Accounting 360 (3) - Auditing - Cancelled

Art 160 (3) - Photography I - Cancelled

Art 250 (3) - Northern Renaissance Art - Cancelled

Art 251 (3) - Italian Renaissance Art - Newly scheduled course

Art 285 (3) - Art of North Italy:1250-1550 - Cancelled

Art 290 (3) - Advanced Topics in Photography - Cancelled

Art 380 (3) - Seminar in Art History - Cancelled

Biology 295B (1) - Topics in Biology - Medicinal Botany - topical description - Prerequisites: Biology 111, 112, 182, junior standing or departmental permission. From Taxol to Vitamin C, plants provide important medicinal products for physicians as well as for shamans. We discuss the utilization of plants by humans for medicinal purposes. Hamilton

Biology 295C (1) - Seminar: The Biology of Alcohol - topical description - This seminar examines and discusses research literature dealing with alcohol consumption by humans. Topics include the evolution of alcohol consumption, genetic influences on alcohol metabolism and alcoholism, and effects on health. Cabe

Chemistry 266 (3) - Physical Chemical Measurements - Newly scheduled course

Chemistry 267 (3) - Physical Chemical Measurements - Cancelled

Chemistry 296 (1) - Culinary Chemistry - topical description

Chemistry 350 (3) - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry - Newly scheduled course

Chemistry 365 (3) - Advanced Physical Chemistry - Cancelled

Chinese 312 (3) - Advanced Chinese II: Contemporary Fiction - new offering

Computer Science 310 (3) - Management Info Systems - cancelled

Computer Science 315 (3) - Artificial Intelligence - newly scheduled course

Economics 208 (3) - Socio-Economics Themes in Literature and Film - cancelled

Economics 214 (3) - Industrial Revolution - cancelled

Economics 274 (3) - China’s Modern Economy - cancelled

Economics 280 (3) - Development Economics - cancelled

Economics 297A (3) - The Economics of Poverty - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101 and sophomore standing. An examination of poverty in the United States using economic tools of analysis. Topics include: how poverty is measured, the extent of poverty in the United States, economic explanations of the causes of poverty, and evaluations of public- and private-sector responses to poverty. These topics allow us to touch on such areas as inequality, economics of the family, discrimination, neighborhood effects, and welfare reform. Levine

Economics 297B (3) - Economics of Education - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101 and sophomore standing. This course is an introduction to an economist's approach to the study of educational issues. The survey of current topics in education in the United States includes the analysis of recent public-school finance reform, school vouchers, charter schools, the accountability movement, and the No Child Left Behind Act. The common theme that guides our discussion is the potential impact of these issues on the persistent achievement gap faced by poor and minority students. Diette

Economics 304 (3) - Experimental Economics - cancelled

Economics 315 (3) - American Economic History - cancelled

Economics 320 (3) - Mathematical Economics - cancelled

Economics 341 (3) - Regulated Industries in the American Economy - cancelled

Economics 350 (3) - Public Finance - cancelled

English 105A (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, naiveté to awareness, innocence to experience. In discussions and essays, we focus on the tensions, pains, joys, myths, and realities of this transition. Major questions will 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 movement? How is coming of age related to love? to death? What happens if the "normal" pattern is broken? Readings will include Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer's Night's Dream, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, and Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys. Conner

English 105B (3) - Composition and Literature: Truth and 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 and as personal integrity? We will 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, several novels. Craun

English 105C (3) - Composition and Literature: For Life: Individuals and Families - topical description - Students will develop their critical writing skills in this course that focuses on the institution of the family. We will consider traditional and alternative concepts of family and how families function in the larger context of a society. We will also look at how individuals participate in, resist or rebel against families. Themes such as class, immigration, race, sexuality, gender, religion and nationalism structure our discussions. We will read novels, memoirs, short stories, poetry and essays by authors such as Lucille Clifton, Toni Morrison, June Jordan, John Cheever, David Sedaris, Haruki Murakami and Edwidge Danticat. We will consider contemporary political discourse surrounding such topics as single-parent families and same sex marriage. Students will be asked to write four short papers and a revision. They will also be responsible for several briefer papers and peer editing tasks. Solomon

English 105D (3) - Composition and Literature: Epic: Genre, Mode, and Culture - topical description - A study of epic as a literary genre, a heroic mode of representing the world, and a cultural phenomenon. The course will survey the great range of epic from poetry, drama, and history to epic novels, films, and perhaps even television, e.g., miniseries such as The Winds of War, Roots, or Angels in America. Note: A distinctive feature of epic is its tendency toward length or textual massiveness. Given the need to be fair to the students regarding workload, several of the epics treated in this course will appear in the form of excerpts or abridgments. Adams

English 105E (3) - Composition and Literature: Wicked Women - topical description - This section will begin with Chaucer's Wife of Bath and end with recent essays on Hillary Clinton. We will 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 will run from Miller's The Crucible through excerpts from Harry Potter. Brodie

English 105F (3) - Composition and Literature: 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 will 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 will 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 will juxtapose the methods and aims of the gossip and the con artist with our own rhetorical strategies for persuading readers. In addition, we will think critically about our personal susceptibility to the wiles of the gossip and the con as well as our inclination to play their roles. Wall

English 105G (3) - Composition and Literature: Faith and Doubt - topical description - A writing-intensive seminar on belief and skepticism in selected literary texts ranging from Genesis to Shakespeare, Milton to Hopkins, Hardy to Larkin and Levertov. Topics include trials of faith, sorcery and ghosts, communities of faith, the Victorian crisis of faith and tensions between faith and rationality. Students expand their knowledge of literary form and history by analyzing drama, prose and poetry from several centuries. Concurrently, they develop facility in composition and argumentation by writing and revising a series of short papers based on course readings. Gertz-Robinson

English 105H (3) - Composition and Literature: Mysteries, Puzzles, and Conundrums - topical description - It is with mysteries that we will concern ourselves this semester -- "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 will 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. Oliver

English 105I (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 will 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? Miranda

English 201 (3) - Advanced Expository Writing - cancelled

English 207 (3) - The Novel - cancelled

English 210 (3) - Shakespeare - cancelled

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

English 226 (3) - American Literature: Civil War to World War II - cancelled

English 233 (3) - Seminar: American Gothic - topical description - What do Americans fear? This course explores the haunting of the United States with special attention to the role of race in the American imagination. Readings include poetry and prose ranging from Poe to contemporary science fiction. (GE3) Wheeler

English 233A (3) - Seminar: Women's Writing in the Americas: Literature of the Testimonio - New course offering, topical description - How do women of the Americas tell their own stories? The Testimonio is a literary form that emerges out of the intersections of nationality, history and gender as they meet in the lives, identities and literature of contemporary women of the Americas. Course readings privilege the voices of women who have typically been silenced or unheard, and the texts take students on a journey up the "West Coast" of South, Central and North America. We ask important, sometimes disturbing questions: what is this woman trying to tell us? to what, exactly, does she choose to testify? and why should we care or respond? How do these testimonios affect, change, or impact our own stories? (GE3) Miranda

English 290 (3) - Seminar for Prospective Majors: W.B. Yeats and the Irish Renaissance - topical description - This seminar examines the writings of W.B. Yeats, the greatest of Irish poets, in the context of the remarkable period of the Irish Literary Revival, from 1889 to 1939. We will study the entire range of Yeats's poetry, essays, folklore, and drama, with an effort to understand his writings in relation to his own life and in relation to the culture surrounding him. In addition to Yeats's own writings, we will read Terence Brown's recent biography, The Life of W.B. Yeats, as well as the work of the major figures who influenced Yeats -- Lady Augusta Gregory, John Synge, Douglas Hyde, George Moore, Edward Martyn, and others -- and also the major movements of this period, such as the founding of the Abbey Theatre, the struggle for Irish Independence, and the theosophical movement, all in the effort to understand the figures who helped shape the Irish literary and cultural scene during the early 20^th century. (GE3) Conner

English 308 (3) - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction - Cancelled

English 314 (3) - Romance and Ballard - cancelled

English 320 (3) - Shakespearean Genres - cancelled

English 341 (3) - Romantic Poetry and Prose - topical description - In this class we will study the literary and cultural movement known as British Romanticism, primarily through the poetry of the first and second generation Romantic superstars from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron. We will, however, complicate this conventional vision of the all-boy über-poets by reading novels by Mary Shelley and Jane Austen and the popular and influential poetry of other writers who happened to be women: Hannah More, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. We will consider the various "revolutionary" contexts of the period as well: the British perspective on the French and American revolutions, the "industrial revolution," as well as contemporary battles against slavery and for the rights of women. Evaluation will be based on students' careful engagement with course texts and conversations as demonstrated in shorter and longer essays, midterm and final exams, a class presentation based on research, and regular participation. Matthews

English 345 (3) - Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel - cancelled

English 363 (3) - American Poetry from 1900 t0 1950 - newly scheduled course

English 364 (3) - American Poetry:1950-Present - cancelled

English 366 (3) - Contemporary American Short Story - cancelled

English 368 (3) - The Modern American Novel - cancelled

English 380A (3) - Advanced Seminar: Medieval Narratives Imagining Other Cultures - topical description - A study of how late medieval English people imagined major cultures other than their own: the classical world which provided many of their institutions and texts, but was religiously different, and the Moslem world of their time, which rivaled the West in its religion, military might, education, and government. What bridges did medieval writers build between these alien cultures and their own? What divisions remained unbridgeable? Major texts: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, dream visions, and The Legend of Good Women; Sir Orfeo; Mandeville's Travels; Charlemagne romances and Arthurian romances; Dante's Divine Comedy: The Inferno (in translation). Craun

English 380B (3) - Advanced Seminar: African American Women's Literature and the Canon - topical description - This study of 20^th- and 21^st-century African American women's poetry and prose by authors such as Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Elizabeth Alexander, Octavia Butler, and ZZ Packer, will be structured around issues of critical acclaim, the purpose of literature, the purpose of a literary canon and the role of racial identity in discussions about creative work. We will examine a range of texts including those celebrated by an academic establishment and diverse reading publics, and works that have largely been dismissed or ignored. We will think about the heightened mainstream interest in black women's writing of the late 1980s and 1990s and Oprah Winfrey's book club. Students will complete two short or one long critical paper focused on their readings of one or more works. They will also prepare presentations focused on reception history and will write a series of informal papers. Solomon

English 413A (3) - Senior Research and Writing: Epic from Homer to Spielberg - topical description - The course will focus on epic, long the premier genre in Western literature and still a form with a powerful nostalgic appeal, in the largest sense of that term. We will concentrate in group discussion, first, on some of the most important theoretical and critical treatments of epic from Aristotle and Longinus through Hegel, Bakhtin, and Moretti; and, second, on a very limited set of texts meant to represent at least some of the wide variety of epic narrative -- from epic poetry and history (and their subvarieties such as classicizing epic, naïve epic, romance epic, autobiographical epic, and sentimental epic), to epic novels and epic films (subvarieties such as historical novels and films, war narratives, and science fiction), from deadly serious to mock epic, and from grand opera to video games. The individual students will be encouraged to pursue their own research and writing in any of these various directions, but also to add their own experience with and researches into a particular variation of epic to the mix of the group sessions. Adams

English 413B (3) - Senior Research and Writing: Subjects and Objects: Literature and Consumer Culture, 1660 and Beyond - topical description - In this section of English 413 we will investigate the relations between subjects and objects: How are types of people defined in cultural discourses by the material objects they own, wear, want, produce, consume, resemble? How do literary texts utilize and/or reflect the layers of cultural meaning that accrue around particular objects? In a culture where some people are literally possessions of other people (i.e., slaves) or subsumed legally within the identity of others (e.g., wives), what distinguishes subjects from objects? This line of questioning is especially relevant for considering literature in English following the 1660 Restoration, when Britain's participation in global trade burgeons; when philosophical and scientific debates about the nature of humanity (especially the differences between humans, animals, and machines) rage; and when plays, poetry, periodical essays, and novels abound with representations of the consumer goods with which London in particular was awash: foreign silks, calicos, and jewels; coffee, tea, tobacco, chocolate, and the implements required to prepare and consume them; Chinese porcelain, inlaid cabinets, and lacquered tables; ivory fans, hair combs, and snuff boxes. We will begin the semester considering various theoretical approaches to analyzing the relations between subjects and objects, examining examples from Marxist, psychoanalytic, new historicist, and cultural studies perspectives. In these first few weeks, we will also immerse ourselves in the literary and cultural terrain of the early eighteenth century, analyzing subject-object relations in a few key texts in several genres (likely including The Spectator, The Rape of the Lock, The Basset-Table, parts of Moll Flanders, and drawings by Hogarth). By mid-semester, students will be pursuing their own research projects organized around one or two particularly resonant objects. Students will be encouraged to focus their projects on British or American texts from the period 1660-1800, but I will entertain proposals for considering the relation between subjects and material objects in historically later texts. Braunschneider

English 413C (3) - Senior Research and Writing: Ecocriticism - topical description - In this course we will investigate the relationship between nature and culture through a focus on literary theory. Readings in the history of literary theory will lead to discussions of themes such as textual recovery, literary history, genre, cultural geography, material culture, ecofeminism, and environmental justice. We will also use an anthology of environmental literature to build our knowledge of primary texts. The possibilities for research projects are numberless, and I will try to guide students toward projects that join theoretical concerns with literary texts. We will work together as a study group, but each student will produce a research paper on a topic of individual interest. Warren

Assistant Professor of English Genelle Gertz-Robinson is also teaching Medieval and Renaissance Studies 110A (3) - Romance and Mysticism which meets GE3. See below.

French 261 (3) - Conversation et composition:cours avance - cancelled

French 280 (3) - Société et culture d'Afrique contemporaine - topical description - Prerequisite: French 273 or equivalent or permission of instructor. This course is an introduction to modern African society and culture, with specific focus on Francophone West Africa (Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, among others). We examine the various ways societies deal with issues of modernization and globalization in their political, cultural and socio-economic lives. We also look at the impact of significant historical events (the transatlantic slave trade, colonization, and the world wars, for example) on contemporary way of life. Course materials include anthropological, sociological and historical documents, literary texts, and films. Students participate in a conference on African literature and film scheduled for March on campus. Kamara

French 282 (3) - La France d aujourd hui - cancelled

French 332 (3) - Etudes de genre: L'amour dans la poésie lyrique - topical description - Prerequisite: French 273 or equivalent and permission of the instructor. A survey of French lyrical poetry from its medieval beginnings until now. Our main thematic focus being love, we study treatment of it not only in structurally and stylistically varied poetic masterpieces of the 15th and subsequent centuries but, finally, in the poetic lyrics of recently recorded French songs. Many online sources of texts and information are used. (GE3) Fralin

French 342 (3) - Le Roman francophone contemporain - Écriture feminine/Écriture féministe? - topical description - Prerequisite: French 331 or 332. We try to define what it means to talk about écriture féminine by reading contemporary novels written by Francophone women as well as theoretical texts by French feminist writers. The purpose of the course is to compare theory with practice through a close examination of theme and structure in hopes of stimulating debate and further reflection on some of the key issues in women's writing today. Theoretical texts include those by Simone de Beauvoir, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray among others. Novels include those by Marguerite Duras, Marie Cardinal, Annie Ernaux, Assia Djebar, Maryse Condé, Marie Redonnet, and Marie Darrieussecq. Students write papers on the novels and give oral presentations. (GE3) Lambeth

French 343 (3) - La France a`travers les siecles - cancelled

French 397 (3) - Séminaire avancé: Les Femmes et la comédie - topical description - This course explores the various ways in which women performers, improvisers, and writers have contributed to the creation and development of humor and comedy in French and Western theater, with a particular stress on the period called the Golden Age of the Commedia dell'arte, of the 16th and 17th centuries. We read plays and scenarios from the original commedia repertoire. We then trace the influences that women artists have had on the development of comic roles throughout the works of several male playwrights, both from the classical and modern periods (Moliere, Beaumarchais, Giraudoux, Ionesco) and determine the ways in which gender differences transpire in the creation of humor and the kinds of humor developed in performance and drama. (GE3) Radulescu

Geology 104 (3) - Planetary Geology - cancelled

Geology 108 (3) - Origin and Evolution of Life - cancelled

Geology 195 (1) - Dinosaur Extinction and Meteorite Impacting - topical description - No prerequisites; first six weeks only. This course deals with the recent, popular, and controversial theory that the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs (along with countless other species) 65 million years ago was caused by the collision of the Earth with a large comet or asteroid. The course is specifically designed for liberal-arts students who wish to understand the data underlying this revolutionary theory as well as the process by which science and scientists deal with new ideas. Schwab

Geology 197 (1) - Geology of National Parks - topical description - No prerequisite. This course surveys the natural features in the national parks and delves into how the landscapes developed. The aim of the course is to provide scientific explanations understandable to liberal-arts students who may or may not have a background in geology. Davis

Geology 209 (3) - Laboratory Study of the Fossil Record - cancelled

Geology 211 (3) - Earth Materials I: Rocks and Minerals - cancelled

Geology 311 (4) - Earth Materials II: Geochemistry - newly scheduled course

Geology 350 (4) - Structural Geology and Tectonics - newly scheduled course

Geology 397 (3) - Petroleum Geology and Geophysics - topical description - Prerequisite: Geology 330 or 350 or permission of instructor. A survey of the theory and practice of petroleum geology and geophysics. Topics covered include the nature and origin of petroleum; a study of where oil and gas accumulate; how a geologist or geophysicist goes about exploring, exploiting and forecasting for petroleum; and the origin and distribution of petroleum basins. Emphasis is on the use of industry software to analyze geologic features, deposits, and basins that are relevant to petroleum exploration, production and development. Connors

History 110 (3) - History of Ancient Greece - Cancelled

History 314 (3) - Germany, 1914-2000 - Cancelled

History 329A (3) - France Since 1815 - topical description - This course examines economic, political, and social developments in France from the conclusion of the Napoleonic period to the present. We consider how European unification and the global economy are affecting official policies and popular attitudes towards work, immigration, multiculturalism, the welfare state, and the future of France. (GE4) DiCaprio

History 329B (3) - Seminar: European Women, 1789 - present - topical description - This seminar examines women's roles in society, the economy, culture, and politics from the French Revolution to the present. Particular emphasis is placed on women's participation in mass political movements for suffrage, peace, women's rights, international justice, and in revolutionary uprisings. (GE4) DiCaprio

History 352 (3) - US Social and Intellectual History - Cancelled

History 380 (3) - Japan to 1800: Shamans to Samurai - topical description - The course covers the emergence of indigenous Japanese society and its adaptation to cultural and political influences from mainland East Asia, including Buddhism, Confucianism, and Chinese concepts of empire. The course also focuses on the development of a uniquely Japanese model of social organization, samurai society, from these earlier influences. (GE4) Bello

Interdepartmental 132 (3) - Contemporary Global Issues - cancelled

Interdepartmental 210 (3) - Intro to Nonlinear Dynamics - cancelled

Interdepartmental 295 (3) - Environmental Seminar: Alternative Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Students examine the economic potential of alternative energy sources such as ethanol and biodiesel. Estimates are made of the potential production of these fuels under alternative assumptions about the world price of oil, technological innovation, and carbon taxes. The reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions associated with the switch away from petroleum and coal are computed and the implications for future climate assessed. Corresponding research is conducted simultaneously by students at universities in Brazil and Mexico, and the results synthesized. Kahn

Interdepartmental 331 (3) - Global Stewardship Seminar - cancelled

Interdepartmental 341 (3) - Medical Ethics - newly scheduled course. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Taught 7:00-10:00 pm on Wednesdays. Cooper

Interdepartmental 397 (3) - Sr Sem Environ Stds: Temperate Forests - topical description

Interdepartmental 431 (1) - Tutorial in Trial Preparation and Procedure - New Course offering - Prerequisite: Interdepartmental 231 and permission of the instructor. Preparation for and participation in intercollegiate mock-trial competitions. Participants prepare a case based on an assigned set of facts and assume roles of both lawyer and witness in the classroom and competition. May be repeated with instructor's permissions for a maximum of three credits toward degree requirements. Belmont

Journalism 295B (3) - Women in Journalism - topical description - An examination of the role women have played throughout history in the reporting and dissemination of news. The class considers the role of women as both news gatherers and recipients, looking at their access to media outlets and their portrayal by media outlets. Appropriate for non-majors and those concentrating in women's studies. Luecke

Journalism 295C (3) - Public Science: The Environment - topical description - Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Open to non-majors. An examination of the current scientific understanding of environmental problems and how these issues are presented to the public by the media. This course gives a basic presentation of specific issues such as global warming and alternate energy sources. The emphasis, however, is on how a journalist would find this information, evaluate the quality of various sources, and create a meaningful written presentation that contributes to public understanding. Student work involves extensive writing. Richardson, Desjardins

Journalism 318 (3) - The Literature of Journalism - cancelled

Journalism 346 (3) - Issues in the Ethics of Journalism - cancelled

Journalism 351 (3) - Editing for the Print Media - cancelled

Journalism 352 (3) - Advance Editing and Design for Print - cancelled

Journalism 399 (3) - Contemporary Problems in Law and Journalism - cancelled

Latin 323 (3) - History:Tacitus - newly scheduled course

Latin 325 (3) - Vergil’s Aeneid - cancelled

Management 201 (3) - Elementary Applied Statistics - cancelled

Management 303 (3) - Seminar in Marketing: Marketing Research - topical description - This course is structured around a team market research project. Students learn how to define a marketing-management problem, translate that problem definition into specific research objectives, design an appropriate method for data collection, collect data, analyze the data using the SPSS statistical package, and report on the results. Simmons

Management 310 (3) - Management Info Systems - cancelled

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

Management 325 (3) - E-Commerce Development - newly scheduled course

Management 330 (3) - Human Resource Management - cancelled

Music 132 (3) - Music History II - newly scheduled course

Music 221 (3) - History of Jazz - newly scheduled course

Music 233 (3) - Intro to 2oth Cent Music - cancelled

Music 332 (3) - Baroque Music - cancelled

Philosophy 205 (3) - Philosophy of Language - cancelled

Philosophy 212 (3) - Philosophy and Religion - newly scheduled course

Philosophy 395 (3) - Rights and Liberty - topical description - Do we have rights and freedoms? If so, how did we obtain them and why do we have them? Are there such things as natural rights? Are there human rights? What is the relationship between rights and morality? In this course, we examine these and other questions about rights and liberty. Our focus is on the broader conceptual issues, rather than on specific legal rights. In carrying out our examination, we study the works of both historical and contemporary thinkers. (GE4) Griffith

Physical Education 149 (0) - Bowling - Cancelled

Physical Education 195 (0) - Outdoor Activities - Cancelled

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

PE 167-Snow Skiing/Boarding, PE 168-Ice Skating, PE 178-Ballet, PE 179-Modern Dance, PE 304-First Aid/CPR, PE 312-Lifeguard Training

Politics 223 (3) - Commonwealth of Independent States - cancelled

Politics 229 (3) - Political Parties, Interest groups and the Media - cancelled

Politics 232 (3) - Public Policy: The Politics of U.S. Welfare Policy - description revision - The course explores the development of the U.S. welfare state from its origins in the 19th century to contemporary reform proposals. Specifically, the course examines both the general structure and philosophy behind the American welfare system and the politics shaping individual programs such as Social Security, Medicare and AFDC/TANF. Special attention is paid to the differential impact of welfare policy upon minority groups, women, and children. Finally, the course surveys current policy debates including the future of Social Security, the need for national health insurance, and the persistence of the working poor. Carroll.

Politics 245 (3) - European Politics and Society - Cancelled

Politics 266 (3) - Modern Political Philosophy - cancelled

Politics 295 (3) - International Development - topical description - This course examines major debates and issues in the political economy of international development, with an emphasis on Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Central themes include defining development, probing the causes of economic growth, inequality, and poverty, and considering how domestic and international policies may promote human capability. The course features contemporary issues such as poverty, global health, gender relations, and the roles of international actors and globalization in development. Dickovick

Politics 327 (3) - Japanese Political System - cancelled

Politics 335 (3) - The Presidency - cancelled

Politics 342 (3) - Law and the Judicial Process - cancelled

Politics/Sociology 376A (3) - Survey Data Analysis: Local - topical description - This course is designed as a group research project in questionnaire construction and survey data analysis. Students select a topic, prepare a list of hypotheses, select indicators, construct a questionnaire, collect and analyze data, and write research reports. Jasiewicz

Politics/Sociology 376B (3) - Survey Data Analysis: Secondary - topical description - This course is devoted to secondary analysis of survey data. Students will learn how to use the SPSS for Windows to perform uni-, bi-, and multi-variate analyses of already existing data sets and how to write research reports. Jasiewicz

Politics 380 (3) - Comparative Politics Seminar - cancelled

Politics 390 (3) - Identity, Politics, and Society - topical description - The course seeks to understand the connection between group and individual identity and the organization of law, politics and society. Central questions include whether identity is constructed by the individual or by society at large. How are such identities maintained? Are politics that emphasize group identity divisive and deleterious, or a necessary and healthy part of a democracy? The readings for the course include writings in political science, sociology, history, and cultural studies in the American context and beyond. Sumter, Le Blanc

Politics 395 (3) - Risk Analysis - topical description - No prerequisites. Open to majors and non-majors. Meets the comparative politics / international relations field requirement or elective credit for politics majors. Recommended for students seeking civilian or military careers concerning political risk. This course explains political outcomes from risk-weighted decisions - specifically in ca. 250 two-sided conflicts (interventions, threats, and wars) between independent political entities during 1816-2004. A research project assesses eight such entities with the latest data. More information is available from the instructor at mccaughrinc@wlu.edu, x8624. C. McCaughrin

Politics 396 (3) - Seminar: Tocqueville's Democracy in America - topical description - Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, written over 160 years ago, provides an opportune vehicle for a comprehensive examination of the American regime. The course examines the virtues and defects of our form of government and way of life and reflects on whether Tocqueville's observations remain relevant today. Topics covered include the role of race, religion, and gender in American politics, as well as the function of the media, political parties, and interest groups in a liberal democracy. Connelly

Politics 397 (3) - Seminar on Law and the Electoral Process - topical description - Prerequisite: Politics 100 or permission of the instructor. Students study the theory and function of the electoral process from a legal and political perspective. An ongoing theme is to address the means by which law is used to shape the way the political process functions: Who may participate? How may they participate? In what capacity? We also address the nature and implications of key political rights such as those of speech, voting and association. The class focuses on several enduring issues (voting rights, gerrymandering, electoral reform, campaign finance reform), drawing heavily from contemporary case law as well as traditional legal and political science sources to guide our discussions. In addition to regular class meetings, several guest lecturers will visit during the term. For additional information, see a sample syllabus at: http://home.wlu.edu/~rushm/397w2004.htm Rush, LaRue.

Psychology 150 (3) - Psychoactive Drugs & Behavior - cancelled

Psychology 210 (3) - Principles of Abnormal Behavior - newly scheduled course

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

Psychology 353 (3) - Directed Research:Physiological Psychology - newly scheduled course

Psychology 359 (3) - Directed Research:Social Psychology - newly scheduled course

Psychology 395A (3) - The Neuronal Membrane - topical description - Prerequisite: Neuroscience 120 or Psychology 111 and permission of the instructor. A consideration of the structural and functional diversity of the plasma membrane of the neuron with a focus on intracellular signaling pathways linked to membrane constituents. Specific areas covered include brain energy metabolism, ion channel and transporter function in membrane and action potential, and the pharmacology and biochemistry of neurotransmission. R. Stewart

Psychology 395B (2) - Alzheimer’s Disease - topical description - Appropriate for non-majors. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. This seminar reviews the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of one of the most common forms of dementia in the elderly, Alzheimer's disease (AD). Descriptions of the impact of AD, current understanding of the possible causes of AD, past and present research and techniques for diagnosis, and studies on AD treatment are presented and debated. Discussions center on the cognitive and pathological changes in the development of AD with particular emphasis on the neuropsychology (brain-behavior relationships) of AD. This seminar is intended for a captive audience at any level of training. Taft

Psychology 395C (3) - Topics in Attention Research - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. A seminar exploring how we attend to information in our environment. Topics include selective attention, inhibiting irrelevant information, dividing attention between two tasks, as well as other topics. This course contains two components: a seminar component where attentional mechanisms and theories are reviewed, and also an experimental component where we will design an experiment, collect data, and analyze the results. Whiting

Religion 105 (3) - Intro to Islam and Judaism - cancelled

Religion 110 (3) - Introduction to American Religions - newly scheduled course

Religion 130 (3) - Religions of India - cancelled

Religion 212 (3) - Philosophy and Religion - newly scheduled course

Religion 215 (3) - Female and Male in Western Religious Traditions - cancelled

Religion 221 (3) - Sociology of Religion - cancelled

Religion 252 (3) - Critique and Christianity - cancelled

Religion 271 (3) - Judaism: Sages and Mystics - topical description - The course introduces Judaism through a classical, a medieval, and a modern book: the prayers, wisdom writings, and debates of the Talmud, composed between the 1st and 6th centuries in Palestine and Persia; the mystical theosophy of the Zohar, composed in 13th-century Spain; and the theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel, who wrote in the United States in the middle of the 20th century, intertwining Talmudic values, Jewish mysticism, and modern phenomenology. (GE4) Marks.

Religion 295A (3) - Stages of the Buddhist Path: the Tibetan Perspective - topical description - This course focuses on the stages of the Buddhist path from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective. Tibetan Buddhism inherited the whole corpus of Indian Buddhist teachings and meditative techniques, and arranged its elements into progressive stages of a path to enlightenment. These stages include the gradual purification of consciousness by keeping moral precepts, meditative concentration to develop insight into ultimate reality, and Tantric meditation and ritual practices aimed at converting all levels of human existence (including those of birth, death and post-death experiences) into powerful tools to achieve enlightenment. (GE4) Komarovski

Religion 295B (3) - Social Science and Religion - topical description - Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructors. This course examines classical and contemporary literature in the social scientific analyses of religion, including anthropology, sociology, and psychology. The class begins with an examination of fundamental ontological and epistemological debates regarding the nature and goals of social scientific inquiry and continues with a relating of the alternative positions taken in these debates to specific approaches employed by social scientists -- including materialist, functionalist, and phenomenological -- and their implications for understanding such phenomena as the origin of religion and its psychological and social functions. Finally, implications for truth claims concerning religion and social science are addressed. The course is designed as a seminar with extensive student participation. (GE4) Markowitz and White

Sociology 221 (3) - Sociology of Religion - cancelled

Sociology 245 (3) - European Politics & Society - cancelled

Sociology/Politics 376A (3) - Survey Data Analysis: Local - topical description - This course is designed as a group research project in questionnaire construction and survey data analysis. Students select a topic, prepare a list of hypotheses, select indicators, construct a questionnaire, collect and analyze data, and write research reports. Jasiewicz

Sociology/Politics 376B (3) - Survey Data Analysis: Secondary - topical description - This course is devoted to secondary analysis of survey data. Students will learn how to use the SPSS for Windows to perform uni-, bi-, and multi-variate analyses of already existing data sets and how to write research reports. Jasiewicz

Sociology 390 (3) - Special Topics in Sociology: "If This Is A Man": Ordinary People and War - topical description - This seminar focuses on war and the role of ordinary people in it, both as victims and as perpetrators. Because war is not only what happens on a front line, it is important to understand how ordinary citizens perceive and experience it, prepare for it and deal with it afterwards. Works by the following authors are included in readings and discussions:Victor Klemperer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Jan Gross, Christopher Browning, Marguerite Duras, Gitta Sereny, Karl Jaspers, Slavenka Drakulic, Primo Levi, and Martha Gellhorn. The aim of the discussion is for students to understand how, in war, a particular situation could turn almost anyone into a war criminal. But students also learn that, even in the most desperate situations, a choice between good and evil is always possible. Drakulic. Winter 2005 only.

Spanish 396 (3) - Latin American Essay - Cancelled

Theater 397 (3) - Modern Drama - topical description - Prerequisites: Six credits in theater or permission of the instructor. This class explores the modern movement in theater (1850-1975), beginning with the realist dramas of Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov and concluding with the absurdist experiments of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. A consideration of the historical avant-garde movement is included, along with a discussion of the impact of new modern dramaturgical aesthetics on performance and design. Play readings are supplemented by critical writings on the texts and artistic movements, and the performance of student scenes. Graded activities include written exams and papers. Jew