The following courses are available for Spring 2012 registration.
Find a complete list of courses offered in other years here.
Literature & Cultural Studies
BioCultures: Nature, Gender, and Sexuality
Note: This elective is being taught in collaboration with Ruth Lepson’s elective, Contemporary American Poetry. Ask your advisor for more information.
This course examines three recent trends in Cultural Studies: Green Cultural Studies, Gender Theory, and Queer Theory. These fields investigate what is “natural” and what is socially constructed about nature, gender, and sexuality, respectively, working toward more complex understandings of binaries including nature/culture, nature/nurture, and the biological/cultural. more
taught by Jill Gatlin
Contemporary American Poetry
Note: This elective is being taught in collaboration with Jill Gatlin's elective, BioCultures. Ask your advisor for more information.
In this course we will look at some recent trends in American poetry: Ecopoetry, which focuses on the relationship between language and the environment and ways in which poetry might affect the discussions of climate change and bioregionalism, and innovative women’s poetry and queer theory that are influencing the ways we look at language. more
taught by Ruth Lepson / offered every spring semester
Modernism
“Make it new!” demanded modernist poet Ezra Pound. Responding to shattered truths, fractured moral standards, shifting social norms, and rapid technological changes, modernists endeavored not only to record cultural change but also to make a stylistic break from the past. more
taught by Jill Gatlin
Food for Thought: Representations of Food in Literature & Culture
This course examines the artistic, cultural, personal, and political significance of food on local and global scales. more
taught by Jill Gatlin
Film Studies I
We will look at some of the principal developments in narrative films and give particular attention to how the visual elements work together to convey meaning and create their overall effect. more
taught by Gretchen Breese
History & Politics
The Travels of Marco Polo
A close reading of The Travels of Marco Polo, an iconic text in world history and literature, is a journey of discovery. more
taught by Peter Row
Europe in the 19th Century
Europe in the 19th Century discusses the political, economic and cultural forces shaping the great age of European power – and of modernity – from the fall of Napoleon to the origins of the Great War. more
taught by James Klein
Advanced Seminar: The Civil Rights Movement:
The Era that Transformed America
The Civil Rights Era explores the revolution in political, civil, and economic rights that transformed modern America. Students will analyze and discuss the strategic choices that civil rights activists – lawyers, ministers, musicians, and students – made in the exciting, but dangerous, days of the movement. more
taught by James Klein
The Presidential Campaign: Party Politics in the 21st Century
The Presidential Campaign introduces students to American politics through the study of today’s candidates, each vying to win the party’s nomination and then prepare for the national contest. more
taught by James Klein
Philosophy & Religion
History of Western Philosophy
II: Descartes to Heidegger
This course will examine the theories of modern-era philosophers in the current Western canon. more
taught by Gretchen Breese
Buddhist Philosophy
This course begins with an overview of Buddhist history that includes the Buddha’s life and teachings as well as the development of the three primary lineages since his death. The second half will be spent with texts that draw on Nagarjuna’s philosophy of emptiness in Mahayana texts. more
taught by Gretchen Breese
Creative Arts
Drama Workshop II
Drama Workshop II shares many of the same objectives as its prerequisite, Drama Workshop I: the creation of a truly collaborative, “serious-play” space where students can take risks and explore the dramatic art form in order to become better actors and better musicians. more
taught by Patrick Keppel
Visual Arts Studio: Creative Inquiry
How does each artist engage inventive ideas and approaches critical to meaningful statements in art and performance? more
taught by Robin Dash
Languages
Italian II
The second part of the year-long introductory course. more
taught by Francesca Santovetti
French II
The second part of the year-long introductory course. more
taught by Anne Squire
German II
The second part of the year-long introductory course. more
taught by Sia Liss Stovall
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VIRGIL THOMSON