and the State 4 credits (Spring)
This course compares how the idea of race and the practice of sorting people by perceived race have varied over time in the Americas and globally. It also examines the ways in which people have used science to legitimate and advanced official racial classifications and policies. In particular, the course considers (1) the part played by state institutions like the census in reflecting and making racial categories, (2) the role of science in creating and giving its seal of approval to racial taxonomies, (3) the global spread of ethno-racial ways of classifying people as well as of “color-blind” ideologies of equality, and (4) new scientific claims about the reality of race. The international eugenics movement serves as a window into how a community of experts contributed to the diffusion of racialized public policies.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
Instructor: Cook-Martin
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SOC 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Sociology of Culture 4 credits (Spring)
Culture, in the field of sociology, “considers material products, ideas, and symbolic means and their relation to social behavior” (American Sociological Association). This course will cover a few narrow areas in depth, to give students basic theoretical competency and a sense of what cultural sociologists/sociologists of culture do. Topics to include: microsociology and macrosociology of culture; cultural consumption and reception; mass culture, subcultures and resistance; political culture; language as culture; and classification, boundaries and cognition.
Prerequisite: SOC 111 and one 200-level sociology course.
Instructor: Devine-Eller
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SPN 295-01 - Special Topic: Refashioning the Self: Hispanic Women’s Literature in the 20th Century 4 credits (Spring)
This course focuses on the ways in which women represented motherhood and marriage within 20th century Hispanic literature. We will analyze women’s literature from Spain and Latin America, identifying elements that perpetuated or challenged traditional paradigms of womanhood in a transatlantic context. Students will read narrative fiction, critical essays, and secondary (historical and critical) texts in Spanish, in order to understand changing attitudes towards women as individuals and towards marriage and motherhood as institutions.
Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
Instructor: Bender
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SST 295-01 - Special Topic: Protecting Free Speech: The Rule of Law and The Role of Lawyers 1 credits (Spring)
Creating a right to privacy. Protecting national security while maintaining free and robust media. These are problems students in this short course will analyze, debate, and try to resolve (hypothetically). They are some of the hardest issues currently confronting our country. The goal of this course is to give students an understanding of the Rule of Law, and the roles of lawyers, in protecting privacy and security, without stifling freedom of the press. We examine the process by which each substantive issue is matched with an applicable rule, and consider how application of the rule leads to a satisfactory conclusion. The course concludes with a dramatization in which students read roles of various participants in the Free Speech debate, and attempt to come up with some resolutions of their own.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Dates April 7 to April 23. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Nixon
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SST 295-02 - Special Topic: Restorative Justice: Theory and Practice 1 credits
The modern Restorative Justice (RJ) movement began out of a sense that Western criminal justice systems fail to satisfy the needs of those impacted by wrongdoing. RJ addresses justice at interpersonal, community, and societal levels. This course will serve as an introduction to the growing field of RJ, including its guiding principles and values, its range of skills and practices, and the various arenas in which it has advanced over the past forty years.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Dates February 3 to February 19. Short course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Nixon
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SST 295-03 - Special Topic: Creative Careers: Learning from Alumni 2 credits (Spring)
This course, sponsored by the Wilson Program in Enterprise and Leadership, focuses on the anthropological idea of career as the trajectory of personal identity within communities or social networks. We will examine cases studies of 10 Grinnell alumni who have developed significant careers and made a difference in the government, non-profit, and business sectors. These alumni, with diverse majors in all three divisions, will visit class to tell their own stories so that we can learn about their opportunities, decisions, and learning as they constructed their careers. This course is also an opportunity for you to reflect on your next steps in your own career, by considering some of the possible directions that fit well with your personality, interests, and skills.
Prerequisite: One course in social studies (Anthropology, Education, History, Economics, Sociology or Political Science).
Note: Dates: January 31 to April 25. Half semester course deadlines apply.
Instructor: Caulkins
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SST 295-04 - Special Topic: Sustainability: Managing Organizations and Innovation 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: ANT 295-01 . Sponsored by the Wilson Program in Enterprise and Leadership. An analysis of management issues in non-profit, for-profit organizations and social enterprises, whether the organizational section is local or international, including problems of meshing organizational cultures with local cultures. Approximately a dozen alumni will participate in class to discuss their organizations. We focus on issues of creating effective and sustainable organizations and will survey alumni on their experience in organizations and on skills needed for effective participation in organizations. Especially appropriate for students preparing for or returning from Internships.
Prerequisite: One course is social studies division.
Instructor: Caulkins
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WRT 195-01 - Special Topic: Professional Writing 2 credits (Spring)
This course will prepare students for writing after college - whatever their future career goals. Students will practice a variety of professional writing genres and interact with both alumni and campus professionals.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Carl
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WRT 195-02 - Special Topic: Achieving Academic Success 1 credits (Spring)
This course is designed to help first-year students meet the College’s rigorous academic challenges. Students will learn about and practice skills to be academically successful. Sessions include goal setting, organization and time management, introduction to campus resources, reflection, and other strategies for improving academic performance. Students will engage with readings, discussions, projects and writing assignments. This course will meet the second through twelfth week of the semester.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: This course will meet the second through twelfth week of the semester.
Instructor: Perez
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TEC 154 - Evolution of Technology 4 credits (Spring)
To make wise decisions about future technologies, we must understand the past and the present: what drives and influences technological change? How do technologies affect individuals and society? How do we make decisions about technology? Who decides? Although individual section offerings will consider different technologies and issues, all offerings will explore such questions through readings and case studies from a variety of disciplines, along with writing and discussion.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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TEC 215 - Solar Energy Technologies 4 credits (Spring)
An investigation of the technology related to the utilization and storage of solar energy, including consideration of scientific, technical, economic, and social concerns. Study of the broad energy resource and use picture, including calculations, followed by an in-depth study of solar thermal conversion, photovoltaic devices, photochemical conversion, biomass, and wind power. Underlying principles and quantitative reasoning stressed.
Prerequisite: CHM 129 or PHY 131 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Swartz
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THE 100 - Performance Laboratory 1 or 2 credits (Fall and Spring)
Guided participation, for major theatre and dance productions, in theatrical performance, choreography, assistant directing, stage managing, dramaturgy, or design and crew work on sets, lights, props, costumes, or makeup. Qualified students examine problems of production in the theatre while solving these problems in rehearsal and performance. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Note: (A maximum of 8 practica credits may count toward graduation.) S/D/F only.
Instructor: Staff
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THE 104 - Dance Technique I 2 credits (Fall and Spring)
Beginning dance technique; the principles, terminology, basic history, developing a physical and kinesthetic understanding of concert dance techniques. Areas of emphasis include but are not limited to ballet or modern dance. Consult the Schedule of Courses for the specific area of emphasis each semester. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Hurley
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THE 111 - Introduction to Performance Studies 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An examination of dramatic performance in its broadest cultural contexts. This foundational course is designed to encourage critical thinking about the inclusive field of performance and how it is created, including orality, festivals, living history museums, trials, political conventions, and sporting events. Students explore both texts and performance events to analyze “What makes an event performance?” and “How is performance made and understood?” Because knowledge is embodied as well as textualized, students will both write and perform components of their final class projects.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Delmenico
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THE 113 - Movement for the Performer 4 credits (Fall)
Practical exploration of movement and bodily-based trainings such as pilates, yoga, body-mind centering, and Bartenieff Fundamentals as preparation for performance. Studio-based exercises will investigate somatic and movement improvisation practices as an alternative means to theorize the relationship of mind to body and to develop greater physical awareness.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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THE 115 - Theatrical Design and Technology 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
A hands-on, experiential introduction to the design elements of theatre and dance production. Topics include a history of Western theatre architecture and stage forms, scene painting, properties, lighting, sound, drafting, makeup, and costuming. Emphasis is placed upon the design and implementation of theatrical scenes from a variety of historic eras and the analysis of the ways in which the design elements influence performance style.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Thomas
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THE 117 - Introduction to Acting 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
A practice-based exploration of the theories and techniques of acting. Using Stanislavksi’s seminal text An Actor Prepares as the foundation, students develop their skills at transforming dramatic texts from the page to the stage. The course culminates in publicly staged scenes.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Delmenico, Quintero
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THE 201 - Dramatic Literature I 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: GLS 201 . Study of major works in Western dramatic literature to 1850, with reference to cultural contexts, interpretive problems, and dramatic theory, beginning with Aristotle’s Poetics. Includes plays and performances (in translation) of Greek tragedy and Aristophanic comedy, English medieval cycle plays, Machiavelli, Marlowe, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tempest, Webster’s White Devil, Ben Jonson, Spanish Golden Age, Racine and Moliere, a Restoration comedy, the Brook Mahabharata, and Goethe’s Faust.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Mease, Delmenico
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THE 202 - Dramatic Literature II 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 202 . Study of major works in Western dramatic literature from 1850 to the present, with reference to cultural contexts, interpretive problems, and dramatic theory. From the “classic moderns” of realism and naturalism through the Symbolists, Expressionists, Surrealists and Absurdists; dramatists and theorists include Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Yeats, Synge, Shaw, Buechner, Kaiser, Artaud, Pirandello, Lorca, Brecht, Sartre, Genet, Beckett, Grotowski, Weiss, Pinter, Cixous, and Stoppard.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Mease
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THE 203 - American Theatre 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 203 . A study of American theatre from the early 20th century to the present. Students examine a variety of different theatrical styles, ranging from plays by canonical authors (including O’Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Wilson, Mamet, and Shepard) to experimental works by artists who challenged the conventions of mainstream theatre (including Cage, Kaprow, Beck, Finley, and Wilson).
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Quintero
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THE 204 - Dance Technique II 2 credits (Fall and Spring)
Intermediate and advanced dance technique; physical and kinesthetic study involving more complex movement patterns and sequences, phrasing, musicality, and stylistic considerations. Areas of emphasis include but are not limited to ballet or modern dance. Consult the Schedule of Courses for the specific area of emphasis each semester. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: THE 104 or equivalent experience.
Instructor: Hurley
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THE 205 - Dance Ensemble 2 credits (Fall and Spring)
Qualified students rehearse as an ensemble for a final performance. In addition, students train in modern dance, yoga, pilates, and/or dance improvisation. The ensemble may focus its performance activities in a given year or semester on a special topic or theme, such as site-based dance, dance and community, or video dance. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: Acceptance by audition.
Note: (A maximum of 8 practica credits may count toward graduation.) S/D/F only.
Instructor: Staff
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THE 210 - Contemporary Dance 4 credits (Fall)
A study of Western concert dance from the 19th century to the present. Studio-based exercises in modern dance technique and composition are combined with readings, video viewings, and lecture/discussion to provide a physical, conceptual, and historical understanding of dance as a performing art form.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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THE 211 - Performance Studies: Traditions and Innovations 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines non-naturalistic forms of theatre and performance-making. It explores the work of foundational avant-garde director/theorists and performance practices that have developed since the 1960s, including performance art and community-based theatre. It also focuses on non-Western performances, including textual and nontextual practices, and the ways in which Western and non-Western theatre have intersected interculturally during the last century.
Prerequisite: Any 100-level Theatre and Dance course.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Delmenico
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THE 217 - Intermediate Acting 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An intensive performance laboratory for students to explore different modes of performance and further develop and refine their acting skills. With an emphasis on psychological realism, students stage a series of individual and group performances designed to enhance their critical engagement of performance as both the subject and method of their study.
Prerequisite: THE 117 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Quintero
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THE 225 - Choreography: Theory and Composition 4 credits (Spring)
A theoretical and practical investigation of dance composition and performance technique.
Prerequisite: THE 104 , THE 113 , or any 200-level Theatre and Dance course.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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THE 235 - Directing 4 credits (Fall)
A theoretical and practical investigation of the responsibilities and techniques of the director in the theatre. Classroom exercises are supplemented by readings addressing different theories of directing. The final project is the directing of a one-act play.
Prerequisite: THE 117 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Quintero
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THE 240 - Design for Performance I 4 credits (Fall)
An exploration of the design fundamentals common to each facet of theatrical design: scenery, lighting, costumes, and makeup. Such elements as design procedure from conception to realization, research techniques and materials, period style, and design history are emphasized.
Prerequisite: THE 115 or ART 111 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Thomas
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THE 245 - Lighting for the Stage 4 credits (Fall)
Introduces the student to the art of lighting design, process, and the practice of lighting the stage for the theatre, opera, dance, industrials, television, and video. Students develop the knowledge, vocabulary, and skills necessary to become a master electrician, assistant lighting designer, and beginning lighting designer.
Prerequisite: THE 115 or THE 240 , or ART 111 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Thomas
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THE 303 - Studies in Drama I 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: GLS 303 . A seminar-style course in dramaturgy, focusing on a central topic in the history and theory prior to 1850. The course will emphasize the development of methodologies and research strategies useful for the theatre practitioner and the researcher. Past topics for this variable-content course have included Greek Drama, Theory of Comedy (Aristophanes to Stoppard), English Medieval and Renaissance Drama; Hamlet and Revenge Tragedy, Shakespeare’s Comedies and Tragedies. See schedule of courses for topics. May be repeated once for credit when content changes.
Prerequisite: May vary depending on topic but can include 200-level coursework in English, foreign languages, Classics, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Anthropology, Art, Theatre or dramatic literature/criticism/theatre history.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Mease, Delmenico
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