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ANT 321 (Barkin/Passariello) Into the Ring of Fire
(off campus)
An introduction to the diverse cultures, religions, and histories of the
SE Asian archipelago, including Singapore, Jakarta, Central Java, and Sulawesi. Students will travel by train across
Java, explore colonial sites, investigate ethnic communities, tour historic
coffee plantations, go whale-watching in indigenous boats, and swim over
coral reefs while delving into colonial, post-colonial, and contemporary
indigenous developmental histories and ongoing enterprises.
ANT 360 (Nyerges) GIS and the Environment
ARH 282/482 (Levin) Nineteenth-Century French Art
The course will focus on the art of painting in France during the 1800s, with
an occasional glance at parallel developments in French sculpture and
architecture, all considered within an historical context. Major artistic
movements addressed shall include Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism,
Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism. The course will conclude with an
overview of early-twentieth-century Fauvism and Cubism. Prerequisite: Art 261
for ARH 482.
ARS220/320/321/420(Tapley)Drawing &
Painting-II,III,IV,V
ARS 252/452 (Powell) Venetian Glass Techniques
BIO 252 (MacNabb) Sustainability (off campus)
BIO 245 (C. Barton) Freshwater Biology
BIO 375 (Ziemba) Conservation Biology
BIO 455 (Richey) The Biology of Viruses
BMB 316 (Dew) Biochemistry Lab Techniques
CHE 250 (Miles) Intro Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry
CLA 322 (Joyce) Lyric and Elegiac Poetry
Readings in Greek and Roman short verse form (Archilochos,
Sappho, Alkaios, Catullus, Horace, Martial, etc.); an examination of the
subject matter of short poems (lamentation, longing, passion, and dead
parrot) as well as some occasions for song (lullabies, harvest, drinking,
weddings); a look at parallels in 20th-century American song and verse.
Readings all in English.
CRW 280 Creative Writing
CSC 111 (Bradshaw) Principles of Computer Animation
Recent blockbuster hits like Shrek, Hoodwinked
and Finding Nemo have raised public awareness of
computer animation. In this class students will
learn the foundations of computer animation: how to storyboard a movie, how
to light a scene and especially how to place and manipulate digital actors.
The end product of this class with be a short computer animated movie. There
are no prerequisites for this class.
ECO 458 (Johnson) Sex and Gambling: Economics of the Thoroughbred Breeding
and Racing Industry
Application of microeconomic theory to the understanding of the
thoroughbred breeding and racing industries. Topics include the history, organization,
and regulation of racing and breeding, the impact of other forms of gambling
on racing, and the future prospects of breeding and racing. Microeconomic
theories of monopoly, asymmetric information, decision making under risk and
uncertainty, and principles of finance will be used. Prerequisite: ECO 220.
EDU 227 (Atkins) Practicum & Introduction to Education
ENG 235 (Joyce) Lyric and Elegiac Poetry
See CLA 322.
ENG 305 (Rasmussen) Literary Criticism: Theory & Practice
ENG 372 (Manheim) Literature of the Great Depression
This course will address a variety of literary responses to the suddenly
altered social reality brought on by economic collapse: How does social
change affect literary subject matter and literary form? What happens to
literary work when authors feel suddenly that political impact is of
paramount importance? What happens to literary values? What authors or
subjects rise? What forms fall out of favor? And perhaps most important, can
literature be a form of social action?
ENG 379 (Lucas) Literary New Orleans
ENG 385 (Emmitt) Ulysses
James Joyce's Ulysses is considered the most important novel in English
of the twentieth-century. It harkens back to Homer's Odyssey at the same time
that it defines modernism. We will read the novel closely, attempting to
understand Joyce's project and why it is so revered. We will look at
Joyce's schema for the novel and thus consider (among other things) its
design, its styles, and its place in literary and cultural history.
ENS (MacNabb) Sustainability (off campus)
FRE 255/455 (Mothion) Vive la Bretagne!
GOV 365(Maximenko)Russian Foreign Policy(off campus)
A study of the influence of political issues, individuals, and processes on
contemporary Russian foreign policy. Students will meet with Russian
students, government officials, and diplomats; will visit museums and
cultural institutions such as the Bolshoi; and take
excursions to Zagorsk and other sites outside of
Moscow .
GOV 433 (McIntyre) U.S. Politics in the 60's
This course will provide an overview of the broad range of political and
social events and issues that occurred in the United States in the 1960s.
Topics include the civil rights movement, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the
rise of the counter-culture and anti-war movement, and the presidencies of
Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. We will examine these topics historically,
attempting to understand them by placing them into their appropriate
historical context, and we will also examine the lingering practical consequences
of these topics, asking questions about their relevance to political life in
the 21st century.
GOV 445 (Nuss) France and the U.S.:
Institutional, Legal, and Judicial Comparisons
A comparative study of the different origins, evolution, and current
governmental practices of France and the U.S., with a focus on the federal
presidential vs. the unitary parliamentary system, the differences between
the legal systems based on common law vs. Roman law, and the differences
between a totally independent system and one closely connected to the
European Union. Issues of international law as they affect the two countries
will also be considered.
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HIS 317 (Tubb) The Crusades
This course examines the European crusading movement and how it still impacts
the world today. Topics range from steroetypical
images of the Crusades–quests, exotic locales, and chivalry–to the darker implications of this medieval
undertaking: religious warfare, greed, and intolerance.
HIS 353 (Bradshaw) African Lives
A survey of 20th-century African history through the lives of men and women
of very different backgrounds and experience. The study of these lives is
linked to an examination of major themes in modern African history and to a
critical evaluation of popular perceptions about Africa .
HUM 261 (Roush) Rainmaking: Study of and Preparation for Leadership
HUM 274 (Bitensky) Mystical Turkey (off campus)
Through an intense 16-day musical and cultural study tour guided by two of
the most prominent Turkish dancers and musicians as well as local experts, in
which students explore the music, art, architecture, craft, dance and
performance and religious traditions of this region, this course will examine
the ways in which a culture's artistic traditions are a reflection of
societal values. Emphasis will be placed on the Greek heritage, Biblical
history, contemporary forms of expression as they relate to Islamic culture,
practice, and theology, and folklore. Emphasis will also be placed on getting
hands-on experience in various artistic traditions, with lessons in dancing,
Turkish singing, Turkish percussion, creating pottery, Romany music and
dance, etc.
HUM 275 (K. Martin) Paris & Nice: Russian
Arts Connection
(off campus) An examination of the lives and works of the Russian writers,
artists, and musicians who left their native lands and gathered in Paris and
Nice during the early 20th-century period of artistic innovation (modernism)
and political upheaval: Chekhov, Chagall, Kandinsky,
Nabokov, Stravinsky, Diaghelev
and the Ballet Russe, et al. The class will
explore the use of iPods and will travel to Nice,
on the Cote d'Azur , by TGV.
INT 400 Internship
MAT 403 (Wehner) Partial Differential Equations
MUS 206 (Bitensky) Mystical Turkey (off campus)
See HUM 274. Prerequisite: Permission of the
instructor.
PHI 452 (Colter) Evironmental
Ethics
In this course, we will consider the nature of our relationship to non-human
entities. What things count morally? Do we have any obligations or duties
with regard to non-human animals? To plants? To the environment in general?
We will also consider the nature of value and obligation in general. We will
then move into examining specific issues such as animal rights, care for the
planet, global warming and consider our obligations with respect to those
issues.
PHY 220 (Crummett) General Physics-II
PSY 325 (Gulley) Child Abnormal Psychology
REL 457 (Axtell) Civil Society & Sustainable Development (off campus) A study of alternative theories of social and economic development in the current
Latin American context (e.g., Nicaragua , Mexico , Cuba ). Briefings with
officials, interviews with religious and social activists, and visits to
rural and urban civil society groups engaged in creative community
development alternatives provide concrete case studies for understanding the
interrelationship between social, political, economic, environmental,
religious, and ethical aspects of a country's development process. Offered in
Nicaragua .
SOC 205 (Goodrum) Introduction to Gender Studies
An exploration of the social and cultural construction of gender differences,
focusing on contemporary issues; the course also considers biological
differences. Some of the reading and lecture materials will concentrate on
sex and gender internationally. We will examine ways that boys/men and
girls/women are socialized differently by parents, friends, co-workers, and
the media. Next we will explore gender differences in social institutions,
including education, family, workplace, and the criminal justice system. We
will conclude by examining different types of feminism and contemporary men's
social movements.
SOC 250 (Reed) Defining the South
Led by Humana Visiting Professor John Shelton Reed, this course examines
persistent cultural differences between Southerners and other Americans.
Reed, who is Kenan Professor Emeritus of Sociology
at UNC-Chapel Hill and best-selling author of over a dozen books about the
South, is noted both for his humor and his insights about southern
institutions. His course will explore questions of regional identity and
consciousness, regional stereotypes, representations of Southerners in the
mass media, localism, attitudes toward violence, and religious behavior and
belief. Finally, the course will look briefly at two areas of dramatic
cultural convergence during the past half century: black-white relations and
voting behavior.
SPA 270 (Daniels) Spanish Culture-II (Spanish America) (off campus)
SPA 457 (Daniels) Culture/History in Spanish America (off campus)
Explore museums, churches and historic sites in Managua, Masaya,
and Leon. Experience brief rural home-stays while harvesting coffee in
a tropical mountain forest. Meetings with artists, politicians,
economists, and religious activists will focus on the cultural and social
effects of Nicaragua 's integration into the global marketplace (colonialism
to globalization. Arrangements coordinated by Witness for Peace.
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