College of Arts & Sciences: Courses

AAS 1010 - Introduction to African-American and African Studies I

This introductory course surveys the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean from approximately the Middle Ages to the 1880s. Emphases include the Atlantic slave trade and its complex relationship to Africa; the economic systems, cultures, and communities of Africans and African-Americans in the New World, in slavery and in freedom; the rise of anti-slavery movements; and the socio-economic systems that replaced slavery in the late 19th century.



Credits: 4

AAS 1020 - Introduction to African-American and African Studies II

This introductory course builds upon the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean surveyed in AAS 1010. Drawing on disciplines such as Anthropology, History, Religious Studies, Political Science and Sociology, the course focuses on the period from the late 19th century to the present and is comparative in perspective. It examines the links and disjunctions between communities of African descent in the United States and in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. The course begins with an overview of AAS, its history, assumptions, boundaries, and topics of inquiry, and then proceeds to focus on a number of inter-related themes: patterns of cultural experience; community formation; comparative racial classification; language and society; family and kinship; religion; social and political movements; arts and aesthetics; and archaeology of the African Diaspora.



Credits: 4

AAS 1559 - New Course in African and African American Studies

AAS 2450 - The Health of Black Folks

An interdisciplinary course analyzing the relationship between black bodies and biomedicine both historically and in the present. The course is co-taught by Norm Oliver, M.D. (UVa Department of Family Medicine), and offers political, economic, and post-structuralist lenses with which to interpret the individual and socio/cultural health and disease of African-Americans. Readings range across several disciplines including anthropology, epidemiology/public health, folklore, history, science studies, political science, sociology and literary criticism. Topics will vary and may include: HIV/AIDS; reproductive issues; prison, crime and drugs; and body size/image and obesity; the legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Trials.
Cross listed as ANTH 2450.



Credits: 3

AAS 2559 - New Course in African and African American Studies

AAS 2700 - Festivals of the Americas

Communities throughout the Caribbean, and South, Central and North America celebrate festivals which are rooted in religious devotion, and which serve to mark sacred time and and to assert claims about religious, ethnic, and national identities. The class will read ethnographic accounts and listen to musical recordings of signature religious festivals–such as Saint Patrick’s Day in Boston, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and Carnival in Brazil.



Credits: 3

AAS 3000 - Women and Religion in Africa

This course examines women’s religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women’



Credits: 3

AAS 3157 - Caribbean Perspectives

Breaking with popular constructions of the region as a timeless tropical paradise, this course will re-define the Caribbean as the birthplace of modern forms of capitalism, globalization, and trans-nationalism. We will survey the founding moments of Caribbean history, including the imposition of slavery, the rise of plantation economies, and the development of global networks of goods and peoples.



Credits: 3

AAS 3200 - Martin, Malcolm and America

An intensive examination of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. We will come to grips with the American legacy of racial hatred and oppression systematized in the institutions of antebellum chattel slavery and post-bellum racial segregation and analyze the array of critical responses to, and social struggles against, this legacy.



Credits: 3

AAS 3231 - Rise and Fall of the Slave South

A history of the American South from the arrival of the first English settlers through the end of Reconstruction in 1877.
Cross-listed with HIUS 3231.



Credits: 3

AAS 3240 - Plantations in Africa and the Americas

AAS 3250 - MotherLands: Landscapes of Hunger, Futures of Plenty

This course explores the legacy of the “hidden wounds” left upon the landscape by plantation slavery along with the visionary work of ecofeminist scholars and activists daring to imagine an alternative future. Readings, guest lectures, and field trips illumine the ways in which gender, race, and power are encoded in historical, cultural, and physical landscapes associated with planting/extraction regimes such as tobacco, mining, sugar, and corn.



Credits: 3

AAS 3280 - Reading the Black College Campus

Historically Black Colleges and University campuses are records of the process of democratizing (extending to excluded social groups such as African-Americans) opportunities for higher education in America. Through landscapes, we trace this record, unearthing the politics of landscapes via direct experience as well as via interpretations of representations of landscapes in literature, visual arts, maps, plans, and photographs.



Credits: 3

AAS 3351 - African Diaspora Religions

This seminar examines changes in ethnographic accounts of African diaspora religions, with particular attention to the conceptions of religion, race, nation, and modernity found in different research paradigms.
Prerequisite: previous course in one of the following: religious studies, anthropology, AAS, or Latin American studies.



Credits: 3

AAS 3356 - Culture, Race and World Politics

This course explores the role of culture and race in international politics. Cultural and ethnic factors have long influenced international relations, especially in the post Cold War era. These “identity” issues raise new questions about the role of national sovereighty and the prospects for democracy in countries around the world. We focus on several broad themes structured around the pivot of identity and otherness.



Credits: 3

AAS 3456 - The Supreme Court and the Civil Rights Movement

This course explores the role of the United States Supreme Court in defining the legality of racial distinctions in the United States in the post-Civil War era. Special attention is paid to the role of the court’s landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education. The class will be taught in a discussion format based upon assigned readings.



Credits: 3

AAS 3457 - Issues in Civil Rights Law

An exploration of critical issues in modern civil rights law. We engage competing visions of racial equality through law by examining topics such as school desegregation, affirmative action, urban policymaking, and the crisis of mass incarceration. This course will also highlight the limitations of civil rights law and consider the ways in which the law is often complicit in perpetuating race, gender and class hierarchies.



Credits: 3

AAS 3471 - History of American Labor

This course examines the economic, cultural, and political lives of the US working classes from the end of the Civil War to the present.



Credits: 3

AAS 3500 - Intermediate Seminar in African-American & African Studies

Reading, class discussion, and written assignments on a special topic in African-American and African Studies Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year students but open to others.



Credits: 3

AAS 3559 - New Course in African and African American Studies

AAS 3652 - African American History since 1865

This course surveys the major political, economic, and cultural developments in black America from the end of the Civil War to the present. Through an engagement with various primary and secondary texts, and multimedia, students examine African Americans’ endeavors to build strong families and communities, create socially meaningful art, and establish a political infrastructure capable of bringing into existence a more just and humane world.



Credits: 3

AAS 4070 - Directed Reading and Research

Students in the Distinguished Majors Program should enroll in this course for their first semester of thesis research.



Credits: 3

AAS 4080 - Thesis

AAS 4500 - Advanced Seminar in African-American and African Studies

Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminatiing in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year students but open to others.



Credits: 3

AAS 4501 - Advanced Research Seminar in History & AAS

Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminating in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year AAS and History students–double majors and others. Crosslisted with the History major seminar.



Credits: 4

AAS 4559 - New Course in African and African American Studies

AAS 4570 - Advanced Research Seminar in African-American & African Studies

Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminating in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year students but open to others.



Credits: 3

AAS 4845 - Black Speculative Fiction

This course seeks to explore the world of African American ‘speculative’ fiction. This genre of writing largely includes science fiction, fantasy fiction, and horror. In this class, we will read, watch, and discuss narratives by black writers of speculative fiction to better understand the motivation, tone, and agenda in the work of black writers. We will also consider the role of black culture and representation in the larger field.



Credits: 3

AAS 4993 - Independent Study

Allows students to work on an individual research project. Students must propose a topic to an appropriate faculty member, submit a written proposal for approval, prepare an extensive annotated bibliography on relevant readings comparable to the reading list of a regular upper-level course, and complete a research paper of at least 20 pages.



Credits: 3

ASL 1010 - Elementary American Sign Language I

Introduces receptive and expressive American Sign Language skills, including basic vocabulary, sentence structure, classifiers, use of space, non-manual type indicators, and fingerspelling. Examines signing deaf people as a linguistic/cultural minority.



Credits: 4

ASL 1020 - Elementary American Sign Language II

Introduces receptive and expressive American Sign Language skills, including basic vocabulary, sentence structure, classifiers, use of space, non-manual type indicators, and fingerspelling. Examines signing deaf people as a linguistic/cultural minority.
Prerequisite: ASL 1010 or successful completion of placement exam.



Credits: 4

ASL 1559 - New Course in American Sign Language

ASL 2010 - Intermediate American Sign Language I

Continues training in American Sign Language, with focus on more complex sentence types, signs, and idioms. Considers ASL literary forms such as poetry, theater, and storytelling, as well as deaf history and other related topics.
Prerequisite: ASL 1020 or successful completion of placement exam.



Credits: 3

ASL 2020 - Intermediate American Sign Language II

Continues training in American Sign Language, with focus on more complex sentence types, signs, and idioms. Considers ASL literary forms such as poetry, theater, and storytelling, as well as deaf history and other related topics.
Prerequisite: ASL 2010 or successful completion of placement exam.



Credits: 3

ASL 2300 - Women and Gender In The Deaf World

Examines the roles of deaf women inside and outside of the signing Deaf community. Using an interdisciplinary approach, considers such topics as language and cultural barriers, violence against women, sexuality, race, class, education, and work. Investigates disparities between deaf and hearing women and the choices available to d/Deaf women, individually and collectively, in contemporary culture. No prior knowledge of ASL is required.



Credits: 3

ASL 2450 - Deaf People, Society, and the Law

This course will explore the Deaf community, discrimination, and laws affecting Deaf people in the United States. We will consider the experiences of Deaf people before and after such measures as the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 to gain insight into how the law affects social perceptions and people’s everyday lives. No prior knowledge of ASL or Deaf culture is required for this course.



Credits: 3

ASL 2559 - New Course in American Sign Language

ASL 3010 - Conversational ASL

Continues language and cultural instruction with emphasis on everyday conversation. Topics include common idioms and slang, explaining rules, discussing finances and major decisions, and storytelling techniques such as role-shifting and narrative structure. Students will be required to interact with deaf signers.
Prerequisite: ASL 2020 or successful completion of placement interview.



Credits: 3

ASL 3081 - History of the American Deaf Community

This new course will examine the history of deaf people in the United States over the last three centuries, with particular attention to the emergence and evolution of a community of Deaf people who share a distinct sign language and culture. We will read both primary texts from specific periods and secondary sources. We will also view a few historical films.
Prerequisite: none (thought a previous class in History or ASL is recommended)



Credits: 3

ASL 3450 - Comparative Linguistics: ASL and English

ASL 3559 - New Course in American Sign Language

ASL 4559 - New Course in American Sign Language

ASL 4750 - Topics in Deaf Studies

Examines such topics as American deaf history; ASL linguistics; deaf education; cultural versus pathological views of deaf people; controversies over efforts to eliminate sign language and cure deafness; ASL poetry and storytelling; deafness in mainstream literature, film, and drama; deafness and other minority identities; and the international deaf community.



Credits: 3

ASL 4810 - Deafness in Literature and Film

Studies representations of deaf people in literature and film over the last three centuries. Takes a contrapuntal approach, juxtaposing canonical literature and mainstream films with works (in either English or American Sign Language) by relatively unknown deaf artists.



Credits: 3

AMST 1559 - New Course in American Studies

AMST 2001 - Formations of American Cultural Studies

This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of cultural studies. We will engage critical-theoretical debates on important keywords of society (including nation, race, gender and class) and map the social formations of the US and beyond. In lectures and discussions, this class will explore culture in its many forms, including everyday life, historical memory, and literary and political imaginaries.



Credits: 3

AMST 2100 - Introduction to Asian American Studies

An interdisciplinary introduction to the culture and history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. Examines ethnic communities such as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Asian Indian, and Native Hawaiian, through themes such as immigration, labor, cultural production, war, assimilation, and politics. Texts are drawn from genres such as legal cases, short fiction, musicals, documentaries, visual art, and drama.



Credits: 3

AMST 2210 - Arts of the Harlem Renaissance

Studies the literature, painting, photography and prints produced by New York artists based in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, and examines their relation to concurrent social, cultural, and aesthetic issues.



Credits: 3

AMST 2220 - Race, Identity and American Visual Culture

Surveys popular visual material (advertisements, cartoons, films, paintings and photographs) and its representation of race in the united States from 1850 to 1950.



Credits: 3

AMST 2300 - Introduction to U.S. Latino Studies

A small lecture course (35) AMST 2300 offers students close study and analysis of significant texts or cultural artifacts that are printed, visual, oral or musical representing the perspective and contributions of the main Latino populations in the United States. These works include, but are not limited to, cultural manifestations from Puerto Rican, Chicano, Dominican, Central American and Cuban American origin.



Credits: 3

AMST 2500 - Major Works for American Studies

Topics vary according to instructor. The goal of the course is to introduce students to interdisciplinary work in American Studies by juxtaposing works across disciplinary boundaries and from different methodological perspectives.



Credits: 3

AMST 2559 - New Course in American Studies

AMST 2711 - American Environmental History

Explores the historical relationship between people and the environment in North America from colonial times to the present. Topics include the role of culture, economics, politics, and technology in that relationship.
Prerequisite: first-year writing course (e.g. TCC 101, ENWR 101)



Credits: 3

AMST 2753 - Arts and Cultures of the Slave South

This interdisciplinary course covers the American South to the Civil War. While the course centers on the visual arts- architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture- it is not designed as a regional history of art, but an exploration of the interrelations between history, material and visual cultures, foodways, music and literature in the formation of Southern identities.



Credits: 4

AMST 3001 - Theories and Methods of American Studies

This seminar course will introduce majors to various theories and methods for the practice of American Studies. The three goals of the seminars are (1) to make students aware of their own interpretive practices; (2) to equip them with information and conceptual tools they will need for advanced work in American Studies; and (3) to provide them with comparative approaches to the study of various aspects of the United States.
Prerequisites: American Studies Major



Credits: 3

AMST 3180 - Introduction to Asian American Studies

An interdisciplinary introduction to the culture and history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. Examines ethnic communities such as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Asian Indian, and Native Hawaiian, through themes such as immigration, labor, cultural production, war, assimilation, and politics. Texts are drawn from genres such as legal cases, short fiction, musicals, documentaries, visual art, and drama.



Credits: 3

AMST 3250 - MotherLands: Landscapes of Hunger, Futures of Plenty

This course explores the legacy of the “hidden wounds” left upon the landscape by plantation slavery along with the visionary work of ecofeminist scholars and activists daring to imagine an alternative future. Readings, guest lectures, and field trips illumine the ways in which gender, race, and power are encoded in historical, cultural, and physical landscapes associated with planting/extraction regimes such as tobacco, mining, sugar, and corn.



Credits: 3

AMST 3491 - Rural Poverty in Our Time

This course will use an interdisciplinary format and document based approach to explore the history of non-urban poverty in the US South from the 1930s to the present. Weaving together the social histories of poor people, the political history of poverty policies, and the history of representations of poverty, the course follows historical cycles of attention and neglect during the Great Depression, the War on Poverty, and the present.



Credits: 3

AMST 3559 - New Course in American Studies

AMST 3641 - Native America

This course will introduce students to deep history of Native North America. Using primary and secondary sources, we will cover such topics as mutually beneficial trade and diplomatic relations between Natives and newcomers; the politics of empire; U.S. expansion; treaties and land dispossession; ecological, demographic, and social change; pan-Indian movements; legal and political activism; and many, many others.



Credits: 3

AMST 4500 - Fourth-Year Seminar in American Studies

This seminar is intended to focus study, research, and discussion on a single period, topic, or issue, such as the Great Awakening, the Civil War, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, or the 1960s. Topics vary.



Credits: 3

AMST 4559 - New Course in American Studies

AMST 4893 - Independent Study in Asian Pacific American Studies

An elective course for students in the Asian Pacific American Studies minor. Students will work with an APAS core faculty member to support the student’s own research. Topics vary, and must be approved by the APAS Director. 



Credits: 3

AMST 4993 - Independent Study

An elective course for American Studies majors who have completed AMST 3001-3002. Students will work with an American Studies faculty member to support the student’s own research. Topics vary, and must be approved by the Program Director.
Prerequisite: AMST 3001, 3002.



Credits: 3

AMST 4999 - Distinguished Majors Thesis Seminar

This workshop is for American Studies majors who have been admitted to the DMP program. Students will discuss the progress of their own and each other’s papers, with particular attention to the research and writing processes. At the instructor’s discretion, students will also read key works in the field of American Studies.
Prerequisites: admission to DMP.



Credits: 3

ANTH 1010 - Introduction to Anthropology

This is a broad introductory course covering race, language, and culture, both as intellectual concepts and as political realities. Topics include race and culture as explanations of human affairs, the relationship of language to thought, cultural diversity and cultural relativity, and cultural approaches to current crises.



Credits: 3

ANTH 1050 - Anthropology of Globalization

ANTH 1090 - Colloquia for First-Year Students

Colloquium designed to give first-year students an opportunity to study an anthropological topic in depth in a small-scale, seminar format. Topics will vary; may be repeated for credit.



Credits: 3

ANTH 1401 - Your Heritage Language

This course introduces students to the fields of structural linguistics, social approaches to the study of language, and language policy through a focus on the traditional languages or heritage languages spoken more or less actively within students’ own families and home communities, either at present or in recent generations.



Credits: 3

ANTH 1559 - New Course in Anthropology

ANTH 2150 - Introduction to Classical Archaeology

ANTH 2153 - North American Indians

Ethnological treatment of the aboriginal populations of the New World based on the findings of archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, biological anthropology, and social anthropology.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2156 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa

Studies African modernity through a close reading of ethnographies, social histories, novels, and African feature films.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2190 - Desire and World Economics

This course offers an insight into the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services practiced by peoples ignored or unknown to classic Western economics. Its principle focus will open upon the obvious differences between cultural concepts of the self and the very notion of its desire. Such arguments as those which theorize on the “rationality” of the market and the “naturalness” of competition will be debunked.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2210 - Marriage and the Family

Compares domestic groups in Western and non-Western societies. Considers the kinds of sexual unions legitimized in different cultures, patterns of childrearing, causes and effects of divorce, and the changing relations between the family and society.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2230 - Fantasy and Social Values

Examines imaginary societies, in particular those in science fiction novels, to see how they reflect the problems and tensions of real social life. Focuses on ‘alternate cultures’ and fictional societal models.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2240 - Progress

An ideal of progress has motivated Westerners since the Enlightenment, and is confirmed by rapid technological innovation. Theories of social evolution also foresaw, however, the extinction of those left behind. This course addresses the ideological roots of our notion of progress, the relation between technological and social progress, and what currently threatens our confidence in the inevitability of progress.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2250 - Nationalism, Racism, Multiculturalism

Introductory course in which the concepts of culture, multiculturalism, race, racism, and nationalism are critically examined in terms of how they are used and structure social relations in American society and, by comparison, how they are defined in other cultures throughout the world.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2270 - Race, Gender, and Medical Science

Explores the social and cultural dimensions of biomedical practice and experience in the United States. Focuses on practitioner and patient, asking about the ways in which race, gender, and socio-economic status contour professional identity and socialization, how such factors influence the experience, and course of, illness, and how they have shaped the structures and institutions of biomedicine over time.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2280 - Medical Anthropology

The course introduces medical anthropology, and contextualizes bodies, suffering, healing and health. It is organized thematically around a critical humanist approach, along with perspectives from political economy and social constructionism. The aim of the course is to provide a broad understanding of the relationship between culture, healing (including and especially the Western form of healing known as biomedicine), health and political power.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2290 - The Health of Black Folks

An interdisciplinary course analyzing the relationship between black bodies and biomedicine both historically and in the present. The course is co-taught by Norm Oliver, M.D. (UVa Department of Family Medicine), and offers political, economic, and post-structuralist lenses with which to interpret the individual and socio/cultural health and disease of African-Americans. Readings range across several disciplines including anthropology, epidemiology/public health, folklore, history, science studies, political science, sociology and literary criticism. Topics will vary and may include: HIV/AIDS; reproductive issues; prison, crime and drugs; and body size/image and obesity; the legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Trials. Cross listed as AAS 2450.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2291 - Global Culture and Public Health

This course considers the forces that influence the distribution of health and illness in different societies, with attention to increasing global interconnectedness. We will examine the roles of individuals, institutions, communities, corporations and states in improving public health, asking how effective public health and development efforts to improve global health have been and how they might be re-imagined.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2310 - Symbol and Ritual

Studies the foundations of symbolism from the perspective of anthropology. Topics include signs and symbols, and the symbolism of categorical orders as expressed in cosmology, totemism, and myth.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2320 - Anthropology of Religion

Explores anthropological approaches to religion, in the context of this discipline’s century-old project to understand peoples’ conceptions of the world in which they live.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2325 - Anthropology of God

How does the study of society and culture create an intellectual space for any explanation and experience of the Divine? How does anthropology deal specifically with explaining (rather than the explaining away) knowledge and understanding about divinity? Is God an American? If God has a gender and race, what are they? These and many other pertinent questions will be engaged and tackled in this cross-cultural study of the divine.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2340 - Anthropology of Birth and Death

ANTH 2345 - Anthropology of Reproduction: Fertility and the Future

In this course, we will study human reproduction as a cultural process. Questions include how gender, class, race, and religion shape reproductive ideals and practices around the world. Ethnographic examples will come from around the world, but will emphasize South Asia and the United States. This course examines the perspectives of both men and women and situates local examples within national and global struggles to (re)produce the future.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2360 - Don Juan and Castaneda

Analyzes the conceptual content in Castaneda’s writings as an exploration of an exotic world view. Focuses on the concepts of power, transformation, and figure-ground reversal.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2365 - Art and Anthropology

The course emphasizes art in small-scale (contemporary) societies (sometimes called ethnic art or “primitive art”). It includes a survey of aesthetic productions of major areas throughout the world (Australia, Africa, Oceania, Native America, Meso-America). Included are such issues as art and cultural identity, tourist arts, anonymity, authenticity, the question of universal aesthetic cannons, exhibiting cultures,and the impact of globalization.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2400 - Language and Culture

Introduces the interrelationships of linguistic, cultural, and social phenomena with emphasis on the importance of these interrelationships in interpreting human behavior. No prior knowledge of linguistics is required.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2410 - Sociolinguistics

Reviews key findings in the study of language variation. Explores the use of language to express identity and social difference.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2420 - Language and Gender

Studies how differences in pronunciation, vocabulary choice, non-verbal communication, and/or communicative style serve as social markers of gender identity and differentiation in Western and non-Western cultures. Includes critical analysis of theory and methodology of social science research on gender and language.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2430 - Languages of the World

An introduction to the study of language relationships and linguistic structures. Topics covered the basic elements of grammatical description; genetic, areal, and typological relationships among languages; a survey of the world’s major language groupings and the notable structures and grammatical categories they exhibit; and the issue of language endangerment.
Prerequisite: One year of a foreign language or permission of instructor.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2440 - Language and Cinema

Looks historically at speech and language in Hollywood movies, including the technological challenges and artistic theories and controversies attending the transition from silent to sound films. Focuses on the ways that gender, racial, ethnic, and national identities are constructed through the representation of speech, dialect, and accent. Introduces semiotics but requires no knowledge of linguistics, or film studies.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2470 - Reflections of Exile: Jewish Languages and their Communities

Covers Jewish languages Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and Hebrew from historical, linguistic, and literary perspectives. Explores the relations between communities and languages, the nature of diaspora, and the death and revival of languages. No prior knowledge of these languages is required. This course is cross-listed with MEST 2470.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2500 - Cultures, Regions, and Civilizations

ANTH 2541 - Topics in Linguistics

ANTH 2557 - Culture Through Film

This course introduces the diversity of human cultural worlds and the field of anthropology as presented through film. A variety of ethnographic and commercial films will be viewed and discussed in conjunction with readings.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2559 - New Course in Anthropology

ANTH 2560 - Hierarchy and Equality

Provides an anthropological perspective on relations of inequality, subordination, and class in diverse societies, along with consideration of American ideas of egalitarianism, meritocracy, and individualism. Specific topics will be announced prior to each semester.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2565 - Society and Politics in Cross-Cultural Perspective

ANTH 2570 - History and Narrative

This course examines how people make history through specific processes of remembering, commemoration, reenactment, story-telling, interpretation, and so on. How do the narrative genres of a particular culture influence the relationship people have to the past?



Credits: 3

ANTH 2575 - Migrants and Minorities

Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with migration and migrants, and the experience of ethnic and racial minorities.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2589 - Topics in Archaeology

ANTH 2590 - Social and Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 2600 - Introduction to Civilization of India

Introduces the society and culture of India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Discussion of traditional social, political, and economic organization; religions, religious festivals, and worship; art and architecture; dance; and song.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2610 - Asian America

An introductory survey addressing Asian/Pacific Islander experiences (over 30 ethnic groups) in America since the mid-1700s.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2660 - Peoples of Polynesia

The peoples of Polynesia and Indonesia, sharing a cultural and linguistic heritage, have spread from Madagascar to Easter Island. Examines their maritime migrations, the societies and empires that they built, and recent changes affecting their cultural traditions.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2670 - How Others See Us

Explores how America, the West, and the white racial mainstream are viewed by others in different parts of the world, and at home.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2680 - Reading the New York Times

An introduction to anthropological perspectives, using a major American newspaper as a window on contemporary culture. Articles from the daily paper will be supplemented by relevant readings by anthropologists and other culture critics.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2723 - Anthropology of Dissent

This course will investigate various processes of opposition, resistance, and revolution. The first half of the course will survey foundational works of revolutionary theory, while the second half will examine political practice from an ethnographic perspective, with an eye towards the lived experience of political participation and the formation (and transformation) of resisting subjects.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2800 - Introduction to Archaeology

Topics include alternative theories of prehistoric culture change, dating methods, excavation and survey techniques, and the reconstruction of the economy, social organization, and religion of prehistoric societies.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2810 - Human Origins

Studies the physical and cultural evolution of humans from the initial appearance of hominids to the development of animal and plant domestication in different areas of the world. Topics include the development of biological capabilities such as bipedal walking and speech, the evolution of characteristics of human cultural systems such as economic organization and technology, and explanations for the development of domestication.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2820 - The Emergence of States and Cities

Surveys patterns in the development of prehistoric civilizations in different areas of the world including the Inca of Peru, the Maya, the Aztec of Mexico, and the ancient Middle East.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2850 - American Material Culture

Analysis of patterns of change in American material culture from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Consideration of how these changes reflect shifts in perception, cognition, and worldview.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2890 - Unearthing the Past

An introduction to prehistory covering 4 million years of human physical evolution and 2.5 million years of human cultural evolution. Provides students with an understanding of how archaeologists reconstruct the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. Covers some major developments in prehistory such as origins of modern humans, the rise of the first complex societies & agriculture, and the emergence of ancient civilizations in North America.



Credits: 3

ANTH 2900 - The Cultural Politics of American Family Values

This course provides a broad, introductory survey of the range of cultural understandings, economic structures, and political and legal constraints that shape both dominant and alternative forms of kinship and family in the United States.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3010 - Theory and History of Anthropology

ANTH 3129 - Marriage, Mortality, Fertility

Explores the ways that culturally formed systems of values and family organization affect population processes in a variety of cultures.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3130 - Disease, Epidemics and Society

Topics covered in this course will include emerging diseases and leading killers in the twenty-first century, disease ecology, disease history and mortality transitions, the sociology of epidemics, the role of epidemiology in the mobilization of public health resources to confront epidemics, and the social processes by which the groups become stigmatized during disease outbreaks.
Prerequisite: introductory anth or soc course



Credits: 3

ANTH 3152 - Amazonian Peoples

Analyzes ethnographies on the cultures and the societies of the South American rain forest peoples, and evaluates the scholarly ways in which anthropology has produced, engaged, interpreted, and presented its knowledge of the ‘Amerindian.’



Credits: 3

ANTH 3154 - Indians of the American Southwest

Ethnographic coverage of the Apaches, Pueblos, Pimans, and Shoshoneans of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Northwestern Mexico. Topics include prehistory, socio-cultural patterns, and historical development.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3155 - Anthropology of Everyday American Life

Provides an anthropological perspective of modern American society. Traces the development of individualism through American historical and institutional development, using as primary sources of data religious movements, mythology as conveyed in historical writings, novels, and the cinema, and the creation of modern American urban life.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3157 - Caribbean Perspectives

Explores the histories and politics that have shaped the nations and dependencies that are geographically and politically defined as Caribbean, including French, English, and Spanish. Takes a regional and a national perspective on the patterns of family and kinship; community and household structures; political economy, ethnicity and ethnic relations; religious and social institutions; and relations between Caribbeans abroad and at home.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3158 - Native American Mythology

Focuses on the myths of Native Americans north of Mexico and their roles in Native American cultures. Students research and write a paper on the place of mythology in a particular culture, or on the forms and uses of a particular type of myth.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3170 - Anthropology of Media

Explores the cultural life of media and the mediation of cultural life through photography, radio, television, advertising, the Internet, and other technologies.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3175 - Native American Art: The Astor Collection

This is an upper-level anthropology course which is intended to engage students in the study of Native American art as well as the history and current debate over the representation of Native American culture and history in American museums. After a thorough review of the literature on those topics, the class focuses specifically on the Astor collection owned by the University of Virginia.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3180 - Social History of Commodities

Introduces the anthropological study of production, exchange, consumption, and globalization by exploring the cultural life-cycle of particular commodities in different places and times.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3200 - Marriage, Gender, Political Economy

Cross-cultural comparison of marriage and domestic groups, analyzed as a point of intersection between cultural conceptions of gender and a larger political economy.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3210 - Kinship and Social Organization

Cross-cultural analysis and comparison of systems of kinship and marriage from Australian aborigines to the citizens of Yankee city. Covers classic and contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3220 - Economic Anthropology

Comparative analysis of different forms of production, circulation, and consumption in primitive and modern societies. Exploration of the applicability of modern economic theory developed for modern societies to primitive societies and to those societies being forced into the modern world system.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3230 - Legal Anthropology

Comparative survey of the philosophy and practice of law in various societies. Includes a critical analysis of principles of contemporary jurisprudence and their application.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3240 - The Anthropology of Food

By exploring food and eating in relationship to such topics as taboo, sexuality, bodies, ritual, kinship, beauty, and temperance and excess, this course will help students to investigate the way the foods people eat–or don’t eat–hold meaning for people within multiple cultural contexts.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3260 - Globalization and Development

Explores how globalization and development affect the lives of people in different parts of the world. Topics include poverty, inequality, and the role of governments and international agencies.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3270 - Anthropology of Politics

Reviews the variety of political systems found outside the Western world. Examines the major approaches and results of anthropological theory in trying to understand how radically different politics work.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3272 - Anthropology of Dissent

This course will investigate various processes of opposition, resistance, and revolution. The first half of the course will survey foundational works of revolutionary theory, while the second half will examine political practice from an ethnographic perspective, with an eye towards the lived experience of political participation and the formation (and transformation) of resisting subjects.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3300 - Tournaments and Athletes

ANTH 3320 - Shamanism, Healing, and Ritual

Examines the characteristics of these nonmedical practices as they occur in different culture areas, relating them to the consciousness of spirits and powers and to concepts of energy.
Prerequisite: At least a 2000-level ANTH course, or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3330 - Ethnopoetics

ANTH 3340 - Ecology and Society: An Introduction to the New Ecological Anthropology

Forges a synthesis between culture theory and historical ecology to provide new insights on how human cultures fashion, and are fashioned by, their environment.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or significant/relevant exposure to courses in EVSC, BIOL, CHEM, or HIST (which tie in to concerns of this course), or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3360 - Fieldwork, Ethnographic Methods, and the Field Experience

Introduction to ethnographic methods of research. This course combines practical exercises in participant observation with readings that illuminate the field experience, its politics, ethics, limitations, and possibilities.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3370 - Power and the Body

ANTH 3440 - Language and Emotion

This course explores emotion from the perspectives of cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. Topics include: emotion in the natural vs. social sciences; cross-cultural conceptions of emotion; historical change in emotion discourses; emotion as a theory of the self; the grammatical encoding of emotion in language; (mis-) communication of emotion; and emotion in the construction of racialized and gendered identities.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3450 - Native American Languages

Introduces the native languages of North America and the methods that linguists and anthropologists use to record and analyze them. Examines the use of grammars, texts and dictionaries of individual languages and affords insight into the diversity among the languages.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3470 - Language and Culture in the Middle East

Introduction to peoples, languages, cultures and histories of the Middle East. Focuses on Israel/Palestine as a microcosm of important social processes-such as colonialism, nationalism, religious fundamentalism, and modernization-that affect the region as a whole. This course is cross-listed with MEST 3470.
Prerequisite: Previous course in anthropology, linguistics, Middle East Studies or permission of instructor.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3480 - Language and Prehistory

This course covers the basic principles of diachronic linguistics and discusses the uses of linguistic data in the reconstruction of prehistory.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3490 - Language and Thought

ANTH 3541 - Topics in Linguistics

ANTH 3550 - Ethnography

ANTH 3559 - New Course in Anthropology

ANTH 3560 - The Museum in Modern Culture

Topics include the politics of cultural representation in history, anthropology, and fine arts museums; and the museum as a bureaucratic organization, as an educational institution, and as a nonprofit corporation.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3580 - Science and Culture

Seminar on the the role of science in culture, and on the culture of science and scientists. Topics may include different national traditions in science, the relation between scientific authority and social hierarchy, the cultural history of science, and the relationship between scientific and popular culture ideas.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3589 - Topics in Archaeology

ANTH 3590 - Social and Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 3600 - Sex, Gender, and Culture

Examines the manner in which ideas about sexuality and gender are constructed differently cross-culturally and how these ideas give shape to other social phenomena, relationships, and practices.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3603 - Archaeological Approaches to Atlantic Slavery

This course explores how archaeological and architectural evidence can be used to enhance our understanding of the slave societies that evolved in the early-modern Atlantic world. The primary focus is the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, the later exemplified by Jamaica and Nevis. The course is structured around a series of data-analysis projects that draw on the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (http://www.daacs.org).



Credits: 3

ANTH 3620 - Cinema in India

ANTH 3630 - Chinese Family and Religion

Analyzes various features of traditional Chinese social organization as it existed in the late imperial period. Includes the late imperial state; Chinese family and marriage; lineages; ancestor worship; popular religion; village social structure; regional systems; and rebellion.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3640 - Ethnology of Southeast Asia

Explores the ethnology and social anthropology of major cultures and societies of mainland (and insular Southeast Asia from prehistoric beginnings to contemporary national adaptations. (Mainland: Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia; Insular: Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, and portions of other nations abutting the area.)
Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3650 - Asian American Ethnicity

Problems in ethnicity are posed through study of the experiences of the Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Koreans, and Vietnamese in the United States. Topics include the history of immigration, early communities in the U.S., race relations, recent changes in immigration and communities, family values, and questions of identity.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3660 - China: Empire and Nationalities

Explores the distant and recent history of Han and non-Han nationalities in the Chinese empire and nation-state. Examines the reaction of minority nationalities to Chinese predominance and the bases of Chinese rule and cultural hegemony.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or equivalent, a course in Chinese history, or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3665 - Trade Diasporas: Exchanges and Connections across Asia

Trade is one of the earliest forms of cross-cultural exchanges and the most important external stimuli. Asia was a region that had highly developed trans-regional trade and commerce since before the European arrival. This course thus takes the social, political, and economic history of Asia as a field for examining various forms of trade diasporas in Asia throughout time, from Asian caravan peddling traders to European East India companies.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3670 - Tibet and the Himalayas

Provides a broad anthropological perspective (from ethnicity and social organization to religious forms) on a complex and culturally diverse area: Tibet and the Himalayas; critiques the fantasies that the West and others have projected on this area.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3680 - Australian Aboriginal Art and Culture

This class studies the intersection of anthropology, art and material culture focusing on Australian Aboriginal art. We examine how Aboriginal art has moved from relative obscurity to global recognition over the past thirty years. Topics include the historical and cultural contexts of invention, production, marketing and appropriation of Aboriginal art. Students will conduct object-based research using the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ANTH 3685 - Austronesia: World of Islands

Languages of the Austronesian faily are found from Madagascar through the archipelago of Southeast Asia, and across the vast Pacific. It is a world of islands. Being part of no continent, Austronesia is all but invisible. We approach this hidden world by seeing oceans instead of continents. In doing so, we learn about the migrations of its people, their diverse historical experiences, and the resulting extraordinary range of cultures.



Credits: 3

ARCY 4998 - Undergraduate Thesis Research

Research for a thesis of approximately 50 written pages undertaken in the fall semester of the fourth year by archaeology majors who have been accepted into the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Distinguished Majors Program.
Prerequisite: acceptance into Archaeology DMP



Credits: 3

ARCY 4999 - Undergraduate Thesis Writing

Writing of a thesis of approximately 50 written pages undertaken in the spring semester of the fourth year by archaeology majors who have been accepted into the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Distinguished Majors Program.
Prerequisite: acceptence into DMP program



Credits: 3

ARAD 1550 - Topics in Arts Administration

Topics in Arts Administration, where the topic may change. At present (2012) The Art Business and Art Criticism are topic examples under the ARAD 1550 banner, both being taught in Fall, 2012.



Credits: 1

ARAD 2993 - Independent Study

ARAD 3100 - Principles and Practices of Arts Administration

ARAD 3550 - Topics of Arts in Context

The Arts and the Environment explores our complicated human relationship to our environment using water as a key focal point. The goal is to explore and challenge scientists and artists, architects, commerce students and engineers to re-think how we and thus our artists relate to the Environment.



Credits: 3

ARAD 3559 - New Course in Development for the Arts

ARAD 3993 - Independent Study

ARAD 4559 - New Course in Arts Administration

ARTH 1004 - A History of Architecture

This course will introduce students to the study of architecture through an examination of selected examples from the history of architecture with a focus on Europe and the United States and buildings relevant to those regions (e.g. the Great Pyramids, the Parthenon, Versailles). Classes will be a combination of lectures and discussions as students are taught the fundamentals of architectural history as well as how to analyze buildings.



Credits: 3

ARTH 1051 - History of Art I

A survey of the great monuments of art and architecture from their beginnings in caves through the arts of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, Byzantium, the Islamic world, and medieval western Europe. The course attempts to make art accessible to students with no background in the subject, and it explains the ways in which painting, sculpture, and architecture are related to mythology, religion, politics, literature, and daily life. The course serves as a visual introduction to the history of the West.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 1052 - History of Art II

ARTH 1500 - Introductory Seminars in Art History

Introductory Seminars in Art History are small classes for first- and second-year students that emphasize reading, writing, and discussion. While subject varies with the instructor, topics will be selected that allow students to engage broad issues and themes historically and in relationship to contemporary concerns and debates. Subject is announced prior to each registration period. Enrollment is capped at 15.



Credits: 3

ARTH 1505 - Topics in Art History

ARTH 2051 - Art of the Ancient Near East and Prehistoric Europe

Studies the art of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Aegean, and prehistoric Europe, from the sixth to the second millennium b.c. Examines the emergence of a special role for the arts in ancient religion.



Credits: 3

ARTH 2052 - Ancient Egypt

Survey of Egyptian art and architecture (Predynastic-New Kingdom, 4000-1100 BC). The course introduces students to the great monuments and works of art, and to the beliefs that engendered them. While the focus is on pharaonic ‘visual’ culture, neglected ‘others’ (women, cross-gendered persons, foreigners, commoners) and their material/visual cultures are brought to attention to provide a nuanced understanding of Egyptian society and culture.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2053 - Greek Art

The painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Greeks, from the Dark Ages through the Hellenistic period. Works are studied in their social, political, and religious contexts.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2054 - Etruscan and Roman Art

Studies the painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy and the Roman Empire from the time of the Etruscans to Constantine the Great. Emphasizes the political and social role of art in ancient Rome, the dissolution of classical art, and the formation of medieval art.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2055 - Introduction to Classical Archaeology

Introduces the history, theory, and field techniques of classical archaeology. Major sites of the Bronze Age (Troy, Mycenae) as well as Greek and Roman cities and sanctuaries (e.g., Athens, Olympia, Pompeii) illustrate important themes in Greek and Roman culture and the nature of archaeological data.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2056 - Aegean Art and Archaeology

Introduction to the art and archaeology of the prehistoric Aegean, from the Early Bronze Age to the end of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 3000-1200 BCE). Notable sites examined include Troy, Knossos, Mycenae, Thebes, Pylos. The course also examines cultural and artistic connections with New Kingdom Egypt and the Late Bronze Age Levant.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2151 - Early Christian and Byzantine Art

Studies the art of the early Church in East and West and its subsequent development in the East under the aegis of Byzantium. Includes the influence of theological, liturgical and political factors on the artistic expression of Eastern Christian spirituality.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2152 - Medieval Art in Western Europe

Studies the arts in Western Europe from the Hiberno-Saxon period up to, and including, the age of the great Gothic cathedrals.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2153 - Romanesque and Gothic Art

From the Romanesque churches along the Pilgrimage Routes to the new Gothic architecture at St. Denis outside Paris and on to late medieval artistic production in Prague, this course examines profound and visually arresting expressions of medieval piety, devotion, and power made by artists from roughly 1000-1500. Throughout our investigations, particular attention will be paid to the contributions of important medieval women.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2154 - Early Medieval Art

This course examines art created in the era from 300 to 1100, when early medieval artists, motivated by devotion to their faiths and scientific beliefs, crafted beautiful and refined visual expressions of their values. These crafted confessions in stone, paint, parchment, and metal provide the living historical records of a vibrant period, during which medieval artists asserted their various cultural identities.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2155 - Art and Science in the Middle Ages

During the medieval period, power and knowledge required the endorsement of clerics. Alongside secular courtiers they also cultivated creative expressions of their erudition, revealing the medieval interpenetration of art, science and religion. The artworks surveyed in this course provide lasting records of critically creative confrontations between the scientific and spiritual traditions linked to medieval Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2251 - Italian Renaissance Art

Studies painting, architecture, and sculpture in Italy from the close of the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century. Focuses on the work of major artists such as Giotto, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. Detailed discussion of the social, political, and cultural background of the arts.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2252 - High Renaissance and Mannerist Art

Studies the painting, architecture, and sculpture or the sixteenth century, emphasizing the works of major artists, such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, and Titian. Detailed discussion of the social, political, and cultural background of the arts.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2271 - Painting and Graphics of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in Northern Europe

Surveys major developments in painting and graphics in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Netherlands and Germany. Includes the rise of Netherlandish naturalism and the origins of woodcut and engraving. Explores the effects of humanist taste on sixteenth-century painting and the iconographic consequences of the Reformation. Emphasizes the work of major artists, such as Van Eyck, Van der Weyden, Dürer, Bosch, and Bruegel.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2281 - Baroque Art in Europe

Studies the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the seventeenth century in Italy, the Low Countries, France, and Spain. Focuses on Caravaggio, Bernini, Velazquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Poussin.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2282 - The Age of Rubens and Rembrandt: Baroque Art in the Netherlands

A survey of the art of the Dutch and Flemish Golden Age, including such artists as Rubens, Rembrandt, van Dyck, Hals and Vermeer. The course examines innovations in style and new subjects like landscape, still life and daily-life genre in relation to major historical developments, including the revolt of the Netherlands, the rise of the Dutch Republic, and the Counter-Reformation. The course includes a survey of Dutch architecture.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2351 - Eighteenth-Century European Art

Surveys European painting and sculpture from the late Baroque period to Neo-Classicism. Emphasizes the artistic careers of major figures and on the larger social, political, and cultural contexts of their work. Artists include Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Chardin, Falconet, Pigalle, Greuze, Batoni, Rusconi, Hogarth, Gainsborough, and Reynolds.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2352 - Art of Revolutionary Europe

Surveys European painting and sculpture from the last decades of the Ancien Regime to the liberal revolutions of 1848. Major artists, such as David, Canova, Ingres, Constable, Turner, Gericault, Delacroix, Friedrich, Goya, Corot, and Thorvaldsen are examined in their political, economic, social, spiritual, and aesthetic contexts.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2353 - European Art and Empire

Examines the relationship of visual art to empire from the colonization of North America to the scramble for Africa, focusing on the period between 1700 and 1900. The course examines the work of European artists working on five continents and it engages with readings in which art history intersects with that of other disciplines including anthropology and museum studies.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2354 - British Art

This survey of British Art in the modern period examines the work of some of Britain’s greatest painters, sculptors, and printmakers including Hogarth, Blake, Flaxman, Turner, the Pre-Raphaelites, Sickert, Bacon, and Freud. Major themes include the relationship of British art to religion, urbanization, empire, industrialization, and post-colonialism.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2361 - Nineteenth-Century European Art

A thematic survey of European art in the long nineteenth century, the course examines the work of German, French, Italian, British and Scandinavian artists, among them Boucher, Vien, David, Friedrich, Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Whistler, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch, and others. Key course themes will include artistic training and practice, exhibition, and art-theoretical debates of the period.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2371 - Impressionism and Post Impressionism

Surveys modernist movements in European art during the second half of the nineteenth century. Major themes include the establishment of modernity as a cultural ideal, the development of the avant-garde, and the genesis of the concept of abstraction.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2372 - Paris, “Capital of the Nineteenth Century”

Examines the places, spaces, practices and representations of Paris in the nineteenth century. Tracing the changing faces of the city, we will study the modern city through architecture and urban planning, painting, drawing, photography, popular imagery and literature. Topics include Paris ‘types’; fashion and birth of the department store; Haussmannization; and the ‘spectacular’ Paris of the panorama, morgue, Opera, and World’s Fairs.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2451 - Modern Art, 1900-1945

A survey of major artistic movements in Europe and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century: Fauvism and Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, the School of Paris, Dada and Surrealism, the Russian avant-garde, modernist trends in America. Painting, sculpture, photography, and the functional arts are discussed.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2471 - Art Since 1945

Surveys art production and theory in the U.S. and Europe since World War II. Relationships between artistic practice and critical theory are stressed in an examination of movements ranging from abstract expressionism to neo-geo.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2472 - Modern Art in Italy

ARTH 2472 will use the resources of Italy’s modern and contemporary art museums supplemented by classroom and on-site lectures to offer an overview of the major movements of modern art in Italy. It will examine the historical and political contexts for developments from Futurism and Valori Plastici to Informel and Arte Povera, with a particular focus on the postwar years.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2491 - The History of Photography

General survey of the photographic medium from 1839 to the present. Emphasizes the technical, aesthetic, and critical issues particular to the medium.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2525 - Topics in Renaissance Art History

ARTH 2559 - New Course in History of Art

ARTH 2659 - Sacred Sites

Examines the art and architecture of ten religious sites around the world focusing on ritual, culture, and history as well as the artistic characteristics of each site.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2745 - African American Art

This course surveys the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, prints, mixed media and textiles) produced by those of African descent in the United States from the Colonial period to the present. Presented both chronologically and thematically, the class interrogates issues of artistic identity, gender, patronage and the aesthetic influences of the African Diaspora and European and Euro-American aesthetics on African American artists.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2751 - American Art to the Armory Show

This lecture course will examine American visual arts from the time of European settlement to around 1900 with special emphasis on its political, social and cultural contexts. The course is both chronological and thematic. It focuses on major artistic figures, but it also focuses on issues such as the construction of an American identity, the role of fine arts in American society, and the tensions of class, gender, race & ethnicity in Amer Art.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2752 - American Art Since Reconstruction

This lecture course examines the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, prints) of the United States from the late 19th-century to World War II. Particular emphasis is placed on cultural, political, and social issues that provide a contextual framework for the analysis of these images. The course interrogates topics such as artistic identity, American modernism, patronage, and the influence of popular culture on fine art.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2753 - Arts & Cultures of the Slave South

This interdisciplinary course covers the American South to the Civil War. While the course centers on the visual arts ‘architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture’ it is not designed as a regional history of art, but an exploration of the interrelations between history, material and visual cultures, foodways, music and literature in the formation of Southern identities.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2771 - American Modernism

American Modernism is a survey of American art in the first half of the 20th century. The course will address the arrival of modern art in America, the situation of the American artist in relation to European art, and an American public, and the question of the American art.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2772 - American Film Noir and the City

Studies the classic period of film noir and its engagement with the city as a problematic subject and a frequent resource within American Art and culture immediately before and after WW II. Using the classic period of film noir as a framework, this lecture and discussion course examines the ways in which ‘the city’ is represented as a problematic subject and a frequent resource within American Art and culture immediately before and after WWII.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2773 - Hollywood Cinema’s Golden Age: The 1930s

The course examines American cinema produced in Hollywood during the 1930s. While the Great Depression serves as an important historical backdrop, we will interrogate how issues such as ethnic/racial representation, shifting gender roles, sexuality, and urbanity are mediated in popular cinema in this decade.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2774 - Stardom and American Film

This course examines the role of stardom and star performance in American cinema from the silent era to the 1960s. Using art history, cultural studies and film criticism, we will explore topics such as visions of stardom, constructions and subversions of star identity, and the ways in which the media of film actively constructs how we look at and respond to stars as cultural and pictorial icons.



Credits: 3

ARTH 2861 - East Asian Art

Introduces the artistic traditions of China, Korea, and Japan, from prehistoric times to the modern era. Surveys major monuments and the fundamental concepts behind their creation, and examines artistic form in relation to society, individuals, technology, and ideas.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2862 - Arts of the Buddhist World- India to Japan

Surveys the Buddhist sculpture, architecture and painting of India, China and Japan. Considers aspects of history and religious doctrine.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2863 - Chinese Decorative Arts

ARTH 2871 - The Arts of India

The class is an overview of Indian sculpture, architecture, and painting from the Third Millennium BC to the 18th century AD and includes works from Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Islamic traditions.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2961 - Arts of the Islamic World

The class is an overview of art made in the service of Islam in the Central Islamic Lands, Egypt, North Africa, Spain, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2993 - Independent Study

ARTH 3051 - Greek Vase Painting

Survey of the major styles, techniques, and painters of Greek vases produced in the Archaic and Classical periods (c. 700-350 b.c.). Emphasizes themes of myth and daily life, the relationship of vases to other ancient arts, the legacy of form and decoration in the arts of later periods, such as 18th century England, and comparisons with other cultures, such as the Native American southwest.
Prerequisite: any course in Art History, Anthropology, Classics or History.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3052 - Art and Poetry in Classical Greece

Study of the major themes in Greek sculpture and painting of the fifth century, including mythological narrative, cult practices, banqueting, and athletics. In order to view these themes in the context of classical Greek culture, the course seeks out shared structures of response and feeling in contemporary poetry; including readings in translation in Anakreon, Pindar, Aischylos, Sophokles, and Euripides.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3053 - The Greek City

Study of the Greek city from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. The course focuses on such themes as city planning, public buildings and houses, gender distinctions, the relationship between city and territory, and the nature of the polis.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3061 - Roman Architecture

Study of the history of Roman architecture from the Republic to the late empire with special emphasis on the evolution of urban architecture in Rome. Also considered are Roman villas, Roman landscape architecture, the cities of Pompeii and Ostia, major sites of the Roman provinces, and the architectural and archaeological field methods used in dealing with ancient architecture.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3062 - Pompeii

Explores the life, art, architecture, urban development, religion, economy, and daily life of the famous Roman city destroyed in the cataclysmic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in a.d. 79.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3151 - Art and Science in the Middle Ages

During the medieval period, power and knowledge required the endorsement of clerics. Alongside secular courtiers they also cultivated creative expressions of their erudition, revealing the medieval interpenetration of art, science and religion. The artworks surveyed in this course provide lasting records of critically creative confrontations between the scientific and spiritual traditions linked to medieval Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 3251 - Gender and Art in Renaissance Italy

Examines how notions of gender shaped the production, patronage, and fruition of the visual arts in Italy between 1350 and 1600.
Prerequisite: A previous course in art history or gender studies.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 3253 - Renaissance Art and Literature

Examines the interrelations between literature and the visual arts in Italy from 1300 to 1600. The writings of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio and their followers are analyzed in relation to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of Giotto, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Raphael, and Michelangelo, among others.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3254 - Leonardo da Vinci

An analysis of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings, drawings, and notes, giving special attention to his writings and drawings on human anatomy, the theory of light and shade, color theory, and pictorial composition. His work is considered in relation to the works of fellow artists such as Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo as well as within the context of Renaissance investigation of the natural world.
Prerequisite: One course in the humanities.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3255 - Renaissance Art on Site

Firsthand, direct knowledge of Renaissance art and architecture through an intensive program of on-site visits in Florence and Rome. The course aims to provide a deeper understanding of the specificity of images and sites; that is, their materials, texture, scale, size, proportions, colors, and volumes. It also aims to instill a full sense of the importance of the original location for the understanding and interpretation of Renaissance art.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3257 - Michelangelo and His Time

Analyzes the work of Michelangelo in sculpture, painting and architecture in relation to his contemporaries in Italy and the North. The class focuses on the close investigation of his preparatory drawings, letters, poems and documents.
Prerequisite: One course in the history of art beyond the level of ARTH 1051 and 1052



Credits: 3

ARTH 3281 - Rembrandt

Study of the life and work of the great Dutch seventeenth-century master. Topics include Rembrandt’s interpretation of the Bible and the nature of his religious convictions, his relationship to classical and Renaissance culture, his rivalry with Rubens, and the expressive purposes of his distinctive techniques in painting, drawing, and etching.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3351 - British Art: Tudors through Victoria

Surveys English (British) painting, sculpture, and printmaking from the reign of Henry VII Tudor (1485) to the death of Queen Victoria (1901). Major artists such as Holbein, Mor, Mytens, Rubens, van Dyck, Lely, Kneller, Hogarth, Rysbrack, Roubilliac, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Rowlandson, Flaxman, Lawrence, Constable, Turner, Landseer, the Pre-Raphaelites and Alma-Taddema are examined in their political, social, economic, spiritual, and aesthetic contexts.
Prerequisite: At least one post-medieval art history course is recommended.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3525 - Topics in Renaissance Art History

ARTH 3545 - Topics In 20th/21st Century Art

ARTH 3559 - New Course in History of Art

ARTH 3591 - Art History Colloquium

The Art History Colloquium combines lecture and discussion. Subject varies with the instructor, who may decide to focus attention either on a particular period, artist, or theme, or on the broader question of the aims and methods of art history. Subject is announced prior to each registration period. Enrollment is capped at 25. This course fulfills the second writing requirement.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3651 - Anthropology of Australian Aboriginal Art

This class studies the intersection of anthropology, art and material culture focusing on Australian Aboriginal art. We examine how Aboriginal art has moved from relative obscurity to global recognition over the past 30 yrs. Topics include the historical and cultural contexts of invention, production, marketing and appropriation of Aboriginal art. Students will conduct research using the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection and Study Center.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3751 - Material Life in Early America

Studies American domestic environments (architecture, landscapes, rural and urban settings) and decorative arts (furniture, silver, ceramics, and glass) in relation to their social, cultural, and historical contexts from European settlement to 1825.
Prerequisite: At least one course in either American art or early American history or literature is recommended.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3761 - Women in American Art

Analyzes the roles played by women both as visual artists and as the subjects of representation in American art from the colonial period to the present. Explores the changing cultural context and institutions that support or inhibit women’s artistic activity and help to shape their public presentation. Some background in either art history or women’s studies is desirable.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3781 - New York School

The New York School focuses on the background, development, and dissemination of abstract expressionism, beginning with an examination of the place and politics of the artist in America in the depression era. The slide lectures and required readings examine the social and intellectual groundings of the subjects of abstract painting in the 1940s and the development of an international art scene in New York in the 1950s.



Credits: 4

ARTH 3861 - Chinese Art

The course is a survey of the major epochs of Chinese art from pre-historic to the modern period. The course intends to familiarize students with the important artistic traditions developed in China: ceramics, bronzes, funerary art and ritual, Buddhist art, painting, and garden architecture. It seeks to understand artistic form in relation to technology, political and religious beliefs, and social and historical contexts, with focus on the role of the state or individuals as patrons of the arts. It also introduces the major philosophic and religious traditions (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) that have shaped cultural and aesthetic ideals, Chinese art theories, and the writings of leading scholars.



Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 3862 - Japanese Art

Introduces the arts and culture of Japan. Focuses on key monuments and artistic traditions that have played central roles in Japanese art and society. Analyzes how artists, architects, and patrons expressed their ideals in visual terms. Examines sculptures, paintings, and decorative objects and their underlying artistic and cultural values.



Credits: 3

ARTH 3951 - African Art

ARTH 3993 - Independent Study

ARTH 4051 - Art History: Theory and Practice

This course introduces art history majors to the basic tools and methods of art historical research, and to the theoretical and historical questions of art historical interpretation. The course will survey a number of current approaches to the explanation and interpretation of works of art, and briefly address the history of art history.
Prerequisite: Major or minor in art history.



Credits: 3

ARTH 4591 - Undergraduate Seminar in the History of Art

Subject varies with the instructor, who may decide to focus attention either on a particular period, artist, or theme, or on the broader question of the aims and methods of art history. Subject is announced prior to each registration period. Representative subjects include the life and art of Pompeii, Roman painting and mosaics, history and connoisseurship of baroque prints, art and politics in revolutionary Europe, Picasso and painting, and problems in American art and culture.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ARTH 4951 - University Museums Internship

This is the second semester of the internship at either the Fralin Museum of Art or Kluge Ruhe. Students will work approximately 100 hours per semester in the museum, and will participate in three training sessions and three academic seminars.
Prequisite: ARTH/GDS 4951 and instructor permission, by application. Please see information at www.virginia.edu/art/arthistory/courses and www.artsandsciences.virginia.edu/globaldevelopment



Credits: 3

ARTH 4952 - University Museums Internship

This is the first semester of the internship at either the Fralin Museum of Art or Kluge Ruhe. Students will work approximately 100 hours per semester in the museum, and will participate in three training sessions and three academic seminars. Instructor permission, by application (deadline: May 1). Please see information at www.virginia.edu/art/arthistory/courses and www.artsandsciences.virginia.edu/globaldevelopment



Credits: 3

ARTH 4998 - Undergraduate Thesis Research

Research for a thesis of approximately 50 written pages undertaken in the fall semester of the fourth year by art history majors who have been accepted into the department’s Distinguished Majors Program.



Credits: 3

ARTH 4999 - Undergraduate Thesis Writing

Writing of a thesis of approximately 50 written pages undertaken in the spring semester of the fourth year by art history majors who have been accepted into the department’s Distinguished Majors Program.



Credits: 3

ARTS 1000 - Drawing at Sea I

This course will focus on the fundamentals of drawing: visual perception, elements of line, gesture, proportion, spatial relationships, scale, value, and texture. It is intended for beginning students. During the semester, students will develop a range of skills that will enable them to hone their observational sensibilities and then apply them to their work.



Credits: 3

ARTS 1010 - Drawing at Sea II

This course is intended for students who have previously completed a college level drawing class (either Introduction to Drawing or Introduction to Figure Drawing). Building on the principles of basic drawing, students will further investigate drawing from observation and creating the illusion of 3-dimensional form and space on a 2-dimensional surface.



Credits: 3

ARTS 1220 - Intro to Digital Media at Sea

The course will be an introduction to digital imagery, using photography as the source for creative manipulation in Adobe Photoshop. At the beginning of the semester, questions about how to use one’s camera skillfully, how to compose an interesting photograph, how to interpret and to evaluate work will be addressed.



Credits: 3

ARTS 1559 - New Course in Studio Art

ARTS 1610 - Introduction to Drawing I

Drawing provides students with a foundation of skills, judgment and observational abilities that are essential to artistic expression. Either ARTS 1610 or ARTS 1020 is required for every Studio Art major. This course leads to work in more advanced drawing, as well as work in other media.



Credits: 3

ARTS 1710 - Intro to Painting at Sea

Designed for beginning painters, the course will introduce students to color theory, color mixing, and color application. It aims to improve observational skills in both drawing and painting. Students will experiment with composition and collage construction.



Credits: 3

ARTS 2110 - Introduction to Photography I

Focuses on gaining a working understanding of black and white photo processes and, most importantly, opening up a dialogue about photography. In addition to assignments designed to help students understand the visual language of photography, we explore examples from the historical and contemporary worlds of fine art. Readings range from art and philosophy to science. Students create a final portfolio from assignments.
Prerequisite: ARTS 1610



Credits: 4

ARTS 2112 - Introduction to Photography II

Building off of 2110, this course offers an introduction to color photography, digital printing methods, and medium format cameras. Advanced skills are demonstrated and practiced with the goal of increasing the quality of the work. Further explorations into historical and contemporary art issues via presentations, visiting artists, and readings increase awareness. Students create a final portfolio.
Prerequisite: ARTS 2110



Credits: 4

ARTS 2220 - Introduction to New Media I

This class introduces digital techniques in the context of fine art. Topics covered include digital imaging and basic interactive art.
Prerequisite: ARTS 1610.



Credits: 4

ARTS 2222 - Introduction to New Media II

Building on the skills and concepts established in ARTS 2220, this class introduces animation techniques in the context of fine arts.
Prerequisite: ARTS 1610, ARTS 2220



Credits: 4

ARTS 2310 - Installation and Performance Art I

This course introduces new art genres including installation, performance, and video documentation to the student’s art practice. Includes contemporary Art History, theory, and the creation of art made with non-traditional materials, methods and formats.
Prerequisite: For ARTS 2310: ARTS 1610, 2620 or permission of the instructor.



Credits: 4

ARTS 2312 - Installation and Performance Art II

ARTS 2370 - Introduction to Cinematography I

The course introduces experimental 16mm film production as a practice of visual art. These courses include technical, historical, and theoretical issues that apply to cinematography and its relationship to the traditional visual arts.
Prerequisite: For ARTS 2370: ARTS 1610, 2620, or permission of the instructor.



Credits: 4

ASTR 1210 - Introduction to the Sky and Solar System

A study of the night sky primarily for non-science majors. Provides a brief history of astronomy through Newton. Topics include the properties of the sun, earth, moon, planets, asteroids, meteors and comets; origin and evolution of the solar system; life in the universe; and recent results from space missions and ground-based telescopes.



Credits: 3

ASTR 1220 - Introduction to Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe

A study of stars, star formation, and evolution primarily for non-science majors. Topics include light, atoms, and modern observing technologies; origin of the chemical elements; supernovae, pulsars, neutron stars, and black holes; structure and evolution of our galaxy; nature of other galaxies; active galaxies and quasars; expanding universe, cosmology, the big bang, and the early universe.



Credits: 3

ASTR 1230 - Introduction to Astronomical Observation

An independent laboratory class for non-science majors, meeting at night, in which students work individually or in small groups on observational projects that focus on the study of constellations, planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies using binoculars, 8-inch telescopes, and imaging equipment at the department’s student observatory.
Prerequisites: ASTR 1210, 1220, or 1270 or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ASTR 1240 - Introduction to Stellar Evolution

The course provides an introduction to stars, star formation, and evolution primarily for non-science majors. Topics include light, atoms, origin of the chemical elements, supernovae, pulsars, neutron stars and black holes.



Credits: 3

ASTR 1270 - Unsolved Mysteries in the Universe

An exploration of the unsolved mysteries in the universe and the limits of our knowledge for non-science majors. The class emphasizes the nature of scientific endeavor, and explores the boundaries between science, philosophy, and metaphysics. A number of thought provoking topics are discussed including the beginning and end of the universe, black holes, extraterrestrial life, the nature of time, dark matter and dark energy.



Credits: 3

ASTR 1500 - Seminar

ASTR 1510 - Seminar

ASTR 1559 - New Course in Astronomy

ASTR 1740 - Introduction to Astronomical Reseach

Intended for first and second year students considering Astronomy/Astronomy-Physics as a major as well as newly declared majors. Participants meet with a different Astronomy faculty member each week to discuss ongoing reseach in order to acquaint students with both the subject matter and required physical, mathematical, and computational background of contemporary astronomy research. Potential long term undergraduate research projects will be emphasized.



Credits: 1

ASTR 2110 - Introduction to Astrophysics I

Primarily for science majors. A thorough discussion of the basic concepts and methods of solar system, stellar, galactic, and extragalactic astronomy and astrophysics with an emphasis on physical principles.
Prerequisite/corequisite: MATH 1210 or 1310, PHYS 1610 or 2310, or instructor permission; ASTR 2110 and 2120 form a sequence and should be taken in that order.



Credits: 3

ASTR 2120 - Introduction to Astrophysics II

Primarily for science majors. A thorough discussion of the basic concepts and methods of solar system, stellar, galactic, and extragalactic astronomy and astrophysics with an emphasis on physical principles.
Prerequisite/corequisite: ASTR 2110, MATH 1210 or 1310, PHYS 1610 or 2310, or instructor permission; ASTR 2110 and 2120 form a sequence and should be taken in that order.



Credits: 3

ASTR 2559 - New Course in Astronomy

ASTR 3130 - Observational Astronomy

Primarily for science majors. A lecture and laboratory course that deals with basic observational techniques in astronomy. The laboratory section generally meets at night. Students use observational facilities at the McCormick and Fan Mountain Observatories. Additional work outside posted laboratory hours may be required to take advantage of clear skies.
Prerequisite: ASTR 2110,2120 or ASTR 1210,1220, or instructor permission.



Credits: 4

ASTR 3140 - Introduction to Observational Radio Astronomy

An introduction to the tools, techniques, and science of radio astronomy. Discussion includes fundamentals of measuring radio signals, radiometers, antennas, and interferometers, supplemented by illustrative labs; radio emission mechanisms and simple radiative transfer; radio emission from the Sun and planets, stars, galactic and extragalactic sources, and the cosmic microwave background.
Prerequisite: ASTR 2110, 2120.



Credits: 3

ASTR 3340 - Teaching Astronomy

A seminar-style class offered primarily for non-majors planning to teach science or looking to improve their ablility to communicate science effectively. In addition to astronomy content, students will learn effective teaching strategies and gain practical experience by developing and implementing their own concept-based astronomy lessons.
Prerequisite: ASTR 1210, 1240; instructor permission



Credits: 3

ASTR 3410 - Archaeo-Astronomy

Open to non-science students. Discussion of prescientific astronomy, including Mayan, Babylonian, and ancient Chinese astronomy, and the significance of relics such as Stonehenge. Discusses the usefulness of ancient records in the study of current astrophysical problems such as supernova outbursts. Uses current literature from several disciplines, including astronomy, archaeology, and anthropology.
Prerequisite/corequisite: A 1000- or 2000-level ASTR course, or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ASTR 3420 - Life Beyond the Earth

Open to non-science students. Studies the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life; methods and desirability of interstellar communication; prospects for humanity’s colonization of space; interaction of space colonies; and the search for other civilizations.
Prerequisite/corequisite: A 1000- or 2000-level ASTR course or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ASTR 3460 - Development of Modern Astronomy

ASTR 3470 - Science and Controversy in Astronomy

Open to non-science students. Investigates controversial topics in science and pseudo-science from the astronomer’s perspective. Analyzes methods of science and the nature of scientific evidence, and their implications for unresolved astrophysical problems. Topics include extraterrestrial life, UFO’s, Velikovsky, von Daniken, and astrology.
Prerequisite/corequisite: ASTR 1210 or 1240, or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ASTR 3480 - Introduction to Cosmology

Open to first-year students; primarily for non-science students. A descriptive introduction to the study of the ultimate structure and evolution of the universe. Covers the history of the universe, cosmological speculation, and the nature of the galaxies. Provides a qualitative introduction to relativity theory and the nature of space-time, black holes, models of the universe (big bang, steady-state, etc.) and methods of testing them.



Credits: 3

ASTR 3559 - New Course in Astronomy

ASTR 3880 - Planetary Astronomy

Studies the origin and evolution of the bodies in the solar system, emphasizing the geology of the planets and satellites of the inner solar system and the satellites of the gaseous planets. Topics will include the interpretation of remote sensing data, the chemistry and dynamics of planetary atmospheres and their interactions with the planetary surfaces, and the role of impacts.
Prerequisite: Introductory course in geosciences or astronomy.



Credits: 3

ASTR 3881 - Planetary Astronomy Laboratory

Optional one hour laboratory for students in ASTR 3880 that provides practical experience in accessing and analyzing data related to the origin and geology of solar system planetary bodies, including the Moon, Mars, and outer planet satellites.



Credits: 1

ASTR 4440 - The Nature of Discovery in Astronomy

Studies selected topics concerning the people, ideas, and principles that motivate the advance of twentieth-century astronomy.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ASTR 4559 - New Course in Astronomy

ASTR 4810 - Astrophysics

Basic concepts in mechanics, statistical physics, atomic and nuclear structure, and radiative transfer are developed and applied to selected fundamental problems in the areas of stellar structure, stellar atmospheres, the interstellar medium, and extragalactic astrophysics.
Prerequisite: ASTR 2110, 2120; PHYS 2620, or instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ASTR 4993 - Tutorial

Independent study of a topic of special interest to the student under individual supervision by a faculty member. May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.



Credits: 3

ASTR 4998 - Senior Thesis

BIOL 1050 - Genetics for an Informed Citizen

Genetics and Genomics form the basis for much of modern biology and the future of medical practice. A basic understanding of them is important for people to be able to evaluate the science behind many issues both public and private. Genetics and Genomics and some of the ways they confront and inform modern life will be covered in a way that is accessible to non-scientists.



Credits: 3

BIOL 1060 - Principles of Nutrition

Topics include the chemical composition of the body; the molecular structure and function of different kinds of nutrients required by humans; the metabolic processes that transform food into energy and the chemical blocks for the creation and renewal of cellular structures; and the basic scientific principle of energy balance that determines weight gain or loss as governed by diet and exercise.



Credits: 3

BIOL 1210 - Human Biology and Disease

Introduces basic biological principles as illustrated in the human organism. Emphasizes the disruption of normal functions by disease either inherited or acquired.



Credits: 3

BIOL 1559 - New Course in Biology

BIOL 2010 - Introduction to Biology: Cell Biology and Genetics

Intensive introduction to modern biology designed for natural science majors. Biological structure and function at various levels of organization, cell biology, genetics, development and evolution are covered. This course is required for all biology majors and is a prerequisite for most upper-level biology courses. Lectures and recitation/review.



Credits: 3

BIOL 2020 - Introduction to Biology: Organismal and Evolutionary Biology

Intensive introduction to modern biology designed for natural science majors. Biological structure and function at various levels of organization, cell biology, genetics, development and evolution are covered. This course are required for all biology majors and is a prerequisite for most upper-level biology courses. Lectures and recitation/review.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010.



Credits: 3

BIOL 2030 - Introduction to Biology: Cell Biology and Genetics Laboratory

Laboratory exercises in introductory biology to illustrate experimental techniques and strategies used to elucidate biological concepts.
Corequisite: May be taken independently (labs are not sequenced), or in conjunction with BIOL 2010.



Credits: 2

BIOL 2040 - Introduction to Biology: Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Laboratory

Studies life forms, from simple to complex organization, demonstrating the unique properties of living organisms.
Corequisite: May be taken independently (labs are not sequenced), or in conjunction with BIOL 2010, 2020.



Credits: 2

BIOL 2060 - Human Physiology and Anatomy I

Includes basic information regarding the chemistry and organization of living matter needed to understand cellular, tissue, and organ function. The morphology and physiological functions of the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, and neurosensory organ systems will also be covered. Designed as a basic course for students in the allied health sciences.



Credits: 3

BIOL 2061 - Human Physiology and Anatomy I Laboratory

Optional laboratory class to accompany BIOL 2060. Includes simple anatomical, physiological and chemical exercises, clinical exercises, dissections, and microscopic examination of tissues that demonstrate and supplement topics covered in the lecture.



Credits: 1

BIOL 2070 - Human Physiology and Anatomy II

Covers the morphology and physiology for the cardiovascular, lymphatic, immune, endocrine, digestive, respiratory, excretory and reproductive organ systems. Designed as a basic course for students in the allied health sciences.



Credits: 3

BIOL 2071 - Human Physiology and Anatomy II Laboratory

Optional laboratory class to accompany BIOL 2070. Includes simple anatomical, physiological, and chemical exercises, clinical exercises, dissections, and microscopic examination of tissues that demonstrate and supplement topics covered in the lecture.



Credits: 1

BIOL 2559 - New Course in Biology

BIOL 3000 - Cell Biology

Examines the fundamental principles of eukaryotic cell biology at the molecular level. Topics will include: structure and function of the plasma membrane, transport of small molecules, ions and macromolecular complexes across membranes, protein trafficking, the cytoskeleton, signal transduction pathways , and the control of cell division and cellular proliferation.
Prerequisites: BIOL 2010, 2030, CHEM 1410, 1411, 1420, 1421.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3010 - Genetics and Molecular Biology

Examines the molecular nature of genes, gene function, the inheritance of genes, and the genetic basis of traits. Major topics include Mendelian inheritance, mutation, linkage and recombination, gene regulation and interactions. Required for all Biology majors.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, 2020, CHEM 1410, 1420.



Credits: 4

BIOL 3020 - Evolution and Ecology

Examines the mechanisms of evolutionary change, with an emphasis on the genetic and evolutionary principles needed to understand the diversification of life on earth. Covers the ecology of individuals and population dynamics. Major topics include the genetics and ecology of natural populations, adaptation, molecular evolution and macroevolution, and the application of evolutionary and ecological concepts to conservation biology. Required for all Biology majors.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2020 or EVSC 3200 or EVSC 2220



Credits: 3

BIOL 3080 - Virology

Presents an in-depth look at the molecular biology, pathogenesis and control of animal viruses. Small pox, influenza and HIV are used as model viruses for the analysis of viral replication mechanisms, viral genetics and the evolutionary relationship between the virus and its host. Epidemiology, transmission mechanisms, patterns of disease, and the societal impact of viruses are all discussed in terms of host/virus evolution.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, 2020, CHEM 1410, 1420. First semester organic chemistry suggested, but not required.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3090 - Biology of Infectious Disease

Emphasis is on the principles that govern disease biology, using examples from humans, plants and animals. Topics include: diversity and types of pathogens; mechanisms of transmission, pathogenicity, and resistance; epidemiology, population regulation, and extinction; disease origins; intracellular pathogens; disease and the evolution of genetic systems; and disease in biological control and conservation.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, 2020.



Credits: 4

BIOL 3120 - Microbiology in the Genomics Era

Microbes rule. In this course, we will explore how microbes rule the world and how genomics has revolutionized the way we study them. Fundamental principles of microbiology, together with the basics of genomics will be introduced. Topics include microbial cell structure, metabolism, genetics, microbial diversity and ecology, epidemiology, genome sequencing technologies and bioinformatics.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3140 - Biology of Aging

This interdisciplinary course will explore our current knowledge of the biology of aging in populations of plants and animals, including humans. Topics include demographic trends across species; analysis of why organisms age in the context of evolutionary theories; analysis of how organisms age in the context of cellular and physiological theories; and the genetic basis of longevity.
Prerequisites: BIOL 2010, 2020.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3150 - Microbiology Laboratory

An introduction to microorganisms and to basic microbiological principles through laboratory experimentation. Emphasis is on the structure, physiology and genetics of bacteria and bacterial viruses.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010 and 2030



Credits: 3

BIOL 3170 - Introduction to Neurobiology

Analyzes the concepts of general neurobiology, including basic electrophysiology and electrochemistry, origin of bioelectric potentials, sensory, motor, integrative and developmental neurobiology, and conceptual models of simple learning.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, 2020.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3180 - Introduction to Plant Biology

BIOL 3200 - Basic Laboratory Investigations

Students complete three of six 4-week laboratory modules offered; cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, development, behavior and evolution. Two of the six modules are offered concurrently in the first four weeks of the semester, two in the second four weeks, and two in the third; students complete one module in each four-week session. The learning objectives of each module are (1) to teach students the basic principles of problem solving through scientific investigation, and the written and oral skills needed to communicate results, and (2) to provide students with basic training in laboratory methodologies, techniques and protocols, and the use of laboratory instrumentation.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2030, CHEM 1410, 1420.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3210 - Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology Lab

Students will acquire basic training in cell culture, cell fractionation, microscopy, electrophoresis, spectrophotometry, chromatography, and immunological methods through a serries of lab investigatons. Contemporary molecular methods utilizing recombinant DNA and PCR will be included.
Prerequisite: CHEM 1410-1420 or equivalent, BIOL 2010 (prerequisite) or BIOL 3000 (co-requisite), AP credit for BIOL 2010 is not sufficient.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3220 - Genetics Evolution, and Behavior Laboratory

Students apply contemporary laboratory methods, analytic tools, and experimental approaches in a series of investigations that explore important, basic concepts in the fields of genetics, evolution and behavior.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010 and 2020



Credits: 3

BIOL 3230 - Animal Physiology

BIOL 3240 - Introduction to Immunology

Studies the genetics and cell biology of the vertebrate immune system, with a focus on adaptive immunity. Classic and current experimental systems are emphasized.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, 2020.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3250 - Introduction to Animal Behavior

An introduction to comparative studies of animal behavior from neuroethological and evolutionary prospectives. The first deals with proximate causes of behavior, with emphasis on motor, sensory and central aspects of the nervous system. The second deals with ultimate causes, with emphases on natural selection, natural history, and adaptive aspects of behavior.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, 2020.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3280 - Ornithology

This course is an introduction to avian biology. Major topics include evolutionary history, genetics, anatomy and physiology, behavior and communication, reproduction and development, and ecology and conservation. Through the study of birds, the most diverse lineage of terrestrial vertebrates, students learn broadly applicable concepts of organismal biology and gain insight to the scientific investigation of integrated biological systems.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, 2020.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3290 - Ecology and Conservation of Fishes

A laboratory course with a significant field component, an expanded version of a similar course taught at Mt. Lake Biological Station by the same instructor. Major topics of investigation center on the composition of freshwater fish assemblages and on the factors that influence distribution of fishes on multiple scales, from within stream reaches to among basins, including; physical habitat, water quality, and water flow; drainage histories and other zoo geographic processes; morphological, physiological, and life history characters of fishes; competition, predation and other biotic interactions; natural disturbance regimes; and anthropogenic impacts. The first portion of the semester provides an introduction to fish biology and systematics.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, 2020, 2040.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3360 - Biological Therapy of Cancer

This seminar course revolves around weekly two-hour student-led presentations of primary literature in the field of cancer therapy using novel approaches including immunotherapies. Objectives include providing the student with significant exposure to primary literature and the development of critical thinking skills.
Prerequisites: Biology 3240



Credits: 2

BIOL 3400 - Functional Morphology of Vertebrates

Comparative investigations of functional morphology across major vertebrate lineages. Lectures are organized into three units; 1) evolutionary history and patterns of development, 2) integumentary, skeletal and muscular systems, and 3) sensory systems, and neural and endocrine integrations. Topics of investigation focus on biomechanical and physiological performance of biological structures, from cells to organ systems, and on the origins and diversification of form-function complexes among vertebrates. Lab exercises include dissections, observation of prepared specimens and other material, and modeling/simulation of biomechanical systems. This course serves as a 3000-level lab requirement for either the B.A. or B.S. in biology.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, 2020, 2040.



Credits: 4

BIOL 3440 - Endocrinology

BIOL 3450 - Biodiversity and Conservation

Introduction to the fundamental principles of conservation biology (e.g., global species numbers, value of biodiversity, causes of extinction, genetic diversity, island biogeography, priority setting) and current topics of debate (including zoo versus field conservation, effects of global change on species extinction). Conservation case studies will allow students to judge the relevance of biological theory to practical problems in conservation.
Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, 2020 or EVSC 3200.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3500 - Field Biology

BIOL 3510 - Field Biology at Mountain Lake Biological Station

Field experiential courses in evolution, ecology, behavior and biology taught at the Biology Department’s Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS), a field research and teaching facility located in southwestern Virginia. Students may enroll for more than one section as each section is a specialized topic.
Prerequisites: BIOL 2010, 2020, 2030, 2040 or AP credit or equivalent.



Credits: 1 to 4

BIOL 3559 - New Course in Biology

BIOL 3585 - Selected Topics in Biology

Tutorial or seminar course that allows intensive study of the literature in a particular area of biology under the guidance of a Biology faculty member.



Credits: 1 to 3

BIOL 3660 - Marine Biology and Coral Reef Ecology in San Salvador

The course will introduce students to the plants and animals found in the marine and terrestrial environments of the Caribbean and their adaptations in the context of community ecology. Fishes, invertebrates, reptiles and marine algae will be the major groups encountered and snorkeling will be used for observation and collection. Lectures, labs, discussions, and extensive field work included, plus an independent research project.
Prerequisites: BIOL 2010, 2020, 2040, or EVSC 3200, or permission of the instructor.



Credits: 4

BIOL 3665 - Tropical Ecology and Conservation in Belize

This course is an introduction to the organisms and ecosystems of Belize, including fresh water, marine and terrestrial examples. Special emphasis will be placed on the interactions of the ecosystem components and on the conservation of specific ecosystems and locales.
Prerequisites: The completed sequence BIOL 2010, 2020, 2030, 2040, or their equivalents, or permission of instructor.



Credits: 3

BIOL 3950 - Recent Advances in Biology

Consists of weekly lecture/discussion sessions on recent advances in biology as reported through articles in the current literature and in research seminars presented within the University. Required for DMP students.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Note: All lecture courses at the 4000 level and above, have the prerequisite of at least one of the three core courses (3000-3020). All laboratory courses have a prerequisite of a 3000-level lab; unless a specific prerequisite lab is specified, any 3000-level lab will satisfy this prerequisite.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4000 - Laboratory in Molecular Biology

Laboratory introduction to fundamental molecular techniques used in many biological research laboratories. Includes basic aseptic technique, isolation and manipulation of genetic material, electrophoresis, cloning, gene library construction/screening, Southern blot analysis, and PCR techniques. Lecture and open laboratory.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3210.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4020 - Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics

Examines the mechanisms of evolution within populations, molecular evolution, and the process of speciation. Topics include genetics of adaptation and speciation, natural selection, and the processes influencing the evolution of genes and genomes at the molecular level.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3010.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4030 - Evolutionary Biology Laboratory

Analyzes important concepts in evolution, and experimental techniques used in evolutionary ecology and population genetics field research, experimental populations, molecular markers, phylogenetic reconstruction including aspects of experimental design and statistical analysis of data. Includes a weekend field trip to Mountain Lake Biological Station.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3010, MATH 1310.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4040 - Laboratory in Cell Biology

Introduces students to experimental approaches, including mammalian cell culture, gel electrophoresis, western blotting and immunofluorescence microscopy, that are used to study both normal and pathological processes at the level of individual cells. The biological theme of the course will be Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related neurodegenerative disorders. One laboratory lecture and one afternoon laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3000



Credits: 3

BIOL 4050 - Developmental Biology

Explores the processes of embryonic development in plants and animals, emphasizing the experimental basis of contemporary knowledge in embryo-genesis, morphogenesis and in cell and tissue differentiation. Lecture and occasional evening discussions.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3010.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4070 - Developmental Biology Laboratory

This course offers laboratory experience illustrating a number of principles and processes in the early development of both plants and animals. Laboratory work includes the use of basic microscopy and imaging techniques to study embryonic processes such as fertilization, oogenesis, gastrulation, and tissue interactions. Students will learn basic molecular techniques used to study gene expression and patterning in the embryo. Students will also develop skills in observation, experimental design, and data presentation.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3000 and 3010.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4080 - Neuronal Organization of Behavior

Lectures and discussions addressing behavior and sensory processing from the perspective of the neural elements involved. Topics include neuronal substrates (anatomical and physiological) of startle reflexes, locomotory behaviors, visual and auditory processing, echolocation mechanisms, calling song recognition, and the neuronal organization underlying some types of functional plasticity.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3170 or equivalent.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4100 - Management of Forest Ecosystems

Studies processes in forest ecosystems which effect management decisions. Emphasizes the interactions between the physiological processes of plants & system-level functions such as the cycling of nutrients & the flow of energy and water. Examples of current & projected uses of forest systems are discussed throughout, including harvesting for fiber & energy, and the preservation of forests as water purification and air pollution control systems.
Prerequisites: EVSC 3200 or equivalent exposure to basic ecology is recommended.



Credits: 4

BIOL 4110 - Genetics Laboratory

A research experience in developmental genetics that uses Drosophila melanogaster as a model system.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3010.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4120 - When Good Cells Go Bad

This course will cover topics related to major neurodegenerative diseases including Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Muscular Dystrophy (MD), Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor (Neurofibrosarcoma) and Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST). Topics related to pathology and molecular mechanism of diseases, possible drug discovery targets, and therapeutic discovery approaches will be emphasized.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000, BIOL 3010.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4130 - Population Ecology and Conservation Biology

The mathematical foundations of population dynamics and species interactions as applied to population and community ecology and problems in conservation biology.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3020 or EVSC 3200, and a course in calculus.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4140 - NextGen Sequencing and Its Applications

Students will learn the next generation sequencing technologies and explore their applications in the studies of evolution and ecology. This course is a lecture and journal club format where primary scientific literature will be discussed. Students will also learn basic bioinformatic skills.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3020



Credits: 3

BIOL 4150 - Evolution of Sex

Despite the many benefits of asexual reproduction, the vast majority of eukaryotic organisms reproduce sexually. How sex evolved, and how it persists despite its many associated costs, are major unanswered questions in biology. We will explore the diversity of sexual reproduction and associated evolutionary phenomena with a focus on critically evaluating current research and theory in this field.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3020 or permission from Instructor



Credits: 3

BIOL 4160 - Functional Genomics Lab

The course serves as a hands-on introduction to genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics. Topics that will be covered during the lectures and computer labs of this course include genome sequence analysis, genome expression analysis, and genomic circuits analysis.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3010.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4170 - Cellular Neurobiology

Explores a cellular approach to the study of the nervous system. Topics include the structure and function of ionic channels in cell membranes; the electrochemical basis of the cell resting potential; the generation and conduction of nerve impulses; and synaptic transmissions. Three lecture and demonstration/discussion credits. Class meetings include lectures, discussion, student presentations, and computer simulations of neurophysiology with NeuroDynamix.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3170 or equivalent; BIOL 3000.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4180 - Behavioral Ecology

Behavioral ecology explores the evolutionary analysis and explanations for the diversity of animal behavior, including foraging decisions, altruism, cooperation, mate choice, group living, parental care and range of other sociobiological phenomena.
Prereuaisite: BIOL 3020.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4190 - Biological Clocks

Introduces biological timekeeping as used by organisms for controlling diverse processes, including sleep-wakefulness cycles, photoperiodic induction and regression, locomotor rhythmicity, eclosion rhythmicity, and the use of the biological clock in orientation and navigation.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3000, 3010.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4215 - Microbial Genomics

Explores how genomics has revolutionized every aspect of microbiology. Fundamental principles of microbiology, together with the basics of genomics will be introduced. Topics include microbial cell structure, metabolism, genetics, microbial diversity and ecology, epidemiology, genome sequencing technologies and comparative genomics.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 and BIOL 3010



Credits: 3

BIOL 4220 - Introduction to Systems Biology

An introduction to a new research paradigm that focuses on the systematic study of complex interactions at the molecular, network and genomic level. This course will review state-of-the-art high throughput techniques and modeling methods used to obtain, integrate and analyze complex data from biological systems. This course will be a combination of text based lectures and discussions of the current literature pertinent to Systems Biology.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3010. Also recommended is BIOL 3000



Credits: 3

BIOL 4240 - History and Philosophy of Biology

This course will give an overview of the major conceptual and experimental advances in Biology. It will explore the relationships of Biology to mathematics and physical sciences and explore philosophical issues relevant to science in general, Biology in particular.
Prerequisite: 25 credits of Math or Science



Credits: 3

BIOL 4250 - Human Genetics

Focuses on the fundamental knowledge about organization, expression, and inheritance of the human genome. Reviews classical Mendelian genetics and human genetic (pedigree) analysis. Emphasizes understanding human genetics in molecular terms. Includes gene mapping procedures, methodologies for identifying genes responsible for inherited diseases, the molecular basis of several mutant (diseased) states, the human genome project, and discussions about genetic screening and gene therapy.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3010.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4260 - Cellular Mechanisms

The course will explore topics in cell biology that underlie mechanisms of human health and disease. Specific topics will depend on interest, but may include cancer and metastasis, metabolic syndromes or pathogen-host interactions (among others). Course materials will be research and review articles from the relevant primary literature. Students are expected to engage in and lead thoughtful discussions of assigned readings ~75% of the class time.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 and BIOL 3010



Credits: 3

BIOL 4270 - Animal Behavior Laboratory

Provides direct experience in approaches used to study animal behavior. Each lab concentrates on a particular aspect of behavior. Student experiments relate to central nervous systems; sensory perception; sign stimuli, feeding behavior; social behavior; reproductive behavior; biological timing; and animal observation in the laboratory and field.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3250 recommended.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4280 - The Genetic Basis of Behavior

This course studies behavior paradigms in model animals and the modern genetic tools used study and dissect the circuits underlying them. Can an animal as simple as a fly or mouse learn simple tasks, show appetitive behaviors and cravings, and inform studies of human addiction? Readings from classic and current literature will show the historical context of this field and develop critical reading skills.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000, BIOL 3010



Credits: 3

BIOL 4290 - Hormones and Behavior

BIOL 4310 - Sensory Neurobiology

This two-lectures-per-week course explores the basic principles of sensory neurobiology. The course consists of four modules. Each module represents one of the senses and consists of an introductory lecture, one or several lectures that will delve into the details of that sense, a current topic lecture on some recent finding, and finally, a guest lecture from a UVa researcher.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3170



Credits: 3

BIOL 4320 - Signal Transduction: How cells talk to each other

This advanced undergraduate course explores how cells communicate with each other and respond to their environment. This area of biology is referred to as signal transduction and is the basis for most if not all normal and disease processes in humans. Therefore, significant time is spent on defining archetypal signaling modules that all cells use to receive and communicate information to and from their environment.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 & BIOL 3010



Credits: 3

BIOL 4330 - Wiring the Brain

This course will cover the current state of knowledge for how neurons form connections in the brain. The course will initially focus on how relatively simple model systems have provided the critical clues as to how specific synaptic connections form. This will be followed by a discussion of how this knowledge can be applied to the understanding and treatment of human neural disorders. About a quarter of the course will be standard lectures and the remainder student-led discussion of primary literature.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000 and BIOL 3010; BIOL 3170 or Psych 2200.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4340 - Experimental Foundations of Neurobiology

The course content will focus on three areas of neurobiological research: conduction of the nervous impulse, sensory physiology, and synaptic physiology.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3170 or an equivalent course



Credits: 3

BIOL 4350 - Metabolic Systems

Examination of molecular mechanisms involved in metabolic regulation in mammals.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3000, 3010.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4360 - Cytokine Signaling and Neural Development

This is a journal club format seminar where we perform an in depth analysis of the papers listed below. One paper will be covered per week with a review article also assigned for background. There are no presenters; rather we will have discussion leaders. All participants should be prepared to present any of the panels in the week’s paper.



Credits: 1

BIOL 4370 - Epigenetics

Explores the emerging science, Epigenetics. Topics include epigenetics in model organisms and molecular mechanisms such as the Polycomb and Trithorax Group proteins, histone modifications and variants, dosage compensation, DNA methylation, nuclear reprogramming and stem cell pluripotency.
Prerequisites: Genetics and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry strongly recomended.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4410 - Molecular Biology and Genetics

A survey of contemporary issues in molecular biology and genetics. The course will be a combination of text based lectures and discussions of the current literature emphasizing the development of critical reading techniques.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000, 3010



Credits: 3

BIOL 4480 - Structure and Function of Complex Macromolecules

Exploration, in depth, of principles underlying protein and nucleic acid structures and the techniques used to determine those structures.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3000, biochemistry, or two semesters of organic chemistry.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4490 - Neural Systems and Behavior

This is an upper level lecture/discussion course for students interested in pursuing additional studies in neurobiology beyond the introductory level.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3170 and BIOL 3250.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4510 - Field Biology at Mountain Lake Biological Station

Field experiential courses in evolution, ecology, behavior and biology taught at the Biology Department’s Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS), a field research and teaching facility located in southwestern Virginia. Students may enroll for more than one section as each section is a specialized topic.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3020 Evolution & Ecology or equivalent.



Credits: 1 to 4

BIOL 4559 - New Course in Biology

BIOL 4585 - Selected Topics Course

Tutorial or seminar course that allows intensive study of the literature in a particular area of Biology under the guidance of a Biology faculty member



Credits: 1 to 3

BIOL 4650 - Molecular Biology of Human Disease

This course addresses molecular mechanisms of gene regulation and cell division in the context of identifying new therapeutic targets and to explore novel treatment options for infections and fenetic diseases.
Prerequisites: BIOL 3000, BIOL 3010.



Credits: 3

BIOL 4810 - Distinguished Major Seminar in Biological Research I

Two-hour, weekly discussion of recent advances in biology; attend biology seminars, interact with seminar speakers, explore the philosophy and practice of science, and learn skills in oral and written research presentation.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year DMP in Biology.



Credits: 2

BIOL 4820 - Distinguished Major Seminar in Biological Research II

Two-hour, weekly discussion of recent advances in biology; attend biology seminars, interact with seminar speakers, explore the philosophy and practice of science, and learn skills in oral and written research presentation.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year DMP in Biology.



Credits: 2

BIOL 4850 - Seminar in Environmental and Conservation Biology

In-depth investigation of current research & practice in environmental and biological conservation. Format will include the discussion of fundamental & recent readings in conservation and guest speakers from the local scientific and conservation communities.
Prerequisites for this class are BIOL 3450 and 3020. If interested students have taken EVSC 3020 instead of BIOL 3020, or other equivalent classes, contact the instructor for permission.



Credits: 2

BIOL 4911 - Independent Research 1

BIOL 4912 - Independent Research II

BIOL 4913 - Independent Research III

BIOL 4914 - Independent Research IV

BIOL 4915 - Independent Research V

BIOL 4916 - Independent Research VI

BIOL 4917 - Independent Research VII

BIOL 4918 - Independent Research VIII

BIOL 4993 - Independent Study In Biology

Tutorial or seminar course that allows intensive study of the literature in a particular area of biology under the guidance of a Biology faculty member.



Credits: 1 to 3

BIOL 4994 - Independent Study in Biology

BIOL 5010 - Biochemistry

Structure and function of the major constituents of cells (proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and carbohydrates) and the relationship to cellular metabolism and self-replication. Lectures and discussion.
Prerequisite: BIOL 3000; organic chemistry.



Credits: 4

HBIO 4559 - New Course Human Biology

HBIO 4810 - Capstone Seminar in Human Biology

HBIO 4820 - Seminar and Thesis in Human Biology

HBIO 4950 - Independent Research for Human Biology

HBIO 4960 - Independent Research for Human Biology

CHEM 1210 - Concepts of Chemistry

CHEM 1220 - Contemporary Chemistry

CHEM 1400 - Foundations of Chemical Principles

Establishes a foundation in basic chemical principles. Topics include structure of the atom, periodic table and trends, covalent and ionic bonding, the mole, solutions and liquids, chemical reactions and gases. Primarily for students with a limited background in high school chemistry who intend to enroll in CHEM 1410. Three class hours. No laboratory.
Enrollment by instructor permission only.



Credits: 3

CHEM 1410 - Introductory College Chemistry

CHEM 1411 - Introductory College Chemistry Laboratory

CHEM 1420 - Introductory College Chemistry

CHEM 1421 - Introductory College Chemistry Laboratory

CHEM 1559 - New Course in Chemistry

CHEM 1610 - Introductory Chemistry for Engineers

CHEM 1611 - Introductory Chemistry for Engineers Laboratory

CHEM 1620 - Introductory Chemistry for Engineers

CHEM 1621 - Introductory Chemistry for Engineers Laboratory

CHEM 1700 - Liberal Arts Seminar

CHEM 1710 - Liberal Arts Seminar

CHEM 1810 - Principles of Chemical Structure (Accelerated)

CHEM 1811 - Principles of Chemical Structure Laboratory (Accelerated)

CHEM 1820 - Principles of Organic Chemistry (Accelerated)

CHEM 1821 - Principles of Organic Chemistry laboratory (Accelerated)

CHEM 2220 - Solution Chemistry

CHEM 2350 - The Chemical Century

CHEM 2410 - Organic Chemistry

CHEM 2411 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory

CHEM 2420 - Organic Chemistry

CHEM 2421 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory

CHEM 2559 - New Course in Chemistry

CHEM 2620 - Introduction to Organic Chemistry

CHEM 2621 - Introduction to Organic Chemistry Laboratory

CHEM 2810 - Principles of Organic & Bioorganic Chemistry

CHEM 2811 - Principles of Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory (Accelerated)

CHEM 2820 - Principles of Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics (Accelerated)

CHEM 2821 - Principles of Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics Laboratory (Accelerated)

CHEM 3220 - Uranium and the American West

CHEM 3410 - Physical Chemistry I

CHEM 3420 - Physical Chemistry II

CHEM 3559 - New Course in Chemistry

CHEM 3610 - Physical Chemistry

CHEM 3810 - Physical Chemistry I

CHEM 3811 - Intermediate Techniques in Chemical Experimentation

CHEM 3820 - Physical Chemistry II

CHEM 3821 - Intermediate Techniques in Chemical Experimentation

CHEM 3910 - Introductory Research Seminar

CHEM 3920 - Introductory Research Seminar

CHEM 3951 - Introduction to Research

CHEM 3961 - Introduction to Research

CHEM 3993 - Independent Study

CHEM 4320 - Inorganic Chemistry

CHEM 4410 - Biological Chemistry I

CHEM 4411 - Biological Chemistry Laboratory I

CHEM 4420 - Biological Chemistry II

CHEM 4421 - Biological Chemistry Laboratory II

CHEM 4430 - From Lab Bench to Your Medicine Cabinet

CHEM 4559 - New Course in Chemistry

CHEM 4951 - Supervised and Original Research in Chemistry

CHEM 4961 - Supervised and Original Research in Chemistry

CHEM 4993 - Independent Study

CLAS 1559 - New Course in Classics

CLAS 2010 - Greek Civilization

CLAS 2020 - Roman Civilization

CLAS 2040 - Greek Mythology

CLAS 2559 - New Course in Classics

CLAS 3040 - Women and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome

CLAS 3100 - Age of Odysseus

CLAS 3110 - Age of Pericles

CLAS 3120 - Age of Alexander

CLAS 3130 - Age of Augustus

CLAS 3140 - Age of Augustine

CLAS 3150 - Ancient Epic and Popular Culture

CLAS 3210 - Tragedy and Comedy

CLAS 3250 - Ancient Greek Religion

CLAS 3300 - Introduction to Indo-european Linguistics

CLAS 3559 - New Course in Classics

CLAS 4559 - New Course in Classics

GREE 1010 - Elementary Greek

GREE 1020 - Elementary Greek

GREE 2010 - Intermediate Greek I

GREE 2020 - Intermediate Greek II

GREE 2230 - The New Testament I

GREE 2240 - The New Testament II

GREE 3010 - Advanced Reading in Greek

GREE 3020 - Advanced Reading in Greek

GREE 3030 - Advanced Reading in Greek

GREE 3040 - Advanced Reading in Greek

GREE 4993 - Independent Study

LATI 116 - Intensive Introductory Latin

LATI 126 - Intensive Introductory Latin

LATI 216 - Intensive Intermediate Latin

LATI 226 - Intensive Intermediate Latin

LATI 1010 - Elementary Latin I

LATI 1016 - Intensive Introductory Latin

LATI 1020 - Elementary Latin II

LATI 1026 - Intensive Introductory Latin

LATI 1030 - Fundamentals of Latin (Intensive)

LATI 1559 - New Course in Latin

LATI 2010 - Intermediate Latin I

LATI 2016 - Intensive Intermediate Latin

LATI 2020 - Intermediate Latin II

LATI 2026 - Intensive Intermediate Latin

LATI 2559 - New Course in Latin

LATI 3010 - Plautus

LATI 3020 - Catullus

LATI 3030 - Cicero

LATI 3040 - Prose Composition

LATI 3050 - The Satirical Writing of Petronius and Seneca

LATI 3070 - Livy

LATI 3080 - Horace

LATI 3090 - Introduction to Mediaeval Latin

LATI 3100 - Vergil

LATI 3110 - Ovid

LATI 3120 - Pliny’s Letters

LATI 3130 - Roman Satire

LATI 3150 - Sallust

LATI 3559 - New Course in Latin

LATI 4559 - New Course in Latin

LATI 4993 - Independent Study

COGS 3960 - Cognitive Science Research

COGS 4559 - New Course in Cognitive Science

COGS 4970 - Distinguished Major Thesis

COGS 4980 - Distinguished Major Thesis

CS 2220 - Engineering Software

CS 2330 - Digital Logic Design

CS 2501 - Special Topics in Computer Science

DANC 1400 - The Art of Dance

DANC 2210 - Ballet I

DANC 2220 - Modern I

DANC 2230 - Jazz Dance I

DANC 2300 - Dance Improvisation

DANC 2559 - New Course in Dance

DANC 3210 - Ballet II

DANC 3220 - Modern Dance II

DANC 3230 - Jazz Dance II

DANC 3300 - Dance Composition

DANC 3400 - Dance History

DANC 3610 - Contact Improvisation

DANC 3620 - Dance Repertory

DANC 3630 - Dance Theater

DANC 3640 - Dance for the Camera

DANC 3650 - Dance Production

DANC 4220 - Modern Dance III

DANC 4640 - Laban Movement Analysis

DANC 4993 - Independent Study: Dance

DRAM 1010 - Introduction to Theatre

DRAM 1020 - Oral Interpretation

DRAM 1559 - New Course in Drama

DRAM 2010 - Theatre Art: Image to Form

DRAM 2020 - Acting I

DRAM 2040 - The Alexander Technique for the Actor

DRAM 2070 - Public Speaking

DRAM 2080 - Circus in America

DRAM 2110 - Lighting Technology

DRAM 2130 - Production Laboratory: Lighting

DRAM 2210 - Scenic Technology

DRAM 2230 - Production Lab: Scenery and Props

DRAM 2231 - Production Lab: Run Crew

DRAM 2232 - Production Lab: Scene Painting

DRAM 2240 - Digital Design: Re-making and Re-imagining

DRAM 2250 - Scene Painting

DRAM 2303 - Figure Drawing: Foundations

DRAM 2310 - Costume Technology

DRAM 2330 - Production Laboratory: Costume and Makeup

DRAM 2430 - Production Laboratory: Acting

DRAM 2440 - Theatre at Sea: Rehearsal & Performance

DRAM 2559 - New Course in Drama

DRAM 2620 - Sound Design

DRAM 2630 - Production Laboratory: Sound

DRAM 2710 - Scriptwriting for Film and TV

DRAM 2800 - Television News Writing and Production

DRAM 2810 - Cinema as Art Form

DRAM 2820 - Television Texts, Scripting and Directing

DRAM 2920 - World Cinema

DRAM 3020 - Theatre Make-Up

DRAM 3040 - Musical Theatre History

DRAM 3050 - Theatre History

DRAM 3070 - African-American Theatre

DRAM 3080 - Script Analysis: Dramatic Structure and Theatrical Production

DRAM 3210 - Scene Design I

DRAM 3220 - Modern Dance II

DRAM 3300 - History of Dress

DRAM 3320 - The Fine Art of Dress 1: Conformity & Individuality

DRAM 3410 - Acting II

DRAM 3420 - Voice for Theatre

DRAM 3430 - Improvisation

DRAM 3440 - Movement for Theatre

DRAM 3450 - Musical Theatre Performance

DRAM 3490 - Acting Out

DRAM 3559 - New Course in Drama

DRAM 3600 - Modern American Drama

DRAM 3610 - Modern Drama

DRAM 3640 - Sound Design:studio

DRAM 3651 - Directing I

DRAM 3652 - Production Management

DRAM 3653 - Production Laboratory: Stage Management

DRAM 3701 - Special Topics in Dance

DRAM 3710 - Playwriting I

DRAM 3720 - Playwriting II

DRAM 3810 - Film Criticism

DRAM 3830 - History of Film I

DRAM 3840 - History of Film II

DRAM 3850 - History of Film III

DRAM 3870 - Contemporary Independent Film and Video

DRAM 4030 - Figure Drawing

DRAM 4110 - Lighting Design

DRAM 4310 - Costume Design

DRAM 4410 - Acting III

DRAM 4440 - Dance for Theatre

DRAM 4490 - Stage Combat Skills

DRAM 4559 - New Course in Drama

DRAM 4591 - Special Topics in Theatre Managment

DRAM 4592 - Special Studies in Drama

DRAM 4593 - Special Topics in Performance

DRAM 4594 - Special Topics in Movement

DRAM 4595 - Special Topics in Voice

DRAM 4596 - Special Topics in Directing

DRAM 4597 - Special Topics in Design

DRAM 4598 - Special Topics in Design Technology

DRAM 4599 - Special Topics in Playwriting

DRAM 4651 - Directing II

DRAM 4710 - Playwriting III

DRAM 4720 - Playwriting IV

DRAM 4730 - Advanced Playwriting

DRAM 4910 - Senior Seminar

CHIN 116 - Intensive Introductory Chinese

CHIN 126 - Intensive Introductory Chinese

CHIN 216 - Intensive Intermediate Chinese

CHIN 226 - Intensive Intermediate Chinese

CHIN 1010 - Elementary Chinese

CHIN 1016 - Intensive Introductory Chinese

CHIN 1020 - Elementary Chinese

CHIN 1026 - Intensive Introductory Chinese

CHIN 1060 - Accelerated Elementary Chinese

CHIN 1559 - New Course in Chinese

CHIN 2010 - Intermediate Chinese

CHIN 2016 - Intensive Intermediate Chinese

CHIN 2020 - Intermediate Chinese

CHIN 2026 - Intensive Intermediate Chinese

CHIN 2060 - Accelerated Intermediate Chinese

CHIN 2559 - New Course in Chinese

CHIN 3010 - Readings in Modern Chinese

CHIN 3015 - Language House Conversation

CHIN 3020 - Readings in Modern Chinese

CHIN 3025 - Language House Conversation

CHIN 3050 - Accelerated Readings in Modern Chinese Literature

CHIN 3460 - Chinese Culture and Society through Films

CHIN 3559 - New Course in Chinese

CHIN 4010 - Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese

CHIN 4020 - Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese

CHIN 4030 - Business Chinese

CHIN 4060 - Accelerated Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese

CHIN 4559 - New Course in Chinese

CHIN 4830 - Introduction to Classical Chinese Prose

CHIN 4840 - Introduction to Classical Chinese Poetry

CHIN 4993 - Independent Study in Chinese

CHTR 1559 - New Course in Chinese in Translation

CHTR 2559 - New Course in Chinese in Translation

CHTR 2800 - Chinese Calligraphy

CHTR 3010 - Survey of Traditional Chinese Literature

CHTR 3020 - Survey of Modern Chinese Literature

CHTR 3559 - New Course in Chinese in Translation

CHTR 3810 - Chinese Modernism

CHTR 3820 - The Modern Chinese Essay

CHTR 3830 - Modern Chinese Poetry

CHTR 3840 - Writing Women in Modern China

CHTR 3850 - Documentary Writing and Film in China

CHTR 4010 - Legendary Women in Early China

CHTR 4220 - Gender, Family, and Sexuality in Chinese Fiction

CHTR 4559 - New Course in Chinese in Translation

EALC 1559 - New Course in East Asian Literatures and Cultures

EALC 2559 - New Course in East Asian Languages and Cultures

EALC 3559 - New Course in East Asian Literatures and Cultures

EALC 4559 - New Course in East Asian Literatures and Cultures

EALC 4998 - Distinguished Majors Senior Thesis I

EALC 4999 - Distinguished Majors Senior Thesis II

EAST 1010 - East Asian Canons and Cultures

EAST 1310 - Chinese Culture and Society

EAST 1320 - Chinese Culture and Society

EAST 1559 - New Course in East Asian Studies

EAST 2630 - Chinese Culture and Social Change

EAST 3055 - Social Movements in Modern East Asia

EAST 3559 - New Course in East Asian Studies

EAST 4991 - East Asia Majors Seminar

EAST 4993 - Independent Study

EAST 4998 - Distinguished Majors Senior Thesis I

EAST 4999 - Distinguished Majors Senior Thesis

JAPN 1010 - First-Year Japanese

JAPN 1020 - First-Year Japanese

JAPN 1559 - New Course in Japanese

JAPN 2010 - Second-Year Japanese

JAPN 2020 - Second-Year Japanese

JAPN 2559 - New Course in Japanese

JAPN 3010 - Third-Year Japanese I

JAPN 3015 - Language House Conversation

JAPN 3020 - Third-Year Japanese II

JAPN 3025 - Language House Conversation

JAPN 3100 - Supplemental Reading in Japanese I

JAPN 3110 - Supplemental Reading in Japanese II

JAPN 3559 - New Course in Japanese

JAPN 4559 - New Course in Japanese

JAPN 4710 - Introduction to Literary Japanese (Bungo)

JAPN 4800 - Lost and Found in Translation

JAPN 4810 - Modern Literary Texts

JAPN 4820 - Mysteries, Detective Fiction and Business Novels

JAPN 4830 - Media Japanese

JAPN 4840 - Japan’s Two Nobel Laureates: Kawabate and Oe

JAPN 4850 - Readings in Politics and Economics

JAPN 4860 - Modern and Contemporary Japanese Poetry

JAPN 4870 - Reading Investigative Journalism

JAPN 4880 - Reading Banana Yoshimoto & Haruki Murakami

JAPN 4993 - Independent Study in Japanese

JPTR 2559 - New Course in Japanese in Translation

JPTR 2600 - Early Modern Japanese Literature

JPTR 3010 - Survey of Traditional Japanese Literature

JPTR 3020 - Survey of Modern Japanese Literature

JPTR 3100 - Ancient Japanese Literature: Myth, History, and Song

JPTR 3210 - The Tale of Genji

JPTR 3290 - Feminine Fictions in Japanese Court Literature

JPTR 3390 - Modern Women Writers Speak Their Minds

JPTR 3559 - New Course in Japanese in Translation

JPTR 3600 - Early Modern Japanese Literature

JPTR 3900 - Sleuthing Japan’s Culture and Society: Japanese Mysteries

JPTR 3910 - Kawabata and Oe: Japan’s Nobel Laureates

JPTR 3931 - A Cultural Understanding of U.S.-Japan Relations

ECON 1559 - New Course in Economics

ECON 2010 - Principles of Economics: Microeconomics

ECON 2020 - Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics

ECON 2050 - European Economic History

ECON 2060 - American Economic History

ECON 2559 - New Course in Economics

ECON 3010 - Intermediate Microeconomics

ECON 3020 - Intermediate Macroeconomics

ECON 3030 - Money and Banking

ECON 3040 - The Economics of Education

ECON 3050 - The Economics of Welfare Reform

ECON 3070 - Economics and Gender

ECON 3110 - Mathematical Microeconomics

ECON 3330 - Public Choice

ECON 3559 - New Course in Economics

ECON 3630 - Economics of the Middle East

ECON 3650 - Economy of China

ECON 3710 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis

ECON 3720 - Introduction to Econometrics

ECON 4010 - Game Theory

ECON 4020 - Auction Theory and Practice

ECON 4060 - Economics of Sports

ECON 4080 - Law and Economics

ECON 4090 - Mathematical Economics

ECON 4100 - Managerial Economics

ECON 4150 - Economics of Labor

ECON 4160 - Economics of Health

ECON 4170 - The Economics of Information and Uncertainty