Art 160 (3) - Photography I - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor. Introduction to the technical and aesthetic principles of photography, with an emphasis on composition, exposure, and light. Lab fee required. Hinely

Biology 295B (1) - A Biologist's View of Creationism - topical description - Prerequisites: Biology 111, 112, 182, junior standing or departmental permission. What is creationism? How do biologists view creationism? Are science and religion necessarily at odds over the subject of evolution? These are some of the questions that are explored through discussion of two books: Pennock's Tower of Babel and Miller's Finding Darwin's God. Knox

Biology 295C (1) - History of Disease - Cancelled

Biology 395 (3) - Experiments in Biology - topical description - Prerequisites: Biology 220, junior standing and permission of the instructor. Do organisms optimize their resource allocation? Are leaves really 3-D? How does a kidney work? These and other questions are addressed using both model and actual biological systems. We examine how research is conducted from asking the initial question through experimental design, data collection, analysis, and presentation/publication. Laboratory course. Hamilton

Biology 398 (3) - Population and Community Ecology - topical description - Prerequisites: Biology 220, junior standing and permission of the instructor. What is the role of predators in maintaining biodiversity? How are populations regulated? We consider modern notions of ecological phenomena at the levels of populations and communities by critically evaluating evidence from the experimental literature in a lecture/discussion format. Hurd

Chemistry 241 (4) - Organic Chemistry I - Permission required - This is necessary in order to implement the "2.5 rule" which is in effect. (The "2.5 rule" may be found in the catalog in the prerequisites for Chemistry 241.)

Chemistry 260 (4) - Physical Chemistry of Biological Systems - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisites: Chemistry 112 and Mathematics 102. Prerequisite or corequisite: Physics 111. An introduction to the application of thermodynamics and chemical kinetics to biological systems. Topics include enzyme kinetics, the thermodynamics of metabolic cycles, and the conformational energetics of biomolecules, especially protein folding. Desjardins

Chemistry 343 (1) - Biochemistry Laboratory - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisite or corequisite: Chemistry 341. Experiments demonstrate the techniques used to study proteins and lipids. Isolation and characterization of proteins and lipids using gel electrophoresis, chromatographic techniques including GC/MS, spectroscopic methods including UV/Vis and NMR, and the proper reporting and analysis of experimental data are included. Alty.

Engineering 330 (3) - Mechanical Vibrations - Cancelled

English 105A (3) - Composition & Literature: Coming of Age - topical description - This course examines a number of literary works that deal with the process of coming of age--the fundamental human movement from youth to adulthood, naïveté to awareness, innocence to experience. In discussions and essays, we focus on the tensions, 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 Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Selected Poems, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, Bronte's Jane Eyre, and Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust. Conner

English 105B (3) - Composition & Literature: The 1960s in the U.S. - topical description - This course examines the turbulence of the 1960s as it was expressed and explored in literature. Through an examination primarily of novels or narrative, we look at the seeds of revolt, the political faces of art and literature, and the complex responses to the social upheavals. Our objective is to re-inhabit the debates by reading these texts critically for what they say, and what they fail to say. The utopian impulses of the decade, expressed forcefully in music, literature, and some art, operate within their historical and cultural context, even as they attempt to transcend or work against those contexts. In reading these works closely, we attend to the contexts they both work within and against so as to come to a more finely focused sense of the decade. Kane

English 105C (3) - Composition & Literature: Noir in Print and Film - topical description - An exploration of the 20th century's fascination with crime fiction through a study of short stories and novels by three of its finest American practitioners - Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Patricia Highsmith - along with several classic film versions of their novels by such major directors as John Huston, Billy Wilder, and Alfred Hitchcock. The course begins with close study of the hardening in the 1920s of the high culture vs. mass culture dichotomy through a careful juxtaposition of T.S. Eliot's modernist poetry and Dorothy Sayers's popular crime fiction along with essays by both of these writers on canonical literature and popular crime fiction. We then turn to the American noir novels and films of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s and their self-conscious effort to challenge this opposition of high and mass culture with popular narratives marked by high artistic ambition. Adams

English 105D (3) - Composition & Literature: On Misbehaving - topical description - This writing-intensive 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: Literature of Faith and Doubt - topical description - An introductory course on literary interpretation and argumentative writing, studied through the topic of faith and doubt in western literature. Reading focuses on supernatural experience as well as the conflict between secularization and religious upbringing. Texts studied include a biography of Joan of Arc, Victorian poets on the loss of faith, and a contemporary memoir by the Muslim writer Lelia Ahmed, about growing up in Cairo and becoming a professor of women's studies in the States. Gertz-Robinson

English 105F (3) - Composition & Literature: Art, Nature & Human Nature in British Classics - topical description - A course designed to help students develop effective expository writing skills through an introductory study of drama, poetry and fiction. We read Shakespeare's As You Like It and The Tempest, a selection of William Wordsworth's poetry, and two novels -- Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Among many other themes, we explore the literary representation of nature as a resource for human nature and the role of art and the imagination in human affairs. Lecture, discussion, workshop, and six essays. Camuto

English 105G (3) - Composition & Literature: On the Outside Looking In - topical description - For hundreds of years individuals have stood apart from the group, sometimes on purpose, sometimes unwittingly. From rash promises to unrequited love, from madness to racial profiling, we examine some ways in which men and women, both literary characters and authors, isolate themselves or are set apart by others because of their actions, qualities, or background. Keeping in mind how we position ourselves through our own academic writing, we explore how social groupings inform and are informed by acts of isolation. Readings, drawn from the Middle Ages to the present day, may include poems by Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Milton, Marvell, Wroth, Byron, Hopkins, Dickinson, Stevens, Bishop, Lowell, Merwin and others; novels by Defoe, Abbott, Rhys, and Kaysen; short stories by Melville, Joyce, and Borges; plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Beckett; and a cartoon book starring a mouse (not Mickey). Cervone

English 105H (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 105I (3) - Composition & Literature: Wicked Women - topical description - This section begins with Chaucer's Wife of Bath and ends with recent essays on Hillary Clinton. We look at witchcraft, femme fatales and prostitutes as a way of considering literary approaches towards women and men's power and sexuality. The course is not for women only - for instance, our discussion of witchcraft and wizardry runs from Miller's The Crucible through excerpts from Harry Potter. Brodie

English 226 (3) - American Literature: Civil War to WW2 - Newly scheduled course

English 333 (3) - Topics and Genres in Restoration and Early 18th-Century Literature: Restoration Bad Boys - topical description - This course examines the textual construction of masculinity in British literature during the period 1660 through the early 1710s. Focusing particularly on representations of (ostensible) social transgression, we centrally consider the relation between 'bad behavior' and normative masculinity. Our study begins with 'bad boys in hell,' examining the representation of male homosociality - and the preeminent bad boys, Satan and his crew - in sections of Milton's Paradise Lost. Having used Milton to complicate the category of 'Restoration literature,' we proceed through a series of texts that fall more conventionally within its purview, with a particular emphasis on stage comedies (by playwrights including Behn, Wycherley, and Etherege). In addition to 'bad boys on stage,' we consider 'bad boys at court' and 'bad boys about town' through the poetry of Rochester, Waller, and Dryden, and the peripatetic writings of Pepys and Ward. Our investigation ends with an examination of early 18th-century attempts at social reform and the production of a new bourgeois masculinity, comparing the strategies of the Society for the Reformation of Manners to those of Addison and Steele's periodicals, The Tatler and The Spectator. In addition to primary texts, readings include theoretical writings about the social construction of masculinity, historical analysis of Restoration politics and culture, and literary criticism. Braunschneider

English 290 (3) - Seminar for Prospective Majors: Staging the City: Dekker, Heywood and Middleton - topical description - This seminar examines the work, and working conditions, of three writers who dedicated their professional careers to writing about the emergent metropolis of Renaissance London. Surveying their varied representations of "Londonopolis" in plays, civic pageants, verse narratives, pamphlets and jokebooks, our assessments of Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood and Thomas Middleton prompt us to reconsider conventions of "authorship," dramatic and otherwise, in a period so singularly framed by the shadow of Shakespeare. In the process, students engage with a range of historical and interpretive methods and perspectives that will help develop in-class presentations, critical bibliographies, and a final research paper over the course of the term. Wilson

English 319 (3) - Shakespeare and Company: 1603 and the Elizabethan Legacy - topical description - Focusing on the repertory and working conditions of the two play companies with which he was centrally involved, this course examines plays by Shakespeare and several of his contemporary collaborators and colleagues (Jonson, Middleton, Fletcher). Attentive to stage history and the evolution of dramatic texts within print culture, we consider the degree to which Shakespeare was both a representative and an exceptional player in Renaissance London's "show business." The course focuses particularly around the year 1603: the "wonderfull yeare" that witnessed Queen Elizabeth's death, and the transition from Elizabethan to Jacobean rule. Wilson

English 341 (3) - Romantic Poetry and Prose - revised description - A close study of the "revolutionary" poetic theories and practices of the six great Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats - with particular emphasis upon their lyric poetry. The course supplements its study of the achievement of the Romantic lyric by framing it with attention to the preceding theory and practice of the late Augustan poets of Sensibility and the post-Romantic efforts of the great Victorians. In addition to encountering some of the greatest poetry in the language, this course also explores the enormous ambition - cultural, intellectual, philosophical, and psychological - of the Romantics in terms of their own grand claims for poetry, the contrast with the more modest ideas of their predecessors and followers, and, finally, some modern critical theory. Adams

English 359 (3) - Literature by Women - Newly scheduled course

English 380A (3) - Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, and the Visual Arts - topical description - "Who peyntede the lion, tel me who?" When Chaucer's Wife of Bath questions the rhetorical means by which men may oppress women, she points toward the "art," or strategy of intent, that lies behind any depiction, whether visual or linguistic. Both Chaucer and the Gawain-poet encourage us to think about poetry as a medium of expression and to consider how language, particularly poetic language, differs from other media. In this course, we examine a range of visual representations, such as manuscript illuminations and stained glass windows, misericords and alabasters, alongside passages of poetry that make particular use of sensory perception. Students practice interpreting Middle English poetry while also thinking deeply about how topics and ideas are disseminated throughout late medieval England by means of literature and the visual arts. Cervone

English 380B (3) - Renaissance Poetry - topical description - An intensive study of Renaissance poetry, covering genres such as the sonnet, epic, ballad, elegy and occasional poem. We study verse form, such as rhyme scheme, meter and stanza, as well as poetic techniques like figuration, allegory, alliteration and metonymy. After building a working sense of the forms and mechanics of Renaissance poetry, we study different Renaissance poets (Wyatt, Lanyer, Spenser, Wroth, Milton, Donne, Philips and Herbert) within their political, religious and social contexts. Gertz-Robinson

English 380C (3) - Native American Literature - topical description - A seminar designed to explore the full range of Native North American literature and to study selected examples of the representation of Native American culture in Euro-American literature. We read new scholarly translations of creation myths, songs, prayers, epic adventure narratives, trickster traditions to get a sense of the narrative dimensions of Native American story telling, the way cultural values and traditions are represented in the (originally oral) narrative art of tribes from every region of North America. Of particular interest are indigenous ideas about nature, the supernatural, identity, family, culture, and the role of art and the imagination in life. Brian Swann's Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America is the touchstone anthology. We also study textual evidence of early European awareness of Native American culture and examples of the representation of Native Americans in a few colonial, Romantic, and modern writers - Roger Williams, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Faulkner, for example - in order to investigate the displacement of Native cultures in western texts, and we consider how Native American literature challenges and enriches our strategies for reading and for interpreting literary narratives. Knowledge of American literature and of literary theory very useful. Active seminar participation required; oral presentations; major term essay. Camuto

English 380D (3) - Cul-de-Sac of Culture or Cultures of Cul-de-Sacs?: Representations of the Suburbs in American Literature - topical description - John Winthrop saw a shining city upon a hill and Jefferson envisioned an agrarian utopia. By the postwar 1950s, the U.S. had achieved some kind of middle-ground: the Suburb. From Beaver Cleaver to "Soccer Moms," this course explores the representations of the suburbs in literature (and some film), from Pynchon to Gish Jen. We interrogate the comic, the gothic, and the melancholic in suburban life, with its strict ethos of consumption and well-scripted gender roles. How has the space of the suburb, with its convenience to commerce, emphasis on privacy and on uniformity reverberated in political and social debates of the last fifty years? Looking at films such as American Beauty, The Ice Storm, and certain novels such as The Crying of Lot 49, we can see the emphasis on privacy and autonomy can lead to alienation or paranoia. But the same space offers possibility in other works such as Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land. Is it a promised land, or a cul de sac? Kane

French 331 (3) Études thématiques: Le Dépaysement - topical description - Prerequisite: French 273 or equivalent or permission of instructor. A travers la lecture de poèmes et d'extraits de pièces et de prose de la Renaissance à nos jours, nous allons réfléchir sur les divers aspects du voyage et les sensations qu'il peut provoquer. Le travail de l'étudiant consistera en des commentaires composés, des exposés et de courtes dissertations sur des sujets en rapport avec le thème: l'évasion, l'aventure, la quête, la découverte, le déracinement, l'exil, et la nostalgie. Lambeth

French 344 (3) La Francophonie: Le roman francophone à la première personne - topical description - Prerequisite: French 273 or permission of the instructor. This course focuses on first person narratives including autobiographical and semi-autobiographical, as well as fictional texts. We examine the way the narrating subject represents herself or himself in the context of or in apposition to a collective entity or experience. Issues such as narrative technique, point of view, space and identity, subjectivity and representation, receive special attention. Texts are African, Québécois, and Caribbean. Kamara

French 397 (3) Séminaire avancé : La France sous l'Occupation - topical description - Prerequisite: Three courses at the 300 level or permission of the instructor. Strongly motivated non-majors who do not meet the prerequisite are encouraged to apply for permission to take this course. This course looks at life in France during the German Occupation of 1940-1944, and how the controversy that raged then (whether to collaborate with the Occupier or to resist) has endured in French society. Materials for the course include literary texts, historical documents, songs, documentary and fiction films, and other media. Oral reports and discussions are conducted in French and all papers are written in French. Frégnac-Clave

History 329 (Law 271/271W) (3) - The Development of the Western Legal Tradition - topical description - Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Class participants will be both undergraduate and law students. Limited enrollment. Actual course meeting times are 2-3:05 pm Mon-Tue-Wed. Through lectures and discussions, this course examines major developments in the history of Western European law. It begins with the laws of ancient Greece and Rome and concludes in the 19th century with the codifications in France and Germany and the fusion of law and equity in England. A central theme of the course is the evolution of and interaction among the four main components of the Western legal tradition: Roman and civil law, customary and feudal law, canon law, and English common law. The course draws on primary and secondary sources that have been translated into English; no foreign languages are required. Each undergraduate student is expected to write two short papers and to complete a final examination.(GE4 as history) Gallanis

History 330 (3) - Colonial Latin America - Cancelled

Journalism 295A (3) - Crisis Communications - topical description - Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or Journalism 101. A case-study approach to current methods of forecasting problems and responding effectively to crisis situations and their consequences in the public and private sectors. Topics include: identifying and communicating effectively with stakeholders during a crisis, media-relations strategies during emergencies, building an effective crisis response plan, regaining public credibility following a crisis, and avoiding public relations mistakes during litigation. Abah

Journalism 295B (3) - Political Economy of the Media - topical description - Prerequisite: Junior standing. Appropriate for non-majors, especially those in business and the social sciences. An examination of current issues in ownership, regulation and media performance. The course focuses on tensions between two forces: on one side, concentration of private control and commercialization of content and, on the other, preserving a robust public marketplace of ideas with journalism as an instrument of social and political accountability. Wasserman

Latin 331- (3) - Early Republican Literature - Newly scheduled course - For Fall 2003 only, this course is approved to be taught on-line with the Sunoikisis consortium of classics departments belonging to the Associated College of the South (ACS) (see www.sunoikisis.org ). Prerequisite: Latin 301 and permission of the instructor. This course explores the literature of early Rome, most importantly Roman comedy. (GE3) Carlisle.

Mathematics 101Z (3) - Calculus I - reserved for students who have had some previous work in calculus

Mathematics 221A (3) - Multivariable Calculus - freshmen only

Mathematics 403 (3) - Directed Individual Study: Linear Algebra, Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Computing - topical description - A second course in linear algebra focusing on topics important in the study of quantum computation: polar and singular-value decomposition, trace and trace-preserving operations, numerical range, operator norm, Hilbert-Schmidt inner product, tensor product. Applications to quantum mechanics and quantum computing are discussed. Bourdon

The following courses have an additional charge, billed to the student's account after registration:

PE 149 Bowling $50.00
PE 170 Horsemanship $90.00
PE 178 Ballet $60.00
PE 179 Modern Dance $60.00
PE 304 First Aid/CPR $16.00/$33.00

Physical Education 195 (0) - Outdoor Activities

Politics 355 (3) - Gender and Politics - Newly scheduled course

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. Staff

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. McCaughrin

Psychology 395 (3) - Intro to Pediatric/Child Clinical Psychology - topical description - Topics include an overview of the diagnosis and treatment of childhood psychological disorders and the application of developmental psychology, systems theory, learning and behavioral principles to specific medical conditions (e.g., childhood cancer). Sayre

Religion 195A (3) - Introduction to American Indian Religions - topical description - Drawing upon a wide variety of native and scholarly sources, this course examines the commonalities and distinctive features of native religious systems throughout North America. The first part of the course considers the beliefs and practices characterizing these systems before contact with Euro-American powers; the second part considers the continuities and changes in American Indian religions as a result of this contact. (GE4 as religion) Markovitz.

Religion 203 (3) - Religion and Modernity's Disenchantment - Newly scheduled course - This course explores various attempts to define modernity in terms of the decline and/or transformation of religious thought and practice in the west. Students consider depictions of the modern west from the perspective of a variety of disciplines: including sociology, psychology, philosophy, and theology. In the course of our explorations, we consider economic, scientific, aesthetic, and technological dimensions of the modern west… and the impact these have on religion. (GE4 as religion) Kosky

Religion 216 (3) - Saints and Deities in Four Traditions - revised description - An examination of the lives of saints and holy personages in four religious traditions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. The course asks: What makes someone holy? How are saints portrayed in biographical literature? What do the conventions of sacred biography - a blend of history and myth - tell us about the universality or specificity of the religious imagination? What role do such biographies play in the lives of devotees? How do they help to shape the institutions and practices of a religion? Fuller

Religion 295 (3) - Christianity and World Religions: Mission and Dialogue - topical description - This seminar explores recent developments in the theology of Christian mission that reflect the struggle of missionaries to reconcile Christianity's universal and exclusive claims to salvation with the existence of so many other faiths. Particular attention is given to the assumptions, methodologies and goals characterizing such movements as liberation theology, inculturation theology, inter-faith dialogue, and mission-in-reverse. (GE4 as religion) Markovitz.

Sociology 202 (3) - Social Problems - Newly scheduled course

Spanish 207 (3) - Intro a la Lit Hispanoamericanan - Newly scheduled course

Spanish 396 (3) - Seminar: Alterity in Contemporary Latin American Literature - topical description - Prerequisites: Spanish 207 and 215. In this course, we read novels from the most recent years of the Latin American Post-Boom (1990s to present), especially those that deal with representations of 'other kinds' of sexuality, gender, and life-"styles." Some literary theory and practical criticism pertinent to each work serves as a foundation for class discussion. Authors studied include Carmen Boullosa (Duerme), Reina Roffé (El cielo dividido), Fernando Vallejo (Law Virgen de los Sicarios), Mario Ballatín (Poeta ciego), Alberto Fuguet (Por favor rebobinar), and Alfredo Espinosa (Obra negra). Student work include presentations, a midterm exam, four short papers, and one independent, longer research paper. Prinkey

University Scholars 202 (3) - Natural Science Seminar: Time Machines - topical description - Prerequisite: Mathematics 101 or higher with 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. (GE5c) McRae