Courses

Surveys Chinese painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts from neolithic to modern times. Prereqs., ARTH 1300, or 1400, or 2409, or HIST 1608.

Instructs students in the making of digital animation. Covers the use of the exposure sheet, frame series manipulation, digital motion techniques, and an analysis of pertinent films. Emphasis is on digital tools to create individual, personal, or experimental animated works. Includes experimental techniques of transfer between digital media and film. Prereq., FILM 2610. Recommended prereqs., FILM 3030 and FILM 3400 or 3600.

Examines how society makes decisions about energy, and how these decisions affect the environment and the economy. Uses tools from policy analysis, economics, and other disciplines to build an in-depth understanding of energy's role in U.S. contemporary society. Recommended prereqs., ENVS/PHYS 3070.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., WRTG 3020 or an acceptable alternative upper-division writing course (min grade C-) and a History GPA of 2.0 or higher. Restricted to HIST majors. Prerequisites: Restricted to History Majors only.

Offers an appreciation and chronological development of the arts of Japan. Emphasizes the arts of Shintoism and Buddhism as well as the particular Japanese aesthetic from prehistoric times to the present. Prereq., one 3000-level art history course.

Lect. and lab. Surveys animal parasites, including life histories; emphasizes parasites of humans. Uses animals and/or animal tissues. Prereqs., EBIO 1210,1220, 1230, and 1240 or EPOB 2050 and 2060.

Offers an introduction to Modernism in various media, emphasizing in particular the historical development of the visual arts from German Expressionism and Cubism to Neo-Dada and Pop Art. Readings in literature will include Proust, Beckett, Blanchot, and poets associated with various art movements. Theoretical readings range from Saussure and Freud to Adorno and Jameson. Recommend prereq., HUMN 2000. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

Guides students through research on diversity and retention issues in graduate education. Participants use Tinto's work on academic and social integration as a conceptual framework. Further, students investigate how specific institutions support diversity goals in their graduate programs. Prereq., admission to McNair Program (minimum 2.50 GPA, three recommendation letters, personal statement, strong interest in graduate school).

Explores the origins and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Traces Arab-Jewish/Israeli relations from the nineteenth century through the Palestine Mandate, the evolution of Arab and Jewish nationalism, and the creation of Israel to the present day. Recommended prereqs., HIST 1308; HIST/JWST 1828. Same as JWST 3650. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: historical context. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) International Affairs (IAFS) majors only.

Explores the origins and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Traces Arab-Jewish/Israeli relations from the nineteenth century through the Palestine Mandate, the evolution of Arab and Jewish nationalism, and the creation of Israel to the present day. Recommended prereqs., HIST 1308; HIST/JWST 1828. Same as IAFS 3650. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: historical context. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

Examines the molecular basis of the brain's role in thought, action, and consciousness by exploring issues such as relationship of cognition and localized brain function, sensory systems and their role in cognition, learning and memory, and behavioral neurochemistry. Prereq., MCDB 1150 and 2150 or equivalent.

Examines ways Latin American women have engaged in politics and their participation in social movements, war, peace processes and elections. Focuses on why women "Do politics" in certain ways, the role of the State in women's politics, the (dis)advantages of various political strategies, and how political, economic and social changes have affected women's political opportunities and interests. Prereq., WMST 2000 or instructor consent. Recommended prereqs., WMST 2400, 2600, 3600 or 3730. Restricted to juniors/seniors. Same as PSCI 3052. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

Explores the Ramayana and Mahabharata, two fundamental mythological pillars of Indian society, through literature, comic books, film, television, and political rhetoric as a means of examining major issues of religion, gender, popular culture, and social politics in contemporary India.

Analyzes the cultural and critical practices as well as the thought that defines the postmodern period at the end of twentieth century. Prereq., HUMN 2000 or junior/senior standing. HUMN 3660 and FILM 3660 are the same course. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

Analyzes the cultural and critical practices as well as the thought that defines the postmodern period at the end of twentieth century. Prereq., HUMN 2000 or junior/senior standing. HUMN 3660 and FILM 3660 are the same course. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

Focuses on information processing approaches and dynamical systems theory as explanations for human motor learning and the coordination of movement. Various topics are discussed from both perspectives including practice organization, attainment of elite performance, and the production of novel movements. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural sciences.

Examines fundamental questions of home, nation, identity, ethnicity, and foreignness in the context of the enormous South Asian diaspora. By means of literature, ethnography, and film, the various connotations of diaspora will be explored along with the cultural productions of members of the South Asian diaspora (both Indian and Pakistani).

Presents several theories of location of economic activity: general theory of land use, agricultural location theory, plant location theory, central place theory, location of systems of cities, and geographical organization of industries. Studies aggregate geographical structure of regions as the geography of three major markets: labor, product, and capital, including the banking system. Explores the economic growth of regions and policies designed to influence regional growth and welfare.

Critical examination of immigrant women's participation in the global economy. Focuses on the relationship between larger social forces and the role of women in migration and the labor force. Emphasis on Latinas and Asian immigrant women. Restricted to juniors/seniors or instructor consent. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

People of color the world over are struggling for sovereignty, independence, civil and human rights, food security, decent wages and working conditions, healthy housing, and freedom from environmental racism and other forms of imperialism. Course analyzes and brings alive these struggles. Prereq., ETHN 2001 or equivalent. Restricted to juniors/seniors. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Formerly ETHN 3675.

Examines the role of gender in global economy. Explores the impacts of colonialism and modern global economy on gender relations, with particular emphasis on third world societies. Also focuses on related issues of population politics, environmental crisis, women's sexual exploitation, and women's social movements worldwide. Prereqs., GEOG 1982, 1992,2002, 2412, WMST 2000 or 2050. Same as WMST 3672. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Same as GEOG 3672. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Provides an in-depth study of the work of one or two major American authors. Explores the range, influences, and development of a writer over his or her life. May be repeatable for a total of 9 units for different topics. Recommended prereq., ENGL 2000. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors).

Explores the Jewish-American experience from the 19th century to the present through writers such as Sholom Aleichem, Peretz, babel, Singer, Malamud, Miller, Ginsberg, and Ozick. The Jewish experience ranges from the travails of immigration to the loss of identity through assimilation. Same as JWST 3677. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors).

Explores the Jewish-American experience from the 19th century to the present through writers such as Sholom Aleichem, Peretz, babel, Singer, Malamud, Miller, Ginsberg, and Ozick. The Jewish experience ranges from the travails of immigration to the loss of identity through assimilation. Same as ENGL 3677. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors).