Supplement Fall 2006- Added courses
AMST 108.00	Introduction to American Studies	This course is NOT crosslisted as Art History for the 2006-07 year.
ANTH 342.00	Peoples and Cultures of Native North America	0.50 unit	Pack, Sam
The primary goal of this course is to separate the public perception and mythology of  “the Indian” from the divergent experiences and everyday reality of Native Americans.  A thematic approach will be applied to this study, and topics such as history, film, language, spirituality, commercialism, appropriation, subsistence, and sovereignty will be explored in some detail and from a variety of perspectives.  Through a survey of various tribal groups, students will analyze some of the major concepts, methods, and theories used in anthropological studies of Native American cultures, assess the roles that stereotypes, biological and cultural interaction with non-Indians, and urbanization have had on Indian identity, and appreciate the richness and complexity of Native American life as it was and continues to be lived in diverse ways and in different places in North America.
ARHS 391.00	ST: Modernism and the Avant-Garde: the Case of Matisse	0.50 unit	Tain, John
This seminar can be thought of as a working group on the history of the avant-garde and modernism. The first half of the course will introduce students to some of the key texts and the questions they raise. Matisse will stand as the principle artist for study, though other artists and writers will also be considered. The second half will be devoted to student projects on individuals or movements chosen in consultation with the instructor. The course will culminate in a long student presentation and a fifteen-page paper. Prerequisites: Some familiarity with the major artistic or literary movements of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries is advisable. As students will be encouraged to work with primary sources for their individual projects, reading knowledge of a foreign language will be an advantage. Non art history majors are also encouraged to apply. Instructor permission is required for enrollment.
BIOL 191.00	ST: Life at the Extremes	0.50 unit	Onyenwoke, Robert
This introductory course will focus on the diversity of life on Earth with the majority of the material pertaining to microbial life. The main course objective will be to give a broad overview of how life can not only survive, but also thrive and flourish, under conditions considered to be “extreme” in the human sense (e.g. decreased or elevated temperature, acidity, etc.). The course content will include, but is not limited to: in-class discussions and quizzes on assigned readings, and student presentations on selected topics of interest to the class. Suitable for non-science majors. No prerequisites. Does not count toward the major or minor. Enrollment limited.
BIOL 391.00	ST: Evolutionary Modeling	0.50 unit	Hoppe, Richard
With the increasing use of computer modeling of complex systems, evolutionary algorithms have become a useful tool in exploring questions in evolutionary biology. This course introduces students to evolutionary algorithms, computer models of evolutionary processes. Through readings, lectures, guided exercises and independent work, students will gain familiarity with the advantages and disadvantages of using computer models to explore questions in evolutionary biology. Primary focus will be on one research platform, Avida, and on its strengths and limitations as a research tool to study fundamental principles of evolution. Issues accessible to study using Avida include the topography of fitness landscapes and selective environments, the relative effects of mutations of various kinds and rates, the emergence of complexity in evolving populations and the 'transfer' of complexity from environment to genome via evolutionary processes, and so on. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing with at least one biology course at the 200 level. No particular computer expertise is required. Can be used to fulfill a lab requirement for the Biology major.
CNHS 391	ST: Taiwan and Hong Kong through Film and Fiction	0.50 unit	Zhang, Zie
This seminar offers an overview of modern Taiwan and Hong Kong culture and society through the analysis of representative Chinese-language films. Students will familiarize themselves with the most important genres and filmmakers of the "Sinophone cinema" outside mainland china. In some cases, we will discuss the relationship between the films and the fictional works to which they are related. Specifically, the course considers films directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, King Hu, Edward Yang, Stanley Kwan, Wong Kar-wai, Stan Lai, John Woo, Ann Hui, and Tsai Ming-liang, among others. Students will understand the dynamics of Taiwan and Hong Kong culture and society and acquire basic skills to appreciate Taiwan and Hong Kong films as a formal and social construct. All readings, films, and discussion are in English. This course can fulfill requirements for Asian area study concentration and, with permission of the international studies director, for international studies
ENGL 103.07	Narrating the Nation	0.50 unit	Garcia, Ivonne
Nations are collectives of people, and writers often narrate their nations and themselves through a variety of genres (plays, short stories, memoirs, novels, and films) as part of, or as excluded from, the larger group. This class explores how national identities are created through narratives from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599) to Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) to the film "Independence Day" (1996). We will search for the similarities and differences among the written and visual texts we examine, looking for the larger constants and most intriguing divergences as we consider different national groups, genres, and time periods.  This course is not open to juniors and seniors without permission of the department chair. Enrollment limited.
ENGL 291.00	ST:Another America:Latin America and U.S. Latino(a) Literature in English	0.50 unit	Garcia, Ivonne
This course serves as an introduction to the literature in English of Latin American and U.S. Latino(a) writers. Through the reading of key works in Latin American and Latino(a) literature (novels, a memoir, essays, poetry), and through the examination of films focused on Latin Americans/Latino(a)s, we examine the themes, critical issues, styles and forms that characterize the literature of this "Other" America. The course expands the notion of what is widely considered as "American" literature by examining works (some originally written in English and others translated into English) produced in both the hemispheric and U.S. contexts of America. We begin by reading works by the Cuban Alejo Carpentier, the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez and the Mexican Laura Esquivel and using rhetorical and cultural analysis lenses to discuss how issues of colonization, slavery, the clash of cultures, and of U.S. intervention in the region are represented within the texts. We use the same lenses as we migrate north into the United States to read works by Latino(a) writers, including essays by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga, poetry by Miguel Piñero, and a memoir of migration by Esmeralda Santiago. These and other texts help us explore questions such as: What general similarities and differences can we identify between Latin American and Latino(a) literature? How are individual and national identities constructed in popular films by Latin Americans, and by U.S. filmmakers about Latino(a)s? Is there a difference between Hispanic and Latino(a)? Our goal is to apply a "transamerican" perspective to locate the literatures of this "Other" America alongside the larger framework of U.S. literature, culture and politics.
ENGL 391.00	ST:The Continental Divide:Sound and Sense in 20^th Ctry American Poetry	0.50 unit	Anderson, Daniel
Should poetry make sense of the world for its readers? Should it aspire, above all else, to create a “verbal earthly paradise?” Or should it accomplish both? This course will consider some of the aesthetic divisions that began to take shape in American poetry in the early 20^th century. We will start by reading Shakespeare’s The Tempest along with W.H. Auden’s essay on “Robert Frost” in which he observes, alluding to Shakespeare’s characters Prospero and Ariel, that every poem must navigate the rivalry between truth and beauty. The reading list will include poetry selections from Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Howard Nemerov among others. Permission of instructor required.
ENVS 291.00	ST: Sustainable Agriculture	0.50 unit	Mauck, Robert
The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the principles of sustainable agriculture through hands-on experience on local farms and through readings of current literature. As such, this course is a combination of fieldwork and seminar-style discussion. Work on the farm will be varied, determined by the seasons and farm projects underway. In addition, students will be taken to the local Producers Livestock auction, and other off-farm visits as the time and season allows. Students can expect to handle animals, clean barns, harvest crops, plant crops, prepare farm products for market, build and repair fence, bale hay, feed animals, and work with, repair, or clean equipment and buildings and other activities as needed. Readings will be drawn from relevant books, current environmental literature and topical news items. Discussions will be student-led and combine readings and their experiences in the field. There are no pre-requisites for this course. However, students must have available in their academic schedule five continuous hours one day per week to spend working at a local organic farm (travel time will be in addition to these five hours). In addition, students will participate in a weekly 1.5-2 hour seminar discussion of assigned readings. Participation is limited to 8-10 students and permission of the instructor is required. Preference will be given to upper class students.
MATH 391	ST:Intro to Wavelets/Lnr Algebra	0.50 unit	Brown, Christopher
PSYC 350	Psychology in Context	0.50 unit	Krieg, Dana
NOT for .75 unit, as printed in the Course of Study.
PSYC 425	Research Methods to Study Gender	0.50 unit	Murnen, Sarah
SOCY 291	ST:Knowledge of the Other: Journey to the East	0.50 unit	Sun, Anna
The course has two parts. In the first half, we read theoretical texts such as Edward Said’s Orientalism, excerpts from Kant’s and Hegel’s writing on race and world history, essays on Asian religions by Max Weber, Wendy Doniger, Donald Lopez and Tomoko Masuzawa, as well as debates about the “clash of civilizations” and the “geography of thought,” in order to conceptualize the notion of “the Other” and our relationship with “the Other.” In the second half, we focus on writings about Asia (Tibet, Japan, and China), such as travel writing, historical analysis and fiction. By analyzing these accounts of the journey to the East, we learn to recognize the complex relationships we have with the cultural, religious and social traditions that are radically different from our own, with the hope that we can develop a meaningful connection with them through a more reflexive understanding. This course helps both sociology and Asian Studies students to theorize the complex and creative relationship between oneself and “the Other,” and it is of use to students who have recently returned from study abroad (particularly Asia), as well as the ones who are preparing to go abroad.
Canceled Courses
PHIL 240	Philosophy of Religion	0.50 unit