Bard College at Simon's Rock
SPRING 2012 Course Listing
as of March 12, 2012
 
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Abbreviations:
M - Monday, T - Tuesday, W - Wednesday, R - Thursday, F - Friday
CL1 - Classroom building 1, CL3 - Classroom building 3, DAC - Daniel Arts Center, FSH - Fisher Science Center, KLG - Kellogg Music Center, LC - Lecture Center, LIE - Liebowitz International Center
 
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7:30- 9:30 pm
 
 
 
 
 
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Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
 
B.A. Seminar Top
All Offerings
  BAS310 . Ad Infinitum: Controversy, Paradox, Perplexity, and the Idea of the Infinite 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 B Conolly No 15 10  
and     P Shields No      
  BAS375 NEW Human Rights, Activism and the ArtsCLOSED 4 R 1:50- 4:45 pm LIE-01 K Beaumont No 15 18  
and     J Browdy de Hernandez No      
 
First Year Seminar Top
All Offerings
  FS100JA . First-Year Seminar I - Origins: Self and Cosmos. Seminar section for January Admits only. 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 14 13  
  FS100JA2 . First-Year Seminar I - Origins: Self and Cosmos. Seminar section for January Admits only. 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 W Brown FY 14 4  
  FS101A . First Year Seminar IICLOSED 4 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-135 A Michel FY 14 15  
  FS101B . First Year Seminar IICLOSED 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-135 W Shifrin FY 14 15  
  FS101C . First Year Seminar IICLOSED 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 E Pruitt FY 14 14  
  FS101D . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson FY 14 11  
  FS101E . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews FY 14 12  
  FS101F . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 K Boswell FY 14 8  
  FS101G . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde FY 14 13  
  FS101H . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-03 W Brown FY 14 13  
  FS101I . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL3-11 B Rodgers FY 14 13  
  FS100FLJA . Information Fluency Lab   F 3:30- 4:25 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 16  
  FS101FLA NEW Information Fluency LabCLOSED   M 10:05-11:00 am DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 17  
  FS101FLB NEW Information Fluency Lab   M 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 16  
  FS101FLD NEW Information Fluency Lab   T 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 15  
  FS101FLE NEW Information Fluency Lab   R 3:25- 4:20 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 16  
  FS101FLF NEW Information Fluency Lab   R 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 10  
  FS101FLG NEW Information Fluency LabCLOSED   F 10:05-11:00 am DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 19  
  FS101FLH NEW Information Fluency LabCLOSED   F 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 17  
 
Anthropology Top
All Offerings
  ANTH210 . CP Colonialism and Tribal Peoples 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain FY 20 15  
  ANTH223 . CP Life Histories 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-125 K Boswell WP 15 11  
  ANTH328 . Preternatural Predilections: Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Possession in Cross-Cultural Perspective 4 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm LIE-02 K Boswell No 15 9  
  BIO220 . CP Medical AnthropologyCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-201 M Naamon FY 15 20  
 
Art History Top
All Offerings
  ARTH113 . CP Global Art: Africa and the Americas 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 15 14  
  ARTH209 . CP Japanese Woodblock Prints (Ukiyo-E) 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 15 11  
  ARTH226 NEW CP Arts, Film and Language in 20th Century China 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-125 Y Zhao FY 10 8  
 
Arts Top
All Offerings
  ARTS211 . Interactive Arts Workshop I 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers FY 14 9  
  ARTS311 . Interactive Arts Workshop II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers No 1    
 
Asian Studies Top
All Offerings
  ASIA225 . CP Modern China from the Margins: Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation State 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 C Coggins WP 7 4  
  ASIA226 NEW CP Arts, Film and Language in 20th Century China 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-125 Y Zhao FY 6 4  
  ASIA238 . CP Japan and East Asian Affairs Since 1868 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-04 M Naamon FY 15 13  
 
Biology Top
All Offerings
  BIO100 . Introduction to the Life Sciences 4 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-102 E McMullin FY 30 21  
  BIO100LA . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   T 9:00-11:55 am FSH-202 E McMullin FY 15 7  
  BIO100LB . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 E McMullin FY 15 14  
  BIO201 . Cell Biology 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-201 E McMullin WP 15 14  
  BIO201L . Cell Biology Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers WP 15 14  
  BIO206 . General Microbiology 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder No 15 14  
and TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-211   No      
  BIO220 . CP Medical AnthropologyCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-201 M Naamon FY 15 20  
 
Chemistry Top
All Offerings
  CHEM101A . Chemistry II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-102 P Dooley No 15 13  
  CHEM101B . Chemistry II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-102 P Dooley No 15 14  
  CHEM101LA . Chemistry II Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-128 P Dooley No 12 10  
  CHEM101LB . Chemistry II Lab   T 6:35- 9:00 pm FSH-128 E Dongala No 12 7  
  CHEM101LC . Chemistry II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-128 P Dooley No 12 10  
  CHEM102 . Chemistry in Context 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-211 E Dongala FY 15 10  
and W 6:35- 9:00 pm FSH-128   FY      
  CHEM303 . Organic Chemistry II 4 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-102 D Myers No 20 15  
  CHEM303LA . Organic Chemistry II LabCLOSED   M 3:30- 6:15 pm FSH-128 E Dongala No 12 12  
  CHEM303LB . Organic Chemistry II Lab   M 6:35- 9:00 pm FSH-128 E Dongala No 12 3  
 
Computer Science Top
All Offerings
  CMPT240 . Introduction to RoboticsCLOSED 3 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-113 M Bergman WP 10 10  
  CMPT243 . Algorithms and Data Structures 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm FSH-112 P Shields WP 15 8  
  CMPT252 . Discrete Mathematics 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-112 P Shields WP 15 3  
 
Dance Top
All Offerings
  DANC101 . Beginning Modern Dance TechniqueCLOSED 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 10 10  
  DANC201 . Intermediate Modern Dance Technique 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin WP 5 2  
  DANC114 . Ballet I 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart FY 12 7  
  DANC214 . Intermediate Ballet ICLOSED 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart WP 1 5  
  DANC314 . Advanced BalletCLOSED 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart No 2 2  
  DANC120 . Chinese Sword 2 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-108 R Aver Thung FY 15 14  
  DANC126 . Flamenco Dance 2 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart FY 10 6  
  DANC127 . Advanced Beginning Flamenco Dance 2 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart WP 6 1  
  DANC227 NEW Intermediate Flamenco Dance 2 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart No 4 1  
  DANC215 . Choreography WorkshopCLOSED 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 12 15  
 
Economics Top
All Offerings
  ECON101 . Macroeconomics 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-125 M Moeini Feizabadi FY 15 12  
  ECON226 . Economics of Post-reform China 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm FSH-211 D Neilson WP 8 5  
  ECON326 NEW Economics of Post-reform China 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm FSH-211 D Neilson No 7 3  
 
Environmental Studies Top
All Offerings
  ENVS201 . Principles of Environmental Management 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-211 D Roeder No 15 10  
  ENVS207 NEW Introduction to Agroecology 4 F 9:00-11:55 am FSH-211 T Coote FY 15 5  
and TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-211   FY      
 
Foreign Languages - Arabic Top
All Offerings
  ARAB101 . CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 G Asfar WP 15 13  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-14   WP      
 
Foreign Languages - Chinese Top
All Offerings
  CHIN101 . Accelerated Beginning Chinese II 4 MTWRF 12:15- 1:10 pm LIE-02 C Coggins WP 15 7  
  CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm CL1-03 Y Zhao WP 15 4  
 
Foreign Languages - French Top
All Offerings
  FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 G Asfar WP 15 14  
and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-14   WP      
  FREN205 . Intermediate French II 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-02 M Tebben WP 20 11  
  FREN321 . Modern French Theater 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-02 M Tebben No 15 10  
 
Foreign Languages - German Top
All Offerings
  GERM101 . Accelerated Beginning German II 4 MTWR 12:15- 1:30 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde WP 15 10  
  GERM205 . Intermediate German II 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm HCC- C van Kerckvoorde WP 12 2  
  GERM305 . Advanced German II 4   TBD - C van Kerckvoorde No 12 5  
 
Foreign Languages - Spanish Top
All Offerings
  SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 M Roe FY 16 7  
and MW 10:05-11:00 am LIE-01   FY      
  SPAN101A . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-01 K Pichard WP 16 15  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm LIE-01   WP      
  SPAN101B . Accelerated Beginning Spanish IICLOSED 4 T 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-01 K Pichard WP 16 16  
and MW 2:25- 3:20 pm LIE-01   WP      
and R 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-02   WP      
  SPAN204 . Intermediate Spanish I 3 WF 9:00-10:25 am CL3-11 H Brown WP 15 9  
  SPAN205 . Intermediate Spanish II 3 WF 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 H Brown WP 15 6  
  SPAN213 . CP Passion, Trickery, and Revenge: Latin American Detective Novels 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-09 M Roe WP 15 10  
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Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
 
Geography Top
All Offerings
  GEOG225 . CP Modern China from the Margins: Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation State 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 C Coggins WP 8 6  
  GEOG328 NEW Space & Place in Social Theory 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-128 C Coggins No 12 7  
 
History Top
All Offerings
  HIST229 . CP Chicanas/Chicanos in the United States: A National History 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-10 M Alvarez FY 15 4  
  HIST232 . CP The Long Civil Rights Movement 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-10 M Alvarez No 15 6  
  HIST302A NEW The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and Panopticons 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 8 1  
  HIST302B NEW The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and Panopticons 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 10 6  
 
Learning Resources Top
All Offerings
  LR202M2 NEW Study Away Preparation 1 W 6:35- 8:00 pm LIE-01 S Lyon No 20    
and     M Tebben No      
 
Linguistics Top
All Offerings
  LING101M2 . English GrammarCLOSED 2 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain FY 20 21  
  LING305M1 . Topics in Syntax & Morphology 2 F 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain WP 12 10  
and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-09   WP      
 
Literature Top
All Offerings
  LIT205 . Art of Autobiography 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-128 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 10  
  LIT207 . Art of Drama 3 WF 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Rodgers FY 15 10  
  LIT216M1 . Focus: Camus 2 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Rodgers No 15 14  
  LIT216M2 . Focus: Rushdie 2 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Rodgers No 15 9  
  LIT225 . Modern Irish Literature 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-10 B Mathews FY 15 12  
  LIT237 . Home on the Range: Western Films and Fictions 3 TR 3:25- 6:25 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson FY 15 9  
and   FSH-102   FY      
  LIT272 NEW From Freud to Zizek: Theories of Creativity and the UnconsciousCLOSED 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-04 R Fiske FY 15 19  
  LIT288 . Fiction WorkshopCLOSED 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-10 B Mathews WP 8 8  
  LIT388 . Fiction WorkshopCLOSED 4 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-10 B Mathews No 4 4  
  LIT295 NEW Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-139 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 11  
  LIT305 . Faithful Thinkers: Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Barfield 4 F 1:50- 4:45 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson No 15 5  
  LIT322 . Five Books of Moses: Hermeneutics and the Hebrew BibleCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-04 R Fiske No 15 21  
 
Mathematics Top
All Offerings
  MATH101 . Math & Its Applications 3 W 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-112 C Thatcher No 15 14  
and MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-201   No      
  MATH109A . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm CL1-01 C Pfaff WP 15 8  
  MATH109B . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-201 C Pfaff WP 15 6  
  MATH110A . Introduction to StatisticsCLOSED 3 F 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-112 C Thatcher WP 15 15  
and MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-201   WP      
  MATH110B . Introduction to Statistics 3 F 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-112 W Dunbar WP 15 11  
and MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-211   WP      
  MATH210 . Calculus I 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-03 C Pfaff WP 15 7  
  MATH211A . Calculus II 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-01 B Wynne WP 20 10  
  MATH211B . Calculus II 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am CL1-01 B Wynne WP 20 19  
  MATH221 . Vector Calculus 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-201 W Dunbar WP 15 9  
  MATH231 NEW Data: Exploration, Analysis, and Mining 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am FSH-112 C Thatcher WP 12 6  
  MATH313 . Analysis II 4 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL1-01 B Wynne WP 12 3  
  MATH364 . Ordinary Differential Equations 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm CL1-04 W Dunbar No 15 6  
and F 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-112   No      
 
Music Top
All Offerings
  MUS103 . Musicianship 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am DAC-128 L Wallach FY 15 7  
  MUS117 . Chorus 1 W 7:00- 9:00 pm KLG J Brown FY 50 20  
  MUS204M1 . Earlier Baroque Music 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 6  
  MUS205M2 . Later Baroque (Bach & Handel) 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 6  
  MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm DAC-128 J Myers WP 15 6  
  MUS210 . Composition 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 8 3  
  MUS310 . Composition 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm KLG-B L Wallach WP 7 4  
  MUS222 . Jazz Ensemble 1 T 7:30- 9:30 pm KLG J Myers FY 20 12  
and   KLG-B   FY      
  MUS278 . Collegium 1 M 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG L Bardo FY 15 5  
  MUS280 . Madrigal Group 1 M 3:30- 4:55 pm KLG J Brown WP 15 6  
  MUS289 . Chamber Orchestra 1 R 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG A Legene FY 50 8  
 
Music: Community Music Program - Private Lessons Top
All Offerings
  MUS180P . Applied Music: Trombone 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30    
  MUS181P . Applied Music: Bassoon 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30    
  MUS183P . Applied Music: Harp 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 1  
  MUS184P . Applied Music: Gamba 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 1  
  MUS185P . Applied Music: Saxophone 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 1  
  MUS187P . Applied Music: Clarinet 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 1  
  MUS188P . Applied Music:Trumpet 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 1  
  MUS189P NEW Applied Music: Mandolin 1   TBD - S Mower FY 20 1  
  MUS190P . Applied Music: Piano 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 8  
  MUS191P . Applied Music: Voice 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 15  
  MUS192P . Applied Music: Flute 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 1  
  MUS193P . Applied Music: Guitar 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 7  
  MUS195P . Applied Music: Cello 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 2  
  MUS196P . Applied Music: Percussion 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 3  
  MUS197P . Applied Music: Oboe 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30    
  MUS198P . Applied Music: Bass 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30    
  MUS199P . Applied Music: Violin/Viola 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 3  
 
Natural Sciences Top
All Offerings
  NATS116 NEW Forensic ScienceCLOSED 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers FY 15 16  
and M 3:30- 6:15 pm FSH-201   FY      
  NATS150 . Science Seminar: Global Climate Change 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder WP 15 10  
  NATS150L . Science Seminar Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-113 staff WP 15 10  
  NATS410 . Research Methods 4 MWF 10:05-11:00 am FSH-201 D Myers No 20 18  
 
Philosophy Top
All Offerings
  BAS310 . Ad Infinitum: Controversy, Paradox, Perplexity, and the Idea of the Infinite 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 B Conolly No 15 10  
and     P Shields No      
  PHIL175A . Ethics 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 B Conolly FY 15 14  
  PHIL175B . EthicsCLOSED 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-13 B Conolly FY 15 18  
  PHIL215 . Epistemology 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-09 S Ruhmkorff No 15 11  
  PHIL229 NEW Introduction to the New Testament 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-12 S Ruhmkorff FY 15 14  
 
Physics Top
All Offerings
  PHYS101 . Physics II 4 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-113 M Bergman WP 20 17  
  PHYS101LA . Physics II Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-113 M Bergman WP 20 12  
  PHYS101LB . Physics II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-113 M Bergman WP 20 5  
  PHYS303 . Classical Mechanics 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-113 Y Al-Khatatbeh No 15 4  
 
Political Science Top
All Offerings
  POLS100 . Introduction to PoliticsCLOSED 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL1-02 A Abbas FY 15 20  
  POLS327 . Marx after MarxCLOSED 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm LIE-01 A Abbas No 15 19  
 
Psychology Top
All Offerings
  PSYC100A . Introduction to Psychology 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-201 E Pruitt FY 20 11  
  PSYC100B . Introduction to Psychology 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-201 E Pruitt FY 15 5  
  PSYC202 . Developmental Psychology 3 WF 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 A O'Dwyer WP 15 12  
  PSYC221 . Stereotyping and Prejudice 3 T 3:25- 6:00 pm LIE-01 E Pruitt No 8 1  
  PSYC321 . Stereotyping and Prejudice 4 T 3:25- 6:00 pm LIE-01 E Pruitt No 7 4  
  PSYC302 . Abnormal Psychology 4 T 12:15- 3:10 pm CL3-13 V Brush No 15 6  
  PSYC348 NEW The Man and the Experiment that Shocked the World: The Work and Legacy of Stanley Milgram 4 T 9:00-11:30 am FSH-131 S Levine No 15 3  
 
Social Science Top
All Offerings
  SOCS224 . Globalization 3 TR 6:35- 8:00 pm CL3-12 F Oyogoa No 15 11  
  SOCS272A . The Foucault Effect 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 5 2  
  SOCS302A . The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and PanopticonsCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 7 7  
  SOCS302B . The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and Panopticons 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 5 1  
  SOCS322 . Proseminar II 4   TBD - A Abbas No 15 10  
  SOCS328 NEW Space & Place in Social Theory 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-128 C Coggins No 3 1  
 
Sociology Top
All Offerings
  SOC115 . CP Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL3-12 F Oyogoa FY 15 13  
  SOC226 NEW Sociology of the Family 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-12 F Oyogoa WP 15 13  
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Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
 
Studio Arts Top
All Offerings
  SART102A . Photography I: Black & White/Analog 3 WF 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-028 D La Spina FY 20 7  
and   DAC-139   FY      
  SART102B . Photography I 3 WF 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-028 R Mulligan FY 15 8  
  SART106 . Introduction to CeramicsCLOSED 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-072 S Allen FY 12 12  
  SART208 . Intermediate Hand-buildingCLOSED 3 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm DAC-072 S Allen No 9 9  
  SART368 . Advanced Ceramic StudioCLOSED 4 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm DAC-072 S Allen No 2 2  
  SART468 . Advanced Ceramic StudioCLOSED 4 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm DAC-072 S Allen No 1 1  
  SART221 . Video Production II 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-120 L Burke No 12 8  
and   DAC-128   No      
  SART321 . Advanced Video Production 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-120 L Burke No 3 1  
and   DAC-128   No      
  SART235 . Painting Studio 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum FY 15 14  
  SART273A . Photography IICLOSED 3 R 3:25- 6:25 pm DAC-025 D La Spina WP 8 8  
and   DAC-139   WP      
  SART303A . Photography II 4 R 3:25- 6:25 pm DAC-025 D La Spina No 7 1  
and   DAC-139   No      
  SART273B . Photography II: Color/Digital 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-025 D La Spina WP 10 6  
and   DAC-139   WP      
  SART303B . Photography II: Color/DigitalCLOSED 4 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-025 D La Spina No 3 4  
and   DAC-139   No      
  SART307 . Documentary Photography: History and Practice 4 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-025 T Marcuse No 12 10  
  SART407 . Documentary Photography: History and Practice 4 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-025 T Marcuse No 3    
  SART333 . Figure Drawing StudioCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-024 J Fossum WP 15 17  
 
Theater Top
All Offerings
  THEA108M2 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale FY 6 3  
  THEA208M2 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale WP 6 3  
  THEA139 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel FY 5 1  
and   DAC-128   FY      
  THEA239 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel WP 10 6  
and   DAC-128   WP      
  THEA339 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel No 3 2  
and   DAC-128   No      
  THEA439 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel No 2    
and   DAC-128   No      
  THEA202 . Voice: Resonating with WordsCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont WP 12 16  
  THEA206 . Theater ProductionCLOSED 3 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont FY 5 8  
  THEA301 . Performance PracticumCLOSED 4 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont No 3 4  
  THEA401 . Performance PracticumCLOSED 4 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont No 1 4  
  THEA219 . Viewpoints II & CompositionCLOSED 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-002 A Michel No 10 12  
and   DAC-115   No      
  THEA319 . Viewpoints II & CompositionCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-002 A Michel No 2 2  
and   DAC-115   No      
  THEA306 . Theater ProductionCLOSED 4 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont No 3 3  
  THEA316M1 NEW Advanced Theater Practicum 2 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm DAC-128 S Cleary-Wade No 12 5  
  THEA316M2 NEW Advanced Theater Practicum 2 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm DAC-128 V McQuiston WP 12 6  
  THEA406 . Theater ProductionCLOSED 4 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont No 1 1  
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Cultural Perspectives Top
All Offerings
  ANTH210 . CP Colonialism and Tribal Peoples 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain FY 20 15  
  ANTH223 . CP Life Histories 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-125 K Boswell WP 15 11  
  ARAB101 . CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 G Asfar WP 15 13  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-14   WP      
  ARTH113 . CP Global Art: Africa and the Americas 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 15 14  
  ARTH209 . CP Japanese Woodblock Prints (Ukiyo-E) 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 15 11  
  ARTH226 NEW CP Arts, Film and Language in 20th Century China 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-125 Y Zhao FY 10 8  
  ASIA225 . CP Modern China from the Margins: Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation State 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 C Coggins WP 7 4  
  ASIA226 NEW CP Arts, Film and Language in 20th Century China 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-125 Y Zhao FY 6 4  
  ASIA238 . CP Japan and East Asian Affairs Since 1868 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-04 M Naamon FY 15 13  
  BIO220 . CP Medical AnthropologyCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-201 M Naamon FY 15 20  
  CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm CL1-03 Y Zhao WP 15 4  
  GEOG225 . CP Modern China from the Margins: Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation State 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 C Coggins WP 8 6  
  HIST229 . CP Chicanas/Chicanos in the United States: A National History 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-10 M Alvarez FY 15 4  
  HIST232 . CP The Long Civil Rights Movement 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-10 M Alvarez No 15 6  
  SOC115 . CP Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL3-12 F Oyogoa FY 15 13  
  SPAN213 . CP Passion, Trickery, and Revenge: Latin American Detective Novels 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-09 M Roe WP 15 10  
 
 
 
 
 
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Modular Courses Top
All Offerings
  LING101M2 . English GrammarCLOSED 2 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain FY 20 21  
  LING305M1 . Topics in Syntax & Morphology 2 F 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain WP 12 10  
and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-09   WP      
  LIT216M1 . Focus: Camus 2 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Rodgers No 15 14  
  LIT216M2 . Focus: Rushdie 2 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Rodgers No 15 9  
  LR202M2 NEW Study Away Preparation 1 W 6:35- 8:00 pm LIE-01 S Lyon No 20    
and     M Tebben No      
  MUS204M1 . Earlier Baroque Music 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 6  
  MUS205M2 . Later Baroque (Bach & Handel) 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 6  
  THEA108M2 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale FY 6 3  
  THEA208M2 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale WP 6 3  
  THEA316M1 NEW Advanced Theater Practicum 2 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm DAC-128 S Cleary-Wade No 12 5  
  THEA316M2 NEW Advanced Theater Practicum 2 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm DAC-128 V McQuiston WP 12 6  
 
 
 
 
 
Courses appropriate for first-year students
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Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
 
First Year Seminar Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  FS100JA . First-Year Seminar I - Origins: Self and Cosmos. Seminar section for January Admits only. 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 14 13  
  FS100JA2 . First-Year Seminar I - Origins: Self and Cosmos. Seminar section for January Admits only. 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 W Brown FY 14 4  
  FS101A . First Year Seminar IICLOSED 4 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-135 A Michel FY 14 15  
  FS101B . First Year Seminar IICLOSED 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-135 W Shifrin FY 14 15  
  FS101C . First Year Seminar IICLOSED 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 E Pruitt FY 14 14  
  FS101D . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson FY 14 11  
  FS101E . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews FY 14 12  
  FS101F . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 K Boswell FY 14 8  
  FS101G . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde FY 14 13  
  FS101H . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-03 W Brown FY 14 13  
  FS101I . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL3-11 B Rodgers FY 14 13  
  FS100FLJA . Information Fluency Lab   F 3:30- 4:25 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 16  
  FS101FLA NEW Information Fluency LabCLOSED   M 10:05-11:00 am DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 17  
  FS101FLB NEW Information Fluency Lab   M 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 16  
  FS101FLD NEW Information Fluency Lab   T 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 15  
  FS101FLE NEW Information Fluency Lab   R 3:25- 4:20 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 16  
  FS101FLF NEW Information Fluency Lab   R 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 10  
  FS101FLG NEW Information Fluency LabCLOSED   F 10:05-11:00 am DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 19  
  FS101FLH NEW Information Fluency LabCLOSED   F 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 17  
 
Anthropology Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  ANTH210 . CP Colonialism and Tribal Peoples 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain FY 20 15  
  BIO220 . CP Medical AnthropologyCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-201 M Naamon FY 15 20  
 
Art History Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  ARTH113 . CP Global Art: Africa and the Americas 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 15 14  
  ARTH209 . CP Japanese Woodblock Prints (Ukiyo-E) 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 15 11  
  ARTH226 NEW CP Arts, Film and Language in 20th Century China 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-125 Y Zhao FY 10 8  
 
Arts Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  ARTS211 . Interactive Arts Workshop I 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers FY 14 9  
 
Asian Studies Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  ASIA226 NEW CP Arts, Film and Language in 20th Century China 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-125 Y Zhao FY 6 4  
  ASIA238 . CP Japan and East Asian Affairs Since 1868 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-04 M Naamon FY 15 13  
 
Biology Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  BIO100 . Introduction to the Life Sciences 4 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-102 E McMullin FY 30 21  
  BIO100LA . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   T 9:00-11:55 am FSH-202 E McMullin FY 15 7  
  BIO100LB . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 E McMullin FY 15 14  
  BIO220 . CP Medical AnthropologyCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-201 M Naamon FY 15 20  
 
Chemistry Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  CHEM102 . Chemistry in Context 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-211 E Dongala FY 15 10  
and W 6:35- 9:00 pm FSH-128   FY      
 
Dance Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  DANC101 . Beginning Modern Dance TechniqueCLOSED 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 10 10  
  DANC114 . Ballet I 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart FY 12 7  
  DANC120 . Chinese Sword 2 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-108 R Aver Thung FY 15 14  
  DANC126 . Flamenco Dance 2 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart FY 10 6  
  DANC215 . Choreography WorkshopCLOSED 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 12 15  
 
Economics Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  ECON101 . Macroeconomics 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-125 M Moeini Feizabadi FY 15 12  
 
Environmental Studies Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  ENVS207 NEW Introduction to Agroecology 4 F 9:00-11:55 am FSH-211 T Coote FY 15 5  
and TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-211   FY      
 
Foreign Languages - Spanish Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 M Roe FY 16 7  
and MW 10:05-11:00 am LIE-01   FY      
 
History Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  HIST229 . CP Chicanas/Chicanos in the United States: A National History 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-10 M Alvarez FY 15 4  
 
Linguistics Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  LING101M2 . English GrammarCLOSED 2 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain FY 20 21  
 
Literature Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  LIT205 . Art of Autobiography 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-128 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 10  
  LIT207 . Art of Drama 3 WF 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Rodgers FY 15 10  
  LIT225 . Modern Irish Literature 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-10 B Mathews FY 15 12  
  LIT237 . Home on the Range: Western Films and Fictions 3 TR 3:25- 6:25 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson FY 15 9  
and   FSH-102   FY      
  LIT272 NEW From Freud to Zizek: Theories of Creativity and the UnconsciousCLOSED 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-04 R Fiske FY 15 19  
  LIT295 NEW Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-139 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 11  
 
Music Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  MUS103 . Musicianship 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am DAC-128 L Wallach FY 15 7  
  MUS117 . Chorus 1 W 7:00- 9:00 pm KLG J Brown FY 50 20  
  MUS204M1 . Earlier Baroque Music 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 6  
  MUS205M2 . Later Baroque (Bach & Handel) 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 6  
  MUS210 . Composition 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 8 3  
  MUS222 . Jazz Ensemble 1 T 7:30- 9:30 pm KLG J Myers FY 20 12  
and   KLG-B   FY      
  MUS278 . Collegium 1 M 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG L Bardo FY 15 5  
  MUS289 . Chamber Orchestra 1 R 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG A Legene FY 50 8  
 
Music: Community Music Program - Private Lessons Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  MUS180P . Applied Music: Trombone 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30    
  MUS181P . Applied Music: Bassoon 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30    
  MUS183P . Applied Music: Harp 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 1  
  MUS184P . Applied Music: Gamba 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 1  
  MUS185P . Applied Music: Saxophone 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 1  
  MUS187P . Applied Music: Clarinet 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 1  
  MUS188P . Applied Music:Trumpet 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 1  
  MUS189P NEW Applied Music: Mandolin 1   TBD - S Mower FY 20 1  
  MUS190P . Applied Music: Piano 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 8  
  MUS191P . Applied Music: Voice 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 15  
  MUS192P . Applied Music: Flute 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 1  
  MUS193P . Applied Music: Guitar 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 7  
  MUS195P . Applied Music: Cello 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 2  
  MUS196P . Applied Music: Percussion 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 3  
  MUS197P . Applied Music: Oboe 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30    
  MUS198P . Applied Music: Bass 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30    
  MUS199P . Applied Music: Violin/Viola 1   TBD - S Mower FY 30 3  
 
Community Music Program lessons are offered at an additional fee.
 
Natural Sciences Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  NATS116 NEW Forensic ScienceCLOSED 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers FY 15 16  
and M 3:30- 6:15 pm FSH-201   FY      
 
Philosophy Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  PHIL175A . Ethics 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 B Conolly FY 15 14  
  PHIL175B . EthicsCLOSED 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-13 B Conolly FY 15 18  
  PHIL229 NEW Introduction to the New Testament 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-12 S Ruhmkorff FY 15 14  
 
Political Science Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  POLS100 . Introduction to PoliticsCLOSED 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL1-02 A Abbas FY 15 20  
 
Psychology Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  PSYC100A . Introduction to Psychology 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-201 E Pruitt FY 20 11  
  PSYC100B . Introduction to Psychology 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-201 E Pruitt FY 15 5  
 
Sociology Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  SOC115 . CP Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL3-12 F Oyogoa FY 15 13  
 
Studio Arts Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  SART102A . Photography I: Black & White/Analog 3 WF 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-028 D La Spina FY 20 7  
and   DAC-139   FY      
  SART102B . Photography I 3 WF 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-028 R Mulligan FY 15 8  
  SART106 . Introduction to CeramicsCLOSED 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-072 S Allen FY 12 12  
  SART235 . Painting Studio 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum FY 15 14  
 
Courses preceded by S1 have an afternoon/evening studio requirement:
You must have 6 hours available from the following times: T/R 7:00 - 10:00pm, Sunday 12:00 - 6:00pm
 
Theater Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
  THEA108M2 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale FY 6 3  
  THEA139 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel FY 5 1  
and   DAC-128   FY      
  THEA206 . Theater ProductionCLOSED 3 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont FY 5 8  
 
Courses preceded by T1 have a technical lab requirement:
You must be available either Tuesday or Friday 3:30 - 5:00
 
 
 
 
 
Courses that may be appropriate for first-year students with placement or prerequisites
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Anthropology Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  ANTH223 . CP Life Histories 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-125 K Boswell WP 15 11  
 
Asian Studies Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  ASIA225 . CP Modern China from the Margins: Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation State 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 C Coggins WP 7 4  
 
Biology Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  BIO201 . Cell Biology 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-201 E McMullin WP 15 14  
  BIO201L . Cell Biology Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers WP 15 14  
 
Computer Science Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  CMPT240 . Introduction to RoboticsCLOSED 3 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-113 M Bergman WP 10 10  
  CMPT243 . Algorithms and Data Structures 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm FSH-112 P Shields WP 15 8  
  CMPT252 . Discrete Mathematics 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-112 P Shields WP 15 3  
 
Dance Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  DANC201 . Intermediate Modern Dance Technique 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin WP 5 2  
  DANC214 . Intermediate Ballet ICLOSED 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart WP 1 5  
  DANC127 . Advanced Beginning Flamenco Dance 2 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart WP 6 1  
 
Economics Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  ECON226 . Economics of Post-reform China 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm FSH-211 D Neilson WP 8 5  
 
Foreign Languages - Arabic Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  ARAB101 . CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 G Asfar WP 15 13  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-14   WP      
 
Foreign Languages - Chinese Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  CHIN101 . Accelerated Beginning Chinese II 4 MTWRF 12:15- 1:10 pm LIE-02 C Coggins WP 15 7  
  CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm CL1-03 Y Zhao WP 15 4  
 
Foreign Languages - French Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 G Asfar WP 15 14  
and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-14   WP      
  FREN205 . Intermediate French II 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-02 M Tebben WP 20 11  
 
Foreign Languages - German Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  GERM101 . Accelerated Beginning German II 4 MTWR 12:15- 1:30 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde WP 15 10  
  GERM205 . Intermediate German II 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm HCC- C van Kerckvoorde WP 12 2  
 
Foreign Languages - Spanish Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  SPAN101A . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-01 K Pichard WP 16 15  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm LIE-01   WP      
  SPAN101B . Accelerated Beginning Spanish IICLOSED 4 T 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-01 K Pichard WP 16 16  
and MW 2:25- 3:20 pm LIE-01   WP      
and R 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-02   WP      
  SPAN204 . Intermediate Spanish I 3 WF 9:00-10:25 am CL3-11 H Brown WP 15 9  
  SPAN205 . Intermediate Spanish II 3 WF 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 H Brown WP 15 6  
  SPAN213 . CP Passion, Trickery, and Revenge: Latin American Detective Novels 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-09 M Roe WP 15 10  
 
Geography Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  GEOG225 . CP Modern China from the Margins: Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation State 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 C Coggins WP 8 6  
 
Linguistics Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  LING305M1 . Topics in Syntax & Morphology 2 F 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain WP 12 10  
and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-09   WP      
 
Literature Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  LIT288 . Fiction WorkshopCLOSED 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-10 B Mathews WP 8 8  
 
Mathematics Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  MATH109A . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm CL1-01 C Pfaff WP 15 8  
  MATH109B . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-201 C Pfaff WP 15 6  
  MATH110A . Introduction to StatisticsCLOSED 3 F 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-112 C Thatcher WP 15 15  
and MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-201   WP      
  MATH110B . Introduction to Statistics 3 F 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-112 W Dunbar WP 15 11  
and MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-211   WP      
  MATH210 . Calculus I 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-03 C Pfaff WP 15 7  
  MATH211A . Calculus II 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-01 B Wynne WP 20 10  
  MATH211B . Calculus II 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am CL1-01 B Wynne WP 20 19  
  MATH221 . Vector Calculus 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-201 W Dunbar WP 15 9  
  MATH231 NEW Data: Exploration, Analysis, and Mining 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am FSH-112 C Thatcher WP 12 6  
  MATH313 . Analysis II 4 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL1-01 B Wynne WP 12 3  
 
Music Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm DAC-128 J Myers WP 15 6  
  MUS310 . Composition 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm KLG-B L Wallach WP 7 4  
  MUS280 . Madrigal Group 1 M 3:30- 4:55 pm KLG J Brown WP 15 6  
 
Natural Sciences Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  NATS150 . Science Seminar: Global Climate Change 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder WP 15 10  
  NATS150L . Science Seminar Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-113 staff WP 15 10  
 
Physics Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  PHYS101 . Physics II 4 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-113 M Bergman WP 20 17  
  PHYS101LA . Physics II Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-113 M Bergman WP 20 12  
  PHYS101LB . Physics II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-113 M Bergman WP 20 5  
 
Psychology Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  PSYC202 . Developmental Psychology 3 WF 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 A O'Dwyer WP 15 12  
 
Sociology Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  SOC226 NEW Sociology of the Family 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-12 F Oyogoa WP 15 13  
 
Studio Arts Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  SART273A . Photography IICLOSED 3 R 3:25- 6:25 pm DAC-025 D La Spina WP 8 8  
and   DAC-139   WP      
  SART273B . Photography II: Color/Digital 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-025 D La Spina WP 10 6  
and   DAC-139   WP      
  SART333 . Figure Drawing StudioCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-024 J Fossum WP 15 17  
 
Courses preceded by S1 have an afternoon/evening studio requirement:
You must have 6 hours available from the following times: T/R 7:00 - 10:00pm, Sunday 12:00 - 6:00pm
 
Theater Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
  THEA208M2 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale WP 6 3  
  THEA239 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel WP 10 6  
and   DAC-128   WP      
  THEA202 . Voice: Resonating with WordsCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont WP 12 16  
  THEA316M2 NEW Advanced Theater Practicum 2 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm DAC-128 V McQuiston WP 12 6  
 
Courses preceded by T1 have a technical lab requirement:
You must be available either Tuesday or Friday 3:30 - 5:00
 
 
 
 
 
Open Classes Only
Home FOCUS Report
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
 
B.A. Seminar Top
Classes with seats available
  BAS310 . Ad Infinitum: Controversy, Paradox, Perplexity, and the Idea of the Infinite 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 B Conolly No 15 10  
and     P Shields No      
 
First Year Seminar Top
Classes with seats available
  FS100JA . First-Year Seminar I - Origins: Self and Cosmos. Seminar section for January Admits only. 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 14 13  
  FS100JA2 . First-Year Seminar I - Origins: Self and Cosmos. Seminar section for January Admits only. 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 W Brown FY 14 4  
  FS101D . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson FY 14 11  
  FS101E . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews FY 14 12  
  FS101F . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 K Boswell FY 14 8  
  FS101G . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde FY 14 13  
  FS101H . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-03 W Brown FY 14 13  
  FS101I . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL3-11 B Rodgers FY 14 13  
  FS100FLJA . Information Fluency Lab   F 3:30- 4:25 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 16  
  FS101FLB NEW Information Fluency Lab   M 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 16  
  FS101FLD NEW Information Fluency Lab   T 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 15  
  FS101FLE NEW Information Fluency Lab   R 3:25- 4:20 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 16  
  FS101FLF NEW Information Fluency Lab   R 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17 10  
 
Anthropology Top
Classes with seats available
  ANTH210 . CP Colonialism and Tribal Peoples 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain FY 20 15  
  ANTH223 . CP Life Histories 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-125 K Boswell WP 15 11  
  ANTH328 . Preternatural Predilections: Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Possession in Cross-Cultural Perspective 4 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm LIE-02 K Boswell No 15 9  
 
Art History Top
Classes with seats available
  ARTH113 . CP Global Art: Africa and the Americas 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 15 14  
  ARTH209 . CP Japanese Woodblock Prints (Ukiyo-E) 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 15 11  
  ARTH226 NEW CP Arts, Film and Language in 20th Century China 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-125 Y Zhao FY 10 8  
 
Arts Top
Classes with seats available
  ARTS211 . Interactive Arts Workshop I 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers FY 14 9  
  ARTS311 . Interactive Arts Workshop II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers No 1    
 
Asian Studies Top
Classes with seats available
  ASIA225 . CP Modern China from the Margins: Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation State 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 C Coggins WP 7 4  
  ASIA226 NEW CP Arts, Film and Language in 20th Century China 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-125 Y Zhao FY 6 4  
  ASIA238 . CP Japan and East Asian Affairs Since 1868 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-04 M Naamon FY 15 13  
 
Biology Top
Classes with seats available
  BIO100 . Introduction to the Life Sciences 4 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-102 E McMullin FY 30 21  
  BIO100LA . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   T 9:00-11:55 am FSH-202 E McMullin FY 15 7  
  BIO100LB . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 E McMullin FY 15 14  
  BIO201 . Cell Biology 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-201 E McMullin WP 15 14  
  BIO201L . Cell Biology Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers WP 15 14  
  BIO206 . General Microbiology 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder No 15 14  
and TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-211   No      
 
Chemistry Top
Classes with seats available
  CHEM101A . Chemistry II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-102 P Dooley No 15 13  
  CHEM101B . Chemistry II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-102 P Dooley No 15 14  
  CHEM101LA . Chemistry II Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-128 P Dooley No 12 10  
  CHEM101LB . Chemistry II Lab   T 6:35- 9:00 pm FSH-128 E Dongala No 12 7  
  CHEM101LC . Chemistry II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-128 P Dooley No 12 10  
  CHEM102 . Chemistry in Context 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-211 E Dongala FY 15 10  
and W 6:35- 9:00 pm FSH-128   FY      
  CHEM303 . Organic Chemistry II 4 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-102 D Myers No 20 15  
  CHEM303LB . Organic Chemistry II Lab   M 6:35- 9:00 pm FSH-128 E Dongala No 12 3  
 
Computer Science Top
Classes with seats available
  CMPT243 . Algorithms and Data Structures 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm FSH-112 P Shields WP 15 8  
  CMPT252 . Discrete Mathematics 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-112 P Shields WP 15 3  
 
Dance Top
Classes with seats available
  DANC201 . Intermediate Modern Dance Technique 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin WP 5 2  
  DANC114 . Ballet I 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart FY 12 7  
  DANC120 . Chinese Sword 2 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-108 R Aver Thung FY 15 14  
  DANC126 . Flamenco Dance 2 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart FY 10 6  
  DANC127 . Advanced Beginning Flamenco Dance 2 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart WP 6 1  
  DANC227 NEW Intermediate Flamenco Dance 2 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart No 4 1  
 
Economics Top
Classes with seats available
  ECON101 . Macroeconomics 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-125 M Moeini Feizabadi FY 15 12  
  ECON226 . Economics of Post-reform China 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm FSH-211 D Neilson WP 8 5  
  ECON326 NEW Economics of Post-reform China 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm FSH-211 D Neilson No 7 3  
 
Environmental Studies Top
Classes with seats available
  ENVS201 . Principles of Environmental Management 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-211 D Roeder No 15 10  
  ENVS207 NEW Introduction to Agroecology 4 F 9:00-11:55 am FSH-211 T Coote FY 15 5  
and TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-211   FY      
 
Foreign Languages - Arabic Top
Classes with seats available
  ARAB101 . CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 G Asfar WP 15 13  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-14   WP      
 
Foreign Languages - Chinese Top
Classes with seats available
  CHIN101 . Accelerated Beginning Chinese II 4 MTWRF 12:15- 1:10 pm LIE-02 C Coggins WP 15 7  
  CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm CL1-03 Y Zhao WP 15 4  
 
Foreign Languages - French Top
Classes with seats available
  FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 G Asfar WP 15 14  
and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-14   WP      
  FREN205 . Intermediate French II 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-02 M Tebben WP 20 11  
  FREN321 . Modern French Theater 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-02 M Tebben No 15 10  
 
Foreign Languages - German Top
Classes with seats available
  GERM101 . Accelerated Beginning German II 4 MTWR 12:15- 1:30 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde WP 15 10  
  GERM205 . Intermediate German II 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm HCC- C van Kerckvoorde WP 12 2  
  GERM305 . Advanced German II 4   TBD - C van Kerckvoorde No 12 5  
 
Foreign Languages - Spanish Top
Classes with seats available
  SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 M Roe FY 16 7  
and MW 10:05-11:00 am LIE-01   FY      
  SPAN101A . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-01 K Pichard WP 16 15  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm LIE-01   WP      
  SPAN204 . Intermediate Spanish I 3 WF 9:00-10:25 am CL3-11 H Brown WP 15 9  
  SPAN205 . Intermediate Spanish II 3 WF 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 H Brown WP 15 6  
  SPAN213 . CP Passion, Trickery, and Revenge: Latin American Detective Novels 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-09 M Roe WP 15 10  
 
Geography Top
Classes with seats available
  GEOG225 . CP Modern China from the Margins: Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation State 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 C Coggins WP 8 6  
  GEOG328 NEW Space & Place in Social Theory 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-128 C Coggins No 12 7  
 
History Top
Classes with seats available
  HIST229 . CP Chicanas/Chicanos in the United States: A National History 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-10 M Alvarez FY 15 4  
  HIST232 . CP The Long Civil Rights Movement 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-10 M Alvarez No 15 6  
  HIST302A NEW The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and Panopticons 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 8 1  
  HIST302B NEW The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and Panopticons 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 10 6  
 
Learning Resources Top
Classes with seats available
  LR202M2 NEW Study Away Preparation 1 W 6:35- 8:00 pm LIE-01 S Lyon No 20    
and     M Tebben No      
 
Linguistics Top
Classes with seats available
  LING305M1 . Topics in Syntax & Morphology 2 F 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain WP 12 10  
and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-09   WP      
 
Literature Top
Classes with seats available
  LIT205 . Art of Autobiography 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-128 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 10  
  LIT207 . Art of Drama 3 WF 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Rodgers FY 15 10  
  LIT216M1 . Focus: Camus 2 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Rodgers No 15 14  
  LIT216M2 . Focus: Rushdie 2 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Rodgers No 15 9  
  LIT225 . Modern Irish Literature 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-10 B Mathews FY 15 12  
  LIT237 . Home on the Range: Western Films and Fictions 3 TR 3:25- 6:25 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson FY 15 9  
and   FSH-102   FY      
  LIT295 NEW Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-139 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15 11  
  LIT305 . Faithful Thinkers: Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Barfield 4 F 1:50- 4:45 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson No 15 5  
 
Mathematics Top
Classes with seats available
  MATH101 . Math & Its Applications 3 W 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-112 C Thatcher No 15 14  
and MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-201   No      
  MATH109A . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm CL1-01 C Pfaff WP 15 8  
  MATH109B . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-201 C Pfaff WP 15 6  
  MATH110B . Introduction to Statistics 3 F 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-112 W Dunbar WP 15 11  
and MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-211   WP      
  MATH210 . Calculus I 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-03 C Pfaff WP 15 7  
  MATH211A . Calculus II 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-01 B Wynne WP 20 10  
  MATH211B . Calculus II 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am CL1-01 B Wynne WP 20 19  
  MATH221 . Vector Calculus 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-201 W Dunbar WP 15 9  
  MATH231 NEW Data: Exploration, Analysis, and Mining 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am FSH-112 C Thatcher WP 12 6  
  MATH313 . Analysis II 4 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL1-01 B Wynne WP 12 3  
  MATH364 . Ordinary Differential Equations 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm CL1-04 W Dunbar No 15 6  
and F 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-112   No      
 
Music Top
Classes with seats available
  MUS103 . Musicianship 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am DAC-128 L Wallach FY 15 7  
  MUS117 . Chorus 1 W 7:00- 9:00 pm KLG J Brown FY 50 20  
  MUS204M1 . Earlier Baroque Music 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 6  
  MUS205M2 . Later Baroque (Bach & Handel) 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15 6  
  MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm DAC-128 J Myers WP 15 6  
  MUS210 . Composition 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 8 3  
  MUS310 . Composition 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm KLG-B L Wallach WP 7 4  
  MUS222 . Jazz Ensemble 1 T 7:30- 9:30 pm KLG J Myers FY 20 12  
and   KLG-B   FY      
  MUS278 . Collegium 1 M 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG L Bardo FY 15 5  
  MUS280 . Madrigal Group 1 M 3:30- 4:55 pm KLG J Brown WP 15 6  
  MUS289 . Chamber Orchestra 1 R 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG A Legene FY 50 8  
 
Natural Sciences Top
Classes with seats available
  NATS150 . Science Seminar: Global Climate Change 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder WP 15 10  
  NATS150L . Science Seminar Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-113 staff WP 15 10  
  NATS410 . Research Methods 4 MWF 10:05-11:00 am FSH-201 D Myers No 20 18  
 
Philosophy Top
Classes with seats available
  BAS310 . Ad Infinitum: Controversy, Paradox, Perplexity, and the Idea of the Infinite 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 B Conolly No 15 10  
and     P Shields No      
  PHIL175A . Ethics 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 B Conolly FY 15 14  
  PHIL215 . Epistemology 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-09 S Ruhmkorff No 15 11  
  PHIL229 NEW Introduction to the New Testament 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-12 S Ruhmkorff FY 15 14  
 
Physics Top
Classes with seats available
  PHYS101 . Physics II 4 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-113 M Bergman WP 20 17  
  PHYS101LA . Physics II Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-113 M Bergman WP 20 12  
  PHYS101LB . Physics II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-113 M Bergman WP 20 5  
  PHYS303 . Classical Mechanics 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-113 Y Al-Khatatbeh No 15 4  
 
Psychology Top
Classes with seats available
  PSYC100A . Introduction to Psychology 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-201 E Pruitt FY 20 11  
  PSYC100B . Introduction to Psychology 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-201 E Pruitt FY 15 5  
  PSYC202 . Developmental Psychology 3 WF 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 A O'Dwyer WP 15 12  
  PSYC221 . Stereotyping and Prejudice 3 T 3:25- 6:00 pm LIE-01 E Pruitt No 8 1  
  PSYC321 . Stereotyping and Prejudice 4 T 3:25- 6:00 pm LIE-01 E Pruitt No 7 4  
  PSYC302 . Abnormal Psychology 4 T 12:15- 3:10 pm CL3-13 V Brush No 15 6  
  PSYC348 NEW The Man and the Experiment that Shocked the World: The Work and Legacy of Stanley Milgram 4 T 9:00-11:30 am FSH-131 S Levine No 15 3  
 
Social Science Top
Classes with seats available
  SOCS224 . Globalization 3 TR 6:35- 8:00 pm CL3-12 F Oyogoa No 15 11  
  SOCS272A . The Foucault Effect 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 5 2  
  SOCS302B . The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and Panopticons 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 5 1  
  SOCS322 . Proseminar II 4   TBD - A Abbas No 15 10  
  SOCS328 NEW Space & Place in Social Theory 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-128 C Coggins No 3 1  
 
Sociology Top
Classes with seats available
  SOC115 . CP Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL3-12 F Oyogoa FY 15 13  
  SOC226 NEW Sociology of the Family 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-12 F Oyogoa WP 15 13  
 
Studio Arts Top
Classes with seats available
  SART102A . Photography I: Black & White/Analog 3 WF 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-028 D La Spina FY 20 7  
and   DAC-139   FY      
  SART102B . Photography I 3 WF 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-028 R Mulligan FY 15 8  
  SART221 . Video Production II 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-120 L Burke No 12 8  
and   DAC-128   No      
  SART321 . Advanced Video Production 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-120 L Burke No 3 1  
and   DAC-128   No      
  SART235 . Painting Studio 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum FY 15 14  
  SART303A . Photography II 4 R 3:25- 6:25 pm DAC-025 D La Spina No 7 1  
and   DAC-139   No      
  SART273B . Photography II: Color/Digital 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-025 D La Spina WP 10 6  
and   DAC-139   WP      
  SART307 . Documentary Photography: History and Practice 4 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-025 T Marcuse No 12 10  
  SART407 . Documentary Photography: History and Practice 4 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-025 T Marcuse No 3    
 
Courses preceded by S1 have an afternoon/evening studio requirement:
You must have 6 hours available from the following times: T/R 7:00 - 10:00pm, Sunday 12:00 - 6:00pm
 
Theater Top
Classes with seats available
  THEA108M2 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale FY 6 3  
  THEA208M2 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale WP 6 3  
  THEA139 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel FY 5 1  
and   DAC-128   FY      
  THEA239 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel WP 10 6  
and   DAC-128   WP      
  THEA339 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel No 3 2  
and   DAC-128   No      
  THEA439 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel No 2    
and   DAC-128   No      
  THEA316M1 NEW Advanced Theater Practicum 2 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm DAC-128 S Cleary-Wade No 12 5  
  THEA316M2 NEW Advanced Theater Practicum 2 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm DAC-128 V McQuiston WP 12 6  
 
Courses preceded by T1 have a technical lab requirement:
You must be available either Tuesday or Friday 3:30 - 5:00
 
 
 
 
 
Recent Changes
Home FOCUS Report
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Current Max Wait
FS101A . First Year Seminar IICLOSED 4 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-135 A Michel FY 15 14  
LR202M2 NEW Study Away Preparation 1 W 6:35- 8:00 pm LIE-01 S Lyon No   20  
and     M Tebben No      
SART273A . Photography IICLOSED 3 R 3:25- 6:25 pm DAC-025 D La Spina WP 8 8  
and   DAC-139   WP      
SART303A . Photography II 4 R 3:25- 6:25 pm DAC-025 D La Spina No 1 7  
and   DAC-139   No      
THEA306 . Theater ProductionCLOSED 4 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont No 3 3  
THEA406 . Theater ProductionCLOSED 4 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont No 1 1  
 
 
 
 
 
All Courses By Time
Top FOCUS Report
 
Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor FY Max Current Wait
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
9:00-09:55 am Top
  BIO100 . Introduction to the Life Sciences 4 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-102 E McMullin FY 30. 21. 0.
  MATH210 . Calculus I 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-03 C Pfaff WP 15. 7. 0.
  MATH211A . Calculus II 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-01 B Wynne WP 20. 10. 0.
  MATH221 . Vector Calculus 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-201 W Dunbar WP 15. 9. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
9:00-10:25 am Top
  ASIA225 . CP Modern China from the Margins: Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation State 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 C Coggins WP 7. 4. 0.
  DANC126 . Flamenco Dance 2 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart FY 10. 6. 0.
  SPAN204 . Intermediate Spanish I 3 WF 9:00-10:25 am CL3-11 H Brown WP 15. 9. 0.
  GEOG225 . CP Modern China from the Margins: Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation State 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 C Coggins WP 8. 6. 0.
  NATS150 . Science Seminar: Global Climate Change 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder WP 15. 10. 0.
  POLS100 . Introduction to PoliticsCLOSED 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL1-02 A Abbas FY 15. 20. 0.
  PSYC202 . Developmental Psychology 3 WF 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 A O'Dwyer WP 15. 12. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
9:00-11:55 am Top
  ENVS207 NEW Introduction to Agroecology 4 F 9:00-11:55 am FSH-211 T Coote FY 15. 5. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
10:05-11:00 am Top
  FS101FLA NEW Information Fluency LabCLOSED   M 10:05-11:00 am DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17. 17. 0.
  FS101FLG NEW Information Fluency LabCLOSED   F 10:05-11:00 am DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17. 19. 0.
  SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 and MW 10:05-11:00 am LIE-01 M Roe FY 16. 7. 0.
  MATH211B . Calculus II 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am CL1-01 B Wynne WP 20. 19. 0.
  MATH231 NEW Data: Exploration, Analysis, and Mining 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am FSH-112 C Thatcher WP 12. 6. 0.
  MUS103 . Musicianship 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am DAC-128 L Wallach FY 15. 7. 0.
  NATS410 . Research Methods 4 MWF 10:05-11:00 am FSH-201 D Myers No 20. 18. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
10:35-12:00 pm Top
  ANTH223 . CP Life Histories 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-125 K Boswell WP 15. 11. 0.
  DANC127 . Advanced Beginning Flamenco Dance 2 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart WP 6. 1. 0.
  DANC227 NEW Intermediate Flamenco Dance 2 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart No 4. 1. 0.
  FREN205 . Intermediate French II 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-02 M Tebben WP 20. 11. 0.
  SPAN205 . Intermediate Spanish II 3 WF 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 H Brown WP 15. 6. 0.
  HIST232 . CP The Long Civil Rights Movement 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-10 M Alvarez No 15. 6. 0.
  LIT207 . Art of Drama 3 WF 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Rodgers FY 15. 10. 0.
  PHIL175A . Ethics 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 B Conolly FY 15. 14. 0.
  PHIL229 NEW Introduction to the New Testament 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-12 S Ruhmkorff FY 15. 14. 0.
  SART106 . Introduction to CeramicsCLOSED 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-072 S Allen FY 12. 12. 0.
  SART307 . Documentary Photography: History and Practice 4 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-025 T Marcuse No 12. 10. 0.
  SART407 . Documentary Photography: History and Practice 4 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-025 T Marcuse No 3. 0. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
11:10-12:05 pm Top
  FS101FLB NEW Information Fluency Lab   M 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17. 16. 0.
  FS101FLH NEW Information Fluency LabCLOSED   F 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17. 17. 0.
  BIO201 . Cell Biology 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-201 E McMullin WP 15. 14. 0.
  CMPT240 . Introduction to RoboticsCLOSED 3 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-113 M Bergman WP 10. 10. 0.
  LING101M2 . English GrammarCLOSED 2 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain FY 20. 21. 0.
  LING305M1 . Topics in Syntax & Morphology 2 F 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain WP 12. 10. 0.
  MATH109A . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm CL1-01 C Pfaff WP 15. 8. 0.
  MATH364 . Ordinary Differential Equations 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm CL1-04 W Dunbar No 15. 6. 0.
and F 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-112 W Dunbar No 15. 6. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
12:15- 1:10 pm Top
  CHIN101 . Accelerated Beginning Chinese II 4 MTWRF 12:15- 1:10 pm LIE-02 C Coggins WP 15. 7. 0.
  FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-14 G Asfar WP 15. 14. 0.
  LING305M1 . Topics in Syntax & Morphology 2 and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain WP 12. 10. 0.
  MATH110A . Introduction to StatisticsCLOSED 3 F 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-112 C Thatcher WP 15. 15. 0.
and MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-201 C Thatcher WP 15. 15. 0.
  MATH313 . Analysis II 4 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL1-01 B Wynne WP 12. 3. 0.
  THEA316M1 NEW Advanced Theater Practicum 2 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm DAC-128 S Cleary-Wade No 12. 5. 0.
  THEA316M2 NEW Advanced Theater Practicum 2 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm DAC-128 V McQuiston WP 12. 6. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
12:15- 1:30 pm Top
  GERM101 . Accelerated Beginning German II 4 MTWR 12:15- 1:30 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde WP 15. 10. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
12:15- 1:40 pm Top
  FS101A . First Year Seminar IICLOSED 4 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-135 A Michel FY 14. 15. 0.
  DANC114 . Ballet I 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart FY 12. 7. 0.
  DANC214 . Intermediate Ballet ICLOSED 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart WP 1. 5. 0.
  DANC314 . Advanced BalletCLOSED 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart No 2. 2. 0.
  ENVS201 . Principles of Environmental Management 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-211 D Roeder No 15. 10. 0.
  LIT288 . Fiction WorkshopCLOSED 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-10 B Mathews WP 8. 8. 0.
  LIT388 . Fiction WorkshopCLOSED 4 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-10 B Mathews No 4. 4. 0.
  SART102A . Photography I: Black & White/Analog 3 WF 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-028 D La Spina FY 20. 7. 0.
and WF 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-139 D La Spina FY 20. 7. 0.
  SART102B . Photography I 3 WF 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-028 R Mulligan FY 15. 8. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
1:20- 2:15 pm Top
  ARAB101 . CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-14 G Asfar WP 15. 13. 0.
  SPAN101A . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm LIE-01 K Pichard WP 16. 15. 0.
  MATH109B . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-201 C Pfaff WP 15. 6. 0.
  MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm DAC-128 J Myers WP 15. 6. 0.
  PHYS101 . Physics II 4 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-113 M Bergman WP 20. 17. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
1:50- 3:15 pm Top
  BAS310 . Ad Infinitum: Controversy, Paradox, Perplexity, and the Idea of the Infinite 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 B Conolly No 15. 10. 0.
and MW 1:50- 3:15 pm   P Shields No 15. 10. 0.
  FS101B . First Year Seminar IICLOSED 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-135 W Shifrin FY 14. 15. 0.
  FS101C . First Year Seminar IICLOSED 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 E Pruitt FY 14. 14. 0.
  ANTH210 . CP Colonialism and Tribal Peoples 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain FY 20. 15. 0.
  ARTH113 . CP Global Art: Africa and the Americas 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 15. 14. 0.
  GERM205 . Intermediate German II 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm HCC- C van Kerckvoorde WP 12. 2. 0.
  HIST229 . CP Chicanas/Chicanos in the United States: A National History 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-10 M Alvarez FY 15. 4. 0.
  LIT216M1 . Focus: Camus 2 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Rodgers No 15. 14. 0.
  LIT216M2 . Focus: Rushdie 2 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Rodgers No 15. 9. 0.
  BAS310 . Ad Infinitum: Controversy, Paradox, Perplexity, and the Idea of the Infinite 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 B Conolly No 15. 10. 0.
and MW 1:50- 3:15 pm   P Shields No 15. 10. 0.
  PHIL215 . Epistemology 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-09 S Ruhmkorff No 15. 11. 0.
  THEA202 . Voice: Resonating with WordsCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont WP 12. 16. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
1:50- 4:45 pm Top
  LIT305 . Faithful Thinkers: Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Barfield 4 F 1:50- 4:45 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson No 15. 5. 0.
  SART273B . Photography II: Color/Digital 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-025 D La Spina WP 10. 6. 0.
and F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-139 D La Spina WP 10. 6. 0.
  SART303B . Photography II: Color/DigitalCLOSED 4 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-025 D La Spina No 3. 4. 0.
and F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-139 D La Spina No 3. 4. 0.
  THEA108M2 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale FY 6. 3. 0.
  THEA208M2 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale WP 6. 3. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
2:25- 3:20 pm Top
  CHEM303 . Organic Chemistry II 4 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-102 D Myers No 20. 15. 0.
  SPAN101B . Accelerated Beginning Spanish IICLOSED 4 and MW 2:25- 3:20 pm LIE-01 K Pichard WP 16. 16. 0.
  MATH101 . Math & Its Applications 3 W 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-112 C Thatcher No 15. 14. 0.
and MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-201 C Thatcher No 15. 14. 0.
  MATH110B . Introduction to Statistics 3 F 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-112 W Dunbar WP 15. 11. 0.
and MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-211 W Dunbar WP 15. 11. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
3:30- 4:25 pm Top
  FS100FLJA . Information Fluency Lab   F 3:30- 4:25 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17. 16. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
3:30- 4:55 pm Top
  MUS280 . Madrigal Group 1 M 3:30- 4:55 pm KLG J Brown WP 15. 6. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
3:30- 6:15 pm Top
  CHEM303LA . Organic Chemistry II LabCLOSED   M 3:30- 6:15 pm FSH-128 E Dongala No 12. 12. 0.
  NATS116 NEW Forensic ScienceCLOSED 3 and M 3:30- 6:15 pm FSH-201 S Mechanic-Meyers FY 15. 16. 0.
  POLS327 . Marx after MarxCLOSED 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm LIE-01 A Abbas No 15. 19. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
6:35- 8:00 pm Top
  LR202M2 NEW Study Away Preparation 1 W 6:35- 8:00 pm LIE-01 S Lyon No 20. 0. 0.
and W 6:35- 8:00 pm   M Tebben No 20. 0. 0.
  SART208 . Intermediate Hand-buildingCLOSED 3 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm DAC-072 S Allen No 9. 9. 0.
  SART368 . Advanced Ceramic StudioCLOSED 4 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm DAC-072 S Allen No 2. 2. 0.
  SART468 . Advanced Ceramic StudioCLOSED 4 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm DAC-072 S Allen No 1. 1. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
6:35- 9:00 pm Top
  CHEM102 . Chemistry in Context 4 and W 6:35- 9:00 pm FSH-128 E Dongala FY 15. 10. 0.
  CHEM303LB . Organic Chemistry II Lab   M 6:35- 9:00 pm FSH-128 E Dongala No 12. 3. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
7:00- 9:00 pm Top
  MUS117 . Chorus 1 W 7:00- 9:00 pm KLG J Brown FY 50. 20. 0.
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
7:30- 9:00 pm Top
  MUS278 . Collegium 1 M 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG L Bardo FY 15. 5. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
9:00-10:25 am Top
  BIO220 . CP Medical AnthropologyCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-201 M Naamon FY 15. 20. 0.
  ARTH226 NEW CP Arts, Film and Language in 20th Century China 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-125 Y Zhao FY 10. 8. 0.
  ASIA226 NEW CP Arts, Film and Language in 20th Century China 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-125 Y Zhao FY 6. 4. 0.
  BIO206 . General Microbiology 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder No 15. 14. 0.
  BIO220 . CP Medical AnthropologyCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-201 M Naamon FY 15. 20. 0.
  CHEM101A . Chemistry II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-102 P Dooley No 15. 13. 0.
  FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 G Asfar WP 15. 14. 0.
  SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 M Roe FY 16. 7. 0.
  GEOG328 NEW Space & Place in Social Theory 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-128 C Coggins No 12. 7. 0.
  SOCS328 NEW Space & Place in Social Theory 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am DAC-128 C Coggins No 3. 1. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
9:00-11:25 am Top
  PHYS101LA . Physics II Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-113 M Bergman WP 20. 12. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
9:00-11:30 am Top
  PSYC348 NEW The Man and the Experiment that Shocked the World: The Work and Legacy of Stanley Milgram 4 T 9:00-11:30 am FSH-131 S Levine No 15. 3. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
9:00-11:55 am Top
  BIO100LA . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   T 9:00-11:55 am FSH-202 E McMullin FY 15. 7. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
10:35-12:00 pm Top
  FS101D . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson FY 14. 11. 0.
  FS101E . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews FY 14. 12. 0.
  FS101F . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 K Boswell FY 14. 8. 0.
  ARTH209 . CP Japanese Woodblock Prints (Ukiyo-E) 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 15. 11. 0.
  CHEM101B . Chemistry II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-102 P Dooley No 15. 14. 0.
  CHEM102 . Chemistry in Context 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-211 E Dongala FY 15. 10. 0.
  DANC120 . Chinese Sword 2 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-108 R Aver Thung FY 15. 14. 0.
  ARAB101 . CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 G Asfar WP 15. 13. 0.
  FREN321 . Modern French Theater 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-02 M Tebben No 15. 10. 0.
  LIT205 . Art of Autobiography 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-128 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15. 10. 0.
  LIT322 . Five Books of Moses: Hermeneutics and the Hebrew BibleCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-04 R Fiske No 15. 21. 0.
  PHIL175B . EthicsCLOSED 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-13 B Conolly FY 15. 18. 0.
  PSYC100B . Introduction to Psychology 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-201 E Pruitt FY 15. 5. 0.
  SART235 . Painting Studio 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum FY 15. 14. 0.
  THEA219 . Viewpoints II & CompositionCLOSED 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-002 A Michel No 10. 12. 0.
and TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-115 A Michel No 10. 12. 0.
  THEA319 . Viewpoints II & CompositionCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-002 A Michel No 2. 2. 0.
and TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-115 A Michel No 2. 2. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
11:10-12:05 pm Top
  FS101FLD NEW Information Fluency Lab   T 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17. 15. 0.
  FS101FLF NEW Information Fluency Lab   R 11:10-12:05 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17. 10. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
12:15- 1:40 pm Top
  BIO206 . General Microbiology 4 and TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-211 D Roeder No 15. 14. 0.
  ECON101 . Macroeconomics 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-125 M Moeini Feizabadi FY 15. 12. 0.
  SPAN101A . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-01 K Pichard WP 16. 15. 0.
  SPAN213 . CP Passion, Trickery, and Revenge: Latin American Detective Novels 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-09 M Roe WP 15. 10. 0.
  LIT295 NEW Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-139 J Browdy de Hernandez FY 15. 11. 0.
  MUS204M1 . Earlier Baroque Music 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15. 6. 0.
  MUS205M2 . Later Baroque (Bach & Handel) 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 15. 6. 0.
  NATS116 NEW Forensic ScienceCLOSED 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers FY 15. 16. 0.
  PHYS303 . Classical Mechanics 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-113 Y Al-Khatatbeh No 15. 4. 0.
  PSYC100A . Introduction to Psychology 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-201 E Pruitt FY 20. 11. 0.
  SOC226 NEW Sociology of the Family 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-12 F Oyogoa WP 15. 13. 0.
  THEA139 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel FY 5. 1. 0.
and TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-128 A Michel FY 5. 1. 0.
  THEA239 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel WP 10. 6. 0.
and TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-128 A Michel WP 10. 6. 0.
  THEA339 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel No 3. 2. 0.
and TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-128 A Michel No 3. 2. 0.
  THEA439 . The Director/Designer Collaboration 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel No 2. 0. 0.
and TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-128 A Michel No 2. 0. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
12:15- 3:10 pm Top
  PSYC302 . Abnormal Psychology 4 T 12:15- 3:10 pm CL3-13 V Brush No 15. 6. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
1:50- 3:15 pm Top
  FS100JA . First-Year Seminar I - Origins: Self and Cosmos. Seminar section for January Admits only. 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato FY 14. 13. 0.
  FS100JA2 . First-Year Seminar I - Origins: Self and Cosmos. Seminar section for January Admits only. 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 W Brown FY 14. 4. 0.
  FS101G . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde FY 14. 13. 0.
  ARTS211 . Interactive Arts Workshop I 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers FY 14. 9. 0.
  ARTS311 . Interactive Arts Workshop II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers No 1. 0. 0.
  CMPT252 . Discrete Mathematics 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-112 P Shields WP 15. 3. 0.
  DANC101 . Beginning Modern Dance TechniqueCLOSED 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 10. 10. 0.
  DANC201 . Intermediate Modern Dance Technique 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin WP 5. 2. 0.
  ENVS207 NEW Introduction to Agroecology 4 and TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-211 T Coote FY 15. 5. 0.
  SPAN101B . Accelerated Beginning Spanish IICLOSED 4 T 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-01 K Pichard WP 16. 16. 0.
and R 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-02 K Pichard WP 16. 16. 0.
  HIST302A NEW The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and Panopticons 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 8. 1. 0.
  LIT225 . Modern Irish Literature 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-10 B Mathews FY 15. 12. 0.
  LIT272 NEW From Freud to Zizek: Theories of Creativity and the UnconsciousCLOSED 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-04 R Fiske FY 15. 19. 0.
  SOCS272A . The Foucault Effect 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 5. 2. 0.
  SOCS302A . The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and PanopticonsCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 7. 7. 0.
  SART333 . Figure Drawing StudioCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-024 J Fossum WP 15. 17. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
1:50- 4:45 pm Top
  BAS375 NEW Human Rights, Activism and the ArtsCLOSED 4 R 1:50- 4:45 pm LIE-01 K Beaumont No 15. 18. 0.
and R 1:50- 4:45 pm   J Browdy de Hernandez No 15. 18. 0.
  BIO100LB . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 E McMullin FY 15. 14. 0.
  BIO201L . Cell Biology Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers WP 15. 14. 0.
  CHEM101LA . Chemistry II Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-128 P Dooley No 12. 10. 0.
  CHEM101LC . Chemistry II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-128 P Dooley No 12. 10. 0.
  NATS150L . Science Seminar Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-113   WP 15. 10. 0.
  PHYS101LB . Physics II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-113 M Bergman WP 20. 5. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
3:25- 4:20 pm Top
  FS101FLE NEW Information Fluency Lab   R 3:25- 4:20 pm DAC-139 B Mikesell FY 17. 16. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
3:25- 4:50 pm Top
  FS101H . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-03 W Brown FY 14. 13. 0.
  FS101I . First Year Seminar II 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL3-11 B Rodgers FY 14. 13. 0.
  ASIA238 . CP Japan and East Asian Affairs Since 1868 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-04 M Naamon FY 15. 13. 0.
  CMPT243 . Algorithms and Data Structures 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm FSH-112 P Shields WP 15. 8. 0.
  DANC215 . Choreography WorkshopCLOSED 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin FY 12. 15. 0.
  ECON226 . Economics of Post-reform China 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm FSH-211 D Neilson WP 8. 5. 0.
  ECON326 NEW Economics of Post-reform China 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm FSH-211 D Neilson No 7. 3. 0.
  HIST302B NEW The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and Panopticons 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 10. 6. 0.
  MUS210 . Composition 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm KLG-B L Wallach FY 8. 3. 0.
  MUS310 . Composition 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm KLG-B L Wallach WP 7. 4. 0.
  SOCS302B . The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and Panopticons 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-02 N Yanoshak No 5. 1. 0.
  SOC115 . CP Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL3-12 F Oyogoa FY 15. 13. 0.
  SART221 . Video Production II 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-120 L Burke No 12. 8. 0.
and TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-128 L Burke No 12. 8. 0.
  SART321 . Advanced Video Production 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-120 L Burke No 3. 1. 0.
and TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-128 L Burke No 3. 1. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
3:25- 6:00 pm Top
  PSYC221 . Stereotyping and Prejudice 3 T 3:25- 6:00 pm LIE-01 E Pruitt No 8. 1. 0.
  PSYC321 . Stereotyping and Prejudice 4 T 3:25- 6:00 pm LIE-01 E Pruitt No 7. 4. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
3:25- 6:25 pm Top
  LIT237 . Home on the Range: Western Films and Fictions 3 TR 3:25- 6:25 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson FY 15. 9. 0.
and TR 3:25- 6:25 pm FSH-102 J Hutchinson FY 15. 9. 0.
  SART273A . Photography IICLOSED 3 R 3:25- 6:25 pm DAC-025 D La Spina WP 8. 8. 0.
and R 3:25- 6:25 pm DAC-139 D La Spina WP 8. 8. 0.
  SART303A . Photography II 4 R 3:25- 6:25 pm DAC-025 D La Spina No 7. 1. 0.
and R 3:25- 6:25 pm DAC-139 D La Spina No 7. 1. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
5:00- 6:25 pm Top
  ANTH328 . Preternatural Predilections: Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Possession in Cross-Cultural Perspective 4 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm LIE-02 K Boswell No 15. 9. 0.
  CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm CL1-03 Y Zhao WP 15. 4. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
6:35- 8:00 pm Top
  SOCS224 . Globalization 3 TR 6:35- 8:00 pm CL3-12 F Oyogoa No 15. 11. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
6:35- 9:00 pm Top
  CHEM101LB . Chemistry II Lab   T 6:35- 9:00 pm FSH-128 E Dongala No 12. 7. 0.
  THEA206 . Theater ProductionCLOSED 3 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont FY 5. 8. 0.
  THEA301 . Performance PracticumCLOSED 4 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont No 3. 4. 0.
  THEA401 . Performance PracticumCLOSED 4 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont No 1. 4. 0.
  THEA306 . Theater ProductionCLOSED 4 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont No 3. 3. 0.
  THEA406 . Theater ProductionCLOSED 4 T 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont No 1. 1. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
7:30- 9:00 pm Top
  MUS289 . Chamber Orchestra 1 R 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG A Legene FY 50. 8. 0.
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
7:30- 9:30 pm Top
  MUS222 . Jazz Ensemble 1 T 7:30- 9:30 pm KLG J Myers FY 20. 12. 0.
and T 7:30- 9:30 pm KLG-B J Myers FY 20. 12. 0.
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ANTH210: CP Colonialism and Tribal Peoples Home
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This course examines the impact of colonialist invasions and conquests as well as neocolonial
hegemony on tribal people. Direct and indirect consequences of colonialism will be discussed. Topics
include changes in economies, political autonomy and independence, family and social systems, and
religious beliefs. Readings will be drawn from studies of tribal societies in Africa, Asia, the
Americas, and the Pacific. Prerequisite: One course in social studies.
 
ANTH223: CP Life Histories Home
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This course examines the life history, a form of ethnographic literature. Life histories straddle
autobiography and biography, historiography and memoir, and constitute a chronicle of the
storyteller's life as it is communicated to their audience, the anthropologist. We will examine the
processes that lead to these informative, yet intimate, accounts of individual lives and so
understand the value life histories have to empower their narrators and to broaden our knowledge of
less examined populations, such as women, the sick, or the poor. We will champion life histories in
this course, but will consider critiques of this widely popular method nonetheless. Our reflection
on these texts will extend to the manner in which life histories exist as a testament to the
worthwhile, but complex, friendships that arise during fieldwork between the narrator and the
anthropologist. The course looks to life histories with an eye to content as well as construction,
and so students will have the opportunity to collect a life history over the course of the semester.
 
ANTH328: Preternatural Predilections: Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Possession in Cross-Cultural Perspective Home
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According to Evans-Pritchard, the Azande in Africa believed granaries collapsed, crushing their
victims, because they were directed to do so by a witch intent on harming the unsuspecting
individual seated nearby. Since Evans-Pritchard's pioneering work in the 1930s, a new generation of
scholars have emerged whose passions for the preternatural have led to the exploration of
witchcraft, sorcery, possession, divination, rumor and gossip as a means to explain the inexplicable
and restore equilibrium in an uncertain world. This course examines in a cross-cultural perspective
how people create meaning, form community, and devise interpretations of their everyday lives via
these diverse beliefs and practices. We will examine how witchcraft accusations are linked to ethnic
tensions within nation-states and the manner in which these indictments are commentary upon
indigenous societies' ambivalence toward modernity. Bewitchment, cannibalism, and zombification
index the unequal distribution of resources within families or regions where internal and
transnational migration are frequent and are modes of expression in religious conversion narratives
and highlight gender inequities. To further our exploration of these subjects we will look to our
own history and do so through a fieldtrip to Salem, Massachusetts to examine the social, economic,
and religious underpinnings the 17th century witchcraft trials. Whether these beliefs and practices
manifest in localized settings or envelop entire nations, recourse to the preternatural remains a
potent and persistent form of expression and interaction in the historic and contemporary world.
Prerequisites for this course are completion of one anthropology course and completion of Sophomore
Seminar. Students may also seek permission of instructor.
 
ARAB101: CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II Home
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This is the second half of a year-long accelerated course that introduces the rudiments of written
and spoken Modern Standard Arabic. In addition to regular practice in writing the alphabet, word
formation, elementary calligraphy, and basic grammar, the course offers exercises in phonology,
morphology, and syntax. By the second semester, students can read and understand a variety of Arabic
texts about customs and institutions of the Middle East. The course also explores selected topics on
Arab culture and civilization, such as the role of classical Arabic in Muslim art and architecture
and the connections between the Arabic language and Islam. Successful completion of this year-long
course fulfills the general language requirement or the cultural perspectives requirement.
Prerequisite: Arabic 100.
 
ARTH113: CP Global Art: Africa and the Americas Home
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This course surveys the art and architecture of three continents before and after colonization. We
consider the role of material products in select examples of cultures from Africa such as Ghana,
Nigeria, and Congo; from the high Pre-Columbian civilizations of Mesoamerica; and from North America
considering native peoples of the Northeast, Northwest Coast, Plains, and the Southwest. We look at
baskets, textiles, ceramics, costume, masks, temples, beads, totem poles, prehistoric rock art,
tools, weapons, funerary statuary, and caves and other dwellings, and relate these objects to social
practices. The major goal is to situate the arts in their indigenous contexts of time, space, and
function, considering their role in ritual celebration; worship; enhancing the hunt, the harvest,
and birthing; constructing identity; worshipping ancestors; and maintaining or resisting gender and
power relations. We briefly note what these global arts are and have been for the West, in
considering the discourse of the ethnographic museum, for example. The course borrows methods and
information from anthropology, geography, literature, and mythology/religious studies, used to
deepen an understanding of the art objects. The course also utilizes computer technologies to offer
students images of ancient ruins, for example, and regular access to our library's databases to
locate recent scholarly thinking on these topics. Particular attention is given to locations where
Simon's Rock offers study abroad trips. This course earns credit toward the Cultural Perspectives or
Arts requirement.
 
ARTH207: CP Women Artists Globally Home
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In the past this course has been focused exclusively on western women artists. Though we retain
attention to women in the European and American past, the course has been expanded to consider women
artists globally, with special interest on contemporary women artists in Africa, Asia, Central
America, and the Middle East. We consider case studies of women's particular relationships to the
processes of social, political, economic and technological change. We look closely at many examples
of women's past and present art in the classroom and discuss them aesthetically and theoretically in
order to understand artistic agency and the production of meaning. We study how women working in a
variety of artistic media - painting, sculpture, installation and computer generated arts --
struggle/d to represent their lives, their experiences, their values, and their bodies. All
students present their original research topics to the class. Students may do additional work to
raise the course level and earn 4 credits. The course is not open to First-Year students except
those who have taken Survey 102 or another art history course.
 
ARTH209: CP Japanese Woodblock Prints (Ukiyo-E) Home
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This course investigates the phenomenon of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), beginning in the
17th century. We analyze their subjects--especially geishas and courtesans--but also actors,
wrestlers, and landscapes, and the prints' changing styles and techniques. We read excerpted
translations from Edo literature as well as contemporary scholarship in anthropology and history,
and we listen to Japanese music in order to understand the prints more fully. We situate them in the
context of Japanese society, culture, and politics. No prerequisites.
 
ARTH226: CP Arts, Film and Language in 20th Century China Home
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This course introduces students to twentieth century visual arts, films and the newly emerging
internet culture in China. Students in the course will gain a better understanding of Chinese arts
from the perspective of historical, ideological, cultural and psychological factors. We will also
make connections between language, art and history, through poetry and stories associated with the
arts in China. By the end of this course, students are expected to have a better understanding of
twentieth century Chinese culture and arts, making connections to contemporary popular culture on
the internet in the recent decades. There are no prerequisites for this course. This course fulfills
the arts or CP requirements.
 
ARTH307: CP Women Artists Globally Home
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In the past this course has been focused exclusively on western women artists. Though we retain
attention to women in the European and American past, the course has been expanded to consider women
artists globally, with special interest on contemporary women artists in Africa, Asia, Central
America, and the Middle East. We consider case studies of women's particular relationships to the
processes of social, political, economic and technological change. We look closely at many examples
of women's past and present art in the classroom and discuss them aesthetically and theoretically in
order to understand artistic agency and the production of meaning. We study how women working in a
variety of artistic media -- painting, sculpture, installation and computer generated arts --
struggle/d to represent their lives, their experiences, their values, and their bodies. All
students present their original research topics to the class. Students may do additional work to
raise the course level and earn 4 credits. The course is not open to First-Year students except
those who have taken Survey 102 or another art history course.
 
ARTS211: Interactive Arts Workshop I Home
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This year, the theme for the the workshop is "Transcending the Timeline: Animation and
Interactivity." Working with several programs to create content, students will also use authoring
tools to bring together graphics, motion and sound, creating pieces that will introduce essential
elements of interactivity - branching, control with mouse and/or keyboard, etc, forming the building
blocks of the more complex structures found in computer-based environments and game development.
Students will be able to work in 3D using Blender, the premier "open source" modeling and animation
program, and Unity, which is used to create immersive interactive environments. Class members,
working as individuals and/or in small teams, will explore and create works that combine traditional
arts disciplines and media (including performing and studio arts) with human interaction via the
computer interface. In addition to becoming familiar with the technical aspects of interactive
multimedia, the class will explore the aesthetic and conceptual dimensions. As an option, students
may also work in 2D using Adobe Flash. Written weekly journals are required of all students. Open
to all levels.
 
ARTS311: Interactive Arts Workshop II Home
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Meeting concurrently, this course is a continuation of ARTS211, which is a prerequisite. ARTS311
students will be expected to utilize their experience and undertake more ambitious projects.
 
ASIA225: CP Modern China from the Margins: Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation State Home
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This course examines the making of Chinese modernity through the construction and contestation of
spaces delineating class, gender, ethnicity, and nationhood. Our project is to explore relationships
between space and time in narratives on identity dating roughly from the Opium War of the mid-19th
century to the era of globalization in the early 21st. Materials for study include scholarly works,
political tracts, fiction, essays, documentaries, administrative maps, landscapes, technologies, and
more. Our dialogue revolves around the following questions: First, is the concept of the modern
nation-state applicable to the People's Republic of China and is the Chinese nation-state strictly a
modern phenomenon? Second, how have cultural others--the non-Han peoples--contributed to the idea of
"Zhongguo," the "Central Kingdom(s)," as opposed to "waiguo," the outside ethno-political entities,
through time? What justifications and social controls have been used to facilitate the incorporation
of non-Han territories into the Chinese realm and how is this process continuing in the 21st
century? Third, how has the concept of socioeconomic class been conceived by modern Chinese
political theorists, and upon which varieties of pre-modern social networks and cultural relations
were these ideologies cast? How have class-relations developed over the course of the 20th century
and into the present day? Fourth, how have gender relations and sexuality served as catalysts for
political revolution and social change since the early 20th century? How have they informed Chinese
Communist Party policy since 1949 and how are they changing in the post-reform period of economic
liberalization and the hollowing out of the state? Fifth, how has space been defined in regard to
the nation, the individual, the body, labor, sexuality, gender, ethnicity, the urban, the rural, and
national boundaries in a "globalizing world?" Sixth, how have Chinese intellectuals engaged with
these issues and the question of China's position in the global community in the post-Mao period,
particularly within the engagement between "patriotic worrying," post-modern theory, and the
prospect of an end to the country's geopolitical marginalization? Prerequisites: Completion of
Accelerated Beginning Chinese, a 200-level course in Asian studies or a 200-level course in social
studies.
 
ASIA226: CP Arts, Film and Language in 20th Century China Home
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This course introduces students to twentieth century visual arts, films and the newly emerging
internet culture in China. Students in the course will gain a better understanding of Chinese arts
from the perspective of historical, ideological, cultural and psychological factors. We will also
make connections between language, art and history, through poetry and stories associated with the
arts in China. By the end of this course, students are expected to have a better understanding of
twentieth century Chinese culture and arts, making connections to contemporary popular culture on
the internet in the recent decades. There are no prerequisites for this course. This course fulfills
the arts or CP requirements.
 
ASIA238: CP Japan and East Asian Affairs Since 1868 Home
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The modern transformation of Japan had a profound effect on the development of a nationalist
consciousness among the people of neighboring countries as well as posing a threat to their national
sovereignty. In spite of intermittent collisions and collusions among imperial powers in China and
Korea, Japan has played a unique and important role in East Asian affairs from the end of the 19th
century. This course mainly emphasizes the background to the current political landscape and the
cross-cultural interactions of the region.
 
BAS310: Ad Infinitum: Controversy, Paradox, Perplexity, and the Idea of the Infinite Home
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What, really, does it mean to be infinite? Is any actually existing thing really infinite? This
course will explore the role that the notion of the infinite plays in such diverse disciplines as
philosophy, theology, mathematics, logic, physics, and computer science. We will examine both the
different kinds of problems that arise in the distinct contexts of these disciplines, and how these
diverse disciplines have affected and influenced each other with respect to the concept of infinity.
The course will be both historical and topical, as we examine how the concept of "infinite" was
transformed from originally meaning "indefinite", and thus as entailing imperfection, into a concept
that entailed transcendent super-excellent perfection; how Aristotle's distinction between potential
and actual infinity led to the solution of a number of problems concerning time, space, and motion;
how the development of the notion of the infinitesimal in the 17th century led directly to the
discovery of the calculus by Newton and Leibniz; and how Georg Cantor's discovery that infinite sets
come in different sizes was initially more welcomed by theologians than by other mathematicians.
 
BAS375: Human Rights, Activism and the Arts Home
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This seminar will explore the ways in which the precepts of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights have been strengthened and extended by activism in the arts. After a general introduction to
the UDHR, we will focus on several of the rights by looking at specific contexts in which these
rights have been contested, violated or upheld. In these case studies we will examine how various
artistic modes have represented or advocated for these rights. These modes will include, film,
theater, music, visual arts, poetry and prose that employ activist as well as aesthetic strategies.
Students will work in groups on a semester-long project that may take the form of a research paper
or a substantial work of art accompanied by a detailed artist's statement.
 
BIO100: Introduction to the Life Sciences Home
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This course provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental concepts, methods of observation,
and major currents of thinking in the life sciences today. The three major topics are the molecular
basis of cellular function, animal life strategies and evolution, and the flow of matter and energy
in the biosphere. Students enrolled in this course must participate in the laboratory, and there is
a laboratory fee. No prerequisites.
 
BIO100L: Introduction to Life Sciences Lab Home
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Students enrolled in BIO100 must also register for a lab section.
 
BIO201: Cell Biology Home
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Understanding biological phenomena depends on critical analysis of form and function. Cell Biology
is a lecture and laboratory course designed to introduce the chemical and molecular basis of cells,
the structure and function of the cell membrane, the acquisition and utilization of energy by cells,
cellular activities, and biosynthesis. Laboratory work emphasizes acquiring skills in microscopy to
identify cellular structures and processes and in electrophoretic separation of proteins and DNA
fragments. Prerequisites: Biology 100 and high school chemistry, or permission of the instructor.
 
BIO201L: Cell Biology Lab Home
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Students enrolled in BIO 201 must also enroll in a lab section.
 
BIO206: General Microbiology Home
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This course introduces the biology of microorganisms with an emphasis on bacteria. It consists of
lectures, discussions of current topics in microbiology, and laboratory work. Topics covered include
diseases caused by microorganisms, immunology, microorganisms in the biosphere, treatment of waste
water and drinking water, and microbial uses in the food and dairy industry. There is a laboratory
fee.
 
BIO220: CP Medical Anthropology Home
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Medical anthropology studies cross-cultural medical practices, the relationship between society and
disease processes and social and cultural aspects of health and health care. This course is an
introduction to medical anthropology that employs a holistic framework to further our understanding
of both non-industrial and industrial societies. We will explore contemporary theories and methods
of medical anthropology while looking at health, illness, disease, ecological approaches, the
therapeutic process, aging, the critical-interpretive approach, and medical ethics. The student
should gain an understanding of medicine and socio-cultural phenomenon. This course DOES NOT
fulfill the science requirement.
 
CHEM101: Chemistry II Home
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This course is a continuation of Chemistry 100. Topics covered include acid/base theory, equilibria,
kinetics, thermodynamics of chemical reactions, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, coordination
chemistry, and a brief introduction to organic chemistry. The laboratory experiments deal with
classic qualitative inorganic analysis. Laboratory fee. Prerequisite: Chemistry 100.
 
CHEM101L: Chemistry II Lab Home
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Students enrolled in CHEM 101 must also enroll in a lab section.
 
CHEM102: Chemistry in Context Home
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This course is designed to give the student a good working knowledge of the chemistry that surrounds
her/him in everyday life, as well as the tools by which to intelligently evaluate data presented by
both the media and the spoken word. The student is asked to learn chemical concepts only when they
are met and as they apply to the particular situation under discussion (e.g., acid rain and pH).
While not designed to prepare the student in one semester to take Organic Chemistry (or other
advanced chemistry classes), the student should emerge able to understand chemical concepts as
presented by society, and cogently discuss these matters with some knowledge, as well as to connect
her/his knowledge to issues of concern. Laboratory work done during the semester acquaints the
student with various methods of examining scientific and chemical data, as well as some of the
problems associated with the collection of said data. Laboratory fee.
 
CHEM303: Organic Chemistry II Home
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This course is a continuation of Chemistry 302. Topics include conjugation, aromaticity, aromatic
substitution reactions, spectroscopy carbonyl compounds and their addition reactions, acids and acid
derivatives, (amines, alcohols), and pericyclic reactions. All topics are aimed toward synthesis,
and a understanding of the reaction mechanisms, both of and using the compounds of interest. The
laboratory experiments will deal with guided organic analysis, culminating in classical qualitative
organic analysis. Laboratory fee. Prerequisite: Chemistry 302.
 
CHEM303L: Organic Chemistry II Lab Home
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Students enrolled in CHEM 303 must also enroll in a lab section.
 
CHIN101: Accelerated Beginning Chinese II Home
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This is the second semester of an accelerated course designed for students with little or no
previous language background of Chinese. It provides a systematic and efficient study of Chinese
grammar, vocabulary, oral/aural skills, and reading and writing Chinese characters. The goal of the
course is to enable the students to function successfully in most of the basic communicative
situations with a native Chinese. Students are also exposed at the same time to Chinese cultural
traditions through such activities as viewing Chinese movies, listening to Chinese music, and
tasting Chinese cuisine. The class meets four times per week. Prerequisites: CHIN100.
 
CHIN205: CP Intermediate Chinese II Home
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This course continues to develop the four skills--speaking, listening, writing, and reading--of
Mandarin Chinese. By the end of the intermediate sequence, students will be familiar with all major
grammatical concepts and able to converse comfortably on a wide range of subjects. Students will be
able to write and recognize nearly 2,000 characters in traditional and/or simplified forms. In
addition to the linguistic components, each student will select one or more research topics within
Chinese culture for oral, written, and web-based projects. Prerequisite: Chinese 204 or permission
of the instructor.
 
CMPT240: Introduction to Robotics Home
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This course gives an introduction to the background and theory of robotics, as well as to the
practical electronic, mechanical, and programming aspects of building and controlling robots. Topics
include sensors, feedback, control, and mechanical construction. For ease of prototyping we use an
off the shelf robot controller, the Handy Board, an 8-bit microprocessor that can run Interactive C,
and the LEGO Technic system. Along with a variety of sensors, these materials will allow the class
to work through a series of projects that introduces robotics. In a broader sense, this course
serves as an introduction to solving engineering problems. Course prerequisite: permission of the
instructor. No previous programming or robotics experience is required.
 
CMPT243: Algorithms and Data Structures Home
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This is the second course in the ACM computer science curriculum and lays the foundation for further
work in the discipline. Topics covered include algorithmic analysis, asymptotic notation, central
data structures such as lists, stacks, queues, hash tables, trees, sets, and graphs, and an
introduction to complexity theory. It is not a language course and is intended for students who
already have competence in a high level language such as C++ or Java. Offered yearly. Prerequisite:
Computer Science 242 or permission of the instructor.
 
CMPT252: Discrete Mathematics Home
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The mathematical foundations of computer science, including propositional and predicate logic, sets,
algorithm growth and asymptotic analysis, mathematical induction and recursion, permutations and
combinations, discrete probability, solving recurrences, order relations, graphs, trees, and models
of computation. Prerequisite: Mathematics 210.
 
DANC101: Beginning Modern Dance Technique Home
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This class introduces a modern dance technique that develops expressiveness, proper alignment,
efficient and clear movement, musicality, spatial awareness, coordination, flexibility, strength,
and the ability to dance with others. Course material consists of warm-up exercises, dance
combinations, anatomical information, and imagery and breathing exercises. Reading, written
assignments, and films help students formulate personal viewpoints on dance. The course is designed
for students with little or no previous training, and for those with more experience who will be
challenged accordingly.
 
DANC107: Moving Issues Home
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Moving Issues explores issue-based dance and choreography. The course investigates how personal and
cultural issues can be expressed through dance and, in turn, how dance can impact the experience of
those issues. Students learn to consider such issues and challenges from an artist's standpoint,
through the creation of both improvisational dance and set choreography. The course emphasizes
personal expression, the creative process, and the power of the arts to transform our experience of
the questions, challenges and concerns faced in our lives. The class includes warm-up exercises,
movement and choreography labs, performance opportunities, journaling, discussion, and the use of
other arts modalities. Readings and videos deepen the understanding and experience of class
material. Response journals, movement assignments and a final project/paper are required.
 
DANC108: Dance Production Home
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Students may participate in the dance production course, spring 2010, in one of three
options: a) Modern Dance Repertory and Performance: Students will participate as dancers in the
creation of a work by dance faculty that will be included in the spring dance concert. Students
will attend weekly rehearsals and have the opportunity to contribute to the
choreography. b) Choreography and Performance: This option is for students who would like to
participate in the dance concert and are committed to the quality of the process as well as
performance. Students will create and/or perform dance works for inclusion in the spring dance
concert. Students will be responsible for maintaining at least weekly rehearsals and participation
in periodic group sessions to support piece development. c) Thesis Performance: Students will
participate in a thesis dance performance. Students will attend all scheduled rehearsals. Students
may take dance production spring 2010 at the 108 or 208 level for 1 - 3 credits depending on the
option they choose and the permission of the instructor. Other options may be arranged on an
individual basis. For all options, permission of the instructor is required and for the thesis
performance option, students must also be selected by the thesis director. All students will be
required to maintain journals, and complete a mid-term and final paper.
 
DANC114: Ballet I Home
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In this class, dancers acquire a traditional approach to ballet techniques along with an innovative
foundation which aims for anatomically friendly movement. It offers a flexible blend of classical
ballet, kinesiology, and Tai chi principles in order to encourage flow, efficiency, and a whole body
approach. Clear and efficient technique is developed through barre and center work, and an ongoing
emphasis on musicality, use of breath, awareness of the floor and space, and moving in relation to
others. Individual expression and movement quality are encouraged and developed.
 
DANC120: Chinese Sword Home
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Chinese Sword Form, also known as Tai-Chi Sword, is a meditative movement art based on the same
principles as Taijiquan and Qigong. A symbolic wooden sword is used in slow exercises which explore
the concepts of advancing and yielding. There are 64 movements in the form, and over the course of
the semester we will explore a section of it. The class will include sitting and walking
meditation, then the meditation of the sword form itself. There are some readings which will be
discussed, but the focus of the course is on movement. The primary goal is a balance of relaxation
and resilience in motion.
 
DANC126: Flamenco Dance Home
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This beginning flamenco course introduces students to the basic techniques of the dance as well as
provides an historical and cultural overview through discussion, texts and film. The course
objectives include: achieving proper dance posture and alignment as well as the postural attitude
uniquely associated with Flamenco dance; learning basic flamenco arm and hand movements (braceo) and
basic rhythmical markings of flamenco (marcajes); practicing and mastering various Flamenco
techniques (taconeo); learning some of the Spanish vocabulary of flamenco; gaining an historical
understanding of flamenco's origins; and learning a complete choreography to be performed at the end
of the semester. Throughout the semester the history and culture of flamenco will be infused into
the class through discussion, specific readings, and video presentations. Flamenco shoes must be
worn. Contact instructor for help with purchasing shoes.
 
DANC127: Advanced Beginning Flamenco Dance Home
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Advanced Beginner Flamenco is for those with one semester of Flamenco dance. Students will continue
to work on correct attitude, taconeo and braceo. New rhythms will be introduced and explored
through palmas (hand clapping) marcajes and footwork. In addition, castanets will be
introduced. Flamenco shoes and castanets are necessary for this course. Contact instructor for help
with purchasing both shoes and castanets. Prerequisite: DANC126 or permission of the instructor.
 
DANC201: Intermediate Modern Dance Technique Home
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A continuation of Dance 101-104, this class concentrates on advancing the student's awareness of and
skills in alignment, efficiency and clarity of motion, musicality, spatial use, dancing with others,
and personal expressiveness. Permission of the instructor is required.
 
DANC214: Intermediate Ballet I Home
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A continuation of Dance 114.
 
DANC215: Choreography Workshop Home
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This class is for students with experience in dance who want to combine the study of advanced modern
technique and choreography. Creation and workshopping of dance studies or complete dances will be
the major focus of the course. Discussion of dances on film will provide additional stimulation for
choreographic invention. Prerequisites: permission of instructor (email wshifrin@simons-rock.edu)
 
DANC227: Intermediate Flamenco Dance Home
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Intermediate Flamenco is for those who have successfully completed advanced Beginner Flamenco (127).
Students will continue to work on correct attitude, taconeo and braceo. We will explore more
advanced techniques while building strength and stamina. More complex combinations as well as fan
work will be introduced. In addition women will work with skirts. The history and culture of
flamenco will continue to be infused into the class through discussion, specific readings, and video
presentations. Intermediate students will be required to lead practice groups for the beginners.
 
ECON101: Macroeconomics Home
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This course provides a comprehensive introduction to macroeconomics. The course acquaints the
student with the prevailing economic theories used by today's policy makers. During the course, we
will consider all major economic perspectives, including the central view that markets are a good
way to organize the economy, but that markets generate certain significant flaws that need to be
fixed. In discussing a number of alternative economic theories and perspectives, the ultimate goal
is to increase students' awareness and understanding of economic issues, to improve their ability to
evaluate various policy options, and to help them decipher political-economic rhetoric. The course
starts with the evolution of societies in human history and the development of modern economic
thought. The emphasis is on a conceptual understanding of topics such as economic growth, inflation,
unemployment, the role of governments and fiscal and monetary policies. No prerequisites.
 
ECON226: Economics of Post-reform China Home
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This is a class in the economics of China, focusing on developments since the reforms of 1978. The
class will systematically consider key issues in the Chinese economy with the aim of understanding
current problems and prospects for the near future. Each topic will be understood in two ways:first
through text-based discussion of the particular way it manifests itself in contemporary China,
and second, through the insights of development economics. Topics will include: reforms through the
1990s; growth and poverty reduction; natural resource use; industrial and trade policy;
exchange-rate policy; consumption; urbanization and migration; population growth; labor and wages;
banks and the financial system; relations with the West. Prerequisites: ECON100 or ECON101.
 
ECON326: Economics of Post-reform China Home
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This is a class in the economics of China, focusing on developments since the reforms of 1978. The
class will systematically consider key issues in the Chinese economy with the aim of understanding
current problems and prospects for the near future. Each topic will be understood in two ways:first
through text-based discussion of the particular way it manifests itself in contemporary China,
and second, through the insights of development economics. Topics will include: reforms through the
1990s; growth and poverty reduction; natural resource use; industrial and trade policy;
exchange-rate policy; consumption; urbanization and migration; population growth; labor and wages;
banks and the financial system; relations with the West. Prerequisites: ECON100 or ECON101.
 
ENVS201: Principles of Environmental Management Home
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Here we consider alternate energy technologies, air and water pollution, risk assessment,
environmental law and impact assessment, and the ways in which this society attempts to manage our
environmental issues. Frequent field trips during laboratory time are used to visit hydroelectric
facilities, waste burning cogeneration plans, sewage treatment plants, and water treatment
facilities. Prerequisite: Environmental Studies 100.
 
ENVS207: Introduction to Agroecology Home
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Based on a participatory learning model, Introduction to Agroecology investigates the philosophical
and social underpinnings to the ecologically sustainable farm movement. Using the Simon's Rock
Community Garden to explore the application of ecologically sound practices in agriculture, and
through assigned readings and independent projects, students will explore both what it means to
practice agriculture as well as delve into the history and future of agricultural production in the
industrialized world. This course includes a lab component but does not satisfy the science
requirement. Lab time is dedicated to work in the garden and includes experimentation with soil
nutrients and cover crop efficacy, crop rotation regimes, experimentation with year round production
in the greenhouse, and field trips to local farms. Course work includes weekly response journals, a
mid-term and final exam, and a final project.
 
FREN101: Accelerated Beginning French II Home
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This is the second semester of an accelerated course designed for students with little or no
previous experience of French. The sequence enables them to fulfill the College's language
requirement in one year and prepares them for entry into upper-level courses. The class meets five
hours per week. Prerequisite: Appropriate range of scores on the Simon's Rock online French
placement test or French 100.
 
FREN205: Intermediate French II Home
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Designed for students whose background in French is not sufficient for a higher level, this course
provides a systematic review of French grammar, regular practice in listening and speaking, and
readings in French prose. By the end of the second semester students understand simple French prose
and speech and can express themselves in simple fashion, orally and in writing. Prerequisite:
Appropriate range of scores on the Simon's Rock online French placement test or French 204.
 
FREN321: Modern French Theater Home
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In this course covering the evolution of French theater in the 20th century, full-length plays by
Anouilh, Giraudoux, Montherlant, Camus, Sartre, Beckett, Genet, Sarraute, and Ionesco are read and
discussed in order to acquaint students with such major movements in modern theater as naturalism,
realism, symbolism, and the theater of the absurd. Prerequisites: French 206 or higher.
 
FS100: First-Year Seminar I - Origins: Self and Cosmos. Seminar section for January Admits only. Home
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All first-year students are required to take the two-semester First-Year Seminar. This course
interrogates the origins of Western civilization by exploring a wide variety of primary sources from
the Mesopotamian, Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, and Islamic cultures, within the Levant,
Mediterranean Basin, and Europe. Drawn from antiquity through the 15th century, the course
materials encompass a wide variety of media, including written texts; architectural structures,
sculptures, paintings, and other visual representations; musical selections; and recited sacred and
secular texts. Writing-intensive in nature, this course encourages students to examine, articulate
and support their responses to and ideas drawn from the assigned sources. The main learning goals
for this course are developing critical reading skills, including the "reading" of non-textual
materials, and expressing ideas gained from such reading in oral and written forms. Students
registered for First Year Seminar I must also register for a section of Information Fluency Lab
(FS100FL).
 
FS100FL: Information Fluency Lab Home
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Students registered for First Year Seminar I (FS100) must also register for a section of Information
Fluency Lab. The Information Fluency Lab meets four times during the semester and is designed to
complement First Year Seminar by focusing on library and information skills relevant to the First
Year Seminar materials and assignments.
 
FS101: First Year Seminar II Home
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This course centers on changes in the nature of knowledge and knowing, as various revolutions--the
Scientific Revolution, political revolutions (American, French, and others), and the Industrial
Revolution--swept the world. Initially centered in Europe, the geographic range of this course
expands into the New World as the notion of Western civilization changes with the colonization of
the Western Hemisphere. Drawn from the 16th century through the year 1850, course materials present
the theories of the era and their manifestations in a wide range of forms, including poetry, drama,
autobiography, and the novel; sacred hymns and secular opera; and paintings, photographs, and other
forms of visual expression. Students also investigate critical secondary articles in conjunction
with the primary sources. Building upon First-Year Seminar I, students in this writing-intensive
course work to raise their skills of critical reading, thinking, writing, and discussion to greater
levels of complexity and sophistication.
 
FS101FL: Information Fluency Lab Home
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Students registered for First Year Seminar II (FS101) must also register for a section of
Information Fluency Lab. The Information Fluency Lab meets four times during the semester and is
designed to complement First Year Seminar by focusing on library and information skills relevant to
the First Year Seminar materials and assignments.
 
GEOG225: CP Modern China from the Margins: Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation State Home
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This course examines the making of Chinese modernity through the construction and contestation of
spaces delineating class, gender, ethnicity, and nationhood. Our project is to explore relationships
between space and time in narratives on identity dating roughly from the Opium War of the mid-19th
century to the era of globalization in the early 21st. Materials for study include scholarly works,
political tracts, fiction, essays, documentaries, administrative maps, landscapes, technologies, and
more. Our dialogue revolves around the following questions: First, is the concept of the modern
nation-state applicable to the People's Republic of China and is the Chinese nation-state strictly a
modern phenomenon? Second, how have cultural others--the non-Han peoples--contributed to the idea of
"Zhongguo," the "Central Kingdom(s)," as opposed to "waiguo," the outside ethno-political entities,
through time? What justifications and social controls have been used to facilitate the incorporation
of non-Han territories into the Chinese realm and how is this process continuing in the 21st
century? Third, how has the concept of socioeconomic class been conceived by modern Chinese
political theorists, and upon which varieties of pre-modern social networks and cultural relations
were these ideologies cast? How have class-relations developed over the course of the 20th century
and into the present day? Fourth, how have gender relations and sexuality served as catalysts for
political revolution and social change since the early 20th century? How have they informed Chinese
Communist Party policy since 1949 and how are they changing in the post-reform period of economic
liberalization and the hollowing out of the state? Fifth, how has space been defined in regard to
the nation, the individual, the body, labor, sexuality, gender, ethnicity, the urban, the rural, and
national boundaries in a "globalizing world?" Sixth, how have Chinese intellectuals engaged with
these issues and the question of China's position in the global community in the post-Mao period,
particularly within the engagement between "patriotic worrying," post-modern theory, and the
prospect of an end to the country's geopolitical marginalization? Prerequisites: Completion of
Accelerated Beginning Chinese, a 200-level course in Asian studies or a 200-level course in social
studies.
 
GEOG328: Space & Place in Social Theory Home
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This course is an immersion in classic works on space and place, addressing how they are socially
constructed and why that matters. We read complete works by Henri Lefebvre (The Production of
Space), Raymond Williams (The City and the Country), Gaston Bachelard (The Poetics of Space), David
Harvey (Social Justice and the City), Michel Foucault (Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the
Prison), Martin Heidegger ("Building, Dwelling, Thinking"), and Homi Bhabha (The Location of
Culture). In addition to analyzing the location of these classics within paradigms, schools, and
networks of intellectual influence, students apply the ideas most tenable for (even if contradictory
to) their own new or ongoing work on projects of their own design. Seminal topics include the
production of space; spatial justice; the body, power, and discipline; recurring conceptions of the
urban and the rural; the architecture of the imagination; and "in-between" spaces that are, as
Bhabha posits, "produced in the articulation of cultural difference." Our journey traverses the
domains of phenomenology, cultural studies, urban theory, postcolonial theory, poststructural
theory, and more. Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing and completion of two 200-level courses
or one 300-level course in Social Science.
 
GERM101: Accelerated Beginning German II Home
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This is the second semester of an accelerated course designed for students with little or no
background in German. The two semester sequence enables them to fulfill the language requirement in
one year and introduces students to German grammar and basic vocabulary. Conversational German is
stressed. Students also acquire reading skills through exposure to short stories by such authors as
Bichsel, Hesse, and Borchert. The class meets four times per week. Prerequisite: Permission of the
instructor or German 100.
 
GERM205: Intermediate German II Home
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Designed for students who have studied German but whose grammar background is not sufficient for a
more advanced level, this course presents a systematic review of German grammar and introduces
students to several short stories by contemporary German, Austrian, and Swiss authors. By the end of
the second semester students are able to understand simple German prose and speech and to express
themselves in a simple fashion, orally and in writing. This course fulfills the general language
requirement in one year. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor or German 204.
 
GERM305: Advanced German II Home
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In Advanced German, students read and explore contemporary literary texts by such authors as Thomas
Mann, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, and Ulrich Plenzdorf. They translate shorter texts from the
German original into English, and they work on advanced topics in German grammar and composition.
The course emphasizes the oral development of fluency in the German language in the classroom, while
working on written fluency through weekly response-journal out-of class assignments and other brief
written tasks. Prerequisite: German 301.
 
HIST229: CP Chicanas/Chicanos in the United States: A National History Home
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Constituting roughly 2/3 of the nation's "Latino" population and historically concentrated in the
Southwestern United States, Chicana/o peoples also have roots in the Midwest and the Pacific
Northwest dating back to the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Further, in the latter half of the
20th Century, Mexican origin populations have grown exponentially in the South and the Northeastern
portions of the country, making the emergence of Mexican communities a national phenomenon. Thus,
in an attempt to understand the totality of the Chicana/o experience, this course intends to focus
on the experiences of Mexican origin communities in a national context. Topics covered for this
course include but are not limited to the following: Chicana/o Indigeneity, the Mexican American
War and the subjugation of the Southwestern United States, the Great Migration Era (1900-1930),
Repatriation (1930s), WWII and the Zoot Suit Riots, Labor Activism, Civil Rights, the Bracero
Program, The Chicano Movement, and the ongoing Immigration debate.
 
HIST232: CP The Long Civil Rights Movement Home
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This course examines the recent histiographical shift from "Classical Civil Rights Movement"
scholarship to what historians Singh and Hall have phrased the "Long Civil Rights Movement."
Primarily, we will focus our attention on how Long Civil Rights scholars stretch the timeline and
re-orient the roots of Civil Rights struggles. Additionally, this course will shift away from the
black and white racial binary that dominates traditional Civil Rights scholarship by including works
analyzing the American Indian and Chicana/Chicano movements.Prerequisites for this course are
completion of one social studies class. For more advanced students, the course may be taken at the
300-level via permission of instructor. This course offers credit toward the College's Cultural
Perspectives distribution requirement for the AA. Prerequisite: Completion of one 200-level social
studies class.
 
HIST302: The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and Panopticons Home
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Michel Foucault argued that we are "individuals" not because of our talents and preferences, but
because we deviate in varied ways from an imposed norm; that sex is not a biological given, but an
historically contingent concept used to defend "the normal" from "the abnormal;" that anything (and
therefore nothing distinctive) can be deduced from the domination of the bourgeoisie; and that
therapists in liberal democracies share with the police of totalitarian dictatorships a common
ancestor in medieval Christian priests. He thus engaged in a series of provocative dialogues with
other thinkers that challenged western notions of the apriori human subject; re-conceptualized the
relationship of power and knowledge in academic and political discourse; and redefined what it meant
to be an intellectual in the postmodern world. Noting that Foucault's work is relevant to important
new understandings of the social sciences, the arts, literary criticism, and politics, this course
analyzes the fruitful encounters of his ideas with past and present critical theory;
post-structuralism; and feminist and post-colonial analyses of marginalization and resistance. It
thus explores possibilities for creating a future freer and more just than the present which so
exercised Foucault's iconoclastic ire. Prerequisite: Upper Division Status or permission of the
instructor. (4 credits). This course satisfies a core requirement in two concentrations: Historical
Studies and Contemporary Critical Theory.
 
LING101: English Grammar Home
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This course presents and reviews the rules and formative processes of English grammar. Students will
work with grammatical exercises and then apply their knowledge learning how to organize sentences
and paragraphs and to structure and develop their ideas in papers. The course is designed to help
students improve their writing skills by learning formal rules of grammar. It is also designed for
students who are good writers but who want to finally learn what English grammar is all about.
Grades will be based on daily grammar exercises, class participation, and a final exam. This course
adds to offerings in English, in writing, in linguistics, and in the study of language. However,
this course does not count towards fulfillment of the language requirement. No prerequisites.
 
LING305: Topics in Syntax & Morphology Home
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This course presents readings in theories and methods of morphological and syntactic analysis.
Readings and analytic problems acquaint students with principles of analyzing word formation
patterns (morphology) and of phrasal and sentence construction (syntax). Structural and generative
theories will be explored. Data will be drawn from indigenous, non-European, and European languages.
Prerequisite: Linguistics 100 or its equivalent.
 
LIT205: Art of Autobiography Home
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In this course, we will read a series of contemporary personal narratives in prose, poetry and
graphic memoir formats from different cultures and geographic regions, including the Americas, the
Middle East, Africa and China, exploring the various ways the self is textually constructed across a
range of cultural contexts. We will use these texts as springboards for literary analysis, as well
as inspirational prompts for students' own autobiographical writing. Weekly response journals, a
midterm and a final paper will be the primary assignments.
 
LIT207: Art of Drama Home
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This course will introduce students to drama as both a performing and literary art by examining
plays in their artistic, historical, and cultural contexts. While Western dramatic traditions will
be the core of the works studied, some non-Western drama will also be considered. Periods and forms
to be considered will include Greek tragedy and comedy, Medieval morality plays, Noh, Renaissance,
and Restoration drama, and modern movements such as realism, expressionism, and Theater of the
Absurd. Readings will focus on dramatic texts, with additional materials drawn from aesthetic
theory and historical sources.
 
LIT216: Focus Home
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LIT 216M1---Focus: Albert Camus---Camus--journalist, playwright, philosopher, novelist, and Nobel
Prize winner--is one of the most important and widely-discussed writers of the post-WWII period.
Both during his lifetime and since, his works have been international bestsellers. This course will
closely examine his essay The Myth of Sisyphus, selections from his contributions to the debates
about post-WWII France and Algeria in the newspaper Combat, and his major fiction: The Stranger, The
Plague, Exile and the Kingdom, and The Fall.
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LIT 216M2---Focus: Salman Rushdie---Even before his novel The Satanic Verses turned him into an
international symbol in 1989, Salman Rushdie had already established himself as a leading
postcolonial voice with the widely acclaimed Midnight's Children. This course will closely examine
these novels and two others--Shame and Haroun and the Sea of Stories--as well as some of the essays
from his collections Imaginary Homelands and Step Across This Line.
 
LIT225: Modern Irish Literature Home
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This course explores the work of writers who have contributed to an examination of Ireland and its
people during the tumultuous century that followed the publication of James Joyce's Dubliners in
1914 -- a time that saw the struggle to end colonial rule, civil war, cycles of poverty and
emigration, sectarian violence, an economic boom, and a fragile peace. The course offers a grounding
in the Irish Literary Revival of the early 20th century, a movement that was intimately connected
with both literary modernism and Irish nationalism, and traces how debates about literature and
"Irishness" continued to play out over the course of the century. Writers studied include Joyce,
J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O'Brien, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien, Seamus Heaney,
Roddy Doyle, Brian Friel, Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson, and Anne Enright.
 
LIT237: Home on the Range: Western Films and Fictions Home
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The Western, in either its literary or cinematic forms, was a staple of American popular culture
from the second half of the 19th century until the late 1960s. In recent decades, as writers and
filmmakers have begun questioning the romantic conventions and cultural ideologies that typically
dominated the genre, the Western has occasionally taken the form of what might be termed the
revisionist or "anti-Western." In addition, critics and cultural historians now see the Western as
expressing a range of often troubling or contradictory assumptions and attitudes about American
history and culture. In an effort to better understand the complexities of the Western's role in
representing and shaping American history and culture, as well as the ways in which literature and
film collaborate and diverge, we will read various works of fiction as well as the films to which
they gave rise. Central film/fiction pairings will include the following: Shane; "The Tin
Star"/High Noon; "Stage To Lordsburg"/Stagecoach; The Virginian; Horseman; Pass By/Hud; The Ox-Bow
Incident; Little Big Man; All the Pretty Horses; and Brokeback Mountain. We will also examine a few
additional films that have been central to the creation and redefinition of the genre (these might
include The Wild Bunch; Unforgiven; McCabe and Mrs. Miller; The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly; My
Darling Clementine; The Searchers; and Red River).
 
LIT272: From Freud to Zizek: Theories of Creativity and the Unconscious Home
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This course will consider the idea of the individual in relation to the creative act. What is
creativity? What is its source? How have we understood the creative object in its various forms:
art, literature, love, religion? Starting with Freud's seminal essays, we will trace the movement of
these ideas within critical and literary theory from the 20th century to the present. Topics will
include dreams and fantasy, the uncanny, trauma, desire, humor, and post-humanism and cyber-culture.
We will also read a variety of "creative" texts including works by Sappho, Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe, Edgar Allen Poe, Philip K. Dick, Louise Erdrich, David Foster Wallace, Neil Gaiman, Grace
Paley, and Mark Z. Danielewski. (Authors may change.) No prerequisites.
 
LIT288: Fiction Workshop Home
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For students who have some experience in writing short fiction and want to give and receive helpful
criticism in a workshop atmosphere, this course combines structure and freedom: structure in the
form of assigned exercises drawing attention to the elements and techniques of fiction and freedom
in the form of longer, independently conceived stories. Some time is spent each week discussing
short fiction by contemporary writers as well as that of students in the workshop, with the goal of
sharpening our abilities as writers, editors, and critics. Admission to the course is selective;
candidates must submit samples of their writing to the instructor before registration. Prerequisite:
Literature 150 or permission of the instructor.
 
LIT295: Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream Home
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In this media studies practicum course, students will learn and practice basic news gathering and
production techniques for a range of different delivery platforms, from digitized "print" format
newspapers, radio podcasts and live broadcasts, blogs and short video clips. Drawing on both print
and online resources, we will explore the history of the media in the U.S. and its current state
today, asking questions such as: What is the role of the so-called alternative media today, and
which media outlets are best at performing this role? What impact has the widespread use of social
media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook had on the business and practice of journalism, as well
as on our political system? How far outside the box of big media does one have to go to find
independent journalism--or is such a category even valid anymore? How has the saturation of our
lives by the media affected the ways we perceive each other and the world around us? On the
practical side, students will develop and refine basic news gathering techniques for print, radio
and film. We will work with producers at the Great Barrington Community Radio Station, WBCR-LP, to
produce a monthly radio show, and will also produce short informational video clips. Assignments
will include: a series of journalistic writing assignments keyed to specific formats; a midterm
research paper; the start-up of a blog; and participation in community radio and video production
projects. There is a course fee.
 
LIT305: Faithful Thinkers: Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Barfield Home
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In proposing the concept of the "faithful thinker" in 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson addressed what he
believed to be the limitations of traditional science and religion as ways of understanding the
world. Unfortunately, he never tried to develop the epistemological basis for his concept or found a
way to put his theory into practice. Others, however, did. In his botanical studies, as well as his
studies of light and color, the German writer and naturalist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
systematically developed a preliminary methodology of faithful thinking, which he called "exact
sensorial imagination." Indebted to both Goethe and Emerson, Henry David Thoreau's natural history
writing illustrates the philosophic, literary, and scientific consequences of looking at the natural
world with their ideas and methods in mind. Finally, the work of the 20th-century English
philosopher Owen Barfield articulates the historical and epistemological bases for faithful thinking
and indicates various practical consequences stemming from its application to contemporary problems.
A study of their literary, philosophical, and scientific writings can add a new dimension to our
understanding of Romanticism, both past and present. In addition to studying key works by these four
writers, we will briefly look at some instances and explorations of "faithful thinking" among
contemporary writers and scientists (e.g., Arthur Zajonc, Craig Holdredge, David Seamon, Henri
Bortoft). Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and a 200-level literature course or permission of the
instructor.
 
LIT322: Five Books of Moses: Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible Home
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Hermeneutics can be understood as the art of interpretation of sacred scripture. What is the meaning
of a text? How can that meaning be illuminated? What is the author's intent? What are the questions
one must ask when the author is divine? This course will center on the Pentateuch: Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These five books offer richly textured and intricately woven
motifs, powerful inner structures of sound, echoes, allusions, repetitions, and complex narrative
and rhetorical force. Further, ideas of primeval history, patriarchy, deliverance, law, sacrifice,
ritual, holiness, rebellion, and the covenant find their home here. Over the last 20 years there has
been an explosion of literary study of the Hebrew Bible, and we will do both a close reading of the
text and an examination of some of the theoretical issues that are fundamental to it. We will read
secondary literature by biblical scholars such as Harold Bloom, Leslie Brisman, Martin Buber, Mary
Douglas, Everett Fox, Joel Rosenberg, and Gershom Scholem, and by creative writers such as Isaac
Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, John Milton, and William Blake. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing
and a 200-level literature course or permission of the instructor.
 
LIT388: Fiction Workshop Home
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For students who have some experience in writing short fiction and want to give and receive helpful
criticism in a workshop atmosphere, this course combines structure and freedom: structure in the
form of assigned exercises drawing attention to the elements and techniques of fiction and freedom
in the form of longer, independently conceived stories. Some time is spent each week discussing
short fiction by contemporary writers as well as that of students in the workshop, with the goal of
sharpening our abilities as writers, editors, and critics. Admission to the course is selective;
candidates must submit samples of their writing to the instructor before registration. Prerequisite:
Literature 150 or permission of the instructor.
 
LR202: Study Away Preparation Home
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The "Study Away Preparation" and "Study Away Reflection" courses are a required part of the Leave To
Study Away process, intended to help students prepare for a study term abroad or away from Simon's
Rock. The Preparation course consists of three sessions offering practical information, strategies
for adjusting to a new campus or a new country, discussions of cultural differences encountered in
study abroad, and presentations by students on their chosen study destination. It is expected that
some students may already have already traveled abroad, or in the case of international students,
may have already completed a similar course in their home country. Every effort will be made to
provide a meaningful and useful experience in this course for these students, and it will be adapted
based on the participants. The course provides practical information and engagement with the chosen
destination before the student's program begins, but it also offers a chance for students to
consider "culture" as a larger concept, and to share experiences with those who are new to study
away or abroad. Students who fail to complete the Preparation course will not be granted permission
to study abroad/away as part of a Simon's Rock degree program. The Reflection course consists of
participation in the study abroad blog, completion of the return survey, and a presentation by the
student in the semester of his/her return to campus. Prerequisites: Moderated Sophomore standing or
above and completion of the Leave to Study Away Application form.
 
MATH101: Math & Its Applications Home
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This course develops the mathematical and quantitative skills required of an effective citizen in
our complex society. The emphasis is on the interpretation of material utilizing mathematics, as
opposed to the development of simple numerical skills. Possible topics include the application of
elementary algebra to common practical problems; exponential growth, with applications to financial
and social issues; an introduction to probability and statistics; and the presentation and
interpretation of graphically presented information. Instruction in the uses of a scientific
calculator and of a computer to facilitate calculations is an integral part of the course.
Prerequisites: Adequate performance on the mathematics placement exam or completion of Math 099.
 
MATH109: Elementary Functions Home
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A transition from secondary school to college-level mathematics in both style and content, this
course explores the elementary functions. Topics include polynomial, exponential, logarithmic, and
trigonometric functions; graphing; inequalities; data analysis; and the use of a graphing calculator
and/or computer. The course meets the College's mathematics requirement and also prepares students
for calculus. Prerequisite: Mathematics 101, or at least two years of high school mathematics and
adequate performance on the mathematics placement exam.
 
MATH110: Introduction to Statistics Home
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This course offers an introduction to statistical methods for the collection, organization,
analysis, and interpretation of numerical data. Topics include probability, binomial and normal
distributions, sampling, hypothesis testing, confidence limits, regression and correlation, and
introductory analysis of variance. The course is oriented toward the increasingly important
applications of statistics in the social sciences. Prerequisite: Adequate performance on the
mathematics placement exam.
 
MATH210: Calculus I Home
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A course in differential and integral calculus in one variable. Topics include an introduction to
limits and continuity, the derivative and its applications to max-min and related rate problems, the
mean value theorem, the definite integral, and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Prerequisite:
Mathematics 109 or adequate performance on the mathematics placement exam.
 
MATH211: Calculus II Home
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This course is a continuation of Calculus I. Topics include techniques of integration, numerical
integration, applications of the definite integral, Taylor approximations, infinite series, and an
introduction to differential equations. Prerequisite: Math 210.
 
MATH221: Vector Calculus Home
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This course deals with multivariable calculus and vector analysis. Topics include differentiation of
vector functions, multiple integrals, line and surface integrals, vector fields, and the theorems of
Stokes and Green. Applications to geometry and physics are considered as time permits.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 211 and 220.
 
MATH231: Data: Exploration, Analysis, and Mining Home
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This course builds upon introductory courses in mathematics, statistics, and computer science. It
adds more in-depth understanding of how to approach data analysis and provides an introduction to
data mining. While students may take courses in computer science or statistics that cover topics in
algorithms, modeling, and data visualization, this course would address additional related topics
not currently covered, such as clustering, decision trees, and data cleaning/preparation. Data
analysis and mining has applications in industry, science, engineering, and government, and the
intent of the course is to present the material at a level appropriate for students interested in
the many different areas of use. Prerequisites: Math110, Math 210, or CMPT 242 or permission of
Instructor.
 
MATH313: Analysis II Home
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This course is a continuation of Mathematics 312. Topics include series, the integral in one
variable, Dirac sequences, Fourier series, improper integrals, and Fourier transforms. Prerequisite:
Mathematics 312.
 
MATH364: Ordinary Differential Equations Home
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This is an introductory course on ordinary differential equations. Topics include first-order
equations, second order linear equations, harmonic oscillators, qualitative properties of solutions,
power series methods, Laplace transforms, and existence and uniqueness theorems. Both the theory and
applications are studied, including several problems of historical importance. Prerequisite:
Mathematics 221 or permission of the instructor.
 
MUS103: Musicianship Home
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This course is for students without previous experience with written music or those wishing to
review and strengthen basic musical skills. It covers the basics of pitch and rhythm and their
notations, scales, simple chords, intervals, and the layout of the keyboard. Activities involve
singing, playing recorder, keyboard, or guitar, and practicing rhythmic patterns on simple
percussion instruments. It is recommended for all students taking music lessons, as well as those
planning to take music theory or composition courses.
 
MUS117: Chorus Home
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The rehearsal and reading of works from part-song and choral literature from the Middle Ages to
present. Chorus is open to all students and community members by audition. Previous singing
experience and some music reading ability are desirable preparation.
 
MUS180: Applied Music: Trombone Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS181: Applied Music: Bassoon Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS183: Applied Music: Harp Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS184: Applied Music: Gamba Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS185: Applied Music: Saxophone Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS187: Applied Music: Clarinet Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS188: Applied Music:Trumpet Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS189: Applied Music: Mandolin Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS190: Applied Music: Piano Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS191: Applied Music: Voice Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS192: Applied Music: Flute Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS193: Applied Music: Guitar Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS195: Applied Music: Cello Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS196: Applied Music: Percussion Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS197: Applied Music: Oboe Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS198: Applied Music: Bass Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS199: Applied Music: Violin/Viola Home
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Private music lessons.
 
MUS204: Earlier Baroque Music Home
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The modern musical era was born in a concentrated period of revolutionary activity focusing on the
creation of opera and of free-standing instrumental forms. This module explores music written
between the beginning of the 17th century and the birth of Bach (1685). In addition to opera and
monody, it focuses on the creation of sonatas, fugues, concerti, and music built around the Lutheran
chorale. Composers include Monteverdi, Gabrieli, and Schütz.
 
MUS205: Later Baroque (Bach & Handel) Home
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This course focuses on the music of the later baroque period (ca. 1680-1750) which was dominated by
the two contrasting German masters Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederick Handel. We will become
familiar with the musical languages, styles, genres, forms, and social functions of the music of
this era; develop listening skills; and learn about the artistic standards and expectations of the
times. This will be set against the background of the biographies of the two composers as well as of
the other arts (literature, painting), philosophy, religion, science, technology, politics, and
social life in contemporary Europe.
 
MUS207: Theory II: Tonal Harmony Home
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Theory I introduces the tonal system through the composition and analysis of simple melodies. The
course gradually builds the picture of harmonized melody by developing bass-lines and inner voices
utilizing triads in all inversions. It also builds basic musical skills, emphasizing interval
identification and minimal keyboard familiarity. Theory II introduces the use of dissonance in the
form of suspension and seventh chords, and chromaticism in the form of secondary harmonies and
modulatory progressions. Chromatic harmonies (Neapolitan and augmented sixth chords) and enharmonic
relations complete the tonal picture. Short whole pieces from the Baroque period are used as first
examples of whole-piece analysis. Prerequisites: Intermediate music-reading ability and permission
of the instructor.
 
MUS210: Composition Home
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Students present original compositions for examination, discussion, and performance by the class.
Course work includes writing for combinations of instruments or voices, with the possibility of
public performance available. Exercises in counterpoint and arranging are included. Where relevant,
contemporary compositions are studied through scores and recorded performances. Prerequisites:
Completion of one semester of music theory, or equivalent.
 
MUS222: Jazz Ensemble Home
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The rehearsal and reading of jazz literature from a wide range of styles. Open to all students and
community members by audition. Some ability to read music is required.
 
MUS278: Collegium Home
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The Collegium (early music ensemble) will explore early music through playing period instruments
such as recorders and viols, and singing. Guitarists, violinists, and cellists may also be accepted.
Each semester will focus on music of a particular country or genre. Simon's Rock owns a tenor and
bass recorder as well as treble, tenor, and bass viols, which are free to the users. Students
wishing to play recorder should expect to bring their own soprano and/or alto recorders. Plastic
recorders, which work very well, can be purchased very inexpensively. Rental instruments may be
available for a modest fee. Music will usually be provided, with the caveat that during some
semesters students may be required to buy a particular collection of music as part of specific
studies. Participation in a final concert as well as regular class attendance is required for
receiving credit and a Pass/Fail grade. Students will be expected to practice outside of classes.
There is a class fee.
 
MUS280: Madrigal Group Home
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This chamber choir of six to 10 voices rehearses and performs a cappella vocal music concentrating
on the vast repertoire of Renaissance madrigals and motets. It may also perform vocal music from the
Middle Ages and contemporary a cappella madrigals. It is open to all students by audition. Previous
choral experience and basic music reading skills are required. Prerequisite: Music 117, which may be
taken concurrently.
 
MUS289: Chamber Orchestra Home
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The chamber ensemble is engaged in the reading, rehearsal, and performance of classical and modern
literature for larger chamber and smaller orchestral ensembles. It is open to students of
intermediate to advanced skill on orchestral instruments (strings, woodwind, brass). Individual
students may be selected to perform solo concertos with the ensemble.
 
MUS310: Composition Home
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Students present original compositions for examination, discussion, and performance by the class.
Course work includes writing for combinations of instruments or voices, with the possibility of
public performance available. Exercises in counterpoint and arranging are included. Where relevant,
contemporary compositions are studied through scores and recorded performances. Prerequisites:
Completion of one semester of music theory, or equivalent.
 
NATS116: Forensic Science Home
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Forensic science is the study and application of science to matters of criminal and civil law. This
course will emphasize complex reasoning, observation skills, and critical thinking. Forensic
Science involves many areas of science, including anatomy, microscopy, molecular biology, chemistry,
physics and earth science. Some topics in forensics such as evidence collection, DNA analysis, blood
spatter, impression and trace evidence analysis will be addressed in this class. Students will also
incorporate the use of technology, writing skills, mathematics and social psychology, and integrate
these skills around the theme of solving hypothetical crimes. Prerequisites include: at least one
high school science course and completion of MATH 101 or higher at Simon's Rock. This course does
fulfill science requirement.
 
NATS150: Science Seminar: Global Climate Change Home
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This course examines the science of the earth's climate, with a focus on understanding the recent
scientific realization that human activity could be changing it in profound ways. Topics include
solar radiation, the carbon cycle, greenhouse gases, measuring the climate of the past, and
predicting the climate of the future. We will also discuss ways that humans might lessen or correct
their impact on the climate. The course satisfies the science requirement, and is designed to be
suitable for all students, regardless of previous science background. Lab required. Coreq: Math 109
or a higher level math course.
 
NATS150L: Science Seminar Lab Home
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Students taking NATS150 must also register for the lab.
 
NATS410: Research Methods Home
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This course prepares students for research in the natural sciences and helps prepare them for Senior
Thesis work. Topics covered include the nature of scientific methods and the philosophy of science,
parametric and non-parametric statistics, and the review and critique of current scientific
literature. The course is required for natural science majors and is strongly recommended for
environmental studies majors. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.
 
PHIL175: Ethics Home
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In this class, we will examine foundational questions in ethics. We will discuss the objectivity of
morality, the nature of well-being, and the rules that govern right conduct. Is there an objective
fact about right and wrong, or is morality relative to persons or cultures? What is it to live a
good life? What rules--if any--determine what is right or wrong? How should we make moral decisions?
Three applications of ethical theory will help guide our discussion: our duties to the less
fortunate, ethical vegetarianism, and the value of the environment. Grades will be assigned on the
basis of papers, exams, and class participation. No prerequisites.
 
PHIL215: Epistemology Home
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Can we know that God exists? That neutrons exist? That each other exists? That Simon's Rock exists?
To answer these questions, we must first know what knowledge is. Epistemology is the study of
knowledge and related notions such as justification, belief, and evidence. In this course, we will
examine central questions in epistemology by examining primary texts, both historical and
contemporary. We will study both traditional epistemology (which considers belief, disbelief, and
agnosticism) and probabilistic epistemology (which takes belief to be a matter of degree). Topics
will include: skepticism; the nature of knowledge; the nature of justification; the relationship
between knowledge and justification; feminist epistemology; a priori knowledge; peer disagreement;
self-locating beliefs; and applications of epistemological principles to puzzling and paradoxical
situations, including Sleeping Beauty, Doomsday, Reflection, the Lottery Paradox, and the Cable Guy
Paradox. Prerequisite: one class in social studies or permission of the instructor.
 
PHIL229: Introduction to the New Testament Home
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The Christian New Testament is a small group of works with profound historical, theological, and
ethical implications generated in part by the many tensions they contain. These works attribute
universal and eternal significance to the life, teachings, and death of a peasant in an obscure
backwater of the Roman Empire; they reflect a deep-seated Judaism at the same time that they have
led to the most vicious anti-Jewish oppression in history; they contain distinct and perhaps
disparate messages from the two central figures, Jesus and Paul; they counsel a moral focus on the
kingdom of God while containing decidedly political messages -- and having been themselves written,
redacted, and collected as a result of intensely political processes. In this course, we explore the
New Testament by means of a variety of methods: contextualization within the Hellenistic world and
within Judaism of late antiquity; analysis of primary texts through comparison to similar texts in
the New Testament, the Hebrew Bible, and noncanonical works; and reflection on the theological
dimensions of the texts. Prerequisite: Seminar I (FS100).
 
PHYS101: Physics II Home
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This course continues the calculus-based physics sequence begun in Physics 100. Topics include
thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, optics, special relativity, and wave mechanics. Accompanying
laboratory required. Prerequisite: Physics 100. Corequisite: Mathematics 211.
 
PHYS101L: Physics II Lab Home
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Students enrolled in PHYS 101 must also register for a lab section.
 
PHYS303: Classical Mechanics Home
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Classical mechanics is a study of matter and energy in the limits that the quantization of nature is
not observable and the speed of light can be considered to be infinitely fast. Topics include the
harmonic oscillator, celestial mechanics, rigid body motion, rotation, and the Lagrangian
formulation of mechanics. Other possible topics include fluids, statics, and nonlinear systems.
Prerequisite: Physics 101.
 
POLS100: Introduction to Politics Home
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This course explores the concept, domain, and discipline of politics. We engage with various
attempts to define and determine the nature, form, content and extent of "the political." In doing
so, we try to access the tense and conflicting sources of our own current understandings of
politics, its subjects and its objects. Working with and through texts over the course of the
semester, we come up with our own speculations about what constitutes the political; when, where,
and how politics happens; what it means to think, ask, and act politically; and what being a student
of politics may entail. This introductory course errs more on the side of questions rather than
answers, even if only to show that studying and thinking politics requires an ability to submit to
the fullness of a situation, to ask good questions, and to be patient and humble in the absence of
clear-cut answers. In this way, we equip ourselves with some of the conceptual, experiential, and
analytical tools to be put to use in our subsequent engagements with the study, activity, and
experience of politics. No prerequisites.
 
POLS327: Marx after Marx Home
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This course is devoted to close readings of Karl Marx and two Marxists. In its previous iteration
(Fall 2007), Georg Lukacs and Walter Benjamin were featured as key 20th century Western Marxists.
This time, the featured Marxists will be V.I. Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg. The course turns to explicit
treatments of imperialism, colonialism, and reactionary politics broadly understood, to map the
terrain of Marx's turn to politics, asking whether and how it was a turn "away" from philosophy,
conventionally understood. We will assess him as a political analyst, revolutionary, historian,
economist, and philosopher, highlighting the questions of goal, strategy, tactic, and political
organization. This will involve a serious familiarization with the history of the political battles
waging in roughly the century between the failed revolutions in Europe and the first world war (as
presaging Europe's fascist turn). The writings of Lenin and Luxemburg will testify to two different
legacies of Marx in relation to political philosophy and strategy, different from and predating the
turn to an emphasis on culture and critique as issues of political strategy receded. The course will
attempt to take the rich lessons of critique and a nuanced understanding of politics into the realm
of grand political action in history to see what lessons can be derived for political possibility in
the current moment. Other key political thinkers and actors of the late 19th and early 20th century
will be featured as well. Prerequisites: Sophomore Seminar + POLS 100 or POLS 225 or a 200-level
[or above] course in relevant social or literary studies (contact the instructor with any
questions).
 
PSYC100: Introduction to Psychology Home
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A survey of the rich and varied determinants of human behavior, this course examines the biological
bases of behavior; the origins of perception, thought, emotion, and language; the components of
learning and how people develop over the life span; and the formation of personality, psychological
disorders, and forms of psychotherapy. It examines human beings as individuals and within the
context of society. No prerequisites.
 
PSYC202: Developmental Psychology Home
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This course covers the major issues in human development from the prenatal stage to adolescence,
introducing the concepts of behavioral, psychoanalytic, and Piagetian developmental theory. Topics
include genetic and prenatal influences, early parent/child interaction, cultural differences in
child-rearing, the acquisition of language, cognitive and moral development, sex-role development,
and social/cultural conditions affecting development. A volunteer experience at a local day-care
center may be substituted for a term paper. Prerequisite: Psychology 100.
 
PSYC221: Stereotyping and Prejudice Home
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Is stereotyping inevitable? Does prejudice always lead to discrimination? What is dehumanization?
This course will highlight the distinct differences yet interrelationship among stereotyping,
prejudice, and discrimination. Topics to be addressed include the functions/goals served by
stereotypes and prejudice (i.e., to make yourself feel better). Also discussed will be stigma, the
various types of --isms (i.e., modern racism), and individual differences (i.e., personality
influences). Cross-cultural perspectives will be explored. Popular culture, current events, and
scholarly articles will be used to highlight the numerous concepts we will cover. Prerequisite:
PSYC100.
 
PSYC302: Abnormal Psychology Home
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This course systematically reviews and discusses the principal forms of psychopathology, with an
emphasis on empirical research. The DSM IIIR is the focus for classification and definition of the
clinical syndromes. Readings include a text, case study book, and original sources. The course is a
seminar and students contribute formal presentations. Prerequisite: Psychology 100; Psychology 206
advised.
 
PSYC321: Stereotyping and Prejudice Home
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Is stereotyping inevitable? Does prejudice always lead to discrimination? What is dehumanization?
This course will highlight the distinct differences yet interrelationship among stereotyping,
prejudice, and discrimination. Topics to be addressed include the functions/goals served by
stereotypes and prejudice (i.e., to make yourself feel better). Also discussed will be stigma, the
various types of --isms (i.e., modern racism), and individual differences (i.e., personality
influences). Cross-cultural perspectives will be explored. Popular culture, current events, and
scholarly articles will be used to highlight the numerous concepts we will cover. Prerequisite:
PSYC100 and at least one 200-level course in psychology.
 
PSYC348: The Man and the Experiment that Shocked the World: The Work and Legacy of Stanley Milgram Home
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It has now been more than fifty years since the original work of Stanley Milgram demonstrated the
remarkable and widely unpredicted finding that large numbers of individuals in multiple samples of
American men and women studied were willing to "punish" another person when ordered to do so by an
experimenter; this in the context of a psychology experiment on learning and memory. The prominence
of the initial work and the continued salience of such a study and associated findings in the domain
of social psychology cannot be over-stated. In a review Thomas Blass (1991) listed as many as 200
references. It could well be that dozens more have appeared since then. It is even the case that
as recently as three years ago a replication of the original study with only slight modifications
was published (J. Burger, January 2009). In addition, a diligent search of current psychology and
cross disciplinary archives can uncover still further studies and demonstrations that provide
evidence that "obedience" is prevalent in our society and in many others as well. The domain of
Milgram studies is especially worthy of continuing interest. This not only because of the vastness
of both criticism and praise to which the original work was subjected but also because of events in
our current time which suggest that the continuing study of obedience phenomena is necessary even in
a democratic society and that social scientists should find a way to safely and ethically
investigate the conditions that promote destructive obedience and thereby learn the rudiments of how
it can be minimized. Prerequisites: Junior or senior status and completion of at least one
Intermediate (200-level) psychology course or permission of instructor. Students with advanced
coursework and interest in the social sciences are encouraged to contact the instructor.
(levine@bard.edu)
 
SART102: Photography I: Black & White/Analog Home
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Basic photographic equipment, darkroom techniques, and image making are introduced. Independent work
in the darkroom is conducted and evaluated through lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and
critiques. The visual history of photography is studied through a series of media presentations.
Students experiment with a variety of images and ideas before pursuing a specific direction. Each
student presents a portfolio of selected prints at the conclusion of the semester. Studio fee.
Students supply their own cameras, film, printing paper, and related supplies. No prerequisites.
 
SART106: Introduction to Ceramics Home
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Students in this course will learn the fundamentals of clay forming techniques as they produce
bowls, mugs, vases, and lidded jars among other forms. The class will learn both hand building and
wheel throwing skills. A variety of glazing methods will be introduced. Structural integrity,
function, and aesthetic issues will be considered equally. The class will be introduced to
historical and contemporary trends and innovations in ceramics. Students will keep a sketchbook and
participate in a field trip. No prerequisites.
 
SART208: Intermediate Hand-building Home
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This course will focus on advanced hand-building techniques and build upon the skills learned in
Introduction to Ceramics. A series of assignments will be given that present design challenges
encouraging a conceptual approach to learning new techniques. Large scale hand-built sculpture, mold
making, slip casting, clay and glaze mixing, and kiln firing techniques (electric, gas, wood) will
all be introduced in this course. An essential part of the course consists of questioning every
aspect of the object and one's relationship to it and to oneself. Through slides, lectures, and
films, students will exposed to a broader range of contemporary and historical ceramic art. The
class will maintain a blog, and students will learn to photograph their work, write about it, and
post blog entries. Prerequisite: Studio Art 106.
 
SART221: Video Production II Home
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This project-based course is suggested for students with previous production experience. It
addresses intermediate-to-advanced level topics in field and studio production. Students will
receive instruction in: Scripting for the short film; digital video camera work; lighting; sound
recording; and digital editing. Students will be expected to produce at least one short film of
their own and to participate fully in the creation of a group project overseen by the instructor.
Prerequisite: Studio Art 123 or permission of the instructor.
 
SART235: Painting Studio Home
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In this class we will approach the construction of an oil painting through the Old Master school of
thought where the student first learns about Value and Composition, as well as the basic materials
used through the study of still life paintings. The second half of the semester is dedicated to
learning about color mixing and the application thereof through direct application and glazing; now,
the students' own ideas on subject matter are taken into consideration as the teacher's role begins
to shift more into conceptual evaluation. This course fulfills the arts requirement. There are no
prerequisites.
 
SART273: Photography II Home
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Seeing, thinking and photographing in color are explored in this foundation course. Utilizing both
analog and digital methods, the expressive possibilities of color photography are investigated
through guided assignments, critiques, as well as presentations and discussions on the history and
practice of color photography. Theories and perception of color will be discussed. The essentials of
Photoshop, scanning, and digital printing are introduced in this course. Students propose and create
a final project in the last third of the course. Studio fee. Students supply their own camera, and
related supplies. Note: You do not need a digital SLR to participate in this class. Prerequisite:
SART 102 Photography I: Black & White/Analog
 
SART303: Photography II Home
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Seeing, thinking and photographing in color are explored in this foundation course. Utilizing both
analog and digital methods, the expressive possibilities of color photography are investigated
through guided assignments, critiques, as well as presentations and discussions on the history and
practice of color photography. Theories and perception of color will be discussed. The essentials of
Photoshop, scanning, and digital printing are introduced in this course. Students propose and create
a final project in the last third of the course. Studio fee. Students supply their own camera, and
related supplies. Note: You do not need a digital SLR to participate in this class. Prerequisite:
SART 102 Photography I: Black & White/Analog
 
SART307: Documentary Photography: History and Practice Home
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This class is both a studio art class and a photography history class. The idea is to become
immersed in the topic of documentary photography both by examining its history and by making
photographs. We will make a thematic survey of documentary photography and read contemporary
photographic criticism. At the same time students will work on visual assignments that will relate
to topics discussed. Topics will include photography and social change, war photography, the FSA
photographers, urban street photography, issues of voyeurism, race and class, revisionist
documentary photography, and the relationship between documentary, art photography and
photojournalism. Each class will be divided into two sections. In the first half we will look at
slides and examine the history and criticism of documentary photography. The second section will be
reserved for the review and critique of student work. In the beginning of the course students will
work on assignments exploring different aspects of documentary photography; after mid-term students
will complete an extended documentary project. Prerequisite SART 102 Intro to Photography.
 
SART321: Advanced Video Production Home
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This project-based course is suggested for students with previous production experience. It
addresses intermediate-to-advanced level topics in field and studio production. Students will
receive instruction in: Scripting for the short film; digital video camera work; lighting; sound
recording; and digital editing. Students will be expected to produce at least one short film of
their own and to participate fully in the creation of a group project overseen by the instructor.
Prerequisite: Studio Art 123 or permission of the instructor.
 
SART333: Figure Drawing Studio Home
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This class is dedicated to an intense dynamic approach to the art of observation through the drawing
of the nude figure. We will work primarily in life-size with charcoal on brown paper and dedicate
our observation to the study of one model. Anatomical study (both skeletal and muscular) is an
important component to this course and will be explored mainly through homework. In-class studio
time will be dedicated to drawing from a live model. This class provides students with a dynamic
opportunity to explore the quality of line, value, and the role of the construction-destruction
cycle in the drawing of the human figure. Prerequisites include SART 202 or 372, or permission of
instructor (for which portfolio review is required).
 
SART335: Painting Studio Home
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Students explore materials, techniques, painting styles, and color theory. Painting with acrylics is
emphasized, though students may also work in oils and are urged to work also in watercolor, pastel,
casein, oil pastel, and all drawing media. The course requires an extensive sketchbook, the
completion of major projects, and additional work to be established with the instructor. Studio fee.
Gesso, lumber, and some materials are supplied; students supply paints, brushes, and canvas.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
 
SART360: Photographic Concepts Home
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This class explores the conceptual underpinnings of extended photographic projects. Advanced
photography students propose and carry out a semester long photography project with a special focus
on developing and articulating the conceptual foundations of the project both visually and in
writing. We will examine the relationship between conceptual art and photography. Frequent
critiques, process writing, and the study of historical and contemporary photography projects will
serve as our primary method of investigation. This course is required for students working on a
thesis in Photography. Prerequisite: SART 102 Photography, at least one other Photography course,
and permission of the instructor. Students who are not working on a thesis in Photography must meet
with Tanya Marcuse to get permission to register for this class.
 
SART368: Advanced Ceramic Studio Home
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Through self designed projects, serious students will have the opportunity to build upon the skills
and concepts learned in Intermediate Wheel Throwing and Intermediate Hand-building. Emphasis will be
on encouraging self expression by more in depth exploration of experimental ideas with form, concept
and firing. Focus will be on working towards developing a personal aesthetic and body of work.
Students will learn to develop and make their own clays and glazes and will focus more heavily on
firing principles and techniques. Through slides lectures and films, students will exposed to a
broader range of contemporary and historical ceramic art. The class will maintain a blog and
students will learn to photograph their work, write about it, and post blog entries. Prerequisites:
SART 207 and SART 208
 
SART407: Documentary Photography: History and Practice Home
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This class is both a studio art class and a photography history class. The idea is to become
immersed in the topic of documentary photography both by examining its history and by making
photographs. We will make a thematic survey of documentary photography and read contemporary
photographic criticism. At the same time students will work on visual assignments that will relate
to topics discussed. Topics will include photography and social change, war photography, the FSA
photographers, urban street photography, issues of voyeurism, race and class, revisionist
documentary photography, and the relationship between documentary, art photography and
photojournalism. Each class will be divided into two sections. In the first half we will look at
slides and examine the history and criticism of documentary photography. The second section will be
reserved for the review and critique of student work. In the beginning of the course students will
work on assignments exploring different aspects of documentary photography; after mid-term students
will complete an extended documentary project. Prerequisite SART 102 Intro to Photography.
 
SART460: Photographic Concepts Home
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This class explores the conceptual underpinnings of extended photographic projects. Advanced
photography students propose and carry out a semester long photography project with a special focus
on developing and articulating the conceptual foundations of the project both visually and in
writing. We will examine the relationship between conceptual art and photography. Frequent
critiques, process writing, and the study of historical and contemporary photography projects will
serve as our primary method of investigation. This course is required for students working on a
thesis in Photography. Prerequisite: SART 102 Photography, at least one other Photography course,
and permission of the instructor. Students who are not working on a thesis in Photography must meet
with Tanya Marcuse to get permission to register for this class.
 
SART468: Advanced Ceramic Studio Home
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Through self designed projects, serious students will have the opportunity to build upon the skills
and concepts learned in Intermediate Wheel Throwing and Intermediate Hand-building. Emphasis will be
on encouraging self expression by more in depth exploration of experimental ideas with form, concept
and firing. Focus will be on working towards developing a personal aesthetic and body of work.
Students will learn to develop and make their own clays and glazes and will focus more heavily on
firing principles and techniques. Through slides lectures and films, students will exposed to a
broader range of contemporary and historical ceramic art. The class will maintain a blog and
students will learn to photograph their work, write about it, and post blog entries. Prerequisites:
Studio Art 207 and Studio Art 208.
 
SOC115: CP Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Home
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This course examines the "socially-constructed" nature of race, ethnicity and gender by focusing on
historical and contemporary articulations of race, ethnicity, class, and gender as they relate to
social outcomes. Students will explore the evolution of these categories, namely how and why they
were created, and how they have changed over time. Also, students will learn about racial and
ethnic discrimination in housing, employment, banking, the criminal justice system, and other
institutions. Students will also examine the history of gender inequality in American society.
Contemporary articulations of gender inequality will be examined in the labor market, unpaid labor
in the home, U.S. childcare policy, popular culture, and in interpersonal relationships.
Additionally, this course also examines the structural causes of class inequality. Students will be
exposed to the various competing theoretical perspectives regarding why we have poverty in the U.S.
and explore how changes in the structure of the nation's political-economy have increased class
inequality while creating the "middle class squeeze". The class will also discuss the "financial
elite" and their role in shaping policies that exacerbate class inequality. No prerequisites.
 
SOC226: Sociology of the Family Home
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This course examines the institution of family in the United States from a sociological perspective.
The sociological perspective does not assume that there is an "ideal" family structure. Rather,
sociologists focus on the ways in which the family is a socially constructed institution that varies
across time and place. We will explore how larger social forces shape how we define, organize, and
experience family. We begin by discussing the sociological conceptualization of family and
examining the historical and contemporary meaning of family in the U.S. We will then turn our
attention to a historical overview of the diverse family structures that existed prior to the
Industrial Revolution. Next, we examine how large scale social and historical forces spurred
significant changes to the norms surrounding contemporary family structures. The next section of
the course focuses on the diversity of the contemporary family. We will examine issues including
choosing a mate, parenting, marriage/partnership, tensions between paid labor and family life, the
impact of social policy on families, and divorce. During the semester we will discuss similarities
that exist across families. However, we will pay special attention to how race, gender, sexuality,
and class shape how we experience family. Prerequisite: 100 level Social Science/African-American
Studies course.
 
SOCS224: Globalization Home
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This is an intermediate level social sciences course. Globalization is one of the defining features
of the contemporary world, but there is considerable controversy regarding its nature, impact, and
future trends. The goal of this course is to clarify what globalization is and how it is affecting
communities around the world. This course draws upon various theoretical approaches from sociology
and related disciplines to explore various issues pertaining to globalization. Is globalization
really a new phenomena or have we seen this before? Does globalization ameliorate or increase race
and gender inequality? How has globalization impacted Third World countries? Is economic
globalization a naturally unfolding process or are there specific groups of people directing the
global economy? What impact has globalization had on workers and organized labor? Does the West
engage in cultural imperialism? This course examines these questions and more. Specifically, it
looks at how globalization has developed recently and how it has impacted economies, nation-states,
workers, gender relations, class inequality, culture, and other aspects of society. Prerequisites:
100-level Social Sciences Course
 
SOCS302: The Foucault Effect: Passion, Power, and Panopticons Home
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Michel Foucault argued that we are "individuals" not because of our talents and preferences, but
because we deviate in varied ways from an imposed norm; that sex is not a biological given, but an
historically contingent concept used to defend "the normal" from "the abnormal;" that anything (and
therefore nothing distinctive) can be deduced from the domination of the bourgeoisie; and that
therapists in liberal democracies share with the police of totalitarian dictatorships a common
ancestor in medieval Christian priests. He thus engaged in a series of provocative dialogues with
other thinkers that challenged western notions of the apriori human subject; re-conceptualized the
relationship of power and knowledge in academic and political discourse; and redefined what it meant
to be an intellectual in the postmodern world. Noting that Foucault's work is relevant to important
new understandings of the social sciences, the arts, literary criticism, and politics, this course
analyzes the fruitful encounters of his ideas with past and present critical theory;
post-structuralism; and feminist and post-colonial analyses of marginalization and resistance. It
thus explores possibilities for creating a future freer and more just than the present which so
exercised Foucault's iconoclastic ire. Prerequisite: Upper Division Status or permission of the
instructor. (4 credits). This course satisfies a core requirement in two concentrations: Historical
Studies and Contemporary Critical Theory.
 
SOCS322: Proseminar II Home
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Did God will the world into existence, and must it end with the Second Coming of Christ? Is the
class struggle the motor of history, and must the end of history (sometimes Marx called it
"pre-history") be Communism? Is competition the motor of evolution, making the fiercely competitive
civilization of late nineteenth century Europe the benchmark of human development? If we might balk
at the assumption that the sole purpose of our parents' lives has been to produce us, what has led
us so often, in our theologies, histories, and philosophies, to posit teleological explanations such
as the preceding for other human lives and events? It may be, in other words, that there was only
chaos "in the beginning;" that it heralds no destiny for humanity, divine, natural, or rational; and
that the attempt to discover the origins of things is the pursuit of a "chimera" (something hoped
for, but impossible to achieve). In order better to understand our persistent fascination with
beginnings and the ends they may (or may not) reveal to us, this course proposes a critical analysis
of creation stories we have told ourselves in the west, from the ancient Greeks and Hebrews to the
early decades of the twentieth century. We will study venerable tales of the dawn of time, modern
tales of founding fathers (or Bands of Brothers, in Freud's case), and meta-narratives of
biological, psychological, social, political and cultural development. Included will be texts such
as The biblical book of Genesis; Hesiod's Theogony; Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality; Darwin's
Origin of Species; Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals; Engels' Origin of the Family, Private Property
and the State; Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God; Lemaitre's A Homogeneous Universe of Constant
Mass and Growing Radius; "The Declaration of Independence;" and Freud's Totem and Taboo. These we
will read in conjunction with the works of contemporary thinkers (e.g. Michel Foucault, Stephen J.
Gould, E. O. Wilson, Julia Kristeva, Donna Haraway, Francis Fukuyama, Gayle Rubin, etc.) who extend
and/or critique the positions they take or imply, in an effort to appreciate how these stories of
creation can inform our contemporary understandings of the human condition and its prospects.
Prerequisite: Acceptance by the Division of Social Studies into the Junior Fellows Program
 
SOCS328: Space & Place in Social Theory Home
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This course is an immersion in classic works on space and place, addressing how they are socially
constructed and why that matters. We read complete works by Henri Lefebvre (The Production of
Space), Raymond Williams (The City and the Country), Gaston Bachelard (The Poetics of Space), David
Harvey (Social Justice and the City), Michel Foucault (Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the
Prison), Martin Heidegger ("Building, Dwelling, Thinking"), and Homi Bhabha (The Location of
Culture). In addition to analyzing the location of these classics within paradigms, schools, and
networks of intellectual influence, students apply the ideas most tenable for (even if contradictory
to) their own new or ongoing work on projects of their own design. Seminal topics include the
production of space; spatial justice; the body, power, and discipline; recurring conceptions of the
urban and the rural; the architecture of the imagination; and "in-between" spaces that are, as
Bhabha posits, "produced in the articulation of cultural difference." Our journey traverses the
domains of phenomenology, cultural studies, urban theory, postcolonial theory, poststructural
theory, and more. Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing and completion of two 200-level courses
or one 300-level course in Social Science.
 
SPAN100: Accelerated Beginning Spanish I Home
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Spanish 100 and 101 form an intensive introduction to basic Spanish that incorporates a
task-oriented approach to language learning. The course has been designed to help students develop
fluency in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. It also aims to prepare the
student to acquire a deeper understanding of the civilization of the Spanish-speaking world. The
class is conducted in Spanish and meets five hours per week. No prerequisites.
 
SPAN101: Accelerated Beginning Spanish II Home
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Spanish 100 and 101 form an intensive introduction to basic Spanish that incorporates a
task-oriented approach to language learning. The course has been designed to help students develop
fluency in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. It also aims to prepare the
student to acquire a deeper understanding of the civilization of the Spanish-speaking world. The
class is conducted in Spanish and meets five hours per week. Prerequisites: Spanish 100 or
appropriate score on the placement exam.
 
SPAN204: Intermediate Spanish I Home
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This course, conducted in Spanish, highlights a particular aspect of Spanish-speaking culture (e.g.,
music, politics, literature, film). Topics vary by semester and instructor. Building on what
students have learned in Spanish 100-101 this course also enhances students' communication skills
through oral and written practice and grammatical refinement. Spanish 204 and 205 fulfill the
language requirement in one year for students with sufficient background. Prerequisite: Spanish 101
or appropriate score on the placement exam.
 
SPAN205: Intermediate Spanish II Home
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This course, conducted in Spanish, highlights a particular aspect of Spanish-speaking culture (e.g.,
music, politics, literature, film). Topics vary by semester and instructor. Building on what
students have learned in Spanish 100-101 this course also enhances students' communication skills
through oral and written practice and grammatical refinement. Spanish 204 and 205 fulfill the
language requirement in one year for students with sufficient background. Prerequisite: Spanish 204
or appropriate score on the placement exam.
 
SPAN213: CP Passion, Trickery, and Revenge: Latin American Detective Novels Home
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Latin American writers have created a number of significant literary sleuths who challenge and
change the detective fiction that began in Europe and the United States. Why? What does it mean to
parody Poe? To make a detective political? Course readings traverse the rich tradition of la novela
detectivesca in Latin American letters. In an array of detective stories and novellas, we see the
influence of dime novels and popular culture, an "upside down" form in which the state is criminal,
the aesthetics of a labyrinthine plot, and nods to Poe and writers from Europe. All readings and
discussions in Spanish. Prerequisites: Spanish 205 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.
 
THEA108: Costume and Prop Design and Execution Home
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This is a hands on course where students will learn the process and general skills needed for
theatrical costume and prop execution from inception to finished product. They will learn to assess
a play for its needs; research time periods and places, and adapt them to a play. Strong emphasis
will be placed on planning effectively in order to produce real costumes and props for a given play,
as envisioned by a director, within a budget and a proscribed period of time. Some time will be
spent on getting input from a director, actors and other designers, using that information in a
design concept and getting final approval before starting. Along with methods of effective research
and planning, students will be exposed to the rudimentary skills needed to find, purchase, adapt
and/or construct costumes and props.
 
THEA139: The Director/Designer Collaboration Home
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Over the course of the semester we will explore the art of theater design, particularly as it
relates to the collaboration with directors. We will look at the various forms of theater design:
set, costume, lighting and sound and at how the director and the various designers of a production
together create an organic, unified world in which the play can be revealed to the audience. The
design team of our Theater program production will be involved with the course as guest lecturers
and the class will observe the Director/Designer collaboration of this production as it evolves. We
will also study one classic and one modern text as we explore our own director/designer
collaborations. No prerequisites.
 
THEA206: Theater Production Home
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Students of different experience and abilities learn about all aspects of theater by participating
in the College's productions as actors, directors, technicians, carpenters, designers, costumers,
and stage managers, as well as doing publicity and front-of-house management. Prerequisite: Theater
115, a 200-level Theater course, and an audition.
 
THEA208: Costume and Prop Design and Execution Home
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This is a hands on course where students will learn the process and general skills needed for
theatrical costume and prop execution from inception to finished product. They will learn to assess
a play for its needs; research time periods and places, and adapt them to a play. Strong emphasis
will be placed on planning effectively in order to produce real costumes and props for a given play,
as envisioned by a director, within a budget and a proscribed period of time. Some time will be
spent on getting input from a director, actors and other designers, using that information in a
design concept and getting final approval before starting. Along with methods of effective research
and planning, students will be exposed to the rudimentary skills needed to find, purchase, adapt
and/or construct costumes and props.
 
THEA219: Viewpoints II & Composition Home
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This course builds on the Viewpoints tools introduced in Theater 117. Over the course of the
semester, we will further develop our understanding and mastery of the physical viewpoints of time
and space: Tempo, duration, kinesthetic response, repetition, shape, gesture, architecture, spatial
relationship, and topography and the vocal viewpoints. As we progress through the Viewpoints work,
we will also learn compositional tools. During the course of the semester, students will compose
original pieces for the stage using the Viewpoints and Compositional tools both individually and in
groups to be presented in a final showing. Prerequisite: Theater 117.
 
THEA239: The Director/Designer Collaboration Home
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Over the course of the semester we will explore the art of theater design, particularly as it
relates to the collaboration with directors. We will look at the various forms of theater design:
set, costume, lighting and sound and at how the director and the various designers of a production
together create an organic, unified world in which the play can be revealed to the audience. The
design team of our Theater program production will be involved with the course as guest lecturers
and the class will observe the Director/Designer collaboration of this production as it evolves. We
will also study one classic and one modern text as we explore our own director/designer
collaborations. No prerequisites.
 
THEA301: Performance Practicum Home
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This course is designed for students of the theater who have completed the introductory courses. The
technique of text analysis, physical and vocal characterization, ensemble playing, and emotional
truth in playing will be synthesized in the performance of a faculty-directed play. This play will
be performed in the middle of the semester. The latter half of the semester will be the study of the
Shakespeare & Company acting approach to Shakespeare's text-- how to embody and personalize the
verse. Prerequisites: Production for the 300-level course; Performance Practicum for the 400-level
course.
 
THEA306: Theater Production Home
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Students of different experience and abilities learn about all aspects of theater by participating
in the College's productions as actors, directors, technicians, carpenters, designers, costumers,
and stage managers, as well as doing publicity and front-of-house management. Prerequisite: Theater
115, a 200-level Theater course, and an audition.
 
THEA316: Advanced Theater Practicum Home
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Prerequisite(s): Stagecraft THEA 115, Practicum 216 or Approval of Instructor A continuation of
Practicum 216 these sections provide an opportunity for students to receive in-depth instruction in
a particular aspect of theatrical production related to their interest. It would afford students
the opportunity to hold a position of responsibility in a production and would foster their growth
through mentoring and individual instruction. Positions may include, but would not be limited to,
Scene Design, Lighting Design, Stage Management, Costumes or other lead positions in a production.
Through holding the position of responsibility students would not only generate the necessary
paperwork or accoutrements associated with the position but also keep accurate records, problem
solve and develop a relationship with the production team throughout the process. In addition to
coursework students would be required to participate in, at least, an additional seventy (70) hours
of course/production work throughout the semester, be available for meetings with the production
team, keep a weekly journal and complete a production notebook relevant to their respective
position. Students would be evaluated on their participating hours through out the semester, the
journals, the production notebook and professional initiative.
Prerequisite(s): Stagecraft THEA 115, Practicum 216 or Approval of Instructor A continuation of
Practicum 216 these sections provide an opportunity for students to receive in-depth instruction in
a particular aspect of theatrical production related to their interest. It would afford students
the opportunity to hold a position of responsibility in a production and would foster their growth
through mentoring and individual instruction. Positions may include, but would not be limited to,
Scene Design, Lighting Design, Stage Management, Costumes or other lead positions in a production.
Through holding the position of responsibility students would not only generate the necessary
paperwork or accoutrements associated with the position but also keep accurate records, problem
solve and develop a relationship with the production team throughout the process. In addition to
coursework students would be required to participate in, at least, an additional seventy (70) hours
of course/production work throughout the semester, be available for meetings with the production
team, keep a weekly journal and complete a production notebook relevant to their respective
position. Students would be evaluated on their participating hours through out the semester, the
journals, the production notebook and professional initiative.
 
THEA319: Viewpoints II & Composition Home
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This course builds on the Viewpoints tools introduced in Theater 117. Over the course of the
semester, we will further develop our understanding and mastery of the physical viewpoints of time
and space: Tempo, duration, kinesthetic response, repetition, shape, gesture, architecture, spatial
relationship, and topography and the vocal viewpoints. As we progress through the Viewpoints work,
we will also learn compositional tools. During the course of the semester, students will compose
original pieces for the stage using the Viewpoints and Compositional tools both individually and in
groups to be presented in a final showing. Prerequisite: Theater 117.
 
THEA339: The Director/Designer Collaboration Home
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Over the course of the semester we will explore the art of theater design, particularly as it
relates to the collaboration with directors. We will look at the various forms of theater design:
set, costume, lighting and sound and at how the director and the various designers of a production
together create an organic, unified world in which the play can be revealed to the audience. The
design team of our Theater program production will be involved with the course as guest lecturers
and the class will observe the Director/Designer collaboration of this production as it evolves. We
will also study one classic and one modern text as we explore our own director/designer
collaborations. No prerequisites.
 
THEA401: Performance Practicum Home
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This course is designed for students of the theater who have completed the introductory courses. The
technique of text analysis, physical and vocal characterization, ensemble playing, and emotional
truth in playing will be synthesized in the performance of a faculty-directed play. This play will
be performed in the middle of the semester. The latter half of the semester will be the study of the
Shakespeare & Company acting approach to Shakespeare's text-- how to embody and personalize the
verse. Prerequisites: Production for the 300-level course; Performance Practicum for the 400-level
course.
 
THEA406: Theater Production Home
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Students of different experience and abilities learn about all aspects of theater by participating
in the College's productions as actors, directors, technicians, carpenters, designers, costumers,
and stage managers, as well as doing publicity and front-of-house management. Prerequisite: Theater
115, a 200-level Theater course, and an audition.
 
THEA439: The Director/Designer Collaboration Home
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Over the course of the semester we will explore the art of theater design, particularly as it
relates to the collaboration with directors. We will look at the various forms of theater design:
set, costume, lighting and sound and at how the director and the various designers of a production
together create an organic, unified world in which the play can be revealed to the audience. The
design team of our Theater program production will be involved with the course as guest lecturers
and the class will observe the Director/Designer collaboration of this production as it evolves. We
will also study one classic and one modern text as we explore our own director/designer
collaborations. No prerequisites.