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ENWR 5310 - Advanced Poetry Writing
Intensive work in poetry writing, for students with prior experience. May be repeated with different instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; limited enrollment. Students should submit a sample of their writing well in advance of the first class meeting. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 5559 - New Course in Academic, Professional, and Creative Writing
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 1 to 4
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ENWR 5610 - Advanced Fiction Writing
A course for advanced short story writers. Student manuscripts are discussed in individual conference and in class. May be repeated with different instructor. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; limited enrollment. Students should submit a sample of their fiction well in advance of the first class.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 7310 - Advanced Poetry Writing
Graduate-level poetry writing workshop for advanced writing students. A weekly 2.5 hour workshop discussion of student poems. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 7559 - New Course in Academic, Professional, and Creative Writing
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 1 to 4
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ENWR 7610 - Fiction Writing
A course devoted to the writing of prose fiction, especially the short story. Student work is discussed in class and in individual conferences. Parallel reading in the work of modern novelists and short story writers is required. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Limited enrollment. 751 is prerequisite for 752.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 8559 - New Course in Academic, Professional, and Creative Writing
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 1 to 4
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ENWR 8993 - Independent Writing Project
Intended for graduate students who wish to do work on a creative writing project other than the thesis for the Master of Fine Arts degree under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 8995 - Research in Creative Writing
Research in creative writing for M.F.A. students. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 8999 - MFA Non-Topical Research
Non-topical research hours taken as part of the Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3 to 12
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Accounting |
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ACCT 5210 - Introductory Auditing
Examines auditing methodology through a study of auditing standards. Includes the nature of evidence, program planning, work papers, internal control evaluation, types of audit tests, and audit reports. Prerequisite: ACCT 312.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 5250 - Advanced Auditing
Builds on the concepts and practice examples from introductory auditing to provide students with an in-depth understanding of professional standards, the audit process, advanced audit techniques, and the auditor’s role in ensuring that publicly issued financial statements are fairly presented. Prerequisite: ACCT 521.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 5310 - Selected Topics in Advanced Accounting
Studies accounting and financial reporting for partnerships, business enterprise segments, home office/branch office, foreign transactions and translation, business combinations, and other intercorporate investments and consolidated statements. Prerequisite: ACCT 312.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 5330 - Accounting for Non-Business Organizations
Financial accounting for governmental and non-profit organizations. Studies the theory and techniques of accounting and reporting for various funds and groups of accounts. Prerequisite: ACCT 312.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 5460 - Federal Taxation II
Analyzes of the federal income tax law and its application to corporations, shareholders, partnerships, partners, estates, and gift transactions. Prerequisite: ACCT 445.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 7300 - Accounting Theory
Accounting Theory
Credits: 3
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COMM 5100 - Accounting Information Systems
This course is designed to achieve the following objectives: design and use accounting information systems; learn COSO, COBIT and the foundations for building business controls and managing business risk; understand IT governance in an organization and how IT controls and governance relate to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; understand how IT controls and risks must be integrated into a company¿s overall risk profile; design and implement control systems.
Credits: 3
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COMM 5130 - Advanced Financial Accounting
Covers accounting and financial reporting for business combinations (including consolidated financial statements), international accounting issues, foreign currency translation, reorganizations and liquidations, accounting requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and accounting for partnerships. Emphasizes the conceptual understanding of major issues and technical accounting requirements. Prerequisite: COMM 311.
Credits: 3
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COMM 5140 - Strategic Cost Management
Explores the roles of accounting information in strategically positioning the firm and in improving performance and examines cost management problems and practices in U.S. and selected foreign firms. The course primarily deals with activity-based cost management, kaizen, target costing, and the balanced scoreboard. Additional topics include the theory of constraints, the strategic value chain, the half-life metric for improvement, and the role of accounting in managing quality. Prerequisite: COMM 311.
Credits: 3
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COMM 5150 - Introductory Auditing
Includes the planning, processes (gathering evidence), and judgments required to render an opinion on an entity’s financial statements. Deals with evidence theory, risk identification, and professional judgment. Audit methodology is examined through a study of auditing standards and the concepts and procedures developed to implement those standards. Other topics include professional ethics, auditors’ liability, internal control assessment, audit program development, working papers, types of audit tests, and audit reports. Prerequisite: COMM 510 and 311.
Credits: 3
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COMM 5450 - Federal Taxation I
Analyzes the federal income tax law and its application to business, investment, and personal transactions. Prerequisite: COMM 2020 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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COMM 5460 - Federal Taxation II
Analyzes the federal income tax law and its application to corporations, shareholders, partnerships, partners, and estate and gift transactions. Considers the basic concepts and tax attributes relating to alternative forms of operating a business. Provides the basic skills necessary to do tax research. Prerequisite: COMM 545 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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COMM 5510 - Selected Topics in Commerce
Seminar on current issues in commerce. Independent Study Prerequisite: Fourth-year Commerce or graduate standing, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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COMM 5700 - Financial Trading
This course examines the nature and influence of trading on financial market prices. Particular attention is directed to the role of noise in financial markets; the psychology of participants in financial markets; the identification of potential profitable trading opportunities; back office processing of trades; the management of the trading function; and artificial neural networks and AI expert trading systems. Mock pit trading sessions are held to give firsthand experience in simulated pit trading environments and illustrate some of the skills necessary for successful trading. Prerequisite: Fourth-year Commerce or graduate standing, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7261 - Management Writing for Accounting Professionals
This course covers management writing strategies essential for clear, organized, specific messages. We¿ll focus on the importance of audience, occasion, and style which are the foundation for successful and persuasive writing. Topics include effective emails and memos, the two most commonly used business messages. Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students.
Credits: 1
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GCOM 7310 - Strategic Business Advising and Communication
This course covers the entire spectrum of business risks facing companies in a global economy. The course focuses on how to build an enterprise risk management process that includes: understanding risk and decision making, strategy and objectives, risk identification, risk assessment, risk response, controls, and monitoring. The course looks at international risk frameworks, international and US regulatory requirements related to risk, and international and US stock exchange requirements. The course also ties the enterprise risk management process into corporate governance, shareholder value and disclosures to shareholders.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7311 - Strategic Business Advising
This course explores the dynamics of the business advisory services’ segment of the global consulting market and a common structured methodology to identify, create a framework to solve, and ultimately resolve any type of business-advising problem.
Credits: 1.5
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GCOM 7320 - Accounting Policy
This course will cover the theory and practice of corporate financial reporting. It will highlight the development of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and accounting policy choices from two perspectives. Restricted to MS in Accounting students
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7330 - Enterprise Risk Management and Consulting
The course looks at the strategic, operational, and financial risk that organizations face. Through case discussions, the process of risk identification, risk assessment, and risk monitoring is covered.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7340 - Special Topics in Accounting
The purpose of this course is to expand your knowledge of financial reporting and to familiarize you with topics currently of interest to the accounting profession, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. To achieve these objectives, the course will examine accounting issues from two perspectives. First, we will explore financial reporting and financial reporting issues from a user perspective. This perspective should enable you to understand the significance of financial statement components more completely and will facilitate your future performance in your financial statement analysis course. Second, we will examine the authoritative accounting literature underlying acceptable accounting choices. As an accounting professional, you will often be faced with ambiguous or unclear accounting issues. This perspective will improve your ability to conduct financial reporting research and to provide concise and thoughtful resolutions to theses issues. The perspective will also provide a foundation for your future graduate course in accounting policy. The pedagogy for the course will include lectures, readings, illustrative class examples, research cases, memorandum preparations and class presentations.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7341 - Accounting for Derivatives
This course develops a framework for understanding the nature, uses, and financial reporting of derivatives. The first section of the course discusses the various types of derivatives, including their uses in business settings and the methods used to determine their ¿fair value.¿ Pre-Requisites: Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7350 - Special Topics in Auditing, Assurance and Ethics
This course provides students with an integrative exposure to topics that reflect current professional practices and best practices as identified by regulatory bodies, other profession-related organizations, academics and practitioners. State-of-the-art topics will be covered primarily through (a) professional and academic readings and (b) exposure to practitioners and other experts. The course will focus on the integration of new topics with material learned in other courses and placing topics in the context of auditing and assurance.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7351 - Special Topics in International Accounting
The role of accounting in international contexts will be explored, with the objective to help students become familiar with regulatory, cultural and business environment issues that affect and are affected by accounting and the accounting profession. Specific topics will vary from semester to semester, but the course will likely include an international travel component and interactions with many international parties.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7361 - Accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions
The purpose of this course is to explore mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate control transactions within an accounting and valuation framework. This course also serves an integrative purpose. Mergers and acquisitions represent significant changes that involve the entire enterprise. As such, this course provides an opportunity to link financial decision-making with the overall strategy of the firm. Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7370 - Financial Statement Analysis
The course centers on the fundamentals of valuation, and how accounting and other information affect perceived and managed value. The course begins by establishing value maximization as the goal of the firm. The process and fundamentals of valuation are explored. Second, students explore how to analyze the decisions that affect firm value (e.g., investing, financing, etc.). Third, students explore the impact, on perceived value, of accounting alternatives (e.g., U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Standards).
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7381 - Ethics in Business, Accounting, and Auditing
This course examines ethical considerations within the specific contexts frequently encountered by accountants to recognize common ethical situations faced in business (by auditors and their clients) and those unique ethical issues faced by auditors. We will study ethical frameworks and professional rules and practice applying analyses to real-life and fictitious cases to learn from the mistakes of others and to avoid mistakes. Restricted to Ernst and Young YMP students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7400 - Leading for Results in the Accounting Profession
The course will focus on key issues facing professionals, professional service firms and the entire profession. We will hear from many leaders in the profession about keys to success-both in today’s environment and in the future. A primary objective of the course will be to expose students to important issues that will be critical for success in the future in terms of both personal career issues and profession-wide developments. Restricted to MS in Accounting students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7410 - Tax Research
This course is designed to equip students with the special investigative skills, and the technical tools, techniques, and insights required to analyze, interpret, summarize, and present complex financial, tax, accounting, and business related issues in a manner that is both understandable and supported by documentary evidence. This course has been designed to expose students to the various statutory, administrative, and judicial sources of the tax law. Case studies are used throughout the course to assist students in developing and refining their proficiency in identifying issues, locating and interpreting pertinent authority, and effectively and professionally communicating their conclusions. Students learn how to use several commercially available research tools (LEXIS/NEXIS, RIA CheckPoint, etc.), analytical tools (e.g., financial modeling tools and simulation tools), and presentation tools more creatively, more efficiently, and more effectively.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7420 - Taxes and Business Strategy
The course will provide a framework for understanding how taxation influences asset prices, equilibrium returns, and the form and content of contractual agreements. This is achieved by integrating the tax law with fundamentals of corporate finance and microeconomics. In addition, the course focuses more clearly on the economic consequences of alternative contractual arrangements than on the precise tax laws governing the arrangements. Restricted to MS in Accounting students,
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7430 - Taxation of Pass Through Entities
This case-oriented, transaction-based course addresses the various legal, business, and tax issues arising in connection with the start-up of new business and with the formation, operation, distributions, reorganization, and termination of liability companies, partnerships, S corporations and other conduit entities (e.g., real estate investment trusts and mutual funds). The course provides in-depth coverage of the technical rules of Subchapters K and S and places special emphasis on the identification and implementation of tax-planning strategies available to conduit entities and their owners. The course contains modules on entrepreneurship and accounting for partnership transactions.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7440 - Taxation of Corporations and their Shareholders Transactions
This case-oriented, transaction-based course addresses the various business, tax, and accounting issues arising in connection with the formation, operation, and termination of domestic corporations and their shareholders. The course provides in-depth coverage of the technical rules of Subchapter C, and places special emphasis on the identification and implementation of tax planning strategies available to corporations and their shareholders.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7450 - Corporate Mergers, Acquisitions, Divisions and Recapitalizations
This eclectic, case-oriented, transaction-based course addresses the various financial, tax, and accounting issues arising in connection with corporate mergers, acquisitions, divisions, and recapitalizations. It presents a detailed introduction to the qualitative and quantitative valuation techniques used in analyzing proposed transactions. Students are exposed to the vast array of legal, tax, and accounting issues that arise in connection with negotiating, structuring, closing, and reporting these transactions and how these various factors impact corporate value. Tax due diligence and financial statement analysis are also covered. This course also examines the conceptual themes and the technical rules that govern the filing of consolidated tax returns and compares and contrasts the those rules with the generally accepted accounting principles that govern the preparation of consolidated financial statements. SFAS 109 (tax provision) is also covered in this course.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7460 - Tax Strategies for the Executive and the Entrepreneur
This is an eclectic course that addresses the federal income, estate, and gift tax issues and strategies that arise in connection with executive compensation (stock options, nonqualified deferred compensation strategies, etc.), planning for the death or incapacity of the owners of a closely held business (buy-sell arrangements, succession planning, etc.), gratuitous inter vivos and testamentary transfers of large wealth. The course provides in-depth coverage of federal estate and gift taxes, the generation-skipping transfer tax, and the use of trusts. Related business issues non-tax aspects of executive compensation and business succession planning and related financial accounting principles are also covered.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7470 - International Business and Investment Transactions
This eclectic, case-oriented, transaction-based course addresses the various financial, accounting, and tax issues arising in connection with a wide range of international business and investment transactions. It presents a detailed introduction to international finance (e.g., accessing international financial markets, managing foreign exchange risk, and using various financial instruments), and comprehensive coverage of international taxation and tax planning strategies (including transfer pricing, foreign tax credit planning, Subpart F, etc.). The course also contains a module on U.S. accounting principles applicable to multinational transactions and operations, and on the managerial accounting aspects of control systems for multinational business operations. Students are exposed to international accounting standards promulgated by the International Accounting Standards Committee. The tax and accounting systems of several countries are compared and contrasted with those of the United States. The course also contains a module on state and local taxation.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7600 - Consulting to Management
Consulting to Management is designed to expose students to the dynamics of management consulting and better prepare them to develop and deliver valuable advice that is aimed at improving organizational performance. Given the diversity of business issues that organizations face, the course will introduce students to a common structured methodology to identify, create a framework to solve, & ultimately resolve any type of management-consulting problem. Pre-requisites: Restricted to MS in Commerce students.
Credits: 3
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GCOM 7641 - Communicating Effectively as Accounting Professionals
This course centers on the vital role communication skills play in the professional success of accountants, who communicate with colleagues and clients about complex issues. The course examines the impact of audience and occasion on speaking strategy; develops oral presentation skills; helps increase public speaking confidence; develops the ability to create high-impact visuals; and develops skill in group presenting and responding to questions.
Credits: 1.5
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GCOM 7993 - Independent Study and Supervised Research
Students taking this course will explore areas and issues of special interest that are not otherwise covered in the graduate curriculum. This course is offered at the discretion of the supervising professor.In addition to other requirements imposed by the instructor, the course requires a final paper of publishable ‘law review’ quality be completed and submitted prior to the end of the semester.
Credits: 1 to 9
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GCOM 8972 - Non-Topical Research
Non-Topical Research
Credits: 3
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African American Studies |
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AAS 5528 - Topics in Race Theory
This course examines theories and practices of race and otherness, in order to analyze and interpret constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of race from the late 18th to the 21st centuries. The focus varies from year to year, but the consistent theme is that race is neither a biological nor a cultural category, but a method and theory of social organization, an alibi for inequality, and a strategy for resistance.
Credits: 3
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AAS 5559 - New Course in African and African American Studies
New course in the subject of African and African American Studies.
Credits: 1 to 4
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AAS 5891 - South Atlantic History
This course focuses on Africa and Latin America to analyze the applicability of the concept of Atlantic History. We explore tensions, juxtapositions and intersections between different branches of Atlantic History, as well as related fields such as African Diaspora and Imperial Studies. We examine the social, cultural and commercial interactions between European and and indigenous West African peoples, the middle passage and slave resistance.
Credits: 3
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African Religions |
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RELA 5559 - New Course in African Relgions
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of African Religions
Credits: 3
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RELA 7559 - New Course in African Religions
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of African Religions.
Credits: 3
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RELA 8559 - New Course in African Religions
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of African Religions.
Credits: 3
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African History |
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HIAF 5559 - New Course in African History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of African History.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HIAF 7001 - The History and Historiography of Africa
Taught for graduate students with no previous experience in African history; consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of HIAF 201, 202, and weekly discussions devoted to more detailed examination of the technical and interpretive problems in writing African history.
Credits: 3
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HIAF 7002 - The History and Historiography of Africa
Taught for graduate students with no previous experience in African history; consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of HIAF 201, 202, and weekly discussions devoted to more detailed examination of the technical and interpretive problems in writing African history.
Credits: 3
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HIAF 7031 - History and Historiography of North Africa, ca. 1800-Present
Introduces the literature on North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) from the precolonial period to the postcolonial era. An intensive readings and discussion colloquium devoted to the major issues in the region’s political, economic, social, and cultural history, and to the issues raised by colonial historiography. Prerequisite: HIME 201, 202.
Credits: 3
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HIAF 8002 - Graduate Seminar in Modern African History
Graduate seminar introducing research in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of Africa, for students in History as well as in other departments wishing historical framing for their degree work. Prerequisites: Consultation with instructor.
Credits: 3
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HIAF 8011 - African History
Advanced research in African history. Topics vary with student and instructor interest.
Credits: 3
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American Literature to 1900 |
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ENAM 8100 - Early American Literature
Surveys American literature to 1840 designed to introduce the literature of the Colonial and early National periods, and to examine the intellectual and literary backgrounds of nineteenth-century American literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 8130 - Early African American Literature
Surveys pivotal moments and texts in the history of African-American prose, from 1760, the date of Briton Hammon’s Narrative of Uncommon Sufferings to 1903, the year of W. E. B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 8150 - American Romanticism
Studies romantic thought and art in the nineteenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 8300 - American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century
Studies selected poets of the century, their media, their audiences, and their reputations. Coverage will be broad, with some emphasis on Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, and Crane. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 8360 - African-American Poetry
Studies in African-American poetry from the eighteenth-century to the present. Poets include Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Jay Wright, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper, Audre Lorde, and Rita Dove. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 8520 - Major American Authors
Studies the work of one or two major writers within a precise historical context. A recent pair was Hawthorne and Melville. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 8540 - Studies in American Fiction
Analyzes the writings of major authors approached through the consideration of such specific topics as historical romance, Gothic romance, and American mythmaking. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 8559 - New Course in American Literature To 1900
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of American Literature To 1900. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 1 to 4
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ENAM 8630 - Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Studies form and technique in the American novel to 1900. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 8880 - Literature of the South
Surveys the literature of the American South from Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia to such contemporary writers as William Styron and Walter Percy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 9100 - Early American Literature
Advanced work in Early American literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 9500 - Seminar in American Literature
Topics range from the colonial period to the cultural influence of pragmatism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 9559 - New Course in American Literature To 1900
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of American Literature To 1900. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 1 to 4
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ENAM 9810 - Studies in African-American Literature
The topics will vary (e.g., the writer and audience, movements in the literature, an individual writer or group of writers, folk traditions, and the literature and literary relations with writers in the U.S.A. or in other countries). For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 9910 - Research in American Literature
Modern and Contemporary Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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American Politics |
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PLAP 5460 - Poltics of the Budgetary Process
Explores the philosophy and processes of fiscal management and control, including budget preparation, legislative consideration and authorization, budget execution, debt management, and audit. Examines problems and proposals such as zero based budgeting, sunset legislation, program evaluation, policy analysis, and intergovernmental financial relationships.
Credits: 3
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PLAP 5993 - Selected Problems in American Politics
Independent study under faculty supervision, for students who are preparing for intensive research on a specific topic. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PLAP 7000 - American Political Development
Surveys the development of American politics over the history of the nation.
Credits: 3
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PLAP 7110 - American Political Behavior
Introduces the fields of public opinion, mass media, political psychology, voting behavior, and other forms of political participation. Focuses primarily but not exclusively on research conducted in the United States.
Credits: 3
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PLAP 7660 - Policy Analysis
Analyzes public policy problems. Emphasizes the use of program evaluation, public management, and decision analysis on national and local programs.
Credits: 3
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PLAP 7700 - Racial Politics
Racial Politics
Credits: 3
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PLAP 7770 - Groups in the Political Processes
A critical survey of the roles of groups in the American political system.
Credits: 3
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PLAP 8210 - The American Presidency
Readings and research on special problems of the American political and administrative system that come to a focus in the presidency or arise out of the manifold responsibilities of the president.
Credits: 3
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PLAP 8220 - The Party System and the Conduct of Government
Readings and research, emphasizing the functions of parties in the conduct of government, and the evolution of the party system in response to changes in the broader economic, social, and political environment.
Credits: 3
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PLAP 8250 - The American Congress
Studies the legislative process in the U.S. Congress. Topics include the internal distribution of power, influences on legislative behavior, congressional relationships with other political institutions, the place of Congress in the American polity, and the problems associated with it.
Credits: 3
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PLAP 8410 - Development of the American Party System
Focuses on the development of the political party system in the United States, from the late 18th Century through the present day. Examines why political parties emerged in the U.S., both in Congress and at the mass level; why particular parties like the Federalists and Whigs collapsed; and how different “party systems” have developed historically.
Credits: 3
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PLAP 8583 - Topics in Public Law
Topics in Public Law
Credits: 3
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PLAP 8840 - Seminar in Civil Rights and Liberties
Explores the vexatious lines between the rights of individuals and those of the state in democratic society, focusing on such major issues as freedom of expression and worship; separation of church and state; criminal justice; the suffrage; privacy; and racial and gender discrimination. Focuses on the judicial process. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PLAP 8850 - American Constitutional Law and Theory Seminar
Examines the nature and parameters of the judicial function, focusing on law courts and jurists, with an emphasis on the political role of the Supreme Court of the United States. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PLAP 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
Credits: 3 to 12
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PLAP 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
Credits: 3 to 12
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PLAP 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
Credits: 3 to 12
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PLAP 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Credits: 3 to 12
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ANTH 5090 - Historical Ethnography
Combines lectures on historical ethnography and archaeology with documentary research in primary sources on specific topics. Prerequisite: At least one 300-level archaeology course or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5180 - Labor, Capital, and States
Seminar on the relationships between international capital, governments, and working people.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5190 - Science and Culture
This course explores the cultural context of science and science as a cultural production. It investigates the cultural history of science as well as its national and transnational manifestations; the relation between scientific authority and social hierarchy; and the relation between cultural and scientific categories and practices. Prerequisite: Previous anthropological course work or consent of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5200 - History of Kinship Studies
Critical assessment of major theoretical approaches to the study of kinship and marriage (from the 19th century to the present) and of the central role of kinship studies in the development of anthropological theory.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5210 - Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
Examines the ways in which the forms of kinship have been reconfigured in contemporary societies, and the ways in which traditional kinship studies have been reconfigured by their intersection with culture theory, feminist theory, gender studies, postmodern theory, gay and lesbian studies, and cultural studies of science and medicine. Prerequisite: ANTH 520 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5220 - Economic Anthropology
Considers Western economic theories and their relevance to non-Western societies. Includes a comparative analysis of different forms of production, consumption, and circulation.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5240 - Religious Organization
Analysis and comparison of social organization in selected communities from the perspective of systems of belief, ritual, and ceremonialism.
Credits: 3
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