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Art 218 (3) - Painting II - Newly scheduled course
Art 252 (3) - Baroque & Rococo - Newly scheduled course
Art 380 (3) - The Early Renaissance in Florence - topical description - Prerequisite: Art 251 or permission of instructor. This interdisciplinary course examines the intellectual, cultural, and artistic movements dominant in Florence between ca. 1400 and ca. 1440. Images and structures produced by Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Donatello, and Fra Angelico are considered in the context of Florentine social traditions and political events. Bent
Art 390 (3) - The Japanese Print and Its Impact on the West - topical description - This seminar focuses on the Japanese woodblock print -- its artists, subject matter, and stylistic development -- and on its influence since the mid-19th century on the arts of Europe and the United States. O'Mara
Biology 243 (4) - Animal Behavior - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisite: Biology 112. An introduction to the scientific study of animal behavior, including exploration of the evolutionary basis of behavior and examination of how animals choose mates, defend territories, find food, and avoid predators. Field and laboratory exercises focus on testing hypotheses through experiments with a variety of animals including fish, amphibians, birds, and humans. Laboratory course. Marsh
Biology 295A (1) - History of Medicine - topical description - Nye
Biology 295B (1) - Cancer:science & Society - topical description - Wielgus
Biology 295C (1) - Topics in Biology: Conservation Genetics - topical description - The preservation of the earth's biodiversity can be guided and enhanced with genetic theory and molecular genetic studies. This seminar explores topics from the scientific literature including the genetic diversity of threatened species, genetic risks of small populations, using genetic data in captive breeding programs, and inferring a species' or population's history through genetic data. Cabe
Chemistry 195 (3) - The Atomic Bomb - Newly scheduled course
Chemistry 295A (1) - Metabolic Diseases - Newly scheduled course
Chemistry 295B (1) - Developments in Physical Chemistry - Newly scheduled course
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
Classics 295 (3) - Greek Drama in Performance - topical description - Meets general education requirement in literature. A general introduction to Greek drama of the 5th and 4th centuries BC -- tragedy, comedy, and satyr drama -- with an emphasis on Greek drama as performing art. In addition to reading some of the greatest of Greek dramas, students study several less well-known Greek dramas and consider the social and religious backgrounds of Greek tragedy and comedy All works are read in English. Students also consider the 20th-century reception of Greek drama in theatre, movies, and dance, and mount a student production of Euripides' Ion. Crotty
Computer Science 295 (1) - Programming with Perl - topical description - Prerequisite: prior programming experience with C/C++ or Java. The Perl scripting language is an invaluable tool on UNIX systems. In the past few years, it has also become popular on the Windows operating system and MacOS. This course focuses on the syntax and semantics of Perl and the use of Perl for writing CGI scripts to interface with Web pages. This course uses UNIX and contains a programming component. Necaise
Computer Science 397 (3) - Seminar:XML and Related Technologies - topical description - Prerequisite: Computer Science 201 or permission of the instructor. This seminar provides an introduction to XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and related topics such as XML syntax, Document Type Definitions for discipline-specific markup, style sheets, XSL (Extensible Style Language) transformations to other formats, verifying parsers, XML connections to relational databases and the use of XML object models with Java. Whaley
Economics 295 (3) - Experimental Economics -topical description - Prerequisite: Economics 201, 390, or permission of instructor. Experimental Economics explores the use of laboratory methods to study economic behavior. Topics include the design of experiments, laboratory techniques to test theories, financial incentives, and analysis of experimental data. Experimental economics emphasizes applications in a variety of topics: bargaining, auctions, market price competition, market failures, voting, contributions to public goods, lottery choice decisions, and the design of electronic markets for financial assets. Capra
Economics 297 (3) - Industrial Revolutions - topical description - The "Industrial Revolution" is a historical watershed, but it was invisible to contemporaries such as Smith and Ricardo. Instead, for them trade was the engine of growth. This course examines the relative importance of technology and trade in growth, as well as why the "breakthrough" did not occur first in China, which for a millennium was far ahead of Europe in technology and incomes. Students use case studies and sources ranging from literature to art to local history. Smitka
English 105A (3) - Composition & Literature: Coming of Age - topical description - This course examines a number of literary works that all deal with the process of coming of age -- the fundamental human movement from a state of youth to adulthood, immaturity to maturity, naivete to awareness, innocence to experience. In discussions and essays, students focus on the tensions, aspirations, pains, joys, myths, and realities of this transition. Major questions include: What are the crucial stages involved in coming of age? How do issues such as authority, rebellion, and conformity affect one's coming of age? How does the process differ for men and women? What roles do sexuality and desire play in this process? What larger patterns -- mythic, religious, social, economic -- are reflected in this movement? How is coming of age related to love? to death? What happens if the "normal" pattern is broken? Readings include Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, Austen's Emma, the poetry of William Blake, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. Conner
English 105B (3) - Composition & Literature: Truth, Honor & Character - topical description - How is truth -- in its interlocked senses of fidelity, loyalty, commitment to what is right, the pledged word, accuracy in knowing and speaking -- related to character? How are truth and character related to honor and to honor codes/systems? Students explore these questions through discussing and writing on a broad range of literary texts: detective fiction, courtroom drama, chivalric romance, Shakespeare's sonnets, novel. Craun
English 105C (3) - Composition & Literature: Racine & 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. Students begin with Stendahl's famous statement of the problem in Racine et Shakespeare and then proceed 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 & 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. Students read stories by Hawthorne and Barry Lopez; poems by 19th-century Americans like Bryant, Whitman, and Dickinson, and by the contemporary poet Pattiann Rogers; plays by Shakespeare and Chekhov. Warren
English 105E (3) - Composition & Literature: African-American Voices - topical description - In this course, students encounter a variety of African-American voices in the works of 20th-century writers, including the dramatists Adrienne Kennedy and August Wilson; the poets Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Michael S. Harper, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, and June Jordan; and the fiction writers Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Ernest Gaines. Keen
English 105F (3) - Composition & Literature: In Love & Trouble:Literature By & About Women - topical description - A course that examines literature written by and about women in three genres: fiction, poetry, and drama, with some attention given to non-fiction if time permits. Students explore the various genres to see if there is a particular feminine voice in literature and how this voice reflects any cultural, historical, social, or psychological change. Among the possible writers: Alice Walker, Amy Tan, Maxine Kumin, Wendy Wasserstein, Beth Henley, and others. Miller
English 105G (3) - Composition & Literature: Art & Nature - topical description - This course is an introduction to the study of poetry, fiction, and drama with a focus on the representation of nature in art. Works examined include Shakespeare's "Green World," Wordsworth's nature poetry, and the fiction of Faulkner and Melville among others. Camuto
English 105H (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 105I (3) - Composition & Literature: London Calling: Writing the English Metropolis - topical description - Through readings that represent London across a broad historical and generic range, this course explores the varied imaginative responses to such questions as: what opportunities and challenges does urban society afford? How do "individuals" and "communities" of various stripes configure themselves amidst the boroughs of civic culture? How does "writing" engage with other representational modes in attempting to capture the density and flux of "metropolitan traffic?" In addition to our own responsive writings, readings may include verse by Chaucer, Jonson, Swift, Wordsworth, Eliot, The Clash; novels by Dickens, Woolf, Zadie Smith; plays by Shakespeare, Gay, Shaw, Hanif Kureishi, Patrick Marber. Wilson
English 209 (3) - Southern American Literature - Newly scheduled course
English 290 (3) - Seminar for Prospective Majors: Nabokov - topical description - A study of selected novels by Vladimir Nabokov from his Russian and American years, with additional reading in his memoir and collected non-fiction. Weekly notebook writing on the reading assignments; a substantial critical paper developed in stages as the term proceeds. Stuart
English 363 (3) - Modern American Poetry - Newly scheduled course
English 380A (3) - Advanced Seminar: Ulysses from Homer to Derek Walcott - topical description - Prerequisites: English 290 and at least one 300-level literature course in English. This seminar focuses on modern British and postcolonial versions of the story first recorded in Homer's Odyssey. It includes a careful reading of James Joyce's novel Ulysses and Derek Walcott's epic poem Omeros. The course begins with a reading of Homer's Odyssey in translation. Counts as a modern British course for English majors. No previous knowledge of Joyce required. Keen
English 380B (3) - Advanced Seminar: Renaissance Genres: English Literary Culture, 1599-1616 - topical description - A reading and research-intensive seminar for advanced English majors that explores the remarkable literary and cultural developments of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean England. With historical bookends established by the years 1599 (which witnessed both Shakespeare's adaptation of Hamlet, and an abortive coup against Queen Elizabeth that commissioned a seditious staging of Richard II) and 1616 (heralded by the elaborate publication of folio Workes by both Ben Jonson and King James, as well as Shakespeare's death), students encounter a number of canonical texts within their contemporary field of a burgeoning print culture: its genres ranging from sonnets and plays, to sermons and royal speeches, histories and homilies, ballads, broadsides, even book burnings. Authors studied include Elizabeth Tudor and James Stuart, Shakespeare, Jonson, Daniel, Donne, Wroth, Bacon, and Stow. Wilson
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 332 (3) - Etudes de genre: Le lyrisme français à travers les siècles - topical description - Prerequisite: French 273 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Recommended corequisite: French 190.A survey of French lyrical poetry emphasizing the harmony of form, content and musicality. Thematic study of content focuses largely on antitheses such as life and death, the ephemeral and the eternal, the physical and the spiritual, the natural and the supernatural, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, the sublime and the grotesque, reality and illusion, all of which are to be treated not only in class but also in a semester-long web page project facilitated by French 190. Works studied range from the 11th-century epic Chanson de Roland to the early 20th-century "Le Pont Mirabeau" and numerous recently popular French songs. Students also learn and recite several short poetic classics. Fralin
French 342 (3) - La France moderne: Le Roman français contemporain - topical description - Reading and discussion of French fiction since World War II with special attention given to experimental narrative techniques. This course emphasizes writing. Studentsl read novels by Camus, Queneau, Duras, Perec, Gary, and Tournier.
French 397: Myth in 20th-Century Poetry and Theatre - topical description - The course explores the treatment and re-creation of ancient myths in the lyric and dramatic genres, the ties between modernity and ancient archetypes and modes of thinking, the manner in which myths inform the symbolic, moral and aesthetic structures of many important works of the 20th century. Some of the authors whose works are discussed include Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau, Jean Anouilh, Albert Camus, Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Paul Valery. Radulescu
Geology 195 (1) - Selected Topics: Meteorite Impacts & Dinosaur Extinctions - topical description - first six weeks - This course deals with the theory that the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs and many other organisms 65 million years ago was related to a collision of the Earth and a large extraterrestrial body. Lectures trace specific development of this theory to help explain how science and its practitioners operate. Designed to meet the general education requirement for additional credits in science (area 5c.) Schwab
Geology 397 (3) - Petroleum Geology & Geophysics - topical description - Prerequisite: Geology 330 and 350 or permission of instructor. A survey of the theory and practice of Petroleum geology and geophysics. Topics covered will include the nature and origin of petroleum, a study of where oil and gas accumulate, how a geologist or geophysicist goes about exploring, exploiting and forecasting for petroleum, and the origin and distribution of petroleum basins. Emphasis will be placed on the use of industry software to analyze geologic features, deposits, and basins that are relevant to petroleum exploration, production and development. Connors
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
History 304 (3) - The Age of Reformation - title change
History 323 (3) - Ethical Issues and World War II - Newly scheduled course - An examination of some of the key moral questions which arose immediately before, during and after World War II. These include Anglo-French appeasement in the 1930s; the Nazi temptation and the responses of the Christian churches; the dilemmas of Jewish people and their leaderships in occupied Europe; moral self-righteousness and mass murder; the ethics of area bombing; Allied repatriation of prisoners of war to Communist-controlled countries; revenge and retribution; the comparability of Nazi and Soviet criminality. Burleigh.
History 326 (3) - European Intellectual History, 1880-Present - Newly scheduled course, revised description - An examination of major themes in western intellectual history from the 1880s to the present, including both political ideologies and cultural trends. Burleigh
History 349 (3) - U.S. since 1945 - Newly scheduled course
History 360 (3) - History of the African-American People since 1877 - taught in Winter 2001 by Professor Devin Fergus, guest lecturer in history from Columbia University.
History 366 (3) - Seminar: Slavery in the Americas - Newly scheduled course, not offered spring term
History 395 (3) - Seminar: Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought - topical description - Prerequisite: History 100, or 301-302, or 303, or permission of the instructor. The seminar draws on primary and secondary sources to survey the evolution of legal and political thought from St. Augustine to Machiavelli. Topics include church-state relations, scholasticism, the revivals of Greek and Roman thought, and humanism. Readings include St. Augustine, John of Salisbury, Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua, Leonardo Bruni, and Niccolo Machiavelli. Peterson
Interdepartmental 998 (0-12) - Approved Study Abroad - Register for this course designation if you will be taking courses abroad, either with a U.S. program or by direct enrollment at a program abroad. Approval comes from William Klingelhofer, Director of International Education, upon completion of the appropriate paperwork. It is to your benefit to register for this course AND for a full W&L course load, in case your study abroad plans fall through.
Interdepartmental 999 (1-15) - Approved U.S. Exchange/Study Off-Campus - Register for this course designation if you will be taking courses on Exchange on the campus of another U.S. institution, specifically Mary Baldwin. Approval for education students must come from Nannette Partlett, W&L Director of Teacher Education, after completing an application for Exchange.
Interdepartmental 999X (3) - Foundations of Education. This course is offered at W&L as part of the Exchange Program in Teacher Education with Mary Baldwin College. Interested students must meet with Nannette Partlett, W&L Director of Teacher Education, and apply for Exchange. Register for this course designation only if you will be taking this Mary Baldwin College course at W&L. MBC's "Foundations of Education" provides an overview of pre-kindergarten through 12th grade teaching and schools in America. Students develop awareness of the efforts of schools to create environments which promote equity and excellence within a multi-cultural educational system. Partlett
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 262 (3) - Electronic Journalism - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisites: Journalism 201 and 203 (Politics 203). The principles and techniques of information gathering, news writing, and presentation for the elctronic media. Extensive laboratory work preparing local, national, and international news for radio and television with continued emphasis on responsible journalism. de Maria
Journalism 295A (3) - Business Journalism - topical description - Using the community as a laboratory, students develop competence in the principles and techniques of reporting on business and economic issues, with an emphasis on the interaction between the media, public companiesm, and investors. Extensive reporting and writing for different media. Interviews with chief executive officers and investors. Designed primarily for majors planning the business journalism sequence. Roush
Journalism 365 (3) - Public Affairs - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisite: Junior standing. Research, planning, and execution of public affairs programming on television and the Internet. Theoretical and practical approach. Appropriate for non-majors. de Maria
Latin 302 (3) - Advanced Republican & Augustan Prose:Tacitus - Newly scheduled course
Literature in Translation 395 (3) - The Holocaust & Representation: Jews, Americans, and Germans and the Question of Textual Authority - topical description - Students read a wide range of texts depicting both the destruction of European Jewry during the Holocaust as well as postwar identity crises faced by Jewish German survivors after the war. A number of critical questions inform the reading of historical, literary, and cinematic texts such as Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, Becker's Jacob the Liar, Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, Spielberg's Schindler's List, and Benigni's Life is Beautiful. For instance, is one obligated to depict the Holocaust 'realistically'? Can one? What is a 'true' portrait of the dilemmas facing German Jews after 1945? What role does 'unrealistic' depiction play? Among people touched by the events of the Holocaust, whose stories seem more 'authentic,' whose more 'dramatic,' whose more suited to a Hollywood movie than others and why? Also considered are questions of validity or authenticity of representation and of classification of texts which deal with the Shoah. J. Taylor
Management 304 (3) - Fundamentals of Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in a Business Environment - topical description - Prerequisite: Management 205 or permission of the instructor. Modern businesses seek 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 306 (3) - Seminar in Management Information Systems - topical description - Prerequisite: Management/ Computer Science 310 or permission of instructor. An examination of the nature of information systems analysis in a business environment, including an exploration of the role and activities of a systems analyst in the systems development process. Also covered are the analysis tools, techniques, and methodologies employed during the process. Students analyze a real-life problem and make preliminary recommendations for its solution. Cass.
Management 320 (3) - E-Commerce Managemen - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102, at least junior standing, and permission of the instructor. A study of the developing area of e-commerce. This course examines entrepreneurial, strategic, and legal aspects of using the Internet for business purposes. Emphasis is on a managerial perspective, rather than a technical perspective, of e-commerce. Topics include Internet infrastructure, innovation, change, competition, intellectual property, and privacy. Case studies are used extensively, and students prepare written and oral case discussions and present collaborative research projects. Garvis.
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/Psychology 395 (3) - The Neuronal Membrane - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. A consideration of the structural and functional diversity of the plasma membrane of the neuron with a focus on current topics in membrane neurobiology. Specific areas to be covered through sampling of current literature include voltage- and ligand-gated ionic conductances; active and facilitated membrane transport systems; neurotransmitter, neurohormone, and growth factor receptors and their second messenger systems; cell:cell and cell:matrix adhesion molecules; and interaction of plasma membrane elements with the neuronal cytoskeleton. R. Stewart
Philosophy 207 (3) - Aesthetics - Newly scheduled course
Philosophy 251 (3) - Meaning & Existence - Newly scheduled course
Philosophy 301 (3) - Metaphysics - topical description - What is metaphysics, and what is metaphysics worth? Many and various have been the answers, ranging from Aristotle's exalted view of "the science of being qua being" to the logical positivists' pointed ridicule of metaphysical "non-sense." In this course, students explore four quite different 20th-century approaches to the subject: For Whitehead, metaphysics is speculative philosophy, a creative effort "to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted." For Heidegger, metaphysics is a way (or various ways) of opening up the "question of Being," one version of which is "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?" For Strawson, "descriptive metaphysics is content to describe the actual structure of our thought about the world, revisionary metaphysics is concerned to produce a better structure," and "revisionary metaphysics is at the service of descriptive metaphysics." For Quine, "to be is to be the value of a variable," and metaphysics naturalized is the general scrutiny of the best current natural scientific variables. This course seeks to examine each of these approaches "from the inside," so that students can judge for themselves which, if any, view is most promising as a continuing research program, as a fundamental outlook, and as a guide to life -– a view of metaphysics that one can live with, live in, and live out. Sessions
Philosophy 395A (3) - Moral Realism - topical description - Moral realism is a metaethical view committed to the objectivity of ethics. Its principal claims are: 1) there are moral facts and moral properties whose existence and nature are independent of people's beliefs or attitudes about what is right or wrong; 2) that moral judgments are to be construed as assertions about the moral properties of actions or persons, and that such judgments are true or false, and 3) that at least some moral judgments are true, that there are methods for justifying moral judgments, and that moral knowledge is possible. In this course, students examine the varieties of moral realism advanced in the 20th century, including the non-naturalist moral realism of intuitionists such as G. E. Moore and W. D. Ross, and the naturalist moral realism of philosophers such as Nicholas Sturgeon, Peter Railton, David Brink, and Michael Smith. We also examine critiques of moral realism, including the emotivism of A. J. Ayer and Charles Stevenson, the error theory of J. L. Mackie, the relativism of Gilbert Harman and the constructivism of Christine Korsgaard. The aim of the course is to determine whether any of the varieties of moral realism can be defended against such critiques and shown to be a viable metaethical position. Mahon
Philosophy 395B (3) - Logical Positivism - topical description -This course examines the role of logical positivism in 20th- century philosophy and critically appraises positivism as a philosophical program. The positivists tried to eliminate what they saw as the fruitless and endless controversies of traditional metaphysics and ethics to clear room for a "scientific" philosophy based in empiricism. Students learn about the cultural and political atmosphere of Modernism that influenced the positivists during the Weimar period as well as the neo-Kantian and phenomenological philosophical traditions against which they rebelled. The majority of the course is spent studying positivism at the height of its influence in European and American philosophy. The course concludes with a close study of the reasons behind positivism's eclipse in the 1950s and 1960s as naturalism in epistemology, historical, and social approaches to the philosophy of science, and various realist positions in ethics gained strength and replaced positivist views. The aims of this course are to introduce students to logical positivism as a philosophical movement and to help them to understand and critically evaluate positivism's influence on contemporary philosophy. Wilson
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Politics 250 (3) - African-American Politics - Newly scheduled course
Politics 265 (3) - Classical Political Philosophy - Newly scheduled course
Politics/Sociology 350 (3) - Social Movements - revised course description - Prerequisites: None. A survey of selected principles explaining the size, strategy and program of social movements against the state. Cases cover Europe (1890-1980), Russia (1902-1917), and US (1950-present). Features presentations by visiting Scholar-in-Residence Sergei Khrushchev (Senior Research Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies). Meets the comparative politics/international relations field requirement in the politics major, and (during Winter 2001) the politics requirement of the Russian studies major. Open to majors and non-majors. McCaughrin
Psychology 251 (3) - Experimental Psych: Learning & Retention - Newly scheduled course
Psychology 256 (3) - Experimental Psych: Socioemotional Development - Newly scheduled course
Psychology/Neuroscience 395 (3) - The Neuronal Membrane - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. A consideration of the structural and functional diversity of the plasma membrane of the neuron with a focus on current topics in membrane neurobiology. Specific areas to be covered through sampling of current literature include voltage- and ligand-gated ionic conductances; active and facilitated membrane transport systems; neurotransmitter, neurohormone, and growth factor receptors and their second messenger systems; cell:cell and cell:matrix adhesion molecules; and interaction of plasma membrane elements with the neuronal cytoskeleton. R. Stewart
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/Politics 350 (3) - Social Movements - revised course description -Prerequisites: None. A survey of selected principles explaining the size, strategy and program of social movements against the state. Cases cover Europe (1890-1980), Russia (1902-1917), and US (1950-present). Features presentations by visiting Scholar-in-Residence Sergei Khrushchev (Senior Research Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies). Meets the comparative politics/international relations field requirement in the politics major, and (during Winter 2001) the politics requirement of the Russian studies major. Open to majors and non-majors. McCaughrin
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 215 (3) - Intro Al Analisis Literario - Newly scheduled course
Spanish 316 (3) - Modern Hispanic Poetry - Newly scheduled course
Spanish 395 (3) - Seminar: El Otro - topical description - A seminar focusing on images of the Other in Catalan novels (written in Castilian) of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The course begins with a consideration of theories of the Other in life and literature and, specifically, in the Catalonia of the late 1960s. Students then read Unamuno's dramatic work El Otro in preparation for analysis of alterity in novels by Juan Marsé (economy and social classes), Juan Goytisolo (culture), and Ana María Moix (psyche). http://home.wlu.edu/~mayocke/Span395-01/395-01index.htm Mayock
Theatre 397 (3) - Lighting Design - topical description
University Scholars 101 (1) - Readings: Religion, Law, and Responsibility in Ancient Greece - topical description - second six weeks, in preparation for University Scholars 201 in spring term - 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
University Scholars 202 (4) - Natural Science Seminar: Time Machines. Prerequisite: Mathematics 101 or higher, with a minimum grade of B. We already know that it is possible to time travel into the future; backward time travel would make all of history a fantastic tourist attraction.This fantasy has not been neglected by Hollywood where time machines are fueled by runaway imagination rather than science. This seminar is at once a look at the creative use of time travel in literature and film, at the beautiful physics and geometry of space-time lying behind these wonderful tales, and at the troublesome time-travel paradoxes and their treatment (and sometimes mistreatment) by philosophers and scientists.This course may satisfy the general education requirement in sciences and mathematics (area 5c.). McRae
University Scholars 203 (3) - Social Science Seminar: The Sovereign Citizen
in the Global World . Despite their diversity, advocates of democracy are bound
by a common adherence to the idea that true "rule by the people" is
founded on the notion of a sovereign citizen. The citizen's consent to be
governed is suspect unless one possesses some power of choice of methods and
outcomes for public processes—unless the citizen can, in a real way, affect
the circumstances of his or her existence. This course takes up the challenge
that globalization presents to the understanding of the sovereign democratic
citizen. Students examine the evidence that the nations and peoples of the world
are indeed becoming more interconnected, and investigate what the trends of
interconnection mean for the individual. We ask where and on what terms a
sovereign citizen is possible and where and why that ideal is thoroughly
compromised. Finally, we try to think together about what thoughtful democrats
ought to do in the face of the changing nature of power relationships in our
world. Readings cover both the nature of globalization processes and the problem
of defining citizen sovereignty in contemporary politics.This course may satisfy
the general education requirement in social sciences (area 6 as politics). Le
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