All Courses
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ASIANLAN 100 003 FA 2016
First-year Chinese I
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COMPLIT 438 001 FA 2016
The sport documentary — in film, television, and online — has achieved a heightened degree of prominence in recent years. Sport documentaries do not merely showcase reality. Rather, they construct specific versions of sporting culture that serve — sometimes because, sometimes despite their makers’ intentions — distinct economic, industrial, institutional, historical, and sociopolitical ends ripe for contextualization, formal analysis, critique and affirmation. This course will probe the sport documentary’s cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, geographic, and athletic contexts. It hopes to consider and analyze the sport documentary’s increasingly visible and powerful position in contemporary culture and to forge novel connections between the study of nonfiction media and sport.
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ENGLISH 352 001 FA 2016
‘Empire’ is a word that bespeaks power and raises issues of sovereignty, oppression, and global capital. So what was the British Empire? How did it expand, and why did it decline? India, Australia, North, West, and South Africa, and the Caribbean: these are some of the territories colonized by Britain. This course explores the representation of empire in nineteenth-century British literature, history, and art, and its legacy for British culture and identity today—the networks of people, goods, and capital through which Modern Britain has defined itself.
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RCHUMS 334 003 FA 2016
We can study sport from such different perspectives as economics, sociology, and political or cultural studies. From those perspectives we might think of sport as an industry, a socializing structure and activity, or a practice both supporting and disrupting cultural and political ideologies. And it is all of these things. But we can also study sport from an aesthetic perspective, considering sport as art. That will be our focus in this course. Though we will remain mindful of the other facets of, and ways of understanding, sport we will focus primarily on developing a vocabulary and concepts for talking about athletic performance as aesthetic activity. What is art? What is aesthetic experience? What is sport? And what do we mean when we talk about sports as “beautiful,” or use other words and ideas borrowed from art and aesthetic experience? What is the role of the body in this? What about feeling, affect, and emotion? What kind of relationship, if any, is there between beauty and moral goodness?
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ENVIRON 110 001 FA 2016
This course, Global Change – the Science of Sustainability investigates the causes and potential impacts of these changes using a combination of traditional lecture-based and modern web-based teaching methodologies. The course surveys the evolution and interaction of physical, chemical, and biological processes; how past changes on Earth help us predict the future; and how fundamental principles of science establish the sustainability of human activities on Earth. Students apply learned knowledge by using systems modeling and spreadsheet software to investigate the dynamics of natural systems and examine case studies of relevant environmental problems. The course curriculum provides excellent opportunities to conduct research on topics of interest to the students, culminating in a course project presented at the end of the semester. The interactive laboratory exercises provide students the opportunity to use software tools to examine how natural systems function as well as develop projections of the future consequences of changes in the environment. And, perhaps most important of all, students will have ample time for discussion of critical issues in natural resources and sustainability, environmental policy and society as a whole. All topics are developed in a manner that students will find both accessible and interesting. After the course, students should be able to discern sound science from biased claims and will have a foundation for making informed decisions about sustainable practices in their own lives.
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ASIANLAN 101 003 FA 2016
ASIANLAN 101 First-year Chinese I