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Graduate Record 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED RECORD]
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences: Courses
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Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
AAS 5559 - New Course in African and African American Studies
New course in the subject of African and African American Studies.
AAS 7200 - Black Environmental Thought
Beginning in the colonial and antebellum periods of American history and moving through the twentieth century into the twenty-first, this class will highlight the myriad approaches black women and men adopted to address shifting manifestations of racialized environmental injustice. At the foundation of the course will be an exploration of the environmental history of slavery in the United States.
Credits: 3
AAS 7300 - Revolutionary Struggles of the African Atlantic
In this course, we will grapple with the concept of struggle as it pertains to Africans’ desire to wrestle themselves from the interlocking white supremacist systems of colonialism, enslavement, apartheid and racialized capitalism. How has the desire to be ‘free’ from these systems of oppression defined Black identities in Africa & its myriad diasporas?
Credits: 3
ENWR 5559 - New Course in Academic, Professional, and Creative Writing
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
EURS 5000 - Perspectives on Europe and the World
This course introduces students to a variety of disciplinary approaches to the study of Europe (history, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and culture). Stress will be laid on how combining perspectives from different fields of study can help deepen understanding of specific problems of European life. Emphasis on student interpretation of readings and analysis of central issues in Europe’s development across time.
Credits: 3
EURS 6000 - Research Inquiries in European Studies
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to advanced research methods for investigating issues in European Studies. Each student will develop a research proposal and paper on a specific disciplinary topic under the supervision of a faculty member in that discipline, with the requirement that the paper include significant insights from at least one other discipline.
Credits: 3
EURS 8998 - Thesis Research (M.A.)
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. Students work closely with a primary and a secondary Faculty Advisor, representing two distinct disciplinary approaches, to develop a detailed proposal for their M.A. thesis. Students will work closely with their Faculty Advisor(s) in person, or by e-mail and video-conferencing (e.g., Skype). The proposal must be submitted and approved by the beginning of the final semester.
Credits: 3
EURS 8999 - Thesis (M.A.)
Composition and defense of a master’s thesis. Students will work under the direction of their primary faculty adviser to complete the writing their M.A. thesis. To be taken in the final semester of enrollment in the European Studies MA program. Prerequisite: graduate standing and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
EURS 9998 - Non-Topical Research: Masters Degree
This course is intended uniquely for European Studies Master’s students who need this course to reach full-time registration status while completing other degree requirements.
IHGC 5559 - New Course: Humanities in Place
This seminar treats the ethics of food as a way into questions about humanity’s changing role within ecological systems. It explores the practical controversies arising within of contemporary food practices including obligations to the hungry, responses to obesity, labor fairness, genetic technologies, and treatment of animals. It connects those controversies to broader inquiries about the meaning of food and the human presence in nature
Credits: 3
IHGC 7559 - New Course in Narrative Theory
Study and comparison of major theories of narrative, including Booth, Stanzel, Barthes, Genette, Cohn, Bakhtin, and others.
Credits: 3
MDST 5501 - Advanced Special Topics in Media Studies
This course will offer critical perspectives on selected contemporary issues related to new media. Topics may include media in industry, education, politics, culture, and socio-economics. This course is open to undergraduate and graduate students.
MDST 5502 - Advanced Special Topics in Media Studies
This course will offer critical perspectives on selected contemporary issues related to new media. Topics may include media in industry, education, politics, culture, and socio-economics. This course is open to undergraduate and graduate students and serves the purposes of establishing a “part II” for any courses taught in the Fall.
MDST 7559 - New Course in Media Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Media Studies.
MDST 7703 - Introduction to the Digital Liberal Arts
An historical, critical, and practical introduction to technologies and ideas that are shaping teaching, research, publication, and collaboration across the liberal arts curriculum. Topics include hypertext, remediation, graphesis, ontology, and cultural analytics. Students study specifc cases and technologies, develop technology-mediated projects in a collaborative settings, and keep an online journal of their reflections on the material.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
MDST 8000 - Media, Culture & Technology
This is a core course that surveys key texts in Media Studies. The course takes a historical approach to the development of the field, but also surveys the various developments in the social sciences, the humanities, and film studies relevant to the interdisciplinary study of media.
Credits: 3
MDST 8559 - New Course in Media Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Media Studies.
MDST 8900 - Graduate Independent Study
A single semester of independent study under faculty supervision for MA or PhD students doing intensive research on a subject not covered in available courses. Requires approval by a Media Studies faculty member who has agreed to supervise a guided course of reading and research.
Credits: 3
TBTN 5010 - Advanced Modern Tibetan I
A continuation of the Intermediate Tibetan I/II sequence, focusing on advanced grammar, syntax, and structures. Emphasis is placed on mastering comprehension and communication in colloquial Tibetan, writing skills in the various scripts of literary Tibetan, and integrating comprehension of colloquial and literary forms. The course employs a dynamic, interactive format to foster speaking and listening skills. Pre-Requisites: TBTN 2020 Intermediate Tibetan II.
Credits: 3Africana Studies
American Studies
AMST 8001 - Approaches to American Studies
This course introduces graduate students to the field of American Studies, the interdisciplinary study of US culture. Students will be exposed to a variety of influential theoretical and methodological interventions that have occurred over the field’s history, and will also be introduced to some of the principal intellectual, political, and professional issues they will face while pursuing a career in the field.
Credits: 3Anthropology
ANTH 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
ANTH 5195 - TechnoScience
What do rocket launches, genetic testing, robot marriage, protein folding, marine biology, climate change and nuclear meltdowns have in common? Anthropologists have studied them all to understand sociocultural factors involved in technoscientific production. Spend a semester in the borderlands between anthropology and STS (science and technology studies) studying the latest research as well as classic ethnographies, with hands-on demonstrations.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE
ANTH 5200 - History of Kinship Studies
Critical assessment of major theoretical approaches to the study of kinship and marriage (from the 19th century to the present) and of the central role of kinship studies in the development of anthropological theory.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5210 - Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
Examines the ways in which the forms of kinship have been reconfigured in contemporary societies, and the ways in which traditional kinship studies have been reconfigured by their intersection with culture theory, feminist theory, gender studies, postmodern theory, gay and lesbian studies, and cultural studies of science and medicine. Prerequisite: ANTH 5200 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5220 - Economic Anthropology
Considers Western economic theories and their relevance to non-Western societies. Includes a comparative analysis of different forms of production, consumption, and circulation.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5225 - NGOs, Development, and International Aid
Graduate level seminar explores the scholarly literature on NGOs and development aid organizations, emphasizing results of field studies. Issues include the relationship between policy and practice, the impact of changing trends and funding priorities, the politics of representing the voices of aid clients, economic and racial hierarchies in development, assessment and audit, and the nature of motivations to help.
Prerequisite: 4th year ANTH, GDS, or PST Majors; or A&S Graduate students
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
ANTH 5235 - Legal Anthropology
This course is an introduction to legal anthropology for graduate students or advanced undergraduates. This course investigates law systems, legal argumentation, and people’s interactions with these thoughts and forms. Rather than taking as given the hegemonic power that legal structures might hold over people’s lives and thought, this course questions how people use, abuse, subvert, and leverage legal structures in which they find themselves.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5240 - Relational Ethics
How might we begin to conceive relational ethics? In the attempt to think through this question, we will slowly read and discuss some important texts in anthropology and continental philosophy that have attempted to think and articulate relationality, being-with and ethics.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5360 - World Mental Health
This course will examine mental health issues from the perspectives of biomedicine and anthropology, emphasizing local traditions of illness and healing as well as evidence from epidemiology and neurobiology. Included topics will be psychosis, depression, PTSD, Culture Bound Syndromes, and suicide. We will also examine the role of pharmaceutical companies in the spread of western based mental health care and culturally sensitive treatment.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5401 - Linguistic Field Methods
Investigates the grammatical structure of non-European language on the basis of data collected in class from a native speaker. A different language is the focus of study each year.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5410 - Phonology
An introduction to the theory and analysis of linguistic sound systems. Covers the essential units of speech sound that lexical and grammatical elements are composed of, how those units are organized at multiple levels of representation, and the principles governing the relation between levels.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5425 - Language Contact
Considers how languages change as part of social systems and affected by historical processes. We will contrast language change through internal processes of drift and regular sound change with contact-induced language change involving multilingualism and code switching, language shift and lexical borrowing, the emergence of pidgin, creole, and intertwined languages, language endangerment, and computational tools for historical linguistics.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5440 - Morphology
An overview of morphological theory within the generative paradigm. Covers notions of the morpheme, theories of the phonology-syntax interface (e.g., lexical phonology, prosodic morphology, optimality theory), and approaches to issues arising at the morphology-syntax interface (e.g., inflection, agreement, incorporation, compounding).
Credits: 3
ANTH 5470 - Language and Identity
In anthropology, where identity has become a central concern, language is seen as an important site for the construction of, and negotiation over social identities. In linguistics, reference to categories of social identity helps to explain language structure and change. This seminar explores the overlap between these converging trends by focusing on the notion of discourse as a nexus of cultural and linguistic processes.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5475 - Multimodal Interaction
Students build knowledge and practice of analysis of peoples’ joint-engagement in embodied interactions. How does action weave together multiple sensory modalities into semiotic webs linking interactions with more durative institutions of social life? Course includes workshops on video recording, and the transcription and coding of verbal and non-verbal actions. Prior coursework in Linguistics, Anthropology or instructor permission recommended.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5480 - Literacy and Orality
This course surveys ethnographic and linguistic literature on literacy, focusing on the social meanings of speaking vs. writing (and hearing vs. reading) as opposed communicative practices, looking especially at traditionally oral societies.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
ANTH 5485 - Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis looks at the patterns in language and language-use above the level of sentence grammar and seeks to apply the micro-level analysis of communicative interactions to understanding the macro-level processes of social and cultural reproduction. Topics include: symbolic interactionism, conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, discourse prosody, and digital analysis techniques.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5490 - Speech Play and Verbal Art
This graduate-level seminar seeks to understand variation in language (and its significance for social relations and social hierarchies) by focusing on forms of language that are aesthetically valued (whether as powerful or as poetic) in particular communities. The course assumes some familiarity both with technical analysis of language and anthropological perspectives on social formations.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
ANTH 5495 - Discourse Prosody
Discourse prosody looks at intonation, rhythm, meter, and voice quality in everyday speech, developing descriptive and theoretical models for the systematic study of these linguistic phenomena. The course emphasizes instrumental analysis and focuses on how prosody: varies across dialects and languages; functions in spoken interaction; and affects structures of social life (identity, hierarchy, etc.).
Credits: 3
ANTH 5510 - Topics in Ethnography
Seminars on topics announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5528 - Topics in Race Theory
This course examines theories and practices of race and otherness, in order to analyze and interpret constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of race from the late 18th to the 21st centuries. The focus varies from year to year, and may include ‘race, ‘progress and the West,’ ‘gender, race and power,’ and ‘white supremacy.’ The consistent theme is that race is neither a biological nor a cultural category, but a method and theory of social organization, an alibi for inequality, and a strategy for resistance. Cross listed as AAS 5528. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010, 3010, or other introductory or middle-level social science or humanities course
Credits: 3
ANTH 5541 - Topics in Linguistics
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5549 - Topics in Theoretical Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology
Seminars in topics of specific interest to faculty and advanced students will be announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5559 - New Course in Anthropology
New course in the subject of anthropology.
ANTH 5589 - Selected Topics in Archaeology
Seminars in topics announced prior to each semester.
ANTH 5590 - Topics in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5610 - Critical medical anthropology: healers, patients, scholars
This class focuses on critical issues in medical anthropology on topics of patienthood, healing and healers and the theoretical, methodological and ethnographic perspectives of anthropologists who integrate issues of politics, economics, power and resistance in understanding health, illness, healing as individually experienced and culturally shaped phenomena .
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
ANTH 5620 - The Middle East in Ethnographic Perspective
Survey of the anthropological literature on the Middle East & N. Africa. Begins historically with traditional writing on the Middle East and proceeds to critiques of this tradition and attempts at new ways of constructing knowledge of this world region. Readings juxtapose theoretical and descriptive work toward critically appraising modern writers’ success in overcoming the critiques leveled against their predecessors.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5808 - Method and Theory in Archaeology
Investigates current theory, models, and research methods in anthropological archaeology.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5840 - Archaeology of Complex Societies
Examines archaeological approaches to the study of complex societies using case studies from both the Old and New Worlds.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5870 - Archaeozoology
Laboratory training in techniques and methods used in analyzing animal bones recovered from archaeological sites. Include field collection, data analysis, and the use of zooarchaeological materials in reconstructing economic and social systems.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5880 - Gender in Archaeology
Explores the range of case studies and theoretical literature associated with the emergence of gender as a framework for research in archaeology.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5885 - Archaeology of Colonial Expansions
Exploration of the archaeology of frontiers, expansions and colonization, focusing on European expansion into Africa and the Americas while using other archaeologically-known examples (e.g., Roman, Bantu) as comparative studies. Prerequisite: For undergraduates, ANTH 4591 senior seminar or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ANTH 5993 - Independent Studies in Anthropology
Independent study conducted by the student under the supervision of an instructor of his or her choice.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
ANTH 7010 - History of Anthropological Theory
Introduces major historical figures, approaches, and debates in anthropology (sociocultural, linguistic, archaeological), with a focus on understanding the discipline’s diverse intellectual history, and its complex involvement with dominant social and intellectual currents in western society.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7020 - Contemporary Anthropological Theory
Explores the major recent theoretical approaches in current anthropology, with attention to their histories and to their political contexts and implications.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7040 - Ethnographic Research Design and Methods
Seminar on ethnographic methods and research design in the qualitative tradition. Surveys the literature on ethnographic methods and explores relations among theory, research design, and appropriate methodologies. Students participate in methodological exercises and design a summer pilot research project. Prerequisite: Second year graduate in anthropology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7050 - Ethnographic Writing and Representation
Seminar on the craft of ethnographic writing and the ethical, political, and practical challenges of describing studied people in scholarly books and articles. What can student researchers do during fieldwork to help them write better dissertations more easily? How should they analyze and present field data? Prerequisite: ANTH 7040 or instructor permission. Suitable for pre- and post-field graduate students.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7060 - Dissertation Research Proposal Workshop
A workshop for graduates preparing dissertation proposals and writing grant applications. Each student prepares several drafts of a proposal, revising it at each stage in response to the criticisms of classmates and the instructor.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7129 - Marriage, Mortality, Fertility
Explores the ways that culturally formed systems of values and family organization affect population processes in a variety of cultures. Readings are drawn from comparative anthropology and historical demography. Cross-listed as ANTH 3129.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7130 - 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.
Prerequisites: previous ANTH or SOC course
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
ANTH 7290 - Nationalism and the Politics of Culture
Analyzes the ways in which a spirit of national or ethic solidarity is mobilized and utilized.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7350 - 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 7370 - Power and the Body
Study of the cultural representations and interpretations of the body in society.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7400 - Linguistic Anthropology
An advanced introduction to the study of language from an anthropological point of view. No prior coursework in linguistics is expected, but the course is aimed at graduate students who will use what they learn in their own anthropologically-oriented research. Topics include an introduction to such basic concepts in linguistic anthropology as language in world-view, the nature of symbolic meaning, language and nationalism, universals and particulars in language, language in history and prehistory, the ethnography of speaking, the nature of everyday conversation, and the study of poetic language. The course is required for all Anthropology graduate students. It also counts toward the Theory requirement for the M.A. in Linguistics.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7420 - Theories of Language
Survey of modern schools of linguistics, both American and European, discussing each approach in terms of historical and intellectual context, analytical goals, assumptions about the nature of language, and relation between theory and methodology.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7440 - 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 7450 - Native American Languages
Surveys the classification and typological characteristics of Native American languages and the history of their study, with intensive work on one language by each student. Some linguistics background is helpful.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7455 - 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. Taught concurrently with ANTH 3455.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7470 - Language and Culture in the Middle East
Language and Culture in the Middle East
Credits: 3
ANTH 7480 - Language and Prehistory
This course covers the basic principles of diachronic linguistics (the study of how languages change over time) and the uses of linguistic data in the reconstruction of prehistory. Considered is the use of linguistic evidence in tracing prehistoric population movements in demonstrating contact among prehistoric groups and in the reconstruction of daily life. To the extent that the literature permits, examples and case studies will be drawn from the Mayan language area of Central America, and will include discussion of the pre-Columbian Mayan writing system and its ongoing decipherment. Fulfills the comparative-historical requirement for Linguistics graduate students.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7541 - Topics in Sociolinguistics
Analyzes particular aspects of the social use of language. Topics vary from year to year.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7559 - New Course in Anthropology
New course in the subject of anthropology.
ANTH 7589 - Topics in Archaeology
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7590 - Topics in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7603 - Archaeological Aproaches 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 7630 - 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 7840 - Quantitative Analysis in Anthropology I
This course examines the quantitative analytical techniques used in anthropology and archaeology. Topics include seriation, regression analysis, measures of diversity, and classification.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7841 - Quantitative Analysis II
This is a second course in statistical methods useful in many disciplines, including archaeology, anthropology, and environmental sciences. Coverage includes linear and generalized linear models, non-parametric regression, multivariate distances, clustering, ordination methods, and discriminant functions. The course emphasizes practical data analysis using R.
Prerequisite: Quantitative Analysis I (ANTH 4840/7840) or an introductory statistics course and a basic knowledge of R.
Credits: 3
ANTH 7855 - Historical Archaeology
Historical archaeology is the archaeological study of the continental and transoceanic human migrations that began in the fifteenth century, their effects on native peoples, and historical trajectories of the societies that they created. This course offers an introduction to the field. It emphasizes how theoretical models, analytical methods, and archaeological data can be combined to make and evlaluate credible inferences about the past.
Credits: 3
ANTH 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
ANTH 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
ANTH 9010 - Directed Readings
Directed Readings
ANTH 9020 - Directed Readings
Directed Readings
ANTH 9050 - Research Practicum
Research Practicum
Credits: 1
ANTH 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
ANTH 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
LING 5090 - Teaching English as a Second Language
Studies the theory, problems, and methods in teaching English as a second language, with attention to relevant areas of general linguistics and the structure of English.
Credits: 3
LING 5101 - ESL Teaching Practicum: Language
Through this course, students focus on the topic of language in an L2, while gaining experience in the practice of English-language teaching to international students, faculty, and staff at the University. This experience is an excellent opportunity to gain teaching experience under the supervision of an experienced mentor. For every 1 hour of credit, students must meet with an instructor for 5 classroom & practice 33 hours.
Prerequisite: 3250
Credits: 1
LING 5102 - ESL Teaching Practicum: Culture
Through this course, students focus on the topic of culture in ESL, while gaining experience in the practice of English-language teaching to international students, faculty, and staff at the University. This experience is an excellent opportunity to gain teaching experience under the supervision of an experienced mentor. For every 1 hour of credit, students must meet with an instructor for 5 classroom & practice 33 hours.
Prerequisite: 3250
Credits: 1
LING 5103 - ESL Teaching Practicum: Writing
Through this course, students focus on the topic of writing in an L2, while gaining experience in the practice of English-language teaching to international students, faculty, and staff at the University. This experience is an excellent opportunity to gain teaching experience under the supervision of an experienced mentor. For every 1 hour of credit, students must meet with an instructor for 5 classroom & practice 33 hours.
Credits: 1
LING 5409 - Acoustic Phonetics
In this course on phonetics, students will explore the acoustic properties of different segment types, formants, pitch, intensity, spectra, and voice pulsing, among other phenomena. The emphasis is on parameters that influence speech intelligibility, the correlates of language variation (comparison between languages, effects of dialects), as well as some aspects of phonetic pathology.
Prerequisites: LNGS 3250 or Instructor Permission
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - ABROAD,CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
LING 6010 - Between Two Cultures, Between Two Languages
Virginia teachers examine the relationship of language to culture and the motivational differences between native and non-native speakers learning standard English.
Credits: 2
LING 6559 - New Course in Linguistics
New course in the subject of linguistics.
LING 7400 - Structure of English
This course provides students with a foundation in the grammar of the English language. Topics include phonology, morphology, syntax, with a focus on structural analysis. Students will gain confidence in discussing the form, function, & usage of linguistic structures. These topics will also be related to the teaching & tutoring of English as a second language including error correction & feedback which will be reflected in advanced final papers.
Credits: 3
LING 8559 - New Course in Linguistics
New course in the subject of linguistics.
LING 8998 - Non-Topical Research
Preparation for Master’s Research, no thesis director.
LING 8999 - MA Thesis Research
For Master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
Credits: 3
LING 9010 - Directed Research
Special Areas Students should choose electives in one or more of the following areas: anthropology, Asian and Middle Eastern languages and Cultures, comparative Latin and Greek, English language study, Germanic linguistics, Indic linguistics, philosophy, psychology, Romance linguistics, Slavic linguistics.
LING 9559 - New Course in Linguistics
New course in the subject of linguistics.
Art
ARAH 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
ARAH 5253 - Italian Fifteenth Century Painting I
Italian Fifteenth Century Painting I
Credits: 3
ARAH 5254 - Italian 16th Century Painting
Italian 16th Century Painting
Credits: 3
ARAH 5559 - New Course in History of Art
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of History of Art.
ARAH 5575 - Topics in Modern Art History
examines focused topics in the history of modern art
Credits: 3
ARAH 5585 - Topics in the Art of East, South, and Southeast Asia
Examines focused topics in the Art of East, South, and Southeast Asia.
Credits: 3
ARAH 5681 - Museum Studies
Museum Studies
Credits: 3
ARAH 5752 - Representations of Race in American Art
Representations of Race in American Art
Credits: 3
ARAH 5753 - Southern History and Material Culture
Southern History & Material Culture is an intensive graduate-level introduction to the decorative arts, history and material culture of the American South. The four-week course includes a number of lectures, collection studies and workshops by members of the staff of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Old Salem, Inc., the faculty of the University of Virginia, and guest scholars.
Credits: 3
ARAH 5951 - African Art
African Art
Credits: 3
ARAH 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
ARAH 7500 - Research Problems in Ancient Architecture/Archaeology
Reading and research problems in ancient architecture and archaeology.
Credits: 3
ARAH 7505 - Research Problems in Ancient Art/ Archaeology
Reading and research on problems in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art.
Credits: 3
ARAH 7510 - Research Problems in Medieval Architecture
Reading and research problems in medieval architecture
Credits: 3
ARAH 7515 - Research Problems Medieval Art
Reading and research on problems in medieval art and its social background.
Credits: 3
ARAH 7520 - Research Problems in Renaissance/Baroque Architecture
Reading and research problems in Renaissance/Baroque architecture
Credits: 3
ARAH 7525 - Research Problems in Renaissance/Baroque Art
Reading and research problems in Renaissance/Baroque art
Credits: 3
ARAH 7530 - Research Problems in 18th/19th Century Architecture
Reading and research problems in 18th/19th century architecture
Credits: 3
ARAH 7535 - Research Problems in 18th/19th Century Art
Reading and research problems in 18th/19th century art
Credits: 3
ARAH 7540 - Research Problems in 20th/21st Century Architecture
Reading and research problems in 20th/21st century architecture
Credits: 3
ARAH 7545 - Research Problems in 20th/21st Century Art
Reading and research problems in 20th/21st century art.
Credits: 3
ARAH 7560 - Research Problems in Architecture Theory, Comparative & Other Topics
Reading and research problems in architecture theory, comparative & other topics.
Credits: 3
ARAH 7565 - Research Problems in Art Theory, Comparative & Other Topics
Reading and research problems in art theory, comparative & other topics.
Credits: 3
ARAH 7570 - Research Problems in the Architecture of the Americas
Reading and research problems in the architecture of the Americas.
Credits: 3
ARAH 7575 - Research Problems in the Art of the Americas
Reading and research problems in the art of the Americas.
Credits: 3
ARAH 7580 - Research Problems in the Architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia
Reading and research problems in the architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia.
Credits: 3
ARAH 7585 - Research Problems in the Art of East, South, and Southeast Asia
Reading and research problems in the art of East, South, and Southeast Asia.
Credits: 3
ARAH 7590 - Research Problems in the Architecture of Africa or Islam
Reading and research problems in the architecture of Africa or Islam.
Credits: 3
ARAH 7595 - Research Problems in the Art of Africa or Islam
Reading and research problems in the art of Africa or Islam.
Credits: 3
ARAH 8051 - Theory and Interpretation in the Visual Arts
Investigates problems in the theory and interpretation of the visual arts
Credits: 3
ARAH 8052 - Library Methodology in the Visual Arts
Required for all entering graduate students. Introduces the bibliography of the visual arts including architecture, archaeology, painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts. Specific research and reference publications are analyzed in terms of their scope, special features, and applications to meeting research and information needs.
Credits: 1
ARAH 8091 - MA Thesis Research
MA Thesis Research
Credits: 3
ARAH 8092 - MA Thesis Writing
The MA thesis, up to 50 pages in length, will be prepared under the supervision of the major advisor, reviewed by a three-person committee and defended orally before the end of term.
Credits: 3
ARAH 8095 - Dissertation Proposal
Preparation of a 15-20 page dissertation proposal under the supervision of a dissertation advisor.
Credits: 3
ARAH 8695 - Special Reading Problems
Special Reading Problems
ARAH 8940 - Special Reading Problems in Art
Special Reading Problems in Art
Credits: 1 to 3
ARAH 8950 - Special Reading Problems
Special Reading Problems
Credits: 1 to 12
ARAH 8998 - Non-Topical Rsch, Masters Prep
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
ARAH 8999 - Non-Topical Research, Masters
For master’s research, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
ARAH 9500 - Seminar in Ancient Architecture/Archaeology
Investigates problems in ancient architecture/archaeology.
Credits: 3
ARAH 9505 - Seminar in Ancient Art/Archaeology
Investigates problems in ancient art/archaeology
Credits: 3
ARAH 9510 - Seminar in Medieval Architecture
Investigates problems in medieval architecture
Credits: 3
ARAH 9515 - Seminar in Medieval Art
Investigates problems in medieval art
Credits: 3
ARAH 9520 - Seminar in Renaissance/Baroque Architecture
Investigates problems in Renaissance and/or Baroque architecture.
Credits: 3
ARAH 9525 - Seminar in Renaissance/Baroque Art
Investigates problems in renaissance/baroque art
Credits: 3
ARAH 9535 - Seminar in 18th/19th Art
Investigates problems in 18th-19th century art
Credits: 3
ARAH 9540 - Seminar in 20th/21st Century Architecture
Investigates problems in 20th/21st century architecture
Credits: 3
ARAH 9545 - Seminar in 20th/21st Century Art
Investigates problems in 20th/21st century architecture.
Credits: 3
ARAH 9560 - Seminar in Architecture Theory, Comparative & Other Topics
Investigates problems in architecture theory, comparative, and other topics.
Credits: 3
ARAH 9565 - Seminar in Art Theory, Comparative & Other Topics
Investigates problems in architecture theory, comparative, and other topics
Credits: 3
ARAH 9570 - Seminar in the Architecture of the Americas
Investigates problems in architecture of the Americas
Credits: 3
ARAH 9575 - Seminar in the Art of the Americas
Investigates problems in art of the Americas
Credits: 3
ARAH 9580 - Seminar in the Architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia
Investigates problems in architecture of East, South, and Southeast Asia
Credits: 3
ARAH 9585 - Seminar in the Art of East, South, and Southeast Asia
Investigates problems in art of East, South, and Southeast Asia
Credits: 3
ARAH 9590 - Seminar in the Architecture of Africa or Islam
Investigates problems in architecture of Africa or Islam
Credits: 3
ARAH 9595 - Seminar in the Art of Africa or Islam
Investigates problems in art of Africa or Islam.
Credits: 3
ARAH 9995 - Supervised Research
Supervised Research
ARAH 9998 - Non-Topical Rsch,Doctoral Prep
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
ARAH 9999 - Non-Topical Research, Doctoral
For doctoral research taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
ARTH 5559 - New Course in Art History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of art history.
Astronomy
ASTR 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
ASTR 5010 - Astrophysical Processes
An introduction to the basic physics of astronomy and astrophysics organized around learning physical principles and applying them to astrophysical objects. Physics covered will be chosen from fluid mechanics, radiative transfer, statistical mechanics, classical and quantum radiation processes, and quantum mechanics of atomic and molecular structure. This graduate course will involve more complex and difficult assignments than ASTR 4810. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
ASTR 5110 - Astronomical Techniques
Surveys modern techniques of radiation measurement, data analysis, and image processing, and their application to astrophysical problems, especially the physical properties of stars and galaxies. Relevant laboratory experiments and observations with the department’s telescopes are included. Students are expected to develop a familiarity with programming and other basic computer skills if they do not already possess them. Prerequisite: ASTR 2110-2120; PHYS 3420, 3430 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ASTR 5140 - Advanced Research Methods in Astrophysics
Graduate students will be exposed to a research methods-intensive set of 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.
Credits: 3
ASTR 5260 - Introduction to Astrochemistry
This interdisciplinary course will introduce advanced undergraduates and graduates to molecules and their chemistry in different sources throughout the universe. Topics include gas-phase and grain-surface reactions, astronomical spectroscopy, laboratory experiments, and astrochemical modeling.
Prerequisite: There are no formal prerequisites, but some knowledge of chemical kinetics, spectroscopy, and/or the interstellar medium will be helpful.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
ASTR 5340 - Introductory Radio Astronomy
Studies the fundamentals of measuring power and power spectra, antennas, interferometers, and radiometers. Topics include thermal radiation, synchrotron radiation, and line frequency radiation; and radio emission from the planets, sun, flare stars, pulsars, supernovae, interstellar gas, galaxies, and quasi-stellar sources.
Credits: 3
ASTR 5350 - Introduction to Radio Astronomy Instrumentation
An introduction to the instrumentation of radio astronomy. Discussion includes fundamentals of measuring radio signals, noise theory, basic radiometry, antennas, low noise electronics, coherent receivers, signal processing for continuum and spectral line studies, and arrays. Lecture material is supplemented by illustrative labs. Prerequisite: ASTR 5340 or Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ASTR 5420 - Interstellar Medium
Studies the physics of the interstellar gas and grains, the distribution and dynamics of gas, and cosmic radiation and interstellar magnetic fields. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ASTR 5430 - Stellar Astrophysics
Studies observed properties and physics of stars including radiative transfer; stellar thermodynamics; convection; formation of spectra in atmospheres; equations of stellar structure; nuclear reactions; stellar evolution; and nucleosynthesis. Includes applicable numerical techniques. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ASTR 5440 - Stellar Astrophysics
Studies observed properties and physics of stars including radiative transfer; stellar thermodynamics; convection; formation of spectra in atmospheres; equations of stellar structure; nuclear reactions; stellar evolution; and nucleosynthesis. Includes applicable numerical techniques. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ASTR 5450 - High Energy Astrophysics
Introduces the physics of basic radiation mechanisms and particle acceleration processes that are important in high energy phenomena and space science. Discusses applications to pulsars, active galactic nuclei, radio galaxies, quasars, and supernovae. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ASTR 5559 - New Course in Astronomy
New course in the subject of astronomy.
ASTR 5610 - Galactic Structure and Stellar Populations
Explores the structure and evolution of star clusters and galaxies, with emphasis on the kinematics, chemistry, ages, and spectral energy distributions of stellar populations. The course introduces fundamental tools of Galactic astronomy, including methods for assessing the size, shape, age, and dynamics of the Milky Way and other stellar systems, galaxy formation, interstellar gas and dust, dark matter, and the distance scale. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
ASTR 5630 - Extragalactic Astronomy
This course provides an overview of extragalactic astronomy. Topics include both qualitative and quantitative discussion of various types of galaxy (ellipticals, spirals, dwarf, starburst); results from theory of stellar dynamics; groups and clusters of galaxies; active galaxies; high-redshift galaxies; galaxy evolution; the intergalactic medium; and dark matter. The course is intended for advanced undergraduate astrophysics majors and first and second year graduate students. Prerequisite: Physics and Math through PHYS 2610, MATH 3250 (or equivalent); ASTR 2110, 2120 (or equivalent).
Credits: 3
ASTR 5640 - Extragalactic Astronomy II
This course provides an overview of extragalactic astronomy. Topics include both a qualitative and quantitative discussion of star formation in galaxies, galaxy interactions and mergers, active galaxies and quasars, cosmology, structure formation in the universe, and galaxy formation and evolution. The course is intended for advanced undergraduate astrophysics majors and first and second year graduate students. Proposed: This course provides an overview of extragalactic astronomy. Topics include both a qualitative and quantitative discussion of star formation in galaxies, galaxy interactions and mergers, active galaxies and quasars, cosmology, structure formation in the universe, and galaxy formation and evolution. The course is intended for advanced undergraduate astrophysics majors and first and second year graduate students. Prerequisite: ASTR 5630 or Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
ASTR 6230 - Introduction to Astronomical Observation Concepts
The subject matter of this course is the same as ASTR 1230. Students are offered special assignments and consultation on introductory concepts in observational astronomy related to education. Offered concurrently with undergraduate sections. Prerequisite: Curry School students; instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ASTR 6340 - Astronomy Concepts in the Classroom
A seminar-style class offered for graduate students in the School of Education and in-service teachers seeking credit towards (re) certification. In addition to astronomy content, students will learn effective astronomy lessons. Prerequisite: instructor permission
Credits: 3
ASTR 6420 - Life Beyond the Earth Concepts
The subject matter of this course is the same as ASTR 3420. Students are offered special reading assignments and consultation on extraterrestrial life concepts related to education. Offered concurrently with undergraduate sections. Prerequisite: Curry School students; instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ASTR 6470 - Science and Controversy Concepts
The subject matter of this course is the same as ASTR 3470. Students are offered special reading assignments and consultation on science and pseudoscience concepts related to education. Offered concurrently with undergraduate sections. Prerequisite: Curry School students; instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ASTR 6480 - Introduction to Cosmology Concepts
The subject matter of this course is the same as ASTR 3480. Students are offered special reading assignments and consultation on cosmology concepts related to education. Offered concurrently with undergraduate sections. Prerequisite: Curry School students; instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ASTR 6559 - New course in Astronomy
New course in the subject of Astronomy.
ASTR 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
ASTR 7559 - New Course in Astronomy
New Course in the subject of astronomy.
ASTR 8500 - Current Astronomical Topics
UVa staff and guest speakers discuss current research problems.
Credits: 1
ASTR 8559 - New Course in Astronomy.
New Course in the subject of Astronomy.
ASTR 9559 - New Course in Astronomy
New course in the subject of Astronomy.
ASTR 9995 - Supervised Research
Under supervision, the student undertakes or assists with a current research problem. This course may be repeated for credit.
ASTR 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Biology
BIOL 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
BIOL 5070 - Practical Aspects of Light Microscopy in the Biological Sciences
Practical usage of various microscopy imaging methodologies to study the morphology and cellular function in various biological systems from single cell to single molecule in cells and tissues. Topics include basics theory of microscopy, imaging and image analysis to solve various biological questions, fluorophore labeling, technical and hands on training on various microscopy techniques applied in different biological and biomedical investigations. Lectures, discussion, student presentations and laboratory.
Credits: 3
BIOL 5080 - Developmental Mechanisms
Analyzes the cellular and molecular basis of developmental phenomena, reviewing both classical foundations and recent discoveries. Lectures focus on the major developmental systems used for analysis of embryogenesis (e.g., mouse, frog, and fly) and concentrate on several themes that pervade modern research in this area (e.g., signal transduction mechanisms). Readings are from the primary research literature, supplemented by textbook assignments. Lectures and discussion. Prerequisite: BIOL 3000 and BIOL 3010 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
BIOL 5250 - Ecological Issues in Global Change
Introduces development and application of theoretical constructs and mathematical models for projecting the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems to large scale changes in the environment. Prerequisites: EVSC 3200 or equivalent, one year of college calculus, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
BIOL 5559 - New Course in Biology
New course in the subject of biology.
BIOL 5995 - Biological Research at Mountain Lake Biological Station
Biology Research at Mountain Lake Biological Station is designed for students participating in the Mountain Lake Biological Station summer Master’s Degree Program.
BIOL 6559 - New Course in Biology
New course in the subject of biology.
BIOL 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
BIOL 7020 - Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics
Examines the mechanisms of evolution within populations, molecular evolution, and the process of speculation. Topics include genetics of adaptation and speciation, natural selection, and the processes influencing the evolution of genes and genomes at the molecular level. Prerequisites: BIOL 3010
Credits: 3
BIOL 7060 - 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 7110 - Teaching Science in Higher Education
This STEM teaching course will help graduate TAs integrate learning theory and effective student engagement practices into their teaching. GTAs 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 7120 - 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.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7130 - Population Ecology and Conservation Biology
The natural history and mathematical theory of population dynamics, species interactions and life history evolution. Lectures emphasize theory and experimental tests; class discussions focuses on applications to conservation of plant and animal populations.
Credits: 4
BIOL 7140 - 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.
Credits: 1
BIOL 7150 - 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: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
BIOL 7160 - Functional Genomics
The first half of the course serves as an introduction to basic bioinformatics and genomics. The second half of the course concentrates on the rapidly evolving discipline of Functional Genomics, which takes advantage of the dramatic increase in the amount.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7170 - Cellular Neurobiology
Explores a cellular approach to the study of the nervous system. Topics include the structure & function of ionic channels in cell membranes; the electrochemical basis of the cell resting potential; the generation & conduction of nerve impulses; and synaptic transmissions. Three lecture and demonstration/discussion credits. Class mtgs include lectures, discussion, student presentations, and computer simulations of neurophysiology w/ NeuroDynamix.
Credits: 4
BIOL 7180 - 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.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7190 - 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.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7220 - 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.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7230 - 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 7280 - 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.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7310 - 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: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7320 - 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.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7360 - Cytokine Signaling and Neural Development
This is a journal club format colloquium 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 7370 - 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.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7380 - 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. Prerequisite: BIOL 3010, BIOL 3020
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
BIOL 7410 - Molecular Biology
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. This course is meant for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Background material will be from Molecular Biology of the Gene, 5th ed, Watson et al, Pearson/Benj Cummings, More recent material will be from current literature.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7510 - 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.
BIOL 7516 - Field Ornithology
Students will be exposed to the biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology of birds through hands-on experience. Field exercises will teach how to identify birds by sight and sound, measure birds in hand, and monitor birds and their behaviors. These opportunities will be augmented with lectures on bird physiology, morphology, and diversity. Independent research projects will enable students to further develop their skills.
BIOL 7559 - New Course in Biology
New course in the subject of biology.
BIOL 7660 - How do they do it? Method and Logic in Cutting-edge Biomedical Science
Do you know how a bioluminescent jellyfish protein is saving lives? The green fluorescent protein, earning its discoverers the 2008 Nobel Prize, is only one example of the recent biomedical breakthroughs leading to revolutionary diagnostics, treatments and cures that we will cover. Topics will range from how scientists are using roundworms to cure diabetes to why a pond fish from Himalayas might unlock the mysteries of psychiatric disorders.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7751 - Plant Diversity & Conservation: Bioinformatics and Systematics
The extraordinary diversity of the southern Appalachians will be used to explore the world of plants. We will visit unique mountain habitats to study the different species assemblages in these ecologically wide-ranging sites. Based upon our observations and analyses, we will critique contemporary views of the most effective conservation units (individual, population, species, family, habitat) and the methods used to achieve conservation goals.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7752 - Field Methods in Stream Ecology
We will focus on integrating principles of stream and watershed ecology to gain insight into stream dwelling organisms and their environments. Students will be introduced to 1) the physical, chemical and biological organization of aquatic ecosystems, 2) current theories in stream and watershed ecology, and 3) lab and field methods for conducting stream research. Students will conduct independent and group research projects.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7753 - Field Biology of Fungi
The southern Appalachians provide an ideal setting to explore the biology of fungi. This class provides an introduction with emphasis on fieldID and current experimental methods used to study fungal genetics, ecology, and evolution. Lab exercises will use filamentous fungi to demonstrate methods for identification, culture techniques, breeding systems, genetic analysis, and interaction biology. Field trips will survey the taxonomic diversity.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7754 - Field Herpetology
We will focus on the ecology and evolution of reptiles and amphibians, leveraging their diversity in the southeastern US. In both the field and laboratory, we will study 1) the evolutionary relationships among reptiles and amphibians, 2) key evolutionary innovations that characterize each major lineage, 3) reptile and amphibian systems in ecological and evolutionary research, and 4) location and identification of reptiles and amphibians.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7755 - Field Biology of Fishes
MLBS sits on the Eastern Continental Divide providing an incredible diversity of freshwater habitats. Proficiency in ichthyology will be developed through field trips and lab work. Themes include: fish ID; patterns and drivers of diversity; interactions on individual, population, community and ecosystem levels; evolution; and influences of human activities. Students will design and conduct a research project and present at a class symposium.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7756 - Field Ornithology
Students will be exposed to the biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology of birds through hands-on experience. Field exercises will teach how to identify birds by sight and sound, measure birds in hand, and monitor birds and their behaviors. These opportunities will be augmented with lectures on bird physiology, morphology, and diversity. Independent research projects will enable students to further develop their skills.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7757 - GIS for Field Biologists
This course will cover the fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems as applied to biological questions with application in ecology, evolution, conservation, disease ecology, and human land-use. Students will learn spatial theory, analysis, and hands-on use of GIS software (including ArcGIS). Field laboratories will allow students to use Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and learn to incorporate this technology into spatial analyses.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7758 - Field Biology of Insects
Insects are perhaps the most important animal group on the face of the earth. Their enormous diversity makes them important models for understanding many concepts in biology. Students will observe the bits and pieces of an insect, they will discover how adaptation relates to diversity, and they will learn to identify the major insect groups. Field trips to varied habitats allow students to collect insects and understand their natural history.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7759 - Field Methods in Wildlife Ecology
An introduction to field research methods for measuring and monitoring animals with an emphasis on testing biological and wildlife management hypotheses. We will survey small mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. Students will learn sampling designs, protocols, and types of studies. Exercises will include surveying, trapping, marking, and measuring animals. Skills learned will be used in hypothesis-driven group projects.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7760 - Hormones and Behavior
Hormones alter the development and expression of animal behavior. Behavior in turn changes the effects of hormones. We’ll take an evolutionary approach in exploring the causation and mechanism of hormone-mediated behaviors. We will use endocrinological techniques to examine behavior and hormone variation in wild populations. Students will help design and conduct a class research project with the goal of publishing our results.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7761 - Wildlife Disease Ecology
This course focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases in wild animal populations. Topics include the population biology of parasites and pathogens, host immune defenses and pathogen virulence, and wildlife conservation and disease. Students will gain experience with quantitative methods and field and laboratory techniques, including parasite identification and handling of insects, birds, amphibians, and small mammals.
Credits: 3
BIOL 7850 - Seminar in Environmental and Conservation Biology
In-depth investigation of current research and practice in environmental and biological conservation. Format will include the discussion of fundamental and recent readings in conservation and guest speakers from the local scientific and conservation communities.
Credits: 2
BIOL 7993 - Independent Study in Biology
A biology faculty member supervises and approves all components of this course, designating the number of credits to be earned prior to enrollment. Students successfully complete one or more courses offered by the Department of Biology at the 3000 level or above and, for each course, write a 10-page (minimum) paper on a relevant topic.
BIOL 7994 - Independent Study in Biology
This course is for graduate students participating in graded, graduate-level courses offered at MLBS during summer sessions. Students enroll in this course during the fall semester following completion of the MLBS summer course. Credits earned are the same as the number of credits designated for the MLBS course. Upon completion of the course, the instructor of record provides a grade and a written evaluation of each student’s work in the course
BIOL 8010 - Colloquium in Developmental Biology
A weekly conference in which students present reports covering various aspects of development. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 2
BIOL 8050 - Advanced Evolutionary Biology
This course will cover a range of evolutionary concepts and approaches, including levels of selection, the role of evolution in structuring ecological communities, game theoretical models of adaptation, frequency-dependence, neutral processes and drift, the evolution of sex, the evolution of virulence, the molecular basis of adaptation, population and quantitative genetics, and the evolution of genome structure.
Credits: 2
BIOL 8060 - Colloquium in Circadian Biology
Readings and two-hour student seminar preparations focusing on recent research and primary literature in circadian biology. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 2
BIOL 8070 - Colloquium in Population Biology
A weekly conference arranged around a current topic. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 2
BIOL 8081 - Advanced Ecology and Evolution 1
This course introduces grad students to a breadth and depth of concepts and theories in modern ecology and evolutionary biology. The couse is co-taught by two BIOL faculty each fall, with different faculty rotating into the course in alternate years, providing expertise in molecular population genetics, genomics, phylogenetics, integrative biology, speciation, microevolution, life-history evolution, and mating systems.
Credits: 4
BIOL 8082 - Advanced Ecology and Evolution 2
This course introduces grad students to a breadth and depth of concepts and theories in modern ecology and evolutionary biology.. The course is taught by a different BIOL faculty each spring, with different faculty rotating into the course in alternate years, providing expertise in molecular population genetics, genomics, phylogenetics, integrative biology, speciation, microevolution, life-history evolution, and mating systems.
Credits: 2
BIOL 8083 - Advanced Ecology and Evolution 3
This course introduces grad students to a breadth and depth of concepts and theories in modern ecology and evolutionary biology. The couse is co-taught by two BIOL faculty each fall, with different faculty rotating into the course in alternate years, providing expertise in molecular population genetics, genomics, phylogenetics, integrative biology, speciation, microevolution, life-history evolution, and mating systems.
Credits: 4
BIOL 8084 - Advanced Ecology and Evolution 4
This course introduces grad students to a breadth and depth of concepts and theories in modern ecology and evolutionary biology.. The course is taught by a different BIOL faculty each spring, with different faculty rotating into the course in alternate years, providing expertise in molecular population genetics, genomics, phylogenetics, integrative biology, speciation, microevolution, life-history evolution, and mating systems.
Credits: 2
BIOL 8250 - Communicating in Science
This course will supplement the ‘7 Habits for Highly Effective Grad Students’ course with hands-on practice in presenting scientific data and communicating effectively in scientific writing and oral presentations. Students will meet weekly to practice and critique oral presentations, scientific manuscripts, figures and tables, statistical results, grant proposals, etc. Req. of all first-year graduate students in biology.
Credits: 1
BIOL 8260 - Writing in Science: creating grant and research proposals
Developing skill in communicating scientific principles and writing compelling research proposals is essential for successful graduate training in the biological sciences. This seminar and workshop course will focus on how to create effective grant and research proposals in preparation for thesis research. Students will be actively involved by presenting their research progress and plans, and critiquing each other’s written proposals.
Credits: 2
BIOL 8270 - Seven Habits of Highly Effective Graduate Students
Weekly discussion to acclimate new graduate students to rigors of academic research in the Department of Biology. There will be an emphasis on time management, scientific writing, presentations, and work-life balance. A rotation of Biology faculty, students, and staff will contribute to the weekly discussion.
Credits: 2
BIOL 8510 - 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.
BIOL 8559 - New Course in Biology
New course in the subject of biology.
BIOL 8820 - Selected Topics in Developmental Biology
A discussion of current problems. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 2
BIOL 8840 - Selected Topics in Physiology
A discussion of current problems.
Credits: 2
BIOL 8870 - Selected Topics in Developmental Genetics
A discussion of current problems. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
BIOL 8880 - Selected Topics in Biochemistry
A discussion of current problems. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 2
BIOL 8900 - Selected Topics in Developmental Botany
A discussion of current problems. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
BIOL 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
BIOL 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
BIOL 9559 - New Course in Biology
New course in the subject of biology.
BIOL 9910 - Rotation Research
An exposure to the working techniques and interactions of the modern Biological Laboratory. Required of all first-year biology graduate students.
Credits: 3
BIOL 9920 - Rotation Research
An exposure to the working techniques and interactions of the modern Biological Laboratory. Required of all first-year biology graduate students.
Credits: 3
BIOL 9995 - Topical Research in Biology
Independent research with a member of the Biology faculty in preparation for thesis or dissertation research.
BIOL 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
BIOL 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Chemistry
CHEM 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
CHEM 5110 - Organic Chemistry III: Structure, Reactivity, and Mechanism
Systematic review and extension of the facts and theories of organic chemistry; includes the mechanism of reactions, structure, and stereochemistry. Prerequisite: One year of organic chemistry. In addition, one year of physical chemistry is recommended.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5120 - Organic Chemistry IV: Synthesis
A comprehensive survey of synthetic organic reactions and their application to the design and execution of syntheses of relatively complex organic substances.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5180 - Instrumental Theory and Techniques in Organic Chemistry
Studies the theory and application of instrumental techniques in solving organic structural problems. Topics include ultraviolet and infrared absorption spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrometry, rotatory dispersion, and circular dichroism.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5210 - Advanced Physical Chemistry I: Quantum Mechanics
For students interested in the properties & phenomena of atomic, molecular, & nanoscale matter. The foundational ideas of quantum mechanics are introduced & tools for exact & approximate solutions of the Schrodinger Equation are developed. Model systems, such as particle in a box, harmonic oscillator, hydrogen atom, hydrogen ion & molecule, crystalline solids, as well as time-dependent phenomena, such as spectroscopy, tunneling, and scattering.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5220 - Advanced Physical Chemistry II: Statistical Mechanics
This course provides an introduction to statistical mechanics for graduate students or highly advanced undergraduates. The course begins with a review of thermodynamics and an introduction to the fundamental assumptions of equilibrium statistical mechanics, continues on to examine both non-interacting and interacting systems of interest, and finally introduces the basic concepts of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5224 - Reaction Kinetics and Dynamics
Introduces the practice and theory of modern chemical kinetics, emphasizing reactions occurring in gases, liquids, and on catalytic surfaces. Develops basic principles of chemical kinetics and describes current experimental and analytic techniques. Discusses the microscopic reaction dynamics underlying the macroscopic kinetics in terms of reactive potential energy surfaces. Develops statistical theories of reactions that simplify the description of the overall reaction dynamics. Includes the transition state theory, Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus (RRKM) theory for unimolecular reactions, Kramers’ theory, Marcus electron transfer theory, and information theory. Presents current topics from the literature and illustrates applications of basic principles through problem-solving exercises. Prerequisite: Undergraduate physical chemistry or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5250 - Molecular Spectroscopy
Includes basic theoretical principles of modern molecular spectroscopy, including microwave, infrared, Raman, visible, and ultraviolet spectroscopy. Gas-phase systems will be emphasized.
Prerequisite: CHEM 5210 or Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
CHEM 5260 - Introduction to Astrochemistry
This interdisciplinary course will introduce advanced undergraduates and graduates to molecules and their chemistry in different sources throughout the universe. Topics include gas-phase and grain-surface reactions, astronomical spectroscopy, laboratory experiments, and astrochemical modeling.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
CHEM 5310 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry I: Reaction Mechanisms
Introduces the electronic structure of atoms and simple molecules, including basic concepts and applications of symmetry and group theory. The chemistry of the main group elements is described using energetics, structure, and reaction pathways to provide a theoretical background. Emphasizes applying these concepts to predicting the stability and developing synthetic routes to individual compounds or classes. Prerequisite: CHEM 4320 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5320 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry II: Organometallics and Synthesis
Introduces the electronic structure of compounds of the transition metals using ligan field theory and molecular orbital theory. Describes the chemistry of coordination and organometallic compounds, emphasizing structure, reactivity, and synthesis. Examines applications to transformations in organic chemistry and to catalysis. Prerequisite: CHEM 4320 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5330 - Structural Inorganic Chemistry: Characterization and Spectroscopy
Covers mathematical language which describes symmetry and focuses on its application to inorganic chemistry, determination of point groups, use of character tables, and construction of MO theory diagrams. This will be followed by application of these concepts to spectroscopic methods, e.g. Absorption, IR, Raman, NMR, magnetism, and EPR, etc. The material is intended to cover the theory and interpretation of standard spectroscopic techniques.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5340 - Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
Covers an introduction to nanomaterials and to physical methods for nanomaterials characterization; synthesis, surface modification and assembly nanomaterials; and magnetic, optical and catalytic properties of nanomaterials. The course also highlights the importance of the design of nanomaterials for modern energy, environmental and biomedical applications.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5350 - Main Group Inorganic Chemistry
Discusses the principles of main-group element chemistry with a focus on synthesis, structure, reactivity, and applications. This course is intended to provide sufficient background knowledge of the topics and techniques used in this field so that students should be able to understand and critically evaluate the current main-group literature. Prerequisite: undergraduate general and organic chemistry or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5380 - Determination of Molecular Structure by Diffraction Methods
This one-semester undergraduate/graduate course will focus on the modern applications of X-ray diffraction techniques in crystal and molecular structure determination. The class will also include powder diffraction and its application in X-ray structure analysis.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5410 - Advanced Biological Chemistry I: Molecular Assembly and Information Flow
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, and describes key metabolic cycles and pathways, the enzymes that catalyze these reactions, and the ways in which these pathways are regulated. Three class hours (Y) Prerequisites: One year of biochemistry; one year of organic chemistry; one semester of thermodyanmics.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5420 - Advanced Biological Chemistry II: Macromolecular Structure and Function
Covers three main areas: (1) the structure and function of biological membranes, (2) complex biochemical systems and processes, including photosynthesis, oxidative phosphorylation, vision, neurotransmission, hormonal regulation, muscle contraction and microtubules, and (3) molecular biology, including DNA metabolism, protein synthesis, regulation of gene expression and recombinant DNA methodology. Three class hours,. (Y) Prerequistes: CHEM 7430 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5430 - Nanoscale Imaging of Complex Systems in Chemistry and Biology
Topics include principles of image formation; methods for sample preparation and chemical labeling; photophysics of fluorescent proteins and organic dyes; and computational image analysis and data processing.
Recommended prerequisites: Calculus II or higher, Introduction to Biology.
Required prerequisites: CHEM 1420, 1620 or 1810.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5510 - Selected Topics in Organic Chemistry (Drug Discovery)
Selected topics in advanced organic chemistry developed to the depth required for modern research.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
CHEM 5520 - Selected Topics in Physical Chemistry
Selected topics in advanced physical chemistry developed to the depth required for modern research.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5530 - Selected Topics in Inorganic Chemistry
Advanced treatment of topics of current research interest in inorganic chemistry.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5559 - New Course in Chemistry
New course in the subject of chemistry.
CHEM 5560 - Selected Topics in Biological Chemistry
Selected topics in advanced biochemistry developed to the depth required for modern research
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
CHEM 5570 - Selected Topics - Analytical Chemistry (Luminescence)
Studies recent developments in instrumentation and their significance to physical-analytical problems. Includes the theory and application of specialized techniques in analytical chemistry.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5710 - Advanced Analytical Chemistry
Advanced level survey of instrumental methods of analysis, theory and application of spectrochemical, electrochemical techniques; separations, surfaces, special topics, and recent developments from the literature.
Credits: 3
CHEM 5720 - Methods in Bioanalytical Chemistry
An introduction to classic & modern approaches of chemical analysis of biological systems. Detection of analytes ranging from small molecules & proteins, to cells, to structured materials. Focus on immunoassays: ELISA, bead-based assays, & surface plasmon resonance for analytes in solution; ELISpot for cell secretions; flow cytometry for cells and beads; & immunostaining for biomaterials and tissue samples. Prerequisite: CHEM 4410
Credits: 3
CHEM 5740 - Analytical Chemistry: Separations
Theory and practice of separation science are introduced. Topics include theoretical aspects of separations, including equilibrium theory, flow, diffusion, and solution theory. Major analytical separation techniques covered include liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, and capillary electrophoresis.
Prerequisite: CHEM 5710 or Permission of Instructor
Credits: 3
CHEM 5750 - Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy
Theory and practice of separation science are introduced. Topics include theoretical aspects of separations, including equilibrium theory, flow, diffusion, and solution theory. Major analytical separation techniques covered include liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, and capillary electrophoresis.
Prerequisite: CHEM 5710 or Permission of Instructor
Credits: 3
CHEM 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
CHEM 7010 - Research Seminar I: Introduction to Research
Provides professional development for graduate students concerning the theory & practice of scientific research. To familiarize students with faculty research and the tools for research. Students attend a series of faculty research presentations & additional lectures concerning library & research resources. Requires to attend departmental seminars & colloquia to expand their knowledge of current experimental & theoretical frontiers in chemistry.
Credits: 3
CHEM 7011 - Teaching Science in Higher Education
This STEM teaching course will help graduate TAs integrate learning theory and effective student engagement practices into their teaching. GTAs 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
CHEM 7020 - Research Seminar II: Research, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Ethics
Introduces students to a range of professional development tools & information that may be helpful over their careers. Safety in the laboratory, ethics in science & teaching, career planning, job opportunities/trajectories in academe, industry, & national laboratories, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, interactions with federal funding agencies, curriculum vitae/resume writing, & effective written & oral communication skills are covered.
Credits: 3
CHEM 7021 - Communicating Research to Diverse Audiences
Designed to help graduate students learn to communicate their research to non-technical audiences such as the public, the media, and policymakers. Class topics will be a balance of teamwork to introduce concepts followed by individual assignments to apply the concepts to their own research. Theoretical principles and readings will be introduced when appropriate.
Credits: 1
CHEM 7030 - Research Seminar III: Preparation for Ph.D. Candidacy Exam
The focus of this course is to prepare students for their Chemistry Ph.D. candidacy exam & to develop appropriate written & oral communication skills. Each student will prepare several written abstracts & make oral presentations for the class in a format that largely mimics the candidacy exam. Students are required to attend departmental seminars & colloquia to expand their knowledge of current experimental and theoretical frontiers in science.
Credits: 3
CHEM 7031 - The Art of Scientific Writing
Skill in scientific writing is as essential for scientists as learning the experimental techniques and analysis methods of their field. Mastery of the skills for expository writing is essential to write an effective scientific document and the genres of scientific communication. Three writing assignments - a draft of each, which will be extensively marked up, & then a final version which will be subjected to a peer review & expert review.
Credits: 1
CHEM 7559 - New Course in Chemistry
New course in the subject of chemistry.
CHEM 8999 - Masters Research
For students pursuing a masters degree and conducting research.
CHEM 9110 - Research in Bioorganic Mechanism and Synthesis
Research in Bioorganic Mechanism and Synthesis
CHEM 9130 - Research in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Students will conduct research in synthetic organic chemistry using appropriate techniques, instruments, and equipment.
CHEM 9210 - Research in High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy
Research in High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy
CHEM 9220 - Research in Computational Chemistry
Research in Computational Chemistry
CHEM 9230 - Research in Statistical Mechanics of Condensed Phases
Research in Statistical Mechanics of Condensed Phases
CHEM 9240 - Research in Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics
Research in Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics
CHEM 9250 - Research in Theoretical Astrochemistry
Research in Theoretical Astrochemistry
CHEM 9260 - Research in Chemistry in Interstellar and Star-Forming Regions
Research in Chemistry in Interstellar and Star-Forming Regions
CHEM 9270 - Research in Physical Chemistry of Surfaces
Research in Physical Chemistry of Surfaces
CHEM 9280 - Research in Astrochemistry During Planet Formation
Students will conduct research in astrochemistry during planet formation using appropriate techniques and instrumentation.
CHEM 9310 - Research in Inorganic and Organometallic Reactions
Research in Inorganic and Organometallic Reactions
CHEM 9320 - Research in Synthetic and Mechanistic Organometallic Chemistry
Research in Synthetic and Mechanistic Organometallic Chemistry
CHEM 9330 - Research in Redox-Driven Inorganic Mechanisms
Research in Redox-Driven Inorganic Mechanisms.
CHEM 9340 - Research in Synthesis and Functionalization of Nanostructured Materials
Research in Synthesis and Functionalization of Nanostructured Materials.
CHEM 9350 - Research in Materials Chemistry
Research in Materials Chemistry
CHEM 9360 - Research in Medicinal Chemistry
Research in Medicinal Chemistry
CHEM 9370 - Research in Main-Group and Organometallic Synthesis
Students will conduct research in main-group and organometallic synthesis using appropriate techniques and instrumentation.
CHEM 9410 - Research in Membrane Biochemistry
Research in Membrane Biochemistry
CHEM 9420 - Research in Chemical and Structural Biology
Research in Chemical and Structural Biology
CHEM 9430 - Research in Chemical Biology
Research in Chemical Biology
CHEM 9440 - Research in Chemical Biology and Cell Signaling
Students will conduct research in chemical biology and cell signaling using appropriate methods and instrumentation.
CHEM 9450 - Research in Spectroscopy and Biophysics of Membrane Proteins
Research in Spectroscopy and Biophysics of Membrane Proteins
CHEM 9460 - Research in Chemical Microbiology & Immunotherapy
Students will conduct research in chemical microbiology and immunotherapy using appropriate methods and instrumentation.
CHEM 9470 - Research in Molecular Imaging and Interrogation of Biological Systems
Students will conduct research in molecular imaging and interrogation of biological systems using appropriate techniques and instrumentation.
CHEM 9559 - New course in chemistry
New course in the subject of chemistry.
CHEM 9610 - Research in Medicinal Chemistry
Research in Organic & Polymer Chemistry
Credits: 1 to 12
CHEM 9630 - Research in Bioanalytical Studies
Research in Bioanalytical Studies
Credits: 1 to 12
CHEM 9650 - Research in Statistical Mechanics of Condensed Phases
Research in Statistical Mechanics of Condensed Phases
Credits: 1 to 12
CHEM 9710 - Research in Mass Spectrometry
Research in Mass Spectrometry
CHEM 9720 - Research in Microfluidic and Chemical Analysis of Biological Systems
Research: Microfluidic and Chemical Analysis of Biological Systems
CHEM 9730 - Research in Bioanalytical Studies
Research in Bioanalytical Studies
CHEM 9740 - Research in Single-Molecule Imaging
Research in Single-Molecule Imaging
CHEM 9750 - Research in Analytical Chemistry of Biological Systems
Research in Analytical Chemistry of Biological Systems
CHEM 9810 - Research in Chemical Education
Students will conduct research in chemical education using appropriate methods and instrumentation.
CHEM 9999 - Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation advisor has been selected.
Classics
CLAS 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
CLAS 5250 - 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 5300 - 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 5559 - New Course in Classics
New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
CLAS 6559 - New Course in Classics
New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
CLAS 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
CLAS 9995 - Dissertation Seminar
A team-taught seminar that works by stages towards a complete first draft of the dissertation prospectus. Students will take the seminar during their sixth semester of study; instructors will be the dissertation directors of those students. Each student will register under the name of the director.
Credits: 3
GREE 5020 - Survey of Later Greek Literature
Lectures with readings from the end of the fifth century to the Second Sophistic. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5040 - Later Greek Prose
Selections from Greek authors, illustrating the development of prose style from the third century, b.c., to the second century, a.d. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5050 - Comparative Greek and Latin Grammar
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5060 - The History of the Greek and Latin Languages
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5070 - Greek Orators
Study of the texts of the ancient Greek orators (in ancient Greek). Prerequisite: Advanced knowledge of ancient Greek.
Credits: 3
GREE 5080 - Greek Epigraphy
Studies the inscriptions of the ancient Greeks. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5090 - Prose Composition
Translation from English into Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5100 - Homer
Readings from Homeric epics, with study of various Homeric problems. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5120 - Greek Lyric Poetry
Surveys Greek lyric forms from earliest times. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5130 - Pindar
Readings in the Poetry of Pindar
Credits: 3
GREE 5140 - Aeschylus
Close reading of two plays of Aeschylus with particular attention to problems of the constitution of the text.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
GREE 5150 - Sophocles
Selected plays of Sophocles with studies of their dramatic techniques. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5160 - Herodotus
Readings in the Histories. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5170 - Euripides
Reading of selected plays, with study of the poetic and dramatic technique. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5180 - Thucydides
Selections from the History of the Peloponnesian War, emphasizing the development of Greek historical prose style and the historical monograph. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5210 - Plato
Readings from selected dialogues of Plato; studies Plato’s philosophy and literary style. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5220 - Aristotle
Reading and discussion of the Nicomachean Ethics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 5230 - Survey of Hellenistic Poetry
This survey focuses on the evolution of Greek literature during the Hellenistic period, and will focus on a study of the texts and their cultural and historical contexts. There will be reports, quizzes, midterm, and a final exam or a paper.
Credits: 3
GREE 5559 - New Course in Greek
New course in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 5993 - Independent Study
Independent Study in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 7559 - New Course: GREE
New course in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 8100 - Greek Religion
Seminar on select topics in Greek Religion. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 8130 - Greek Literary Criticism
Readings from Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Poetics and Longinus. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
GREE 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s thesis, taken before a thesis director has been selected. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
GREE 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5020 - History of Latin Literature of the Empire
Lectures with readings from Vergil through Juvenal. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 5030 - History of Medieval Latin Literature
Studies of medieval Latin literature from Boethius to Dante. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 5040 - Prose Composition
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 5050 - Latin Paleography.
Studies scripts and book production from antiquity to the Renaissance. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 5060 - Roman Comedy
Studies selected plays of Plautus and Terence. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Prerequisite: advanced knowledge of Latin
Credits: 3
LATI 5070 - Latin Elegy
Studies selections from Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 5110 - Catullus
Studies the surviving poems of Catullus, with particular attention to questions of genre, structure, and literary history. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 5120 - Julius Caesar
Readings in and discussion of Julius Caesar’s Commentarities on the Gallic Wars and the Civil War, as well as the “Continuators”, who wrote accounts of the latter after Caesar’s death.
Credits: 3
LATI 5140 - Cicero’s Rhetorical Works
Readings from the orations and from the rhetorical treatises. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 5160 - Vergil’s Aeneid
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 5210 - Ovid’s Love Poetry
Studies readings from the Amores, Heroides, Ars Amatoria, and Remedia Amoris. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 5220 - Tacitus
Selections from Tacitus. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 5300 - Latin Survey
This course will consist of a selective survey of Latin Literature
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,WRITTEN
LATI 5559 - New Course in Latin
New course in the subject of Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 5993 - Independent Study
Independent Study in Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 7030 - The Teaching of Latin
This course will deal with the teaching of Latin at all levels. Issues of curriculum, textbooks, and methodology will be addressed along with practical matters of day-to-day classroom realities.
Credits: 3
LATI 7070 - Fragmentary Roman Historians
This class reads the many fragments of Roman Republican historians and learns how to analyze them from three perspectives: linguistic (including textual problems); literary; and historical. Why did early Romans, many of them active statesmen and generals, write history? What themes are perceptible in their surviving fragments? What was the historical context of the author, and what was the historical contribution of his work?
Credits: 3
LATI 7500 - Reading Latin Literature
A study of the readings in the revised Advanced Placement Examination
Credits: 3
LATI 7559 - New Course in Latin
New course in the subject of Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 8010 - Seminar on Select Topics in Latin Literature
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Credits: 3
LATI 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
LATI 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.
Comparative Literature Program
CPLT 8002 - Comparative and Transnational Studies
An advanced seminar that studies issues presented when considering literature in its transnational context, paying special attention to comparison. Focus on the modern and contemporary period, but we consider also earlier periods. 2 essays and final exam. This course is required for the Graduate Certificate in Comparative Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
CPLT 8559 - New Course in Comparative Literature
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Comparative Literature.
Digital Humanities
Drama
DRAM 5070 - History of American Popular Entertainment: From Minstrelsy to Madonna
This course traces the development of popular entertainment forms from British and European roots through late modern and post-modern examples like Elvis, Madonna and Disneyland. Particular attention will be paid to popular culture and broad cultural trends.
Credits: 3
DRAM 5450 - Musical Theatre Performance
Integration of song into scene work and the examination of special problems posed for the actor/singer. Focuses on character’s song presentation within the context of a musical play.
Credits: 3
DRAM 5559 - New Course in Drama
New course in the subject of drama.
DRAM 5710 - Playwriting V
Introduces the craft of playwriting and examination of exemplary works. Weekly problem exercises emphasize the development of a way of working. Prerequisite: nine credits of drama courses or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7070 - Script Analysis
A survey of dramatic literature, classical to contemporary, with an eye toward reading scripts for the stage. Analysis of representative playscripts to discover how structure and language support conceptual and stylistic choices in production.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7100 - Graphics for the Theatre
Studies basic design communication skills which serve as the foundation for costume, scenic, lighting designers, and technical directors in collaboration with directors, designers, actors, and shop personnel. Includes basic elements of design in line, color, texture, visual research methodology, and media techniques in drawing, painting, model making. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7130 - Production Laboratory: Lighting
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of lighting design. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 2
DRAM 7140 - Production Laboratory: Lighting
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of lighting design. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 2
DRAM 7160 - Lighting Design I: Elements of Design
Studies the elements of theatrical lighting design essential to the stage designer. Areas of study include script interpretation, lighting composition, color, instrumentation, graphic notation, and presentation techniques. Prerequisite: DRAM 7100, 7170 or instructor permission; corequisite: DRAM 7180, 7140.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7170 - Drafting & CAD for Theatre
Study of drafting techniques and computer aided drafting and drawing software that prepares the designer or technician to identify and communicate methods and materials relative to executing the design. Covers standards for theatrical drafting, preparation of ground plans, sections, and design elevations including both pictorial and orthographic drawings. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7180 - Digital Media for Design
Studies a variety of graphic software programs and computer-aided design techniques which prepares the lighting designer, scenic designer, costume designer, and technical director to identify and communicate methods and materials relative to the execution of their respective designs. Taught completely on-line with all course materials and project submissions made electronically. Prerequisite: DRAM 7170 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7190 - Mentored Study: Lighting
A guided study which gives students the opportunity to explore with a faculty member areas of lighting design and/or technology which are not contained in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
DRAM 7230 - Production Studio: Scenery
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of scenic designs. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 7240 - Production Studio: Scenery
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of scenic designs. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 7260 - Scene Design I: Design Studio-Realism
Explores the range of theatrical design styles which form the core of the designer’s visual catalog. Includes, but is not limited to, 19th- and 20th-century realistic design styles.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7280 - Scene Painting
Studies the materials and methods of scenic painting and its application to conventional and non-conventional means of scenic replication for dramatic and musical stages. Includes various media used for scenic illustration, and the methods used for preparing a variety of surfaces to be painted. Prerequisite: DRAM 7100.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7290 - Mentored Study: Scene Design
A faculty-guided exploration of scenic design and/or technology areas not covered in the established curriculum. Repeatable up to 9 credits. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 7330 - Production Laboratory: Costume
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of costume design. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 2
DRAM 7340 - Production Laboratory: Costume
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of costume design. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 2
DRAM 7350 - Costume Technology: Couture Methods
An intense study of basic execution and design techniques that enable construction techniques that enable the costume designer to translate the visual design from the sketch to the stage. Study includes basic construction techniques, same and proper equipment utilization, principles of pattern drafting, design analysis, shop organization and personnel management. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7360 - Costume Design: Research
Application of design principles to play scripts focusing on the examination of the special world of the play as foundation for character and character relationships. Prerequisite: DRAM 7100, 7350; corequisite: DRAM 7380.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7380 - Costume Technology: Patterning & Draping
Explores the fundamentals of draping and flat-patterning, the two basic systems of pattern-making upon which all patterns are based. Prerequisite: DRAM 7100, 7350; corequisite: DRAM 7360.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7390 - Mentored Study: Costume
A faculty-guided study in an area of costume design and/or technology not covered in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program or instructor permission.
DRAM 7400 - Mentored Study: Acting
A faculty guided study in an area of advanced acting not covered in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: Graduate standing M.F.A. program
Credits: 3
DRAM 7410 - Movement: Foundations for the Actor
Examines the essential tools required of the physical performer through practical studio work in the elements of balance, rhythm, shape, endurance, freedom of movement, flexibility, shape and musicality. Identification of physical habits and the body’s mechanics will be addressed in order to uncover the key elements of expressive movement and gesture. Prerequisite: Graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7420 - Movement: Creating Physical Character
Examines the various techniques and methods for creating character through shape, gesture and movement. Through practical work in and out of the studio, students will learn how to read and create postural and gestural patterns in relation to character and establish a specific vocabulary of movement for advanced work in physical acting.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7430 - Voice: Breath, Structure, Sound
Explores the basic approaches to vocal relaxation, breath control, resonance, and projection. Includes identification and correction of vocal habits and regionalisms, and introduction of phonetics, Lessac, and Linklater vocal methods. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7440 - Voice: Tone, Speech, Text
Studies the tonal aspects of sound production. Examines appropriate consonant and vowel production, and includes the phonetic analysis of text. The voice is connected to language imagery and emotion, employing textual exploration and physicalization exercises.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7450 - Acting: Impulse into Action
Examines the actor’s habitual approach to characterization . Methodology includes exercises for kinesthetic awareness, emotive connections, image formation, and action choices.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7460 - Acting: Character into Relationship
Studies complex characterization and style considerations. Works from Miller, Williams, O’Neill, Ibsen, Chekhov, and Shaw serve as material for scene study.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7480 - Acting: Production and Performance
Participation in the production program, crediting work in preparation and performance of acting. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 1
DRAM 7501 - Special Topics
Intensive study in a specific topic offered to graduate students.
DRAM 7559 - New Course in Drama
New course in the subject of drama.
DRAM 7620 - Mentored Study in Sound Design
Faculty-guided study in an area of sound design or technology not covered in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7630 - Production Studio: Technical Direction
Participation in the production program, crediting work in preparation and performance of scenic elements. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 7640 - Production Studio: Technical Direction
Participation in the production program, crediting work in preparation and performance of scenic elements. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 7660 - Technical Direction
Furthers technical directors’ skills through the study of advanced principles of scenery technology, construction, shop organization, purchasing, planning, and organization of crews to complete a production. Prerequisite: Graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7680 - Construction
Furthers technical construction skills through the study of traditional and contemporary theories of staging, pragmatic application of scenic construction systems; including wood, fabric, plastics and steel. Prerequisite: Graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 7690 - Mentored Study: Technical Direction
A faculty-guided study in an area of technical theatre not covered in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: Graduate standing M.F.A. program or instructor permission.
DRAM 7993 - Independent Study
Graduate-level independent study conducted under the supervision of a specific instructor(s). Requisite: Instructor permission
DRAM 8100 - 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.”
DRAM 8130 - Production Laboratory: Lighting
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of lighting design. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 2
DRAM 8140 - Production Laboratory: Lighting
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of lighting design. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 2
DRAM 8150 - Lighting Design 2: Alternative Forms
A continuation of DRAM 7160, emphasizing alternative forms and spaces, problem solving, orchestration, and cuing. Prerequisite: DRAM 7160 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8160 - Lighting Design 3: Special Topics
Seminar on advanced topics in lighting design. Prerequisite: DRAM 7160, 8150, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8190 - Mentored Study: Lighting
A guided study which gives students the opportunity to explore with a faculty member areas of lighting design and/or technology which are not contained in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
DRAM 8230 - Production Studio: Scenery
Participation in the production program, crediting work in preparation and performance of scenic design. Prerequisite: graduating standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 8240 - Production Studio: Scenery
Participation in the production program, crediting work in preparation and performance of scenic design. Prerequisite: graduating standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 8250 - Scenic Design 2: Design Studio-The Classics
Study and creation of classical period scenic design. An examination of design for classical, Shakespearean, and 16-18th century plays. Prerequisite: DRAM 7100, 7260; corequisite: DRAM 8270.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8270 - Period Decor
Studies period furniture and decorative arts from antiquity to the present, including cultural influences on interior design elements. Prerequisite: DRAM 7100; corequisite DRAM 8250.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8290 - Mentored Study: Scene Design
A faculty-guided exploration of scenic design and/or technology areas not covered in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 8310 - History of Dress and Textiles
Studies period and contemporary dress and textiles as the foundation of the designer’s creation of stage costumes. Analyzes cultural influences of the special world, the psychology of dress, period movement, and the expression of self through choice of dress. Develops investigative methodology through hands-on work with the department’s vintage clothing and textiles collection. Prerequisite: DRAM 7360 or instructor permission; corequisite: DRAM 8350 and 8370 recommended.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8330 - Production Laboratory: Costume
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of costume designs. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 2
DRAM 8340 - Production Laboratory: Costume
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of costume designs. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 2
DRAM 8350 - Costume Design: Character
Applies design principles and psychology of dress to character development, using scripts from Shakespeare to Williams. Focuses on translation of idea and character through historical and theatrical forms in developing design concepts for contemporary audiences. Prerequisite: DRAM 7360; corequisite DRAM 8370.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8360 - Costume Design: Production Styles
Examines advanced production forms with application of design principles to fully developed projects selected from plays, musicals, opera, ballet, and film, as appropriate to the student’s progress and focus. Emphasizes versatility and experimental solutions to contemporary design challenges. Prerequisite: DRAM 8350.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8370 - Costume Technology:Advanced Patterning and Draping
Contemporary application of period cut and construction, in the reproduction of period fashion for stage purposes. Prerequisites: DRAM 7350 and graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8380 - Costume Technology: Tailoring
Contemporary application of period cut and construction in the reproduction of period fashion for stage purposes. Prerequisite: DRAM 7380; corequisite DRAM 8350.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8390 - Mentored Study: Costume
A faculty-guided study in an area of costume design and/or technology not covered in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program or instructor permission.
DRAM 8410 - Movement: Stage Combat Skills
Examines the art and craft of stage fighting, comparing its historical context with that of the theater. Focus is on the practical 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: Graduate standing MFA program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8420 - Movement: Period Movement and Dance
Examines the social history of Western culture and its dramatic use in plays set between the 16th-19th centuries. Focus is on skills acquisition of the movement specific to each period, creative application to performance, and research skills for development of character. Prerequisites: Graduate standing MFA program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8430 - Voice: Shakespeare and Verse
Explores speaking and acting verse, focusing on scansion, language analysis, verbal improvisation, and personalization using Berry, Rodenburg, and Wade techniques. Actors score and interpret poetic and dramatic material, integrating text analysis with emotional expressiveness. Emphasizes heightened language texts, primarily Shakespeare. Prerequisite: Graduate standing MFA program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8440 - Musical Theatre Performance
Integration of song into scene work and the examination of special problems posed for the actor/singer. Focuses on character’s song presentation within the context of a musical play.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8450 - Acting: Shakespeare
Performers work for vocal and physical embodiment of Shakespeare’s language. Examines the mechanics and structures of poetic language and includes research and exploration of historical and contemporary approaches to Shakespearean performance. Prerequisite: Graduate standing MFA program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8460 - Acting: Period Styles
Focuses on making informed performance choices in period plays based on aspects of structures such as: dramatic text, historical period, culture and society, and production concepts. Prerequisite: Graduate standing MFA program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8470 - Acting: Production and Performance
Participation in the production program, crediting work in preparation and performance of acting.
Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8480 - Acting: Production and Performance
Participation in the production program, crediting work in preparation and performance of acting. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 1
DRAM 8490 - Acting: Performance Lab II
Collaborative development of performance project(s). Prerequisite: DRAM 7490.
Credits: 2
DRAM 8501 - Special Topics
Intensive study in a specific topic offered to graduate students.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8630 - Production Studio: Technical Direction
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of scenic elements. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 8640 - Production Studio: Technical Direction
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of scenic elements. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 8650 - SPFX Special Effects
Explores advanced techniques in special effects and the materials used to create them. Laboratory assignments establish a basic proficiency in creating special effects using methods of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Includes using a vacuum form machine, plastic foams, casting, mold making, pyrotechnics, blood, ghosts and illusions, using fire arms on stage, and atmospheric effects. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8680 - Rigging
Studies traditional and contemporary entertainment rigging systems; investigates current practices of rigging, their equipment, and the materials involved. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
DRAM 8690 - Mentored Study: Technical Direction
A faculty-guided study in an area of technical theatre not covered in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: Graduate standing M.F.A. program or instructor permission.
DRAM 8993 - Independent Study
Graduate-level independent study conducted under the supervision of a specific instructor(s). Requisite: Instructor permission
DRAM 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 8999 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 9060 - Thesis
Preparation of a written thesis that corresponds to the performance, direction, or design of a production. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9130 - Production Laboratory: Lighting
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of lighting design. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 9140 - Production Laboratory: Lighting
Participation in the production program, crediting work in the preparation and performance of lighting design. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9150 - Lighting Design 4: Portfolio
Critical assessment of the lighting student’s portfolio and résumé leading to the creation of a professional body of work. Tailors design and presentation projects to student’s needs. Prerequisite: DRAM 7160, 8150, and 8160, or instructor permission; corequisite: DRAM 9060.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9170 - Advanced Lighting Technology
Explores advanced stage lighting technologies including MIDI show-control, automated fixture programming, complex cuing, and effect sequencing. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9190 - Mentored Study: Lighting
A guided study which gives students the opportunity to explore with a faculty member areas of lighting design and/or technology which are not contained in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
DRAM 9230 - Production Studio: Scenery
Participation in the production program of the curriculum, crediting work in the preparation and performance of scenic designs. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 9240 - Production Studio: Scenery
Participation in the production program of the curriculum, crediting work in the preparation and performance of scenic designs. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 9250 - Scene Design 3: Design Studio-Alternative Styles
Studies advanced production forms including operas, musicals, and dance productions or ballets. Involves solving design issues directly related to music and its influence on the stage picture. Prerequisite: DRAM 7100, 7260, 8250, 8270.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9290 - Mentored Study: Scene Design
A faculty-guided exploration of scenic design and/or technology areas not covered in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 9330 - Production Laboratory: Costume
Participation in the production program of the curriculum, crediting work in the preparation and performance of costume designs. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9340 - Production Laboratory: Costume
Participation in the production program of the curriculum, crediting work in the preparation and performance of costume designs. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9350 - Costume Design: Portfolio and Design
Critical assessment of the student’s portfolio and résumé leading to the creation of a professional body of work. Tailors design and presentation projects to student’s needs. Prerequisite: DRAM 8360.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9370 - Costume Technology: Crafts
Examines traditional and innovative products and practices used in the execution of contemporary design of accessories and special costume pieces including period, fantasy, special effects, and spectacle. Prerequisite: DRAM 8370 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9380 - Costume Technology:Creative Draping
A Challenging explortion for the students with designs that combine unusual materials and techniques with traditional dressmaking for stage purposes. Prerequisites: Graduate standing M.F.A. program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9390 - Mentored Study: Costume
A faculty-guided study in an area of costume design and/or technology not covered in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program or instructor permission.
DRAM 9400 - Mentored Study: Acting
A faculty guided study in an area of advanced acting not covered in the established curriculum. Prerequisite: Graduate standing M.F.A. program
Credits: 3
DRAM 9420 - Devised Theatre
Examines the developmental process in the creation of new work driven solely by the actor or acting company. Applies performance skills with communication of individual artistry.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9430 - Voice: Dialects
Studies the dialects most commonly employed in theatre. Methodology includes practice with taped dialects, interviews with authentic dialect speakers, phonetic representation, and research into specific cultural aspects influencing structural formation and sound. Prerequisite: Graduate standing MFA program.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9460 - Acting: Portfolio Preparation
Audition techniques and practice are examined, as is a wide-ranging repertoire of audition materials. Prerequisite: DRAM 7450, 7460, 8450, 8460.
Credits: 3
DRAM 9470 - Acting: Production and Performance
Participation in the production program, crediting work in preparation and performance of acting. Prerequisite: graduate standing M.F.A. program.
DRAM 9480 - Acting: Production and Performance
Participation in the production program, crediting work in preparation and performance of acting.
Credits: 1
DRAM 9501 - Special Topics
Intensive study in a specific topic offered to graduate students.
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East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
CHIN 5200 - 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 5210 - Readings in Modern Chinese Poetry
Readings from major Chinese poets of the 20th and 21st centuries in the original Chinese. Designed as a literary survey, this course also takes into account the needs of Chinese language learners. Poems are selected with difficulty level in mind. The course attends to general reading comprehension as well as the features of modern Chinese poetic language and its relationship to tradition.
Credits: 3
CHIN 5230 - Chinese Conversation and Composition (in Chinese)
Development of writing and speaking skills at a higher level than CHIN 5020. Prerequisite: CHIN 5020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
CHIN 5240 - Advanced Chinese Conversation and Composition (in Chinese)
Further develops writing and speaking skills to an advanced level. Prerequisite: CHIN 5230 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
CHIN 5500 - Introduction to Chinese History, Culture and Society
An integral part of the UVa summer Chinese language program in Shanghai, this course combines lectures and guest presentations with field trips, using the resources specifically available in Shanghai and other parts of China to offer an introduction to China’s long history, splendid culture, and dynamic and changing society. Taught in English.
CHIN 5559 - New Course in Chinese
New course in the subject of Chinese.
CHIN 5680 - Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
The course aims to help novice and continuing Chinese language teachers enhance their expertise in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. It integrates a balance of Chinese language acquisition theories and research-supported practices into the curriculum through a structured and supervised practicum. Teacher participants will create the E-portfolio that documents their extensive learning and experiences throughout the course. Prerequisites: Instructor permission or CHIN 3020.
CHIN 5810 - Media Chinese I
Studies electronic and print media in Chinese, emphasizing current events as reported in the Chinese speaking world, to further develop oral and written proficiency. Prerequisite: CHIN 5020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
CHIN 7559 - New Course in Chinese
New course in the subject of Chinese.
CHIN 8559 - New Course in Chinese
New course in the subject of Chinese.
CHIN 8993 - Independent Study in Chinese
Independent Study in Chinese. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor
CHTR 5010 - Survey of Traditional Chinese Literature
Study of the literary heritage of China. Examines the major genres through selected readings of representative authors. Taught in English. Fulfills the non-Western perspectives requirement.
Credits: 3
CHTR 5020 - Survey of Modern Chinese Literature
A general introduction to modern Chinese literary culture. Examines the major genres through selected readings of representative authors. Taught in English. Fulfills the non-Western perspectives requirement.
Credits: 3
CHTR 5122 - 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 5125 - 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 on close reading and analyses of representative texts.
Credits: 3
CHTR 5132 - 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 5559 - New Course in Chinese in Translation
New course in the subject of Chinese literature in translation
Credits: 3
CHTR 5810 - 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. Students enrolled in the 5000 level version of the course will be required to use some Chinese language materials. Prerequisite: CHTR 3020 or instructor’s permission.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
CHTR 5820 - 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. Students enrolled in the 5000 level of this course will be required to use some Chinese language materials as well.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
CHTR 5830 - 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: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
CHTR 5840 - 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. Students enrolled in the 5000 level course will be required to use some Chinese language materials.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
CHTR 5850 - 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: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
EALC 5120 - 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 East Asian Religions or Literature
Credits: 3
EALC 5559 - New Course in East Asian Literatures and Cultures
New course in the subject of East Asian Literatures and Cultures
EAST 5111 - China to 1000
This class introduces Chinese history from its origins through the end of the 10th century. Its goal is to explore what makes Chinese civilization specifically Chinese and how the set of values, practices, and institutions we associate with Chinese society came to exist. Political, social, cultural, and intellectual history will all be covered, though not equally for all periods. Major themes of the course include intellectual developments, empire
Credits: 3
EAST 5162 - 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 20-page essay. Prerequisites: Graduate students only and permission by instructor.
Credits: 3
EAST 5321 - 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. Prerequisites: Graduate Students only and permission by instructor.
Credits: 3
EAST 5323 - 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. Prerequisites: Graduate students only and permission by instructor.
Credits: 3
EAST 5559 - New Course in East Asian Studies
New Course in East Asian Studies
EAST 5611 - Empires and Ideologies in East Asia
The borderlands between China, Russia, and Korea in Northeast Asia have served as a battlefield for the economic, technological, and ideological forces unleashed during the last hundred and fifty years. Using historical monographs and written and visual primary sources, this seminar will explore the overlapping visions of the European, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean states that collided in this region.
Credits: 3
EAST 5861 - Chinese Art
The course familiarizes 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.
Credits: 3
EAST 5862 - Monuments of Japanese Art
The course focuses on key monuments and artistic traditions that have played a central role in Japanese art and society. Topics range from art and architecture of Shinto and Buddhism of the classical period, late Heian court art, Zen paintings and garden architecture, and also decorative paintings and woodblock prints of the later period.
Credits: 3
EAST 8998 - Non-Topical Research: Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
EAST 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
JAPN 5559 - New Course in Japanese
New Course in the subject of Japanese.
JAPN 5993 - Independent Study in Japanese
Independent Study in Japanese; Prerequisites: permission of instructor
JAPN 7559 - New Course in Japanese
New course in Japanese.
JAPN 8559 - New Course in Japanese
New course in Japanese.
JPTR 5010 - 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 5020 - 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 5100 - 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.
Credits: 3
JPTR 5210 - The Tale of Genji
This course is devoted to an in-depth examination of Japan’s most renowned work of literature and the world’s first novel. Topics covered will include: material culture (architecture, clothing, gardens); political and social history; gender and class; marriage customs; poetry and poetics; the arts (music, perfume, painting, etc.); and religious beliefs (in particular spirit possession) among others.
Credits: 3
JPTR 5290 - 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 5320 - Cinematic Images of Japanese Society and Culture
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 5400 - 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 5559 - New Course in Japanese in Translation
New course in Japanese in translation.
JPTR 5600 - 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).
Credits: 3
JPTR 5700 - 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 5990 - Modern Japanese Women Writers
Introduces the resurgence of the female literary tradition from 1904 to the present. Focuses on how literary women in Japan express their subversive voice often through the autobiographical fiction. Taught in English. Restricted to area studies majors and minors. Prerequisite: JPTR 5020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
KOR 5559 - New Course in Korean
New course in the subject of Korean.
Credits: 3
KOR 5993 - Independent Study in Korean
Independent Study in Korean
KRTR 5020 - 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: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - ABROAD,CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,WRITTEN
KRTR 5030 - Survey of Korean Cinema
A general introduction to Korean cinema. Examines the major films through selections by representative diriectors. Taught in English. Fulfills the non-Western perspectives requirement. Graduate students are required to write a 25-30 page seminar paper using primary sources in Korean.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - ABROAD,CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,WRITTEN
KRTR 5559 - New Course in Korean in Translation
New course in the subject of Korean literature in translation
Credits: 3
KRTR 5700 - Contemporary Korea, Urban, Global
An examination of representations of the urban and global in contemporary Korea.
Credits: 3
TBTN 5020 - Advanced Modern Tibetan II
Advanced Modern Tibetan II
Credits: 3
TBTN 5030 - Advanced Modern Tibetan III
A continuation of the Advanced Tibetan I/II language sequence, focusing on advanced grammar, syntax, and structures. Additional emphasis will be placed mastering oral communications skills through conversation, utilizing grammatical structures introduced in Advanced Modern Tibetan II. Pre-Requisites: TBTN 5020 Advanced Modern Tibetan II.
Credits: 3
TBTN 5060 - Advanced Modern Tibetan for Research & Fieldwork
A course in the Advanced Tibetan language sequence stressing mastery of modern Tibetan as it is currently used in Tibetan communities and in Tibetan-language international media. Emphasis will be placed on fluency in speaking and listening comprehension as well as on the application of a wide variety of grammatical, syntactical, and rhetorical structures. Instruction will utilize Tibetan-language newspaper, journal, radio, and television sources. Prerequisite: Instructor Consent
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - ABROAD,CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
TBTN 8012 - Advanced Modern Tibetan I
A continuation of the Intermediate Tibetan language sequence, focusing on advanced grammar, syntax, and structures. Emphasis is laid on mastering comprehension and communication in colloquial Tibetan, writing skills in the various scripts of literary Tibetan, and integrating comprehension of colloquial and literary forms. Prerequisite: TBTN 8021 Intermediate Tibetan II
Credits: 3
TBTN 8016 - Intensive Intro. Tibetan
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.
Credits: 4
TBTN 8017 - Intensive Intermediate Tibetan
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. Prerequisite: TBTN8016 & 8026 or equivalent
Credits: 4
TBTN 8022 - Advanced Modern Tibetan II
A continuation of the Advanced Modern Tibetan I language sequence, focusing on advanced grammar, syntax, and structures. Additional emphasis will be placed on mastering oral communication skills through conversation, utilizing grammatical structures introduced in Advanced Modern Tibetan I. Prerequisite: TBTN8012 Advanced Modern Tibetan I
Credits: 3
TBTN 8026 - Intensive Introductory Tibetan II
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. Prerequisite: TBTN8016 or equivalent
Credits: 4
TBTN 8027 - Intensive Intermediate Tibetan
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. Prerequisite: TBTN 8016, 8026 & 8017 or equivalent
Credits: 3
TBTN 8030 - Advanced Modern Tibetan III
A continuation of the Advanced Tibetan I/II language sequence, focusing on advanced grammar, syntax, and structures. Additional emphasis will be placed mastering oral communications skills through conversation, utilizing grammatical structures introduced in Advanced Modern Tibetan II. Prerequisite: TBTN8022 Advanced Modern Tibetan II
Credits: 3
TBTN 8040 - Advanced Modern Tibetan IV
A continuation of the Advanced Tibetan language sequence, focusing on advanced grammar, syntax, and structures. Additional emphasis will be placed on mastering oral communications skills through conversation, utilizing grammatical structures introduced in previous courses. Prerequisite: TBTN8030 Advanced Modern Tibetan III
Credits: 3
TBTN 8060 - Advanced Modern Tibetan for Research & Fieldwork
A course in the Advanced Tibetan language sequence stressing mastery of modern Tibetan as it is currently used in Tibetan communities and in Tibetan-language international media. Emphasis will be placed on fluency in speaking and listening comprehension as well as on the application of a wide variety of grammatical, syntactical, and rhetorical structures. Instruction will utilize Tibetan-language newspaper, journal, radio, and TV sources.
Credits: 3
TBTN 8993 - Independent Study in Tibetan
Independent Study in Tibetan
Economics
ECON 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
ECON 5090 - Introduction to Mathematical Economics I
Studies topics in univariate and multivariate calculus and linear algebra. Includes applications to the theory of economic statics. Prerequisite: One semester of calculus and one additional semester of college mathematics, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 5520 - Special Topics in Economics
Graduate students combine course work in an upper-level undergraduate economics course with additional special assignments. Because topics vary with instructor, this course may be repeated for credit Prerequisite: Graduate standing and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 5559 - New Course in Economics
New course in the subject of economics.
ECON 5720 - Econometric Methods
Meets concurrently with ECON 4720. 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: Math 1220 and one of the following statistics courses: ECON 3710, ECON 3720, STAT 3120, STAT 3220, APMA 3110, APMA 3120, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
ECON 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
ECON 7010 - Microeconomic Theory I
Studies the theory of consumer and producer choice. Includes partial equilibrium analysis of competitive and imperfectly competitive markets. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
ECON 7020 - Macroeconomic Theory I
Introduces macroeconomic theory, emphasizing economic growth and the business cycle. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
ECON 7030 - Microeconomic Theory II
Studies general equilibrium analysis, welfare economics, externalities, and public goods. Prerequisite: ECON 7010 or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
ECON 7040 - Macroeconomic Theory II
Studies advanced topics in the theory of money and income. Prerequisite: ECON 7020 or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
ECON 7559 - New Course in Economics
New course in the subject of economics.
ECON 7710 - Econometrics I
Studies the concepts and basic techniques of probability theory and statistical inference. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
ECON 7720 - Econometrics II
Development of the linear and non-linear regression models including hypothesis testing, specification, instrumental variables, generalized least squares, and asymtotic distribution theory. Includes an introduction to identification and estimation of simultaneous equation models. Prerequisite: ECON 7710 or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
ECON 8010 - Microeconomic Theory III
ECON 8010 is an introduction to non-cooperative game theory and the economics of information, emphasizing applications to microeconomics. Applications include topics such as bargaining, cooperation in repeated games, the design of optimal auctions, and signalling models.
Prerequisite: ECON 7030 or permission of instructor
Credits: 4
ECON 8050 - American Economic History
Studies the economic evolution of the United States. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8150 - Economics of Labor Markets
Introduction to labor economics, including economic aspects of employment, wages, schooling, labor unions, and discrimination. Prerequisite: ECON 7030 and 7720 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8160 - Seminar in Labor Economics and Development
Studies advanced topics in labor economics, emphasizing applications to developing countries. Cross-listed as ECON 8190. Prerequisite: ECON 8150 and 7720.
Credits: 3
ECON 8170 - Industrial Organization I
Studies the industrial structure of the economy and its effects on allocation of resources. Prerequisite: ECON 7030 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8180 - Industrial Organization II
Advanced study of selected problems in industrial organization. Prerequisite: ECON 8170 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8190 - Economics of Underdeveloped Areas
Studies advanced topics in labor economics, emphasizing applications to developing countries. Cross-listed as ECON 8160.
Credits: 3
ECON 8210 - International Trade Theory
Studies the theory of international trade and analysis of the economic effects of tariffs, quotas, and other departures from free trade. Prerequisite: ECON 7030 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8220 - International Finance
Topics include the balance of payments, long-term and short-term capital movements, the international money market, international monetary standards, international equilibrium and the mechanism of adjustment, exchange variations, and the objectives of international monetary policies. Prerequisite: ECON 7020 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8230 - Advanced Topics in International Trade
The course studies very recent papers on International Trade, or the “micoreconomics of globalization,” in order to get students conversant with current research. By the end of the semester, students should be ready to explore potential dissertation topics in the field.
Prerequisites: ECON 8210 or permission of Instructor
Credits: 3
ECON 8310 - Public Economics I
Topics include the justifications for government activities; principles of program analysis; illustrative theoretical and empirical analysis of expenditure programs; and theories of political processes. Prerequisite: ECON 7030 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8320 - Public Economics II
Studies the foundations of excess burden, incidence analysis, and optimal taxation; studies of taxation; general equilibrium analysis for tax policy; and the study of tax reform. Prerequisite: ECON 7030 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8340 - Financial Economics
This is an advanced macro/finance graduate course devoted to study topics in finance with particular emphasis in financial markets and problems in their functioning. The course will cover recent theories of financial crisis as we as experimental evidence.
Credits: 3
ECON 8350 - Advanced Macroeconomic Theory
Advanced study of selected topics in macro- and monetary economics, with and emphasis on theoretical and computational issues. Prerequisite: ECON 7040 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8360 - Empirical Macroeconomics
Advanced study of selected topics in macro and monetary economics, with an emphasis on empirical methods. Prerequisite: ECON 7040 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8410 - Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Studies current research in applied microeconomics. Prerequisite: Third-year status or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8420 - Macroeconomics Workshop
Studies current research in macroeconomics. Prerequisite: Third-year status or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8430 - Economic Theory Workshop
Studies current research in economic theory. Prerequisite: Third-year status or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8440 - International Trade and Development Workshop
Studies current research in finance. Prerequisite: Third-year status or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8450 - Public Economics Workshop
Studies current research in public economics. Prerequisite: Third-year status or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8460 - Econometrics Workshop
Studies current research in econometrics. Prerequisite: Third-year status or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8510 - Topics in Growth Theory
Studies the issues related to economic development, emphasizing endogenous growth models. Topics include human capital, R & D, learning by doing, fiscal policy, trade, and financial development. Prerequisite: ECON 7040 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8559 - New Course in Economics
New course in the subject of economics.
ECON 8710 - Cross Section Econometrics
Studies econometric tools for the analysis of cross-section and qualitative data. Prerequisite: ECON 7720 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8720 - Time Series Econometrics
Studies econometric techniques for the analysis of economic time series. Prerequisite: ECON 7720 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8730 - Econometric Methods for Data-Rich Environments
“Traditional” econometric inference is hard to implement in “big data” settings. This course provides a bridge between highly efficient scalable tools from Machine Learning and nonparametric econometric models. The focus will be on developing non-parametric models of large datasets, establishing uniform consistency results for the analyzed models, and bridging the computational efficiency and statistical properties of the estimators.
Credits: 3
ECON 8820 - Experimental Economics
Analysis of the use of laboratory methods to study economic behavior. Topics include experimental design, laboratory technique, and nonparametric analysis of data. Emphasizes using controlled observations to evaluate alternative economic theories and policies. Applications include bargaining, auctions, oligopoly, asymmetric information, voting, public goods, financial markets, and tests of expected utility and game theories. Prerequisite: ECON 7010 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8991 - Research Methods in Economics
The course focuses on developing research ideas into a formal paper. Students work in small groups with the instructor, completing writing assignments that form the body of a scholarly paper and offering critical evaluations of other students’ assignments. Prerequisite: Third-year status or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ECON 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
ECON 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
ECON 9550 - Selected Research Problems in Economics I
Advanced research into specific economic problems under detailed faculty supervision.
Credits: 3
ECON 9559 - New Course in Economics
New course in the subject of economics.
ECON 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, to be taken only in the first semester after passing a field exam, and before a dissertation director has been selected.
ECON 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of the first reader or prospective first reader.
English
ENAM 5559 - New Course in American Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of American Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses..
ENAM 8520 - Major American Authors
Studies the work of one or two major writers within a precise historical context. A recent pair was Hawthorne and Melville. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENAM 8559 - New Course in American Literature
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of American Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENAM 9559 - New Course in American Literature To 1900
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of American Literature To 1900. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENCR 5559 - New Course in Criticism
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Criticism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENCR 8559 - New Course in Criticism
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Criticism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENCR 8610 - An Introduction to Modern Literary Theory and Criticism
Studies 20th-century theoretical writings, focusing on intellectual movements such as Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, and to influential thinkers such as Barthes, Bakhtin, Derrida, Kristeva, and Butler. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENCR 9559 - New Course in Criticism
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Criticism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENCW 5310 - Advanced Poetry Writing II
Intensive work in poetry writing, for students with prior experience. 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 5610 - Advanced Fiction Writing II
A course for advanced short story writers. Student manuscripts are discussed in individual conference and in class. 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 7310 - MFA Poetry Workshop
Graduate-level poetry writing workshop for advanced writing students. A weekly 2.5 hour workshop discussion of student poems. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENCW 7559 - New Course in Creative Writing
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENCW 7610 - MFA Fiction Workshop
A course devoted to the writing of prose fiction, especially the short story. Student work is discussed in class and in individual conferences. Parallel reading in the work of modern novelists and short story writers is required. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Limited enrollment.
Credits: 3
ENCW 8559 - New Course in Creative Writing
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENCW 8993 - Independent Writing Project
Intended for graduate students who wish to do work on a creative writing project other than the thesis for the Master of Fine Arts degree under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Permission of the chair.
Credits: 3
ENCW 8995 - Research in Creative Writing
Research in creative writing for M.F.A. students. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENCW 8999 - MFA Non-Topical Research
Non-topical research hours taken as part of the Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENEC 5559 - New Course in the subject of Restoration and Eighteenth-century Literature.
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of restoration and eighteenth-century literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENEC 8559 - New Course in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of restoration and eighteenth-century literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENEC 9559 - New Course in the subject of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature.
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of restoration and eighteenth-century literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENGL 700T - Non-UVa Transfer Credit
ENGL 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
ENGL 5100 - Introduction to Old English
Studies the language and literature of Anglo-Saxon England. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 5101 - Beowulf
Reading of the poem, emphasizing critical methods and exploring its relations to the culture of Anglo-Saxon England. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: ENMD 5010 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
ENGL 5110 - Old Icelandic
Introduces the language and literature of medieval Scandinavia; readings from the Poetic Edda and the sagas. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 5559 - New Course in English Literature
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENGL 5700 - Contemporary African-American Literature
This course for advanced undergraduates and master’s-level graduate students surveys African-American literature today. Assignments include works by Evreett, Edward Jones, Tayari Jones, Evans, Ward, Rabateau, and Morrison
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
ENGL 5800 - History of Literary Criticism
In this course we pursue two lines of argument at once: we read a judicious selection of the canonical primary and secondary works in the history of literary criticism from Plato to the mid-twentieth century; and we learn how to identify in a principled way a specific ‘pluralism’ of philosophic methods variously constituting these texts. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 5810 - Books as Physical Objects
Surveys bookmaking over the past five centuries. Emphasizes analysis and description of physical features and consideration of how a text is affected by the physical conditions of its production. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 5820 - Literary Journal Editing
An introduction to editing in which students use desktop publishing software to design a magazine or book, and print-on-demand to generate a final print project. They also write book reviews, screen manuscripts, and assist in the production of Meridian, a literary journal. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
ENGL 5830 - Introduction to World Religions, World Literatures
An interdisciplinary course that includes the following elements: studies in the textual traditions of particular religions; studies in literary theory; studies in literary traditions; the application of literary theory to studies in religious text traditions; and the application of the history of religions to the study of literary canons.
Credits: 3
ENGL 5831 - Proseminar in World Religions, World Literature
This monthly seminar explores methods and issues vital to the combined study of literatures and religions. It brings all MA students together, under faculty guidance, to attend to the broad range of individual projects and to foster a rich conversation that traverses the emergent field of study.
Credits: 1
ENGL 5900 - Counterpoint Seminar in Teaching Modern Literature
This course offers future elementary, middle, high school teachers of English the opportunity to reflect on their own college learning of the subject; it teaches those future teachers how to convert that earlier learning into the stuff of K12 teaching. Specifically, course looks back at ENGL 3830, the last part of the English Department’s 3-semester survey required for majors (or equivalent courses that future teachers may have taken elsewhere) Prerequisites: ENGL 3830 or its equivalent or permission of instructor
Credits: 3
ENGL 5910 - Film Aesthetics
Studies film as a work of art produced by cinematic skills and valued for what it is in itself. Emphasizes major theoretical works and analyzing individual films. Studies films with reference to the techniques and methods that produce the ‘aesthetic effect’ style, and the problems of authorship arising out of considerations of style and aesthetic unity. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 5921 - The Cultural History of London
The Cultural History of London offers an interdisciplinary approach to metropolitan culture, as an historically embedded object of inquiry. Located in the city that it names, the program runs for a month each year from early June to early July.
Credits: 4
ENGL 5930 - Literature and the Film
Studies the relationship between the two media, emphasizing the literary origins and backgrounds of film, verbal and visual languages, and the problems of adaptation from novels and short stories to film. Seven to nine novels (or plays) are read and analyzed with regard to film adaptations of these works. Film screenings two to two and one half hours per week outside of class. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 6500 - Topics in English (for teachers)
Courses in subject areas of relevant to middle and high school English teachers, each meant to provide such teachers with a sense of the state of the sub-field, with a focus on the central authors, texts, and approaches, and on challenges that might face a first-time teacher of the particular subject area.
Credits: 1
ENGL 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
ENGL 8100 - Mapping the Middle Ages
Surveys literature, art, and culture in Western Europe from late Antiquity to the invention of printing, using a selection of major literary texts as a focal point. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8110 - Medieval Transitions to the Renaissance
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.English and Scottish literature from Chaucer to the sixteenth century.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8160 - Chaucer
Studies The Canterbury Tales and their backgrounds. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8260 - Renaissance Poetry
Studies the theory and practice of lyric and epic poetry in 16th-century England, with some brief glances at other forms: romance, epyllion, and verse essay. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8262 - Spenser
Studies The Faerie Queene and other works. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8270 - Renaissance Drama
Surveys English drama of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8330 - Early American Literature
Surveys American literature to 1840 designed to introduce the literature of the Colonial and early National periods, and to examine the intellectual and literary backgrounds of nineteenth-century American literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8370 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
Studies the British theater from 1660 to 1800, including works by writers such as Wycherley, Behn, Congreve, Dryden, Centlivre, Steele, Goldsmith, and Sheridan. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8400 - The Romantic Period
The poetry and prose of the Romantic period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8440 - Early African American Literature
Surveys pivotal moments and texts in the history of African-American prose, from 1760, the date of Briton Hammon’s Narrative of Uncommon Sufferings to 1903, the year of W. E. B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8462 - American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century
Studies selected poets of the century, their media, their audiences, and their reputations. Coverage will be broad, with some emphasis on Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, and Crane. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8480 - Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction
Studies prose fiction in the 18th century. Authors include Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Sterne, and Austen. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8510 - Studies in Medieval Literature
Topics vary from year to year. For more details please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8520 - Studies in Renaissance Literature
New course in Studies in Renaissance Literature
Credits: 3
ENGL 8527 - Studies in Shakespeare
Topics vary annually. Recent examples are `Shakespeare’s Histories and Roman Plays” and `Reinventing Shakespeare’. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8530 - Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Studies vary and recently include ‘From Classic to Romantic’ and ‘Eighteenth-Century Poetry.’ For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8540 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Studies 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 8559 - New Course in English Literature
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENGL 8560 - Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Studies 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 8578 - Studies in American Fiction
Analyzes the writings of major authors approached through the consideration of such specific topics as historical romance, Gothic romance, and American mythmaking. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8596 - Form and Theory of Poetry
This course provides a practitioner’s perspective on a selection of poetic works.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8598 - Form and Theory of Fiction
This course provides a practitioner’s perspective on a selection of works of fiction.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8800 - Introduction to Literary Research
Introduces UVa’s research resources and the needs and opportunities for their use. The library and its holdings are explored through a series of practical problems drawn from a wide range of literary subjects and periods. Required of all degree candidates in the M.A. and Ph.D. programs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8810 - Criticism in Theory and Practice
Studies critical theories and the kinds of practical criticism to which they lead. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8820 - Critical Methods
‘Critical method’ is the point at which general philosophical or political claims intersect with specific techniques of interpretation. The aim of this course is to give students a thorough introduction to current debates in the methodology of literary and cultural studies in ways that will aid their own future thinking and writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8830 - Feminist Theory
An introduction to American feminist theory its major concerns, historical development, array of methodologies, and formative debates. Divergent theoretical and critical texts on gender/sexuality are juxtaposed with primary materials ranging from early novels to contemporary movies. Likely topics include queer theory, transnational feminism, feminist cultural studies, the gendering of race, and feminist approaches to film. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8832 - Disability Studies
An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of disability studies, which examines how physical differences show up in literature, culture, and social policy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8840 - Aesthetics and Politics
This course explores the various ways in which art and politics have been seen as synonymous or separate (‘the autonomy of art’). It includes a survey of key concepts and terms in the history of modern literature and the visual arts.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8900 - Pedagogy Seminar
This course prepares first year doctoral students for the teaching they will do here at UVa in both literature classes and the writing program. Covers topics such as classroom management, leading discussion, grading papers. Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENGL 8920 - Literature Surveys
Weekly workshops with faculty and teaching staff of the 3000-level lecture courses, ENGL 3810, ENGL 3820 and ENGL 3830 and ENRN 3210 and ENRN 3220. Second-year Ph.D. students in English enroll in this course once during the semester in which they lead a discussion section of a lecture course. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8960 - The Lyric Genre
Surveys English lyric poems from Chaucer to Auden; designed to isolate what is lyrical (i.e., unprosaic, musical, aesthetic, reflexive, egotistical, or sublime) in this body of literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8993 - Independent Study
A single semester of independent study under faculty supervision for MA or PhD students in English doing intensive research on a subject not covered in the usual courses. Requires approval by a faculty member who has agreed to supervise a guided course of reading and substantial written exercise, a detailed outline of the research project, and authorization by the Director of Graduate Studies in English. Only one may be offered for Ph.D credit. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENGL 8998 - M.A. Thesis
M.A. students in English may choose to write a substantial thesis directed by a faculty member. Students opting for a thesis should draw up a proposal and secure a director to supervise the project. Students choose between a critical thesis of 10,000-15,000 words and a pedagogical thesis (described on our website). Students enroll in this three-credit course for a single semester, either fall or spring; it is not available during the summer. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 8999 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
Students taking this course are expected to prepare for their M.A. oral examination and proceed with their M.A. research. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/graduate/current.
ENGL 9510 - Advanced Studies in Medieval Literature
Limited enrollment. 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 9520 - Advanced Studies in Renaissance Literature
Advanced Studies in Renaissance Literature
Credits: 3
ENGL 9530 - Advanced Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature I, II
Topics vary, focusing on a theme, genre, or group of writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9540 - Advanced Studies in Romanticism I, II
Intensive study of one or two writers, e.g., Blake and Wordsworth, Keats and Byron. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9542 - Advanced Studies Nineteenth-Century
Topics have included Victorian discursive prose and intensive study of Shelley and Tennyson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9545 - Advanced Studies in American Literature before 1900
Variable topics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9559 - New Course in English Literature
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENGL 9560 - Advanced Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Topics have included Postmodern Fiction and Theory, Faulkner, Women and Cultures of Modernism, Yeats and Joyce, Modernism and the Invention of Homosexuality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9580 - Advanced Studies in Critical Theory
Topics vary from year to year.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9590 - Advanced Studies in Literary Genres I, II
Topics range from comedy as an art form to a study of various approaches to the novel. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9710 - Woodson Institute Fellows Pre- and Post-Doctoral Research
This is a supervised research course without formal classroom instruction.
Credits: 12
ENGL 9800 - Introduction to Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing
Studies the transmission of texts over the past five centuries and examines theories and techniques of editing literary and non-literary texts, both published and unpublished. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9910 - Research in Medieval Studies
The Renaissance in England. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9920 - Research in the Renaissance
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9930 - Research in Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Research in Restoration and Eighteenth Century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9970 - Research in American Literature
Modern and Contemporary Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9995 - Dissertation Seminar
Required of students in the Department’s PhD program who are at or near the beginning of the dissertation writing process. Addresses the problems encountered by students as they begin to tackle the dissertation. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENGL 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
Students taking this course are expected to prepare for their preliminary qualifying oral examinations for the doctorate. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENGL 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENGN 5559 - New Course in Genre Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Genre Studies.
ENGN 8559 - New Course in Genre Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Genre Studies. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENGN 9559 - New Course in Genre Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Genre Studies. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
ENMC 5100 - Contemporary Jewish Fiction
Studies recent fiction by such Jewish writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, and Jonathan Safran Foer.
Credits: 3
ENMC 5559 - New Course in Modern & Contemporary Lit
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Modern & Contemporary Lit.
ENMC 8110 - American Literature 1912-1929
Studies literary modernism in the United States.
Credits: 3
ENMC 8150 - Literature of the Americas
A comparative study of major fiction writers of North, Central, and South America in the past 40 years. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
ENMC 8160 - Contemporary American Writers
Studies recent U.S. writing in various genres.
Credits: 3
ENMC 8310 - British Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Studies in the twentieth-century sensibility: distortions and other tensions in the imaginative worlds of Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, and Auden. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
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Environmental Humanities
Environmental Sciences
EVAT 5300 - Introduction to Climatology
Examination of the fundamental radiative, thermodynamic, and fluid dynamic processes in Earth’s atmosphere with an emphasis on climatic time and space scales. Topics include atmospheric composition and radiative transfer, synoptic climatology, atmospheric general circulation, climate change, El Niño, and teleconnections. Prerequisites include EVSC 3300 or an undergraduate science degree.
Credits: 3
EVAT 5320 - Mountain Meteorology
In this course, various aspects of the effects of mountains on weather and climate will be covered. Examples include diurnal mountain wind systems, mountain waves, and cold air pools. Applications of mountain meteorology to other fields (air pollution, carbon cycle) will also be discussed. The students will learn to write up the results of an independent investigation of a research topic related to mountain meteorology and to present the results.
Credits: 3
EVAT 5400 - Boundary Layer Meteorology
This course provides the student with an understanding of physical processes in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), that part of the atmosphere that is affected by the presence of the earth’s surface on a diurnal time scale. These processes are important for understanding the spatial distribution and temporal variability of wind, temperature, moisture, and trace gases in the atmosphere above the surface.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
EVAT 5410 - Atmospheric Dynamics
Introduces theoretical meteorology encompassing dry and moist air thermodynamics, the mechanics of atmospheric motion, and the dynamics of atmospheric weather systems. Prerequisite: MATH 1310, 1320 and PHYS 2310, 2320; or equivalent.
Credits: 4
EVAT 5559 - New Course in Atmospheric Sciences
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of atmospheric sciences.
EVAT 7350 - Atmospheric Mesoscale Modeling
Examines various aspects of atmospheric mesoscale models with an emphasis on a discussion of parameterization schemes. Students will learn how run a state-of-the-art mesoscale models in a lab-based part of this course. Prerequisite: EVSC 3300 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
EVAT 7559 - New Course in Atmospheric Sciences
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of atmospheric sciences.
EVAT 7999 - Independent Study: Atmospheric Sciences
Individual or group study in developing or special areas of atmospheric sciences and interrelated areas.
EVAT 8530 - Advanced Topics in Atmospheric Sciences
Detailed, integrative treatments of those atmospheric systems in which the nature and dynamics of the atmosphere are central. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
EVAT 8559 - New Course in Atmospheric Sciences
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of atmospheric sciences.
EVEC 5220 - Terrestrial Ecology
Analyzes the patterns and processes in terrestrial ecosystems. Topic include macro- and micro-meteorological factors such as producer, consumer, and decomposer processes; hydrologic and biogeochemical pathways; and changes through space and time. Three lecture and four field or laboratory hours. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent, and instructor permission.
Credits: 4
EVEC 5230 - Microbial Ecology
Explores relationships of microorganisms to similar organisms, dissimilar (macro) organisms, and the physical-chemical environment to demonstrate basic ecological theory and indicate the importance of microbes in maintaining our world. Includes the organisms, microbial habitats, community formation and structure, interspecific relationships, nutrient cycling, and anthropocentric ecology. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800, 3200, 3600, 3300 or equivalent; or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
EVEC 5231 - Microbial Ecology Laboratory
Provides an opportunity to learn and experience the techniques used in microbial ecological research. Utilizes both classic techniques and state-of-the-art methods to determine microbial biomass in nature. Covers various methods of determining microbiological activity. Several exercises involve field sampling and analysis. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; corequisite: EVEC 5230.
Credits: 1
EVEC 5250 - Ecological Issues in Global Change
Introduces development and application of theoretical constructs and mathematical models for projecting the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems to large scale changes in the environment. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent, one year of college calculus, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
EVEC 5559 - New Course in Ecology
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of ecology.
EVEC 7100 - 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-requisite: Introductory Ecology or Instructor Permission.
Credits: 4
EVEC 7110 - Estuarine Ecology
An interdisciplinary course covering the physical, biogeochemical and ecological aspects of coastal estuaries. This class is a companion course to EVSC 4110.
Prerequisite: EVSC 3200
Credits: 3
EVEC 7140 - 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 change and possible solutions.
Credits: 3
EVEC 7170 - 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
EVEC 7202 - Advanced Microbial Ecology
Review and analysis of current research in microbial ecology.
Credits: 1
EVEC 7250 - 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 or equivalent
Credits: 3
EVEC 7260 - 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.
Credits: 3
EVEC 7290 - 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. Prerequisites: EVSC 3200 or equivalent, one semester of chemistry, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
EVEC 7559 - New Course in Ecology
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of ecology.
Credits: 3
EVEC 7999 - Independent Study: Ecology
Individual or group study in developing or special areas of ecology and interrelated areas.
EVEC 8559 - New Course in Ecology
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of ecology.
EVGE 5559 - New Course in Geosciences
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of geosciences.
EVGE 5820 - Geomorphology
Studies the processes that shape the land surface and their relationship to human activity. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800 or 3600.
Credits: 4
EVGE 5840 - Sediment Processes and Environments
Studies the erosion, transport, and deposition of sediment; initial motion of sediment, bedload and suspended load transport and bedforms; and important sediment-transporting environments. Applies sediment transport theory to problems of geological and environmental interest. Prerequisite: one year of calculus and physics, or instructor permission; corequisite: EVGE 5841.
Credits: 3
EVGE 5841 - Sediment Processes Laboratory
Laboratory and field investigations of sediment transport phenomena and readings of classic and current research. Corequisite: EVGE 5840.
Credits: 1
EVGE 5850 - Geochemistry
Studies the principles that govern the distribution and abundance of the elements in the earth’s lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere. Prerequisite: College chemistry and calculus; intorductory earth science or geology recommended.
Credits: 4
EVGE 5860 - Isotope Geochemistry
Investigates natural phenomena by means of stable and unstable isotopes and changes in their abundance, including isotope fractionation. Includes age dating, paleotemperature determination, and isotope tracers in natural systems.
Credits: 4
EVGE 5870 - Aqueous Geochemistry
Studies the principals of thermodynamics as applied to mineral-water systems. Treatment includes mineral stability, phase diagrams, solution thermodynamics, electrolyte theory, aqueous complex and hydrolysis equilibria, and electrochemical equilibria. Prerequisite: One year of college chemistry and calculus, and one mineralogy or petrology course.
Credits: 4
EVGE 7559 - New Course in Geosciences
This course provides the opportunity to offer a enw course in the subject of geosciences.
EVGE 7810 - Geology of Virginia
An examination of the geological evolution of Virginia and the 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 exploitation of mineral resources is considered.
Credits: 3
EVGE 7832 - 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
EVGE 7999 - Independent Study-Geosciences
Individual or group study in developing or special areas of geosciences and interrelated areas, emphasizing earth-surface processes.
EVGE 8559 - New Course in the subject of Geosciences
This course provides the opportunity to offer a enw course in the subject of geosciences.
EVGE 8580 - Advanced Topics in Environmental Geology
Interdisciplinary study of the physical processes and responses which modify environmental systems. Exhaustive treatments of the nature and analysis of earth materials as environmental substrates and their responses to stress are represented, as are other techniques in geosciences focusing on earth-surface properties. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
EVHY 5559 - New Course in Hydrology
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of hydrology.
EVHY 5640 - Catchment Hydrology: Process and Theory
Introduces current theories of the hydrological response of catchments. Using an integrative approach, the course illuminates the derivation of theory in light of the time and location of the process studies on which they were based. Prerequisite: EVSC 3600.
Credits: 4
EVHY 5650 - Hydrological Transport Processes
Studies the physical principles governing the transport of dissolved substances and of sediment and particulate matter in the terrestrial portion of the hydrological cycle. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800 and 3600 or equivalent.
Credits: 4
EVHY 5670 - Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Studies the mechanics of fluids and fluid-related processes occurring at the Earth’s surface, including laminar, inviscid, and turbulent flows, drag, boundary layers, diffusion and dispersion of mass, flow through porous media, and effects of the Earth’s rotation. Emphasizes topics related to the environmental sciences. Prerequisite: Integral calculus and calculus-based physics.
Credits: 4
EVHY 5700 - Forest Hydrology
Study of hydrologic processes characteristic of forested regions. Prerequisite: Introductory hydrology or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
EVHY 7559 - New Course in Hydrology
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Hydrology.
EVHY 7630 - Land-Atmosphere Interaction
Study of energy, water, and carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the land surface. Prerequisite: One year of college physics and calculus, one hydrology or atmospheric science course, or permission of instruct.
Credits: 3
EVHY 7640 - Dynamic Hydrology
Studies the interrelationships of the various phases in the water cycle; principles governing that cycle; and the influence of human activity on natural circulation of water at or near the Earth’s surface. Prerequisite: Introductory hydrology and differential equations, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
EVHY 7670 - Numerical Methods in Hydrology
Application of numerical methods to the solution of hydrological problems. The Matlab computational and plotting software is used for all examples and assignments, including finite difference and finite element solutions to equations describing the flow of water and transport of contaminants in the terrestrial environment. Prior knowledge of Matlab is not required.
Prerequisite: EVHY 5000-level course.
Credits: 3
EVHY 7999 - Independent Study: Hydrology and Water Resources
Individual or group study in developing or special areas of hydrology and water resource analysis and interrelated areas.
EVHY 8559 - New Course in Hydrology
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Hydrology
EVHY 8560 - Advanced Topics in Hydrology and Water Resources
Specialized research into specific hydrologic or water management problems. Emphasizes an integrative analysis of the physical, social, and economic nature of these problems. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
EVSC 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
EVSC 5020 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
This is an introductory course focusing on the theory and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technology. The course combines related theory with practical laboratory assignments.
Credits: 4
EVSC 5030 - Applied Statistics for Environmental Scientists
Provides a firm knowledge of experimental design, hypothesis testing, and the use of statistical methods of data analysis.
Prerequisite: MATH 1110, STAT 1120, or equivalent;
corequisite: EVSC 5031.
Credits: 4
EVSC 5050 - Advanced Oceanography
The principles of oceanography with views on real world applications, especially to the teaching of this class at the high school as well. Prerequisite: At least one year of college-level chemisty or physics or instructor permission..
Credits: 3
EVSC 5060 - Coastal Oceanography
An interdisciplinary course covering physical, ecological and biogeochemical processes occurring along coastlines and within coastal ecosystems.
Credits: 3
EVSC 5082 - Nitrogen Seminar
This course aims to provide a qualitative and quantitative understanding of the nitrogen cycle in a seminar format.
Credits: 1CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
EVSC 5440 - Physical Oceanography
Studies the physical properties, processes, and structure of the oceans; mass and energy budgets; methods of measurements; and the nature and theory of ocean currents, waves, and tides in the open sea, near shore and in estuaries. Prerequisite: PHYS 2310, 2320 or equivalent, two semesters calculus, MATH 1310, 1320 recommended, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
EVSC 5559 - New Course in Environmental Science
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of environmental science.
EVSC 5993 - 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.
EVSC 5995 - 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.
EVSC 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
EVSC 7010 - 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 7012 - Advanced Remote Sensing
Basic concepts have been covered in EVSC 7012 Introduction to Remote Sensing. As an upper-level class in remote sensing, in this seminar, we will focus on advanced remote sensing techniques at different spatial scales (ground, airborne, and space). We will read scientific papers on the application of remote sensing, and provide hands-on training on coding and field spectroscopy and drone flights.
Credits: 3
EVSC 7020 - Dryland Ecohydrology
Study of ecohydrologic processes characteristic of arid and semiarid regions. Prerequisites: Any introductory hydrology class or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
EVSC 7040 - 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.
Prerequisite: A graduate level or advanced undergraduate course in each of the following: Atmospheric Sciences, Ecology and Hydrology or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
EVSC 7070 - Advanced Use of Geographical Information Systems
Geographical data is increasingly important i n understanding our society and our environment. This course will focus on teaching stiudents advanced principles and operation of GIS software. It’s a im is to develop students who are prepared to apply GIS to a variety of research problems by expoing them to tools and techniques that go beyond those covered in a basic course on GIS.
Prerequisite: EVSC 5020 or equivalent experience
Credits: 3
EVSC 7080 - 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 7092 - Departmental Seminar
Studies current problems in environmental research management or public policy as presented by visiting speakers, faculty, or advanced graduate students.
Credits: 1
EVSC 7122 - Coastal Ecology Seminar
A graduate/undergraduate seminar on current topics in coastal ecology.
Credits: 1
EVSC 7140 - 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.
Credits: 3
EVSC 7400 - Multivariate Statistical Analysis in the Atmospheric Sciences
This course provides the student with a basic understanding of the major approaches used by atmospheric scientists in statistically analyzing multivariate data sets. Prerequisites: A course in univariate, parametric statistics and a course in the fundamentals of atmospheric science (e.g., EVSC 3300, EVAT 5300, or the equivalent), or permission of the instructor
Credits: 3
EVSC 7559 - New Course in Environmental Science
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of environmental science.
EVSC 7820 - Environmental Chemistry
Studies the natural and anthropogenic mechanisms that control the chemistry of the environment through biogeochemical cycling. Introduces more specialized topics, e.g., atmospheric chemistry and aqueous geochemistry. Prerequisite: One year of college chemistry with laboratory, EVSC 3860 or its equivalent.
Credits: 4
EVSC 7999 - Independent Study-Water
The utility of water markets in facilitatiing more efficient and productive shaing of water is gaining increasing attention around the world as water shortages become more frequent, with increasingly severe economic and ecological impacts. In this course, each student will conduct research and prepare a paper on an issue related to water markets.
EVSC 8500 - Advanced Topics in Environmental Sciences
Interdisciplinary treatments of environmental systems wherein the interrelationships of hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere are explored and analyzed. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
EVSC 8559 - New Course in Environmental Science.
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of environmental science.
EVSC 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
EVSC 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
EVSC 9559 - New Course in Environmental Science
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of environmental science.
EVSC 9995 - Research Problems
Individual or group research on interdisciplinary problems in environmental sciences.
EVSC 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
EVSC 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral research, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
French
FREN 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
FREN 5011 - Old French
Basic introduction to reading Old French, with consideration of its main dialects (Île-de-France, Picard, Anglo-Norman) and paleographical issues. May be taken in conjunction with FREN 5100 or independently. Taught in English. Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of modern French.
Credits: 1
FREN 5100 - Medieval Literature in Modern French I
Based on topics and works of both current and enduring interest to scholars, this course will allow participants to gain general knowledge of literature composed in French from 880 until about 1250 as well as to explore the most recent developments in the field.
Credits: 3
FREN 5150 - Medieval Literature in Modern French II
Introduces literary forms, habits of style and thought, and conditions of composition from the late thirteenth century to the late fifteenth.
Credits: 3
FREN 5200 - Literature of the Sixteenth Century: Poetry
Studies the developments in theory and practice of French Renaissance poetry and poetics as seen in works by the Rhétoriqueurs, including Marot, Sebillet, Scève, Labe, du Bellay, Ronsard, and d’Aubigne.
Credits: 3
FREN 5300 - Literature of the Seventeenth Century I
Studies art forms and society during the baroque and classical periods of French literary history. Readings in theater, fiction, rhetoric, and poetry.
Credits: 3
FREN 5400 - Literature of the Eighteenth Century I
Religious, moral, and political thinking as reflected in the works of Bayle, Fontenelle, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Helvetius, and others.
Credits: 3
FREN 5510 - Topics in Medieval Literature
Topics may include genres (romance, poetry, hagiography, chanson de geste, allegory), themes (love, war, nature), single authors (Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut) and cultural and literary issues (gender, religion, authorship, rewritings).
Credits: 3
FREN 5520 - Topics in Sixteenth-Century Literature
Topics may include Montaigne, the European novella, poetic recreations of the ancients, literary Lyon, and Rabelais and his world.
Credits: 3
FREN 5530 - Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature
Topics may include genres such as tragedy, comedy, novel, and non-fiction prose, themes such as civility, religious conversion, the “human condition,” colonial expansion, and love, and theoretical issues such as institutional control of literature, gender and writing, and discourse analysis.
Credits: 3
FREN 5540 - Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Topics may include exoticism, reason and folly, libertinage, theater, Voltaire vs. Rousseau.
Credits: 3
FREN 5559 - New Course in French Literature and General Linguistics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of French literature and general linguistics.
FREN 5560 - Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Study of various aspects of nineteenth-century French/ Francophone literature. Genre, theme, specific chronological concentration, and approach will vary. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Credits: 3
FREN 5570 - Topics in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature
Study of the various aspects of twentieth-century French literature. Genre, theme, and specific chronological concentration will vary. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Credits: 3
FREN 5581 - Topics in African Literature and Culture
Topics may include: Francophone novel, colonial literature and visual culture, postcolonial literature and cinema, Francophone Theater & Poetry,
Credits: 3
FREN 5584 - Topics in Cinema
A range of analytical approaches to the study of cinema, including cinematographic language and structure, the representation of socio-cultural phenomena in film, and the experience of cinema viewing as a cultural and historical practice.
Credits: 3
FREN 5585 - Topics in Civilization / Cultural Studies
Interdisciplinary seminar in French and Francophone culture. Topics vary.
Credits: 3
FREN 5700 - Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries I
Principal literary movements and representative authors in the novel.
Credits: 3
FREN 5812 - New World Literature
Introduces the French-language literatures of Canada and the Caribbean in their historical and esthetic context. Includes drama, fiction and poetry. FREN5812 is normally a prerequisite to advanced work in Francophone literature at the 8000 level.
Credits: 3
FREN 5993 - Independent Study
Independent Study
FREN 5998 - Thesis Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. Prerequisite: graduate standing and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
FREN 5999 - Thesis (M.A.)
Composition and defense of master’s thesis. Prerequisite: graduate standing and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
FREN 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
FREN 7040 - Theories and Methods of Language Teaching
Introduces the pedagogical approaches currently practiced in second-language courses at the university level. Critically examines the theories underlying various methodologies, and their relation to teaching. Assignments include development and critique of pedagogical material; peer observation and analysis; and a final teaching portfolio project.
Credits: 3
FREN 7500 - Topics in Theory and Criticism
Study of various aspects of the Western critical tradition. Theme, chronological period, and approach will vary. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Credits: 3
FREN 7559 - New Course in French Language and General Linguistics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of French literature and general linguistics.
FREN 8510 - Seminar in Medieval Literature
Topics may include genres (romance, poetry, hagiography, chanson de geste, allegory), themes (love, war, nature), single authors (Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut) and cultural and literary issues (gender, religion, authorship, rewritings).
Credits: 3
FREN 8520 - Seminar in Sixteenth-Century Literature
(a) Rabelais. (b) Montaigne.
Credits: 3
FREN 8530 - Seminar in Seventeenth-Century Literature
(a) Moliere. (b) Racine. (c) Corneille. (d) The Moralists. (e) The Lyric of the early seventeenth century. (f) La Fontaine. (g) Contes et Nouvelles.
Credits: 3
FREN 8540 - Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature
(a) Voltaire. (b) Diderot. (c) Theater. (d) Novel. (e) Rousseau. (f) Marivaux.
Credits: 3
FREN 8559 - New Course in French Literature and General Linguistics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of French literature and general linguistics.
FREN 8560 - Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Study of various aspects of nineteenth-century French/ Francophone literature. Genre, theme, specific chronological concentration, and approach will vary. May be repeated for credit with different topics.
Credits: 3
FREN 8570 - Seminar in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature
Study of the various aspects of modern and contemporary French and Francophone literature. Genre, theme, and specific chronological concentration will vary.
Credits: 3
FREN 8581 - Seminar in Francophone Literature and Culture
Studies the Francophone literature of Africa, with special emphasis on post-World War II poets, novelists, and playwrights, and filmmakers. Examines the role of cultural and literary reviews in the historical and ideological development.
Credits: 3
FREN 8584 - Seminar in Cinema
A range of analytical approaches to the study of cinema, including cinematographic language and structure, the representation of socio-cultural phenomena in film, and the experience of cinema viewing as a cultural and historical practice.
Credits: 3
FREN 8585 - Seminar in Cultural Studies
In-depth studies investigations of cultural topics and research methodologies in French civilization and Francophone studies.
Credits: 3
FREN 8993 - Independent Study
Independent Study
Credits: 3
FREN 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Master’s and Doctoral Research
For masters and doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
FREN 9999 - Dissertation Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
German
GERM 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
GERM 5100 - Middle High German
Introduces Middle High German grammar and includes readings in Middle High German literature.
Credits: 3
GERM 5140 - Arthurian Romance
Theory and analysis of the chief German Arthurian romances: Erec, Parzival, Yrain, Iwain, and Tristan.
Credits: 3
GERM 5210 - Early Modern German Literature: Humanism, Reformation and Baroque,1450-1700
An overview of works from the Early Modern period in Germany, 1450-1700, drawing on three movements and intellectual spheres: Humanism, Reformation, and Baroque. Among the authors and works treated are Tepl’s Plowman of Bohemia, Brant’s Ship of Fools, Luther, Hans Sachs, the Historia von D. Johann Fausten, Fleming, Gryphius, and Hofmannsswaldau. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates of all disciplines.
Credits: 3
GERM 5250 - Age of Goethe I
Studies German “Storm and Stress’ and classicism, focusing on Goethe and Schiller.
Credits: 3
GERM 5300 - Romanticism
German literature and intellectual history from 1795 to 1830.
Credits: 3
GERM 5370 - Nineteenth Century
Major writers and works from 1830 to 1890, including Grillparzer, Stifter, Heine, Hebbel, Keller, Storm, Fontane.
Credits: 3
GERM 5470 - Turn of the Century
Discusses the major literary movements at the turn of the century with analysis of representative works by Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, George, Rilke, Thomas Mann, Musil, Kafka, and others.
Credits: 3
GERM 5480 - Twentieth Century
Introduces the main currents of German literature since 1920, emphasizing major authors and traditions.
Credits: 3
GERM 5500 - Special Topics
Major figures, genres, or literary problems serve as the focus for an intensive course within any literary period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.
Credits: 3
GERM 5559 - New Course in German
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German.
GERM 5562 - Topics in 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
GERM 5600 - Studies in Lyric Poetry
Investigates the theory and practice of lyric poetry in Germany, emphasizing major authors and traditions.
Credits: 3
GERM 5610 - Studies in Prose Fiction
Studies representative works of fiction (either novels or shorter forms) with special attention to formal and thematic developments, and representative theories of fiction.
Credits: 3
GERM 5620 - Studies in Drama
Investigates dramatic theory and practice in Germany, emphasizing major authors and traditions.
Credits: 3
GERM 5840 - Introduction to Literary Theory
Current theories of literature, including Marxist, psychoanalytical, formalist, structuralist, and hermeneutic approaches. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.
Credits: 3
GERM 5880 - Ling Approaches to Literature
Ling Approaches to Literature
Credits: 3
GERM 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
GERM 7400 - German Intellectual History From the Enlightenment to Nietzsche
Studies the development of the concepts of ‘education’ and ‘evolution,’ and the predominance of aesthetics in German culture. Includes lectures on the impact of Leibnitz, Kant, and Schopenhauer; and readings in Lessing, Kant, Schiller, Fichte, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, and Nietzsche.
Credits: 3
GERM 7420 - German Intellectual History from Nietzsche to the Present
Readings in and discussion of the intellectual, philosophical, and social history of Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Credits: 3
GERM 7559 - New Course in German
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German.
GERM 7600 - German Cinema
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.
Credits: 3
GERM 7700 - Narrative Theory
Study and comparison of major theories of narrative, including Booth, Stanzel, Barthes, Genette, Cohn, Bakhtin, and others.
Credits: 3
GERM 8559 - New Course in German
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German.
GERM 8610 - Seminar in Language Teaching
Studies the theory and practice of language teaching with supervised classroom experience. One group meeting per week plus extensive individual consultation. Required of all teaching assistants in the teacher training program.
Credits: 3
GERM 8620 - Seminar in Language Teaching
Studies the theory and practice of language teaching with supervised classroom experience. One group meeting per week plus extensive individual consultation. Required of all teaching assistants in the teacher training program.
Credits: 3
GERM 8810 - Pre-Dissertation Research I
Supervised reading, directed toward the formulation of a dissertation proposal by the individual student.
Credits: 3
GERM 8820 - Pre-Dissertation Research II
Supervised reading, directed toward the formulation of a dissertation proposal by the individual student.
Credits: 3
GERM 8995 - Guided Research
Special research projects for advanced students. Individually directed.
Credits: 3
GERM 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
GERM 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
GERM 9559 - New Course in German
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German.
GERM 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
GERM 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
GETR 7559 - New Course in German in Translation
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German in Translation.
GETR 7700 - Cognitive Literary Theory
Readings in recent theories, findings, and methods from cognitive science, psychology, and neurobiology that have been applied to the study of literature, whether by the scientists themselves or by literary scholars. Examples include the embodied mind thesis, conceptual metaphor, prototypes, neurobiological theories of the self, blending, emotion theory, memory theory, theory of mind, and the empirical study of reader response.
Credits: 3History
HIAF 5559 - New Course in African History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of African History.
HIAF 7002 - The History and Historiography of Africa
Taught for graduate students with no previous experience in African history; consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of HIAF 2001, 2002, and weekly discussions devoted to more detailed examination of the technical and interpretive problems in writing African history.
Credits: 3
HIAF 7031 - History and Historiography of North Africa, ca. 1800-Present
Introduces the literature on North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) from the precolonial period to the postcolonial era. An intensive readings and discussion colloquium devoted to the major issues in the region’s political, economic, social, and cultural history, and to the issues raised by colonial historiography. Prerequisite: HIME 2001, 2002.
Credits: 3
HIAF 7559 - New Course in African History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of African History.
HIAF 9033 - Tutorial in Pre-Colonial African History
This tutorial introduces the major themes, debates, and methods of studying pre-colonial African history. It is intended to prepare graduate students for preliminary examinations as well as to teach African history. Topics include the invention of Africa, non-archival methodologies, continuity and change in African religious and cultural history, the impact of European trade and culture on coastal societies, slavery in African society.
Credits: 3
HIEA 5050 - International History of East Asia
This seminar familiarizes graduate students with scholarships about relations among states, societies, and peoples of the Asia-Pacific region during the 20th century, and helps students refine their ongoing research projects or initiate new ones. In applying rigorously methods of historical research to their projects, students produce scholarly works or research proposals that can meet expectations in actual scholarly fields.
Credits: 3
HIEA 5052 - China and the World: From Empire to Nation
This reading seminar is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. It examines Chinese perspectives, practices, and interactions with other states in the international scene from antiquity to the People’s Republic of China. Students read about and discuss recurring issues in China’s historical external relations. Evaluation of student performance is based on participation, weekly written responses, and a historiographical essay.
Credits: 3
HIEA 5151 - Mao and the Chinese Revolution
This course, an advanced reading seminar, provids an in-depth investigation of one of the most magnificent, yet destructive, revolutions in human history–the Chinese Communist revolution, as well as the person who led the revoilution–Mao Zedong.
Credits: 3
HIEA 5559 - New Course in East Asian History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of East Asian History.
HIEA 7031 - Modern East Asian History
Offered to graduate students with no previous background in modern East Asian history. Consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of undergraduate courses on modern East Asian history and directed readings at an advanced level on the development of the social, political and cultural institutions of East Asia.
Credits: 3
HIEA 7041 - Modern East Asian History
Offered to graduate students with no previous background in modern East Asian history. Consists of attendance at the lecture sessions of undergraduate courses on modern East Asian history and directed readings at an advanced level on the development of the social, political and cultural institutions of East Asia.
Credits: 3
HIEA 7559 - New Course in East Asian History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of East Asian History.
HIEA 8011 - East Asian History
Directed readings, discussions, and research papers on selected topics in Chinese and Japanese history.
Credits: 3
HIEA 8111 - Traditional Chinese History
Studies documents related to social and political philosophy. Emphasizes translated texts, but some attention will be paid to Chinese texts and the problems of translation.
Credits: 3
HIEA 8211 - Japanese History
Discusses selected issues in the social, political, and economic development of Japan from the Tokugawa period to the present.
Credits: 3
HIEA 8559 - New Course in East Asian History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of East Asian History.
HIEA 9021 - Tutorial in ‘China in Hot and Cold Wars in Modern Times’…
This tutorial explores three types of conflicts in China modern experiences: civil wars, international conflicts, and Cold War confrontations. Reading materials include major scholarships on these topics. The class meets biweekly, and the students are evaluated on the basis of participation, short book reviews, and a final paper.
Credits: 3
HIEA 9022 - Tutorial in “Making of the ‘Chinese Nation’”…
This tutorial is about conceptual and political constructions of the “Chinese Nation” in the 20th century. Readings include relevant writings by important intellectual and political figures of 20th-century China and major scholarships on the subject from multiethnic perspectives. The class meets biweekly, and the students are evaluated on the basis of participation, short book reviews, and a final paper.
Credits: 3
HIEA 9023 - Tutorial in Modern Japanese Thought, Culture, & Politics
Introduction the history and historiography of modern Japanese Thought, Culture, and Politics. Topics include modernity, empire, the nation-state, war, fascism, and capitalist development.
Credits: 3
HIEU 5001 - Dark Age Greece
Examines the structural, political, and conceptual rise of the Greek polis and explores other aspects of the archaeology, art, history, and literature of the ‘iron age’ and early archaic period (1000-600 BC) in Greece. Prerequisite: HIEU 2031 or equivalent
Credits: 3
HIEU 5011 - Late Archaic Greece
Examines the history of Greece in the late archaic age down to the end of the Persian wars. Prerequisite: HIEU 2031 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
HIEU 5013 - The Early Medieval Mediterranean
This course examines the Mediterranean world from AD 700 -1000, exploring aspects of its political, economic and cultural history. Trade and communication, the movement of goods, ideas and people will all come under scrutiny. Students will engage with historical and archaeological scholarship together with extensive primary sources (in translation) from the period.
Prerequisite: HIEU 2061 or equivalent and/or HIEU 3141, HIEU 3131 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
HIEU 5021 - Greece in the Fifth Century
Examination of the political, diplomatic, and social history of Greece from the end of the Persian Wars in 479 b.c. to the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404/3 b.c. Investigates the origins, course, and importance of the latter war, the major watershed in classical Greek history. Prerequisite: HIEU 2031 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
HIEU 5031 - Greece in the Fourth Century
Advanced course in Greek history that examines in detail the social and economic history of Greece from the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 b.c. to the defeat of the Greek city-states at Chaeronea in 338. Prerequisite: HIEU 2041 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
HIEU 5051 - Roman Empire
Studies the founding and institutions of the Principate, the Dominate, and the decline of antiquity. Prerequisite: HIEU 2041 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
HIEU 5061 - Roman Imperialism
Examines Roman transmarine expansion to determine how and why it happened, and what consequences it had, both in Rome and abroad. Prerequisite: HIEU 2041 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
HIEU 5062 - Philosophy and Theory of History
Course surveys tradition of ‘philosophy of history’ (ca. 1860–1960s) but focuses on the more recent genre of ‘theory of history’ (late 1960s/70s–present), which responds to recent historical genres and to new problems related to narrative, memory, trauma, counterfactuality, etc. Emphasis is on linking theory to specific historical and meta-historical instances (e.g., Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, Friedlander’s Nazi Germany and the Jews, ‘trut
Credits: 3
HIEU 5082 - Modernity and History
Surveys a range of philosophers and other writers who have reflected on the role of history in modern life. Prerequisite: Upper class standing or above, with one or more courses in relevant theory
Credits: 3
HIEU 5302 - Nationality, Ethnicity, and Race in Modern Europe
Colloquium on how categories of human identity have been conceived, applied, and experienced in Western and Eastern Europe from 1789 to the present. Topics include the construction of identities, national assimilation, inter-confessional conflict, colonialism, immigration, and the human sciences. Prerequisite: One course in modern European history or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
HIEU 5312 - Era of the World Wars, 1914-1945
A study of the major countries of Europe in the era 1914-1945, with special attention to international relations, and political, economic, and social developments. Most suitable for third- and fourth- year students with some background in European history and for graduate students.
Credits: 3
HIEU 5352 - The British Economy Since 1850
Studies the structure, performance and policy in the British economy since 1850, focusing on the causes and consequences of Britain’s relative economic decline. Cross listed as ECON 5352.
Credits: 3
HIEU 5559 - New Course in European History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of European History.
HIEU 5662 - Nineteenth-Century Russian Intellectual History
Readings and discussion of seminal Russian intellectuals and their ideas under the later Romanov Tsars. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
HIEU 5871 - Early Modern Europe Seminar
This course is a specialized seminar in early modern European historiography. As a result, it focuses on a broad reading list that covers as many subjects, regions, and methodologies as possible. The course is divided by theme, rather than region, and covers such topics as social control, Scientific Revolution, women and gender, and global Christianity.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
HIEU 5882 - Modern Europe, 1750-1890
This course aims to expose graduate and advanced undergraduates students to the grand narrative of modern European history and, simultaneously, to provide them with insight into the latest historiographical trends and emerging conceptual conventions in this research field.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - ABROAD,CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,WRITTEN
HIEU 5892 - Europe since 1890
A discussion course on key topics in the transnational history of Modern Europe since 1890. A capstone for majors in the field, it is also open to others. Topics include old and new ways of doing history, Imperialism, World War I, postwar capitalism and its critics, Communism and Fascism, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, the Cold War, the path toward European Union, the Welfare State, German Reunification, and the end of the Cold War.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - ABROAD,CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
HIEU 7001 - Colloquium in Medieval European History
The first semester of a two-semester sequence of graduate colloquia introducing students to the major themes in European history and historiography in the period before the eighteenth century and structured around central themes in medieval history.
Credits: 3
HIEU 7002 - Colloquium in Early Modern European History
The second semester of a two-semester sequence of graduate colloquia introducing students to the major themes in European history and historiography in the period before the eighteenth century and structured around central themes in early modern European history.
Credits: 3
HIEU 7003 - Colloquium in Modern European History I
The first semester of a two-semester sequence of graduate colloquia introducing students to the major themes in European history and historiography in the period from the eighteenth century to the present and structured around central themes in European history between c. 1750 and c. 1870.
Credits: 3
HIEU 7013 - Anthropology of Ancient Greece
A survey of anthropological methods useful for the study of the past: simultaneously an economic introduction to the Great Books of anthropology, to a prominent aspect of contemporary classical scholarship, and to the opportunities and problems presented by using the methods of one field to illuminate another.
Credits: 3
HIEU 7014 - Ancient History
Introduces non-literary materials of use to the historian in correcting and/or amplifying the literary record, including inscriptions, papyri, coins, etc.
Credits: 3
HIEU 7031 - Proseminar in Ancient Studies
The aim of this course is to acquaint students with various facets of the study of Greek and Roman antiquity; to show students a range of approaches to ancient materials; and to introduce students of antiquity to each other and to the affiliated faculty in different departments (Classics, History, Art, Religious Studies).
Credits: 1
HIEU 7071 - Fragmentary Roman Historians
This class reads the many fragments of Roman Republican historians and learns how to analyze them from three perspectives: linguistic (including textual problems); literary; and historical. Why did early Romans, many of them active statesmen and generals, write history? What themes are perceptible in their surviving fragments? What was the historical context of the author, and what was the historical contribution of his work?
Credits: 3
HIEU 7211 - The Renaissance
Studies European politics and society from the commercial revolution to Cateau Cambresis.
Credits: 3
HIEU 7261 - Early Modern England
Readings and discussion on special topics in the period 1485 to 1760.
Credits: 3
HIEU 7301 - History of Science
Introduces the historiography of science, and especially to new approaches which integrate the history of the natural and social sciences into intellectual, social, political, and economic history.
Credits: 3
HIEU 7471 - European Economic History
Intensive reading and discussion of topics in European economic history.
Credits: 3
HIEU 7559 - New Course in European History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of European History.
HIEU 7782 - History of Human Rights
A survey of the new field of human rights historiography, focusing on the growth of the academic discipline, current debates, and future directions for research.
Credits: 3
HIEU 8011 - Ancient History
Topics to be chosen by the instructor.
Credits: 3
HIEU 8452 - Twentieth Century Europe
In this graduate seminar on Europe in the twentieth century students are asked to produce in the course of the semester an original work (25-30 pages long) based on primary sources. They will develop an argument, place it within the historiography and relevant methodologies, fine the relevant sources, and craft a narrative. The course covers all countries in Europe. The focus of the course is directed to exploration in cultural history.
Credits: 3
HIEU 8461 - Twentieth-Century Europe and Russia
For students working in any geographical area of 20th-century Europe. Topics selected by students in consultation with instructor. Helps students begin research for M.A. theses and doctoral dissertations.
Credits: 3
HIEU 8559 - New Course in European History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of European History.
HIEU 8642 - Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policy
Offered as required.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9020 - Empire, Mobility, and Cultural Exchange in Tsarist and Early Soviet Russia
The tutorial explores recent scholarly monographs and articles on inter-cultural exchange in and around the Russian empire, and the various forms of population mobility that facilitated it: immigration, emigration, exile within borders, urbanization, imperial conquest, commerce, military service, displacement by war, pilgrimage.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9021 - Philosophy and Theory of History
In the last 25 years the philosophy and theory of history has been revitalized, with three vibrant international journals now publishing and thought-provoking books and articles appearing every year. This tutorial will quickly cover the classic literature and issues in the field and, more intensively, the recent literature. Emphasis will be on those segments of the literature most relevant to envisaged dissertation themes.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9022 - History of Ideas-Intellectual History: Modern Europe
This tutorial focuses on European-sourced conceptions and theories, with an emphasis on modernity in the broades senses. Characteristically, students will negotiate with the instructor a set of themes and texts to consider, e.g., notions of knowledge, interpretation, labor, identity, civil society, revolution.. These should be related to the student’s projected dissertation area.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9023 - Tutorial in the History of the Modern British Empire
This graduate-level tutorial introduces the major themes, debates, and methods of historical writing on the British Empire from around 1750. It is intended particularly, though not exclusively, as field preparation for the general examination. Topics include the uses of expert knowledge, the peculiarities of settler colonialism, the lure of liberalism as imperial ideology, and the role of violence.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9024 - Tutorial in the History of Modern Britain
This tutorial introduces the major themes, debates, and methods of historical writing on modern Britain. It is intended particularly, though not exclusively, as field preparation for the general examination. Topics include the domestic ramifications of war and empire, the expanding reach of the state and the market, the adaptability of tradition, the contradictions of liberalism, and the meanings of modernity.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9025 - Tutorial in the Late Roman Republic
This tutorial will cover the most tumultuous period in Roman Republican history, that which stretches from 133 BC to the establishment of Octavian (Augustus) as the first emperor in 27 BC.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9026 - Tutorial in Early Modern British History
Considers developments in the British Isles and its nascent empire in the 16th and 17th centuries. Focuses on historiography of the Reformation and persistent religious conflicts, the causes and nature of the Civil Wars, and the origins of empire.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9027 - Tutorial in English Legal History
Considers key ideas and practices in English law from the late medieval period. Attention given to institutions, their development, and their interaction. Legal change will be studied in its social, political, and economic contexts. Also explores transformations in English law as it moved across a burgeoning empire.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9028 - Tutorial in British Legal and Political Thought
Considers major texts in legal and political thought of the 17th and 18th centuries. Focuses on canonical works by thinkers such as Hobbes, Harrington, Sidney, Locke, Smith, and Blackstone. Texts will be appoached from within their historical contexts.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9029 - Tutorial in the History of Reformation Europe
Surveys the history and historiography of European Christianity c. 1450-1650.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9030 - Tutorial in the History of Early Modern Europe
Explores the history and historiography of Europe, c. 1450-1750. It provides a broad introduction to early modern society and culture, with particular emphasis on the transformations that reshaped Europe in this period, such as the emergence of the early modern state, the division of Christendom, and global exploration.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9031 - Tutorial in Anglo-Saxon History
This course is intended to introduce graduate students to the study of Anglo-Saxon England from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, its historiography and the range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches applied to its analysis. The class is intended to be timely and comprehensive. Archaeology, material culture and the close analysis of key primary sources and attendant scholarship will all be addressed.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9032 - Tutorial in Modern Jewish History
This tutorial explores the major historiographical literature of modern jewish history, with an emphasis on core themes of political, cultural, and religious patterns, issues of periodization, and the question of its relationship to other fields of modern history.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9033 - Tutorial in European Economic History
A graduate tutorial devoted to close analysis of key issues in European Economic History.
Credits: 3
HIEU 9034 - Tutorial in Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
This graduate tutorial surveys the historiography of decolonization in the twentieth century with an emphasis on European empires. The course is especially designed for students preparing a field for comprehensive exams but is open to others.
Credits: 3
HILA 5559 - New Course in Latin American History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Latin American History.
HILA 7001 - Colonial Latin America
A readings course open to graduate students with a reading knowledge of Spanish.
Credits: 3
HILA 7559 - New Course in Latin American History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Latin American History.
HILA 8559 - New Course in Latin American History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Latin American History.
HIME 5052 - World War I in the Middle East
World War I set the stage for many conflicts in the 20th-century Middle East. This course examines the last attempt to build a pluralistic, constitutional realm under the Ottoman empire; how that world crumbled in the Balkan wars and Great War; the Young Turks’ relations with Germany; Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt; the Armenian genocide; women and peasants’ suffering; the Balfour Declaration and start of the Palestine conflict.
Credits: 3
HIME 5053 - Slavery in the Middle East and Ottoman Empire
This course explores the practice of slavery in its various forms in the Middle East and North Africa from pre-Islamic times through the abolition of the slave trade in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Topics include: sources of slaves and the slave trade; manumission; the social and legal position of slaves in Islamic societies; the slave-soldier phenomenon; captivity and ransom; gender and race; and the movement towards abolition. Prerequisite: Graduate students and advanced undergraduates with previous study of the Middle East.
Credits: 3
HIME 5559 - New Course in Middle Eastern History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Middle Eastern History.
HIME 7011 - History and Historiography of the Middle East, ca. 570-1500
Introduces the history and historiography of the medieval Middle East and North Africa (areas from Morocco to Iran) from the period immediately preceding the rise of Islam until the Mongol invasions of the 13th century. Primarily a readings-and-discussion colloquium devoted to political, social, economic, and cultural evolution of the regions and peoples situated in arid and semi-arid zones stretching from Gibraltar to the Oxus River. After surveying the general contours of the field, and isolating the principal scholarly approaches to it, the course proceeds chronologically, starting with the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires in the 6th century and concluding with assessment of the Turkic-Mongolian impact upon the historical configuration of the regions. Prerequisite: HIME 2001.
Credits: 3
HIME 7021 - History and Historiography of the Middle East, ca. 1500-Present
Introduces the history and historiography of the early modern and modern Middle East and North Africa from the period of the Ottoman and Safavid Empires until the emergence of a system of nation-states in the 20th century. Primarily a readings-and-discussion colloquium devoted to the political, social, economic, and cultural history of the region. Prerequisite: HIME 2001, 2002, or HIME 7011.
Credits: 3
HIME 7031 - Colonialism and Nation-Building in the Arab World
Debate on the effects of European colonial rule has been revived in the decade since the United States occupied Iraq. We W engage the debate by studying the effect of foreign rule on one region, the Arab world: French and British colonization of Algeria and Egypt in the long 19th-century; the League of Nations’ mandates in Syria and Iraq after World War I; and finally Americans’ effort to rebuild the Iraqi state since 2003.
Prerequisite: One prior course on colonialism or on Arab history
Credits: 3
HIME 7559 - New Course in Middle Eastern History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Middle Eastern History.
HIME 9023 - Tutorial in the History of the Medieval Middle East and North Africa
This tutorial surveys the historiography of the medieval Middle East and North Africa (broadly construed), from pre-Islamic Arabia through the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk Sultanate, which reunified the eastern half of the Mediterranean for the first time in a millennium. Readings introduce the major dynasties between Iberia and Central Asia, from the Umayyads to the Ottomans, and the seminal texts that have shaped the field.
Credits: 3
HIME 9024 - Tutorial in Ottoman History
This tutorial surveys the history and historiography of the Ottoman Empire from its obscure origins in the fourteenth century up to the period of reforms known as the Tanzimat beginning in the first half of the nineteenth century. Readings introduce the major historiographical debates and trends in the field and cover the political, military, institutional, social, and cultural history of the Empire.
Credits: 3
HIME 9025 - Tutorial in the Economic and Social History of the Middle East
The course comprises readings from the economic, social, and legal history of the Middle East from the early medieval period onward.
Credits: 3
HIME 9026 - Minorities in the Middle East
The status of minorities and intercommunal relations in the Middle East have long concerned scholars of the region. This tutorial explores the historiography of “minority” communities in the Middle East and their relationships with one another. In addition to examining how communal statuses and strategies of governance have changed over time, we will consider the plurality of experiences in the region and develop a comparative perspective.
Credits: 3
HISA 5021 - Historiography of Early Modern South Asia
Analyzes historical sources and historians of political systems in Muslim India until the rise of British power.
Credits: 3
HISA 5101 - Economic History of India
Studies regional economic systems prior to European penetration; the establishment and growth of European trading companies in the 17th and 18th centuries; commercialization of agriculture; the emergence of a unified Indian economy in the 19th century; and industrialization and economic development in the 20th.
Credits: 3
HISA 5559 - New Course in South Asian History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of South Asian history.
HISA 7111 - Peasant Movements in Modern India
Considers agrarian relationships and the economic conflict in those relations that give rise to peasant movements in the 19th and 20th centuries. Discussions are based on texts concerned with peasant societies.
Credits: 3
HISA 7559 - New Course in South Asian Studies
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of South Asian history.
HISA 8061 - Social History of Modern India
Research and writing utilizing gazetteers, settlement reports, censuses, and other sources.
Credits: 3
HISA 8111 - Peasant Movements in Modern Indian History
A workshop seminar on peasant movements in modern India, Bengla Desh, and Pakistan utilizing original documents.
Credits: 3
HISA 8559 - New Course in South Asian History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of South Asian history.
HIST 700T - Non-UVa Transfer Credit
HIST 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
HIST 5002 - Global History
Reading, discussion, and analysis of classic as well as contemporary works of scholarship on global history.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
HIST 5031 - Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data
The social scientific approach to historical inquiry, the formulation of theories, and their testing with historical data. Includes extensive directed readings in quantitative history and training in quantitative methods, sampling, the organization of a data-set, and data analysis. Prerequisite: Introductory course in statistics or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
HIST 5062 - Commerce, Culture, and Consumption in World History
Explores the circulation of goods throughout the world in the early modern and modern periods, and its cultural implications and consequences. Readings approach trade from a number of standpoints, including commodities, traders, trade routes, media of exchange, and consumers. Most major world areas will be represented, but there will be particular emphasis on Europe and its commercial relations with non-European lands and peoples.
Credits: 3
HIST 5063 - Theory and/of History: Recent Perspectives
The course examines theoretical perspectives relevant to the discovery and interpreting of historical phenomena. Topics include memory; identity; trauma; narrative; practices of inference; nation-state and trans-nationality; space; and the role of normative assumptions. Likely authors include B. Anderson, Bourdieu, Brubaker, Confino, Flyvbjerg, Geertz, Ginzburg, Kuhn, LaCapra, Megill, Moyn, J. C. Scott, J. W. Scott, Sewell, Weber, White.
Prerequisites: Minimum admission standard: 3rd year undergrad. Undergrads must request permission and see the instructor before the class starts.
Credits: 3
HIST 5077 - Pius XII, Hitler, the US and World War II
For the past forty years the role of Pius XII and the Vatican during World War II has been controversial. This seminar will look at that controversy and place it in the context of newly available archival material. The studnets will read severalbooks on both sides of the question and then present their own research papers, the topics of which will be chosen in consultation with the professor.
Credits: 3
HIST 5092 - Multiculturalism in the Ottoman Empire
Study of how a large empire governed a diverse population, between 1453 and 1918, from the perspective of concerns about recent nationalist, racial and ethnic conflicts in modern nation states. Course 1st examines how the Ottomans managed relations between ethnic and religious groups to 1750, then the reasons for increased communial conflicts after 1750, and their efforts to re-engineer relations among groups along liberal, constitutional lines.
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Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures
Jewish Studies
Linguistics
Mathematics
MATH 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
MATH 5010 - The History of the Calculus
Studies the evolution of the various mathematical ideas leading up to the development of calculus in the 17th century, and how those ideas were perfected and extended by succeeding generations of mathematicians. Emphasizes primary source materials. Prerequisite: MATH 2310 and 3351, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MATH 5030 - The History of Mathematics
Studies the development of mathematics from classical antiquity to the end of the 19th century, focusing on critical periods in the evolution of geometry, number theory, algebra, probability, and set theory. Emphasizes primary source materials. Prerequisite: MATH 2310 and 3351, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MATH 5250 - 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 and MATH 3310 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
MATH 5305 - Proofs in Analysis
This course reviews the proofs of the main theorems in analysis in preparation for the advanced graduate analysis courses. This course is offered in the summer and restricted to Mathematics and Graduate Arts and Science students.
Credits: 3
MATH 5559 - New Course in Mathematics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of mathematics.
MATH 5653 - 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 5657 - 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: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CMP,CRITTHINK,QUANTITAT,WRITTEN
MATH 5700 - Introduction to Geometry
Topics selected from analytic, affine, projective, hyperbolic, and non-Euclidean geometry. Prerequisite: MATH 2310, 3351, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MATH 5720 - Introduction to Differential Geometry
Topics selected from the theory of curves and surfaces in Euclidean space and the theory of manifolds. Prerequisite: MATH 2310 and 3351, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MATH 5770 - General Topology
Topological spaces and continuous functions, connectedness, compactness, countability and separation axioms, and function spaces. Time permitting, more advanced examples of topological spaces, such as projectives spaces, as well as an introduction to the fundamental group will be covered.
Prerequisite: MATH 2310 and 3351, and 3310.
Credits: 3
MATH 5855 - Proofs in Algebra
This course reviews the proofs of the main theorems in algebra in preparation for the advanced graduate algebra courses.This course is offered in the summer and restricted to Mathematics and Graduate Arts and Science students.
Credits: 3
MATH 5896 - Supervised Study in Mathematics
A rigorous program of supervised study designed to expose the student to a particular area of mathematics. Prerequisite: Instructor permission and graduate standing.
Credits: 3
MATH 6060 - AFDA: Mathematical Modeling with Probability and Statistics
Examines experimental design and probability and statistics through exploring, analyzing, and interpreting data sets. Explores the graphing calculator as a tool to display and analyze data obtained from sampling, observations, measurement, experiments, and internet sources.
Credits: 3
MATH 6120 - Measurement and Data Analysis
Measurement and Data Analysis
Credits: 3
MATH 6452 - Functions and Algebra
Functions and Algebra
Credits: 3
MATH 6453 - Number Systems and Number Theory for K-8 Mathematics Specialists
Number Systems and Number Theory for K-8 Mathematics Specialists
Credits: 3
MATH 6454 - Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning
Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning
Credits: 3
MATH 6559 - New Course in Mathematics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of mathematics.
MATH 6600 - Algebra for Middle School Specialists
Algebra for Middle School Specialists
Credits: 3
MATH 6630 - AAO Introductory College Algebra and Trigonometry
AAO Introductory College Algebra and Trigonometry
Credits: 3
MATH 6650 - AAO Calculus with Applications
AAO Calculus with Applications
Credits: 3
MATH 6660 - Euclidean Geometry
Euclidean Geometry
Credits: 3
MATH 6670 - AAO Probability and Statistics
Explores introductory descriptive statistics, probability, and statistical inference. Develops conceptual understanding and procedural fluency in problem settings based on real data which investigate the use of visual methods from summarizing quantitative information, basic experimental design, sampling methods, and interpretation of statistical analysis.
Credits: 3
MATH 6700 - Geometry and Measurement for K-8 Math Specialists
Geometry and Measurement for K-8 Math Specialists
Credits: 3
MATH 6760 - MM Data Analysis, Probability, and Statistics for Middle School Teachers
Focuses on the representation of data for decision making and predictability based on data analysis as it relates to middle school mathematics and defined in the NCTM Professional Standards for School Mathematics and Virginia SOLS in Mathematics. Teachers deepen their understanding and use of the fundamental ideas in mathematics that underlie the probability and statistics strand.
Credits: 3
MATH 6800 - Teaching Mathematics to Diverse Populations
Teaching Mathematics to Diverse Populations
Credits: 3
MATH 7000 - Seminar on College Teaching
Discussion of issues related to the practice of teaching, pedagogical concerns in college level mathematics, and aspects of the responsibilities of a professional mathematician. Credits may not be used towards a Master’s degree. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in mathematics.
MATH 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
MATH 7010 - Seminar on Research in Mathematics
This seminar discusses the issues related to research in Mathematics. There are speakers from the different areas of mathematics represented at the University of Virginia. Credit may not be used towards a Master’s degree. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in mathematics.
MATH 7250 - Ordinary Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
Topics include well-posedness and stability of dynamical flows, attractors, invariant manifolds and their properties, and dissipative and Hamiltonian systems. Prerequisite: MATH 5310 and linear algebra, or the equivalent.
Credits: 3
MATH 7305 - Problems in Analysis
Applications of the theory presented in MATH 7310, 7320, and 7340 to specific examples in real and complex analysis. The course emphasizes problem-solving and preparation for the General Examination in Analysis. Problems are based on those from past General Exams. This course is offered in the summer and restricted to Mathematics and Graduate Arts and Science students.
Credits: 3
MATH 7310 - Real Analysis and Linear Spaces I
Introduces measure and integration theory. Prerequisite: MATH 5310 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
MATH 7320 - Real Analysis and Linear Spaces II
Additional topics in measure theory. Banach and Hilbert spaces, and Fourier analysis. Prerequisite: MATH 7310, 7340, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
MATH 7340 - Complex Analysis I
Studies the fundamental theorems of analytic function theory.
Credits: 3
MATH 7360 - Probability Theory I
Rigorous introduction to probability, using techniques of measure theory. Includes limit theorems, martingales, and stochastic processes. Prerequisite: 7310 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
MATH 7370 - Probability Theory II
Continuation of Probability Theory I. Elements of stochastic processes, including Brownian motion, continuous time martingales, and Markov processes.
Credits: 3
MATH 7410 - Functional Analysis I
Studies the basic principles of linear analysis, including spectral theory of compact and selfadjoint operators. Prerequisite: MATH 7340 and 7310, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
MATH 7420 - Functional Analysis II
Studies the spectral theory of unbounded operators, semigroups, and distribution theory. Prerequisite: MATH 7410 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
MATH 7450 - Introduction to Mathematical Physics
An introduction to classical mechanics, with topics in statistical and quantum mechanics, as time permits. Prerequisite: MATH 5310.
Credits: 3
MATH 7559 - New Course in Mathematics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of mathematics.
MATH 7600 - Homological Algebra
Examines categories, functors, abelian catqegories, limits and colimits, chain complexes, homology and cohomology, homological dimension, derived functors, Tor and Ext, group homology, Lie algebra homology, spectral sequences, and calculations. Prerequisite: MATH 5770.
Credits: 3
MATH 7705 - Problems In Topology
A continuation of the theory presented in MATH 5770 and 7800 intensively training students to apply the theory to proving theorems and solving problems in topology, especially in preparation for the General Examination in Topology. Problems are based on those from past General Exams. This course is offered in the summer and restricted to Mathematics and Graduate Arts and Science students.
Credits: 3
MATH 7751 - Algebra I
Studies groups, rings, fields, modules, tensor products, and multilinear functions. Prerequisite: MATH 5651, 5652, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
MATH 7752 - Algebra II
Studies groups, rings, fields, modules, tensor products, and multilinear functions. Prerequisite: MATH 5651, 5652, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
MATH 7753 - Algebra III
Studies the Wedderburn theory, commutative algebra, and topics in advanced algebra. Prerequisite: MATH 7751, 7752, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
MATH 7754 - Algebra IV
Further topics in algebra.
Credits: 3
MATH 7755 - Problems in Algebra
A continuation of the theory presented in MATH 7751 and 7752 intensively training students to apply the theory to proving theorems in algebra, especially in preparation for the General Examination in Algebra. Problems are based on those from past General Exams. This course is offered in the summer and restricted to Mathematics and Graduate Arts and Science students.
Credits: 3
MATH 7800 - Algebraic Topology I
Topics include the fundamental group, covering spaces, covering transformations, the universal covering spaces, graphs and subgroups of free groups, and the fundamental groups of surfaces. Additional topics will be from homology, including chain complexes, simplicial and singular homology, exact sequences and excision, cellular homology, and classical applications. Prerequisite: MATH 5352, 5770, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
MATH 7810 - Algebraic Topology II
Devoted to chomology theory: cohomology groups, the universal coefficient theorem, the Kunneth formula, cup products, the cohomology ring of manifolds, Poincare duality, and other topics if time permits. Prerequisite: MATH 7800.
Credits: 3
MATH 7820 - Differential Topology
Topics include smooth manifolds and functions, tangent bundles and vector fields, embeddings, immersions, transversality, regular values, critical points, degree of maps, differential forms, de Rham cohomology, and connections. Prerequisite: MATH 5310, 5770, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
MATH 7830 - Fiber Bundles
Examines fiber bundles; induced bundles, principal bundles, classifying spaces, vector bundles, and characteristic classes, and introduces K-theory and Bott periodicity. Prerequisite: MATH 7800.
Credits: 3
MATH 7840 - Homotopy Theory
Definition of homotopy groups, homotopy theory of CW complexes, Huriewich theorem and Whitehead’s theorem, Eilenberg-Maclane spaces, fibration and cofibration sequences, Postnikov towers, and obstruction theory. Prerequisite: MATH 7800.
Credits: 3
MATH 8250 - Partial Differential Equations
Theory of distributions. Sobolev spaces and their properties (trace and embedding theorems). Theory of elliptic equations. Time-dependent partial differential equations: parabolic and hyperbolic equations. Topics in nonlinear partial differential equations. Prerequisites: MATH 7410 and 7250.
Credits: 3
MATH 8310 - Operator Theory I, II
Topics in the theory of operators on a Hilbert space and related areas of function theory.
Credits: 3
MATH 8320 - Operator Theory I, II
Topics in the theory of operators on a Hilbert space and related areas of function theory.
Credits: 3
MATH 8360 - Stochastic Calculus and Differential Equations
This course presents the basic theory of stochastic differential equations and provides examples of its applications. It is an essential topic for students preparing to do research in probability. Topics covered include a review of the relevant stochastic process and martingale theory; stochastic calculus including Ito’s formula; existence and uniqueness for stochastic differential equations, strong Markov property; and applications. Prerequisite: MATH 7360 and 7370, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MATH 8380 - Random Matrices
Discusses fundamental problems and results of the theory of random matrices, and their connections to tools of algebra and combinatorics: Wigner’s semicircle law, free probability, Gaussian, circular, and beta ensembles of random matrices, bulk and edge asymptotics and universality, Dyson’s Brownian motion, determinantal point processes, and discrete analogues of random matrix models. Prerequisite: MATH 7360 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MATH 8410 - Harmonic Analysis
This course studies real variable methods for singular integrals and related functional spaces.
Credits: 3
MATH 8450 - Topics in Mathematical Physics
Applies functional analysis to physical problems; scattering theory, statistical mechanics, and quantum field theory.
Credits: 3
MATH 8559 - New Course in Mathematics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of mathematics.
MATH 8600 - Commutative Algebra
The foundations of commutative algebra, algebraic number theory, or algebraic geometry.
Credits: 3
MATH 8620 - Algebraic Geometry
Studies the foundations of algebraic geometry.
Credits: 3
MATH 8630 - Algebraic Number Theory
Theory of number fields and local fields, ramification theory, further topics as chosen by instructor.
Credits: 3
MATH 8700 - Lie Groups
Studies basic results concerning Lie groups, Lie algebras, and the correspondence between them.
Credits: 3
MATH 8710 - Lie Algebras
Studies basic structure theory of Lie algebras.
Credits: 3
MATH 8720 - Differential Geometry
Studies differential geometry in the large; connections; Riemannian geometry; Gauss-Bonnet formula; and differential forms.
Credits: 3
MATH 8750 - Topology of Manifolds
Studies regular and critical values, gradient flow, handle decompositions, Morse theory, h-cobordism theorem, Dehn’s lemma in dimension 3, and disk theorem in dimension 4. Prerequisite: Math 5770.
Credits: 3
MATH 8850 - Topics in Algebraic Topology
Selected advanced topics in algebraic topology.
Credits: 3
MATH 8851 - Group Theory
Studies the basic structure theory of groups, especially finite groups.
Credits: 3
MATH 8852 - Representation Theory
Studies the foundations of representation and character theory of finite groups.
Credits: 3
MATH 8853 - Algebraic Combinatorics
Covers methods of abstract algebra that can be applied to various combinatorial problems and combinatorial methods to approach problems in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and homological algebra.
Credits: 3
MATH 8855 - Theory of Algebras
Studies the basic structure theory of associative or nonassociative algebras.
Credits: 3
MATH 8880 - Transformation Groups
Studies groups of transformations operating on a space; properties of fixed-point sets, orbit spaces; and local and global invariants.
Credits: 3
MATH 8995 - Thesis
Thesis
MATH 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
MATH 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
MATH 9000 - Mathematics Colloquium
Forum for invited speakers giving mathematical colloquium talks.
Credits: 0
MATH 9010 - History of Mathematics Seminar
Discusses subjects from the history of mathematics.
MATH 9020 - Graduate Seminar
This is a meeting place for junior faculty members and graduate students to discuss mathematics and give talks reflecting the mathematical interests of the participants.
Credits: 0
MATH 9250 - Harmonic Analysis and PDEs
Harmonic Analysis and PDEs seminar
Credits: 3
MATH 9310 - Operator Theory Seminar
Operator Theory Seminar
Credits: 3
MATH 9360 - Probability Seminar
Probability Seminar
Credits: 3
MATH 9410 - Galois-Grothendieck Seminar
Galois-Grothendieck Seminar
Credits: 3
MATH 9450 - Mathematical Physics Seminar
Mathematical Physics Seminar
Credits: 3
MATH 9559 - New Course in Mathematics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of mathematics.
MATH 9800 - Topology Seminar
Topology Seminar
Credits: 3
MATH 9820 - Geometry and Topology Seminar
Discusses subjects from geometry and topology.
MATH 9950 - Algebra Seminar
Algebra Seminar
Credits: 3
MATH 9995 - Independent Research
Independent Research
MATH 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
MATH 9999 - Non-Topical Research
The Mathematics Colloquium is held weekly, the sessions being devoted to research activities of students and faculty members, and to reports by visiting mathematicians on current work of interest. For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Media Studies
Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages & Cultures
Music
MUPF 7930 - Performance - Music Graduate Students
Individual instruction in musical performance for PhD students in music, as an enhancement of their academic program. Prerequisite: music graduate student with permission of department chair.
MUSI 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
MUSI 5810 - Composition
Composition Prerequisite: MUSI 4331 and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
MUSI 7350 - Interactive Media
A graduate-level seminar in interactive technology for music and multimedia. Students explore theoretical, creative and practical aspects of programming, composing and performing real-time interactive music with computers.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7500 - Studies in Pre-Modern Music to 1500
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7502 - Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7503 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century Music
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7504 - Topics in Twentieth Century Music
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7506 - Instrumental Music
Studies topics, announced in advance, selected from the orchestral, chamber music or solo repertories. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7508 - American Music
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7509 - Cultural and Historical Studies of Music
Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music within cultural and historical frameworks. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7510 - Cultural and Historical Studies of Music
Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music within cultural and historical frameworks. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7511 - Introduction to Research in Music
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7512 - Studies in Jazz Literature
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7519 - Current Studies in Research and Criticism
Current Studies in Research and Criticism Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7520 - Current Studies in Research and Criticism
Current Studies in Research and Criticism Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7524 - Field Research and Ethnography of Performance
Working with and critiquing ideas about ethnography and performativity, students explore epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic issues as they relate to field research, and push the envelope of ‘creative non-fiction’ in the ethnographic realm through writing. A final essay as well as a final performance presentation are required. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7525 - Topics in Ethnomusicology
Studies the field of ethnomusicology. Specific issues and cultural areas addressed depend on the interests of students and the instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7526 - Topics in Ethnomusicology
Studies the field of ethnomusicology. Specific issues and cultural areas addressed depend on the interests of students and the instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7532 - Musical Analysis
Studies various approaches to musical analysis; readings from the most important theoretical literature; and the practical exercises in analysis of music from all periods. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7540 - Computer Sound Generation and Spatial Processing
Studies in sound processing, digital synthesis and multichannel audio using RTCmix running under Linux. Students learn techniques of computer music through advanced composition, analysis of representative works, and programming. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. The course is intended for graduate students in music.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7543 - Sound Studio
Studies in computer music studio techniques, sound synthesis using a variety of software packages based on the Macintosh platform, and the creation of original music using new technologies. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7547 - Materials of Contemporary Music
The course is intended for graduate students in music. Topics in contemporary music that will focus on different areas in rotation. Each will involve focused readings, analysis of selected works, and the creation of original compositions that reflect the issues under discussion. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7559 - New Course in Music
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Music.
MUSI 7571 - Instrumental Conducting I, II
Advanced studies in the theory and practice of conducting, score analysis, and rehearsal techniques. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7581 - Composition
This course focuses on particular compositional types, in this case choral composition. There are a series of graded exercises, graded compositions, and a major final project that is presented during the final exam period.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7582 - Composition
This course focuses on particular compositional types, in this case choral composition. There are a series of graded exercises, graded compositions, and a major final project that is presented during the final exam period.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7583 - Proseminar in Computer Music Composition
Proseminar in Computer Music Composition Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 7584 - Proseminar in Computer Music Composition
Proseminar in Computer Music Composition Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 8810 - Advanced Composition
Advanced Composition Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 8820 - Advanced Composition
Advanced Composition Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 8830 - Advanced Computer Music Composition
Advanced Computer Music Composition Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 8840 - Advanced Computer Music Composition
Advanced Computer Music Composition Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 8910 - Supervised Research
Reading and/or other work in particular fields under supervision of an instructor. Normally taken by first-year graduate students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 8920 - Supervised Research
Reading and/or other work in particular fields under supervision of an instructor. Normally taken by first-year graduate students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 8960 - Thesis
Thesis
Credits: 3
MUSI 8993 - Independent Study
Independent study dealing with a specific topic. Requirements will place primary emphasis on independent research. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
MUSI 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
MUSI 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
MUSI 9010 - Directed Readings
Intensive readings on particular topics, under the supervision of an instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 9020 - Directed Readings
Intensive readings on particular topics, under the supervision of an instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 9910 - Supervised Research
Reading and/or other work in particular fields under supervision of an instructor. Normally taken by second year graduate students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 9920 - Supervised Research
Reading and/or other work in particular fields under supervision of an instructor. Normally taken by second year graduate students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 9930 - Independent Research
Research carried out by graduate student in consultation with an instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 9940 - Independent Research
Research carried out by graduate student in consultation with an instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
MUSI 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
Preliminary research directed towards a dissertation in consultation with an instructor. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
MUSI 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Philosophy
PHIL 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
PHIL 5420 - Advanced Logic
Examines various results in metalogic, including completeness, compactness, and undecidability. Effective computability, theories of truth, and identity may also be covered. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: PHIL 2420 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
PHIL 5450 - Language and Logic
This course will examine, in light of classical readings and with the aid of the techniques of formal semantics and formal pragmatics, topics that have been given the most intense treatment: distinction between sense and reference, nature of meaning, relation between thought and language, etc.
Credits: 3
PHIL 5460 - Philosophy of Science
Logical analysis of the structure of theories, probability, causality, and testing of theories. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 5470 - Philosophy of Mathematics
Comparison of various schools in the philosophy of mathematics (including logicism, formalism, and conceptualism) and their answers to such questions as ‘Do numbers exist?’ and ‘How is mathematical knowledge possible?’ For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Some familiarity with quantifier logic or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHIL 5480 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Problems studied include explanation in the social sciences; the place of theory; objectivity; the relation between social science and natural science, philosophy, and literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Six credits of philosophy or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHIL 5510 - Seminar on an Ancient History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the political ideas and theories of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Credits: 3
PHIL 5520 - Seminar on a Medieval History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages.
Credits: 3
PHIL 5530 - Seminar on a Modern History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the most important philosophers of the Modern Age.
Credits: 3
PHIL 5550 - Seminar on a Philosophy of Bioethics Topic
A seminar on the ethical implications of biomedical research.
Credits: 3
PHIL 5560 - Seminar on a Political Philosophy Topic
A seminar on political theory and how the topics of rights and freedoms are incorporated.
Credits: 3
PHIL 5570 - Seminar on a Metaphysics Topic
A seminar on the nature of being and the world
Credits: 3
PHIL 5580 - Seminar on a Epistemology Topic
A seminar on the nature and scope of knowledge.
Credits: 3
PHIL 5590 - Seminar on a Logic Topic
A seminar on logic features and reasoning.
Credits: 3
PHIL 5760 - Global Justice, Health & Human Rights
This seminar attempts to expand the horizons of bioethics to include a set of important issues impacting global health. The focus is on current work in political phil bearing on the rationale and limits of political toleration; assistance to the ‘distant needy’; nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism; the objectives and measures of human development;and the proposed role of human rights as a transcultural lingua franca for international ethics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
PHIL 7110 - Plato
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7120 - Aristotle
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7330 - Metaphysics
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7341 - Mental Content
Examines a variety of issues concerning the nature of mental content, including one or more of the following. (1) The ontological status of mental content: Does mental content relate us to abstract objects? What are the prospects for naturalizing intentionality? (2) The relationship between intentional content and phenomenal character: Are these distinct features of mental states, or is one of these properties reducible to the other?
Credits: 3
PHIL 7450 - Topics in the Philosophy of Language
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7500 - First Year Seminar
Seminar for First Yr graduate students. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7501 - Tutorial Instruction
Tutorial instruction. The student will attend lectures and cover the subjects of an undergraduate course, but will do additional reading and/or written work to strengthen their understanding of that philosophical area.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7502 - Readings in Philosophy
With the permission of the instructor, a student may arrange to take an undergraduate course for graduate credit under this designation. The student will attend lectures and cover the subjects of the undergraduate course, but will do additional reading and/or written work; the student’s work in the course will be graded on a scale appropriate for graduate course work.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7510 - Seminar on an Ancient History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the political ideas and theories of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7520 - Seminar on a Medieval History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7530 - Seminar on a Modern History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the most important philosophers of the Modern Age.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7540 - Seminar on a Philosophy of Ethics Topic
A survey of ethical theory and moral status.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7550 - Seminar on a Philosophy of Bioethics Topic
A seminar on the ethical implications of biomedical research.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7560 - Seminar on a Political Philosophy Topic
A seminar on political theory and how the topics of rights and freedoms are incorporated.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7570 - Seminar on a Metaphysics Topic
A seminar on the nature of being and the world
Credits: 3
PHIL 7575 - Seminar on the Philosophy of Science Topic
A seminar on the various topics with in the Philosophy of Science.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7580 - Seminar on a Epistemology Topic
A seminar on the nature and scope of knowledge.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7590 - Seminar on a Logic Topic
A seminar on logic features and reasoning.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7631 - Rights
This seminar will examine the nature of and possible justifications for claims of right. Readings will be from both classical and contemporary sources. The works we read will be authored principally by philosophers, with a few pieces by political and legal theorists.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7632 - Rescue, Charity and Justice
This course examines arguments for and against moral and legal “positive” duties (to assist others). We consider possible duties to give emergency aid (rescue), to improve the condition of the needy (charity), and to impose more equitable distributions of goods within and between nations (justice).
Credits: 3
PHIL 7634 - The Duty to Obey the Law
This seminar will examine philosophical debates concerning the duty to obey the law (or political obligation) and the grounds for various kinds of legal disobedience. Readings will be from contemporary sources in political philosophy and legal theory.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7640 - Philosophy of History
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7710 - Ethics
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7720 - Contemporary Ethics
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7770 - Political Philosophy
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 7995 - Supervised Research
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 8161 - Hume and Kant on Ethics
In the seminar we will examine the moral theories of David Hume and Immanuel Kant, in that order. The main texts are Hume’s Treatise and Kant’s Groundwork, but considerable attention will be given as well to Hume’s second Enquiry and to Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason and Metaphysics of Morals.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8320 - Contemporary Epistemology
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8340 - Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Mind. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8360 - Experience
The course addresses recent literature on the following questions: (1) what is the ontological nature of experience? (sense-data theories vs. state theories vs. disjunctivism); (2) is the phenomenal character of experience exhausted by its representational content? (representationalism vs. qualia realism); (3) does experience contain any nonconceptual representational content? (4) are the intrinsic features of experience introspectible?
Credits: 3
PHIL 8370 - Possible Worlds
This seminar focuses on the metaphysics of possibility and necessity, along with other related topics. It’s central texts are Alvin Plantinga’s “The Nature of Necessity” and David Lewis’s “On the Plurality of Worlds”.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8420 - Advanced Logic and Foundations of Mathematics
Advanced Logic and Foundations of Mathematics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8460 - Philosophy of Science
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8510 - Seminar on an Ancient History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the political ideas and theories of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8520 - Seminar on a Medieval History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the most important philoosphers of the Middle Ages.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8530 - Seminar on a Modern History of Philosophy Topic
A survey of the most important philosophers of the Modern Age.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8540 - Seminar on a Philosophy of Ethics Topic
A survey of ethical theory and moral status.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8550 - Seminar on a Philosophy of Bioethics Topic
A seminar on the ethical implications of biomedical research.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8560 - Seminar on a Political Philosophy Topic
A seminar on political theory and how the topics of rights and freedoms are incorporated.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8570 - Seminar on a Metaphysics Topic
A seminar on the nature of being and the world
Credits: 3
PHIL 8580 - Seminar on a Epistemology Topic
A seminar on the nature and scope of knowledge.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8590 - Seminar on a Logic Topic
A seminar on logic features and reasoning.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8640 - Law and Morality
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8995 - Supervised Research
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
Credits: 3
PHIL 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
PHIL 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 9700 - Dissertation Seminar
This course is designed for graduate students in their third or fourth year. It focuses on dissertation writing and the various skills relevant to professional development.
Credits: 3
PHIL 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PHIL 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.
PPL 5993 - Independent Study in Public, Policy and Law
Independent study under faculty supervision, for students who are preparing for intensive research on a specific topic. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Physics
PHYS 5000 - Physics Colloquium
First and second year students enrolled in the Physics PhD program are required to take Physics Colloquium in their first and second years of study.
Credits: 2
PHYS 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
PHYS 5110 - Special Topics in Classical and Modern Physics
Lectures on topics of current interest in physics research and pedagogy. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1
PHYS 5160 - Introduction to String Theory
This course introduces a modern topic in theoretical high energy physics to an advanced undergraduate / beginner graduate student audience. Among the directions which are being explored are the physics of extra dimensions, and a unified treatment of gravity and electromagnetism in the context of string theory.
Prerequisite: Physics 3210 (Classical Mechanics), 3430 (Electricity & Magnetism II) and 3660 (Quantum Mechanics II), or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
PHYS 5190 - Electronics Lab
Practical electronics for scientists, from resistors to microprocessors. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 5240 - Introduction to the Theory of General Relativity
Reviews special relativity and coordinate transformations. Includes the principle of equivalence; effects of gravitation on other systems and fields; general tensor analysis in curved spaces and gravitational field equations; Mach’s principle, tests of gravitational theories; perihelion precession, red shift, bending of light, gyroscopic precession, radar echo delay; gravitational radiation; relativisitic stellar structure and cosmography; and cosmology. Prerequisite: Advanced calculus through partial differentiation and multiple integration; vector analysis in three dimensions.
Credits: 3
PHYS 5250 - Mathematical Methods of Physics I
Discusses matrices, complex analysis, Fourier series and transforms, ordinary differential equations, special functions of mathematical physics, partial differential equations, general vector spaces, integral equations and operator techniques, Green’s functions, group theory. Prerequisites: MATH 5210 and 5220 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 5310 - Optics
Includes reflection and refraction at interfaces, geometrical optics, interference phenomena, diffraction, Gaussian optics, and polarization. Prerequisite: PHYS 2320, 2415, 2610, or an equivalent college-level electromagnetism course; knowledge of vector calculus and previous exposure to Maxwell’s equations.
Credits: 3
PHYS 5320 - Fundamentals of Photonics
This course is designed to provide an understanding of the physics that underlies technologies such as lasers, optical time/frequency standards, laser gyros, and optical telecommunication. Covers the basic physics of lasers and laser beams, nonlinear optics, optical fibers, modulators and optical signal processing, detectors and measurements systems, and optical networks. Prerequisite: PHYS 5310 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 5420 - Statistical Mechanics II
Discusses thermodynamics and kinetic theory, and the development of the microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical ensembles. Includes Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions, techniques for handling interacting many-particle systems, and extensive applications to physical problems.
Prerequisite: PHYS 3310, PHYS 3650 and Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 5559 - New Course in Physics
New course in the subject of physics
PHYS 5620 - Solid State Physics
This course will study various phenomena in condensed matter physics, including crystallography, basic group theory, x-ray and neutron diffraction, lattice vibrations, electrons in a metal, electronic band theory, electrons under an external magnetic field, semiconductors, magnetism and superconductivity. Not only the topics but also the theoretical and experimental techniques that are covered in this course are essential for PhD students as well as advanced Undergraduate students in Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering to excel in their research career.
Prerequisite: PHYS 3650 (Quantum Mechanics I) or an equivalent course
Credits: 3
PHYS 5630 - Computational Physics I
A review of computational methods for differentiation, integration, interpolation, finding zeroes, extrema, etc. proceeding to a concentration on numerical solutions of differential equations, basic spectral analysis, numerical methods for matrices and Monte Carlo simulation applied to problems in classical and modern physics. Prerequisite: PHYS 2660; pre- or corequisite: PHYS 3210 and PHYS 3650, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 5640 - Computational Physics II
Advanced topics in computational physics including numerical methods for partial differential equations, Monte Carlo modeling, advanced methods for linear systems, and special topics in computational physics. Prerequisite: PHYS 5630, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 5720 - Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics
Studies subatomic structure; basic constituents and their mutual interactions.
Credits: 3
PHYS 5820 - Introduction to Nanophysics
An introduction to rapidly-evolving ideas in nanophysics. Covers the principles involved in the fabrication of nanosystems and in the measurement of phenomena on the nanoscale. Concepts necessary to appreciate applications in such areas as nano-electronics, nano-magnetism, nano-mechanics and nano-optics, are discussed. Prerequisite: One course each in undergraduate-level quantum mechanics and statistical physics or instructor permission; knowledge of introductory-level wave mechanics and statistical mechanics; applications of Schroedinger equation, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions.
Credits: 3
PHYS 5880 - Introduction to Quantum Computing
An introduction to quantum computation, a modern discipline looking for ways to harness the power of quantum mechanics to gain exponential speedup of computations and simulations. We will go through the basic algorithms, discuss error correction and various physical platforms suggested for a possible implementation of such a computer. The course assumes a knowledge of linear algebra, basic probability and familiarity with quantum mechanics.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6030 - Energy in the 21st Century
Learn how we produce, distribute, and consume energy including not only fossil fuels and nuclear, but also renewable energy like solar, wind, hydro, tidal, geothermal, biomass/biofuel, and fuel cells. Learn about the developments in science and technology that allow us to shape our future energy options. This is a course about Energy for K-12 teachers. No physics or math prerequisite courses are required.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6050 - How Things Work I
This course considers objects from our daily environment. Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6060 - How Things Work II
This course considers objects from our daily environment. Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6090 - Galileo and Einstein
This course examines how new understanding of the natural world developed from the time of Galileo to Einstein taking the two famous scientists as case studies. This may be a distance learning course intended for in-service science teachers with lectures, homework and exams conducted via the internet. Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6110 - Physical Science for Teachers
Laboratory-based course providing elementary and middle school teachers hands-on experience in the principles and applications of physical science. Not suitable for physics majors; no previous college physics courses are assumed. Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree and presently (or intending to be) a K-8 teacher.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6200 - Topical Physical Science
A series of one-credit science courses of interest to K-12 teachers, as well as the general public. These courses are offered anywhere in the state as needed through School of Continuing and Professional Studies regional centers. The courses are designed to meet Virginia’s SOLs and consist of lectures, demonstrations, and many hands-on science activities. Current course topics include Sound, Light & Optics, Aeronautics and Space, Electricity, Meteorology, Magnetism, Heat & Energy, Matter, and Force & Motion. May be taken more than once. Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree or instructor permission.
Credits: 1
PHYS 6205 - Physical Science for K-8 Teachers: Meteorology
The basis of meteorology will be investigated.Topics include temperature measurements, air flow, pressure, density, elements of the atmosphere, heat transfer and radiation, greenhouse effect, ozone layer, humidity, and atmospheric optics. Satellite and weather maps will be studied. Whenever possible, laboratory experiments will be done to demonstrate weather phenomena and concepts.
Credits: 1
PHYS 6251 - Light and Optics I
This course focuses on concepts in light and optics I covering topics such as light rays, images, shadows, reflection and refraction and is designed to be taken by inservice K-5 teachers . The material is introduced from a historical perspective The course is unique in that it requires students to complete and write-up 5 light and optics experiments. Prerequisites: undergraduate degree or permission from instructor.
Credits: 1
PHYS 6252 - Light and Optics II
This course focuses on concepts in optics and light II covering topics such as light rays, images, shadows, reflection, refraction, disperson, color, and lenses, and is designed to be taken by inservice grades 6-10 teachers . The material is introduced from a historical perspective The course is unique in that it requires students to complete and write-up 10 light and optics experiments at home. Prerequisites: undergraduate degree or permission from instructor.
Credits: 2
PHYS 6253 - Light and Optics III
This course focuses on concepts in light and optics III covering topics such as light rays, images, shadows, reflection, refraction, disperson, color, and lenses, interference, polarization, and diffraction and is designed to be taken by inservice grades 11-12 teachers. The material is introduced from a historical perspective The course is unique in that it requires students to complete and write-up 15 light and optics experiments at home. Prerequisites: undergraduate degree or permission from instructor.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6262 - Electricity and Magnetism II
This course focuses on concepts in electricity, magnetism, and energy covering topics such as static electricity, circuits, batteries, motors, generators, and thermal, chemical, solar, wind, and electromagnetic energy transfer activities. It is a hands-on activities course done online at home or summer workshop by science teachers of grades 3-12. A kit is purchased and supplemented by low cost materials.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 2
PHYS 6263 - Electricity and Magnetism
This course focusses on concepts in electricity and magnetism covering topics such as static electricity, charging by friction and induction, resistors, capacitors, DC circuits, Faraday and Lenz’s law activities. It is a hand-on activities course done at home by science teachers of grades 6-10. A kit composed of the electrical and magnetic materials is purchased and supplemented by low cost materials from home.
Prerequisite: Undergraduate Degree or Permission from Instructor
PHYS 6310 - Classical and Modern Physics I
A comprehensive study of physics using some calculus and emphasizing concepts, problem solving, and pedagogy. This course series is intended for in-service science teachers, particularly middle school physical science and high school physics teachers. This course can be used for crossover teachers who wish to obtain endorsement or certification to teach high school physics. This is a required course for the M.A.P.E. degree. This course is typically taught for 4 weeks in the summer with a daily two-hour lecture and two-hour problem session. Problem sets continue for three months into the next semester. Motion, Kinematics, Newton’s laws, energy and momentum conservation, gravitation, harmonic motion, waves, sound, heat, and fluids. . Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6320 - Classical and Modern Physics II
A comprehensive study of physics using some calculus and emphasizing concepts, problem solving, and pedagogy. This course series is intended for in-service science teachers, particularly middle school physical science and high school physics teachers. This course can be used for crossover teachers who wish to obtain endorsement or certification to teach high school physics. This is a required course for the M.A.P.E. degree. This course is typically taught for 4 weeks in the summer with a daily two-hour lecture and two-hour problem session. Problem sets continue for three months into the next semester. Coulomb’s law, Gauss’s law, electrostatics, electric fields, capacitance, inductance, circuits, magnetism, and electromagnetic waves. Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6330 - Classical and Modern Physics III
A comprehensive study of physics using some calculus and emphasizing concepts, problem solving, and pedagogy. This course series is intended for in-service science teachers, particularly middle school physical science and high school physics teachers. This course can be used for crossover teachers who wish to obtain endorsement or certification to teach high school physics. This is a required course for the M.A.P.E. degree. This course is typically taught for 4 weeks in the summer with a daily two-hour lecture and two-hour problem session. Problem sets continue for three months into the next semester. Geometric and physical optics, relativity, and modern physics. Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6350 - Curriculum Enhancement I
A laboratory sequence normally taken concurrently with PHYS 6310, 6320, 6330, respectively. It includes experiments with sensors that are integrated with graphing calculators and computers and other experiments using low cost apparatus. This course is typically held in the summer for four weeks and is extended into the next semester creating an activity plan. The laboratories utilize best teaching practices and hands-on experimentation in cooperative learning groups. Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6360 - Curriculum Enhancement II
A laboratory sequence normally taken concurrently with PHYS 6310, 6320, 6330, respectively. It includes experiments with sensors that are integrated with graphing calculators and computers and other experiments using low cost apparatus. This course is typically held in the summer for four weeks and is extended into the next semester creating an activity plan. The laboratories utilize best teaching practices and hands-on experimentation in cooperative learning groups. Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6410 - Physics Teaching Pedagogy
A course in the pedagogy of teaching secondary school physics. This may be a distance-learning course intended for in-service teachers desiring to teach secondary school physics. Prerequisite: PHYS 6310, 6320, 6330, 6350, and 6360, or instructor permission. Not suitable for physics majors.
Credits: 3
PHYS 6513 - Topics in Physical Science
Small classes studying special topics in physical science using cooperative teaching in a laboratory setting. Hands-on experiments and lecture demonstrations allow special problems to be posed and solved. May be taken more than once. Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree or instructor permission.
PHYS 6993 - Independent Study
A program of independent study for in-service science teachers carried out under the supervision of a faculty member culminating in a written report. A typical project may be the creation and development of several physics demonstrations for the classroom or a unit activity. The student may carry out some of this work at home, school, or a site other than the University. Prerequisite: Undergraduate degree and instructor permission.
PHYS 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
PHYS 7010 - Theoretical Mechanics I
The statics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies. Discusses the methods of generalized coordinates, the Langrangian, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, action-angle variables, and the relation to quantum theory. Prerequisite: PHYS 3210 and MATH 5220.
Credits: 3
PHYS 7210 - Statistical Mechanics
Discusses thermodynamics and kinetic theory, and the development of the microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical ensembles. Includes Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions, techniques for handling interacting many-particle systems, and extensive applications to physical problems.
Credits: 3
PHYS 7410 - Electricity and Magnetism I
A consistent mathematical account of the phenomena of electricity and magnetism; electrostatics and magnetostatics; macroscopic media; Maxwell theory; and wave propagation. Prerequisite: PHYS 7250 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 7420 - Electricity and Magnetism II
Development of the theory of special relativity, relativistic electrodynamics, radiation from moving charges, classical electron theory, and Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of electrodynamics. Prerequisite: PHYS 7420 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 7559 - New Advanced Topics Course in Physics
New course in the subject of Physics. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 3
PHYS 7610 - Quantum Theory I
Introduces the physical basis of quantum mechanics, the Schroedinger equation and the quantum mechanics of one-particle systems, and stationary state problem. Prerequisite: Twelve credits of 3000-level physics courses and MATH 5210, 5220, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 7620 - Quantum Theory II
Includes angular momentum theory, techniques of time-dependent perturbation theory, emission and absorption of radiation, systems of identical particles, second quantization, and Hartree-Fock equations. Prerequisite: PHYS 7610 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 7995 - Independent Study
Independent research or practical training supervised by a faculty member. May be repeated for credit.
PHYS 8220 - Fundamentals of Photonics
Studies nonlinear optical phenomena; the laser, sum, and difference frequency generation, optical parametric oscillation, and modulation techniques. Prerequisite: PHYS 5310 and exposure to quantum mechanics.
Credits: 3
PHYS 8320 - Statistical Mechanics II
Further topics in statistical mechanics. Prerequisite: PHYS 8310.
Credits: 3
PHYS 8420 - Atomic Physics
Studies the principles and techniques of atomic physics with application to selected topics, including laser and microwave spectroscopy, photoionization, autoionization, effects of external fields, and laser cooling. Prerequisite: PHYS 7620 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 8450 - Computational Physics II
Linear algebra and large sparse matrix methods applied to partial differential equations, with applications to 1+1 and 2+1 dimensional Schrodinger equations. The use of lattice gauge theory methods for introducing electromagnetic fields on a grid, and applications to the quantum theory of conductivity and the integer quantum Hall effect. Application of Monte Carlo simulation methods to statistical mechanical systems, quantum mechanics, and quantum field theory. Prerequisite: PHYS 5630 or instructor permission
Credits: 3
PHYS 8610 - Condensed Matter Theory I
The description and basic theory of the electronic properties of solids including band structure, electrical conduction, optical properties, magnetism and super-conductivity. Prerequisite: PHYS 7620 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 8630 - Introduction to Field Theory
Introduces the quantization of field theories, including those based on the Dirac and Klein-Gordon equations. Derives perturbation theory in terms of Feynman diagrams, and applies it to simple field theories with interactions. Introduces the concept of renormalization. Prerequisite: PHYS 7620.
Credits: 3
PHYS 8640 - Modern Field Theory
Applies field theory techniques to quantum electrodynamics and to the renormalization-group description of phase transitions. Introduces the path integral description of field theory. Prerequisite: PHYS 8630.
Credits: 3
PHYS 8710 - Nuclear Physics I
Discusses nuclear theory and experiment from the modern perspectives of the fundamental theory of the strong interaction: Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).
Credits: 3
PHYS 8750 - Elementary Particle Physics I
Introduction to the Standard Model of Electroweak and Strong Interactions, to be followed by physics beyond the Standard Model, including aspects of Grand Unification, Supersymmetry, and neutrino masses.
Credits: 3
PHYS 8880 - Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
Studies the quantum theory of light and other boson fields with a special emphasis on the nonclassical physics exemplified by squeezed and entangled quantum states. Applications to quantum communication, quantum computing, and ultraprecise measurements are discussed. Prerequisite: PHYS 7610 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 8999 - Master Thesis Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
PHYS 9010 - Introduction to Physics Research I
Workshops given by UVA Physics faculty describing their research. Restricted to Arts and Sciences graduate students in Physics only
Credits: 1
PHYS 9020 - Introduction to Physics Research II
Workshops given by UVA Physics faculty describing their research.
Credits: 1
PHYS 9030 - Teaching Science in Higher Education
This STEM teaching course will help graduate TAs integrate learning theory and effective student engagement practices into their teaching. GTAs 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
PHYS 9410 - Atomic and Molecular Seminar
Atomic and Molecular seminars given by invited speakers from outside and within UVA. Restricted to Arts and Sciences Physics graduate students only.
Credits: 3
PHYS 9420 - Atomic and Molecular Seminar
Studies the principles and techniques of atomic physics with application to selected topics, including laser and microwave spectroscopy, photoionization, autoionization, effects of external fields, and laser cooling. Prerequisite: PHYS 7620 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PHYS 9610 - Condensed Matter Seminar
Condensed Matter seminar given by invited speakers from outside and within UVA. Restricted to Arts and Sciences Physics graduate students only.
Credits: 3
PHYS 9620 - Condensed Matter Seminar
Condensed Matter seminar given by invited speakers from outside and within UVA. Restricted to Arts and Sciences Physics graduate students only
Credits: 3
PHYS 9710 - Nuclear Physics Seminar
Nuclear Physics seminar given by invited speakers from outside and within UVA. Restricted to Arts and Sciences Physics graduate students only.
Credits: 3
PHYS 9720 - Nuclear Physics Seminar
Nuclear Physics seminar given by invited speakers from outside and within UVA. Restricted to Arts and Sciences Physics graduate students only.
Credits: 3
PHYS 9810 - High Energy Physics Seminar
High Energy Physics seminars given by invited speakers from outside and within UVA. Restricted to Arts and Sciences Physics graduate students only.
Credits: 3
PHYS 9820 - High Energy Physics Seminar
High Energy Physics seminars given by invited speakers from outside and within UVA. Restricted to Arts and Sciences Physics graduate students only.
Credits: 3
PHYS 9998 - Pre-Qual Preparation for Doctoral Research
For students who have not passed the Qualifying exam for doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
PHYS 9999 - PhD Thesis Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Politics
DEM 7000 - Democracy Seminar: Democracy, War, Violence
The DI Seminar will provide a unique learning experience that combines interdisciplinary inquiry with diverse forms of scholarly engagement, opportunities to interact with distinguished guests, both academics and community leaders, from on and off-Grounds. The fall semester will be devoted to readings that explore critical, conceptual, and methodological problems on the seminar theme.
Credits: 3
DEM 7001 - Democracy Seminar: Democracy, War, Violence II
The DI Seminar will provide a unique learning experience that combines interdisciplinary inquiry with diverse forms of scholarly engagement, opportunities to interact with distinguished guests, both academics and community leaders, from on and off-Grounds. The fall semester will be devoted to readings that explore critical, conceptual, and methodological problems on the seminar theme.
Credits: 3
PLAD 5130 - Collective Action and Social Change
Collective Action and Social Change.
Credits: 3
PLAD 5993 - Independent Study
Readings and writings from various disciplines relating to Political Science.
Credits: 3
PLAD 7045 - Game Theory: Applications and Experiments
Game theory is the analytic study of strategic interactions among individuals, firms, governments, or other groups of people. This course demonstrates the usefulness of this powerful analytic approach, through numerous real-world and scholarly applications and through an examination of lab experiments built upon game theoretic modeling techniques. Cross-listed with PPOL 7045.
Credits: 3
PLAD 7090 - Research Methods and Design in Political Science
Studies the theoretical formulation of questions for political science research and examination of the design and execution of empirical research. Includes consideration of developing hypotheses for research, strategies for data collection (survey research, observational methods, content analysis), managing research projects, and ethical considerations related to the conduct of research.
Credits: 3
PLAD 7100 - Political Research with Quantitative Methods
Introduces probability and statistics as tools for quantitative political science analysis. Covers basic probability theory, descriptive statistics, and statistical inference with focus on the specification and interpretation of the regression model. Weekly homework assignments allow students to practice applying the concepts and methods from class. The course requires no prior experience with statistics.
Credits: 4
PLAD 7500 - Special Topics in Politics
Intensive analysis of selected issues and concepts that are relevant to all subfields of political science.
PLAD 7750 - Supervised Research I
Supervised Research I
Credits: 3
PLAD 8120 - Qualitative Methods
Examines strategies for establishing correlation and causation when a small number of cases precludes use of statistical methods. Procedures for employing case studies to develop and test theories. Surveys the major procedures for analyzing small numbers of cases and explores how different research designs can be used to produce valid conclusions.
Credits: 3
PLAD 8220 - Graduate Development Seminar
This course has three main objectives: to help you improve your written work; to teach you how to maximally benefit from discussing your written work with your colleagues, and to enable you to become a more incisive reader and helpful critic of your colleagues’ work.
Credits: 3
PLAD 8310 - Advanced Quantitative Applications in Political Science
Considers the use of selected techniques of behavioral research in the study of government and foreign affairs. Emphasizes the assumptions, procedures, and applications of the techniques rather than substantive findings. Prerequisite: PLAD 7090, 7100, or equivalents.
Credits: 3
PLAD 8320 - Advanced Topics in Multivariate Analysis
A survey and application of multivariate modeling techniques. Prerequisite: PLAD 7090, 7100, or equivalents.
Credits: 3
PLAD 8500 - Topics in Political Science
Investigates a selected issue in political science.
Credits: 3
PLAD 8750 - Supervised Research II
Supervised Research II
Credits: 3
PLAD 8900 - Departmental Pro-Seminar
For advanced graduate students who have completed core courses in the relevant departmental subfields. Allows students to read, criticize, and discuss with authors a variety of works-in-progress presented by visiting scholars, departmental faculty, and their peers.
Credits: 3
PLAP 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
PLAP 5430 - Intergovernmental Relations
Analyzes the contemporary relations of national, state, and local governments. Examines urban and metropolitan growth problems and their implications for public policy and administration in relation to the federal system. Prerequisite: Six credits of PLAP or fourth-year standing.
Credits: 3
PLAP 5460 - The Politics of the Budgetary Process
This course examines the politics and processes of federal budgeting, and the role the budget plays in national economic policy making. Topics covered include the historical development of the budget and fiscal policy; the creation of the executive budget; the politics of the budgetary process through appropriations, entitlements, and tax policy; and the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy. Crosslisted with PPOL 5460
Credits: 3
PLAP 5500 - Special Topics in American Politics
Investigates a selected issue in American government or American political development.
Credits: 3
PLAP 5526 - Special Topics in Public Policy or Public Administration
Intensive analysis of selected issues in public policy or public administration. Prerequisite: Any PLA course or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PLAP 5993 - Selected Problems in American Politics
Independent study under faculty supervision, for students who are preparing for intensive research on a specific topic. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
PLAP 6500 - Selected Topics in American Politics
Investigates a special problem of American Politics such as political corruption, religion and politics, science and politics, or the nature of justice
Credits: 3
PLAP 7000 - American Politics Core Seminar
This graduate core seminar is an introduction to the main topics in the study of American politics, including behavior, institutions, and American political development
Credits: 3
PLAP 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
PLAP 7010 - American Political Institutions
Provides a general introduction to the field of American political institutions. It is structured as a ‘survey’ course, providing both an overview of classic works and coverage of important new research in this subfield.
Credits: 3
PLAP 7110 - American Political Behavior
Introduces the fields of public opinion, mass media, political psychology, voting behavior, and other forms of political participation. Focuses primarily but not exclusively on research conducted in the United States.
Credits: 3
PLAP 7410 - Survey of State and Local Government
Readings and research on the institutions, processes, and interrelationships of state, local, and governmental units smaller than national in scope.
Credits: 3
PLAP 7440 - 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.
Credits: 3
PLAP 7500 - Special Topics in American Politics
Intensive analysis of selected issues and concepts in American politics.
Credits: 3
PLAP 7600 - Public Administration
General introduction to public administration at the graduate level, emphasizing the political and ecological influences upon it, the problems of internal organization and management, and the problems and methods of innovation and change.
Credits: 3
PLAP 7770 - Groups in the Political Processes
A critical survey of the roles of groups in the American political system.
Credits: 3
PLAP 8210 - The American Presidency
Readings and research on special problems of the American political and administrative system that come to a focus in the presidency or arise out of the manifold responsibilities of the president.
Credits: 3
PLAP 8220 - The Party System and the Conduct of Government
Readings and research, emphasizing the functions of parties in the conduct of government, and the evolution of the party system in response to changes in the broader economic, social, and political environment.
Credits: 3
PLAP 8250 - The American Congress
Studies the legislative process in the U.S. Congress. Topics include the internal distribution of power, influences on legislative behavior, congressional relationships with other political institutions, the place of Congress in the American polity, and the problems associated with it.
Credits: 3
PLAP 8410 - Development of the American Party System
Focuses on the development of the political party system in the United States, from the late 18th Century through the present day. Examines why political parties emerged in the U.S., both in Congress and at the mass level; why particular parties like the Federalists and Whigs collapsed; and how different “party systems” have developed historically.
Credits: 3
PLAP 8440 - Urban Politics
Studies patterns of power and influence in urban decision-making. Topics include social, economic, and other factors influencing urban political institutions; patterns of leadership and political behavior in central cities and suburbs; issues of the exploding metropolis, including urban renewal, finances, transportation, education, reform, and state and federal intervention; and methodological problems.
Credits: 3
PLAP 8500 - Special Topics in American Politics
Special Topics in American Politics
Credits: 3
PLAP 8583 - Topics in Public Law
Topics in Public Law
Credits: 3
PLAP 8610 - Seminar in Public Administration
Readings and research in public administration theory and practice and contemporary administrative problems.
Credits: 3
PLAP 8740 - Personnel Administration
Studies the theories and application of public personnel systems and administration.
Credits: 3
PLAP 8840 - Seminar in Civil Rights and Liberties
Explores the vexatious lines between the rights of individuals and those of the state in democratic society, focusing on such major issues as freedom of expression and worship; separation of church and state; criminal justice; the suffrage; privacy; and racial and gender discrimination. Focuses on the judicial process. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PLAP 8850 - American Constitutional Law and Theory Seminar
Examines the nature and parameters of the judicial function, focusing on law courts and jurists, with an emphasis on the political role of the Supreme Court of the United States. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PLAP 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
PLAP 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
PLAP 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
PLAP 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
PLCP 5310 - Politics of Latin America
Studies the constitutional, political, and administrative systems of the major countries of Latin America, the political implications of economic development and social reform, and nationalist theories of socio-political development. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or history of Latin America.
Credits: 3
PLCP 5330 - Political Parties and Movements in Latin America
Studies the origins, activities, and contemporary position of the major political parties and movements in Latin America and Spain, and their relationship to economic development, social reform, and the conduct of government in the principal Latin American states.
Credits: 3
PLCP 5350 - Democratic Theory and Democratization in Latin America
Investigates the various democratic theories and the democratization process in Latin America. Evaluates these theories and the democratization process in the contemporary global environment.
Credits: 3
PLCP 5360 - Role of the Military in Latin America
Studies the impact of the military on government and society, the conditions effecting military intervention against constitutional governments, and the circumstances in which military intervention occurs and is likely to occur in Latin America and Spain. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or history of Latin America.
Credits: 3
PLCP 5410 - Islam and Democracy in the Middle East
Studies the prospects for democratic transitions in Middle Eastern states, emphasizing the role of Islamic political movements. Prerequisite: PLCP 3410 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
PLCP 5500 - Special Topics
Special Topics in Comparative Politics
Credits: 3
PLCP 5550 - Causal Inference in Comparative Politics
Provides a framework for conducting causal inference in comparative research. Research methods considered include: laboratory experiments, field experiments, matching, instrumental variables, and difference-in-difference techniques. The role of formal model building as a guide to causal explanation in the social sciences is also emphasized. Prerequisite: once course in statistics at the level of PLAD 7100 or by permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
PLCP 5610 - Politics of China
Studies the structure and process of the Chinese political system, emphasizing political culture, socio-economic development, and political socialization. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or history of China.
Credits: 3
PLCP 5993 - Selected Problems in Comparative Politics
Independent study, under faculty supervision, for intensive research on a specific topic. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
PLCP 6735 - Politics and Policymaking in European Union
This graduate course offers an introduction to the history, institutions and politics of the European Union, with an emphasis on policymaking in the EU today. First, the class will review the process of European integration and enlargement since the Treaty of Paris in 1951, including a review of the major theories of European integration. Second, the structure and function of the EU institutions will be introduced.
Prerequisites: Graduate Student
Credits: 3
PLCP 7000 - Comparative Politics Core Seminar
Comparative Politics Core Seminar
Credits: 3
PLCP 7070 - Identity and the State
What are identity politics, where do identity claims come from, and what is the relationship between identity and the state? To answer these questions this course investigates how identity categories are constructed and politicized, and then analyzes their relationship to social policy. Case studies include India, South Africa, Brazil, and the United States.
Credits: 3
PLCP 7500 - Special Topics in Comparative Politics
Special Topics in Comparative Politics
Credits: 3
PLCP 7559 - New Course in Comparative Politics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Comparative Politics.
PLCP 8060 - Formation of the Modern State in Europe
Intensive analysis of classic and contemporary statements, both theoretical and historical, of the rise of the modern state in Europe, from medieval period to French Revolution. Emphasis on role of economic transformation and war on political change.
Credits: 3
PLCP 8061 - Post-Colonial Political Development
Examination of major theoretical statements of causes of state-building in the post-colonial world, 1800 - 2000. Case material from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Credits: 3
PLCP 8140 - Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship
Analyzes the major theories explaining transitions to democratic regimes and their consolidation or reversion to authoritarian regimes. Case material is drawn from the 19th and 20th centuries from all regions of the world.
Credits: 3
PLCP 8200 - Comparative Institutions
Examines political institutions in democratic and authoritarian regimes. Topics include approaches to studying institutions, the state, federalism, electoral systems, executives, legislative decision-making, delegation to bureaucracies, and judicial institutions. The course also assesses efforts to integrate formal and statistical analysis. Prequisite: a graduate course in PLCP, research methods or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
PLCP 8500 - Special Topics in Comparative Politics
Special Topics in Comparative Politics
Credits: 3
PLCP 8521 - Topics in the Government and Politics of U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe
Topics in the Government and Politics of U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe
Credits: 3
PLCP 8531 - Topics in the Government and Politics of Latin America
Topics in the Government and Politics of Latin America
Credits: 3
PLCP 8542 - Topics in the Government and Politics of the Middle East
Topics in the Government and Politics of the Middle East
Credits: 3
PLCP 8551 - Topics in the Government and Politics of China
Topics in the Government and Politics of China
Credits: 3
PLCP 8561 - Topics in the Government and Politics of South Asia
Studies the development of political and administrative institutions and practices in modern India.
Credits: 3
PLCP 8880 - Rational Choice and Democracy
Provides a graduate-level survey of the contributions of rational choice analysis and game-theoretic modeling to topics of central concern in the subfield of comparative politics.
Credits: 3
PLCP 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
PLCP 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
PLCP 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
PLCP 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
PLIR 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
PLIR 5250 - Negotiating Arab - Israeli Peace
Provides a detailed assessment of efforts to acheive a negotiated peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Focus will be on negotiation theory, conflict resolution, and diplomacy. Cases cover major episodes between 1973 and today. Includes a simulation of a negotiation of current issues in the conflict. Instructor Permission Required.
Credits: 3
PLIR 5390 - Economics, Retional Choice, and International Security
Economics, Retional Choice, and International Security.
Credits: 3
PLIR 5500 - Special Topics
Special Topics
Credits: 3
PLIR 5620 - Latin America in World Affairs
The relations of Latin-American states with each other, the United States, Western Europe, and other states; inter-American security; Latin American relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba; and the United States security doctrine. Prerequisite: Some background in international relations and/or the history of Latin America.
Credits: 3
PLIR 5630 - International Relations Theory, Globalization, and the American States
An investigation of various international relations theories, the global economy, and the development and policies of the American States, with an emphasis on issues related to drug trafficking.
Credits: 3
PLIR 5710 - China in World Affairs
Includes international relations of China; conditioning historical, political, economic, and social forces; and the aims, strategy, and tactics of China’s foreign policy. Prerequisite: Some background in international relations and/or the history of China.
Credits: 3
PLIR 5810 - Asymmetry and International Relations
A seminar exploring a new approach to international relations focused on relationships between countries with disparate capacities. Students will participate actively in developing and applying the new approach and contrasting it with other theories of international relations.
Credits: 3
PLIR 5993 - Selected Problems in International Relations
Independent study, under faculty supervision, for intensive research on a specific topic. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
PLIR 7000 - Core Seminar in International Relations
Provides an overview of the main schools, theorists, and problems in the study of international relations and foreign policy. It is the core seminar for the international relations sub-field and thus aims to represents its contemporary character.
Credits: 3
PLIR 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
Credits: 1
PLIR 7060 - The Development of Classical Strategic Thought
Studies the evolution of military strategy before the nuclear age. Examines the writings of major classical theorists, including Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Vegetius, Machiavelli, Frederick the Great, Clausewitz, Jomini, Mahan, Douhet, Mackinder, Mao Tse-Tung, and Liddell Hart. This course is the first half of a two-part series, the second half of which will examine the development of strategy in the nuclear age.
Credits: 3
PLIR 7080 - Military Force in International Relations
Examines the threat and use of military force in international relations. Surveys the conceptual and theoretical literature on the subject; evaluates leading theories in light of historical experience; and explores a variety of factors that have traditionally conditioned the use of force, including ethical considerations, international law and organizations, the policy-making process, and public opinion.
Credits: 3
PLIR 7380 - International Political Economy of Trade and Investment
Examines political economy foundations of international trade and foreign direct investment. Analyzes political patterns in economic flows; sources of national policies; and international cooperation.
Credits: 3
PLIR 7390 - International Political Economy of Finance and Migration
International Political Economy of Finance and Migration
Credits: 3
PLIR 7500 - Special Topics in International Relations
Special Topics in International Relations
Credits: 3
PLIR 7760 - Russian/Soviet Foreign Policy
Thematic analysis of Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian foreign policy. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PLIR 8010 - International Order
This course examines the sources and evolution of international order in its theoretical, historical, and contemporary forms.
Credits: 3
PLIR 8080 - Problems of Force in International Relations
Study of selected topics related to war, security arrangements, and the political functions of military capabilities in the international system.
Credits: 3
PLIR 8310 - Global Health and Human Rights
Examines global health problems through the lens of human rights norms. Can the human rights movement motivate new approaches to disease prevention and the social determinants of health? The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa will be treated in depth.
Credits: 3
PLIR 8500 - Special Topics in International Relations
Special Topics in International Relations
Credits: 3
PLIR 8511 - Topics in International Law and Organizations
Research seminar on selected issues having both legal and organizational aspects.
Credits: 3
PLIR 8538 - Topics in International Political Economy
An intensive examination of selected topics covering international political economy. Prerequisite: at least three additional credits of international economics, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
PLIR 8630 - Statecraft an d International Security
Reviews recent literature about diplomacy and coercion in international politics, with emphasis on empirical research strategies rather than immediate policy problems. Topics include deterrence and compellence, economic sanctions, military effectiveness, nuclear proliferation, peacekeeping, and terrorism.
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Psychology
PSYC 9942 - Readings in Psychology: Causation in Law
Independent study.
PSYC 9980 - Practicum in Case Consultation
Supervision in case assessment, evaluation, and intervention. Emphasizes issues involved in case management; types of issues and decisions that may affect the outcome of intervention; pragmatic issues in dealing with people referred as clients; consultation procedures with referral agencies; and liaisons with community agencies. Student performance is evaluated on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
PSYC 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
PSYC 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
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Religious Studies
JWST 5100 - Theology and Ethics of the Rabbis
This course explores theological and ethical themes in classical rabbinic literature (c. 200-600 CE). Focus is on gaining fluency in textual and conceptual analysis. Questions examined include: How is the relationship between God, humans generally and the people Israel specifically, imagined? What is evil and how is it best managed? What is the nature of one’s obligation to fellow human beings? How does one cultivate an ideal self?
Credits: 3
JWST 5291 - The Book of Genesis and Its Interpretation
A seminar on the book of Genesis (with attention to its literary artistry, compositional history, and theological issues) and its subsequent interpretation.
Credits: 3
JWST 5292 - The Book of Job & Its Interpretation
A seminar on the biblical book of Job (with attention to its literary artistry and compositional history) and its subsequent interpretation.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
JWST 5385 - The Song of Songs
A seminar on the biblical Song of Songs (with attention to its literary artistry and compositional history) and its subsequent interpretation.
Credits: 3
JWST 5559 - New Course in Jewish Studies
This interdisciplinary course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in Jewish Studies at the graduate level.
Credits: 3
JWST 8500 - Topics for Supervised Study and Research
This topical course provides Master’s and Doctoral students an opportunity for advanced coursework in selected, established areas of the Jewish Studies curriculum.
RELA 5085 - Evangelism in Contemporary Africa
An examination of Christian missions in Africa in the 21st Century. Through a variety of theoretical lenses and methodological 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
RELA 5559 - New Course in African Relgions
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of African Religions
Credits: 3
RELA 5620 - Ritual & Remembrance
By reading ethnographic accounts of ritual performances in West Africa and its Atlantic diaspora, the seminar considers theories of ritual, discursive and non-discursive forms of remembrance, and the production, malleability and politics of memory amidst the particular challenges that the histories of slavery, colonialism, and collective trauma pose to the development of collective identities in the Afro-Atlantic World.
Credits: 3
RELA 7410 - Yoruba Religion
The study Yoruba traditional religion, ritual art, independent churches, and religious themes in contemporary literature in both Africa and the Americas.
Prerequisite: RELA 4100 Yoruba Religion
Credits: 3
RELA 7559 - New Course in African Religions
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of African Religions.
Credits: 3
RELA 8559 - New Course in African Religions
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of African Religions.
Credits: 3
RELB 5011 - Readings in Chinese Buddhist Texts I, II
Instruction in the reading and interpretation of Chinese Buddhist texts and the use of reference tools such as Chinese language dictionaries, bibliographies, encyclopedias, and indices.
Credits: 3
RELB 5012 - Readings in Chinese Buddhist Texts I, II
Instruction in the reading and interpretation of Chinese Buddhist texts and the use of reference tools such as Chinese language dictionaries, bibliographies, encyclopedias, and indices.
Credits: 3
RELB 5055 - Buddhist Philosophy
Study of the Pali and Sanskritic Buddhist philosophical traditions.
Credits: 3
RELB 5170 - The Dalai Lamas of Tibet
A seminar on the history, mythology, and Buddhist doctrinal basis of the Dalai Lamas, the most important religious and political leaders of traditional Tibet. Prerequisite: one course on Buddhism or Tibet
Credits: 3
RELB 5250 - Seminar in Japanese Buddhism
Examines selected topics in the major schools of Japanese Buddhism, Tendai, Shingon, Pure Land, Nichiren, and Zen. Prerequisite: RELB 2130 or 3160, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
RELB 5390 - Tibetan Buddhist Tantra Dzokchen
Examines the Dzokchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhist Tantra focusing on its philosophical and contemplative systems and its historical and social contexts.
Credits: 3
RELB 5430 - Sanskrit Religious Texts
Readings in Sanskrit religious and philosophical texts, their syntax, grammar, and translation. Prerequisite: SANS 5010, 5020, or equivalent and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
RELB 5435 - Formations of Buddhist Modernity
This class explores the issue of modernities as they take shape in relation to Buddhist cultures. As part of this, the class will also explore notions of the secular, as secular ideas often coincide with forms of modernity. Such explorations will require sustained side-glances at developments in Western countries and in some non-Buddhist contexts (particularly Hindu South Asia).
Credits: 3
RELB 5440 - Sanskrit Religious Texts
Readings in Sanskrit religious and philosophical texts, their syntax, grammar, and translation. Prerequisite: SANS 5010, 5020, or equivalent and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
RELB 5460 - Seminar in Mahayana Buddhism
Studies the Middle Way School of Madhyamika, including Nagarjuna’s reasoning and its intent and place in the spiritual path.
Credits: 3
RELB 5470 - Literary Tibetan V
Advanced study in the philosophical and spiritual language of Tibet, past and present. Prerequisite: RELB 5000, 5010, 5350, 5360, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
RELB 5480 - Literary Tibetan VI
Advanced study in the philosophical and spiritual language of Tibet, past and present. Prerequisite: RELB 5000, 5010, 5350, 5360, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
RELB 5490 - Religious History of Tibet
Surveys political, social, religious, and intellectual issues in Tibetan history from the fifth to fifteenth centuries, emphasizing the formation of the classical categories, practices, and ideals of Tibetan Buddhism.
Credits: 3
RELB 5520 - Seminar in Daoism
Topics on the history, scripture, thought, and practice of religious Daoism, with an emphasis on the formative period (2nd-10th c.).
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
RELB 5559 - New Course in Buddhism
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Buddhism.
RELB 5600 - Elementary Pali
Studies Pali religious and philosophical works, including grammar and translation. Prerequisite: SANS 5010, 5020, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
RELB 5610 - Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
Studies Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit works and their grammar and translation. Prerequisite: SANS 5010, 5020 or equivalent.
RELB 5660 - Seminar on Indian Buddhism
Investigates the techniques and presuppositions involved in the methods used to study Buddhism, including textual, historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods.
Credits: 3
RELB 5715 - Seminar on Chinese Religion and Society
Studies Chinese religion and society within the context of a specific period of Chinese history, or in terms of a specific theme. Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and popular religion will be covered (along with other forms of religion, as appropriate).
Credits: 3
RELB 5800 - Literary Tibetan VII
Examines the Yogachara-Svatantrika system as presented in Jang-kya’s Presentation of Tenets, oral debate, and exercises in spoken Tibetan. Prerequisite: RELB 5000, 5010, 5350, 5360, 5470, 5480 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
RELB 5810 - Literary Tibetan VIII
Examines the Yogachara-Svatantrika system as presented in Jang-kya’s Presentation of Tenets, oral debate, and exercises in spoken Tibetan. Prerequisite: RELB 5000, 5010, 5350, 5360, 5470, 5480 or equivalent
Credits: 3
RELB 5991 - Seminar in Chinese Buddhism
Examines the major schools of Chinese Buddhism: T’ien-t’ai, Hua-yen, Pure Land, and Ch’an.
Credits: 3
RELB 7559 - New Course in Buddhism
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Buddhism.
RELB 8200 - Literary Tibetan VII
Literary Tibetan VII
Credits: 4
RELB 8210 - Literary Tibetan VIII
Literary Tibetan VIII
Credits: 4
RELB 8230 - Advanced Literary and Spoken Tibetan
Readings in various genres, including philosophy, poetry, ritual, narrative, and so forth.
Credits: 3
RELB 8310 - Advanced Sanskrit/Pali I
Advanced readings in poetry, psychology, or philosophy.
RELB 8559 - New Course in Buddhism
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Buddhism.
RELB 8706 - The Buddhist Canon in Tibet: Structure, Scope, and Research
This tutorial introduces the structure, scope, and contents of the Tibetan-language Buddhist canonical collections. We will read and discuss selections in both English and Tibetan from the 5000 works in the Scripture (Bka’ ‘gyur) and Treatise (Bstan ‘gyur) collections, as well as reference aids and current research on the canons. The course goal is to develop a firm basis for all research involving Tibetan-language canonical literature.
Credits: 3
RELB 8718 - Tutorial in Thalgyur Tantra and Commentary
This course is exploring one of the most important scriptures in the history of esoteric Buddhism, the Thalgyur, and its extensive commentary attributed to Vimalamitra. The two texts are over a thousand pages in length, only existent in Tibetan, and extremely difficult to understand. This course explores the texts through detailed philological and interpretative analysis.
Credits: 3
RELB 8721 - Tutorial in Sanskrit: Buddhist Tantra
This tutorial constitutes a reading course in Sanskrit, the classical language of India. Students will read the original texts and translate them into English, analyzing and interpreting the materials in light of the Indian tradition of commentary and exegesis and in light of contemporary scholarly and other analyses of the relevant subject matter: Buddhist esoteric literature, a.k.a. Buddhist Tantra.
Credits: 3
RELC 5009 - Bonhoeffer, Niebuhr and King: Resistance and Reconciliation
The course has four goals: (1) to understand the theologies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Martin Luther King Jr.; (2) to explore the themes of resistance and reconciliation in their writings and actions; (3) to examine their ambivalent relationships with academic theology; and (4) to consider the promise of lived theology for contemporary religious thought.
Credits: 3
RELC 5043 - Prospects in Eastern Orthodox Theology
A study of important theological writings from the past fifty years by Orthodox theologians on such topics as the dovtrine of God, Christology, liturgy, theological aesthetics, and ethics.This will include major works of Vladmimir Lossky, Seerius Bulgakoc John Zizioulas, and Alexander Schmeman, as well as more recent writers such as Kallistos Ware, Phillip Sherrard, ChrsitosYannaras, David Hart, Elizabeth Behr-Sigel and Olivier Clement.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,WRITTEN
RELC 5048 - Philo of Alexandria and Hellenistic Judaism
An indepth inquiry into the writings and thought of Philo of Alexandria (ca. 20 BCE-50 CE)
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
RELC 5052 - Seminar in American Catholic History
Examines a selected movement, issue, or figure in the history of Catholicism in America. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
RELC 5077 - Pius XII, Hitler the US and WW II
For the past forty years the role of Pius XII and the Vatican during World War II has been controversial. This seminar will look at that controversy and place it in the context of newly available archival material. The students will read several books on both sides of the question and then present their own research papers, the topics of which will be chosen in consultation with the professor.
Credits: 3
RELC 5090 - African-Americans and the Bible
In this course, we will look at the ways African American scholars, clergy, laity, men, women, the free, and the enslaved, have read, interpreted, preached, and taught scripture. In examining these uses, we will also seek to sketch out a broader theology, history, and sociology of black people as they used the tool at hand, the Bible, to argue for their own humanity, create their own cultures, and establish their own societies.
Credits: 3
RELC 5130 - Being and God
A constructive treatment of questions related to the possibility of the experience of being and God or of the being of God.
Credits: 3
RELC 5135 - America’s Bibles: Narrative Construction of Relig
This course asks why and to what ends have Americans produced so many versions of the Bible, as well as several new scriptures, such as the Book of Mormon? We will be analyzing the uses of the Bible both as a sacred text for some and an unavoidable cultural object others. Questions of historicity and myth, reason and revelation will run throughout the course. Specific texts will raise issues of race, gender, nationalism, & millennialism.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,WRITTEN
RELC 5155 - Ecology, Christianity, and Culture
This seminar examines ancient through modern sources of an ecological vision within Christianity, including patristic and medieval writers, liturgy, hymnody and poetry, and contemporary writings on ecology and environmental ethics. The aim is to reach deeper than policy discussions; to canvas the theological and cultural resources that the Christian faith has furnished for adherence to and practice of a serious ecological ethos.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
RELC 5158 - History of Christian Ethics
This course is designed to provide a solid understanding of the historical roots, from the New Testament period to the Reformation, of Christian ethics, experience in working with historical source materials, and familiarity with some important interpreters of this history. In seminar discussions, we will primarily explore primary materials, but also consider the work of interpreters such as Ernst Troeltsch and Peter Brown.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
RELC 5230 - Pentecostalism
Examines the history, theology, and practices of Pentecostalism, the fastest growing Christian movement in the world, from its origins among poor whites and recently freed African Americans to its phenomenal expansion in places like South America, Asia, and Africa.
Credits: 3
RELC 5310 - Religions of the Roman Empire
An investigation of the diverse religious landscape of the Greco-Roman world from the end of the Roman Republic through the rise of Christianity. We will consider a variety of religious practice and expression, including the Roman public cult, Dionysiac/Orphic cult, Isis cult, Mithras cult, Greco-Roman Magic, Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity.
Credits: 3
RELC 5385 - The Song of Songs
A seminar on the biblical Song of Songs (with attention to its literary artistry and compositional history) and its subsequent interpretation.
Credits: 3
RELC 5445 - The Atonement in Christian Thought
This course engages landmark Christian statements about atonement. For about two-thirds of the semester, we read classic texts by Anselm of Canterbury, Julian of Norwich, Martin Luther, G. W. F. Hegel, and others. In the remaining third of the course we consider contemporary statements, with an especial focus on liberationist perspectives that examine the possible connections between Christian doctrines, violence, and discrimination.
Prerequisite: The course is open to graduate students in Religious Studies and undergraduates who have taken at least three academic classes on Christian thought at the university/college level.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
RELC 5551 - Seminar in Early Christian Thought
Intensive consideration of a selected issue, movement or figure in Christian thought of the second through fifth centuries. Prerequisite: RELC 2050 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
RELC 5559 - New Course in Christianity
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of Christianity
RELC 5665 - Freedom: Theological & Philosophical Perspectives
This seminar examines perspectives on freedom in landmark texts of Christian theology, western philosophy, and recent critical theory. It engages diverse accounts of (a) the relationship of divine and human action; (b) the nature of sin and grace; and (c) gender, sex, race, and class as they bear on human subjection and/or liberation.
Credits: 3
RELC 5676 - Human Image, Divine Image
This is a study of major figures of the Patristic and medieval Christianity as well as several modern or contemporary theologians who have reflected on the Imago Dei and the humanity of God with respect to Christology and Christian anthropology and inclusive of Christian dogmatics, hymnody, poetry, and sacramentology.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
RELC 5685 - Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity
This seminar traces the making of Christian ‘orthodoxy’ in Late Antiquity. Our focus will be debates concerning the doctrines of God and Christ, which we will place in their historical, philosophical and exegetical contexts. Our study is informed by the move in modern scholarship towards anti-essentialist notions of orthodoxy and heresy, and so we will be attentive to the myriad ways in which early Christians sought to authorize their own views.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
RELC 5700 - Patristic Greek
Readings of Greek fathers such as John Chrysoston and Gregory of Nazianzus, with emphasis on grammar, syntax and rhetoric. An intermediate to advanced level course.
Credits: 3
RELC 5730 - Theological Interpretations of Culture
Theological assessments of culture, considered as the human-made environment comprising: language and patterns of living; structures of belief, norms, and practices; and forms of work, thought, and expression. Topics include cultures as contexts for identity, secular experience and secularization, critiques of religion as an aspect of culture, cultural conflict and religious plurality, and theological interpretations of culture and nature.
Credits: 3
RELC 5795 - The Icon in Orthodox Christianity
Course explores the history and theology of the icon. How is the icon itself a form of theology, and how does it function in liturgy and worship? Iconography understood as interpretation of Scripture and dogmatic teaching. Study of the theological aesthetics of the icon and of the images themselves, both traditional icons of the Byzantine and Russian type and gospel illuminations of the Armenian, Ethiopic and Coptic traditions.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
RELC 5830 - Love and Justice in Christian Ethics
Examines various conceptions of love and justice in selected Protestant and Catholic literature mainly from the last fifty years.
Credits: 3
RELC 5910 - Religion, Race and Politics in American Society
This course will examine the role of religion and race in politics in the US with an emphasis on elections from the 1960s to the present.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
RELC 5976 - The Theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher
An in-depth analysis of the major writings of Friedrich Schleiermacher, one of the most important European theologians of the nineteenth century. Texts studied include *On Religion*, *Hermeneutics*, *Brief Outline*, and *The Christian Faith*
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
RELC 5980 - The Theology of Karl Barth
A semester-long engagement with the writings of the most important Protestant theologian in the twentieth century. While we will read some of Barth’s earlier work, our main focus will be the *Church Dogmatics*.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
RELC 7245 - Religious Liberty in Historical and Legal Perspective
An analysis of America’s church-state conflicts and enduring questions that have tested and contributed to its evolving understanding of First Amendment guarantees of church disestablishment and freedom of conscience.
Credits: 3
RELC 7515 - Themes and Topics in Christian Thought
An advanced graduate class, run tutorial-style, which will acquaint graduate students with core texts, themes, and thinkers in Christian thought.
Credits: 3
RELC 7559 - New Course Christianity
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Christianity.
Credits: 3
RELC 8315 - Trinity
This seminar develops a systematic theology of the doctrine of the Trinity.
Credits: 3
RELC 8410 - Seminar on American Religious Thought I: Edwards to Emerson
A historical and theological examination of seminal figures in the development of American religious thought from the Enlightenment through the ‘American Renaissance.’ Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
RELC 8420 - Seminar on American Religious Thought II: Liberalism Through Neo-Orthodoxy
A historical and theological examination of the work of major religious thinkers in American from 1860 to 1960.
Credits: 3
RELC 8559 - New Course in Christianity
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Christianity.
Credits: 3
RELC 8590 - Topics in New Testament Studies
Selected issues in the theory and methods of New Testament criticism.
Credits: 3
RELC 8701 - Tutorial in Christian Apocrypha
In this tutorial, students will work with manuscripts to produce an edition of a Greek text, an English translation of that edition, and a short commentary on the text. Students will also assemble an annotated bibliography.
Credits: 3
RELC 8705 - Tutorial in Translating Biblical Poetry
An advanced tutorial in translating biblical poetry, with several interrelated goals: developing skills in advanced biblical grammar; furthering capacities for biblical interpretation; exploring the dynamics of biblical poetry; understanding how ancient poetry and biblical books formed, developed, and were redacted; evaluating secondary literature as a prelude to developing sound arguments and coherent elegant translations.
Credits: 3
RELC 8712 - Tutorial in Christian Ethics
A tutorial covering major themes and texts in Christian moral thought from antiquity to present.
Credits: 3
RELC 8920 - Seminar in Early Christianity
Studies selected topics in early Christian history and thought. Topic varies annually.
Credits: 3
RELG 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
RELG 5030 - Readings in Chinese Religion
Examines selected readings from a specific text, figure, or theme. Readings emphasize possible structures of religious language and their translation.
Credits: 3
RELG 5070 - Interpretation Theory
Analyzes existentialist, phenomenological, structuralist, literary, historical, and psychological approaches to the interpretation of texts, especially narrative religious texts; and the interactions of language, history, and understanding.
Credits: 3
RELG 5088 - Dostoevsky and Eliot: Notes from the Wasteland
The title of this course is not just a play on words. It suggests the common mind of both authors concerning the character of the modern world. Each has given us an acute and haunting diagnosis of modernity. Each has explored the failures of faith and love among the inhabitants of modernity. Yet each also has rendered a compelling vision of a reintegrated world of community, communion, and salvation..
Credits: 3
RELG 5170 - Seminar in History of Religions
Introduces the basic thinkers in the field of history of religions and to fundamental problems in the study of religious sociology, mythology, and ritual.
Credits: 3
RELG 5240 - Problems in Philosophy of Religion
Examines classic and contemporary discussions of problems in the philosophy of religion.
Credits: 3
RELG 5320 - Research Seminar in Religion, Conflict, and Peace
Advanced research on religion, politics and conflict for students of “religion-on-religion” conflict/conflict resolution. Research methods drawn from religious studies, politics, anthropology and linguistics, history, sociology, nursing, philosophy, systems analysis and data science. Topics recommended by current work in the Global Covenant of Religions, the UVA Initiative on Religion in Conflict, and other professional work in the field.
Credits: 3
RELG 5321 - Proseminar in Religion, Politics & Conflict
The Proseminar for MA students in Religion, Politics & Conflict meets monthly each semester to discuss student research, to integrate methods and themes in the field, to facilitate professional development, and to deepen relationships with colleagues.
Credits: 1
RELG 5375 - Aesthetics and Ethics
What is the relationship between ethics and aesthetics? Specifically, how might theological and philosophical aesthetics inform approaches to religious engagement in plural socio-political contexts? This graduate seminar explores contemporary aesthetic theory, especially in relation to conceptions of justice and emotion.
Credits: 3
RELG 5395 - Religion and the Common Good
How is a religiously pluralistic society to pursue a societal common good? This graduate seminar explores responses to this question within religious ethics at local, national, and global levels. Readings will address major contributions to this topic within political philosophy before pivoting to responses in religious and theological ethics, including broadly Augustinian, Thomistic, and critical theological approaches.
Credits: 3
RELG 5455 - Recent Feminist Thought
In this course we shall explore in depth works published in the last decade or two that demonstrate, to varying degrees, feminist thought as increasingly integral to on-going conversations and controversies in ethics, both social/political and theological, and at the same time instrumental in taking those discussions in new and important directions. The emphasis in the course is on careful reading and explication, and on recognition and critique
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
RELG 5485 - History of American Religion and Social Reform
American Religion and Social Reform examines the history of the interplay between theology, morality, and politics in American history. Topics covered include temperance and prohibition, labor, civil rights, the peace movement, and environmentalism. Weekly reading, class presentation, and original research will be important components of the class. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
Credits: 3
RELG 5541 - Seminar in Social and Political Thought
An examination of the social and political thought of selected religious thinkers.
Credits: 3
RELG 5559 - New Course in Religion
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of general religion.
RELG 5630 - Seminar: Issues in the Study of Religion and Literature
Analyzes, in terms of fundamental theory, the purposes, problems, and possibilities of interdisciplinary work in religion and literary criticism.
Credits: 3
RELG 5775 - Religion on Fire: Religion, Politics, Conflict
The course examines “religion” as an element of socio-political activity in major conflicts in the past two decades: examining the global phenomenon of irremediable, religion-related violent conflict, recent efforts to diagnose religion-specific sources of both violence and peacebuilding, and prospects for cooperative peacebuilding efforts among governmental, civil society, and religious agencies.
Credits: 3
RELG 5780 - Wallace Stevens and the Absolute
A close reading of Wallace Steven’s major poems and an evaluation of their theological significance. Prerequisite: Graduate seminar plus advanced undergraduates in approved.
Credits: 3
RELG 5801 - Crafting a Research Project in Religious Studies
This course offers MA students in Religious Studies resources for conceiving and executing a major research project or thesis. By the end of the semester, each participant will have completed a well-organized, detailed prospectus. The prospectus will reflect the guidance of one’s thesis advisor as well as the scrutiny of the instructor and input from peers. Each student will thus be poised to begin writing his/her thesis the following semester.
Credits: 3
RELG 5820 - Introduction to World Religions, World Literatures
An interdisciplinary course that includes the following elements: studies in the textual traditions of particular religions; studies in literary theory; studies in literary traditions; the application of literary theory to studies in religious text traditions; and the application of the history of religions to the study of literary canons.
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Slavic Languages and Literatures
LNGS 5000 - Linguistic Principles in Language Pedagogy
Provides prospective language teachers with background in descriptive and theoretical linguistics, thus helping them to make informed pedagogical decisions, set realistic pedagogical goals, and read scholarship in pedagogy of the type that appears in relevant scholarly journals (e.g. The Modern Language Journal). Considers trends in Second Language Acquisition and the relevance thereto of Applied Linguistics in recent years.
Credits: 3
LNGS 5060 - Syntax and Semantics
Syntax and Semantics
Credits: 3
LNGS 5500 - Topics in Linguistics
Miscellaneous studies in Linguistics
Credits: 3
LNGS 7010 - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
Linguistic Theory and Analysis
Credits: 3
LNGS 7220 - History and Structure of 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 7240 - Southern American English
A discuss of the structure and history of the English spoken in the Southeastern United States. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
LNGS 7993 - Independent Study in Linguistic Analysis
For the students wishing to pursue the analysis of data at a more advanced analytic and theoretical level. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
RUSS 5010 - Readings in the Social Sciences
Based on a careful analysis of the social science texts, students are introduced to advanced topics in Russian morphology and syntax. Successful completion of the course enables students to read nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian non-fiction with minimal difficulty. Prerequisite: RUSS 3020 and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5030 - Advanced Russian I
A thorough review of Russian grammar. Prerequisite: RUSS 2010, 2020, and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5032 - Advanced Russian Grammar: Syntax
This course is a formal and systematic analysis of the basic syntactic structures of the contemporary Russian literary language with frequent comparison to English (and other, when possible) structures. The emphasis will be on data, not theoretical principles although the conventional theoretical machinery and language of syntax (phrase structure, complement, anaphora) will be used at all times in class and on assignments.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,WRITTEN
RUSS 5050 - Advanced Conversation
Two hours of conversation practice per week. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: RUSS 3020.
Credits: 1
RUSS 5080 - Methodology
Course is designed as a combination of practical classroom procedures & techniques & the theoretical aspects of language teaching methodology. Active participation in unit & lesson planning will be accompanied by critical reading & further class discussion about the methods observed & current research on second language acquisition .The course is intended for advanced undergrad & grad students with at least four years of Russian language study.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5110 - The Rise of the Russian Novel, 1795-1850
Studies the development of the Russian novel in the first half of the 19th century. Focuses on the major contributions of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev, and examines the social and literary forces that contributed to the evolution of the Russian novel. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/slavic/courses.html.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5120 - Age of Realism, 1851-1881
Studies the works of Russia’s most celebrated writers during the middle of the 19th century. Explores the many forms that ‘realism’ assumed in Russia at this time, and investigates how Russian writers responded to the calls of their contemporary critics to use literature to promote socially progressive ends.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5122 - Versions of Dostoevsky
Reading Dostoevsky’s fiction alongside the critical contexts in which it was produced and received, we’ll consider many different versions of Dostoevsky. Texts include Poor Folk, Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, as well as Dostoevsky’s critical and polemical writing.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,WRITTEN
RUSS 5124 - Tolstoy
Tolstoy
Credits: 3
RUSS 5140 - Russian Modernism
Examines selected works by the leading writers of the early part of the twentieth century. Explores concepts of symbolism, acmeism, and futurism. Focuses on competing conceptions of literature that evolved in the 1920s until the establishment of the hegemony of socialist realism in the 1930s. Considers works written by Russian writers living in emigration.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5150 - Russian Formalism and Structuralist Poetics
Studies the theory and practice of literary critics. Focuses on the Russian Formalists and the relationship of their theories to those of later critics in America (New Criticism) and the current European Structuralists. Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of French, German, or Russian suggested.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5160 - Russian Literature of the Soviet Era-1929-1988
Literature in the Soviet era has been compared to a “second government.” This course explores Russian literature under Soviet totalitarianism and examines the concept of Socialist Realism and the process of harnessing literary art to serve the state’s interests of creating the “new Soviet person.” We also treat the all-important development of unofficial “underground” art and writers’ strategies for bypassing the strictures of state control.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5175 - The Golden Age of Russian Poetry
Studies works by Zhukovsky, Batiushkov, Pushkin, Lermontov, Baratynsky, Tiutchev, and others.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5176 - The Silver Age of Russian Poetry
Studies the poetry of Blok, Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, and Mayakovsky. Includes symbolism, acmeism, and futurism.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5190 - Russian Drama and Theatre
Studies works from Fonvizin to Shvarts with emphasis on the major plays of Gogol, Chekhov, and Gorky. Includes production theories of Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, and other prominent Russian directors.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5350 - Russian and Soviet Film: Movies for the Masses
An exploration of Soviet and Russian Cinema as artistic medium, industrial product, ideological and political tool, and meansof entertainment. This course devotes equal consideration to popular classics as well as the critically acclaimed masterpieces of russian film in order to engage questions of history theory, and aesthetics within broader cultural currents.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5360 - Gulag: Graduate Studies in History and Literature
From the Bolshevik Revolution to the end of the Soviet order, the only evidence of the Gulag available to the outside world, apart from the Soviet propaganda, were the testimonies of witnesses and survivors. Their stories functioned as the only available history, thus shedding an interesting light on the traditional distinctions between literature and history. In this course, students will examine the Gulag’s history via lit and film.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5380 - Russian Postmodernism
Examines the exciting developments in late-20th- and early-21st-century Russian literature and art.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
RUSS 5390 - The Russian Utopian Imagination
This course explores Russian literature’s many renderings of heaven on earth and their roots in folklore, religion, art, and political thought. Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of Russian
Credits: 3
RUSS 5410 - Texts and Critics: Approaches to Literary Analysis
This graduate seminar pursues a double goal: to enhance students’ skills in reading sophisticated Russian prose and to expose them to various methods of critical analysis. Special attention is paid to Russian literary stylistics and contemporary critical discourse. Readings, class discussion, and written assignments are in Russian. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates, as well as heritage speakers.
Credits: 3
RUSS 5500 - Selected Topics in Russian Literature
Typical topics in various years include Tolstoy, Russian literary journalism, and the mid-nineteenth century Russian novel. In some years open to students from other departments with no knowledge of Russian. May be repeated for credit.
RUSS 7010 - Proseminar in Russian Literature
Required of all candidates for the M.A. degree.
Credits: 3
RUSS 7290 - Medieval and 18th-Century Russian
Close reading of texts from the Kievan period to end of the 18th century.
Credits: 3
RUSS 7350 - Turgenev
Study of the major works.
Credits: 3
RUSS 7360 - Tolstoy
Study of the major works.
Credits: 3
RUSS 7500 - Seminar in Russian Studies
Advanced work on selected topics. A recent topic was ‘utopian vision.’ May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 3
RUSS 7510 - Seminar in Russian Studies
Advanced work on selected topics. A recent topic was ‘utopian vision.’ May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 3
RUSS 7850 - The Russian and West European Novel: 1790-1880
Studies the formation and development of the great Russian realistic novel. Emphasizes internal processes and West European influences.
Credits: 3
RUSS 7993 - Independent Study in Russian Linguistics
For students wishing to pursue independent reading and research in Russian Linguistics. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
RUSS 8210 - Advanced Structure of Russian: Phonology and Morphology
Prerequisite: LNGS 3250 and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
RUSS 8500 - Topics in Russian Language and Literature
Could include Russian language, fiction, poetry, drama, or culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Credits: 3
RUSS 8999 - Master’s Thesis
Research for and final preparation of M.A. thesis.
RUSS 9999 - Non-Topical Research, Doctoral
For doctoral research taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
SLAV 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
SLAV 5100 - Old Church Slavonic
Introduction to Grammar and Textual attestation of the oldest attested Slavic Language and the relationship between this language, Old Russian Church Slavonic and Contemporary Standard Russian.
Credits: 3
SLAV 5200 - Classics of 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
SLAV 5300 - Culture and Identity
This interdisciplinary graduate seminar examines a range of cultural expressions of Russian identity as found in literature, architecture, art, music, dance, journalism, folk art, religious art, film, museums and exhibitions. What is “Russian national culture?” What makes its allure so powerful? What are some of its main controversies? To what extent is Russian culture a myth, an ideal, or a set of practices? Is it dynamic or static?
Credits: 3
SLAV 5500 - Topics in Slavic Language and Literature
Selected Topics in Slavic Language and Literature.
SLAV 5610 - Polish Literature
A graduate-level survey of Polish literature from its Medieval beginnings to the contemporary period. Readings include Jan Kochanowski, Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Slowacki, Boleslaw Prus, Stefan Zeromski, Bruno Schulz, Witold Gombrowicz, Czeslaw Milosz, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Tadeusz Borowski, Wislawa Szymborska, Slawomir Mrozek, and others. Undergraduate students welcome with the permission by the instructor. All readings in English.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,RESEARCH,WRITTEN
SLAV 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
SLAV 7500 - Topics in Slavic Language & Literature
Selected Topics in Slavic Language and Literature
SLAV 8500 - Topics in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Could include any Slavic languages, fiction, poetry, drama, or culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Credits: 3
SLAV 8620 - Seminar in Slavic Linguistics
Seminar in Slavic Linguistics Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
SLAV 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
SLAV 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
SLAV 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
SLAV 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
SLFK 5500 - Topics in Slavic Folklore
For students wishing to pursue independent reading and research in Russian Folklore or Folklore of Slavic culture.
SLFK 7993 - Independent Study in Slavic Folklore
For the students wishing to pursue independent reading and research in Slavic folklore or the folklore of other Slavic cultures. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
SLTR 5500 - Topics in Slavic in Translation
Selected topics in Slavic in Translation.
Sociology
SOC 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
SOC 5020 - Introduction to Statistics
SOC 5020 will serve as an introduction to multivariate regression, with an emphasis on applications in the ‘eld of sociology. Along the way we will review basic concepts related to probability and inference. More specifically, this course will cover ANOVA, t tests, OLS regression, and logistic regression. In sum, the course is designed to teach graduate students in sociology how to use basic statistics to address concrete sociological problems.
Credits: 3
SOC 5030 - Classical Sociological Theory
A seminar focusing on the writings of Marx, Weber, Durkheim and other social theorists. Open to students in related disciplines. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission; open to advanced undergraduates.
Credits: 3
SOC 5056 - Sociology of Culture
Examines the most recent theoretical and methodological developments in the sociology of culture. Examines the influence of structuralism, phenomenology, critical theory, and cultural anthropology on contemporary sociological theory and practice. Considers the ways cultural analysis can be applied to a variety of pressing empirical problems.
Credits: 3
SOC 5057 - Sociology of Family
This course analyzes the ways in which societies address needs of intimacy, care and provisioning – the tasks commonly assumed by families – under varying circumstances and in different contexts, including from historical and comparative perspectives. Prerequisite: Six credits in sociology or permission from the instructor.
Credits: 3
SOC 5059 - Sociology of Science
Topics include science as a major institution in modern society; interrelations of science and society; social organization of science; the scientific career (socialization and professionalization); status, roles, and characteristics of science; science policy studies as an emerging discipline; and technological assessment. Prerequisite: SOC 5120 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
SOC 5060 - Contemporary Sociological Theory
Considers the nature and purpose of sociological theory, and a survey of the most important contemporary theories and theorists. Prerequisite: SOC 5030, six credits of sociology or instructor permission; open to advanced undergraduates.
Credits: 3
SOC 5080 - Comparative Historical Sociology
This course will focus not so much on methodological as on substantive issues of macro sociological inquiry. Among the topics covered will be: the state, power, revolution, nationalism and class formation. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
SOC 5086 - Media Sociology
In a reading and discussion-intensive seminar experience, students will examine key schools of theory, research, and criticism, both in sociology and in related social sciences and humanities traditions that have helped shape the development of the interdisciplinary field of Media Sociology. Units will include: semiotics of texts; audience studies; media organizations; media globalization; new media and social transformation.
Credits: 3
SOC 5100 - Research Design and Methods
Studies the steps necessary to design a research project including searching the literature, formulating the problem, deriving propositions, operationalizing concepts, constructing explanations, and testing hypotheses. Prerequisite: SOC 3120, or graduate standing, six credits of sociology; or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
SOC 5110 - Survey Research Methods
Covers the theory and practice of survey research. Topics include surveys as a scientific method; applied sampling of survey populations; the construction, testing, and improvement of survey instruments; interviewer training; the organization of field work; coding and data quality control; data analysis; and the preparation of survey reports. Prerequisite: SOC 3120 or graduate standing, six credits of sociology or health evaluation sciences, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
SOC 5120 - Intermediate Statistics
Studies the social science applications of analysis of variance, correlation, and regression; and consideration of causal models. Prerequisite: SOC 3130, graduate standing, six credits of sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
SOC 5140 - Qualitative Methods
Studies the theory and practice of qualitative, non-statistical methods of sociological inquiry including field work, interviewing, textual analysis, and historical document work. Students practice each method and design larger projects. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission; open to advanced undergraduates.
Credits: 3
SOC 5150 - Time and Memory
This course surveys the field of memory studies, and is centered in particular on the concept of “collective memory.” What are the varieties of practices ‘including commemoration, recollection, collecting, museification, monument building, reminiscence, etc. through which we represent the past, and what difference do these practices make’ Further topics include reputations, public history, transitional justice, and trauma.
Credits: 3
SOC 5320 - Sociology of Gender
This course will explore the social construction and consequences of gender, covering such topics as work, care, sexuality, identity, politics and inequality. Readings will include the classics as well as newer works in the field.
Prerequisite: Graduate status; six credits in sociology or permission from the instructor.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,QUANTITAT,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
SOC 5370 - Inequality in Higher Education
Why is there so much inequality in college entry and completion? How can higher education provide opportunity while sorting, selecting, and certifying students? What is the relationship between higher education and economic prosperity? By addressing these, and related questions, we will examine the complex interplay between inequality and opportunity and the relationship between higher education and the society at large.
Credits: 3
SOC 5400 - Empires
This course will look at empires in the broadest possible context, historically and geographically. Its main focus will be the modern European empires: Spanish, British, French, Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman. Their form of rule, treatment of subject peoples, self-conceptions of the ruling peoples and their sense of the ‘mission’ of empire will be emphasized. There will be comparisons between empires - past, contemporaneous, and future.
Credits: 3
SOC 5420 - Social Stratification
Studies the distribution of rewards and punishments and the resulting social inequalities in cross-cultural and historical perspective. Analyzes negative liabilities such as arrest, imprisonment, unemployment, and stigmatization, and positive assets such as education, occupation, income, and honor. Draws on the literature of both stratification and deviance/criminology. Focuses on the distributive aspects of power and the resulting social formations such as classes, and status groups. Prerequisite: SOC 5030, 7130 or their equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
SOC 5559 - New Course in Sociology
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of sociology.
SOC 5900 - Economic Sociology
This course surveys the classic and contemporary research literature in economic sociology. The course explores this literature’s central claims that economic action is embedded in social relationships and shaped by social institutions, and considers the economy in comparative and historical perspective. Prerequisite: Graduate status; six credits in Sociology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
SOC 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
SOC 7102 - 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
SOC 7130 - Intro to Social Statistics
Intro to Social Statistics
Credits: 3
SOC 7470 - Sociology of Development
This Graduate level course provides a survey to the subfield of the sociology of development. We will focus on how sociologists seek to explain broad patterns of sociocultural change and economic growth, with particular attention to how the key explanator factors privileged in sociological explanations of development and underdevelopment have changed over time. We will review a range of contending theoretical perspectives and approaches.
Credits: 3
SOC 7480 - Sociology of Globalization
Globalization continues attracting the attention of scholars and social critics, but its theoretical foundations and empirical aspects remain blurry. Some contest its adequacy as a concept; others praise its evocative nature. This course will guide you through many of these debates. We will look at the political economy of globalization, the institutions that promote it, the movements that contest it, and the cultures that permeate it.
Credits: 3
SOC 7559 - New Course in Sociology
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of sociology.
SOC 7980 - Graduate Research Workshop
This class is designed to help graduate students write professional, sociological articles. Students will come in with (at a minimum) a solid literature review plus data collected and analyzed, and leave with a submission-ready manuscript. We will discuss each article section, present and critique work, consider audience, sharpen arguments and improve writing. Required of 3rd year students; open to others later in the program.
Credits: 3
SOC 8030 - Sociological Issues
Studies contemporary issues effecting sociology as a science, as an academic discipline, and as a profession. Frequent guest lecturers.
Credits: 1
SOC 8031 - Sociology ProSeminar
The ProSeminar provides an introduction for first year graduate students to the discipline and profession of Sociology, as well as to the Sociology Department.
Credits: 3
SOC 8040 - Sociological Issues
Studies contemporary issues effecting sociology as a science, as an academic discipline, and as a profession. Frequent guest lecturers.
Credits: 1
SOC 8051 - 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.
Credits: 3
SOC 8052 - Sociology of Religion
Classical and contemporary theories and empirical research are examined to illuminate the changing role of religious belief and religious institutions in the Western World. Emphasizes the methodological problems of studying religion.
Credits: 3
SOC 8053 - Sociology of Education
Analysis of education as a social institution and its relationship to other institutions, e.g., the ecology, the stratification system, the family. Special attention is devoted to the role of education in the status attainment process.
Credits: 3
SOC 8054 - Political Sociology
Studies the relationships between social structure and political institutions. Discusses competing theories on power structures, political participation, ideology, party affiliation, voting behavior, and social movements in the context of recent research on national and local politics in the United States.
Credits: 3
SOC 8410 - Race & Ethnicity
Studies pivotal issues relating to race in contemporary American society from a theoretical and historical point of view. These include such topics as the contested meaning of the term “race”, the relationship between race and ethnicity, assimilation, the relationship between race and inequality, and crime.
Credits: 3
SOC 8470 - Sociology of Knowledge
Studies the social foundations of knowledge, including formal systems of knowledge to the realities of everyday life. Includes classical and contemporary literature on the subject.
Credits: 3
SOC 8542 - Selected Topics in Sociology
Advanced graduate seminars. Offerings are given in a semester determined by faculty and student interest.
Credits: 3
SOC 8559 - New Course in Sociology
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of sociology.
Credits: 3
SOC 8562 - Selected Topics in Sociology
Advanced graduate seminars. Offerings are given in a semester determined by faculty and student interest.
Credits: 3
SOC 8710 - Sociology of Organizations
Examines 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.
Credits: 3
SOC 8870 - Immigration
This course examines migration from global and historical perspective, with a special focus on American immigration policy from 1900 to the present.
Credits: 3
SOC 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
SOC 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
SOC 9010 - Directed Reading
Independent study with a faculty member.
SOC 9050 - Research Apprenticeship
Provides practical research experience through close collaboration with a faculty member. (Faculty members propose project and chose apprentices from the pool of applicants.) Student apprentices will be junior colleagues, involved in all phases of the project. This collaborative effort will lead to a distinct scholarly product, usually a co-authored paper suitable for publication.
SOC 9060 - Research Apprenticeship
Provides practical research experience through close collaboration with a faculty member. (Faculty members propose project and chose apprentices from the pool of applicants.) Student apprentices will be junior colleagues, involved in all phases of the project. This collaborative effort will lead to a distinct scholarly product, usually a co-authored paper suitable for publication.
SOC 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
SOC 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Languages and Literatures
ITAL 5559 - New Course in Italian
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics with the subject of Italian.
Credits: 3
ITAL 5600 - Baroque Italian Literature
Baroque Italian Literature
Credits: 3
ITAL 5650 - Italian Literature of the Enlightenment
Italian Literature of the Enlightenment
Credits: 3
ITAL 7300 - Teatro Italiano
Graduate-level seminar, for students in Italian, and graduate students in other depts who desire a course on Italian theater and are proficient in Italian language. Survey of major authors and texts of dramatic and theatrical literature in Italy, from its origins to the present. Works are contextualized within cultural realities and institutions surrounding the development of drama, theater, and performance. Taught in Italian. Prerequisite: Complete language competence in Italian.
Credits: 3
ITAL 7375 - Three Crowns of Florence: Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio
Focuses on masterpieces of Florence’s three luminaries: Dante’s Commedia, Boccaccio’s Decameron, and Petrarch’s Rime sparse and the critical traditions surrounding these works. Prerequisite: permission of instructor if student does not know Italian
Credits: 3
ITAL 7425 - Quattro-Cinquecento
A thorough survey of Humanistic culture and literature; Petrarchism; Machiavelli and surroundings; and the birth of epic (Ariosto and Tasso).
Credits: 3
ITAL 7559 - New Course in Italian
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics with the subject of Italian.
ITAL 7600 - Sei-Settecento
Studies Manierismo in poetry and prose; the birth of Italian theater; and major authors of the Enlightenment (Parini and Alfieri).
Credits: 3
ITAL 7900 - Italian Avant-Garde Literature
This graduate course discusses texts belonging to the Italian Avan-garde and Modernist periods. Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of Italian.
Credits: 3
ITAL 7920 - Romanzo Storico nel 20 e 21 secolo
This course discusses the evolution of the historical novel in Italy after Alessandro Mazoni’s controversial abjuration of the historical novel in his “Discorso del romanzo storico e, in genere, de’ componimenti misti di storia e di invenzione.”
Credits: 3
ITAL 7995 - Guided Research
Guided Research
Credits: 3
ITAL 8210 - Teaching Foreign Languages
This course provides graduate students teaching foreign languages at UVA with the opportunity to observe and apply new ideas and teaching principles through practical activities and to develop their own personal theories of teaching through systematic reflection and experimentation.
Credits: 3
ITAL 8300 - Ariosto
This course is a monographic study of Ludovico Ariosto’s masterpiece, Orlando furioso. Will read this epic-chivalric poem, place it in the cultural context of the Italian Renaissance and discuss the major critical issues it continues to pose. Prerequisite: knowledge of Italian
Credits: 3
ITAL 8400 - Seminars: Major Author
A thorough study of a major author’s opus. Includes authors from alL eight centuries of Italian literature. Specific authors will be announced in the Course Offering Directory.
Credits: 3
ITAL 8559 - New Course in Itialian
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics with the subject of Italian.
Credits: 3
ITAL 8995 - Independent Research
Independent Research
Credits: 3
ITAL 8999 - Non-Topical Research
Required of all teaching assistants; not part of the curricular credit requirement for the M.A. in Italian.
ITTR 5250 - Dante’s Purgatory in Translation
This course explores canto-by-canto Dante’s second realm of the Afterlife. Particular attention will be paid to how various themes and motifs (the phenomenology of love, the relationship between church and state, status of classical antiquity in a Christian universe, Dante’s representation of the saved), differ from those explored in the Inferno. Prerequisite: ITTR 2260 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
ITTR 5559 - New Course: Italian in Translation
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics with the subject of Italian in Translation.
Credits: 3
ITTR 6559 - New Course: Italian in Translation
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics with the subject of Italian in Translation.
Credits: 3
ITTR 7350 - Early Modern Theater: The Drama of Marriage
Seminar examines the ways dramatic literature and theater from roughly 1500-1800 engaged the institution of marriage. Study of plays, operas and other literary and stage genres from several national traditions (Italian, Spanish, potentially French and English), looking at their mediations of the tumultuous evolution of early modern family formation, in light of legal, social, and cultural history of matrimony.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,ORALCOMM,WRITTEN
ITTR 7559 - New Course: Italian in Translation
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics with the subject of Italian in Translation.
Credits: 3
POTR 7559 - New Course in Portuguese Translation
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics within the subject of Portuguese in Translation.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
SPAN 5202 - Hispanic Sociolinguistics
Studies the theoretical aspects of conversational analysis, incorporating it into the analysis of natural talk. Emphasizes the organization of conversations, the role of sociocultural background knowledge and preferred rules of politeness, and cross-cultural and cross-gender differences.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5300 - Middle Ages and Early Renaissance
Studies the major texts, authors, and literary trends of the Spanish Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5350 - Golden Age
Studies the major texts, authors, and literary trends of the Spanish Golden Age.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5559 - New Course in Spanish
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Spanish.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5600 - Enlightenment to Romanticism
Studies the major texts, authors, and literary trends of the Spanish eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5650 - Realism and Generation of 1898
Studies the major texts, authors, and literary trends of the second half of the Spanish nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5700 - Spanish Civilization and Culture
Studies the non-literary achievements of Spain from pre-Roman times to the present. Includes a survey of the socio-political history, the art, architecture, music, philosophy, and folklore of Spain, defining the essential characteristics of Spanish civilization.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5702 - Islam in Europe: Muslim Iberia
An introduction to Islam and a cultural history of al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia) from the year 711 until the expulsion of the Moriscos ‘Muslims converted, often forcibly, to Christianity’ from early modern Spain in 1609. Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 or equivalent level of proficiency in Spanish.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5750 - Contemporary Spanish Literature
Studies the major texts, authors, and literary trends of the Spanish twentieth century.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5800 - Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1800
Studies the major texts, authors, and literary trends of Spanish America up to 1800.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5820 - Spanish America: From Romanticism to Modernism
Studies the major texts, authors, and literary trends of Spanish America in the nineteenth century.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5850 - Spanish America: Modern Period
Studies the major texts, authors, and literary trends of Spanish America in the twentieth century.
Credits: 3
SPAN 5960 - Spanish Creative Writing Workshop
This course is taught by two of the most distinguished and exciting writers in the Spanish-speaking world today, with extensive experience giving writing workshops. It is dedicated to creative writing (short stories), emphasizing creative, and suggesting ways to initiate the creative process. Students need to have a good command of the Spanish Language, at 4000 level or similar. Undergraduate as well as graduate students are welcome.
Credits: 3
SPAN 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
SPAN 7040 - Translation from Spanish to English
Spanish 7040 offers an introduction to the craft of literary translation.
Credits: 3
SPAN 7100 - Literary Theory
Studies the modern theories of literary criticism, including formalism, structuralism, semiotics, and the application of theory to major Spanish authors.
Credits: 3
SPAN 7200 - The Structure of Spanish
The Structure of Spanish
Credits: 3
SPAN 7210 - The Phonology of Spanish
The Phonology of Spanish
Credits: 3
SPAN 7220 - History of the Language
The development of the Spanish language from its origins.
Credits: 3
SPAN 7260 - Golden Age Poetry
Golden Age Poetry
Credits: 3
SPAN 7270 - Golden Age Drama
Golden Age Drama
Credits: 3
SPAN 7290 - Golden Age Prose, Non-Picaresque
Golden Age Prose, Non-Picaresque
Credits: 3
SPAN 7300 - The Picaresque Novel
The course explores the origins and nature of picaresque narrative in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, beginning with works like La Lozana andaluza and Lazarillo de Tormes,following through with Guzmán de Alfarache, El Buscón, Estebanillo González, and the picaresque in Cervantes.
Credits: 3
SPAN 7559 - New Course in Spanish
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Spanish.
Credits: 3
SPAN 7650 - Realism and Naturalism: The Novel
Realism and Naturalism: The Novel
Credits: 3
SPAN 7700 - Generation of 1927
Generation of 1927
Credits: 3
SPAN 7710 - Literature and the Civil War
Literature and the Civil War
Credits: 3
SPAN 7720 - Contemporary Theater
Contemporary Theater
Credits: 3
SPAN 7730 - Post-Civil War Fiction
Post-Civil War Fiction
Credits: 3
SPAN 7800 - Colonial Spanish American Literature
Colonial Spanish American Literature
Credits: 3
SPAN 7820 - Nineteenth-Century Spanish-American Literature
Nineteenth-Century Spanish-American Literature
Credits: 3
SPAN 7830 - Spanish-American Poetry
Spanish-American Poetry
Credits: 3
SPAN 7840 - Spanish-American Fiction
Spanish-American Fiction
Credits: 3
SPAN 7850 - Themes and Genres
Themes and Genres
Credits: 3
SPAN 7860 - Regional Literature
Regional Literature
Credits: 3
SPAN 7890 - Essay: Twentieth-Century Spanish America
Essay: Twentieth-Century Spanish America
Credits: 3
SPAN 8210 - Teaching Foreign Languages
This course provides graduate students teaching foreign languages at UVA with the opportunity to observe and apply new ideas and teaching principles through practical activities and to develop their own personal theories of teaching through systematic reflection and experimentation.
Credits: 3
SPAN 8505 - Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance
Seminars: Middle Ages and Early Renaissance
Credits: 3
SPAN 8510 - Seminars: Golden Age
Seminars: Golden Age
Credits: 3
SPAN 8515 - Seminars: Golden Age
Seminars: Golden Age
Credits: 3
SPAN 8520 - Seminars: Enlightenment to Romanticism
Seminars: Enlightenment to Romanticism
Credits: 3
SPAN 8530 - Seminars: Realism and the Generation of 1898
Seminars: Realism and the Generation of 1898
Credits: 3
SPAN 8540 - Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature
Seminars: Modern Spanish Literature
Credits: 3
SPAN 8550 - Seminars: Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1900
Seminars: Spanish America: Colonial Period to 1900
Credits: 3
SPAN 8560 - Seminars: Spanish America: Modern Period
Seminars: Spanish America: Modern Period
Credits: 3
SPAN 8995 - Guided Research
Readings and/or research in particular fields under the supervision of an instructor.
Credits: 3
SPAN 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
SPAN 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
SPAN 9995 - Guided Research
Readings and/or research in particular fields under the supervision of an instructor.
Credits: 3
SPAN 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
SPAN 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Statistics
STAT 5000 - Introduction to Applied Statistics
Introduces estimation and hypothesis testing in applied statistics, especially the medical sciences. Measurement issues, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, discrete probability distributions (binomial and Poisson), continuous probability distributions (normal, t, chi-square, and F), and one- and two-sample inference, power and sample size calculations, introduction to non-parametric methods, one-way ANOVA and multiple comparisons. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; corequisite: STAT 5980.
Credits: 3
STAT 5000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
STAT 5120 - Applied Linear Models
Linear regression models, inferences in regression analysis, model validation, selection of independent variables, multicollinearity, influential observations, autocorrelation in time series data, polynomial regression, and nonlinear regression. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software.
Prerequisite:STAT 3120, and either MATH 3351 or APMA 3080
Credits: 3
STAT 5140 - Survival Analysis and Reliability Theory
Topics include lifetime distributions, hazard functions, competing-risks, proportional hazards, censored data, accelerated-life models, Kaplan-Meier estimator, stochastic models, renewal processes, and Bayesian methods for lifetime and reliability data analysis. Prerequisite: MATH 3120 or 5100, or instructor permission; corequisite: STAT 5980.
Credits: 3
STAT 5150 - Actuarial Statistics
Covers the main topics required by students preparing for the examinations in Actuarial Statistics, set by the American Society of Actuaries. Topics include life tables, life insurance and annuities, survival distributions, net premiums and premium reserves, multiple life functions and decrement models, valuation of pension plans, insurance models, and benefits and dividends. Prerequisite: MATH 3120 or 5100, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
STAT 5170 - Applied Time Series
Studies the basic time series models in both the time domain (ARMA models) and the frequency domain (spectral models), emphasizing application to real data sets. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software. Prerequisite: STAT 3120
Credits: 3
STAT 5180 - Design and Analysis of Sample Surveys
This course covers the main designs and estimation techniques used in sample surveys: simple random sampling, stratification, cluster sampling, double sampling, post-stratification, ratio estimation, and non response and other non sampling errors. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using R statistical software.
Prerequisites: STAT 3120.
Credits: 3
STAT 5265 - Investment Science I
The course will cover a broad range of topics, with the overall theme being the quantitative modeling of asset allocation and portfolio theory. It begins with deterministic cash flows (interest theory, fixed-income securities), the modeling of interest rates (term structure of interest rates), stochastic cash flows, mean-variance portfolio theory, capital asset pricing model, and the utility theory basis for financial modeling. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using Matlab or R statistical software.
Prerequisite: MATH 3100.
Credits: 3
STAT 5266 - Investment Science II
This course is a follow-up to Investment Science I (Stat 5265). It begins with models for derivative securities, including asset dynamics, options and interest rate derivatives. The remaining portion of the course then combines all of the ideas from the two courses to formulate strategies of optimal portfolio growth and a general theory of investment evaluation. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using Matlab or R statistical software.
Prerequisite: MATH 3100, STAT 5265.
Credits: 3
STAT 5310 - Clinical Trials Methodology
Studies experimental designs for randomized clinical trials, sources of bias in clinical studies, informed consent, logistics, and interim monitoring procedures (group sequential and Bayesian methods). Prerequisite: A basic statistics course (MATH 3120/5100) or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
STAT 5330 - Data Mining
This course introduces a plethora of methods in data mining through the statistical point of view. Topics include linear regression and classification, nonparametric smoothing, decision tree, support vector machine, cluster analysis and principal components analysis. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software.
Prerequisites: Previous or concurrent enrollment in STAT 5120 or STAT 6120.
Credits: 3
STAT 5340 - Bootstrap and Other Resampling Methods
This course introduces the basic ideas of resampling methods, from jackknife and the classic bootstrap due to Efron to advanced bootstrap techniques such as the estimating function bootstrap and the Markov chain marginal bootstrap.
Credits: 3CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,QUANTITAT,RESEARCH,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
STAT 5350 - Applied Causal Inference
Introduces statistical methods used for causal inference, particularly for quasi-experimental data. Focus is on the potential outcomes framework as an organizing principle and examining the estimation of treatment effects under various assumptions. Topics include matching, instrumental variables, difference-in-difference, regression discontinuity, synthetic control, and sensitivity analysis. Examples come from various fields.
STAT 5390 - Exploratory Data Analysis
Introduces philosophy and methods of exploratory (vs confirmatory) data analysis: QQ plots; letter values; re-expression; median polish; robust regression/anova; smoothers; fitting discrete, skewed, long-tailed distributions; diagnostic plots; standardization. Emphasis on real data, computation (R), reports, presentations.
Prerequisite: A previous statistics course; previous exposure to calculus and linear algebra recommended.
Credits: 3
STAT 5410 - Introduction to Statistical Software
This course develops basic data skills in SAS and R, focusing on data-set management and the production of elementary statistics. Topics include data input, cleaning and reshaping data, producing basic statistics, and simple graphics. The student is prepared for the development of advanced data-analysis techniques in applied statistics courses.
Credits: 1CRSE_ATTR_VALUE - CRITTHINK,QUANTITAT,SCIENTIFIC,WRITTEN
STAT 5430 - Statistical Computing with SAS and R
Topics include importing data from various sources into R/SAS, manipulating and combining datasets, transform variables, “clean” data so that it is ready for further analysis, manipulating character strings, export datasets, and produce basic graphical and tabular summaries of data. More advanced topics will include how to write, de-bug, and tune functions and macros. Approximately equal time will be spent using SAS and R.
Prerequisites: Introductory statistics course.
Credits: 3
STAT 5500 - Statistical Modeling of Real-World Data
This course will teach students how to develop approaches to modeling real data and drawing valid inferences. The course may run as a traditional lecture about modeling and analyzing data from actual applications, or students in the class will work in teams to model and analyze data from a specific project.
Credits: 3
STAT 5510 - Contemporary Topics in Statistics
This course exposes students to new data types and emerging topics in statistical methodology and computation, emphasizing literacy and applied data-analysis. Topics vary by instructor.
Credits: 1
STAT 5559 - New Course in Statistics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of statistics.
STAT 5630 - 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 5120, STAT 6120, or ECON 3720, and previous experience with R
Prerequisite: STAT 5120, STAT 6120, or ECON 3720, and previous experience with R
Credits: 3
STAT 5980 - Applied Statistics Laboratory
This course, the laboratory component of the department’s applied statistics program, deals with the use of computer packages in data analysis. Enrollment in STAT 5980 is required for all students in the department’s 5000-level applied statistics courses (STAT 5010, 5120, 5130, 5140, 5160, 5170, 5200). STAT 5980 may be repeated for credit provided that a student is enrolled in at least one of these 5000-level applied courses; however, no more than one unit of STAT 5980 may be taken in any semester. Corequisite: 5000-level STAT applied statistics course.
Credits: 1
STAT 5993 - Directed Reading
Research into current statistical problems under faculty supervision.
STAT 5999 - Topics in Statistics
Studies topics in statistics that are not part of the regular course offerings. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
STAT 6021 - Linear Models for Data Science
An introduction to linear statistical models in the context of data science. Topics include simple and multiple linear regression, generalized linear models, time series, analysis of covariance, tree-based classification, and principal components. The primary software is R.
Prerequisite: A previous statistics course, a previous linear algebra course, and permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
STAT 6120 - Linear Models
Course develops fundamental methodology to regression and linear-models analysis in general. Topics include model fitting and inference, partial and sequential testing, variable selection, transformations, diagnostics for influential observations, multicollinearity, and regression in nonstandard settings. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented withhands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Statistics, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
STAT 6130 - Applied Multivariate Statistics
This course develops fundamental methodology to the analysis of multivariate data. Topics include the multivariate normal distributions, multivariate regression, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), principal components analysis, factor analysis, and discriminant analysis. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Statistics, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
STAT 6160 - Experimental Design
This course develops fundamental concepts and methodology in the design and analysis of experiments. Topics include analysis of variance, multiple comparison tests, completely randomized designs, the general linear model approach to ANOVA, randomized block designs, Latin square and related designs, completely randomized factorial designs with two or more treatments, hierarchical designs, split-plot and confounded factorial designs, and analysis of covariance. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software.
Credits: 3
STAT 6190 - Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
This course introduces fundamental concepts in probability that underlie statistical thinking and methodology. Topics include the probability framework, canonical probability distributions, transformations, expectation, moments and momentgenerating functions, parametric families, elementary inequalities, multivariate distributions, and convergence concepts for sequences of random variables.
Prerequisite:Graduate standing in Statistics, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
STAT 6250 - Longitudinal Data Analysis
This course develops fundamental methodology to the analysis of longitudinal data. Topics include data structures, modeling the mean and covariance, estimation and inference with respect to the marginal models, linear mixed-effects models, and generalized linear mixed-effects models. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software. Prerequisite: STAT 6120 and graduate standing in Statistics.
Credits: 3
STAT 6260 - Categorical Data Analysis
This course develops fundamental methodology to the analysis of categorical data. Topics include contingency tables, generalized linear models, logistic regression, and logit and loglinear models. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Statistics, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
STAT 6430 - Statistical Computing for Data Science
An introduction to statistical programming, including data manipulation and cleaning, importing and exporting data, managing missing values, data frames, functions, lists, matrices, writing functions, and the use of packages. Efficient programming practices and methods of summarizing and visualizing data are emphasized throughout. SAS and R are the primary computational tools.
Prerequisite: A previous statistics course and permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
STAT 6440 - Introduction to Bayesian Methods
Course provides an introduction to Bayesian methods with an emphasis on modeling and applications. Topics include the elicitation of prior distributions, deriving posterior and predictive distributions and their moments, Bayesian linear and generalized linear regression, and Bayesian hierarchical models. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software. Prerequisite: STAT 6120, STAT 6190, and graduate standing in Statistics.
Credits: 3
STAT 6510 - Advanced Data Experience
This course develops skills in using data analysis to contribute to research. Each student completes a data-analysis project using data from an interdisciplinary research effort. Topics will vary, and are tailored to the objectives of the projects, and may include discussion of computationally intensive statistical methods that are commonly applied in research.
Credits: 1
STAT 6520 - Statistical Literature
This course develops skills in reading the statistical research literature and prepares the student for contributing to it. Each student completes a well written and properly formatted paper that would be suitable for publication. The paper reviews literature relevant to a specialized research area, and possibly suggests an original research problem. Topics will vary from term to term.
Credits: 1
STAT 6559 - New Course in Statistics
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of statistics.
STAT 7000T - Non-UVa Transfer/Test Credit
STAT 7100 - Introduction to Advanced Statistical Inference
This course introduces fundamental concepts in the classical theory of statistical inference. Topics include sufficiency and related statistical principles, elementary decision theory, point estimation, hypothesis testing, likelihood-ratio tests, interval estimation, large-sample analysis, and elementary modeling applications.
Prerequisite: STAT 6190 and graduate standing in Statistics
Credits: 3
STAT 7130 - Generalized Linear Models
Course develops fundamental data-analysis methodology based on generalized linear models.Topics include the origins of generalized linear models, binary and polytomous data, probit analysis, logit models for proportions, log-linear models for counts, inverse polynomial models, quasi-likelihood models, & survival data models. Conceptual disc. is supplemented w/hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software.
Prerequisite: STAT 6120, STAT 6190, and graduate standing in Statistics
Credits: 3
STAT 7150 - Non-Parametric Statistical Analysis
Includes order statistics, distribution-free statistics, U-statistics, rank tests and estimates, asymtotic efficiency, Bahadur efficiency, M-estimates, one- and two-way layouts, multivariate location models, rank correlation, and linear models. Prerequisite: STAT 5190 and one of STAT 5120, 5130, 5140, 5160, 5170; or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
STAT 7180 - Sample Surveys
This course develops fundamental methodology related to the main designs and estimation techniques used in sample surveys. Topics include simple random sampling, stratification, cluster sampling, double sampling, post-stratification, ratio estimation, and non-response and other non-sampling errors. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Statistics, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
STAT 7200 - Introduction to Advanced Probability
This course introduces fundamental concepts in probability from a measure-theoretic perspective. Topics include sigma fields, general measures, integration and expectation, the Radon-Nikodym derivative, product measure and conditioning, convergence concepts, and important limit theorems. The student is prepared for advanced study of statistical theory and stochastic processes. Prerequisite: STAT 6190 and graduate standing in Statistics
Credits: 3
STAT 7510 - Advanced Topics in Statistical Inference
This course covers advanced theory and methodology in statistical inference. It includes, but is not limited to, substantial, in-depth coverage of topics in asymptotic inference. Context and additional topics vary by instructor.
Credits: 3
STAT 7520 - Advanced Topics in Probability
This course covers advanced theory and methodology in probability. It includes, but is not limited to, substantial, in-depth coverage of topics in stochastic processes. Context and additional topics vary by instructor.
Prerequisite: STAT 7200
Credits: 3
STAT 7559 - Applied Biostatistical Data Analysis
The objective is to help students integrate and apply statistical methods learned in other courses to real data from medial research. Students will learn to identifiy the scientific objectives of a study, and develop and implement appropriate strategies. They will present their intermediate and final results in both oral and written forms. This course will prepare the students for a future career as applied statisticians.
STAT 7950 - Statistical Bioinformatics in Medicine
Provides an introduction to bioinformatics and discusses important topics in computational biology in medicine, particularly based on modern statistical computing approaches. Reviews state-of-the-art high-throughput biotechnologies, their applications in medicine, and analysis techniques. Requires active student participation in various discussions on the current topics in biotechnology and bioinformatics.
Credits: 3
STAT 7995 - Statistical Consulting
This course develops skills related to the practice of statistical consulting. It covers conceptual topics and provides experience with data analysis projects found in or resembling those in statistical practice. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using SAS or R statistical software.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Statistics
Credits: 3
STAT 8120 - Topics in Statistics
Study of topics in statistics that are currently the subject of active research.
Credits: 3
STAT 8170 - Advanced Time Series
Introduces stationary stochastic processes, related limit theorems, and spectral representations. Includes an asymtotic theory for estimation in both the time and frequency domains. Prerequisite: MATH 7360, STAT 5170, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
STAT 9120 - Statistics Seminar
Advanced graduate seminar in current research topics. Offerings in each semester are determined by student and faculty research interests.
Credits: 3
STAT 9993 - Directed Reading
Research into current statistical problems under faculty supervision.
STAT 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
STAT 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral research, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Women, Gender and Sexuality
WGS 5140 - Advanced Border Crossings: Women, Islam, & Lit. in Middle East & N. 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. This course section is for graduate students only. Prerequisites: Instructor Consent Required
Credits: 3
WGS 5500 - Gender, Sexuality, and Education Course Topic(s)
Education topic courses offered on a semster-to-semester basis. Please see the WGS website for specific approved sections.
Credits: 3
WGS 7500 - Approaches to Gender and Sexuality Studies
An introduction to contemporary feminist and queer theories, intended for graduate students. Offers a survey of contemporary feminist and queer epistemology, subject formation, ethics, and politics, as well as a grounding in the methods of feminist and queer theory. What is a woman? What is sex? What is gender? What is sexuality? These and related questions are discussed from multidisciplinary perspectives.
Credits: 3
WGS 7559 - New Course in Women, Gender & Sexuality
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of women, gender & sexuality.
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