Bard College at Simon's Rock
SPRING 2013 Course Listing
as of March 29, 2013
 
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--- FY indicates that a course is appropriate for first year students.
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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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Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday 9:00-09:55 am
9:00-10:25 am
9:00-11:55 am
9:30-10:25 am
10:05-11:00 am
10:35-12:00 pm
11:10-12:05 pm
12:15- 1:10 pm
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12:25- 1:40 pm
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1:50- 3:15 pm
1:50- 4:45 pm
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2:25- 3:20 pm
3:00- 5:20 pm
3:25- 4:20 pm
3:30- 5:00 pm
3:30- 6:15 pm
4:40- 7:00 pm
5:00- 6:25 pm
6:35- 8:00 pm
6:35- 9:00 pm
7:00- 9:00 pm
7:30- 9:00 pm
Tuesday and/or Thursday 9:00-10:25 am
9:00-11:25 am
9:00-11:55 am
10:10-11:30 am
10:10-12:30 pm
10:35-12:00 pm
12:15- 1:10 pm
12:15- 1:40 pm
12:15- 3:00 pm
1:30- 3:50 pm
1:50- 2:45 pm
1:50- 3:15 pm
1:50- 4:45 pm
3:10- 5:30 pm
3:25- 4:20 pm
3:25- 4:50 pm
3:30- 6:15 pm
5:00- 5:55 pm
5:00- 6:25 pm
6:00- 7:20 pm
6:35- 9:00 pm
7:30- 9:00 pm
7:30- 9:30 pm
 
 
 
 
 
All Courses
FOCUS Report
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Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor Books FY Max Current Wait
 
First Year Seminar Top
All Offerings
FS101A . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-02 R Fiske Books FY 13 15  
FS101B . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-128 W Shifrin Books FY 13 14  
FS101C . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 B Rodgers Books FY 13 14  
FS101D . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 D Bruce Books FY 13 12  
FS101E . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-128 P Filkins Books FY 13 9  
FS101F . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 N Yanoshak Books FY 13 13  
FS101G . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-09 K Boswell Books FY 13 10  
FS101H . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-03 N Yanoshak Books FY 13 13  
FS101I . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-201 B Mathews Books FY 13 14  
FS101J . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-09 W Brown Books FY 13 14  
FS101K . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-125 W Brown Books FY 13 12  
FS101L . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 R Fiske Books FY 13 14  
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First Year Seminar Information Fluency Lab Top
All Offerings
FS101FLA . Information Fluency Lab   T 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-14 B Mikesell Books FY 15 14  
FS101FLB . Information Fluency Lab   T 1:50- 2:45 pm CL3-14 B Mikesell Books FY 15 11  
FS101FLC . Information Fluency LabCLOSED   T 3:25- 4:20 pm CL3-14 B Mikesell Books FY 15 15  
FS101FLD . Information Fluency Lab   W 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-09 B Mikesell Books FY 15 12  
FS101FLE . Information Fluency Lab   W 2:25- 3:20 pm CL3-09 B Mikesell Books FY 15 12  
FS101FLF . Information Fluency Lab   R 1:50- 2:45 pm CL1-04 B Mikesell Books FY 15 11  
FS101FLG . Information Fluency Lab   R 3:25- 4:20 pm CL1-04 B Mikesell Books FY 15 12  
FS101FLH . Information Fluency Lab   R 5:00- 5:55 pm CL1-04 B Mikesell Books FY 15 14  
FS101FLI . Information Fluency LabCLOSED   F 11:10-12:05 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 15  
FS101FLJ . Information Fluency Lab   F 12:15- 1:10 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 14  
FS101FLK . Information Fluency Lab   F 2:25- 3:10 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 13  
FS101FLL . Information Fluency Lab   F 3:25- 4:20 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 10  
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Sophomore Seminar Top
All Offerings
SS251JA . Seminar III: Transformations, Boundaries, Crossings 4 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain Books No 14 9  
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African American Studies Top
All Offerings
AFAM100 . CP Introduction to African American Studies 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 F Oyogoa Books FY 15 13  
AFAM302 . Critical Race Theory 4 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm CL3-11 F Oyogoa Books No 15 8  
LIT261 . CP Contemporary African Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews Books FY 15 10  
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Anthropology Top
All Offerings
ANTH202 . CP Language & CultureCLOSED 3 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain Books FY 20 20  
ANTH232 . CP City Life 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm LIE-01 K Boswell Books WP 15 9  
ANTH330 NEW Anthropological Perspectives on Dispossession and Displacement 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-02 K Boswell Books No 15 12  
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Art History Top
All Offerings
ARTH114 . CP Global Art: Mid East & Asia 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 15 10  
ARTH212 . Theories of Photography 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 8 4  
ARTH312 . Theories of PhotographyCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books No 7 9  
ARTH213 . Analyzing Television 3 T 9:00-11:55 am DAC-128 J DelPlato Books No 15 9  
and R 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-128   Books No      
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Arts Top
All Offerings
ARTS211 . Interactive Arts Workshop ICLOSED 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers Books FY 13 13  
ARTS311 . Interactive Arts Workshop II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers Books WP 2 1  
ARTS284 NEW Guest Artists: The Artist on the Global Stage 2 R 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-128 A Michel Books FY 15 10  
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Asian Studies Top
All Offerings
ARTH114 . CP Global Art: Mid East & Asia 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 15 10  
PHIL207 . CP Daoism through Texts, Talks, and TaijiquanCLOSED 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-108 C Coggins Books FY 15 18  
PHIL208 . CP Buddhism: History, Teachings and PracticesCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-03 M Naamon Books FY 15 18  
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Biology Top
All Offerings
BIO100 . Introduction to the Life Sciences 4 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-102 R Schmidt Books FY 30 22  
BIO100LA . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-202 E McMullin Books FY 15 13  
BIO100LB . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 E McMullin Books FY 15 9  
BIO200 . General Botany 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-211 D Roeder Books WP 15 10  
and R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-211A   Books WP      
BIO201 . Cell Biology 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-211 E McMullin Books No 30 18  
BIO201LA . Cell Biology Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers Books No 16 12  
BIO201LB . Cell Biology Lab   T 9:00-11:55 am FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers Books No 16 6  
BIO204 . Vertebrate ZoologyCLOSED 4 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-211 R Schmidt Books No 15 16  
and T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-211   Books No      
BIO212 . Disease and Community Ecology 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 M Naamon Books FY 15 11  
and   LEC-LC   Books FY      
BIO303 . Introduction to Bioinformatics 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-112 T Coote Books No 12 8  
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Chemistry Top
All Offerings
CHEM101A . Chemistry II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-102 P Dooley Books No 15 9  
CHEM101B . Chemistry II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-102 P Dooley Books No 15 11  
CHEM101LA . Chemistry II Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-128 P Dooley Books No 12 8  
CHEM101LB . Chemistry II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-128 P Dooley Books No 12 6  
CHEM101LC . Chemistry II Lab   F 9:00-11:55 am FSH-128 A Schmidt Books No 12 7  
CHEM303 . Organic Chemistry II 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-113 D Myers Books No 12 7  
CHEM303L . Organic Chemistry II Lab   M 3:30- 6:15 pm FSH-128 D Myers Books No 12 7  
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Computer Science Top
All Offerings
CMPT320 . The Theory of Computation 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-112 P Shields Books No 15 6  
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Dance Top
All Offerings
DANC101 . Beginning Modern Dance Technique 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin Books FY 13 10  
DANC201 . Intermediate Modern DanceCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin Books WP 2 2  
DANC114 . Ballet I 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart Books FY 8 4  
DANC214 . Intermediate Ballet I 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart Books WP 7 5  
DANC120 . Chinese SwordCLOSED 2 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-108 R Aver Thung Books FY 15 17  
DANC126 . Flamenco Dance 2 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart Books FY 8 4  
DANC211 . Topics in Dance: Relationships between Dance and Creative Writing 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin Books FY 12 8  
DANC227 . Flamenco Repertory 2 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart Books WP 8 4  
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Economics Top
All Offerings
ECON101 . Macroeconomics 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 M Moeini Feizabadi Books FY 15 14  
ECON209 . Intermediate Political Economy 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-04 M Moeini Feizabadi Books No 15 8  
ECON210 . Macroeconomic Theory 3 R 1:50- 4:45 pm CL3-10 D Neilson Books No 15 8  
ECON310 NEW Macroeconomic Theory 4 R 1:50- 4:45 pm CL3-10 D Neilson Books No 7 3  
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Environmental Studies Top
All Offerings
ENVS304 . Topics in Environmental Management 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder Books No 15 8  
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Gender Studies Top
All Offerings
LIT269MM2 . CP Women Writing Resistance in the Caribbean 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 14  
LIT270MM1 . CP Women Writing Resistance in Latin America 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 13  
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Geography Top
All Offerings
GEOG213 . Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 12 9  
GEOG313 . Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 6 5  
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History Top
All Offerings
HIST228 . Manifesting Destinies II: The United States of America 1877-Present 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 M Alvarez Books FY 15 13  
HIST229 . CP Chicanas/Chicanos in the United States: A National History 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-13 M Alvarez Books FY 15 9  
HIST237 . U. S. Social Movements of the 1960s 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-13 M Alvarez Books No 15 5  
HIST328 NEW The Middle Class and Its Discontents: American Middle Class Identity Formation, 1800 to the Present 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm CL3-09 H Holladay Books No 11 5  
and     P Laipson Books No      
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Learning Resources Top
All Offerings
LR202MM2 . Study Away Preparation 1   TBD - M Tebben Books No 10    
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Linguistics Top
All Offerings
ANTH202 . CP Language & CultureCLOSED 3 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain Books FY 20 20  
LING304 . CP Native American Languages 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-10 N Bonvillain Books WP 15 4  
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Literature Top
All Offerings
LIT197 NEW Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-139 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 6 5  
LIT297 NEW Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-139 J Browdy de Hernandez Books WP 6 3  
LIT202 . Art of Fiction: Short Story 3 WF 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-03 J Hutchinson Books FY 15 12  
LIT222 . Shakespeare 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-135 H Holladay Books FY 15 7  
LIT258 . The 19th Century Novel 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-13 B Rodgers Books FY 15 8  
LIT261 . CP Contemporary African Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews Books FY 15 10  
LIT269MM2 . CP Women Writing Resistance in the Caribbean 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 14  
LIT270MM1 . CP Women Writing Resistance in Latin America 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 13  
LIT281 NEW Homo Sacer: Monster in Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-02 R Fiske Books FY 15 11  
LIT282 NEW Ancient Epic Literature 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-04 C Callanan Books FY 15 7  
LIT288 . Fiction WorkshopCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Mathews Books No 7 8  
LIT388 . Fiction WorkshopCLOSED 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Mathews Books No 4 5  
LIT488 . Fiction Workshop 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Mathews Books No 1    
LIT289 . Poetry WorkshopCLOSED 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL3-09 P Filkins Books WP 12 12  
LIT307 . Sacred and Profane: The Literature of 17th-Century England 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-128 H Holladay Books No 15 4  
LIT311 . American ModernismCLOSED 4 W 6:35- 9:00 pm CL1-03 B Rodgers Books No 15 15  
LIT328 NEW The Middle Class and Its Discontents: American Middle Class Identity Formation, 1800 to the Present 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm CL3-09 H Holladay Books No 4 1  
and     P Laipson Books No      
LIT330 . The Inklings 4 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson Books No 15 6  
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Mathematics Top
All Offerings
MATH099 . Algebra Workshop 1 MF 9:30-10:25 am CL1-02 D Sharpe Books FY 15 6  
MATH101 . Math & Its Applications 3 F 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-112 W Dunbar Books WP 15 13  
and MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-201   Books WP      
MATH109 . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am CL1-04 A Musselman Books WP 20 15  
MATH110 . Introduction to Statistics 3 F 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-112 C Thatcher Books WP 20 17  
and MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-201   Books WP      
MATH210 . Calculus ICLOSED 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-01 W Dunbar Books WP 15 15  
MATH211A . Calculus II 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am CL1-01 C Thatcher Books WP 20 16  
MATH211B . Calculus II 3 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm CL1-01 C Thatcher Books WP 20 10  
MATH221A . Vector Calculus 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-201 B Musselman Books WP 20 19  
MATH221B . Vector Calculus 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-01 B Musselman Books WP 20 7  
MATH321 . Modern Algebra II 4 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm CL1-02 W Dunbar Books No 15 4  
MATH364 . Ordinary Differential Equations 4 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL1-01 B Musselman Books WP 20 9  
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Music Top
All Offerings
MUS117 . Chorus 1 W 7:00- 9:00 pm KLG J Brown Books FY 30 20  
MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 TR 6:00- 7:20 pm DAC-128 C Gevert Books FY 15 9  
MUS219 . Jazz Improvization Workshop I 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm KLG J Myers Books FY 10 8  
and   KLG-B   Books FY      
MUS319 . Jazz Improvisation Workshop II 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm KLG J Myers Books WP 5    
and   KLG-B   Books WP      
MUS222 . Jazz Ensemble 1 T 7:30- 9:30 pm KLG J Myers Books FY 30 15  
and   KLG-B   Books FY      
MUS278 . Collegium 1 M 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG L Bardo Books FY 12 6  
MUS280 . Madrigal Group 1 M 3:30- 5:00 pm KLG J Brown Books WP 12 6  
MUS289 . Chamber Orchestra 1 R 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG A Legene Books FY 15 5  
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Music: Community Music Program - Private Lessons Top
All Offerings
MUS180P . Applied Music: Trombone 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS181P . Applied Music: Bassoon 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS183P . Applied Music: Harp 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS184P . Applied Music: Gamba 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 1  
MUS185P . Applied Music: Saxophone 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS187P . Applied Music: Clarinet 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS188P . Applied Music:Trumpet 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 1  
MUS189P . Applied Music: Mandolin 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 1  
MUS190P . Applied Music: Piano 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 13  
MUS191P . Applied Music: Voice 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 24  
MUS192P . Applied Music: Flute 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 1  
MUS193P . Applied Music: Guitar 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 7  
MUS195P . Applied Music: Cello 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS196P . Applied Music: Percussion 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 4  
MUS197P . Applied Music: Oboe 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS198P . Applied Music: Bass 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS199P . Applied Music: Violin/Viola 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 3  
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Natural Sciences Top
All Offerings
NATS116 . Forensic ScienceCLOSED 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers Books FY 15 16  
and F 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202   Books FY      
NATS242M1 NEW Science Writing 2 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-113 M Bergman Books No 15 10  
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Philosophy Top
All Offerings
PHIL103 . Philosophy of Religion 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-10 S Ruhmkorff Books FY 15 9  
PHIL113 . Logic 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-04 S Ruhmkorff Books FY 20 16  
PHIL175 . Ethics 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-02 B Conolly Books FY 15 11  
PHIL207 . CP Daoism through Texts, Talks, and TaijiquanCLOSED 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-108 C Coggins Books FY 15 18  
PHIL208 . CP Buddhism: History, Teachings and PracticesCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-03 M Naamon Books FY 15 18  
PHIL216 . Philosophy of Science 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm CL3-11 S Ruhmkorff Books No 15 4  
PHIL226 . Minds, Matter, and Morals: Kant and Hume 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-13 B Conolly Books No 15 2  
PHIL283 NEW Environmental Ethics: A Global Perspective 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-12 B Conolly Books WP 15 5  
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Physics Top
All Offerings
PHYS101 . Physics II 4 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-113 M Bergman Books WP 30 19  
PHYS101LA . Physics II Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-113 M Bergman Books WP 15 5  
PHYS101LB . Physics II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-113 M Bergman Books WP 15 14  
PHYS221 . Relativity, Cosmology, and Astrophysics 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-113 E Kramer Books WP 15 8  
PHYS303 . Classical Mechanics 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-201 E Kramer Books No 15 2  
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Political Science Top
All Offerings
POLS100 . Introduction to Politics 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-01 A Abbas Books FY 15 14  
POLS328 . The Democratic ImaginationCLOSED 4 T 1:50- 4:45 pm LIE-02 A Abbas Books No 15 15  
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Psychology Top
All Offerings
PSYC100 . Intro to PsychologyCLOSED 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am LEC-LC A O'Dwyer Books FY 20 24  
PSYC225 . Social Work Practice with Individuals and FamiliesCLOSED 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL3-11 Q McLaughlin Books FY 15 15  
PSYC302 . Abnormal Psychology 4 R 12:15- 3:00 pm CL3-14 V Brush Books No 15 7  
PSYC348 . The Man and the Experiment that Shocked the World: The Work and Legacy of Stanley Milgram 4 T 1:50- 4:45 pm CL1-04 S Levine Books No 15 4  
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Social Science Top
All Offerings
GEOG213 . Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 12 9  
GEOG313 . Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 6 5  
SOCS224 . Globalization 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-02 F Oyogoa Books No 15 13  
SOCS325 NEW Possesssion,Identity,Ownership 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 15 9  
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Studio Arts Top
All Offerings
SART102 . Photography I: Black & White/Analog 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-025 D La Spina Books FY 15 14  
and   DAC-041   Books FY      
SART103 . Drawing I 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-024 J Fossum Books FY 12 9  
SART106 . Introduction to CeramicsCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-072 B Krupka Books FY 12 12  
SART123 . Video Production, Cinematically Speaking 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-120 L Burke Books FY 12 9  
and   DAC-135   Books FY      
SART166 . Introduction to Sculpture StudioCLOSED 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-052 B Krupka Books FY 12 13  
SART208 . Ceramic Sculpture StudioCLOSED 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-072 B Krupka Books No 8 8  
SART224M2 . Photography: Alternative ProcessesCLOSED 2 T 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-028 D La Spina Books WP 12 17  
and   DAC-139   Books WP      
SART225 . Survey of Documentary Film 3 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm LIE-01 L Burke Books FY 15 11  
SART235 . Painting Studio 3 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum Books WP 11 9  
SART335 . Painting StudioCLOSED 4 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum Books No 1 2  
SART273 . Photography II: Color/Digital 3 R 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-025 K Greene Books WP 12 10  
and   DAC-139   Books WP      
SART312 . Large Format Photography 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-025 D La Spina Books WP 8 6  
and   DAC-041   Books WP      
SART339 NEW Figure PaintingCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum Books WP 12 15  
SART367 . Advanced Ceramic Studio 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-072 B Krupka Books No 2 1  
SART467 . Advanced Ceramic Studio 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-072 B Krupka Books No 2    
SART460MM1 . Photography IV: Professional Practice 2 T 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-028 D La Spina Books No 12 7  
and   DAC-139   Books No      
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Theater Top
All Offerings
THEA104M2 . Production Workshop 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books FY 6 5  
and   DAC-115   Books FY      
THEA304M2 . Production Workshop 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 6    
THEA108M1 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale Books FY 12 9  
THEA208M1 . Costume and Prop Design and ExecutionCLOSED 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale Books WP 3 3  
THEA126MM1 NEW Devising Theater: Creating 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books FY 5 3  
THEA226MM1 NEW Devising Theater: Creating 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 7 6  
THEA126MM2 NEW Devising Theater: PerformingCLOSED 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books FY 6 6  
THEA226MM2 NEW Devising Theater: PerformingCLOSED 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 6 7  
THEA206M2 . Theater Production 2 T 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-115 K Allen Books No 12 7  
THEA211M1 . Creative Disciplines in Technical Theater 2 WF 5:00- 6:25 pm DAC-011 S Cleary-Wade Books FY 12 4  
THEA211M2 . Creative Disciplines in Technical TheaterCLOSED 2 WF 5:00- 6:25 pm DAC-011 S Cleary-Wade Books FY 12 15  
THEA221MM1 NEW Concept and Construction in Scenic Design 2 R 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-115 C Adinolfi Books WP 12 4  
THEA222MM1 NEW Lighting Design Practicum 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-002 T Cryan Books WP 12 4  
THEA236 . CP Theaters of the Oppressed: Global Activism in Visual and Performing ArtsCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 12 13  
THEA237 . Shakesperean Scene Study 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 12 7  
and   DAC-115   Books No      
THEA301M1 . Performance PracticumCLOSED 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 10 10  
THEA401M1 . Performance Practicum 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 2 1  
THEA320 . Comic Acting 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books No 12 6  
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World Languages and Cultures - Arabic Top
All Offerings
ARAB101 . CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 G Asfar Books WP 15 6  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-14   Books WP      
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World Languages and Cultures - Chinese Top
All Offerings
CHIN101 . Accelerated Beginning Chinese II 4 MTWRF 11:10-12:05 pm CL1-04 Y Zhao Books WP 20 11  
CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-03 Y Zhao Books WP 15 5  
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World Languages and Cultures - French Top
All Offerings
FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 G Asfar Books WP 15 5  
and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-14   Books WP      
FREN205 . Intermediate French II 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 M Tebben Books WP 15 9  
FREN216 . French Food, Culture, and Literature 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 M Tebben Books WP 15 6  
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World Languages and Cultures - German Top
All Offerings
GERM101 . Accelerated Beginning German II 4 MTWR 12:25- 1:40 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde Books WP 15 8  
GERM205 . Intermediate German II 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde Books WP 15 8  
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World Languages and Cultures - Latin Top
All Offerings
LATN101 . Accelerated Beginning Latin II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-09 C Callanan Books WP 20 17  
and MW 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09   Books WP      
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World Languages and Cultures - Spanish Top
All Offerings
SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 M Roe Books FY 16 9  
and MW 10:05-11:00 am LIE-02   Books FY      
SPAN101A . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-01 K Pichard Books WP 16 11  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm LIE-01   Books WP      
SPAN101B . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-01 K Pichard Books WP 16 9  
and MW 2:25- 3:20 pm LIE-01   Books WP      
SPAN204 . Intermediate Spanish I 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-128 H Brown Books WP 15 8  
SPAN205 . Intermediate Spanish II 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 H Brown Books WP 15 5  
SPAN223 NEW De poetas y locura: Madness in Spanish Literature 3 T 9:00-11:55 am CL3-10 H Brown Books WP 15 13  
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Cultural Perspectives Top
All Offerings
AFAM100 . CP Introduction to African American Studies 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 F Oyogoa Books FY 15 13  
ANTH202 . CP Language & CultureCLOSED 3 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain Books FY 20 20  
Books FY 20 20  
ANTH232 . CP City Life 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm LIE-01 K Boswell Books WP 15 9  
ARAB101 . CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 G Asfar Books WP 15 6  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-14   Books WP      
ARTH114 . CP Global Art: Mid East & Asia 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 15 10  
Books FY 15 10  
CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-03 Y Zhao Books WP 15 5  
HIST229 . CP Chicanas/Chicanos in the United States: A National History 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-13 M Alvarez Books FY 15 9  
LING304 . CP Native American Languages 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-10 N Bonvillain Books WP 15 4  
LIT261 . CP Contemporary African Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews Books FY 15 10  
Books FY 15 10  
LIT269MM2 . CP Women Writing Resistance in the Caribbean 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 14  
Books FY 15 14  
LIT270MM1 . CP Women Writing Resistance in Latin America 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 13  
Books FY 15 13  
PHIL207 . CP Daoism through Texts, Talks, and TaijiquanCLOSED 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-108 C Coggins Books FY 15 18  
Books FY 15 18  
PHIL208 . CP Buddhism: History, Teachings and PracticesCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-03 M Naamon Books FY 15 18  
Books FY 15 18  
THEA236 . CP Theaters of the Oppressed: Global Activism in Visual and Performing ArtsCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 12 13  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Modular Courses Top
All Offerings
LIT269MM2 . CP Women Writing Resistance in the Caribbean 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 14  
Books FY 15 14  
LIT270MM1 . CP Women Writing Resistance in Latin America 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 13  
Books FY 15 13  
LR202MM2 . Study Away Preparation 1   TBD - M Tebben Books No 10    
NATS242M1 NEW Science Writing 2 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-113 M Bergman Books No 15 10  
SART224M2 . Photography: Alternative ProcessesCLOSED 2 T 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-028 D La Spina Books WP 12 17  
and   DAC-139   Books WP      
SART460MM1 . Photography IV: Professional Practice 2 T 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-028 D La Spina Books No 12 7  
and   DAC-139   Books No      
THEA104M2 . Production Workshop 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books FY 6 5  
and   DAC-115   Books FY      
THEA304M2 . Production Workshop 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 6    
THEA108M1 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale Books FY 12 9  
THEA208M1 . Costume and Prop Design and ExecutionCLOSED 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale Books WP 3 3  
THEA126MM1 NEW Devising Theater: Creating 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books FY 5 3  
THEA226MM1 NEW Devising Theater: Creating 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 7 6  
THEA126MM2 NEW Devising Theater: PerformingCLOSED 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books FY 6 6  
THEA226MM2 NEW Devising Theater: PerformingCLOSED 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 6 7  
THEA206M2 . Theater Production 2 T 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-115 K Allen Books No 12 7  
THEA211M1 . Creative Disciplines in Technical Theater 2 WF 5:00- 6:25 pm DAC-011 S Cleary-Wade Books FY 12 4  
THEA211M2 . Creative Disciplines in Technical TheaterCLOSED 2 WF 5:00- 6:25 pm DAC-011 S Cleary-Wade Books FY 12 15  
THEA221MM1 NEW Concept and Construction in Scenic Design 2 R 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-115 C Adinolfi Books WP 12 4  
THEA222MM1 NEW Lighting Design Practicum 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-002 T Cryan Books WP 12 4  
THEA301M1 . Performance PracticumCLOSED 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 10 10  
THEA401M1 . Performance Practicum 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 2 1  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Courses appropriate for first-year students
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Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor Books FY Max Current Wait
 
First Year Seminar Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
FS101A . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-02 R Fiske Books FY 13 15  
FS101B . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-128 W Shifrin Books FY 13 14  
FS101C . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 B Rodgers Books FY 13 14  
FS101D . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 D Bruce Books FY 13 12  
FS101E . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-128 P Filkins Books FY 13 9  
FS101F . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 N Yanoshak Books FY 13 13  
FS101G . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-09 K Boswell Books FY 13 10  
FS101H . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-03 N Yanoshak Books FY 13 13  
FS101I . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-201 B Mathews Books FY 13 14  
FS101J . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-09 W Brown Books FY 13 14  
FS101K . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-125 W Brown Books FY 13 12  
FS101L . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 R Fiske Books FY 13 14  
 
 
First Year Seminar Information Fluency Lab Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
FS101FLA . Information Fluency Lab   T 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-14 B Mikesell Books FY 15 14  
FS101FLB . Information Fluency Lab   T 1:50- 2:45 pm CL3-14 B Mikesell Books FY 15 11  
FS101FLC . Information Fluency LabCLOSED   T 3:25- 4:20 pm CL3-14 B Mikesell Books FY 15 15  
FS101FLD . Information Fluency Lab   W 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-09 B Mikesell Books FY 15 12  
FS101FLE . Information Fluency Lab   W 2:25- 3:20 pm CL3-09 B Mikesell Books FY 15 12  
FS101FLF . Information Fluency Lab   R 1:50- 2:45 pm CL1-04 B Mikesell Books FY 15 11  
FS101FLG . Information Fluency Lab   R 3:25- 4:20 pm CL1-04 B Mikesell Books FY 15 12  
FS101FLH . Information Fluency Lab   R 5:00- 5:55 pm CL1-04 B Mikesell Books FY 15 14  
FS101FLI . Information Fluency LabCLOSED   F 11:10-12:05 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 15  
FS101FLJ . Information Fluency Lab   F 12:15- 1:10 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 14  
FS101FLK . Information Fluency Lab   F 2:25- 3:10 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 13  
FS101FLL . Information Fluency Lab   F 3:25- 4:20 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 10  
 
 
African American Studies Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
AFAM100 . CP Introduction to African American Studies 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 F Oyogoa Books FY 15 13  
LIT261 . CP Contemporary African Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews Books FY 15 10  
 
 
Anthropology Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
ANTH202 . CP Language & CultureCLOSED 3 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain Books FY 20 20  
 
 
Art History Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
ARTH114 . CP Global Art: Mid East & Asia 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 15 10  
ARTH212 . Theories of Photography 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 8 4  
 
 
Arts Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
ARTS211 . Interactive Arts Workshop ICLOSED 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers Books FY 13 13  
ARTS284 NEW Guest Artists: The Artist on the Global Stage 2 R 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-128 A Michel Books FY 15 10  
 
 
Asian Studies Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
ARTH114 . CP Global Art: Mid East & Asia 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 15 10  
PHIL207 . CP Daoism through Texts, Talks, and TaijiquanCLOSED 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-108 C Coggins Books FY 15 18  
PHIL208 . CP Buddhism: History, Teachings and PracticesCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-03 M Naamon Books FY 15 18  
 
 
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 R Schmidt Books FY 30 22  
BIO100LA . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-202 E McMullin Books FY 15 13  
BIO100LB . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 E McMullin Books FY 15 9  
BIO212 . Disease and Community Ecology 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 M Naamon Books FY 15 11  
and   LEC-LC   Books FY      
 
 
Dance Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
DANC101 . Beginning Modern Dance Technique 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin Books FY 13 10  
DANC114 . Ballet I 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart Books FY 8 4  
DANC120 . Chinese SwordCLOSED 2 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-108 R Aver Thung Books FY 15 17  
DANC126 . Flamenco Dance 2 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart Books FY 8 4  
DANC211 . Topics in Dance: Relationships between Dance and Creative Writing 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin Books FY 12 8  
 
 
Economics Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
ECON101 . Macroeconomics 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 M Moeini Feizabadi Books FY 15 14  
 
 
Gender Studies Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
LIT269MM2 . CP Women Writing Resistance in the Caribbean 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 14  
LIT270MM1 . CP Women Writing Resistance in Latin America 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 13  
 
 
History Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
HIST228 . Manifesting Destinies II: The United States of America 1877-Present 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 M Alvarez Books FY 15 13  
HIST229 . CP Chicanas/Chicanos in the United States: A National History 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-13 M Alvarez Books FY 15 9  
 
 
Linguistics Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
ANTH202 . CP Language & CultureCLOSED 3 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain Books FY 20 20  
 
 
Literature Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
LIT197 NEW Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-139 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 6 5  
LIT202 . Art of Fiction: Short Story 3 WF 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-03 J Hutchinson Books FY 15 12  
LIT222 . Shakespeare 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-135 H Holladay Books FY 15 7  
LIT258 . The 19th Century Novel 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-13 B Rodgers Books FY 15 8  
LIT261 . CP Contemporary African Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews Books FY 15 10  
LIT269MM2 . CP Women Writing Resistance in the Caribbean 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 14  
LIT270MM1 . CP Women Writing Resistance in Latin America 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 13  
LIT281 NEW Homo Sacer: Monster in Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-02 R Fiske Books FY 15 11  
LIT282 NEW Ancient Epic Literature 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-04 C Callanan Books FY 15 7  
 
 
Mathematics Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
MATH099 . Algebra Workshop 1 MF 9:30-10:25 am CL1-02 D Sharpe Books FY 15 6  
 
 
Music Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
MUS117 . Chorus 1 W 7:00- 9:00 pm KLG J Brown Books FY 30 20  
MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 TR 6:00- 7:20 pm DAC-128 C Gevert Books FY 15 9  
MUS219 . Jazz Improvization Workshop I 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm KLG J Myers Books FY 10 8  
and   KLG-B   Books FY      
MUS222 . Jazz Ensemble 1 T 7:30- 9:30 pm KLG J Myers Books FY 30 15  
and   KLG-B   Books FY      
MUS278 . Collegium 1 M 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG L Bardo Books FY 12 6  
MUS289 . Chamber Orchestra 1 R 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG A Legene Books FY 15 5  
 
 
Music: Community Music Program - Private Lessons Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
MUS180P . Applied Music: Trombone 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS181P . Applied Music: Bassoon 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS183P . Applied Music: Harp 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS184P . Applied Music: Gamba 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 1  
MUS185P . Applied Music: Saxophone 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS187P . Applied Music: Clarinet 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS188P . Applied Music:Trumpet 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 1  
MUS189P . Applied Music: Mandolin 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 1  
MUS190P . Applied Music: Piano 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 13  
MUS191P . Applied Music: Voice 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 24  
MUS192P . Applied Music: Flute 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 1  
MUS193P . Applied Music: Guitar 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 7  
MUS195P . Applied Music: Cello 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS196P . Applied Music: Percussion 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30 4  
MUS197P . Applied Music: Oboe 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS198P . Applied Music: Bass 1   TBD - S Mower Books FY 30    
MUS199P . Applied Music: Violin/Viola 1   TBD - S Mower Books 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 . Forensic ScienceCLOSED 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers Books FY 15 16  
and F 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202   Books FY      
 
 
Philosophy Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
PHIL103 . Philosophy of Religion 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-10 S Ruhmkorff Books FY 15 9  
PHIL113 . Logic 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-04 S Ruhmkorff Books FY 20 16  
PHIL175 . Ethics 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-02 B Conolly Books FY 15 11  
PHIL207 . CP Daoism through Texts, Talks, and TaijiquanCLOSED 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-108 C Coggins Books FY 15 18  
PHIL208 . CP Buddhism: History, Teachings and PracticesCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-03 M Naamon Books FY 15 18  
 
 
Political Science Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
POLS100 . Introduction to Politics 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-01 A Abbas Books FY 15 14  
 
 
Psychology Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
PSYC100 . Intro to PsychologyCLOSED 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am LEC-LC A O'Dwyer Books FY 20 24  
PSYC225 . Social Work Practice with Individuals and FamiliesCLOSED 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL3-11 Q McLaughlin Books FY 15 15  
 
 
Studio Arts Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
SART102 . Photography I: Black & White/Analog 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-025 D La Spina Books FY 15 14  
and   DAC-041   Books FY      
SART103 . Drawing I 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-024 J Fossum Books FY 12 9  
SART106 . Introduction to CeramicsCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-072 B Krupka Books FY 12 12  
SART123 . Video Production, Cinematically Speaking 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-120 L Burke Books FY 12 9  
and   DAC-135   Books FY      
SART166 . Introduction to Sculpture StudioCLOSED 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-052 B Krupka Books FY 12 13  
SART225 . Survey of Documentary Film 3 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm LIE-01 L Burke Books FY 15 11  
 
 
Theater Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
THEA104M2 . Production Workshop 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books FY 6 5  
and   DAC-115   Books FY      
THEA108M1 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale Books FY 12 9  
THEA126MM1 NEW Devising Theater: Creating 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books FY 5 3  
THEA126MM2 NEW Devising Theater: PerformingCLOSED 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books FY 6 6  
THEA211M1 . Creative Disciplines in Technical Theater 2 WF 5:00- 6:25 pm DAC-011 S Cleary-Wade Books FY 12 4  
THEA211M2 . Creative Disciplines in Technical TheaterCLOSED 2 WF 5:00- 6:25 pm DAC-011 S Cleary-Wade Books FY 12 15  
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - Spanish Top
Courses appropriate for First Year students without special preparation
SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 M Roe Books FY 16 9  
and MW 10:05-11:00 am LIE-02   Books FY      
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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
ANTH232 . CP City Life 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm LIE-01 K Boswell Books WP 15 9  
 
 
Arts Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
ARTS311 . Interactive Arts Workshop II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers Books WP 2 1  
 
 
Biology Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
BIO200 . General Botany 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-211 D Roeder Books WP 15 10  
and R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-211A   Books WP      
 
 
Dance Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
DANC201 . Intermediate Modern DanceCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin Books WP 2 2  
DANC214 . Intermediate Ballet I 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart Books WP 7 5  
DANC227 . Flamenco Repertory 2 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart Books WP 8 4  
 
 
Linguistics Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
LING304 . CP Native American Languages 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-10 N Bonvillain Books WP 15 4  
 
 
Literature Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
LIT297 NEW Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-139 J Browdy de Hernandez Books WP 6 3  
LIT289 . Poetry WorkshopCLOSED 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL3-09 P Filkins Books WP 12 12  
 
 
Mathematics Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
MATH101 . Math & Its Applications 3 F 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-112 W Dunbar Books WP 15 13  
and MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-201   Books WP      
MATH109 . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am CL1-04 A Musselman Books WP 20 15  
MATH110 . Introduction to Statistics 3 F 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-112 C Thatcher Books WP 20 17  
and MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-201   Books WP      
MATH210 . Calculus ICLOSED 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-01 W Dunbar Books WP 15 15  
MATH211A . Calculus II 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am CL1-01 C Thatcher Books WP 20 16  
MATH211B . Calculus II 3 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm CL1-01 C Thatcher Books WP 20 10  
MATH221A . Vector Calculus 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-201 B Musselman Books WP 20 19  
MATH221B . Vector Calculus 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-01 B Musselman Books WP 20 7  
MATH364 . Ordinary Differential Equations 4 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL1-01 B Musselman Books WP 20 9  
 
 
Music Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
MUS319 . Jazz Improvisation Workshop II 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm KLG J Myers Books WP 5    
and   KLG-B   Books WP      
MUS280 . Madrigal Group 1 M 3:30- 5:00 pm KLG J Brown Books WP 12 6  
 
 
Philosophy Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
PHIL283 NEW Environmental Ethics: A Global Perspective 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-12 B Conolly Books WP 15 5  
 
 
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 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-113 M Bergman Books WP 30 19  
PHYS101LA . Physics II Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-113 M Bergman Books WP 15 5  
PHYS101LB . Physics II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-113 M Bergman Books WP 15 14  
PHYS221 . Relativity, Cosmology, and Astrophysics 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-113 E Kramer Books WP 15 8  
 
 
Studio Arts Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
SART224M2 . Photography: Alternative ProcessesCLOSED 2 T 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-028 D La Spina Books WP 12 17  
and   DAC-139   Books WP      
SART235 . Painting Studio 3 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum Books WP 11 9  
SART273 . Photography II: Color/Digital 3 R 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-025 K Greene Books WP 12 10  
and   DAC-139   Books WP      
SART312 . Large Format Photography 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-025 D La Spina Books WP 8 6  
and   DAC-041   Books WP      
SART339 NEW Figure PaintingCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum Books WP 12 15  
 
 
Theater Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
THEA208M1 . Costume and Prop Design and ExecutionCLOSED 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale Books WP 3 3  
THEA226MM1 NEW Devising Theater: Creating 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 7 6  
THEA226MM2 NEW Devising Theater: PerformingCLOSED 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 6 7  
THEA221MM1 NEW Concept and Construction in Scenic Design 2 R 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-115 C Adinolfi Books WP 12 4  
THEA222MM1 NEW Lighting Design Practicum 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-002 T Cryan Books WP 12 4  
THEA236 . CP Theaters of the Oppressed: Global Activism in Visual and Performing ArtsCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 12 13  
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - 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 Books WP 15 6  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-14   Books WP      
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - 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 11:10-12:05 pm CL1-04 Y Zhao Books WP 20 11  
CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-03 Y Zhao Books WP 15 5  
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - 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 Books WP 15 5  
and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-14   Books WP      
FREN205 . Intermediate French II 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 M Tebben Books WP 15 9  
FREN216 . French Food, Culture, and Literature 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 M Tebben Books WP 15 6  
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - 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 12:25- 1:40 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde Books WP 15 8  
GERM205 . Intermediate German II 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde Books WP 15 8  
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - Latin Top
Courses that may be appropriate for First Year students with placement or prerequisites - see the course description for details
LATN101 . Accelerated Beginning Latin II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-09 C Callanan Books WP 20 17  
and MW 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09   Books WP      
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - 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 Books WP 16 11  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm LIE-01   Books WP      
SPAN101B . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-01 K Pichard Books WP 16 9  
and MW 2:25- 3:20 pm LIE-01   Books WP      
SPAN204 . Intermediate Spanish I 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-128 H Brown Books WP 15 8  
SPAN205 . Intermediate Spanish II 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 H Brown Books WP 15 5  
SPAN223 NEW De poetas y locura: Madness in Spanish Literature 3 T 9:00-11:55 am CL3-10 H Brown Books WP 15 13  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor Books FY Max Current Wait
 
First Year Seminar Top
Classes with seats available
FS101D . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 D Bruce Books FY 13 12  
FS101E . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-128 P Filkins Books FY 13 9  
FS101G . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-09 K Boswell Books FY 13 10  
FS101K . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-125 W Brown Books FY 13 12  
 
 
First Year Seminar Information Fluency Lab Top
Classes with seats available
FS101FLA . Information Fluency Lab   T 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-14 B Mikesell Books FY 15 14  
FS101FLB . Information Fluency Lab   T 1:50- 2:45 pm CL3-14 B Mikesell Books FY 15 11  
FS101FLD . Information Fluency Lab   W 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-09 B Mikesell Books FY 15 12  
FS101FLE . Information Fluency Lab   W 2:25- 3:20 pm CL3-09 B Mikesell Books FY 15 12  
FS101FLF . Information Fluency Lab   R 1:50- 2:45 pm CL1-04 B Mikesell Books FY 15 11  
FS101FLG . Information Fluency Lab   R 3:25- 4:20 pm CL1-04 B Mikesell Books FY 15 12  
FS101FLH . Information Fluency Lab   R 5:00- 5:55 pm CL1-04 B Mikesell Books FY 15 14  
FS101FLJ . Information Fluency Lab   F 12:15- 1:10 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 14  
FS101FLK . Information Fluency Lab   F 2:25- 3:10 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 13  
FS101FLL . Information Fluency Lab   F 3:25- 4:20 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 10  
 
 
Sophomore Seminar Top
Classes with seats available
SS251JA . Seminar III: Transformations, Boundaries, Crossings 4 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain Books No 14 9  
 
 
African American Studies Top
Classes with seats available
AFAM100 . CP Introduction to African American Studies 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 F Oyogoa Books FY 15 13  
AFAM302 . Critical Race Theory 4 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm CL3-11 F Oyogoa Books No 15 8  
LIT261 . CP Contemporary African Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews Books FY 15 10  
 
 
Anthropology Top
Classes with seats available
ANTH232 . CP City Life 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm LIE-01 K Boswell Books WP 15 9  
ANTH330 NEW Anthropological Perspectives on Dispossession and Displacement 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-02 K Boswell Books No 15 12  
 
 
Art History Top
Classes with seats available
ARTH114 . CP Global Art: Mid East & Asia 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 15 10  
ARTH212 . Theories of Photography 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 8 4  
ARTH213 . Analyzing Television 3 T 9:00-11:55 am DAC-128 J DelPlato Books No 15 9  
and R 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-128   Books No      
 
 
Arts Top
Classes with seats available
ARTS311 . Interactive Arts Workshop II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers Books WP 2 1  
ARTS284 NEW Guest Artists: The Artist on the Global Stage 2 R 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-128 A Michel Books FY 15 10  
 
 
Asian Studies Top
Classes with seats available
ARTH114 . CP Global Art: Mid East & Asia 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 15 10  
 
 
Biology Top
Classes with seats available
BIO100 . Introduction to the Life Sciences 4 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-102 R Schmidt Books FY 30 22  
BIO100LA . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-202 E McMullin Books FY 15 13  
BIO100LB . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 E McMullin Books FY 15 9  
BIO200 . General Botany 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-211 D Roeder Books WP 15 10  
and R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-211A   Books WP      
BIO201 . Cell Biology 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-211 E McMullin Books No 30 18  
BIO201LA . Cell Biology Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers Books No 16 12  
BIO201LB . Cell Biology Lab   T 9:00-11:55 am FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers Books No 16 6  
BIO212 . Disease and Community Ecology 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 M Naamon Books FY 15 11  
and   LEC-LC   Books FY      
BIO303 . Introduction to Bioinformatics 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-112 T Coote Books No 12 8  
 
 
Chemistry Top
Classes with seats available
CHEM101A . Chemistry II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-102 P Dooley Books No 15 9  
CHEM101B . Chemistry II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-102 P Dooley Books No 15 11  
CHEM101LA . Chemistry II Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-128 P Dooley Books No 12 8  
CHEM101LB . Chemistry II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-128 P Dooley Books No 12 6  
CHEM101LC . Chemistry II Lab   F 9:00-11:55 am FSH-128 A Schmidt Books No 12 7  
CHEM303 . Organic Chemistry II 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-113 D Myers Books No 12 7  
CHEM303L . Organic Chemistry II Lab   M 3:30- 6:15 pm FSH-128 D Myers Books No 12 7  
 
 
Computer Science Top
Classes with seats available
CMPT320 . The Theory of Computation 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-112 P Shields Books No 15 6  
 
 
Dance Top
Classes with seats available
DANC101 . Beginning Modern Dance Technique 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin Books FY 13 10  
DANC114 . Ballet I 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart Books FY 8 4  
DANC214 . Intermediate Ballet I 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart Books WP 7 5  
DANC126 . Flamenco Dance 2 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart Books FY 8 4  
DANC211 . Topics in Dance: Relationships between Dance and Creative Writing 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin Books FY 12 8  
DANC227 . Flamenco Repertory 2 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart Books WP 8 4  
 
 
Economics Top
Classes with seats available
ECON101 . Macroeconomics 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 M Moeini Feizabadi Books FY 15 14  
ECON209 . Intermediate Political Economy 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-04 M Moeini Feizabadi Books No 15 8  
ECON210 . Macroeconomic Theory 3 R 1:50- 4:45 pm CL3-10 D Neilson Books No 15 8  
ECON310 NEW Macroeconomic Theory 4 R 1:50- 4:45 pm CL3-10 D Neilson Books No 7 3  
 
 
Environmental Studies Top
Classes with seats available
ENVS304 . Topics in Environmental Management 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder Books No 15 8  
 
 
Gender Studies Top
Classes with seats available
LIT269MM2 . CP Women Writing Resistance in the Caribbean 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 14  
LIT270MM1 . CP Women Writing Resistance in Latin America 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 13  
 
 
Geography Top
Classes with seats available
GEOG213 . Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 12 9  
GEOG313 . Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 6 5  
 
 
History Top
Classes with seats available
HIST228 . Manifesting Destinies II: The United States of America 1877-Present 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 M Alvarez Books FY 15 13  
HIST229 . CP Chicanas/Chicanos in the United States: A National History 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-13 M Alvarez Books FY 15 9  
HIST237 . U. S. Social Movements of the 1960s 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-13 M Alvarez Books No 15 5  
HIST328 NEW The Middle Class and Its Discontents: American Middle Class Identity Formation, 1800 to the Present 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm CL3-09 H Holladay Books No 11 5  
and     P Laipson Books No      
 
 
Learning Resources Top
Classes with seats available
LR202MM2 . Study Away Preparation 1   TBD - M Tebben Books No 10    
 
 
Linguistics Top
Classes with seats available
LING304 . CP Native American Languages 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-10 N Bonvillain Books WP 15 4  
 
 
Literature Top
Classes with seats available
LIT197 NEW Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-139 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 6 5  
LIT297 NEW Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-139 J Browdy de Hernandez Books WP 6 3  
LIT202 . Art of Fiction: Short Story 3 WF 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-03 J Hutchinson Books FY 15 12  
LIT222 . Shakespeare 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-135 H Holladay Books FY 15 7  
LIT258 . The 19th Century Novel 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-13 B Rodgers Books FY 15 8  
LIT261 . CP Contemporary African Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews Books FY 15 10  
LIT269MM2 . CP Women Writing Resistance in the Caribbean 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 14  
LIT270MM1 . CP Women Writing Resistance in Latin America 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 13  
LIT281 NEW Homo Sacer: Monster in Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-02 R Fiske Books FY 15 11  
LIT282 NEW Ancient Epic Literature 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-04 C Callanan Books FY 15 7  
LIT488 . Fiction Workshop 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Mathews Books No 1    
LIT307 . Sacred and Profane: The Literature of 17th-Century England 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-128 H Holladay Books No 15 4  
LIT328 NEW The Middle Class and Its Discontents: American Middle Class Identity Formation, 1800 to the Present 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm CL3-09 H Holladay Books No 4 1  
and     P Laipson Books No      
LIT330 . The Inklings 4 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson Books No 15 6  
 
 
Mathematics Top
Classes with seats available
MATH099 . Algebra Workshop 1 MF 9:30-10:25 am CL1-02 D Sharpe Books FY 15 6  
MATH101 . Math & Its Applications 3 F 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-112 W Dunbar Books WP 15 13  
and MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-201   Books WP      
MATH109 . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am CL1-04 A Musselman Books WP 20 15  
MATH110 . Introduction to Statistics 3 F 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-112 C Thatcher Books WP 20 17  
and MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-201   Books WP      
MATH211A . Calculus II 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am CL1-01 C Thatcher Books WP 20 16  
MATH211B . Calculus II 3 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm CL1-01 C Thatcher Books WP 20 10  
MATH221A . Vector Calculus 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-201 B Musselman Books WP 20 19  
MATH221B . Vector Calculus 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-01 B Musselman Books WP 20 7  
MATH321 . Modern Algebra II 4 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm CL1-02 W Dunbar Books No 15 4  
MATH364 . Ordinary Differential Equations 4 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL1-01 B Musselman Books WP 20 9  
 
 
Music Top
Classes with seats available
MUS117 . Chorus 1 W 7:00- 9:00 pm KLG J Brown Books FY 30 20  
MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 TR 6:00- 7:20 pm DAC-128 C Gevert Books FY 15 9  
MUS219 . Jazz Improvization Workshop I 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm KLG J Myers Books FY 10 8  
and   KLG-B   Books FY      
MUS319 . Jazz Improvisation Workshop II 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm KLG J Myers Books WP 5    
and   KLG-B   Books WP      
MUS222 . Jazz Ensemble 1 T 7:30- 9:30 pm KLG J Myers Books FY 30 15  
and   KLG-B   Books FY      
MUS278 . Collegium 1 M 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG L Bardo Books FY 12 6  
MUS280 . Madrigal Group 1 M 3:30- 5:00 pm KLG J Brown Books WP 12 6  
MUS289 . Chamber Orchestra 1 R 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG A Legene Books FY 15 5  
 
 
Natural Sciences Top
Classes with seats available
NATS242M1 NEW Science Writing 2 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-113 M Bergman Books No 15 10  
 
 
Philosophy Top
Classes with seats available
PHIL103 . Philosophy of Religion 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-10 S Ruhmkorff Books FY 15 9  
PHIL113 . Logic 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-04 S Ruhmkorff Books FY 20 16  
PHIL175 . Ethics 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-02 B Conolly Books FY 15 11  
PHIL216 . Philosophy of Science 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm CL3-11 S Ruhmkorff Books No 15 4  
PHIL226 . Minds, Matter, and Morals: Kant and Hume 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-13 B Conolly Books No 15 2  
PHIL283 NEW Environmental Ethics: A Global Perspective 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-12 B Conolly Books WP 15 5  
 
 
Physics Top
Classes with seats available
PHYS101 . Physics II 4 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-113 M Bergman Books WP 30 19  
PHYS101LA . Physics II Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-113 M Bergman Books WP 15 5  
PHYS101LB . Physics II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-113 M Bergman Books WP 15 14  
PHYS221 . Relativity, Cosmology, and Astrophysics 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-113 E Kramer Books WP 15 8  
PHYS303 . Classical Mechanics 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-201 E Kramer Books No 15 2  
 
 
Political Science Top
Classes with seats available
POLS100 . Introduction to Politics 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-01 A Abbas Books FY 15 14  
 
 
Psychology Top
Classes with seats available
PSYC302 . Abnormal Psychology 4 R 12:15- 3:00 pm CL3-14 V Brush Books No 15 7  
PSYC348 . The Man and the Experiment that Shocked the World: The Work and Legacy of Stanley Milgram 4 T 1:50- 4:45 pm CL1-04 S Levine Books No 15 4  
 
 
Social Science Top
Classes with seats available
GEOG213 . Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 12 9  
GEOG313 . Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 6 5  
SOCS224 . Globalization 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-02 F Oyogoa Books No 15 13  
SOCS325 NEW Possesssion,Identity,Ownership 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 15 9  
 
 
Studio Arts Top
Classes with seats available
SART102 . Photography I: Black & White/Analog 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-025 D La Spina Books FY 15 14  
and   DAC-041   Books FY      
SART103 . Drawing I 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-024 J Fossum Books FY 12 9  
SART123 . Video Production, Cinematically Speaking 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-120 L Burke Books FY 12 9  
and   DAC-135   Books FY      
SART225 . Survey of Documentary Film 3 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm LIE-01 L Burke Books FY 15 11  
SART235 . Painting Studio 3 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum Books WP 11 9  
SART273 . Photography II: Color/Digital 3 R 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-025 K Greene Books WP 12 10  
and   DAC-139   Books WP      
SART312 . Large Format Photography 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-025 D La Spina Books WP 8 6  
and   DAC-041   Books WP      
SART367 . Advanced Ceramic Studio 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-072 B Krupka Books No 2 1  
SART467 . Advanced Ceramic Studio 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-072 B Krupka Books No 2    
SART460MM1 . Photography IV: Professional Practice 2 T 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-028 D La Spina Books No 12 7  
and   DAC-139   Books No      
 
 
Theater Top
Classes with seats available
THEA104M2 . Production Workshop 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books FY 6 5  
and   DAC-115   Books FY      
THEA304M2 . Production Workshop 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 6    
THEA108M1 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale Books FY 12 9  
THEA126MM1 NEW Devising Theater: Creating 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books FY 5 3  
THEA226MM1 NEW Devising Theater: Creating 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 7 6  
THEA206M2 . Theater Production 2 T 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-115 K Allen Books No 12 7  
THEA211M1 . Creative Disciplines in Technical Theater 2 WF 5:00- 6:25 pm DAC-011 S Cleary-Wade Books FY 12 4  
THEA221MM1 NEW Concept and Construction in Scenic Design 2 R 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-115 C Adinolfi Books WP 12 4  
THEA222MM1 NEW Lighting Design Practicum 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-002 T Cryan Books WP 12 4  
THEA237 . Shakesperean Scene Study 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 12 7  
and   DAC-115   Books No      
THEA401M1 . Performance Practicum 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 2 1  
THEA320 . Comic Acting 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books No 12 6  
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - Arabic Top
Classes with seats available
ARAB101 . CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 G Asfar Books WP 15 6  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-14   Books WP      
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - Chinese Top
Classes with seats available
CHIN101 . Accelerated Beginning Chinese II 4 MTWRF 11:10-12:05 pm CL1-04 Y Zhao Books WP 20 11  
CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-03 Y Zhao Books WP 15 5  
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - French Top
Classes with seats available
FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 G Asfar Books WP 15 5  
and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-14   Books WP      
FREN205 . Intermediate French II 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 M Tebben Books WP 15 9  
FREN216 . French Food, Culture, and Literature 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 M Tebben Books WP 15 6  
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - German Top
Classes with seats available
GERM101 . Accelerated Beginning German II 4 MTWR 12:25- 1:40 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde Books WP 15 8  
GERM205 . Intermediate German II 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde Books WP 15 8  
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - Latin Top
Classes with seats available
LATN101 . Accelerated Beginning Latin II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-09 C Callanan Books WP 20 17  
and MW 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09   Books WP      
 
 
World Languages and Cultures - Spanish Top
Classes with seats available
SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 M Roe Books FY 16 9  
and MW 10:05-11:00 am LIE-02   Books FY      
SPAN101A . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-01 K Pichard Books WP 16 11  
and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm LIE-01   Books WP      
SPAN101B . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-01 K Pichard Books WP 16 9  
and MW 2:25- 3:20 pm LIE-01   Books WP      
SPAN204 . Intermediate Spanish I 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-128 H Brown Books WP 15 8  
SPAN205 . Intermediate Spanish II 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 H Brown Books WP 15 5  
SPAN223 NEW De poetas y locura: Madness in Spanish Literature 3 T 9:00-11:55 am CL3-10 H Brown Books WP 15 13  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor Books FY Max Current Wait
BIO212 . Disease and Community Ecology 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 M Naamon Books FY 15 11  
and   LEC-LC   Books FY      
LR202MM2 . Study Away Preparation 1   TBD - M Tebben Books No 10    
MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 TR 6:00- 7:20 pm DAC-128 C Gevert Books FY 15 9  
 
 
 
 
 
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Course Number Title Credits Days Time Room Instructor Books 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 R Schmidt Books FY 30 22  
MATH210 . Calculus ICLOSED 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am CL1-01 W Dunbar Books WP 15 15  
MATH221A . Vector Calculus 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am FSH-201 B Musselman Books WP 20 19  
PSYC100 . Intro to PsychologyCLOSED 3 MWF 9:00-09:55 am LEC-LC A O'Dwyer Books FY 20 24  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
9:00-10:25 am Top
CHEM303 . Organic Chemistry II 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-113 D Myers Books No 12 7  
DANC126 . Flamenco Dance 2 MW 9:00-10:25 am DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart Books FY 8 4  
ECON101 . Macroeconomics 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 M Moeini Feizabadi Books FY 15 14  
ENVS304 . Topics in Environmental Management 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am FSH-211 D Roeder Books No 15 8  
GEOG213 . Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 12 9  
GEOG313 . Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 6 5  
PSYC225 . Social Work Practice with Individuals and FamiliesCLOSED 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am CL3-11 Q McLaughlin Books FY 15 15  
GEOG213 . Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality 3 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 12 9  
GEOG313 . Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality 4 MW 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 6 5  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
9:00-11:55 am Top
CHEM101LC . Chemistry II Lab   F 9:00-11:55 am FSH-128 A Schmidt Books No 12 7  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
9:30-10:25 am Top
MATH099 . Algebra Workshop 1 MF 9:30-10:25 am CL1-02 D Sharpe Books FY 15 6  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
10:05-11:00 am Top
MATH109 . Elementary Functions 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am CL1-04 A Musselman Books WP 20 15  
MATH211A . Calculus II 3 MWF 10:05-11:00 am CL1-01 C Thatcher Books WP 20 16  
SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 and MW 10:05-11:00 am LIE-02 M Roe Books FY      
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
10:35-12:00 pm Top
LIT261 . CP Contemporary African Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews Books FY 15 10  
DANC227 . Flamenco Repertory 2 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-116 K Garcia-Renart Books WP 8 4  
LIT261 . CP Contemporary African Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 B Mathews Books FY 15 10  
LIT281 NEW Homo Sacer: Monster in Literature 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-02 R Fiske Books FY 15 11  
PHIL103 . Philosophy of Religion 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-10 S Ruhmkorff Books FY 15 9  
POLS100 . Introduction to Politics 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-01 A Abbas Books FY 15 14  
SART166 . Introduction to Sculpture StudioCLOSED 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-052 B Krupka Books FY 12 13  
FREN205 . Intermediate French II 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 M Tebben Books WP 15 9  
SPAN204 . Intermediate Spanish I 3 MW 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-128 H Brown Books WP 15 8  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
11:10-12:05 pm Top
FS101FLI . Information Fluency LabCLOSED   F 11:10-12:05 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 15  
BIO201 . Cell Biology 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-211 E McMullin Books No 30 18  
NATS242M1 NEW Science Writing 2 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-113 M Bergman Books No 15 10  
PHYS303 . Classical Mechanics 4 MWF 11:10-12:05 pm FSH-201 E Kramer Books No 15 2  
CHIN101 . Accelerated Beginning Chinese II 4 MTWRF 11:10-12:05 pm CL1-04 Y Zhao Books WP 20 11  
LATN101 . Accelerated Beginning Latin II 4 and MW 11:10-12:05 pm CL3-09 C Callanan Books WP      
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
12:15- 1:10 pm Top
FS101FLD . Information Fluency Lab   W 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-09 B Mikesell Books FY 15 12  
FS101FLJ . Information Fluency Lab   F 12:15- 1:10 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 14  
ANTH202 . CP Language & CultureCLOSED 3 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain Books FY 20 20  
BIO204 . Vertebrate ZoologyCLOSED 4 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-211 R Schmidt Books No 15 16  
ANTH202 . CP Language & CultureCLOSED 3 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-13 N Bonvillain Books FY 20 20  
MATH101 . Math & Its Applications 3 F 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-112 W Dunbar Books WP 15 13  
and MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm FSH-201 W Dunbar Books WP      
MATH364 . Ordinary Differential Equations 4 MWF 12:15- 1:10 pm CL1-01 B Musselman Books WP 20 9  
FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 and MW 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-14 G Asfar Books WP      
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
12:15- 1:40 pm Top
FS101A . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-02 R Fiske Books FY 13 15  
FS101B . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-128 W Shifrin Books FY 13 14  
DANC114 . Ballet I 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart Books FY 8 4  
DANC214 . Intermediate Ballet I 2 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 K Garcia-Renart Books WP 7 5  
LIT202 . Art of Fiction: Short Story 3 WF 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-03 J Hutchinson Books FY 15 12  
PHIL113 . Logic 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-04 S Ruhmkorff Books FY 20 16  
PHIL283 NEW Environmental Ethics: A Global Perspective 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-12 B Conolly Books WP 15 5  
SART123 . Video Production, Cinematically Speaking 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-120 L Burke Books FY 12 9  
and MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-135 L Burke Books FY      
THEA237 . Shakesperean Scene Study 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 12 7  
and MW 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-115 A Michel Books No      
SPAN205 . Intermediate Spanish II 3 MW 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 H Brown Books WP 15 5  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
12:25- 1:40 pm Top
GERM101 . Accelerated Beginning German II 4 MTWR 12:25- 1:40 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde Books WP 15 8  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
1:20- 2:15 pm Top
SS251JA . Seminar III: Transformations, Boundaries, Crossings 4 MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-09 N Bonvillain Books No 14 9  
MATH110 . Introduction to Statistics 3 F 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-112 C Thatcher Books WP 20 17  
and MWF 1:20- 2:15 pm FSH-201 C Thatcher Books WP      
ARAB101 . CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm CL3-14 G Asfar Books WP      
SPAN101A . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 and MW 1:20- 2:15 pm LIE-01 K Pichard Books WP      
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
1:50- 3:15 pm Top
FS101C . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 B Rodgers Books FY 13 14  
FS101E . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-128 P Filkins Books FY 13 9  
ANTH330 NEW Anthropological Perspectives on Dispossession and Displacement 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-02 K Boswell Books No 15 12  
ARTH114 . CP Global Art: Mid East & Asia 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 15 10  
ARTH114 . CP Global Art: Mid East & Asia 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 15 10  
BIO200 . General Botany 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-211 D Roeder Books WP 15 10  
DANC101 . Beginning Modern Dance Technique 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin Books FY 13 10  
DANC201 . Intermediate Modern DanceCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin Books WP 2 2  
LIT282 NEW Ancient Epic Literature 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-04 C Callanan Books FY 15 7  
LIT288 . Fiction WorkshopCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Mathews Books No 7 8  
LIT388 . Fiction WorkshopCLOSED 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Mathews Books No 4 5  
LIT488 . Fiction Workshop 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 B Mathews Books No 1    
MUS219 . Jazz Improvization Workshop I 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm KLG J Myers Books FY 10 8  
and MW 1:50- 3:15 pm KLG-B J Myers Books FY      
MUS319 . Jazz Improvisation Workshop II 4 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm KLG J Myers Books WP 5    
and MW 1:50- 3:15 pm KLG-B J Myers Books WP      
PHIL226 . Minds, Matter, and Morals: Kant and Hume 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-13 B Conolly Books No 15 2  
SART102 . Photography I: Black & White/Analog 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-025 D La Spina Books FY 15 14  
and MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-041 D La Spina Books FY      
SART106 . Introduction to CeramicsCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-072 B Krupka Books FY 12 12  
THEA236 . CP Theaters of the Oppressed: Global Activism in Visual and Performing ArtsCLOSED 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 12 13  
GERM205 . Intermediate German II 3 MW 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 C van Kerckvoorde Books WP 15 8  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
1:50- 4:45 pm Top
PHIL207 . CP Daoism through Texts, Talks, and TaijiquanCLOSED 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-108 C Coggins Books FY 15 18  
NATS116 . Forensic ScienceCLOSED 4 and F 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers Books FY      
PHIL207 . CP Daoism through Texts, Talks, and TaijiquanCLOSED 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-108 C Coggins Books FY 15 18  
PHIL216 . Philosophy of Science 3 F 1:50- 4:45 pm CL3-11 S Ruhmkorff Books No 15 4  
THEA108M1 . Costume and Prop Design and Execution 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale Books FY 12 9  
THEA208M1 . Costume and Prop Design and ExecutionCLOSED 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-018 G Veale Books WP 3 3  
THEA222MM1 NEW Lighting Design Practicum 2 F 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-002 T Cryan Books WP 12 4  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
2:25- 3:10 pm Top
FS101FLK . Information Fluency Lab   F 2:25- 3:10 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 13  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
2:25- 3:20 pm Top
FS101FLE . Information Fluency Lab   W 2:25- 3:20 pm CL3-09 B Mikesell Books FY 15 12  
MATH211B . Calculus II 3 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm CL1-01 C Thatcher Books WP 20 10  
MATH321 . Modern Algebra II 4 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm CL1-02 W Dunbar Books No 15 4  
PHYS101 . Physics II 4 MWF 2:25- 3:20 pm FSH-113 M Bergman Books WP 30 19  
SPAN101B . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 and MW 2:25- 3:20 pm LIE-01 K Pichard Books WP      
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
3:25- 4:20 pm Top
FS101FLL . Information Fluency Lab   F 3:25- 4:20 pm LIE-01 B Mikesell Books FY 15 10  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
3:30- 5:00 pm Top
MUS280 . Madrigal Group 1 M 3:30- 5:00 pm KLG J Brown Books WP 12 6  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
3:30- 6:15 pm Top
CHEM303L . Organic Chemistry II Lab   M 3:30- 6:15 pm FSH-128 D Myers Books No 12 7  
HIST328 NEW The Middle Class and Its Discontents: American Middle Class Identity Formation, 1800 to the Present 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm CL3-09 H Holladay Books No 11 5  
and M 3:30- 6:15 pm   P Laipson Books No      
LIT328 NEW The Middle Class and Its Discontents: American Middle Class Identity Formation, 1800 to the Present 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm CL3-09 H Holladay Books No 4 1  
and M 3:30- 6:15 pm   P Laipson Books No      
SART312 . Large Format Photography 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-025 D La Spina Books WP 8 6  
and M 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-041 D La Spina Books WP      
THEA320 . Comic Acting 4 M 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books No 12 6  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
5:00- 6:25 pm Top
THEA211M1 . Creative Disciplines in Technical Theater 2 WF 5:00- 6:25 pm DAC-011 S Cleary-Wade Books FY 12 4  
THEA211M2 . Creative Disciplines in Technical TheaterCLOSED 2 WF 5:00- 6:25 pm DAC-011 S Cleary-Wade Books FY 12 15  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
6:35- 8:00 pm Top
SART225 . Survey of Documentary Film 3 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm LIE-01 L Burke Books FY 15 11  
SART235 . Painting Studio 3 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum Books WP 11 9  
SART335 . Painting StudioCLOSED 4 MW 6:35- 8:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum Books No 1 2  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
6:35- 9:00 pm Top
LIT311 . American ModernismCLOSED 4 W 6:35- 9:00 pm CL1-03 B Rodgers Books No 15 15  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
7:00- 9:00 pm Top
MUS117 . Chorus 1 W 7:00- 9:00 pm KLG J Brown Books FY 30 20  
 
 
Monday, Wednesday and/or Friday
7:30- 9:00 pm Top
MUS278 . Collegium 1 M 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG L Bardo Books FY 12 6  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
9:00-10:25 am Top
FS101D . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-09 D Bruce Books FY 13 12  
PHIL208 . CP Buddhism: History, Teachings and PracticesCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-03 M Naamon Books FY 15 18  
CHEM101A . Chemistry II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am FSH-102 P Dooley Books No 15 9  
HIST237 . U. S. Social Movements of the 1960s 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-13 M Alvarez Books No 15 5  
PHIL208 . CP Buddhism: History, Teachings and PracticesCLOSED 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL1-03 M Naamon Books FY 15 18  
FREN101 . Accelerated Beginning French II 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am CL3-14 G Asfar Books WP 15 5  
FREN216 . French Food, Culture, and Literature 3 TR 9:00-10:25 am LIE-01 M Tebben Books WP 15 6  
SPAN100 . Accelerated Beginning Spanish I 4 TR 9:00-10:25 am LIE-02 M Roe Books FY 16 9  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
9:00-11:25 am Top
BIO100LA . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-202 E McMullin Books FY 15 13  
PHYS101LA . Physics II Lab   R 9:00-11:25 am FSH-113 M Bergman Books WP 15 5  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
9:00-11:55 am Top
ARTH213 . Analyzing Television 3 T 9:00-11:55 am DAC-128 J DelPlato Books No 15 9  
BIO201LB . Cell Biology Lab   T 9:00-11:55 am FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers Books No 16 6  
SPAN223 NEW De poetas y locura: Madness in Spanish Literature 3 T 9:00-11:55 am CL3-10 H Brown Books WP 15 13  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
10:35-12:00 pm Top
FS101F . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-03 N Yanoshak Books FY 13 13  
FS101L . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-11 R Fiske Books FY 13 14  
ARTH213 . Analyzing Television 3 and R 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-128 J DelPlato Books No      
CHEM101B . Chemistry II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm FSH-102 P Dooley Books No 15 11  
DANC120 . Chinese SwordCLOSED 2 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-108 R Aver Thung Books FY 15 17  
HIST229 . CP Chicanas/Chicanos in the United States: A National History 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-13 M Alvarez Books FY 15 9  
LIT197 NEW Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-139 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 6 5  
LIT297 NEW Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-139 J Browdy de Hernandez Books WP 6 3  
LIT222 . Shakespeare 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-135 H Holladay Books FY 15 7  
PHIL175 . Ethics 3 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL1-02 B Conolly Books FY 15 11  
SOCS325 NEW Possesssion,Identity,Ownership 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm LIE-01 C Coggins Books No 15 9  
SART339 NEW Figure PaintingCLOSED 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm DAC-124 J Fossum Books WP 12 15  
ARAB101 . CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-14 G Asfar Books WP 15 6  
LATN101 . Accelerated Beginning Latin II 4 TR 10:35-12:00 pm CL3-09 C Callanan Books WP 20 17  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
12:15- 1:10 pm Top
FS101FLA . Information Fluency Lab   T 12:15- 1:10 pm CL3-14 B Mikesell Books FY 15 14  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
12:15- 1:40 pm Top
FS101G . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-09 K Boswell Books FY 13 10  
FS101H . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-03 N Yanoshak Books FY 13 13  
BIO303 . Introduction to Bioinformatics 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-112 T Coote Books No 12 8  
DANC211 . Topics in Dance: Relationships between Dance and Creative Writing 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-108 W Shifrin Books FY 12 8  
ECON209 . Intermediate Political Economy 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-04 M Moeini Feizabadi Books No 15 8  
LIT269MM2 . CP Women Writing Resistance in the Caribbean 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 14  
LIT270MM1 . CP Women Writing Resistance in Latin America 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 13  
LING304 . CP Native American Languages 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL3-10 N Bonvillain Books WP 15 4  
LIT269MM2 . CP Women Writing Resistance in the Caribbean 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 14  
LIT270MM1 . CP Women Writing Resistance in Latin America 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-02 J Browdy de Hernandez Books FY 15 13  
LIT307 . Sacred and Profane: The Literature of 17th-Century England 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-128 H Holladay Books No 15 4  
MATH221B . Vector Calculus 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-01 B Musselman Books WP 20 7  
NATS116 . Forensic ScienceCLOSED 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers Books FY 15 16  
PHYS221 . Relativity, Cosmology, and Astrophysics 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm FSH-113 E Kramer Books WP 15 8  
SOCS224 . Globalization 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm CL1-02 F Oyogoa Books No 15 13  
SART208 . Ceramic Sculpture StudioCLOSED 3 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-072 B Krupka Books No 8 8  
SART367 . Advanced Ceramic Studio 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-072 B Krupka Books No 2 1  
SART467 . Advanced Ceramic Studio 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-072 B Krupka Books No 2    
THEA104M2 . Production Workshop 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books FY 6 5  
and TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-115 A Michel Books FY      
THEA304M2 . Production Workshop 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 6    
THEA301M1 . Performance PracticumCLOSED 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 10 10  
THEA401M1 . Performance Practicum 2 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm DAC-002 A Michel Books No 2 1  
SPAN101A . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 TR 12:15- 1:40 pm LIE-01 K Pichard Books WP 16 11  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
12:15- 3:00 pm Top
PSYC302 . Abnormal Psychology 4 R 12:15- 3:00 pm CL3-14 V Brush Books No 15 7  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
1:50- 2:45 pm Top
FS101FLB . Information Fluency Lab   T 1:50- 2:45 pm CL3-14 B Mikesell Books FY 15 11  
FS101FLF . Information Fluency Lab   R 1:50- 2:45 pm CL1-04 B Mikesell Books FY 15 11  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
1:50- 3:15 pm Top
FS101I . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-201 B Mathews Books FY 13 14  
FS101J . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and EnlightenmentCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-09 W Brown Books FY 13 14  
AFAM100 . CP Introduction to African American Studies 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL1-03 F Oyogoa Books FY 15 13  
ARTH212 . Theories of Photography 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books FY 8 4  
ARTH312 . Theories of PhotographyCLOSED 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-125 J DelPlato Books No 7 9  
ARTS211 . Interactive Arts Workshop ICLOSED 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers Books FY 13 13  
ARTS311 . Interactive Arts Workshop II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-139 J Myers Books WP 2 1  
BIO212 . Disease and Community Ecology 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-12 M Naamon Books FY 15 11  
and TR 1:50- 3:15 pm LEC-LC M Naamon Books FY      
CMPT320 . The Theory of Computation 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm FSH-112 P Shields Books No 15 6  
HIST228 . Manifesting Destinies II: The United States of America 1877-Present 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-11 M Alvarez Books FY 15 13  
LIT258 . The 19th Century Novel 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm CL3-13 B Rodgers Books FY 15 8  
SART103 . Drawing I 3 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-024 J Fossum Books FY 12 9  
THEA126MM1 NEW Devising Theater: Creating 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books FY 5 3  
THEA226MM1 NEW Devising Theater: Creating 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 7 6  
THEA126MM2 NEW Devising Theater: PerformingCLOSED 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books FY 6 6  
THEA226MM2 NEW Devising Theater: PerformingCLOSED 2 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm DAC-002 K Beaumont Books WP 6 7  
SPAN101B . Accelerated Beginning Spanish II 4 TR 1:50- 3:15 pm LIE-01 K Pichard Books WP 16 9  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
1:50- 4:45 pm Top
BIO100LB . Introduction to Life Sciences Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 E McMullin Books FY 15 9  
BIO200 . General Botany 4 and R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-211A D Roeder Books WP      
BIO201LA . Cell Biology Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-202 S Mechanic-Meyers Books No 16 12  
BIO204 . Vertebrate ZoologyCLOSED 4 and T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-211 R Schmidt Books No      
CHEM101LA . Chemistry II Lab   T 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-128 P Dooley Books No 12 8  
CHEM101LB . Chemistry II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-128 P Dooley Books No 12 6  
ECON210 . Macroeconomic Theory 3 R 1:50- 4:45 pm CL3-10 D Neilson Books No 15 8  
ECON310 NEW Macroeconomic Theory 4 R 1:50- 4:45 pm CL3-10 D Neilson Books No 7 3  
PHYS101LB . Physics II Lab   R 1:50- 4:45 pm FSH-113 M Bergman Books WP 15 14  
POLS328 . The Democratic ImaginationCLOSED 4 T 1:50- 4:45 pm LIE-02 A Abbas Books No 15 15  
PSYC348 . The Man and the Experiment that Shocked the World: The Work and Legacy of Stanley Milgram 4 T 1:50- 4:45 pm CL1-04 S Levine Books No 15 4  
THEA206M2 . Theater Production 2 T 1:50- 4:45 pm DAC-115 K Allen Books No 12 7  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
3:25- 4:20 pm Top
FS101FLC . Information Fluency LabCLOSED   T 3:25- 4:20 pm CL3-14 B Mikesell Books FY 15 15  
FS101FLG . Information Fluency Lab   R 3:25- 4:20 pm CL1-04 B Mikesell Books FY 15 12  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
3:25- 4:50 pm Top
FS101K . Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment 4 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-125 W Brown Books FY 13 12  
ANTH232 . CP City Life 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm LIE-01 K Boswell Books WP 15 9  
ARTS284 NEW Guest Artists: The Artist on the Global Stage 2 R 3:25- 4:50 pm DAC-128 A Michel Books FY 15 10  
LIT289 . Poetry WorkshopCLOSED 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL3-09 P Filkins Books WP 12 12  
CHIN205 . CP Intermediate Chinese II 3 TR 3:25- 4:50 pm CL1-03 Y Zhao Books WP 15 5  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
3:30- 6:15 pm Top
SART224M2 . Photography: Alternative ProcessesCLOSED 2 T 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-028 D La Spina Books WP 12 17  
and T 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-139 D La Spina Books WP      
SART273 . Photography II: Color/Digital 3 R 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-025 K Greene Books WP 12 10  
and R 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-139 K Greene Books WP      
SART460MM1 . Photography IV: Professional Practice 2 T 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-028 D La Spina Books No 12 7  
and T 3:30- 6:15 pm DAC-139 D La Spina Books No      
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
5:00- 5:55 pm Top
FS101FLH . Information Fluency Lab   R 5:00- 5:55 pm CL1-04 B Mikesell Books FY 15 14  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
5:00- 6:25 pm Top
AFAM302 . Critical Race Theory 4 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm CL3-11 F Oyogoa Books No 15 8  
LIT330 . The Inklings 4 TR 5:00- 6:25 pm CL3-09 J Hutchinson Books No 15 6  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
6:00- 7:20 pm Top
MUS207 . Theory II: Tonal Harmony 3 TR 6:00- 7:20 pm DAC-128 C Gevert Books FY 15 9  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
6:35- 9:00 pm Top
THEA221MM1 NEW Concept and Construction in Scenic Design 2 R 6:35- 9:00 pm DAC-115 C Adinolfi Books WP 12 4  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
7:30- 9:00 pm Top
MUS289 . Chamber Orchestra 1 R 7:30- 9:00 pm KLG A Legene Books FY 15 5  
 
 
Tuesday and/or Thursday
7:30- 9:30 pm Top
MUS222 . Jazz Ensemble 1 T 7:30- 9:30 pm KLG J Myers Books FY 30 15  
and T 7:30- 9:30 pm KLG-B J Myers Books FY      
 
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AFAM100: CP Introduction to African American Studies Home
The African-American experience spans four hundred years, from the initial
settlement of the American continent by Europeans and the establishment of
the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and down through the present day. This
course examines the historical, sociological, cultural, and political
experiences of people of African descent in the United States. We will
examine a variety of issues including African Americans' cultural and
historical roots in Africa, the experience of slavery, the Reconstruction
Era, the Harlem Renaissance, the interwar years, the American civil rights
movement, African Americans in popular culture, the implications of Obama's
election and a variety of contemporary issues in African American
communities. In this course students will acquire a fuller understanding
about the historical development and social construction of African
Americans. No prerequisites.
 
AFAM302: Critical Race Theory Home
This is an upper level African American Studies course that focuses on
critical race theories and empirical research on African Americans in the
U.S. "Traditional" academic research on African-Americans documents and
explains how racialized systems of inequality operate. Critical race
theory is different because it also explicitly articulates the need for
social justice. Various theoretical approaches will be applied to specific
historical developments in U.S. racialized structures as they pertain to
African Americans. We will begin by challenging and historicizing the
concept of "race." Our attention will then turn to various empirical
studies on the position of African Americans within various institutions
including, but not limited to labor market, wealth, legal system,
education, housing, healthcare, politics, etc. Then we will examine the
various strands of racial ideology that have arisen to legitimate and
perpetuate racialized structural inequality. We spend the remainder of the
semester closely examining the theoretical works regarding race which have
emerged from legal studies, sociology, politics, and women's studies.
Prerequisites: 100-level African American Studies or Sociology course and
200-level social sciences course or Sophomore Seminar or by permission of
the instructor.
 
ANTH202: CP Language & Culture Home
We will study the interconnections between language and other aspects of
culture. These interconnections include the ways that language molds and
transmits people's concepts about the world in which they live and the
relations between themselves and others. We will study the connections
between concepts of the world (or a culture's "world view") and the
language spoken by examining vocabulary, metaphor, grammatical
constructions, and other features of language.
 
ANTH232: CP City Life Home
This course examines cities and their inhabitants in a cross-cultural
perspective as these dynamic environments shape and are shaped by their
diverse populations. Students will be introduced to the development of
Urban Studies from its late 19th century origins in the United States and
Europe to the current interdisciplinary focus on the various facets of city
life today. We will explore those social, economic, political, and
religious forces that have contributed to the creation of varied urban
centers that operate as administrative and commercial headquarters, sacred
sites, centers for recreation and festival, and global metropolises with
influence that extends beyond national borders. Topics that will be
discussed include migration and immigration; licit and illicit economic
activities; urban violence; the configuration of space with its links to
power; expressive culture; and the complex class, ethnic, gender, and
racial dimensions found in cities. We address urban life through
ethnographic works centered on Ireland, Ghana, Nigeria, Thailand, Bolivia,
Brazil, and the United States. Prerequisite: one 100-level social studies
course or permission of instructor.
 
ANTH330: Anthropological Perspectives on Dispossession and Displacement Home
Individuals in communities impacted by dispossession and displacement
access multiple forms of redress to come to terms with the upheaval and
change in their lives. By drawing on ethnographic case studies from across
the globe, this course examines how individuals and communities look for
relief from and explanations for their upheaval and the means by which they
receive compensation for their losses and seek to restore equilibrium to
their lives. Of particular interest in this course are the ways in which
social relations, identities, and gender are impacted by the processes of
disruption and restoration. The course will also examine the complex causes
and characteristics of those events leading to dispossession and
displacement, as well as the local, national, and international actors
involved. An anthropological exploration will enable us to understand the
complex and often long-ranging causes and consequences of dispossession and
displacement, including humans' capacity for resilience, forgiveness, and
rebirth. Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing or completion of
Sophomore Seminar and permission of the instructor.
 
ARAB101: CP Accelerated Beginning Arabic II Home
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.
 
ARTH114: CP Global Art: Mid East & Asia Home
Envision the forty sandstone cave sculptures of the colossal Buddha near
Datong. Or the clay army of men and horses guarding the tomb of the first
Qin emperor, each figure referring to a living person. Or the multicolored,
intricate altars of the mandala (cosmic diagram) in Tibetan monasteries. Or
the Ottoman manuscript illumination painted in breath-taking miniaturist
detail. Or the foliage of the Japan Zen garden symbolizing the stages of
life. Or the painted Indian images of the Hindu god of wisdom Ganesha,
elephant-headed and pot-bellied - all these objects offer the opportunity
to express religious tenets of Asian peoples. Meanwhile, literati landscape
painting, Persian carpets, Japanese woodblock prints, the ceramic vessels
of the tea ceremony, the architectural achievements of the Great Wall of
China and the Taj Mahal, reputedly an Indian "monument to love and grief"
dedicated to a wife who died in childbirth, are quasi-secular forms of art.
This course surveys the art and architecture of the Middle East and Asia
from a variety of historical periods. We consider the role of material
products in cultures as diverse as the Maghreb (northwestern coast of
Africa) and the Ottoman Empire, China, India, and Japan. We explore the
role of artworks as conduits of state ideology and other registers of
power, including gender and class. We look at iconography in several media
and relate these objects and their motifs to social practices. Like the mod
1 which precedes it, this module's major goal is to situate the arts in
their indigenous contexts of time, space and function. The course borrows
methods and information from other disciplines 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. Modules 1 and 2 may be taken separately or consecutively.
Each course earns credit toward the Cultural Perspectives or Arts
requirement.
 
ARTH212: Theories of Photography Home
In this course we think about what theory is and what it contributes to our
understanding of photography. We read some of the most interesting and
influential writing about photography including the work of its classic
theorists--Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag--and critical
poststructuralists writing today, scholars such as Abigail Solomon-Godeau
and Jonathan Crary. We correlate theory to the analyses of specific
photographs taken from the last 160 years of photo history. The course is
based on the premise that no photograph simply captures reality and instead
that all photos, like any other form of cultural representation, are
subjective constructions of experience. As such, photos are imbued with
conventions and social and political ideologies of the photographer and
her/his times. In the second half of the semester, we read critics who have
been influenced by the classic theorists and evaluate their case studies of
individual photographs and broader issues in the history of photography.
This course is one of a three-semester series in the history and analysis
of photography; the courses can be taken independently. No prerequisites.
 
ARTH213: Analyzing Television Home
The focus of of this course is perhaps the most pervasive element in the
American popular cultural landscape: television. Since its inception,
commercial network TV has also been considered one of the primary means for
inculcating social values and ideologies. The course provides critical,
historical, and multi-disciplinary perspectives on viewing network TV as
ways to understand, rethink, appreciate, and resist the discourses
television offers. It explores how TV contributes to the making of a
"mainstream" that upholds the status quo, most evident in "the news" and
commercials. We consider portrayals of gender, race, and sexualities, and
we explore the topic of violence on network TV. We consider the value of
"elite" tools (postmodern, feminist, and queer critical theories) to
analyze an accessible and "popular" medium. No prerequisites.
 
ARTH312: Theories of Photography Home
In this course we think about what theory is and what it contributes to our
understanding of photography. We read some of the most interesting and
influential writing about photography including the work of its classic
theorists--Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag--and critical
poststructuralists writing today, scholars such as Abigail Solomon-Godeau
and Jonathan Crary. We correlate theory to the analyses of specific
photographs taken from the last 160 years of photo history. The course is
based on the premise that no photograph simply captures reality and instead
that all photos, like any other form of cultural representation, are
subjective constructions of experience. As such, photos are imbued with
conventions and social and political ideologies of the photographer and
her/his times. In the second half of the semester, we read critics who have
been influenced by the classic theorists and evaluate their case studies of
individual photographs and broader issues in the history of photography.
This course is one of a three-semester series in the history and analysis
of photography; the courses can be taken independently.
 
ARTS211: Interactive Arts Workshop I Home
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.
 
ARTS284: Guest Artists: The Artist on the Global Stage Home
Taught in conjunction with the Guest Artists Series, Guest Artists invites
students into a more intimate relationship with the artists visiting our
campus in Spring 2013: Shahzad Ismaily (musician and composer), John Lawson
(visual artist and writer) , Ashley Sabin and David Redmon (documentary
film makers), and Karen Allen (visual artist, actress and director).
Students will study the work of each artist before they arrive on campus,
meeting for a class discussion the week before the campus visit. When the
artists visit campus, students will attend performances and exhibits of
their work and have the unique opportunity to engage in a small group
conversation with them in order to understand their artistic journey and
process. After each visit, students will process the work they have
experienced and engaged with and write a thoughtful response to each
artist. At the end of the course, students will create an artistic
response to the work of the semester in the form of a three dimensional
project which will come from new ideas, methods of working or inspiration
which they received from their contact with the artists.
 
ARTS311: Interactive Arts Workshop II Home
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.
 
BIO100: Introduction to the Life Sciences Home
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
Students enrolled in BIO100 must also register for a lab section.
 
BIO200: General Botany Home
This course is an introduction to the plant kingdom, emphasizing major
evolutionary trends and the relationship between form and function in
plants. Elements of economic botany, plant ecology, physiology, and ecology
are incorporated. Prerequisite: Biology 100 or permission of the
instructor.
 
BIO201: Cell Biology Home
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
Students enrolled in BIO 201 must also enroll in a lab section.
 
BIO204: Vertebrate Zoology Home
This course is an introduction to the biology of the vertebrates, surveying
the natural history, behavior, ecology, and evolution of fish, amphibians,
reptiles, birds, and mammals. Laboratories familiarize students with the
structure and diversity of vertebrates and emphasize observation. Field
trips emphasize local terrestrial and aquatic species. Lectures,
discussions, laboratory, and field trips are required. Prerequisite:
Biology 100 or permission of the instructor.
 
BIO212: Disease and Community Ecology Home
This course will provide a survey of the patterns of health and illness
from the Paleolithic era to the present. The first portion of the course
will explore prehistoric humans' interactions with the environment. This
will be followed by a study of the origins of both agriculture and urban
environments in the Neolithic era, and of the diseases that became evident
in such environments since then. Areas of particular concern will be the
cities of Africa, Asia, and of medieval Europe. The industrial period in
Europe and later worldwide foreshadowed new patterns of urban settlement
which became the sites of new health problems and ways of dealing with
them. The final portion of the course will scrutinize the contemporary
urban environment in developed and developing nations. No prerequisites.
This course DOES NOT fulfill the science requirement.
 
BIO303: Introduction to Bioinformatics Home
This course introduces students to the computational manipulation and
analysis of genetic data. Starting with a review of basic genetics, the
course utilizes published sequences to explore computer based analysis of
genetic data, including the various types of programs, models, analysis,
and outputs. Specific topics covered include sequence analysis and editing,
pairwise and multiple sequence alignment, tree building and network
analysis, and statistical modeling (e.g., Fst, AMOVAs, and Mantel tests).
 
BIO315: Symbiosis Home
This course investigates the phenomenon of symbiosis - different organisms
living together as a route to gain access to novel metabolic capabilities,
such as photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, cellulose degradation, etc. Here
symbiosis is considered in its broadest meanings, including mutualism,
commensalism, and parasitism. The notion of symbiosis as an evolutionary
innovation and its crucial role in the evolution of eukaryotes from their
prokaryotic ancestors is also discussed. Students complete an independent
research project. Prerequisites: Biology 100, Environmental Studies 200, or
permission of the instructor
 
CHEM101: Chemistry II Home
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
Students enrolled in CHEM 101 must also enroll in a lab section.
 
CHEM303: Organic Chemistry II Home
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
Students enrolled in CHEM 303 must also enroll in a lab section.
 
CHIN101: Accelerated Beginning Chinese II Home
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
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.
 
CMPT320: The Theory of Computation Home
The studies of models of computation and their associated formal languages
and grammars. Topics will include finite automata, pushdown automata,
turing machines, regular and contextfree languages, the Chomsky hierarchy,
the Church-Turing thesis, and some major limitation results on
computability and complexity. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite:
CMPT 243
 
DANC101: Beginning Modern Dance Technique Home
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.
 
DANC114: Ballet I Home
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
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
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.
 
DANC201: Intermediate Modern Dance Home
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.
 
DANC211: Topics in Dance: Relationships between Dance and Creative Writing Home
This class examines the connections and contrasts between dance and a
variety of creative writing forms: poetry, short stories, and personal
essays. Formal topics considered include shape, duration, speed, accent,
climax, repetition, theme and variation, and symbolism. Areas of
concentration include emotions, political themes, characterizations, and
nature. Warm-ups, solo and partner work, group improvisations, and
presentation of choreography and writing are the bases for explorations of
class themes. Weekly homework assignments include original creations in
both genres. Any student willing to explore both art forms may enroll.
 
DANC214: Intermediate Ballet I Home
A continuation of Dance 114.
 
DANC227: Flamenco Repertory Home
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
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.
 
ECON209: Intermediate Political Economy Home
This course offers an introduction to political economy, including radical
economics. Political Economy offers alternatives to the neoclassical view
of modern capitalist economies. We start the course by studying the
economic theories of Karl Marx such as labor theory of value and surplus
and exploitation, and continue with brief introductions of contemporary
political economic issues, among which are gender and economics,
environment and economics, globalization and its institutions, political
economy of agriculture and food crisis. This course also offers a close
look to the theories of an American radical economist, Thorstein Veblen,
and his theory of the leisure class. We complete our semester by looking at
two alternatives at different scales: First, the Swedish economic system,
an alternative to both capitalism and communism, and second, Mondragon
Cooperative, a successful co-op in northern Spain. Prerequisites: Economics
100, 101, or permission of the instructor (prior coursework in politics is
recommended).
 
ECON210: Macroeconomic Theory Home
In this class, we develop theoretical models of the macroeconomy. We begin
with a framework that connects individual action to aggregate outcomes. In
this framework, we then study the main theoretical approaches and schools
of thought that have dominated research and policymaking in recent decades.
Topics covered will include: definitions of the national accounts,
recessions and depressions, long-run growth, consumption, unemployment,
monetary policy, prices and financial crises. In addition to the work
required at the 200-level, students taking this class at the advanced (300)
level will determine, in coordination with the professor, a semester-long
research project in which they develop a theoretical concept in more depth
and/or to make connections between practical and theoretical macroeconomic
ideas. They are expected to deliver two 1500-word papers (one at midterm
and one at the end of the term) and to lead one 30-minute discussion in
class about their project and papers. Students taking the course at the
200-level must have taken a social-science class at the 100-level or above;
those taking it at the 300-level must have completed at least one 200-level
social sciences class and at least one course in economics. The class is
mathematical in nature but prior exposure to calculus is not required. .
 
ECON310: Macroeconomic Theory Home
In this class, we develop theoretical models of the macroeconomy. We begin
with a framework that connects individual action to aggregate outcomes. In
this framework, we then study the main theoretical approaches and schools
of thought that have dominated research and policymaking in recent decades.
Topics covered will include: definitions of the national accounts,
recessions and depressions, long-run growth, consumption, unemployment,
monetary policy, prices and financial crises. In addition to the work
required at the 200-level, students taking this class at the advanced (300)
level will determine, in coordination with the professor, a semester-long
research project in which they develop a theoretical concept in more depth
and/or to make connections between practical and theoretical macroeconomic
ideas. They are expected to deliver two 1500-word papers (one at midterm
and one at the end of the term) and to lead one 30-minute discussion in
class about their project and papers. Students taking the course at the
200-level must have taken a social-science class at the 100-level or above;
those taking it at the 300-level must have completed at least one 200-level
social sciences class and at least one course in economics. The class is
mathematical in nature but prior exposure to calculus is not required. .
 
ENVS304: Topics in Environmental Management Home
This seminar examines problem solving, planning, and management schemes in
various environmental areas. Topics change yearly and include land-use
planning, management of common-property resources, campus energy
management, environmental impact assessment, and pest management. Emphasis
is placed on individual student research projects. Prerequisite:
Environmental Studies 100 and Environmental Studies 201, or permission of
the instructor.
 
FREN101: Accelerated Beginning French II Home
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
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.
 
FREN216: French Food, Culture, and Literature Home
French cuisine is an essential part of the French identity; this course
will foster an appreciation of French food and will investigate why in
France, according to one contemporary critic, "la cuisine est et ne cessera
jamais d'ętre un art." Students will work toward advanced language
abilities through the reading, discussion, and analysis of authentic texts
both literary and factual. The course will place special emphasis on
speaking and writing practice, and will include oral presentations and a
final project as well as a systematic grammar review linked to the texts.
Students may choose to prepare French dishes as part of their presentations
or the final project, but no cooking skills are required for the course.
The course is conducted entirely in French. Prerequisite: French 205 or
equivalent or permission of the instructor.
 
FS101: Seminar II: Knowing: Revolution and Enlightenment Home
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
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.
 
GEOG213: Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality Home
Political Ecology is the study of power in the web of human-environment
relations. Scales of concern range from the planetary to the bodily, and
disciplinary origins in cultural ecology and neo-Marxist political economy
inform a focus on resource appropriation in both global "core" areas and
marginalized "peripheries." Immersion in classic social theory
foundational to current PE (Antonio Gramsci, Raymond Williams, Michel
Foucault, and Eric Wolf) enlivens critique of contemporary work by James C.
Scott, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Nancy Lee Peluso, Michael Watts,
Richard Peet, Arun Agrawal, Paul Robbins, Tim Ingold, and other
practitioners whose work ties into poststructuralism, postcolonialism,
feminist theory, and urban studies. Case studies explore contested
terrains where industrialization, commoditization, and capitalism collide
and articulate with rural, preindustrial modes of resource management and
indigenous systems of environmental knowledge and innovation. Given the
diversity of reconfigurations, resistances, and co-productions arising in
conjunction with resource imperialism and hegemonic environmental
governance, we cannot settle comfortably within a narrative of cascading
cultural and ecological extinctions; through the study of competing
environmental ontologies, epistemologies, cosmologies, and practices, we
consider a range of alternative visions of "development," "urban-rural,"
"core-periphery," "stewardship," "sustainability," "modernity,"
"globalization," and "nationhood."
 
GEOG313: Global Political Ecologies: Resource Hegemony, Resistance, and Environmentality Home
Political Ecology is the study of power in the web of human-environment
relations. Scales of concern range from the planetary to the bodily, and
disciplinary origins in cultural ecology and neo-Marxist political economy
inform a focus on resource appropriation in both global "core" areas and
marginalized "peripheries." Immersion in classic social theory
foundational to current PE (Antonio Gramsci, Raymond Williams, Michel
Foucault, and Eric Wolf) enlivens critique of contemporary work by James C.
Scott, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Nancy Lee Peluso, Michael Watts,
Richard Peet, Arun Agrawal, Paul Robbins, Tim Ingold, and other
practitioners whose work ties into poststructuralism, postcolonialism,
feminist theory, and urban studies. Case studies explore contested
terrains where industrialization, commoditization, and capitalism collide
and articulate with rural, preindustrial modes of resource management and
indigenous systems of environmental knowledge and innovation. Given the
diversity of reconfigurations, resistances, and co-productions arising in
conjunction with resource imperialism and hegemonic environmental
governance, we cannot settle comfortably within a narrative of cascading
cultural and ecological extinctions; through the study of competing
environmental ontologies, epistemologies, cosmologies, and practices, we
consider a range of alternative visions of "development," "urban-rural,"
"core-periphery," "stewardship," "sustainability," "modernity,"
"globalization," and "nationhood."
 
GERM101: Accelerated Beginning German II Home
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
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.
 
HIST228: Manifesting Destinies II: The United States of America 1877-Present Home
This course builds on themes outlined in History 227 by further examining
how men and women of Indigenous, European, African and Asian origin
experienced the consolidation of the United States of America as a nation
state. Temporally, the course begins with a brief review of Reconstruction
and the rise of the Industrial Revolution and continues through the late
20th Century. Topics include but are not limited to the following: American
Empire, Immigration, Labor Activism, World War I, The Great Depression,
World War II, the Cold War Era, The Civil Rights Movement, social justice
activism of the 1960's and 70s and concludes with the rise of Conservatism,
Globalization and Neoliberalism.
 
HIST229: CP Chicanas/Chicanos in the United States: A National History Home
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.
 
HIST237: U. S. Social Movements of the 1960s Home
This course offers a broad overview of 1960's era social movements in the
United States through an examination of historical works revolving around
the American Indian Movement, Black Power, the Chicano Movement, the Gay
Revolution and Women's Liberation along with a general chronology of the
era. Also, some attention will be paid towards understanding "the Sixties"
in a larger global context. Additionally, our evaluation will engage these
Movements within the context of both primary and secondary sources in order
to provide breadth. Prerequisites: Completion of any introductory level
Social Sciences/Studies course.
 
HIST328: The Middle Class and Its Discontents: American Middle Class Identity Formation, 1800 to the Present Home
This course examines the formation, nature, and critiques of American
middle-class identity from the eighteenth century to the present.
Co-taught by a professor of literature and an historian, the course draws
extensively on both literary and historical materials. Topics of study
include the emergence of middle-class mores and material culture, the ways
that changes in work and leisure affected class identity, and contemporary
debates over membership in the middle class. We examine how gender, race,
and region inflected class status and identification and also consider
historical critiques of the middle class from both 'above' and 'below.'
Prerequisites: Sophomore Seminar or permission of instructor.
 
LATN101: Accelerated Beginning Latin II Home
Latin is the language not only of Virgil, Cicero, Horace, Catullus and
Tacitus, but also of poets, historians, scientists, philosophers, and
theologians through the time of St. Augustine down to the Middle Ages and
on into the Renaissance and even beyond. It is the language in which
Western culture was transmitted to Western Europe or first invented,
besides being the source of a large proportion of English vocabulary. In
this two semester course, students with no (or relatively little) previous
experience of Latin acquire a working knowledge of the language. As far as
possible, Latin is learned as a language spoken and heard in the classroom.
We speak, chant, sing, and perform skits in Latin, in addition to reading.
Explanations are, of course, given in English, and we practice translating
in both directions. By the end of the year, students are able to hold their
own in conversation and also, with the aid of a dictionary, to read most
Latin authors. Prerequisite: Latin 100.
 
LING304: CP Native American Languages Home
This course examines the structures of Native American languages. It
consists of readings that present the phonological, morphological,
syntactic, and semantic systems of languages representing each of the
language families indigenous to North America. Prerequisite: Linguistics
100 or equivalent.
 
LIT197: Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream Home
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, 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, Facebook, Twitter, etc. had on the business and
practice of journalism, as well as on our political system? Assignments
will include: a series of journalistic assignments keyed to specific
formats; a multimedia research project; the start-up of a blog; and
participation in a group video production project.
 
LIT202: Art of Fiction: Short Story Home
Frank O'Connor once wrote that an inferior writer could still be a great
novelist, but that no inferior writer could ever be a great storyteller.
After touching on the roots of storytelling in fable, parable, and tale, we
will focus on the work of major storytellers (a.k.a. short story writers)
of the 19th and 20th centuries, exploring their contributions to the
ongoing evolution of this literary genre. Writers studied include Poe,
Hawthorne, Maupassant, Chekhov, Joyce, Mansfield, Kafka, Hemingway,
O'Connor (Flannery), Borges, and Munro--as well as new voices from Jhumpa
Lahiri to Junot Diaz. Although this is a literature course and not a course
in writing fiction, students planning to major in creative writing will
benefit from the discussions of literary craft and exposure to the broad
range of writers and stories. No prerequisites.
 
LIT222: Shakespeare Home
A study of eight to ten of the major plays that illustrate the variety of
Shakespeare's achievement in different dramatic modes - history, comedy,
tragedy, and romance - and his imaginative development as a poet and
playwright in the context of the Elizabethan age.
 
LIT258: The 19th Century Novel Home
This course examines major works of realism and naturalism by 19th-century
European and Russian novelists in their social and political contexts.
Novels are selected from the works of writers such as Austen, Balzac,
Conrad, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Eliot, Flaubert, Gogol, Stendhal, Tolstoy,
Turgenev, Twain, and Zola. No prerequisites.
 
LIT261: CP Contemporary African Literature Home
Since the publication 50 years ago of "Things Fall Apart," African writers
have produced a range of novels and other works examining the continent's
colonial legacy; its struggle for independence; the competing claims of
tradition and modernity; the nature of the family; the presence of violence
and conflict; and the relationship of the people, their countries, and
continent to the West. The project of many of these writers has been to
define (or redefine) Africa and its people on their own terms and in their
own voice, after centuries in which both the land and its inhabitants were
defined from without by writers as diverse as Joseph Conrad, Ernest
Hemingway, Isak Dinesen, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and others. In this course,
we will read novels, plays, poems, essays and other works -- including
recent issues of literary magazines from the United States, Britain and
Kenya -- in order to probe the current state of African writing and to
examine the picture of Africa that emerges from the efforts of a broad
array of its writers.
 
LIT269M: CP Women Writing Resistance in the Caribbean Home
Since colonial times, Latin American and Caribbean women have been
struggling to negotiate the complex hierarchy of race/class/gender
oppressions and to carve out autonomous spaces and independent voices for
themselves. These interdisciplinary modular courses will draw on the
discourses of history, politics, sociology, and economics, as well as a
blend of feminist, postcolonial and literary theory, to explore a series of
non-canonical works, including testimonials, novels, poetry and essays, by
contemporary women writers of Latin America and the Caribbean. Special
attention will be paid to the themes of political and economic
disenfranchisement, the intertwining of racism, sexism, elitism and
imperialism, environmental justice, and the ways each author meshes
politics and aesthetics in her work.
 
LIT270M: CP Women Writing Resistance in Latin America Home
Since colonial times, Latin American and Caribbean women have been
struggling to negotiate the complex hierarchy of race/class/gender
oppressions and to carve out autonomous spaces and independent voices for
themselves. These interdisciplinary modular courses will draw on the
discourses of history, politics, sociology, and economics, as well as a
blend of feminist, postcolonial and literary theory, to explore a series of
non-canonical works, including testimonials, novels, poetry and essays, by
contemporary women writers of Latin America and the Caribbean. Special
attention will be paid to the themes of political and economic
disenfranchisement, the intertwining of racism, sexism, elitism and
imperialism, environmental justice, and the ways each author meshes
politics and aesthetics in her work.
 
LIT281: Homo Sacer: Monster in Literature Home
In his treatise On the Significance of Words, the Roman grammarian Pompeius
Festus wrote: "The sacred man is the one whom the people have judged on
account of a crime. It is not permitted to sacrifice this man, yet he who
kills him will not be condemned for homicide... This is why it is customary
for a bad or impure man to be called sacred." This literature course will
consider the seeming contradiction implicit in the idea of Homo Sacer, the
sacred one who is both lawless and somehow loved, condemned and revered.
Using both theoretical and creative literary texts, we will explore the
relationship between the law and the lawless.We will focus primarily on
members of excluded communities, whose lives are expendable, and whose very
existence solicits awe and wonder. We will ask - what does it mean to be
Homo Sacer, expunged from society, exiled? What is the law? Who keeps laws
and who breaks them? What is an enemy? How do friendships form? We will
read theoretical texts including Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign
Power and Bare Life, and Jacques Derrida's The Politics of Friendship and
Archive Fever. Further we will consider characters, both fictional and
actual, who embody Homo Sacer. No prerequisites.
 
LIT282: Ancient Epic Literature Home
Western literature begins with the epic poems of Homer, from which writers
in all genres continued to draw for centuries. This class will introduce
students to the epic genre, primarily through a careful reading of the
earliest epics, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Apollonius' tale of Jason and
the Golden Fleece, and the Aeneid of Vergil. But we will also become
familiar with Quintus of Smyrna, who tells of the Trojan Horse and the Fall
of Troy (not contained in Homer's narrative), Lucan's poem on the Roman
civil war, and Ovid's Metamorphoses, which taught Greek mythology to
western Europe for centuries. We will investigate characteristics and
literary techniques, and the oral composition of early epics. We will
devote much time to the themes of epic. What is a hero and what are his
goals? Are we necessarily meant to sympathize with the hero? What
constitutes honor and virtue in epic? What general codes of conduct do
these poems reflect? What is the role of the gods and what is man's
relationship to them? Is violence a necessary element, and is it realistic?
What role do women play? How were epics made to serve social and political
purposes? No prerequisites.
 
LIT288: Fiction Workshop Home
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.
 
LIT289: Poetry Workshop Home
The workshop is intended for students willing to make their own writing a
means of learning about poetry, poetic devices, and techniques, and the
discipline of making and revising works of art. Class time is divided
between a consideration of the students' work and the work of modern
British and American poets, but the central concern of the course is the
students' own writing, along with the articulation, both private and
shared, of response to it. Prerequisite: Literature 150 or 151.
 
LIT297: Doing Digital Media: From Mainstream to LiveStream Home
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, 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, Facebook, Twitter, etc. had on the business and
practice of journalism, as well as on our political system? Assignments
will include: a series of journalistic assignments keyed to specific
formats; a multimedia research project; the start-up of a blog; and
participation in a group video production project. Prerequisite: LIT295 or
permission of the instructor.
 
LIT307: Sacred and Profane: The Literature of 17th-Century England Home
The 17th century, a period in which rampant licentiousness and immorality
existed cheek by jowl with uncommon spirituality, is perhaps best
epitomized by the complex career of John Donne. Donne made his mark as the
master of the seduction poem, became a poet who celebrated married love,
then a poet who wrote brilliantly of the dark night of the soul, and
ultimately became dean of St. Paul's and one of England's greatest Anglican
ministers. This course focuses on works that reveal the troubled soul of
the age, from the frivolous, sometimes nihilistic, verse of the cavaliers
and the dark and tortured dramas of John Webster and Ben Jonson, to the
calm spiritual intensity of George Herbert and John Milton. Prerequisite:
Sophomore standing and a 200-level literature course or permission of the
instructor.
 
LIT311: American Modernism Home
This course is a detailed examination of the literature of American
modernism in its intellectual and historical contexts. Students read
Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, Eliot's The Waste Land, Stein's Three Lives,
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Hemingway's In Our Time, Faulkner's The
Sound and the Fury, and Toomer's Cane. They also study selected poems by
Cullen, Cummings, Eliot, Frost, H.D. Hughes, Masters, McKay, Moore, Pound,
Sandburg, Stevens, W.C. Williams, and others. Topics discussed include the
movements (imagism, vorticism, symbolism, cubism, futurism, the Harlem
Renaissance), the attitudes (the postwar temper, the revolt against the
village), the tenets (the tradition of the new, the impersonality of
poetry, the avant-garde role of the artist), the centers (Chicago, Paris,
London, New York), and the little magazines and papers (Poetry, Little
Review, Blast, Others, The Crisis) that helped to define and shape the
writing of the period.
 
LIT328: The Middle Class and Its Discontents: American Middle Class Identity Formation, 1800 to the Present Home
This course examines the formation, nature, and critiques of American
middle-class identity from the eighteenth century to the present.
Co-taught by a professor of literature and an historian, the course draws
extensively on both literary and historical materials. Topics of study
include the emergence of middle-class mores and material culture, the ways
that changes in work and leisure affected class identity, and contemporary
debates over membership in the middle class. We examine how gender, race,
and region inflected class status and identification and also consider
historical critiques of the middle class from both 'above' and 'below.'
Prerequisites: Sophomore Seminar or permission of instructor.
 
LIT330: The Inklings Home
C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Owen Barfield are the
best known members of the loosely knit group of writers and thinkers known
as the Inklings, who met in the 1930s and 1940s to discuss literature and
philosophy. Though their writing is not part of the mainstream of modern
British fiction, it is increasingly being recognized for its significant
contributions to contemporary Christian thought and literary expression.
This course focuses on their lives, their relationships with one another,
their religious beliefs, and such major works as Lewis's deep space trilogy
and mythopoeic fantasies, Williams's novels of theology and the
supernatural, Tolkien's Rings Trilogy, and Barfield's studies of language
and consciousness. Prerequisite: One 200-level literature course or
permission of the instructor.
 
LIT388: Fiction Workshop Home
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.
 
LIT488: Fiction Workshop Home
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.
 
LR202M: Study Away Preparation Home
The Study Away Preparation course (LR 202m2) is intended for sophomores who
plan to participate in a Leave to Study Away and is a prerequisite for
registration for a Leave to Study Away semester (LTSA 300FL/SP). The course
was created to help students prepare for a semester abroad or away from
Simon's Rock. It provides practical information and engagement with the
chosen study away location and institution before the student's program
begins. It also offers a chance for students to consider "culture" as a
larger concept, and allows recently returned study away students to share
experiences with those who are in the process of planning study away or
abroad. It is expected that some students may 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
the content of the course will be adapted appropriately based on the
participants.
 
LR203M: Study Away Reflection Home
The Study Away Reflection course (LR 203m1), is intended to help students
maintain contact with the Simon's Rock community while away and transition
successfully back to campus on their return. In this course, students are
asked to consider how their LTSA term has contributed to and influenced
their academic experience, and how it informs their Senior Thesis project.
The Reflection course's requirements include: 1) posting to the Study
Abroad blog while away, 2) completing the Return Survey, and 3) giving a
Returning Student Presentation for the campus community.
 
MATH099: Algebra Workshop Home
This course provides a review of the algebra used in math, science, and
social science courses. It is designed for students who need to improve
their algebra skills in preparation for taking an introductory math or
statistics course. It is also open on an audit basis to students who would
like to improve their skills while taking a mathematics course. Topics
include linear equations and their graphs, quadratic equations, fractions,
rational expressions, and exponents. This course meets for the first
eleven weeks of the semester, and it will be graded Pass/Fail. This course
does not count toward the AA distribution requirements.
 
MATH101: Math & Its Applications Home
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
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
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
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
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
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.
 
MATH321: Modern Algebra II Home
This course is a continuation of Modern Algebra I. Topics include the
theory of fields and Galois Theory and the theory of linear groups.
Prerequisite Math 320, Modern Algebra I.
 
MATH364: Ordinary Differential Equations Home
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.
 
MUS117: Chorus Home
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
Private music lessons.
 
MUS181: Applied Music: Bassoon Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS183: Applied Music: Harp Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS184: Applied Music: Gamba Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS185: Applied Music: Saxophone Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS187: Applied Music: Clarinet Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS188: Applied Music:Trumpet Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS189: Applied Music: Mandolin Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS190: Applied Music: Piano Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS191: Applied Music: Voice Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS192: Applied Music: Flute Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS193: Applied Music: Guitar Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS195: Applied Music: Cello Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS196: Applied Music: Percussion Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS197: Applied Music: Oboe Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS198: Applied Music: Bass Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS199: Applied Music: Violin/Viola Home
Private music lessons.
 
MUS207: Theory II: Tonal Harmony Home
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.
 
MUS219: Jazz Improvization Workshop I Home
This course develops essential skills in jazz, with particular focus on
improvisation. Activities include application of melodic and harmonic
concepts to a broad range of standard professional repertoire, harmonic
analysis, and possible public performances. Prerequisite: Performing
experience, music theory at the level of Musicianship (Music 103) or
higher, or permission of the instructor.
 
MUS222: Jazz Ensemble Home
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
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
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
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.
 
MUS319: Jazz Improvisation Workshop II Home
This course develops essential skills in jazz, with particular focus on
improvisation. Activities include application of melodic and harmonic
concepts to a broad range of standard professional repertoire, harmonic
analysis, and possible public performances. Prerequisite: Performing
experience, music theory at the level of Musicianship (Music 103) or
higher, or permission of the instructor.
 
NATS116: Forensic Science Home
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.
 
NATS242: Science Writing Home
The goal of this seven-week course is to explore science writing for
general audiences. The course consists of reading and discussing classic
and current articles, essays and texts written for general audiences and
spanning a range of scientific fields. Students will also write their own
'popular' science essays, with various perspectives and goals, e.g.,
focusing on a particular current piece of scientific research; synthesizing
several related studies that are not in full agreement (as is so often the
case in an active scientific field); or giving broader context to a field
of scientific research. This course does not satisfy the science
requirement. Prerequisite is prior completion of the AA science
requirement.
 
PHIL103: Philosophy of Religion Home
This course focuses on doctrines common to Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam: That there is one, powerful, just God who created the universe, who
has revealed himself to his creatures, and who requires certain conduct of
them. We explore various questions raised by these doctrines, including:
Can God's existence be reconciled with the existence of evil? Is there
compelling evidence for God's existence? Should the believer in God have
evidence for the existence of God? Should the believer in God not have
evidence for the existence of God? What is the connection between religion
and morality? Religion and science? Do we, or could we, have any evidence
for the existence of miracles? Is there an afterlife? Is an afterlife
desirable?
 
PHIL113: Logic Home
Formal logic, also known as symbolic logic, involves the formalization of
the logical rules implicit in human reasoning. Its goal is to determine
which forms of argument must produce true conclusions when applied to true
premises. Studying formal logic is a good way to become familiar with the
logical structure of sentences and arguments in natural languages. This in
turn is useful in many contexts. We will study the translation of sentences
from natural languages into formal languages and vice versa; the
truth-functional operators (`and', `or', `not'), the conditional
(`if...then...'), and the biconditional (`if and only if'); propositional
logic, which evaluates arguments containing the truth-functional operators;
predicate logic, which adds to propositional logic rules concerning the
quantifiers `all' and `some'; proofs of the consistency and completeness of
propositional and predicate logic; and modal logic (the logic of
possibility and necessity). Grades will be assigned on the basis of exams,
quizzes, and homework assignments. Background in logic or mathematics is
helpful but not required.
 
PHIL175: Ethics Home
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.
 
PHIL207: CP Daoism through Texts, Talks, and Taijiquan Home
Daoism has had a major impact on Chinese intellectual and spiritual life
for over two millennia. A philosophy that emphasizes individual
development, immersion in nature, the rejection of societal convention, and
the cultivation of natural virtue, it has been embraced by scholars,
painters, poets, and political thinkers. A religion derived from classical
philosophy, folk practices, Buddhism, and Yogic techniques, it perseveres
in village rituals, global popular culture, and dissident sects like
China's Falungong. Taijiquan is a Daoist system of moving meditation and a
martial art based on slowly flowing and subtly configured motions.
Practiced worldwide, it is "the dance of Daoism," providing insight and
personal experience of Daoist principles found in major texts like the Dao
De Jing, Zhuangzi, and Liezi. This course provides students with the
opportunity to read classical texts on Daoism and Taijiquan and to study
the Thirteen Postures, a Yang style form of Taijiquan. We also read Daoist
nature poetry, Tang dynasty Daoist short stories, and an account of the
life of Guan Saihong, a Daoist master (and if possible, we will have Guan
visit the class). Our practice of Taijiquan and work on textual
interpretation is supplemented with free-ranging discussions (talks) on
Daoism in the spirit of the School of Pure Conversation, a Daoist group of
the first millennium that emphasized free expression and a sharpening of
the imagination. No prerequisites.
 
PHIL208: CP Buddhism: History, Teachings and Practices Home
This course will examine Buddhist experience and expression in its
diversity and regional variation encompassing forms found in South,
Southeast, Central, and East Asia. This is in an interdisciplinary study
that uses a combination of primary Buddhist texts in translation and
selections from the secondary literature on Buddhism, film, and other
media. We will trace the major threads of Buddhist thought, practices, and
history while paying special attention to the ways in which this Indian
religion adapted to a wide range of cultures in Asia and now in the West.
 
PHIL216: Philosophy of Science Home
In this course, we will examine a number of issues that arise from
philosophical reflection on the practice of science. These include: The
nature of scientific theory change; the role that values play in scientific
inquiry; the relationship between observation and theory; the confirmation
of scientific theories; the nature of scientific explanation and natural
laws; the debates between scientific realism and antirealism; and the
distinction between science and pseudoscience. Prerequisite: Sophomore
Seminar, and one 200-level class in social studies, science, or mathematics
or permission of the instructor.
 
PHIL226: Minds, Matter, and Morals: Kant and Hume Home
Immanuel Kant and David Hume are among the most influential philosophers of
the last 300 years. Kant famously argues that the human mind cannot be
considered a mere passive observer, but must instead be understood to be an
active participant in structuring its knowledge of the world. Among the
surprising positions that Kant argues for in his metaphysical works is the
ideality or the subjective origin of space, time, and causality. His moral
philosophy seeks to establish analogously a principle of morality that is
at once subjective in origin yet objectively valid. While Kant must be
considered a revolutionary thinker in the history of modern philosophy, his
work needs to be understood largely as a response to the skepticism of
David Hume. Like Kant, Hume was interested in placing strict limits upon
what it is that human beings can claim to know. However, the skeptical
arguments by which he achieves these limits, especially his attacks on the
notion of causality and the inductive method, have the effect of apparently
undermining the knowledge claims of physicists just as much as of the
metaphysicians. We shall be interested in evaluating his arguments and
determining how much of either science Kant is able to recover.. In this
context, the course will also consider Hume's predecessor's within the
tradition of British Empiricism, especially Locke and Berkeley, who in many
respects provide the foundation both for Hume's skepticism and Kant's
critical philosophy. Finally, we shall examine Hume's emotivist
anti-rationalism in ethics as a sharp contrast to the rationalism of Kant's
moral philosophy. The course will involve the close reading of several
seminal works in the history of philosophy, and there will be some emphasis
especially on acquiring a precise understanding of Kant’s positions and
arguments. While we shall always remain sensitive to the historical
context of when these works were written, the class will consider the
problems that were of concern to Hume and Kant as if engaging contemporary
philosophers in dialogue over these issues.
 
PHIL283: Environmental Ethics: A Global Perspective Home
Environmental Ethics is the study of the nature and extent of our moral
obligations with respect to the natural environment as well as of the
theoretical justification for such obligations. In this course we shall be
especially interested in examining various theories about whether and how
various regions of the environment can have an intrinsic moral value, and
how such value should affect our attitudes and actions toward the
environment. Among the specific topics to be covered are animal rights,
and the conflicts that arise between animal rights theories and
environmental ethics; various extensionist approaches to the assignment of
intrinsic moral value to the environment; obligations to future
generations; endangered species; deep ecology and ecofeminism as radical
alternatives to the extentionist approach to environmental ethics; ethical
issues in the restoration and preservation of wilderness areas; competing
perspectives on just what wildnerness is, and what is the place, if any, of
human beings within those conceptions of wilderness; whether and how
environmental ethics can be reconciled with demands for social justice; and
whether and to what extent religion contributes to or helps to resolve the
current environmental crisis.
 
PHYS101: Physics II Home
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
Students enrolled in PHYS 101 must also register for a lab section.
 
PHYS221: Relativity, Cosmology, and Astrophysics Home
A detailed study of the theory of special relativity, including kinematics,
dynamics, and electrodynamics. Elements of general relativity and particle
physics, with applications to cosmology and astrophysics. Corequisite:
Physics 101.
 
PHYS303: Classical Mechanics Home
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
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.
 
POLS328: The Democratic Imagination Home
This advanced seminar surveys major currents and problems in the corpus of
democratic theory. Is democracy an ideal, an ethos, a system. a judgment, a
tool, or a mechanism? What are its origins and associations, its contents
and discontents? What is the relation of democracy to liberatory politics
on the one hand and to the colonial project on the other? How has democracy
dealt with exclusions, and how do we judge democracies today? We address
how democracy and its supposed associates, such as freedom, equality,
justice, and self-government, are shaped in relation to each other in
various historical and geographic contexts, and how these appear in
different models of democracy. We also look at the relation of democratic
thought to notions of "the people," publics, identity, deliberation, voice,
community, representation, recognition, redistribution, right, inclusion,
revolution, sovereignty, authority, order, legitimacy, nation, civil
society, etc., and at how everyday framings of our relation to the state
and society emerge. The course visits classical texts on the theory and
practice of democracy, and turns to contemporary democratic theory (its
deliberative, radical, liberal and agonistic conceptions) and to works that
delineate its various potentials, antagonisms, and complicities. Placing
longstanding debates into current context, not least that of our struggles
as a community at Simon's Rock, we ask and answer important questions about
the value, liability, possibility and promise of a democratic present and
future. Historical analysis of some major events in the history of
democratic practice and process mediates this inquiry and we observe how
big shifts in the democratic imagination are reflect what people have
pushed democracy to do, and how these imaginings straddle the realms of
theory and practice, philosophy and politics, idea and reality, process and
outcome. Readings will draw on, among other thinkers, Aristotle, Daniel
Allen, Seyla Benhabib, Lani Guinier, Jurgen Habermas, David Held, Bonnie
Honig, Patchen Markell, Achille Mbembe, Charles Mills, Carole Pateman,
Chantal Mouffe, Joel Olson, Jacques Ranciere, Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Michael Warner, and Melissa Williams. Prerequisite: POLS 100 or a 200-level
course in social studies.
 
PSYC100: Intro to Psychology Home
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.
 
PSYC225: Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families Home
This course introduces students to social work practice with individuals
and families applying various psychological perspectives including systems
theories, behavioral and cognitive theories, psychoanalytic theories, and
neurobiology. Topics will include treatment modalities and cross-cultural
practice and practice with marginalized populations. Student will gain
knowledge of both the theoretical and practice foundations of clinical
social work with adults and adolescents, as well as the skills of
relationship building, data collection, strengths assessment, and problem
formulation. Issues of social and economic inequalities are also integrated
with individual and family practice. Prerequisites: Completion of PSYC 100
or SOC 100 or permission of instructor.
 
PSYC302: Abnormal Psychology Home
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.
 
PSYC348: The Man and the Experiment that Shocked the World: The Work and Legacy of Stanley Milgram Home
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
This course introduces students to black and white, 35mm film-based
photography, the process of working in darkroom techniques, and the first
century of the history of photography. Independent work in the darkroom is
expected and work is evaluated through group critiques. Broad assignments
correlate with class readings and responses. At the end of the semester,
each student presents a portfolio of selected prints. Studio fee. Students
should supply their, film, printing paper, and related supplies. Some
photographic equipment is available for checkout, but supplies are limited
so your own 35mm, manual camera is suggested. Studio fee. No prerequisites.
 
SART103: Drawing I Home
This course is designed for beginning students. It introduces the
fundamentals of drawing and painting, and encourages the use of new media
as tools of compositional exploration and experimentation. Working from
organic and inorganic forms, textures, structures, and patterns, students
explore and develop a variety of techniques and methods for meeting their
individual artistic goals. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.
 
SART106: Introduction to Ceramics Home
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.
 
SART123: Video Production, Cinematically Speaking Home
This entry-level course is designed for those who have a serious interest
in video and/or film production. No prior video experience is required.
Students will receive instruction in the use of cameras, sound, lighting,
and editing. Moreover, the course is designed to introduce the students to
aspects of technique and style that contribute to, or even determine,
meaning in uniquely cinematic ways. A series of short video exercises will
give the student working knowledge of specific elements of film/video
structure. A longer video, of eight minutes or more, will be expected by
semester's end, and may be done either individually or in small groups.
During the course of the semester, production work will be supplemented by
lecture on pertinent areas of film/video history, and sections of important
films will be closely analyzed for fine points of filmic expression.
 
SART166: Introduction to Sculpture Studio Home
This course will explore three-dimensional design theory through a
series of assignments that encourage the student to focus on the
conscious organization of visual space. We'll approach design from both
a conceptual and formal starting point, while expanding our knowledge of
the elements, principles, and dimensions of design. Studio work will
involve individual projects that explore architecture, lighting,
casting, paper-manipulation, collaborative outdoor site-specific
installations (earthworks) and engineering. Students will engage in class
critiques and learn to present their work while communicating about
concept, content and subject matter. There will be a field trip to a
contemporary art museum. Students will build a portfolio presenting the
artwork and writing produced in the class. Ne prerequisites.
 
SART208: Ceramic Sculpture Studio Home
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.
 
SART224: Photography: Alternative Processes Home
Through technical and historical presentations, experimental ideas and
processes are introduced and explored. Projects are designed to expand
conceptions of the possibilities of the photographic medium by
investigating alternative and experimental processes and image making. We
will work with a range of non-silver techniques, including cyanotypes,
palladium, platinum printing, darkroom techniques, including photograms and
layered negatives. The course also introduces the techniques and
possibilities through hybrid digital and analog techniques. Each student
will present a portfolio of selected prints at the conclusion of the
course. Most of the alternative printing materials will be covered by our
course fee, but having your own camera is recommended. Film and color
development costs may be incurred. Studio fee. Prerequisite: Studio Art
102.
 
SART225: Survey of Documentary Film Home
This course will chart the development of the documentary film genre, from
the late 19th Century explorations of the Lumiere Brothers on up through
the resurgence of the form in the early years of the 21st Century, with
such films as The Fog of War, My Architect, and Capturing the Friedmans.
Some of the filmmakers whose work will be examined include Robert Flaherty,
Dziga Vertov, Leni Riefenstahl, John Ford, the Maysles Brothers, Frederick
Wiseman, Alain Resnais, Marcel Ophuls, Michael Moore, Errol Morris, and
Barbara Kopple. Class time will be devoted to viewing films,
discussion/analysis of the film "texts," and lectures on historical and
technological aspects of documentary film. Homework will include readings
of the textbook and assigned readings, weekly written responses, and two or
three essays.
 
SART235: Painting Studio Home
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: Color/Digital Home
The advent of digital photography has simplified the color photography
process from capture to print. Regardless of the process the expressive
possibilities of color photography are still the same and investigated
through assignments investigating color temperature and quality of light.
The history and practice of color photography continues the history of the
medium covered in Photography I. Advanced use of PhotoShop, color
management and camera raw are used to make large format inkjet prints.
Students propose and create a final project in the last third of the
course. Students taking this class at the 300-level are encouraged to use
medium or large format cameras and scanning their film for printing. Some
photographic equipment is available for checkout, but supplies are limited
so your own digital camera and tripod are suggested. A thumb drive,
portable hard drive and memory card are required as well as your own inkjet
paper. Studio fee. Prerequisite: Studio Art 102.
 
SART312: Large Format Photography Home
This course is intended as an introduction to medium and large format
photography. The benefits of a larger negative will be explored through
demonstrations, slide lectures, discussions, and critiques. Early
assignments will focus on the operation and technical abilities of view
cameras, and later photographic work will make use of these techniques in a
longer-term, self-determined project. Each student presents a portfolio of
selected prints at the conclusion of the semester. Cameras will be
available for student use, but students must supply their own film,
printing paper, and related supplies. Studio fee. Prerequisite: Photography
I & II.
 
SART335: Painting Studio Home
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.
 
SART339: Figure Painting Home
In this course students further develop classical approaches to painting of
the human figure and portraits. Students paint directly from life each
week. In-class assignments focus on the model while homework focuses on
portraiture. Lectures are designed to put the work in historical and
contemporary perspective, and slide talks include particular painters and
issues concerning the figure. In class activities will involve critiques of
work done both in and outside of class. A minimum of six hours outside work
is required each week. Prerequisites are SART 235 or SART 333 or
permission of the instructor.
 
SART367: Advanced Ceramic Studio Home
This course is for those who want to expand on the hand building, wheel
throwing, and glazing skills developed in Studio Art 106. Students may
choose whether to throw, hand build, or combine techniques in order to
fulfill assignments. Advanced glazing techniques will be explored. Kiln
loading and firing methods as well as mold making will be introduced. We
will view and discuss slides of historical and contemporary ceramics
throughout the course. The class will involve keeping a sketchbook, a field
trip, and a group show of work. Prerequisite: Studio Art 106.
 
SART460M: Photography IV: Professional Practice Home
This class is designed as an informal seminar where Seniors, through
fieldwork, conduct research that will prepare them for a career as an
artist. Portfolio development, graduate school options, grant-writing and
career options will be covered. Each student will outline their own course
plan, where they will focus on studio visits with working professionals,
and research original works at various museums/institutions in the region.
This course is required for students concentratiing in photography.
Prerequisites: Photography I, II and III. Studio fee and additional
transportation fees.
 
SART467: Advanced Ceramic Studio Home
This course is for those who want to expand on the hand building, wheel
throwing, and glazing skills developed in Studio Art 106. Students may
choose whether to throw, hand build, or combine techniques in order to
fulfill assignments. Advanced glazing techniques will be explored. Kiln
loading and firing methods as well as mold making will be introduced. We
will view and discuss slides of historical and contemporary ceramics
throughout the course. The class will involve keeping a sketchbook, a field
trip, and a group show of work. Prerequisite: Studio Art 106.
 
SOCS224: Globalization Home
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
 
SOCS325: Possesssion,Identity,Ownership Home
In the capitalist market economy, assertions of ownership, membership, and
identity ("I own...," "I belong...," "I am...") are meaningful within a
particular history of social relations in which the possessive individual
is imagined as a stable social category with legal standing. In this course
we consider what it means to possess (things, people, money, ideas, land),
how that relates to identity and being, and how it has become a distinctive
way of seeing and making the world. Drawing from geographic studies of
landscape as a "way of seeing" tied to capitalist ownership and aesthetic
representations of land, we explore the history of Western and non-Western
conceptions and practices of human and non-human, self and other, as
subjects for and of possession. While considering possible origins of
(dis)possession, we examine ownership, labor, production, belonging,
slavery, territorialism, colonialism, racism, nationalism, and the multiple
subjectivities and political implications that they have come to acquire
across a broad range of sociocultural settings. We draw from the works
Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Hegel, Marx, Proudhon, Macpherson, Balibar, Viveiros
de Castro, Latour, Scott, Ostrom, and other social theorists.
 
SPAN100: Accelerated Beginning Spanish I Home
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
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
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
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.
 
SPAN223: De poetas y locura: Madness in Spanish Literature Home
There is a common Spanish saying that says we are all part poet and a
little mad: "De poeta y loco, todos tenemos un poco." In this course we
will explore the particular obsession writers of the Castilian language
have for topics of madness, sanity and creation. We will observe in the
literature, how circumstance and context may encourage characters to suffer
momentary insanity coupled with extreme creativity. We will analyze how
the definition of insanity expands or conflates according to the different
literary periods and artistic movements in which it is being treated.
 
SS251: Seminar III: Transformations, Boundaries, Crossings Home
This course builds upon Seminar I, which covers the period from the
prehistoric period through the fifteenth century and focuses on the
relationships of origin works to concepts such as democracy and monotheism,
and Seminar II, in which students explored changes in the nature of
knowledge and knowing from the sixteenth century through the year 1850 and
Western colonization. Seminar III centers on the rapid transformations from
1850 to the late twentieth century, as boundaries are established and
broken in various fields of inquiry and widespread diasporas in multiple
directions blur boundaries in national identities toward a more global,
international outlook.
 
THEA104: Production Workshop Home
In this module, each student develops one or more roles, culminating in a
black box production of a one-act play or a series of multiple short plays.
By going through the production process from start to finish, students
learn how to research, develop, rehearse, and perform a role in a play,
balancing each individual's needs with those of the group. Through limited
participation in technical and managerial aspects of the production,
students gain a deeper awareness of the teamwork necessary for any
theatrical endeavor. This module is intended for students who have not yet
taken the 200-level Production Course. Previous theater experience is
recommended but not required.
 
THEA108: Costume and Prop Design and Execution Home
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.
 
THEA126M: Devising Theater: Performing Home
Devising Theatre: Creating M1 - Course Description: The techniques needed
to create story, character and setting from improvisation are the focus of
this module. The skills for creating as an improvisor, a classical actor
and a writer are all built on the same foundations: the ability to follow
creative impulses without censorship. This module challenges performance
concepts and develops the student's imagination, improvisational skills and
ability to develop narrative in the medium of theatre. We will devise
theatre from sources such as current events, visual image and personal
experience. As these qualities are introduced they will be developed as
techniques for performance, writing and analysis of the process of devising
theatre. This module includes several classes with visiting artists. No
prerequisite. ( prerequisite for upper level theatre courses ) Devising
Theatre: Performing M2 - Course Description: Presenting one's work to an
audience as the final step in the creative process is the focus of this
module. Texts developed in Devising Theatre: Creating M1 will be refined
and edited in workshop settings then performed at the end of the semester.
We will focus on techniques for effective collaboration as writers,
directors, producers and performers. Students will have the opportunity to
experience all aspects of the process of creating original theatre as they
support each other's work, develop individual talents and develop their
understanding of the complex art of theatre. This module includes several
classes with visiting artists. Prerequisite Devising Theatre: Creating M1
or permission of instructor
Devising Theatre: Creating M1 - Course Description: The techniques needed
to create story, character and setting from improvisation are the focus of
this module. The skills for creating as an improvisor, a classical actor
and a writer are all built on the same foundations: the ability to follow
creative impulses without censorship. This module challenges performance
concepts and develops the student's imagination, improvisational skills and
ability to develop narrative in the medium of theatre. We will devise
theatre from sources such as current events, visual image and personal
experience. As these qualities are introduced they will be developed as
techniques for performance, writing and analysis of the process of devising
theatre. This module includes several classes with visiting artists. No
prerequisite. ( prerequisite for upper level theatre courses ) Devising
Theatre: Performing M2 - Course Description: Presenting one's work to an
audience as the final step in the creative process is the focus of this
module. Texts developed in Devising Theatre: Creating M1 will be refined
and edited in workshop settings then performed at the end of the semester.
We will focus on techniques for effective collaboration as writers,
directors, producers and performers. Students will have the opportunity to
experience all aspects of the process of creating original theatre as they
support each other's work, develop individual talents and develop their
understanding of the complex art of theatre. This module includes several
classes with visiting artists. Prerequisite Devising Theatre: Creating M1
or permission of instructor
 
THEA206: Theater Production Home
Students of different experience and abilities learn about all aspects of
theater by participating in one of 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: An audition is required.
 
THEA208: Costume and Prop Design and Execution Home
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.
 
THEA211: Creative Disciplines in Technical Theater Home
THEA 211 M1 Creative Disciplines in Technical Theater I Designed to give
students the opportunity to explore the range of technical disciplines that
contribute to a live theatrical performance, this two-module sequence
introduces students to a wide range of production elements. These include:
stage craft, lighting and electrics, audio and sound design, integration of
current entertainment technologies into traditional theater, projection and
video design, as well as stage and production management will be explored.
Module I will focus on the first half of the sequence. Throughout both
modules, visiting guest artists - professionals in their fields and from
various disciplines - will present their area of expertise to the class
in-person or via remote video conference. Wherever possible, students will
apply concepts discussed in class in the two Daniel Arts Center theaters.
THEA 211 M2 Creative Disciplines in Technical Theater II Designed to give
students the opportunity to explore the range of technical disciplines that
contribute to a live theatrical performance, this two-module sequence
introduces students to a wide range of production elements. These include:
stage craft, lighting and electrics, audio and sound design, integration of
current entertainment technologies into traditional theater, projection and
video design, as well as stage and production management will be explored.
Module II will focus on the second half of the sequence. Throughout both
modules, visiting guest artists - professionals in their fields and from
various disciplines - will present their area of expertise to the class
in-person or via remote video conference. Wherever possible, students will
apply concepts discussed in class in the two Daniel Arts Center theaters.
THEA 211 M1 Creative Disciplines in Technical Theater I Designed to give
students the opportunity to explore the range of technical disciplines that
contribute to a live theatrical performance, this two-module sequence
introduces students to a wide range of production elements. These include:
stage craft, lighting and electrics, audio and sound design, integration of
current entertainment technologies into traditional theater, projection and
video design, as well as stage and production management will be explored.
Module I will focus on the first half of the sequence. Throughout both
modules, visiting guest artists - professionals in their fields and from
various disciplines - will present their area of expertise to the class
in-person or via remote video conference. Wherever possible, students will
apply concepts discussed in class in the two Daniel Arts Center theaters.
THEA 211 M2 Creative Disciplines in Technical Theater II Designed to give
students the opportunity to explore the range of technical disciplines that
contribute to a live theatrical performance, this two-module sequence
introduces students to a wide range of production elements. These include:
stage craft, lighting and electrics, audio and sound design, integration of
current entertainment technologies into traditional theater, projection and
video design, as well as stage and production management will be explored.
Module II will focus on the second half of the sequence. Throughout both
modules, visiting guest artists - professionals in their fields and from
various disciplines - will present their area of expertise to the class
in-person or via remote video conference. Wherever possible, students will
apply concepts discussed in class in the two Daniel Arts Center theaters.
 
THEA221M: Concept and Construction in Scenic Design Home
Students will have the opportunity to work alongside a professional scenic
designer in the process of conceptualizing, drafting, rendering,
constructing and installing a stage set for the semester's theatre program
production in the Simon's Rock Leibowitz Studio Theater. Students will
learn, and participate in, the designer's process of theatrical set design
from the page to the stage getting practical, hands-on experience in the
process. Collaboration of the set designer with the other various
theatrical design disciplines, such as Lighting Design and Costume design,
will be a focus as will learning the technical "ins and outs" of set
construction and its application. This course is open to students who have
previously completed at least one course in design or technical theater or
by permission of the instructor.
 
THEA222M: Lighting Design Practicum Home
Student will have the opportunity to work alongside a professional
theatrical Lighting Designer in the process of conceptualizing, drafting,
hanging, focusing and designing lighting for the semester's theatre program
production in the Simon's Rock Leibowitz Studio Theater. Students will
learn and participate in the designer's process of theatrical lighting from
concept to opening night. Collaboration of design disciplines--between Set
Design, Lighting Design and Costume design--will be a focus as will gaining
technical expertise in theater electrics. This course is open to students
who have previously completed at least one course in Lighting Design or by
permission of instructor.
 
THEA226M: Devising Theater: Performing Home
Devising Theatre: Creating M1 - Course Description: The techniques needed
to create story, character and setting from improvisation are the focus of
this module. The skills for creating as an improvisor, a classical actor
and a writer are all built on the same foundations: the ability to follow
creative impulses without censorship. This module challenges performance
concepts and develops the student's imagination, improvisational skills and
ability to develop narrative in the medium of theatre. We will devise
theatre from sources such as current events, visual image and personal
experience. As these qualities are introduced they will be developed as
techniques for performance, writing and analysis of the process of devising
theatre. This module includes several classes with visiting artists. No
prerequisite. ( prerequisite for upper level theatre courses ) Devising
Theatre: Performing M2 - Course Description: Presenting one's work to an
audience as the final step in the creative process is the focus of this
module. Texts developed in Devising Theatre: Creating M1 will be refined
and edited in workshop settings then performed at the end of the semester.
We will focus on techniques for effective collaboration as writers,
directors, producers and performers. Students will have the opportunity to
experience all aspects of the process of creating original theatre as they
support each other's work, develop individual talents and develop their
understanding of the complex art of theatre. This module includes several
classes with visiting artists. Prerequisite Devising Theatre: Creating M1
or permission of instructor
Devising Theatre: Creating M1 - Course Description: The techniques needed
to create story, character and setting from improvisation are the focus of
this module. The skills for creating as an improvisor, a classical actor
and a writer are all built on the same foundations: the ability to follow
creative impulses without censorship. This module challenges performance
concepts and develops the student's imagination, improvisational skills and
ability to develop narrative in the medium of theatre. We will devise
theatre from sources such as current events, visual image and personal
experience. As these qualities are introduced they will be developed as
techniques for performance, writing and analysis of the process of devising
theatre. This module includes several classes with visiting artists. No
prerequisite. ( prerequisite for upper level theatre courses ) Devising
Theatre: Performing M2 - Course Description: Presenting one's work to an
audience as the final step in the creative process is the focus of this
module. Texts developed in Devising Theatre: Creating M1 will be refined
and edited in workshop settings then performed at the end of the semester.
We will focus on techniques for effective collaboration as writers,
directors, producers and performers. Students will have the opportunity to
experience all aspects of the process of creating original theatre as they
support each other's work, develop individual talents and develop their
understanding of the complex art of theatre. This module includes several
classes with visiting artists. Prerequisite Devising Theatre: Creating M1
or permission of instructor
 
THEA236: CP Theaters of the Oppressed: Global Activism in Visual and Performing Arts Home
Activism is a necessary voice in society - a voice against the chorus.
Students from all disciplines are invited to take this course to learn
about social protest and creative collaboration. The first phase of this
course investigates social protest in the 1950s and 1960s examining how
content was reflected in form. The second phase explores the cultural
activism theories developed by Brazilian activist Augusto Boal and how his
work (strongly influenced by the educational theories of Paulo Friere) has
permeated cultures across the globe. In the third phase, students research
social protest in a culture outside of North America and present their
research to the group. By bringing together students' writing, performance
and visual artwork, the course culminates in a multi-media show created by
the participants. No prerequisites.
 
THEA237: Shakesperean Scene Study Home
William Shakespeare is undoubtedly the most well-known and masterful
playwright in the Western Canon. His characters and texts present exciting
challenges to students of the theater, both actors and directors. Over the
course of the semester, we will analyze scenes from several of
Shakespeare's plays, taking them from the page to the stage. We will
explore tools for working on Shakespearean scenes both for the actor and
for the director--both by working on our feet and by observing how other
actors and directors have addressed and resolved the acting and directing
challenges these great plays present. Prerequisite: Theater 100 or 117, or
permission of the instructor.
 
THEA301: Performance Practicum Home
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. Prerequisite: Production (THEA
206 or above) and an audition.
 
THEA304: Production Workshop Home
Over the course of this half-semester course, advanced playwrighting
students will workshop their new plays with acting students of all levels.
This course will provide all students the opportunity to participate in the
development of new work for the theater. Playwrights will cast and direct
their own plays as they put them on their feet for the first time. Actors
will have the experience of creating roles for the first time in rehearsal
with the playwrights. The course will culminate in workshop performances
of the plays.
 
THEA320: Comic Acting Home
Comic Acting provides students with the opportunity to investigate the
theory of humor and the performance of comedy. Exercises in improvisation,
movement, rhythm and physical comedy will serve as the basis for the comic
texts that will be performed at the end of the semester. Research will
consist of studying comic theory and comic performances. The course will
look at human folly in its many guises and by doing so reveal the joy and
humanity at the heart of laughter. Prerequisites: For 200-level, THEA 100
or THEA 117. For 300-level, THEA 100 or THEA 117, and THEA 230, THEA 204,
or permission of instructor.
 
THEA401: Performance Practicum Home
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.