Mar 28, 2024  
2019-2020 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2019/Spring 2020) 
    
2019-2020 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2019/Spring 2020) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 
  
  • ENGL 308 - Advanced Studies in Anglophone Literature

    4 credits
    An examination of literature in English by authors residing in or originating from English speaking nations other than Britain and America. The course may focus on literature from any one region, such as the Caribbean or South Asia; one nation, such as South Africa, Australia, or India; or a continent, such as Africa. It may explore the literature of those who emigrate from those regions, connections between the literature of those who remain at home and those who leave, the effects of colonialism on the nation, or the development of national literatures after colonialism. The course may also focus on specific historical moments, such as apartheid South Africa or Indian partition; or problems, such as the definition of “postcolonial,” hybridity and identity, or the development of global Englishes. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 252  or ENGL 253  as appropriate. Offered in alternate fall semesters. CLA-Diversity International
  
  • ENGL 309 - Law and Literature

    4 credits
    This course examines the intersection of law and literature from an historical as well as a philosophical perspective. How are legal practices and the rhetorical processes that we associate with law represented in literature? How do these practices and systems of logic teach us to separate fact from fiction? And how does the narrative and representational logic of literature inform the law? We address these questions through a series of historically specific fical points that demonstrate the shared terrain of literary and legal discourse. Topics include citizenship, slavery, segregation, crime, punishment, the history of rights, and the religious roots of law. Offered every other fall.
  
  • ENGL 310 - Human Rights in Literature and Film

    4 credits
    This course allows students to analyze how human rights struggles have used literature and film to bolster their claims for social justice. Simultaneously, it will teach students to assess the possibilities and limitations of literary and film texts that serve as tools for human rights activism. The end goal is to look closely and critically at cultural production - whether literature or film - and through this close analysis to develop a nuanced argument about a given text’s social and political intervention. The class will introduce students to a range of primary texts including twentieth-century and contemporary fiction and documentary films, novels, memoirs, testemonials, etc. as well as secondary texts that historicize the rise of human right as a universalist concept and comment on the character of past and ongoing struggles for social justice. Enrollment priority given to Juniors and Seniors. Pre-requisite: ENGL 150 or ENGL 109 or Instructor Approval. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
  
  • ENGL 311 - Nonfiction Writing

    4 credits
    Workshops with weekly round-table editing sessions, offering writing and reading assignments in established and innovative nonfiction forms. Emphasizes expressive writing-the personal and informal essay, autobiography and biography, the character sketch, vignette, narrative, and prose lyric. At the discretion of the department, may be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the College writing requirement. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered annually. CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 312 - Nonfiction Writing: Articles

    4 credits
    Workshops with weekly round-table editing sessions, offering writing and reading assignments in established and innovative nonfiction forms. Emphasizes the factual article as a literary form-practice in assembling facts (research and interviewing procedures) and in shaping the informative, lively article, editorial, and critical review. At the discretion of the department, may be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the College writing requirement. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered annually. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 313 - Creative Writing Workshop: Short Fiction

    4 credits
    Exercises in characterization, setting, dialogue, and narration. Incorporates these elements of fiction into complete stories. Class discussion of manuscripts. At the discretion of the department, may be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the College writing requirement and submission of appropriate writing sample. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered annually. CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 314 - Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry

    4 credits
    Practice in elements of the poet’s craft, focusing particularly on the language of emotion and the uses of metaphor. Explores traditional verse patterns and encourages the development of one’s own imaginative perception and style. At the discretion of the department, may be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the College writing requirement and submission of appropriate writing sample. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered annually. CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 315 - Creative Writing Workshop: Advanced Fiction

    4 credits
    This course is a workshop for students wishing to develop a sophisticated fiction writing vocabulary and a vigorous exploration of literature via the study and creation of it. The course will be made up of creation classes on specific issues of craft, such as point of view, character development, and dialogue. Students will read full novels and story collections and be expected to use skills gleaned from these texts in their own work. The course will push students past the “write what you know” paradigm; key to this course will be developing research and observational skills in order to create and appreciate literature beyond your own experience. Course may be repeated twice for credit. Enrollment priority: writing minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 311 ,ENGL 312 ,ENGL 313  or ENGL 314 , submission of writing sample and application. Offered fall semester. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 316 - Creative Writing Workshop: Advanced Poetry

    4 credits
    An advanced course in the art of poetry for students who have completed an introductory creative writing workshop. Focused on advanced strategies for developing poets, including metrics, prosody, traditional formal schemes, imitations, radical revisions, experimental poetry, sequences, and the longer lyric. Course may be repeated twice for credit. Enrollment priority: writing minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 311 , ENGL 312 , ENGL 313  or ENGL 314 , submission of writing sample and application. Offered fall semester. CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 318 - Advanced Journalism

    4 credits
    Students will build on the lessons learned in Introduction to Journalism including news, feature and opinion writing, journalistic ethics, and using social media and blogging in storytelling.  this course will include long-form journalism, undertaking reporting projects, expanded editorial writing, magazine-style reporting, and multimedia storytelling.  Students will study award-winning stories and projects and be encouraged to reach out to working journalists in the field. At the discretion of the department, may be taken twice for credit. Prerequisites: one of the following - ENGL 216  , ENGL 219  , ENGL 311  , ENGL 312  or permission of the instructor. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 320 - Advanced Studies in History of the Language

    4 credits
    Topics may include Anglo-Saxon (“Old English”) language, Middle English, African American Vernacular English, dialect studies, global Englishes. Amount of credit established at the time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL+20A, 20B, 21A, 21B. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  
  • ENGL 321 - Comparative Critical Theory and Practice

    4.0 credits
    May focus on one or compare two contemporary or historical approaches to literature, such as close reading, psychoanalytic, philosophical, new historicist, feminist, Marxist, structuralist, deconstructive, or reader-response criticism. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisites:ENGL 250  and ENGL 251 , or ENGL 252  and ENGL 253 . Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  
  • ENGL 322 - Intensive Reading of a Single Text

    2-4 credits
    This course allows sustained concentration on a single text. In some semesters, the text itself will be a long and difficult one (e.g., Paradise Lost or Finnegan’s Wake). In other semesters the course will cover a more accessible literary text but that text will be viewed through the lenses of various kinds of interpretation (e.g., cultural criticism, performance theory, formalism, gender studies, deconstruction, psychoanalytical theory). Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: One of the following as appropriate: ENGL 250 , ENGL 251 , ENGL 252  or ENGL 253 . Offered alternate fall semesters.
  
  • ENGL 323 - Approaches to Literature: Genre

    2-4 credits
    All writers conceive of themselves as writing inside of a genre. If writing inside of a genre involved only the imposition of constraint, writers surely would not choose to do it. What is genre? How does it open possibilities for writing? How do genres change over time and across cultures? What is the relationship between literary genre and the way humans frame their emotional, intellectual, and social experience? The focus will be on a single genre (e.g., novel, lyric poem, tragedy, comedy, epic, ballad, gothic novel, graphic novel, etc.) . Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Priority given to English majors and minors. Prerequisites: One of the following as appropriate: ENGL 250 , ENGL 251 , ENGL 252  or ENGL 253 . Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  
  • ENGL 324 - Filming American Feminisms

    4 credits
    Through examination of documentary and fiction films, this course will explore the development of thinking about women, gender, and feminism in the United States after 1900.  We’ll think simultaneously about the evolution of feminist thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and about how film has engaged with, represented, supported, disseminated, and critiqued those developing ideas.  Readings in feminist theory of the period will be put in dialogue with a wide range of films from silents to Hollywood blockbusters to independents and documentaries made with explicitly feminist purposes.  equivelent to WGST 301  . Offered fall semester in alternate years. CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 325 - Approaches to Literature: Intertextual

    4 credits
    This course explores the various ways that texts “answer” each other or imbricate each other. Writers often compose a text in response to another work (sometimes contemporaneous, sometimes distant). Writers also develop rivalries, write for each other as audience, feel especially influenced by or even possessed by another writer. In some eras, all literature is considered to be “part” of a larger project or in response to a “big” text (e.g., the Bible). Some literary works are written in the shadow of another language. Different theories of intertextuality will be covered. Amount of credit established at the time of registration. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisites: One of the following as appropriate: ENGL 250 , ENGL 251 , ENGL 252  or ENGL 253 . Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  
  • ENGL 326 - Approaches to Literature: Cultural

    4 credits
    The course covers interactions between literary artists and visual artists. We will look at individual writers’ responses to particular works of art as well as broader relationships such as visual iconography in medieval works or breakthrough moments in modernism and postmodernism when writers’ exposure to the visual arts led them to invent new modes of composition and of perception. Amount of credit established at the time of registration. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisites: One of the following as appropriate: ENGL 250 , ENGL 251 , ENGL 252  or ENGL 253 . Offered in alternate fall semesters.
  
  • ENGL 326R - Approaches to Literature: Cultural Recitation

    0 credits
  
  • ENGL 327 - Approaches to Painterly Literature

    4 credits
    The course covers interactions between literary artists and visual artists. We will look at individual writers’ responses to particular works of art as well as broader relationships such as visual iconography in medieval works or breakthrough moments in modernism and postmodernism when writers’ exposure to the visual arts led them to invent new modes of composition and of perception. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisites: One of the following as appropriate: ENGL 250 , ENGL 251 , ENGL 252  or ENGL 253 . Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  
  • ENGL 332 - Intensive Reading of a Single Text from before 1800

    2-4 credits
    This course allows sustained concentration on a single text. In some semesters, the text itself will be a long and difficult one (e.g., Paradise Lost). In other semesters the course will cover a more accessible literary text but that text will be viewed through the lenses of various kinds of interpretation (e.g., cultural criticism, performance theory, formalism, gender studies, deconstruction, psychoanalytical theory). Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered alternate fall semesters.
  
  • ENGL 333 - Approaches to Literature before 1800: Genre

    4 credits
    All writers conceive of themselves as writing inside of a genre. If writing inside of a genre involved only the imposition of constraint, writers surely would not choose to do it. What is genre? How does it open possibilities for writing? How do genres change over time and across cultures? What is the relationship between literary genre and the way humans frame their emotional, intellectual, and social experience? The focus will be on a single genre (e.g., novel, lyric poem, tragedy, comedy, epic, ballad, gothic novel, graphic novel, etc.). Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: Priority given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  
  • ENGL 334 - Approaches Pre-1800: Biographical

    4 credits
    How much can we read into a work based on our knowledge of a writer’s life? In this course we will look at literary texts in relation to letters and diaries. We will then look at how biographers and literary critics used those same letters and diaries to say something about the author’s life or writings. After reading some essays by biographers about the challenges that they have faced in their work, students will attempt to compose an argument of their own by drawing on letters, diaries, or other primary sources. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
  
  • ENGL 335 - Approaches to Literature before 1800: Intertextual

    4 credits
    This course explores the various ways that texts “answer” each other or imbricate each other. Writers often compose a text in response to another work (sometimes contemporaneous, sometimes distant). Writers also develop rivalries, write for each other as audience, feel especially influenced by or even possessed by another writer. In some eras, all literature is considered to be “part” of a larger project or in response to a “big” text (e.g., the Bible). Some literary works are written in the shadow of another language. Different theories of intertextuality will be covered. Amount of credit established at the time of registration. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  
  • ENGL 336 - Approaches to Literature before 1800: Cultural

    4 credits
    How do critics work on the relationship between literary texts and other cultural materials (such as popular culture, legal and religious discourse, social history, political history)? This course will look at literary texts in the context of extra-literary materials. Amount of credit established at the time of registration. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
  
  • ENGL 337 - Approaches Pre-1800: Word/Image

    4 credits
    The course covers interactions between literary artists and visual artists. We will look at individual writers’ responses to particular works of art as well as broader relationships such as visual iconography in medieval works or breakthrough moments in modernism and postmodernism when writers’ exposure to the visual arts led them to invent new modes of composition and of perception. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters
  
  • ENGL 342 - Theory and Practice in Media Communication

    4 credits
    This course will introduce students to the forms, limitations and potentials of writing and content for various media. Topics include: news, feature, and opinion writing for print and online media outlets; an introduction to social media and blogging; public relations writing and web content; ad copy and copywriting; and a basic introduction to radio and television scripting. The course will also introduce students to Associated Press style and basic media/news ethics. Offered in fall semester. Prerequisites: ENGL 150  and ENGL 111  
  
  • ENGL 349 - Writing Across the Curriculum and Peer-to-Peer Mentoring: Theory and Practice

    0-4 credits
    This course introduces students to writing and tutoring theory and pedagogy, with a focus on writing in various disciplines and genres. Topics include the writing process, audience, and purpose; language acquisition and writing-based learning disabilities; writing in a non-native language; multimodal writing; collaborative writing; revision and editing; and discipline-specific discourse and practices, such as citation. Discussion focuses on the role of the course-embedded writing Fellow, including issues of authority, expertise, facilitated peer review, and working one-on-one. The course combines readings and discussion with a practicum that allows student to directly engage and interrogate the ideas and pedagogies they encounter. A significant portion of the course involves working directly with writers from a variety of disciplines. Offered in fall semester
  
  • ENGL 350 - Advanced Studies in Medieval or Renaissance Literature

    4 credits
    Topics may include Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, the impact of literacy on the fictions and poetry of medieval Britain, the medieval romance, medieval literature and spirituality, medieval and early Renaissance drama, Renaissance poetry. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite:ENGL 250 . Offered in alternate fall semesters. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 351 - Advanced Studies in British Literature of the 17th or 18th Century

    4 credits
    Topics may include Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, the impact of literacy on the fictions and poetry of medieval Britain, the medieval romance, medieval literature and spirituality, medieval and early Renaissance drama, Renaissance poetry. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 251   Offered in alternate spring semesters. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 352 - Advanced Studies of British Literature of the 19th Century

    4 credits
    Offerings of this course take a variety of subjects and forms in studying British literature of the nineteenth century: specific authors or groups of authors in the Romantic or Victorian periods; subjects within and across the two periods such as literary responses to revolution, industrialism, empire, class and religious issues; topics such as the Gothic, realism, Victorian, “medievalism,” the psychological self in nineteenth-century writing, the role of art in the social order. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 252 .ENGL 253   Offered in alternate fall semesters. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 353 - Advanced Studies in British Literature of the 20th Century

    4 credits
    An advanced examination of British and/or Anglophone literatures in the 20th century, focusing on topics such as, modernism and fascism, post-colonialism, the representation and effects of the World Wars, gender and modernism, expatriation and alienation, and modernist women writers. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisites: ENGL 253 . Offered in alternate spring semesters. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 354 - Advanced Studies in American Literature to the Civil War

    4 credits
    An advanced examination of American literature before the Civil War. Topics include transcendentalism, visions and revisions, the American novel, literary responses to the Civil War and the aftermath of slavery. Writers may include Irving, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Jacobs, Douglass, Stowe. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisites: ENGL 252 . Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered in alternate fall semesters. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 355 - Advanced Studies in American Literature from the Civil War to World War I

    4 credits
    Topics include women writers in post-Civil War America and regional and national voices from the Civil War to WWI. Perspectives on realism, naturalism, women’s voices, regional and national voices in the fiction, nonfiction and poetry from the end of the Civil War to World War I. Writers may include Twain, James, Dickinson, Adams, Crane, Davis, Chopin, London, Gilman, Wharton, and Jewett. Amount of credit established at registration. Course may be repeated for credit. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisites: ENGL 252  or ENGL 253 . Offered in alternate spring semesters.
  
  • ENGL 356 - Advanced Studies in American Literature of the 20th Century

    4 credits
    Topics include artistic movements such as Naturalism, the Beats, New Journalism, Modernism, or Postmodernism; covering fields such as women’s literature, ethnic literatures, or immigrant literature; intertextuality; literature in relation to social movements of the second half of the century, historical eras such as the Great Depression, Cold War, World Wars; or major authors. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 253 . Offered in alternate fall semesters. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 357 - Advanced Studies in Literature of the 20th Century

    4 credits
    Recognizing the fluidity of boundaries and national identities, this course is an advanced study of British, American, and Anglophone literature of the 20th Century. The course will focus on particular literary themes, topics, or genres that cross or problematize national or geographic boundaries. For example, American expatriate authors, diasporic literatures, literary concerns of immigrants from one specific nation to several (e.g., from India or African nations to America and Britain). Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 253 . Offered in alternate spring semesters. CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ENGL 361 - Studies in Pre-1800 Poetry: Seminar

    4 credits
    A study of selected major works of poetry or a school of poetry. For example, Elizabethan poetry, The Sonnet. Course may be repeated as topic varies. Open only tojuniors and seniors. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered Annually.
  
  • ENGL 362 - Studies in Pre-1800 Fiction: Seminar

    4 credits
    A study of selected major works of fiction. For example, Eighteenth-century fiction, the Gothic novel Focus depends on instructor. Course may be repeated as topic varies. Open only to juniors and seniors. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered fall semester.
  
  • ENGL 363 - Studies in Pre-1800 Drama: Seminar

    4 credits
    A study of selected major works of drama or a school of drama. For example, , medieval drama,Renaissance drama, or Restoration drama. Course may be repeated as topic varies. Open only to juniors or seniors. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered fall semester
  
  • ENGL 364 - Advanced Pre-1800 Literary Studies: Seminar

    4 credits
    An intensive study of a theme, problem, or literary genre from before 1800. The topic varies from year to year, but the seminar is designed to offer students an extended analysis of that topic and the opportunity to explore it from a number of perspectives and critical positions. Course may be repeated as topic varies. Open only to juniors or seniors. Signature of instructor required for registration
  
  • ENGL 365 - Major Pre-1800 Author: Seminar

    4 credits
    A close reading and a critical examination of the work of an individual British, American, or Anglophone author from before 1800. The author varies from year to year, but the focus of the course is an immersion into the work of that author and an engagement with the criticism of that work. In some seminars students may work with archival material. Others will focus primarily on the texts, explore significant debates about the work or its interpretation, or view the texts through a specific theoretical framework. Course may be repeated as topic varies. Open only to juniors or seniors. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered spring semester.
  
  • ENGL 371 - Studies in Poetry: Seminar

    4 credits
    A study of selected major works of poetry or a school of poetry. For example, Caribbean poetry, New York School poets, or modern American poetry. Course may be repeated. Open to a maximum of 15 juniors and seniors. Prerequisites: ENGL 250 , ENGL 251 , ENGL 252  and ENGL 253  and at least one Approaches course. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered Annually.
  
  • ENGL 372 - Studies in Fiction: Seminar

    4 credits
    A study of selected major works of fiction. Focus depends on instructor. Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15. Open only to students with junior or senior standing. Prerequisites: ENGL 250 , ENGL 251 , ENGL 252  and ENGL 253  and at least one Approaches course. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered fall semester.
  
  • ENGL 373 - Studies in Drama: Seminar

    4 credits
    A study of selected major works of drama or a school of drama. For example, medieval drama, or modern American drama. Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15. Open only to students with junior or senior standing. Prerequisites: ENGL 250 , ENGL 251 , ENGL 252  and ENGL 253  and at least one Approaches course. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered fall semester.
  
  • ENGL 374 - Advanced Literary Studies: Seminar

    4 credits
    An intensive study of a theme, problem, or literary genre. The topic varies from year to year, but the seminar is designed to offer students an extended analysis of that topic and the opportunity to explore it from a number of perspectives and critical positions. Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15. Open only to students with junior or senior standing. Prerequisites: ENGL 250 , ENGL 251 , ENGL 252  and ENGL 253  and at least one Approaches course. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered fall semester.
  
  • ENGL 375 - Major Author: Seminar

    4 credits
    A close reading and a critical examination of the work of an individual British, American, or Anglophone author. The author varies from year to year, but the focus of the course is an immersion into the work of that author and an engagement with the criticism of that work. In some seminars students may work with archival material. Others will focus primarily on the texts, explore significant debates about the work or its interpretation, or view the texts through a specific theoretical framework. Course may be repeated. Enrollment limit: 15. Open only to students with junior or senior standing. Prerequisites: ENGL 250 , ENGL 251 , ENGL 252  and ENGL 253  and at least one Approaches course. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered spring semester.
  
  • ENGL 376 - Shakespeare on Film: Seminar

    4 credits
    An intensive study of about four major plays by means of examination of different film versions. Enrollment limit: 15. Open only to students with junior or senior standing. PrerequisiteENGL 250  , ENGL 251  , ENGL 252  , and ENGL 253 . Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered alternate spring semesters.
  
  • ENGL 380 - London Semester Interdisciplinary Colloquium

    4 credits
    The Colloquium, taught by the program director, offers both a collective interdisciplinary exploration of a London topic and an opportunity for each student to complete an individual research project. The project asks students to make use of the resources of London to explore a topic they have chosen in consultation with the program director and perhaps also a campus adviser. Students develop their topics through interviews, site visits, participant/observation, and the use of London libraries. Offered Fall semester. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the London Semester program. Permission of instructor required for registration. Same as: PSCI 380 , ARTH 380  , THEA 380  , HIST 380   Offered in the London program. CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Off Campus Experience
  
  • ENGL 383 - British Political Drama

    4 credits
    Under the premise that all theatre has a political dimension and works its influence on audiences both overtly and subversively, this course is designed to take advantage of the huge variety of productions available in London venues (not necessarily conventional theatre spaces), with a focus on the political questions they raise for twenty-first century audiences. Because the 1960s saw big changes on the theatrical scene in Britain it is taken as a starting point, and we see what we can of the playwrights who helped form our present day theatre through the twentieth century. Because it does not operate in a vacuum, appropriate plays may be chosen from other periods and cultures that address crucial global, social and political issues. Acceptance to the London Semester program. Permission of instructor required for registration. Same as: THEA 383 . Offered Fall Semester. CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 384 - Studies in British Literature: London Literature

    4 credits
    For this course we shall become London flaneurs, walking the streets and interpreting the signs of the city as if it were a text. We shall read a range of nineteenth and twentieth century writings, including classics such as Our Mutual Friend, and lesser known works. Through Amy Levy (Reuben Sachs), Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway) and Jean Rhys (Good Morning, Midnight) we can explore the changing role of women in the metropolis. In Alexander Baron’s The Lowlife we can glimpse the East End’s historic importance as a home to refugees and see how it turned into Bangla Town in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. In Conrad we find London as the centre of Empire and in the work of Sam Selvon and Monica Ali we have examples of how the Empire has written back. By paying close attention to both text and context, we shall achieve a lively appreciation of the works in and of themselves and as part of the cultural life of London. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the London Semester program Instructor Permission Offered fall semester in London. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  
  • ENGL 386 - Theories and Effects of Media Communication

    4 credits
    The course offers students an introduction to the critical perspectives, theories, and research methods that are central to the analysis of mass communication policy and programming, traditional and new media, interpersonal communication, and audience reception. The course will provide students with the skills to explain how and why media institutions make messages, how individuals receive and use these messages, and how these messages have typically widespread and long-term effects on cultural, social, individual, and global levels.  Permission of instructor required. Enrollment limited to junior or senior standing. Prerequisite: ENGL 110  or ENGL 111 . Co-requisite: ENGL 387. CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Off Campus Experience
  
  • ENGL 387 - New York Semester on Communications and Media Colloquium

    4 credits
    This course offers an overview of the history, technological changes, and cultural and critical significance of contemporary media, including print, electronic media (radio, television, film), and digital (“new”) media (internet, social media, mobile media, digital games). We will explore the forms and function of media, media and its relationship to information and communication, and the intersections of media and culture.  Enrollment limited to junior or senior standing. Permission of instructor required. Enrollment limited to junior or senior standing. Prerequisite: ENGL 110  or ENGL 111 . Co-requisite: ENGL 386 . Equivalent: ENGH 387 MCOM 387   CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Off Campus Experience
  
  • ENGL 399 - ShortTrec Program at the Upper Level

    1-8 credits



    The course will focus on selected topics offered as shortTRECs through the Center for Global Education.  Topics and location of the course will vary in accordance with student interest and faculty expertise.  May be repeated as topic changes.  Offering to be determined. Enrollment priority will be given to English Majors and Minors; and Sophomores. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Off Campus Experience, CLA-Writing Intensive

  
  • ENGL 400 - Senior Capstone in English

    4 credits
    The Capstone is the culmination of a student’s work in the major. It offers seniors the opportunity to integrate the skills and approaches they have learned in previous classes and use them to analyze and discuss works of literature selected by the faculty and to guide further research in an area of their concentration. In addition to discussing selected common texts, each student develops an extended research project drawing on the courses they have taken as part of their concentration. Students present their research to each other and faculty members throughout the term and produce an expanded research paper. Signature of instructor required for registration. Prerequisite: Approved major concentration. Open to seniors only. Offered Fall and Spring semesters. CLA-Capstone
  
  • ENGL 410 - Specialized Honors I

    0-8 credits
    CLA-Capstone
  
  • ENGL 411 - Specialized Honors II

    0-8 credits
    CLA-Capstone
  
  • ENV 150 - Great Challenges in Environmental Science

    4 credits
    Today’s environmental issues are some of the greatest challenges of our time.  In this introductory course, we will investigate the impact of human population growth and the energy sources we use on the Earth’s terrestrial and aquatic resources, environmental health and toxicology, global climate change, and biodiversity loss.  We will study the science behind each issue, and its historical foundation, and its political, social, and cultural dimensions.  Within this context, we will explore possible solutions.  We end the course considering how to create sustainable cities that support human societies while protecting the Earth’s resources. CLA-Breadth / Natural Science
  
  • ENV 160 - Principles of Physical Geology


    Examination of how our dynamic planet works from its deep interior to its oceanic, surficial, and atmospheric components to develop a scientific understanding of Earth as an interconnected environmental system.   Topics include plate tectonics, the processes that form the variety of rocks we see at the Earth’s surface, the development of the stunning variety of landscapes we see, and topics of contemporary interest including earthquakes, volcanism, erosion and landslides, glaciers and surface water, the nature of underground water resources, and interpreting topographic and geologic maps. Corequisite ENV 160L. CLA Breadth/Natural Science
  
  • ENV 265 - Energy and Environment

    4 credits
    This course investigates the sources and commercial production of energy, the energy needs of our society, and the impact of our energy use on the environment. The course encourages students to think critically about the harvest, use and conservation of energy. Through readings, problem solving, and project work, we will apply analytical and quantitative tools to assessing the efficiency and environmental impacts of various energy technologies. Enrollment Priority:  ESS Majors. Enrollment Limited to: Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors. Prerequisites: ESS 215   or PHYS 111  or PHYS 150  CLA-Breadth/Natural Science, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Quantitative
  
  • ENV 282 - Topics in Environmental Science:

    4 credits
    Occasional elective courses or interdisciplinary or disciplinary topics related to the environment. Maybe repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: Varies with topic, consult course listings or contact Program Director. Offering to be determined. CLA-Breadth/Natural Science
  
  • ENV 302 - Geographic Information Systems

    4 credits
    This course explores GIS (Geographic Information System) and related spatial analysis tools, which are used to elucidate the natural landscape and human modification of the earth’s surface. Students will acquire cartographic, ArcGIS, and remote sensing skills through case studies and individual research investigations. Enrollment priority: Given to majors in Biology, Environmental Studies, and Archaeology. Same as: BIOL 302  CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Quantitative
  
  • ENV 350 - Advanced Environmental Science

    4 credits
    This course explores the science behind environmental problems and solutions as students study current environmental issues in the context of their scientific (biological, chemical, geological) underpinnings.  We will address the role of scientific knowledge in understanding and resolving environmental problems, such as climate change, population growth, deforestation, extinction, air and water pollution, food production, and environmental health.  Laboratory includes field-based investigations as well as simulations and laboratory experiments through which students will gain the skills needed to develop as a scientist who can collect, analyze, and interpret environmental data. This Writing in the Major course also develops proficiencies in environmental communication skills, analysis of sources and arguments, research, and interpretation of technical reports and scientific literature.  Scientific writing and presentations are emphasized.  Pre-requisites: BIOL 150 ,CHEM 160  or CHEM 161 ENV 150 , and ENV 160 ,  and ENV 302    Co-requisite: ENV 350L. Course Offering : Every Fall. CLA - Breadth/Natural Science, CLA-Quantitative, CLA-Writing in the Major.
  
  • ENV 365 - Advanced GIS

    4 credits
    Advanced Geographic Information Systems expands on introductory GIS material by exploring topics in spatial statistics, programming, and multimedia. Research topics are studied within the context of team-based projects that support GIS analysis for community partners. The class takes a problem solving approach that emphasizes the importance of communication within teams and between students and community partners. As part of this approach, students meet with partners to set project goals and objectives, communicate with partners at critical stages of the project, present project results, and self-assess the strengths and weaknesses of the development process as well as the overall results. In order to link theory and practice, this course builds on the Community Based Learning (CBL) curriculum by connecting students to community partners that work globally, nationally, and locally. Student coursework in Advanced GIS includes a minimum 18-20 hours of work that directly supports our community partners, which also involves participation in off-campus activities.  Prerequisite: BIOL 302  or ENV 302 .  Same as: BIOL 365 .  Course Offering: Even Spring Term. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Quantitative.
  
  • ENV 382 - Advanced Topics in Environmental Science

    4 credits
    Occasional advanced elective courses on interdisciplinary or disciplinary topics related to environmental science. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: Varies with topic. Offering to be determined. CLA-Breadth/Natural Science
  
  • ENV 395 - Research in Environmental Science

    4 credits
    Independent study of a specific question in environmental science through laboratory or field research. Topics are chosen in consultation with an individual environmental science faculty member, who will supervise the research and will establish the number of credits prior to registration. Students are expected to be engaged in activities related to research project at least three hours per week for each credit hour earned. Weekly seminars in addition to regular meetings with research supervisor. Independent library work is required and credit for research is awarded on satisfactory completion of a research presentation and paper.  May be repeated for a total of eight credits. Course can be repeated for credit.  Prerequisites: ENV 350 
  
  • ENV 400 - Environmental Studies and Sustainability Capstone Seminar

    4 credits
    Seniors in the environmental studies program will come together to investigate environmental and sustainability issues from diverse perspectives using a variety of methodologies. The course will emphasize critical thinking and the ability to synthesize material from a broad variety of sources and disciplines to solve current problems related to the environment and sustainability. Prerequisite: ESS 210  and ESS 215 .  Offered annually. CLA-Capstone, CLA-Writing in the Major
  
  • ENV 410 - Specialized Honors I in Environmental Science

    4 credits
  
  • ENV 411 - Specialized Honors II in Environmental Science

    4 credits
  
  • EOS 101 - Seminar

    1 credits
    The purpose of this seminar is to provide an opportunity for the first year students to extend their summer program experience into the academic year. Topics will vary but will generally focus on exploring what it means to be human and a member of a community. Registration limited to students in the Educational Opportunities Scholar’s Program. CLA - Breadth / Natural Science, CLA - Writing in the Major, CLA - Quantitative
  
  • ESCI 150 - Great Challenges in Environmental Science

    4 credits
    Today’s environmental issues are some of the greatest challenges of our time.  In this introductory course, we will investigate the impact of human population growth and the energy sources we use on the Earth’s terrestrial and aquatic resources, environmental health and toxicology, global climate change, and biodiversity loss.  We will study the science behind each issue, and its historical foundation, and its political, social, and cultural dimensions.  Within this context, we will explore possible solutions.  We end the course considering how to create sustainable cities that support human societies while protecting the Earth’s resources. Same as: ENV 150 . CLA-Breadth / Natural Science
  
  • ESS 101 - Introduction to Environmental Geology

    4 credits
    Humans interact with Earth in many ways: we use natural resources, experience natural hazards, and design geoengineering techniques that modify natural processes.  In this course, we consider how a diversity of human activities affects our environment, and how a diversity of natural processes affects humans.  These topics will help us delve into the meaning of “sustainability” from the perspective of Earth scientists.  We will use the modern and historic New Jersey landscape as a case study, but we will also discuss topics such as mountaintop removal in the Appalachians, earthquakes in Indonesia, and water usage in the Western US.  Students will learn basic Earth science concepts, techniques for field scientists, methods of data analysis and presentation, and skills for effectively teasing apart complex environmental issues. Corequisite: ESS 101L   . CLA-Breadth/Natural Science
  
  • ESS 103 - Introduction to Climate Change

    4 credits
    Human caused climate change represents one of the great environmental challenges of our time. In this introductory course we will explore the science of global climate change and the projected consequences. Students will learn how the climate system works and what factors cause it to change across various time scales. We will investigate the structure, composition and circulation of the atmosphere and oceans; the greenhouse effect, the earth’s energy balance and the various relationships among these major componets of the planetary system. Scientists recognize that for millions of years the earth has been through many natural warming and cooling cycles. We are in a warming phase today. We’ll explore what is different about the process now relative to earlier periods in earth’s history. There is a crucial link between our various energy sources and global warming. We’ll investigate this link as it applies to carbon fuels, nuclear power and renewable alternatives such as solar and wind. We will also investigate how in the coming decades projected climate changes are likely to have an enormous impact on our planet’s people, cities and ecosystems. We’ll look at mitigation options such as clean energy alternatives, carbon capture, climate engineering and cap and trade policies. CLA-Breadth/Natural Science
  
  • ESS 104 - Toxic Chemicals: Great Challenges in Environ. Science

    4 credits
    Prior background in chemistry is not required. Meets: One hour class and three hour lab. Same as: CHEM 104 . Offered alternate spring semesters. CLA-Breadth/Natural Science, CLA-Quantitative
  
  • ESS 107 - Indigenous Environments: Literature and Film

    4 credits
    This course examines contemporary indigenous literature and film using an environmental lens to explore the ways these texts help us understand past and present issues like displacement, resource extraction, and toxic exposure. Texts include fiction and poetry by authors like Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, and Simon Ortiz as well as such films as Smoke Signals, The Return of Navajo Boy, and Zapatista. Although the focus will be mainly on Native American contexts, the course will also engage with global texts to consider how environmental injustice is perpetuated by globalization and transnational economic policies. Equivalent: ENGH 107   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
  
  • ESS 204 - Environmental Writing and Eco-Criticism

    4 credits
    This course introduces ecocriticism, the study of literature and the environment, alongside American environmental writing. With readings ranging widely from traditional nature writing to multi-ethnic U.S. fiction, the course addresses questions such as: How does environmental writing both reflect and shape values and attitudes about the human relationship with our environment? What kinds of questions does ecocriticism raise and how do different ecocritical strains approach literary, philosophical, and ethical questions in different ways? How is our understanding of the physical environment impacted by discourses of nature, race, gender, class, and location? Equivalent: ENGH 204   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ESS 206 - Nature Writing

    4 credits
    This course examines key texts in the tradition of writing about the natural world. Focusing on creative non-fiction by twentieth/twenty-first century U.S. writers, as well as some fiction and poetry, the course explores such questions as: What is “nature”? What is the role of writing in the human relationship with the environment? How do race, gender, and class impact perspectives on nature?  In this blended literature/creative writing course, students will use close reading strategies along with an examination of historical / biographical context to better understand these texts’ contributions to nature writing and then write their own creative non-fiction. Equivalent to: ENGH 206   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Diversity US
  
  • ESS 210 - Environment, Society and Sustainability

    4 credits
    This course examines the relationship of human society to the natural environment from the perspective of sustainability, defined as meeting the needs of the present generation while preserving the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, we will consider how values, paradigms, policies, technologies, and their intricate interactions determine our current unsustainable relationship with nature, and we will explore proposals for moving society in an environmentally sustainable direction. Offered Fall Semesters CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Breadth/Social Science
  
  • ESS 215 - Environmental Science

    4 credits
    This course explores the science behind environmental problems and solutions. Students study current environmental issues in the context of their scientific (biological, chemical, geological) underpinnings, while alos considering the political, social and cultural dimensions of these issues. The course also addresses the role of scientific knowledge in understanding and resolving environmental problems, such as climate change, population growth, deforestation, extinction, air and water pollution, food production, and environmental health. These topics are explored through readings, films, student writing, research and field trips. Signature of instructor required for registration. Same as: BIOL 215 . Offered annually. CLA-Breadth/Natural Science, CLA-Writing in the Major
  
  • ESS 265 - Energy and Environment

    4 credits
    This course investigates the sources and commercial production of energy, the energy needs of our society, and the impact of our energy use on the environment. The course encourages students to think critically about the harvest, use and conservation of energy. Through readings, problem solving, and project work, we will apply analytical and quantitative tools to assessing the efficiency and environmental impacts of various energy technologies.
    Enrollment Priority:  ESS Majors. Enrollment Limited to: Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors. Prerequisites: ESS 215  or PHYS 111  or PHYS 150 . CLA-Breadth/Natural Science, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Quantitative
  
  • ESS 271 - Environmental History

    4 credits
    This course explores some of the major issues in the history of human interaction with and concern for the environment, from ancient times to today. We will examine changing notions of “nature” and “wilderness”; key moments in the history of human impact on the environment and in the history of ecology; and the origins and development of modern environmentalist movements. Alternate years.
  
  • ESS 281 - Topics in Environmental Humanities

    2-4 credits
    Occasional elective courses on interdisciplinary or disciplinary topics related to the environment. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: Varies with topic. Contact program director. Offering to be determined. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ESS 282 - Topics in Environmental Science:

    4 credits
    Occasional elective courses or interdisciplinary or disciplinary topics related to the environment. Maybe repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: Varies with topic, consult course listings or contact Program Director. Offering to be determined. CLA-Breadth/Natural Science
  
  • ESS 283 - Topics: Environment & Society

    2-4 credits
    Occasional elective courses on environmental topics that focus on social science issues and perspectives. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisites vary with topic. Information is available from ESS website. Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: Varies with topic. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Breadth/Social Science
  
  • ESS 300 - Research in Environmental Studies

    4 credits
    An opportunity for upper-level environmental studies students to design and execute independent projects under the supervision of a faculty member. Interested students must make arrangements with a faculty mentor before registration. The amount of credit will established at time of registration. May be repeated for up to 12 credits, but no more than 8 credits of ESS+196 combined with ESS 410 will count toward the major. Prerequisite: Vary with the research topic. Signature of instructor required for registration.
  
  • ESS 302 - Geographic Information Systems

    4 credits
    This course explores GIS (Geographic Information System) and related spatial analysis tools, which are used to elucidate the natural landscape and human modification of the earth’s surface. Students will acquire cartographic, ArcGIS, and remote sensing skills through case studies and individual research investigations. Enrollment priority: Given to majors in Biology, Environmental Studies, and Archaeology. Same as: BIOL 302 . CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Quantitative
  
  • ESS 305 - Medical Geography

    4 credits
    Medical Geography investigates the intersections of health and place.  The objectives of the course are to illuminate the importance of local knowledge for public health, to connect issues in health and wellbeing across scales, and to demonstrate the ways that geographic methods are relevant in health sciences, societal sciences, and policy arenas.  Exploring and uncovering the presence, persistence and sources of health inequalities within the U.S. and across countries involves a semester long discussion of the impact of identity, the state, and global organizations on individual, family and community health.  In order to link theory and practice, this course builds on the Community Based Learning (CBL) curriculum bu connecting students to community partners that work globally, nationally, and locally, and whose missions are to protect and promote human health and wellbeing.  Student coursework in medical Geography over the semester includes a minimum 18-20 hours of work that directly supports our community partners, which also involves some participation in off-campus activities.  Same as PH 305 .  CLA-Breadth/Social Science, Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA- Community Based Learning, CLA-Diversity U.S. and international/Transnational
  
  • ESS 307 - Environmental Justice Literature

    4 credits
    This course investigates the ways U.S. literary/media works have responded to environmental injustice, the unequal distribution of environmental hazards, resources, and power among race, gender, class and national groups.  Since environmental injustice has a disproportionate impact on women, low-income populations, and people of color, this course examines the ways a wide range of multi-ethnic texts–from comic books to plays, music videos too novels–represent the environment in order to understand how the exploitation of nature is linked to the exploitation of people.  We explore literary responses to urgent environmental justice issues like globalization, working conditions, food, factory, farming , water rights, health equity, toxic bodies, urban degradation, and the mining of natural resources.  Throughout the course, we will consider the ways in which environmental injustices reflect and construct ideologies of racism, sexism, classism, and nationalism.  Cross-list: ENGL 307   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ESS 309 - Food, Justice, and U.S. Literature

    4 credits
    This course examines the intersection of food, justice, and twentieth-century U.S. literature in order to understand how ideas about food’s biological, environmental, and social meanings have shaped and been shaped by traditions of American writing and discourses of race, class, gender, and citizenship. Using a broad range of creative, informational, and critical texts, students explore urgent issues like farmworkers’ rights, food insecurity, animal ethics, advertising, cultural foodways, globalization, and food justice/sovereignty. This is a Community-Based Learning course that combines academic and experiential learning as students investigate local food needs and participate in local efforts promoting food justice. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  or ESS 210   Eqivalent: ENGH 309   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Civic Engagement, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ESS 330 - Topics in Economics and the Environment

    4 credits
    A consideration of specific topics pertaining to the relationship of economic activities and the natural environment. Generally, one major topic will be considered each time the course is offered. Possible topics include: sustainable development; global warming and peak oil; carbon trading, taxation and subsidies as environmental policies; and consumption, well-being, the economy and the environment. May be repeated for credit with different topics. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: ECON+101 or ESS+215 Same as: ECON+330 CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
  
  • ESS 331 - Archaeology and Sustainable Culture

    4 credits
    Through Archaeology scholars reconstruct, examine, query and confront the record of past human-environment interactions. Placing these interactions in an historical context brings a long-term perspective to bear on contemporary issues. This course examines critically this record of human adaptations through time and across the globe with a particular focus on the ancient Americas. The view of archaeology is that the experiences of these ancient societies offer useful lessons about past choices which should affect the choices made today. Enrollment priority: Enrollment priority given to majors or minors in Anthropology Prerequisite: ANTH+103 or 104 or permission of instructor Offered Spring semester in alternate years. Same as:  ANTH 331 ​  CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ESS 332 - Wildlife and Culture

    4 credits
    This class is a cross-cultural exploration of the ways that people think about and interact with wild animals. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources, we will ponder abstract philosophical questions like “What is an animal?”, “What is natural?” and “What is human?” As an ESS course, however, this class will pay special attention to the ways that different perspectives on wild animals influence larger global concerns, such as biodiversity, invasive species, animal conservation, and animal rights. Upon completion of this class, students should: 1) possess a broad knowledge of the plasticity of thought and practices relating to wild animals that exists within particular societies, between different societies, and across time; 2) understand the important role that wild animals play in helping human beings define and understand themselves; and 3) appreciate the value of cross-cultural research methodologies.  Enrollment restricted to:  Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors. Pre-requisites: ANTH 104  is recommended. CLA-Breadth/Social Science, CLA-Diversity International
  
  • ESS 333 - Inuit Environmental Dilemmas

    4 credits
     The Arctic is experiencing rapid environmental change due largely to human activities in the south. Three of the processes that are creating the most dramatic changes in Arctic ecosystems are the transnational flow of industrial toxins, climate change, and intensified resource exploration and extraction. This course focuses on how these three processes are affecting the livelihood of roughly 160,000 Inuit living in Siberia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland. By focusing on Inuit strategies and engagements, this course will dispel enduring misconceptions of northern peoples as passive victims of outside forces while simultaneously examining the considerable challenges that they face in maintaining control of their lives and land.  Ultimately, I hope this course raises awareness about how our own lifestyles are exacerbating environmental injustices and culture change in the Far North. Same as: ANTH 333
    Recommended: ANTH 104  CLA-Breadth/Social Science
  
  • ESS 344 - Environmental Aesthetics

    4 credits
    An exploration of questions centered at the intersection of aesthetics and environmental philosophy. Of primary concern are the relation between the aesthetic appreciation of nature and the aesthetic appreciation of art; the roles played by scientific knowledge, emotional engagement and imagination in the aesthetic appreciation of nature; the thesis that all of wild nature has positive value; and the theoretical role aesthetic considerations play in the rationale behind environmental conservation. Same as: PHIL 344 . Offered in alternate years. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
  
  • ESS 381 - Advanced Topics in Environmental Humanities

    4 credits
    Occasional advanced elective courses on interdisciplinary or disciplinary topics related to the environment. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: Varies with topic. Contact program director. Offering to be determined. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  
  • ESS 382 - Advanced Topics in Environmental Science

    4 credits
    Occasional advanced elective courses on interdisciplinary or disciplinary topics related to environmental science. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: Varies with topic. Offering to be determined. CLA-Breadth/Natural Science
  
  • ESS 383 - Advanced Topics: Environment and Society

    2-4 credits
    Occasional elective courses on environmental topics that focus on social science issues and perspectives. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisites vary with topic. Information is available from ESS website. Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: Varies with topic. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Breadth/Social Science
  
  • ESS 400 - Environmental Studies and Sustainability Capstone Seminar

    4 credits
    Seniors in the environmental studies program will come together to investigate environmental and sustainability issues from diverse perspectives using a variety of methodologies. The course will emphasize critical thinking and the ability to synthesize material from a broad variety of sources and disciplines to solve current problems related to the environment and sustainability. Prerequisite: ESS 215  and ESS 210 . Offered annually. CLA-Capstone, CLA-Writing in the Major
  
  • ESS 410 - Specialized Honors I

    0-8 credits
  
  • ESS 411 - Specialized Honors II

    0-8 credits
  
  • FILM 101 - Introduction to Film Analysis

    4 credits
    How do films invite us to emotionally identify with characters? How has cinema cultivated or challenged gendered and racialized ways of seeing? How does economics of the film industry influence the form and content of movies? Students will have an opportunity to engage with such critical debates within film studies and thereby give students the tools to closely analyze and write about cinema. In addition to working with excerpts, each week students watch and discuss in class a new feature-length film. Primary texts include a range of international films—from early silent shorts to more recent feature-length productions by directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Agnes Varda. Equivalent: ENGH 120   CLA-Breadth/Arts
  
  • FILM 201 - Film History and Theory

    4 credits
    How did film emerge as one of the most powerful means of communication and artistic expression in the modern era?  To what extent have film directors from Fritz Lang to Yasujiro Ozu, cinematic movements from Neorealism to Third Cinema, and film industries from Hollywood to Bollywood, shaped cultures of film production and reception globally?  What is film’s relationship to other media and how do we understand its status in the contemporary, digital era?  This course will engage with such questions as it introduces students to the history of film form.  Each week, we will analyze and learn to historically situate one or two feature-length films.  In conjunction with learning methods of historical analysis, students will also be exposed to philosophical and theoretical prospectives (including formalist, psychoanalytical, feminist, post-colonial, etc.) that have emerged over the years and led to the consolidation of vocabulary for film studies.  By the end of class, students will have learned the skills and language needed to develop a historically sensitive and theoretically nuanced interpretation of cinematic works. Same as: ENGH 221 .  CLA-Breadth/Humanities
 

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