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Anthropology 260 (3) - The Anthropology of Eurasia - Newly scheduled course - This course focuses on recent anthropological studies of the people and cultures of Ukraine, the Baltics, Russia, Siberia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Specific subjects explored include nationalism, ethnicity, gender, economic transformation, and state-building. Class discussions consider the future of the anthropology of Eurasia in terms of the fall of the Soviet Union, the emergence of post-socialism as a socio-cultural concept and analytical category, and the interdisciplinary developments within anthropology itself. Goluboff
Art 380 (3) - Rome: The Eternal City - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. A seminar in the artistic and architectural development of the city of Rome, c. 509 B.C. to A.D. 1650. The course focuses on historical patronage and its promotion of an urban "image" reflecting the political, economic, and religious prestige or the city. Lucey
Biology 101 (3) - Environmental Biology - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisite: Departmental permission. The impact of human activity on biological systems of the biosphere. Examination of the environmental consequences of human population growth, including pollution, exploitation of biological resources, global climate change, and loss of biodiversity. Can be used for general education (GE5c) credit. Hanlon, Hurd
Biology 396A (3) -Virology - topical description - Prerequisites: Junior standing and permission of the instructor. An introduction to the genetics, biochemistry, structure, and pathology of animal viruses. Topics include RNA viruses, DNA viruses, tumor-inducing viruses, and retroviruses. Welsheimer.
Biology 396B (3) - Bacterial Genetics - topical description - Prerequisites: Junior standing and permission of the instructor. An examination of the genetics of bacteria in the study of cellular and organismal functions. Concepts include gene expression and regulation, gene exchange and recombination, bacteriophage genetics, and bacterial genomics. Simurda.
Classics 295A (3) - The Classical Epic Tradition: Homer to Joyce - topical description - The tradition of epic, beginning with Homer's ILIAD and culminating in Joyce's ULYSSES. Other texts include Vergil's AENEID Lucan's CIVIL WAR, and Milton's PARADISE LOST. Works written in other languages will be read in English translation. Course participants consider the texts not only as part of a continuing tradition but also as responses each to its own immediate historical situation. The idea of the hero and the concept of a tradition is also explored. Epic is one of the great legacies of ancient civilizations and to the modern world; the study of the epic tradition should prove a useful way of thinking about the connections between the present and the classical past. Students do oral reports and write two papers. Crotty.
Classics 295B (3) - Greek and English Tragedy - topical description - Pelling
Computer Science 295 (3) - Language Lab - Programming + Software Packages = Integrated Solutions - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Many software application suites provide a host programming language that can be used to increase the power of individual applications and to create new applications that integrate the applications in the package. This course introduces computer programming with the Visual Basic programming language. Students write stand-alone programs that access spreadsheets or databases and write programs within these applications to customize them and add functionality. The course assumes no previous programming experience. Whaley.
Computer Science 397 (3) - Seminar: Digital Image Processing - topical description - Prerequisite: Computer Science 211. Digital image processing has become a familiar expression recognized by a large percentage of the general public. The techniques of digital image processing can be seen in movies, commercials, local weather coverage, images from the Hubble Space Telescope and even Web browsers. This course introduces some of the basic techniques of image processing used to manipulate and analyze digital images. These include color quantization, edge detection, blurring, sampling, color enhancement, overlaying, spatial filters, and histogramming. Necaise.
Economics 399A (3) - Globalization and Inequality - topical description - Prerequisite: Economics 101 or permission of the instructor. Inequality has worsened in the United States, and many other industrialized countries, over the last two decades. Is globalization behind this trend? Some see cause-and-effect behind the correlation between rising inequality and the rising volume of international trade. Countries like Brazil, Thailand, Korea and Taiwan have record levels of trade with the U.S., placing unskilled U.S. workers in direct competition with low-wage workers in these countries. Others suggest, however, that the real cause of U.S. wage declines lies within our own borders. Alternative explanations include technological change, declining education achievement, and declines in union power. Our goal this term is to understand the nature of inequality and to search for its causes. The class is discussion- and writing- based. Students write several papers on topics of their choosing and present some of their work to the class. Anderson
Economics 399B (3) - Topics in Latin American Development - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102. The course introduces students to current economic and social challenges that Latin American countries face and what has been done to address these challenges. The course reviews fiscal and monetary stabilization policies of a selected number of countries and analyzes structural transformation such as privatization and capitalization as well as the recent institutional transformation in financial markets, labor markets and the law. Capra
Economics 399C (3) - Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102, and Economics 399, Resource and Environmental Economics. Ecological Economics is a relatively new "transdisciplinary" field of study that addresses the relationships between ecosystems and economic systems. It differs from both conventional economics and conventional ecology in taking a wider and longer view of environment-economy interactions, as its domain is the entire web of interactions between economic and ecological sectors. In the first part of this course, the basic world view of ecological economics is defined aided by readings from Kenneth Boulding, Garrett Hardin, Herman Daly, and others. The second part of the course focuses on the institutional changes necessary to achieve sustainability. Bob Costanza, John Cumberland, Bob Goodland, and others will provide us with case studies to further our understanding of sustainable development. Casey
Economics 399D (3) - Comparative Labor Economics - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102. A comparative study of labor markets and institutions in a set of advanced capitalist countries. Study and analysis will address how different institutions may lead to differences in labor market performance variables including employment, unemployment, mobility, and income distribution. The course will also consider why the institutional arrangements across countries differ widely and whether institutions that have positive consequences in one country can be easily transferred to other countries. Kaiser
Economics 399E (3) - Business and Government: An International Perspective - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102. A survey of international differences in industrial organization and antitrust policies. Discussions address the success and failure of major antitrust laws in European, Latin American, and Asian economies. Special emphasis is placed on evaluating the application of policy to practices such as monopolization, predatory pricing, and mergers. Maske
Economics 399F (3) - The Economics of Information & Uncertainty - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101, 102, and 210. This course begins by studying decision-making under uncertainty. We then look at the consequences this has for exchange in competitive markets, allowing us to better understand the role of stock markets and insurance companies in allocating risk. Finally, trade can lead to the exchange of information, which economic agents can attempt to manipulate strategically. Although many examples are drawn from finance, much of this material applies more broadly to all walks of economic life. Ruble
Economics 399G (3) - Economics of Public Policy - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101 and 102. This course first addresses the issues of economic efficiency, market performance, and the economic bases for government activities. The course includes analysis of various areas of public policy including social security, social insurance, government subsidies and income support for the poor, and health care. This survey provides a good background for those interested in applying for policy-oriented internships or pursuing careers in public policy. Sen
English 233 (3) - Cultural Conflict in American Literature: The Case of Native Americans - topical description - A study of the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans as represented in selected narratives from the Puritans to the present, including Mary Rowlandson's Indian captivity narrative, Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's HOPE LESLIE for the Puritan period; James Fenimore Cooper's LAST OF THE MOHICANS for the colonial and early national period; James Welch's FOOLS CROW and the Western films THE SEARCHERS and DANCES WITH WOLVES for the 19th-century West; and Leslie Marmon Silko's CEREMONY for the present. Some major questions are why people perceive and represent cultural conflicts so differently, how later storytellers make use of earlier stories in response to their own times, how difficult it is to resolve these conflicts, and what these stories suggest about the problem of multiculturalism in contemporary America. Smout
English 290 (3) - Seminar for Prospective Majors: Emily Dickinson - topical description - For each meeting of this seminar, we read poems of Emily Dickinson alongside her letters and significant scholarly assignments of her work. Through a series of short assignments and bibliographic work, students also learn to research and write an extended paper. Wheeler
English 380A (3) - Malory's LE MORTE D'ARTHUR - topical description - The seminar reads and discusses the text of Malory in the Caxton version. Members of the seminar, from time to time, make supplementary presentations on textual matters, Celtic religious vestiges found in the narrative, and other cultural issues, such as chivalry and castle architecture. Regular attendance is required, along with pledges at the beginning of each meeting that all participants have read the material assigned for that day. Evans
English 380B (3) - American Environmental Writing - topical description - This course studies six major works of American environmental literature: Henry Thoreau's WALDEN (1854); Annie Dillard's PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK (1974); Barry Lopez's ARCTIC DREAMS (1986); Gary Snyder's THE PRACTICE OF THE WILD (1990); Terry Tempest Williams's REFUGE (1991); and Linda Hogan's POWER (1998). These writers raise questions in environmental ethics, values, and justice. They present a wide range of views in an equally wide variety of literary modes. We examine Thoreau's influence on the five contemporary writers, and our discussions address fundamental questions in contemporary environmental writing: How does literary representation of the environment relate to experience of the environment? How are technology and nature related? How does literary history relate to the history of the physical environment? Warren
English 380C (3) - Southern Women Fiction Writers - topical description - An examination of some of the region's major storytellers: Welty, Porter, O'Connor, Walker, Smith, and others. We attempt to define, if possible, a particular feminine voice related to the history, culture, and dynamic of the South. Miller
English 380D (3) - Lawrence of Arabia: Victorianism, Modernism, and Heroism - topical description - A close scrutiny of the crucial literary development from the Victorians to the Modernists in terms of the representation of heroism and war. The course consists of two parallel tracks: one, focusing on accounts of education, moves from TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS, the classic Victorian novel of the English public school system and its heroic pedagogy, to Lytton Strachey's and Robert Graves's famous Modernist attacks on just that novel and that system; the second focusing on various novels, popular histories, memoirs, and films that depict General Gordon, the hero of Khartoum and Victorian precursor of Lawrence, and, finally, T.E. Lawrence himself around whom a wide series of mythologies and conflicting accounts have sprung up -- from John Buchan's novel GREENMANTLE to the biographies of T.E. Powell and Robert Graves, from Lawrence's own famous memoir in SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM and, finally, to David Lean's epic film LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Adams
English 380E (3) - Joseph Conrad & The Secret Sharer - topical description - A reading of selected novels and novellas by Joseph Conrad, including VICTORY, LORD JIM, and HEART OF DARKNESS with emphasis on Conrad's pervasive theme of double or doubtful identity. One question to be investigated: was this preoccupation with doubleness inevitable in a French-speaking Polish nationalist born under Russian rule who ultimately became a British mariner and writer? Yoder
English 380F (3) - Irish Poetry - topical description - Taught in Ireland. Corequisite: English 387. This course focuses on the development of the rich traditions of Irish poetry, paying attention both to major historical themes and specific poets. We devote three weeks to the study of the Irish language, culminating in student translations of several medieval Gaelic lays (short poems); concurrently, we read a wide range of medieval and early modern Irish poetry in translation. We then move into Anglo-Irish poetry of the 17th and 18th centuries, seeing the early tensions between Irish and British culture and their expressions in poetry. In week four we turn to Ireland's greatest poet, W.B. Yeats, and devote a week to detailed readings of his greatest lyric poems. Finally, during the final two weeks in Dublin, we concentrate on the greatest late 20th-century Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, reading a significant range of his work. Students take a number of language quizzes and write a five-page essay on either medieval poetry or Yeats; then expand this short essay into a longer research essay after the trip ends. Conner
English 387 (3) - Supervised Study in Ireland - Newly scheduled course - Prerequisites: Six credits in English at the 200 level or higher, junior standing, and permission of the instructor. Corequisite: English 380F. An intensive engagement with the literature, landscape and culture of Ireland, carried out over six weeks in Ireland. Readings are coordinated with site visits, which range from prehistoric and Celtic sites to early and medieval Christian sites to modern Irish life. Authors might include early Gaelic poets, Anglo-Irish literature of the 19th century, the Blasket Island story-tellers, Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Gregory, Heaney and others. Conner.
French 295 (3) - Atelier avance de langue, litterature et culture: Regards sur la ville - topical description - Prerequisites: French 261 (or equivalent and permission of the instructor). A study of French urban life through literary texts, press articles, surveys, films, videos, comic strips. This course is designed to familiarize students with contemporary issues. The approach is both cultural and stylistical as different forms of expression (literary, journalistic, advertising, sociological) are studied. The workshop addresses the development of all communication skills. Sessions are divided into two parts. During the first part, we study themes and review relevant grammatical points. The second part of the class is devoted to application exercises (exposes, "saynetes", writing exercises, etc). Frégnac-Clave
French 342 (3) - La France Moderne: Theatre Production - topical description - Prerequisite: French 331 or French 332 or permission of Instructor. The course consists of the reading, discussion, and production of several short plays by famous modern French playwrights in one show to be performed entirely in French in the Johnson Theater. The course aims toward a balanced combination between the theory and practice of theater. Its main goal is to enhance awareness of the multidimensional quality of theater by involving students in all aspects of the theatrical production as well as in the analysis and comprehension of the plays chosen for the course. Significant stress is also placed on improving oral skills, pronunciation, diction, and intonation in tandem with in-depth character analyses, aspects of the history of productions, and of the theory and practice of performance. Radulescu
History 150 (3) - Seminar in American History: Thomas Jefferson - topical description - Merchant
History 152 (3) -Seminar in American History: The Korean War - topical description - Machado
History 154 (3) -Seminar in European History and Literature: The study of society and politics in 19th-century Russia - topical description - Cecil
History 195A (3) -Seminar: The World of Dante - topical description - Prerequisite: Freshman or sophomore standing. Examines Dante's major works, including the NEW LIFE, the DIVINE COMEDY, and MONARCHY, in the context of medieval Italian urban development, church-state relations, and scholastic theology. Peterson
History 195B (3) -Seminar: The African Quandary-Problems of Colonialism and Independence in Selected African Nations - topical description - Prerequisite: Freshman or sophomore standing. - Porter
History 195C (3) -Seminar: Seminar in Recent American Religious History: Christian Fundamentalism and the Political Right - topical description - Topics covered include an historical overview of the emergence of organized religious fundamentalism in 20th-century America, the development of fundamentalist political activism from the 1960s to the present on issues such as abortion, school prayer, and a perceived decline in American morality, and the convergence of religious fundamentalism with the political right including Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority and Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition. Dalhouse
History 322 (3) - Seminar in Russian History: The Soviet Union in World War II - topical description - This seminar covers the Soviet Union's role in the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. Students read several scholarly works and first-hand accounts of the war and view ten hours of documentary film. Class meetings are devoted mainly to viewing and discussing the films and discussing the assigned readings. Bidlack
History 339 (3) - Natives and Strangers - topical description - An intensive study of the earliest contacts between the eastern tribes of North America and new arrivals from Europe and Africa. Student research papers include primary source materials. [This new course may be counted toward fulfilling the primary sources seminar requirement for the major - American concentration.] DeLaney
History 366 (3) - Slavery in the Americas - Cancelled
History 367 (3) - African-Americans in the Urban North, 1880-1930 - topical description - This course examines the beginning of a substantial black presence in the northern cities and the impact black migration to northern cities had on Afro-American life and culture and upon race relations in the North. Topics include the origins and causes of black abandonment of rural southern life; the Great Migration of the World War I years; the rise of the ghetto black urban politics; the impact of the city upon Afro-American culture and identity; the rise of the "New Negro" and the politics of protest; and the reaction of white Northerners to this new wave of migration, including anti-black collective violence. Senechal
History 369 (3) - A History of Sport in America: Baseball & American Culture - topical description - Prerequisites: Junior standing and permission of the instructor. This seminar emphasizes the history, literature, and economics of the national pastime. Occasional lectures, documentary films, and guest speakers supplement the required readings. Machado
History 381 (3) - Seminar on Japan in World War II - Cancelled
History 389 (3) - Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 - topical description - Examines the political, cultural, social, and economic history of Japan during the Allied (mainly American) occupation. Using memoirs, biographies, novels, historical studies and films, the period is viewed from both Japanese and Western perspectives. Jeans
History 395 (3) - Seminar: The World of Dante - topical description - Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Examines Dante's major works, including the New Life, the Divine Comedy, and Monarchy, in the context of medieval Italian urban development, church-state relations, and scholastic theology. Peterson
History 396 (3) - History of Washington and Lee - Cancelled
Interdepartmental 395 (3) - Ethics, Biotechnology and the Environment - topical description - Students may not register for this course and for Philosophy 395c. This course explores the normative questions surrounding the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment from the perspectives of ecology, political economy, society, and the law. Cooper, Wilson
Italian 403 (3) - Directed Individual Study: Intermediate Italian - Newly scheduled course - Permission required
Literature in Translation 295 (3) - Rogues, Rakes and Rascals in French and Spanish Literature - topical description - NOT open to those with standing in Spanish 207 or higher, or French 273 and higher. Close reading and discussion of prose and dramatic works of 16th- through 19th-century French and Spanish literature in translation, and their socio-historical context. Works include the picaresque novel, the Don Juan tradition, romantic tragedy, and novel of customs by such representative authors as Molière, Hugo, Tirso de Molina, and Pedro de Alarcón. Fralin, Campbell
Management 195 (3) - Seminar in Information Systems: Design of Inquiring Systems - topical description - This course examines the philosophical foundations of information technology. Students investigate individual thinking styles to discover the impacts they have on how people solve problems and determine the information they need to make decisions. Students also explore five philosophical frameworks and their underlying assumptions about information gathering, processing and production. The class has a seminar format, and students are evaluated on projects, presentations, and class participation. Cass
Management 304A (3) - Fundamentals of Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in a Business Environment - topical description - Prerequisite: Management 205 or permission of the instructor. Modern business seek people who are negotiators and problem-solvers. This course focuses on negotiating successfully in a commercial environment and creating business solutions using creative techniques rather than simply responding to litigation. Lectures, written materials, group projects, video and role-playing are utilized to explore various theories of negotiation and types of dispute resolution and to develop practical skills for forming and preserving business relationships and resolving business disputes. Culpepper
Management 304B (3) - E-Commerce: An Introduction - topical description - Prerequisites: Economics 101, 102; Accounting 201, 202 and permission of the instructor. An introductory study of the developing area of e-commerce. This course highlights entrepreneurial, strategic, and legal aspects of using the Internet for business purposes. Emphasis is on a managerial perspective, rather than a technical perspective, of e-commerce. Case analysis and guest speakers supplement readings. Web-based collaborative projects are presented at the conclusion of the course. Garvis
Medieval and Renaissance Studies 110 (3) - Medieval and Renaissance Culture: Chivalry. A study of how chivalry -- with its social values of loyalty, courtesy, honor, generosity and justice -- emerged in the course of medieval culture. Students read first about the heroic code which developed during the early Middle Ages (NIBELUNGENLIED and BEOWULF), then about the chivalric life of feudal Europe, both in Arthurian story (Malory's LE MORTE D'ARTHUR) and in a romance of the Holy Grail (Wolfram von Eschenbach's PARZIVAL). Finally two texts are read about how romantic love subverted and modified male-centered chivalry (Marie de France's LAIS and Gottfried von Strasburg's TRISTAN). All German, Old English and French texts are read in translation; Malory's Early Modern English text is read in a modernized edition. This course meets the general education requirement in literature only during Spring 2000. Crockett, Craun.
Music 395 (3) - 2001: The Film & The Music - topical description - An unusual feature for a science fiction film such as 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is that Stanley Kubrick chose existing classical music pieces rather than an original movie soundtrack. This course focusses on the works of Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Aram Khatchturian, and Gyorgy Ligeti used in the film. The works are studied both historically and analytically in the hope of understanding better why they fit into Kubrick's concept. One of several class activities is a field trip to the Kennedy Center in Washington to hear a live performance of Richard Strauss' THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA by the National Symphony. Gaylard
Music 396 (3) - Frank Sinatra: The Art of the Song - topical description - Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Music majors will be given priority. An in-depth look at the art one of the 20th century's most significant performers. Development of Sinatra's style is traced, from his early years as a big band singer to his more recent years as "chairman of the board." Vosbein
Neuroscience/Psychology 395 (3) - Neural Bases of Learning and Memory - topical description - How is new information acquired and stored in the brain. Critical studies involving anatomical, neurophysiological, and neurochemical approaches to the problem are reviewed, current trends discussed, and the future direction of research in this area will be considered. Students may not take this course and Psychology 395. Jarrard
Philosophy 195 (3) - Seminar: The Concept of Honor - topical description -Prerequisite: Freshman or sophomore standing. Honor is at the heart of Washington and Lee's values, yet its hold on wider American society is tenuous, and its meaning may seem unclear. This course explores the concept of honor in historical and philosophical context, examining some key moments in its development from ancient Greece to modern America: Homer's ILIAD, SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, Robert Edward Lee, the American military, and Washington and Lee's "honor system." Sessions
Philosophy 395A (3) - Advanced Seminar: Nihilism - topical description - A consideration of the loss of meaning and value in life -- spoken of as nihilism -- and especially Nietzsche's critique and efforts to move beyond nihilism. Pemberton
Philosophy 395B (3) - Advanced Seminar: Language, Certainty, & Scepticism - topical description - An examination of philosophical scepticism in a three-cornered debate between Descartes' MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY, Nietzsche's THE WILL TO POWER, and Wittgenstein's ON CERTAINTY. Topics include Descartes' foundationalism, his program of systematic doubt, the cogito, and the dream and demon arguments; Nietzsche's critique of the cogito and ordinary language, his perspectivism, and his concept of truth; and Wittgenstein's analysis of doubt and certainty, causation, hinge propositions, norms of description, and world pictures. Boggs
Philosophy 395C (3) - Ethics, Biotechnology and the Environment - topical description - Students may not register for this course and for Interdepartmental 395. This course explores the normative questions surrounding the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment from the perspectives of ecology, political economy, society, and the law. Cooper, Wilson
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preference for up to three skills courses as part of WebRegistration. These
preferences are examined only after the academic schedule has been set by the
computer. If open and without conflict between or with academic courses, one
skills course may be placed in the schedule. Changes or additional sections may
still be handled during the drop/add period. See http://www.wlu.edu/registrar/regpe.htm
for additional information.
Physical Education 101 - Swimming - Cancelled
Physical Education 120 - Self-defense - Women only
Physical Education 157M - Lacrosse (Men) - Cancelled
Physical Education 170 - Horsemanship - $75 - 1st meeting - 4/17 - 4:30
pm, Doremus 516
Physical Education 175 - Canoeing - $90 - 1st meetings - 4/18-19-20,
Doremus 516
Physical Education 304 (2) - First Aid and CPR - $17 - 1st meeting
mandatory
Physical Education 313 (2) - Water Safety Instructor's Course - $50
Politics 295A (3) - Citizenship in Spirit & Practice - topical description - No prerequisites. What does it mean to be a citizen? When can one claim to exercise her fair share of the "sovereignty" of the people? To what extent are the possibilities of citizenship shaped by one's economic standing, cultural background, gender role, or community ties? When is an experience of citizenship rich or threadbare? Can there be a citizenship of the globe? Are some people excluded from the practice of citizenship? Should exclusion trouble us? Does it matter if a nation's people takes its citizenship seriously? Through readings in political philosophy, ethnography, and literature, this seminar investigates the requirements and promises of citizenship in comparative perspective. LeBlanc
Politics 295B (3) - Thomas Jefferson: Nature, Politics, & Economics - topical description - Prerequisites: Politics 100 or 111 or Interdepartmental 110. This seminar examines how Jefferson's views on nature influenced his views on politics and economics. We conduct an intensive study of Jefferson's writings, including his correspondence and NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. We also compare his thoughts to other representative works of the Enlightenment and Revolutionary periods and examine traces of his views in contemporary environmental thought. Field trips to Monticello and Natural Bridge are part of the course requirements. Ruscio
Politics 390 (3) - Strategic International Relations - topical description - No prerequisites.Open to majors and non-majors. Introduction to selected strategic principles for conducting international relations. Emphasis is on game theory-derived principles applied to bilateral relations between major powers at the regional level (e.g., China v. India) and global level (US v. Russia). McCaughrin
Politics 396A (3) - Seminar in Political Philosophy: Theories of Statesmanship - topical description - Prerequisite: Politics 111. This course examines the political thought reflected in William Shakespeare's HENRY V, with particular attention paid to the merging of modern and classical theories of statesmanship in the life of Henry V. A close reading of HENRY V will be supplemented by readings from HENRY IV, Parts 1 and 2, as well as Machiavelli's PRINCE, Erasmus' ON THE EDUCATION OF A CHRISTIAN PRINCE, and the Bible. Morel
Politics 396B (3) - Seminar in Political Philosophy: Political Affections - topical description -This course examines the various affections by which political communities are constituted, maintained, corrupted, and destroyed, and includes thinking through the relationship between various institutions and the government of affections. These relationships are examined in the context of our reflections on the virtues and vices of party government/ partisanship, patriotism and humanism, public duty and private conscience, commerce and the moral sentiments, democratic attachment (liberty and equality), civic friendship, love, and the family. The course is taught by six prominent scholars of political affections: David Womersley (Oxford), Charles Griswold (Boston University), Alice Behnegar (Boston College), Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame), David Schaefer (College of the Holy Cross), and Pamela Jensen (Kenyon College). We examine the writings of Burke, Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Plato, Derrida, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Rousseau. Students interested in additional credit may complete an additional three-credit research project. Velásquez
Psychology 120 (3) - Quantitative Literacy in the Behavioral Sciences - Newly scheduled course - Students learn the basics of collecting, interpreting and presenting data in the behavioral sciences. Data from a variety of sources such as questionnaires, psychological tests and behavioral observations are considered. Students learn to use and to evaluate critically statistical and graphical summaries of data. They also study techniques of searching the literature and of producing written reports in technical format. Individual projects include oral presentations, creating technical graphics and publishing on the World Wide Web. Lorig, Elmes.
Psychology/Neuroscience 395 (3) - Neural Bases of Learning and Memory - topical description - How is new information acquired and stored in the brain. Critical studies involving anatomical, neurophysiological, and neurochemical approaches to the problem are reviewed, current trends discussed, and the future direction of research in this area will be considered. Students may not take this course and Neuroscience 395. Jarrard
Religion 150 (3) - Religious Ethics and Moral Problems - topical description - This course investigates several contemporary moral "hot spots" with reference to the ethical resources of Catholic and Protestant Christianity and Judaism. Hot spots include capital punishment, warfare, marriage, sexuality, evil, and forgiveness (among others). Students are encouraged to reflect critically on the readings in order to begin to articulate and argue their own moral positions. Questions addressed include what constitutes a moral argument, moral authority and the relation between religious convictions, moral judgments, social hope and civil law. Steffey
Religion 260 (3) - Triumph & Intolerance: Christianity after Constantine, 325-787 - topical description - A survey of the history of Christianity between 325 and 787, from the time Christianity gained backing from the Roman state until it completed the codification of its main doctrinal and institutional norms. The course covers a period of seminal and intense theological speculation and of powerful and fervent artistic imagination. Blumenfeld
Spanish 295 (3) - La
Prensa - topical description - Prerequisite: one 200-level Spanish
course. An intensive examination of current events in the Hispanic world (both
Spain and Spanish-America). Students research and report on given topics
of interest in the Hispanic media, including but not limited to satellite news
broadcasts and Hispanic newspapers available on the Internet. Primary
emphasis is on development of advanced conversational skills but written
assignments are required to ensure preparation for discussion. More
complete information can be found at http://home.wlu.edu/~barnettj/295b/295index.htm
. Barnett
Spanish 395 (3) - Of Heroes and Pariahs: The Spanish Ballad - topical
description - This course traces the development and use of the
"romance" or ballad in Spanish literature from medieval to modern
times. It will begin with a study of poetic tales of love and war from the XII
and XIII centuries and end with an analysis of Federico García Lorca's
celebration of the gypsy in "El romancero gitano." Boetsch,
West-Settle
Theatre 397 (3) - Seminar in Special Materials - topical description - Exploration of traditional and non-traditional scenic materials and techniques. The use of metals, casting resins, plastics and thermo plastics in a variety of uses. Properties, masks and decorative applications are discussed and explored through lab situations. Decorative painting techniques are also explored. Anderson
University Scholars 201 (3) - The Machine and The Garden:
History and Prospects of Humanity Computing - topical description - This
course may be counted toward the 12 hours required for the general education
requirement in fine arts, history, philosophy, and religion (area 4) but may
not be used to satisfy the requirement that courses be selected from two
areas. How did computers become entwined in every aspect of our lives? What
can we expect in the next 20 years of the evolution of silicon-based life forms?
This course uses classic texts, syntheses, predictions, critiques, and fictional
extrapolations to explore technological history, scientific and social
implications, philosophical issues, and utopian visions of the computer.
Students undertake research projects presented as web pages. Blackmer