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Anthropology 230 (3) - Anthropology of East Asia - Newly scheduled course - An exploration of the human geography, demography, and social and cultural organization of East Asian societies, intended to help students develop a synoptic view of this important region. Readings include both classics of East Asian anthropology and recent scholarship; films and music add visual and aural dimensions. In addition to work with local library resources and traditional tools of scholarship, students use Geographic Information System (GIS) software to create maps, and will develop and publish web projects expressive of their particular interests. Blackmer.
Art 241 (3) - Arts of Japan - Newly scheduled course
Biology 295A (1) - Topics in Biology: Biological Invasions - topical description - Limited to 10 students. Prerequisites: Biology 112, 182, and junior standing. Current research on invasion of exotic species and their effects on native species and ecosystems. Hanlon
Biology 295B (1) - Topics in Biology: Sociobiology and Human Behavior - topical description - Limited to 10 students. Prerequisites: Biology 112, 182, and junior standing.Discussion of the controversial idea that much of human social behavior (e.g., love, jealousy, cooperation, and xenophobia) can be understood in the biological context of natural selection and adaptation. Marsh
Biology 295C (1) - Topics in Biology:Immunological Orchestra - topical description - Limited to 10 students. Prerequisites: Biology 112, 182, and junior standing.
Biology 295D (1) - Topics in Biology: Evolutionary Research - topical description - Limited to 10 students. Prerequisites: Biology 112, 182, and junior standing.
Biology 398 (3) - Biological Diversity - topical description - Prerequisite: Biology 112. The course examines key questions about the origins and geographic distribution of biological diversity ("biodiversity"): what are the major groups of plants and animals, how are they distributed on Earth, and how do important biogeographical patterns reflect ecological and evolutionary processes? Hurd, Knox
Chemistry 110 (4) - Chemistry of the Earth - completion of this course will NOT serve as a prerequisite for Chemistry 241 (4), Organic Chemistry I. Thus, this course is NOT appropriate for anyone contemplating medical school of any kind (where Organic chemistry is needed). The proper course for these people, as it always has been, is Chemistry 111 (4), General Chemistry.
Chemistry 241 (4) - Organic Chemistry I - Permission required - This is necessary in order to implement the "2.5 rule" which is in effect. (The "2.5 rule" may be found in the catalog in the prerequisites for Chemistry 241.)
Chemistry 296 (1) - Hazardous Materials - Newly scheduled course - Permission required - Pass/Fail only, which eliminates freshmen and indicates this course may not be used to fulfill major requirements.
Chemistry 341 (4) - Biochemistry - reminder: prerequisite is Chemistry 242 (4), Organic Chemistry II
Chinese 111-112 (8) - First-year Chinese - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
Chinese 261-262 (8) - Second-year Chinese - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
Computer Science 210 (4) - Computer Organization - Newly revised course - Prerequisite: Computer Science 111. Multilevel machine organization studied at the levels of digital logic, microprogramming, conventional machine, operating system, and assembly language. The weekly laboratory session includes Unix fundamentals and programming using C++. Laboratory course. Necaise, Whaley.
Computer Science 295 (1) - Language Lab in LISP - Newly scheduled course - topical description
Economics 297 (3) - Political Economics - topical description - A critical survey of the economic approach to politics and political processes, emphasizing Arrow's impossibility theorem, majority rule voting systems, "logrolling," the median voter hypothesis, the theory of bureaucracy, "constitutional economics," and economic theories of international relations. Smythe
Economics 399 (3) - Environmental & Resource Economics - topical description - Prerequisite: Economics 101. The purpose of this course is to apply microeconomic theory to environmental and resource problems. Our objective is to develop an economic way of thinking about all aspects of environmental and natural resource issues. We examine issues and problems related to the environment and the use of natural resources such as environmental protection, measurement of environmental values, strategies for pollution control, and the optimal use of natural resources. Kahn
English 101A (3) - Expository Writing: Cultural Controversies - Cancelled
English 101B (3) - Expository Writing: Mythologies - topical description - This course focuses on the concept of "mythologies." We examine several mythic traditions, including the Judeo-Christian, the African-American, and the Celtic-Irish, as well as a range of writings about mythologies. Readings include Freud, Jung, Levi-Strauss, Frye, and Campbell, as well as the Books of Genesis and Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston's OF MULES AND MEN, Lady Gregory's GODS AND FIGHTING MEN, and J.R.R. Tolkien's THE SILMARILLION. In a series of short essays, students hone their compositional, analytic, and interpretive skills. Conner
English101C (3) - Expository Writing: Autobiography & the Art of Writing Well - topical description - Class participants read and discuss the memoirs of several extraordinary people, each of which reveals something about the processes of self-discovery and maturation: Jane Goodall, AFRICA IN MY BLOOD: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN LETTERS; Russell Baker, GROWING UP; Jeremy Bernstein, THE LIFE IT BRINGS: ONE PHYSICIST'S BEGINNINGS; Donna Williams, NOBODY NOWHERE: THE EXTRAORDINARY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AUTISTIC; and Anne Frank, THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL. Students write a series of related essays and keep a journal. Class requires active participation in an ongoing workshop on reading closely, thinking clearly, and writing well. Camuto
English105A (3) - Composition & Literature: Justice and Character - topical description - A study of justice as a virtue of character, as the means by which the state apportions goods and punishments, and as the way people seek a good life for themselves and their communities: what motivates people to act justly, what must be taken into account in judging human acts (crimes and punishment, achievement and rewards), the nature and purposes of law (but also its limits), the place of mercy in just judgment, what impels people to wrongfully accuse others, how the oppressed deal with injustice. Literary types: courtroom drama, utopia, detective fiction, anti-police state novel, poems on events in American history. Some attention to philosophical concepts of justice. Craun
English105B (3) - Composition & Literature: The Supernatural in Literature - topical description - This section of English 105 will focus on literature dealing with supernatural interventions in human affairs, for good and ill. The writing for the course will be critical responses to the reading, which will include Aeschylus's ORESTEIA, Sophocles's OEDIPUS THE KING, Apuleius's GOLDEN ASS, and a number of more recent works, among them MACBETH, Mary Renault's THE KING MUST DIE, and C. S. Lewis's TILL WE HAVE FACES, and a number of poems which deal with similar themes. Evans
English 105C (3) - Composition & Literature: Racine and Shakespeare - topical description - The opposition of Racine, the great French tragic playwright, and Shakespeare, England's most admired dramatist, has long been used to symbolize the larger literary division between classicism and romanticism, that is, between literature characterized by tradition, decorum, and the following of rules and literature emphasizing originality, freedom, and the breaking of convention. This course explores that fundamental opposition through a series of paired readings of dramatists, novelists, and poets. The class begins with Stendahl's famous statement of the problem in RACINE ET SHAKESPEARE and then proceeds with plays such as BERENICE and ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, BRITANNICUS and MACBETH, novels such as Austen's MANSFIELD PARK and Stendahl's THE RED AND THE BLACK, and the poetry of Pope and Coleridge. Adams
English 105D (3) - Composition & Literature: Literature and the Environment - topical description - This course focuses on fiction, poetry, and drama in which the relationship between human and nonhuman nature is central. The texts treat this central relationship in several different ways, and the selections range from the Renaissance to the present. The class reads stories by Hawthorne and Barry Lopez, novellas by Faulkner; poems by 19th-century Americans like Bryant, Whitman, and Dickinson, and by the contemporary poets Elizabeth Bishop and Gary Snyder; plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Sam Shepard. Warren
English 105E (3) - Composition & Literature: Mountains and Rivers Without End - topical description - Borrow-ing the title of Gary Snyder's book, MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS WITHOUT END, this section explores the use of mountains and rivers as central metaphors of the human condition. The class reads a wide variety of literary works, including novels, short fiction, creative non-fiction, drama, and poetry. Representative works may include: MAGIC MOUNTAIN, by Thomas Mann; CLOSE RANGE, by Annie Proulx; A RIVER SUTRA, by Gita Mehta; HEART OF DARKNESS, by Joseph Conrad; APOCALYPSE NOW, by John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola; MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS WITHOUT END, by Gary Snyder; MOUNTAIN RIVER: VIETNAMESE POETRY OF THE WAR YEARS, edited by Kevin Bowen, Nguyen Ba Chung, and Bruce Weigl; A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, by Norman Maclean; DREAMS, by Akira Kurosawa; and PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK, by Annie Dillard. Students will write analytical, reflective, and creative papers in response to these readings. McClure
English 105F (3) - Composition & Literature: Mysteries, Puzzles & Conundrums - topical description - Melville wrote that "significance lurks in all things." In other words, meaning exists everywhere, but it is hidden and sometimes difficult, even impossible to discover. Upon this belief rests the possibility of mystery. And it is with mysteries this section is concerned -- "mysteries" not in the generic sense of stories about crime and detection but mysteries of character, morality, religion, and art. Central to each of the works we read is some puzzle, secret, riddle, enigma, ambiguity, or complexity. Sometimes the work itself is the mystery, a kind of hieroglyph. Each of our readings, in its own way, raises questions about the methods and the limitations of human discovery. Oliver
English 210 (3) - Shakespeare - Newly scheduled course - Freshmen only
English 290 (3) - Seminar for Prospective Majors: Justice and Honor: Ethics and the Reading of Shakespeare and Chaucer - topical description - A study of how Shakespeare dramatizes the classical/Christian virtues of justice, equity, and mercy in his courtroom plays (MERCHANT OF VENICE and MEASURE FOR MEASURE) and how these are recast in his great last romance, THE TEMPEST; a parallel study of how Chaucer explores the multifaceted basic good of medieval secular culture, honor in men and women, in several of the CANTERBURY TALES ("The Knight's Tale," "The Franklin's Tale," "The Man of Law's Tale," "The Physician's Tale," etc.). Alongside the literary texts, the class reads brief sections of philosophical texts -- ancient, medieval, and modern -- on justice, honor, and the ethical basis of human action; we also discuss recent theory on reading imaginative literature as an inherently ethical activity (Paul Ricouer, Charles Taylor, etc.). Craun
French 111-112 (8) - Elementary French - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
French 161-162 (6) - Intermediate French - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
French 331 (3) - Études Thématiques: L'Amour - topical description - Prerequisite: French 273 or equivalent or permission of the instructor. The readings in this course focus on the theme of love in selected French poetry, prose, and plays from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Students analyze and compare different notions of love (from courtly love and platonic love to more modern conceptions of love) and learn to identify the tropes which may define a particular genre, period, or culture. Lambeth
French 341 (3) - Le théâtre français de 1460 à 1700 - topical description - Prerequisite: French 331 or 332 or permission of the instructor. A study of the French theatre from its inception in the Middle Ages until the end of the 17th century. Illustrating the developing neoclassical dichotomy of comedy and tragedy as well as that of religious and secular tragedy, works analyzed in class and essays are the medieval Farce de maître Pathelin, excerpts from two 16th-century tragedies, two comedies by Molière, and tragedies by Corneille and Racine. Fralin
French 397 (3) - Seminaire avancé: La France sous l'Occupation - topical description - Prerequisites: Three 300-level French courses or permission of the instructor. Strongly motivated non-majors who do not meet the prerequisite are encouraged to apply for permission. The particular topic is life in France during the German Occupation (1940-1944), and how the controversy that raged then has endured in French society. Materials for the course include an array of multimedia: literary texts, historical documents, songs, documentary and fiction films. Oral reports and discussions are conducted in French and all papers are written in French. Frégnac-Clave
German 111-112 (8) - Elementary - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
German 261-262 (8) - Intermediate - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
Interdepartmental 102 (1) - Field Work in Poverty Studies. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Corequisite: Interdepartmental 101. Sustained critical reflection on pivotal issues in poverty studies based on supervised volunteer work, journals, and weekly discussions in relation to the reading in Interdepartmental 101. The course culminates with a paper integrating readings and field work. Beckley.
Italian 111-112 (8) - Beginning Italian - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
Japanese 111-112 (8) - First-year Japanese - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
Japanese 261-262 (8) - Second-year Japanese - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
Journalism 295A (3) - Reporting in Business & Economics - topical description - Prerequisite: Journalism 253 or Journalism 263. Using the community as a laboratory, students develop competence in the principles and techniques of reporting on business and economic issues in a democratic society. Extensive reporting and writing for different media. Designed primarily for majors planning the business journalism sequence. Staff
Journalism 295B (3) - Journalistic Immortals - topical description - Prerequisite: Journalism 201 or permission of the department. Writers whose journalistic writing has achieved lasting value, and why their work has lasted. Among those considered are H. L. Mencken, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Willie Morris, George Plimpton, Walter Lippmann and others. Weekly short-essay assignments. Appropriate for completion of the writing-course requirement for communications-sequence majors. Yoder
Latin 403 (3) - Directed Individual Study: Neronian Literature - topical description - A reading of several representative works of literature in Latin from the time of Nero. This course is taught partly on-line via computer, in cooperation with other member colleges of the American Colleges of the South (ACS). Students meet with the W&L instructor one hour a week. The other two hours of class time are on-line. One of these hours requires synchronous on-line participation by all students in the class. The second hour is asynchronous and entails lectures and other activities. (A press release on this course and others appears here.) Crotty
Literature in Translation 218 (3) - Chinese Pre-Republican
Literature in Translation - Cancelled
Literature in Translation 295 (3) - European Short Fiction - topical
description -Stories, novellas and short novels of the 19th and early 20th
centuries. Writers considered include Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov,Balzac,
Flaubert, Zola and Mann. Yoder
Mathematics 101X (3) - Calculus I - reserved for students who have never had any previous work in calculus
Mathematics 101Z (3) - Calculus I - reserved for students who have had some previous work in calculus
Mathematics 221A (3) - Multivariable Calculus - freshmen only
Any W&L student may enroll in Army ROTC courses for degree credit at VMI. You should sign up for the "ghost" course MS 100, 200, 300 or 400 during W&L registration, depending on which course sequence you will be taking at VMI. No specific REGISTRATION permission is required. These W&L registrations are not graded and do not count toward your term course load. You will receive transfer credit from VMI upon completion of each course with a grade of C or better. Check the VMI ROTC web page, phone 464.7187 (CPT Chris Whittaker at VMI) or see the W&L University Registrar.
Neuroscience 395 (3) - Brain Change: Development, Modification and Regeneration of Neural Systems - topical description - Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, Psychology 111 or Neuroscience 120, or permission of the instructor. An examination of neuroscientists' current understanding of how central neural systems are formed during development, how these systems undergo plastic change during the life of an organism, and how injured or compromised neural tissue may be repaired. Issues include the role of reproductive and stress hormones in brain plasticity; the use of sensory systems as models for studying neural development; brain mechanisms underlying learning and memory; and the role of neurotrophins and other biochemicals in effecting neural change during growth, plasticity and repair (among others). Students examine the relationship between basic scientific research in this field, and disease states such as post-polio syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome, and Alzheimer's disease. J. Stewart
IMPORTANT -- Sign up for PE classes
through web registration now. Read the instructions!
Physical Education - Students may express a preference for up to three
skills courses as part of web registration. These preferences will
be examined after the academic schedule is set and, if open and not in
conflict with the academic courses, one may be placed in the schedule.
Changes or additional sections may still be handled during the drop/add
period.
Physical Education 195 - Outdoor Activities: Climbing - Newly scheduled
course - topical description - An introductory course in climbing. The
class focuses on safe, low-impact climbing, with attention to knots, making
anchors, rappelling, and belaying. Outing Club Staff. Fall (1st six weeks)
Physics 211 (1) - Modern Physics Laboratory. - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisite or corequisite: Physics 210. Laboratory exercises covering topics in Physics 210, Modern Physics. Donaghy. Fall
Politics 229 (3) - Parties, Interest Groups, and the Media - Cancelled
Politics 240 (3) - Seminar on Elections and Government in Western Democracies - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisite: Politics 100 or 101. This course addresses foundations of and developments and changes in the electoral systems, constitutions, and political processes of western democracies (Europe, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand). Emphasis is on theories of government, electoral laws and reform, and the impact of different institutional arrangements on political processes. Each year, the course also includes case studies of contemporary reform movements in particular countries. Rush
Politics 295 (3) International Relations Seminar: International Dynamics - topical description - No prerequisites or corequisites. Introductory survey of unprecedented changes in the international-level political process as we know it. Open to majors and non-majors of all classes. Especially recommended for career-aspirants in diplomacy, international business, and national security. McCaughrin
Politics 330 (3) - Congress & The Legislative Process - Cancelled
Politics 390 (3) - Women & Politics - topical description - Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of the instructor. This course investigates the terms under which women participate in political life. Attention is given to the causes of men and women's different patterns of participation, the conditions that are likely to increase women's political power, and the movement of women into electoral politics. Primary focus is on American women, but comparative examples are also used. Course may be used to satisfy major requirement for a course in American politics. LeBlanc
Politics 397 (3) - Seminar in American Government: Elections 2000 - topical description - This seminar examines the Presidential and Congressional campaigns and national elections of November 2000, within the context of American elections during the decade of the 1990s. Topics include the central role that elections play in American Democracy, changes in the presidential nominating process, campaign finance, voter turnout, and the role of political parties. The seminar concludes with an analysis of the results of the November elections and their likely impact on the politics and policy of the next four years. John
Public Speaking 301 (3) - Argumentation and Debate - Newly scheduled course
Public Speaking 306 (3) - Classical Rhetoric - Cancelled
Religion 195 (3) - Magic, Science, & Religion - topical description - How do religious and scientific explanations and methods of inquiry differ? How is "real" magic supposed to work? What is the nature of "reason" in each case? What is the role of authority? Where do systems such as alchemy, astrology, and acupuncture fit in the spectrum of such ideas and practices? This course draws together a wide range of materials from antiquity to the present, from the West and from Asia, to illustrate types of systems of knowledge and the bases upon which they have been constructed. The approach is to present classical and modern philosophical, religious, and scientific views of what counts as "knowledge," how it is acquired and taught, the authority of tradition, and the role of experience (perception, experiment) and reason in establishing or confirming knowledge. Theoretical and methodological readings are balanced with a selection of "case studies" which are drawn from contexts such as religious ritual, the spiritual claims of mystics, scripture-based doctrine, alchemy, astrology, sorcery, "traditional medicines," and the emergence of modern science. Students research a system of their choice and analyze its claims and methods in comparison with other traditions covered in the course. Course web site: home.wlu.edu/~lubint/Rel195.htm Lubin
Religion 295 (3) - Religion, Community, & Conflict in South Asia - topical description - Why does religion so often become a source of conflict in society? How can doctrines emphasizing harmony and peace become the justification for rioting, war, and terrorism? Why is conversion from one religion so controversial? What should be the proper role of religion in public life and in politics? This course approaches these questions in the cultural context of South Asia, drawing examples from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Nepal. Topics include the place of religious ideas and practices in defining social identity and shaping actual communities, and roles of religion in politics. These examples serve as a running comparison with similar issues confronting contemporary America. Course web site: home.wlu.edu/~lubint/Rel295.htm Lubin
Russian 111-112 (8) - Elementary -This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
Russian 261-262 (8) - Intermediate - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
Sociology 290 (3) - Political Sociology - topical description - Prerequisites: some exposure to social science and history is helpful but not required; open to all students. A review of classical statements and contemporary research on the relationship between the state and society. The bulk of the course is devoted to covering the major themes in contemporary sociological research in the field. Topics include the rise of the nation-state; nationalism in the modern world; social revolutions; the relationship between capitalism and democracy; the connections between war, capitalism, and the state system; and the differences between U.S. democracy and the rest of the industrialized world. Roudometof
Spanish 111-112 (8) - Elementary Spanish - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
Spanish 161-162 (6) - Intermediate Spanish - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term
Spanish 396 (3) - Spanish-American Seminar: De lo magico a lo fantastico - topical description - Prerequisites: at least three credits of 300-level Spanish An extensive examination of implausible concepts of "reality," as posited by contemporary Latin American authors. Students offer textual analyses of works dealing with the supernatural, surreal, super-real, Gothic, and the Fantastic, with special emphasis on the Magic-Real. Readings -- both short narrative and novels -- include texts by Arreola, Asturias, Bioy Casares, Borges, Carpentier, Cortazar, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Gorodischer, Llana, Peri Rossi, and Valenzuela among others. Students are required to write extensively, read critically, lead discussion in Spanish, and report on related authors beyond the Latin American canon. Course web site: home.wlu.edu/~barnettj/396b/ Barnett
University Scholars 200 (1) - Intro to T'ai Chi Ch'uan - topical description - Prerequisite: University Scholar. Pass/fail only. T'ai chi ch'uan is a traditional Chinese exercise practiced for health, relaxation, meditation and self-defense. Its value lies in its emphasis on total body integration and development of internal strength, relaxation and coordination. This class introduces the postures and sequence of the first third of the Yang Style Short Form as interpreted by Cheng Man Ching. Participants also study and discuss works form the literary tradition that present a philosophical perspective on the physical practice. Cass
University Scholars 202 (3) - Unfinished Science: Experiments and Uncertainty
- topical description - This course is about science in action not science
accomplished. Science does not wholly consist of unquestioned facts
recorded in textbooks and journals. In every scientific field, there
are contested hypotheses which are at odds with the available evidence.
By examining in detail real cases of disputed hypotheses, students learn
about the relation between hypothesis and evidence and how scientists manage
uncertainty. The course is divided into four sections: 1) philosophical
and sociological theories of scientific change and the relationship among
experiment, evidence, and theory; 2) origin of life on earth as a scientific
problem, including discussions of the differences between historical and
laboratory science, various models and evidence for the origin of life,
and substitution of computer simulations for experimentation; 3) string
theory and discussion of how a theory without confirming empirical evidence
becomes prominent -- comparisons with Einstein's 1915 General Theory of
Relativity and the agenda of the Pythagoreans, cases in which faith in
the "truth" was based more on aesthetic judgment than comparison of prediction
and experiment; and 4) vaccinations: central unresolved questions which
affect public health policy, including investigation of the history of
immunization, advances in vaccine research, immunological bases for vaccination,
processes of vaccine development and administration of vaccination programs.
Meets general education area 5c. Wilson, Desjardins, Williams, Simurda