Art 295 (3) - Topics in Printmaking: Digital Printmaking and Lithography - topical description - This is one of the offerings in our topics in printmaking courses. This course explores the art of stone printing using a 19th-century vintage press and Bavarian limestone. We also use 21st-century technology, a large format professional inkjet printer, to produce art and photographic prints. The design and fine art concerns we express use technologies that have been in use by artists for over one hundred years. Stene

Art 306 (3) - American Art to 1945 - Newly scheduled course

Biology 295C (1) - Is It In Your Genes? The Genetic Bases of Human Behavior and Personality - topical description - Prerequisites: Junior standing, Biology 112, and permission of the instructor. We read classic and recent works that attempt to elucidate the contributions of genotype to personality and behavior of humans and related animals. Cabe

Biology 295D (1) - Fire Ecology - topical description - Prerequisites: Junior standing, Biology 112, and permission of the instructor. In light of the recent devastating fire season in the American West, we focus on fire's role as an essential natural occurrence in many ecosystems worldwide. Hanlon

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 315 (3) - Artificial Intelligence - Newly scheduled course

Computer Science 321(3) - Computer Networks - Newly scheduled course

English 105B (3) - Composition & Literature: African-American Voices - topical description - In this section, students encounter a variety of African-American voices in the works of contemporary writers, including dramatists, poets, fiction writers, and literary nonfiction writers. Special this year: a subunit on writing about basketball. Keen

English 105C (3) - Composition & Literature: Modern Love - topical description - This section 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 will range from The Way of the World (Congreve) to Cloud Nine (Caryl Churchill). 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 105D (3) - Composition & Literature: On Misbehaving - topical description - This course examines a range of contemporary literature in English focusing on characters who misbehave, break rules, or otherwise transgress norms in their attempts to forge an identity. Through readings, discussion, and writing assignments, we investigate the relation between "good behavior" and social hierarchies defined by race, gender, sexuality, and class. We also think about what it means for texts, including student compositions, to behave or misbehave. Readings include poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, Wole Soyinka, and Tom Andrews; stories and novels by Jamaica Kincaid, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lorrie Moore; plays by Tony Kushner and Christopher Durang. Braunschneider

English 105E (3) - Composition & Literature: Weddings and War: The Literature of Coming of Age - topical description - Both in literature and in society at large the idea of coming of age has been radically different for men and women. What do such differences mean for our senses of self in the modern world? How does literature about these ideas shape our notions about literally and/ or figuratively leaving home and making one's way in the world? Through reading a variety of literature, including novels, short stories, poetry, and personal essays, and through vigorous discussion and writing five papers, this course explores such questions and others we discover through our engagement with the literature. Readings include, along with a number of shorter works, All the Pretty Horses (McCarthy), The Member of the Wedding (Welty), The Secret Life of Bees (Kidd), and Farewell to Arms (Hemingway). McClure

English 105F (3) - Composition & Literature: Misfits, Rebels, and Outcasts - topical description - The title of the course leaves out a lot (for the sake of brevity). If extended, it might include strangers, visionaries, fanatics, prophets, artists, lovers, criminals, transients, deviants, freaks, monsters, etc. We read stories, poems, and plays about individuals challenging the status quo, either directly or indirectly, consciously or unconsciously. We consider, among other things, what happens to the individual in the process, and what happens to the status quo. Oliver

English 105G (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? What kinds of style characterize London's citizens, its "hip," its "outsiders," its energetic "fringe"? How does writing engage with other representational modes in attempting to capture the density and flux of "metropolitan traffic"? How does writing about London both set the terms for, and differ significantly from, writings about other cities? In addition to our own responsive writings, readings include verse by Geoffrey Chaucer, Isabella Whitney, Ben Jonson, Jonathan Swift, William Blake, William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Sherman Alexie, Yusef Komunyakaa, and The Clash; novels by Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, and Zadie Smith; and plays by Ben Jonson, Anthony Clarvoe, and Tom Stoppard. Wilson

English 105H (3) - Composition & Literature: Baseball as America - topical description - Baseball's vital and sometimes uneasy place in the American scene has been documented by generations of journalists, poets, novelists and playwrights who have found in its controversies, rituals, and rhythms the stuff of both memory and myth. In this course we explore the literature of baseball in a number of genres as we consider issues of identity, struggle, loss, and redemption. Topics include: the Black Sox scandal of 1919; segregation and the growth of the Negro Leagues; The All-American Women's Professional Baseball League; Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier; and the reserve clause and labor issues. Hailey

English 105I (3) - Composition & Literature: Literature and the Supernatural - topical description - Students in this section consider the roles of unearthly forces in a range of plays, novels, poems, and films. Readings include Shakespeare, Stephen King, contemporary Irish poetry, and a range of other British and American texts. Wheeler

English 105J (3) - Composition & Literature: The American Experience - topical description - This section explores the imaginative reaches of American culture in the fiction of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost, and the drama of August Wilson. Camuto

English 233 (3) - Seminar: Literary Approaches to Poverty - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. The seminar examines literary responses to the experience of poverty, imaginative representations of human life in straitened circumstances, and arguments about the causes and consequences of poverty that appear in plays, poems, short stories, novels, and creative nonfiction. The critical consideration of dominant paradigms ("the country and the city," "the deserving poor," "from rags to riches") augments reading based in its cultural contexts. Course readings will be drawn from the literature of Victorian Britain, the African-American experience, and the postcolonial world. Preference will be given to students with an interest in the Shepherd Poverty Program. Email the instructor at skeen@wlu.edu. Keen

English 290 (3) - Seminar for Prospective Majors: Whitman's Century - topical description - Prerequisite: At least one course chosen from 206 to 233, sophomore standing, and permission of the instructor. This course focuses on the poetry and prose of Walt Whitman (1819-1892). We read all of Leaves of Grass (1855-1892), including versions of poems from different editions of the book. We read the various Prefaces to Leaves of Grass, and we also read Whitman's journalism, essays, and autobiographical pieces collected in Specimen Days and Collect (1884). In addition to becoming thoroughly acquainted with Whitman's work, students have a variety of graded assignments leading to the writing of a research paper of 15 pages. Warren

English 320 (3) - Shakespearean Comedies - topical description - This advanced research seminar jointly engages with Shakespeare's adaptation and accommodation of various comic traditions assessing as well the profound, if variable, intersections of gender and genre that his comedies so suggestively stage. Weekly discussions of core texts canvas a broad comic range from "classic hits" (Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It) to various "problem comedies" (Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, All's Well that Ends Well, Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona), to "late romances" (Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest), and other "distinct" genres that tease at comedy's aesthetic and dramaturgical possibilities (Henry V, Troilus and Cressida, Titus Andronicus). Participants further contextualize these experiments through comparison to (and student presentations on) other models of comedy by Shakespeare's contemporaries (Lyly, Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, Brome); we also explore the ways in which different schools of critical theory (feminist, historicist, deconstructionist, psychoanalytic, performance theory) have established alternative contexts for understanding Shakespeare's comic paradigms. Course requirements also include attendance at four plays at Blackfriars Theater in Staunton (The Tempest, Taming of the Shrew, Tartuffe, Knight of the Burning Pestle), and participation in a bi-weekly film series (depending on student consensus, either Monday afternoons FGH, or on Tuesday evenings). Counts for credit towards Women's Studies Program requirements. Wilson

English 345 (3) - Topics in the 19th-Century Novel: Novels by Women - topical description - This course focuses on several major novels by women writers from Austen and Edgeworth through the Brontës, Gaskell, and Eliot to Woolf. It also surveys important critical and biographical writings from the period that address the specific challenges faced by women writers and the possibility of a self-conscious tradition of women novelists. Finally, it looks to examples of contemporary criticism and theory that explore the advantages and disadvantages of interpreting 19th-century novels in light of the gender of their authors. Adams

English 350 (3) - Postcolonial Literature: The Question of Universality - topical description - This version of Postcolonial Literature studies the poetry, drama, and fiction of Anglophone postcolonial writers from the perspective of cognitive approaches to literature. A central topic of our inquiry is postcolonial theorists' critique of "universals" and the role of empathy in postcolonial writing that reaches the world market. Background reading includes Lakoff and Turner's More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor; Mark Turner's The Literary Mind; and Katherine Hayles' How We Became Posthuman. This interdisciplinary exploration of a problem in postcolonial literature requires no background in cognitive science or philosophy, but interests in those areas are a welcome addition to our discussions. Keen

English 365 (3) - African-American Literature: Everyday People: African-American Literature (and Music) Since the Civil Rights Movement - topical description - From slave narratives to manifestos that attempt to unite "the race," African-American literature has always had a strong tradition of protest. So what happens when the legal barriers that are the object of protest come down? In this course we examine this question by reading works mostly of fiction produced after the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and by placing those works in conversation with popular African-American musical forms: the blues, r&b, and hip hop. By reading the works closely, we are able to assess the artistic and political tensions that they illustrate and seek to represent; and by listening to the music, we begin to hear and feel the historical and cultural contexts that resonate with the literature. For instance, what does it mean in terms of looking at history for Charles Johnson to rewrite the slave narrative using "postmodern" narrative aesthetics at the same time discussions over originality and sampling in rap music occur? How are both using the past, and how might the projects differ? The two artistic forms allow for a dialogue that can begin to "represent." We concentrate on the texts/tracks in an attempt to locate the intersections of the personal, political, and the racial and show how those notions have transformed over the last thirty-plus years. Kane

English 368 (3) - Modern American Novel: Rich Man, Poor Man...: An Examination of the Representation of Class in the Modern American Novel - topical description - In this course we read some major modern American novels to see how they are both commentaries on and reflections of class dynamics of their day. From Dreiser's naturalistic view of opportunity to Fitzgerald's portrayal of the romance of riches, to Faulkner's exploration of poverty, these novels represent a range of responses to notions of social and economic mobility. While asking questions pertinent to issues of class, we also attend to the variety of aesthetic approaches that these writers deploy to tell their tales. Taken together, these novels -- from Dreiser to Wright -- can serve as responses to the state of the "American Dream" in an era when industrialization dominates and then when economic depression reigns. Kane

English 380A (3) - Literature by Women before 1800 - topical description - This course examines a wide range of texts written by women in Britain before the 19th century, with particular emphasis on the period 1660-1800, when British women wrote professionally in large numbers for the first time. Incorporating historical and biographical materials as well as literary texts (including poems, novels, plays, and autobiographical writing), our study focuses on the relation of gender to authorship. We consider the particular constraints and liberties women writers encountered and how their literary productions reflect -- as well as participate in constructing -- their material and social circumstances. Braunschneider

English 380B (3) - Development of the English Language - topical description - For its speakers, both native and foreign, the English language is indeed a world of words in several senses. Our world is to a large extent constituted by the very words we use to describe it. And in the 21st century English has become a true world language, due largely to cultural and economic hegemony, but at least in part because it has been made up from elements of so many other languages. In this course we examine the origins and development of the English language from its roots in the Indo-European past up to the present day, noting its foundation in the Germanic tongue of the Anglo-Saxons, and the successive influences of Norse, French, Latin, and many other languages that make up our ever-living "Mother Tongue." The course considers linguistic study specifically as it applies to and enhances the study of literature by focusing on influential figures such as Chaucer, Caxton, Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, and Jane Austen. Additionally, we explore our own idiolects or individual speech patterns, relating them to the regional varieties of the American language. Hailey

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 341 (3) - La France de l'Ancien Régime: Le comique et la comédie du Moyen Age jusqu'en 1789 - topical description - Prerequisite: French 273 or equivalent or permission of the instructor. The course focuses on aspects of humor and the comic, in a variety of genres, including novel, epic poetry, and theater. Authors include Rabelais, Moliere, Voltaire, Beaumarchais and others. We discuss the different kinds and modalities of producing humor, from farce and satire, to black humor or light-hearted comedy. Theories and philosophies of the comic are discussed in parallel with the reading of the literary texts. Radulescu

French 344 (3) - La Francophonie: Le roman franco-antillais - topical description - Prerequisite: French 273 or equivalent or permission of the instructor. A thematic and cultural study of five French West Indian novels written by Jacques Roumain, Joseph Zobel, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Maryse Condé. Some topics to be considered are identity problems, childhood and adolescence, relational problems, exile or alienation and homeland, poetic imagery, circularity and linearity, character flaws and social problems, dehumanization, gender roles, mother and father figures. Lengthy classroom discussions in French, three essays in French, two hour tests, a movie based on Zobel's novel and a final exam. May substitute for 332 in the major, with permission. Fralin

French 397 (3) - Séminaire avancé: La femme et l'écriture au XVIIIème siècle - topical description - Prerequisites: Three courses at the 300 level or permission of the instructor.This course focuses primarily on French women's writing during the Age of Enlightenment. However, one or two texts written by men on women are included in the program. Of particular interest are representative genres and issues which galvanized/attracted women. We study literary, as well as anthropological, texts that reveal not only the status of, and discourse on, women in 18th-century France but also women's perception of their status and role in a wider socio-cultural and political context. Authors studied include Françoise de Graffigny, Isabelle de Charière, Olympe de Gouges, Mme de Tencin, with excerpts from Montesquieu, Laclos, and Diderot. Kamara

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

German 395 (3) - Seminar: The Fantastic In German Literature - topical description - A thematic investigation of German fiction writers since the 16th century who have dealt with the fantastic or supernatural. Among the writers studied are Johann von Grimmelshausen, Gottfried August Burger, Ludwig Tieck, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Franz Kafka and Michael Ende. Dickens.

Interdepartmental 397 (3) - Senior Seminar in Environmental Species: Invasive Species - topical description - The senior seminar in environmental studies is intended (and required) for students completing the environmental studies program. This semester, the focus is on the problem of invasive species, including the impact of invasive species on ecological and socials systems, sources of invasions and policies to prevent and mitigate the damages associated with invasive species. Students participate in individual and group research projects.

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

Literature in Translation 295B (3) - Exile and Homeland in Six French Caribbean Novels - topical description - A study of images and themes related to the central antithesis of exile and domain omnipresent in the rich, sociologically and esthetically relevant literary production of post-colonial French West Indian authors. Of particular interest are six 200-page novels written by contemporaries or immediate precursors of Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize candidate Édouard Glissant and Maryse Condé, both of whom have recently lectured at W&L, as well as Jacques Roumain, Joseph Zobel and Simone Schwarz-Bart. Six three-page essays are required, along with mandatory attendance at a visit from internationally known Martinican scholar and professor, Roger Toumson, two film viewings and ultimate synthesis of the course in an oral final exam. Spontaneous discussion is also extremely important. Fralin

Management 306 (3) - Seminar in Management Information Systems: Management 306 (3) - Seminar in Management Information Systems: Database Management for Business - topical description - Prerequisite: Management /Computer Science 310 or permission of instructor. Designed for students with some relational database experience. This course introduces the theories, concepts, features, and capabilities of database management systems in a business environment. It provides a greater understanding of how to design, develop, and access database driven business applications. The course emphasizes the use of database management systems in real-world business settings and how this technology can be applied effectively to solve business problems.  By the end of the course, students will have the skills to document, design, create, test, and access a fully functional Oracle 9i business database application. Ballenger

Politics 395 (3) - Seminar in International Relations: The United Nations - topical description - An examination of the history and politics of the UN since its creation in 1945. Topics include: the institutional structure of international organizations; the changing roles of the Security Council, the General Assembly, and the Secretary General; the concept of collective security; and the administration of peace keeping operations. Leigh

Religion 195B (3) - Magic, Science, and Religion - topical description - How do religious and scientific explanations and methods of inquiry differ? How is "real" magic supposed to work? What is the role of reason in each of these cases? What is the role of authority? Where do systems such as alchemy, astrology, and acupuncture fit in the spectrum of such ideas and practices? This course draws together a wide range of materials from antiquity to the present, from the West and from Asia, that will illustrate various proposed systems of knowledge and the bases upon which they have been constructed. The approach is to present classical and modern philosophical, religious, and scientific views of what counts as knowledge, how it is acquired and taught, the authority of tradition, and the role of experience (perception, experiment) and reason in establishing or confirming knowledge. Theoretical and methodological readings are balanced with a selection of case studies drawn from a diverse range of contexts: religious ritual, the spiritual claims of mystics, scripture-based doctrine, alchemy, astrology, sorcery, "traditional medicines," and modern religious movements. Students research a system of their choice and analyze its claims and methods in comparison with those of other traditions covered in the course. See http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint/Rel195.htm . Lubin

Spanish 395 (3) - Románticos, rebeldes y revolucionarios - topical description - Attention to 19th-century Spain and the romantic movement with special emphasis on essay, poetry and drama. Representative works include Espronceda's El estudiante de Salamanca, Zorilla's Don Juan Tenorio, la poesía de Rosalía de Castro, and Gutierrez's El Trovador. As a secondary theme students study Spanish romantic drama as the inspiration for several operatic works (for example, Gutierrez's El Trovador and Verdi's Il Trovatore.) West-Settle

Theatre 423 (3) - Directed Individual Project: Musical Theater - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. An exploration of the creative development of a modern American musical. An assigned performance project contributes to a public performance of the theater department's production of Working, from the book by Studs Terkel. Martinez