Fall 2017 Class Schedule
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Fall 2017 Class Schedule - updated April 9, 2018 at 10:30 am
This is a snapshot of the class schedule and enrollment information, updated hourly during business hours.
American Studies
Anthropology
Art and Art History
Asian Languages and Cultures
Biology
Chemistry
Chinese
Classical Mediterranean and Middle East
Computer Science
Economics
Educational Studies
English
Environmental Studies
French and Francophone Studies
Geography
Geology
German Studies
Hispanic Studies
History
Interdisciplinary Studies
International Studies
Japanese
Latin American Studies
Linguistics
Mathematics
Media and Cultural Studies
Music
Philosophy
Physical Education
Physics and Astronomy
Political Science
Psychology
Religious Studies
Russian Studies
Sociology
Theatre and Dance
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
American Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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AMST 101-01 | Explorations of Race and Racism | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Gutierrez, Harris | Avail./Max.: Closed -5 / 25 |
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The main objectives of this introductory course are: to explore the historical construction of racial categories in the United States; to understand the systemic impact of racism on contemporary social processes; to consider popular views about race in the light of emerging scholarship in the field; and to develop an ability to connect personal experiences to larger, collective realities. We will engage several questions as a group: What are the historical and sociological foundations of racial categories? When does focusing on race make someone racist? What is white privilege, and why does it matter? All students will be asked to think and write about their own racial identity. This course, or its equivalent, is required for majors and minors. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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AMST 103-01 | The Problems of Race in US Social Thought and Policy | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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AMST 200-01 | Critical Methods for American Studies Research | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Nathan Titman | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
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This course will introduce students to interdisciplinary research approaches to the study of race, ethnicity, and other categories of difference. Students will learn to conceptualize and design research projects, and will obtain hands-on experience in executing different methods. The course will also consider the critiques of systems of knowledge production and research approaches that have been informed by scholars from fields such as African American history, gender studies, and critical race studies, as well as from the disciplines. The goal is to develop an understanding of the assumptions embedded in many fields of inquiry, and to learn to apply critical approaches to important research questions. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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AMST 203-01 | Politics and Inequality: American Welfare State | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Lesley Lavery | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with POLI 203-01*
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AMST 219-01 | In Motion: African Americans in the United States | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Crystal Moten | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 219-01; first day attendance required*
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AMST 229-01 | Narrating Black Women's Resistance | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Crystal Moten | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 14 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 229-01 and WGSS 229-01; first day attendance required*
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AMST 240-01 | Race, Culture and Ethnicity in Education | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Jonathan Hamilton | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with EDUC 240-01; first day attendance required*
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AMST 250-01 | Race, Place and Space | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with GEOG 250-01; no first year students allowed*
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This course is built at the crossroads between critical race studies and urban sociology, and draws on important strains within cultural studies, WGSS, and critical/postmodern geography. We will investigate our own personal cognitive maps and social locations, including our complicity in dominant spatial and racial logics. Lectures, assignments, and activities encourage an understanding of the creation and on-going production of space and scale, and develop insight into racialized communities and identities as sites of conflict, struggle, and potential solidarity rather than fixed categories of representation or consumption. A segment of the course will focus on St. Paul and the impact of the Vietnam War, looking particularly at the construction of Hmong and other Southeast Asian American communities and identities. This course requires prior exposure to at least one of the following areas: American Studies, human geography, sociology of race/ethnicity, or urban studies. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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AMST 263-01 | African-American Theatre | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Sarah Bellamy | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with THDA 263-01*
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AMST 294-01 | Public History: African American - Life Past, Present, and Future | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Harris, Sturtz | Avail./Max.: 0 / 15 |
*Permission of instructor required; applications are due April 28 at noon. The application form is available at: https://goo.gl/Pz0E2Y; cross-listed with HIST 294-04*
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This course introduces students to theories and practices of Public History – the ways that people understand and make use of the past in our everyday lives – by focusing on one topic, that of African American History. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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AMST 294-02 | Get in Formation: Black Protest Music | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Crystal Moten | Avail./Max.: -1 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; appropriate for First Years; cross-listed with HIST 294-11, MUSI 294-02 and, WGSS 294-01*
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Throughout African American history, people of African descent in the United States have always utilized the tools at their disposal to resist oppression. This includes music. Music heals, empowers, and exposes--joy, pain, love, anger, happiness, suffering and hope. Using a black feminist, intersectional lens, this course is a topical introduction to various traditions within African American music from the enslavement period until the present. Not meant to be exhaustive, the course will examine the connections between music and major turning points in African American social, cultural, and political history. The course also pays special attention to the ways in which race, class, gender, and sexuality impact the creation, interpretation, performance, and reception of black protest music. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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AMST 294-03 | Revolutionary Political Thought | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Althea Sircar | Avail./Max.: Closed 7 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with POLI 294-01*
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This political theory course examines how revolutionary movements in political thought intersect with and inflect revolutionary moments in history. Taking "revolutionary" to be descriptive of both events and theoretical frameworks, the course will study how political actors have articulated and enacted abolitionist, feminist, egalitarian, and anti-colonialist revolutionary perspectives. Topics covered will include: the American, French, Haitian, Bolshevik, Indian, and Iranian revolutions, as political events and occasions for political thought. Also under consideration will be contemporary revolutionary movements like #Occupy, the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter, and prison abolition; and revolutions in political theories of gender, race, and (dis)ability. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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AMST 301-01 | Critical Prison Studies | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan | Avail./Max.: 8 / 15 |
*No first year students allowed*
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AMST 308-01 | Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Studies | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Galo Gonzalez | Avail./Max.: -1 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 308-01 and LATI 308-01; first day attendance required*
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AMST 330-01 | Mellon Seminar | Days: W | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Alicia Munoz | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; must be on of the ten Mellon Fellows; S/SN grading only, 2 credits*
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AMST 334-01 | Cultural Studies and the Media | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Leola Johnson | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with MCST 334-01*
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AMST 384-01 | Langston Hughes: Global Writer | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: David Moore | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ENGL 384-01 and INTL 384-01*
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AMST 445-01 | Frontera: The U.S./Mexico Border | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Alicia Munoz | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 445-01 and LATI 445-01; first day attendance required*
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Anthropology
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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ANTH 101-01 | General Anthropology | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Scott Legge | Avail./Max.: -1 / 30 |
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This course is an introduction to the discipline of anthropology as a whole. It presents students with a theoretical grounding in the four major subfields: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics. In this class the emphasis is on the holistic nature of the discipline. Students will be challenged with some of the countless links between the systems of biology and culture. They will explore key questions about human diversity in the past, present, and future. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ANTH 111-01 | Cultural Anthropology | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Arjun Guneratne | Avail./Max.: 6 / 35 |
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ANTH 206-01 | Endangered/Minority Languages | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Marianne Milligan | Avail./Max.: -1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with LING 206-01*
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ANTH 230-01 | Ethnographic Interviewing | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Arjun Guneratne | Avail./Max.: 12 / 16 |
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ANTH 240-01 | Human Osteology and Paleopathology | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 06B | Instructor: Scott Legge | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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ANTH 243-01 | Psychological Anthropology | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Olga Gonzalez | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with PSYC 243-01*
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ANTH 246-01 | Refugees/Humanitarian Response | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Dianna Shandy | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; first day attendance required*
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This writing-intensive seminar uses anthropology to situate the experiences of refugees and other forced migrants within a global framework of conflict and humanitarian response. Through analysis of select case studies, we will probe the complex interplay of social, historical, political, and economic factors that are invoked to explain modern refugee-producing conflicts. We will consider how refugees act and are acted upon in these settings and in their aftermath. We will examine critically the ways refugees are defined and described qualitatively and quantitatively, as such discourse determines access to certain entitlements and influences humanitarian and governmental responses. We will consider how refugees are defined in terms of time and space, yet simultaneously redefine time and space as transnational actors. Once we have a better understanding of the nature of the collective experience of war and its effects on refugees and others, we will consider issues of power, ethics, and human rights embedded in humanitarian responses to conflict by examining the roles of those who engage in humanitarian work in U.S. and international settings. Our scope of inquiry includes humanitarian workers broadly conceived, including journalists, human services providers, government workers, researchers, faith-based organizations, and others. In addition to probing the ways that outsiders react to refugee concerns, we will also examine indigenous institutional coping mechanisms—such as family and religion—that facilitate social reconstruction in times of transition. The format of the course will be in-depth discussion, lectures, guest speakers, films, and a field research project that will involve cultural life history interviews with an individual engaged in humanitarian work. This course fulfills the Internationalism and Writing (Argumentative) general education requirements. It also counts a Foundational course for the Human Rights and Humanitarianism Concentration, as a Tier II course for the African Studies Concentration, and as an elective for the minor or major in Anthropology. The course may count as an elective for other Interdisciplinary departments. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ANTH 246-02 | Refugees/Humanitarian Response | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Dianna Shandy | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
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This course provides an overview of issues related to refugees and humanitarian response in U.S. and international settings. Students explore the meaning of "humanitarian" and inherent issues of power, ethics, and human rights in responses to conflict by examining the roles of those who engage in humanitarian work. Offered occasionally. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ANTH 253-01 | Comparative Muslim Cultures | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Jenna Rice Rahaim | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 253-01 and RELI 294-02*
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ANTH 363-01 | Anthropology of Development | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Arjun Guneratne | Avail./Max.: 7 / 20 |
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The goal of this course is to develop an anthropological understanding and critique of development. It aims to examine both the discourse of development and its practice. The course focuses on the construction of the Third World as an "underdeveloped" area, and discusses the dominant theoretical paradigms of development and modernization. It assesses the reasons for the general failure of development programs based on these models to bring about meaningful and substantive change in societies in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and discusses possible alternatives to "development" as it is currently practiced. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ANTH 394-01 | Children and Youth in Africa | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Hilary Chart | Avail./Max.: 11 / 20 |
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With approximately 60% of the population (and over 600 million people) under the age of 25, Africa is undoubtedly the world’s youngest continent. Much has been made of this “youth bulge,” which is alternately referred to as a ticking time bomb of political and economic instability, or a unique advantage for those wishing to tap new markets or accelerate development. Rather than just explaining or evaluating the merits of Africa’s young population, however, this course challenges students to learn from the lived experiences of Africa’s young people, who are important and creative social actors (at home, in school, on the job, and in popular culture, art, and politics!). They are also, however, compelling objects of intensive intervention (especially those efforts aimed at girl children, orphans, and victims of famine and war), and we will consider some of the many ways efforts to “save” African young people variably empower, limit, or otherwise complicate their lives. We will approach children and youth not as fixed categories, but as open questions—fluid designations that differ over time and place, identities that are flexible and strategically claimed. Drawing on ethnographic sources, memoirs, fictional accounts, film, and popular representations, this course is also designed to help students think critically about the dynamic and problematic connections through which Africa’s young people are shaping and being shaped by the rest of the world. Children and Youth in Africa also counts as a Tier 1 African Studies course. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ANTH 487-01 | Theory in Anthropology | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Olga Gonzalez | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
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This course introduces students to the broad range of explanations for social and cultural phenomena used by anthropologists since the emergence of the discipline in the 19th century. The course focuses on the development of three broad theoretical approaches: The American school of cultural anthropology, British social anthropology, and the French school that emerged from the work of Durkheim and his followers. The course also examines theoretical approaches such as cultural materialism, and symbolic and interpretive approaches to the study of culture. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Art and Art History
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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ART 130-01 | Drawing I | Days: MW | Time: 08:30 am-11:40 am | Room: ART 302 | Instructor: Megan Vossler | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*First day attendance required*
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ART 130-02 | Drawing I | Days: MW | Time: 01:10 pm-04:20 pm | Room: ART 302 | Instructor: Megan Vossler | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
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ART 131-01 | Ceramics I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-11:40 am | Room: ART 113 | Instructor: Summer Hills-Bonczyk | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 14 |
*First day attendance required; $100 material fee required*
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ART 149-01 | Introduction to Visual Culture | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Kari Shepherdson-Scott | Avail./Max.: 3 / 25 |
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This course considers the production and reception of multiple visual culture forms, from standards of fine art practice such as painting and sculpture to mass media including TV, film, advertising, and the Internet. Students will learn different theoretical paradigms and techniques for visual analysis in order to understand how visual media inscribes power, difference, and desire as it mediates numerous social, economic, cultural and political relationships. We will investigate diverse types of visual culture through lectures, exhibitions, guest lectures, film, historical art and media, and, of course, those proliferating images that define our daily experiences. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 160-01 | Art of the West I | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Serdar Yalcin | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 30 |
*Cross-listed with CLAS 260-01*
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ART 170-01 | Art of the East I: China | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Kari Shepherdson-Scott | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 170-01*
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ART 233-01 | Photography I | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-02:10 pm | Room: ART 301 | Instructor: Eric Carroll | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
*First day attendance required;$75 materials fee required*
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ART 234-01 | Painting I | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ART 308 | Instructor: Chris Willcox | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 15 |
*First day attendance required*
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ART 235-01 | Sculpture 1: Basic Sculpture with a Dose of Hot Metal | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ART 118 | Instructor: John Fleischer | Avail./Max.: 2 / 15 |
*Appropriate for freshman and incoming first year students; $150 material fee required*
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ART 236-01 | Printmaking I | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ART 214 | Instructor: Ruthann Godollei | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 15 |
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ART 239-01 | 2-D Design | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ART 301 | Instructor: Eric Carroll | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
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A series of two-dimensional projects through which the components of design are examined and applied. Discussion includes philosophical, cultural and design topics and theories. Both manual and computer generated projects are expected. Three two-hour periods per week. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 252-01 | Gender, Sexualities, and Feminist Visual Culture | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Joanna Inglot | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; cross-listed with WGSS 252-01*
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This course will examine the issues of gender, sexuality and feminist visual culture in the 20th century and contemporary art. Through different case studies, the course will examine the intersections of race, class, ethnicity, nationality with gender and and sexual orientations. Throughout the course we will try to discern several major themes and subjects explored by feminist artists throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. While much of the course will focus on the history of feminist art in Europe and the US, we will also discuss transnational feminist theory and emerging feminist artists in many other parts of the world, including Africa, India, the Middle-East, Eastern Europe and Latin America. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 263-01 | Modern Art | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Joanna Inglot | Avail./Max.: -2 / 20 |
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This course explores major developments in European and American art from the 1900s to the 1980s, including Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Dad, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimalism, Post-Minimalism and postmodern art trends. It will examine the key figures and works of Modernist period and the critique of Modernism formulated by its contemporaries and the postmodern discourse. Throughout the semester we will trace the unfolding of different avant-garde practices, both in the early decades of the twentieth century and in the post-World War II period, and analyze them vis-a-vis the politics and historical catastrophes of World War I and World War II, and with regard to ever increasing powers of capitalism and mass culture. Theoretical models used by critics and art historians to study artistic production of the twentieth century will be also addressed. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 294-01 | Embodiment and Subjectivity in Later Chinese Art | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Kari Shepherdson-Scott | Avail./Max.: 8 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 294-01*
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The development of art and identities in China over the last 400 years has been, literally, revolutionary. This class explores the inherent relationship between material practices and shifting subjectivities, that is the resonance between the physical external world and internal, thinking subject. During this time, ranging from the Manchu rule of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) to the 21st century, we see the dynamic development of modern subjectivities, evolving cultural connoisseurship, ethnic tensions, new definitions of citizenry, and counter-movements led by cynical agitators. Art and design played a critical role in these developments, functioning as a symbolic language through which identities and communities could form. This class draws on themes such as gender, sexuality, militarism, ethnicity, and commodity culture as well as theories of embodiment by scholars such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Crowther to delve into the rich resonance between representation and identity formation. Students will not only learn to look closely at and write critically about a variety of media including paintings, calligraphy, prints, films, posters, performance art, and installations, but will also relate this historical cultural production to contemporaneous artistic, social, and political discourses. In the process, we will complicate notions of “Chinese” art and “Chinese” identity in Asia and on the global stage. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 294-02 | Politics and Ideology in Greco-Roman Art | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Serdar Yalcin | Avail./Max.: 11 / 20 |
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From the Greek Archaic Period to the Late Antiquity, cities around the Mediterranean were decorated with images portraying the sovereigns in the guises of warriors, gods or religious leaders. Politicians, kings, and emperors were the primary patrons of art and architecture in major political centers such as Athens, Alexandria and Rome. This course will explore the art and architecture of the Greco-Roman world as a venue through which political ideology in its various forms was disseminated across the society. While surveying various forms of public and private art such as portraiture, monumental public art and murals, we will analyze how artistic production was closely manipulated by ruling elites of the Greek city-states, Hellenistic kingdoms and the Roman empire to modify the public view about the ruler and the state. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 367-01 | 3-D Design | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: ART 118 | Instructor: John Fleischer | Avail./Max.: 2 / 15 |
*Appropriate for first year and incoming students*
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ART 370-01 | Drawing II: Mixed Media and Idea Development | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: ART 206 | Instructor: Megan Vossler | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 10 |
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In this advanced course, students will learn how to effectively develop independent projects, through step-by-step strategies for idea development, working with their own individual ideas and interests. Open-ended prompts will introduce a range of approaches to content. Students may work in traditional drawing media or in an expanded approach to drawing that may include installation, sculpture, animation, video or other mixed-media forms. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 371-01 | Painting II | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: ART 202 | Instructor: Chris Willcox | Avail./Max.: 7 / 10 |
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ART 373-01 | Printmaking II | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: ART 214 | Instructor: Ruthann Godollei | Avail./Max.: -6 / 6 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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ART 374-01 | Ceramic Art II | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-03:10 pm | Room: ART 113 | Instructor: Summer Hills-Bonczyk | Avail./Max.: 4 / 10 |
*First day attendance required;$100 material fee required*
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Asian Languages and Cultures
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ASIA 140-01 | Introduction to East Asian Civilization | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Yue-him Tam | Avail./Max.: 0 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 140-01*
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ASIA 170-01 | Art of the East I: China | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Kari Shepherdson-Scott | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ART 170-01*
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ASIA 236-01 | Sanskrit and Religion in India | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: James Laine | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with CLAS 202-01, LING 236-01 and, RELI 236-01*
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ASIA 254-01 | Japanese Film and Animation: From the Salaryman to the Shojo | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Arthur Mitchell | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with JAPA 254-01; Monday evening film screenings in Neill 402*
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ASIA 255-01 | China on Screen | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Xin Yang | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with CHIN 255-01; film screenings Monday evening 7-9pm, Neill 226*
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From Kongfu Panda to the Great Wall, “China” is imagined in a variety of (problematic) ways in transnational cinema. What contribute to the global imagination of China? This course is an overview of China on the silver screen. It examines how Chinese films represent the development and transformation of Chinese identity. Topics under discussion include: how masculine and feminine virtues became emblems of a nation striving for modernity; how films were politically appropriated for socialist construction; how the revolutionary past has been cinematically framed, remembered and critiqued in the post-Mao era; and how China’s deep tradition was consciously or unconsciously re-created and revised as a spectacle to engage the curious gaze of the global market.The course starts from the silent film period and extends to the fifth generation directors, underground filmmaking, and the revival of martial arts genre in the greater China area. Feature films from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong will be screened and discussed. Secondary articles and books are also assigned in conjunction with the films. The course is organized thematically and moves chronologically. No prior knowledge of China or Chinese is required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ASIA 294-01 | Embodiment and Subjectivity in Later Chinese Art | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Kari Shepherdson-Scott | Avail./Max.: 8 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ART 294-01*
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The development of art and identities in China over the last 400 years has been, literally, revolutionary. This class explores the inherent relationship between material practices and shifting subjectivities, that is the resonance between the physical external world and internal, thinking subject. During this time, ranging from the Manchu rule of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) to the 21st century, we see the dynamic development of modern subjectivities, evolving cultural connoisseurship, ethnic tensions, new definitions of citizenry, and counter-movements led by cynical agitators. Art and design played a critical role in these developments, functioning as a symbolic language through which identities and communities could form. This class draws on themes such as gender, sexuality, militarism, ethnicity, and commodity culture as well as theories of embodiment by scholars such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Crowther to delve into the rich resonance between representation and identity formation. Students will not only learn to look closely at and write critically about a variety of media including paintings, calligraphy, prints, films, posters, performance art, and installations, but will also relate this historical cultural production to contemporaneous artistic, social, and political discourses. In the process, we will complicate notions of “Chinese” art and “Chinese” identity in Asia and on the global stage. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ASIA 294-02 | Chinese Music | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Chuen-Fung Wong | Avail./Max.: 12 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with MUSI 294-01*
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This course is designed to explore Chinese music—broadly conceived to include the musical sounds of mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the minorities, and diasporic communities—by closely studying selected genres, musicians, and styles in various temporal and geographical localities. Course contents cover the musical procedures and performance practices of such genres as operas, chamber instrumental music, folk singing, pop and jazz, film and theatrical music, modern orchestra, propaganda songs, and ancient court music. Assigned readings address issues of modernization, nationalism, ethnicity/race, socialism, gender, among others, and are complemented by a list of audio examples for critical listening. Students will also develop skills to read three major types of Chinese notations: cipher notation, gongche solfège, and jianzipu tablature. There is no pre-requisite; previous knowledge of musical instrument, notation, or Chinese languages is helpful but not required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ASIA 335-01 | Analyzing Japanese Language | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Satoko Suzuki | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with JAPA 335-01 and LING 335-01*
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ASIA 378-01 | War Crimes and Memory in East Asia | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Yue-him Tam | Avail./Max.: 4 / 14 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 378-01*
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Biology
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BIOL 101-01 | Creatures and Curiosities | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Sarah Boyer | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
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This course deals with unfamiliar, mysterious, beautiful, grotesque, and overlooked animals all around us: the invertebrates. We will explore animal evolution and focus on the biology of creatures such as sponges, jellyfish, insects, and corals. In addition, we will discuss the cultural role of animals as curiosities - as specimens in cabinets and museums, or the subjects of phobias and urban legends. Drawing on topics in marine biology and entomology, students will learn about the ecology, life cycles, and anatomy of major groups of animals through lectures, observation of live animals, and dissections. Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour lab per week. Students must complete two fieldtrips outside of class time. This course counts toward the biology minor, but not toward the major. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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BIOL 144-01 | Lakes, Streams and Rivers | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Daniel Hornbach | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 144-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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BIOL 255-01 | Cell Biology and Genetics Laboratory Methods | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 285 | Instructor: Steven Sundby | Avail./Max.: 6 / 18 |
*First day attendance required; 2 credit course; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 255-02 | Cell Biology and Genetics Laboratory Methods | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 285 | Instructor: Randy Daughters | Avail./Max.: 3 / 18 |
*First day attendance required; 2 credit course; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 255-03 | Cell Biology and Genetics Laboratory Methods | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 285 | Instructor: Randy Daughters | Avail./Max.: 4 / 18 |
*First day attendance required; 2 credit course; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 260-01 | Genetics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 226 | Instructor: Mary Montgomery | Avail./Max.: -4 / 24 |
*First day attendance required*
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BIOL 260-02 | Genetics | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Randy Daughters | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 36 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 265-01 | Cell Biology | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 226 | Instructor: Devavani Chatterjea | Avail./Max.: Closed -4 / 40 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 270-01 | Biodiversity and Evolution | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Kristina Curry Rogers | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; first day attendance required; must register for BIOL 270-L1*
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From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. So concluded Charles Darwin in The Origin of the Species. His final words are an apt description of this course, which focuses on the diversity of life on Earth and the evolutionary processes that influence this variety. We will track the evolution of life, from the first single-celled organisms to the varied flora and fauna of the modern world. We will draw upon recent findings from fields as diverse as molecular genetics, developmental biology, and paleontology to decipher the long and spectacular history of life on earth. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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BIOL 270-02 | Biodiversity and Evolution | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Kristina Curry Rogers | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 22 |
*First day attendance required; must register in BIOL 270-L2; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 270-L1 | Biodiversity and Evolution Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 273 | Instructor: Kristina Curry Rogers | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Lab only; attendance at first lab meeting required*
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BIOL 270-L2 | Biodiversity and Evolution Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 273 | Instructor: Michael Anderson | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 22 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 285-01 | Ecology | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Laura Phillips-Mao | Avail./Max.: 1 / 44 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 285-01;first day attendance required;ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 285-L1 | Ecology Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Michael Anderson | Avail./Max.: -1 / 22 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 285-L1;attendance at first lab meeting required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 285-L2 | Ecology Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Michael Anderson | Avail./Max.: 2 / 22 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 285-L2;attendance at first lab meeting required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 344-01 | Aquatic Ecology | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Daniel Hornbach | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 10 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 344-01;first day attendance required;ACTC student may register on first day of class with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 344-L1 | Aquatic Ecology Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Hornbach, Hove | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 10 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 344-L1;attendance at first lab meeting required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 345-01 | Field Botany | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Laura Phillips-Mao | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 345-L1 | Field Botany Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Laura Phillips-Mao | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 351-01 | Biochemistry I | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: Kathryn Splan | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 32 |
*Cross-listed with CHEM 351-01; first day attendance required*
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BIOL 351-L1 | Biochemistry I Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 289 | Instructor: Kathryn Splan | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with CHEM 351-L1; attendance at first lab meeting required*
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BIOL 351-L2 | Biochemistry I Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 289 | Instructor: Kathryn Splan | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with CHEM 351-L2; attendance at first lab meeting required*
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BIOL 357-01 | Immunology | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Kristin Renkema | Avail./Max.: 3 / 16 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 357-L1 | Immunology Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 277 | Instructor: Kristin Renkema | Avail./Max.: 3 / 16 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 358-01 | Microbiology | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 300 | Instructor: Steven Sundby | Avail./Max.: 5 / 16 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 358-L1 | Microbiology Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 289 | Instructor: Steven Sundby | Avail./Max.: 5 / 16 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 360-01 | Neuroanatomy | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Elizabeth Jansen | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 14 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 360-L1 | Neuroanatomy Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 275 | Instructor: Elizabeth Jansen | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 14 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 361-01 | Invertebrate Animal Diversity | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Sarah Boyer | Avail./Max.: 6 / 12 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 361-L1 | Invertebrate Animal Div Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:10 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 273 | Instructor: Sarah Boyer | Avail./Max.: 6 / 12 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 367-01 | Human Physiology | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Lin Aanonsen | Avail./Max.: 4 / 32 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 367-L1 | Human Physiology Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 275 | Instructor: Lin Aanonsen | Avail./Max.: 3 / 16 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 367-L2 | Human Physiology Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 275 | Instructor: Lin Aanonsen | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 494-01 | Seminar in Genome Editing | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Mary Montgomery | Avail./Max.: 4 / 12 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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Chemistry
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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CHEM 111-01 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Keith Kuwata | Avail./Max.: -2 / 42 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 111-02 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Paul Fischer | Avail./Max.: 0 / 40 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 111-03 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Leah Witus | Avail./Max.: 0 / 40 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 111-04 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Leah Witus | Avail./Max.: 12 / 40 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 111-L1 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 343 | Instructor: Amy Rice | Avail./Max.: 0 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $12 lab fee required*
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CHEM 111-L2 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 341 | Instructor: Susan Green | Avail./Max.: 1 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $12 lab fee required*
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CHEM 111-L3 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 343 | Instructor: Amy Rice | Avail./Max.: 1 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $12 lab fee required*
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CHEM 111-L4 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 341 | Instructor: Susan Green | Avail./Max.: 1 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $12 lab fee required*
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CHEM 111-L5 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 343 | Instructor: Amy Rice | Avail./Max.: 0 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $12 lab fee required*
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CHEM 111-L6 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 341 | Instructor: Marc Rodwogin | Avail./Max.: -2 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $12 lab fee required*
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CHEM 111-L7 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 343 | Instructor: Amy Rice | Avail./Max.: -1 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $12 lab fee required*
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CHEM 111-L8 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: W | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 341 | Instructor: Susan Green | Avail./Max.: 5 / 18 |
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CHEM 111-L9 | General Chemistry I: Structure and Equilibrium | Days: W | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 343 | Instructor: Amy Rice | Avail./Max.: 5 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $12 lab fee required*
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CHEM 115-01 | Accelerated General Chemistry | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Thomas Varberg | Avail./Max.: 0 / 18 |
*Reserved for First Year Students; $12 lab fee required*
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CHEM 115-L1 | Accel General Chemistry Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 380 | Instructor: Thomas Varberg | Avail./Max.: 0 / 18 |
*Reserved for First Year students only; $12 lab fee required*
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CHEM 211-01 | Organic Chemistry I | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Ronald Brisbois | Avail./Max.: 21 / 40 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 211-02 | Organic Chemistry I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Dennis Cao | Avail./Max.: Closed -6 / 40 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 211-L1 | Organic Chemistry I Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 383 | Instructor: Ronald Brisbois | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required*
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CHEM 211-L2 | Organic Chemistry I Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 383 | Instructor: Ronald Brisbois | Avail./Max.: 2 / 16 |
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CHEM 211-L3 | Organic Chemistry I Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 383 | Instructor: Dennis Cao | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 16 |
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CHEM 211-L4 | Organic Chemistry I Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 383 | Instructor: Dennis Cao | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
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CHEM 211-L5 | Organic Chemistry I Lab | Days: F | Time: 01:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 383 | Instructor: Marc Rodwogin | Avail./Max.: 11 / 16 |
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CHEM 300-01 | Chemistry Seminar | Days: W | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Kathryn Splan | Avail./Max.: 27 / 70 |
*1 credit course*
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CHEM 311-01 | Thermodynamics and Kinetics | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Thomas Varberg | Avail./Max.: 5 / 27 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 311-L1 | Thermodynamics/Kinetics Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 378 | Instructor: Thomas Varberg | Avail./Max.: 2 / 10 |
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CHEM 311-L2 | Thermodynamics/Kinetics Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:30 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 378 | Instructor: Thomas Varberg | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 8 |
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CHEM 311-L3 | Thermodynamics/Kinetics Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 378 | Instructor: Keith Kuwata | Avail./Max.: 4 / 10 |
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CHEM 351-01 | Biochemistry I | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: Kathryn Splan | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 32 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 351-01; first day attendance required*
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CHEM 351-L1 | Biochemistry I Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 289 | Instructor: Kathryn Splan | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 351-L1; attendance at first lab meeting required*
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CHEM 351-L2 | Biochemistry I Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 289 | Instructor: Kathryn Splan | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 351-L2;attendance at first lab meeting required*
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CHEM 361-01 | Advanced Organic Chemistry | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Ronald Brisbois | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
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CHEM 411-01 | Advanced Inorganic Chemistry | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Paul Fischer | Avail./Max.: 4 / 16 |
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This course examines how modern theories of chemical bonding are applied to an understanding of the chemistry of the elements of the periodic table. Students explore chemical structures, reactions and spectra on the basis of molecular symmetry and group theory. Topics covered include chemical periodicity, coordination compounds, and organometallic complexes. Three lectures and three hours of laboratory per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHEM 411-L1 | Adv Inorganic Chemistry Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 347 | Instructor: Paul Fischer | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 8 |
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CHEM 411-L2 | Adv Inorganic Chemistry Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 347 | Instructor: Paul Fischer | Avail./Max.: 2 / 8 |
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CHIN 101-01 | First Year Chinese I | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Rivi Handler-Spitz | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
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This course is an introduction to Chinese language and culture. It offers instruction and practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write in Chinese. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 101-02 | First Year Chinese I | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Rivi Handler-Spitz | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
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This course is an introduction to Chinese language and culture. It offers instruction and practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write in Chinese. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 101-L1 | First Year Chinese I Lab | Days: T | Time: 02:30 pm-03:30 pm | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 3 / 12 |
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This course is an introduction to Chinese language and culture. It offers instruction and practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write in Chinese. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 101-L2 | First Year Chinese I Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 0 / 12 |
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This course is an introduction to Chinese language and culture. It offers instruction and practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write in Chinese. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 101-L3 | First Year Chinese I Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 3 / 12 |
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This course is an introduction to Chinese language and culture. It offers instruction and practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write in Chinese. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 194-01 | Teachers and Students | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Rivi Handler-Spitz | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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Confucius said, “If I point out one corner of a square and the student can't come back with the other three, I won't show him again." Hillel opined, “The shy one cannot learn, and the impatient one cannot teach.” Cultures ancient and modern have reflected on the responsibilities of teachers and students, and grappled with what constitutes an effective teacher or a successful student. What are the virtues—and perils—of discipleship? Of charisma? Should a teacher be gentle or forceful? Strict or lenient? Are teachers creators or conduits of tradition? This seminar will explore these questions in a range of contexts, Chinese and Western, historical and modern. Genres studied will include literature and film, as well as philosophical and religious texts. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 203-01 | Second Year Chinese I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Patricia Anderson | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
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While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and begin to work with short texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 203-02 | Second Year Chinese I | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Patricia Anderson | Avail./Max.: 7 / 20 |
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While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and begin to work with short texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 203-L1 | Second Year Chinese I Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 6 / 12 |
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While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and begin to work with short texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 203-L2 | Second Year Chinese I Lab | Days: R | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 3 / 12 |
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While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and begin to work with short texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 203-L3 | Second Year Chinese I Lab | Days: R | Time: 02:30 pm-03:30 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: -1 / 12 |
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While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and begin to work with short texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 255-01 | China on Screen | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Xin Yang | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 255-01; film screenings Monday evening 7-9pm, Neill 226*
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From Kongfu Panda to the Great Wall, “China” is imagined in a variety of (problematic) ways in transnational cinema. What contribute to the global imagination of China? This course is an overview of China on the silver screen. It examines how Chinese films represent the development and transformation of Chinese identity. Topics under discussion include: how masculine and feminine virtues became emblems of a nation striving for modernity; how films were politically appropriated for socialist construction; how the revolutionary past has been cinematically framed, remembered and critiqued in the post-Mao era; and how China’s deep tradition was consciously or unconsciously re-created and revised as a spectacle to engage the curious gaze of the global market.The course starts from the silent film period and extends to the fifth generation directors, underground filmmaking, and the revival of martial arts genre in the greater China area. Feature films from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong will be screened and discussed. Secondary articles and books are also assigned in conjunction with the films. The course is organized thematically and moves chronologically. No prior knowledge of China or Chinese is required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 305-01 | Third Year Chinese I | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Xin Yang | Avail./Max.: 11 / 20 |
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Continuation of CHIN 204. While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and expand work with texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 305-L1 | Third Year Chinese I Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 6 / 10 |
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Continuation of CHIN 204. While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and expand work with texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 305-L2 | Third Year Chinese I Lab | Days: W | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 5 / 10 |
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Continuation of CHIN 204. While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of characters and expand work with texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 407-01 | Fourth Year Chinese I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Jin Stone | Avail./Max.: 7 / 15 |
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This course is designed for students who have achieved general proficiency in all aspects of Chinese language learning, including reading, writing, speaking, and listening. They are considered beyond the levels of proficiency of their 3rd year counterparts and are ready to delve deeper into more sophisticated textual readings, including short works of fiction, periodical readings and more frequent use of primary reference materials. Students will work to improve their listening skills while working with TV, movie, and news scripts and give greater attention to developing a more sophisticated writing style in Chinese. This course is conducted completely in Chinese. May be repeated for credit. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Classical Mediterranean and Middle East
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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CLAS 111-01 | Elementary Latin I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Beth Severy-Hoven | Avail./Max.: 17 / 25 |
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This two-term sequence introduces the grammar and vocabulary of Latin, the language of the ancient Romans. Students learn through reading adapted passages, by breaking down grammatical structures into recognizable patterns, and through tutorials and drills. We aim to cover all basic grammar by the end of the year. In the second semester, students begin to read easy Latin such as the Bible, Pliny, Cornelius Nepos and/or Caesar. (4 credits each semester) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 111-L1 | Elementary Latin I Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:00 pm-04:00 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Beth Severy-Hoven | Avail./Max.: 17 / 25 |
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This two-term sequence introduces the grammar and vocabulary of Latin, the language of the ancient Romans. Students learn through reading adapted passages, by breaking down grammatical structures into recognizable patterns, and through tutorials and drills. We aim to cover all basic grammar by the end of the year. In the second semester, students begin to read easy Latin such as the Bible, Pliny, Cornelius Nepos and/or Caesar. (4 credits each semester) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 113-01 | Elementary Arabic I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Wessam El Meligi | Avail./Max.: -2 / 25 |
*First day attendance required*
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CLAS 113-L1 | Elementary Arabic I Lab | Days: M | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Wessam El Meligi | Avail./Max.: 0 / 15 |
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In this two semester program, students learn to read, write and converse in Modern Standard Arabic, the form of Classical Arabic used in contemporary news media, documents, literature, education and religious practice in the many countries of the Arab world. The purpose of this course is to develop beginning students' proficiency and communication in the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will also participate in tutorials and/or practice labs. (4 credits each semester) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 113-L2 | Elementary Arabic I Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Wessam El Meligi | Avail./Max.: 3 / 15 |
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In this two semester program, students learn to read, write and converse in Modern Standard Arabic, the form of Classical Arabic used in contemporary news media, documents, literature, education and religious practice in the many countries of the Arab world. The purpose of this course is to develop beginning students' proficiency and communication in the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students will also participate in tutorials and/or practice labs. (4 credits each semester) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 115-01 | Elementary Greek I | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: Nanette Goldman | Avail./Max.: 16 / 25 |
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This two-semester program introduces students to ancient Greek, the language of Greece, Asia Minor, and the Hellenistic world, including several Jewish and early Christian writers. Students will learn the grammar and vocabulary necessary for reading Greek literature and documents of many periods. During the second term, students begin to read extended prose, such as passages from Plato, Xenophon, the New Testament or documentary sources. Students will also participate in tutorials and/or practice labs. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 115-L1 | Elementary Greek I Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: MAIN 410 | Instructor: Nanette Goldman | Avail./Max.: 9 / 12 |
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This two-semester program introduces students to ancient Greek, the language of Greece, Asia Minor, and the Hellenistic world, including several Jewish and early Christian writers. Students will learn the grammar and vocabulary necessary for reading Greek literature and documents of many periods. During the second term, students begin to read extended prose, such as passages from Plato, Xenophon, the New Testament or documentary sources. Students will also participate in tutorials and/or practice labs. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 115-L2 | Elementary Greek I Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:00 pm-04:00 pm | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Nanette Goldman | Avail./Max.: 8 / 12 |
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This two-semester program introduces students to ancient Greek, the language of Greece, Asia Minor, and the Hellenistic world, including several Jewish and early Christian writers. Students will learn the grammar and vocabulary necessary for reading Greek literature and documents of many periods. During the second term, students begin to read extended prose, such as passages from Plato, Xenophon, the New Testament or documentary sources. Students will also participate in tutorials and/or practice labs. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 122-01 | The Roman World | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Beth Severy-Hoven | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 122-01*
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CLAS 194-02 | Frenemies: Caliphate and Byzantine Empire in Late Antiquity | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: El Meligi, Overman | Avail./Max.: 14 / 24 |
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This course examines the interaction, commerce, and conflict between the Islamic Caliphate and Christian Byzantium from the origins of Islam in the seventh century to 1453 and the collapse of the Byzantine Empire. These two empires were bound together by shared space, common interests, and episodic distrust. They were Frenemies. The sources for this study are Byzantine and Islamic histories from the period, together with critical analysis of those sources. In addition and importantly the literature and art these two empires produced provide vital and illuminating sight into these bodies, including their view of one another. Counts for the Middle Eastern and Islamic Civilization concentration and as a context course for the Classics major or minor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 202-01 | Sanskrit and Religion in India | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: James Laine | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 236-01, LING 236-01 and, RELI 236-01*
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CLAS 231-01 | Intermediate Latin I: Prose | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Brian Lush | Avail./Max.: 13 / 25 |
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A thorough review of Latin grammar followed by a study of a Roman prose author or authors. Students build reading skills while gaining an appreciation for the literary and cultural aspects of Latin prose. Particular texts to be studied may include Petronius' Satyricon, the letters and/or speeches of Cicero, letters of Pliny, or Livy's History of Rome. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 237-01 | Intermediate Hebrew I | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: Nanette Goldman | Avail./Max.: 20 / 25 |
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Hebrew prose selections from the Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic parables. Translation of texts will be supplemented with grammar review. Students will gain facility with such tools as the lexicon, commentary and critical apparatus and will become familiar with critical trends in contemporary research. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 241-01 | Intermediate Arabic I | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Wessam El Meligi | Avail./Max.: 10 / 25 |
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This course focuses on expanding vocabulary and grammar through simple texts, dialogs and stories. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 241-L1 | Intermediate Arabic I Lab | Days: M | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: MAIN 410 | Instructor: Wessam El Meligi | Avail./Max.: 13 / 25 |
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This course focuses on expanding vocabulary and grammar through simple texts, dialogs and stories. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 241-L2 | Intermediate Arabic I Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Wessam El Meligi | Avail./Max.: 23 / 25 |
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This course focuses on expanding vocabulary and grammar through simple texts, dialogs and stories. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 260-01 | Introduction to Ancient/Medieval Art | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Serdar Yalcin | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 30 |
*Cross-listed with ART 160-01*
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CLAS 294-01 | Iberian Frontiers: Convivencia and Conflict, 711 - 1492 | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Rebecca Church | Avail./Max.: 10 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 294-01 and HIST 294-03*
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Throughout the Middle Ages, as Christianity and Islam dominated parts of the Iberian peninsula, from the 8th to the 15th century, convivencia and conflict existed side by side. Where did people practice tolerance, and how and why? Where did they fight and why? How did the Jewish population fit in on either side? What life look like on the ground, in the narrow city streets, the gardens, the villages of al-Andalus and the Christian kingdoms? How did Iberia relate to the wider worlds of North Africa, France, and the Mediterranean? We'll use poetry, charters, and chronicles to explore how complex identities, cooperation, and, also, violence created porous borders along shifting frontiers. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 294-02 | Trauma and Drama | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Brian Lush | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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"Trauma and Drama will focus upon the lasting psychological injuries depicted and explored in ancient Greek tragedy and epic poetry. Greek drama and epic poetry raise timeless and crucial questions about the effects of martial aggression and the toll that it takes upon both the victims of warfare and the combatants that suffer and inflict violence. We will pursue targeted readings of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, as well as explore the growing body of scholarship around how these authors respond to the aftermath and consequences of war. We will also seek systematically to draw connections between modern-day understandings of combat trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and injuries endured by familiar figures in the Greek mythic tradition (such as Achilles, Ajax, Medea, Odysseus, and Hecuba). The primary goal of these efforts will be to open new avenues of understanding between the distant past of ancient Greece and the present, as well as to foster a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by victims of war, systematic violence and institutional betrayal. Additionally, this course introduces first-year students to academic work and writing at the college level, and will seek to deepen students' familiarity with Macalester, its resources and its many opportunities. Class meets TR, 9:40 am - 11:10 am in Old Main 003 Writing designation: WA anticipated General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 485-01 | Advanced Arabic | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Wessam El Meligi | Avail./Max.: 6 / 25 |
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A survey course of Renaissance and classic writers from around the Arab world. We explore social issues, witht the focus still on language acquisition. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 490-01 | Senior Seminar | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Andrew Overman | Avail./Max.: 8 / 25 |
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The Senior Seminar caps the experience of being a Classics major. Students in all three tracks (Archaeology, Civilization, and Languages) join together to explore the history of the discipline and its relationship to their own histories and future plans. Students learn about, draft and critique documents useful for their next steps, including resumes, personal statements and cover letters, along with discussing selected readings in a seminar setting. Each student also works with an advisor from the department to develop and execute a major piece of work in their chosen field, Majors who have completed the Senior Seminar have thus executed a substantive independent project and can articulate the place of their Classics major within their personal and professional development. For Classics majors only. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Computer Science
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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COMP 112-01 | Introduction to Data Science | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Johnson, Sen | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
*First Year Course only, cross-listed with MATH 112-01; first day attendance required*
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COMP 112-02 | Introduction to Data Science | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Shilad Sen | Avail./Max.: -3 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with MATH 112-02; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 123-01 | Core Concepts in Computer Science | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 258 | Instructor: Lian Duan | Avail./Max.: 2 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 123-02 | Core Concepts in Computer Science | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 258 | Instructor: Lian Duan | Avail./Max.: -2 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 123-03 | Core Concepts in Computer Science | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 258 | Instructor: Elizabeth Ernst | Avail./Max.: 2 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 123-04 | Core Concepts in Computer Science | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 258 | Instructor: Elizabeth Ernst | Avail./Max.: -1 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 123-05 | Core Concepts in Computer Science | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Getiria Onsongo | Avail./Max.: 2 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; Students are required to have a laptop on which software may be installed and to bring it to class every day; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 124-01 | Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 256 | Instructor: Bret Jackson | Avail./Max.: -2 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required;students registered for Section 01 of COMP 124 MUST register for Lab 1; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 124-02 | Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 256 | Instructor: Elizabeth Jensen | Avail./Max.: 4 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required;students registered for Section 02 of COMP 124 MUST register for Lab 2; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 124-03 | Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 256 | Instructor: Elizabeth Jensen | Avail./Max.: 2 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required;students registered for Section 03 of COMP 124 MUST register for Lab 3; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 124-04 | Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 256 | Instructor: Daniel Kluver | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required;students registered for Section 04 of COMP 124 MUST register for Lab 4; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 124-L1 | Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 256 | Instructor: Bret Jackson | Avail./Max.: -2 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; students registered for Lab 1 of COMP 124 MUST register for Section 01 of the course; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 124-L2 | Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures | Days: R | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 256 | Instructor: Elizabeth Jensen | Avail./Max.: 3 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; students registered for Lab 2 of COMP 124 MUST register for Section 02 of the course; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 124-L3 | Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 256 | Instructor: Elizabeth Jensen | Avail./Max.: 3 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; students registered for Lab 3 of COMP 124 MUST register for Section 03 of the course; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 124-L4 | Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures | Days: R | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 256 | Instructor: Daniel Kluver | Avail./Max.: 3 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; students registered for Lab 4 of COMP 124 MUST register for Section 04 of the course; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 221-01 | Algorithm Design and Analysis | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Susan Fox | Avail./Max.: -3 / 34 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 225-01 | Software Design and Development | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Paul Cantrell | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 225-02 | Software Design and Development | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Paul Cantrell | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 240-01 | Computer Systems Organization | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Elizabeth Shoop | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 17 |
*First day attendance required; open to current Sophomore, Junior, Seniors who have declared a Computer Science Major; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 240-02 | Computer Systems Organization | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Elizabeth Shoop | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 15 |
*First day attendance required; open to current Sophomore, Junior, Seniors who have declared a Computer Science Major; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 261-01 | Theory of Computation | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Susan Fox | Avail./Max.: 6 / 30 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with MATH 361-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 261-02 | Theory of Computation | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Daniel Kluver | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with MATH 361-02; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 302-01 | Introduction to Database Management Systems | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 258 | Instructor: Getiria Onsongo | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 24 |
*First day attendance required; open to current Sophomore, Junior, Seniors who have declared a Computer Science Major or Applied Math Major or Data Science Minor; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 340-01 | Digital Electronics | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: 15 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with PHYS 340-01*
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COMP 340-L1 | Digital Electronics Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 147 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: 8 / 12 |
*Cross-listed with PHYS 340-L1*
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COMP 340-L2 | Digital Electronics Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 147 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: 7 / 12 |
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A survey of fundamental ideas and methods used in the design and construction of digital electronic circuits such as computers. Emphasis will be on applying the theoretical aspects of digital design to the actual construction of circuits in the laboratory. Topics to be covered include basic circuit theory, transistor physics, logic families (TTL, CMOS), Boolean logic principles, combinatorial design techniques, sequential logic techniques, memory circuits and timing, and applications to microprocessor and computer design. Three lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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COMP 445-01 | Parallel and Distributed Processing | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Elizabeth Shoop | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 16 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 484-01 | Introduction to Artificial Intelligence | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Susan Fox | Avail./Max.: -3 / 33 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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COMP 494-01 | Topics in Visualization | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 258 | Instructor: Bret Jackson | Avail./Max.: 3 / 24 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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In this course, we will study techniques and algorithms for visualization design and analysis. We will cover topics such as visualization of multivariate, temporal, text-based, spatial, hierarchical, and network/graph-based data to clearly and effectively convey information graphically. Our discussions will revolve around principles of graphic design, perceptual psychology, and cognitive science. Students will have the opportunity to complete several programming assignments and data analysis tasks. Prerequisite: Comp 124 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Economics
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ECON 113-01 | Financial Accounting | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Jeff Evans | Avail./Max.: -2 / 25 |
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Accounting is the language of business. One of the objectives of this course is to learn that "language." The emphasis will be on understanding financial statements both for profit and non-profit organizations. International accounting, ethics and investment decisions are also covered. This course is designed for students who desire an understanding of the elements of accounting as a component of a liberal arts education as well as for those who would like to study further in accounting or business. Counts for Group B elective. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 113-02 | Financial Accounting | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Jeff Evans | Avail./Max.: 0 / 25 |
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Accounting is the language of business. One of the objectives of this course is to learn that "language." The emphasis will be on understanding financial statements both for profit and non-profit organizations. International accounting, ethics and investment decisions are also covered. This course is designed for students who desire an understanding of the elements of accounting as a component of a liberal arts education as well as for those who would like to study further in accounting or business. Counts for Group B elective. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 119-01 | Principles of Economics | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Lucas Threinen | Avail./Max.: 3 / 25 |
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A one-semester introduction to the basic tools of micro- and macroeconomic analysis. Microeconomics deals with consumers, firms, markets and income distribution. Macroeconomics deals with national income, employment, inflation and money. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 119-02 | Principles of Economics | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Liang Ding | Avail./Max.: -2 / 25 |
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A one-semester introduction to the basic tools of micro- and macroeconomic analysis. Microeconomics deals with consumers, firms, markets and income distribution. Macroeconomics deals with national income, employment, inflation and money. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 119-03 | Principles of Economics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Mario Solis-Garcia | Avail./Max.: 4 / 25 |
*First day attendance required*
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ECON 119-04 | Principles of Economics | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Liang Ding | Avail./Max.: -3 / 25 |
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A one-semester introduction to the basic tools of micro- and macroeconomic analysis. Microeconomics deals with consumers, firms, markets and income distribution. Macroeconomics deals with national income, employment, inflation and money. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 119-05 | Principles of Economics | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Sarah West | Avail./Max.: 4 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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This course is an introduction to micro- and macroeconomics. It develops tools to analyze contemporary economic policy issues. Policy topics include globalization, the environment, poverty and inequality, and economic development. Students that take this course satisfy a prerequisite for higher-level economics courses, add a valuable component to interdisciplinary majors, and develop skills necessary to understand the fundamentals of economic policy. Final grades are based on three exams, homework assignments, and a project that involves a formal research proposal and an annotated bibliography. The course requires substantial amounts of mathematical problem solving, data analysis, and quantitative reasoning. It does not fulfill a writing requirement; students that take this course must register for another course in their first semester that fulfills the college’s writing requirement. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 119-06 | Principles of Economics | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Samantha Cakir | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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This course provides an introduction to micro- and macroeconomics. Students will be introduced to the fundamental models used in economic analysis and discuss applications to real-world economic issues. This course is a prerequisite for higher-level economics courses but also serves as a comprehensive treatment of economics for non-majors. Final grades are based on three exams, several homework assignments and a handful of small writing assignments requiring students to synthesize and critique arguments in popular media using the themes discussed in class. The course completely satisfies the quantitative thinking requirement, with a Q3 designation. It does not fulfill a writing requirement; students that take this course must register for another course in their first semester that fulfills the college's writing requirement. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 221-01 | Introduction to International Economics | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Felix Friedt | Avail./Max.: 8 / 25 |
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This course explores the theoretical foundations and empirical realities of international trade flows, commercial policies (tariffs, quotas, etc.) and international finance. The course emphasizes the welfare implications of international trade and commercial policies and links these to discussion of disputes over international trade agreements. The international finance portion of the course covers the foreign exchange market, balance of payments analysis and an introduction to open economy macroeconomics. Recommended for students majoring in international studies. This course counts as a Group A elective and serves as a prerequisite for ECON 361. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 221-02 | Introduction to International Economics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Felix Friedt | Avail./Max.: 11 / 25 |
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This course explores the theoretical foundations and empirical realities of international trade flows, commercial policies (tariffs, quotas, etc.) and international finance. The course emphasizes the welfare implications of international trade and commercial policies and links these to discussion of disputes over international trade agreements. The international finance portion of the course covers the foreign exchange market, balance of payments analysis and an introduction to open economy macroeconomics. Recommended for students majoring in international studies. This course counts as a Group A elective and serves as a prerequisite for ECON 361. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 229-01 | World Economic History | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Pete Ferderer | Avail./Max.: 6 / 25 |
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This course presents a broad overview of world economic history. It uses concepts and models developed in Principles of Economics to explore how the interplay between geography, institutions, and technology has influenced material living standards from the Stone Age to the present. In particular, we will study the causes and consequences of long-term structural forces such as the agriculture, industrial and informational revolutions, the Malthusian trap and demographic transition, slavery, globalization, and the rise of government. We will also explore more cyclical phenomena such as wars, financial crises, economic depressions and hyper-inflations. Students will learn how economic historians use evidence to make sense of the past and the role economic history plays in guiding current policy debates. This course counts as a Group A elective and serves as a prerequisite for ECON 361. Offered once per year. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 256-01 | Intro to Investment Banking | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: Joyce Minor | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 22 |
*First day attendance required*
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ECON 294-01 | The Economics of Sports | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Vasant Sukhatme | Avail./Max.: 5 / 25 |
ECON 294-02 | Development, Environment, and Sustainability | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Amy Damon | Avail./Max.: 7 / 25 |
*This course approaches the processes of economic, social, and technological change in developing countries in light of these constraints. The challenges of poverty reduction and redistributive economic growth are deeply intertwined with the way in which we manage and allocate natural resources. Without careful attention to sustainability principles we could easily see welfare gains erased in the medium-term. This course takes a systems approach to thinking about processes of international sustainable development and questions how these transformation processes are or are not economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable.*
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ECON 353-01 | Managerial Accounting | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Jeff Evans | Avail./Max.: 14 / 25 |
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Planning is the key to business success. How do firms plan for the future? Setting objectives and budgets. Evaluating and rewarding employee performance. Controlling inventory, cash budgeting, and capital budgeting. Extensive use of case studies and group work. This course counts as a Group B elective. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 361-01 | Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 206 | Instructor: Vasant Sukhatme | Avail./Max.: 6 / 25 |
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Methodology of economic science; theory of consumer behavior; theory of the firm; market structure and price determination; factor markets and income distribution; general equilibrium analysis; market failure. Not open to first-year students except by permission of the instructor. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 361-02 | Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Vasant Sukhatme | Avail./Max.: 14 / 25 |
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Methodology of economic science; theory of consumer behavior; theory of the firm; market structure and price determination; factor markets and income distribution; general equilibrium analysis; market failure. Not open to first-year students except by permission of the instructor. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 371-01 | Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Mario Solis-Garcia | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 25 |
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This course develops in detail theories of the determination of national income, employment and the price level. The foundations and mechanics of neo-classical and Keynesian models of the aggregate economy are studied and modern syntheses of these approaches are explored. Considerable attention will be paid to current behavior of the national economy. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 371-02 | Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Mario Solis-Garcia | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 25 |
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This course develops in detail theories of the determination of national income, employment and the price level. The foundations and mechanics of neo-classical and Keynesian models of the aggregate economy are studied and modern syntheses of these approaches are explored. Considerable attention will be paid to current behavior of the national economy. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 381-01 | Introduction to Econometrics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 309 | Instructor: Gary Krueger | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 22 |
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This course investigates the methods economists use to test theories and conduct economic forecasts. This course will provide the student with the ability to design, conduct, and evaluate empirical work in economics and other social sciences. The primary focus of the course is on the final project that consists of a research paper that will integrate library research, economic theory, and econometric analysis. The course will take a "hands on" approach as much as possible with weekly use of the microcomputer in class. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 381-02 | Introduction to Econometrics | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 309 | Instructor: Gary Krueger | Avail./Max.: 5 / 22 |
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This course investigates the methods economists use to test theories and conduct economic forecasts. This course will provide the student with the ability to design, conduct, and evaluate empirical work in economics and other social sciences. The primary focus of the course is on the final project that consists of a research paper that will integrate library research, economic theory, and econometric analysis. The course will take a "hands on" approach as much as possible with weekly use of the microcomputer in class. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 381-L1 | Intro to Econometrics Lab | Days: R | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 309 | Instructor: Gary Krueger | Avail./Max.: 4 / 28 |
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This course investigates the methods economists use to test theories and conduct economic forecasts. This course will provide the student with the ability to design, conduct, and evaluate empirical work in economics and other social sciences. The primary focus of the course is on the final project that consists of a research paper that will integrate library research, economic theory, and econometric analysis. The course will take a "hands on" approach as much as possible with weekly use of the microcomputer in class. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 381-L2 | Intro to Econometrics Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: CARN 309 | Instructor: Gary Krueger | Avail./Max.: 11 / 28 |
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This course investigates the methods economists use to test theories and conduct economic forecasts. This course will provide the student with the ability to design, conduct, and evaluate empirical work in economics and other social sciences. The primary focus of the course is on the final project that consists of a research paper that will integrate library research, economic theory, and econometric analysis. The course will take a "hands on" approach as much as possible with weekly use of the microcomputer in class. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 405-01 | Industrial Organization | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Samantha Cakir | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 25 |
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This course will extend beyond the conventional structure-conduct-performance framework of industrial organization to focus on the theoretical models that inform the discipline and their empirical applications. In particular, students will use microeconomics and game theory to study models of imperfect competition and understand the implications for consumer welfare. We will analyze firm behavior and strategic interactions such as price discrimination, predatory pricing, limit pricing and investment under different market structures. We will also discuss various public policies that affect the structure of markets and the behavior of firms, specifically regulation, deregulation and antitrust laws. Every year. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 426-01 | International Economic Development | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Amy Damon | Avail./Max.: 14 / 25 |
*Capstone*
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ECON 444-01 | Honors Seminar | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Sarah West | Avail./Max.: 5 / 15 |
*Capstone*
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ECON 485-01 | Empirical Finance | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Liang Ding | Avail./Max.: 13 / 25 |
*Capstone*
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ECON 490-01 | Behavioral and Experimental Economics | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Pete Ferderer | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with PSYC 490-01; Capstone course*
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Educational Studies
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EDUC 194-01 | Illuminating Our Diverse Intellectual Lives | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Brian Lozenski | Avail./Max.: 9 / 16 |
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EDUC 220-01 | Educational Psychology | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Tina Kruse | Avail./Max.: Closed -4 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with PSYC 220-01; first day attendance required*
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EDUC 240-01 | Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in Education | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Jonathan Hamilton | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 240-01; first day attendance required*
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EDUC 275-01 | Outdoor Environmental Education in Theory, Policy and Practice | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Dosch, Kurth-Schai | Avail./Max.: 5 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with ENVI 275-01;first day attendance required*
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EDUC 275-L1 | Outdoor Environmental Education in Theory, Policy and Practice | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Dosch, Kurth-Schai | Avail./Max.: 5 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with ENVI 275-L1; first day attendance required*
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EDUC 380-01 | Research Methods for Educ/Adv | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Jonathan Hamilton | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
*First day attendance required; Education Studies Majors/Teaching Learning emphasis*
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EDUC 390-01 | Teaching and Learning in Urban Schools | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Brian Lozenski | Avail./Max.: 4 / 12 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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EDUC 460-01 | Education and Social Change | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Ruthanne Kurth-Schai | Avail./Max.: 2 / 10 |
*Permission of Educational Studies Department Chair required; first day attendance required; Educational Studies Majors only*
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English
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ENGL 101-01 | College Writing | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Rebecca Graham | Avail./Max.: 2 / 16 |
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Instruction and practice for writing in college. This course does not satisfy the requirements for the English major or minor. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 105-01 | American Voices | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Daylanne English | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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In this introductory English course, we will listen to a wide range of American voices in a number of genres, including short stories, novels, poetry, and a play. The course will focus on U.S. identities in relation to age, race, gender, sexuality, and class in a context of literary experimentation. The texts in this course, although all are “American,” explore many differences within a national identity by conducting literary “experiments”: blending genres, creating new literary forms, combining print and image, or writing speculative fiction. How do our authors stretch received forms, or invent new ones, so as to accommodate the content of their characters’ lives? How might speculative fiction and futurism be especially suited to represent experiences of people of color, and particularly of girls and women of color? We will study works by Sandra Cisneros, Junot Díaz, Octavia Butler, Claudia Rankine, and Janelle Monáe, among others. Course requirements include: an in-class oral presentation, a brief written response to each primary reading, and three essays of about 5-7 pages each (one of which must be revised). This course will fulfill either the foundation course in literature requirement or the literature by U.S. writers of color requirement for the English major. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 115-01 | Shakespeare | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Penelope Geng | Avail./Max.: 7 / 20 |
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Shakespeare has been called the “star of poets” and “wonder of the stage.” How do his plays delight, puzzle, and instill “wonder”? How did he transform Renaissance poetry? In this course, we will focus on some of Shakespeare’s most enduring works, including the Sonnets, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. Our study comprises class discussion, essays, presentations, and performances (watching professional productions and performing scenes from the plays). We will analyze Shakespeare’s formal and stylistic technique. We will examine issues of character, action, and plot. For centuries, Shakespeare has inspired writers to perfect their craft and pursue their creative ambitions. You are invited to participate in this exciting and evolving literary tradition. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 135-01 | Poetry | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Taylor Schey | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
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It is entirely possible for one to analyze the meanings of most texts—their themes, morals, historical significances, and so on—without paying much attention to the formal and linguistic elements that produce such meanings. Fortunately, poems make this difficult and ask us to attend more closely to how language does the things that it does. How, for example, can a single word generate multiple, even conflicting, interpretations concerning its significance? How do the rhetorical devices foregrounded in poetry—such as metaphor, metonymy, apostrophe, and personification—structure the modes of relation through which we organize our lives? How do various arrangements of words move us to tears, open new worlds, instigate actions, and even make nothing happen (as W. H. Auden famously poeticizes the power of poetry)? This introductory course will take up such questions as we develop our abilities to read, write, and think as students of literature. While our primary focus will be on learning how to engage with the subtleties of poetic language, this engagement will lead us to consider the broader philosophical, political, and cultural issues that our readings raise, concerning, for example, the place of poetry in modern life, the use and uselessness of poetry, and the very question of what poetry is. This course counts as a foundation course toward the English major, but all students are welcome and no prior knowledge or experience is expected. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 136-01 | Drama: Theater and Politics | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Andrea Kaston Tange | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
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What relationships exist between theater, current events, and the public? People throughout the history of theater will say theater has always been political. It has been a means of offering public commentary, challenging or upholding norms, voicing a protest, or offering an alternative view that presents a world the writers would prefer to live in. In ENGL 136, we will read plays--both classic and modern--as literary texts and talk about the craft that went into their writing. But we will also take field trips to see several plays at different theaters in Minneapolis and St. Paul; we will study theater reviews and write some of our own; we will meet people who work on technical aspects of productions (like lighting and costumes) and learn about the craft of building productions; and we will think, talk, and write about the relationship between the dramatic arts and current events. As part of our larger goal of putting theater in context, the "current" events we study will cover topics as diverse as science vs religion, processes of nation building, personal identities put on trial, class politics and accents, and historical notions of property, and the work we read will range from Shakespeare to the present. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 137-01 | Novel: Literature | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: James Dawes | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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In this course we will read some of the most popular novels ever written in the United States. They will be heart-wrenchingly beautiful, tear-jerkingly sad, gut-bustingly funny, and seriously weird. We will discuss love, death, the meaning of life, beauty, cruelty, freaks, war, and comedy. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 137-02 | Novel: On Beauty | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Amy Elkins | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
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This course explores the concept of beauty in its many forms, from feelings associated with beautiful places and people to the history of visual attraction and attention. Reading novels from the nineteenth century to the present, we will learn to see beauty from different perspectives and to ask how the visible world intersects with larger social issues. For example, can the beautiful be political? What happens to nature's beauty in an era of environmental crisis? And how are shifting gender norms redefining beauty in today's world? The novels we will study critique and analyze these issues even as they revel in the complexity of beauty across time, space, artistic forms, media, and cultures. Students will read works by Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Elaine Scarry, E.M. Forster, Amitav Ghosh, and Zadie Smith, among others. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 150-01 | Introduction to Creative Writing | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Matthew Burgess | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 16 |
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The focus of this course is on the development of skills for writing poetry and short fiction through a close study of the techniques involved in these forms, analysis of model literary works, and frequent writing exercises. This course must be completed at Macalester as a PREREQUISITE for the further study of creative writing at Macalester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 150-02 | Introduction to Creative Writing | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Matthew Burgess | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 16 |
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The focus of this course is on the development of skills for writing poetry and short fiction through a close study of the techniques involved in these forms, analysis of model literary works, and frequent writing exercises. This course must be completed at Macalester as a PREREQUISITE for the further study of creative writing at Macalester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 150-03 | Introduction to Creative Writing | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: Benjamin Voigt | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
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The focus of this course is on the development of skills for writing poetry and short fiction through a close study of the techniques involved in these forms, analysis of model literary works, and frequent writing exercises. This course must be completed at Macalester as a PREREQUISITE for the further study of creative writing at Macalester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 150-04 | Introduction to Creative Writing | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: Benjamin Voigt | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 16 |
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The focus of this course is on the development of skills for writing poetry and short fiction through a close study of the techniques involved in these forms, analysis of model literary works, and frequent writing exercises. This course must be completed at Macalester as a PREREQUISITE for the further study of creative writing at Macalester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 150-05 | Intro to Creative Writing:Poetics for Free Thinkers and Paradigm Shakers | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Ping Wang | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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A poet is a prophet, a maker, a revolutionist who, with feet in the past, foresees future and makes history. Such belief in the power of poetry stems from Zhuangzi, Confucius, Aristotle, Hegel, Marx, Blake, Nietzche, all the way to Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin and other contemporary poets and thinkers. This writing workshop will study selected masterpieces by the international and American visionary writers and examine the nature of poetry and story telling, how it takes us through the landscape of our inner space and time in order to explore and connect with the external world. As we all know, the longest and most difficult journey is to know ourselves, and the most difficult and joyful way to get there is through poetry. We’ll study modes of expression in poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction writing, learn how to create imagery, figurative language, sound, rhythmic structures, voice, plot, character, point of view…as carriers to reach the other shore. Techniques are not their own ends, but tools to find our voices for expression and communication. Where there is content (story), there is form, just as where there is water, there’s river. Meditation, reading, critiquing and writing exercises will help us find the right forms for the contents. We will learn how to read work aloud in class. Reading aloud is not only to complete the writing process, but also to train the ear for sound, rhythm, image, and the flow. It also teaches both the reader and listeners the art of criticism. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 150-06 | Introduction to Creative Writing | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Peter Bognanni | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
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The focus of this course is on the development of skills for writing poetry and short fiction through a close study of the techniques involved in these forms, analysis of model literary works, and frequent writing exercises. This course must be completed at Macalester as a PREREQUISITE for the further study of creative writing at Macalester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 200-01 | Major Medieval and Renaissance British Writers | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Penelope Geng | Avail./Max.: 7 / 20 |
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This survey provides an introduction to the masterpieces of Medieval and early modern literature, from Beowulf to Paradise Lost. What is old, middle, and early modern English? How does lyric formally (and thematically) differ from epic and romance? When did drama acquire its characteristic structure? What dangers did female writers face in a patriarchal culture? How did they claim poetic or spiritual authority and articulate their right to speak? And more broadly, how did literary writers respond to the invention of the printing press, Luther’s Reformation, the union of Scotland and England under James I, and the English Civil War? We’ll address these questions and many more. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 208-01 | Literary Publishing | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Anitra Budd | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
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To the average person, the field of literary publishing can seem somewhat opaque. How does a novel go from scribbled notes to finished paperback? What goes into editing, printing, and marketing a poetry collection? This course will aim to shed light on this exciting field through a combination of readings, talks with local publishing professionals, in-class discussion, and hands-on work. The centerpiece of the course will involve working with a local writer to produce finished, bound copies of their work. In collaboration with each other and the author, students will edit the work, create publicity and marketing plans, design potential covers, and develop a sales and distribution strategy. We will also explore the history of literary and small press publishing, as well as recent technology trends in the field. This course will be helpful to students considering literary publishing as a profession, writers interested in someday having their own work published, and readers who are curious about what goes into the production of their favorite books. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 230-01 | Nineteenth-Century British Literature | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Taylor Schey | Avail./Max.: 3 / 20 |
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This course will survey a wide variety of nineteenth-century British literature, from the poetic experiments of Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth to the novels of the Brontës to the dramas of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Traditionally, the nineteenth century has been divided into two distinct literary-historical eras, the Romantic (~1798 – 1837) and the Victorian (~1837 – 1901), and you’ll become familiar with the major authors and developments of each, as well as with some of the lasting stories we tell to explain the differences between them. Yet we’ll also be interested in questioning some of the commonplaces that uphold this literary-historical division, for example the idea that the Victorian era, as compared to the Romantic, is “deeply unpoetical” (as Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold has it), or the notion that Romantic-era novels were “transitional” in the development of Victorian literary realism. We’ll focus our attention on questions of form, genre, and poetics, and we’ll do so in the broader context of a discussion concerning the thematic concerns of the writers we study, the historical and cultural changes to which they responded, and the relevance of their works today. Possible authors include Matthew Arnold, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Bernard Shaw, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Lord Tennyson, Oscar Wilde, and William Wordsworth. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 272-01 | Love and Madness in 19th Century American Literature | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: James Dawes | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
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Our common vocabulary of love presents it as a force that strikes and knocks down its victims. It comes like a fever and it disables cognition. Lovers "fall," they are "smitten," "head over heels," "crazy" for each other. Love is both mania and obsession, both a euphoria that alters one's view of the world as a whole and an exclusion of the whole world, a radical narrowing of our normally capacious imaginative and perceptual faculties down to the simplest and smallest of human frames: a face, or the sound of a voice. For American authors of the 18th and 19th century, love and madness were twinned sites of altered consciousness that represented the radical "others" of Enlightenment reason, psychic parallels to and extensions of the wilds of the New World and the uncontrollable crowds and freedoms of the new democracy. This course will examine love and madness from multiple perspectives, including the Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment, gender and sexuality, the American Gothic, violence, and sin. Authors will range from Benjamin Franklin and the Marquis de Sade to Edgar Allan Poe and Kate Chopin. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 280-01 | Crafts of Writing: Poetry: Poetics for Misfits, Free Thinkers and Paradigm Movers | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Ping Wang | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 16 |
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A poet is a prophet, a maker, a revolutionist who, with feet in the past, foresees future and makes history. Such belief in the power of poetry stems from Zhuangzi, Confucius, Aristotle, Hegel, Marx, Blake, Nietzche, all the way to Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde, Layli Long Soldier and other contemporary poets and thinkers. This writing workshop will study selected masterpieces by the international and American visionary writers and examine the nature of poetry and story telling, how it takes us through the landscape of our inner space and time in order to explore and connect with the external world. As we all know, the longest and most difficult journey is to know ourselves, and the most difficult and joyful way to get there is through poetry. We’ll study modes of expression in poetry, learn how to create imagery, figurative language, sound, rhythmic structures, voice, narrative, point of view…as carriers to reach the other shore. Techniques are not their own ends, but tools to find our voices for expression and communication. Where there is content (story), there is form, just as where there is water, there’s river. Meditation, reading, critiquing and writing exercises will help us find the right forms for the contents. We will learn how to read work aloud in class. Reading aloud is not only to complete the writing process, but also to train the ear for sound, rhythm, image, and the flow. It also teaches both the reader and listeners the art of criticism. If you love reading, thinking, writing, come to this class. If you believe you’re a misfit, a free-thinker and “trouble-maker,” come to this workshop. If you’ve never written a poem or story but are curious and a little afraid, even better. Poetry and story telling is our birthright, our signature as human. If you are full of questions about the era we are living in, dying to change things and make history, then come on board. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 281-01 | Crafts of Writing: Fiction: Reaction/Fiction | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Marlon James | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 16 |
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“Books come out of books,” Cormac McCarthy once said. He’s right of course; fiction has always come out fiction. Sometimes to uncover a marginalized voice, or to humanize a demon (Jane Eyre/Wide Sargasso Sea). Sometimes to make troublingly round, the reassuringly flat (Great Expectations/Jack Maggs). And sometimes to view a story from back then in a point of view that reflects us now (Huckleberry Finn/Huck Way Out West). All these stories came out of stories that compelled the author to respond. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 284-01 | Crafts of Writing: Screenwriting | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Peter Bognanni | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
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This course will focus in a variety of ways on the development of skills for writing screenplays, building on the work done in English 120. The emphasis will be on narrative films, with the objective of writing a feature-length screenplay during the semester. There will be extensive readings and discussion of published and unpublished screenplays in addition to regular writing assignments. The course may be conducted to some extent in workshop format; the emphasis will be on continuing to develop writing skills. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 294-01 | How to Be a Person in the World | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Matthew Burgess | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 16 |
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This course will test the theory that reading and writing can make one a more engaged citizen. Over the course of the summer, each registered student will send a question to the instructor, who will then develop the syllabus, with a week of class time devoted to each particular question. So, for instance, if a student asks, "How can I be a better eco-citizen?", we will spend a week reading, discussing, and writing about Henry David Thoreau and Elizabeth Kolbert's essays, Robert Frost and Mary Oliver's poems, and Louise Erdrich and Anthony Doerr's short fiction. Students will be expected to produce both creative and analytical work throughout the semester. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 294-02 | Writing Resistance | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: Benjamin Voigt | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 16 |
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When is writing an act of resistance? As creative writers, in what ways can we participate in protest, in change, in social movements? And, once committed, how do we craft work that is both polemical and poetical, artful and activist? In this class, we will consider how a wide range of readings--poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, film--engage with political struggle, and use their insights to guide our own writing. Assignments will include both analytic and imaginative writing and culminate in a final project. Non-majors welcome. Potential authors include Solmaz Sharif, C. D. Wright, Tony Kushner, Valeria Luiselli, Han Kang, Audre Lorde and James Baldwin. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 294-03 | Comparative Feminisms: Whiteness and Postcolonialisms | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Sonita Sarker | Avail./Max.: 11 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; cross-listed with WGSS 240-01.*
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This course brings together discourses that have remained somewhat parallel and unrelated--Whiteness Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is based on the premise that 'whiteness' as an academic/social framework stems from and is intertwined with social and political identity-based movements (feminist, critical race, etc.). In other words, studies of the intersection of gender, race, class, and nation initiated in the post-colonizing imagination seeks to shake up paradigms of power, and whiteness studies shares in this effort. This course explores where and how the notion of 'whiteness' converges and diverges from post-colonialism. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 310-01 | Shakespeare Studies | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Penelope Geng | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
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In Shakespeare’s England, whipping, branding, mutilation (of the hand, nose, ears, or face), pillorying, hanging, burning, and beheading were common forms of legal punishment. The rigors of early modern law may seem strange or “barbaric” to us, yet we may recognize the intentions behind the laws: to restore order, to keep the peace, and to stabilize social relations. To grasp what justice meant to the early moderns and, in turn, what it means to us today, we will examine some of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays through the lens of legal and political philosophy. Plays such as Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, and Othello stage a spectrum of responses to insult, injury, and violence. At the same time, the texts trouble the division between good and evil, justice and revenge. Our agenda is two-fold: to deepen our reading of Shakespearean drama and to use our knowledge to investigate difficult and still unresolved questions about the problem of evil, the dialectic between law and justice, and the meaning of the “good life.” General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 341-01 | 20th Century British Novel: The British Multicultural Novel | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Amy Elkins | Avail./Max.: 11 / 20 |
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In Britain, multiculturalism has a long and dynamic history. Recent social and political developments (most notably, Brexit) have thrust narratives of nationhood, belonging, hybridity, and multiculturalism back into the limelight. These stories reveal the striking complexity of cultural hybridity in Britain, and they revel in the interconnected experiences of language, nationhood, sexuality, gender, class, and family that form modern British experience. Beginning with the mid-twentieth century, we will trace literary incarnations of British multiculturalism in the literary texts of authors such as Andrea Levy, Julian Barnes, Caryl Phillips, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith and Kazuo Ishiguro. Through engagement with cultural theorists such as Stuart Hall, Eve Sedgwick, and Mikhal Bakhtin, we will also work to understand how each text is involved in reshaping the form of the novel itself. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 380-01 | Topics in African American Lit: The Long Harlem Renaissance | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Daylanne English | Avail./Max.: 7 / 20 |
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In this course, we will ask a wide variety of literary, aesthetic, political, and historical questions about the 1920s flourishing of African American arts and letters known as The Harlem Renaissance. We will explore its roots in earlier text and ideas, such as W.E.B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk, and its “afterlife” in contemporary works such as Toni Morrison’s Jazz. Our texts will include: ragtime, the blues, film, photography, poetry, novels, short stories, plays, autobiographies, fictional autobiographies and autobiographical fictions, and literary and cultural criticism. We will study a wide range of figures, including James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countée Cullen, Bessie Smith, Oscar Micheaux, and James Van der Zee. As we closely read, view, and listen, we will investigate: the movement’s chronological, geographic, and cultural boundaries; class, gender, and color conflict within the movement; the power and presence of queer sensibilities in what one critic has termed “the gayest Renaissance in history”; and the ongoing impact of the movement, among other matters. We will, finally, explore the current status of the Harlem Renaissance as a field of study and interest. Requirements for the course include: weekly 1-page responses to the reading, one essay of about 5 pages, one term paper of about 15 pages, and one 20-minute presentation. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 384-01 | Langston Hughes: Global Writer | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: David Moore | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 384-01 and INTL 384-01*
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ENGL 400-01 | Seminar: Virginia Woolf: Film, Theory, Media | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Amy Elkins | Avail./Max.: 7 / 12 |
*First day attendance required*
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The capstone course for the Literature Path is the culminating academic experience of the major. The course consists of three interlocking objectives. The first goal is to provide students with the opportunity to develop an original research project that reflects their deepest aesthetic interests and ethical commitments. Working closely with a faculty member and a small group of peers, students will develop projects that display rigorous literary scholarship and methodological inventiveness. The second goal is to provide instruction in advanced methods of research by studying influential critical approaches from the early twentieth century to the present. Specific theories and methods will be determined in consultation with the instructor. Past courses have emphasized psychoanalysis, post-Marxist criticism, gender, queer, and feminist theory, phenomenology, critical race theory, post-colonial criticism, poetics, law and human rights, and aesthetics. The final goal is to train students to become advocates of their research agenda. Students will learn to lecture and lead discussion on relevant readings and to share their research with the wider intellectual community in a form that reflects the spirit of the project. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 406-01 | Projects in Creative Writing - Capstone | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Marlon James | Avail./Max.: 3 / 12 |
*Permission of instructor required*
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You bring the genre (or total disregard for it), and we’ll bring the workshop. In fact, one of the great benefits of Projects In Creative Writing will be its LACK of focus. Working on Poetry? Fiction? Nonfiction? A one-act play? It’s all good. Because at this stage, not only would you have had extensive experience in most genres, but your are already aware just how much one can teach you about the other. There are aspects of rigor of polish that the novelist can learn from the poet. Aspects of focus and scope that the poet can learn from the novelist. Aspects of narrative, scene and voice that the novel can pick up from the play, and aspects of depth and nuance, that the screenplay can pick up from narrative nonfiction. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Environmental Studies
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ENVI 140-01 | The Earth's Climate System | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Louisa Bradtmiller | Avail./Max.: 16 / 44 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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When is writing an act of resistance? As creative writers, in what ways can we participate in protest, in change, in social movements? And, once committed, how do we craft work that is both polemical and poetical, artful and activist? In this class, we will consider how a wide range of readings--poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, film--engage with political struggle, and use their insights to guide our own writing. Assignments will include both analytic and imaginative writing and culminate in a final project. Prior creative writing coursework recommended, but not required. Non-majors welcome. Potential authors include Solmaz Sharif, C. D. Wright, Tony Kushner, Valeria Luiselli, Han Kang, Audre Lorde and James Baldwin. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENVI 140-L1 | The Earth's Climate System Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: | Instructor: Louisa Bradtmiller | Avail./Max.: 4 / 22 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 140-L2 | The Earth's Climate System Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: | Instructor: Louisa Bradtmiller | Avail./Max.: 12 / 22 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 144-01 | Lakes, Streams and Rivers | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Daniel Hornbach | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 144-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 150-01 | Climate and Society | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Louisa Bradtmiller | Avail./Max.: 2 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 160-01 | Dynamic Earth/Global Change | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 175 | Instructor: Kelly MacGregor | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; cross-listed with GEOL 160-01;must register for GEOL 160-L1*
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The planet Earth is an amazing place, with a dynamic interior and surface even after 4.6 billion years under its belt. At its most basic, this class is an introduction to the materials and structure of the Earth, and to the processes acting on and in the Earth to produce change. We will begin to learn the language of geology through a study of plate tectonics, planetary structure, and rocks of all sorts. I am particularly interested in the physical forces that shape the surface of the Earth, and I am excited to teach you about a multitude of surface processes that shape our planet (rivers and glaciers and landslides, oh my!) and tell you about my research on glaciers and in rivers. The planet has begun to show signs of our expanding population and the increasing need for natural resources, and we will consider the feedbacks between humans and the Earth as well. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENVI 160-02 | Dynamic Earth/Global Change | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Alan Chapman | Avail./Max.: 22 / 48 |
*Cross-listed with GEOL 160-02; must register for either ENVI 160-L2 or ENVI 160-L3*
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ENVI 160-L1 | Dynamic Earth/Global Chng Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 187 | Instructor: Jeffrey Thole | Avail./Max.: -1 / 16 |
*First Year Lab only; cross-listed with GEOL 160-L1*
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ENVI 160-L2 | Dynamic Earth/Global Chng Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:00 am | Room: OLRI 187 | Instructor: Jeffrey Thole | Avail./Max.: 15 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with GEOL 160-L2*
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ENVI 160-L3 | Dynamic Earth/Global Chng Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:20 pm | Room: OLRI 187 | Instructor: Jeffrey Thole | Avail./Max.: 8 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with GEOL 160-L3*
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ENVI 202-01 | Sustainability and the Campus | Days: T | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MARKIM 201 | Instructor: Suzanne Savanick Hansen | Avail./Max.: 9 / 16 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor; 2 credit course*
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ENVI 203-01 | Introduction to Urban Ecology | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: I-Chun Catherine Chang | Avail./Max.: 6 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with GEOG 203-01; first day attendance required*
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ENVI 215-01 | Environmental Politics/Policy | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Roopali Phadke | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with POLI 215-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 232-01 | People, Agriculture and the Environment | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: William Moseley | Avail./Max.: 1 / 30 |
*Cross-listed with GEOG 232-01; first day attendance required*
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ENVI 234-01 | U.S. Environmental History | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Chris Wells | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 234-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 234-02 | U.S. Environmental History | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 300 | Instructor: Chris Wells | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; cross-listed with HIST 234-02; first day attendance required*
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People have always had to contend with the natural world, but only recently have historians begun to explore the changing relationships between people and their environments over time. In this course, we will examine the variety of ways that people in North America have shaped the environment, as well as how they have used, labored in, abused, conserved, protected, rearranged, polluted, cleaned, and thought about it. In addition, we will explore how various characteristics of the natural world have affected the broad patterns of human society, sometimes harming or hindering life and other times enabling rapid development and expansion. By bringing nature into the study of human history, and the human past into the study of nature, we will begin to see the connections and interdependencies between the two that traditional history often overlooks. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENVI 270-01 | Psychology of Sustainable Behavior | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Christie Manning | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with PSYC 270-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 275-01 | Outdoor Environmental Education in Theory, Policy and Practice | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Dosch, Kurth-Schai | Avail./Max.: 5 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with EDUC 275-01; first day attendance required*
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ENVI 275-L1 | Outdoor Environmental Education in Theory, Policy and Practice | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Dosch, Kurth-Schai | Avail./Max.: 5 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with EDUC 275-L1; first day attendance required*
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ENVI 280-01 | Environmental Classics | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Christie Manning | Avail./Max.: 8 / 18 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 285-01 | Ecology | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Laura Phillips-Mao | Avail./Max.: 1 / 44 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 285-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 285-L1 | Ecology Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Michael Anderson | Avail./Max.: -1 / 22 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 285-L1; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 285-L2 | Ecology Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Michael Anderson | Avail./Max.: 2 / 22 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 285-L2; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on April 28th with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 294-02 | Technology and the Environment in the Pre-Modern World | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Basit Qureshi | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 294-08*
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From volcanic activity to viral pandemics, from flooding rivers to invasive fauna, every human society has had to face material, ecological, climactic, and other such challenges particular to its environment. In this interdisciplinary course, we will investigate how human societies in the pre-modern world developed different sorts of technologies to confront and adapt to the challenges presented by their environments. Drawing upon a diverse array of sources, including glacial ice core data and saints’ lives, we will explore how human technologies changed local environments in both intended and unintended ways. Environmental consequences presented new challenges that required further technological adaptation, fundamentally shaping trajectories of societal development from classical China to medieval Europe, from ancient Oceania to the Americas. In studying the formative relationship between technology and the environment in pre-modern global contexts, we will arrive at a more informed understanding of the emergence of the modern world. For our purposes in this course, “technology” will include not only physical tools but also political-cultural ideologies, systems of government, religions, scientific theories, and techniques of domestication. “Environment” will similarly be defined broadly: climate, physical geography, biosphere, and urban settlements. This course fulfills the global and/or comparative history as well as the pre-1800 requirements for the history major. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENVI 344-01 | Aquatic Ecology | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Daniel Hornbach | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 10 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 344-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 344-L1 | Aquatic Ecology Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Hornbach, Hove | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 10 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 344-L1; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 368-01 | Sustainable Development and Global Future | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Roopali Phadke | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 368-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 394-01 | GIS/Community Partnerships | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 109 | Instructor: Holly Barcus | Avail./Max.: -3 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with GEOG 364-01; first day attendance required* |
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ENVI 477-01 | Comparative Environment and Development Studies | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: William Moseley | Avail./Max.: 7 / 15 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with GEOG 477-01 and INTL 477-01; first day attendance required*
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ENVI 478-01 | Cities of the 21st Century: The Political Economy of Urban Sustainability | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Daniel Trudeau | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with GEOG 478-01; first day attendance required*
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ENVI 489-01 | Environmental Leadership Pract | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Roopali Phadke | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
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ENVI 490-01 | Envi St Leadership Seminar | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Roopali Phadke | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; 2 credit course; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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French and Francophone Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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FREN 101-01 | French I | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: El Hadji Diop | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
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FREN 101-02 | French I | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: El Hadji Diop | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
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FREN 101-L1 | French I Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-09:00 am | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 2 / 10 |
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FREN 101-L2 | French I Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 5 / 10 |
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FREN 101-L3 | French I Lab | Days: T | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 6 / 10 |
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FREN 101-L4 | French I Lab | Days: R | Time: 09:10 am-10:10 am | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 4 / 10 |
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FREN 111-01 | Accelerated French I-II | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Andrew Billing | Avail./Max.: 11 / 20 |
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FREN 111-02 | Accelerated French I-II | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Joelle Vitiello | Avail./Max.: 11 / 20 |
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This course develops fundamental skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It includes introduction to the cultural background of France and the francophone world. It is designed for students who have had some French prior to enrolling at Macalester or who want to review basic structures. The course prepares students for French III and includes two lab. Sessions. ALL COURSES ARE TAUGHT IN FRENCH UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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FREN 111-L1 | Accelerated French I-II Lab | Days: TR | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
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FREN 111-L2 | Accelerated French I-II Lab | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
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FREN 194-01 | Revolutionary Thought in France, 1789-2017 | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Andrew Billing | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; first day attendance required*
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This course is open to all students, including those with no background in French. The course will begin with the French Revolution, often understood as the defining event in modern French history and the moment in which the French nation is born. Students will examine the intellectual forces that contributed to its outbreak at the end of the eighteenth century, and study the influence it exerted on writers, thinkers, and artists in France and in its colonies through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in particular during the Paris Commune, the anti-colonial movements of the 1950s, and May 1968. Students will also explore how the Revolution continues to shape political and intellectual life in France in 2017. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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FREN 203-01 | French III | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Claude Cassagne | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
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FREN 203-02 | French III | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Claude Cassagne | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
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FREN 203-03 | French III | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Martine Sauret | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
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FREN 203-L1 | French III Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 0 / 10 |
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FREN 203-L2 | French III Lab | Days: R | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 2 / 10 |
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FREN 203-L3 | French III Lab | Days: T | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 7 / 10 |
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FREN 203-L4 | French III Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-09:00 am | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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FREN 203-L5 | French III Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 4 / 10 |
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FREN 203-L6 | French III Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 7 / 10 |
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FREN 204-02 | Text, Film and Media | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Joelle Vitiello | Avail./Max.: 3 / 20 |
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FREN 204-L1 | Text, Film and Media Lab | Days: T | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 7 / 10 |
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FREN 204-L2 | Text, Film and Media Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 6 / 10 |
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FREN 204-L3 | Text, Film and Media Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-09:00 am | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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FREN 204-L4 | Text, Film and Media Lab | Days: R | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 9 / 10 |
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FREN 305-01 | Advanced Expression: Communication Tools | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Martine Sauret | Avail./Max.: 8 / 20 |
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FREN 305-L1 | Advanced Expression: Communication Tools | Days: T | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 7 / 10 |
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FREN 305-L2 | Advanced Expression: Communication Tools | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-09:00 am | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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FREN 306-01 | Introduction to Literary Analysis | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Juliette Rogers | Avail./Max.: 7 / 20 |
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FREN 370-01 | Art of Translation: Style, Grammar, and Translation | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Martine Sauret | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
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FREN 450-01 | Deceit, Desire and Money in the 19th Century | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Juliette Rogers | Avail./Max.: 16 / 20 |
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French culture and society underwent sweeping changes with the rise of capitalism and the industrial revolution in the 19th century. With these changes, new narratives emerged that we continue to see even in today's culture. They asked questions such as: why do two people fall in love? Why does an individual strive for a better social standing? Is empathy possible in a capitalist society? The answers to these questions are complex, and often relate to what is known as "mimetic desire," a term coined by French theorist Rene Girard in his book Deceit, Desire and the Novel (Le mensonge romantique et la verite romanesque). We will examine the relationships of deceit and desire to money and the marketplace in 19th-century France, and, in the process, learn more about our own society. This course offers a survey of 19th century French literature (novels, plays, short stories, and poetry) linked to the theme of the course, including works by Audouard, Balzac, Desbordes-Valmore, Flaubert, Hugo, Sand, Zola, and others. It will cover several major 19th-century literary movements and styles (Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism). Taught in French. Offered occasionally. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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FREN 494-02 | Uses of the Fantastic in Postcolonial Film and Fiction from Francophone Africa | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: El Hadji Diop | Avail./Max.: 17 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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This course is intended as a thematic tour d’horizon of the postcolonial fantastic in texts and films from francophone Africa. The goal is less to theorize something like a “minor fantastic literature" or to embark on a search for well-established or emerging forms and genres, including the gothic, fantasy or science-fiction in their possible declensions in contemporary francophone Africa, than to expose students to a wide variety of literary and cinematic practices involving, in one way or another, some aspects of the fantastic, broadly understood as a textually staged vacillation of rational categories. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Geography
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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GEOG 111-01 | Human Geography of Global Issues | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: David Lanegran | Avail./Max.: 13 / 35 |
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GEOG 203-01 | Introduction to Urban Ecology | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: I-Chun Catherine Chang | Avail./Max.: 6 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 203-01; first day attendance required*
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GEOG 225-01 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: Kelsey McDonald | Avail./Max.: 1 / 30 |
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GEOG 225-L1 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | Days: W | Time: 10:50 am-12:20 pm | Room: CARN 108 | Instructor: Ashley Nepp | Avail./Max.: 3 / 16 |
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GEOG 225-L2 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | Days: R | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 108 | Instructor: Ashley Nepp | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
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GEOG 232-01 | People, Agriculture and the Environment | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: William Moseley | Avail./Max.: 1 / 30 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 232-01; first day attendance required*
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GEOG 241-01 | Urban Geography | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Daniel Trudeau | Avail./Max.: -1 / 25 |
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GEOG 242-01 | Regional Geography of the US and Canada | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: Laura Smith | Avail./Max.: 1 / 25 |
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GEOG 249-01 | Regional Geography of Latin America | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Eric Carter | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; cross-listed with LATI 249-01; first day attendance required*
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This course explores one of the world’s most vibrant regions, Latin America. Extending from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego, this world region stretches across diverse landscapes, from tropical rainforests to the snowcapped peaks of the Andes, from mega-cities to empty deserts and plains. This variety of environments also fosters great cultural diversity: although the nations of Latin America share similar historical roots, each one has its own character and its own complex geography. This course explores the geography of Latin America through a combination of thematic and regional approaches. Major topics include physical geography and the natural environment; pre-Columbian, colonial, and modern history; race and identity; urbanism; agriculture and land use; major environmental problems; economy and development; international migration; Latino culture and identity in the U.S.; and the economic and cultural impacts of globalization. Along with such general themes, we will also examine the cultural geography of specific core regions, including The Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, the Andean Countries, and the Argentine Pampas. Since this is a first-year course, we will also emphasize developing your skills in written and oral communication, scholarly research, and information literacy. Through research projects that explore different elements of Latin America’s geography, students will get a close-up perspective on the region. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOG 250-01 | Race, Place and Space | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 250-01; no first year student allowed*
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This course is built at the crossroads between critical race studies and urban sociology, and draws on important strains within cultural studies, WGSS, and critical/postmodern geography. We will investigate our own personal cognitive maps and social locations, including our complicity in dominant spatial and racial logics. Lectures, assignments, and activities encourage an understanding of the creation and on-going production of space and scale, and develop insight into racialized communities and identities as sites of conflict, struggle, and potential solidarity rather than fixed categories of representation or consumption. A segment of the course will focus on St. Paul and the impact of the Vietnam War, looking particularly at the construction of Hmong and other Southeast Asian American communities and identities. This course requires prior exposure to at least one of the following areas: American Studies, human geography, sociology of race/ethnicity, or urban studies. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOG 256-01 | Medical Geography: The Geography of Health and Health Care | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: Eric Carter | Avail./Max.: 5 / 30 |
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GEOG 261-01 | Geography of World Urbanization | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: I-Chun Catherine Chang | Avail./Max.: 14 / 25 |
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GEOG 261-02 | Geography of World Urbanization | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: I-Chun Catherine Chang | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; first day attendance required*
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We now live in a world where the majority of the population already lives in cities. And yet every year, hundreds of millions of people continue to move into cities to pursue a better future. The contemporary social, economic, and political changes are intrinsically linked to divergent urban processes across the world. This paramount shift poses important theoretical and empirical questions to our age. This course uses the critical perspective of “global urbanism” to both contextualize and connect different urban experiences across places. We will introduce various urban settings and demonstrate how complex relations between urbanization, globalization, and economic development produce spatial unevenness and social inequality. We will study the dominant paradigm of world and global cities, which prioritizes development trajectories of cities in the global North, and discuss contesting views focusing on “ordinary cities” from the global South. Drawing on case studies in the developed and less-developed world, we will also learn how to apply the relational comparative urbanism approach as well as regionally based theoretical perspectives to comprehend the diverse urban landscapes around the globe. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOG 262-01 | Metro Analysis | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: Laura Smith | Avail./Max.: 2 / 25 |
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GEOG 364-01 | GIS and Community Partnerships | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 109 | Instructor: Holly Barcus | Avail./Max.: -3 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 394-01; permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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GEOG 370-01 | Advanced Cartography and Geovisualization | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 109 | Instructor: Ashley Nepp | Avail./Max.: -2 / 15 |
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GEOG 370-L1 | Advanced Cartography and Geovisualization | Days: W | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 109 | Instructor: Ashley Nepp | Avail./Max.: -2 / 15 |
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GEOG 377-01 | Qualitative Research Methods | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Daniel Trudeau | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*First day attendance required*
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Social scientists use qualitative methods to understand the ways in which societal associations operate and how people experience, contribute to, or try to change these associations. Qualitative methods are thus concerned with analyzing processes and experiences. This course trains students to use qualitative research methods to collect data, analyze it, draw authoritative conclusions, and observe professional research ethics. The course emphasizes how qualitative methods contribute to scientific research and how ethical treatment of research participants affects the practice of qualitative research. Above all, the course focuses on training students to conduct qualitative research that contributes to our understanding of human geographies. Students will develop these skills by engaging in a semester-long research project for a client. Participation in this project will help you learn how to plan, prepare, and carry out a qualitative research project on a deadline. In 2017, we will be working with the Union Park District Council in St. Paul, helping to support an ongoing cultural asset mapping project by working with residents on their community place-making efforts. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOG 477-01 | Comparative Environment and Development | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: William Moseley | Avail./Max.: 7 / 15 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with ENVI 477-01 and INTL 477-01; first day attendance required*
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GEOG 478-01 | Cities of the 21st Century: The Political Economy of Urban Sustainability | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Daniel Trudeau | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with ENVI 478-01; first day attendance required*
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Geology
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GEOL 160-01 | Dynamic Earth/Global Change | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 175 | Instructor: Kelly MacGregor | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; cross-listed with ENVI 160-01; must register for GEOL 160-L1*
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The planet Earth is an amazing place, with a dynamic interior and surface even after 4.6 billion years under its belt. At its most basic, this class is an introduction to the materials and structure of the Earth, and to the processes acting on and in the Earth to produce change. We will begin to learn the language of geology through a study of plate tectonics, planetary structure, and rocks of all sorts. I am particularly interested in the physical forces that shape the surface of the Earth, and I am excited to teach you about a multitude of surface processes that shape our planet (rivers and glaciers and landslides, oh my!) and tell you about my research on glaciers and in rivers. The planet has begun to show signs of our expanding population and the increasing need for natural resources, and we will consider the feedbacks between humans and the Earth as well. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 160-02 | Dynamic Earth/Global Change | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Alan Chapman | Avail./Max.: 22 / 48 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 160-02; must register for either GEOL 160-L2 or GEOL 160-L3*
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GEOL 160-L1 | Dynamic Earth/Global Chng Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 187 | Instructor: Jeffrey Thole | Avail./Max.: -1 / 16 |
*First Year Lab only; cross-listed with ENVI 160-L1*
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GEOL 160-L2 | Dynamic Earth/Global Chng Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:00 am | Room: OLRI 187 | Instructor: Jeffrey Thole | Avail./Max.: 15 / 24 |
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GEOL 160-L3 | Dynamic Earth/Global Chng Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:20 pm | Room: OLRI 187 | Instructor: Jeffrey Thole | Avail./Max.: 8 / 24 |
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GEOL 165-01 | History/Evolution of Earth | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-04:20 pm | Room: OLRI 175 | Instructor: Raymond Rogers | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; first day attendance required.*
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This first-year course provides an overview of major happenings in the history of Earth over the past 4.5 billion years, and the story is amazing. We will explore the birth of Earth (and its moon), the making of mountains, the history of climate change, and the many cataclysmic events that punctuate Earth history. We will also learn the methods that geoscientists use to decipher the Earth’s long history. Major emphasis is placed on tracking the evolution of life, from the simplest single-celled organisms of the early Earth to today’s diverse floras and faunas. Another major focus is the linkage among Earth’s major systems: the rocks, atmosphere, oceans, and life did not and do not evolve independently. Changes in one major component of the system impact all aspects of the system. Our class will include an overnight fossil-collecting field trip (weather permitting). Key lab exercises and projects will be incorporated into class time. This course is required for geology majors, and counts toward the major. The class will meet twice a week for three-hour blocks. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 250-01 | Mineralogy | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 179 | Instructor: Anna Lindquist | Avail./Max.: 7 / 18 |
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This course examines the relationships between symmetry, chemistry, physical and optical properties, and occurrence of minerals. General cosmochemistry, geochemistry and crystal growth will also be discussed. Laboratory projects include crystal morphology and symmetry, optical mineralogy, x-ray diffraction, wet chemistry, and the identification of common rock-forming minerals. Three hours lecture and three hours lab per week. Field trips. (5 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 250-L1 | Mineralogy Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:20 pm | Room: OLRI 179 | Instructor: Anna Lindquist | Avail./Max.: 7 / 18 |
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This course examines the relationships between symmetry, chemistry, physical and optical properties, and occurrence of minerals. General cosmochemistry, geochemistry and crystal growth will also be discussed. Laboratory projects include crystal morphology and symmetry, optical mineralogy, x-ray diffraction, wet chemistry, and the identification of common rock-forming minerals. Three hours lecture and three hours lab per week. Field trips. (5 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 260-01 | Geomorphology | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 175 | Instructor: Kelly MacGregor | Avail./Max.: 9 / 18 |
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Geomorphology is the study of physical, chemical, and biological processes that occur on the surface of a planetary body. We will be examining the processes that turn solid rock into transportable material, the transport mechanisms themselves (whether beneath glaciers, down hillslopes, or in rivers), and the patterns of deposition, many of which are unique to the processes that created them. These processes range from the very large (volcanism and mountain-building) to the microscopic (frost cracking of rock, soil creep, and chemical weathering along mineralogic grain boundaries). Some processes occur frequently across geographic boundaries and throughout geologic time (like rainsplash), while others are stochastic in nature and dramatic in their geomorphic signature (like glacial outburst floods). We will focus on the roles of rivers, glaciers, and mass movements in shaping landscapes, but will examine wide-ranging landscapes such as arid environments and coastal regions. The study of current surface processes on the Earth will be examined with an eye toward understanding the evolution of landscapes over geologic timescales. (5 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 260-L1 | Geomorphology Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 175 | Instructor: Kelly MacGregor | Avail./Max.: 10 / 18 |
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Geomorphology is the study of physical, chemical, and biological processes that occur on the surface of a planetary body. We will be examining the processes that turn solid rock into transportable material, the transport mechanisms themselves (whether beneath glaciers, down hillslopes, or in rivers), and the patterns of deposition, many of which are unique to the processes that created them. These processes range from the very large (volcanism and mountain-building) to the microscopic (frost cracking of rock, soil creep, and chemical weathering along mineralogic grain boundaries). Some processes occur frequently across geographic boundaries and throughout geologic time (like rainsplash), while others are stochastic in nature and dramatic in their geomorphic signature (like glacial outburst floods). We will focus on the roles of rivers, glaciers, and mass movements in shaping landscapes, but will examine wide-ranging landscapes such as arid environments and coastal regions. The study of current surface processes on the Earth will be examined with an eye toward understanding the evolution of landscapes over geologic timescales. (5 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 294-01 | Soil: Science and Sustainability | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Anna Lindquist | Avail./Max.: 15 / 24 |
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From the food we eat, to the air we breathe, soil shapes our lives. Soil forms in response to local conditions, recording regional climate variability (if you know how to look). Soil is also one of the most important carbon sinks, so the way we interact with soil has the potential to seriously impact our changing climate. However, as an important agricultural resource, we must continue to utilize soil to feed Earth’s growing population. To better understand this under-appreciated layer of Earth, this class will investigate soil formation; variability between types of soil; and the utility of soil in our world today. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 304-01 | Tectonics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 179 | Instructor: Alan Chapman | Avail./Max.: 12 / 18 |
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This course will provide an overview of processes responsible for the formation, deformation, and destruction of Earth's lithosphere. The class will combine perspectives from several geoscientific disciplines to address issues pertinent to plate tectonic processes. The laboratory component of the course will focus on developing good scientific writing and presentation habits. A 3-hour lab accompanies the course. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 304-L1 | Tectonics Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 175 | Instructor: Alan Chapman | Avail./Max.: 12 / 18 |
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This course will provide an overview of processes responsible for the formation, deformation, and destruction of Earth's lithosphere. The class will combine perspectives from several geoscientific disciplines to address issues pertinent to plate tectonic processes. The laboratory component of the course will focus on developing good scientific writing and presentation habits. A 3-hour lab accompanies the course. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
German Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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GERM 101-01 | Elementary German I | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Kiarina Kordela | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
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Introduction to German language and culture. Emphasis on comprehension of oral and written contemporary German as well as developing elementary oral proficiency. The course emphasizes vocabulary recognition and acquisition within a variety of concrete contexts. Students develop facility with German within highly structured contexts. Contemporary culture in German-speaking countries provides the content of the course. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Students with any previous training in German must take the German placement exam. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 101-L1 | Elementary German I Lab | Days: M | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 1 / 7 |
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Introduction to German language and culture. Emphasis on comprehension of oral and written contemporary German as well as developing elementary oral proficiency. The course emphasizes vocabulary recognition and acquisition within a variety of concrete contexts. Students develop facility with German within highly structured contexts. Contemporary culture in German-speaking countries provides the content of the course. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Students with any previous training in German must take the German placement exam. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 101-L2 | Elementary German I Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:00 pm-04:00 pm | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 7 / 7 |
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Introduction to German language and culture. Emphasis on comprehension of oral and written contemporary German as well as developing elementary oral proficiency. The course emphasizes vocabulary recognition and acquisition within a variety of concrete contexts. Students develop facility with German within highly structured contexts. Contemporary culture in German-speaking countries provides the content of the course. For beginning students with no previous German language instruction. Students with any previous training in German must take the German placement exam. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 101-L3 | Elementary German I Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 5 / 5 |
*TBA section is reserved only for students whose academic class schedules conflict with all lab sessions offered. In such cases, you will register officially under the TBA section for your level, and contact the department chair, Linda Schulte-Sasse ([email protected]; Neill 211C) prior to the beginning of the semester to coordinate times with other TBA students*
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GERM 110-01 | Accelerated Elementary German | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Rachael Huener | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
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An accelerated course which covers material and proficiency development normally covered in German Studies 101 and 102. The course is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 110-L1 | Accel Elementary German Lab | Days: MW | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 1 / 7 |
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An accelerated course which covers material and proficiency development normally covered in German Studies 101 and 102. The course is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 110-L2 | Accel Elementary German Lab | Days: TR | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 7 / 7 |
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An accelerated course which covers material and proficiency development normally covered in German Studies 101 and 102. The course is for students with prior experience with German who need a concentrated review or students with previous other foreign language background who wish to work at an accelerated pace. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 110-L3 | Accel Elementary German Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 5 / 5 |
*TBA section is reserved only for students whose academic class schedules conflict with all lab sessions offered. In such cases, you will register officially under the TBA section for your level, and contact the department chair, Linda Schulte-Sasse ([email protected]; Neill 211C) prior to the beginning of the semester to coordinate times with other TBA students*
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GERM 174-01 | Vampires - from Monsters to Superheroes | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Brigetta Abel | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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GERM 203-01 | Intermediate German I | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Linda Schulte-Sasse | Avail./Max.: 3 / 20 |
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This course is designed to help students increase their proficiency in the German language while emphasizing authentic cultural contexts. Through exposure to a variety of texts and text types, students develop oral and written proficiency in description and narration and develop tools and discourse strategies for culturally authentic interaction with native speakers. Cultural topics are expanded and deepened. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 203-L1 | Intermediate German I Lab | Days: M | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: -2 / 5 |
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This course is designed to help students increase their proficiency in the German language while emphasizing authentic cultural contexts. Through exposure to a variety of texts and text types, students develop oral and written proficiency in description and narration and develop tools and discourse strategies for culturally authentic interaction with native speakers. Cultural topics are expanded and deepened. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 203-L2 | Intermediate German I Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: -1 / 5 |
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This course is designed to help students increase their proficiency in the German language while emphasizing authentic cultural contexts. Through exposure to a variety of texts and text types, students develop oral and written proficiency in description and narration and develop tools and discourse strategies for culturally authentic interaction with native speakers. Cultural topics are expanded and deepened. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 203-L3 | Intermediate German I Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 1 / 5 |
Details
This course is designed to help students increase their proficiency in the German language while emphasizing authentic cultural contexts. Through exposure to a variety of texts and text types, students develop oral and written proficiency in description and narration and develop tools and discourse strategies for culturally authentic interaction with native speakers. Cultural topics are expanded and deepened. Three hours per week plus conversation laboratory hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 203-L5 | Intermediate German I Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 5 / 5 |
*TBA section is reserved only for students whose academic class schedules conflict with all lab sessions offered. In such cases, you will register officially under the TBA section for your level, and contact the department chair, Linda Schulte-Sasse ([email protected]; Neill 211C) prior to the beginning of the semester to coordinate times with other TBA students*
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GERM 204-01 | Intermediate German II | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Rachael Huener | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
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The course aims to help students attain a comfort level with extended discourse in German within culturally appropriate contexts. Students develop the ability to comprehend authentic spoken German on a variety of topics at length. They develop effective strategies for comprehending a variety of texts and text types. They gain increased facility with extended discourse, such as narrating and describing. Writing in German is also developed so that students can write extensively about familiar topics. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 204-L1 | Intermediate German II Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 2 / 8 |
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The course aims to help students attain a comfort level with extended discourse in German within culturally appropriate contexts. Students develop the ability to comprehend authentic spoken German on a variety of topics at length. They develop effective strategies for comprehending a variety of texts and text types. They gain increased facility with extended discourse, such as narrating and describing. Writing in German is also developed so that students can write extensively about familiar topics. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 204-L2 | Intermediate German II Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 3 / 8 |
Details
The course aims to help students attain a comfort level with extended discourse in German within culturally appropriate contexts. Students develop the ability to comprehend authentic spoken German on a variety of topics at length. They develop effective strategies for comprehending a variety of texts and text types. They gain increased facility with extended discourse, such as narrating and describing. Writing in German is also developed so that students can write extensively about familiar topics. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 204-L3 | Intermediate German II Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 5 / 5 |
*TBA section is reserved only for students whose academic class schedules conflict with all lab sessions offered. In such cases, you will register officially under the TBA section for your level, and contact the department chair, LInda Schulte-Sasse ([email protected]; Neill 211C) prior to the beginning of the semester to coordinate times with other TBA students*
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GERM 279-01 | Value: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Cheap | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Kiarina Kordela | Avail./Max.: 1 / 28 |
*Cross-listed with MCST 279-01; taught in English*
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GERM 305-01 | Advanced German | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Kiarina Kordela | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
Details
This is a language course in which participants expand their abilities in all four language modalities - particularly oral and written expression - through engagement with numerous aspects of the life, literature, and culture of German-speaking countries and their multicultural societies, as well as their relations to the world. Including an extensive review of important advanced language topics, this course offers students the opportunity to improve their German to university-level proficiency. Every semester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 305-L1 | Advanced German Lab | Days: W | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 6 / 10 |
Details
This is a language course in which participants expand their abilities in all four language modalities - particularly oral and written expression - through engagement with numerous aspects of the life, literature, and culture of German-speaking countries and their multicultural societies, as well as their relations to the world. Including an extensive review of important advanced language topics, this course offers students the opportunity to improve their German to university-level proficiency. Every semester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 305-L2 | Advanced German Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 7 / 10 |
*TBA section is reserved only for students whose academic class schedules conflict with all lab sessions offered. In such cases, you will register officially under the TBA section for your level, and contact the department chair, Linda Schulte-Sasse ([email protected]; Neill 211C) prior to the beginning of the semester to coordinate times with other TBA students*
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GERM 308-01 | German Cultural History I | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Rachael Huener | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
*Taught in German*
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GERM 314-01 | Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: David Martyn | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 22 |
*Not available to incoming first-years; cross-listed with PHIL 214-01; taught in English*
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GERM 364-01 | Class Cultures | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: David Martyn | Avail./Max.: 8 / 18 |
*Taught in German*
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Hispanic Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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HISP 101-01 | Elementary Spanish I | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 226 | Instructor: Claudia Giannini | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 101-02 | Elementary Spanish I | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Fernanda Bartolomei-Merlin | Avail./Max.: 0 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 101-03 | Elementary Spanish I | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Claudia Giannini | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 101-L1 | Elementary Spanish I Lab | Days: T | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 1 / 12 |
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Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week plus one hour of tutorial. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. (4 credits, each course) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 101-L2 | Elementary Spanish I Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 0 / 12 |
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Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week plus one hour of tutorial. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. (4 credits, each course) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 101-L3 | Elementary Spanish I Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 0 / 12 |
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Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week plus one hour of tutorial. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. (4 credits, each course) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 101-L4 | Elementary Spanish I Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 1 / 12 |
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Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week plus one hour of tutorial. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. (4 credits, each course) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 101-L5 | Elementary Spanish I Lab | Days: M | Time: 09:30 am-10:00 am | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 7 / 12 |
*TBA sections at all levels (HISP 101/102, 203/204) are reserved for students whose schedules conflict with all lab sessions offered. Officially, they will be registered under the TBA section for their level at the Registrar's Office. Then, they need to see Prof. Susana Blanco-Iglesias (NEILL 200A), Practicum Coordinator, to make arrangements for a TBA session with a tutor in the Department of Hispanic Studies. Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact Susana Blanco-Iglesias sending an e-mail to [email protected] or calling at ext. 6791* |
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HISP 101-L6 | Elementary Spanish I Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:30 pm-02:00 pm | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 8 / 10 |
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Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week plus one hour of tutorial. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. (4 credits, each course) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 101-L7 | Elementary Spanish I Lab | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-07:30 pm | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 5 / 10 |
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Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week plus one hour of tutorial. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. (4 credits, each course) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 102-01 | Elementary Spanish II | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Justin Butler | Avail./Max.: 0 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 102-02 | Elementary Spanish II | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Justin Butler | Avail./Max.: -1 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 102-L1 | Elementary Spanish II Lab | Days: T | Time: 02:25 pm-03:25 pm | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: 3 / 10 |
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Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week plus one hour of tutorial. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. (4 credits, each course) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 102-L2 | Elementary Spanish II Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week plus one hour of tutorial. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. (4 credits, each course) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 102-L3 | Elementary Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week plus one hour of tutorial. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. (4 credits, each course) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 102-L4 | Elementary Spanish II Lab | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-08:00 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week plus one hour of tutorial. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. (4 credits, each course) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 102-L5 | Elementary Spanish II Lab | Days: M | Time: 09:00 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 8 / 10 |
*TBA sections at all levels (HISP 101/102, 203/204) are reserved for students whose schedules conflict with all lab sessions offered. Officially, they will be registered under the TBA section for their level at the Registrar's Office. Then, they need to see Prof. Susana Blanco-Iglesias (NEILL 200A), Practicum Coordinator, to make arrangements for a TBA session with a tutor in the Department of Hispanic Studies. Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact Susana Blanco-Iglesias sending an e-mail to [email protected] or calling at ext. 6791*
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HISP 102-L6 | Elementary Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 5 / 10 |
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Pronunciation, grammar essentials, conversation and reading. Three class hours a week plus one hour of tutorial. Minimal introduction to history and culture of hispanophone countries. (4 credits, each course) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 110-01 | Accelerated Beginning Spanish | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Rosa Rull-Montoya | Avail./Max.: 1 / 15 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; 5 credit course*
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HISP 111-01 | Accelerated Beginning Portuguese | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: Fernanda Bartolomei-Merlin | Avail./Max.: 9 / 15 |
*First day attendance required; 5 credit course*
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HISP 111-02 | Accelerated Beginning Portuguese | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: J. Ernesto Ortiz Diaz | Avail./Max.: 7 / 15 |
*First day attendance required; 5 credit course*
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HISP 171-01 | Susurros del Pasado: Whispers Toward the 21st Century | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Galo Gonzalez | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; cross-listed with LATI 171-01*
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The course “Susurros del Pasado: Whispers toward the 21st Century” will explore the definition of “Indigenous peoples” and its implication within the context of the Americas, and provide a forum for discussion of the suffering, oppression and discrimination experienced by this particular population. The course will also outline continuing struggle for freedom, for cultural and even their physical survival, by examining specific literature and cultural production authored by 20th and 21st century indigenous and non-indigenous authors from North, Central and South America. The chosen literature and cultural texts will illustrate trans-cultural and de-colonization processes, and resistance to assimilation. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 203-01 | Intermediate Spanish I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Rosa Rull-Montoya | Avail./Max.: 0 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 203-02 | Intermediate Spanish I | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Rosa Rull-Montoya | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 203-03 | Intermediate Spanish I | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Margaret Olsen | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 203-04 | Intermediate Spanish I | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Margaret Olsen | Avail./Max.: 3 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 203-L1 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: T | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: -2 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 203-L2 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: -1 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 203-L3 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: 0 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 203-L4 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: R | Time: 02:25 pm-03:25 pm | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: 3 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 203-L5 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: -1 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 203-L6 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: 2 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 203-L8 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 5 / 10 |
*TBA sections at all levels (HISP 101/102, 203/204) are reserved for students whose schedules conflict with all lab sessions offered. Officially, they will be registered under the TBA section for their level at the Registrar's Office. Then, they need to see Prof. Susana Blanco-Iglesias (NEILL 200A), Practicum Coordinator, to make arrangements for a TBA session with a tutor in the Department of Hispanic Studies. Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact Susana Blanco-Iglesias sending an e-mail to [email protected] or calling at ext. 6791* |
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HISP 203-L9 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 5 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 203-L10 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: M | Time: 11:00 am-11:30 am | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 9 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-01 | Intermediate Spanish II | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Blanca Gimeno Escudero | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 204-02 | Intermediate Spanish II | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Blanca Gimeno Escudero | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 204-03 | Intermediate Spanish II | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Blanca Gimeno Escudero | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 204-L1 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
*Lab will meet in Casa Hispana*
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HISP 204-L2 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: T | Time: 02:25 pm-03:25 pm | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 3 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L3 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L4 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: 02:25 pm-03:25 pm | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 3 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L5 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 4 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L6 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 5 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L7 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: T | Time: 02:00 pm-02:30 pm | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 8 / 10 |
*TBA sections at all levels (HISP 101/102, 203/204) are reserved for students whose schedules conflict with all lab sessions offered. Officially, they will be registered under the TBA section for their level at the Registrar's Office. Then, they need to see Prof. Susana Blanco-Iglesias (NEILL 200A), Practicum Coordinator, to make arrangements for a TBA session with a tutor in the Department of Hispanic Studies. Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact Susana Blanco-Iglesias sending an e-mail to [email protected] or calling at ext. 6791* |
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HISP 204-L8 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: W | Time: 04:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 9 / 10 |
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Intermediate Spanish extends and deepens awareness and use of linguistic functions in Spanish. Formal introduction to history and culture of Hispanophone countries. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 220-01 | Accel Intermediate Spanish | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Susana Blanco-Iglesias | Avail./Max.: 0 / 15 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; 5 credit course*
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HISP 294-01 | Iberian Frontiers: Convivencia and Conflict, 711-1492 | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Rebecca Church | Avail./Max.: 10 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with CLAS 294-01 and HIST 294-03*
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Throughout the Middle Ages, as Christianity and Islam dominated parts of the Iberian peninsula, from the 8th to the 15th century, convivencia and conflict existed side by side. Where did people practice tolerance, and how and why? Where did they fight and why? How did the Jewish population fit in on either side? What life look like on the ground, in the narrow city streets, the gardens, the villages of al-Andalus and the Christian kingdoms? How did Iberia relate to the wider worlds of North Africa, France, and the Mediterranean? We'll use poetry, charters, and chronicles to explore how complex identities, cooperation, and, also, violence created porous borders along shifting frontiers. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 305-01 | Introduction to Hispanic Studies: Oral and Written Expression | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Cynthia Kauffeld | Avail./Max.: 0 / 15 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 305-02 | Introduction to Hispanic Studies: Oral and Written Expression | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Antonio Dorca | Avail./Max.: 1 / 15 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 305-03 | Introduction to Hispanic Studies: Oral and Written Expression | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Antonio Dorca | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 15 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 305-04 | Introduction to Hispanic Studies: Oral and Written Expression | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Teresa Mesa Adamuz | Avail./Max.: -2 / 15 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 307-01 | Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Texts | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Teresa Mesa Adamuz | Avail./Max.: 2 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 307-01; first day attendance required*
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HISP 308-01 | Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Studies | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Galo Gonzalez | Avail./Max.: -1 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 308-01 and LATI 308-01; first day attendance required*
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HISP 309-01 | Intro to Hispanic Linguistics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Susana Blanco-Iglesias | Avail./Max.: 0 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with LING 309-01; first day attendance required*
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HISP 388-01 | Junior Seminar | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-08:00 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Cynthia Kauffeld | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; 1 credit course*
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HISP 394-01 | Journeys Through Brazil | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: J. Ernesto Ortiz Diaz | Avail./Max.: 8 / 20 |
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This intermediate course in Portuguese focuses on the civilization and cultures of Brazil. Despite its continental size and being the 6th largest world economy, Brazil remains a mystery to many. In this class we will explore the socio-historical, political and cultural trajectory Brazil has undertaken while, at the same time, reflecting on how ideas such as nation, identity, race, ethnicity, and class have transformed the face of the country. We will use a wide array of texts and materials –literature, music, painting, sculpture, architecture, dance, and cinema– to gain a broad and critical understanding of the Brazilian universe. Join us on these journeys of discovery! This course will be taught in Portuguese. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 415-01 | Cultural Resistance/Survival: Indigenous and African Peoples in Early Spanish America | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Margaret Olsen | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 415-01 and LATI 415-01*
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HISP 436-01 | Spanish Dialectology | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Cynthia Kauffeld | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 436-01 and LING 436-01*
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HISP 445-01 | Frontera: The U.S./Mexico Border | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Alicia Munoz | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 445-01 and LATI 445-01; first day attendance required*
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History
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HIST 114-01 | History of Africa to 1800 | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Tiffany Gleason | Avail./Max.: 1 / 15 |
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A study of the history of Africa before 1800, this course covers the major themes relating to the development of African societies and cultures from the earliest times. Students will engage with themes of state-building, trade and religion as catalysts for change and learn how historians have reconstructed the history of early Africa. This course will provide students with knowledge of specific case studies from North, South, East, West, and Central Africa. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 122-01 | The Roman World | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Beth Severy-Hoven | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with CLAS 122-01*
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HIST 140-01 | Introduction to East Asian Civilization | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Yue-him Tam | Avail./Max.: 0 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 140-01*
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HIST 181-01 | Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Jesse Zarley | Avail./Max.: 8 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 181-01*
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HIST 194-01 | Influential Indians: A Biographical Approach to American Indian History | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Katrina Phillips | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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This first-year course introduces students to American Indian history though biographical studies of famous (and not-so-famous) American Indians. From athletes to activists, warriors to writers, and political pundits to performers, American Indians were and are a driving force in shaping not only their worlds but the world around them. The historical and contemporary aspects of American Indians’ political sovereignty, cultural preservation, and economic development underscore their agency and highlight their resistance to federal Indian policy. Using a variety of primary and secondary sources written by and about American Indians, students will develop their critical reading skills while fostering their historical research and writing abilities. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 194-02 | Sex, Love, and Gender in History | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Jessica Pearson | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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This First-Year Course will use a global/comparative approach to introduce students to the ways that historians think about sex, love, and gender. We will explore themes such as sex and war, the role of the state in shaping people’s intimate lives, the intersections between gender, race, and social class, changing courtship practices, and the ways that the politics of sex and gender shaped the evolution of empires and nations. We will also consider how different sexualities and gender roles mapped onto different urban spaces, exploring prostitution in nineteenth-century London and Paris and the evolution of LGBTQ communities in New York and Berlin. Students will engage with a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from memoirs, poems and novels, art, film, and photography and will engage with a range of theoretical approaches to thinking about sex and gender. This course will emphasize critical reading and analysis skills and will also introduce students to the basic tenets of historical research and writing. Meets global and/or comparative history requirement. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 219-01 | In Motion: African Americans in the United States | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Crystal Moten | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 219-01, first day attendance required*
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HIST 229-01 | Narrating Black Women's Resistance | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Crystal Moten | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 14 |
* Cross-listed with AMST 229-01 and WGSS 229-01; first day attendance required*
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HIST 234-01 | U.S. Environmental History | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Chris Wells | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 234-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of instructor*
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HIST 234-02 | U.S. Environmental History | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 300 | Instructor: Chris Wells | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; cross-listed with ENVI 234-02; first day attendance required*
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HIST 250-01 | Science, Magic and Belief | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Basit Qureshi | Avail./Max.: 2 / 15 |
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Events of the distant European past continue to shape our modern attitudes towards religion, magic and science. How did people in the sixteenth- and seventeenth- century Atlantic world use these frameworks to make sense of the world around them? In this course we will journey back to the period of the "Scientific Revolution" to investigate how and why people began to distinguish sharply between the three systems. Who lost, and who profited, from this transition? What similarities between religion, magic and science persisted? To understand this turning point, we will compare contemporaneous cases of individuals who practiced magic, science and religion and ran afoul of authorities. Their trials highlight how the three spheres began to diverge. Cases we will consider might include the 1633 trial of Galileo, and the 1663 witchcraft trial of Tempel Anneke in Germany. We will also substantially explore medieval conceptions of scientia, religio, and magia, locating early modern developments within a broader sweep of pre-modern history. This course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for the major. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 251-01 | Pirates, Translators, and Missionaries: Indian Ocean World Connections | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Tiffany Gleason | Avail./Max.: 5 / 15 |
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Though this course has in previous semesters focussed on case studies of interlocutors who moved between the Spanish, Aztec, English, French, Kongolese and Portuguese empires of the early modern period and considered various conflicting primary source accounts, this semester we will be focussing on interlocutors from the Swahili Coast through the Melaka Straits and beyond. The integral role of Islam will be examined in addition to the creation of various Creole communities of the Malagasy, East Africans, and European renegades of Madagascar and surrounding islands. Traders who followed the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean established distinctive Swahili communities blending Indian, Arabian and Bantu African languages and belief systems on the coast. Using primary source documents from captains’ logs, ships’ manifests and trading records of individuals we will examine how individual actions contributed to the creation of complex identity in this historical space of coastal transshipment points such as Kilwa, Malindi, Moqdishu, Hormuz, Calicut, Madras, Melaka and Guangzhou. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 261-01 | Making History: Russian Cinema as Testimony, Propaganda, and Art | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Julia Chadaga | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; cross-listed with RUSS 261-01*
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Throughout history, we have turned to storytelling to make sense of our world. We tell stories about the past to document and explain phenomena, to justify our political and social agendas, to create connections, and to give life meaning. In the twentieth century, Russia helped introduce the world to a spectacular new form of storytelling—film—and used it to alter previous narratives in the hope of reshaping the future. In this course, we will look at written and cinematic representations of Russian history, from medieval times to the post-Soviet era. One task of the course will be to articulate how storytelling in film differs from historiography and fiction. Another will be to show how politics, power relations, technology, and aesthetics have shaped film depictions of key historical events. We will analyze the films as narratives about real events, as vehicles of propaganda, and as imaginative works of art. The course will consist of mini-lectures, class discussion, and weekly film screenings. All films will have subtitles, and no knowledge of Russia or Russian history is required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 285-01 | Cold War Latin America | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Jesse Zarley | Avail./Max.: 1 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 285-01*
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HIST 294-01 | Vodou and Santeria: African Diasporic Religious History | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Tiffany Gleason | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with RELI 294-01*
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How did a complex religious pantheon come to represent bad Hollywood zombie movies and New Orleans-style voodoo dolls? In this course, we will find out by investigating the history of complex religious practices such as Haitian Voudou, which originated with West African Vodou and Kongolese religious practices as the slaves from these regions were brought to the island of Hispaniola during the trans-Atlantic slave system and changed over time as people continuously interacted across the Atlantic world. We will also explore other African-based religions. For example, the orisha religions of Yoruba peoples in West Africa came to places such as Brazil and Cuba at various points in both the legal and illicit slave trading periods. Peoples of African descent experienced a bricolage of cultural impacts and remade themselves in the Americas but did not forget ties to the homeland. Religions such as Christianity and Islam also inserted themselves into these communities and emerged intertwined. The movements of Africans and their descendants came to North America adapting and adopting even more of their practices to meet specific needs. We will learn about the values, attitudes and norms that historically shaped the cultures of peoples across the Atlantic. The Caribbean, Brazil and West Africa, will be our primary focuses. Specifically, you will come to understand the complexity of religious practices commonly known as Santeria, Candomble, Vodou, Palo Mayombe, Ifa, and Hoodoo, among others. By placing these systems in an appropriate historical context, we will identify and analyze key elements, biases and influences that shape the disciplines of History and World Religions. Meets global and/or comparative history requirement. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-03 | Iberian Frontiers: Convivencia and Conflict, 711-1492 | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Rebecca Church | Avail./Max.: 10 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with CLAS 294-01 and HISP 294-01*
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Throughout the Middle Ages, as Christianity and Islam dominated parts of the Iberian peninsula, from the 8th to the 15th century, convivencia and conflict existed side by side. Where did people practice tolerance, and how and why? Where did they fight and why? How did the Jewish population fit in on either side? What life look like on the ground, in the narrow city streets, the gardens, the villages of al-Andalus and the Christian kingdoms? How did Iberia relate to the wider worlds of North Africa, France, and the Mediterranean? We'll use poetry, charters, and chronicles to explore how complex identities, cooperation, and, also, violence created porous borders along shifting frontiers. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-04 | Public History:African American Life - Past, Present and Future | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Harris, Sturtz | Avail./Max.: 0 / 15 |
*Permission of instructor required; applications are due April 28 at noon. The application form is available at: https://goo.gl/Pz0E2Y; cross-listed with AMST 294-01*
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This course introduces students to theories and practices of Public History – the ways that people understand and make use of the past in our everyday lives – by focusing on one topic, that of African American History. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-05 | Uses and Abuses: A History of Drugs, Addiction, and Recovery in the U.S | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Amy Sullivan | Avail./Max.: Closed -3 / 16 |
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After a brief but essential global history of drugs, this course will focus primarily on the 20th century to the present. We will examine histories of substance use and abuse, temperance and prohibition, the “War on Drugs,” the shifting concept of addiction as a moral failing to addiction as a treatable disease, as well as study the history of the recovery movement. This course is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive history of the subject—but will provide you with a solid base from which to explore other aspects of this fascinating and contentious chapter in human history. The books and readings are intentionally interdisciplinary and will center on an intersectional approach to drugs as they relate to various groups and sectors of society—race, gender and class will be integrated and noted throughout. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-06 | Race and Immigration in Europe | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Jessica Pearson | Avail./Max.: -2 / 20 |
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This course will explore the way that questions of race have shaped European society and politics, as well as the ways that immigration has created the uneasily multi-cultural Europe that we know today. We will explore topics such as the origins of immigration policy in interwar Europe, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, race and empire, post-colonial immigration from Africa and Asia, the place of Islam in European society, the emergence of anti-immigration political movements on the extreme right, and we will end the course with a discussion of the current migration crisis in Europe. This course will give students a historical as well as a contemporary perspective on questions of race and immigration in European society. In addition to our readings of leading scholars in this field, we will engage with historical documents, literature, and film, as well as with contemporary European news coverage. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-08 | Technology and the Environment in the Pre-Modern World | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Basit Qureshi | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 294-02*
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From volcanic activity to viral pandemics, from flooding rivers to invasive fauna, every human society has had to face material, ecological, climactic, and other such challenges particular to its environment. In this interdisciplinary course, we will investigate how human societies in the pre-modern world developed different sorts of technologies to confront and adapt to the challenges presented by their environments. Drawing upon a diverse array of sources, including glacial ice core data and saints’ lives, we will explore how human technologies changed local environments in both intended and unintended ways. Environmental consequences presented new challenges that required further technological adaptation, fundamentally shaping trajectories of societal development from classical China to medieval Europe, from ancient Oceania to the Americas. In studying the formative relationship between technology and the environment in pre-modern global contexts, we will arrive at a more informed understanding of the emergence of the modern world. For our purposes in this course, “technology” will include not only physical tools but also political-cultural ideologies, systems of government, religions, scientific theories, and techniques of domestication. “Environment” will similarly be defined broadly: climate, physical geography, biosphere, and urban settlements. This course fulfills the global and/or comparative history as well as the pre-1800 requirements for the major. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-10 | The Once and Future King: Arthur in History, Literature and Art | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Basit Qureshi | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
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Stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have captivated audiences for over a thousand years. In this interdisciplinary course, we will examine a diversity of historical artifacts, literary texts, and artistic works that engage with Arthurian lore. We will approach each instance of such “Arthuriana” as a construct particular to its own time and place of production. Indeed, like most classics, the Arthurian legend endures not because of the allure of its original form but because of its fundamental adaptability. Camelot was, is, and will continue to be a stage on which societies play out their hopes, fears, and everything in between. Our goal, therefore, will be to illuminate and understand how contemporary social, cultural, and political agendas have shaped and, in turn, have been shaped by each compelling incarnation of Arthur’s court. Course topics will span the gamut of Arthurian tradition: from medieval Welsh folklore re-imagining the post-Roman “Dark Ages” to T.H. White’s modern saga responding to the horrors of World War II; from Sir Thomas Malory’s compendium reflecting the Wars of the Roses (the medieval inspiration for ‘A Game of Thrones’) to Monty Python’s satirical musings on a millennium of chivalry and flesh wounds. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-11 | Get in Formation: Black Protest Music | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Crystal Moten | Avail./Max.: -1 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; appropriate for First Years; cross-listed with AMST 294-02, MUSI 294-02 and, WGSS 294-01*
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Throughout African American history, people of African descent in the United States have always utilized the tools at their disposal to resist oppression. This includes music. Music heals, empowers, and exposes--joy, pain, love, anger, happiness, suffering and hope. Using a black feminist, intersectional lens, this course is a topical introduction to various traditions within African American music from the enslavement period until the present. Not meant to be exhaustive, the course will examine the connections between music and major turning points in African American social, cultural, and political history. The course also pays special attention to the ways in which race, class, gender, and sexuality impact the creation, interpretation, performance, and reception of black protest music. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 378-01 | War Crimes and Memory in East Asia | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Yue-him Tam | Avail./Max.: 4 / 14 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 378-01*
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HIST 381-01 | Transnational Latin Americas | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Jesse Zarley | Avail./Max.: 3 / 14 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 381-01 and LATI 381-01*
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HIST 490-01 | Senior Seminar in History | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Katrina Phillips | Avail./Max.: 2 / 15 |
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The senior seminar is taught every fall on themes that cross chronological and geographic lines. Past themes have included Memory, Migration, Gender and Micro-History. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Interdisciplinary Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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INTD 100-01 | Supplemental Writer's Workshop | Days: M | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: Karine Moe | Avail./Max.: 4 / 10 |
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This course meets for one hour once a week during the fall semester. The course carries one credit and is offered on a pass/fail basis. Most of each hour is spent working through writing assignments students are producing for their other courses. Each session typically focuses on one feature of writing (for instance, generating ideas, organizing paragraphs, or revising strategies). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTD 100-02 | Supplemental Writer's Workshop | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-09:00 am | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Juliette Rogers | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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This course meets for one hour once a week during the fall semester. The course carries one credit and is offered on a pass/fail basis. Most of each hour is spent working through writing assignments students are producing for their other courses. Each session typically focuses on one feature of writing (for instance, generating ideas, organizing paragraphs, or revising strategies). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTD 100-03 | Supplemental Writer's Workshop | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Michael Zis | Avail./Max.: 2 / 10 |
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This course meets for one hour once a week during the fall semester. The course carries one credit and is offered on a pass/fail basis. Most of each hour is spent working through writing assignments students are producing for their other courses. Each session typically focuses on one feature of writing (for instance, generating ideas, organizing paragraphs, or revising strategies). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTD 100-04 | Supplemental Writer's Workshop | Days: W | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Susan Green | Avail./Max.: 2 / 10 |
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This course meets for one hour once a week during the fall semester. The course carries one credit and is offered on a pass/fail basis. Most of each hour is spent working through writing assignments students are producing for their other courses. Each session typically focuses on one feature of writing (for instance, generating ideas, organizing paragraphs, or revising strategies). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTD 100-05 | Supplemental Writer's Workshop | Days: W | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Tina Kruse | Avail./Max.: 0 / 10 |
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This course meets for one hour once a week during the fall semester. The course carries one credit and is offered on a pass/fail basis. Most of each hour is spent working through writing assignments students are producing for their other courses. Each session typically focuses on one feature of writing (for instance, generating ideas, organizing paragraphs, or revising strategies). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTD 100-06 | Supplemental Writer's Workshop | Days: M | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Rivi Handler-Spitz | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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This course meets for one hour once a week during the fall semester. The course carries one credit and is offered on a pass/fail basis. Most of each hour is spent working through writing assignments students are producing for their other courses. Each session typically focuses on one feature of writing (for instance, generating ideas, organizing paragraphs, or revising strategies). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTD 100-08 | Supplemental Writer's Workshop | Days: T | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: Brigetta Abel | Avail./Max.: 2 / 10 |
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This course meets for one hour once a week during the fall semester. The course carries one credit and is offered on a pass/fail basis. Most of each hour is spent working through writing assignments students are producing for their other courses. Each session typically focuses on one feature of writing (for instance, generating ideas, organizing paragraphs, or revising strategies). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTD 100-09 | Supplemental Writer's Workshop | Days: W | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Michael Griffin | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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This course meets for one hour once a week during the fall semester. The course carries one credit and is offered on a pass/fail basis. Most of each hour is spent working through writing assignments students are producing for their other courses. Each session typically focuses on one feature of writing (for instance, generating ideas, organizing paragraphs, or revising strategies). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTD 100-10 | Supplemental Writer's Workshop | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: Jake Mohan | Avail./Max.: 0 / 10 |
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This course meets for one hour once a week during the fall semester. The course carries one credit and is offered on a pass/fail basis. Most of each hour is spent working through writing assignments students are producing for their other courses. Each session typically focuses on one feature of writing (for instance, generating ideas, organizing paragraphs, or revising strategies). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTD 401-01 | Urban Studies Colloquium | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-08:30 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Daniel Trudeau | Avail./Max.: 4 / 15 |
*Open to seniors with a declared urban studies concentration only; 2 credit course* |
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INTD 421-01 | Human Rights and Humanitarianism Colloquium | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 411 | Instructor: Wendy Weber | Avail./Max.: 21 / 25 |
*2 credit course; S/SD/N grading only*
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International Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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INTL 112-01 | Intro to International Studies: Globalization, Media, and Cultural Identities | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Zeynep Gursel | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
*Open to those who will be first years and sophomores in the fall, or by permission of instructor*
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INTL 112-02 | Intro to International Studies: Globalization, Media, and Cultural Identities | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Zeynep Gursel | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
*Open to those who will be first years and sophomores in the fall, or by permission of instructor*
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INTL 194-01 | Introduction to Islam | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Gregory Lipton | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; cross-listed with RELI 100-01*
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This course charts the formation of Islam and the expansion of Muslim peoples, from the life of the Prophet Muhammad to the Mongol conquest of Baghdad. It will examine Muslim institutions, beliefs, and ritual practices in their historical contexts. In addition to the basics of Muslim practice and belief, the class will introduce students to mystic traditions (Sufism), Islamicate statecraft, and intellectual/legal traditions as well as cultural trends including art, architecture, and literature. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTL 194-02 | Intro to International Studies: Travel and Migration | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 206 | Instructor: Igor Tchoukarine | Avail./Max.: 5 / 25 |
*Open to those who will be first years and sophomores in the fall, or by permission of instructor*
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Travel and migration, whether performed by diplomats, refugees, soldiers, scientists, traders, or tourists, is at the core of countless past and present societies, and connects closely to how we live, work and conceive of ourselves in our interconnected world. This course introduces students to global studies in two ways: by exploring a set of ideas and authors influential in the study of travel and mobility in its many forms; and by investigating, through examples drawn from many actors, centuries, and locales, the countless motives for and consequences of world travel. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTL 202-01 | Global Media Industries | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Michael Griffin | Avail./Max.: -1 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with MCST 202-01*
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INTL 232-01 | Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Kate Reiling | Avail./Max.: 0 / 20 |
*Open to First Year students; cross-listed with SOCI 232-01; first day attendance required; students that have completed the Economics Department Entrepreneurship course cannot enroll in this course*
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This course is focused and driven by student team project work. Students will prioritize social problems / issues for which they would like to engage in the creation / implementation of a solution. They will spend the semester working to more deeply understand the problems, research successful and failed attempts to resolve the problem in other contexts, and to generate a solution that includes a well researched model for introducing sustainable social change. It is through this engagement that students will grapple with the challenging realities of practice and implementation. Students will study several methodologies including Lean Startup, Human Centered Design, Participatory Poverty Assessment and Impact Gap Analysis. Students will learn through their own experiences and utilize case studies comparing problems, their root causes and the entrepreneurial approaches deployed to address them from various countries and cultural contexts. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTL 245-01 | Intro to Intl Human Rights | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: James von Geldern | Avail./Max.: 4 / 25 |
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This course offers a theoretical and practical introduction to the study and promotion of human rights. Using broad materials, it focuses on the evolution and definition of key concepts, the debate over "universal" rights, regional and international institutions, core documents, the role of states, and current topics of interest to the human rights movement. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTL 253-01 | Comparative Muslim Cultures | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Jenna Rice Rahaim | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ANTH 253-01 and RELI 294-02*
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INTL 282-01 | Introduction to International Public Health | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Kata Chillag | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 25 |
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This course introduces and explores the major health problems facing developing countries, and the main approaches to remediation. The course will place emphasis on the social, ethical, and political dimensions of international public health policies, programs, and research. The course considers the social determinants of health, and the need for public health programs to address the root causes of health inequities as well as illness itself. Different perspectives and approaches to health problems will be considered and debated, including occasional guest presentations and discussions with international public health professionals. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTL 285-01 | Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Nadya Nedelsky | Avail./Max.: Closed -4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with POLI 285-01*
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INTL 294-01 | Disease Eradication:Global Health Policy, Practice, and the Challenges of the Polio End Game | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 206 | Instructor: Kata Chillag | Avail./Max.: 7 / 25 |
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The scale and complexity of disease eradication efforts highlight technical, sociocultural, economic, and political dynamics present in many global health programs. Such efforts present dilemmas and questions common in global health: how to invest limited resources? Whose priorities and what values does a policy or program reflect? What will be the impacts —positive and negative—on health systems, other health and societal problems, and future public health efforts? This course will examine principles of and justifications for disease elimination and eradication initiatives and the technical, sociocultural, and political dimensions of past and current efforts, including smallpox, neglected tropical diseases, and malaria. The centerpiece will be an in-depth examination of the polio eradication initiative and its final stages. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTL 364-01 | Culture and Revolution | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: James von Geldern | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with RUSS 364-01*
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INTL 368-01 | Sustainable Development and Global Future | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Roopali Phadke | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 368-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of instructor*
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INTL 381-01 | Transnational Latin Americas | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Jesse Zarley | Avail./Max.: 3 / 14 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 381-01 and LATI 381-01*
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INTL 384-01 | Langston Hughes: Global Writer | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: David Moore | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 384-01 and ENGL 384-01*
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INTL 415-01 | Cultural Resistance/Survival: Indigenous and African Peoples in Early Spanish America | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Margaret Olsen | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 415-01 and LATI 415-01*
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INTL 477-01 | Comparative Environment and Development Studies | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: William Moseley | Avail./Max.: 7 / 15 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with ENVI 477-01 and GEOG 477-01; first day attendance required*
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INTL 485-01 | Senior Seminar: Confronting Global Hatred | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Nadya Nedelsky | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*Senior seminar*
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INTL 494-01 | Global Media Spectacle | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Zeynep Gursel | Avail./Max.: -1 / 15 |
*Senior seminar; first day attendance required*
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What is an event? Events shape international relations. Events occur, but they are also constructed in that events must be mediated in order to be knowable. How are events recognized as events both when they happen and as they are passed on to generations who never witnessed the event? This class will look at what constitutes an event by considering ways in which events have been theorized across disciplines. Then we will work through a few case studies of events and their mediation (some possible events we might consider include hurricane Katrina, the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the Iran revolution, the bombing of Hiroshima, the fall of the Berlin Wall, September 11th, the circulation of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse photographs, the earthquake in Haiti) The final third of the course will be run as a writing-workshop in which students will be producing their own capstone papers. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Japanese
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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JAPA 101-01 | First Year Japanese I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Arthur Mitchell | Avail./Max.: -1 / 20 |
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Introduction to Japanese language and culture. Practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write Japanese. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 101-02 | First Year Japanese I | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Arthur Mitchell | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
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Introduction to Japanese language and culture. Practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write Japanese. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 101-L1 | First Year Japanese I Lab | Days: T | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: -9 / 12 |
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Introduction to Japanese language and culture. Practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write Japanese. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 101-L2 | First Year Japanese I Lab | Days: M | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 4 / 12 |
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Introduction to Japanese language and culture. Practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write Japanese. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 101-L3 | First Year Japanese I Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 1 / 12 |
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Introduction to Japanese language and culture. Practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write Japanese. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 203-01 | Second Year Japanese I | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Ritsuko Larson | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
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Continuation of Japanese 102. While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of kanji and begin to work with short texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 203-02 | Second Year Japanese I | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Ritsuko Larson | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
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Continuation of Japanese 102. While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of kanji and begin to work with short texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 203-L1 | Second Year Japanese I Lab | Days: R | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 6 / 12 |
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Continuation of Japanese 102. While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of kanji and begin to work with short texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 203-L2 | Second Year Japanese I Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 6 / 12 |
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Continuation of Japanese 102. While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of kanji and begin to work with short texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 203-L3 | Second Year Japanese I Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 7 / 12 |
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Continuation of Japanese 102. While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of kanji and begin to work with short texts. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 254-01 | Japanese Film and Animation: From the Salaryman to the Shojo | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Arthur Mitchell | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 254-01; film screenings Monday evenings in Neill 402*
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JAPA 305-01 | Third Year Japanese I | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Ritsuko Larson | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
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Continuation of Japanese 204. Emphasizes continued development of conversation skills, while not neglecting the development of reading skills. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 305-L1 | Third Year Japanese I Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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Continuation of Japanese 204. Emphasizes continued development of conversation skills, while not neglecting the development of reading skills. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 305-L2 | Third Year Japanese I Lab | Days: W | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 3 / 10 |
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Continuation of Japanese 204. Emphasizes continued development of conversation skills, while not neglecting the development of reading skills. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 335-01 | Analyzing Japanese Language | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Satoko Suzuki | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 335-01 and LING 335-01*
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JAPA 407-01 | Fourth Year Japanese I | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Satoko Suzuki | Avail./Max.: 1 / 15 |
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This course aims at the acquisition of advanced level proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students are given opportunities to develop abilities to narrate and describe, to understand main ideas and most details of connected discourse on a variety of topics, to read prose several paragraphs in length, and to write routine social correspondence and join sentences in simple discourse of at least several paragraphs in length on familiar topics. In addition, students will practice language that is sociolinguistically appropriate in specific situations. May be repeated for credit. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Latin American Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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LATI 171-01 | Susurros del Pasado: Whispers Toward the 21st Century | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Galo Gonzalez | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; Cross-listed with HISP 171-01*
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LATI 181-01 | Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Jesse Zarley | Avail./Max.: 8 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 181-01*
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LATI 249-01 | Regional Geog of Latin America | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Eric Carter | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; cross-listed with GEOG 249-01; first day attendance required*
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This course explores one of the world’s most vibrant regions, Latin America. Extending from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego, this world region stretches across diverse landscapes, from tropical rainforests to the snowcapped peaks of the Andes, from mega-cities to empty deserts and plains. This variety of environments also fosters great cultural diversity: although the nations of Latin America share similar historical roots, each one has its own character and its own complex geography. This course explores the geography of Latin America through a combination of thematic and regional approaches. Major topics include physical geography and the natural environment; pre-Columbian, colonial, and modern history; race and identity; urbanism; agriculture and land use; major environmental problems; economy and development; international migration; Latino culture and identity in the U.S.; and the economic and cultural impacts of globalization. Along with such general themes, we will also examine the cultural geography of specific core regions, including The Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, the Andean Countries, and the Argentine Pampas. Since this is a first-year course, we will also emphasize developing your skills in written and oral communication, scholarly research, and information literacy. Through research projects that explore different elements of Latin America’s geography, students will get a close-up perspective on the region. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LATI 285-01 | Cold War Latin America | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Jesse Zarley | Avail./Max.: 1 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 285-01*
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LATI 294-03 | Revolution and Counterrevolution in Latin America | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Eric Mosinger | Avail./Max.: 19 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with POLI 294-02*
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Cycles of revolutionary upheaval and counterrevolutionary violence punctuated Latin America’s tumultuous 20th century. This course examines these twinned phenomena by comparing “successful”revolutions (Mexico [1910-1917], Cuba [1959], Nicaragua [1979]) with “unsuccessful” (Bolivia [1952], Chile [1970]) and abortive (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Peru in the 1970s and 1980s) attempts at revolutionary change. These cases provoke a series of interrelated questions: Under what conditions do revolutionary outbreaks occur? Why do revolutionaries take power in some countries and fail in others? How can we explain (counter-)revolutionary mobilization, violence, and terror? Do revolutions produce enduring social change, or reproduce enduring problems? What will the future of revolution look like in our unstable world? By delving together into Latin America's historical specificities and broader theoretical considerations, students in this course will gain a deeper knowledge not only of revolution but of political and social change more generally. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LATI 294-04 | Latin American Music | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: | Instructor: Cecilia Espinosa Arango | Avail./Max.: 0 / 0 |
LATI 307-01 | Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Texts | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Teresa Mesa Adamuz | Avail./Max.: 2 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 307-01; first day attendance required*
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LATI 308-01 | Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Studies | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Galo Gonzalez | Avail./Max.: -1 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 308-01 and HISP 308-01; first day attendance required*
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LATI 381-01 | Transnational Latin Americas | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Jesse Zarley | Avail./Max.: 3 / 14 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 381-01 and INTL 381-01*
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LATI 415-01 | Cultural Resistance/Survival: Indigenous and African Peoples in Early Spanish America | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Margaret Olsen | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 415-01 and INTL 415-01; first day attendance required*
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LATI 436-01 | Spanish Dialectology | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Cynthia Kauffeld | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 436-01 and LING 436-01*
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LATI 445-01 | Frontera: The U.S./Mexico Border | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Alicia Munoz | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 445-01 and HISP 445-01; first day attendance required*
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LATI 488-01 | Senior Seminar | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Olga Gonzalez | Avail./Max.: 7 / 10 |
*First day attendance required*
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Linguistics
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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LING 100-01 | Introduction to Linguistics | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Christina Esposito | Avail./Max.: 1 / 30 |
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The aim of this course is to make you aware of the complex organization and systematic nature of language, the primary means of human communication. In a sense, you will be studying yourself, since you are a prime example of a language user. Most of your knowledge of language, however, is unconscious, and the part of language that you can describe is largely the result of your earlier education, which may have given you confused, confusing, or misleading notions about language. This course is intended to clarify your ideas about language and bring you to a better understanding of its nature. By the end of the course you should be familiar with some of the terminology and techniques of linguistic analysis and be able to apply this knowledge to the description of different languages. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LING 205-01 | Phonology | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Marianne Milligan | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 15 |
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Although all humans are born with the capacity to learn the sounds of any language, part of learning our native language is learning to categorize sounds into groups specific to that language, thereby filtering out many of the actual phonetic distinctions and concentrating only on those that are important. Just as we, as English speakers, may have trouble hearing the difference between the voiced and voiceless click consonants in Zulu, so speakers of other languages may not hear the difference between the vowels in "beat" and "bit," because this small distinction isn't important in their language. Phonology is the study of how different languages organize sounds into perceptual categories. In this class we will look at data from a wide variety of different languages, as well as from several dialects of English, including children's acquisition of a phonological system. Emphasis will be on practical skills in solving problem sets. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LING 206-01 | Endangered/Minority Languages | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Marianne Milligan | Avail./Max.: -1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ANTH 206-01*
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LING 236-01 | Sanskrit and Religion in India | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: James Laine | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 236-01, CLAS 202-01 and, RELI 236-01*
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LING 294-01 | Time and Space | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Stephanie Farmer | Avail./Max.: 2 / 15 |
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Imagine making plans for the future without using the future tense, or giving your friend directions to your house without using the words "left" and "right." Imagine using a river as a compass, or mapping the human body onto objects to describe how they are oriented. Talking about time and space is central to the human experience, yet the languages of the world encode these concepts in vastly different ways. This course is an introduction to linguistic diversity through the lens of time and space. We will survey all corners of the world, looking at the fascinating ways human languages diverge from one another and pinpointing what is common between them. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LING 300-01 | Linguistic Analysis | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Christina Esposito | Avail./Max.: 4 / 15 |
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The first prerequisite to understanding a linguistic message is the ability to decipher its code. This course is training in the decoding of grammar. Through practice in problem-solving, you will develop expertise in the grammatical systems of a wide sample of the world's language types. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LING 309-01 | Intro to Hispanic Linguistics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Susana Blanco-Iglesias | Avail./Max.: 0 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 309-01; first day attendance required*
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LING 311-01 | Philosophy of Language | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Joy Laine | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with PHIL 311-01*
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LING 335-01 | Analyzing Japanese Language | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Satoko Suzuki | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
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LING 394-01 | A Trek Through the Amazon Basin | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Stephanie Farmer | Avail./Max.: 4 / 10 |
*PREREQUISITE: LING 100 (Introduction to Linguistics) or LING 104 (Sounds of Languages) or permission of the instructor*
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Tukanoan is a family of languages spoken in the Amazon regions of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. This course is a linguistic treasure hunt: together, we will scour all available wordlists, dictionaries, and grammars of extinct and living Tukanoan languages in an attempt to piece together the history of this language family. You will engage in original research while learning about language contact, language change, and the diverse and fascinating Amazonian linguistic area. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LING 436-01 | Spanish Dialectology | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Cynthia Kauffeld | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 436-01 and LATI 436-01*
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Mathematics
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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MATH 112-01 | Introduction to Data Science | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Johnson, Sen | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
*First Year Course only; cross-listed with CIMP 112-01; first day attendance required*
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MATH 112-02 | Introduction to Data Science | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Shilad Sen | Avail./Max.: -3 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with COMP 112-02;*
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first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor* General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MATH 125-01 | Epidemiology | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Kelsey McDonald | Avail./Max.: 0 / 26 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 125-02 | Epidemiology | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Kelsey McDonald | Avail./Max.: 1 / 26 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 135-01 | Applied Multivariable Calculus I | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Lori Ziegelmeier | Avail./Max.: -2 / 32 |
*ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 135-02 | Applied Multivariable Calculus I | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Lori Ziegelmeier | Avail./Max.: -3 / 32 |
*ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 137-01 | Applied Multivariable Calculus II | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: William Mitchell | Avail./Max.: 6 / 32 |
*ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 137-02 | Applied Multivariable Calculus II | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Joseph Benson | Avail./Max.: 3 / 32 |
*ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 137-03 | Applied Multivariable Calculus II | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: David Ehren | Avail./Max.: 18 / 32 |
*ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 155-01 | Intro to Statistical Modeling | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Vittorio Addona | Avail./Max.: Closed -9 / 24 |
*ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 155-02 | Intro to Statistical Modeling | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Vittorio Addona | Avail./Max.: Closed -10 / 24 |
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MATH 155-03 | Intro to Statistical Modeling | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Lisa Lendway | Avail./Max.: -2 / 24 |
*ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 155-04 | Intro to Statistical Modeling | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Lisa Lendway | Avail./Max.: -1 / 24 |
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MATH 236-01 | Linear Algebra | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Andrew Beveridge | Avail./Max.: 0 / 32 |
*ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 236-02 | Linear Algebra | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Andrew Beveridge | Avail./Max.: -2 / 32 |
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This course blends mathematical computation, theory, abstraction, and application. It starts with systems of linear equations and grows into the study of matrices, vector spaces, linear independence, dimension, matrix decompositions, linear transformations, eigenvectors, and their applications. (4 credits). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MATH 237-01 | Applied Multivariable Calculus III | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Ian Whitehead | Avail./Max.: 5 / 28 |
*ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 237-02 | Applied Multivariable Calculus III | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Ian Whitehead | Avail./Max.: 4 / 28 |
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MATH 279-01 | Discrete Mathematics | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Kristin Heysse | Avail./Max.: 1 / 28 |
*ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 279-02 | Discrete Mathematics | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Kristin Heysse | Avail./Max.: 0 / 28 |
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MATH 312-01 | Differential Equations | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: William Mitchell | Avail./Max.: 1 / 24 |
*ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 354-01 | Probability | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Vittorio Addona | Avail./Max.: Closed -9 / 24 |
*ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 361-01 | Theory of Computation | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Susan Fox | Avail./Max.: 6 / 30 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with COMP 261-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 361-02 | Theory of Computation | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Daniel Kluver | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with COMP 261-02; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 377-01 | Real Analysis | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Ian Whitehead | Avail./Max.: 0 / 24 |
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MATH 379-01 | Combinatorics | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Andrew Beveridge | Avail./Max.: 5 / 24 |
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MATH 432-01 | Mathematical Modeling | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 256 | Instructor: Joseph Benson | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
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MATH 437-01 | Topics in Applied Math | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Lori Ziegelmeier | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
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Topics in applied mathematics chosen from: Fourier analysis; partial differential equations; wavelets; signal processing; time-frequency analysis; stochastic processes; optimization; computational geometry; and more. Topics are examined in theoretical and applied contexts, and from analytical and computational viewpoints. This course counts toward the capstone requirement. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MATH 454-01 | Bayesian Statistics | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Alicia Johnson | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on April 28th with permission of instructor*
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MATH 476-01 | Representation Theory | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Thomas Halverson | Avail./Max.: 6 / 16 |
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A course in matrix representations of groups, a topic which unites the powers of group theory and linear algebra. Topics include: symmetry in linear spaces, modules, group actions, characters, tensor products, and Fourier analysis on groups. Applications are chosen from: ranked data, molecular vibrations, quantum mechanics, random walks, number theory, and combinatorics. Important ideas from linear algebra are revisited from a more sophisticated point of view. These include: linear transformations, abstract vector spaces, change of basis, subspaces, direct sums, projections, and eigenvalues and eigenvectors. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MATH 494-01 | Projects in Data Science | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: David Shuman | Avail./Max.: -1 / 14 |
*Permission of the instructor required*
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Media and Cultural Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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MCST 110-01 | Texts and Power: Foundations of Media and Cultural Studies | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: John Kim | Avail./Max.: 3 / 16 |
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This course introduces students to the intellectual roots and contemporary applications of cultural studies, including critical media studies, focusing on the theoretical bases for analyses of power and meaning in production, texts, and reception. It includes primary readings in anti-racist, feminist, modern, postmodern, and queer cultural and social theory, and compares them to traditional approaches to the humanities. Designed as preparation for intermediate and advanced work grounded in cultural studies, the course is writing intensive, with special emphasis on developing skills in critical thinking and scholarly argumentation and documentation. Completion of or enrollment in MCST 110 is the prerequisite for majoring in media and cultural studies. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MCST 114-01 | News Reporting and Writing | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Howard Sinker | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
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This class gives an introduction to the many media platforms that are vital to contemporary journalism, and provides a strong foundation in news writing and reporting. It is taught by a veteran editor and writer, who is a Macalester graduate and currently a digital editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune (startribune.com). Campus and Twin Cities communities are used as students plan, develop, report and write stories individually and in groups. Cookies are usually served in class. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MCST 128-01 | Film Analysis/Visual Culture | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 226 | Instructor: Michael Griffin | Avail./Max.: 1 / 21 |
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This course introduces the aesthetics of film as well as selected issues in contemporary film studies. Its aesthetic approach isolates the features that constitute film as a distinct art form: narrative or non-narrative structure, staging, cinematography, editing, and sound. Topics in contemporary film studies that might be considered include one or more of the following: cultural studies and film, industrial organization and globalization, representations of gender and race, and theories of authorship, horror, and spectatorship. Several papers, a test covering basic film terms, and a short video project emphasizing abstract form are required. Suitable for first year students. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MCST 194-01 | Mass Incarceration and the Media | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Leola Johnson | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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The "Chain Gang" was one of the first tools of the prison-industrial complex in the United States, especially in the South, dating back to Reconstruction. It was designed to re-enslave Black men who were freed from forced labor by the 13th Amendment. Chain gangs were deployed as work crews by corporations such as U.S. Steele. Chain gangs and other parts of the system of mass incarceration have been visible in Hollywood movies and in other parts of popular culture since the era of the Big Studios in the 1930s. An example is Paul Muni's 1933 film, I was a Fugitive from A Chain Gang, which is a narrative about a wrongly convicted working class White man who was swept up into prison industrial complex. But the early films represented mass incarceration as a system dominated by White inmates, whereas recent work by scholars represent the system as disproportionately African American. In this class, we will read the work of historian Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow), journalist Douglas Blackmon (Slavery by Another Name) and others who argue that mass incarceration has always been disproportionately Black, and we will study the ways that mass culture has begun to reflect this reality. We will begin the course by examining Paul Muni's film and then we will move on to more recent representations (COPS, Lockup, Orange is the New Black, Oz, and 13th). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MCST 202-01 | Global Media Industries | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Michael Griffin | Avail./Max.: -1 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 202-01*
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MCST 234-01 | New Media Theories/Practices | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: John Kim | Avail./Max.: 1 / 18 |
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In the last couple of decades we have seen the invention and popularization of a wide assortment of digital technologies and with them, a wide variety of new media forms. The internet (which includes a collection of media forms, from web pages and peer-to-peer software to social media and video sharing sites), massively multiplayer online video games, ubiquitous computing, software, mobile phones - together, many argue, these and other forms of new media are reshaping how we live, create, work and even, what it means to be human. In this class we'll examine a cross-section of contemporary humanistic research that has sought to understand the impact(s) of new media through a comparison to earlier, pre-digital media. In addition, we will engage in hands-on workshops, where we will use and learn some of the tools, software, and websites that our texts consider. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MCST 279-01 | Value: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Cheap | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Kiarina Kordela | Avail./Max.: 1 / 28 |
*Cross-listed with GERM 279-01; taught in English*
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MCST 323-01 | Fundamentals of Video Production | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: ART 301 | Instructor: Morgan Adamson | Avail./Max.: 0 / 12 |
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This course is designed as a basic introduction to digital video production. The objective of the class is to familiarize students of film theory and history with the language of cinema from the standpoint of production in order to deepen your appreciation and knowledge of the technical aspects of film/video and to develop your capacity to use video as a tool for research and communication. In this way, the course will be a combination of technical instruction, critical engagement, and creative exploration. We will analyze and employ a variety of filmmaking techniques as well as constructing narrative and non-narrative strategies for doing so. The focus of the course will be to familiarize you with some basic conventions of experimental, documentary, and narrative cinema. In each assignment, you will be encouraged to think about how formal decisions enhance and further narrative or thematic elements. We will thus pay very close attention to formal aspects of cinematic production: mise-en-scene. cinematography, editing, and sound design. In addition to this attention to form, success in the class will be dependent on a commitment to working through the technical aspects of video production (camera operation, lighting, editing software) in order to create short, original video pieces. Every year. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MCST 334-01 | Cultural Studies and the Media | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Leola Johnson | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 334-01*
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MCST 488-01 | Gender, Labor, and the Media | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Morgan Adamson | Avail./Max.: 7 / 12 |
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In the capstone seminar, students working on an independent project in line with the theme of the seminar share their scholarship, integrating what they have learned in the major, emphasizing knowledge gained in their focus area, as well as presenting their work at a concluding mini-conference. The capstone experience involves close analysis of cultural artifacts that examine at a higher level issues first raised in the introductory course. The department plans to offer two seminars every year, at least one in media studies, enabling students to select the seminar most relevant to their intellectual development. In exceptional cases, students with sufficient preparation may take the seminar prior to their senior year. Students may take more than one HMCS senior seminar as long as content varies. Recommended prerequisite for film studies seminars: MCST 128. Non-majors are welcome if they have taken MCST 110 or a comparable course. Recent seminar topics have included: Image/Text: Metaphor, Myth and Power; Advanced Film Analysis; Advanced Studies in War and Media; Postmodernism, Identity and the Media; Whiteness and the Media; Advanced Queer Media. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Music
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MUSI 110-01 | Music Appreciation | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Cecilia Espinosa Arango | Avail./Max.: 1 / 25 |
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Focuses on listening to music and making sense of what we hear. Explores diverse musical styles and cultures with an emphasis on concert music of the western world, placing the music within cultural-historical frameworks. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 113-01 | Theory I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MUSIC 219 | Instructor: Gabriel Lubell | Avail./Max.: 8 / 25 |
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In this course we explore theoretical concepts of diatonic music, including counterpoint, harmonic progression, and voice leading, always seeking answers to questions about how diatonic music works. Students will develop the ability to discuss and write about music in a sophisticated way. We will accomplish these tasks through written exercises, analysis, composition, and ear training. Specific topics covered include pitch, meter, intervals, scales, keys, triads, seventh chords, diatonic modes, figured bass, lead-sheet (chord) symbols, Roman numeral identification, part writing, cadences, basic harmonic function, sequence, phrases and periods, melody harmonization, non-chord tones, and basic principles of orchestration. Aural activities include sight singing, identification of pitch patterns, identification of scales, rhythmic dictation, rhythm reading, melodic dictation, harmonic dictation, identification of sonorities, identification of cadences, and contextual listening. Three lectures and one lab per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 113-02 | Theory I | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MUSIC 219 | Instructor: Gabriel Lubell | Avail./Max.: 6 / 25 |
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In this course we explore theoretical concepts of diatonic music, including counterpoint, harmonic progression, and voice leading, always seeking answers to questions about how diatonic music works. Students will develop the ability to discuss and write about music in a sophisticated way. We will accomplish these tasks through written exercises, analysis, composition, and ear training. Specific topics covered include pitch, meter, intervals, scales, keys, triads, seventh chords, diatonic modes, figured bass, lead-sheet (chord) symbols, Roman numeral identification, part writing, cadences, basic harmonic function, sequence, phrases and periods, melody harmonization, non-chord tones, and basic principles of orchestration. Aural activities include sight singing, identification of pitch patterns, identification of scales, rhythmic dictation, rhythm reading, melodic dictation, harmonic dictation, identification of sonorities, identification of cadences, and contextual listening. Three lectures and one lab per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 113-L1 | Theory I Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MUSIC 219 | Instructor: Victoria Malawey | Avail./Max.: 8 / 25 |
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In this course we explore theoretical concepts of diatonic music, including counterpoint, harmonic progression, and voice leading, always seeking answers to questions about how diatonic music works. Students will develop the ability to discuss and write about music in a sophisticated way. We will accomplish these tasks through written exercises, analysis, composition, and ear training. Specific topics covered include pitch, meter, intervals, scales, keys, triads, seventh chords, diatonic modes, figured bass, lead-sheet (chord) symbols, Roman numeral identification, part writing, cadences, basic harmonic function, sequence, phrases and periods, melody harmonization, non-chord tones, and basic principles of orchestration. Aural activities include sight singing, identification of pitch patterns, identification of scales, rhythmic dictation, rhythm reading, melodic dictation, harmonic dictation, identification of sonorities, identification of cadences, and contextual listening. Three lectures and one lab per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 113-L2 | Theory I Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MUSIC 219 | Instructor: Victoria Malawey | Avail./Max.: 8 / 25 |
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In this course we explore theoretical concepts of diatonic music, including counterpoint, harmonic progression, and voice leading, always seeking answers to questions about how diatonic music works. Students will develop the ability to discuss and write about music in a sophisticated way. We will accomplish these tasks through written exercises, analysis, composition, and ear training. Specific topics covered include pitch, meter, intervals, scales, keys, triads, seventh chords, diatonic modes, figured bass, lead-sheet (chord) symbols, Roman numeral identification, part writing, cadences, basic harmonic function, sequence, phrases and periods, melody harmonization, non-chord tones, and basic principles of orchestration. Aural activities include sight singing, identification of pitch patterns, identification of scales, rhythmic dictation, rhythm reading, melodic dictation, harmonic dictation, identification of sonorities, identification of cadences, and contextual listening. Three lectures and one lab per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 153-01 | Electronic Music | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Reid Kruger | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 13 |
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Electronic music composition explores the art of creating experimental sound compositions using analog and digital technology. Although we will survey the historical development of electronic music, the emphasis of the classis on composition, including multi-media and experimental work. The class format includes listening, discussion, lab sessions and a final concert showcasing works created throughout the semester. Enrollment limited to 13 to allow each student sufficient lab time. 4 credits General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 194-01 | Music, Empathy, Alienation | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Mark Mazullo | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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We expect a great deal from music, but what can it, and does it, actually provide? Does music improve lives, connect individuals, foster peace and social justice? Does it divide, alienate, fuel aggression? Does music merely entertain; are its consolations false, imaginary? Are there types or modes of experience accessible only through music? How does technology factor into musically formed, human relationships? In this discussion-based course, we will examine connections between music and two powerful critical categories--empathy and alienation--whose impact spans the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Empathy, a concept that has its earliest roots in the fields of aesthetics and psychology, concerns the way we “feel into” others (and artworks, and natural forms), and thereby share our emotional lives. Alienation, also a term with wide application in the arts and social sciences, concerns the ways in which we are disconnected--from others, from our labor, from artworks. We will read historical and contemporary writings on these subjects, with critical approaches representing a range of perspectives, including aesthetics and art/music/theatre history, psychology and neuroscience, feminist and race theory, and more. We will discuss musical activity in a variety of traditions, from piano sonatas by Beethoven and symphonies by Mahler, to recordings by Radiohead and Kendrick Lamar. We will examine music as a theme in literature, and we’ll listen to some fascinating characters in opera who challenge us along empathic lines. In a semester-long independent project, students will explore a topic of their own devising; these might take the form of research papers, or creative works, or service-learning projects in the Twin Cities community. Along with producing a final, written paper, students will present their work orally, in class and potentially as part of Macalester’s Fall 2017 International Roundtable (“Empathy and Its Discontents”). This course will satisfy the “WA” graduation requirement. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 213-01 | Theory III, Form and Analysis | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MUSIC 219 | Instructor: Victoria Malawey | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
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Analysis of musical forms and musical development techniques with emphasis on music of the common practice period; advanced harmonic ear training. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 294-01 | Chinese Music | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Chuen-Fung Wong | Avail./Max.: 12 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 294-02*
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This course is designed to explore Chinese music—broadly conceived to include the musical sounds of mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the minorities, and diasporic communities—by closely studying selected genres, musicians, and styles in various temporal and geographical localities. Course contents cover the musical procedures and performance practices of such genres as operas, chamber instrumental music, folk singing, pop and jazz, film and theatrical music, modern orchestra, propaganda songs, and ancient court music. Assigned readings address issues of modernization, nationalism, ethnicity/race, socialism, gender, among others, and are complemented by a list of audio examples for critical listening. Students will also develop skills to read three major types of Chinese notations: cipher notation, gongche solfège, and jianzipu tablature. There is no pre-requisite; previous knowledge of musical instrument, notation, or Chinese languages is helpful but not required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 294-02 | Get in Formation: Black Protest Music | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Crystal Moten | Avail./Max.: -1 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; appropriate for First Years; cross-listed with AMST 294-02, HIST 294-11, and WGSS 294-01*
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Throughout African American history, people of African descent in the United States have always utilized the tools at their disposal to resist oppression. This includes music. Music heals, empowers, and exposes--joy, pain, love, anger, happiness, suffering and hope. Using a black feminist, intersectional lens, this course is a topical introduction to various traditions within African American music from the enslavement period until the present. Not meant to be exhaustive, the course will examine the connections between music and major turning points in African American social, cultural, and political history. The course also pays special attention to the ways in which race, class, gender, and sexuality impact the creation, interpretation, performance, and reception of black protest music. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 342-01 | Medieval to Mozart | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Mark Mazullo | Avail./Max.: 11 / 25 |
*Prerequisite MUSI 113 OR permission of instructor*
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MUSI 70-01 | Wind Ensemble | Days: M | Time: 07:15 pm-08:45 pm | Room: MUSIC 116 | Instructor: Aaron Isakson | Avail./Max.: 0 / 60 |
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Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 72-01 | African Music Ensemble | Days: TR | Time: 06:45 pm-08:15 pm | Room: MUSIC 116 | Instructor: Sowah Mensah | Avail./Max.: 25 / 50 |
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Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 74-01 | Macalester Concert Choir | Days: MWR | Time: 04:45 pm-06:15 pm | Room: MUSIC 113 | Instructor: Michael McGaghie | Avail./Max.: 6 / 50 |
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Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 76-01 | Macalester Chorale | Days: T | Time: 04:45 pm-06:15 pm | Room: MUSIC 113 | Instructor: Michael McGaghie | Avail./Max.: 4 / 65 |
*Additional required meeting time on Thursdays from 6:30-8:00pm in Music 113 (Hewitt Hall). Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required.* |
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MUSI 78-01 | Asian Music Ensemble | Days: F | Time: 04:45 pm-06:15 pm | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Chuen-Fung Wong | Avail./Max.: 44 / 50 |
*Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required.*
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MUSI 80-01 | Mac Jazz Band | Days: MW | Time: 04:45 pm-06:15 pm | Room: MUSIC 116 | Instructor: Joan Griffith | Avail./Max.: 30 / 50 |
*Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required.* |
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MUSI 82-01 | Jazz/Popular Music Combos | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-09:00 pm | Room: MUSIC 113 | Instructor: Peter Hennig | Avail./Max.: 28 / 50 |
*Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required.*
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MUSI 84-01 | Pipe Band | Days: W | Time: 06:30 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MUSIC 116 | Instructor: Michael Breidenbach | Avail./Max.: 5 / 50 |
*Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are requried.* |
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MUSI 86-01 | Chamber Ensembles | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Cecilia Espinosa Arango | Avail./Max.: 37 / 50 |
*Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required.* |
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MUSI 88-01 | Macalester Symphony Orchestra | Days: TR | Time: 04:45 pm-06:15 pm | Room: MUSIC 116 | Instructor: Cecilia Espinosa Arango | Avail./Max.: 16 / 70 |
*Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required.*
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MUSI 90-01 | Mac Early Music Ensemble | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-08:30 pm | Room: MUSIC 121 | Instructor: Clea Galhano | Avail./Max.: 46 / 50 |
*Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required.* |
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MUSI 94-01 | Private Studio Instruction | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 50 / 50 |
*Studio instruction may be taken by any Macalester student in voice, piano, harpsichord, organ, guitar, recorder, a variety of other standard orchestral instruments, as well as some non-Western instruments. Please refer to the Music Department web page for specific lesson and fee arrangements. Registration must be done in person (in Office 201 of the Music Building) at the beginning of the semester. Please contact Rachel Hest, Department Coordinator ([email protected]), for more information.* |
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MUSI 94-MQ | Jazz/Contemporary Voice | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Rachel Holder | Avail./Max.: 9 / 10 |
MUSI 94-VM | Bagpipes | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Michael Breidenbach | Avail./Max.: 9 / 10 |
Philosophy
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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PHIL 100-01 | Introduction to Philosophy | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Samuel Asarnow | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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According to Richard Linklater’s 2001 film Waking Life, there is a surefire way to tell if you are dreaming. Light switches don’t work in dreams, so if you flip a light switch and it works, you know you’re awake. But Waking Life is fiction, and this test doesn’t really work. Is there any test that always distinguishes dreams from reality? If not, can we ever know for sure that we’re not dreaming? For that matter, can we know that we’re not brains in vats, hooked up to sophisticated computers in some kind of awful post-apocalyptic future, a la The Matrix? And if it turns out that we can’t know about anything outside our own minds, what follows? Would it even matter? In Introduction to Philosophy, we will consider those questions, and others. Topics of discussion will include the nature of the human mind, the foundations of ethics, the existence of God, and the possibility of free will. Our readings will include a range of historical and contemporary works of philosophy, science, and literature. Special attention will be paid to connections between philosophy and related areas of study (such as neuroscience, computer science, and economics). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 100-02 | Introduction to Philosophy | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Samuel Asarnow | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
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An introduction to philosophy through topics found in classical philosophical writings, such as the nature of truth and knowledge, mind and body, freedom and determinism, right and wrong, and the existence of God. Course content varies from instructor to instructor. Specific course descriptions will be available in the department prior to registration. Every semester. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 111-01 | Introduction to Symbolic Logic | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 206 | Instructor: Janet Folina | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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Every day we hear, read, make and assess arguments. These occur in political rhetoric, advertising campaigns, and among friends and family. Many arguments are persuasive. But some persuasive arguments are incorrect (some of these abuse statistics, some are actually fallacies); and some correct arguments are not very persuasive (at least not immediately). Logic is the science of correct reasoning and argumentation, and symbolic logic is the use of symbols and formal rules to codify this correctness. Our approach is formal – symbolic logic depends only on the form of arguments rather than their content. (This course is thus somewhat abstract and theoretical; it is not a course on applied critical thinking.) We will focus on formal properties of deductive arguments; our tools and methods constitute the fundamental methods of contemporary symbolic logic. In symbolic logic symbols represent types of sentences, and rules are cited for each inference. Thus, proofs in this course are somewhat like proofs in geometry: they both depend on clear criteria for correctness and incorrectness. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 111-02 | Introduction to Symbolic Logic | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 206 | Instructor: Janet Folina | Avail./Max.: 4 / 25 |
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PHIL 121-01 | Ethics | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: William Wilcox | Avail./Max.: -2 / 20 |
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An introductory philosophy course that concentrates on concepts and issues, such as the nature of value, duty, right and wrong, the good life, human rights, social justice, and applications to selected problems of personal and social behavior. Topics may include liberty and its limitations, civil disobedience, abortion, affirmative action, capital punishment, terrorism and the morality of war, animal rights and environmental ethics. 4 credits General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 121-02 | Ethics | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: William Wilcox | Avail./Max.: -2 / 20 |
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An introductory philosophy course that concentrates on concepts and issues, such as the nature of value, duty, right and wrong, the good life, human rights, social justice, and applications to selected problems of personal and social behavior. Topics may include liberty and its limitations, civil disobedience, abortion, affirmative action, capital punishment, terrorism and the morality of war, animal rights and environmental ethics. 4 credits General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 214-01 | Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: David Martyn | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 22 |
*Not available to incoming first-years; cross-listed with GERM 314-01; taught in English*
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PHIL 294-01 | Philosophy of Technology | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Diane Michelfelder | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
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Many if not most of us interact with the technologies around us without giving our interaction a second thought—particularly second, philosophical thoughts. The focus of this course will be on these second thoughts, filtered through a broad, multi-faceted question: How do technological things and systems contribute not only to the contents of our world but contribute to shaping our experiences, our values, our social practices, and our political institutions? This question is a key one for the philosophy of technology, a field of critical inquiry aimed giving the material environment of our lives its philosophical due. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 310-01 | Philosophy of Science | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Janet Folina | Avail./Max.: 0 / 15 |
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Are quarks “real”? Does science lead to objective knowledge? Is there really a scientific method? How do we distinguish between creation “science” and evolution; or astrology and astronomy? These questions are asked in philosophy of science, which studies the fundamental processes, principles, and presuppositions of the natural sciences. The social and historical contexts of the sciences are also considered. Topics include: science vs. pseudoscience, scientific explanation, scientific revolutions, the philosophy of space and time, the theory of evolution, theories of confirmation, objectivity in science, and realism vs. relativism. Alternate years. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 311-01 | Philosophy of Language | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Joy Laine | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with LING 311-01*
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PHIL 489-01 | Senior Seminar | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: Diane Michelfelder | Avail./Max.: 4 / 15 |
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A capstone experience in philosophy for senior majors and others with sufficient background. Recent topics have included: realism vs. anti-realism, pragmatism, normativity, and Wittengenstein. The topics are usually addressed from various points of view and may involve several members of the department in some of the instruction. One aim of the course is for participants to get an overview of their major field by examining the fruitfulness of various ways of doing philosophy. It is also an opportunity for seniors to present for discussion their senior papers, written for this or for some other course. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Physical Education
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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PE 03-01 | Beginning Social Dance | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-08:30 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Julie Jacobson | Avail./Max.: 4 / 25 |
PE 04-01 | Karate I | Days: MW | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Anita Bendickson | Avail./Max.: 23 / 25 |
PE 06-01 | Yoga I | Days: MW | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Anita Bendickson | Avail./Max.: 1 / 25 |
PE 06-02 | Yoga I | Days: MW | Time: 04:45 pm-05:45 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Laura Sleck | Avail./Max.: 4 / 25 |
PE 06-04 | Yoga I | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:00 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Anita Bendickson | Avail./Max.: 7 / 25 |
PE 08-01 | Step Aerobics | Days: TR | Time: 04:45 pm-05:45 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Jane Graybill | Avail./Max.: 19 / 30 |
PE 14-01 | Karate II | Days: MW | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Anita Bendickson | Avail./Max.: 16 / 25 |
PE 18-01 | Pilates | Days: MW | Time: 04:45 pm-05:45 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 2 | Instructor: Kristine Spangard | Avail./Max.: 8 / 25 |
PE 20-01 | Weight Training | Days: MW | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: LEOCTR FITNESS RM | Instructor: Scott Hintz | Avail./Max.: 12 / 25 |
PE 26-01 | Tai Chi Chuan | Days: MW | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 2 | Instructor: Phyllis Calph | Avail./Max.: 18 / 25 |
PE 28-01 | Pilates II | Days: TR | Time: 04:45 pm-05:45 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 2 | Instructor: Kristine Spangard | Avail./Max.: 13 / 25 |
PE 33-01 | Salsa Dance | Days: R | Time: 07:00 pm-08:30 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Don DeBoer | Avail./Max.: 6 / 25 |
PE 40-01 | Self Defense | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Anita Bendickson | Avail./Max.: 13 / 25 |
Physics and Astronomy
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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PHYS 111-01 | Contemporary Concepts | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: Sung Kyu Kim | Avail./Max.: -3 / 63 |
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This course is specifically designed for the liberal arts student who desires an essentially non-mathematical, yet wholly faithful, acquaintance with the fundamental concepts of contemporary physics. Topics include special relativity, curved space-time and black holes, the Big Bang universe, light, quantum theory, and elementary particles. These are presented so as to demonstrate the power of "pure thought" and scientific creativity at its best. The underlying assumption of the course is that physics approached as a way of thinking can be vitally relevant and challenging to students of all intellectual persuasions. Three lectures per week in fall and spring. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 194-01 | Nano Science | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: James Heyman | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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Nanoscience is concerned with the control of matter on the atomic and molecular scale. This interdisciplinary field sits at the convergence of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Materials Science and Electrical Engineering. Our course will introduce science at the nanometer length scale, the fabrication of nano-scale systems and some of their technological applications. This quantitative course will use mathematics at the introductory calculus level, and high-school physics and calculus are recommended. Assignments will include readings, problem sets, short papers and a research paper. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 226-01 | Principles of Physics I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: Sean Bartz | Avail./Max.: 36 / 63 |
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A study of motion, including Newton's Law of Motion, conservation of energy and momentum, rotational kinematics and dynamics, oscillations, waves in elastic media and thermal properties of matter. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. Students cannot receive credit for both Physics 221 and Physics 226. Fall semester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 226-02 | Principles of Physics I | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: Sean Bartz | Avail./Max.: 39 / 63 |
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A study of motion, including Newton's Law of Motion, conservation of energy and momentum, rotational kinematics and dynamics, oscillations, waves in elastic media and thermal properties of matter. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. Students cannot receive credit for both Physics 221 and Physics 226. Fall semester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 226-L1 | Principles of Physics I Lab | Days: M | Time: 02:20 pm-04:20 pm | Room: OLRI 152 | Instructor: Brian Adams | Avail./Max.: 5 / 18 |
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A study of motion, including Newton's Law of Motion, conservation of energy and momentum, rotational kinematics and dynamics, oscillations, waves in elastic media and thermal properties of matter. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. Students cannot receive credit for both Physics 221 and Physics 226. Fall semester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 226-L2 | Principles of Physics I Lab | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-09:00 pm | Room: OLRI 152 | Instructor: Brian Adams | Avail./Max.: 5 / 18 |
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A study of motion, including Newton's Law of Motion, conservation of energy and momentum, rotational kinematics and dynamics, oscillations, waves in elastic media and thermal properties of matter. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. Students cannot receive credit for both Physics 221 and Physics 226. Fall semester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 226-L3 | Principles of Physics I Lab | Days: T | Time: 09:10 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 152 | Instructor: Brian Adams | Avail./Max.: 6 / 18 |
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A study of motion, including Newton's Law of Motion, conservation of energy and momentum, rotational kinematics and dynamics, oscillations, waves in elastic media and thermal properties of matter. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. Students cannot receive credit for both Physics 221 and Physics 226. Fall semester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 226-L4 | Principles of Physics I Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 152 | Instructor: Brian Adams | Avail./Max.: 6 / 18 |
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A study of motion, including Newton's Law of Motion, conservation of energy and momentum, rotational kinematics and dynamics, oscillations, waves in elastic media and thermal properties of matter. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. Students cannot receive credit for both Physics 221 and Physics 226. Fall semester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 227-01 | Principles of Physics II | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Tonnis ter Veldhuis | Avail./Max.: 17 / 24 |
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A study of electric charge and currents, electric and magnetic fields, electromagnetic waves, and geometrical and physical optics. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. Students cannot receive credit for both Physics 222 and Physics 227. Every semester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 227-L1 | Principles of Physics II Lab | Days: R | Time: 09:10 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 152 | Instructor: Brian Adams | Avail./Max.: 16 / 18 |
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A study of electric charge and currents, electric and magnetic fields, electromagnetic waves, and geometrical and physical optics. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. Students cannot receive credit for both Physics 222 and Physics 227. Every semester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 227-L2 | Principles of Physics II Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 152 | Instructor: Brian Adams | Avail./Max.: 13 / 18 |
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A study of electric charge and currents, electric and magnetic fields, electromagnetic waves, and geometrical and physical optics. Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week. Students cannot receive credit for both Physics 222 and Physics 227. Every semester. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 331-01 | Modern Physics | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: James Heyman | Avail./Max.: 1 / 36 |
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This course provides an introductory treatment of the exciting foundations of modern microscopic physics, including special relativity, quantum theory, atomic structure, nuclear structure and elementary particles. The primary goal of the course is to build the solid theoretical foundation in microscopic physics necessary for advanced studies in nearly all science disciplines. In addition to the theoretical treatment of the topics there will be laboratory exercises, which recreate the spirit and excitement of the pioneering experiments. Three lectures, one three-hour laboratory per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 331-L1 | Modern Physics Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 154 | Instructor: James Heyman | Avail./Max.: 1 / 12 |
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This course provides an introductory treatment of the exciting foundations of modern microscopic physics, including special relativity, quantum theory, atomic structure, nuclear structure and elementary particles. The primary goal of the course is to build the solid theoretical foundation in microscopic physics necessary for advanced studies in nearly all science disciplines. In addition to the theoretical treatment of the topics there will be laboratory exercises, which recreate the spirit and excitement of the pioneering experiments. Three lectures, one three-hour laboratory per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 331-L2 | Modern Physics Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 154 | Instructor: James Heyman | Avail./Max.: -1 / 12 |
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This course provides an introductory treatment of the exciting foundations of modern microscopic physics, including special relativity, quantum theory, atomic structure, nuclear structure and elementary particles. The primary goal of the course is to build the solid theoretical foundation in microscopic physics necessary for advanced studies in nearly all science disciplines. In addition to the theoretical treatment of the topics there will be laboratory exercises, which recreate the spirit and excitement of the pioneering experiments. Three lectures, one three-hour laboratory per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 331-L3 | Modern Physics Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:00 am | Room: OLRI 154 | Instructor: James Heyman | Avail./Max.: 1 / 12 |
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This course provides an introductory treatment of the exciting foundations of modern microscopic physics, including special relativity, quantum theory, atomic structure, nuclear structure and elementary particles. The primary goal of the course is to build the solid theoretical foundation in microscopic physics necessary for advanced studies in nearly all science disciplines. In addition to the theoretical treatment of the topics there will be laboratory exercises, which recreate the spirit and excitement of the pioneering experiments. Three lectures, one three-hour laboratory per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 340-01 | Digital Electronics | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: 15 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with COMP 340-01*
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PHYS 340-L1 | Digital Electronics Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 147 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: 8 / 12 |
*Cross-listed with COMP 340-L1*
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PHYS 340-L2 | Digital Electronics Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 147 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: 7 / 12 |
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A survey of fundamental ideas and methods used in the design and construction of digital electronic circuits such as computers. Emphasis will be on applying the theoretical aspects of digital design to the actual construction of circuits in the laboratory. Topics to be covered include basic circuit theory, transistor physics, logic families (TTL, CMOS), Boolean logic principles, combinatorial design techniques, sequential logic techniques, memory circuits and timing, and applications to microprocessor and computer design. Three lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 394-01 | Biophysics | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: 9 / 16 |
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In this course we will apply the basic ideas of statistical mechanics and transport theory to select biological processes, in order to understand the nature of non-equilibrium processes in living things. Topics include entropy and free energy, entropic forces, diffusion, active transport, and cooperativity with applications to protein folding, macromolecule and membrane self-assembly, structural and mechanical properties of macromolecules, kinetics of molecular machines, voltage gated ion channels, and the propagation of nerve impulses. A basic theme is how highly organized structures and processes circumvent or even exploit the relentless drive to disorder (entropy). The emphasis will be on the construction of simplified but quantitative models based on the fundamental principles that attempt to capture the essence of these phenomena. Prerequisite: Physics 227 or equivalent. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 443-01 | Electromagnetic Theory | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Sean Bartz | Avail./Max.: 14 / 24 |
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This course treats the interactions between electrical charges in free space by developing the concepts of potential, electric and magnetic fields, and electromagnetic induction. Maxwell's equations are developed and used to derive the properties of plane electromagnetic waves in free space. Special emphasis is placed on boundary value problems and other useful mathematical techniques.Three lectures and one one-hour laboratory per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 443-L1 | Electromagnetic Theory Lab | Days: M | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 143 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: 14 / 24 |
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This course treats the interactions between electrical charges in free space by developing the concepts of potential, electric and magnetic fields, and electromagnetic induction. Maxwell's equations are developed and used to derive the properties of plane electromagnetic waves in free space. Special emphasis is placed on boundary value problems and other useful mathematical techniques.Three lectures and one one-hour laboratory per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 481-01 | Quantum Mechanics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Tonnis ter Veldhuis | Avail./Max.: 16 / 24 |
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The course rigorously covers many fundamental concepts of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, including the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and Pauli exclusion principle, single- and multi-particle stationary states in one, two and three dimensions, and quantized angular momentum and spin. Schrodinger equation solutions for atomic and nuclear systems are studied, using differential equation, matrix and perturbation techniques. A familiarity with linear algebra is also helpful. Three lectures and one one-hour laboratory per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 481-L1 | Quantum Mechanics Lab | Days: F | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 143 | Instructor: Tonnis ter Veldhuis | Avail./Max.: 16 / 24 |
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The course rigorously covers many fundamental concepts of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, including the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and Pauli exclusion principle, single- and multi-particle stationary states in one, two and three dimensions, and quantized angular momentum and spin. Schrodinger equation solutions for atomic and nuclear systems are studied, using differential equation, matrix and perturbation techniques. A familiarity with linear algebra is also helpful. Three lectures and one one-hour laboratory per week. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Political Science
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POLI 100-01 | Foundations of US Politics | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Lesley Lavery | Avail./Max.: 4 / 25 |
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An analysis of the major ideas, actors, institutions, and processes that shape the formulation and execution of public policy in the United States. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 120-01 | Foundations of International Politics | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Wendy Weber | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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This course is designed to introduce students to the academic study of international relations or global politics. As an introductory course, it has three broad goals. The first is to develop the foundational knowledge and conceptual literacy necessary to engage with the field’s multidimensional concerns. These include, among other things, power, gender, inequality, political violence, international law, globalization, development, and human rights. The second goal is to introduce students to different perspectives or intellectual frameworks for making sense of global politics. The third goal is to develop a range of critical, analytical, research and writing skills for more advanced work within the field. We will pursue these three goals through readings, class discussions and other in-class activities, and writing assignments all prompted by key questions about global politics. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 120-02 | Foundations of International Politics | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Wendy Weber | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
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This course has three broad goals. The first is to develop the foundational knowledge and conceptual literacy necessary to engage with International Relations' multidimensional concerns. These include issues such as world order, power, hierarchy, political violence, international law, development, religion, human rights, gender, humanitarianism and international organizations (such as the United Nations). The second is to introduce students to the different perspectives or intellectual frameworks for making sense of international relations (also known as global or world politics), including realist, liberal, constructivist, historical materialist, postcolonial and feminist approaches. The third is to encourage students to reflect on some of the ethical issues inherent in both the study and practice of international politics. Emphasis will also be placed on developing a range of critical, analytical, research and writing skills required for the further study of international politics. The course is thus intended to prepare students for advanced work in the field, although it is also appropriate for those merely seeking to satisfy an interest in the study of global politics. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 140-01 | Foundations of Comparative Politics | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Eric Mosinger | Avail./Max.: 4 / 25 |
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How did state-building in Europe, Africa, and Latin America differ? Does the rise of right-wing nationalist governments in the UK, India, and the United States stem from similar or different causes? Do legislatures with a higher proportion of women lawmakers make different laws? What explains electoral violence in Kenya and Colombia? How do authoritarian regimes use elections to strengthen their grip on power? Comparison is a powerful analytical tool for understanding such political phenomena. In this course, students will learn to apply the comparative method to historical and contemporary problems in global politics, with particular focuses on state-building, democracy and dictatorship, and civil war. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 160-01 | Foundations of Political Theory | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: David Blaney | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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An examination of the evolution of influential political concepts and theories from ancient cultures to the present day, by those writing in/from/to the West. Introduction through textual analysis to historical and contemporary understandings of key terms such as authority, legitimacy, liberty, republicanism, democracy, revolution and “the good.” Additionally, the course provides an introduction to political theory methods of analysis and critique, through the development of skills in reading, critical thinking, and writing. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 200-01 | Women and American Politics | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Julie Dolan | Avail./Max.: 0 / 25 |
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This course examines the evolutionary role of women in politics as voters, citizens, candidates, and leaders from the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 to the present. Drawing from a variety of theoretical perspectives, we examine women's historical and contemporary roles in U.S. politics, investigate and debate a variety of public policy issues of particular concern to women, and explore the intersection of race and gender in U.S. politics. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 203-01 | Politics and Inequality: American Welfare State | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Lesley Lavery | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 203-01*
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POLI 205-01 | Politics and Policymaking | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Lesley Lavery | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
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This course examines the American public policy process through a case study approach. Attention will be paid to issues of policy formation and implementation with a focus on the role and interaction of national and state institutions. The United States government is a large, complex system of multiple institutions that share power and authority and govern across multiple issue dimensions. To understand the policy process in this context we will 1) Discuss foundational theories of the policy process; 2) Examine several case studies designed to engage these theories and debate their practical application, and 3) Become “experts” in a particular policy area as each student prepares a presentation on that topic and presents politically viable solutions. This course will focus on writing for a variety of audiences and leave students well-prepared to apply for policy-oriented scholarships, fellowships and jobs. Offered only in the fall. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 206-01 | US Constitutional Law and Thought | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: Patrick Schmidt | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 25 |
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An exploration of the structure of the American political system as seen through the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. Topics include the separation of powers in the federal government, the scope of executive power, and the development of federal-state relations over the course of American history. The material also includes the nature of judicial review, economic rights and contemporary questions about the limits of government power. Political Science 100 recommended. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 215-01 | Environmental Politics/Policy | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Roopali Phadke | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 215-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of call with permission of the instructor*
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POLI 221-01 | Global Governance | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Wendy Weber | Avail./Max.: 3 / 25 |
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This course is designed to introduce students to global governance. It begins with a discussion of the concept of global governance. It then turns to some of the central features of contemporary global governance, including the changing status of the state and of international/world organizations and the role of global civil society. The emphasis here is on how patterns of global governance have changed and are changing and on the implications of these changes for democracy, social justice, etc. The remainder of the course focuses on the areas of international peace and security, human rights and international humanitarian law, and economic governance. By addressing such topics as the International Criminal Court and the role of the IMF and the World Bank in economic development, these parts of the course highlight the contested nature of global governance in each of the three issue areas. Political Science 120 recommended.(4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 242-01 | Political Economy of Development | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Lisa Mueller | Avail./Max.: -2 / 25 |
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This course will help you answer questions about politics and economics in the developing world. For example: What explains global disparities in peace and prosperity? Is democracy good for the poor? Does foreign aid work? Our main objective is to use social science to describe and explain development outcomes. Although we will also address what can be done to solve problems such as poverty and civil war, this course will not provide any panaceas. If you finish the term unsatisfied and frustrated, you will have done something right! You will have begun to understand the complexity of development issues, which will equip you to contribute in a sophisticated way to ongoing scholarly and policy-oriented debates. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 250-01 | Comparative-Historical Sociology | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Terry Boychuk | Avail./Max.: -1 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with SOCI 275-01*
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POLI 265-01 | Work, Wealth, Well-Being | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 206 | Instructor: David Blaney | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
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Wealth has held an allure for many modern thinkers; the creation of a wealthy society often associated with "civilization" itself. The relationships among work, wealth and well-being are a perennial concern and have been central to the study of political economy, since its inception in the mid- to late-18th century. How does work produce wealth for the individual and for society? How, or when, does individual and social wealth translate into individual and/or social well-being? And, how does the character of work affect individual well-being or happiness? This course will examine the answers given to these questions (and myriad corollary questions) by writers within the political economy tradition. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 266-01 | Medieval Political Thought | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: Andrew Latham | Avail./Max.: 4 / 25 |
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This course deals with the political thought of Latin Christendom (Western Europe) during the later Middle Ages (c. 1050 - c. 1550). This body of thought is worthy of sustained study for two reasons. First, it is one of the glories of human civilization. In seeking to answer the timeless question "how we should live our lives as individuals" and "how we should live together in peace and justice" late medieval political thinkers produced a body of political thought second to none in the history of human philosophical speculation. Second, late medieval political thought is worthy of study because it gave rise to many of the concepts that continue to shape our collective lives today (including state sovereignty, separation of church and state, constitutionalism, just war, property rights, "the people," nationalism, democracy, rule-of-law, and human rights). Indeed, it is impossible to really understand contemporary political life without delving deeply into the way in which late medieval thinkers engaged with the big political issues of their day. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 269-01 | Empirical Research Methods | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Lisa Mueller | Avail./Max.: 1 / 25 |
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Strategies and tactics of design, observation, description, and measurement in contemporary political research. (4 credits) Empirical Methods: The department requires its majors to take one course in empirical research methodology, preferably before their junior year. There are a number of courses that fulfill this requirement, including: Political Science 269 (Empirical Research Methods), Political Science 272 (Researching Political Communication), Sociology 269 (Science and Social Inquiry), Sociology 270 (Interpretive Social Research), Sociology 275 (Comparative-Historical Sociology). In some cases, research methods courses taken in other social science disciplines may be used to fulfill this requirement following approval by the political science department chair. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 272-01 | Researching Political Communication | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Adrienne Christiansen | Avail./Max.: 15 / 25 |
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A study of how presidents, politicians, and social movement activists worldwide use language and persuasive symbols to increase influence and affect political change. Students complete a semester-long project in which they analyze a significant political text utilizing descriptive-analytic, historical-contextual, critical, and interpretive research methods. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 285-01 | Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Nadya Nedelsky | Avail./Max.: Closed -4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 285-01*
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POLI 294-01 | Revolutionary Political Theory | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Althea Sircar | Avail./Max.: Closed 7 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 294-03*
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This political theory course examines how revolutionary movements in political thought intersect with and inflect revolutionary moments in history. Taking "revolutionary" to be descriptive of both events and theoretical frameworks, the course will study how political actors have articulated and enacted abolitionist, feminist, egalitarian, and anti-colonialist revolutionary perspectives. Topics covered will include: the American, French, Haitian, Bolshevik, Indian, and Iranian revolutions, as political events and occasions for political thought. Also under consideration will be contemporary revolutionary movements like #Occupy, the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter, and prison abolition; and revolutions in political theories of gender, race, and (dis)ability. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 294-02 | Revolution and Counterrevolution in Latin America | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Eric Mosinger | Avail./Max.: 19 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 294-03*
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Cycles of revolutionary upheaval and counterrevolutionary violence punctuated Latin America’s tumultuous 20th century. This course examines these twinned phenomena by comparing “successful”revolutions (Mexico [1910-1917], Cuba [1959], Nicaragua [1979]) with “unsuccessful” (Bolivia [1952], Chile [1970]) and abortive (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Peru in the 1970s and 1980s) attempts at revolutionary change. These cases provoke a series of interrelated questions: Under what conditions do revolutionary outbreaks occur? Why do revolutionaries take power in some countries and fail in others? How can we explain (counter-)revolutionary mobilization, violence, and terror? Do revolutions produce enduring social change, or reproduce enduring problems? What will the future of revolution look like in our unstable world? By delving together into Latin America's historical specificities and broader theoretical considerations, students in this course will gain a deeper knowledge not only of revolution but of political and social change more generally. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 300-01 | American Government Institutions | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Michael Zis | Avail./Max.: 11 / 20 |
*Sophomore standing or permission of instructor required*
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Many worry that the America’s political system is in a state of crisis. Is America’s democracy in peril? How does this moment compare to other moments in America’s political history when American democracy was also said to be in crisis? If this crisis is unique, what is the source? Is it ideological polarization, incompetence, authoritarianism, or something else? Is America’s unique system of checks and balances ill-suited to the complexities of modern governance? Is the election of President Trump a symptom of the problem, a cause, both, or neither? These are some of the questions we will be exploring in this seminar. Students will also work toward writing a final research paper related to the topic of study and present it to the class at seminar’s end. In the course of study, students will gain a deeper, historically informed understanding of American political institutional development, the complexity of public policy decision making, and the motivations and resources of various governmental actors. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 316-01 | Information Policy, Politics and Law | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Patrick Schmidt | Avail./Max.: 7 / 20 |
*Sophomore standing or permission of instructor required*
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POLI 321-01 | International Security | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 226 | Instructor: Andrew Latham | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
*Sophomore standing or permission of instructor required*
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POLI 400-01 | Senior Research Seminar | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Lisa Mueller | Avail./Max.: 9 / 16 |
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The research seminar is designed to fulfill partially the capstone experience requirement for political science majors. It is expected that students will have taken the required foundations, methods and intermediate courses prior to beginning the seminar. The goal of the Senior Research Seminar is to launch students on a culminating academic experience organized around the supervised independent study of a political science topic of particular interest and relevance to them. The Seminar is premised on the assumption that students will have a working familiarity with the foundational knowledge in the sub-field(s) relevant to their research project, a mastery of the practical skills introduced in the foundations courses and further developed in the intermediate courses, and a willingness to engage actively in a rigorous, sustained inquiry into an important topic. It is also premised on the assumption that students will take responsibility for managing their own self-directed learning processes. The Senior Research Seminar will normally involve one or more faculty members "coaching" students through the process of defining a significant and important political science research question, developing a thesis, designing an appropriate research program, and writing a substantial portion of a draft Honors thesis or senior independent project. Following successful completion of the Seminar, students participating in the Honors Program are required to enroll in political science independent project. Students not participating in the Honors Program who nevertheless wish to continue with their research should enroll in Political Science 614 (Senior Independent Project). (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 400-02 | Senior Research Seminar | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: David Blaney | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 16 |
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The research seminar is designed to fulfill partially the capstone experience requirement for political science majors. It is expected that students will have taken the required foundations, methods and intermediate courses prior to beginning the seminar. The goal of the Senior Research Seminar is to launch students on a culminating academic experience organized around the supervised independent study of a political science topic of particular interest and relevance to them. The Seminar is premised on the assumption that students will have a working familiarity with the foundational knowledge in the sub-field(s) relevant to their research project, a mastery of the practical skills introduced in the foundations courses and further developed in the intermediate courses, and a willingness to engage actively in a rigorous, sustained inquiry into an important topic. It is also premised on the assumption that students will take responsibility for managing their own self-directed learning processes. The Senior Research Seminar will normally involve one or more faculty members "coaching" students through the process of defining a significant and important political science research question, developing a thesis, designing an appropriate research program, and writing a substantial portion of a draft Honors thesis or senior independent project. Following successful completion of the Seminar, students participating in the Honors Program are required to enroll in political science independent project. Students not participating in the Honors Program who nevertheless wish to continue with their research should enroll in Political Science 614 (Senior Independent Project). (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 400-03 | Senior Research Seminar | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Julie Dolan | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
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The research seminar is designed to fulfill partially the capstone experience requirement for political science majors. It is expected that students will have taken the required foundations, methods and intermediate courses prior to beginning the seminar. The goal of the Senior Research Seminar is to launch students on a culminating academic experience organized around the supervised independent study of a political science topic of particular interest and relevance to them. The Seminar is premised on the assumption that students will have a working familiarity with the foundational knowledge in the sub-field(s) relevant to their research project, a mastery of the practical skills introduced in the foundations courses and further developed in the intermediate courses, and a willingness to engage actively in a rigorous, sustained inquiry into an important topic. It is also premised on the assumption that students will take responsibility for managing their own self-directed learning processes. The Senior Research Seminar will normally involve one or more faculty members "coaching" students through the process of defining a significant and important political science research question, developing a thesis, designing an appropriate research program, and writing a substantial portion of a draft Honors thesis or senior independent project. Following successful completion of the Seminar, students participating in the Honors Program are required to enroll in political science independent project. Students not participating in the Honors Program who nevertheless wish to continue with their research should enroll in Political Science 614 (Senior Independent Project). (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 404-01 | Honors Colloquium | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Patrick Schmidt | Avail./Max.: 8 / 16 |
*2 credit course*
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Psychology
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PSYC 100-01 | Introduction to Psychology | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 352 | Instructor: Joan Ostrove | Avail./Max.: 0 / 35 |
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An introduction to psychological science -- the study of behavior and mental processes. This course surveys the major subdisciplines of the field, including such topics as the brain and neuroscience, behavioral genetics, cognitive and social development, perception, learning, memory, decision-making, language, consciousness, emotions, motivation, psychological disorders, social identity, interpersonal interactions and cultural processes. Lecture and laboratory components. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 100-02 | Introduction to Psychology | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Jhon Wlaschin | Avail./Max.: 2 / 35 |
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An introduction to psychological science -- the study of behavior and mental processes. This course surveys the major subdisciplines of the field, including such topics as the brain and neuroscience, behavioral genetics, cognitive and social development, perception, learning, memory, decision-making, language, consciousness, emotions, motivation, psychological disorders, social identity, interpersonal interactions and cultural processes. Lecture and laboratory components. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 100-L1 | Introduction to Psychology Lab | Days: T | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 352 | Instructor: Jamie Atkins | Avail./Max.: 0 / 18 |
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An introduction to psychological science -- the study of behavior and mental processes. This course surveys the major subdisciplines of the field, including such topics as the brain and neuroscience, behavioral genetics, cognitive and social development, perception, learning, memory, decision-making, language, consciousness, emotions, motivation, psychological disorders, social identity, interpersonal interactions and cultural processes. Lecture and laboratory components. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 100-L2 | Introduction to Psychology Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 352 | Instructor: Jamie Atkins | Avail./Max.: -1 / 18 |
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An introduction to psychological science -- the study of behavior and mental processes. This course surveys the major subdisciplines of the field, including such topics as the brain and neuroscience, behavioral genetics, cognitive and social development, perception, learning, memory, decision-making, language, consciousness, emotions, motivation, psychological disorders, social identity, interpersonal interactions and cultural processes. Lecture and laboratory components. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 100-L3 | Introduction to Psychology Lab | Days: R | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 352 | Instructor: Jamie Atkins | Avail./Max.: 2 / 18 |
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An introduction to psychological science -- the study of behavior and mental processes. This course surveys the major subdisciplines of the field, including such topics as the brain and neuroscience, behavioral genetics, cognitive and social development, perception, learning, memory, decision-making, language, consciousness, emotions, motivation, psychological disorders, social identity, interpersonal interactions and cultural processes. Lecture and laboratory components. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 100-L4 | Introduction to Psychology Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Jamie Atkins | Avail./Max.: 3 / 18 |
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An introduction to psychological science -- the study of behavior and mental processes. This course surveys the major subdisciplines of the field, including such topics as the brain and neuroscience, behavioral genetics, cognitive and social development, perception, learning, memory, decision-making, language, consciousness, emotions, motivation, psychological disorders, social identity, interpersonal interactions and cultural processes. Lecture and laboratory components. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 180-01 | Brain, Mind, and Behavior | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Deborah Kreiss | Avail./Max.: -3 / 50 |
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A multidisciplinary investigation of behavior and the nervous system. Particular emphasis is placed on human processes of perception, cognition, learning, memory, and language. This course also serves as the introductory course for the neuroscience studies major. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 194-01 | Psychology of Right and Wrong | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Steve Guglielmo | Avail./Max.: -1 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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One of the most consequential ways that we interact with our social world is by morally evaluating people’s behavior. In this course, we’ll explore how this process works, gaining insight into understanding and improving our own moral behavior. What sort of acts do we see as immoral, and how do we hold people accountable for them? How do we atone for past moral failings? What role does empathy play in producing more fair and equitable behavior? We will take an interdisciplinary approach to examining these questions, considering research from various subfields in psychology, as well as perspectives from philosophy, sociology, and artificial intelligence. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 201-01 | Research in Psychology I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Steve Guglielmo | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 24 |
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This course is an introduction to the basic principles of research in psychology, with an emphasis on statistical techniques used in psychological science. We consider the pros and cons of experimental, quasi-experimental, and correlational designs to test psychological hypotheses. The course includes a weekly laboratory component in which students develop proficiency with statistical software, writing reports in American Psychological Association style, and familiarity with experimental techniques unique to behavioral research. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 201-L1 | Research in Psychology I Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 349 | Instructor: Steve Guglielmo | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 12 |
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This course is an introduction to the basic principles of research in psychology, with an emphasis on statistical techniques used in psychological science. We consider the pros and cons of experimental, quasi-experimental, and correlational designs to test psychological hypotheses. The course includes a weekly laboratory component in which students develop proficiency with statistical software, writing reports in American Psychological Association style, and familiarity with experimental techniques unique to behavioral research. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 201-L2 | Research in Psychology I Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 349 | Instructor: Steve Guglielmo | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 12 |
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This course is an introduction to the basic principles of research in psychology, with an emphasis on statistical techniques used in psychological science. We consider the pros and cons of experimental, quasi-experimental, and correlational designs to test psychological hypotheses. The course includes a weekly laboratory component in which students develop proficiency with statistical software, writing reports in American Psychological Association style, and familiarity with experimental techniques unique to behavioral research. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 220-01 | Educational Psychology | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Tina Kruse | Avail./Max.: Closed -4 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with EDUC 220-01; first day attendance required*
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PSYC 242-01 | Cognitive Psychology | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Ariel James | Avail./Max.: -1 / 20 |
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A survey of the experimental analysis of the mind. Topics include attention, memory and forgetting, problem solving, reasoning, and language. Special emphasis is given to the study of discourse comprehension and reading. The weekly laboratory sessions afford students an opportunity to interact directly with cognitive phenomena and research methods. Group A course. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 242-L1 | Cognitive Psychology Lab | Days: R | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 349 | Instructor: Ariel James | Avail./Max.: -1 / 20 |
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A survey of the experimental analysis of the mind. Topics include attention, memory and forgetting, problem solving, reasoning, and language. Special emphasis is given to the study of discourse comprehension and reading. The weekly laboratory sessions afford students an opportunity to interact directly with cognitive phenomena and research methods. Group A course. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 243-01 | Psychological Anthropology | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Olga Gonzalez | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ANTH 243-01*
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PSYC 244-01 | Cognitive Neuroscience | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 352 | Instructor: Darcy Burgund | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 24 |
*Permission of the instructor is required for ACTC students*
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PSYC 244-L1 | Cognitive Neuroscience Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 352 | Instructor: Darcy Burgund | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 24 |
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PSYC 254-01 | Social Psychology | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 352 | Instructor: William Johnson | Avail./Max.: 7 / 32 |
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This course will survey the ways in which social phenomena influence the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals. The major theories, experiments, and issues associated with social psychology will be examined. Sample topics include love, aggression, conformity, attitudes, prejudice, persuasion, obedience, and attribution. Group B course. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 270-01 | Psychology of Sustainable Behavior | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Christie Manning | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 270-01; first day attendance required*
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PSYC 272-01 | Health Psychology | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 352 | Instructor: Jaine Strauss | Avail./Max.: -10 / 28 |
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This course will examine multiple, interactive factors that contribute to human health; we will take a biopsychsocial perspective to understanding how best to promote and maintain health, prevent and treat illness, and adapt and thrive in the context of chronic illness. We will discuss the roles of stress, coping, immune response, social relationships, personality, and structural inequalities in the progression and prevention of disease. We will also address some ways in which behaviors (e.g. physical activity, nutrition, substance use, sleep) can contribute to wellbeing or sickness, and we will examine behavior change strategies that can help improve our own health habits. Group B course. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 301-01 | Research in Psychology II | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Cari Gillen-O'Neel | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
*Open only to declared Psychology majors*
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PSYC 350-01 | Social Identities in Developing Lives | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Cari Gillen-O'Neel | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
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All of us belong to several social groups, including race/ethnicity, gender, religion, and sexual orientation. On the one hand, social groups can provide us with identity, community, and pride, but on the other hand, we may face stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination as a reslut of how our groups are seen in society. How do children experience these different aspects of social groups? When do children even realize that they are members of these groups? At which ages or under which circumstances do children derive identity, community, and pride from their groups? If children face discrimination, do they understand what happened? What consequences does discrimination have for other aspects of children's development? In this course we will draw from developmental and social psychological perspectives to explore these questions and more. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 380-01 | Community Psychology and Public Health | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 300 | Instructor: Jaine Strauss | Avail./Max.: 1 / 18 |
*Permission of instructor required*
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PSYC 394-01 | Neurobiology of Anxiety and Depression | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 300 | Instructor: Deborah Kreiss | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 18 |
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This seminar addresses neurobiological approaches for the treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders. We discuss how therapeutic strategies have evolved along with our understanding of the etiology of these disorders and the advantages/disadvantages of past and current therapeutic methodologies. We explore the development of novel techniques that may shape the future treatment of these debilitating disorders. Pre-requisite: PSYC/NEUR 180 and either MATH 155 or PSYC 201 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 394-02 | Psychology of Climate Change | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 300 | Instructor: Christie Manning | Avail./Max.: 5 / 16 |
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Climate change is no longer a distant, hypothetical threat. Yet, though nearly half of Americans are “concerned” or “alarmed” about global warming, few are taking significant personal action in response, and only a small minority are involved in civic action to address the issue. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 394-03 | Applied Social Psychology: Nudging Behavior and Social Change | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Jhon Wlaschin | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 18 |
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This course is designed for students who are interested in behavior change and wish to develop insights and skills toward influencing positive social policy. Given the increasing technological, environmental and personal complexity of modern life, people and societies are relying on social psychological principals for sophisticated methods to understand and improve social and professional functioning. This course will provide an overview of practical ways in which social psychological theory and research have been applied to understand and deal effectively with problems in everyday life. We will explore research and policy initiatives that address social concerns in areas such as law enforcement, consumer behavior, education, environmental policy, political behavior and health. In particular, we will review the ongoing work of government agencies such as the Behavioral Insights Team (Nudge Unit) in Great Britain who have used evidence and innovation to promote government performance and efficiency. Students will collaborate on identifying a particular social concern in an area they are interested in and will create an intervention strategy as a final project. Prerequisites: PSYC 100, and PSYC 201 or MATH 155 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 401-01 | Directed Research in Psychology | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Burgund, Ostrove, Strauss | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 32 |
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Students are involved and guided in conducting research within specific content areas approved by the supervising faculty. Research may be conducted individually or in small groups depending on the content area. Research groups meet regularly for presentation of background material, discussions of common readings, and reports on project status. Directed research is typically taken in the junior year and is open only to declared majors. Students will be assigned to sections by the supervising faculty. This course fulfills the capstone requirement for the major in Psychology. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 490-01 | Behavioral and Experimental Economics | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Pete Ferderer | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ECON 490-01; Capstone course*
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Religious Studies
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RELI 100-01 | Introduction to Islam: Formation and Expansion | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Gregory Lipton | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; cross-listed with INTL 194-01*
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RELI 111-01 | Introduction to Buddhism | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Erik Davis | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 25 |
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Buddhism is increasing well-known in the USA, but what is it, and how does Buddhism encourage people to organize and think about their lives? Organized on the basis of the Eightfold Noble Path, with a focus of 'morals, the Buddhist psychology of mind, and meditation,' this course offers an introduction to the personalities, teachings, and institutions of Buddhism. Beginning in India at the time of the Buddha, this course focuses on Theravada Buddhism, asking students to think historically, philosophically, and anthropologically. Many Friday sessions will be dedicated to an exploration of the variety of Buddhist meditative techniques. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 194-01 | Who Wrote the Bible? | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Nicholas Schaser | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
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This course is an introduction to the literature, history, and religious life of the Israelite people from its beginnings through the Persian period (fifth century BCE), with a focus on discerning the identities and motivations of the biblical composers. The course will focus on learning to read the books of the Hebrew Bible (=HB) in the light of two academic methodologies: the comparative method (reading the HB alongside other texts from the ancient Near East) and the historical-critical method (use of historians’ methodology, including archeology) to ascertain the human circumstances of the religion, life, and literature of ancient Israel. Emphasis will be on coming to understand imaginatively Israelite religion as an aspect of the total life situation of the people. As such, we will be concerned with the ancient Near Eastern background of the Hebrew Bible, the permutations of the social and political life of ancient Israel, and the various forms of thought and piety that arose during the periods in question. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 194-02 | Psychedelics and Religious Experience | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Gregory Lipton | Avail./Max.: Closed -6 / 18 |
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Centered around theories in the study of religion, this course interrogates the use of psychedelics as purported entheogens—substances that “generate the divine within.” Taking a multidisciplinary approach that surveys the history and effect of psychedelics on physiological processes and states of human consciousness, this course cuts across scholarly research in cognitive science, biology, psychology, psychopharmacology, philosophy, anthropology, theology, and religious studies in order to explore whether the contemporary use of psychedelics can help us understand more clearly the fraught category of religious experience. Does the entheogenic use of psychedelics allow for “true” religious experience and knowledge of the noumenal—i.e., reality as it is—or does such use simply perpetuate the illusory realm of phenomena? General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 223-01 | Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: Susanna Drake | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
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The critical study of ancient Christian texts involves making strange texts familiar and familiar texts strange. In this course, we will consider non-canonical texts alongside canonical texts in order to develop insight into the formation of Christian identity in the first through fourth centuries. Special emphasis will be given to the development of the discourses of orthodoxy and heresy, the diversity of Christian beliefs and practices, and the examination of early Christian writings within their social and political contexts. Instead of investigating the material in strict chronological order, we will consider how different people (Jesus, Mary Magdalene, James, Paul, etc) serve as authorizing figures for the texts. Using this organization, we will investigate issues at stake in the development of Christian "canon," including theology, Christology, apostolic authority, women's roles, and the relation of Christianity to the state and to other religious traditions. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 226-01 | Martyrdom Then and Now | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Susanna Drake | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
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From Socrates to suicide bombers, martyrs have been forced to give up their lives, or chosen to risk them and even to die, rather than renounce their beliefs or practices. Of course, we know their stories only second hand. This course explores how narratives about martyrs ("martyrologies") relate to the formation of religious identities and communities. Over the course of the semester, we will analyze martyrologies from the early Christian and Jewish periods, the beginnings of Islam, the sixteenth century, and modernity. We will pay special attention to the social and political contexts with which martyrs often found themselves at odds (including the Roman Empire in the ancient past, and the U.S./Middle East conflicts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries). In class discussions, readings, and written work, you will have the opportunity to reflect on the following questions (among others): How do the stories we tell about martyrs shape the way we understand religious practices and beliefs? How do narratives of bearing witness, suffering, and death help to illumine relationships between religious and political domains? How might our current understanding of martyrdom be informed for better and for worse by a study of history? General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 235-01 | Theorizing Religion | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Erik Davis | Avail./Max.: 8 / 12 |
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The course is an introduction to some of the important theoretical and methodological work conducted by scholars in various disciplines who hope to better define and understand religious phenomena. This seminar begins with some of the early twentieth century texts that are often cited and discussed by contemporary scholars of religion (e.g., Durkheim, Weber, Freud) and then turns to a number of investigations stemming from engagement with earlier theorists or refracting new concerns. The course inquires into the problems of defining and analyzing religious cultures, and the researcher's position or positions in this analysis, as this has been approached from anthropological, sociological, and religious studies perspectives. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 236-01 | Sanskrit and Classical Religion in India | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: James Laine | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 236-01, CLAS 202-01 and, LING 236-01*
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RELI 238-01 | Catholics: Culture, Identity, Politics | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: James Laine | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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The study of Christian traditions in general, and Roman Catholicism in particular, has often emphasized the study of theology and the history of the institutional Church. Scholars studying non-Western religious traditions, however, have in recent decades given close attention to the culture of which any given religious tradition is a part, studying as much the popular culture as elite and institutional expressions. This course is an attempt, in part, to apply the approaches developed by comparative historians of religion and anthropologists to the study of some of the cultures influenced by Catholicism, and to understand current issues and debates on, for example, sexual politics, liturgy, or theology and Church authority, in that context. We will begin with a consideration of the place of Catholicism within American culture, some of the conflicts between American and Catholic values, in light of the long history of the Catholic Church in the West. We will then turn to particular cultural and ritual expressions of Catholic faith. There will also be opportunities to study various aspects of Catholic culture in Minnesota through field trips, and independent projects. Here some of the ethnic diversity among Catholics in Minnesota --Germans, Irish, Latin Americans, Native Americans, Poles, African-Americans, Vietnamese, Koreans—may be considered. We’ll begin with a visit to a big lefty church that meets in a school gym with a stage full of old hippies playing electric guitars at mass. Then we’ll attend a conservative Latin mass with full orchestra and choir performing one of Mozart’s masses. Are these two churches part of the same religion? The theologian might say yes, the anthropologist might disagree. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 238-02 | Catholics: Culture, Identity, Politics | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: James Laine | Avail./Max.: Closed -5 / 20 |
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A study of the religious tradition of Roman Catholicism. Some attention will be given to the theology and historical development of the Roman Catholic Church, but major emphasis will fall on the relationship of the Catholic religion to various Catholic cultures, including Ireland, Mexico, Poland and the United States. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 294-01 | Vodou and Santeria: African Diasporic Religious History | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Tiffany Gleason | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 294-01*
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How did a complex religious pantheon come to represent bad Hollywood zombie movies and New Orleans-style voodoo dolls? In this course, we will find out by investigating the history of complex religious practices such as Haitian Voudou, which originated with West African Vodou and Kongolese religious practices as the slaves from these regions were brought to the island of Hispaniola during the trans-Atlantic slave system and changed over time as people continuously interacted across the Atlantic world. We will also explore other African-based religions. For example, the orisha religions of Yoruba peoples in West Africa came to places such as Brazil and Cuba at various points in both the legal and illicit slave trading periods. Peoples of African descent experienced a bricolage of cultural impacts and remade themselves in the Americas but did not forget ties to the homeland. Religions such as Christianity and Islam also inserted themselves into these communities and emerged intertwined. The movements of Africans and their descendants came to North America adapting and adopting even more of their practices to meet specific needs. We will learn about the values, attitudes and norms that historically shaped the cultures of peoples across the Atlantic. The Caribbean, Brazil and West Africa, will be our primary focuses. Specifically, you will come to understand the complexity of religious practices commonly known as Santeria, Candomble, Vodou, Palo Mayombe, Ifa, and Hoodoo, among others. By placing these systems in an appropriate historical context, we will identify and analyze key elements, biases and influences that shape the disciplines of History and World Religions. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 294-02 | Comparative Muslim Cultures | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Jenna Rice Rahaim | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ANTH 253-01 and INTL 253-01*
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RELI 359-01 | Religion and Revolution: Case Studies | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Erik Davis | Avail./Max.: 15 / 20 |
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An examination of five revolutions and their religious engagements: The Diggers and the English Civil War, The Taiping Rebellion in China, Buddhism and the Cambodian Revolution, Cultural Rebirth and Resistance in Native America, and the Algerian Islamist Revolution. All participants will read one work about each example, and then will focus more deeply on the examples in group and individual work. The course intends to develop critical skills in comparing the radical social changes implied by the word revolution with the differing revolutionary impulses that are sometimes drawn from religion, and sometimes opposed to it. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Russian Studies
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RUSS 101-01 | Elementary Russian I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Julia Chadaga | Avail./Max.: 8 / 25 |
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A structured introduction to the basics of the Russian sound system and grammar, as well as speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension. Some exposure to Russian culture. For beginning students. No prerequisites. Russian language classes (unless otherwise stated) are proficiency oriented, and aim at perfecting all four linguistic skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Intermediate and advanced courses are taught in Russian as much as possible. Most classes meet three times per week with an additional weekly class period devoted specifically to oral proficiency. These conversation classes are taught by Russian native speakers. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 101-L1 | Elementary Russian I Lab | Days: T | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Valeriia Skvortcova | Avail./Max.: 3 / 13 |
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A structured introduction to the basics of the Russian sound system and grammar, as well as speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension. Some exposure to Russian culture. For beginning students. No prerequisites. Russian language classes (unless otherwise stated) are proficiency oriented, and aim at perfecting all four linguistic skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Intermediate and advanced courses are taught in Russian as much as possible. Most classes meet three times per week with an additional weekly class period devoted specifically to oral proficiency. These conversation classes are taught by Russian native speakers. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 101-L2 | Elementary Russian I Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Valeriia Skvortcova | Avail./Max.: 7 / 13 |
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A structured introduction to the basics of the Russian sound system and grammar, as well as speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension. Some exposure to Russian culture. For beginning students. No prerequisites. Russian language classes (unless otherwise stated) are proficiency oriented, and aim at perfecting all four linguistic skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Intermediate and advanced courses are taught in Russian as much as possible. Most classes meet three times per week with an additional weekly class period devoted specifically to oral proficiency. These conversation classes are taught by Russian native speakers. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 203-01 | Intermediate Russian I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Brian Johnson | Avail./Max.: 17 / 25 |
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In the second year of Russian, students learn to operate in basic social and cultural environments. Conversational skills needed on the telephone, public transport and other daily situations, listening and reading skills such as television, newspapers and movies, and various modes of writing are studied. Russian language classes (unless otherwise stated) are proficiency oriented, and aim at perfecting all four linguistic skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Intermediate and advanced courses are taught in Russian as much as possible. Most classes meet three times per week with an additional weekly class period devoted specifically to oral proficiency. These conversation classes are taught by Russian native speakers. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 203-L1 | Intermediate Russian I Lab | Days: R | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: Valeriia Skvortcova | Avail./Max.: 9 / 13 |
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In the second year of Russian, students learn to operate in basic social and cultural environments. Conversational skills needed on the telephone, public transport and other daily situations, listening and reading skills such as television, newspapers and movies, and various modes of writing are studied. Russian language classes (unless otherwise stated) are proficiency oriented, and aim at perfecting all four linguistic skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Intermediate and advanced courses are taught in Russian as much as possible. Most classes meet three times per week with an additional weekly class period devoted specifically to oral proficiency. These conversation classes are taught by Russian native speakers. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 203-L2 | Intermediate Russian I Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Valeriia Skvortcova | Avail./Max.: 9 / 13 |
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In the second year of Russian, students learn to operate in basic social and cultural environments. Conversational skills needed on the telephone, public transport and other daily situations, listening and reading skills such as television, newspapers and movies, and various modes of writing are studied. Russian language classes (unless otherwise stated) are proficiency oriented, and aim at perfecting all four linguistic skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Intermediate and advanced courses are taught in Russian as much as possible. Most classes meet three times per week with an additional weekly class period devoted specifically to oral proficiency. These conversation classes are taught by Russian native speakers. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 251-01 | 19th Century Russian Literature in Translation | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Brian Johnson | Avail./Max.: 19 / 25 |
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Latecomers to world literature, Russian authors of the nineteenth century produced timeless works which have subsequently defined the genre of the novel. This course covers definitive works of the most important authors of Russia’s Golden Age, namely Pushkin’s Byronic novel in verse, Eugene Onegin; Lermontov’s novella of an ironic anti-hero, A Hero of Our Time; Gogol’s absurdist and hilarious novellas The Nose and The Overcoat; Turgenev’s exposition of intergenerational and ideological conflict, Fathers and Sons; Dostoevsky’s most famous novel Crime and Punishment, a thrilling “why-dun-it” with a sympathetic axe-murderer; and Tolstoy’s masterpiece Anna Karenina, a morality tale of adultery and self-determination. The course will introduce students to the art of literary criticism through an examination of the literary aspects of these classic works. The course will also include discussions about Russian culture and history as well as universal questions regarding the self, society and the state, freedom of choice, the existence of God, and other daunting questions about human existence. No knowledge of Russian is required; all lectures, readings and discussions are in English. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 261-01 | Making History: Russian Cinema as Testimony, Propaganda, and Art | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Julia Chadaga | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; cross-listed with HIST 261-01*
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Throughout history, we have turned to storytelling to make sense of our world. We tell stories about the past to document and explain phenomena, to justify our political and social agendas, to create connections, and to give life meaning. In the twentieth century, Russia helped introduce the world to a spectacular new form of storytelling—film—and used it to alter previous narratives in the hope of reshaping the future. In this course, we will look at written and cinematic representations of Russian history, from medieval times to the post-Soviet era. One task of the course will be to articulate how storytelling in film differs from historiography and fiction. Another will be to show how politics, power relations, technology, and aesthetics have shaped film depictions of key historical events. We will analyze the films as narratives about real events, as vehicles of propaganda, and as imaginative works of art. The course will consist of mini-lectures, class discussion, and weekly film screenings. All films will have subtitles, and no knowledge of Russia or Russian history is required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 364-01 | Culture and Revolution | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: James von Geldern | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 364-01*
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RUSS 394-01 | Conversational Russian | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Valeriia Skvortcova | Avail./Max.: 18 / 25 |
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In this course students will not only practice conversing in Russian, by which they will learn speaking etiquette, expressing feelings and their point of view, but also they will be able to work on advanced grammar. Each week will feature a discussion of current events for which students may employ all types of social media. Students will also improve their vocabulary by reading classic (Pushkin, Chekhov etc) and modern (Pelevin, Sorokin etc) Russian literature in the original and by watching animated movies («Трое из Простоквашино») and feature films in Russian. They will learn about modern Russia, the stereotypes, superstitions and Russian slang by watching and discussing the series «Как я стал русским». Additionally some classes will cover written Russian to develop academic reading and writing skills. It will be fun! Requirements: completion of Intermediate Russian 204 or similarly demonstrated ability. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Sociology
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SOCI 110-01 | Introduction to Sociology | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Lesley Kandaras | Avail./Max.: 1 / 25 |
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The course introduces students to the sociological imagination, or "the quality of mind essential to grasp the interplay of individual and society, of biography and history, of self and the world,” as C. Wright Mills dscribed it. The enduring value of a sociological imagination is to help students situate peoples' lives and important events in broader social contexts by understanding how political, economic, and cultural forces constitute social life. Sociology explores minute aspects of social life (microsociology) as well as global social processes and structures (macrosociology). Topics covered vary from semester to semester, but may include: socialization, suburbanization and housing, culture, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class stratification, deviance and crime, economic and global inequality, families and intimate relationships, education, religion, and globalization. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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SOCI 170-01 | Work, Identity, and Inequality | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Deborah Smith | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
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This course will examine recent transformations in the U.S. economy - including deskilling, downsizing, and the rise of the service sector - and it will consider how each of these "transformations" relate to issues of identity, community, family formation, structural inequality and national culture. Work has changed so quickly in the last three decades that we have yet to fully comprehend the micro level consequences in our daily lives and the macro level consequences for American culture and global processes. 4 credits General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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SOCI 194-01 | The Rise of Right Wing Populism | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Khaldoun Samman | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
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This course seeks to understand Donald Trump’s election as part of a larger pattern of backlash against the existing political, economic, and social order. The course focuses on Trump’s rise as the most visible example of the rise of rise of right wing populism, but will also use some comparative material to examine similar right-wing populist insurgencies in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. We will explore the debates of how best to explain populism, reading material from a variety of disciplines. Along the way, we will address questions such as: What is populism and how do we study it? What distinguishes populists from traditional political elites? What social forces produce populism and can they account for how populist movements have varied over time? Is populism always a right wing phenomenon associated with xenophobia, racism, and sexism or can a left-wing, progressive populism be a constructive force of social change? In answering these questions, we will critically assess popular explanations for Trump’s rise, including arguments about the idea of “white rage,” the rebellion of the white working class, and the emasculation of men. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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SOCI 205-01 | Public Schooling in America | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Terry Boychuk | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only*
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As Frederick Rudolf aptly noted, the history of American education "is American history" and reveals "the central purposes and driving directions of American society." The advent of mass schooling represents a profound exercise in collective self-definition. As with much else in a democracy, deciding whom to teach, what to teach, and how to teach have been subjects of lively debate in the US from the early nineteenth century to the dawning of the twenty-first. This course offers a broad overview of the overarching political controversies surrounding the historical development of public schooling in America. We begin with a survey of 19th-century movements to define elementary schooling as the chosen instrument for nation-building, for safeguarding democratic self-governance, and for resolving with the cascading social disorders implicated in the rise of urbanization, mass immigration, and industrial capitalism. The rise of high schools in the early twentieth century is the second major topic of interest, and more specifically, progressive-era debates about the relationship between public schools and colleges and universities. This era begets the great ideological fault-lines underlying educational theory and practice in the US that lasted through the 20th century into the 21st. The dramatic post-war reconstruction of public schooling is the third major focus of the course. We explore the proliferation of federal government mandates to secularize, integrate, assimilate, equalize, multiculturalize, and expunge racism and sexism from the curriculum, all the while raising academic standards for all. With these directives came vastly expanded government funding for social science research trained on evaluating public schools' efforts to realize these new benchmarks of educational progress. We observe this rebirth of the social sciences as arbiters of educational policy debates. The final section of the course revolves around contemporary disputes over school choice policies and the federal No-Child-Left-Behind initiatives. These latest campaigns to democratize academic excellence have followed a familiar, recurring script of US policy making since the 1980s: deregulation, de-centralization, consumer choice, managerial and administrative prerogatives in public agencies re-invented in the image of governance in the corporate sector, and the elaboration of benchmarks to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of educational practices. We consider how recent experience indicate limitations to privatization, corporatization, and marketization as solutions to the educational crisis, and perhaps, suggest the beginnings of a renewed search for answers to the riddle of public education. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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SOCI 232-01 | Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Kate Reiling | Avail./Max.: 0 / 20 |
*Open to First Year students; cross-listed with INTL 232-01; first day attendance required; students that have completed the Economics Department Entrepreneurship course cannot enroll in this course*
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This course is focused and driven by student team project work. Students will prioritize social problems / issues for which they would like to engage in the creation / implementation of a solution. They will spend the semester working to more deeply understand the problems, research successful and failed attempts to resolve the problem in other contexts, and to generate a solution that includes a well researched model for introducing sustainable social change. It is through this engagement that students will grapple with the challenging realities of practice and implementation. Students will study several methodologies including Lean Startup, Human Centered Design, Participatory Poverty Assessment and Impact Gap Analysis. Students will learn through their own experiences and utilize case studies comparing problems, their root causes and the entrepreneurial approaches deployed to address them from various countries and cultural contexts. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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SOCI 275-01 | Comparative-Historical Sociology | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Terry Boychuk | Avail./Max.: -1 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with POLI 250-01*
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SOCI 294-01 | Immigrant Voices | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Erika Busse-Cardenas | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
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During the past half century, international migration has rapidly expanded: from 2000 to 2015, the number of migrants increased by over 40%. This growth reflects both policy changes (such as the 1965 policy in the United States that removed an explicitly race-based regime) and international developments. This course examines migration as a global phenomenon addressing questions such as: What motivates people to migrate and what distinguishes migrants from those who remain in their home countries? How does migration reconfigure social relationships, such as parental and community relations? How should we understand the different frameworks of immigration policies (e.g., security, human rights, economic growth) and the consequences of these different policy emphases? The course addresses these questions by drawing on recent research about both immigration policies and immigrant experiences. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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SOCI 294-02 | Class Cultures and Class Identities | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Deborah Smith | Avail./Max.: -2 / 24 |
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In popular discourse, the category of class is often missing, misunderstood as temporary and not institutionalized, displaced onto other discourses of difference such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, or mystified within an ideology of individualism. In this course, we adopt a sociological lens to examine the systematic operation of class divisions through cultural mediums, considering how class identities become formulated and class cultures become differentiated within varying institutional contexts. Our study will track the category of class along multiple lines of cultural distinction, examining class subjectivity as it is constructed in relation to gender, race, and sexual identity, and as it is built around moral discourses of difference and symbolic economies of style, taste, and preference. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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SOCI 335-01 | Families and Social Change | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Erika Busse-Cardenas | Avail./Max.: 16 / 20 |
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This class focuses on the relationship between families and larger social institutions, including governments, economic institutions, and labor markets. This course also explores how various societal forces shape relationships within contemporary American families, as well as considering other historical forms and understandings of the family. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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SOCI 480-01 | Senior Seminar | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Samman, Smith | Avail./Max.: 8 / 20 |
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This senior seminar serves as the capstone experience for sociology majors. This class provides students with an opportunity to develop a synthetic understanding of their sociology course work and to conduct prospective research that may culminate in honors projects. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Theatre and Dance
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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THDA 105-01 | Seeing Performance in the Twin Cities | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Megan Reilly | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; first day attendance required*
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The goal of this course is to introduce first-year students to live performance in the exciting arts scene of the Twin Cities. Students in this class learn approaches to studying theatre and performance events and texts, and begin to practice the vocabularies of scholarship in the field of theatre and performance studies. We attend performances at professional theatres, and at Macalester College. In this process of studied spectatorship, students learn how to critically attend, discuss, and write about theatre and performance events, learning the vocabularies of the field. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 110-01 | Introduction to Theatre Studies | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Claudia Tatinge Nascimento | Avail./Max.: 13 / 25 |
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This is a survey course that welcomes majors and non-majors. Students are exposed to a variety of modern and contemporary plays, productions, and criticism to explore the intersections of theater, identity, aesthetics, and politics. Assignments include readings and research; screenings and/or performances; script analyses and staged readings of selected scenes; and short written projects. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 120-01 | Acting Theory and Performance I | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:30 pm | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Robert Rosen | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
*First day attendance required*
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THDA 121-01 | Beginning Dance Composition | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Wynn Fricke | Avail./Max.: 6 / 15 |
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This course is the study and discipline of dance-making. Students learn the tools of the choreographer - time, space, energy - and how they can be shaped to give the body expressive power. The relationships between form, content, and technique are explored. Students choreograph short studies, improvise, discuss, and view dance on film and in live performance. The course values risk-taking and collaboration in a supportive, shared space. Through the creative process, we seek energy from a sense of investigation as opposed to the pressure to "succeed." The solo form is emphasized. No dance experience is necessary. Either this course or Intermediate Dance Composition is required for a dance minor. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 194-01 | Crafting the Tangible | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 228 | Instructor: Thomas Barrett | Avail./Max.: 2 / 10 |
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As our society shifts away from a human connection to the tangible, this course seeks to reconnect the student to the tangible object. Our focus will be on the process of “thinking through making.” Through a series of project based learning opportunities, students will develop an understanding of themselves, the process of “critical making,” and current performance production technologies. This course will meet in a seminar format 2-3 times a week and a studio format 1 time a week. This topics course fulfills the Technical Theater requirement of the Theater and Dance major. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 194-L1 | Crafting the Tangible Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: THEATR SCENE | Instructor: Thomas Barrett | Avail./Max.: 2 / 10 |
THDA 215-01 | Reading the Dancing Body:Topics in Dance History | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Jill Lile | Avail./Max.: 3 / 20 |
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Dance is an art of the body in time, space, and culture. It is a language that reflects individual, economic, social, and religious forces. This class will "read" the gender, race, and politics of the dancing body within African-American and Euro-American dance traditions from the 19th century to the early 21st century. The focus will be on theatrical dance forms in the United States including ballet, modern, and musical theater dance. Social dance will also be looked at as a predecessor to some of these genres. We will read, write, discuss, dance, view videos, and attend performances. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 220-01 | Voice and Speech | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-04:00 pm | Room: 1550SM THEATER | Instructor: Cheryl Brinkley | Avail./Max.: 3 / 16 |
*First day attendance required*
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THDA 255-01 | Lighting Design | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 228 | Instructor: Megan Reilly | Avail./Max.: 8 / 12 |
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This course is an introduction to basic lighting design and the history of lighting. While emphasis is on theater, it also teaches the lighting design of film, television, dance, opera, and environmental settings. This course is primarily an approach to lighting design, but the student will be expected to have a basic grasp of lighting hardware as well. The first aim of the course is to make the student more aware of color and light around him/her every day. Demonstrations are an integral part of the lectures. Alternate years. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 263-01 | African American Theatre | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Sarah Bellamy | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 263-01*
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THDA 310-01 | Theatre Methods: Shakespeare to Viewpoints | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Beth Cleary | Avail./Max.: 1 / 12 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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THDA 310-L1 | Theatre Methods: Shakespeare to Viewpoints | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Beth Cleary | Avail./Max.: 1 / 12 |
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This course is an experiential survey of major European and U.S. performance methods, 1600-present. Through readings in theatre and performance history and theory, students will investigate the social forces that have shaped acting-as-representation: from Shakespeare's Globe through commedia dell'arte, from Stanislavski's "magic if" to Brecht's V-effekt, Barba's "paper canoe" to the ongoing U.S. performance inquiry into "presence." In a weekly intensive lab component, students will learn the specific techniques developed by and required of these practitioners and genres. Research projects will culminate in an open community workshop of exercises and techniques, incorporated by the students as part of their comprehensive inquiry into additional innovators or genres. Requirement for Theatre and Dance majors. Enrollment limited to 12 students, with preference given to Theatre and Dance major and/or minors. (4 Credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 341-01 | Intermediate Dance Composition | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Wynn Fricke | Avail./Max.: 4 / 10 |
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In this course, the student has the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the craft of dancing-making. They embody the tools of space, time and energy with greater clarity, and become fluent with compositional structures as they choreograph solo, duet, and group forms. They begin to touch more deeply into their distinct power and vision as an artist. Collaboration, risk-taking, investigation, and joy are valued within the support of a shared space. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 489-01 | Seminar in Performance Theory and Practice | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Malin Palani | Avail./Max.: 1 / 12 |
*First day attendance required*
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THDA 21-01 | African-Based Movement I | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Patricia Brown | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
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This African Based Movement course focuses on dance inspired by West Africa, as well as other regions of the continent, the Caribbean, Americas, and the African Diaspora at large. This physically rigorous class is rooted in a communal environment and is accompanied by a drummer. Students will learn African- based dance technique, characteristics, and the fundamental connection between the drums and the dance. They will also create in-class movement projects and presentations. Though this class may focus on traditional dance at times, it is not a tradition-specific class. All are welcome. (1 credit) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 41-01 | Modern Dance I | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Wynn Fricke | Avail./Max.: 9 / 18 |
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This introductory level course is a joyous and demanding exploration of the theory, technique, and terminology of modern dance as a performing art. Students engage fully with their bodies and minds as they deepen their strength, sense of rhythm, flexibility, and coordination. The course develops skills in inversions, floorwork, and balance based in clear alignment. (1 credit) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 43-01 | Modern Dance III | Days: TR | Time: 04:40 pm-06:10 pm | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Marciano Silva Dos Santos | Avail./Max.: 2 / 18 |
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In this joyous and highly physical intermediate course, students continue to build upon their skills as expressive dancers through active alignment, coordination, musicality, spatial awareness and nuanced moving. Clarity in increasingly complex movement sequences is emphasized. May be repeated for credit. (1 credit) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 51-01 | Ballet I | Days: MW | Time: 02:20 pm-03:50 pm | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Jill Lile | Avail./Max.: 15 / 18 |
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This is a beginning ballet technique class. The goal is to demonstrate fundamental understanding and execution of ballet technique. It will include barre work, center-floor, and across-the-floor combinations. (1 credit) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 53-01 | Ballet III | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Jill Lile | Avail./Max.: 7 / 18 |
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This is an intermediate ballet class and is geared for students who have developed proficient skills at the barre and in the center. Center will include pirouettes, adage, beats, and more complex combinations. Students will develop a more advanced vocabulary while continuing to focus on placement, alignment, flexibility, strength, and fluidity and connection of movement. The refinement of technical skills and performance skills with longer combinations will be emphasized. (1 credit) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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WGSS 100-02 | Intro to Wom/Gend/Sexuality Studies: Transnational Perspectives | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Sonita Sarker | Avail./Max.: 3 / 25 |
*First day attendance required*
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WGSS 102-01 | Gender and Sport | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Corie Hammers | Avail./Max.: 2 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; first day attendance required*
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WGSS 200-01 | Feminist/Queer Theories and Methodologies | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Corie Hammers | Avail./Max.: 7 / 25 |
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This course is a historical survey of theories and methodologies used in feminist and queer studies. Course material highlights the unique and intertwined knowledges feminist and queer scholars have produced; these include the re-makings of liberal, Marxian, antiracist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial theories, and their uses in humanities and social science methods. The course centrally examines how feminist and queer studies transform societies and are transformed through struggle over their gender/sexual identities, racial formations, and global/transnational locations. The course considers how feminist and queer studies have arisen in close relationships¿of union, tension, and antagonism¿and how feminist and queer work today may link. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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WGSS 229-01 | Narrating Black Women's Resistance | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Crystal Moten | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 14 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 229-01 and HIST 229-01; first day attendance required*
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WGSS 240-01 | Comparative Feminisms: Whiteness and Postcolonialisms | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Sonita Sarker | Avail./Max.: 11 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; cross-listed with ENGL 294-03*
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This course brings together discourses that have remained somewhat parallel and unrelated--Whiteness Studies and Postcolonial Studies. It is based on the premise that 'whiteness' as an academic/social framework stems from and is intertwined with social and political identity-based movements (feminist, critical race, etc.). In other words, studies of the intersection of gender, race, class, and nation initiated in the post-colonizing imagination seeks to shake up paradigms of power, and whiteness studies shares in this effort. This course explores where and how the notion of 'whiteness' converges and diverges from post-colonialism. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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WGSS 252-01 | Gender, Sexualities and Feminist Visual Culture | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Joanna Inglot | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*First Year Course only; cross-listed with ART 252-01*
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This course will examine the issues of gender, sexuality and feminist visual culture in the 20th century and contemporary art. Through different case studies, the course will examine the intersections of race, class, ethnicity, nationality with gender and and sexual orientations. Throughout the course we will try to discern several major themes and subjects explored by feminist artists throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. While much of the course will focus on the history of feminist art in Europe and the US, we will also discuss transnational feminist theory and emerging feminist artists in many other parts of the world, including Africa, India, the Middle-East, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Class meets TR, 9:40 am - 11:10 am in Art Commons 102 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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WGSS 294-01 | Get in Formation: Black Protest Music | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Crystal Moten | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; appropriate for First Years; cross-listed with AMST 294-02, HIST 294-11 and MUSI 294-02*
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Throughout African American history, people of African descent in the United States have always utilized the tools at their disposal to resist oppression. This includes music. Music heals, empowers, and exposes--joy, pain, love, anger, happiness, suffering and hope. Using a black feminist, intersectional lens, this course is a topical introduction to various traditions within African American music from the enslavement period until the present. Not meant to be exhaustive, the course will examine the connections between music and major turning points in African American social, cultural, and political history. The course also pays special attention to the ways in which race, class, gender, and sexuality impact the creation, interpretation, performance, and reception of black protest music. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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WGSS 330-01 | Democracies, Feminisms, Capitalisms | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Sonita Sarker | Avail./Max.: 21 / 25 |
*First day attendance required*
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