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Art 380A (3) - Antiquity and its Appropriations - topical description - Prerequisite: Art 251 and permission of the instructor. Taught in Italy. Buildings and objects created during the height of Roman rule have come to represent for many the triumphs and defeats of Western Civilization's greatest empire. Certainly the ruins littering Italian soil have inspired artists and patrons alike for centuries. This course traces the evolution of the Roman classical style from its roots in antiquity through the appropriation of those forms and their meanings through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Various readings address issues, clarify points, and spark discussion during visits to major sites in Rome, Assisi, Florence, Siena, Pisa, and Venice. Bent
Art 423 (3) - Visual Books - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. An exploration of imagery as a means to create visual books. Traditional and novel techniques will be used to fabricate books that are art objects. Stene
Biology 241 (3) - Ornithology - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisites: Biology 112, permission of the instructor. This course integrates studies of bird biology with field observation and identification of local bird species. Topics include anatomy, reproduction, vocalization, migration, ecology, and evolution. Field trips to a variety of areas throughout Virginia emphasize identification skills and basic field research techniques. Cabe
Biology 242 (3) - Field Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisites: Biology 112, permission of the instructor. The southern Appalachians region has a higher species diversity of temperate-zone amphibians and reptiles than most areas of the world. This course studies the behavior, ecology, and evolution of these animals through field research projects and trips to a number of habitats in the mountains and piedmont of Virginia. Students also examine current threats to the health of endangered amphibian and reptile populations. Marsh
Biology 396 (3) - Virology - topical description - Prerequisite: Biology 112 and junior standing. Viruses contain more biological diversity than all the rest of the bacterial, plant, and animal kingdoms combined. We examine viruses from a molecular perspective: their genetics, structure and pathology, all of which are unique, and all of which contribute to their remarkable success. Welsheimer
Computer Science 295 (2) - Language Laboratory: Unix Software Tools - topical description - Prerequisite: Computer Science 112. An introduction to software tools provided in the Unix operating system environment. Students learn to navigate and manage the file system, use and program the Unix shell interface, use and customize the X-window environment, and use the Make utility. Further topics are selected from document typesetting with LaTeX, creating graphs and plots using GNUplot, debugging programs with gdb, using the TextInfo system, and other current Unix-based software tools. Students also learn the basics of installing and managing Linux on personal computers. Necaise
Computer Science 402 (2) - Directed Individual Study: Digital Libraries - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 10 students. In this directed study course, we plan a team effort to survey the area of digital libraries from many different points of view. Some of the aspects include a historical perspective, relationship to traditional libraries, electronic publishing, current research efforts, economic and legal issues, digital library management, user interfaces, technologies related to information retrieval, metadata for describing library content, metadata for describing library structure, and object models for working with digital libraries. The class meets twice weekly to discuss findings and decide on individual assignments. The content is covered at a survey level as opposed to a highly technical, advanced computer science level. Whaley, Blackmer
Economics 286 (3) - China's Modern Economy - revised course description -Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102 or permission of the instructor. Open to sophomores.Economic analysis of the Chinese economy since 1950. Comparisons of Mao-era system and subsequent reforms, and current status of China's current market-based economy. General topics include the impact of rapid growth on population issues and lifestyles, and shifts in the role of the government (pollution, privatization, social security). Specific issues include the sustainability of China's current 8% growth rate, whether the average Chinese person benefits from growth, and the implications of China's membership in the World Trade Organization. Students evaluate these topics by applying a set of simple analytic models to the Chinese economy. Smitka.
Economics 297 (3) - Comparative Labor Economics - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102. A comparative study of labor markets and institutions in a set of advanced capitalist countries. Study and analysis addresses how different institutions may lead to differences in labor market performance variables including employment, unemployment, mobility, and income distribution. The course also considers why the institutional arrangements across countries differ widely and whether institutions that have positive consequences in one country can be easily transferred to other countries. Kaiser
Economics 348 (3) - Economic Analysis of Law - revised description - Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102. This is a course on the economic analysis of law and legal institutions. It covers topics in property law, contracts, torts, and crime, including the economic consequences of common property rights, the economic efficiency of alternative legal remedies for breaches of contract, the implications of alternative liability rules for negligence suits, and the economic theory of crime and punishment. Topics such as these provide perspectives on a number of important social issues, including pollution problems, business ethics, tort reform, and civil rights. Smythe
Economics 397A (3) - Valuing Nature: The Economic Perspective - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 203 and Economics 210, or permission of instructor. A central concern of environmental economics is determining the value of things (the environment) that do not have prices. This course introduces the techniques economists have developed to value the environment. These include, but are not limited to Travel Cost Approach, Contingent Valuation, and Conjoint Analysis. In addition to introducing the theory, we also design and administer a Conjoint survey to see if we can value a few of our local natural resources. This course emphasizes the application of economic theory to real environmental issues. Casey
Economics 397B (3) - Socio-Economic Themes in Literature and Film - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102, or permission of the instructor. The purpose of this seminar is to enhance understanding of the causes and consequences of economic issues by examining socio-economic themes in literature and film. Viewing socio-economic issues through the prism of literature and film offers a richer understanding of the human experience, the essence of a liberal arts education. The course fosters the development and use of critical thinking, effective writing, and oral presentation skills. The reading list includes BLACK BOY (Richard Wright), THINGS FALL APART (Chinua Achebe), THE FIFTH CHILD (Lessing, Doris), and FRANKENSTEIN (Mary Shelley). Films include, DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee), TERMINATOR (James Cameron), WALL STREET, and SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. Goldsmith
Economics 403A (3) - Economics, Groups, and Leadership - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisite: Economics 101. This course examines group and leadership behavior through the lens of economics. It applies economic concepts of incentives and of information asymmetry to group decision-making. The course uses ECONOMICS AND ORGANIZATIONS by Milgrom and Roberts as the primary text, and supplements the text with guest speakers from economics and other social sciences. Course requirements include student journals reflecting on readings, regular class participation, and a group project analyzing a specific organization's behavior based on the economic views explored. Hooks
Economics 403B (3) - Writing and Economic Analysis - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102, and Economics 201 and 203, sophomore standing, and permission of the instructor. Students engage in the process of writing in the context of economic analysis. Emphasis is placed on formalizing an economic hypothesis, placing the hypothesis in the context of relevant economic theory, and providing intuitive interpretations of empirical tests of the hypothesis. A variety of short writing assignments, including critical reviews of essays published by professional economists, are utilized to advance a student's writing skills. Sen
English 233A (3) - The Civil War in Literature - topical description - An examination of the imaginative responses in fiction and poetry to the conflict that defined and shaped modern America. Readings will focus on the uncivil nature of war and the human attempts to endure and understand it. Authors considered will include Whitman, Lanier, Whittier, Crane, Bierce, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, Tate, Warren, Dickey, Shelby Foote, Barry Hannah, Andrew Hudgins, Michael Shaara, Dave Smith, and Charles Frazier. Smith
English 233B (3) - Cultural Conflict in American Literature: The Case of Native Americans - topical description - A study of the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans as represented in selected narratives from the Puritans to the present. We will study Mary Rowlandson's Indian captivity narrative and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's HOPE LESLIE for the Puritan period; James Fenimore Cooper's LAST OF THE MOHICANS for the colonial and early national period; James Welch's FOOLS CROW and the Western films THE SEARCHERS and DANCES WITH WOLVES for the 19th-century West; and Leslie Marmon Silko's CEREMONY for the present. Some major questions include why people perceive and represent cultural conflicts so differently, how later storytellers make use of earlier stories in response to their own times, how difficult it is to resolve these conflicts, and what these stories suggest about the problem of multiculturalism in contemporary America. Smout
English 290 (3) - Turning Sonnet: Formal "Conversation" in English Renaissance Culture - topical description - As a gateway seminar to encourage prospective English majors to develop interpretive techniques in close reading, strategic methods for scholarly research, and recursive habits of writing and revision, this course turns to the extraordinary period (1550-1650) during which English writers imported, adapted and experimented with the generic conventions and social "conversations" of a particular literary form: the sonnet. Grounded in extensive readings of English "Songs and Sonets" (Donne's titular phrase suggesting this lyric form's surprising variety, as evident from the early formal flirtations of Wyatt and Surrey, to the more baroque pieties of Milton and Herbert), we also approach such lyric series as narrative sequences, attending moreover to their function within the patronage networks and aesthetic conversations characteristic to Tudor and Stuart literary culture. To this end, we read entire sonnet sequences by Sidney, Spenser, Daniel, Shakespeare, and Lady Mary Wroth. In addition to a final 15-20 page research paper, students are also asked to compose and revise a short sonnet sequence of their own, though no previous experience in writing poems is presumed or required. Wilson
English 380A (3) - British Pastorals - topical description - Prerequisite: Three credits in English. Six main versions of rural life -- its pleasures, its work, its forms of community -- as juxtaposed with the corruptions and demands of urban life: Renaissance court in exile (Shakespeare), the sources of civility (Spenser), the country house and squirearchy (an 18th-century novel), romanticism (Wordsworth), late Victorian realism (Hardy's FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD), postmodern Mother Earthism (Alice Thomas Ellis). Some painting, architecture, film. Craun
English 380B (3) - Shakespeare on Film - topical description - Prerequisite: Three credits in Shakespeare (English 319, 320, or English 210) and permission of the instructor. A study of Elizabethan Shakespeare on film. Students view and discuss modern and postmodern cinematic versions of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, histories, and early tragedies. Probable choices include: TITUS ANDRONICUS (Taymor); RICHARD III (Olivier, Loncraine); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Reinhardt, Hall); ROMEO AND JULIET (Castellani, Zeffirelli); CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Welles); HENRY V (Olivier, Branagh); JULIUS CAESAR (Mankiewicz, Burge); HAMLET (Olivier, Branagh); MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Branagh); TWELFTH NIGHT (Nunn). A reading knowledge of the plays is required. Ray
French 295 (3) - Les dossiers de la presse - topical description - Prerequisite: French 261 or equivalent or permission of instructor. An examination of current issues as they appear in the French media. Students survey French news broadcasts, French newspapers available on the internet, and French magazines to further their understanding of modern France. Emphasis is on the development of advanced communication skills through class discussions and oral and written reports. Individual research projects provide an opportunity for critical study and for a coherent synthesis of knowledge gleaned elsewhere. Non-majors with a good command of French are welcome. Frégnac-Clave
French 343 (3) - L'écriture de femmes - topical description -: Prerequisite: French 331 or 332 or permission of instructor. A survey of women writing in French arranged by topics such as coming to writing, the family, the body, stories of love, marriage, politics, growing old, and politics. This course also asks questions about the broad issues related to women writing and includes a brief overview of the different approaches of French and American feminist theory. Koberstein
History 115 (3) - Seminar: The Machiavellian Moment - Newly scheduled course - An examination of the republican vision of history and politics elaborated by Machiavelli in his PRINCE, DISCOURSES ON LIVY, and FLORENTINE HISTORIES, in the contexts of preceding humanist thought and the political crises of the late Italian Renaissance. Peterson
History 152 (3) - Seminar in American Foreign Relations for Freshmen and Sophomores - topical description - The Vietnam War
History 154 (3 - Seminar in European History and Literature for Freshmen and Sophomores - Cancelled
History 195A (3) - Seminar in Recent American Religious History: Christian Fundamentalism and the Political Right - topical description - An historical overview of the emergence of organized religious fundamentalism in 20th-century America; the development of fundamentalist political activism from the 1960s to the present on issues such as abortion; school prayer; a perceived decline in American morality; and the convergence of religious fundamentalism with the political right including Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority and Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition. Dalhouse
History 195B (3) - The Near Eastern Question: 1800-2001 - topical description - Freshmen and Sophomores only -Ottoman decline and collapse: modern Turkey, the Persian Gulf, Balkan and Arab quagmires. (This course does not cover Israel.) Porter
History 322 (3) - Seminar in Russian History: The KGB - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. History 321 is recommended though not required. The course examines recent revelations from Russian archives on the workings of the Soviet secret police from the time of the Bolshevik Revolution to the end of the USSR in 1991. The centerpiece of the seminar is analysis of material from the "Mitrokhin Archive" as divulged in the recent voluminous study, THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD: THE MITROKHIN ARCHIVE AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE KGB by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. Seminar meetings are devoted to discussion of assigned readings, and students write a term paper on a topic of their own choosing relating to the Soviet secret police. Bidlack
History 324 (3) - Seminar: Totalitarianism - Newly scheduled course - The evolution of the concept of totalitarianism from the 1920s to the present. Students study some of the classics of the literature, including George Orwell, Carl J. Friedrich, Z. Brezinski, Francois Furet, Karl-Dietrich Bracher, and Hannah Arendt, as well as the political purposes the concept sometimes served during the Cold War. Burleigh.
History 329A (3) - Seminar: The Machiavellian Moment - Newly scheduled course - An examination of the republican vision of history and politics elaborated by Machiavelli in his PRINCE, DISCOURSES ON LIVY, and FLORENTINE HISTORIES, in the contexts of preceding humanist thought and the political crises of the late Italian Renaissance. Taught at the advanced level. Peterson
History 329B (3) - Seminar in Vocal Music: Operas as Historical Sources - topical description - Students may NOT enroll in this course and Music 396. A study of how operas reflect the time in which they were written, and also how they present historical figures and events through music and drama. How does opera as an art form change from its beginnings to the present? How does music enhance our understanding of human characters and their interactions? Students study in detail works such as Mozart's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, Verdi's DON CARLO, Wagner's DIE MEISTERSINGER, and Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY and are required to give presentations on specifically assigned works. Viewing opera videos and films is an integral part of the course. Parker, Gaylard
History 366 (3) - Seminar: Slavery in the Americas - Cancelled
History 367 (3) - Violence in the South - topical description - This seminar surveys some of the major forms of violence distinctive to the South from 1800 through the first half of the twentieth century. Topics include honor-related violence (such as dueling among Southern gentry), slave resistance and rebellion, guerilla warfare during the Civil War, rioting, and lynching. Most classes are dedicated to discussion of readings, and class participation constitutes fifty percent of the final grade. Students also write a seminar paper on a single violent incident in the South. This paper, based on research in primary sources such as newspapers and magazines, makes up the other fifty percent of the final grade. Senechal
History 369A (3) - The Civil Rights Movement - topical description - An intensive study of the Civil Rights movement from Brown v. Board of Education through Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. The objective is to identify and analyze the issues and changes in the Civil Rights movement from 1954 through 1978. DeLaney
History 369B (3) - Topics in U.S. Social History - topical description - Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of the instructor - The history of gay and lesbian life in 20th-century America. Nineteenth-century romantic friendships; the invention of homosexuality; World War I; building communities; the 1930s, a worried decade; World War II; the 1950s: repression and growth; the 1960s: toward Stonewall; Gay liberation; the AIDS Crisis, the 1990s: assimilation or affirmation? N.B. This course is offered on a trial basis in a seminar format; it will not be a self-paced course. McAhren
History 369C (3) - History of Sport in America - topical description - Machado
History 453 (3), 456 (6) - Internship in History - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisites: 15 credits in history or in related disciplines (with the department head's approval), cumulative grade-point average of at least 2.750, and permission of the department. An internship in history at a public or private agency or institution culminating in a major project completed in consultation with a faculty supervisor and the sponsoring agency or institution. Because of staff limitations, the department may give preference to history majors. See the department head for details. May be repeated with permission for degree credit for a total of six credits, if the topics are sufficiently different. Staff.
Interdepartmental 120 (3) - Introduction to Women's Studies and Feminist Theory - Newly scheduled course - This course illustrates the rationale and necessity of women's studies and women's issues, presents a plurality of feminist perspectives in a dialogic manner, and broadens the views and knowledge of students with regard to various theories developed over the past several decades in the area of feminist thought. The course familiarizes students with some major achievements by women thinkers, artists, performers, writers, scientists, and scholars and the contributions that these achievements have made to the body of knowledge and to life in general. Interdisciplinary in approach and methodology, the course draws ideas and theories from various disciplines and areas of artistic and intellectual expression, with a view to presenting an understanding of issues concerning women and feminism, as well as the important roles women have played throughout history. Radulescu, Woodzicka
Interdepartmental 395 (3) - Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Environment - topical description - Students may not register for this course and for Philosophy 395. Does not meet general education requirements.This course explores ethical issues raised by the most remarkable feature of the biotechnology revolution -- the capacity to create new organisms using genes from unrelated species. This technology raises a host of ethical issues including questions about the ecological risks and benefits of releasing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the environment; issues concerning the deployment of this new technology in the developing world; challenges to traditional division of labor between public and private sector, and to the institutional frameworks for technological development such as patent law; and particular issues, such as the labelingcontroversy, that call for balancing consumer rights with fairness to industry. We examine these and other cutting-edge issues in a discussion-oriented seminar format that emphasizes independent research. Cooper, Wilson
Literature in Translation 295 (3) - Exile and Homeland in Five French Caribbean Novels - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. A study of images and themes related to the central antithesis of exile and homeland omnipresent in the rich, sociologically and esthetically relevant literary production of post-colonial French West Indian authors. Of particular interest are five 175-page novels written, respectively, by five immediate precursors or contemporaries of Toni Morrison: Jacques Roumain, Joseph Zobel and Simone Schwarz-Bart, as well as Edouard Glissant and Maryse Condé, the last two having recently lectured at W&L. Five annotated essays are required (one per novel with remedial rewriting if needed), as are one film viewing and ultimate synthesis of the course in a short-answer final exam. Spontaneous discussion is essential. Fralin
Management 302 (3) - Seminar in Finance: Cases in Corporate Finance - topical description - Prerequisites: Management 221, senior standing, and permission of instructor. Applied corporate finance strategy, including mergers and acquisitions, making intensive used of the case method. Classroom participation and group presentations heavily emphasized. Kester
Management 304A (3) - Fundamentals of Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in a Business Environment - topical description - Prerequisite: Management 205 or permission of the instructor. Modern businesses are seeking people who are negotiators and problem-solvers. This course focuses on negotiating successfully in a commercial environment and creating business solutions using creative techniques rather than simply responding to litigation. Lectures, written materials, group projects, video and role-playing are utilized to explore various theories of negotiation and types of dispute resolution and to develop practical skills for forming and preserving business relationships and resolving business disputes. Culpepper
Management 304B (3) - Seminar in Management: Cases in Venture Capital and Private Equity - topical description - Prerequisite: Management 221. Seminar-style class that examines case examples of venture capital and private equity financing. Three themes: 1) understanding the ways in which private equity groups are organized and how they make decisions, 2) reviewing and applying the key concepts of corporate finance; and 3) allowing the students to try their hands at the process of firm valuation from a private equity perspective. Pirkle
Management 306 (3) - Seminar in Management Information Systems: Financial Spreadsheet Modeling - topical description - Prerequisites: Permission of instructor, Accounting 201, Management 221 and a strong interest to work in the financial services industry. Students learn how to become proficient in spreadsheet design and construction for specific financial applications. Students also learn how to use Visual Basic applications, specifically macros, for financial modeling. Cass
Mathematics 195 (3) - Discrete Chaos - topical description - Prerequisite: Mathematics 101. An introduction to discrete dynamical systems, that is, the iteration of functions, and the study of orbits, fixed points, periodic points, chaos, fractals, and complex dynamics. Feldman
Mathematics 383 (3) - Lie Algebras - topical description - Prerequisite: Mathematics 322, Physics 340, or permission of the instructor. Topics are selected from root systems, Dynkin diagrams, quantum groups, and possibly quantum mechanics. The common thread is the connection with Lie algebras and their representations. Terilla
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.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies 110 (3) - Giants of Italian Renaissance Literature - topical description - This course focusese on Italy's most prominent Renaissance writers and thinkers from an interdisciplinary perspective. Authors studied include Dante, Machiavelli, Petrarca, and Boccaccio. The texts are discussed in conjunction with a broad look at the period, the historical context of the authors, and the development of the arts during their respective periods. Radulescu
Music 396 (3) - Seminar in Vocal Music: Operas as Historical Sources - topical description - Students may NOT enroll in this course and History 329B. A study of how operas reflect the time in which they were written, and also how they present historical figures and events through music and drama. How does opera as an art form change from its beginnings to the present? How does music enhance our understanding of human characters and their interactions? Students study in detail works such as Mozart's THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, Verdi's DON CARLO, Wagner's DIE MEISTERSINGER, and Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY and are required to give presentations on specifically assigned works. Viewing opera videos and films is an integral part of the course. Parker, Gaylard
Philosophy 195A (3) - Seminar for Freshmen and Sophomores: The Concept of Honor - topical description - What is honor? It lies at the heart of Washington and Lee's values, yet its hold on the wider American society is tenuous, and its meaning may seem unclear, not least to students struggling to comprehend a revered "honor system." This course seeks to explore the concept of honor in historical and philosophical context: examining some key moments in its development from Homer to the W&L Honor System, and exploring some philosophical perplexities along the way. The course's central issue: What does it mean to be honorable in the 21st century? Sessions
Philosophy 195B (3) - Plato vs. The Poets - topical description - A consideration of Greek tragedy and Plato's criticism of the poets, concentrating on the contrived ambiguity and irony of Plato's critique. Pemberton
Philosophy 258 (3) - Philosophy of Law - Newly scheduled course - An examination of topics in jurisprudence such as the concepts of a law and of a legal system; the legal positivist, legal realist, and natural theories of law; the nature of the relationship between law and morality; civil disobedience; freedom of speech; and the justification of punishment. Readings taken from Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Henry David Thoreau, John Stuart Mill, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and Catharine MacKinnon. Mahon
Philosophy 395 (3) - Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Environment - topical description - Students may not register for this course and for Interdepartmental 395. Does not meet general education requirements. This course explores ethical issues raised by the most remarkable feature of the biotechnology revolution -- the capacity to create new organisms using genes from unrelated species. This technology raises a host of ethical issues including questions about the ecological risks and benefits of releasing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the environment; issues concerning the deployment of this new technology in the developing world; challenges to traditional division of labor between public and private sector, and to the institutional frameworks for technological development such as patent law; and particular issues, such as the labelingcontroversy, that call for balancing consumer rights with fairness to industry. We examine these and other cutting-edge issues in a discussion-oriented seminar format that emphasizes independent research. Cooper, Wilson
IMPORTANT - Sign up for PE class preferences through web registration. Read the instructions on the web! Students may express a preference for up to three skills courses as part of WebRegistration. These preferences are examined only after the academic schedule has been set by the computer. If open and without conflict between or with academic courses, one and only one skills course may be placed in the schedule. Changes or additional sections may be made during the drop/add period. See www.wlu.edu/registrar/regpe.htm for additional information.
Physical Education 120 - Self-defense - Women only
Physical Education 157M&W - Lacrosse (Men & Women) - Cancelled
Physical Education 170 - Horsemanship -$80 - 1st meeting - 4/23 -5:00 pm,
Doremus 516
Physical Education 175 - Canoeing -$90 - 1st meetings - 4/24,25,26, Doremus 516
Physical Education 176 - Bicycling - cost to be determined
Physical Education 304 (2) - First Aid and CPR - $16 - 1st meeting mandatory
Physical Education 313 (2) - Water Safety Instructor's Course - $50
Politics 295A (3) and 295B (3) - Seminar in Technology and Politics: The 2001 Census and the New Political Map - topical description - No prerequisites, open to all students, but underclassmen will receive preference. This interdisciplinary seminar and lab course introduces students to the politics of the census, map-making software, and the means by which map-making technology is used to redraw congressional district maps. The course is conducted in two parts. Politics 295A meets as a seminar covering the issues surrounding the representation of minorities, the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court's rulings concerning voting rights, as well as the history and politics of the process by which census data are used to apportion legislative representation among the states. In addition, students participate in a corequisite lab course (Politics 295B) in which they learn to use state-of-the-art map-making and redistricting software. The lab meets in the Tucker Multimedia Center and makes use of the same advanced hardware and software used in the official redistricting process in Virginia and most other states. Drawing on their understanding of the reapportionment process and the technology tools, students work in teams to create their own redrawn congressional district map for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Rush and Blackburn
Politics 295C (3) - Might and Right in Affairs Among Nations - topical description - This course investigates problems of justice as they emerge in conflicts among nations. Readings include Michael Walzer's JUST AND UNJUST WARS and Thucydides' HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR. This course may serve to satisfy an upper division requirement in either international relations or political theory. Lloyd
Politics 390 (3) - Film, Fiction, and the Politics of Popular Culture - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. This course examines the intersection of political philosophy, the arts, and culture. It is animated by two principal aims, first, to analyze how various cultural artifacts express claims of philosophical and political import, and, second, to determine the meaning of those claims in light of the enduring themes and texts of political philosophy. We view FIGHT CLUB, AMERICAN BEAUTY, AMISTAD, STAR TREK VI, THE MATRIX, and the westerns of John Ford, read Melville's BENITO CERENO, Ayn Rand's THE FOUNTAINHEAD and Chuck Palahniuk's FIGHT CLUB, and view select episodes of "The Simpsons" and "X-Files." To these we add some of the seminal texts in the history of political thought, as well as contemporary essays, to help us think about the relationship between philosophy and art, culture and politics. Guest speakers are invited. The course is writing-intensive and requires students to complete a short application (see Prof. Velásquez). Velásquez
Politics 396 (3) - Seminar in Political Philosophy: Theories of Statesmanship in Shakespeare's Henry V - topical description - This course offers an in-depth study of contrasting theories of statesmanship depicted in one of Shakespeare's premier history plays. To examine the classical, medieval, and modern political principles that Shakespeare uses to inform his English king's rhetoric and actions, students read and discuss HENRY V along with RICHARD II and HENRY IV (Parts 1 & 2), as well as the Bible and Machiavelli's PRINCE.
Psychology 230 (3) - Contemporary Issues in Child Development - topical description - Applied developmental psychology, application of the knowledge and methodology of developmental science to assess, explain or intervene in developmental challenges facing families today, The course covers topics such as the effects of poverty, chronic illness, foster care, maternal employment , adolescent pregnancy, and child abuse . Margand
Religion 340 (3) - The Hindu Temple - topical description - An exploration of temples in Hinduism, their forms and place in the lives of Hindus. The course has three broad points of focus: (1) the form and symbolism of the temple as sacred space; (2) modes and occasions of worship, including the functions of priests, possession and faith-healing, religious theater, votive ordeals (firewalking, hook-swinging), and the controversial devadasis (temple dancers "married" to the deity); and (3) the temple's place in its city and region, including legends of its foundation, patterns of patronage, association with local kings and castes, and its role in religious education and in politics. Examples include major temple complexes (Puri, Chidambaram, Madurai) as well as several smaller temples from diverse regions. Class time is divided between lecture and structured discussion, and includes slides and films. The course features a Sunday-evening visit to the Shantiniketan Temple in Roanoke. Course webpage is at http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint/Rel340t.html. Lubin
Sociology 290 (3) - Crime & Delinquency - topical description - Ranging from the image of the romantic rebel of the 1950s to the urban gangs of the last two decades, delinquency has been a vehicle for describing and controlling contemporary youth culture. This course provides an overview of the US criminal justice. Relevant topics include crime waves, police work, the courts, the corrections system, prisons, multinational crime, and juvenile delinquency. The course focuses on issues of fairness, equal access, and legislation. Special attention is paid in the construction of "crime myths" and their effect in shaping public policy. The final segment of the course examines the social construction of juvenile delinquency. Roudometoff
Spanish 295 (3) - La Prensa - topical description - Prerequisite: one 200-level Spanish course. An intensive examination of current events in the Hispanic world (both Spain and Spanish-America). Students research and report on given topics of interest in the Hispanic media, including but not limited to satellite news broadcasts and Hispanic newspapers available on the Internet. Primary emphasis is on development of advanced conversational skills but written assignments are required to ensure preparation for discussion. More complete information can be found at http://home.wlu.edu/~barnettj/295b/295index.htm. Barnett
Spanish 395 (3) - Seminar: The Golden Age Women Writers - topical description - Prerequisites: Spanish 208 and 215. The prose works of Spanish women authors of the Golden Age, including consideration of the genre of the novela corta, the traditional female literary characters, and critical readings. A primary focus on readings and discussions of selected novelas cortas by such writers as María de Zayas, Mariana de Carvajal, and Leonor de Meneses. Campbell
Spanish 396 (3) - Seminar: Spanish-American Detective Fiction - topical description - This course examines some of the leading examples of Spanish-American detective fiction of the 20th century. It includes various types crime fiction including the "whodunnit," the noir thriller, the anti-conspiracy thriller, and other more recent developments in this genre. Williams
University Scholars 201 (3) - Readings: Religion, Law, and
Responsibility in Ancient Greece - topical description - Meets GE area 4 ,
though not for meeting one of the two discipline requirements (similar to
Interdepartmental 101). Responsibility seems to have become the first and
foremost virtue of modern, western society. Today, people around the world (and
not just politicians!) seem to be taking the measure of their fellow citizens in
terms of this concept. This seminar is concerned with the historical roots of
responsibility in ancient Greece. In the winter term, students read essays by
various 20th-century authors on the nature of moral and legal responsibility. In
the spring term, attention turns specifically to such Greek writers as Homer,
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, and Thucydides. How did they
reconcile the claims of personal responsibility with the traditional notions of
the gods, fate, punishment, pollution, and "divine confusion (or
madness)"? How did their concept(s) of responsibility differ from those of
modern times? Did they, in any way, anticipate our notion of responsibility?
Crotty, Davis