Art 308 (3) - Seminar: Art of the 1960s - Newly scheduled course

Biology 246 (3) - Biological Diversity - Newly scheduled course

Biology 301 (3) - Statistics for Biology and Medicine - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisites: Biology 111 and 112. This course examines the principles of statistics and experimental design for biological and medical research. The focus is on the practical and conceptual aspects of statistics, rather than on mathematical derivations. Students completing this class will be able to read and understand research papers, to design realistic experiments, and to carry out their own statistical analyses using computer packages. Marsh

Biology 320 (3) - Modern Genetic Analysis - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisite: Biology 220. An examination of DNA sequence-based information and its uses in molecular biology, medicine, and evolutionary studies. Includes technologies and approaches of sequencing, genome sequencing projects, analysis of sequence data, location of and identification of genes linked to disease, and using data to establish evolutionary histories of genes and species. Cabe

Biology 295A (1) - Reproduction in Context - topical description - Prerequisites: Junior standing, Biology 112, and permission of the instructor. This seminar examines social and environmental influences on reproduction, focusing primarily on mammals. We integrate knowledge from ethology, neuroendocrinology, and evolutionary ecology in our attempt to understand a variety of reproductive behaviors. I’Anson

Biology 295B (1) - Medicinal Botany - topical description - Prerequisites: Junior standing, Biology 112, and permission of the instructor. From Taxol to Vitamin C, plants provide important medicinal products for physicians and shamans. This seminar discusses the utilization of plants by humans for medicinal purposes. Hamilton

Biology 295C (1) - Do Animals Think? - topical description - Prerequisites: Junior standing, Biology 112, and permission of the instructor. This seminar examines the logical, linguistic, and cognitive abilities of animals, focusing on current research in chimpanzees, dolphins, and gorillas. Marsh

Biology 295D (1) - The Cancer Problem - topical description - Prerequisites: Junior standing, Biology 112, and permission of the instructor. An examination of the genetics, cell biology, and epidemiology of cancer and its sociological, psychological, and economic correlates. Summaries and discussions of the cancer literature and a term paper are required. Wielgus

Biology 295E (1) - Molecular Ecology - topical description - Prerequisites: Junior standing, Biology 112, and permission of the instructor. This seminar focuses on both the technologies used and the questions addressed in the rapidly growing field of molecular ecology through readings from the primary literature. Technologies include the acquisition and analysis of DNA sequence data, the use of microsatellites, and the use of other DNA markers. Research on the dispersal, behavior, and reproductive biology of wild species is examined. Cabe

Chemistry 243 (3) - Organic Spectroscopic Methods - Newly scheduled course

Chemistry 295 (1) - Developments in Physical Chemistry - topical description

Chemistry 296 (1) - Hazardous Materials - Newly scheduled course

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 397B (3) Software Engineering - topical description - Prerequisite: Computer Science 211. An introduction to the body of ideas deployed to design and construct large, reliable, maintainable software systems. Included is an overview of the history of these ideas and current trends such as extreme programming and refactoring. Students learn to use the Unified Modeling Language and participate in team projects to construct a challenging software system. Lambert

Economics 285 (3) - Japan's Modern Economy - Newly scheduled course

Economics 295 (3) - Experimental Economics - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101, 102, and junior standing. 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: games, 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) - Environmental Economics - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101, 102 and sophomore standing. A survey of the major issues of development economics. Economic structure of low-income countries and primary causes for their limited economic growth. Economic goals and policy alternatives. Role of developed countries in the development of poor countries. Selected case studies. Casey.

Economics 348 (3) - Economic Analysis of Law - Newly scheduled course

English 105B (3) - Composition & Literature: American or British - topical description - In the 21st century, English Literature has become World Literature in that Literature in English cannot be easily associated with any particular nation or national origin. Authors from around the world, many of whom are not native English speakers, are choosing to write their novels, stories, poems, and plays in English. The older and simpler example of this phenomenon is the standard division between American and British literature in English. This course explores this division, queries the value of considering nationality when interpreting literature, and looks toward the future by pairing a series of poets, prose writers, and playwrights from America and Britain. Authors includes poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Longfellow, Whitman, Frost, and Eliot; novels and prose writers such as Carlyle, Emerson, Irving, Hawthorne, Trollope, and James; and playwrights such as Wilde, Williams, Stoppard, and Mamet. Adams

English 105C (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 in both its psychological and ethical dimensions? How are truth and character related to honor, understood both as reputation for fulfilling societal expectations as personal integrity? We explore these questions through discussing and writing on a broad range of literary texts: detective fiction (P. D. James), courtroom drama, chivalric romance (SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT), Shakespeare's political plays and his sonnets, a novel. Craun

English 105D (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 105E (3) - Composition & Literature: African-American Voices - topical description - In this course, students encounter a variety of African-American voices in the works of contemporary writers, including the dramatists Adrienne Kennedy and August Wilson; the poets Michael S. Harper, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, Lucille Clifton, and Ruth Forman; and the fiction writers Nella Larsen, Ernest Gaines, Gloria Naylor, John Edgar Wideman, Octavia Butler, and Opal Palmer Adisa. Keen Keen

English 105F (3) - Composition & Literature: In Love and 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 nonfiction if time permits. We 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: Modern Love - topical description - This course examines the literature of love from various centuries, exploring changing attitudes toward courtship, marriage, gender, sexuality, and romance. As we discuss the variable nature of human relationships, we also examine the evolution or devolution of literary genres. The sonnets of Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are followed by excerpts from George Meredith's MODERN LOVE and a few sonnets by E. E. Cummings. Plays range from Congreve's THE WAY OF THE WORLD to Caryl Churchill's CLOUD NINE . We also read one novel by Jane Austen and view some recent film adaptations of her work, asking what the recurrent interest in Austen reveals about the etiquette and economics of love in her day and our own. Brodie

English 105H (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 105I (3) - Composition & Literature: Mountains & Rivers Without End - topical description - Borrowing 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. We read a wide variety of literary works, including novels, short fiction, creative non-fiction, drama, and poetry. Representative works may include: MAGIC MOUNTAIN (Mann); CLOSE RANGE (Proulx); A RIVER SUTRA (Mehta); HEART OF DARKNESS (Conrad); APOCALYPSE NOW (Milius and Coppola); MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS WITHOUT END (Snyder); MOUNTAIN RIVER: VIETNAMESE POETRY OF THE WAR YEARS (Bowen, Nguyen, and Weigl, eds.); A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (Maclean); DREAMS (Kurosawa); and PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK (Dillard). Students write analytical, reflective, and creative papers in response to these readings. McClure

English 105J (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 --"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 reading raises questions about the methods and the limitations of human discovery. Oliver

English 105K (3) - Composition & Literature: Literature & the Supernatural - topical description - In this course, students consider literary representations of the paranormal. In particular, we examine ghosts in American works by Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, and Stephen King; we also consider how British writers including William Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, and Alice Thomas Ellis have treated fairy lore. Wheeler

English 209 (3) - Southern American Literature - Newly scheduled course

English 290 (3) - Seminar for Prospective Majors: Native American Renaissance: Momaday, Welch, and Silko - topical description - A close study of three writers whose early works created new possibilities for Indian authors. Beginning with Scott Momaday's Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel HOUSE MADE OF DAWN and mixed-genre work THE WAY TO RAINY MOUNTAIN, we also read James Welch's novel WINTER IN THE BLOOD and Leslie Marmon Silko's novel CEREMONY to examine the roots of the movement. We then study other selected works by these authors (and by critics) to see how their careers have developed, how society has reacted, and how their visions have changed, including poetry, essays, short stories, interviews, and two more novels: THE ANCIENT CHILD by Momaday, and FOOLS CROW by Welch. Our goal is to see how a new ethnic literature has developed and what it has achieved, based on detailed knowledge of these three authors. Students write a series of assignments culminating in a major research essay (roughly 4000 words) to be shared with the class and take a final exam. Smout

English 330 (3) - Milton - revised description - Selected poetry, prose, and drama of John Milton, framed by a series of literary and historical contexts surrounding the English Civil Wars. In considering Milton's interventions in 17th-century print culture, some attention is also paid to other poets and religious writers (Herbert, Herrick, Marvell, Bunyan, Cavendish, Bradstreet). PARADISE LOST (to have been read fully before the second week of class) provides a continuing touchstone throughout the semester. Wilson

English 380 (3) - Advanced Seminar: Shakespeare: Selected Plays - topical description - A close reading of eight plays, at least one each from the major genres, and periods of Shakespeare's life. Emphasis on image patterns, geography as metaphor, character as dramatic device, and other such textual and structural considerations. Stuart

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 271 (3) - Civilisation et culture françaises: Traditions et changements - topical description - This course seeks to familiarize students with significant aspects of French culture and civilization. It examines the interaction of social, political, economic and artistic developments throughout the centuries. Though it follows a chronological order, it does not attempt to be an exhaustive historical survey. Rather, through the presentation of a wide array of documents, it encourages students to understand the issues that shaped national identity and the philosophies that brought about today’s institutions. Frégnac-Clave

French 341 (3) - La France de l'Ancien Régime: Le roman du dix-huitième siècle et le cinema américain - topical description -Prerequisite: French 273 or equivalent or permission of instructor. The Age des Lumières that culminated in the French Revolution was haunted by the great questions of mankind, including the nature of evil, the construction of a personal identity, the power of love, and the relationship of nature to society. In this course we read some of the great novels of 18th-century France and consider how these same problems are represented in modern American film. Novelists include Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Sade, Laclos, Prévost, and Saint-Pierre. Koberstein

Geology 104 (3) - Planetary Geology - Newly scheduled course

Geology 108 (3) - Origin & Evolution of Life - Newly scheduled course

Geology 185 (1) - Computer Applications in Geology - Newly scheduled course

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 209 (1) - Laboratory Study of the Fossil Record - Newly scheduled course

History 360 (3) - History of African-American People Since 1877 - Newly scheduled course

Italian 161-162 (6) - Intermediate Italian - This course is linked; the second term must be completed to receive any credit toward degree requirements for the first term

Journalism 295A (3) - The Press and the Deadlocked Election of 2000 - topical description - Prerequisite: Junior standing. An examination of the electoral-vote impasse in the presidential election of 2000, with consideration of the parallels to other disputed elections (e.g., 1824, 1876) and a look at how the news media handled the challenge. Prominent guests from Washington expected. Yoder

Journalism 295B (3) - News Media Coverage of Race & Religion - topical description - Prerequisite: Junior standing. An examination of how the news media cover stories involving race, religion, and cultural accommodation. Appropriate for non-majors. Mitchell.

Journalism 295C (3) - Reporting on Business & the Economy - topical description - Prerequisite: Journalism 253 or 263. Designed primarily for journalism majors interested in the planned sequence in business journalism. A survey of the resources available to and the articles developed by reporters covering business and the economy. Students develop competence in framing, researching, and writing articles in these areas. Luecke.

Journalism 353 (3) - Contemporary Issues - Newly scheduled course

Literature in Translation 295A (3) - The Image of Africa - topical description - This course examines the way Black Africa has been represented across the centuries and across cultures. Particular attention is given to the tropes used and how such tropes have changed or remained unchanged. African and non-African writers are studied, primarily through texts, with supplementary material included in the form of films and anthropological and historical documents. Kamara

Literature in Translation 295B (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.

Management 302 (3) - Seminar in Finance: Cases in Corporate Finance - topical description - Prerequisites: Senior standing, Management 221 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 304 (3) - Fundamentals of Negotiation & 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 340 (3) - Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management - Newly scheduled course

Management 357 (3) - Multinational Business Finance - Newly scheduled course

Philosophy 395 (3) - Advanced Seminar: Philosophy & Economics - topical description - Students may not register for this course and University Scholars 201A. An exploration of some topics at the intersection of philosophy and economics, through an investigation of questions such as the following: Can welfare reasonably be construed as preference-satisfaction? Do rational agents necessarily act so as to maximize expected utility? What is the significance of efficiency construed as Pareto-optimality? What do game theory and social-choice theory teach us about rationality? Throughout, course participants examine some of the materials of the economist through the lens of the philosopher. The principal source of assigned readings is ECONOMICS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY, co-authored by Daniel Hausman and Michael McPherson, but some papers are used as well. Eggleston.

Physical Education 154 - Aerobic Running - Newly scheduled course

Politics 295B (3) - Terrorism - topical description - Open to students at all levels. No prerequisite. A survey of the causes, consequences, and policy responses to domestic and international terrorism. Particular emphasis is given to American experiences with acts of terrorism and recent decisions regarding anti-terrorism policies. Strong

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. In addition to Thucydides’ HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, readings include selections from Kant, Michael Walzer, and other international relations theorists. Not open to students who took Politics 295C during Spring 2001, this course may be used to satisfy an upper division requirement in either international relations or political theory. Lloyd

Politics/Sociology 376A (3) - Seminar in Survey Data Analysis: Local Survey (as described in the catalog). Jasiewicz.

Politics/Sociology 376B (3) - Seminar in Survey Data Analysis: Secondary Analysis - In this course, students write research papers based on secondary analysis of existing data sets, such as General Social Survey, National Election Survey, Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, etc. Jasiewicz.

Politics 396 (3) - Seminar: Fair Division Analysis - topical description - No prerequisites. Open to majors and non-majors. Meets political philosophy elective credit for politics majors. Recommended for students interested in criminal justice procedure, estate management, legislative apportionment, media fairness doctrines, regulatory and welfare policy. This course covers solutions to the fair division (distributive justice) problem in politics under scarcity. Cases include the fair division of more or less decomposable benefits and costs (e.g., public grants and taxes) among society's members via auctions, elections, lotteries, markets, negotiations, norms and meta-norms of justice. A research project assesses the division of one standard benefit - governmental power - among parties or factions, via elections. A course syllabus is available from mccaughrinc@wlu.edu and Williams School 218. McCaughrin

Politics 397 (3) - Alexis de Tocqueville’s DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA - topical description - Written over 150 years ago, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, remains one of the most thoughtful, insightful and comprehensive books ever written about American politics. In exploring the foundations of the American regime, Tocqueville concludes that "the laws contribute more to the maintenance of the democratic republic in the United States than do the physical circumstances of the country, and mores do more than the laws." Issues covered in this course include race, religion, science, gender, individualism, and the roles of the media and the university in a liberal democracy and include reflections on whether Tocqueville's observations on these subjects are relevant today. Connelly

Psychology/Interdepartmental 341 (3) - Bio-Medical Ethics - Newly scheduled course

Religion 260 (3) - Seminar in the Christian Tradition: Medieval & Reformation Christian Theology - topical description - This course surveys Western Christian thought from Anselm and Thomas Aquinas to Martin Luther, John Calvin, and the Council of Trent. It covers topics such as grace and human freedom, faith and reason, proofs of the existence of God, justification by faith, the soul's journey to God, and mystical vision. Beeley

Religion 280 (3) - Islam - Newly scheduled course

Sociology/Politics 376B (3) - Seminar in Survey Data Analysis: Secondary Analysis - In this course, students write research papers based on secondary analysis of existing data sets, such as General Social Survey, National Election Survey, Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, etc. Jasiewicz.

Theatre 397A (3) - Seminar: Lighting Design - topical description - This class introduces the student to the general principles of lighting design theory and practice. The course includes a brief history of lighting design in the theatre, a study of lighting instrumentation, color, and basic electricity. Actual practice in lighting design is studied through three project designs. Each project includes a light plot, instrument schedule, hook-up sheet and cue sheet. Gorman

Theatre 397B (3) - Seminar: Advanced Costume Design - topical description - Prerequisite: Theatre 238 or permission of the instructor. Advanced study of stage costuming with an emphasis on the design and construction of 19th- and early 20th-century costumes. Bell.

University Scholars 201A (3) - Philosophy & Economics - topical description - Students may not register for this course and Philosophy 395. An exploration of some topics at the intersection of philosophy and economics, through an investigation of questions such as the following: Can welfare reasonably be construed as preference-satisfaction? Do rational agents necessarily act so as to maximize expected utility? What is the significance of efficiency construed as Pareto-optimality? What do game theory and social-choice theory teach us about rationality? Throughout, course participants examine some of the materials of the economist through the lens of the philosopher. The principal source of assigned readings is ECONOMICS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY, co-authored by Daniel Hausman and Michael McPherson, but some papers are used as well. Eggleston.

University Scholars 201B (3) - Humanities Seminar: Humor - topical description - This course may be used toward credits required for the general education requirement in fine arts, history, philosophy, and religion (area 4) but may not be used to meet one of the two areas for this general education requirement. What makes humans laugh? The faculty evaluate humor from a disciplinary perspective for about three weeks each. The following disciplines, in this order, and topics are included. Philosophy: treatment of humor by Kant, Freud, Bergson, and Koestler, among others, culminating in students writing a philosophic essay. Psychology: When and why do individuals perceive stimuli as humorous? What role does disparagement humor have in today's society? Students read articles on motivational theories of humor and cognitive theories and examine biological and attitudinal factors influencing the appreciation of humor. Students also explore research on sexist and racist humor and examine the effects of such jokes on targeted group members. English: A survey of the range of aesthetic, literary, and physiological theories of humor in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. Opening our inquiries with Bakhtin's theories of "the carnivalesque" and "popular festive forms," readings of Renaissance texts focus on both the social character and the aesthetic styles of "laughter," "comedy," and distinctive "bodily humors." Each class centers on a primary text (e.g. GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL, BARTHOLOMEW FAIR, TWELFTH NIGHT) in conjunction with brief supplementary readings chosen to flesh out these arteries of comic discourse (e.g. excerpts from Renaissance jestbooks, generic and philosophical definitions of comedy, critical essays examining Renaissance comedy and physiology). Theatre: Beginning with the origin of comedy in 5th-century Athens, continuing with a study of the rise of situation comedy, and finishing with a study of the establishment of standard comic characters in Commedia dell’Arte. Emphasis is placed on relating these origins of theatrical comedy to contemporary topics and genres with lectures and discussions of reading and audio-visual assignments. Readings include selected plays of Aristophanes, Menander, and Plautus as well as Commedia scenarios, with assignments in the history, development, and analysis of the comic conventions represented in the original sources and, where possible, relevant tapes and films. Pemberton, Woodzicka, E. Wilson, Gordon.

University Scholars 202 (3) - The Nuclear Age: The History & Legacy of Nuclear Science & Technology - topical description - Students may not register for both this course and Chemistry 195. This seminar initially reviews the science and technology leading to the development and production of the first nuclear weapons, and then examines the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan. The final portion of the course addresses the political, social, and environmental legacies of these weapons. Students write a series short papers, based on their reading of primary and secondary sources, that form the basis for group discussions throughout the seminar. A term paper is required. For more details students may reference http://www.wlu.edu/wcb/schools/2/chem/fsettle/5/.Settle.