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CASS 1010 - College Art Scholars Seminar

CASS 1010 is a required seminar class for first-year Art Scholars. Faculty from Music, Studio Art, Drama, and Dance, second through fourth-year Art Scholars, and others will share aspects of their personal research, thoughts about Arts at the University, practical applications of an Art Major after college, etc. Our cohort will also visit the Science Scholar cohort at least once during the semester to exchange ideas. Requisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 1

CASS 1011 - College Arts Scholars Discussion

CASS 1011 is a discussion course for programmatic development, sharing ideas, and mentoring for first through fourth year Arts Scholars Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 1

CCSC 2000 - Responsible Citizenship in a Technological Democracy

The U.S. is the most advanced technological society in the world and many of its most critical public policy issues reflect that. Unfortunately, many citizens do not understand enough science and engineering to discuss such issues in an informed manner. This course aims to correct that by supplying the concepts and mental tools needed to think about the technological dimensions of policy issues. No math or science prerequisites.

Credits: 3

CCSC 2020 - Food for Thought

In this course we will examine man’s quest to meet his basic nutritional and dietary needs and the issues facing mankind as it tries to meet the nutritional and dietary needs of an expanding world population. Integrating scientific, socio-economic and anthropological writings, we will pursue four major themes: the human diet and what limits the acquisition of nutrients and other compounds in our food supply that are necessary for growth and development; historical and contemporary views of how society deals with providing stable sources of food and nutrition to individuals and populations; how scientists are trying to improve nutrition and human health through genetic engineering; and the socio-economic and political factors that affect food production and distribution on a local, regional, and global basis.

Credits: 3

COLA 1500 - College Advising Seminars

COLA courses are 1-credit seminars capped at 18 first-year students, all of whom are assigned to the instructor as advisees. They are topically focused on an area identified by the faculty member; they also include a significant advising component centered on undergraduate issues (e.g., choosing a major, study abroad opportunities, undergraduate research, etc.). For detailed descriptions see http://college.as.virginia.edu/COLA

Credits: 1

EGMT 1510 - Aesthetic Engagement

In this class students will learn to identify, describe, and analyze aesthetic phenomena, understand the social role and ongoing evolution of human creative expression, and develop their own approach to creative expression.

Credits: 2

EGMT 1520 - Empirical & Scientific Engagement

In this class students will learn to analyze claims about the material and social worlds through formulation and testing of new questions and hypotheses based on observation and experience.

Credits: 2

EGMT 1530 - Engaging Difference

In this class, students will learn to critically reflect on one’s own situation and perspective in relations to one’s expanding knowledge of other human experiences, seeking to cultivate a framework for informed reflection on human diversity and social complexity while developing empathy as a foundation for democratic citizenship.

Credits: 2

EGMT 1540 - Ethical Engagement

In this class students will learn to reflect upon and evaluate human conduct and character, consider the ethical components of individual and collective behaviors, and engage in the articulation of ethical questions and moral deliberation.

Credits: 2

EGMT 2500 - Integration and Learning in the Engagements

This course will take second year students into a deeper dive into the Engagements, both in exposure to new ideas and through practice. The course will also provide pedagogical strategies for serving as UTAs. Goals include teaching students how to effectively lead discussions, formulate open but focused questions, & help first year Engagement students make connections. Students must have completed EGMT 1510,1520,1530&1540.

Credits: 2

ELA 1500 - Engaging the Liberal Arts: The First Year

Courses designed for first-year students that will help them adjust and adapt to college and learn about the many resources and opportunities available to them as they pursue their liberal arts degree.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

ELA 2110 - Academic Realities and Strategies for Success

Academic Realities & Strategies for Success is a 1-credit, graded course that introduces students who have struggled academically in the previous semester to effective study strategies, University resources & life skills that support student success. Class covers a range of content relevant to academic performance, including time & stress management, critical thinking skills, & life strategies for achieving success in the college environment.

Credits: 1

ELA 2500 - Engaging the Liberal Arts: The Second Year

Courses designed for second-year students that will help them adjust and adapt to college and learn about the many resources and opportunities available to them as they pursue their liberal arts degree.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

ELA 2600 - Collect, Select, Reflect

Transcripts and resumes in the 21st century have to be more than documentation on paper. This is not only because computers have become ubiquitous, but also because digital technology allows us to represent who we are to others and to ourselves in more multi-dimensional ways than print can. In this class you will assemble three e-portfolios. Together students will view, critique, and give feedback to each other’s work.

Credits: 1

ELA 2610 - Liberal Arts and the Health Professions

Students explore how insights from various disciplines inform their understanding of healthcare. Guest lectures and informational interviews connect students with healthcare professionals to gain a better understanding of the various health professions and to assess their own career goals. Students develop skills in interdisciplinary research and problem solving, in oral and written communication, and the integration of diverse perspectives.

Credits: 1

ELA 2890 - Strategies for Academic Achievement

This course introduces strategies that will enable students to be effective learners. These tools include methods for learning, planning, and critical thinking. Specific topics include: methods for time management, prioritization, note-taking, test preparation, habit formation, assessment of arguments and data, productive approaches to challenges, and utilization of University resources.

Credits: 3

ELA 2910 - Academic Adulting: Skills for Critical Reading and Thinking

Academic Adulting: Skills for Critical Reading and Thinking is a course that assists students attain their academic goals at the University of Virginia. The class addresses strategies for dealing with lengthy and complex readings, the analytical and evaluative skills of scholarship, time and stress management techniques, and individually targeted strategies for academic achievement.

Credits: 3

ELA 3300 - Designing Your Professional Summer Experience

This course supports students in securing and preparing for a professional summer internship through career exploration, self-assessment, skill development, & search strategies. Students connect the skills & competencies to a liberal arts education with the core proficiencies sought by employers. Students utilize the Career Center resources including counseling & Virginia Alumni Mentoring.

Credits: 1

ELA 3500 - Engaging the Liberal Arts: The Third Year

Courses designed for mostly third-year students that will help them adjust and adapt to college and learn about the many resources and opportunities available to them as they pursue their liberal arts degree. Some topics may focus on career exploration.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

ELA 4500 - Engaging the Liberal Arts: The Fourth Year

Courses designed for fourth-year students that will help them adjust and adapt to college and learn about the many resources and opportunities available to them as they pursue their liberal arts degree.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

ESL 886 - Listening and Speaking I

This course focuses on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and key communication functions to help students develop their listening and speaking skills. Open to intermediate students.

Credits: 0

ESL 887 - Listening and Speaking II

This course focuses on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and key communication functions to help students develop their listening and speaking skills. Open to high intermediate/low advanced students.

Credits: 0

ESL 896 - Reading and Writing II

This course focuses on vocabulary, structures, reading strategies, and writing tasks to help students develop their reading and writing skills. Open to intermediate students.

Credits: o

ESL 897 - Reading and Writing II

This course focuses on vocabulary, structures, reading strategies, and writing tasks to help students develop their reading and writing skills. Open to high intermediate/low advanced students.

Credits: 0

ESL 2915 - English for Academic Purposes (EAP)

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is an intensive language and culture course, for nonnative speakers of English who have been admitted to an undergraduate or graduate degree program at the University of Virginia or who are prospective UVA research associates or visiting scholars. Participants fine-tune the language skills required for success in US higher education through exercises in writing, reading, oral communication and pronunciation.

Credits: 6

ESL 3010 - ESL - Classroom Communication - Undergraduate

Students whose first language is one other than English develop advanced aural/oral communication skills required for success at a U.S. university. Topics include classroom discussion, oral presentation, and group participation sills. Academic vocabulary, reading strategies, and writing strategies that facilitate participation in academic discourse are also addressed.

Credits: 2

FORU 1500 - Introduction to the Forums

This course will introduce first-year students to their forum topic. Students should enroll in the section associated with the forum to which they were accepted. (See http://college.as.virginia.edu/forums for information on the forums.)

Credits: 3

FORU 1510 - Continuing the Forum

This course follows the first-semester introductory forum class and keeps students engaged in the content of their forum. Students should enroll in the section associated with the forum to which they were accepted. (See http://college.as.virginia.edu/forums for information on the forums.)

Credits: 1

FORU 2500 - Forum Capstone Experience

This course is the capstone course for forum students. It is to be taken in the fourth semester by forum students only. Students should enroll in the section associated with the forum to which they were accepted. (See http://college.as.virginia.edu/forums for information on the forums).

Credits: 3

GDS 1100 - Useful Knowledge in the Local & Global Community

This interdisciplinary course introduces students to the theory, practice, and ethics of socially engaged scholarship at UVA.

Credits: 3

GDS 2020 - Global Culture, Commerce, and Travel

This introductory social science course develops a cultural understanding of global commerce and travel. We begin with the anthropological notion of cultures and languages as keys to human diversity. We then look at some of the ways different cultures are connected today through international business, including the business of travel.

Credits: 3

GDS 2100 - Developing Community-Based Projects

This course is designed to provide students with the theory, methods, and competencies needed to develop meaningful community-based scholarly projects. One class each week will be devoted to topic areas and readings meant to prepare students to design and implement community-based projects. The second class each week will be workshop based and geared towards developing project teams and working on project proposals.

Credits: 3

GDS 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

GDS 3010 - Global Development, Theories and Case Studies, Part One

Theoretical approaches to global development from anthropology, economics, environmental sciences, history, politics, and sociology, and analysis of selected case studies. Prerequisite: the student must be a GDS major in order to enroll. Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

GDS 3020 - Global Development, Theories and Case Studies, Part Two

Theoretical approaches to global development from anthropology, economics, environmental sciences, history, politics, and sociology, and analysis of selected case studies. This is the second course in a two-semester sequence. Prerequisite: GDS 3010 AND the student must be a GDS major in order to enroll. Instructor Permission.

Credits: 3

GDS 3050 - Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship is an approach to creating system-level change through the application of entrepreneurial thinking to social ventures, non-profit organizations, government institutions, and NGOs to create economic, environmental, and social value for multiple stakeholders. Students will survey a range of social-entrepreneurial approaches from the non-profit to the for-profit.

Credits: 3

GDS 3100 - Development on the Ground

Examines the protocols of planning for and conducting development projects and the research associated with them both locally and internationally. Special attention to the ethical obligations inherent in development work and the dynamics of collaborating with local communities. Prerequisite: Instructor permission AND the student must be a GDS major in order to enroll.

Credits: 3

GDS 3110 - Engaged Learning for Global/Local Development

Students are required to enroll in both semesters of this year-long course. The spring semester of this course on engaged learning in global/local development is designed to support students who are already working with non-university colleagues. We continue reading in the theory and practice of community engagement, trouble shoot community-based activities, and begin evaluating student learning and our impacts on those with whom we are working.

Credits: 3

GDS 3111 - Technology and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Global History

An interdisciplinary, historical exploration of the globalization of sociotechnical systems over the past 500 years. How have various cultures responded to imported technologies and the organizations and values that accompany them? What can this teach us about our own “technological ideology” today?

Credits: 3

GDS 3112 - Ecology and Globalization in the Age of European Expansion

Grounded in the field of environmental history, this course examines the ways in which enviornmental changes and perceptions of nature have interacted with socio-economic structures and processes associated with the expansion of Europe since the 15th century.

Credits: 3

GDS 3113 - A Buddhist Approach to Development

The proposed course has the same description as above but will include an additional hour for group meditation, film presentations, anonymous journal discussion, and final project planning.

Credits: 4

GDS 3114 - Science, Technology and Development

This course will survey the history of scientific and technical interventions in development, as well as examine the factors that shape the outcomes of contemporary practices. We will look at science and technology in two broad areas in which UVA has considerable expertise: the built environment and public health.

Credits: 3

GDS 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

GDS 3820 - Global Ethics & Climate Change

This seminar takes up questions of responsibility and fairness posed by climate change as ways into a search for shared ground across moral traditions. It investigates the ethical dimensions of climate change as a way to consider broad frameworks for developing responsibilities across national, cultural, and religious borders.

Credits: 3

GDS 4510 - State, Society, & Development

This seminar offers an examination of the state, civil society, and citizens, focusing on the ways in which these actors and institutions interact to shape economic, human, and political development. The course introduces theories of the state, civil society, and citizenship, and examines the linkages between these spheres, applying these theories to substantive issues and policy arenas.

Credits: 3

GDS 4825 - Development Practice: Social Enterprises in Bangladesh

Examines the critical role that Non-Governmental Organizations can play in economic development. Our classroom will be Bangladesh in South Asia, a poor country, but one with inspiring success stories in lifting people out of poverty. We will visit and analyze microfinance institutions, large social enterprises, village health clinics, schools,fish hatcheries, crafts production facilities, and small enterprises in the countryside.

Credits: 3

GDS 4951 - University Museums Internship

This is the first semester internship at either UVA Art Museum 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

GDS 4952 - University Museums Internship

This is the second semester internship at either UVA Art Museum 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. ARTH/GDS 4951 and 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

GDS 4991 - Fourth-Year Seminar

In this seminar, GDS majors complete their GDS research paper. Prerequisite: Instructor permission AND the student must be a GDS major in order to enroll.

Credits: 3

GDS 4993 - Independent Study

Independent Study. Prerequisites: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 6.00

GSGS 2010 - Global Commerce in Culture

A liberal arts perspective on commerce, or business, as a part of modern American (and global) culture.

Credits: 3

GSGS 2210 - Epidemics, Pandemics, and History

Covers epidemic diseases such as plague, cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS in world history since 1500.

Credits: 3

GSGS 2211 - Environment, Health, and Development in Africa

This course explores the changing relationships between people in Africa, their environments, and global neighbors since 1900. Issues covered include imperialism, conservation, the Green Revolution, HIV/AIDS, petroleum, Chinese investments, and recent viral epidemics. Course focus is on Africa, but issues are global and comparative, and learning therefore applicable to other places.

Credits: 3

GSGS 2310 - Intercultural Communication: Italy in Sienese and Sicilian Contexts

Students will learn the theory and acquire skills necessary to conscientiously negotiate a variety of cross-cultural situations. Based on the student’s direct experience in two Italian cities, Siena (Tuscany) and Catania (Sicily), the course engages students in a) developing a critical awareness of Italian regional and urban identities, b) reappraising their own culture in light of others, and c) analyzing the nature of cross-cultural encounter.

Credits: 3

GSGS 3030 - Global Cultural Studies

The course analyzes our global cultural condition from a dual historical perspective and follows a development stretching over the last 60 years, beginning with the period just after WW II and continuing to the present day. Of central concern will be the varieties of cultural expression across regions of the world and their relation to a rapidly changing social history, drawing upon events that occur during the semester.

Credits: 3

GSGS 3110 - US Military Experience and International Development

This course examines the US military tradition of humanitarian aid, civil reconstruction, and economic/rural development, through case studies from the last two decades. We study the history, policies, and doctrines that made this work possible, but our primary focus will be to ask and, collaborating with practitioners, learn methods, ethics, precedents, and insights for international development from this largely neglected tradition.

Credits: 3

GSGS 3111 - Global Studies Epistemology, Methodology & Methods

Epistemologies, methodologies and methods currently used in Global research as well as emerging alternatives. We will examine: pressures for knowledge production that is co-authored with non-academic actors; historical and contemporary uses of research methods by global actors; the differing audiences for research that our students speak to across global spaces; and interest in knowledge that contributes more directly to social action.

Credits: 3

GSGS 3112 - Global Perspectives on Corruption

This course takes an ethnographically informed approach to the question of how to understand corruption by examining practices of and perspectives on corruption from across the globe - including the so-called Global North. It aims to encourage students to 1) critically assess assumptions at the heart of international anti-corruption discourses; 2) examine tensions between global discourses of corruption and local practices; 3) compare and contrast corruption between different localities.

Credits: 3

GSGS 3115 - Work, Women’s Work and Women Workers in South Asia

What is ‘work’? Are women seen as ‘workers’? Are there women who do not ‘work’? What is the history of paid, less paid, and unpaid work? This course focuses on new trends in the relationship between gender, class and work; and will reveal emerging possibilities in knowledge and practice through changes or reversal in the gender order and its impact on work and its relationship with capital.

Credits: 3

GSGS 3116 - Social Movements and Development

This course examines debates about social movements and development, from workers responding to changes in their sphere of work, to communities responding to the seizure of land, water or other resources. Issues will include displacement, migration, trafficking, labor rights, environmental damage; gender, class and caste aspects of movements; human rights of marginalized groups; the role of the state and non-state organizations.

Credits: 3

GSGS 3120 - Engineering, Public Health, & Development: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

Real-world problems are inherently interdisciplinary. This course explores how public health, development, and engineering intertwine in efforts to improve daily life in Guatemala. We will investigate community projects of the UVA-Guatemala Initiative, and we will compare these with the work of other NGOs to understand better how ethical collaboration can make a difference in people’s lives. We will be joined by Guatemalan students.

Credits: 3

GSGS 3210 - Making Culture Visible While Studying Abroad (Pre-departure)

Course offers a flexible structure for students studying abroad to learn to be intentional, self-reflective, and curious in how they transact and engage across cultures. It consists of independent assignments organized around methods used by social scientists to understand different cultures and worldviews. It is intended as a supplement to education abroad and can be adapted to different timeframes and locations. First of three-course sequence.

Credits: 0.5

GSGS 3220 - Making Culture Visible While Studying Abroad (During Abroad)

GSGS 3230 - Making Culture Visible While Studying Abroad (After Return)

GSGS 3365 - Conscious Social Change: Contemplation and Innovation for Social Change

This course offers an experiential social venture incubator integrating mindfulness-based leadership and contemplative practices and social entrepreneurship tools. Students will work in teams to develop a business plan for a real or hypothetical social-purpose venture. Daily contemplative practice, interactive personal leadership work and dialogue will allow students to explore both the inner and external dimensions of becoming change leaders.

Credits: 3

GSGS 3675 - Museums and Cultural Representation in Quebec

In this J-term course, we visit museums in Montreal and Quebec City to examine the politics of cultural representation, asking how various kinds of group identity are exhibited in art, history, and anthropology museums. Daily museum visits are accompanied by readings and lectures.

Credits: 3

GSGS 3676 - Global Engagement at Home & Abroad

Exploring the diverse yet interconnected worlds of experience between Chinese and non-Chinese citizens of Hereford Residential College, the On Grounds component of the course explores the major cultural touchstones giving shape to American and Chinese societies over the last half of the 20th century. The Off-Grounds portion takes place in Shanghai and Suzhou to apply knowledge learned in the first portion of the course.

Credits: 3

GSGS 3690 - City and Modernity

The course explores the theories, concepts and contradictions of urban modernity through an investigation of concrete cities. It examines the development of the modern city, including such varieties as the socialist, colonial and post colonial city. It also considers the ways in which globalization affects urban space and urban cultures around the world.

Credits: 4

GSGS 4821 - The Culture of London Past and Present

“The Culture of London: Past and Present” offers an interdisciplinary approach to metropolitan culture, as an historically embedded object of inquiry. Located in London, it runs for a month each year from early June to early July. Faculty members from the University direct, teach and lead the class; they are complemented by London-based specialists in architecture, art history, religious studies and contemporary politics.

Credits: 1

GSGS 4961 - Education Abroad Advising and Administration I

Students learn about the history, demographics, current trends in student mobility, and the principles and practices in effective education abroad advising and administration. Students gain first-hand exposure to the operations of an education abroad office and acquire knowledge and develop skills needed to enter the field of education abroad advising and administration. Prerequisite: Completed a study abroad program, Instructor Permission.

Credits: 3

GSGS 4962 - Education Abroad Advising and Administration II

Students continue their examination of student mobility and principles and practices in effective education abroad advising and administration. Students gain first-hand exposure to the operations of an education abroad office and acquire knowledge and develop skills needed to enter the field of education abroad advising and administration. Prerequisite: Completion of GSGS 4961; Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

GSGS 4993 - Independent Study

Independent study to be arranged by student in consultation with professor.

Credits: 1.00 to 6.00

GSMS 3010 - The Global in Situ: Perspectives from the Middle East and South Asia

The Middle East and South Asia as locations within the “Global South.” This class will de-center Euro-American spaces and intellectual histories, and work toward a grounded re-centering of attention on place-particular histories and intellectual contributions. We will also examine what globalization, as concept and as a set of semi-coherent processes, has meant in particular local and regional spaces in the Middle East and South Asia.

Credits: 3

GSMS 4991 - Fourth-year Seminar

In this seminar, GSMS majors complete their GSMS research paper.

Credits: 3

GSMS 4993 - Independent Study

Independent study to be arranged by student in consultation with professor. Requires instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 6.00

GSSJ 3010 - Global Issues of Security and Justice

This is the foundation course for students admitted to the Global Studies-Security and Justice track of Global Studies.

Credits: 3

GSSJ 3579 - New Practicum in Global Security and Justice

This practicum course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in Global Security and Justice.

Credits: 3

GSSJ 4991 - Capstone Seminar

This is the capstone seminar for students in the Security and Justice track of Global Studies.

Credits: 3

GSSJ 4993 - Independent Study

This course is designed to allow Global Studies-Security and Justice majors to pursue independent study of relevant topics that go beyond the program’s core, track and/or elective curricula.

Credits: 1.00 to 6.00

GSVS 2050 - Sustainable Energy Systems

Sustainable energy is not just about the component technologies, it’s about how they fit together to create a complete energy system. Put another way, the individual technologies are only pieces of a much larger puzzle. In this class we will study the science and technology behind those energy “pieces” in an attempt to better define at least their present day shapes. We will then explore ways of assembling them into total energy systems. Prerequisite: High school level physics and chemistry.

Credits: 3

GSVS 2150 - Global Sustainability

This integrated and interdisciplinary course provides foundational knowledge on the multifaceted aspects of both problems and solutions related to sustainability, and challenges participants to deepen their understanding of global sustainability issues through a real-world, collaborative Think Global/ Act Local project.

Credits: 3

GSVS 2210 - Religion, Ethics, & Global Environments

This course interprets humanity’s changing ecological relationships through religious and philosophical traditions. It takes up ethical questions presented by environmental problems, introduces frameworks for making sense of them, and examines the symbols and narratives that shape imaginations of nature.

Credits: 3

GSVS 3010 - Sustainable Design Thinking I

This course is a collaborative design thinking experience that emphasizes sustainability. Students work in self-selected teams through the first half of the design process, identifying a challenge and conceiving of a solution. The course emphasizes sustainability, multidisciplinary teamwork, and client-stakeholder engagement. Students define their own challenge space, conceive of their own solution, and articulate solution requirements.

Credits: 3

GSVS 3110 - Sustainable Communities

This seminar investigates the principles of sustainable community development–environmental quality, economic health, and social equity–as reflected in buildings, rural landscapes, towns, and cities. Through case studies, class activities and site visits, we will examine how communities impact and improve basic environmental-quality variables such as air and water quality, food supply, mobility, energy, and sense of place.

Credits: 3

GSVS 3160 - The Politics of Food

How and what we eat is basic to who we are as individuals, as a culture, and as a polity. This course looks at the production and consumption of food in a political context, focusing on controversies over agricultural subsidies, labeling requirements, taxation, farming practices, food safety, advertising and education.

Credits: 3

GSVS 4991 - Capstone Seminar in Global Studies Environments and Sustainability

This course is the required Capstone Seminar in the Global Environments and Sustainability track of Global Studies

Credits: 3

GSVS 4993 - Independent Study in Environments and Sustainability

This course is an independent study to be arranged by student in consultation with faculty.

Credits: 1.00 to 6.00

HSCI 1010 - College Science Scholar Seminar I

The seminar will introduce students to research in each of the seven UVa science departments (Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology). The course will consist of weekly two-hour seminars held by science faculty members, and occasional field trips. Prerequisite: Member of the College Science Scholar Program.

Credits: 2

HSCI 1011 - College Science Scholar Seminar II

IHGC 3550 - Short Course in IHGC

This will be a 4-6 week “short course” that students take on a humanities topic for a range of credit hours depending upon specific requirements of instructor(s). The Institute offers various seminars of this variety and so far all have been offered as 3559. This would create an actual place in the catalog for the IHGC “short course,” which would have different topics but would always fit the format of a “short course”/seminar.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

IMP 2010 - The Arts and Sciences in Theory and Practice

This course is an inquiry into the nature and purpose of the historic set of disciplines comprising liberal learning with the goal of determining the intellectual passions they share, the methods and canons unique to them, and the prospects for articulating a unity among them. The course seeks to attain this goal by looking at theoretical issues such as the nature of verification and meaning, and by examining critically the actual conversations among the scholars of the arts and sciences fields over points of agreement and points of divergence.

Credits: 3

IMP 4600 - Echols Thesis

Optional Thesis for Echols Interdisciplinary Majors

Credits: 3

IMP 4970 - Interdisciplinary Thesis

Required Thesis for Interdisciplinary majors.

Credits: 3

IMP 4971 - Interdisciplinary Thesis

Required Thesis for Interdisciplinary majors.

Credits: 3

INST 1500 - Interdisciplinary Studies

Individual faculty may teach these courses with the approval of the Dean’s Office, which acts for the Committee on Education Policy and the Curriculum. A maximum of 3.0 credits count toward the B.A. or B.S. in the College. INST courses count as non-College credits.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

INST 1550 - Interdisciplinary Studies-Student Initiated Courses

With sponsorship and supervision by a faculty member and approval of the Dean’s Office, acting for the Committee on Educational Programs and the Curriculum, students may initiate a course in which they provide the instruction. The grade is determined by the faculty member. These courses count as “outside the College.” Students in the College may offer no more than 3.0 credits for the B.A. or B.S. Consult the INST course web page at http://www.uvastudentcouncil.com/student-services/initiatives/cavalier-education-program/ (copy and paste Web address into browser) for specific descriptions.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

INST 1601 - Honor and Ethics in Everyday Life

An introduction to the philosophy and mechanics of the Honor System, with a focus on the concepts of ethics and integrity within the context of both the Honor System/Committee and the broader University community.

Credits: 1

INST 1605 - History of Mr. Jefferson’s University

History of Mr. Jefferson’s University

Credits: 1

INST 2500 - Interdisciplinary Studies International Residential College

Individual faculty and advanced graduate students may teach these courses with the approval of the Dean’s Office, which acts for the Committee on Education Policy and the Curriculum. A maximum of 3.0 credits count toward the B.A. or B.S. in the College. INST courses count as non-College credits.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

INST 2550 - Interdisciplinary Studies Hereford College

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African-American & African Studies

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 2224 - Black Femininities and Masculinities in the US Media

This course, taught as a lower-level seminar, will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of ‘Blackness’ in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender.

Credits: 3

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 2657 - Routes, Writing, Reggae

In this course, we will trace the history of reggae music and explore its influence on the development of Jamaican literature. With readings on Jamaican history, we will consider why so many reggae songs speak about Jah and quote from the Bible. Then, we will explore how Marcus Garvey’s teachings led to the rise of Rastafarianism, which in turn seeded ideas of black pride and black humanity into what would become reggae music.

Credits: 3

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 2740 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa

In this course, students will gain an understanding of the richness and variety of African life. While no course of this kind can hope to give more than a broad overview of the continent, students will learn which intellectual tools and fundamental principles are necessary for approaching the study of the hundreds of cultural worlds that exist today on the African continent. This course will draw from ethnographic texts, literary works and film.

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 3210 - Slavery Since Emancipation

This intermediate seminar offers a historical and intersectional approach to understanding how slavery has evolved in the United States since the end of the Civil War.

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

Comparative analysis of plantation culture, economy and polity in Africa, the US, and the Caribbean. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

AAS 3245 - Slavery in the Contemporary Literary Imagination

This course will examine the work of African American authors whose work forms a subgenre of African American letters sometimes called the neo-slave narrative, concerned to explore and expand the historical and creative representation of slavery in the US and the UK. We will explore the limits of literary forms, racial (mis)representation and the historical records that have yielded this compelling production of writing in the past 30 years.

Credits: 3

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

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 3300 - Social Science Perspectives on African American and African Studies

This course will focus on major debates, theories, and methodological approaches in the social sciences that contribute to African American Studies. The course helps students to consider how a multidisciplinary approach enriches efforts to analyze such issues as health disparities, education, and incarceration as they relate to the African Diaspora.

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 3400 - Changing Worlds, Making Tradition: Culture and Identity in South Africa

Students will have a unique opportunity to explore another culture that of the Venda region in South Africa with linguists from that region. Students will work with visiting faculty to consider the forces shaping Venda culture today. In particular, we will discuss the ways in which indigenous knowledge is constructed and contested in contemporary Africa, and the intersections of this practice with post-colonial thought.

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 3645 - Musical Fictions

Over the course of the semester, we will explore the genre of the contemporary musical novel in order to better understand why writers and readers are so intrigued by the figure of the musician as a literary trope. Pairing close listening and music theory with close readings of seminal blues, jazz, reggae, mambo, calypso and rock novels set in the US, UK, Jamaica, Trinidad, France and Germany.

Credits: 3

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 3671 - History of the Civil Rights Movement

This course examines the history and legacy of the African American struggle for civil rights in twentieth century America. It provides students with a broad overview of the civil rights movement – the key issues, significant people and organizations, and pivotal events – as well as a deeper understanding of its scope, influence, legacy, and lessons for today.

Credits: 3

AAS 3710 - African Worlds through Life Stories

This course examines an array of African cultural worlds from the perspective of a variety of different life story genres. We will be addressing biography, autobiography, autofiction, memoirs, diaries, biographical documentary film and various artistic representations. Some critics claim that such genres, concentrating on the ‘individual’ in Western terms, are not appropriate for representing African experiences of personhood.

Credits: 3

AAS 3745 - Currents in African Literature

In this course, we will read a sampling of some exciting new works of fiction from Africa’s young and established writers. In particular, we will examine the literary innovations that African writers use to narrate issues affecting the continent such as dictatorship, the lingering effects of colonization, the postcolonial nation state, the traumas of war and geo-politics, religion, gender and sexuality, and migration, among others.

Credits: 3

AAS 3749 - Food and Meaning in Africa and the Diaspora

This course investigates the traditions and symbolics of food and eating in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora – wherever people of African descent have migrated or have been forced to move. This course will help students to investigate the way the foods people eat’ or don’t eat’ hold meaning for people within a variety of cultural contexts.Topics will include symbol, taboo, sexuality, bodies, ritual, kinship & beauty, among others.

Credits: 3

AAS 3810 - Race, Culture and Inequality

This course will examine how culture matters for understanding race and social inequality. It will survey social science research about cultural forms such as everyday discourse, styles of dress, music, literature, visual arts, and media as they relate to race and inequality.

Credits: 3

AAS 3820 - Race, Medicine and Incarceration

This intermediate seminar course explores selected topics in the history of race, medicine, and incarceration (broadly defined) and the ways in which the captive black body has functioned as a site of medical exploitation and profit from the period of slavery to the present.

Credits: 3

AAS 3830 - Being Human: Race, Technology, and the Arts

This course is an introduction to Afrofuturism, exploring race and alienness, race and technology, and race and modernity through global futuristic representations of blackness in TV, film, music, art, and literature.

Credits: 3

AAS 3853 - From Redlined to Subprime: Race and Real Estate in the U.S.

This course examines the history of housing and real estate and explores its role in shaping the meaning and lived experience of race in modern America. We will learn how and why real estate ownership, investment, and development came to play a critical role in the formation and endurance of racial segregation, modern capitalism, and the built environment.

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

Second-semester DMP students should enroll in this course to complete their theses.

Credits: 3

AAS 4109 - Civil Rights Movement and the Media

Course examines the crucial relationship between the Civil Rights Movement and mass media from 1950s through early 1970s, looking at a variety of media forms: Hollywood cinema, network television, mainstream newspapers, photojournalism, the black press, and news as primary documents that can tell us something about American race relations during this period and how the nation responded to challenges posed by a powerful social change movement.

Credits: 3

AAS 4471 - Black Women and Work

This advanced seminar explores selected topics in the history of black women and work (broadly defined) in the United States. Using gender, race, and class as essential categories of analysis, this course is designed to help students better understand the myriad contributions working class black women have made to American history–across time and space–as slaves, convict laborers, domestic servants, sex workers, labor activists, and more.

Credits: 3

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

AAS 4724 - Africa in the U.S. Media

This course will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of “Africa” and “Blackness” in this country. We will focus primarily on the context of the present-day United States. However, we will also address pre-colonial and colonial periods and touch on the role of popular media in particular contemporary African contexts.

Credits: 3

AAS 4725 - Queer Africas

How does “Africa” shape the contours of queerness? We will explore the complex iterations of afro-queer subjectivities in the the circum-Atlantic world. Importantly, we will examine the extent to which the afterlife of slavery in the Americas intersect with the state of postcoloniality in Africa, and how blackness and queerness get conditioned at these intersections. By providing an introduction to various artists, activists, and intellectuals in both Africa and its myriad diasporas, this interdisciplinary seminar will thus examine what it means to be both black and queer historically, spatially, and contemporarily.

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: 1.00 to 12.00

SWAH 1010 - Introductory Swahili I

Prerequisite: limited or no previous knowledge of Swahili.

Credits: 3

SWAH 1020 - Introductory Swahili II

Prerequisite: SWAH 1010.

Credits: 3

SWAH 2010 - Intermediate Swahili I

Develops skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing, and awareness of the cultural diversity of the Swahili-speaking areas of East Africa. Readings drawn from a range of literary and journalistic materials. Prerequisite: SWAH 1020

Credits: 3

SWAH 2020 - Intermediate Swahili II

Further develops skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing, and awareness of the cultural diversity of the Swahili-speaking areas of East Africa. Readings drawn from a range of literary and journalistic materials.

Credits: 3

American Sign Language

Courses

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

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 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 3015 - Language House Conversation in ASL

The ASL language course related to residency in the Shea Language House at UVA for students who have applied to and been accepted into the ASL Language Pod in the Shea House dormitory. Student residents will further develop their ASL language skills and understanding of Deaf culture through conversations among their peers in their dorm setting, weekly dinner meetings, and other arranged activities.

Credits: 1

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 3220 - Coda Literature: Deaf Culture, ASL, and Hearing Children of the Deaf

In Deaf culture, “coda” means the hearing child or children of Deaf adults. This course will examine the body of coda literature or “coda stories” (written memoir, movies, social media, etc.) and examine the issues and commonalities among them. Through discussion, writing, and other activities we’ll discover more about ourselves, cultures, and the human experience.

Credits: 3

ASL 3400 - Deafness in Literature and Film

This course will study the contradictory and telling ways that deaf people have been depicted over the last three centuries in addressing the question: What does deafness signify, especially in a western society that is centered upon speech? Our approach will be contrapuntal, juxtaposing canonical texts and mainstream films with relatively unknown works by deaf artists.

Credits: 3

ASL 3410 - Contemporary Disability Theory

This seminar offers an interdisciplinary approach to disability in the social, cultural, political, artistic, ethical, and medical spheres and their intersections. It also introduces students to critical theory concerned with the rights of the disabled.

Credits: 3

ASL 3450 - Comparative Linguistics: ASL and English

Describes spoken English and ASL (American Sign Language) on five levels: phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, and discourse and compares/contrasts them using real-world examples. Describes major linguistic components and processes of English and ASL. Introduces basic theories regarding ASL structure. Emphasizes ASL’s status as a natural language by comparing/contrasting similarities and unique differences between the two languages.

Credits: 3

ASL 4112 - Psychology and Deaf People

This course will consider the psychological development and psychosocial issues of deaf people. Topics covered will include cognition, education, hearing and speech perception, impact of family interaction and communication approaches, influence of etiology/genetics, language development, literacy, mental health, social and personality development, interpersonal behavior, and current trends.

Credits: 3

ASL 4115 - Multiculturalism in the Deaf Community

Explores cultural influences on identity development, family systems, linguistics, engagement with educational and community agencies, and resilience within the Deaf community. The interaction of culture, identity and language will be highlighted and applied to future trends for groups within the Deaf community, such as children of Deaf adults, GLTB community members, ethnic minority groups, women, and persons with disabilities.

Credits: 3

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 4993 - Independent Study in American Sign Language

Independent Study in American Sign Language. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

American Studies

Courses

AMST 1050 - Slavery and Its Legacies

This course examines the history of slavery and its legacy at UVA and in the central Virginia region. The course aims to recover the experiences of enslaved individuals and their roles in building and maintaining the university, and to contextualize those experiences within Southern history.

Credits: 3

AMST 2001 - Introduction to American Studies

This course introduces students to American Studies, the interdisciplinary study of US culture. Students will be exposed to the three main categories of American Studies methods, historical analysis, close analysis, and fieldwork and to a broad variety of cultural forms, including films, photographs, music, sermons, journalism, fiction, speeches, court decisions, government documents, and web-based materials including social media sites.

Credits: 3

AMST 2155 - Whiteness & Religion: Religious Foundations of a Racial Category

This class examines the role religion plays in defining a racial category known as whiteness. By reading cultural histories and ethnographies of the religious practices of various communities, we will examine how groups now classified as white (Irish, Italians, Poles, Jews, etc.) and religious images (depictions of Jesus and the Virgin Mary) “became white” and the role that religious practice played in this shift in racial classification.

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 2231 - Native Americans in Popular Culture

This course interrogates American Indian people in pop culture. Students historicize and analyze the representation of American Indians across such media as print, photography, cinema, music, and more recently in the twenty-first century, social media. This course asks students to think about the ways American Indian people have not only contributed to pop culture, but the desire for American Indians as cultural objects.

Credits: 3

AMST 2233 - Contemporary Native American Literature

In this course we use contemporary Native American literature, authored by individuals from diverse tribal backgrounds, as an accessible avenue to better understand the history of federal Indian policy, its complexity, legal construct, and the ways federal Indian policy influences the lives of American Indian people.

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 2321 - Latinx Fiction and Film

This course explores the diverse and also converging experiences of Latinos in the US. We will read contemporary novels and poetry by Latinx authors from different Latinx groups (Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American and South American). We will discuss reasons for migration, concepts of the “border” and the impact of bilingualism on group identity. We will view films that depict the Latinx experience in the US.

Credits: 3

AMST 2420 - Cultural Landscapes of the United States

This course introduces the study of everyday landscapes as cultural spaces that illuminate the history of social and political developments in the U.S. It encourages a broad understanding of landscape across genres-painting, photography, fiction, journalism. Particular focus will be paid to the political economy of landscapes to explore the connections between landscape and public policy from multiple vantage points.

Credits: 3

AMST 2422 - Point of View Journalism

This course analyzes ‘point-of-view’ journalism as a controversial but credible alternative to the dominant model of ”objectivity’ in the U.S. news media. It will survey point-of-view journalists from Benjamin Franklin to the modern blog.

Credits: 3

AMST 2460 - Language in the U.S.

Through diverse academic/theoretical readings and spoken, written, and visual material, students will learn to analyze, evaluate, and construct arguments as related to critical linguistic and cultural analysis of primary and secondary source material. This course examines complex relationships among American language and cultural practices, American history, race, gender, and class ideologies, and social identities.

Credits: 3

AMST 2470 - Disney

This discussion course examines the cultural role of Disney and its effects on the visual arts in the 20th and 21st centuries. It considers a range of material to interrogate how Disney as both a corporation and a cultural icon promotes and reinforces national ideals. Presented both chronologically and thematically, students engage with aesthetic, ideological and theoretical concerns regarding history, identity, space/place, and popular culture.

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 2660 - Spiritual But Not Religious: Spirituality in America

What does “spiritual but not religious” mean, and why has it become such a pervasive self-description in contemporary America? This interdisciplinary course surveys spirituality in America, with a particular eye for the relationship between spirituality and formal religion, on the one hand, and secular modes of understanding the self, such as psychology, on the other.

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 3050 - Critical Ethnic Studies

This core seminar is an introduction to key issues and methods in the comparative and critical study of ethnicity and race. The course highlights an interdisciplinary approach to the studies of systematic oppression in the United States, and the global implication of these structures. We will consider how Ethnic Studies presents a progressive intellectual challenge to global and local configurations of power in the name of global justice.

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 3200 - African American Political Thought

This course explores the critical and the constructive dimensions of African American political thought from slavery to the present. We will assess the claims that black Americans have made upon the polity, how they have defined themselves, and how they have sought to redefine key terms of political life such as citizenship, equality, freedom, and power.

Credits: 3

AMST 3221 - Hands-On Public History

This course introduces the issues and debates that have shaped public history as a scholarly discipline, but the focus of the course will be on the contemporary practice of public history. Students will work with Special Collections to produce their own public history exhibits. Readings and field trips will provide a foundation for students’ hands-on engagement with public history.

Credits: 3

AMST 3321 - Race and Ethnicity in Latinx Literature

This course examines the construction of race and ethnicity in Latinx literature by examining key texts by individuals from varying Latinx groups in the US. We will examine how US-American identity shapes Latinx notions of race and how the authors’ connections with Latin America and the Caribbean do the same. We will explore from a hemispheric perspective how race and ethnicity are depicted in Latinx literature and culture.

Credits: 3

AMST 3322 - Latinx Feminisms

In this course we will read contemporary novels by self-identified Latina writers. From Barrio to Chica Lit, we will ask ourselves how the models of womanhood and female liberation and autonomy presented in these texts align themselves and/or challenge U.S. American, Latin American, European and Latina feminist theory to date.

Credits: 3

AMST 3323 - Hemispheric Latinx Literature and Culture

This course offers a survey of Latinx literature and film from a hemispheric perspective. Engaging texts from colonial times to the present day, we explore how the histories of the US, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia come together to produce novels, poems, essays and films that are now referred to as distinctly Latinx.

Credits: 3

AMST 3354 - Race and Media

We explore issues related to white supremacy, anti-blackness, mixed-race, settler colonialism, immigrant and transqueer phobia, and the production of racial difference. We examine these topics within their historical context and explore representations across all forms of visual culture, predominantly television but with reference to advertising, film, music, and digital media.

Credits: 3

AMST 3355 - Border Media

In this course we consider the depiction of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspective of popular and mass media cultures. We examine the border as a site of cultural exchanges, resistance and critical negotiation; interchanges that impact the construction of race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender from both sides of the border.

Credits: 3

AMST 3407 - Racial Borders and American Cinema

This class explores how re-occurring images of racial and ethnic minorities such as African Americans, Jews, Asians, Native Americans and Latino/as are represented in film and shows visual images of racial interactions and boundaries of human relations that tackle topics such as immigration, inter-racial relationships and racial passing.

Credits: 3

AMST 3425 - American Material Culture

This course will introduce you to the study of material culture, the physical stuff that is part of human life. Material culture includes everything we make and use, from food and clothing to art and buildings. This course is organized into six sections, the first introducing the idea of material culture, and the other five following the life cycle of an object: material, making, designing, selling, using.

Credits: 3

AMST 3460 - Reading America at Home and Abroad

This course explores ideas of America, as they are constructed both at “home” in the United States, and “abroad,” in and through a number of global locales. It considers a range of representations, in literature, art, film and music, and also the everyday life of American culture. In asking how America has seen itself and how others have seen America, we will effectively theorize the concepts of both nation and globality.

Credits: 3

AMST 3462 - Harlem Stories: Literature and Culture of the Modern World

This course examines the multiplicity of Harlem, in global and historical contexts. It considers how Harlem represents itself and how representation shapes the experience of place, the ways that stories of Harlem are simultaneously lived and circulating, and how different disciplinary techniques offer different renditions of Harlem.

Credits: 3

AMST 3463 - Language and New Media

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of how language both shapes and is shaped by American society with a focus on New Media. Draws on critical and analytical tools and socio-cultural theories to examine this dynamic relationship in Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, texting, Instagram, YouTube, and more.

Credits: 3

AMST 3463 - Language and New Media

AMST 3465 - America and the Global South in Literature and Film

Students in this course will examine and interpret conceptions of America from the point of view of novelists, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars in the Global South. American and Global South landscapes will be a focus of the class, as will images, artifacts, and material culture that reveal Global South views of the United States.

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 3630 - Vietnam War in Literature and Film

In the US, Vietnam signifies not a country but a lasting syndrome that haunts American politics and society, from foreign policy to popular culture. But what of the millions of Southeast Asian refugees the War created? What are the lasting legacies of the Vietnam War for Southeast Asian diasporic communities? We will examine literature and film (fictional and documentary) made by and about Americans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong.

Credits: 3

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 3740 - Cultures of Hip-Hop

This course explores the origins and impacts of American hip-hop as a cultural form in the last forty years, and maps the ways that a local subculture born of an urban underclass has risen to become arguably the dominant form of 21st-century global popular culture. While primarily focused on music, we will also explore how forms such as dance, visual art, film, and literature have influenced and been influenced by hip-hop style and culture.

Credits: 3

AMST 3880 - Literature of the South

Analyzes selected works of literature by major Southern writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

AMST 4321 - Caribbean Latinx: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the DR

In this course we will read texts by Latinx writers from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. We will explore how their works speak to issues of race, colonialism and imperialism based on their individual and shared histories. We will discuss their different political histories and migration experiences and how these in turn impact their literary and artistic productions in the US.

Credits: 3

AMST 4401 - Literature of the Americas

This course explores a wide range of (broadly defined) fictions from and about the Americas, from writings by Columbus and the conquistadors through modern and contemporary novels, novellas, and short stories. Students consider the intersection of fiction and history through topics that include New world “discovery” and conquest; borderlands and contact zones; slavery and revolution; and the haunting of the global present by the colonial past.

Credits: 3

AMST 4403 - Transamerican Encounters

This comparative, interdisciplinary course focuses on the encounter between the U.S. and the wider Americas as represented in literature, history, and film. Working across a range of historical periods, it explores the varied international contexts underpinning narratives of U.S. national identity and history. It also considers how cultural forms access histories and perspectives outside of official accounts of the past and present.

Credits: 3

AMST 4410 - Censorship

This course examines the social, legal, aesthetic, and theoretical issues raised by censorship of art, mass media, literature, film, and music in the U.S. While censorship is usually associated with explicit sexuality, we will also look at cases involving racial stereotyping, violence, social disorder, and religion. Our cases will center around novels, art, film, music, mass media, and other cultural phenomena.

Credits: 3

AMST 4430 - Documentary Film and the South

This course explores how documentary filmmakers have represented the US South from the 1930s through the end of the twentieth century and the place of films made in and about the region in the history of documentary film. Students will conduct original research, shape their findings into paper, and make their own documentary short about a topic of their choosing.

Credits: 3

AMST 4440 - Visions of Apocalypse in American Culture

This course examines how Americans have envisioned the end of the world. Through religious and cultural history and contemporary cultural studies, it considers the ways social, political, and economic tensions are reflected in visions of the apocalypse. It explores the impact of imagined futures on previous generations, and how religious and secular ideologies of apocalypticism have shaped social movements, politics, and popular culture.

Credits: 3

AMST 4470 - American Film Noir

This seminar examines the phenomenon of American Film Noir produced during the 1940s and 50s. Using urban culture to frame debates about films noir, it explores the ways in which “the city” is represented as a problematic subject and a frequent resource immediately before and after World War II. The course also discusses the influences of early twentieth-century photography, American Scene art, and Abstract Expressionist painting.

Credits: 3

AMST 4472 - Hollywood Cinema’s Golden Age: The 1930s

This course examines American cinema produced in Hollywood during the 1930s. While the Great Depression serves as an important backdrop to our investigation, we will interrogate how issues such as ethnic/racial representation, shifting gender roles, sexuality, and urbanity are mediated in popular cinema in this decade. The course also considers the studio system, the Hayes Code, stardom, and changes within narrative and film techniques.

Credits: 3

AMST 4474 - Stardom and American Cinema

This course examines the role of stardom and star performance in American cinema from the silent era to the present. Using social history, cultural studies and film criticism theory, we will explore topics such as the cultural patterns of stardom, constructions and subversions of star identity, and the ways in which issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality affect the star image both inside and outside cinema.

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 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, Instructor Consent.

Credits: 3

AMST 4998 - Distinguished Majors Program Thesis Research

Students spend the fall semester of their 4th years working closely with a faculty advisor to conduct research and begin writing their Distinguished Majors Program (DMP) thesis.

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

Anthropology

Courses

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

Anthropology of Globalization

Credits: 3

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 2040 - Methods in the Study of Culture

How do you study culture? How do you research aspects of people’s lives that they themselves take for granted? This course introduces the theory, ethics, and practice of ethnographic field research, or “fieldwork,” which is valued in public health, development, design, planning, marketing, activism, and education. Students gain practical experience conducting an ethnographic research project and presenting the results in a public blog.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2120 - The Concept of Culture

Culture is the central concept that anthropologists use to understand the striking differences among human societies and how people organize the meaningful parts of their lives. In this course we explore this diversity, examine its basis in neuroplasticity and human development, and consider its implications for human nature, cognition, creativity, and identity. By learning about other cultures, we gain new understanding of ourselves.

Credits: 3

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 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 2285 - Anthropology of Development and Humanitarianism

This course explores anthropological writings on development and humanitarianism to better understand the historical context and contemporary practice of these distinct modes of world saving. We will attend to critiques of development and humanitarianism, and will also consider writings by anthropologists who champion the humanitarian project

Credits: 3

ANTH 2291 - Global Culture and Public Health

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

Comparative examination of beliefs, rites, and symbolism concerning birth and death in selected civilizations.

Credits: 3

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 2370 - Japanese Culture

This course offers an introductory survey of Japan from an anthropological perspective. It is open without prerequisite to anyone with a curiosity about what is arguably the most important non-Western society of the last 100 years, and to anyone concerned about the diverse conditions of modern life. We will range over many aspects of contemporary Japan, and draw on scholarship in history, literature, religion, and the various social sciences.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2375 - Disaster

Sociocultural perspectives on disaster, including analysis of the manufacture of disaster, debates on societal collapse, apocalyptic thought, disaster management discourse, how disasters mobilize affect, disaster movies, and disasters as political allegory. Students work through a series of case studies from different societies that cover “natural,” industrial, and chronic disasters, as well as doomsday scenarios.

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 2415 - Language in Human Evolution

Examines the evolution of our capacity for language along with the development of human ways of cooperating in engaged social interaction. Course integrates cognitive, cultural, social, and biological aspects of language in comparative perspective. How is the familiar shape of language today the result of evolutionary and developmental processes involving the form, function, meaning and use of signs and symbols in social ecologies?

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

Intensive studies of particular world regions, societies, cultures, and civilizations.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2541 - Topics in Linguistics

Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2557 - Culture Through Film

Topics to be announced prior to each semester covering 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 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 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

Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2590 - Social and Cultural Anthropology

Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2620 - 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 2621 - Culture, Gender and Violence

Beginning with a discussion of the cultural patterning of social action, this course examines sex, gender, and sexuality as culturally constructed and socially experienced, with special attention to non-Western examples that contrast with sex and gender norms in the U.S. The course then focuses on gender violence at U.S. universities, asking whether structural violence can be effectively countered by programs that focus on individual responses.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2625 - Imagining Africa

Africa is commonly imagined in the West as an unproblematically bounded and undifferentiated entity. This course engages and moves beyond western traditions of story telling about Africa to explore diverse systems of imagining Africa’s multi-diasporic realities. Imagining Africa is never a matter of pure abstraction, but entangled in material struggles and collective memory, and taking place at diverse and interconnected scales and locales. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010

Credits: 3

ANTH 2660 - The Internet Is Another Country: Community, Power, and Social Media

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 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 3010 - Theory and History of Anthropology

Overview of the major theoretical positions which have structured anthropological thought over the past century.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3020 - Using Anthropology

The theoretical, methodological and ethical practice of an engaged anthropology is the subject of this course, We begin with a history of applied anthropology. We then examine case studies that demonstrate the unique practices of contemporary sociocultural, linguistic, archaeological and bioanthropological anthropology in the areas of policy and civic engagement.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3070 - Introduction to Musical Ethnography

Explores music and sound as a social practice, using genres and traditions from throughout the world.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3100 - Indigenous Landscapes

This course engages with ways that historical process are inscribed in landscapes, which are the traditional territories of indigenous communities and have also been shaped by colonialism, extractive enterprise, and nature conservation. It challenges students to examine their assumptions to examine ways in which dominant values and stories are inscribed in landscapes and made to appear natural, and how indigenous people contest these processes.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3105 - Love and Romantic Intimacies

This course offers an introduction to recent anthropological scholarship on romance to examine how intimate relationships shape human experiences. Through readings and films, we investigate the increasingly popular idealization of “companionate marriages,” in which spouses are ideally linked by affection. Our examples include queer and straight experiences, and a diversity of racial, cultural, classed, and gendered representations.

Credits: 3

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 - Rainforests of Flesh / Peoples of Spirit

Ethnographies of Amazonian Peoples and the new anthropological theories about their way of life.

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 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 3171 - Culture of Cyberspace: Digital Fluency for an Internet-Enabled Society

Today’s personal, social, political, and economic worlds are all affected by digital media and networked publics. Together we will explore both the literature about and direct experience of these new literacies: research foundations and best practices of individual digital participation and collective participatory culture, the use of collaborative media and methodologies, and the application of network know-how to life online.

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 3205 - Modern Families, Global Worlds

This course examines the importance of kinship for the structure and dynamics of transnational economic relations and for the meaning and constitution of nation and citizenship in the contemporary global 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 3255 - Anthropology of Time and Space

All societies position themselves in space and time. This course samples the discussion of the ways social systems have configured spatial/temporal orders. It considers both internalized conceptions of time and space and the ways an analyst might view space and time as external factors orientating a society’s existence. And it samples classic discussions of spatial-temporal orientations in small and large, “pre-modern” and “modern” societies.

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 3265 - Cultures, Spaces, and Worldviews of International Aid

The main focus of this class is the culture and values of development practitioners, and how these shape ideas of development itself. It explores the interconnected processes, relationships, and spaces through which development practitioners and planners learn, live , work, and encounter (or not) people who are the targets of development plans and interventions.

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 3290 - Biopolitics and the Contemporary Condition

Biopolitical analysis has become one of the prominent critical approaches across the social sciences and humanities. This course will consider various biopolitical theories and the ways in which they help us understand diverse phenomena of our contemporary condition, which will be examined through various case studies.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3300 - Tournaments and Athletes

A cross-cultural study of sport and competitive games. Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3310 - Controversies of Care in Contemporary Africa

In this course we will draw on a series of classic and contemporary works in history and anthropology to come to a better understanding of current debates concerning corruption and patronage, marriage and sexuality, and medicine in Sub-Sahararn Africa.

Credits: 3

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 3325 - Capitalism: Cultural Perspectives

Examines capitalist relations around the world in a variety of cultural and historical settings. Readings cover field studies of work, industrialization, “informal” economies, advertising, securities trading, “consumer culture,” corporations; anthropology of money and debt; global spread of capitalist markets; multiple capitalisms thesis; commodification; slavery and capital formation; capitalism and environmental sustainability.

Credits: 3

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. Although cultures from all over the world are considered, special attention is given to the region defined by South and East Asia, and Australia. Prerequisite: At least one Anthropology course, and/or relevant exposure to courses in EVSC, BIOL, CHEM, or HIST or instructor permission

Credits: 3

ANTH 3360 - 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 3370 - Power and the Body

Studying the cultural representations and interpretations of the body in society. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or permission of the instructor.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3380 - The Nature of Nature

This course explores the evolution of Nature as a concept and a human-created realm of reality, particularly in relation to colonialism and globalization. It focuses on environmental politics of diverse people who do not relate to reality as a separate object called Nature. It also addresses the idea that we are living in the Anthropocene, a moment in which humans have become a force of Nature, and Nature perhaps no longer exists.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3395 - Mythodology

A hands-on seminar in myth interpretation designed to acquaint the student with the concept and techniques of obviation.

Credits: 3

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 3455 - African Languages

An introduction to the linguistic diversity of the African continent, with focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Topics include linguistic structures (sound systems, word-formation, and syntax); the classification of African languages; the use of linguistic data to reconstruct prehistory; language and social identity; verbal art; language policy debates; the rise of “mixed” languages among urban youth.

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

Language and Thought

Credits: 3

ANTH 3541 - Topics in Linguistics

Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3550 - Ethnography

Close reading of several ethnographies, primarily concerned with non-Western cultures.

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

Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3590 - Social and Cultural Anthropology

Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology.

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 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 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 3675 - Museums and Cultural Representation in Quebec

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

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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

This course provides the opportunity for independent study in the subject of Arts Administration. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.

Credits: 3

ARAD 3100 - Principles and Practices of Arts Administration

Introductory survey of principles and practices of arts administration, as the crossroads of art and audience.

Credits: 3

ARAD 3550 - Topics of Arts in Context

Topics course on The Arts in Context, where role of the arts in human society is examined in various contexts.

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

ARAD 3993 - Independent Study

Independent study in Arts Adminstration

Credits: 3

ARAD 4050 - Arts Marketing Theory and Practice

Audience development theory and marketing strategies and techniques as they apply specifically to the arts and arts institutions.

Credits: 3

ARAD 4200 - Development and Board Management

This course explores techniques and rationales behind the giving and the raising of funds; and the closely related skills of leading and managing trustees, boards and volunteers. The course will examine these fields using both theory and practical applications. Both in-class discussions and distinguished guest speakers will be utilized.

Credits: 3

ARAD 4300 - The Arts in Community / Community in the Arts

The Arts in Community / Community in the Arts’ examines selected topics from among the multiplicity of relations between the two. Included will be spatial and community aspects of public art, art found locally, art to which the local community aspires, and the idea of community within artist populations. Using guest speakers, readings and other resources focuses class discussion on two sites:Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall, & UVA’s Art Grounds.

Credits: 3

ARAD 4500 - Introduction to Design Thinking

This course is a pilot seminar designed to launch for the School of Architecture a curriculum in Design Thinking, to be broadened and deepened in subsequent semesters. The course introduces the use of abductive reasoning to solve complex problems, using Architecture and the Arts as exemplars of creative problem solving techniques.

Credits: 3

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: 4

ARTH 1052 - History of Art II: Renaissance to Post-Modern Art and Architecture

Studies the history and interpretation of architecture, sculpture and painting from 1400 to the present.

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

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 1503 - Art and the Premodern World

This course will train students to understand and critically evaluate comparative, premodern, global cultures.

Credits: 3

ARTH 1505 - Art and the Modern World

This course will train students to understand and critically evaluate comparative, modern global cultures.

Credits: 3

ARTH 1507 - Art and Global Cultures

This course will train students to understand and evaluate global cultures from a critical and culturally sensitive perspective.

Credits: 3

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: 3.00 to 4.00

ARTH 2053 - Greek Art and Archaeology

The vase painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic periods. Works are studies in their social, political, and religious contexts with a special focus on archaeology and material culture.

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

ARTH 2054 - Roman Art and Archaeology

Following an overview of Etruscan art, the course examines the development of Roman architecture, urbanism, sculpture and painting from the Republic to Constantine. A focus is Rome itself, but other archaeological sites, such as Pompeii, in Italy and throughout the empire are also considered. Themes, such as succession, the achievements of the emperor, the political and social role of art, and the dissolution of classical art, are traced.

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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

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: 3.00 to 4.00

ARTH 2271 - Northern Renaissance Art

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: 3.00 to 4.00

ARTH 2273 - Disneyland

This course examines the visual, aesthetic and cultural effects of Disneyland. It considers the history of the theme parks, its relationship to Disney films, and its visual construction of space, leisure, and American cultural identity. Presented both chronologically and thematically, this course is both reading and writing intensive.

Credits: 3

ARTH 2275 - Heroes, Superheroes and American Visual Culture

This course examines the aesthetic and cultural importance of ‘heroes’ and heroic representation in American visual culture from the mid-18th century to the present. It considers the construction and representation of heroic figures within debates about aesthetics, national identity, political representation, and popular culture. Presented both chronologically and thematically, this coure is both reading and writing intensive.

Credits: 3

ARTH 2281 - The Age of Caravaggio, Velázquez, and Bernini

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

ARTH 2525 - Topics in Renaissance Art History

Examines focused topics in Renaissance Art History.

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

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

ARTH 2751 - American Art to the Civil War

This lecture course will examine the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, prints) of the United States from establishment of the nation to and through the Civil War. Particular attention will be paid to the cultural, political and social issues that provide a contextual framework for the interpretation and analysis of these works of art.

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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 2851 - World Art

Big art history, on the role of art in human cultures. The construction of spaces in relation to human presence. Materials, skills, and the making of social hierarchies. Places, group origins, and identity. Kingship and empire across the continents; art and world religions. Contact, interaction and the beginnings of the present world.

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

ARTH 2863 - Chinese Decorative Arts

Chinese Decorative Arts

Credits: 3 to 4

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

ARTH 2993 - Independent Study

Independent study in the history of art.

Credits: 3

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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 3491 - Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics

This course explores the question of whether there might be something called a ‘feminist aesthetics.’ We look at the work of a handful of women photographers, and read criticism about photography, to leverage our exploration into feminist aesthetics. The course works within the frame of feminist discourse. It presents the work of a small number of photographers whose work we will interpret in conjunction with readings in criticism and theory.

Credits: 3

ARTH 3525 - Topics in Renaissance Art History

Examines focused topics in Renaissance Art History.

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

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

Examines focused topics in 20th/21st Art History.

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

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. This course fulfills the second writing requirement, involving at least two writing assignments totaling at a minimum 4,000 words (20 pages).

Credits: 3

ARTH 3595 - Art History Practicum

The Art History Practicum course places added emphasis on immersive experience and the active construction of knowledge, involving hands-on projects, experiments, lab work, and field trips of varying lengths, including on-site studies at archaeological sites, laboratories, or museums.

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: 3.00 to 4.00

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 3863 - East Asian Art, Landscape, and Ecology

This course introduces the concepts on nature in East Asian traditions–Daoism, Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, their impacts on the relationship between human and their natural environment, and the art forms in which the theme of nature predominates, from landscape paintings to religious and garden architecture. It also explores how these ideas can contribute to the modern discourse on environmental ethics and sustainability.

Credits: 3

ARTH 3951 - Modern and Contemporary African Art

Studies Africa’s chief forms of visual art from prehistoric times to the present.

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

ARTH 3993 - Independent Study

Independent study in the history of art

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

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

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 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 2000 - Introduction to Studio Art

An introductory course, divided into three segments, which serves as a prerequisite to all studio courses. In Drawing students will learn observational drawing and how visual thinking connects with the hand. The Conceptual segment will exercise creative problem-solving skills and teach students to engage in critical discourse. The Digital segment teaches basic technical skills and digital tools including still and moving image and sound.

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. Class assignments help students understand the visual language of photography using 35mm film and printing in the darkroom. In addition, lectures explore examples from the historical and contemporary worlds of fine art photography and readings range from art and philosophy to science. Prereq: ARTS 2610

Credits: 3

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Astronomy

Courses

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 1250 - Alien Worlds

Alien worlds orbiting other stars were the subject of speculation going back to ancient times, and were first detected in the 1990s. Today, thousands of extrasolar planets are known and show a remarkable diversity compared to our own solar system. This introductory astronomy course for non-science majors discusses the known exoplanets: how they are discovered, their orbits, physical properties, formation, evolution and fate.

Credits: 3

ASTR 1260 - Threats from Outer Space

This introductory astronomy course for non-science majors deals with harmful, or potentially harmful, astronomical phenomena such as asteroid/comet impacts, supernovae, gamma ray bursts, solar storms, cosmic rays, black holes, galaxy collisions, and the end of the universe. Physical principles will be used to evaluate the dangers involved.

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 1280 - The Origins of Almost Everything

From ancient Babylon to modern cosmology, nearly every culture on Earth has stories and myths of creation. It is a universal human desire to understand from where we came. In this introductory astronomy class for non-science majors, students will explore the origins of the Universe, structure and galaxies, stars, planets and life. The course will use the content to illustrate the nature of science and scientific inquiry.

Credits: 3

ASTR 1290 - Black Holes

Black holes are stellar remnants that are so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape their gravitational pull. Nevertheless, systems that contain these “dark stars” are among the brightest sources in the universe. In this introductory course, aimed primarily at non-science majors, students will explore the seemingly paradoxical nature of black holes and evaluate the astronomical evidence for their existence.

Credits: 3

ASTR 1500 - Seminar

Primarily for first and second year students, taught on a voluntary basis by a faculty member. Topics vary.

Credits: 1

ASTR 1510 - Seminar

Primarily for first and second year students, taught on a voluntary basis by a faculty member. Topics vary.

Credits: 1

ASTR 1610 - Intro to Astronomical Research for Potential Astronomy/Astrophysics Majors

For first and second year students considering Astronomy/Astronomy-Physics as a major, or current A/A-P majors. Faculty will present ongoing research to introduce students to both the subject matter and the required physical, mathematical, and computational background of contemporary astronomy research. Potential long term undergraduate research projects will be emphasized. Prerequisite: One semester of calculus and one semester of physics.

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 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 will 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

The 20th Century saw a revolution in our study of the origin and evolution of the universe. It was a dynamic period with the opening of the electromagnetic spectrum and the transition to “Big Science.” This course is a survey of the development of modern astrophysics, with an emphasis on the second half of the 20th Century. Prerequisite: A 1000- or 2000-level ASTR course or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

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 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 4140 - Research Methods in Astrophysics

Primarily for astronomy/astrophysics majors. Students will be exposed to a research methods-intensive set of mini projects,with emphasis on current active areas of astrophysics research. The goal is to prepare students for research in astrophysics. Topics will include databases and database manipulation, astronomical surveys, statistics, space observatories and observation planning, intro to numerical simulations, and proposal writing. Prerequisites: ASTR 2110/2120 and PHYS 2660, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

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 (recommended); MATH 5210, 5220; PHYS 3210, 3310 (concurrent), 3430 (concurrent), 3650; 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

May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

Biology

Courses

BIOL 1020 - Darwinian Medicine

We will explore an emerging aspect of medical thinking- “Darwinian medicine.” This new discipline applies the principles of evolutionary biology to the problems of medicine. The evolutionary explanations generated by this approach will help to uncover new and more effective methods of treatment. As a class, we will attempt to construct Darwinian explanations for a variety of illnesses and to design experiments to test this perspective.

Credits: 3

BIOL 1040 - The DNA Revolution in Science and Society

Imagine a world where your DNA is sequenced for free and any human gene can be altered at will. The goal of this course is to address the question: can our society be better prepared for this transformation in science? Is genetic privacy achievable or genetic discrimination avoidable? Who owns your genes? Do your genes drive your medical future? Classes involve student perspectives and discussions with experts in science, policy, ethics and law.

Credits: 3

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

Paleo or South Beach? Are supplements wise? Together we will investigate advertising claims, discover & evaluate nutritional resources, discuss public policies & food industry regulations, search through data from epidemiological studies and read clinical cases. To do this, we will delve deep into the physiological workings of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as the molecular metabolic pathways that cells and tissues need to survive & thrive.

Credits: 3

BIOL 1080 - Nerve Cells, Networks and Animal Behavior

Ecolocation in bats, development of learning in songbirds, paralytic goats and toxic fish. In this course, we’ll examine these and other examples from nature to model the fundamental properties of neurons and the neural circuits that underlie various aspects of animal behavior. Building an understanding of the structure & function of the nervous system will include consideration of the evolutionary and developmental emergence of its properties.

Credits: 3

BIOL 1210 - Human Biology and Disease

Introduces how the human body works using basic biological principles. Uses disease as a lens to develop healthcare literacy and to understand fundamental healthcare decisions. This course provides tools to help make informed choices as voters and consumers.

Credits: 3

BIOL 2030 - Introductory Biology Laboratory I

An investigative experience illustrating modern methods of studying genes and proteins including techniques of DNA isolation, separation, cloning, sequencing, creating recombinant DNA, and using bioinformatics tools. Prerequisite: Limited to 2nd, 3rd, 4th year students who have completed BIOL2010

Credits: 1

BIOL 2040 - Introductory Biology Laboratory II

Studies life forms, from simple to complex organization, demonstrating the unique properties of living organisms. Exercises focus on evolution, physiology and development. Prerequisite: Limited to 2nd, 3rd, 4th year students who have completed BIOL2020

Credits: 1

BIOL 2100 - Introduction to Biology with Laboratory: Cell Biology & Genetics

BIOL 2100 is one of two semester courses that together provide an intensive introduction to biology for prospective Biology majors and pre-health (med, vet, dental) students. This course focuses on the fundamentals of cell biology and genetics with an emphasis on classical and modern experimental approaches. Lecture topics and concepts are reinforced and extended during once-weekly laboratory/small group discussions.

Credits: 4

BIOL 2200 - Introduction to Biology w/Laboratory: Organismal & Evolutionary Biology

BIOL 2200 is one of two semester courses that together provide an intensive introduction to biology for prospective Biology majors and pre-health (med, vet, dental) students. This course focuses on evolution, physiology and development. Lecture topics and concepts are reinforced and extended during once-weekly laboratory/small group discussions. The Introductory courses are not sequenced and may be taken in either order.

Credits: 4

BIOL 2757 - Science Writing: Creative Approaches to Biology & Ecology

Writing is fundamental to the practice of science. We write about individual organisms, ecosystems, and patterns, to record our findings and to reach broader audiences. This course explores diverse writing styles to improve student communication both inside scientific communities and to the public. Students will be inspired by their experiences at MLBS and by prominent nature and science writers to create a variety of written works.

Credits: 3

BIOL 2900 - Teaching Methods for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

This STEM teaching course will help Undergraduate TAs integrate learning theory and effective student engagement practices into their teaching. UTAs will participate in guided discussions to relate recommendations from the education literature to their classroom experiences. Assignments will include learning activities, such as teaching observations & reflections, and designing interventions to assist students with difficult topics/skills.

Credits: 1

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: Must have completed BIOL 2010 or BIOL 2100 or BME 2104 and any two of the following classes CHEM 1410, 1420, 1810 & 1820. BIOL 3000 is not repeatable.

Credits: 3

BIOL 3010 - Genetics and Molecular Biology

What makes humans different from fruit flies? Why does your brain have neurons and not liver cells? This course is all about the answer to these questions: It’s the genes! This course covers the chemical make-up of genes, how they’re passed on through generations, how they’re expressed and how that expression is regulated, how disruption in the structure and expression of genes arise and how those disruptions lead to cellular defects and disease. Prerequisite: Must have completed BIOL 2010 or BIOL 2100 or BME 2104 and either CHEM 1410 or CHEM 1810 or CHEM 1610. BIOL 3010 is not repeatable.

Credits: 3

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: Must have completed BIOL 2200 or BIOL 2020. BIOL 3020 is not repeatable.

Credits: 3

BIOL 3030 - Biochemistry

Biochemistry underlies nearly every biological process, from environmental science to medicine. When living systems are in chemical and energetic balance, organisms thrive. When they’re out of balance, as in disease or unpredictable environments, life is compromised. This course will explain how simple chemical and physical principles apply to the major classes of biological macromolecules that maintain life. Prerequisite: BIOL 2010 or BIOL 2100 or BME 2104 and BIOL 2020 or BIOL 2040 and either CHEM 2410 or CHEM 1820

Credits: 3

BIOL 3040 - Developmental and Regenerative Biology

Are developmental biology and regenerative biology one and the same? Throughout this course, we will emphasize both classical and modern experimental approaches that have been used to unravel the genetic, molecular and celluar mechanisms of development. Additionally, the practical value of understanding development is enormous, and the relationship between embryology and clinical applications will be a theme that runs throughout the course.

Credits: 3

BIOL 3050 - 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: Must have completed BIOL 2010 or BIOL 2100 or BME 2104 and BIOL 2020 or BIOL 2040. May not take if previously completed BIOL 3170.

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 - Our World of Infectious Disease

Infectious disease impacts every human, plant and animal on earth. What is the most deadly disease in human history? What is killing our ocean’s turtles? Why is Zika so scary? We will explore questions related to the biology, transmission, and pathogenicity of infectious agents across the world. We will also place special emphasis on what it takes to successfully control an infectious disease.

Credits: 3

BIOL 3120 - General Microbiology

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. Prerequisites: Must have completed BIOL 2010 or BIOL 2100 or BME 2104 and BIOL 2020 or BIOL 2200

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 and 2020.

Credits: 3

BIOL 3150 - General 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 3120

Credits: 2

BIOL 3180 - Introduction to Plant Biology

Examines basic principles of plant structure, development, classification, and physiology. Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, 2020.

Credits: 3

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

Focuses on selected vertebrate organ systems; considers other systems where relevant. Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, 2020.

Credits: 3

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: Must have completed or be currently taking BIOL 2010 or BIOL 2100 or BME 2104

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.

Credits: 3

BIOL 3270 - General Microbiology with Laboratory

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 will be introduced. Topics include microbial cell structure, metabolism, genetics, diversity, evolution and infectious disease. Laboratory work will complement lecture topics and cover the core themes & concepts, as recommended by the American Society of Microbiology.

Credits: 4

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 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 3410 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I

This course explores human form & function. Integrated lectures and labs focus on systems for support & locomotion, integration & control, regulation & maintenance, reproduction & development. Labs include anatomical dissection, 3D model analysis of organs & organ systems, and computer-based physiology experiments & histological investigations. The first of a two course sequence, this course offers a meaningful single semester A&P experience.

Credits: 4

BIOL 3420 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II

This course builds on the material and concepts covered in Human Anatomy & Physiology I (BIOL3410). Coordinated lectures and labs explore topics in anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology across human organ systems. Lab investigations use computer-based physiology experiments, model & dissection-based anatomical studies, and clinical and biomedical case studies to illustrate and expand content presented in lecture.

Credits: 4

BIOL 3440 - Endocrinology

Endocrinology

Credits: 3

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

Application of field techniques for biological studies. Cross-listed with EVSC 3660. Prerequisite: BIOL 2040 or instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

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: 1.00 to 4.00

BIOL 3650 - Molecular Biology of Human Disease

This course addresses molecular mechanisms of gene expression and regulation (e.g., transcription, mRNA splicing, RNA surveillance, and translation) and DNA replication in the context of infectious and genetic diseases. Prerequisites: BIOL 2010 and any two of CHEM 1410, 1420, 1810 & 1820.

Credits: 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 3710 - The Biology of Stress

What exactly is stress? When is it a good thing; when & why does it become damaging? In this course, we will study how the body responds to physical and psychological stressors. And, we will examine how the physiological mechanisms by which the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis and corticosteroids mediate both positive and negative effects of stress. Understanding of these mechanisms, we can consider how best to prevent damage from stress.

Credits: 3

BIOL 3900 - Independent Readings 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: 1.00 to 3.00

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 4005 - Functional Genomics Laboratory: Disease Mechanisms & Cures

This course introduces students to scientific-based discovery of how molecular dysfunction leads to disease. It also exposes them to the most current tools used in biomedical research to find novel genes and compounds that could help treat human disease. The course includes discovery-oriented lab, workshops, and lectures. Prerequisite: BIOL3000 and BIOL3010

Credits: 3

BIOL 4015 - Neural Development Laboratory: From stem cells to neuronal circuitry

Neural stem cells proliferate throughout development to generate the immense diversity of neuronal cell types present in our adult brains. What are the signals that drive neural stem cells to proliferate & what are the signals that terminate stem cell divisions once development is complete? Using Drosophila we will investigate these questions and address specifically the role of nutrition in regulating profileration of the stem cell population. Prerequisite: BIOL 3000, BIOL 3010

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 Mechanisms of Human Disease

This course will cover advanced principles of developmental biology and how embryonic developmental pathways impinge on human disease. Topics will include congenital organ related disease, stem cell biology and its therapeutic applications, regenerative medicine and the impact of environmental factors on disease.

Credits: 3

BIOL 4060 - Organ Development and Tissue Engineering

Why do most of our adult body tissues have limited regenerative capacity? How can terminally diseased organs be replaced? This course will cover the cellular mechanisms that regulate animal tissue formation, regeneration and repair in vivo. Students will gain insights into the opportunities, limitations, and risks of tissue engineering in vitro, as an emerging research field that may lead to revolutionary organ replacement strategies. Prerequisite: BIOL 3000

Credits: 3

BIOL 4070 - Developmental Biology Laboratory

The goal of this course is to provide an original, unknown outcome research experience in developmental biology. After training in basic methods and descriptions of selected research problems, students form teams and investigate a problem of their choosing. Team members work together in the lab, but each writes an independent research proposal, a notebook, and a final project report on which they are graded. Prerequisite: BIOL 3000 or 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 4090 - Environmental Public Health

This is an interdisciplinary exploration of environmental public health issues. Students develop and research topics, lead small group discussions, give oral presentations, and write papers. Scope of student research in topic development includes env. science, ecology, epidemiology, toxicology, pathophysiology, gene-environment interactions, directions in clinical and translational research, and environmental and biomedical policy development.

Credits: 2

BIOL 4100 - Management of Forest Ecosystems

An ecosystem course that treats the ecology of forests and consequences of forest processes in natural and managed systems. The class emphasizes the “pattern & process” concept that is the central theme in modern vegetation sciences at increasing scales: from form/function of leaves and other parts of trees through population, community and landscape ecology to the role of forests in the global climate and carbon-cycling. Prerequisites: EVSC 3200

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 and 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. One semester of calculus is recommended. Prerequisite: BIOL 3020 or EVSC 3200

Credits: 3

BIOL 4135 - Biology of Aging

Aging is an evolutionary paradox because it decreases physiological function and increases the risk of mortality, yet aging persists in most species. We will explore the theories of aging and the diversity of the patterns of aging across species from flies to plants to humans. We will use the primary literature in the fields of evolution, genetics and cell biology to gain a comprehensive understand of the latest advances in this field.

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: 1

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. Prerequisite: 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 or 3010 or 3020

Credits: 3

BIOL 4210 - Genome Sciences: The DNA Revolution in Science and Society

This course will chronicle the meteoric rise in our ability to collect DNA sequence data & reconstruct genomes, and how this contributes to understanding evolution & the genetic basis of traits, including disease. Discussions with leading experts in science, policy or law will allow students to consider the promises & limitations of genomic research, as well as the future societal impact of having nearly ubiquitous genetic information. Prerequisite: BIOL 3010 and BIOL 3020

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 4230 - Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics

The Genome Era has transformed modern biology, providing sequence data that records genetic changes that occur over time scales from billions of years (evolution) to months (tumor growth). This interdisciplinary course introduces the algorithms, statistics & biological concepts used to make inferences from genome datasets and will provide the computational foundation & practical experience needed to test biological questions using genome data.

Credits: 4

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.

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 4265 - Developmental Neurobiology

The diverse functions of the nervous system depend on precise wiring of connections between neurons. This course covers cellular and molecular processes of how neuronal connections are established during development. Diseases which result from failing to establish the circuitry will also be discussed. This course will introduce research methods and technology, and encourage students to develop logical rationale of contemporary research.

Credits: 3

BIOL 4270 - Animal Behavior Laboratory

This laboratory course provides hands-on experiences with experimental approaches used to study animal behavior. The laboratory exercises explore visual and auditory sensory perception, biological clock, reproductive and aggressive behaviors using actively behaving animals such as hamsters, cichlid fish, crickets and electric fish. Students are given opportunities to design hypothesis-testing experiments in some laboratories.

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

The aspects of hormones (primarialy sex and stress) on vertebrate behavior. Prerequisites: Any two of BIOL 3000, 3010, 3020 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

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 3050 or PSYC 2200

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 4335 - Functional Organization of Sensory Systems

How do variations in the design of sensory structures and central nervous circuits lead to specialized behaviors as diverse as echolocation, acoustic perception of species-specific mating songs and spatial navigation? Throughout the course, we will examine the scientific literature that relates to the functional design of vertebrate and invertebrate sensory systems through classroom presentations and discussion.

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: Must have completed BIOL 3050 or BIOL 3170 or PSYC 4200

Credits: 3

BIOL 4350 - Metabolism: In Sickness and in Health

A worldwide obesity epidemic exists. With it comes increased risk of chronic disease, such as Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain cancers. This course will survey the molecular, genetic, physiologic and behavioral paths that lead to obesity and that contribute to prevalent chronic diseases. Through discussions of scientific literature, we will gain an integrated view of the factors that influence our energy homeostasis. Prerequiste: 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 4365 - How to Map a Brain

If you want to understand how our brain works, this is the course for you! In this student-driven Journal Club-style seminar series, we will consider recent neuroscience literature for discussion of the most innovative discoveries. A broad range of outstanding neuroscience issues will be considered; topics could include, for example, strategies for gene therapy for human neurological diseases, or the remote control of learning and memory. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

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 4380 - Evolution and Ecology of Development

From the seahorse’s body to the venus flytrap’s jaws to the human brain, nature abounds with amazing adaptations. This interdisciplinary course explores how and why such biodiversity evolves as well as what limits diversity. Lectures and case studies will focus on core concepts, recent advances, and integrative approaches, placing special emphasis on the interplay between gene regulatory networks, the environment, and population genetics. Prerequisites: BIOL 3010, BIOL 3020

Credits: 3

BIOL 4390 - 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. Prerequisite: May not take if previously completed BIOL 3360.

Credits: 2

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 4430 - Experimental Plant Biology Laboratory: Drugs & Infectious Diseases

We can’t live without plants. Plants make our existence possible, and they hold secrets for a better future. Our experimental approach in this lab will combine genetics and genomics strategies to uncover some of those secrets. We’ll search for genes and biosynthetic pathways that contribute to the success of plants at fighting off microbial infections. Ultimately, studies like these will lead to new, highly effective antimicrobial therapies. Prerequisite: BIOL 3010, BIOL 3150

Credits: 3

BIOL 4440 - Cell Biology of Lipids and Membranes

Life requires lipids. Discussion of the literature will integrate lipids into our current protein-centric view of cell biology. Topics considered are current models of membrane structure and its effect on metabolism; synthesis and distribution of lipids to regulate cell communication, gene expression, and the coding of identity; how pathogens turn lipids against host cells; and how common pharmaceuticals affect lipid biology to treat disease.

Credits: 3

BIOL 4450 - Plant-Animal Interactions

Plants & animals have a long co-evolutionary history, with their interactions shaping natural ecosystems, as well as our own daily lives. We’ll emphasize the evolutionary and ecological implications of these interactions to consider topics, such as pollination, herbivory and dispersal. We’ll also address questions like: Why is flower color, shape and scent so diverse? How do animals eat toxic plants? How do fruit help plants finds new habitat?

Credits: 3

BIOL 4460 - Forest Sampling

Study of quantitative methods for sampling forest ecosystems

Credits: 3

BIOL 4480 - Macromolecular Structure

Exploration, in depth, of principles underlying protein and nucleic acid structures and the techniques used to determine those structures. Prerequisite: CHEM2410 and 2420 or BIOL3000 or permission of instructor

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: 1.00 to 4.00

BIOL 4560 - Electric Crayfish: Elements of Neurophysiology

Course uses electrophysiological techniques with living crayfish material to examine principles of neurobiological function, including cellular resting potentials, propagated action potentials, neuromuscular physiology, aspects of neuromuscular organization, and sensory neuron physiology and organization. A lab lecture will precede each lab session. Grading will be based upon written laboratory reports and two midterm laboratory exams. Prerequisite: BIOL 3170

Credits: 3

BIOL 4585 - Selected Topics in Biology

Periodic seminar offerings to provide intensive study of the scientific literature in focused areas of Biology.

Credits: 2

BIOL 4610 - Molecular Evolution: Diversity, Mutants, and the Biological Myth of Race

Through the analysis of patterns of genetic variation in DNA, the field of Molecular Evolution seeks to gain insight into the fundamental evolutionary forces that generate, maintain, and remove genetic diversity. These forces shape the abundance of deleterious and beneficial mutations and reflect physical and behavioral differences between populations. In this course, we will dive into theoretical population genetics as a framework to develop an intuitive understanding of these evolutionary processes. We will apply this understanding to diversity among humans and all other life on earth. Prerequisite: BIOL3010, BIOL3020 required; STAT 2020 and calculus (MATH 1210, 1220, 1310, or 1320) suggested.

Credits: 3

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Chemistry

Courses

CHEM 1210 - Concepts of Chemistry

Explore the connections between chemistry & everyday life. Topics include the chemistry of air/water pollution, global climate change, alternative energy, polymeric materials, organic vs. non-organic agriculture, biotechnology, & drugs will be examined. After learning the pertinent structures, reactions & energetics, we investigate social, economic & political impacts of chemical issues surrounding these issues. No lab.

Credits: 3

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 I

Introduces the principles and applications of chemistry. Topics include stoichiometry, chemical equations and reactions, chemical bonding, states of matter, thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and descriptive chemistry of the elements. For students planning to elect further courses in chemistry, physics, and biology and to fulfill prehealth prerequisites. CHEM 1411 may be taken concurrently or after completing 1410. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1410, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1411. A grade of C- or higher is required to take CHEM 1420.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1411 - Introductory College Chemistry I Laboratory

Introduction to experimental chemistry, developing laboratory skills & safety. Students plan & implement chemistry experiments in cooperative 4-person teams using a guided inquiry approach. Process skills include developing procedures, data analysis, oral & written communication. Mathematica as a computational tool. Topics: glassware characterization & accuracy, unknown identification of & applications of solubility. 3 1/2 hour lab meets weekly. CHEM 1410, 1610, or 1810 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 1411. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1410, 1610, or 1810, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1411.

Credits: 1

CHEM 1420 - Introductory College Chemistry II

Introduces the principles and applications of chemistry. Topics include stoichiometry, chemical equations and reactions, chemical bonding, states of matter, thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and descriptive chemistry of the elements. For students planning to elect further courses in chemistry, physics, and biology and to fulfill prehealth prerequisites. Prerequisites: CHEM 1410, 1610, or a C- in CHEM 1810 is required. CHEM 1421 may be taken concurrently or after completing 1420. Drop or withdrawal from CHEM 1420, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1421. C or higher required for CHEM 2410.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1421 - Introductory College Chemistry II Laboratory

Continuation of CHEM 1411, students plan and implement chemistry experiments in cooperative four-person teams using a guided inquiry approach. Mathematica is integrated into the course as a computational chemistry tool. Process skills include developing procedures, data analysis, communication of results, and lab report writing. Topics include thermodynamics, kinetics, acid/base equilibria. 3 1/2 hour lab meets weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1411, 1611, or 1811. CHEM 1420 or 1620 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 1421. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1420 or 1620, requires drop/withdraw from CHEM 1421.

Credits: 1

CHEM 1500 - Chemistry for Health Sciences

Emphasizes the practical aspects of general, organic, and biological chemistry with numerous applications to clinical and health-related cases and issue. Provides health professionals with the chemical background necessary to understand the diagnostic tests and procedures needed for healthcare delivery. Relationships between inorganic chemistry and the life processes that occur during normal and abnormal metabolism.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1610 - Introductory Chemistry I for Engineers

Introduces the principles and applications of chemistry. Topics include stoichiometry, chemical equations and reactions, chemical bonding, states of matter, thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and descriptive chemistry of the elements. For students planning to elect further courses in chemistry, physics, and biology and to fulfill prehealth prerequisites. Prerequisite: CHEM 1611 or 1411 may be taken concurrently or after completing 1610. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1610, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1611/1411. A grade of C- or higher required for CHEM 1620.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1611 - Introductory Chemistry I for Engineers Laboratory

Introduction to experimental chemistry, developing laboratory skills & safety. Students plan & implement chemistry experiments in cooperative 4-person teams using a guided inquiry approach. Process skills include developing procedures, data analysis, oral & written communication. Mathematica as a computational tool. Topics: glassware characterization & accuracy, unknown identification of, & applications of solubility. Lab meets biweekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1410, 1610, or 1810 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 1611. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1410, 1610, or 1810, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1611.

Credits: 1

CHEM 1620 - Introductory Chemistry II for Engineers

Introduces the principles and applications of chemistry. Topics include stoichiometry, chemical equations and reactions, chemical bonding, states of matter, thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and descriptive chemistry of the elements. For students planning to elect further courses in chemistry, physics, and biology and to fulfill prehealth prerequisites. Prerequisites: CHEM 1410, 1610, or 1810. CHEM 1621 may be taken concurrently or after completing 1620. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1620, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1621. C or higher required for CHEM 2410.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1621 - Introductory Chemistry II for Engineers Laboratory

Continuation of CHEM 1611, students plan and implement chemistry experiments in cooperative four-person teams using a guided inquiry approach. Mathematica is integrated into the course as a computational chemistry tool. Process skills include developing procedures, data analysis, communication of results, and lab report writing. Topics include thermodynamics, kinetics, acid/base equilibria. Lab meets biweekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1411, 1611, or 1811. CHEM 1420 or 1620 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 1621. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1420 or 1620, requires drop/withdraw from CHEM 1621.

Credits: 1

CHEM 1810 - Principles of Chemical Structure (Accelerated)

First of a four-semester sequence covering the basic concepts of general & organic chemistry. Establishes a foundation of fundamental particles & the nature of the atom, develops a rationale for molecular structure, & explores the basis of chemical reactivity. Topics: introductory quantum mechanics, atomic structure, chemical bonding, spectroscopy, & elementary molecular reactivity. Prerequisite: A strong background in high school chemistry. CHEM 1811 or 1411 may be taken concurrently or after completing CHEM 1810. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1810, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1811/1411.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1811 - Principles of Chemical Structure Laboratory (Accelerated)

Students will grow as scientists by designing experiments independently, building technical writing & communication skills, drawing connections between chemistry class & the real world, practicing fundamental laboratory techniques, and generating experimental support for concepts covered in CHEM 1810. “Wet lab” and computational experiments encompass & expand beyond those offered in CHEM 1411. One hour lab lecture and four hour lab meets weekly. Prerequisite: A strong background in high school chemistry. CHEM 1810 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 1811. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1810 requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1811.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1820 - Principles of Organic Chemistry (Accelerated)

Seeks to understand elementary reaction types as a function of chemical structure by emphasizing organic compounds. Topics include acid-base, nucleophilic substitution, oxidation-reduction, electrophilic addition, elimination, conformational analysis, stereochemistry, aromaticity, and molecular spectroscopy. Prerequisite: CHEM 1810 w/grade C or higher. CHEM 1821, 2411, or 2311 may be taken concurrently or after completing CHEM 1820. Drop or withdrawal from CHEM 1820, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1821/2411/2311.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1821 - Principles of Organic Chemistry Laboratory (Accelerated)

Introduction to organic laboratory techniques, organic synthesis, spectroscopic characterization of organic compounds, and qualitative organic analysis. One hour lab lecture and four hour laboratory meets weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1811. CHEM 1820 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 1821. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1820, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1821.

Credits: 3

CHEM 2311 - Organic Chem Lab I for Non-Chemistry Majors/Minors

Focuses on the development of skills in methods of preparation, purification and identification of organic compounds. One hour lab lecture and four hour laboratory meets biweekly. This course is designed for students who are pre-health students and NOT chemistry majors/minors. Prerequisite: CHEM 1421, 1621, or 1811. CHEM 2410 or 1820 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 2311. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2410/1820, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2311.

Credits: 1

CHEM 2321 - Organic Chem Lab II for Non-Chemistry Majors/Minors

Focuses on the development of skills in methods of preparation, purification and identification of organic compounds. One hour lab lecture and four hour laboratory meets biweekly. This course is designed for students who are pre-health students but NOT chemistry majors/minors. Prerequisite: CHEM 2311 or 2411. CHEM 2420 or 2810 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 2321. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2420 or 2810, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2321.

Credits: 1

CHEM 2350 - The Chemical Century

This course will explore the chemical component of some major technological changes of the 20th century including explosives, fuels, polymers, consumer products, agriculture, food processing, nutrition, and drugs. The discovery, development and implementation of key technologies will be discussed along with the societal impact. Biographical and historical information about inventors or companies will supplement the material. Prerequisites: CHEM 1410, 1420 or 1810, 1820

Credits: 3

CHEM 2410 - Organic Chemistry I

Surveys the compounds of carbon in relation to their structure, identification, synthesis, natural occurrence, and mechanisms of reactions. Three class hours; Discussion requirement at the discretion of instructor. CHEM 1420 or 1620. CHEM 2311 or 2411 may be taken concurrently or after CHEM 2410. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2410, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2311/2411. C or better required for CHEM 2420.

Credits: 3

CHEM 2411 - Organic Chemistry I Laboratory

Introduction to the principles and techniques used in the organic chemistry laboratory, including methods of purification, isolation, synthesis and analysis of organic compounds, including spectroscopic and chromatographic methods. One hour lecture and four hour laboratory meets weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1421, 1621, or 1811. CHEM 2410 or 1820 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 2411. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2410/1820, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2411.

Credits: 3

CHEM 2420 - Organic Chemistry II

Survey of the principle classes of organic and bioorganic compounds in relation to their structure, identification, synthesis, natural occurrence, reactivity, and mechanisms of reactions. Prerequisite: CHEM 2410 or 1820. CHEM 2321 or 2421 may be taken concurrently or after completing CHEM 2420. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2420, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2321/2421.

Credits: 3

CHEM 2421 - Organic Chemistry II Laboratory

Further development of skills acquired in CHEM 2411; synthesis (including multistep synthesis), isolation, purification and characterization of compounds such as anestethics, antiinflamatory and antibacterial compounds, as well as peptides, oligonucleotides, synthetic polymers. One hour lab lecture and four hour laboratory meets weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 2411. CHEM 2420 or 2810 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 2421. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2420 or 2810, requires drop/withdrawal from 2421.

Credits: 3

CHEM 2810 - Principles of Organic & Bioorganic Chemistry

Continued exploration of organic reactions and structures initiated in CHEM 1820. Includes electrophilic aromatic substitution, nucleophilic aromatic substitution, nucleophilic addition, nucleophilic acyl substitution, organometallic compounds, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids. Prerequisite: CHEM 1820. CHEM 2811, 2421, or 2321 may be taken concurrently or after CHEM 2810. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2810, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2811/2421/2321.

Credits: 3

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

Further development of the laboratory skills acquired in CHEM 1821, for the organic synthesis (including multistep synthesis) of compounds such as esters, amides, peptides, polymers, organometallics. Extensive hands-on experience using spectroscopic (NMR, IR, UV) and chromatographic methods for the characterization of organic compounds. One hour lab lecture and four hours laboratory meets weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1821. CHEM 2810 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 2811. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2810, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2811.

Credits: 3

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

Focuses on the macroscopic properties of chemical systems. Topics include states of matter, physical equilibria, chemical equilibria, thermodynamic relationships, kinetic theory, and electrochemistry. Prerequisite: CHEM 2810

Credits: 3

CHEM 2900 - Teaching Methods for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

CHEM 3240 - Coding in Matlab/Mathematica with Applications

This course focuses on an introduction to programming and data manipulation, with an emphasis on applications. Students have the choice of using Matlab or Mathematica as their programming language, with course instruction spanning both languages. Topics include loops, data structures, functions and functional programming, randomness, matrices, and string manipulation, plus applications selected from chemistry, statistics, or image processing. Prerequisite: One semester of calculus is recommended but not required.

Credits: 3

CHEM 3410 - Physical Chemistry - Quantum Theory

Introduces physical chemistry with numerous biological applications: chemical kinetics; introductory quantum theory; chemical bonding; spectroscopy and molecular structure; biochemical transport; and statistical mechanics. Prerequisite: CHEM 1420 or 1810; MATH 1220 or 1320; and PHYS 2020, 2620, or 2415. CHEM 3811 (if required for degree program) may be taken concurrently or after CHEM 3410. Discussion is optional.

Credits: 3

CHEM 3420 - Physical Chemistry - Thermodynamics

Introduces physical chemistry with numerous biological applications: properties of gases, liquids, and solids; thermodynamics; chemical and biochemical equilibrium; solutions; electrochemistry; and structure and stability of biological macromolecules. Prerequisite: CHEM 3410. CHEM 3821 (if required for degree program) may be taken concurrently or after CHEM 3420. Discussion is optional.

Credits: 3

CHEM 3610 - Physical Chemistry for Engineers

CHEM 3721 - Analytical Chemistry Laboratory

This lecture/laboratory course covers basic analytical chemistry instrumentation including chromatography, electrochemistry, spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. Lecture content will include theory and application of chemical instrumentation. The laboratory component will emphasize obtaining and interpreting quantitative data and designing experiments through project-based labs. 2 lecture hours, 4 lab hours. Prerequisite: CHEM 1421, 1621, or 1811

Credits: 4

CHEM 3811 - Physical Chemistry I Laboratory

Execution of laboratory experiments that illustrate important laws and demonstrate quantitative methods of measuring the chemical and physical properties of matter. One hour lab lecture and four hour lab meet weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1421, 1621, or 1811. CHEM 3410 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 3811. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 3410, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 3811.

Credits: 3

CHEM 3821 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory II

Execution of laboratory experiments that illustrate important laws and demonstrate quantitative methods of measuring the chemical and physical properties of matter. One hour lab lecture and four hour laboratory meet weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 3811. CHEM 3420 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 3821. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 3420, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 3821.

Credits: 3

CHEM 3951 - Undergraduate Research I

Introduces the methods of research that include use of the research literature and instruction in basic experimental and theoretical procedures and techniques. Students can conduct their research within the Dept of Chemistry or in a related science with approval. Under the supervision of faculty but may work closely with a Post-Doc or graduate student.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

CHEM 3961 - Undergraduate Research II

Student continues to build on their knowledge of the methods of research including the use of research literature and instruction in more advanced experimental and theoretical procedures and techniques. Students can conduct their research within the Dept of Chemistry or in a related science with approval. Under the supervision of faculty but may work closely with a Post-Doc or graduate student.

Credits: 3

CHEM 4090 - Analytical Chemistry

Study of the utilization of modern analytical instrumentation for chemical analysis. Includes emission and mass spectrometry, ultraviolet, visible, and infrared absorption spectroscopy, atomic absorption, electrical methods of analysis, chromatography, neutron activation analysis, and X-ray methods. Prerequisite: CHEM 1420 or CHEM 1620 or CHEM 1810

Credits: 3

CHEM 4320 - Inorganic Chemistry

Unified treatment of the chemistry of the important classes of inorganic compounds and their reactions, with emphasis on underlying principles of molecular structure, symmetry, and bonding theory, including molecular orbital descriptions and reactivity. Prerequisite; CHEM 1420.

Credits: 3

CHEM 4410 - Biological Chemistry I

Introduces the components of biological macromolecules and the principles behind their observed structures. Examines the means by which enzymes catalyze transformations of other molecules, emphasizing the chemical principles involved. Topics include a description of the key metabolic cycles and pathways, the enzymes that catalyze these reactions, and the ways in which these pathways are regulated. Prerequisite: CHEM 2420

Credits: 3

CHEM 4411 - Biological Chemistry Laboratory I

Introducing the components of biological macromolecules and the principles behind their observed structures. Prerequisites: CHEM 2420 or 2810

Credits: 4

CHEM 4420 - Biological Chemistry II

Covers three main areas: structure and function of biological membranes; complex biochemical systems and processes, including photosynthesis, oxidative phosphorylation, vision, neurotransmission, hormonal regulation, muscle contraction, and microtubules; and molecular biology, including DNA and RNA metabolism, protein synthesis, regulation of gene expression, and recombinant DNA methodology.

Credits: 3

CHEM 4421 - Biological Chemistry Laboratory II

This course builds on the techniques learned in CHEM 4411 to study the structure/function relationship of a protein. Experiments are designed to determine the function of a protein and/or the effect of a mutation on function. Experimental methods include protein expression and purification, spectrophotometric kinetic methods and statistical analysis of data, and molecular visualization. Prerequisite: CHEM 4411 with a grade of C- or better.

Credits: 4

CHEM 4430 - From Lab Bench to Your Medicine Cabinet

This course will focus on methods of drug discovery. The class will include reading primary literature and discussions about topics ranging from natural products to gene therapy. Students will prepare a paper and presentation on the mechanism of action, timeline of discovery, importance of pharmacokinetics, and the role of basic research in the discovery for a select group of therapeutics Prerequisites: CHEM 4410

Credits: 3

CHEM 4951 - Undergraduate Research III

CHEM 4961 - Undergraduate Research IV

CHEM 4971 - Distinguished Majors Thesis Research

Independent research, under the supervision of the faculty DMP thesis readers, toward the DMP thesis.

Credits: 3

Classics

Courses

CLAS 2010 - Greek Civilization

Studies Greek history, literature, and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 2020 - Roman Civilization

Studies Roman history, literature, and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 2040 - Greek Mythology

Introduces major themes of Greek mythological thought; surveys myths about the olympic pantheon and the legends of the heroes. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 2100 - Classical Myth and its Influence

Studies the influence and prominence of Classical myth in literature and other arts in antiquity and through time.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3040 - Women and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome

This course focuses on women’s roles and lives in Ancient Greece and Rome. Students are introduced to the primary material (textual and material) on women in antiquity and to current debates about it. Subjects addressed will include sexual stereotypes and ideals, power-relations of gender, familial roles, social and economic status, social and political history, visual art, medical theory, and religion. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3100 - Age of Odysseus

Studies the literature, culture, history, art, and religion of the times of the Homeric epics (Bronze Age to circa 700 b.c.). Readings include Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, The Homeric Hymns, and Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days. Some emphasis on the archaeology of Mycenaean sites. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3110 - Age of Pericles

Studies the literature, art, architecture, history, and politics of the Periclean Age of Athens, with special emphasis on Pericles (circa 495-429 b.c.) and his accomplishments. Readings from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Thucydides, and Plutarch. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3120 - Age of Alexander

Studies the times, person, accomplishments of Alexander the Great (356-323 b.c.), the literature, art, and architecture of the period, and the influence of Alexander on the development of Greek and Western culture. Readings from Plutarch, Arrian, Demosthenes, and poets and philosophers of the early Hellenistic period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3130 - Age of Augustus

Studies the times, person, and accomplishments of the Roman Emperor Augustus (63 b.c.-14 a.d.), with special emphasis on the literature, art, architecture, and political developments of the period. Readings from Tacitus, Suetonius, and the poetry of Vergil, Horace, and Ovid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3140 - Age of Augustine

Studies cultural developments in the fourth and fifth centuries, centering on St. Augustine and the literature of the period. Readings from such works as Augustine’s Confessions and City of God, Jerome’s letters, Cassian’s Conversations, Sulpicius Severus’ biography of St. Martin, and the poetry of Claudian and Prudentius. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3150 - Gods and Androids

Reading of ancient epics (Homer’s “Illiad”. Apollonius of Rhodes “Argonautica” and Vergil’s “Aeneid”) in light of modern counterparts in various media, including Alan Moore’s graphic novel “Watchmen” and the rebotted “Battlestar Galactica”.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3210 - Tragedy and Comedy

Analyzes readings in the tragic poets Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca; and the comic poets Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence, together with ancient and modern discussions. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3250 - Ancient Greek Religion

An introduction to the religious beliefs, practices, and life of ancient Greeks of the classical period as they are found in literature, history, architecture, and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3300 - Introduction to Indo-european Linguistics

Languages as superficially different as English, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit in fact all developed from a single “proto-language,” called Proto-Indo-European. This course will explore the following questions: What was this proto-language like? How do we know what it was like? By what processes did it develop into the various daughter languages? How can we trace words as diverse as wit, idea, video, and Veda back to a common source?

Credits: 3

CLAS 3350 - Language and Literature of the Early Celts

This introduction to the Celtic inhabitants of Gaul and Britain unites two approaches, one literary, one linguistic. First, we will compare descriptions of the Celts found in Greek and Latin authors with readings of Celtic literature in translation, notably Ireland’s great prose epic, the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Second, we will explore how the Celtic languages work, focusing on the basics of Old Irish as well as touching on Middle Welsh and Gaulish.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3400 - The City of Rome in Antiquity

This lecture course traces the urban development of Rome from the earliest settlements in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1,000 BCE) to the depopulation of the city in the sixth century CE.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3600 - Medieval Manuscripts at UVA

An introduction to the study of medieval manuscripts through the holdings of the University of Virginia. Manuscripts will be studied from a variety of perspectives: the cultural context that produced them, their physical and visual form, and the history of their reception, from their creation to their current home in the Small Special Collections Library.

Credits: 3

CLAS 4993 - Independent Study

Independent Study in Classics.

Credits: 3

GREE 1010 - Elementary Greek

Attic Greek: beginning grammar, composition, and selected readings. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 4

GREE 1020 - Elementary Greek

Attic Greek: beginning grammar, composition, and selected readings. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 4

GREE 2010 - Intermediate Greek I

Xenophon and Plato. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 1010-1020.

Credits: 3

GREE 2020 - Intermediate Greek II

Herodotus and Euripides. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2010.

Credits: 3

GREE 2230 - The New Testament I

Introduces New Testament Greek; selections from the Gospels. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 1010, 1020.

Credits: 3

GREE 2240 - The New Testament II

Selections from the Epistles. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.vvirginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 1010-1020 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

GREE 3010 - Advanced Reading in Greek

Reading of a tragedy and a related prose work. Weekly exercises in writing Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2020.

Credits: 3

GREE 3020 - Advanced Reading in Greek

Readings in Greek from Homer’s Iliad. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 3010 or 3030.

Credits: 3

GREE 3030 - Advanced Reading in Greek

Reading of a comedy and a related prose work. Weekly exercises in writing Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2020.

Credits: 3

GREE 3040 - Advanced Reading in Greek

Readings in Greek from Homer’s Odyssey. Offered in alternate years. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 3010 or 3030.

Credits: 3

GREE 4993 - Independent Study

Independent Study in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

GREE 4998 - Greek Distinguished Majors Thesis Research

Independent research under direction of a faculty member leading to writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project

Credits: 3

GREE 4999 - Greek Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing

Writing of Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project. Prerequisite: GREE 4998

Credits: 3

LATI 116 - Intensive Introductory Latin

This is the non-credit option for LATI 1016. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 0

LATI 126 - Intensive Introductory Latin

This is the non-credit option for LATI 1026. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 0

LATI 216 - Intensive Intermediate Latin

This is the non-credit option for LATI 2016. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 0

LATI 226 - Intensive Intermediate Latin

This is the non-credit option for LATI 2026. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 0

LATI 1010 - Elementary Latin I

Beginning grammar, prose composition, and simple Latin readings. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 4

LATI 1016 - Intensive Introductory Latin

This intensive course begins with instruction in elementary reading and writing, and continues with further development of these skills at the intermediate level. Part of the Summer Language Institute. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 1020 - Elementary Latin II

Beginning grammar, prose composition, and simple Latin readings. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 4

LATI 1026 - Intensive Introductory Latin

LATI 1030 - Fundamentals of Latin (Intensive)

Covers the material of 1010,1020 in one semester. Intended principally as a review for those who know some Latin. May be taken as a rapid introduction to Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: Two or more years of high school Latin and appropriate CEEB score, or permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Credits: 4

LATI 2010 - Intermediate Latin I

Introductory readings from Caesar and Ovid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: LATI 1020, 1030, or appropriate CEEB score.

Credits: 3

LATI 2016 - Intensive Intermediate Latin

This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level reading and writing, and continues with further development of these skills, Part of the Summer Language Institute. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisites: Lati 1016 &1026 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

LATI 2020 - Intermediate Latin II

Introductory readings from Cicero and Catullus. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: LATI 2010.

Credits: 3

LATI 2026 - Intensive Intermediate Latin

This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level e reading and writing, and continues with further development of these skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisites: Lati 1016, 1026 and 2016 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

LATI 3010 - Plautus

Reading of two plays of Plautus with attention to style and dramaturgy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3020 - Catullus

Selections from Carmina. Note: The prerequisite for LATI 3030 through LATI 3110 is LATI 2020, four years of high school Latin, or appropriate SAT score. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3030 - Cicero

Selections from Cicero’s speeches, philosophical works, and letters. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3040 - Prose Composition

Graded exercises in translation from English into Latin, with some attention to the reverse process. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3050 - The Satirical Writing of Petronius and Seneca

Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis, and Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3070 - Livy

Selections from Livy’s History. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3080 - Horace

Selections from Horace’s Satires, Epodes, Odes, and Epistles. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3090 - Introduction to Mediaeval Latin

Selections of Mediaeval Latin prose and verse. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3100 - Vergil

Selections from Vergil’s Aeneid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3110 - Ovid

Selections from either the narrative poems (Metamorphoses, Fasti) or from the amatory poems. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3120 - Pliny’s Letters

In this course we read the selection of letters of the younger Pliny that are found in the edition by Sherwin-White. Pliny is one of the clearest and most stylish writers of Latin prose. We concentrate on translating the letters and putting them into their social and literary context.

Credits: 3

LATI 3130 - Roman Satire

This class will explore the Romans’ “own genre: satire. After an overview of the development of satire and its early practitioners, we will read and translate selected satires of Horace and Juvenal. While reading these often funny and at the same time biting poems, we will learn a great deal about society and manners, life and death, rich men and poor slobs, and high & low life characters in the Augustan & early imperial periods of Rome.

Credits: 3

LATI 3150 - Sallust

This course will focus on one or more works by the Roman historian Sallust, read in the original Latin. Additional reading in English.

Credits: 3

LATI 3160 - Lucretius

In this course, we’ll read a variety of selections from Lucretius poem about the nature of the universe, including topics as wide-ranging as the body, sex, death, atomic theory, the origins of language and civilization, and why we need philosophy.

Credits: 3

LATI 3200 - Latin Bible

Readings from the Latin Bible, beginning with selections from narrative books (e.g., Genesis, Acts) and progressing to more elaborate and poetic portions (e.g. Psalms, Job, Song of Songs). Readings will be taken mainly from the Vulgate, but we will look briefly at the Old Latin versions and at modern English translations. We will also consider some medieval Bible manuscripts, including several in Special Collections at UVA.

Credits: 3

LATI 4010 - Catullus

Translation and interpretation of the poems of Catullus.

Credits: 3

LATI 4020 - Seminar in Vergil

In-depth study of one book of Vergil’s epic, the Aeneid, with attention to language, epic tradition, Augustan ideology and the topography of Rome. Quizzes, reports, exam, paper.

Credits: 3

LATI 4993 - Independent Study

Independent Study in Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

LATI 4998 - Latin Distinguished Majors Thesis Research

Independent research under direction of a faculty member leading to writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project

Credits: 3

LATI 4999 - Latin Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing

Writing of Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project. Prerequisites: LATI 4998

Credits: 3

Cognitive Science

Courses

COGS 3960 - Cognitive Science Research

This course aims to provide faculty-supervised research experience. A faculty mentor should be identified before enrollment. S/U grading. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Faculty supervisor permission.

Credits: 3

COGS 4970 - Distinguished Major Thesis

A two-semester course in which the student prepares a thesis under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. The thesis may be based on empirical research conducted by the student or a critical review or theoretical analysis of existing findings.

Credits: 0

COGS 4980 - Distinguished Major Thesis

Comparative Literature

Computer Science

Drama

Courses

DANC 1400 - The Art of Dance

This course is an introduction to dance as an art form and examines the different roles of primarily Western forms of dance from the end of the 19th century to present. Students will investigate how concert dance shapes and is shaped by Western culture. Through practical dance experiences students will deepen their understanding of the creative process and their appreciation of dance as a medium for social commentary and artistic expression.

Credits: 3

DANC 2210 - Ballet I

In this studio course, students will learn Ballet terminology, placement and dynamic alignment through an anatomical approach to Ballet technique. Students will work at barre and center while increasing strength, flexibility and body awareness.

Credits: 1

DANC 2220 - Modern/Contemporary I

This studio course explores various styles of modern and contemporary dance. Students will work on dynamic alignment and movement retention as they increase their body awareness, range of motion, strength, flexibility, and expressivity. Styles explored include but are not limited to Horton, Graham, Contact Improvisation and Release Techniques.

Credits: 1

DANC 2230 - Jazz Dance I

This studio course explores various styles of jazz dance. Combinations will focus on isolation, coordination, juxtaposition and musicality. Styles include but are not limited to contemporary, Broadway/musical theatre and lyrical.

Credits: 1

DANC 2300 - Dance Improvisation

Allows students to explore the creative practice of dance improvisation for beginning to intermediate students. Through improvisational methods and structures students will develop their skills as improvisers and begin to appreciate its role in composition (choreography) as well as a form of performance.

Credits: 2

DANC 2430 - Production Laboratory: Dance

This course provides students with firsthand experience in the creative practice of choreography and performance while providing exposure to basic production skills. In addition to gaining insight into choreography and performance as modes of critical inquiry, students will also be involved in various aspects of the production and will gain an appreciation of the skills that are required to produce a dance concert.

Credits: 1

DANC 3210 - Ballet II

Exploration of Ballet technique for intermediate to advanced students. Students will deepen their knowledge through continued study of terminology, placement and dynamic alignment while expanding upon their ability to make qualitative choices and enhancing their artistry.

Credits: 1

DANC 3220 - Modern/Contemporary II

This studio course explores various styles of modern and contemporary dance through a movement class for intermediate to advanced students. Students will deepen their knowledge and understanding of modern and contemporary dance as a practice. Students will continue to increase their range of motion, strength, flexibility and body awareness as they begin to expand upon their embodiment, self-awareness, expressivity and artistry.

Credits: 1

DANC 3230 - Jazz Dance II

This studio course explores various styles of jazz dance for intermediate to advanced students. Students will continue to deepen their appreciation of jazz dance forms as they increase movement articulation and specificity. Combinations will focus on isolation, coordination, juxtaposition and musicality while also challenging the students to enhance their expressivity and qualitative choices.

Credits: 1

DANC 3300 - Dance Composition

Explores the creative process through the investigation of various approaches to composition. Through in-class movement explorations and collaborative exercises, students will practice the art of making dances in order to heighten their understanding and appreciation of the creative process. Through showings and feedback sessions, students will hone their abilities to make dances and analyze and discuss the art of choreography.

Credits: 2

DANC 3400 - Dance and Culture

This course aims to deepen students’ understanding of dance as a field of artistic and intellectual study. Students will be challenged to examine human movement as a historically situated cultural expression and to explore the relation between dance and various socio-cultural developments. The course will highlight the connection of dance and critical theory, focusing on notions of identity, subjectivity and embodiment.

Credits: 3

DANC 3590 - Special Topics in Dance

In-depth investigation of a specific area in the field of dance; topic or content may vary according to instructor. May be repeated for credit with different content areas. Possible topics include: advanced study of Bartenieff Fundamentals or Laban Movement Analysis, dance and community exchange, urban or world dance forms, dance and music collaboration, dance and technology, etc.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DANC 3610 - Contact Improvisation

This course serves as an introduction to the principles and skills involved in the practice of Contact Improvisation. Students will explore and learn improvisational strategies for moving individually, in duets, and groups. With attention focused on responsiveness in the moment, students learn to think quickly and creatively and are encouraged to investigate the territory between familiarity and risk.

Credits: 1

DANC 3620 - Dance Repertory

This course is designed for students to have the opportunity to learn repertory, experience multiple methods of choreography and gain deeper insight into the practice of dance performance through working with faculty and professional guest artists via the choreographic process.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DANC 3630 - Dance Theater

Studies the integration of dance with other media - text, dramatic action, digital media, sets, props, etc. to provide students with insight into dance theatre as an art form.

Credits: 3

DANC 3640 - Dance for the Camera

This course serves as an introduction to creating films based on dance and movement. Through the viewing of dance-related films, readings and group projects, students will be given the opportunity to plan, shoot and edit several short dances for the camera with a focus on motion and movement editing.

Credits: 3

DANC 3650 - Dance Production

Introduction to and practical experience in the production of dance. Students will explore technical theatre aspects such as lighting, sound, stage management, costumes, props, digital media, as well as what goes into producing work - locating traditional and non-traditional venues, grant writing, publicity and other areas applicable to producing dance.

Credits: 3

DANC 4220 - Modern/Contemporary III

This studio course for advanced students explores various styles of modern and contemporary dance, including both improvisational and compositional elements. Students will be challenged to continue to increase their range of motion, strength, flexibility and body awareness as they learn movement at an accelerated pace while focusing on embodiment, dynamic alignment, technical specificity, qualitative choices and artistry.

Credits: 1

DANC 4640 - Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis

This course explores the somatic practices of LMA and BF. We will investigate body-patterning and aspects of Body, Effort, Shape and Space (BESS), to gain an appreciation for both the expressive and functional potential of the body. Through movement exercises, guided explorations, reading/writing, and movement studies students will enhance connectivity and expressivity while also improving upon their ability to analyze movement.

Credits: 3

DANC 4993 - Independent Study: Dance

Allows upper level students to pursue dance as an independent project. Students can select their area of focus in dance including Production, Performance, Artistic Direction, Choreography, and/or Research.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 1010 - How Theatre Works

Investigates theatre arts and their relation to contemporary culture through the practical and experiential study of plays, production style and the role of theatre artists in creative interpretation.

Credits: 3

DRAM 1020 - Speaking in Public

For non-majors. Acquire and practice voice and speech techniques to build oral communication skills, confidence and enjoyment in public speaking, presentation or performance.

Credits: 3

DRAM 1210 - Making Places

This is a making class. Making Places explores the basic elements of spatial design in environmental and theatrical contexts through model making, drawing, collaging, and constructing. How do the principles of design and their application endow Places with an identity? Projects created in manual and digital media.

Credits: 3

DRAM 1220 - Art of the Creature

Art of the Creature fosters creative and critical thinking by requiring students to imagine, research, and build environments and creatures. Students will study the history and methods of creating environments and creatures in theatre, film, and other performance art forms; research and develop their own individual and group creations; and reflect orally and in writing on their work.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2010 - Theatre Art: Image to Form

Examines the translation of dramatic image into theatrical form as explored through elements of storytelling, script analysis, 2- and 3-D design, and the experience of performance.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2020 - Acting I

Explores basic theories and techniques of acting through exercises, improvisations and scenes from contemporary dramatic literature.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2031 - Theatre Abroad: Cultures and History

The goal of this course is to understand, examine and discuss how theatre is realized through the diverse and differing work of writers, directors, scenographers and actors. This course will explore aspects of theatre history, theatre spaces, texts, and performance conventions and their importance in the understanding of traditional and contemporary theatre performances in a global context.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2040 - The Alexander Technique for the Actor

A studio course introducing students to a basic and practical understanding of the Alexander technique movement system.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2050 - Performance and/as Theory

This course surveys a broad range of theories and methodologies pertinent to the fields of Performance Studies. Each unit addresses important concepts and frameworks that help you write about, think about, and make performance art. Lecture, close reading, application exercises, and writing assignments will strengthen your theoretical vocabularies, hone your analytical writing skills and apply various tests to your own work as scholars/artists.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2070 - Public Speaking

The purpose of this course is to put principles of speech into practice; students will learn to communicate effectively primarily through practical experience. Students will (1) learn the basic principles of speech preparation and delivery, including invention of topics and arguments, organization, and style; (2) apply these principles to your speech preparation and delivery; and (3) develop and use listening skills in the analysis of speeches.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2080 - Circus in America

Introduces the circus as a form of American entertainment. Focuses on its development, growth, decline, and cultural influences.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2110 - Lighting Technology

Studies the basic techniques for moving the lighting design from drafted plot through finished design, including equipment, dimming and control systems, and color theory. Prerequisite: DRAM 2010 and 2020, or instructor permission; corequisite: DRAM 2130.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2130 - Production Laboratory: Lighting

Application of lighting and sound technology in laboratory production projects. May be repeated up to four credits. Prerequisite: DRAM 2010 and 2020, or instructor permission; corequisite: DRAM 2110.

Credits: 1

DRAM 2210 - Scenic Technology

Studies the technology and practices used in the theatre and entertainment industry. Covers set construction techniques, materials, and hardware. Students will learn the skills and techniques required for using hand and power tools. Terminology learned in Drama 2210 will be practiced in the co-requisite course Drama 2230 - Production Studio.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2230 - Production Studio: Scenery

Application of scenery technology in producing theatrical productions while maintaining and organized safe work environment. Co-requisite DRAM 2210

Credits: 1

DRAM 2231 - Production Lab: Run Crew

Application of scenery and properties technology in laboratory production projects. Prerequisites DRAM 2010 and 2020.

Credits: 1

DRAM 2232 - Production Lab: Scene Painting

Application of scenic painting in laboratory production projects. Prerequisites: Dram 2010 and 2020.

Credits: 1

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

Digital projects that explore the dramatic tension existing between word (drama) and art (picture). Examines bias that is embedded in narrative and visual expressions. Visual work is based upon narrative responses developed by each student. Utilizes a number of digital applications (Adobe Photoshop, RealViz Stitcher, Apple Final Cut Pro) as the palettes that allow the class to explore visual tensions and biases inherent in art, architecture, and scenic design.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2250 - Scene Painting

Fundamental techniques of scenic painting. A studio class during which students learn to paint faux finishes of marble, wood grain, brick and other common finishes for theatrical application. DRAM 2232 Production Lab: Scene Painting required.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2303 - Figure Drawing: Foundations

Figure Drawing: Foundations

Credits: 3

DRAM 2310 - Costume Technology

Studies basic techniques for moving the costume design from drawing to finished character, including construction, alteration, patterning, fitting, and accessories. Lab required. Prerequisite: DRAM 2010 and 2020, or instructor permission; corequisite: DRAM 2330 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2330 - Production Laboratory: Costume and Makeup

Application of costume and makeup technology in production laboratory. May be repeated up to four credits. Prerequisite: DRAM 2010 and 2020, or instructor permission; corequisite: DRAM 2310 or instructor permission.

Credits: 1

DRAM 2430 - Production Laboratory: Acting

Application of acting skills in production laboratory. May be repeated up to four credits. Prerequisite: Instructor permission

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 2440 - Theatre Abroad: Performance

This course focuses on basic performance techniques as well as individual and group skills. It develops a vocabulary of acting techniques through improvisation, performance exercises and monologue and/or scene work. In addition, the course encourages students to develop skills in personal presentation, confidence building, and teamwork, which transcends the acting studio and has a direct application in life and the workplace.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2620 - Sound Design

Students will explore the sonic qualities of sound and music through discussion, construction, critical listening, and demonstration.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2630 - Production Laboratory: Sound

Application of sound technology in laboratory production projects. May be repeated up to four credits. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

Credits: 1

DRAM 2800 - Television News Writing and Production

Students analyze, discuss, and learn the techniques of television news writing. Explores the difference between print and television news; the value of research; the impact of deadlines; the worth of clear, concise, accurate expression; the importance of ethics; and the urgency of time. Working in teams, students participate in a variety of roles included in television news production, such as reporting and editing, with an emphasis on writing to the dictates of the television medium. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2810 - Cinema as Art Form

A course in visual thinking; introduces film criticism, concentrating on classic and current American and non-American films.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2820 - Television Texts, Scripting and Directing

Studies the theory and creative principles of television scripting and directing; analysis of form, content, and production values; includes composition, writing, lighting, camerawork and performance. Prerequisite: Instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 2830 - Production Lab: Digital Media

DRAM 2830 is a hands-on, experiential course in which students apply digital media design principles, methods, and techniques in correlation with the current Drama production schedule. Students learn the application of media technology to actual theatrical production projects. May be repeated up to four credits. DRAM 2830 requires participation as Video/Media Operator or Assistant for a main stage production.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 2840 - Design Studio Lab

This is a hands-on course in which students work closely with the instructor to research and develop creative design solutions for performing arts and theatrical productions. It provides students a working forum to collaboratively and independently experiment with and apply principles, methods, and elements of design and design process to specific projects. May be repeated up to four credits.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 2920 - World Cinema

“What’s playing at the movies?” will be a question that must be answered in every port of call. The focus of this course will be the cinema of the countries visited during the semester. We will watch films (mostly dubbed or subtitled), and seek to understand how the cinema is considered within the various cultures: as art, as entertainment, as business, and as product for export or import. We will also look at how the differing cultures have been.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3020 - Theatre Make-Up

Introduces the design and application of theatre make-up. Emphasizes observation and mastery of basic techniques and materials employed in facial analysis and the creation of juvenile, lead, character, and aged make-up. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3040 - Musical Theatre History

Study of the evolution and history of the musical theatre from Mozart to Sondheim through the works of major composers over the last 200-plus years.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3050 - Making Theatre Histories

How do theatre artists and scholars navigate the past and its effects on the present? This course will introduce you to important moments in theatre history, and show you how to analyze the formation of historical narratives through a variety of lenses and methods. Units are not organized chronologically, but thematically so that we may draw deeper connections across artistic practice, time, place and culture. Prerequisite: Students must have completed DRAM 2050.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3070 - African-American Theatre

Presents a comprehensive study of ‘Black Theatre’ as the African-American contribution to the theatre. Explores the historical, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings of this theatre as an artistic form in American and world culture. Students gain a broader understanding of the relationship and contributions of this theatre to theatre arts, business, education, lore, and humanity. A practical theatrical experience is a part of the course offering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 3080 - Script Analysis: Dramatic Structure and Theatrical Production

Analysis of representative play scripts to discover how structure and language support conceptual and stylistic choices in production.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3210 - Scene Design I

Studies the development of the scenic design as theatrical environment, from script analysis through research to completed scenic design. Prerequisite: DRAM 2010, or instructor permission; corequisite: DRAM 2230.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3300 - History of Dress

Studies the history of dress, from ancient to modern times, as a reflection of the individual’s self expression and the relationship to one’s culture. Lab required. Prerequisite: Instructor permission

Credits: 3

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

Expores the cultural influences on fashion choices and expression of identity you create for the 21st century. Examination of your own wardrobe and study of the History of Dress serves as grounding for research into selected garments from The Collection of Historic Dress, c. 1795-1965. Working with extant garments provides insight into these periods of American history, the cultural influences, and the people who inhabited these clothes.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3410 - Acting II

Exercises and scene work emphasizing the development of the actor’s vocal and physical resources as a means of creating and communicating character, emotion, and relationships. Prerequisite: DRAM 2020 and instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 3420 - Voice for Theatre

Introduces principles of vocal health, provides practical techniques for meeting the voice and speech demands of daily life and performance, and promotes life-long exploration of the speaking voice and the spoken word. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3430 - Improvisation

A workshop that explores several dimensions of theatrical self-expression through improvised exercises and situations. This course will employ lecture, discussion and performance activities to raise awareness and proficiency in improvisational techniques through dramatic interaction involving imagination and creativity. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3440 - Movement for Theatre

Examines the fundamental skills necessary to effective and descriptive physical expression for the stage. Focuses on developing an individual awaresness of one’s physical self and establishing a sold foundation upon which to build a character physically, through practical exericises in balance, rhythm, endurance , freedom of movement, flexibility, shape and expression.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3450 - Musical Theatre Performance

Studies the integration of song into scene work, and examination of special problems posed for the actor/singer/dancer. Focuses on a character’s song presentation within the context of a musical play. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3490 - Acting Out

Select ensemble company rehearses and performs scenes from Shakespeare, classic, and contemporary dramatic literature in public performance workshops. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3590 - Special Topics in Theatre and Drama

A directed study in theater or drama.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 3600 - Modern American Drama

Studies representative twentieth-century American dramas in the context of theatre history. Prerequisite: Instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 3610 - Modern Drama

Modern Theatre and Drama is designed to afford the student the opportunity to read and discuss selected works of dramatic literature that have served as the base for theatrical production during the twentieth century; to study that literature in the contexts of cultural developments during the twentieth century; and to begin to develop an ability to read a play text for both its theatrical and its cultural “clues.”

Credits: 3

DRAM 3640 - Sound Design: Studio

Creative application of digital sound editing for media. Techniques investigated include editing pre-recorded music, creating realistic sound environments, representing visual art with sound, three-dimensional sound, and sound creation for video.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3651 - Directing I

Encourages the development of the director’s analytical and rehearsal skills in translating text, actors, and space into valid and effective scenes; drawn from plays in the mode of psychological realism. Prerequisite: Dram 2020 required, and Dram 2010 preferred; Instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 3652 - Production Management

This course will examine aspects of theatrical management including: production, stage, company, and house. Students will study current management principles and the application of those principles in practical management projects. Prerequisite: Instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 3653 - Production Laboratory: Stage Management

One credit is required; may be repeated up to four credits. Application of stage management skills to production and performance. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 3710 - Playwriting I

Introduces the art and craft of playwriting, focusing on short exercises and in-class writing assignments. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3720 - Playwriting II

Continuation of Playwriting I, focusing on specific craft exercises and the development of individual style. Prerequisite: DRAM 3710.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3730 - Screenwriting

An introduction to the art and craft of screenwriting through the writing and discussion of short scripts. Will involve study of screenplays and films, and focus on the basic elements of screenwriting, including story structure, creation of character, and formatting.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3775 - Acting Italian: Benigni, Goldoni, Fo

Watch, read, and laugh at performances by Italy’s most famous comic stars! Plays, films, and one-man shows form the texts, which include not only modern productions by contemporary masters Roberto Benigni and Dario Fo, but also the comedies of the originator of middle-class Italian humor, Carlo Goldoni. Works of these writers/actors/producers introduce important aspects of Italian literary, performative, and cultural traditions. In ENGLISH.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3810 - Film Criticism

Extends the work of DRAM 2810 by concentrating on the development of a critical perspective in the study of films and film-makers.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3820 - Video Design I

Combining creative practice and critical discourse, this hands-on course grants students an opportunity to learn and utilize the crafts of digital video design in the context of contemporary installation, projection and performance arts. Students experiment with the many ways of designing time-based media and explore the role of video storytelling in the topography of 21st-century theater and live performance.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3825 - Media Design Studio

This course provides a practical forum to employ and integrate a diverse array of existing and emerging media technologies into live performance and performative storytelling. Students will explore and experiment with new media-infused design approaches to enhance the narrative and to actively engage, communicate, and interact with the audience.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3830 - History of Film I

Analyzes the development of the silent film, 1895 to 1928; emphasizes the technical and thematic links between national schools of cinema art and the contributions of individual directors. Includes weekly film screenings. Prerequisite: Cinema as Art Form, other film courses, or instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 3840 - History of Film II

Analyzes the development of film art from the inception of sound to the 1950s. Includes weekly film screenings. Prerequisite: DRAM 2810 or 3830, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3850 - History of Film III

A history of narrative, documentary and experimental film, 1955-77. Developments in the aesthetics of film are examined in the context of socio-economic, political and cultural conditions specific to different historical moments. Includes weekly film screenings. DRAM 3830, DRAM 3840 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3870 - Contemporary Independent Film and Video

Investigates the nature of ‘independent’ film and video in relation to the dominant commercial media, surveying a broad range of independent media genres, from the independent features of John Cassavetes and Quentin Tarantino through the alternatives practiced by experimental and documentary makers. Prerequisite: DRAM 2810, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 4030 - Figure Drawing

This course focuses primarily on the human form to study line, tone, mass, proportion and composition. Additional subjects that enhance the understanding of the figure might include interior/exterior spaces and still-life. Students will be introduced to various drawing techniques and media. The emphasis will be on the creative process and the art of “drawing to know.” Outside work will be assigned to compliment the in-class exercises.

Credits: 1.00 to 2.00

DRAM 4110 - Lighting Design

Studies the development of lighting design, from script analysis through concept to completed production. Lab required. Prerequisite: DRAM 2010 and 2110, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 4310 - Costume Design

Studies the development of costume design as a revelation of character and relationship to the special world. Proceeds from script analysis through research to the completed rendering. Lab required. Prerequisite: DRAM 2010, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 4410 - Acting III

Scripted scenes, exercises, and ensemble work to expand the actor’s approach to characterization and interpretation within various dramatic genres. Prerequisite: DRAM 3410 and instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 4440 - Dance for Theatre

Examines the history of social and theatrical dance, its function in a particular society, and its dramatic purpose within a play. Requires demonstrated proficiency in ballet, modern dance or basic theater movement skills. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 4490 - Stage Combat Skills

Examines the art and craft of stage fighting, comparing its historical context with that of the theater. Focus is on the performance of the illusion of physical aggression and its dramatic intent, following the safety guidelines and techniques recommended by the Society for American Fight Directors. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 2.00 to 3.00

DRAM 4590 - Special Topics in Theatre

A directed project-based study offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 4591 - Special Topics in Theatre Managment

A directed study in theatre management offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 4592 - Special Topics in Drama

A directed study in dramatic literature, history, theory or criticism offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 4593 - Special Topics in Performance

A directed study in acting or performance offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 4594 - Special Topics in Movement

A directed study in theatre movement or physical acting offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 4595 - Special Topics in Voice

A directed study in voice and the spoken word offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 4596 - Special Topics in Directing

A directed study in directing offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 4597 - Special Topics in Design

A directed study in theatre design offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 4598 - Special Topics in Design Technology

A directed study in theatre design technology offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

DRAM 4599 - Special Topics in Playwriting

A directed study in playwriting offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

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East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Courses

CHIN 116 - Intensive Introductory Chinese

Beginning-level course in Modern Standard Mandarin Chinese for students with little or no prior experience in the language. This course is not intended for native and near-native speakers of Chinese. The course provides students with systematic training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills on a daily basis.

Credits: 0

CHIN 126 - Intensive Introductory Chinese

CHIN 216 - Intensive Intermediate Chinese

This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute.

Credits: 0

CHIN 226 - Intensive Intermediate Chinese

CHIN 1010 - Elementary Chinese

Introduction to the fundamentals of modern Chinese. No prerequisites. This course is not intended for native or near-native speakers of Chinese. All four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed. Prerequisite: none.

Credits: 4

CHIN 1016 - Intensive Introductory Chinese

CHIN 1020 - Elementary Chinese

The second in a two-semester introduction to modern Chinese. All four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed. Course is not intended for native or near-native speakers of Chinese. Prerequisite: CHIN 1010 or equivalent background (as demonstrated in the department’s placement test).

Credits: 4

CHIN 1026 - Intensive Introductory Chinese

This intensive course begins with instruction in basic oral expression, listening comprehension, elementary reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills at the intermediate level. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: CHIN 1016 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

CHIN 1060 - Accelerated Elementary Chinese

Specifically intended for students with native or near-native speaking ability in Mandarin Chinese, but little or no reading and writing ability. The course focuses on reading and writing Chinese. The goals of this course are to help students: (a) achieve control of the Chinese sound system (the 4 tones and Pinyin) and basic components of Chinese characters; (b) be able to write 400-500 characters, (c) express themselves clearly in written form on a variety of covered topics using learned grammar patterns and vocabulary, (d) improve their basic reading skills (including learning to use a Chinese dictionary).

Credits: 4

CHIN 2010 - Intermediate Chinese

Builds on the foundations acquired in CHIN 1010-1020 with further refinement of all four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Course is not intended for native or near-native speakers of Chinese. Prerequisite: CHIN 1020 or equivalent background (as demonstrated in the department’s placement test).

Credits: 4

CHIN 2016 - Intensive Intermediate Chinese

CHIN 2020 - Intermediate Chinese

Prerequisite: CHIN 2010, 2020 are the continuation of CHIN 1020. They are not intended for native or near-native speakers of Chinese. The goals of this course are to help students improve their spoken and aural proficiency, achieve a solid reading level, and learn to express themselves clearly in writing on a variety of covered topics using learned grammar patterns and vocabulary. These goals are approached through grammar and reading-writing exercises, classroom drills, listening and speaking activities, and written quizzes and exams.

Credits: 4

CHIN 2026 - Intensive Intermediate Chinese

CHIN 2060 - Accelerated Intermediate Chinese

This course is specifically designed for students with native or near-native speaking ability in Mandarin Chinese, but with reading and writing ability equivalent to a student who has completed CHIN 1020. The course focuses on reading and writing Chinese. The goals of this course are to help students: (a) achieve a basic level of reading competency with a vocabulary of 1000 characters; (b) express themselves clearly in written Chinese on a variety of topics using learned grammar patterns and vocabulary. Prerequisite: CHIN 1060 or equivalent (as demonstrated in the placement test).

Credits: 4

CHIN 3010 - Pre-Advanced Chinese I

This course is the continuation of Intermediate Chinese (CHIN 2020). All four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed. Readings and discussions are related to various aspects of modern China. The class is conducted mainly in Mandarin Chinese. Prerequisite: CHIN 2020 or 2060 or equivalent (as demonstrated in the placement test).

Credits: 3

CHIN 3015 - Language House Conversation

For students residing in the Chinese group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1

CHIN 3020 - Pre-Advanced Chinese II

This course is a continuation of CHIN 3010. Readings and discussion are related to various aspects of modern China. The class is conducted mainly in Mandarin Chinese. All four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed. Prerequisite: CHIN 3010, CHIN 3050, Placement Test Results or Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

CHIN 3025 - Language House Conversation

For students residing in the Chinese group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1

CHIN 3050 - Pre-Advanced Speaking & Reading in Chinese I

This course focuses on improving oral communication skills needed for various social settings, such as carrying on an intelligent conversation about various aspects of modern life, telling a story in a detailed or compelling manner, or engaging in extensive discussion of various social issues. Readings will be used as input to enhance speaking skills. Prerequisite: CHIN 2020 or CHIN 2060.

Credits: 2

CHIN 3060 - Pre-Advanced Speaking & Reading in Chinese II

This course is the continuation of CHIN3050. Students will continue advancing their proficiency in speaking and reading. Graded and authentic reading materials will be used to enhance reading skills and in-class discussion based on the readings will be used to further improve speaking. Students who finish this course can continue to take CHIN 4010 or other upper-level courses based on instructor permission.

Credits: 2

CHIN 3460 - Chinese Culture and Society through Films

An integral part of the UVa summer Chinese language study abroad program intended specifically for students who take intensive Readings in Modern Chinese (CHIN 3010 and CHIN 3020) during the 8 week summer abroad program in Shanghai. Will view and study Chinese films made in China to learn, to think and to discuss specific topics of Chinese culture. May be offered on an irregular basis during fall or spring terms for 3 credits.

Credits: 2.00 to 3.00

CHIN 4010 - Advanced Chinese I

This course is a continuation of CHIN 3020. The goal of these courses is to help students understand journalistic essays and some literature pieces through systematic study of sentence patterns and formal writing styles. All aspects of Chinese language learning are still evenly balanced. Prerequisites: CHIN 3020 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

CHIN 4020 - Advanced Chinese II

This course is a continuation of CHIN4010. Readings and discussion are related to various aspects of modern China. The class is conducted in Mandarin Chinese. All four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed. Students constantly work with authentic materials and engage in communications with native speakers in various formats and contexts. Prerequisite: CHIN 4010, Placement Test Results or Instructor Permission.

Credits: 3

CHIN 4030 - Business Chinese

Business Chinese is a one-term language course for business purposes designed for students who have studied Chinese for at least four years in a regular college program or with the equivalent language proficiency. It is aimed to enhance student’s Chinese skills in the business context and promote their understanding about the macro and micro business environment and culture in contemporary China.

Credits: 3

CHIN 4060 - Advanced Chinese: Topics on Modern China

The goal of CHIN 4060 is to continue enhancing students’ reading comprehension and writing skills by systematically exposing them to formal written Chinese, works of literature, and vigorous writing exercises. By the end of the course the students should be able to read authentic materials with the help of a dictionary and be able to write essays of 500 words in length on assigned topics. Prerequisite: CHIN 3020 or CHIN 3050 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

CHIN 4200 - Modern Chinese Literary Translation

This course uses modern Chinese literary texts to introduce students to the special skills and problems associated with translation. Activities include: familiarization with key theoretical issues in translation studies, dictionary training, assessing and comparing existing translations, group work, draft revision, and quizzes on reading assignments. Prerequisite: CHIN 4020 or equivalent level. Some familiarity with Chinese literature preferred.

Credits: 3

CHIN 4830 - Introduction to Classical Chinese Prose

Introduces the grammar and structure of classical Chinese prose. Requisite: Consent of Instructor

Credits: 3

CHIN 4840 - Introduction to Classical Chinese Poetry

Introduces the grammar and structure of classical Chinese poetry. Requisite: Consent of Instructor

Credits: 3

CHIN 4993 - Independent Study in Chinese

Independent Study in Chinese.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

CHTR 2800 - Chinese Calligraphy

Introduction to the history, masters, styles and techniques of Chinese brush calligraphy. Enhances familiarity with use of brush and ink; active and passive differentiation of styles and techniques; and appreciation of Chinese Calligraphy as an art form.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

CHTR 3010 - Survey of Traditional Chinese Literature

Introductory survey of Chinese literature from earliest times (first millenium BCE) to the Qing Dynasty (ended 1911) in English translation, including major works from the genres of poetry, essays, drama, and fiction. There will be a midterm examination, three 3-page short papers and a 10-page term paper. In addition to familiarizing students with the Chinese literary canon, the course will focus on literary analysis and interpretation.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3020 - Survey of Modern Chinese Literature

The Revolutionary Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature and Film is a general introduction to modern Chinese literary culture.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3122 - Sunzi and The Art of War

This seminar on The Art of War, the 5th century BCE Chinese classic attributed to Sunzi, will familiarize students with traditional interpretations of the text. The course will emphasize a close reading of several translations of the text and will also consider the influence of its historical and philosophical contexts. Contemporary Chinese military writings will also be surveyed to investigate the relevance of the text to modern warfare.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3125 - Winning the Argument: Disputation and Persuasion in Early China

A survey of early Chinese [800 BCE - 200 CE] writings about the role of argumentation during this turbulent period of Chinese history. Part one will investigate how philosophical disputation was considered & practiced by key Chinese philosophers (e.g. Confucius, Laozi, Mozi). Part two will appraise the evolving role of political persuasion during this era. The emphasis will be close reading and analyses of representative texts.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3132 - Legends and Lore of Early China

This course explores early Chinese legends and lore through close readings in two texts: the Zuo Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu Zuo zhuan) and the Categorized Biographies of Women (Lienü zhuan). Students will also examine the systems of belief and legendary events that shaped the lives of a diverse array of heroes and exemplars.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3810 - Chinese Modernism

Exploration of modernist and avant garde Chinese film and literature. Discussion of issues of translation and modernity in a global context in fiction, poetry, drama, and film from the 1920s to the 1990s. Authors from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong include Lu Xun, Ding Ling, Yu Dafu, Shi Zhecun, Mu Shiying, Eileen Chang, Xi Xi, Yu Hua, CanXue, Zhu Tianwen. Films by Stan Lai, Huang Jianxin, Wong Kar-wai. Prerequisite: CHTR 3020 or Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

CHTR 3820 - The Modern Chinese Essay

Readings from major Chinese essayists of the 20th century in the English translation. Chinese texts will also be available for interested students. Discussion of genre and literary history, literary relationship between tradition and modernity, language and style.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3830 - Modern Chinese Poetry

Readings from major Chinese poets of the 20th and 21st centuries in English translation. Discussion focuses on modern Chinese poetic expression in relationship to tradition, politics, history and gender. Authors from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong included.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3840 - Writing Women in Modern China

This seminar focuses on works of fiction from modern China that articulate womanhood from a variety of perspectives. In addition to women writers (Qiu Jin, Ding Ling, Eileen Chang, Xi Xi, Chen Ran, Zhu Tianxin), male writers such as Xu Dishan, Mao Dun, and Lao She who devote unusual attention to feminine subjectivity are also included. Familiarity with Chinese culture and society and literary analysis are preferred, but not required.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3850 - Documentary Writing and Film in China

A seminar exploring the role of the documentary impulse in modern Chinese writing and film. Beginning with reportage literature and foreign documentaries about China from the early 20th century, the course follows the development of documentary art forms in the People’s Republic of China (with some attention to Taiwan as well), culminating in the recent trend of independent documentary film making and its influence on narrative film.

Credits: 3

CHTR 4010 - Legendary Women in Early China

Examines the biographies of female heroines and villains as found in the early Chinese text Tradition of Exemplary Women (ca. 18 B.C.). Students gain a familiarity with (a) the history of women in early China, (b) the evolving codes of behavior that shaped women’s’ culture for two millennia, and (c) the way in which the Chinese understand gender. Enhances an understanding of the function of role models in both ancient China and their own lives. Fulfills the non-Western perspectives requirement.

Credits: 3

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

An exploration of family, gender and sexuality as represented in traditional Chinese prose fiction in translation.

Credits: 3

CHTR 4991 - Chinese Capstone

Restricted to Chinese majors, this course is designed as a capstone seminar that will require a class presentation and an extended final paper that demonstrate the significant knowledge of Chinese language.

Credits: 1

EALC 3120 - Words and Images in East Asian Sacred Texts

This course explores the role of words and images in East Asian religious literature, by focusing on influential Buddhist and Daoist scriptures. In this context, we will assess both the way pictures are written about and texts rendered in visual forms, as well as their interactions. Ultimately, we will also tackle issues of representation relevant to study of China, Korea and Japan from both a historical and conceptual perspective. Prerequisite: Introduction to Buddhism or Survey course on Chinese or Japanese Literature

Credits: 3

EALC 4998 - Distinguished Majors Senior Thesis I

The first part of a two-semester sequence of tutorial work for students completing a Senior Thesis as part of the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Studies or East Asian Languages and Literatures. Prerequisites: Student must be enrolled in the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Languages and Literatures.

Credits: 3

EALC 4999 - Distinguished Majors Senior Thesis II

The second part of a two-semester sequence of tutorial work for students completing a Senior Thesis as part of the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Languages and Literatures. Prerequisites: Student must be enrolled in the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Languages and Literatures and have already completed EALC 4998.

Credits: 3

EAST 1010 - East Asian Canons and Cultures

An introduction to conceptions of self, society, and the universe as they have been expressed in canonical literary, philosophical, and religious texts in East Asia from earliest times up through modern times. Readings will be in English translation, supplemented by reference.

Credits: 3

EAST 4991 - East Asian Studies Capstone

Capstone course required for all East Asian Studies majors in their final year. Pre-Requisites: Restricted to Fourth Year, Fifth Year East Asian Studies majors

Credits: 1

EAST 4993 - Independent Study

Independent study in special field under the direction of a faculty member in East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

EAST 4998 - Distinguished Majors Senior Thesis I

EAST 4999 - Distinguished Majors Senior Thesis

The second part of a two-semester sequence of tutorial work for students completing a Senior Thesis as part of the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Studies or East Asian Languages and Literatures. Prerequisites: Student must be enrolled in the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Studies and have already completed EAST 4998. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

JAPN 1010 - First-Year Japanese

Introduces the basic speech patterns and grammatical units, including casual, daily spoken style, and the polite speech used in formal occasions. Emphasizes speaking, listening, and reading. Writing hiragana, katakana, and 200 kanji are also introduced.

Credits: 4

JAPN 1020 - First-Year Japanese

JAPN 2010 - Second-Year Japanese

Continuation of Elementary Japanese introducing more complex sentence patterns, idioms, and vocabulary to prepare students for an intermediate-level communication. Reinforces spoken Japanese skills with writing and reading exercises, and 250 kanji are introduced. Prerequisite: JAPN 1020 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

JAPN 2020 - Second-Year Japanese

Prerequisite: JAPN 1020 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

JAPN 3010 - Third-Year Japanese I

Emphasizes comprehension and active reproduction of modern Japanese beyond the basic patterns of speech and writing. Various topics on current Japanese culture and society are introduced. Prerequisite: JAPN 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

JAPN 3015 - Language House Conversation

For students residing in the Japanese group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1

JAPN 3020 - Third-Year Japanese II

Continuation of Third-Year Japanese, emphasizing comprehension and active reproduction of modern Japanese beyond the basic patterns of speech and writing. Continued introduction of topics on current Japanese culture and society. Prerequisite: JAPN 3010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

JAPN 3025 - Language House Conversation

For students residing in the Japanese group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1

JAPN 3100 - Supplemental Reading in Japanese I

The first in a two-part sequence, to be taken in conjunction with JAPN 3010. Students will acquire college-level reading and writing skills through engagement with articles and essays written by Japanese for the Japanese public.

Credits: 1

JAPN 3110 - Supplemental Reading in Japanese II

The second of a two-part reading course, to be taken in conjunction with JAPN 3020. In-depth study of authentic materials such as newspapers, short essays, and brief articles. Prerequisite: JAPN 3010 or equivalent background.

Credits: 1

JAPN 4500 - Topics in Japanese Literature

An advanced language seminar devoted to literary texts and criticism with topics determined by instructor.

Credits: 3

JAPN 4710 - Introduction to Literary Japanese (Bungo)

An introduction to the Japanese language as it was written from earliest times up until the mid-twentieth century. In addition to familiarizing students with grammatical fundamentals of literary Japanese and their differences from the modern language, the course will introduce students to representative writing styles from a wide variety of genres and historical periods. Prerequisite: JAPN 3010 or equivalent background.

Credits: 3

JAPN 4800 - Lost and Found in Translation

This course is an advanced language seminar of Japanese and aims to enhance students’ skills to think and communicate in Japanese. With a specific focus on the theory and practice of translation, students translate a wide range of Japanese materials into English, while reading about and discussing the concept of “translation” itself. Prerequisite: JAPN 3020 or instructor’s permission.

Credits: 3

JAPN 4801 - Japanese for Professionals

This advanced Japanese language course aims to cultivate future professionals who will acquire awareness of cross-cultural differences that enable them to operate effectively in the global world. Critical thinking and communication skills will be emphasized.

Credits: 3

JAPN 4810 - Modern Literary Texts

Reading and discussion in Japanese. Develops comprehension and verbal expression skills at the fourth-year level. Reading selections include works by modern and contemporary novelists, short story writers and poets. Prerequisite: JAPN 3020 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

JAPN 4830 - Media Japanese

In this course, students will interpret, analyze, and discuss various media for education, business and entertainment–such as newspaper articles, blogs, and statistics–in order to gain a deeper linguistic and cultural understanding of contemporary Japan by comparing and contrasting different perspectives on current issues. Prerequisite: JAPN 3020 or equivalent background.

Credits: 3

JAPN 4993 - Independent Study in Japanese

Independent Study in Japanese.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

JPTR 2600 - Early Modern Japanese Literature

This course will focus on early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa period, in which urbanization, mass education, and the development of printing technology helped produce one of the most creative epochs in Japanese literary and cultural history.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3010 - Survey of Traditional Japanese Literature

This course provides an introduction to Japanese literature from earliest times through to the nineteenth century. We will read selections from representative texts and genres, including myth, poetry, prose fiction, memoir literature, drama, and works of criticism. No knowledge of Japanese culture or language is required.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3020 - Survey of Modern Japanese Literature

This is an introductory course to Japanese literary traditions from the late 19th century to the present. By reading a broad range of writings including political accounts, fictional narratives and poetic prose, the course examines how a variety of writing practices contributed to the production of modern Japanese literature. No knowledge of Japanese is required.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3100 - Myths and Legends of Japan

A seminar exploring Japan’s earliest myths describing the origins of its islands, their gods, and rulers through close readings in English of eighth-century chronicles and poems. Fulfills the Non-Western and Second Writing requirements.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3210 - The Tale of Genji

A seminar devoted to an in-depth examination in English translation of Japan’s most renowned work of literature, often called the world’s first novel. Satisfies the Non-Western and Second Writing requirements.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3290 - Feminine Fictions in Japanese Court Literature

This seminar will take up the world’s earliest instance of literature written extensively by, for, and about women, including such famous works as the Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon and Sarashina Diary, among others. The focus will be on reading gender as a fictional enactment of desire and identity that is performed through acts of writing and reading. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or literature is required.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3320 - Cinematic Images of Japanese Culture and Society

This seminar examines how films from Japan visually raise different cultural and social issues, and how they relate to the universal human condition. With an understanding that films involve so many different disciplines, this seminar examines contemporary Japan via comparativist and cross-cultural perspectives by paying careful attention to the effects of the imagistic and visual power that only films can offer.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3400 - Tales of the Samurai

A seminar focusing on influential medieval and early-modern narratives such as the Tale of Heike in which the notion of the samurai first developed. No prerequisites. Satisfies the non-Western and Second-Writing requirements.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3600 - Urban Fantasies in Edo Literature

This seminar takes up Japanese literature made between 1600 and 1900, including such iconic forms as haiku poetry and kabuki, that came out of one of the most sophisticated and advanced forms of urban culture in global history centered around the million-plus inhabitants of Edo (now Tokyo). Satisfies the Non-Western and Second Writing requirements.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3700 - Japanese Popular Culture

This course examines multiple forms of Japanese popular culture such as film, literature, TV and anime, among others, focusing on the role they play in imagining contemporary Japanese identities as they relate to race, gender, technology, consumption, nationalization and globalization.

Credits: 3

JPTR 4991 - Japanese Capstone

Restricted to Japanese majors, this course is designed as a capstone seminar that will require a class presentation and an extended final paper that demonstrate the significant knowledge of Japanese language.

Credits: 1

KOR 1010 - Elementary Korean I

Introduction to the fundamentals of modern Korean. All four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed.

Credits: 4

KOR 1020 - Elementary Korean II

The second in a two-semester introduction to modern Korean. Prerequisite: KOR 1010 or equivalent background (as demonstrated in the department’s placement test).

Credits: 4

KOR 1060 - Accelerated Elementary Korean

This course is specifically designed for students with native or near-native speaking ability in Korean, but with reading and writing ability equivalent to a student who has completed KOR 1020. The course seeks to achieve a basic literacy and the ability to express themselves clearly on a variety of topics. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 4

KOR 2010 - Intermediate Korean I

Builds on the foundations acquired in KOR 1010-1020 with further refinement of all four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Prerequisite: KOR 1020 or equivalent background (as demonstrated in the department’s placement test).

Credits: 4

KOR 2020 - Intermediate Korean II

The second in a two-semester intermediate language sequence. Prerequisite: KOR 2010 or equivalent background (as demonstrated in the department’s placement test).

Credits: 4

KOR 3010 - Advanced Korean I

A continuation of Intermediate Korean. All four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed. Readings and discussions are related to various aspects of modern Korea. Prerequisite: KOR 2020 or equivalent (as demonstrated in the placement test).

Credits: 3

KOR 3015 - Language House Conversation

Korean conversation for residents of the Shea language house.

Credits: 1

KOR 3020 - Advanced Korean II

The second part in a two-semester sequence. All four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed. Readings and discussions are related to various aspects of modern Korea. Prerequisite: KOR 3010 or equivalent (as demonstrated in the placement test).

Credits: 3

KOR 4010 - Advanced Readings in Modern Korean I

This course will offer the students the opportunities to develop advanced reading proficiency in modern Korean language. The course will deal with advanced reading material, mostly from authentic writings in various genres and styles, such as newspaper editorials, columns, essays, T.V. news clips, short stories, and other expository and literary writings. Prerequisites: KOR 3010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

KOR 4020 - Advanced Readings in Modern Korean II

This course is the second in a two-course sequence offering students the opportunity to develop advanced reading proficiency in modern Korean language through advanced reading material, mostly from authentic writings in various genres and styles, such as newspaper editorials, columns, essays, T.V. news clips, short stories, and other expository and literary writings. Prerequisites: KOR 4010 or instructor permission

Credits: 3

KOR 4993 - Independent Study in Korean

Independent Study in Korean

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

KRTR 3020 - Survey of Modern Korean Literature

A general introduction to modern Korean literature. Examines the major texts through selected readings of representative writers. Taught in English. Fulfills the non-Western perspectives and Second Writing requirement.

Credits: 3

KRTR 3030 - Survey of Korean Cinema

A general introduction to Korean cinema. Examines the major films through selections by representative directors. Taught in English. Fulfills the non-Western perspectives requirement

Credits: 3

KRTR 3700 - Contemporary Korea, Urban, Global

An examination of representations of the urban and global in contemporary Korea.

Credits: 3

TBTN 116 - Intensive Introductory Tibetan

This is the non-credit option for TBTN 1016.

Credits: 0

TBTN 126 - Intensive Introductory Tibetan

This is the non-credit option for TBTN 1026.

Credits: 0

TBTN 216 - Intensive Intermediate Tibetan

This is the non-credit option for TBTN 2016.

Credits: 0

TBTN 226 - Intensive Intermediate Tibetan

This is the non-credit option for TBTN 2026.

Credits: 0

TBTN 1010 - Elementary Tibetan I

An introduction to the grammar and syntax of spoken and written Tibetan for beginners with the intention of developing proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Examples are drawn from Tibetan short stories and proverbs, among other sources. Students gain knowledge of Tibetan culture to improve communication skills using a dynamic, interactive format.

Credits: 4

TBTN 1016 - Intensive Introductory Tibetan

TBTN 1020 - Elementary Tibetan II

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Economics

Courses

ECON 2010 - Principles of Economics: Microeconomics

Studies demand and supply, consumer behavior, the theory of business enterprise, the operation of competitive and monopolistic markets, and the forces determining income distribution. A full introduction to economic principles warrants completion of both ECON 2010 and 2020. Students planning to take both semesters of economic principles are advised to take ECON 2010 first, though this is not required. The department recommends ECON 2010 to students intending to take only one semester of principles.

Credits: 3

ECON 2020 - Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics

Studies the determinants of aggregate economic activity, the effects of monetary and fiscal policy upon national income, and economic policy toward unemployment and inflation. A full introduction to economic principles warrants completion of both ECON 2010 and 2020. Students planning to take both semesters of economic principles are advised to take ECON 2010 first, though this is not required. The department recommends ECON 2010 to students intending to take only one semester of principles.

Credits: 3

ECON 2060 - American Economic History

Surveys American economic history from colonial origins to the present. Cross-listed as HIUS 2061.

Credits: 3

ECON 3010 - Intermediate Microeconomics

Studies the theory of prices and markets; includes an analysis of the forces determining the allocation of economic resources in a market economy. Credit is not given for both ECON 3010 and 3110. Prerequisite: ECON 2010 and one of the following: MATH 1220, MATH 1320, APMA 1110.

Credits: 4

ECON 3020 - Intermediate Macroeconomics

Studies macroeconomic theory and policy; includes an analysis of the forces determining employment, income, and the price level. Prerequisite: ECON 2020 and 3010 or 3110, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ECON 3030 - Money and Banking

Studies the role of money in the economic system, with emphasis on monetary policy and theory. Prerequisite: ECON 2020.

Credits: 3

ECON 3040 - The Economics of Education

Analyzes the demand for, and supply of, education in the United States, governmental policies regarding education, and proposed reforms. Prerequisite: ECON 2010.

Credits: 3

ECON 3050 - The Economics of Welfare Reform

Analyzes the major government programs intended to help people with low incomes. Particularly concerned with whether programs have effects that are consistent with their justifications and how they can be redesigned to better achieve their goals. Prerequisite: ECON 2010.

Credits: 3

ECON 3110 - Mathematical Microeconomics

Covers the same topics as ECON 3010 using differential calculus through constrained maximization of functions of several variables. Credit is not given for both ECON 3010 and 3110. Prerequisite: ECON 2010 and two semesters of calculus.

Credits: 4

ECON 3330 - Public Choice

Studies politics using economic analysis. Topics include the theory of voting rules, regulation, taxation, and interest groups; the growth of government; and the design of constitutions. Prerequisite: ECON 2010.

Credits: 3

ECON 3630 - Economics of the Middle East

Surveys major economic issues in the development of countries in the Middle East/North Africa region since World War II, using concepts in development economics. Prerequisite: ECON 2010 and 2020.

Credits: 3

ECON 3640 - The Economics of Africa

Examine the economic problems confronting sub-Saharan Africa countries, focusing on what is needed to accelerate sustainable growth and reduce poverty. Use standard economic tools to gain an understanding of the economic management challenges faced by African policy makers and the similarities and differences between African countries. Explore Africa’s relationship with the rest of the world, focusing on trade, aid and economic cooperation.

Credits: 3

ECON 3720 - Introduction to Econometrics

Guides students in the use and interpretation of economic data, focusing on the most common issues that arise in using economic data, and the methodology for solving these problems. Prerequisite: STAT 2120, STAT 3120, APMA 3110, or APMA 3120

Credits: 4

ECON 4010 - Game Theory

Analyzes the theory of strategically interdependent decision making, with applications to auctions, bargaining, oligopoly, signaling, and strategic voting. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110, and STAT 2120 or equivalent

Credits: 3

ECON 4020 - Auction Theory and Practice

Covers the building blocks of modern auction theory (e.g. First Price versus Second Price, Dutch versus English, Revenue Equivalence, Auctions of Multiple Goods), critically assesses this theory by studying recent auctions in practice (e.g. 3G auctions, milk and timber auctions, eBay versus Amazon), and applies auction theory to other, non-auction, environments (e.g. election races, take-over-bid-wars, duopoly pricing). Prerequisite: ECON 3010 and STAT 2120 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

ECON 4060 - Economics of Sports

Through a study of the extensive literature on the economics of college and professional sports, various topics in microeconomic theory, such as monopoly and cartels, racial discrimination, and the relationship between earnings and productivity, are examined. The class emphasizes the mastery of the tools of economic analysis as well as the historical and institutional factors peculiar to sports. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 and STAT 2120 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

ECON 4070 - Economics and Gender

This course will apply micro-economic theory and empirical methods to explore the role of gender in shaping economic outcomes, examining the inter-relationships between family formation (marriage and fertility), human capital investment, and labor market outcomes. Public policy applications will be emphasized.

Credits: 3

ECON 4080 - Law and Economics

Applies microeconomic theory to the analysis of legal rules and institutions. Includes the effect of economic forces on the development of law, and the effect of laws on the allocation of resources. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ECON 4090 - Mathematical Economics

Introduces the basic mathematical techniques used by professional economists and other quantitative social scientists: equations, derivatives, comparative statics analysis of equilibrium models, optimization, constrained optimization, integration and dynamic models, difference and differential equation models, and inequality constraints in linear and nonlinear optimization problems. The purpose of the course is to prepare students for graduate work in economics and in the more quantitative MBA program. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110 and MATH 1210 and 1220 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

ECON 4100 - Managerial Economics

Applies economic analysis to management problems in business and government. Emphasizes solving problems through marginal analysis, decision making under uncertainty, determining and using the value of information, searching and bidding, bargaining and negotiation, and analysis of transaction costs. Examines methods of capital budgeting, linear programming, game theory, and forecasting. Considers strategic decisions in markets. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110 and a course in statistics.

Credits: 3

ECON 4150 - Economics of Labor

Analyzes employment and wages, including the economics of education, unemployment, labor unions, discrimination and income inequality. Prerequisites: ECON 3010 or 3110, and ECON 3720, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ECON 4160 - Economics of Health

Uses microeconomic theory to examine the demand for health services and medical care, the market for medical insurance, the behavior of physicians and hospitals, issues pertaining to malpractice, and government policy. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or ECON 3110 and ECON 3720 or ECON 4720.

Credits: 3

ECON 4170 - The Economics of Risk, Uncertainty, and Information

The principles of microeconomics are used to examine decision making under uncertainty: finance, learning, savings, contracts, and oligopoly. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or ECON 3110.

Credits: 3

ECON 4180 - Regulating Infrastructure

Analysis of ownership arrangements and regulation of infrastructure industries. Industries examined typically include telecommunications, the Internet, public utilities, and transportation facilities. Special problems posed by natural monopolies, network industries, essential facilities, and congestion. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110.

Credits: 3

ECON 4190 - Industrial Organization

Studies market structure, firm strategy, and market performance. Topics include strategic interactions among firms, as well as business practices such as mergers and acquisitions, price discrimination, advertising, product selection, innovation, vertical restraints, cartels, and exclusionary conduct. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110.

Credits: 3

ECON 4195 - Empirical Industrial Organization

Empirical Industrial Organization examines various timely issues related to market structure, firm strategy, and market performance by combining the analysis of data and economic theory to develop and estimate econometric models. Prerequisites: ECON 301, ECON 372

Credits: 3

ECON 4200 - Antitrust Policy

Studies government regulation and control of business through public policies designed to promote workable competition. Prerequisite: ECON 2010.

Credits: 3

ECON 4210 - International Trade: Theory and Policy

Studies the nature and determinants of international trade and factor movements; the effects of international trade on prices of goods and factors; the consequences of tariffs, quotas, customs unions, and other trade policies and agreements, national or international; and international trade and the balance of payments. ECON 3010 or ECON 3110; MATH 1220; ECON 3720/4720 or STAT 3220.

Credits: 3

ECON 4220 - International Finance and Macroeconomics

Studies fixed and floating exchange rate systems. Topics include determinants of a nation’s balance of international payments; macroeconomic interdependence of nations under various exchange-rate regimes and its implications for domestic stabilization policies; and the international coordination of monetary and stabilization policies. Prerequisite: ECON 3020.

Credits: 3

ECON 4230 - Seminar on Trade and Development

Examines various topics related to either international trade, Third World development, or interactions between the two. Examples include the effects of NAFTA, the WTO, multinational firms, child labor, rich country protectionism against Third World imports, volatile primary commodity markets, and how trade liberalization affects workers in rich and poor countries. The course will be structured on student presentations and directed-research projects. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or ECON 3110, and either ECON 4210 or ECON 4610.

Credits: 3

ECON 4310 - Economics of the Public Sector

Studies the justifications for government activities, the design of programs consistent with these justifications, the effects of major existing and proposed expenditure programs and taxes, and positive and normative analyses of political systems. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110.

Credits: 3

ECON 4320 - Economics of Urban Areas

This course explores how economists think about cities. Why do cities exist? Why are they located where they are? Why do some cities grow and others decline? Within a city, what determines where people live, how they commute to work, and what they pay for housing? Topics to be treated include agglomeration economies, location theory, land use patterns and policies, urban housing and transportation, and local public goods.

Credits: 3

ECON 4330 - Economics of Taxation

Introduces the basic principles of taxation from an economic rather than an accounting perspective. The themes of the course are the incidence and efficiency of taxes who ends up paying a tax and how people change their behavior to avoid a tax. The course will focus directly on the U.S. tax system and how it treats income from work, saving, and production. Prerequisite: ECON 3010.

Credits: 3

ECON 4340 - The Theory of Financial Markets

Studies the theory and operation of financial markets and the role of financial assets and institutions in the economic decisions of individuals, firms, and governments. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110, 3030, and STAT 2120 or equivalent. .

Credits: 3

ECON 4350 - Corporate Finance

Analyzes the theory of financing corporate operations and corporate decisions regarding the allocation of capital among alternative projects; includes the nature of financial instruments and the behavior of capital markets. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110, 3030, and STAT 2120 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

ECON 4360 - Empirical Finance

Develops and tests models of asset pricing and allocation in finance, to determine both the validity of the theories and the extent to which they should guide us in financial decision-making. Prerequisite: Must have met the Financial Economics concentration declaration prerequisites.

Credits: 3

ECON 4365 - Global Financial Markets

Study the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy. Construct general equilibrium models that encompass the financial markets as well as the rest of the economy. These models will be used to understand the recent subprime crisis, the European sovereign debt crisis, and many market phenomena such as extreme volatility and contagion. Prerequisites: ECON 3010 or 3110 (ECON 3020 is recommended).

Credits: 3

ECON 4370 - Behavioral Finance

Behavioral finance questions the efficient market hypothesis. In addition, this course explores noise trader models and the ‘over and under reaction’ debate. Readings are mostly from professional journals. Students should be quite serious about finance. Prerequisite: Econ 3010 or 3110 and ECON 4340

Credits: 3

ECON 4380 - Investment Management

This course examines the investment process used by a variety of instiutional investors. Students will study the tools and the investment challenges faced by investment managers at such institutions. These include evaluating the role of institutional investors (e.g, endowments and pensions), portfolio choice, manager choice, asset allocation, risk management, and alternative asset class investing

Credits: 3

ECON 4390 - The Economic Theory of Advertising

Course deals with theories explaining the nature of advertising, and evaluates market performance in this industry, using Game Theory and Oligopoly Theory. Calculus will be used extensively. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or ECON 3110.

Credits: 3

ECON 4400 - Topics in Economic History

Comparative study of the historical development of selected advanced economies (e.g., the United States, England, Japan, continental Europe). The nations covered vary with instructor. Prerequisite: ECON 3020, or ECON 2010 and 2020 and instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ECON 4410 - Economics of the European Union

Studies the history, theory, and empirics of European economic integration. Focuses on monetary union, as well as product and factor market integration. Prerequisite: ECON 3020.

Credits: 3

ECON 4420 - Macroeconomic Policy

This course takes a microeconomic approach to macroeconomic policies, with special emphasis on monetary and fiscal policies and their impacts on inflation and economic activity. Focus is on the connections among theory, institutional design, and actual data, including historical episodes. Prerequisites: ECON 3010 or ECON 3110 and ECON 3020.

Credits: 3

ECON 4430 - Environmental Economics

Explores the origins of environmental problems, how to measure the value of environmental amenities, and the efficacy of specific forms of regulation, including mandated technologies, taxes, subsidies, and pollution permit trading. Topics include air and water pollution, climate change, the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, and sustainable development. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110.

Credits: 3

ECON 4440 - Economic Inequality

Economic analysis of the growth of income and wealth inequality since 1980, in the United States and around the world. Emphasis on measuring inequality, understanding the causes of growing inequality, and possible policy responses.

Credits: 3

ECON 4445 - Policy Analysis

This course will introduce you to econometric methods for evaluating public policies. At the end of the course, you will be familiar with the strengths and weaknesses behind a variety of evaluation methods commonly used to examine programs such as the minimum wage, education or job training.

Credits: 3

ECON 4590 - Majors Seminar

Reading, discussion, and research in selected topics. Topics vary by instructor and course may be taken for credit more than once. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 2.00

ECON 4610 - Economic Development

Studies the peculiar problems of economics in underdeveloped countries, including government and market failures. Examines factors underlying poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and corruption in developing countries, and the scope for (rigorously evaluated) policies to improve these conditions. Prerequisite: ECON 2010 and ECON 3720 (or 4720 or STAT 3220 or equivalent). ECON 2020 and ECON 3010/3110 are helpful but not required.

Credits: 3

ECON 4620 - Seminar on Development Economics

This course covers important topics in development economics, such as health, education, gender, environment, institutions, and infrastructure. The primary goal of the course is to prepare students to conduct and evaluate empirical research in development economics. To this end, the course will cover empirical tools necessary to study the problems facing developing economies. Requisites: ECON 3010, ECON 3720 and/or ECON 4720

Credits: 3

ECON 4710 - Economic Forecasting

Analyzes the theory and practice of forecasting economic variables using models for linear stochastic processes, including specifying, estimating, and diagnosing models of economic time series. Prerequisite: MATH 1220; ECON 3720/4720 or STAT 3220.

Credits: 3

ECON 4720 - Econometric Methods

Studies the application of statistical methods to the testing and estimation of economic relationships. Emphasizes applied econometric studies and the problems that arise when analyzing time series and cross section data by means of stochastic linear models. Prerequisite: ECON 3720 or STAT 3120 or STAT 3220 or APMA 3110 or APMA 3120; and MATH 3350 or MATH 3351 or APMA 3080.

Credits: 3

ECON 4810 - Advanced Macroeconomic Theory

Studies macroeconomic theory beyond the intermediate level. Emphasizes dynamic aspect of macroeconomic analysis under uncerainty, asset pricing, and various topics of macroeconomic policy. Includes a review of basic mathematical tools and models of economic growth. Prerequisites: ECON 3010 and ECON 3020

Credits: 3

ECON 4820 - Experimental Economics

Explores the use of laboratory methods to study economic behavior. Topics include experimental design, laboratory technique, financial incentives, and analysis of data. Emphasizes applications: bargaining, auctions, market price competition, market failures, voting, contributions to public goods, lottery choice decisions, and the design of electronic markets for financial assets. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110 and a course in statistics, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ECON 4880 - Seminar in Policy Analysis

Introduces the methods used to estimate the effects of existing and proposed government programs. Methods will be illustrated with applications to several areas of government policy. Students will complete an empirical policy analysis under faculty supervision. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110, ECON 3720, and ECON 4310.

Credits: 3

ECON 4990 - Distinguished Majors Seminar

Required for Distinguished Majors. An introduction to economic research and the writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis. Although the course is intended for Distinguished Majors, other highly motivated and accomplished students may be admitted if space permits. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110; and either 3720 or 4720 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ECON 4993 - Independent Study

Independent study under the direction of a regular faculty member. Students may not use this class to obtain academic credit for a summer internship. Prerequisite: GPA of 3.300 in UVa ECON courses.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

ECON 4995 - Supervised Research

Research under the direction of a regular faculty member. Students may not use this class to obtain academic credit for a summer internship.Prerequisite: GPA of 3.300 in UVa ECON courses.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

ECON 4999 - Distinguished Majors Thesis

Supervised research culminating in the writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis. Restricted to members of the Distinguished Majors Program.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

English

Courses

CPLT 2010 - History of European Literature I

Surveys European literature from antiquity to the Renaissance, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.

Credits: 4

CPLT 2020 - History of European Literature II

Surveys European literature from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.

Credits: 4

CPLT 3410 - History of Drama II: Ibsen to the Present

This is the second of a two-semester survey of the history of Western drama from the fifth century B.C. to the present. This semester we will trace the development of drama from the emergence of realism to the present. This is a turbulent, vibrant period in the history of drama, rivaled only by that of the Greeks and the Elizabethans. We will study realism and the reactions against it: expressionism, surrealism, Epic Theater, Absurdism.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3420 - Modern Drama–Ibsen to Absurdism

This is the first half of a two-semester course on modern and contemporary drama in the Western world, with brief forays into other regions. ENGN 3420 surveys the modern period from its inception through the post-World War II period; ENGN 3430 covers the contemporary period. ENGN 3420 first examines the emergence of realism then moves through various reactions against and adjustments to realism during the period.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3430 - Contemporary Drama

This is the second half of a two-semester course on modern and contemporary American and European drama (with forays into other regions), covering post-Absurdism to the present. We will examine postwar quests for dramatic and theatrical structures relevant to a socially and morally chaotic world. From a study of reactions to the Theatre of the Absurd, we move to an investigation of contemporary drama.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3590 - Topics in Comparative Literature

Changing topics with explore Comparative Literature topics, such as theory, genre, periods, or major authors with an international impact.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3600 - Literary Theory

An introduction to literary theory, required of all Comparative Literature majors. This seminar will normally be taken in the third year.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3710 - Kafka and His Doubles

Introduction to the work of Franz Kafka, with comparisons to the literary tradition he worked with and the literary tradition he formed.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3720 - Freud and Literature

In formulating his model of the psyche and his theory of psychoanalysis, Freud availed himself of analogies drawn from different disciplines, including literature. Freud’s ideas were then taken up by many twentieth-century literary writers. After introducing Freud’s theories through a reading of his major works, the course will turn to literary works that engage with Freud.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3730 - Modern Poetry: Rilke, Valéry, and Stevens

Studies in the poetry and prose of these three modernist poets, with emphasis on their theories of artistic creation. The original as well as a translation will be made available for Rilke’s and Valery’s poetry; their prose works will be read in English translation.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3740 - Narratives of Childhood

Childhood autobiography and childhood narrative from Romanticism to the present.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3750 - Women, Childhood, Autobiography

Cross-cultural readings in women’s childhood narratives. Emphasis on formal as well as thematic aspects.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3760 - Ways of Telling Stories: Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Comparative studies in the European novel. Dominant novel types, including the fictional memoir, the novel in letters, and the comic “history.”

Credits: 3

CPLT 3770 - Women Writers: Women on Women

This course focuses on women writers from any era who address the topic of femininity: what it means or implies to be a woman.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3780 - Memory Speaks

Interdisciplinary course on memory. Readings from literature, philosophy, history, psychology, and neuroscience.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3850 - Fiction of the Americas

In this seminar, we will study the centuries long ‘conversations’ between North American and Spanish American writers. Principally through short stories and some novels, we will examine their mutual fascination. Our reading list will include works by Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Horacio Quiroga, John Reed, Mariano Azuela, William Faulkner, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Margaret Atwood, Manuel Puig

Credits: 3

CPLT 4990 - Comparative Literature Seminar

Open to all students, with preference given to comparative literature majors in case of overenrollment. Topics may vary; a typical subject is “the theory and practice of tragedy.

Credits: 3

CPLT 4998 - Fourth Year Thesis

Two-semester course in which the student prepares and writes a thesis with the guidance of a faculty member. After being accepted to the distinguished majors program, the student should decide on a thesis topic and find an advisor by the end of the third year. In the fall semester (497), the student engages in an extended course of reading and produces at least 20 pages of written text; in the spring (498), the student completes and submits the thesis.

Credits: 3

CPLT 4999 - Fourth Year Thesis

ENAM 3500 - Studies in American Literature

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENAM 3570 - Contemporary Ethnic American Fiction

This course introduces students to the growing body of fiction by recent American writers of ethnic and racial minorities. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENAM 3770 - Women in American Art

Analyzes the roles played by women as artists and as the subjects of representation in American art from the colonial period to the present. Some background in either art history or gender studies is desirable. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENAM 3780 - Science and Identity in American Literature

Studies literary representations of science, pseudo-science and technology in nineteenth century America, particularly works that explore the possible effects of science on personal, civic, and social identity. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENAM 3850 - Folklore in America

Surveys the traditional expressive culture of various ethnic and religious groups in America, including songs, folk narratives, folk religion, proverbs, riddles. Emphasizes southeastern Anglo-Americans. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENAM 3890 - Mass Media and American Culture

Studies the development and impact of mass forms of communication in America including newspapers, magazines, film, the wireless and the radio, television, and the Internet. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCR 3620 - Introduction to Criticism and Cultural Studies

Introduces the various and contested theories and practices of what has come to be called ‘cultural studies.’ Examines various theoretical traditions and histories of mass culture and advertising. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCR 3630 - Psychoanalytic Criticism

Studies Freudian and post-Freudian psychology and its literary applications. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCR 3710 - Intellectual Prose

Studies non-fictional discursive prose. Readings drawn from such fields as criticism, aesthetic theory, philosophy, social and political thought, history, economics, and science; from the Renaissance to the present day. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCR 3810 - Feminist Theories and Methods

Introduces current feminist scholarship in a variety of areas literature, history, film, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, among others pairing feminist texts with more traditional ones. Features guest speakers and culminates in an interdisciplinary project. Cross listed as SWAG 3810. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCW 2200 - Introduction to Creative Nonfiction

Creative non-fiction encompasses a variety of genres - personal essays, travelogues, memoir, nature writing, literary journalism - that present factual information from a personal perspectives. We will read works by writers either hailing from or intimately familiar with each of countries we are visiting. attending to how these authors use elements of fiction, such as scene, dialogue, character, story, and metaphor, to tell their “true” stories.

Credits: 3

ENCW 2300 - Poetry Writing

An introduction to the craft of writing poetry, with relevant readings in the genre. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCW 2530 - Introduction to Poetry Writing - Themed

An introduction to the craft of writing poetry, with relevant readings in the genre. Both readings and writing assignments will be on topics that vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCW 2560 - Introduction to Fiction Writing - Themed

An introduction to the craft of writing fiction, with relevant readings in the genre. Both readings and writing assignments will be on topics that vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCW 2600 - Fiction Writing

An introduction to the craft of writing fiction, with relevant readings in the genre. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCW 3310 - Intermediate Poetry Writing I

For students advanced beyond the level of ENWR 2300. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussion, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ENCW 3320 - Intermediate Poetry Writing II

ENCW 3350 - Intermediate Nonfiction Writing

For students advanced beyond the level of ENWR 2600. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussion, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ENCW 3610 - Intermediate Fiction Writing

ENCW 4350 - Advanced Nonfiction Writing

For advanced students with experience in writing literary nonfiction. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussion, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4550 - Topics in Literary Prose

One of two required readings courses for students admitted to the Area Program in Literary Prose, also open to other qualified students. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4720 - Area Program in Literary Prose Thesis Course

Directed writing project for students in the English Department’s Undergraduate Area Program in Literary Prose, leading to completion of an extended piece of creative prose writing.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4810 - Advanced Fiction Writing I

Devoted to the writing of prose fiction, especially the short story. Student work is discussed in class and individual conferences. Parallel reading in the work of modern novelists and short story writers is required. For advanced students with prior experience in writing fiction. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4820 - Poetry Program Poetics

This poetics seminar, designed for students in the English Department’s Area program in Poetry Writing but open to other students on a space-available basis, is a close readings course for serious makers and readers of poems. Seminar topics vary by semester. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4830 - Advanced Poetry Writing I

For advanced students with prior experience in writing poetry. Student work is discussed in class and in individual conferences. Reading in contemporary poetry is also assigned. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4920 - Poetry Program Capstone

Directed poetry writing project for students in the English Department’s Undergraduate Area Program in Poetry Writing, leading to completion of a manuscript of poems. Both courses are required for students in the Distinguished Majors Program. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4993 - Independent Project in Creative Writing

For the student who wants to work on a creative writing project under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ENGL 1500 - Masterworks of Literature

An introduction to the study of literature. Why is imaginative literature worth reading and taking seriously? How do we prepare ourselves to be the best possible readers of imaginative literature?

Credits: 3

ENGL 1590 - Literature and the Professions

An introduction to the study of literature that focuses on the intersections between imaginative literature and other fields of human endeavor. Why is imaginative literature worth reading and taking seriously? How can becoming a better reader enhance other aspects of our careers and our lives?

Credits: 3

ENGL 1900 - Introduction to Academic Conversations

This class welcomes students to the university and to the ways academics read, discuss, and respond to intellectual conversations. Students will read and analyze college-level texts, practice stages of the composing process, and present responses orally in discussions and brief presentations. This course develops the strategies necessary to achieve proficiency in future writing classes as well as courses across the curriculum

Credits: 3

ENGL 1910 - Public Speaking

The development of skills in the preparation, delivery, and criticism of speeches, with emphasis on the function of audience analysis, evidence, organization, language, and style. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2001 - History of European Literature I

Surveys European literature from antiquity to the Renaissance, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.

Credits: 4

ENGL 2002 - History of European Literature II

ENGL 2500 - Introduction to Literary Studies

Introduces students to some fundamental skills in critical thinking and critical writing about literary texts. Readings include various examples of poetry, fiction, and drama. The course is organized along interactive and participatory lines. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2502 - Masterpieces of English Literature

Surveys selected English writers from the fourteenth through the eighteenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2504 - Major Authors of American Literature

Studies major works in American literature before 1900. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2506 - Studies in Poetry

Examines the poetic techniques and conventions of imagery and verse that poets have used across the centuries. Exercises in scansion, close reading, and framing arguments about poetry. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2507 - Studies in Drama

Introduces the techniques of the dramatic art, with close analysis of selected plays. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2508 - Studies in Fiction

Studies the techniques of fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2527 - Shakespeare

Studies selected sonnets and plays of Shakespeare. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2560 - Contemporary Literature

Introduces trends in contemporary English, American, and Continental literature, especially in fiction, but with some consideration of poetry and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2570 - Modern American Authors

Surveys major American writers of the twentieth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2572 - Black Writers in America

Topics in African-American writing in the US from its beginning in vernacular culture to the present day; topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2590 - Studies in Global Literature

Examines a selection of works, primarily in English but occasionally in translation, from around the world. The list of works and genres treated will vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2592 - Women in Literature

Analyzes the representations of women in literature as well as literary texts by women writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2599 - Special Topics

Usually an introduction to non-traditional or specialized topics in literary studies, (e.g., native American literature, gay and lesbian studies, techno-literacy, Arthurian romance, Grub Street in eighteenth-century England, and American exceptionalism). For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2657 - Routes, Writing, Reggae

ENGL 2900 - Women and Media in the Global South

This course examines women and media in the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa through the lenses of new media, journalism, feminism, and gender studies, with cross-cultural comparisons to the U.S.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2910 - Point of View Journalism

ENGL 3001 - History of Literatures in English I

A two-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3810 covers the period up to 1800; ENGL 3820, the period 1800 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3002 - History of Literatures in English II

ENGL 3010 - History of the English Language

Studies the development of English word forms and vocabulary from Anglo-Saxon to present-day English. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3020 - American English

A historical examination of the peculiar development of the English language, both spoken and written, in the Americas, primarily in the United States, from the time of the first European settlements to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3025 - African American English

This course examines the communicative practices of African American Vernacular English (AAEV) to explore how a marginalized language dynamic has made major transitions into American mainstream discourse. AAEV is no longer solely the informal speech of many African Americans; it is the way Americans speak.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3100 - Old Icelandic Literature in Translation

A survey of the major works written in Iceland from around 1100 to the end of the Middle Ages. Works studied include several of the family and legendary sagas and selections from the Poetic Edda and the Edda of Snorri Sturluson. All readings are in translation.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3110 - Violence and Conflict Resolution in Medieval Literature

Studies the representation of violence and peacemaking in the literature of medieval England, Scandinavia and the continent from Beowulf to the fifteenth century. Special emphasis is placed on the historical background. (IR)

Credits: 3

ENGL 3161 - Chaucer I

Studies selected Canterbury Tales and other works, read in the original. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3162 - Chaucer II

Studies Troilus and Criseyde and other works, read in the original. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3170 - Drama in English from its Beginnings to 1642

Surveys medieval and Renaissance drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3200 - Literature of the Renaissance

Surveys sixteenth-century English prose, poetry and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3220 - The Seventeenth Century

Surveys the prose, poetry and drama of the earlier seventeenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3260 - Milton

Study of selected poems and prose, with particular emphasis on Paradise Lost. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3271 - Shakespeare: Histories and Comedies

A survey of plays from Shakespeare’s earlier career, emphasizing the great histories and comedies. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3273 - Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances

Surveys the plays of Shakespeare’s later career, emphasizing the great tragedies and romances. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3274 - Studies in Shakespeare

Intensive study of selected plays. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3300 - English Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1660-1800. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3310 - Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3320 - English Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century

Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1660-1740. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3321 - English Literature of the Late Eighteenth Century

Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1740-1800. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3332 - Literature of the Americas

Comparative study of various major writers of North, Central, and South America. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3370 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

Introduces students to major plays, playwrights, and theatrical issues of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3380 - The English Novel I

Studies the rise and development of the English novel in the 18th century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3401 - English Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century I

Surveys the poetry and non-fictional prose of the Romantic period, including major Romantic poets and essayists. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3402 - English Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century II

Surveys the poetry and non-fictional prose of the Victorian period, including the major Victorian poets and essayists. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3420 - The Lives of the Victorians

Introduces the literature and culture of the Victorian period, focusing on life-narrative in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, biography, and autobiography. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3430 - American Literature to 1865

Surveys American literature from the Colonial Era to the Age of Emerson and Melville. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3434 - The American Renaissance

Analyzes the major writings of Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Thoreau, and Dickinson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3436 - Sex and Sentiment

Focuses on the rise of sentimental novels and sensational novels between the American Revolution and the Civil War. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3438 - Realism and Naturalism in America

Analyzes American literary realism and naturalism, its sociological, philosophical, and literary origins as well as its relation to other contemporaneous literary movements. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3440 - African-American Literature I

Analyzes the earliest examples of African-American literature, emphasizing African cultural themes and techniques that were transformed by the experience of slavery as that experience met European cultural and religious practices. Studies essays, speeches, pamphlets, poetry, and songs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3460 - Victorian Poetry

A study of British poetry in the period 1832-1901.

Credits: 3

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Environmental Sciences

Courses

EVSC 1010 - Introduction to Environmental Sciences

Introduces the principles and basic facts of the natural environment. Topics include earth materials, land forms, weather and climate, vegetation and soils, and the processes of environmental change and their implications to economic and human systems.

Credits: 3

EVSC 1020 - Practical Concepts in Environmental Sciences

Practical concepts and problem solving in environmental sciences through demonstrations, hands-on activities, structured discussions, and problem sets beyond those of traditional lectures or discussion groups. Emphasizes experience and critical thinking in the four core areas: geology, hydrology, atmospheric sciences, and ecology.

Credits: 1

EVSC 1040 - Virginia’s Environments

A general survey of the basic foundation, concepts, and dynamics of the total Earth system with natural Virginia as the unifying concept. Understanding is built on the foundation of geological and geomorphological processes that form and modify the landscape of Virginia, including basic geology, processes of mountain building, flooding, and erosion. Also examined are various ecosystems in the state, especially the Chesapeake Bay, and the human impact of these varied landscapes, particularly through exploitation of mineral and water resources, waste disposal and pollution, and land use issues.

Credits: 3

EVSC 1050 - Ethics, Protocols, and Practice of International Research

Ethics, Protocols, and Practice of International Research

Credits: 3

EVSC 1080 - Resources and the Environment

Explores the impact of people on the environment in the past and present with projections for the future. Addresses the phenomena and effects of food and energy production and industrial processes, including such topics as lead pollution, acid rain, the greenhouse effect, and the disposal of radioactive waste. Demonstrates how the environment works in the absence of humans and discusses how human use of resources perturbs the environment.

Credits: 3

EVSC 1200 - Elements of Ecology

Introduces the science of ecology and its application to current environmental issues. A number of topics relating to population growth and regulation, biodiversity, sustainability, and global change are used as a framework to investigate basic ecological principles. Emphasizes the application of basic science to the understanding and mitigation of current environmental problems.

Credits: 3

EVSC 1300 - Earth’s Weather and Climate

An overview of the atmospheric sciences primarily for non-science majors. Topics include weather forecasting, the greenhouse effect and global warming, ozone depletion, El Niño, air pollution, atmospheric optical effects, global climate, and the impacts of weather on human health. Three lectures per week. No science/math background is required.

Credits: 3

EVSC 1450 - An Inconvenient Truce: Climate, You and CO2

Carbon is the building block of life, the way we trap the energy of the sun to feed all biological systems, and the way we power human civilization. It is also the driver of global climate change. How does the climate system work? How has climate changed? How will it change in the coming decades? What are the likely impacts on humanity and the ecosystems on which we depend? What can we do about it? We explore climate change, top to bottom.

Credits: 3

EVSC 1600 - Water on Earth

Studies the natural history of the Earth’s hydrosphere, including its origin, evolution, and importance in Earth processes. Introduces the hydrological cycle and the role of water in a variety of Earth processes. Discusses human influences on the hydrosphere and current topics in hydrological science and water resources, such as contamination and resource allocation, emphasizing the scientific basis for past, present, and future decisions.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2010 - Materials That Shape Our Civilizations

To introduce the issues surrounding long-term sustainability with respect to materials, including scarcity, recycling, climate change, and environmental stress on water resources, land resources and pollution. Scope of the issue at the present day will be discussed and projections of the effects of current patterns of material production, consumption, and recycling will be described. Methods of analysis will be developed.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2030 - Politics, Science, and Values: An Introduction to Environmental Policy

Introduces a wide variety of domestic and international environmental policy issues. Explores how political processes, scientific evidence, ideas, and values affect environmental policymaking. This class satisfies the social sciences area requirement and not the natural sciences/mathematics area requirement, since EVSC 230 is devoted to the subject of environmental policy. Cross listed as ETP 230 and PLAP 230.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2050 - Introduction to Oceanography

Analyzes the principles that govern the world’s oceans and their integration into an understanding of the major marine environments. Topics include marine pollution, global climate, and marine policy.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2070 - Earth Systems Technology & Management

Earth Systems Engineering Management (ESEM) is a comprehensive perspective that combines engineering, environmental science and psychology to explore how human beings can take care of the ecosystem. Students will listen to lectures and discuss background readings from a variety of perspectives related to ESEM. Then they will apply what they have read to a practical problem: identifying and managing national parks and other national entities.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2200 - Plants, People and Culture

This course will explore the interrelationships between humans and plants. An introduction to basic plant biology provides a framework for exploring the process of plant domestication and the economic and cultural consequences for humans, including plant diversity and use of indigenous plants. The origin and dispersal of major plants used by humans as food, drink, fiber, medicine and fuel will be considered.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2220 - Conservation Ecology: Biodiversity and Beyond

Studies ecological science relevant to sustaining populations, species, ecosystems, and the global biosphere. Includes discussion of genetic inbreeding, critical population size, community structure and organization, maintenance of critical ecosystem function, and global biogeochemistry. Case studies from around the world demonstrate links between human-driven environmental change and the health of the biosphere, at all levels, from the organism to the planet.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2221 - Conservation Ecology Laboratory

This course offers hands-on study of ecological science relevant to sustaining populations, species, ecosystems and the global biosphere. The laboratory includes three modules that teach the scientific method while exposing students to current topics in conservation ecology. Modules include assessment of land use change in various localities based on the students’ origin, assessment of stream health in the Rivanna watershed, and assessment of soil fertility under alternative land management. Case studies in the local community will demonstrate links between human-driven environmental change and the health of the biosphere. Offered to complement EVSC 2220, but may be taken on its own.

Credits: 1

EVSC 2800 - Fundamentals of Geology

Studies the composition, structure, and internal processes of earth; the classification, origin, and distribution of earth materials; earth’s interior; and the interpretation of geological data for the solution of problems of the natural environment. Recommended: At least one semester of college chemistry with lab such as CHEM 1410, 1420.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2801 - Fundamentals of Geology Laboratory

Field and laboratory experimentation into the nature of earth materials and processes, especially as applied to use and human problems. Corequisite: EVSC 2800.

Credits: 1

EVSC 2900 - Beaches, Coasts and Rivers

Studies the geologic framework and biophysical processes of the coastal zone, and the role of the major river systems in modifying the coastal environment. Emphasizes human modifications, including case studies along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3020 - GIS Methods

Explores the theory of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applications in a range of disciplines using various GIS software packages. Example applications are from physical and social sciences, often with a focus on the Charlottesville-Albemarle area. For students interested in immediate applications of GIS in their work. Experience with word processing, file managers, and other computing skills is essential. Prerequisite: The equivalent of the College natural science/mathematics and social science area requirements.

Credits: 4

EVSC 3060 - Biomechanics of Organisms

This course explores interactions between biology and the fluid within which terrestrial organisms (air) and aquatic organisms (water) function. Topics covered include locomotion, heat exchange, diffusion and mass exchange, bio-acoustics, and bio-optics in the two different fluids, as well as living at the interface between air and water. Prerequisite: MATH 1190 or MATH 1210 or MATH 1310 or APMA 1090.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3200 - Fundamentals of Ecology

Studies energy flow, nutrient cycling and allocation in natural ecosystems, organization of species at the population and community levels, and interaction between people and the biosphere. Prerequisite: One semester of calculus; recommended; at least one semester of college-level chemistry and biology with labs such as CHEM 1410, 1420, and BIOL 2020.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3201 - Fundamentals of Ecology Laboratory

Field and laboratory experimentation illustrative of ecological systems, and their checks, balances, and cycles. Corequisite: EVSC 3200.

Credits: 1

EVSC 3300 - Atmosphere and Weather

Introduces the physical laws governing atmospheric behavior and examines atmospheric variables and their role in the fluid environment of the earth. Prerequisite: MATH 1190 or MATH 1210 or MATH 1220 or MATH 1310 or MATH 1320 or MATH 2310 or APMA 1090 or APMA 1110 or APMA 2120.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3301 - Atmosphere and Weather Laboratory

Studies the principles of measurements, instrumentation for measuring atmospheric parameters, and methods of observing and calculating atmospheric variables. Corequisite: EVSC 3300.

Credits: 1

EVSC 3600 - Physical Hydrology

Studies the physical principles governing the flow of water on and beneath the earth’s surface, including fundamental concepts of fluid dynamics applied to the description of open channel hydraulics, ground water hydraulics, and dynamics of soil moisture. Introduces elements of surface water and ground water hydrology and explores humanity’s influence on its hydrological environment. Prerequisite: One semester of calculus.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3601 - Physical Hydrology Laboratory

Field and laboratory experimentation illustrative of the hydrological cycle, including energy and mass transfer in surface and ground water. Corequisite: EVSC 3600.

Credits: 1

EVSC 3660 - Tropical Field Ecology

This course is designed to introduce students to the plants and animals found in the tropical marine environment of the Caribbean and to study their adaptations in the context of community ecology. Fishes, invertebrates, and marine plants will be in the major groups encountered. Cross-listed with BIOL 3500. Prerequisite: BIOL 2010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 4

EVSC 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: BIOL 2010, 2020, 2030, 2040 or EVSC 3200, 3201 or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3810 - Earth Processes as Natural Hazards

Studies the dynamic processes of Earth’s interior and surface and the impact of natural hazards on society. Geological topics, including earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and floods, will be described. Observations and geological data will be used to make decisions about risk to human life and property. Prerequisite: Required prerequisite course EVSC 2800 or equivalent college-level introductory geology course by transfer credit.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3840 - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Examines erosional processes and their role in creating landforms. Explores the influence of processes and landforms on land use and the human environment, including hazards from floods and landslides. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3841 - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms Lab

EVSC 3850 - Geodynamics

Studies the basic principles of continuum mechanics and their application to problems in the geological sciences, including the behavior of the Earth’s lithosphere, rock mechanics, and flow of water. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800, calculus, and physics.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3860 - Introduction to Geochemistry

Studies the principles that govern the distribution and abundance of the elements in the Earth’s lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800 encouraged but not required.

Credits: 4

EVSC 3880 - Watersheds of Lewis and Clark

Explores geological and hydrological processes that form and modify the landscape of the American West. Following the route of Lewis and Clark, the processes of mountain building, glaciation, flooding, and erosion are studied. Also considered are the human impact on this landscape, particularly through exploitation of mineral and water resources. Prerequisite: One course (including high school) in geology, Earth Sciences, or environmental sciences, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3881 - Watersheds of Lewis and Clark Laboratory

In-depth exploration of some of the geological and hydrological aspects of the concurrent lecture course, with particular emphasis on the use of maps and the completion of hands-on activities. Observation, identification, and data analysis will be developed as tools useful in the study of the landscape. The laboratory section is an optional experience for students enrolled in the lecture course. Several field trips will be conducted.

Credits: 1

EVSC 4002 - Undergraduate Seminar

A weekly, one-hour seminar series for majors, other interested undergraduates, and the University community dealing with environmental processes, research, issues, careers, and graduate study.

Credits: 1

EVSC 4010 - Introduction to Remote Sensing

Introduction to the physics and techniques of remote sensing. Prerequisite: at least one year of college-level chemistry or physics, or instructor permission.

Credits: 4

EVSC 4012 - Advanced Remote Sensing

Remote sensing is a technique to obtain data about an object without physical contact with it. It is a powerful tool for extracting quantitative information about Earth’s surface and subsurface. As an upper-level class in remote sensing, in this seminar, we will focus on advanced remote sensing techniques at different spatial scales that help to gain information about the biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.

Credits: 1

EVSC 4020 - Dryland Ecohydrology

Study of ecohydrologic processes characteristic of arid and semiarid regions. Prerequisites: Any introductory hydrology course or instructor permission.

Credits: 2

EVSC 4030 - Environmental Policymaking in the United States

Exploration of the possibilities for, and constraints on, domestic environmental policymaking. Examination of the roles of Congress, the executive branch, and the courts in environmental policymaking. Critical analysis of the analytical principles and values commonly employed in environmental policymaking. Prerequisite: Completion of Natural Sciences/Mathematics area requirement and third- or fourth-year standing, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4040 - Climate Change: Science, Markets & Policy

We will explore what many consider the greatest environmental issue of our time. Co-taught by professors in the Department of Environmental Sciences and the School of Law, our objective is to help students develop an integrated view of anthropogenic climate change and possible responses to it. We will review the evidence and critiques of it, impacts of climate change, and potential for markets and institutions to address/mitigate impacts.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4050 - Topics in Oceanography

Introduces oceanography together with a survey of marine resources and the scientific bases for their management. Prerequisite: One year college-level science.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4066 - Changing Global Carbon Cycle

This course is designed to introduce upper-level undergraduate students to the natural and human-driven perturbations that affect the global carbon cycle. The course covers major factors and aspects of the changing carbon cycle including fossil fuel use, agriculture and land-use change, atmospheric build-up, evolving land biosphere, and ocean uptake. Relevant observational methods, data sets and syntheses, and numerical models are introduced. One semester of college Biology or Chemistry, or permission of the instructor.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4070 - Advanced GIS

Explores advanced Geographic Information Systems concepts through use of Arc/Info, Erdas Imagine, and other GIS software in individual and group projects. Topics include data management, raster modeling, image manipulation, and 3-D visualization. Prerequisite: An introductory GIS course.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4080 - Quantitative Methods in Environmental Sciences

Introduction to quantitative techniques for problem solving in Environmental Sciences, including data analysis, data visualization, simple mathematical models, and basic concepts of computer programming [in R.] Lectures provide the necessary background material and computer-based assignments provide students with practical experience using the concepts presented in class. No previous programming experience is assumed.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4082 - Geology and Ecology of U.S. National Parks

The seminar will involve a close reading of the text with additional outside readings from peer-reviewed journals and books. Students will lead discussions on geological and ecological topics specific to the parks. The impacts of humans on the ecosystems of the specific parks will also be a major topic of investigation and analysis. Prerequisites: Required prerequisite course EVSC 2800 and EVSC 3200

Credits: 2

EVSC 4090 - Analytical Chemistry

EVSC 4100 - Management of Forest Ecosystems

An ecosystem course which treats the ecology of forests and consequences of forest processes in natural and managed systems. The class emphasizes the “pattern and process” concept that is the central theme in modern vegetation sciences at increasing scales: from form and function of leaves and other parts of trees through population, community and landscape ecology to the role of forests in the global climate and carbon-cycling. Pre-requisites: EVSC 3200, 3400, or 3500 recommended.

Credits: 4

EVSC 4110 - Estuarine Ecology

An interdisciplinary course covering the physical, biogeochemical and ecological aspects of coastal estuaries. Prerequisites: EVSC 3200 with a D-

Credits: 3

EVSC 4122 - Coastal Ecology Seminar

A graduate/undergraduate seminar on current topics in coastal ecology.

Credits: 1

EVSC 4140 - Global Coastal Change

A comprehensive treatment of global environmental factors affecting coastal marine systems, including climate change, sea-level rise, alterations in freshwater and sediment transport, disturbance and habitat loss, overfishing, alien species, and eutrophication. Includes case studies providing real-world examples, and detailed reviews of the evidence of changes and possible solutions.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4150 - Terrestrial Plant Ecology

The objective of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of factors influencing the distribution of terrestrial plants at the local, landscape, and global scales. We will focus on the basic principles of plant biology and their role on determining the relative distributions and abundances of plant species, patterns of community structure, and ecosystem function.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4160 - Forest Sampling

Study of quantitative methods for sampling forest ecosystems

Credits: 3

EVSC 4170 - Spatial Ecology

Examines how spatial patterns and processes influence ecological systems across a broad range of biological organization, including genes, populations, communities, and ecosystems. Investigates the central role of humans in altering spatial ecological processes and the consequences for human wellbeing.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4190 - Ecosystem-based Marine Conservation

The basis in ecosystem attributes, resiliency, and sustainability for marine conservation, policy development, and management. A number of case studies will be examined from the textbook, and students will be required to develop their own case studies in partial requirement for the grade.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4200 - The Ecology of Coastal Wetlands

Investigates the ecology of coastal interface ecosystems, including sea grass, mangrove, and salt marsh emphasizing biogeochemisty, succession, and dynamic processes related to the development and maintenance of these systems. Explores the differences between tropical and temperate coastal systems. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4210 - Methods in Aquatic Ecology

Trains students in field and laboratory techniques used in aquatic ecological research. Two weekend field trips to the Eastern Shore of Virginia serve as the foundation. Laboratory exercises include the data and samples gathered in the barrier island lagoons and in the Chesapeake Bay. Analyzes water quality and patterns of primary and secondary production in aquatic ecosystems. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4220 - Aquatic Plant Ecology

Studies the physiology and ecology of aquatic plants from tropical, temperate, and polar waters. Emphasizes comparisons among major plant groups (phytoplankton, macroalgae, vascular) of fundamental physiological processes, including photosynthesis, nutrient uptake, resource allocation, and growth. Discusses iterations between plant physiology an ecosystem function and the structure of plant communities for both marine and freshwater environments. Examples of human impacts on aquatic environments, including eutrophication and global climate change, are considered in the context of plant physiology and ecology. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4230 - Marine Environments and Organisms

Surveys the major habitats of marine and estuarine areas and the organisms which have adapted to life in these environments. Emphasizes the organisms and communities which have evolved in response to stress and competition in the sea, and the systematics and natural history of marine organisms. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4240 - Restoration Ecology

This course examines the science of restoration ecology and the practice of ecological restoration through lectures and in-class discussion. Emphasis is on application of ecological concepts, models, and methodologies to restoration of degraded and impaired ecosystems. The potential for exploiting restoration projects as large-scale ecosystem experiments and the importance of grounding restoration efforts in basic ecological theory are discussed. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4250 - Ecosystem Ecology

Study of the flows of energy and the cycling of elements in ecosystems and how these concepts connect the various components of the Earth system. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 and one semester of chemistry or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4260 - Ecology of Grasslands and Tundra

This course will emphasize plant community and ecosystem ecology of water-limited grassland systems and energy-limited tundra systems. Various topics will be covered including water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles, primary production, plant physiology, plant competition, and plant-herbivore interactions. We will examine the environmental factors that control these systems, as well as their geographic distribution throughout the globe. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4270 - Soil Science

Introduces the study of soils as a natural system. Topics include the fundamentals of soil chemistry, hydrology, and biology with respect to genesis, classification and utilization. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800 and 3200; one year college chemistry or instructor permission.

Credits: 4

EVSC 4280 - Environmental Microbiology

Analyzes the impact of microbial physiologic reactions on environmental quality: microbes as transformers of chemical pollutants; microbes as transformers of nutrient elements; microbes as agents of energy transfer in ecosystems; and microbes as contaminants. Emphasizes the quantitation of microbial activities. Prerequisite: BIOL 2010, CHEM 1410, 1420, EVSC 3200.

Credits: 4

EVSC 4290 - Limnology: Inland Water Ecosystems

This course will focus on lakes, rivers, streams, and reservoirs as ecosystems. The goal of the course is to provide an understanding through lectures and discussions of the main physical, chemical, and biological processes that determine similarities and differences among inland waters. Major human impacts on inland waters will also be considered. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 with D- and 1 semester of chemistry or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4332 - Mountain Meteorology Seminar

Mountain Meteorology Seminar

Credits: 2

EVSC 4340 - Human Biometeorology: Weather, Climate and Human Health

We will explore how weather and climate impact human health from the individual to the societal level. Topics will include how the human body responds to heat and cold, weather and physiological stress and strain, impacts of poor air quality on human morbidity and mortality, and the role of weather and climate in disease transmission.We will likewise examine extreme weather events at the macro-level & the role of human adaptation to climate. Prerequisites include an introductory course in atmospheric science (EVSC 1300, EVSC 3300, or the equivalent).

Credits: 3

EVSC 4350 - Synoptic Climatology

Studies the formation, movements, and meteorological and climatological attributes of synoptic-scale weather systems and the impact on the environment. Explores the relationship of these systems to air quality, atmospheric transport, climate change, and evaporation and precipitation regimes. Prerequisite: EVSC 3300 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4360 - Weather Forecasting

This course draws upon the fundamental principles of dynamical and physical meteorology to forecast mid-latitude weather conditions with a focus on the 1-7 day time frame. The class reviews the full suite of modern meteorological observation systems and provides an introduction to numerical weather prediction. Along with lectures/discussions and classroom exercises, forecasting for various locations is a regular part of the course. Prerequisite: EVSC 3300 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4370 - Climate Near the Ground

Analyzes the principles governing atmospheric processes occurring at small temporal and spatial scales near the Earth’s surface, including energy, mass, and momentum transfer. Includes features of the atmospheric environment affecting plants and feedback mechanisms between plants and their local microclimates, trace gas exchange between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere, energy budgets, evapotranspiration, and motions near the surface. Prerequisite: EVSC 3300 or instructor permission.

Credits: 2

EVSC 4440 - Climate Change

This course will focus on the history of Earth’s climate and theories of climate change across a range of temporal scales. The course will initially focus on Earth’s climate before the period of modern meteorological data collection, pre-1850. Then changes in climate during the period of instrumental data collection will be covered. The course will conclude with debates on the causes of current climate variation and potential impacts. Prerequisite: EVSC 3300 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4452 - Global Climate Variability Seminar

This seminar course will review the atmospheric and oceanic processes responsible for large-scale variability and change in Earth’s climate system through readings and discussions of recent peer-reviewed scientific publications.

Credits: 2

EVSC 4470 - Introduction to Climatological Analysis

Examination of various techniques for the analysis of climatological data sets at a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Topics include large-scale atmospheric circulation, synoptic climatology, air quality, extreme event analysis, agricultural climatology, climatic water balance, and biometeorology. Prerequisite: EVSC 3300.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4490 - Air Pollution

Study of formation, atmospheric transport, and deposition of airborne pollutants. Prerequisites: Introductory chemistry or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4630 - Land-Atmosphere Interaction

Study of energy, water, and carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the land surface. Prerequisite: Must have completed EVSC 3300 or EVSC 3600

Credits: 3

EVSC 4640 - Applied Hydrology

Introduces hydrology as applied to environmental problems including water resources, systems analysis, and the effects of urbanization and land use on the hydrological cycle. Three hours lecture, two hours laboratory. Prerequisite: EVSC 3600.

Credits: 4

EVSC 4650 - Water Sustainability

In this course we will explore the dimensions of what “sustainability” and “sustainable development” mean in the context of water use and management. We will examine the different ways in which water is used, valued, and governed, examining sustainability through different lenses and perspectives.The course will NOT count for the Math/Science area requirement in the College.

Credits: 1

EVSC 4660 - Hydrological Field Methods and Data Analysis

Hydrological instruments are introduced; students employ the instruments to make field measurements and perform a range of data analysis exercises. Prerequisite: EVSC 3600.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4670 - Drinking Water Quality

This course examines aspects of water quality related to public health with a primary focus on drinking water. Contamination of water by pathogenic microbes is covered, including the historical development of sanitation, modern treatment of drinking water, and how lack of clean drinking water affects populations in developing countries worldwide. Chemical contaminants include metals and organics such as pesticides and endocrine disruptors.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4710 - Environmental Geochemistry

This lecture course focuses on the occurrence and distribution of chemical elements and the processes influencing that distribution among the various reservoirs of the Earth-surface environment, including rocks, soil, water, and air. Prerequisite: CHEM 1410 or CHEM 1420 (one semester of college-level chemistry) and EVSC 2800 (one semester of college-level geology)

Credits: 3

EVSC 4810 - Petrology

Study of the origin and classification of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Emphasizes rock series and tectonic associations of rock types. Study of thin sections and hand samples in the laboratory. Field experience and laboratories are included. Prerequisite: Required prerequisite course EVSC 2800 or equivalent college-level introductory geology course by transfer credit.

Credits: 4

EVSC 4820 - Geology and Ecology of U.S. Ore Deposits

The seminar will primarily be an interdisciplinary study group to examine the interrelationships of geology, ecology and land-use issues during the exploration for, the exploitation of, and the environmental legacy of the mineral resources of the United States. Additional outside readings specific to the deposits will be utilized for environmental issues and concerns. Prerequisites: Required prerequisite course EVSC 2800 or equivalent college-level introductory geology course by transfer credit.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4830 - Geological Field Methods in Environmental Sciences

This course will integrate lectures, field exercises and trips, and computational techniques to develop solid skills important for Geosciences. Specific projects may include surveying, geologic mapping, soils descriptions, stream and groundwater monitoring, flooding hazards, use of tracers, sampling techniques and various other tools of the trade. Prerequisite: Required prerequisite course EVSC 2800 or equivalent college-level introductory geology course by transfer credit.

Credits: 4

EVSC 4832 - Water-Rock Interactions Seminar

Reading and discussion of the research literature linking hydrological and geochemical processes in the environment. Prerequisites: One geology, geochemistry, or hydrology course, or permission of instructor.

Credits: 1

EVSC 4850 - Coastal Processes

Reviews wave generation, wave prediction, wave refraction, transformation, shoaling, and associated inshore currents. Topics include the generation of littoral drift and shallow water surge; beach and barrier island geomorphology and problems of erosion. Includes the historical development of research in coastal processes and a quantitative analysis of spatial patterns along sandy coasts. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800; corequisite: EVSC 4851.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4851 - Coastal Processes Laboratory

Laboratory analysis of sediment, map, and aerial photo data sets. Lab demonstrations with the wave tank and rapid sediment analyzer. Weekly exercises and research projects required. Corequisite: EVSC 4850.

Credits: 1

EVSC 4860 - Geology of Virginia

The course examines the geological evolution of the state and mid-Atlantic region in the context of plate tectonics, including stratigraphy, mountain building, metamorphism and deformation, and geomorphic processes. The human impact on this landscape through the exploitation of mineral resources is examined. Field trips to the various provinces of the state will help provide fundamental understanding of the state’s foundation. Prerequisite: Required prerequisite course EVSC 2800 or equivalent college-level introductory geology course by transfer credit.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4870 - Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Studies the processes that regulate the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus within and between oceans, continents, and atmosphere. Prerequisite: One semester of college chemistry and one or two of the EVSC core classes.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4880 - Groundwater Geology

Study of the mechanics of groundwater flow, with attendant heat and mass transport; regional geological controls on groundwater occurrence and movement; and the role of groundwater in geological processes. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800, 3600.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4890 - Planetary Geology

Studies the origin and evolution of the solar system, emphasizing the geology of the planets and satellites of the inner solar system and the satellites of the gaseous planets. Compares and contrasts the Earth with Venus and Mars. Prerequisite: Introductory course in geosciences or astronomy.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4891 - Planetary Geology Lab

Optional laboratory for EVSC 4890 students that will expose students to sources and types of information about processes and materials on planetary bodies as well as techniques for interpreting and mapping the surface features and geologic history of planetary objects.

Credits: 1

EVSC 4991 - The Theory and Practice of Biodiversity Conservation

The goal of this class is to rigorously compare real-life conservation program implementation with the theoretical goals of conservation science. This course is a senior-level offering designed to serve as a capstone class for students enrolled in the Environmental and Biological Conservation Specialization program and will be presented in a seminar format where a theoretical presentation of conservation science within the context is presented. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 (fund. of Ecology) or BIOL 3020 (Evolution and Ecology)

Credits: 3

EVSC 4993 - Independent Study

Specialized topics in ecology, atmosphere, hydrology, environmental geology, or environmental systems not normally covered in formal classes under the direction of the faculty. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 6.00

EVSC 4995 - Supervised Research

Original research usually involving a field or laboratory problem in the environmental sciences under the direction of one or more faculty members. The results may form the basis of an undergraduate thesis which is required to partially fulfill the Distinguished Majors Program in environmental sciences. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 6.00

EVSC 4999 - Thesis Research

Provides credit for doing work in pursuit of the undergraduate thesis option for majors in Environmental Science

Credits: 3

Environmental Thought and Practice

Courses

ETP 2020 - Global Sustainability

Earth’s ecosystems are threatened by accelerated population growth, depletion of natural resources, environmental degradation, and loss of biodiversity. This interdisciplinary course prepares students to understand and lead efforts to address these challenges. It provides foundational knowledge and challenges participants to deepen their understanding by working collaboratively to develop and implement a real-world, local sustainability project.

Credits: 3

ETP 2030 - Politics, Science, and Values: An Introduction to Environmental Policy

Introduces a wide variety of domestic and international environmental policy issues. Explores how political processes, scientific evidence, ideas, and values affect environmental policy making. This class satisfies the social sciences area requirement and not the natural sciences/mathematics area requirement, since ETP 2030 is devoted to the subject of environmental policy. Cross listed as EVSC 2030 and PLAP 2300.

Credits: 3

ETP 3220 - Uranium and the American West

The epic of atomic physics from the Curies to Fermi’s chain reaction; the Manhattan project and the tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer; nuclear weapons testing, power, and environmental consequences. Cross listed with Chem 3220. One year of university-level Chemistry or Physics.

Credits: 3

ETP 4010 - Environmental Decisions

This team-taught, capstone seminar for the Environmental Thought and Practice major helps students integrate the broad range of ideas and information employed in environmental decision-making. A case study approach is used to examine the scientific, historical, cultural, ethical and legal dimensions of selected environmental issues. Prerequisite: Declaration of ETP major.

Credits: 3

ETP 4693 - The Business of Saving Nature

Human activities are currently resulting in an unprecedented decline in the biological diversity of our planet. The conversion of natural lands for agriculture and urbanization, together with the alteration of wetlands and aquatic ecosystems, is resulting in the extinction of species that depend on these ecosystems as essential habitat. Recognition of the impacts of human activity on biological diversity has led to a growing international environmental movement to promote the preservation of natural ecosystems. The preservation of biological diversity is dependent on the integration of conservation objectives into the framework of regional economic development, which will require a blending of our scientific and economic understanding about these issues. This course focuses on the scientific and economic issues related to the conservation and preservation of natural ecosystems via an insitutional learning experience.

Credits: 3

ETP 4800 - Politics of the Environment

Examines environmental issues that originate in, and that affect, the United States, including most forms of pollution and natural resource depletion. Focuses on how political processes, economic factors, and social/cultural constructs affect environmental policymaking. (Cross listed with PLAP 4800) Prerequisite: Course in ETP, Environmental Sciences or Politics.

Credits: 3

ETP 4810 - Class Race & the Environment

Focuses on the intersections among class, race and the environment. The course goals are to achieve an understanding of central environmental policy issues, to consider what ‘class’ and ‘race’ mean, and to examine the distribution of environmental hazards across people of different classes and races. (Cross listed with PLAP 4810)

Credits: 3

French

Courses

CREO 1010 - Elementary Creole I

Development of basic oral expression, listening and reading comprehension, and writing. Prerequisite: No previous formal instruction of French or Creole is required.

Credits: 3

CREO 1020 - Elementary Creole II

Development of basic oral expression, listening and reading comprehension, and writing. Prerequisite: CREO 1010.

Credits: 3

CREO 2010 - Intermediate Creole I

Develops the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Creole. Prerequisite: Two previous semesters of Elementary Creole (I and II).

Credits: 3

CREO 2020 - Intermediate Creole II

Develops the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Creole. Prerequisite: Three previous semesters of Creole required (1010, 1020, 2010)

Credits: 3

FREN 116 - Intensive Introductory French

This is the non-credit option for FREN 1016.

Credits: 0

FREN 126 - Intensive Introductory French

This is the non-credit option for FREN 1026.

Credits: 0

FREN 216 - Intensive Intermediate French

This is the non-credit option for FREN 2016.

Credits: 0

FREN 226 - Intensive Intermediate French

This is the non-credit option for FREN 2026.

Credits: 0

FREN 1000 - Reading

Reading

Credits: 0

FREN 1010 - Elementary French I

Development of basic oral expression, listening and reading comprehension, and writing. Language laboratory work is required. Followed by FREN 1020. Prerequisite: Limited or no previous formal instruction in French.

Credits: 4

FREN 1016 - Intensive Introductory French

FREN 1020 - Elementary French II

Designed for students with an elementary knowledge of French. Further develops the skills of speaking, listening, comprehension, reading, and writing. Language laboratory work is required. Followed by FREN 2010. Prerequisite: FREN 1010 or one or two years of previous formal instruction in French and appropriate SAT score.

Credits: 4

FREN 1026 - Intensive Introductory French

FREN 1050 - Accelerated Elementary French

Reviews basic oral expression, listening, reading comprehension, and writing. Covers the material in the FREN 1010-1020 text in one semester at an accelerated pace. Language lab required followed by FREN 2010. Prerequisite: Previous background in French (more than two years of French in secondary school) and an achievement test score below 540 or a placement score below 378, or permission of the department.

Credits: 4

FREN 2010 - Intermediate French I

Develops the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Focuses on reading skill development through readings on contemporary Francophone culture and short stories. Followed by FREN 2020. Prerequisite: FREN 1020 or one to three years of formal instruction in French and appropriate SAT score.

Credits: 3

FREN 2016 - Intensive Intermediate French

FREN 2020 - Intermediate French II

Designed for continued development of the four skills at an advanced level. Readings emphasize contemporary Francophone culture and include a modern French play. Prerequisite: FREN 2010 or one to three years of formal instruction in French and appropriate SAT score.

Credits: 3

FREN 2026 - Intensive Intermediate French

FREN 2320 - Intensive Intermediate French

This in-depth, intermediate-level course is recommended for students whose placement scores nearly exempt them from FREN 2020, and for any students who wish to refine and expand their mastery of French grammar before taking 3000-level courses. Students who have completed FREN 2020 may take 2320 as an elective to fine-tune their language skills. Prerequisite: Appropriate placement score or departmental permission (contact the Language Program Director).

Credits: 3

FREN 2935 - Writing Workshop in French

Improves skills in analytic and expository writing in French. Intensive exercises in composition and rewriting, including peer editing. May not be used for major or minor credit. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3010 - Oral and Written Expression in French

Improves student’s command of present-day spoken French. Includes conversation on topics of current interest, advanced vocabulary, some individualized writing practice. Limited enrollment. May not be used for major or minor credit Prerequisite: FREN 2320 or equivalent; instructor permission for those who completed only FREN 2020; students who completed FREN 3032 are excluded and must take FREN 3034.

Credits: 3

FREN 3028 - Language House Conversation

For students residing in the French House.

Credits: 1

FREN 3029 - Language House Conversation

For students residing in the French House.

Credits: 1

FREN 3030 - Phonetics

Reviews pronunciation, phonetics, and phonology for undergraduates. Prerequisite: FREN 2020 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

FREN 3031 - Finding Your Voice in French

In this course, students explore and develop their own “voice” in written and spoken French. Through reading and viewing a variety of cultural artifacts in French, and completing a series of individual and collaborative creative projects, students will improve their skills in grammar, communication, self-expression and editing. Prerequisite: FREN 2020, 2320, or the equivalent, or appropriate AP, F-CAPE, or SAT score.

Credits: 3

FREN 3032 - Text, Image, Culture

In this course, students will discover and engage critically with a broad sampling of French and Francophone cultural production representing a variety of periods, genres, approaches, and media. Students will read, view, write about and discuss a range of works that may include poetry, painting, prose, music, theater, films, graphic novels, photographs, essays, and historical documents. Prerequisite: FREN 3031.

Credits: 3

FREN 3034 - Advanced Oral and Written Expression in French

Improves command of present-day spoken French. Conversation on topics of current interest; advanced vocabulary; some individualized writing practice. Enrollment limited. Prerequisite: either completion of or concurrent enrollment in FREN 3031. This course is not intended for students who are native speakers of French or whose secondary education was in French schools.

Credits: 3

FREN 3035 - Business French

In this course, students will learn about the major industries, organizational structures, and the primary positions within French and francophone businesses. They will gain experience in business research, will hone their oral and written French for use in a business-setting, will have practice job interviews, and will learn the practical aspects of living and working in French. Prerequisite: FREN 3031 and 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 3036 - Introduction to Translation

This course will provide a practical and theoretical introduction to methods of translation from French to English and from English to French. Topics covered may include an introduction to translation studies, application of translation tools and practices, grammar review, and cross-cultural analysis of a variety of both literary and non-literary texts. Pre-requisite: FREN 2020 or FREN 2320 or equivalent placement.

Credits: 3

FREN 3041 - The French-Speaking World I: Origins

Survey of writing in French from the beginnings (880) to 1600. Explores various movements and trends in early French literary and cultural history; readings in modern French. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3042 - The French-Speaking World II: Expansion

Survey of writing in French from 1600 to 1800. Explores various movements and trends in French literary and cultural history of the classical period and the enlightenment. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3043 - The French-Speaking World III: Modernities

Survey of writing in French from 1800 to the present. Explores various movements and trends in French literary and cultural history of the modern and contemporary periods. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3046 - African Literatures and Cultures

Introduction to African cultural studies. Languages and educational policies. Oral traditions: myths, epic narratives, poetry, folktales in French translation. Modern African-language literatures. Francophone literature. Representations of the postcolonial state in contemporary arts: painting, sculpture, music, and cinema. Museums and the representation of African cultures. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3050 - History and Civilization of France: Middle Ages to Revolution

The social, political, economic, philosophical, and artistic developments in France from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3051 - History and Civilization of France: Revolution to 1945

The social, political, economic, philosophical, and artistic developments in France from the Revolution until 1945. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3509 - Topics in French Linguistics

This course will include topics such as French outside France; regional French varieties; Romance dialectology; French socio-linguistics. Prerequisite: FREN 3031 and 3030.

Credits: 3

FREN 3553 - J-Term in Paris

January Term study abroad course conducted on-site in Paris. Readings in literature, ethnography, history, and urban studies, along with discussions of photographs, paintings, and films, will inform daily walking tours and site visits. Specific topics may vary. Course taught in French. Prerequisite: FREN 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 3570 - Topics in Francophone African Studies

This course addresses various aspects of Francophone African Culture including , oral traditions, literature, theatre, cinema, and contemporary music and visual arts. Prerequisites: FREN 3031 & 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 3584 - Topics in French Cinema

Studies topics relating to concepts of film structure, history, and criticism in French and within the French tradition. Topics offered include Introduction to Cinema and Texte écrit/texte filmique. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3585 - Topics in Cultural Studies

Interdisciplinary seminar in French and Francophone culture and society. Topics vary annually and may include literature and history, cinema and society, and cultural anthropology. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3652 - Modern Paris

An examination of the complex and changing urban landscape and its relationship to society as revealed in the literary and artistic output of the time. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3655 - Victor Hugo: Poète, dramaturge, romancier, critique social, artiste

Explores Hugo’s work and universality in all the contexts in which he worked, to appreciate Hugo’s genius, find personally-compelling perspectives, and improve French and research skills. Taught in French. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3675 - Museums and Cultural Representation in Quebec

FREN 3747 - Francophone Literature & Culture

Explores representative works of major Moroccan francophone authors in their cultural context. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3753 - L’immigration en France

An introduction to the variety of topics, issues and current events related to the phenomenon of immigration in France. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3756 - Le cas Simenon

Studies representative works of Belgian mystery novelist Georges Simenon, emphasizing the uniqueness of his genre. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3857 - Le Rire: A Study of Laughter in French Literature

An analysis of the universals of the comic tradition, the role of stock characters, and recurrent techniques and themes in texts drawn from the Middle Ages to the present. These texts are considered within a changing social context. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 4020 - History of the French Language

Surveys the main currents of the French language in its development from the earliest to present times. Taught in French. Prerequisite: FREN 3030 or the equivalent or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

FREN 4031 - Grammar and Style

In this grammar review course, students are expected to learn how best to structure the French language and how to express themselves with concision and clarity. Taught in French. Prerequisite: B+ average in FREN 3031 and FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 4035 - Tools and Techniques of Translation

Written and oral translation exercises to and from the target language. Prerequisite: B+ average in FREN 3031, 3032, 4031.

Credits: 3

FREN 4110 - Medieval Saints’ Lives

One of the most popular forms of entertainment, combining exciting themes (transvestism, marvelous journeys, spectacular sins, helpful animals) with edgy commentaries on hot topics (virginity vs. marriage, parent-child conflicts), saints’ Lives offer a view of their culture’s theological concerns, secular interests, and the quest of both ecclesiastical and lay people to fulfill their spiritual and terrestrial responsibilities.

Credits: 3

FREN 4123 - Medieval Love

Love fascinated people in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as it still does today. This course will examine understandings and uses of love in religious and secular literature, music and art. What is the relationship, for medieval writers, between the love of God and the love of human beings? What is the role of poetry in promoting and producing love? What medieval ideas about love continue to shape our modern understandings and assumption Prerequisite: FREN 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 4237 - The Culture of Renaissance Lyon

A study of the cultural history of the city of Lyon, France, in the sixteenth century. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 4410 - The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment laid the foundations for our current conceptions of democratic government, religious toleration, freedom of speech, and the scientific method. The readings for this course may include works by Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau. Prerequisite: FREN 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 4509 - Seminar in French Linguistics

Topics of specific interest to faculty and advanced undergraduate students. Prerequisite: FREN 3030, 3031, and one 4000-level course in French.

Credits: 3

FREN 4510 - Advanced Topics in Medieval Literature

Topics may vary and include individual identity, love, war, humor, and their expression through literary techniques. Texts are read in modern French translation. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one FREN course numbered 3041 to 3043 (or instructor permission).

Credits: 3

FREN 4520 - Advanced Topics in Renaissance Literature

Examines major works of sixteenth-century French literature situated in the larger historical and cultural context of the Continental Renaissance. Topics vary and may include, for example, humanism and reform, women writers, and urban culture. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one FREN course numbered 3041 to 3043 (or instructor permission).

Credits: 3

FREN 4530 - Advanced Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature

Topics vary; may be repeated for credit. Recent topics have included classical theatre; poetics of the lyric; moralists; and fiction. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one FREN course numbered 3041 to 3043 (or instructor permission).

Credits: 3

FREN 4540 - Advanced Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Topics in eighteenth-century French literature. Works of authors such as Beaumarchais, de Charrière, du Deffand, Diderot, Marivaux, Montesquieu, Rousseau, de Staël, Voltaire. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one FREN course numbered 3041 to 3043 (or instructor permission).

Credits: 3

FREN 4546 - Topics on Moroccan Civilization

The course relates to Morocco. It treats the history as well as contemporary Morocco with its social, economic and political components.

Credits: 3

FREN 4547 - Moroccan Francophone Literature

The French-speaking Moroccan literature found its roots in Africa or it was born, in Europe through the language of colonization, in arabo-Andalusian Spain, and with the Middle-East through the Muslim civilization. This course proposes an analysis of texts which will approach the topics of the identity, exiles, the language of writing and other topics for a better comprehension of Morocco.

Credits: 3

FREN 4560 - Advanced Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Study of the various aspects of the nineteenth-century French literature. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one FREN course numbered 3041 to 3043 (or instructor permission).

Credits: 3

FREN 4570 - Advanced Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature

Readings of significant literary works of the twentieth century. The genre, theme and specific chronological concentration will vary. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one course in the 3040 sequence.

Credits: 3

FREN 4580 - Advanced Topics in Literature

Advanced study of transhistorical topics such as literary ideas, the novel, theater, travel literature. Prerequisite: At least one 3000-level literature course.

Credits: 3

FREN 4581 - Advanced Topics in Francophone Literature

Topics may include historical writings and rewritings, single authors, the oral tradition, theater, the novel, poetry.

Credits: 3

FREN 4582 - Advanced Topics in French Poetry

Aspects of French poetry. Topics vary and may range from general survey to studies of specific periods or authors; may be repeated for credit for different topics. Prerequisite: At least one literature or culture course beyond FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 4583 - Seminar for Majors

Close study of a specific topic in French literature. Topics vary. Prerequisite: Completion of a 4000-level literature course with a grade of B- or better.

Credits: 3

FREN 4584 - Advanced Topics in French Cinema

Advanced seminar in French and Francophone cinema. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit for different topics. Prerequisites: FREN 3032 and 3584, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

FREN 4585 - Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies

Advanced seminar in French and Francophone literature and culture. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit for different topics. Prerequisite: At least one literature or culture course beyond FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 4586 - Topics in Literature and Film

Studies the relation between three or four French films and their sources in French literature and culture. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and FREN 3584, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

FREN 4743 - Africa in Cinema

Study of the representation of Africa in American, Western European and African films. Ideological Constructions of the African as ‘other’. Exoticism in cinema. History of African cinema. Economic issues in African cinema: production, distribution, and the role of African film festivals. The socio-political context. Women in African cinema. Aesthetic problems: themes and narrative styles. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and FREN 3584 or another 3000-level literature course in French.

Credits: 3

FREN 4744 - The Occupation and After

After an initial examination of the political and social conditions in France under the Nazi regime during World War II, this seminar explores the enduring legacy of those “Dark Years” by investigating how the complex (and traumatic) history of the Occupation has impacted French culture during the last half of the twentieth century and into the twenty first. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and another FREN course beyond 3034.

Credits: 3

FREN 4750 - From Literature to Film: Screening “Dangerous Liaisons”

We will explore the international dissemination, through filmic adaptations, of a single literary work written at the end of the 18th century: Laclos’ famous novel “Les Liaisons dangereuses”. After examining the novel itself and its significance in the context of pre-revolutionary France, we will study several movies shot between 1960 and 2012 by directors from China, Korea, Czechoslovakia, France, Great-Britain and the USA.

Credits: 3

FREN 4811 - Francophone Literature of Africa

Surveys the literary tradition in French, emphasizing post-World War II poets, novelists, and playwrights. Examines the role of cultural reviews in the development of this literary tradition. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one FREN course numbered 3041 to 3043 (or instructor permission).

Credits: 3

FREN 4813 - Introduction to the Francophone Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti)

Focuses on the literature, culture and arts of the Francophone Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti). Issues of colonialism and postcolonialism, slavery and freedom, exile and immigration, race and gender will be examined through poetry, novels, storytelling, theater, music and film analysis. Prerequisite: A 3000-level French literature course

Credits: 3

FREN 4836 - The Culture of Commerce and Industry in France

Americans entering the French business setting must confront specifically French cultural standards, expectations, and practices. Investigates such topics as the organization of industry, banking, marketing, and management, as well as the role of government and the educational system. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 4838 - French Society and Civilization

Discusses political institutions and social problems based upon readings in recent publications and an analysis of current events. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and another FREN course beyond 3034.

Credits: 3

FREN 4857 - French Comedy

Studies dramatic comedy in France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, with comparison between comedy and other dramatic forms such as ‘tragi-comedy’ and ‘theatre of the absurd.’ Texts by such authors as Corneille, Molière, Regnard, Marivaux, Musset, Feydeau, Jarry, and Beckett. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and either FREN 3041, 3042, or 3043.

Credits: 3

FREN 4993 - Independent Study

Normally, only French majors may enroll in this course and only by written permission from the department chair prior to the end of the first week of classes.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

FREN 4998 - Pre-Thesis Tutorial

Preliminary research for thesis. Prerequisite: Admission to the Distinguished Majors Program.

Credits: 3

FREN 4999 - Thesis

Composition and defense of thesis. Prerequisite: FREN 4998 and good standing in the Distinguished Majors Program. Note: The prerequisite to all 5000-level literature courses is two 4000-level literature courses with an average grade of B, or the instructor’s permission.

Credits: 3

FRTR 2510 - Topics in Medieval Literature

An introduction to the culture of the High Middle Ages in France. Topics vary and may include love literature, family relations, war, and science and religion. May be repeated for credit for different topics.

Credits: 3

FRTR 2530 - Topics in French Baroque and Classical Culture

An introduction to seventeenth century French literature, both fiction and non-fiction, against the background of the period’s political, religious, and philosophical controversies and of its plastic arts.

Credits: 3

FRTR 2552 - French Culture (subtitle will be added to reflect chosen topic)

Course will offer a transhistoric and interdisciplinary approach to French culture through the lens of a given theme (e.g., food, travel, politics, societies and institutions). Lectures, readings and exams in English.

Credits: 3

FRTR 2553 - J-Term in Paris

FRTR 2579 - Contemporary Caribbean Culture

Comparative examination of contemporary culture in the Caribbean region with an emphasis on literature. Considers historical writing (essays), musical forms, and film as manifestations of the process of creolization in the area. Questions of ethnic diversity and nation-building are central to the course.

Credits: 3

FRTR 2580 - Topics in French and Francophone Culture

Introduces the interdisciplinary study of culture in France or other French-speaking countries. Topics vary from year to year, and may include cuisine and national identity; literature and history; and contemporary society and cultural change. Taught by one or several professors in the French department.

Credits: 3

FRTR 2850 - French Thought

A study of major French non-fiction from the Renaissance until today, including essays, discourses, sermons, autobiographies, and editorials, within the historical circumstances of production and reception and with respect to thematic and formal qualities. Class and all readings are in English. This course does not count toward the major or minor in French.

Credits: 3

FRTR 3584 - Topics in French Cinema

Studies topics relating to concepts of film structure, history, and criticism in French and within the French tradition. Topics offered include Introduction to French Cinema and Written Text/Film Text.

Credits: 3

FRTR 3814 - Gender, Sexuality, Identity in Premodern France

This course will explore religious, social, scientific and legal views on gender, sexuality and identity that may extend from medieval through early modern Europe with an emphasis on the French tradition. Readings will include literary texts and cultural documents as well as current scholarship on questions of sexuality, gender, and identity politics.

Credits: 3

FRTR 4540 - The International Enlightenment

The Enlightenment laid the foundations for our current conceptions of democratic government, religious toleration, freedom of speech, and the scientific method. The readings for this course may include texts by on works by Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Jefferson, and Kant .

Credits: 3

German

Courses

GERM 116 - Intensive Introductory German

This is the non-credit option for GERM 1016.

Credits: 0

GERM 126 - Intensive Introductory German

This is the non-credit option for GERM 1026.

Credits: 0

GERM 216 - Intensive Intermediate German

This is the non-credit option for GERM 2016.

Credits: 0

GERM 226 - Intensive Intermediate German

This is the non-credit option for GERM 2026.

Credits: 0

GERM 1010 - Elementary German

Introduces the essentials of German structure and syntax; emphasizes oral and written proficiency in German. Five class sessions. Language laboratory required. Followed by GERM 2010, 2020.

Credits: 4

GERM 1015 - German for Reading Knowledge

For graduate students requiring reading knowledge of German. Open to 4th year undergraduates, but does not count toward fulfillment of the language requirement. Please note: graduate students may enroll for C/NC or as auditors. However, graduates must enroll via the GSAS Office, rather than on SIS. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

GERM 1016 - Intensive Introductory German

GERM 1020 - Elementary German

GERM 1025 - Reading Course in German

For Graduate of Arts and Sciences students who want a reading knowledge of German for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Open to 3rd and 4th year undergraduates, but does not count toward fulfillment of the language requirement or permit admission to German courses with a spoken component.

Credits: 3

GERM 1026 - Intensive Introductory German

This intensive course begins with instruction in basic oral expression, listening comprehension, elementary reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills at the intermediate level.Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: GERM 1016 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

GERM 1110 - Accelerated German I

Introduces basic skills in listening, speaking, writing and reading at an accelerated pace. Introduces essential elements of German grammar and syntax. Develops basic knowledge of contemporary German-speaking world. Five class sessions. Language laboratory required. With instructor permission, students may continue in the accelerated track and enroll in GERM 2120 or switch to the non-accelerated track and continue with GERM 2010.

Credits: 4

GERM 2010 - Intermediate German

Increases accuracy and fluency through authentic literary and cultural materials with a focus on reading. Reviews essentials of German grammar and syntax. Exposes students to a wide variety of topics relating to contemporary Germany. Internet news and cultural programming in the classroom. Language laboratory required. Prerequisite: GERM 1020, or equivalent

Credits: 3

GERM 2016 - Intensive Intermediate German

This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension,reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: GERM 1016 & 1026 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

GERM 2020 - Intermediate German

Builds upon skills developed in GERM 2010. Continues the review of grammar. Continues to expose students to a wide variety of topics relating to contemporary Germany. Includes a contemporary play and film. Internet news and cultural programming in the classroom. Language laboratory required. Prerequisite: GERM 2010, or equivalent.

Credits: 3

GERM 2026 - Intensive Intermediate German

GERM 2050 - German Express

Intensive intermediate course in German language. The course teaches all four language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening comprehension), covering the same material as GERM 2010-2020, including a component in German culture. German Express allows students to acquire language skills at an accelerated pace, preparing them for advanced courses (300-level and above) and study abroad in German-speaking countries. Prerequisite: GERM 1020.

Credits: 4

GERM 2120 - Accelerated German II

Covers the material of intermediate German. Builds upon skills developed in GERM 1110 and1020. Continues review of grammar exposes students to a variety of topics relating to contemporary Germany. Internet news and cultural programming in the classroom. Language laboratory required. Prerequisite: GERM 1110, GERM 1020, or instructor permission. With instructor permission, students may enroll directly in 3000-level courses after GERM 2120.

Credits: 4

GERM 2525 - Intermediate German, Topics

Builds upon GERM 2010 and is equivalent to GERM 2020. Develops the four essential skills in language learning (listening, speaking, reading, writing) on the basis of a theme-based approach that may be project-oriented. Topics vary per semester and instructor. Pre-requisites: GERM 2010 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

GERM 3000 - Grammar in Use

This course builds on the first and second year German sequence and seeks to increase students’ level of competence in both grammar and vocabulary. Students will produce more accurate and complex language and begin to discuss a diverse range of topics in German culture. Grammatical accuracy will be a central focus but also register, appropriacy, and fluency. Prerequisite: GERM 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

GERM 3010 - Texts and Interpretations

Employing a broad definition of text, this course allows students to develop a complex understanding of the relationship between meaning and linguistic form. Course readings may include poems, novels, films, historical documents, letters, memoirs etc. Specific grammatical topics will be addressed on the basis of the given material. This course is the prerequisite for all GERM 3000- level courses. Prerequisite: GERM 2020 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

GERM 3110 - Survey of Literature II

German literature from 1890 to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3120 - Survey of Literature I

German literature from 1750 to 1890. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3220 - German Drama: Stage Production

Interprets and stages a representative play in German with students as actors and producers. May be taken more than once for credit, but only once for major credit. Prerequisite: GERM 2020 or comparable language proficiency.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

GERM 3230 - Intermediate Composition and Conversation I

Using mentor texts based on digital cultural programming, students focus on a range of topics of culture and civilization in the contemporary German-speaking world. Beyond cultural competence, the writing assignments test command of mature grammatical structures, contemporary language, advanced idioms, and punctuation. The goal, following Goethe Institute guidelines, is to write comprehensive texts on a range topics. Prerequisite: GERM 3000.

Credits: 3

GERM 3240 - Intermediate Composition and Conversation II

Designed to expand and refine German writing skills, this course assumes mastery of the German language sufficient to write with progressive length and complexity. Using mentor texts based on digital cultural programming, the course focuses on contemporary issues related to the culture of German-speaking lands. The writing assignments test command of cultural competence, mature grammatical structures, advanced idioms, and punctuation. Prerequisite: GERM 3230 or Instructor Permission.

Credits: 3

GERM 3250 - German for Professionals

Prepares students to communicate and interact effectively in the business environment of German-speaking countries. Emphasis is placed on practical, career-usable competence. Prerequisite: GERM 3000 or equivalent

Credits: 3

GERM 3260 - German for Professionals

Continuation of GERM 3250. Prerequisite: GERM 3250.

Credits: 3

GERM 3290 - German Studies Roundtable

One-credit conversation on current themes. May be taken more than once for credit, but only once for major credit. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 1

GERM 3300 - Language House Conversation

For students residing in the German group in Shea House. May be taken more than once for credit. Departmental approval needed if considered for major credit. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1

GERM 3340 - German and Austrian Culture, ca. 1900

Studies literature, the arts, politics, and social developments between 1870 and 1918. Prerequisite: GERM 3010 or 3230.

Credits: 3

GERM 3350 - Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany

Studies German life between 1918 and 1945. Prerequisite: GERM 3010 or 3230.

Credits: 3

GERM 3510 - Topics in German Culture

Studies selected aspects of German culture, such as opera. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: GERM 3010 or 3230.

Credits: 3

GERM 3515 - Postwar German Culture

Readings in the cultural, social, and political histories of the German-speaking countries since 1945. Prerequisite: GERM 3010 or 3230.

Credits: 3

GERM 3526 - Topics in Business German:

Interdisciplinary seminar in German business. Topics vary annually and may include: green business practices, business ethics, the European Union, or the challenges of globalization. Taught in German. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses. Prerequisites: GERM 3000.

Credits: 3

GERM 3590 - Topics in German Literature

Seminar in German literature. May be repeated for credit. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3610 - Lyric Poetry

Major forms and themes in German lyric poetry. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3620 - Novelle

Analyzes and discusses representative German novelle from Kleist to the present. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3630 - Drama

Investigates dramatic theory and practice emphasizing major German authors and movements. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3660 - Romanticism

German literature from 1800 to 1830 and its influence. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3680 - Postwar Literature

Representative German authors since 1945. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3700 - Bertolt Brecht

Studies Brecht’s life and works, including plays, poems, and theoretical writings.

Credits: 3

GERM 4450 - Advanced Composition and Conversation

This is the capstone course for German language skills. Using digital mentor texts, students focus on a contemporary issues in German-speaking lands, to compose writing assignments that test mature language structures (including idiomatic expressions) and specialized vocabularies. The goal, following Goethe Institute guidelines, is to attain the ability to write in context and in the appropriate stylistic register. Prerequisite: GERM 3240 or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

GERM 4600 - Fourth-Year Seminar

Literary analysis for advanced students. Prerequisite: GERM 3010 and other literature courses.

Credits: 3

GERM 4990 - Honors Thesis

Directed research for, and composition of, an extended essay. Prerequisite: Admission to the DMP, permission of undergraduate advisor and a supervising faculty member.

Credits: 3

GERM 4993 - Independent Study

Prerequisite: Approval by a supervising faculty member.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

GERM 4995 - Honors Research and Thesis

Prerequisite: Admission to the DMP, permission of undergraduate advisor and a supervising faculty member.

Credits: 6

GERM 4998 - Honors Research and Thesis

This is the first semester of the year-long DMP thesis. Students who enroll in it will only receive a grade when the complete its sequel, GERM 4999, at which point they will receive 6 credits. Prerequisite: Admission to the DMP, permission of undergraduate advisor and a supervising faculty member.

Credits: 0

GERM 4999 - Honors Research and Thesis

This is the second semester of the year-long DMP thesis. Students should enroll in this course only if they have completed GERM 4998, and must enroll in GERM 4999 to receive credit for GERM 4998. Prerequisite: Admission to the DMP, permission of undergraduate advisor and a supervising faculty member; GERM 4998.

Credits: 6

GETR 2770 - Germany: Past and Present

What does it mean for a country to confront its past, define its present, and imagine its future? This course will introduce you to modern German history and culture by looking at the interaction between culture and memory. We will approach the cities of Berlin and Weimar not just as a collection of streets and buildings, but as multi-layered cultural and historical texts. On-site visits will combine lectures with active student participation.

Credits: 3

GETR 3330 - Introduction to German Studies

A survey of German cultural history from the enlightenment to the present, and an introduction to the field of German Studies. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses. .

Credits: 3

GETR 3352 - Modern German History

Introduces the political, social and cultural history of modern Germany from the French Revolution to the present. Cross-listed in the History department. Taught in English.

Credits: 3

GETR 3372 - German Jewish Culture and History

This course provides a wide-ranging exploration of the culture, history and thought of German Jewry from 1750 to 1939. It focuses on the Jewish response to modernity in Central Europe and the lasting transformations in Jewish life in Europe and later North America. Readings of such figures as: Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Rahel Varnhagen, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, Martin Buber, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxembourg, Walter Benjamin, and Freud.

Credits: 3

GETR 3380 - Jewish Humor

Are Jews funny? Many people think so. Humor has certainly played an important role in Jewish life. This course examines the character and function of Jewish humor in Germany and the rest of Europe, the United States, and Israel. One goal of the course is to show how humor has been used in these Jewish communities to highlight the desires, needs, and frustrations of ordinary Jews.

Credits: 3

GETR 3390 - Nazi Germany

Detailed survey of the historical origins, political structures, cultural dynamics, and every-day practices of the Nazi Third Reich. Cross-listed in the history department. Taught in English.

Credits: 3

GETR 3391 - The Idea of the University

This course considers how some of our contemporary questions about higher education were first formulated in early 19th-century Germany. We will also consider how these questions were taken up by Thomas Jefferson and the founding of the University of Virginia. Some of our more particular questions will include: What is the relation between the university and the state or society more broadly speaking? What is the relationship between teaching and

Credits: 3

GETR 3392 - Fairy Tales

Entering the world of fairy tales often feels like passing into an elaborate dream: it is a world teeming with sorcerers, dwarves, wondrous objects, and animals that speak. This seminar explores fairy tales and dream narratives in literature and film from the romantic period into the present. Authors to be discussed include: Goethe, the brothers Grimm, Bettelheim, Hoffmann, Freud, Saint-Exupery, Tolkien, and others.

Credits: 3

GETR 3400 - German Intellectual History from Leibniz to Hegel

Reading and discussion of central theoretical texts in the German tradition 1700-1810, including works by Leibniz, Herder, Lessing, Kant, Schiller, Fichte, and Hegel.

Credits: 3

GETR 3410 - Nietzsche and Modern Literature

Reading and thorough discussion of the major works of Nietzsche, in English translation, from the Birth of Tragedy to Twilight of the Idols. Emphasizes the impact of Nietzsche on 20th-century literature and thought in such diverse authors as Shaw, Rilke, Thomas Mann, and Kafka. A term paper submitted in two stages and a final examination.

Credits: 3

GETR 3420 - German Intellectual History From Nietzsche to the Present

Readings in philosophical and social history of Germany from the late 19th century onward.

Credits: 3

GETR 3462 - Neighbors and Enemies

Explores the friend/foe nexus in German history, literature and culture, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

GETR 3470 - Literature of the Holocaust

Introduces the most significant texts of Holocaust literature and surveys important philosophical and historical reflections on the meaning of the Holocaust.

Credits: 3

GETR 3490 - Ibsen

Discusses Ibsen’s major plays, in English translation. No knowledge of a Scandinavian language is needed; does not fulfill the language requirement.

Credits: 3

GETR 3500 - German Cinema

Analyzes the aesthetics and semiotics of film, with a focus on German expressionism and New German Cinema.

Credits: 3

GETR 3505 - History and Fiction, Topics

Explores the relationship between facts and fiction in the representation of the past. Course materials range from archival sources and scholarly articles to novels, films, paintings, sculptures, poems and other creative articulations of the historical imagination. The role of the new media and media analysis in the representation of history will also be examined. Topics vary annually.

Credits: 3

GETR 3550 - Children’s Literature

Studies the nature and aims of children’s literature, primarily European and American, from the 17th century onward.

Credits: 3

GETR 3560 - Topics in German Literature

Examines such myths as Faust and Tristan, along with the modernist parody of them.

Credits: 3

GETR 3561 - The Frankfurt School and its American legacy

Introduces students to the history of the Frankfurt School in Europe and the University States.

Credits: 3

GETR 3562 - New German Cinema

Examines German art cinema from the 1960s-1980s, focusing on modernist aesthetics and filmic responses to major historical events in post-war Germany. Films by Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Kluge, Sander, von Trotta, and others.

Credits: 3

GETR 3563 - Spiritual Journeys in Young Adult Fiction

This writing-intensive, discussion-based seminar invites students to explore the topic of the spiritual journey both academically and personally. Different disciplinary perspectives and experiential approaches to reading and writing will deepen our exploration of such themes as: religiosity vs. spirituality, becoming a hero, confronting evil, being different, achieving autonomy, faith and doubt, and the magical and the miraculous.

Credits: 3

GETR 3566 - Topics in film

The course reflects on the often complicated ways in which representations of violence are related to gender codes. we will look especially at films that depict and document the topos of Lager/Camp: the Camp functions as metaphor, as fantasy, gendered space, laboratory, and heterotopia,. Critical look at films that imagine the camp both as a historical site or as a hiding place.

Credits: 3

GETR 3580 - German Literature in Translation

Outstanding works of German literature read and discussed in English.

Credits: 3

GETR 3590 - Course(s) in English

Reading and discussion of German texts compared to texts from other literatures (all in English translation), with the aim of illuminating a central theoretical, historical, or social issue that transcends national boundaries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

GETR 3600 - Faust

Taking Goethe’s Faust as its point of departure, this course traces the emergence and transformations of the Faust legend over the last 400 hundred years. We explore precursors of Goethe’s Faust in the form of the English Faust Book, Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, and possibly other popular re-workings of the text. We will Goethe’s Faust in its entirety, and then proceed to Bulgakov’s response to Stalinism in The Master and Margharta and

Credits: 3

GETR 3610 - Film under Fascism: Ideology and Entertainment

Investigates the cinema of the fascist dictatorships of Germany, Italy, and Spain, with a concentration on the 1930s-1940s. Course focuses on the ideology and aesthetics of fascist films, including their promotion of militarism and treatment of race and gender issues. Offers comparative analysis with classical Hollywood films of the same era. Course also provides an introduction to the political and cultural history of fascist regimes. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

GETR 3620 - World Cinema

This course offers a survey of the cinemas of Europe, Africa, Central and South America, the Middle East, India, and Asia, with an introduction to the film histories and stylistic tendencies of each region. Explores classical, avant-garde, and “third cinema” aesthetics, post-colonial theory, and transnational filmmaking. Students in GETR section focus on comparative topics related to German film.

Credits: 3

GETR 3692 - The Holocaust

This course aims to clarify basic facts and explore competing explanations for the origins and unfolding of the Holocaust–the encounter between the Third Reich and Europe’s Jews between 1933 and 1945 that resulted in the deaths of almost six million Jews. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

GETR 3695 - The Holocaust and the Law

This course explores the pursuit of legal justice after the Holocaust. Study of legal responses to the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews in Europe, Israel, and the United States from the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust to the present. Focus on the Nuremberg, Eichmann Trial, Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials, among others. The course ask how the pursuit of legal justice after the Holocaust affects our understanding of the legal process.

Credits: 3

GETR 3710 - Kafka and His Doubles

Introduction to the work of Franz Kafka, with comparisons to the literary tradition he worked with and the literary tradition he formed.

Credits: 3

GETR 3720 - Freud and Literature

GETR 3730 - Modern Poetry: Rilke, Valéry and Stevens

GETR 3740 - Narratives of Childhood

Childhood autobiography and childhood narrative from Romanticism to the present.

Credits: 3

GETR 3750 - Women, Childhood, Autobiography

Cross-cultural readings in women’s childhood narratives. Emphasis on formal as well as thematic aspects. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

GETR 3760 - Ways of Telling Stories: Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Comparative studies in the European novel. Dominant novel types, including the fictional memoir, the novel in letters, and the comic “history.”

Credits: 3

GETR 3770 - Women Writers: Women on Women

This course focuses on women writers from any era who address the topic of femininity: what it means or implies to be a woman.

Credits: 3

GETR 3780 - Memory Speaks

Interdisciplinary course on memory. Readings from literature, philosophy, history, psychology, and neuroscience.

Credits: 3

GETR 4493 - Independent Study

Guided study

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

YIDD 1050 - Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

YIDD 1060 - Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture

Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture

Credits: 3

YITR 3452 - Jewish Culture and History in Eastern Europe

Studies major trends in Yiddish, East European, and North American Jewish culture, with special focus on the interaction between cultural forms and historical developments in Eastern Europe and North American. Topics vary.

Credits: 3

YITR 3560 - Topics in Yiddish Literature

Surveys important developments in Yiddish literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Special attention is paid to the innovations Yiddish writers produced in response to historical and cultural change.

Credits: 3

History

Courses

HIAF 1501 - Introductory Seminar in African History

Introduces the study of history intended for first- or second-year students. Seminars involve reading, discussing, and writing about different historical topics and periods, and emphasize the enhancement of critical and communication skills. Several seminars are offered each term. Not more than two Introductory Seminars may be counted toward the major in history.

Credits: 3

HIAF 2001 - Early African History

Studies the history of African civilizations from the iron age through the era of the slave trade, ca. 1800. Emphasizes the search for the themes of social, political, economic, and intellectual history which present African civilizations on their own terms.

Credits: 4

HIAF 2002 - Modern African History

Studies the history of Africa and its interaction with the western world from the mid-19th century to the present. Emphasizes continuities in African civilization from imperialism to independence that transcend the colonial interlude of the 20th century.

Credits: 3

HIAF 2031 - The African Diaspora

A history of African peoples and their interaction with the wider world; emphasis on historical and cultural ties between African diasporic communities and the homeland to the mid-nineteenth century.

Credits: 4

HIAF 3011 - North African History from Carthage to the Algerian Revolution

Surveys the main outlines of North African political, economic, and cultural history from the rise of Carthage as a Mediterranean power until the conclusion of the Algerian war for independence in 1962, and the creation of a system of nation-states in the region. It places the North African historical experience within the framework of both Mediterranean/European history and African history. Focuses mainly upon the area stretching from Morocco’s Atlantic coast to the Nile Delta; also considered are Andalusia and Sicily, and the ties between Northwest Africa and sub-Saharan regions, particularly West Africa.

Credits: 3

HIAF 3021 - History of Southern Africa

Studies the history of Africa generally south of the Zambezi River. Emphasizes African institutions, creation of ethnic and racial identities, industrialization, and rural poverty, from the early formation of historical communities to recent times.

Credits: 3

HIAF 3031 - History of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

This course concerns the trans-Atlantic slave trade, with an emphasis on African history. Through interactive lectures, in-class discussions, written assignments and examinations of first-hand accounts by slaves and slavers, works of fiction and film, and analyses by historians, we will seek to understand one of the most tragic and horrifying phenomena in the history of the western world.

Credits: 3

HIAF 3051 - West African History

History of West Africans in the wider context of the global past, from West Africans’ first attempts to make a living in ancient environments through the slave trades (domestic, trans-Saharan, and Atlantic), colonial overrule by outsiders, political independence, and ever-increasing globalization.

Credits: 3

HIAF 3091 - Africa in World History

World history from the perspective of Africa, for advanced undergraduates. The interpretive emphasis falls equally on the epistemology of thinking historically, historical processes recurring throughout the human experience, and the specific ways in which Africans experienced and elaborated them. The course develops a strong critique of conventional textbook approaches to both Africa and world history.

Credits: 3

HIAF 3112 - African Environmental History

This course explores how Africans changed their interactions with the physical environments they inhabited and how the landscapes they helped create in turn shaped human history. Topics covered include the ancient agricultural revolution, health and disease in the era of slave trading, colonial-era mining and commodity farming, 20th-century wildlife conservation, and the emergent challenges of land ownership, disease, and climate change.

Credits: 3

HIAF 4501 - Seminar in African History

The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. Seminar work results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.

Credits: 4

HIAF 4511 - Colloquium in African History

The major colloquium is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the colloquium. Colloquia are most frequently offered in areas of history where access to source materials or linguistic demands make seminars especially difficult. Students in colloquia prepare about 25 pages of written work distributed among various assignments. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.

Credits: 4

HIAF 4591 - Topics in African History

Topics courses are small, discussion-oriented classes available to any student with sufficient background and interest in a particular field of historical study. Offered irregularly, they are open to majors or non-majors on an equal basis.

Credits: 3

HIAF 4993 - Independent Study in African History

In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member, any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings. Independent study projects may not be used to replace regularly scheduled classes. Open to majors or non-majors.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

HIEA 1501 - Introductory Seminar in East Asian History

HIEA 2011 - History of Chinese Civilization

An intro to the study of Chinese civilization. We shall begin with the earliest human remains found in China & conclude in the present. The goal of this coure is not merely to tell the story of Chinese history, rich and compelling though the story is. Rather, our aim will be to explore what makes Chinese civilization specifically Chinese, & how the set of values, practices, & institutions we associate with Chinese society came to exist.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2031 - Modern China

Studies the transformation of Chinese politics, society, institutions, culture and foreign relations from the Opium War. through the post-Mao Reform Era. Emphasizes the fluid relationship between tradition and transformation and the ways in which this relationship continues to shape the lives of the Chinese people.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2072 - Modern Japanese Culture and Politics

An introduction to the politics, culture, and ideologies of modern Japan from roughly 1800 to the present. We will pay special attention to the interplay between Japan’s simultaneous participation in global modernity and its assertion of a unique culture as a way to explore the rise of the nation-state as a historically specific form.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2073 - Japan to 1868: An Historical Introduction

This lecture class surveys the history of Japanese civilization from prehistory to the end of the nineteenth century. Through an assortment of historical, literary, religious and visual materials, it offers an introduction to the political, social, religious, intellectual, artistic, and cultural life of Japan in its various epochs.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2081 - Korea: Antiquity through the 12th Century

The development of Korean culture from the Three Kingdoms Period through the Silla (675-918) and Early Koryo (936-1200) dynasties.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2091 - Korea 13th-19th Centuries

Second of a three part sequence on the history of Korea from earliest times into the 21st century. This course covers the period bracketed by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries and the opening of the Yi Dynasty in the late 19th century.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2101 - Modern Korean History: One Peninsula, Two Paths

This course traces Korea’s history from its unified rule under the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) to Japanese colonization (1910-1945) and subsequent division into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and Republic of Korea (South Korea). It examines how processes of reform, empire, civil war, revolution, and industrialization shaped both Koreas’ development and how ordinary people experienced this tumultuous history.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3111 - China to the Tenth Century

Surveys the social, political and economic organization of traditional Chinese society, traditional Chinese foreign policy, and major literary, artistic, and intellectual movements.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3112 - Late Imperial China

Survey of the social, political, and cultural history of China from 10th to the early 20th centuries. Topics include the philosophic basis of state and society, the formation of social elites, the influence of nomadic peoples, and patterns of popular dissent and rebellion, among others

Credits: 3

HIEA 3141 - Political and Social Thought in Modern China

Studies political and social thought from the early 20th century to the present, as reflected in written sources (including fiction), art, and films.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3151 - East Asian-American Relations in the 20th Century

A lecture and discussion course focusing on the changing relationship between East Asian Countries (China, Japan, Vietnam and Korea in particular) and the United States in the 20th century.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3162 - Historical China and the World

The course traces China’s external relations from antiquity to our own times, identifying conceptions, practices, and institutions that characterized the ancient inter-state relations of East Asia and examining the interactions between “Eastern” and “Western,” and “revolutionary” and “conventional” modes of international behavior in modern times. The student’s grade is based on participation, midterm test, final exam, and a short essay.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3171 - Meiji Japan

This course will examine the rise of the nation-state form in Japan as a new form of historical subjectivity. It will explore in depth the political, economic, social, and cultural changes in the wake of the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 to the start of the Tasiho period in 1912.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3172 - The Japanese Empire

This course is an exploration of Japan’s imperial project from roughly 1890-1945. We will start by developing a critical theoretical vocabulary with which we will then focus on three recent and important books on Japanese imperialism in East Asia. At the end of the semester we will also look briefly at anti-imperial and decolonization movements as well as the status of the category of ‘empire’ for analyzing the postwar period.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3211 - Japan’s Economic Miracle

Examines the history of Japan since the early 19th century by exploring the causes and consequences of the economic and social changes that have made Japan one of the most important advanced industrial countries in the contemporary world.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3221 - Japan’s Political History

Examines Japanese history since the early 19th century, exploring changes in political ideas, institutions, and behavior among both governing elites and the mass of Japanese citizenry.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3311 - Peasants, Students and Women: Social Movement in Twentieth-Century China

Studies rural revolution, student movements, women’s liberation, and the transformation of the social order since the late 19th century.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3321 - China and the Cold War

The class examines China’s entanglement with the Cold War from 1945 to the early 1990s. The course raises China-centered questions because it is curious in retrospect that China, a quintessential Eastern state, became so deeply involved in the Cold War, a confrontation rooted in Western history. In exploring such questions, this course does not treat China as part of the Cold War but the Cold War as a period of Chinese history.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3323 - China and the United States

The course explores Chinese-American relations since the late 18th century. Starting as an encounter between a young trading state and an ageless empire on the two sides of the Pacific Ocean, the relationship has gone through stages characterized by the two countries’ changing identities. The course understands the relationship broadly and seeks insights at various levels.

Credits: 3

HIEA 4501 - Seminar in East Asian History

A small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. The work of the seminar results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.

Credits: 4

HIEA 4511 - Colloquium in East Asia

A small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the colloquium. Most frequently offered in areas of history where access to source materials or linguistic demands make seminars especially difficult. Students prepare about 25 pages of written work. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.

Credits: 4

HIEA 4591 - Topics in East Asian History

HIEA 4993 - Independent Study in East Asia

In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings. Independent Study projects may not be used to replace regularly scheduled classes. Open to majors or non-majors.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

HIEU 1501 - Introductory Seminar in Pre-1700 European History

Intended for first- or second-year students. Seminars involve reading, discussing, and writing about different historical topics and periods, and emphasize the enhancement of critical and communication skills. Several seminars are offered each term. Not more than two Introductory Seminars may be counted toward the major in history.

Credits: 3

HIEU 1502 - Introductory Seminar in Post-1700 European History

HIEU 2001 - Western Civilization I

Surveys the fundamental institutions and ideas that have shaped the Western world. Topics include great religious and philosophical traditions, political ideas, literary forms, artistic achievements and institutional structures from the world of the ancient Hebrews to the eve of the modern world (ca. 3000 b.c. to 1600 a.d.).

Credits: 3

HIEU 2002 - Western Civilization II

Surveys the political and cultural history of the Western world in modern times. Emphasizes the distinctiveness of Western civilization, on the reasons for the rise of the West to global domination, and the relative decline of the West in recent times.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2004 - Nationalism in Europe

This course examines the history of nationalism in modern Europe, from the 1700s to the present day. We will consider the emergence and consolidation of European nation-states in the eighteenth century; nationalist movements and the breakup of empires in the nineteenth; ethnic cleansing and nationalist violence in twentieth-century Europe; as well as the rise of the European Union and its challenges today.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2031 - Ancient Greece

Studies the political, military, and social history of Ancient Greece from the Homeric age to the death of Alexander the Great, emphasizing the development and interactions of Sparta and Athens.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2041 - Roman Republic and Empire

Surveys the political, social, and institutional growth of the Roman Republic, focusing on its downfall and replacement by an imperial form of government, the subsequent history of that government, and the social and economic life during the Roman Empire, up to its own decline and fall.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2051 - Economic History of Europe

Studies European economic history from the middle ages to the industrial revolution. Emphasizes the emergence of the market and the rise of capitalism in Great Britain.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2061 - The Birth of Europe

Studies ways of life and thought in the formation of Western Europe from the 4th century a.d. to the 15th. Includes a survey of the development of society and culture in town and countryside, the growth of economic, political, and religious institutions, and the impact of Muslim and Byzantine civilizations.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2071 - Early Modern Europe and the World

European history, from the Reformation to Napoleon, in global perspective.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2072 - Modern Europe and the World

Analyzes the political, social, and economic developments in Europe from the age of Napoleon to the present.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2101 - Jewish History I: The Ancient and Medieval Experience

This course surveys the pre-modern Jewish historical experience from antiquity through the sixteenth century.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2102 - Modern Jewish History

Survey of Jewish history from the seventeenth century to the present, primarily in Europe, but with further treatment of Jewish life in the U.S. and Israel. Major topics include Jewish historical consciousness; patterns of emancipation; religious adjustment; the role of women; anti-Semitism; Zionism; the American Jewish experience; the Holocaust; the establishment of Israel; and Jewish life in Europe after the Holocaust.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2111 - History of England to 1688

Studies England and the British Isles from earliest times to the accession of William III.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2112 - The Emergence of Modern Britain, 1688-2000

This lecture course surveys the history of Britain from the Glorious Revolution to our own time. The making and remaking of this nation state over three hundred years will be shown in its connections with the history of Europe, and the wider story of the making of the modern world.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2132 - The Jews of Poland from 1600 to the Present

The Jews of Poland from 1600 to the Present

Credits: 3

HIEU 2152 - History of the Russian Empire 1700-1917

Studies the history of Russia from Peter the Great to the Bolshevik Revolution and the establishment of Soviet power.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2162 - History of Russia Since 1917

Explores the collapse of the Russian Empire and the rise of the Communist state. Emphasizes the social revolution, Stalinism and subsequent ‘de-Stalinization,’ national minorities, and the collapse of the Soviet regime.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2212 - Contemporary Europe

This class surveys the major developments in Europe from 1945 up to the present day. Topics that we examine include the legacy of World War II, the division of Europe during the cold war, the economic and political progress of the continent, the crises triggered by decolonization and imigration, and the continuing struggles of Europeans to build a united, peaceful and stable union.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2721 - Supernatural Europe, 1500-1800

Surveys the intellectual, religious, and social history of Europe c.1500-1800 through the lens of changing beliefs about the supernatural. Selected topics include the rise and decline of witch-hunting, changing understandings of the universe, the impact of religious reform on traditional belief, and the “disenchantment” of European society as beliefs in the supernatural declined in the 18th century.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3000 - Modern European Imperialism

Explores the history and legacies of European overseas empire from the eighteenth century to the present. Themes include strategies of conquest and rule, political economies of empire, race and gender in colonial societies, “civilizing missions” and imperial cultures, violence and decolonization, postcolonial migration and memories of empire.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3021 - Greek and Roman Warfare

Surveys the history of ancient warfare from the Homeric era until the fall of Rome.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3041 - The Fall of the Roman Republic

Surveys the history and culture of the last century of the Roman Republic (133-30 b.c.), emphasizing the political and social reasons for the destruction of the Republican form of government and its replacement by a monarchy.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3051 - History and Civilization of France: Revolution to 1945

The social, political, economic, philosophical, and artistic developments in France from the Revolution to 1945. Taught in French.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3091 - Ancient Law and Society

Study of the interrationships between law, politics and society in ancient Greece (chiefly Athenian) culture, the Hellenistic kingdoms and Rome (from the XII Tables to the Justinianic Code). Focuses particularly on the development of the idea of law; on the construction of law’s authority and legitimacy; on the use of law as one method of social control; and on the development, at Rome, of juristic independence and legal codification. Prerequisite: HIEU 2031 or HIEU 2041, or permission of the instructor.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3101 - Early Medieval Civilization

Studies early medieval civilization from late antiquity to the 11th century. Emphasizes selected themes in cultural history.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3111 - Later Medieval Civilization

Discusses intellectual and cultural history, political and social theories, and religious movements from the 11th to the 16th centuries.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3121 - Medieval Society: Ways of Life and Thought in Western Europe

An introduction to the social and intellectual history from the tenth century to the sixteenth.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3131 - The World of Charlemagne

Explores the Byzantine, Muslim, and European worlds in the 8th and 9th centuries. Compares political, institutional, and social history, and the Catholic, Orthodox, and Islamic faiths.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3141 - Anglo-Saxon England

Surveys England and its Celtic neighbors in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland from the departure of the Romans in the early 5th century to the Scandinavian conquest in 1016. Emphasizes the human diversity and cultural and institutional creativity of the Anglo-Saxons.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3151 - Medieval Iberia, 411-1469

This course offers an introduction to Islam and a cultural history of Al Andalus from 711 until the expulsion of the Moriscos from early modern Spain in 1609.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3152 - The British Empire

This course will focus primarily on the ‘second’ empire in Asia and Africa, although the first empire in the Americas will be our first topic. Topics covered include the slave plantations in the West Indies, the American Revolution, the rise of the British East India Company and its control of India, and the Scramble for Africa. Special emphasis will be placed on the environmental history of our points of debarkation.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3161 - The Medieval Church

The history of the western church from the time of Constantine through the sixteenth century, based on a study of selected texts.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3171 - Eastern Christianity

Surveys the history of Christianity in the Byzantine world and the Middle East from late antiquity (age of emperor Justinian) until the fall of Constantinople. Emphasizes developments in theology, spirituality and art, and the relation of Christianity to Islam. Considers Eastern Christianity in modern times.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3181 - Medieval Christianity

Detailed study of the development of Christianity in the Middle Ages and of how it reflected upon itself in terms of theology, piety, and politics. Cross-listed as RELC 3181.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3211 - Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Surveys the development of the Italian city-state between 1050 and 1550, emphasizing the social and political context of Italian culture.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3215 - Dante’s Italy

This course investigates Italy’s history and culture at the end of the Middle Ages through the life and writings of Dante Alighieri, Italy’s greatest author of the medieval and early modern period. Through lectures and discussions on Dante’s most important writings, students will be introduced to the culture of Italian city-states as well as to the most important literary and philosophical ideas of the late Middle Ages.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3221 - The Culture of the Renaissance

Surveys the growth and diffusion of educational, literary, and artistic innovations in Europe between 1300 and 1600.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3231 - Reformation Europe

Surveys the development of religious reform movements in continental Europe from c. 1450 to c. 1650 and their impact on politics, social life, science, and conceptions of the self.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3241 - Later Medieval England

A documentary history of English society from the Conquest to the death of Richard II.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3251 - Imperial Spain and Portugal, 1469-1808

General survey of the Iberian peninsula from Ferdinand and Isabella to Napoleon, including the development of absolutism, the enforcement of religious orthodoxy, the conquest of the New World and the Iberian imperial systems, the price revolution, the ‘decline’ of Spain and the Bourbon reforms, and the arts and literature of the Golden Age.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3261 - History of Russia to 1700

Topics include the history of the formation of the Kievan State, the Appanage period, Mongol domination and the emergence of the Muscovite state; foundations of the first Russian state, evolution of its institutions, cultural influences from the origin to the decline; and the rise of successor states and particularly the multi-national state of Moscow.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3271 - Three Faiths, One Sea: The Early Modern Mediterranean

The course will provide students with an overview of the Mediterranean world from the conquest of Constantinople (1453) to the displacement of the sea in a globalizing economy. The main purpose of this course is to demonstrate the cultural, political, and religious diversity of the Mediterranean region. Special emphasis is placed on Christian, Jews, and Muslim interaction.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3291 - Stuart England

Studies the history of England (and its foreign relations) from 1603 to 1714, with commentary on some major themes of early Hanoverian England to the end of Sir Robert Walpole’s ministry. Includes newer interpretations on Stuart monarchy, the background and consequences of the Civil War, restoration ideology and politics in relation to the Cromwellian Interregnum, the Revolution of 1688, social and local history, and the creation of the first British Empire.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3311 - Social History of Early Modern Europe

Surveys social, economic, and demographic structure and change in pre-industrial Europe, focusing on social unrest and rebellions.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3321 - The Scientific Revolution, 1450-1700

Studies the history of modern science in its formative period against the backdrop of classical Greek science and in the context of evolving scientific institutions and changing views of religion, politics, magic, alchemy, and ancient authorities.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3322 - Science in the Modern Age: 1789-1950

This course covers major developments in modern science from the 18th through the 20th centuries in the fields of chemistry, biology, geology, and physics. Three scientists, Antone Lavosier, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein, will be discussed.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3331 - Intellectual History of Early Modern Europe

Analyzes the main currents of European thought in the 17th and 18th centuries. Emphasizes major social movements and cultural changes.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3341 - Society and the Sexes in Europe from Late Antiquity to the Reformation

Explores the changing constructions of gender roles and their concrete consequences for women and men in society; uses primary texts and secondary studies from late antiquity through the Reformation.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3342 - Society and the Sexes in Europe from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Explores the changing constructions of gender roles and their concrete consequences for women and men in society; uses primary texts and secondary studies from the 17th century to the present.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3352 - Modern German History

Introduces the political, social and cultural history of modern Germany from the French Revolution to the present. Cross-listed in the German department. Taught in English.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3372 - German Jewish Culture and History

This course provides a wide-ranging exploration of the culture and history of German Jewry from 1750 to 1939. It focuses on the Jewish response to modernity in Central Europe and the lasting transformations in Jewish life in Europe and later North America. Readings of such figures as: Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Rahel Varnhagen, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, Martin Buber, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxembourg, Walter Benjamin, and Sigmund Freud.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3380 - The History of Antisemitism

This course will examine the history of antisemitism, prejudice against Jews. Hatred of Jews originates from a diverse combination of ideologies, historical moments and, likewise, takes a variety of forms in different times and places. This course will introduce the concept from its earliest times and follow both the theoretical/philosophical thought and the displays of antisemitism through history with a focus on Europe.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3382 - Revolutionary France, 1770-1815

This course will examine the social, cultural, intellectual and political history of France from the end of the Old Regime through the Napoleonic Empire. The origins, development, and outcome of the French Revolution will be the main focus. Attention will also be paid to the international legacy of various French revolutionary concepts and to the history of the interpretation of this critical period of upheaval.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3390 - Nazi Germany

Detailed survey of the historical origins, political structures, cultural dynamics, and every-day practices of the Nazi Third Reich. Cross-listed in the German department. Taught in English.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3392 - Women, Men, and Politics in the Age of Democratic Revolutions, 1760-1848

Surveys the origins, development, and consequences of key revolutionary struggles of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, emphasizing changes in gender relations. Prerequisite: A course in history or gender studies.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3402 - Nineteenth-Century Europe

Surveys the major social, economic, and political trends between the defeat of the Napoleonic Empire and the First World War. Stresses the developments in Western Europe as industrialization, democracy, nationalism, and representative institutions took root.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3412 - Twentieth-Century Europe

Studies the main developments in European history from the turn of the century to the eve of the Second World War.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3422 - Twentieth-Century Europe

Studies the main developments in European history from the outbreak of the Second World War to the present.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3432 - France Since 1815

Studies French politics and society from the defeat of Napoleon to De Gaulle’s republic.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3442 - European History: Industrial Revolution to the Welfare State 1848-1963

Surveys Continent’s troubled history from the Victorian Age to the welfare state. Addresses features of modernization and industrialization, nationalism and imperialism, causes and consequences of both world wars, Communist and Fascist challenges, Weimar and Nazi Germany, the Great Depression and crisis of capitalism, the Holocaust and decline of old Europe, and Social Democratic transformation.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3452 - Jewish Culture and History in Eastern Europe

This course is a comprehensive examination of the culture and history of East European Jewry from 1750 to 1935. Course cross-listed with YITR 3452.

Credits: 3

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Human Biology

Jewish Studies

Courses

JWST 2130 - Introduction to Jewish Musical Traditions

This course is an introduction to sacred and secular Jewish musical traditions. Texts include books and articles that draw on ethnomusicology, musicology, folklore, anthropology, sociology, Jewish studies, history and other fields. The course uses case studies to concentrate on developments in these traditions since the middle of the 19th century, focusing the three main groupings of Ashkenazic, Sephardic and Mizrakhi Jewry.

Credits: 3

JWST 4950 - Senior Majors Seminar in Jewish Studies

This course introduces and examines the origins and development of Jewish Studies with emphasis on its interdisciplinary character. Requirements include active class participation and a significant research paper based on a topic of the student’s choice. This course is required of all fourth-year Jewish Studies majors. It is also open to all interested students with permission of the instructor.

Credits: 3

JWST 4970 - Supervised Research

Supervised Research

Credits: 3

JWST 4980 - Supervised Research

This course offers students to conduct independent study in Jewish Studies under the supervision of a professor in Jewish Studies.

Credits: 3

JWST 4998 - Distinguished Majors Seminar Thesis I

Thesis, directed by a member of the department, focusing on a specific problem in Jewish Studies. The thesis is based in part on at least three hours of directed reading in the field of the thesis. Prerequisite: Selection by faculty for Distinguished Major Program.

Credits: 0

JWST 4999 - Distinguished Majors Seminar Thesis II

Latin American Studies

Linguistics

Mathematics

Courses

MATH 1110 - Probability/Finite Mathematics

Studies finite probability theory including combinatorics, equiprobable models, conditional probability and Bayes’ theorem, expectation and variance, and Markov chains.

Credits: 3

MATH 1140 - Financial Mathematics

The study of the mathematics needed to understand and answer a variety of questions that arise in everyday financial dealings. The emphasis is on applications, including simple and compound interest, valuation of bonds, amortization, sinking funds, and rates of return on investments. A solid understanding of algebra is assumed.

Credits: 3

MATH 1150 - The Shape of Space

Provides an activity and project-based exploration of informal geometry in two and three dimensions. Emphasizes visualization skill, fundamental geometric concepts, and the analysis of shapes and patterns. Topics include concepts of measurement, geometric analysis, transformations, similarity, tessellations, flat and curved spaces, and topology.

Credits: 3

MATH 1160 - Algebra, Number Systems, and Number Theory

Studies basic concepts, operations, and structures occurring in number systems, number theory, and algebra. Inquiry-based student investigations explore historical developments and conceptual transitions in the development of number and algebraic systems.

Credits: 3

MATH 1190 - A Survey of Calculus I with Algebra

A first calculus course for business/biology/social-science students. Topics include college algebra/limits and continuity/differentiation and integration of algebraic and elementary transcendental functions/applications to related-rates & optimization problems as well as to curve sketching & exponential growth. At most one of MATH 1190, MATH 1210, and 1310 may be taken for credit. Prerequisite: No previous exposure to Calculus.

Credits: 4

MATH 1210 - A survey of Calculus I

A first calculus course for business/biology/social-science students. Topics include limits and continuity/differentiation & integration of algebraic & elementary transcendental functions/applications to related-rates & optimization problems as well as to curve sketching & exponential growth. At most one of MATH 1190, MATH 1210, and MATH 1310 may be taken for credit.

Credits: 3

MATH 1220 - A Survey of Calculus II

A second calculus course for business/biology/and social-science students. Topics include differential equations/infinite series/analysis of functions of several variables/analysis of probability density functions of continuous random variables. The course begins with a review of basic single-variable calculus. Prerequisite: MATH 1210 or equivalent; at most one of MATH 1220 and MATH 1320 may be taken for credit.

Credits: 3

MATH 1310 - Calculus I

A first calculus course for natural-science majors/students planning further work in mathematics/students intending to pursue graduate work in applied social sciences. Introduces differential & integral calculus for single-variable functions, emphasizing techniques/applications & major theorems, like the fundamental theorem of calculus. Prerequisite: Background in algebra/trigonometry/exponentials/logarithms/analytic geometry.

Credits: 4

MATH 1320 - Calculus II

A second calculus course for natural-science majors, students planning additional work in mathematics, and students intending to pursue graduate work in the applied social sciences. Topics include applications of the integral, techniques of integration, differential equations, infinite series, parametric equations, and polar coordinates. Prerequisite: MATH 1310 or equivalent; at most one of MATH 1220 and MATH 1320 may be taken for credit.

Credits: 4

MATH 1330 - Calculus Workshop I

Intensive calculus problem-solving workshop with topics drawn from MATH 1310. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; corequisite: MATH 1310.

Credits: 2

MATH 1340 - Calculus Workshop II

Intensive calculus problem-solving workshop with topics drawn from MATH 1320. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; corequisite: MATH 1320.

Credits: 2

MATH 2310 - Calculus III

A continuation of Calc I and II, this course is about functions of several variables. Topics include finding maxima and minima of functions of several variables/surfaces and curves in three-dimensional space/integration over these surfaces and curves. Additional topics: conservative vector fields/Stokes’ and the divergence theorems/how these concepts relate to real world applications. Prerequisite: MATH 1320 or the equivalent.

Credits: 4

MATH 2315 - Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra I

Covers the material from Math 2310 (multivariable calculus) plus topics from complex numbers, set theory, and linear algebra. Prepares students for taking advanced mathematics classes at an early stage. Credit is not given for both Math 2310 and Math 2315.

Credits: 4

MATH 2700 - Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry

Examines assumptions and methods in the original text of Euclid’s Elements. Covers selected geometric topics such as symmetries, spherical geometry, curvature, the dissection theory of area, constructible numbers, and the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry. Prerequisite: Some familiarity with calculus.

Credits: 3

MATH 3000 - Transition to Higher Mathematics

Covers basic concepts with an emphasis on writing mathematical proofs. Topics include logic, sets, functions and relations, equivalence relations and partitions, induction, and cardinality. Prerequisite: Math 1320; and students with a grade of B or better in Math 3310, 3354, or any 5000-level Math course are not eligible to enroll in Math 3000.

Credits: 4

MATH 3100 - Introduction to Probability

Introduces fundamental ideas of probability, the theory of randomness. Focuses on problem solving and understanding key theoretical ideas. Topics include sample spaces, counting, random variables, classical distributions, expectation, Chebyshev’s inequality, independence, central limit theorem, conditional probability, generating functions, joint distributions. Prerequisite: MATH 1320 or equivalent. Strongly recommended: MATH 2310

Credits: 3

MATH 3250 - Ordinary Differential Equations

Introduces the methods, theory, and applications of differential equations. Includes first-order, second and higher-order linear equations, series solutions, linear systems of first-order differential equations, and the associated matrix theory. May include numerical methods, non-linear systems, boundary value problems, and additional applications. Prerequisite: MATH 1320 or its equivalent.

Credits: 4

MATH 3310 - Basic Real Analysis

A rigorous development of the properties of the real numbers and the ideas of calculus including theorems on limits, continuity, differentiability, convergence of infinite series, and the construction of the Riemann integral. Students without prior experience constructing rigorous proofs are encouraged to take Math 3000 before or concurrently with Math 3310. Prerequisite: MATH 1320.

Credits: 3

MATH 3315 - Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra II

This course is a continuation of MATH 2315. Covers topics from linear algebra/differential equations/real analysis. Success in this course and MATH 2315 (grades of B- or higher) exempts the student from the math major requirement of taking MATH 3351 and MATH 3250. Students are encouraged to take more advanced courses in these areas. Prerequisite: MATH 2315.

Credits: 4

MATH 3340 - Complex Variables with Applications

Covers functions of a complex variable that are complex differentiable and the unusual and useful properties of such functions. Some topics: Cauchy’s integral formula/power series/the residue theorem/Rouché’s theorem. Applications include doing real integrals using complex methods and applications to fluid flow in two dimensions. Prerequisite: MATH 2310.

Credits: 3

MATH 3350 - Applied Linear Algebra

Topics will include systems of linear equations, matrix operations and inverses, vector spaces and subspaces, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, matrix factorizations, inner products and orthogonality, and linear transformations. Emphasis will be on applications, with computer software integrated throughout the course. The target audience for MATH 3350 is non-math majors from disciplines that apply tools from linear algebra. Credit is not given for both MATH 3350 and 3351.

Credits: 3

MATH 3351 - Elementary Linear Algebra

Includes matrices, elementary row operations, inverses, vector spaces and bases, inner products and Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization, orthogonal matrices, linear transformations and change of basis, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and symmetric matrices. Credit is not given for both MATH 3350 and 3351. Prerequisite: MATH 1320.

Credits: 3

MATH 3354 - Survey of Algebra

Surveys major topics of modern algebra: groups, rings, and fields. Presents applications to areas such as geometry and number theory; explores rational, real, and complex number systems, and the algebra of polynomials. Students without prior experience constructing rigorous proofs are encouraged to take Math 3000 before or concurrently with Math 3354. Prerequisite: MATH 1320.

Credits: 3

MATH 4040 - Discrete Mathematics

Includes combinatorial principles, the binomial and multinomial theorems, partitions, discrete probability, algebraic structures, trees, graphs, symmetry groups, Polya’s enumeration formula, linear recursions, generating functions and introduction to cryptography, time permitting. Prerequisite: MATH 3354 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MATH 4080 - Operations Research

Development of mathematical models and their solutions, including linear programming, the simplex algorithm, dual programming, parametric programming, integer programming, transportation models, assignment models, and network analysis. Prerequisite: MATH 1320 and 3351.

Credits: 3

MATH 4110 - Introduction to Stochastic Processes

Topics in probability selected from Random walks, Markov processes, Brownian motion, Poisson processes, branching processes, stationary time series, linear filtering and prediction, queuing processes, and renewal theory. Prerequisite: MATH 3100 or APMA 3100; and a knowledge of matrix algebra

Credits: 3

MATH 4140 - Mathematics of Derivative Securities

This class introduces students to the mathematics used in pricing derivative securities. Topics include a review of the relevant probability theory of conditional expectation and martingales/the elements of financial markets and derivatives/pricing contingent claims in the binomial & the finite market model/(time permitting) the Black-Scholes model. Prerequisites: MATH 3100 or APMA 3100. Students should have a knowledge of matrix algebra.

Credits: 3

MATH 4210 - Mathematics for Physics

This course covers linear algebra/complex analysis/vector differential & integral calculus. Thus it is a compressed version of MATH 3351 & MATH 3340 and a review of some of the material in MATH 2310. Emphasis is on the physical interpretation. [This course does not count as a Mathematics elective for Mathematics majors if both MATH 3351 and MATH 3340 are to be counted.] Prerequisite: MATH 2310 or MATH 2315 or APMA 2120

Credits: 3

MATH 4220 - Partial Differential Equations and Applied Mathematics

This course is a beginning course in partial differential equations/Fourier analysis/special functions (such as spherical harmonics and Bessel functions). The discussion of partial differential equations will include the Laplace and Poisson equations and the heat and wave equations. Prerequisites: MATH 3250 and either MATH 3351 or MATH 4210.

Credits: 3

MATH 4250 - Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems

A second course in ordinary differential equations, from the dynamical systems point of view. Topics include: existence and uniqueness theorems; linear systems; qualitative study of equilibria and attractors; bifurcation theory; introduction to chaotic systems. Further topics as chosen by the instructor. Applications drawn from physics, biology, and engineering. Prerequisites: MATH 3351 or APMA 3080 and MATH 3310 or MATH 4310.

Credits: 3

MATH 4300 - Elementary Numerical Analysis

Includes Taylor’s theorem, solution of nonlinear equations, interpolation and approximation by polynomials, numerical quadrature. May also cover numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations, Fourier series, or least-square approximation. Prerequisite: MATH 3250 and computer proficiency.

Credits: 3

MATH 4310 - Introduction to Real Analysis

This course covers the basic topology of metric spaces/continuity and differentiation of functions of a single variable/Riemann-Stieltjes integration/convergence of sequences and series. Prerequisite: MATH 3310 or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

MATH 4330 - Calculus on Manifolds

Differential and integral calculus in Euclidean spaces. Implicit and inverse function theorems, differential forms and Stokes’ theorem. Prerequisites: MATH 2310 or MATH 2315; MATH 3351 or MATH 4651 or APMA 3080; and MATH 3310 or MATH 4310

Credits: 3

MATH 4452 - Algebraic Coding Theory

Introduces algebraic techniques for communicating information in the presence of noise. Includes linear codes, bounds for codes, BCH codes and their decoding algorithms. May also include quadratic residue codes, Reed-Muller codes, algebraic geometry codes, and connections with groups, designs, and lattices. Prerequisite: MATH 3351 and 3354, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MATH 4595 - Undergraduate Research Seminar

Emphasizes direct contact with advanced mathematical ideas, communication of these ideas, the discovery of new results and connections among them, and the experience of mathematics as a collaborative venture among researchers at all levels. Students work collaboratively and individually on research projects, and present their results to the class. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MATH 4651 - Advanced Linear Algebra

Review of topics from Math 3351 including vector spaces, bases, dimension, matrices and linear transformations, diagonalization; however, the material is covered in greater depth with emphasis on theoretical aspects. The course continues with more advanced topics including Jordan and rational canonical forms of matrices and introduction to bilinear forms. Additional topics such as modules and tensor products may be included. Prerequisite: MATH 3351

Credits: 3

MATH 4652 - Introduction to Abstract Algebra

Structural properties of basic algebraic systems such as groups, rings, and fields. A special emphasis is made on polynomials in one and several variables, including irreducible polynomials, unique factorization, and symmetric polynomials. Time permitting such topics as group representations or algebras over a field may be included. Prerequisites: MATH 3351 or 4651 and MATH 3354 or permission of the instructor.

Credits: 3

MATH 4653 - Number Theory

The study of the integers and related number systems. Includes polynomial congruences, rings of congruence classes and their groups of units, quadratic reciprocity, diophantine equations, and number-theoretic functions. Additional topics such as the distribution of prime numbers may be included. Prerequisite: MATH 3354.

Credits: 3

MATH 4657 - Bilinear Forms and Group Representations

Covers the representation theory of finite groups/other interactions between linear & abstract algebra. Topics include: bilinear & sesquilinear forms & inner product spaces/important classes of linear operators on inner product spaces/the notion of group representation/complete reducibility of complex representations of finite groups/character theory/some applications of representation theory. Prerequisite: MATH 3351 (or 4651)/MATH 3354 (or 4652)

Credits: 3

MATH 4658 - Galois Theory

This course studies the symmetries of solutions of polynomials. Topics include algebraic field extensions/field automorphisms/the fundamental theorem of Galois theory. Applications include the unsolvability of the quintic, as well as ruler & compass constructions. Prerequisites: MATH 3351 (or 4651) and MATH 4652.

Credits: 3

MATH 4660 - Algebraic Combinatorics

Combinatorics of counting using basic tools from calculus, linear algebra, and occasionally group theory. Topics include: tableaux, symmetric polynomials, Catalan numbers, quantum binomial theorem, q-exponentials, partition and q-series identities. Bijective proofs will be emphasized when appropriate.

Credits: 3

MATH 4720 - Introduction to Differential Geometry

Geometric study of curves/surfaces/their higher-dimensional analogues. Topics vary and may include curvature/vector fields and the Euler characteristic/the Frenet theory of curves in 3-space/geodesics/the Gauss-Bonnet theorem/and/or an introduction to Riemannian geometry on manifolds. Prerequisites: MATH 2310 and MATH 3351 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MATH 4750 - Introduction to Knot Theory

Examines the knotting and linking of curves in space. Studies equivalence of knots via knot diagrams and Reidemeister moves in order to define certain invariants for distinguishing among knots. Also considers knots as boundaries of surfaces and via algebraic structures arising from knots. Prerequisites: MATH 2310 and MATH 3351 and MATH 3354 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MATH 4770 - General Topology

Topics include abstract topological spaces & continuous functions/connectedness/compactness/countability/separation axioms. Rigorous proofs emphasized. Covers myriad examples, i.e., function spaces/projective spaces/quotient spaces/Cantor sets/compactifications. May include intro to aspects of algebraic topology, i.e., the fundamental group. Prerequisites: MATH 2310 or 2315 or APMA 2120 and MATH 3315 or MATH 3351 or MATH 4651 or APMA 3080

Credits: 3

MATH 4840 - Introduction to Mathematical Research

This course will introduce students to the techniques and methods of mathematical research. Students will independently work with mathematical literature on a topic assigned by the instructor and present their findings in various formats (presentation, paper etc.).

Credits: 3

MATH 4900 - Distinguished Major Thesis

This course provides a framework for the completion of a Distinguished Major Thesis, a treatise containing an exposition of a chosen mathematical topic. A faculty advisor guides a student through the beginning phases of the process of research and writing. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Distinguished Major Program.

Credits: 3

MATH 4901 - Distinguished Major Thesis

This is the second semester of a two semester sequence for the purpose of the completion of a Distinguished Major Thesis. A faculty member guides the student through all phases of the process which culminates in an open presentation of the thesis to an audience including a faculty evaluation committee. Prerequisite: MATH 4900.

Credits: 3

MATH 4993 - Independent Study

Reading and study programs in areas of interest to individual students. For third- and fourth-years interested in topics not covered in regular courses. Students must obtain a faculty advisor to approve and direct the program.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

Media Studies

Courses

MDST 2000 - Introduction to Media Studies

Introduces students to the topics, themes, and areas of study that are central to an understanding of media in contemporary society. Focuses on the forms, institutions, functions, and impact of media on local, national, and global communities. Prerequisite: 1st or 2nd year ASU undergrad or MDST major

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

MDST 2010 - Introduction to Digital Media

The history, theory, practice and understanding of digital media. Provides a foundation for interrogating the relation of digital media to contemporary culture and understanding the function, design, and use of computers.

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

MDST 2100 - Media, Culture and Society

Explores the relationships among various forms of mass communication, social institutions and other dimensions of social life from a sociological perspective.

Credits: 3

MDST 2200 - Introduction to Film

The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the variety of cinematic forms and genres as well as the history and theories behind them. Class work will include lecture and discussion groups. There will be two papers of approximately 4-5 pages and an online final exam. Papers will count for approximately 75% of the final grade, the final exam approximately 25%.

Credits: 3

MDST 2280 - Public Affairs Production I

In this class, students will take on active roles as “associate producers” in the production of “American Forum,” a weekly, one-hour public affairs interview & conversation program produced and recorded at the U.Va. Miller Center. Students will assist in technical production, development of show content, marketing, & creating online components. Students will research potential guests, read books & produce memos on the scholarship of guests.

Credits: 3

MDST 2305 - Podcasting, Radio and Sound Production

Students will learn the practical components of radio production including: story development, script writing, interview techniques, audio recording, editing of sound, mixing, and final production for broadcast. In addition, students will critically analyze the components of radio/podcast features. The course includes a lecture component and lab time where the instructor will consult with students about their projects. Prerequisite: Media Studies Major

Credits: 3

MDST 2440 - Language and Cinema

MDST 2502 - Special Topics in Film Genre

This course will offer historical and critical perspectives on a selected film genre each semester. Genres might include Noir, war, romance, musicals, gangster, New Wave, etc.

Credits: 3

MDST 2508 - Topics in Media Practice

This course will provide practice-based learning opportunities for students in various forms of media, including video, podcasting, film, etc.

Credits: 1.00 to 4.00

MDST 2660 - The Internet Is Another Country: Community, Power, and Social Media

Explores the concepts of community, nationalism, the public sphere, and social action in the context of the Internet and social media. Begins with a cultural history of the Internet and virtual community and then explores several ethnographic case studies of communities and social movements from around the world. Concludes with a consideration of the Internet as a political economic system. Students blog and conduct collaborative research.

Credits: 3

MDST 2700 - News Writing

Introductory course in news writing, emphasizing editorials, features, and reporting.

Credits: 3

MDST 2710 - Screenwriting

MDST 2810 - Cinema As An Art Form

A course in visual thinking; introduces film criticism, concentrating on classic and current American and non-American films.

Credits: 3

MDST 3000 - Theory and Criticism of Media

This course introduces students at the beginning of the major to theoretical and critical literature in the field. Topics range from the psychological and sociological experience of media, interpretation and analysis of media forms and aesthetics, theories of audience and reception, anthropological approaches to media as a cultural force, and contemporary theories of media from humanities and social sciences perspectives. The goal of the course is to provide a foundation for thinking critically about media and to give them a sense of media studies as a critical and theoretical field. Restricted to Media Studies majors.

Credits: 3

MDST 3050 - History of Media

This is a survey, lecture-format, course on the history of media forms, institutions, and technology from the origins of writing, invention of print technology, through the development of digital media. Attention to the specific characteristics of individual media, the changing role of media as a force in culture, and the continually transforming institutions and business of media will all be touched on. The role of media forms in the creation of public discourse and the social controls on media through censorship, legal constraints, and economic policies will also be examined, largely from within the context of the United States. Students will create a case study of a media work or artifact from a historical perspective.

Credits: 3

MDST 3100 - Film and Television in the 1960s

This is a course on film and television in the United States in the 1960s meant to introduce students to the specific problems attached to understanding media as force for social change within a particular decade of American life. The course has a strong emphasis on cultural history and theory as well as on the close reading of media artifacts in film and television from the 1960s. The course requires considerable commitment to viewing time as well as readings, writing, and research. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

MDST 3102 - Copyright, Culture and Commerce

In this course, we will discuss one of the most powerful social, cultural, economic and political institutions of our day: intellectual property (IP). How did we arrive at the notion that creative works and ideas can be owned, bought and sold like tangible commodities? What impact does this concept have on the way we view the world? How does it help us achieve our social goals, and how does it present obstacles to reaching those goals?

Credits: 3

MDST 3103 - Long-form Journalism

An exploration of the art and process of narrative non-fiction. An examination of the genres and forms of distribution like magazines, Web sites, and podcasts.

Credits: 3

MDST 3104 - News and the Construction of Reality

The course examines the relationship between news and reality, utilizing theories of social construction. With this as our framework, we will then use various critical perspectives to examine the way news ‘reality’ is constructed, from the discursive and semiotic frameworks used to present current events as ‘stories’ to how journalists make decisions about what is news, to the political economic factors that structure news form and content.

Credits: 3

MDST 3105 - Latina/o Media Studies

This course is designed to introduce students to critical analyses of media texts, media industries, and media audiences that help explain the social, political, economic, and cultural locations of Latinas/os in America.

Credits: 3

MDST 3106 - History of American Radio and Television

This course examines U.S. broadcasting in historical perspective, not only as an industry, but as a vital component of American culture and everyday life. We will examine the technological, social, political, industrial and cultural forces influencing the development of broadcast media and we will link these forces to the programs created and the audiences served. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 and restricted to Media Studies Majors and Minors

Credits: 3

MDST 3107 - Evolution of Media in Italy: From Unification to the Present

The course will explore the specific features of Italian mass media from the Unification to the present, considering how the press, cinema, radio, television and the Internet have affected and shaped Italian society. It will trace the evolution of Italian media in relation to key events such as the Risorgimento, Fascism, both World Wars, reconstruction and industrialization, and the political rise of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi.

Credits: 3

MDST 3110 - Hollywood Goes to Asia

Film production between Asian and Euro-American companies is rapidly on the rise. The fundamental objective of the course is to cultivate a rigorous theoretical understanding of the media industries within a global Asian network. We will ask: What are the cultural, political and economic implications of transnational co-productions both for global and domestic film markets?

Credits: 3

MDST 3115 - Breaking Bad: Once Upon a Time with the Pests

The course explores Breaking Bad through study of the show’s narrative, characters, and formal design. Topics examined include: socio-economic anxieties and spiritual longings in contemporary America; the political and religious implications of addiction to speed (technological and pharmacutical); the show as revisionary Puritan narrative and revisionary Western; the problem of being bugged; the desire to get away with it; the poetry of W.W.

Credits: 3

MDST 3120 - Global Media & Cybersecurity

This course will use cases from around the world to examine the relationship between media and cybersecurity. The course will analyze criminal hacks of media production companies, how cybercrimes are represented in popular media, and how media use exposes users to risk of cybercrimes.

Credits: 3

MDST 3140 - Mass Media and American Politics

Examines the role of mass media in the political process including such topics as print and broadcast news, media and election campaigns, political advertising, and media effects on public opinion and political participation.

Credits: 3

MDST 3201 - New German Cinema

MDST 3202 - Digital Media and Publishing

This course examines current best practices in digital media and publishing, and calls on students to write, edit, and curate meaningful content using industry recognized tools, such as Wordpress and Tumblr, as well as experiment with new and experimental platforms. Students will learn how to develop an online content strategy by analyzing the target audience, determining the message to be conveyed, and presenting user-friendly content.

Credits: 3

MDST 3205 - New Latin American Cinema

This course provides a historical and critical perspective on Latin American Cinema (LAC), with an emphasis on LAC’s relationship to Third Cinema, revolutionary cinema, and contemporary progressive filmic cinematic forms and traditions.

Credits: 3

MDST 3206 - Documentary Film

The course examines the different ways documentary filmmakers have attempted to represent reality. The course surveys the development of different ‘modes’ of documentary and the different ways these modes claim representational authority. Throughout, we will be conscious of the particular truth claims of documentary and the ethical issues involved in filming real people.

Credits: 3

MDST 3230 - Basic Multimedia Reporting

Basic Multimedia Reporting teaches the hands on skills required for professional level news reporting, news production and short documentaries. Students may choose to specialize in Written Journalism, TV Journalism or Production. However, all students learn proficiency in research, news writing, ethics, camera use, video editing, and where requested, broadcast presentation skills.

Credits: 4

MDST 3280 - Public Affairs Production II

Students (maxium of two) take on active roles as credited “senior associate producers” (SAPs) in production of “American Forum,” a weekly, one-hour public affairs interview & conversation program produced and recorded at the U.Va. Miller Center. SAPs coordinate and work with 7-member teams of “associate” level students taking MDST 2280 in technical production, development of show content, marketing & creating online components.

Credits: 3

MDST 3300 - Global Media

Examines the dynamic global transformations in print, broadcast, and digital media in an international and comparative context. Considers historical, institutional, and textual factors that impact media in local and global contexts. Examines the critical role of media in the long history of globalization and focuses on a number of cultural, technological, and economic issues addressed by media and globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MDST 3306 - Sexuality, Gender, Class and Race in the Teen Film

The focus of this class will be on viewings and analyses of films featuring images of teens produced between 1930 and the present, focusing on the following questions: what is adolescence (and how has it been defined in American film)? What is the range of experience that characterizes American adolescence across gender, race, and class lines? How does it make sense to think about the social influence of films on individuals and society?

Credits: 3

MDST 3310 - Sound and Cinema

This is a cinema history class that will proceed roughly chronologically from the dawn of the sound era to the early 1970s. This course will look at and listen to the ways that sound technologies shaped global filmmaking in this period, while also introducing students to various theoretical and critical perspectives on the relationship between the visual and the aural.

Credits: 3

MDST 3320 - The Politics of Video Games

Video gaming is the fastest growing form of media: Americans spend twice as much on gaming as on recorded music and it is estimated that young men average over 670 hours a year playing video games. Yet we know relatively little about the broader social and political impact of this new medium. This class will sample the existing literature and explore ways of understanding the political implications (broadly defined) of gaming.

Credits: 3

MDST 3355 - Border Media

MDST 3375 - History of Music and Broadcasting in the US

The history of popular music in the U.S. is intimately intertwined with broadcasting. The relationship between “radio and records” has been one of mutual dependence and abiding antagonism. Students will learn how this relationship developed historically, and will consider its continuing evolution. Our narrative will include the effects of legal decisions and technological innovations on music-making; on broadcasting; and on music consumption.

Credits: 3

MDST 3402 - War and the Media

This course examines media coverage of American wars from World War I to the present. Study of the evolution in media coverage of war provides an ideal vantage point for understanding the changing nature of warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries, war’s impact on American society, and the ways in which political elites have attempted to mobilize public support for foreign conflicts. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MDST 3404 - Democratic Politics in the New Media Environment

This course examines the ways a changing media system is altering the dynamics of public discourse and democratic politics in the United States. Throughout the course we will critically analyze the ways in which scholars from a wide range of disciplines have studied the connection between media and politics, the methods they have employed, and the validity of their findings and approaches in the new media environment in which we now live. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MDST 3405 - Media Policy and Law

This course examines the constitutional, legal and regulatory foundations common to print, broadcast media and the Internet. An overview of topics such as libel, invasion of privacy, obscenity and copyright helps students understand forces that shape news and information they receive and prepares them to use media more effectively as citizens, voters and entrepreneurs in an increasingly complex multimedia world.

Credits: 3

MDST 3406 - The Wire: Understanding Urban America Through Television at Its Best

This class explores HBO’s The Wire as an examination of race, class, and economic change in urban America. We examine the series as a creative work which balances a commitment to realism with the demands of television drama. Students will view episodes of The Wire and read material on urban America, the changing contours of television, and the series itself. Requisites: Permission of Instructor

Credits: 3

MDST 3407 - Racial Borders & American Cinema

The history of American cinema is inextricably and controversially tied to the racial politics of the U.S. This course will explore how images of racial and ethnic minorities such as African Americans, Jews, Asians, Native Americans and Latino/as are reflected on screen and the ways that minorities in the entertainment industry have responded to often limiting representations. Prerequisite: MDST Major

Credits: 3

MDST 3409 - LGBTQ Issues in the Media

This course will explore the complex cultural dynamics of LGBTQ media visibility, along with its social, political, and psychological implications for LGBTQ audiences. It explores four domains: (1) the question of LGBT media visibility (2) the complex processes of inclusion, normalization, and assimilation in popular culture (3) media industries and the LGBT market (4) the relationship between digital media, LGBT audiences, and everyday life.

Credits: 3

MDST 3410 - Media Ethics

This course provides students a familiarity with the terrain of moral philosophy, improves students’ awareness of the complex ethical issues and dilemmas in journalism and other areas of mass media, and engages students in the process of critical thinking, moral reasoning and problem solving in media communications. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MDST 3420 - Media and Power in Iran

Successive Iranian leaders have struggled to navigate the fraught political-cultural space of media in the Islamic Republic, skirting the line between embracing Western communications technologies & rejecting them, between condemning social networking sites & promoting themselves on Facebook. What is the role of media in political power construction in Iran? This class will consider this question through a number of inflection points in history.

Credits: 3

MDST 3500 - Topics in the History of Media

Topics have historical breadth and cover the historical development of media institutions, technology, or forms in areas of television, journalism, graphic media, film, print and publication history, digital media or other relevant areas. These courses may be repeated for credit if course content is sufficiently distinct to merit. Decision about repeated credit is at the discretion of the Director of Media Studies. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MDST 3501 - Special Topics in Directors and Auteurs

This course will offer historical, comparative, and critical perspectives on a selected major directors and auteurs each semester. Directors might include Hitchcock, Welles, Heckerling, Ray, Speilberg, Renoir, Truffaut, etc.

Credits: 3

MDST 3502 - Special Topics in Film Genre

This course will offer historical and critical perspectives on a selected film genre each semester. Genres might include Noir, war, romance, musicals, gangster, New Wave, etc.

Credits: 3

MDST 3503 - Special Topics - Issues and Controversies in Media

This course will consider recent and current controversies in media and media studies. It surveys a series of “hot” topics within media. In each case it examines issues both historically and theoretically. The purpose of the course is to provide students with the tools and habits of thought to delve into the background and issues surrounding controveries so that the shallow presentation of the controversy does not remain the dominant frame.

Credits: 3

MDST 3504 - Special Topics in Non-U.S. Media

This course will offer historical, comparative, critical, and/or media industry perspectives on transnational, global, international, or region specific media. Topics may include non-US national media systems, studies of non-US media textual traditions, international media flows, changes to society due to media globalization, the role of new media technologies in international affairs, and the role of transnationalism in national and international

Credits: 3

MDST 3505 - Special Topics in Diversity and Identity in Media

This course will offer historical, comparative, and critical perspectives on issues of diversity and identity in media studies. Topics may include the relationship between media and underrepresented groups, media use in identity construction, masculinity and feminine role models in media, media power, etc. Prerequisite: MDST Major and Minors or Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

MDST 3584 - Global Cinema

This course entails study of films originating from and/or identified with non-US nations and cultures. Topics include: introduction to a nation’s cinematic achievements (e.g., Korean cinema); in-depth study of one or more influential cinematic movements (e.g., French New Wave; Italian Neo-Realism); exploration of a particular historical period (e.g., German silent cinema). The course fulfills the non-US requirement for the Media Studies major.

Credits: 3

MDST 3600 - Women and Television

Examines how television addresses women, how it represents women, and how women respond to the medium. Explores the relationship between the female audience and television by focusing on both contemporary and historical issues. Areas of particular concern include: how women have responded to television as technology; how specific genres have targeted women; how female-focused specialty channels have addressed women; and how specific programming and genres have mediated the changing status of women from the 1950s to the present. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MDST 3601 - Screening History: Media and Cultural Memory

The overall goal of the course is for students to recognize the ways in which film and TV representations of history are constructed through struggles in the present. Students will evaluate different narrative and formal strategies used to remember the past for their ideological, historical, ethical and commercial implications. We will discuss the uses of the past in the present, including nostalgia and the politics of counter-memory.

Credits: 3

MDST 3602 - Television, New Media, and Society

For the last 60 years, TV has been one of the most important cultural forms in the American mediascape. Mindful of this past, this course will explore contemporary issues in television studies as we enter the digital age. How does time-shifting technology fundamentally alter our conceptions of TV? What does Hulu mean for the television industry? What does the emergence of ‘quality TV’ imply imply aboutTV’s rich past as ashared cultural product?

Credits: 3

MDST 3620 - World Cinema

This course offers a survey of the cinemas of Europe, Africa, Central and South America, the Middle East, India, and Asia, with an introduction to the film histories and stylistic tendencies of each region. Explores classical, avant-garde, and ‘third cinema’ aesthetics, post-colonial theory, and transnational filmmaking. Equivalent course to GETR 3620. Students in GETR section focus on comparative topics related to German film.

Credits: 3

MDST 3630 - Screening Terrorism

This course examines contemporary cinematic & televisual representations of terrorism. It aims to do the following: to promote critical awareness of the ways in which terrorism is depicted on screen, particularly in the post-9/11 world; to encourage exploration of the complex ways in which real acts of terror involve performance & theatrics; to address the ethics and responsibilities of film and TV in re-creating acts of terror on screen.

Credits: 3

MDST 3640 - American Gangster Film

This course offers in-depth examination of American gangster films, tracing the genre’s development from early silent film to the present. It investigates the extensive influence the genre has had on the nature of the American film industry and explores how the representation of gangster life on screen articulates crucial anxieties, frustrations, and desires circulating in American society at the time of the film’s creation.

Credits: 3

MDST 3650 - Shooting the Western

This course provides an overview of the enduring genre of the American Western in its classic and revised forms. The course will address the social and historical contexts informing the films. Students will be asked to perform both cultural and formal analysis of the cinematic texts.

Credits: 3

MDST 3661 - Media Bodies

Increasingly, we use media to better understand our bodies - MRIs, fitness trackers, bluetooth hearing aids, and other media help to construct bodily health, ability, and gender. We will study a range of tech that mediate bodies, and also consider how media representations of “normal” bodies effect social life and mental health.

Credits: 3

MDST 3670 - Sports, Media and Society

This course will explore the role that sports have played in the development of media and society, primarily but not exclusively in the United States. It will consider such issues as amateurism, labor, performance-enhancing drugs, race, gender, sexuality, body image, and the role of sports within American universities. Prerequisite: MDST 2000.

Credits: 3

MDST 3680 - The News Media

This course will examine how the US news media is organized, what gets news coverage and why, and the role the news media plays in our democracy. Issues will include the impact of the digital news revolution, the importance of who owns the media, the differences between the many types of TV news and why the students’ personal consumption of news matters. Students will gain an ability to analyze the news, and whether it helps them as citizen.

Credits: 3

MDST 3690 - Sports Journalism

This course will cover all manner of media as it relates to sports journalism. Students will analyze published work across various mediums, learn the tools for reporting and writing different types of coverage, including features, profiles, long-form, game stories and more. Students will write articles, interview subjects, analyze sports journalism, participate in peer reviews and hear from some of the most prominent figures in sports journalism.

Credits: 3

MDST 3700 - Newswriting II

This advanced newswriting course trains students to practice ‘point-of-view’ journalism, and to understand it as a controversial but credible alternative to the dominant model of ‘objectivity’ on the part of the news media. Prerequisite: Basic newswriting course and/or experience working on college newspaper (or equivalent) or literary maga- or e-zine.

Credits: 3

MDST 3701 - New Media Culture

A survey of issues in the study of new media and of new media artifacts. Objects studied may include films with digital special effects, digital animation, digital video, video games, digital art, internet art, and others. Theories of new media, media art, media change. Taught primarily via discussion with some lectures. Short papers, class participation, final project. Prerequisite: one course in Media Studies, English, Art History, or a related discipline.

Credits: 3

MDST 3703 - Introduction to the Digital Liberal Arts

Students will gain a practical and critical introduction to key technologies that are shaping research, innovation, and critical thinking across the liberal arts curriculum: specific technologies, including a programming language, that will empower them to better envision and develop technology-mediated projects in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Students will reflect on the history and discourse in these areas.

Credits: 3

MDST 3704 - Games and Play

This course is an introduction to game studies, surveying theories of play and research on contemporary videogames to “folk games” to sports/e-sports. Historic tensions and debates in game studies will form the foundation for the course, then students will engage with game studies as inherently interdisciplinary, developing novel research projects on games and play as well as interrogating their own play experiences.

Credits: 3

MDST 3705 - Code, Language, and Media

Introduction to the theory and practice of the database as media form in the context of the digital liberal arts. Students review critical literature about databases, study examples of their use in projects from a variety of disciplines, and engage in the actual design of a database application as a course project. Topics include cross-cultural modes of classification, data models, big data, visualization, and building web-based databases.

Credits: 3

MDST 3706 - Media in China: Technology, Policy and Commerce

The growth of media industries in China sits at the intersection between commerce, technology and policy. The objective of the course is to cultivate a rigorous understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of these three areas within the context of China’s global expansion. Students will also be expected to develop fresh critical perspectives on the significance of analysis of industry practice as a means to critique media texts.

Credits: 3

MDST 3740 - Cultures of Hip-Hop

MDST 3750 - Money, Media, and Technology

Money is one of the oldest media technologies in the world, but in recent years a variety of experiments from Venmo to Bitcoin have emerged, promising to reinvent the form of money itself. This class looks at the historical, social, and cultural dimensions of money as a media technology.

Credits: 3

MDST 3751 - Value, Values, Valuation

Measuring “value” is an important feature of media industries and contemporary life more broadly. This class asks how value is determined, according to what value systems, through what systems of valuation. We will look at taste, metrics, reviews, awards, likes, retweets, and ratings, to try to understand how people answer the question, “What is valuable?”

Credits: 3

MDST 3755 - Social Media and Society

This class examines computer-mediated communication forms known as “social media.” What makes these technologies “social” or “media”? From algorithms to selfies, most aspects of social media have been met with both moral panics and utopian pronouncements. Students will develop a set of critical frames and analytical methods for understanding the role of social media in society.

Credits: 3

MDST 3760 - #BlackTwitter and Black Digital Culture

Using a mix of scholarly and popular-press readings and an examination of digital artifacts, we will analyze the creations and contributions of Black digital culture from the mid-90s to the present. Covering topics including the early Black blogosphere; the creation of niche content sites like BlackPlanet.com; the emergence of Black Twitter; the circulation of memes, and the use second-screening.

Credits: 3

MDST 3800 - Field Experience in Media Studies

Provides an opportunity for students to get credit for field work, in the area of media studies. Students must put a proposal together for the project with a faculty sponsor, which must be approved by the add/drop deadlines. Restricted to Media Studies Majors.

Credits: 1

MDST 3801 - Research in Practice

This is a course designed specially for MDST students pursuing a DMP. This course blends a traditional internship experience with in-the-field research and allows students to have a critical understanding of the media organization in which they intern. Students who wish to pursue MDST 3801 must apply to the Director of the Program who oversees and supervises the course. MDST 3801 is available only to students who are part of the MDST DMP.

Credits: 3

MDST 3809 - New Media in New York

How do the contemporary media industries work? How did they develop in this fashion? How can an analysis of the ‘business of entertainment’ enable a greater understanding of contemporary media aesthetics and culture? Students must apply to enroll in this course. Enrollment is open to media studies majors only. Priority will be given to Fourth Years and Distinguished Majors.

Credits: 3

MDST 3830 - History of Film I

MDST 3840 - History of Film II

Analyzes the development of film art from the inception of sound to the 1950s. Includes weekly film screenings. Pre-requisites: DRAM 2810 or 3830, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MDST 3850 - History of Film III

A history of narrative, documentary and experimental film, 1955-77. Developments in the aesthetics of film are examined in the context of socio-economic, political and cultural conditions specific to different historical moments. Includes weekly film screenings. Students should have completed DRAM/MDST 3830 and 3840 prior to requesting permission to enroll. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

MDST 3900 - Specialized Field Experience in Media Studies

This course is reserved for Media Studies students interested in receiving credit for participation in student-led and UVA-affiliated enterprises that are media-related under the guidance of a faculty member or industry professional in the area of media studies. Students must put a proposal together for the project with a faculty sponsor, which must be approved by the add/drop deadlines. Restricted to Media Studies Majors.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

MDST 3903 - Media and Protest: The 1960s

Explores the protest movements of the 1960s through the lens of media coverage in the mainstream press of the day – newspapers, general interest newsmagazines, photojournalism, television, popular culture, as well as the Movement’s own underground press. Purpose is to understand a fascinating and often misunderstood moment in American history but also to investigate what that period can tell us about our current moment of protest and activism.

Credits: 3

MDST 4000 - Media Theory and Methods

An introduction to advanced theory and research methods in Media Studies. Intended as a foundation for thesis work to be conducted in a student’s fourth year of undergraduate study (usually to fulfill Distinguished Majors Program requirements). Covers subjects such as historiography and proper use of historical records, survey methodology and ethics, and ethnographic methods. Prerequisite: MDST 3000.

Credits: 3

MDST 4010 - Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing or Research Project

Writing of a thesis or production or a project with appropriately researched documentation, under the supervision of the faculty DMP thesis readers or project supervisor.

Credits: 3

MDST 4101 - Privacy & Surveillance

Can we preserve dignity and privacy in the age of Facebook? This seminar will consider the history and current applications of technologies & cultures of surveillance. How & why did we get to the point where almost all of our activities leave a trace? What sorts of laws and policies do we need to protect our sense of personal integrity? Students will conduct two brief oral presentations (accompanied by a video) & produce a 20-page research paper.

Credits: 3

MDST 4102 - Qualitative Methods in Media Audience Research

This course is designed to be a practical introduction to how to do audience research in the field of culturally-oriented communication study. The primary work students will be doing is to prepare research projects illustrating the in-depth application of one (or possibly multiple) methods of research employed in studying the cultural audience.

Credits: 3

MDST 4103 - Representing Violence

The course will discuss the relationship between the mediation of different types of violence and the cultures of (in)justice where these representations exist. Central concerns are how different representational practices construct violence as public or private, proximate or distant, and the challenge of representing traumatic violence.

Credits: 3

MDST 4105 - Media and Citizenship

This course provides a critical perspective on the relationships of media to citizenship. It asks questions central to explaining the role of media in political and national life, including the following: What notions of national and political membership are forwarded by mainstream media? What media spaces are viable for the political agency of racial, sexual, and economic minorities and how do these spaces work?

Credits: 3

MDST 4106 - Media and the Kennedy Era

This course examines mass media ‘network television, journalism, advertising, cinema’ both during the Kennedy years and after to explore the impact, ideas, ideals, and iconography of this presidency. Prerequisites: MDST 2000 or permission of instructor

Credits: 3

MDST 4107 - Feminism and the Public Sphere

This class will examine the normative basis of the public sphere and critiques of its current structure and ask: What would a more inclusive vision of political participation and communication look like? In attempting to build an answer, we will examine a number of works on communication ethics, politics and media, with an emphasis on feminist and queer scholarship.

Credits: 3

MDST 4108 - Media, Drugs, and Violence in Latin America

This course will give you a critical understanding of the complex relationships between social violence, drug cartels, media, and Latin American nations. Together we will wrestle with the way Mexican, Colombian, and Brazilian drug violence has impacted and shaped new artistic forms and media practices that confront or, complexly, support the violence.

Credits: 3

MDST 4109 - Civil Rights Movement and the Media

MDST 4110 - Gender Non-Conformity in Media Culture

As one of the primary cultural drivers of common sense, shared values, and political ideology, media are certainly influential storytellers. This course creates space for considering media’s role in articulating and fashioning the limits and possibilities of gender identity. We will pay particular attention to representations of gender non-conformity in popular culture such as female masculinity, male femininity, and transgender subjectivity.

Credits: 3

MDST 4200 - Sex and Gender Go to the Movies

This course will examine the ways in which different mass media help to define our cultural ideas about gender differences and the ways in which feminist scholars have responded to these definitions by criticizing existing media images and by creating some alternatives of their own. The course will examine the notion that the mass media might influence our development as gendered individuals and consider different forms of feminist theory.

Credits: 3

MDST 4210 - Global Environmental Media

From analysis of documentary, narrative film, animation, gaming, experimental video, and social media, the class will provide students with the tools to bridge the gap between media and scientific messages about environmental issues. Students will develop critical tools to understand the aesthetic, environmental and industrial characteristics of different media practices related to some of the most significant issues facing our world.

Credits: 3

MDST 4211 - Kungfu and Korean Dramas: Transnational Asian Media

MDST 4230 - Advanced Multimedia Reporting

This course is for students strongly considering careers in news reporting, or news documentary production. We will focus on the higher level techniques involved in finding, reporting, videotaping and writing long-form memorable news stories. Experience in Basic Reporting, student journalism, or reporting internship required.

Credits: 3

MDST 4240 - Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

This class provides a general overview of film production in Brazil since 1990. We will screen and discuss a variety of documentary and feature-length fiction films, paying special attention to their formal construction and respective portrayals of violence, race, class, and sexuality, particularly as they unfold in a context increasingly marked by globalization and neoliberalism.

Credits: 3

MDST 4301 - Global Indigenous Media

Close study of contemporary media produced by members of indigenous communities worldwide. Readings in media studies, critical theory, and critical anthropology. Seminar with presentations, short papers, and a research paper. Prerequisite: one course in Media Studies, English, Anthropology, or a related discipline.

Credits: 3

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Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures

Courses

ARAB 116 - Intensive Introductory Arabic

ARAB 126 - Intensive Introductory Arabic

ARAB 216 - Intensive Intermediate Arabic

This intensive course begins with instruction in basic intermediate level expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute.

Credits: 0

ARAB 226 - Intensive Intermediate Arabic

ARAB 256 - Introduction to Levantine Arabic-I

This course intends to introduce the students to colloquial Levantine Arabic by enabling them to communicate in Levantine Arabic, the colloquial spoken in Syria, Lebanon, the Holy Land, and Western Jordan Prerequisite: First Year Arabic

Credits: 0

ARAB 266 - Introduction to Levantine Arabic-II

HEBR 116 - Intensive Introductory Hebrew

This is the non-credit option for HEBR 1016.

Credits: 0

HEBR 126 - Intensive Introductory Hebrew

This is the non-credit option for HEBR 1026.

Credits: 0

HEBR 216 - intensive intermediate Hebrew

This is the non-credit option for HEBR 2016.

Credits: 0

HEBR 226 - Intensive Intermediate Hebrew

This is the non-credit option for HEBR2026.

Credits: 0

MESA 4998 - Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Senior Thesis

Thesis research under the direction of a MESALC faculty member serving as thesis advisor and a second faculty member serving as second reader. The second faculty member may be from outside MESALC. Prerequisite: DMP major and instructor permission.

Credits: 0

SANS 1010 - Elementary Sanskrit I

Studies Sanskrit sounds, the Devanagari script, and basic grammar.

Credits: 3

SANS 1020 - Elementary Sanskrit II

A continuation of SANS 1010. Prerequisite: SANS 1010. Note: The following six courses are all intermediate level Sanskrit courses. They are offered two-by-two in a three-year rotation.

Credits: 3

SANS 3012 - Selections from the Mahabharata

A second-year course focusing on developing reading fluency in Sanskrit. Selections are chosen to reinforce students’ knowledge of grammar from SANS 1020, to expand vocabulary and to introduce the Mahabharata, one of ancient India’s major epics. Prerequisite: SANS 1020.

Credits: 3

SANS 3014 - Selections from the Ramayana of Valmiki

A second-year course focusing on developing reading fluency in Sanskrit. Selections are chosen to reinforce student’s knowledge of grammar from SANS 1020, to expand vocabulary, and to introduce the Ramayana of Valmiki, one of two major epics of ancient India, and the ‘first poem’ in Sanskrit. Prerequisite: SANS 1020.

Credits: 3

SANS 3016 - Selections from the Kathasaritsagara of Somadeva

A second-year course focusing on developing reading fluency in Sanskrit. Selections are chosen to reinforce student’s knowledge of grammar from SANS 5020, to expand vocabulary, and to introduce the Kathasaritsagara of Somadeva, the most important collection of story literature in Sanskrit. Prerequisite: SANS 1020.

Credits: 3

SANS 3022 - The Bhagavadgita

A second-year course focusing on developing reading fluency in Sanskrit. Selections are chosen to reinforce students’ knowledge of grammar from SANS 1020, to expand vocabulary and to introduce the Bhagavadgita, a major religious text of ancient India. Prerequisite: SANS 1020.

Credits: 3

SANS 3024 - Selections from the Upanisads

A second-year course focusing on developing reading fluency in Sanskrit. Selections are chosen to reinforce student’s knowledge of grammar from SANS 1020/5020, to expand vocabulary, and to introduce the Upanisads, a major spiritual text of ancient India. Prerequisite: SANS 1020.

Credits: 3

SANS 3026 - Selections from the Puranas

A second-year course focusing on developing reading fluency in Sanskrit. Selections are chosen to reinforce student’s knowledge of grammar from SANS 5020, to expand vocabulary, and to introduce the huge corpus of Puranic texts. Prerequisite: SANS 1020.

Credits: 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SANS 4054 - Texts in the Science and Philosophy of Grammar II

SANS 4993 - Independent Study In Sanskrit

This course is meant to give students training in advanced Sanskrit

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

SAST 1100 - Introduction to South Asia

Introduces South Asian economy and environment, caste and society, gender issues, history and political science, secularism-law-religion, philosophy, languages and literatures, theater-music-dance, and visual arts. Emphasizes the colonial and post colonial periods.

Credits: 3

SAST 1300 - Under the Colonized-Gaze: British Empire and its Indian Subjects

This course focuses on writings by Indians (mainly Bengali writers) during the colonial period to examine the existing relational nature between the colonizer (the British) and the colonized (Indians). In doing so the course also focuses on the wider significance of Bengali writings how they encapsulated discourses on nation, race and gender.

Credits: 3

SAST 1600 - India in Global Perspective

The course will not be a conventional “introduction” to India which customarily emphasizes cultural history. Though there will be a short section at the beginning of the course that provides an overview of India’s history, we will quickly move, after 6 class meetings, to the post-independence era, and focus in on the period since 1990, when India took steps to reform its economic policies and re-set its relationships with other world powers

Credits: 3

SAST 2050 - Classics of Indian Literature

A survey of the foundational, formative and paradigmatic classic texts of the Indian Vedic, Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Islamic and Sikh religio-literary-cultural traditions.

Credits: 3

SAST 2060 - Bollywood Dreams: Indian Cinema

Survey of Indian (particulary Hindi-language) cinema from ca. 1910 to the present, concentrating on films made after independence (1947).

Credits: 3

SAST 2200 - Delhi: The Gateway to India

The course utilizes the ever changing map of India’s capital and its seven cities to introduce medieval, pre-modern and modern India. Delhi is a microcosm of India’s history. It is also home to India’s most important government and cultural institutions. A visit to the Mughal city of Agra (Taj Mahal) and the Rajput ‘capital’, Jaipur is included.

Credits: 3

SAST 2700 - Indian Politics and Society

The course provides an overview of key issues in the study of contemporary Indian politics. Particular attention is paid to the successes and challenges of Indian democracy. The course examines the historical background to the establishment of democracy; the evolution of political institutions and processes, and foreign and economic policy; and contemporary identity politics (including gender, religion and caste). Cross-listed with PLCP 2700.

Credits: 3

SAST 2800 - The World According to South Asia

This course approaches South Asia and its cultural diversity from the inside out, rather than from an `other’ centered, western viewpoint. This course is not about the history of South Asia. It is about understanding the contemporary cultural milieu ‘the world as seen reflexively and reflectively through a South Asian lens. We will be reading and discussing almost exclusively South Asian voices’ opinions and perceptions.

Credits: 3

SAST 3300 - The Pleasures of Bollywood: Melodrama, Realism, Mythos

This class will focus on cinema produced by the industry in Mumbai, popularly called Bollywood. Topics will include the relationship between fiction and documentation, between melodrama and realism, music and affect. Students will be taught the tools of film analysis and will be expected to watch and unpack films each week. They will also be expected to consider films in the social, political and economic contexts in which they were made.

Credits: 3

SAST 3400 - Pop Culture in S. Asia: Advertising, Visual Aesth., Posters & Photography

This course will examine popular visual aesthetics in South Asia. We will look at the aesthetics of visual culture from the 19th century to the present. Students will be trained to consider popular culture, to think about the relationship between high art forms such as painting and multi-media and the more seemingly mundane aesthetics of press photography, posters, billboards, teaching posters, etc., and the new spate of financial advertising.

Credits: 3

SAST 3450 - The Languages of South Asia

An examination of the phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures of South Asian languages from typological, social, and historical perspectives. No knowledge of a South Asian language or linguistics is required.

Credits: 3

SAST 3640 - Women & Politics in S Asia

This course examines the role of women in politics in the countries of South Asia (including India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan) from the colonial to the modern period. Particular attention is paid to issues of democracy and authoritarian rule; identity politics (including religion, nationalism, and caste); political institutions and processes; and political violence. Cross-listed with PLCP 3640.

Credits: 3

SAST 3650 - India in Global History

Students will be exposed to alternative historiographical perspectives, using the longue duree view of the Indian Ocean world, embracing 2,000 years of cultural and economic interactions between the Middle East, East African Swahili coast, Europe and the coastal region of the present-day Indian state of Kerala. This learning experience will de-center the student’s Euro-centric presuppositions of primacy.

Credits: 3

SAST 3701 - Business and Banking in South Asia

South Asia, the region which stretches from Afghanistan to Burma and down to Sri Lanka, has been the center of thousands of years of trade and finance. In this course we will investigate the early history of this vast flow through the following: the highlights of the history of business and banking, trade and finance from about 1500 B.C to the early European merchant adventurers , the worlds and cultures that were implicated in that history.

Credits: 3

SAST 4991 - South Asian Studies Capstone Seminar

This is the fourth-year capstone seminar for students majoring in South Asian Studies. This course will draw on the multidisciplinary interests of the students who participate to create a collaborative and collegial environment in which to investigate some of the foundational concepts and categories involved in the construction of “South Asia” as unified area of academic discourse.

Credits: 3

SAST 4993 - Independent Study

Independent Study course

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

SATR 2000 - Introduction to South Asian Literature

Surveys classical to contemporary South Asian languages (e.g., Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, Urdu) and literature translated into, or written in, English.

Credits: 3

SATR 2010 - Remembering India’s Partition through Literature and Poetry

The readings for this course have been put together with the premise that literature, even that which is written at the height of nationalist struggles, does not relate the exact same story that nationalism does. The readings for this course present a view of pre-partition and post-partition India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, especially through the novels of Muslim South Asian writers like Abdullah Hussein and Intezar Hussain.

Credits: 3

SATR 2110 - Cultural Translation: Travel Writing in South Asia

Travel writing is among the oldest forms of literature, especially in Asia. This course explores depictions of the Indian sub-continent by travel writers from Buddhist pilgrims to Arab geographers to colonial and post-colonial writers.

Credits: 3

SATR 2300 - Colonial and Postcolonial Bengali Literature in Translation

This course is designed to give students a comprehensive understanding of Bengali literature as it has developed through the colonial and postcolonial periods. This course critically examines the questions of western literary influences on Bengali literature and their successful/unsuccessful appropriations/adoptions by Bengali writers.

Credits: 3

SATR 3000 - Women Writing in India & Pakistan: 1947-Present

We will read and critique the fiction and poetry of culturally specific regions while reflecting on the assumption that experiences and identities are fundamentally gendered. We will explore issues associated with women writing in regional languages to writing in mainstream languages like Hindi, Urdu and English. We will also examine how the publication and dissemination of women’s texts are related to the women movements in India and Pakistan. Prerequisite: Completion of First Writing Requirement

Credits: 3

SATR 3010 - Colors of Loneliness: Literature of Diasporic Imagination

An upper-level undergraduate seminar on South Asian Literature translated into or written in English that focuses on dislocation both metaphorical and temporal and how the filters of time and memory operate on imagination creating ‘fictions.’

Credits: 3

SATR 3110 - Modern Urdu-Hindi Literature

This upper level course will comprise readings that will cover a broad spectrum of what constitutes the “modern” in Urdu and Hindi Literature. The course will track the historical beginning of Urdu-Hindi as a language, its development as a literary language and the complexities of the divide form one to two distinct languages: modern Hindi and modern Urdu.

Credits: 3

SATR 3280 - Poetry of Passionate Devotion:The Ghazal

In this course we will read selections from some of the best classical Urdu and Persian lyric poetry. we will learn about the conventions of love in Urdu literary culture and the poetics of the ghazal in general. We will explore the different possibilities of interpretation: how the line between sacred and profane love (ishq) is often blurred, the relationship of poetry to mystical inspiration and so on.

Credits: 3

SATR 3300 - Literature & Society in South Asia: Breaking the Cast(e)

Dalit literature is perhaps the most remarkable literary movement to emerge in post-independence India. It is the voice of the most marginalized section of India’s population, those formerly known as untouchables. Until the advent of Dalit literature, the lives of Dalits had seldom been recorded in Indian literature. We will read fictional and non-fictional narratives of Dalit writers, and watch films to visualize and comprehend their lives. Prerequisite: SATR 7300 (graduate section)

Credits: 3

SATR 3700 - Medieval Indian Literature: Vernacular and Bhakti Revolution

This course explores the classic authors and texts of the Indian pre-modern literary period 700 - 1650 CE, which saw the rise of devotional Hinduism, the arrival of Islam in India and its fundamental influence on Indian literature, and the use of vernacular - regional languages in literature.

Credits: 3

URDU 2010 - Intermediate Urdu

Introduces various types of written and spoken Urdu; vocabulary building, idioms, and problems of syntax; and conversation. Prerequisite: for URDU 2010: HIND 1020 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

URDU 2020 - Intermediate Urdu

Prerequisite: for URDU 2020: URDU 2010 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

URDU 3010 - Advanced Urdu I

This course is designed to expand and to consolidate the structures the student has learned through URDU 2020 by reading original Urdu texts, ranging from literary prose fiction to news media excerpts to poetry (both classical and modern). We will discuss these texts in Urdu in class, and the students will be responsible for a series of short essays throughout the semester in Urdu pertaining both to the texts and to other topics. Pre-requisites: URDU 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

URDU 3020 - Advanced Urdu II

URDU 3300 - Readings in Urdu Poetry: An Ongoing Mahfil

This course will introduce advanced Urdu and Hindi students to some of the finest poetry in Urdu. Those who cannot read the Urdu script will have the option of reading the texts in Devanagari (the Hindi script). Some of the poets we will read are Mir, Ghalib, Dagh and Faiz. Course work will include brief analytical papers, as well as in-class presentations. Prerequisites: URDU 3010 or 3020; or HIND 3010 or 3020; or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

URDU 4993 - Independent Study in Urdu

Independent Study in Urdu

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

Music

Courses

MUBD 2601 - Basketball Band

The Basketball Band performs at every home men’s and women’s basketball game at the John Paul Jones Arena and all post season tournament games. Much of the music must be performed memorized. New music is introduced on a weekly basis. Students enrolling in Basketball Band must be a member of the current year’s marching band course (MUBD 2610, 2620, 2630, or 2640).

Credits: 1

MUBD 2610 - Marching Band I

An ensemble that performs at all home football games and selected away games each season, also traveling to Bowl games and performing at special events. This course counts as performance, and thus subject to the limit of eight credits of the 120 required for the B.A. Prerequisite: Students are selected by audition.

Credits: 2

MUBD 2620 - Marching Band II

An ensemble that performs at all home football games and selected away games each season, also traveling to Bowl games and performing at special events. Students assist in mentoring new band members enrolled in MUBD 2610. Prerequisite: MUBD 2610.

Credits: 2

MUBD 2630 - Marching Band III

An ensemble that performs at all home football games and selected away games each season, also traveling to Bowl games and performing at special events. Students run sectional rehearsals and tutor students enrolled in MUBD 2610 and 2620. Prerequisite: MUBD 2620.

Credits: 2

MUBD 2640 - Marching Band IV

An ensemble that performs at all home football games and selected away games each season, also traveling to Bowl games and performing at special events. Students assume leadership roles in the Marching Band, and contribute to the design and teaching of shows. Prerequisite: MUBD 2630.

Credits: 2

MUEN 2600 - Concert Band

Concert Band

Credits: 1

MUEN 2650 - Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble Level 1

Students must have taken Performance With Computers in order to enroll in MICE (Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble). MICE teaches a blended approach to performance, composition and computer programming through the context of a computer music ensemble. Students from various backgrounds work collaboratively in a technological ensemble context while building skills in interactive media programming, sound art design and human-computer interaction.

Credits: 1

MUEN 2690 - African Music and Dance Ensemble Level 1

A practical, hands-on course focusing on several music/dance forms from West Africa (Ghana, Togo) and Central Africa (BaAka), with the intention of performing during and at the end of the semester. Traditions include drumming, dancing, and singing. Prerequisites: By audition. Concentration, practice, and faithful attendance are required. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3570 - Indian Singing Ensemble

Students will be introduced to the concepts of RAGA (melody) and TALA (rhythm) in Indian classical music. They will learn classical compositions in different RAGAS and TALAS; mythological and philosophical meanings of the compositions will be explained. With this background, students will learn about Guru-Shishya-parampara (teacher-disciple-relationship), a concept which is unique to Indian culture. No musical background is required.

Credits: 1

MUEN 3600 - Jazz Ensemble

Jazz Ensemble Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3610 - Orchestra

Orchestra Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3620 - Wind Ensemble

Wind Ensemble Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3630 - Chamber Ensemble

Chamber Ensemble Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College.

Credits: 1.00 to 2.00

MUEN 3640 - Klezmer Ensemble

Klezmer Ensemble focuses on the music of the klezmorim, Jewish professional instrumentalists of Eastern Europe. Prerequisite: intermediate to advanced instrumental skills. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the college.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3645 - Bluegrass Workshop

This course seeks to develop the playing, singing, and improvising skills necessary for the idomatic performance of bluegrass music, while also providing an opportunity for discussion of its origins and development. Appropriate for experienced players working to improve their knowledge or for players versed in other genres to learn new styles.

Credits: 1

MUEN 3646 - Bluegrass Band

This course seeks to develop the advanced playing, singing, improvising, and collaborating skills necessary to perform in a traditional bluegrass band, along with knowledge of bluegrass history and repertoire. Prerequisite: MUEN 3645

Credits: 1

MUEN 3650 - University Singers

University Singers Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3651 - Chamber Singers

Chamber Singers Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3655 - Opera Workshop

Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree.

Credits: 1

MUEN 3657 - Voice for the Stage

A vocal performance class in which students alternately direct and perform in selected scenes. This course allows students to deepen their performing skills through alternating the roles of performer and director. Students will study assigned texts, scores and source materials from musical theater, opera and song and will then develop directorial and presentational/design concepts for productions, directing each other in short scenes. Prerequisite: Intermediate to advanced level/experience with solo singing and acting. Permission of instructor.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3660 - Ensemble Music with Piano

Studies in the preparation and performance of ensemble music with piano. Focus is on the development of collaborative skills and a practical understanding of cultural and theoretical context. Repertoire to be studied varies from semester to semester.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3670 - Early Music Ensemble

Performance of music written before 1750 on instruments appropriate to the period.Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3680 - New Music Ensemble

Performance of vocal and instrumental music of the 20th- and 21st-century. Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3690 - African Music and Dance Ensemble Level 2

Practical, hands-on course focusing on several music/dance forms from West Africa (Ghana, Togo) and Central Africa (BaAka pygmies). No previous experience with music or dance is necessary. Students seeking the co-requisite for MUSI 3090 should sign up for MUSI 3690. Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 2

MUEN 4690 - African Music and Dance Ensemble Level 3

Third level of proficiency in several music/dance forms from West Africa (Ghana, Togo) and Central Africa (BaAka pygmies). Performances during and at the end of the semester. Students develop a leadership role and proficiency in drumming, dancing, singing. and in ensemble dynamics. Students seeking the co-requisite for MUSI 3090 should sign up for MUSI 3690. Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 2

MUPF 1150 - Brass Technique for Woodwind Players

This course is designed to be an introduction to the performing techniques and instructional materials of brass instruments. Furthermore, the students enrolled in the course will learn how to perform one brass instrument at a high level with the goal of being able to contribute as a brass player in the UVa Marching Band in the future.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2110 - Performance (Voice)

Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2111 - Performance (Voice)

Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2181 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2120 - Performance (Piano)

MUPF 2121 - Performance (Piano)

MUPF 2130 - Performance (Organ, Harpsichord)

MUPF 2131 - Performance (Organ, Harpsichord)

MUPF 2140 - Performance (Strings)

MUPF 2141 - Performance (Strings)

Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110-2181 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2150 - Performance (Woodwinds)

MUPF 2151 - Performance (Woodwinds)

MUPF 2160 - Performance (Brass)

MUPF 2161 - Performance (Brass)

MUPF 2170 - Performance (Percussion)

MUPF 2171 - Performance (Percussion)

MUPF 2180 - Performance (Guitar)

Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2211 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2181 - Performance (Guitar)

MUPF 2190 - Performance (Banjo, Mandolin)

Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2191 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) Prerequisites: Music majors with permission of department chair by auditions; all other students must register for performance through the music department office. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2191 - Performance (Banjo, Mandolin)

Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2191 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information. Prerequisites: Music majors with permission of department chair by auditions; all other students must register for performance through the music department office.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2210 - Performance (Harp)

Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses labelled MUPF may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2211 - Performance (Harp)

MUPF 3110 - Advanced Performance (Voice)

Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here, including prerequisites: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3120 - Advanced Performance (Piano)

MUPF 3130 - Advanced Performance (Organ, Harpsichord)

MUPF 3140 - Advanced Performance (Strings)

MUPF 3150 - Advanced Performance (Woodwinds)

MUPF 3160 - Advanced Performance (Brass)

MUPF 3170 - Advanced Performance (Percussion)

MUPF 3180 - Advanced Performance (Guitar)

MUPF 3190 - Advanced Performance (Banjo, Mandolin)

Individual instruction in advanced musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, each MUPF course may be repeated for credit, but only sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the College degree, with an additional four available for Distinguished Majors. Prerequisite: at least one semester of instruction in the corresponding 2000-level course; successful audition. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3200 - Supervised Advanced Performance

For majors involved at an advanced level in types of solo or ensemble performance not offered through the department. An academic faculty member serves as mentor, monitors performance activities, and assigns relevant readings and research. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and DUP; restricted to music majors.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3210 - Advanced Performance (Harp)

Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here, including prerequisites: [web URL]. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Dept. of Music for more information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3635 - Collaborative Piano

Ensemble coaching for pianists paired with singers and instrumentalists. Prerequisite: One semester of MUPF credit and audition

Credits: 1

MUPF 3950 - Performance Concentration I

Performance Instruction for students in the Music Performance Concentration Prerequisite: One semester of MUPF credit and audition required. Student must simultaneously register for MUSI 4950: Performance Concentration Seminar.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3960 - Performance Concentration II

Performance Instruction for students in the Music Performance Concentration. Prerequisite: MUPF 3950. Student must simultaneously register for MUSI 4950: Performance Concentration Seminar.

Credits: 2

MUPF 4930 - Honors Performance

Individual instruction for Distinguished Major recitalists who wish to spend a year preparing a full-length recital. Prerequisite: At least one semester of instruction at the 3000 level; successful written application to the Distinguished Major Program; successful audition, normally at the end of the semester preceding 4000-level study; and permission of instructor. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 4940 - Honors Performance

Individual instruction for Distinguished Major recitalists who wish to spend a year preparing a full-length recital. Prerequisite: At least one semester of lessons at the 3000 level; successful written application to the Distinguished Major Program; successful audition, normally at the end of the semester preceding 4000-level study; and permission of instructor. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 4950 - Performance Concentration III

Performance Instruction for students in the Music Performance Concentration Prerequisite: MUPF 3960. Student must simultaneously register for MUSI 4950: Performance Concentration Seminar.

Credits: 2

MUPF 4960 - Performance Concentration IV

Performance Instruction for students in the Music Performance Concentration Prerequisite: MUPF 4950. Student must simultaneously register for MUSI 4950: Performance Concentration Seminar.

Credits: 2

MUSI 1010 - Introduction to Music

Surveys the musical literatures that make up the common listening experience of contemporary Americans, emphasizing such ‘classical’ repertories as symphony, opera, ‘early music’ ‘new music,’ blues, and jazz. Teaches effective ways of listening to and thinking critically about each repertoire. Considers how musical choices reflect or create cultural identities, including attitudes toward gender, ethnicity, social relationships, and ideas of the sacred.

Credits: 3

MUSI 1040 - Exploring the Orchestra

An introduction to the tradition and repertory of the symphony orchestra. Topics include the development and in strumental makeup of the modern symphony orchestra, forms and genres, and the role of the conductor.

Credits: 3

MUSI 1070 - Global Music

Global Music is an introduction to the field of ethnomusicology, the study of music as both an artistic activity and human behavior. It examines music using the methods and concerns of anthropology and cultural study. Over the course of the semester, we will consider not only different systems of music sound, but also different systems of musical meaning.

Credits: 3

MUSI 1310 - Basic Musical Skills

Not open to students already qualified to elect MUSI 2302 or 3310. Study of the rudiments of music and training in the ability to read music. Prerequisite: No previous knowledge of music required.

Credits: 3

MUSI 1620 - History of the Wind Band

The class is designed to give an introductory look at wind band music development from the early 20th century to present. The class does not require any previous musical experience. The course provides students with historical facts surrounding the wind band movement while allowing students to experience the music aurally.

Credits: 2

MUSI 1993 - Independent Study

Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

MUSI 2010 - Music, Meaning, and the Arts

What does music signify, and how does it convey meaning? How does its collaboration with other arts inflect both its significance and signifying ability? This lecture course seeks to answer these questions in an inquiry that focuses on Western art music from about 1800 to the present. This course is intended for non-music majors; no prior musical experience is required or expected.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2020 - Opera

Study of musical, literary, and dramatic aspects of representative operatic works. Prerequisite: No previous knowledge of music required.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2040 - Symphonic Masterworks

Study of symphonic music, including the concerto, from 1700 to the present. Prerequisite: No previous knowledge of music required.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2050 - American Musical Mavericks

A history of innovative and experimental American music, from Colonial times to the present.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2060 - Music and Politics

In this introductory course, we will explore the relationship of music and politics, from state-sponsored propaganda to explicit critique. Our aim is to understand the various ways in which music can be political, and politics can be shaped by music. No prior musical experience is necessary.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2070 - Popular Musics

Scholarly and critical study of music circulated through mass media. Specific topic for the semester (e.g. world popular music, bluegrass, country music, hip-hop, Elvis Presley) announced in advance. No previous knowledge of music required.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2080 - American Music

Scholarly and critical study of music of the Americas, with attention to interaction of music, politics, and society. Specific topics announced in advance. Prerequisite: No previous knowledge of music required.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2090 - Sound Studies: Anthropology and the Art of Sound Experience

This course combines approaches from musicology, anthropology, and sound studies in order to explore and experience music, sound and artistic practice in their human (and non-human) behavioural contexts. We investigate local and global sound cultures and trace the ways in which their sound are sampled, remixed and circulated.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2100 - Film Music

Scholarly and critical study of music in cinema. Specific topics for the semester announced in advance. No previous knowledge of music required.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2110 - Music in Everyday Life

Explores the implicit cultural messages which circulate within our ever-changing daily soundtracks. This courses focuses our attention on music that we usually take for granted, getting us thinking about the depths of quotidian aesthetic experience.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2120 - History of Jazz Music

Survey of jazz music from before 1900 through the stylistic changes and trends of the twentieth century; important instrumental performers, composers, arrangers, and vocalists. No previous knowledge of music required.

Credits: 3.00 to 4.00

MUSI 2130 - Introduction to Jewish Musical Traditions

MUSI 2140 - Music of Multicultural America

Examines a wide range of folk and ethnic musical traditions that have flourished in or impacted the United States. We ask how these traditions have fed into definitions of “American-ness” over the years, and whether recent trends represent signs of America’s transforming itself into a post-ethnic, post-racial society. Designed for non-music majors. No prerequisites. Musical literacy not assumed.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2210 - Composers

Study of the lives and works of individuals (e.g., Bach, Beethoven, Cage, Ellington, Smyth) whose participation in musical culture has led them to focus on the creation of musical ‘works.’ Topics announced in advance.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2220 - Composers

MUSI 2302 - Keyboard Skills (Beginning)

Introductory keyboard skills; includes sight-reading, improvisation, and accompaniment at the keyboard in a variety of styles. No previous knowledge of music required. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors. Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2304 - Keyboard Skills (Intermediate)

Intermediate keyboard skills for students with some previous musical experience. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors. Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2306 - Fretboard Harmony

Fretboard skills for students with some previous musical experience. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors. Prerequisite: instructor permission by audition.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2307 - Play Guitar

Fundamentals of playing guitar, along with rhythmic training, music theory, song forms, and more. Suitable for beginning, intermediate, and experienced performers.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2308 - Voice Class

This class is designed to teach the fundamentals of healthy vocal production. Classes are designed to improve vocal performance for each student, and to provide a introduction to standard vocal repertoire. This course will also include a look at the anatomy of the voice, resonance and articulation in singing, and voice classifications.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2340 - Learn to Groove

Study of rhythmic patterns associated with rhythms from West African, the Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States, through theory and performance.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2342 - Learn to Groove Intermediate

“Learn to Groove” hand drumming and rhythmic fluency with Robert Jospe. This is the intermediate level of the class. It is a hands on drumming/percussion class using congas, djembes, claves, shakers, etc. This class is designed to enhance ones knowledge of syncopated patterns associated with jazz, rock, African and Latin American music and to improve ones facility in playing these patterns.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2350 - Technosonics: Digital Music and Sound Art Composition

Introduction to digital music and sound art, through history, theory, and musical creation.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2370 - Make Rock

An introduction to rock from the 1950’s to the present, comprising musical, cultural and technological histories and compositional projects, informed by the points of view and poetic processes of their makers. The course is organized around musical and poetic foundations such as the backbeat, affect, control vs. abandon, distortion, production, the solo, and lyric innovation. Creative assignments involve producing musical expressions of rock.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2390 - Introduction to Music and Computers

Introduction to the use of computers in music composition, with hands-on experience. Appropriate for non-majors.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2400 - Composer/Performer Collaborative Workshop

This class uses coaching sessions, lectures, presentations, and workshops to explore composer/performer collaboration. With the guidance of the instructors, CCT mentors, and feedback from other students in the class, participants will hone their performance and composition skills in a collaborative practical setting. Various composition and performance projects will be assigned through the term for varying ensemble groups.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2450 - Managing Anxiety and Improving Performance with Alexander Technique

This course introduces and offers practical experience with the Alexander Technique. The Technique helps performers, people who suffer from anxiety and people who wish for a more fluid and friendly connection with everyday movement. The Technique helps us to improve our public speaking, our musical and/or athletic performance, and to find a calmer more centered approach to the activities of everyday life. It has been taught for over 100 years.

Credits: 1

MUSI 2500 - Jazz Keyboard Skills

This goal of this class is to develop a basic level of skill in performing, arranging and analyzing standard modern jazz repertoire and styles for the piano. Concepts covered will include chord voicings for the left hand and for two hands; elements of jazz and swing rhythm and melody; reading and interpreting a lead sheet; basic solo jazz piano textures; ii-V-I chord progressions; and transcription and performance of recorded improvised solos.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2570 - Music Cultures

Studies of various musical topics, with emphasis on relatons between music and cultural context. Taught at the non-major level.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2600 - Jazz Improvisation

Jazz Improvisation

Credits: 3

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Neuroscience

Courses

NESC 3960 - Research in Neuroscience

Students in Neuroscience major are expected to participate in active research, supervised by a faculty research mentor. The course grade is based on 10 hours/week lab work toward achieving term goals that are determined individually at the beginning of the term. Students are expected to submit a Term Plan one month after the first day of classes and a Progress Report two weeks before the last day of classes.

Credits: 3

NESC 3980 - Current Topics in Neuroscience I

Current developments in the interdisciplinary field of neurosciences will be examined, from molecular neurobiology through cognitive neuroscience. Instruction will be based on readings of original literature, presentation of original and new data from Neuroscience faculty and attendance of seminar talks as part of the Neuroscience Graduate Seminar series. Prerequisite: Major in Neuroscience.

Credits: 3

NESC 3985 - Current Topics in Neuroscience II

Current developments in the interdisciplinary field of neuroscience will be examined, from molecular neurobiology through cognitive neuroscience. Instruction will be based on readings of original literature, presentation of original and new data from Neuroscience faculty and attendance of seminar talks as part of the Neuroscience Graduate Seminar series. Prerequisite: Major in Neuroscience.

Credits: 3

NESC 3995 - Research in Neuroscience

This course provides opportunities for first and second year students who have not yet declared a major to engage in supervised research activities.

Credits: 3

NESC 4265 - Developmental Neurobiology

NESC 4960 - Research in Neuroscience

An original experimental project is undertaken in which each student is responsible for the design and operation of the experiment under the direction of a Neuroscience Graduate Program faculty member. Prerequisite: Major in Neuroscience.

Credits: 3

NESC 4970 - Distinguished Majors Thesis

A two-semester course in which the student prepares a thesis under the supervision of a Neuroscience Graduate Program faculty member. The thesis must be based on empirical research conducted by the student. Prerequisite: Participant in Neuroscience DMP.

Credits: 3

NESC 4980 - Distinguished Majors Thesis

NESC 4995 - Research in Neuroscience

Philosophy

Courses

PHIL 1000 - Introduction to Philosophy

Introduces a broad spectrum of philosophical problems and approaches. Topics include basic questions concerning morality, skepticism and the foundations of knowledge, the mind and its relation to the body, and the existence of God. Readings are drawn from classics in the history of philosophy and/or contemporary sources. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/

Credits: 3

PHIL 1410 - Forms of Reasoning

Analyzes the structure of informal arguments and fallacies that are commonly committed in everyday reasoning. The course will not cover symbolic logic in any detail. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1510 - Introductory Philosophy Seminars

Discussion groups devoted to some philosophical writing or topic. Information on the specific topic can be obtained from the philosophy department at course enrollment time. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1600 - Medieval Philosophy of the Mediterranean

A study of four of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages were Avicenna (980-1037), Averroes (1126-1198), Maimonides (1135-1204), and Aquinas (1225-1274).

Credits: 3

PHIL 1610 - Philosophy of Religion

This course will read the work of present-day philosophers of religion. That means that in this course we will use contemporary philosophical methods to examine a number of different topics that have been of perennial interest to philosophers of religion and philosophical theologians. These topics include arguments for and against God’s existence, the problem of evil, the relationship between human freedom and divine foreknowledge.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1710 - Human Nature

Examines a wide variety of theories of human nature, with the aim of understanding how we can fulfill our nature and thereby live good, satisfying and meaningful lives. Focuses on the questions of whether it is in our nature to be rational, moral and/or social beings. Readings are taken from contemporary and historical sources. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1730 - Introduction to Moral and Political Philosophy

Examines some of the central problems of moral philosophy and their sources in human life and thought. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1740 - Issues of Life and Death

Studies the fundamental principles underlying contemporary and historical discussions of such issues as abortion, euthanasia, suicide, pacifism, and political terror. Examines Utilitarian and anti-Utilitarian modes of thought about human life and the significance of death. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1750 - The Meaning of Life

What is the meaning of life? Does a meaningful life presuppose the existence of a divine being, or can human beings somehow create meaning? Does the certainty of death rob life of meaning, or provide it? These and related questions will be pursued through contemporary and classic texts by such authors as Sartre, Nagel, Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, and Epicurus.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1800 - Philosophy of Art

Art permeates our lives, yet it is hard to define what makes something a work of art, or what the purpose of art is. In tis course we will explore the philosophy of art. We will look at what some of the great philosophical figures of the past have thought about art, as well as looking at contemporary approaches.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2000 - Internship in Philosophy: Teaching Philosophy in High Schools

Students will intern in area high schools to work with teachers in support of their teaching of philosophy. In preparation for this, students will learn about the aims of the teachers with whom they intern, as well as the challenges they face. Students will support teachers with the construction of lesson plans, reading material, discussion points, and paper topics.

Credits: 2

PHIL 2020 - Know Thyself

Investigation of the nature and significance of our knowledge of ourselves, employing perspectives from Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Experimental Psychology, Neurosciences, and Buddhism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2060 - Philosophical Problems in Law

Examines and evaluates some basic practices and principles of Anglo-American law. Discusses the justification of punishment, the death penalty, legal liability, good samaritan laws, and the legal enforcement of morality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2070 - Knowledge and Reality

Knowledge and Reality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2110 - History of Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval

Survey of the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratic period through the Middle Ages. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2120 - History of Philosophy: Modern

Surveys the history of modern philosophy, beginning with Descartes and extending up to the nineteenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2330 - Computers, Minds and Brains

Do computers think? Can a persuasive case be made for the claim that the human mind is essentially a sophisticated computing device? These and related questions will be examined through readings in computer science, the philosophy of mind, logic, and linguistics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2340 - The Computational Age

This course will address the effects of rapid technological advances on a number of new & traditional philosophical topics (potential changes in our concept of personal identity as a result of biological & cognitive enhancements the loss of privacy changes in the status of scientific evidence & the diminution of the role of human scientists as a result of automated instrumentation, computationally based simulations, and computer proof methods).

Credits: 3

PHIL 2420 - Introduction to Symbolic Logic

Introduces the concepts and techniques of modern formal logic, including both sentential and quantifier logic, as well as proof, interpretation, translation, and validity. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2450 - Philosophy of Science

Introduces the philosophy of science. Topics include experiment, casual inference, models, scientific explanation, theory structure, hypothesis testing, realism and anti-realism, the relations between science and technology, science versus non-science, and the philosophical assumptions of various sciences. Illustrations are drawn from the natural, biological, and social sciences, but no background in any particular science is presupposed. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2500 - Survey on a Philosophical Topic

A lecture series on the various topics central to Philosophy.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2510 - Seminar in Philosophy

Seminars aimed at showing how philosophical problems arise in connection with subjects of general interest. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2520 - Seminar in Bioethics

Topics vary annually. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2640 - Rational Choice and Happiness

In this class, we will examine philosophical puzzles about our ability to make rational choices that affect or determine our own happiness. How can we rationally decide to undergo a significant experience - such as having a child or moving to a new country - when have no way of knowing what that experience will be like? How can we rationally choose to make decisions about our future?

Credits: 3

PHIL 2645 - The Good Life

What does it takes to live a good life. Does your life go well for you if you accomplish good things but you aren’t happy? Does your life go well for you if your desires are satisfied? How do we make rational choices about our future well-being when those very choices determine who we will become and what we will want? How do we evaluate the claims of people who value parts of their lives that many think bad?

Credits: 3

PHIL 2650 - Free Will and Responsibility

Examines whether our actions and choices are free and whether or to what extent we can be held responsible for them. Includes the threat to freedom posed by the possibility of scientific explanations of our behavior and by psychoanalysis, the concept of compulsion, moral and legal responsibility, and the nature of human action. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2652 - Animal Minds and Animal Ethics

Other species seem to represent objects in their environments, think about the thoughts of their conspecifics, and perhaps even use language. Some seem to have long-term memory, emotion, and self-awareness. Do they in fact do all of these things, and if so, how, and in what sense? We will engage philosophically with the best scientific evidence available to answer these and similar questions before considering their ethical implications.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2660 - Philosophy of Religion

Considers the problems raised by arguments for and against the existence of God; discussion of such related topics as evil, evidence for miracles, and the relation between philosophy and theology. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2670 - God

A detailed examination of the philosophical concept of God and also of diverse arguments for and against His existence, including various ontological arguments, causal arguments, the arguments from design, and the argument from evil.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2690 - Justice, Law, and Morality

Examines contemporary liberal theories of justice and of communitarian, Marxist, libertarian, utilitarian, and feminist criticisms of these theories. Uses landmark Supreme Court decisions to illuminate central theoretical disputes. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2720 - Bioethics: A Philosophical Perspective

Surveys biomedical ethics, emphasizing philosophical issues and methods. Includes moral foundations of the physician/patient relation, defining death, forgoing life-sustaining treatments, euthanasia, abortion, prenatal diagnosis, new reproductive technologies, human genetics, human experimentation, and the allocation and rationing of health care resources. Reflects on the various ethical theories and methods of reasoning that might be brought to bear on practical moral problems. Not open to those who have taken RELG 2650. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2730 - Ethics and Film

This course is designed both as an introduction to philosophy through moral issues, and as an exploration of film as a medium for ethical reflection. It focuses on the moving image and its potentila as a mode of philosophical thinking and examines the pertinence of ethical theories to particular issues, as these arise in contemporary films.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2740 - Ethics of Violence

This course will study philosophical issues arising from the encounter and conflict between different cultures. Focusing on the Spanish conquest of the Americas will address the general question of whether there is a just war, relating this discussion to fundamental questions in contemporary ethics and political philosophy.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2750 - Democracy

Examines competing conceptions of the democratic ideal, both in the work of historic figures such as Locke, Rousseau, Madison and Mill, and in the work of a variety of contemporary political philosophers. Focuses in particular on the relation to the democratic ideal of majoritarian voting, civic association, public deliberation and basic liberal rights. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2760 - Classics of Political Philosophy

Considers some of the perennial questions in political philosophy through an examination of classical works in the field, including some or all of the following: Aristotle’s Politics, Hobbes’s Leviathan, Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, and Rousseau’s On the Social Contract. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2770 - Political Philosophy

This course deals with the most basic problems of political philosophy. Discusses the justification of the state, political obligation and disobedience, social justice, demoncracy, and the morality of international politics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2775 - Chinese & Greek Philosophy

Almost simultaneously some 2500 years ago thinkers in Greece (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle) & China (Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, others) worked through what became the foundational philosophies of 2 great civilizations. Although at the time they enjoyed no contact whatsoever, the questions posed about the nature of the world & how human beings may best live within it are strikingly complementary and serve as something of a mirror for each other.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2780 - Ancient Political Thought

A survey of the political ideas and theories of the ancient Greeks and Romans, including such works as Plato’s REPUBLIC, Aristotle’s POLITICS and Cicero’s DE RE PUBLICA. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2850 - Finding the Way: Some Philosophical Projects

Examines pressing issues of the examined life, especially those ethical (How should I live?), epistemological (how and what can I know?) & overlapping both. Authors include Plato, Mencius, Marcus Aurelius, Gautama, & Laozi. Topics include testimony; virtue; skepticism; the value of knowledge, society & systematic world views; moral progress; and epistemic injustice. Combines classics with contemporary work. Argumentative essays & creative writing.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3010 - Darwin and Philosophy

This course investigates the history and the scientific and philosophical implications of Darwin’s revolutionary idea that the wholly unguided process of natural selection could explain the magnificent variety and adaptedness of living things and their descent from a common ancestor. One of the philosophical topics we will explore is how scientific theories are supported by evidence and how science yields knowledge

Credits: 3

PHIL 3110 - Plato

Introduces the philosophy of Plato, beginning with several pre-Socratic philosophers. Focuses on carefully examining selected Platonic dialogues. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3120 - Aristotle

An introduction to the philosophy of Aristotle, covering his major works in ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, and literary theory. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3130 - Hellenistic Philosophy

This course will focus on Epicurean and Stoic philosophy. We will discuss issues in ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, physics, psychology and religion. Prerequisite: at least one previous Philosophy course. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3140 - History of Medieval Philosophy

Examines the continued development of philosophy from after Aristotle to the end of the Middle Ages. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3150 - 17th Century Philosophy

Studies the central philosophers in the rationalist tradition.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3160 - 18th Century Philosophy

Studies the central philosophers in the empiricist tradition.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3170 - Kant

Primarily a study of Kant’s metaphysics and epistemology, followed by a brief look at the views of some of Idealist successors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3180 - Nietzsche

A comprehensive study of the philosophy of Nietzsche, with an examination of his views on life, truth, philosophy, art, morality, nihilism, values and their creation, will to power, eternal recurrence, and more. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: instructor permission (previous course in philosophy preferred)

Credits: 3

PHIL 3190 - Wittgenstein

Study of Wittgenstein’s major works. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: two PHIL courses or instructor permission; PHIL 2420 recommended.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3310 - Metaphysics

Examines central metaphysical issues such as time, the existence of God, causality and determinism, universals, possibility and necessity, identity, and the nature of metaphysics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3320 - Epistemology

Studies problems concerned with the foundations of knowledge, perception, and rational belief. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3330 - Philosophy of Mind

Studies some basic problems of philosophical psychology. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3400 - Introduction to Non-Classical Logic

An introduction to systems of non-classical logic, including both extensions and revisions to classical logic.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3500 - Seminar in Philosophy

Topics change from semester to semester and year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3520 - Topics in Contemporary Philosophy

Studies some recent contemporary philosophical movement, writing, or topic. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3610 - Aesthetics

Critically investigates central philosophical issues raised by artistic activity: To count as an artwork must a thing have a modicum of aesthetic value, or is it enough that it be deemed art by the community? Is aesthetic value entirely in the eye of the beholder or is there such a thing as being wrong in one’s judgment concerning an artwork? including Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Pears.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3630 - Philosophy of Language

Examines central conceptual problems raised by linguistic activity. Among topics considered are the relation between thought and language; the possibility of an essentially private discursive realm; the view that one’s linguistic framework somehow ‘structures’ reality; and the method of solving or dissolving philosophical problems by scrutiny of the language in which they are couched. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: At least one course in philosophy at the 1000 level or above, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3650 - Justice and Health Care

Philosophical account of health care practices and institutions viewed against the backdrop of leading theories of justice (e.g., utilitarianism, Rawlsian contractarianism, communitarianism, libertarianism). Topics include the nature, justifications, and limits of a right to health care; the value conflicts posed by cost containment, implicit and explicit rationing, and reform of the health care system; the physician-patient relationship in an era of managed care; and the procurement and allocation of scarce life-saving resources, such as expensive drugs and transplantable organs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: course in ethics of political philosophy from any department, such as RELG 2650, PHIL 1740, PLPT 3010, etc.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3651 - Genes, Nature and Justice

What is a normal human being? What is the natural course for the human species? What does justice have to do with our genes? The emergence of technology allowing the manipulation of the human genome raises a number of ethical social, and political problems. This class will explore these challenges through philosophical argument. In particular, we will attempt to wrestle with notions such as natural, human being, perfection, enhancement and cure. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3652 - Animals and Ethics

This course will examine the moral status of non-human animals and what the major ethical theories imply for our treatment of animals, including in scientific research and food. In an effort to examine their moral status, we will explore the questions of whether and to what extent animals experience pain and emotions.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3670 - Law and Society

Examines competing theories of law; the role of law in society; the legitimacy of restrictions on individual liberties; legal rights and conflicts of rights; and the relationships between law and such social values as freedom, equality, and justice. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3710 - Ethics

History of modern ethical theory (Hobbes to Mill) with especial emphasis on the texts of Hume (Treatise, Book III) and Kant, (Grundlegung), which will be studied carefully and critically. Among the topics to be considered: Is morality based on reason? Is it necessarily irrational not to act morally? Are moral standards objective? Are they conventional? Is it a matter of luck whether we are morally virtuous? Is the morally responsible will a free will? Are all reasons for acting dependent on desires? For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3720 - Contemporary Ethics

Studies Anglo-American ethics since 1900. While there are selected readings from G. E. Moore, W. D. Ross, A. J. Ayer, C. L. Stevenson and R. M. Hare, emphasis is on more recent work. Among the topics to be considered: Are there moral facts? Are moral values relative? Are moral judgments universalizable? Are they prescriptive? Are they cognitive? What is to be said for utilitarianism as a moral theory? What against it? And what are the alternatives? For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3730 - Ancient Ethical Theory

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3780 - Reproductive Ethics

The focus of the course will be the exploration of various moral, legal and policy issues posed by efforts to curtail or enhance fertility through contraception, abortion, and recent advances in reproductive technology. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: One prior course in ethics from any department.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3790 - Research Ethics

Canvasses the history of research scandals (e.g., Nuremberg, Tuskegee) resulting in federal regulation of human subjects research. Critically assesses the randomized clinical trial (including informed consent, risk/benefit ratio, randomization, placebos). Examines the ethics of research with special populations, such as the cognitively impaired, prisoners, children, embryos and fetuses, and animals. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: One course in ethics or bioethics, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3800 - Feminist Philosophy

In this class, we’ll first examine the question ‘What is gender?’ Then we’ll look at ways in which gender can interact with traditional philosophical topics, including epistemology, philosophy of language, political philosophy, etc.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3810 - Sex, Sexuality, and Gender

In this class, we’ll be talking about philosophical issues at the intersection of sexuality, sexual experience, and gender experience. What is sexual consent? What is the relationship between sexual consent and sexual morality? What is sexual orientation, and what is its relationship to sex and gender? Is there such a thing as biological sex? Is there a difference between sex and gender?

Credits: 3

PHIL 3999 - Philosophical Perspectives on Liberty

Examination of the nature and function of liberty in social theorists such as Adam Smith, JJ Rousseau, Ayn Rand, John Rawls, Robert Nozick. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 4010 - Seminar for Majors

Topic changes from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Philosophy majors.

Credits: 3

PHIL 4020 - Seminar for Majors

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 4500 - Special Topics in Philosophy

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 4990 - Honors Program

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the departmental honors program.

Credits: 1.00 to 15.00

PHIL 4993 - Directed Reading and Research

Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

PHIL 4995 - Directed Reading and Research

Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

PHIL 4999 - Senior Thesis

For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PPL 2010 - Morality, Law and the State

The importance of moral philosophy to the study of the legal and political institutions of the modern state. In addition to exploring the nature of morality and moral reasoning, the course deals with basic questions about the concept of law and the justification of the state. Possible topics include inalienable rights, distributive justice, civil disobedience, secession, and the priority of liberty. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/ppl/.

Credits: 3

PPL 3999 - Philosophical Perspectives on Liberty

Examination of the nature and function of liberty and social theorists such as Adam Smith, J.J. Rousseau, Ayn Rand, John Rawls and Robert Nozick. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/ppl/.

Credits: 3

PPL 4005 - Thesis Preparation

This course aims to prepare final year PPL students for their capstone thesis in the Spring semester. By the end of the Fall semester, in conjunction with PPL 4005, PPL students will have completed a proposal for their capstone thesis, compiled a viable bibliography, and obtained an advisor to work with them in the Spring

Credits: 1

PPL 4010 - Research Seminar

This seminar, designed to facilitate the production and collective evaluation of 35-page research papers, is taught annually by the Director of the PPL Program and/or members of the Committee on Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/ppl/. Prerequisite: Fourth-year PPL major.

Credits: 3

PPL 4500 - Special Topics in Public Policy and Law

Topics related to Public Policy and Law

Credits: 3

Physics

Courses

PHYS 1010 - The Physical Universe

In this class you will get a chance to explore the scientific wonders of the universe. Topics vary each semester but generally include: motion, energy, waves, electricity, magnetism, sound, light, relativity, atomic structure, molecules, quantum physics, the nucleus, chemistry, meteorology, geophysics, the solar system, stars, and cosmology. PHYS 1010 requires limited math, but has wide applications like electronics, wifi, rockets, satellites, nuclear reactors, lasers, climate change, earthquakes, the tides, eclipses, plate tectonics, fossil fuels, telescopes, solar energy, and the origin of universe. PHYS 1010 is for non-science majors. Premedical and pre-dental students should take PHYS 2010, 2020.

Credits: 3

PHYS 1020 - The Physical Universe II

For non-science majors. Covers physical science topics including chemistry, meteorology, geophysics, solar system, stars, and cosmology. Limited math, but with wide applications like periodic table, climate change, earthquakes, plate tectonics, fossil fuels, telescopes, solar energy, origin of universe. 1010 and 1020 may be taken in any order. Pre-medical and pre-dental students should take PHYS 2010, 2020

Credits: 3

PHYS 1050 - How Things Work

For non-science majors. Introduces physics and science in everyday life, considering objects from our daily environment and focusing on their principles of operation, histories, and relationships to one another. 1050 is concerned primarily with mechanical and thermal objects, while 1060 emphasizes objects involving electromagnetism, light, special materials, and nuclear energy. They may be taken in either order.

Credits: 3

PHYS 1060 - How Things Work

PHYS 1090 - Galileo and Einstein

For non-science majors. Examines how new understandings of the natural world develop, starting with the ancient world and emphasizing two famous scientists as case studies. Galileo was the first to make subtle use of experiment, while Einstein was the first to realize time is not absolute and that mass can be converted to energy.

Credits: 3

PHYS 1110 - Energy on this World and Elsewhere

The subject of energy will be considered from the perspective of a physicist. Students will learn to use quantitative reasoning and the recognition of simple physics restraints to examine issues related to energy that are of relevance to society and the future evolution of our civilization. Prerequisite: Physics and math at high school level.

Credits: 3

PHYS 1150 - Powerful Ideas in Physical Science

Covers several main ideas in physical science including matter, sound, heat and energy, force and motion, electricity and magnetism, and light and optics, using a hands-on conceptual learning approach. Students work in cooperative learning groups throughout the course. The course includes experiments and examples suitable for teachers of elementary students.

Credits: 4

PHYS 1210 - The Science of Sound and Music

Studies the basic physical concepts needed to understand sound. Aspects of perception, the human voice, the measurement of sound, and the acoustics of musical instruments are developed and illustrated.

Credits: 3

PHYS 1425 - General Physics I: Mechanics, Thermodynamics

First semester of introductory physics for engineers and scientists. Classical mechanics, including vector algebra, particle kinematics and dynamics, energy and momentum, conservation laws, rotational dynamics, oscillatory motion, gravitation, thermodynamics, and kinetic theory of gases. Three lecture hours. Prerequisite: APMA 1090 or MATH 1310; corequisite: PHYS 1429.

Credits: 3

PHYS 1427 - General Physics I

Covers the same material as PHYS 1425, with certain topics treated in greater depth. Three lecture hours, one problem hour. Prerequisite: Rodman scholar status.

Credits: 4

PHYS 1429 - General Physics I Workshop

A required two-hour workshop accompanying PHYS 1425, including laboratory and tutorial activities. Corequisite: PHYS 1425.

Credits: 1

PHYS 1610 - Introductory Physics I:Mechanics & Special Relativity

First semester of a four-semester sequence for prospective physics and other science majors. Topics include kinematics and Newton’s laws with vector calculus; frames of reference; energy and momentum conservation; rotational motion; special relativity. Three lecture hours, one problem hour. Corequisite: MATH 1310.

Credits: 4

PHYS 1620 - Introductory Physics II:Gravitation, Oscillations, Waves & Thermodynamics

Second semester of a four-semester sequence for prospective physics and other science majors. Topics include gravitation and Kepler’s laws; harmonic motion; thermodynamics; wave motion; sound; optics. Three lecture hours, one problem hour. Prerequisite: PHYS 1610; corequisite: MATH 1320.

Credits: 4

PHYS 1660 - Practical Computing for the Physical Sciences

This course teaches how to use the computer to solve quantitative problems. This involves learning the skills to write computer programs dedicated to certain tasks, to visualize data graphically, to use scientific software, and to learn other practical skills that are important for a future career in the sciences.

Credits: 1

PHYS 1710 - Introductory Physics I: Classical mechanics, Waves, Thermodynamics

First semester of the introductory physics sequence for prospective physics and other science majors. Topics include particle kinematics and dynamics, energy and momentum conservation; rotational motion; fluid dynamics; thermodynamics; oscillatory motion; waves and sound. Four lecture hours, one discussion section hour. Corequisite: MATH 1320 or instructor permission

Credits: 5

PHYS 1720 - Introductory Physics II: Gravitation, Electricity & Magnetism, Optics

Second semester of the introductory physics sequence for prospective physics and other science majors. Topics include gravitation; electricity & magnetism, and optics. Four lecture hours, one discussion section hour. Prerequisite: PHYS 1710 or PHYS 1425, MATH1320 Corequisite: MATH 2310

Credits: 5

PHYS 1910 - Introduction to Physics Research

This course highlights the diverse areas of research conducted within the physics department. These areas include both experimental and theoretical studies of high energy particle, nuclear, quantum, condensed matter, and atomic/molecular physics. Each week, a different professor will deliver a seminar-style presentation on his/her research. This course is recommended for all physics majors. No prerequisites.

Credits: 1

PHYS 2010 - Principles of Physics I

Physics 2010 and 2020 constitute a terminal course sequence covering the principles of mechanics, heat, electricity and magnetism, optics, atomic, solid state, nuclear, and particle physics. A working knowledge of arithmetic, elementary algebra, and trigonometry is essential. The PHYS 2010 - 2020 sequence does not normally serve as prerequisite for the courses numbered 3110 and above. Students who plan to take more physics should take PHYS 1710, 1720, 2620. PHYS 2010, 2020, in conjunction with the laboratories PHYS 2030, 2040, satisfy the physics requirement of medical and dental schools. PHYS 2010 is prerequisite for 2020. Three lecture hours.

Credits: 3

PHYS 2020 - Principles of Physics II

PHYS 2030 - Basic Physics Laboratory I

Selected experiments in the different branches of physics are carried out and written up by the student. One two-hour exercise per week. Corequisite: PHYS 2010 or 2310. Premedical and pre-dental students should elect this course along with PHYS 2010; it is an option for others.

Credits: 1

PHYS 2040 - Basic Physics Laboratory II

Selected experiments in the different branches of physics are carried out and written up by the student. One two-hour exercise per week. Prerequisite: 2030; corequisite: PHYS 2010, 2020 or 2310, 2320. Premedical and pre-dental students should elect this course along with PHYS 2010, 2020; it is an option for others.

Credits: 1

PHYS 2310 - Classical and Modern Physics I, II

This was the first semester of a two-semester introduction to classical and modern physics for science majors, it has now been merged with PHYS 1425. It was a calculus-based treatment of the principles of mechanics, heat and thermodynamics.

Credits: 4

PHYS 2320 - Classical and Modern Physics I, II

This was the second semester of a two-semester introduction to classical and modern physics for science majors, it has now been merged with PHYS 2415. It was a calculus-based treatment of the principles of electricity and magnetism, physical optics, elementary quantum theory, and atomic and nuclear physics.

Credits: 4

PHYS 2415 - General Physics II: Electricity & Magnetism, Optics

Second semester of introductory physics for engineers and scientists. Electrostatics, including conductors and insulators; DC circuits; magnetic forces and fields; magnetic effects of moving charges and currents; electromagnetic induction; Maxwell’s equations; electromagnetic oscillations and waves. Introduces geometrical and physical optics. Three lecture hours. Prerequisite: PHYS 1425, APMA 1110 or MATH 1320.

Credits: 3

PHYS 2419 - General Physics II Workshop

Proposed: A required two-hour workshop accompanying PHYS 2415, including laboratory and tutorial activities. Co-requisite: PHYS 2415.

Credits: 1

PHYS 2610 - Introductory Physics III:Electromagnetism

Third semester of a four-semester sequence for prospective physics and other science majors. Topics include electrostatics, circuits, electric and magnetic fields; electromagnetic waves. Three lecture hours, one problem hour. Prerequisite: PHYS 1620, 2310 or 1425; corequisite: MATH 2310.

Credits: 4

PHYS 2620 - Modern Physics

Introduction to quantum physics and relativity, with application to atomic structure, nuclear and elementary particle physics, condensed matter physics, and cosmology. Three lecture hours, one problem hour. Prerequisite: PHYS 2320, 2415, 1720, or 2610, and MATH 2310 or instructor permission.

Credits: 4

PHYS 2630 - Elementary Laboratory I

Elementary Lab for Physics Majors, 1st semester. Selected experiments in mechanics, heat, electricity and magnetism and optics. One lecture hour and four laboratory hours per week. Prerequisite: PHYS 1710, 1720; or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 2640 - Elementary Laboratory II

PHYS 2660 - Fundamentals of Scientific Computing

Applications of computers to solving basic problems in physical science. Introduction to programming, use of external libraries, and implementation of basic algorithms with focus on numerical methods, error analysis & data fitting. No previous computer experience is required. One Lecture & one lab session per week. Prerequisite: One semester of calculus and one semester of introductory physics (PHYS 1710, 1425, or 2010).

Credits: 3

PHYS 2900 - Teaching Methods for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

PHYS 3040 - Physics of the Human Body

Application of basic physics principles to functions of the human body: biomechanics, metabolism, cardiovascular, cognitive & respiratory systems, and the senses. Medical diagnosis and therapy technologies (e.g., PET, MRI, CT) are discussed. Prerequisite: a semester of calculus and PHYS 2010 or PHYS 1425 or PHYS 1710. Corequisite: PHYS 2020 or PHYS 2415 or PHYS 1720 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3110 - Widely Applied Physics

Applications of physical principles to a diverse set of phenomena: order of magnitude estimates, dimensional analysis, material science and engineering, astrophysics, aeronautics and space flight, communications technology, meteorology, sound & acoustics and fluid dynamics. Not all topics will be covered in every course. Three lecture hours. (Y) Prerequisite: PHYS 2620 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3120 - Applied Physics: Energy

Basic physics principles involved in energy production, distribution and storage: engines, generators, photosynthesis, fossil fuels, solar energy, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, geothermal, wind & hydro power, fuel cells, batteries, nuclear energy, and the power grid. Three lecture hours. (Y) Prerequisite: PHYS 2620 or instructor permission. PHYS 3110 is not a prerequsite.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3150 - Electronics Laboratory

The course begins by covering the fundamentals of analog and digital electronics, including the use of transistors, FET’s, operational amplifiers, TTL, and CMOS integrated circuits. Following this students conduct projects with modern microcontroller boards (Arduino and Raspberry Pi) using the concepts and the experience gained from the prior fundamentals. Six laboratory hours. Prerequisite: PHYS 2640 or 2040 or PHYS 2419.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3170 - Intermediate Laboratory I

Approximately five experiments drawn from the major fields of physics. Introduces precision apparatus, experimental techniques, and methods of evaluating experimental results. Outside report preparation is required. Six laboratory hours. Prerequisite: PHYS 2640 or PHYS 2419

Credits: 3

PHYS 3180 - Intermediate Laboratory II

Approximately three to five experiments, selected in consultation with the instructor, emphasizing modern aspects. Outside library research and report preparation are required. Six laboratory hours. Prerequisite: PHYS 2640 or PHYS 2419. PHYS 3170 is an independent course, and not a prerequisite.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3190 - Advanced Laboratory

Normally a single, semester-long experiment chosen in consultation with the instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3210 - Classical Mechanics

Statics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies treated with extensive use of vector calculus; includes the Lagrangian formulation of mechanics. Prerequisite: MATH 3255 (preferred) or MATH 3250, and PHYS 1720, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3250 - Applied Nuclear Physics

Applications of nuclear physics and nuclear energy: Introduction to nuclear physics, radioactivity, radiation standards and units, interaction of radiation with matter, accelerators, x-ray generators, detectors, biological effects, nuclear medicine, nuclear fission and reactors, nuclear fusion. Three lecture hours. (Y) Prerequisite: PHYS 2620 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3310 - Statistical Physics

Includes temperature and the laws of thermodynamics; introductory treatments of kinetic theory and statistical mechanics; and applications of Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein, and Fermi-Dirac distributions. Prerequisite: MATH 3255 (preferred) or MATH 3250, and PHYS 2620, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3420 - Electricity and Magnetism I

Systematic treatment of electromagnetic phenomena with extensive use of vector calculus, including Maxwell’s equations. Prerequisite: MATH 4210, and PHYS 1720 or PHYS 2415, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3430 - Electricity and Magnetism II

Includes Maxwell’s equations; electromagnetic waves and their interaction with matter; interference, diffraction, polarization; waveguides; and antennas. Prerequisite: PHYS 3420.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3620 - Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics

The course will examine basic principles of simple theories for metals, the basics of crystallography and crystal structures, the reciprocal space, lattice vibrations, elastic properties of solids, electronic band structure, impurities and defects, dielectric properties, magnetism and superconductivity. Prerequisite: PHYS 2620.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3650 - Quantum Physics I

Includes quantum phenomena and an introduction to wave mechanics; the hydrogen atom and atomic spectra. Prerequisite: MATH 3250, PHYS 2620, and PHYS 3210, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3660 - Quantum Physics II

Continuation of PHYS 3650. Intermediate quantum mechanics including perturbation theory; application to systems of current interest. Prerequisite: PHYS 3650.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3820 - Topics in Physics-Related Research Areas

Applies the principles and techniques of physics to related areas of physical or life sciences or technology with an emphasis on current research problems. (PHYS 3810 is not prerequisite to PHYS 3820.)

Credits: 3

PHYS 3993 - Independent Study

Individual study of topics in physics not normally covered in formal classes. Study is carried out under the tutelage of a faculty member with whom the requirements are agreed upon prior to enrollment. (S-SS) Prerequisite: Instructor permission

Credits: 3

PHYS 3995 - Research

A research project on a topic in physics carried out under the supervision of a faculty member culminating in a written report. May be taken more than once. (S-SS) Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

Political and Social Thought

Courses

PST 4850 - Core Seminar in Political and Social Thought I

Study of great political and social thinkers and movements studied from a variety of disciplinary and genre viewpoints. Readings include classic texts, plays, novels, literature, current works of advocacy. Led by the program director, with occasional guest faculty; weekly response essays required. Prerequisite: PST major.

Credits: 3

PST 4870 - Core Seminar in Political and Social Thought II

Continuation of PST 4850, with greater emphasis on contemporary works. Prerequisite: PST major.

Credits: 3

PST 4980 - Workshop in Thesis Research

Taken in the fourth year, this workshop offers discussion with PST faculty on their current research and continuing presentation of students’ developing projects. (1 credit per term; graded C/NC) Prerequisite: PST major.

Credits: 0

PST 4989 - Workshop in Thesis Research

PST 4993 - Independent Study in Poltical & Social Thought

Student initiated independent study projects arranged with an individual faculty member, and approved by the Program Director. Written work is required.

Credits: 3

PST 4998 - Thesis in Political and Social Thought

Prepared with the advice of two faculty members, the fourth-year PST thesis is a substantial, independent, year-long project built upon the student’s prior study in the program. Prerequisite: PST major.

Credits: 0

PST 4999 - Thesis in Political and Social Thought

Politics

Courses

PLAD 1500 - Introductory Seminar in Politics

Introduces the discipline of political science through intensive study of the political dimensions of a selected topic. Prerequisite: open to first- and second-year students; only one PLAD seminar per student.

Credits: 3

PLAD 2222 - Research Methods

This course is an introduction to political science research methods. We will address basic principles of research design and data analysis, including hypothesis testing, measurement, case selection and data gathering. What are the strengths and weaknesses of particular methods? How can we improve our ability to draw inferences from data? Our goals are to learn how to ask good questions and to consider different approaches to answering them.

Credits: 3

PLAD 2240 - The Myth and Reality of Espionage

Provides insight into the world of espionage by comparing great works of spy literature to real cases of espionage.

Credits: 3

PLAD 2500 - Special Topics in Politics

Special Topics in Politics

Credits: 3

PLAD 4500 - Special Topics

Topics on a variety of Political issues.

Credits: 3

PLAD 4960 - Thesis for Distinguished Majors Program

American Politics Prerequisite: Admission into the department’s Distinguished Majors Program.

Credits: 3

PLAD 4961 - Thesis Seminar for Distinguished Majors Program Part 2

Part two of the Politics Department Distinguished Majors thesis seminar.

Credits: 3

PLAD 4990 - Honors Proseminar on Research Design and Thesis Writing

A critical analysis of important issues in political analysis and research design from diverse perspectives. Issues include: framing research questions, causal analysis, rational choice, comparative historical institutionalism, interpretivism, case studies, and quantitative analysis. Prerequisite: Admission to Politics Honors Program

Credits: 3

PLAD 4999 - Senior Thesis

Supervised work on a thesis for Honors students Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Politics Honors Program

Credits: 3

PLAP 1010 - Introduction to American Politics

Surveys the fundamentals of American government and politics, systematically covering the major institutions of our system (the presidency, the Congress, the courts) as well as the system’s essential processes.

Credits: 3

PLAP 2030 - Politics, Science and Values: An Introduction to Environmental Policy

PLAP 2250 - American Political Tradition

This course explores the theoretical ideas that informed the creation and development of America’s political system and considers some of the major contemporary challenges to the maintenance of American liberal democracy. Topics to be treated include the political thought of the American Founders, the place of religion in public life, the nature of written constitutions and the role of America in the world.

Credits: 3

PLAP 2500 - Special Topics in American Politics

Special Topics in American Politics.

Credits: 3

PLAP 2660 - Ideas, Institutions, and Public Policy

Examines and critically assesses the ideas, institutions, and public policies that constitute the foundation and have influenced the development of liberal democracy in the United States.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3140 - Mass Media and American Politics

PLAP 3150 - Political Psychology of Citizen Politics

Examines the role of individual and collective psychology in political processes and behavior, with a particular emphasis on citizen psychology, including political information processing and reasoning, stereotyping and prejudice, and group identity, conflict and violence.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3160 - Politics of Food

This course looks at the production and consumption of food in a political context. We will explore legislation, regulation, and other policies that affect the food system and examine their implications for the environment, public health and democratic politics. We will look closely at controversies over agricultural subsidies, labeling requirements, farming practices, food safety, advertising and education.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3190 - Judicial Process and Policy-Making

Survey of empirical and, to a lesser extent, normative questions concerning actors and institutions in American judicial politics. Topics include the selection of judges, judicial decision making, the legal profession, the impact of court decisions, and the role of judges in a democracy. Prerequisite: PLAP 1010 or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3210 - Political Parties and Group Politics

Introduces the roles of parties, interest groups, public opinion, and elections in democratic government.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3220 - President and Congress

Studies the political bases, structures, and functions of Congress and the institutionalized presidency, and their interaction in political leadership and policy making.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3240 - Political Communication

Examines the process of communicating politics from multiple angles, including the rhetoric of political leaders, campaign communications, political discussion with friends and acquaintances, political representation in the mass media, and growing forms of alternative personal media.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3270 - Public Opinion and American Democracy

This course examines public opinion and its place in American democracy. We study the psychological and political roots of citizens’ opinions, as well as the relationship between public opinion and political campaigns, the media, and government. This class replaces PLAP 2270 there fore you will not get credit for the course twice.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3310 - American Presidency

Examines the power, purposes, and problematics of the presidency as a role of national leadership in the American and political constitutional system. While the emphasis is on the modern presidency (1933-present), attention is given to its historical development. Prerequisite: Two courses in PLAP, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3340 - Race and Gender in U.S. Politics

Scrutinizes the political analogy of race and gender in politics in the United States. Examines how race and gender have each in turn shaped public opinion, public policies, political actions like voting, campaigns, and representation, especially since the 1960s.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3350 - American Congress

Focuses on the contemporary organization and workings of the United States Congress. Emphasizes elections, the committee system, political parties, staff, and the law-making process, as well as the role of Congress in the national policy making system. Prerequisite: Two courses in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3370 - Workshop in Contemporary American Electoral Politics

Provides students with the opportunity to be directly involved with the research, programming, operations, and outreach of the University’s non-profit, non-partisan Center for Politics. Includes projects focused on state and national politics, political history, civic engagement, voter behavior, media and politics, campaign finance and political analysis. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3380 - Politics of the Policy Process

Study of the politics of American national policymaking. Course examines the dynamics of agenda-setting and policy implementation; the policymaking role of elected officials, interest groups, and the media; and the substance of current policy debates in areas including welfare and education. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3400 - American Political Economy

This course explores the historical development of the American economic system since the Founding, and its relationship with political institutions. We will examine various economic regimes such as mercantilism, Progressivism, the welfare state, and neoliberalism, among others. While some basic economic principles will occasionally be drawn upon, no previous knowledge of economics is required for the course.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3410 - State and Local Politics

Investigates the political dynamics of subnational political institutions, parties, and elections. Includes state parties and elections, intergovernmental relations and institutional powers, representation and democracy in federal systems, and subnational policy processes. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3420 - Virginia Government and Politics

Course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the structure, functions and processes of state and local government in Virginia and to introduce students to political leaders and policymakers of state government. When the course is finished, students should be able to answer journalist Guy Friddell’s query: “What is it about Virginia?”

Credits: 3

PLAP 3440 - Urban Government and Politics

Urban Government and Politics

Credits: 3

PLAP 3500 - Special Topics in American Politics

Topical offerings in American Politics

Credits: 3

PLAP 3510 - Minority Group Politics

Examines the problems and politics of minority groups in the United States. Studies both the theoretical and practical aspects of minority group politics, including their comparative experience in the U.S. Prerequisite: Any course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3610 - Introduction to Public Administration

Studies the role of public administration in contemporary government, emphasizing administrative structure, control, and relations with other branches of government. Prerequisite: PLAP 1010, PLCP 1010, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3650 - Gender Politics

Examines the legal and political status of women, and the politics of changes in that status. How are gender identities forged, and how do they affect law, public policy, political rhetoric, and political movement? Explores, more generally, the clash between ‘difference’ and ‘equality’ in democratic societies, using gender as a case-study. Prerequisite: Two social science courses or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3700 - Racial Politics

Examines how attributions of racial difference have shaped American Politics. Topics include how race affects American political partisanship, campaigns and elections, public policy, public opinion, and American political science. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3810 - Constitutional Interpretation: Separation of Powers and Federalism

Studies the legislative, executive, and judicial branches and the functional and territorial distribution of powers as reflected by Supreme Court decisions. Includes the nature of the judicial process. (No CR/NC enrollees.)

Credits: 3

PLAP 3820 - Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Studies judicial construction and interpretation of civil rights and liberties reflected by Supreme Court decisions. Includes line-drawing between rights and obligations. (No CR/NC enrollees.)

Credits: 3

PLAP 4120 - Electoral Behavior and Political Participation

Surveys current theories and research on electoral behavior, including political participation, partisanship, voting behavior, and the impact of electoral institutions. Prerequisite: PLAP 2270.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4130 - Citizen Competence in American Democracy

Considers what democracy asks of citizens, the extent to which citizens achieve various normative ideals, and the role that key mediating institutions play in promoting or inhibiting citizen competence. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4140 - Gender and American Political Behavior

A survey of the way gender ideas shape political behavior in the American political system, historically and today. Prerequisite: one course in WGS or American political behavior (PLAP 2270, 3140, 3150, 4120, 4150, 4360).

Credits: 3

PLAP 4141 - Sex Differences: Biology, Culture, Politics and Policy

An exploration of sex and gender differences ‘in traits such as sexuality, cognition, nurturance, and aggression’ with a consideration of their causes, significance, and political/policy implications. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4150 - Political Psychology

A seminar introducing students to the study of political psychology. Topics include authoritarianism, tolerance, altruism, ethnocentrism, the role of affect and cognition in political choice, the role of racial stereotyping in political campaigns, and psychological challenges to rational choice models of political decision-making. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4155 - Emotion and American Politics

Explores the often-neglected role of emotion in shaping citizens’ political thought and action. While the Western enlightenment tradition generally treats emotion and cognition as antithetical, psychological research suggests they are in fact intimately interconnected. We will explore the nature of emotion and its interconnections with American politics and political behavior. Prerequisites: At least one course in PLAP.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4180 - Political Advertising and American Democracy

Explores the role of political advertising in American democracy. Examines ad messages as strategic political communications, analyzing both classic and contemporary ads. Explores the effects (if any) of political advertising on citizens’ attitudes and behavior.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4300 - Political Analysis

Seminar examining basic issues in the design, execution, analysis, and interpretation of political research. Familiarizes students with practical tools, such as quantitative analysis and computing skills, which enable them to carry out an original research project. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4301 - Politics of Mental Health

A seminar examining the relationships between politics, policy and psychological well-being. Topics include institutionalization, deinstitutionalization, civil rights, mandated treatment, the role of government in service delivery and insurance coverage, social determinants of health, public opinion about mental health and illness. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4330 - Refoundings in American Politics

This course examines the major reform movements in American history, from the Founding to the New Deal. Special attention will be devoted to the intellectual history of reform periods and to answering the question whether the social contract has been redefined periodically in American political history. Prerequisites: At least one course in PLAP.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4340 - American Political Leadership

Studies the theory and practice of political leadership at the national level with comparisons to state, local, and foreign government. Includes leadership in different institutional and policy settings, techniques of leadership, types of leaders, bargaining among leaders, experience of specific leaders, and conditions and opportunities of leadership. Prerequisite: PLAP 1010 or instructor permission. Crosslisted with PPOL 4750

Credits: 3

PLAP 4350 - Politics of Representation

Focuses on understanding issues pertaining to political representation in the American context. Special attention is paid to understanding the relationship between members of Congress and their constituencies.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4360 - Campaigns and Elections

Reviews and analyzes the techniques and technologies of modern American election campaigns. Enrollment is limited. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4380 - The Politics of the Policy Process

Analyzes cross-institutional and inter-level (federal/state/local) public policy processes. Emphasizes how domestic policy issues are defined and treated by executive and legislative units, as well as interest group involvement. Prerequisite: PLAP 1010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4400 - Power and Powerlessness

This class is a study of political power. We will consider multiple dimensions of power and the consequences these dimensions of power have on who gets what. The course considers how power is distributed in American society and how power relationships have changed over time. Prerequisite: at least one course in PLAP or PLPT or permission of instructor

Credits: 3

PLAP 4410 - Development of the American Party System

Focuses on the development of the political party system in the United States, from the late 18th Century through the present day. Examines why political parties emerged in the U.S., both in Congress and at the mass level; why particular parties like the Federalists and Whigs collapsed; and how different “party systems” have developed historically.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4420 - The Kennedy Half Century

Political power is created in many ways, such as winning an election, facing down an enemy, or skillfully riding the waves of popular opinion. This class will examine the multi-faceted, political and social legacies of John F. Kennedy, along with the other nine occupants of the Oval Office since. Students will learn why and how political legacies are formed; how such influence persists; and whether/how it is will continue.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4430 - Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in American Politics

Explores how citizenship laws, immigration policy, as well as legal treatment of minorities shaped the racial order. Investigates the contemporary role of minorities in politics, their relationship to the two parties, cross-racial coalitions, the limits and prospects for political inclusion, the racial divide in public opinion, as well as how new immigrants and multi-racialism are challenging the meaning of race in America. Prerequisite: prior course in PLAP.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4440 - Social Policy and the Politics of Inequality in the United States

Investigates the political development of the American welfare state and offers competing perspectives on the causes and consequences of inequality in the United States. Examines how and why our social safety net is unique from other nations, public beliefs about income inequality and support for antipoverty measures, the implications of inequality for participation and influence, as well as consider several specific policies. Prerequisite: prior course in PLAP

Credits: 3

PLAP 4450 - Virginia Elections and Politics

This course will expose students to the scholarly literature on Virginia elections and the election data associated with these elections. Students will critically review the literature and use of a variety of analytical techniques, including GIS mapping software, to analyze both historical and recent elections in Virginia.Prior GIS expertise is not required for this course, but an elementary mastery of election data analysis and GIS mapping skill. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4500 - Special Topics in American Politics

Investigates a selected issue in American government or American political development. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4600 - Voting Rights and Representation

Studies empirical and normative issues of representative government, with special attention to what is meant by representation, what constitutes fair representation, and what institutions can best promote fair representation. Prerequisite: Two courses in Politics or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4601 - Democracy in America

Democracy in America

Credits: 3

PLAP 4650 - Economics, Values, and Public Policy

Introduces economic concepts of special relevance to administrative and political decision making. Some attention is also given to critics of economic perspectives on public policy.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4700 - Racial Politics

Racial Politics

Credits: 3

PLAP 4710 - Values, Resources, and Public Policy

Examines the political, economic, and ethical content of enduring domestic policy issues. Prerequisite: Any course in PLA, economics, or philosophy, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4800 - Politics of the Environment

Examines environmental issues that originate in, and that affect, the United States, including most forms of pollution and natural resource depletion. Focuses on how political processes, economic factors, and social/cultural constructs affect environmental policymaking. Cross listed with ETP 4800. Prerequisite: Course in ETP, Environmental Sciences or Politics.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4805 - American Political Development

This courses studies political change and development of key institutions in American politics, including the presidency, courts, and Congress but also the development of the welfare state, the administrative state, the carceral state, and political parties and interest groups. Key themes include the role of the state in shaping citizens, the rise and fall of issues on the agenda, and the role of race in America’s exceptional development. Prerequisites: At leat one course in PLAP.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4810 - Class, Race, and the Environment

PLAP 4830 - First Amendment

Examines the constitutional law of the first amendment from the founding of the United States to the present. Considers and analyzes Supreme Court decisions and scholarly works. Prerequisite: PLAP 3820 or fourth-year government major.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4840 - Race and Constitution

Examines the constitutional law of racial discrimination in the United States from the founding to the present. Considers Supreme Court decisions and congressional civil rights acts. (No CR/NC enrollees.) Prerequisite: PLAP 3810 or 3820, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4841 - Seminar in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Explores the vexatious lines between the rights of individuals and those of the state in democratic society, focusing on such major issues as freedom of expression and worship; separation of church and state; criminal justice; the suffrage; privacy; and racial and gender discrimination. Focuses on the judicial process. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4850 - Seminar on Constitutional Law and Theory

An examination of classic and contemporary theories, partial theories, and perspectives on constitutional interpretation.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4920 - Judicial Policymaking

Examines the structure and process of judicial policymaking, focusing on agenda-setting, deciding cases and opinion writing, implementation, compliance, and impact. Particular attention is given to the United States Supreme Court and its relationship to lower federal and state courts and the political environment. Prerequisite: Nine credits in PLAP and instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4990 - Honors Core Seminar in American Politics

A critical analysis of important issues and works in American politics from diverse perspectives. Students are required to write weekly analytical essays and actively participate in small seminar discussions on issues including: the founding, parties and elections, public policy, federalism, the presidency, Congress, and the judicial system. Prerequisite: Admission to Politics Honors Program.

Credits: 9

PLAP 4999 - Senior Thesis

Supervised work on a thesis in American politics for especially motivated students. Prerequisite: Three courses in PLAP and instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLCP 1010 - Introduction to Comparative Politics

Provides a basis for understanding and explaining similarities and differences in the character of political life as observed in different settings. Issues include the political role of parties and interest groups, management of political conflict, establishment of legitimate political authority, and the consequences of federal and unitary systems of government.

Credits: 3

PLCP 1500 - Topics Comparative Politics

Topics courses within Comparative Politics

Credits: 3

PLCP 2010 - The Politics of Advanced Industrialized Countries

Surveys politics in industrialized societies including Japan, North America, and Western Europe. Focuses on the rise of social movements in response to industrial and social change, the changing bases of political parties and democratic rule, attempts to manage increasingly international economies, and prospects for political cooperation and integration.

Credits: 3

PLCP 2110 - Italy and European Politics

This course explores the dynamics of Italian and European politics since the end of the Second World War. The main focus of the course is to look at specific political institutions (such as the party system, the Parliament, the Executive, the Courts, etc.) at both Italian and European levels. Political culture and the territorial distribution of power are also investigated.

Credits: 3

PLCP 2420 - Politics of Modernity

Introduces key analytical concepts used by Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkeim in their analysis of how the development of modern society has shaped the nature of modern politics.

Credits: 3

PLCP 2500 - Special Topics in Comparative Politics

Special Topics in Comparative Politics.

Credits: 1.00 to 6.00

PLCP 2600 - Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

This course is about Russia and the Soviet Union. It is designed to explore some of this country’s major political themes of the twentieth century through an understanding of Russia’s history, culture and politics.

Credits: 3

PLCP 2700 - Indian Politics and Society

PLCP 3000 - Gender and International Development

Socio-economic development is universally applauded, but its consequences are uneven and often unintended. Women and men do not play the same roles in development nor are they affected in the same ways. In this course, we examinee the meaning of development and why it is controversial, paying particular attention to the ways in which men and women are affected differently by development process.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3001 - Religion and Politics

Politic and religion may not be topics for polite company, but they are the link for our mutual exploration of culture, history and current events during voyage. Central to this exploration is an understanding of what I meant by religion and the multiple ways and its institution, such as religious structure sad n priestly orders. We will investigate the political implications of both the world views and the institutions.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3012 - The Politics of Developing Areas

Surveys patterns of government and politics in non-Western political systems. Topics include political elites, sources of political power, national integration, economic development, and foreign penetration. This class replaces PLCP 2120 therefore you will not get credit for the course twice.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3020 - Modern Political Thought

Examines the major theorists and theories of the modern period, with a concentration on the development of the liberal tradition and important critics of liberalism, with a special focus on the nature and meaning of freedom. Main authors covered are Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Bentham, Mill, and Marx.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3110 - The Politics of Western Europe

Surveys political developments in selected Western European countries. Every two years, the course alternates between a focus on the historical development of European states and a focus on post-1945 developments in democratic stability, party systems, and political economy.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3120 - Politics and Political Economy of the Welfare State

This seminar investigates the origins, expansion, and stabilization (or crisis - take your pick) of the welfare state in the rich OECD countries (North America, Western Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand) focussing on why market and non-market based systems of social protection emerged and the roles played by states, labor market actors, and women’s groups.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3125 - Politics in Britain and America: a Comparative Perspective

This course will provide an introduction to the comparative politics of the US and the UK. Attention will be given to similarities as well as differences, and the course will use comparative analysis to throw light on the political systems in both countries. Occasional reference will be made to other countries. No prior knowledge of British politics will be assumed, but prior knowledge of US politics will be.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3130 - Political Economy of Development

Examines the political prerequisites (and impediments) to economic development, focusing on agricultural exporters in the 19th century and manufactured goods exporters in the 20th century. Draws on empirical material from North and South American, Europe, Asia and Africa. Prerequisite: PLIR 2050 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3170 - Development,Conflict, and Democracy in Latin America

Development, Conflict, and Democracy in Latin America

Credits: 3

PLCP 3210 - Russian Politics

Analyzes the political system of the former USSR and Russia from 1917 to the present. Focuses on evolution of the Soviet state, modernization and social change, efforts to reform the system, the collapse of the USSR, as well as the economic and political transformation taking place in the newly independent states. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or history of Russia.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3240 - Post Soviet Political Challenges

This course compares the origins and consequences of the rise of nationalism, separatism, secessions, and irredentist claims in the Russian Federation and other former Soviet republics, at the end of the Cold War. Prerequisite: one class in PLCP or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3330 - Politics of Latin America

This course provides an overview of politics in Latin America. Topics include the organization of the New World colonies, the legacies of the colonial period for development, the nature of political competition in Latin America’s newly independent states, import-substituting industrialization and populism, the emergence and eclipse of military regimes, the transition to democracy and free markets, and the performance of democracy.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3350 - Gender Politics in Comparative Perspective

Focuses on the state and how power is gendered in the developing world. Topics include feminist methods and concepts, women in the military, nationalism, women’s movements, quotas, citizenship and globalization. Cross-listed with SWAG 3350.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3410 - Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

Introduces contemporary political systems of the region stretching from Morocco to Iran. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or history of the Middle East.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3500 - Special Topics in Comparative Politics

Analysis of selected issues and concepts in comparative politics.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3610 - Chinese Politics

General introduction to Chinese politics in its societal context. Conveys a concrete appreciation of China’s societal reality and how it interacts with the political system. Covers China’s changing role in Asia and the world. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or the history of China.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3630 - Politics in India and Pakistan

Surveys political development in India and Pakistan examining the process of nation-building, the causes of democratization and authoritarian rule, the development of ethnic and religious conflict, environmental politics, the political impact of cultural globalization, and gender-related political issues. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or study of history and society in South Asia.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3640 - Women and Politics in South Asia

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Psychology

Courses

PSYC 1010 - Introductory Psychology

Overview of psychology from both the natural science and social science perspectives. Topics include biological bases of behavior, sensory and perceptual processes, learning, motivation, thought, maturational and developmental changes, individual differences, personality, social behavior, and abnormal psychology. In some terms an optional one credit discussion section (graded S/U) is offered. An optional weekly review session is offered for those who wish to attend.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2005 - Research Methods and Data Analysis I

Introduces research methods and statistical analysis in psychology. This course, with a minimum grade of “C”, is a prerequisite for declaring a major or minor in Psychology. Prerequisites: None.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2100 - Introduction to Learning

Analyzes the concepts, problems, and research methodology in the study of processes basic to learning and motivation.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2150 - Introduction to Cognition

Cognition is the activity of knowing: the acquisition, organization, and use of knowledge. Emphasizing fundamental issues, this course introduces such basic content areas in cognitive psychology as perception, memory, language, cognitive development, and philosophy of science. An optional weekly review session is offered for those who wish to attend.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2160 - Cognitive Neuroscience

This course is intended as a survey of cognitive neuroscience, with an emphasis on breadth. Each week we will cover one sub-area or topic within cognitive neuroscience including perception, attention, memory, cognitive control and others. Readings will be chapters from the textbook with a few supplemental journal articles. PSYC 1010 is recommended but not required.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2200 - A Survey of the Neural Basis of Behavior

After an overview of brain organization and function, the course examines what we know about the physiological bases of several behaviors including sensation and perception, learning, memory, sleep development, hunger, thirst, and emotions. An optional weekly review session is offered for those who wish to attend.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2220 - Principles of Psychobiology

An enriched section of PSYC 2200 that includes laboratory demonstrations, group discussions and individual projects. Enrollment is limited to 20 first- and second-year students who demonstrate outstanding aptitude and interest in this area. When offered, applications are available from the instructor at times publicized in the list of course offerings distributed by the psychology department. Three lecture hours plus discussion section. Credit is not given for both PSYC 2200 and PSYC 2220.

Credits: 4

PSYC 2300 - Introduction to Perception

Study of selected topics in perception, particularly visual perception; the role of stimulus variables, learning and motivation of perception. Optional 1 credit laboratories are offered. Prerequisite: Mathematics at least up to trigonometry recommended.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2301 - Introduction to Perception Laboratory

Optional 1 credit laboratory.

Credits: 1

PSYC 2400 - Introduction to Personality Psychology

Introduces the major approaches, methods, and findings in the field of personality psychology. Topics include sex-typing, identification and observational learning, frustration and aggression, stress, anxiety, defense, self-control, altruism, self-concepts, authoritarianism, achievement motivation, and sensation-seeking. An optional weekly review session is offered for those who wish to attend.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2410 - Abnormal Psychology

Introduces psychopathology with a focus on specific forms of abnormal behavior: depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, substance use disorders, and personality disorders. Prerequisites: None.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2500 - Topics in Psychology

This course covers a variety of special topics in the field of psychology.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2600 - Introduction to Social Psychology

Surveys major topics in social psychology, including personal perception and social cognition, attitudes and persuasion, interpersonal influence, interpersonal attraction, and helping relationships. Considers research theory and applications of social psychology. Three lecture hours plus optional discussion sections.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2601 - Introduction to Social Psychology Discussion

Optional one-credit discussion section.

Credits: 1

PSYC 2700 - Introduction to Child Psychology

Introduces the biological, cognitive and social development of the child. Topics include the child’s emotional, perceptual, and intellectual development; and the development of personality and socialization. Students can participate in an optional discussion section. An optional weekly review session is offered for those who wish to attend. Prerequisite: PSYC 1010 strongly recommended, top students will be fine without it.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2701 - Introduction to Child Psychology Discussion Section

Optional discussion section for Psych 2700.

Credits: 1

PSYC 2900 - Teaching Methods for Undergrad Teaching Assistants

This teaching methods course will help undergraduate teaching assistants integrate learning theory and effective student engagement practices to their teaching. They will learn about how to teach statistics, learn about experimental design and methods, and various pedagogical issues related to lab computer use and using R software in the learning process.

Credits: 1

PSYC 3006 - Research Methods and Data Analysis II

A continuation of discussion of research methods in psychology, including computer-controlled experimentation, integrated with computer-based exploratory data analysis, and elementary statistical analysis. Three lecture hours, two laboratory hours. Prerequisite: PSYC 2005 (or 3005) with a grade of C or higher; may not be taken concurrently with PSYC 2005.

Credits: 4

PSYC 3100 - Learning and the Neuroscience of Behavior

The course will examine historical and current theories of learning that provide the foundation for most, if not all forms of an organism’s behavior. Students will be exposed to a diverse range of experimental findings that led to principles and concepts that currently explain how environmental, social and emotional factors influence the brain and body to shape human and animal behavior.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3110 - Psychology of Language

Introduces the cognitive psychology of language focusing on language as a cognitive process. Prerequisite: PSYC 1010 or 2150 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3115 - Psychology of Art

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the application to visual art, sculpture and film of research and theories developed in the fields of perceptual, cognition, emotion, personality theory and social psychology.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3210 - Research Methods: Psychobiology Laboratory

Develops skills necessary for the study of neural bases of behavior, such as brain dissection, electrophysiology, histology, behavioral analysis, and genetic/epigenetic analyses. Emphasis is on mastering contemporary techniques used in neuroscience research and effective, professional written presentation of research findings. Prerequisite: PSYC 2200 or 4200 or BIOL 3050; PSYC 3005 recommended.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3215 - Biological Models of Cognition

Examines animal models that have been developed to study neurobiological mechanisms of cognition. Topics to be covered include goal-directed learning, decision-making, navigation, action selection, motivation, working memory and addiction. Each section will cover a specific cognitive process, the development and validation of animal models to study this process and a discussion of identified neurobiological mechanisms.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3220 - Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

This course will examine the neural basis of learning and memory. We will study brain systems that mediate different types of learning and memory as well as the cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow these systems to acquire and store information. The course will begin with a historical overview of learning and memory research in psychology and transition into modern studies in behavioral neuroscience.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3235 - Introduction to Epigenetics

This course is a didactic, mechanistic exploration of epigenetics; we will discuss all epigenetic modifications known to date, the processes through which they are established and modified and their impact on the cell and organism.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3240 - Animal Minds

This course looks at the evolutionary basis of cognition through the lens of animal behavior, with an emphasis on understanding how general mechanisms of perception and learning interact with more specialized systems for navigation, social interaction, and planning to produce the rich behavioral adaptations seen throughout the animal kingdom.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3310 - Research Methods: R Applications in Psychology

This course serves as both an introduction to the R programming language for those who haven’t had any previous R background, as well as a refresher and an extension of R topics for those who have taken an intro to R course (i.e., STAT 1601 or PSYC 3006) previously or concurrently. This course is specially tailored to those who have an interest in psychology, with the purpose of preparing students to use R for their psychological research.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3420 - The Nature Nurture Debate

This course covers the history, science and philosophy of the Nature-Nurture debate. Starting with Galton in the 19th Century, it covers classical issues in behavior genetics, twins and modern studies of human DNA. Philosophical, theoretical and social implications of the scientific studies are emphasized.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3425 - History of Psychology

Survey of the origins of psychology from the early philosophers to the current time.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3430 - Psychology of Aging

Seminar on current topics in gerontology, using multiple levels of analysis to understand developmental changes across late adulthood. Covers issues regarding biological, psychological and sociological aspects of the aging process, emphasizing cognitive changes and their underlying neurobiology. Prerequisite: 9 credit hours of psychology or instructor permission; recommended courses include PSYC 2200, 3005, and 3210 or 4200.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3435 - Educational Psychology

Psychologists have studied the processes of learning and thinking for over 100 years, and theoreticians have attempted to apply that knowledge to K-12 education for almost that long. This course will use information from cognitive psychology to examine: major steams of thought in pedagogy; data patterns in student achievement and in teacher effectiveness; subject-specific teaching strategies, and proposed reforms for American education. Prerequisites: PSYC 2150 and 2700 required.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3440 - Child Psychopathology

Overview of the description, cause and treatment of various psychological disorders of childhood. Prerequisite: PSYC 2700 recommended.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3445 - Introduction to Clinical Psychology

This course is designed to provide an overview of the academic and clinical activities within the field of clinical psychology. Theories, research, psycho therapeutic approaches, and critical professional issues will be explored.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3450 - The Psychology of Women and Gender

This course provides a broad survey of psychological science on women and girls, addressing such topics as gender stereotypes, gender socialization, love and romantic relationships, sexuality, pregnancy and motherhood, women and work, and violence against women.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3460 - Psychological Study of Children, Families, and the Law

Can psychology research and theory inform the law as it relates to children and families? This course provides an overview of the issues emphasizing psychological knowledge and its present and possible future contributions. Three lecture hours, two laboratory hours. Prerequisite:Six credits in psychology.

Credits: 4

PSYC 3480 - Adolescence: Theory and Development

Course focus: 1) Background and theories of adolescence, 2) contributions to adolescence from: puberty, intellectual growth, and identify formation, 3) contexts of adolescence: the family situation, peer groups, school, and culture, 4) special topics of adolescence; religious, moral, and sexual development, sex roles, career planning (and achievement), disorders (drugs, delinquency, depression, suicide, etc.). Prerequisite: PSYC 2700 or 6 hours in Psychology.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3485 - The Science & Lived Experience of Autism I

This year-long, interdisciplinary seminar will explore how well the science of autism captures the experience of those living with autism and their families. Students will critically evaluate research in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and education, and they will work together with members of the autism community to identify new research questions that reflect the interests and concerns of the people who are most affected by autism science.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3490 - Infant Development

Infancy is the time of life during which enormous changes take place- newborns are very different from the inquisitive, walking and talking 2-year-old. The following lines of development during the first two years are traced in detail: motor, perceptual, cognitive, social, and emotional development. Environmental influences, including parental behavior are considered, as well as the effect the infant has on caregivers. Prerequisite: PSYC 1010.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3495 - The Science & Lived Experience of Autism II

PSYC 3500 - Special Topics in Psychology

Seminars on special and current topics in psychology.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3590 - Research in Psychology

An original experimental project is undertaken in which each student is responsible for the design and operation of the experiment. S/U grading. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 14 credits of psychology and instructor permission.

Credits: 2.00 to 3.00

PSYC 3870 - Seminar for Distinguished Majors

Topics include the design of independent research projects, ethical considerations in research, computer applications, and preparation for a career in psychology. S/U grading. Prerequisite: Acceptance in Psychology or CogSci Distinguished Majors Program. Enrollment Requirement: You are required to register for PSYC 4970 or COGS 4970.

Credits: 1

PSYC 3970 - Research on Affective Forecasting

This is a hands-on course in which students participate in ongoing research on affective forecasting, or the way in which people make predictions about their emotional reactions to future events. Students will serve as research assistants to the faculty member & graduate students to help with all phases of the research–design experiments, research its theoretical underpinnings, collect data, analyze the data, attend lab meetings.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3980 - Research in Psychology

An original experimental project is undertaken in which each student is responsible for the design and operation of the experiment. Prerequisite: 14 credits of psychology and instructor permission.

Credits: 2

PSYC 4001 - Controversies in Human Sexuality

Various controversial topics in human sexuality will be explored. Students will read articles from the popular press, the web, and academic journal articles to critically evaluate an issues involving human sexuality.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4002 - How Animals Perceive the World: Evolution of Sensory Systems

This course will be divided into topics based on animal’s behaviors and how the sensory systems support these behaviors, ranging from perceiving prey to communication within and between species. This class will rely heavily on the theory of evolution and will concentrate mainly on the visual system.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4005 - Adv Res Mthds & Data Analysis I: Mathematical Foundations of Quant Psyc

This class will cover foundations of linear algebra, randomness, probability theory, principal component analysis, complexity theory, hypothesis testing and power, structural equation models, maximum likelihood. This course is the first of a two-semester sequence (PSYC 4005 and PSYC 4006) of advanced data analysis and research methods classes.

Credits: 4

PSYC 4006 - Adv Res Mthds & Data Analysis II: Statistical Analysis and Advanced Design

This class covers advanced statistical procedures, including t-tests, ANOVA, regression and multiple regression, general linear models, item response theory models, distribution-free tests, and simulation. Research methods and designs for experimental and correlational studies will be covered. This course is the second of a two-semester sequence (PSYC 4005 and PSYC 4006) of advanced data analysis and research methods classes.

Credits: 4

PSYC 4105 - Cognitive Psychology and American Education

PSYC 4109 - Acquisition of Syntax in Language Development

This course investigates the acquisition of syntax in language development from empirical and theoretical perspectives. Questions about what it means to know language and how language is acquired will be explored in depth, along with discussions involving acquisition/development of language, which will include sign language and development of homesigned “language”.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4110 - Psycholinguistics

Topics include psychological and linguistic theory; experimental and empirical studies of linguistic usage; development of language in infants and children; cross-cultural studies of linguistic usage; and the biology of language.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4111 - Language Development and Disorders

Course will focus on language and cognitive development in persons with disabilities. Among the populations examined will be children with autistic disorder, children with Williams syndrome, deaf children, developmentally dysphasic children, adults with aphasia, and children with severe mental retardation. In addition to spoken language development, the course will examine the acquisition of sign communication skills. Prerequisite: 4th year psychology or cognitive science major status. Must have completed PSYC 3005 and PSYC 3006.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4112 - Psychology and Deaf People

PSYC 4115 - Multiculturalism in the Deaf Community

PSYC 4120 - Psychology of Reading

Analyzes the critical psychological experiments which have influenced the way that psychologists consider topics in reading, such as text comprehension, parsing, and sentence processing. Prerequisite: PSYC 3005

Credits: 3

PSYC 4125 - Psychology of Language

Psychology of Language

Credits: 3

PSYC 4130 - Risk and Resilience Among Marginalized Adolescents

This course will cover risk factors facing urban, economically disadvantaged adolescents of color, as well as assets and resources these youth can employ to thrive in the face of risk. Students will use relevant theories, academic research studies, and various forms of media to discuss issues of risk and resilience within this population.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4135 - Love, Sex, Parenting, Family: From Biology to Society

This course surveys intimate relationships beginning with animal models and perspectives from evolutionary biology to psychology and ending with a consideration of the many alternative forms of intimate relationships, parenting, and families in contemporary life. The course will integrate basic research with individual, cultural, and other perspectives. Student presentations and papers are a key part of the course.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4150 - Cognitive Processes

Explores, in depth, the life of the mind. Topics may include pattern recognition; observational skills; remembering; language and thought; categorization; the nature of similarity; discovery and invention; problem and puzzle solution; animal cognition; and views of intelligence in humans and machines. Prerequisite: Twelve credits of psychology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4155 - Autism: From Neurons to Neighborhoods

In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will discuss recent research on autism at multiple levels (biological, cognitive, social) and from multiple perspectives (autistic individuals, scientists, disability studies scholars, families, schools, community/government organizations).

Credits: 3

PSYC 4160 - Thinking About Thinking

Thinking About thinking.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4180 - Invention and Design

Collaborative learning environment that enables students to understand the way in which technology is created and improved and to become better designers. Includes readings from psychology, history, computing, ethics, and engineering. Cross-listed as STS 2180. Prerequisite: ENWR 1510 or STS 1010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4200 - Neural Mechanisms of Behavior

Introduces basic concepts in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry needed for an understanding of brain and behavior. PSYC 3210 is recommended.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4245 - Development of Sensory Systems

This course is designed to explore the neurobiological development and plasticity of sensory systems.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4250 - Brain Systems Involved in Memory

The historical and current experimental findings that describe the contribution of neuroanatomical structures in regulating memory formation.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4255 - Behavioral Epigenetics

We will discuss basic concepts in epigenetics and the role these molecular modifications play in development, behavior, and disorder. Emphasis will be placed on landmark papers and the emerging role for the interaction of nature and nurture.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4260 - Genetic and Epigenetic Research in Behavior

We will discuss basic concepts in genetics/epigenetics and the role these molecular modifications play in behavior and disorder. We will evaluate empirical papers and learn the molecular techniques described within them. Completion of this course should result in increased knowledge of the use of genome level data in psychology and biology.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4265 - Developmental Neurobiology

PSYC 4270 - Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

This seminar examines the neural basis of learning and memory. We will study brain systems that mediate different types of learning and memory as well as the cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow these systems to acquire and store information. The course begins with a historical overview of learning and memory research in psychology and transition into modern studies in behavioral neuroscience.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4275 - Exploring Neural Codes for Perception and Cognition

Our perception of the world is constructed from the raw data sent by sensory nerves using a common currency called “spikes”. When we see, we are not interpreting the pattern of light intensities that falls on our retina; we are interpreting spikes that million of cells send to the brain. In this course, I invite students to play the role of a hypothetical observer inside the brain, who use spikes to make inferences about the external world. Prerequisite: 3rd year PSYC major, PSYC 2220

Credits: 3

PSYC 4290 - Memory Distortions

Although memory is generally accurate, some illusions and distortions in remembering are unavoidable. We will review both neuroscience and cognitive research on a variety of different memory problems, ranging from relatively benign tip-of-the-tongue experiences to untrustworthy eye-witness testimony. Our ultimate goal will be to understand the neural basis and cognitive processes that contribute to these constructive memory phenomena.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4300 - Theories of Perception

Perception is the means by which we become aware of the world and of ourselves. This seminar presents an overview of theories about perception including the following perspectives: philosophy, physiology, Gestalt psychology, cognitive psychology, ecology, and artificial intelligence. Prerequisite: PSYC 2300 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4315 - Psychology of Art

The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to current research on the psychology of art. It is a broad course that does not only consider the research of psychologists. It draws on the writings of art historians, computer scientists, philosophers, and others. Enrollment Requirements: PSYC maj/min or COGS majors. Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4330 - Topics in Child Development

Topics in Child Development

Credits: 3

PSYC 4400 - Approaches to Quantitative Methods in Psychology

Many psychological theories nowadays are formulated mathematically. In this course we will survey a variety of approaches to modeling in perception (such as signal detection theory), cognitive psychology (categorization learning) and social psychology. Prerequisites: 4th-yr in Psyc or Cog Sci maj/min. PSYC3005 & 3006 or equivalent. A calculus course and knowledge of a programming language. Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4499 - Psychology and Law: Cognitive and Social Issues

Examines issues for which cognitive and social psychology may be able to inform the legal system. Topics include eyewitness testimony, recovered memories, line-ups, expert testimony, jury selection, trial tactics, jury decision making, jury instructions, and the use of statistics in the courtroom. Prerequisite: PSYC 2150 or 2600; PSYC 3006.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4500 - Special Topics in Psychology

Topical Offerings in Psychology

Credits: 3

PSYC 4580 - Directed Readings in Psychology

Critical examination of an important current problem area in psychology. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 14 credits in psychology and instructor permission.

Credits: 2.00 to 3.00

PSYC 4585 - Behavior Genetics

This course will attempt to accomplish two basic goals. First, we will use the Plomin et al. text to establish a basic knowledge of genetics and its interaction with behavior. Second, we will use this knowledge to address some topics in behavioral genetics, using the Plomin et al. text and primary readings.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4600 - Attachment and Social Development

This course will address the role of child-parent attachment relationships in human development. We will read theory and research about attachment and its relation to other social developmental issues during infancy, childhood and adolescence, including topics such as temperament, maltreatment, peer relationships, and psychopathology. Prerequisite: PSYC 2700 and PSYC 3006.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4601 - Introduction to Clinical Psychology

Overview of issues in clinical psychology including the scientific-practitioner model of training, reliability and validity of assessment techniques, validity of clinical judgment, and the effectiveness of psychological treatments. Prerequisite: PSYC 3410 and 3005.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4602 - Women’s Issues in Clinical Psychology

Studies current research and historical perspectives on clinical psychology issues as they pertain uniquely to women. Topics vary and may include eating disorders, battered women, pregnancy, and aging. Prerequisite: PSYC 3410 and 3006 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4603 - Psychology of Sexual Orientation

Overview of research and theory related to sexual orientation across the lifespan from the standpoint of the social sciences. Topics include conceptualization of sexual identities, origins and development of sexual orientation, sexual identity formation and disclosure. Selected issues such as couple relationships, employment and careers, parenthood, and aging are also explored, since they may be affected by sexual orientation. Prerequisite: Third- or fourth-year psychology major

Credits: 3

PSYC 4604 - Family Relations

Furthers an understanding of family functioning and its impact on human development and the adjustment of family members. Emphasizes understanding family theories, research findings, and learning to apply frequently used strategies and methods in the study of family relations. Prerequisite: Upper level major or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4605 - Research in Community Settings

This course provides advanced undergraduate students with the opportunity to participate in a community-based research project with a local social service agency. We will investigate why low-income residents and agency personnel in communities are suspicious about researchers, how history and social science methods have contributed to the dynamics, and what this means for doing research in community settings. Prerequisite: PSYC 3006.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4606 - Cognitive Biases in Anxiety and Related Disorders

This course examines cognitive processing biases in anxiety and related disorders. To understand, for example, why a person with social anxiety sees only the one scowling face in a room full of smiles, we consider automatic processing of emotional information. The course critiques cutting-edge research on how these processes contribute to anxiety and related problems, and if it is important to change the processes to reduce psychopathology. Prerequisite: Psyc 3410. 4th year Psyc majors/minors or COGS majors . Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level class.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4607 - Uniquely Human Social Cognition

One fundamental question in psychology is what makes humans such intensely social beings. In this course we will examine the evolutionary, developmental, and brain foundations that underpin our ultrasocial nature.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4650 - Oppression and Social Change

Oppression and Social Change focuses on an analysis of oppression, empowerment and liberation as defined within an ecological system perspective. Topics to be covered include discussion of racial, economic, sexual discrimination, individual and social alienation, and loss of self esteem. Moreover, the course considers the role of privilege in the maintenance of an oppressive schema. Prerequisite: PSYC (who have never taken another Psyc 4000-level course), AAS or WGS major and 4th Year or Instructor Permission. Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4670 - Psychology of the African-American Athlete

Psychology of the African-American Athlete

Credits: 3

PSYC 4681 - Mobile Sensing and Health

This seminar style course is an exploration of emerging mobile sensing techniques in health including measuring and assessing health and behaviors, mHealth interventions, sensors and wearable technology, and computational / machine learning tools for learning from multimodal sensor data.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4682 - Mobile Technology in Mental Health Research

This course provides an introduction to research design and computational methods for non-invasive mental health monitoring using mobile devices such as phones and wearable computing. Students will gain a practical understanding of mobile monitoring approaches as they relate to mental health. Topics include estimating health status (e.g. mood) through mobility data, application design, mobile data mining, and emerging issues in mental health.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4690 - Self-Knowledge

Self-knowledge is the focus of countless self-help books, magazine articles, and faddish therapies. In this course we will examine self-knowledge from a scientific perspective, based on research in social, personality, cognitive, and developmental psychology.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4695 - Social Cognition and Social Change

This class will examine how research on social cognition –how people think in a social context– can be used to address a wide variety of personal and social problems. It will cover both basic research in social psychology and applied research designed to solve personal and social problems.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4700 - Flourishing

People are like plants: if you get the conditions just right, they will usually flourish. So what are those conditions? We will examine the latest research in social and positive psychology on love, work happiness and virtue. The course will involve several outside-of-class research projects and activities, including making yourself a better person. Prerequisite: PSYC 2600

Credits: 3

PSYC 4720 - Psychology of Morality and Politics

Moral motives are all around us, but they are often hard to see because of our own moralism: we dismiss actions and people we disagree with as evil or misguided. The first part of this course will be a primer on moral psychology, including the evolutionary basis of human morality and its cultural diversity. Then we’ll move on to politics, partisanship, and the culture war; then finally, to terrorism.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4750 - Social Stigma

Examines the subjective experience of individuals whose social identity or social group memberships make them a target of prejudice. We will examine research and theory pertaining to how individuals interpret prejudice, how they cope with prejudice, and how prejudice affects their self-evaluations and behavior. A social psychological approach to understanding this problem will be emphasized. Prerequisite: PSYC 2600

Credits: 3

PSYC 4755 - Social Neuroscience

A broad perspective on the expanding field of social neuroscience. A. Topics include but are not limited to social perception, social cognition, person perception, theory of mind, attitudes, and interpersonal processes. Emphasis on understanding the reciprocal interaction between brain function and everyday social behaviors. Prerequisite: PSYC 2200 or BIOL 3050.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4870 - The Minority Family: A Psychological Inquiry

Examines the current state of research on minority families, focusing on the black family. Emphasizes comparing ‘deficit’ and ‘strength’ research paradigms. Prerequisite: PSYC 3006 and at least one course from each of the following groups: PSYC 2100, 2150 or 2300, and PSYC 2400, 2700 or 2600, and students in the Afro-American and African studies or studies in women and gender programs.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4910 - Undergraduate Internship Programs Seminar

An internship placement arranged by the supervising faculty. Students work 10 to 20 hours per week in various community agencies, such as health care delivery, social services, or juvenile justice. Requires written reports, as well as regular class meetings with supervising faculty in order to analyze the internship experience, engage in specific skill training, and discuss assigned readings. Apply in February of third year. Prerequisite: Fourth-year psychology major with at least 14 credits in psychology, and instructor permission. S/U grading.

Credits: 4

PSYC 4920 - Undergraduate Internship Programs Seminar

An internship placement arranged by the supervising faculty. Students work 10 to 20 hours per week in various community agencies, such as health care delivery, social services, or juvenile justice. Requires written reports, as well as regular class meetings with supervising faculty in order to analyze the internship experience, engage in specific skill training, and discuss assigned readings. Apply in February of third year. Required Labs. Requisites: Fourth-year psychology major with at least 14 credits in psychology and instructor permission.

Credits: 4

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Public Health Sciences

Courses

PHS 2291 - Global Culture and Public Health

PHS 2810 - West Indies Health Care: Disaster Preparedness, St Kitts & Nevis

The participants in this course held in the West Indies, will study the fundamentals of emergency care and disaster preparedness through exploration of existing preparedness infrastructures in St. Kitts and Nevis.

Credits: 3

PHS 3050 - Fundamentals of Public Health

Public health is multidisciplinary, universally relevant, & constantly evolving. In this survey course, we learn about past & current public health issues & explore the core disciplines of public health through a combination of lectures & small group discussion of documentaries & case studies. We develop an appreciation of how public health knowledge relates to our lives & learn about career opportunities.

Credits: 3

PHS 3090 - Health Care Economics

Reviews principles of economics most relevant to analyzing changes in health care provision and applies those principles to current health care institutions and their performance, trends in health care service delivery, and methods of forecasting future trends. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

PHS 3095 - Health Policy in the United States - An Economic Perspective

This course uses an economic perspective to analyze the health policies and institutions that shape the health care system in the US. The consequences of current health care policies on health outcomes are discussed. The processes through which health policies are developed, implemented, and evaluated are analyzed.

Credits: 3

PHS 3102 - Introduction to Public Health Research: Population Data Analysis

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge & skills needed to use population data to answer research questions. Students will utilize SPSS to access, evaluate, & interpret public health data. The course will give students an opportunity to generate hypotheses & variables to measure health problems. The course will also describe how the public health infrastructure is used to collect, process, maintain & disseminate data. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

PHS 3103 - Intro to Epidemiology:Case Studies on Hlthy Lifestyles & Disease Prevention

This undergraduate course provides an introduction to basic epidemiology concepts, including measures of frequency & association, study design, & methodological issues such as confounding. Students will use case studies & team projects, as well as literature reviews, to examine strategies for promoting healthy behavior & lifestyles & addressing such public health challenges as obesity & tobacco abuse. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

PHS 3104 - Introduction to Epidemiology: Methodological and Ethical Considerations

This course is an introduction to epidemiology at the undergraduate level. Using epidemiology as a framework, class participants are challenged to engage more thoughtfully with many of the big issues facing the world today. The course emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and the scientific method, collaboration in teams, and ethical principles and reasoning in this process.

Credits: 3

PHS 3130 - Introduction to Health Research Methods

Much of what we know about human health & health-related behavior is based on quant & qual research. This course involves students in the research process from start to finish, including formulating a research question; conducting a background literature review; choosing a study design; developing data collection tools; recruiting a study population; collecting data; assuring data quality; analyzing data; & interpreting & presenting results.

Credits: 3

PHS 3186 - Comparative Health Care Systems

Provides a background for students who may be interested in learning about challenges & opportunities for improvement in health status for citizens in all countries. Although at the operational level, each national system is unique, there are common characteristics that permeate the design & structure of most health care delivery sectors. The major health reform activities occurring in developed & developing countries will be highlighted.

Credits: 3

PHS 3620 - Built Environment & Public Health: Local to Global

How do sidewalks, block parties, food deserts, and transit systems impact our health? This course maps the intersections between architecture, urban planning, and public health that shape the built environment, health and well being of our local and global communities. Lectures and learning applications will present the evidence and its limits on topics such as food security, age-friendly cities, obesity, social equity and vulnerable population.

Credits: 3

PHS 3818 - UVA in the Dominican Republic: Dominican Public Health

Students will explore some of the basic tenets of global public health while experiencing the realities of life and public health during two weeks in the Dominican Republic. The course is comprised of 9 instructional modules. Course material will be enhanced through hands-on learning field trips and community service projects. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

PHS 3825 - Global Public Health: Challenges and Innovations

Undoubtedly, we’ve made important advances in global health, but there’s still a long way to go. What factors determine health? What threats do we face today? What issues should we be working to change? We will explore these questions & more through a variety of interactive lectures & small group activities centered on 4 major themes: History & Trends, Determinants of Health, Culture, & Communication.

Credits: 3

PHS 4016 - Human Factors Design for Community Health

We will draw on approaches from public health, medical informatics, and human factors engineering to answer these questions. We will explore how to create interventions that are grounded in theoretical perspectives and field-based assessments of patients needs and preferences. Our ultimate goal will be to create interventions that are useful and usable by patients and that ultimately support self-management and improve health outcomes.

Credits: 3

PHS 4050 - Public Health Policy

Explores the legitimacy, design, & implementation of a variety of policies aiming to promote public health & reduce the social burden of disease & injury. Highlights the challenge posed by public health’s pop-based perspective to traditional ind-centered, autonomy-driven approaches to bioethics & const. law. Other themes center on conflicts between PH & pub morality & the relationship between PH and social justice.

Credits: 3

PHS 4991 - Global Public Health Capstone

Explores topics in global public health and the myriad of governmental and non-governmental entities whose goal is to address and resolve problems encountered in global public health and synthesizes the student’s interdisciplinary studies in global public health, culminating in a Capstone Paper.

Credits: 3

PHSE 4500 - Special Topics in Public Health Science Ethics

The Topics in Public Health Ethics are designed for fourth-year undergraduate students who have declared a minor, or an interdisciplinary major, in bioethics. These topics will focus on ethical issues in Healthcare Policy and Administration.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

Religious Studies

Courses

RELC 4044 - Religion and the American Courts

What is the nature of religion and its role in American society? This seminar will explore the limits of spiritual convictions in a liberal democracy which guarantees religious freedom. This course will examine: 1) the First Amendment; 2) legal methodology; and 3) the contemporary debate over whether citizens and public officials have a duty to refrain from making political and legal decisions on the basis of their religious beliefs.

Credits: 3

RELC 4085 - Missions in Contemp Africa

An examination of Christian missions in Africa in the 21st Century. Through a variety of disciplinary lenses and approaches, we examine faith-based initiatives in Africa–those launched from abroad, as well as from within the continent. What does it mean to be a missionary in Africa today? How are evangelizing efforts being transformed in response to democratization, globalization and a growing awareness of human rights?

Credits: 3

RELC 4160 - Salem Essays

An Opportunity for students to write a short essay based on the court records of the Salem Witch trials to be posted on the Salem Witch trials documentary archive. Prerequisite: RELC 4150 Salem Witch Trials

Credits: 1

RELC 4530 - Advanced Topics in Christianity

This topical course provides upper level undergraduate students in Religious Studies an opportunity for advanced coursework in Christianity

Credits: 3

RELC 4610 - Sex and Morality

A theological overview of Jewish and Christian reflection on proper sexual conduct in the United States, with specific emphasis on pre-marital sex, adoption, abortion, gay marriage, and the teaching of sex education in public schools.

Credits: 3

RELG 1005 - World Religions

This course is a comparative study of the world’s enduring religious traditions and their cultural expressions in architecture, art, and music. Among others, the course will examine Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, and their expression in world culture.

Credits: 3

RELG 1010 - Introduction to Western Religious Traditions

Studies the major religious traditions of the Western world; Judaism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Islam.

Credits: 3

RELG 1040 - Introduction to Eastern Religious Traditions

Introduces various aspects of the religious traditions of India, China, and Japan.

Credits: 3

RELG 1400 - The Art and Science of Human Flourishing

This course explores human flourishing, well-being, and resiliency across academic, personal, and professional spheres. The course presents a balance of theory and practice, organized into five domains: self-awareness, well-being, connection, wisdom, and integration. Each week explores a single quality of flourishing through scientific research, humanistic reflection, and artistic expression, as well as a detailed set of contemplative practices.

Credits: 3

RELG 1500 - Introductory Seminar in Religious Studies

These seminars introduce first- and second-year students to the academic study of religion through a close study of a particular theme or topic. Students will engage with material from a variety of methodological perspectives, and they will learn how to critically analyze sources and communicate their findings. The seminars allow for intensive reading and discussion of material. Not more than two Intro Seminars may count towards the Major.

Credits: 3

RELG 2140 - Archaic Cult and Myth

Surveys scientific and popular interpretations of prehistoric, ancient, and traditional religions.

Credits: 3

RELG 2150 - Religion in American Life and Thought to 1865

Topics include the influence of Puritanism, the character of American religious freedom, and the interaction between religion and social reform.

Credits: 3

RELG 2155 - Whiteness & Religion: Religious Foundations of a Racial Category

RELG 2160 - Religion in American Life and Thought from 1865 to the Present

Includes American religious pluralism, religious responses to social issues, and the character of contemporary American religious life.

Credits: 3

RELG 2190 - Religion and Modern Fiction

Studies religious meanings in modern literature, emphasizing faith and doubt, evil and absurdity, and wholeness and transcendence in both secular fiction and fiction written from traditional religious perspectives.

Credits: 3

RELG 2210 - Religion, Ethics, & Global Environment

RELG 2255 - Religion and Film

This course will introduce students to the relationship between religion and film. We will watch several films in class and, after learning the basics of film analysis, we will be able to perceive and interpret how films portray religions, religious peoples, and religious categories, and even to consider what religion and film have in common as experiences. Viewing of the films will be supplemented by short lectures and class discussion.

Credits: 3

RELG 2260 - Religion, Race, and Relationship in Film

This course explores themes of religion, race, gender, and relationship to the religious or racial ‘other’ in films from the silent era to the present. It will consider film as a medium and engage students in analysis and discussion of cinematic images, with the goal of developing hermeneutic lenses through which these images can be interpreted. The films selected all ask “How should we treat one another?”

Credits: 3

RELG 2285 - Religion, Politics, Society

Politics and religion are links to the exploration to culture, history, and current events. This course seeks to understand what is meant by religion and the multiple ways in which it is politically important by examining the world views of various religious traditions and their political implications.

Credits: 3

RELG 2290 - Business Ethics

Studies contemporary issues in business from a moral perspective, including philosophical and religious, as well as traditional and contemporary, views of business. Topics include international business, whistleblowing, discrimination, the environment, and marketing.

Credits: 3

RELG 2300 - Religious Ethics and Moral Problems

Examines several contemporary moral problems from the perspective of ethical thought in the Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish traditions.

Credits: 3

RELG 2370 - Religion After Jefferson

This course explores the history of the idea of “religion” as a distinct concept, and introduces students to a crucial topic of modern public life and helps them prepare to grapple with this problem from a global perspective. A Jefferson Public Citizens course.

Credits: 3

RELG 2380 - Faith and Doubt in the Modern Age

This course introduces undergraduates to seminal writings in modern Western thought that explore and question the meaning, truthfulness, and uses of religious belief. The goal is to develop a multi-storied narrative of the variety of interpretations given to the idea of God in modernity and to clarify the conditions of responsible religious belief in a pluralistic world. Requirements include two exams and a research paper.

Credits: 3

RELG 2390 - Theism and Humanism

Studies contemporary understandings of religious faith in response to the challenge of humanism.

Credits: 3

RELG 2440 - Human Nature and Its Possibilities

Examines psychological, literary, philosophical, and theological perspectives on human existence with a view to seeing what possibilities are contained in the linguistic, theoretical, practical, poetic, and ecstatic capacities of human beings.

Credits: 3

RELG 2455 - Christian America?

This course aims to describe the historical development of religious diversity in the United States, and to grapple with its social, political, legal, cultural, and spiritual implications. We will chart the trends that led this nation, once characterized as a triple melting pot of Protestant-Catholic-Jew, to become, by the late twentieth century, one of the most religiously diverse societies in the history of the world.

Credits: 3

RELG 2475 - God

An introduction to the personality of God as portrayed in the sacred literatures, histories, and practices of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. (For the religious studies major, or minor, this counts as either RELC, RELI or RELJ)

Credits: 3

RELG 2630 - Business, Ethics, and Society

A study of the philosophical and religious frameworks for interpreting and evaluating human activity in the marketplace. This includes major theoretical perspectives, contemporary issues within the marketplace, and corporate ethics.

Credits: 3

RELG 2650 - Theological Bioethics

Analyzes various moral problems in medicine, health care, and global health from Christian (Catholic and Protestant), Jewish, and Islamic theological perspectives with reference to salient philosophical influences.

Credits: 3

RELG 2660 - “Spiritual But Not Religious”: Spirituality in America

This course asks: what does “spiritual but not religious” mean, and why has it become such a pervasive idea in modern America? We’ll study everything from AA to yoga to Zen meditation, with stops in Christian rock, Beat poetry, Abstract Expressionist painting and more. In the end, we’ll come to see spirituality in America as a complex intermingling of the great world religions, modern psychology, and a crassly commercialized culture industry.

Credits: 3

RELG 2713 - Sensing the Sacred: Sensory Perception and Religious Imagination

Seeing is believing. Or is it? In this course, we will examine the role of sensory perception in religious imagination. We will consider how religious practitioners think about the senses, utilize the senses to experience the world, and assign meaning to the senses. We will also probe the ways in which religious traditions deploy sensory metaphors to describe human experience of the sacred.

Credits: 3

RELG 2820 - Jerusalem

This course traces the history of Jerusalem with a focus on its significance in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. How has Jerusalem been experienced and interpreted as sacred within these religious communities? How have they expressed their attachments to this contested space from antiquity to modern times? Discussion will be rooted in primary texts from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sources, with attention to their historical context.

Credits: 3

RELG 3050 - Religions of Western Antiquity

Studies Greco-Roman religions and religious philosophies of the Hellenistic period, including official cults, mystery religions, gnosticism, astrology, stoicism; emphasizes religious syncretism and interactions with Judaism and Christianity.

Credits: 3

RELG 3051 - Religion and Society

Critical appraisal of classical and contemporary approaches to the sociological study of religion and society.

Credits: 3

RELG 3053 - Religion and Psychology

Major religious concepts studied from the perspective of various theories of psychology, including the psychoanalytic tradition and social psychology.

Credits: 3

RELG 3057 - Existentialism: Its Literary, Philosophical and Religious Expressions

Studies Existentialist thought, its Hebraic-Christian sources, and 19th and 20th century representatives of the movement (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, Buber, and Tillich).

Credits: 3

RELG 3200 - Martin, Malcolm, and America

An analysis of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X

Credits: 3

RELG 3210 - Major Themes in American Religious History

Examines a major religious movement or tradition in American history.

Credits: 3

RELG 3255 - Ethics, Literature, and Religion

Explores how ethical issues in religious traditions and cultural narratives are addressed in literature, scripture, essay, and memoir. How do stories inquire into “the good life”? How may moral principles and virtues be “tested” by fiction? How does narrative shape identity, mediate universality and particularity, reflect beliefs and values in conflict, and depict suffering?

Credits: 3

RELG 3305 - Basic Philosophy Plato to Kant

This course introduces students to the primary philosophic contributions of Plato/Socrates, Aristotle, the Stoics, Augustine, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and Kant, with briefer studies in Thomas, Maimonides, Ibn Sina, and Leibniz. Discussion will focus on these thinkers’ potential significance for contemporary studies in religion and theology.

Credits: 3

RELG 3315 - Jefferson, Religion and the Secular University

The undergraduate seminar will explore as inter-related topics the religious formation and outlook of Thomas Jefferson, his conception of the proper relation of religion and the civil power, his idea of the university as a secular institution, ad the role of religion in the founding and subsequent history of the University of Virginia.

Credits: 3

RELG 3325 - The Civil Rights Movement in Religious and Theological Perspective

The seminar considers the American Civil Rights Movement, its supporters and opponents, in religious and theological perspective. While interdisciplinary in scope, the seminar will explore the religious motivations and theological sources in their dynamic particularity; and ask how images of God shaped conceptions of personal identity, social existence, race and nation in the campaigns and crusades for equal rights under the law.

Credits: 3

RELG 3333 - Literature and Ethics

Explores ethical questions raised by religious-traditional and cultural narratives as well as by fiction and memoir. How do stories inquire into the good life? How may moral principles and virtues be tested by fiction? How does narrative shape identity, mediate universality and particularity, reflect values that may conflict, and depict suffering. Format: literature and theory, guided discussion, critical essays, and a final presentation.

Credits: 3

RELG 3360 - Conquests and Religions in the Americas, 1400s-1830s

Beginning with Islamic-ruled Spain and the Aztec and Incan empires, the course examines historical changes in the religious practices of indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans and European settlers in Latin America and the Caribbean under European colonization and the transatlantic slave trade. Topics include: religious violence, human sacrifice, the Inquisition; missions; race, gender and sexuality; slavery, revolts, revolutions, nationalism.

Credits: 3

RELG 3365 - Conscious Social Change: Contemplation and Innovation for Social Change

RELG 3370 - God Since Cinema

A survey of films about God and the effect these films (as opposed to books or paintings) have had on the Western understanding of God.

Credits: 3

RELG 3375 - Spiritual Writing

This course in spiritual writing chronicles quests for meaning, purpose and direction. The reading and writing assignments explore encounters with the sacred, and consider such written wrestlings within faith communities, and other sources of wisdom. Over the semester, students will study examples of contemporary spiritual writing in diaries, memoir, and fiction. They will also write about “matters of the spirit” in various genres.

Credits: 3

RELG 3380 - Feasting, Fasting and Faith: Food in Judaism and Christianity

Students study and research religion as it has been practiced in everyday life in two different traditions and write up and communicate their findings in articulate and thoughtful ways. As they focus on the themes of feasting and fasting in Jewish and Christian communities, they engage in various forms of interdisciplinary inquiry, including the study of sacred texts, history, ethics, and ethnography.

Credits: 3

RELG 3400 - Women and Religion

Introduces the images of women in the major religious traditions, the past and present roles of women in these traditions, and women’s accounts of their own religious experiences.

Credits: 3

RELG 3420 - First Amendment Limits

The promise of religious liberty contained in the First Amendment has always been subject to a variety of restraints by federal and local governments. This course will focus on the cultural experience of these restraints; not only how they were devised by courts and implemented by regulatory agencies, but also how they are understood in the popular imagination and, finally, what influence they have on the shape of religion in America.

Credits: 3

RELG 3444 - Religious Conflict and Resolution Among the Abrahamic Religions

What are the religions of Abraham? Are they bound for peace or conflict? This course introduces students to the scriptural sources and medieval to modern practices of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism including key historical narratives from the Qur’an, and the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. An examination of the role these scriptures play in people’s lives is followed by focusing on the ‘hot spots’ of inter-Abrahamic conflict today.

Credits: 3

RELG 3450 - The Emotions

Exploration of how what we feel colors what we believe, what we claim to know. What are human emotions and why do we have them? Philosophers, psychiatrists, neurologists and religious thinkers disagree. We will analyze these disagreements, along with the question of how the emotions can be controlled or educated. We will focus on William James, who influentially argued that for most believers, religious experience is first and foremost emotional.

Credits: 3

RELG 3470 - Christianity and Science

Christian Europe gave rise to modern science, yet Christianity and science have long appeared mutual enemies. Does science undermine religious belief? Can human life and striving really be explained in terms of physics and chemistry? In this course we explore the encounter between two powerful cultural forces and study the intellectual struggle to anchor God in the modern world.

Credits: 3

RELG 3485 - Moral Leadership

This course introduces students to the moral frameworks of Aristotle, Maimonides, Machiavelli, and Jeff McMahon and then examines pressing moral issues in contemporary America.

Credits: 3

RELG 3560 - Issues in Theological Ethics

Studies a moral problem or set of related problems (e.g., human experimentation, special moral relations, or warfare) in the context of recent work in theological ethics.

Credits: 3

RELG 3600 - Religion and Modern Theatre

Examines the works of several playwrights, some of whom dramatize explicitly religious themes or subjects, and others who are predominantly concerned with secular situations and contexts that imply religious questions and issues.

Credits: 3

RELG 3605 - Religion, Violence and Strategy: How to Stop Killing in the Name of God

This course will teach students to evaluate critically the leadership and strategies of social impact campaigns, and the ways in which governments, religious actors and civil society have tried to reduce violent conflict. Students will be organized into small integrated teams to research the root causes and triggers for religion-related violence across the Middle East and North Africa.

Credits: 3

RELG 3630 - Idolatry

Beginning with Biblical sources and concluding with contemporary texts, this course will examine the philosophical framework of casting idolatry as an unspeakable sin: What is an idol, and why is idolatry so objectionable? With an emphasis on Judaism, though not exclusively, we will discuss idolatry in the context of representation, election, otherness, emancipation, nationalism, secularism, religious innovation, and messianism.

Credits: 3

RELG 3640 - Religion, God, and Evil

Studies the ‘problem of evil,’ using philosophical, literary, and various religious sources.

Credits: 3

RELG 3650 - Systems of Theological Ethics

Examines one or more contemporary systems of Christian ethics, alternating among such figures as Reinhold Niebuhr, C. S. Lewis, Jacques Ellul, and Jacques Maritain.

Credits: 3

RELG 3750 - Taoism and Confucianism

Taoism and Confucianism

Credits: 3

RELG 3780 - Faulkner and the Bible

This class is study of the influence of the Bible (both Hebrew and Christian canons) on the fiction of William Faulkner. We will also see how this ancient text and its heritage informed Faulkner’s views on race, community, and personal identity as well.

Credits: 3

RELG 3795 - Theology, Spirituality and Ethics of Sustainability

Primarily through the readings of theologians from the Protestant, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, this course explores theological, spiritual and ethical perspectives on the environmental issues that are becoming increasingly important across the globe.

Credits: 3

RELG 3800 - African American Religious History

This course will explore African American religious traditions in their modern and historical contexts, combining an examination of current scholarship, worship and praxis. It will examine the religious life and religious institutions of African Americans from their African antecedents to contemporary figures and movements in the US.

Credits: 3

RELG 3820 - Global Ethics & Climate Change

RELG 3860 - Human Bodies and Parts as Properties

An analysis and assessment of theological, philosophical, and legal interpretations of rights holders and rights held in living and dead human bodies and their parts, in the context of organ and tissue transplantation, assisted reproduction, and research. Prerequisite: RELG 2650

Credits: 3

RELG 3950 - Evil in Modernity: Banal or Demonic

Investigates how modern thinkers have understood the character of evil and the challenge it poses to human existence. Evaluates the proposals made in response to that challenge. Prerequisite: Any course in religious studies.

Credits: 3

RELG 4023 - Bioethics Internship Seminar

The course enables students to spend time in medical settings as ‘participant-observers,’ in order to gain first-hand experience of the subject matter that is the focus of the theory, teaching, and practice of bioethics. Prerequisites: Bioethics Major/Minor

Credits: 3

RELG 4220 - American Religious Autobiography

Multidisciplinary examination of religious self-perception in relation to the dominant values of American life. Readings represent a variety of spiritual traditions and autobiographical forms.

Credits: 3

RELG 4450 - Visions of the Apocalypse

The course will introduce apocalypticism in Western religious traditions, but will soon focus on the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Explorations will take us from slave revolts to UFO cults to Dr. Strangelove, from Edward Bellamy to genetic engineering, from the space program to Left Behind, and from the Great Disappointment of the 1840s and the Ghost Dance of 1890 to the New Age of the present.

Credits: 3

RELG 4500 - Majors Seminar

Introduces the study of religion as an interdisciplinary subject, utilizing methods in history of religions, theology, sociology, depth psychology, and literary criticism. The seminars are thematic and topics will vary according to the design of the instructor. Limited to twenty religious studies majors.

Credits: 3

RELG 4540 - Advanced Topics in General Religious Studies

This topical course provides upper level undergraduate students in Religious Studies an opportunity for advanced coursework in General Religious Studies

Credits: 3

RELG 4800 - Crafting a Research Project in Religious Studies

This course offers third- and fourth-year Religious Studies majors resources for conceiving and executing a major research project. As a follow-up, students usually take RELG 4900 (“Distinguished Major Thesis”), which affords them an opportunity to write the research project they have conceived in this course. Whether you plan to write a thesis or not, RELG 4800 offers an accessible introduction to the craft of research in Religious Studies.

Credits: 3

RELG 4810 - Poetry and Theology

This seminar seeks to develop a close reading of major religious poetry by two major religious poets

Credits: 3

RELG 4900 - Distinguished Major Thesis

Students write a thesis, directed by a member of the department, focusing on a specific problem in the theoretical, historical or philosophical study of religion or a specific religious tradition. The thesis grows out of the project proposal and annotated bibliography developed in the Research Methods seminar. Prerequisite: Selection by faculty for Distinguished Major Program and completion of RELG 4800.

Credits: 3

RELG 4910 - Secularism and Religion

Does religion belong in the public square? Does it have a legitimate role in secular life, despite a lack of unanimity in the religious beliefs of the public? Can religion be separated from public and political life? This course explores theoretical works that examine these and related questions and queries the ways in which religion shapes, challenges, and clashes with the modern nation-state.

Credits: 3

RELH 2090 - Hinduism

Surveys the Hindu religious heritage from pre-history to the 17th century; includes the Jain and Sikh protestant movements.

Credits: 3

RELH 2095 - Contemporary Hinduism

Introduces Hinduism through the examination of the religious lives, practices, and experiences of ordinary Hindus in the modern world.

Credits: 3

RELH 2195 - Theory and Practice of Yoga

An investigation of yoga practice throughout history from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Topics include yoga’s origins in ancient India, systematic yoga theories in Buddhism and Hinduism, Tantric Yoga, and the medicalization and globalization of Yoga in the modern period. Students’ readings and writing assignments are supplemented throughout with practical instruction in yoga.

Credits: 3

RELH 3105 - Hinduism and Ecology

This course will explore Hindu views of the relationship between human, natural, and divine worlds, as well as the work of contemporary environmentalists in India. We will read texts both classical and modern (from the Bhagavad Gita to the writings of Gandhi), and will consider case studies of Hindu responses to issues such as wildlife conservation, pollution, deforestation, and industrial agriculture.

Credits: 3

RELH 3140 - The Jain Tradition

Examines Jain history, belief, and practice. Prerequisite: RELG 1040, RELH 2090, 2110, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

RELH 3440 - Religion and Violence in Modern India

The purpose of this course is to study the phenomenon of religious violence in one geographic and cultural context. We will examine the roles of religion and violence in Indian political life from the British period until contemporary times, and through the Indian example, we will explore current questions and problems regarding the relationship between religion and politics.

Credits: 3

RELH 3710 - Hindu Traditions of Devotion

Examines the history of Hindu devotionalism in three distinct geographical and cultural regions of India, focusing on the rise of vernacular literature and local traditions of worship. Prerequisite: Any course in Asian religions or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

RELH 3725 - Travel Writing and India

This course examines western encounters with India by reading the fiction and travel writing of Europeans, expatriate Indians, and Americans in India. In reading such works, the course will explore the place of India in the European and American literary and cultural imagination.

Credits: 3

RELH 3740 - Hinduism Through its Narrative Literatures

Examines a major genre of Hindu religious narrative. Genre varies but may include the epics; the mythology of the Puranas; the ‘didactic’ Kathasaritsagara and Pancatantra; the hagiographies of the great Hindu saints; and the modern novel. Prerequisite: RELG 1040, RELH 2090, RELH 2110, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

RELH 3745 - The Hindu Epics

This course involves the close reading of selected passages of the Hindu Epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Students will read the primary sources in translation (from one or both epics), along with relevant secondary scholarly works. An advanced knowledge of Indian religions and/or Hinduism is presumed of students wishing to enroll in this course.

Credits: 3

RELH 4550 - Advanced Topics in Hinduism

This topical course provides upper level undergraduate students in Religious Studies an opportunity for advanced coursework in Hinduism

Credits: 3

RELI 2024 - Jewish-Muslim Relations

Jewish and Muslim communities share a complex history of interaction, spanning from seventh-century Arabia to the present day, and including instances of collaboration as well as moments of violence. Our course examines this dynamic relationship through documentary and literary sources. We focus on points of contact between Muslims and Jews in contexts ranging from battlefields to universities, from religious discourse to international politics.

Credits: 3

RELI 2070 - Classical Islam

Studies the Irano-Semitic background, Arabia, Muhammad and the Qur’an, the Hadith, law and theology, duties and devotional practices, sectarian developments, and Sufism.

Credits: 3

RELI 2080 - Global Islam

Global Islam traces the development of political Islamic thought from Napoleons invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the Arab Spring in 2010 and its aftermath in the Middle East.

Credits: 3

RELI 2085 - Modern Islam: From the Age of Empires to the Present

Surveys Islamic history from the “age of the great empires” (Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal) to the colonial period and up to the present day, including Islam in America. Islamic life and thought will be examined from multiple angles – including popular piety and spirituality, philosophy and theology, law, gender, art, architecture, and literature – with particular attention paid to the rise of modern Islamic “fundamentalist” movements.

Credits: 3

RELI 3110 - Muhammad and the Qur’an

Systematic reading of the Qur’an in English, with an examination of the prophet’s life and work. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

RELI 3120 - Sufism: Islamic Mysticism

This course will be a historical and topical survey of the development of Sufism from the classical Islamic period through the modern age, paying special attention to the interaction of ideas and the social and political contexts surrounding them.

Credits: 3

RELI 3355 - Prophecy in Islam and Judaism

Prophecy provides the theme for our comparative inquiry into two sacred scriptures (the Qur’an and the Hebrew Bible) alongside the rich traditions of Muslim and Jewish interpretive literature. We will consider narratives about specific prophets, medieval debates between and within Muslim and Jewish communities about the status and function of prophecy within their traditions, and modern theoretical approaches to prophecy

Credits: 3

RELI 3415 - Medieval Books and Scholars

Colloquium on medieval books and scholars

Credits: 3

RELI 3670 - Religion and Politics in Islam

Historical and topical survey of the roots and genesis of the religion, and political conceptions operating in the Islamic world today.

Credits: 3

RELI 3900 - Islam in Africa

Historical and topical introduction to Islam in Africa. Cross-listed as RELA 3900. Prerequisite: RELA 2750, RELI 2070, RELI 2080, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

RELI 4560 - Advanced Topics in Islam

This topical course provides upper level undergraduate students in Religious Studies an opportunity for advanced coursework in Islam

Credits: 3

RELJ 1210 - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

Studies the history, literature, and religion of ancient Israel in the light of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Emphasizes methods of contemporary biblical criticism. Cross listed as RELC 1210.

Credits: 3

RELJ 1410 - Elementary Biblical Hebrew I

First half of a year-long introduction to biblical Hebrew, using an innovative language-learning approach. Through communicative activities in an immersive environment, students acquire oral and aural capacities naturally, in Hebrew. These capacities enable students to internalize the language and thus achieve the overall course goal: read simple biblical Hebrew prose with immediate comprehension. Students begin reading Jonah by semester’s end.

Credits: 3

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Slavic Languages and Literatures

Courses

BULG 1210 - Introduction to Bulgarian Language

Introduces students to the essentials of Bulgarian grammar with emphasis on speaking and reading. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; some knowledge of Russian recommended.

Credits: 3

BULG 1220 - Introduction to Bulgarian Language

Introduces students to the essentials of Bulgarian grammar with emphasis on speaking and reading. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; some knowledge of Russian recommended.

Credits: 3

LNGS 2000 - Grammatical Concepts in Foreign Language Learning

Intended for all students interested in language. Treats the grammatical concepts traditionally considered relevant in the teaching and study of foreign languages, including the study of English as a second language. Prerequisite: Some foreign language experience strongly recommended.

Credits: 3

LNGS 2220 - Black English

Introduces the history and structure of what has been termed Black English Vernacular or Black Street English. Focuses on the sociolinguistic factors that led to its emergence, its present role in the Black community, and its relevance in education and racial stereotypes.

Credits: 3

LNGS 2240 - Southern American English

An examination of the structure, history, and sociolinguistics of the English spoken in the southeastern United States.

Credits: 3

LNGS 2500 - Topics in Linguistics

Miscellaneous studies in Linguistics

Credits: 3

LNGS 3250 - Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Analysis

Introduces sign systems, language as a sign system, and approaches to linguistics description. Emphasizes the application of descriptive techniques to data.

Credits: 3

LNGS 3251 - Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Methodology Discussion

Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Methodology Discussion. Prerequisite: Enrollment in LNGS 3250.

Credits: 1

LNGS 3260 - Introduction to Comparative-Historical Linguistics

Surveys the elements of comparative-historical linguistics. Prerequisite: LNGS 3250 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

LNGS 4500 - Topics in Linguistics

Miscellaneous studies in Linguistics

Credits: 3

LNGS 4993 - Independent Study in General Linguistics

For students who wish to pursue linguistic theory and the application of linguistic methodology to data beyond the introductory level.

Credits: 1.00 to 6.00

POL 1210 - Introduction to Polish Language

Introduces students to the essentials of Polish grammar with emphasis on speaking and reading. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/slavic/courses.html.

Credits: 3

POL 1220 - Introduction to Polish Language

Introduces students to the essentials of Polish grammar with emphasis on speaking and reading. Prerequisite: POL 1210 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

POL 2210 - Intermediate Polish Language

Second-year continuation of POL 1210, 1220. Prerequisite: POL 1210, 1220 and instructor permission.

Credits: 3

POL 2220 - Intermediate Polish Language

Second-year continuation of POL 1210, 1220. Prerequisite: POL 1210, 1220 and instructor permission.

Credits: 3

RUSS 116 - Intensive Introductory Russian

This is the non-credit option for RUSS 1016.

Credits: 0

RUSS 126 - Intensive Introductory Russian

This is the non-credit option for RUSS 2026.

Credits: 0

RUSS 216 - Intensive Intermediate Russian

This is the non-credit option for RUSS 2016.

Credits: 0

RUSS 226 - Intensive Intermediate Russian

This is the non-credit option for RUSS 2026.

Credits: 0

RUSS 1010 - First-Year Russian

Introduces Russian grammar with emphasis on reading and speaking. Class meets five days per week plus work in the language laboratory. To be followed by RUSS 2010, 2020.

Credits: 4

RUSS 1016 - Intensive Introductory Russian

RUSS 1020 - First-Year Russian

Introduces Russian grammar with emphasis on reading and speaking. Class meets five days per week plus work in the language laboratory. To be followed by RUSS 2010, 2020. Prerequisite: A grade of C or above in RUSS 1010.

Credits: 4

RUSS 1026 - Intensive Introductory Russian

RUSS 1030 - Russian Language Study in Russia

In this course, students will begin or continue their study of the Russian language. Students will be placed at the appropriate level and will be taught by instructors at UVA’s partner institutions in Moscow and St. Petersburg. At either the beginning or intermediate level, the course includes reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Aimed to give students as high a level of proficiency in spoken and written Russian as possible.

Credits: 2

RUSS 2010 - Second-Year Russian

Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes practice in speaking and writing Russian and introduction to Russian prose and poetry. Class meets four days per week, plus work in the language laboratory. Prerequisite: RUSS 1020 (with grade of C- or better) or equivalent.

Credits: 4

RUSS 2016 - Intensive Intermediate Russian

RUSS 2020 - Second-Year Russian

RUSS 2026 - Intensive Intermediate Russian

RUSS 3000 - Russian House Conversation

Russian House Conversation

Credits: 1

RUSS 3010 - Third-Year Russian

Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes intensive oral practice through reports, dialogues, guided discussions; composition of written reports and essays; readings in literary and non-literary texts. Class meets three hours per week, plus work in the language laboratory. Prerequisite: RUSS 2010, 2020 or equivalent with a grade of C or better.

Credits: 3

RUSS 3020 - Third-Year Russian

RUSS 3030 - Intermediate Conversation

Two hours of conversation practice per week. Prerequisite: RUSS 1020, or equivalent. RUSS 2020 is strongly recommended.

Credits: 1

RUSS 3040 - Applied Russian Phonetics

Examines the sound system of the Russian language with special attention to palatalization, vowel reduction, sounds in combination, and the relationship of sound to spelling. Prerequisite: RUSS 1020.

Credits: 3

RUSS 3050 - Russian Word Formation

Examines the sound system, lexicon, and word formative processes of the Russian literary language. Prerequisite: RUSS 1020

Credits: 3

RUSS 3060 - Russian for Business

Russian for oral and written communication in business situations. Prerequisite: RUSS 2020.

Credits: 3

RUSS 3500 - Topics in Russian Language & Literature

Selected Topics in Russian Language and Literature

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

RUSS 3993 - Independent Study

Generic course to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

RUSS 4010 - Fourth-Year Russian

Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes oral practice, extensive reading, and work in Russian stylistics. Prerequisite: RUSS 3010, 3020 with a grade of C or better.

Credits: 3

RUSS 4020 - Fourth-Year Russian

Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes oral practice, extensive reading, and work in Russian stylistics. Prerequisite: RUSS 4010 with a grade of C or better.

Credits: 3

RUSS 4500 - Topics in Russian Language & Literature

Selected Topics in Russian Language and Literature

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

RUSS 4520 - Introduction to Russian Literature

Introduction to Russian literary studies. Reading and analysis of literary works in the original. Texts are selected from classical and contemporary literature. Topic varies. All readings and discussion in Russian. Course is open to advanced students of Russian and heritage speakers.

Credits: 3

RUSS 4990 - Senior Honors Thesis

Required of honors majors in Russian language and literature and Russian and East European studies.

Credits: 3

RUSS 4993 - Independent Study

May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 3

RUSS 4998 - Senior Thesis in Russian Studies

For majors in Russian and East European studies, normally taken in the fourth year.

Credits: 3

RUSS 4999 - Senior Thesis in Russian Studies

For majors in Russian and East European studies, normally taken in the fourth year.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2310 - UVA in Russia: Literary Places in Russia

This course will take students to visit the places associated with literature – writers’ museums and the locations where they site their works – in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Visiting and studying these places can teach us much about Russian literary works, their creators and their readers. We will read and explore the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov and other Russian writers.

Credits: 4

RUTR 2320 - America Through Russian Eyes

Changing Russian representations of America and American visions of Russia from revolution to post-communism (in literature, film, music and other forms of popular culture.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2330 - Russia and the Caucasus

This interdisciplinary course introduces students to the respective cultural histories of Armenia, Georgia, and Russia, relying heavily on literary and cinematic sources. We will also explore the more contemporary relationship between the Caucasus and Russia from the 19th century to the present.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2340 - Russian Women’s Literature

Russia’s literary tradition includes a rich vein of poetry, prose, and memoir written by women. This course examines works composed from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries; emphasis is on literature of the twentieth century and the contemporary period. This is primarily a literature class, but works are grounded in their historical and sociopolitical contexts. All readings are in English translation. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/slavic/courses.html.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2350 - Russian and East European Film

This course is an introduction to and overview of the history of film in Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Russia, though we will be discussing other countries that were once part of the Soviet Bloc. We will be covering a variety of films, long and short, as well as animation, and how these works of art reflect the time periods in which they were created.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2360 - Tales of Transgression

This course examines how Russian writers engage with ethical questions ranging from lofty pursuits of freedom and the meaning of life to more prosaic issues of personal responsibility and happiness. In the context of literary analysis, we explore such conceptual terms describing human activity as love and justice, right and wrong, good and evil. Texts by Dostoevsky, Leskov, Tolstoy, Ostrovsky, Chekhov, Olesha, and Petrushevskaya.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2370 - Fairy Tales

Fairy tales have enchanted readers since early age and have influenced much of cultural production in Russia. This course studies the development of the Russian fairy tale from its folk origins to Soviet and post-Soviet adaptations. We will sample different thematic groups of tales and analyze them in view of various interpretive methodologies, including structuralism, sociology, psychoanalysis, and feminism. All readings in English.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2400 - Russian Masterpieces

Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies selected great works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose fiction.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2450 - Art of Scandal: Literature and Culture in Society

Studies works of art that caused major controversy and debate in Russia. Why did certain texts resonate more loudly than others in society? How did this dynamic change between the imperial and post-Soviet periods? Includes works of art in a variety of media: literature and criticism, modern painting, architecture, film and music.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2460 - Introduction to Russian Culture and Civilization

No knowledge of Russian needed. Investigates ‘being Russian’ through the works of Russia’s great writers, artists, architects, and composers. Focuses on the heroes, heroines, and villains, symbols, legends, and rituals central to Russian creativity.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2470 - Understanding Russia: Symbols, Myths, and Archetypes of Identity

This course explores different sources of Russian national identity from pre-Christian `Rus’ to the present. We will investigate how the occidental and oriental elements blend into a unique Euro-Asian culture, nation, and world power. Our main aim is to provide an orientation to the symbolic world of Russian self-identification. We will employ the tools of the historian, geographer, psychologist, and student of literature and culture.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2500 - Topics in Russian Literature

Studies in English translation of selected authors, works, or themes in Russian literature. Topics in recent years were Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov. May be repeated for credit under different topics.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

RUTR 2730 - Dostoevsky

Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the major works of Dostoevsky.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2740 - Tolstoy in Translation

Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the major works of Tolstoy.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2993 - Independent Study in Russian Folklore, Culture or Literature in Translation

For students wishing to pursue independent reading and research in Russian Folklore, Culture, Civilization or Literature in Translation. May be repeated for credit .

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

RUTR 3340 - Books Behind Bars: Life, Lit, & Community Leadership

Students will grapple in a profound and personal way with timeless human questions: Who am I? Why am I here? How should I live? They will do this, in part, by facilitating discussions about short masterpieces of Russian literature with residents at a juvenile correctional center. This course offers an integrated academic-community engagement curriculum, and provides a unique opportunity for service learning, leadership, and youth mentoring.

Credits: 4

RUTR 3350 - Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the major works of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Goncharov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others. Emphasizes prose fiction. This course is a prerequisite for 5000-level literature courses. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/slavic/courses.html.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3360 - Twentieth Century Russian Literature

This course surveys Russian literature (prose and poetry) of the twentieth century. Readings include works by Soviet and émigré writers. All works are read in English translation.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3370 - Russian Prose From 1881-1917

Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Russian prose. Concentrates on evolution of Russian realism and rise of symbolist and ornamentalist fiction.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3390 - Edens, Idylls, and Utopias in Russian Literature

This course explores Russian literature’s many renderings of heaven on earth and their roots in folklore, religion, art, and political thought.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3400 - Nabokov

Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the evolution of Nabokov’s art, from his early Russian language tales to the major novels written in English.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3500 - Topics in Russian Literature

RUTR 3510 - Topics in Russian Literature

RUTR 3520 - Case Studies in Russian Literature

Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. One great novel such as War and Peace or The Brothers Karamazov is studied in detail along with related works and a considerable sampling of critical studies.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3680 - The Russian Novel in European Perspective

Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the evolution of the Russian novel, its thematic and structural features, from the early nineteenth century to the present.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3993 - Independent Study

Generic course to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

RUTR 4500 - Topics in Russian Language & Literature

Selected Topics in Russian Language and Literature.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

RUTR 4993 - Independent Study

Generic course to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

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

SLAV 1710 - Liberal Arts Seminar

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

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

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

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

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

SLAV 3500 - Topics in Slavic Language & Literature

Selected Topics in Slavic Language and Literature.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

SLAV 3993 - Independent Study

Generic course to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SLFK 3500 - Topics in Slavic Folklore

Selected topics in Slavic Folklore.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

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

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

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: 1.00 to 6.00

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

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

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

SLTR 3993 - Independent Study

Generic course to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

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

SLTR 4993 - Independent Study

Generic course to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

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Sociology

Courses

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

SOC 1595 - Special Topics in Social Issues

Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.

Credits: 3

SOC 1596 - Special Topics in Social Issues

Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.

Credits: 3

SOC 2000 - Gender, Technology, & Education

Gender, Technology, & Education

Credits: 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

SOC 2260 - Sociology of Sport

Sociology of Sport

Credits: 3

SOC 2320 - Gender and Society

Gender and Society

Credits: 3

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

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

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

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

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

SOC 2500 - Special Topics in Sociology (J Term Course)

Topics vary each J-Term session and will be announced.

Credits: 3

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

SOC 2595 - Special Topics in Sociology

Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.

Credits: 3

SOC 2596 - Special Topics in Sociology

Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.

Credits: 3

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

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

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

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

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

SOC 2950 - “The Wire” - Sociology Through TV & Film

This course uses HBO’s series “The Wire” (2002-2008) as the course “text” to illustrate and analyze the intersection of economy, education, class, race, crime, and politics within the lives of the urban underclass. Special emphasis is placed upon the significance of television and film as a form of communication that illustrates the complex interplay of social structure and social problems.

Credits: 3

SOC 3020 - Introduction to Social Theory

Introduces the major theoretical issues and traditions in sociology, especially as developed in the writings of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. Sociology majors are expected to take this course in their third year.

Credits: 3

SOC 3056 - Culture and Power

This course examines sociological theories of power and their intersections with culture. It focuses on oppression and social change in the 20th and 21st century U.S. through the lens of cultural expression, beliefs and meaning. It includes close reading of social theories of power and empirical studies of social institutions and social identities. Prerequisite: Six credits in Sociology or permission of instructor

Credits: 3

SOC 3059 - Sociology of Science & Knowledge

Ideas refer to anything which is said to exist, from people to planets to God. Sociology of knowledge describes and explains variation in ideas across different social settings. This course will familiarize students with theoretical and empirical work on the behavior of ideas, and convey the major accomplishments, shortcomings, and prospects of the subfield using the history & philosophy of science, and the workings of science as an institution.

Credits: 3

SOC 3060 - Sociological Perspectives on Whiteness

This course examines the social construction of race through an exploration of white identity, both theoretically and empirically. Topics include the historical genesis of white identity; its intersection with political movements and organizations; the relation of whiteness to race, ethnicity, class, gender and nation; representations of whiteness in popular culture; the sociological mechanisms by which it is reproduced, negotiated, and contested.

Credits: 3

SOC 3090 - Philosophical Foundations of Social Theory

This course pursues the question of the ways in which classical social theory is rooted in, and indebted to, philosophy and metaphysics. This will be shown through four cases: Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’, Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’, Nietzsche’s ‘Will to Power’, Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’. Problems central to all sciences and modes of cognition, such as knowledge & truth, theory & ideology, and agency vs. causality will be covered.

Credits: 3

SOC 3100 - Feminist Theory

Feminist Theory offers a focused exploration of ways that late 20th Century and early 21st Century feminist theorists challenge, alter and deploy central concerns and paradigms of Western cultural assumption. Although Feminist Theory as a category incorporates interdisciplinary and global perspectives, the slant of this course is a focus on Western culture and Feminist Social Theory.

Credits: 3

SOC 3110 - Introduction to Survey Research Methods

Surveys are everywhere these days, but good surveys are not easy to do. Learn how to conduct a successful, high-quality sample survey. Understand the main sources of survey error and learn about ways to achieve high quality measurement and representative results. Learn best practices in designing samples, writing questions, constructing questionnaires, conducting interviews and implementing surveys via mail, telephone, or the Internet.

Credits: 3

SOC 3120 - Sociology Research Workshop

Introduces data analysis and data processing, as well as the conceptualization of sociological problems. Emphasizes individual student projects.

Credits: 4

SOC 3130 - Introduction to Social Statistics

Studies elementary statistical methods for social science applications. Topics include summarizing data with graphs and descriptive measures, generalizing from a sample to a population as in opinion polls, and determining the relationship between two variables. No special mathematical background is required, and students will be taught basic computer techniques. Three hours of lecture, two hours of laboratory work. Majors are expected to take this course in their third year. Prerequisites: SOC 3120

Credits: 4

SOC 3180 - Sociology of Emotions

The course explores the role of emotions in social interaction as well as how societies and cultures shape emotional expression. The objective is to decode the subtle rules of emotional display implicit in many social interactions and excavate the cultural meanings of particular emotions such as love, sympathy, shame, boredom, and sadness. Readings include theoretical and empirical work from sociologists, anthropologists,and social psychologists.

Credits: 3

SOC 3290 - Sociology of Childhood

The class introduces the ‘new social studies of childhood’ and the idea that the experience of childhood is a social construction, not a string of biological facts. Topics include: how caring for children varies across time & space, and considering childhood in the context of Western cultural trends - increasing inequality, unequal distribution of overwork, poverty, war, liberty, decreasing privacy, consumerism, sexualization, networked society.

Credits: 3

SOC 3306 - Sexuality, Gender, Class and Race in the Teen Film

SOC 3310 - Sociology of Self

What is the difference between individual and self? Do we carry a fixed, unchangeable self inside, or do we have as many selves as the situations in which we commonly find ourselves? Can we go as far as saying that the self comes from the outside, and if so, when do we internalize it? At birth, once and for all? Or repeatedly and in everyday life? We will explore these questions and more as we venture into an exciting field-sociology of the self.

Credits: 3

SOC 3370 - Schools and Society

Analyzes the impact of schools on opportunity and inequality, the many determinants of academic achievement, and the nature of schools as a workplace, with special attention to the role of teachers. The effectiveness of school reforms is also considered. This course is intended to provide useful background information, not professional training, to College students contemplating a career in education or ‘late’ entrants to the BA/MT program.

Credits: 3

SOC 3371 - Merit, Privilege & American Higher Education

This course examines how merit and privilege intersect at one of our most powerful institutions: higher education. How did we get here? What are we doing? And where are we going? We will address these questions at both individual and institutional levels, exploring how notions and realities of meritocracy and inequality shape experiences within and beyond the classroom. Prerequisites: 3 credits of Sociology or permission of Instructor

Credits: 3

SOC 3400 - Gender and Sexuality

Focuses on the construction of gender and sexuality, and of the many ways human groups regulate and attach meanings to these categories. Some general themes addressed will be: contemporary and historical definitions of gender, sex, and sexuality; gender socialization; the varieties of sexual identities and relationships; embodiment, childbearing, and families in the contemporary United States. Prerequisite: At least 3 credits in Sociology or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

SOC 3410 - Race and Ethnic Relations

Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials.

Credits: 3

SOC 3440 - Chinese Society

This seminar provides a survey of Chinese society and social changes in the reform-era (1979 to the present). It uses sociological analysis to comprehensively examine various aspects of contemporary Chinese society including: economic development, social inequality, governance, political reform, nationalism, religion, ethnicity, and popular culture.

Credits: 3

SOC 3450 - Women, Islam and Modernity

The global Islamic revival is often considered an obstacle to gender equality. So how are we to understand women’s involvement in Islamic movements? And what can these phenomena tell us about gender and modernity? This class will read ethnographic accounts of Muslim women in various parts of the world. We will discuss these ethnographies with an eye for how they speak to and challenge sociological theories of gender, identity, and globalization. Prerequisites: Student must have taken at least one course on gender, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 3470 - Sociology of Development

This study of the development of human societies explores the five major ‘techo-economic bases’ that have characterized our species’ history (hunting-gathering, horticultural, agrarian, industrial and information/biotech) and examines how contemporary macrolevel trends affect our lives at the microlevel.

Credits: 3

SOC 3480 - Sociology of Globalization

This course will explore the determinants, nature, and effects of the increase in cross-border flows of goods, services, capital and people that we have come to associate with the term “globalization”. We will investigate how globalization affects domestic & world inequality, the role of institutions, and world & local cultures. The course will include readings from economics, history, world-system theory, and cultural analysis.

Credits: 3

SOC 3490 - Cities and Cultures

Explores the ways in which physical environments shape and are shaped by social life. Examines the relationship between urban space and culture in different historical and social settings, though there is a particular focus on the rise and development of modernity as expressed through the experience of particular cities.

Credits: 3

SOC 3510 - Topics in Applied Data Science

This course, broadly speaking, will introduce students to principles of data science through the hands-on study of core problems in social research. This course represents an ideal site for the analysis of the intersection between sociological theory and empirical research, and will include numerous opportunities for hands-on engagement with data.

Credits: 3

SOC 3595 - Special Topics in Sociology

Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.

Credits: 3

SOC 3596 - Special Topics in Sociology

Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.

Credits: 3

SOC 3620 - The Afterlives of Communism

The course will explore the changes and challenges confronting communist and post-communist countries in different regions of the world. The focus is on the everyday lives of ordinary people. Topics include the changing meanings of work and consumption; family and gender; personhood and identity; memory and nostalgia; and new urban visions in thought and practice.

Credits: 3

SOC 3640 - Human Society in History

Human societies exist in time.This course will examine the historical development of a variety of societies from earliest times to the present. Its focus will be on the relation of the West to the rest of the world. The course is particularly intended for social scientists, to make them aware of the historical dimension to human society; but it is open to all.

Credits: 3

SOC 3700 - Health and Society

This course explores the social dimensions of health and illness, focusing especially on the social experience of illness, the social determinants of disease, and the role and meaning of medicine and public health in modern U.S. society. The class examines how we define health problems and their solutions, and it considers the ways in which race, gender, class, age, and sexuality matter for understanding health-related experiences and discourses.

Credits: 3

SOC 3710 - Organizations, Institutions, Markets

Introduces the study of complex organizations within their institutional and market environments. Emphasis is placed on business and professional organizations, with some attention to government and nonprofit organizations as well. Examines organizational founding, decision-making, and boundary-setting; organizations’ internal structures and practices; inter-organizational relationships; and the impact of organizations on society. Prerequisites: Three credits in Sociology or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

SOC 3800 - Social Change

Analyzes social change in whole societies with a focus on contemporary America. Emphasizes the major theories of social change from Marx and Spencer through contemporary analyzes.

Credits: 3

SOC 3820 - Social Movements

Social movements are an historical and global phenomenon of great complexity and variety. Because the topic can be so broad, the course is organized around case studies of civil rights, the industrial workers’ movement, environmentalism, religious fundamentalism, and the counter movements to globalization. These cases will be used to illustrate variety of themes and principles, and you’ll learn about specific events, personalities, organizations, and dynamics that shaped these movements. By this method, you will gain specific knowledge about important social movements, as well as an overview and general orientation to the sociology of this dynamic area of social life. Prerequisite: SOC 1010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 3860 - Religion & Secularization

Are we witnessing today the crisis of secularisms? If so, what are its causes -challenges of revived religions or secularism’s unfulfilled promises? Are the clashes between religions and secularisms inevitable? To address these questions, we’ll discuss the ideas of the prophets of religious decline (Marx, Durkheim, Weber), and consider the problems and the potential of the religious-secular encounters in a global perspective.

Credits: 3

SOC 4010 - Sociology of Music

Students will consider ways in which social communities intersect with, respond to, and create musical communities. Musical taste will be interrogated as a point of identification and self-presentation that is neither given nor natural, but contingent and constructed. Students will engage foundational critical texts in the sociology of music, and examine both the continuities and the disjunctures represented by our era of digital social media. Prerequisites: six credits of Sociology or permission of instructor

Credits: 3

SOC 4030 - Sociology of Mind

An introduction to the philosophy and sociology of mind. Reviews Classical Idealism, Phenomenology, existentialism, and the current sociological theories of mind, with an eye toward cognitive science as well. Prerequisite: six credits of sociology of instructor permission

Credits: 3

SOC 4050 - American Society

Studies present and anticipated trends in American institutions and values. Emphasizes contemporary dilemmas such as race relations, poverty, community life, and technological transformations. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4052 - Sociology of Religious Behavior

Course will focus on established traditions in the United States including evangelical and mainline Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, black Protestantism, and Orthodox Judaism. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4053 - Sociology of Education

Analyzes education as a social institution and its relationship to other institutions (e.g., the economy, the stratification system, the family). Emphasizes the role of education in the status attainment process. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4054 - Political Sociology

Political sociology focuses on the social foundations and patterns of political behavior and the socio-historical mechanisms for political stability and political change. Its focus is not restricted to the formal rules that characterize a given political system, such as laws, regulations, or electoral systems: political sociology rather emphasizes how power, in its multifaceted and complex nature, is socially configured and reproduce global power.

Credits: 3

SOC 4055 - Sociology of Law

After a brief history of legal sociology during the past century, the course introduces and elaborates a sociological theory of legal behavior. The primary focus is the case, a specific legal conflict. The theory explains the handling of each case with its social structure, such as the social closeness and social elevation of the parties. Although the course is primarily scientific in emphasis, the practical relevance of the theory is addressed. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4057 - Family Policy

Studies the relationship between family and society as expressed in policy and law. Emphasizes the effects of formal policy on the structure of families and the interactions within families. The American family system is examined as it has responded to laws and policies of government and private industry and to changes in society. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4059 - Conflict

Theoretical exploration of the social causes of conflict about right and wrong and the social factors that explain the handling of these conflicts in diverse settings across the world. Topics include individual and collective violence, avoidance, third-party intervention such as mediation and adjudication, therapy, and the evolution of conflict and morality across history.

Credits: 3

SOC 4070 - Sociology of Art

A discussion-based seminar covering material from a wide range of perspectives in an attempt to understand the social context and effects of visual and other arts. Students are expected to have introductory level familiarity with sociological thinking. Prerequisite: 6 credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4090 - Sociology of Literature

An upper-level seminar in the sociology of literature. Students should be familiar with general sociological concepts and theory. Covers material from a wide range of perspectives in an attempt to understand the social context of written language and of literature. Student groups will be responsible for leading general class discussion on one or more occasions. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4100 - Sociology of the African-American Community

Study of a comprehensive contemporary understanding of the history, struggle and diversity of the African-American community.

Credits: 3

SOC 4140 - Sociology of Consumption

This course considers the nature and effects of consumer society; it explores the theories, practices, and politics of modern consumption. Topics include the historical development of consumer society; the role of consumption in creating personal and political identities; the cultural and social meanings of seemingly impersonal objects like money; the commodification of social life; and the politics of consumption.

Credits: 3

SOC 4170 - Theoretical Sociology

This course surveys eight major strategies used to explain human behavior in sociology and related social sciences. It also addresses several broader issues pertaining to the nature and goals of sociological science. Prerequisite: one course in sociology or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

SOC 4190 - Gender and Work

Considers major theories of gender-based inequality at work. Explores gender, disparities in key dimensions of work, such as entry into occupations and jobs; promotion, rank, and authority in organizations; earnings; and conflicts between work and family. Emphasizes the contemporary United States, but includes some cross-national comparisons. Prerequisite: 6 credits of Sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4200 - Sex and Gender Go To The Movies

SOC 4220 - Contemporary Social Problems

Explore the processes by which social problems emerge and are defined by collective social action. Sociological perspective on social problems will be studied through case studies of specific issues including eugenics, physical child abuse, sexual abuse, school misbehavior, drugs, smoking and others. Prerequisite: Six credits of Sociology or instructor permission, SOC 2220 recommended.

Credits: 3

SOC 4230 - Deviance and Social Control

Examines a variety of deviant behaviors in American society and the sociological theories explaining societal reactions and attempts at social control. Focuses on enduring conditions such as drug addiction, alcoholism, and mental illness. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4260 - Race, Crime and Punishment

This course is an exercise in critical thinking and writing. We will investigate connections between race and crime in contemporary America. To do so, we will explore constructions of crime and race and patterns of victimization, criminality and punishment. We will uncover shifting definitions of crime and the ways that institutions, policies and practices shape patterns of punishment.

Credits: 3

SOC 4280 - Sociology of Mental Health and Illness

This course explores mental health and illness in social context, focusing especially on the history, definitions, social and cultural determinants, and consequences of conceptualizations and treatment of mental illness. It includes an examination of perceptions of mental illness in popular culture, and the spread of psychiatric ideas in more global context. Pre-requisite: six credits of Sociology

Credits: 3

SOC 4290 - Sociology of Money

With the expansion of the financial sector as a backdrop, sociology of money has developed two trajectories. This course provides an introduction to both perspectives: money is created by an authority as a system of accounting for value - those who are subject to the authority then have to accept it, and money is created as individuals negotiate the potentially contradictory logic implied by self-interested, market based exchange and morality. Prerequisite: Six Credits of Sociology

Credits: 3

SOC 4310 - Sociology of Compassion: Inequality and the Social Heart

This course will focus on compassion as a cultural practice with political implications. What are the roots of solidarity across social inequalities, occupational groups and political cultures? When does compassion simply stop at feeling, when does it produce individual action, and when might it turn into social change? The course culminates in an analysis of how compassion intersects with social justice and notions of deserving and need. Prerequisite: six credits of Sociology or permission of instructor

Credits: 3

SOC 4350 - Comparative Gender Stratification

Examines gender stratification - the relative level of equality of men and women in a given group - in comparative and cross-historical perspective. Several theories are presented to explain the variations, from gender-egalitarian to highly patriarchal groups. Prerequisite: Six credits of Sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4380 - Violence & Media

The course takes a theoretical approach to interpreting images of violence in photography, film and written text, following the work of theorists such as Roland Barthes, Mieke Bal, Teresa de Lauretis, Geoffrey Batchen. The course raises questions about differences between representing violence as documentary, testimony, or entertainment, the ethics of representing violence, and cultural patterns for viewing violent images in contemporary society. Prerequisite: 6 credits of Sociology or Permission of Instructor

Credits: 3

SOC 4410 - Sociological Phenomenology

Explores the various ways in which phenomenology has shaped micro-sociological discourse on subjectivity, agency, and the lifeworld. Pre-requisites: Six credits of Sociology or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

SOC 4420 - Sociology of Inequality

Surveys basic theories and methods used to analyze structures of social inequality. Includes comparative analysis of the inequalities of power and privilege, and their causes and consequences for social conflict and social change. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4430 - Love, Sex and Sociology

This course explores the social construction of love and sexualities. Beginning with historical perspectives, the class also compares the organization of intimate life in the United States and other countries. Students evaluate the impact of social inequalities in gender, class and race on the construction of choice and commitment. The class considers how consumer capitalism, the state, and culture interact to shape our intimate practices.

Credits: 3

SOC 4480 - Sociology of Professions

What is a profession? Why do professions play such a prominent role in society? This course examines the complex nature of professional work, the problem of professional ethics, the influence of professions as political actors, and sources of inequality in professional earnings and prestige. Requisites: 6 credits of sociology or obtain permission from the instructor.

Credits: 3

SOC 4510 - Topics in Sociology of Work

Studies the division of labor, occupational classification, labor force trends, career patterns and mobility, occupational cultures and life-styles, and the sociology of the labor market. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4520 - Topics in Religion and Society

This course focuses on various aspects of religion and society such as American culture, gender and the family, politics, science, religious diversity and pluralism, violence, and other emerging issues.

Credits: 3

SOC 4530 - Topics in Sociology of Health

This course delves into sociological approaches to health, including the social construction of health and wellness, medicalization, the intersections of culture, power and inequality with systems of diagnosis and treatment, the social determinants of health, and the subjective experiences of health and disability/illness. Prerequisite: Six credits of Sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4550 - Topics in Ethics and Society

This course considers various ethical aspects of society in such areas as race, family, work, the economy, and memory. It focuses on sociological approaches to ethical and moral questions in modern society, drawing on empirical examples and case studies. Prerequisite: six credits of Sociology or permission of instructor

Credits: 3

SOC 4600 - Gender and Culture

Studies how the social definition of gender affects and is affected by cultural artifacts such as literature, movies, music, and television. Students are expected to be familiar with general sociological concepts and theory and be regularly prepared for participation in a demanding seminar. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4640 - Urban Sociology

Examines both classic and contemporary debates within urban sociology and relates them to the wider concerns of social theory. Topics include public space and urban culture, social segregation and inequality, the phenomenon of the global city, and the effects of economic change or urban social life. Six credits of Sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4660 - Sociology of Power and Authority

Examines the questions of power and authority in society, with a focus in particular on the historical changes in power relations from the 18th century to the present. Particular foci include: variation in how elites access and justify power; the relationship between culture and interests; power, the body, and the self; and performative approaches to power. Students are asked to write their own analyses of contemporary power relations.

Credits: 3

SOC 4680 - Sociology of Everyday

This course explores concepts and theories of the everyday developed in sociology and related disciplines. Drawing on concrete examples it examines how societies are created and reproduced by the apparently mundane practices of everyday life. Among the topics to be discussed are the rules and rituals of everyday life; home, work, and leisure; the temporalities and rhythms of the everyday; patterns of mobility, and power and resistance.

Credits: 3

SOC 4690 - Scientists and Intellectuals in Society

The history of modern science, from the 17th century to the present, & the division of scholarship into different realms (e.g. “the humanities” versus “the sciences”) is a history of tremendous social & political conflict over the nature and purpose of knowledge production. We will examine these conflicts, and their relationship to the central organizational principles of modern societies, with a particular focus on recent American history.

Credits: 3

SOC 4700 - Medical Sociology

Sociological orientation to understanding how and why the issues of health and disease have come to occupy such an important role in contemporary American society. Health issues are presented as a consequence of social change with an emphasis on population characteristics, working conditions, education, and mass communication in the United States. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4710 - Sociology of Organizations

Studies the formal organizations in government, industry, education, health care, religion, the arts, and voluntary associations. Considers such topics as power and authority, communication, ‘informal’ relations, commitment, and alienation. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4740 - Sociol Persp on Trauma, Atrocity, & Responsibility

Scholars have characterized the 20th century as an epoch of trauma and atrocity. Previous epochs were brutal also, but the nature of brutality and our vocabularies with which to understand it have been transformed dramatically over the last century. This course explores events (e.g. holocaust, genocide, atomic bombings) and institutional factors (e.g. media,law,philosophy) that have transformed our sense of vulnerability and our responses to it. Prerequisites: 6 credits of Sociology or permission of instructor

Credits: 3

SOC 4750 - Racism

Racism, the disparagement and victimization of individuals and groups because of a belief that their ancestry renders them intrinsically different and inferior, is a problem in many societies. In this course we will examine the problem of racism by investigating the workings of these sociological processes theoretically, historically, and contemporaneously.

Credits: 3

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Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Languages and Literatures

Courses

ITAL 116 - Intensive Introductory Italian

This is the non-credit option for ITAL 1016.

Credits: 0

ITAL 126 - Intensive Introductory Italian

This is the non-credit option for ITAL 1026.

Credits: 0

ITAL 216 - Intensive Intermediate Italian

This is the non-credit option for ITAL 2016.

Credits: 0

ITAL 226 - Intensive Intermediate Italian

This is the non-credit option for ITAL 2026.

Credits: 0

ITAL 1010 - Elementary Italian I

Introduction to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing Italian. Five class hours and one language laboratory hour. Followed by ITAL 1020.

Credits: 4

ITAL 1016 - Intensive Introductory Italian

ITAL 1020 - Elementary Italian II

Continuation of ITAL 1010. Prerequisite: ITAL 1010.

Credits: 4

ITAL 1026 - Intensive Introductory Italian

ITAL 2010 - Intermediate Italian I

Continued grammar, conversation, composition, readings, and an introduction to Italian literature. Prerequisite: ITAL 1020 or the equivalent. Note: The following courses have the prerequisite ITAL 2010, 2020, or permission of the department.

Credits: 3

ITAL 2016 - Intensive Intermediate Italian

ITAL 2020 - Intermediate Italian II

Continuation of ITAL 2010.

Credits: 3

ITAL 2026 - Intensive Intermediate Italian

ITAL 2030 - Intermediate Italian II for Professionals

This is the fourth class in the four-course sequence that fulfills the language requirement with modules on issues applicable to the work context. Films, TV series and articles from Italian newspapers will help students to learn more about the Italian society of the new millennium and strengthen their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills at a high intermediate level appropriate for an intercultural professional environment.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3010 - Advanced Italian I

Includes idiomatic Italian conversation and composition, anthological readings of literary texts in Italian, plus a variety of oral exercises including presentations, skits, and debates. Italian composition is emphasized through writing assignments and selective review of the fine points of grammar and syntax. Prerequisite: ITAL 2020.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3020 - Advanced Italian II

Topics include idiomatic Italian conversation and composition, anthological readings and discussions in Italian of literary texts from the past four centuries of Italian literature (from Tasso to the present), selective review of the fine points of grammar and syntax, the elements of essay writing to Italian. Prerequisite: ITAL 2020

Credits: 3

ITAL 3030 - How to Do Things with Words

One of three required core courses for the Italian Studies Major and Minor (with ITAL 3010 and 3020). ITAL 3030 focuses on interpretative and critical approaches to various genres of Italian textual and visual-linguistic expression. These include poetry, fiction, cinema, and theater. ITAL 3030 introduces students to the history and conventions of each genre, as well as the analytical methodologies suited to intelligent engagement with each. Prerequisites: Must be enrolled in or have taken ITAL 3010 or ITAL 3020

Credits: 3

ITAL 3040 - Advanced Italian III

This course aims at perfecting student’s command of Italian language, in all major skill areas: speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Selective review of the fine points of grammar and syntax. Idiomatic Italian conversation promoted via readings and discussions in Italian on current subjects. Writing proficiency promoted through composition work. In Italian. Prerequisites: Completion of ITAL 2020 or its equivalent.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3050 - Advanced Italian IV

Continued perfection of Italian language proficiency, in all major skill areas: speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Selective review of the fine points of grammar and syntax. Idiomatic Italian conversation promoted via readings and discussions in Italian on current subjects. Writing proficiency promoted through composition work. In Italian. Prerequisites: Completion of ITAL 3040 or its equivalent.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3110 - Medieval and Renaissance Masterpieces

Introduction to relevant Italian medieval and renaissance literary works. Prerequisites: ITAL 2020

Credits: 3

ITAL 3120 - Contemporary Literature

Study of selected masterpieces from the modern period of Italian literature. Readings and discussions in Italian. Exercises in essay writing. Prerequisite: ITAL 2020 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3250 - Italian Love Poetry in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

This course treats the production of major poets and writers of Italian Medieval and Renaissance times (Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto, and Tasso) and focuses on the theme of love. It illustrates how central the topic of love was to Italian poetry in the early modern age, its development from classical love verse, and the immense influence of Italian love poetry in the diffusion of Italian culture abroad. Taught in Italian.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3350 - Fine Young Cannibals and Other Stories in Contemporary Italy

This course analyzes stories and short novels by contemporary Italians, from 1990 to the present. The works exemplify new forms of narration, many of which integrate ideas and practices of pulp literature, and noir currents, in the specific aims of their authors. Works by writers self-dubbed the ‘cannibals’ (‘cannibali’) are foregrounded, in an investigation of current short fiction and the imaginary of Italian society today. Taught in Italian. Prerequisites: Completion of or current enrollment in ITAL 3010, and permission of UVa study abroad advisor in Italian.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3460 - Growing Up Italian Style: Children’s Culture

In this course, we will explore how major works of literature for children, from Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, to the poetry of Gianni Rodari, reflect changing views of childhood and parenting in Italy. Students will learn how children’s literature of the 19th-century helped to create an Italian national identity. We will also examine how new media inventions changed story time for children in Italy. Prerequisite: ITAL 3010

Credits: 3

ITAL 3700 - Lirica (Italian Lyric Poetry)

Lirica (Italian Lyric Poetry)

Credits: 3

ITAL 3720 - Novella (Italian Short Narrative)

Novella (Italian Short Narrative)

Credits: 3

ITAL 3730 - Romanzo (Italian Novel)

Surveys the major developments in Italian fiction during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Introduces textual analysis and critical interpretation of literary texts.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3740 - Teatro (Italian Theater)

Studies the major dramatic works from the Renaissance to the present, including productions by Niccolo Machiavelli, Carlo Goldoni, Luigi Pirandello, and Dario Fo.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3750 - Critica (Italian Literary Criticism)

Critica (Italian Literary Criticism)

Credits: 3

ITAL 3760 - Italian Travel Literature

Study of major Italian travel writers from medieval to modern times, within a discussion of the definition and history of the literary genre, and the critical perspectives relating to it. In Italian. Prerequisites: Italian language course 1010 through 2020, or demonstrated Italian language proficiency per consent of instructor.

Credits: 3

ITAL 4000 - Methodologia (Stylistics and Methods)

Methodologia (Stylistics and Methods)

Credits: 3

ITAL 4100 - Medioevo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Middle Ages)

Medioevo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Middle Ages)

Credits: 3

ITAL 4200 - Umanesimo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Humanistic Period)

Umanesimo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Humanistic Period)

Credits: 3

ITAL 4300 - Rinascimento (Italian Culture and Literature during the Renaissance)

Rinascimento (Italian Culture and Literature during the Renaissance)

Credits: 3

ITAL 4350 - Representations of Women in Italian Literature

Images of women as presented in major Italian literary works from the Medieval period to the 20th century. Areas in which gender issues will be examined include authorship, genre, feminist literary criticism, and representation theory. Prerequisite: ITAL 2020 or its equivalent or instructor approval

Credits: 3

ITAL 4400 - Barocco (Italian Culture and Literature during the Baroque Age)

Barocco (Italian Culture and Literature during the Baroque Age)

Credits: 3

ITAL 4450 - Lights and Shadows: Italian 18th-Century Literature

Study of the Italian Enlightenment, in terms of its spectrum of literary/cultural phenomena. Major and lesser-known writers, and the role their works played in transforming early modern traditions into today’s forms and institutions. Among the topics considered: notions of reason and progress, uses of science, criminal/justice systems, advances in theater, opera, the popular novel, autobiography and consumer journalism in Italian.

Credits: 3

ITAL 4460 - Italian Mystery Novels

In this course, we will explore the various subgenres that are most often associated with mysteries: the police procedural, the detective novel, the political thriller, and true crime. Together, we will study the defining features of each genre through close readings of Italian short stories, novels, films, comics, mini-series, and documentaries. Students will learn about how the mystery novel evolved in Italy during the 20th-century Prerequisite: 3010

Credits: 3

ITAL 4475 - Romanticismo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Age of Romanticism)

Romanticismo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Age of Romanticism)

Credits: 3

ITAL 4600 - Novecentismo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Twentieth Century)

Novecentismo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Twentieth Century)

Credits: 3

ITAL 4810 - Italian Pop Culture: 1960’s - 1990’s

An interdisciplinary approach to the last thirty years of Italian cultural history, from a theoretical and practical perspective. Prerequisite: Students who have completed ITAL 2020. Other students admitted with instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ITAL 4980 - Distinguished Majors Colloquium - Italian Studies

The Colloquium allows DMPs in Italian Studies to meet regularly with the DMP coordinator to discuss research strategies, documentation styles, and structure and style in extended expository writing as they are working independently on a thesis. It also provides a forum for presenting and discussing work-in-progress. Prerequisite: Acceptance in DMP.

Credits: 3

ITAL 4989 - Distinguished Major in Italian Studies Thesis

Distinguished majors in Italian Studies will meet individually with their thesis advisors to discuss progress and revise drafts of their theses. At the end of the semester, they will present the results of their research in a public forum.

Credits: 3

ITAL 4993 - Independent Study

Independent Study

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

ITTR 2150 - Italian Phonetics

Italian Phonetics

Credits: 3

ITTR 2160 - History of the Italian Language

History of the Italian Language

Credits: 3

ITTR 2260 - Dante in Translation

Close reading of Dante’s masterpiece, The Inferno. Lectures focus on Dante’s social, political, and cultural world. Incorporates The World of Dante: A Hypermedia Archive for the Study of the Inferno, and a pedagogical and research website (www.iath.virginia/dante), that offers a wide range of visual material related to The Inferno.

Credits: 3

ITTR 2270 - Petrarch in Translation

Petrarch in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2280 - Boccaccio in Translation

Boccaccio in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2300 - Machiavelli in Translation

Machiavelli in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2310 - Ariosto in Translation

Ariosto in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2360 - Tasso in Translation

Tasso in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2420 - Goldoni and Alfieri in Translation

Goldoni and Alfieri in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2430 - Foscolo and Leopardi in Translation

Foscolo and Leopardi in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2440 - Manzoni in Translation

Manzoni in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2450 - Verga in Translation

Verga in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2620 - The Modern Italian Novel in Translation

The Modern Italian Novel in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2630 - Italian History and Culture Through Film: 1860s - 1960s

This course uses the medium of film to discuss the developments in Italian culture and history over a period of one hundred years, from 1860 to 1960.

Credits: 3

ITTR 2710 - Italian Cultural History

This course traces the general history and culture of Italy from the Middle Ages to the present. It covers the Renaissance, the Baroque, the ‘Risorgimento,’ the new problems of post-unification, Fascism and the post-World War II Italian Republic. The aim is to provide historical background to comprehend both the complexity of Italian political and social evolution and the multifaceted nature of its cultural identity Taught in English.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3107 - Evolution of Media in Italy: From Unification to the Present

ITTR 3215 - Dante’s Italy

This course investigates Italian history and culture through the prism of Dante Alighieri’s Comedy, one of the most important works in European literature. The three canticles of the Comedy offer a meditation on the social and political life of the Italian city-states, a critique of contemporary Christianity, and a commentary on art and literature at the end of the Middle Ages.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3250 - Italian Love Poetry in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

ITTR 3580 - Sister Arts Literary Artistic Relations in the Italian Renaissance

This course focuses on the literary and cultural traditions that inform treatments of art and artists in the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3610 - Italian Political Thinkers

Students of this course will study the political theories of Dante, Machiavelli, Beccaria, and Gramsci through a close-reading of each author’s major works. We will also examine how their ideas influenced contemporary politics, literature, and the visual arts both in Italy and in the United States. These goals will be accomplished through regular reading assignments, short essays, and presentations.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3660 - Italian American Cinema: The Immigrant Experience on Film

Following the unification of Italy in 1861, immigrants from that nation began coming to the USA in record numbers. While they arrived in search of better lives, they often faced many challenges. Through it all, their experiences have been documented on film. In this course, we will explore these cinematic representations of Italian Americana.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3670 - Contemporary Italian Cinema: From Canon to the Fringe

Examines the social, political and economic evolution of contemporary Italy through cinema and other visual culture forms; cinema is also examined from an aesthetic point of view, as its iconographic and stylistic developments are crucial elements of a visual culture that complements and references traditional modes of representation such as painting and sculpture, as well as architecture, literature and the oral folk tradition.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3680 - Eve’s Sinful Bite: Foodscapes in Women’s Writing Culture and Society

This course explores how Italian women writers have represented food in their short stories, novels and autobiographies in dialogue with the culture and society from late nineteenth century to the present. These lectures will offer a close reading of the symbolic meaning of food in narrative and the way it intersects with Italian women’s socio-cultural history, addressing issues of gender, identity and politics of the body.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3690 - Mafiosi vs Goodfellas: Organized Crime on Film in Italy & The USA

Organized crime has long fascinated filmmakers from both Italy and the USA. But, how does each country portray this phenomenon and its effects on law, politics, and the individual? What socio-cultural and historical factors explain the different presentations? In this course, we will examine these questions through discussion and analysis of films from Italy and the United States, primary source documents, and novels.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3710 - From Fiction to Film

Combining narratological and socio-historical interpretative approaches, this course studies a series of novels and short stories that have been adapted to the big screen. We will concentrate on the study of film technique, comparative analyses of textual and filmic sequences, and cross-cultural examinations of the different socio-historical contexts that produced both narratives and films.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3758 - Love Affair with Tuscany: Utopias and Beyond

This course aims to examine the Anglo-American love affair with Tuscany/Florence, and deepen students’ understanding of it by providing richer, more complex knowledge of the region and its culture. The class will simultaneously explore notions of utopia and dystopia, against the background and actual lived experience of this sought-after destination.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3770 - The Culture of Italian Comedy

Treats Italian comedy from historic, generic, and theoretical viewpoints; divided into 4 units: 1) medieval comic-realist verse (poetry and song), 2) Renaissance comic theater, including plays by Machiavelli, Ariosto and the Sienese Intronati Academy, 3) the commedia all’italiana film, focusing on cinema by Germi and Monicelli, and 4) modern comic performances by Italians. Special units on Tuscan- and Neapolitan-style humor. Taught in English.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3775 - Acting Italian: Benigni, Goldoni, Fo

ITTR 3880 - Reinventing Dante: Influence, Adaptation and Transformation

Dante’s Inferno has captivated the imagination of artists as diverse as Botticelli, Milton, Keats, and David Fincher. Artists, writers and filmmakers re-imagine Dante for their own purposes. This course will explore reinventions of Dante’s Inferno, the most enduring vision of the afterlife that has ever been created.

Credits: 3

ITTR 4010 - Narrating (Un-)sustainability: Ecocritical Explorations in Italy & Mediterr

This course focuses on the potential narratives have to convey messages that are relevant to our ethical and environmental awareness, and to help us imagine alternatives to existing systems of knowledge and distributions of power. We shall learn about the origins and general objectives of ecocriticism, its relevant theories and methodologies, and various approaches to the notion of sustainability.

Credits: 3

ITTR 4655 - Early Modern Theater: The Drama of Marriage

Course will investigate marriage as represented on the early modern European stage. Italian, Spanish, French and English plays comprise our subject matter. We’ll consider the legal, social, and cultural history of matrimony to background our study of the stageworks; we will analyze scripts and performances to learn how dramatic and theatrical convention intersected w/ marital institution and negotiations, onstage and off. Taught in English.

Credits: 3

ITTR 4820 - Italian Pop Culture From the 1960s to the Present

This course examines the cultural and socio-political transformations that took place in Italy during its recent history. By discussing different cultural artifacts (films, essays, literature), we shall ultimately try to answer the following questions : does Italy still have space for works that resist populist and consumer culture? What are the ethical and political consequences of Italy’s present culutral condition? Is there an Italian identity?

Credits: 3

KICH 1010 - Introduction to Maya K’iche’ I

This class is an introduction to K’iche’, a Maya language spoken by about a million people in the western Highlands of Guatemala; it is one of the major indigenous languages in the Americas. This class aims to make students competent in basic conversation and to introduce students to Maya culture. It is offered as part of the UVa-Duke-Vanderbilt consortium for distance learning in less commonly taught languages.

Credits: 3

KICH 1020 - Introduction to Maya K’iche’ II

This class is the second part of a year-long introductory sequence to K’iche’, a Maya language spoken by about a million people in the western Highlands of Guatemala, and one of the major indigenous languages in the Americas. Students will enrich and expand their conversational skills and cultural knowledge from K’iche’ 1010. It is offered as part of the UVa-Duke-Vanderbilt consortium for distance learning in less commonly taught languages. The completion of KICH 1010 with a grade of C- or higher.

Credits: 3

KICH 2010 - Intermediate Maya K’iche’ I

This class is the 3rd level of a 4-part sequence in K’iche’, a Maya language spoken by a million people in western Guatemala. Here students will cover more advanced grammar (verb modalities), a broader range of scripts (colonial vs. modern orthography), and conduct research based on the K’iche’ Oral History project at UNM. The class is offered as part of the UVa-Duke-Vanderbilt consortium for distance learning in LCTLs. The completion of KICH 1010 and 1020 with a grade of C- or higher.

Credits: 3

KICH 2020 - Intermediate Maya K’iche’ II

KICH 2020 is the capstone course in a four-part sequence in K’iche’, a Maya language spoken by a million people in western Guatemala. Students will build from earlier coursework to write an original essay in the target language, integrating primary and secondary sources like published works and interviews that they conduct. The class is offered as part of the UVa-Duke-Vanderbilt consortium for distance learning in LCTLs. The completion of KICH 1010, 1020 and 2010 with a grade of C- or higher.

Credits: 3

LAST 2050 - Latin American Interdisciplinary Seminar

An interdisciplinary seminar taught by the faculty of the Latin Americans Studies Program, containing twelve different subjects, from historical, anthropological, literary, political and media studies disciplines.

Credits: 4

LAST 4655 - Sustainability in Brazil’s Emerging Markets

This class will discuss the economic and environmental impacts of Brazil’s past, present, and future growth. It will also survey Brazil’s attitudes and approach to balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability since the Industrial Revolution.

Credits: 3

LAST 4993 - Majors Thesis, Independent Studies

Majors Thesis, Independent Studies

Credits: 3

LAST 4999 - Majors Thesis, Independent Studies

Majors Thesis, Independent Studies

Credits: 3

PORT 1110 - Beginning Intensive Portuguese

Introduces speaking, understanding, reading and writing Portuguese, especially as used in Brazil. Five class hours and one laboratory hour. Followed by PORT 2120. Prerequisite: Completion of FREN 2020 or SPAN 2020, or instructor permission.

Credits: 4

PORT 2050 - Intensive Portuguese for Speakers of Spanish and other Romance Languages

Portuguese 2050 is an accelerated Portuguese language and culture course that condenses two semesters (PORT 1110 and PORT 2120) into one. PORT 2050 is designed specifically for UVA undergraduate and graduate students who already possess an advanced level of fluency in one of the Romance languages. The pedagogical approach to PORT 2050 is both proficiency-oriented and task-based and the class will be conducted completely in Portuguese.

Credits: 3

PORT 2120 - Intermediate Intensive Portuguese

Continued study of Portuguese through readings, vocabulary exercises, oral and written compositions, and grammar review. Prerequisite: PORT 1110 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

PORT 3010 - Advanced Grammar, Conversation and Composition

Studies advanced grammar through analysis of texts; includes extensive practice in composition and topical conversation. Prerequisite: PORT 2120 or by permission.

Credits: 3

PORT 4020 - Readings in Literature in Portuguese

Studies readings from the chief periods of Brazilian and Portuguese literature. Prerequisite: PORT 2120 or by permission.

Credits: 3

PORT 4410 - Brazilian Cultural Production I (1500 to 1900)

Studies canonical and popular Brazilian Cultural Production from the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500 to the end of the nineteenth-century.

Credits: 3

PORT 4420 - Brazilian Cultural Production II (1900 to Present)

Studies canonical and popular Brazilian Cultural Production from the beginning of the twentieth-century to the present day.

Credits: 3

PORT 4610 - Studies in Luso-Brazilian Language and Culture

Studies topics in Portuguese or Brazilian linguistics or culture. Prerequisite: One course at the 3000 level or higher, or Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

PORT 4620 - Studies in Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature

Studies topics in Portuguese or Brazilian literature or in Portuguese linguistics according to the interests and preparation of the students. Prerequisite: One course at the 3000 level or higher, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PORT 4920 - Independent Study

Luso-Brazilian Culture Independent Study - Instructor Permission Required

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

POTR 4240 - Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

POTR 4260 - Brazilian Media

The objective of this proposal is to provide students with a topics course in English, which will examine Brazilian media by focusing on specific iterations ranging from television and film to the Internet and social media.

Credits: 3

POTR 4270 - The Civilization of Brazil

Introduces the development of Brazilian culture from 1500 to the present. This course is taught in English and does not fulfill the language requirement.

Credits: 3

SPAN 116 - Intensive Introductory Spanish

This is the non-credit option for SPAN 1016.

Credits: 0

SPAN 126 - Intensive Introductory Spanish

This is the non-credit option for SPAN 1026.

Credits: 0

SPAN 216 - Intensive Intermediate Spanish

This is the non-credit option for SPAN 2016.

Credits: 0

SPAN 226 - Intensive Intermediate Spanish

This is the non-credit option for SPAN 2026.

Credits: 0

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Statistics

Courses

STAT 1100 - Chance: An Introduction to Statistics

Studies introductory statistics and probability, visual methods for summarizing quantitative information, basic experimental design and sampling methods, ethics and experimentation, causation, and interpretation of statistical analyzes. Applications use data drawn from current scientific and medical journals, newspaper articles, and the Internet. Students will not receive credit for both STAT 1100 and STAT 1120.

Credits: 3

STAT 1120 - Introduction to Statistics

Includes graphical displays of data, relationships in data, design of experiments, causation, random sampling, probability distributions, inference, confidence intervals, tests of hypotheses, and regression and correlation. Students will not receive credit for both STAT 1100 and STAT 1120.

Credits: 3

STAT 1601 - Introduction to Data Science with R

This course provides an introduction to the process of collecting, manipulating, exploring, analyzing, and displaying data using the statistical software R. The collection of elementary statistical analysis techniques introduced will be driven by questions derived from the data. The data used in this course will generally follow a common theme. No prior knowledge of programming, data science, or statistics is required.

Credits: 3

STAT 1602 - Introduction to Data Science with Python

This course provides an introduction to various topics in data science using the Python programming language. The course will start with the basics of Python, and apply them to data cleaning, merging, transformation, and analytic methods drawn from data science analysis and statistics, with an emphasis on applications. No prior experience with programming, data science, or statistics is required.

Credits: 3

STAT 1800 - Introduction to Sports Analytics

This course provides an introduction to sports analytics, including the collection, analysis, and visualization of sports data using the statistical programming language R. Elementary statistical analysis techniques will be introduced through questions arising in sports.

Credits: 3

STAT 2020 - Statistics for Biologists

This course includes a basic treatment of probability, and covers inference for one and two populations, including both hypothesis testing and confidence intervals. Analysis of variance and linear regression are also covered. Applications are drawn from biology and medicine.

Credits: 4

STAT 2120 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis

Introduction to the probability and statistical theory underlying the estimation of parameters and testing of statistical hypotheses, including those arising in the context of simple and multiple regression models. Students will use computers and statistical programs to analyze data. Examples and applications are drawn from economics, business, and other fields. Students will not receive credit for both STAT 2120 and ECON 3710. Prerequisite: MATH 1210 or equivalent; co-requisite: Concurrent enrollment in a discussion section of STAT 2120.

Credits: 4

STAT 2125 - Statistics Workshop

This course is a workshop to support deeper understanding of concepts introduced in STAT 2120.

Credits: 1

STAT 2720 - Introduction to Mathematical Probability and Statistics

An introduction to the mathematical foundations of probability and statistics. Topics include discrete and continuous random variables; discrete, continuous, and joint probability distributions; sampling distributions, point estimation; confidence intervals and hypothesis testing for one and two samples. The software Stata will be incorporated. Prerequisite: One of MATH 1220, MATH 1320, or APMA 1110.

Credits: 3

STAT 3010 - Statistical Computing and Graphics

Introduces statistical computing using S-PLUS. Topics include descriptive statistics for continuous and categorical variables, methods for handling missing data, basics of graphical perception, graphical displays, exploratory data analysis, and the simultaneous display of multiple variables. Students should be experienced with basic text-editing and file manipulation on either a PC or a UNIX system, and with either a programming language (e.g. BASIC) or a spreadsheet program (e.g. MINITAB or EXCEL). Credit earned in this course cannot be applied toward a graduate degree in statistics. Prerequisite: STAT 1100 or 1120 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

STAT 3080 - From Data to Knowledge

Most elementary statistics courses start with a technique & present various surface level examples. This course will use relatively complicated data sets and approach them from multiple angles with elementary statistical techniques. Simulation techniques such as the bootstrap will also be used. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using R statistical software. Prerequisite: An introductory statistics course.

Credits: 3

STAT 3110 - Foundations of Statistics

This course provides an overview of basic probability and matrix algebra required for statistics. Topics include sample spaces and events, properties of probability, conditional probability, discrete and continuous random variables, expected values, joint distributions, matrix arithmetic, matrix inverses, systems of linear equations, eigenspaces, and covariance and correlation matrices.

Credits: 3

STAT 3118 - Probability for Statistics

This course provides an overview of basic probability required for statistics. Topics include sample spaces and events, properties of probability, conditional probability, discrete and continuous random variables, expected values, and joint distributions. Credit for this course cannot be received after receiving credit for MATH 3100 or APMA 3100.

Credits: 1.5

STAT 3119 - Matrix Algebra for Statistics

This course provides a basic introduction to matrix algebra required for statistics. Topics include matrix arithmetic, matrix inverses, systems of linear equations, eigenspaces, and covariance and correlation matrices. Credit for this course cannot be received after receiving credit for MATH 3350, MATH 3351, or APMA 3080.

Credits: 1.5

STAT 3120 - Introduction to Mathematical Statistics

This course provides a calculus-based introduction to mathematical statistics with some applications. Topics include: sampling theory, point estimation, interval estimation, testing hypotheses, linear regression, correlation, analysis of variance, and categorical data. Prerequisite: MATH 3100 or APMA 3100.

Credits: 3

STAT 3130 - Design and Analysis of Sample Surveys

Main designs & estimation techniques used in sample surveys; including simple random sampling, stratification, cluster sampling, double sampling, post-stratification, ratio estimation; non-response problems, measurement errors. Properties of sample surveys are developed through simulation procedures. Uses SUDAAN software package for analyzing sample surveys.

Credits: 3

STAT 3150 - Theory of Interest

Topics include growth and time value of money, equations of value and yield rates, annuities (including contingent payments), loan amortization schedules, bonds. Additional topics are options and derivatives, as time permits. Prerequisites: MATH 1220 or MATH 1320

Credits: 3

STAT 3220 - Introduction to Regression Analysis

This course provides a survey of regression analysis techniques, covering topics from simple regression, multiple regression, logistic regression, and analysis of variance. The primary focus is on model development and applications. Prerequisite: STAT 1100 or STAT 1120 or STAT 2120.

Credits: 3

STAT 3240 - Coding in Matlab/Mathematica with Applications

STAT 3250 - Data Analysis with Python

This course provides an introduction to data analysis using the Python programming language. Topics include using the IPython development environment; data analysis packages NumPy and pandas; data loading, storage, cleaning, merging, transformation, and aggregation; data plotting and visualization and time series data. No prior experience with programming or statistics is required.

Credits: 3

STAT 3280 - Data Visualization and Management

Introduces methods for presenting data graphically and in tabular form, including the use of software to create visualizations. Also introduced are databases, with topics including traditional relational databases and SQL (Structured Query Language) for retrieving information. Prerequisite: A prior statistics course and prior experience with coding.

Credits: 3

STAT 3430 - Statistical Computing with SAS and R

The course covers database management, programming, elementary statistical analysis, and report generation in SAS. Topics include: managing SAS Data Sets; DATA-step programming; data summarization and reporting using PROCs PRINT, MEANS, FREQ, UNIVARIATE, CORR, and REG; elementary graphics; introductions to the Output Delivery System, the SAS Macro language, PROC IML, and PROC SQL. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software. Prerequisite: Introductory statistics course

Credits: 4

STAT 3480 - Nonparametric and Rank-Based Statistics

This course includes an overview of parametric vs. nonparametric methods including one-sample, two-sample, and k-sample methods; pair comparison and block designs; tests for trends and association; multivariate tests; analysis of censored data; bootstrap methods; multifactor experiments; and smoothing methods. Prerequisite: STAT 1120 or STAT 2120

Credits: 3

STAT 3980 - Applied Statistics Laboratory

Enrollment in STAT LAB (3980) is required for all students in the department’s 3000-level appled statistics courses (STAT 3080, 3220, 3430, 3130). STAT 3980 may be repeated for credit provided that a student is enrolled in at least one of these 3000-level applied courses; however, no more than one unit of STAT 3980 may be taken in any semester.

Credits: 1

STAT 4160 - Experimental Design

Introduces various topics in experimental design, including simple comparative experiments, single factor analysis of variance, randomized blocks, Latin squares, factorial designs, blocking and confounding, and two-level factorial designs. The statistical software R is used throughout this course.

Credits: 3

STAT 4170 - Financial Time Series and Forecasting

This course introduces topics in time series analysis as they relate to financial data. Topics include properties of financial data, moving average and ARMA models, exponential smoothing, ARCH and GARCH models, volatility models, case studies in linear time series, high frequency financial data, and value at risk.

Credits: 3

STAT 4210 - Big Data Tools

This course provides an introduction to tools use for the management and analysis of big data, including Hadoop (MapReduce), parallel computing, cloud computing, and web scraping for data acquisition. Several projects are incorporated into the course.

Credits: 3

STAT 4220 - Applied Analytics for Business

This course focuses on applying data analytic techniques to business, including customer analytics, business analytics, and web analytics through mining of social media and other online data. Several projects are incorporated into the course.

Credits: 3

STAT 4260 - Databases

This course provides an introduction to databases. Topics include traditional relational databases and SQL (Structured Query Language) for retrieving information from them, and several noSQL databases built on different organizational structures, such as PostgreSQL (an open source relational database), MongoDB and CouchDB (key-document), Redis (key-value), HBase (column family), and Neo4J (graphs).

Credits: 3

STAT 4310 - Data Visualization and Presentation

Introduces methods for effectively presenting data both visually and in table form. Software used will include the open-source R and Tableau visualization software. Students will work together on team projects developing reports and presentations to be presented to the class.

Credits: 3

STAT 4630 - Statistical Machine Learning

Introduces various topics in machine learning, including regression, classification, resampling methods, linear model selection and regularization, tree-based methods, support vector machines, and unsupervised learning. The statistical software R is incorporated throughout. Prerequisite: STAT 3220, STAT 5120, or ECON 3720, and previous experience with R.

Credits: 3

STAT 4993 - Independent Study

Reading and study programs in areas of interest to individual students. For students interested in topics not covered in regular courses. Students must obtain a faculty advisor to approve and direct the program.

Credits: 1.00 to 4.00

STAT 4995 - Statistical Consulting

Introduces the practice of statistical consultation. A combination of formal lectures, meetings with clients of the statistical consulting service, and sessions in the statistical computing laboratory. Students will work together with a graduate student consultant. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1.00 to 3.00

STAT 4996 - Capstone

Students will work in teams on a capstone project. The project will involve significant data preparation and analysis of data, preparation of a comprehensive project report, and presentation of results. Many projects will come from external clients who have data analysis challenges.

Credits: 3

Women, Gender & Sexuality

Courses

WGS 1510 - Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality

Special Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality.

Credits: 1.00 to 4.00

WGS 2100 - Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies

An introduction to gender studies, including the fields of women’s studies, feminist studies, LGBT studies, & masculinity studies. Students will examine historical movements, theoretical issues, & contemporary debates, especially as they pertain to issues of inequality & to the intersection of gender with race, class, sexuality, & nationalism. Topics will vary according to the interdisciplinary expertise & research focus of the instructor.

Credits: 3

WGS 2106 - Introduction to LGBTQ Studies

This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) Studies. We will study historical events and political, literary, and artistic figures and works; contemporary social and political issues; the meaning and development of sexual and gender identities; and different disciplinary definitions of meaning and knowledge.

Credits: 3

WGS 2224 - Black Femininities and Masculinities in Media

Addresses the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of “Blackness” in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender.

Credits: 3

WGS 2300 - Women and Gender in the Deaf World

WGS 2400 - Gender Death & Dying

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring ways that gender and sexuality impact death and dying. Aries’ The Hour of Our Death and Seremetakis’ The Last Word will be brought into conversation with Malson and Ussher’s work on anorexia and Crimp’s and Owen’s theorizing representations of AIDS. We will explore photography’s role in “capturing” the image of death, from 19th c. spirit photographs to 20th c. documentaries.

Credits: 3

WGS 2450 - Gender and Environmental Justice

Examines different ways of integrating gender into environmental analysis and organizing around the world, with a focus on power and links to race/class/nation. Topics include women’s leadership in environmental movements; ecofeminism vs. feminist environmentalism; gendering of ecological knowledge and restoration; the impact of gendered divisions of labor on ecology; environmental violence; unequal health impacts; intimacy and sustainability.

Credits: 3

WGS 2500 - Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality

Special Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality vary by semester.

Credits: 1.00 to 4.00

WGS 2848 - Reproductive Technology

This course will focus on issues in technology and reproduction from historical and cross-cultural perspectives. We will examine critical perspectives on science, power, gender, and inequality as they influence cultural constructions of reproductive processes such as pregnancy, childbirth, infertility, and debates about the enhancement and limitation of human fertility. Prerequisite: Course in WGS, ANTH, Bioethics preferred

Credits: 3

WGS 2891 - Issues Facing Adolescent Girls

Students will explore the psychological, social, and cultural issues affecting adolescent girls and apply this understanding through service with the Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP). As we delve into theory and research on adolescent development, effective mentoring practices, and leadership development, students will test their theoretical knowledge and its application by serving as a Big Sister to an area middle school girl. Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor

Credits: 4

WGS 2893 - Fostering Leadership in Women and Girls I

This seminar is designed to support the YWLP (Young Women Leaders Program) group facilitators as leaders of YWLP mentoring groups. The content of instruction and discussion will focus on facilitation skills, small group development, and other topics relating to group dynamics, with particular attention to issues related to promoting leadership among adolescent girls and college women. There is an emphasis placed on multicultural issues.

Credits: 3

WGS 2894 - Gender, Body Image and Social Activism

What is the relationship between body image and identity? How does one affect, constrain, and inform the other? The development of body image is a complex process influenced by messages we receive from family, friends, peers, health care practitioners, teachers, and mass media to name a few. Messages are also constructed and interpreted differently depending on one’s gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and ableism.

Credits: 3

WGS 2897 - Gender Violence and Social Justice

Introduction to dynamics of gender-based violence, the political and cultural structures that perpetuate it, and avenues for achieving social justice. Students will think critically about the (largely) domestic impact of this violence, and develop a practical understanding of how it intersects with other forms of oppression, by applying theory to real-world problems through experiential learning projects in the community and at the University.

Credits: 3

WGS 2898 - Sexual Violence Prevention on Campus: Theory and Practice

This course is open to undergraduate students who wish to reduce gender-based violence through peer education and engagement. This course will introduce students to various theories on the causes of gender-based violence as well as evidence-based intervention strategies, including public health approaches to violence prevention, and effective program planning.

Credits: 3

WGS 3100 - Women and Freedom of Movement: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

The course focuses on the complex interconnectedness between the allocation of space and power. It studies how in the last few decades women in motion desegregated predominantly masculine spaces, reconfigured the boundaries and hierarchies between the sexes, modified definitions of beauty, and altered gender relations. It examines the rhetoric and poetics of sex segregation, voice, visibility, and mobility in a spectrum of genres. Prerequisites: 2000 level course in the humanities.

Credits: 3

WGS 3105 - Issues in LGBTQ Studies

This course is an interdisciplinary analysis of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) Studies. We will study historical events and political, literary and artistic figures and works; contemporary social and political issues; the meaning and development of sexual and gender identities; and different disciplinary definitions of meaning and knowledge.

Credits: 3

WGS 3110 - Queer American History

Course focuses on 20th century history of LGBTQ activism, but will include formation of heterosexual and homosexual identities and historical constructions of sexual practices prior to the 1900s. From 20th c. the course will focus on the Homophile Movement, Gay Liberation, and ACT UP, among other activist movements. Although primary emphasis will be placed on historical activism, contemporary movements regarding LGBTQ-rights will be included.

Credits: 3

WGS 3115 - Work, Women’s Work and Women Workers in South Asia

WGS 3120 - Women and Islam

This course is an introduction to Islam through issues related to women and gender. Beginning with the portrayal of women in the Qur’an and the active role they played in the early years of Islam, it examines the growing body of literature on women and Islam. Through a variety of sources religious texts and commentaries, literary pieces and movies it explores a variety of questions. How does Islam treat women? What is ‘Islamic’ with respect to ideas about women? How are Muslim women represented in the Western media, literature and the arts? In what ways do they participate in cultural production of themselves? Why for centuries have they been the object of such intense curiosity and misunderstanding?

Credits: 3

WGS 3140 - Border Crossings: Women, Islam and Literature in the Middle East and North Africa

A focus on a bloodless, non-violent revolution that is shaking the foundation of the Islamic Middle East and North Africa, a revolution with women writers at the forefront. An examination of the rhetoric and poetics of sex segregation, voice, visibility, and mobility in a spectrum of genres that includes folklore, novel, short story, poetry, biography, autobiography, and essay. Prerequisite: Previous 2000 level course in the humanities or social sciences.

Credits: 3

WGS 3200 - Women, Gender and Sports

This course traces the history of American female athletes from the late 1800s through the early 21st century. We will use gender as a means of understanding the evolution of the female athlete, and will also trace the manner by which issues of class and race inform sportswomen’s journeys over time, particularly with regard to issues of femininity and homophobia.

Credits: 3

WGS 3210 - Gender, Sport and Film

This course will examine how film has portrayed women’s sports and female athletes. We will explore how well the film industry has documented the history of women’s sports, issues important to female athletes such as race, sexuality, equality and issues of femininity, and we will look to see how well these productions stack up against films portraying male athletes and men’s sports.

Credits: 3

WGS 3220 - Global Perspectives on Gender & Sport

This course will examine female athletes from a global perspective, comparing and contrasting their experiences, and placing them in historical perspective. Among the topics considered will be the Olympic Games, Chinese sports schools, the post-apartheid athletic landscape of South Africa, and Iranian women athlete’s struggle against clothing restrictions.

Credits: 3

WGS 3230 - Gender and the Olympic Games

In ancient Greece, women risked death if they even attended the Olympic Games. As Pierre de Coubertin looked to revive the games in 1896, he thought women better suited to cheering on the male victors, than to competing themselves. This course will explore women’s early participation in the Olympic Games, the pressures upon Olympic sportswomen to be feminine, and the important intersections of race, class, and sexual orientation.

Credits: 3

WGS 3240 - Gender, Race and Sport: A History of African American Sportswomen

Explore the intersection of gender and race in sport, specifically examining the African-American female experience in sport. This course will ask students to consider whether sport was (and continues to be) the great equalizer for both African-American sportsmen and sportswomen, and to evaluate their portrayals (or lack thereof) in both the white and black media.

Credits: 3

WGS 3306 - Sexuality, Gender, Class and Race in the Teen Film

WGS 3310 - Sexuality, Gender and Media

This course examines how television addresses women, how it represents women, and how women respond to the medium. It also examines the relationship between the female audience and television by focusing on both contemporary and historical issues. Areas for examination include: how women have responded to television as technology; how specific genres have targeted women; how female-focused specialty channels have addressed women; and how specific television series and genres have mediated and negotiated the changing social, cultural, political, and economic status of women from the 1950s to the present. The course is particularly interested in charting how television has dealt with the challenges posed by the women’s movement and feminism. Prerequisite: WGS or Media Studies major, 2nd major or minor.

Credits: 3

WGS 3340 - Transnational Feminism

This course places women, feminism, and activism in a transnational perspective, and offers students the opportunity to examine how issues considered critical to the field of gender studies are impacting women’s lives globally in contemporary national contexts. We will look closely at how violence, economic marginality, intersections of race and gender, and varied strategies for development are affecting women in specific geographical locations.

Credits: 3

WGS 3350 - Gender in Comparative Perspective

This course examines how different countries “do” gender, exploring the political, social and economic construction of sexual difference. Our focus will be on how power is gendered and its effects on women and men in the developing world. We begin with a theoretical discussion of patriarchy, gender and feminist methods. Continuing to draw upon these theoretical debates, the course then investigates a series of issues, including gender and state formation in the Middle East, women’s political participation in India and South Africa, feminist and women’s movements in Latin America and Uganda, and globalization in South East Asia.

Credits: 3

WGS 3370 - Feminism in America,1910-Present

This course will explore the history of feminism in America from the 1910s to the present day. We will examine the various philosophies and strategies of people who have allied themselves with the feminist movement as well as those who have opposed it. We will ask how activists imagined sexual equality and what reforms-political, legal, economic, cultural, or psychological-they proposed.

Credits: 3

WGS 3409 - LGBTQ Issues in the Media

WGS 3440 - Gender and Multiculturalism

Introduces current multiculturalism and feminist scholarship, prompting students to make connections between ideas from a wide variety of disciplines, such as history, sociology, anthropology, literature, art history, area studies, and more. Students will be required to complete an in-depth research final project for the course.

Credits: 3

WGS 3450 - Gender and Architecture

As a visual art, architecture as an object projects a specific image; as a spatial art it affects individual and group interaction/engagement with the built environment. Through the lenses of gender and race we will examine human relationships to architecture - as designers, patrons, and users in the public and the private realm and across a broad range of temporal and geographic boundaries.

Credits: 3

WGS 3492 - Women’s Photography and Aesthetics

An introduction to feminist theory as refracted through film theory, engaging questions of the representation of women from the particular angle of the representation of women by women. How does the strategy of self representation effect our interpretation of the images? How does woman’s entry into the fine arts through photography in the 19th century echo in the practice and work of 20th century woman photographers?

Credits: 3

WGS 3495 - Incarcerated Women

This course centers on the increasing number of women and juvenile girls who are incarcerated in the United States, and the now more than one million women under some form of correctional supervision in America. We will also explore such areas as feminist approaches to women and crime, racialized representations of criminality, and the impact of gender, race, and class on the criminal justice system.

Credits: 3

WGS 3500 - Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality

Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality vary by semester.

Credits: 1.00 to 4.00

WGS 3611 - Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1600-1865

This course explores the significance of gender and sexuality in the territory of the present-day U.S. during the period from the first European settlements to the Civil War.

Credits: 3

WGS 3612 - Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1865-Present

This course explores the significance of gender and sexuality in the territory of the present-day U.S. during the period from the Civil War to the present.

Credits: 3

WGS 3621 - Coming of Age in America: A History of Youth

This course will explore the historical experience of young people and the meaning of youth from the colonial period to the late twentieth century. We will analyze how shifting social relations and cultural understandings changed what it meant to grow up. Topics to be explored include work, family, gender, sexuality, education, political involvement, and popular culture.

Credits: 3

WGS 3625 - Cultures, Spaces, and Worldviews of International Aid

WGS 3680 - Eve’s Sinful Bite: Foodscapes in Women’s Writing Culture and Society

WGS 3750 - Women, Childhood, Autobiography

Cross-cultural readings in women’s childhood narratives. Emphasis on formal as well as thematic aspects.

Credits: 3

WGS 3770 - Women Writers: Women on Women

This course focuses on women writers from any era who address the topic of femininity: what it means or implies to be a woman.

Credits: 3

WGS 3800 - Queer Theory

Introduces students to some key & controversial theoretical texts that make up the emerging field of queer theory. The approach will be interdisciplinary, w/ an emphasis on literary, social, & aesthetic criticisms that may shift according the instructor’s areas of expertise. Active reading & informed discussion will be emphasized for the often unseen, or submerged, aspects of sexuality embedded in cultural texts, contexts, & litterateurs.

Credits: 3

WGS 3810 - Feminist Theory

This course provides an overview of the historical bases and contemporary developments in feminist theorizing and analyzes a range of theories on gender, including liberal, Marxist, radical, difference, and postmodernist ideas. We explore how feminist theories apply to contemporary debates on the body, sexuality, colonialism, globalization, transnationalism incorporating analyses of race, class, national difference and cross-cultural perspectives.

Credits: 3

WGS 3814 - Gender, Sexuality, Identity in Premodern France

WGS 3820 - Feminist Methodologies

Interdisciplinary introduction to qualitative research design from a feminist perspective. Topics include memory, objectivity, confidentiality, ethics, power differentials, feminist epistemology, the status of evidence, and the limits of statistics. Appropriate for students interested in learning interview techniques, narrative analysis, fieldwork, archival work, and how to frame research questions.

Credits: 3

WGS 3993 - Independent Study

Independent Study

Credits: 1.00 to 4.00

WGS 4050 - Senior Seminar in Women, Gender and Sexuality: Embodiment

This senior seminar explores ways that people inhabit “gender” and “sexuality” (as compounded with race and class relations), using the lens of philosophically distinct forms of embodiment: sensory, energetic, laboring, colonized, commodified, liberated, aestheticism, trans, agnostic, desiring, bio-intimate, and posthuman. Readings integrate theory with ethnography and include material on how the body has figured in social struggle. Prerequisite: WGS 2100; WGS major , WGS 2nd major, or WGS minor

Credits: 3

WGS 4100 - Readings in Sexuality Studies

Explores key topics that have shaped the field of sexuality studies, with a focus on queer studies. Such topics include the history of sexuality, scientific racism and critical race theory, cyborgs, biopower, nationalism, colonialism, sexuality and law, the relationship of sexuality to race and class, and bodily aesthetics. Interdisciplinary readings may include fiction, theory, ethnography, law, philosophy, film, music, science, and economics. Prerequisites: 2000 level course in humanities or social sciences.

Credits: 3

WGS 4101 - Issues in Women’s Autobiographies

This course focuses on women’s autobiographical texts and the diverse ways authors explore issues surrounding identity, power, and resistance in their narratives. We will read compelling accounts of imprisonment, reservation life, political detention, and more, while closely examining women’s participation in ongoing struggles for social justice.

Credits: 3

WGS 4107 - Feminism and the Public Sphere

The idea of the public sphere is central to contemporary politics. It is the “space” where citizens exchange ideas and form opinions, and from which these citizens can shape government. It is also a space largely dominated by media in contemporary industrialized societies. Concerns about the impact of the media on politics are often concerns about the health of the public sphere.

Credits: 3

WGS 4110 - Gender Non-Conformity in Media Culture

WGS 4140 - Beyond the Gap: Gender and Political Behavior

This course will consider the theoretical place of gender in American politics. We will also take up a number of topics, including the unavoidable gender gap, the role of masculinity and femininity in conditioning our perceptions of issues and political candidates, the ways gender, politics, and society have interacted historically, and the ways race and gender (and class) interact in conditioning political behavior. Prerequisite: At least one course either on gender or on political behavior.

Credits: 3

WGS 4200 - Sex and Gender Go to the Movies

WGS 4240 - Rights, Identity and Gender

Investigates the conflict over culture and women’s rights and examines a number of proposed solutions. Issues addressed include the claims of minority communities in liberal states, marriage practices in Africa and the U.S., domestic violence in India, and female genital mutilation. Cross-listed with PLCP 4120. Prerequisite: One course in PLCP or permission of the instructor.

Credits: 3

WGS 4300 - Risky Business

This course will bring economic notions of risk to thinking about risk in relation to gender, race, class, nation and globalization. Students will be introduced to notions of risk that have traveled with finance and insurance globally. They will also interrogate concepts associated with risk or mediated through risk and insurance. Material in class will range from financial analyses and ethnographic materials to fiction and film.

Credits: 3

WGS 4340 - Feminist Theory in International Relations

Examines leading feminist contributions to, and gendered critiques of, theories of international relations including (but not limited to) war, peace and security; international political economy; and international institutions and organizations.

Credits: 3

WGS 4350 - Comparative Gender Stratification

WGS 4360 - Body Politics and the Body Politic

This seminar places feminist and non-feminist debates about body politics beauty standards, racialization and color politics, transgender movements, body modification, work discipline, commodification, torture, cyborgs, and new corporeal technologies–in the context of a wider universe of political and philosophical writing on embodiment. Students will be introduced to culturally and historically diverse bodies. Prerequisite: 4th year WGS majors, WGS 2nd majors and WGS minors or instructor permission

Credits: 3

WGS 4420 - Women and Education

Course will examine the roles women have played and continue to play as students, scholars, and leaders in American educational institutions.

Credits: 3

WGS 4425 - Gender & Nationalism in Islamic Cultures

Course will provide an overview of the politics of gender and nationalism in the Middle East. Among the topics we will examine are gendered discourses and practices of nation-states; gendered constructions of national identity; gendered violence; women’s engagement in politics, state power, social movements and civil society; women’s activism, state feminism, and Islamic feminism; and the state regulations of sexuality, family, and citizenship.

Credits: 3

WGS 4430 - Gender & Nationalism in the Middle East

An overview of the politics of gender and nationalism in the Middle East. We will examine the ways in which nationalism articulates with gender and sexuality. What are the implications of gendered constructions of national identity? How are the discourses of nation-states gendered? How does the state regulate sexuality, family, and citizenship? What are the effects of nationalist discourses on the emergence of new masculinities and femininities?

Credits: 3

WGS 4500 - Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality

Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality vary by semester.

Credits: 1.00 to 4.00

WGS 4610 - LGBTQ Communities: Race, Class, Gender

This course examines the historical and continuing role of LGBTQ communities in U.S. society. Topics covered will include changes that have taken place over time, LGBTQ-rights as a social movement, and homelessness as an LGBTQ-rights issue. Particular emphasis will be placed on power relations in LGBTQ communities, including the role of racism, classism, and sexism.

Credits: 3

WGS 4620 - Black Feminist Theory

This course critically examines key ideas, issues, and debates in contemporary Black feminist thought. With a particular focus on Black feminist understandings of intersectionality and womanism, the course examines how Black feminist thinkers interrogate specific concepts including Black womanhood, sexual mythologies and vulnerabilities, class distinctions, colorism, leadership, crime and punishment, and popular culture.

Credits: 3

WGS 4650 - Gender, Poetry & Mindfulness

The course integrates mindfulness training with interpretation of art, literature, and writing. Course material is global in scope, incorporating diverse works from Urdu poetry to Japanese haikus, including texts and mindfulness exercises from Tibet. Students will practice mindfulness to enhance their understanding of writers’ and artists’ personal, historical, cultural, and gender perspectives.

Credits: 3

WGS 4655 - Early Modern Theater: The Drama of Marriage

WGS 4700 - Men and Masculinities

Typically, men are dealt with in a way that casually presents them as representative of humanity. This course addresses the various ways that men are also ‘gendered,’ and can be the subject of inquiries of gender, sexuality, inequality, and privilege in their own right. Prerequisite: Students need to have completed a WGS course.

Credits: 3

WGS 4750 - Global History of Black Girlhood

This course will allow students to explore the new scholarship on black girlhood. Scholars working on the history of black girls in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa have created a vibrant new field of black girl studies. Combining insights from black feminism and the history of childhood, these scholars have centered black girls’ experience as a means of reframing our understanding of citizenship, labor, and creativity.

Credits: 3

WGS 4800 - Gender-Based Violence

This course begins by investigating how scholars from a wide array of disciplines define gender-based violence (GBV), its prevalence, causes, and consequences. Next, we focus on several areas where gender -based violence is pervasive, such as universities, poor neighborhoods, during war, and in the global economy. The final section of the course examines responses to GBV by health care providers, feminists, and governments. Prerequisite: 3rd or 4th year student

Credits: 3

WGS 4840 - Gender Politics in Africa

Comprehensive introduction to gender politics in Africa, including gender transformations under imperial rule, gender and national struggles, gender and culture claims, women’s movements and the gendering of the post-colonial state. Prerequisites: One social science course in WGS or comparative politics course; Instructor’s Permission

Credits: 3

WGS 4998 - Women, Gender & Sexuality Senior Thesis I

Majors in Women, Gender and Sexuality (WGS) are encouraged to become Distinguished Majors. Students complete a two-semester written thesis (approximately 40-60 pages in length) in their fourth year under the supervision of a WGS faculty member. The thesis allows students to pursue their own interests in depth and have the intellectual satisfaction of defining and completing a sustained project. Please see your WGS advisor for more information. Prerequisites: WGS Major, WGS 2nd Major

Credits: 3

WGS 4999 - Women, Gender & Sexuality Senior Thesis II

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