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Courses listed with an asterisk (*) will require a Course Substitution form

ART-113-01: Sculpture 1

M/W 9:10 – 11:40
J. Perlitz

Form and space explored through a variety of media and techniques such as wood, plaster, found object, and assemblage. Short exercises to explore materials and techniques, opening up a broader discussion about the possibilities and complexities of the three-dimensional form. Readings, critiques, and more involved assignments leading to in-depth discussions and approaches to understanding and exploring sculpture.

*CLAS-266-F1: Health and Healing in the Ancient World

T/Th 8:00 – 9:30
D. Kimmel

Examination of ancient Greek, Roman, and early Christian and Jewish understandings of medicine, health, and healing. A survey of social, philosophical, psychological, religious, and scientific perspectives on health, sickness, and healing with an emphasis on the Hippocratic tradition, Hellenistic philosophers, Galen, and early Judaism and Christian understandings. A look at the influence of ancient imagination on contemporary ideas and practice in medical and mental health care.

CLAS-324-01: Roman Women

M/W/F 1:50 – 2:50
G. Kelly

The lives of women in Roman culture and society from the Early Republic into late antiquity: education, religion, marriage, divorce, family life, reproductive issues, and social status with an emphasis on actual ancient sources such as funeral epitaphs, medical texts, inscriptions, archaeological evidence, letters, historical writings, and poetry.

ENG-125-01: Jane Austen

M/W/F 11:30 – 12:30
W. Pritchard

Close study of Jane Austen’s six major novels (Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion), with some attention as well to her early or apprentice works (the “juvenilia”).

ETHS-200-F1: Introduction to Ethnic Studies

T/Th 9:40 – 11:10
M. Rabasa

Introduction to the academic field of ethnic studies. Students will grapple with classic and contemporary literature in the field to develop the tools for approaching race and ethnicity as categories of analysis. Exploration of the social production of conceptions of racial and ethnic difference rather than discussion of specific ethnic and racial groups. Examination of the origins, uses, and mutations of ideologies of race and ethnicity; analysis of how these ideologies intersect with empire and nationalism, sexuality and gender, capitalism and labor relations, and scientific knowledge. How methods from different disciplines contribute to an understanding of ethnic studies.

*FREN-230-F1: French Literature in Translation

M/W/F 10:20 – 11:20
P. Brand

Translations of selected outstanding works of French and Francophone literature including novels, short stories, plays, and poetry. Lectures, discussions, student essays, supplementary readings on literary, cultural, historical, philosophical, religious, and social background of works studied. Taught in English; no background in French or French literature required. May be taken twice for credit with change of topic.

*FREN-350-01: Topics in French and Francophone Literature

T/Th 1:50 – 3:20
M. Robinson

Special topic pertaining to prominent issues of French and/or Francophone literature. Topic will vary and may include the study of a genre, literary movement, historical period, or theme. Possible topics include medieval romance, the lives of saints, the Renaissance, epistolarity, theatre, gender studies, traditional oral literature, existentialism, film studies. Linguistic and literary proficiency practiced through extensive oral and written work. May be taken twice for credit with change of topic.

GEND-200-F1: Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Society

T/Th 1:50 – 3:20
K. Brodkin

Interdisciplinary exploration of gender and sexuality in connection with race, class, and ethnicity in the United States. Investigation of social and cultural ideas about difference and equality in the past and present. Materials include literature, film, memoir, poetry, feminist philosophy, political tracts, and queer theory, as well as classic and recent scholarly work in history, sociology, economics, communication, psychology, and other fields. Topics may include mass media and consumer culture, work, law and social policy, family, political activism and social movements, sexuality and the body, public health, medical research, violence, and theories of privilege and oppression.

GEND-300-01: Gender & Aesthetic Expression

M/W/F 1:50 – 2:50
A. Hibbard

An exploration of ways gender informs the theory, history, and creation of literature and art. The role gender norms and constructs play in establishing, reproducing, or contesting aesthetic values, traditions, and hierarchies; feminist perspectives on subjects such as the gaze, the self-portrait, autobiography, and costume; gender and its relationship to theories of beauty, taste, and the body. Materials may be drawn from literature, art, film, cultural studies, art history, theatre, dance, and queer studies. Emphasis on an interdisciplinary topic to be chosen by the professor. Recent topics have included 20th-century experimentation in novels, films, and photography; the Victorian crisis in gender roles from the sensation heroine and Pre-Raphaelitism to the dandy; gender and self as artistic and theoretical constructs from the Enlightenment to the present.

GEND-345-01: Gender Studies Symposium Chair

K. Brodkin

Student chairs perform substantive analytic work related to this interdisciplinary field of study, conducting extensive research to explore speakers, develop panels, identify important issues, and develop the program of events. Working closely with each other, the planning committee, and the faculty director, chairs also develop leadership and professional responsibilities. Preference given to minors in gender studies, but students with relevant coursework or other experience will be considered. Spring registration limited to those students who have completed GEND 345 in the fall of the same academic year.

*GERM-322-01: Intro to German Literary and Cultural Studies in English

M/W/F 10:20 – 11:20
C. Sprecher Loverti

Introduction to analysis and interpretation of literature, film, and other artworks from the German-speaking world in English translation. Advanced work in composition including explication of literary works.

*GERM-450-01: Topics in Germ. Cultural History: Modernism and the City

M/W 3:00 – 4:30
T. Augst

Special topics pertaining to prominent issues of German literature and culture. Explores primary texts in the context of current critical discourses. Topic varies. Recent topics include modernism and the city: Vienna, Paris, Berlin. Proficiency practiced through extensive oral and written work culminating in a research paper written and formally presented in German. May be taken twice for credit with change of topic.

HIST-231A-F1: U.S. Women’s History, 1600 to 1980

T/Th 1:50 – 3:20
R. Hillyer

Gloria Steinem famously said “law and justice are not always the same.” While this seems an obvious fact, taking a closer look at the discrepancy between these two concepts reveals the complexity of both. What constitutes a crime? Does breaking the law make you a criminal? What is justice in the face of a crime, and how does justice differ from the law - or from revenge? We will answer these questions by studying works ranging from the 18th century to the present, including crime fiction, TV shows, films, plays, philosophy, and poetry. We will also address the major crime of the 20th century, namely the Holocaust, by looking at German and Jewish responses to it. No knowledge of German is required for this class; all materials and discussions are in English.

PSY-230- F1, F2: Infant and Child Development

T/TH 9:40 – 11:10, J. Ruckert 
T/TH 1:50 – 3:20, J. Labounty

Psychological development in domains including perception, cognition, language, personality, social behavior. How psychological processes evolve and change. Emphasis on infancy and childhood.

PSY-260-F1: Social Psychology

M/W/F 12:40 – 1:40
D. Leonard

The effects of social and cognitive processes on the ways individuals perceive, influence, and relate to others. Person perception, the self, prejudice and stereotyping, social identity, attitudes and attitude change, conformity, interpersonal attraction, altruism, aggression, group processes, intergroup conflict.

PSY-330-01, 02: Adolescent and Adult Development

T/TH 9:40 – 11:10, J. Labounty
T/TH 9:40 – 11:10, K. Puente

Adolescence, emerging adulthood, and adult development in areas including physiology, emotion, cognition, personality, and social behavior. How psychological processes evolve and change with age. Emphasis on adolescence through late adulthood and death.

*RHMS-390-01: Special Topics: Disability Rhetoric and Media

M/W/F 1:50-2:50
B. Mann

Reading and critical analysis organized around themes or problems in RHMS. Focus varies depending on areas of instructor teaching, research, and/or creative work. Assignments are organized around a substantial final project. May be taken twice with change of topic.

RHMS-406-01: Race, Rhetoric, and Resistance

M/W 3:00 – 4:30
K. Chirindo

Role of rhetoric in social conflicts regarding issues of race. Theories and strategies of resistance and the implications for political action. Examination of major race and resistance texts.

SOAN-236-F1: Reproductive Justice: Bodies, Health, and Society

T/Th 1:50 – 3:20
J. Carathers

Reproductive justice as a framework for analyzing issues of bodily autonomy and human rights. With emphasis on contemporary U.S. society, the course will survey the medicalization of birth, the spectrum of birth work, and the rights of pregnant and parenting people, acknowledging that reproduction is an experience that goes beyond the gender binary. The course centers scholarship and narratives of historically marginalized identities, particularly the sociocultural context of Black/African American women in reproductive politics. Reproductive justice is also a social movement that seeks equity beyond birth through the alleviation of social ills linked to institutional racism and other mechanisms of oppression, including heterosexism. This course situates the body and reproductive experience as one that is socially constructed and shaped by social location (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, citizenship status, age, ability, or religion) to regulate bodily autonomy.

*SOAN-359-01: Topics in Medical Anthropology

T/Th 11:30 – 1:00
S. Bajracharya

Focused examination of contemporary and seminal theoretical and ethnographic topics in the subfield of medical anthropology. Each semester will explore a given topic (e.g., structural violence, intersectionality, kinship and care, death and dying, body and pain, addiction, pharmaceuticalization, medical techniques and technologies, illness narratives). Particular emphasis on how subjective and phenomenological experiences of illness shape and are shaped by structural (sociocultural, political, historical, physical, material) contingencies. Students will engage in a semester-long ethnographic project. Topics will always be health studies related.

SOAN-390-01: Cyborg Anthropology

T/Th 1:50 – 3:20
K. Heimsath

Cultural practices surrounding the production and consumption of technoscientific and biomedical knowledge. Articulation between different constituencies, both inside and outside the scientific community, and the asymmetries that shape their relations. Heterogeneity of science, including contrasts between disciplinary subcultures and different national traditions of inquiry. Political economy of science, including the allocation of material and symbolic resources. Networks of associations that link human and nonhuman allies, such as medical prosthesis, robotics, information. Representation of science and technology in popular culture.

SPAN 238-01: Writing Justice (Inside-Out)

F 12:45 – 3:45
M. Rabasa

Various forms individuals and groups have used to write about and for justice in the Americas from the 1960s to the present, using the Latin American literary genre of testimonio as a starting point. Classic examples of testimonies and other media (visual art, film, music, digital culture) that have been activated as tools to convey personal and collective narratives. This is an Inside-Out course that will take place in a nearby correctional facility. Course will be conducted in Spanish. Advanced level reading, writing, and speaking in Spanish is required.

*SPAN 375-01: Topics in Latin American Culture

T/Th 1:50 – 3:20
F. Vilches

Study of a genre, literary movement, or topic in Latin American and/or Latino culture. Selected works from Latin America and/or the U.S. read in the context of cultural and historical events. May be taken twice for credit with a change of topic.

TH-106-01, 02: Fundamentals of Movement

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E. Nordstrom

Use of guided movement explorations, partner work, readings, and discussion to explore structural and functional aspects of the body and anatomy with the goal of increasing efficiency of movement and physical coordination. Use of imagery supports dynamic alignment, breath, mobility/stability, relaxation, and partner work including massage, with a main focus on the skeletal system and elements of muscle and organ systems, as well as the relationship between the body and psychological/emotional patterns. Extensive journal writing.