Art 251 (3) - Italian Renaissance Art - Cancelled

Art 380 (3) - Visual Arts and the Russian Revolution - topical description - No prerequisite; open to all classes. This course examines the works of Russian avant-garde artists and film makers who worked in Russia between the 1917 revolution and the Stalinist era in the 1930s. Students study the works of such artists as Malevich, Tatlin, Eizenstein, and Dovzhenko and conclude the course with a brief study of Socialist Realism in painting sculpture and film. The course deals with the problems of utopian vision, the art of propaganda, and the uneasy relationship between the artists and the state. (GE4) Brodsky

Art 396 (3) - Senior Seminar: Approaches to Studio Art - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisite: Senior studio art major. This course begins the process which culminates in the spring-term, senior-thesis art exhibit. Art studio faculty and visiting artists discuss their work. Readings related to personal explorations are assigned and discussed. Techniques and methods for preparing artwork for exhibition are discussed and demonstrated. Stene

Biology 295B (1) - Biologists 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 330 (4) - Experimental Botany - Cancelled

Biology 355 (4) - Microanatomy - Cancelled

Biology 362 (4) - Animal Physiology - Newly scheduled course

Chemistry 266 (1) - Physical Chemical Measurements - Cancelled

Computer Science 210 (3) - Computer Organization - Cancelled

Computer Science 320 (3) - Parallel Computing - Newly scheduled course

Economics 280 (3) - Development Economics - Newly scheduled course

Economics 297A (3) - Political Economics - topical description - An introduction to the economic approach to politics, covering a wide range of topics, including the median voter hypothesis, Arrow's impossibility theorem, "logrolling," the theory of bureaucracy, the separation of powers and the scope of judicial discretion, civil liberties and constitutional constraints, economic theories of dictatorship, and war and peace. Smythe

Economics 297B (3) - Gender and Economics - topical description - This course offers economics majors an alternative perspective of the scope and methods of economics and offers women's studies students an introduction to the application of economic reasoning to issues of gender. The course begins with exploring the impact of gender on economic experiences: differences between women and men in the labor force; ways that government policies affect women's economic options and well being; ways that race and gender interact in the economy; issues faced by women in developing economies; how the economics of gender have changed over time; economic histories of women and men. The second part of the course applies economic analysis beyond the market economy: gender's role in the economic functioning of the household; decision-making; division of paid and unpaid labor; importance of unpaid work in the reproduction of the economy; the role that gender plays in community. Lastly, the course examines how gender issues challenge our understanding of economic behavior. Student evaluation is based on class participation, several short papers, a group presentation and a research project. Gignesi

Economics 320 (3) - Mathematical Economics - Newly scheduled course

Economics 320 (3) - Mathematical Economics - Cancelled

Engineering 395 (3) - Heat Transfer - Cancelled

English 105A (3) - Composition and Literature: On Misbehaving - topical description - This writing-intensive course examines a range of poetry, narrative, and drama concerned with questions of rule breaking, transgression of norms, resistance to authority, refusals to conform -- -i.e., with various phenomena we might call "misbehavior." Through readings, discussion, and writing assignments, we investigate the relation between so-called good behavior and social hierarchies defined by race, gender, sexuality, age, and class. Studying works from a variety of historical periods, we consider why literary texts so frequently focus on misbehavior, and we consider what it might mean for texts themselves, including student compositions, to behave or misbehave. This course emphasizes collaborative learning and requires a number of short writing assignments as well as significant revision of longer papers. (GE1) Braunschneider

English 105B (3) - Composition and 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. (GE1) Brodie

English 105C (3) - Composition and 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, naivete 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 Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare's Richard II, Henry the Fourth, Parts I & II, and Henry V, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, and Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys. (GE1) Conner

English 105D (3) - Composition and Literature: For Life: Individuals and Families - topical description - Students develop their critical writing skills in this course that focuses on the institution of the family. We consider traditional and alternative concepts of family and how families function in the larger context of a society, as well as how individuals participate in, resist or rebel against families. Themes such as economics, immigration, race, sexuality, gender, religion and nationalism will help structure our discussions. We read novels, memoirs, short stories, poetry and essays by such authors as Toni Morrison, June Jordan, Junot Diaz, Lucille Clifton, Adrienne Rich, David Sedaris, Flannery O'Connor and Donald Barthelme. We also watch the films Welcome to the Dollhouse, directed by Todd Solondz, and Thomas Vinterberg's Celebration, and we consider contemporary political discourse surrounding such topics as single-parent families and same sex parents. (GE1) Solomon

English 105E (3) - Composition and Literature: The Road in North American Literature - topical description - This course examines literary works that explore the road trip as an expression of personal and cultural journeying through North America. Through class discussions, informal writings, and formal essays, we study the historical, emotional, gendered, raced, spiritual and economic perspectives of traveling within the United States as a way of forming individual and national identity. Who takes road trips? Why? When? How do age, gender, race, and economic status figure into journeys, or do they? How do outward journeys serve as metaphors for inner exploration? Do women travel differently than men? Are journeys always voluntary? Do they always take us somewhere? Do Native Americans, Chicanos, Caucasians or African-Americans journey through the U.S. differently? What function does the road trip serve as a trope in American literature? What kinds of explorations do journeys allow? What do they help us avoid? How have North American writers used the road trip as a vehicle for cultural transformation? (GE1) Miranda

English 105F (3) - Composition and Literature: Mysteries, Puzzles, and Conundrums - topical description - We concern ourselves with 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 work, in its own way, raises questions about the methods and the limitations of human discovery. (GE1) Oliver

English 105G (3) - Composition and Literature: The Gossips and Con Artists - topical description - This course examines the theme of societal control by studying two manipulative power brokers that recur in literature: the gossip and the con artist. Through critical reading, collaborative discussion, and argumentative writing, we explore diverse characterizations of the gossip and the con artist in a variety of genres, starting with selected Canterbury Tales and ending with the film The Matrix. We analyze the various schemes the gossip and the con artist employ to exert social control, their understanding and manipulation of the status quo, their motivations and rewards, and their effects upon the community. To further our practice of sound academic writing, we juxtapose the methods and aims of the gossip and the con artist with our own rhetorical strategies for persuading readers. In addition, we think critically about our personal susceptibility to the wiles of the gossip and the con as well as our inclination to play their roles. (GE1) Wall

English 105H (3) - Composition & Literature: Literature and the Environment - topical description - This course focuses on fiction, poetry, and drama in which the relationship between human and non-human nature is central. The texts treat this central relationship in several different ways, and the selections range from the Renaissance to the present. We read stories by Hawthorne and Barry Lopez; poems by 19th-century Americans like Bryant, Whitman, and Dickinson, and by the contemporary poet Pattiann Rogers; and plays by Shakespeare and Chekhov. (GE1) Warren

English 203 (3) - Creative Writing I - Newly scheduled course

English 207 (3) - The Novel - Cancelled

English 209 (3) - Southern American Literature - Cancelled

English 210 (3) - Shakespeare - Newly scheduled course

English 225 (3) - American Literature:Origins to Civil War - Cancelled

English 226 (3) - American Literature:Civil War to WWII - Cancelled

English 233 (3) - The American Short Story - topical description - A study of the evolution of the American short story, from its roots in Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville, through its great flowering with Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and O'Connor, to its present explosion with Erdrich, Bambara, Ford, Thom Jones, Tim O'Brien and Bharati Mukherjee. Texts will be The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, the Spring 2004 issue of Shenandoah, and The Best American Short Stories. Discussions focus on sub-genres, styles, movements and rhetorical strategies, especially the construction of the narrative point of view. Students develop their analytical writing skills through a series of short papers (including a book review) and a final. They also have an opportunity to write a short story in lieu of one critical paper. (GE3) Smith

English 290 (3) - Seminar for Prospective Majors: Justice in Late Medieval Literature - topical description - This seminar explores how justice operates in the two main imaginative worlds of medieval literature: romance and reformist vision. Romance explores the difficulties of determining guilt or innocence (trial by ordeal or combat, misleading "facts"), the importance of good reputation (honor, in one sense), the validity of promises and oaths, the difficulties of adjudicating conflicting loyalties. Texts: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Merwin translation), Malory's Arthurian cycle, Robin Hood ballads. Visionary literature anatomizes corruption and injustice in contemporary social, political, religious, and economic life, then seeks ways of reforming institutions, individuals, and professions. Major text: The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman (Donaldson translation). Some attention to the relation between ethics and literature. (GE3) Craun

English 307 (3) - Advanced Poetry - Cancelled

English 312 (3) - Chaucer, Dante, Langland:Vision - Cancelled

English 316 (3) - Renaissance Literature:16th Century - Cancelled

English 318 (3) - Medieval and Renaissance Drama - Cancelled

English 326 (3) - Renaissance Literature: 17th Century - Newly scheduled course

English 335 (3) - Early British Narrative: Motion and Stasis in 18th-Century Novels - topical description - This course surveys British prose fiction over the course of the 18th century. Including novels long considered canonical as well as texts only recently attracting significant scholarly attention, our readings cluster around the binary of motion and stasis. This thematic allows us to consider a series of concerns central to the period's fiction, including travel, social mobility, commerce, domestic v. public spheres, modernity v. antiquity, narrative structure, and the definition of the genre of the novel. Our primary texts include novels by Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Sterne, and Frances Burney. We also engage with a range of scholarly arguments about the much-debated 18th-century phenomenon known as the "rise of the novel." (GE3) Braunschneider

English 345 (3) - Victorian Failure - topical description - In this class, we study how Victorian novels contemplate and define failure and its social and psychological implications. Amid culture-wide debates on "the crisis of action" (the shared sense that living in a modern and thoroughly mundane world left no opportunities for heroic, epic action), 19th-century British writers used the form of the novel - with its multiple perspectives, complex psychological representation, and social realism - to study failure from many angles. Attending centrally to the ways the theme of failure intersects with questions of gender, sexuality, and class, we consider how various kinds of failures are presented as damaging breakdowns of the moral order or as energizing, progressive disruptions of the status quo. Readings likely include novels by George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hardy, and Anthony Trollope; some Victorian essays and poetry; and modern scholarship. (GE3) Matthews

English 347 (3) - Victorian Prose - Cancelled

English 363 (3) - American Poetry:1900-1950 - Cancelled

English 369 (3) - American Novel:WWII - Present - Cancelled

English 380 (3) - Advanced Seminar - Cancelled

English 413A (3) - Senior Research and Writing: Sound and 20th-Century Poetry - topical description - Students in this seminar examine the trope of voice and the role of sound in poetry written in English during the last century. We begin the term by discussing a series of theoretical readings from Frye, Culler, De Man, Johnson, Gioia, and others; we pair those texts with a range of poems. By midterm students will be working independently on related research projects: these could range from an investigation of the effects of recording technologies on modernism, to a study of prosody in one poet's work, to an analysis of the contemporary Spoken Word movement. Participants present their work to the group at various stages and submit a long essay at the end of the term. Wheeler

English 413B (3) - Senior Research and Writing: Cultural Conflicts in the American West - topical description - In this section we study a few key texts about the American West and then see where each student wants to go from there. There are many cultural conflicts from which to choose, and many wonderful texts written about those conflicts in virtually every genre. We will figure out how to study these conflicts and each to write in stages a convincing long paper explicating one of them in depth, to be shared all along the way with the rest of us. Among the Western groups in conflict are Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and white Europeans from many different backgrounds, all fighting for their land, their economic livelihood, their culture, their families, their names, their ethnic identities, and virtually everything else human beings can fight for. Although our primary texts are literature, students who take this section also explore some of the historical and political manifestations of these conflicts, and grapple with the challenges of resolving them. Smout

English 413C (3) - Senior Research and Writing: The Conscious Writer: A Fiction Workshop for Readers - topical description - Students of this course work towards developing as deliberate writers of short fiction, at the level of technique and at the level of meaning. Students not only workshop each other's stories with extreme rigor, considering the basic elements of fiction but also explore such topics as the writer's audience and the responsibilities of artists to themselves and others. Students are asked to focus on the revision process, at least as much as generating new writing, and to work more productively with the ideas and structures at the core of their creative impulse. As writers we will ask ourselves: what are my obsessions? What themes, moments and images appear repeatedly in my work? What do I ultimately wish to portray and communicate? In addition to class writing, students read a variety of published short stories. Through discussions and written responses to this material, we reconsider the act of reading in an attempt to learn what it means to read both as a critic and as a developing writer. The written requirement for this class is primarily short fiction. Solomon

English 413D (3) - Senior Research and Writing: The Art of the Word--A Whole-Body Experience - topical description - This course looks at the construction of poetry as a work of art, requiring both the concept and a "container" for the concept. Poetry is not simply an intellectual exercise, nor does it emerge only from the passion of the heart; poetry requires that you filter language through the conduit of your body and your senses. To take this work further, we present or contain our work in vessels called "books" or "broadsides" -- using various materials to craft containers just as thoughtful as the poems themselves. In other words, the construction of poetry is a whole-body experience! Primarily we focus on: l) writing, crafting, revising your poetry. Then, 2) choosing paper, font, type, layout, design, colors, textures for your broadside and/or chapbook. Finally, 3) presenting your poetry during a reading/showing of these works to the public. We explore the sensory elements of creating with words: visual, tactile, auditory, even taste and olfactory, through the use of writing prompts, revision, letterpress, special papers, inks, and the construction of three-dimensional chapbooks and/or broadsides. This is poetry as an art: something you, as the creator, are fully engaged with and responsible for from conception to maturity. Miranda

French 331 (3) - Etudes thématiques: Regards sur la ville - topical description - Prerequisiste: French 273 or equivalent and permission of the instructor. The course explores the representation of the city in French and Francophone fiction and non-fiction texts, paintings, songs, cartoons and films. Readings include poetry, 19th- and 20th-century novels and short stories, a detective story, essays, press articles. Emphasis is on critical skills and expression in French. (GE 3) Frégnac-Clave

French 341 (3) - L'Esprit critique au XVIIIe siècle - topical description - Prerequisite: French 273. The French 18th century, otherwise known as the 'Enlightenment' (le Siècle des Lumières), was a period of great intellectual activity. It was the time of the 'philosophes,' and some 'antiphilosophes,' when virtually everything, especially religious moralism and traditional knowledge systems, was put to the test of reason. It was out of this desire to know the truth that the 'esprit critique' and 'esprit scientifique' were born. Through a reading of novels, short stories, essays and plays, this course examines that aspect of Enlightenment literature focusing on the critical representation of moral, social and economic life. Writers to be studied may include Madame de Grafigny, Diderot, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Marivaux. (GE3) Kamara

French 342 (3) - La France Moderne - Cancelled

French 397 (3) - Le merveilleux, le fantastique, et la science fiction - topical description - Prerequisite: Three 300-level courses or permission of instructor. A study of three related narrative modes in medieval French short stories and Arthurian romances, 17th-century French fairy tales and Cyrano de Bergerac’s Empires, 19th-century short stories, and two 20th-century novels. (GE3) Fralin.

Geology 201 (3) - Oceanography - Cancelled

Geology 311 (3) - Earth Materials II: Geochemistry - Cancelled

Geology 397 (3) - Shake & Bake: Tectonic and Volcanic Processes on an Active Earth - topical description - No prerequisites and all levels, freshmen through seniors, are welcome. A seminar investigating active tectonics and volcanism within the context of plate tectonics, with in-depth investigations of particular volcanic and tectonic events throughout geologic time. Group interaction, discussions and readings are emphasized. Davis, Staff.

History 307 (3) - French Revolution and Napoleon - Cancelled

History 309 (3) - Europe, 1870-1918 - Newly scheduled course

History 311 (3) - Europe Since 1939 - Newly scheduled course

History 313 (3) - Germany, 1815-1914 - Cancelled

History 327 (3) - The Development of the Western Legal Tradition - Cancelled

History 329A (3) - 17th- and 18th-Century France: Ancien Regime and Napoleonic Wars - topical description - Origins and development of the French Revolution and the transformation of Europe during the Napoleonic Era. (GE4) DiCaprio

History 329B (3) - Seminar: Collaboration, Resistance, and Postwar Justice in France, 1940 to the Present - topical description - The refashioning of France following its 1940 capitulation to Nazi Germany, the French Resistance, and post-World War II trials to bring collaborators to justice. (GE4) DiCaprio

History 342 (3) - United States 1789-1840 - Cancelled

History 344 (3) - Seminar on the United States, 1840-1860 - Newly scheduled course

History 351 (3) - U.S. Social and Intellectual History from Colonial Times into the 19th Century - Cancelled

History 383 (3) - China's Imperial Shadow, Prehistoric Origins to 1600 - revised description - Pre-modern Chinese civilization arguably invented and certainly re-invented the theory and practice of empire. This course focuses on following the ebb and flow of imperial political, economic and cultural power across China and as it periodically spilled over into Southeast Asia and Inner Asia to include parts of the histories of Mongolia, Vietnam, and Korea as well. Themes include the inventions of Confucianism; the popular culture of the civil service exam; Mongol apartheid; relating to the barbarians; keeping Chinese men and women in their places; Chinese Buddhism's Silk Road; traditional religion and popular revolt; pre-modern bureaucracy in action and stagnation. (GE4) Bello

Journalism 221 (3) - International Communications - Cancelled

Journalism 243 (3) - Ethics of Journalism in Democratic States - Cancelled

Journalism 295A (3) - The Press and the Presidential Campaign: The Role of the News Media in Defining and Shaping Politics - topical description - Prerequisite: At least sophomore standing. Appropriate for non-majors. An examination of the roles played by the news media in presidential campaigns, with special emphasis on the Bush-Kerry contest. Extensive writing required. Smith

Journalism 295B (3) - Crisis Communication - 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 consequences in the public and private sector. Students learn to identify and communicate effectively with stakeholders during 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 295C (3) - Media Ownership and Control - 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

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

Management 315 (3) - Database Management for Business - Newly scheduled course

Management 315 (3) - Database Management for Business - Cancelled

Management 320 (3) - E-Commerce - Newly scheduled course

Management 355 (3) - Cases in Corporate Finance - Newly scheduled course

Management 365 (3) - Investments - Cancelled

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

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

Math 383 (3) - Seminar - Cancelled

Mathematics 401-01 (1) - Comparative and Competitive Problem Solving - topical description - Prerequisites: Mathematics 222 and 312. A review of problem-solving tools from the calculus sequence, linear algebra, and real analysis. Comparison of different methods of solution is emphasized, with the goal of identifying the most efficient approaches for use on timed examinations. Bourdon

Mathematics 401-02 (1) - Number Theory and Cryptography - topical description - A survey of basic number theory, covering congruences, Fermat's Little Theorem, and other topics necessary to understand the RSA public-key encryption system. Dresden

Mathematics 403 (3) - Classical Theory of Algebraic Numbers - topical description - A survey of algebraic number theory; including class field theory, ideals, and quadratic reciprocity. Dresden.

Music 120 (3) - Introduction to Music - Cancelled

Music 131 (3) - Music History I - Newly scheduled course

Music 221 (3) - History of Jazz - Cancelled

Music 331 (3) - Renaissance Music - Cancelled

Philosophy/Classics 221 (3) - Plato - Newly scheduled course

Philosophy 395 (3) - Women and Philosophy - topical description - For juniors and seniors. May apply toward major requirements. This course is an examination of women in philosophy. We will consider the following sorts of questions: What do women in philosophy have to say on major philosophical issues? Do women have a special role to play? Do women "do" philosophy differently? In thinking about these questions, we examine the philosophical works of women from various time periods. The course is separated into three sections: metaphysics (the nature of reality), epistemology (the study of knowledge), and ethics. (GE4). Griffith

Students may express a preference for up to three skills courses as part of web registration. These preferences will be examined after the academic schedule is set and, if open and not in conflict with the academic courses, one and only one skills may be placed in the schedule. Changes or additional sections may still be handled during the drop/add period.

Physical Education - The following courses have an additional charge, billed to the student's account after registration: PE 149 Bowling; PE 151, Golf; PE 170 Horsemanship; PE 178 Ballet; PE 179 Modern Dance; PE 304 First Aid/CPR.

Physical Education 152 (0) - Football - Cancelled

Politics 232 (3) - Public Policy - Cancelled

Politics 233 (3) - Environmental Policy and Law - Newly scheduled course

Politics 240 (3) - Elections and Government in Western Democracies - Cancelled

Politics 245 (3) - European Politics and Society - Newly scheduled course

Politics 265 (3) - Classical Political Philosophy - Cancelled

Politics 266 (3) - Modern Political Philosophy - Newly scheduled course

Politics 330 (3) - Congress and the Legislative Process - Cancelled

Politics 335 (3) - The Presidency - Newly scheduled course

Politics 380 (3) - Collective Action Analysis - topical description - No prerequisites. Open to majors and non-majors. Meets the comparative politics and international relations field requirement or elective credit for politics majors. Recommended for students interested in non-profit sector management, public-goods finance, service in NGOs. This course explains political outcomes from voluntary collective action alone - specifically in and among political parties under a competitive election-cycle, in social movements under a competitive market, and in mutual-aid associations under anarchy. Data cover social democratic parties (1880s-1980s, seven states); labor movements (from least to most militant on wage disputes); and mutual-aid coalitions (with two or more members, acting on one or more issues, over one to infinite rounds). A research project assesses collective action as an alternative to the state among eight countries over time. More information is available from the instructor at mccaughrinc@wlu.edu, x8624. C. McCaughrin

Politics 390 (3) - Lincoln the Politician - topical description - Prerequisites: Politics 100 or 111 and either sophomore standing with permission of the instructor or junior standing. This course examines the role that personal ambition and political party activism played in the ascendancy of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency. Related topics include public opinion, the rule of law, constitutionalism, political compromise, moral right, and religious conviction. Our goal is to assess how well Lincoln channeled the consent of the community toward the protection of individual rights and the common good. Morel

Politics 397 (3) - Seminar in American Government: Elections 2004 - topical description - An analysis of the Presidential and Congressional campaigns and elections of 2004 within the context of United States elections generally, and more specifically the 2000 and 2002 national elections. Among the topics considered are the central role that elections play in American democracy, the presidential nominating process, election campaign organization and strategy, campaign finance, the role of the political parties and of the media, and voting behavior. The seminar concludes with an analysis of the results of the November elections, the implications for the next four years, and consideration of possible electoral reforms. John

Psychology 210 (3) - Abnormal Psychology - Newly scheduled course

Psychology 253 (3) - Physiological Psychology: Motivated Behaviors - Newly scheduled course

Psychology 351 (3) - Directed Research: Cognition - Cancelled

Psychology 356 (3) - Research: Socioemotional Development - Cancelled

Psychology 395 (3) - Gender-Role Development - topical description - Prerequisite: Psychology 113. This seminar provides an overview of children's gender-role development. What role do biological factors play in different behaviors of boys and girls, does society push boys and girls in different directions? Major theories of gender-role development from the prenatal period to adolescence are discussed. Fulcher

Psychology 395A (3) - Neuropsychological Assessment - Newly scheduled course

Religion 103 (3) - Introduction to Asian Religions - revised description - A survey of the teachings, practices, and historical development of Asian Religions with concentration on the three traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. (GE4) Komarovski

Religion 105 (3) - Introduction to Islam and Judaism - Newly scheduled course

Religion 195A (3) - Christianity and Culture in Classical and Medieval Times - topical description - Through a survey of key primary texts and important secondary works, this course introduces students to Christianity in a period ranging roughly from Augustine to the Eve of the Reformation. In addition to studying key doctrines concerning God, "man," and the world, students also consider Christian forms of life and culture such as the monastic ideal, the production of icons, the construction of cathedrals, and the interpretation of texts. (GE4) Kosky

Religion 195B (3) - Introduction to American Indian Religions - topical description - This class introduces students to some of the dominant themes, values, beliefs, and practices found among the religions of North America's Indian peoples. The course explores the importance of sacred power, landscape, and community in traditional Indian spiritualities and rituals, then examines some of the changes that have occurred in these traditions as a result of western expansion and dominance from the 18th through early-20th centuries. The course finally considers some of the issues and problems confronting the continued practice of American Indian religions. (GE4) Markowitz

Religion 231 (3) - Yogis, Ascetics and Divine Incarnations in Indian Religions - Cancelled

Religion 250 (3) - Orthodoxy and Heresy - Cancelled

Religion 295A (3) - Seminar in North American Indian Religious Movements - topical description - Drawing upon native and academic accounts, this seminar explores some of the "revitalization" or "nativistic" movements that arose among North American Indian peoples during the 18th and 19th centuries. Stemming from assaults on their cultures and religions, such movements were generally characterized by beliefs and practices that promised to restore and renew traditional lifeways while expelling the sources of disruption. Among the movements examined are the Cherokee Religious Revival of 1811, The Handsome Lake Movement among the Seneca Indians, the Dreamer Religion of the Pacific Northwest tribes, and the 1890 Ghost Dance of the Lakota Sioux. (GE4) Markowitz

Religion 295B (3) - Seminar in Asian Religion: Buddhist Doctrine and Practice - The Mah~y~na Tradition - topical description - The course concentrates on doctrinal teachings and practice of the Mah~y~na ("Great Vehicle") Buddhism, emphasizing their close interdependence. We start with discussions of such fundamental Buddhist teachings as the Four Noble Truths, reincarnation theory, and liberation, and then analyze in detail different views on reality and its realization developed by Buddhist thinkers. Connected to this, the course concentrates on meditative techniques of calming the mind, meditation on selflessness, and cultivation of equanimity, love and compassion. Topics also include the Buddhist theory of perception, questions of existence/non-existence of external world, different levels of consciousness and meditative states, as well as theory and practices of Tantric Buddhism. The course emphasizes an intimate relationship between Buddhist views and religious practice. (GE4) Komarovski.

Spanish 313 (3) - Don Quijote - Newly scheduled course

Spanish 316 (3) - Modern Hispanic Poetry - Cancelled

Spanish 317 (3) - Contemporary Spanish-American Novel - description revision - The course treats novels from the 1940s to the present from two approaches: first, a critical analysis of three exemplary texts by representative "Boom" novelists; and second, a broader survey of the predominant literary characteristics found in other important novelists of the period and their major works. By combining the two approaches, we answer how Latin American novelists express their understanding of "la realidad interior: (Lo filosófico y sicológico); la realidad exterior: (Lo social y político); and la realidad mágica: (Lo real maravilloso). For more information go to http://home.wlu.edu/~barnettj/317/317index.htm . Barnett

Spanish 395 (3) - The Heroine in 20th-Century Spanish Literature - topical description - A seminar focusing on the development of the female protagonist in 20th-century Spanish literature. A multi-generic approach that considers the changing role of the female protagonist as depicted in works written by male and female authors. Through the close reading of plays, novels, and short stories, and the evaluation of critical essays, the following structural and thematic questions are studied: How does the female protagonist absorb and reflect the culture of which she is inherently a part; how are culture and gender intertwined and how do they manifest themselves in the selected works; what specific elements of Spanish feminism are noticeably missing or are craftily incorporated into these works as a whole; what are the fundamental differences between the theatrical and prose portrayals of the protagonist. Mayock