Spring 2018 Class Schedule
Contact
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Spring 2018 Class Schedule - updated July 12, 2018 at 12:30 pm
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 194-01 | Gender/Race/Popular US Culture | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Lizeth Gutierrez | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with WGSS 194-01*
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Popular culture is often perceived as only a means of entertainment. In this course, however, we treat popular culture as central to the production and reproduction of identity categories to examine how images, ideologies and behaviors are created and represented in American popular culture. Most importantly, the course will explore the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class in popular culture representations of identity to broadly discuss how identity markers are produced, how they change over time, and how they interlock to form larger structural inequalities and systems of oppression. We will focus on representations of Latinx bodies in the media, blackness and criminality, feminist politics and post-feminist culture, and representations of race and gender in animated films. In addition, students will question their own taken-for-granted notions about what popular culture is and what it does to gendered and raced relations to situate popular culture as a contested space of subjugation and disempowerment as well as one of resistance and possibility. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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AMST 209-01 | Civil Rights in the United States | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Crystal Moten | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; cross-listed with HIST 209-01*
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AMST 222-01 | Imagining the American West | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 226 | Instructor: Katrina Phillips | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 222-01*
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AMST 226-01 | American Indian History since 1871 | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 226 | Instructor: Katrina Phillips | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 226-01*
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AMST 237-01 | Environmental Justice | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Christie Manning | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 237-01: ACTC student may register on first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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AMST 270-01 | Black Public Intellectuals | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Duchess Harris | Avail./Max.: -1 / 35 |
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This course will address the tradition of public intellectuals in numerous Black communities. We will expand the definition of "politics" to include theater, literature, and film. We will interrogate the concept of who chooses the scholarly leaders for Black communities. We will examine numerous topics such as Communism, The American Dream, Incarceration, Feminism, and Ebony Voices in the Ivory Tower. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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AMST 294-01 | Bruce Lee, His Life and Legacy | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 20 |
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This 4 credit discussion-based course is entirely focused on Bruce Lee, the actor and leading martial arts icon of the 20th century. Using American Studies and Critical Race Studies frames to examine the construction of racialized and gendered bodies, we will discuss Bruce Lee in terms of his biography, identities, politics, philosophy, and filmography. We will take time to appreciate the entertainment value and athleticism that Bruce Lee brought to his work, but we will also learn to distinguish the commercialized, commodified Bruce Lee (from t-shirts to posters to action figures) from the serious historical figure who symbolized the spirit of cultural independence and political sovereignty around the world. Among the required books and movies: The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, and “Way of the Dragon” (1972). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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AMST 294-02 | Chicana/o History | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Lizeth Gutierrez | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 294-03 and HIST 294-12*
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"Chicana/o History" is designed to introduce students to the histories of the Chicana/o people prior to the Spanish colonization of the Americas to the present century. Specifically, this course will provide an overview of culture, religion, education, economics, immigration and civil rights through a Chicana feminist framework. We will begin with a general presentation of terminology and identification categories. Then move towards a general reading on the precolonial histories of the Olmecas, Aztecas, and Tolteca cultures and politics. We will follow with a study of Chicana women’s labor struggles in the U.S. along with the emergence of labor movements. In addition, the class will explore how and why the field of Chicana/o Studies emerges at the height of the Civil Rights and the Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Students will delve into U.S. constructions of immigration, citizenship and nationhood to understand contemporary debates and scholarship on issues affecting the Chicana/o-Mexicana/o-Latina/o communities. By the end of the semester students will be able to critically engage, analyze, and contest not only contemporary constructions of Chicana/o identity and representation, but also grasp a clear understanding of Chicana feminism as an intellectual and theoretical discourse and a strategy for survival for the Chicana/o community. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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AMST 308-01 | Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Studies | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Alicia Munoz | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 308-01 and LATI 308-01; first day attendance required; 4 spots to be held for first years*
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AMST 315-01 | U.S. Imperialism from the Philippines to Viet Nam | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed ASIA 315-01 and HIST 315-01; no first year students allowed*
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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.: 6 / 10 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; 2 credit course; must be one of the 10 Mellon Fellows*
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AMST 341-01 | City Life: Segregation, Integration, and Gentrification | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Daniel Trudeau | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; cross-listed with GEOG 341-01*
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AMST 354-01 | Blackness in the Media | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Bradley Stiffler | Avail./Max.: 12 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with MCST 354-01*
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AMST 400-01 | Senior Seminar | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Duchess Harris | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
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The Senior Capstone is required of all majors. Majors who meet college criteria are encouraged to conduct an honors project in conjunction with their Senior Capstone. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Anthropology
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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ANTH 101-01 | General Anthropology | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 06B | Instructor: Scott Legge | Avail./Max.: 11 / 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: Jenna Rice Rahaim | Avail./Max.: 13 / 30 |
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The cultural perspective on human behavior including case studies, often illustrated by ethnographic films and slides, of non-Western and American cultures. May include some field interviewing. Includes the cross cultural treatment of economic, legal, political, social and religious institutions and a survey of major approaches to the explanation of cultural variety and human social organization. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ANTH 115-01 | Biological Anthropology | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 06B | Instructor: Scott Legge | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 20 |
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This class is a broad survey covering topics such as genetics, evolutionary mechanisms, adaptation, primate studies, the human fossil record, and human variation. All of these areas will be placed within the framework of the interaction of humans within their environment. The course is divided into three sections: human genetics, human ecology and primatology, human evolution and adaptation. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ANTH 223-01 | Introduction to Archaeology | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Benjamin Rubin | Avail./Max.: 9 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with CLAS 223-01*
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ANTH 239-01 | Medical Anthropology | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Ron Barrett | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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ANTH 241-01 | Anthropology of Death and Dying | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Ron Barrett | Avail./Max.: 2 / 12 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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ANTH 252-01 | Photography: Theories and Practices of an International Medium | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Zeynep Gursel | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; cross-listed with INTL 252-01 and MCST 252-01*
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ANTH 252-02 | Photography: Theories and Practices of an International Medium | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Zeynep Gursel | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 252-02 and MCST 252-02*
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ANTH 270-01 | Cultural Resource Management | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Scott Legge | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with CLAS 270-01*
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ANTH 294-01 | Urbanizing Africa | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Hilary Chart | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
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Africa is arguably the most rural of our six populated continents, but also the most rapidly urbanizing, with a rate roughly twice the global average. While just over a third of people lived in cities as of 2010, by 2030, over half the population—by that time nearly a billion people—is expected to be urban. The rapidity of this change makes its wider social impacts difficult to predict, and African experiences with urbanization are already challenging many ideas not only about economic growth and urban planning, but even more basic presumptions about what a city is, who its spaces belong to, and what new possibilities (and foreclosures) densely populated areas enable. Rather than simply tracing or predicting the effects of African urbanization, this course takes an anthropological approach by attending to the everyday, intersectional experiences of urban dwellers and using these to help us critically question our assumptions about Africa, its cities, and our world’s future urban dis/connections. We will also focus on topics that allow us to see cities from both elite and less privileged vantage points, exploring the development of new cosmpolitanisms and infrastructural innovations as well as informal settlements, refugee camps, and lives lived across the imagined divide between urban and rural. To these ends, we will draw on a combination of ethnographic sources, literature, film, and popular reporting. An introductory anthropology course (like Anth 101 or 111) is recommended, but not required. Urbanizing Africa counts as a Tier 1 African Studies course. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ANTH 294-02 | World Healing Traditions | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Ron Barrett | Avail./Max.: 11 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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Taught by a former registered nurse, this course examines multiple non-western healing traditions as they are currently being practiced around the world. These include textually based medical systems such as Ayurveda in Hindu societies, Unanni Tib in Islamic societies, traditional Chinese medicine, and homeopathic medicine. It also examines ritual and shamanic healing traditions in Latin America, Subsaharan Africa, and Southeast Asia. Finally, this course will compare all these systems to so-called "biomedical" systems with respect to major themes such as therapeutic efficacy, cultural pluralism, social identity, Westernization, and commercialization. Students will build on these lessons to conduct their own independent research on a non-biomedical healing practice. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ANTH 368-01 | Life Histories/Cultures/Selves | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Dianna Shandy | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 14 |
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This seminar focuses on the relationship between individuals and their culture. Students will record, edit, and analyze personal documents such as diaries, letters, interview transcriptions, and autobiographies. Analysis of life events such as childhood play activities, family meals, kinship relations, and modes of communication, will lead to the identification of cultural themes. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or ANTH 111 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ANTH 369-01 | Food and Culture | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Arjun Guneratne | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
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This course is an introduction to the anthropology of food, focusing on how food creates community and shapes identity, class and gender. The course also covers the transition from foraging to agriculture, the role of particular foods in the making of the modern world, and the nature of the modern industrial food system. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or ANTH 111 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ANTH 394-03 | Global Public Health Ethics | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 411 | Instructor: Kata Chillag | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 394-02 and PHIL 294 -04*
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Those engaged in global public health –whether as professionals or persons and communities affected by public health problems‑will encounter challenging ethical issues. Beginning with that premise, this course will address ethical issues in global public health practice, research, and policy, providing conceptual frameworks and practical tools. The course will provide an overview of public health ethics and ethical dimensions of orientations to global health, including humanitarianism, social justice, human rights, and health security. It will address prominent contemporary ethical issues in global health including those relating to research, emergency response, and community engagement. It will grapple with challenging questions about the use of limited resources, the use of restrictive public health measures like quarantine, the implications of “big data,” and relationships between donors and recipients of aid. The course will focus on a range of public health problems, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, Ebola virus disease, neglected tropical diseases, genetics, and mental health. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ANTH 490-01 | Senior Seminar | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Arjun Guneratne | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
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The senior seminar is for anthropology majors who are working on their senior capstone project and is designed to help students develop that project for presentation. The seminar will also include reading of anthropological works, guest speakers and discussion of current controversies in the discipline. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 111 or ANTH 101, and either ANTH 387 or ANTH 487 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: Shannon Estlund | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 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: Shannon Estlund | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 15 |
*First day attendance required*
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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 |
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ART 161-01 | Art of the West II | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Marco Deyasi | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 25 |
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This course surveys artists and art movements that are generally perceived to be crucial in the development of Western art from the 14th through the 20th century. The course introduces students to art periods such as Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and a wide spectrum of modernist art movements, including Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. The course examines visual culture of this broad period of Western art within political, socio-historical and philosophical context in which it was produced. (4 credits). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 171-01 | Art of the East II: Japan | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Kari Shepherdson-Scott | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 171-01*
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ART 230-01 | Color | Days: TR | Time: 08:30 am-11:40 am | Room: ART 202 | Instructor: Chris Willcox | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*First day attendance required*
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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 / 15 |
*First day attendance required; $75 materials fee charged.*
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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 0 / 15 |
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ART 235-01 | Sculpture I: Basic Sculpture with a Dose of Hot Metal | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: ART 118 | Instructor: Stanton Sears | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 15 |
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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 0 / 15 |
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ART 270-01 | Making Sacred: Religious Images and Spaces in Asia | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Kari Shepherdson-Scott | Avail./Max.: 6 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 294-01*
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What defines Sacred Art or makes a Sacred Space? What roles do material practices play in fostering a religious experience? This course contemplates answers to these questions by focusing on religious visual culture in Asia and examining how intangible concepts of the divine have become tangible in art and architecture. To better understand the multilayered functioning of devotional objects and spaces associated with religious doctrines such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Shintoism, the class will explore foundations in iconography and then compare different religious objects and spaces through concepts such as gender, state power, the body, nature, the grotesque, and death. The meaning of such imagery is not static, however. Therefore, we will also reflect on how the significance of religious objects change in the space of a museum. Ultimately, this course allows us to contemplate the multifaceted ways religious beliefs have been visualized and how these manifestations exemplify systems of cultural exchange in Asia. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 294-03 | Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Serdar Yalcin | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with CLAS 294-04*
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This course will survey the art and architecture of ancient Greek and Roman worlds from the Bronze Age (ca. 3000-1200 BCE) to Late Antiquity (ca. 5th century CE). We will examine concepts of design and representation in Greco-Roman art and architecture and explore the uses of art objects and monuments in daily life, politics, religion, state cults, and private rituals. We will examine the developments and changes in artistic forms and practices in their social, economic and historical contexts, taking into consideration the interaction between Greece and Rome as well as the influences from contemporaneous cultures in the Near East and Egypt. Lectures and class discussions will explore topics such as portraiture, art and mortuary practices, art and imperialism, narrative representation, monumental public art and architecture, domestic objects and decorative arts. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 294-04 | Art and Iconoclasm from the Ancient World to Early Modern Europe | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Serdar Yalcin | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
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From ancient Mesopotamia to Early Modern Europe, people attacked and destroyed images with motivations influenced by religion, politics and other ideological conditions. Most recently, international community witnessed ISIL’s destruction of archeological sites, and historic and religious monuments in Iraq and Syria, but such attacks took place throughout history in numerous cultures with different ethnic, political and religious backgrounds such as ancient Assyria, Rome, Byzantine Empire or the 16th century Europe. This course will explore the dynamics of such iconoclastic attacks on images by examining case studies from ancient, medieval and early modern contexts. How and why have images been perceived as a threat by monarchs, invading armies or religious zealots? What were the reasons for image destruction? By focusing on these main questions, we will explore the function and power of images in pre-modern and early modern societies. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 333-01 | Photography II | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ART 301 | Instructor: Eric Carroll | Avail./Max.: 2 / 10 |
*$75 materials fee charged*
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Building on the tools and techniques learned in the Photography I course, Photography II highlights how photographs are constructed in contemporary art & media and is designed for self-driven students wanting to pursue advanced fine-art photography projects. This semester we will focus on lighting & the constructed image. Students will learn both continuous and strobe photography. We will study both historical and contemporary examples of photomontage and composite photography to create scenes that blend documentary fact & cinematic fiction. Students will produce digital portfolios and create work for a group exhibition. Class time consists of demonstrations, lab time, field trips and critiques. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 372-01 | Sculpture II: Metal Fabrication and Welding | Days: TR | Time: TBA | Room: ART 118 | Instructor: Stanton Sears | Avail./Max.: 2 / 8 |
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In this course, students build upon and expand the basic technical skills acquired in Sculpture I, and work to develop more sophisticated, individually-designed projects in a variety of media. Basic welding is taught, allowing students to develop strength and scale in their projects. the new foundry provides the means for an individual or a small group to cast bronze components which can become part of larger sculptural pieces. The foundry process includes working with dangerous materials, requires wearing of funny outfits, and offers the potential for dramatic moments. Students in Sculpture II will create a piece for transport and installation at the farm/studio. A typical project which could be shown at the farm might be a wind-powered kinetic sculpture. Prerequisite(s): ART 235 or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 373-01 | Printmaking II | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: ART 214 | Instructor: Ruthann Godollei | Avail./Max.: 1 / 8 |
*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.: -2 / 10 |
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ART 394-02 | By Hand | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ART 118 | Instructor: Stanton Sears | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 10 |
*First day attendance required*
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We begin with a trip to the farm where we will fell an Ash tree with an axe. In the studio, we will saw and split the wood into billits with wedges and gluts. In this class, we will learn a bit about various species of trees and how their unique characteristics suggest different uses. We will explore tools, materials and processes which have applications well beyond traditional woodworking. Much of what we do in the class will take advantage of our woodshop, in an investigation of the intersection between hand and power processes. Finally, one of the goals of the class is to illuminate a fundamental toolkit that a beginning maker would be able to acquire cost effectively, and use and maintain with basic competence. Most importantly, you will learn how to sharpen knives and chisels and other cutting tools. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 487-01 | Art History Methodology Seminar | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: ARTCOM 205 | Instructor: Sheila Dickinson | Avail./Max.: 2 / 5 |
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This course is designed for graduating art history majors and it exposes them to methods and theories of art history, with a particular focus on the transformation of the discipline that began in the 1970s and continues to the present. The course will expose the students to both conventional methods of art historical analysis (style, form, iconography) and to the so called "revisionist" perspectives of "new" art history. The course surveys a wide range of approaches used in the discipline, beginning with writers such as Vasari, Riegl, Panofsky, Gombrich, and ending with the more recent art historical studies informed by Marxism, feminism, and postmodern and postcolonial theories. Students must enroll in a 2-credit independent study course in the spring semester of their senior year to do additional preparation for the successful completion of their capstone requirement, which culminates in a public oral presentation. Prerequisite(s): Art History seniors only. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ART 488-01 | Senior Studio Seminar | Days: MW | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: ARTCOM 205 | Instructor: Ruthann Godollei | Avail./Max.: 7 / 18 |
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This course provides a setting in which art studio majors complete their capstone projects, including mounting a professional exhibition of recent work. It provides a look ahead to post-Macalester opportunities and the challenges of graduate school, jobs, and career opportunities in art. Arts professionals make presentations to the class and readings provide theoretical grounding for putting contemporary art in context. Students prepare artist statements, professional resumes and learn grant and application writing techniques. Two three-hour sessions per week. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Asian Languages and Cultures
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ASIA 111-01 | Introduction to Asian Studies | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Rivi Handler-Spitz | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
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This course introduces students to foundational legends, epics, novels, and poetry from across Asia. Studying core texts from the Arab World, India, China, Korea, and Japan will provide windows into the ancient cultures that produced these works. We will also examine these tales' enduring power today. We will analyze the many changes these tales underwent as they spread across Asia and appeared in diverse media including theater, visual arts, and television. Texts include: The Journey to the West, The Arabian Nights, The Tale of Genji, The Ramayana, and The Story of Hong Gildong. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ASIA 171-01 | Art of the East II: Japan | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Kari Shepherdson-Scott | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with ART 171-01*
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ASIA 258-01 | Gender and Sexuality in China | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Xin Yang | Avail./Max.: -1 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with CHIN 258-01 and WGSS 258-01*
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ASIA 260-01 | Narratives of Alienation: 20th Century Japanese Fiction and Film | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Arthur Mitchell | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with JAPA 260-01*
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ASIA 274-01 | The Great Tradition in China before 1840 | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Yue-him Tam | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 274-01*
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ASIA 275-01 | The Rise of Modern China | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Yue-him Tam | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 275-01*
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ASIA 277-01 | The Rise of Modern Japan | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Yue-him Tam | Avail./Max.: 8 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 277-01*
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ASIA 294-01 | Making Sacred: Religious Images and Spaces in Asia | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Kari Shepherdson-Scott | Avail./Max.: 6 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with ART 270-01*
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What defines Sacred Art or makes a Sacred Space? What roles do material practices play in fostering a religious experience? This course contemplates answers to these questions by focusing on religious visual culture in Asia and examining how intangible concepts of the divine have become tangible in art and architecture. To better understand the multilayered functioning of devotional objects and spaces associated with religious doctrines such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Shintoism, the class will explore foundations in iconography and then compare different religious objects and spaces through concepts such as gender, state power, the body, nature, the grotesque, and death. The meaning of such imagery is not static, however. Therefore, we will also reflect on how the significance of religious objects change in the space of a museum. Ultimately, this course allows us to contemplate the multifaceted ways religious beliefs have been visualized and how these manifestations exemplify systems of cultural exchange in Asia. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ASIA 315-01 | U.S. Imperialism from the Philippines to Viet Nam | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 315-01 and HIST 315-01; no first year students allowed*
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ASIA 320-01 | Asian Cities | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: I-Chun Catherine Chang | Avail./Max.: 5 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with GEOG 320-01; first day attendance required*
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Biology
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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BIOL 117-01 | Women, Health and Reproduction | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Elizabeth Jansen | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 26 |
*First day attendance required; cross-listed with WGSS 117-01; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of 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.: 5 / 18 |
*First day attendance required; 2 credit course; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 255-02 | Cell Biology and Genetics Laboratory Methods | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 285 | Instructor: Steven Sundby | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 18 |
*First day attendance required; 2 credit course; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 255-03 | Cell Biology and Genetics Laboratory Methods | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 285 | Instructor: Steven Sundby | Avail./Max.: 0 / 18 |
*First day attendance required; 2 credit course; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 260-01 | Genetics | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Randy Daughters | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 30 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 260-03 | Genetics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Paul Overvoorde | Avail./Max.: -1 / 30 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 265-01 | Cell Biology | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Lin Aanonsen | Avail./Max.: Closed -3 / 40 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 270-01 | Biodiversity and Evolution | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Sarah Boyer | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 44 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 270-L1 | Biodiversity and Evolution Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 273 | Instructor: Michael Anderson | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 22 |
*First day lab attendance required; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 270-L2 | Biodiversity and Evolution Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 273 | Instructor: Michael Anderson | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 22 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st 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.: Closed 0 / 44 |
*First day attendance required; Cross-listed with ENVI 285-01; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st 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.: Closed -3 / 22 |
*First day attendance required; Cross-listed with ENVI 285-L1; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st 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.: 3 / 22 |
*First day attendance required; Cross-listed with ENVI 285-L2; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 348-01 | Ornithology | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Jerald Dosch | Avail./Max.: 8 / 15 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 348-L1 | Ornithology Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Jerald Dosch | Avail./Max.: 8 / 15 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 351-01 | Biochemistry I | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Leah Witus | Avail./Max.: 23 / 32 |
*Cross-listed with CHEM 351-01*
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BIOL 351-L1 | Biochemistry I Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 289 | Instructor: Leah Witus | Avail./Max.: 12 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with CHEM 351-L1*
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BIOL 351-L2 | Biochemistry I Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 289 | Instructor: Leah Witus | Avail./Max.: 11 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with CHEM 351-L2*
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BIOL 353-01 | Advanced Genetics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Mary Montgomery | Avail./Max.: 7 / 16 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 354-01 | Chemical Biology | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Leah Witus | Avail./Max.: 10 / 35 |
*Cross-listed with CHEM 354-01*
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BIOL 355-01 | Virology | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Steven Sundby | Avail./Max.: 7 / 16 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 356-01 | Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Randy Daughters | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 16 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 356-L1 | Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 277 | Instructor: Randy Daughters | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 16 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 365-01 | Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Kristina Curry Rogers | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 14 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 365-L1 | Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 275 | Instructor: Kristina Curry Rogers | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 14 |
*First day lab attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 394-01 | Environment, Health and Society | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Chatterjea, Phadke | Avail./Max.: 4 / 18 |
*Permission of instructor required; application process required; cross-listed with ENVI 394-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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This course will explore the ways in which health is built and shaped by interactions between (human and non-human) bodies and the natural and built environment (air, water, food and shelter) through the lenses of biological responses, vulnerability of populations, social movements and the communication of science to the public. Students with backgrounds in the life sciences and environmental politics will work together to understand these challenging problems through an interdisciplinary lens. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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BIOL 394-02 | Ecological Restoration | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Laura Phillips-Mao | Avail./Max.: 6 / 15 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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This course will introduce students to the science of restoration ecology and the practice of ecological restoration. Using both local (Minnesota) and global examples, students will learn about diagnosing problems; planning restorations and setting goals; developing social and institutional support; restoring physical landscape features (e.g. hydrology, soils) and plant communities; reintroducing invertebrates and vertebrate species; and monitoring and evaluating restorations. Three lecture hours and one three-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: BIOL/ENVI 285, or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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BIOL 394-04 | Biological Research Design and Data Analysis | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Michael Anderson | Avail./Max.: 11 / 16 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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This course will cover research design and data analysis across biological sub-disciplines, with an emphasis on practical application. Research design topics will include basic and specialized experimental designs and avoiding pseudoreplication. Data analysis topics will focus primarily on statistical models: linear and non-linear, variable selection, and handling broken assumptions. Special topics may include multivariate methods, machine learning, and information theoretic approaches. The major aim of the course to have students gain competence and confidence in the analysis of biological data - selecting appropriate statistical methods for particular questions and datasets, avoiding pitfalls, and contributing usefully and transparently to scientific knowledge. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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BIOL 394-06 | Seminar on Vaccines | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Marcos Garcia-Ojeda | Avail./Max.: 2 / 12 |
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This seminar will discuss current and past issues concerning vaccines, including: a) the history of vaccines, focusing on different strategies used during the past two centuries to make them; b) the science of vaccines, including methods of attenuation of various pathogens; c) the impact of vaccines on health, both in the United States and abroad; d) the risks, both real and perceived, of vaccines; and e) the controversies surrounding vaccines, specifically that vaccines cause autism, multiple sclerosis, neurodevelopmental delays, diabetes or other chronic problems. Prerequisites: BIOL 260, BIOL 265 and junior or senior standing. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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BIOL 394-L2 | Ecological Restoration Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Laura Phillips-Mao | Avail./Max.: 6 / 15 |
*First day Lab attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 473-01 | Research in Immunology | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Devavani Chatterjea | Avail./Max.: 0 / 8 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 473-L1 | Research in Immunology Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 277 | Instructor: Devavani Chatterjea | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 8 |
*First day lab attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 481-01 | Seminar in Evolutionary Biology | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Sarah Boyer | Avail./Max.: 6 / 12 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 486-01 | Seminar in Neuropharmacology | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Lin Aanonsen | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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BIOL 489-01 | Biology Seminar | Days: M | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Boyer, Chatterjea | Avail./Max.: 11 / 60 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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Chemistry
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CHEM 112-01 | General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Paul Fischer | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 31 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 112-02 | General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Paul Fischer | Avail./Max.: 8 / 31 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 112-03 | General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Kathryn Splan | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 32 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 112-04 | General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Susan Green | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 32 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 112-L1 | General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:11 am | Room: OLRI 343 | Instructor: Amy Rice | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $7 lab fee required*
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CHEM 112-L2 | General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 347 | Instructor: Keith Kuwata | Avail./Max.: 4 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $7 lab fee required*
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CHEM 112-L3 | General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 343 | Instructor: Amy Rice | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $7 lab fee required*
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CHEM 112-L4 | General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 343 | Instructor: Amy Rice | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $7 lab fee required*
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CHEM 112-L5 | General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 343 | Instructor: Amy Rice | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $7 lab fee required*
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CHEM 112-L6 | General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 347 | Instructor: Marc Rodwogin | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $7 lab fee required*
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CHEM 112-L7 | General Chemistry II: Energetics and Reactivity | Days: W | Time: 01:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 343 | Instructor: Amy Rice | Avail./Max.: 5 / 18 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required; $7 lab fee required*
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CHEM 212-01 | Organic Chemistry II | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Ronald Brisbois | Avail./Max.: 19 / 40 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 212-02 | Organic Chemistry II | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Dennis Cao | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 40 |
*First day attendance required*
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CHEM 212-L1 | Organic Chemistry II 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 212-L2 | Organic Chemistry II Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 383 | Instructor: Ronald Brisbois | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
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CHEM 212-L3 | Organic Chemistry II Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 383 | Instructor: Susan Green | Avail./Max.: 9 / 16 |
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CHEM 212-L4 | Organic Chemistry II Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 383 | Instructor: Dennis Cao | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 16 |
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CHEM 212-L5 | Organic Chemistry II Lab | Days: F | Time: 01:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 383 | Instructor: Marc Rodwogin | Avail./Max.: 12 / 16 |
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CHEM 222-01 | Analytical Chemistry | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Keith Kuwata | Avail./Max.: 9 / 28 |
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This course uses key concepts of chemical equilibrium and structure to solve problems in chemical analysis. Lecture and laboratory work provide both the theoretical foundations and practical training in classical methods (gravimetric and volumetric analysis), atomic and molecular spectroscopy, and chromatography. Statistics and error analysis are also emphasized throughout the course. Three lectures and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite(s): CHEM 112 with a grade of C- or better or CHEM 115 with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHEM 222-L1 | Analytical Chemistry Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Keith Kuwata | Avail./Max.: 5 / 14 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required*
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CHEM 222-L2 | Analytical Chemistry Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Keith Kuwata | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 14 |
*Attendance at first lab meeting required*
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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 312-01 | Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Thomas Varberg | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 24 |
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This course covers topics in microscopic physical chemistry dealing with the structural and energetic properties of individual molecules. These topics include the foundations and applications of quantum mechanics, electronic structure and bonding, computational chemistry, molecular symmetry, group theory, rotational, vibrational and electronic spectroscopy, and statistical mechanics. Three lectures and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite(s): CHEM 112 or CHEM 115, PHYS 227, and MATH 237. Student must earn a grade of C- or higher in prerequisite courses. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHEM 312-L1 | Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Thomas Varberg | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 24 |
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This course covers topics in microscopic physical chemistry dealing with the structural and energetic properties of individual molecules. These topics include the foundations and applications of quantum mechanics, electronic structure and bonding, computational chemistry, molecular symmetry, group theory, rotational, vibrational and electronic spectroscopy, and statistical mechanics. Three lectures and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite(s): CHEM 112 or CHEM 115, PHYS 227, and MATH 237. Student must earn a grade of C- or higher in prerequisite courses. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHEM 351-01 | Biochemistry I | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Leah Witus | Avail./Max.: 23 / 32 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 351-01*
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CHEM 351-L1 | Biochemistry I Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 289 | Instructor: Leah Witus | Avail./Max.: 12 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 351-L1*
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CHEM 351-L2 | Biochemistry I Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 289 | Instructor: Leah Witus | Avail./Max.: 11 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 351-L2*
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CHEM 354-01 | Chemical Biology | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: Leah Witus | Avail./Max.: 10 / 35 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 354-01*
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CHEM 394-01 | Research in Biochemistry | Days: MW | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Kathryn Splan | Avail./Max.: 1 / 5 |
*Permission of instructor required; must co-register for CHEM 394-L1*
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In this course students will pursue an independent research project in the field of bioinorganic chemistry. Broadly speaking, bioinorganic chemistry comprises the study of metal ions in biological processes and medicine. There are three main objectives for this course: 1.) become proficient in several biochemical preparation and analytical techniques 2.) learn about the bioinorganic chemistry field via the primary literature. 3.) develop an appreciation for the nature of scientific research. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHEM 394-02 | Research in Organic Chemistry | Days: M | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Dennis Cao | Avail./Max.: 1 / 6 |
*Permission of instructor required; must co-register in CHEM 394-L2*
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The primary purpose of this course is to expose students to life as an organic chemist. Students will (1) practice advanced organic chemistry techniques, (2) analyze data obtained by operating state-of-the-art instrumentation, and (3) develop scientific writing and oral presentation skills. These learning goals will be achieved by student involvement in an active research project being pursued by faculty in the Chemistry Department. The course consists of one class meeting and two laboratory sessions each week. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHEM 394-L1 | Research in Biochemistry Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 364 | Instructor: Kathryn Splan | Avail./Max.: 1 / 5 |
*Permission of instructor required; must co-register for CHEM 394-01*
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CHEM 394-L2 | Research Organic Chem Lab | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 360 | Instructor: Dennis Cao | Avail./Max.: 1 / 6 |
*Permission of instructor required; must co-register in CHEM 394-02*
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CHIN 102-01 | First Year Chinese II | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Jin Stone | Avail./Max.: 13 / 25 |
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A continuation of First Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 101 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 102-02 | First Year Chinese II | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Jin Stone | Avail./Max.: -1 / 15 |
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A continuation of First Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 101 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 102-L1 | First Year Chinese II Lab | Days: T | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: MARKIM 201 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 1 / 12 |
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A continuation of First Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 101 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 102-L2 | First Year Chinese II Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 4 / 12 |
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A continuation of First Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 101 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 102-L3 | First Year Chinese II Lab | Days: T | Time: 02:30 pm-03:30 pm | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 3 / 12 |
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A continuation of First Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 101 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 204-01 | Second Year Chinese II | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Patricia Anderson | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
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A continuation of Second Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 203 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 204-02 | Second Year Chinese II | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Patricia Anderson | Avail./Max.: 8 / 20 |
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A continuation of Second Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 203 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 204-L1 | Second Year Chinese II Lab | Days: R | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: MARKIM 201 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 6 / 12 |
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A continuation of Second Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 203 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 204-L2 | Second Year Chinese II Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 0 / 12 |
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A continuation of Second Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 203 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 204-L3 | Second Year Chinese II Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:00 pm-04:00 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 4 / 12 |
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A continuation of Second Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 203 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 258-01 | Gender and Sexuality in China | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Xin Yang | Avail./Max.: -1 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 258-01 and WGSS 258-01*
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CHIN 306-01 | Third Year Chinese II | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Patricia Anderson | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
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A continuation of Third Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 305 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 306-L1 | Third Year Chinese II Lab | Days: W | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 6 / 10 |
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A continuation of Third Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 305 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 306-L2 | Third Year Chinese II Lab | Days: W | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Mengjie Lei | Avail./Max.: 9 / 10 |
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A continuation of Third Year Chinese I. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 305 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 408-01 | Fourth Year Chinese II | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Xin Yang | Avail./Max.: 8 / 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. Prerequisite(s): CHIN 407 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CHIN 494-01 | Capstone Seminar in Chinese | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Rivi Handler-Spitz | Avail./Max.: 9 / 15 |
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In this seminar each student will independently develop and refine a research question relating to Chinese literature, philosophy, arts, music, education, religion, film, or cultural history. Students will conduct original research using Chinese primary sources. All participants will draft substantial argumentative papers that will undergo multiple revisions. They will also engage in frequent peer critiques. Group readings and discussions will provide guidance throughout the research process. Prerequisite: reading proficiency in Chinese. This course satisfies the capstone requirement for the Chinese major. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Classical Mediterranean and Middle East
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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CLAS 101-01 | The Classical Mediterranean and Middle East | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Beth Severy-Hoven | Avail./Max.: 17 / 40 |
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Why are Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin all taught in the same department at Macalester? Today Islam and the Arab world are often presented in contrast with the West in a sort of timeless and unending 'clash of civilizations.' Classics 101 aims to counter this narrative by exploring the multiple deep, long-term connections among the languages, religions and peoples around the Mediterranean Sea. What were the relationships among speakers of these languages in the past? How did Judaism, Christianity and Islam develop among them? Why are Greek and Roman traditions sometimes seen as in tension with Christian or Arab traditions -- and has that always been the case? Readings include selections from Genesis, Exodus, Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, Vergil, the Gospels, Josephus, Imru Al-Qays, the Qur'an and 1,001 Nights. Legendary and historical figures include Moses, Helen of Troy, Cyrus, Darius, Pericles, Alexander, Cleopatra, Jesus, Augustus, Perpetua, Constantine, Muhammad, Fatima, Aisha and Omar. Suggested subtitles for the course include Before East and West, We Hear Dead People, Great Books Reimagined, and Hey, You Should Know This Stuff. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 127-01 | Women, Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Beth Severy-Hoven | Avail./Max.: 5 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with WGSS 127-01*
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CLAS 129-01 | Greek Myths | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Brian Lush | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 25 |
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This course studies some of the world's great storytellers-the ancient Greeks. First, we read from translations of Greek poetry to become familiar with the key figures and events in mythology, including the Olympian gods and their origins, the major heroes, and the Trojan War. Then we explore more broadly the adaptable nature of these myths and the variety of forms in which the Greeks told stories, from epic and personal poetry to philosophy, drama, sculpture and vase painting. At the same time, we investigate the ways in which moderns have interpreted these stories. We analyze myths using Freud's psychoanalytical techniques, as folklore and ritual, and through theoretical perspectives including structuralism, new historicism and feminism. Finally, we investigate the later life of Greek myths, focusing on how and why these stories have been retold by the Romans, later European authors and artists, American film makers and playwrights, and science fiction writers. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 212-01 | Elementary Latin II | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Nanette Goldman | Avail./Max.: 20 / 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. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 111 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 212-L1 | Elementary Latin II Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:00 pm-04:00 pm | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: Nanette Goldman | Avail./Max.: 20 / 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. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 111 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 214-01 | Elementary Arabic II | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Wessam Elmeligi | Avail./Max.: 0 / 25 |
*ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1 with permission of the instructor*
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CLAS 214-L1 | Elementary Arabic II Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Wessam Elmeligi | Avail./Max.: -1 / 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. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 113 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 214-L2 | Elementary Arabic II Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Wessam Elmeligi | Avail./Max.: 6 / 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. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 113 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 223-01 | Introduction to Archaeology | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Benjamin Rubin | Avail./Max.: 9 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with ANTH 223-01*
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CLAS 235-01 | Elementary Greek II | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Nanette Goldman | Avail./Max.: 20 / 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. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 115 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 235-L1 | Elementary Greek II Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:50 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Nanette Goldman | Avail./Max.: 20 / 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. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 115 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 270-01 | Cultural Resource Management | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Scott Legge | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ANTH 270-01*
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CLAS 294-02 | Medieval Mediterranean | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Rebecca Church | Avail./Max.: 10 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 294-03*
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The Mediterranean, from 500 to 1500 CE, will be our focus. While the Romans called it mare nostrum (our sea), the Mediterranean became a shared space after the Roman Empire split into East (Byzantium) and West (Rome) and the Islamic Empire of the Umayyads enveloped all of the Levant, North Africa, and Iberia by the 8th century. Despite the divided polities, goods, and people--armies, mercenaries, courtiers, merchants, pilgrims, scholars, artisans--along with their ideas, moved easily across the water creating a mixed Mediterranean culture. All of the medieval cultures surrounding the Mediterranean were built on the cultures that preceded them, especially their Roman heritage. They were also springboards for the period of European expansion that followed. In this course we'll look at the geography, agriculture, literature, art, and religious beliefs found in the Mediterranean basin and engage the fundamental question, what is Mediterranean culture? Did it mean the same thing in Iberia, in Egypt, in Western Europe, in Byzantium, and in the Levant? General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 294-04 | Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Serdar Yalcin | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ART 294-03*
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This course will survey the art and architecture of ancient Greek and Roman worlds from the Bronze Age (ca. 3000-1200 BCE) to Late Antiquity (ca. 5th century CE). We will examine concepts of design and representation in Greco-Roman art and architecture and explore the uses of art objects and monuments in daily life, politics, religion, state cults, and private rituals. We will examine the developments and changes in artistic forms and practices in their social, economic and historical contexts, taking into consideration the interaction between Greece and Rome as well as the influences from contemporaneous cultures in the Near East and Egypt. Lectures and class discussions will explore topics such as portraiture, art and mortuary practices, art and imperialism, narrative representation, monumental public art and architecture, domestic objects and decorative arts. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 332-01 | Intermediate Latin: Poetry | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Brian Lush | Avail./Max.: 11 / 25 |
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A course in the poetic literature of the Republican and/or Augustan Ages with concentrated study on one or two authors. Students work toward grammatical and lexical mastery while learning about the forms, styles and cultural aspects of Latin poetry. Authors to be studied may include Plautus, Catullus, Horace, Vergil, or Ovid. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 231or equivalent General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 338-01 | Intermediate Hebrew II | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: Nanette Goldman | Avail./Max.: 15 / 20 |
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The final semester in the two-year survey of the Hebrew language from ancient to modern. Students will read selections from the Biblical books of poetry such as Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, and Psalms. The second half of the semester is devoted to modern conversational Hebrew. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 237 or equivalent General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 342-01 | Intermediate Arabic II | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Wessam Elmeligi | Avail./Max.: 15 / 25 |
*ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1 with permission of the instructor*
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CLAS 342-L1 | Intermediate Arabic II Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Wessam Elmeligi | Avail./Max.: 15 / 25 |
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This course introduces students to more authentic texts and samples a variety of authors and genres from around the Arab world. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 241 or equivalent General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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CLAS 487-01 | Advanced Reading in Greek | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Brian Lush | Avail./Max.: 23 / 25 |
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Students who pursue ancient Greek at the advanced level will study closely one or more works and explore relevant problems in literary or textual criticism, linguistic, social or cultural history, and/or reception. Offered upon consultation with department. Prerequisite(s): CLAS 362 or equivalent 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: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Shilad Sen | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with MATH 112-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor; limit reflects saving 2 seats for first year students*
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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.: Closed 0 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor; limit reflects saving five seats for first years students*
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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.: Closed -3 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor; limit reflects saving five seats for first year students*
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COMP 123-03 | Core Concepts in Computer Science | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 258 | Instructor: Getiria Onsongo | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 30 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor; limit reflects saving five seats for first year students*
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COMP 123-04 | Core Concepts in Computer Science | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 258 | Instructor: Susan Fox | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 30 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor; limit reflects saving five seats for first year students.*
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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.: 1 / 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 December 1st 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: Bret Jackson | Avail./Max.: -1 / 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 December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 124-03 | Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 256 | Instructor: Paul Cantrell | Avail./Max.: 1 / 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 December 1st 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.: 3 / 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 December 1st 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.: 0 / 16 |
*Students registered for Lab 1 of COMP 124 MUST register for Section 01 of the course; ACTC students may register on December 1st 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: Bret Jackson | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
*Students registered for Lab 2 of COMP 124 MUST register for Section 02 of the course; ACTC students may register on December 1st 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: Paul Cantrell | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
*Students registered for Lab 3 of COMP 124 MUST register for Section 03 of the course; ACTC students may register on December 1st 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.: Closed 3 / 16 |
*Students registered for Lab 4 of COMP 124 MUST register for Section 04 of the course; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 221-01 | Algorithm Design and Analysis | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Shilad Sen | Avail./Max.: -5 / 26 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 221-02 | Algorithm Design and Analysis | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Lian Duan | Avail./Max.: 7 / 26 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 225-01 | Software Design and Development | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Bret Jackson | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 225-02 | Software Design and Development | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Elizabeth Jensen | Avail./Max.: 2 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 240-01 | Computer Systems Organization | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Elizabeth Jensen | Avail./Max.: 0 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 240-02 | Computer Systems Organization | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Elizabeth Shoop | Avail./Max.: -2 / 12 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 240-03 | Computer Systems Organization | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Elizabeth Shoop | Avail./Max.: 0 / 12 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 261-01 | Theory of Computation | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Daniel Kluver | Avail./Max.: 5 / 30 |
*Cross-listed with MATH 361-01; permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st 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 3 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 365-01 | Computational Linear Algebra | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Lori Ziegelmeier | Avail./Max.: 8 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with MATH 365-01; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 365-02 | Computational Linear Algebra | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Lori Ziegelmeier | Avail./Max.: 16 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with MATH 365-02; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 380-01 | Bodies/Minds: AI Robotics | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 258 | Instructor: Susan Fox | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 27 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 394-01 | Programming Languages | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Paul Cantrell | Avail./Max.: Closed -10 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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Where do programming languages come from? What characteristics do different languages have in common? What design decisions differentiate them? What problems and constraints drive those decisions, and what tradeoffs do those decisions incur? How do languages affect the style of code we write, our development processes, and the way we think about software? In this course, we will examine a wide variety of programming languages — many briefly, a few in depth — comparing their approaches to topics such as types, memory management, abstraction, access control, closures and higher-order functions, function/method dispatch, metaprogramming, concurrency, compilation, and the runtime environment. Coursework includes programming exercises, reading and modifying code from the wild, and student-led presentations. Prerequisites: COMP 240 and COMP 261. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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COMP 440-01 | Collective Intelligence | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Shilad Sen | Avail./Max.: 2 / 24 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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COMP 479-01 | Network Science | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Andrew Beveridge | Avail./Max.: 11 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with MATH 479-01; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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Economics
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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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.: Closed -1 / 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 116-01 | Organizational Leadership | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Jeff Evans | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 20 |
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This course will combine a theoretical background with hands-on experience that will permit a student to begin their career-long development of their leadership talent. The traditional model of a great leader was one that was tough, visionary and determined. Today scholars of leadership have argued that a great leader is self-aware, motivated, empathetic and skilled socially. Which model is right? Are there factors common to all great leaders? We will learn from Aristotle, Winston Churchill, Steve Jobs, Ernest Shackelton's ill-fated trip to the South Pole, and the latest scholarly research. Extensive use will be made of case studies from the Harvard MBA program and guest speakers. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 119-01 | Principles of Economics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 206 | Instructor: Samantha Cakir | Avail./Max.: 0 / 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. 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 206 | Instructor: Samantha Cakir | Avail./Max.: Closed 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 119-03 | Principles of Economics | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Amy Damon | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 221-01 | Introduction to International Economics | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: Felix Friedt | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 25 |
*First day attendance required*
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ECON 221-02 | Introduction to International Economics | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: Felix Friedt | Avail./Max.: 4 / 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 E elective. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119 (with minimum grade of C-) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 233-01 | Health Economics | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Samantha Cakir | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 25 |
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The field of health economics applies microeconomic theory to the study of health care, drawing on concepts from public, labor, and development economics and industrial orgainzation. The healthcare industry is one of the largest in the US, representing nearly 18% of the GDP and comprising a large share of the typical household budget. The role of government regulation in healthcare is significant and unique to the industry. This class will review topics relevant to the healthcare and health insurance industries in the US, other developed countries, and developing nations including determinants of demand, pricing of healthcare services, the role of insurance and its reforms, incentives and hurdles for health technology innovations, and the role of health in economic development. We will also examine the traditional methods for evaluating healthcare services including cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis. Group E Elective. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119 with grade of C- or higher General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 238-01 | Introduction to Entrepreneurship | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Kate Reiling | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 25 |
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This course focuses on theories and applications of Entrepreneurship to identify opportunities and solve problems around the world. Students will learn contemporary methodologies used in startup companies and early stage organizations including: Lean Startup and Human Centered Design methodologies and the Business Model Canvas framework. Students spend the semester working in teams to apply the methodologies to identify a problem and develop a solution. For their final project students will prepare a plan for their solution and present it to an external audience. This course is open to those who are interested in social entrepreneurship as well. Group B elective. Note: Not available to students who took Social Entrepreneurship during the fall 2016 semester. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119 with C- or higher General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 258-01 | Introduction to Securities Analysis | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Joyce Minor | Avail./Max.: 3 / 25 |
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This course will primarily focus on equity securities analysis (stocks) from the perspective of institutional (Wall Street) investors. Topics will include industry analysis and forecasting, financial statement analysis, fundamental company analysis and valuation methods. Students will form industry groups and will each research a company in that industry. Students will build complete historical and projected financial statement models in Excel. The end product of the course will be a company report written by each student. Group B elective. Prerequisite(s): ECON 113 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 294-01 | Money and Banking | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 206 | Instructor: Mario Solis-Garcia | Avail./Max.: Closed -3 / 25 |
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This course is an introduction to the field of monetary economics. After a primer on the foundations of the financial and monetary systems, we’ll tackle three distinct (but interconnected) topics. First, we’ll do an in-depth study of banks and the role they play in a modern economy. We’ll explain why banks are fragile by nature and why government authorities will do anything in their power to avoid a banking collapse. Second, we’ll discuss what money is, both as a financial asset and as a main determinant of short-run economic fluctuations. We’ll look at the link between money and changes in the price level and economic activity. Finally, we’ll what central banks do to promote growth and economic stability. We’ll wrap the course by talking about the financial crisis that started the Great Recession and the steps that monetary authorities worldwide took to combat the effects of the downturn. Counts as Group E elective. Prerequisites: ECON 119 (Principles of Economics) and MATH 135 (Applied Multivariable Calculus); or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 294-02 | Introduction to Labor Economics | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Lucas Threinen | Avail./Max.: Closed 13 / 25 |
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In this course, we will use the tools of microeconomics to study the labor market. We'll develop theories of labor market supply and demand; we will study the market behavior predicted by these models, and compare those predictions with observed labor market outcomes; we will apply the theory to analyzing the effects of public policy on the labor market; and we will see how the theory can explain many features of the labor market, as well as certain activities outside of (but related to) the labor market. Counts as Group E elective. Prerequisite: ECON 119. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 356-01 | Capital Markets | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Liang Ding | Avail./Max.: 14 / 25 |
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The structure, operation, regulation and economic role of financial markets and institutions; fundamental security analysis and present-value techniques; forecasts of earnings and analysis of yields on stocks and bonds; the portfolio theory and characteristic lines, betas and mutual-fund ratings; futures and options markets. This course counts as a Group E elective. Prerequisite(s): ECON 113 and ECON 119. C- or higher required for all prerequisites. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 361-01 | Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Sarah West | Avail./Max.: 8 / 25 |
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ECON 361-02 | Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Sarah West | Avail./Max.: 3 / 25 |
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ECON 371-01 | Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 226 | Instructor: Pete Ferderer | Avail./Max.: 7 / 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. This course counts as a Group E elective. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361 or permission of instructor. C- or higher required for all prerequisites. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 371-02 | Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Mario Solis-Garcia | Avail./Max.: 14 / 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. This course counts as a Group E elective. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361 or permission of instructor. C- or higher required for all prerequisites. 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 305 | Instructor: Amy Damon | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 22 |
*Students that register for ECON 381-01 must register for ECON 381-L1*
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ECON 381-02 | Introduction to Econometrics | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Amy Damon | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 22 |
*Students that register for ECON 381-02 must register for ECON 381-L2*
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ECON 381-L1 | Intro to Econometrics Lab | Days: M | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: CARN 309 | Instructor: Amy Damon | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 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. This course counts as a Group E elective. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361 and MATH 155. C- or higher required for all prerequisites. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 381-L2 | Intro to Econometrics Lab | Days: W | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: CARN 309 | Instructor: Amy Damon | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 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. This course counts as a Group E elective. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361 and MATH 155. C- or higher required for all prerequisites. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 394-01 | Game Theory | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Lucas Threinen | Avail./Max.: 19 / 25 |
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‘Game Theory’ is the study of situations in which agents’ outcomes depend not only on their own actions, but also on the actions taken by others; including situations in which all participants understand this fact and take account of it in their decision making. This course will introduce students to the basic ideas and applications of game theory. We will study models of games in extensive (tree) and normal (strategic) form, equilibrium concepts that include optimally randomized strategies, signaling and beliefs, bargaining games, investment hold-up problems, mediation, and incentive constraints. The course will highlight applications of game theory to economic analysis, but will also include examples taken from other disciplines such as biology and political science. Additional topics may be included as time and student interest dictate. Counts as Group E elective. Prerequisite (or corequisite) of ECON 361 required for Economics majors; all others need instructor approval. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 431-01 | Economics of Public Policy | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 304 | Instructor: Sarah West | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 25 |
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By taking this course, students will learn to interpret and conduct technical economic analysis of public policies. Students will apply their knowledge of micro- and macroeconomic theory and econometrics to study the economics of controversial and important policies. Sample policy areas might include climate change, illegal drugs, health care, anti-poverty programs, affirmative action, income inequality, income redistribution via the tax system, public transit, immigration, education, gun control, and minimum or living-wage laws. While the course usually focuses on examples from the United States, it presents tools and frameworks that are applicable in any context. The course grade will be based on group and individual presentations and policy briefs relating to specific policies, at least one exam, homework sets, and a capstone-level research project. The project consists of a policy, econometric, or theoretical analysis of a public policy chosen by the student. This course will count towards the Group E 400s level elective for the economics major. It is a capstone course. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361, ECON 371, and ECON 381. C- or higher required for all prerequisites. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 457-01 | Finance | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Liang Ding | Avail./Max.: 4 / 25 |
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This course concentrates on developing and applying economic principles to the decision making process of the firm. Typically the course is taught from the viewpoint of the financial manager of a firm (profit or non-profit). Traditional corporate finance topics will be covered, including: cash flow management, sources of capital, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and financial structure. Recent theoretical developments in the capital asset pricing model and portfolio theory also will be examined. Actual case studies of financial decision making often are included in the course. This course counts as a Group E elective. Prerequisite(s): ECON 113, ECON 361 and ECON 381. C- or higher required for all prerequisites. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ECON 490-01 | Behavioral and Experimental Economics | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Pete Ferderer | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with PSYC 490-01*
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Educational Studies
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EDUC 220-01 | Educational Psychology | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | 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 230-01 | Community Youth Development in Multicultural America | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Tina Kruse | Avail./Max.: Closed -7 / 16 |
*First day attendance required*
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EDUC 250-01 | Building Trust: Education in Global Perspective | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Sonia Mehta | Avail./Max.: 5 / 25 |
*First day attendance required*
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EDUC 260-01 | Critical Issues in Urban Education | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Jonathan Hamilton | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 25 |
*First day attendance required*
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EDUC 330-01 | Philosophy of Education | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Ruthanne Kurth-Schai | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
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EDUC 394-01 | Adv Topics in Policy: US Education Politics and Policy | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Lesley Lavery | Avail./Max.: 12 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with POLI 315-01*
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EDUC 460-01 | Education and Social Change | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Ruthanne Kurth-Schai | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 10 |
*Permission of Department Chair required; for Majors only; first day attendance required*
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English
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ENGL 115-01 | Shakespeare | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Penelope Geng | Avail./Max.: 11 / 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 instil “wonder”? How did he transform Renaissance poetry? In this course, we will focus on some of Shakespeare’s most enduring works, including the Sonnets, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 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: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: Taylor Schey | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
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It’s 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 figures 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: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Andrea Kaston Tange | Avail./Max.: 6 / 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: On Beauty | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: Amy Elkins | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 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, 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: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: James Dawes | 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 150-02 | Introduction to Creative Writing | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Matthew Burgess | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 16 |
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This course will focus on basic elements of creative writing. Students will be asked to read and discuss work by major writers, to critique each other’s work, and to write multiple drafts of original works of short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. 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: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Ping Wang | 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. 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: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Ping Wang | 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 150-05 | Introduction to Creative Writing | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Peter Bognanni | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
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In this course we will dive right into the study of creative writing by reading and writing poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and personal essays. We will study how published authors craft their pieces, how they convey sensation and emotion, and how they artfully tell a story. Along the way, you’ll try your hand at each literary form we study. This is the basic template you can expect on a day-to-day basis. But, beyond this relatively simple pattern, what I hope will happen this semester is that you’ll lose yourself entirely to the daring act of creating literature. I hope you’ll disappear into what John Gardener calls the “vivid and continuous dream.” I hope you’ll use your growing knowledge of writing technique and literary history to say something fearless and artful about the world around you. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 150-06 | Introduction to Creative Writing | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Benjamin Voigt | 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 194-01 | Writing in US Academic Culture | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Jacqueline Schiappa | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 16 |
*Does not count for the English major or minor*
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This course will familiarize students with traditional writing practices in U.S. academic contexts and advance students’ college level writing. We will specifically explore common writing challenges experienced by multilingual writers. Additionally, we will discuss cultural differences at the intersections of language, authority, knowledge, race, gender, and class. Students will read samples of academic writing from various disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The course will include expert guest speakers to share their own professional and personal writing strategies. Students will frequently revise and edit their own academic written work and the work of their peers. Although this course is open to all students, first or second year students who identify as multilingual and/or international are especially encouraged to enroll. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 212-01 | Introduction to Literary Theory | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Taylor Schey | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
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If you’ve taken courses in the humanities, then you’re probably aware of a field that goes by the nickname of “theory.” You may have heard of thinkers such as Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, though chances are you haven’t yet studied how their writings grew out of a common engagement with questions of language and textuality. This course offers you the opportunity to do so. Beginning with Ferdinand de Saussure’s influential Course in General Linguistics, we’ll trace the development of literary theory through structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, gender studies, queer theory, Black studies, postcolonial theory, trauma theory, affect theory, and ecocriticism. Since our approach will be to treat literary theory as a field of study in itself, we’ll be reading almost exclusively primary texts from this field—though, if you engage these texts seriously, they will most likely change the way you read just about everything, from poems and novels to television shows and text messages. This course will be of interest to students of all levels who are interested in learning about literary theory and are willing to be intellectually challenged. It counts as a core course in the Critical Theory Concentration. Authors include J. L. Austin, Roland Barthes, Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, Cathy Caruth, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Lee Edelman, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, bell hooks, Luce Irigaray, Roman Jakobson, Barbara Johnson, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Paul de Man, Timothy Morton, Ferdinand de Saussure, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Calvin Warren. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 245-01 | Nabokov | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Julia Chadaga | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with RUSS 245-01*
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ENGL 260-01 | Science Fiction: From Matrix Baby Cannibals to Brave New Worlds | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: James Dawes | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
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In the past fifty years, science fiction has emerged as the primary cultural form for thinking about human extinction: climate catastrophe and natural disasters, plagues that empty continents, and species suicide through war. But science fiction has also emerged as the primary cultural form for imagining a near boundless future through technological progress: artificial superintelligence, cybernetic enhancement of the human, and the possibility of utopian political order. Facing such disorienting and unfathomable changes, science fiction seeks with frantic energy to understand what it means to be a human and to live a meaningful life. Why are we here? What are we to become? How will the promises of technology, or the lethal threats of scarcity, change what it means to be a thinking, feeling human? In this course we will examine works of science fiction as complex aesthetic achievements, as philosophical inquiries into the nature of being and time, and as theoretical examinations of the nature of human cognition. We will engage in intensive readings of contemporary texts, including works by Ted Chiang, Lidia Yuknavitch, Philip K. Dick, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Bulter, Stanislaw Lem, Kazuo Ishiguro, and others. A companion film series will include the Matrix and other films in the genre General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 276-01 | African American Literature 1900 to Present | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Daylanne English | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; this course satisfies the Writers of Color/Postcolonial/Diasporic Literature requirement for the English major.*
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In this survey course, we will trace an African American literary tradition from 1900 to the present. We will read a wide range of genres, including drama, jazz poetry, prose poems, short stories, and novels. Our journey across this rich tradition will be shaped by concepts of place, performance, and protest. Our exploration of literary, along with some musical and photographic, texts will thus extend to their geographic, temporal, and political contexts. Our study will also be informed by activisms both past and present; we will at the same time carefully attend to our texts’ status as art. Among the authors we will study are: W. E. B. Du Bois, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Claudia Rankine, Octavia Butler, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Requirements include: two 7-10 page essays, an in-class presentation, brief written responses to the readings, engagement with relevant social media, and a final exam. This course fulfills the college’s U.S. Identities and Differences and Writing general education requirements. It also fulfills the English major requirement of a course focused on literature by U.S. writers of color. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 277-01 | Angels and Demons of the American Renaissance (1835-1880) | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: James Dawes | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 20 |
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As the United states lurched toward murderous civil war, a group of passionate, visionary, and bizarre artists set out to discover the soul of America. From 1850 to 1855, in one of the most astonishing creative convergences in literary history, the artists of what would come to be known as the American Renaissance wrote stories and poems that would enlighten, thrill, and terrify generations of readers. With aesthetic wonder and philosophical insight, they revealed both the angels and demons of human nature, inventing a uniquely American spiritual movement of unprecedented optimism at the same time that they damned it all to hell. Their works were spiritual and blasphemous, elegant and profance, beatific and pornographic, irreverently comic and heart-wrenchingly sentimental. Everything that was written in America after this period would, in one way or another, have to come to terms with the brilliant and disturbing achievements of this small cluster of artists. In this course we will read texts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 280-01 | Crafts of Writing: Poetry | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Benjamin Voigt | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 16 |
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Poetry likely predates written language, and yet each poem reinvents this long tradition, discovering new things that language can be or do. In this course, we will approach verse writing as both craftspeople and mad scientists, shamans and technicians. We’ll study process and product, expanding our writerly toolkits through imitation and practice with fundamentals like line, stanza, genre and inherited form. But we’ll also search for our own wild poetic genius, wading deep into the forests of language. We’ll write odes and elegies, walking poems and list poems, sonnets and collages, erasures and manifestos. Coursework will include reading and discussion, in-class writing exercises, workshops, and a final portfolio. Verse-o-phobes and verse-o-philes both enthusiastically welcomed. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 281-01 | Crafts of Writing: Fiction | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Peter Bognanni | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
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In this course we will study fiction writing through the process of reading and writing flash fiction, fairy tales, a diverse array of short stories, and novel openings. We will study a range of published work, discussing elements of craft like: voice, point of view, narrative time, plot, description as emotion, and the unreliable narrator. Everyone will write a series of stories and exercises to put up for workshop. I will lecture each week on an element of craft, but there are no hard and fast rules here. The principles of writing are, at best, valuable hints accrued from centuries of literature, and, at worst, limits to a writer’s developing sensibility. Ideally, by the end of the semester, you will have a firm understanding of the basic tenets of fiction writing and an equally strong understanding of how you might completely dismantle them to seek new ground. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 286-01 | Narrative Journalism | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Stephen Smith | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 16 |
*First day attendance required*
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Taught by writer and journalist Stephen Smith (Executive Editor and Host of American RadioWorks, the national documentary series from American Public Media). This course will focus on creating vivid, economical prose as a foundation for many types of expository writing. The fundamental elements of narrative journalism will be explored. Students will do research and interviews for print journalism pieces. Students will write frequently, will edit each other, and will receive detailed suggestions on their writing from the instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 294-01 | Beyond the Pale: Irish Caribbean Connections | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Amy Elkins | Avail./Max.: 3 / 20 |
*This course satisfies the Writers of Color/Postcolonial/Diasporic Literature requirement for the English major*
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A historically small area of Ireland—called the Pale—was held under British rule in the late-medieval period. To be “beyond the pale” is to cross over some invisible, often arbitrary, boundary, to be inconveniently and antisocially out of line. Many postcolonial Irish and Caribbean writers have been forced to exist beyond the pale politically and in terms of their access (or lack of it) to the literary establishment. This idiomatic connection to Ireland has a more concrete resonance in Jamaica, where the Irish are the second largest ethnic group after people of African descent, and many of Jamaica’s placenames derive from Irish locations. Taking up these fascinating links, this course will explore the significance of Irish-Caribbean literary and cultural connections in art, dance (live Irish musicians and a céilí dance instructor will visit our class!), poetry, theatre, and fiction. We will ask what it means to be from a small island in a globalizing world by reading authors such as Claude McKay, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Marlon James, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Lorna Goodison, Frank McCourt, Eavan Boland, Grace Nichols, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and Sara Baume. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 294-03 | Crafts of Writing: Young Adult Literature | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Peter Bognanni | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
*First day attendance required*
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In her recent article “If Fiction Changes the World, It’s Going to Be YA,” journalist Emily Temple states that young adult books are primed to do work for the social good because of their timeliness, their willingness to take on big political issues, and their wide readership. In the last few decades, the young adult genre has been growing in scope and in ambition, and much of it is being written by exciting new authors, closer to the age of their protagonists. In this class we will study some new and foundational texts of the genre, discussing subjects like depiction of mental illness, the political implications of fantasy novels, and the “We Need Diverse Books” campaign. Meanwhile, you will be working on your own YA projects, learning for yourself what makes these books tick. This course serves as a creative writing elective on the English major. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 294-04 | Eccentricity and Mediocrity in Modern Prose Fiction | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: David Martyn | Avail./Max.: 5 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with GERM 294-01; taught in English; counts for the Critical Theory concentration*
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Tiring of heroism, modern prose fiction invented a new kind of figure beginning in the late 18th century: the mediocre protagonist whose distinguishing characteristic was not prowess or virtue but eccentricity, both real and imagined. What in Germany is called "the middle hero," in France "le bovarysme," and in Russia "poshlost'" (trivial bourgeois ordinariness) all designate aspects of this new literary space of the mediocre in which individuality depends increasingly on forms of deviance. The course traces this development from the dawn of romanticism to high modernism in German, French, and Russian fiction with the goal of understanding the way literature negotiates the tension between the need to be "different" and the injunction to be "normal." Readings from Goethe ("The Sorrows of Young Werther"), Flaubert ("Madame Bovary"), Gogol ("The Nose," "The Overcoat"), Goncharov (“Oblomov’s Dream”), Huysmans (“Against the Grain”), Musil (excerpts from "The Man without Qualities"), Nietzsche (excerpts from “The Gay Science”), Kafka ("Letter to his Father," "The Cares of a Family Man," "The Metamorphosis"); theory and criticism by Erich Auerbach and Foucault. Requirements: regular reading reactions, three mid-length essays. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 294-05 | Muslim Women Writers | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Jenna Rice Rahaim | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 294-02 and WGSS 294-02*
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Against the swirling backdrop of political discourses about women in the Islamic world, this course will engage with feminist and postcolonial debates through literary works by Muslim women writers. The course will begin with an exploration of key debates about women’s agency and freedom, the Islamic headscarf, and Qur’anic hermeneutics. With this in mind, we will turn to the fine details of literature and poetry by Muslim women. How do these authors constitute their worlds? How are gendered subjectivities constructed? And how do the gender politics of literary texts relate to the broader political and historical contexts from which they emerge? Themes will include an introduction to Muslim poetesses and Arabic poetic genres, the rise of the novel in the Arabic speaking world, and Muslim women’s literary production outside of the Middle East: from Senegal to South Asia, and beyond. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 310-01 | Shakespeare Studies | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Penelope Geng | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
*This offering of the course counts toward the Legal Studies concentration*
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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, King Lear, 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 367-01 | Postcolonial Theory | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: David Moore | Avail./Max.: 8 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 367-01; this course satisfies the Writers of Color/Postcolonial/Diasporic Literature requirement for the English major.*
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ENGL 386-01 | From Literature to Film: Jane Austen and Adaptation | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: ARTCOM 102 | Instructor: Taylor Schey | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 20 |
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Jane Austen is still very much with us today. The mid-1990s saw an explosion of cinematic and televised adaptions of her novels. A flurry of Austenian mash-ups followed, merging zombies, vampires, and sea monsters with the trappings of the Regency era. Austen erotica, meanwhile, has not only emerged but boomed in recent years: in addition to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, we now have works such as Pride and Promiscuity and Spank Me, Mr. Darcy. Just what makes Austen so lastingly compelling and yet so open to diverse modes of adaptation and appropriation? This course approaches this question through an in-depth study of her novels and of some of their prominent film adaptations. We’ll attend to Austen’s particular narrative and rhetorical techniques (such as free-indirect discourse and irony), consider how these techniques do or do not lend themselves to adaptation, and explore how the formal innovations of cinema foreground other, less noted elements of her writing. We’ll also pay particular attention to how Austen registers the social and political issues of her time (e.g. gender inequities, the marriage imperative, the abolition of the slave trade, the Napoleonic wars), and query why most adaptations tend to simplify or simply occlude such issues. Finally, we’ll be interested in examining what Austen’s novels have to say about our own political present, particularly with regard to issues of race, gender, and class. Readings include Austen’s major novels, a number of their adaptations, and works of theory and criticism by Mary Favret, Frances Ferguson, William Galperin, Claudia Johnson, Deirdre Lynch, D. A. Miller, Mary Poovey, Edward Said, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Ian Watt, and others. No prior knowledge of Austen or of film studies is required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 394-01 | Race and the Victorians | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Andrea Kaston Tange | Avail./Max.: 8 / 20 |
*This course may be used to satisfy the Nineteenth-Century British Literature requirement or the Writers of Color/Postcolonial/Diasporic Literature requirement for the English major*
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Travel, globalization, capitalism, class politics, feminism, liberalism, and the spread of democracy are typically associated with contemporary political moments. But they all have their roots in the nineteenth century, when they gained strength in part through their intersections with rhetorics of race. This course will interrogate notions of race as they were being invented—exploring how they were popularized and used to dominate, how they failed, and how they were resisted in 19th-century Britain. We will read canonical and non-canonical texts, including works by writers of color, visual images, scientific theories, fiction, and non-fiction. Considering locations throughout the British empire, we will explore intersections of race with the history of British slavery, colonial settlement, gender politics, enfranchisement, war, and religion. Working together with students at Michigan State University and the University of Detroit-Mercy who are taking the co-developed parallel course, students will produce a digital final project: a full scholarly edition—including appendices, annotations, and a scholarly introduction—of a nineteenth-century memoir written by a person of color. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 394-02 | Creative Writing through Louise Erdrich | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Matthew Burgess | Avail./Max.: 3 / 16 |
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One of the best ways to become a stronger writer is to spend an extensive period of time closely reading multiple works by the same author. In this intermediate creative writing workshop, we will study the Chippewa novelist and poet Louise Erdrich, carefully interrogating how she handles plot structure, characterization, descriptive imagery, and Native American folklore. Students will be expected to write multiple drafts of two original works of creative writing—no direct connection to Erdrich required—and to critique the works of their peers. Texts may include Love Medicine, The Round House, Original Fire: Selected and New Poems, Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, and Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings. Pre-reqs; any 100-level ENGL course or instructor approval. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 394-03 | Ecstasy and Apocalypse: Literature of the Extreme | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Daylanne English | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
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In this topics course, we will investigate how contemporary literature, mostly American, represents extreme human experiences and feelings. As we read a wide range of texts, we will ask ourselves aesthetic, as well as political and ethical, questions: Must literary form stretch itself to represent an individual's or a group’s joy or misery? How can literature and art help us to understand the end of a world or of a people? Must writers invent new forms when faced with unprecedented traumas? Can apparently opposed extremes, such as joy and misery, have common sources or take common aesthetic forms? How might the current political climate in the U.S. contribute to our concern with the extreme and its representation? We will read fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to investigate how various literary genres may work differently at the extreme. We will also view films and listen to music to discover if other media or art forms may offer alternative, possibly better, ways of representing ecstasy and apocalypse, joy and misery. Authors may include: Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Rachel Carson, Tracy K. Smith, and Samuel Delany, among others. Course requirements include: an in-class presentation, a short essay of about 5 pages, and a substantial final project. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 401-01 | Projects in Literary Research: Afrofuturism | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Daylanne English | Avail./Max.: 7 / 12 |
*First day attendance required*
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This capstone course for the Literature Path will focus on the development and production of individual student projects using advanced research methods. Students, in consultation with the professor, will determine the topic and form for their capstone projects, all of which will include a written research component, even if they otherwise take some other form, such as the digital or visual/material. We will begin the semester with a shared exploration of Afrofuturism, a flourishing contemporary movement of writers, artists, musicians, and scholars who imagine, theorize, and represent other times (often, but not always, the future) and alternative forms of the human, along with outer spaces and other places wherein black people are always centered. We will read, listen to, and view a few key Afrofuturist texts, such as Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Talents and Janelle Monáe’s Archandroid album. For each of these texts, we will read relevant theory and scholarship, including queer and posthuman theory by Edelman, Ferguson, Hayles and others, as well as theorizations of Afrofuturism by Kodwo Eshun, Alondra Nelson and others. This combination of primary text with theory/scholarship will provide a model for students’ own projects. Course requirements include: two presentations, discussion questions on each major reading, an annotated bibliography, a research proposal, work with peers, and a substantial final capstone project and presentation of that project. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENGL 406-01 | Projects in Creative Writing | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Ping Wang | Avail./Max.: 4 / 12 |
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This seminar will provide a workshop environment for advanced students with clearly defined projects in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, drama or a combination of genres. The seminar will center initially on a group of shared readings about the creative process and then turn to the work produced by class members. Through the presentation of new and revised work, and the critiquing of work-in-progress, each student will develop a significant body of writing as well as the critical skills necessary to analyze the work of others. Course may be repeated for credit if the topic is different. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENVI 133-01 | Environmental Science | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Daniel Hornbach | Avail./Max.: 4 / 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 133-L1 | Environmental Science Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 273 | Instructor: Dosch, Hornbach | Avail./Max.: 4 / 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 194-01 | Soil: Science and Sustainability | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Anna Lindquist | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with GEOL 194-02*
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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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ENVI 215-01 | Environmental Politics/Policy | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Roopali Phadke | Avail./Max.: -7 / 18 |
*Permission of instructor required; 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 225-01 | 100 Words for Snow: Language and Nature | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Marianne Milligan | Avail./Max.: 5 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with LING 225-01*
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ENVI 237-01 | Environmental Justice | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Christie Manning | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 237-01; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 258-01 | Geography of Environmental Hazards | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: Eric Carter | Avail./Max.: 9 / 30 |
*Cross-listed with GEOG 258-01; first day attendance required*
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ENVI 280-01 | Environmental Classics | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Christie Manning | Avail./Max.: 3 / 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.: Closed 0 / 44 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 285-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of 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.: Closed -3 / 22 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 285-L1; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of 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.: 3 / 22 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 285-L2; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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ENVI 294-01 | Modeling Earth Systems | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 189 | Instructor: Louisa Bradtmiller | Avail./Max.: 13 / 15 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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The Earth is full of large, complex systems. Often, these systems involve one or more components that make them impractical to study directly in nature because they are inaccessible (e.g. Earth’s core), very slow (e.g. plate tectonics), or simply because they are too large to observe in their entirety (e.g. the climate system, or ocean circulation). One possible solution is to use numerical models to generate and test hypotheses by simulating the processes most important to each system. In this course we will use papers from the scientific literature as the basis for modeling a new system each week. We will create models and run experiments using STELLA, a visually based modeling software package. Topics include (but are not limited to) population growth, Earth’s climate, the flow of ice in glaciers, and ocean circulation. For the final project students will spend several weeks designing a model of a system of their own choosing. No previous Macalester courses in math or computer science are required; exposure to calculus may be helpful, but students can be highly successful without it. This course is designed for students with a basic knowledge of systems thinking within any related scientific discipline, and a willingness to experiment. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENVI 294-02 | Oceanography | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Louisa Bradtmiller | Avail./Max.: 11 / 18 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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The study of oceanography is a multidisciplinary pursuit that applies tools from geology, physics, chemistry, and biology to better understand one of Earth’s most unique planetary features. Oceans cover the majority of Earth’s surface and were the birthplace of nearly all complex life on Earth. Ocean currents carry heat, nutrients, and carbon around the globe, influencing Earth’s climate from global to local scales. However, despite its immense size, the ocean system is also highly sensitive to human impacts such as acidification, overfishing, and pollution. This course will provide an overview of the ocean’s physical, chemical, and biological properties and processes and the complex ways in which they interact. We will use oceanographic data to ask and answer questions about modern and past oceanographic systems. We will also explore human impacts on the oceans in their scientific and socio-political contexts. This course is designed for students with an introductory background in any related discipline, and enthusiasm for approaching science in a multidisciplinary way. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENVI 294-03 | Latin American Environmental History | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Jesse Zarley | Avail./Max.: 9 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 294-02 and LATI 294-02*
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This course approaches the environmental history of Latin America by exploring how human actions were intimately tied to their interactions with the natural world from the 1400s to the present. We will look at these this relationship from many different angles, such as natural disasters, national parks, slavery, war and conquest, disease, science, cartography, and environmental justice movements, to show how the natural world has shaped the direction of Latin American history. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENVI 294-04 | Blood Diamonds and Black Gold: Resource Wars in Africa | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Tiffany Gleason | Avail./Max.: 11 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 294-08*
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This course covers the historical context for resource conflict in Africa. Students will consider present resource exploitation in connection to the more recent historical eras of: the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, “legitimate commerce,” colonialism and neo-colonialism. They will also learn about the role of Africa’s resources as essential to western prosperity. This course will address the ethical, social, and environmental implications of the system of extraction and the resulting violence that is inevitably one of the most common and most severe consequences of it. While all resources will be briefly considered and minerals such as, coltan (columbite-tantalite) and cobalt and platinum in areas such as west-central Africa (the Congos, Zambia) and southern Africa will be addressed, special attention will go to diamonds and oil and the particular mining and drilling industries in those areas. This course will intertwine historical sources, films and literature about the history of resource extraction in Africa with current journal and newspaper articles that document these continuing realities. Readings will come from journal articles, primary sources and the following texts: The New Scramble for Africa, Padraig Carmody; Warfare in Independent Africa, Will Reno, 2011; The New Kings of Crude: China, India and the Global Struggle for Oil, Luke Patey, 2014; Stones of Contention, Todd Cleveland, 2014; Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade, Gabrielle Hecht 2012; Colonial Extractions: Race and Canadian Mining in Contemporary Africa, Paula Butler, 2015. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENVI 343-01 | Imperial Nature: The United States and the Global Environment | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 300 | Instructor: Chris Wells | Avail./Max.: 3 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 343-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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ENVI 350-01 | Renewable Energy Systems | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with PHYS 350-01; not available to students who've earned credit for PHYS/ENVI 130*
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This course provides an in-depth treatment of the science and engineering of power generation by solar and wind and their integration on the electrical grid using energy storage. In the first part of the course general aspects of grid energy production will be surveyed. The focus of the course will be an in-depth treatment of the physics of solar cells, wind turbines, and the most promising energy storage options. We will conclude with a discussion of current technical and economic issues associated with the wide scale implementation of these technologies. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENVI 394-01 | Environment, Health and Society | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Chatterjea, Phadke | Avail./Max.: 4 / 18 |
*Permission of instructor required; application process required; cross-listed with BIOL 394-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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This course will explore the ways in which health is built and shaped by interactions between (human and non-human) bodies and the natural and built environment (air, water, food and shelter) through the lenses of biological responses, vulnerability of populations, social movements and the communication of science to the public. Students with backgrounds in the life sciences and environmental politics will work together to understand these challenging problems through an interdisciplinary lens. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENVI 394-02 | Ecological Restoration | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Laura Phillips-Mao | Avail./Max.: 6 / 15 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor; cross-listed with BIOL 394-02*
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This course will introduce students to the science of restoration ecology and the practice of ecological restoration. Using both local (Minnesota) and global examples, students will learn about diagnosing problems; planning restorations and setting goals; developing social and institutional support; restoring physical landscape features (e.g. hydrology, soils) and plant communities; reintroducing invertebrates and vertebrate species; and monitoring and evaluating restorations. Three lecture hours and one three-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite: BIOL/ENVI 285, or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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ENVI 394-L1 | Ecological Restoration Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 284 | Instructor: Laura Phillips-Mao | Avail./Max.: 6 / 15 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC student may register Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor; cross-listed with BIOL 394-L2*
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French and Francophone Studies
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FREN 102-01 | French II | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Claude Cassagne | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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FREN 102-02 | French II | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Claude Cassagne | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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FREN 102-L1 | French II Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-09:00 am | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 5 / 10 |
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FREN 102-L2 | French II Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 5 / 10 |
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FREN 102-L3 | French II Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 3 / 10 |
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FREN 102-L4 | French II Lab | Days: R | Time: 09:10 am-10:10 am | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 5 / 10 |
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FREN 111-01 | Accelerated French I-II | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Andrew Billing | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
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FREN 111-L1 | Accelerated French I-II Lab | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:00 am | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 8 / 10 |
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FREN 111-L2 | Accelerated French I-II Lab | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 6 / 10 |
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FREN 203-01 | French III | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Martine Sauret | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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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.: 4 / 10 |
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FREN 203-L2 | French III Lab | Days: R | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: -2 / 10 |
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FREN 204-01 | Text, Film and Media | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Claude Cassagne | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
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FREN 204-02 | Text, Film and Media | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Juliette Rogers | Avail./Max.: 15 / 20 |
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FREN 204-03 | Text, Film and Media | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Juliette Rogers | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
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FREN 204-L1 | Text, Film and Media Lab | Days: T | Time: 09:10 am-10:10 am | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 0 / 10 |
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FREN 204-L2 | Text, Film and Media Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 9 / 10 |
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FREN 204-L3 | Text, Film and Media Lab | Days: T | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 3 / 10 |
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FREN 204-L4 | Text, Film and Media Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-09:00 am | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 5 / 10 |
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FREN 204-L5 | Text, Film and Media Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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FREN 204-L6 | Text, Film and Media Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Aminata Sall | Avail./Max.: 1 / 10 |
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FREN 305-01 | Advanced Expression: Communication Tools | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: El Hadji Diop | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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FREN 305-L1 | Advanced Expression: Communication Tools | Days: M | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 7 / 10 |
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FREN 305-L2 | Advanced Expression: Communication Tools | Days: W | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Manon Pelaprat | Avail./Max.: 6 / 10 |
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FREN 306-01 | Introduction to Literary Analysis | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 402 | Instructor: Juliette Rogers | Avail./Max.: 8 / 20 |
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FREN 321-01 | Introduction to French Cinema | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Andrew Billing | Avail./Max.: 15 / 20 |
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This course provides an introduction to French cinema in a selection of films by a diverse range of directors and that may include examples from the early experimentation of Louis Feuillade and the Lumière brothers through the classic period of Renoir, Cocteau, Buñuel, and Jacqueline Audry; the 1960s French Nouvelle Vague including Godard, Truffaut, Agnès Varda; Resnais and Marguerite Duras; and contemporary cinema from directors including Beineix and Jeunet though to Audiard, Haneke, Claire Denis, Mehdi Charef, and Abdellatif Kechiche. Our objective will be to analyze both the specificity of French cinema as a distinctive art and the way in which French filmmakers have used film to represent and critique various power relations, practices, and institutions in French society, whether in the domains of politics, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, or immigration. We will read some introductory film theory, pay attention to both the formal and thematic dimensions of the works we study, and develop skills in scene analysis and interpretation. The course will be taught in seminar format. Prerequisite(s): FREN 204 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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FREN 394-02 | Redefining Postcolonial Agency Across the New Black Atlantic | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: El Hadji Diop | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; taught in English. Cross-listed with INTL 394-03*
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The Wretched of the Sea: Redefining Postcolonial Agency Across the New Black Atlantic. From the 2000s on, new African migratory species have been emerging from the storied depths of international seawaters – the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Easy, hand-me-down categories have been spun around, to catch them in the nets of expert discourses about “the immigrant experience,” “the immigration crisis” or in a never-ending gauntlet of xenophobic narratives about the “plague” of illegal immigration. This course focuses primarily on firsthand accounts, in Sub-Saharan francophone film, literature, and popular culture, of the dark underside of transnational mobility. How do these marginalized voices resonate with contemporary francophone novels, essays, and films that attempt to convey and document their experiences? How do these transnational and transdiasporic wretched of the sea, abjected from the “sacred” spaces of citizenship at home and community abroad, force all postcolonial subjects, across the board, to attend to the structures of economic, political and cultural agency that underlie the radical emergence of previously "invisible" subalterns from the depths of an "other" Black Atlantic? From Sub-Saharan Africa we will read francophone authors (Pap Khouma, Fatou Diome, Abass Ndione, Jean-Roger Essomba), and discuss relevant works by some filmmakers (Med Hondo, Jean-Marie Teno, Moussa Touré, Moussa Dieng Kala), graphic artists (Tshibanda and Tchibemba). For contexts and critical perspectives, we will also read contemporary theorists in French and Francophone cultural studies (Mireille Rosello, Catherine Mazauric, Achille Mbembe, Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gérard Noiriel, Dominic Thomas, Charles Bonn, Pap Ndiaye) and some relevant excerpts from postcolonial theorists (Fanon, Said, Spivak, Bhabha, Gilroy, David Scott, C.L.R. James, Rodney). This course is taught in English. Counts for the African Studies concentration. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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FREN 441-01 | Images of the World from the 16th Century to the 21st Century | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Martine Sauret | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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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: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: I-Chun Catherine Chang | Avail./Max.: 11 / 20 |
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GEOG 113-01 | World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: William Moseley | Avail./Max.: 18 / 35 |
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GEOG 225-01 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: Holly Barcus | Avail./Max.: 1 / 30 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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GEOG 225-L1 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | Days: T | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 108 | Instructor: Ashley Nepp | Avail./Max.: 2 / 16 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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GEOG 225-L2 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | Days: W | Time: 10:50 am-12:20 pm | Room: CARN 108 | Instructor: Ashley Nepp | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
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GEOG 243-01 | Geography of Africa: Local Resources and Livelihoods in a Global Context | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: William Moseley | Avail./Max.: 17 / 30 |
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GEOG 248-01 | The Political Geography of Nations and Nationalism | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Daniel Trudeau | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
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GEOG 258-01 | Geography of Environmental Hazards | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: Eric Carter | Avail./Max.: 9 / 30 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 258-01; first day attendance required*
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GEOG 294-01 | Resettling the Plains: Homesteading and Data Visualization | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Rebecca Wingo | Avail./Max.: 11 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 294-11*
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By focusing on the Homestead Act of 1862, students will learn the processes by which the American plains were settled, unsettled, and resettled by Indigenous and non-Indigenous settlers. The Homestead Act was initially designed to populate the West with men and women, immigrants and non-immigrants, whites and people of color, who sympathized with the Union. As settlers entered recently unsettled Indigenous lands, they began forming their own communities, economies, infrastructures, and policies. Using digitized homestead records, students will learn how to interpret the primary sources as well as mine them for data to create a class-wide database. Students will use the database and data visualization methods to support an argumentative final research paper. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOG 320-01 | Asian Cities | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: I-Chun Catherine Chang | Avail./Max.: 5 / 16 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 320-01; first day attendance required*
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GEOG 341-01 | City Life: Segregation, Integration, and Gentrification | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Daniel Trudeau | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; cross-listed with AMST 341-01*
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GEOG 363-01 | Geography of Development and Underdevelopment | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: William Moseley | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
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GEOG 368-01 | Health GIS | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 108 | Instructor: Eric Carter | Avail./Max.: -1 / 18 |
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GEOG 368-L1 | Health GIS Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Ashley Nepp | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 18 |
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This course builds on skills learned in the introductory Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course, focusing explicitly on geospatial techniques used for analyzing problems in public health. Through lectures, discussions, hands-on labs, and collaborative group work, students will learn to use advanced GIS tools to visualize and analyze public health issues, including: health disparities; neighborhood effects on health; spatial clustering of disease events, such as cancers; environmental health and environmental justice; infectious and vector-borne disease; and accessibility of populations to health care services. The course builds skills in spatial thinking, statistical and epidemiological reasoning, logical inference, critical use of data, geovisualization, and research project design. Students will be required to complete a final independent project on a topic of their choice. Lab section registration is required. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour per week required. Prerequisite(s): GEOG 225 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOG 378-01 | Statistical Research Methods in Geography | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: Kelsey McDonald | Avail./Max.: Closed -3 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; Geography majors only*
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GEOG 394-02 | Adv Geospatial Analysis: A Case Study of Dengue Fever Risk on the Island of Hawaii | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 109 | Instructor: Kelsey McDonald | Avail./Max.: 1 / 15 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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Building on skills learned in the Introductory Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course, this course will apply geospatial techniques and visualization to collaboratively conduct a “real world” disease risk assessment. As part of the course students will acquire, process, and employ both vector and raster data on a wide variety of topics related to the physical and social environments. Our goals are to build a risk model to identify levels of dengue fever risk across the Island of Hawaii, to attempt to validate the model using available data on case locations in a recent outbreak, to visualize our results using advanced visualization techniques, and to compare our results with those from a previous study. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOG 394-L1 | Geospatial Analysis Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Ashley Nepp | Avail./Max.: 1 / 15 |
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GEOG 475-01 | Medical Geography Seminar | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Eric Carter | Avail./Max.: 11 / 15 |
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GEOG 479-01 | Migrants, Migration and the Global Landscape of Population Change | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Holly Barcus | Avail./Max.: 1 / 18 |
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Geology
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GEOL 101-01 | Dinosaurs | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Kristina Curry Rogers | Avail./Max.: Closed -3 / 48 |
*First day attendance required; limit reflects saving ten seats for first year students*
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GEOL 165-01 | History/Evolution of Earth | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Raymond Rogers | Avail./Max.: 21 / 48 |
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This course provides an overview of the Earth for the past 4.6 billion years. Students explore the concept of geologic time as they delve into the vast past of our evolving planet. Major emphasis is placed on tracking the evolution of life, from the simplest single-celled organisms of the ancient Earth to today's diverse floras and faunas. Another major focus is the linkage among abiotic and biotic systems, the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere did not and do not evolve independently. The laboratory component of this course is designed to familiarize students with the rocks and fossils that archive the history of Earth. The class includes a fossil-collecting field trip. Required for geology majors. Three hours lecture and two hours lab per week. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 165-L1 | History/Evolution of Earth Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:00 am | Room: OLRI 187 | Instructor: Jeffrey Thole | Avail./Max.: 13 / 24 |
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This course provides an overview of the Earth for the past 4.6 billion years. Students explore the concept of geologic time as they delve into the vast past of our evolving planet. Major emphasis is placed on tracking the evolution of life, from the simplest single-celled organisms of the ancient Earth to today's diverse floras and faunas. Another major focus is the linkage among abiotic and biotic systems, the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere did not and do not evolve independently. The laboratory component of this course is designed to familiarize students with the rocks and fossils that archive the history of Earth. The class includes a fossil-collecting field trip. Required for geology majors. Three hours lecture and two hours lab per week. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 165-L2 | History/Evolution of Earth Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:20 pm | Room: OLRI 187 | Instructor: Jeffrey Thole | Avail./Max.: 8 / 24 |
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This course provides an overview of the Earth for the past 4.6 billion years. Students explore the concept of geologic time as they delve into the vast past of our evolving planet. Major emphasis is placed on tracking the evolution of life, from the simplest single-celled organisms of the ancient Earth to today's diverse floras and faunas. Another major focus is the linkage among abiotic and biotic systems, the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere did not and do not evolve independently. The laboratory component of this course is designed to familiarize students with the rocks and fossils that archive the history of Earth. The class includes a fossil-collecting field trip. Required for geology majors. Three hours lecture and two hours lab per week. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 194-01 | Geohazards | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 179 | Instructor: Alan Chapman | Avail./Max.: 3 / 24 |
*First day attendance required*
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Geohazards is an introductory course for students of all backgrounds aimed at: 1) understanding the geology behind disasters, including earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, sinkholes, landslides, climate change, asteroid impacts, and changes in Earth’s magnetic field; 2) investigating the intersection of risk with society (e.g., how communities and governments evaluate risk and implement risk-appropriate mitigation strategies) and at a personal level (e.g., understanding hazards you may face as homeowners or renters and determining your level of risk aversion). Three meetings (lectures, movie clips, discussions, and activities) per week, one fieldtrip to view sinkholes and landslide debris in the Twin Cities, no lab. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 194-02 | Soil: Science and Sustainability | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Anna Lindquist | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 194-01*
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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 255-01 | Structural Geology | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 179 | Instructor: Alan Chapman | Avail./Max.: 10 / 18 |
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GEOL 255-L1 | Structural Geology Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:00 am | Room: OLRI 179 | Instructor: Alan Chapman | Avail./Max.: 10 / 18 |
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This course focuses on recognizing and interpreting the significance of geologic structures in the Earth's outermost layers. Discussions focus on the formation of major rock fabrics (e.g., fractures, joints, faults, shear zones, folds, foliation/cleavage, and lineations) from microscopic (thin section) to regional (mountain belt) scales. Problem sets use graphical techniques to solve structural problems. This course also provides an introduction to map interpretation and mapping techniques. Three hours lecture and three hours lab per week. Local and regional field trips. Prerequisite(s): GEOL 160, GEOL 165, and GEOL 250; or permission of instructor General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 265-01 | Sedimentology/Stratigraphy | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 175 | Instructor: Raymond Rogers | Avail./Max.: 10 / 18 |
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This course focuses on sedimentary rocks and the stratigraphic record. Topics covered include the origin and classification of sediments and sedimentary rocks (siliciclatic and carbonate), sedimentary structures (physical and biogenic), diagenesis, facies models, and basin analysis. Students are introduced to the principles and practice of stratigraphy. Emphasis is placed on the interpretation of ancient sedimentary environments. Three hours lecture and three hours lab per week. Field trips. Prerequisite(s): GEOL 160, GEOL 165, and GEOL 250; or permission of the instructor General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 265-L1 | Sedimentology/Stratigraphy Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:20 pm | Room: OLRI 175 | Instructor: Raymond Rogers | Avail./Max.: 10 / 18 |
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This course focuses on sedimentary rocks and the stratigraphic record. Topics covered include the origin and classification of sediments and sedimentary rocks (siliciclatic and carbonate), sedimentary structures (physical and biogenic), diagenesis, facies models, and basin analysis. Students are introduced to the principles and practice of stratigraphy. Emphasis is placed on the interpretation of ancient sedimentary environments. Three hours lecture and three hours lab per week. Field trips. Prerequisite(s): GEOL 160, GEOL 165, and GEOL 250; or permission of the instructor General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 303-01 | Surface/Groundwater Hydrology | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 175 | Instructor: Kelly MacGregor | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 18 |
*$75 Field trip fee required*
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GEOL 303-L1 | Surface/Groundwater Hydro Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 175 | Instructor: Kelly MacGregor | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 18 |
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Hydrology is the study of physical, chemical, and biological processes that occur as water interacts with the earth. In this course we will focus on the near-surface cycling of water and the physical processes that drive this motion. We will discuss the dynamics of water as it flows across the surface of the landscape, moves through channels, and passes into the shallow subsurface. Open channel flow, hydrographs, floods, and arid region water scarcity will be the focus of the first portion of the course. The bulk of the course will look at the flow of water through permeable, saturated media, heterogeneity of flow, and several equations used to describe flow dynamics in aquifers. Flow through fractured and karst systems will be discussed. Importantly, we will spend time on the methods used by scientists and engineers (and consultants!) to understand the details and timescales of groundwater flow: wells, slug tests, pump tests, and geochemistry. Contaminant transport via groundwater flow will be examined in case studies. The use of quantitative tools such as calculations, numerical modeling, and estimation will be used to better understand the dynamics of water transport on our planet. $75 trip/materials fee will be charged for this course.. Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level geology lab course. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 394-01 | Secrets of Soils: A Magnetic Approach | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 179 | Instructor: Anna Lindquist | Avail./Max.: 12 / 18 |
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A popular preconception is that magnetic methods are only used to study changes in Earth’s magnetic field. However, the magnetic signal in soils can be used to answer a variety of questions. Various approaches can be used to describe climate change, pollutants, and to help interpret archeological sites. This course will focus on the magnetic minerals found in soils, their origins, and how to use them to uncover the secrets of soils. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GEOL 394-L1 | Secrets of Soils Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:20 pm | Room: OLRI 179 | Instructor: Anna Lindquist | Avail./Max.: 12 / 18 |
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GEOL 450-01 | Senior Seminar | Days: F | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Raymond Rogers | Avail./Max.: 16 / 18 |
*1 credit course*
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German Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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GERM 102-01 | Elementary German II | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Brigetta Abel | Avail./Max.: 16 / 20 |
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Continuation of introduction to German language and culture. Vocabulary acquisition continues within broader contexts. Emphasis on both oral and written production with continuing development of reading and listening skills. Students develop creativity and facility with the language using primarily concrete vocabulary within meaningful contexts. The course provides an introduction to extended reading in German as well. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 101 with a grade of C- or better, or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 102-L1 | Elementary German II Lab | Days: M | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 3 / 7 |
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Continuation of introduction to German language and culture. Vocabulary acquisition continues within broader contexts. Emphasis on both oral and written production with continuing development of reading and listening skills. Students develop creativity and facility with the language using primarily concrete vocabulary within meaningful contexts. The course provides an introduction to extended reading in German as well. Three hours per week plus laboratory conversation hour. Prerequisite(s): GERM 101 with a grade of C- or better, or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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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.: 13 / 20 |
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An accelerated course which covers material and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 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. 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 217 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 7 / 7 |
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An accelerated course which covers material and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 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. 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 217 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 3 / 7 |
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An accelerated course which covers material and proficiency development normally covered in GERM 101 and GERM 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. 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.: 3 / 6 |
*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 203-01 | Intermediate German I | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Brigetta Abel | Avail./Max.: 14 / 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. Prerequisite(s): GERM 102 or GERM 110 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor. 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.: 7 / 7 |
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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. Prerequisite(s): GERM 102 or GERM 110 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 203-L2 | Intermediate German I Lab | Days: T | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 1 / 7 |
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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. Prerequisite(s): GERM 102 or GERM 110 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 203-L3 | Intermediate German I Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 6 / 6 |
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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. Prerequisite(s): GERM 102 or GERM 110 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 204-01 | Intermediate German II | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: David Martyn | Avail./Max.: 5 / 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. Prerequisite(s): GERM 203 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 204-L1 | Intermediate German II Lab | Days: W | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 2 / 7 |
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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. Prerequisite(s): GERM 203 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 204-L2 | Intermediate German II Lab | Days: R | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 2 / 7 |
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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. Prerequisite(s): GERM 203 with a grade of C- or better, or placement test, or consent of the instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 204-L3 | Intermediate German II Lab | Days: W | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 1 / 6 |
*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 277-01 | Metaphysics in Secular Thought | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Kiarina Kordela | Avail./Max.: 5 / 35 |
*Cross-listed with POLI 277-01 and RELI 277-01*
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GERM 294-01 | Eccentricity and Mediocrity in Modern Prose Fiction | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: David Martyn | Avail./Max.: 5 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with ENGL 294-04; taught in English; counts for the Critical Theory concentration*
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Tiring of heroism, modern prose fiction invented a new kind of figure beginning in the late 18th century: the mediocre protagonist whose distinguishing characteristic was not prowess or virtue but eccentricity, both real and imagined. What in Germany is called "the middle hero," in France "le bovarysme," and in Russia "poshlost'" (trivial bourgeois ordinariness) all designate aspects of this new literary space of the mediocre in which individuality depends increasingly on forms of deviance. The course traces this development from the dawn of romanticism to high modernism in German, French, and Russian fiction with the goal of understanding the way literature negotiates the tension between the need to be "different" and the injunction to be "normal." Readings from Goethe ("The Sorrows of Young Werther"), Flaubert ("Madame Bovary"), Gogol ("The Nose," "The Overcoat"), Goncharov (“Oblomov’s Dream”), Huysmans (“Against the Grain”), Musil (excerpts from "The Man without Qualities"), Nietzsche (excerpts from “The Gay Science”), Kafka ("Letter to his Father," "The Cares of a Family Man," "The Metamorphosis"); theory and criticism by Erich Auerbach and Foucault. Requirements: regular reading reactions, three mid-length essays. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 305-01 | Advanced German | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: David Martyn | Avail./Max.: 16 / 20 |
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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) Prerequisite(s): GERM 204, placement test or permission of instructor General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 305-L1 | Advanced German Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:00 pm-04:00 pm | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 6 / 10 |
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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) Prerequisite(s): GERM 204, placement test or permission of instructor General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 305-L2 | Advanced German Lab | Days: F | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 10 / 10 |
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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) Prerequisite(s): GERM 204, placement test or permission of instructor General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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GERM 305-L3 | Advanced German Lab | Days: F | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Katharina Bohn | Avail./Max.: 10 / 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 365-01 | Kafka: Gods, Animals, and Other Species of Modernity | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Kiarina Kordela | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
*Taught in German*
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GERM 488-01 | Senior Seminar | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Rachael Huener | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
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Designed as a capstone experience in German studies, the seminar brings together fundamental questions engaged by the field of German studies, and enhances students' understanding of the theories and methodologies informing contemporary scholarship. Part of the seminar will be devoted to study of an aspect of German studies; students will then conduct independent research, which will serve as the basis of class discussions during the latter part of the semester. Changing topics may include: Constructing National Identity; Radicalism and Conservatism in Modernism; Goethe's Faust ; Centrality and Marginality in German Culture; Translingual Interventions: Migration and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Germany, Stardom and Charisma. Taught in German. Prerequisite(s): GERM 308 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Hispanic Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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HISP 101-01 | Elementary Spanish I | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Fernanda Bartolomei-Merlin | Avail./Max.: 7 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 101-L1 | Elementary Spanish I Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | 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. For admission into HISP 102, students must have completed HISP 101, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 101-L2 | Elementary Spanish I Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 6 / 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. For admission into HISP 102, students must have completed HISP 101, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 101-L3 | Elementary Spanish I Lab | Days: M | Time: 11:00 am-11:30 am | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | 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. Teresa Mesa Adamuz (NEILL 201), 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 Teresa Mesa Adamuz by sending an e-mail to [email protected] or calling at ext. 6396*
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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.: 2 / 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.: 3 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 102-03 | Elementary Spanish II | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Rosa Rull-Montoya | Avail./Max.: Closed -3 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 102-L1 | Elementary Spanish II Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 350 | 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. For admission into HISP 203, students must have completed HISP 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): HISP 101 with C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 102-L2 | Elementary Spanish II Lab | Days: T | Time: 02:25 pm-03:25 pm | 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. For admission into HISP 203, students must have completed HISP 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): HISP 101 with C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 102-L3 | Elementary Spanish II Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | 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. For admission into HISP 203, students must have completed HISP 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): HISP 101 with C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 102-L4 | Elementary Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MUSIC 228 | 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. For admission into HISP 203, students must have completed HISP 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): HISP 101 with C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 102-L5 | Elementary Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: 0 / 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. For admission into HISP 203, students must have completed HISP 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): HISP 101 with C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 102-L6 | Elementary Spanish II Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: 2 / 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. For admission into HISP 203, students must have completed HISP 102, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): HISP 101 with C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 110-01 | Accelerated Beginning Spanish | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Rosa Rull-Montoya | Avail./Max.: 3 / 15 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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HISP 203-01 | Intermediate Spanish I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Antonio Dorca | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 203-02 | Intermediate Spanish I | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Galo Gonzalez | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 203-L1 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: R | Time: 02:25 pm-03:25 pm | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: 10 / 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. For admission into HISP 204, students must have completed HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): HISP 102, or HISP 110, or an equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 203-L2 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: MUSIC 228 | 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. For admission into HISP 204, students must have completed HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): HISP 102, or HISP 110, or an equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 203-L3 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: OLRI 100 | 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. For admission into HISP 204, students must have completed HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): HISP 102, or HISP 110, or an equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 203-L4 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: T | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 350 | 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. For admission into HISP 204, students must have completed HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): HISP 102, or HISP 110, or an equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 203-L5 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Hasnaa El Hannach Ben Hammou | Avail./Max.: 7 / 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. Teresa Mesa Adamuz (NEILL 201), 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 Teresa Mesa Adamuz by sending an e-mail to [email protected] or calling at ext. 6396*
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HISP 203-L6 | Intermediate Spanish I Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 3 / 5 |
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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. For admission into HISP 204, students must have completed HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a minimum grade of C-. Prerequisite(s): HISP 102, or HISP 110, or an equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. 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 216 | Instructor: Blanca Gimeno Escudero | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 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 216 | Instructor: Blanca Gimeno Escudero | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 20 |
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HISP 204-03 | Intermediate Spanish II | Days: MWF | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Teresa Mesa Adamuz | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
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HISP 204-04 | Intermediate Spanish II | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Teresa Mesa Adamuz | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20 |
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HISP 204-L1 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: T | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 003 | 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. Prerequisite(s): HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L2 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: T | Time: 02:25 pm-03:25 pm | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | 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. Prerequisite(s): HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L3 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | 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. Prerequisite(s): HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L4 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 247 | 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. Prerequisite(s): HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L5 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 003 | 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. Prerequisite(s): HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L6 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: OLRI 247 | 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. Prerequisite(s): HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L7 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 247 | 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. Prerequisite(s): HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L8 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: R | Time: 02:25 pm-03:25 pm | Room: OLRI 247 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 10 / 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. Prerequisite(s): HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 204-L9 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: W | Time: 11:00 am-11:30 am | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Erick Garcia Pineda | Avail./Max.: 10 / 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. Teresa Mesa Adamuz (NEILL 201), 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 Teresa Mesa Adamuz by sending an e-mail to [email protected] or calling at ext. 6396*
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HISP 204-L10 | Intermediate Spanish II Lab | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: STAFF | Avail./Max.: 1 / 5 |
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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. Prerequisite(s): HISP 203, or its equivalent, with a grade of C- or better. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 220-01 | Accel Intermediate Spanish | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 270 | Instructor: Michelle Sharp | Avail./Max.: 3 / 15 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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HISP 220-02 | Accel Intermediate Spanish | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Michelle Sharp | Avail./Max.: 2 / 15 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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HISP 221-01 | Accelerated Intermediate Portuguese | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Fernanda Bartolomei-Merlin | Avail./Max.: 1 / 15 |
*5 credits*
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HISP 305-01 | Introduction to Hispanic Studies: Oral and Written Expression | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Teresa Mesa Adamuz | Avail./Max.: 4 / 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 213 | Instructor: Antonio Dorca | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 15 |
*First day attendance required*
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HISP 307-01 | Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Texts | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Galo Gonzalez | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 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: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Alicia Munoz | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 308-01 and LATI 308-01; first day attendance required; 4 spots to be held for first years*
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HISP 316-01 | Mapping the New World: Explorations, Encounters, and Disasters | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Margaret Olsen | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 316-01 and INTL 316-01*
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HISP 332-01 | Spanish in the United States | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Cynthia Kauffeld | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with LING 332-01*
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HISP 388-01 | Junior Seminar | Days: M | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Cynthia Kauffeld | Avail./Max.: 15 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; 1 credit course*
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HISP 394-01 | Hispanic Studies and Critical Theory | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Justin Butler | Avail./Max.: 15 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with PHIL 294-03*
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Hispanic Studies and Critical Theory will engage a corpus of philosophical texts in order to equip students for advanced literary, cultural, and historical critique. To this end, students will study key concepts in critical thought such as biopolitics, materialism, commodities, ideology, hegemony, and animality as presented by a variety of thinkers including Marx, Benjamin, Hegel, Althusser, Gramsci, Baudrillard, Adorno, Agamben, and Haraway. Careful understanding of concepts will be mobilized in analysis of select cultural, literary, or filmic texts and events in the field of Hispanism. Such items may range from Gracián’s surprisingly prescient writings on the accrual of power as he observed it in the Golden Age court to present day immigration and dynamics of stateless bodies as seen in the practice coyotaje. The course has been designated a core course in the Critical Theory Concentration and is suitable for diverse interests in the humanities. Hispanic Studies majors and minors will submit written work in Spanish; non-majors and minors will submit written work in English. Course taught in English and all readings will be in English. No prerequisites required. This course is appropriate for all level students. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 394-02 | Voices from the Margins: Afro-Brazilian Women Writers | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Fernanda Bartolomei-Merlin | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 394-01*
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This course focuses on the writing of black women writers from Brazil. We will study the history of Brazil’s race relations as the framework to situate the struggle of Afro-Brazilian women against invisibility and injustice. We will analyze a wide array of texts, which revolve around the experiences and the position Black women have traditionally had within Brazilian society and the way they are now contesting such circumstances and roles through literature, music, art, theater, folklore, Afro-Brazilian religion, and cinema. Come learn about their escrevivência, the process of writing the experience of the marginalized and the oppressed. This course will be taught in Portuguese. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HISP 422-01 | Modern Hispanic Novel and the Visual Arts | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Antonio Dorca | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 422-01*
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HISP 437-01 | Spanish 2nd Lang Acquisition | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Claudia Giannini | Avail./Max.: 7 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with LING 437-01*
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HISP 488-01 | Senior Seminar | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Margaret Olsen | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HIST 115-01 | Africa Since 1800 | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: Tiffany Gleason | Avail./Max.: 3 / 12 |
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This course is designed to introduce students to the history of Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines major themes relating to change in the colonial period such as European conquest and imperialism, the development of the colonial economy, African responses to colonialism and the rise of nationalist movements that stimulated the movement towards independence. Students will examine these themes by applying them to case studies of specific geographic regions of the continent. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 180-01 | Going Global: The Experiment of World History | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Rebecca Church | Avail./Max.: 6 / 12 |
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What broad patterns do we see repeated across human cultures and eras? How do current international concerns shape the way we perceive these patterns, and retell the past? This course is an introduction to the youngest and boldest experimenters in the discipline of history: global historians. We follow these trail-blazers to every corner of the planet and across the grandest expanses of time, all the way from the emergence of Homo sapiens to present day. Such a sweeping survey of human history invites us to look beyond chronological, national, cultural and geographic boundaries. It also forces us to sharply rethink the methodology of traditional historians. Throughout our critical survey of world history we will assess the usefulness (and potential outdatedness) of the concepts of civilization, empire, revolution, and global networks. This course fulfills the global/comparative requirement for the major. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 209-01 | Civil Rights in the United States | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Crystal Moten | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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HIST 222-01 | Imagining the American West | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 226 | Instructor: Katrina Phillips | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 222-01*
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HIST 226-01 | American Indian History since 1871 | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 226 | Instructor: Katrina Phillips | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 226-01*
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HIST 274-01 | The Great Tradition in China before 1840 | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Yue-him Tam | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 274-01*
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HIST 275-01 | The Rise of Modern China | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Yue-him Tam | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 275-01*
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HIST 277-01 | The Rise of Modern Japan | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Yue-him Tam | Avail./Max.: 8 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 277-01*
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HIST 294-01 | Latin America's Age of Revolution | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Jesse Zarley | Avail./Max.: 8 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 294-01*
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This course asks how our understandings of sovereignty, freedom, and modernity, typically stemming from the French, US, and industrial revolutions, change if we look at anti-colonial and revolutionary movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. We will explore several revolutionary moments, such as the Túpac Amaru indigenous insurgency in the Andes (1780-1781) and the slave rebellion which produced the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), and the curious case of the Brazilian Empire. These episodes will show how Latin Americans played a pivotal part in the end of empire and the building of nations in the Americas. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-02 | Latin American Environmental History | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Jesse Zarley | Avail./Max.: 9 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 294-02 and ENVI 294-03*
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This course approaches the environmental history of Latin America by exploring how human actions were intimately tied to their interactions with the natural world from the 1400s to the present. We will look at these this relationship from many different angles, such as natural disasters, national parks, slavery, war and conquest, disease, science, cartography, and environmental justice movements, to show how the natural world has shaped the direction of Latin American history. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-03 | Medieval Mediterranean | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Rebecca Church | Avail./Max.: 10 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with CLAS 294-02*
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The Mediterranean, from 500 to 1500 CE, will be our focus. While the Romans called it mare nostrum (our sea), the Mediterranean became a shared space after the Roman Empire split into East (Byzantium) and West (Rome) and the Islamic Empire of the Umayyads enveloped all of the Levant, North Africa, and Iberia by the 8th century. Despite the divided polities, goods, and people--armies, mercenaries, courtiers, merchants, pilgrims, scholars, artisans--along with their ideas, moved easily across the water creating a mixed Mediterranean culture. All of the medieval cultures surrounding the Mediterranean were built on the cultures that preceded them, especially their Roman heritage. They were also springboards for the period of European expansion that followed. In this course we'll look at the geography, agriculture, literature, art, and religious beliefs found in the Mediterranean basin and engage the fundamental question, what is Mediterranean culture? Did it mean the same thing in Iberia, in Egypt, in Western Europe, in Byzantium, and in the Levant? General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-04 | Museums and Memory: American Indians in Public History | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Katrina Phillips | Avail./Max.: 2 / 15 |
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This course examines the historical and contemporary role of American Indians in public history and the often-contradictory goals of Native nations and museums. Many museums see themselves as the authorities on the proper storage, maintenance, and care of sacred items or cultural objects, while American Indian nations argue that the impositions of museum collectors and curators fail to acknowledge indigenous traditions and belief systems. We will investigate how American Indians work to regain control of sacred objects and, in turn, regain control of their history and the historical narrative through the repatriation of stolen items and objects, the implementation of decolonization practices in museums, and the growth of tribal museums. This course combines scholarly research and readings with field trips to exhibits at several local museums, including “Renewing What They Gave Us: Native American Artists in Residence” at the Minnesota History Center, the “Native American Exhibition” at the Science Museum of Minnesota, and a curator-led exploration at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Enrollment is limited in order to facilitate these trips. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-05 | Women, Gender, and the Family in Contemporary Europe | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Jessica Pearson | Avail./Max.: 9 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with WGSS 294-03*
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This course will explore the ways in which the major events and processes in contemporary European history shaped the lives of women and families as well and the way that both individual women and women’s movements have shaped the history of contemporary Europe. Much of our discussion will revolve around the themes of equality and inequality and their evolution over the course of the last two centuries. Our exploration will begin with the French Revolution in 1789 and end with the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century. We will focus on issues such as family policy, reproductive rights, labor, immigration, women’s political representation, and LGBTQ equality in Europe. We will also explore the importance of children and childhood in the context of contemporary European society and the role that the state has played in shaping the lives of young people. Whenever possible, we will approach the topics at hand by exploring the voices of our historical actors themselves and we will consider the experiences of people from a wide range of identities. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-06 | Public Health in Africa from Empire to Ebola | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Jessica Pearson | Avail./Max.: 1 / 18 |
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The recent Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone has served as an important reminder of the ongoing challenges that public health problems pose in Africa today—both for local governments and institutions as well as for international organizations like the World Health Organization and Doctors without Borders. This course explores the way that questions of health have shaped the African continent from the period of European colonization in the early twentieth century to today. We will explore topics such as the development of colonial public health infrastructure, the emergence of international health and development institutions during the period of African decolonization, and the continuing challenges that independent states in Africa today face dealing with both epidemic disease and preventative care. We will focus on a wide variety of public health issues, including insect-borne diseases like malaria and sleeping sickness, AIDS, cancer, malnourishment and malnutrition, infant and maternal health care, and Ebola. This course will give students a historical as well as a contemporary perspective on public health in African society and politics. In addition to our readings of leading scholars in this field, we will engage with historical documents, literature, and film. We will also continuously engage with contemporary news coverage over the course of the semester. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-08 | Blood Diamonds and Black Gold: Resource Wars in Africa | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Tiffany Gleason | Avail./Max.: 11 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 294-04*
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This course covers the historical context for resource conflict in Africa. Students will consider present resource exploitation in connection to the more recent historical eras of: the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, “legitimate commerce,” colonialism and neo-colonialism. They will also learn about the role of Africa’s resources as essential to western prosperity. This course will address the ethical, social, and environmental implications of the system of extraction and the resulting violence that is inevitably one of the most common and most severe consequences of it. While all resources will be briefly considered and minerals such as, coltan (columbite-tantalite) and cobalt and platinum in areas such as west-central Africa (the Congos, Zambia) and southern Africa will be addressed, special attention will go to diamonds and oil and the particular mining and drilling industries in those areas. This course will intertwine historical sources, films and literature about the history of resource extraction in Africa with current journal and newspaper articles that document these continuing realities. Readings will come from journal articles, primary sources and the following texts: The New Scramble for Africa, Padraig Carmody; Warfare in Independent Africa, Will Reno, 2011; The New Kings of Crude: China, India and the Global Struggle for Oil, Luke Patey, 2014; Stones of Contention, Todd Cleveland, 2014; Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade, Gabrielle Hecht 2012; Colonial Extractions: Race and Canadian Mining in Contemporary Africa, Paula Butler, 2015. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-09 | Power, Authority, and the Legacy of Rome in Europe and the Middle East, 400-1700 | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Basit Qureshi | Avail./Max.: 11 / 18 |
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It is commonplace to assume that the year 476 C.E. heralded the extinction of Roman civilization, inaugurating over a thousand years of backwardness in which the achievements of Rome were all but forgotten. In this course, we will investigate how the Roman Empire, rather than falling in 476, continued to flourish through at least the sixteenth century. We will explore how medieval and early modern communities in Europe and the Middle East assiduously maintained a conceptual tether to Rome, even as they forged new political-cultural identities and institutions. For, indeed, Rome was and had always been an amalgamation of ideas about politics, culture, and so forth—ideas that themselves comprised a synthesis of ideologies from other empires. Medieval and early modern communities re-worked these ideas to establish the basis for new realities, practices, and discourses of power and authority in the pre-modern world: from the Holy Roman Empire to the Magna Carta, from the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum to the court ceremonial of Byzantium, from the urban landscapes of Ottoman Constantinople to the Italian Renaissance itself. Course readings will focus on drawing out this thematic strand from the fifth through the sixteenth centuries. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-10 | Reinventing the Middle Ages: From Dante to Hitler and Beyond | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Basit Qureshi | Avail./Max.: 10 / 18 |
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Why is it that, even as we race into the future at ever-increasing speeds, boldly going where no one has gone before, we find ourselves increasingly preoccupied with looking back on the Middle Ages? Indeed, contemporary literature, TV, cinema, and even internet memes abound with depictions of the medieval in the attempt to satisfy our growing cultural appetites. In this course, we will investigate how our contemporary obsession with the medieval is the culmination of a 700-year tradition of reinventing the Middle Ages to be something they never were, all in order to serve the needs of the present. This long-standing tradition has led to the ensconcing of ‘medievalism’ within the ideological core of numerous historical movements, including imperialism(s), (post-)colonialism(s), and nationalism(s), as well as contemporary white supremacy. Course readings will, therefore, span a wide range of topics from the thirteenth through the twenty-first centuries, including: Protestant ideations of Catholicism as a quintessentially medieval religion; Romantic re-imaginings of the crusades as proto-colonial endeavors mirroring nineteenth-century colonial projects; Charlemagne’s regnum Francorum as a historical anchor for the Third Reich; and visions of Vinland as a key ideological underpinning of contemporary white nationalism in America. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-11 | Resettling the Plains: Homesteading and Data Visualization | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Rebecca Wingo | Avail./Max.: 11 / 18 |
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By focusing on the Homestead Act of 1862, students will learn the processes by which the *Cross-listed with GEOG 294-01* American plains were settled, unsettled, and resettled by Indigenous and non-Indigenous settlers. The Homestead Act was initially designed to populate the West with men and women, immigrants and non-immigrants, whites and people of color, who sympathized with the Union. As settlers entered recently unsettled Indigenous lands, they began forming their own communities, economies, infrastructures, and policies. Using digitized homestead records, students will learn how to interpret the primary sources as well as mine them for data to create a class-wide database. Students will use the database and data visualization methods to support an argumentative final research paper. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 294-12 | Chicana/o History | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Lizeth Gutierrez | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 294-01 and LATI 294-03*
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"Chicana/o History" is designed to introduce students to the histories of the Chicana/o people prior to the Spanish colonization of the Americas to the present century. Specifically, this course will provide an overview of culture, religion, education, economics, immigration and civil rights through a Chicana feminist framework. We will begin with a general presentation of terminology and identification categories. Then move towards a general reading on the precolonial histories of the Olmecas, Aztecas, and Tolteca cultures and politics. We will follow with a study of Chicana women’s labor struggles in the U.S. along with the emergence of labor movements. In addition, the class will explore how and why the field of Chicana/o Studies emerges at the height of the Civil Rights and the Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Students will delve into U.S. constructions of immigration, citizenship and nationhood to understand contemporary debates and scholarship on issues affecting the Chicana/o-Mexicana/o-Latina/o communities. By the end of the semester students will be able to critically engage, analyze, and contest not only contemporary constructions of Chicana/o identity and representation, but also grasp a clear understanding of Chicana feminism as an intellectual and theoretical discourse and a strategy for survival for the Chicana/o community. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 315-01 | U.S. Imperialism from the Philippines to Viet Nam | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Karin Aguilar-San Juan | Avail./Max.: 4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 315-01 and ASIA 315-01; no first year student allowed*
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HIST 343-01 | Imperial Nature: The United States and the Global Environment | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 300 | Instructor: Chris Wells | Avail./Max.: 3 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 343-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of the instructor*
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HIST 350-01 | Race, Gender, and Medicine | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Amy Sullivan | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 20 |
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This seminar-style class will examine the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in the history of medicine and health in the U.S. Our diverse topics for study will include the history of eugenics, sexuality, midwifery, cultural/spiritual healing methods, pandemics, race- and gender-based ailments, medical experiments (such as the birth control pill and the Tuskegee syphilis experiment), gender reassignment and sex-testing in the Olympics, and the disease vs. moral model of addiction. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 376-01 | Public History: Rondo Community Engagement | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Crystal Moten | Avail./Max.: 7 / 14 |
*First day attendance required*
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This course introduces students to the ways history is being practiced in the public sphere. We will examine a wide array of topics that fall under the rubric of public history including the study of archives, museums, and oral histories. The course may also consider historical reenactment, commemoration, digital history, and the preservation of historical sites. As we explore these topics we will be asking larger questions about who practices history, the role of audience, and the relationship between history and memory. For the spring 2018 semester, the focus will be on the historic African American community in Saint Paul, Rondo, and we will be partnering with Rondo Avenue Incorporated. Please note: there are 3-4 required field trips throughout the semester on Wednesdays/Thursdays from 10am-2pm. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 379-01 | The Study of History | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Linda Sturtz | Avail./Max.: 0 / 24 |
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This advanced course is required for majors. It examines the various forms of analysis used by historians through a study of different kinds of historical texts and sources. It provides an opportunity for students to develop the skills and habits of thinking essential to practicing the discipline of history. This course invites students to address some of the myriad questions and controversies that surround such historical concepts as "objectivity," "subjectivity," "truth," "epistemology," and thereby to develop a "philosophy" of history. At the same time, it stresses the acquisition of such historical tools as the use of written, oral, computer and media sources and the development of analytical writing skills. The subject matter for study changes each year. Recent themes of the course have been memory, empires, and class formation. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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HIST 394-01 | Decolonization | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 001 | Instructor: Jessica Pearson | Avail./Max.: 2 / 14 |
*First day attendance required*
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The end of colonialism and the emergence of new independent states in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East has been one of the most formative processes that has shaped the world we live in today. This research seminar will explore the process of decolonization in the twentieth century as the end of empire was negotiated between colonial states, former colonial subjects and citizens, international organizations, and a plethora of non-state actors. You will research and discuss several case studies of decolonization in different parts of the world, and we will especially emphasize the international dimensions and global interconnectedness that characterized the dismantling of imperial structures and regimes in the course of the twentieth century. You will produce a twenty-page research paper using primary and secondary sources. You will workshop your paper with your colleagues and will present your findings at the end of the semester to the class. This course counts for the global/comparative requirement for the history major. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Interdisciplinary Studies
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INTD 411-01 | Sr Seminar in Community and Global Health | Days: M | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Eric Carter | Avail./Max.: -1 / 30 |
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International Studies
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INTL 111-01 | Intro to International Studies: Literature and Global Culture | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: David Moore | Avail./Max.: 15 / 25 |
*Open to those who will be first years and sophomores in the fall, or by permission of instructor*
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INTL 114-01 | Intro to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: James von Geldern | Avail./Max.: 16 / 25 |
*Open to those who will be first years and sophomores in the fall, or by permission of instructor*
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INTL 114-02 | Intro to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: James von Geldern | Avail./Max.: 15 / 25 |
*Open to those who will be first years and sophomores in the fall, or by permission of instructor*
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INTL 245-01 | Intro to Intl Human Rights | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Nadya Nedelsky | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 20 |
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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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTL 252-01 | Photography: Theories and Practices of an International Medium | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Zeynep Gursel | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ANTH 252-01 and MCST 252-01; first day attendance required*
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INTL 252-02 | Photography: Theories and Practices of an International Medium | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Zeynep Gursel | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ANTH 252-02 and MCST 252-02*
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INTL 282-01 | Introduction to International Public Health | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Kata Chillag | Avail./Max.: Closed 8 / 25 |
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This course introduces and explores major health problems facing those in low- and middle- income countries and in contexts of poverty and vulnerability regardless of where they occur. The course will explore the epidemiological, social, ethical, and political dimensions of public health policies, programs, and research. The course will grapple with challenging questions about the use of limited resources, the relationships between donors and recipients of aid, and what problems and public health approaches draw more attention and why. The course considers 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTL 294-01 | Barack Obama on the Global Stage | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: David Moore | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 20 |
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After 232 years of white male leadership, in 2008 the United States improbably elected as President a Hawaii-born, Indonesia-raised son of a white female anthropologist and a visiting Kenyan economist. That son, Barack Hussein Obama II, was the most powerful human on the planet from 2008 to 2016. The literature on Obama is vast and expanding; we will not attempt a full survey. Instead, “Barack Obama on the Global Stage” will spend its first phase on Obama’s background and formation, then devote its middle half to critically engage twenty major Obama speeches given in Accra, Ankara, Berlin, Buchenwald, Cairo, Cape Town, Hanoi, Havana, Hiroshima, and other world locations, attending to content, context, stagecraft, reception, and more. The final portion of the course turns to U.S. issues and class-selected topics. Considerable student contribution to the course is a given; we will avoid hagiography. Given our vast scope, a broad range of student backgrounds will ideally energize our common work. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTL 294-02 | Muslim Women Writers | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Jenna Rice Rahaim | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ENGL 294-05 and WGSS 294-02*
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Against the swirling backdrop of political discourses about women in the Islamic world, this course will engage with feminist and postcolonial debates through literary works by Muslim women writers. The course will begin with an exploration of key debates about women’s agency and freedom, the Islamic headscarf, and Qur’anic hermeneutics. With this in mind, we will turn to the fine details of literature and poetry by Muslim women. How do these authors constitute their worlds? How are gendered subjectivities constructed? And how do the gender politics of literary texts relate to the broader political and historical contexts from which they emerge? Themes will include an introduction to Muslim poetesses and Arabic poetic genres, the rise of the novel in the Arabic speaking world, and Muslim women’s literary production outside of the Middle East: from Senegal to South Asia, and beyond. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTL 300-01 | Advanced Feminist/Queer Theories and Methodologies | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Sonita Sarker | Avail./Max.: 18 / 20 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with WGSS 300-01; first day attendance required*
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INTL 301-01 | Power and Development in Africa | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 411 | Instructor: Ahmed Samatar | Avail./Max.: 16 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with POLI 333-01*
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INTL 316-01 | Mapping the New World: Explorations, Encounters, and Disasters | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Margaret Olsen | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 316-01 and LATI 316-01; first day attendance required*
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INTL 320-01 | Global Political Economy | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: David Blaney | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with POLI 320-01*
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INTL 321-01 | Cultures of Neoliberalism | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Morgan Adamson | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with MCST 321-01*
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INTL 352-01 | Transitional Justice | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Nadya Nedelsky | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with POLI 352-01*
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INTL 367-01 | Postcolonial Theory | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: David Moore | Avail./Max.: 8 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ENGL 367-01; this course satisfies the Writers of Color/Postcolonial/Diasporic Literature requirement for the English major.*
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INTL 394-02 | Global Public Health Ethics | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 411 | Instructor: Kata Chillag | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with ANTH 394-03 and PHIL 294-04*
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Those engaged in global public health –whether as professionals or persons and communities affected by public health problems‑will encounter challenging ethical issues. Beginning with that premise, this course will address ethical issues in global public health practice, research, and policy, providing conceptual frameworks and practical tools. The course will provide an overview of public health ethics and ethical dimensions of orientations to global health, including humanitarianism, social justice, human rights, and health security. It will address prominent contemporary ethical issues in global health including those relating to research, emergency response, and community engagement. It will grapple with challenging questions about the use of limited resources, the use of restrictive public health measures like quarantine, the implications of “big data,” and relationships between donors and recipients of aid. The course will focus on a range of public health problems, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, Ebola virus disease, neglected tropical diseases, genetics, and mental health. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTL 394-03 | Redefining Postcolonial Agency Across the New Black Atlantic | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: El Hadji Diop | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; taught in English. Cross-listed with FREN 394-02*
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The Wretched of the Sea: Redefining Postcolonial Agency Across the New Black Atlantic. From the 2000s on, new African migratory species have been emerging from the storied depths of international seawaters – the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Easy, hand-me-down categories have been spun around, to catch them in the nets of expert discourses about “the immigrant experience,” “the immigration crisis” or in a never-ending gauntlet of xenophobic narratives about the “plague” of illegal immigration. This course focuses primarily on firsthand accounts, in Sub-Saharan francophone film, literature, and popular culture, of the dark underside of transnational mobility. How do these marginalized voices resonate with contemporary francophone novels, essays, and films that attempt to convey and document their experiences? How do these transnational and transdiasporic wretched of the sea, abjected from the “sacred” spaces of citizenship at home and community abroad, force all postcolonial subjects, across the board, to attend to the structures of economic, political and cultural agency that underlie the radical emergence of previously "invisible" subalterns from the depths of an "other" Black Atlantic? From Sub-Saharan Africa we will read francophone authors (Pap Khouma, Fatou Diome, Abass Ndione, Jean-Roger Essomba), and discuss relevant works by some filmmakers (Med Hondo, Jean-Marie Teno, Moussa Touré, Moussa Dieng Kala), graphic artists (Tshibanda and Tchibemba). For contexts and critical perspectives, we will also read contemporary theorists in French and Francophone cultural studies (Mireille Rosello, Catherine Mazauric, Achille Mbembe, Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gérard Noiriel, Dominic Thomas, Charles Bonn, Pap Ndiaye) and some relevant excerpts from postcolonial theorists (Fanon, Said, Spivak, Bhabha, Gilroy, David Scott, C.L.R. James, Rodney). This course is taught in English. Counts for the African Studies concentration. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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INTL 489-01 | Senior Seminar: Capitalism and World (Dis)Order | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 411 | Instructor: Ahmed Samatar | Avail./Max.: 5 / 15 |
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Capitalism, for many, is synonymous with the "natural" exchange of goods and services through "the free market." But fuller examination shows capitalism to be neither natural, free, nor limited to economic transactions. Capitalism more precisely is a historical social system and a way of being which now penetrates all forms of life: cultural, ecological, civic and more. This senior seminar aims to identify capitalism's origins and development, and interrogate its contemporary status. Thinkers such as Smith, Marx, and Braudel will loom, but readings will focus on works by Beaud, Weber, Tawney, Kotz, Wallerstein, and others. The course concludes with a significant research paper on a topic, relevant to the theme, of a student's choice. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Japanese
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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JAPA 102-01 | First Year Japanese II | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Satoko Suzuki | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
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Continuation of JAPA 101. Spring semester. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 101 or its equivalent. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 102-02 | First Year Japanese II | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Satoko Suzuki | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
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Continuation of JAPA 101. Spring semester. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 101 or its equivalent. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 102-L1 | First Year Japanese II Lab | Days: M | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 3 / 12 |
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Continuation of JAPA 101. Spring semester. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 101 or its equivalent. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 102-L2 | First Year Japanese II Lab | Days: M | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 7 / 12 |
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Continuation of JAPA 101. Spring semester. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 101 or its equivalent. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 102-L3 | First Year Japanese II Lab | Days: M | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 3 / 12 |
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Continuation of JAPA 101. Spring semester. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 101 or its equivalent. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 204-01 | Second Year Japanese II | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Ritsuko Larson | Avail./Max.: 11 / 20 |
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Continuation of JAPA 203. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 203 or its equivalent. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 204-02 | Second Year Japanese II | 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 JAPA 203. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 203 or its equivalent. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 204-L1 | Second Year Japanese II Lab | Days: R | Time: 10:10 am-11:10 am | Room: | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 2 / 6 |
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Continuation of JAPA 203. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 203 or its equivalent. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 204-L2 | Second Year Japanese II 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 JAPA 203. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 203 or its equivalent. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 204-L3 | Second Year Japanese II Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 3 / 12 |
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Continuation of JAPA 203. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 203 or its equivalent. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 260-01 | Narratives of Alienation: 20th Century Japanese Fiction and Film | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Arthur Mitchell | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 260-01*
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JAPA 306-01 | Third Year Japanese II | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Sachiko Dorsey | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
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Continuation of JAPA 305. Emphasizes strong development of reading and writing skills. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 305 or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 306-L1 | Third Year Japanese II Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 4 / 10 |
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Continuation of JAPA 305. Emphasizes strong development of reading and writing skills. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 305 or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 306-L3 | Third Year Japanese II Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 227 | Instructor: Shun Kato | Avail./Max.: 6 / 10 |
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Continuation of JAPA 305. Emphasizes strong development of reading and writing skills. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 305 or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 408-01 | Fourth Year Japanese II | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Sachiko Dorsey | Avail./Max.: 7 / 15 |
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This course is a continuation of Fourth Year Japanese I. It continues work on the acquisition of advanced level proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students are given opportunities to understand the main ideas of extended discourse, to read texts which are linguistically complex, and to write about a variety of topics. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 407 or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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JAPA 488-01 | Translating Japanese: Theory and Practice | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Arthur Mitchell | Avail./Max.: 8 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with LING 488-01*
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Latin American Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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LATI 245-01 | Latin American Politics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Eric Mosinger | Avail./Max.: 20 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with POLI 245-01*
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LATI 294-01 | Latin America's Age of Revolution | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Jesse Zarley | Avail./Max.: 8 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 294-01*
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This course asks how our understandings of sovereignty, freedom, and modernity, typically stemming from the French, US, and industrial revolutions, change if we look at anti-colonial and revolutionary movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. We will explore several revolutionary moments, such as the Túpac Amaru indigenous insurgency in the Andes (1780-1781) and the slave rebellion which produced the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), and the curious case of the Brazilian Empire. These episodes will show how Latin Americans played a pivotal part in the end of empire and the building of nations in the Americas. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LATI 294-02 | Latin American Environmental History | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Jesse Zarley | Avail./Max.: 9 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 294-03 and HIST 294-02*
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This course approaches the environmental history of Latin America by exploring how human actions were intimately tied to their interactions with the natural world from the 1400s to the present. We will look at these this relationship from many different angles, such as natural disasters, national parks, slavery, war and conquest, disease, science, cartography, and environmental justice movements, to show how the natural world has shaped the direction of Latin American history. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LATI 294-03 | Chicana/o History | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Lizeth Gutierrez | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 294-02 and HIST 294-12*
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"Chicana/o History" is designed to introduce students to the histories of the Chicana/o people prior to the Spanish colonization of the Americas to the present century. Specifically, this course will provide an overview of culture, religion, education, economics, immigration and civil rights through a Chicana feminist framework. We will begin with a general presentation of terminology and identification categories. Then move towards a general reading on the precolonial histories of the Olmecas, Aztecas, and Tolteca cultures and politics. We will follow with a study of Chicana women’s labor struggles in the U.S. along with the emergence of labor movements. In addition, the class will explore how and why the field of Chicana/o Studies emerges at the height of the Civil Rights and the Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Students will delve into U.S. constructions of immigration, citizenship and nationhood to understand contemporary debates and scholarship on issues affecting the Chicana/o-Mexicana/o-Latina/o communities. By the end of the semester students will be able to critically engage, analyze, and contest not only contemporary constructions of Chicana/o identity and representation, but also grasp a clear understanding of Chicana feminism as an intellectual and theoretical discourse and a strategy for survival for the Chicana/o community. 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: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Cecilia Espinosa Arango | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with MUSI 294-01*
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This course will take us through a journey into the diversity of the new sounds of Central America, South America and the Caribbean, and will explore the richness of the Organology, forms and rhythms of this part of the world with special attention in the compositions written during the 20th and 21st centuries General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LATI 294-05 | Sociology of Race/Ethnicity | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Erika Busse-Cardenas | Avail./Max.: 15 / 25 |
*Limit reflects saving ten seats for first year students; cross-listed with SOCI 220-01*
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LATI 307-01 | Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Texts | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Galo Gonzalez | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 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: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Alicia Munoz | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 308-01 and HISP 308-01; first day attendance required; 4 spots to be held for first years*
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LATI 316-01 | Mapping the New World: Explorations, Encounters, and Disasters | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Margaret Olsen | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 316-01 and INTL 316-01*
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LATI 394-01 | Voices from the Margins: Afro-Brazilian Women Writers | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Fernanda Bartolomei-Merlin | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 394-02*
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This course focuses on the writing of black women writers from Brazil. We will study the history of Brazil’s race relations as the framework to situate the struggle of Afro-Brazilian women against invisibility and injustice. We will analyze a wide array of texts, which revolve around the experiences and the position Black women have traditionally had within Brazilian society and the way they are now contesting such circumstances and roles through literature, music, art, theater, folklore, Afro-Brazilian religion, and cinema. Come learn about their escrevivência, the process of writing the experience of the marginalized and the oppressed. This course will be taught in Portuguese. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LATI 394-02 | Acting Theory/Perfom II | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MUSIC 116 | Instructor: Claudia Tatinge Nascimento | Avail./Max.: 2 / 13 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; cross-listed with THDA 360-01*
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This spring 2018, Acting II will focus on the study of psychophysical actions, an approach developed by Russian director and pedagogue Konstantin Stanislavsky. Polish director Jerzy Grotowski continued Stanislavsky's research, though outside of the frame of Realism. Taking the theme “cartographies of identity” as a point of department, students will learn how to develop repeatable psychophysical scores, and write and perform two short pieces about personages linked to immigration and/or displacement—the first on a member of their family, the second based on archival research into the history of a stranger. The course includes writing these two pieces of creative fiction, as well as physical and vocal training. Please note that Acting II will hold three weekend sessions outside of regular class meeting times, attendance is mandatory: the weekend of January 20 and 21, 1-5pm; Saturday, May 19, 1-5pm, and Saturday, May 26, 1-5pm. THDA120, Acting I or THDA121, Beginning Dance Composition strongly recommended. May count as an Arts in Context for the Latin American Studies Program major, depending on the student’s individual projects. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LATI 422-01 | Modern Hispanic Novel and the Visual Arts | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Antonio Dorca | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 422-01*
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Linguistics
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LING 100-01 | Introduction to Linguistics | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Stephanie Farmer | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 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. There are no prerequisites, but this course is the prerequisite for almost every higher level course within the linguistics major. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LING 104-01 | The Sounds of Language | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Christina Esposito | Avail./Max.: -4 / 15 |
*Permission of instructor required*
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LING 175-01 | Sociolinguistics | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Marianne Milligan | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; cross-listed with SOCI 175-01; enrollment limit will be reflected as 3 spots for seniors, 3 for juniors, 7 for sophomores, and 7 for freshmen*
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LING 200-01 | English Syntax | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Stephanie Farmer | Avail./Max.: Closed -7 / 10 |
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This course deals with the formal properties of discourse organization above the word level. Using local English as our test case, we introduce and refine the conceptual apparatus of theoretical syntax: syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic categories, the ways they are coded in English, phrase structure rules and recursion, semantic and pragmatic motivations for formal structures, movement rules, anaphora, and dependence relations. Some properties of English are (probable) language universals. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LING 225-01 | 100 Words for Snow: Language and Nature | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Marianne Milligan | Avail./Max.: 5 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 225-01*
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LING 294-01 | The Human Voice | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Christina Esposito | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*Prerequisite: a previous course in linguistics*
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This human voice conveys important information about the speaker such as age, gender, emotional state, sobriety, truthfulness, illness, etc. In this course, we will examine a variety of issues surrounding the complexity of the human voice, such as the role voice plays in gender identity, sexual orientation, and in determining emotions and physical appearance. We will also discuss acting and singing voices, and voice disorders. Grading will be based on lab projects and readings. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LING 332-01 | Spanish in the United States | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Cynthia Kauffeld | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 332-01*
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LING 401-01 | Field Methods | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Stephanie Farmer | Avail./Max.: 5 / 15 |
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The vast majority of the world's languages cannot be learned from textbooks or programmed tapes. They have never even been recorded. In this course, which is required for all linguistics majors, students meet with one or more bilingual speakers of a language unknown to them, and attempt by means of elicitation and analysis of texts to understand its structure. Prerequisite(s): LING 300 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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LING 437-01 | Spanish 2nd Lang Acquisition | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Claudia Giannini | Avail./Max.: 7 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 437-01*
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LING 488-01 | Translating Japanese: Theory and Practice | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Arthur Mitchell | Avail./Max.: 8 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with JAPA 488-01*
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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: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Shilad Sen | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with COMP 112-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor; limit reflects saving 2 seats for first year students*
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MATH 135-01 | Applied Multivariable Calculus I | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Kristin Heysse | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 32 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor; limits reflects saving eight seats for first years students*
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MATH 135-02 | Applied Multivariable Calculus I | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: David Ehren | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 32 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor; limit reflects saving 8 seats for first year students.*
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MATH 137-01 | Applied Multivariable Calculus II | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: William Mitchell | Avail./Max.: 0 / 32 |
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MATH 137-02 | Applied Multivariable Calculus II | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: William Mitchell | Avail./Max.: 2 / 32 |
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MATH 137-03 | Applied Multivariable Calculus II | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Joseph Benson | Avail./Max.: 6 / 32 |
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MATH 155-01 | Intro to Statistical Modeling | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Alicia Johnson | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 28 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor; limit reflects saving six seats for first year students*
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MATH 155-02 | Intro to Statistical Modeling | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Alicia Johnson | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 28 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor; limit reflects saving six seats for first year students*
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MATH 155-03 | Intro to Statistical Modeling | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Lisa Lendway | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 28 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor; limit reflects saving six seats for first year students*
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MATH 155-04 | Intro to Statistical Modeling | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Lisa Lendway | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 28 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor; limit reflects saving six seats for first year students*
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MATH 236-01 | Linear Algebra | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Thomas Halverson | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 32 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 236-02 | Linear Algebra | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Thomas Halverson | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 32 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 237-01 | Applied Multivariable Calculus III | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Joseph Benson | Avail./Max.: 2 / 32 |
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MATH 237-02 | Applied Multivariable Calculus III | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Joseph Benson | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 32 |
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MATH 253-01 | Statistical Computing and Machine Learning | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 258 | Instructor: Alicia Johnson | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 24 |
*First day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 253-02 | Statistical Computing and Machine Learning | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Lisa Lendway | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 24 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 279-01 | Discrete Mathematics | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Kristin Heysse | Avail./Max.: Closed 6 / 31 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 279-02 | Discrete Mathematics | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Kristin Heysse | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 30 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 312-01 | Differential Equations | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: William Mitchell | Avail./Max.: Closed -3 / 28 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 313-01 | Advanced Symbolic Logic | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Janet Folina | Avail./Max.: 3 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with PHIL 313-01*
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MATH 354-01 | Probability | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Brittany Baker | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 24 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 361-01 | Theory of Computation | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Daniel Kluver | Avail./Max.: 5 / 30 |
*Cross-listed with COMP 261-01; permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 365-01 | Computational Linear Algebra | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Lori Ziegelmeier | Avail./Max.: 8 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with COMP 365-01, first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 365-02 | Computational Linear Algebra | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Lori Ziegelmeier | Avail./Max.: 16 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with COMP 365-02; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 376-01 | Algebraic Structures | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 205 | Instructor: Ian Whitehead | Avail./Max.: 17 / 24 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 378-01 | Complex Analysis | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Andrew Beveridge | Avail./Max.: 13 / 24 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 453-01 | Survival Analysis | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 245 | Instructor: Vittorio Addona | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 24 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 455-01 | Mathematical Statistics | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Vittorio Addona | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 20 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 479-01 | Network Science | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 254 | Instructor: Andrew Beveridge | Avail./Max.: 11 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with COMP 479-01; ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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MATH 494-01 | Cryptography and Number Theory | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Ian Whitehead | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
*ACTC students may register on December 1st with permission of instructor*
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This is a course on codes, past and present, and the mathematics underlying them. Topics will include historic ciphers, the RSA cipher, the ElGamal cipher, and related protocols. To describe these codes, we will study elementary number theory, modular arithmetic, and primality testing and factoring techniques. We will also cover advanced topics in number theory including quadratic reciprocity and the distribution of primes. Prerequisites: Comp 123, and either Math 376, 377, or 378. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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 402 | Instructor: Bradley Stiffler | Avail./Max.: 6 / 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MCST 110-02 | Texts and Power: Foundations of Media and Cultural Studies | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 217 | Instructor: Bradley Stiffler | Avail./Max.: 6 / 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MCST 126-01 | Local News Media Institutions | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 226 | Instructor: Michael Griffin | Avail./Max.: Closed 6 / 28 |
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In this course students analyze the social, cultural, economic, political, and regulatory factors shaping the nature of US communications media, and then investigate how this affects local media organizations and their role in recognizing, serving and facilitating (or not) local populations, communities, interaction, identity, and civic engagement. Considering the history and practices of American journalism, and the current shifts in media technology and economics, the class examines the degree to which media function to provide effective access to news and information, foster diversity of content, encourage civic engagement, and serve the interest of citizens and diverse communities in a democratic society. Individual student projects for the course begin by identifying particular geographic, ethnic, or cultural neighborhoods and communities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, and proceed to explore the degree to which these communities are recognized, defined, or served by various media institutions and journalism practice. Students explore various attempts to revitalize local communication, news delivery and civic discourse through experiments in community media, citizen journalism, community-based news aggregation, media arts, community service and other media innovations and reforms across neighborhood, ethnic, immigrant, gender, sexuality, and other public issues and community participation. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MCST 128-01 | Film Analysis/Visual Culture | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Michael Griffin | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MCST 252-01 | Photography: Theories and Practices of an International Medium | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Zeynep Gursel | Avail./Max.: 2 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; cross-listed with ANTH 252-01 and INTL 252-01*
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MCST 252-02 | Photography: Theories and Practices of an International Medium | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Zeynep Gursel | Avail./Max.: 5 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ANTH 252-02 and INTL 252-02*
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MCST 321-01 | Cultures of Neoliberalism | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: ARTCOM 202 | Instructor: Morgan Adamson | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 321-01*
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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.: Closed 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. Prerequisite(s): MCST 128 or MCST 248 or MCST 249 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MCST 354-01 | Blackness in the Media | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Bradley Stiffler | Avail./Max.: 12 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 354-01*
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MCST 394-01 | Documentary Cinema: Theory and Practice | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: ART 301 | Instructor: Morgan Adamson | Avail./Max.: 4 / 12 |
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This course is an intermediate-advanced level exploration of documentary history, theory, and practice. Students will analyze seminal documentary styles, read about and discuss documentary ethics and politics, and put this learning into practice by producing a documentary film. We will go through the steps of pre-production, production, and post-production throughout the course of the semester, as we develop documentary projects through extensive peer and instructor critique. MCST 323-Fundamentals of Video Production is a prerequisite for this class. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MCST 488-01 | Advanced Seminar: Capstone New Media | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: John Kim | Avail./Max.: 7 / 12 |
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Music
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MUSI 111-01 | World Music | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: MUSIC 219 | Instructor: Chuen-Fung Wong | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 25 |
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This course surveys traditional, folk, and pop genres from major musical traditions in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. We approach music as both aesthetic and social processes, and explore the relationship between music making and other domains of human experience. Students will develop basic skills in critical listening, analysis, and writing about music. Course readings and audiovisual examples are designed primarily for non-music majors or minors. Previous knowledge of musical instrument or notation is not required. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 114-01 | Theory II | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MUSIC 219 | Instructor: Gabriel Lubell | Avail./Max.: 5 / 25 |
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In this course we explore theoretical concepts of chromatic music, including harmony, voice leading, and form, always seeking answers to questions about how chromatic 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 review of diatonic harmony and voice leading, secondary dominants, modulation to closely related keys, small forms (binary, ternary), mode mixture, chromatic mediants, modulation by common tone, Neapolitan sixth chords, augmented sixth chords, descending tetrachord bass line, enharmonic modulation, extended tertian chords, altered chords, and an introduction to sonata form. Aural activities include sight singing, identification of pitch patterns, melodic dictation, harmonic dictation, identification of sonorities, identification of intervals, harmonic substitution, modulating harmonic dictation, three-chord progressions, and contextual listening. Three lectures and one lab per week. Prerequisite(s): MUSI 113 or permission of the instructor General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 114-L1 | Theory II Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MUSIC 219 | Instructor: Gabriel Lubell | Avail./Max.: 5 / 25 |
*Concurrent registration with MUSI 114 required*
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MUSI 194-01 | Music and Entreprenuership | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MUSIC 219 | Instructor: Reid Kruger | Avail./Max.: 5 / 25 |
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Music and Entrepreneurship explores the pursuit of an independent career in the highly competitive field of music. This course is project-based and will require a hands-on approach. Students will conduct product and/or service development, market research, develop a business plan and present their findings regularly to fellow classmates, the instructor and persons currently running their own businesses in music. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 294-01 | Latin American Music | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Cecilia Espinosa Arango | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 294-04*
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This course will take us through a journey into the diversity of the new sounds of Central America, South America and the Caribbean, and will explore the richness of the Organology, forms and rhythms of this part of the world with special attention in the compositions written during the 20th and 21st centuries General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 314-01 | Theory IV, Contemporary Theory and Literature | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MUSIC 219 | Instructor: Randall Bauer | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
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Survey of contemporary music and modern compositional techniques with emphasis on analytical skills. Prerequisite(s): MUSI 213 or permission of the instructor General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 343-01 | Western Music-19th Century | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Mark Mazullo | Avail./Max.: 16 / 25 |
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This course provides a survey of Western art music from the early works of Ludwig van Beethoven, composed in the mid-1790s, to the symphonic works of the generation of modernist composers born around 1860 (Gustav Mahler, Jean Sibelius, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss). One principal aim of the course is to expose students to a large quantity of multi-national Western music in a variety of genres and styles, thus leading students to a deeper understanding of the development of musical style in the nineteenth century. In addition to the musical works themselves, and no less importantly, the course stresses the contexts surrounding the musical texts. Lectures address the political, cultural, and intellectual history that directed the path of musical style in this period. Students are therefore expected to become familiar not only with specific works and the stylistic footprints of many composers, but also with the significant cultural-historical events and trends that informed composition during this period--the pan-European revolutions of 1848, the aesthetic ideology of autonomous music, the public music culture of the European bourgeoisie, the relationship between musical reception and various strains of European nationalism, and so on. Classroom activities include lectures, directed listening of pieces on the listening list (and sometimes, for comparison, other works), some formal and stylistic analysis, and discussion. Prerequisite(s): permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 361-01 | Composition | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MUSIC 219 | Instructor: Randall Bauer | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
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Instruction in composition starting with exercises in motific and harmonic manipulation of materials, and leading to directed composition for available performers. Meetings will be as a group and as individuals. Composers will have at least two works performed on scheduled evening concerts. Prerequisite(s): MUSI 213 or permission of the instructor General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 394-02 | Music, Astronomy, and Scientific Thought | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MUSIC 219 | Instructor: Gabriel Lubell | Avail./Max.: 16 / 25 |
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For millennia, people have observed a connection between music and the organization of the Universe. Though the nature of this association has developed over history, perhaps to the point of obscurity, it continues to inform how we operate as creators, thinkers, explorers, and doers. With the goal of understanding how music and science inform one another on practical and abstract levels, we will consider a wide range of historical and philosophical interactions. Rather than focus on concrete issues, such as the physics of sound or technical methods of musical analysis, we will utilize an interdisciplinary approach, various readings, and a diverse array of musical examples to explore our artistic and intellectual relationship with the Universe. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 425-01 | Seminar in Composers/Genres: Late Beethoven | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MUSIC 228 | Instructor: Mark Mazullo | Avail./Max.: 11 / 20 |
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Intended for upper-level majors and minors in Music, this course provides the opportunity for in-depth study of the works of a single composer, or of several works within a given genre or historical era. Topics will change regularly; recent offerings have included Beethoven, Verdi, and Shostakovich. In addition to close analysis of significant works, course readings from the from the musicological and culture-critical literature will also introduce students to both classic and current scholarship in these topics. Skills in musical analysis are essential for this course. This course may be taken twice and counted both times toward the Music major or minor if the topic is different. Prerequisite(s): MUSI 114 (Theory II). MUSI 213 (Theory III: Form and Analysis) also highly recommended. Permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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MUSI 71-01 | Wind Ensemble | Days: M | Time: 07:15 pm-08:45 pm | Room: MUSIC 116 | Instructor: Aaron Isakson | Avail./Max.: 3 / 65 |
*Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required*
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MUSI 73-01 | African Music Ensemble | Days: TR | Time: 06:45 pm-08:15 pm | Room: MUSIC 116 | Instructor: Sowah Mensah | Avail./Max.: 29 / 50 |
*Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required*
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MUSI 75-01 | Macalester Concert Choir | Days: MWR | Time: 04:45 pm-06:15 pm | Room: MUSIC 113 | Instructor: Michael McGaghie | Avail./Max.: 5 / 50 |
*Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required*
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MUSI 77-01 | Macalester Chorale | Days: T | Time: 04:45 pm-06:15 pm | Room: MUSIC 113 | Instructor: Michael McGaghie | Avail./Max.: 6 / 60 |
*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 79-01 | Asian Music Ensemble | Days: T | Time: 04:45 pm-06:15 pm | Room: MUSIC 219 | 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 81-01 | Mac Jazz Band | Days: MW | Time: 04:45 pm-06:15 pm | Room: MUSIC 116 | Instructor: Joan Griffith | Avail./Max.: 28 / 50 |
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MUSI 83-01 | Jazz/Popular Music Combos | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-09:00 pm | Room: MUSIC 113 | Instructor: Peter Hennig | Avail./Max.: 32 / 50 |
*Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required*
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MUSI 85-01 | Pipe Band | Days: W | Time: 06:30 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MUSIC 116 | Instructor: Michael Breidenbach | Avail./Max.: 19 / 50 |
*Register in person with the ensemble director. Check the Music Department website to see whether auditions are required*
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MUSI 87-01 | Chamber Ensembles | Days: TBA | Time: TBA | Room: | Instructor: Cecilia Espinosa Arango | Avail./Max.: 37 / 50 |
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MUSI 89-01 | Macalester Symphony Orchestra | Days: TR | Time: 04:45 pm-06:15 pm | Room: MUSIC 116 | Instructor: Cecilia Espinosa Arango | Avail./Max.: -1 / 50 |
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MUSI 91-01 | 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 95-LP | 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: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Janet Folina | 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 110-01 | Critical Thinking | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Diane Michelfelder | Avail./Max.: 1 / 20 |
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This course introduces and explores the main principles and methods of Critical Thinking: distinguishing between good and bad arguments; identifying common fallacies; developing strong and persuasive arguments; the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning; constructing logical proofs; the nature of scientific, moral, and legal reasoning; evaluating polls and statistical hypotheses; understanding probability; deciding how to act under uncertainty. Students will apply these principles and methods to numerous academic and 'everyday' contexts, including journals, the print press, blogs, political rhetoric, advertising and documentaries. We will regularly reflect upon more broadly philosophical matters related to Critical Thinking - such as the nature of truth and objectivity and the distinction between science and pseudo-science - and examine a number of intriguing philosophical paradoxes. Students will improve their skills in writing clear and compelling argumentative papers and critically analyzing the writings of others. Course work includes reading, class discussion, regular homework assignments, quizzes, and short argumentative essays. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 121-01 | Ethics | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Samuel Asarnow | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 121-02 | Ethics | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Samuel Asarnow | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 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. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 201-01 | Modern Philosophy | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Geoffrey Gorham | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 20 |
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A study of the 17th and 18th century philosophers, including the Empiricists, Rationalists, and Kant. The course considers issues regarding skepticism, justification, freedom of the will, personal identity, perception and the existence of God. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 213-01 | Philosophy of Mind | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Joy Laine | Avail./Max.: Closed -3 / 20 |
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Materialism, rather than solving the problem of mind, consciousness and intentionality, has spawned numerous philosophical perplexities. This course will examine a variety of philosophical problems associated with contemporary models of the mind (mind/body dualism; mind/brain identity theories; behaviorism; functionalism and artificial intelligence; eliminative naturalism and folk psychology; biological naturalism). The course will also look at contemporary philosophical accounts of personhood and personal identity, particularly narrative accounts of the self. Readings will typically include David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Owen Flanagan, Derek Parfit, Marya Schechtman, John Searle, Galen Strawson, and Kathleen Wilkes. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 222-01 | Philosophy of Human Rights | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Martin Gunderson | Avail./Max.: 4 / 15 |
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Although human rights play an obviously important international role, philosophers have found human rights puzzling and difficult to justify. What does it mean to say a person has a moral right or a human right? What is the relationship between human rights stated in international covenants and human rights that are said to be morally binding? Aside from questions about the nature of human rights, the course will consider possible justifications for human rights, both legal and moral, as well as arguments that ther are no human rights. The course will take up the issue of whether it is possible to adopt human rights while respecting the diversity of human cultures, religions, and moral views. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 224-01 | Philosophy of Law | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 011 | Instructor: William Wilcox | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 15 |
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An analysis of fundamental legal concepts and the problems of justifying various legal practices. Topics may include the relationship between law and morality, the distinction between the criminal and civil law, theories of constitutional and statutory interpretation, and the appropriate role of the judiciary. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 226-01 | Animal Ethics | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Diane Michelfelder | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
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This course focuses on fundamental questions connected to our ethical responsibilities to nonhuman animals, as well as the philosophical debates over the principles and values involved in responding to them. What does it mean to treat animals well? Are our responsibilities toward animals grounded in recognizing that they have rights, and if so, what kinds of rights? Or, are they rooted in the welfare interests of animals, and if so, what do we need to do to meet these interests? Attention will be given to a broad scope of human-animal relations, from human-pet relations of affection and companionship to human-farm animal relations of consumption and being consumed. Ethical issues associated with the use of animals in research labs, animals in zoos, and urban wildlife will also be considered. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 294-01 | Philosophy of Yoga | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Joy Laine | Avail./Max.: 8 / 20 |
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Yoga has become a global phenomenon practiced by tens of millions of people. It is also one of the key philosophical traditions of classical India, known for its practical teachings on why humans suffer and how a path of practice can lead to liberation from suffering. Although bodily practices always had a role in the practice of yoga, today’s yoga has an almost exclusive focus on the bodily practices, known as āsanas. In today’s world yoga has really become synonymous with āsana. Why and how did this happen? Yoga has traveled a long way from its initial incarnation in classical India and in this course we will explore the path that yoga has taken since its inception to its current form, seeking to understand what, if any, the relationship is between the contemporary practice of yoga and its classical ancestor. In taking this course you will become familiar with the metaphysics, epistemology and psychology of classical yoga and use this as a foundation for coming to an understanding of the contemporary practice of yoga. Some of the topics covered in this course will include the mind-body relationship in yoga, the nature and cause of human suffering, and practice as a tool for human transformation. In relation to contemporary yoga we will look at how ideas of embodied spirituality arose in the context of colonialism, worries about cultural appropriation and yoga as a gendered practice. Students taking this course will also have the option to take classes in the practice of yoga. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 294-03 | Hispanic Studies and Critical Theory | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: NEILL 215 | Instructor: Justin Butler | Avail./Max.: 15 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with HISP 394-01*
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Hispanic Studies and Critical Theory will engage a corpus of philosophical texts in order to equip students for advanced literary, cultural, and historical critique. To this end, students will study key concepts in critical thought such as biopolitics, materialism, commodities, ideology, hegemony, and animality as presented by a variety of thinkers including Marx, Benjamin, Hegel, Althusser, Gramsci, Baudrillard, Adorno, Agamben, and Haraway. Careful understanding of concepts will be mobilized in analysis of select cultural, literary, or filmic texts and events in the field of Hispanism. Such items may range from Gracián’s surprisingly prescient writings on the accrual of power as he observed it in the Golden Age court to present day immigration and dynamics of stateless bodies as seen in the practice coyotaje. The course has been designated a core course in the Critical Theory Concentration and is suitable for diverse interests in the humanities. Hispanic Studies majors and minors will submit written work in Spanish; non-majors and minors will submit written work in English. Course taught in English and all readings will be in English. No prerequisites required. This course is appropriate for all level students. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 294-04 | Global Public Health Ethics | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 411 | Instructor: Kata Chillag | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with ANTH 394-03 and INTL 394-02*
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Those engaged in global public health –whether as professionals or persons and communities affected by public health problems‑will encounter challenging ethical issues. Beginning with that premise, this course will address ethical issues in global public health practice, research, and policy, providing conceptual frameworks and practical tools. The course will provide an overview of public health ethics and ethical dimensions of orientations to global health, including humanitarianism, social justice, human rights, and health security. It will address prominent contemporary ethical issues in global health including those relating to research, emergency response, and community engagement. It will grapple with challenging questions about the use of limited resources, the use of restrictive public health measures like quarantine, the implications of “big data,” and relationships between donors and recipients of aid. The course will focus on a range of public health problems, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, Ebola virus disease, neglected tropical diseases, genetics, and mental health. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHIL 313-01 | Advanced Symbolic Logic | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: Janet Folina | Avail./Max.: 3 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with MATH 313-01*
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PHIL 394-01 | Ethical Theory | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Samuel Asarnow | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 15 |
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Activists and moral philosophers make moral arguments, claiming (for example) that factory farming is wrong, that abortion is permissible, and that torture is always immoral. But what could justify those moral claims? Where do moral values come from, anyway? People in different cultures disagree about morality—does that mean morality is relative to culture? Altruistic tendencies often serve evolutionary ends—does that mean morality is ultimately a sham? Or can it be shown that morality is objective, after all? In Ethical Theory, we will consider these and other questions about the nature of morality, discussing topics such as relativism, nihilism, naturalism, Kantianism, and the nature of moral belief. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Physical Education
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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PE 01-01 | Swimming I | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: LEOCTR POOL | Instructor: Elizabeth Whittle | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
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Learn technique and develop proficiency in freestyle and focus on skill development for backstroke and breaststroke through attendance and active class participation. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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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.: Closed 5 / 25 |
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Learn how to dance the Foxtrot, Waltz, Rumba and East Coast Swing! Learn to identify the music for each particular dance and dance to the music with a partner. Introduction to techniques unique to each dance. No partner is required, and all are welcome. No previous dance experience necessary. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PE 04-01 | Karate I | Days: MW | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Anita Bendickson | Avail./Max.: 12 / 25 |
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This course is based on Japanese Shotokan Karate (JKA). Level 1 and level 2 work covers all basic stances, punches, strikes kicks and blocks required for ranking standards of the American Amateur Karate Federation. Students will also learn required partner drills (kumite) designed to build sparring skills as well as forms (kata) required for beginning to intermediate ranks–white through purple belt (8th kyu–5th kyu). Classes are taught in the same manner as at a karate dojo or studio so students are familiar with the etiquette and formality of that type of experience. Classes include stretching warm-ups and are vigorous and aerobic. Students should expect a demanding workout and should inform the teacher (Sensei) of any limitations they may have. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PE 06-01 | Yoga I | Days: MW | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Bendickson, Free | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 25 |
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This class is based on Hatha Yoga. Class work is centered in physical posture (asana) practice and breath work (pranayama). These two limbs of yoga allow the student to become familiar with his/her own body and the way the minds inhabits it. Basic yoga poses (asana) are introduced and added to each week progressing from beginner poses to intermediate poses with advanced variations offered for more experienced students. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PE 06-02 | Yoga I | Days: MW | Time: 04:45 pm-05:45 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Laura Sleck | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 25 |
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Vinyasa yoga links breath and movement to study strength, body awareness, and breath. Set to music, this practice offers an opportunity to connect with yourself, challenge yourself, and let go of tension. Students will learn yoga poses, safe physical alignment, and basic yoga philosophy. Vinyasa yoga is a dynamic class suitable for beginners and experienced students alike." This class is designed for those new to yoga, but vinyasa is a rigorous practice and many experienced yogis enjoy this class as no level two is offered. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PE 06-03 | Yoga I | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:00 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Anita Bendickson | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 25 |
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This class is based on Hatha Yoga. Class work is centered in physical posture (asana) practice and breath work (pranayama). These two limbs of yoga allow the student to become familiar with his/her own body and the way the minds inhabits it. Basic yoga poses (asana) are introduced and added to each week progressing from beginner poses to intermediate poses with advanced variations offered for more experienced students. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PE 08-01 | Step Aerobics | Days: TR | Time: 04:45 pm-05:45 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Jane Graybill | Avail./Max.: 15 / 30 |
PE 10-01 | Racquetball I | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: LEOCTR FIELDHOUSE | Instructor: Betsy Emerson | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 8 |
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This course will provide the opportunity to learn the basic rules and strategies for playing the game of racquetball. This is a pass/no pass activity course and attendance is vital to the success of this course. Throughout this course students will be introduced to the mechanics of the forehand and backhand and will practice a variety of defensive and offensive shots such as the ceiling shot and kill shot. Students will gain an understanding of all of the rules of serving for both singles and doubles and will practice several different types of serves. Students will have the opportunity to play singles, doubles and cutthroat games throughout the semester and will participate in tournament play towards the end of the term. Throughout the term we will also incorporate some pickleball instruction and games and use the indoor track for warm up for our class activities. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PE 11-01 | Swimming II | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: LEOCTR POOL | Instructor: Elizabeth Whittle | Avail./Max.: 20 / 20 |
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Improve technique and develop proficiency in three of the four competitive swimming strokes (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke) through attendance and active class participation. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PE 13-01 | Intermediate Social Dance | Days: M | Time: 08:30 pm-10:00 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Julie Jacobson | Avail./Max.: 16 / 25 |
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Continue to develop the dances introduced in Beginning Social Dance: Foxtrot, Waltz, Rumba and East Coast Swing. We will add Tango and Cha Cha into the mix, and explore more advanced techniques to enhance the social dance experience. No partner is required, and all are welcome. Prerequisite: Beginning Social Dance or email instructor for approval. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PE 14-01 | Karate II | Days: MW | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Anita Bendickson | Avail./Max.: 20 / 25 |
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This course is based on Japanese Shotokan Karate (JKA). Level 1 and level 2 work covers all basic stances, punches, strikes kicks and blocks required for ranking standards of the American Amateur Karate Federation. Students will also learn required partner drills (kumite) designed to build sparring skills as well as forms (kata) required for beginning to intermediate ranks–white through purple belt (8th kyu–5th kyu). Classes are taught in the same manner as at a karate dojo or studio so students are familiar with the etiquette and formality of that type of experience. Classes include stretching warm-ups and are vigorous and aerobic. Students should expect a demanding workout and should inform the teacher (Sensei) of any limitations they may have. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PE 18-01 | Pilates | Days: MW | Time: 04:45 pm-05:45 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 2 | Instructor: Kristine Spangard | Avail./Max.: Closed 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.: 8 / 25 |
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This class is an introduction to weight training. You will gain knowledge on how to properly use all of the equipment in the Deno Fitness Center. You will learn how to design basic strength workouts to meet your fitness goals. We will discuss the benefits of the different types of exercises and all of the different factors that influence your workout. We will also spend time learning technique and form on free weight exercises. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PE 21-01 | Swim for Fitness | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:20 pm | Room: LEOCTR POOL | Instructor: Elizabeth Whittle | Avail./Max.: 16 / 20 |
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Increase swimming fitness and improve technique through active participation in class General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PE 26-01 | Tai Chi Chuan: Beg/Intermed | Days: MW | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 2 | Instructor: Phyllis Calph | Avail./Max.: 9 / 25 |
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In this class you will be introduced to the ancient Chinese art of Tai Chi Ch’uan. The forms, comprised of many different postures or movements, are performed slowly and in a relaxed manner. But do not be fooled by the slower pace because you will definitely get a workout . General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PE 28-01 | Pilates II | Days: TR | Time: 04:45 pm-05:45 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 2 | Instructor: Kristine Spangard | Avail./Max.: 14 / 25 |
PE 33-01 | Salsa Dance | Days: R | Time: 07:00 pm-08:30 pm | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 1 | Instructor: Don DeBoer | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 25 |
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This course will introduce students to the basic elements of salsa dancing especially as it is done in nightclubs throughout the world. The course will include basic elements in addition to stylistic differences that may other related Latin dances. The class promises to be a good aerobic workout and will also take place in a variety of formats including: solo, line, partner, and group. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Physics and Astronomy
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PHYS 113-01 | Modern Astronomy I | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: John Cannon | Avail./Max.: 4 / 63 |
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This course discusses topics of current interest in astronomy and the physical concepts that lead to our understanding of the Universe. There are three main sections: the Solar System, Celestial Light and Stars, and Galaxies and the Universe. Lectures include the formation of the sun and planets, properties of stars and stellar remnants (like black holes and supernovae), characteristics of our Milky Way and other galaxies, and the formation and fate of the Universe. Prerequisite(s): Basic algebra and trigonometry are recommended. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 194-01 | Big Physics (after you were born) | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: Tonnis ter Veldhuis | Avail./Max.: 11 / 16 |
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In this course, we will explore the large scientific collaborations and the complex machines they design and build to chase the answers to fundamental questions related to the nature and evolution of the Universe. 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 150 | Instructor: Sean Bartz | Avail./Max.: 20 / 63 |
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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 this course and PHYS 222. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 226 and MATH 137 (MATH 137 may also be taken concurrently). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 227-L1 | Principles of Physics II Lab | Days: T | Time: 09:10 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 152 | Instructor: Brian Adams | Avail./Max.: 4 / 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 this course and PHYS 222. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 226 and MATH 137 (MATH 137 may also be taken concurrently). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 227-L2 | Principles of Physics II Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 152 | Instructor: Brian Adams | Avail./Max.: 3 / 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 this course and PHYS 222. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 226 and MATH 137 (MATH 137 may also be taken concurrently). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 227-L3 | Principles of Physics II Lab | Days: R | Time: 09:10 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 152 | Instructor: Brian Adams | Avail./Max.: 5 / 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 this course and PHYS 222. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 226 and MATH 137 (MATH 137 may also be taken concurrently). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 348-01 | Laboratory Instrumentation | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: 4 / 24 |
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This course is an introduction to laboratory methods that are useful in experimental physics and other laboratory-based disciplines, with an emphasis on computer interfacing techniques. Topics will include basic analog electronics, fundamental instrumentation such as analog-digital converters and digital oscilloscopes, and computer interfacing using LabView. Student will design and construct several significant computer interfacing projects throughout the semester. Since this course provides the foundation for advanced experimental work and research, students should take this course in their sophomore or junior year. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 227 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 348-L1 | Laboratory Instrumentation Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 154 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: 4 / 12 |
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This course is an introduction to laboratory methods that are useful in experimental physics and other laboratory-based disciplines, with an emphasis on computer interfacing techniques. Topics will include basic analog electronics, fundamental instrumentation such as analog-digital converters and digital oscilloscopes, and computer interfacing using LabView. Student will design and construct several significant computer interfacing projects throughout the semester. Since this course provides the foundation for advanced experimental work and research, students should take this course in their sophomore or junior year. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 227 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 348-L2 | Laboratory Instrumentation Lab | Days: T | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 147 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 12 |
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This course is an introduction to laboratory methods that are useful in experimental physics and other laboratory-based disciplines, with an emphasis on computer interfacing techniques. Topics will include basic analog electronics, fundamental instrumentation such as analog-digital converters and digital oscilloscopes, and computer interfacing using LabView. Student will design and construct several significant computer interfacing projects throughout the semester. Since this course provides the foundation for advanced experimental work and research, students should take this course in their sophomore or junior year. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 227 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 350-01 | Renewable Energy Systems | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: James Doyle | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ENVI 350-01; not available to students who've earned credit for PHYS/ENVI 130*
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This course provides an in-depth treatment of the science and engineering of power generation by solar and wind and their integration on the electrical grid using energy storage. In the first part of the course general aspects of grid energy production will be surveyed. The focus of the course will be an in-depth treatment of the physics of solar cells, wind turbines, and the most promising energy storage options. We will conclude with a discussion of current technical and economic issues associated with the wide scale implementation of these technologies. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 440-01 | Observational Astronomy | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 350 | Instructor: John Cannon | Avail./Max.: 1 / 16 |
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This is an advanced course in astronomical instrumentation, focused on optical observational astronomy. We will discuss the various and developing instrumentation used at the large observatories worldwide, and discuss the important contributions and techniques of space-based research. Computational image-processing techniques are used for exercises in CCD imaging and spectroscopy using the Macalester Observatory facilities, as well as for independent research projects. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 113 and PHYS 120; or PHYS 113 and a lab-based upper-division natural science course (e.g., PHYS 331, CHEM 311). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 440-L1 | Observational Astronomy Lab | Days: R | Time: 08:00 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 404 | Instructor: John Cannon | Avail./Max.: 8 / 16 |
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This is an advanced course in astronomical instrumentation, focused on optical observational astronomy. We will discuss the various and developing instrumentation used at the large observatories worldwide, and discuss the important contributions and techniques of space-based research. Computational image-processing techniques are used for exercises in CCD imaging and spectroscopy using the Macalester Observatory facilities, as well as for independent research projects. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 113 and PHYS 120; or PHYS 113 and a lab-based upper-division natural science course (e.g., PHYS 331, CHEM 311). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 440-L2 | Observational Astronomy Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 404 | Instructor: John Cannon | Avail./Max.: 9 / 16 |
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This is an advanced course in astronomical instrumentation, focused on optical observational astronomy. We will discuss the various and developing instrumentation used at the large observatories worldwide, and discuss the important contributions and techniques of space-based research. Computational image-processing techniques are used for exercises in CCD imaging and spectroscopy using the Macalester Observatory facilities, as well as for independent research projects. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 113 and PHYS 120; or PHYS 113 and a lab-based upper-division natural science course (e.g., PHYS 331, CHEM 311). General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 461-01 | Mechanics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Sean Bartz | Avail./Max.: 10 / 24 |
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The fundamental principles of classical mechanics are discussed and applied to problems of contemporary interest. Topics include: charged particle motion in electromagnetic fields, oscillations and resonance, central force motion including the Kepler problem and Rutherford scattering, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of classical dynamics, symmetry and conservation laws, non-inertial reference frames, rigid body dynamics and applications, and an introduction to non-linear dynamics. Three lectures, problem discussions, and 1 one-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 227 and MATH 312 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 461-L1 | Mechanics Lab | Days: M | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 154 | Instructor: James Heyman | Avail./Max.: 10 / 24 |
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The fundamental principles of classical mechanics are discussed and applied to problems of contemporary interest. Topics include: charged particle motion in electromagnetic fields, oscillations and resonance, central force motion including the Kepler problem and Rutherford scattering, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of classical dynamics, symmetry and conservation laws, non-inertial reference frames, rigid body dynamics and applications, and an introduction to non-linear dynamics. Three lectures, problem discussions, and 1 one-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 227 and MATH 312 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 468-01 | Statistical Mechanics | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: James Heyman | Avail./Max.: 10 / 24 |
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This course explores the equilibrium and kinetic properties of many-particle systems such as gases, liquids, and solids. The fundamental notions of entropy, temperature, and the Boltzmann relation are rigorously derived from statistical mechanics, and are used to develop other thermodynamic ideas such as chemical potential and free energy. The theory is applied to classical and quantum systems, including photon gases (black-body radiation), Bose-Einstein condensation, fermion systems such as metals and neutron stars, classical ideal gases, vibrations in solids (phonons), chemical reactions, semiconductors, and transport phenomena. Three lectures per week. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 331 and MATH 237. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 482-01 | Adv Quantum Mechanics | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Tonnis ter Veldhuis | Avail./Max.: 22 / 24 |
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This course continues the rigorous study of non-relativistic quantum mechanics started in PHYS 481 . Time independent perturbation theory, the variational method, and the WKB approximation are applied to physical systems. Time dependent perturbation theory is developed to investigate emission and absorption of radiation. Entangled states, the EPR paradox, and Bell's theorem are discussed. Three lectures, 1 one-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 481 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 482-L1 | Adv Quantum Mechanics Lab | Days: F | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 154 | Instructor: James Heyman | Avail./Max.: 22 / 24 |
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This course continues the rigorous study of non-relativistic quantum mechanics started in PHYS 481 . Time independent perturbation theory, the variational method, and the WKB approximation are applied to physical systems. Time dependent perturbation theory is developed to investigate emission and absorption of radiation. Entangled states, the EPR paradox, and Bell's theorem are discussed. Three lectures, 1 one-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 481 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PHYS 489-01 | Physics Seminar | Days: W | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 150 | Instructor: James Heyman | Avail./Max.: 16 / 24 |
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Political Science
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POLI 100-01 | Foundations of US Politics | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 101 | Instructor: Michael Zis | Avail./Max.: 9 / 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. Every semester. Foundations Courses: Courses numbered in the 100s are Foundations courses. These courses are designed principally for beginning political science majors, as well as non-majors seeking an introduction to the discipline's various sub-fields. The purpose of these courses is threefold: To provide foundational knowledge of the key actors, structures, institutions and/or historical dynamics relevant to the respective sub-fields; to introduce the major theoretical trends, perspectives and debates that have shaped the evolution of the respective sub-fields; and to begin to develop a range of practical competencies (esp. research/writing skills) essential to further scholarly inquiry within the discipline of political science. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 120-01 | Foundations of International Politics | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: David Blaney | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 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. Every semester. Foundations Courses: Courses numbered in the 100s are Foundations courses. These courses are designed principally for beginning political science majors, as well as non-majors seeking an introduction to the discipline's various sub-fields. The purpose of these courses is threefold: To provide foundational knowledge of the key actors, structures, institutions and/or historical dynamics relevant to the respective sub-fields; to introduce the major theoretical trends, perspectives and debates that have shaped the evolution of the respective sub-fields; and to begin to develop a range of practical competencies (esp. research/writing skills) essential to further scholarly inquiry within the discipline of political science. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 140-01 | Foundations of Comparative Politics | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Lisa Mueller | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 25 |
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In Comparative Politics we use comparison to analyze political outcomes within and across countries, Why do Mexican presidents exercise strong centralized authority while Brazilian presidents must contend with powerful governors? Why do Muslims and Hindus fight in some Indian states but not in others? Why does Rwanda have such a high proportion of female legislators whereas the U.S. has such a low proportion? When confronted with large-scale protests in their cities, do state security forces in China, Russia, and the United States respond with similar methods or do they differ? Through comparative analysis, students will learn to describe diverse political institutions, to propose explanations for divergent outcomes, and to evaluate scholarly and popular arguments about politics. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 140-02 | Foundations of Comparative Politics | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 206 | Instructor: Eric Mosinger | Avail./Max.: 10 / 25 |
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In Comparative Politics we use comparison to analyze political outcomes within and across countries, Why do Mexican presidents exercise strong centralized authority while Brazilian presidents must contend with powerful governors? Why do Muslims and Hindus fight in some Indian states but not in others? Why does Rwanda have such a high proportion of female legislators whereas the U.S. has such a low proportion? When confronted with large-scale protests in their cities, do state security forces in China, Russia, and the United States respond with similar methods or do they differ? Through comparative analysis, students will learn to describe diverse political institutions, to propose explanations for divergent outcomes, and to evaluate scholarly and popular arguments about politics. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 160-01 | Foundations of Political Theory | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 06A | Instructor: Althea Sircar | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 25 |
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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. Courses numbered in the 100s are Foundations courses. These courses are designed principally for beginning political science majors, as well as non-majors seeking an introduction to the discipline's various sub-fields. The purpose of these courses is threefold: To provide foundational knowledge of the key actors, structures, institutions and/or historical dynamics relevant to the respective sub-fields; to introduce the major theoretical trends, perspectives and debates that have shaped the evolution of the respective sub-fields; and to begin to develop a range of practical competencies (esp. research/writing skills) essential to further scholarly inquiry within the discipline of political science. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 207-01 | US Civil Rights and Civil Liberties | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 107 | Instructor: Patrick Schmidt | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 27 |
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An examination of civil liberties and rights in the U.S., focusing on the cases decided by the Supreme Court. Central topics include the 1st Amendment freedom of religion, speech, and the press; the right to privacy and abortion; and the constitutional requirement of Equal Protection as affecting discrimination, affirmative action, and voting rights. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 215-01 | Environmental Politics/Policy | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Roopali Phadke | Avail./Max.: -7 / 18 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with ENVI 215-01; first day attendance required; ACTC student may register on the first day of class with permission of instructor*
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POLI 216-01 | Legislative Politics | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Julie Dolan | Avail./Max.: 10 / 25 |
*Permission of instructor required*
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POLI 222-01 | Regional Conflict/Security | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Andrew Latham | Avail./Max.: 6 / 25 |
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This course is intended to introduce students to the military, political, economic, cultural and/or diplomatic dimensions of various regional conflicts or "security complexes." The specific region to be covered will vary from year to year, but it is expected that regions of pressing interest or greater significance to international peace and security will be covered most regularly. This course is designed for political science majors, but is also suitable for others who need to fulfill a distribution requirement in the social sciences or who simply want to satisfy an interest in a specific regional conflict or international politics/security more generally. Prerequisite(s): POLI 120 recommended General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 245-01 | Latin American Politics | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Eric Mosinger | Avail./Max.: 20 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with LATI 245-01*
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POLI 262-01 | American Political Thought | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Michael Zis | Avail./Max.: 9 / 25 |
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A study of selected writings and topics in political thought of the United States. Prerequisite(s): POLI 100 recommended General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 269-01 | Empirical Research Methods | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: OLRI 243 | Instructor: Lisa Mueller | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 25 |
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Strategies and tactics of design, observation, description, and measurement in contemporary political research. Prerequisite: at least one political science foundations course. Every year. (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: POLI 269 (Empirical Research Methods), POLI 272, SOCI 269, SOCI 270, SOCI 275. 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. Prerequisite(s): at least one political science foundations course General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 277-01 | Metaphysics in Secular Thought | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Kiarina Kordela | Avail./Max.: 5 / 35 |
*Cross-listed with GERM 277-01 and RELI 277-01*
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POLI 290-01 | Chuck Green Civic Engagement Fellowship | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 111 | Instructor: Lesley Lavery | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 12 |
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In his 40-year career at Macalester, Professor Chuck Green functioned as a one-man `leadership academy,- inspiring and guiding students to make the transition from detached observers to engaged citizens. Through his teaching, mentoring, and example, Professor Green instilled in students a sense of confidence and optimism about their ability to engage proactively in the world. The Chuck Green Civic Engagement Fellowship honors this legacy. Students with sophomore or junior standing may apply for this seven-month fellowship that includes a spring seminar and a full-time, fully-funded summer field experience. Chuck Green Fellows will study democratic engagement in social and organizational change, identify a client organization working for the public good with whom the student can analyze and address a problem, and then work with that client on a mutually agreed-upon solution. The Fellowship culminates in the early fall with an event in which Fellows, faculty, and clients have an opportunity to reflect on the fellowship experience. The Fellowship fulfills both the practicum and advanced course requirements of the political science major. Contact the political science department for a full description and application. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 294-01 | Politics of the First World War | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Andrew Latham | Avail./Max.: 9 / 25 |
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The First World War – referred to simply as “The Great War” by contemporaries who had no idea that it would be followed by an even more catastrophic Second World War a mere two decades later – set the stage for global political life in the twentieth century. Indeed, it is impossible to understand the political, social, cultural and economic developments of the period stretching from 1918 until today without grasping the world-historical impact of the conflict unleashed by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 (one hundred years ago last summer). In this course, we explore the causes, character and consequences of the First World War. Among the questions we address are: General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 294-03 | Women, Gender and World Politics | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 304 | Instructor: Wendy Weber | Avail./Max.: 11 / 25 |
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How is war gendered? And how does a feminist analysis of war help us to understand how wars are caused, fought, and experienced by women and men? How and why do women’s experiences of displacement differ, generally, from the experiences of men? And how can gender-sensitive approaches transform humanitarian action? How do structural inequalities around gender and race factor into the current global economic order? In this intermediate-level course, we will explore these questions and others as we examine the roles of women and gender in contemporary world politics. We will also explore some of the key contributions of feminist scholarship and activism in areas such as international peace and security, humanitarian action, economic development, and international criminal justice. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 294-04 | Religion in International Politics | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 206 | Instructor: Andrew Latham | Avail./Max.: 14 / 25 |
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This course is intended to introduce students to the relatively new subfield of “Religion and International Relations”. It is divided into three sections. The first addresses the issue of the strange absence of religion from the field of International Relations (and, indeed, from the social sciences more broadly) and the consequences of this absence for our understanding of global politics. The second explores the various ways in which IR scholars have attempted to redress the absence by bringing religion into the study of International Relations Theory. The third and final section provides an overview of the ways in which IR scholars have explored the intersection of religion and global political life, especially in the areas of conflict, development, global governance, and law. As an intermediate-level offering, this course is designed primarily for Political Science majors and non-majors in related fields (such as Religious Studies). The course has no pre-requisites, however, and is therefore suitable for all students seeking to satisfy an interest in the relationship between religion and international politics. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 294-05 | Civil Wars and Their Aftermath | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Eric Mosinger | Avail./Max.: 16 / 25 |
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Civil war is the most widespread and deadly manifestation of political violence in our time. Civil wars vary dramatically: some are fought with mechanized weapons on conventional battlefields, while others are fought by guerrilla insurgencies that blend into the countryside; some are waged by groups motivated by utopian political and religious ideologies, while others are waged over plunder or ethnic resentments; sometimes rebels win and impose revolutionary governments, while sometimes regimes rely on genocidal violence to stay in power. In this course we will try to answer questions such as: Why do civil wars cluster in certain countries, in certain regions, and at certain times? Are individuals motivated to form and join rebel organizations due to greed, grievances, opportunities, or their social environments? Why do some rebels resort to terrorism against civilians (Ireland’s IRA) while others build schools and hospitals (Sri Lanka’s LTTE—which also employed terrorism)? Why do states intervene in distant civil wars, and how do they promote their interests or attempt to build peace? When do rebels lay down their arms to enter democratic politics (El Salvador’s FMLN), when do they transition to violent crime (Colombia’s BACRIMes), and what does this mean for the survival of peace? There are two vitally important reasons for studying civil war: first, because making sense of conflict processes (instead of simply dismissing them as senseless) helps us develop tools to prevent, mitigate, and end civil war violence; and second, because in studying civil war we gain an understanding of—and empathy for—human nature in extreme circumstances. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 294-06 | Global and Comparative Food Politics | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Candan Turkkan | Avail./Max.: 18 / 25 |
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This course explores global food politics from a political-economic perspective. The first part of the course is historical, and aims to provide students a background on the relationship between different modes of agricultural production (plantations, subsistence farming), circulation (sea vs. land long distance trade), and political institutions (slavery, citizenship, polis, demos, res publica, empire, etc.). The second part of the course focuses on contemporary era food politics, and investigates centrality of food for the nation-state as well as globalization. The course incorporates major works of political theory, and historical, anthropological, and sociological case studies on agriculture, cities, food and foodways. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 315-01 | Adv Topics in Policy: US Education Politics and Policy | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Lesley Lavery | Avail./Max.: 12 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with EDUC 394-01*
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POLI 320-01 | Global Political Economy | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: David Blaney | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 320-01*
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POLI 323-01 | Humanitarianism in World Politics | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Wendy Weber | Avail./Max.: 7 / 20 |
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The past two decades appear to have been very successful ones for humanitarianism. Funding for humanitarianism has skyrocketed; humanitarian organizations have expanded their public support, as well as their activities; and, increasingly, humanitarian issues have found a place at the center of policy decisions. It is also generally agreed that humanitarianism is in crisis owing to the growing awareness of the sometimes harmful effects of aid; the expansion of the concept of humanitarianism to include human rights, development, and peace-building; and the increasing involvement of states in humanitarian operations. This advanced-level course explores the nature and dilemmas of contemporary humanitarianism. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore-standing or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 333-01 | Power and Development in Africa | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 411 | Instructor: Ahmed Samatar | Avail./Max.: 16 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 301-01*
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POLI 352-01 | Transitional Justice | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Nadya Nedelsky | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with INTL 352-01*
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POLI 394-01 | Policy in the 4th Branch | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: Julie Dolan | Avail./Max.: 14 / 20 |
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While campaigning for President, Donald Trump promised he would single-handedly restore law and order in the United States, build a border wall along the Mexico border, and lock up Hillary Clinton, among other things. Despite his promises, President Trump's ability to make unilateral policy changes is constrained not only by Congress and the Courts, but by the federal bureaucracy (the 4th branch). This course examines the role that members of the federal bureaucracy play in setting policy agendas, writing rules and regulations that have the force of law, implementing laws on the books, enforcing compliance with existing laws, and expanding opportunities for Americans to participate in governance. Employing over 2 million civil servants and thousands of presidential appointees, the fourth branch of government works closely with both the President and Congress to exert great influence over US policymaking today, but in ways that are largely invisible to the public. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 394-02 | Postcolonial Political and Social Thought | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Althea Sircar | Avail./Max.: 15 / 20 |
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This advanced course in political theory covers foundational texts of anti-colonial, postcolonial and decolonial thought along with recent political theory scholarship on the legacies of colonial domination in contemporary contexts. We will also consider whether and how anti-colonial perspectives should inform how we study political theory and practice. Readings will draw largely from texts focusing on South Asia, Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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POLI 404-01 | Honors Colloquium | Days: R | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Patrick Schmidt | Avail./Max.: 8 / 16 |
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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 301 | Instructor: Jhon Wlaschin | Avail./Max.: 5 / 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 group and cultural processes. Lecture and laboratory components. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 100-02 | Introduction to Psychology | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 352 | Instructor: Ariel James | Avail./Max.: Closed 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 group and cultural processes. Lecture and laboratory components. 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 349 | Instructor: Jamie Atkins | Avail./Max.: Closed 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 group and cultural processes. Lecture and laboratory components. 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 370 | Instructor: Jamie Atkins | Avail./Max.: Closed 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 group and cultural processes. Lecture and laboratory components. 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 349 | Instructor: Jamie Atkins | Avail./Max.: 6 / 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 group and cultural processes. Lecture and laboratory components. 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 352 | Instructor: Jamie Atkins | Avail./Max.: Closed 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 group and cultural processes. Lecture and laboratory components. 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 250 | Instructor: Deborah Kreiss | Avail./Max.: Closed -5 / 60 |
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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 major. 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: OLRI 352 | Instructor: Steve Guglielmo | Avail./Max.: 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 examine how to test psychological hypotheses using various statistical analyses, and we consider the pros and cons of experimental, quasi-experimental, and correlational research designs. 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. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100 Permission of instructor is required for first year students 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.: 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 examine how to test psychological hypotheses using various statistical analyses, and we consider the pros and cons of experimental, quasi-experimental, and correlational research designs. 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. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100 Permission of instructor is required for first year students 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 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 examine how to test psychological hypotheses using various statistical analyses, and we consider the pros and cons of experimental, quasi-experimental, and correlational research designs. 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. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100 Permission of instructor is required for first year students General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 220-01 | Educational Psychology | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | 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: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: OLRI 352 | Instructor: Brooke Lea | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 24 |
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How do people learn, remember, and think? How much of our cognitive life are we even consciously aware of? This course addresses these questions and others from the perspective of experimental cognitive psychology. Topics include perception, attention, memory, the organization of knowledge, language comprehension, and decision making. Special attention will be paid to the role that cognition plays in applied setting such as the courtroom and classroom. Weekly laboratory sessions afford students the opportunity to interact more directly with cognitive phenomena and research methods. Readings are mainly from primary sources. Group A course. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 242-L1 | Cognitive Psychology Lab | Days: T | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 349 | Instructor: Brooke Lea | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 24 |
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How do people learn, remember, and think? How much of our cognitive life are we even consciously aware of? This course addresses these questions and others from the perspective of experimental cognitive psychology. Topics include perception, attention, memory, the organization of knowledge, language comprehension, and decision making. Special attention will be paid to the role that cognition plays in applied setting such as the courtroom and classroom. Weekly laboratory sessions afford students the opportunity to interact more directly with cognitive phenomena and research methods. Readings are mainly from primary sources. Group A course. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 248-01 | Behavioral Neuroscience | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Deborah Kreiss | Avail./Max.: Closed -4 / 20 |
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An examination of the role of the nervous system in the control of behavior. While the course features a systems approach to the investigation of sensory and perceptual mechanisms, molecular, cellular and cognitive components of the nervous system will also be discussed in the context of course topics. Particular emphasis is given to the nature of learning, memory, and motor processes, motivation, emotion, homeostasis, cognition, and human neurological function. The laboratory features a variety of instructor-demonstrative and student participatory research and laboratory activities. Fulfills Group A requirement. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100 and BIOL 356; or PSYC 100 and BIOL 367; or PSYC 180; or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 248-L1 | Behavioral Neuroscience Lab | Days: R | Time: 01:20 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 301 | Instructor: Deborah Kreiss | Avail./Max.: Closed -4 / 20 |
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An examination of the role of the nervous system in the control of behavior. While the course features a systems approach to the investigation of sensory and perceptual mechanisms, molecular, cellular and cognitive components of the nervous system will also be discussed in the context of course topics. Particular emphasis is given to the nature of learning, memory, and motor processes, motivation, emotion, homeostasis, cognition, and human neurological function. The laboratory features a variety of instructor-demonstrative and student participatory research and laboratory activities. Fulfills Group A requirement. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100 and BIOL 356; or PSYC 100 and BIOL 367; or PSYC 180; or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 252-01 | Distress, Dysfunction, and Disorder: Perspectives on the DSM | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Jaine Strauss | Avail./Max.: -1 / 60 |
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This course examines the experiences, causes, and treatments of the major forms of distress and disorder codified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), including schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders, stress disorders, and personality disorders. We critically evaluate theories and research derived from biological, genetic, psychological, interpersonal, and social-cultural perspectives. Group B course. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100 General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 264-01 | The Psychology of Gender | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 352 | Instructor: Joan Ostrove | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 32 |
*Cross-listed with WGSS 264-01*
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PSYC 294-01 | Industrial/Organizational Psyc | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: OLRI 241 | Instructor: Grabow, Halperin | Avail./Max.: 16 / 32 |
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Industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology is the scientific study of people in organizations — and the application of that science to workplace issues facing individuals, teams, organizations and society. This course will introduce you to the science and practice of I/O Psychology, and what I/O Psychology has to offer anyone who plans to lead others or to help develop effective organizations. Topics will include how to determine what to look for in candidates for hire, how to evaluate candidates for hire or promotion, how best to manage performance in organizations, what’s been shown to motivate people, employee retention, team effectiveness, and organizational culture. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 301-01 | Research in Psychology II | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: OLRI 349 | Instructor: Darcy Burgund | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 20 |
*Open only to declared Psychology majors*
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PSYC 374-01 | Clinical and Counseling Psychology | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 170 | Instructor: Jaine Strauss | Avail./Max.: Closed -3 / 18 |
*ACTC student may register on November 30th with permission of instructor*
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PSYC 377-01 | Moral Psychology | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Steve Guglielmo | Avail./Max.: Closed 2 / 16 |
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This course explores how and why we make moral judgments about people and their behavior. How are our moral judgments shaped by intuition, emotion, and reasoning? What are the moral implications of climate change? Do we ever put the interests of our broader group or community above our own self-interest? How do we balance punishment motives of retribution and deterrence, and how do these relate to policy decisions about capital punishment? Could a robot have moral rights and responsibilities? We will examine these questions by considering theories and findings from social, developmental, evolutionary, and political psychology, as well as from related fields like philosophy and artificial intelligence. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 201 or permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 385-01 | Mind Reading: Understanding Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 370 | Instructor: Darcy Burgund | Avail./Max.: -2 / 10 |
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a non-invasive technique used to provide indirect measures of neural activity in healthy (and unhealthy) humans. Although the technique has been readily available to researchers for only about 20 years, its popularity and use has grown tremendously in the last 10, and we now see it influencing aspects of culture and society not traditionally based in biomedical research (i.e., law, politics, economics). This course will cover the mechanics of fMRI, evaluate its strengths and weaknesses, and explore recent applications that have received wide and sometimes controversial media coverage. By the end of the course, students will understand essential components of the fMRI technique and be informed consumers of primary and secondary source reports involving brain imaging. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 201 or MATH 155 and PSYC 244 or PSYC 248. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 394-01 | Psychology and/of Disability | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 300 | Instructor: Joan Ostrove | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 16 |
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What is “disability” and what does an understanding of disability tell us about human experience more generally? What is a “disability identity” and what implications might claiming that identity have for psychological well-being and social change? How do stereotypes of disabled people and expectations of “normality” affect everyone’s lives (not just those with disabilities)? Why don't many Deaf people consider themselves “disabled?” What might we learn from shifting the “problem” of disability from the individual person to the social environment? This course will explore these and many other questions that emerge from thinking about the experience of disability (and its intersection with identities based on gender, race, class, and sexuality). Grounded in a critical disability and Deaf studies framework that considers the socially, culturally, linguistically, and historically constructed meaning of physical, sensory, and cognitive “impairments,” the course will rely on theoretical and empirical readings from psychology and related disciplines, memoir, film, and guest visitors as we explore the social and psychological meanings of disability. Prerequisites: PSYC 100 and PSYC 201. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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PSYC 394-02 | Intelligence | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: OLRI 300 | Instructor: Ariel James | Avail./Max.: 3 / 16 |
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This course will explore what "intelligence" means, how it is measured, and how the answers to those questions depend on time, place, and culture. Specific topics will include the history of IQ testing, eugenics, the theory of multiple intelligences, intellectual disability, and "brain training". Class sessions will mainly consist of student-led discussions of primary sources. 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, Lea | Avail./Max.: Closed -5 / 8 |
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Directed Research provides an intensive research experience in which students engage fully in the research process and produce a complete study over the course of the semester. With the close support of a faculty member each step of the way, students design a research project intended to extend knowledge in a psychological area of their interest, collect and analyze data, write a research report that includes an extensive literature review, and present their project as a poster in a public setting. Director research is open only to declared psychology majors; students are assigned to sections by the supervising faculty. This course fulfills the capstone requirement for the psychology major. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 301, at least one intermediate course, and at least one advanced course (or permission of instructor). Student must be a declared Psychology major. 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 300 | Instructor: Burgund, Lea | Avail./Max.: Closed -5 / 8 |
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Directed Research provides an intensive research experience in which students engage fully in the research process and produce a complete study over the course of the semester. With the close support of a faculty member each step of the way, students design a research project intended to extend knowledge in a psychological area of their interest, collect and analyze data, write a research report that includes an extensive literature review, and present their project as a poster in a public setting. Director research is open only to declared psychology majors; students are assigned to sections by the supervising faculty. This course fulfills the capstone requirement for the psychology major. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 301, at least one intermediate course, and at least one advanced course (or permission of instructor). Student must be a declared Psychology major. 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: NEILL 400 | Instructor: Pete Ferderer | Avail./Max.: Closed -2 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ECON 490-01*
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Religious Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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RELI 102-01 | Modern Islam | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Gregory Lipton | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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Situated within the overlapping socio-political contexts of the so-called Muslim World and the West, this course examines the Islamic engagement with modernity through both secondary scholarly analysis and primary texts representing seminal modern Islamic discourses (including modernist, Islamist, traditionalist, and progressivist). After a brief introduction to the academic study of Islam and Islamic history, we will explore key ways Muslim thinkers and activists have defined (and re-defined) themselves in response to the changes wrought by the colonial and post-colonial eras. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 136-01 | World Religions and World Religions Discourse | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: James Laine | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 20 |
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Our goal will be to make an effort to comprehend just what cultural literacy would mean when studying the major religious traditions of the world, while at the same time developing an appreciation of some of the blind spots and problems in this enterprise. To a large extent, we will do some serious construction before we feel ready for de-construction. Every couple of weeks, we will cover one of five major areas (South Asia, East Asia, Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and each student will read a different author's treatment of this material. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 194-01 | Fascism: Pathways of the Revolutionary Right | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Davis, Samman | Avail./Max.: 14 / 30 |
*Cross-listed with SOCI 194-02*
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Globally and throughout the United States, right-wing authoritarianism and populism is on the rise. Parliamentary governments in Europe have seen previously-unthinkable victories by far right parties, and fascism within the United States has received a new boost of energy from the mainstreaming "Alt-Right" movement, which organizes on college campuses and in paramilitary formations, including multiple murders and deaths. We will examine fascist movements using contemporary political questions and concerns as our primary organizing lens. We will investigate the role of religion, authority, the creation of moral frameworks, and the strategies and tactics used by fascists, their opponents, and mainstream media discourses about both. Some of the key questions of the course will include: What is fascism and how is it similar to, and distinct from, other far right movements? Were pre-twentieth century movements like the KKK fascist? This class will move from historical beginnings to a series of debates and questions regarding contemporary fascist and antifascist movements, including questions of free speech, violence, the appropriation of liberal discourse, and the role of campuses in fascist strategy. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 194-02 | Women and Spirituality in Islam | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Gregory Lipton | Avail./Max.: -2 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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This course examines Muslim discourse on the spirituality of women in Islam—both through personal accounts of Muslim women themselves and discourses imposed upon them by the prevailing patriarchy—from the time of Muhammad through the present. Using both primary and secondary sources, we will explore the various doctrinal and political ways mysticism and mystical experience is defined and interpreted in gendered contexts and the attendant debates around competing gendered notions of spiritual power and authority. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 277-01 | Metaphysics in Secular Thought | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: OLRI 250 | Instructor: Kiarina Kordela | Avail./Max.: 5 / 35 |
*Cross-listed with GERM 277-01 and POLI 277-01*
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RELI 294-01 | Mormons, Muslims and American Identity | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: William Hart | Avail./Max.: 13 / 20 |
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19th century Mormons and 20th century Muslims were subject to paranoid perceptions and constructions. Inspired by “The Paranoid Style in American Political Thought,” this course explores three themes: (1) the challenge that Mormons and Muslims posed to the normative relationship of religion and state, which is rooted in Protestant Christianity and its secular offspring, political liberalism; (2) the racialization of Mormons and Muslims and traditions of racial thinking within those traditions; and (3) the concessions to the normative order that Mormons and Muslims have been forced to make and the prospect of reconstructing a Protestant-dominant American identity in light of the challenges these traditions pose to a liberal individualist social order. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 294-02 | Sacred Madness: Exploring Religious Traditions of Transgression | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Gregory Lipton | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
*First day attendance required*
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Traversing the borderlands between enlightenment and psychopathology, this course examines how charismatic, spiritual masters often authorize the subversion of their own rational, legal, and ethical traditions. Through primary writings, accounts of disciples, and secondary scholarly analysis, we will wrestle with problematics arising at the intersections of global modernity, charismatic power, and transgressive spirituality, such as the tensions between non-dualism and antinomianism, intimacy and sexual exploitation, monism and megalomania, and ego dissolution and coercive power. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 294-03 | Jewish Messianism from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the State of Israel | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Nicholas Schaser | Avail./Max.: 9 / 22 |
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The belief in a coming Messiah has been central to much of Jewish thought and history. This course charts messianic expectation among Jews from biblical times to the present day. Along with an introduction to the concept of “Messiah” as it appears in the Bible and other ancient Jewish texts, we will survey various messianic figures, including Jesus of Nazareth, the military leader Simon Bar Kochba, the early modern mystic Shabbtai Tzvi, and others. The course will also explore the role of messianic hope as a religious phenomenon, analyze messianic movements in contemporary Judaism, and consider the socio-political impact of Messianism in the State of Israel and the broader Middle East. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 294-04 | Christianity in Syria, Iraq and Iran | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Susanna Drake | Avail./Max.: 12 / 20 |
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Christianity is often understood as a “Western” religious tradition, yet Christianity has deep roots in the area now called the Middle East. In the first millennium C.E., Christian communities thrived in the regions of what we today call Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Christians in late ancient Mesopotamia produced texts, images, and rituals that continue to inform the practice of Christianity in the Middle East and beyond. This course will explore the diverse forms of Christianity from its beginnings in ancient Palestine, to its development in the Christian East, to its more recent history as a minority religion in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. We will pay special attention to relations between Christians, Jews, and Muslims; the practice of Christian asceticism and monasticism; the diverse understandings of Jesus; the role of persecution and martyrdom in the formation of Christian identity; and the history of Christian sites, manuscripts, images, and monuments in this region. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 311-01 | Ritual | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 112 | Instructor: Erik Davis | Avail./Max.: 11 / 16 |
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This seminar-style course concentrates on the concept of ritual in approaches to the study of religion, and examines examples of rituals in practice. We will eschew focus on any single religious tradition for a focus on ritual across traditions. This will require students to 'work with' concepts - forming a conception of what they mean by ritual, and be willing to change that conception when faced with contradictory evidence. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 325-01 | Conquering the Flesh: Renunciation of Food/Sex in the Christian Tradition | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Susanna Drake | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with WGSS 325-01*
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RELI 336-01 | Gender, Caste, Deity | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: CARN 305 | Instructor: James Laine | Avail./Max.: 16 / 20 |
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Since sociologists and anthropologists have long argued that people think about religion and the divine in categories that correlate closely to their social system, it is not surprising that they have been especially interested in the religion and society of India. Beginning with the classic account of the caste system by social anthropologist Louis Dumont, we will examine is view of the hierarchical nature of society and its relationship to religious views that affirm and assume hierarchy in human and divine worlds. From there we will go on to consider the many responses to Dumont's view, including studies of gender roles; sexuality in mythology and ascetic traditions; untouchability; religious hierarchy and political power; and, resistance to and inversions of hierarchical systems in India. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RELI 469-01 | Approaches to the Study of Religion | Days: W | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 002 | Instructor: William Hart | Avail./Max.: 7 / 10 |
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An advanced seminar required for religious studies majors, open to minors. Both classic and contemporary theories on the nature of religion and critical methods for the study of religion will be considered. Prerequisite(s): Two courses in Religious Studies and permission of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Russian Studies
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RUSS 102-01 | Elementary Russian II | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Julia Chadaga | Avail./Max.: 15 / 25 |
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Continuation of RUSS 101; further development of the same skills. Russian language classes (unless otherwise stated) are proficiency oriented, and aim at perfecting all four linguistic skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. 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. Prerequisite(s): RUSS 101 with a grade of C- or better, or consent of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 102-L1 | Elementary Russian II Lab | Days: T | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Valeriia Skvortcova | Avail./Max.: 10 / 13 |
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Continuation of RUSS 101; further development of the same skills. Russian language classes (unless otherwise stated) are proficiency oriented, and aim at perfecting all four linguistic skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. 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. Prerequisite(s): RUSS 101 with a grade of C- or better, or consent of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 102-L2 | Elementary Russian II Lab | Days: T | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Valeriia Skvortcova | Avail./Max.: 6 / 13 |
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Continuation of RUSS 101; further development of the same skills. Russian language classes (unless otherwise stated) are proficiency oriented, and aim at perfecting all four linguistic skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. 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. Prerequisite(s): RUSS 101 with a grade of C- or better, or consent of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 204-01 | Intermediate Russian II | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: NEILL 404 | Instructor: Brian Johnson | Avail./Max.: 19 / 25 |
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Continuation of RUSS 203; further development of the same skills; added emphasis on reading and discussing simple texts. Students are usually prepared for study in Russia after they have completed Intermediate Russian II. 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. Prerequisite(s): RUSS 203 with a grade of C- or better, or consent of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 204-L1 | Intermediate Russian II Lab | Days: R | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: NEILL 401 | Instructor: Valeriia Skvortcova | Avail./Max.: 10 / 13 |
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Continuation of RUSS 203; further development of the same skills; added emphasis on reading and discussing simple texts. Students are usually prepared for study in Russia after they have completed Intermediate Russian II. 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. Prerequisite(s): RUSS 203 with a grade of C- or better, or consent of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 204-L2 | Intermediate Russian II Lab | Days: R | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 113 | Instructor: Valeriia Skvortcova | Avail./Max.: 10 / 13 |
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Continuation of RUSS 203; further development of the same skills; added emphasis on reading and discussing simple texts. Students are usually prepared for study in Russia after they have completed Intermediate Russian II. 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. Prerequisite(s): RUSS 203 with a grade of C- or better, or consent of instructor. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 245-01 | Nabokov | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 212 | Instructor: Julia Chadaga | Avail./Max.: 9 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ENGL 245-01*
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RUSS 294-02 | Russian Fairy Tales and Folklore | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Brian Johnson | Avail./Max.: 14 / 25 |
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This course introduces students to Russian folk belief, folk tales and ancient and pre-Soviet Russian culture. The corpus of fairy tales collected by Aleksandr Afanas’ev will serve as our base material. Like the Brothers Grimm, Afanas’ev collected a rich corpus of orally transmitted Russian skazki, a variety of tales that include animal tales, wonder tales, taboo tales, anecdotes, and tales of everyday life. This corpus of material will be supplemented by additional folklore and folk tales, including bylini (Russian epic tales) and literary skazki by Pushkin and Gogol. In studying these tales, their content and methods of transmission, we will touch upon the history of Russia and Russian culture, in particular, upon peasant culture and dvoeverie, a mix of pagan and Orthodox belief. The material will be approached from various critical perspectives, including Proppian morphology and psychoanalysis, in order to examine their mythic, archetypal, supernatural and taboo elements. All readings are in English. Final projects for the course include a research paper and a performance of selected tales led by and created by the class. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 367-01 | Dostoevsky in Translation | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 214 | Instructor: Brian Johnson | Avail./Max.: 15 / 25 |
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Dostoevsky lived an extraordinary life. After achieving instant fame with the publication of Poor Folk, he languished in near obscurity for many years. He was sentenced to death for participation in a political society and was reprieved by the tsar just minutes before his scheduled execution. He served four years of hard labor in prison and another five years in exile in Siberia. He suffered from debilitating epilepsy and a compulsive gambling habit, and he struggled with massive debt. Yet by the end of his life the Russian public hailed him as a prophet and Russia's greatest living writer. Like his life, his novels are extraordinary. They plumb the dark depths of the human soul, confronting the reader with issues of life and death, good and evil, and the presence of evil in God's universe. In this course we will read Dostoevsky's four great novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov, as well as the misunderstood anti-nihilist work Notes from Underground. Taught in English. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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RUSS 488-01 | Senior Seminar | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 409 | Instructor: Julia Chadaga | Avail./Max.: 8 / 12 |
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Seminars on selected topics in Russian language, literature, or culture, designed to serve as an integrative capstone experience for majors. Recent topics are "Investigating Russian Web and Press," "The Contemporary Short Story," and "Forbidden Art and the Performance of Dissent." Conducted in Russian. Since the topic changes from year to year, we recommend that sufficiently advanced students repeat this course. Prerequisite(s): three years of Russian (RUSS 204, followed by a semester abroad) or approval of instructor. 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 204 | Instructor: Khaldoun Samman | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 25 |
*Limit reflects saving ten seats for first year students*
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SOCI 175-01 | Sociolinguistics | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Marianne Milligan | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 20 |
*First day attendance required; cross-listed with LING 175-01; enrollment limit will be reflected as 3 spots for seniors, 3 for juniors, 7 for sophomores, and 7 for freshmen*
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SOCI 180-01 | Sociology of Culture | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Erika Busse-Cardenas | Avail./Max.: 11 / 20 |
*Limit reflects saving six seats for first year students*
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SOCI 194-01 | Sports, Violence, and Civilization | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Terry Boychuk | Avail./Max.: -3 / 20 |
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For good or for ill, sports are inescapable parts of contemporary life. This course provides an overview of the social transformation of sports, from ancient into modern form. We begin with developing a theoretical vocabulary for describing and understanding the social dimensions of sports. What are sports? Why do sports fascinate people? How do sports create social bonding and social integration? The second major object of the course is to account for how sports become civilized during the transition from agrarian to urban, industrial societies. This civilizing process brought a dramatic reduction in socially tolerable levels of violence in sporting contests. It also begat the rationalization of sports: the growth of standardized rules for sports matches and the rise of new cultural rationales for legitimating mass participation in sports. Not only does sports becomes perceived as integral to adjusting to the demands to modern life, but as a remedy to the ills of modern living. The closing moments of the course brings us to the second major reconstruction of sports after WWII. The implication of sports in the rise of media empires, and consequently, the struggle for civil rights, also begets far-reaching reappraisals of the value of sports in a post-industrial society. Both profits and protests reinvigorate the search for the redeeming social value of sports amidst pervasive ambivalence about the big-league era. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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SOCI 194-02 | Fascism: Pathways of the Revolutionary Right | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 111 | Instructor: Davis, Samman | Avail./Max.: 14 / 30 |
*Cross-listed with RELI 194-01*
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Globally and throughout the United States, right-wing authoritarianism and populism is on the rise. Parliamentary governments in Europe have seen previously-unthinkable victories by far right parties, and fascism within the United States has received a new boost of energy from the mainstreaming "Alt-Right" movement, which organizes on college campuses and in paramilitary formations, including multiple murders and deaths. We will examine fascist movements using contemporary political questions and concerns as our primary organizing lens. We will investigate the role of religion, authority, the creation of moral frameworks, and the strategies and tactics used by fascists, their opponents, and mainstream media discourses about both. Some of the key questions of the course will include: What is fascism and how is it similar to, and distinct from, other far right movements? Were pre-twentieth century movements like the KKK fascist? This class will move from historical beginnings to a series of debates and questions regarding contemporary fascist and antifascist movements, including questions of free speech, violence, the appropriation of liberal discourse, and the role of campuses in fascist strategy. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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SOCI 210-01 | Sociology of Sexuality | Days: MWF | Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am | Room: CARN 105 | Instructor: Deborah Smith | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 20 |
*Limit reflects saving six seats for first year students*
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SOCI 220-01 | Sociology of Race/Ethnicity | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Erika Busse-Cardenas | Avail./Max.: 15 / 25 |
*Limit reflects saving ten seats for first year students; cross-listed with LATI 294 05*
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SOCI 269-01 | Social Science Inquiry | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: CARN 208 | Instructor: Terry Boychuk | Avail./Max.: 8 / 20 |
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Social science presents claims about the social world in a particular manner that is centered on theoretical claims (explanations) supported by evidence. This course covers the methods through which social scientists develop emprically-supported explanations. The course covers three main sets of topics: the broad methodological questions posed by philosophy of social science, how social scientists develop research design to generate relevant evidence, and methods with which social scientists analyze data. For both the research design and analysis sections, we will concentrate on quantitative research, learning how to use statistical software. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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SOCI 272-01 | Social Theories | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: CARN 05 | Instructor: Khaldoun Samman | Avail./Max.: 10 / 20 |
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This course is designed to engage students with the most sophisticated and useful schools of thought available in the social science disciplines. The course raises a number of questions: How can we best understand the complexities of self and society? Are these units of analysis useful in and of themselves? Are they contained in an essential body or polity that we can identify as some unitary entity called Jenny and John Doe, American, French, Arab/Jew, black/white, modern/primitive, developed/underdeveloped, Oriental/ Occidental, homo/heterosexual, male/female? Or are they socially produced units that have no essence in-of-themselves, produced and made real only through performance with the "Other"? Furthermore, is there something unique about modernity that has fundamentally transformed the notions of our selves, bodies, polities, races, and civilizations? If the answer to the last question is in the affirmative, how and why did this come to be the case, and what consequences does it hold for our understanding of the past and of the future? These are the kinds of questions that great figures in sociology have been asking since the nineteenth-century, including classic theorists like Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx, as well as more recent writers such as Ervin Goffman, Michel Foucault, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Edward Said. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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SOCI 294-01 | Consumerism | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: CARN 204 | Instructor: Deborah Smith | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 20 |
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This course applies a sociological perspective to examine consumer culture in American society. The course covers a range of topics, including how consumption structures and reproduces social difference, the role of consumer practices in the constitution of personal identity, sociability and leisure, the role of marketing and advertising, branding and embodied consumer display, and the location of consumption as a site of sub-cultural resistance. The course also explores the troubled relationship between consumerism and sustainability, assessing the possibilities within consumer culture for creating a sustainable future. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
Theatre and Dance
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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THDA 120-01 | Acting Theory and Performance I | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MUSIC 113 | Instructor: Robert Rosen | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 16 |
*First day attendance required*
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THDA 213-01 | Cultures of Dance | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Wynn Fricke | Avail./Max.: Closed 4 / 18 |
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This course begins with the question: What makes dance powerful? Why do people throughout the world and throughout history dance? This course looks at dance from a global point of view, examining its forms and functions in the lives of individuals and societies. We observe dance as an art form, as a sacred act, as an instrument of power, as a training in gender identity, and as social action. Dance can be an act of defiance or transcendence. It can educate or corrupt. In all cases, the dancing body reflects the meanings imputed by the culture from which it arises and informs. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 220-01 | Voice and Speech | Days: MWF | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Cheryl Brinkley | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 16 |
*First day attendance required*
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THDA 230-01 | Physical Approaches | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Robert Rosen | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 14 |
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This laboratory course offers intensive training in making theatre from action . Based on the teaching of Jacques Lecoq and his school of physical theatre training in Paris, work will focus on the observation, re-creation and transposition of daily life to create a theatre that is at once playful, emotional and creative. Course work will include an examination of the natural world and all its movements, our relationship with space and time, the neutral and larval masks and object manipulation. We will use improvisation, games and exercises to develop physical and creative skills with which to create original work; training includes basic acrobatics, balancing and juggling. Applied analyses of professional productions are required, as are written analyses of course work and individual progress. The goal of the course is to encourage curiosity and exploration to engage the student as creator, designer and performer. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Prerequisite(s): THDA 120 or other performance training strongly encouraged. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 235-01 | Fundamentals of Scenography | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 228 | Instructor: Megan Reilly | Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 12 |
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Scenography is the creation of imagined spaces for performance. In this course we will study the fundamentals of scenography holistically, including scenic, lighting, costume, sound, and projection design. Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze and critique elements of performance design, articulating design ideas verbally and through writing, and completing a design project from analysis to tangible object. (4 credits) General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 250-01 | Experiential Anatomy and the Mind Body Connection | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Jill Lile | Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 18 |
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Through reading, writing, research, hands-on exercises, and structured movement activities, this course will explore the body's design and function of the respiratory, musculo-skeletal, skin, and organ systems. We will use dance and the Alexander technique as tools to cultivate direct knowledge of anatomy and alignment. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 262-01 | Performing Feminisms | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Beth Cleary | Avail./Max.: 8 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with WGSS 262-01; first day attendance required*
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THDA 294-01 | Clothing in Performance | Days: MWF | Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Room: LIBR 250 | Instructor: Lynn Farrington | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 10 |
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From classic theater and dance performance, to CosPlay and Re-enactments, clothing as costume is one of the main ways we visually build a character and present it to the viewer. This class will present an overview of fashion and costume history as the basis for the design process. We will examine design techniques and media, both traditional and digital, and design the clothing for characters based on scripted, devised, or choreographed work. We will then look at the systems for translating these two-dimensional designs to fit the human form via drafting and crafting methods. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 350-01 | Directing and Devising: Making Meaning on the Stage | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: 1550SM | Instructor: Beth Cleary | Avail./Max.: 0 / 10 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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THDA 360-01 | Acting Theory and Performance II | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MUSIC 116 | Instructor: Claudia Tatinge Nascimento | Avail./Max.: 2 / 13 |
*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required; cross-listed with LATI 394-02*
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This spring 2018, Acting II will focus on the study of psychophysical actions, an approach developed by Russian director and pedagogue Konstantin Stanislavsky. Polish director Jerzy Grotowski continued Stanislavsky's research, though outside of the frame of Realism. Taking the theme “cartographies of identity” as a point of department, students will learn how to develop repeatable psychophysical scores, and write and perform two short pieces about personages linked to immigration and/or displacement—the first on a member of their family, the second based on archival research into the history of a stranger. The course includes writing these two pieces of creative fiction, as well as physical and vocal training. Please note that Acting II will hold three weekend sessions outside of regular class meeting times, attendance is mandatory: the weekend of January 20 and 21, 1-5pm; Saturday, March 3, 1-5pm, and Saturday, March 31, 1-5pm. THDA120, Acting I or THDA121, Beginning Dance Composition strongly recommended. May count as an Arts in Context for the Latin American Studies Program major, depending on the student’s individual projects. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 21-01 | African-Based Movement I | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: 1550SM DANCE | Instructor: Patricia Brown | Avail./Max.: 14 / 18 |
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This course will focus on dance inspired by West Africa and other African regions, the Caribbean, and the Americas. It is rooted in a communal environment and is supported and accompanied by a drummer. Students will learn fundamentals of African based movement including characteristics, technique, and about the relationship between the drums and the dance. They will create in-class dance projects and presentations. Although the focus may be on traditional dance at times, this is not a traditional specific class. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 22-01 | African-Based Movement II | Days: TR | Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Room: 1550SM DANCE | Instructor: Patricia Brown | Avail./Max.: 11 / 18 |
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This course focuses on dance inspired by West African and other African regions, the Caribbean, and the Americas. It is rooted in a communal environment and is supported and accompanied by a live musician/drummer. Students continue building on fundamental principles and technique, including more complex polyrhythmic aspects of the movement, while deepening the inter-connected relationship with the drums. They also create in-class dance projects and presentations. May be repeated for credit. S/N grading only. Prerequisite(s): THDA 21 or permission of instructor General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 23-01 | Advanced African-Based Movement: Ensemble | Days: TR | Time: 04:45 pm-06:15 pm | Room: 1550SM DANCE | Instructor: Patricia Brown | Avail./Max.: 5 / 18 |
*Permission of instructor required*
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This course focuses on selected histories and techniques of dance forms from West Africa and the African diaspora including the Caribbean and the Americas. It is intended for students who have completed African-Based Movement I and II, and who want to deepen their training and understanding of these forms. The course includes the creation of researched choreography culminating in one or more informal performances. Permission of instructor required/audition. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 31-01 | Dance Improvisation | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: LEOCTR STUDIO 2 | Instructor: Krista Langberg | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 16 |
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Find expression and embodiment through the practice of movement improvisation. Open to all levels of ability. Come with a desire to move, an open mind and a willingness to explore in a non-competitive environment. We will learn to fall, roll and work with gravity in relationship to ourselves and others. The class will introduce you to contact improvisation, the "art-sport" developed by Steve Paxton in 1972. Relieve stress and balance your mind and body through physical awareness. May be repeated for credit. S/N grading only. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 42-01 | Modern Dance II | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: 1550SM DANCE | Instructor: Wynn Fricke | Avail./Max.: 9 / 18 |
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This beginning/advanced beginning level course builds on skills introduced in Modern Dance I. It 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, alignment, flexibility, and coordination. An emphasis is placed on the joy of moving in an expressive and highly physical manner. May be repeated for credit. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 44-01 | Modern Dance IV | Days: MW | Time: 05:20 pm-06:50 pm | Room: 1550SM DANCE | Instructor: Michel Kouakou | Avail./Max.: 11 / 18 |
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The purpose of the technique class is to allow the intermediate to advanced modern dance student to explore and discover him/herself as an articulate and expressive mover. Classwork continues to involve space, time and energy with specific emphasis on alignment, power, momentum, articulation, clarity of intent, musicality, strength, stretch, and stamina. Class consists of in-place warm-ups, technical exercises and dance phrases applying the technique addressed. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 52-01 | Ballet II | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: 1550SM DANCE | Instructor: Jill Lile | Avail./Max.: 10 / 18 |
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This ballet technique class is for students with some experience in classical ballet. The goal is to demonstrate a beginning to intermediate dancer's understanding and execution of ballet technique. It will include barre work, center-floor, and across-the-floor combinations. May be repeated for credit. S/N grading only. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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THDA 54-01 | Ballet IV | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: 1550SM DANCE | Instructor: Jill Lile | Avail./Max.: 5 / 18 |
*Course meets Monday and Wednesday 3:30-5:00 and Friday 3:30-4:30*
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Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Number / Section | Name | Days | Time | Room | Instructor | Avail. / Max. |
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WGSS 100-01 | Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Days: MWF | Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Corie Hammers | Avail./Max.: 19 / 25 |
*First day attendance required*
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WGSS 117-01 | Women, Health, Reproduction | Days: TR | Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am | Room: OLRI 100 | Instructor: Elizabeth Jansen | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 26 |
*Cross-listed with BIOL 117-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 1st with permission of instructor*
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WGSS 127-01 | Women, Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: NEILL 110 | Instructor: Beth Severy-Hoven | Avail./Max.: 5 / 25 |
*Cross-listed with CLAS 127-01*
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WGSS 194-01 | Gender/Race/Popular US Culture | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 216 | Instructor: Lizeth Gutierrez | Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with AMST 194-01*
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Popular culture is often perceived as only a means of entertainment. In this course, however, we treat popular culture as central to the production and reproduction of identity categories to examine how images, ideologies and behaviors are created and represented in American popular culture. Most importantly, the course will explore the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class in popular culture representations of identity to broadly discuss how identity markers are produced, how they change over time, and how they interlock to form larger structural inequalities and systems of oppression. We will focus on representations of Latinx bodies in the media, blackness and criminality, feminist politics and post-feminist culture, and representations of race and gender in animated films. In addition, students will question their own taken-for-granted notions about what popular culture is and what it does to gendered and raced relations to situate popular culture as a contested space of subjugation and disempowerment as well as one of resistance and possibility. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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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: Sonita Sarker | Avail./Max.: 18 / 25 |
*First day attendance required*
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WGSS 258-01 | Gender and Sexuality in China | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: NEILL 102 | Instructor: Xin Yang | Avail./Max.: -1 / 15 |
*Cross-listed with ASIA 258-01 and CHIN 258-01*
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WGSS 262-01 | Performing Feminisms | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: NEILL 213 | Instructor: Beth Cleary | Avail./Max.: 8 / 24 |
*Cross-listed with THDA 262-01; first day attendance required*
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WGSS 264-01 | The Psychology of Gender | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: OLRI 352 | Instructor: Joan Ostrove | Avail./Max.: Closed -1 / 32 |
*Cross-listed with PSYC 264-01*
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WGSS 294-01 | Bodies and Trauma | Days: MWF | Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Corie Hammers | Avail./Max.: 19 / 25 |
*First day attendance required; prerequisite of WGSS 100 required*
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Drawing on theoretical frameworks such as feminism, psychoanalysis and queer of color theory, we will explore myriad understandings of trauma and traumatic experience. These less represented understandings of trauma are not only highly varied and differently impactful, but challenge in turn dominant constructions and narratives of trauma and what is considered to be “traumatic.” Exploring trauma through a critical intersectional feminist lens gives us the ability to connect the ways “individual” pain, one’s own lived experience, is tied to the social—to interlocking systems of oppression, which (overly)determine bodies and life chances. While much of our focus touches on trauma’s bodily effects, the ways in which trauma accumulates and resides in/on the flesh and psyche, we will also explore the ways these rupturing conditions produce modes of individual and collective resistance to dominant violence. Thus, stories of healing, renewal and resistance from marginalized communities and peoples will also figure centrally in this course. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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WGSS 294-02 | Muslim Women Writers | Days: MWF | Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Room: CARN 404 | Instructor: Jenna Rice Rahaim | Avail./Max.: Closed 5 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with ENGL 294-05 and INTL 294-02*
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Against the swirling backdrop of political discourses about women in the Islamic world, this course will engage with feminist and postcolonial debates through literary works by Muslim women writers. The course will begin with an exploration of key debates about women’s agency and freedom, the Islamic headscarf, and Qur’anic hermeneutics. With this in mind, we will turn to the fine details of literature and poetry by Muslim women. How do these authors constitute their worlds? How are gendered subjectivities constructed? And how do the gender politics of literary texts relate to the broader political and historical contexts from which they emerge? Themes will include an introduction to Muslim poetesses and Arabic poetic genres, the rise of the novel in the Arabic speaking world, and Muslim women’s literary production outside of the Middle East: from Senegal to South Asia, and beyond. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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WGSS 294-03 | Women, Gender, and the Family in Contemporary Europe | Days: TR | Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Room: MAIN 010 | Instructor: Jessica Pearson | Avail./Max.: 9 / 18 |
*Cross-listed with HIST 294-05*
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This course will explore the ways in which the major events and processes in contemporary European history shaped the lives of women and families as well and the way that both individual women and women’s movements have shaped the history of contemporary Europe. Much of our discussion will revolve around the themes of equality and inequality and their evolution over the course of the last two centuries. Our exploration will begin with the French Revolution in 1789 and end with the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century. We will focus on issues such as family policy, reproductive rights, labor, immigration, women’s political representation, and LGBTQ equality in Europe. We will also explore the importance of children and childhood in the context of contemporary European society and the role that the state has played in shaping the lives of young people. Whenever possible, we will approach the topics at hand by exploring the voices of our historical actors themselves and we will consider the experiences of people from a wide range of identities. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |
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WGSS 300-01 | Advanced Feminist/Queer Theories and Methodologies | Days: TR | Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Sonita Sarker | Avail./Max.: 18 / 20 |
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with INTL 300-01; first day attendance required*
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WGSS 325-01 | Conquering the Flesh: Renunciation of Food/Sex in the Christian Tradition | Days: MWF | Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am | Room: MAIN 003 | Instructor: Susanna Drake | Avail./Max.: 6 / 20 |
*Cross-listed with RELI 325-01*
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WGSS 400-01 | Senior Seminar: Linking Theory and Practice | Days: M | Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Room: MAIN 009 | Instructor: Corie Hammers | Avail./Max.: 8 / 10 |
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The relationship between academic theorizing and community organizing for positive social and political change is a vital, complex, and an ever-changing source of feminist inquiry. This course builds on that relationship by juxtaposing activist social work with theoretical writings on globalization, gender, race, class-relations, sexuality, community, democracy, and civil society, and exploring how these arenas inform and transform each other. The issues in this seminar are related ultimately to the student's "location," personally and professionally, at the threshold of the future, in search of a space of her/his own. One substantial research paper and a formal oral presentation on its ideas are the primary assignments. Prerequisite(s): At least three WGSS core courses and senior standing, or permission of instructor. Preferred: a working relationship with a local women's or minority organization, established the spring or summer prior to enrollment in the course. General Education Requirements: Distribution Requirements: |