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SANS 4010 - Classical Plays and Poetry
A close reading of theatrical and poetic works from the classical period of Sanskrit literature, approximately 150 BCE to 1200 CE.
Credits: 3
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SANS 4020 - Literary Theory
A close reading of texts in South Asia’s long history of literary theory. Texts readings include, but are not limited to, the Natyasastra, the Kavyalamkara of Bhamaha, the Kavyadarsa, the Kavyalamkara of Rudrata, the Sarasvatikanthabharana, the Kavyanusasana, the Kavyaprakasa, the Kavyalamakarasutravrtti, the Rasagangadhara, and the Dhvanyaloka.
Credits: 3
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SANS 4030 - Philosophical Texts I
A close reading of texts in these philosophical traditions of South Asia: Nyaya, Mimamsa, Vedanta, Sankhya, Yoga and Vaisesika.
Credits: 3
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SANS 4040 - Philosophical Texts II
A close reading of texts in these philosophical traditions of South Asia: Nyaya, Mimamsa, Vedanta, Sankhya, Yoga and Vaisesika.
Credits: 3
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SANS 4051 - Vedic Texts I
A close reading of Vedic texts. Readings may come from the four Samhita texts, the Brahmanas, or the Aranyakas.
Credits: 3
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SANS 4052 - Vedic Texts II
A close reading of Vedic texts. Readings may come from the four Samhita texts, the Brahmanas, or the Aranyakas.
Credits: 3
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SANS 4053 - Texts in the Science and Philosophy of Grammar I
A close reading of texts in the linguistic tradition of Panini. Text readings include, but are not limited to, the Mahabhasya, the Kasika, the Paribhasendusekhara, and the Siddhantakaumudi, each with its many commentaries.
Credits: 3
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SANS 4054 - Texts in the Science and Philosophy of Grammar II
A close reading of texts in the linguistic tradition of Panini. Text readings include, but are not limited to, the Mahabhasya, the Kasika, the Paribhasendusekhara, and the Siddhantakaumudi, each with its many commentaries.
Credits: 3
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SANS 4993 - Independent Study In Sanskrit
This course is meant to give students training in advanced Sanskrit
Credits: 1 to 3
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Science, Technology, and Society |
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STS 1499 - Introduction to Technical Communications for Non-Native Speakers
Instruction in communication for students whose first language is not English. Specialized instruction in academic/content area communication as well as personal expression in a variety of settings will enable students to complete academic programs in a more efficient and timely manner. After completion of this course, students must complete STS 1500 by the end of their first year of residency in SEAS. May be counted as an unrestricted elective.
Credits: 3
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STS 1500 - Science, Technology, and Contemporary Issues
This course introduces students to contemporary issues involving science, technology, and engineering as well as the core ideas of STS. Emphasis is on three ideas: a) engineering is a social endeavor; b) technology shapes and is shaped by society; and c) technologies are sociotechnical systems. The course also teaches writing and public speaking, skills needed in engineering.
Credits: 3
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STS 1800 - Business Fundamentals for Engineers
Explores key management & business concepts relevant to technology-dependent enterprises. Provides an overview of accounting & finance principles, operations, marketing, leadership, managerial decision-making & communications,& ethics. Engineering students should come away from this course with the knowledge & skills necessary to develop & direct technology in ways that add value to organizations. Count as an elective in the Eng. Business minor.
Credits: 3
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STS 2010 - Thomas Jefferson’s Interests in Science and Technology
Introduces Jefferson’s use of scientific thinking in his major accomplishments and efforts to influence public policy, agriculture, education, invention, architecture, and religion. Readings in his writings, class discussions, guest lectures and field visits to local centers of Jefferson research. Short papers, in-class presentations, and a research paper are required. Prerequisites: STS 1500 or equivalent
Credits: 3
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STS 2030 - Humans and Machines: Visions of Tyranny and Freedom in 19th- and 20th-Century Literature
Analysis of attitudes toward the problem of the machine and technological advances in modern civilization, as reflected in selected American and European writings and films. Discussions, oral presentations, papers, and a final exam. Prerequisite: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2060 - 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: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2070 - Utopias and the Technological Society
Lectures, readings, and discussions compare earlier and modern designs of the ideal society, stressing the relationship of their basic technologies to historical reality. Such writers as Plato, Thomas More, and Edward Bellamy are considered. Students give oral presentations, write short papers, and research technological utopias. Prerequisite: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2071 - American Power and Energies - A History of the United States
America today is a high-energy society. For over a century, the United States has also wielded vast economic, political, and military power. How do energy sources relate to social, corporate, or political power? This course examines that question across the history of the United States. It draws from political, business, technological, and environmental history to chart the growth, effects, and limits of power in its varied forms. Prerequisites: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2080 - History of Flight
Explores the development of flight from the earliest historical records of peoples’ interest in flying through the achievements of the space age. Emphasizes the social and cultural impacts of flight, advances in technology, and the significance of the contribution of individuals. Guest lectures, film showings, visits to aviation museums, and student reports and projects supplement regular classroom lecture and discussion. Prerequisite: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2090 - The History of Space Flight
Explores the history of space flight, from peoples’ earliest interest in rockets through the most recent developments in aerospace technology. Examines the contributions of various scientists, engineers, and inventors to space travel; the major eras of aerospace history and the impacts of U.S. and international space programs on society. Prerequisite: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2100 - Technology and Social Change in 19th-Century America
A study of the impacts of nineteenth-century American industrial development on the community, the worker, and engineering. Students make oral and written presentations, write short papers, and a research paper. Prerequisite: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2120 - Religion and Technology
A historical examination of the role of religion in the early development of technology; technology as a secular substitute for religion; and religious critiques of contemporary technological society. Equal time is spent on lectures, student-led discussions of the readings, and student oral presentations. Short papers and a major research project on a particular denomination’s or congregation’s attitudes toward technology-related issues. Prerequisite: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2201 - Technology in World History
Surveys how cultures have developed technology from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century. Includes both western and non-western cultures and explores how different cultures have used technology to produce economic abundance, social order, and cultural meaning. No technical or scientific expertise required. Prerequisite: STS 1500 or an equivalent STS course
Credits: 3
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STS 2500 - Science and Technology in Social and Global Context
This course invites students to explore the implications of STS core concepts within a specific topical or disciplinary area, drawing out the implications of STS 1500 in depth. The course explores the social and global context of engineering, science and technology. Although writing and speaking skills are emphasized, more attention is given to course content and the students’ analytical abilities. Prerequisites: STS 1500 or an equivalent STS course.
Credits: 3
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STS 2570 - Special Topics in Engineering Business
This course will cover various topics in engineering business.
Credits: 3
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STS 2580 - Special Topics for Engineering Entrepreneurship
This course will cover various topics in engineering entrepreneurship.
Credits: 3
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STS 2620 - Science and Technology Public Policy
Examines the development of public policies aimed at promoting and regulating science and technology. Topics include historical evolution of the federal government’s involvement in science policy; the players, organizations, and agencies who make science policy; the reasons the government funds the research it does; how science and technology is regulated by the government. Prerequisites: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2720 - Marketing for Engineers
This course will provide engineers with an introduction to all facets of marketing, including creating compelling brands, working with media, and the role of product marketing. Students will also learn how the principles of marketing are applied in a variety of roles, such as personal brands in consulting and products within large companies.
Credits: 3
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STS 2730 - Engineers & the Art of the Deal
This course will not only teach the key components of doing a transaction but also the skills necessary to negotiate effectively. The class will be interactive . Various case studies involving technology transactions will be analyzed and discussed. A reasonable amount of assigned reading and project work will be required.
Credits: 3
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STS 2740 - Earth Systems Technology and Management
Introduces students to earth systems technology and management, and related concepts such as industrial ecology (the objective, multidisciplinary study of industrial and economic systems and their linkages with fundamental natural systems). The requirements of this course include regular and prepared participation in class and discussions, two semester projects, homework as assigned, and substantial reading and analysis of case studies and articles. Additionally, students will become familiar with design methodologies, and apply those methodologies to case studies as part of a class project. Prerequisite: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2750 - Engineers as Consultants
This course will challenge students to take the role of engineering consultants. Students will learn skills pertinent to the end-to-end process of client side interactions, as well as survey project management theories and learn how to co-develop a project in an efficient and ethical manner. Experiential learning will be emphasized, and heavy student participation will be expected.
Credits: 3
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STS 2760 - Technology and Policy: Where Intent Meets Process
In this course, we will explore four case studies illustrative of the potential disharmony between intent and process. In each case, the action is a public policy initiative with scientific or technological dimensions, where good intentions either led to unwelcome collateral consequences, or the process of implementation failed to fulfill the intent of the policy.
Credits: 3
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STS 2781 - Making the Machine Age: Technology in American Society, 1890-1990
Social history of American technology in the twentieth century. Primarily concerned with the interplay between society and technology. Historical perspectives on the causes of technological change and the ways in which technologies extend or upset centers of social power and influence. Prerequisites: STS 1500 or equivalent
Credits: 3
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STS 2810 - Introduction to Technology Entrepreneurship
This course explores how engineers can be seen as entrepreneurs in the sense that engineering often involves coordinating diverse resources (technology, knowledge, capital, and labor) in order to fulfill human needs and wishes. It examines different concepts of entrepreneurship and reviews cases of engineer-entrepreneurs. Students give several presentations and work in teams to develop a new product through a patent application and business.
Credits: 3
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STS 2820 - Presentation Strategies for Entrepreneurs
This course provides real world, hands-on learning on how to start a company. Students will work in teams learning how to turn a great idea into a great company and how to present your concept to investors.
Credits: 3
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STS 2830 - Startup Operations for Entrepreneurs
This class will teach you how to execute your idea into a viable business. Learn how to run a business within the context of its day-to-day operations and move forward to make a profit from the business. Learn about employee relations, legal issues, purchasing, developing for scalability, operations, financial reporting, and much more.
Credits: 3
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STS 2840 - Entrepreneurial Finance
Entrepreneurial Finance will introduce finance concepts for those interested in small biz startups. Through readings, cases and guest speakers, we will review several industries, from low tech to small business manufacturing to high tech. We will explore different ways small businesses are financed and the theory and practice behind those decisions. Class participation and a entrepreneurial project will be an important part of the class.
Credits: 3
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STS 2850 - Government and Entrepreneurship
The course explores government contracting, how the government procures products and services, and opportunities created through government regulation.
Credits: 3
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STS 2860 - Intellectual Property, Engineering, and Society
Introduces the fundamentals and history of U.S. copyright and patent law and examines its impact on technological innovation, technological creativity, business strategy, public welfare in the U.S. and developing nations, and global competitiveness. Prerequisites: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2870 - Scientific and Technological Thinking
Explores the ways scientists and inventors think, using concepts, theories, and methods borrowed from several disciplines, but focusing especially on psychology. Topics include experimental simulations of scientific reasoning, a cognitive framework for understanding creativity, and modeling discovery on a computer. Students read and discuss articles and conduct a short research project. Prerequisite: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2880 - Invention and Design
Investigates the way technology is created and improved. Offers a collaborative learning environment in which multi-disciplinary teams invent and design several modules that emulate problems, such as the invention of the telephone or the design of an expert system. Includes readings from psychology, history, computing, ethics, and engineering. Students keep design notebooks, present team project results, and write an integrative paper. Prerequisite: STS 1500 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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STS 2890 - The Entrepreneur in History
This class will investigate the material development of human societies across history, inquiring into the role entrepreneurs played in creating new wealth. We will also apply lessons of history to developing your entrepreneurial skills. We will introduce a set of business tools called the Business Model Canvas (BMC) and apply these tools to historical examples. Working in groups, you will develop a new business or product for presentation.
Credits: 3
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STS 2993 - Independent Study: Technology and Society
Special tutorial with a topic declared in advance. Limited to undergraduate SEAS students with third- or fourth-year standing. Not to substitute for STS 4500, 4600. The topic, work plan, and conditions are arranged by contract between instructor and student and approved by the department chair, with a copy to be filed in the department office. Prerequisites: STS 1500 or equivalent, a 2000-level STS course.
Credits: 1 to 3
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STS 3020 - Science and Technology Policy for Interns
This Socratic course prepares undergrads for internships in science, engineering and technology (SET) in Washington, DC. A core objective is to increase knowledge, oral and written skills for assessing SET and their impacts on public policy. Engineering students accepted into the SEAS Policy Internship Program in Science and Technology must take the course. Students from Batten School, the College and other schools are also welcome to enroll.
Credits: 3
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STS 3110 - Societal Dimensions of Nanotechnology
Students will explore the societal dimensions of a new technology through a combination of readings and discussions and a simulation of nanotechnology policy. Students should have an interest in the management of nanotechnology and other emerging technologies, including how these technologies might transform our ways of living and even ourselves.
Credits: 3
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STS 3500 - Advanced Topics in Technology and Society
Specific topics vary. Advanced level examination of the relationships among science, technology and society. Fullfills STS 2000-level requirement. Prerequisite: STS 1500
Credits: 1 to 4
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STS 4500 - STS and Engineering Practice
This course engages students with the idea that success in posing and solving engineering problems requires attention to the social dimensions of professional endeavors and practice. STS theories and methods are applied to student thesis projects. Students produce a prospectus for the senior thesis project. Students must be in residence to take this course. Students are not permitted to take STS 4500 and STS 4600 simultaneously.
Prerequisites: STS 2000 or STS 3000 level course.
Credits: 3
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STS 4600 - The Engineer, Ethics, and Professional Responsibility
This course focuses on ethical issues in engineering. The key theme is that ethics is central to engineering practice. The professional responsibilities of engineers are examined. Students produce an STS Research paper linked to their technical thesis project and complete all of the requirements for the senior thesis. Students must be in residence to take this course. Students are not permitted to take STS 4500 and STS 4600 simultaneously. Prerequisites: STS 4500.
Credits: 3
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STS 4810 - New Product Development
Provides overview of business considerations required to commercialize new products. Included is an understanding of the business structure, processes, vocabulary, product lifecycle, organizational capabilities and financial/analytical tools, as well as the challenge of leadership in meeting diverse expectations of internal and external stakeholders. Taught with lectures, case studies and experiential projects.
Prerequisites: Business Minor & Fourth year standing.
Credits: 3
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STS 4993 - Open Science
Students in this independent study work with the Center for Open Science learning how to develop tools that scaffold sharing in science, and considering the broader implications of the Center and its work. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Credits: 1 to 3
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SRBC 1210 - Introduction to Serbian or Croatian Language
Introduces students to the essentials of Serbian or Croatian grammar with emphasis on speaking and reading. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; some knowledge of Russian recommended.
Credits: 3
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SRBC 1220 - Introduction to Serbian or Croatian Language
Introduces students to the essentials of Serbian or Croatian grammar with emphasis on speaking and reading. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; some knowledge of Russian recommended.
Credits: 3
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SLAV 1700 - Liberal Arts Seminar
Seminar on selected topics in the field of Slavic studies designed primarily for first- and second-year students. Recent topics have included ‘the arts in revolution,’ ‘war and peace,’ and ‘poetry writing: American and Russian perspectives’.
Credits: 1 to 3
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SLAV 1710 - Liberal Arts Seminar
Seminar on selected topics in the field of Slavic studies designed primarily for first- and second-year students. Recent topics have included ‘the arts in revolution,’ ‘war and peace,’ and ‘poetry writing: American and Russian perspectives’.
Credits: 1 to 3
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SLAV 2150 - Magic and Meaning
Magic is the ineffable between categories. It is what we seek to understand and to control. It is also what we fear. In many senses, it is the essence of folklore. This course will examine the nature and the use of magic, both positive and negative, it will look at magic acts and magic people.
Credits: 3
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SLAV 2250 - The Dark Side of the 20th Century: Between Auschwitz & Gulag
The twentieth century was a period of humanity’s unprecedented progress as well as its greatest recorded downfall into barbarity, genocide, and mass oppression. This course enables students to study and reflect on the latter. Some questions will be asked in the course: How do we construct cultural memories of traumatic experiences? Why do we want to remember them? Do we?
Credits: 3
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SLAV 2360 - Dracula
An introduction to Slavic folklore with special emphasis on the origins and subsequent manifestations of vampirism. Western perceptions, misperceptions, and adaptations of Slavic culture are explored and explicated. The approach is interdisciplinary: folklore, history, literature, religion, film, disease and a variety of other topics.
Credits: 3
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SLAV 2500 - Topics in Slavic Literature and Culture
Could include Polish, Czech, or Slovak fiction, poetry, drama, or culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Credits: 3
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SLAV 3220 - The Spy in Eastern Europe
The course will begin with a look at the root differences between Eastern Europe and the West followed by a brief sketch of their interface during the 20th century. Then, centering on case studies, which will serve as the basis of class discussion, the role of espionage both in reality and in perception in the process of information transfer during the Cold War will be studied. The cases will draw on CIA/KGB archival material, spies’ memoirs, the press, fiction, and film. Group projects will center on technology and techniques of cryptography, covert operation, surveillance, and overt information gathering. Prerequisite: Knowledge of 20th century European history and permission of the instructor. Note: The following courses all require a reading knowledge of Russian, unless otherwise stated.
Credits: 3
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SLAV 3500 - Topics in Slavic Language & Literature
Selected Topics in Slavic Language and Literature.
Credits: 1 to 3
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SLAV 4500 - Topics in Slavic Literature and Culture
Could include Polish, Czech, or Slovak fiction, poetry, drama, or culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Credits: 3
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SLFK 2010 - Introduction to Slavic Folklore
Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Surveys Russian and Ukrainian oral folklore, including folktales, legends, incantations, laments, epics, and other songs. Discusses theories and functions of oral folklore and compares and contrasts Russian and Ukrainian genres with their American counterparts. Focuses on cultural beliefs and attitudes expressed in oral folklore in Russia, Ukraine, and America.
Credits: 3
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SLFK 2030 - Terror and Taboo in Russian Childlore
Children are exposed frequently to sex, violence, and other questionable material in such genres as lullabies, folk tales, jokes, rhymes, and ghost stories. Through application of contemporary folklore and psychological theories, students examine Russian and American children’s folklore to determine their functions in socialization. Focuses on comparison of patterns of cultural identity to identity construction.
Credits: 3
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SLFK 2040 - Story and Healing
Explores the concept of healing from a variety of different perspectives including healing of the self, community, and nation. Examines how myth, epic, fairy tales, and other genres provide a means to reach such healing, or how they may describe or depict the process of healing. Emphasizes the folk literature of Russians, Ukrainians, and the indigenous tribes of Siberia, considering oral traditions of other cultures as a point of comparison.
Credits: 4
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SLFK 2110 - Tale and Legend
Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the folktale traditions of the Eastern Slavs, primarily the Russians and the Ukrainians. Covers theories of folk prose narrative and discusses the relationship between folktales and society, and folktales and child development. Topics include related prose narrative forms, such as legend, and related forms of child socialization, such as folk children’s games.
Credits: 3
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SLFK 2120 - Ritual and Family Life
Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the rituals of birth, marriage, and death as practiced in 19th-century peasant Russia and in Russia today and the oral literature associated with these rituals. Topics include family patterns, child socialization and child rearing practices, gender issues, and problems of the elderly in their 19th century and current manifestations.
Credits: 3
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SLFK 2130 - Magic Acts
Because associative thinking is often done outside of awareness, this course seeks to make it conscious by looking at magic practices in cultures different from our own. Specifically, students will examine east Slavic (Russian and Ukrainian) magic in its various forms. They will then look at phenomena closer to our own culture. Experimentation is part of this course. Its purpose will not be to ascertain whether magic ‘works.’ It will try to determine, and then describe, how associative thinking works and how people feel when they use this type of thinking.
Credits: 3
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SLFK 2140 - Ritual and Demonology
Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies Russian and Ukrainian folk belief as it manifests itself in daily life. Examines how Russian and Ukrainian peasants lived in the 19th century, and how this effects both living patterns and attitudes today. Includes farming techniques, house and clothing types, and food beliefs. Covers the agrarian calendar and its rituals such as Christmas and Easter, the manipulation of ritual in the Soviet era, and the resurgence of ritual today. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/slavic/courses.html.
Credits: 3
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SLFK 4993 - Independent Study in Slavic Folklore
For students wishing to pursue independent reading and research in Russian folklore or the folklore of other Slavic cultures. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 3
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SLTR 2000 - Eastern Europe through Literature and Film
This course examines a series of Eastern European literary works and films as insights into cultural responses to major historical and intellectual challenges in Eastern Europe from the outbreak of World War II to the present. The course will also explore the role of cultural media (literature and film) in motivating and mythologizing historical events in Eastern Europe. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/slavic/courses.html.
Credits: 3
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SLTR 2993 - Independent Study in East European Literature in Translation
Examines a series of Eastern European literary works and films as insights into cultural responses to major historical and intellectual challenges in Eastern Europe from the outbreak of World War II to the present. Explores the role of cultural media in motivating and mythologizing historical events in Eastern Europe. (IRY)
Credits: 1 to 6
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SLTR 3200 - Poland: History and Culture
This course takes students through more than 1000 years of Poland’s history and culture. Explorations of literature, art, film, and music, as well as key historic events and biographies, will provide students with unique insight in the main sources of Polish identity, its central values, challenges, myths, symbols, and preoccupations in a larger European context. All materials in English.
Credits: 3
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SLTR 3300 - Facing Evil in the Twentieth Century: Humanity in Extremis
The 20th century will most likely remain one of the most puzzling periods in human history, in which amazing progress was coupled with unprecedented barbarity of modern totalitarian regimes. The course helps students untangle this paradox by exploring a series of memoirs by survivors and perpetrators, as well as scholarly essays, films, and other cultural statements.
Credits: 3
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SLTR 3500 - Topics in Slavic in Translation
Could Include Polish, Czech, or Slovak fiction, poetry, drama, or culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Credits: 3
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SLTR 4200 - Robots and Rebels in Czech Literature and Culture
An investigation of classics of modern Czech fiction and film. Some of the great works include Hasek (The Good Soldier Svejk), Nemcova (The Grandmother), Capek (the inventor of the word “robot”), Seifert’s Nobel-winning poetry, Lustig (Children of the Holocaust), Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Havel (The Power of the Powerless; The Garden Party), as well as great films like “Closely Watched Trains” and “Firemen’s Ball.”
Credits: 3
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SOC 1010 - Introductory Sociology
Studies the fundamental concepts and principles of sociology with special attention to sociological theory and research methods. Survey of the diverse substantive fields in the discipline with a primary emphasis on the institutions in contemporary American society.
Credits: 3
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SOC 1595 - Special Topics in Social Issues
Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.
Credits: 3
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SOC 1596 - Special Topics in Social Issues
Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2000 - Gender, Technology, & Education
Gender, Technology, & Education
Credits: 3
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SOC 2052 - Sociology of the Family
Comparison of family organizations in relation to other social institutions in various societies; an introduction to the theory of kinship and marriage systems.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2055 - Law and Society
Studies the relationship between society and criminal and civil law. Focuses on the relationship between socio-economic status and access to the legal system, including the areas of education, employment, consumer protection, and environmental concerns.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2056 - The Sociology of Culture
Examines the role of meaning in social life, with a focus on how different theories of culture allow analysis of the relationship of culture to exchange, authority, solidarity, and domination. Analysis of key cultural artefacts (movies, texts, monuments, etc.) is combined with the study of theories of social performance, fields of cultural production, and semiosis. The role of culture in social transformation is also considered.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2220 - Social Problems
Analyzes the causes and consequences of current social problems in the United States: race and ethnic relations, poverty, crime and delinquency, the environment, drugs, and problems of educational institutions.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2230 - Criminology
Studies socio-cultural conditions effecting the definition, recording, and treatment of delinquency and crime. Examines theories of deviant behavior, the role of the police, judicial and corrective systems, and the victim in criminal behavior.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2241 - Crime and Punishment in Britain and the United States
This course is organized around two main themes: understanding the causes of crime and how societies respond to it. All topics are approached from sociological, philosophical, historical and empirical perspectives, with the aim that students will gain an analytically sophisticated understanding of some of the key contemporary issues in criminology and penology on both sides of the Atlantic.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2260 - Sociology of Sport
Sociology of Sport
Credits: 3
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SOC 2320 - Gender and Society
Gender and Society
Credits: 3
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SOC 2380 - Violence & Gender
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to interrogating links between gender and violence. We will focus on representations of violence and theories of subjectivity in response to violence, querying how gender inflects the event and aftermath of violence.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2442 - Systems of Inequality
This course will examine various types of inequality (race, class, gender) in the US and abroad. We will discuss sociological theories covering various dimensions of inequality, considering key research findings and their implications. We will examine to what extent ascriptive characteristics impact a person’s life chances, how social structures are produced and reproduced, and how individuals are able or unable to negotiate these structures.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2470 - American Society and Popular Culture
This course is an early level course, which aims to introduce students to a sociological perspective on popular culture, and to examine the working of selected sociological concepts in several examples of popular culture. A familiarity with introductory level sociology is suggested, but not required. The course has two parts. In the first we will become acquainted with sociological perspectives and theories on culture; in the second we will look at several popular novels and movies and discuss how they might be interpreted sociologically.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2498 - Prozac Culture
The pharmacological revolution, symbolized by drugs such as Prozac and Ritalin, is a cultural as well as a medical phenomenon. The course explores the history of the revolution and the confluence of social changes driving it forward. Also considered are its implications for self, the definition of psychic distress, and the norms and values that structure how we live.
J-term courses require approval for SOC major/minor credit.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2499 - Globalization and Social Responsibility
“Think globally, act locally,” is a popular slogan that invites critical reflection on, and active engagement with, both the theoretical and empirical realities of globalization. Through lectures, readings, and individual research, this class will consider both the scholarly and the practical implications this maxim raises for local communities and citizenship in the face of global change. Jterm courses require approval for SOC major/minor credit
Credits: 3
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SOC 2500 - Special Topics in Sociology (J Term Course)
Topics vary each J-Term session and will be announced.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2520 - Topics in Death & Dying
This course covers sociological approaches to death and dying. Topics include social theory and theorists as they relate to death, American culture history, and contemporary issues regarding death and dying.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2595 - Special Topics in Sociology
Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2596 - Special Topics in Sociology
Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2630 - Environment & Society
This course is an introduction to the topic of environmental sociology. Our central focus will be the relationship between human society and the natural world, with particular attention to axes of social location, such as race, class, and where people live. We will consider these distinctions in understanding how people are differently affected by, imagine, or influence the natural world.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2701 - Health and Welfare in Britain and America: Policy and Practice
This course has two aims: to examine key themes in the sociology of health and illness through an exploration of the delivery of health-care in Britain and the United States; and to discuss some of the major global debates in the political economy of health. The course will cover health and health systems, health inequalities, and contemporary issues in the political economy of health.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2730 - Computers and Society
Studies the impact of electronic data processing technologies on social structure, and the social constraints on the development and application of these technologies. Review of how computers are changing ‘and failing to change’ fundamental institutions. Provides an understanding of computers in the context of societal needs, organizational imperatives, and human values.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2790 - Sociology of American Business
Studies the internal workings of business institutions, especially the modern American corporation, and their relationships to other social institutions. Topics include managerial control over corporate decisions; the determinants of individual success within business; the effect of business policies on family life; the political power of the business sector; and a comparison of Japanese and American business organizations.
Credits: 3
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SOC 2900 - Economy & Society
Markets, firms, and money are part of everyday experience. Economists insist that they should work similarly independently of their social context. The central idea of economic sociology is that economic institutions are ‘embedded’ in social relations. We will study what embeddeness means, and what it implies. We look at how institutions constitute markets; how rationality varies; and how money interacts with social relations in unexpected ways.
Credits: 3
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