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Graduate Record 2008-2009 
    
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Graduate Record 2008-2009 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

Course Descriptions

 

Spanish
  

  • SPAN 758 - Golden Age Prose, Non-Picaresque

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 759 - The Picaresque Novel

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 760 - Eighteenth-Century Drama and Poetry

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 761 - Romanticism

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 762 - Costumbrismo

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 765 - Realism and Naturalism: The Novel

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 766 - Generation of 1898

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 770 - Generation of 1927

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 771 - Literature and the Civil War

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 772 - Contemporary Theater

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 773 - Post-Civil War Fiction

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 774 - Modern Poetry

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 780 - Colonial Spanish American Literature

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 781 - Spanish American Modernismo

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 782 - Nineteenth-Century Spanish-American Literature

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 783 - Spanish-American Poetry

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 784 - Spanish-American Fiction

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 785 - Themes and Genres: Poetry and Drama

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 786 - Regional Literature

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 787 - Short Story: Twentieth-Century Spanish America

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 788 - Novel: Twentieth-Century Spanish America

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 789 - Essay: Twentieth-Century Spanish America

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 821 - Practicum in Teaching College Spanish

    Required for new teaching assistants in Spanish. Orientation to elementary Spanish instruction and teaching at UVa. (Y)

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 850 - Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

    Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 851 - Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

    Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 852 - Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

    Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 853 - Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

    Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 854 - Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

    Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 855 - Seminars: Golden Age

    Seminars: Golden Age


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 856 - Seminars: Golden Age

    Seminars: Golden Age


    Prerequisites & Notes
     


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 857 - Seminars: Golden Age

    Seminars: Golden Age


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 858 - Seminars: Golden Age

    Seminars: Golden Age


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 859 - Seminars: Golden Age

    Seminars: Golden Age


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 860 - Seminars: Enlightenment to Romanticism

    Seminars: Enlightenment to Romanticism


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 861 - Seminars: Enlightenment to Romanticism

    Seminars: Enlightenment to Romanticism


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 862 - Seminars: Enlightenment to Romanticism

    Seminars: Enlightenment to Romanticism


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 863 - Seminars: Enlightenment to Romanticism

    Seminars: Enlightenment to Romanticism


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 864 - Seminars: Enlightenment to Romanticism

    Seminars: Enlightenment to Romanticism


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 865 - Seminars: Realism and the Generation of 1898

    Seminars: Realism and the Generation of 1898


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 866 - Seminars: Realism and the Generation of 1898

    Seminars: Realism and the Generation of 1898


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 867 - Seminars: Realism and the Generation of 1898

    Seminars: Realism and the Generation of 1898


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 868 - Seminars: Realism and the Generation of 1898

    Seminars: Realism and the Generation of 1898


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 869 - Seminars: Realism and the Generation of 1898

    Seminars: Realism and the Generation of 1898


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 870 - Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature

    Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 871 - Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature

    Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 872 - Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature

    Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 873 - Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature

    Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 874 - Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature

    Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 880 - Seminars: Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1900

    Seminars: Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1900


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 881 - Seminars: Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1900

    Seminars: Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1900


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 882 - Seminars: Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1900

    Seminars: Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1900


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 883 - Seminars: Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1900

    Seminars: Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1900


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 884 - Seminars: Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1900

    Seminars: Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1900


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 885 - Seminars: Spanish America: Modern Period

    Seminars: Spanish America: Modern Period


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 886 - Seminars: Spanish America: Modern Period

    Seminars: Spanish America: Modern Period


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 887 - Seminars: Spanish America: Modern Period

    Seminars: Spanish America: Modern Period


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 888 - Seminars: Spanish America: Modern Period

    Seminars: Spanish America: Modern Period


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 889 - Seminars: Spanish America: Modern Period

    Seminars: Spanish America: Modern Period


    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 895 - Guided Research

    Readings and/or research in particular fields under the supervision of an instructor. (S)

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 897 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research

    For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected. (S)

    Credits: 3 to 12
  

  • SPAN 898 - Non-Topical Research

    For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. (S)

    Credits: 3 to 12
  

  • SPAN 995 - Guided Research

    Readings and/or research in particular fields under the supervision of an instructor. (S)

    Credits: 3
  

  • SPAN 997 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research

    For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. (S)

    Credits: 3 to 12
  

  • SPAN 999 - Non-Topical Research

    For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. (S)

    Credits: 3 to 12

Special Topics
  

  • ENPG 550 - Counterpoint Seminar in Teaching Modern Literature

    This course offers future elementary, middle, and high school teachers of English the opportunity to reflect on their own college learning of the subject; it teaches those future teachers how to convert that earlier learning into the stuff of K-12 teaching. Specifically, the course looks back at ENGL 383, the last part of the English Department’s 3-semester survey required for undergraduate majors (or equivalent courses that future teachers may have taken elsewhere) and reconsiders that content for its application to K-12 classrooms.  The course is co-taught by instructors from Curry and the Department of English. (IR)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ENGL 383 or its equivalent or permission of instructors. English Department MA and PHD students must register for course as EDIS 589.  (ENPG 550 for Curry students only.)

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENSP 581 - Film Aesthetics

    Studies film as a work of art produced by cinematic skills and valued for what it is in itself. Emphasizes major theoretical works and analyzing individual films. Studies films with reference to the techniques and methods that produce the “aesthetic effect” style, and the problems of authorship arising out of considerations of style and aesthetic unity. (Y)

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENSP 583 - Literature and the Film

    Studies the relationship between the two media, emphasizing the literary origins and backgrounds of film, verbal and visual languages, and the problems of adaptation from novels and short story in the film. Seven to nine novels (or plays) are read and analyzed with regard to film adaptations of these works. Film screenings two to two and one half hours per week outside of class. (Y)

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENSP 585Z - Literature in Ireland

    This course offers a two-week introductin to English-language literature written in Ireland from medieval times to the present. It explores places in and around Galway and Dublin together with poetry, prose, and plays that imagine, represent, or shape those places. Meant to help you learn to move fluidly among literary texts and other sort of materials, including maps, statues, paintings, street environments, architecture, gardens, and photographs. (J)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ENGL 381, ENGL 383 or permission of instructor

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENSP 591 - Literary Journal Editing

    This course, organized around the literary journal Meridian (which is sponsored by the English department’s M.F.A. program) is designed to involve students in every aspect of literary journal production—from selecting and editing manuscripts to layout/design; from grant writing and promotion to final distribution. Along with editing and relevant research, students will write book reviews, conduct interviews, and produce articles to be published in connection with the release of each issue of the journal. (S)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENSP 618 - Modern Novel I

    An examination of works by William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This course will examine the central themes and strategies used by the most distinguished twentieth-century novelists and will consider ways in which those strategies survive today in the modern novel and in other forms of writing. (Y)

    Credits: 1
  

  • ENSP 623 - Modern Novel II

    Through the examination of Mrs. Dalloway and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, participants will understand the influence of these two writers on twentieth-century fiction and contemporary writing. (Y)

    Credits: 1
  

  • ENSP 639 - The Harlem Renaissance

    This course will contemplate the debates within and central concerns of the Harlem Renaissance and will acquaint participants with some of the major writers of the period and their artistic projects. One-credit course geared to High School teachers. (IR)

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENSP 870 - Special Topics in Pedagogy

    Seminar in Pedagogy. Topics may vary from one course offering to the next. (IR)

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENSP 880 - Modern Poetry and Visual Art

    Investigates what painting, sculpture and architecture have meant to poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with discussion of their poetry in relation to the aesthetics of the visual arts, art history, and art criticism. Readings from Keats, Rossetti, Gautier, Rilke, Stevens, Prevert, Quasimodo, Williams, Jarrell, Wilbur and others—illuminating the experience of works by such artists as Donatello, Botticelli, Brueghel, Michelangelo, Delacroix, Degas, and Picasso. (Cross-listed as ARTH 880. (SI)

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENSP 882 - The Literary Use of the Bible

    Introduces the contents of scripture. Topics include the saving history, the Mosaic Torah, the Biblical offices, the doctrine of the Word of God, and the nature of a canon. (IR)

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENSP 982 - Special Topics in Criticism

    Seminar in criticism. Topics may vary from one course offering to the next. (Y)

    Credits: 3
  

  • RELS 895 - Research

    Systematic readings in a selected topic under detailed supervision. (S)

    Credits: 3 to 9
  

  • RELS 896 - Research

    Research on problems leading to a master’s thesis. (S)

    Credits: 3 to 9
  

  • RELS 897 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research

    For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected. (S)

    Credits: 3 to 12
  

  • RELS 898 - Non-Topical Research

    For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. (S)

    Credits: 3 to 12
  

  • RELS 997 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research

    For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. (S)

    Credits: 3 to 12
  

  • RELS 999 - Non-Topical Research

    For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. (S)

    Credits: 3 to 12

Statistics
  

  • STAT 500 - Introduction to Applied Statistics

    Introduces estimation and hypothesis testing in applied statistics, especially the medical sciences. Measurement issues, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, discrete probability distributions (binomial and Poisson), continuous probability distributions (normal, t, chi-square, and F), and one- and two-sample inference, power and sample size calculations, introduction to non-parametric methods, one-way ANOVA and multiple comparisons. (Y)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission; corequisite: STAT 598.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 501 - Statistical Computing and Graphics

    Introduces statistical computing using S-PLUS. Topics include descriptive statistics for continuous and categorical variables, methods for handling missing data, basics of graphical perception, graphical displays, exploratory data analysis, the simultaneous display of multiple variables. Students should be experienced with basic text-editing and file manipulation on either a PC or a UNIX system, and with either a programming language (e.g. BASIC) or a spreadsheet program (e.g. MINITAB or EXCEL). Credit earned in this course cannot be applied toward a graduate degree in statistics. (IR)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: STAT 110 or 112, and graduate standing or instructor permission. Students who have received credit for STAT 301 may not take STAT 501 for credit.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 512 - Applied Linear Models

    Linear regression models, inferences in regression analysis, model validation, selection of independent variables, multicollinearity, influential observations, autocorrelation in time series data, polynomial regression, and nonlinear regression. (Y)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MATH 312 or 510, or instructor permission; corequisite: STAT 598.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 513 - Applied Multivariate Statistics

    Topics include matrix algebra, random sampling, multivariate normal distributions, multivariate regression, MANOVA, principal components, factor analysis, discriminant analysis. Statistical software, such as SAS or S-PLUS, will be utilized. (Y)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MATH 351 and 312 or 510, or instructor permission; corequisite: STAT 598.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 514 - Survival Analysis and Reliability Theory

    Topics include lifetime distributions, hazard functions, competing-risks, proportional hazards, censored data, accelerated-life models, Kaplan-Meier estimator, stochastic models, renewal processes, and Bayesian methods for lifetime and reliability data analysis. (IR)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MATH 312 or 510, or instructor permission; corequisite: STAT 598.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 515 - Actuarial Statistics

    Covers the main topics required by students preparing for the examinations in Actuarial Statistics, set by the American Society of Actuaries. Topics include life tables, life insurance and annuities, survival distributions, net premiums and premium reserves, multiple life functions and decrement models, valuation of pension plans, insurance models, and benefits and dividends. (IR)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MATH 312 or 510, or instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 516 - Experimental Design

    Introduction to the basic concepts in experimental design, analysis of variance, multiple comparison tests, completely randomized design, general linear model approach to ANOVA, randomized block designs, Latin square and related designs, completely randomized factorial design with two or more treatments, hierarchical designs, split-plot and confounded factorial designs, and analysis of covariance. (IR)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MATH 312 or 510, or instructor permission; corequisite: STAT 598.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 517 - Applied Time Series

    Studies the basic time series models in both the time domain (ARMA models) and the frequency domain (spectral models), emphasizing application to real data sets. (IR)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MATH 312 or 510, or instructor permission; corequisite: STAT 598.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 518 - Design and Analysis of Sample Surveys

    Discussion of the main designs and estimation techniques used in sample surveys: simple random sampling, stratification, cluster sampling, double sampling, post-stratification, ratio estimation. Non-response problems and measurement errors will also be discussed. Many properties of sample surveys will be developed through simulation procedures. The SUDAAN software package for analyzing sample surveys will be used. This course may not be used for graduate degrees in the Department of Statistics. Students who have received credit for STAT 313 may not take STAT 520 for credit; this course may not be used for graduate degrees in the Department of Statistics. (E)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: STAT 110 or 112, or MATH 312, or instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 519 - Introduction to Mathematical Statistics

    Studies statistical distribution theory, moments, transformations of random variables, point estimation, hypothesis testing, and confidence regions. (Y)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MATH 312 or 510, or instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 525 - Longitudinal Data Analysis

    Longitudinal Data Analysis

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 526 - Categorical Data Analysis

    Categorical Data Analysis

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 530 - Statistical Modeling in Medicine

    Statistical Modeling in Medicine

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 531 - Clinical Trials Methodology

    Studies experimental designs for randomized clinical trials, sources of bias in clinical studies, informed consent, logistics, and interim monitoring procedures (group sequential and Bayesian methods). (IR)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: A basic statistics course (MATH 312/510) or instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 532 - Statistical Computing

    Studies linear algebra and related numerical algorithms important to statistics, including linear least-squares, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, QR decomposition, singular value decomposition, and generalized matrix inverses. (SI)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MATH 351 and knowledge of a programming language suitable for scientific computation, or instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 598 - Applied Statistics Laboratory

    This course, the laboratory component of the department’s applied statistics program, deals with the use of computer packages in data analysis. Enrollment in STAT 598 is required for all students in the department’s 500-level applied statistics courses (STAT 501, 512, 513, 514, 516, 517, 520). STAT 598 may be repeated for credit provided that a student is enrolled in at least one of these 500-level applied courses; however, no more than one unit of STAT 598 may be taken in any semester. (S)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Corequisite: 500-level STAT applied statistics course.

    Credits: 1
  

  • STAT 599 - Topics in Statistics

    Studies topics in statistics that are not part of the regular course offerings. (IR)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
  

  • STAT 711 - Foundations of Statistics

    Introduction to the concepts of statistics via the establishment of fundamental principles which are then applied to practical problems. Such statistical principles as those of sufficiency, ancillarity, conditionality, and likelihood will be discussed. (O)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: STAT 519 or instructor permission.

    Credits: 3
 

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