College of Arts & Sciences: Courses

African-American & African Studies

Courses

AAS 150 - Special Topics in African American Studies

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Effective Date 05/01/2021
Special Topics in African American Studies.

Credits: 0

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

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
This introductory course surveys the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean from approximately the Middle Ages to the 1880s. Emphases include the Atlantic slave trade and its complex relationship to Africa; the economic systems, cultures, and communities of Africans and African-Americans in the New World, in slavery and in freedom; the rise of anti-slavery movements; and the socio-economic systems that replaced slavery in the late 19th century.

Credits: 4

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

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This introductory course builds upon the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean surveyed in AAS 1010. Drawing on disciplines such as Anthropology, History, Religious Studies, Political Science and Sociology, the course focuses on the period from the late 19th century to the present and is comparative in perspective. It examines the links and disjunctions between communities of African descent in the United States and in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. The course begins with an overview of AAS, its history, assumptions, boundaries, and topics of inquiry, and then proceeds to focus on a number of inter-related themes: patterns of cultural experience; community formation; comparative racial classification; language and society; family and kinship; religion; social and political movements; arts and aesthetics; and archaeology of the African Diaspora.

Credits: 4

AAS 1559 - New Course in African and African American Studies

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Effective Date 03/11/2024
New course in the subject of African American Studies.

Credits: 1 to 4

AAS 2224 - Black Femininities and Masculinities in the US Media

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Effective Date 02/28/2013
This course, taught as a lower-level seminar, will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of ‘Blackness’ in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender.

Credits: 3

AAS 2263 - UVA in Kenya - Swahili Cultures: Then & Now

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
Located in Kenya as a study abroad experience, this course is aimed at providing students with an immersive, interactive and intellectually enriching experience of the Swahili coast. Some of the main themes covered include language, cultures and practices, a critical understanding of the experience of race and racism, slavery and enslavement in the Swahili coast, and the historical cultural context of the region.

Credits: 3

AAS 2450 - The Health of Black Folks

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
An interdisciplinary course analyzing the relationship between black bodies and biomedicine both historically and in the present. The course is co-taught by Norm Oliver, M.D. (UVa Department of Family Medicine), and offers political, economic, and post-structuralist lenses with which to interpret the individual and socio/cultural health and disease of African-Americans. Readings range across several disciplines including anthropology, epidemiology/public health, folklore, history, science studies, political science, sociology and literary criticism. Topics will vary and may include: HIV/AIDS; reproductive issues; prison, crime and drugs; and body size/image and obesity; the legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Trials. Cross listed as ANTH 2450.

Credits: 3

AAS 2500 - Topics Course in Africana Studies

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Effective Date 02/12/2024
Lower-level topics course: reading, class discussion, and written assignments on a special topic in African-American and African Studies Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor.

Credits: 3

AAS 2559 - New Course in African and African American Studies

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
New course in the subject of African and African American Studies

Credits: 3

AAS 2657 - Routes, Writing, Reggae

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Effective Date 10/06/2017
In this course, we will trace the history of reggae music and explore its influence on the development of Jamaican literature. With readings on Jamaican history, we will consider why so many reggae songs speak about Jah and quote from the Bible. Then, we will explore how Marcus Garvey’s teachings led to the rise of Rastafarianism, which in turn seeded ideas of black pride and black humanity into what would become reggae music.

Credits: 3

AAS 2700 - Festivals of the Americas

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Communities throughout the Caribbean, and South, Central and North America celebrate festivals which are rooted in religious devotion, and which serve to mark sacred time and and to assert claims about religious, ethnic, and national identities. The class will read ethnographic accounts and listen to musical recordings of signature religious festivals–such as Saint Patrick’s Day in Boston, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and Carnival in Brazil.

Credits: 3

AAS 2740 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa

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Effective Date 10/06/2017
In this course, students will gain an understanding of the richness and variety of African life. While no course of this kind can hope to give more than a broad overview of the continent, students will learn which intellectual tools and fundamental principles are necessary for approaching the study of the hundreds of cultural worlds that exist today on the African continent. This course will draw from ethnographic texts, literary works and film.

Credits: 3

AAS 2760 - Empowered Women of Africa

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
In this interdisciplinary survey course on women leaders in urban areas in Africa, we will examine the experiences of women from diverse societies across the Eastern and Southern regions of Africa during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Of particular importance is how women in these societies have faced challenges and how they emerge as leaders in their communities.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken AAS 2559 #25 Women Leaders in Africa

Credits: 3

AAS 3000 - Women and Religion in Africa

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Effective Date 08/01/2009
This course examines women’s religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women

Credits: 3

AAS 3157 - Caribbean Perspectives

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Breaking with popular constructions of the region as a timeless tropical paradise, this course will re-define the Caribbean as the birthplace of modern forms of capitalism, globalization, and trans-nationalism. We will survey the founding moments of Caribbean history, including the imposition of slavery, the rise of plantation economies, and the development of global networks of goods and peoples.

Credits: 3

AAS 3200 - Martin, Malcolm and America

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
An intensive examination of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. We will come to grips with the American legacy of racial hatred and oppression systematized in the institutions of antebellum chattel slavery and post-bellum racial segregation and analyze the array of critical responses to, and social struggles against, this legacy.

Credits: 3

AAS 3231 - Rise and Fall of the Slave South

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
A history of the American South from the arrival of the first English settlers through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Cross-listed with HIUS 3231.

Credits: 3

AAS 3245 - Slavery in the Contemporary Literary Imagination

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Effective Date 10/06/2017
This course will examine the work of African American authors whose work forms a subgenre of African American letters sometimes called the neo-slave narrative, concerned to explore and expand the historical and creative representation of slavery in the US and the UK. We will explore the limits of literary forms, racial (mis)representation and the historical records that have yielded this compelling production of writing in the past 30 years.

Credits: 3

AAS 3280 - Reading the Black College Campus

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Historically Black Colleges and University campuses are records of the process of democratizing (extending to excluded social groups such as African-Americans) opportunities for higher education in America. Through landscapes, we trace this record, unearthing the politics of landscapes via direct experience as well as via interpretations of representations of landscapes in literature, visual arts, maps, plans, and photographs.

Credits: 3

AAS 3300 - Social Science Perspectives on African American and African Studies

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Effective Date 10/09/2017
This course will focus on major debates, theories, and methodological approaches in the social sciences that contribute to African American Studies. The course helps students to consider how a multidisciplinary approach enriches efforts to analyze such issues as health disparities, education, and incarceration as they relate to the African Diaspora.

Credits: 3

AAS 3351 - African Diaspora Religions

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Effective Date 03/31/2009
This seminar examines changes in ethnographic accounts of African diaspora religions, with particular attention to the conceptions of religion, race, nation, and modernity found in different research paradigms. Prerequisite: previous course in one of the following: religious studies, anthropology, AAS, or Latin American studies.

Credits: 3

AAS 3356 - Culture, Race and World Politics

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Effective Date 03/22/2010
This course explores the role of culture and race in international politics. Cultural and ethnic factors have long influenced international relations, especially in the post Cold War era. These “identity” issues raise new questions about the role of national sovereighty and the prospects for democracy in countries around the world. We focus on several broad themes structured around the pivot of identity and otherness.

Credits: 3

AAS 3456 - The Supreme Court and the Civil Rights Movement

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Effective Date 03/22/2010
This course explores the role of the United States Supreme Court in defining the legality of racial distinctions in the United States in the post-Civil War era. Special attention is paid to the role of the court’s landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education. The class will be taught in a discussion format based upon assigned readings.

Credits: 3

AAS 3457 - Issues in Civil Rights Law

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Effective Date 11/19/2010
An exploration of critical issues in modern civil rights law. We engage competing visions of racial equality through law by examining topics such as school desegregation, affirmative action, urban policymaking, and the crisis of mass incarceration. This course will also highlight the limitations of civil rights law and consider the ways in which the law is often complicit in perpetuating race, gender and class hierarchies.

Credits: 3

AAS 3471 - History of American Labor

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course examines the economic, cultural, and political lives of the US working classes from the end of the Civil War to the present.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Reading, class discussion, and written assignments on a special topic in African-American and African Studies. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor.

Credits: 3

AAS 3559 - New Course in African and African American Studies

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Effective Date 03/12/2024
New course in the subject of African and African American Studies.

Credits: 3

AAS 3645 - Musical Fictions

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Effective Date 10/06/2017
Over the course of the semester, we will explore the genre of the contemporary musical novel in order to better understand why writers and readers are so intrigued by the figure of the musician as a literary trope. Pairing close listening and music theory with close readings of seminal blues, jazz, reggae, mambo, calypso and rock novels set in the US, UK, Jamaica, Trinidad, France and Germany.

Credits: 3

AAS 3671 - History of the Civil Rights Movement

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Effective Date 10/09/2017
This course examines the history and legacy of the African American struggle for civil rights in twentieth century America. It provides students with a broad overview of the civil rights movement – the key issues, significant people and organizations, and pivotal events – as well as a deeper understanding of its scope, influence, legacy, and lessons for today.

Credits: 3

AAS 3710 - African Worlds through Life Stories

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Effective Date 10/06/2017
This course examines an array of African cultural worlds from the perspective of a variety of different life story genres. We will be addressing biography, autobiography, autofiction, memoirs, diaries, biographical documentary film and various artistic representations. Some critics claim that such genres, concentrating on the ‘individual’ in Western terms, are not appropriate for representing African experiences of personhood.

Credits: 3

AAS 3745 - Currents in African Literature

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
In this course, we will read a sampling of some exciting new works of fiction from Africa’s young and established writers. In particular, we will examine the literary innovations that African writers use to narrate issues affecting the continent such as dictatorship, the lingering effects of colonization, the postcolonial nation state, the traumas of war and geo-politics, religion, gender and sexuality, and migration, among others.

Credits: 3

AAS 3749 - Food and Meaning in Africa and the Diaspora

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Effective Date 02/28/2013
This course investigates the traditions and symbolics of food and eating in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora – wherever people of African descent have migrated or have been forced to move. This course will help students to investigate the way the foods people eat’ or don’t eat’ hold meaning for people within a variety of cultural contexts.Topics will include symbol, taboo, sexuality, bodies, ritual, kinship & beauty, among others.

Credits: 3

AAS 3760 - Reading Black Digital Culture

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Using a mix of scholarly and popular-press readings and an examination of digital artifacts, we will analyze the creations and contributions of Black digital culture from the mid-90s to the present. Covering topics including the early Black blogosphere; the creation of niche content sites like BlackPlanet.com; the emergence of Black Twitter; the circulation of memes, and the use second-screening.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken AAS 3559 #29 Reading Black Digital Culture

Credits: 3

AAS 3810 - Race, Culture and Inequality

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Effective Date 10/06/2017
This course will examine how culture matters for understanding race and social inequality. It will survey social science research about cultural forms such as everyday discourse, styles of dress, music, literature, visual arts, and media as they relate to race and inequality.

Credits: 3

AAS 3820 - Race, Medicine and Incarceration

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Effective Date 10/06/2017
This intermediate seminar course explores selected topics in the history of race, medicine, and incarceration (broadly defined) and the ways in which the captive black body has functioned as a site of medical exploitation and profit from the period of slavery to the present.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 10/06/2017
This course is an introduction to Afrofuturism, exploring race and alienness, race and technology, and race and modernity through global futuristic representations of blackness in TV, film, music, art, and literature.

Credits: 3

AAS 3853 - From Redlined to Subprime: Race and Real Estate in the US

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
This course examines the history of housing and real estate and explores its role in shaping the meaning and lived experience of race in modern America. We will learn how and why real estate ownership, investment, and development came to play a critical role in the formation and endurance of racial segregation, modern capitalism, and the built environment.

Credits: 3

AAS 4005 - Morven’s Enslaved and Descendant Communities

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Effective Date 03/27/2023
This course invites students to explore the complex, multilayered history and evolving interpretation of UVA’s Morven Farm, with a focus on the site’s 19th century enslaved and descendant communities. The course combines lectures, research, and seminar-style discussions with field trips to area archives and historic sites. Does not count toward 4000-level seminar requirement.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken AAS 4559 #3 Morven’s Enslaved Communities

Credits: 3

AAS 4070 - Distinguished Major Thesis I

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Students in the Distinguished Majors Program should enroll in this course for their first semester of thesis research.

Credits: 3

AAS 4080 - Distinguished Major Thesis II

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Second-semester DMP students should enroll in this course to complete their theses.

Credits: 3

AAS 4109 - Civil Rights Movement and the Media

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Effective Date 04/19/2013
Course examines the crucial relationship between the Civil Rights Movement and mass media from 1950s through early 1970s, looking at a variety of media forms: Hollywood cinema, network television, mainstream newspapers, photojournalism, the black press, and news as primary documents that can tell us something about American race relations during this period and how the nation responded to challenges posed by a powerful social change movement.

Credits: 3

AAS 4471 - Black Women and Work

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Effective Date 10/09/2017
This advanced seminar explores selected topics in the history of black women and work (broadly defined) in the United States. Using gender, race, and class as essential categories of analysis, this course is designed to help students better understand the myriad contributions working class black women have made to American history–across time and space–as slaves, convict laborers, domestic servants, sex workers, labor activists, and more.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 09/28/2015
Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminatiing in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year students but open to others.

Credits: 3

AAS 4501 - Advanced Research Seminar in History & AAS

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Effective Date 02/06/2024
Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminating in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year AAS and History students–double majors and others. Crosslisted with the History major seminar.

Credits: 4

AAS 4559 - New Course in African and African American Studies

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Effective Date 01/21/2022
New course in the subject of African and African American Studies.

Credits: 1 to 4

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

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Effective Date 02/06/2024
Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminating in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year students but open to others.

Credits: 3

AAS 4724 - Africa in the U.S. Media

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Effective Date 10/09/2017
This course will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of “Africa” and “Blackness” in this country. We will focus primarily on the context of the present-day United States. However, we will also address pre-colonial and colonial periods and touch on the role of popular media in particular contemporary African contexts.

Credits: 3

AAS 4725 - Queer Africas

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Effective Date 10/01/2018
How does “Africa” shape the contours of queerness? We will explore the complex iterations of afro-queer subjectivities in the the circum-Atlantic world. Importantly, we will examine the extent to which the afterlife of slavery in the Americas intersect with the state of postcoloniality in Africa, and how blackness and queerness get conditioned at these intersections. By providing an introduction to various artists, activists, and intellectuals in both Africa and its myriad diasporas, this interdisciplinary seminar will thus examine what it means to be both black and queer historically, spatially, and contemporarily.

Credits: 3

AAS 4845 - Black Speculative Fiction

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
This course seeks to explore the world of African American ‘speculative’ fiction. This genre of writing largely includes science fiction, fantasy fiction, and horror. In this class, we will read, watch, and discuss narratives by black writers of speculative fiction to better understand the motivation, tone, and agenda in the work of black writers. We will also consider the role of black culture and representation in the larger field.

Credits: 3

AAS 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 03/28/2009
Allows students to work on an individual research project. Students must propose a topic to an appropriate faculty member, submit a written proposal for approval, prepare an extensive annotated bibliography on relevant readings comparable to the reading list of a regular upper-level course, and complete a research paper of at least 20 pages.

Credits: 1 to 12

SWAH 1010 - Introductory Swahili I

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Effective Date 03/21/2017
Prerequisite: limited or no previous knowledge of Swahili.

Credits: 3

SWAH 1020 - Introductory Swahili II

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Prerequisite: SWAH 1010.

Credits: 3

SWAH 1559 - New Course in Swahili

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
New course in the subject of Swahili.

Credits: 1 to 4

SWAH 2559 - New Course in Swahili

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
New course in the subject of Swahili.

Credits: 1 to 4

American Sign Language

Courses

ASL 1010 - Elementary American Sign Language I

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces receptive and expressive American Sign Language skills, including basic vocabulary, sentence structure, classifiers, use of space, non-manual type indicators, and fingerspelling. Examines signing deaf people as a linguistic/cultural minority.

Credits: 4

ASL 1020 - Elementary American Sign Language II

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Effective Date 03/03/2017
Introduces receptive and expressive American Sign Language skills, including basic vocabulary, sentence structure, classifiers, use of space, non-manual type indicators, and fingerspelling. Examines signing deaf people as a linguistic/cultural minority. Prerequisite: ASL 1010 or successful completion of placement exam.

Requisites Must have completed ASL 1010

Credits: 4

ASL 1559 - New Course in American Sign Language

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
New Course offering in the subject of American Sign Language.

Credits: 1 to 4

ASL 2010 - Intermediate American Sign Language I

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Effective Date 03/03/2017
Continues training in American Sign Language, with focus on more complex sentence types, signs, and idioms. Considers ASL literary forms such as poetry, theater, and storytelling, as well as deaf history and other related topics. Prerequisite: ASL 1020 or successful completion of placement exam.

Requisites Must have completed ASL 1020

Credits: 3

ASL 2020 - Intermediate American Sign Language II

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Effective Date 03/03/2017
Continues training in American Sign Language, with focus on more complex sentence types, signs, and idioms. Considers ASL literary forms such as poetry, theater, and storytelling, as well as deaf history and other related topics. Prerequisite: ASL 2010 or successful completion of placement exam.

Requisites Must have completed ASL 2010

Credits: 3

ASL 2300 - Women and Gender In The Deaf World

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Examines the roles of deaf women inside and outside of the signing Deaf community. Using an interdisciplinary approach, considers such topics as language and cultural barriers, violence against women, sexuality, race, class, education, and work. Investigates disparities between deaf and hearing women and the choices available to d/Deaf women, individually and collectively, in contemporary culture. No prior knowledge of ASL is required.

Credits: 3

ASL 2450 - Deaf People, Society, and the Law

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This course will explore the Deaf community, discrimination, and laws affecting Deaf people in the United States. We will consider the experiences of Deaf people before and after such measures as the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 to gain insight into how the law affects social perceptions and people’s everyday lives. No prior knowledge of ASL or Deaf culture is required for this course.

Credits: 3

ASL 2559 - New Course in American Sign Language

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Effective Date 07/09/2013
New course offering the subject of American Sign Language.

Credits: 1 to 4

ASL 3010 - Conversational ASL

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Continues language and cultural instruction with emphasis on everyday conversation. Topics include common idioms and slang, explaining rules, discussing finances and major decisions, and storytelling techniques such as role-shifting and narrative structure. Students will be required to interact with deaf signers. Prerequisite: ASL 2020 or successful completion of placement interview.

Credits: 3

ASL 3015 - Language House Conversation in ASL

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Effective Date 12/14/2017
The ASL language course related to residency in the Shea Language House at UVA for students who have applied to and been accepted into the ASL Language Pod in the Shea House dormitory. Student residents will further develop their ASL language skills and understanding of Deaf culture through conversations among their peers in their dorm setting, weekly dinner meetings, and other arranged activities.

Credits: 1

ASL 3081 - History of the American Deaf Community

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This new course will examine the history of deaf people in the United States over the last three centuries, with particular attention to the emergence and evolution of a community of Deaf people who share a distinct sign language and culture. We will read both primary texts from specific periods and secondary sources. We will also view a few historical films. Prerequisite: none (thought a previous class in History or ASL is recommended)

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 04/03/2018
In Deaf culture, “coda” means the hearing child or children of Deaf adults. This course will examine the body of coda literature or “coda stories” (written memoir, movies, social media, etc.) and examine the issues and commonalities among them. Through discussion, writing, and other activities we’ll discover more about ourselves, cultures, and the human experience.

Credits: 3

ASL 3400 - Deafness in Literature and Film

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Effective Date 03/23/2018
This course will study the contradictory and telling ways that deaf people have been depicted over the last three centuries in addressing the question: What does deafness signify, especially in a western society that is centered upon speech? Our approach will be contrapuntal, juxtaposing canonical texts and mainstream films with relatively unknown works by deaf artists.

Credits: 3

ASL 3410 - Contemporary Disability Theory

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
This seminar offers an interdisciplinary approach to disability in the social, cultural, political, artistic, ethical, and medical spheres and their intersections. It also introduces students to critical theory concerned with the rights of the disabled.

Credits: 3

ASL 3450 - Comparative Linguistics: ASL and English

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Effective Date 11/06/2017
Describes spoken English and ASL (American Sign Language) on five levels: phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, and discourse and compares/contrasts them using real-world examples. Describes major linguistic components and processes of English and ASL. Introduces basic theories regarding ASL structure. Emphasizes ASL’s status as a natural language by comparing/contrasting similarities and unique differences between the two languages.

Credits: 3

ASL 3559 - New Course in American Sign Language

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Effective Date 04/15/2024
New course in the subject of American Sign Language.

Credits: 1 to 4

ASL 4112 - Psychology and Deaf People

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Effective Date 11/12/2013
This course will consider the psychological development and psychosocial issues of deaf people. Topics covered will include cognition, education, hearing and speech perception, impact of family interaction and communication approaches, influence of etiology/genetics, language development, literacy, mental health, social and personality development, interpersonal behavior, and current trends.

Credits: 3

ASL 4115 - Multiculturalism in the Deaf Community

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Effective Date 11/12/2013
Explores cultural influences on identity development, family systems, linguistics, engagement with educational and community agencies, and resilience within the Deaf community. The interaction of culture, identity and language will be highlighted and applied to future trends for groups within the Deaf community, such as children of Deaf adults, GLTB community members, ethnic minority groups, women, and persons with disabilities.

Credits: 3

ASL 4559 - New Course in American Sign Language

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Effective Date 04/03/2013
New course in the subject of American Sign Language.

Credits: 1 to 4

ASL 4750 - Contemporary Deaf Studies

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
Examines such topics as American deaf history; ASL linguistics; deaf education; cultural versus pathological views of deaf people; controversies over efforts to eliminate sign language and cure deafness; ASL poetry and storytelling; deafness in mainstream literature, film, and drama; deafness and other minority identities; and the international deaf community.

Credits: 3

ASL 4993 - Independent Study in American Sign Language

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Effective Date 01/26/2015
Independent Study in American Sign Language. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 1 to 3

American Studies

Courses

AMST 1050 - Slavery and Its Legacies

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Effective Date 03/27/2017
This course examines the history of slavery and its legacy at UVA and in the central Virginia region. The course aims to recover the experiences of enslaved individuals and their roles in building and maintaining the university, and to contextualize those experiences within Southern history.

Credits: 3

AMST 1060 - The Aftermath of Slavery at UVA and in Virginia

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Effective Date 12/07/2020
This course examines the post-1865 history at UVA and in the region, recovering the experiences of African Americans in building community in the face of racism, and also contextualizing those experiences within U.S. history. The course situates that local history in political and cultural context, tracing the advent of emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, desegregation, civil rights change, and even twenty-first century racism and inequality.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken AMST 1559 topic 4: Aftermath of Slavery, UVA&Virg

Credits: 3

AMST 1559 - New Course in American Studies

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Effective Date 11/04/2020
New Course in the subject of American Studies

Credits: 1 to 4

AMST 2001 - Introduction to American Studies

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course introduces students to American Studies, the interdisciplinary study of US culture. Students will be exposed to the three main categories of American Studies methods, historical analysis, close analysis, and fieldwork and to a broad variety of cultural forms, including films, photographs, music, sermons, journalism, fiction, speeches, court decisions, government documents, and web-based materials including social media sites.

Credits: 3

AMST 2130 - Narratives of Girlhood

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Effective Date 02/12/2024
This course treats a range of contemporary English language literatures about girlhood. Our comparative analyses of texts will pay particular attention to their play with genre and their use of literary devices – e.g., structure, voice, point of view, dialogue, temporality, language ? to render narratives about girlhood in contexts of (im)migration, loss, displacement, violence, revolution, war, and trauma.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken AMST 2559 topic #30 Narratives of Girlhood

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 09/28/2016
This class examines the role religion plays in defining a racial category known as whiteness. By reading cultural histories and ethnographies of the religious practices of various communities, we will examine how groups now classified as white (Irish, Italians, Poles, Jews, etc.) and religious images (depictions of Jesus and the Virgin Mary) “became white” and the role that religious practice played in this shift in racial classification.

Credits: 3

AMST 2210 - Arts of the Harlem Renaissance

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Effective Date 03/04/2009
Studies the literature, painting, photography and prints produced by New York artists based in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, and examines their relation to concurrent social, cultural, and aesthetic issues.

Credits: 3

AMST 2231 - Native Americans in Popular Culture

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Effective Date 03/27/2017
This course interrogates American Indian people in pop culture. Students historicize and analyze the representation of American Indians across such media as print, photography, cinema, music, and more recently in the twenty-first century, social media. This course asks students to think about the ways American Indian people have not only contributed to pop culture, but the desire for American Indians as cultural objects.

Credits: 3

AMST 2233 - Contemporary Native American Literature

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Effective Date 03/28/2017
In this course we use contemporary Native American literature, authored by individuals from diverse tribal backgrounds, as an accessible avenue to better understand the history of federal Indian policy, its complexity, legal construct, and the ways federal Indian policy influences the lives of American Indian people.

Credits: 3

AMST 2321 - Latinx Fiction and Film

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Effective Date 03/28/2017
This course explores the diverse and also converging experiences of Latinos in the US. We will read contemporary novels and poetry by Latinx authors from different Latinx groups (Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American and South American). We will discuss reasons for migration, concepts of the “border” and the impact of bilingualism on group identity. We will view films that depict the Latinx experience in the US.

Credits: 3

AMST 2420 - Cultural Landscapes of the United States

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Effective Date 10/10/2014
This course introduces the study of everyday landscapes as cultural spaces that illuminate the history of social and political developments in the U.S. It encourages a broad understanding of landscape across genres-painting, photography, fiction, journalism. Particular focus will be paid to the political economy of landscapes to explore the connections between landscape and public policy from multiple vantage points.

Credits: 3

AMST 2460 - Language in the U.S.

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Effective Date 10/13/2014
Through diverse academic/theoretical readings and spoken, written, and visual material, students will learn to analyze, evaluate, and construct arguments as related to critical linguistic and cultural analysis of primary and secondary source material. This course examines complex relationships among American language and cultural practices, American history, race, gender, and class ideologies, and social identities.

Credits: 3

AMST 2470 - Disney

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Effective Date 10/09/2014
This discussion course examines the cultural role of Disney and its effects on the visual arts in the 20th and 21st centuries. It considers a range of material to interrogate how Disney as both a corporation and a cultural icon promotes and reinforces national ideals. Presented both chronologically and thematically, students engage with aesthetic, ideological and theoretical concerns regarding history, identity, space/place, and popular culture.

Credits: 3

AMST 2500 - Major Works for American Studies

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Effective Date 10/09/2023
Topics vary according to instructor. The goal of the course is to introduce students to interdisciplinary work in American Studies by juxtaposing works across disciplinary boundaries and from different methodological perspectives.

Credits: 3

AMST 2559 - New Course in American Studies

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Effective Date 04/16/2024
New Course in subject of American Studies.

Credits: 1 to 4

AMST 2660 - Spiritual But Not Religious: Spirituality in America

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
What does “spiritual but not religious” mean, and why has it become such a pervasive self-description in contemporary America? This interdisciplinary course surveys spirituality in America, with a particular eye for the relationship between spirituality and formal religion, on the one hand, and secular modes of understanding the self, such as psychology, on the other.

Credits: 3

AMST 2753 - Arts and Cultures of the Slave South

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Effective Date 07/25/2009
This interdisciplinary course covers the American South to the Civil War. While the course centers on the visual arts- architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture- it is not designed as a regional history of art, but an exploration of the interrelations between history, material and visual cultures, foodways, music and literature in the formation of Southern identities.

Credits: 4

AMST 3001 - Theories and Methods of American Studies

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
This seminar course will introduce majors to various theories and methods for the practice of American Studies. The three goals of the seminars are (1) to make students aware of their own interpretive practices; (2) to equip them with information and conceptual tools they will need for advanced work in American Studies; and (3) to provide them with comparative approaches to the study of various aspects of the United States. Prerequisites: American Studies Major

Requisites AMST majors/minors

Credits: 3

AMST 3050 - Critical Ethnic Studies

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Effective Date 03/27/2017
This core seminar is an introduction to key issues and methods in the comparative and critical study of ethnicity and race. The course highlights an interdisciplinary approach to the studies of systematic oppression in the United States, and the global implication of these structures. We will consider how Ethnic Studies presents a progressive intellectual challenge to global and local configurations of power in the name of global justice.

Credits: 3

AMST 3180 - Introduction to Asian American Studies

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
An interdisciplinary introduction to the culture and history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. Examines ethnic communities such as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Asian Indian, and Native Hawaiian, through themes such as immigration, labor, cultural production, war, assimilation, and politics. Texts are drawn from genres such as legal cases, short fiction, musicals, documentaries, visual art, and drama.

Credits: 3

AMST 3200 - African American Political Thought

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Effective Date 02/15/2017
This course explores the critical and the constructive dimensions of African American political thought from slavery to the present. We will assess the claims that black Americans have made upon the polity, how they have defined themselves, and how they have sought to redefine key terms of political life such as citizenship, equality, freedom, and power.

Credits: 3

AMST 3221 - Hands-On Public History: Slavery and Reconstruction

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
“Public history” is delivered to a non-academic audience, often at historic sites, museums, archives, and on digital platforms. Some films, podcasts, fiction, and poetry might also be considered public history. This course uses all of those formats to investigate how the history of slavery and Reconstruction are presented to the public. Collaboration with local community groups and field trips to historic sites are key components of this class.

Credits: 3

AMST 3222 - Hands-On Public History: Slavery and Reconstruction, Part II

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Effective Date 09/21/2021
Hands-On Public History is designed as a year-long course. This course continues the curriculum of AMST 3221.

Requisites Student must have completed AMST 3221

Credits: 3

AMST 3250 - Black Protest Narrative

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Effective Date 05/01/2024
This course studies modern racial protest expressed through African American narrative art from the 1930s to 1980s, focusing on Civil Rights, Black Power, Black Panthers, womanism, black gay/lesbian liberation movements, and black postmodernism. We begin our study with the most famous protest novel, Richard Wright’s Native Son. Then we examine other narratives including works by Angelo Herndon, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Credits: 3

AMST 3280 - Introduction to Native American Studies: (Mis)Representations

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Effective Date 10/01/2020
An intro to the broad field of Native Studies, this class focuses on themes of representation and erasure. We read Indigenous scholars and draw from current events, pop culture, and historical narrative to explore complex relationships between historical and contemporary issues that Indigenous peoples face in the US. We examine the foundations of Native representations and their connections to critical issues in Native communities.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken AMST 2559 topic 12: Intro Native American Studies

Credits: 3

AMST 3300 - Introduction to Latinx Studies

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
AMST 3300 offers students close study of significant texts and other cultural forms representing the perspective and contributions of the main Latinx populations in the United States–including those of Puerto Rican, Chicano, Dominican, Central American and Cuban American origin–in historical context and within a theoretical, analytical framework.

Credits: 3

AMST 3321 - Race and Ethnicity in Latinx Literature

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Effective Date 03/28/2017
This course examines the construction of race and ethnicity in Latinx literature by examining key texts by individuals from varying Latinx groups in the US. We will examine how US-American identity shapes Latinx notions of race and how the authors’ connections with Latin America and the Caribbean do the same. We will explore from a hemispheric perspective how race and ethnicity are depicted in Latinx literature and culture.

Credits: 3

AMST 3322 - Latinx Feminisms

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Effective Date 03/28/2017
In this course we will read contemporary novels by self-identified Latina writers. From Barrio to Chica Lit, we will ask ourselves how the models of womanhood and female liberation and autonomy presented in these texts align themselves and/or challenge U.S. American, Latin American, European and Latina feminist theory to date.

Credits: 3

AMST 3323 - Hemispheric Latinx Literature and Culture

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Effective Date 03/28/2017
This course offers a survey of Latinx literature and film from a hemispheric perspective. Engaging texts from colonial times to the present day, we explore how the histories of the US, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia come together to produce novels, poems, essays and films that are now referred to as distinctly Latinx.

Credits: 3

AMST 3354 - Race and Media

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Effective Date 03/28/2017
We explore issues related to white supremacy, anti-blackness, mixed-race, settler colonialism, immigrant and transqueer phobia, and the production of racial difference. We examine these topics within their historical context and explore representations across all forms of visual culture, predominantly television but with reference to advertising, film, music, and digital media.

Credits: 3

AMST 3355 - Border Media

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Effective Date 12/09/2016
In this course we consider the depiction of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspective of popular and mass media cultures. We examine the border as a site of cultural exchanges, resistance and critical negotiation; interchanges that impact the construction of race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender from both sides of the border.

Credits: 3

AMST 3407 - Racial Borders and American Cinema

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Effective Date 03/27/2017
This class explores how re-occurring images of racial and ethnic minorities such as African Americans, Jews, Asians, Native Americans and Latino/as are represented in film and shows visual images of racial interactions and boundaries of human relations that tackle topics such as immigration, inter-racial relationships and racial passing.

Credits: 3

AMST 3422 - Point of View Journalism

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
This course analyzes ‘point-of-view’ journalism as a controversial but credible alternative to the dominant model of ‘objectivity’ in the U.S. news media. It will survey point-of-view journalists from Benjamin Franklin to the modern blog.

Credits: 3

AMST 3425 - American Material Culture

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Effective Date 02/15/2017
This course will introduce you to the study of material culture, the physical stuff that is part of human life. Material culture includes everything we make and use, from food and clothing to art and buildings. This course is organized into six sections, the first introducing the idea of material culture, and the other five following the life cycle of an object: material, making, designing, selling, using.

Credits: 3

AMST 3427 - Gender, Things, and Difference

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Effective Date 09/05/2019
This class explores how material culture, the physical stuff that is part of human life, is used to help to construct and express gendered and other forms of difference. We will look at how bodies and clothes shape our understanding of our own and others’ identities, how we imbue objects with gender, how the food we cook and eat carries cultural meanings, and how the design of buildings and spaces structures gender.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken AMST 3559 topic 9: Gender, Things, and Difference

Credits: 3

AMST 3460 - Reading America at Home and Abroad

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Effective Date 10/10/2014
This course explores ideas of America, as they are constructed both at “home” in the United States, and “abroad,” in and through a number of global locales. It considers a range of representations, in literature, art, film and music, and also the everyday life of American culture. In asking how America has seen itself and how others have seen America, we will effectively theorize the concepts of both nation and globality.

Credits: 3

AMST 3463 - Language and New Media

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Effective Date 09/12/2018
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of how language both shapes and is shaped by American society with a focus on New Media. Draws on critical and analytical tools and socio-cultural theories to examine this dynamic relationship in Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, texting, Instagram, YouTube, and more.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 10/03/2017
Students in this course will examine and interpret conceptions of America from the point of view of novelists, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars in the Global South. American and Global South landscapes will be a focus of the class, as will images, artifacts, and material culture that reveal Global South views of the United States.

Credits: 3

AMST 3470 - Race, Gender, and Empire: Cultures of US Imperialism

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Effective Date 12/07/2020
In this course we emphasize how U.S. power has been exercised in the world with focus on intersections of cultural, political, and economic power. We analyze how power is produced and contested through language and media, and how hegemonic discourses – the dominant and most powerful blocs defining U.S. society and empire – are produced. We are equally concerned with cracks and contradictions in these discourses, and people who challenge them.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken AMST 3559 topic 38: Race, Gender, & Empire

Credits: 3

AMST 3471 - American Cinema

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Effective Date 03/24/2021
This course provides an introduction to film studies through an examination of American film throughout the 20th & 21st centuries. We will learn basic film techniques for visual analysis, and consider the social, economic, and historical forces that have shaped the production, distribution & reception of film in the US Examples will be drawn from various genres: melodrama, horror, sci-fi, musical, Westerns, war films, documentary, animation, etc.

Credits: 3

AMST 3491 - Rural Poverty in Our Time

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Effective Date 05/05/2009
This course will use an interdisciplinary format and document based approach to explore the history of non-urban poverty in the US South from the 1930s to the present. Weaving together the social histories of poor people, the political history of poverty policies, and the history of representations of poverty, the course follows historical cycles of attention and neglect during the Great Depression, the War on Poverty, and the present.

Credits: 3

AMST 3500 - Topics in American Studies

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Effective Date 10/06/2023
Topics vary according to instructor.

Credits: 3

AMST 3559 - New Course in American Studies

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Effective Date 03/26/2024
New Course in the subject of American Studies

Credits: 1 to 4

AMST 3610 - Asian Americans & Popular Culture

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Effective Date 03/24/2023
Asian Americans and Popular Culture surveys a history of Asian American racialization, experiences, and subject formation in the United States through film, comics, TV, theatre, music, public protest, sports, and social media. Students will learn how to analyze and develop creative work to respond to and re/frame debates on the politics of representation, exoticization, cultural appropriation, transnationalism, hybridity, and US immigration laws.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken AMST 3559 topic #43 Asian Americans & Pop Culture

Credits: 3

AMST 3630 - Vietnam War in Literature and Film

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Effective Date 03/25/2016
In the US, Vietnam signifies not a country but a lasting syndrome that haunts American politics and society, from foreign policy to popular culture. But what of the millions of Southeast Asian refugees the War created? What are the lasting legacies of the Vietnam War for Southeast Asian diasporic communities? We will examine literature and film (fictional and documentary) made by and about Americans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong.

Credits: 3

AMST 3641 - Native America

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
This course will introduce students to deep history of Native North America. Using primary and secondary sources, we will cover such topics as mutually beneficial trade and diplomatic relations between Natives and newcomers; the politics of empire; U.S. expansion; treaties and land dispossession; ecological, demographic, and social change; pan-Indian movements; legal and political activism; and many, many others.

Credits: 3

AMST 3710 - Mapping Black Landscapes

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
Students will learn to use digital mapping and narratives as tools of reparative history. The class will partner with community organizations documenting Black history in Virginia. Students will do research in historical archives and public records; interview community members; and participate in field work. Readings will address ethical aspects of doing community history and explore approaches to the history of slavery and Reconstruction.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken AMST 3559 topic #46 Mapping Black Landscapes

Credits: 3

AMST 3740 - Cultures of Hip-Hop

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Effective Date 12/09/2016
This course explores the origins and impacts of American hip-hop as a cultural form in the last forty years, and maps the ways that a local subculture born of an urban underclass has risen to become arguably the dominant form of 21st-century global popular culture. While primarily focused on music, we will also explore how forms such as dance, visual art, film, and literature have influenced and been influenced by hip-hop style and culture.

Credits: 3

AMST 3790 - Moving On: Migration in/to the US

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Effective Date 03/02/2022
This class examines the history of voluntary, coerced, and forced migration in the U.S., tracing the paths of migrating groups and their impact on urban, suburban, and rural landscapes. We’ll dig for cultural clues to changing attitudes about migration over time. Photographs, videos, books, movies, government records, poems, podcasts, paintings, comic strips, museums, manifestos: you name it, we’ll analyze it for this class.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken AMST 3559 topic 41 Moving On: Migration in/to US

Credits: 3

AMST 3880 - Literature of the South

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Analyzes selected works of literature by major Southern writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 05/26/2017
In this course we will read texts by Latinx writers from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. We will explore how their works speak to issues of race, colonialism and imperialism based on their individual and shared histories. We will discuss their different political histories and migration experiences and how these in turn impact their literary and artistic productions in the US.

Credits: 3

AMST 4351 - Aural Histories: Edison to Auto-Tune

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Effective Date 09/11/2019
This is a course about the role of technology and technological innovation in the production and consumption of 20th and 21st century music. We will begin with the invention of the phonograph and the birth of the recording industry and continue up through the present day.

Credits: 3

AMST 4401 - Literature of the Americas

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Effective Date 10/09/2014
This course explores a wide range of (broadly defined) fictions from and about the Americas, from writings by Columbus and the conquistadors through modern and contemporary novels, novellas, and short stories. Students consider the intersection of fiction and history through topics that include New world “discovery” and conquest; borderlands and contact zones; slavery and revolution; and the haunting of the global present by the colonial past.

Credits: 3

AMST 4403 - Transamerican Encounters

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Effective Date 10/10/2014
This comparative, interdisciplinary course focuses on the encounter between the U.S. and the wider Americas as represented in literature, history, and film. Working across a range of historical periods, it explores the varied international contexts underpinning narratives of U.S. national identity and history. It also considers how cultural forms access histories and perspectives outside of official accounts of the past and present.

Credits: 3

AMST 4410 - Censorship

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Effective Date 10/13/2014
This course examines the social, legal, aesthetic, and theoretical issues raised by censorship of art, mass media, literature, film, and music in the U.S. While censorship is usually associated with explicit sexuality, we will also look at cases involving racial stereotyping, violence, social disorder, and religion. Our cases will center around novels, art, film, music, mass media, and other cultural phenomena.

Credits: 3

AMST 4430 - Documentary Film and the South

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Effective Date 10/13/2014
This course explores how documentary filmmakers have represented the US South from the 1930s through the end of the twentieth century and the place of films made in and about the region in the history of documentary film. Students will conduct original research, shape their findings into paper, and make their own documentary short about a topic of their choosing.

Credits: 3

AMST 4440 - Visions of Apocalypse in American Culture

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Effective Date 10/09/2014
This course examines how Americans have envisioned the end of the world. Through religious and cultural history and contemporary cultural studies, it considers the ways social, political, and economic tensions are reflected in visions of the apocalypse. It explores the impact of imagined futures on previous generations, and how religious and secular ideologies of apocalypticism have shaped social movements, politics, and popular culture.

Credits: 3

AMST 4462 - Harlem Stories

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Harlem has been many things to many people - capital of a global African diaspora, an early instance of Italian and Jewish immigrant communities, home to an important “el barrio,” a representative site of contemporary gentrification and, above all, a place for racial and ethnic minoritization. This course will explore many of those lived and symbolic Harlems from the early twentieth century to the present.

Credits: 3

AMST 4470 - American Film Noir

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Effective Date 10/13/2014
This seminar examines the phenomenon of American Film Noir produced during the 1940s and 50s. Using urban culture to frame debates about films noir, it explores the ways in which “the city” is represented as a problematic subject and a frequent resource immediately before and after World War II. The course also discusses the influences of early twentieth-century photography, American Scene art, and Abstract Expressionist painting.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 10/13/2014
This course examines American cinema produced in Hollywood during the 1930s. While the Great Depression serves as an important backdrop to our investigation, we will interrogate how issues such as ethnic/racial representation, shifting gender roles, sexuality, and urbanity are mediated in popular cinema in this decade. The course also considers the studio system, the Hayes Code, stardom, and changes within narrative and film techniques.

Credits: 3

AMST 4474 - Stardom and American Cinema

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Effective Date 10/09/2014
This course examines the role of stardom and star performance in American cinema from the silent era to the present. Using social history, cultural studies and film criticism theory, we will explore topics such as the cultural patterns of stardom, constructions and subversions of star identity, and the ways in which issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality affect the star image both inside and outside cinema.

Credits: 3

AMST 4500 - Fourth-Year Seminar in American Studies

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Effective Date 10/06/2023
This seminar is intended to focus study, research, and discussion on a single period, topic, or issue, such as the Great Awakening, the Civil War, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, or the 1960s. Topics vary.

Credits: 3

AMST 4559 - New Course in American Studies

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Effective Date 05/13/2024
New Course in the subject of American Studies.

Credits: 1 to 4

AMST 4893 - Independent Study in Asian Pacific American Studies

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Effective Date 12/02/2016
An elective course for students in the Asian Pacific American Studies minor. Students will work with an APAS core faculty member to support the student’s own research. Topics vary, and must be approved by the APAS Director.

Credits: 3

AMST 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
An elective course for American Studies majors who have completed AMST 3001-3002. Students will work with an American Studies faculty member to support the student’s own research. Topics vary, and must be approved by the Program Director. Prerequisite: AMST 3001, 3002, Instructor Consent.

Credits: 1 to 3

AMST 4998 - Distinguished Majors Program Thesis Research

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Effective Date 01/26/2017
Students spend the fall semester of their 4th years working closely with a faculty advisor to conduct research and begin writing their Distinguished Majors Program (DMP) thesis.

Credits: 3

AMST 4999 - Distinguished Majors Thesis Seminar

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This workshop is for American Studies majors who have been admitted to the DMP program. Students will discuss the progress of their own and each other’s papers, with particular attention to the research and writing processes. At the instructor’s discretion, students will also read key works in the field of American Studies. Prerequisites: admission to DMP.

Credits: 3

Anthropology

Courses

ANTH 1010 - Introduction to Anthropology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This is a broad introductory course covering race, language, and culture, both as intellectual concepts and as political realities. Topics include race and culture as explanations of human affairs, the relationship of language to thought, cultural diversity and cultural relativity, and cultural approaches to current crises.

Credits: 3

ANTH 1050 - Anthropology of Globalization

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Anthropology of Globalization

Credits: 3

ANTH 1559 - New Course in Anthropology

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Effective Date 03/13/2018
New course in the subject of anthropology.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2040 - Tell Me Who You Are: Ethnographic Interviewing and Participatory Research

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
How can we deepen our understanding of other people and their experience? This course introduces the research method of ethnographic interviewing and participatory field research, which is valued in public health, development, marketing, user experience design, activism, education, and scholarship. Students gain practical experience conducting independent ethnographic research about student life and presenting the results in a public blog.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2060 - Comparing World Racisms

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Effective Date 04/28/2023
What can we learn about racism by comparing the forms it takes in different parts of the world? In this course we will compare anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and other racisms in a selection of the following places and times: Brazil, Japan, Germany, South Africa, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine, China, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Canada, and the U.S.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ANTH 2559 topic #42 Comparing World Racisms

Credits: 3

ANTH 2120 - The Concept of Culture

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Effective Date 09/19/2013
Culture is the central concept that anthropologists use to understand the striking differences among human societies and how people organize the meaningful parts of their lives. In this course we explore this diversity, examine its basis in neuroplasticity and human development, and consider its implications for human nature, cognition, creativity, and identity. By learning about other cultures, we gain new understanding of ourselves.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2153 - North American Indians

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Ethnological treatment of the aboriginal populations of the New World based on the findings of archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, biological anthropology, and social anthropology.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2160 - Culture and the Environment

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
This course explores anthropological understandings of culture and the environment, particularly with respect to the ecology of human perception, histories of colonialism and related inequalities, food production, consumerism, nature conservation, the Anthropocene concept, and pervasive environmental logics of globalizing capitalism.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2210 - Marriage and the Family

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Compares domestic groups in Western and non-Western societies. Considers the kinds of sexual unions legitimized in different cultures, patterns of childrearing, causes and effects of divorce, and the changing relations between the family and society.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2230 - Fantasy and Social Values

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines imaginary societies, in particular those in science fiction novels, to see how they reflect the problems and tensions of real social life. Focuses on ‘alternate cultures’ and fictional societal models.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2250 - Nationalism, Racism, Multiculturalism

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Effective Date 04/11/2017
Introductory course in which the concepts of culture, multiculturalism, race, racism, and nationalism are critically examined in terms of how they are used and structure social relations in American society and, by comparison, how they are defined in other cultures throughout the world.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2260 - Water Worlds: the Anthropology of Water

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Effective Date 02/17/2023
This course examines the many ways that people have managed, shared and made claim to water?the construction of water worlds. It also looks at waterscapes, dam projects, water in cities, and wastewater and sewage systems globally. Importantly, the course addresses conflicting notions of how to value water, including contemporary debates about the sale of water and water rights, and examines the notion that water will be the locus of future wars.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2262 - Community Science: From Participation to Environmental Justice

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Effective Date 11/20/2023
Community Science (aka Citizen Science, Street Science, People’s Science) encourages people without extensive formal scientific training to participate in scientific research. Lectures and weekly practicums focus on sociocultural aspects of different types of CS projects: crowdsourced, co-created, grassroots, and fugitive. Other topics include Indigenous science, CS as social justice, citizen archaeology, and bridging the amateur/expert divide.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ANTH 2559 topic #46 Community Science

Credits: 3

ANTH 2270 - Race, Gender, and Medical Science

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Explores the social and cultural dimensions of biomedical practice and experience in the United States. Focuses on practitioner and patient, asking about the ways in which race, gender, and socio-economic status contour professional identity and socialization, how such factors influence the experience, and course of, illness, and how they have shaped the structures and institutions of biomedicine over time.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2280 - Medical Anthropology

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
The course introduces medical anthropology, and contextualizes bodies, suffering, healing and health. It is organized thematically around a critical humanist approach, along with perspectives from political economy and social constructionism. The aim of the course is to provide a broad understanding of the relationship between culture, healing (including and especially the Western form of healing known as biomedicine), health and political power.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2285 - Anthropology of Development and Humanitarianism

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Effective Date 10/01/2015
This course explores anthropological writings on development and humanitarianism to better understand the historical context and contemporary practice of these distinct modes of world saving. We will attend to critiques of development and humanitarianism, and will also consider writings by anthropologists who champion the humanitarian project

Credits: 3

ANTH 2310 - Symbol and Ritual

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies the foundations of symbolism from the perspective of anthropology. Topics include signs and symbols, and the symbolism of categorical orders as expressed in cosmology, totemism, and myth.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2320 - Anthropology of Religion

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Explores anthropological approaches to religion, in the context of this discipline’s century-old project to understand peoples’ conceptions of the world in which they live.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2340 - Anthropology of Birth and Death

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Comparative examination of beliefs, rites, and symbolism concerning birth and death in selected civilizations.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2360 - Don Juan and Castaneda

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Analyzes the conceptual content in Castaneda’s writings as an exploration of an exotic world view. Focuses on the concepts of power, transformation, and figure-ground reversal.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2365 - Art and Anthropology

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
The course emphasizes art in small-scale (contemporary) societies (sometimes called ethnic art or “primitive art”). It includes a survey of aesthetic productions of major areas throughout the world (Australia, Africa, Oceania, Native America, Meso-America). Included are such issues as art and cultural identity, tourist arts, anonymity, authenticity, the question of universal aesthetic cannons, exhibiting cultures,and the impact of globalization.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2370 - Japanese Culture

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Effective Date 02/10/2014
This course offers an introductory survey of Japan from an anthropological perspective. It is open without prerequisite to anyone with a curiosity about what is arguably the most important non-Western society of the last 100 years, and to anyone concerned about the diverse conditions of modern life. We will range over many aspects of contemporary Japan, and draw on scholarship in history, literature, religion, and the various social sciences.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2375 - Disaster

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Effective Date 11/12/2014
Sociocultural perspectives on disaster, including analysis of the manufacture of disaster, debates on societal collapse, apocalyptic thought, disaster management discourse, how disasters mobilize affect, disaster movies, and disasters as political allegory. Students work through a series of case studies from different societies that cover “natural,” industrial, and chronic disasters, as well as doomsday scenarios.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2400 - Language and Culture

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the interrelationships of linguistic, cultural, and social phenomena with emphasis on the importance of these interrelationships in interpreting human behavior. No prior knowledge of linguistics is required.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2405 - Your Heritage Language

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Effective Date 04/28/2023
This course explores the languages spoken with varying degrees of fluency within students’ own families and home communities, either at present or in recent generations. The course prepares students to draw upon linguistic diversity as a positive resource in developing their own identities and interacting with others in our multicultural society.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ANTH 2559 topic #44 Your Heritage Language

Credits: 3

ANTH 2410 - Sociolinguistics

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Reviews key findings in the study of language variation. Explores the use of language to express identity and social difference.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2415 - Language in Human Evolution

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Effective Date 10/03/2017
Examines the evolution of our capacity for language along with the development of human ways of cooperating in engaged social interaction. Course integrates cognitive, cultural, social, and biological aspects of language in comparative perspective. How is the familiar shape of language today the result of evolutionary and developmental processes involving the form, function, meaning and use of signs and symbols in social ecologies?

Credits: 3

ANTH 2420 - Language and Gender

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies how differences in pronunciation, vocabulary choice, non-verbal communication, and/or communicative style serve as social markers of gender identity and differentiation in Western and non-Western cultures. Includes critical analysis of theory and methodology of social science research on gender and language.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2440 - Language and Cinema

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Effective Date 04/14/2011
Looks historically at speech and language in Hollywood movies, including the technological challenges and artistic theories and controversies attending the transition from silent to sound films. Focuses on the ways that gender, racial, ethnic, and national identities are constructed through the representation of speech, dialect, and accent. Introduces semiotics but requires no knowledge of linguistics, or film studies.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2450 - Language & Environment

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
In this course, students rethink assumptions about what “language” and “environment” are. Both depend on living systems to be rendered meaningful, and together we will wrestle with how these two ideas can be brought into relation and the implications associated with different frames of understanding. There are many perspectives on the issues raised in this course, and you will receive a broad introduction to that diversity.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Covers Jewish languages Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and Hebrew from historical, linguistic, and literary perspectives. Explores the relations between communities and languages, the nature of diaspora, and the death and revival of languages. No prior knowledge of these languages is required. This course is cross-listed with MEST 2470.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2500 - Cultures, Regions, and Civilizations

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Effective Date 08/01/2016
Intensive studies of particular world regions, societies, cultures, and civilizations.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2541 - Topics in Linguistics

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Effective Date 07/27/2021
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2557 - Culture Through Film

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Effective Date 05/07/2020
Topics to be announced prior to each semester covering the diversity of human cultural worlds and the field of anthropology as presented through film. A variety of ethnographic and commercial films will be viewed and discussed in conjunction with readings.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2559 - New Course in Anthropology

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Effective Date 04/10/2024
New course in the subject of anthropology.

Credits: 1 to 4

ANTH 2560 - Hierarchy and Equality

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Effective Date 12/22/2015
Provides an anthropological perspective on relations of inequality, subordination, and class in diverse societies, along with consideration of American ideas of egalitarianism, meritocracy, and individualism. Specific topics will be announced prior to each semester.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2575 - Migrants and Minorities

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Effective Date 04/06/2010
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with migration and migrants, and the experience of ethnic and racial minorities.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2589 - Topics in Archaeology

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Effective Date 03/25/2021
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2590 - Social and Cultural Anthropology

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Effective Date 08/09/2022
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2620 - Sex, Gender, and Culture

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Examines the manner in which ideas about sexuality and gender are constructed differently cross-culturally and how these ideas give shape to other social phenomena, relationships, and practices.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2621 - Culture, Gender and Violence

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Effective Date 02/17/2016
Beginning with a discussion of the cultural patterning of social action, this course examines sex, gender, and sexuality as culturally constructed and socially experienced, with special attention to non-Western examples that contrast with sex and gender norms in the U.S. The course then focuses on gender violence at U.S. universities, asking whether structural violence can be effectively countered by programs that focus on individual responses.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2625 - Imagining Africa

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Africa is commonly imagined in the West as an unproblematically bounded and undifferentiated entity. This course engages and moves beyond western traditions of story telling about Africa to explore diverse systems of imagining Africa’s multi-diasporic realities. Imagining Africa is never a matter of pure abstraction, but entangled in material struggles and collective memory, and taking place at diverse and interconnected scales and locales. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010

Credits: 3

ANTH 2800 - Introduction to Archaeology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Topics include alternative theories of prehistoric culture change, dating methods, excavation and survey techniques, and the reconstruction of the economy, social organization, and religion of prehistoric societies.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2810 - Human Origins

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the physical and cultural evolution of humans from the initial appearance of hominids to the development of animal and plant domestication in different areas of the world. Topics include the development of biological capabilities such as bipedal walking and speech, the evolution of characteristics of human cultural systems such as economic organization and technology, and explanations for the development of domestication.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2820 - The Emergence of States and Cities

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Surveys patterns in the development of prehistoric civilizations in different areas of the world including the Inca of Peru, the Maya, the Aztec of Mexico, and the ancient Middle East.

Credits: 3

ANTH 2823 - The Materiality of Death and Dying

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Effective Date 12/10/2021
This course will focus on the materiality of death, and the human experience of death and dying. By using archaeological, ethnographic and ethnohistoric investigations, this course will review different theoretical perspectives on the treatment of the deceased in ancient societies, the kinds of data generated from such studies, and their relationship to status, gender, agency and power.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ANTH 2589 topic #15 Materiality of Death & Dying

Credits: 3

ANTH 2890 - Unearthing the Past

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
An introduction to prehistory covering 4 million years of human physical evolution and 2.5 million years of human cultural evolution. Provides students with an understanding of how archaeologists reconstruct the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. Covers some major developments in prehistory such as origins of modern humans, the rise of the first complex societies & agriculture, and the emergence of ancient civilizations in North America.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3010 - Theory and History of Anthropology

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Effective Date 05/04/2017
Overview of the major theoretical positions which have structured anthropological thought over the past century.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3020 - Using Anthropology

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
The theoretical, methodological and ethical practice of an engaged anthropology is the subject of this course, We begin with a history of applied anthropology. We then examine case studies that demonstrate the unique practices of contemporary sociocultural, linguistic, archaeological and bioanthropological anthropology in the areas of policy and civic engagement.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3070 - Introduction to Musical Ethnography

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Effective Date 04/06/2016
Explores music and sound as a social practice, using genres and traditions from throughout the world.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3100 - Indigenous Landscapes

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Effective Date 12/12/2018
This course engages with ways that historical process are inscribed in landscapes, which are the traditional territories of indigenous communities and have also been shaped by colonialism, extractive enterprise, and nature conservation. It challenges students to examine their assumptions to examine ways in which dominant values and stories are inscribed in landscapes and made to appear natural, and how indigenous people contest these processes.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3105 - Love and Romantic Intimacies

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Effective Date 01/30/2015
This course offers an introduction to recent anthropological scholarship on romance to examine how intimate relationships shape human experiences. Through readings and films, we investigate the increasingly popular idealization of “companionate marriages,” in which spouses are ideally linked by affection. Our examples include queer and straight experiences, and a diversity of racial, cultural, classed, and gendered representations.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3129 - Marriage, Mortality, Fertility

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Explores the ways that culturally formed systems of values and family organization affect population processes in a variety of cultures.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3130 - Disease, Epidemics and Society

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Effective Date 11/18/2016
Topics covered in this course will include emerging diseases and leading killers in the twenty-first century, disease ecology, disease history and mortality transitions, the sociology of epidemics, the role of epidemiology in the mobilization of public health resources to confront epidemics, and the social processes by which the groups become stigmatized during disease outbreaks. Prerequisite: introductory anth or soc course

Credits: 3

ANTH 3152 - Rainforests of Flesh / Peoples of Spirit

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Ethnographies of Amazonian Peoples and the new anthropological theories about their way of life.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3155 - Anthropology of Everyday American Life

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Provides an anthropological perspective of modern American society. Traces the development of individualism through American historical and institutional development, using as primary sources of data religious movements, mythology as conveyed in historical writings, novels, and the cinema, and the creation of modern American urban life. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3170 - Anthropology of Media

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Explores the cultural life of media and the mediation of cultural life through photography, radio, television, advertising, the Internet, and other technologies.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 01/30/2015
Today’s personal, social, political, and economic worlds are all affected by digital media and networked publics. Together we will explore both the literature about and direct experience of these new literacies: research foundations and best practices of individual digital participation and collective participatory culture, the use of collaborative media and methodologies, and the application of network know-how to life online.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3175 - Native American Art: The Astor Collection

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
This is an upper-level anthropology course which is intended to engage students in the study of Native American art as well as the history and current debate over the representation of Native American culture and history in American museums. After a thorough review of the literature on those topics, the class focuses specifically on the Astor collection owned by the University of Virginia.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3205 - Modern Families, Global Worlds

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Effective Date 03/25/2016
This course examines the importance of kinship for the structure and dynamics of transnational economic relations and for the meaning and constitution of nation and citizenship in the contemporary global political economy.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3220 - Economic Anthropology

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Comparative analysis of different forms of production, circulation, and consumption in primitive and modern societies. Exploration of the applicability of modern economic theory developed for modern societies to primitive societies and to those societies being forced into the modern world system.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3240 - The Anthropology of Food

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This course approaches food from various social science perspectives, focusing on historically and culturally variable forms of food production, exchange, preparation and consumption as the means through which both individual and social bodies are constructed and reproduced. We examine food and the environment; food and colonialism; the globalization of food and food production; food and identities; and food and bodies.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3255 - Anthropology of Time and Space

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Effective Date 11/10/2014
All societies position themselves in space and time. This course samples the discussion of the ways social systems have configured spatial/temporal orders. It considers both internalized conceptions of time and space and the ways an analyst might view space and time as external factors orientating a society’s existence. And it samples classic discussions of spatial-temporal orientations in small and large, “pre-modern” and “modern” societies.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3260 - Globalization and Development

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Explores how globalization and development affect the lives of people in different parts of the world. Topics include poverty, inequality, and the role of governments and international agencies.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3265 - Cultures, Spaces, and Worldviews of International Aid

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Effective Date 10/28/2016
The main focus of this class is the culture and values of development practitioners, and how these shape ideas of development itself. It explores the interconnected processes, relationships, and spaces through which development practitioners and planners learn, live , work, and encounter (or not) people who are the targets of development plans and interventions.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3270 - Anthropology of Politics

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Reviews the variety of political systems found outside the Western world. Examines the major approaches and results of anthropological theory in trying to understand how radically different politics work. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3275 - The Corporation: History, Culture, Capital

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
What is a corporation? Contrary to wide belief, the corporation is a very ancient social form that arose in diverse world regions and is the heritage of many civilizations. In this course, we explore its history and relation to culture, economics, and law. How has financialization shaped today’s major business corporations and theories of corporate social responsibility? How might we improve the corporations of the future?

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ANTH 2590 topic #19 Anthropology of Corporation

Credits: 3

ANTH 3280 - Introduction to Native American Studies: (Mis)Representations

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Effective Date 10/01/2020
An intro to the broad field of Native Studies, this class focuses on themes of representation and erasure. We read Indigenous scholars and draw from current events, pop culture, and historical narrative to explore complex relationships between historical and contemporary issues that Indigenous peoples face in the US. We examine the foundations of Native representations and their connections to critical issues in Native communities.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ANTH 2559 topic 37: Intro Native American Studies

Credits: 3

ANTH 3290 - Biopolitics and the Contemporary Condition

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Effective Date 03/13/2018
Biopolitical analysis has become one of the prominent critical approaches across the social sciences and humanities. This course will consider various biopolitical theories and the ways in which they help us understand diverse phenomena of our contemporary condition, which will be examined through various case studies.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3295 - Moral Experience

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Effective Date 09/21/2021
This course introduces students to one of the key frameworks in anthropology’s “ethical turn”: moral experience. The investigation of moral experience explores questions of ethics from a phenomenological-hermeneutic perspective and attends closely to subjectivity, affect, and embodiment. We will explore moral experiences such as ethical self-cultivation, empathy, love, hope, breakdown, mood, and moral transformation.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3300 - Tournaments and Athletes

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
A cross-cultural study of sport and competitive games. Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3310 - Controversies of Care in Contemporary Africa

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Effective Date 10/01/2015
In this course we will draw on a series of classic and contemporary works in history and anthropology to come to a better understanding of current debates concerning corruption and patronage, marriage and sexuality, and medicine in Sub-Sahararn Africa.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3320 - Shamanism, Healing, and Ritual

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines the characteristics of these nonmedical practices as they occur in different culture areas, relating them to the consciousness of spirits and powers and to concepts of energy. Prerequisite: At least a 2000-level ANTH course, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3325 - Capitalism: Cultural Perspectives

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Effective Date 11/07/2014
Examines capitalist relations around the world in a variety of cultural and historical settings. Readings cover field studies of work, industrialization, “informal” economies, advertising, securities trading, “consumer culture,” corporations; anthropology of money and debt; global spread of capitalist markets; multiple capitalisms thesis; commodification; slavery and capital formation; capitalism and environmental sustainability.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Forges a synthesis between culture theory and historical ecology to provide new insights on how human cultures fashion, and are fashioned by, their environment. Although cultures from all over the world are considered, special attention is given to the region defined by South and East Asia, and Australia. Prerequisite: At least one Anthropology course, and/or relevant exposure to courses in EVSC, BIOL, CHEM, or HIST or instructor permission

Credits: 3

ANTH 3360 - The Museum in Modern Culture

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
Topics include the politics of cultural representation in history, anthropology, and fine arts museums; and the museum as a bureaucratic organization, as an educational institution, and as a nonprofit corporation.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3370 - Power and the Body

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studying the cultural representations and interpretations of the body in society. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or permission of the instructor.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3380 - The Nature of Nature

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Effective Date 05/03/2017
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 3390 - Pregnancy, Birthing and the Post-Partum

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Effective Date 10/10/2019
There’s no debate that human reproduction is a biological universal, but it’s also an intensely cultural phenomenon with widely disparate, & often contested, specific cultural routines, symbolic systems, ideas & practices whether focused on mothers, fathers, infants or communities or who is recognized as a birthing expert. Course examines variations in physiological & cultural processes globally & explores both the individual experiences & and systemic patterns associated with the phases of reproduction from pregnancy through to post-partum.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3392 - African American Women and the Cultural Politics of Body Size

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Effective Date 11/20/2023
This course will examine the cultural politics of body size norms drawing on a range of perspectives within anthropology and related fields and from the lived experiences of diverse African American women.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ANTH 3590 topic #49 Af Am Wom & Cult Pol Body Size

Credits: 3

ANTH 3395 - Mythodology

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
A hands-on seminar in myth interpretation designed to acquaint the student with the concept and techniques of obviation.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3440 - Language and Emotion

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Effective Date 09/22/2011
This course explores emotion from the perspectives of cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. Topics include: emotion in the natural vs. social sciences; cross-cultural conceptions of emotion; historical change in emotion discourses; emotion as a theory of the self; the grammatical encoding of emotion in language; (mis-) communication of emotion; and emotion in the construction of racialized and gendered identities.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3450 - Native American Languages

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the native languages of North America and the methods that linguists and anthropologists use to record and analyze them. Examines the use of grammars, texts and dictionaries of individual languages and affords insight into the diversity among the languages.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3455 - African Languages

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Effective Date 03/24/2016
An introduction to the linguistic diversity of the African continent, with focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Topics include linguistic structures (sound systems, word-formation, and syntax); the classification of African languages; the use of linguistic data to reconstruct prehistory; language and social identity; verbal art; language policy debates; the rise of “mixed” languages among urban youth.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3470 - Language and Culture in the Middle East

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Introduction to peoples, languages, cultures and histories of the Middle East. Focuses on Israel/Palestine as a microcosm of important social processes-such as colonialism, nationalism, religious fundamentalism, and modernization-that affect the region as a whole. This course is cross-listed with MEST 3470. Prerequisite: Previous course in anthropology, linguistics, Middle East Studies or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3480 - Language and Prehistory

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course covers the basic principles of diachronic linguistics and discusses the uses of linguistic data in the reconstruction of prehistory.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3490 - Language and Thought

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Language and Thought

Credits: 3

ANTH 3541 - Topics in Linguistics

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Effective Date 10/09/2023
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3550 - Ethnography

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Effective Date 03/28/2016
Close reading of several ethnographies, primarily concerned with non-Western cultures.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3559 - New Course in Anthropology

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Effective Date 02/15/2024
New course in the subject of Anthropology.

Credits: 1 to 4

ANTH 3589 - Topics in Archaeology

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Effective Date 02/21/2024
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3590 - Social and Cultural Anthropology

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Effective Date 04/05/2024
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3603 - Archaeological Approaches to Atlantic Slavery

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Effective Date 03/22/2010
This course explores how archaeological and architectural evidence can be used to enhance our understanding of the slave societies that evolved in the early-modern Atlantic world. The primary focus is the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, the later exemplified by Jamaica and Nevis. The course is structured around a series of data-analysis projects that draw on the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (http://www.daacs.org).

Credits: 3

ANTH 3630 - Chinese Family and Religion

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Effective Date 03/17/2009
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 3675 - Museums and Cultural Representation in Quebec

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Effective Date 04/12/2016
In this J-term course, we visit museums in Montreal and Quebec City to examine the politics of cultural representation, asking how various kinds of group identity are exhibited in art, history, and anthropology museums. Daily museum visits are accompanied by readings and lectures.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3679 - Curating Culture: Collection, Preservation, and Display as Cultural Forms

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Effective Date 09/22/2022
This course teaches the importance of understanding cultural meanings when curating items, whether material or intangible, drawn from social worlds other than one’s own. It provides a general introduction to collection, preservation, and display through study of a specific collection held by the instructor or by a local institution such as the Fralin Museum of Art.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ANTH 3559 topic #41 Curating Culture: Collection Preservation Display

Credits: 3

ANTH 3680 - Australian Aboriginal Art and Culture

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
This class studies the intersection of anthropology, art and material culture focusing on Australian Aboriginal art. We examine how Aboriginal art has moved from relative obscurity to global recognition over the past thirty years. Topics include the historical and cultural contexts of invention, production, marketing and appropriation of Aboriginal art. Students will conduct object-based research using the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3700 - Globalizing India: Society, Bazaars and Cultural Politics

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
A study of selected interrelated major cultural, religious and political changes for comprehending India after independence. The course will focus on major urban centers for explicating changing family, marriage and caste relationships; middle class Indians; status of women and Dalits; and rising religious/ethnic violence, including Hindu religious politics and religious nationalism. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3705 - Anthropology of the Middle East

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Effective Date 11/10/2014
Anthropological readings and films provide insight into the diversity of peoples and cultures of the modern Middle East. The focus will be on the everyday lived experiences of peoples in this part of the world. As we explore the rich diversity of cultures in the Middle East, key topics to be examined include tribalism, gender and politics, Islam, religion and secularism, colonialism, nationalism, and economic inequalities.

Credits: 3

ANTH 3810 - Field Methods in Archaeology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Provides a comprehensive training in archaeological field techniques through participation in research projects currently in progress under the direction of the archaeology faculty. The emphasis is on learning, in an actual field situation, how the collection of archaeological data is carried out in both survey and excavation. Students become familiar with field recording systems, excavation techniques, survey methods, sampling theory in archaeology, and artifact processing and analysis. (Field methods courses outside anthropology or offered at other universities may be substituted for ANTH 3810 with the prior approval of the student’s advisor.) Supporting Courses. The following list includes additional courses which have been approved for the major program. Other courses can be added, depending on the student’s area of concentration, with the approval of an advisor.

Credits: 3 to 6

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ARAD 1550 - Topics in Arts Administration

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Effective Date 10/13/2023
Topics in Arts Administration, where the topic may change. At present (2012) The Art Business and Art Criticism are topic examples under the ARAD 1550 banner, both being taught in Fall, 2012.

Credits: 1

ARAD 3100 - Principles and Practices of Arts Administration

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Introductory survey of principles and practices of arts administration, as the crossroads of art and audience.

Credits: 3

ARAD 3550 - Topics of Arts in Context

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Effective Date 04/03/2024
Topics course on The Arts in Context, where role of the arts in human society is examined in various contexts.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARAD 3559 - New Course in Development for the Arts

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Effective Date 05/03/2016
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Development for the Arts.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARAD 3993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 08/01/2009
Independent study in Arts Adminstration

Credits: 3

ARAD 4050 - Arts Marketing Theory and Practice

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Audience development theory and marketing strategies and techniques as they apply specifically to the arts and arts institutions.

Credits: 3

ARAD 4070 - Introduction to Design Thinking

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Design is not a link in a chain but the hub of a wheel. Design Thinking is a human-centered way of approaching issues and opportunities, utilizing and combining knowledge from many domains and fields. The technique encourages abductive reasoning as well as more common deductive and inductive reasoning methods. Experiencing interplay between group / collective creativity and the creativity of individual insight is a course theme.

Credits: 3

ARAD 4200 - Development and Board Management

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Effective Date 10/09/2017
This course explores techniques and rationales behind the giving and the raising of funds; and the closely related skills of leading and managing trustees, boards and volunteers. The course will examine these fields using both theory and practical applications. Both in-class discussions and distinguished guest speakers will be utilized.

Credits: 3

ARAD 4559 - New Course in Arts Administration

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Effective Date 09/01/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Arts Administration.

Credits: 1 to 4

ARTH 150 - Special Topics in Art History

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Effective Date 05/01/2021
Special Topics in Art History

Credits: 0

ARTH 1004 - A History of Architecture

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Effective Date 03/22/2010
This course will introduce students to the study of architecture through an examination of selected examples from the history of architecture with a focus on Europe and the United States and buildings relevant to those regions (e.g. the Great Pyramids, the Parthenon, Versailles). Classes will be a combination of lectures and discussions as students are taught the fundamentals of architectural history as well as how to analyze buildings.

Credits: 3

ARTH 1051 - History of Art I

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Effective Date 05/16/2016
A survey of the great monuments of art and architecture from their beginnings in caves through the arts of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, Byzantium, the Islamic world, and medieval western Europe. The course attempts to make art accessible to students with no background in the subject, and it explains the ways in which painting, sculpture, and architecture are related to mythology, religion, politics, literature, and daily life. The course serves as a visual introduction to the history of the West.

Credits: 4

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

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Effective Date 11/16/2015
Studies the history and interpretation of architecture, sculpture and painting from 1400 to the present.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 1054 - How Art Works

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Effective Date 04/21/2022
An overview of art from the perspective of both its history and the ways it operates in the world today. Focusing on case studies from different periods and world regions, topics include how art works in museums, in the markets, in the law, in communities and the public sphere. The course addresses also how art relates to the sciences, cultural appropriation, social justice, and offers an overview of art historical methodologies to study it.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ARTH 1559 #3 How Art Works

Credits: 3

ARTH 1500 - Introductory Seminars in Art History

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Effective Date 03/16/2023
Introductory Seminars in Art History are small classes for first- and second-year students that emphasize reading, writing, and discussion. While subject varies with the instructor, topics will be selected that allow students to engage broad issues and themes historically and in relationship to contemporary concerns and debates. Subject is announced prior to each registration period. Enrollment is capped at 15.

Requisites First or Second Years

Credits: 3

ARTH 1503 - Art and the Premodern World

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Effective Date 03/12/2020
This course will train students to understand and critically evaluate comparative, premodern, global cultures.

Credits: 3

ARTH 1505 - Art and the Modern World

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Effective Date 08/16/2023
This course will train students to understand and critically evaluate comparative, modern global cultures.

Credits: 3

ARTH 1507 - Art and Global Cultures

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Effective Date 10/22/2020
This course will train students to understand and evaluate global cultures from a critical and culturally sensitive perspective.

Credits: 3

ARTH 1559 - New Course in Art History

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course is an introductory level course in art history on a new topic.

Credits: 3

ARTH 2052 - Ancient Egypt

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Survey of Egyptian art and architecture (Predynastic-New Kingdom, 4000-1100 BC). The course introduces students to the great monuments and works of art, and to the beliefs that engendered them. While the focus is on pharaonic ‘visual’ culture, neglected ‘others’ (women, cross-gendered persons, foreigners, commoners) and their material/visual cultures are brought to attention to provide a nuanced understanding of Egyptian society and culture.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2053 - Greek Art and Archaeology

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
The vase painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic periods. Works are studies in their social, political, and religious contexts with a special focus on archaeology and material culture.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2054 - Roman Art and Archaeology

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Effective Date 04/11/2017
Following an overview of Etruscan art, the course examines the development of Roman architecture, urbanism, sculpture and painting from the Republic to Constantine. A focus is Rome itself, but other archaeological sites, such as Pompeii, in Italy and throughout the empire are also considered. Themes, such as succession, the achievements of the emperor, the political and social role of art, and the dissolution of classical art, are traced.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2055 - Introduction to Classical Archaeology

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Introduces the history, theory, and field techniques of classical archaeology. Major sites of the Bronze Age (Troy, Mycenae) as well as Greek and Roman cities and sanctuaries (e.g., Athens, Olympia, Pompeii) illustrate important themes in Greek and Roman culture and the nature of archaeological data.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2056 - Aegean Art and Archaeology

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Introduction to the art and archaeology of the prehistoric Aegean, from the Early Bronze Age to the end of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 3000-1200 BCE). Notable sites examined include Troy, Knossos, Mycenae, Thebes, Pylos. The course also examines cultural and artistic connections with New Kingdom Egypt and the Late Bronze Age Levant.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2151 - Early Christian and Byzantine Art

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Effective Date 09/23/2019
Studies the art of the early Church in East and West and its subsequent development in the East under the aegis of Byzantium. Includes the influence of theological, liturgical and political factors on the artistic expression of Eastern Christian spirituality.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2153 - Romanesque and Gothic Art

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
From the Romanesque churches along the Pilgrimage Routes to the new Gothic architecture at St. Denis outside Paris and on to late medieval artistic production in Prague, this course examines profound and visually arresting expressions of medieval piety, devotion, and power made by artists from roughly 1000-1500. Throughout our investigations, particular attention will be paid to the contributions of important medieval women.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2154 - Early Medieval Art

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
This course examines art created in the era from 300 to 1100, when early medieval artists, motivated by devotion to their faiths and scientific beliefs, crafted beautiful and refined visual expressions of their values. These crafted confessions in stone, paint, parchment, and metal provide the living historical records of a vibrant period, during which medieval artists asserted their various cultural identities.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2251 - Italian Renaissance Art

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Studies painting, architecture, and sculpture in Italy from the close of the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century. Focuses on the work of major artists such as Giotto, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. Detailed discussion of the social, political, and cultural background of the arts.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2252 - High Renaissance and Mannerist Art

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Studies the painting, architecture, and sculpture or the sixteenth century, emphasizing the works of major artists, such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, and Titian. Detailed discussion of the social, political, and cultural background of the arts.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2271 - Northern Renaissance Art

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Surveys major developments in painting and graphics in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Netherlands and Germany. Includes the rise of Netherlandish naturalism and the origins of woodcut and engraving. Explores the effects of humanist taste on sixteenth-century painting and the iconographic consequences of the Reformation. Emphasizes the work of major artists, such as Van Eyck, Van der Weyden, Durer, Bosch, and Bruegel.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2273 - Disneyland

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Effective Date 02/27/2013
This course examines the visual, aesthetic and cultural effects of Disneyland. It considers the history of the theme parks, its relationship to Disney films, and its visual construction of space, leisure, and American cultural identity. Presented both chronologically and thematically, this course is both reading and writing intensive.

Credits: 3

ARTH 2275 - Heroes, Superheroes and American Visual Culture

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Effective Date 02/06/2014
This course examines the aesthetic and cultural importance of ‘heroes’ and heroic representation in American visual culture from the mid-18th century to the present. It considers the construction and representation of heroic figures within debates about aesthetics, national identity, political representation, and popular culture. Presented both chronologically and thematically, this coure is both reading and writing intensive.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 12/15/2015
Studies the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the seventeenth century in Italy, the Low Countries, France, and Spain. Focuses on Caravaggio, Bernini, Velazquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Poussin.

Credits: 3 to 4

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

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
A survey of the art of the Dutch and Flemish Golden Age, including such artists as Rubens, Rembrandt, van Dyck, Hals and Vermeer. The course examines innovations in style and new subjects like landscape, still life and daily-life genre in relation to major historical developments, including the revolt of the Netherlands, the rise of the Dutch Republic, and the Counter-Reformation. The course includes a survey of Dutch architecture.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2351 - Eighteenth-Century European Art

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys European painting and sculpture from the late Baroque period to Neo-Classicism. Emphasizes the artistic careers of major figures and on the larger social, political, and cultural contexts of their work. Artists include Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Chardin, Falconet, Pigalle, Greuze, Batoni, Rusconi, Hogarth, Gainsborough, and Reynolds.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2352 - Art of Revolutionary Europe

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Surveys European painting and sculpture from the last decades of the Ancien Regime to the liberal revolutions of 1848. Major artists, such as David, Canova, Ingres, Constable, Turner, Gericault, Delacroix, Friedrich, Goya, Corot, and Thorvaldsen are examined in their political, economic, social, spiritual, and aesthetic contexts.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2354 - British Art

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
This survey of British Art in the modern period examines the work of some of Britain’s greatest painters, sculptors, and printmakers including Hogarth, Blake, Flaxman, Turner, the Pre-Raphaelites, Sickert, Bacon, and Freud. Major themes include the relationship of British art to religion, urbanization, empire, industrialization, and post-colonialism.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2361 - Nineteenth-Century European Art

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Effective Date 09/28/2011
A thematic survey of European art in the long nineteenth century, the course examines the work of German, French, Italian, British and Scandinavian artists, among them Boucher, Vien, David, Friedrich, Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Whistler, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch, and others. Key course themes will include artistic training and practice, exhibition, and art-theoretical debates of the period.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2371 - Impressionism and Post Impressionism

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys modernist movements in European art during the second half of the nineteenth century. Major themes include the establishment of modernity as a cultural ideal, the development of the avant-garde, and the genesis of the concept of abstraction.

Credits: 3 to 4

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

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Examines the places, spaces, practices and representations of Paris in the nineteenth century. Tracing the changing faces of the city, we will study the modern city through architecture and urban planning, painting, drawing, photography, popular imagery and literature. Topics include Paris ‘types’; fashion and birth of the department store; Haussmannization; and the ‘spectacular’ Paris of the panorama, morgue, Opera, and World’s Fairs.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2451 - Modern Art, 1900-1945

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
A survey of major artistic movements in Europe and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century: Fauvism and Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, the School of Paris, Dada and Surrealism, the Russian avant-garde, modernist trends in America. Painting, sculpture, photography, and the functional arts are discussed.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2470 - Art Now

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Effective Date 04/08/2020
This course is designed to familiarize you with the major themes, issues, and questions being pursued in today’s art world. Focusing on the last twenty years, the class is organized around five themes that define the majority of art being made today: portraying, experiencing, performing, reproducing, and agitating.

Credits: 3

ARTH 2471 - Art Since 1945

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Effective Date 02/21/2011
Surveys art production and theory in the U.S. and Europe since World War II. Relationships between artistic practice and critical theory are stressed in an examination of movements ranging from abstract expressionism to neo-geo.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2472 - Modern Art in Italy

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
ARTH 2472 will use the resources of Italy’s modern and contemporary art museums supplemented by classroom and on-site lectures to offer an overview of the major movements of modern art in Italy. It will examine the historical and political contexts for developments from Futurism and Valori Plastici to Informel and Arte Povera, with a particular focus on the postwar years..

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2491 - The History of Photography

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
General survey of the photographic medium from 1839 to the present. Emphasizes the technical, aesthetic, and critical issues particular to the medium.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2525 - Topics in Renaissance Art History

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Examines focused topics in Renaissance Art History.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2559 - New Course in History of Art

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Effective Date 03/23/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject History of Art.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2745 - African American Art

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
This course surveys the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, prints, mixed media and textiles) produced by those of African descent in the United States from the Colonial period to the present. Presented both chronologically and thematically, the class interrogates issues of artistic identity, gender, patronage and the aesthetic influences of the African Diaspora and European and Euro-American aesthetics on African American artists.

Credits: 3

ARTH 2751 - American Art to the Civil War

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
This lecture course will examine the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, prints) of the United States from establishment of the nation to and through the Civil War. Particular attention will be paid to the cultural, political and social issues that provide a contextual framework for the interpretation and analysis of these works of art.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2752 - America! Art, Identity, Politics

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
This lecture course will examine the importance of identity and politics in the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, prints) of the United States from the Civil War to World War II. Particular attention will be paid to the cultural, political and social issues that frame the production and reception of images.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2753 - Arts & Cultures of the Slave South

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
This interdisciplinary course covers the American South to the Civil War. While the course centers on the visual arts ‘architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture’ it is not designed as a regional history of art, but an exploration of the interrelations between history, material and visual cultures, foodways, music and literature in the formation of Southern identities.

Credits: 4

ARTH 2769 - Queer Histories of US Art, 1950s-90s

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Effective Date 01/01/2025
This course examines the flourishing of queer artistic production (painting, sculpture, film, photography, performance, and conceptual art) in the United States after World War II. It will chart how–despite attempts to censor or erase them–artists working with lesbian, gay, otherwise non-heterosexual, and/or transgender themes made major contributions to the development of art, culture, society, and politics in the United States.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ARTH 2559 topic #42 Queer Histories of American Art, 1950s to 1990s

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2771 - American Modernism

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
American Modernism is a survey of American art in the first half of the 20th century. The course will address the arrival of modern art in America, the situation of the American artist in relation to European art, and an American public, and the question of the American art.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2772 - Dark Men and Deadly Women: Noir and American Cinema

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Effective Date 05/01/2020
This course examines the aesthetic and cultural importance of film noir in American cinema. With a prominent focus on these stylish mid-20th century crime dramas, we will consider a range of topics including the significance of “the city” and urban culture, debates and performances of gender, class and race, and the impact of noir’s style on contemporary Hollywood movies.

Credits: 3

ARTH 2851 - World Art

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Effective Date 09/29/2014
Big art history, on the role of art in human cultures. The construction of spaces in relation to human presence. Materials, skills, and the making of social hierarchies. Places, group origins, and identity. Kingship and empire across the continents; art and world religions. Contact, interaction and the beginnings of the present world.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2861 - East Asian Art

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Introduces the artistic traditions of China, Korea, and Japan, from prehistoric times to the modern era. Surveys major monuments and the fundamental concepts behind their creation, and examines artistic form in relation to society, individuals, technology, and ideas.

Credits: 3 to 4

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

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Surveys the Buddhist sculpture, architecture and painting of India, China and Japan. Considers aspects of history and religious doctrine.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2871 - The Arts of India

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
The class is an overview of Indian sculpture, architecture, and painting from the Third Millennium BC to the 18th century AD and includes works from Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Islamic traditions.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2882 - Sex, Spirits & Sorcery: Modern Aboriginal Art

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Effective Date 11/04/2020
Located in Australia’s tropical north, Arnhem Land has long been one of the epicenters of the modern Aboriginal art movement. The art of the region opens a window onto another world: a world in which ancestral spirits remain a constant presence in the land. Using the world-class holdings of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, we’ll explore the art of Arnhem Land from 1911 to the present.

Credits: 4

ARTH 2891 - Arts of African Civilizations

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This course offers an introduction to the arts of African civilizations from the first millennium to modern times, including Nok, Ife, Djenne, the Kingdom of Kongo, the Dogon and Yoruba peoples.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 2961 - Arts of the Islamic World

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
The class is an overview of art made in the service of Islam in the Central Islamic Lands, Egypt, North Africa, Spain, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia. Discussion sections offer more in depth discussions of larger issues raised in the lectures.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 3051 - Greek Vase Painting

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Effective Date 11/02/2016
Survey of the major styles, techniques, and painters of Greek vases produced in the Archaic and Classical periods (c. 700-350 b.c.). Emphasizes themes of myth and daily life, the relationship of vases to other ancient arts, the legacy of form and decoration in the arts of later periods, such as 18th century England, and comparisons with other cultures, such as the Native American southwest. Prerequisite: any course in Art History, Anthropology, Classics or History.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 3061 - Roman Architecture

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Study of the history of Roman architecture from the Republic to the late empire with special emphasis on the evolution of urban architecture in Rome. Also considered are Roman villas, Roman landscape architecture, the cities of Pompeii and Ostia, major sites of the Roman provinces, and the architectural and archaeological field methods used in dealing with ancient architecture.

Credits: 3

ARTH 3062 - Pompeii

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Explores the life, art, architecture, urban development, religion, economy, and daily life of the famous Roman city destroyed in the cataclysmic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in a.d. 79.

Credits: 3

ARTH 3151 - Art and Science in the Middle Ages

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
During the medieval period, power and knowledge required the endorsement of clerics. Alongside secular courtiers they also cultivated creative expressions of their erudition, revealing the medieval interpenetration of art, science and religion. The artworks surveyed in this course provide lasting records of critically creative confrontations between the scientific and spiritual traditions linked to medieval Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 3251 - Gender and Art in Renaissance Italy

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines how notions of gender shaped the production, patronage, and fruition of the visual arts in Italy between 1350 and 1600. Prerequisite: A previous course in art history or gender studies.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 3254 - Leonardo da Vinci

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
An analysis of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings, drawings, and notes, giving special attention to his writings and drawings on human anatomy, the theory of light and shade, color theory, and pictorial composition. His work is considered in relation to the works of fellow artists such as Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo as well as within the context of Renaissance investigation of the natural world. Prerequisite: One course in the humanities.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 3255 - Renaissance Art on Site

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Firsthand, direct knowledge of Renaissance art and architecture through an intensive program of on-site visits in Florence and Rome. The course aims to provide a deeper understanding of the specificity of images and sites; that is, their materials, texture, scale, size, proportions, colors, and volumes. It also aims to instill a full sense of the importance of the original location for the understanding and interpretation of Renaissance art. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ARTH 3257 - Michelangelo and His Time

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Analyzes the work of Michelangelo in sculpture, painting and architecture in relation to his contemporaries in Italy and the North. The class focuses on the close investigation of his preparatory drawings, letters, poems and documents. Prerequisite: One course in the history of art beyond the level of ARTH 1051 and 1052

Credits: 3

ARTH 3491 - Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics

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Effective Date 09/18/2013
This course explores the question of whether there might be something called a ‘feminist aesthetics.’ We look at the work of a handful of women photographers, and read criticism about photography, to leverage our exploration into feminist aesthetics. The course works within the frame of feminist discourse. It presents the work of a small number of photographers whose work we will interpret in conjunction with readings in criticism and theory.

Credits: 3

ARTH 3494 - Individual Research Experiences

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Effective Date 09/25/2021
This course focuses on building and improving undergraduate research and writing skills in preparation for larger research projects through a sandbox process. We will cover a variety of topics, such as why research is useful and how it can be personally satisfying. The course helps students build skills using a groundwork of essays, papers etc. from other courses, or experimenting with new topics, and expanding them into viable research projects.

Credits: 3

ARTH 3525 - Topics in Renaissance Art History

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Effective Date 10/24/2019
Examines focused topics in Renaissance Art History.

Credits: 3 to 4

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

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Effective Date 01/31/2022
Examines focused topics in 20th/21st Art History.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 3559 - New Course in History of Art

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Effective Date 10/06/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject History in Art.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 3591 - Art History Colloquium

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Effective Date 01/25/2024
The Art History Colloquium combines lecture and discussion. Subject varies with the instructor, who may decide to focus attention either on a particular period, artist, or theme, or on the broader question of the aims and methods of art history. Subject is announced prior to each registration period. This course fulfills the second writing requirement, involving at least two writing assignments totaling at a minimum 4,000 words (20 pages).

Credits: 3

ARTH 3595 - Art History Practicum

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
The Art History Practicum course places added emphasis on immersive experience and the active construction of knowledge, involving hands-on projects, experiments, lab work, and field trips of varying lengths, including on-site studies at archaeological sites, laboratories, or museums.

Credits: 3

ARTH 3651 - Anthropology of Australian Aboriginal Art

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Effective Date 03/22/2010
This class studies the intersection of anthropology, art and material culture focusing on Australian Aboriginal art. We examine how Aboriginal art has moved from relative obscurity to global recognition over the past 30 yrs. Topics include the historical and cultural contexts of invention, production, marketing and appropriation of Aboriginal art. Students will conduct research using the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection and Study Center.

Credits: 3

ARTH 3861 - Chinese Art

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
The course is a survey of the major epochs of Chinese art from pre-historic to the modern period. The course intends to familiarize students with the important artistic traditions developed in China: ceramics, bronzes, funerary art and ritual, Buddhist art, painting, and garden architecture. It seeks to understand artistic form in relation to technology, political and religious beliefs, and social and historical contexts, with focus on the role of the state or individuals as patrons of the arts. It also introduces the major philosophic and religious traditions (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) that have shaped cultural and aesthetic ideals, Chinese art theories, and the writings of leading scholars.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 3863 - East Asian Art, Landscape, and Ecology

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This course introduces the concepts on nature in East Asian traditions–Daoism, Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, their impacts on the relationship between human and their natural environment, and the art forms in which the theme of nature predominates, from landscape paintings to religious and garden architecture. It also explores how these ideas can contribute to the modern discourse on environmental ethics and sustainability.

Credits: 3

ARTH 3951 - Modern and Contemporary African Art

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
Studies Africa’s chief forms of visual art from prehistoric times to the present.

Credits: 3 to 4

ARTH 3993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Independent study in the history of art

Credits: 1 to 3

ARTH 4051 - Art History: Theory and Practice

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This course introduces art history majors to the basic tools and methods of art historical research, and to the theoretical and historical questions of art historical interpretation. The course will survey a number of current approaches to the explanation and interpretation of works of art, and briefly address the history of art history. Prerequisite: Major or minor in art history.

Credits: 3

ARTH 4591 - Undergraduate Seminar in the History of Art

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Effective Date 02/01/2024
Subject varies with the instructor, who may decide to focus attention either on a particular period, artist, or theme, or on the broader question of the aims and methods of art history. Subject is announced prior to each registration period. Representative subjects include the life and art of Pompeii, Roman painting and mosaics, history and connoisseurship of baroque prints, art and politics in revolutionary Europe, Picasso and painting, and problems in American art and culture. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ARTH 4951 - University Museums Internship

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
This is the second semester of the internship at either the Fralin Museum of Art or Kluge Ruhe. Students will work approximately 100 hours per semester in the museum, and will participate in three training sessions and three academic seminars. Prequisite: ARTH/GDS 4951 and instructor permission, by application. Please see information at www.virginia.edu/art/arthistory/courses and www.artsandsciences.virginia.edu/globaldevelopment

Credits: 3

ARTH 4952 - University Museums Internship

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
This is the second semester internship at either UVA Art Museum or Kluge Ruhe. Students will work approximately 100 hours per semester in the museum, and will participate in three training sessions and three academic seminars. ARTH/GDS 4951 and instructor permission, by application; deadline May 1. Please see information at www.virginia.edu/art/arthistory/courses and www.artsandsciences.virginia.edu/globaldevelopment

Credits: 3

ARTH 4998 - Undergraduate Thesis Research

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Effective Date 05/21/2009
Research for a thesis of approximately 50 written pages undertaken in the fall semester of the fourth year by art history majors who have been accepted into the department’s Distinguished Majors Program.

Credits: 3

ARTH 4999 - Undergraduate Thesis Writing

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Effective Date 05/21/2009
Writing of a thesis of approximately 50 written pages undertaken in the spring semester of the fourth year by art history majors who have been accepted into the department’s Distinguished Majors Program.

Credits: 3

ARTS 1559 - New Course in Studio Art

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Effective Date 11/04/2020
New course in the subject of studio art.

Credits: 1 to 4

ARTS 2000 - Introduction to Studio Art

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Effective Date 06/14/2019
An introductory course, divided into three segments, which serves as a prerequisite to all studio courses. In Drawing students will learn observational drawing and how visual thinking connects with the hand. The Conceptual segment will exercise creative problem-solving skills and teach students to engage in critical discourse. The Digital segment teaches basic technical skills and digital tools including still and moving image and sound.

Credits: 3

ARTS 2110 - Introduction to Photography I

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Focuses on gaining a working understanding of photographic processes and practice. Class assignments help students understand the visual language of photography using 35mm black and white film and printing their own photographs in the darkroom. In addition, lectures explore examples from the historical and contemporary worlds of fine art photography. Cameras are provided.

Requisites Must have completed ARTS 2000

Credits: 3

ARTS 2112 - Introduction to Photography II

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Offers an introduction to color photography and digital working methods. Advanced software skills are demonstrated and practiced with the goal of increasing the overall quality of the work. Further explorations into historical and contemporary art issues via presentations, visiting artists, and readings increase awareness. Students create a final portfolio in the form of a printable book. Cameras are provided. Prereqs: ARTS 2000 and ARTS 2110

Requisites Must have completed ARTS 2000 and ARTS 2110

Credits: 3

ARTS 2220 - Introduction to Digital Art I

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Effective Date 08/02/2024
An art class that introduces the creative use of digital tools within the fine art context. Students will both learn processes and history of experimental art and practice the use of the computer as a tool for personal expression.

Credits: 3

ARTS 2222 - Introduction to Digital Art II

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
An art class that continues the exploration of digital skills with an emphasis on artist?s media rather than mass media. Students will continue to learn about the history and practice of art to inform their own creative work. Prerequisites: ARTS 2220

Requisites Must have completed ARTS 2220.

Credits: 3

ARTS 2310 - Installation and Performance Art I

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
This course introduces new art genres including installation, performance, and video documentation to the student’s art practice. Includes contemporary Art History, theory, and the creation of art made with non-traditional materials, methods and formats. Prerequisite: ARTS 2000 or instructor permission

Requisites Must have completed ARTS 2000

Credits: 3

ARTS 2312 - Installation and Performance Art II

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Effective Date 05/01/2023
In this interdisciplinary studio course students will investigate ‘prior conditions of existence,’ study critical theories, and produce artworks inspired by the archive. Students will research archive-related topics of their choosing, and synthesize readings and research through written and oral communication. They will develop critical thinking skills through the production of artwork and engagement in group critiques. Prereq: ARTS 2000

Requisites Must have completed ARTS 2000

Credits: 3

ARTS 2370 - Introduction to Filmmaking I

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Effective Date 08/02/2024
The course introduces experimental 16mm film production as a practice of visual art. These courses include technical, historical, and theoretical issues that apply to cinematography and its relationship to the traditional visual arts.

Credits: 3

ARTS 2372 - Introduction to Filmmaking II

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
The course introduces experimental 16mm film production as a practice of visual art. These courses include technical, historical, and theoretical issues that apply to cinematography and its relationship to the traditional visual arts.

Requisites Must have completed ARTS 2370

Credits: 3

ARTS 2511 - Special Topics in Photography

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Effective Date 03/26/2021
This course will focus on the topic of documentary photography, a working style that combines accurate depiction with impassioned advocacy, usually with the goal of arousing public commitment to social change. Since the 1980s this mode has expanded to include formal and iconographical investigation of social experience with a counterstain of personal images. This class will use digital photography to develop projects and portfolios.

Credits: 3

ARTS 2520 - Special Topics in New Media

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Effective Date 03/07/2023
A new course in the subject of New Media.

Requisites Must have completed ARTS 2000

Credits: 3

ARTS 2530 - Special Topics in Cinematography

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Effective Date 07/03/2018
An introduction to the specialized materials, methods, processes, and cultural issues as they relate to the history and practice of cinematography.

Credits: 3

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Astronomy

Courses

ASTR 1210 - Introduction to the Sky and Solar System

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
A study of the night sky primarily for non-science majors. Provides a brief history of astronomy through Newton. Topics include the properties of the sun, earth, moon, planets, asteroids, meteors and comets; origin and evolution of the solar system; life in the universe; and recent results from space missions and ground-based telescopes.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
A study of stars, star formation, and evolution primarily for non-science majors. Topics include light, atoms, and modern observing technologies; origin of the chemical elements; supernovae, pulsars, neutron stars, and black holes; structure and evolution of our galaxy; nature of other galaxies; active galaxies and quasars; expanding universe, cosmology, the big bang, and the early universe.

Credits: 3

ASTR 1230 - Introduction to Astronomical Observation

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
An independent laboratory class for non-science majors, meeting at night, in which students learn how to observe the night sky, use a telescope, and take digital images of the sky. Students work individually or in small groups on observational projects that focus on the study of constellations, planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies using binoculars, 8-inch telescopes, and imaging equipment at the department’s student observatory.

Credits: 3

ASTR 1250 - Alien Worlds

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Effective Date 10/03/2017
Alien worlds orbiting other stars were the subject of speculation going back to ancient times, and were first detected in the 1990s. Today, thousands of extrasolar planets are known and show a remarkable diversity compared to our own solar system. This introductory astronomy course for non-science majors discusses the known exoplanets: how they are discovered, their orbits, physical properties, formation, evolution and fate.

Credits: 3

ASTR 1260 - Threats from Outer Space

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
This introductory astronomy course for non-science majors deals with harmful, or potentially harmful, astronomical phenomena such as asteroid/comet impacts, supernovae, gamma ray bursts, solar storms, cosmic rays, black holes, galaxy collisions, and the end of the universe. Physical principles will be used to evaluate the dangers involved.

Credits: 3

ASTR 1270 - Unsolved Mysteries in the Universe

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
An exploration of the unsolved mysteries in the universe and the limits of our knowledge for non-science majors. The class emphasizes the nature of scientific endeavor, and explores the boundaries between science, philosophy, and metaphysics. A number of thought provoking topics are discussed including the beginning and end of the universe, black holes, extraterrestrial life, the nature of time, dark matter and dark energy.

Credits: 3

ASTR 1280 - The Origins of Almost Everything

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
From ancient Babylon to modern cosmology, nearly every culture on Earth has stories and myths of creation. It is a universal human desire to understand from where we came. In this introductory astronomy class for non-science majors, students will explore the origins of the Universe, structure and galaxies, stars, planets and life. The course will use the content to illustrate the nature of science and scientific inquiry.

Credits: 3

ASTR 1290 - Black Holes

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Effective Date 02/16/2017
Black holes are stellar remnants that are so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape their gravitational pull. Nevertheless, systems that contain these “dark stars” are among the brightest sources in the universe. In this introductory course, aimed primarily at non-science majors, students will explore the seemingly paradoxical nature of black holes and evaluate the astronomical evidence for their existence.

Credits: 3

ASTR 1510 - Seminar

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Primarily for first and second year students, taught on a voluntary basis by a faculty member. Topics vary.

Credits: 1

ASTR 1559 - New Course in Astronomy

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Effective Date 10/24/2016
New course in the subject of astronomy.

Credits: 1 to 4

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

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
For first- and second-year students considering Astronomy/Astronomy-Physics as a major, or current A/A-P majors. Faculty will present ongoing research to introduce students to both the subject matter and the required physical, mathematical, and computational background of contemporary astronomy research. Potential long-term undergraduate research projects will be emphasized.

Credits: 1

ASTR 2110 - Introduction to Astrophysics I

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Primarily for science majors. A thorough discussion of the basic concepts and methods of solar system, stellar, galactic, and extragalactic astronomy and astrophysics with an emphasis on physical principles. Prerequisite/corequisite: MATH 1210 or 1310, PHYS 1420 or 1425, or instructor permission; ASTR 2110 and 2120 form a sequence and should be taken in that order.

Credits: 3

ASTR 2120 - Introduction to Astrophysics II

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Primarily for science majors. A thorough discussion of the basic concepts and methods of solar system, stellar, galactic, and extragalactic astronomy and astrophysics with an emphasis on physical principles. Prerequisite/corequisite: ASTR 2110, MATH 1210 or 1310, PHYS 1420 or 1425, or instructor permission; ASTR 2110 and 2120 form a sequence and should be taken in that order.

Credits: 3

ASTR 2559 - New Course in Astronomy

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Effective Date 10/12/2017
New Course in the subject of Astronomy.

Credits: 1 to 4

ASTR 3130 - Observational Astronomy

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Primarily for science majors. A lecture and laboratory course that deals with basic observational techniques in astronomy. The laboratory section generally meets at night. Students use observational facilities at the McCormick and Fan Mountain Observatories. Additional work outside posted laboratory hours will be required to take advantage of clear skies.

Requisites Must have completed PHYS 1655 and either (ASTR 2110 and ASTR 2120) or (ASTR 1210 and ASTR 1220)

Credits: 4

ASTR 3150 - The Interstellar Medium: From Hydrogen to Humans

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course provides an overview of the origins of the elements through cosmic history. The course is taught chronologically, starting from the Big Bang and leading up to life as we know it. The course will cover a wide variety of topics, such as the formation of the first stars, galaxies, and the lifecycle of the interstellar medium. We will also study how material is re-incorporated into modern day stars, planets, and eventually life.

Requisites Must have completed Math 1220 or MATH 1320 or APMA 1110

Credits: 3

ASTR 3410 - Archaeo-Astronomy

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Open to non-science students. Discussion of prescientific astronomy, including Mayan, Babylonian, and ancient Chinese astronomy, and the significance of relics such as Stonehenge. Discusses the usefulness of ancient records in the study of current astrophysical problems such as supernova outbursts. Uses current literature from several disciplines, including astronomy, archaeology, and anthropology. Prerequisite/corequisite: A 1000- or 2000-level ASTR course, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ASTR 3420 - Life Beyond the Earth

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Open to non-science students. Studies the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life; methods and desirability of interstellar communication; prospects for humanity’s colonization of space; interaction of space colonies; and the search for other civilizations. Prerequisite/corequisite: A 1000- or 2000-level ASTR course or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ASTR 3450 - Mission to Mars

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Effective Date 09/05/2019
The next great adventure in space flight will be a human mission to Mars. In this course, we will explore how such a mission might take place. Topics will include the basics of spaceflight, spacecraft and rocket design, the history of human space exploration, its legacy and impact on the modern world, the current state of spaceflight, and new technologies that are being developed to make the mission possible.

Credits: 3

ASTR 3460 - Development of Modern Astronomy

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
The 20th Century saw a revolution in our study of the origin and evolution of the universe. It was a dynamic period with the opening of the electromagnetic spectrum and the transition to “Big Science.” This course is a survey of the development of modern astrophysics, with an emphasis on the second half of the 20th Century. Prerequisite: A 1000- or 2000-level ASTR course or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ASTR 3470 - Science and Controversy in Astronomy

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Open to non-science students. Investigates controversial topics in science and pseudo-science from the astronomer’s perspective. Analyzes methods of science and the nature of scientific evidence, and their implications for unresolved astrophysical problems. Topics include extraterrestrial life, UFO’s, astrology, the Moon landing, and others.

Credits: 3

ASTR 3480 - Introduction to Cosmology

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Intended for STEM majors and non-STEM majors who are comfortable with some non-calculus math. Cosmology explores the origin and evolution of the Universe, including cosmic expansion, mapping the Universe, dark matter and dark energy, the birth and evolution of galaxies, the early universe, and the Big Bang. This course strikes a balance between richly illustrated description and a simplified quantitative exploration of the above topics.

Credits: 3

ASTR 3559 - New Course in Astronomy

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
New course in the subject of astronomy.

Credits: 1 to 4

ASTR 3880 - Planetary Astronomy

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
Studies the origin and evolution of the bodies in the solar system, emphasizing the geology of the planets and satellites of the inner solar system and the satellites of the gaseous planets. Topics will include the interpretation of remote sensing data, the chemistry and dynamics of planetary atmospheres and their interactions with the planetary surfaces, and the role of impacts. Prerequisite: Introductory course in geosciences or astronomy.

Credits: 3

ASTR 3881 - Planetary Astronomy Laboratory

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Optional one hour laboratory for students in ASTR 3880 that provides practical experience in accessing and analyzing data related to the origin and geology of solar system planetary bodies, including the Moon, Mars, and outer planet satellites.

Credits: 1

ASTR 4140 - Research Methods in Astrophysics

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Primarily for astronomy/astrophysics majors. Students will be exposed to a research methods-intensive set of mini projects, with emphasis on current active areas of astrophysics research. The goal is to prepare students for research in astrophysics. Topics will include databases and database manipulation, astronomical surveys, statistics, space observatories and observation planning, intro to numerical simulations, and proposal writing.Prerequisites: ASTR 2110/2120 and PHYS 2660, or instructor permission.

Requisites Prerequisite: must have completed (ASTR 2110 and ASTR 2120) and (PHYS 1655 or PHYS 2660 or PHYS 3630)

Credits: 3

ASTR 4460 - Physics of Compact Stars

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Effective Date 02/17/2023
The compact stars - white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes - are the end state of stellar evolution. The conditions in and around these objects are extreme as compared to terrestrial standards, and they are responsible for some of the most powerful and dynamic phenomena in the universe. This course introduces the physics of strong gravity and dense matter required to understand compact stars and their observational manifestations.

Requisites Prereq: Must have completed MATH 3250 and MATH 4220 and PHYS 3210 and PHYS 3150 and PHYS 3340. Coreq: Must have completed or be enrolled in PHYS 3310

Credits: 3

ASTR 4470 - Computational Astronomy

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Effective Date 04/28/2023
Computational methods are widely applied in all areas of astrophysical research, including data analysis, instrumentation, and theory. This course covers advanced computing skills that optimize the scientific return from using increasingly complex code bases and sophisticated code development tools. Using Python, we introduce widely applicable numerical methods while training the students in the use of commonly used code development concepts.

Requisites Prerequisite: Students must have completed MATH 3250 and (PHYS 2660 or PHYS 1655) AND Co-requisite: Students must have completed or be enrolled in MATH 4220.

Credits: 3

ASTR 4559 - New Course in Astronomy

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
New course in the subject of astronomy.

Credits: 1 to 4

ASTR 4810 - Astrophysics

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Basic concepts in mechanics, statistical physics, atomic and nuclear structure, and radiative transfer are developed and applied to selected fundamental problems in the areas of stellar structure, stellar atmospheres, the interstellar medium, and extragalactic astrophysics. Prerequisite: ASTR 2110, 2120 (recommended); MATH 4220; PHYS 3210, 3310 (concurrent), 3340, 3430 (concurrent), 3650; or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ASTR 4993 - Tutorial

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Independent study of a topic of special interest to the student under individual supervision by a faculty member. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ASTR 4998 - Senior Thesis

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

Biology

Courses

BIOL 4756 - Field Ornithology

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Effective Date 02/10/2014
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 4757 - GIS for Field Biologists

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Effective Date 02/10/2014
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 4758 - Field Biology of Insects

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Effective Date 11/10/2016
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 4759 - Field Methods in Wildlife Ecology

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Effective Date 02/27/2015
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 4760 - Hormones and Behavior

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Effective Date 02/27/2015
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 4761 - Wildlife Disease Ecology

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Effective Date 03/23/2018
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.

Requisites BIOL 3020

Credits: 3

BIOL 4762 - Field Behavioral Ecology

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Effective Date 03/02/2022
This course will illustrate principles of behavior and provide experience with methods used in animal behavior research. Students will develop an understanding of the scientific process as applied to behavior research, learn how behavior evolves and why we see the behavioral patterns that we do, and learn how to conduct research in wild populations. The class will work collaboratively to develop and carry out a field research project.

Credits: 3

BIOL 4770 - Synthetic Biology

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
By applying the principles of engineering to biology, students will design molecules, viruses, and cells to solve global problems in public health, food security, manufacturing, information processing, and the environment, changing the traditional question of ‘How do cells work?’ to ‘How can I get a cell to work for me?’ Students will gain experience in writing internationally competitive research project proposals. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

BIOL 4810 - Distinguished Major Seminar in Biological Research I

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Two-hour, weekly discussion of recent advances in biology; attend biology seminars, interact with seminar speakers, explore the philosophy and practice of science, and learn skills in oral and written research presentation. Prerequisite: Fourth-year DMP in Biology.

Requisites 4th Yr/Biol DMP

Credits: 2

BIOL 4820 - Distinguished Major Seminar in Biological Research II

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Two-hour, weekly discussion of recent advances in biology; attend biology seminars, interact with seminar speakers, explore the philosophy and practice of science, and learn skills in oral and written research presentation. Prerequisite: Fourth-year DMP in Biology.

Requisites 4th Yr/Biol DMP

Credits: 2

BIOL 4900 - Independent Study in Biology

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Independent study under the direction of a Biology faculty member for students to read and critically assess primary research papers and current reviews in a focused area of the life sciences. Directed readings and discussions can be used to explore how contemporary topics and research areas can be incorporated into other formal courses. Students will have the opportunity to develop both scientific writing and oral presentation skills.

Credits: 1 to 3

BIOL 4910 - Independent Research in the Life Sciences

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Undergraduate research under the direction of a UVA Professor who doesn’t belong to the Biology Department. Despite the ‘Closed’ status of BIOL4910 on SIS, the course is open for enrollment. For application instructions, see the section ‘How to Enroll in Independent Research with a Faculty Member Outside of the Biology Department’ at: https://bio.as.virginia.edu/undergraduate/research. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 2

BIOL 4920 - Independent Research in Biology

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Effective Date 02/21/2019
Independent research for qualified undergraduates under the direction of a faculty member within the Biology Department. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 2

BIOL 4930 - Distinguished Major Thesis Research

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Effective Date 01/15/2017
This course is the final semester of Independent Research for participants of the Biology Distinguished Majors Program. During this semester, students will complete their laboratory investigations, ultimately presenting the sum of their work in a written thesis. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 2

BIOL 4940 - Capstone Research for the BS in Biology

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Effective Date 02/15/2024
This course will provide students with essential hands-on experience in experimental design, data collection, analysis, and science communication. Students will have the opportunity to think critically and creatively about biology and to develop research competencies. Students will work with a mentor to develop a project that makes a unique scientific contribution and will communicate their findings to a broader audience.

Requisites Bachelor of Science in Biology students only

Credits: 2

HBIO 4559 - New Course Human Biology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
New Course in the subject of human biology.

Credits: 1 to 4

HBIO 4810 - Capstone Seminar in Human Biology I

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
A weekly seminar co-organized by participating faculty to integrate students’ independent research and coursework with contemporary issues at the intersection of biology, the humanities and social sciences. Students will have the opportunity to present their ongoing research and meet with outside speakers. This course will be taken in the fourth year. Prerequisite: DMP in Human Biology.

Credits: 2

HBIO 4820 - Capstone Seminar in Human Biology II

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
A weekly discussion and workshop co-organized by participating faculty to provide guidance and advice to students on completing their research or independent study and writing their thesis. Occasional seminars and opportunities to meet outside speakers will continue in this semester. This course will be taken in the fourth year. Prerequisite: DMP in Human Biology.

Credits: 2

HBIO 4950 - Independent Research for Human Biology

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Independent research/independent study under the guidance of a primary mentor within the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisite: DMP in Human Biology.

Credits: 2

HBIO 4960 - Independent Research for Human Biology

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Independent research/independent study under the guidance of a primary mentor within the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisite: DMP in Human Biology.

Credits: 2

HBIO 4998 - Thesis Research in Human Biology I

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Effective Date 03/15/2016
Independent research/independent study under the guidance of a primary mentor within the College of Arts and Sciences. Research/study forms the basis for the DMP thesis to be submitted at the end of the fourth year. This course must be taken in the first semester of the fourth year and should encompass the majority of the research for the thesis. Prerequisite: First-semester fourth-year DMP in Human Biology.

Credits: 2

HBIO 4999 - Thesis Research for Human Biology

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Effective Date 05/01/2021
This course is designed to provide students the opportunity for hands-on learning in experimental sciences leading to a Capstone thesis project and written thesis. Students, working with a primary mentor (and in some cases a secondary mentor), design an original research study or other creative product in self-selected areas of interest, execute the study, analyze the data and report the findings in written form.

Requisites Students must have completed HBIO 4998

Credits: 2

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Chemistry

Courses

CHEM 1210 - Concepts of Chemistry

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Explore the connections between chemistry & everyday life. Topics include the chemistry of air/water pollution, global climate change, alternative energy, polymeric materials, organic vs. non-organic agriculture, biotechnology, & drugs will be examined. After learning the pertinent structures, reactions & energetics, we investigate social, economic & political impacts of chemical issues surrounding these issues. No lab.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1400 - Foundations of Chemical Principles

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Effective Date 12/04/2012
Establishes a foundation in basic chemical principles. Topics include structure of the atom, periodic table and trends, covalent and ionic bonding, the mole, solutions and liquids, chemical reactions and gases. Primarily for students with a limited background in high school chemistry who intend to enroll in CHEM 1410. Three class hours. No laboratory. Enrollment by instructor permission only.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1410 - Introductory College Chemistry I

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Introduces the principles and applications of chemistry. Topics include stoichiometry, chemical equations and reactions, chemical bonding, states of matter, thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and descriptive chemistry of the elements. For students planning to elect further courses in chemistry, physics, and biology and to fulfill prehealth prerequisites. CHEM 1411 may be taken concurrently or after completing 1410. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1410, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1411. A grade of C- or higher is required to take CHEM 1420.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1411 - Introductory College Chemistry I Laboratory

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Effective Date 06/10/2016
Introduction to experimental chemistry, developing laboratory skills & safety. Students plan & implement chemistry experiments in cooperative 4-person teams using a guided inquiry approach. Process skills include developing procedures, data analysis, oral & written communication. Mathematica as a computational tool. Topics: glassware characterization & accuracy, unknown identification of & applications of solubility. 3 1/2 hour lab meets weekly. CHEM 1410, 1610, or 1810 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 1411. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1410, 1610, or 1810, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1411.

Credits: 1

CHEM 1420 - Introductory College Chemistry II

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Introduces the principles and applications of chemistry. Topics include stoichiometry, chemical equations and reactions, chemical bonding, states of matter, thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and descriptive chemistry of the elements. For students planning to elect further courses in chemistry, physics, and biology and to fulfill prehealth prerequisites. Prerequisites: CHEM 1410, 1610, or a C- in CHEM 1810 is required. CHEM 1421 may be taken concurrently or after completing 1420. Drop or withdrawal from CHEM 1420, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1421. C or higher required for CHEM 2410.

Requisites Prerequisites: CHEM 1410, 1610, or 1810.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1421 - Introductory College Chemistry II Laboratory

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Continuation of CHEM 1411, students plan and implement chemistry experiments in cooperative four-person teams using a guided inquiry approach. Mathematica is integrated into the course as a computational chemistry tool. Process skills include developing procedures, data analysis, communication of results, and lab report writing. Topics include thermodynamics, kinetics, acid/base equilibria. 3 1/2 hour lab meets weekly. Prerequisite: Must have completed CHEM 1411 or CHEM 1611 or CHEM 1811 AND must have completed or currently enrolled in CHEM 1420

Requisites Must have completed CHEM 1411 or CHEM 1611 or CHEM 1811 AND must have completed or currently enrolled in CHEM 1420

Credits: 1

CHEM 1500 - Chemistry for Health Sciences

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Effective Date 04/27/2021
Emphasizes the practical aspects of general, organic, and biological chemistry with numerous applications to clinical and health-related cases and issue. Provides health professionals with the chemical background necessary to understand the diagnostic tests and procedures needed for healthcare delivery. Relationships between inorganic chemistry and the life processes that occur during normal and abnormal metabolism.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1559 - New Course in Chemistry

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Effective Date 12/13/2022
New course in the subject of chemistry.

Credits: 1 to 4

CHEM 1610 - Introductory Chemistry I for Engineers

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Introduces the principles and applications of chemistry. Topics include stoichiometry, chemical equations and reactions, chemical bonding, states of matter, thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and descriptive chemistry of the elements. For students planning to elect further courses in chemistry, physics, and biology and to fulfill prehealth prerequisites. Prerequisite: CHEM 1611 or 1411 may be taken concurrently or after completing 1610. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1610, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1611/1411. A grade of C- or higher required for CHEM 1620.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1611 - Introductory Chemistry I for Engineers Laboratory

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Effective Date 06/10/2016
Introduction to experimental chemistry, developing laboratory skills & safety. Students plan & implement chemistry experiments in cooperative 4-person teams using a guided inquiry approach. Process skills include developing procedures, data analysis, oral & written communication. Mathematica as a computational tool. Topics: glassware characterization & accuracy, unknown identification of, & applications of solubility. Lab meets biweekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1410, 1610, or 1810 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 1611. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1410, 1610, or 1810, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1611.

Credits: 1

CHEM 1620 - Introductory Chemistry II for Engineers

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Effective Date 06/27/2016
Introduces the principles and applications of chemistry. Topics include stoichiometry, chemical equations and reactions, chemical bonding, states of matter, thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, and descriptive chemistry of the elements. For students planning to elect further courses in chemistry, physics, and biology and to fulfill prehealth prerequisites. Prerequisites: CHEM 1410, 1610, or 1810. CHEM 1621 may be taken concurrently or after completing 1620. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1620, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1621. C or higher required for CHEM 2410.

Requisites Prerequisites: CHEM 1410, 1610, or 1810.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1621 - Introductory Chemistry II for Engineers Laboratory

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Effective Date 06/27/2016
Continuation of CHEM 1611, students plan and implement chemistry experiments in cooperative four-person teams using a guided inquiry approach. Mathematica is integrated into the course as a computational chemistry tool. Process skills include developing procedures, data analysis, communication of results, and lab report writing. Topics include thermodynamics, kinetics, acid/base equilibria. Lab meets biweekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1411, 1611, or 1811. CHEM 1420 or 1620 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 1621. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1420 or 1620, requires drop/withdraw from CHEM 1621.

Requisites Prerequisites: CHEM 1411, 1611, or 1811.

Credits: 1

CHEM 1810 - Principles of Chemical Structure (Accelerated)

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
First of a four-semester sequence covering the basic concepts of general & organic chemistry. Establishes a foundation of fundamental particles & the nature of the atom, develops a rationale for molecular structure, & explores the basis of chemical reactivity. Topics: introductory quantum mechanics, atomic structure, chemical bonding, spectroscopy, & elementary molecular reactivity. Prerequisite: A strong background in high school chemistry. CHEM 1811 or 1411 may be taken concurrently or after completing CHEM 1810. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1810, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1811/1411.

Credits: 3

CHEM 1811 - Principles of Chemical Structure Laboratory (Accelerated)

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Students will grow as scientists by designing experiments independently, building technical writing & communication skills, drawing connections between chemistry class & the real world, practicing fundamental laboratory techniques, and generating experimental support for concepts covered in CHEM 1810. “Wet lab” and computational experiments encompass & expand beyond those offered in CHEM 1411. Prerequisite: A strong background in high school chemistry. CHEM 1810 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 1811. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1810 requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1811.

Credits: 2

CHEM 1820 - Principles of Organic Chemistry (Accelerated)

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Seeks to understand elementary reaction types as a function of chemical structure by emphasizing organic compounds. Topics include acid-base, nucleophilic substitution, oxidation-reduction, electrophilic addition, elimination, conformational analysis, stereochemistry, aromaticity, and molecular spectroscopy. Prerequisite: CHEM 1810 w/grade C or higher. CHEM 1821, 2411, or 2311 may be taken concurrently or after completing CHEM 1820. Drop or withdrawal from CHEM 1820, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1821/2411/2311.

Requisites Prerequisite:CHEM 1810

Credits: 3

CHEM 1821 - Principles of Organic Chemistry Laboratory (Accelerated)

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Introduction to organic laboratory techniques, organic synthesis, spectroscopic characterization of organic compounds, and qualitative organic analysis. One hour lab lecture and four hour laboratory meets weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1811. CHEM 1820 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 1821. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1820, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 1821.

Requisites Must have completed CHEM 1811 AND must have completed or currently be enrolled in CHEM 1820

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Focuses on the development of skills in methods of preparation, purification and identification of organic compounds. This course is designed for students who are pre-health students and NOT chemistry majors/minors. Prerequisite: CHEM 1421, 1621, or 1811. CHEM 2410 or 1820 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 2311. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2410/1820, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2311.

Credits: 1

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

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Focuses on the development of skills in methods of preparation, purification and identification of organic compounds. This course is designed for students who are pre-health students but NOT chemistry majors/minors. Prerequisite: CHEM 2311 or 2411. CHEM 2420 or 2810 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 2321. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2420 or 2810, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2321.

Requisites Prerequisite: CHEM 2311 or 2411. CHEM 2420 or 2810 must be taken concurrently or prior to this course.

Credits: 1

CHEM 2350 - The Chemical Century

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
This course will explore the chemical component of some major technological changes of the 20th century including explosives, fuels, polymers, consumer products, agriculture, food processing, nutrition, and drugs. The discovery, development and implementation of key technologies will be discussed along with the societal impact. Biographical and historical information about inventors or companies will supplement the material. Prerequisites: CHEM 1410, 1420 or 1810, 1820

Credits: 3

CHEM 2410 - Organic Chemistry I

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Surveys the compounds of carbon in relation to their structure, identification, synthesis, natural occurrence, and mechanisms of reactions. Three class hours; Discussion requirement at the discretion of instructor. CHEM 1420 or 1620. CHEM 2311 or 2411 may be taken concurrently or after CHEM 2410. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2410, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2311/2411. C or better required for CHEM 2420.

Requisites Must have completed CHEM 1810 or CHEM 1420 with a grade of C or higher

Credits: 3

CHEM 2411 - Organic Chemistry I Laboratory

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Introduction to the principles and techniques used in the organic chemistry laboratory, including methods of purification, isolation, synthesis and analysis of organic compounds, including spectroscopic and chromatographic methods. One hour lecture and four hour laboratory meets weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1421, 1621, or 1811. CHEM 2410 or 1820 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 2411. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2410/1820, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2411.

Credits: 3

CHEM 2420 - Organic Chemistry II

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Survey of the principle classes of organic and bioorganic compounds in relation to their structure, identification, synthesis, natural occurrence, reactivity, and mechanisms of reactions. Prerequisite: CHEM 2410 or 1820. CHEM 2321 or 2421 may be taken concurrently or after completing CHEM 2420. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2420, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2321/2421.

Requisites CHEM 2410 (grade of C or higher) or 1820

Credits: 3

CHEM 2421 - Organic Chemistry II Laboratory

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Further development of skills acquired in CHEM 2411; synthesis (including multistep synthesis), isolation, purification and characterization of compounds such as anestethics, antiinflamatory and antibacterial compounds, as well as peptides, oligonucleotides, synthetic polymers. One hour lab lecture and four hour laboratory meets weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 2411. CHEM 2420 or 2810 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 2421. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2420 or 2810, requires drop/withdrawal from 2421.

Requisites Prerequisite: CHEM 2411. CHEM 2420 or 2810 must be taken concurrently or prior to this course.

Credits: 3

CHEM 2559 - New Course in Chemistry

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Effective Date 01/17/2024
New course in the subject of chemistry.

Credits: 1 to 4

CHEM 2810 - Principles of Organic & Bioorganic Chemistry

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Continued exploration of organic reactions and structures initiated in CHEM 1820. Includes electrophilic aromatic substitution, nucleophilic aromatic substitution, nucleophilic addition, nucleophilic acyl substitution, organometallic compounds, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids. Prerequisite: CHEM 1820. CHEM 2811, 2421, or 2321 may be taken concurrently or after CHEM 2810. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2810, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2811/2421/2321.

Requisites Prerequisite: CHEM 1820 with grade of C or higher is require

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Further development of the laboratory skills acquired in CHEM 1821, for the organic synthesis (including multistep synthesis) of compounds such as esters, amides, peptides, polymers, organometallics. Extensive hands-on experience using spectroscopic (NMR, IR, UV) and chromatographic methods for the characterization of organic compounds. One hour lab lecture and four hours laboratory meets weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1821. CHEM 2810 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 2811. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2810, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 2811.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 07/07/2017
Focuses on the macroscopic properties of chemical systems. Topics include states of matter, physical equilibria, chemical equilibria, thermodynamic relationships, kinetic theory, and electrochemistry. Prerequisite: CHEM 2810

Requisites Must have completed CHEM 2810

Credits: 3

CHEM 2900 - Teaching Methods for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

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Effective Date 05/09/2017
This STEM teaching course will help Undergraduate TAs integrate learning theory and effective student engagement practices into their teaching. UTAs will participate in guided discussions to relate recommendations from the education literature to their classroom experiences. Assignments will include learning activities, such as teaching observations & reflections, and designing interventions to assist students with difficult topics/skills.

Credits: 1

CHEM 3121 - Advanced Synthetic Techniques Laboratory

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Effective Date 01/15/2023
Focuses on the development of advanced skills & techniques in chemical synthesis. Intended to provide students with training in air-sensitive chemistry, including the use of inert-atmosphere glove boxes & standard Schlenk techniques. Students will become familiar with a variety of characterization methods. Designed for students who wish enhance their synthetic skills in preparation for laboratory-based jobs or graduate school.

Requisites Prerequisites: CHEM 2321, 2421, or 2811

Credits: 3

CHEM 3240 - Coding in Matlab/Mathematica with Applications

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Effective Date 04/03/2015
This course focuses on an introduction to programming and data manipulation, with an emphasis on applications. Students have the choice of using Matlab or Mathematica as their programming language, with course instruction spanning both languages. Topics include loops, data structures, functions and functional programming, randomness, matrices, and string manipulation, plus applications selected from chemistry, statistics, or image processing. Prerequisite: One semester of calculus is recommended but not required.

Credits: 3

CHEM 3410 - Physical Chemistry - Quantum Theory

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Introduces physical chemistry with numerous biological applications: chemical kinetics; introductory quantum theory; chemical bonding; spectroscopy and molecular structure; biochemical transport; and statistical mechanics. Prerequisite: CHEM 1420 or 1810; MATH 1220 or 1320; and PHYS 2020, 2620, or 2415. CHEM 3811 (if required for degree program) may be taken concurrently or after CHEM 3410. Discussion is optional.

Credits: 3

CHEM 3420 - Physical Chemistry - Thermodynamics

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Effective Date 10/18/2016
Introduces physical chemistry with numerous biological applications: properties of gases, liquids, and solids; thermodynamics; chemical and biochemical equilibrium; solutions; electrochemistry; and structure and stability of biological macromolecules. Prerequisite: CHEM 3410. CHEM 3821 (if required for degree program) may be taken concurrently or after CHEM 3420. Discussion is optional.

Requisites Must have taken CHEM 3410

Credits: 3

CHEM 3559 - New Course in Chemistry

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Effective Date 03/30/2020
New course in the subject of chemistry.

Credits: 1 to 4

CHEM 3610 - Physical Chemistry for Engineers

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Introduces physical chemistry with numerous biological applications: chemical kinetics; introductory quantum theory; chemical bonding; spectroscopy and molecular structure; biochemical transport; and statistical mechanics.

Requisites Must have completed one of the following: Chemistry 1420 or 1620 or 1810 and one of the following: Math 1220 or 1320 or APMA 1110 and one of the following: PHYS 2020 or 2620 or 2415

Credits: 3

CHEM 3721 - Analytical Chemistry Laboratory

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
This lecture/laboratory course covers basic analytical chemistry instrumentation including chromatography, electrochemistry, spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. Lecture content will include theory and application of chemical instrumentation. The laboratory component will emphasize obtaining and interpreting quantitative data and designing experiments through project-based labs. 2 lecture hours, 4 lab hours. Prerequisite: CHEM 1421, 1621, or 1811

Credits: 3

CHEM 3811 - Physical Chemistry I Laboratory

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Effective Date 06/10/2016
Execution of laboratory experiments that illustrate important laws and demonstrate quantitative methods of measuring the chemical and physical properties of matter. One hour lab lecture and four hour lab meet weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 1421, 1621, or 1811. CHEM 3410 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 3811. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 3410, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 3811.

Credits: 3

CHEM 3821 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory II

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Execution of laboratory experiments that illustrate important laws and demonstrate quantitative methods of measuring the chemical and physical properties of matter. One hour lab lecture and four hour laboratory meet weekly. Prerequisite: CHEM 3811. CHEM 3420 must be taken concurrently or prior to CHEM 3821. Drop/withdrawal from CHEM 3420, requires drop/withdrawal from CHEM 3821.

Requisites Prerequisite: CHEM 3811. CHEM 3420 must be taken concurrently or prior to this course.

Credits: 3

CHEM 3951 - Undergraduate Research I

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Effective Date 07/07/2017
Introduces the methods of research that include use of the research literature and instruction in basic experimental and theoretical procedures and techniques. Students can conduct their research within the Dept of Chemistry or in a related science with approval. Under the supervision of faculty but may work closely with a Post-Doc or graduate student.

Credits: 1 to 3

CHEM 3961 - Undergraduate Research II

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Effective Date 07/07/2017
Student continues to build on their knowledge of the methods of research including the use of research literature and instruction in more advanced experimental and theoretical procedures and techniques. Students can conduct their research within the Dept of Chemistry or in a related science with approval. Under the supervision of faculty but may work closely with a Post-Doc or graduate student.

Requisites Must have completed CHEM 3951

Credits: 3

CHEM 4090 - Analytical Chemistry

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Study of the utilization of modern analytical instrumentation for chemical analysis. Includes emission and mass spectrometry, ultraviolet, visible, and infrared absorption spectroscopy, atomic absorption, electrical methods of analysis, chromatography, neutron activation analysis, and X-ray methods. Prerequisite: CHEM 1420 or CHEM 1620 or CHEM 1810

Requisites CHEM 1420, 1620 or 1810

Credits: 3

CHEM 4320 - Inorganic Chemistry

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Effective Date 06/10/2016
Unified treatment of the chemistry of the important classes of inorganic compounds and their reactions, with emphasis on underlying principles of molecular structure, symmetry, and bonding theory, including molecular orbital descriptions and reactivity. Prerequisite; CHEM 1420.

Credits: 3

CHEM 4410 - Biological Chemistry I

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Introduces the components of biological macromolecules and the principles behind their observed structures. Examines the means by which enzymes catalyze transformations of other molecules, emphasizing the chemical principles involved. Topics include a description of the key metabolic cycles and pathways, the enzymes that catalyze these reactions, and the ways in which these pathways are regulated. Prerequisite: CHEM 2420

Requisites Must have completed CHEM 2420 or CHEM 2810

Credits: 3

CHEM 4411 - Biological Chemistry Laboratory I

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Introducing the components of biological macromolecules and the principles behind their observed structures. Prerequisites: CHEM 2420 or 2810

Requisites Must have completed CHEM 2420 or CHEM 2810

Credits: 3

CHEM 4420 - Biological Chemistry II

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Covers three main areas: structure and function of biological membranes; complex biochemical systems and processes, including photosynthesis, oxidative phosphorylation, vision, neurotransmission, hormonal regulation, muscle contraction, and microtubules; and molecular biology, including DNA and RNA metabolism, protein synthesis, regulation of gene expression, and recombinant DNA methodology.

Requisites Must have completed CHEM 4410

Credits: 3

CHEM 4421 - Biological Chemistry Laboratory II

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
This course builds on the techniques learned in CHEM 4411 to study the structure/function relationship of a protein. Experiments are designed to determine the function of a protein and/or the effect of a mutation on function. Experimental methods include protein expression and purification, spectrophotometric kinetic methods and statistical analysis of data, and molecular visualization. Prerequisite: CHEM 4411 with a grade of C- or better.

Requisites CHEM 4411

Credits: 3

CHEM 4430 - From Lab Bench to Your Medicine Cabinet

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Effective Date 10/13/2016
This course will focus on methods of drug discovery. The class will include reading primary literature and discussions about topics ranging from natural products to gene therapy. Students will prepare a paper and presentation on the mechanism of action, timeline of discovery, importance of pharmacokinetics, and the role of basic research in the discovery for a select group of therapeutics Prerequisites: CHEM 4410

Requisites Must have completed CHEM 4410

Credits: 3

CHEM 4431 - Chemical Biology Laboratory

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Introduces the theory & practice of common techniques at the interface of chemistry and biology. Students should gain a practical understanding of cloning, protein expression & purification, activity assays, & maintaining a laboratory notebook. We will approach these topics in the context of a larger, on-going research project.

Requisites Students must have completed CHEM 4411 and can’t enroll if previously taken CHEM 4559 topic #4 Chemical Biology Laboratory

Credits: 3

CHEM 4440 - Biochemistry for Pre-Health

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Biochemistry study chemical processes within biological systems. When living systems are in chemical and energetic balance life thrives. However, distortion of balance caused by external or internal environment can lead to series of diseases and malfunctions of biological systems. In this course we will explore and learn how basic chemical and physical principles apply to macro-molecules that give rise to the complexity of life.

Requisites Must have completed CHEM 2420 or CHEM 2810

Credits: 3

CHEM 4460 - Enzyme Reaction Mechanisms in Human Health and Disease

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Effective Date 09/27/2022
Familiarization with catalytic strategies employed by enzymes and relationship of the strategies to those used in organic chemistry. Reactions discussed include phosphoryl transfer, acyl group activation and transfer, and coenzyme-based catalysis, etc. The understanding of enzyme mechanisms is enhanced by introduction of key insights from kinetics and regulation of enzyme reactions. Emphasis is placed on implications for human health and disease.

Requisites Must have completed the following courses CHEM 4410 or CHEM 4440 BIOL 2100 or BIOL 2200 and students can’t enroll if previously taken CHEM 4559 topic #2 Enzyme Reaction Mechanisms

Credits: 3

CHEM 4559 - New Course in Chemistry

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Effective Date 12/02/2020
New course in the subject of chemistry.

Credits: 1 to 4

CHEM 4951 - Undergraduate Research III

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Effective Date 07/07/2017
Student continues to build on their knowledge of the methods of research including the use of research literature and instruction in more advanced experimental and theoretical procedures and techniques. Students can conduct their research within the Dept of Chemistry or in a related science with approval. Under the supervision of faculty but may work closely with a Post-Doc or graduate student.

Requisites Must have completed CHEM 3961

Credits: 3

CHEM 4961 - Undergraduate Research IV

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Effective Date 07/07/2017
Student continues to build on their knowledge of the methods of research including the use of research literature and instruction in more advanced experimental and theoretical procedures and techniques. Students can conduct their research within the Dept of Chemistry or in a related science with approval. Under the supervision of faculty but may work closely with a Post-Doc or graduate student.

Requisites Must have completed CHEM 4951

Credits: 3

CHEM 4971 - Distinguished Majors Thesis Research

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Independent research, under the supervision of the faculty DMP thesis readers, toward the DMP thesis.

Credits: 3

Classics

Courses

CLAS 1559 - New Course in Classics

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Effective Date 04/30/2010
New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 1 to 4

CLAS 2010 - Greek Civilization

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies Greek history, literature, and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 2020 - Roman Civilization

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies Roman history, literature, and art. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 2040 - Greek Mythology

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Introduces major themes of Greek mythological thought; surveys myths about the olympic pantheon and the legends of the heroes. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 2100 - Classical Myth and its Influence

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Effective Date 03/28/2016
Studies the influence and prominence of Classical myth in literature and other arts in antiquity and through time.

Credits: 3

CLAS 2300 - Ancient Rome at the Movies

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Effective Date 02/26/2020
This class will study the representation of Rome on both the big & small screen from the early days until now. Readings from classical sources, from film theory, & from the historical novels that inspired some of the films. We’ll be asking how these imagined Romes relate to historical reality, how they engage in dialogue with one another, & how they function as a mirror for the concerns & anxieties of our own society.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken CLAS 3559 topic #20 Ancient Rome at the Movies

Credits: 3

CLAS 2559 - New Course in Classics

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Effective Date 06/09/2023
New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 1 to 4

CLAS 3040 - Women and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This course focuses on women’s roles and lives in Ancient Greece and Rome. Students are introduced to the primary material (textual and material) on women in antiquity and to current debates about it. Subjects addressed will include sexual stereotypes and ideals, power-relations of gender, familial roles, social and economic status, social and political history, visual art, medical theory, and religion. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3100 - Age of Odysseus

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies the literature, culture, history, art, and religion of the times of the Homeric epics (Bronze Age to circa 700 b.c.). Readings include Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, The Homeric Hymns, and Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days. Some emphasis on the archaeology of Mycenaean sites. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3110 - Age of Pericles

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies the literature, art, architecture, history, and politics of the Periclean Age of Athens, with special emphasis on Pericles (circa 495-429 b.c.) and his accomplishments. Readings from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Thucydides, and Plutarch. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3120 - Age of Alexander

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Studies the times, person, accomplishments of Alexander the Great (356-323 b.c.), the literature, art, and architecture of the period, and the influence of Alexander on the development of Greek and Western culture. Readings from Plutarch, Arrian, Demosthenes, and poets and philosophers of the early Hellenistic period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3130 - Age of Augustus

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Studies the times, person, and accomplishments of the Roman Emperor Augustus (63 b.c.-14 a.d.), with special emphasis on the literature, art, architecture, and political developments of the period. Readings from Tacitus, Suetonius, and the poetry of Vergil, Horace, and Ovid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3140 - Age of Augustine

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies cultural developments in the fourth and fifth centuries, centering on St. Augustine and the literature of the period. Readings from such works as Augustine’s Confessions and City of God, Jerome’s letters, Cassian’s Conversations, Sulpicius Severus’ biography of St. Martin, and the poetry of Claudian and Prudentius. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3150 - Gods and Androids

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Effective Date 10/27/2016
Reading of ancient epics (Homer’s “Illiad”. Apollonius of Rhodes “Argonautica” and Vergil’s “Aeneid”) in light of modern counterparts in various media, including Alan Moore’s graphic novel “Watchmen” and the rebotted “Battlestar Galactica”.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3210 - Tragedy and Comedy

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Analyzes readings in the tragic poets Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca; and the comic poets Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence, together with ancient and modern discussions. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3220 - Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Effective Date 05/20/2024
What does it mean to say that Cleopatra was black, or not? Ancient history comes up often in modern debates about race. We will investigate how people understood racial and ethnic difference in the ancient Greco-Roman Mediterranean, and how interpretations of antiquity historically have shaped modern concepts of race. We will study relevant art and literature from the 8th century BCE through the 3rd century CE, and modern responses to both.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3250 - Ancient Greek Religion

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
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 3260 - Rituals in Ancient Greece

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Effective Date 11/26/2019
The course explores Ancient Greek religious practices and beliefs with an emphasis on Greek religious rituals understood in the broadest terms, and hence including Greek magical practices and associated beliefs. Starting off with the rituals belonging to the realm of social interaction, and the rites of passage designed for female and male members of society respectively, female dedications etc. v. rituals specific for men.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken CLAS 3559 topic #18 Rituals in Ancient Greece

Credits: 3

CLAS 3300 - Introduction to Indo-european Linguistics

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Effective Date 02/08/2011
Languages as superficially different as English, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit in fact all developed from a single “proto-language,” called Proto-Indo-European. This course will explore the following questions: What was this proto-language like? How do we know what it was like? By what processes did it develop into the various daughter languages? How can we trace words as diverse as wit, idea, video, and Veda back to a common source?

Credits: 3

CLAS 3350 - Language and Literature of the Early Celts

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
This introduction to the Celtic inhabitants of Gaul and Britain unites two approaches, one literary, one linguistic. First, we will compare descriptions of the Celts found in Greek and Latin authors with readings of Celtic literature in translation, notably Ireland’s great prose epic, the Tain Bo Cuailnge. Second, we will explore how the Celtic languages work, focusing on the basics of Old Irish as well as touching on Middle Welsh and Gaulish.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3400 - The City of Rome in Antiquity

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Effective Date 04/03/2013
This lecture course traces the urban development of Rome from the earliest settlements in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1,000 BCE) to the depopulation of the city in the sixth century CE.

Credits: 3

CLAS 3559 - New Course in Classics

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Effective Date 09/06/2022
New course in the subject of classics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 1 to 4

CLAS 3600 - Medieval Manuscripts at UVA

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Effective Date 09/24/2014
An introduction to the study of medieval manuscripts through the holdings of the University of Virginia. Manuscripts will be studied from a variety of perspectives: the cultural context that produced them, their physical and visual form, and the history of their reception, from their creation to their current home in the Small Special Collections Library.

Credits: 3

CLAS 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 11/10/2014
Independent Study in Classics.

Credits: 3

GREE 1010 - Elementary Greek

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Attic Greek: beginning grammar, composition, and selected readings. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 4

GREE 1020 - Elementary Greek

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Attic Greek: beginning grammar, composition, and selected readings. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 4

GREE 2010 - Intermediate Greek I

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Xenophon and Plato. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 1010-1020.

Credits: 3

GREE 2020 - Intermediate Greek II

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Herodotus and Euripides. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2010.

Credits: 3

GREE 2230 - The New Testament I

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Introduces New Testament Greek; selections from the Gospels. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2010.

Credits: 3

GREE 2240 - The New Testament II

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Selections from the Epistles. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2010.

Credits: 3

GREE 3010 - Advanced Reading in Greek

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Reading of a tragedy and a related prose work. Weekly exercises in writing Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2020.

Credits: 3

GREE 3020 - Advanced Reading in Greek

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Readings in Greek from Homer’s Iliad. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 3010 or 3030.

Credits: 3

GREE 3030 - Advanced Reading in Greek

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Reading of a comedy and a related prose work. Weekly exercises in writing Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 2020.

Credits: 3

GREE 3040 - Advanced Reading in Greek

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Readings in Greek from Homer’s Odyssey. Offered in alternate years. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: GREE 3010 or 3030.

Credits: 3

GREE 3559 - New Course in Greek

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Effective Date 01/24/2018
New course in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 1 to 4

GREE 4559 - New Course in Greek

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Effective Date 01/24/2018
New course in Greek. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 1 to 4

GREE 4998 - Greek Distinguished Majors Thesis Research

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Effective Date 02/26/2015
Independent research under direction of a faculty member leading to writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project

Credits: 3

GREE 4999 - Greek Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Writing of Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project. Prerequisite: GREE 4998

Requisites GREE 4998

Credits: 3

LATI 126 - Intensive Introductory Latin

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for LATI 1026. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 0

LATI 216 - Intensive Intermediate Latin

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for LATI 2016. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 0

LATI 226 - Intensive Intermediate Latin

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for LATI 2026. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 0

LATI 1010 - Elementary Latin I

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Beginning grammar, prose composition, and simple Latin readings. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 4

LATI 1020 - Elementary Latin II

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Beginning grammar, prose composition, and simple Latin readings. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 4

LATI 1030 - Fundamentals of Latin (Intensive)

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Covers the material of 1010,1020 in one semester. Intended principally as a review for those who know some Latin. May be taken as a rapid introduction to Latin. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: Two or more years of high school Latin and appropriate CEEB score, or permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Credits: 4

LATI 2010 - Intermediate Latin I

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Introductory readings from Caesar and Ovid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: LATI 1020, 1030, or appropriate CEEB score.

Credits: 3

LATI 2020 - Intermediate Latin II

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Introductory readings from Cicero and Catullus. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/. Prerequisite: LATI 2010.

Credits: 3

LATI 3010 - Plautus

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Reading of two plays of Plautus with attention to style and dramaturgy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3020 - Catullus

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Selections from Carmina. Note: The prerequisite for LATI 3030 through LATI 3110 is LATI 2020, four years of high school Latin, or appropriate SAT score. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3030 - Cicero

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Selections from Cicero’s speeches, philosophical works, and letters. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3040 - Prose Composition

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Graded exercises in translation from English into Latin, with some attention to the reverse process. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3050 - The Satirical Writing of Petronius and Seneca

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis, and Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3070 - Livy

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Selections from Livy’s History. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3080 - Horace

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Selections from Horace’s Satires, Epodes, Odes, and Epistles. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3090 - Introduction to Mediaeval Latin

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Selections of Mediaeval Latin prose and verse. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3100 - Vergil

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Selections from Vergil’s Aeneid. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3110 - Ovid

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Selections from either the narrative poems (Metamorphoses, Fasti) or from the amatory poems. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/classics/.

Credits: 3

LATI 3120 - Pliny’s Letters

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Effective Date 02/08/2011
In this course we read the selection of letters of the younger Pliny that are found in the edition by Sherwin-White. Pliny is one of the clearest and most stylish writers of Latin prose. We concentrate on translating the letters and putting them into their social and literary context.

Credits: 3

LATI 3130 - Roman Satire

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Effective Date 02/08/2011
This class will explore the Romans’ “own genre: satire. After an overview of the development of satire and its early practitioners, we will read and translate selected satires of Horace and Juvenal. While reading these often funny and at the same time biting poems, we will learn a great deal about society and manners, life and death, rich men and poor slobs, and high & low life characters in the Augustan & early imperial periods of Rome.

Credits: 3

LATI 3150 - Sallust

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Effective Date 02/13/2012
This course will focus on one or more works by the Roman historian Sallust, read in the original Latin. Additional reading in English.

Credits: 3

LATI 3160 - Lucretius

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Effective Date 10/01/2015
In this course, we’ll read a variety of selections from Lucretius poem about the nature of the universe, including topics as wide-ranging as the body, sex, death, atomic theory, the origins of language and civilization, and why we need philosophy.

Requisites LATI 2020

Credits: 3

LATI 3170 - Caesar

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Effective Date 10/23/2020
The course examines the major works of Julius Caesar in Latin.

Requisites LATI 2020

Credits: 3

LATI 3200 - Latin Bible

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Effective Date 03/24/2017
Readings from the Latin Bible, beginning with selections from narrative books (e.g., Genesis, Acts) and progressing to more elaborate and poetic portions (e.g. Psalms, Job, Song of Songs). Readings will be taken mainly from the Vulgate, but we will look briefly at the Old Latin versions and at modern English translations. We will also consider some medieval Bible manuscripts, including several in Special Collections at UVA.

Credits: 3

LATI 3270 - Seneca

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Effective Date 02/26/2020
The main focus of the course will be on Seneca’s political thought. By engaging in close reading of both his prose writings and his dramatic production, we will tackle Seneca’s views on the institution of the Empire in general, and on the emperor Nero in particular. Particular attention will be devoted to issues of grammar, syntax, meter, and style.

Credits: 3

LATI 3559 - New Course in Latin

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Effective Date 09/06/2022
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: 1 to 4

LATI 4010 - Catullus

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Effective Date 10/01/2015
Translation and interpretation of the poems of Catullus.

Requisites LATI 2020

Credits: 3

LATI 4020 - Seminar in Vergil

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Effective Date 04/19/2019
In-depth study of one book of Vergil’s epic, the Aeneid, with attention to language, epic tradition, Augustan ideology and the topography of Rome. Quizzes, reports, exam, paper.

Credits: 3

LATI 4050 - Latin Prose Composition

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Effective Date 02/26/2020
This class will combine Latin prose composition exercises and readings from Cicero, with the goal of actively recognizing, understanding, and using key characteristics of literary prose style from the Late Republic. Readings will be supplemented by short lectures or group discussions on topics relevant to composition and comparisons with other prose authors.

Credits: 3

LATI 4060 - Tacitus Agricola

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Effective Date 04/13/2021
In a biography that chiefly covers his father-in-law Agricola’s time as governor of Britain, the bracingly caustic historian Tacitus suggests that maybe not everything the Romans did in the provinces was entirely admirable. In this course, we will not only read the primary text with care and precision, but also discuss scholarship on literary, cultural, and historical questions raised by the work.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken LATI 4559 topic #19 Tacitus, Agricola

Credits: 3

LATI 4090 - Vergil Eclogues

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Effective Date 10/23/2020
Study of the pastoral poetry of Vergil in its literary and historical contexts.

Credits: 3

LATI 4110 - Ovid, Fasti

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
This advanced course will study Ovid’s calendar-poem, Fasti, which presents festivals and star-myths for six months of the year. This work of late Ovid (written both before and after his exile) offers the opportunity to study a literary response to Rome’s religious calendar and its imperial remaking in the age of Augustus.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken LATI 4559 topic #3 Ovid’s Fasti

Credits: 3

LATI 4559 - New Course in Latin

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Effective Date 02/16/2024
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: 1 to 4

LATI 4998 - Latin Distinguished Majors Thesis Research

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Independent research under direction of a faculty member leading to writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project

Credits: 3

LATI 4999 - Latin Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing

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Effective Date 02/26/2015
Writing of Distinguished Majors thesis or comparable project. Prerequisites: LATI 4998

Requisites LATI 4998

Credits: 3

Cognitive Science

Courses

COGS 3960 - Cognitive Science Research

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This course aims to provide faculty-supervised research experience. A faculty mentor should be identified before enrollment. S/U grading. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Faculty supervisor permission.

Credits: 2 to 3

COGS 4559 - New Course in Cognitive Science

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
New course in the subject of cognitive science.

Credits: 1 to 4

COGS 4970 - Distinguished Major Thesis I

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Effective Date 05/01/2023
A two-semester course in which the student prepares a thesis under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. The thesis may be based on empirical research conducted by the student or a critical review or theoretical analysis of existing findings.

Requisites Cognitive Science Distinguished Major

Credits: 3

COGS 4980 - Distinguished Major Thesis

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
A two-semester course in which the student prepares a thesis under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. The thesis may be based on empirical research conducted by the student or a critical review or theoretical analysis of existing findings.

Requisites Cognitive Science Distinguished Major

Credits: 3

Drama

Courses

DANC 1200 - Introduction to Movement Practices

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Effective Date 10/01/2020
This course is designed as an introduction to movement practices for students of all backgrounds and skill levels. Students will work on dynamic alignment, as well as spatial, sensory, and bodily awareness. Through movement prompts, improvisation, and learned combinations students will be challenged to expand movement vocabulary while also increasing range of motion, strength, flexibility, and expressivity.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken DANC 1559 topic #1 Dance Fundamentals

Credits: 1

DANC 1400 - How Dance Matters

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course is an introduction to dance in the context of performance on stage, on screen, and in public space. Through viewings, discussions, and practical dance experiences, students will deepen their understanding of how dances are created and how dance shapes and is shaped by the world around it. Students will engage with a wide range of styles, historical periods, and creative approaches to consider how dance matters.

Credits: 3

DANC 1559 - New Course in Dance

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
This class provides the opportunity to offer new courses in the subject of Dance at the 1000 level.

Credits: 1 to 3

DANC 2210 - Ballet I

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
In this studio course, students will learn Ballet terminology, movement concepts, and dynamic alignment through an anatomical approach to Ballet technique. Students will work at barre and center while increasing strength, flexibility and body awareness.

Credits: 1

DANC 2220 - Modern/Contemporary I

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
In this studio course, students will explore various styles of western modern/contemporary concert dance as technical, expressive practices. Through movement combinations, improvisation, and mini-studies, students will work to deepen body awareness through modern and contemporary movement practices. Working towards efficiency and dynamic alignment, students will increase strength, flexibility, and become more articulate, expressive dancers.

Credits: 1

DANC 2230 - Jazz Dance I

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Effective Date 03/03/2016
This studio course explores various styles of jazz dance. Combinations will focus on isolation, coordination, juxtaposition and musicality. Styles include but are not limited to contemporary, Broadway/musical theatre and lyrical.

Credits: 1

DANC 2300 - Dance Improvisation

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This open-level studio course allows students to explore dance improvisation as a practice of attention, care, and relation. Through improvisational methods and structures, students will develop their skills as improvisers and begin to appreciate improvisation’s role in composition (choreography), performance, and daily life.

Credits: 2 to 3

DANC 2430 - Production Laboratory: Dance

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course provides students with firsthand experience in the creative practice of choreography and performance while providing exposure to basic production skills. In addition to gaining insight into choreography and performance as modes of critical inquiry, students will also be involved in various aspects of the production and will gain an appreciation of the skills that are required to produce a dance concert.

Credits: 1 to 3

DANC 2559 - New Course in Dance

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Effective Date 10/13/2023
This class provides the opportunity to offer new courses in the subject of Dance at the 2000 level.

Credits: 1 to 3

DANC 3210 - Ballet II

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Exploration of Ballet technique for intermediate to advanced students. Students will deepen their knowledge through continued study of terminology, movement concepts, and dynamic alignment while expanding upon their ability to make qualitative choices and enhancing their artistry.

Credits: 1

DANC 3220 - Modern/Contemporary II

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Exploration of western modern/contemporary concert dance practices for intermediate to advanced students. Students will deepen their knowledge of movement concepts, dynamic alignment, and body awareness through combinations, improvisation, partnering, and creative studies. Students will continue to increase their strength, flexibility, and body awareness as they expand upon their ability to make qualitative choices and enhance their artistry.

Credits: 1

DANC 3230 - Jazz Dance II

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Effective Date 03/04/2016
This studio course explores various styles of jazz dance for intermediate to advanced students. Students will continue to deepen their appreciation of jazz dance forms as they increase movement articulation and specificity. Combinations will focus on isolation, coordination, juxtaposition and musicality while also challenging the students to enhance their expressivity and qualitative choices.

Credits: 1

DANC 3300 - Dance Composition

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Explores dance making through the investigation of various tools and approaches to movement generation and composition from western choreographic practices. Students will develop their skills as dance makers through movement explorations, readings, discussions, and viewings. Students will create multiple compositional studies to hone their abilities to make dances. Feedback sessions provide opportunities for critical reflection and discussion.

Credits: 3

DANC 3400 - Dance and Culture

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
This course aims to deepen students’ understanding of dance as a field of artistic and intellectual study. Students will be challenged to examine human movement as a historically situated cultural expression and to explore the relation between dance and various socio-cultural developments. The course will highlight the connection of dance and critical theory, focusing on notions of identity, subjectivity and embodiment.

Credits: 3

DANC 3460 - Movement & Environment(s)

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Effective Date 04/21/2022
In this practice-based course, students will reexamine relations to their environment and generate strategies for a new environmental ethics that calls a human-centered world into question. Through reading, conversing, and moving, students consider how somatic and artistic practices might shift ecological understandings. Students will ask questions of and through modes of perception and experiment with an expanding empathy to enact new relations.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken DANC 3559 topic #3 Movement & Environment(s)

Credits: 3

DANC 3559 - New Course in Dance

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Effective Date 11/15/2021
This class provides the opportunity to offer new courses in the subject of Dance at the 3000 level.

Credits: 1 to 3

DANC 3590 - Special Topics in Dance

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Effective Date 07/12/2023
In-depth investigation of a specific topic in the field of dance at the 3000 level. Topics and content will vary depending upon the instructor’s areas of expertise. The course may be repeated for credit in different content areas. Possible topics include: advanced Movement Practices, Somatic Studies, Critical Studies, Creative Research and Scholarship (Choreography, Screendance, Dance and Music or Dance and Media/Technology collaborations), etc.

Credits: 1 to 3

DANC 3610 - Contact Improvisation

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Effective Date 03/04/2016
This course serves as an introduction to the principles and skills involved in the practice of Contact Improvisation. Students will explore and learn improvisational strategies for moving individually, in duets, and groups. With attention focused on responsiveness in the moment, students learn to think quickly and creatively and are encouraged to investigate the territory between familiarity and risk.

Credits: 1

DANC 3620 - Dance Repertory

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This course is designed for students to have the opportunity to learn repertory, experience multiple methods of choreography and gain deeper insight into the practice of dance performance through working with faculty and professional guest artists via the choreographic process.

Credits: 1 to 3

DANC 3630 - Dance Theater

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Effective Date 03/04/2016
Studies the integration of dance with other media - text, dramatic action, digital media, sets, props, etc. to provide students with insight into dance theatre as an art form.

Credits: 3

DANC 3640 - Screendance

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Investigates the relationship between dancing bodies, cinematography, and video editing. Exploring innovative ways to film movement, we examine the relationship between the moving body and camera. Students gain exposure to various methodologies and practices that can be directly applied to individual projects. We discuss parallels between choreography, cinematography, and video editing, and how these integrate to form the art of Screendance.

Credits: 3

DANC 4220 - Modern/Contemporary III

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Exploration of western modern/contemporary concert dance practices for advanced students. Students will work towards mastery as they continue to deepen their knowledge of movement concepts and body awareness. Through advanced combinations, partnering, improvisation, and studies, students will work to gain greater specificity and clarity as they expand upon their artistry and ability to make qualitative choices through the medium of dance.

Credits: 1

DANC 4640 - Somatic Practices and Research

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Investigates somatic practices and methodologies as embodied research. Through movement practice, readings, and discussions we explore multiple concepts and tools that can deepen embodied practices. This course offers an opportunity to foster awareness, expand individual movement choices, and increase clarity of expression. In so doing, we may broaden our capacity to listen, perceive, and relate to ourselves, one another, and the world around us.

Credits: 3

DANC 4993 - Independent Study: Dance

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Allows upper level students to pursue advanced creative and/or scholarly research in dance as an independent project. Students can identify their area of focus for in depth investigations including, but not limited to: Choregraphy, Screendance, Performance, Performance Studies, Dance Pedagogy, etc.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 1010 - How Theatre Works

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
Investigates theatre arts and their relation to contemporary culture through the practical and experiential study of plays, production style and the role of theatre artists in creative interpretation.

Credits: 3

DRAM 1020 - Speaking in Public

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
For non-majors. Acquire and practice voice and speech techniques to build oral communication skills, confidence and enjoyment in public speaking, presentation or performance.

Credits: 3

DRAM 1210 - Making Places

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
This is a making class. Making Places explores the basic elements of spatial design in environmental and theatrical contexts through model making, drawing, collaging, and constructing. How do the principles of design and their application endow Places with an identity? Projects created in manual and digital media.

Credits: 3

DRAM 1220 - Art of the Creature

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Effective Date 04/22/2019
Art of the Creature fosters creative and critical thinking by requiring students to imagine, research, and build environments and creatures. Students will study the history and methods of creating environments and creatures in theatre, film, and other performance art forms; research and develop their own individual and group creations; and reflect orally and in writing on their work.

Credits: 3

DRAM 1559 - New Course in Drama

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Effective Date 11/13/2023
New course in the subject of drama.

Credits: 1 to 4

DRAM 2010 - Theatre Design, Technology, & Production

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Examines the art of theatre and performance through the process of design and the implementation of the design.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2020 - Acting I

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Effective Date 03/22/2010
Explores basic theories and techniques of acting through exercises, improvisations and scenes from contemporary dramatic literature.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2031 - Theatre Abroad: Cultures and History

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Effective Date 12/11/2018
The goal of this course is to understand, examine and discuss how theatre is realized through the diverse and differing work of writers, directors, scenographers and actors. This course will explore aspects of theatre history, theatre spaces, texts, and performance conventions and their importance in the understanding of traditional and contemporary theatre performances in a global context.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2050 - Performance and/as Theory

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Effective Date 04/26/2018
This course surveys a broad range of theories and methodologies pertinent to the fields of Performance Studies. Each unit addresses important concepts and frameworks that help you write about, think about, and make performance art. Lecture, close reading, application exercises, and writing assignments will strengthen your theoretical vocabularies, hone your analytical writing skills and apply various tests to your own work as scholars/artists.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2060 - The Body and Performance

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Effective Date 10/22/2021
This practice-based course offers a broad introduction to concepts of the body in the context of performance. Using tools of theatre, dance, improvisation, and other mind/body practice, we will uncover the performative possibilities of our physical forms in relation to space and time. Together we will critically consider and actively explore a range of embodied approaches to increase bodily awareness and expand our expressive capacity.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2070 - Public Speaking

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Effective Date 03/22/2010
The purpose of this course is to put principles of speech into practice; students will learn to communicate effectively primarily through practical experience. Students will (1) learn the basic principles of speech preparation and delivery, including invention of topics and arguments, organization, and style; (2) apply these principles to your speech preparation and delivery; and (3) develop and use listening skills in the analysis of speeches.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2080 - Circus in America

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the circus as a form of American entertainment. Focuses on its development, growth, decline, and cultural influences.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2110 - Lighting Technology

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
An introduction to the tools and technical processes of performance lighting. Students will explore a range of lighting technologies central to lighting production for live theatre, dance, opera, and concerts. Through lecture, demonstration, digital media, and hands-on experience, students are prepared for work as theatrical electricians and introduced to the craft essential to the theatrical lighting design process.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2130 - Production Laboratory: Lighting

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Application of lighting design and technology in production. May be repeated up to 4 credits.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 2210 - Scenic Technology

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Studies the technology and practices used in the theatre and entertainment industry. Covers set construction techniques, materials, and hardware. Students will learn the skills and techniques required for using hand and power tools. Terminology learned in Drama 2210 will be practiced in the course Drama 2230 - Production Studio.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2230 - Production Studio: Scenery

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
Application of scenery technology in producing theatrical productions while maintaining and organized safe work environment. Co-requisite DRAM 2210

Requisites Students must currently take DRAM 2210

Credits: 1

DRAM 2231 - Production Lab: Run Crew

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
Application of scenery and properties technology in laboratory production projects.

Credits: 1

DRAM 2232 - Production Lab: Scene Painting

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Application of scenic painting in laboratory production projects. Prerequisites: Dram 2010 and 2020.

Credits: 1

DRAM 2250 - Scene Painting

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Fundamental techniques of scenic painting. A studio class during which students learn to paint faux finishes of marble, wood grain, brick and other common finishes for theatrical application. DRAM 2232 Production Lab: Scene Painting required.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2310 - Costume Technology

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Studies basic techniques for moving the costume design from drawing to finished character, including construction, alteration, patterning, fitting, and accessories. Lab required. Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2330 - Production Laboratory: Costume and Makeup

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Application of costume and makeup technology in production laboratory. May be repeated up to four credits. Instructor permission.

Credits: 1

DRAM 2430 - Production Laboratory: Acting

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Application of acting skills in production laboratory. May be repeated up to four credits. Prerequisite: Instructor permission

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 2440 - Theatre Abroad: Performance

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
This course focuses on basic performance techniques as well as individual and group skills. It develops a vocabulary of acting techniques through improvisation, performance exercises and monologue and/or scene work. In addition, the course encourages students to develop skills in personal presentation, confidence building, and teamwork, which transcends the acting studio and has a direct application in life and the workplace.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2500 - Special Topics in Drama & Theatre

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Effective Date 05/31/2022
These classes cover a range of topics related to drama and theatre.

Credits: 1 to 6

DRAM 2559 - New Course in Drama

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Effective Date 04/05/2021
New course in the subject of drama.

Credits: 1 to 4

DRAM 2620 - Sound Design

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Effective Date 05/01/2021
Students will explore the sonic qualities of sound and music through discussion, construction, critical listening, and demonstration.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2630 - Production Laboratory: Sound

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Effective Date 03/22/2010
Application of sound technology in laboratory production projects. May be repeated up to four credits. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

Credits: 1

DRAM 2810 - Cinema as Art Form

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Effective Date 06/17/2009
A course in visual thinking; introduces film criticism, concentrating on classic and current American and non-American films.

Credits: 3

DRAM 2830 - Production Lab: Digital Media

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Effective Date 03/28/2017
DRAM 2830 is a hands-on, experiential course in which students apply digital media design principles, methods, and techniques in correlation with the current Drama production schedule. Students learn the application of media technology to actual theatrical production projects. May be repeated up to four credits. DRAM 2830 requires participation as Video/Media Operator or Assistant for a main stage production.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 2840 - Design Studio Lab

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Effective Date 03/28/2017
This is a hands-on course in which students work closely with the instructor to research and develop creative design solutions for performing arts and theatrical productions. It provides students a working forum to collaboratively and independently experiment with and apply principles, methods, and elements of design and design process to specific projects. May be repeated up to four credits.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 3030 - Dramaturgy

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Effective Date 05/03/2022
This course is a study of production dramaturgy: an exploration and application of the processes, research, and resources used by academic and professional theatres, combining knowledge with creativity to make informed production choices.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3050 - Making Theatre Histories

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
How do theatre artists and scholars navigate the past and its effects on the present? This course will introduce you to important moments in theatre history, and show you how to analyze the formation of historical narratives through a variety of lenses and methods. Units are not organized chronologically, but thematically so that we may draw deeper connections across artistic practice, time, place and culture.

Requisites Students must have completed DRAM 2050

Credits: 3

DRAM 3070 - African-American Theatre

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Effective Date 03/22/2010
Presents a comprehensive study of ‘Black Theatre’ as the African-American contribution to the theatre. Explores the historical, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings of this theatre as an artistic form in American and world culture. Students gain a broader understanding of the relationship and contributions of this theatre to theatre arts, business, education, lore, and humanity. A practical theatrical experience is a part of the course offering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 3080 - Script Analysis: Dramatic Structure and Theatrical Production

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Effective Date 07/30/2009
Analysis of representative play scripts to discover how structure and language support conceptual and stylistic choices in production.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3090 - Theatre and Social Change

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Effective Date 10/23/2020
The goal of this class will be to identify the values and worldviews that drive change-oriented artistry, and for students to identify the values and worldviews that drive their own artistry. The course will explore the forms of community-based performance including ensemble, devised, religious, activist, educational and autobiographical performance.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3210 - Scene Design I

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Studies the development of the scenic design as theatrical environment, from script analysis through research to completed scenic design.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3300 - History of Dress

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Studies the history of dress, from ancient to modern times, as a reflection of the individual’s self expression and the relationship to one’s culture. Lab required. Prerequisite: Instructor permission

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 05/08/2009
Expores the cultural influences on fashion choices and expression of identity you create for the 21st century. Examination of your own wardrobe and study of the History of Dress serves as grounding for research into selected garments from The Collection of Historic Dress, c. 1795-1965. Working with extant garments provides insight into these periods of American history, the cultural influences, and the people who inhabited these clothes.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3410 - Acting II

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Exercises and scene work emphasizing the development of the actor’s vocal and physical resources as a means of creating and communicating character, emotion, and relationships. Prerequisite: DRAM 2020 and instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 3420 - Voice for Theatre

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Introduces principles of vocal health, provides practical techniques for meeting the voice and speech demands of daily life and performance, and promotes life-long exploration of the speaking voice and the spoken word. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3430 - Improvisation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
A workshop that explores several dimensions of theatrical self-expression through improvised exercises and situations. This course will employ lecture, discussion and performance activities to raise awareness and proficiency in improvisational techniques through dramatic interaction involving imagination and creativity. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3440 - Movement for Theatre

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
Examines the fundamental skills necessary to effective and descriptive physical expression for the stage. Focuses on developing an individual awaresness of one’s physical self and establishing a sold foundation upon which to build a character physically, through practical exericises in balance, rhythm, endurance , freedom of movement, flexibility, shape and expression.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3450 - Musical Theatre Performance

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Effective Date 03/22/2010
Studies the integration of song into scene work, and examination of special problems posed for the actor/singer/dancer. Focuses on a character’s song presentation within the context of a musical play. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3559 - New Course in Drama

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Effective Date 03/01/2023
New course in the subject of drama.

Credits: 1 to 4

DRAM 3590 - Special Topics in Theatre and Drama

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
A directed study in theater or drama.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 3600 - Modern American Drama

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Studies representative twentieth-century American dramas in the context of theatre history. Prerequisite: Instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 3640 - Sound Design: Studio

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Effective Date 03/22/2010
Creative application of digital sound editing for media. Techniques investigated include editing pre-recorded music, creating realistic sound environments, representing visual art with sound, three-dimensional sound, and sound creation for video.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3651 - Directing I

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Encourages the development of the director’s analytical and rehearsal skills in translating text, actors, and space into valid and effective scenes; drawn from plays in the mode of psychological realism. Prerequisite: Dram 2020 required, and Dram 2010 preferred; Instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 3652 - Producing Theatre

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Participants will collaborate to produce a staged reading of the play Raphael’s Islands by UVA Alum Alexandra Deglise on March 15, 2024 in the Ruth Caplin Theater. Course discussions and projects will cover theater organization, mission and legal structure. Opportunities for practical application of concepts and best practices in producing include, but are not limited to outreach/publicity, production management and artistic contributions such as casting, digital media development,sound and staging.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3653 - Production Laboratory: Stage Management

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
One credit is required; may be repeated up to four credits. Application of stage management skills to production and performance. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 3655 - Film Directing

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Effective Date 02/26/2020
The goal of this workshop is to understand the aesthetics and techniques of film directing and to produce and direct a short film based on a screenplay. Students will study film directing aesthetics and technique, using a textbook, film viewings, critical analysis and class workshop activities. Students will apply this knowledge of directing as they produce and direct their own short film.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3710 - Playwriting I

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Introduces the art and craft of playwriting, focusing on short exercises and in-class writing assignments. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3720 - Playwriting II

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Continuation of Playwriting I, focusing on specific craft exercises and the development of individual style. Prerequisite: DRAM 3710.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3775 - Acting Italian: Benigni, Goldoni, Fo

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Effective Date 10/26/2016
Watch, read, and laugh at performances by Italy’s most famous comic stars! Plays, films, and one-man shows form the texts, which include not only modern productions by contemporary masters Roberto Benigni and Dario Fo, but also the comedies of the originator of middle-class Italian humor, Carlo Goldoni. Works of these writers/actors/producers introduce important aspects of Italian literary, performative, and cultural traditions. In ENGLISH.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3820 - Video Design I

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Combining creative practice and critical discourse, this hands-on course grants students an opportunity to learn and utilize the crafts of digital video design in the context of contemporary installation, projection and performance arts. Students experiment with the many ways of designing time-based media and explore the role of video storytelling in the topography of 21st-century theater and live performance.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3825 - Media Design Studio

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Effective Date 06/16/2016
This course provides a practical forum to employ and integrate a diverse array of existing and emerging media technologies into live performance and performative storytelling. Students will explore and experiment with new media-infused design approaches to enhance the narrative and to actively engage, communicate, and interact with the audience.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3830 - History of Film I

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Analyzes the development of the silent film, 1895 to 1928; emphasizes the technical and thematic links between national schools of cinema art and the contributions of individual directors. Includes weekly film screenings. Prerequisite: Cinema as Art Form, other film courses, or instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 3840 - History of Film II

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Analyzes the development of film art from the inception of sound to the 1950s. Includes weekly film screenings. Prerequisite: DRAM 2810 or 3830, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 3850 - History of Film III

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
A history of narrative, documentary and experimental film, 1955-77. Developments in the aesthetics of film are examined in the context of socio-economic, political and cultural conditions specific to different historical moments. Includes weekly film screenings. DRAM 3830, DRAM 3840 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 4020 - Comedy as Protest

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Effective Date 03/24/2021
This course examines how has 20th and 21st century comedic performance spawned and/or reflected movements of social and cultural protest in the United States. From Jackie “Moms” Mabley’s Civil Rights stand-up, to feminist sketches on SNL, to Hari Kondabolu’s employment of de-colonial humor, we will engage in the complexities of joke-telling and its potential for mobilizing change.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken DRAM 4592 topic #6 Comedy as Protest

Credits: 3

DRAM 4030 - Figure Drawing

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Effective Date 05/27/2009
This course focuses primarily on the human form to study line, tone, mass, proportion and composition. Additional subjects that enhance the understanding of the figure might include interior/exterior spaces and still-life. Students will be introduced to various drawing techniques and media. The emphasis will be on the creative process and the art of “drawing to know.” Outside work will be assigned to compliment the in-class exercises.

Credits: 1 to 2

DRAM 4070 - Hip Hop Theatre

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Effective Date 12/12/2022
Hip Hop Theatre explores how elements of Ritual, Theatre, and the core principles of Hip Hop are shared by members of the Hip Hop community around the world. Students will examine the ways in which Hip Hop Theatre presents itself as a movement and a syncretic art form.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken DRAM 4592 topic #4 Hip Hop Theatre or DRAM 4559 topic #3 Hip Hop Theatre

Credits: 3

DRAM 4110 - Lighting Design

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Studies the development of lighting design, from script analysis through concept to completed production.

Credits: 3

DRAM 4310 - Costume Design

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
Studies the development of costume design as a revelation of character and relationship to the special world. Proceeds from script analysis through research to the completed rendering. Lab required. Prerequisite: DRAM 2010, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 4410 - Acting III

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Effective Date 10/21/2010
Scripted scenes, exercises, and ensemble work to expand the actor’s approach to characterization and interpretation within various dramatic genres. Prerequisite: DRAM 3410 and instructor permission

Credits: 3

DRAM 4490 - Stage Combat Skills

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Examines the art and craft of stage fighting, comparing its historical context with that of the theater. Focus is on the performance of the illusion of physical aggression and its dramatic intent, following the safety guidelines and techniques recommended by the Society for American Fight Directors. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

DRAM 4559 - New Course in Drama

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Effective Date 11/08/2013
New course in the subject of drama.

Credits: 1 to 4

DRAM 4590 - Special Topics in Theatre

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Effective Date 10/21/2022
A directed project-based study offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 4591 - Special Topics in Theatre Managment

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
A directed study in theatre management offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 4592 - Special Topics in Drama

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Effective Date 10/13/2023
A directed study in dramatic literature, history, theory or criticism offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 4593 - Special Topics in Performance

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Effective Date 05/10/2022
A directed study in acting or performance offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 4594 - Special Topics in Movement

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Effective Date 04/05/2019
A directed study in theatre movement or physical acting offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 4595 - Special Topics in Voice

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Effective Date 03/28/2016
A directed study in voice and the spoken word offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 4596 - Special Topics in Directing

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
A directed study in directing offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 4597 - Special Topics in Design

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Effective Date 10/13/2023
A directed study in theatre design offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

DRAM 4598 - Special Topics in Design Technology

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Effective Date 04/05/2022
A directed study in theatre design technology offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

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East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Courses

CHIN 116 - Intensive Introductory Chinese

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
Beginning-level course in Modern Standard Mandarin Chinese for students with little or no prior experience in the language. This course is not intended for native and near-native speakers of Chinese. The course provides students with systematic training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills on a daily basis.

Credits: 0

CHIN 126 - Intensive Introductory Chinese

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
Beginning-level course in Modern Standard Mandarin Chinese for students with little or no prior experience in the language. This course is not intended for native and near-native speakers of Chinese. The course provides students with systematic training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills on a daily basis.

Credits: 0

CHIN 216 - Intensive Intermediate Chinese

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Effective Date 04/08/2010
This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute.

Credits: 0

CHIN 226 - Intensive Intermediate Chinese

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Effective Date 04/08/2010
This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute.

Credits: 0

CHIN 1010 - Elementary Chinese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Introduction to the fundamentals of modern Chinese. No prerequisites. This course is not intended for native or near-native speakers of Chinese. All four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed. Prerequisite: none.

Credits: 4

CHIN 1020 - Elementary Chinese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
The second in a two-semester introduction to modern Chinese. All four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed. Course is not intended for native or near-native speakers of Chinese. Prerequisite: CHIN 1010 or equivalent background (as demonstrated in the department’s placement test).

Credits: 4

CHIN 1060 - Accelerated Elementary Chinese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Specifically intended for students with native or near-native speaking ability in Mandarin Chinese, but little or no reading and writing ability. The course focuses on reading and writing Chinese. The goals of this course are to help students: (a) achieve control of the Chinese sound system (the 4 tones and Pinyin) and basic components of Chinese characters; (b) be able to write 400-500 characters, (c) express themselves clearly in written form on a variety of covered topics using learned grammar patterns and vocabulary, (d) improve their basic reading skills (including learning to use a Chinese dictionary).

Credits: 4

CHIN 1559 - New Course in Chinese

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Effective Date 02/21/2019
New course in the subject of Chinese.

Credits: 1 to 4

CHIN 2010 - Intermediate Chinese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Builds on the foundations acquired in CHIN 1010-1020 with further refinement of all four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Course is not intended for native or near-native speakers of Chinese. Prerequisite: CHIN 1020 or equivalent background (as demonstrated in the department’s placement test).

Credits: 4

CHIN 2016 - Intensive Intermediate Chinese

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Effective Date 02/01/2010
This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: CHIN 1016 & 1026 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

CHIN 2020 - Intermediate Chinese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Prerequisite: CHIN 2010, 2020 are the continuation of CHIN 1020. They are not intended for native or near-native speakers of Chinese. The goals of this course are to help students improve their spoken and aural proficiency, achieve a solid reading level, and learn to express themselves clearly in writing on a variety of covered topics using learned grammar patterns and vocabulary. These goals are approached through grammar and reading-writing exercises, classroom drills, listening and speaking activities, and written quizzes and exams.

Credits: 4

CHIN 2026 - Intensive Intermediate Chinese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: CHIN 1016, 1026 & 2016 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

CHIN 2060 - Accelerated Intermediate Chinese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
This course is specifically designed for students with native or near-native speaking ability in Mandarin Chinese, but with reading and writing ability equivalent to a student who has completed CHIN 1020. The course focuses on reading and writing Chinese. The goals of this course are to help students: (a) achieve a basic level of reading competency with a vocabulary of 1000 characters; (b) express themselves clearly in written Chinese on a variety of topics using learned grammar patterns and vocabulary. Prerequisite: CHIN 1060 or equivalent (as demonstrated in the placement test).

Credits: 4

CHIN 2559 - New Course in Chinese

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Effective Date 11/06/2023
New course in the subject of Chinese.

Credits: 1 to 4

CHIN 3010 - Pre-Advanced Chinese I

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
This course is the continuation of Intermediate Chinese (CHIN 2020). All four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed. Readings and discussions are related to various aspects of modern China. The class is conducted mainly in Mandarin Chinese. Prerequisite: CHIN 2020 or 2060 or equivalent (as demonstrated in the placement test).

Credits: 3

CHIN 3015 - Language House Conversation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
For students residing in the Chinese group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1

CHIN 3020 - Pre-Advanced Chinese II

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
This course is a continuation of CHIN 3010. Readings and discussion are related to various aspects of modern China. The class is conducted mainly in Mandarin Chinese. All four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed. Prerequisite: CHIN 3010, CHIN 3050, Placement Test Results or Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

CHIN 3025 - Language House Conversation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
For students residing in the Chinese group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1

CHIN 3050 - One Book at a Time: Reading China from Cover to Cover

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Students of second or above levels can select a book from a list of great Chinese literary works curated by the instructor to read. Some graded readers will be included for 2000-level students. This course provides students with the opportunity and support to read a book in Chinese language from cover to cover while discussing related social and cultural topics. Heritage students have the opportunity to pick a book of their choice. Prerequisite: CHIN 1020 or CHIN 1060.

Requisites Must have completed CHIN 2020 or CHIN 2060

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 02/19/2018
This course is the continuation of CHIN3050. Students will continue advancing their proficiency in speaking and reading. Graded and authentic reading materials will be used to enhance reading skills and in-class discussion based on the readings will be used to further improve speaking. Students who finish this course can continue to take CHIN 4010 or other upper-level courses based on instructor permission.

Requisites Must have completed CHIN 3050.

Credits: 2

CHIN 3460 - Chinese Culture and Society through Films

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
An integral part of the UVa summer Chinese language study abroad program intended specifically for students who take intensive Readings in Modern Chinese (CHIN 3010 and CHIN 3020) during the 8 week summer abroad program in Shanghai. Will view and study Chinese films made in China to learn, to think and to discuss specific topics of Chinese culture. May be offered on an irregular basis during fall or spring terms for 3 credits.

Credits: 2 to 3

CHIN 3559 - New Course in Chinese

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Effective Date 11/06/2023
New course in the subject of Chinese.

Credits: 1 to 4

CHIN 4010 - Advanced Chinese I

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Effective Date 11/03/2016
This course is a continuation of CHIN 3020. The goal of these courses is to help students understand journalistic essays and some literature pieces through systematic study of sentence patterns and formal writing styles. All aspects of Chinese language learning are still evenly balanced. Prerequisites: CHIN 3020 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

CHIN 4020 - Advanced Chinese II

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
This course is a continuation of CHIN4010. Readings and discussion are related to various aspects of modern China. The class is conducted in Mandarin Chinese. All four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are equally stressed. Students constantly work with authentic materials and engage in communications with native speakers in various formats and contexts. Prerequisite: CHIN 4010, Placement Test Results or Instructor Permission.

Credits: 3

CHIN 4060 - Advanced Chinese: Topics on Modern China

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Effective Date 11/03/2016
The goal of CHIN 4060 is to continue enhancing students’ reading comprehension and writing skills by systematically exposing them to formal written Chinese, works of literature, and vigorous writing exercises. By the end of the course the students should be able to read authentic materials with the help of a dictionary and be able to write essays of 500 words in length on assigned topics. Prerequisite: CHIN 3020 or CHIN 3050 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

CHIN 4200 - Modern Chinese Literary Translation

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Effective Date 04/26/2016
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 4559 - New Course in Chinese

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Effective Date 10/21/2022
New course in the subject of Chinese.

Credits: 1 to 4

CHIN 4801 - Professional Chinese with Community Engagement

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Effective Date 12/06/2021
This is an advanced Chinese language course in which students engage professionals from different occupations in discussion about work and life. Students will acquire both knowledge and new vocabulary and expressions from the different professions these professionals bring to the classroom. By seeing the meaning of work and life for these professionals, students develop understanding of their own work and life.

Requisites Must have completed CHIN 4010

Credits: 3

CHIN 4810 - Media Chinese I

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
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 4020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Requisites Must have completed CHIN 4020

Credits: 3

CHIN 4830 - Introduction to Classical Chinese Prose

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Effective Date 01/26/2012
Introduces the grammar and structure of classical Chinese prose. Requisite: Consent of Instructor

Credits: 3

CHIN 4840 - Introduction to Classical Chinese Poetry

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Effective Date 01/26/2012
Introduces the grammar and structure of classical Chinese poetry. Requisite: Consent of Instructor

Credits: 3

CHIN 4993 - Independent Study in Chinese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Independent Study in Chinese.

Credits: 1 to 3

CHTR 1559 - New Course in Chinese in Translation

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Effective Date 06/01/2023
New course in the subject of Chinese literature in translation

Credits: 3

CHTR 2559 - New Course in Chinese in Translation

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Effective Date 10/06/2010
New course in the subject of Chinese literature in translation

Credits: 3

CHTR 2800 - Chinese Calligraphy

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Introduction to the history, masters, styles and techniques of Chinese brush calligraphy. Enhances familiarity with use of brush and ink; active and passive differentiation of styles and techniques; and appreciation of Chinese Calligraphy as an art form.

Credits: 1 to 3

CHTR 3010 - Survey of Traditional Chinese Literature

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Introductory survey of Chinese literature from earliest times (first millennium BCE) through the Tang Dynasty in English translation, including major works from the genres of poetry and prose. The course familiarizes students with the Chinese literary canon and modes of reading, literary analysis and interpretation. CHTR3010/5010 is especially intended for undergraduate majors and graduate students in EALC.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3020 - Survey of Modern Chinese Literature

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
The Revolutionary Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature and Film is a general introduction to modern Chinese literary culture.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3122 - Sunzi and The Art of War

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Effective Date 03/23/2018
This seminar on The Art of War, the 5th century BCE Chinese classic attributed to Sunzi, will familiarize students with traditional interpretations of the text. The course will emphasize a close reading of several translations of the text and will also consider the influence of its historical and philosophical contexts. Contemporary Chinese military writings will also be surveyed to investigate the relevance of the text to modern warfare.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 02/15/2018
A survey of early Chinese [800 BCE - 200 CE] writings about the role of argumentation during this turbulent period of Chinese history. Part one will investigate how philosophical disputation was considered & practiced by key Chinese philosophers (e.g. Confucius, Laozi, Mozi). Part two will appraise the evolving role of political persuasion during this era. The emphasis will be close reading and analyses of representative texts.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3132 - Legends and Lore of Early China

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Effective Date 11/04/2015
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 (Lienu 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 3559 - New Course in Chinese in Translation

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Effective Date 12/10/2020
New course in the subject of Chinese literature in translation

Credits: 3 to 4

CHTR 3710 - Weird and Fantastic Stories in China

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Effective Date 03/03/2022
Weird and the fantastic experiences pervade much of the Chinese cultural tradition, with numerous stories of ghosts avenging their deaths, divine maidens rewarding pious behavior, romances between human men and female ghosts, and tricky foxes and deadly snakes. This course will provide an introduction to this fascinating tradition.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3810 - Chinese Modernism

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Effective Date 09/22/2011
Exploration of modernist and avant garde Chinese film and literature. Discussion of issues of translation and modernity in a global context in fiction, poetry, drama, and film from the 1920s to the 1990s. Authors from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong include Lu Xun, Ding Ling, Yu Dafu, Shi Zhecun, Mu Shiying, Eileen Chang, Xi Xi, Yu Hua, CanXue, Zhu Tianwen. Films by Stan Lai, Huang Jianxin, Wong Kar-wai. Prerequisite: CHTR 3020 or Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

CHTR 3820 - The Modern Chinese Essay

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Effective Date 09/22/2011
Readings from major Chinese essayists of the 20th century in the English translation. Chinese texts will also be available for interested students. Discussion of genre and literary history, literary relationship between tradition and modernity, language and style.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3830 - Modern Chinese Poetry

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Effective Date 09/22/2011
Readings from major Chinese poets of the 20th and 21st centuries in English translation. Discussion focuses on modern Chinese poetic expression in relationship to tradition, politics, history and gender. Authors from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong included.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3840 - Writing Women in Modern China

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Effective Date 09/23/2011
This seminar focuses on works of fiction from modern China that articulate womanhood from a variety of perspectives. In addition to women writers (Qiu Jin, Ding Ling, Eileen Chang, Xi Xi, Chen Ran, Zhu Tianxin), male writers such as Xu Dishan, Mao Dun, and Lao She who devote unusual attention to feminine subjectivity are also included. Familiarity with Chinese culture and society and literary analysis are preferred, but not required.

Credits: 3

CHTR 3850 - Documentary Writing and Film in China

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Effective Date 04/13/2012
A seminar exploring the role of the documentary impulse in modern Chinese writing and film. Beginning with reportage literature and foreign documentaries about China from the early 20th century, the course follows the development of documentary art forms in the People’s Republic of China (with some attention to Taiwan as well), culminating in the recent trend of independent documentary film making and its influence on narrative film.

Credits: 3

CHTR 4010 - Legendary Women in Early China

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
Examines the biographies of female heroines and villains as found in the early Chinese text Tradition of Exemplary Women (ca. 18 B.C.). Students gain a familiarity with (a) the history of women in early China, (b) the evolving codes of behavior that shaped women’s’ culture for two millennia, and (c) the way in which the Chinese understand gender. Enhances an understanding of the function of role models in both ancient China and their own lives. Fulfills the non-Western perspectives requirement.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
An exploration of family, gender and sexuality as represented in traditional Chinese prose fiction in translation.

Credits: 3

CHTR 4559 - New Course in Chinese in Translation

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Effective Date 04/02/2014
New course in the subject of Chinese literature in translation

Credits: 3

CHTR 4991 - Chinese Capstone

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
Restricted to Chinese majors, this course is designed as a capstone seminar that will require a class presentation and an extended final paper that demonstrate the significant knowledge of Chinese language.

Credits: 1

EALC 1559 - New Course in East Asian Literatures and Cultures

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Effective Date 12/14/2010
New course in the subject of East Asian Literatures and Cultures

Credits: 1 to 4

EALC 2559 - New Course in East Asian Languages and Cultures

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

Credits: 3

EALC 3120 - Words and Images in East Asian Sacred Texts

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Effective Date 01/29/2015
This course explores the role of words and images in East Asian religious literature, by focusing on influential Buddhist and Daoist scriptures. In this context, we will assess both the way pictures are written about and texts rendered in visual forms, as well as their interactions. Ultimately, we will also tackle issues of representation relevant to study of China, Korea and Japan from both a historical and conceptual perspective. Prerequisite: Introduction to Buddhism or Survey course on Chinese or Japanese Literature

Credits: 3

EALC 3559 - New Course in East Asian Literatures and Cultures

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Effective Date 03/24/2014
New course in the subject of East Asian Literatures and Cultures.

Credits: 1 to 4

EALC 4559 - New Course in East Asian Literatures and Cultures

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
New course in East Asian languages, literatures, and cultures.

Credits: 3

EALC 4998 - Distinguished Majors Senior Thesis I

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Effective Date 02/14/2012
The first part of a two-semester sequence of tutorial work for students completing a Senior Thesis as part of the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Studies or East Asian Languages and Literatures. Prerequisites: Student must be enrolled in the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Languages and Literatures.

Credits: 3

EALC 4999 - Distinguished Majors Senior Thesis II

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Effective Date 02/14/2012
The second part of a two-semester sequence of tutorial work for students completing a Senior Thesis as part of the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Languages and Literatures. Prerequisites: Student must be enrolled in the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Languages and Literatures and have already completed EALC 4998.

Credits: 3

EAST 1010 - East Asian Canons and Cultures

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
An introduction to conceptions of self, society, and the universe as they have been expressed in canonical literary, philosophical, and religious texts in East Asia from earliest times up through modern times. Readings will be in English translation, supplemented by reference.

Credits: 3

EAST 1200 - East Asian Calligraphy

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Effective Date 04/21/2022
This new course will serve students with or without East Asian background to understand and experience East Asian calligraphy or Shufa. The course will focus on Chinese calligraphy since it forms the basis for other types of East Asian calligraphy. Students will be able to: 1. understand the culture and philosophy behind Shufa; 2. critique artistic features of Shufa styles; 3. create a portfolio of essays and artworks of and about Shufa.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken EAST 2559 topic #1 Chinese Calligraphy

Credits: 3

EAST 1559 - New Course in East Asian Studies

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Effective Date 03/30/2017
New course in East Asian studies.

Credits: 1 to 4

EAST 2559 - New Course in East Asian Studies

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
New course in East Asian Studies.

Credits: 1 to 4

EAST 3559 - New Course in East Asian Studies

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Effective Date 09/30/2021
New course in East Asian studies.

Credits: 1 to 4

EAST 4559 - New Course in East Asian Studies

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Effective Date 10/01/2015
New Course in East Asian Studies

Credits: 1 to 4

EAST 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Independent study in special field under the direction of a faculty member in East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

Credits: 1 to 3

EAST 4998 - Distinguished Majors Senior Thesis I

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
The first part of a two-semester sequence of tutorial work for students completing a Senior Thesis as part of the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Studies or East Asian Languages and Literatures. Prerequisites: Student must be enrolled in the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Studies and have already completed EAST 4998.

Credits: 3

EAST 4999 - Distinguished Majors Senior Thesis

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
The second part of a two-semester sequence of tutorial work for students completing a Senior Thesis as part of the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Studies or East Asian Languages and Literatures. Prerequisites: Student must be enrolled in the Distinguished Majors Program in East Asian Studies and have already completed EAST 4998. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

JAPN 1010 - First-Year Japanese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Introduces the basic speech patterns and grammatical units, including casual, daily spoken style, and the polite speech used in formal occasions. Emphasizes speaking, listening, and reading. Writing hiragana, katakana, and 200 kanji are also introduced.

Credits: 4

JAPN 1020 - First-Year Japanese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Introduces the basic speech patterns and grammatical units, including casual, daily spoken style, and the polite speech used in formal occasions. Emphasizes speaking, listening, and reading. Writing hiragana, katakana, and 200 kanji are also introduced. Prerequisite: JAPN 1010 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

JAPN 1559 - New Course in Japanese

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Effective Date 04/16/2024
New course in Japanese.

Credits: 1 to 4

JAPN 2010 - Second-Year Japanese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Continuation of Elementary Japanese introducing more complex sentence patterns, idioms, and vocabulary to prepare students for an intermediate-level communication. Reinforces spoken Japanese skills with writing and reading exercises, and 250 kanji are introduced. Prerequisite: JAPN 1020 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

JAPN 2020 - Second-Year Japanese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Prerequisite: JAPN 1020 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

JAPN 2100 - Cultural Conversation in Japanese

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Effective Date 01/30/2020
Designed for students who wish to improve their oral conversation skills beyond the beginning level through online conversation with college students in Japan. Students generate conversations examining their own and their partners’ cultural values, perceptions, perspectives, and attitudes. Prerequisite: JAPN 1020

Requisites Students must have taken JAPN 1020 and can’t enroll if previously taken JAPN 2559 topic #1 Cultural Conversation in Japanese

Credits: 3

JAPN 2559 - New Course in Japanese

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Effective Date 06/01/2023
New course in Japanese.

Credits: 1 to 4

JAPN 2601 - Finding Joy in Reading in Japanese

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Effective Date 03/26/2024
Using short stories, manga, and other materials selected in consultation with the instructor, students in this course will develop the ability to experience reading for pleasure in Japanese with ease and at a comfortable pace primarily employing grammar and vocabulary they are already familiar with. Prerequisite: JAPN 1020.

Requisites Students must have taken JAPN 1020 and can’t enroll if previously taken JAPN 2559 topic #2 Finding Joy in Reading in Japanese

Credits: 1

JAPN 3010 - Third-Year Japanese I

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Emphasizes comprehension and active reproduction of modern Japanese beyond the basic patterns of speech and writing. Various topics on current Japanese culture and society are introduced. Prerequisite: JAPN 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

JAPN 3015 - Language House Conversation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
For students residing in the Japanese group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1

JAPN 3020 - Third-Year Japanese II

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Continuation of Third-Year Japanese, emphasizing comprehension and active reproduction of modern Japanese beyond the basic patterns of speech and writing. Continued introduction of topics on current Japanese culture and society. Prerequisite: JAPN 3010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

JAPN 3025 - Language House Conversation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
For students residing in the Japanese group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1

JAPN 3050 - Fundamentals of Comprehending Advanced Japanese

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Effective Date 01/30/2020
This course focuses on establishing a foundation for advanced Japanese language study by introducing strategies for developing reading and listening comprehension on everyday topics, including skimming, scanning, and kanji-recognition. Students completing the course will be eligible to take the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) at the N3 level. Prerequisite: JAPN 2020

Requisites Students must have taken JAPN 2020 and can’t enroll if previously taken JAPN 3559 topic #1 Fundamentals of Comprehending Advanced Japanese

Credits: 3

JAPN 3100 - Supplemental Reading in Japanese I

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
The first in a two-part sequence, to be taken in conjunction with JAPN 3010. Students will acquire college-level reading and writing skills through engagement with articles and essays written by Japanese for the Japanese public.

Credits: 1

JAPN 3110 - Supplemental Reading in Japanese II

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
The second of a two-part reading course, to be taken in conjunction with JAPN 3020. In-depth study of authentic materials such as newspapers, short essays, and brief articles. Prerequisite: JAPN 3010 or equivalent background.

Credits: 1

JAPN 3300 - Japanese Food for Thought

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
Food connects people; it is a vehicle for lives, and a facet of humanity. Investigating the social phenomena of Japanese food culture, students engage in active learning activities to stimulate discussions on the global context including cultural expressions, innovation, equity, and community. They also design a product to illustrate their reflective inquiry in further developing their culture and linguistic competency. Prerequisite: JAPN 3010.

Requisites Students must have taken JAPN 3010 and can’t enroll if previously taken JAPN 3559 topic #2 Japanese Food for Thought

Credits: 3

JAPN 3559 - New Course in Japanese

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Effective Date 08/09/2022
New course in Japanese.

Credits: 1 to 4

JAPN 4500 - Topics in Japanese Literature

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Effective Date 07/05/2013
An advanced language seminar devoted to literary texts and criticism with topics determined by instructor.

Credits: 3

JAPN 4559 - New Course in Japanese

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Effective Date 03/09/2015
New course in Japanese.

Credits: 1 to 4

JAPN 4710 - Introduction to Literary Japanese (Bungo)

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
An introduction to the Japanese language as it was written from earliest times up until the mid-twentieth century. In addition to familiarizing students with grammatical fundamentals of literary Japanese and their differences from the modern language, the course will introduce students to representative writing styles from a wide variety of genres and historical periods. Prerequisite: JAPN 3010 or equivalent background.

Credits: 3

JAPN 4800 - Lost and Found in Translation

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
This course is an advanced language seminar of Japanese and aims to enhance students’ skills to think and communicate in Japanese. With a specific focus on the theory and practice of translation, students translate a wide range of Japanese materials into English, while reading about and discussing the concept of “translation” itself. Prerequisite: JAPN 3020 or instructor’s permission.

Requisites Must have completed JAPN 3020

Credits: 3

JAPN 4801 - Japanese for Professionals

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
This advanced Japanese language course aims to cultivate future professionals who will acquire awareness of cross-cultural differences that enable them to operate effectively in the global world. Critical thinking and communication skills will be emphasized.

Requisites Must have completed JAPN 3020

Credits: 3

JAPN 4810 - Modern Literary Texts

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Reading and discussion in Japanese. Develops comprehension and verbal expression skills at the fourth-year level. Reading selections include works by modern and contemporary novelists, short story writers and poets. Prerequisite: JAPN 3020 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

JAPN 4830 - Media Japanese

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Effective Date 03/21/2017
In this course, students will interpret, analyze, and discuss various media for education, business and entertainment–such as newspaper articles, blogs, and statistics–in order to gain a deeper linguistic and cultural understanding of contemporary Japan by comparing and contrasting different perspectives on current issues. Prerequisite: JAPN 3020 or equivalent background.

Requisites Must have completed JAPN 3020

Credits: 3

JAPN 4993 - Independent Study in Japanese

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Independent Study in Japanese.

Credits: 1 to 3

JPTR 2559 - New Course in Japanese in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
New course in Japanese in translation.

Credits: 1 to 4

JPTR 2600 - Early Modern Japanese Literature

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course will focus on early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa period, in which urbanization, mass education, and the development of printing technology helped produce one of the most creative epochs in Japanese literary and cultural history.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3010 - Survey of Traditional Japanese Literature

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
This course provides an introduction to Japanese literature from earliest times through to the nineteenth century. We will read selections from representative texts and genres, including myth, poetry, prose fiction, memoir literature, drama, and works of criticism. No knowledge of Japanese culture or language is required.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3020 - Survey of Modern Japanese Literature

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
This is an introductory course to Japanese literary traditions from the late 19th century to the present. By reading a broad range of writings including political accounts, fictional narratives and poetic prose, the course examines how a variety of writing practices contributed to the production of modern Japanese literature. No knowledge of Japanese is required.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3100 - Myths and Legends of Japan

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Effective Date 03/15/2016
A seminar exploring Japan’s earliest myths describing the origins of its islands, their gods, and rulers through close readings in English of eighth-century chronicles and poems. Fulfills the Non-Western and Second Writing requirements.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3210 - The Tale of Genji

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
A seminar devoted to an in-depth examination in English translation of Japan’s most renowned work of literature, often called the world’s first novel. Satisfies the Non-Western and Second Writing requirements.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3290 - Feminine Fictions in Japanese Court Literature

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
This seminar will take up the world’s earliest instance of literature written extensively by, for, and about women, including such famous works as the Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon and Sarashina Diary, among others. The focus will be on reading gender as a fictional enactment of desire and identity that is performed through acts of writing and reading. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or literature is required.

Credits: 3

JPTR 3320 - Cinematic Images of Japanese Culture and Society

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Effective Date 04/19/2016
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

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Economics

Courses

ECON 1559 - New Course in Economics

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Effective Date 05/15/2024
New course in the subject of economics.

Credits: 1 to 4

ECON 2010 - Principles of Economics: Microeconomics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies demand and supply, consumer behavior, the theory of business enterprise, the operation of competitive and monopolistic markets, and the forces determining income distribution. A full introduction to economic principles warrants completion of both ECON 2010 and 2020. Students planning to take both semesters of economic principles are advised to take ECON 2010 first, though this is not required. The department recommends ECON 2010 to students intending to take only one semester of principles.

Credits: 3

ECON 2020 - Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Studies the determinants of aggregate economic activity, the effects of monetary and fiscal policy upon national income, and economic policy toward unemployment and inflation. A full introduction to economic principles warrants completion of both ECON 2010 and 2020. Students planning to take both semesters of economic principles are advised to take ECON 2010 first, though this is not required. The department recommends ECON 2010 to students intending to take only one semester of principles.

Credits: 3

ECON 2060 - American Economic History

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys American economic history from colonial origins to the present. Cross-listed as HIUS 2061.

Credits: 3

ECON 2070 - Introduction to Economics of Gender at Work

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Effective Date 11/20/2023
This course is an introduction to the economic analysis of gender in labor markets. Students will learn about economic approaches to understanding and examining gender differences in workplace outcomes such as pay gaps and occupational segregation. No prior coursework in economics is required.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ECON 2559 #4 Economics of Gender at Work

Credits: 3

ECON 2559 - New Course in Economics

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Effective Date 01/01/2025
New course in the subject of economics.

Credits: 1 to 3

ECON 3010 - Intermediate Microeconomics

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Studies the theory of prices and markets; includes an analysis of the forces determining the allocation of economic resources in a market economy. Credit is not given for both ECON 3010 and 3110. Prerequisite: ECON 2010 and one of the following: MATH 1220, MATH 1320, APMA 1110.

Requisites Prerequisite: ECON 2010 and one of the following: MATH 1220, MATH 1320, APMA 1110, MATH 2310, MATH 2315 or APMA 2120

Credits: 4

ECON 3020 - Intermediate Macroeconomics

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
Studies macroeconomic theory and policy; includes an analysis of the forces determining employment, income, and the price level. Prerequisite: ECON 2020 and 3010 or 3110, or instructor permission.

Requisites ECON 2020 and ECON 3010 or 3110

Credits: 3

ECON 3030 - Money and Banking

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the role of money in the economic system, with emphasis on monetary policy and theory. Prerequisite: ECON 2020.

Credits: 3

ECON 3040 - The Economics of Education

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Analyzes the demand for, and supply of, education in the United States, governmental policies regarding education, and proposed reforms. Prerequisite: ECON 2010.

Credits: 3

ECON 3050 - The Economics of Welfare Reform

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Analyzes the major government programs intended to help people with low incomes. Particularly concerned with whether programs have effects that are consistent with their justifications and how they can be redesigned to better achieve their goals. Prerequisite: ECON 2010.

Credits: 3

ECON 3110 - Mathematical Microeconomics

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Effective Date 02/22/2016
Covers the same topics as ECON 3010 using differential calculus through constrained maximization of functions of several variables. Credit is not given for both ECON 3010 and 3110. Prerequisite: ECON 2010 and two semesters of calculus.

Requisites Prerequisite: ECON 2010 and one of the following: MATH 1220, MATH 1320, APMA 1110, MATH 2310, MATH 2315 or APMA 2120

Credits: 4

ECON 3430 - Economics of Sustainability and the Environment

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Effective Date 02/26/2020
Sustainability addresses how we manage the environment and share limited, valuable natural resources across time and space. The lens of microeconomics helps us understand why we have environmental problems and how we can solve them. Economics provides valuable tools for solving problems with pollution, over-exploitation of resources, loss of biological diversity and, of course, global warming. Prerequisite: ECON 2010 or instructor permission.

Requisites Students must have completed ECON 2010 and can’t enroll in previously taken ECON 3559 #4 Sustainability Economics

Credits: 3

ECON 3559 - New Course in Economics

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
New course in the subject of economics.

Credits: 1 to 4

ECON 3600 - Economics of the Art Market

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Effective Date 05/01/2023
This course investigates key topics in the economics of the art market (or markets). It may be viewed as a course in applied micro-economics, with an interest in identifying the key factors that shape market outcomes, whether measured in terms of prices of individual artworks, the distribution of revenues among the major players in the market (artists, dealers, auction houses, etc.), or the financial rewards to the ownership of fine art.

Requisites Must have completed ECON 2010 and 2020 and students can’t enroll if previously taken ECON 3559 topic #9 Economics of the Art Market

Credits: 3

ECON 3630 - Economics of the Middle East

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Effective Date 03/22/2018
Surveys major economic issues in the development of countries in the Middle East/North Africa region since World War II, using concepts in development economics. Prerequisite: ECON 2010 and 2020.

Credits: 3

ECON 3640 - The Economics of Africa

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Effective Date 03/22/2018
Examine the economic problems confronting sub-Saharan Africa countries, focusing on what is needed to accelerate sustainable growth and reduce poverty. Use standard economic tools to gain an understanding of the economic management challenges faced by African policy makers and the similarities and differences between African countries. Explore Africa’s relationship with the rest of the world, focusing on trade, aid and economic cooperation.

Requisites Must have completed ECON 2010 and 2020.

Credits: 3

ECON 3650 - The Economics of India

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
This course provides an understanding of India’s economic system, strengths, and challenges. Students will analyze economic reforms, economic Growth, economic development, and India’s connection with the rest of the world, focusing on trade, aid, and economic cooperation. Finally, the course will provide students with a framework for analyzing macroeconomic problems and examining significant economic issues.

Requisites Must have completed ECON 2010 and 2020 and students can’t enroll if previously taken ECON 3559 topic #8 Economics of India

Credits: 3

ECON 3720 - Introduction to Econometrics

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Effective Date 02/19/2016
Guides students in the use and interpretation of economic data, focusing on the most common issues that arise in using economic data, and the methodology for solving these problems. Prerequisite: STAT 2120, STAT 3120, APMA 3110, or APMA 3120

Requisites Prerequisites: STAT 2120 or 3120 or APMA 3110,or 3120

Credits: 4

ECON 3820 - Introduction to Behavioral Economics

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
The course will use classroom simulations and lab reports to help students discover insights about economic behavior and policies. Each weekly topic is structured around an important economic principle, which is presented in the context of an “experiment” involving a sequence of decisions in a simulated game or market. After participating in the simulation, students complete a lab report.

Credits: 3

ECON 4010 - Game Theory

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Analyzes the theory of strategically interdependent decision making, with applications to auctions, bargaining, oligopoly, signaling, and strategic voting. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110, and STAT 2120 or equivalent

Credits: 3

ECON 4020 - Auction Theory and Practice

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Covers the building blocks of modern auction theory (e.g. First Price versus Second Price, Dutch versus English, Revenue Equivalence, Auctions of Multiple Goods), critically assesses this theory by studying recent auctions in practice (e.g. 3G auctions, milk and timber auctions, eBay versus Amazon), and applies auction theory to other, non-auction, environments (e.g. election races, take-over-bid-wars, duopoly pricing). Prerequisite: ECON 3010 and STAT 2120 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

ECON 4030 - Market Design: Engineering a Better World

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Effective Date 11/03/2020
The course will consider the theory and practice of market design. We will study classical market failures (market power, externalities, incomplete information, missing markets), the core tools used in practice (auctions and deferred acceptance algorithms), and examples of their real world use (FCC Spectrum Auctions, Google Adwords, the Boston Public School Match, the National Resident Matching Program, and the Northeastern Kidney Exchange).

Requisites You must have completed ECON 3010 or ECON 3110

Credits: 3

ECON 4070 - Economics and Gender

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
This course will apply micro-economic theory and empirical methods to explore the role of gender in shaping economic outcomes, examining the inter-relationships between family formation (marriage and fertility), human capital investment, and labor market outcomes. Public policy applications will be emphasized.

Requisites Prerequisites: ECON 3010 or 3110 and ECON 3720 or 4720

Credits: 3

ECON 4080 - Law and Economics

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Applies microeconomic theory to the analysis of legal rules and institutions. Includes the effect of economic forces on the development of law, and the effect of laws on the allocation of resources. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or instructor permission.

Requisites Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or ECON

Credits: 3

ECON 4095 - Dynamic Economics with Applications

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Effective Date 09/21/2021
Students will learn the mathematical tools economists use to model and analyze dynamic economic problems. Topics include transitional dynamics, optimal control theory and recursive dynamic programming. I will show you how to solve economic problems such as consumption/savings, investment and capital accumulation, optimal growth, industry dynamics, job search, portfolio choice, natural resource extraction, and dynamic games.

Requisites You must have completed ECON 3010 or ECON 3110

Credits: 3

ECON 4110 - Competitive Strategy

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Effective Date 10/10/2019
A course in business strategy for advanced undergraduates. Examines topics such as value creation and capture, industry structure, creating and maintaining competitive advantage, vertical structure of the firm, adapting to change, and long-run growth of the firm. Extensive use of business school cases and readings from the popular press.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ECON 4559 topic #18 Competitive Strategy and students must have completed ECON 3010 or ECON 3110

Credits: 3

ECON 4150 - Economics of Labor

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Effective Date 04/20/2017
Analyzes employment and wages, including the economics of education, unemployment, labor unions, discrimination and income inequality. Prerequisites: ECON 3010 or 3110, and ECON 3720, or instructor permission.

Requisites ECON 3010 or 3110, and ECON 3720

Credits: 3

ECON 4160 - Economics of Health

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Uses microeconomic theory to examine the demand for health services and medical care, the market for medical insurance, the behavior of physicians and hospitals, issues pertaining to malpractice, and government policy. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or ECON 3110 and ECON 3720 or ECON 4720.

Requisites Prerequisites: ECON 3010 or 3110 and ECON 3720 or 4720

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
The principles of microeconomics are used to examine decision making under uncertainty: finance, learning, savings, contracts, and oligopoly. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or ECON 3110.

Requisites Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or ECON

Credits: 3

ECON 4175 - A History of Risk Management

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
This course examines the meaning of risk and the history of risk management from the Bronze Age through the Digital Age. This course links together our natural aversion to loss and our attempts throughout history to mitigate loss and hedge risk. Students learn about markets designed to diversify risks such as futures, forwards, and insurance along with the co-evolution of probability theory as a tool to both understand and price risks.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ECON 4559 topic #31 Risk Management and students must have completed ECON 3010 or ECON 3110

Credits: 3

ECON 4180 - Regulating Infrastructure

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Analysis of ownership arrangements and regulation of infrastructure industries. Industries examined typically include telecommunications, the Internet, public utilities, and transportation facilities. Special problems posed by natural monopolies, network industries, essential facilities, and congestion. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110.

Credits: 3

ECON 4190 - Industrial Organization

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
Studies market structure, firm strategy, and market performance. Topics include strategic interactions among firms, as well as business practices such as mergers and acquisitions, price discrimination, advertising, product selection, innovation, vertical restraints, cartels, and exclusionary conduct. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110.

Requisites You must have completed ECON 3010 or ECON 3110

Credits: 3

ECON 4195 - Empirical Industrial Organization

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Effective Date 11/06/2014
Empirical Industrial Organization examines various timely issues related to market structure, firm strategy, and market performance by combining the analysis of data and economic theory to develop and estimate econometric models. Prerequisites: ECON 301, ECON 372

Requisites ECON 4195 preq

Credits: 3

ECON 4200 - Antitrust Policy

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Studies government regulation and control of business through public policies designed to promote workable competition. Prerequisite: ECON 3010. or ECON 3110

Requisites Must have completed ECON 2010

Credits: 3

ECON 4210 - International Trade: Theory and Policy

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Studies the nature and determinants of international trade and factor movements; the effects of international trade on prices of goods and factors; the consequences of tariffs, quotas, customs unions, and other trade policies and agreements, national or international; and international trade and the balance of payments. ECON 3010 or 3110 AND ECON 3720 or ECON 4720 or STAT 3220

Requisites Must have completed ECON 3010 or 3110 AND ECON 3720 or ECON 4720 or STAT 3220

Credits: 3

ECON 4220 - International Finance and Macroeconomics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies fixed and floating exchange rate systems. Topics include determinants of a nation’s balance of international payments; macroeconomic interdependence of nations under various exchange-rate regimes and its implications for domestic stabilization policies; and the international coordination of monetary and stabilization policies. Prerequisite: ECON 3020.

Credits: 3

ECON 4230 - Seminar on Trade and Development

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines various topics related to either international trade, Third World development, or interactions between the two. Examples include the effects of NAFTA, the WTO, multinational firms, child labor, rich country protectionism against Third World imports, volatile primary commodity markets, and how trade liberalization affects workers in rich and poor countries. The course will be structured on student presentations and directed-research projects. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or ECON 3110, and either ECON 4210 or ECON 4610.

Credits: 3

ECON 4240 - Economics of Immigration

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
This course offers an introduction to the economics of immigration, with an emphasis on the effects of immigrants on receiving countries, including effects on workers, crime, inequality, and fiscal effects. The prerequisites are Econ 3010 and Econ 3720 (or equivalents), since the course will heavily use theory from intermediate micro and will do close readings of empirical studies.

Requisites Must have completed ECON 3010 and ECON 3720 and can’t enroll if previously taken ECON 4559 topic 24 Economics of Immigration

Credits: 3

ECON 4300 - Public Choice

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Studies politics using economic analysis. Topics include the theory of voting rules, regulation, taxation, and interest groups; the growth of government; and the design of constitutions. Prerequisite: ECON 3010.

Requisites Must have completed ECON 3010

Credits: 3

ECON 4310 - Economics of the Public Sector

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Studies the justifications for government activities, the design of programs consistent with these justifications, the effects of major existing and proposed expenditure programs and taxes, and positive and normative analyses of political systems. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110.

Requisites You must have completed ECON 3010 or ECON 3110

Credits: 3

ECON 4340 - The Theory of Financial Markets

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Studies the theory and operation of financial markets and the role of financial assets and institutions in the economic decisions of individuals, firms, and governments. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110, 3030, and STAT 2120 or equivalent. .

Credits: 3

ECON 4350 - Corporate Finance

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Analyzes the theory of financing corporate operations and corporate decisions regarding the allocation of capital among alternative projects; includes the nature of financial instruments and the behavior of capital markets. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110, 3030, and STAT 2120 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

ECON 4360 - Empirical Finance

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Develops and tests models of asset pricing and allocation in finance, to determine both the validity of the theories and the extent to which they should guide us in financial decision-making. Prerequisite: Must have met the Financial Economics concentration declaration prerequisites.

Credits: 3

ECON 4365 - Global Financial Markets

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Effective Date 09/29/2016
Study the role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy. Construct general equilibrium models that encompass the financial markets as well as the rest of the economy. These models will be used to understand the recent subprime crisis, the European sovereign debt crisis, and many market phenomena such as extreme volatility and contagion. Prerequisites: ECON 3010 or 3110 (ECON 3020 is recommended).

Requisites Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or ECON

Credits: 3

ECON 4370 - Behavioral Finance

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Behavioral finance questions the efficient market hypothesis. In addition, this course explores noise trader models and the ‘over and under reaction’ debate. Readings are mostly from professional journals. Students should be quite serious about finance. Prerequisite: Econ 3010 or 3110 and ECON 4340

Requisites ECON 3010 or 3110 & 4340

Credits: 3

ECON 4380 - Investment Management

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Effective Date 05/21/2012
This course examines the investment process used by a variety of instiutional investors. Students will study the tools and the investment challenges faced by investment managers at such institutions. These include evaluating the role of institutional investors (e.g, endowments and pensions), portfolio choice, manager choice, asset allocation, risk management, and alternative asset class investing

Credits: 3

ECON 4390 - The Economic Theory of Advertising

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
Course deals with theories explaining the nature of advertising, and evaluates market performance in this industry, using Game Theory and Oligopoly Theory. Calculus will be used extensively. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or ECON 3110.

Requisites You must have completed ECON 3010 or ECON 3110

Credits: 3

ECON 4400 - Topics in Economic History

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Comparative study of the historical development of selected advanced economies (e.g., the United States, England, Japan, continental Europe). The nations covered vary with instructor. Prerequisite: ECON 3020, or ECON 2010 and 2020 and instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ECON 4410 - Economics of the European Union

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the history, theory, and empirics of European economic integration. Focuses on monetary union, as well as product and factor market integration. Prerequisite: ECON 3020.

Credits: 3

ECON 4420 - Macroeconomic Policy

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
This course takes a microeconomic approach to macroeconomic policies, with special emphasis on monetary and fiscal policies and their impacts on inflation and economic activity. Focus is on the connections among theory, institutional design, and actual data, including historical episodes. Prerequisites: ECON 3010 or ECON 3110 and ECON 3020.

Requisites Must have completed ECON 3010 or ECON 3110 and ECON 3020

Credits: 3

ECON 4430 - Environmental Economics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Explores the origins of environmental problems, how to measure the value of environmental amenities, and the efficacy of specific forms of regulation, including mandated technologies, taxes, subsidies, and pollution permit trading. Topics include air and water pollution, climate change, the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, and sustainable development. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110.

Credits: 3

ECON 4435 - Economics of Climate Change

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Effective Date 04/28/2023
This course examines climate change – the nature of the impact, what can be done, and why it is important – through the lens of economics. The role of discounting, equity, uncertainty, and international agreements will be discussed.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ECON 4559 topic #29 Economics of Climate Change and students must have completed ECON 3010 or ECON 3110

Credits: 3

ECON 4440 - Economic Inequality

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Economic analysis of the growth of income and wealth inequality since 1980, in the United States and around the world. Emphasis on measuring inequality, understanding the causes of growing inequality, and possible policy responses.

Requisites Prerequisites: ECON 3010 or 3110 and ECON 3720 or 4720

Credits: 3

ECON 4444 - Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Advances in AI & automation have proceeded rapidly in recent years & have reached an inflection point that will have profound implications for the future of humanity. This course analyzes the short- and medium-run implications for employment, economic growth, & inequality. It also covers philosophical questions such as the long-run implications of AI rivaling human intelligence. Requisite: [Either ECON 3010 (or 3310) & ECON 3020] OR CS 3102.

Credits: 3

ECON 4445 - Policy Analysis

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Effective Date 09/28/2018
This course will introduce you to econometric methods for evaluating public policies. At the end of the course, you will be familiar with the strengths and weaknesses behind a variety of evaluation methods commonly used to examine programs such as the minimum wage, education or job training.

Requisites Prerequisites: ECON 3720 or 4720

Credits: 3

ECON 4500 - Topic Courses in Econ

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Topic courses in Economics

Credits: 1 to 3

ECON 4559 - New Course in Economics

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Effective Date 09/20/2022
New course in the subject of economics.

Credits: 1 to 4

ECON 4590 - Majors Seminar

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
Reading, discussion, and research in selected topics. Topics vary by instructor and course may be taken for credit more than once. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 2

ECON 4610 - Economic Development

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
Studies the peculiar problems of economics in underdeveloped countries, including government and market failures. Examines factors underlying poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and corruption in developing countries, and the scope for (rigorously evaluated) policies to improve these conditions. Prerequisite: ECON 2010 and ECON 3720 (or 4720 or STAT 3220 or equivalent). ECON 2020 and ECON 3010/3110 are helpful but not required.

Credits: 3

ECON 4620 - Seminar on Development Economics

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
This course covers important topics in development economics, such as health, education, gender, environment, institutions, and infrastructure. The primary goal of the course is to prepare students to conduct and evaluate empirical research in development economics. To this end, the course will cover empirical tools necessary to study the problems facing developing economies. Requisites: ECON 3010, ECON 3720 and/or ECON 4720

Credits: 3

ECON 4720 - Econometric Methods

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Studies the application of statistical methods to the testing and estimation of economic relationships. Emphasizes applied econometric studies and the problems that arise when analyzing time series and cross section data by means of stochastic linear models. Prerequisite: ECON 3720 or STAT 3120 or STAT 3220 or APMA 3110 or APMA 3120; and MATH 3350 or MATH 3351 or APMA 3080.

Requisites Prerequisite: Students must have completed one of the following: ECON 3720 or STAT 3120 or STAT 3220 or APMA 3110 or APMA 3120 AND MATH 3350 or MATH 3351 or APMA 3080.

Credits: 3

ECON 4730 - Markets, Mechanisms, and Machines

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Effective Date 10/23/2019
This course will present a collection of topics from Economics and Computer Science that constitute the building blocks of modern user-facing electronic systems. Many examples will come from modern digital advertising platforms that have both created huge success in user reach and effectiveness for advertisers and, at the same time, have generated a trail of user privacy concerns. Prerequisites: ECON 3010 or 3110 and ECON 3720 or 4720.

Requisites Prerequisites: ECON 3010 or 3110 and ECON 3720 or 4720

Credits: 3

ECON 4740 - Introduction to Algorithmic Economics

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Effective Date 10/26/2022
The course will cover recent work in Computer Science and Economics the enables the appropriate analysis of dynamic marketplaces where agents rely on algorithmic tools to make decisions and compete. The course will cover a range of fundamental concepts from machine learning and convex optimization and connect them with the concepts in game theory and Economics of information.

Requisites Must have completed (ECON 3010 or 3110) and (ECON 3720 or 4720) AND Students can’t enroll if previously taken ECON 4559 topic #28 Algorithmic Economics

Credits: 3

ECON 4810 - Advanced Macroeconomic Theory

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Effective Date 10/15/2010
Studies macroeconomic theory beyond the intermediate level. Emphasizes dynamic aspect of macroeconomic analysis under uncerainty, asset pricing, and various topics of macroeconomic policy. Includes a review of basic mathematical tools and models of economic growth. Prerequisites: ECON 3010 and ECON 3020

Credits: 3

ECON 4820 - Experimental Economics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Explores the use of laboratory methods to study economic behavior. Topics include experimental design, laboratory technique, financial incentives, and analysis of data. Emphasizes applications: bargaining, auctions, market price competition, market failures, voting, contributions to public goods, lottery choice decisions, and the design of electronic markets for financial assets. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110 and a course in statistics, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ECON 4880 - Seminar in Policy Analysis

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the methods used to estimate the effects of existing and proposed government programs. Methods will be illustrated with applications to several areas of government policy. Students will complete an empirical policy analysis under faculty supervision. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110, ECON 3720, and ECON 4310.

Credits: 3

ECON 4990 - Distinguished Majors Seminar

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Required for Distinguished Majors. An introduction to economic research and the writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis. Although the course is intended for Distinguished Majors, other highly motivated and accomplished students may be admitted if space permits. Prerequisite: ECON 3010 or 3110; and either 3720 or 4720 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ECON 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 03/18/2009
Independent study under the direction of a regular faculty member. Students may not use this class to obtain academic credit for a summer internship. Prerequisite: GPA of 3.300 in UVa ECON courses.

Credits: 1 to 3

ECON 4995 - Supervised Research

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
Research under the direction of a regular faculty member. Students may not use this class to obtain academic credit for a summer internship.Prerequisite: GPA of 3.300 in UVa ECON courses.

Requisites Students must have earned a minimum GPA of 3.300 in all ECON courses completed at UVa.

Credits: 1 to 3

ECON 4999 - Distinguished Majors Thesis

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Effective Date 03/18/2009
Supervised research culminating in the writing of a Distinguished Majors thesis. Restricted to members of the Distinguished Majors Program.

Credits: 1 to 3

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Courses

CPLT 2010 - History of European Literature I

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Surveys European literature from antiquity to the Renaissance, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.

Credits: 4

CPLT 2020 - History of European Literature II

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Surveys European literature from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.

Credits: 4

CPLT 2559 - New Course in Comparative Literature

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Comparative Literature.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This is the second of a two-semester survey of the history of Western drama from the fifth century B.C. to the present. This semester we will trace the development of drama from the emergence of realism to the present. This is a turbulent, vibrant period in the history of drama, rivaled only by that of the Greeks and the Elizabethans. We will study realism and the reactions against it: expressionism, surrealism, Epic Theater, Absurdism.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3420 - Modern Drama–Ibsen to Absurdism

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This is the first half of a two-semester course on modern and contemporary drama in the Western world, with brief forays into other regions. ENGN 3420 surveys the modern period from its inception through the post-World War II period; ENGN 3430 covers the contemporary period. ENGN 3420 first examines the emergence of realism then moves through various reactions against and adjustments to realism during the period.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3430 - Contemporary Drama

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This is the second half of a two-semester course on modern and contemporary American and European drama (with forays into other regions), covering post-Absurdism to the present. We will examine postwar quests for dramatic and theatrical structures relevant to a socially and morally chaotic world. From a study of reactions to the Theatre of the Absurd, we move to an investigation of contemporary drama.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3559 - New Course in Comparative Literature

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Comparative Literature.

Credits: 1 to 4

CPLT 3590 - Topics in Comparative Literature

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Effective Date 11/11/2015
Changing topics with explore Comparative Literature topics, such as theory, genre, periods, or major authors with an international impact.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3600 - Literary Theory

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
An introduction to literary theory, required of all Comparative Literature majors. This seminar will normally be taken in the third year.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3710 - Kafka and His Doubles

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Introduction to the work of Franz Kafka, with comparisons to the literary tradition he worked with and the literary tradition he formed.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3720 - Freud and Literature

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
In formulating his model of the psyche and his theory of psychoanalysis, Freud availed himself of analogies drawn from different disciplines, including literature. Freud’s ideas were then taken up by many twentieth-century literary writers. After introducing Freud’s theories through a reading of his major works, the course will turn to literary works that engage with Freud.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3740 - Narratives of Childhood

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Childhood autobiography and childhood narrative from Romanticism to the present.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3750 - Women, Childhood, Autobiography

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Cross-cultural readings in women’s childhood narratives. Emphasis on formal as well as thematic aspects.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 03/22/2010
Comparative studies in the European novel. Dominant novel types, including the fictional memoir, the novel in letters, and the comic “history.”

Credits: 3

CPLT 3770 - Women Writers: Women on Women

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Effective Date 03/30/2016
This course focuses on women writers from any era who address the topic of femininity: what it means or implies to be a woman.

Credits: 3

CPLT 3780 - Memory Speaks

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Effective Date 09/30/2016
Interdisciplinary course on memory. Readings from literature, philosophy, history, psychology, and neuroscience.

Credits: 3

CPLT 4559 - New Course in Comparative Literature

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Effective Date 11/07/2014
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Comparative Literature.

Credits: 1 to 4

CPLT 4990 - Comparative Literature Seminar

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
Open to all students, with preference given to comparative literature majors in case of overenrollment. Topics may vary; a typical subject is “the theory and practice of tragedy.

Credits: 3

CPLT 4998 - Fourth Year Thesis

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Two-semester course in which the student prepares and writes a thesis with the guidance of a faculty member. After being accepted to the distinguished majors program, the student should decide on a thesis topic and find an advisor by the end of the third year. In the fall semester (497), the student engages in an extended course of reading and produces at least 20 pages of written text; in the spring (498), the student completes and submits the thesis.

Credits: 3

CPLT 4999 - Fourth Year Thesis

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Two-semester course in which the student prepares and writes a thesis with the guidance of a faculty member. After being accepted to the distinguished majors program, the student should decide on a thesis topic and find an advisor by the end of the third year. In the fall semester (497), the student engages in an extended course of reading and produces at least 20 pages of written text; in the spring (498), the student completes and submits the thesis.

Credits: 3

ENAM 3500 - Studies in American Literature

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Effective Date 10/18/2018
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENAM 3559 - New Course in American Literature

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Effective Date 10/11/2018
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.

Credits: 1 to 4

ENAM 3570 - Contemporary Ethnic American Fiction

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Effective Date 04/30/2010
This course introduces students to the growing body of fiction by recent American writers of ethnic and racial minorities. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENAM 3770 - Women in American Art

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Analyzes the roles played by women as artists and as the subjects of representation in American art from the colonial period to the present. Some background in either art history or gender studies is desirable. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENAM 3780 - Science and Identity in American Literature

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies literary representations of science, pseudo-science and technology in nineteenth century America, particularly works that explore the possible effects of science on personal, civic, and social identity. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENAM 3850 - Folklore in America

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Surveys the traditional expressive culture of various ethnic and religious groups in America, including songs, folk narratives, folk religion, proverbs, riddles. Emphasizes southeastern Anglo-Americans. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENAM 3890 - Mass Media and American Culture

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies the development and impact of mass forms of communication in America including newspapers, magazines, film, the wireless and the radio, television, and the Internet. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENAM 4559 - New Course in American Literature To 1900

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Effective Date 07/07/2017
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of American Literature To 1900. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 1 to 4

ENCR 3559 - New Course in Criticism

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Effective Date 11/04/2015
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.

Credits: 1 to 4

ENCR 3620 - Introduction to Criticism and Cultural Studies

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Introduces the various and contested theories and practices of what has come to be called ‘cultural studies.’ Examines various theoretical traditions and histories of mass culture and advertising. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCR 3630 - Psychoanalytic Criticism

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies Freudian and post-Freudian psychology and its literary applications. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCR 3710 - Intellectual Prose

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies non-fictional discursive prose. Readings drawn from such fields as criticism, aesthetic theory, philosophy, social and political thought, history, economics, and science; from the Renaissance to the present day. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCR 3810 - Feminist Theories and Methods

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Introduces current feminist scholarship in a variety of areas literature, history, film, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, among others pairing feminist texts with more traditional ones. Features guest speakers and culminates in an interdisciplinary project. Cross listed as SWAG 3810. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENCR 4559 - New Course in Criticism

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Effective Date 04/30/2010
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.

Credits: 1 to 4

ENCW 2200 - Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Writing

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
A small, workshop-based, creative writing course that explores various forms of creative nonfiction and requires students to generate at least one longer work that incorporates extensive outside research.

Credits: 3

ENCW 2300 - Poetry Writing

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
An introduction to the craft of writing poetry, with relevant readings in the genre. For more details on creative writing courses, see our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

Credits: 3

ENCW 2530 - Introduction to Poetry Writing - Themed

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
An introduction to the craft of writing poetry, with relevant readings in the genre. Both readings and writing assignments will be on topics that vary. For more details on this class, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

Credits: 3

ENCW 2560 - Introduction to Fiction Writing - Themed

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Effective Date 10/18/2022
An introduction to the craft of writing fiction, with relevant readings in the genre. Both readings and writing assignments will be on topics that vary. For more details on this class, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

Credits: 3

ENCW 2600 - Fiction Writing

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
An introduction to the craft of writing fiction, with relevant readings in the genre. For more details on creative writing courses, see our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu.

Credits: 3

ENCW 3310 - Intermediate Poetry Writing I

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
For students advanced beyond the level of ENCW 2300. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussions, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class or more details, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Credits: 3

ENCW 3320 - Intermediate Poetry Writing II

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
For students advanced beyond the level of ENWR 2300. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussion, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ENCW 3350 - Intermediate Nonfiction Writing

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
For students advanced beyond the level of ENWR 2600. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussion, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ENCW 3500 - Topics in Creative Writing

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Effective Date 04/15/2024
An intermediate level creative writing course that involves workshop of student work, craft discussions, and relevant reading. Topics vary from year to year. For more information, visit the department website at english.as.virginia.edu.

Credits: 3

ENCW 3559 - New Course in Creative Writing

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Effective Date 04/01/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Creative Writing.

Credits: 1 to 4

ENCW 3610 - Intermediate Fiction Writing

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
For students advanced beyond the level of ENCW 2600. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussions, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class or more details, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4350 - Advanced Nonfiction Writing

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
For advanced students with experience in writing literary nonfiction. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussion, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4550 - Topics in Literary Prose

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Effective Date 03/26/2024
One of two required readings courses for students admitted to the Area Program in Literary Prose, also open to other qualified students. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4720 - Area Program in Literary Prose Thesis Course

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Directed writing project for students in the English Department’s Undergraduate Area Program in Literary Prose, leading to completion of an extended piece of creative prose writing.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4810 - Advanced Fiction Writing I

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Devoted to the writing of prose fiction, especially the short story. Student work is discussed in class and individual conferences. Parallel reading in the work of modern novelists and short story writers is required. For advanced students with prior experience in writing fiction. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4820 - Poetry Program Poetics

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This poetics seminar, designed for students in the English Department’s Area Program in Poetry Writing but open to other students on a space-available basis, is a close readings course for serious makers and readers of poems. Seminar topics vary by semester. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4830 - Advanced Poetry Writing I

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
For advanced students with prior experience in writing poetry. Student work is discussed in class and in individual conferences. Reading in contemporary poetry is also assigned. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4920 - Poetry Program Capstone

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Directed poetry writing project for students in the English Department’s Undergraduate Area Program in Poetry Writing, leading to completion of a manuscript of poems. Both courses are required for students in the Distinguished Majors Program. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ENCW 4993 - Independent Project in Creative Writing

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
For the student who wants to work on a creative writing project under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ENEC 3559 - New Course in Restoration and Eighteenth-century Literature

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Effective Date 10/25/2013
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course 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.

Credits: 1 to 4

ENEC 4559 - New Course in Restoration and Eighteenth-century Literature.

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Effective Date 04/30/2010
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course 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.

Credits: 1 to 3

ENGL 150 - Special Topics in English

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Effective Date 05/01/2021
Special Topics in English.

Credits: 0

ENGL 1500 - Masterworks of Literature

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Effective Date 04/15/2024
An introduction to the study of literature. Why is imaginative literature worth reading and taking seriously? How do we prepare ourselves to be the best possible readers of imaginative literature?

Credits: 3

ENGL 1559 - New Course in English Literature

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
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.

Credits: 1 to 4

ENGL 1590 - Literature and the Professions

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
An introduction to the study of literature that focuses on the intersections between imaginative literature and other fields of human endeavor. Why is imaginative literature worth reading and taking seriously? How can becoming a better reader enhance other aspects of our careers and our lives?

Credits: 3

ENGL 1900 - Introduction to Academic Conversations

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
This class welcomes students to the university and to the ways academics read, discuss, and respond to intellectual conversations. Students will read and analyze college-level texts, practice stages of the composing process, and present responses orally in discussions and brief presentations. This course develops the strategies necessary to achieve proficiency in future writing classes as well as courses across the curriculum

Credits: 3

ENGL 1910 - Public Speaking

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
The development of skills in the preparation, delivery, and criticism of speeches, with emphasis on the function of audience analysis, evidence, organization, language, and style. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2001 - History of European Literature I

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Surveys European literature from antiquity to the Renaissance, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.

Credits: 4

ENGL 2002 - History of European Literature II

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Surveys European literature from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.

Credits: 4

ENGL 2500 - Introduction to Literary Studies

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Introduces students to some fundamental skills in critical thinking and critical writing about literary texts. Readings include various examples of poetry, fiction, and drama. The course is organized along interactive and participatory lines. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2502 - Masterpieces of English Literature

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Surveys selected English writers from the fourteenth through the eighteenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2504 - Major Authors of American Literature

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Studies major works in American literature before 1900. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2506 - Studies in Poetry

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Examines the poetic techniques and conventions of imagery and verse that poets have used across the centuries. Exercises in scansion, close reading, and framing arguments about poetry. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2507 - Studies in Drama

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Introduces the techniques of the dramatic art, with close analysis of selected plays. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2508 - Studies in Fiction

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Effective Date 06/27/2024
Studies the techniques of fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2527 - Shakespeare

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Studies selected sonnets and plays of Shakespeare. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2559 - New Course in Introduction to English Literature

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Effective Date 06/28/2024
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.

Credits: 1 to 4

ENGL 2560 - Contemporary Literature

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Effective Date 06/27/2024
Introduces trends in contemporary English, American, and Continental literature, especially in fiction, but with some consideration of poetry and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2570 - Modern American Authors

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Surveys major American writers of the twentieth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2572 - Black Writers in America

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Topics in African-American writing in the US from its beginning in vernacular culture to the present day; topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2590 - Studies in Global Literature

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Examines a selection of works, primarily in English but occasionally in translation, from around the world. The list of works and genres treated will vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2592 - Women in Literature

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Analyzes the representations of women in literature as well as literary texts by women writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2599 - Special Topics

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Effective Date 06/28/2024
Usually an introduction to non-traditional or specialized topics in literary studies, (e.g., native American literature, gay and lesbian studies, techno-literacy, Arthurian romance, Grub Street in eighteenth-century England, and American exceptionalism). For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2657 - Routes, Writing, Reggae

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Effective Date 10/06/2017
In this course, we will trace the history of reggae music and explore its influence on the development of Jamaican literature. With readings on Jamaican history, we will consider why so many reggae songs speak about Jah and quote from the Bible. Then, we will explore how Marcus Garvey’s teachings led to the rise of Rastafarianism, which in turn seeded ideas of black pride and black humanity into what would become reggae music.

Credits: 3

ENGL 2900 - Women and Media in the Global South

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
This course examines women and media in the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa through the lenses of new media, journalism, feminism, and gender studies, with cross-cultural comparisons to the U.S.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3001 - History of Literatures in English I

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
A two-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3001 covers the period up to 1800; ENGL 3002, the period 1800 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3002 - History of Literatures in English II

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
A two-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3001 covers the period up to 1800; ENGL 3002, the period 1800 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3010 - History of the English Language

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Studies the development of English word forms and vocabulary from Old English to present-day English. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3020 - American English

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
A historical examination of the peculiar development of the English language, both spoken and written, in the Americas, primarily in the United States, from the time of the first European settlements to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3025 - African American English

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Effective Date 03/05/2019
This course examines the communicative practices of African American Vernacular English (AAEV) to explore how a marginalized language dynamic has made major transitions into American mainstream discourse. AAEV is no longer solely the informal speech of many African Americans; it is the way Americans speak.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ENLS 3559 topic 1 African American English

Credits: 3

ENGL 3100 - Old Icelandic Literature in Translation

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
A survey of the major works written in Iceland from around 1100 to the end of the Middle Ages. Works studied include several of the family and legendary sagas and selections from the Poetic Edda and the Edda of Snorri Sturluson. All readings are in translation.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3110 - Violence and Conflict Resolution in Medieval Literature

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Studies the representation of violence and peacemaking in the literature of medieval England, Scandinavia and the continent from Beowulf to the fifteenth century. Special emphasis is placed on the historical background. (IR)

Credits: 3

ENGL 3161 - Chaucer I

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Studies selected Canterbury Tales and other works, read in the original. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3162 - Chaucer II

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Studies Troilus and Criseyde and other works, read in the original. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3170 - Drama in English from its Beginnings to 1642

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Surveys medieval and Renaissance drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3200 - Literature of the Renaissance

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Surveys sixteenth-century English prose, poetry and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3220 - The Seventeenth Century

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Surveys the prose, poetry and drama of the earlier seventeenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3260 - Milton

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Study of selected poems and prose, with particular emphasis on Paradise Lost. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3271 - Shakespeare: Histories and Comedies

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
A survey of plays from Shakespeare’s earlier career, emphasizing the great histories and comedies. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3273 - Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Surveys the plays of Shakespeare’s later career, emphasizing the great tragedies and romances. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3274 - Studies in Shakespeare

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Intensive study of selected plays. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3275 - History of Drama I: Ancient Greece to the Renaissance

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
This course begins in ancient Athens with the birth of tragedy and comedy, moving from there to the Latin tradition, both pagan and Christian, before settling into the European vernaculars, both medieval and modern.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3300 - English Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1660-1800. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3310 - Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1660-1740. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

ENGL 3321 - English Literature of the Late Eighteenth Century

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1740-1800. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Credits: 3

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Environmental Sciences

Courses

EVSC 1010 - Introduction to Environmental Sciences

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the principles and basic facts of the natural environment. Topics include earth materials, land forms, weather and climate, vegetation and soils, and the processes of environmental change and their implications to economic and human systems.

Credits: 3

EVSC 1020 - Practical Concepts in Environmental Sciences

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Practical concepts and problem solving in environmental sciences through demonstrations, hands-on activities, structured discussions, and problem sets beyond those of traditional lectures or discussion groups. Emphasizes experience and critical thinking in the four core areas: geology, hydrology, atmospheric sciences, and ecology.

Credits: 1

EVSC 1040 - Virginia’s Environments

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
A general survey of the basic foundation, concepts, and dynamics of the total Earth system with natural Virginia as the unifying concept. Understanding is built on the foundation of geological and geomorphological processes that form and modify the landscape of Virginia, including basic geology, processes of mountain building, flooding, and erosion. Also examined are various ecosystems in the state, especially the Chesapeake Bay, and the human impact of these varied landscapes, particularly through exploitation of mineral and water resources, waste disposal and pollution, and land use issues.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Ethics, Protocols, and Practice of International Research

Credits: 3

EVSC 1080 - Resources and the Environment

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Explores the impact of people on the environment in the past and present with projections for the future. Addresses the phenomena and effects of food and energy production and industrial processes, including such topics as lead pollution, acid rain, the greenhouse effect, and the disposal of radioactive waste. Demonstrates how the environment works in the absence of humans and discusses how human use of resources perturbs the environment.

Credits: 3

EVSC 1200 - Elements of Ecology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the science of ecology and its application to current environmental issues. A number of topics relating to population growth and regulation, biodiversity, sustainability, and global change are used as a framework to investigate basic ecological principles. Emphasizes the application of basic science to the understanding and mitigation of current environmental problems.

Credits: 3

EVSC 1300 - Earth’s Weather and Climate

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Effective Date 03/23/2010
An overview of the atmospheric sciences primarily for non-science majors. Topics include weather forecasting, the greenhouse effect and global warming, ozone depletion, El Ni?o, air pollution, atmospheric optical effects, global climate, and the impacts of weather on human health. Three lectures per week. No science/math background is required.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Carbon is the building block of life, the way we trap the energy of the sun to feed all biological systems, and the way we power human civilization. It is also the driver of global climate change. How does the climate system work? How has climate changed? How will it change in the coming decades? What are the likely impacts on humanity and the ecosystems on which we depend? What can we do about it? We explore climate change, top to bottom.

Credits: 3

EVSC 1559 - New Course in Environmental Science

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of environmental science.

Credits: 1 to 4

EVSC 1600 - Water on Earth

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the natural history of the Earth’s hydrosphere, including its origin, evolution, and importance in Earth processes. Introduces the hydrological cycle and the role of water in a variety of Earth processes. Discusses human influences on the hydrosphere and current topics in hydrological science and water resources, such as contamination and resource allocation, emphasizing the scientific basis for past, present, and future decisions.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2010 - Materials That Shape Our Civilizations

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
To introduce the issues surrounding long-term sustainability with respect to materials, including scarcity, recycling, climate change, and environmental stress on water resources, land resources and pollution. Scope of the issue at the present day will be discussed and projections of the effects of current patterns of material production, consumption, and recycling will be described. Methods of analysis will be developed.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces a wide variety of domestic and international environmental policy issues. Explores how political processes, scientific evidence, ideas, and values affect environmental policymaking. This class satisfies the social sciences area requirement and not the natural sciences/mathematics area requirement, since EVSC 230 is devoted to the subject of environmental policy. Cross listed as ETP 230 and PLAP 230.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2050 - Introduction to Oceanography

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Analyzes the principles that govern the world’s oceans and their integration into an understanding of the major marine environments. Topics include marine pollution, global climate, and marine policy.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2070 - Earth Systems Technology & Management

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Earth Systems Engineering Management (ESEM) is a comprehensive perspective that combines engineering, environmental science and psychology to explore how human beings can take care of the ecosystem. Students will listen to lectures and discuss background readings from a variety of perspectives related to ESEM. Then they will apply what they have read to a practical problem: identifying and managing national parks and other national entities.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2100 - Agroecology

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Effective Date 11/20/2023
This class covers the principles of agroecology. We begin with basic plant-science and integrate crop biology into an ecological view of production. We focus on crops but pay some attention to animals. We cover topics such as stress, disease, and genetics. The class is international in scope but highlights agriculture in Virginia, past, present, and future. The class mode is Socratic lecture with a few field trips.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken EVSC 2559 topic #17 AgroEcology

Credits: 3

EVSC 2200 - Plants, People and Culture

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This course will explore the interrelationships between humans and plants. An introduction to basic plant biology provides a framework for exploring the process of plant domestication and the economic and cultural consequences for humans, including plant diversity and use of indigenous plants. The origin and dispersal of major plants used by humans as food, drink, fiber, medicine and fuel will be considered.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2220 - Conservation Ecology: Biodiversity and Beyond

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies ecological science relevant to sustaining populations, species, ecosystems, and the global biosphere. Includes discussion of genetic inbreeding, critical population size, community structure and organization, maintenance of critical ecosystem function, and global biogeochemistry. Case studies from around the world demonstrate links between human-driven environmental change and the health of the biosphere, at all levels, from the organism to the planet.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2559 - New Course in Environmental Science

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Effective Date 04/08/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of environmental science.

Credits: 1 to 4

EVSC 2800 - Fundamentals of Geology

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Studies the composition, structure, and internal processes of earth; the classification, origin, and distribution of earth materials; earth’s interior; and the interpretation of geological data for the solution of problems of the natural environment. Recommended: At least one semester of college chemistry with lab such as CHEM 1410, 1420.

Credits: 3

EVSC 2801 - Fundamentals of Geology Laboratory

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Field and laboratory experimentation into the nature of earth materials and processes, especially as applied to use and human problems. Corequisite: EVSC 2800.

Credits: 1

EVSC 2850 - Polar Environments

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Effective Date 10/10/2019
This course explores the unique aspects of polar systems (Arctic and Antarctic) and lessons for the larger globe by integrating relevant aspects of climate science, geology, glaciology and cryosphere science, oceanography, ecology, and human-dimensions.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken EVSC 2559 topic #16 Polar Environments

Credits: 3

EVSC 2900 - Beaches, Coasts and Rivers

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the geologic framework and biophysical processes of the coastal zone, and the role of the major river systems in modifying the coastal environment. Emphasizes human modifications, including case studies along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3020 - GIS Methods

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Effective Date 08/01/2009
Explores the theory of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applications in a range of disciplines using various GIS software packages. Example applications are from physical and social sciences, often with a focus on the Charlottesville-Albemarle area. For students interested in immediate applications of GIS in their work. Experience with word processing, file managers, and other computing skills is essential. Prerequisite: The equivalent of the College natural science/mathematics and social science area requirements.

Credits: 4

EVSC 3060 - Biomechanics of Organisms

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Effective Date 07/20/2016
This course explores interactions between biology and the fluid within which terrestrial organisms (air) and aquatic organisms (water) function. Topics covered include locomotion, heat exchange, diffusion and mass exchange, bio-acoustics, and bio-optics in the two different fluids, as well as living at the interface between air and water. Prerequisite: MATH 1190 or MATH 1210 or MATH 1310 or APMA 1090.

Requisites Must have completed Math 1190 or 1210 or 1310 or APMA 1090

Credits: 3

EVSC 3100 - Environmental and Climate Justice

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Effective Date 03/26/2024
This course introduces key topics in environmental and climate justice. This includes the vulnerabilities that marginalized communities are disproportionately exposed to, how power and privilege produce these unjust conditions as well as the history and evolution of the environmental and climate justice movements. The course will also illustrate the various ways in which environmental and climate justice intersect with different areas of study.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3200 - Fundamentals of Ecology

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Studies energy flow, nutrient cycling and allocation in natural ecosystems, organization of species at the population and community levels, and interaction between people and the biosphere. Prerequisite: One semester of calculus; recommended; at least one semester of college-level chemistry and biology with labs such as CHEM 1410, 1420, and BIOL 2020.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3201 - Fundamentals of Ecology Laboratory

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Field and laboratory experimentation illustrative of ecological systems, and their checks, balances, and cycles. Corequisite: EVSC 3200.

Credits: 1

EVSC 3300 - Atmosphere and Weather

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
Introduces the physical laws governing atmospheric behavior and examines atmospheric variables and their role in the fluid environment of the earth. Prerequisite: MATH 1190 or MATH 1210 or MATH 1220 or MATH 1310 or MATH 1320 or MATH 2310 or APMA 1090 or APMA 1110 or APMA 2120.

Requisites Must have completed Math 1190 or 1210 or 1220 or 1310 or 2310 or APMA 1090 or 1110 or 2120

Credits: 3

EVSC 3301 - Atmosphere and Weather Laboratory

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Studies the principles of measurements, instrumentation for measuring atmospheric parameters, and methods of observing and calculating atmospheric variables. Corequisite: EVSC 3300.

Requisites Must have completed MATH 1190 or 1210 or 1220 or 1310 or 1320 or 2310 or APMA 1090 or 1110 or 2120

Credits: 1

EVSC 3559 - New Course in Environmental Science

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Effective Date 03/27/2019
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of environmental science.

Credits: 1 to 4

EVSC 3600 - Physical Hydrology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the physical principles governing the flow of water on and beneath the earth’s surface, including fundamental concepts of fluid dynamics applied to the description of open channel hydraulics, ground water hydraulics, and dynamics of soil moisture. Introduces elements of surface water and ground water hydrology and explores humanity’s influence on its hydrological environment. Prerequisite: One semester of calculus.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3601 - Physical Hydrology Laboratory

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Field and laboratory experimentation illustrative of the hydrological cycle, including energy and mass transfer in surface and ground water. Corequisite: EVSC 3600.

Credits: 1

EVSC 3660 - Tropical Field Ecology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course is designed to introduce students to the plants and animals found in the tropical marine environment of the Caribbean and to study their adaptations in the context of community ecology. Fishes, invertebrates, and marine plants will be in the major groups encountered. Cross-listed with BIOL 3500. Prerequisite: BIOL 2010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 4

EVSC 3665 - Tropical Ecology and Conservation in Belize

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This course is an introduction to the organisms and ecosystems of Belize, including fresh water, marine and terrestrial examples. Special emphasis will be placed on the interactions of the ecosystem components and on the conservation of specific ecosystems and locales. Prerequisites: BIOL 2010, 2020, 2030, 2040 or EVSC 3200, 3201 or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

EVSC 3810 - Earth Processes as Natural Hazards

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Effective Date 05/01/2014
Studies the dynamic processes of Earth’s interior and surface and the impact of natural hazards on society. Geological topics, including earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and floods, will be described. Observations and geological data will be used to make decisions about risk to human life and property. Prerequisite: Required prerequisite course EVSC 2800 or equivalent college-level introductory geology course by transfer credit.

Requisites EVSC 2800 pre-req

Credits: 3

EVSC 3860 - Introduction to Geochemistry

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Effective Date 06/11/2019
Studies the principles that govern the distribution and abundance of the elements in the Earth’s lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800 encouraged but not required.

Credits: 4

EVSC 4002 - Undergraduate Seminar

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
A weekly, one-hour seminar series for majors, other interested undergraduates, and the University community dealing with environmental processes, research, issues, careers, and graduate study.

Credits: 1

EVSC 4010 - Introduction to Remote Sensing

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
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 4015 - Advanced Remote Sensing

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Remote sensing is a technique to obtain data about an object without physical contact with it. It is a powerful tool for extracting quantitative information about Earth’s surface and subsurface. As an upper-level class in remote sensing, in this seminar, we will focus on advanced remote sensing techniques at different spatial scales that help to gain information about the biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.

Requisites Must have completed EVSC 4010

Credits: 3

EVSC 4020 - Dryland Ecohydrology

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Study of ecohydrologic processes characteristic of arid and semiarid regions. Prerequisites: Any introductory hydrology course or instructor permission.

Credits: 2

EVSC 4030 - Environmental Policymaking in the United States

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Exploration of the possibilities for, and constraints on, domestic environmental policymaking. Examination of the roles of Congress, the executive branch, and the courts in environmental policymaking. Critical analysis of the analytical principles and values commonly employed in environmental policymaking. Prerequisite: Completion of Natural Sciences/Mathematics area requirement and third- or fourth-year standing, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4035 - Drones in Scientific Research

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Effective Date 01/30/2020
In this course, students explore how unmanned aerial systems or ‘drones’ are being used in various research areas with a focus on environmental research. In addition, students investigate ethical, legal, privacy, and policy issues raised by drone technology. Students will get an opportunity to work in teams to discuss the various uses of drone technology.

Credits: 2

EVSC 4040 - Climate Change: Science, Markets & Policy

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
We will explore what many consider the greatest environmental issue of our time. Co-taught by professors in the Department of Environmental Sciences and the School of Law, our objective is to help students develop an integrated view of anthropogenic climate change and possible responses to it. We will review the evidence and critiques of it, impacts of climate change, and potential for markets and institutions to address/mitigate impacts.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4050 - Topics in Oceanography

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces oceanography together with a survey of marine resources and the scientific bases for their management. Prerequisite: One year college-level science.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4066 - Changing Global Carbon Cycle

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Effective Date 09/28/2018
This course is designed to introduce upper-level undergraduate students to the natural and human-driven perturbations that affect the global carbon cycle. The course covers major factors and aspects of the changing carbon cycle including fossil fuel use, agriculture and land-use change, atmospheric build-up, evolving land biosphere, and ocean uptake. Relevant observational methods, data sets and syntheses, and numerical models are introduced. One semester of college Biology or Chemistry, or permission of the instructor.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4070 - Advanced GIS

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Explores advanced Geographic Information Systems concepts through use of Arc/Info, Erdas Imagine, and other GIS software in individual and group projects. Topics include data management, raster modeling, image manipulation, and 3-D visualization. Prerequisite: An introductory GIS course.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4080 - Quantitative Methods in Environmental Sciences

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Effective Date 12/15/2017
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 4090 - Analytical Chemistry

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Effective Date 12/20/2016
Study of the utilization of modern analytical instrumentation for chemical analysis. Includes emission and mass spectrometry, ultraviolet, visible, and infrared absorption spectroscopy, atomic absorption, electrical methods of analysis, chromatography, neutron activation analysis, and X-ray methods. Prerequisites: CHEM 1420 or CHEM 1620 or CHEM 1810.

Requisites CHEM 1420, 1620 or 1810

Credits: 3

EVSC 4100 - Management of Forest Ecosystems

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
An ecosystem course which treats the ecology of forests and consequences of forest processes in natural and managed systems. The class emphasizes the “pattern and process” concept that is the central theme in modern vegetation sciences at increasing scales: from form and function of leaves and other parts of trees through population, community and landscape ecology to the role of forests in the global climate and carbon-cycling. Pre-requisites: EVSC 3200, 3400, or 3500 recommended.

Credits: 4

EVSC 4110 - Coastal and Estuarine Ecology

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
An interdisciplinary course covering the physical, biogeochemical and ecological aspects of coastal estuaries. Prerequisites: EVSC 3200 with a D-

Requisites EVSC 3200

Credits: 3

EVSC 4122 - Coastal Ecology Seminar

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Effective Date 03/26/2009
A graduate/undergraduate seminar on current topics in coastal ecology.

Credits: 1

EVSC 4140 - Global Coastal Change

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Effective Date 04/03/2013
A comprehensive treatment of global environmental factors affecting coastal marine systems, including climate change, sea-level rise, alterations in freshwater and sediment transport, disturbance and habitat loss, overfishing, alien species, and eutrophication. Includes case studies providing real-world examples, and detailed reviews of the evidence of changes and possible solutions.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4150 - Terrestrial Plant Ecology

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Effective Date 04/03/2013
The objective of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of factors influencing the distribution of terrestrial plants at the local, landscape, and global scales. We will focus on the basic principles of plant biology and their role on determining the relative distributions and abundances of plant species, patterns of community structure, and ecosystem function.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4160 - Forest Sampling

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Effective Date 09/26/2014
Study of quantitative methods for sampling forest ecosystems

Credits: 3

EVSC 4170 - Spatial Ecology

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
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.

Requisites EVSC 3200

Credits: 3

EVSC 4190 - Ecosystem-based Marine Conservation

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Effective Date 07/15/2016
The basis in ecosystem attributes, resiliency, and sustainability for marine conservation, policy development, and management. A number of case studies will be examined from the textbook, and students will be required to develop their own case studies in partial requirement for the grade.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4200 - The Ecology of Coastal Wetlands

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Investigates the ecology of coastal interface ecosystems, including sea grass, mangrove, and salt marsh emphasizing biogeochemisty, succession, and dynamic processes related to the development and maintenance of these systems. Explores the differences between tropical and temperate coastal systems. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4210 - Methods in Aquatic Ecology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Trains students in field and laboratory techniques used in aquatic ecological research. Two weekend field trips to the Eastern Shore of Virginia serve as the foundation. Laboratory exercises include the data and samples gathered in the barrier island lagoons and in the Chesapeake Bay. Analyzes water quality and patterns of primary and secondary production in aquatic ecosystems. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4230 - Marine Environments and Organisms

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys the major habitats of marine and estuarine areas and the organisms which have adapted to life in these environments. Emphasizes the organisms and communities which have evolved in response to stress and competition in the sea, and the systematics and natural history of marine organisms. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4240 - Restoration Ecology

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
This course examines the science of restoration ecology and the practice of ecological restoration through lectures and in-class discussion. Emphasis is on application of ecological concepts, models, and methodologies to restoration of degraded and impaired ecosystems. The potential for exploiting restoration projects as large-scale ecosystem experiments and the importance of grounding restoration efforts in basic ecological theory are discussed. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent.

Requisites EVSC 3200

Credits: 3

EVSC 4250 - Ecosystem Ecology

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Study of the flows of energy and the cycling of elements in ecosystems and how these concepts connect the various components of the Earth system. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 and one semester of chemistry or instructor permission.

Requisites EVSC 3200

Credits: 3

EVSC 4260 - Ecology of Grasslands and Tundra

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course will emphasize plant community and ecosystem ecology of water-limited grassland systems and energy-limited tundra systems. Various topics will be covered including water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles, primary production, plant physiology, plant competition, and plant-herbivore interactions. We will examine the environmental factors that control these systems, as well as their geographic distribution throughout the globe. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4270 - Soil Science

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Effective Date 03/17/2009
Introduces the study of soils as a natural system. Topics include the fundamentals of soil chemistry, hydrology, and biology with respect to genesis, classification and utilization. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800 and 3200; one year college chemistry or instructor permission.

Credits: 4

EVSC 4290 - Limnology: Inland Water Ecosystems

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
This course will focus on lakes, rivers, streams, and reservoirs as ecosystems. The goal of the course is to provide an understanding through lectures and discussions of the main physical, chemical, and biological processes that determine similarities and differences among inland waters. Major human impacts on inland waters will also be considered. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 with D- and 1 semester of chemistry or instructor permission.

Requisites EVSC 3200

Credits: 3

EVSC 4310 - Organism-Atmosphere Interactions

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Effective Date 01/29/2020
This is an interdisciplinary course introducing undergraduate students to research topics at the interface between atmospheric chemistry and organismal ecology. There is an emphasis on understanding the chemical and biological mechanisms in detail and the timescales of atmospheric lifetime, transport, and biological processes. Readings largely come from the scientific literature from both fields.

Requisites Must have completed EVSC 3200 or BIOL 2200 or CHEM 1420.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4332 - Mountain Meteorology Seminar

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Effective Date 08/01/2009
Mountain Meteorology Seminar

Credits: 2

EVSC 4340 - Human Biometeorology: Weather, Climate and Human Health

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Effective Date 12/21/2016
We will explore how weather and climate impact human health from the individual to the societal level. Topics will include how the human body responds to heat and cold, weather and physiological stress and strain, impacts of poor air quality on human morbidity and mortality, and the role of weather and climate in disease transmission.We will likewise examine extreme weather events at the macro-level & the role of human adaptation to climate. Prerequisites include an introductory course in atmospheric science (EVSC 1300, EVSC 3300, or the equivalent).

Credits: 3

EVSC 4360 - Weather Forecasting

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Effective Date 03/24/2009
This course draws upon the fundamental principles of dynamical and physical meteorology to forecast mid-latitude weather conditions with a focus on the 1-7 day time frame. The class reviews the full suite of modern meteorological observation systems and provides an introduction to numerical weather prediction. Along with lectures/discussions and classroom exercises, forecasting for various locations is a regular part of the course. Prerequisite: EVSC 3300 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4370 - Climate Near the Ground

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Analyzes the principles governing atmospheric processes occurring at small temporal and spatial scales near the Earth’s surface, including energy, mass, and momentum transfer. Includes features of the atmospheric environment affecting plants and feedback mechanisms between plants and their local microclimates, trace gas exchange between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere, energy budgets, evapotranspiration, and motions near the surface. Prerequisite: EVSC 3300 or instructor permission.

Credits: 2

EVSC 4380 - Air Pollution Environmental Justice

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Effective Date 09/21/2021
This is course will introduce undergraduate students to issues in air pollution environmental justice and climate equity from an environmental sciences perspective. Students will consider atmospheric processes and chemical transformations on human scales to identify, describe, and discuss how racism and injustice manifest in the atmosphere.

Requisites EVSC 3300

Credits: 3

EVSC 4390 - Climate Modeling and Analysis

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Effective Date 03/02/2022
This course will introduce students to the numerical, statistical, and computational methods used to model variability and change in Earth’s climate system. The course will provide a conceptual understanding of the physical principles underlying successful Earth system models and teach students mathematical and computational techniques necessary to interpret and analyze model output for a variety of environmental sciences applications.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken EVSC 4559 topic #101 Climate Modeling and Analysis

Credits: 3

EVSC 4452 - Global Climate Variability Seminar

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Effective Date 02/16/2016
This seminar course will review the atmospheric and oceanic processes responsible for large-scale variability and change in Earth’s climate system through readings and discussions of recent peer-reviewed scientific publications.

Requisites EVSC 3300

Credits: 2

EVSC 4460 - Synoptic Meteorology

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Effective Date 12/10/2020
Synoptic meteorology is the study of the weather systems (high- and low-pressure systems, waves in the jet stream, fronts) that impact day-to-day weather. This class will introduce the foundational theories of synoptic meteorology and allow students to practically apply them to case studies of past and current significant weather events, with a particular focus on North American weather systems.

Requisites Students need to have completed EVSC 3300 and can’t enroll if previously taken EVSC 4559 topic #96 Synoptic Meteorology

Credits: 4

EVSC 4470 - Introduction to Climatological Analysis

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Effective Date 03/23/2010
Examination of various techniques for the analysis of climatological data sets at a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Topics include large-scale atmospheric circulation, synoptic climatology, air quality, extreme event analysis, agricultural climatology, climatic water balance, and biometeorology. Prerequisite: EVSC 3300.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4490 - Air Pollution

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This course introduces students to research topics in air pollution, including the ozone hole, tropospheric ozone, aerosol chemistry and physics, atmosphere-biosphere interactions, air pollution regulation and control, health impacts, environmental justice, cook stove emissions, and air toxics. Readings are primarily taken from the recent literature. There is an emphasis on understanding the fundamental chemistry and physics of air pollution.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4542 - Topics in Landscape Evolution

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Effective Date 09/29/2022
This seminar treats topics in the physical processes that shape landscapes. Topics will rotate with each semester, and will initially focus on the Appalachian Mountains and Chesapeake Bay as natural laboratories for studying interrelationships between mountain building, erosion, climate, and sea-level. Lectures & discussions of scientific literature will introduce geologic context, physics and chemistry relevant to particular geomorphic processes.

Requisites EVSC 2800 pre-req

Credits: 1

EVSC 4559 - New Course in Environmental Science

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Effective Date 02/13/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of environmental science.

Credits: 1 to 4

EVSC 4630 - Land-Atmosphere Interaction

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Study of energy, water, and carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the land surface. Prerequisite: Must have completed EVSC 3300 or EVSC 3600

Requisites EVSC 3300 or EVSC 3600

Credits: 3

EVSC 4640 - Water Resources in a Changing World

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This class will explore methods in the analysis and provision of water resources systems, building on principles of hydrologic science, global change, and equity. Our understanding of water as an integral component of human society and environment is rapidly changing with climate and land use change, and the increasing recognition of current and past inequity in water access, and exposure to hazard. Prerequisite: EVSC 3600.

Requisites EVSC 3600

Credits: 4

EVSC 4650 - Water Sustainability

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
In this course we will explore the dimensions of what “sustainability” and “sustainable development” mean in the context of water use and management. We will examine the different ways in which water is used, valued, and governed, examining sustainability through different lenses and perspectives.The course will NOT count for the Math/Science area requirement in the College.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4660 - Hydrological Field Methods and Data Analysis

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Hydrological instruments are introduced; students employ the instruments to make field measurements and perform a range of data analysis exercises. Prerequisite: EVSC 3600.

Requisites EVSC 3600

Credits: 3

EVSC 4670 - Drinking Water Quality

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Effective Date 09/28/2018
This course examines aspects of water quality related to public health with a primary focus on drinking water. Contamination of water by pathogenic microbes is covered, including the historical development of sanitation, modern treatment of drinking water, and how lack of clean drinking water affects populations in developing countries worldwide. Chemical contaminants include metals and organics such as pesticides and endocrine disruptors.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4710 - Environmental Geochemistry

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Effective Date 04/11/2014
This lecture course focuses on the occurrence and distribution of chemical elements and the processes influencing that distribution among the various reservoirs of the Earth-surface environment, including rocks, soil, water, and air. Prerequisite: CHEM 1410 or CHEM 1420 (one semester of college-level chemistry) and EVSC 2800 (one semester of college-level geology)

Credits: 3

EVSC 4810 - Petrology

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Effective Date 05/01/2014
Study of the origin and classification of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Emphasizes rock series and tectonic associations of rock types. Study of thin sections and hand samples in the laboratory. Field experience and laboratories are included. Prerequisite: Required prerequisite course EVSC 2800 or equivalent college-level introductory geology course by transfer credit.

Requisites EVSC 2800 pre-req

Credits: 4

EVSC 4830 - Geological Field Methods in Environmental Sciences

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Effective Date 05/01/2014
This course will integrate lectures, field exercises and trips, and computational techniques to develop solid skills important for Geosciences. Specific projects may include surveying, geologic mapping, soils descriptions, stream and groundwater monitoring, flooding hazards, use of tracers, sampling techniques and various other tools of the trade. Prerequisite: Required prerequisite course EVSC 2800 or equivalent college-level introductory geology course by transfer credit.

Requisites EVSC 2800 pre-req

Credits: 4

EVSC 4840 - Marine Geoscience

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Oceans submerge over 70% of Earth’s surface and hold many clues about major changes in Earth systems over hundreds to millions of years. This course covers the evolution of ocean basins, geological processes that operate in marine environments, marine archives of major Earth system changes, and marine geological resources and hazards.

Requisites Must have completed EVSC 2800 and EVSC 2801

Credits: 4

EVSC 4850 - Coastal Processes

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Reviews wave generation, wave prediction, wave refraction, transformation, shoaling, and associated inshore currents. Topics include the generation of littoral drift and shallow water surge; beach and barrier island geomorphology and problems of erosion. Includes the historical development of research in coastal processes and a quantitative analysis of spatial patterns along sandy coasts. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800; corequisite: EVSC 4851.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4851 - Coastal Processes Laboratory

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Laboratory analysis of sediment, map, and aerial photo data sets. Lab demonstrations with the wave tank and rapid sediment analyzer. Weekly exercises and research projects required. Corequisite: EVSC 4850.

Credits: 1

EVSC 4860 - Geology of Virginia

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Effective Date 05/01/2014
The course examines the geological evolution of the state and mid-Atlantic region in the context of plate tectonics, including stratigraphy, mountain building, metamorphism and deformation, and geomorphic processes. The human impact on this landscape through the exploitation of mineral resources is examined. Field trips to the various provinces of the state will help provide fundamental understanding of the state’s foundation. Prerequisite: Required prerequisite course EVSC 2800 or equivalent college-level introductory geology course by transfer credit.

Requisites EVSC 2800 pre-req

Credits: 3

EVSC 4870 - Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the processes that regulate the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus within and between oceans, continents, and atmosphere. Prerequisite: One semester of college chemistry and one or two of the EVSC core classes.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4890 - Planetary Geology

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Studies the origin and evolution of the solar system, emphasizing the geology of the planets and satellites of the inner solar system and the satellites of the gaseous planets. Compares and contrasts the Earth with Venus and Mars. Prerequisite: Introductory course in geosciences or astronomy.

Credits: 3

EVSC 4891 - Planetary Geology Lab

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Effective Date 04/15/2011
Optional laboratory for EVSC 4890 students that will expose students to sources and types of information about processes and materials on planetary bodies as well as techniques for interpreting and mapping the surface features and geologic history of planetary objects.

Credits: 1

EVSC 4991 - The Theory and Practice of Biodiversity Conservation

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
The goal of this class is to rigorously compare real-life conservation program implementation with the theoretical goals of conservation science. This course is a senior-level offering designed to serve as a capstone class for students enrolled in the Environmental and Biological Conservation Specialization program and will be presented in a seminar format where a theoretical presentation of conservation science within the context is presented. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 (fund. of Ecology) or BIOL 3020 (Evolution and Ecology)

Credits: 2

EVSC 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Specialized topics in ecology, atmosphere, hydrology, environmental geology, or environmental systems not normally covered in formal classes under the direction of the faculty. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 6

EVSC 4995 - Supervised Research

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Original research usually involving a field or laboratory problem in the environmental sciences under the direction of one or more faculty members. The results may form the basis of an undergraduate thesis which is required to partially fulfill the Distinguished Majors Program in environmental sciences. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 6

EVSC 4999 - Thesis Research

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Effective Date 01/08/2015
Provides credit for doing work in pursuit of the undergraduate thesis option for majors in Environmental Science

Credits: 3

Environmental Thought and Practice

Courses

ETP 1559 - New Course in Environmental Thought and Practice

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of environmental thought and practice.

Credits: 1 to 4

ETP 2020 - Global Sustainability

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Effective Date 03/23/2010
Earth’s ecosystems are threatened by accelerated population growth, depletion of natural resources, environmental degradation, and loss of biodiversity. This interdisciplinary course prepares students to understand and lead efforts to address these challenges. It provides foundational knowledge and challenges participants to deepen their understanding by working collaboratively to develop and implement a real-world, local sustainability project.

Credits: 3

ETP 2030 - Politics, Science, & Values: Intro to Environmental Thought and Practice

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
What is our relationship to the environment? Physical, chemical, or biological phenomena can be described by environmental scientists but “problems” are defined by our response to them, contingent on culture, history and values more than measurements. Solving environmental problems lies in the political sphere, but our debates draw on discourses from philosophy, economics and ethics. Explore the basis for environmental thought and practice.

Credits: 3

ETP 2500 - Topics in Environmental Thought and Practice

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Effective Date 03/04/2024
This course explores a range of topics relating to Environmental Thought and Practice. Class descriptions and more information can be found at the ETP web site.

Credits: 1 to 3

ETP 2559 - New Course in Environmental Thought and Practice

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Effective Date 09/07/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of environmental thought and practice.

Credits: 1 to 4

ETP 3500 - Topics in Environmental Thought and Practice

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Effective Date 03/21/2024
This course explores a range of topics relating to Environmental Thought and Practice. Class descriptions and more information can be found at the ETP web site.

Credits: 1 to 3

ETP 3559 - New Course in Environmental Thought and Practice

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Effective Date 10/13/2022
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of environmental thought and practice.

Credits: 1 to 4

ETP 4010 - Environmental Decisions

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
This capstone seminar for the Environmental Thought and Practice major supports students in integrating the broad range of ideas and perspectives they encountered during their course of studies. In addition, students will learn skills and practices for cultivating a strong purpose and for building the resilience and self-knowledge needed to be effective environmental stewards in their chosen future careers. Prerequisite: Declaration of ETP major.

Credits: 3

ETP 4559 - New Course in Environmental Thought and Practice

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of environmental thought and practice.

Credits: 1 to 4

ETP 4693 - The Business of Saving Nature

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Human activities are currently resulting in an unprecedented decline in the biological diversity of our planet. The conversion of natural lands for agriculture and urbanization, together with the alteration of wetlands and aquatic ecosystems, is resulting in the extinction of species that depend on these ecosystems as essential habitat. Recognition of the impacts of human activity on biological diversity has led to a growing international environmental movement to promote the preservation of natural ecosystems. The preservation of biological diversity is dependent on the integration of conservation objectives into the framework of regional economic development, which will require a blending of our scientific and economic understanding about these issues. This course focuses on the scientific and economic issues related to the conservation and preservation of natural ecosystems via an insitutional learning experience.

Credits: 3

ETP 4810 - Class Race & the Environment

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Focuses on the intersections among class, race and the environment. The course goals are to achieve an understanding of central environmental policy issues, to consider what ‘class’ and ‘race’ mean, and to examine the distribution of environmental hazards across people of different classes and races. (Cross listed with PLAP 4810)

Credits: 3

ETP 4995 - Supervised Research

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Effective Date 10/30/2023
Original research usually involving a field or laboratory problem in Environmental Thought and Practice under the direction of one or more faculty members. The results may form the basis of an undergraduate thesis which is required to partially fulfill the Distinguished Majors Program in environmental sciences. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

French

Courses

CREO 1010 - Elementary Creole I

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Development of basic oral expression, listening and reading comprehension, and writing. Prerequisite: No previous formal instruction of French or Creole is required.

Credits: 3

CREO 1020 - Elementary Creole II

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Effective Date 04/05/2016
Development of basic oral expression, listening and reading comprehension, and writing. Prerequisite: CREO 1010.

Requisites CREO 1010

Credits: 3

CREO 1559 - Elementary Creole I

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Effective Date 03/16/2015
Development of basic oral expression, listening and reading comprehension, and writing. Prerequisite: No previous formal instruction of French or Creole is required.

Credits: 3

CREO 2010 - Intermediate Creole I

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Develops the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Creole. Prerequisite: Two previous semesters of Elementary Creole (I and II).

Requisites CREO 1020

Credits: 3

CREO 2020 - Intermediate Creole II

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Develops the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Creole. Prerequisite: Three previous semesters of Creole required (1010, 1020, 2010)

Requisites CREO 2010

Credits: 3

CREO 2559 - Intermediate Creole I

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Effective Date 03/16/2015
Develops the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Creole. Prerequisite: Two previous semesters of Elementary Creole (I and II).

Credits: 3

FREN 116 - Intensive Introductory French

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for FREN 1016.

Credits: 0

FREN 150 - Special Topics in French

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Effective Date 05/01/2020
Special Topics in French.

Credits: 0

FREN 216 - Intensive Intermediate French

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for FREN 2016.

Credits: 0

FREN 1000 - Reading

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Reading

Credits: 0

FREN 1010 - Elementary French I

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Development of basic oral expression, listening and reading comprehension, and writing. Language laboratory work is required. Followed by FREN 1020. Prerequisite: Limited or no previous formal instruction in French.

Credits: 4

FREN 1020 - Elementary French II

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Designed for students with an elementary knowledge of French. Further develops the skills of speaking, listening, comprehension, reading, and writing. Language laboratory work is required. Followed by FREN 2010. Prerequisite: FREN 1010 or one or two years of previous formal instruction in French and appropriate SAT score.

Credits: 4

FREN 1050 - Accelerated Elementary French

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Reviews basic oral expression, listening, reading comprehension, and writing. Covers the material in the FREN 1010-1020 text in one semester at an accelerated pace. Language lab required followed by FREN 2010. Prerequisite: Previous background in French (more than two years of French in secondary school) and an achievement test score below 540 or a placement score below 378, or permission of the department.

Credits: 4

FREN 1559 - New Course in French Literature and General Linguistics

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Effective Date 08/25/2014
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of French literature and general linguistics.

Credits: 1 to 4

FREN 2010 - Intermediate French I

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Develops the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Focuses on reading skill development through readings on contemporary Francophone culture and short stories. Followed by FREN 2020. Prerequisite: FREN 1020 or one to three years of formal instruction in French and appropriate SAT score.

Credits: 3

FREN 2020 - Intermediate French II

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Designed for continued development of the four skills at an advanced level. Readings emphasize contemporary Francophone culture and include a modern French play. Prerequisite: FREN 2010 or one to three years of formal instruction in French and appropriate SAT score.

Credits: 3

FREN 2320 - Intensive Intermediate French

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This in-depth, intermediate-level course is recommended for students whose placement scores nearly exempt them from FREN 2020, and for any students who wish to refine and expand their mastery of French grammar before taking 3000-level courses. Students who have completed FREN 2020 may take 2320 as an elective to fine-tune their language skills. Prerequisite: Appropriate placement score (into 2020/2320) or departmental permission.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken FREN 2010

Credits: 3

FREN 2559 - New Course in French Literature and General Linguistics

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of French literature and general linguistics.

Credits: 1 to 4

FREN 3010 - Oral and Written Expression in French

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Improves student’s command of present-day spoken French. Includes conversation on topics of current interest, advanced vocabulary, some individualized writing practice. Limited enrollment. May not be used for major or minor credit Prerequisite: FREN 2320 or equivalent; instructor permission for those who completed only FREN 2020; students who completed FREN 3032 are excluded and must take FREN 3034.

Credits: 3

FREN 3028 - Language House Conversation

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Effective Date 11/06/2014
For students residing in the French House.

Credits: 1

FREN 3029 - Language House Conversation

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Effective Date 11/06/2014
For students residing in the French House.

Credits: 1

FREN 3030 - Phonetics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Reviews pronunciation, phonetics, and phonology for undergraduates. Prerequisite: FREN 2020 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

FREN 3031 - Finding Your Voice in French

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Effective Date 08/22/2016
In this course, students explore and develop their own “voice” in written and spoken French. Through reading and viewing a variety of cultural artifacts in French, and completing a series of individual and collaborative creative projects, students will improve their skills in grammar, communication, self-expression and editing. Prerequisite: FREN 2020, 2320, or the equivalent, or appropriate AP, F-CAPE, or SAT score.

Credits: 3

FREN 3032 - Text, Image, Culture

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Effective Date 08/22/2016
In this course, students will discover and engage critically with a broad sampling of French and Francophone cultural production representing a variety of periods, genres, approaches, and media. Students will read, view, write about and discuss a range of works that may include poetry, painting, prose, music, theater, films, graphic novels, photographs, essays, and historical documents. Prerequisite: FREN 3031.

Requisites FREN 3031

Credits: 3

FREN 3034 - Advanced Oral Expression in French

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
A focus on speaking, listening, and pronunciation. Activities include guided conversation practice, discussion leading, and other oral activities related to authentic materials in French. Work may include quizzes, presentations, reports, interviews, exams , and projects. Prerequisite: FREN 3031 or concurrent enrollment in FREN 3031. Not intended for students who are native speakers of French or whose secondary education was in French schools.

Requisites FREN 3031 prereq/coreq

Credits: 3

FREN 3035 - Business French

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Effective Date 04/03/2015
In this course, students will learn about the major industries, organizational structures, and the primary positions within French and francophone businesses. They will gain experience in business research, will hone their oral and written French for use in a business-setting, will have practice job interviews, and will learn the practical aspects of living and working in French. Prerequisite: FREN 3031 and 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 3036 - Introduction to Translation

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Effective Date 12/12/2018
This course will provide a practical and theoretical introduction to methods of translation from French to English and from English to French. Topics covered may include an introduction to translation studies, application of translation tools and practices, grammar review, and cross-cultural analysis of a variety of both literary and non-literary texts. Pre-requisite: FREN 2020 or FREN 2320 or equivalent placement.

Requisites Students must have taken FREN 2020 or FREN 2320

Credits: 3

FREN 3037 - French for Global Development and Humanitarian Action

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Effective Date 09/24/2021
Designed for students seeking to develop advanced linguistic skills in oral and written French and cultural competence in preparation for careers related to global development and humanitarian action. Discussions and assignments revolve around case studies and simulated professional situations drawn from real-life global development and humanitarian aid initiatives in the francophone world.

Requisites FREN 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 3041 - The French-Speaking World I: Origins

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Survey of writing in French from the beginnings (880) to 1600. Explores various movements and trends in early French literary and cultural history; readings in modern French. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3042 - The French-Speaking World II: Expansion

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Survey of writing in French from 1600 to 1800. Explores various movements and trends in French literary and cultural history of the classical period and the enlightenment. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3043 - The French-Speaking World III: Modernities

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Survey of writing in French from 1800 to the present. Explores various movements and trends in French literary and cultural history of the modern and contemporary periods. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3046 - African Literatures and Cultures

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduction to African cultural studies. Languages and educational policies. Oral traditions: myths, epic narratives, poetry, folktales in French translation. Modern African-language literatures. Francophone literature. Representations of the postcolonial state in contemporary arts: painting, sculpture, music, and cinema. Museums and the representation of African cultures. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3048 - Filmmaking in French: An Introductory Workshop

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Effective Date 02/01/2022
This workshop, taught in French, introduces students to the basics of film as a visual and narrative medium. Students will master both theoretical and practical skills through writing, directing, shooting and editing their own film. Students will bring fresh materials and ideas, and workshop the script as in a “writers room” situation. A hands-on class, students will learn to use the camera, lighting, sound recording, and editing software.

Requisites Students need to have taken FREN 3032 and can’t enroll if previously taken FREN 3559 topic #14 Filmmaking in French.

Credits: 3

FREN 3050 - History and Civilization of France: Middle Ages to Revolution

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
The social, political, economic, philosophical, and artistic developments in France from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3051 - History and Civilization of France: Revolution to 1945

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
The social, political, economic, philosophical, and artistic developments in France from the Revolution until 1945. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3509 - Topics in French Linguistics

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
This course will include topics such as French outside France; regional French varieties; Romance dialectology; French socio-linguistics. Prerequisite: FREN 3031 and 3030.

Credits: 3

FREN 3553 - J-Term in Paris

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Effective Date 10/21/2022
January Term study abroad course conducted on-site in Paris. Readings in literature, ethnography, history, and urban studies, along with discussions of photographs, paintings, and films, will inform daily walking tours and site visits. Specific topics may vary. Course taught in French. Prerequisite: FREN 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 3559 - New Course in French and Francophone Cultural Topics

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Effective Date 10/21/2022
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of French and Francophone culture.

Credits: 1 to 4

FREN 3560 - Topics in Lyon

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Effective Date 04/11/2023
Lyon Topics courses in French may cover a variety of subjects.

Credits: 1 to 4

FREN 3560 - Topics in Lyon

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Effective Date 09/01/2023
Lyon Topics courses in French may cover a variety of subjects.

Credits: 1 to 4

FREN 3570 - Topics in Francophone African Studies

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Effective Date 10/16/2014
This course addresses various aspects of Francophone African Culture including , oral traditions, literature, theatre, cinema, and contemporary music and visual arts. Prerequisites: FREN 3031 & 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 3584 - Topics in French Cinema

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Effective Date 09/26/2022
Studies topics relating to concepts of film structure, history, and criticism in French and within the French tradition. Topics offered include Introduction to Cinema and Texte ecrit/texte filmique. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3585 - Topics in Cultural Studies

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Effective Date 04/01/2024
Interdisciplinary seminar in French and Francophone culture and society. Topics vary annually and may include literature and history, cinema and society, and cultural anthropology. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 1 to 4

FREN 3652 - Modern Paris

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
An examination of the complex and changing urban landscape and its relationship to society as revealed in the literary and artistic output of the time. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 3675 - Museums and Cultural Representation in Quebec

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Effective Date 04/12/2016
In this J-term course, we visit museums in Montreal and Quebec City to examine the politics of cultural representation, asking how various kinds of group identity are exhibited in art, history, and anthropology museums. Daily museum visits are accompanied by readings and lectures.

Credits: 3

FREN 3680 - Choix Goncourt Book Club

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Effective Date 11/20/2023
In this one-credit seminar students participate in the Choix Goncourt USA book prize selection process. Each week we will read, discuss, assess, and analyze the year’s short list of Choix Goncourt nominees. UVa student representatives will join the prize jury for deliberations and an award ceremony in New York at the end of the semester. Discussions with authors are also usually planned.

Credits: 1

FREN 3747 - Francophone Literature & Culture

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Explores representative works of major Moroccan francophone authors in their cultural context. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 4020 - History of the French Language

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys the main currents of the French language in its development from the earliest to present times. Taught in French. Prerequisite: FREN 3030 or the equivalent or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

FREN 4031 - Writing With Style and Precision

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
In this grammar review course, students will learn how best to structure the French language and how to express themselves with concision and clarity. They will work to improve their writing in French by analyzing model texts and through frequent composition and revision. Aspects of grammar will be studied systematically – tense use, the subjunctive, participles, etc. – and in response to topics that emerge through the writing process.

Requisites FREN 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 4035 - Tools and Techniques of Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Written and oral translation exercises to and from the target language. Prerequisite: B+ average in FREN 3031, 3032, 4031.

Credits: 3

FREN 4110 - Medieval Saints’ Lives

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Effective Date 11/12/2013
One of the most popular forms of entertainment, combining exciting themes (transvestism, marvelous journeys, spectacular sins, helpful animals) with edgy commentaries on hot topics (virginity vs. marriage, parent-child conflicts), saints’ Lives offer a view of their culture’s theological concerns, secular interests, and the quest of both ecclesiastical and lay people to fulfill their spiritual and terrestrial responsibilities.

Requisites FREN 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 4123 - Medieval Love

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Effective Date 09/26/2014
Love fascinated people in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as it still does today. This course will examine understandings and uses of love in religious and secular literature, music and art. What is the relationship, for medieval writers, between the love of God and the love of human beings? What is the role of poetry in promoting and producing love? What medieval ideas about love continue to shape our modern understandings and assumption Prerequisite: FREN 3032

Requisites FREN 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 4237 - The Culture of Renaissance Lyon

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
A study of the cultural history of the city of Lyon, France, in the sixteenth century. Prerequisite: FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 4410 - The Enlightenment

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Effective Date 02/25/2015
The Enlightenment laid the foundations for our current conceptions of democratic government, religious toleration, freedom of speech, and the scientific method. The readings for this course may include works by Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau. Prerequisite: FREN 3032

Requisites FREN 3032

Credits: 3

FREN 4509 - Seminar in French Linguistics

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Effective Date 03/10/2022
Topics of specific interest to faculty and advanced undergraduate students. Prerequisite: FREN 3030, 3031, and one 4000-level course in French.

Credits: 3

FREN 4510 - Advanced Topics in Medieval Literature

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Topics may vary and include individual identity, love, war, humor, and their expression through literary techniques. Texts are read in modern French translation. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one FREN course numbered 3041 to 3043 (or instructor permission).

Credits: 3

FREN 4520 - Advanced Topics in Renaissance Literature

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Effective Date 02/21/2011
Examines major works of sixteenth-century French literature situated in the larger historical and cultural context of the Continental Renaissance. Topics vary and may include, for example, humanism and reform, women writers, and urban culture. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one FREN course numbered 3041 to 3043 (or instructor permission).

Credits: 3

FREN 4530 - Advanced Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature

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Effective Date 11/28/2011
Topics vary; may be repeated for credit. Recent topics have included classical theatre; poetics of the lyric; moralists; and fiction. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one FREN course numbered 3041 to 3043 (or instructor permission).

Credits: 3

FREN 4540 - Advanced Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature

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Effective Date 02/06/2015
Topics in eighteenth-century French literature. Works of authors such as Beaumarchais, de Charriere, du Deffand, Diderot, Marivaux, Montesquieu, Rousseau, de Stael, Voltaire. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one FREN course numbered 3041 to 3043 (or instructor permission).

Credits: 3

FREN 4546 - Topics on Moroccan Civilization

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Effective Date 05/01/2010
The course relates to Morocco. It treats the history as well as contemporary Morocco with its social, economic and political components.

Credits: 3

FREN 4547 - Moroccan Francophone Literature

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Effective Date 05/01/2010
The French-speaking Moroccan literature found its roots in Africa or it was born, in Europe through the language of colonization, in arabo-Andalusian Spain, and with the Middle-East through the Muslim civilization. This course proposes an analysis of texts which will approach the topics of the identity, exiles, the language of writing and other topics for a better comprehension of Morocco.

Credits: 3

FREN 4559 - New Course in French Literature and General Linguistics

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of French literature and general linguistics.

Credits: 1 to 4

FREN 4560 - Advanced Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature

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Effective Date 03/13/2012
Study of the various aspects of the nineteenth-century French literature. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one FREN course numbered 3041 to 3043 (or instructor permission).

Credits: 3

FREN 4570 - Advanced Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature

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Effective Date 11/14/2011
Readings of significant literary works of the twentieth century. The genre, theme and specific chronological concentration will vary. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one course in the 3040 sequence.

Credits: 3

FREN 4580 - Advanced Topics in Literature

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Advanced study of transhistorical topics such as literary ideas, the novel, theater, travel literature. Prerequisite: At least one 3000-level literature course.

Credits: 3

FREN 4581 - Advanced Topics in Francophone Literature

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Effective Date 04/26/2011
Topics may include historical writings and rewritings, single authors, the oral tradition, theater, the novel, poetry.

Credits: 3

FREN 4582 - Advanced Topics in French Poetry

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Effective Date 02/03/2015
Aspects of French poetry. Topics vary and may range from general survey to studies of specific periods or authors; may be repeated for credit for different topics. Prerequisite: At least one literature or culture course beyond FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 4583 - Seminar for Majors

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Effective Date 02/12/2013
Close study of a specific topic in French literature. Topics vary. Prerequisite: Completion of a 4000-level literature course with a grade of B- or better.

Credits: 3

FREN 4584 - Advanced Topics in French Cinema

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Effective Date 05/29/2012
Advanced seminar in French and Francophone cinema. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit for different topics. Prerequisites: FREN 3032 and 3584, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

FREN 4585 - Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies

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Effective Date 04/01/2024
Advanced seminar in French and Francophone literature and culture. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit for different topics. Prerequisite: At least one literature or culture course beyond FREN 3032.

Credits: 3

FREN 4586 - Topics in Literature and Film

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Effective Date 02/12/2013
Studies the relation between three or four French films and their sources in French literature and culture. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and FREN 3584, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

FREN 4743 - Africa in Cinema

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Study of the representation of Africa in American, Western European and African films. Ideological Constructions of the African as ‘other’. Exoticism in cinema. History of African cinema. Economic issues in African cinema: production, distribution, and the role of African film festivals. The socio-political context. Women in African cinema. Aesthetic problems: themes and narrative styles. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and FREN 3584 or another 3000-level literature course in French.

Credits: 3

FREN 4744 - The Occupation and After

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
After an initial examination of the political and social conditions in France under the Nazi regime during World War II, this seminar explores the enduring legacy of those “Dark Years” by investigating how the complex (and traumatic) history of the Occupation has impacted French culture during the last half of the twentieth century and into the twenty first. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and another FREN course beyond 3034.

Requisites FREN 3032 and another FREN course beyond 3034.

Credits: 3

FREN 4750 - From Literature to Film: Screening “Dangerous Liaisons”

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Effective Date 03/25/2016
We will explore the international dissemination, through filmic adaptations, of a single literary work written at the end of the 18th century: Laclos’ famous novel “Les Liaisons dangereuses”. After examining the novel itself and its significance in the context of pre-revolutionary France, we will study several movies shot between 1960 and 2012 by directors from China, Korea, Czechoslovakia, France, Great-Britain and the USA.

Credits: 3

FREN 4811 - Francophone Literature of Africa

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Effective Date 03/31/2009
Surveys the literary tradition in French, emphasizing post-World War II poets, novelists, and playwrights. Examines the role of cultural reviews in the development of this literary tradition. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and at least one FREN course numbered 3041 to 3043 (or instructor permission).

Credits: 3

FREN 4813 - Introduction to the Francophone Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti)

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Focuses on the literature, culture and arts of the Francophone Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti). Issues of colonialism and postcolonialism, slavery and freedom, exile and immigration, race and gender will be examined through poetry, novels, storytelling, theater, music and film analysis. Prerequisite: A 3000-level French literature course

Credits: 3

FREN 4838 - French Society and Civilization

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Effective Date 03/31/2009
Discusses political institutions and social problems based upon readings in recent publications and an analysis of current events. Prerequisite: FREN 3032 and another FREN course beyond 3034.

Credits: 3

FREN 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 05/01/2019
Normally, only French majors may enroll in this course and only by written permission from the department chair prior to the end of the first week of classes.

Credits: 1 to 3

FREN 4998 - Pre-Thesis Tutorial

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Preliminary research for thesis. Prerequisite: Admission to the Distinguished Majors Program.

Credits: 3

FREN 4999 - Thesis

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Composition and defense of thesis. Prerequisite: FREN 4998 and good standing in the Distinguished Majors Program. Note: The prerequisite to all 5000-level literature courses is two 4000-level literature courses with an average grade of B, or the instructor’s permission.

Credits: 3

FRTR 2510 - Topics in Medieval Literature

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Effective Date 10/10/2012
An introduction to the culture of the High Middle Ages in France. Topics vary and may include love literature, family relations, war, and science and religion. May be repeated for credit for different topics.

Credits: 3

FRTR 2552 - French Culture (subtitle will be added to reflect chosen topic)

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Effective Date 10/18/2018
Course will offer a transhistoric and interdisciplinary approach to French culture through the lens of a given theme (e.g., food, travel, politics, societies and institutions). Lectures, readings and exams in English.

Credits: 3

FRTR 2553 - J-Term in Paris

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Effective Date 10/21/2022
January Term study abroad course conducted on-site in Paris. Readings in literature, ethnography, history, and urban studies, along with discussions of photographs, paintings, and films, will inform daily walking tours and site visits. Specific topics may vary. Course taught in English.

Credits: 3

FRTR 2579 - Contemporary Caribbean Culture

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Comparative examination of contemporary culture in the Caribbean region with an emphasis on literature. Considers historical writing (essays), musical forms, and film as manifestations of the process of creolization in the area. Questions of ethnic diversity and nation-building are central to the course.

Credits: 3

FRTR 2580 - Topics in French and Francophone Culture

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Effective Date 04/19/2023
Introduces the interdisciplinary study of culture in France or other French-speaking countries. Topics vary from year to year, and may include cuisine and national identity; literature and history; and contemporary society and cultural change. Taught by one or several professors in the French department.

Credits: 3

FRTR 2850 - French Thought

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
A study of major French non-fiction from the Renaissance until today, including essays, discourses, sermons, autobiographies, and editorials, within the historical circumstances of production and reception and with respect to thematic and formal qualities. Class and all readings are in English. This course does not count toward the major or minor in French.

Credits: 3

FRTR 3559 - New Course French Cultural Topics

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Effective Date 09/20/2022
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in French Culture in translation.

Credits: 1 to 4

FRTR 3584 - Topics in French Cinema

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Effective Date 02/18/2016
Studies topics relating to concepts of film structure, history, and criticism in French and within the French tradition. Topics offered include Introduction to French Cinema and Written Text/Film Text.

Credits: 3

FRTR 3814 - Gender, Sexuality, Identity in Premodern France

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Effective Date 10/28/2016
This course will explore religious, social, scientific and legal views on gender, sexuality and identity that may extend from medieval through early modern Europe with an emphasis on the French tradition. Readings will include literary texts and cultural documents as well as current scholarship on questions of sexuality, gender, and identity politics.

Credits: 3

FRTR 4540 - The International Enlightenment

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
The Enlightenment laid the foundations for our current conceptions of democratic government, religious toleration, freedom of speech, and the scientific method. The readings for this course may include texts by on works by Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Jefferson, and Kant .

Credits: 3

FRTR 4559 - New Course in French in Translation

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Effective Date 05/20/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of French in Translation.

Credits: 1 to 4

German

Courses

GERM 116 - Intensive Introductory German

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
This is the non-credit option for GERM 1016.

Credits: 0

GERM 126 - Intensive Introductory German

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
This is the non-credit option for GERM 1026.

Credits: 0

GERM 226 - Intensive Intermediate German

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
This is the non-credit option for GERM 2026.

Credits: 0

GERM 1010 - Elementary German I

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Effective Date 08/23/2024
Introduces the essentials of German structure and syntax; emphasizes oral and written proficiency in German. Followed by GERM 1020.

Credits: 4

GERM 1015 - German for Reading Knowledge

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
For graduate students requiring reading knowledge of German. Open to 4th year undergraduates, but does not count toward fulfillment of the language requirement. Please note: graduate students may enroll for C/NC or as auditors. However, graduates must enroll via the GSAS Office, rather than on SIS. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

GERM 1020 - Elementary German II

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Effective Date 08/23/2024
Designed for students with an elementary knowledge of German. Further develops the skills of speaking, listening, comprehension, reading, and writing. Followed by GERM 2010. Prerequisite: GERM 1010 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

GERM 1025 - Reading Course in German

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
For Graduate of Arts and Sciences students who want a reading knowledge of German for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Open to 3rd and 4th year undergraduates, but does not count toward fulfillment of the language requirement or permit admission to German courses with a spoken component.

Credits: 3

GERM 1110 - Accelerated German I

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Introduces basic skills in listening, speaking, writing and reading at an accelerated pace. Introduces essential elements of German grammar and syntax. Develops basic knowledge of contemporary German-speaking world. Five class sessions. Language laboratory required. With instructor permission, students may continue in the accelerated track and enroll in GERM 2120 or switch to the non-accelerated track and continue with GERM 2010.

Credits: 4

GERM 1559 - New Course in German

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German.

Credits: 1 to 4

GERM 2010 - Intermediate German I

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Effective Date 08/23/2024
Increases accuracy and fluency through authentic literary and cultural materials with a focus on reading. Reviews essentials of German grammar and syntax. Exposes students to a wide variety of topics relating to contemporary Germany. Prerequisite: GERM 1020, or equivalent.

Credits: 3

GERM 2020 - Intermediate German II

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Builds upon skills developed in GERM 2010. Continues the review of grammar. Continues to expose students to a wide variety of topics relating to contemporary Germany. Prerequisite: GERM 2010, or equivalent.

Credits: 3

GERM 2050 - German Express

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Intensive intermediate course in German language. The course teaches all four language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening comprehension), covering the same material as GERM 2010-2020, including a component in German culture. German Express allows students to acquire language skills at an accelerated pace, preparing them for advanced courses (300-level and above) and study abroad in German-speaking countries. Prerequisite: GERM 1020.

Credits: 4

GERM 2120 - Accelerated German II

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Covers the material of intermediate German. Builds upon skills developed in GERM 1110 and1020. Continues review of grammar exposes students to a variety of topics relating to contemporary Germany. Internet news and cultural programming in the classroom. Language laboratory required. Prerequisite: GERM 1110, GERM 1020, or instructor permission. With instructor permission, students may enroll directly in 3000-level courses after GERM 2120.

Credits: 4

GERM 2525 - Intermediate German, Topics

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
Builds upon GERM 2010 and is equivalent to GERM 2020. Develops the four essential skills in language learning (listening, speaking, reading, writing) on the basis of a theme-based approach that may be project-oriented. Topics vary per semester and instructor. Pre-requisites: GERM 2010 or equivalent.

Requisites GERM 2010 preq

Credits: 3

GERM 2559 - New Course in German

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German.

Credits: 1 to 4

GERM 3000 - Advanced German

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This course builds on the first and second year German sequence and seeks to increase students’ level of competence in both grammar and vocabulary. Students will produce more accurate and complex language and begin to discuss a diverse range of topics in German culture. Grammatical accuracy will be a central focus but also register, appropriacy, and fluency. Prerequisite: GERM 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission

Credits: 3

GERM 3010 - Texts and Interpretations

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Employing a broad definition of text, this course allows students to develop a complex understanding of the relationship between meaning and linguistic form. Course readings may include poems, novels, films, historical documents, letters, memoirs etc. Specific grammatical topics will be addressed on the basis of the given material. This course is the prerequisite for all GERM 3000- level courses. Prerequisite: GERM 2020 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

GERM 3110 - Literature in German II

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
German literature from 1890 to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3120 - Literature in German I

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
German literature from 1750 to 1890. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3220 - German Drama: Stage Production

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Interprets and stages a representative play in German with students as actors and producers. May be taken more than once for credit, but only once for major credit. Prerequisite: GERM 2020 or comparable language proficiency.

Credits: 1 to 3

GERM 3230 - Contemporary German: Writing and Speaking

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Using mentor texts based on digital cultural programming, students focus on a range of topics of culture and civilization in the contemporary German-speaking world. Beyond cultural competence, the writing assignments test command of mature grammatical structures, contemporary language, advanced idioms, and punctuation. The goal, following Goethe Institute guidelines, is to write comprehensive texts on a range topics. Prerequisite: GERM 3000.

Credits: 3

GERM 3240 - Contemporary German: Writing and Speaking II

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Designed to expand and refine German writing skills, this course assumes mastery of the German language sufficient to write with progressive length and complexity. Using mentor texts based on digital cultural programming, the course focuses on contemporary issues related to the culture of German-speaking lands. The writing assignments test command of cultural competence, mature grammatical structures, advanced idioms, and punctuation. Prerequisite: GERM 3230 or Instructor Permission.

Credits: 3

GERM 3250 - German for Professionals

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Effective Date 03/23/2010
Prepares students to communicate and interact effectively in the business environment of German-speaking countries. Emphasis is placed on practical, career-usable competence. Prerequisite: GERM 3000 or equivalent

Credits: 3

GERM 3260 - German for Professionals

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Effective Date 03/23/2010
Continuation of GERM 3250. Prerequisite: GERM 3250.

Credits: 3

GERM 3290 - German Studies Roundtable

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
One-credit conversation on current themes. May be taken more than once for credit, but only once for major credit. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 1

GERM 3300 - Language House Conversation

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
For students residing in the German group in Shea House. May be taken more than once for credit. Departmental approval needed if considered for major credit. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1

GERM 3340 - German and Austrian Culture, ca. 1900

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies literature, the arts, politics, and social developments between 1870 and 1918. Prerequisite: GERM 3010 or 3230.

Credits: 3

GERM 3350 - Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies German life between 1918 and 1945. Prerequisite: GERM 3010 or 3230.

Credits: 3

GERM 3510 - Topics in German Culture

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Effective Date 03/10/2021
Studies selected aspects of German culture, such as opera. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: GERM 3010 or 3230.

Credits: 3

GERM 3515 - Postwar German Culture

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Readings in the cultural, social, and political histories of the German-speaking countries since 1945. Prerequisite: GERM 3010 or 3230.

Credits: 3

GERM 3526 - Topics in Business German:

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Effective Date 10/30/2016
Interdisciplinary seminar in German business. Topics vary annually and may include: green business practices, business ethics, the European Union, or the challenges of globalization. Taught in German. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses. Prerequisites: GERM 3000.

Credits: 3

GERM 3559 - New Course in German

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Effective Date 03/02/2022
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German.

Credits: 1 to 4

GERM 3590 - Topics in German Literature

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Effective Date 10/20/2017
Seminar in German literature. May be repeated for credit. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3610 - Lyric Poetry

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Major forms and themes in German lyric poetry. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3620 - New Voices in German: Transnational and Multilingual Literature Today

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Effective Date 05/01/2023
In ?New Voices in German? we will explore a selection of contemporary prose works and ask how these works critically engage with Germany?s multilingual and transnational literary landscape. Readings include works by Fatma Aydemir, Katja Petrowskaja, Khue Ph?m, Sasa Stanisi?, Sharon Dodua Otoo, and others. GERM 3620 is conducted in German. Prerequisite is GERM 3010 or Instructor Permission.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken GERM 3559 #9 New Voices in German

Credits: 3

GERM 3660 - Romanticism

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
German literature from 1800 to 1830 and its influence. Prerequisite: GERM 3010.

Credits: 3

GERM 3993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 01/31/2023
Generic course to be used when students are taking independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 1 to 4

GERM 4450 - Advanced Composition and Conversation

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
This is the capstone course for German language skills. Using digital mentor texts, students focus on a contemporary issues in German-speaking lands, to compose writing assignments that test mature language structures (including idiomatic expressions) and specialized vocabularies. The goal, following Goethe Institute guidelines, is to attain the ability to write in context and in the appropriate stylistic register. Prerequisite: GERM 3240 or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

GERM 4559 - New Course in German

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German.

Credits: 1 to 4

GERM 4600 - Fourth-Year Seminar

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Literary analysis for advanced students. Prerequisite: GERM 3010 and other literature courses.

Credits: 3

GERM 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 06/18/2013
Prerequisite: Approval by a supervising faculty member.

Credits: 1 to 3

GERM 4995 - Honors Research and Thesis

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Prerequisite: Admission to the DMP, permission of undergraduate advisor and a supervising faculty member.

Credits: 6

GERM 4998 - Honors Research and Thesis

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
This is the first semester of the year-long DMP thesis. Students who enroll in it will only receive a grade when the complete its sequel, GERM 4999, at which point they will receive 6 credits. Prerequisite: Admission to the DMP, permission of undergraduate advisor and a supervising faculty member.

Credits: 0

GERM 4999 - Honors Research and Thesis

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
This is the second semester of the year-long DMP thesis. Students should enroll in this course only if they have completed GERM 4998, and must enroll in GERM 4999 to receive credit for GERM 4998. Prerequisite: Admission to the DMP, permission of undergraduate advisor and a supervising faculty member; GERM 4998.

Credits: 6

GETR 1559 - New Course in German in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German in translation.

Credits: 1 to 4

GETR 2559 - New Course in German in Translation

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Effective Date 02/05/2020
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German in translation.

Credits: 1 to 4

GETR 2770 - Germany: Past and Present

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
What does it mean for a country to confront its past, define its present, and imagine its future? This course will introduce you to modern German history and culture by looking at the interaction between culture and memory. We will approach the cities of Berlin and Weimar not just as a collection of streets and buildings, but as multi-layered cultural and historical texts. On-site visits will combine lectures with active student participation.

Credits: 3

GETR 3330 - Introduction to German Studies

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
A survey of German cultural history from the enlightenment to the present, and an introduction to the field of German Studies. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses. .

Credits: 3

GETR 3352 - Modern German History

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This class studies key aspects of German history, including the origins of Nazi ideology, colonialism, war and genocide; the Cold War and its legacies; European Integration and it’s challenges; the resurgence of far-right and new-fascist politics and movements, as well as Germany’s ongoing efforts to come to terms with the Holocaust.

Credits: 3

GETR 3372 - German Jewish Culture and History

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
This course provides a wide-ranging exploaration of the history, culture, and thought of German-speaking Jewry from 1750 to the present. It focuses on the Jewish response to modernity in Central Europe and lasting transformations in Jewish life. We read the works of such figures as Moses Mendelssohn, Rachel Varnhagen, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Theordor Herzl, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, and Inge Deutschkron.

Credits: 3

GETR 3380 - Jewish Humor

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Effective Date 11/12/2013
Are Jews funny? Many people think so. Humor has certainly played an important role in Jewish life. This course examines the character and function of Jewish humor in Germany and the rest of Europe, the United States, and Israel. One goal of the course is to show how humor has been used in these Jewish communities to highlight the desires, needs, and frustrations of ordinary Jews.

Credits: 3

GETR 3385 - Kafka’s Short Works: The Quest for Materiality

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Effective Date 03/26/2024
Students will read and discuss the most important short works of Kafka, with an ultimate focus on the problem of the self and the idea of materiality. Short readings from other literatures and other disciplines are included in order to provide historical context and interpretive parallels. Method will be discussion rather than lecture. Two papers required.

Credits: 3

GETR 3390 - Nazi Germany

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Effective Date 10/16/2012
Detailed survey of the historical origins, political structures, cultural dynamics, and every-day practices of the Nazi Third Reich. Cross-listed in the history department. Taught in English.

Credits: 3

GETR 3391 - The Idea of the University

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Effective Date 12/08/2011
This course considers how some of our contemporary questions about higher education were first formulated in early 19th-century Germany. We will also consider how these questions were taken up by Thomas Jefferson and the founding of the University of Virginia. Some of our more particular questions will include: What is the relation between the university and the state or society more broadly speaking? What is the relationship between teaching and

Credits: 3

GETR 3392 - Fairy Tales

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Effective Date 04/22/2019
Entering the world of fairy tales often feels like passing into an elaborate dream: it is a world teeming with sorcerers, dwarves, wondrous objects, and animals that speak. This seminar explores fairy tales and dream narratives in literature and film from the romantic period into the present. Authors to be discussed include: Goethe, the brothers Grimm, Bettelheim, Hoffmann, Freud, Saint-Exupery, Tolkien, and others.

Credits: 3

GETR 3393 - Serial Media

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Effective Date 11/02/2020
In this class we will explore the historical context of serial media, from the journal projects of the German Romantics to the second golden age of television. After a historical survey and a discussion of terminology (“series,” “serial”) we will examine certain specific “series” including Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers, Marcel Duchamp’s Ready-mades, or the German Netflix show “Dark.”

Credits: 3

GETR 3400 - German Intellectual History from Leibniz to Hegel

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Reading and discussion of central theoretical texts in the German tradition 1700-1810, including works by Leibniz, Herder, Lessing, Kant, Schiller, Fichte, and Hegel.

Credits: 3

GETR 3410 - Nietzsche and Modern Literature

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Reading and thorough discussion of the major works of Nietzsche, in English translation, from the Birth of Tragedy to Twilight of the Idols. Emphasizes the impact of Nietzsche on 20th-century literature and thought in such diverse authors as Shaw, Rilke, Thomas Mann, and Kafka. A term paper submitted in two stages and a final examination.

Credits: 3

GETR 3420 - German Intellectual History From Nietzsche to the Present

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Readings in philosophical and social history of Germany from the late 19th century onward.

Credits: 3

GETR 3462 - Neighbors and Enemies

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
Explores the friend/foe nexus in German history, literature and culture, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

GETR 3464 - Medieval Stories of Love and Adventure

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This course traces the lineage and shapes of the Arthurian legend as witnessed in medieval literature and modern adaptations, including film and television (“Games of Thrones,” “Star Wars,” etc.) The aim is familiarity with the story of King Arthur and his court, as well as an ability to appreciate the permutations of the legend in all forms of media.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken GETR 3590 topic #57 Stories of Love and Adventure

Credits: 3

GETR 3470 - Writing and Screening the Holocaust

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Effective Date 01/01/2025
Introduces the most significant texts and films dealing with the Holocaust and surveys important philosophical and historical reflections on the meaning of the Holocaust. Meets second writing requirement.

Credits: 3

GETR 3471 - Weimar Cinema

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Effective Date 11/03/2020
This course explores the film culture of the Weimar period (1918-1933). Rife with ambition, experimentation, and sometimes disastrous failure, Weimar cinema forces us to confront fundamental questions of how moving images work, what they can do, and how they relate to the sociopolitical conditions that produce them.

Credits: 3

GETR 3500 - German Cinema

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Effective Date 09/25/2012
Analyzes the aesthetics and semiotics of film, with a focus on German expressionism and New German Cinema.

Credits: 3

GETR 3505 - History and Fiction, Topics

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Effective Date 03/16/2017
Explores the relationship between facts and fiction in the representation of the past. Course materials range from archival sources and scholarly articles to novels, films, paintings, sculptures, poems and other creative articulations of the historical imagination. The role of the new media and media analysis in the representation of history will also be examined. Topics vary annually.

Credits: 3

GETR 3550 - Children’s Literature

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the nature and aims of children’s literature, primarily European and American, from the 17th century onward.

Credits: 3

GETR 3559 - New Course in German in Translation

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Effective Date 02/01/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German in translation. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 1 to 4

GETR 3560 - Topics in German Literature

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
Examines such myths as Faust and Tristan, along with the modernist parody of them.

Credits: 3

GETR 3561 - The Frankfurt School and its American legacy

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Effective Date 09/13/2011
Introduces students to the history of the Frankfurt School in Europe and the University States.

Credits: 3

GETR 3562 - New German Cinema

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Effective Date 09/13/2011
Examines German art cinema from the 1960s-1980s, focusing on modernist aesthetics and filmic responses to major historical events in post-war Germany. Films by Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Kluge, Sander, von Trotta, and others.

Credits: 3

GETR 3563 - Spiritual Journeys in Young Adult Fiction

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
This writing-intensive, discussion-based seminar invites students to explore the topic of the spiritual journey both academically and personally. Different disciplinary perspectives and experiential approaches to reading and writing will deepen our exploration of such themes as: religiosity vs. spirituality, becoming a hero, confronting evil, being different, achieving autonomy, faith and doubt, and the magical and the miraculous.

Credits: 3

GETR 3566 - Topics in film

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Effective Date 03/16/2018
The course reflects on the often complicated ways in which representations of violence are related to gender codes. we will look especially at films that depict and document the topos of Lager/Camp: the Camp functions as metaphor, as fantasy, gendered space, laboratory, and heterotopia,. Critical look at films that imagine the camp both as a historical site or as a hiding place.

Credits: 3

GETR 3590 - Course(s) in English

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Effective Date 01/30/2020
Reading and discussion of German texts compared to texts from other literatures (all in English translation), with the aim of illuminating a central theoretical, historical, or social issue that transcends national boundaries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

GETR 3600 - Faust

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
Taking Goethe’s Faust as its point of departure, this course traces the emergence and transformations of the Faust legend over the last 400 hundred years. We explore precursors of Goethe’s Faust in the form of the English Faust Book, Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, and possibly other popular re-workings of the text. We will Goethe’s Faust in its entirety, and then proceed to Bulgakov’s response to Stalinism in The Master and Margharta and

Credits: 3

GETR 3692 - The Holocaust

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
This course aims to clarify basic facts and explore competing explanations for the origins and unfolding of the Holocaust–the encounter between the Third Reich and Europe’s Jews between 1933 and 1945 that resulted in the deaths of almost six million Jews. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

GETR 3693 - Holocaust Testimony

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Effective Date 10/23/2020
This course explores what it means not only to read or listen to but also to see testimony by Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. We will also view and analyze testimony by survivors of other genocides and atrocities. The purpose of this course is to enable students to develop the theoretical background and skills of close reading and close viewing necessary to analyze oral testimony.

Credits: 3

GETR 3695 - The Holocaust and the Law

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Effective Date 01/05/2017
This course explores the pursuit of legal justice after the Holocaust. Study of legal responses to the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews in Europe, Israel, and the United States from the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust to the present. Focus on the Nuremberg, Eichmann Trial, Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials, among others. The course ask how the pursuit of legal justice after the Holocaust affects our understanding of the legal process.

Credits: 3

GETR 3705 - The Jewish Experience in Europe: Vienna and Budapest

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Effective Date 09/16/2019
This course will explore Jewish history, culture, and everyday life in Europe from a multidisciplinary perspective. It will consist of introductory lectures, site visits, guest speakers, and student presentations. The course is designed to be 12-day term with primary locations in Graz, Vienna, and Budapest.

Credits: 3

GETR 3710 - Kafka and His Doubles

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Introduction to the work of Franz Kafka, with comparisons to the literary tradition he worked with and the literary tradition he formed.

Credits: 3

GETR 3720 - Freud and Literature

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
In formulating his model of the psyche and his theory of psychoanalysis, Freud availed himself of analogies drawn from different disciplines, including literature. Freud’s ideas were then taken up by many twentieth-century literary writers. After introducing Freud’s theories through a reading of his major works, the course will turn to literary works that engage with Freud.

Credits: 3

GETR 3730 - Modern Poetry: Rilke, Valery and Stevens

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Studies in the poetry and prose of these three modernist poets, with emphasis on their theories of artistic creation. The original as well as a translation will be made available for Rilke’s and Valery’s poetry; their prose works will be read in English translation.

Credits: 3

GETR 3740 - Narratives of Childhood

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Childhood autobiography and childhood narrative from Romanticism to the present.

Credits: 3

GETR 3750 - Women, Childhood, Autobiography

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Cross-cultural readings in women’s childhood narratives. Emphasis on formal as well as thematic aspects. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Comparative studies in the European novel. Dominant novel types, including the fictional memoir, the novel in letters, and the comic “history.”

Credits: 3

GETR 3770 - Women Writers: Women on Women

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Effective Date 02/17/2016
This course focuses on women writers from any era who address the topic of femininity: what it means or implies to be a woman.

Credits: 3

GETR 3780 - Memory Speaks

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Effective Date 04/19/2016
Interdisciplinary course on memory. Readings from literature, philosophy, history, psychology, and neuroscience.

Credits: 3

GETR 3790 - Pursuing Happiness

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Effective Date 09/21/2021
Fictions of happiness pursued – and found! Through the ages, people have sought happiness and formulated conceptions of what happiness means. This course compares ideas and stories of happiness from antiquity through the present day in all genres: prose fiction, poetry, essays, film, and humanistic and scientific theory.

Credits: 3

GETR 4493 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
Guided study

Credits: 1 to 3

GETR 4559 - New Course in German in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of German in translation.

Credits: 1 to 4

YIDD 1050 - Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://www.virginia.edu/german/Undergraduate/Courses.

Credits: 3

YIDD 1060 - Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Elementary Yiddish Language and Culture

Credits: 3

YIDD 1559 - New Course in Yiddish

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Yiddish.

Credits: 1 to 4

YIDD 2559 - New Course in Yiddish

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of Yiddish.

Credits: 1 to 4

YITR 3452 - Jewish Culture and History in Eastern Europe

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies major trends in Yiddish, East European, and North American Jewish culture, with special focus on the interaction between cultural forms and historical developments in Eastern Europe and North American. Topics vary.

Credits: 3

YITR 3560 - Topics in Yiddish Literature

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys important developments in Yiddish literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Special attention is paid to the innovations Yiddish writers produced in response to historical and cultural change.

Credits: 3

History

Courses

HIAF 1501 - Introductory Seminar in African History

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
Introduces the study of history intended for first- or second-year students. Seminars involve reading, discussing, and writing about different historical topics and periods, and emphasize the enhancement of critical and communication skills. Several seminars are offered each term. Not more than two Introductory Seminars may be counted toward the major in history.

Credits: 3

HIAF 1559 - New Course in African History

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of African History.

Credits: 1 to 4

HIAF 2001 - Early African History

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Effective Date 03/15/2016
Studies the history of African civilizations from the iron age through the era of the slave trade, ca. 1800. Emphasizes the search for the themes of social, political, economic, and intellectual history which present African civilizations on their own terms.

Credits: 4

HIAF 2002 - Modern African History

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
Studies the history of Africa and its interaction with the western world from the mid-19th century to the present. Emphasizes continuities in African civilization from imperialism to independence that transcend the colonial interlude of the 20th century.

Credits: 4

HIAF 2559 - New Course in African History

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Effective Date 11/05/2010
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of African History.

Credits: 1 to 4

HIAF 3011 - North African History from Carthage to the Algerian Revolution

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys the main outlines of North African political, economic, and cultural history from the rise of Carthage as a Mediterranean power until the conclusion of the Algerian war for independence in 1962, and the creation of a system of nation-states in the region. It places the North African historical experience within the framework of both Mediterranean/European history and African history. Focuses mainly upon the area stretching from Morocco’s Atlantic coast to the Nile Delta; also considered are Andalusia and Sicily, and the ties between Northwest Africa and sub-Saharan regions, particularly West Africa.

Credits: 3

HIAF 3021 - History of Southern Africa

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the history of Africa generally south of the Zambezi River. Emphasizes African institutions, creation of ethnic and racial identities, industrialization, and rural poverty, from the early formation of historical communities to recent times.

Credits: 3

HIAF 3031 - History of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

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Effective Date 09/27/2018
This course concerns the trans-Atlantic slave trade, with an emphasis on African history. Through interactive lectures, in-class discussions, written assignments and examinations of first-hand accounts by slaves and slavers, works of fiction and film, and analyses by historians, we will seek to understand one of the most tragic and horrifying phenomena in the history of the western world.

Credits: 3

HIAF 3051 - West African History

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
History of West Africans in the wider context of the global past, from West Africans’ first attempts to make a living in ancient environments through the slave trades (domestic, trans-Saharan, and Atlantic), colonial overrule by outsiders, political independence, and ever-increasing globalization.

Credits: 3

HIAF 3091 - Africa in World History

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Effective Date 05/27/2009
World history from the perspective of Africa, for advanced undergraduates. The interpretive emphasis falls equally on the epistemology of thinking historically, historical processes recurring throughout the human experience, and the specific ways in which Africans experienced and elaborated them. The course develops a strong critique of conventional textbook approaches to both Africa and world history.

Credits: 3

HIAF 3112 - African Environmental History

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
This course explores how Africans changed their interactions with the physical environments they inhabited and how the landscapes they helped create in turn shaped human history. Topics covered include the ancient agricultural revolution, health and disease in the era of slave trading, colonial-era mining and commodity farming, 20th-century wildlife conservation, and the emergent challenges of land ownership, disease, and climate change.

Credits: 3

HIAF 3501 - Introductory History Workshop

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Effective Date 02/17/2023
Required for history majors, to be completed before enrollment in the Major Seminar. Introduces a variety of approaches to the study of history, methods for finding and analyzing primary and secondary sources, and the construction of historical arguments. Workshops are offered on a variety of topics each term.

Credits: 3

HIAF 3559 - New Course in African History

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Effective Date 01/13/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of African History.

Credits: 1 to 4

HIAF 4501 - Seminar in African History

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Effective Date 10/23/2023
The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. Seminar work results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.

Credits: 4

HIAF 4511 - Colloquium in African History

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Effective Date 07/13/2017
The major colloquium is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the colloquium. Colloquia are most frequently offered in areas of history where access to source materials or linguistic demands make seminars especially difficult. Students in colloquia prepare about 25 pages of written work distributed among various assignments. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.

Credits: 4

HIAF 4559 - New Course in African History

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Effective Date 07/12/2016
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of African History.

Credits: 1 to 4

HIAF 4993 - Independent Study in African History

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member, any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings. Independent study projects may not be used to replace regularly scheduled classes. Open to majors or non-majors.

Credits: 1 to 3

HIEA 1501 - Introductory Seminar in East Asian History

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Effective Date 02/24/2020
Introduces the study of history intended for first- or second-year students. Seminars involve reading, discussing, and writing about different historical topics and periods, and emphasize the enhancement of critical and communication skills. Several seminars are offered each term. Not more than two Introductory Seminars may be counted toward the major in history.

Credits: 3

HIEA 1559 - New Course in East Asian History

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of East Asian History.

Credits: 1 to 4

HIEA 2011 - History of Chinese Civilization

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
An intro to the study of Chinese civilization. We shall begin with the earliest human remains found in China & conclude in the present. The goal of this coure is not merely to tell the story of Chinese history, rich and compelling though the story is. Rather, our aim will be to explore what makes Chinese civilization specifically Chinese, & how the set of values, practices, & institutions we associate with Chinese society came to exist.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2031 - Modern China

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Studies the transformation of Chinese politics, society, institutions, culture and foreign relations from the Opium War. through the post-Mao Reform Era. Emphasizes the fluid relationship between tradition and transformation and the ways in which this relationship continues to shape the lives of the Chinese people.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2072 - Modern Japanese Culture and Politics

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
An introduction to the politics, culture, and ideologies of modern Japan from roughly 1800 to the present. We will pay special attention to the interplay between Japan’s simultaneous participation in global modernity and its assertion of a unique culture as a way to explore the rise of the nation-state as a historically specific form.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2073 - Japan to 1868: An Historical Introduction

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
This lecture class surveys the history of Japanese civilization from prehistory to the end of the nineteenth century. Through an assortment of historical, literary, religious and visual materials, it offers an introduction to the political, social, religious, intellectual, artistic, and cultural life of Japan in its various epochs.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2081 - Korea: Antiquity through the 12th Century

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
The development of Korean culture from the Three Kingdoms Period through the Silla (675-918) and Early Koryo (936-1200) dynasties.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2091 - Korean Civilization to 1900

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
This course covers the history of Korean civilization from its archeological and mythical origins to the late nineteenth century. Together students will examine sources on premodern Korean warfare, society, sex, politics, religion, and culture to understand how this seemingly distant past continues to shape Korea’s present and future. We will also explore the influence of Korean civilization on regional and global histories beyond the peninsula.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2101 - Modern Korean History: One Peninsula, Two Paths

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
This course traces Korea’s history from its unified rule under the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) to Japanese colonization (1910-1945) and subsequent division into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and Republic of Korea (South Korea). It examines how processes of reform, empire, civil war, revolution, and industrialization shaped both Koreas’ development and how ordinary people experienced this tumultuous history.

Credits: 3

HIEA 2559 - New Course in East Asian History

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Effective Date 02/24/2020
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of East Asian History.

Credits: 1 to 4

HIEA 3111 - China to the Tenth Century

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys the social, political and economic organization of traditional Chinese society, traditional Chinese foreign policy, and major literary, artistic, and intellectual movements.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3112 - Late Imperial China

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Survey of the social, political, and cultural history of China from 10th to the early 20th centuries. Topics include the philosophic basis of state and society, the formation of social elites, the influence of nomadic peoples, and patterns of popular dissent and rebellion, among others

Credits: 3

HIEA 3141 - Political and Social Thought in Modern China

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies political and social thought from the early 20th century to the present, as reflected in written sources (including fiction), art, and films.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3162 - Historical China and the World

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Effective Date 05/09/2017
The course traces China’s external relations from antiquity to our own times, identifying conceptions, practices, and institutions that characterized the ancient inter-state relations of East Asia and examining the interactions between “Eastern” and “Western,” and “revolutionary” and “conventional” modes of international behavior in modern times. The student’s grade is based on participation, midterm test, final exam, and a short essay.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3171 - Meiji Japan

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
This course will examine the rise of the nation-state form in Japan as a new form of historical subjectivity. It will explore in depth the political, economic, social, and cultural changes in the wake of the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868 to the start of the Tasiho period in 1912.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3172 - The Japanese Empire

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Effective Date 10/04/2012
This course is an exploration of Japan’s imperial project from roughly 1890-1945. We will start by developing a critical theoretical vocabulary with which we will then focus on three recent and important books on Japanese imperialism in East Asia. At the end of the semester we will also look briefly at anti-imperial and decolonization movements as well as the status of the category of ‘empire’ for analyzing the postwar period.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3211 - Japan’s Economic Miracle

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines the history of Japan since the early 19th century by exploring the causes and consequences of the economic and social changes that have made Japan one of the most important advanced industrial countries in the contemporary world.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3221 - Japan’s Political History

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines Japanese history since the early 19th century, exploring changes in political ideas, institutions, and behavior among both governing elites and the mass of Japanese citizenry.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3311 - Peasants, Students and Women: Social Movement in Twentieth-Century China

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies rural revolution, student movements, women’s liberation, and the transformation of the social order since the late 19th century.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3321 - China and the Cold War

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Effective Date 05/09/2017
The class examines China’s entanglement with the Cold War from 1945 to the early 1990s. The course raises China-centered questions because it is curious in retrospect that China, a quintessential Eastern state, became so deeply involved in the Cold War, a confrontation rooted in Western history. In exploring such questions, this course does not treat China as part of the Cold War but the Cold War as a period of Chinese history.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3323 - China and the United States

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Effective Date 05/09/2017
The course explores Chinese-American relations since the late 18th century. Starting as an encounter between a young trading state and an ageless empire on the two sides of the Pacific Ocean, the relationship has gone through stages characterized by the two countries’ changing identities. The course understands the relationship broadly and seeks insights at various levels.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3351 - Borders, Maps, and Conflict in East Asia

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This course examines the history of territorial disputes in East Asia by examining the demarcation, mapping, & policing of borders from the 1600s - present. With case studies including Xinjiang, the Korean peninsula, & current territorial disputes in the South & East China Seas, we will interrogate the social, political, cultural, & environmental factors that defined boundaries in East Asia historically & contribute to ongoing border tensions.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken HIEA 3559 topic #18 Borders, Maps, Conflict E Asia

Credits: 3

HIEA 3501 - Introductory Workshop

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Effective Date 01/01/2025
Required for history majors, to be completed before enrollment in the Major Seminar. Introduces a variety of approaches to the study of history, methods for finding and analyzing primary and secondary sources, and the construction of historical arguments. Workshops are offered on a variety of topics each term.

Credits: 3

HIEA 3559 - New Course in East Asian History

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Effective Date 09/27/2022
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of East Asian History.

Credits: 1 to 4

HIEA 4501 - Seminar in East Asian History

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Effective Date 04/30/2020
A small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. The work of the seminar results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.

Credits: 4

HIEA 4511 - Colloquium in East Asia

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Effective Date 09/21/2018
A small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the colloquium. Most frequently offered in areas of history where access to source materials or linguistic demands make seminars especially difficult. Students prepare about 25 pages of written work. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.

Credits: 4

HIEA 4559 - New Course in East Asian History

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Effective Date 02/13/2018
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of East Asian History.

Credits: 1 to 4

HIEA 4591 - Topics in East Asian History

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
Topics courses are small, discussion-oriented classes available to any student with sufficient background and interest in a particular field of historical study. Offered irregularly, they are open to majors or non-majors on an equal basis.

Credits: 3

HIEA 4993 - Independent Study in East Asia

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings. Independent Study projects may not be used to replace regularly scheduled classes. Open to majors or non-majors.

Credits: 1 to 3

HIEU 1501 - Introductory Seminar in Pre-1700 European History

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Effective Date 09/21/2018
Intended for first- or second-year students. Seminars involve reading, discussing, and writing about different historical topics and periods, and emphasize the enhancement of critical and communication skills. Several seminars are offered each term. Not more than two Introductory Seminars may be counted toward the major in history.

Credits: 3

HIEU 1502 - Introductory Seminar in Post-1700 European History

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Effective Date 10/18/2019
Intended for first- or second-year students. Seminars involve reading, discussing, and writing about different historical topics and periods, and emphasize the enhancement of critical and communication skills. Several seminars are offered each term. Not more than two Introductory Seminars may be counted toward the major in history.

Credits: 3

HIEU 1559 - New Course in European History

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of European History.

Credits: 1 to 4

HIEU 2001 - Western Civilization I

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
Surveys the fundamental institutions and ideas that have shaped the Western world. Topics include great religious and philosophical traditions, political ideas, literary forms, artistic achievements and institutional structures from the world of the ancient Hebrews to the eve of the modern world (ca. 3000 b.c. to 1600 a.d.).

Credits: 3

HIEU 2002 - Western Civilization II

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Surveys the political and cultural history of the Western world in modern times. Emphasizes the distinctiveness of Western civilization, on the reasons for the rise of the West to global domination, and the relative decline of the West in recent times.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2004 - Nationalism in Europe

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
This course examines the history of nationalism in modern Europe, from the 1700s to the present day. We will consider the emergence and consolidation of European nation-states in the eighteenth century; nationalist movements and the breakup of empires in the nineteenth; ethnic cleansing and nationalist violence in twentieth-century Europe; as well as the rise of the European Union and its challenges today.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2031 - Ancient Greece

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Studies the political, military, and social history of Ancient Greece from the Homeric age to the death of Alexander the Great, emphasizing the development and interactions of Sparta and Athens.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2041 - Roman Republic and Empire

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Surveys the political, social, and institutional growth of the Roman Republic, focusing on its downfall and replacement by an imperial form of government, the subsequent history of that government, and the social and economic life during the Roman Empire, up to its own decline and fall.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2051 - Economic History of Europe

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies European economic history from the middle ages to the industrial revolution. Emphasizes the emergence of the market and the rise of capitalism in Great Britain.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2061 - The Birth of Europe

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Studies ways of life and thought in the formation of Western Europe from the 4th century a.d. to the 15th. Includes a survey of the development of society and culture in town and countryside, the growth of economic, political, and religious institutions, and the impact of Muslim and Byzantine civilizations.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2071 - Early Modern Europe and the World

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
European history, from the Reformation to Napoleon, in global perspective.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2072 - Modern Europe and the World

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
European history since the French Revolution, with an emphasis on social, cultural, and political change in global perspective.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2101 - Jewish History I: The Ancient and Medieval Experience

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course surveys the pre-modern Jewish historical experience from antiquity through the sixteenth century.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2102 - Modern Jewish History

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Survey of Jewish history from the seventeenth century to the present, primarily in Europe, but with further treatment of Jewish life in the U.S. and Israel. Major topics include Jewish historical consciousness; patterns of emancipation; religious adjustment; the role of women; anti-Semitism; Zionism; the American Jewish experience; the Holocaust; the establishment of Israel; and Jewish life in Europe after the Holocaust.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2111 - England, Britain, Empire, 1500-1800

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Surveys political, social, and cultural history as Britain developed from a European backwater into a global power. Focuses on four major transformations: the Reformation and changing religious life under the Tudor monarchs; new political ideas during the Civil Wars of the 1640s and revolution in the 1680s; the unification of England, Scotland, and Ireland; and the beginnings of a global empire in North America and South Asia.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2112 - Britain since 1688: Nationalism, Imperialism, Modernity

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
This course surveys the history of modern Britain from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the resurgent nationalisms of the present. Themes include the state-building, overseas expansion, and widening inequality of the Georgian years; the industrialization, urbanization, and increasingly assertive imperialism of the Victorian era; and the problems of war, decolonization, and decline in the twentieth century.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2121 - France in the Age of Revolutions, 1789-1871

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Effective Date 02/10/2021
Introduction to French social, political, and cultural history from 1789 to 1871. Examines political struggles from the French Revolution to the Paris Commune, and considers how industrialization, urbanization, mass culture and imperial expansion reshaped relationships between men and women, rich and poor, city and country, artists and audiences, and metropole and colony. Traces changing ideas of nation, citizenship, and democracy.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken HIEU 2559 topic #11 France in Age Revol 1789-1871

Credits: 3

HIEU 2122 - France in the Twentieth Century, 1871-present

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Effective Date 02/10/2021
Introduction to major developments in French society, culture, and politics since 1871: struggles to establish a secular Republic; nationalism and imperialism; antisemitism and Islamophobia; changes in women’s roles and gender ideals; the traumas of world war and fascism; postwar consumer culture and economic modernization; European integration, Cold War, and decolonization; post-colonial immigration and multiculturalism.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken HIEU 2559 topic #12 France in 20th Century

Credits: 3

HIEU 2152 - History of the Russian Empire 1700-1917

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the history of Russia from Peter the Great to the Bolshevik Revolution and the establishment of Soviet power.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2162 - History of Russia Since 1917

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Explores the collapse of the Russian Empire and the rise of the Communist state. Emphasizes the social revolution, Stalinism and subsequent ‘de-Stalinization,’ national minorities, and the collapse of the Soviet regime.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2212 - Contemporary Europe

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Effective Date 11/30/2012
This class surveys the major developments in Europe from 1945 up to the present day. Topics that we examine include the legacy of World War II, the division of Europe during the cold war, the economic and political progress of the continent, the crises triggered by decolonization and imigration, and the continuing struggles of Europeans to build a united, peaceful and stable union.

Credits: 3

HIEU 2559 - New Course in European History

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Effective Date 01/10/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of European History.

Credits: 1 to 4

HIEU 2721 - Supernatural Europe, 1500-1800

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Surveys the intellectual, religious, and social history of Europe c.1500-1800 through the lens of changing beliefs about the supernatural. Selected topics include the rise and decline of witch-hunting, changing understandings of the universe, the impact of religious reform on traditional belief, and the “disenchantment” of European society as beliefs in the supernatural declined in the 18th century.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3002 - Queer European History

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Effective Date 09/05/2019
This course will examine LGBTQ persons, issues, and events in Europe, focusing mostly on 1850 to now. We will cover the history of anti-sodomy laws; the evolution of cultural and scientific understandings of sex, sexuality, and gender, including ideas of trans-ness; and the history of LGBTQ activism. We will focus in particular on Germany and the UK, but other countries will enter our examination as well.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3021 - Greek and Roman Warfare

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Effective Date 10/13/2010
Surveys the history of ancient warfare from the Homeric era until the fall of Rome.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3041 - The Fall of the Roman Republic

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Surveys the history and culture of the last century of the Roman Republic (133-30 b.c.), emphasizing the political and social reasons for the destruction of the Republican form of government and its replacement by a monarchy.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3051 - History and Civilization of France: Revolution to 1945

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
The social, political, economic, philosophical, and artistic developments in France from the Revolution to 1945. Taught in French.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3091 - Ancient Law and Society

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Study of the interrationships between law, politics and society in ancient Greece (chiefly Athenian) culture, the Hellenistic kingdoms and Rome (from the XII Tables to the Justinianic Code). Focuses particularly on the development of the idea of law; on the construction of law’s authority and legitimacy; on the use of law as one method of social control; and on the development, at Rome, of juristic independence and legal codification. Prerequisite: HIEU 2031 or HIEU 2041, or permission of the instructor.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3101 - Early Medieval Civilization

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies early medieval civilization from late antiquity to the 11th century. Emphasizes selected themes in cultural history.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3111 - Later Medieval Civilization

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Discusses intellectual and cultural history, political and social theories, and religious movements from the 11th to the 16th centuries.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3121 - Medieval Society: Ways of Life and Thought in Western Europe

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
An introduction to the social and intellectual history from the tenth century to the sixteenth.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3131 - The World of Charlemagne

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Explores the Byzantine, Muslim, and European worlds in the 8th and 9th centuries. Compares political, institutional, and social history, and the Catholic, Orthodox, and Islamic faiths.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3141 - Age of Conquests: Britain from the Romans to the Normans (43-1066)

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Surveys the history of Britain from the establishment of Roman rule to the Norman Conquest of 1066. Particular focus falls upon the social, political and cultural history of early England and its neighbors in Wales and Scotland, the Scandinavian impact of the 8th through 11th centuries, and Britain’s links with the wider late antique and early medieval worlds.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3152 - Colonizing the World: The British Empire

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
This course will focus primarily on the ‘second’ empire in Asia and Africa, although the first empire in the Americas will be our first topic. Topics covered include the slave plantations in the West Indies, the American Revolution, the rise of the British East India Company and its control of India, and the Scramble for Africa. Special emphasis will be placed on the environmental history of our points of debarkation.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3181 - Medieval Christianity

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Detailed study of the development of Christianity in the Middle Ages and of how it reflected upon itself in terms of theology, piety, and politics. Cross-listed as RELC 3181.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3215 - Dante’s Italy

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Effective Date 03/23/2010
This course investigates Italy’s history and culture at the end of the Middle Ages through the life and writings of Dante Alighieri, Italy’s greatest author of the medieval and early modern period. Through lectures and discussions on Dante’s most important writings, students will be introduced to the culture of Italian city-states as well as to the most important literary and philosophical ideas of the late Middle Ages.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3221 - The Culture of the Renaissance

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys the growth and diffusion of educational, literary, and artistic innovations in Europe between 1300 and 1600.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3231 - Reformation Europe

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Surveys the development of religious reform movements in continental Europe from c. 1450 to c. 1650 and their impact on politics, social life, science, and conceptions of the self.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3271 - Three Faiths, One Sea: The Early Modern Mediterranean

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Effective Date 02/14/2012
The course will provide students with an overview of the Mediterranean world from the conquest of Constantinople (1453) to the displacement of the sea in a globalizing economy. The main purpose of this course is to demonstrate the cultural, political, and religious diversity of the Mediterranean region. Special emphasis is placed on Christian, Jews, and Muslim interaction.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3291 - Stuart England

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the history of England (and its foreign relations) from 1603 to 1714, with commentary on some major themes of early Hanoverian England to the end of Sir Robert Walpole’s ministry. Includes newer interpretations on Stuart monarchy, the background and consequences of the Civil War, restoration ideology and politics in relation to the Cromwellian Interregnum, the Revolution of 1688, social and local history, and the creation of the first British Empire.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3311 - Social History of Early Modern Europe

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Effective Date 07/28/2014
Surveys social, economic, and demographic structure and change in pre-industrial Europe, focusing on social unrest and rebellions.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3312 - Europe at War, 1939-45: Occupation, Genocide, Resistance

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Effective Date 09/22/2020
This course examines the range of human experience in Europe during the Second World War. Why did Nazi Germany invade and attempt to colonize large parts of Europe? What were the methods of Nazi rule? How did European peoples respond to the Nazi project, whether through forms of resistance or collaboration? Who were the principal victims of the war–and why is this question so difficult to address even today?

Credits: 3

HIEU 3321 - The Scientific Revolution, 1450-1700

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Studies the history of modern science in its formative period against the backdrop of classical Greek science and in the context of evolving scientific institutions and changing views of religion, politics, magic, alchemy, and ancient authorities.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3342 - Society and the Sexes in Europe from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Explores the changing constructions of gender roles and their concrete consequences for women and men in society; uses primary texts and secondary studies from the 17th century to the present.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3352 - Modern German History

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This class studies key aspects of German history, including the origins of Nazi ideology, colonialism, war and genocide; the Cold War and its legacies; European Integration and it’s challenges; the resurgence of far-right and new-fascist politics and movements, as well as Germany’s ongoing efforts to come to terms with the Holocaust.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3372 - German Jewish Culture and History

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Effective Date 10/21/2010
This course provides a wide-ranging exploration of the culture and history of German Jewry from 1750 to 1939. It focuses on the Jewish response to modernity in Central Europe and the lasting transformations in Jewish life in Europe and later North America. Readings of such figures as: Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Rahel Varnhagen, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, Martin Buber, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxembourg, Walter Benjamin, and Sigmund Freud.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3380 - The History of Antisemitism

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Effective Date 12/06/2017
This course will examine the history of antisemitism, prejudice against Jews. Hatred of Jews originates from a diverse combination of ideologies, historical moments and, likewise, takes a variety of forms in different times and places. This course will introduce the concept from its earliest times and follow both the theoretical/philosophical thought and the displays of antisemitism through history with a focus on Europe.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3382 - Revolutionary France, 1770-1815

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course will examine the social, cultural, intellectual and political history of France from the end of the Old Regime through the Napoleonic Empire. The origins, development, and outcome of the French Revolution will be the main focus. Attention will also be paid to the international legacy of various French revolutionary concepts and to the history of the interpretation of this critical period of upheaval.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3390 - Nazi Germany

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Detailed survey of the historical origins, political structures, cultural dynamics, and every-day practices of the Nazi Third Reich. Cross-listed in the German department, and taught in English.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3412 - Twentieth-Century Europe

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the main developments in European history from the turn of the century to the eve of the Second World War.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3432 - France Since 1815

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies French politics and society from the defeat of Napoleon to De Gaulle’s republic.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3442 - European History: Industrial Revolution to the Welfare State 1848-1963

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
Surveys Continent’s troubled history from the Victorian Age to the welfare state. Addresses features of modernization and industrialization, nationalism and imperialism, causes and consequences of both world wars, Communist and Fascist challenges, Weimar and Nazi Germany, the Great Depression and crisis of capitalism, the Holocaust and decline of old Europe, and Social Democratic transformation.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3452 - Jewish Culture and History in Eastern Europe

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course is a comprehensive examination of the culture and history of East European Jewry from 1750 to 1935. Course cross-listed with YITR 3452.

Credits: 3

HIEU 3462 - Neighbors and Enemies in Germany

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Explores the friend/foe nexus in Germany history, literature and culture, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.

Credits: 3

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Human Biology

Jewish Studies

Courses

JWST 1559 - New Course in Jewish Studies

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Effective Date 03/15/2012
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in Jewish Studies

Credits: 3

JWST 2130 - Introduction to Jewish Musical Traditions

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This course is an introduction to sacred and secular Jewish musical traditions. Texts include books and articles that draw on ethnomusicology, musicology, folklore, anthropology, sociology, Jewish studies, history and other fields. The course uses case studies to concentrate on developments in these traditions since the middle of the 19th century, focusing the three main groupings of Ashkenazic, Sephardic and Mizrakhi Jewry.

Credits: 3

JWST 2559 - New Course in Jewish Studies

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in Jewish Studies

Credits: 3

JWST 3559 - New Course in Jewish Studies

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Jewish Studies.

Credits: 1 to 4

JWST 3705 - The Jewish Experience in Europe: Vienna and Budapest

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Effective Date 09/16/2019
This course will explore Jewish history, culture and everyday life in Europe from a multidisciplinary perspective. It will consist of introductory lectures, site visits, guest speakers, and student presentations. The course is designed to be 12-day term with primary locations in Graz, Vienna, and Budapest.

Credits: 3

JWST 4559 - New Course in Jewish Studies

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Jewish Studies.

Credits: 1 to 4

JWST 4950 - Senior Majors Seminar in Jewish Studies

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
This course introduces and examines the origins and development of Jewish Studies with emphasis on its interdisciplinary character. Requirements include active class participation and a significant research paper based on a topic of the student’s choice. This course is required of all fourth-year Jewish Studies majors. It is also open to all interested students with permission of the instructor.

Credits: 3

JWST 4970 - Supervised Research

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Supervised Research

Credits: 3

JWST 4980 - Supervised Research

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
This course offers students to conduct independent study in Jewish Studies under the supervision of a professor in Jewish Studies.

Credits: 3

JWST 4998 - Distinguished Majors Seminar Thesis I

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Effective Date 05/05/2010
Thesis, directed by a member of the department, focusing on a specific problem in Jewish Studies. The thesis is based in part on at least three hours of directed reading in the field of the thesis. Prerequisite: Selection by faculty for Distinguished Major Program.

Credits: 0

JWST 4999 - Distinguished Majors Seminar Thesis II

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Effective Date 05/05/2010
Thesis, directed by a member of the department, focusing on a specific problem in Jewish Studies. The thesis is based in part on at least three hours of directed reading in the field of the thesis. Prerequisite: Selection by faculty for Distinguished Major Program and JWST 4998.

Credits: 6

Latin American Studies

Linguistics

Mathematics

Courses

MATH 1110 - Probability/Finite Mathematics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies finite probability theory including combinatorics, equiprobable models, conditional probability and Bayes’ theorem, expectation and variance, and Markov chains.

Credits: 3

MATH 1140 - Financial Mathematics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
The study of the mathematics needed to understand and answer a variety of questions that arise in everyday financial dealings. The emphasis is on applications, including simple and compound interest, valuation of bonds, amortization, sinking funds, and rates of return on investments. A solid understanding of algebra is assumed.

Credits: 3

MATH 1150 - The Shape of Space

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Provides an activity and project-based exploration of informal geometry in two and three dimensions. Emphasizes visualization skill, fundamental geometric concepts, and the analysis of shapes and patterns. Topics include concepts of measurement, geometric analysis, transformations, similarity, tessellations, flat and curved spaces, and topology.

Credits: 3

MATH 1160 - Algebra, Number Systems, and Number Theory

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies basic concepts, operations, and structures occurring in number systems, number theory, and algebra. Inquiry-based student investigations explore historical developments and conceptual transitions in the development of number and algebraic systems.

Credits: 3

MATH 1190 - A Survey of Calculus I with Algebra

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
A first calculus course for business/biology/social-science students. Topics include college algebra/limits and continuity/differentiation and integration of algebraic and elementary transcendental functions/applications to related-rates & optimization problems as well as to curve sketching & exponential growth. At most one of MATH 1190, MATH 1210, and 1310 may be taken for credit. Prerequisite: No previous exposure to Calculus.

Credits: 4

MATH 1210 - A survey of Calculus I

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
A first calculus course for business/biology/social-science students. Topics include limits and continuity/differentiation & integration of algebraic & elementary transcendental functions/applications to related-rates & optimization problems as well as to curve sketching & exponential growth. At most one of MATH 1190, MATH 1210, and MATH 1310 may be taken for credit.

Credits: 3

MATH 1220 - A Survey of Calculus II

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
A second calculus course for business/biology/and social-science students. Topics include differential equations/infinite series/analysis of functions of several variables/analysis of probability density functions of continuous random variables. The course begins with a review of basic single-variable calculus. Prerequisite: MATH 1210 or equivalent; at most one of MATH 1220 and MATH 1320 may be taken for credit.

Credits: 3

MATH 1310 - Calculus I

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
A first calculus course for natural-science majors/students planning further work in mathematics/students intending to pursue graduate work in applied social sciences. Introduces differential & integral calculus for single-variable functions, emphasizing techniques/applications & major theorems, like the fundamental theorem of calculus. Prerequisite: Background in algebra/trigonometry/exponentials/logarithms/analytic geometry.

Credits: 4

MATH 1320 - Calculus II

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
A second calculus course for natural-science majors, students planning additional work in mathematics, and students intending to pursue graduate work in the applied social sciences. Topics include applications of the integral, techniques of integration, differential equations, infinite series, parametric equations, and polar coordinates. Prerequisite: MATH 1310 or equivalent; at most one of MATH 1220 and MATH 1320 may be taken for credit.

Credits: 4

MATH 1559 - New Course in Mathematics

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Effective Date 03/06/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of mathematics.

Credits: 1 to 4

MATH 2310 - Calculus III

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
A continuation of Calc I and II, this course is about functions of several variables. Topics include finding maxima and minima of functions of several variables/surfaces and curves in three-dimensional space/integration over these surfaces and curves. Additional topics: conservative vector fields/Stokes’ and the divergence theorems/how these concepts relate to real world applications. Prerequisite: MATH 1320 or the equivalent.

Credits: 4

MATH 2315 - Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra I

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Covers the material from Math 2310 (multivariable calculus) plus topics from complex numbers, set theory, and linear algebra. Prepares students for taking advanced mathematics classes at an early stage. Credit is not given for both Math 2310 and Math 2315.

Credits: 4

MATH 2559 - New Course in Mathematics

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Effective Date 04/22/2016
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of mathematics.

Credits: 1 to 4

MATH 3100 - Introduction to Probability

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Introduces fundamental ideas of probability, the theory of randomness. Focuses on problem solving and understanding key theoretical ideas. Topics include sample spaces, counting, random variables, classical distributions, expectation, Chebyshev’s inequality, independence, central limit theorem, conditional probability, generating functions, joint distributions. Prerequisite: MATH 1320 or equivalent. Strongly recommended: MATH 2310

Requisites Students must have completed MATH 1320 or MATH 2310 or MATH 2315 or APMA 2120

Credits: 3

MATH 3250 - Ordinary Differential Equations

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the methods, theory, and applications of differential equations. Includes first-order, second and higher-order linear equations, series solutions, linear systems of first-order differential equations, and the associated matrix theory. May include numerical methods, non-linear systems, boundary value problems, and additional applications. Prerequisite: MATH 1320 or its equivalent.

Credits: 4

MATH 3310 - Basic Real Analysis

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
A rigorous development of the properties of the real numbers and the ideas of calculus including theorems on limits, continuity, differentiability, convergence of infinite series, and the construction of the Riemann integral. Students without prior experience constructing rigorous proofs are encouraged to take Math 3000 before or concurrently with Math 3310. Prerequisite: MATH 1320.

Credits: 4

MATH 3315 - Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra II

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
This course is a continuation of MATH 2315. Covers topics from linear algebra/differential equations/real analysis. Success in this course and MATH 2315 (grades of B- or higher) exempts the student from the math major requirement of taking MATH 3351 and MATH 3250. Students are encouraged to take more advanced courses in these areas. Prerequisite: MATH 2315.

Requisites Must have completed MATH 2315 req

Credits: 4

MATH 3340 - Complex Variables with Applications

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
Covers functions of a complex variable that are complex differentiable and the unusual and useful properties of such functions. Some topics: Cauchy’s integral formula/power series/the residue theorem/Rouche’s theorem. Applications include doing real integrals using complex methods and applications to fluid flow in two dimensions. Prerequisite: MATH 2310.

Credits: 3

MATH 3350 - Applied Linear Algebra

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Effective Date 04/06/2017
Topics will include systems of linear equations, matrix operations and inverses, vector spaces and subspaces, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, matrix factorizations, inner products and orthogonality, and linear transformations. Emphasis will be on applications, with computer software integrated throughout the course. The target audience for MATH 3350 is non-math majors from disciplines that apply tools from linear algebra. Credit is not given for both MATH 3350 and 3351.

Credits: 3

MATH 3351 - Elementary Linear Algebra

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Includes matrices, elementary row operations, inverses, vector spaces and bases, inner products and Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization, orthogonal matrices, linear transformations and change of basis, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and symmetric matrices. Emphasis will be on the theory of the subject and abstract arguments. Credit is not given for both MATH 3350 and 3351. Prerequisite: MATH 1320.

Credits: 3

MATH 3354 - Survey of Algebra

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
Surveys major topics of modern algebra: groups, rings, and fields. Presents applications to areas such as geometry and number theory; explores rational, real, and complex number systems, and the algebra of polynomials. Students without prior experience constructing rigorous proofs are encouraged to take Math 3000 before or concurrently with Math 3354. Prerequisite: MATH 1320.

Credits: 3

MATH 3559 - New Course in Mathematics

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Effective Date 07/15/2020
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of mathematics.

Credits: 1 to 4

MATH 4040 - Discrete Mathematics

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Includes combinatorial principles, the binomial and multinomial theorems, partitions, discrete probability, algebraic structures, trees, graphs, symmetry groups, Polya’s enumeration formula, linear recursions, generating functions and introduction to cryptography, time permitting. Prerequisite: MATH 1320 and a proof-based course (MATH 3000, MATH 3310 or MATH 3354) or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MATH 4110 - Introduction to Stochastic Processes

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Topics in probability selected from Random walks, Markov processes, Brownian motion, Poisson processes, branching processes, stationary time series, linear filtering and prediction, queuing processes, and renewal theory. Prerequisites: MATH 3100 and MATH 3351.

Requisites Must have completed (MATH 3100 or APMA 3100) AND (MATH 3315 or 3351 or 4651 or APMA 3080)

Credits: 3

MATH 4140 - Mathematics of Derivative Securities

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This class introduces students to the mathematics used in pricing derivative securities. Topics include a review of the relevant probability theory of conditional expectation and martingales/the elements of financial markets and derivatives/pricing contingent claims in the binomial & the finite market model/(time permitting) the Black-Scholes model. Prerequisites: MATH 3100, MATH 3351 and a proof-based course (MATH 3000, MATH 3310 or MATH 3354).

Requisites Must have completed (MATH 3100 or APMA 3100) AND (MATH 3315 or 3351 or 4651 or APMA 3080) AND (MATH 3000 or 3310 or 3354 or 4310 or 4652)

Credits: 3

MATH 4210 - Mathematics for Physics

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
This course covers linear algebra/complex analysis/vector differential & integral calculus. Thus it is a compressed version of MATH 3351 & MATH 3340 and a review of some of the material in MATH 2310. Emphasis is on the physical interpretation. [This course does not count as a Mathematics elective for Mathematics majors if both MATH 3351 and MATH 3340 are to be counted.] Prerequisite: MATH 2310 or MATH 2315 or APMA 2120

Requisites Students must have completed MATH 2310 or MATH 2315 or APMA 2120

Credits: 3

MATH 4220 - Partial Differential Equations and Applied Mathematics

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
This course is a beginning course in partial differential equations/Fourier analysis/special functions (such as spherical harmonics and Bessel functions). The discussion of partial differential equations will include the Laplace and Poisson equations and the heat and wave equations. Prerequisites: MATH 3250 and either MATH 3351 or MATH 4210.

Credits: 3

MATH 4250 - Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems

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Effective Date 03/28/2016
A second course in ordinary differential equations, from the dynamical systems point of view. Topics include: existence and uniqueness theorems; linear systems; qualitative study of equilibria and attractors; bifurcation theory; introduction to chaotic systems. Further topics as chosen by the instructor. Applications drawn from physics, biology, and engineering. Prerequisites: MATH 3351 or APMA 3080 and MATH 3310 or MATH 4310.

Requisites Prerequiste: MATH 3351 or APMA 3080 or MATH 4651 and MATH 3310 or MATH 4310

Credits: 3

MATH 4300 - Elementary Numerical Analysis

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Includes Taylor’s theorem, solution of nonlinear equations, interpolation and approximation by polynomials, numerical quadrature. May also cover numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations, Fourier series, or least-square approximation. Prerequisite: MATH 3250 and computer proficiency.

Credits: 3

MATH 4310 - Introduction to Real Analysis

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
This course covers the basic topology of metric spaces/continuity and differentiation of functions of a single variable/Riemann-Stieltjes integration/convergence of sequences and series. Prerequisite: MATH 3310 or permission of instructor.

Requisites Must have completed MATH 3310 prereq

Credits: 3

MATH 4330 - Calculus on Manifolds

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Differential and integral calculus in Euclidean spaces. Implicit and inverse function theorems, differential forms and Stokes’ theorem. Prerequisites: multivariable calculus, basic real analysis, linear algebra and one of the following: MATH 4310, MATH 4651, MATH 4770, MATH 3315, or instructor permission.

Requisites Must have completed (MATH 2310 or MATH 2315) and (MATH 3351 or MATH 4651 or APMA 3080 or MATH 3315) and (MATH 3310 or MATH 4310) and (MATH 4310 or MATH 4651 or MATH 4770 or MATH 3315)

Credits: 3

MATH 4452 - Algebraic Coding Theory

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces algebraic techniques for communicating information in the presence of noise. Includes linear codes, bounds for codes, BCH codes and their decoding algorithms. May also include quadratic residue codes, Reed-Muller codes, algebraic geometry codes, and connections with groups, designs, and lattices. Prerequisite: MATH 3351 and 3354, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MATH 4530 - Topics in Analysis

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Effective Date 02/24/2020
Studies selected analysis topics accessible to undergraduates sufficiently advanced in the math major curriculum. Prerequisite: courses in real analysis (MATH 3310 or equivalent) and linear algebra (MATH 3351 or equivalent).

Requisites Must have completed MATH 3310 or MATH 4310 and MATH 3351 or MATH 4651 or MATH 3315 or APMA 3080

Credits: 3

MATH 4559 - New Course in Mathematics

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Effective Date 01/04/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of mathematics.

Credits: 1 to 4

MATH 4651 - Advanced Linear Algebra

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Review of topics from Math 3351: vector spaces, bases, dimension, matrices and linear transformations, diagonalization; however, the material is covered in greater depth and generality. The course continues with more advanced topics including Jordan canonical forms and introduction to bilinear forms. Prerequisites: a proof-based course and familiarity with computational aspects of elementary linear algebra. Math 3354 is strongly recommended

Requisites MATH 3351 or APMA 3080 req

Credits: 3

MATH 4652 - Introduction to Abstract Algebra

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
Structural properties of basic algebraic systems such as groups, rings, and fields. A special emphasis is made on polynomials in one and several variables, including irreducible polynomials, unique factorization, and symmetric polynomials. Time permitting such topics as group representations or algebras over a field may be included. Prerequisites: MATH 3351 or 4651 and MATH 3354 or permission of the instructor.

Requisites Must have completed MATH 3351 or MATH 4651 or MATH 3315 or APMA 3080 and MATH 3354

Credits: 3

MATH 4658 - Galois Theory

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
This course studies the symmetries of solutions of polynomials. Topics include algebraic field extensions/field automorphisms/the fundamental theorem of Galois theory. Applications include the unsolvability of the quintic, as well as ruler & compass constructions. Prerequisites: MATH 3351 (or 4651) and MATH 4652.

Requisites Math 3351 or 4651 & Math 4652

Credits: 3

MATH 4660 - Algebraic Combinatorics

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
Combinatorics of counting using basic tools from calculus, linear algebra, and occasionally group theory. Topics include: tableaux, symmetric polynomials, Catalan numbers, quantum binomial theorem, q-exponentials, partition and q-series identities. Bijective proofs will be emphasized when appropriate.

Requisites Must have completed MATH 3351 and 3354 or MATH 4652

Credits: 3

MATH 4720 - Introduction to Differential Geometry

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Geometric study of curves/surfaces/their higher-dimensional analogues. Topics vary and may include curvature/vector fields and the Euler characteristic/the Frenet theory of curves in 3-space/geodesics/the Gauss-Bonnet theorem/and/or an introduction to Riemannian geometry on manifolds. Prerequisites: MATH 2310, MATH 3250 and MATH 3351 or instructor permission.

Requisites Must have completed one of the following: (MATH 2310 or 2315 or APMA 2120) AND (MATH 3315 or 3351 or 4651 or APMA 3080) AND (MATH 3250 or 3315 or 4250 or APMA 2130)

Credits: 3

MATH 4750 - Introduction to Knot Theory

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Examines the knotting and linking of curves in space. Studies equivalence of knots via knot diagrams and Reidemeister moves in order to define certain invariants for distinguishing among knots. Also considers knots as boundaries of surfaces and via algebraic structures arising from knots. Prerequisites: MATH 2310 and MATH 3351 and MATH 3354 or instructor permission.

Requisites Must have completed one of the following: MATH 2310 or 2315 or APMA 2120 and MATH 3351 or 4651 or 3315 or APMA 3080

Credits: 3

MATH 4770 - General Topology

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Topics include abstract topological spaces & continuous functions/connectedness/compactness/countability/separation axioms. Rigorous proofs emphasized. Covers myriad examples, i.e., function spaces/projective spaces/quotient spaces/Cantor sets/compactifications. May include intro to aspects of algebraic topology, i.e., the fundamental group. Prerequisites: MATH 2310, MATH 3310 and MATH 3351 or equivalent.

Requisites Student must have completed MATH 3310 or MATH 4310

Credits: 3

MATH 4840 - Introduction to Mathematical Research

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Effective Date 10/27/2015
This course will introduce students to the techniques and methods of mathematical research. Students will independently work with mathematical literature on a topic assigned by the instructor and present their findings in various formats (presentation, paper etc.).

Requisites Prerequisites: MATH 3310, MATH 3351 (or 4651), MATH 3354 (or 4652) and at least two of the following: APMA 3340, MATH 3340, MATH 4310, MATH 5330, MATH 4651, MATH 4652, MATH 5653, MATH 5720, MATH 5770

Credits: 3

MATH 4900 - Distinguished Major Thesis

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
This course provides a framework for the completion of a Distinguished Major Thesis, a treatise containing an exposition of a chosen mathematical topic. A faculty advisor guides a student through the beginning phases of the process of research and writing. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Distinguished Major Program.

Requisites Must be in Distinguished Major Program in Math

Credits: 3

MATH 4901 - Distinguished Major Thesis

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
This is the second semester of a two semester sequence for the purpose of the completion of a Distinguished Major Thesis. A faculty member guides the student through all phases of the process which culminates in an open presentation of the thesis to an audience including a faculty evaluation committee. Prerequisite: MATH 4900.

Requisites Must have completed MATH 4900

Credits: 3

MATH 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Reading and study programs in areas of interest to individual students. For third- and fourth-years interested in topics not covered in regular courses. Students must obtain a faculty advisor to approve and direct the program.

Credits: 1 to 3

Media Studies

Courses

MDST 150 - Special Topics in Media Studies

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Effective Date 05/01/2021
Special Topics in Media Studies.

Credits: 0

MDST 1559 - New Course in Media Studies

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Effective Date 03/22/2011
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Media Studies.

Credits: 3

MDST 2000 - Introduction to Media Studies

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This course is a survey introduction to the complex and increasingly pervasive impact of mass media in the U.S. and around the world. It provides a foundation for helping you to understand how mass media – as a business, as well as a set of texts – operates. The course also explores contextual issues – how media texts and businesses are received by audiences and by regulatory bodies.

Requisites MDST or 1st or 2nd Yr

Credits: 3 to 4

MDST 2010 - Introduction to Digital Media

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Effective Date 05/01/2015
The history, theory, practice and understanding of digital media. Provides a foundation for interrogating the relation of digital media to contemporary culture and understanding the function, design, and use of computers.

Requisites MDST or 1st or 2nd Yr

Credits: 3 to 4

MDST 2100 - Media, Culture and Society

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Explores the relationships among various forms of mass communication, social institutions and other dimensions of social life from a sociological perspective.

Credits: 3

MDST 2200 - Introduction to Film

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the variety of cinematic forms and genres as well as the history and theories behind them. Class work will include lecture and discussion groups. There will be two papers of approximately 4-5 pages and an online final exam. Papers will count for approximately 75% of the final grade, the final exam approximately 25%.

Credits: 3

MDST 2301 - Democracy in Danger

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Effective Date 09/22/2022
Democracy is in trouble today. Why? This course explores the growing threats to democracy in the United States and globally. Topics include: the impact of xenophobia, racism and radical nationalism on democracy; the rise of far-right media; the appeal of ethno-nationalism; the growth of White Power militias; legal barriers against voting, immigration and citizenship; as well as the impact of social media and cyber-based disinformation.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 2559 topic #13 Democracy in Danger or HIST 2559 topic #22 Democracy in Danger

Credits: 3

MDST 2305 - Podcasting, Radio and Sound Production

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Students will learn the practical components of podcast production including: audio recording and editing, sound mixing, script writing, interview techniques, and the final production of a podcast. In addition, students will critically analyze the components of radio/podcast features. The course includes a lecture component and lab time where the instructor will consult with students about their projects.

Requisites Media Studie majors

Credits: 3

MDST 2440 - Language and Cinema

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Effective Date 04/14/2011
Looks historically at speech and language in Hollywood movies, including the technological challenges and artistic theories and controversies attending the transition from silent to sound films. Focuses on the ways that gender, racial, ethnic, and national identities are constructed through the representation of speech, dialect, and accent. Introduces semiotics but requires no knowledge of linguistics, or film studies.

Credits: 3

MDST 2502 - Special Topics in Film Genre

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Effective Date 03/21/2013
This course will offer historical and critical perspectives on a selected film genre each semester. Genres might include Noir, war, romance, musicals, gangster, New Wave, etc.

Credits: 3

MDST 2508 - Topics in Media Practice

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Effective Date 11/16/2023
This course will provide practice-based learning opportunities for students in various forms of media, including video, podcasting, film, etc.

Credits: 1 to 4

MDST 2559 - New Course in Media Studies

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Media Studies.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 11/06/2014
Explores the concepts of community, nationalism, the public sphere, and social action in the context of the Internet and social media. Begins with a cultural history of the Internet and virtual community and then explores several ethnographic case studies of communities and social movements from around the world. Concludes with a consideration of the Internet as a political economic system. Students blog and conduct collaborative research.

Credits: 3

MDST 2690 - Sports Journalism

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This course will cover all manner of media as it relates to sports journalism. Students will analyze published work across various mediums, learn the tools for reporting and writing different types of coverage, including features, profiles, long-form, game stories and more. Students will write articles, interview subjects, analyze sports journalism, participate in peer reviews and hear from some of the most prominent figures in sports journalism.

Requisites Media Studies major/minor

Credits: 3

MDST 2700 - News Writing

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introductory course in news writing, emphasizing editorials, features, and reporting.

Credits: 3

MDST 2710 - Screenwriting

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
An introduction to the art and craft of screenwriting through the writing and discussion of short scripts. Will involve study of screenplays and films, and focus on the basic elements of screenwriting, including story structure, creation of character, and formatting. Prerequisite: Media studies major or instructor permission.

Requisites Media Studie majors

Credits: 3

MDST 2810 - Cinema As An Art Form

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
A course in visual thinking; introduces film criticism, concentrating on classic and current American and non-American films.

Credits: 3

MDST 2870 - Writing Film Criticism for Popular Consumption

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Effective Date 09/21/2021
Writing about film or television for the media provides a platform to both engender and enter into a cultural and aesthetic dialog by way of shared experience. This course explores what’s required for thoughtful, informed and engaged non-academic film criticism, including the obligation to understand the historical and contemporary landscapes of film, to write well and develop an individual voice, and to entertain and connect with a readership.

Credits: 3

MDST 3000 - Theory and Criticism of Media

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
This course introduces students at the beginning of the major to theoretical and critical literature in the field. Topics range from the psychological and sociological experience of media, interpretation and analysis of media forms and aesthetics, theories of audience and reception, anthropological approaches to media as a cultural force, and contemporary theories of media from humanities and social sciences perspectives. The goal of the course is to provide a foundation for thinking critically about media and to give them a sense of media studies as a critical and theoretical field. Restricted to Media Studies majors.

Requisites Distinguished Majors; MDST majors by instructor permission

Credits: 3

MDST 3050 - History of Media

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This is a hands-on introduction to global media history. The course situates technologies, industries, texts and programs in the context of social, cultural, and political changes. Students will acquire basic competencies in historical research and writing: developing research questions, evaluating secondary sources, selecting archives, querying databases, managing notes, citing sources, sharing resources, and communicating findings as a team.

Requisites MDST major/minor and must have completed MDST 2000

Credits: 3

MDST 3102 - Copyright, Culture and Commerce

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Effective Date 05/16/2016
In this course, we will discuss one of the most powerful social, cultural, economic and political institutions of our day: intellectual property (IP). How did we arrive at the notion that creative works and ideas can be owned, bought and sold like tangible commodities? What impact does this concept have on the way we view the world? How does it help us achieve our social goals, and how does it present obstacles to reaching those goals?

Credits: 3

MDST 3104 - Making (and Faking) the News

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
The course uses theories of social construction to examine the relationship between news and reality. With this as our framework, we apply various critical perspectives to examine the way news “reality” is constructed, from the discursive and semiotic frameworks used to present current events as “stories,” to how journalists make decisions about what is news, to the factors that structure news form and content.

Credits: 3

MDST 3105 - Latina/o Media Studies

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This course is designed to introduce students to critical analyses of media texts, media industries, and media audiences that help explain the social, political, economic, and cultural locations of Latinas/os in America.

Credits: 3

MDST 3106 - History of American Radio and Television

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
This course examines U.S. broadcasting in historical perspective, not only as an industry, but as a vital component of American culture and everyday life. We will examine the technological, social, political, industrial and cultural forces influencing the development of broadcast media and we will link these forces to the programs created and the audiences served. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 and restricted to Media Studies Majors and Minors

Credits: 3

MDST 3107 - Evolution of Media in Italy: From Unification to the Present

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
The course will explore the specific features of Italian mass media from the Unification to the present, considering how the press, cinema, radio, television and the Internet have affected and shaped Italian society. It will trace the evolution of Italian media in relation to key events such as the Risorgimento, Fascism, both World Wars, reconstruction and industrialization, and the political rise of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi.

Credits: 3

MDST 3108 - Media Law

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Effective Date 03/30/2021
This course uses audio, video, and text to explore the basics of media law: copyright; privacy; libel and defamation; and free speech. Students will be able to describe the tension between efforts to sustain an informed public and protect rights of expression; identify legal agents in the global system; identify powers and responsibilities of agents; grasp the basics of the 1st Amendment; and prepare for deeper analysis of these areas of law.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #118 Media Law

Credits: 3

MDST 3111 - Food Media and Popular Culture

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Effective Date 03/03/2022
Media representations of food across time and place offer a lens through which we can understand the cultural politics of food production, preparation, consumption and commercialization. Studying a range of food media genres, this course explores media storytelling around food, along with the racial, ethnic, gendered, class, and trans/national complexities that characterize our food narratives. A word of advice-do not to come to our class hungry!

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #125 Food, Media, & Popular Culture

Credits: 3

MDST 3115 - Breaking Bad: Once Upon a Time with the Pests

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
The course explores Breaking Bad through study of the show’s narrative, characters, and formal design. Topics examined include: socio-economic anxieties and spiritual longings in contemporary America; the political and religious implications of addiction to speed (technological and pharmacutical); the show as revisionary Puritan narrative and revisionary Western; the problem of being bugged; the desire to get away with it; the poetry of W.W.

Credits: 3

MDST 3120 - Global Media & Cybersecurity

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Effective Date 10/03/2016
This course will use cases from around the world to examine the relationship between media and cybersecurity. The course will analyze criminal hacks of media production companies, how cybercrimes are represented in popular media, and how media use exposes users to risk of cybercrimes.

Credits: 3

MDST 3140 - Mass Media and American Politics

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
Examines the role of mass media in the political process including such topics as print and broadcast news, media and election campaigns, political advertising, and media effects on public opinion and political participation.

Credits: 3

MDST 3201 - New German Cinema

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
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

MDST 3205 - New Latin American Cinema

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
This course provides a historical and critical perspective on Latin American Cinema (LAC), with an emphasis on LAC’s relationship to Third Cinema, revolutionary cinema, and contemporary progressive filmic cinematic forms and traditions.

Credits: 3

MDST 3206 - Documentary Film

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
The course examines the different ways documentary filmmakers have attempted to represent reality. The course surveys the development of different ‘modes’ of documentary and the different ways these modes claim representational authority. Throughout, we will be conscious of the particular truth claims of documentary and the ethical issues involved in filming real people.

Credits: 3

MDST 3207 - Experimental Ethnography & FIlm

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Effective Date 03/24/2021
This course explores film and other experimental modes of research to consider the multiplicities of knowledge and being in the world. We work with ethnography, anthropology’s mode of investigation, to consider the capacity for experimentation to engage with the diverse range of human and non-human experiences and materialities, in nuanced, dynamic and imaginative ways. In addition to film, we will also consider & work with other creative modes.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #117 Experimental Ethnology

Credits: 3

MDST 3230 - Basic Multimedia Reporting

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Basic Multimedia Reporting teaches the hands on skills required for professional level news reporting, news production and short documentaries. Students may choose to specialize in Written Journalism, TV Journalism or Production. However, all students learn proficiency in research, news writing, ethics, camera use, video editing, and where requested, broadcast presentation skills.

Credits: 3

MDST 3281 - Reimagining the News

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Effective Date 03/24/2023
In this course, we will explore the obstacles confronting the news industry – disinformation, declining trust in institutions, eroding business models, inequitable practices – but we won’t dwell on what’s gone wrong. Instead, we’ll focus on what can be done about it. We’ll define the role of journalism in society, we’ll examine emerging models of solutions-based journalism, and we’ll envision new models for community-minded news-sharing.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #139 Reimagining the News

Credits: 3

MDST 3306 - Sexuality, Gender, Class and Race in the Teen Film

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Effective Date 11/11/2011
The focus of this class will be on viewings and analyses of films featuring images of teens produced between 1930 and the present, focusing on the following questions: what is adolescence (and how has it been defined in American film)? What is the range of experience that characterizes American adolescence across gender, race, and class lines? How does it make sense to think about the social influence of films on individuals and society?

Credits: 3

MDST 3307 - Animated Media

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Effective Date 08/02/2022
This course considers how animation and cartoons have historically been translated into the media of cinema and television. Focal points will be: Disney in traditional cinema animation, Hanna-Barbera in the broadcast television cartoon, Nickelodeon in cable television cartoons, and Pixar in digital cinema animation. Students will also practice creative and technical processes involved in making animation, individually and collectively.

Credits: 3

MDST 3320 - The Politics of Video Games

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Effective Date 11/07/2017
Video gaming is the fastest growing form of media: Americans spend twice as much on gaming as on recorded music and it is estimated that young men average over 670 hours a year playing video games. Yet we know relatively little about the broader social and political impact of this new medium. This class will sample the existing literature and explore ways of understanding the political implications (broadly defined) of gaming.

Credits: 3

MDST 3338 - New Cinema History: Nontheatrical Films

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
This course studies nontheatrical films such as public relations films, management films, educational films, industrial films, and government-sponsored films. We will treat film as visual evidence to explore social, cultural, political, and industrial information across historical periods. Besides learning historiographical method to study cinema, students will examine representations of sex/gender, race/ethnicity, class, and religion.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #141 New Cinema History

Credits: 3

MDST 3355 - Border Media

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Effective Date 12/09/2016
In this course we consider the depiction of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspective of popular and mass media cultures. We examine the border as a site of cultural exchanges, resistance and critical negotiation; interchanges that impact the construction of race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender from both sides of the border.

Credits: 3

MDST 3375 - History of Music and Broadcasting in the US

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Effective Date 05/05/2017
The history of popular music in the U.S. is intimately intertwined with broadcasting. The relationship between “radio and records” has been one of mutual dependence and abiding antagonism. Students will learn how this relationship developed historically, and will consider its continuing evolution. Our narrative will include the effects of legal decisions and technological innovations on music-making; on broadcasting; and on music consumption.

Credits: 3

MDST 3380 - Music, Sound, and Culture

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Effective Date 11/20/2023
A study of media and culture through music. Our focus is on tracing the cultural origins of popular genres of music, mostly across the 20th century history of the United States. We will listen to the sounds of classical, jazz, country, pop, rock, hip hop, and electronic music. Central themes include instrument, identity, lyric, style, industry, and distribution media. Students will also practice making their own music.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #143 Music, Sound and Culture

Credits: 3

MDST 3388 - Friday Night Lights

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Effective Date 02/15/2024
This course will explore the TV show Friday Night Lights through study of its narrative, characters, themes, filming style and the media’s response. Through episodic examinations, students will explore topics such as: team versus individual, the role of a coach, race and gender relations, socioeconomic and class structures identified through sport, the significance of high school football, and the media’s role/influence in telling those stories.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #136 Friday Night Lights

Credits: 3

MDST 3402 - War and the Media

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
This course examines media coverage of American wars from World War I to the present. Study of the evolution in media coverage of war provides an ideal vantage point for understanding the changing nature of warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries, war’s impact on American society, and the ways in which political elites have attempted to mobilize public support for foreign conflicts. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MDST 3404 - Democratic Politics in the New Media Environment

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
This course examines the ways a changing media system is altering the dynamics of public discourse and democratic politics in the United States. Throughout the course we will critically analyze the ways in which scholars from a wide range of disciplines have studied the connection between media and politics, the methods they have employed, and the validity of their findings and approaches in the new media environment in which we now live. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MDST 3405 - Media Policy and Law

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
This course examines the constitutional, legal and regulatory foundations common to print, broadcast media and the Internet. An overview of topics such as libel, invasion of privacy, obscenity and copyright helps students understand forces that shape news and information they receive and prepares them to use media more effectively as citizens, voters and entrepreneurs in an increasingly complex multimedia world.

Credits: 3

MDST 3406 - The Wire: Understanding Urban America Through Television at Its Best

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Effective Date 11/11/2011
This class explores HBO’s The Wire as an examination of race, class, and economic change in urban America. We examine the series as a creative work which balances a commitment to realism with the demands of television drama. Students will view episodes of The Wire and read material on urban America, the changing contours of television, and the series itself. Requisites: Permission of Instructor

Credits: 3

MDST 3407 - Racial Borders & American Cinema

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Effective Date 03/27/2017
The history of American cinema is inextricably and controversially tied to the racial politics of the U.S. This course will explore how images of racial and ethnic minorities such as African Americans, Jews, Asians, Native Americans and Latino/as are reflected on screen and the ways that minorities in the entertainment industry have responded to often limiting representations. Prerequisite: MDST Major

Requisites Media Studie majors

Credits: 3

MDST 3409 - LGBTQ Issues in the Media

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Effective Date 11/22/2013
This course will explore the complex cultural dynamics of LGBTQ media visibility, along with its social, political, and psychological implications for LGBTQ audiences. It explores four domains: (1) the question of LGBT media visibility (2) the complex processes of inclusion, normalization, and assimilation in popular culture (3) media industries and the LGBT market (4) the relationship between digital media, LGBT audiences, and everyday life.

Requisites MDST UNDERG

Credits: 3

MDST 3410 - Media Ethics

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
This course provides students a familiarity with the terrain of moral philosophy, improves students’ awareness of the complex ethical issues and dilemmas in journalism and other areas of mass media, and engages students in the process of critical thinking, moral reasoning and problem solving in media communications. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MDST 3420 - Media and Power in Iran

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Effective Date 05/05/2017
Successive Iranian leaders have struggled to navigate the fraught political-cultural space of media in the Islamic Republic, skirting the line between embracing Western communications technologies & rejecting them, between condemning social networking sites & promoting themselves on Facebook. What is the role of media in political power construction in Iran? This class will consider this question through a number of inflection points in history.

Credits: 3

MDST 3430 - Rendering AI: Cinema and Artificial Intelligence

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Effective Date 09/22/2022
This course examines film renderings of artificial intelligence to foster critical perspectives on AI’s entanglement with human experiences (e.g., of identity, work, privacy, sex, aging, memory, death). Issues raised will include: the political economics of computational culture; the ethics of algorithmic tracking systems; the religious underpinnings of AI’s promise to deliver efficient transport (of information, services, goods, passengers).

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #110 Cinema and AI or MDST 3510 topic #5 Cinema and AI

Credits: 3

MDST 3460 - What Does It Mean to Be Local in the Digital Age?

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Effective Date 09/18/2020
We will investigate the dynamics between democracy, capitalism, communication, and localism, attempting to understand the place of place, communities, cities, towns, states, nations, and regions in an increasingly-complicated and technologically-mediated world. It challenges students to think beyond geography and place, and to consider what “local” means to them and in their connection to the larger world.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #108 Local in the Digital Age

Credits: 3

MDST 3490 - Just Kiddin’: Comedy & Humor Across Media

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Effective Date 09/21/2021
This course explores humorous and comedic texts and performances across a variety of media forms in America. We will begin by understanding theories of comedy and the logic of jokes alongside histories of comedians and humorous tropes and aesthetics. Examining a variety of content, we will discover how American comedy offers a rich relationship between creative expression and sociopolitical critique across different media and contexts.

Credits: 3

MDST 3500 - Topics in the History of Media

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Effective Date 07/20/2023
Topics have historical breadth and cover the historical development of media institutions, technology, or forms in areas of television, journalism, graphic media, film, print and publication history, digital media or other relevant areas. These courses may be repeated for credit if course content is sufficiently distinct to merit. Decision about repeated credit is at the discretion of the Director of Media Studies. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

MDST 3501 - Special Topics in Directors and Auteurs

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Effective Date 02/20/2023
This course will offer historical, comparative, and critical perspectives on a selected major directors and auteurs each semester. Directors might include Hitchcock, Welles, Heckerling, Ray, Speilberg, Renoir, Truffaut, etc.

Credits: 3

MDST 3502 - Special Topics in Film Genre

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Effective Date 09/05/2023
This course will offer historical and critical perspectives on a selected film genre each semester. Genres might include Noir, war, romance, musicals, gangster, New Wave, etc.

Credits: 3

MDST 3503 - Special Topics - Issues and Controversies in Media

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
This course will consider recent and current controversies in media and media studies. It surveys a series of “hot” topics within media. In each case it examines issues both historically and theoretically. The purpose of the course is to provide students with the tools and habits of thought to delve into the background and issues surrounding controveries so that the shallow presentation of the controversy does not remain the dominant frame.

Credits: 3

MDST 3504 - Topics in Global Media

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Effective Date 10/16/2023
This course offers historical, comparative, critical, and media industry perspectives on global media. It explores how capital, geopolitics, new technologies and forms of production and consumption impact global media flows. Topics include studies of media systems, textual traditions, media circulation, globalization, the role of media technologies in international affairs, and the role of transnationalism in national and international affairs.

Requisites MDST UNDERG

Credits: 3

MDST 3505 - Special Topics in Diversity and Identity in Media

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Effective Date 03/01/2023
This course will offer historical, comparative, and critical perspectives on issues of diversity and identity in media studies. Topics may include the relationship between media and underrepresented groups, media use in identity construction, masculinity and feminine role models in media, media power, etc. Prerequisite: MDST Major and Minors or Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

MDST 3508 - Advanced Topics in Media Practice

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Effective Date 08/19/2022
This practice-based course will build on previous knowledge and/or experience in various forms of media, including video, podcasting, film, etc.

Credits: 3

MDST 3510 - Topics in Media Research

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Effective Date 03/22/2024
This hands-on course prepares students to read, evaluate, and design research in media studies. Drawing on critical, historical, administrative, and industrial traditions in the field, students will learn to assess the validity and anticipate the ethical requirements of various methods & data collection procedures. Following a theme selected by the instructor, the course culminates with each student proposing a new, original research study.

Requisites Third year MDST majors

Credits: 3

MDST 3559 - New Course in Media Studies

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Effective Date 05/17/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Media Studies.

Credits: 3

MDST 3584 - Global Cinema

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Effective Date 07/01/2020
This course entails study of films originating from and/or identified with non-US nations and cultures. Topics include: introduction to a nation’s cinematic achievements (e.g., Korean cinema); in-depth study of one or more influential cinematic movements (e.g., French New Wave; Italian Neo-Realism); exploration of a particular historical period (e.g., German silent cinema). The course fulfills the non-US requirement for the Media Studies major.

Credits: 3

MDST 3600 - Women and Television

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Effective Date 09/07/2017
Examines how television addresses women, how it represents women, and how women respond to the medium. Explores the relationship between the female audience and television by focusing on both contemporary and historical issues. Areas of particular concern include: how women have responded to television as technology; how specific genres have targeted women; how female-focused specialty channels have addressed women; and how specific programming and genres have mediated the changing status of women from the 1950s to the present. Prerequisite: MDST 2000 or instructor permission.

Requisites MDST UNDERG

Credits: 3

MDST 3602 - Television, New Media, and Society

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Effective Date 04/13/2012
For the last 60 years, TV has been one of the most important cultural forms in the American mediascape. Mindful of this past, this course will explore contemporary issues in television studies as we enter the digital age. How does time-shifting technology fundamentally alter our conceptions of TV? What does Hulu mean for the television industry? What does the emergence of ‘quality TV’ imply imply aboutTV’s rich past as ashared cultural product?

Credits: 3

MDST 3605 - New York Media Cultures

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Effective Date 09/18/2020
This course investigates the mediated city spaces through the case of New York City. City spaces are often characterized by their appearance in the media, especially in cinema. Martin Scorcese has given us a sense of New York through midtown Manhattan, Woody Allen depicts New York through the upper east side and Spike Lee uses the outer boroughs of New York City for his films. This course presents a range of questions on this topic. Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #104 New York Media Cultures.

Credits: 3

MDST 3630 - Screening Terrorism

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Effective Date 09/20/2013
This course examines contemporary cinematic & televisual representations of terrorism. It aims to do the following: to promote critical awareness of the ways in which terrorism is depicted on screen, particularly in the post-9/11 world; to encourage exploration of the complex ways in which real acts of terror involve performance & theatrics; to address the ethics and responsibilities of film and TV in re-creating acts of terror on screen.

Credits: 3

MDST 3640 - American Gangster Film

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Effective Date 09/20/2013
This course offers in-depth examination of American gangster films, tracing the genre’s development from early silent film to the present. It investigates the extensive influence the genre has had on the nature of the American film industry and explores how the representation of gangster life on screen articulates crucial anxieties, frustrations, and desires circulating in American society at the time of the film’s creation.

Credits: 3

MDST 3650 - Shooting the Western

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Effective Date 09/20/2013
This course provides an overview of the enduring genre of the American Western in its classic and revised forms. The course will address the social and historical contexts informing the films. Students will be asked to perform both cultural and formal analysis of the cinematic texts.

Credits: 3

MDST 3662 - Disability and Media

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Effective Date 09/05/2019
Disability is a pervasive, yet little studied, dimension of popular media. This class considers the stereotypes, interventions, and politics of on-screen images of disability as well as the ways in which disability affects the production and reception of media texts and technologies. Thus, we will watch a range of disability media, engage with disability cultures, and consider necessary additions to media experience (such as close captioning).

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3505 topic 5: Disability & Media

Credits: 3

MDST 3665 - Digital Media Accessibility

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Effective Date 09/05/2019
Accessibility–building digital technologies that they can be used by people with disabilities–involves specific technological, critical, and interpersonal skills. This teaches practical web development skills alongside theoretical questions about the meanings of access, disability, design and the ethics of technological innovation.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic 105: Digital Media Accessibility

Credits: 3

MDST 3670 - Sports, Media and Society

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Effective Date 04/05/2016
This course will explore the role that sports have played in the development of media and society, primarily but not exclusively in the United States. It will consider such issues as amateurism, labor, performance-enhancing drugs, race, gender, sexuality, body image, and the role of sports within American universities. Prerequisite: MDST 2000.

Requisites Must have completed MDST 2000

Credits: 3

MDST 3680 - The News Media

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This course will examine how the US news media is organized, what gets news coverage and why, and the role the news media plays in our democracy. Issues will include the impact of the digital news revolution, the importance of who owns the media, the differences between the many types of TV news and why the students’ personal consumption of news matters. Students will gain an ability to analyze the news, and whether it helps them as citizen.

Requisites Media Studie majors

Credits: 3

MDST 3690 - Sports Journalism

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This course will cover all manner of media as it relates to sports journalism. Students will analyze published work across various mediums, learn the tools for reporting and writing different types of coverage, including features, profiles, long-form, game stories and more. Students will write articles, interview subjects, analyze sports journalism, participate in peer reviews and hear from some of the most prominent figures in sports journalism.

Credits: 3

MDST 3700 - Newswriting II

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This advanced newswriting course trains students to practice ‘point-of-view’ journalism, and to understand it as a controversial but credible alternative to the dominant model of ‘objectivity’ on the part of the news media. Prerequisite: Basic newswriting course and/or experience working on college newspaper (or equivalent) or literary maga- or e-zine.

Credits: 3

MDST 3701 - New Media Culture

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
A survey of issues in the study of new media and of new media artifacts. Objects studied may include films with digital special effects, digital animation, digital video, video games, digital art, internet art, and others. Theories of new media, media art, media change. Taught primarily via discussion with some lectures. Short papers, class participation, final project. Prerequisite: one course in Media Studies, English, Art History, or a related discipline.

Credits: 3

MDST 3703 - Introduction to the Digital Liberal Arts

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
Students will gain a practical and critical introduction to key technologies that are shaping research, innovation, and critical thinking across the liberal arts curriculum: specific technologies, including a programming language, that will empower them to better envision and develop technology-mediated projects in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Students will reflect on the history and discourse in these areas.

Credits: 3

MDST 3704 - Games and Play

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course is an introduction to the field of Game Studies, surveying theories of play and research on contemporary videogames to non-digital, analog, and “folk games.” Historic tensions and debates in game studies will form the foundation for the course, then students will engage with game studies as inherently interdisciplinary, developing novel research projects on games and play as well as interrogating their own play experiences.

Credits: 3

MDST 3705 - Code, Language, and Media

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Effective Date 02/15/2012
Introduction to the theory and practice of the database as media form in the context of the digital liberal arts. Students review critical literature about databases, study examples of their use in projects from a variety of disciplines, and engage in the actual design of a database application as a course project. Topics include cross-cultural modes of classification, data models, big data, visualization, and building web-based databases.

Credits: 3

MDST 3706 - Media in China: Technology, Policy and Commerce

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Effective Date 09/29/2014
The growth of media industries in China sits at the intersection between commerce, technology and policy. The objective of the course is to cultivate a rigorous understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of these three areas within the context of China’s global expansion. Students will also be expected to develop fresh critical perspectives on the significance of analysis of industry practice as a means to critique media texts.

Credits: 3

MDST 3710 - Comics & Sequential Art

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Effective Date 10/10/2019
This course addresses the medium of comics, including comic books, graphic novels, la bande dessinee, fumetti, and manga. Addressing comics as media, we will investigate comics form, publishing, creative movements, and adaptations into televisual media. Students will engage with primary comics sources, comic studies scholarship, and each others’ creative work.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #100 Comics and Sequential Art

Credits: 3

MDST 3712 - Interactive Storytelling

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Effective Date 11/26/2019
This course approaches the design and creation of “interactive stories.” Over the term, students will develop prototypes of multiple interactive storytelling media (interactive fiction, games, simulations, scenarios), balancing an understanding of the scholarship on interactive narrative with individualized design goals. No experience with game design or programming is required.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #99 Interactive Storytelling

Credits: 3

MDST 3720 - Social Media and Global South Societies

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Effective Date 10/11/2019
This course studies the relationship between social media and Global South societies. Students in this course will analyze the various theories related to the effects and affordances of social media on ideological polarization, social influence, social capital, and social movements. Students will be required to look beyond positive/negative effects of social media, and conduct in-depth interrogations about issues that surround them.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 t#107 Social Media and GS Societies

Credits: 3

MDST 3740 - Cultures of Hip-Hop

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Effective Date 12/09/2016
This course explores the origins and impacts of American hip-hop as a cultural form in the last forty years, and maps the ways that a local subculture born of an urban underclass has risen to become arguably the dominant form of 21st-century global popular culture. While primarily focused on music, we will also explore how forms such as dance, visual art, film, and literature have influenced and been influenced by hip-hop style and culture.

Credits: 3

MDST 3742 - Athletes, Activism and the Media

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Effective Date 03/03/2022
This course examines the history of athletes as activists and the media’s coverage and understanding (and at times, misunderstanding?) of those movements. How did the media cover early protests and activism from athletes? How has that coverage changed in subsequent years? How have movements paralleled larger movements (MeToo, Black Lives Matter)? We will also look at political ties to athlete activism, examining how each sphere affects the other.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #123 Athletes, Activism and Media

Credits: 3

MDST 3750 - Money, Media, and Technology

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Money is one of the oldest media technologies in the world, but in recent years a variety of experiments from Venmo to Bitcoin have emerged, promising to reinvent the form of money itself. This class looks at the historical, social, and cultural dimensions of money as a media technology.

Credits: 3

MDST 3751 - Value, Values, Valuation

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Effective Date 02/07/2019
Measuring “value” is an important feature of media industries and contemporary life more broadly. This class asks how value is determined, according to what value systems, through what systems of valuation. We will look at taste, metrics, reviews, awards, likes, retweets, and ratings, to try to understand how people answer the question, “What is valuable?”

Requisites Must have completed MDST 2000

Credits: 3

MDST 3755 - Social Media and Society

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Effective Date 10/05/2017
This class examines computer-mediated communication forms known as “social media.” What makes these technologies “social” or “media”? From algorithms to selfies, most aspects of social media have been met with both moral panics and utopian pronouncements. Students will develop a set of critical frames and analytical methods for understanding the role of social media in society.

Credits: 3

MDST 3757 - Design, Technology, Media

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Effective Date 09/25/2019
This course will introduce Media Studies students to– but also critique– the theory and practice of design thinking and research in media. There will be a strong practice component. No technical skills required.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic 98: Media, Technology, Design

Credits: 3

MDST 3760 - Reading Black Digital Culture

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Using a mix of scholarly and popular-press readings and an examination of digital artifacts, we will analyze the creations and contributions of Black digital culture from the mid-90s to the present. Covering topics including the early Black blogosphere; the creation of niche content sites like BlackPlanet.com; the emergence of Black Twitter; the circulation of memes, and the use second-screening.

Credits: 3

MDST 3800 - Field Experience in Media Studies

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Effective Date 09/08/2016
Provides an opportunity for students to get credit for field work, in the area of media studies. Students must put a proposal together for the project with a faculty sponsor, which must be approved by the add/drop deadlines. Restricted to Media Studies Majors.

Requisites Media Studie majors

Credits: 1

MDST 3801 - Research in Practice

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Effective Date 11/03/2014
This is a course designed specially for MDST students pursuing a DMP. This course blends a traditional internship experience with in-the-field research and allows students to have a critical understanding of the media organization in which they intern. Students who wish to pursue MDST 3801 must apply to the Director of the Program who oversees and supervises the course. MDST 3801 is available only to students who are part of the MDST DMP.

Requisites Distinguished Majors; MDST majors by instructor permission

Credits: 3

MDST 3809 - New Media in New York

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
Examines why New York City remains the center of global journalism.

Credits: 3

MDST 3811 - History of American Broadcast News

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Effective Date 03/03/2022
This course traces the development of national news broadcasting in the United States from the 1920s to the present.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #122 American Broadcast News

Credits: 3

MDST 3830 - History of Film I

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
Analyzes the development of the silent film, 1895 to 1928; emphasizes the technical and thematic links between national schools of cinema art and the contributions of individual directors. Includes weekly film screenings.

Credits: 3

MDST 3840 - History of Film II

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Effective Date 05/01/2023
Analyzes the development of film as an art and social force from World War II until the 1970s. Includes weekly film screenings. Pre-requisites: MDST 2200 or 3830, or instructor permission.

Requisites Must have completed MDST 2200 or MDST 3830

Credits: 3

MDST 3850 - History of Film III

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
A history of narrative, documentary and experimental film, 1955-77. Developments in the aesthetics of film are examined in the context of socio-economic, political and cultural conditions specific to different historical moments. Includes weekly film screenings. Students should have completed DRAM/MDST 3830 and 3840 prior to requesting permission to enroll. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

MDST 3883 - Superhero Media

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Effective Date 03/03/2022
This course addresses the genre of the “superhero” across multiple media, looking at its roots in myth, its rise in print media and comics, its adaptation in television and film, and its current role as the driver of multi-billion-dollar transmedia franchises. This course addresses scholarly perspectives drawn from media industries research, transmedia storytelling, media representation, and other related media studies areas.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #121 Superhero Media

Credits: 3

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Courses

ARAB 116 - Intensive Introductory Arabic

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
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: 0

ARAB 126 - Intensive Introductory Arabic

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
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: 0

ARAB 216 - Intensive Intermediate Arabic

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This intensive course begins with instruction in basic intermediate level expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute.

Credits: 0

ARAB 226 - Intensive Intermediate Arabic

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This intensive course begins with instruction in basic intermediate level expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute.

Credits: 0

ARAB 256 - Introduction to Levantine Arabic-I

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Effective Date 05/01/2014
This course intends to introduce the students to colloquial Levantine Arabic by enabling them to communicate in Levantine Arabic, the colloquial spoken in Syria, Lebanon, the Holy Land, and Western Jordan Prerequisite: First Year Arabic

Credits: 0

ARAB 266 - Introduction to Levantine Arabic-II

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Effective Date 05/01/2014
This course intends to introduce the students to colloquial Levantine Arabic by enabling them to communicate in Levantine Arabic, the colloquial spoken in Syria, Lebanon, the Holy Land, and Western Jordan Prerequisite: First year Arabic and ARAB 0256/2256

Credits: 0

ARAB 1010 - Elementary Arabic

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Introduction to the sound and writing systems of Arabic, including basic sentence structure and morphological patterns. A combination of the direct, audio-lingual, proficiency-based, and translation methods is used. The format consists of classroom discussions of a certain grammatical point followed by intensive practice.

Credits: 4

ARAB 1016 - Intensive Introductory Arabic

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Effective Date 02/01/2010
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

ARAB 1020 - Elementary Arabic

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Introduction to the sound and writing systems of Arabic, including basic sentence structure and morphological patterns. A combination of the direct, audio-lingual, proficiency-based, and translation methods is used. The format consists of classroom discussions of a certain grammatical point followed by intensive practice. Prerequisite: ARAB 1010 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

ARAB 1026 - Intensive Introductory Arabic

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Effective Date 02/01/2010
This intensive course begins with instruction in basic oral expression, listening comprehension, elementary reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills at the intermediate level. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: ARAB 1016 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

ARAB 1060 - Accelerated Elementary Arabic

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Effective Date 03/26/2024
This course is intended for students with native or near-native speaking ability in Arabic, but with little or no reading and writing ability in Standard Arabic (MSA). The course focuses on reading and writing Arabic and aim to help students to: (a) achieve control of the Arabic sounds, (b) be able to write and speak in MSA, (c) and express themselves clearly in written form on a variety of topics using learned grammar patterns and vocabulary.

Credits: 4

ARAB 1559 - New Course in Arabic

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Effective Date 04/15/2016
New Course in Arabic

Credits: 1 to 6

ARAB 2010 - Intermediate Arabic

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Continues training in modern standard Arabic, with emphasis on speaking, comprehension, writing, and reading. The method of teaching primarily follows the proficiency-based approach to language learning. Prerequisite: for ARAB 2010: ARAB 1020 or equivalent, or instructor permission; for ARAB 2020: ARAB 2010 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 4

ARAB 2016 - Intensive Intermediate Arabic

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Effective Date 02/01/2010
This intensive course begins with instruction in basic intermediate level expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequistes: ARAB 1016 & 1026 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

ARAB 2020 - Intermediate Arabic

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Continues training in modern standard Arabic, with emphasis on speaking, comprehension, writing, and reading. The method of teaching primarily follows the proficiency-based approach to language learning. Prerequisite: for ARAB 2010: ARAB 1020 or equivalent, or instructor permission; for ARAB 2020: ARAB 2010 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 4

ARAB 2026 - Intensive Intermediate Arabic

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Effective Date 02/01/2010
This intensive course begins with instruction in intermediate level oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing, and continues with further development of these four skills. Part of the Summer Language Institute. Prerequisites: ARAB 1016 , 1026 & 2016 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

ARAB 2250 - Conversational Arabic

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces students to spoken Arabic, with oral production highly emphasized. Prerequisite: ARAB 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ARAB 2256 - Introduction to Colloquial Arabic I

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Effective Date 05/01/2019
This course intends to introduce students to a variety of colloquial Arabic by enabling them to communicate with native speakers in the region where this variety is spoken. The focus will be on vocabulary and expressions used in daily life. Prerequisite: ARAB 1010 and ARAB 1020, or instructor’s permission.

Credits: 0.5

ARAB 2266 - Introduction to Colloquial Arabic II

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Effective Date 05/01/2019
This course is a continuation of ARAB 2256. The course intends to introduce students to a variety of colloquial Arabic by enabling them to communicate with native speakers in the region where this variety is spoken. The focus will be on the vocabulary and expressions used in daily life. Prerequisite: ARAB 1010, ARAB 1020, and ARAB 2256. or instructor’s permission

Credits: 0.5

ARAB 3010 - Advanced Arabic I

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
The goal of this course is to increase the student’s knowledge of the Arabic language and culture via a communicative-based approach, meaning that though the students will be expected to learn grammatical structures emphasis will be placed on the functional usage of the language and on communication in context. Prerequisites: ARAB 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ARAB 3019 - Language House Conversation

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
For students residing in the Arabic group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1

ARAB 3020 - Advanced Arabic II

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
The goal of this course is to increase the student’s knowledge of the Arabic language and culture via a communicative-based approach, meaning that though the students will be expected to learn grammatical structures emphasis will be placed on the functional usage of the language and on communication in context. Prerequisites: ARAB 3010 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ARAB 3230 - Arabic Conversation and Composition

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
Using a communicatively oriented, proficiency-based approach the course will focus on the communicative prodution skills (speaking and writing) in the language through a combination of interactive classroom activities, take-home assignments and group work. Emphasis will be on the development of these two skills. Students will also be introduced to aspects of the Arab culture to build cultural awareness and communicative competence.

Requisites Must have completed ARAB 2020

Credits: 3

ARAB 3240 - Advanced Arabic Conversation and Composition

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Develops oral and written proficiency to an advanced level of fluency, with emphasis on speaking and writing. Prerequisite: ARAB 3230 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ARAB 3259 - Advanced Arabic for Business

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Effective Date 10/22/2021
The course aims to provide advanced training in developing linguistic and communicative skills in business Arabic. The business topics cover data & communication, finance, insurance, law & contract, research & production, marketing, transport, travel, meetings, and conferences. Instructor permission.

Requisites Must have completed ARAB 2020

Credits: 3

ARAB 3330 - Arabic of the Quran and Hadith I

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the language of the Quran and its exegesis, and the Hadith. Prerequisite: ARAB 2020 or higher, or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

ARAB 3559 - New Course in Arabic

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Effective Date 12/07/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Arabic.

Credits: 1 to 4

ARAB 3672 - Review of Arabic Grammar

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
In this course students will develop a mastery of core items relevant to Modern Standard Arabic grammar, a mastery which will enable them to produce discreet, sophisticated sentences, as well as to compose paragraphs and essays, all while utilizing the grammar points covered in this class. Those interested in taking this course are required to have completed ARAB 2020 or equivalent, or to receive approval of instructor.

Credits: 3

ARAB 3810 - Modern Arabic Fiction

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Students are introduced to twentieth-century Arabic fiction, and to the varied genres of prose including letters, memoirs, short stories, travelogues, and novels. Topics include autobiography, war and nation construction, fantasy, and political and sexual identity crises. Students become acquainted with different schools of modern Arabic literary criticism, and learn to analyze texts using critical analysis and specific theoretical terminology. Prerequisite: ARAB 3020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ARAB 4010 - Advanced Arabic III

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Effective Date 08/01/2009
The main goal at this stage is to reach a superior level of Modern Standard Arabic with due attention paid to all four language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing in addition to culture. Acquisition of more advanced grammatical structures will take place primarily through directed in-class drilling, coupled with an emphasis on the functional use of language through communication in context. Prerequisite: ARAB 3020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

ARAB 4020 - Advanced Arabic IV

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
The main goal at this stage is to reach a superior level of Modern Standard Arabic with due attention paid to all four language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing in addition to culture. Acquisition of more advanced grammatical structures will take place primarily through directed in-class drilling, coupled with an emphasis on the functional use of language through communication in context.

Credits: 3

ARAB 4120 - Introduction to Arabic Drama

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Effective Date 10/18/2010
This course introduces students to modern Arabic drama from the early pioneers’ period in the 20th century to the contemporary era. We will study different forms of this genre including: musicals, traditional, experimental, feminist, and social drama. Further, students become acquainted with different schools of modern Arabic literary criticism and learn to analyze dramatic texts using critical analysis and specific theoretical terminology. Prerequisites: ARAB 5830 or 5840, or instructor’s permission.

Credits: 3

ARAB 4230 - Love, War, and Diaspora in Hoda Barakat’s Writings

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Effective Date 02/26/2015
In this course, we will examine the themes of love, war, and diaspora in the literature of the Lebanese writer, Hoda Barakat. Some of the topics that will interest us are: the role of the author as a witness to the Lebanese civil war, the challenges of rewriting history, recreating the homeland’s image in diasporic locales, collective and individual memories and its role in trauma recall and testimony.

Credits: 3

ARAB 4245 - Readings in Classical Arabic Prose

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Effective Date 05/05/2017
Students will gain insight and learn to appreciate some of the most influential “Arab” literary figures and some of the most celebrated classical Arabic prose masterpieces. Students will also broaden their critical and comparative perspectives with regard to some of the most important literary and cultural issues related to the overall poetics and politics of the Arabic-Islamic heritage. Prereq: ARAB 3020 or Instructor Permission.

Requisites Must have completed ARAB 3020

Credits: 3

ARAB 4450 - The Other in Premodern Arabic Sources

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Effective Date 10/03/2016
This course explores the unduly studied corpus of Arabic writings that describes the encounters with and perception of the Other. Much effort will be devoted to investigate medieval and early modern Arab-Muslim views of the Other in a cross-generic selection of non-religious Arabic prose such as travelogues, diplomatic memoirs, captivity reports, marvels, folktales, literary debates/boasting, and poetry. Prerequisite: ARAB 3020

Requisites Must have completed ARAB 3020

Credits: 3

ARAB 4559 - New Course in Arabic

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Effective Date 03/28/2016
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Arabic.

Credits: 1 to 4

ARAB 4993 - Independent Study in Arabic

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Independent Study in Arabic

Credits: 1 to 3

ARTR 3245 - Arabic Literary Delights

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Effective Date 02/08/2016
In this course, we will venture into the fascinating words and worlds of premodern Arab-Islamic leisure and pleasure. We will focus specifically on the literary representation of and socio-cultural/theosophical debate on humor, pleasantry, wit, frivolity, eating, feasting, banquets crashing, dietetics, erotology, aphrodisiacs, sexual education and hygiene.

Credits: 3

ARTR 3290 - Modern Arabic Literature in Translation

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
Introduction to the development and themes of modern Arabic literature (poetry, short stories, novels and plays). Taught in English.

Credits: 3

ARTR 3350 - Introduction to Arab Women’s Literature

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
A comprehensive overview of contemporary Arab women’s literature, this course examines all Arab women’s literary genres starting from personal letters, memoirs, speeches, poetry, fiction, drama, to journalistic articles and interviews. Selected texts cover various geographic locales and theoretical perspectives. Special emphasis will be given to the issues of Arab female authorship, subjectivity theory, and to the question of Arab Feminism.

Credits: 3

ARTR 3450 - Global Masterpieces from the Classical Islamicate World

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Effective Date 04/22/2019
The course explores the literary masterworks of some of the most celebrated prose authors of the Classical Islamicate World. Students will develop an appreciation for the development of the intellectual history of what may be called, not without reservation, the medieval and early modern Middle East (including North Africa, al-Andalus and Sicily).

Credits: 3

ARTR 3490 - Arab Cinemas

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Effective Date 02/26/2015
The course will concentrate on cinemas of Egypt, the Maghrib (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) as well as Syrian and Palestinian films. It will examine major moments in the history of these cinemas and the political developments that have inevitably had a major influence on filmmaking in the region.

Credits: 3

ARTR 3559 - New Course in Arabic in Translation

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Effective Date 12/13/2017
This course is meant to work with students on major works of Arabic literature in English translation

Credits: 1 to 4

BENG 1559 - New Course in Bengali

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Effective Date 07/31/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Bengali.

Credits: 1 to 4

BENG 2559 - New Course in Bengali

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Effective Date 08/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Bengali.

Credits: 1 to 4

BENG 3559 - New Course in Bengali

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Effective Date 07/31/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in teh subject of Bengali.

Credits: 1 to 4

HEBR 116 - Intensive Introductory Hebrew

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Effective Date 01/11/2012
This is the non-credit option for HEBR 1016.

Credits: 0

HEBR 126 - Intensive Introductory Hebrew

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Effective Date 01/12/2012
This is the non-credit option for HEBR 1026.

Credits: 0

HEBR 216 - intensive intermediate Hebrew

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Effective Date 01/12/2012
This is the non-credit option for HEBR 2016.

Credits: 0

HEBR 226 - Intensive Intermediate Hebrew

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Effective Date 01/12/2012
This is the non-credit option for HEBR2026.

Credits: 0

HEBR 1010 - Introduction to Modern Hebrew I

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
An introduction to the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and writing system of modern Israeli Hebrew. By the end of this sequence students have mastered the core grammatical principles of Hebrew, along with a basic vocabulary of 1000 words, and they are able to read and understand simple texts and carry out simple conversation. Includes material on Israeli culture, history, and politics.

Credits: 4

HEBR 1016 - Intensive Introductory Hebrew

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Effective Date 01/11/2012
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: 3

HEBR 1020 - Introduction to Modern Hebrew II

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Prerequisite: HEBR 1010.

Credits: 4

HEBR 1026 - Intensive Introductory Hebrew

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Effective Date 01/11/2012
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: HEBR 1016 or equivalent

Credits: 3

HEBR 1410 - Elementary Biblical Hebrew I

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
First half of a year-long introduction to biblical Hebrew, using an innovative language-learning approach. Through communicative activities in an immersive environment, students acquire oral and aural capacities naturally, in Hebrew. These capacities enable students to internalize the language and thus achieve the overall course goal: read simple biblical Hebrew prose with immediate comprehension. No prerequisites.

Credits: 3

HEBR 1420 - Elementary Biblical Hebrew II

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Second half of a year-long introduction to biblical Hebrew, using an innovative language-learning approach. Through communicative activities in an immersive environment, students acquire oral and aural capacities naturally, internalize the language, and efficiently develop the ability to read biblical Hebrew prose with immediate comprehension. Students read the prose portions of the Book of Jonah and master basic Hebrew grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Prerequisite: HEBR/RELJ 1410 or the equivalent.

Requisites Must have completed RELJ 1410 or HEBR 1410

Credits: 3

HEBR 2010 - Intermediate Modern Hebrew

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Continuation of the study of the fundamentals of grammar, with special attention to verb conjugation, noun declension, and syntactic structure, and their occurrence in texts which deal with modern Israeli culture and values. These texts, which include excerpts from newspapers and fiction, introduce 600 new words and expose the learner to political and other issues of modern Israel. Prerequisite: HEBR 1020 with grade of C or above, or instructor permission.

Credits: 4

HEBR 2016 - Intensive Intermediate Hebrew

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Effective Date 01/11/2012
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: HEBR 1016 & 1026 or equivalent

Credits: 3

HEBR 2020 - Intermediate Modern Hebrew

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Prerequisite: HEBR 1020 with grade of C or above, or instructor permission.

Credits: 4

HEBR 2026 - Intensive Intermediate Hebrew

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Effective Date 01/11/2012
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: HEBR 1016, 1026 & 2016 or equivalent

Credits: 3

HEBR 2410 - Intermediate Biblical Hebrew I

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Readings in the prose narratives of the Hebrew Bible. Emphasizes grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. Attention to issues of translation and interpretation. Prerequisite: HEBR/RELJ 1420 or the equivalent

Requisites Must have completed RELJ 1420 or HEBR 1420

Credits: 3

HEBR 2420 - Intermediate Biblical Hebrew II

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Readings in the poetry of the Hebrew Bible. Emphasizes grammar, vocabulary, and poetics. Attention to issues of translation and interpretation. Prerequisite: HEBR/RELJ 2410 or the equivalent

Requisites Must have completed RELJ 2410 or HEBR 2410

Credits: 3

HEBR 3010 - Advanced Modern Hebrew I

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course focuses on the conjugation of weak, or hollow verbs, and the passive of all conjugations. It also continues the study of subordinate clauses with special attention to adverbial clauses and their use. Texts for the course, which form the basis for class discussion in Hebrew and exercises in Hebrew composition, are drawn from various genres. Prerequisite: HEBR 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

HEBR 3020 - Advanced Modern Hebrew II

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Prerequisite: HEBR 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

HEBR 4993 - Independent Study in Hebrew

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Independent study for advanced students of Hebrew. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

HETR 3559 - New Course in Hebrew Translation

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Effective Date 07/31/2009
The course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Hebrew Translation.

Credits: 1 to 4

HIND 1010 - Elementary Hindi-Urdu

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Introductory training in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing Hindi and Urdu.

Credits: 4

HIND 1020 - Elementary Hindi-Urdu

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Prerequisite: HIND 1010.

Credits: 4

HIND 1060 - Accelerated Elementary Hindi

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
This course is designed for heritage students who have some prior, informal proficiency in Hindi. Students work on their listening and speaking skills and achieve basic reading and writing skills so that they can handle simple written texts and converse appropriately on day-to-day situations with grammatical accuracy and suitable vocabulary.

Credits: 4

HIND 1310 - Intensive Hindi Script and Grammar Review for Heritage Students

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
This class is designed to introduce and improve all aspects of the Hindi language. We learn the script in detail and learn enough grammar for students to move on to Intermediate or Advanced Hindi. Most course material will be handouts specially designed for this class and online listening materials.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken HIND 1559 #1 Hindi Heritage Script and Grammar Review

Credits: 3

HIND 1559 - New Course in Hindi

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
One-time course offerings in Hindi at the 1000 (first and second semester) level.

Credits: 3

HIND 2010 - Intermediate Hindi

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Introduction to various types of written and spoken Hindi; vocabulary building, idioms and problems of syntax; and conversation in Hindi. Prerequisite: HIND 1020 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

HIND 2020 - Intermediate Hindi

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Prerequisite: HIND 2010 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

HIND 3010 - Advanced Hindi Readings I

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Readings are drawn from areas of particular interest to the students involved, and include readings from various disciplines. Prerequisite: HIND 2020 or equivalent or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

HIND 3011 - Hindi in Contemporary Media

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Effective Date 03/24/2023
Language is a dynamic entity, and it keeps on changing. In HIND-3011, we will learn and build upon our knowledge of Hindi through social media, TV commercials, News, legendary Bollywood dialogues and songs that never lose their charm, and podcasts. The efforts to excel in Hindi reading, writing, speaking, and listening will remain the pivot for the course to improve your confidence in Hindi.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken HIND 3559 topic #1 Hindi in Contemporary Media

Credits: 3

HIND 3012 - Learn Hindi via Bollywood

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
This course uses Bollywood cinema as course material to learn more about the culture related to Hindi, expand your Hindi language skills, and make you competent to use Hindi even more efficiently. This course emphasizes individual learning styles and preferences and advances all the aspects of the Hindi Language. We explore how language and culture are interrelated with the help of some Bollywood movies.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken HIND 3559 topic #2 Hindi via Bollywood

Credits: 3

HIND 3019 - Language House Conversation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
For students residing in the Hindu group in Shea House. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1

HIND 3020 - Advanced Hindi II

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Prerequisite: HIND 2020 or equivalent or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

HIND 3230 - Readings in Hindi

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Advanced readings in modern standard Hindi and possibly in medieval Hindi, depending on the interests of the students. Prerequisite: HIND 3020/5020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

HIND 3240 - Readings in Hindi

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Advanced readings in modern standard Hindi and possibly in medieval Hindi, depending on the interests of the students. Prerequisite: HIND 3020/5020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

HIND 3559 - New Course in Hindi

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
This course is to allow 3000-level new courses in HIndi to be taught for one semester.

Credits: 3

HIND 4993 - Independent Study in Hindi

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Effective Date 08/01/2009
Independent Study in Hindi

Credits: 1 to 3

MESA 1000 - From Genghis Khan to Stalin: Invasions and Empires of Central Asia

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Survey of Central Asian civilizations from the first to the twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on nomadism, invasions, conquests, and major religious-cultural developments.

Credits: 3

MESA 1559 - New Course in Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies

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Effective Date 01/19/2018
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Middle Eastern and South Asian studies.

Credits: 3

MESA 2010 - Literatures of South Asia and the Middle East

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
An introductory course in non-Western literatures that emphasizes genres with no clear Western equivalents. The reading list varies, but the texts, read in translation, usually come from Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Persian, Sanskrit, Tamil and Urdu.

Credits: 3

MESA 2110 - Intro to Middle East / South Asia Film History

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Effective Date 10/03/2016
“Transnational Circuits of Cinema: An Introduction to Middle East - South Asia Film History” - Since its very inception as a traveling fairground attraction, cinema has been a globally-circulating medium. This course begins in the moment of early cinema and proceeds through the contemporary moment, with a focus on Middle East - South Asia genealogies of filmmaking.

Credits: 3

MESA 2125 - Gateway to the Middle East & South Asia

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
From the ancient history of games like chess and backgammon, to sports like badminton and falconry, to the “Great Game” of imperial conquests, this course offers a theme-based gateway to the long-connected regions of the Middle East and South Asia. Over the semester, we’ll explore this region of the world through short stories, films, tv shows, games themselves, and cameo visits by other faculty–all on the topic of “playing games”!

Credits: 3

MESA 2300 - Crossing Borders: Middle East and South Asia

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Survey of the Indian Ocean history from 8000 BCE to present. Includes rise of major religions in the area, dynamics of trade, including the influence of European expansion and the resistance to it.

Credits: 3

MESA 2350 - Women and Media in the Middle East and South Asia

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Effective Date 10/03/2012
In this course we will study depictions and images of women in news media in selected countries (Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan) as well as in the American media. We will especially compare images of women in mainstream news media with those available in online media channels or social news networks. We will also examine the changing status of women journalists worldwide, with a special focus on their role in the Arab Spring.

Credits: 3

MESA 2360 - Women and Social Media in the Middle East and South Asia

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Effective Date 02/27/2013
Women in the Middle East and South Asia have embraced social media as a tool for expressing their identities and promoting causes important to them. This course examines women’s use of social media in five selected countries -Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, and Pakistan - and investigates how it simultaneously enables and limits women’s empowerment.

Credits: 3

MESA 2559 - New Course in Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies

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Effective Date 04/11/2022
New course in Middle Eastern and South Asian studies.

Credits: 3

MESA 2700 - Recent Revolutions in the Islamic World

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Effective Date 07/03/2013
This introductory course surveys recent revolutionary movements sweeping across the Islamic World, from North Africa, the Middle East into Asia, including the “Arab Spring.” Key course questions include: Why rebel? Why now? What for? How? Are they spreading, failing, or being ‘hijacked?’ What roles have external actors played? What would Jefferson think?

Credits: 3

MESA 3010 - Men and Women of South Asia and the Middle East

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Focuses on literature of South Asia and the Middle East (Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit) which depicts the world as seen through the eyes of men and women; includes poetry and prose from ancient to modern times.

Credits: 3

MESA 3110 - Sustainable Environments Middle East and South Asia

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Effective Date 10/03/2017
From arid cities to irrigated fields, hot deserts to high mountains, the Middle East and South Asia encompasses a range of environments for thinking through the relationships between nature and society, people and animals, human and nonhuman worlds.

Credits: 3

MESA 3111 - Film Festivals and Global Media Cultures: ME/SA Spotlight

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
“Film Festivals and Global Media Cultures: Middle East- South Asia Spotlight”- With an emphasis on transnational film festival histories and collective media cultures in the Middle East and South Asia, this course offers a semester-long study of film festivals, as an intersection of historical and media industry approaches to cinema. Tie-ins will include comparative analyses of local film cultures and film festivals.

Credits: 3

MESA 3120 - Classics of Islamic Literature: Islamic Mystical Writing

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Effective Date 10/30/2016
This course surveys the classics of Islamic mystical writing, spanning from the Middle East to South Asia and the Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Indian vernacular languages. With an eye to both form and content, we will examine the literary productions - both poetry and prose - of some of the most influential Sufi figures in Islamic history, including Rabi`a, Ibn al-Farid, Rumi, Hafiz, Khusrow, Bulleh Shah, and others. Readings in English translation.

Credits: 3

MESA 3345 - Islam, Science, and the Environment

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Part one surveys the history of science in the Islamic world, focusing on scientific developments that emerged from the encounter with Greek, Sanskrit, and European cultures. Muslim conceptions of the relationship between science and religion will also be examined. Part two explores contemporary Islamic scientific thought, focusing on Muslim responses to the environmental crisis, utilizing water pollution and India’s Yamuna River as a case study.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MESA 3559 topic 10 Islam, Science & Environment

Credits: 3

MESA 3380 - A Thousand and One Nights at the Cinema

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Effective Date 09/23/2020
This course is devoted to the longstanding screen histories of A Thousand and One Nights. We will investigate the way in which the text has variously congealed into a cinematic genre in its own right; a catapult for explorations of the fantastic, iterated as the wonders of technology/medium and sensuality; a contested site of negotiating Orientalist desires and stereotypes; and a platform for reflection upon the question of storytelling itself.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MESA 3559 topic 5 A Thousand and One Nights

Credits: 3

MESA 3381 - Spies in Action: Cine-Media Worlds of Espionage

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Effective Date 09/23/2020
This course explores the cinematic and media worlds of fictional spies. We’ll consider histories of espionage and zoom in on the Cold-War-era heyday of modern espionage and fictional spies. By following the narrative, formal, and historical geographies of spy genres in and beyond the Middle East and South Asia, we’ll connect depictions of espionage and gadgetry to perspectives on seeing and being in the modern world.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MESA 3559 topic 9 Cine-Media Worlds of Espionage

Credits: 3

MESA 3470 - Language and Culture in the Middle East

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
This course provides an introduction to the peoples, cultures, and histories of the Middle East through an examination of language-use. We focus on Israel/Palestine–and the contact between Hebrew and Arabic–as a microcosm for the region as a whole. Readings present ethnographic, linguistic, and literary perspectives on language, identity, and the general processes of SELF/OTHER constructions in contexts of political and military confrontation. Prerequisites: previous coursework in Anthropology, Linguistics, or Middle East Studies.

Credits: 3

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Music

Courses

MUBD 2610 - Marching Band I

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
An ensemble that performs at all home football games and selected away games each season, also traveling to Bowl games and performing at special events. This course counts as performance, and thus subject to the limit of eight credits of the 120 required for the B.A. Prerequisite: Students are selected by audition.

Credits: 2

MUBD 2620 - Marching Band II

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
An ensemble that performs at all home football games and selected away games each season, also traveling to Bowl games and performing at special events. Students assist in mentoring new band members enrolled in MUBD 2610. Prerequisite: MUBD 2610.

Credits: 2

MUBD 2630 - Marching Band III

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
An ensemble that performs at all home football games and selected away games each season, also traveling to Bowl games and performing at special events. Students run sectional rehearsals and tutor students enrolled in MUBD 2610 and 2620. Prerequisite: MUBD 2620.

Credits: 2

MUBD 2640 - Marching Band IV

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
An ensemble that performs at all home football games and selected away games each season, also traveling to Bowl games and performing at special events. Students assume leadership roles in the Marching Band, and contribute to the design and teaching of shows. Prerequisite: MUBD 2630.

Credits: 2

MUEN 2600 - Concert Band

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Concert Band

Credits: 1

MUEN 2650 - Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble Level 1

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Effective Date 10/13/2016
Students must have taken Performance With Computers in order to enroll in MICE (Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble). MICE teaches a blended approach to performance, composition and computer programming through the context of a computer music ensemble. Students from various backgrounds work collaboratively in a technological ensemble context while building skills in interactive media programming, sound art design and human-computer interaction.

Requisites Must have completed MUSI 4600

Credits: 1

MUEN 2690 - African Roots: Drumming, Singing, Moving Level 1

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
A practical, hands-on course focusing on several music/dance forms from West Africa (Ghana, Togo) and Central Africa (BaAka), with the intention of performing during and at the end of the semester. Traditions include drumming, dancing, and singing. Concentration, practice, and faithful attendance are required. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 1 to 2

MUEN 3570 - Indian Singing Ensemble

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
Students will be introduced to the concepts of RAGA (melody) and TALA (rhythm) in Indian classical music. They will learn classical compositions in different RAGAS and TALAS; mythological and philosophical meanings of the compositions will be explained. With this background, students will learn about Guru-Shishya-parampara (teacher-disciple-relationship), a concept which is unique to Indian culture. No musical background is required.

Credits: 1

MUEN 3600 - Jazz Ensemble

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Jazz Ensemble Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3610 - Orchestra

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Orchestra Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3620 - Wind Ensemble

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Wind Ensemble Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3630 - Chamber Ensemble

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Chamber Ensemble Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College.

Credits: 1 to 2

MUEN 3640 - Klezmer Ensemble

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Klezmer Ensemble focuses on the music of the klezmorim, Jewish professional instrumentalists of Eastern Europe. Prerequisite: intermediate to advanced instrumental skills. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the college.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3645 - Bluegrass Workshop

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Effective Date 11/12/2013
This course seeks to develop the playing, singing, and improvising skills necessary for the idomatic performance of bluegrass music, while also providing an opportunity for discussion of its origins and development. Appropriate for experienced players working to improve their knowledge or for players versed in other genres to learn new styles.

Credits: 1

MUEN 3646 - Bluegrass Band

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Effective Date 10/06/2016
This course seeks to develop the advanced playing, singing, improvising, and collaborating skills necessary to perform in a traditional bluegrass band, along with knowledge of bluegrass history and repertoire. Prerequisite: MUEN 3645

Requisites Must have completed MUEN 3645

Credits: 1

MUEN 3650 - University Singers

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
University Singers Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3651 - Chamber Singers

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Chamber Singers Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3655 - Opera Workshop

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree.

Credits: 1

MUEN 3660 - Ensemble Music with Piano

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Effective Date 03/28/2017
Studies in the preparation and performance of ensemble music with piano. Focus is on the development of collaborative skills and a practical understanding of cultural and theoretical context. Repertoire to be studied varies from semester to semester.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3670 - Early Music Ensemble

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Performance of music written before 1750 on instruments appropriate to the period.Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3680 - New Music Ensemble

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Performance of vocal and instrumental music of the 20th- and 21st-century. Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition. Note: Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUEN 3600-3690 may be repeated for credit, but no more than sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree.

Credits: 2

MUEN 3690 - African Roots: Drumming, Singing, Moving Level 2

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Practical, hands-on course focusing on several music/dance forms from West Africa (Ghana, Togo) and Central Africa (BaAka pygmies). No previous experience with music or dance is necessary. Students seeking the co-requisite for MUSI 3090 should sign up for MUSI 3690. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 1 to 2

MUEN 4690 - African Roots: Drumming, Singing, Moving Level 3

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Third level of proficiency in several music/dance forms from West Africa (Ghana, Togo) and Central Africa (BaAka pygmies). Performances during and at the end of the semester. Students develop a leadership role and proficiency in drumming, dancing, singing. and in ensemble dynamics. Students seeking the co-requisite for MUSI 3090 should sign up for MUSI 3690. May be repeated for credit.

Requisites MEUN 3690 or 4690 & Musi 3090

Credits: 2

MUPF 2110 - Performance (Voice)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2111 - Performance (Voice)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2181 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2120 - Performance (Piano)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5 to 1

MUPF 2121 - Performance (Piano)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2181 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2130 - Performance (Organ, Harpsichord)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2131 - Performance (Organ, Harpsichord)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2181 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2140 - Performance (Strings)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2141 - Performance (Strings)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110-2181 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2150 - Performance (Woodwinds)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2151 - Performance (Woodwinds)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2181 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2160 - Performance (Brass)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2161 - Performance (Brass)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2181 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2170 - Performance (Percussion)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2171 - Performance (Percussion)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2181 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2180 - Performance (Guitar)

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2211 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2181 - Performance (Guitar)

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2211 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2190 - Performance (Banjo, Mandolin)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2191 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) Prerequisites: Music majors with permission of department chair by auditions; all other students must register for performance through the music department office. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2191 - Performance (Banjo, Mandolin)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses numbered MUPF 2110 -2191 may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information. Prerequisites: Music majors with permission of department chair by auditions; all other students must register for performance through the music department office.

Credits: 1

MUPF 2210 - Performance (Harp)

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Effective Date 04/01/2015
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses labelled MUPF may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 0.5

MUPF 2211 - Performance (Harp)

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Effective Date 04/01/2015
Individual instruction in musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, courses labelled MUPF may be repeated as often as desired, but no more than eight performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College. (S) There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 1

MUPF 3110 - Advanced Performance (Voice)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here, including prerequisites: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3120 - Advanced Performance (Piano)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here, including prerequisites: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3130 - Advanced Performance (Organ, Harpsichord)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here, including prerequisites: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3140 - Advanced Performance (Strings)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here, including prerequisites: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3150 - Advanced Performance (Woodwinds)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here, including prerequisites: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3160 - Advanced Performance (Brass)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here, including prerequisites: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3170 - Advanced Performance (Percussion)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here, including prerequisites: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3180 - Advanced Performance (Guitar)

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here, including prerequisites: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/performance/privatelessons/index.html. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3190 - Advanced Performance (Banjo, Mandolin)

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction in advanced musical performance. Because the subject matter changes each semester, each MUPF course may be repeated for credit, but only sixteen performance credits may be applied toward the College degree, with an additional four available for Distinguished Majors. Prerequisite: at least one semester of instruction in the corresponding 2000-level course; successful audition. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3210 - Advanced Performance (Harp)

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Effective Date 04/01/2015
Individual instruction in musical performance. Details available here, including prerequisites: [web URL]. May be repeated as often as desired, but no more than 16 performance credits may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree in the College, with an additional 4 available for Distinguished Majors. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Dept. of Music for more information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3635 - Collaborative Piano

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Effective Date 04/23/2014
Ensemble coaching for pianists paired with singers and instrumentalists. Prerequisite: One semester of MUPF credit and audition

Credits: 1

MUPF 3950 - Performance Concentration I

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Effective Date 01/01/2017
Performance Instruction for students in the Music Performance Concentration Prerequisite: One semester of MUPF credit and audition required. Student must simultaneously register for MUSI 4950: Performance Concentration Seminar.

Credits: 2

MUPF 3960 - Performance Concentration II

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
Performance Instruction for students in the Music Performance Concentration. Prerequisite: MUPF 3950. Student must simultaneously register for MUSI 4950: Performance Concentration Seminar.

Requisites MUPF 3950

Credits: 2

MUPF 4930 - Honors Performance

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction for Distinguished Major recitalists who wish to spend a year preparing a full-length recital. Prerequisite: At least one semester of instruction at the 3000 level; successful written application to the Distinguished Major Program; successful audition, normally at the end of the semester preceding 4000-level study; and permission of instructor. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 4940 - Honors Performance

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Individual instruction for Distinguished Major recitalists who wish to spend a year preparing a full-length recital. Prerequisite: At least one semester of lessons at the 3000 level; successful written application to the Distinguished Major Program; successful audition, normally at the end of the semester preceding 4000-level study; and permission of instructor. There is an additional fee for private lessons. Please contact the McIntire Department of Music for information.

Credits: 2

MUPF 4950 - Performance Concentration III

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Performance Instruction for students in the Music Performance Concentration Prerequisite: MUPF 3960. Student must simultaneously register for MUSI 4950: Performance Concentration Seminar.

Requisites MUPF 3960

Credits: 2

MUPF 4960 - Performance Concentration IV

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
Performance Instruction for students in the Music Performance Concentration Prerequisite: MUPF 4950. Student must simultaneously register for MUSI 4950: Performance Concentration Seminar.

Requisites MUPF 4950

Credits: 2

MUSI 150 - Special Topics in Music

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Effective Date 05/01/2021
Special Topics in Music.

Credits: 0

MUSI 1010 - Introduction to Music

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys the musical literatures that make up the common listening experience of contemporary Americans, emphasizing such ‘classical’ repertories as symphony, opera, ‘early music’ ‘new music,’ blues, and jazz. Teaches effective ways of listening to and thinking critically about each repertoire. Considers how musical choices reflect or create cultural identities, including attitudes toward gender, ethnicity, social relationships, and ideas of the sacred.

Credits: 3

MUSI 1040 - Exploring the Orchestra

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Effective Date 03/24/2009
An introduction to the tradition and repertory of the symphony orchestra. Topics include the development and in strumental makeup of the modern symphony orchestra, forms and genres, and the role of the conductor.

Credits: 3

MUSI 1070 - Global Music

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Global Music is an introduction to the field of ethnomusicology, the study of music as both an artistic activity and human behavior. It examines music using the methods and concerns of anthropology and cultural study. Over the course of the semester, we will consider not only different systems of music sound, but also different systems of musical meaning.

Credits: 3

MUSI 1310 - Basic Musical Skills

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Not open to students already qualified to elect MUSI 2302 or 3310. Study of the rudiments of music and training in the ability to read music. Prerequisite: No previous knowledge of music required.

Credits: 3

MUSI 1410 - Symphonic Listening

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Symphonic Listening focuses on the sounds and forms of symphonic music. Listening skills are emphasized, with no prior musical knowledge required. We will learn to recognize orchestral instruments by their timbre, discern levels of consonance and dissonance, identify types of textures, and think critically about how musical content expresses cultural context. Students will gain a framework for understanding symphonic music of any genre.

Credits: 3

MUSI 1559 - New Course in Music

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Effective Date 11/12/2020
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Music.

Credits: 1 to 4

MUSI 1993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

MUSI 2010 - Music, Meaning, and the Arts

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Effective Date 04/20/2016
What does music signify, and how does it convey meaning? How does its collaboration with other arts inflect both its significance and signifying ability? This lecture course seeks to answer these questions in an inquiry that focuses on Western art music from about 1800 to the present. This course is intended for non-music majors; no prior musical experience is required or expected.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2021 - Creative Recovery and Discovery

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Effective Date 01/01/2025
We often wonder about an artist’s immense creativity, seemingly harnessed with ease. Each of us has tremendous resources of creativity, often under-explored. In this course, students learn to unlock their own potential. No previous artistic experience is required. Activities include readings & discussions; weekly responses; two reflective papers; a presentation on a “found” resource; & one creative project in a medium of the student’s choice.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MUSI 2559 topic #28 Creative Discovery

Credits: 3

MUSI 2060 - Music and Politics

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Effective Date 10/30/2014
In this introductory course, we will explore the relationship of music and politics, from state-sponsored propaganda to explicit critique. Our aim is to understand the various ways in which music can be political, and politics can be shaped by music. No prior musical experience is necessary.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2070 - Popular Musics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Scholarly and critical study of music circulated through mass media. Specific topic for the semester (e.g. world popular music, bluegrass, country music, hip-hop, Elvis Presley) announced in advance. No previous knowledge of music required.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2080 - American Music

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Scholarly and critical study of music of the Americas, with attention to interaction of music, politics, and society. Specific topics announced in advance. Prerequisite: No previous knowledge of music required.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2090 - Sound Studies: The Art and Experience of Listening

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Effective Date 05/01/2022
When we think about knowing the world through the senses, we are likely to think of the visible world. But sound, hearing, and listening are crucial too. How do sound art, technology, and design create the world we inhabit and our everyday social and political experience? How can vibrations both heal and destroy? We will ponder such questions through theoretical, experiential, and creative explorations.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2110 - Listening to Everyday Life: Community, Improvisation, Play(ing)

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Listening sets us up to be involved fully in the life around us, and to be interactive in communities that create together. This course explores listening and sound-making in daily life from many angles including field research, reading, writing, discussion, and group performance workshops. We explore ideas about improvisation, uniting the aesthetic sphere with the broader sphere of social life and active engagement.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2120 - History of Jazz Music

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
Survey of jazz music from before 1900 through the stylistic changes and trends of the twentieth century; important instrumental performers, composers, arrangers, and vocalists. No previous knowledge of music required.

Credits: 3 to 4

MUSI 2140 - Music of Multicultural America

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Effective Date 03/09/2015
Examines a wide range of folk and ethnic musical traditions that have flourished in or impacted the United States. We ask how these traditions have fed into definitions of “American-ness” over the years, and whether recent trends represent signs of America’s transforming itself into a post-ethnic, post-racial society. Designed for non-music majors. No prerequisites. Musical literacy not assumed.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2302 - Keyboard Skills (Beginning)

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introductory keyboard skills; includes sight-reading, improvisation, and accompaniment at the keyboard in a variety of styles. No previous knowledge of music required. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors. Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2304 - Keyboard Skills (Intermediate)

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Intermediate keyboard skills for students with some previous musical experience. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors. Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2306 - Fretboard Harmony

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Fretboard skills for students with some previous musical experience. Satisfies the performance requirement for music majors. Prerequisite: instructor permission by audition.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2307 - Play Guitar! Level 1

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Fundamentals of playing guitar, along with rhythmic training, music theory, song forms, and more. This class will start from scratch and is meant for beginners. Experienced guitarists are encouraged to enroll in MUSI 3307 Play Guitar! 2.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2308 - Vocal Skills Class

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This class is designed to teach the fundamentals of healthy vocal production. Classes are designed to improve vocal performance for each student, and to provide a introduction to standard vocal repertoire. This course will also include a look at the anatomy of the voice, resonance and articulation in singing, and voice classifications.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2309 - Group Voice Class - Popular Music

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Effective Date 02/16/2023
Training in vocal technique and performance skills for popular music styles. Attention to healthy vocal production, confidence, and expansion of repertory.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MUSI 2559 #27 Pop Music Voice Class

Credits: 2

MUSI 2310 - Voice for the Stage

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
This vocal course offering allows students to utilize vocal and dramatic skills in the preparation and performance of scenes from both operatic and musical theater works. Students will work with instructors on the musical preparation of assigned scenes and will then develop directorial and design concepts directing each other in short scenes while also having the opportunity to perform in scenes.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2311 - Vocal Performance Class

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Effective Date 02/15/2024
Vocal Performance requires a broad skill set. This course offers students a toolbox of practical techniques & methodologies including study of diction and language, physical expression, textual analysis, dramatic storytelling/acting, collaboration with a pianist, vocal health, and many other components of stagecraft that can be addressed well in group lessons. For students with some experience of vocal performance.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken MDST 3559 topic #136 Friday Night Lights

Credits: 2

MUSI 2340 - Learn to Groove

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Effective Date 03/24/2009
Study of rhythmic patterns associated with rhythms from West African, the Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States, through theory and performance.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2342 - Learn to Groove Intermediate

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Effective Date 04/28/2010
“Learn to Groove” hand drumming and rhythmic fluency with Robert Jospe. This is the intermediate level of the class. It is a hands on drumming/percussion class using congas, djembes, claves, shakers, etc. This class is designed to enhance ones knowledge of syncopated patterns associated with jazz, rock, African and Latin American music and to improve ones facility in playing these patterns.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2350 - Technosonics: Digital Music and Sound Art Composition

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
Technosonics is an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of electronic music and sound art. We will focus on the role of new technology in shaping musical thought, production, and culture from the turn of the century through today. Listening examples are drawn from a broad range of styles and genres, including experimental computer music, ambient and dance music, sound art, and multimedia.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2370 - Introduction to Songwriting

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Develop aural, analytic and creative abilities through songwriting. Learn about rhythm, melodic design, harmonic progression, lyrics and song forms. Develop ear training, so that concepts you learn will be sonically meaningful. Examples considered from blues, folk, tin pan alley, musicals, R&B, rock and hip hop. Introductorty course with no prerequisites.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2390 - Introduction to Music and Computers

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Effective Date 03/30/2010
Introduction to the use of computers in music composition, with hands-on experience. Appropriate for non-majors.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2400 - Composer/Performer Collaborative Workshop

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Effective Date 04/14/2017
This class uses coaching sessions, lectures, presentations, and workshops to explore composer/performer collaboration. With the guidance of the instructors, CCT mentors, and feedback from other students in the class, participants will hone their performance and composition skills in a collaborative practical setting. Various composition and performance projects will be assigned through the term for varying ensemble groups.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2410 - Introduction to Ecoacoustics

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Effective Date 04/09/2020
Introduction to the intersection between ecology and music. Natural systems of change and the unique sonic energy of places. Students learn recording and analysis techniques, and create their own ecoacoustic sound works as we study works from the musical and artistic fields of acoustic ecology, sonology, soundscape composition, sonification, earthwork art, and deep listening.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2450 - Managing Anxiety and Improving Performance with Alexander Technique

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Effective Date 11/07/2017
This course introduces and offers practical experience with the Alexander Technique. The Technique helps performers, people who suffer from anxiety and people who wish for a more fluid and friendly connection with everyday movement. The Technique helps us to improve our public speaking, our musical and/or athletic performance, and to find a calmer more centered approach to the activities of everyday life. It has been taught for over 100 years.

Credits: 1

MUSI 2500 - Jazz Keyboard Skills

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This goal of this class is to develop a basic level of skill in performing, arranging and analyzing standard modern jazz repertoire and styles for the piano. Concepts covered will include chord voicings for the left hand and for two hands; elements of jazz and swing rhythm and melody; reading and interpreting a lead sheet; basic solo jazz piano textures; ii-V-I chord progressions; and transcription and performance of recorded improvised solos.

Credits: 2

MUSI 2509 - Introduction to Topics in Music Studies

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Effective Date 02/22/2023
Selected topics, announced in advance, exploring the study of music through specific contexts and methods. Appropriate for non-majors.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2510 - Introduction to Music and Community Engagement

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Effective Date 11/06/2023
Non-major level, introductory. Special topics courses, topics announced in advance. Courses combine community engagement activities with reflective interpretation.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2559 - New Course in Music

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Effective Date 08/23/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Music.

Credits: 1 to 4

MUSI 2570 - Music Cultures

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Effective Date 03/04/2024
Studies of various musical topics, with emphasis on relatons between music and cultural context. Taught at the non-major level.

Credits: 3

MUSI 2600 - Jazz Improvisation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Jazz Improvisation

Credits: 3

MUSI 2700 - Music and Politics

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Effective Date 04/14/2014
In this introductory course, we will explore the relationship of music and politics, from state-sponsored propaganda to explicit critique. Our aim is to understand the various ways in which music can be political, and politics can be shaped by music. No prior musical experience is necessary.

Credits: 3

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Neuroscience

Courses

NESC 3559 - New Course in Neuroscience

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of neuroscience.

Credits: 1 to 4

NESC 3960 - Research in Neuroscience

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
Students in Neuroscience major are expected to participate in active research, supervised by a faculty research mentor. The course grade is based on 10 hours/week lab work toward achieving term goals that are determined individually at the beginning of the term. Students are expected to submit a Term Plan one month after the first day of classes and a Progress Report two weeks before the last day of classes.

Credits: 3

NESC 3980 - Current Topics in Neuroscience I

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Current developments in the interdisciplinary field of neurosciences will be examined, from molecular neurobiology through cognitive neuroscience. Instruction will be based on readings of original literature, presentation of original and new data from Neuroscience faculty and attendance of seminar talks as part of the Neuroscience Graduate Seminar series. Prerequisite: Major in Neuroscience.

Credits: 3

NESC 3985 - Current Topics in Neuroscience II

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Current developments in the interdisciplinary field of neuroscience will be examined, from molecular neurobiology through cognitive neuroscience. Instruction will be based on readings of original literature, presentation of original and new data from Neuroscience faculty and attendance of seminar talks as part of the Neuroscience Graduate Seminar series. Prerequisite: Major in Neuroscience.

Credits: 3

NESC 3995 - Research in Neuroscience

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
This course provides opportunities for first and second year students who have not yet declared a major to engage in supervised research activities.

Credits: 3

NESC 4245 - Neuroscience through the Nobels

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Effective Date 01/01/2025
Will study Nobel prize winning discoveries that shaped our understanding of the nervous system; explore the original experimental basis for these discoveries; and learn about the Nobel laureates. This course will enable students to acquire a deeper understanding of fundamental principles in Neuroscience, to familiarize with various research techniques, and to develop a sense of history of Neuroscience research.

Requisites Students must have completed BIOL 3050 (formerly BIOL 3170) or PSYC 2200 and they can’t enroll if previously taken NESC 3559 topic 1: Neuroscience Through Nobels

Credits: 3

NESC 4265 - Developmental Neurobiology

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
The diverse functions of the nervous system depend on precise wiring of connections between neurons. This course covers cellular and molecular processes of how neuronal connections are established during development. Diseases which result from failing to establish the circuitry will also be discussed. This course will introduce research methods and technology, and encourage students to develop logical rationale of contemporary research.

Requisites Must have completed BIOL 3050 (formerly BIOL 3170) or PSYC 2200

Credits: 3

NESC 4559 - New Course in Neuroscience

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Effective Date 12/04/2017
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of neuroscience.

Credits: 1 to 4

NESC 4960 - Research in Neuroscience

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
An original experimental project is undertaken in which each student is responsible for the design and operation of the experiment under the direction of a Neuroscience Graduate Program faculty member. Prerequisite: Major in Neuroscience.

Credits: 3

NESC 4970 - Distinguished Majors Thesis

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
A two-semester course in which the student prepares a thesis under the supervision of a Neuroscience Graduate Program faculty member. The thesis must be based on empirical research conducted by the student. Prerequisite: Participant in Neuroscience DMP.

Credits: 3

NESC 4980 - Distinguished Majors Thesis

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
A two-semester course in which the student prepares a thesis under the supervision of a Neuroscience Graduate Program faculty member. The thesis must be based on empirical research conducted by the student. Prerequisite: Participant in Neuroscience DMP.

Credits: 3

NESC 4995 - Research in Neuroscience

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
An original experimental project is undertaken in which each student is responsible for the design and operation of the experiment under the direction of a Neuroscience Graduate Program faculty member. Prerequisite: Major in Neuroscience.

Credits: 3

Philosophy

Courses

PHIL 1000 - Introduction to Philosophy

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Introduces a broad spectrum of philosophical problems and approaches. Topics include basic questions concerning morality, skepticism and the foundations of knowledge, the mind and its relation to the body, and the existence of God. Readings are drawn from classics in the history of philosophy and/or contemporary sources. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/

Credits: 3

PHIL 1330 - Virtual Worlds and Philosophy

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
This class explores the intersection of philosophy with issues concerning VR, computer simulation, AI, etc. Can traditional philosophical problems be seen through the lens of VR and AI- and do VR and AI raise new and distinctive philosophical issues? This will show how reflection on modern technologies can help with ancient philosophical questions and how philosophy can help in the development of new technologies and society’s response to them.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1410 - Forms of Reasoning

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Analyzes the structure of informal arguments and fallacies that are commonly committed in everyday reasoning. The course will not cover symbolic logic in any detail. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1510 - Introductory Philosophy Seminars

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Effective Date 03/06/2024
Discussion groups devoted to some philosophical writing or topic. Information on the specific topic can be obtained from the philosophy department at course enrollment time. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1610 - Philosophy of Religion

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This course will read the work of present-day philosophers of religion. That means that in this course we will use contemporary philosophical methods to examine a number of different topics that have been of perennial interest to philosophers of religion and philosophical theologians. These topics include arguments for and against God’s existence, the problem of evil, the relationship between human freedom and divine foreknowledge.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1710 - Human Nature

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Examines a wide variety of theories of human nature, with the aim of understanding how we can fulfill our nature and thereby live good, satisfying and meaningful lives. Focuses on the questions of whether it is in our nature to be rational, moral and/or social beings. Readings are taken from contemporary and historical sources. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1730 - Introduction to Moral and Political Philosophy

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Examines some of the central problems of moral philosophy and their sources in human life and thought. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1740 - Issues of Life and Death

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies the fundamental principles underlying contemporary and historical discussions of such issues as abortion, euthanasia, suicide, pacifism, and political terror. Examines Utilitarian and anti-Utilitarian modes of thought about human life and the significance of death. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1750 - The Meaning of Life

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
What is the meaning of life? Does a meaningful life presuppose the existence of a divine being, or can human beings somehow create meaning? Does the certainty of death rob life of meaning, or provide it? These and related questions will be pursued through contemporary and classic texts by such authors as Sartre, Nagel, Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, and Epicurus.

Credits: 3

PHIL 1800 - Philosophy of Art

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Effective Date 09/29/2014
Art permeates our lives, yet it is hard to define what makes something a work of art, or what the purpose of art is. In tis course we will explore the philosophy of art. We will look at what some of the great philosophical figures of the past have thought about art, as well as looking at contemporary approaches.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2000 - Internship in Philosophy: Teaching Philosophy in High Schools

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Effective Date 12/09/2010
Students will intern in area high schools to work with teachers in support of their teaching of philosophy. In preparation for this, students will learn about the aims of the teachers with whom they intern, as well as the challenges they face. Students will support teachers with the construction of lesson plans, reading material, discussion points, and paper topics.

Credits: 2

PHIL 2020 - Know Thyself

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Investigation of the nature and significance of our knowledge of ourselves, employing perspectives from Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Experimental Psychology, Neurosciences, and Buddhism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2060 - Philosophical Problems in Law

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Examines and evaluates some basic practices and principles of Anglo-American law. Discusses the justification of punishment, the death penalty, legal liability, good samaritan laws, and the legal enforcement of morality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2070 - Knowledge and Reality

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Knowledge and Reality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2110 - History of Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Survey of the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratic period through the Middle Ages. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2120 - History of Philosophy: Modern

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Surveys the history of modern philosophy, beginning with Descartes and extending up to the nineteenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2330 - Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Do computers think? Can a persuasive case be made for the claim that the human mind is essentially a sophisticated computing device? These and related questions will be examined through readings in computer science, the philosophy of mind, logic, and linguistics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2340 - The Computational Age

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Effective Date 02/25/2015
This course will address the effects of rapid technological advances on a number of new & traditional philosophical topics (potential changes in our concept of personal identity as a result of biological & cognitive enhancements the loss of privacy changes in the status of scientific evidence & the diminution of the role of human scientists as a result of automated instrumentation, computationally based simulations, and computer proof methods).

Credits: 3

PHIL 2350 - Minds, Machines, and Persons

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Effective Date 12/12/2022
This course surveys foundational issues in the philosophy of cognitive science. Part 1 asks, what is a mind? Are minds brains? Computers? Do minds extend into the body & environment? What it would take to make a machine with a mind? Part 2 turns to the problem of personal identity over time. Once you were a kid, now you’re an adult, and one day you’ll grow old. What (if anything) makes you the same person over your life.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken PHIL 2500 topic #8 Minds, Machines, and Persons

Credits: 3

PHIL 2420 - Introduction to Symbolic Logic

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Introduces the concepts and techniques of modern formal logic, including both sentential and quantifier logic, as well as proof, interpretation, translation, and validity. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2450 - Philosophy of Science

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Introduces the philosophy of science. Topics include experiment, casual inference, models, scientific explanation, theory structure, hypothesis testing, realism and anti-realism, the relations between science and technology, science versus non-science, and the philosophical assumptions of various sciences. Illustrations are drawn from the natural, biological, and social sciences, but no background in any particular science is presupposed. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2500 - Survey on a Philosophical Topic

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Effective Date 09/14/2023
A lecture series on the various topics central to Philosophy.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2510 - Seminar in Philosophy

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Effective Date 12/12/2018
Seminars aimed at showing how philosophical problems arise in connection with subjects of general interest. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2520 - Seminar in Bioethics

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Effective Date 04/30/2010
Topics vary annually. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2640 - Rational Choice and Happiness

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
In this class, we will examine philosophical puzzles about our ability to make rational choices that affect or determine our own happiness. How can we rationally decide to undergo a significant experience - such as having a child or moving to a new country - when have no way of knowing what that experience will be like? How can we rationally choose to make decisions about our future?

Credits: 3

PHIL 2645 - The Good Life

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Effective Date 03/28/2017
What does it takes to live a good life. Does your life go well for you if you accomplish good things but you aren’t happy? Does your life go well for you if your desires are satisfied? How do we make rational choices about our future well-being when those very choices determine who we will become and what we will want? How do we evaluate the claims of people who value parts of their lives that many think bad?

Credits: 3

PHIL 2650 - Free Will and Responsibility

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Examines whether our actions and choices are free and whether or to what extent we can be held responsible for them. Includes the threat to freedom posed by the possibility of scientific explanations of our behavior and by psychoanalysis, the concept of compulsion, moral and legal responsibility, and the nature of human action. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2652 - Animal Minds and Animal Ethics

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Effective Date 12/12/2018
Other species seem to represent objects in their environments, think about the thoughts of their conspecifics, and perhaps even use language. Some seem to have long-term memory, emotion, and self-awareness. Do they in fact do all of these things, and if so, how, and in what sense? We will engage philosophically with the best scientific evidence available to answer these and similar questions before considering their ethical implications.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2660 - Philosophy of Religion

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Considers the problems raised by arguments for and against the existence of God; discussion of such related topics as evil, evidence for miracles, and the relation between philosophy and theology. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2670 - God

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Effective Date 12/09/2010
A detailed examination of the philosophical concept of God and also of diverse arguments for and against His existence, including various ontological arguments, causal arguments, the arguments from design, and the argument from evil.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2690 - Justice, Law, and Morality

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Examines contemporary liberal theories of justice and of communitarian, Marxist, libertarian, utilitarian, and feminist criticisms of these theories. Uses landmark Supreme Court decisions to illuminate central theoretical disputes. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2730 - Ethics and Film

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Effective Date 12/09/2010
This course is designed both as an introduction to philosophy through moral issues, and as an exploration of film as a medium for ethical reflection. It focuses on the moving image and its potentila as a mode of philosophical thinking and examines the pertinence of ethical theories to particular issues, as these arise in contemporary films.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2740 - Ethics of Violence

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Effective Date 12/09/2010
This course will study philosophical issues arising from the encounter and conflict between different cultures. Focusing on the Spanish conquest of the Americas will address the general question of whether there is a just war, relating this discussion to fundamental questions in contemporary ethics and political philosophy.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2750 - Democracy

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Examines competing conceptions of the democratic ideal, both in the work of historic figures such as Locke, Rousseau, Madison and Mill, and in the work of a variety of contemporary political philosophers. Focuses in particular on the relation to the democratic ideal of majoritarian voting, civic association, public deliberation and basic liberal rights. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2760 - Classics of Political Philosophy

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Considers some of the perennial questions in political philosophy through an examination of classical works in the field, including some or all of the following: Aristotle’s Politics, Hobbes’s Leviathan, Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, and Rousseau’s On the Social Contract. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2775 - Chinese & Greek Philosophy

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Effective Date 11/07/2017
Almost simultaneously some 2500 years ago thinkers in Greece (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle) & China (Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, others) worked through what became the foundational philosophies of 2 great civilizations. Although at the time they enjoyed no contact whatsoever, the questions posed about the nature of the world & how human beings may best live within it are strikingly complementary and serve as something of a mirror for each other.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2780 - Ancient Political Thought

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
A survey of the political ideas and theories of the ancient Greeks and Romans, including such works as Plato’s REPUBLIC, Aristotle’s POLITICS and Cicero’s DE RE PUBLICA. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 2820 - Philosophy of Health and Health Care

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
In this class, we’ll discuss philosophical theories of health and explore difficult issues in the measurement and treatment of health-related issues

Credits: 3

PHIL 2850 - Finding the Way: Some Philosophical Projects

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Effective Date 05/05/2017
Examines pressing issues of the examined life, especially those ethical (How should I live?), epistemological (how and what can I know?) & overlapping both. Authors include Plato, Mencius, Marcus Aurelius, Gautama, & Laozi. Topics include testimony; virtue; skepticism; the value of knowledge, society & systematic world views; moral progress; and epistemic injustice. Combines classics with contemporary work. Argumentative essays & creative writing.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3010 - Darwin and Philosophy

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Effective Date 02/08/2016
This course investigates the history and the scientific and philosophical implications of Darwin’s revolutionary idea that the wholly unguided process of natural selection could explain the magnificent variety and adaptedness of living things and their descent from a common ancestor. One of the philosophical topics we will explore is how scientific theories are supported by evidence and how science yields knowledge

Credits: 3

PHIL 3110 - Plato

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Introduces the philosophy of Plato through careful examination of selected Platonic dialogues. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3120 - Aristotle

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
An introduction to the philosophy of Aristotle, covering his major works in ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, and literary theory. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3140 - History of Medieval Philosophy

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Examines the continued development of philosophy from after Aristotle to the end of the Middle Ages. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3150 - 17th Century Philosophy

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Studies the central philosophers in the rationalist tradition.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3160 - 18th Century Philosophy

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Studies the central philosophers in the empiricist tradition.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3170 - Kant

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Primarily a study of Kant’s metaphysics and epistemology, followed by a brief look at the views of some of Idealist successors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3180 - Nietzsche

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
A comprehensive study of the philosophy of Nietzsche, with an examination of his views on life, truth, philosophy, art, morality, nihilism, values and their creation, will to power, eternal recurrence, and more. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: instructor permission (previous course in philosophy preferred)

Credits: 3

PHIL 3310 - Metaphysics

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Examines central metaphysical issues such as time, the existence of God, causality and determinism, universals, possibility and necessity, identity, and the nature of metaphysics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3320 - Epistemology

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies problems concerned with the foundations of knowledge, perception, and rational belief. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3330 - Philosophy of Mind

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
Studies some basic problems of philosophical psychology. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3337 - Philosophy of Memory

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Effective Date 03/27/2023
We will explore the nature and philosophical import of memory. Part 1: What is Memory examines experiential and causal theories of memory and asks whether memory extends past our bodies and is distinct from imagination. Part 2: Memory and Knowledge asks whether we should dogmatically accept our memories as true, even if they are reconstructive. Part 3: Memory and Personhood asks whether memory is required to remain the same person over time.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken PHIL 3500 topic #12 Philosophy of Memory

Credits: 3

PHIL 3400 - Introduction to Non-Classical Logic

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Effective Date 04/21/2016
An introduction to systems of non-classical logic, including both extensions and revisions to classical logic.

Requisites Must have completed PHIL 2420

Credits: 3

PHIL 3500 - Seminar in Philosophy

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Effective Date 09/14/2023
Topics change from semester to semester and year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3520 - Topics in Contemporary Philosophy

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Effective Date 03/04/2021
Studies some recent contemporary philosophical movement, writing, or topic. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3559 - New Course: PHIL

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Effective Date 10/04/2016
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of philosophy.

Credits: 1 to 4

PHIL 3610 - Aesthetics

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Critically investigates central philosophical issues raised by artistic activity: To count as an artwork must a thing have a modicum of aesthetic value, or is it enough that it be deemed art by the community? Is aesthetic value entirely in the eye of the beholder or is there such a thing as being wrong in one’s judgment concerning an artwork? including Wittgenstein, Sartre, and Pears.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3620 - Science Fiction & Philosophy

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Effective Date 10/10/2019
Science fiction is a distinctively philosophical genre. Science fiction stories can cause us to question the bounds of what is possible, explore ethical questions that arise in alien circumstances, explore the nature of the self and the very nature of reality, and so on. This course will investigate philosophical questions via science fiction literature, and use philosophy to explore the nature of science fiction.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3640 - Political Philosophy

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
This course will consider three central questions in political philosophy: Why do political societies exist? What kind of political society is best? And, what is the proper role of the state in the social and economic affairs of its citizens? Rather than a comprehensive overview of the subject, this course will offer a chance to carefully examine some of the most influential attempts to answer to these core questions.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken PHIL 3500 #13 Political Philosophy

Credits: 3

PHIL 3640 - Political Philosophy

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This course will consider three central questions in political philosophy: Why do political societies exist?  What kind of political society is best?  And, what is the proper role of the state in the social and economic affairs of its citizens?  Rather than a comprehensive overview of the subject, this course will offer a chance to carefully examine some of the most influential attempts to answer to these core questions.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3650 - Justice and Health Care

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Philosophical account of health care practices and institutions viewed against the backdrop of leading theories of justice (e.g., utilitarianism, Rawlsian contractarianism, communitarianism, libertarianism). Topics include the nature, justifications, and limits of a right to health care; the value conflicts posed by cost containment, implicit and explicit rationing, and reform of the health care system; the physician-patient relationship in an era of managed care; and the procurement and allocation of scarce life-saving resources, such as expensive drugs and transplantable organs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: course in ethics of political philosophy from any department, such as RELG 2650, PHIL 1740, PLPT 3010, etc.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3651 - Genes, Nature and Justice

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
What is a normal human being? What is the natural course for the human species? What does justice have to do with our genes? The emergence of technology allowing the manipulation of the human genome raises a number of ethical social, and political problems. This class will explore these challenges through philosophical argument. In particular, we will attempt to wrestle with notions such as natural, human being, perfection, enhancement and cure. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3652 - Animals and Ethics

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Effective Date 02/10/2011
This course will examine the moral status of non-human animals and what the major ethical theories imply for our treatment of animals, including in scientific research and food. In an effort to examine their moral status, we will explore the questions of whether and to what extent animals experience pain and emotions.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3710 - Ethics

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
History of modern ethical theory (Hobbes to Mill) with especial emphasis on the texts of Hume (Treatise, Book III) and Kant, (Grundlegung), which will be studied carefully and critically. Among the topics to be considered: Is morality based on reason? Is it necessarily irrational not to act morally? Are moral standards objective? Are they conventional? Is it a matter of luck whether we are morally virtuous? Is the morally responsible will a free will? Are all reasons for acting dependent on desires? For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3720 - Contemporary Ethics

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Studies Anglo-American ethics since 1900. While there are selected readings from G. E. Moore, W. D. Ross, A. J. Ayer, C. L. Stevenson and R. M. Hare, emphasis is on more recent work. Among the topics to be considered: Are there moral facts? Are moral values relative? Are moral judgments universalizable? Are they prescriptive? Are they cognitive? What is to be said for utilitarianism as a moral theory? What against it? And what are the alternatives? For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3730 - Ancient Ethical Theory

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3790 - Research Ethics

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Canvasses the history of research scandals (e.g., Nuremberg, Tuskegee) resulting in federal regulation of human subjects research. Critically assesses the randomized clinical trial (including informed consent, risk/benefit ratio, randomization, placebos). Examines the ethics of research with special populations, such as the cognitively impaired, prisoners, children, embryos and fetuses, and animals. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: One course in ethics or bioethics, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3800 - Feminist Philosophy

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
In this class, we’ll first examine the question ‘What is gender?’ Then we’ll look at ways in which gender can interact with traditional philosophical topics, including epistemology, philosophy of language, political philosophy, etc.

Credits: 3

PHIL 3810 - Sex, Sexuality, and Gender

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Effective Date 03/28/2017
In this class, we’ll be talking about philosophical issues at the intersection of sexuality, sexual experience, and gender experience. What is sexual consent? What is the relationship between sexual consent and sexual morality? What is sexual orientation, and what is its relationship to sex and gender? Is there such a thing as biological sex? Is there a difference between sex and gender?

Credits: 3

PHIL 3830 - Philosophy of Mental Health

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Effective Date 02/20/2024
This class explores philosophical issues in the nature of mental health and mental illness. Topics may include: What is the difference between a mental illness and a physical illness? How do we understand the difference between mental difference and mental dysfunction? Does our current approach to understanding mental health overly pathologize or medicalize people? What is a social contagion? What does it mean to be mentally healthy?

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken PHIL 3500 topic #19 Philosophy of Mental Health

Credits: 3

PHIL 3999 - Philosophical Perspectives on Liberty

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Examination of the nature and function of liberty in social theorists such as Adam Smith, JJ Rousseau, Ayn Rand, John Rawls, Robert Nozick. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 4010 - Seminar for Majors

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Topic changes from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Philosophy majors.

Credits: 3

PHIL 4020 - Seminar for Majors

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 4500 - Special Topics in Philosophy

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Effective Date 10/18/2016
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PHIL 4990 - Honors Program

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the departmental honors program.

Credits: 1 to 15

PHIL 4993 - Directed Reading and Research

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 1 to 3

PHIL 4995 - Directed Reading and Research

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 1 to 3

PHIL 4999 - Senior Thesis

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/philosophy/.

Credits: 3

PPL 2010 - Morality, Law and the State

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
The importance of moral philosophy to the study of the legal and political institutions of the modern state. In addition to exploring the nature of morality and moral reasoning, the course deals with basic questions about the concept of law and the justification of the state. Possible topics include inalienable rights, distributive justice, civil disobedience, secession, and the priority of liberty. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/ppl/.

Credits: 3

PPL 3999 - Philosophical Perspectives on Liberty

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Examination of the nature and function of liberty and social theorists such as Adam Smith, J.J. Rousseau, Ayn Rand, John Rawls and Robert Nozick. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/ppl/.

Credits: 3

PPL 4005 - Thesis Preparation

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
This course aims to prepare final year PPL students for their capstone thesis in the Spring semester. By the end of the Fall semester, in conjunction with PPL 4005, PPL students will have completed a proposal for their capstone thesis, compiled a viable bibliography, and obtained an advisor to work with them in the Spring

Credits: 1

PPL 4010 - Research Seminar

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
This seminar, designed to facilitate the production and collective evaluation of 35-page research papers, is taught annually by the Director of the PPL Program and/or members of the Committee on Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.virginia.edu/ppl/. Prerequisite: Fourth-year PPL major.

Credits: 3

PPL 4500 - Special Topics in Public Policy and Law

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Topics related to Public Policy and Law

Credits: 1 to 3

Physics

Courses

PHYS 1010 - The Physical Universe

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Effective Date 09/13/2016
In this class you will get a chance to explore the scientific wonders of the universe. Topics vary each semester but generally include: motion, energy, waves, electricity, magnetism, sound, light, relativity, atomic structure, molecules, quantum physics, the nucleus, chemistry, meteorology, geophysics, the solar system, stars, and cosmology. PHYS 1010 requires limited math, but has wide applications like electronics, wifi, rockets, satellites, nuclear reactors, lasers, climate change, earthquakes, the tides, eclipses, plate tectonics, fossil fuels, telescopes, solar energy, and the origin of universe. PHYS 1010 is for non-science majors. Premedical and pre-dental students should take PHYS 2010, 2020.

Credits: 3

PHYS 1020 - The Physical Universe II

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
For non-science majors. Covers physical science topics including chemistry, meteorology, geophysics, solar system, stars, and cosmology. Limited math, but with wide applications like periodic table, climate change, earthquakes, plate tectonics, fossil fuels, telescopes, solar energy, origin of universe. 1010 and 1020 may be taken in any order. Pre-medical and pre-dental students should take PHYS 2010, 2020

Credits: 3

PHYS 1050 - How Things Work

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
For non-science majors. Introduces physics and science in everyday life, considering objects from our daily environment and focusing on their principles of operation, histories, and relationships to one another. 1050 is concerned primarily with mechanical and thermal objects, while 1060 emphasizes objects involving electromagnetism, light, special materials, and nuclear energy. They may be taken in either order.

Credits: 3

PHYS 1060 - How Things Work

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
For non-science majors. Introduces physics and science in everyday life, considering objects from our daily environment and focusing on their principles of operation, histories, and relationships to one another. 1050 is concerned primarily with mechanical and thermal objects, while 1060 emphasizes objects involving electromagnetism, light, special materials, and nuclear energy. They may be taken in either order.

Credits: 3

PHYS 1090 - Galileo and Einstein

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
For non-science majors. Examines how new understandings of the natural world develop, starting with the ancient world and emphasizing two famous scientists as case studies. Galileo was the first to make subtle use of experiment, while Einstein was the first to realize time is not absolute and that mass can be converted to energy.

Credits: 3

PHYS 1110 - Energy on this World and Elsewhere

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
The subject of energy will be considered from the perspective of a physicist. Students will learn to use quantitative reasoning and the recognition of simple physics restraints to examine issues related to energy that are of relevance to society and the future evolution of our civilization. Prerequisite: Physics and math at high school level.

Credits: 3

PHYS 1130 - Physics of Sports

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Effective Date 09/22/2020
A study of the physics concepts behind the motion of spinning and curving projectiles in worldwide sports such as soccer, tennis, basketball, baseball, football, etc. and rolling and sliding balls/diska along a flat surface. Basic explanations include utilizing kinematics, gravity, friction, air flow, and Newton’s Laws. Learn about hang time, topspin, dimples,drag crisis, sideways forces, least energy launch angle, jumping, and crouching.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed if previously taken or currently enrolled in PHYS 1559 #3 The Science of Sports

Credits: 3

PHYS 1420 - Introductory Physics 1: Classical Mechanics, Waves, and Thermodynamics

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
First semester of the introductory physics sequence recommended for prospective physics majors. Topics include particle kinematics and dynamics, energy and momentum conservation, rotational motion, fluids, oscillatory motion, waves, sound, and thermodynamics. Emphasis is on building foundations for future studies in physics. Three lecture hours. Prerequisite: MATH 1310; Co-requisite: MATH 1320; or instructor permission.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken PHYS 1425 or PHYS 1710

Credits: 3

PHYS 1425 - Introductory Physics 1 for Engineers

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
First semester of introductory physics sequence recommended for engineers. Topics include particle kinematics and dynamics, energy and momentum conservation, rotational motion, fluids, oscillatory motion, waves, sound, and thermodynamics. Emphasis is on development of skills for practical applications. Three lecture hours. Co-requisite: MATH 1320 or equivalent.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken PHYS 1420 or PHYS 1710

Credits: 3

PHYS 1429 - Introductory Physics 1 Workshop

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Group problem solving, data acquisition and analysis, and application of physics to real life scenarios in the framework of classical mechanics and thermodynamics. The course is geared towards STEM majors and required for engineering and physics majors. Co-requisites: PHYS 1425 or 1420.

Credits: 1

PHYS 1559 - New Course in Physics

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Effective Date 06/13/2024
New course in the subject of physics.

Credits: 3

PHYS 1655 - Introduction to Python for Scientists and Engineers

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Effective Date 04/21/2022
This course provides an introduction to the Python programming language with applications to common problems in the science and engineering fields. It emphasizes three core skills: analyzing data, simulating data, and visualizing data. No previous programming or computer experience is required. Prerequisite: MATH 1210 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken PHYS 1559 #4 Python for Scientists and Eng

Credits: 3

PHYS 1660 - Practical Computing for the Physical Sciences

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Effective Date 04/03/2015
This course teaches how to use the computer to solve quantitative problems. This involves learning the skills to write computer programs dedicated to certain tasks, to visualize data graphically, to use scientific software, and to learn other practical skills that are important for a future career in the sciences.

Credits: 1

PHYS 1710 - Introductory Physics I: Classical mechanics, Waves, Thermodynamics

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
First semester of the introductory physics sequence for prospective physics and other science majors. Topics include particle kinematics and dynamics, energy and momentum conservation; rotational motion; fluid dynamics; thermodynamics; oscillatory motion; waves and sound. Four lecture hours, one discussion section hour. Corequisite: MATH 1320 or instructor permission

Credits: 5

PHYS 1720 - Introductory Physics II: Gravitation, Electricity & Magnetism, Optics

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Effective Date 02/03/2015
Second semester of the introductory physics sequence for prospective physics and other science majors. Topics include gravitation; electricity & magnetism, and optics. Four lecture hours, one discussion section hour. Prerequisite: PHYS 1710 or PHYS 1425, MATH1320 Corequisite: MATH 2310

Credits: 5

PHYS 1910 - Introduction to Physics Research

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Effective Date 05/05/2017
This course highlights the diverse areas of research conducted within the physics department. These areas include both experimental and theoretical studies of high energy particle, nuclear, quantum, condensed matter, and atomic/molecular physics. Each week, a different professor will deliver a seminar-style presentation on his/her research. This course is recommended for all physics majors. No prerequisites.

Credits: 1

PHYS 1930 - Physics in the 21st Century

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Effective Date 03/24/2021
Overview of current areas of research in the broad discipline of physics, including the historical context of their development. Describes various career options in physics, including academia, government, and industry. Outlines the college physics curriculum and describes opportunities to participate in research at the university.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken PHYS 1910

Credits: 2

PHYS 2010 - Principles of Physics 1 for Pre-Health Students

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Effective Date 05/01/2021
Physics 2010 and 2020 constitute a terminal course sequence covering the principles of mechanics, heat, electricity and magnetism, optics, atomic, solid state, nuclear, and particle physics. A working knowledge of arithmetic, elementary algebra, and trigonometry is essential. The PHYS 2010 - 2020 sequence does not normally serve as prerequisite for the courses numbered 3110 and above. PHYS 2010, 2020, in conjunction with the laboratories PHYS 2030, 2040, satisfy the physics requirement of medical and dental schools. PHYS 2010 is prerequisite for 2020. Three lecture hours.

Credits: 3

PHYS 2020 - Principles of Physics 2 for Pre-Health Students

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Effective Date 05/01/2021
Physics 2010 and 2020 constitute a terminal course sequence covering the principles of mechanics, heat, electricity and magnetism, optics, atomic, solid state, nuclear, and particle physics. A working knowledge of arithmetic, elementary algebra, and trigonometry is essential. The PHYS 2010 - 2020 sequence does not normally serve as prerequisite for the courses numbered 3110 and above. PHYS 2010, 2020, in conjunction with the laboratories PHYS 2030, 2040, satisfy the physics requirement of medical and dental schools. PHYS 2010 is prerequisite for 2020. Three lecture hours.

Credits: 3

PHYS 2030 - Principles of Physics 1 Workshop

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Group problem solving, data acquisition and analysis, and application of physics to real life scenarios in the framework of classical mechanics and thermodynamics. The course satisfies the requirements for pre-health students. Co-requisites: PHYS 2010

Credits: 1

PHYS 2040 - Principles of Physics 2 Workshop

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Group problem solving, data acquisition and analysis, and application of physics to real life scenarios in the framework of electricity and magnetism. The course satisfies the requirements for pre-health students. Co-requisites: PHYS 2020. Prerequisite: PHYS 2030

Credits: 1

PHYS 2410 - Introductory Physics 2: Electricity, Magnetism and Optics

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Second semester of the introductory physics sequence recommended for prospective physics majors. Topics include electricity, magnetism, circuits and optics. Emphasis is on building foundations for future studies in physics. Three lecture hours. PHYS 1420 or PHYS 1425; co-requisite MATH 2310; or instructor permission

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken PHYS 2415 or PHYS 1720

Credits: 3

PHYS 2415 - Introductory Physics 2 for Engineers

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Second semester of introductory physics sequence recommended for engineers and other scientists. Topics include electricity, magnetism, circuits and optics. Emphasis is on development of skills for practical applications. Three lecture hours. Prerequisites: PHYS 1420 or PHYS 1425; co-requisite: MATH 2310; or instructor permission.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken PHYS 2410 or PHYS 1720

Credits: 3

PHYS 2419 - Introductory Physics 2 Workshop

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Group problem solving, data acquisition and analysis, and application of physics to real life scenarios in the framework of electricity and magnetism. The course is geared towards STEM majors and required for engineering and physics majors. Co-requisites: PHYS 2415 or 2410. Prerequisite: PHYS 1429

Credits: 1

PHYS 2559 - New Course in Physics

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Effective Date 10/23/2020
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of Physics

Credits: 3

PHYS 2620 - Modern Physics

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Introduction to quantum physics and relativity, with application to atomic structure, nuclear and elementary particle physics, condensed matter physics, and cosmology. Three lecture hours, one problem hour. Prerequisite: PHYS 1720 or 2410 or 2415, and MATH 2310 or instructor permission.

Credits: 4

PHYS 2630 - Elementary Laboratory I

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
Elementary Lab for Physics Majors, 1st semester. Selected experiments in mechanics, heat, electricity and magnetism and optics. One lecture hour and four laboratory hours per week. Prerequisites: PHYS 1710, 1720; co-requisite: PHYS 2620; or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 2640 - Elementary Laboratory II

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
Elementary Lab for Physics Majors, 2nd semester. Selected experiments in mechanics, heat, electricity and magnetism and optics. One lecture hour and four laboratory hours per week. Prerequisites: PHYS 1710, 1720, 2620, 2630; or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 2660 - Fundamentals of Scientific Computing

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Applications of computers to solving basic problems in physical science. Introduction to programming, use of external libraries, and implementation of basic algorithms with focus on numerical methods, error analysis & data fitting. No previous computer experience is required. One Lecture & one lab session per week. Prerequisite: One semester of calculus and one semester of introductory physics (PHYS 1710, 1420, 1425, or 2010).

Credits: 3

PHYS 2720 - Problem Solving and Special Topics in Classical Physics

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Develop and extend the techniques of introductory physics and calculus to solve more complicated problems. The course covers topics in mechanics, fluids, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, waves, and optics. PHYS 1420 or 1425; MATH 2310. Co-requisites: PHYS 2410 or 2415; MATH 3250 or instructor permission

Credits: 2

PHYS 2900 - Teaching Methods for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

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Effective Date 05/05/2017
This STEM teaching course will help Undergraduate TAs integrate learning theory and effective student engagement practices into their teaching. UTAs will participate in guided discussions to relate recommendations from the education literature to their classroom experiences. Assignments will include learning activities, such as teaching observations & reflections, and designing interventions to assist students with difficult topics/skills.

Credits: 1

PHYS 3040 - Physics of the Human Body

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Application of basic physics principles to functions of the human body: biomechanics, metabolism, cardiovascular, cognitive & respiratory systems, and the senses. Medical diagnosis and therapy technologies (e.g., PET, MRI, CT) are discussed. Prerequisite: one semester of calculus and PHYS 2010 or PHYS 1420 or PHYS 1425 or PHYS 1710. Corequisite: PHYS 1710 or PHYS 2020 or PHYS 2410 or PHYS 2415 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3110 - Widely Applied Physics

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Applications of physical principles to a diverse set of phenomena: order of magnitude estimates, dimensional analysis, material science and engineering, astrophysics, aeronautics and space flight, communications technology, meteorology, sound & acoustics and fluid dynamics. Not all topics will be covered in every course. Three lecture hours. (Y) Prerequisite: PHYS 2620 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3120 - Applied Physics: Energy

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Basic physics principles of energy sources and energy production, conversion, distribution, and storage. This course will focus on the basic physics principles and applications of engines, nuclear energy, solar power and photovoltaic, geothermal, wind and hydropower, fuel cells, batteries, bioenergy and fossil energy, as well as energy harvesting in the internet age. We will also learn a closely related topic of physics of climate and “drawdown”. The course will conclude with the outlook of renewable energies. Three lecture hours. Prerequisite: PHYS 2620 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3140 - Intermediate Laboratory

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Selected experiments in mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, optics, and modern physics. One lecture hour and four laboratory hours per week. Prerequisites: PHYS 1429, PHYS 2419; co-requisite: PHYS 2620.

Credits: 4

PHYS 3150 - Electronics Laboratory

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
The course begins by covering the fundamentals of analog and digital electronics, including the use of transistors, FET’s, operational amplifiers, TTL, and CMOS integrated circuits. Following this students conduct projects with modern microcontroller boards (Arduino and Raspberry Pi) using the concepts and the experience gained from the prior fundamentals. Six laboratory hours. Prerequisite: PHYS 2040 or PHYS 2419.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3170 - Advanced Laboratory A

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Approximately five experiments drawn from the major fields of physics. Introduces precision apparatus, experimental techniques, and methods of evaluating experimental results. Outside report preparation is required. Six laboratory hours. Prerequisite: PHYS 2640 or PHYS 3140

Credits: 3

PHYS 3180 - Advanced Laboratory B

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Approximately five experiments drawn from the major fields of physics. Introduces precision apparatus, experimental techniques, and methods of evaluating experimental results. Outside report preparation is required. Six laboratory hours. Prerequisite: PHYS 2640 or PHYS 3140

Credits: 3

PHYS 3210 - Classical Mechanics

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Statics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies treated with extensive use of vector calculus; includes the Lagrangian formulation of mechanics. Prerequisites: MATH 2310 or equivalent, MATH 3250 or equivalent, and PHYS 2720 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3250 - Applied Nuclear Physics

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Effective Date 03/15/2011
Applications of nuclear physics and nuclear energy: Introduction to nuclear physics, radioactivity, radiation standards and units, interaction of radiation with matter, accelerators, x-ray generators, detectors, biological effects, nuclear medicine, nuclear fission and reactors, nuclear fusion. Three lecture hours. (Y) Prerequisite: PHYS 2620 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3310 - Statistical Physics

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
Includes temperature and the laws of thermodynamics; introductory treatments of kinetic theory and statistical mechanics; and applications of Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein, and Fermi-Dirac distributions. Prerequisite: MATH 3255 (preferred) or MATH 3250, and PHYS 2620, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3340 - Mathematics for Physics

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
This course covers linear algebra and complex analysis, with a review of vector calculus. Emphasis is on applications in physics. Students cannot receive credit for both PHYS 3340 and MATH 4210.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in more than one from PHYS 3340 and MATH 4210

Credits: 3

PHYS 3420 - Electricity and Magnetism I

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Systematic treatment of electromagnetic phenomena with extensive use of vector calculus, including Maxwell’s equations. Prerequisite: MATH 4220, and PHYS 1720 or PHYS 2410 or PHYS 2415, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3430 - Electricity and Magnetism II

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
Includes Maxwell’s equations; electromagnetic waves and their interaction with matter; interference, diffraction, polarization; waveguides; and antennas. Prerequisite: PHYS 3420.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3559 - New Course in Physics

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Effective Date 10/21/2021
Independent study supervised by a faculty member, culminating in a written report, essay, or examination. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3620 - Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
The course will examine basic principles of simple theories for metals, the basics of crystallography and crystal structures, the reciprocal space, lattice vibrations, elastic properties of solids, electronic band structure, impurities and defects, dielectric properties, magnetism and superconductivity. Prerequisite: PHYS 2620.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3630 - Computational Physics

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Surveys computational methods for problem solving in the physical sciences. Topics include numerical precision and efficiency, solutions of differential equations, optimization problems, Monte Carlo simulation, statistical methods, and data analytics. Tools for data visualization and use of libraries in both C/C++ and Python will be explored. Prerequisites: PHYS 2410 or PHYS 2415, PHYS 2620, and programming experience in Python and/or C.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3650 - Quantum Physics I

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Includes quantum phenomena and an introduction to wave mechanics; the hydrogen atom and atomic spectra. Prerequisite: MATH 3250, MATH 4210 or PHYS 3340, PHYS 2620, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3660 - Quantum Physics II

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Continuation of PHYS 3650. Intermediate quantum mechanics including perturbation theory; application to systems of current interest. Prerequisite: PHYS 3650.

Credits: 3

PHYS 3993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Individual study of topics in physics not normally covered in formal classes. Study is carried out under the tutelage of a faculty member with whom the requirements are agreed upon prior to enrollment. (S-SS) Prerequisite: Instructor permission

Credits: 3

PHYS 3995 - Research

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
A research project on a topic in physics carried out under the supervision of a faculty member culminating in a written report. May be taken more than once. (S-SS) Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

Political and Social Thought

Courses

PST 1559 - New Course: Political and Social Thought

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
This course offers special topics in the broad area of Political and Social Thought. Associate PST faculty will present syllabi for unique opportunity classes on occasion.

Credits: 0

PST 4850 - Core Seminar in Political and Social Thought I

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Effective Date 03/11/2009
Study of great political and social thinkers and movements studied from a variety of disciplinary and genre viewpoints. Readings include classic texts, plays, novels, literature, current works of advocacy. Led by the program director, with occasional guest faculty; weekly response essays required. Prerequisite: PST major.

Credits: 3

PST 4870 - Core Seminar in Political and Social Thought II

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Continuation of PST 4850, with greater emphasis on contemporary works. Prerequisite: PST major.

Credits: 3

PST 4980 - Workshop in Thesis Research

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Taken in the fourth year, this workshop offers discussion with PST faculty on their current research and continuing presentation of students’ developing projects. (1 credit per term; graded C/NC) Prerequisite: PST major.

Credits: 1

PST 4989 - Workshop in Thesis Research

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Taken in the fourth year, this workshop offers discussion with PST faculty on their current research and continuing presentation of students’ developing projects. (1 credit per term; graded C/NC) Prerequisite: PST major.

Requisites PST Major

Credits: 1

PST 4993 - Independent Study in Poltical & Social Thought

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Effective Date 08/01/2009
Student initiated independent study projects arranged with an individual faculty member, and approved by the Program Director. Written work is required.

Credits: 3

PST 4998 - Thesis in Political and Social Thought

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Prepared with the advice of two faculty members, the fourth-year PST thesis is a substantial, independent, year-long project built upon the student’s prior study in the program. Prerequisite: PST major.

Credits: 2

PST 4999 - Thesis in Political and Social Thought

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Prepared with the advice of two faculty members, the fourth-year PST thesis is a substantial, independent, year-long project built upon the student’s prior study in the program. Prerequisite: PST major.

Credits: 4

Politics

Courses

PLAD 1500 - Introductory Seminar in Politics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the discipline of political science through intensive study of the political dimensions of a selected topic. Prerequisite: open to first- and second-year students; only one PLAD seminar per student.

Credits: 3

PLAD 2222 - Research Methods

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Effective Date 03/29/2010
This course is an introduction to political science research methods. We will address basic principles of research design and data analysis, including hypothesis testing, measurement, case selection and data gathering. What are the strengths and weaknesses of particular methods? How can we improve our ability to draw inferences from data? Our goals are to learn how to ask good questions and to consider different approaches to answering them.

Credits: 3

PLAD 2500 - Special Topics in Politics

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Effective Date 11/04/2020
Special Topics in Politics

Credits: 3

PLAD 3500 - Special Topics

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Effective Date 07/15/2021
Special Topics in Politics.

Credits: 3

PLAD 4500 - Special Topics

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Effective Date 08/14/2023
Topics on a variety of Political issues.

Credits: 3

PLAD 4960 - Thesis for Distinguished Majors Program

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Effective Date 03/02/2016
American Politics Prerequisite: Admission into the department’s Distinguished Majors Program.

Credits: 3

PLAD 4961 - Thesis Seminar for Distinguished Majors Program Part 2

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Effective Date 03/02/2016
Part two of the Politics Department Distinguished Majors thesis seminar.

Credits: 3

PLAD 4990 - Honors Proseminar on Research Design and Thesis Writing

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
A critical analysis of important issues in political analysis and research design from diverse perspectives. Issues include: framing research questions, causal analysis, rational choice, comparative historical institutionalism, interpretivism, case studies, and quantitative analysis. Prerequisite: Admission to Politics Honors Program

Credits: 3

PLAD 4999 - Senior Thesis

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Effective Date 11/13/2012
Supervised work on a thesis for Honors students Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Politics Honors Program

Credits: 3

PLAP 150 - Special Topics in American Politics

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Effective Date 05/01/2020
Special Topics in American Politics.

Credits: 0

PLAP 1010 - Introduction to American Politics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys the fundamentals of American government and politics, systematically covering the major institutions of our system (the presidency, the Congress, the courts) as well as the system’s essential processes.

Credits: 3

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

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
Introduces a wide variety of domestic and international environmental policy issues. Explores how political processes, scientific evidence, ideas, and values affect environmental policymaking.

Credits: 3

PLAP 2250 - American Political Tradition

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course explores the theoretical ideas that informed the creation and development of America’s political system and considers some of the major contemporary challenges to the maintenance of American liberal democracy. Topics to be treated include the political thought of the American Founders, the place of religion in public life, the nature of written constitutions and the role of America in the world.

Credits: 3

PLAP 2500 - Special Topics in American Politics

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Effective Date 04/11/2023
Special Topics in American Politics.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3140 - Mass Media and American Politics

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Examines the role of mass media in the political process including such topics as print, broadcast, and online news, media and election campaigns, political advertising, and media effects on public opinion and political participation.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3150 - Political Psychology of Citizen Politics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines the role of individual and collective psychology in political processes and behavior, with a particular emphasis on citizen psychology, including political information processing and reasoning, stereotyping and prejudice, and group identity, conflict and violence.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3160 - Politics of Food

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Effective Date 04/20/2016
This course looks at the production and consumption of food in a political context. We will explore legislation, regulation, and other policies that affect the food system and examine their implications for the environment, public health and democratic politics. We will look closely at controversies over agricultural subsidies, labeling requirements, farming practices, food safety, advertising and education.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3190 - Judicial Process and Policy-Making

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Survey of empirical and, to a lesser extent, normative questions concerning actors and institutions in American judicial politics. Topics include the selection of judges, judicial decision making, the legal profession, the impact of court decisions, and the role of judges in a democracy. Prerequisite: PLAP 1010 or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3210 - Political Parties and Group Politics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the roles of parties, interest groups, public opinion, and elections in democratic government.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3270 - Public Opinion and American Democracy

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Effective Date 12/07/2015
This course examines public opinion and its place in American democracy. We study the psychological and political roots of citizens’ opinions, as well as the relationship between public opinion and political campaigns, the media, and government. This class replaces PLAP 2270 there fore you will not get credit for the course twice.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3310 - American Presidency

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines the power, purposes, and problematics of the presidency as a role of national leadership in the American and political constitutional system. While the emphasis is on the modern presidency (1933-present), attention is given to its historical development. Prerequisite: Two courses in PLAP, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3340 - Race and Gender in U.S. Politics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Scrutinizes the political analogy of race and gender in politics in the United States. Examines how race and gender have each in turn shaped public opinion, public policies, political actions like voting, campaigns, and representation, especially since the 1960s.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3350 - American Congress

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Focuses on the contemporary organization and workings of the United States Congress. Emphasizes elections, the committee system, political parties, staff, and the law-making process, as well as the role of Congress in the national policy making system.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3370 - Workshop in Contemporary American Electoral Politics

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
Provides students with the opportunity to be directly involved with the research, programming, operations, and outreach of the University’s non-profit, non-partisan Center for Politics. Includes projects focused on state and national politics, political history, civic engagement, voter behavior, media and politics, campaign finance and political analysis. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3400 - American Political Economy

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Effective Date 10/03/2017
This course explores the historical development of the American economic system since the Founding, and its relationship with political institutions. We will examine various economic regimes such as mercantilism, Progressivism, the welfare state, and neoliberalism, among others. While some basic economic principles will occasionally be drawn upon, no previous knowledge of economics is required for the course.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3420 - Virginia Government and Politics

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the structure, functions and processes of state and local government in Virginia and to introduce students to political leaders and policymakers of state government. When the course is finished, students should be able to answer journalist Guy Friddell’s query: “What is it about Virginia?”

Credits: 3

PLAP 3440 - Urban Government and Politics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Urban Government and Politics

Credits: 3

PLAP 3500 - Special Topics in American Politics

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Effective Date 02/07/2024
Topical offerings in American Politics

Credits: 3

PLAP 3510 - Minority Group Politics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines the problems and politics of minority groups in the United States. Studies both the theoretical and practical aspects of minority group politics, including their comparative experience in the U.S. Prerequisite: Any course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3610 - Introduction to Public Administration

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the role of public administration in contemporary government, emphasizing administrative structure, control, and relations with other branches of government. Prerequisite: PLAP 1010, PLCP 1010, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3650 - Gender Politics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines the legal and political status of women, and the politics of changes in that status. How are gender identities forged, and how do they affect law, public policy, political rhetoric, and political movement? Explores, more generally, the clash between ‘difference’ and ‘equality’ in democratic societies, using gender as a case-study. Prerequisite: Two social science courses or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3700 - Racial Politics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines how attributions of racial difference have shaped American Politics. Topics include how race affects American political partisanship, campaigns and elections, public policy, public opinion, and American political science. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 3810 - Constitutional Interpretation: Separation of Powers and Federalism

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the legislative, executive, and judicial branches and the functional and territorial distribution of powers as reflected by Supreme Court decisions. Includes the nature of the judicial process. (No CR/NC enrollees.)

Credits: 3

PLAP 3820 - Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies judicial construction and interpretation of civil rights and liberties reflected by Supreme Court decisions. Includes line-drawing between rights and obligations. (No CR/NC enrollees.)

Credits: 3

PLAP 4120 - Electoral Behavior and Political Participation

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Surveys current theories and research on electoral behavior, including political participation, partisanship, voting behavior, and the impact of electoral institutions. Prerequisite: PLAP 2270.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4140 - Gender and American Political Behavior

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
A survey of the way gender ideas shape political behavior in the American political system, historically and today. Prerequisite: one course in WGS or American political behavior (PLAP 2270, 3140, 3150, 4120, 4150, 4360).

Credits: 3

PLAP 4150 - Political Psychology

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
A seminar introducing students to the study of political psychology. Topics include authoritarianism, tolerance, altruism, ethnocentrism, the role of affect and cognition in political choice, the role of racial stereotyping in political campaigns, and psychological challenges to rational choice models of political decision-making. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4155 - Emotion and American Politics

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Explores the often-neglected role of emotion in shaping citizens’ political thought and action. While the Western enlightenment tradition generally treats emotion and cognition as antithetical, psychological research suggests they are in fact intimately interconnected. We will explore the nature of emotion and its interconnections with American politics and political behavior. Prerequisites: At least one course in PLAP.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4180 - Political Advertising and American Democracy

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Explores the role of political advertising in American democracy. Examines ad messages as strategic political communications, analyzing both classic and contemporary ads. Explores the effects (if any) of political advertising on citizens’ attitudes and behavior.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4330 - Refoundings in American Politics

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This course examines the major reform movements in American history, from the Founding to the New Deal. Special attention will be devoted to the intellectual history of reform periods and to answering the question whether the social contract has been redefined periodically in American political history. Prerequisites: At least one course in PLAP.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4340 - American Political Leadership

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Studies the theory and practice of political leadership at the national level with comparisons to state, local, and foreign government. Includes leadership in different institutional and policy settings, techniques of leadership, types of leaders, bargaining among leaders, experience of specific leaders, and conditions and opportunities of leadership. Prerequisite: PLAP 1010 or instructor permission. Crosslisted with PPOL 4750

Credits: 3

PLAP 4360 - Campaigns and Elections

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Reviews and analyzes the techniques and technologies of modern American election campaigns. Enrollment is limited. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4410 - Development of the American Party System

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Focuses on the development of the political party system in the United States, from the late 18th Century through the present day. Examines why political parties emerged in the U.S., both in Congress and at the mass level; why particular parties like the Federalists and Whigs collapsed; and how different “party systems” have developed historically.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4420 - The Kennedy Half Century

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Effective Date 05/05/2017
Political power is created in many ways, such as winning an election, facing down an enemy, or skillfully riding the waves of popular opinion. This class will examine the multi-faceted, political and social legacies of John F. Kennedy, along with the other nine occupants of the Oval Office since. Students will learn why and how political legacies are formed; how such influence persists; and whether/how it is will continue.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4450 - Virginia Elections and Politics

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
This course will expose students to the scholarly literature on Virginia elections and the election data associated with these elections. Students will critically review the literature and use of a variety of analytical techniques, including GIS mapping software, to analyze both historical and recent elections in Virginia.Prior GIS expertise is not required for this course, but an elementary mastery of election data analysis and GIS mapping skill. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4500 - Special Topics in American Politics

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Effective Date 02/07/2024
Investigates a selected issue in American government or American political development. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4600 - Voting Rights and Representation

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Studies empirical and normative issues of representative government, with special attention to what is meant by representation, what constitutes fair representation, and what institutions can best promote fair representation. Prerequisite: Two courses in Politics or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4601 - Democracy in America

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Democracy in America

Credits: 3

PLAP 4710 - Values, Resources, and Public Policy

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Examines the political, economic, and ethical content of enduring domestic policy issues. Prerequisite: Any course in PLA, economics, or philosophy, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4800 - Politics of the Environment

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Examines environmental issues that originate in, and that affect, the United States, including most forms of pollution and natural resource depletion. Focuses on how political processes, economic factors, and social/cultural constructs affect environmental policymaking. Cross listed with ETP 4800. Prerequisite: Course in ETP, Environmental Sciences or Politics.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4805 - American Political Development

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This courses studies political change and development of key institutions in American politics, including the presidency, courts, and Congress but also the development of the welfare state, the administrative state, the carceral state, and political parties and interest groups. Key themes include the role of the state in shaping citizens, the rise and fall of issues on the agenda, and the role of race in America’s exceptional development. Prerequisites: At leat one course in PLAP.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4810 - Class, Race, and the Environment

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Focuses on the intersections among class, race and the environment. The course goals are to achieve an understanding of central environmental policy issues, to consider what ‘class’ and ‘race’ mean, and to examine the distribution of environmental hazards across people of different classes and races. (Cross listed with ETP 4810)

Credits: 3

PLAP 4830 - First Amendment

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines the constitutional law of the first amendment from the founding of the United States to the present. Considers and analyzes Supreme Court decisions and scholarly works. Prerequisite: PLAP 3820 or fourth-year government major.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4841 - Seminar in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
Explores the vexatious lines between the rights of individuals and those of the state in democratic society, focusing on such major issues as freedom of expression and worship; separation of church and state; criminal justice; the suffrage; privacy; and racial and gender discrimination. Focuses on the judicial process. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4850 - Seminar on Constitutional Law and Theory

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
An examination of classic and contemporary theories, partial theories, and perspectives on constitutional interpretation.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4920 - Judicial Policymaking

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Effective Date 04/21/2009
Examines the structure and process of judicial policymaking, focusing on agenda-setting, deciding cases and opinion writing, implementation, compliance, and impact. Particular attention is given to the United States Supreme Court and its relationship to lower federal and state courts and the political environment. Prerequisite: Nine credits in PLAP and instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLAP 4990 - Honors Core Seminar in American Politics

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Effective Date 03/18/2009
A critical analysis of important issues and works in American politics from diverse perspectives. Students are required to write weekly analytical essays and actively participate in small seminar discussions on issues including: the founding, parties and elections, public policy, federalism, the presidency, Congress, and the judicial system. Prerequisite: Admission to Politics Honors Program.

Credits: 9

PLAP 4999 - Senior Thesis

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Supervised work on a thesis in American politics for especially motivated students. Prerequisite: Three courses in PLAP and instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLCP 1010 - Introduction to Comparative Politics

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Introduction to Comparative Politics surveys the major themes, theories, and methods of domestic politics around the globe in the modern era. Thematically, we examine the gap between rich and poor nations, between democracies and dictatorships, and between civil war and civic orders. Theoretically, we consider theories of political culture, political institutions, and political economy.

Credits: 3

PLCP 1500 - Topics Comparative Politics

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Effective Date 08/12/2014
Topics courses within Comparative Politics

Credits: 3

PLCP 2420 - Politics of Modernity

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces key analytical concepts used by Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkeim in their analysis of how the development of modern society has shaped the nature of modern politics.

Credits: 3

PLCP 2500 - Special Topics in Comparative Politics

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Effective Date 04/10/2024
Special Topics in Comparative Politics.

Credits: 3

PLCP 2600 - Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

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Effective Date 04/03/2012
This course is about Russia and the Soviet Union. It is designed to explore some of this country’s major political themes of the twentieth century through an understanding of Russia’s history, culture and politics.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3000 - Gender and International Development

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Socio-economic development is universally applauded, but its consequences are uneven and often unintended. Women and men do not play the same roles in development nor are they affected in the same ways. In this course, we examinee the meaning of development and why it is controversial, paying particular attention to the ways in which men and women are affected differently by development process.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3012 - The Politics of Developing Areas

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Effective Date 03/24/2016
Surveys patterns of government and politics in non-Western political systems. Topics include political elites, sources of political power, national integration, economic development, and foreign penetration. This class replaces PLCP 2120 therefore you will not get credit for the course twice.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3020 - Modern Political Thought

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
Examines the major theorists and theories of the modern period, with a concentration on the development of the liberal tradition and important critics of liberalism, with a special focus on the nature and meaning of freedom. Main authors covered are Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Bentham, Mill, and Marx.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3110 - The Politics of Western Europe

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Effective Date 01/01/2020
Surveys developments since 1945 in democratic stability, party politics, and political economy in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3120 - Politics and Political Economy of the Welfare State

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
This seminar investigates the origins, expansion, and stabilization (or crisis - take your pick) of the welfare state in the rich OECD countries (North America, Western Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand) focussing on why market and non-market based systems of social protection emerged and the roles played by states, labor market actors, and women’s groups.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3125 - Politics in Britain and America: a Comparative Perspective

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Effective Date 05/01/2024
This course will provide an introduction to the comparative politics of the US and the UK. Attention will be given to similarities as well as differences, and the course will use comparative analysis to throw light on the political systems in both countries. Occasional reference will be made to other countries. No prior knowledge of British politics will be assumed, but prior knowledge of US politics will be.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3130 - Political Economy of Development

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Effective Date 11/30/2011
Examines the political prerequisites (and impediments) to economic development, focusing on agricultural exporters in the 19th century and manufactured goods exporters in the 20th century. Draws on empirical material from North and South American, Europe, Asia and Africa. Prerequisite: PLIR 2050 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3170 - Development,Conflict, and Democracy in Latin America

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Development, Conflict, and Democracy in Latin America

Credits: 3

PLCP 3210 - Russian Politics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Analyzes the political system of the former USSR and Russia from 1917 to the present. Focuses on evolution of the Soviet state, modernization and social change, efforts to reform the system, the collapse of the USSR, as well as the economic and political transformation taking place in the newly independent states. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or history of Russia.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3240 - Post Soviet Political Challenges

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course compares the origins and consequences of the rise of nationalism, separatism, secessions, and irredentist claims in the Russian Federation and other former Soviet republics, at the end of the Cold War. Prerequisite: one class in PLCP or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3330 - Politics of Latin America

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Effective Date 09/23/2016
This course provides an overview of politics in Latin America. Topics include the organization of the New World colonies, the legacies of the colonial period for development, the nature of political competition in Latin America’s newly independent states, import-substituting industrialization and populism, the emergence and eclipse of military regimes, the transition to democracy and free markets, and the performance of democracy.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3350 - Gender Politics in Comparative Perspective

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Focuses on the state and how power is gendered in the developing world. Topics include feminist methods and concepts, women in the military, nationalism, women’s movements, quotas, citizenship and globalization. Cross-listed with SWAG 3350.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3410 - Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces contemporary political systems of the region stretching from Morocco to Iran. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or history of the Middle East.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3500 - Special Topics in Comparative Politics

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Effective Date 03/22/2024
Analysis of selected issues and concepts in comparative politics.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3559 - New Course in Comparative Politics

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Comparative Politics.

Credits: 1 to 4

PLCP 3610 - Chinese Politics

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Effective Date 11/30/2011
General introduction to Chinese politics in its societal context. Conveys a concrete appreciation of China’s societal reality and how it interacts with the political system. Covers China’s changing role in Asia and the world. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or the history of China.

Credits: 3

PLCP 3630 - Politics in India and Pakistan

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
Surveys political development in India and Pakistan examining the process of nation-building, the causes of democratization and authoritarian rule, the development of ethnic and religious conflict, environmental politics, the political impact of cultural globalization, and gender-related political issues. Prerequisite: Some background in comparative politics and/or study of history and society in South Asia.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4050 - Origins of Legal Systems

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This course examines the origins of the common and civil law systems in Europe, and the relevance of such origins for contemporary issues. It aims to offer a fuller historical understanding of how these systems emerged in medieval Europe, so as to allow a critical perspective on the important modern theoretical literature, that of Legal Origins. Prerequisites: At least on PLIR course.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4060 - State-Emergence and State-Building

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
The course examines the historical foundations of modern theories in social science on state-building. Most assumptions in the contemporary literature are explicitly or implicitly predicated on an understanding of the historical experience of the west. This understanding is often deeply flawed, leading to erroneous models and flawed assumptions in the scholarship on political development.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4110 - Seminar on European Politics

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
In-depth analysis of the institutional structures and policy processes of selected political systems in Europe today. Focuses on legislatures, political executives, administrative bureaucracies and their interrelationships as they effect policymaking and policy implementation. Prerequisite: Graduate status or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4111 - States and Markets

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Effective Date 03/29/2010
The course begins with an introduction to texts of classical liberal political economy and then examines both historical and theoretical scholarship on the emergence of markets in Europe from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. A revisionist view of the role of the state in the emergence of markets then informs a consideration of contemporary cases.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4130 - Capitalisms Compared

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
How does state intervention differ in the three largest advanced industrial economies? Do these differences matter? Does one country have a decisive ‘competitive edge’? This course tries to answer these questions by looking at how variations in the institutions and processes the state uses to regulate the economy affect labor productivity, technological innovation, and thus ultimately international competitiveness.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4140 - Democracy and Dictatorship

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Surveys and critically evaluates theories of origins of democratic and authoritarian governments, and the causes of subsequent transitions to, and away from, democratic regimes. Prerequisite: One course in PLCP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4160 - Rationality and Collective Action

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Effective Date 03/29/2010
Collective action, that is, the ability of individuals to coalesce in groups with some common purpose, is at the heart of most political phenomena from social movements and revolutions, to lobbying and voting. In this course we shall engage critically different theoretical approaches to this topic placing special, but far from exclusive, emphasis on the rational-choice paradigm and the criticisms it has received.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4180 - Politics of the Holocaust

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
An introduction of major competing explanations for the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews, and critical consideration of those theories. Also examines other major genocides of the 20th century.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4200 - Comparative Legislatures

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
Examines how and why legislators and legislative parties make the decisions they do. Compares legislative decision-making processes and outcomes in a variety of institutional settings. Prerequisite: At least two courses at the 3000 level in American politics and/or comparative politics.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4201 - Comparative Political Parties

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
Examines political parties in a variety of institutional and socioeconomic settings, focusing on parties in the democratic political systems of Europe, the United States, and Japan.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4220 - Comparative Budgeting and Economic Policy

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
Comparative Budgeting and Economic Policy

Credits: 3

PLCP 4250 - Politics of Economic Reform

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
A wave of economic change has swept across countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe over the last 15 years. The unfolding of these changes has been structured by and, in turn, has shaped the politics of the countries in which they have occurred. Formulates an analytical framework for understanding the politics of economic reform. Studies cases in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Prerequisite: Previous course in PLCP, PLIR, or economics is recommended.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4260 - Origins of Legal Systems

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Effective Date 04/12/2011
Political scientists and economists have explored the importance of legal systems for economic and political development, especially for property rights and institutions. But the causal logic of such theories is marred by a poor understanding of the origins and preconditions of legal systems. Course compares the historical origins of common and civil law traditions in medieval Europe, to offer better microfoundations for these theories.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4400 - Institutions and Democracy in Latin America

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Effective Date 04/21/2009
This course examines the causes and consequences of variation in democratic institutional structure in contemporary Latin America. We study how institutions such as presidentialism, electoral rules, federalism, party systems, and the legal system contribute to outcomes such as political instability, legislative representation, clientelism and corruption, citizen security, and overall support for democracy. Prerequisite: prior course in PLCP.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4410 - Nation Building in Iraq

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
Intensive study of America’s role in the political and economic reconstruction of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Analysis of the nation-building project in historical (earlier efforts at Iraqi nation-building) and comparative (earlier American efforts at occupation-based nation-building) perspective.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4412 - The Idea of Development

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Offers a historical survey of how the idea of development that crystallized during the European enlightenment became “hegemonic” after WWII and during the process of de-colonization. Also reflects on how development came to express the ideological struggles of the cold war and whether it acquired a “new life” in the aftermath of the collapse of communism and the advent of “globalization.” Prerequisites: prior course in PLCP.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4430 - Politics of Corruption

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Effective Date 01/01/2013
An examination of the causes and consequences of corruption around the world. Assesses the impact of corruption on political and economic development and explores the relationship between corruption and factors such as culture, institutions, economic policies, and natural resources. Prerequisite: PLCP 1010, PLCP 2120 or permission of instructor

Credits: 3

PLCP 4440 - Culture and Human Rights

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Effective Date 05/05/2017
Disagreement over culture and human rights is intense. At its worst, this controversy has led cultural conservatives in the Global South to label human rights as imperialist, cultural conservatives in the Global North to reject minority rights as threats to national unity and social democrats, feminists and sexuality rights activists to attack culture as irredeemably retrograde and oppressive.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4500 - Special Topics in Comparative Politics

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Effective Date 05/01/2024
Intensive analysis of selected issues and concepts in comparative government. Prerequisite: One course in PLCP or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

PLCP 4652 - Markets, Inequality, and the Politics of Development

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Effective Date 03/29/2010
Examination of how politics affects the historical development of markets and the impact of inequality on the development of markets and economic development more generally.

Credits: 3

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Psychology

Courses

PSYC 150 - Special Topics in Psychology

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Effective Date 05/01/2021
Special Topics in Psychology.

Credits: 0

PSYC 1010 - Introductory Psychology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Overview of psychology from both the natural science and social science perspectives. Topics include biological bases of behavior, sensory and perceptual processes, learning, motivation, thought, maturational and developmental changes, individual differences, personality, social behavior, and abnormal psychology. In some terms an optional one credit discussion section (graded S/U) is offered. An optional weekly review session is offered for those who wish to attend.

Credits: 3

PSYC 1020 - Hoos Connected: Leadership and Communication

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Hoos Connected brings together groups of students who get to know one another in a relaxed environment, while also developing leadership and communication skills. Led by two trained upper-class student facilitators, groups of 6-10 students engage in activities and discussions that delve into what brings us together, what can keep us apart, and how these things manifest in our personal lives and our broader UVA community.

Credits: 1

PSYC 1559 - New Course in Psychology

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Effective Date 04/05/2017
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of psychology.

Credits: 1 to 4

PSYC 2005 - Research Methods and Data Analysis I

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
Introduces research methods and statistical analysis in psychology. This course, with a minimum grade of “C”, is a prerequisite for declaring a major or minor in Psychology. Prerequisites: None.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2100 - Introduction to Learning

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Analyzes the concepts, problems, and research methodology in the study of processes basic to learning and motivation.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2150 - Introduction to Cognition

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Cognition is the activity of knowing: the acquisition, organization, and use of knowledge. Emphasizing fundamental issues, this course introduces such basic content areas in cognitive psychology as perception, memory, language, cognitive development, and philosophy of science. An optional weekly review session is offered for those who wish to attend.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2200 - A Survey of the Neural Basis of Behavior

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
After an overview of brain organization and function, the course examines what we know about the physiological bases of several behaviors including sensation and perception, learning, memory, sleep development, hunger, thirst, and emotions.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in PSYC 2200 if already taken or currently enrolled in BIOL 3050.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2300 - Introduction to Perception

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Effective Date 04/06/2009
Study of selected topics in perception, particularly visual perception; the role of stimulus variables, learning and motivation of perception. Optional 1 credit laboratories are offered. Prerequisite: Mathematics at least up to trigonometry recommended.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2301 - Introduction to Perception Laboratory

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Effective Date 04/04/2013
Optional 1 credit laboratory.

Requisites PSYC 2301 co-requisite

Credits: 1

PSYC 2410 - Abnormal Psychology

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
Introduces psychopathology with a focus on specific forms of abnormal behavior: depression, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, substance use disorders, and personality disorders. Prerequisites: None.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2500 - Topics in Psychology

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Effective Date 07/08/2022
This course covers a variety of special topics in the field of psychology.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2559 - New Course in Psychology

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Effective Date 11/06/2020
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of psychology.

Credits: 1 to 4

PSYC 2600 - Introduction to Social Psychology

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Effective Date 04/06/2009
Surveys major topics in social psychology, including personal perception and social cognition, attitudes and persuasion, interpersonal influence, interpersonal attraction, and helping relationships. Considers research theory and applications of social psychology. Three lecture hours plus optional discussion sections.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2601 - Introduction to Social Psychology Discussion

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Effective Date 01/03/2011
Optional one-credit discussion section.

Requisites PSYC 2601 co-requisite

Credits: 1

PSYC 2700 - Introduction to Child Psychology

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Introduces the biological, cognitive and social development of the child. Topics include the child’s emotional, perceptual, and intellectual development; and the development of personality and socialization. Students can participate in an optional discussion section. An optional weekly review session is offered for those who wish to attend. Prerequisite: PSYC 1010 strongly recommended, top students will be fine without it.

Credits: 3

PSYC 2701 - Introduction to Child Psychology Discussion Section

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
Optional discussion section for Psych 2700.

Requisites PSYC 2700/2701 co-req

Credits: 1

PSYC 2900 - Teaching Methods for Undergrad Teaching Assistants

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Effective Date 04/27/2017
This teaching methods course will help undergraduate teaching assistants integrate learning theory and effective student engagement practices to their teaching. They will learn about how to teach statistics, learn about experimental design and methods, and various pedagogical issues related to lab computer use and using R software in the learning process.

Credits: 1

PSYC 3006 - Research Methods and Data Analysis II

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
A continuation of discussion of research methods in psychology, including computer-controlled experimentation, integrated with computer-based exploratory data analysis, and elementary statistical analysis. Three lecture hours, two laboratory hours. Prerequisite: PSYC 2005 and one of the following options, all with a C or higher grade: STAT 1601 or (STAT 1602 AND STAT 2020) or STAT 3080 or PSYC 3310

Requisites Must have completed STAT 1601 (or STAT 3080 or PSYC 3310) and PSYC 2005 (or 3005) with a C or higher grade.

Credits: 4

PSYC 3100 - Learning and the Neuroscience of Behavior

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Effective Date 03/07/2019
The course will examine historical and current theories of learning that provide the foundation for most, if not all forms of an organism’s behavior. Students will be exposed to a diverse range of experimental findings that led to principles and concepts that currently explain how environmental, social and emotional factors influence the brain and body to shape human and animal behavior.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3108 - Media Law

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Effective Date 03/24/2021
This course uses audio, video, and text to explore the basics of media law: copyright; privacy; libel and defamation; and free speech. Students will be able to describe the tension between efforts to sustain an informed public and protect rights of expression; identify legal agents in the global system; identify powers and responsibilities of agents; grasp the basics of the 1st Amendment; and prepare for deeper analysis of these areas of law.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3160 - Cognitive Neuroscience

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
This course is intended as a survey of cognitive neuroscience, with an emphasis on breadth. Each week we will cover one sub-area or topic within cognitive neuroscience including perception, attention, memory, cognitive control and others. Readings will be chapters from the textbook with a few supplemental journal articles. PSYC 2150 and/or PSYC 2200 recommended but not required.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3200 - Fundamentals of Neuroscience

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This course will build on students’ general knowledge of Neuroscience topics and aim to achieve a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles of Neuroscience. Topics covered: (1) cell biological and electrical properties of the neuron; (2) synaptic transmission and synaptic plasticity; (3) transduction of physical stimuli and processing of sensory information; and (4) development and evolution and the nervous system.

Requisites Must have taken PSYC 2200 or BIOL 2100. Enrollment not allowed if already completed or currently enrolled in BIOL 3050.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3210 - RM: Psychobiology Laboratory

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Develops skills necessary for the study of neural bases of behavior, such as brain dissection, electrophysiology, histology, behavioral analysis, and genetic/epigenetic analyses. Emphasis is on mastering contemporary techniques used in neuroscience research and effective, professional written presentation of research findings. Prerequisite: PSYC 2200 or 4200 or BIOL 3050 or PSYC 3200; PSYC 3005 recommended.

Requisites Must have completed BIOL 3050 (formerly BIOL 3170) or PSYC 2200 or PSYC 4200 or PSYC 3200

Credits: 3

PSYC 3215 - Biological Models of Cognition

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Effective Date 03/23/2010
Examines animal models that have been developed to study neurobiological mechanisms of cognition. Topics to be covered include goal-directed learning, decision-making, navigation, action selection, motivation, working memory and addiction. Each section will cover a specific cognitive process, the development and validation of animal models to study this process and a discussion of identified neurobiological mechanisms.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3235 - Introduction to Epigenetics

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
This course is a didactic, mechanistic exploration of epigenetics; we will discuss all epigenetic modifications known to date, the processes through which they are established and modified and their impact on the cell and organism.

Requisites Must have completed BIOL 3050 (formerly BIOL 3170) or PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3200

Credits: 3

PSYC 3240 - Animal Minds

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This course looks at the evolutionary basis of cognition through the lens of animal behavior, with an emphasis on understanding how general mechanisms of perception and learning interact with more specialized systems for navigation, social interaction, and planning to produce the rich behavioral adaptations seen throughout the animal kingdom.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3260 - Hidden Figures: Brain Science Through Diversity

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Effective Date 03/23/2021
This course will introduce students to basic concepts in neurobiology/neuroscience/brain science discoveries while emphasizing research by women and URMs in science.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken PSYC 3500 topic #10 Hidden Figures

Credits: 3

PSYC 3280 - RM: Imag(in)e Neurons-Brain Function Thru a Lens

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Effective Date 05/20/2024
Imag(in)e Neurons is an RM course that provides an authentic research experience to enrolled students. Through an experiment focused on using quantitative confocal microscopy, students will learn tissue processing, immunohistochemistry, microscopy, basic programming and image analysis. Final assignment includes preparing the results for a poster presentation at the Reid Conference.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3310 - RM: R Applications in Psychology

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
This course serves as both an introduction to the R programming language for those who haven’t had any previous R background, as well as a refresher and an extension of R topics for those who have taken an intro to R course (i.e., STAT 1601 or PSYC 3006) previously or concurrently. This course is specially tailored to those who have an interest in psychology, with the purpose of preparing students to use R for their psychological research.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3330 - RM: Data Modeling with Regression in R

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Effective Date 01/01/2025
This course provides students with an in-depth look at regression in R. Topics include basic R programming, linear models, and focus on analyzing real COVID-19 data. Students will be introduced to regression topics throughout the course and will analyze a dataset for better understanding of data related to COVID-19. Students will work in groups to conduct real data analyses and create reports to summarize their work and empirical findings.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3400 - Personality Psychology

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
Introduces the major approaches, methods, and findings in the field of personality psychology. Topics include identification and observational learning, frustration and aggression, stress, anxiety, defense, self-control, altruism, self-concepts, authoritarianism, achievement motivation, and sensation-seeking.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3415 - Research Methods in Developmental Psychology

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Effective Date 03/24/2021
This methods course provides hands-on experience designing and conducting research in developmental psychology. The course is intended to guide students through the research process, including generating research questions, evaluating previous literature, proposing an original experiment, collecting and analyzing data, and presenting findings.

Requisites Students must have taken PSYC 2005 and PSYC 2700 and can’t enroll if previously taken PSYC 3500 topic #12

Credits: 3

PSYC 3420 - The Nature Nurture Debate

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Effective Date 12/08/2017
This course covers the history, science and philosophy of the Nature-Nurture debate. Starting with Galton in the 19th Century, it covers classical issues in behavior genetics, twins and modern studies of human DNA. Philosophical, theoretical and social implications of the scientific studies are emphasized.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3425 - History of Psychology

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Effective Date 10/29/2015
Survey of the origins of psychology from the early philosophers to the current time.

Requisites Must have taken at least three PSYC courses.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3435 - Educational Psychology

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Psychologists have studied the processes of learning and thinking for over 100 years, and theoreticians have attempted to apply that knowledge to K-12 education for almost that long. This course will use information from cognitive psychology to examine: major steams of thought in pedagogy; data patterns in student achievement and in teacher effectiveness; subject-specific teaching strategies, and proposed reforms for American education. Prerequisites: PSYC 2150 and 2700 required.

Requisites Psyc 2150 & 2700

Credits: 3

PSYC 3438 - Advanced Research in Psychology

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Effective Date 03/22/2021
Through a combination of laboratory research and seminar-style discussion of articles, students will learn about core methodological issues that confront all researchers.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken PSYC 3559 topic #27 Adv Research in Psychology

Credits: 3

PSYC 3439 - RM: Social Psychology

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Effective Date 03/24/2021
Introduction to research methods used to explore current issues in social psychology. This course provides hands-on learning experiences in research design, data collection and analysis, and reporting of research findings.

Requisites Students must have taken PSYC 2005 and PSYC 2600 and can’t enroll if previously taken PSYC 3500 topic #9 RM: Social Psychology

Credits: 3

PSYC 3440 - Child Psychopathology

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
Overview of the description, cause and treatment of various psychological disorders of childhood. Prerequisite: PSYC 2700 recommended.

Requisites Six Credits of Psychology

Credits: 3

PSYC 3445 - Introduction to Clinical Psychology

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Effective Date 09/25/2014
This course is designed to provide an overview of the academic and clinical activities within the field of clinical psychology. Theories, research, psycho therapeutic approaches, and critical professional issues will be explored.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3450 - The Psychology of Women and Gender

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Effective Date 12/08/2017
This course provides a broad survey of psychological science on women and girls, addressing such topics as gender stereotypes, gender socialization, love and romantic relationships, sexuality, pregnancy and motherhood, women and work, and violence against women.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3460 - Psychological Study of Children, Families, and the Law

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Can psychology research and theory inform the law as it relates to children and families? This course provides an overview of the issues emphasizing psychological knowledge and its present and possible future contributions. Three lecture hours, two laboratory hours. Prerequisite:Six credits in psychology.

Requisites Six Credits of Psychology

Credits: 4

PSYC 3480 - Adolescence: Theory and Development

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Effective Date 03/18/2013
Course focus: 1) Background and theories of adolescence, 2) contributions to adolescence from: puberty, intellectual growth, and identify formation, 3) contexts of adolescence: the family situation, peer groups, school, and culture, 4) special topics of adolescence; religious, moral, and sexual development, sex roles, career planning (and achievement), disorders (drugs, delinquency, depression, suicide, etc.). Prerequisite: PSYC 2700 or 6 hours in Psychology.

Requisites Psyc 2700 OR 6 Psyc credits

Credits: 3

PSYC 3485 - The Science & Lived Experience of Autism I

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Effective Date 03/30/2017
This year-long, interdisciplinary seminar will explore how well the science of autism captures the experience of those living with autism and their families. Students will critically evaluate research in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and education, and they will work together with members of the autism community to identify new research questions that reflect the interests and concerns of the people who are most affected by autism science.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3490 - Infant Development

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Infancy is the time of life during which enormous changes take place- newborns are very different from the inquisitive, walking and talking 2-year-old. The following lines of development during the first two years are traced in detail: motor, perceptual, cognitive, social, and emotional development. Environmental influences, including parental behavior are considered, as well as the effect the infant has on caregivers.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3495 - The Science & Lived Experience of Autism II

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
This year-long, interdisciplinary seminar will explore how well the science of autism captures the experience of those living with autism and their families. Students will critically evaluate research in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and education, and they will work together with members of the autism community to identify new research questions that reflect the interests and concerns of the people who are most affected by autism science.

Requisites Must have completed Psyc 3485 to register for 3495

Credits: 3

PSYC 3500 - Special Topics in Psychology

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Seminars on special and current topics in psychology.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3559 - New Course in Psychology

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Effective Date 11/30/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of psychology.

Credits: 1 to 4

PSYC 3560 - Undergraduate Teaching Experience

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Effective Date 09/19/2022
Training for undergraduate teaching assistants to promote course material to assist students enrolled in Psyc active learning courses to perform activities designed for the corresponding discussion/lab section.

Credits: 1

PSYC 3590 - Research in Psychology

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
An original experimental project is undertaken in which each student is responsible for the design and operation of the experiment. S/U grading. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 14 credits of psychology and instructor permission.

Credits: 2 to 3

PSYC 3690 - Companion to Research in Psychology

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Effective Date 03/03/2022
This course will support Psyc RAs in goal setting during their RA work, and help developing professional skills such as grant writing for UVA awards and presenting data at internal and external events.

Credits: 1

PSYC 3870 - Seminar for Distinguished Majors

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Topics include the design of independent research projects, ethical considerations in research, computer applications, and preparation for a career in psychology. S/U grading. Prerequisite: Acceptance in Psychology or CogSci Distinguished Majors Program. Enrollment Requirement: You are required to register for PSYC 4970 or PSYC 4980 or COGS 4970 or COGS 4980.

Requisites You are required to currently take or previously have taken PSYC 4970 or PSYC 4980 or COGS 4970 or COGS 4980

Credits: 1

PSYC 3910 - Psychology Internship Toolkit

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Effective Date 10/26/2022
This course provides skills for students engaged with internships in the field of psychology to create bridges between the classroom and psychology careers in the real world. Students will explore psychology-based career paths, learn about ethics and responsible conduct in psychology, and practice field-specific communication practices.

Requisites Students must have previously taken or currently enrolled in one of the following: UNST 3510 or UNST 3910 or UNST 3920 or LASE 3510

Credits: 1

PSYC 3970 - Research on Affective Forecasting

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
This is a hands-on course in which students participate in ongoing research on affective forecasting, or the way in which people make predictions about their emotional reactions to future events. Students will serve as research assistants to the faculty member & graduate students to help with all phases of the research–design experiments, research its theoretical underpinnings, collect data, analyze the data, attend lab meetings.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3980 - Research in Psychology

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Effective Date 02/04/2009
An original experimental project is undertaken in which each student is responsible for the design and operation of the experiment. Prerequisite: 14 credits of psychology and instructor permission.

Credits: 2

PSYC 3990 - RM: Group Process and Facilitation I

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Group Process and Facilitation is a 2-semester, 4- or 5-credit course sequence. In semester 1, students learn background knowledge and skills related to: advanced reflective listening, group processes and management, leadership and facilitation. Students also participate in their own Hoos Connected group. In semester 2, students are eligible to co-facilitate 1-2 Hoos Connected group(s) and also receive weekly group supervision.

Credits: 3

PSYC 3991 - RM: Group Process and Facilitation II

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
Group Process and Facilitation is a 2-semester, 4- or 5-credit course sequence. In semester 1, students learn background knowledge and skills related to: advanced reflective listening, group processes and management, leadership and facilitation. Students also participate in their own Hoos Connected group. In semester 2, students are eligible to co-facilitate 1-2 Hoos Connected group(s) and also receive weekly group supervision.

Credits: 2 to 3

PSYC 4001 - Controversies in Human Sexuality

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Effective Date 10/19/2012
Various controversial topics in human sexuality will be explored. Students will read articles from the popular press, the web, and academic journal articles to critically evaluate an issues involving human sexuality.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course and 4th Yr Psyc Maj/Min

Credits: 3

PSYC 4005 - Adv Res Mthds & Data Analysis I: Mathematical Foundations of Quant Psyc

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Effective Date 10/19/2012
This class will cover foundations of linear algebra, randomness, probability theory, principal component analysis, complexity theory, hypothesis testing and power, structural equation models, maximum likelihood. This course is the first of a two-semester sequence (PSYC 4005 and PSYC 4006) of advanced data analysis and research methods classes.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course.

Credits: 4

PSYC 4006 - Adv Res Mthds & Data Analysis II: Statistical Analysis and Advanced Design

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
This class covers advanced statistical procedures, including t-tests, ANOVA, regression and multiple regression, general linear models, item response theory models, distribution-free tests, and simulation. Research methods and designs for experimental and correlational studies will be covered. This course is the second of a two-semester sequence (PSYC 4005 and PSYC 4006) of advanced data analysis and research methods classes.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course.

Credits: 4

PSYC 4060 - Tacitus Agricola

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Effective Date 03/24/2021
In a biography that chiefly covers his father-in-law Agricola’s time as governor of Britain, the bracingly caustic historian Tacitus suggests that maybe not everything the Romans did in the provinces was entirely admirable. In this course, we will not only read the primary text with care and precision, but also discuss scholarship on literary, cultural, and historical questions raised by the work.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4100 - Neuroscience of Learning, Emotions and Motivation of Functional Behavior

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Effective Date 01/01/2025
Learning, Emotions and Motivation will be explored from animal models of clinical conditions, historical case studies in humans of brain-derived emotional disturbances, and current innovations to treat brain disorders. These important discoveries will be presented for students to understand underlying biological and neural mechanisms that mediate adaptive changes to motivate healthy behavior.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4105 - Cognitive Psychology and American Education

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Effective Date 10/19/2012
Psychologists have studied the processes of learning and thinking for over 100 years, and theoreticians have attempted to apply that knowledge to K-12 education for almost that long. This course will use information from cognitive psychology to examine: major steams of thought in pedagogy; data patterns in student achievement and in teacher effectiveness; subject-specific teaching strategies, and proposed reforms for American education. Prerequisite: PSYC 2150.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course and 4th Yr Psyc Maj/Min

Credits: 3

PSYC 4110 - Psycholinguistics

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Effective Date 06/13/2024
Topics include psychological and linguistic theory; experimental and empirical studies of linguistic usage; development of language in infants and children; cross-cultural studies of linguistic usage; and the biology of language.

Requisites 3rd or 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science major

Credits: 3

PSYC 4111 - Language Development and Disorders

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Effective Date 10/19/2012
Course will focus on language and cognitive development in persons with disabilities. Among the populations examined will be children with autistic disorder, children with Williams syndrome, deaf children, developmentally dysphasic children, adults with aphasia, and children with severe mental retardation. In addition to spoken language development, the course will examine the acquisition of sign communication skills. Prerequisite: 4th year psychology or cognitive science major status. Must have completed PSYC 3005 and PSYC 3006.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course and 4th Yr Psyc Maj/Min

Credits: 3

PSYC 4112 - Psychology and Deaf People

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
This course will consider the psychological development and psychosocial issues of deaf people. Topics covered will include cognition, education, hearing and speech perception, impact of family interaction and communication approaches, influence of etiology/genetics, language development, literacy, mental health, social and personality development, interpersonal behavior, and current trends.

Requisites 4thyear Psycmaj/Cogsma

Credits: 3

PSYC 4115 - Multiculturalism in the Deaf Community

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Explores cultural influences on identity development, family systems, linguistics, engagement with educational and community agencies, and resilience within the Deaf community. The interaction of culture, identity and language will be highlighted and applied to future trends for groups within the Deaf community, such as children of Deaf adults, GLTB community members, ethnic minority groups, women, and persons with disabilities.

Requisites Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course per semester. Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC majors.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4120 - Psychology of Reading

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Analyzes the critical psychological experiments which have influenced the way that psychologists consider topics in reading, such as text comprehension, parsing, and sentence processing. Prerequisite: PSYC 3005

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course OR ASG.
PSYC 4005 & 4006 SHOULD NOT BE INCLUDED in list

Credits: 3

PSYC 4130 - Risk and Resilience Among Marginalized Adolescents

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Effective Date 04/04/2013
This course will cover risk factors facing urban, economically disadvantaged adolescents of color, as well as assets and resources these youth can employ to thrive in the face of risk. Students will use relevant theories, academic research studies, and various forms of media to discuss issues of risk and resilience within this population.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4135 - Love, Sex, Parenting, Family: From Biology to Society

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Effective Date 03/12/2019
This course surveys intimate relationships beginning with animal models and perspectives from evolutionary biology to psychology and ending with a consideration of the many alternative forms of intimate relationships, parenting, and families in contemporary life. The course will integrate basic research with individual, cultural, and other perspectives. Student presentations and papers are a key part of the course.

Requisites Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course per semester. Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC majors.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4155 - Autism: From Neurons to Neighborhoods

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will discuss recent research on autism at multiple levels (biological, cognitive, social) and from multiple perspectives (autistic individuals, scientists, disability studies scholars, families, schools, community/government organizations).

Requisites 3rd or 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science or Neuroscience major

Credits: 3

PSYC 4200 - Neural Mechanisms of Behavior

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
Introduces basic concepts in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry needed for an understanding of brain and behavior. PSYC 3210 is recommended.

Requisites Student must have taken BIOL 3050 or PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3200 or PSYC 3260 and student must be a third or fourth year Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience or Behavioral Neuroscience major.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4215 - RM: Computational Methods in Psychology and Neuroscience

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
This class provides a hands-on introduction to applied data science in Psychology and Neuroscience with Python. Students will learn to design and code experiments, collect and process data, and analyze and visualize results, all with freely-available, cross-platform, open-source Python libraries. Advanced topics will include applications of optimization, machine learning, and statistics libraries.

Requisites Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC, COG SCI, or NESC majors and students can’t enroll if previously taken PSYC 4500 topic #55 Comp Mthds in Psych & Neurosci

Credits: 3

PSYC 4245 - Development of Sensory Systems

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Effective Date 03/19/2019
This course is designed to explore the neurobiological development and plasticity of sensory systems.

Requisites Completion of PSYC 2200, PSYC 4200, BIOL 3050, or BIOL 3170. Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course. Restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psyc, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience majors.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4250 - Brain Systems Involved in the Neurobiology of Memory

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
The course explores the essential role of memory in everyday life to reveal how successful behaviors are coordinated and executed by information stored in one of six memory systems. The seminar presents a comprehensive understanding of neural processes underlying learning, mechanisms involved in encoding learned material into memory and the events that permit successful recall of life’s experiences to interact effectively in the environment.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4255 - Behavioral Epigenetics

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Effective Date 03/08/2016
We will discuss basic concepts in epigenetics and the role these molecular modifications play in development, behavior, and disorder. Emphasis will be placed on landmark papers and the emerging role for the interaction of nature and nurture.

Requisites Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course (except PSYC 4910-4980) & student must be fourth year Psychology, Interdisciplinary-Cognitive Science, or Interdisciplinary-Neuroscience major; or a fourth year Psychology minor.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4260 - RM: Genetic and Epigenetic Research in Behavior

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
We will discuss basic concepts in genetics/epigenetics and the role these molecular modifications play in behavior and disorder. We will evaluate empirical papers and learn the molecular techniques described within them. Completion of this course should result in increased knowledge of the use of genome level data in psychology and biology.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4265 - Developmental Neurobiology

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
The diverse functions of the nervous system depend on precise wiring of connections between neurons. This course covers cellular and molecular processes of how neuronal connections are established during development. Diseases which result from failing to establish the circuitry will also be discussed. This course will introduce research methods and technology, and encourage students to develop logical rationale of contemporary research.

Requisites Student must have taken BIOL 3050 or PSYC 2200 and student must be a third or fourth year Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Neuroscience major.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4270 - Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

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Effective Date 10/19/2012
This seminar examines the neural basis of learning and memory. We will study brain systems that mediate different types of learning and memory as well as the cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow these systems to acquire and store information. The course begins with a historical overview of learning and memory research in psychology and transition into modern studies in behavioral neuroscience.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course and 4th Yr Psyc Maj/Min

Credits: 3

PSYC 4280 - Neural Basis of Empathy

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Effective Date 04/10/2020
The goal of this course is to familiarize you with ideas about empathy, as rooted in basic neuroscience. Topics covered include the separate neural networks underlying emotional versus cognitive empathy, empathy assays designed to measure theory of mind/prosocial/empathetic behavior in humans and animals, and synaptic plasticity. We will investigate creativity and self-regulation as ways to enhance empathy in humans.

Requisites Must have completed BIOL 3050 (formerly BIOL 3170) or PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3240

Credits: 3

PSYC 4285 - The Psychology of Black Women

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Effective Date 03/23/2021
This course provides a critical analysis of the distinctive experiences of Black women through an intersectional, psychological lens. We will explore how Black women’s family, school, and community contexts (including social media) inform their identity development. We will consider how broader cultural narratives about social identity statuses (i.e., race, gender, social class, and sexuality) inform Black women’s well-being.

Requisites Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC majors and students can’t enroll if previously taken PSYC 4500 topic #48 The Psychology of Black Women

Credits: 3

PSYC 4290 - Memory Distortions

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Although memory is generally accurate, some illusions and distortions in remembering are unavoidable. We will review both neuroscience and cognitive research on a variety of different memory problems, ranging from relatively benign tip-of-the-tongue experiences to untrustworthy eye-witness testimony. Our ultimate goal will be to understand the neural basis and cognitive processes that contribute to these constructive memory phenomena.

Requisites 3rd or 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science or Neuroscience major

Credits: 3

PSYC 4310 - Cognitive Aging

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
This course aims to discuss the state-of-the-art in the large field of cognitive aging and the main lifespan predictors that lead to healthy aging.

Requisites Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC or Cog Sci majors and students can’t enroll if previously taken PSYC 4500 topic #49 Cognitive Aging

Credits: 3

PSYC 4315 - Psychology of Art

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Effective Date 10/29/2015
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to current research on the psychology of art. It is a broad course that does not only consider the research of psychologists. It draws on the writings of art historians, computer scientists, philosophers, and others. Enrollment Requirements: PSYC maj/min or COGS majors. Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course and 4th Yr Psyc major/min or Cogs maj

Credits: 3

PSYC 4350 - RM: Research Methods in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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Effective Date 05/21/2024
This course offers a practical introduction to techniques in developmental cognitive neuroscience including electroencephalography (EEG), functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Students will gain hands-on experience collecting and analyzing neuroscientific data and an understanding of how human neuroscience techniques may inform our understanding of the developing brain.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4400 - Approaches to Quantitative Methods in Psychology

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
Many psychological theories nowadays are formulated mathematically. In this course we will survey a variety of approaches to modeling in perception (such as signal detection theory), cognitive psychology (categorization learning) and social psychology. Prerequisites: 4th-yr in Psyc or Cog Sci maj/min. PSYC3005 & 3006 or equivalent. A calculus course and knowledge of a programming language. Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4410 - RM: Practical Longitudinal Sustainability Studies

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Effective Date 03/22/2021
Longitudinal data analytical techniques will be introduced to investigate sustainability issues.

Requisites Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC majors and students can’t enroll if previously taken PSYC 4500 topic #53 RM:Prac Longit Sustain Studies

Credits: 3

PSYC 4420 - RM: Brain Mapping with MRI

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Effective Date 03/24/2021
Human neuroimaging technologies and analytics methods enable exploration of the form, function, and connectivity of the living brain. Students will gain familiarity with the origins of brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), be able to discuss the technical foundations of image reconstruction, view and process raw neuroimaging structural and time-series data, and make inferences about the brain in health and in disease. PSYC 4200 or PSYC 5265 recommended. Some background in coding using Matlab, R or Python is recommended. Other majors with Instructor’s Permission.

Requisites Must have completed BIOL 3050 or PSYC 2200 or PSYC 3160. Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC majors or COG SCI majors or Neurosci majors.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4435 - The Psychology of Misinformation

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
This course explores the psychology behind susceptibility to mis/disinformation, including cognitive biases, decision-making in uncertainty, and more. It delves into cutting-edge research and strategies for reducing susceptibility through video interventions and online games. It presents hands-on experience with lots of online materials ranging from responding to misinformation susceptibility scales, to engaging with online videos and games.

Requisites Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC or Cog Sci majors and students can’t enroll if previously taken PSYC 2500 #2 Psychology of Misinformation

Credits: 3

PSYC 4500 - Special Topics in Psychology

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Topical Offerings in Psychology

Requisites Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course per semester. Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC majors.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4559 - New Course in Psychology

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Effective Date 11/30/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of psychology.

Requisites 3rd or 4th year PSYC major

Credits: 3

PSYC 4580 - Directed Readings in Psychology

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Critical examination of an important current problem area in psychology. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 14 credits in psychology and instructor permission.

Credits: 2 to 3

PSYC 4585 - Behavior Genetics

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
This course will attempt to accomplish two basic goals. First, we will use the Plomin et al. text to establish a basic knowledge of genetics and its interaction with behavior. Second, we will use this knowledge to address some topics in behavioral genetics, using the Plomin et al. text and primary readings.

Requisites Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4603 - Psychology of Sexual Orientation

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Overview of research and theory related to sexual orientation across the lifespan from the standpoint of the social sciences. Topics include conceptualization of sexual identities, origins and development of sexual orientation, sexual identity formation and disclosure. Selected issues such as couple relationships, employment and careers, parenthood, and aging are also explored, since they may be affected by sexual orientation. Prerequisite: Third- or fourth-year psychology major

Requisites 3rd or 4th year PSYC major

Credits: 3

PSYC 4606 - Cognitive Biases in Anxiety and Related Disorders

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
This course examines cognitive processing biases in anxiety and related disorders. To understand, for example, why a person with social anxiety sees only the one scowling face in a room full of smiles, we consider automatic processing of emotional information. The course critiques cutting-edge research on how these processes contribute to anxiety and related problems, and if it is important to change the processes to reduce psychopathology.

Requisites PSYC 2410 and restricted to 3rd or 4th year Psychology or Cognitive Science majors.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4607 - Uniquely Human Social Cognition

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Effective Date 03/18/2019
One fundamental question in psychology is what makes humans such intensely social beings. In this course we will examine the evolutionary, developmental, and brain foundations that underpin our ultrasocial nature.

Requisites Enrollment is not allowed in more than one 4000- or 5000-level PSYC course. Restricted to 3rd of 4th year PSYC or CogSci majors.

Credits: 3

PSYC 4640 - Psychology of Emotions

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course will survey contemporary research and theory in affective science. We will examine the origins, functions, and behavioral and social consequences of emotions, paying particular attention to cross-cultural and cross-species evidence.

Requisites Students need to be a 3rd or 4th year PSYC, COG SCI or NESC major and can’t enroll if previously taken PSYC 4500 topic #47 Psychology of Emotion

Credits: 3

PSYC 4645 - Psychology of Inequality

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
In this course we will investigate how historical and social contexts of different types of inequality (e.g., racial, economic, gender, sexual orientation) inform individual’s psychological processes. Further, we will discuss how these psychological processes may, in turn, exacerbate inequality.

Requisites Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC majors and students can’t enroll if previously taken PSYC 4500 topic #60 Psychology of Inequalities

Credits: 3

PSYC 4650 - Oppression and Social Change

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Oppression and Social Change focuses on an analysis of oppression, empowerment and liberation as defined within an ecological system perspective. Topics to be covered include discussion of racial, economic, sexual discrimination, individual and social alienation, and loss of self esteem. Moreover, the course considers the role of privilege in the maintenance of an oppressive schema. Prerequisite: PSYC (who have never taken another Psyc 4000-level course), AAS or WGS major and 4th Year or Instructor Permission. Enrollment not allowed in more than one 4000-level or 5000-level PSYC course.

Requisites 3rd or 4th yr Psychology, African American and African Studies or Women, Gender and Sexuality majors

Credits: 3

PSYC 4655 - Psychology of Social Justice

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Effective Date 03/24/2021
A commitment to social justice, the idea that all individuals should be treated fairly by society and its members, has been at the heart of social psychology since its establishment. This course will survey this science of social justice, which addresses the origins of social injustice, how it gets committed and by whom; the role of resistance (to and for social justice); and the ways that social justice can be restored and preserved.

Requisites Restricted to 3rd or 4th year PSYC majors and students can’t enroll if previously taken PSYC 4500 topic #46 Psychology of Social Justice

Credits: 3

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Public Health Sciences

Courses

HHE 4500 - Special Topics in Public Health Science Ethics

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
The Topics in Public Health Ethics are designed for fourth-year undergraduate students who have declared a minor, or an interdisciplinary major, in bioethics. These topics will focus on ethical issues in Healthcare Policy and Administration.

Credits: 1 to 3

PHS 2291 - Global Culture and Public Health

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Effective Date 06/01/2013
This course considers the forces that influence the distribution of health and illness in different societies, with attention to increasing global interconnectedness. We will examine the roles of individuals, institutions, communities, corporations and states in improving public health, asking how effective public health and development efforts to improve global health have been and how they might be re-imagined.

Credits: 3

PHS 2559 - Topics in Public Health

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Effective Date 04/16/2019
Topics in Public Health Sciences

Credits: 1 to 6

PHS 2810 - West Indies Health Care: Disaster Preparedness, St Kitts & Nevis

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Effective Date 09/20/2013
The participants in this course held in the West Indies, will study the fundamentals of emergency care and disaster preparedness through exploration of existing preparedness infrastructures in St. Kitts and Nevis.

Credits: 3

PHS 3050 - Fundamentals of Public Health

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Effective Date 08/01/2018
Public health is multidisciplinary, universally relevant, & constantly evolving. In this survey course, we learn about past & current public health issues & explore the core disciplines of public health through a combination of lectures & small group discussion of documentaries & case studies. We develop an appreciation of how public health knowledge relates to our lives & learn about career opportunities.

Credits: 3

PHS 3090 - Health Care Economics

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Effective Date 02/27/2013
Reviews principles of economics most relevant to analyzing changes in health care provision and applies those principles to current health care institutions and their performance, trends in health care service delivery, and methods of forecasting future trends. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

PHS 3095 - Health Policy in the United States - An Economic Perspective

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Effective Date 09/26/2014
This course uses an economic perspective to analyze the health policies and institutions that shape the health care system in the US. The consequences of current health care policies on health outcomes are discussed. The processes through which health policies are developed, implemented, and evaluated are analyzed.

Credits: 3

PHS 3102 - Introduction to Public Health Research: Population Data Analysis

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Effective Date 02/27/2013
This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge & skills needed to use population data to answer research questions. Students will utilize SPSS to access, evaluate, & interpret public health data. The course will give students an opportunity to generate hypotheses & variables to measure health problems. The course will also describe how the public health infrastructure is used to collect, process, maintain & disseminate data. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

PHS 3103 - Intro to Epidemiology:Case Studies on Hlthy Lifestyles & Disease Prevention

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Effective Date 03/12/2013
This undergraduate course provides an introduction to basic epidemiology concepts, including measures of frequency & association, study design, & methodological issues such as confounding. Students will use case studies & team projects, as well as literature reviews, to examine strategies for promoting healthy behavior & lifestyles & addressing such public health challenges as obesity & tobacco abuse. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

PHS 3104 - Introduction to Epidemiology: Methodological and Ethical Considerations

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Effective Date 04/03/2015
This course is an introduction to epidemiology at the undergraduate level. Using epidemiology as a framework, class participants are challenged to engage more thoughtfully with many of the big issues facing the world today. The course emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and the scientific method, collaboration in teams, and ethical principles and reasoning in this process.

Credits: 3

PHS 3130 - Introduction to Health Research Methods

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Effective Date 04/11/2014
Much of what we know about human health & health-related behavior is based on quant & qual research. This course involves students in the research process from start to finish, including formulating a research question; conducting a background literature review; choosing a study design; developing data collection tools; recruiting a study population; collecting data; assuring data quality; analyzing data; & interpreting & presenting results.

Credits: 3

PHS 3186 - Comparative Health Care Systems

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Effective Date 03/19/2013
Provides a background for students who may be interested in learning about challenges & opportunities for improvement in health status for citizens in all countries. Although at the operational level, each national system is unique, there are common characteristics that permeate the design & structure of most health care delivery sectors. The major health reform activities occurring in developed & developing countries will be highlighted.

Credits: 3

PHS 3559 - Topics in Public Health

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Effective Date 12/17/2019
Topics in Public Health Sciences

Credits: 1 to 6

PHS 3620 - Built Environment & Health Impact

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
The planning & design of the built environment to promote public health & equity requires systems thinking & a trandisciplinary approach to research. Students will learn & apply collaborative research methods including scientific health literature review, diagramming concepts, & case study analysis to synthesize logic models as theoretical frameworks for projects & policy.

Credits: 3

PHS 3818 - UVA in the Dominican Republic: Dominican Public Health

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Effective Date 11/06/2014
Students will explore some of the basic tenets of global public health while experiencing the realities of life and public health during two weeks in the Dominican Republic. The course is comprised of 9 instructional modules. Course material will be enhanced through hands-on learning field trips and community service projects. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

PHS 3825 - Global Public Health: Challenges and Innovations

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Undoubtedly, we’ve made important advances in global health, but there’s still a long way to go. What factors determine health? What threats do we face today? What issues should we be working to change? We will explore these questions & more through a variety of interactive lectures & small group activities centered on 4 major themes: History & Trends, Determinants of Health, Culture, & Communication.

Credits: 3

PHS 4016 - Human Factors Design for Community Health

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Effective Date 03/25/2016
We will draw on approaches from public health, medical informatics, and human factors engineering to answer these questions. We will explore how to create interventions that are grounded in theoretical perspectives and field-based assessments of patients needs and preferences. Our ultimate goal will be to create interventions that are useful and usable by patients and that ultimately support self-management and improve health outcomes.

Credits: 3

PHS 4050 - Public Health Policy

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Effective Date 01/20/2016
Explores the legitimacy, design, & implementation of a variety of policies aiming to promote public health & reduce the social burden of disease & injury. Highlights the challenge posed by public health’s pop-based perspective to traditional ind-centered, autonomy-driven approaches to bioethics & const. law. Other themes center on conflicts between PH & pub morality & the relationship between PH and social justice.

Credits: 3

PHS 4559 - Topics in Public Health

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Effective Date 07/31/2020
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Public Health Sciences. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

Credits: 1 to 6

PHS 4991 - Global Public Health Capstone

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Effective Date 10/28/2016
Explores topics in global public health and the myriad of governmental and non-governmental entities whose goal is to address and resolve problems encountered in global public health and synthesizes the student’s interdisciplinary studies in global public health, culminating in a Capstone Paper.

Credits: 3

Religious Studies

Courses

RELA 1559 - New Course in African Religion

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of African Religions

Credits: 3

RELA 2400 - Introduction to Africana Religions

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Effective Date 03/10/2022
An introductory survey course exploring the topic of Africana religions generally – including the practices of spirituality of black people in the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe and on the continent of Africa. Particular attention will be paid to the relations between these various locations, the similarities and differences. We will engage music, watch film, read fiction, poetry, sacred texts and works of critical nonfiction.

Credits: 3

RELA 2559 - New Course in African Religions

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Effective Date 07/22/2021
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of African Religions.

Credits: 1 to 4

RELA 2700 - Festivals of the Americas

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Readings will include contemporary ethnographies of religious festivals in the Caribbean ans South, Central, and North America, and increase their knowledge of the concepts of sacred time and space, ritual theory, and the relationships between religious celebration and changing accounts of ethnicity.

Credits: 3

RELA 2750 - African Religions

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the mythology, ritual, philosophy, and religious art of the traditional religions of sub-Saharan Africa, also African versions of Christianity and African-American religions in the New World.

Credits: 3

RELA 2800 - Introduction to Yoruba Religions

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
The Orisa traditions of the Yoruba-speaking peoples of West Africa have survived and thrived across centuries of war, slavery, and colonization, and continue to provide meaning to the lives of millions of people all over the world. This course will survey the various Orisa traditions of West Africa and the Americas, their interactions with other traditions as well as their influence on Black Atlantic art and spirituality.

Credits: 3

RELA 2800 - Introduction to Yoruba Religions

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
The Orisa traditions of the Yoruba-speaking peoples of West Africa have survived and thrived across centuries of war, slavery, and colonization, and continue to provide meaning to the lives of millions of people all over the world. This course will survey the various Orisa traditions of West Africa and the Americas, their interactions with other traditions as well as their influence on Black Atlantic art and spirituality.

Credits: 3

RELA 2800 - Introduction to Yoruba Religions

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
The Orisa traditions of the Yoruba-speaking peoples of West Africa have survived and thrived across centuries of war, slavery, and colonization, and continue to provide meaning to the lives of millions of people all over the world. This course will survey the various Orisa traditions of West Africa and the Americas, their interactions with other traditions as well as their influence on Black Atlantic art and spirituality.

Credits: 3

RELA 2850 - Afro- Creole Religions in the Americas

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
A survey course which familiarizes students with African-derived religions of the Caribbean and Latin America

Credits: 3

RELA 3000 - Women and Religion in Africa

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Effective Date 08/01/2009
This course examines women’s religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women.

Credits: 3

RELA 3073 - Religion and Society in Nigeria

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Effective Date 01/29/2020
Not only is Nigeria home to uniquely dynamic, diverse, and globally influential religious traditions, but these traditions have profoundly shaped the history, culture, and politics of the nation-state of Nigeria and its diaspora. This course examines the historical development of religious traditions in Nigeria and their interactions.

Credits: 3

RELA 3351 - African Diaspora Religions

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Effective Date 03/31/2009
This seminar examines changes in ethnographic accounts of African diaspora religions, with particular attention to the conceptions of religion, race, nation, and modernity found in different research paradigms. Prerequisite: previous course in one of the following: religious studies, anthropology, AAS, or Latin American studies

Credits: 3

RELA 3559 - New Course in African Religions

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Effective Date 09/05/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of African Religions.

Credits: 1 to 4

RELA 3730 - Religious Themes in African Literature and Film

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Effective Date 09/26/2016
An exploration of religious concepts, practices and issues as addressed in African literature and film. We will examine how various African authors and filmmakers weave aspects of Muslim, Christian and/or traditional religious cultures into the stories they tell. Course materials will be drawn from novels, memoirs, short stories, creation myths, poetry, feature-length movies, documentaries and short films.

Credits: 3

RELA 3890 - Christianity in Africa

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Historical and topical survey of Christianity in Africa from the second century c.e. to the present. Cross listed with RELC 3890. Prerequisite: A course in African religions or history, Christianity, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

RELA 3900 - Introduction to Islam in Africa through the Arts

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
This course will survey the history of Islam and Muslim societies in Africa through their arts. Covering three periods (Precolonial, Colonial, and Post-colonial), and four geographic regions (North, East, West, and Southern Africa), the course will explore the various forms and functions of Islamic arts on the continent. Through these artistic works and traditions we will explore the politics, cultures, and worldviews of African Muslim societies.

Credits: 3

RELA 4085 - Christian Missions in Contemporary Africa

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
An examination of Christian missions in Africa in the 21st Century. Through a variety of disciplinary lenses and approaches, we examine faith-based initiatives in Africa–those launched from abroad, as well as from within the continent. What does it mean to be a missionary in Africa today? How are evangelizing efforts being transformed in response to democratization, globalization and a growing awareness of human rights?

Credits: 3

RELA 4200 - Introduction to African Philosophy: Race, Religion, and Rationality

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Effective Date 10/22/2021
This course will survey the central debates of the field of African Philosophy: what counts as “African”? what counts as “philosophy”?, the universality or cultural particularity of rationality, the role of race and racism in modern, Western Philosophy, the role of writing and orality in philosophy, and “African” conceptions of the self, truth, knowledge, gender, ethics, and justice.

Credits: 3

RELA 4510 - Advanced Topics in African Religions

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Effective Date 02/23/2015
This topical course provides upper level undergraduate students in Religious Studies an opportunity for advanced coursework in African Religions

Credits: 3

RELA 4559 - New Course in African Religions

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Effective Date 09/09/2016
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of African Religions.

Credits: 1 to 4

RELB 1559 - New Course in Buddhism

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Effective Date 01/17/2020
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Buddhism.

Credits: 3

RELB 2054 - Tibetan Buddhism Introduction

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Effective Date 06/13/2009
Provides a systematic introduction to Tibetan Buddhism with a strong emphasis on tantric traditions of Buddhism - philosophy, contemplation, ritual, monastic life, pilgrimage, deities & demons, ethics, society, history, and art. The course aims to understand how these various aspects of Tibetan religious life mutually shape each other to form the unique religious traditions that have pertained on the Tibetan plateau for over a thousand years.

Credits: 3

RELB 2067 - Buddhism and Environmental Thought and Practice

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Effective Date 10/26/2022
An introduction to environmental ideas, texts and practices of Buddhism in broad historical and geographical context. Engages Buddhist “environmental imagination” through readings of primary texts, considers the ways that contemporary Buddhists around the world have interpreted environmental problems, and the ways that Buddhist modernist movements draw upon Buddhist ideologies in the service of social-environmental change.

Credits: 3

RELB 2100 - Buddhism

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Theravada, Mahayana, and Tantrayana Buddhist developments in India.

Credits: 3

RELB 2120 - Buddhist Literature

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces Buddhist literature in translation, from India, Tibet, and East and South East Asia.

Credits: 3

RELB 2130 - Taoism and Confucianism

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
Surveys the major religions of Chinese Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.

Credits: 3

RELB 2135 - Chinese Buddhism

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This course examines the ways in which Chinese Buddhism differs from the Buddhisms of other countries. The first half of the course introduces Buddhism with a focus on the historical development of the tradition.The second half of the course surveys several philosophical schools and forms of practice including Huayan, Chan, Pure Land, and Tantric Buddhism.

Credits: 3

RELB 2165 - Buddhist Meditation and the Modern Secular World

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
This course focuses on meditation from three overlapping perspectives: traditional Buddhist practices, contemporary scientific research, and modern secular adaptations; students also learn secular meditative practices firsthand. Each day we will explore a major type of meditation that relates to a variety of topics and practices - attention, insight, compassion, aesthetics, somatic work, visualization, open awareness, and so forth.

Credits: 3

RELB 2200 - Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy

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Effective Date 10/22/2021
This is a lecture-based course–an idiosyncratic but hopefully helpful introduction to Buddhist philosophy. A few aspects of Buddhist philosophy, at any rate. The subject is potentially endless and can be grabbed from several different ends. Note: this course emphasizes the history of Buddhist concepts and arguments in premodern South Asia. But we will explore what are hopefully ideas of interest: in philosophy of mind; metaphysics; gender.

Credits: 3

RELB 2252 - Buddhism in Film

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Effective Date 02/14/2012
This course is an introduction to Buddhism and an exploration of the place of Buddhism within contemporary Asian, European, and North American cultures through film. The goals are 1) to identify longstanding Buddhist narrative themes in contemporary films, 2) to consider how Buddhism is employed in films to address contemporary issues, and 3) to gain through film a vivid sense of Buddhism as a complex social and cultural phenomenon.

Credits: 3

RELB 2450 - Zen

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the development and history of the thought, practice, and goals of Zen Buddhism.

Credits: 3

RELB 2559 - New Course in Buddhism

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Effective Date 10/26/2021
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Buddhism.

Credits: 1 to 4

RELB 2715 - Introduction to Chinese Religion

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Effective Date 10/26/2021
This course serves as an introduction to the religious beliefs and practices of China, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. The course covers several broad themes in Chinese religion, including ritual, self-cultivation, means of communicating with the gods, and the intersection of political authority and religion. We will engage with textual, material, and visual traditions.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken RELG 2715 Intro to Chinese Religion

Credits: 3

RELB 2770 - Daoism

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies Daoist philosophy and religion within the context of Chinese society and history.

Credits: 3

RELB 2900 - Buddhist Meditation Traditions

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Effective Date 05/01/2020
The goal of this course will be to examine different conceptions of Buddhist meditation and how these different conceptions affect the nature of practice and the understanding of the ideal life within a variety of Buddhist traditions. Thus, the study of Buddhist meditation traditions reveals not just intricate forms of practice, but reveals the nature of the good life and how one lives it.

Credits: 3

RELB 3000 - Buddhist Mysticism and Modernity

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Buddhist Mysticism and Modernity

Credits: 3

RELB 3030 - Mindfulness and Compassion: Living Fully Personally and Professionally

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Effective Date 12/07/2016
This course provides an in-depth experience in contemplative practices to prepare students to live more fully, be more engaged & compassionate citizens & professionals, & navigate life’s stressors with greater clarity, peace of mind, & healthy behaviors. Besides mindfulness training, this course will also foster the cultivation of compassion and prosocial qualities. For more info: http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/Mindfulness__Compassion/.

Credits: 3

RELB 3150 - Seminar in Buddhism and Gender

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
This seminar takes as its point of departure Carolyn Bynum’s statements: “No scholar studying religion, no participant in ritual, is ever neuter. Religious experience is the experience of men and women, and in no known society is this experience the same.” The unifying theme is gender and Buddhism, exploring historical, textual and social questions relevant to the status of women and men in the Buddhist world from its origins to the present day.

Credits: 3

RELB 3160 - The Religions of Japan

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
This course is a survey of religions in Japan as well as their roles in Japanese culture and society. The topics that will be discussed are syncretism between Buddhism and Shinto, the development of uniquely Japanese forms of Buddhism, the spontaneous emergence of Pure Land Buddhism, the use of Shinto as a nationalistic ideology, and the role of Christianity. No prerequisites; but a basic knowledge of Buddhism or Japanese history is useful.

Credits: 3

RELB 3190 - Buddhist Nirvana

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
This seminar will examine what Buddhists mean when they talk about Nirvana. We’ll begin with how the concept of Nirvana develops in the culture in which Sakyamuni Buddha lived and taught, explore how different forms of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Tibet, China, Japan, and in the west developed new ideas about what Nirvana is and how it can be experienced. We’ll read classic sutras on the topic, as well as books and essays by contemporary Zen Masters.

Credits: 3

RELB 3408 - Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Tibet possesses one of the great Buddhist philosophical traditions in the world. Tibetan Buddhist thinkers composed comprehensive and philosophically rigorous works on human growth according to classical Buddhism, works that surveyed ethics, meditation practice, the nature of personal identity, and enlightenment itself. In this seminar we will read and discuss famous Tibetan overviews of Buddhist philosophy. Pre-Requisites: One prior course in religion or philosophy recommended

Credits: 3

RELB 3422 - Anthropology of Global Buddhism

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Effective Date 10/03/2017
This course examines social and cultural dynamics of Buddhism in relation to its rapid and recent transmutation into a global religion. Drawing upon anthropological theory on globalization, and ethnographic and historical studies, it addresses topics such as processes of transmission and adaptation, encounters with modernity, and the role of mass migration and electronic media in the process of transnationalization of Buddhist traditions.

Credits: 3

RELB 3495 - Early Buddhism in South Asia

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Effective Date 09/27/2018
This course explores the origins and development of Buddhism in South Asia. It assumes students have no prior knowledge of Buddhism. The goal is to understand the complex of teachings, practices, and relationships that would become known later as Buddhism and, simultaneously, how such a complex has developed within specific cultural contexts.

Credits: 3

RELB 3559 - New Course in Buddhism

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Effective Date 01/15/2017
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Buddhism.

Credits: 1 to 4

RELB 3655 - Buddhism in America

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This course is a seminar that examines the development of Buddhism in America going from its earliest appearance to contemporary developments.

Credits: 3

RELB 4520 - Advanced Topics in Buddhism

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Effective Date 12/14/2023
This topical course provides upper level undergraduate students in Religious Studies an opportunity for advanced coursework in Buddhism

Credits: 3

RELB 4559 - New Course in Buddhism

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Buddhism

Credits: 3

RELC 1050 - Introduction to Christian Traditions

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Explore Christianity in its modern and historical contexts, combining an examination of current historical and theological scholarship, worship, and practice. The emphasis is on modern American Christianity.

Credits: 3

RELC 1210 - Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the history, literature, and religion of ancient Israel in the light of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Emphasizes methods of contemporary biblical criticism. Cross listed as RELJ 1210.

Credits: 3

RELC 1220 - New Testament and Early Christianity

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the history, literature, and theology of earliest Christianity in light of the New Testament. Emphasizes the cultural milieu and methods of contemporary biblical criticism.

Credits: 3

RELC 1559 - New Course in Christianity

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Effective Date 05/01/2014
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Christianity

Credits: 3

RELC 2000 - The Bible and Its Interpreters

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys Jewish and Christian interpretations of the Torah (the first five books of the Bible). Examines how the Bible becomes sacred scripture for Jews and Christians.

Credits: 3

RELC 2050 - The Rise of Christianity

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
This course traces the rise of Christianity in the first millennium of the Common Era, covering the development of doctrine, the evolution of its institutional structures, and its impact on the cultures in which it flourished. Students will become acquainted with the key figures, issues, and events from this formative period, when Christianity evolved from marginal Jewish sect to the dominant religion in the Roman Empire.

Credits: 3

RELC 2060 - The Reform and Global Expansion of Christianity

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
How did Christianity become a global religion with hundreds of denominations and nearly two billion adherents? In this course, we will explore the reform and expansion of Christianity in the second millennium of the Common Era, from the high Middle Ages to the present day.

Credits: 3

RELC 2215 - Mormonism and American Culture

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Effective Date 02/10/2014
This course is designed to add substantive depth to a general understanding of American religious pluralism and insight into the socio-historical context of American religion through the study of Mormonism. In addition to introducing Mormonism’s basic beliefs and practices, the course will explore issues raised by Mormonism’s move toward the American mainstream while retaining its religious identity and cultural distinctiveness.

Credits: 3

RELC 2245 - Global Christianity

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
The story of Christianity’s emergence in the Middle East and its migration into Europe and then North America is just one aspect of Christian history, which also has a rich and long history in Africa, Asia and other parts of the global South. This course looks at the shape Christianity is taking in non-Western parts of the world and how this growth impacts Christianity in the West.

Credits: 3

RELC 2330 - History of Christian Social and Political Thought I

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys the history of Christian social and political thought from the New Testament to 1850 including the relation of theological ideas to conceptions of state, family, and economic life.

Credits: 3

RELC 2340 - History of Christian Social and Political Thought II

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys the history of Christian social and political thought from the rise of Social Gospel to the contemporary scene. Considers ‘love’ and ‘justice’ as central categories for analyzing different conceptions of what social existence is and ought to be.

Credits: 3

RELC 2360 - Elements of Christian Thought

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This course considers the complex world of Christian thought, examining various perspectives on the nature of faith, the being and action of God, the identity of Jesus of Nazareth, the role of the Bible in theological reflection, and the relationship between Christian thought and social justice. Students will read various important works of Christian theology and become acquainted with a range of theological approaches and ideas.

Credits: 3

RELC 2401 - History of American Catholicism

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This course engages in a historical survey of American Catholicism from colonial beginnings to the present. It especially explores the theme of how Catholicism has been enculturated in America, how Catholic faith and practice have interacted with the social, cultural, and political environment of the nation.

Credits: 3

RELC 2460 - The Spirit of Catholicism: Its Creeds and Customs

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
The course will trace the origins and development of Roman Catholic doctrine in light of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). The following topics will be treated: the nature and person of Christ as examined in the first ecumenical councils from Nicaea (325) to Chalcedon (451); the nature of the Church and its authority vested in bishops and the pope; original sin, grace, and justification; the rise of hte Reformation in western Christianity;

Credits: 3

RELC 2559 - New Course in Christianity

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Effective Date 07/22/2021
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subject of Christianity

Credits: 1 to 4

RELC 2770 - The Black Church

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Effective Date 10/21/2021
“The Black Church” carries unique symbolic weight in America–but why? This course explores how the idea of the Black Church gained moral authority, whether there is a collective Black Church or only black churches, the traditions and practices the concept names, who the concept celebrates and who it marginalizes, and how–or whether–the Black Church, as myth or reality, is still relevant in African American life today.

Credits: 3

RELC 2850 - The Kingdom of God in America

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Effective Date 12/07/2015
This course examines the influence of theological ideas on social movements in twentieth- and twenty-first-century America and investigates how religious commitments shape everyday living, including racial perception and economic, political, and sexual organization. The course will examine the American Civil Rights Movement, late 1960s counter-cultural movements, and recent faith-based community-development movements and organizing initiatives.

Credits: 3

RELC 3006 - Augustine’s City of God

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
A text-focused class that will read the entire City of God, supplementing that work with several other of Augustine’s smaller texts (particularly letters and sermons) to attempt to understand that work’s argument, paying attention to the various audiences to which it was addressed, and to Augustine’s larger thought as captured in that one great and difficult book

Credits: 3

RELC 3009 - Protestant Theology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course uses the category of protest to understand western Christian thought in the modern period. We examine the rise and development of Protestant thought, considering how Christians conceptualized challenges to established ideas, norms, and institutional structures during and after the Reformation.

Credits: 3

RELC 3030 - Jesus and the Gospels

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
This course focuses on Jesus of Nazareth as an historical figure, that is, as he is accessible to the historian by means of historical methods. Our most important sources of information on Jesus are the canonical Gospels, and so much of the course will involve reading and attempting to understand these texts. We will attempt to reconstruct at least the broad outlines of Jesus activity and teachings, keeping in mind the limits of our sources.

Credits: 3

RELC 3040 - Paul: Letters and Theology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Intensive study of the theological ideas and arguments of the Apostle Paul in relation to their historical and epistolary contexts.

Credits: 3

RELC 3043 - Themes in Eastern Orthodoxy: An Introduction

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
This course is an introduction to the thematic core of the Orthodox Christian tradition. There is first reviewed the major elements of the Orthodox faith, its theology and doctrine, that developed over the course of the Byzantine era, This study is followed by an examination of writings on scripture and tradition, iconography. liturgy and sacrament, as well as the relationship of Orthodox Christianity to the culture.

Credits: 3

RELC 3045 - History of the Bible

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Effective Date 09/22/2011
The history of the formation, transmission, translation, forms and uses of the Christian Bible from the 1st to the 21st century.

Credits: 3

RELC 3055 - American Feminist Theology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Contemporary theological models for American Christian feminists. The primary goal is to understand the various types of Christian feminism that exist in America today and how these theologies contribute to or challenge American feminism. Prerequisite: introductory religious studies and SWAG courses recommended.

Credits: 3

RELC 3056 - In Defense of Sin

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Critical analysis of Ten Commandments, seven deadly sins, and shifting prominence of sin in Judaism and Christianity

Credits: 3

RELC 3058 - The Christian Vision in Literature

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies selected classics of the Christian imaginative traditions; examines ways in which the Christian vision of time, space, self, and society emerges and changes as an ordering principle in literature and art up to the beginning of the modern era.

Credits: 3

RELC 3077 - Christian Theologies of Liberation

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
In the context of Christian thought, “liberation theology” refers to scholarship that links reflection on God, Jesus of Nazareth, human beings, creation, the Holy Spirit, and ethics with normative analyses of race, sex and gender, economic injustice, poverty, sexuality, post-colonialism, and human rights. This course engages both landmark and cutting-edge texts in this field of study.

Credits: 3

RELC 3090 - Plagues, Pestilence, Pox, and Prophecy

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This course treats the phenomenon of prophecy in ancient Israel in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Biblical texts often deal with plagues and pestilence. Does our current location in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak help us understand these texts in new ways? How do these stories reveal ancient Israel’s most cherished values? Do biblical accounts of plagues and pestilence offer us insight into our own predicament in the age of corona?

Credits: 3

RELC 3095 - The Bible in Fiction and Film

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Effective Date 09/21/2020
In this course, we will study the biblical text itself, appreciating it in its own terms but also paying special attention to the ambiguities that activate our own imaginations. Then, we will analyze how fiction, film, and poetry respond to and re-imagine the biblical text-how they might make us think of the biblical text differently (or perhaps shed light on issues that were already there?).

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken RELC 3559 topic #39 Bible, Fiction, & Film

Credits: 3

RELC 3115 - Evangelicalism

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
From the revivals of George Whitefield to the antebellum abolitionists to the unexpected rise of Donald Trump, Evangelicals have played a vital and contested role in American society. Evangelicalism has also burgeoned into a truly global faith tradition, with an estimated 600 million+ adherents around the world. This course presents a multidisciplinary and polyperspectival introduction to this religious movement in World Christianity.

Credits: 3

RELC 3150 - Salem Witch Trials

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Salem Witch Trials

Credits: 3

RELC 3155 - Christianity and Ecology

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Effective Date 04/22/2019
Reading historical and social analyses along with a range of environmental theologies, this seminar investigates entanglements of Christianity with modern environmental problems. It considers the influence of Christianities in various environmental imaginations, and the role of ecological science and environmental stress in reshaping religious imaginations.

Credits: 3

RELC 3181 - Medieval Christianity

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
This course introduces students to the extensive philosophical, theological and exegetical work of St. Thomas Aquinas. Students will read his foundational texts, a range of important tractates from the *Summa theologiae*, and a range of Aquinas’s scriptural exegeses. Comparisons will be made to other scholastic theologians and commentators, including those of the previous generation, i.e., the monastic theologians.

Credits: 3

RELC 3200 - Medieval Church Law

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys the origins and development of the law of the Christian Church, the canon law, from its origins to its full elaboration in the ‘classical period’, 1140-1348. Readings and exercises from original sources will focus on general principles of the law, using marriage law as the particular case.

Credits: 3

RELC 3211 - American Christian Autobiography

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Effective Date 04/08/2010
This course examines Americans’ self-perceptions and religious analysis in light of dominant American values, notable national and international events, cultural trends, and Christian doctrine. Among the autobiographers are Henri Nouwen and Anne Lamott.

Credits: 3

RELC 3215 - American Religious Innovation

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Effective Date 09/20/2013
This course is about America’s newer religious movements: Scientology, Nation of Islam and Mormonism. The class will be using theories of ritual and text to understand how religious communities constitute themselves around an originating vision and retain a sense of continuity notwithstanding dramatic change. We will ask also why these three movements have created such crisis for the American state and anxiety among its citizens.

Credits: 3

RELC 3222 - From Jefferson to King

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
A seminar focused upon some of the most significant philosophical and religious thinkers that have shaped and continued to shape American religious thought and culture from the founding of the Republic to the Civil Rights Movement, including Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jane Addams, William James, Reinhold Niebuhr and Martin Luther King, Jr. We will explore how their thought influenced the social and cultural currents of their time.

Credits: 3

RELC 3231 - Reformation Europe

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Surveys the development of religious reform movements in continental Europe from c. 1450 to c. 1650 and their impact on politics, social life, science, and conceptions of the self.

Credits: 3

RELC 3240 - Medieval Mysticism

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the major mystical traditions of the Middle Ages and the sources in which they are rooted.

Credits: 3

RELC 3245 - Religion, Law, and Culture

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Effective Date 08/01/2021
An examination of the legal evolution, philosophical underpinnings and political application of the First Amendment religion clauses. Analysis of specific controversies and court opinions will be supported by attention to such key concepts as “secularism,” “tolerance,” “civilization,” “gender” and “race” in the application of these clauses domestically and in U.S. foreign policy.

Credits: 3

RELC 3270 - Salvation in the Middle Ages

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies four topics in medieval Christian thought: How can human beings know God? How does Jesus save? How does grace engage free will? How does posing such questions change language? Authors include Athanasius, Irenaeus, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Anslem, Aquinas, Bernard of Clairvaux, Julian of Norwich, Martin Luther, and some modern commentators.

Credits: 3

RELC 3280 - Eastern Christianity

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys the history of Christianity in the Byzantine world and the Middle East from late antiquity (age of emperor Justinian) until the fall of Constantinople.

Credits: 3

RELC 3292 - The Book of Job & Its Interpretation

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Effective Date 04/14/2014
A seminar on the biblical book of Job (with attention to its literary artistry and compositional history) and its subsequent interpretation.

Credits: 3

RELC 3360 - Judaism and Christianity

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the relationship between Judaism and Christianity from the origins of Christianity as a Jewish sect through the conflicts of the Middle Ages and modernity; and current views of the interrelationship.

Credits: 3

RELC 3447 - History of Christian Ethics

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Survey of development of Christian ethical thought and teaching from beginnings through Reformation era. Major ethical themes are traced through the centuries, as the church’s scripture, evolving doctrine, and emerging tradition interact with secular society, politics, and philosophy. Readings will be taken mostly from primary texts, such as the Bible and the writings of selected Christian thinkers.

Credits: 3

RELC 3465 - American Religion, Social Reform, and Democracy

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
This course examines the history of the interplay between theology, morality, social movements, and politics in America. Topics covered include temperance and prohibition, abolition, labor, civil rights, anti-war and pacifism, and environmentalism. Lecture, weekly readings (often a book), class presentations, short papers, and original research.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken RELC 3559 topic 40: Religion, Reform, & Democracy

Credits: 3

RELC 3469 - Survey of Apocryphal Christian Literature

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Effective Date 01/30/2020
There are four gospels, one book of “acts,” and one “apocalypse” (that is, “revelation”) in the canonical New Testament – but early Christian authors produced far more literature than that. In this course, we will read a wide range of “apocryphal” (or “noncanonical”) gospels, acts, and apocalypses, focusing on texts that, despite their noncanonical status, were widely read and highly influential in the history of Christianity.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken RELC 3559 topic #24 Apocryphal Christian Literature

Credits: 3

RELC 3470 - Christianity and Science

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Christian Europe gave rise to modern science, yet Christianity and science have long appeared mutual enemies. In this course we explore the encounter between two powerful cultural forces and study the intellectual struggle (especially in Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and Freud) about the place of God in the modern world.

Credits: 3

RELC 3480 - Dynamics of Faith

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies a variety of contrasting contemporary accounts of the character and status of ‘religious faith.’

Credits: 3

RELC 3550 - Faith and Reason

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies approaches to the relation between reason, faith, doubt, and certainty in selected classical writings (e.g., Aquinas, Pascal, Kant, Kierkegaard, William James).

Credits: 3

RELC 3559 - New Course in Christianity

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Effective Date 10/02/2019
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of Christianity.

Credits: 1 to 4

RELC 3610 - Female Saints in the Western Tradition

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course is a study of the lives of female saints from the early Christianity through the present. The course focuses on the theological writings of female saints as well as exploring the cultural/historical importance of canonization. Prerequisite: one religious studies course.

Credits: 3

RELC 3620 - Modern Theology

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Effective Date 04/03/2013
Who are the great modern Christian theologians? What do they have to say to us? What do they argue about? Who did they offend and why? In this seminar we shall read major works by four of the truly great modern theologians of the twentieth century. Two are Protestant (Karl Barth and Paul Tillich), and two are Catholic (Karl Rahner and Henri de Lubac).

Credits: 3

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Slavic Languages and Literatures

Courses

BULG 1210 - Introduction to Bulgarian Language

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces students to the essentials of Bulgarian grammar with emphasis on speaking and reading. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; some knowledge of Russian recommended.

Credits: 3

BULG 1220 - Introduction to Bulgarian Language

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces students to the essentials of Bulgarian grammar with emphasis on speaking and reading. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; some knowledge of Russian recommended.

Credits: 3

LNGS 2220 - Black English

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the history and structure of what has been termed Black English Vernacular or Black Street English. Focuses on the sociolinguistic factors that led to its emergence, its present role in the Black community, and its relevance in education and racial stereotypes.

Credits: 3

LNGS 2240 - Southern American English

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
An examination of the structure, history, and sociolinguistics of the English spoken in the southeastern United States.

Credits: 3

LNGS 2500 - Topics in Linguistics

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Miscellaneous studies in Linguistics

Credits: 3

LNGS 3250 - Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Analysis

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Effective Date 04/04/2017
Introduces sign systems, language as a sign system, and approaches to linguistics description. Emphasizes the application of descriptive techniques to data.

Credits: 3

LNGS 3251 - Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Methodology Discussion

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Effective Date 08/01/2009
Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Methodology Discussion. Prerequisite: Enrollment in LNGS 3250.

Credits: 1

LNGS 3500 - Topics in Linguistics

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Effective Date 03/24/2023
Miscellaneous studies in Linguistics

Credits: 1 to 4

LNGS 3993 - Linguistics Independent Study

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
An introduction to the fundamental assumptions and procedures of theoretical linguistics.

Credits: 1

LNGS 4500 - Topics in Linguistics

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Miscellaneous studies in Linguistics

Credits: 3

LNGS 4993 - Independent Study in General Linguistics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
For students who wish to pursue linguistic theory and the application of linguistic methodology to data beyond the introductory level.

Credits: 1 to 6

POL 1210 - Introduction to Polish Language

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Introduces students to the essentials of Polish grammar with emphasis on speaking and reading. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/slavic/courses.html.

Credits: 3

POL 1220 - Introduction to Polish Language

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces students to the essentials of Polish grammar with emphasis on speaking and reading. Prerequisite: POL 1210 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

POL 2210 - Intermediate Polish Language

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Second-year continuation of POL 1210, 1220. Prerequisite: POL 1210, 1220 and instructor permission.

Credits: 3

POL 2220 - Intermediate Polish Language

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Second-year continuation of POL 1210, 1220. Prerequisite: POL 1210, 1220 and instructor permission.

Credits: 3

RUSS 116 - Intensive Introductory Russian

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for RUSS 1016.

Credits: 0

RUSS 126 - Intensive Introductory Russian

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for RUSS 2026.

Credits: 0

RUSS 216 - Intensive Intermediate Russian

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for RUSS 2016.

Credits: 0

RUSS 226 - Intensive Intermediate Russian

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for RUSS 2026.

Credits: 0

RUSS 1010 - First-Year Russian

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces Russian grammar with emphasis on reading and speaking. Class meets five days per week plus work in the language laboratory. To be followed by RUSS 2010, 2020.

Credits: 4

RUSS 1020 - First-Year Russian

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
Introduces Russian grammar with emphasis on reading and speaking. Class meets five days per week plus work in the language laboratory. To be followed by RUSS 2010, 2020. Prerequisite: A grade of C or above in RUSS 1010.

Requisites RUSS 1010 Required

Credits: 4

RUSS 1030 - Russian Language Study in Russia

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Effective Date 02/13/2012
In this course, students will begin or continue their study of the Russian language. Students will be placed at the appropriate level and will be taught by instructors at UVA’s partner institutions in Moscow and St. Petersburg. At either the beginning or intermediate level, the course includes reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Aimed to give students as high a level of proficiency in spoken and written Russian as possible.

Credits: 2

RUSS 2010 - Second-Year Russian

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes practice in speaking and writing Russian and introduction to Russian prose and poetry. Class meets four days per week, plus work in the language laboratory. Prerequisite: RUSS 1020 (with grade of C- or better) or equivalent.

Credits: 4

RUSS 2020 - Second-Year Russian

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes practice in speaking and writing Russian and introduction to Russian prose and poetry. Class meets four days per week, plus work in the language laboratory. Prerequisite: grade of C or better in RUSS 2010.

Credits: 4

RUSS 3000 - Russian House Conversation

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
Russian House Conversation

Credits: 1

RUSS 3010 - Third-Year Russian

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes intensive oral practice through reports, dialogues, guided discussions; composition of written reports and essays; readings in literary and non-literary texts. Class meets three hours per week, plus work in the language laboratory. Prerequisite: RUSS 2010, 2020 or equivalent with a grade of C or better.

Credits: 3

RUSS 3020 - Third-Year Russian

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes intensive oral practice through reports, dialogues, guided discussions; composition of written reports and essays; readings in literary and non-literary texts. Class meets three hours per week, plus work in the language laboratory. Prerequisite: RUSS 2020 with a grade of C or better.

Credits: 3

RUSS 3030 - Intermediate Conversation

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Two hours of conversation practice per week. Prerequisite: RUSS 1020, or equivalent. RUSS 2020 is strongly recommended.

Credits: 1

RUSS 3040 - Applied Russian Phonetics

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
Examines the sound system of the Russian language with special attention to palatalization, vowel reduction, sounds in combination, and the relationship of sound to spelling. Prerequisite: RUSS 1020.

Credits: 3

RUSS 3050 - Russian Declension and Conjugation

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Examines the sound system, lexicon, and word formative processes of the Russian literary language. Prerequisite: RUSS 1020

Credits: 3

RUSS 3060 - Russian for Business

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Russian for oral and written communication in business situations. Prerequisite: RUSS 2020.

Credits: 3

RUSS 3500 - Topics in Russian Language & Literature

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Effective Date 05/01/2024
Selected Topics in Russian Language and Literature

Credits: 1 to 3

RUSS 3993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 03/14/2019
Generic course to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit

Credits: 1 to 3

RUSS 4010 - Fourth-Year Russian

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes oral practice, extensive reading, and work in Russian stylistics. Prerequisite: RUSS 3010, 3020 with a grade of C or better.

Credits: 3

RUSS 4020 - Fourth-Year Russian

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Effective Date 01/01/2011
Continuation of Russian grammar. Includes oral practice, extensive reading, and work in Russian stylistics. Prerequisite: RUSS 4010 with a grade of C or better.

Credits: 3

RUSS 4500 - Topics in Russian Language & Literature

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Effective Date 11/09/2016
Selected Topics in Russian Language and Literature

Credits: 1 to 3

RUSS 4990 - Senior Honors Thesis

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Required of honors majors in Russian language and literature and Russian and East European studies.

Credits: 3

RUSS 4993 - Independent Study in Russian Language

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Effective Date 05/01/2024
May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 1 to 3

RUSS 4998 - Senior Thesis in Russian Studies

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
For majors in Russian and East European studies, normally taken in the fourth year.

Credits: 3

RUSS 4999 - Senior Thesis in Russian Studies

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
For majors in Russian and East European studies, normally taken in the fourth year.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2310 - UVA in Russia: Literary Places in Russia

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Effective Date 02/13/2012
This course will take students to visit the places associated with literature – writers’ museums and the locations where they site their works – in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Visiting and studying these places can teach us much about Russian literary works, their creators and their readers. We will read and explore the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov and other Russian writers.

Credits: 4

RUTR 2330 - Russia and the Caucasus

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Effective Date 11/30/2012
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to the respective cultural histories of Armenia, Georgia, and Russia, relying heavily on literary and cinematic sources. We will also explore the more contemporary relationship between the Caucasus and Russia from the 19th century to the present.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2350 - Russian and East European Film

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
This course is an introduction to and overview of the history of film in Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Russia, though we will be discussing other countries that were once part of the Soviet Bloc. We will be covering a variety of films, long and short, as well as animation, and how these works of art reflect the time periods in which they were created.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2360 - Tales of Transgression

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Effective Date 04/14/2011
This course examines how Russian writers engage with ethical questions ranging from lofty pursuits of freedom and the meaning of life to more prosaic issues of personal responsibility and happiness. In the context of literary analysis, we explore such conceptual terms describing human activity as love and justice, right and wrong, good and evil. Texts by Dostoevsky, Leskov, Tolstoy, Ostrovsky, Chekhov, Olesha, and Petrushevskaya.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2370 - Fairy Tales

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
This course considers a medley of tales drawn from various cultural traditions, oral and written, including canonical European fairy tales, traditional Slavic texts, African folk narratives, and oral tales from other cultures collected and recorded more recently. We will sample different thematic groups of tales and analyze them in view of various interpretive methodologies: structuralism, sociology, feminism, and cultural studies. Particular attention will be paid to adaptations of familiar stories for different times and audiences. All readings in English. No prerequisites.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2400 - Russian Masterpieces

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies selected great works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose fiction.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2450 - Art of Scandal: Literature and Culture in Society

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Studies works of art that caused major controversy and debate in Russia. Why did certain texts resonate more loudly than others in society? How did this dynamic change between the imperial and post-Soviet periods? Includes works of art in a variety of media: literature and criticism, modern painting, architecture, film and music.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2460 - Introduction to Russian Culture and Civilization

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
No knowledge of Russian needed. Investigates ‘being Russian’ through the works of Russia’s great writers, artists, architects, and composers. Focuses on the heroes, heroines, and villains, symbols, legends, and rituals central to Russian creativity.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2470 - Understanding Russia: Symbols, Myths, and Archetypes of Identity

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Effective Date 05/18/2009
This course explores different sources of Russian national identity from pre-Christian `Rus’ to the present. We will investigate how the occidental and oriental elements blend into a unique Euro-Asian culture, nation, and world power. Our main aim is to provide an orientation to the symbolic world of Russian self-identification. We will employ the tools of the historian, geographer, psychologist, and student of literature and culture.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2500 - Topics in Russian Literature

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Effective Date 10/11/2023
Studies in English translation of selected authors, works, or themes in Russian literature. Topics in recent years were Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov. May be repeated for credit under different topics.

Credits: 1 to 3

RUTR 2730 - Dostoevsky

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Effective Date 01/01/2012
Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the major works of Dostoevsky.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2740 - Tolstoy in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the major works of Tolstoy.

Credits: 3

RUTR 2993 - Independent Study in Russian Folklore, Culture or Literature in Translation

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Effective Date 01/01/2018
For students wishing to pursue independent reading and research in Russian Folklore, Culture, Civilization or Literature in Translation. May be repeated for credit .

Credits: 1 to 3

RUTR 3340 - Books Behind Bars: Life, Lit, & Community Leadership

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Students will grapple in a profound and personal way with timeless human questions: Who am I? Why am I here? How should I live? They will do this, in part, by facilitating discussions about short masterpieces of Russian literature with residents at a juvenile correctional center. This course offers an integrated academic-community engagement curriculum, and provides a unique opportunity for service learning, leadership, and youth mentoring.

Credits: 4

RUTR 3350 - Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the major works of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Goncharov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others. Emphasizes prose fiction. This course is a prerequisite for 5000-level literature courses. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/slavic/courses.html.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3360 - Twentieth Century Russian Literature

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This course surveys Russian literature (prose and poetry) of the twentieth century. Readings include works by Soviet and emigre writers. All works are read in English translation.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3390 - Edens, Idylls, and Utopias in Russian Literature

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Effective Date 08/01/2014
This course explores Russian literature’s many renderings of heaven on earth and their roots in folklore, religion, art, and political thought.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3400 - Nabokov

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the evolution of Nabokov’s art, from his early Russian language tales to the major novels written in English.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3500 - Topics in Russian Literature

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Effective Date 03/22/2017
Studies in English translation of selected authors, works, or themes in Russian literature. Topics in recent years were Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov. May be repeated for credit under different topics.

Credits: 3 to 6

RUTR 3510 - Topics in Russian Literature

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Studies in English translation of selected authors, works, or themes in Russian literature. Topics in recent years were Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov. May be repeated for credit under different topics.

Credits: 3 to 6

RUTR 3520 - Case Studies in Russian Literature

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. One great novel such as War and Peace or The Brothers Karamazov is studied in detail along with related works and a considerable sampling of critical studies.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3559 - Russian Literature in Translation

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Effective Date 01/10/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Russian Literature in Translation.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3680 - The Russian Novel in European Perspective

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies the evolution of the Russian novel, its thematic and structural features, from the early nineteenth century to the present.

Credits: 3

RUTR 3993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 03/14/2019
Generic course to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 1 to 3

RUTR 4500 - Topics in Russian Language & Literature

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Effective Date 03/14/2019
Selected Topics in Russian Language and Literature.

Credits: 1 to 3

RUTR 4559 - New Course in Russian Literature in Translation

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Russian in Translation.

Credits: 1 to 4

RUTR 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 03/14/2019
Generic course to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit

Credits: 1 to 3

SLAV 2150 - Magic and Meaning

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Magic is the ineffable between categories. It is what we seek to understand and to control. It is also what we fear. In many senses, it is the essence of folklore. This course will examine the nature and the use of magic, both positive and negative, it will look at magic acts and magic people.

Credits: 3

SLAV 2250 - The Dark Side of the 20th Century: Between Auschwitz & Gulag

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
The twentieth century was a period of humanity’s unprecedented progress as well as its greatest recorded downfall into barbarity, genocide, and mass oppression. This course enables students to study and reflect on the latter. Some questions will be asked in the course: How do we construct cultural memories of traumatic experiences? Why do we want to remember them? Do we?

Credits: 3

SLAV 2360 - Dracula

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Effective Date 04/12/2018
An introduction to Slavic folklore with special emphasis on the origins and subsequent manifestations of vampirism. Western perceptions, misperceptions, and adaptations of Slavic culture are explored and explicated. The approach is interdisciplinary: folklore, history, literature, religion, film, disease and a variety of other topics.

Credits: 3

SLAV 2500 - Topics in Slavic Literature and Culture

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Could include Polish, Czech, or Slovak fiction, poetry, drama, or culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

Credits: 3

SLAV 2559 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
generic course number to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member

Credits: 1 to 6

SLAV 3500 - Topics in Slavic Language & Literature

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Effective Date 11/09/2016
Selected Topics in Slavic Language and Literature.

Credits: 1 to 3

SLAV 3993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 03/14/2019
Generic course to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 1 to 3

SLAV 4500 - Topics in Slavic Literature and Culture

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Effective Date 03/25/2016
Could include Polish, Czech, or Slovak fiction, poetry, drama, or culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

Credits: 3

SLFK 2120 - Russian Folklore

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
What is folklore exactly? Further, what is it in the Russian context? This course is a thorough overview of different types of folklore throughout Russian history. We will cover a brief history of Russia from pre-Christian times and continue into a thorough analysis of various examples of Russian folklore. This will include narrative folklore (folktales, fairy tales, songs, etc.), material folklore (house structures and layout, clothing, etc.), and social folklore (weddings, funerals, etc.). Students will also be expected to investigate their own ethnic backgrounds through paper topics based on what is learned in the course.

Credits: 3

SLFK 2130 - Magic Acts

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Because associative thinking is often done outside of awareness, this course seeks to make it conscious by looking at magic practices in cultures different from our own. Specifically, students will examine east Slavic (Russian and Ukrainian) magic in its various forms. They will then look at phenomena closer to our own culture. Experimentation is part of this course. Its purpose will not be to ascertain whether magic ‘works.’ It will try to determine, and then describe, how associative thinking works and how people feel when they use this type of thinking.

Credits: 3

SLFK 2140 - Ritual and Demonology

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Open to students with no knowledge of Russian. Studies Russian and Ukrainian folk belief as it manifests itself in daily life. Examines how Russian and Ukrainian peasants lived in the 19th century, and how this effects both living patterns and attitudes today. Includes farming techniques, house and clothing types, and food beliefs. Covers the agrarian calendar and its rituals such as Christmas and Easter, the manipulation of ritual in the Soviet era, and the resurgence of ritual today. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/slavic/courses.html.

Credits: 3

SLFK 3500 - Topics in Slavic Folklore

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Effective Date 03/20/2019
Selected topics in Slavic Folklore.

Credits: 1 to 3

SLTR 2000 - Eastern Europe through Literature and Film

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
This course examines a series of Eastern European literary works and films as insights into cultural responses to major historical and intellectual challenges in Eastern Europe from the outbreak of World War II to the present. The course will also explore the role of cultural media (literature and film) in motivating and mythologizing historical events in Eastern Europe. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/slavic/courses.html.

Credits: 3

SLTR 2993 - Independent Study in East European Literature in Translation

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Effective Date 08/01/2013
Examines a series of Eastern European literary works and films as insights into cultural responses to major historical and intellectual challenges in Eastern Europe from the outbreak of World War II to the present. Explores the role of cultural media in motivating and mythologizing historical events in Eastern Europe. (IRY)

Credits: 1 to 6

SLTR 3200 - Poland: History and Culture

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Effective Date 04/13/2012
This course takes students through more than 1000 years of Poland’s history and culture. Explorations of literature, art, film, and music, as well as key historic events and biographies, will provide students with unique insight in the main sources of Polish identity, its central values, challenges, myths, symbols, and preoccupations in a larger European context. All materials in English.

Credits: 3

SLTR 3300 - Facing Evil in the Twentieth Century: Humanity in Extremis

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Effective Date 10/03/2012
The 20th century will most likely remain one of the most puzzling periods in human history, in which amazing progress was coupled with unprecedented barbarity of modern totalitarian regimes. The course helps students untangle this paradox by exploring a series of memoirs by survivors and perpetrators, as well as scholarly essays, films, and other cultural statements.

Credits: 3

SLTR 3500 - Topics in Slavic in Translation

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Effective Date 03/23/2016
Could Include Polish, Czech, or Slovak fiction, poetry, drama, or culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

Credits: 3

SLTR 3993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 03/14/2019
Generic course to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit.

Credits: 1 to 3

SLTR 4200 - Robots and Rebels in Czech Literature and Culture

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
An investigation of classics of modern Czech fiction and film. Some of the great works include Hasek (The Good Soldier Svejk), Nemcova (The Grandmother), Capek (the inventor of the word “robot”), Seifert’s Nobel-winning poetry, Lustig (Children of the Holocaust), Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Havel (The Power of the Powerless; The Garden Party), as well as great films like “Closely Watched Trains” and “Firemen’s Ball.”

Credits: 3

SLTR 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 03/14/2019
Generic course to be used when students are taking non-lecture based independent study with a faculty member. May be repeated for credit

Credits: 1 to 3

UKR 1220 - Introduction to Ukrainian Language

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces students to the essentials of Ukrainian grammar with emphasis on speaking and reading. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; some knowledge of Russian recommended.

Credits: 3

Sociology

Courses

SOC 1010 - Introductory Sociology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the fundamental concepts and principles of sociology with special attention to sociological theory and research methods. Survey of the diverse substantive fields in the discipline with a primary emphasis on the institutions in contemporary American society.

Credits: 3

SOC 1220 - Social Problems

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Analyzes the causes and consequences of current social problems in the United States: race and ethnic relations, poverty, crime and delinquency, the environment, drugs, and problems of educational institutions.

Credits: 3

SOC 1559 - New Course in Sociology

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Effective Date 08/01/2009
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of sociology.

Credits: 3

SOC 1595 - Special Topics in Social Issues

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Effective Date 06/15/2011
Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.

Credits: 3

SOC 2052 - Sociology of the Family

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Comparison of family organizations in relation to other social institutions in various societies; an introduction to the theory of kinship and marriage systems.

Credits: 3

SOC 2056 - The Sociology of Culture

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Examines the role of meaning in social life, with a focus on how different theories of culture allow analysis of the relationship of culture to exchange, authority, solidarity, and domination. Analysis of key cultural artefacts (movies, texts, monuments, etc.) is combined with the study of theories of social performance, fields of cultural production, and semiosis. The role of culture in social transformation is also considered.

Credits: 3

SOC 2230 - Criminology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies socio-cultural conditions effecting the definition, recording, and treatment of delinquency and crime. Examines theories of deviant behavior, the role of the police, judicial and corrective systems, and the victim in criminal behavior.

Credits: 3

SOC 2241 - Crime and Punishment in Britain and the United States

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Effective Date 05/01/2024
This course is organized around two main themes: understanding the causes of crime and how societies respond to it. All topics are approached from sociological, philosophical, historical and empirical perspectives, with the aim that students will gain an analytically sophisticated understanding of some of the key contemporary issues in criminology and penology on both sides of the Atlantic.

Credits: 3

SOC 2280 - Medical Sociology

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Effective Date 02/27/2020
This course examines how the medical system is shaped by cultural and societal forces, analyzing unique dimensions of medicine from varying perspectives prominent in the discipline of Sociology. Topics will focus upon the interaction of social categories (e.g., socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality) upon the distribution of diseases, experiences of illness, and relationships between patients and medical professionals.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SOC 2559 top #20 Medical Sociology

Credits: 3

SOC 2320 - Gender and Society

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Gender and Society

Credits: 3

SOC 2442 - Systems of Inequality

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
This course will examine various types of inequality (race, class, gender) in the US and abroad. We will discuss sociological theories covering various dimensions of inequality, considering key research findings and their implications. We will examine to what extent ascriptive characteristics impact a person’s life chances, how social structures are produced and reproduced, and how individuals are able or unable to negotiate these structures.

Credits: 3

SOC 2470 - American Society and Popular Culture

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course is an early level course, which aims to introduce students to a sociological perspective on popular culture, and to examine the working of selected sociological concepts in several examples of popular culture. A familiarity with introductory level sociology is suggested, but not required. The course has two parts. In the first we will become acquainted with sociological perspectives and theories on culture; in the second we will look at several popular novels and movies and discuss how they might be interpreted sociologically.

Credits: 3

SOC 2498 - Prozac Culture

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Effective Date 10/15/2010
The pharmacological revolution, symbolized by drugs such as Prozac and Ritalin, is a cultural as well as a medical phenomenon. The course explores the history of the revolution and the confluence of social changes driving it forward. Also considered are its implications for self, the definition of psychic distress, and the norms and values that structure how we live. J-term courses require approval for SOC major/minor credit.

Credits: 3

SOC 2500 - Special Topics in Sociology (J Term Course)

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Effective Date 11/29/2017
Topics vary each J-Term session and will be announced.

Credits: 3

SOC 2520 - Topics in Death & Dying

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Effective Date 09/29/2020
This course covers sociological approaches to death and dying. Topics include social theory and theorists as they relate to death, American culture history, and contemporary issues regarding death and dying.

Credits: 3

SOC 2559 - New Course in Sociology

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Effective Date 02/21/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of sociology.

Credits: 1 to 4

SOC 2595 - Special Topics in Sociology

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Effective Date 08/24/2021
Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.

Credits: 3

SOC 2596 - Special Topics in Sociology

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Effective Date 11/01/2010
Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.

Credits: 3

SOC 2630 - Environment & Society

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Effective Date 10/28/2016
This course is an introduction to the topic of environmental sociology. Our central focus will be the relationship between human society and the natural world, with particular attention to axes of social location, such as race, class, and where people live. We will consider these distinctions in understanding how people are differently affected by, imagine, or influence the natural world.

Credits: 3

SOC 2680 - Introduction to Demography

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Effective Date 10/23/2020
Demography is the scientific study of human populations. We will emphasize fertility, mortality, and migration, and the social and economic factors that affect them.

Credits: 3

SOC 2701 - Health and Welfare in Britain and America: Policy and Practice

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Effective Date 11/04/2016
This course has two aims: to examine key themes in the sociology of health and illness through an exploration of the delivery of health-care in Britain and the United States; and to discuss some of the major global debates in the political economy of health. The course will cover health and health systems, health inequalities, and contemporary issues in the political economy of health.

Credits: 3

SOC 2730 - Computers and Society

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the impact of electronic data processing technologies on social structure, and the social constraints on the development and application of these technologies. Review of how computers are changing ‘and failing to change’ fundamental institutions. Provides an understanding of computers in the context of societal needs, organizational imperatives, and human values.

Credits: 3

SOC 2820 - Sociology of Ignorance

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Effective Date 04/21/2022
People often mistake ignorance as the mere lack of knowledge or that which we do not yet know. They fail to consider that ignorance exists in a variety of different forms, or that ignorance is often produced and maintained through sets of practices–whether intentional or not. This course investigates both ignorance and the consequences that particular forms of ignorance have upon our society.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SOC 2559 top #22 Sociology of Ignorance

Credits: 3

SOC 2870 - Immigration and Society

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Effective Date 09/27/2022
Migration results from inequality, whether internal to societies or between countries. People migrate to better their lives, moving from poorer countries to wealthier ones in search of upward mobility. This makes migration a virtually unstoppable force, but it crashes into the immovable object known as the state. The resulting border conflicts and immigrant struggles to assimilate define the problem of immigration in the US.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SOC 2595 topic #5 Immigration and Society

Credits: 3

SOC 2900 - Economy & Society

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Effective Date 03/29/2010
Markets, firms, and money are part of everyday experience. Economists insist that they should work similarly independently of their social context. The central idea of economic sociology is that economic institutions are ‘embedded’ in social relations. We will study what embeddeness means, and what it implies. We look at how institutions constitute markets; how rationality varies; and how money interacts with social relations in unexpected ways.

Credits: 3

SOC 2950 - ”The Wire” - Sociology Through TV & Film

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Effective Date 11/12/2013
This course uses HBO’s series “The Wire” (2002-2008) as the course “text” to illustrate and analyze the intersection of economy, education, class, race, crime, and politics within the lives of the urban underclass. Special emphasis is placed upon the significance of television and film as a form of communication that illustrates the complex interplay of social structure and social problems.

Credits: 3

SOC 3020 - Introduction to Social Theory

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the major theoretical issues and traditions in sociology, especially as developed in the writings of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. Sociology majors are expected to take this course in their third year.

Credits: 3

SOC 3056 - Culture and Power

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course examines sociological theories of power and their intersections with culture. It focuses on oppression and social change in the 20th and 21st century U.S. through the lens of cultural expression, beliefs and meaning. It includes close reading of social theories of power and empirical studies of social institutions and social identities. Prerequisite: Six credits in Sociology or permission of instructor

Credits: 3

SOC 3059 - Sociology of Science & Knowledge

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Effective Date 07/13/2010
Ideas refer to anything which is said to exist, from people to planets to God. Sociology of knowledge describes and explains variation in ideas across different social settings. This course will familiarize students with theoretical and empirical work on the behavior of ideas, and convey the major accomplishments, shortcomings, and prospects of the subfield using the history & philosophy of science, and the workings of science as an institution.

Credits: 3

SOC 3090 - Philosophical Foundations of Social Theory

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Effective Date 10/03/2012
This course pursues the question of the ways in which classical social theory is rooted in, and indebted to, philosophy and metaphysics. This will be shown through four cases: Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’, Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’, Nietzsche’s ‘Will to Power’, Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’. Problems central to all sciences and modes of cognition, such as knowledge & truth, theory & ideology, and agency vs. causality will be covered.

Credits: 3

SOC 3100 - Feminist Theory

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Effective Date 09/19/2013
Feminist Theory offers a focused exploration of ways that late 20th Century and early 21st Century feminist theorists challenge, alter and deploy central concerns and paradigms of Western cultural assumption. Although Feminist Theory as a category incorporates interdisciplinary and global perspectives, the slant of this course is a focus on Western culture and Feminist Social Theory.

Credits: 3

SOC 3120 - Sociology Research Workshop

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Introduces data analysis and data processing, as well as the conceptualization of sociological problems. Emphasizes individual student projects.

Credits: 4

SOC 3130 - Introduction to Social Statistics

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Effective Date 04/24/2009
Studies elementary statistical methods for social science applications. Topics include summarizing data with graphs and descriptive measures, generalizing from a sample to a population as in opinion polls, and determining the relationship between two variables. No special mathematical background is required, and students will be taught basic computer techniques. Three hours of lecture, two hours of laboratory work. Majors are expected to take this course in their third year. Prerequisites: SOC 3120

Credits: 4

SOC 3180 - Sociology of Emotions

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
The course explores the role of emotions in social interaction as well as how societies and cultures shape emotional expression. The objective is to decode the subtle rules of emotional display implicit in many social interactions and excavate the cultural meanings of particular emotions such as love, sympathy, shame, boredom, and sadness. Readings include theoretical and empirical work from sociologists, anthropologists,and social psychologists.

Credits: 3

SOC 3290 - Sociology of Childhood

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
The class introduces the ‘new social studies of childhood’ and the idea that the experience of childhood is a social construction, not a string of biological facts. Topics include: how caring for children varies across time & space, and considering childhood in the context of Western cultural trends - increasing inequality, unequal distribution of overwork, poverty, war, liberty, decreasing privacy, consumerism, sexualization, networked society.

Credits: 3

SOC 3306 - Sexuality, Gender, Class and Race in the Teen Film

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Effective Date 10/02/2012
The focus of this class will be on viewings and analyses of films featuring images of teens produced between 1930 and the present, focusing on the following questions: what is adolescence (and how has it been defined in American film)? What is the range of experience that characterizes American adolescence across gender, race, and class lines? How does it make sense to think about the social influence of films on individuals and society?

Credits: 3

SOC 3310 - Sociology of Self

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
What is the difference between individual and self? Do we carry a fixed, unchangeable self inside, or do we have as many selves as the situations in which we commonly find ourselves? Can we go as far as saying that the self comes from the outside, and if so, when do we internalize it? At birth, once and for all? Or repeatedly and in everyday life? We will explore these questions and more as we venture into an exciting field-sociology of the self.

Credits: 3

SOC 3320 - Sociology of the Body

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Effective Date 09/21/2022
This course will provide an understanding of how sociologists interpret the body in modernity. Topics will include the body in consumer culture, the gendered body, body modification, identity and the body, technology and the body, the regulation of bodies, and vulnerable bodies. Students will be able to understand the central issues and concepts used by sociologists who study embodiment and the relationship between the body and society.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SOC 3559 topic #28 Sociology of the Body

Credits: 3

SOC 3350 - Drugs in American Society

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Effective Date 03/24/2023
This course focuses on drug use and drug control in contemporary American society. This course examines how race and class relate to patterns of drug use and addiction, as well as to drug policy, legislation, and enforcement. Further, the course highlights the political economy of drug control by studying the ongoing “war” on drugs, the recent legalization of marijuana, and the current opioid “epidemic.” Also covers drug culture.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SOC 2559 topic #19 Drugs and Society

Credits: 3

SOC 3371 - Merit, Privilege and American Higher Education

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Effective Date 05/01/2023
This course examines how merit and privilege intersect at one of our most powerful institutions: higher education. How did we get here? What are we doing? And where are we going? We will address these questions at both individual and institutional levels, exploring how notions and realities of meritocracy and inequality shape experiences within and beyond the classroom.

Credits: 3

SOC 3390 - Sex, Power, Film

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Effective Date 09/27/2022
In this class we will examine the ways in which popular film in the U.S. has historically helped to define dominant cultural ideas about gender identities and differences. We will also look at the ways in which feminists and gender and sexuality activists have criticized popular film, and created new media products in response to these definitions.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SOC 3559 topic #32 Gender, Power, Film

Credits: 3

SOC 3400 - Gender and Sexuality

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Focuses on the construction of gender and sexuality, and of the many ways human groups regulate and attach meanings to these categories. Some general themes addressed will be: contemporary and historical definitions of gender, sex, and sexuality; gender socialization; the varieties of sexual identities and relationships; embodiment, childbearing, and families in the contemporary United States. Prerequisite: At least 3 credits in Sociology or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

SOC 3410 - Race and Ethnic Relations

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials.

Credits: 3

SOC 3440 - Chinese Society

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Effective Date 11/07/2014
This seminar provides a survey of Chinese society and social changes in the reform-era (1979 to the present). It uses sociological analysis to comprehensively examine various aspects of contemporary Chinese society including: economic development, social inequality, governance, political reform, nationalism, religion, ethnicity, and popular culture.

Credits: 3

SOC 3450 - Women, Islam and Modernity

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
The global Islamic revival is often considered an obstacle to gender equality. So how are we to understand women’s involvement in Islamic movements? And what can these phenomena tell us about gender and modernity? This class will read ethnographic accounts of Muslim women in various parts of the world. We will discuss these ethnographies with an eye for how they speak to and challenge sociological theories of gender, identity, and globalization. Prerequisites: Student must have taken at least one course on gender, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 3460 - Future Cities

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Effective Date 09/21/2021
This course conceives alternative possibilities for our cities. It will include such lines of inquiry as the challenges of equality and justice; sustainability and environmental change; the potential and limits of technology; and the impact of the changing global context. We will examine currently emerging urban forms as well as attempts to imagine new forms of urban life.

Credits: 3

SOC 3470 - Sociology of Development

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This study of the development of human societies explores the five major ‘techo-economic bases’ that have characterized our species’ history (hunting-gathering, horticultural, agrarian, industrial and information/biotech) and examines how contemporary macrolevel trends affect our lives at the microlevel.

Credits: 3

SOC 3480 - Sociology of Globalization

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Effective Date 02/19/2013
This course will explore the determinants, nature, and effects of the increase in cross-border flows of goods, services, capital and people that we have come to associate with the term “globalization”. We will investigate how globalization affects domestic & world inequality, the role of institutions, and world & local cultures. The course will include readings from economics, history, world-system theory, and cultural analysis.

Credits: 3

SOC 3490 - Cities and Cultures

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Explores the ways in which physical environments shape and are shaped by social life. Examines the relationship between urban space and culture in different historical and social settings, though there is a particular focus on the rise and development of modernity as expressed through the experience of particular cities.

Credits: 3

SOC 3510 - Topics in Applied Data Science

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Effective Date 04/03/2015
This course, broadly speaking, will introduce students to principles of data science through the hands-on study of core problems in social research. This course represents an ideal site for the analysis of the intersection between sociological theory and empirical research, and will include numerous opportunities for hands-on engagement with data.

Credits: 3

SOC 3559 - New Course in Sociology

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Effective Date 08/16/2021
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of sociology.

Credits: 1 to 4

SOC 3595 - Special Topics in Sociology

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Effective Date 08/26/2024
Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.

Credits: 3

SOC 3596 - Special Topics in Sociology

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced.

Credits: 3

SOC 3620 - The Afterlives of Communism

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
The course will explore the changes and challenges confronting communist and post-communist countries in different regions of the world. The focus is on the everyday lives of ordinary people. Topics include the changing meanings of work and consumption; family and gender; personhood and identity; memory and nostalgia; and new urban visions in thought and practice.

Credits: 3

SOC 3640 - Human Society in History

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
Human societies exist in time.This course will examine the historical development of a variety of societies from earliest times to the present. Its focus will be on the relation of the West to the rest of the world. The course is particularly intended for social scientists, to make them aware of the historical dimension to human society; but it is open to all.

Credits: 3

SOC 3650 - Latinxs in US Society

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Effective Date 09/27/2022
This course introduces the Soc of Latinxs in the US. Topics explore how Latinxs experience systems & institutions in the US, like education, immigration, work, & the criminal punishment system. Theories of structural racism, racialization, racial formation, as well as histories of colonization & intersectional frameworks ground course learning. Attention is paid to the histories & experiences of Afro-Latinx and Indigenous communities.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SOC 3559 topic #33 Sociology of Latinos

Credits: 3

SOC 3660 - Environment, Globalization, and Development

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Effective Date 04/08/2020
This course provides a sociological overview of Earth’s changing environment, starting with the impact of past disasters that affected climate and living beings. Then it considers growing evidence of accelerating climate change and its impact on environment, humans and other species, while also considering initiatives to combat it. It combines relevant sociological and other literature with student searches of major newspapers and periodicals.

Credits: 3

SOC 3700 - Health and Society

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Effective Date 04/14/2014
This course explores the social dimensions of health and illness, focusing especially on the social experience of illness, the social determinants of disease, and the role and meaning of medicine and public health in modern U.S. society. The class examines how we define health problems and their solutions, and it considers the ways in which race, gender, class, age, and sexuality matter for understanding health-related experiences and discourses.

Credits: 3

SOC 3710 - Organizations

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Many goals require the combined efforts of multiple individuals, from developing a new product to providing health care to the poor. Yet individuals have their own interests, so how do organizations keep them coordinated? And what are the impacts of organizations on social inequality and social institutions such as democracy? This course introduces the study of organizations in their cultural, economic and political environments.

Credits: 3

SOC 3730 - Creativity and Innovation: A Sociological Approach

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Effective Date 02/10/2021
Innovation and creativity are universally celebrated aspects of modern life. We celebrate geniuses and innovators because they reject tradition and produce ideas that are intuitively innovative. In this course we challenge these myths and develop the tools to understand innovation and creativity sociologically, and to explain why creativity and innovation tend to be rare, celebrated, and valued.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SOC 3559 top #19 Sociology of Innovation

Credits: 3

SOC 3820 - Social Movements

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Social movements are an historical and global phenomenon of great complexity and variety. Because the topic can be so broad, the course is organized around case studies of civil rights, the industrial workers’ movement, environmentalism, religious fundamentalism, and the counter movements to globalization. These cases will be used to illustrate variety of themes and principles, and you’ll learn about specific events, personalities, organizations, and dynamics that shaped these movements. By this method, you will gain specific knowledge about important social movements, as well as an overview and general orientation to the sociology of this dynamic area of social life. Prerequisite: SOC 1010 or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 3860 - Religion & Secularization

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Effective Date 10/03/2012
Are we witnessing today the crisis of secularisms? If so, what are its causes -challenges of revived religions or secularism’s unfulfilled promises? Are the clashes between religions and secularisms inevitable? To address these questions, we’ll discuss the ideas of the prophets of religious decline (Marx, Durkheim, Weber), and consider the problems and the potential of the religious-secular encounters in a global perspective.

Credits: 3

SOC 4010 - Sociology of Music

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Effective Date 10/18/2010
Students will consider ways in which social communities intersect with, respond to, and create musical communities. Musical taste will be interrogated as a point of identification and self-presentation that is neither given nor natural, but contingent and constructed. Students will engage foundational critical texts in the sociology of music, and examine both the continuities and the disjunctures represented by our era of digital social media. Prerequisites: six credits of Sociology or permission of instructor

Credits: 3

SOC 4052 - Sociology of Religious Behavior

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Course will focus on established traditions in the United States including evangelical and mainline Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, black Protestantism, and Orthodox Judaism. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4053 - Sociology of Education

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Analyzes education as a social institution and its relationship to other institutions (e.g., the economy, the stratification system, the family). Emphasizes the role of education in the status attainment process. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4054 - Political Sociology

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Political sociology focuses on the social foundations and patterns of political behavior and the socio-historical mechanisms for political stability and political change. Its focus is not restricted to the formal rules that characterize a given political system, such as laws, regulations, or electoral systems: political sociology rather emphasizes how power, in its multifaceted and complex nature, is socially configured and reproduce global power.

Credits: 3

SOC 4055 - Law, Inequality and Social Change

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This course will consider the social-science perspective on law and legal institutions; theories of laws and legal institutions that trace their origin to social consensus or social inequality; how social inequality influences how people think about law, why they obey it, and whether they mobilize it to resolve disputes; and whether law is an effective tool for social change.

Credits: 3

SOC 4057 - Family Policy

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies the relationship between family and society as expressed in policy and law. Emphasizes the effects of formal policy on the structure of families and the interactions within families. The American family system is examined as it has responded to laws and policies of government and private industry and to changes in society. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4058 - Unequal Families

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Family inequality is an enduring feature of American family life–both within and between families in the US. This seminar will focus on the ways in which class, race, and gender structure inequality within and between families–and the effects of that inequality on the social, emotional and financial well-being of men, women and children. We will also explore the causes and consequences of growing class-based inequality in marriage. 6 credits of Sociology or obtain permission of instructor

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SOC 4559 topic #20 Unequal Families

Credits: 3

SOC 4059 - Conflict

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Theoretical exploration of the social causes of conflict about right and wrong and the social factors that explain the handling of these conflicts in diverse settings across the world. Topics include individual and collective violence, avoidance, third-party intervention such as mediation and adjudication, therapy, and the evolution of conflict and morality across history.

Credits: 3

SOC 4070 - Sociology of Art

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
A discussion-based seminar covering material from a wide range of perspectives in an attempt to understand the social context and effects of visual and other arts. Students are expected to have introductory level familiarity with sociological thinking. Prerequisite: 6 credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4078 - Racism and Democracy

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Effective Date 04/21/2022
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (Feb 23, 1868-Aug 27, 1963) was a uniquely American scholar and activist whose work has renewed significance today. His analysis of the US reveals both the social causes and consequences of racial stratification, while his political activism offers possible solutions. A controversial figure in his time, he helped to found the American sociological discipline and yet was marginalized within it.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SOC 4559 topic #25 Race, Racism & Democracy

Credits: 3

SOC 4090 - Sociology of Literature

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
An upper-level seminar in the sociology of literature. Students should be familiar with general sociological concepts and theory. Covers material from a wide range of perspectives in an attempt to understand the social context of written language and of literature. Student groups will be responsible for leading general class discussion on one or more occasions. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4100 - Black Community Life

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Study of a comprehensive contemporary understanding of the history, struggle and diversity of the African-American community.

Credits: 3

SOC 4140 - Sociology of Consumption

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
This course considers the nature and effects of consumer society; it explores the theories, practices, and politics of modern consumption. Topics include the historical development of consumer society; the role of consumption in creating personal and political identities; the cultural and social meanings of seemingly impersonal objects like money; the commodification of social life; and the politics of consumption.

Credits: 3

SOC 4170 - Theoretical Sociology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course surveys eight major strategies used to explain human behavior in sociology and related social sciences. It also addresses several broader issues pertaining to the nature and goals of sociological science. Prerequisite: one course in sociology or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3

SOC 4180 - The American Dream and Its Limits

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Effective Date 04/21/2022
In 1932, referring to the American dream, James Truslow Adams portrayed America as a nation in which life can be “better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement.” To subsequent generations of Americans and immigrants this meant endless upward mobility and material prosperity but, also, the denial of persistent social inequality. This course examines both sides of the American Dream.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SOC 4559 topic #29 American Dream and Its Limits

Credits: 3

SOC 4190 - Gender and Work

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Effective Date 06/27/2016
Considers major theories of gender-based inequality at work. Explores gender, disparities in key dimensions of work, such as entry into occupations and jobs; promotion, rank, and authority in organizations; earnings; and conflicts between work and family. Emphasizes the contemporary United States, but includes some cross-national comparisons. Prerequisite: 6 credits of Sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4230 - Deviance and Social Control

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines a variety of deviant behaviors in American society and the sociological theories explaining societal reactions and attempts at social control. Focuses on enduring conditions such as drug addiction, alcoholism, and mental illness. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4260 - Race, Crime and Punishment

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Effective Date 01/01/2023
This course is an exercise in critical thinking and writing. We will investigate connections between race and crime in contemporary America. To do so, we will explore constructions of crime and race and patterns of victimization, criminality and punishment. We will uncover shifting definitions of crime and the ways that institutions, policies and practices shape patterns of punishment.

Requisites Student must have completed SOC 2230 or SOC 3410

Credits: 3

SOC 4280 - Sociology of Mental Health and Illness

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Effective Date 03/29/2016
This course explores mental health and illness in social context, focusing especially on the history, definitions, social and cultural determinants, and consequences of conceptualizations and treatment of mental illness. It includes an examination of perceptions of mental illness in popular culture, and the spread of psychiatric ideas in more global context. Pre-requisite: six credits of Sociology

Requisites Students must have completed six credits of sociology coursework before enrolling in this course.

Credits: 3

SOC 4290 - Sociology of Money

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Effective Date 01/29/2015
With the expansion of the financial sector as a backdrop, sociology of money has developed two trajectories. This course provides an introduction to both perspectives: money is created by an authority as a system of accounting for value - those who are subject to the authority then have to accept it, and money is created as individuals negotiate the potentially contradictory logic implied by self-interested, market based exchange and morality. Prerequisite: Six Credits of Sociology

Credits: 3

SOC 4310 - Sociology of Compassion: Inequality and the Social Heart

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Effective Date 09/19/2013
This course will focus on compassion as a cultural practice with political implications. What are the roots of solidarity across social inequalities, occupational groups and political cultures? When does compassion simply stop at feeling, when does it produce individual action, and when might it turn into social change? The course culminates in an analysis of how compassion intersects with social justice and notions of deserving and need. Prerequisite: six credits of Sociology or permission of instructor

Credits: 3

SOC 4350 - Comparative Gender Stratification

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Examines gender stratification - the relative level of equality of men and women in a given group - in comparative and cross-historical perspective. Several theories are presented to explain the variations, from gender-egalitarian to highly patriarchal groups. Prerequisite: Six credits of Sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4370 - Hate Groups

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Effective Date 09/21/2021
Hate groups are defined by their extreme antipathy towards minority groups of all types, especially racial groups. Typically, they are particularly active when dominant groups feel threatened because minority groups gain power. Hate groups exist to reassert this dominance through fear and terror. This course analyzes the origins, manifestations, and behavior of hate groups from a theoretical, historical, and sociological point of view.

Credits: 3

SOC 4380 - Violence & Media

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Effective Date 02/15/2012
The course takes a theoretical approach to interpreting images of violence in photography, film and written text, following the work of theorists such as Roland Barthes, Mieke Bal, Teresa de Lauretis, Geoffrey Batchen. The course raises questions about differences between representing violence as documentary, testimony, or entertainment, the ethics of representing violence, and cultural patterns for viewing violent images in contemporary society. Prerequisite: 6 credits of Sociology or Permission of Instructor

Credits: 3

SOC 4400 - Sociology of Empires

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Effective Date 09/27/2022
Empires – large, multinational, territorially-dispersed political entities - have been pervasive in human history. This course will examine a number of them, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, land and overseas empires. It will seek to find out what principles and practices might be common to all of them, and what, on the contrary, might distinguish them from each other. Six credits of Sociology or instructor permission.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken SOC 4559 topic #31 Sociology of Empire

Credits: 3

SOC 4420 - Sociology of Inequality

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Surveys basic theories and methods used to analyze structures of social inequality. Includes comparative analysis of the inequalities of power and privilege, and their causes and consequences for social conflict and social change. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4430 - Love, Sex and Sociology

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Effective Date 03/24/2016
This course explores the social construction of love and sexualities. Beginning with historical perspectives, the class also compares the organization of intimate life in the United States and other countries. Students evaluate the impact of social inequalities in gender, class and race on the construction of choice and commitment. The class considers how consumer capitalism, the state, and culture interact to shape our intimate practices.

Credits: 3

SOC 4480 - Sociology of Professions

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Effective Date 10/02/2017
What is a profession? Why do professions play such a prominent role in society? This course examines the complex nature of professional work, the problem of professional ethics, the influence of professions as political actors, and sources of inequality in professional earnings and prestige. Requisites: 6 credits of sociology or obtain permission from the instructor.

Requisites Students must have completed six credits of sociology coursework before enrolling in this course.

Credits: 3

SOC 4510 - Topics in Sociology of Work

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Studies the division of labor, occupational classification, labor force trends, career patterns and mobility, occupational cultures and life-styles, and the sociology of the labor market. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4520 - Topics in Religion and Society

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Effective Date 07/30/2021
This course focuses on various aspects of religion and society such as American culture, gender and the family, politics, science, religious diversity and pluralism, violence, and other emerging issues.

Credits: 3

SOC 4530 - Topics in Sociology of Health

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Effective Date 05/02/2022
This course delves into sociological approaches to health, including the social construction of health and wellness, medicalization, the intersections of culture, power and inequality with systems of diagnosis and treatment, the social determinants of health, and the subjective experiences of health and disability/illness. Prerequisite: Six credits of Sociology or instructor permission.

Requisites Students must have completed six credits of sociology coursework before enrolling in this course.

Credits: 3

SOC 4540 - Topics in Politics and Society

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Effective Date 04/16/2024
This course explores the relationship between politics and society via a focus on historical and/or contemporary issues. Themes may include political power, the role of the state, collective behavior and social change, and civic culture and citizenship.

Credits: 3

SOC 4550 - Topics in Ethics and Society

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Effective Date 08/02/2021
This course considers various ethical aspects of society in such areas as race, family, work, the economy, and memory. It focuses on sociological approaches to ethical and moral questions in modern society, drawing on empirical examples and case studies. Prerequisite: six credits of Sociology or permission of instructor

Credits: 3

SOC 4559 - New Course in Sociology

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Effective Date 11/08/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of sociology.

Credits: 1 to 4

SOC 4560 - Topics in Sociology of Science and Knowledge

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Effective Date 08/24/2022
This course explores the relationship between science, technology, and society through a topical focus on particular subjects or issues. It uses a variety of sociological approaches to understand the embeddedness of science and technology in society, the social impact of particular scientific or technological developments, or other dynamics of the science, technology, and society interface.

Credits: 3

SOC 4600 - Gender and Culture

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Studies how the social definition of gender affects and is affected by cultural artifacts such as literature, movies, music, and television. Students are expected to be familiar with general sociological concepts and theory and be regularly prepared for participation in a demanding seminar. Prerequisite: Six credits of sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4640 - Urban Sociology

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Examines both classic and contemporary debates within urban sociology and relates them to the wider concerns of social theory. Topics include public space and urban culture, social segregation and inequality, the phenomenon of the global city, and the effects of economic change or urban social life. Six credits of Sociology or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

SOC 4660 - Sociology of Power and Authority

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Effective Date 03/28/2017
Examines the questions of power and authority in society, with a focus in particular on the historical changes in power relations from the 18th century to the present. Particular foci include: variation in how elites access and justify power; the relationship between culture and interests; power, the body, and the self; and performative approaches to power. Students are asked to write their own analyses of contemporary power relations.

Credits: 3

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Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Languages and Literatures

Courses

ITAL 116 - Intensive Introductory Italian

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for ITAL 1016.

Credits: 0

ITAL 126 - Intensive Introductory Italian

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for ITAL 1026.

Credits: 0

ITAL 216 - Intensive Intermediate Italian

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for ITAL 2016.

Credits: 0

ITAL 226 - Intensive Intermediate Italian

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for ITAL 2026.

Credits: 0

ITAL 1010 - Elementary Italian I

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Introduction to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing Italian. Five class hours and one language laboratory hour. Followed by ITAL 1020.

Credits: 4

ITAL 1020 - Elementary Italian II

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Continuation of ITAL 1010. Prerequisite: ITAL 1010.

Credits: 4

ITAL 2010 - Intermediate Italian I

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Continued grammar, conversation, composition, readings, and an introduction to Italian literature. Prerequisite: ITAL 1020 or the equivalent. Note: The following courses have the prerequisite ITAL 2010, 2020, or permission of the department.

Credits: 3

ITAL 2020 - Intermediate Italian II

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Continuation of ITAL 2010.

Credits: 3

ITAL 2030 - Intermediate Italian II for Professionals

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Effective Date 01/01/2019
This is the fourth class in the four-course sequence that fulfills the language requirement with modules on issues applicable to the work context. Films, TV series and articles from Italian newspapers will help students to learn more about the Italian society of the new millennium and strengthen their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills at a high intermediate level appropriate for an intercultural professional environment.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3010 - Advanced Italian I

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
Includes idiomatic Italian conversation and composition, anthological readings of literary texts in Italian, plus a variety of oral exercises including presentations, skits, and debates. Italian composition is emphasized through writing assignments and selective review of the fine points of grammar and syntax. Prerequisite: ITAL 2020.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3020 - Advanced Italian II

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
Emphasis is placed on conversation, as well as composition and vocabulary. Students attending this class will deepen their knowledge of Italian culture and society, with a special focus on socio-cultural debates concerning politics, migration and gender issues. This course is designed with a series of activities focused on experiential learning to achieve fluency in Italian through real-life situations. Prerequisite: ITAL2020.

Requisites Students must have taken ITAL 2020

Credits: 3

ITAL 3030 - How to Do Things with Words

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
One of three required core courses for the Italian Studies Major and Minor (with ITAL 3010 and 3020). ITAL 3030 focuses on interpretative and critical approaches to various genres of Italian textual and visual-linguistic expression. These include poetry, fiction, cinema, and theater. ITAL 3030 introduces students to the history and conventions of each genre, as well as the analytical methodologies suited to intelligent engagement with each. Prerequisites: Must be enrolled in or have taken ITAL 3010 or ITAL 3020

Credits: 3

ITAL 3040 - Advanced Italian III

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Effective Date 09/14/2016
This course aims at perfecting student’s command of Italian language, in all major skill areas: speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Selective review of the fine points of grammar and syntax. Idiomatic Italian conversation promoted via readings and discussions in Italian on current subjects. Writing proficiency promoted through composition work. In Italian. Prerequisites: Completion of ITAL 2020 or its equivalent.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3050 - Advanced Italian IV

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Effective Date 09/14/2016
Continued perfection of Italian language proficiency, in all major skill areas: speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Selective review of the fine points of grammar and syntax. Idiomatic Italian conversation promoted via readings and discussions in Italian on current subjects. Writing proficiency promoted through composition work. In Italian. Prerequisites: Completion of ITAL 3040 or its equivalent.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3110 - Medieval and Renaissance Masterpieces

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Introduction to relevant Italian medieval and renaissance literary works. Prerequisites: ITAL 2020

Credits: 3

ITAL 3120 - Contemporary Literature

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Effective Date 05/01/2010
Study of selected masterpieces from the modern period of Italian literature. Readings and discussions in Italian. Exercises in essay writing. Prerequisite: ITAL 2020 or equivalent.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3250 - Italian Love Poetry in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

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Effective Date 05/01/2010
This course treats the production of major poets and writers of Italian Medieval and Renaissance times (Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto, and Tasso) and focuses on the theme of love. It illustrates how central the topic of love was to Italian poetry in the early modern age, its development from classical love verse, and the immense influence of Italian love poetry in the diffusion of Italian culture abroad. Taught in Italian.

Credits: 3

ITAL 3460 - Growing Up Italian Style: Children’s Culture

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
In this course, we will explore how major works of literature for children, from Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, to the poetry of Gianni Rodari, reflect changing views of childhood and parenting in Italy. Students will learn how children’s literature of the 19th-century helped to create an Italian national identity. We will also examine how new media inventions changed story time for children in Italy. Prerequisite: ITAL 3010

Requisites Must have completed ITAL 3010

Credits: 3

ITAL 3559 - New Course in Italian

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Effective Date 08/31/2022
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Italian.

Credits: 1 to 4

ITAL 3720 - Novella (Italian Short Narrative)

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Novella (Italian Short Narrative)

Credits: 3

ITAL 3750 - Critica (Italian Literary Criticism)

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Critica (Italian Literary Criticism)

Credits: 3

ITAL 4200 - Umanesimo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Humanistic Period)

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Umanesimo (Italian Culture and Literature in the Humanistic Period)

Credits: 3

ITAL 4460 - Italian Mystery Novels

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Effective Date 11/13/2014
In this course, we will explore the various subgenres that are most often associated with mysteries: the police procedural, the detective novel, the political thriller, and true crime. Together, we will study the defining features of each genre through close readings of Italian short stories, novels, films, comics, mini-series, and documentaries. Students will learn about how the mystery novel evolved in Italy during the 20th-century Prerequisite: 3010

Credits: 3

ITAL 4559 - New Course in Italian

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Effective Date 03/15/2018
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Italian.

Credits: 1 to 4

ITAL 4980 - Distinguished Majors Colloquium - Italian Studies

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Effective Date 10/13/2016
The Colloquium allows DMPs in Italian Studies to meet regularly with the DMP coordinator to discuss research strategies, documentation styles, and structure and style in extended expository writing as they are working independently on a thesis. It also provides a forum for presenting and discussing work-in-progress. Prerequisite: Acceptance in DMP.

Requisites Must be in Distinguished Major Program in

Credits: 3

ITAL 4989 - Distinguished Major in Italian Studies Thesis

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Effective Date 10/31/2016
Distinguished majors in Italian Studies will meet individually with their thesis advisors to discuss progress and revise drafts of their theses. At the end of the semester, they will present the results of their research in a public forum.

Requisites Must have completed ITAL 4980

Credits: 3

ITAL 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 08/01/2017
Independent Study

Credits: 1 to 3

ITTR 2150 - Italian Phonetics

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Italian Phonetics

Credits: 3

ITTR 2260 - Dante in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Close reading of Dante’s masterpiece, The Inferno. Lectures focus on Dante’s social, political, and cultural world. Incorporates The World of Dante: A Hypermedia Archive for the Study of the Inferno, and a pedagogical and research website (www.iath.virginia/dante), that offers a wide range of visual material related to The Inferno.

Credits: 3

ITTR 2270 - Petrarch in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Petrarch in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2300 - Machiavelli in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Machiavelli in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2310 - Ariosto in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Ariosto in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2360 - Tasso in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Tasso in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2420 - Goldoni and Alfieri in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Goldoni and Alfieri in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2430 - Foscolo and Leopardi in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Foscolo and Leopardi in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2440 - Manzoni in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Manzoni in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2450 - Verga in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Verga in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2559 - New Course in Italian in Translation

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Italian in translation.

Credits: 1 to 4

ITTR 2620 - The Modern Italian Novel in Translation

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
The Modern Italian Novel in Translation

Credits: 3

ITTR 2630 - Italian History and Culture Through Film: 1860s - 1960s

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
This course uses the medium of film to discuss the developments in Italian culture and history over a period of one hundred years, from 1860 to 1960.

Credits: 3

ITTR 2710 - Italian Cultural History

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Effective Date 06/03/2016
This course traces the general history and culture of Italy from the Middle Ages to the present. It covers the Renaissance, the Baroque, the ‘Risorgimento,’ the new problems of post-unification, Fascism and the post-World War II Italian Republic. The aim is to provide historical background to comprehend both the complexity of Italian political and social evolution and the multifaceted nature of its cultural identity Taught in English.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3107 - Evolution of Media in Italy: From Unification to the Present

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Effective Date 02/26/2015
The course will explore the specific features of Italian mass media from the Unification to the present, considering how the press, cinema, radio, television and the Internet have affected and shaped Italian society. It will trace the evolution of Italian media in relation to key events such as the Risorgimento, Fascism, both World Wars, reconstruction and industrialization, and the political rise of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3215 - Dante’s Italy

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Effective Date 03/30/2010
This course investigates Italian history and culture through the prism of Dante Alighieri’s Comedy, one of the most important works in European literature. The three canticles of the Comedy offer a meditation on the social and political life of the Italian city-states, a critique of contemporary Christianity, and a commentary on art and literature at the end of the Middle Ages.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3280 - Michelangelo: The Artist, The Man, and His Times

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Effective Date 10/10/2019
Michelangelo’s name conjures genius and a nearly superhuman achievement in the arts. Contemporaries elevated him as the supreme sculptor, painter, and architect of his age. This course examines Michelangelo’s creativity in all these media as well as his poetry and letters. The course investigates the extraordinary achievements of this Renaissance luminary through close analysis of his works, secondary studies, and contemporary reinventions.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ITTR 3559 topic #11 Michelangelo

Credits: 3

ITTR 3559 - New Course: Italian in Translation

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Effective Date 08/31/2022
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics with the subject of Italian in Translation.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3580 - Sister Arts Literary Artistic Relations in the Italian Renaissance

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
This course focuses on the literary and cultural traditions that inform treatments of art and artists in the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3610 - Italian Political Thinkers

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Students of this course will study the political theories of Dante, Machiavelli, Beccaria, and Gramsci through a close-reading of each author’s major works. We will also examine how their ideas influenced contemporary politics, literature, and the visual arts both in Italy and in the United States. These goals will be accomplished through regular reading assignments, short essays, and presentations.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3660 - Italian American Cinema: The Immigrant Experience on Film

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Effective Date 11/05/2018
Following the unification of Italy in 1861, immigrants from that nation began coming to the USA in record numbers. While they arrived in search of better lives, they often faced many challenges. Through it all, their experiences have been documented on film. In this course, we will explore these cinematic representations of Italian Americana.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3670 - Contemporary Italian Cinema: From Canon to the Fringe

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Effective Date 09/28/2018
Examines the social, political and economic evolution of contemporary Italy through cinema and other visual culture forms; cinema is also examined from an aesthetic point of view, as its iconographic and stylistic developments are crucial elements of a visual culture that complements and references traditional modes of representation such as painting and sculpture, as well as architecture, literature and the oral folk tradition.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3680 - Eve’s Sinful Bite: Foodscapes in Women’s Writing Culture and Society

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Effective Date 05/01/2023
This course explores how Italian women writers have represented food in their short stories, novels and autobiographies in dialogue with the culture and society from late nineteenth century to the present. These lectures will offer a close reading of the symbolic meaning of food in narrative and the way it intersects with Italian women’s socio-cultural history, addressing issues of gender, identity and politics of the body.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3685 - Italy on Screen: Sex, Gender, & Racial Identities

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Effective Date 01/30/2020
This course considers representations of sex, gender and racial identities in Italian films, television, advertisements and other forms of visual culture. With a focus on the contemporary Italian context, students will explore issues of intersectionality from a global perspective. What can Italian critically acclaimed and more mainstream works tell us about diversity and inclusion in the worldwide context?

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ITTR 3559 topic #10 Italy on Screen

Credits: 3

ITTR 3690 - Mafiosi vs Goodfellas: Organized Crime on Film in Italy & The USA

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Effective Date 10/04/2017
Organized crime has long fascinated filmmakers from both Italy and the USA. But, how does each country portray this phenomenon and its effects on law, politics, and the individual? What socio-cultural and historical factors explain the different presentations? In this course, we will examine these questions through discussion and analysis of films from Italy and the United States, primary source documents, and novels.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3758 - Love Affair with Tuscany: Utopias and Beyond

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Effective Date 05/19/2010
This course aims to examine the Anglo-American love affair with Tuscany/Florence, and deepen students’ understanding of it by providing richer, more complex knowledge of the region and its culture. The class will simultaneously explore notions of utopia and dystopia, against the background and actual lived experience of this sought-after destination.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3770 - The Culture of Italian Comedy

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Effective Date 08/01/2011
Treats Italian comedy from historic, generic, and theoretical viewpoints; divided into 4 units: 1) medieval comic-realist verse (poetry and song), 2) Renaissance comic theater, including plays by Machiavelli, Ariosto and the Sienese Intronati Academy, 3) the commedia all’italiana film, focusing on cinema by Germi and Monicelli, and 4) modern comic performances by Italians. Special units on Tuscan- and Neapolitan-style humor. Taught in English.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3775 - Acting Italian: Benigni, Goldoni, Fo

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Effective Date 10/26/2016
Watch, read, and laugh at performances by Italy’s most famous comic stars! Plays, films, and one-man shows form the texts, which include not only modern productions by contemporary masters Roberto Benigni and Dario Fo, but also the comedies of the originator of middle-class Italian humor, Carlo Goldoni. Works of these writers/actors/producers introduce important aspects of Italian literary, performative, and cultural traditions. In ENGLISH.

Credits: 3

ITTR 3880 - Reinventing Dante: Influence, Adaptation and Transformation

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Effective Date 03/04/2019
Dante’s Inferno has captivated the imagination of artists as diverse as Botticelli, Milton, Keats, and David Fincher. Artists, writers and filmmakers re-imagine Dante for their own purposes. This course will explore reinventions of Dante’s Inferno, the most enduring vision of the afterlife that has ever been created.

Credits: 3

ITTR 4010 - Narrating (Un-)sustainability: Ecocritical Explorations in Italy & Mediterr

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Effective Date 03/05/2019
This course focuses on the potential narratives have to convey messages that are relevant to our ethical and environmental awareness, and to help us imagine alternatives to existing systems of knowledge and distributions of power. We shall learn about the origins and general objectives of ecocriticism, its relevant theories and methodologies, and various approaches to the notion of sustainability.

Credits: 3

ITTR 4559 - New Course in Italian in Translation

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Effective Date 10/08/2015
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Italian in Translation.

Credits: 3

ITTR 4655 - Early Modern Theater: The Drama of Marriage

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Effective Date 10/26/2016
Course will investigate marriage as represented on the early modern European stage. Italian, Spanish, French and English plays comprise our subject matter. We’ll consider the legal, social, and cultural history of matrimony to background our study of the stageworks; we will analyze scripts and performances to learn how dramatic and theatrical convention intersected w/ marital institution and negotiations, onstage and off. Taught in English.

Credits: 3

ITTR 4820 - Italian Pop Culture From the 1960s to the Present

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Effective Date 08/01/2010
This course examines the cultural and socio-political transformations that took place in Italy during its recent history. By discussing different cultural artifacts (films, essays, literature), we shall ultimately try to answer the following questions : does Italy still have space for works that resist populist and consumer culture? What are the ethical and political consequences of Italy’s present culutral condition? Is there an Italian identity?

Credits: 3

ITTR 4993 - Italian Independent Study

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Effective Date 05/15/2024
Independent study in special field under the direction of a faculty member in Italian.

Credits: 3

KICH 1010 - Introduction to Maya K’iche’ I

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Effective Date 12/07/2015
This class is an introduction to K’iche’, a Maya language spoken by about a million people in the western Highlands of Guatemala; it is one of the major indigenous languages in the Americas. This class aims to make students competent in basic conversation and to introduce students to Maya culture. It is offered as part of the UVa-Duke-Vanderbilt consortium for distance learning in less commonly taught languages.

Credits: 3

KICH 1020 - Introduction to Maya K’iche’ II

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Effective Date 05/19/2016
This class is the second part of a year-long introductory sequence to K’iche’, a Maya language spoken by about a million people in the western Highlands of Guatemala, and one of the major indigenous languages in the Americas. Students will enrich and expand their conversational skills and cultural knowledge from K’iche’ 1010. It is offered as part of the UVa-Duke-Vanderbilt consortium for distance learning in less commonly taught languages. The completion of KICH 1010 with a grade of C- or higher.

Requisites Must have completed KICH 1010 with a grade of C- or higher.

Credits: 3

KICH 2010 - Intermediate Maya K’iche’ I

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Effective Date 05/19/2016
This class is the 3rd level of a 4-part sequence in K’iche’, a Maya language spoken by a million people in western Guatemala. Here students will cover more advanced grammar (verb modalities), a broader range of scripts (colonial vs. modern orthography), and conduct research based on the K’iche’ Oral History project at UNM. The class is offered as part of the UVa-Duke-Vanderbilt consortium for distance learning in LCTLs. The completion of KICH 1010 and 1020 with a grade of C- or higher.

Requisites Must have completed KICH 1010 and 1020 with a grade of C- or higher.

Credits: 3

KICH 2020 - Intermediate Maya K’iche’ II

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Effective Date 05/19/2016
KICH 2020 is the capstone course in a four-part sequence in K’iche’, a Maya language spoken by a million people in western Guatemala. Students will build from earlier coursework to write an original essay in the target language, integrating primary and secondary sources like published works and interviews that they conduct. The class is offered as part of the UVa-Duke-Vanderbilt consortium for distance learning in LCTLs. The completion of KICH 1010, 1020 and 2010 with a grade of C- or higher.

Requisites Must have completed KICH 1010 and 1020 and 2010 with a grade of C- or higher.

Credits: 3

LAST 2050 - Latin American Interdisciplinary Seminar

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Effective Date 05/01/2016
An interdisciplinary seminar taught by the faculty of the Latin Americans Studies Program, containing twelve different subjects, from historical, anthropological, literary, political and media studies disciplines.

Credits: 4

LAST 4655 - Sustainability in Brazil’s Emerging Markets

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Effective Date 02/06/2014
This class will discuss the economic and environmental impacts of Brazil’s past, present, and future growth. It will also survey Brazil’s attitudes and approach to balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability since the Industrial Revolution.

Credits: 3

LAST 4993 - Majors Thesis, Independent Studies

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Majors Thesis, Independent Studies

Credits: 3

LAST 4999 - Majors Thesis, Independent Studies

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Majors Thesis, Independent Studies

Credits: 3

PORT 1110 - Beginning Intensive Portuguese

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Introduces speaking, understanding, reading and writing Portuguese, especially as used in Brazil. Three class hours and one hour of online lab work. Followed by PORT 2120. No prior foreign language experience necessary. Requires instructor permission.

Credits: 4

PORT 2050 - Intensive Portuguese for Speakers of Spanish and other Romance Languages

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Effective Date 01/01/2025
Portuguese 2050 is an accelerated Portuguese language and culture course that condenses two semesters (PORT 1110 and PORT 2120) into one. PORT 2050 is designed specifically for UVA undergraduate and graduate students who already possess an advanced level of fluency in one of the Romance languages. The pedagogical approach to PORT 2050 is both proficiency-oriented and task-based and the class will be conducted completely in Portuguese.

Credits: 4

PORT 2120 - Intermediate Intensive Portuguese

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Effective Date 05/01/2010
Continued study of Portuguese through readings, vocabulary exercises, oral and written compositions, and grammar review. Prerequisite: PORT 1110 or equivalent.

Credits: 4

PORT 2559 - New Course in Portuguese

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Effective Date 01/01/2024
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics within the subject of Portuguese.

Credits: 3

PORT 3010 - Advanced Grammar, Conversation and Composition

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Effective Date 05/01/2010
Studies advanced grammar through analysis of texts; includes extensive practice in composition and topical conversation. Prerequisite: PORT 2120 or by permission.

Credits: 3

PORT 3559 - New Course in Portuguese

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Effective Date 10/03/2022
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics within the subject of Portuguese.

Credits: 3

PORT 4020 - Readings in Literature in Portuguese

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Effective Date 05/01/2010
Studies readings from the chief periods of Brazilian and Portuguese literature. Prerequisite: PORT 2120 or by permission.

Credits: 3

PORT 4410 - Brazilian Cultural Production I (1500 to 1900)

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Effective Date 03/10/2016
Studies canonical and popular Brazilian Cultural Production from the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500 to the end of the nineteenth-century.

Requisites Must have completed PORT 3010

Credits: 3

PORT 4420 - Brazilian Cultural Production II (1900 to Present)

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Effective Date 03/10/2016
Studies canonical and popular Brazilian Cultural Production from the beginning of the twentieth-century to the present day.

Requisites Must have completed PORT 3010

Credits: 3

PORT 4559 - New Course in Portuguese

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Effective Date 12/02/2019
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics within the subject of Portuguese.

Credits: 3

PORT 4610 - Studies in Luso-Brazilian Language and Culture

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Effective Date 08/01/2015
Studies topics in Portuguese or Brazilian linguistics or culture. Prerequisite: One course at the 3000 level or higher, or Instructor Permission

Credits: 3

PORT 4620 - Studies in Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature

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Effective Date 05/01/2010
Studies topics in Portuguese or Brazilian literature or in Portuguese linguistics according to the interests and preparation of the students. Prerequisite: One course at the 3000 level or higher, or instructor permission.

Credits: 3

POTR 3559 - New Course in Portuguese in Translation

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Effective Date 08/22/2016
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics within the subject of Portuguese in Translation

Credits: 3

POTR 4240 - Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

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Effective Date 03/23/2018
This class provides a general overview of film production in Brazil since 1990. We will screen and discuss a variety of documentary and feature-length fiction films, paying special attention to their formal construction and respective portrayals of violence, race, class, and sexuality, particularly as they unfold in a context increasingly marked by globalization and neoliberalism.

Credits: 3

POTR 4260 - Brazilian Media

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Effective Date 10/31/2016
The objective of this proposal is to provide students with a topics course in English, which will examine Brazilian media by focusing on specific iterations ranging from television and film to the Internet and social media.

Credits: 3

POTR 4270 - The Civilization of Brazil

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Effective Date 03/01/2009
Introduces the development of Brazilian culture from 1500 to the present. This course is taught in English and does not fulfill the language requirement.

Credits: 3

POTR 4559 - New Course in Portuguese Translation

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Effective Date 10/13/2022
This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics within the subject of Portuguese in Translation.

Credits: 3

POTR 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Independent study in special field under the direction of a faculty member in Portuguese.

Credits: 3

SPAN 116 - Intensive Introductory Spanish

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for SPAN 1016.

Credits: 0

SPAN 126 - Intensive Introductory Spanish

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for SPAN 1026.

Credits: 0

SPAN 160 - Elementary Spanish Online

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Effective Date 04/09/2020
SPAN 160 is a non-credit elementary-level Spanish course, consisting of 6 online modules and activities, designed for students with the equivalent of 1-2 years of high school Spanish or an initial placement into SPAN 1060. The goal of this course is to prepare students to enter Intermediate Spanish (SPAN 2010), through reading, writing, speaking, and listening practice, as well as review of appropriate vocabulary and structures.

Credits: 0

SPAN 216 - Intensive Intermediate Spanish

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Effective Date 05/01/2012
This is the non-credit option for SPAN 2016.

Credits: 0

SPAN 1010 - Elementary Spanish

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Effective Date 05/01/2010
Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. SPAN 1010 and 1020 enable students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., greeting, narrating, describing, ordering, comparing and contrasting, and apologizing). Five class hours and one laboratory hour. Followed by SPAN 2010. Prerequisite: For students who have not previously studied Spanish.

Credits: 4

SPAN 1020 - Elementary Spanish

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Effective Date 05/01/2010
Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. SPAN 1010 and 1020 enable students to successfully perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., greeting, narrating, describing, ordering, comparing and contrasting, and apologizing). Five class hours and one laboratory hour. Followed by SPAN 2010. Prerequisite: For students who have not previously studied Spanish.

Credits: 4

SPAN 1060 - Accelerated Elementary Spanish

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through engagement with oral and written texts in Spanish and various interactive projects. Five class hours. Covers the material in SPAN 1010-1020 in an accelerated one semester format. Followed by SPAN 2010. Prerequisite: Previous background in Spanish (1-2 years of high school Spanish) and PLACE diagnostic score of 1.0-3.0, UVA placement diagnostic score of 0-325 (prior to May 2022), or SAT II score of 420-510.

Credits: 4

SPAN 2010 - Intermediate Spanish

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Further develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through engagement with authentic, culturally rich oral and written texts in Spanish. Enables students to perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations (e.g., narrating present and past activities and expressing desires and requests), and to express personal meaning by creating with the language. Three class hours. Followed by SPAN 2020. Passing grade in SPAN 1020 or 1060; PLACE diagnostic score of 3.25-4.0; UVA placement diagnostic score of 326-409 (prior to May 2022); SAT II score of 520-590; or permission of the department.

Credits: 3

SPAN 2015 - Spanish for Engineering

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Effective Date 01/01/2010
Spanish for Engineering is a three-credit intermediate level course designed to provide a thorough foundation in all the language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, but focuses on the development of communication skills in a professional context for Engineering.

Credits: 3

SPAN 2020 - Advanced Intermediate Spanish

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
Further develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through engagement with authentic, culturally rich oral and written texts in Spanish. Enables students to perform linguistic tasks that allow them to communicate in everyday situations with some complications (e.g., describing present, past and future activities, expressing opinions, and persuading), and to express personal meaning by creating with the language. Three class hours. Prerequisite: Passing grade in SPAN 2010; PLACE diagnostic score of 4.25-5.0; UVA placement diagnostic score of 410-535 (prior to May 2022); SAT II score of 600-640; IB Spanish B HL exam score of 5 or 6; or permission of the department.

Credits: 3

SPAN 2100 - The Social Support Systems of Latin America

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Effective Date 05/01/2011
A supervised internship fort students interested in the health care professions and sociology as a complement to SPAN 2020 during the UVa Summer Spanish program. The latter includes health care, education, and other social services like social security and old age benefits. Final research paper required

Credits: 1

SPAN 3000 - Phonetics: The Sounds of Spanish

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Effective Date 02/01/2025
An introduction to the sound system of both Peninsular & Latin Am Spanish. Class discussions focus on how the sounds of Spanish are produced from an articulatory point of view, and how these sounds are organized & represented in the linguistic competence of their speakers. When appropriate, comparisons will be made between Spanish & English or Spanish & other (Romance & non-Romance) languages. Course seeks to improve the student’s pronunciation. Pre-requisites SPAN 2020 or equivalent (it can be taken simultaneously with SPAN 3010).

Requisites Prerequisite: SPAN 3010 (or equivalent)

Credits: 3

SPAN 3010 - Finding your Voice in Spanish

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Effective Date 01/01/2025
This course seeks to develop advanced literacy in Spanish through extensive reading, writing, analysis, and discussion of authentic literary texts and videos. Emphasis is placed on how grammatical forms codify meaning and how grammar and meaning interact to construct the language and textual structure expected in the following academic genres: the critical review, the persuasive essay, and the research paper.

Credits: 3

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Statistics

Courses

STAT 1100 - Chance: An Introduction to Statistics

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course studies introductory statistics and probability, visual methods for summarizing quantitative information, basic experimental design and sampling methods, ethics and experimentation, causation, and interpretation of statistical analyzes. Applications use data drawn from various current sources, including journals and news. No prior knowledge of statistics is required. Students will not receive credit for both STAT 1100 and STAT 1120.

Credits: 3

STAT 1120 - Introduction to Statistics

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course includes graphical displays of data, relationships in data, design of experiments, causation, random sampling, probability distributions, inference, confidence intervals, tests of hypotheses, and regression and correlation. No prior knowledge of statistics is required. Students will not receive credit for both STAT 1100 and STAT 1120.

Credits: 3

STAT 1400 - Forensic Science and Statistics

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Effective Date 11/03/2020
This course provides an introduction to statistical analysis in the context of forensic science. Statistical topics covered include probability distributions, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, measures of association, and regression. Applications drawn from forensics include analysis of fingerprints, DNA, and particle evidence. No prior knowledge of statistics or forensic science is required.

Credits: 3

STAT 1501 - Statistics-Edge

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
These statistics classes are for students in the UVA Edge program. They help students develop critical data analysis skills for academia, the workplace and life. See https://edge.virginia.edu/ for details.

Credits: 1 to 6

STAT 1559 - New Course in Statistics

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Effective Date 10/20/2017
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of statistics.

Credits: 1 to 4

STAT 1601 - Introduction to Data Science with R

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course provides an introduction to the process of collecting, manipulating, exploring, analyzing, and displaying data using the statistical software R. The collection of elementary statistical analysis techniques introduced will be driven by questions derived from the data. The data used in this course will generally follow a common theme. No prior knowledge of statistics, data science, or programming is required.

Credits: 3

STAT 1602 - Introduction to Data Science with Python

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course provides an introduction to various topics in data science using the Python programming language. The course will start with the basics of Python, and apply them to data cleaning, merging, transformation, and analytic methods drawn from data science analysis and statistics, with an emphasis on applications. No prior knowledge of statistics, data science, or programming is required.

Credits: 3

STAT 1800 - Introduction to Sports Analytics

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course provides an introduction to sports analytics, including the collection, analysis, and visualization of sports data using the statistical programming language R. Elementary statistical analysis techniques will be introduced through questions arising in sports. No prior knowledge of statistics is required.

Credits: 3

STAT 2020 - Statistics for Biologists

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course includes a basic treatment of probability, and covers inference for one and two populations, including both hypothesis testing and confidence intervals. Analysis of variance and linear regression are also covered. Applications are drawn from biology and medicine. No prior knowledge of statistics is required. Co-requisite: Concurrent enrollment in a lab section of STAT 2020.

Credits: 4

STAT 2120 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course provides an introduction to the probability & statistical theory underlying the estimation of parameters & testing of statistical hypotheses, including those in the context of simple & multiple regression Applications are drawn from economics, business, & other fields. No prior knowledge of statistics is required. Highly Recommended: Prior experience with calculus I; Co-requisite: Concurrent enrollment in a lab section of STAT 2120.

Credits: 4

STAT 2125 - Statistics Workshop

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Effective Date 12/12/2018
This course is a workshop to support deeper understanding of concepts introduced in STAT 2120.

Credits: 1

STAT 2559 - New Course in Statistics

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Effective Date 01/11/2017
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of statistics.

Credits: 1 to 4

STAT 3080 - From Data to Knowledge

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This course introduces methods to approach uncertainty and variation inherent in elementary statistical techniques from multiple angles. Simulation techniques such as the bootstrap will also be used. Conceptual discussion in lectures is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks using R. Prerequisite: A prior course in statistics and a prior course in programming.

Requisites Students must have completed ONE of STAT 1100, STAT 1120, STAT 2020, STAT 2120, STAT 3120, APMA 3110, APMA 3120 & ONE of STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 3250, CS 1110, CS 1111, CS 1112, CS 1113

Credits: 3

STAT 3110 - Foundations of Statistics

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course provides an overview of basic probability and matrix algebra required for statistics. Topics include sample spaces and events, properties of probability, conditional probability, discrete and continuous random variables, expected values, joint distributions, matrix arithmetic, matrix inverses, systems of linear equations, eigenspaces, and covariance and correlation matrices. Prerequisite: A prior course in calculus II.

Requisites Must have completed Math 1220 or MATH 1320 or APMA 1110

Credits: 3

STAT 3120 - Introduction to Mathematical Statistics

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course provides a calculus-based introduction to mathematical statistics with some applications. Topics include: sampling theory, point estimation, interval estimation, testing hypotheses, linear regression, correlation, analysis of variance, and categorical data. Prerequisite: A prior course in probability.

Requisites Must have completed MATH 3100 or APMA 3100 or STAT 3110

Credits: 3

STAT 3130 - Design and Analysis of Sample Surveys

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This course introduces main designs & estimation techniques used in sample surveys; including simple random sampling, stratification, cluster sampling, double sampling, post-stratification, ratio estimation; non-response problems, measurement errors. Properties of sample surveys are developed through simulation procedures. Prerequisite: A prior course in statistics.

Requisites Students must have completed ONE of the following STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 1100, STAT 1120, STAT 2020, STAT 2120, STAT 3120, APMA 3110 or APMA 3120

Credits: 3

STAT 3220 - Introduction to Regression Analysis

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This course provides a survey of regression analysis techniques, covering topics from simple regression, multiple regression, logistic regression, and analysis of variance. The primary focus is on model development and applications. Prerequisite: A prior course in statistics.

Requisites Students must have completed ONE of the following STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 1100, STAT 1120, STAT 2020, STAT 2120, STAT 3120, APMA 3110 or APMA 3120

Credits: 3

STAT 3250 - Data Analysis with Python

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This course provides an introduction to data analysis using the Python programming language. Topics include using an intergrated development environment; data analysis packages numpy, pandas and scipy; data loading, storage, cleaning, merging, transformation, and aggregation; data plotting and visualization. Prerequisite: A prior course in statistics and a prior course in programming.

Requisites Students must have completed ONE of STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 1100, STAT 1120, STAT 2020, STAT 2120, STAT 3120, APMA 3110, APMA 3120 & ONE of STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 3080, CS 1110, CS 1111, CS 1112, CS 1113

Credits: 3

STAT 3280 - Data Visualization and Management

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This course introduces methods for presenting data graphically and in tabular form, including the use of software to create visualizations. Also introduced are databases, with topics including traditional relational databases and SQL (Structured Query Language) for retrieving information. Prerequisite: A prior course in statistics and a prior course in R programming.

Requisites Students must have completed ONE of STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 1100, STAT 1120, STAT 2020, STAT 2120, STAT 3120, APMA 3110, APMA 3120 & ONE of STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 3080, STAT 3250, CS 1110, CS 1111, CS 1112, CS 1113

Credits: 3

STAT 3480 - Nonparametric and Rank-Based Statistics

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This course includes an overview of parametric vs. non-parametric methods including one-sample, two-sample, and k-sample methods; pair comparison and block designs; tests for trends and association; multivariate tests; analysis of censored data; bootstrap methods; multi-factor experiments; and smoothing methods. Prerequisite: A prior course in statistics.

Requisites Students must have completed ONE of the following STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 1100, STAT 1120, STAT 2020, STAT 2120, STAT 3120, APMA 3110 or APMA 3120

Credits: 3

STAT 3559 - New Course in Statistics

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Effective Date 11/01/2018
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Statistics.

Credits: 1 to 4

STAT 4120 - Applied Linear Models

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Effective Date 08/01/2024
This course includes linear regression models, inferences in regression analysis, model validation, selection of independent variables, multicollinearity, influential observations, and other topics. Conceptual discussion is supplemented with hands-on practice in applied data-analysis tasks. Highly recommended: A prior course in applied regression such as STAT 3220. Prerequisite: A prior course in statistics and a prior course in linear algebra.

Requisites Students must have completed ONE of the following STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 1100, STAT 1120, STAT 2020, STAT 2120, STAT 3120, APMA 3110 or APMA 3120 & ONE of STAT 3110, MATH 3350, MATH 3351, APMA 3080

Credits: 3

STAT 4130 - Applied Multivariate Statistics

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course develops fundamental methodology to the analysis of multivariate data using computational tools. Topics include multivariate normal distribution, multivariate linear model, principal components and factor analysis, discriminant analysis, clustering, and classification. Prerequisite: A prior course in mathematical statistics, a prior course in linear algebra, and a prior course in programming.

Requisites Students must have completed STAT 3120 & ONE of STAT 3110, MATH 3350, MATH 3351, APMA 3080 & ONE of STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 3080, STAT 3250, CS 1110, CS 1111, CS 1112, CS 1113

Credits: 3

STAT 4160 - Experimental Design

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course introduces various topics in experimental design, including simple comparative experiments, single factor analysis of variance, randomized blocks, Latin squares, factorial designs, blocking and confounding, and two-level factorial designs. The statistical software R is used throughout this course. Prerequisite: A prior course in regression.

Requisites Students must have completed ONE of STAT 3220, STAT 4120, STAT 5120, ECON 3720, ECON 4720, SYS 4021

Credits: 3

STAT 4170 - Financial Time Series and Forecasting

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course introduces topics in time series analysis as they relate to financial data. Topics include properties of financial data, moving average and ARMA models, exponential smoothing, ARCH and GARCH models, volatility models, case studies in linear time series, high frequency financial data, and value at risk. Prerequisite: A prior course in probability, a prior course in regression, and a prior course in programming.

Requisites Students must have completed ONE of STAT 3110, MATH 3100, APMA 3100 & ONE of STAT 3220, STAT 4120, STAT 5120, ECON 3720, ECON 4720, SYS 4021 & ONE of STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 3080, STAT 3250, CS 1110, CS 1111, CS 1112, CS 1113

Credits: 3

STAT 4220 - Applied Analytics for Business

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course focuses on applying data analytic techniques to business, including customer analytics, business analytics, and web analytics through mining of social media and other online data. Several projects are incorporated into the course. Prerequisite: A prior course in regression and a prior course in programming.

Requisites Students must have completed ONE of STAT 3220, STAT 4120, STAT 5120, ECON 3720, ECON 4720, SYS 4021 & ONE of STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 3080, STAT 3250, CS 1110, CS 1111, CS 1112, CS 1113

Credits: 3

STAT 4559 - New Course in Statistics

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Statistics.

Credits: 1 to 4

STAT 4630 - Statistical Machine Learning

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course 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: A prior course in regression and a prior course in programming.

Requisites Students must have completed ONE of STAT 3220, STAT 4120, STAT 5120, ECON 3720, ECON 4720, SYS 4021 & ONE of STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 3080, STAT 3250, CS 1110, CS 1111, CS 1112, CS 1113

Credits: 3

STAT 4800 - Advanced Sports Analytics I

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course provides a platform for exploring advanced statistical modeling and analysis techniques through the lens of state-of-the-art sports analytics. Prerequisite: A prior course in mathematical statistics, a prior course in regression, and a prior course in programming.

Requisites Students must have completed STAT 3120 AND One of STAT 3220, STAT 4120, STAT 5120, ECON 3720, ECON 4720, SYS 4021 AND One of STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 3080, STAT 3250, CS 1110, CS 1111, CS 1112, CS 1113

Credits: 3

STAT 4993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 01/01/2016
Reading and study programs in areas of interest to individual students. For students interested in topics not covered in regular courses. Students must obtain a faculty advisor to approve and direct the program.

Credits: 1 to 4

STAT 4995 - Statistical Consulting

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Effective Date 08/01/2020
Introduces the practice of statistical consultation. A combination of formal lectures, meetings with clients of the statistical consulting service, and sessions in the statistical computing laboratory. Students will work together with a graduate student consultant. Prerequisite: instructor permission.

Credits: 1 to 3

STAT 4996 - Capstone

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Students will work in teams on a capstone project. The project will involve significant data preparation and analysis of data, preparation of a comprehensive project report, and presentation of results. Many projects will come from external clients who have data analysis challenges. Prerequisite: A prior course in regression and a prior course in programming. This course is restricted to Statistics majors in their final year.

Requisites Students must have completed ONE of STAT 3220, STAT 4120, STAT 5120, ECON 3720, ECON 4720, SYS 4021 & ONE of STAT 1601, STAT 1602, STAT 3080, STAT 3250, CS 1110, CS 1111, CS 1112, CS 1113

Credits: 3

Women, Gender & Sexuality

Courses

WGS 1510 - Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality

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Effective Date 03/07/2017
Special Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality.

Credits: 1 to 4

WGS 2100 - Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
An introduction to gender studies, including the fields of women’s studies, feminist studies, LGBT studies, & masculinity studies. Students will examine historical movements, theoretical issues, & contemporary debates, especially as they pertain to issues of inequality & to the intersection of gender with race, class, sexuality, & nationalism. Topics will vary according to the interdisciplinary expertise & research focus of the instructor.

Credits: 3

WGS 2125 - Race & Power in Gender & Sexuality

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Offers a study of race-racialization in relation to gender-sexuality. Consider how the concept of race shapes relationships between gendered selfhood & society, how it informs identity & experiences of the erotic, & how racialized gender & sexuality are created-maintained-monitored. With an interdisciplinary perspective, we will consider how race & power are reproduced & resisted through gender & sexuality, individually-national-international.

Credits: 3

WGS 2224 - Black Femininities and Masculinities in Media

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Addresses the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of “Blackness” in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender.

Credits: 3

WGS 2500 - Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality

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Effective Date 11/07/2017
Special Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality vary by semester.

Credits: 1 to 4

WGS 2559 - New Course in Women, Gender & Sexuality

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Effective Date 03/22/2024
The course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of women, gender & sexuality

Credits: 1 to 4

WGS 2600 - Human Sexualities

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Effective Date 09/05/2019
Examines human sexuality from psychological, biological, behavioral, social, and historical perspectives. Topics include sexual research and theoretical perspectives, sexual anatomy and physiology, sexual health, intimacy, communication, patterns of sexual response and pleasure and sexual problems and therapies. Course will also include examination of the development of sexuality and the intersections of other identities, gender identity, sexual orientation, sexuality and the law, sexual assault, and other social issues in sexuality.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken WGS 2559 topic 21: Human Sexualities

Credits: 3

WGS 2700 - Men and Masculinities

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
“What is understood as “”masculine”” has varied throughout time as well as across cultural contexts and distinct social groupings, it is equally true that most historical periods, cultures, groups, etc. believe their own understandings of masculinity to be universal. In this course, we will deconstruct this. From this class, you should be able to think critically about where men and masculinity have been, where they are going, and what this might mean more generally for gender relations and gender inequality.”

Credits: 3

WGS 2800 - Politics of Motherhood

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Effective Date 09/22/2020
Motherhood, mothering practices, and maternal identities have long been crucial elements of human existence that have not received the level of attention or support that their importance calls for. This course takes an interdisciplinary look (inc. anthropology, feminist theory, media studies, philosophy, psychology, sociology) at scholarly conceptualizations of “good” mothering and analyzes depictions of mothering practices.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken WGS 3559 topic 56 The Politics of Motherhood

Credits: 3

WGS 3100 - Intro to WGS Theory

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Effective Date 03/03/2022
Explores major debates, key ideas, and historical developments in women, gender, & sexuality theory. Students will gain familiarity with queer, trans, and feminist theory, including Black, Native, socialist, crip, and other approaches. Will consider the different methods that gender & sexuality scholars have used to explain the social world, and why such explanations are vital to WGS. Course emphasizes reading, discussion,and critical writing.

Credits: 3

WGS 3125 - Transnational Feminism

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course places women, feminism, and activism in a transnational perspective, and offers students the opportunity to examine how issues considered critical to the field of gender studies are impacting women’s lives globally in contemporary national contexts. We will look closely at how violence, economic marginality, intersections of race and gender, and varied strategies for development are affecting women in specific geographical locations.

Credits: 3

WGS 3135 - Queer Politics

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Effective Date 03/26/2024
The phrase, “The first Pride was a riot” has long been repeated in LGBTQ+ circles. But what does this phrase mean, and what histories does it draw upon? What are the political histories of sexual and gender minorities in the United States beyond and before “Pride?” What are the current political stakes of Pride?s history as protest movement? What queer political futures are on the horizon? This course explores such questions.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken WGS 3559 topic #68 Queer Politics

Credits: 3

WGS 3200 - Women, Gender and Sports

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
This course traces the history of American female athletes from the late 1800s through the early 21st century. We will use gender as a means of understanding the evolution of the female athlete, and will also trace the manner by which issues of class and race inform sportswomen’s journeys over time, particularly with regard to issues of femininity and homophobia.

Credits: 3

WGS 3210 - Gender, Sport and Film

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
This course will examine how film has portrayed women’s sports and female athletes. We will explore how well the film industry has documented the history of women’s sports, issues important to female athletes such as race, sexuality, equality and issues of femininity, and we will look to see how well these productions stack up against films portraying male athletes and men’s sports.

Credits: 3

WGS 3220 - Global Perspectives on Gender & Sport

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
This course will examine female athletes from a global perspective, comparing and contrasting their experiences, and placing them in historical perspective. Among the topics considered will be the Olympic Games, Chinese sports schools, the post-apartheid athletic landscape of South Africa, and Iranian women athlete’s struggle against clothing restrictions.

Credits: 3

WGS 3230 - Gender and the Olympic Games

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Effective Date 12/09/2016
In ancient Greece, women risked death if they even attended the Olympic Games. As Pierre de Coubertin looked to revive the games in 1896, he thought women better suited to cheering on the male victors, than to competing themselves. This course will explore women’s early participation in the Olympic Games, the pressures upon Olympic sportswomen to be feminine, and the important intersections of race, class, and sexual orientation.

Credits: 3

WGS 3240 - Gender, Race and Sport: A History of African American Sportswomen

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Effective Date 09/28/2017
Explore the intersection of gender and race in sport, specifically examining the African-American female experience in sport. This course will ask students to consider whether sport was (and continues to be) the great equalizer for both African-American sportsmen and sportswomen, and to evaluate their portrayals (or lack thereof) in both the white and black media.

Credits: 3

WGS 3305 - Issues in LGBTQ Studies

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course is an interdisciplinary analysis of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) Studies. We will study historical events and political, literary and artistic figures and works; contemporary social and political issues; the meaning and development of sexual and gender identities; and different disciplinary definitions of meaning and knowledge.

Credits: 3

WGS 3310 - Queer American History

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
Course focuses on 20th century history of LGBTQ activism, but will include formation of heterosexual and homosexual identities and historical constructions of sexual practices prior to the 1900s. From 20th c. the course will focus on the Homophile Movement, Gay Liberation, and ACT UP, among other activist movements. Although primary emphasis will be placed on historical activism, contemporary movements regarding LGBTQ-rights will be included.

Credits: 3

WGS 3409 - LGBTQ Issues in the Media

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Effective Date 01/01/2022
This course will explore the complex cultural dynamics of LGBTQ media visibility, along with its social, political, and psychological implications for LGBTQ audiences. It explores four domains: (1) the question of LGBT media visibility (2) the complex processes of inclusion, normalization, and assimilation in popular culture (3) media industries and the LGBT market (4) the relationship between digital media, LGBT audiences, and everyday life.

Credits: 3

WGS 3415 - Sex and Resistance on the Internet

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
From message boards to dating apps, sex and sexuality have been on the internet since its founding. At the same time, attempts to curb certain kinds of eroticism have long followed sexual content online. This course explores the ways that sexuality, eroticism, and desire have taken shape online, the ways it has been promoted and restricted, and the ways that marginalized groups have used the internet to take sexuality “into their own hands.”

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken WGS 3559 topic #65 Sex and Resistance on the Internet

Credits: 3

WGS 3500 - Research and Methods in Women, Gender & Sexuality

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Effective Date 04/18/2024
This course develops fundamental skills for critical thinking, researching, writing, and communicating in WGS. Students will learn methods for finding and analyzing sources, approaches to framing arguments, and skills for effective written and oral communication. Seminars are offered on a variety of topics. This class fulfills the Second Writing Requirement and Enhanced Writing Requirement.

Credits: 3

WGS 3559 - New Course in Women, Gender and Sexuality

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Effective Date 08/01/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new course in the subjects of women, gender and sexualities.

Credits: 3

WGS 3600 - Pleasure Activism Across Time

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Effective Date 10/25/2022
The history of white supremacy & the heteropatriarchy includes denying sexual pleasure of marginalized communities. A major benefit of pleasure is empowerment, which threatens power structures & leads to restrictive practices & laws. This course focuses on queer activists & feminists of color who examine pleasure, systemic oppression, & the connection of inner desires & needs -physical, mental, & emotional -as a part of enacting social change.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken WGS 3559 Topic# 62 Pleasure Activism

Credits: 3

WGS 3611 - Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1600-1865

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
This course explores the significance of gender and sexuality in the territory of the present-day U.S. during the period from the first European settlements to the Civil War.

Credits: 3

WGS 3612 - Gender and Sexuality in the United States, 1865-Present

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Effective Date 01/01/2014
This course explores the significance of gender and sexuality in the territory of the present-day U.S. during the period from the Civil War to the present.

Credits: 3

WGS 3680 - Eve’s Sinful Bite: Foodscapes in Women’s Writing Culture and Society

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Effective Date 10/28/2016
This course explores how Italian women writers have represented food in their short stories, novels and autobiographies in dialogue with the culture and society from late nineteenth century to the present. These lectures will offer a close reading of the symbolic meaning of food in narrative and the way it intersects with Italian women’s socio-cultural history, addressing issues of gender, identity and politics of the body.

Credits: 3

WGS 3750 - Women, Childhood, Autobiography

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Effective Date 08/01/2019
Cross-cultural readings in women’s childhood narratives. Emphasis on formal as well as thematic aspects.

Credits: 3

WGS 3770 - Women Writers: Women on Women

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Effective Date 03/25/2016
This course focuses on women writers from any era who address the topic of femininity: what it means or implies to be a woman.

Credits: 3

WGS 3897 - Gender Violence and Social Justice

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Effective Date 01/01/2021
Introduction to dynamics of gender-based violence, the political and cultural structures that perpetuate it, and avenues for achieving social justice. Students will think critically about the (largely) domestic impact of this violence, and develop a practical understanding of how it intersects with other forms of oppression, by applying theory to real-world problems through experiential learning projects in the community and at the University.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken WGS 4800 Gender-Based Violence

Credits: 3

WGS 3900 - Gender & Sexuality in Islamic Culture

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Effective Date 08/01/2022
This course examines the politics of gender and sexuality in various Muslim societies since the 19th century. It covers a range of topics and themes, including historical, theological, political, and anthropological accounts of gender and sexuality discourses; various feminist movements; and sexuality, marriage, family, masculinity and LGBTQ issues.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken WGS 4559 topic 25

Credits: 3

WGS 3993 - Independent Study

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
Independent Study

Credits: 1 to 4

WGS 4101 - Issues in Women’s Autobiographies

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Effective Date 10/08/2014
This course focuses on women’s autobiographical texts and the diverse ways authors explore issues surrounding identity, power, and resistance in their narratives. We will read compelling accounts of imprisonment, reservation life, political detention, and more, while closely examining women’s participation in ongoing struggles for social justice.

Credits: 3

WGS 4110 - Gender Non-Conformity in Media Culture

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
As one of the primary cultural drivers of common sense, shared values, and political ideology, media are certainly influential storytellers. This course creates space for considering media’s role in articulating and fashioning the limits and possibilities of gender identity. We will pay particular attention to representations of gender non-conformity in popular culture such as female masculinity, male femininity, and transgender subjectivity.

Requisites Women, Gender & Sexuality Major/minor

Credits: 3

WGS 4120 - Trans Studies in the Americas

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to trans studies via Latin American and Latinx Studies. Through cultural and literary texts, performance art, visual culture, and activisms that highlight the imbrications of race, class, sex, gender, and nation, we examine travesti and trans of color critique; travesti activism and sexual politics; trans archival formations; and sex work as knowledge, history, and world-making practices.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken WGS 3559 topic #66 Transgender Studies in America

Credits: 3

WGS 4200 - Sex and Gender Go to the Movies

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Effective Date 08/01/2012
This course will examine the ways in which different mass media help to define our cultural ideas about gender differences and the ways in which feminist scholars have responded to these definitions by criticizing existing media images and by creating some alternatives of their own. The course will examine the notion that the mass media might influence our development as gendered individuals and consider different forms of feminist theory.

Credits: 3

WGS 4325 - Feminist Disability Politics

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Effective Date 09/28/2023
This course investigates what and who feminist disability politics encompass. We will explore disability and ableism through their relations to interlocking structures of domination. We will link disability to anti-blackness, capitalism, empire and conquest, carcerality and policing, and cisheteropatriarchy. A major focus includes theories and practices of resistance. Students can develop creative projects alongside scholarly writing.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken WGS 4559 topic #42 Feminist Disability Politics

Credits: 3

WGS 4450 - Violence Against Sexual Minorities

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Effective Date 10/22/2021
This course emphasizes violence against minority groups. Particular attention will be paid to violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, although the class will also focus on forms of abuse against other historically-marginalized groups. Topics covered will include racist and sexist violence, sexualized abuse, including rape and sexual assault, domestic violence, and the politics of hate crime.

Credits: 3

WGS 4500 - Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality

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Effective Date 03/12/2024
Topics in Women, Gender & Sexuality vary by semester.

Credits: 1 to 4

WGS 4559 - New Course in Women, Gender & Sexuality

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Effective Date 08/15/2023
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of studies of women and gender.

Credits: 1 to 4

WGS 4610 - LGBTQ Communities: Race, Class, Gender

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Effective Date 01/01/2015
This course examines the historical and continuing role of LGBTQ communities in U.S. society. Topics covered will include changes that have taken place over time, LGBTQ-rights as a social movement, and homelessness as an LGBTQ-rights issue. Particular emphasis will be placed on power relations in LGBTQ communities, including the role of racism, classism, and sexism.

Credits: 3

WGS 4730 - Global Perspectives on Men and Masculinities

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Effective Date 10/26/2021
This course examines central topics in global masculinity studies by expanding students’ awareness of non-US cultures. A panoramic view of masculinity from various countries, cultures and traditions enables further examination of beliefs in “manhood.” Themes will include the intersection between masculinity and colonization, nationalism, hegemony, fatherhood, marriage, initiation rituals, war/warriors, violence and health.

Credits: 3

WGS 4750 - Global History of Black Girlhood

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Effective Date 03/27/2017
This course will allow students to explore the new scholarship on black girlhood. Scholars working on the history of black girls in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa have created a vibrant new field of black girl studies. Combining insights from black feminism and the history of childhood, these scholars have centered black girls’ experience as a means of reframing our understanding of citizenship, labor, and creativity.

Credits: 3

WGS 4800 - Queer Theory

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Effective Date 05/01/2023
Introduces students to some key & controversial theoretical texts that make up the emerging field of queer theory. The approach will be interdisciplinary, w/ an emphasis on literary, social, & aesthetic criticisms that may shift according the instructor’s areas of expertise. Active reading & informed discussion will be emphasized for the often unseen, or submerged, aspects of sexuality embedded in cultural texts, contexts, & litterateurs.

Credits: 3

WGS 4810 - Feminist Theory

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Effective Date 05/01/2023
This course provides an overview of the historical bases and contemporary developments in feminist theorizing and analyzes a range of theories on gender, including liberal, Marxist, radical, difference, and postmodernist ideas. We explore how feminist theories apply to contemporary debates on the body, sexuality, colonialism, globalization, transnationalism incorporating analyses of race, class, national difference and cross-cultural perspectives.

Credits: 3

WGS 4820 - Black Feminist Theory

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Effective Date 05/01/2023
This course critically examines key ideas, issues, and debates in contemporary Black feminist thought. With a particular focus on Black feminist understandings of intersectionality and womanism, the course examines how Black feminist thinkers interrogate specific concepts including Black womanhood, sexual mythologies and vulnerabilities, class distinctions, colorism, leadership, crime and punishment, and popular culture.

Credits: 3

WGS 4900 - Black Geographies in the Americas

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Effective Date 03/03/2022
This course will interrogate Black geographies in the Americas and the ways in which traditional geographies adhere to a racial-sexual logic. Through an interdisciplinary approach, we will examine Black thinkers’ and scholars’ concepts of geography and how their interventions allow us to think differently about place, space, and Blackness. Topics include maroon communities, abolition geography, plantation geographies, and demonic grounds.

Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken WGS 4559 topic #41 Black Geographies

Credits: 3