Registration for courses in the Dance program will be held on December 2nd from 4:00 to 6:00 pm in the Fisher Center for the Preforming Arts.

 

Registration for Theater courses taught by JoAnne Akalaitis and Liz Smith will be in faculty offices in the Fisher Center on Tuesday, December 2nd from 4:00 to –6:00 pm.  Caridad Svich will be  doing in-person registration on Wednesday, December 3rd from 3-4:30 in the PAC  conference room.
 

Additional courses available for on-line registration:

 

19424

THTR 101 LH  Introduction to Acting

Lynn Hawley

M . W . .

10:30  -11:50 am

FISH

PART

 

19435

THTR 101 NT  Introduction to Acting

Naomi Thornton

. . . Th .

3:20 pm -5:20 pm

FISH

PART

 

19422

THTR 141 A  Alexander Technique I

Judith Muir

M . . . .

9:00  -10:20 am

FISH

PART

 

19426

THTR 141 B  Alexander Technique I

Judith Muir

M . . . .

10:30  -11:50 am

FISH

PART

 

19423

THTR 209   Scene Study

Lynn Hawley

M . W . .

12:00 pm -1:20 pm

FISH

PART

 

19438

THTR 215   Physical Comedy

James Calder

. T. . .

9:00  -12:00 pm

FISH

PART

 

19440

THTR 307   Advanced Acting

James Calder

. T . . .

1:30 pm -4:30 pm

FISH

PART

 

19434

THTR 308   Advanced Scene Study

Naomi Thornton

. . . Th .

1:00 pm -3:00 pm

FISH

PART

 

19427

THTR 318   Visual Imagination of the

Modern  Stage

Carol Bailey

M . . . .

1:00 pm -4:00 pm

FISH

PART

 

Photography:

 

PHOT 104 will be available through online registration. For all other photography courses see the sign up sheets in Woods Studio.

 

Schedules announced:

19603

FSEM II GM  First-Year Seminar II

Gregory Moynahan

. T . Th .

2:30 – 3:50 pm

OLIN

 

 

19599

FSEM II AS  First-Year Seminar II

Annie Seaton

. T . Th .

4:00 –  5:20 pm

OLIN 307

 

 

Course cancelled:

19537

ARC 235  Composition Theory and Pedagogy

Philip Pardi

 

DIVISION OF THE ARTS

 

Course cancelled:

19484

MUS 352   Electronics,  Electroacoustic,

and Computer Composition

 

PHOT 104 will be available through online registration. For all other photography courses see the sign up sheets in Woods Studio.

 

Change in schedule:

19515

PHOT 105 A  Photographic Seeing

Stephen Shore

. T . . .

9:30 - 12:30 pm

Woods

PART

 

Change in schedule:

19518

PHOT 201 A  The View Camera

Stephen Shore

M . . . .

9:30 - 12:30 pm

Woods

PART

 

Change in instructor and schedule:

19443

THTR 207 B  Playwriting I

Zakiyyah Alexander

. T .  .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

FISH

PART

 

Change in instructor and schedule:

19429

THTR 208   Playwriting II

Caridad Svich

. . . Th .

1:30 pm –3:50 pm

FISH

PART

 

New course:

19708

CNSV 280  Mann and Schoenberg:

Music in Fiction and Reality  

Eugene Drucker

. T . . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 303

ELIT

Cross-listed: Literature   (1 credit)   Students will be expected to read Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus, with some additional background reading in music theory (especially twelve-tone theory).  The class meetings will consist largely of discussion.  A 10 to 15 page paper will be required, with a draft due after the second class meeting and the final version due at the final class meeting.  The grade will be based on that paper and class participation.  No pre-requisites. This mini-course will meet three times, as follows:  Wednesday, February 4, 1 – 4 p.m.;   Wednesday, February 18, 1 - 4 p.m.;  Wednesday, February 25, 1 - 4 p.m.

 

 

DIVISION OF LANGUAGES & LITERATURE

 

19542

LIT 276   The Holocaust and Literature

Norman Manea

. T . . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 303

ELIT

Cross-listed:  Human Rights, Jewish Studies   Reading and discussion of selected short fiction and novels by such major writers as Franz Kafka, Primo Levi, Tadeusz Borowski, W.G Sebald, Aleksandar Tisma, Danilo Kis, and by two Nobel Laureates for literature, I. B. Singer and Imre Kertesz. The Holocaust will be considered in comparison with such other genocides of the twentieth century as the Gulag, communist China and Cambodia and Rwanda etc.  We will debate questions about the boundaries of art incorporating unprecedented cruelty and despair, about literature of extreme situations (the traditional and the more experimental modes of narrative representation).  We will also pay attention to post-Holocaust reality, to the trivialization of tragedy in fashionable, simplistic melodramas of the current mass-media culture or in political-ideological manipulation (especially in former East European socialist countries). Not available for on-line registration. To register for this course see Prof. Manea on Thursday December 4th from 10:00 to 1:00 or 3:00 to 5:00 in his office Seymour 303.

 

19281

LIT 358   Exile & Estrangement in

Modern Fiction

Norman Manea

M . . . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 301

ELIT

Cross-listed: Human Rights   Reading and discussion of selected fiction by such writers as Mann, Kafka, Nabokov, Camus, Singer, Kundera, Naipaul, etc. examining the work for its literary value and as a reflection of the issue of exile – estrangement as a fact of biography and a way of life. The complex topics of foreignness and identity, (ethnic, political, sexual) of rejection and loss, of estrangement and challenge, and also of protean mutability, are discussed in connection to relevant social-historical situations  (war, expulsion, migration) and as major literary themes. Preference given to students moderated in Language and Literature. Not available for on-line registration. To register for this course see Prof. Manea on Thursday December 4th from 10:00 to 1:00 or 3:00 to 5:00 in his office Seymour 303.

 

Schedule amendments:

 

19535

LIT 331  Translation Workshop

Peter Filkins

 . .W . .

12:30 pm -2:50 pm

OLIN 302

FLLC

 

19008

CLAS 311   Self and Society in Classical  Greek Drama

 

Daniel Mendelsohn

. . . . F

10:30 am -12:50 pm

OLIN 205

ELIT

DIVISION OF SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS & COMPUTING

 

New course:

19831

BIO 114   Biology of Non-Infectious

Disease

John Ferguson

                                 LAB:

. T . Th .

. . . Th .

10:00  -12:00

1:30 – 4:30 pm

RKC 115

RKC 112

LSCI

While both morbidity and mortality from infectious disease declined steadily during the 20th century in developed nations, they remained constant for noninfectious diseases. Students examine the reasons for this failure to deal more effectively with these conditions as they study various specific diseases. Examples include inherited diseases such as sickle-cell anemia, Huntington's disease, and cystic fibrosis; endocrine disorders such as acromegaly; nutrional disorders such as vitamin and mineral deficiencies; therapeutic drug addiction and toxicities; various poisonings such as plant intoxications and rattlesnake envenomation; cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarctions and cerebrovascular accidents; neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease; allergies; and autoimmune diseases such as myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis, and diabetes mellitus. Many of the readings are relatively nontechnical case histories, but the biology underlying each condition is thoroughly developed. This course is of interest to those focusing on a career in the health professions, but is also designed to provide liberal arts students with some degree of medical literacy in these health issues. The laboratory portion introduces students to human physiology as it relates to disease. Prerequisites: experience in high school biology and chemistry.

 

19332

MATH / CMSC 303   Computational Geometry

Mary Krembs

. T . . .

1:00 pm -2:20 pm

RKC 100

MATC

Course carries 2 credits.

 

Schedule correction:

19555

PHYS 124   Climate Change

Gidon Eshel

                             Lab A:

                             Lab B:  

. T . Th .

. T .  .  .

. . . Th .

10:30am - 11:50am

4:00pm – 5:20 pm

4:00pm – 5:20 pm

PRE 110

RKC 100

RKC 100

LSCI

 

New course:

19819

SHP 162   Cosmology

Peter Skiff                                

. T . Th .

4:00  -5:20 pm

HEG 102

 

Cross-listed: Science, Technology & Society   The course will be a descriptive review of the astrophysical theories of the origin and development of the early universe. The “standard model”, the so-called “big bang theory” will be examined in detail, with attendant evidence and theories of particles, fields, energy and entropy, and space-time geometry. Current models of supernovae, quasars, black and white holes, dark matter, quantum foam, and recent alternative models of super symmetry and superstrings will be reviewed. Various historical notions of time, space, matter, and cause will frame the discussions. No prior experience in collegiate science is required. This course can be taken for distribution credit in science, but does not meet the requirement for computational or laboratory experience. 

 

DIVISION OF SOCIAL STUDIES

 

Change in schedules:

19597

HR / ANTH 233  Problems in Human Rights  

John Ryle

M . W .  .

12:00  - 1:20 pm

ASP 302

SSCI

 

19220

ANTH 238  The Sacred, the Uncanny,

 and the Divine: The Anthropology of Religion  

Omri Elisha

M . W .  .

3:00  - 4:20 pm

HEG 106

SSCI

 

19556

ANTH 266   Anthropology of Youth

and Youth Politics

Jeff Jurgens

M . W . .

12:00 – 1:20 pm

OLIN 309

SSCI

 

19099

ECON 229   Statistics

Andrew Pearlman

. T . Th .

M . . . .

9:00  -10:20 am

4:30  – 6:20 pm

OLIN 204

HDRANX 106

MATC

(Lab added.)

 

Schedule changes:

19339

ECON 345   Topics in Institutional Economics

Tamar Khitarishvili

. . . Th .

3:00 pm – 5:20 pm

ALBEE 106

SSCI

 

19105

ECON CONF   Senior Conference

Kris Feder

M . W .  .

5:00 pm -7:20 pm

ALBEE 106

 

 

19273

HIST 261   European Intellectual History Since 1860: Central Debates of the

 Modern Period

Gregory Moynahan

Artem Magun

M . . .

9:00  -11:50 am

HDR 302

HIST

 

Correction to distribution area:

19275

LAIS 203   Latin American Nations: Emergence and Distinctive Trajectories

Pierre Ostiguy

M . W .  .

3:00 pm -4:20 pm

RKC 100

HIST/DIFF

 

 

 

The following courses are cross-listed in Human Rights:

 

19211

ARAB 320   Arab Women Writers

Elizabeth Holt

. . W . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 301

ELIT/DIFF

 

19403

ARTH 247   Photography: 1950 to the Present,  Human Documents to the Image World

Laurie Dahlberg

. T . Th .

2:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 102

AART

 

19225

LIT 2024   Sentimental Traditions in

American  Literature and Culture

Charles Walls

. T . Th .

1:00 pm -2:20 pm

OLIN 309

ELIT

 

19254

LIT 227   Ideology and Political

Commitment in Modern Literature

Justus Rosenberg

M . W . .

10:30  -11:50 am

OLIN 305

ELIT

 

19376

LIT/ FREN  2405   Nothing Sacred: Twentieth-Century French Literature & the Reign of Terror

Eric Trudel

. T . Th .

10:30  -11:50 am

OLIN 204

ELIT

 

19205

LIT 3012   Wittgenstein's Lion: The

Question of the Animal

Nancy Leonard

. T . . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 310

HUM

Also cross-listed in Philosophy

 

19266

LIT 3204   Literature and Politics

Thomas Keenan

. . W . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 205

 

 

19053

SPAN 220   The Hispanic Presence in US

Melanie Nicholson

M . W . .

10:30  -11:50 am

OLINLC 206

FLLC/DIFF

 

19211

ARAB 320   Arab Women Writers

Elizabeth Holt

. . W . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 301

ELIT/DIFF

Cross-listed: Gender & Sexuality Studies, Human Rights, MES

 

19277

HIST 365   Russian Intellectual History

Gennady Shkliarevsky

. . . Th .

4:00 pm -6:20 pm

OLIN 310

HIST

Cross-listed:  Russian and Eurasian Studies   

 

19025

RUS 312   Nabokov: Puzzle, Pattern, Game

Jennifer Day

. . W . .

9:30  -11:50 am

OLIN 310

ELIT

Cross-listed:  Literature  

 

19027

RUS 325   Body, Mind, and  Spirit

in Dostoevsky

Marina Kostalevsky

. T . Th .

2:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 306

ELIT

Cross-listed:  Literature

 

19052

THEO 201   Poetic Theologies

Nancy Leonard

M . W . .

1:30 pm -2:50 pm

OLIN 310

HUM

Cross-listed:  Literature

 

19547

PS 259   Spanish Politics: Democracy

after Dictatorship

Omar Encarnacion

M . W . .

12:00 pm -1:20 pm

OLIN 205

SSCI

Cross-listed: History