SUPPLEMENT TO THE 2002-03 COURSE CATALOG
AAAS Senior Seminar. See SOCY 463.
ARHS 216.00 200310 Writing about Art, E. Dwyer, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course is designed to give students experience in writing about art. Selected readings will introduce various genres of writing on art ranging from fiction to technical writing. Authors studied will range from Homer to contemporary writers. Writing assignments will include the description and analysis of individual works of art as well as the presentation of more complex research. This course is designed particularly for students in Art History, but others interested in writing may find it useful. Prerequisite: one semester of Art History. Enrollment limited.
ARHS 232.00 200310 Art of Medieval Europe has been cancelled.
ARTS 101.00 200310 Color/Design has been cancelled.
CHEM 110.00 200310 Environmental Chemistry has been cancelled.
CHNS 305.00 200310 Philosophical Taoism in Chinese Literature, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course examines a special group of early Chinese texts from antiquity to the 8th century that will not only enlighten, but also delight modern readers: ancient Taoist texts written in fascinating literary style, and a variety of literary works informed with Taoist spirt. No knowledge of Chinese is required.
DANC 291.00 200280 Special Topic: Dance Kinesiology, J. Brodie, .5 unit, will be offered.
In DANC291 we will explore the vital, integrative connections between the body, the mind, and movement through a variety of approaches, experiences, and information. This course applies the information to dance technique, but it can easily be transferred to other movement forms as well. Kinesiology is the study of motion, which includes 3 basic categories of analysis: structural, biomechanical, and neuromuscular. We will touch upon all of these through our exploration of human anatomy and physiology, the physical laws impacting movement, and the mind-body connection responsible for producing and controlling movement. The latter subject is the primary focus of the various body therapies (somatics). The ultimate goal of the course is to increase awareness of the body and how it moves in order to enhance performance, increase movement efficiency, and prevent injury.
DRAM 216.00 200280 History of Clothing and Fashion has been cancelled.
DRAM 223.00 200280 Scene Designer has been cancelled.
DRAM 224.00 200310 Costume Designer has been cancelled.
ECON 205.00 200310 Empirical Economics, J.Keeler, .5 unit, will be offered.
ENGL 224.00 200280 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, E. Mankoff, .5 unit, will be offered.
ENGL 244.00 200280 Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in 18th-Century Britain, E. Gottlieb, .5 unit, will be offered.
Despite its traditional reputation as a period of conservative stability, the 18th- century was actually an era of great vitality and excitement. From the growth of the literary marketplace at the beginning of the century, to the eruption of the French Revolution and the subsequent reaction across the Channel, 18th-century Britain underwent a series of substantial changes to the fabric of its society, the effects of which are still with us today. In this course we will sample a variety of genres (the novel, poetry, drama, and non-fiction) as we investigate eighteenth-century British literature and society from the standpoints of the emerging public sphere and popular culture. Units will include "Urban Life," "The Countryside," and "Gothic Fiction"; authors studied will include Pope, Goldsmith, Austen, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth. We will also periodically supplement our primary readings with critical reflections by some of today's leading scholars. Enrollment limited for sophomores. Prerequisite: permission of instructor required for first-year students.
ENGL 338.00 200280 Milton, G. Harp, .5 unit, will be offered.
In this course we shall study Milton's development from his early years and student days at Cambridge through his participation in the British Commonwealth and the publication of his major poems. We shall of course primarily investigate Milton's growth as a poet, from his early lyrics through Paradise Lost (1667) and Paradise Regained (1671). In addition to his poems, we shall also consider certain of his prose works, such as Of Reformation in England (1641), Areopagitica (1644), and Eikonoklastes (1649). We shall consider the multiple relationships between Milton's poetry and prose, along with his involvements in the political and religious affairs of his day. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Enrollment limited.
ENGL 385.00 200280 Contemporary American Poetry has been cancelled.
ENGL 465.00 200280 Literature of Partition has been cancelled.
ENGL 214.00 200310 Bible as Literature, G. Harp, .5 unit, will be offered.
The Bible is not a single book, but rather many books written in various genres for many (and not always clear) purposes over the course of centuries. We shall explore how these texts work and the varieties of interpretation that they support. In the course of our reading, we shall investigate how books of the Hebrew and Christian Testaments make use of genre (e.g., creation story, "history," wisdom writing, prophecy, poetry, epistle) and how they redact material for their own distinctive purposes. This focus will afford us the opportunity to explore how traditions develop, shift, die off, and remain vital. Finally, we shall also explore how later writers (e.g., Nietzsche, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop) make use of biblical materials and voices. The course is open only to sophomores and first-year students with advanced placement credit. Enrollment limited for sophomores. Prerequisite: permission of instructor required for first-year students.
ENGL 215.00 200310 Prosody & Poetics has been cancelled.
ENGL 218.00 200310 Detective Fiction, J. Parks, .5 unit, will be offered.
Beginning with Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes, this course studies the detective fiction genre, its form and function. We will read examples of both the traditional whodunit and the hardboiled novel, including works by Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Walter Mosley. We'll consider the works' epistemologies and narrative forms, and we'll address the following questions: How do the works define "crime," "truth," and "justice"? How do they depict relationships between the individual and society and between justice and law enforcement? What are their representations of race, class, and gender? Can the genre be defined as inherently progressive? as conservative? And why is the genre so popular? What kinds of pleasure does it give the reader, and what are its cultural functions? We'll end the course with three works of meta-detective fiction, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paul Auster, and Tom Stoppard.
ENGL 234.00 200310 Country and City Renaissance Literature has been cancelled.
ENGL 245.00 200310 The Construction of National Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century, E. Gottlieb, .5 unit, will be offered.
Today we are used to treating "English" and "British" synonymously, but, in fact, "Britain" only came into being with the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707. After that, these two previously bitter enemies had to begin to learn to think of themselves as a single people. (The additional Act of Union with Ireland in 1800 only complicated the situation.) How did the English, the Scottish, the Welsh, and the Irish come to understand themselves as a united people in the eighteenth century? What roles did literature have to play in this transformation? And even as "Britishness" became more accepted as a national identity, in what ways did it fail to cohere, especially in relation to issues of race, class, and gender? This course will investigate these questions through close but historically contextualized readings of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction of the period 1700-1830. Units will include "Englishness," "Surveying the Nation," and "The Romance of Britain"; authors studied will include Defoe, Smollett, Edgeworth, and Scott. We will also consider what several contemporary critics think about issues of nationalism and the work of literature in the formation of national identity. Enrollment limited for sophomores.
Prerequisite: permission of instructor required for first-year students.
ENGL 253.00 200310 Victorian Urban Culture has been cancelled.
ENGL 314.00 200310 Consciousness in the Novel: Austen to Woolf, J. Wood, .5 unit, will be offered.
We will examine, primarily but not exclusively, the ways in which novelists such as Jane Austen, Stendhal, George Eliot, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf represent the minds of their heroes and heroines. The modern novel exists, in part, for the examination of consciousness. But what does it mean for a character to think in a novel? Is the stream-of-consciousness a modern invention, or does it have its roots in soliloquy and reported speech? Is it possible, then, to speak of a "development" of mental thought in the novel? Our enquiries will naturally move from these questions to related topics, such as the function of fictional character, the different roles of heroes and heroines, and the challenge of the modern. In addition to the listed texts, we may also look from time to time at selected passages by Tolstoy, Chekhov, Knut Hamsun, and Katherine Mansfield. Our overwhelming emphasis will be on the language of fiction. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Enrollment limited.
ENGL 355.00 200310 "Other" Victorian Encounters has been cancelled.
ENGL 433.00 200310 Women in Renaissance Literature has been cancelled.
ENGL 436.00 200310 Pastoral Visions & Revisions, J. Parks, .5 unit, will be offered.
Not just about sheep and shepherds, the pastoral has long provided a venue for trenchant social and political critique. This seminar will consider literary representations of nature from Theocritus to today, focusing on the politics of the pastoral. We'll consider the uses of nature, constructions of the distinction between country and city, and the green ideal in the literature of various historical periods, including our contemporary one. We'll read traditional pastoral as well as more recent versions of the genre: African-American, feminist, and postcolonial. All literature will be read with close attention to its historical moment, and we'll also examine the politics of the environment in contemporary American culture.
ENVS 461 00 200310 Seminar in Environmental Studies will be offered second semester instead of first.
HIST 220.00 200280 Latin-American History, S. Bryant, .5 unit, will be offered.
HIST 289.00 200280 Sophomore Seminar: Age of Enlightment, M. Maguire, .5 unit, will be offered.
HIST 347.00 200280 Conflict and Violence in Modern Africa, Mbajekwe, .5 unit, will be offered.
HIST 190.00 200310 First Year Seminar: Cultural Constructions of Africa, Mbajekwe, .5 unit, will be offered.
HIST 319.00 200310 Readings in Afro-Latin American History, S. Bryant, .5 unit, will be offered.
HIST 340.00 200310 Tudor and Stuart Britain, R. Browning, .5 unit, will be offered.
HIST 348.00 200310 African Urban History, Mbajekwe, .5 unit, will be offered.
IPHS 392.00 200310 ST: Rise of Historical Consciousness, .5 unit, will be offered.
ITAL 340.00 200310 Italian Cinema has been cancelled.
MATH 117.00 200280 Elementary Modeling of Real World Processes has been cancelled.
MATH 236.00 200280 Intro to Bayesian Statistics has been cancelled.
MATH 348.03 200310 ST: Theory of Computation, R. Milnikel, .5 unit, will be offered.
Why are some problems easily solved by a computer while others are difficult or impossible? We will use the fundamental mathematical tool of abstraction to explore this foundational question from computer science. Possible topics include: Deterministic and nondeterministic automata, Turing machines, Gödel s Incompleteness Theorems, NP-completeness. Prerequisites: Math 222 or permission of the instructor.
MATH 460.00 200280 Topology has been cancelled.
MATH 102.00 200310 Special Topic: Case Studies in Quantitative Reasoning, B. Hartlaub, .5 unit, will be offered.
Case studies and current events will be used to discuss and examine a wide variety of basic statistical concepts. The major topics of study will be producing data, organizing data, chance, and inference. Innumeracy--the mathematical counterpart of illiteracy--and its consequences will be examined. However, this will not be a typical introductory statistics course. Students will be engaged in class discussions from case studies dealing with stock scams, advertising claims, newspaper psychics, medical reports, public policy decisions, sports records, political elections, gender discrimination, lawsuits, drug testing, lotteries, government statistics, data ethics, and a wide variety of other areas. The class will be a mixture of lecture and discussion, with much more of the latter, based on selected readings. Students will critically analyze statistics that are reported in current periodicals. The focus of this course will not be on computation, but rather on reasoning. Oral and written reports will be expected. No Prerequisites.
MUSC 391.00 200280 Musical Modernism on the European Stage, L. Gottlieb, .5 unit, will be offered.
In this course we will study staged vocal works, operas, and ballets that were written between the 1890s and 1920s in France, England, Germany and Austria. We will begin our discussion with "modernism." What does this term mean, and how does its definition change according to historical and cultural considerations? To answer these questions, our first readings and discussions will be theoretical in nature. From here, we will proceed to investigate how modernism played out on the musical stage; recurring themes and concepts that we will consider include the relationship between text (poems, plays, libretto, spoken word) and music; collaboration; reception; experimentation; interdisciplinarity; Expressionism; Dadaism; popular entertainment; and nationalism. The composers whose works we will study include Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, R. Strauss, Satie, and Les Six.
Prerequisites: MUSC 101 and 102
PHIL 115.00 200280 Practical Issues in Ethics has been cancelled.
PHIL 270.00 200310 Social and Political Philosophy, E. England, .5 unit, will be offered.
What makes wars, wages, laws and punishment just or unjust? No one today would dare answer that ancient question without first mastering the ideas of John Rawls and Robert Nozick, the two most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. A close look at their theories and other rival accounts of justice will lead us to re-examine many of our fundamental moral assumptions. We will explore the social implications of libertarian, contractualist and communitarian principles as we debate euthanasia, poverty, free trade, terrorism, and various restrictions on liberty. Think of this course as a primer for presidential candidates: anyone can say that some law or action is just or unfair, but how many could explain why?
PHIL 292.00 200310 ST: Environmental Philosophy has been cancelled.
PHIL 355.00 200310 Philosophy and Feminism has been cancelled.
PHIL 390.00 200310 Contemporary Aristotelian Ethics, J. Richeimer, .5 unit, will be offered.
PHIL 392.00 200310 ST: Postmodernism has been cancelled.
PHIL 400.00 200310 Seminar on Contemporary Ethics has been cancelled.
PHSD 175.20 200280 Therapeutic Swimming has been cancelled.
PHYS 110.00 200280 First-year Seminar: Materials has been cancelled.
PHYS 108.00 200310 Geology will be offered second semester instead of first.
PSCI 348.00 200280 Comparative Parties and Elections has been cancelled.
PSYC 342.00 200280 Clinical Psyc has been cancelled.
RELN 250.00 200310 South Asian Religions, P. Mumme, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course explores the religious traditions found today in the Indian subcontinent: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, and Sikhism. Much of the course will deal with Hinduism: the oldest, most diverse, and still dominant religious tradition in India today. As we trace Hinduism's historical development, we will explore the other religious traditions that arose in South Asia or were imported by foreigners. Our aim will be to understand how the beliefs and practices of these new traditions both shaped and were shaped by Hinduism. Students will gain insight into both the commonality and diversity in how South Asian religions diagnose the problems of human existence and seek to overcome them. Reading scriptural excerpts and viewing videos and slides will help us appreciate the intellectual profundity, aesthetic sensibility, and lived reality of the various religious traditions of South Asia.
RELN 492.00 200310 Readings of Genesis, D. Rogan, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course will focus on Genesis, that most compelling and baffling beginning of the Bible, by close examination of approaches that are traditional, modern, and post-modern, religious and literary, Jewish, Christian, Muslim and secular. In addition to close study of the text, and of the use of narratives in religion, a significant portion of class time will be spent encountering, analyzing, and enjoying the rendition of Genesis in modern poetry. Prerequisite: junior standing and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited.
RUSS 322.00 200310 Russian Journalistic Style has been cancelled.
RUSS 340.00 200310 Russian Culture through Cinema, N. Olshanskaya, .5 unit, will be offered.
This course provides an overview of the most significant trends and periods in the development of Russian cinema, and introduces students to main cinematic genres and styles. It will concentrate on three major aspects of cinema as an essential part of Russian culture: 1) cinema as art: major directors and productions; 2) myths of the nation: politics and history in Russian cinema; and 3) self and the other: gender race, ethnicity. New trends in Russian culture will also be considered. No prerequisites. Limited enrollment. The course will be taught in English.
RUSS 350.00 200310 Survey of Russian Lit has been cancelled.
SOCY 292.01 200280 ST: Social Problems & Collective Solutions, J. Keys, .5 unit, will be offered.
SOCY 292.02 200280 ST: The Abortion Debate, J. Keys, .5 unit, will be offered.
8-Apr-2003