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2020-2021 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2020/Spring 2021) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ENGH 301 - Advanced Topics in Literary Study 4 credits
Advanced study of particular literary subjects, topics, problems, or methodologies. Might also focus on an author or group of authors, a genre, or a critical approach. Topic varies with instructor and semester. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 Equivalent:
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ENGH 302 - Gender and American Literature 4 credits
This course investigates literary representations of gender and sexuality in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Through encounters with novels, graphic fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as some visual art and films, students will consider provocative issues like the relationship between gender/sex and power, the links between violence and inequality, and the connections between art and politics. Attending to gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality, religion, and environment as categories of analysis, students will reflect on beauty and the body, immigration and citizenship, feminism and women’s movements, home and identity, and creativity and social change. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 303 - Gender and Contemporary Anglophone Literature 4 credits
This course examines late twentieth-century and early twenty-first century Anglophone fiction that theorizes the relationship between gender and the social and economic processes that have come to be known as ‘globalization.’ How do writers like Tsitsi Dangarembga, Arundhati Roy, Hanif Kureishi, and Mohsin Hamid depict the production of masculinities and femininities in the context of growing economic inequality within and between nations? How are their literary explorations in conversation with the philosophical perspectives offered by Immanuel Wallerstein, Anne McClintock, Joan Acker, Barbara Ehrenreich and others? Finally, what does contemporary Anglophone fiction—primarily literature, but also film— bring to current debates about social inequality as well as to longstanding questions about the relationship between aesthetics and politics? Prerequisite: ENGH 150 , WGST 101 Equivalent: WGST 303 CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Diversity International
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ENGH 304 - Sexuality and Gender in 19th-Century Literature and Culture 4 credits
Through reading of nineteenth-century novels, poetry, prose, theoretical texts, and visual images, this course will explore the complex and shifting understandings of gender and sexuality in the period. Among the topics considered will be the construction of heterosexuality and heterosexual marriage; marriage resistance and the ‘new women’; constructions of dominant and deviant masculinities and femininities; homosocial and homosexual love and homosexual panics; prostitution and the disciplining of female sexuality, suffrage and the campaigns for women’s autonomy; as well as the codes, narratives, and images through which these are represented. The course will also ask how gender and sexuality have been deployed by twentieth/twenty-first century critics as lenses for reading the literature and culture of this period and how those approaches have shifted over time in dialogue with other critical approaches. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 Equivalent:, WGST 304 CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Diversity International
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ENGH 305 - Advanced Studies in Ethnic American Literature 4 credits
This course offers intensive study in American ethnic literatures at the advanced level: African American, Asian American, Latino/a, American Indian, Jewish, and Caribbean literatures, among others. Instructors may select particular emphases for these areas of study, which can include a focus on chronological or thematic approaches or on the development of a particular genre, such as poetry, novel, short fiction, autobiography, or drama. Central to the study of these literatures is a consideration of the unique aspects of ethnic cultures in the United States that inform various American ethic literary traditions. Course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 Equivalent: CLA-Diversity US
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ENGH 306 - Writers on Writing 4 credits
In addition to novels, poems, plays, and essays, most major literary figures, at some point in their careers, have also reflected on the art of writing. This course focuses on what authors have had to say about their craft. Texts ranging from critical studies to book reviews, interviews, and letters will be read alongside primary texts by those same authors, as we try to learn from the masters, both in theory and in practice. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 307 - Essays, Letters, Memoirs, and Meditations: Reading Nonfiction Prose 4 credits
In this course, students will explore various forms of the genre of nonfiction prose from letter to essay, travel writing to confessional, and memoir to meditation. The course provides an historical overview of the various forms and their emergence as an area of scholarly interest, and explores the ways nonfiction writers create narrative personae, subtly persuade readers to their perspective, and help to compose the identities of the peoples and cultures about whom they write. Authors may include Montaigne, Addison, Hazlitt, Butler, Steel, Johnson, Lamb, Emerson, Thoreau, Orwell, Mary Kingsley, D.H. Lawrence, Paul Theroux, Adrienne Rich, Joan Didion, Richard Rodriguez, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and Bill Bryson. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 308 - Gothic 4 credits
This course examines the Gothic – a genre which explores the macabre, the supernatural, the uncanny. Through a series of dark tales that flirt with the supernatural, the course tracks the Gothic’s recurrent features and themes, asking how and why it manages to speak the “unspeakable.” Why does the Gothic emerge with particular intensity at times of cultural crisis? How and why might it function as a vehicle for social critique? Throughout the course, contemporary critical approaches to the Gothic provide students with a variety of tools for reading these texts. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 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 Equivalent: ESS 309 CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Civic Engagement, CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 311 - Environmental Justice Literature 4 credits
This course investigates the ways literary works have responded to environmental injustice in the U.S., focusing especially on the connection between environmental and social oppression. Since environmental injustice has a disproportionate impact on women, low-income populations, and people of color, this course examines the ways multi-ethnic literary texts represent the environment in order to understand how the exploitation of nature is linked to the exploitation of people. Students will explore literary responses to environmental justice issues like globalization, working conditions, food, factory farming, water rights, health equity, toxic waste, and the mining of natural resources. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 or ESS 210
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ENGH 312 - The Global City in Modern and Contemporary Fiction 4 credits
Speaking of the rapid urbanization of our world over the last forty-fifty years, Mike Davis points out that cities are growing by 60 million people per year. What is urbanization and how might we understand the growing cities of our time? This class will contextualize contemporary urbanization by looking at how twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts represent urban centers from London to Lagos. Writers may include Jacob Riis, Virginia Woolf, Rohinton Mistry, Frantz Fanon, Mike Davis, and David Harvey. Students will consider how their writing is in conversation with films theorizing modernization and urbanization—from Modern Times to District 9. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 313 - 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: ENGH 150 or ENGH 120 or Instructor Approval. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
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ENGH 318 - Old English 4 credits
In this course students will achieve a basic proficiency in the English language of the 7th to 11th centuries—the language of Beowulf—as well as an overview of the varieties of texts written in Old English, and will be initiated into the study of Anglo-Saxon culture. The syllabus includes an introduction to the grammar, reading of basic prose, and ultimately poetry. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 322 - Thinking about Genre through Film 4 credits
What is a genre? How do assumptions shaped by genre inform our interpretation of literary and film texts and structure our experiences of those narratives? This course will explore these questions through reading film and genre theory and through viewing classic and contemporary films in such genres as film noir, melodrama, romance, and the western. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 323 - Cinema and Social Justice 4 credits
What is the role of cinema in social justice struggles? How does political climate affect cinematic culture and vice versa? What is the significance of independent media, and how do we understand the relationship between media and democracy? This class will address some of these questions by closely analyzing and contextualizing films by Errol Morris, Michael Moore, Vittorio de Sica, Ken Loach, and others. Drawing on film and media theory, students will examine films’ political claims and assess their social implications. One of the eventual goals will be to imagine what a revolutionary cinema might look like in the era of the Internet. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 or ENGH 120 or FILM 101 Equivalent: CLA-Diversity International
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ENGH 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 after 1900. The course will think simultaneously about the evolution of feminist thought in the twentieth century 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. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 or WGST 101 Equivalent Course: WGST 301 CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 325 - Gender and Film 4 credits
In what ways has film inspired theories about the social construction of femininity and masculinity? In turn, how has aesthetic and social theory analyzed gendered bodies, subjectivities and relations within film? How, moreover, do structures of social inequality affect film production and distribution? This class will introduce you to film as well as film theory revolving around gender and its intersections with race, class, and sexuality. Primary texts will include a variety of international films by twentieth-century and contemporary directors like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jane Campion, Todd Haynes, Celine Sciamma, Laura Poitras, and others. In conjunction with these primary texts, you will read a range of film theory— from feminist and psychoanalytical to political-economic and formalist approaches. By the end of class, you should ideally be able to closely analyze film and thereby engage in debates about the relationship between aesthetics and social justice. This class counts towards the Film and Media Studies minor. Equivalent Courses: CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 326 - Cinema and the Critique of Capitalism 4 credits
Introduces a range of international films from the 20st and 21st centuries that highlight the intersections between cinema and capitalism. Students have the opportunity to analyze prominent cinematic works—from Modern Times to Parasite— in conjunction with the writings of Marx, Marxists (from Angela Davis to David Harvey), and scholars of “racial capitalism” (from Stuart Hall to Robin D.G. Kelly). Exposes students, through lecture and discussion, to the skills needed to approach film through the lens of critical theory, and to think—through film—about global capitalism and its effects on economic, racial, and gender hierarchies. Equivalent to FILM 326 . Prerequisite: ENGH 150 or ENGH 120 or FILM 101 or ENGH 221 or FILM 201 CLA-Diversity International
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ENGH 330 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop 4 credits
A workshop with weekly round-table editing sessions, offering writing and reading assignments in established and innovative nonfiction forms, this course emphasizes expressive writing-the personal and informal essay, autobiography and biography, the character sketch, vignette, narrative, and prose lyric. CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 331 - Nonfiction Writing Workshop: Articles 4 credits
A workshop with weekly round-table editing sessions, offering writing and reading assignments in established and innovative nonfiction forms, this course emphasizes the factual article as a literary form. Students will gain practice in assembling facts (research and interviewing procedures) and in shaping informative, lively articles, editorials, and critical reviews. Equivalent: CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 332 - Short Fiction Workshop 4 credits
A workshop with weekly round-table editing sessions and discussion of student manuscripts, this course emphasizes exercises in characterization, setting, dialogue, and narration. Students will incorporate these elements of fiction into complete stories by the end of the course. CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Breadth/Arts
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ENGH 333 - Poetry Workshop 4 credits
A workshop with weekly round-table editing sessions, this course emphasizes practice in elements of the poet’s craft, focusing particularly on the language of emotion and the uses of metaphor. Students explores traditional verse patterns and work on developing their own imaginative perception and style. CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 340 - Topics in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication 4 credits
This course focuses on theoretical exploration of specific topics in rhetoric, writing, or communication. Examples include feminist rhetorics, political rhetoric and communication, argumentation and advocacy, the role of language in advertising. Topic varies by semester. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 341 - Theories of Authorship 4 credits
Questions of authorship have challenged scholars throughout history. From discussion of the various authors of Genesis and who wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare, to concerns about plagiarism and fabrication of data, the topic raises questions at the heart of academia: what constitutes creativity? What do we mean by “originality”? Can there even be such a thing as an “author” in these postmodern times? What are the ethical responsibilities of authors? What are the implications of plagiarism detection software and honor codes? The forms of collaboration made possible by the Internet and required in business and the multi-authored articles in fields of science and medicine provide another level of complexity. In this course, students will explore the broad topic of authorship and use theory to interrogate specific cases where authorship or originality was in question. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 , ENGH 140
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ENGH 342 - Theory and Practice of Media Communication 4 credits
Introduces 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. Also introduces students to Associated Press style and basic media/news ethics. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 344 - Rhetorics of the Workplace/Professional Communication 4 credits
This course takes a critical approach to the discourses people use at work. Students will identify, analyze, and critique particular forms of talk and writing, paying particular attention to their role in enforcing distinctions of class, power, and mobility, and other economic forces. We will examine the changing rhetoric of work in the modern era, for example, taking into consideration the texts that emerged from the union movement of the nineteenth century to the present, the campaign for workplace safety, or the relationships between rhetorics of work and feminism. Other topics may include work in the context of neoliberal and globalizing forces. We will examine the operations of languages that characterize writing in a range of professions including legal, medical, corporate, pharmaceutical, and financial. Rhetorical and literacy theorists such as Burke, Brandt, Rose, or Olbrechts-Tyteca will frame our analysis. Students will conduct original research into a particular workplace or set of discourses. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 345 - 19th-Century Rhetorics from the Margins 4 credits
The nineteenth-century United States gave birth to many of the social and political movements that are familiar to us today, including those advocating for the rights of workers, women, African Americans, and native peoples. The purpose of this course is to open up textual study of the period by examining the ways that people who would not have “counted” in fact creatively and persuasively asserted their own agency and advocated for change. We will study genres such as speeches and public address, newspapers and periodicals, and poetry and fiction that spoke to their political and social contexts. Students will learn to historicize texts and to analyze them using some key concepts from rhetorical theory. We will also spend time in on-campus and regional archives, locating original primary sources and considering the role of the archive in constructing the past. The course will culminate in students’ own original research project. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 346 - Blogs, Tweets, and Social Media: The Practice of Digital Communication 4 credits
From a grounding in rhetoric and discourse community theory, this course will explore the relationship between audience, purpose and text in a cross section of electronic formats, including tweets, blogs, websites, and various social media and curation sites. Students will develop criteria for evaluating each form of writing, find examples, and assess what makes them effective (including questions of ethics and responsibility). They will also consider the ways individuals and organizations use social media to create and maintain their brand and reach specific audiences. Using these skills, students will shape and curate their own online identities by designing and creating or revising a personal website (using Wordpress), LinkedIn Profile, and blog, and using Twitter and Instagram to build a following. Students will also work in teams to design social media campaigns for selected campus clubs and organizations, learning how to identify and create appropriate voice, tone, and content and how to use available software (including Hootsuite) to schedule posts that maximize outreach, and track performance. Equivalent:, MCOM 346 Offrered Fall semesters. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 347 - Interpreting and Making the News 4 credits
An exploration of the creation and impact of news media and the tensions produced by recent shifts in news creation and distribution. Drawing on the latest research from the fields of journalism studies and media studies, we will examine topics including the evolution of journalism revenue models and the economic crisis in the media, the debate over how best to control the spread of misinformation in the media ecosystem, the role played by algorithm-driven media platforms in determining news delivery, and the struggle for control over local news media. This class will focus mainly on the US, with some comparative discussion of other news systems. Equivalent: MCOM 347
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ENGH 349 - Writing across the Curriculum and Peer-to-Peer Mentoring: Theory and Practice 1-4 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. May repeat for credit.
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ENGH 350 - Medieval or Renaissance Literature: Advanced Studies 4 credits
This course offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from the Middle Ages and/or Renaissance. Such topics/authors as: the 14th century, allegory, medieval/Renaissance drama, Renaissance poetry or prose are possible. Includes an introduction to the use of specialized critical and secondary materials pertinent to the topic. As a writing intensive course, this course asks students to develop their literary critical writing through assignments that will ask students to put their own analysis of the materials in dialog with the critical traditions associated with the topic. CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 351 - British Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Advanced Studies 4 credits
This course offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from the nineteenth century in Britain.Topics might include Romantic or Victorian poetry, the development of the novel, reading public and the rise of popular literature, as well as a particular author or group of authors, Austen, Dickens, the Baronets, Eliot, Tennyson, Browning. The course might also explore literary responses to and representations of the French Revolution, industrialization, secularization, empire, or women’s emancipation. As a writing intensive course, this course asks students to develop their literary critical writing through assignments that place primary texts in dialogue with the work of literary and cultural critics. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 Equivalent: CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 355 - Transatlantic Literature: Advanced Studies 4 credits
This course examines the literary and cultural exchanges between Great Britain, Europe, Africa, and the Americas that shaped the development of both British and American literature. Reading work by authors who lived in multiple countries, or drew influences and formative experiences from a life of travel, exploration, slavery, or forced migration, it grapples with such questions as: How have national histories shaped our understanding of literature? How does the history of transatlantic exchange inform the way we read and understand “national” literatures? And how have contemporary voices reflected upon this complex and still resonant legacy? Authors may include Aphra Behn, Olaudah Equiano, Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, Sam Selvon, and Jamaica Kincaid. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 356 - Anglophone Literature Post-1900: Advanced Studies 4 credits
This course offers in-depth study of global English-language literatures of the twentieth-and twenty-first centuries. Topics include: Globalization and World-Systems analysis; Old and New Imperialisms; transnational conceptions of race, gender, sexuality; the relationship between literature and global audio-visual media. Authors may include: Jamaica Kincaid, Kazuo Ishiguro, Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, and others. As a writing intensive course, this course asks students to develop their writing through assignments that strengthen their research skills and their abilities to engage in literary-critical debates.
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ENGH 357 - Prose Fiction Pre-1900: Advanced Studies 4 credits
This course offers in depth study of prose fiction before 1900. It focus on the history of the novel in either the United States or Britain or on a genre or form: captivity narrative, romance, realism, Bildungsroman, sensation fiction, epistolary novel. It might also examine the ways in which the novel has engaged in social, cultural, or political questions, such as slavery, suffrage, democracy, the rise of the middle class, the development of working class culture and identity, sexuality, literacy and reading. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 358 - The Novel in the 20th Century/Modernism and Postmodernism 4 credits
This course explores representative narratives of the modernist movement and its postmodernist extensions. Texts will be drawn from US, British, and Anglophone traditions, but may also include works in translation from Europe and elsewhere. Authors considered could include Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Beckett, Platonov, Lu Xun, Dos Passos, Stein, Pynchon, Ballard, Coetzee, Acker, Morrison, and Butler. Students should also expect to encounter and think through theories of modernism and postmodernism. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 361 - Marx, Nietzsche, Freud 4 credits
This course explores three of the most influential, revolutionary, and controversial thinkers of the past two hundred years: Karl Marx (1818-1883), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Much of the course is devoted to a close reading of each thinker’s works. We examine what each has to say about human self-understanding, value, history, and time, and try to develop some familiarity with the terminology each developed to explain his new account of human beings and the worlds they create for themselves and each other. Contemporary relevance is also highlighted: Marx for the ongoing crisis of capitalism; Nietzsche for a world dramatically divided over values and beliefs; Freud for his reflections on the psychic costs of living in modern civilized society. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 362 - Philosophy and Literature 4 credits
Why would a philosopher turn to a work of literature to explain him or herself? And why does literature so often deploy philosophical questions, concerns, and motifs? Is there something philosophical about literature? Or something literary about philosophy? This class will address these questions through a series of writings that illuminate key points of intersection between literature and philosophy. Authors may include Sophocles, Plato, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Locke, Rousseau, Emerson, Dickinson, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, James, Du Bois, Fanon, Kafka, Pynchon, Sontag, Coetzee, and Whitehead. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 363 - Law and Literature 4 credits
This course considers the intersection of law and literature from an historical as well as a philosophical perspective. How are legal practices and the rhetorical logic that we associate with law represented in particular works of 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 will address these questions through a series of historically specific focal points that demonstrate the shared terrain of literary and legal discourse.
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ENGH 364 - Intensive Reading of a Single Text Pre-1900 2-4 credits
This course allows sustained concentration on a single text from a period before 1900. In some semesters, the text itself will be a long and difficult one (e.g., Milton’s Paradise Lost, Eliot’s Middlemarch, James’ Portrait of a Lady). 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). Prerequisite: ENGH 150 Equivalent:
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ENGH 366 - Advanced Topics in Criticism and Theory 4 credits
This course offers advanced study of a specific school, area, critic(s) or question in contemporary criticism or theory. Possible topics include: postmodernism, queer theory, post-colonial theory, cultural studies, video game studies, or theories of reading. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 370 - Advanced Pre-1900 Literary Studies: Seminar 4 credits
This seminar offers close and focused study, engaged discussion, independent but shared research, and peer-supported writing among a small group of students under the mentorship of a professor. The seminar provides an opportunity for advanced exploration of a topic, text, author, or problem in literature written before 1900. Topics may include Allegory, The Fourteenth Century, Literature of Disease, Poets and Pragmatists, the American Renaissance, the Black Atlantic, American Religious Narrative, Victorian Readers and Reading, or The New Woman. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 and ENGH 210
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ENGH 371 - Major Pre-1900 Author: Seminar 4 credits
This seminar offers close and focused study, engaged discussion, independent but shared research, and peer-supported writing among a small group of students under the mentorship of a professor. The seminar provides an opportunity for advanced exploration of an author from a period before 1900. Topics may include Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain Poet, Shakespeare, Austen, the Brontes. Melville, James. Course is repeatable when the topic varies. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 + ENGH 210 Equivalent:
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ENGH 374 - Major Author, Post-1900: Seminar 4 credits
This seminar offers close and focused study, engaged discussion, independent but shared research, and peer-supported writing among a small group of students under the mentorship of a professor. The seminar provides an opportunity for advanced exploration of an individual twentieth- or twenty-first-century British, American, or Anglophone author. Authors may include: James Joyce, W.E.B. Du Bois, Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison Prerequisite: ENGH 150 and ENGH 210
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ENGH 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. Signature of instructor required for registration. CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Breadth/Humanities
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ENGH 384 - Studies in British Literature: London Literature 4 credits
For this course, students become London flaneurs, walking the streets and interpreting the signs of the city as if it were a text. Readings include a range of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century writings, among them Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Waugh’s Vile Bodies, and Ali’s Brick Lane. By paying close attention to both text and context, students achieve a lively appreciation of the works in and of themselves and as part of the cultural life of London. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
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ENGH 385 - Media in the United Kingdom 4 credits
An overview of the evolution of British media and its relationship with society in the U.K. The course explores how political, cultural, commercial, regulatory, and editorial issues shape the media manufactured and consumed in Britain. Will include study of the BBC, other broadcasting and entertainment entities, British newspapers and magazines, advertising, and British cinema. Guest speakers from these industries and several field trips will be part of the course. Equivalent: MCOM 385 Offered every Fall semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
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ENGH 386 - Introduction to Media Industries 4 credits
Offers students an introduction to the critical perspectives that are central to the analysis of communication industries, including print, broadcast, new media, film, and sound-based media. Provides students with the skills to explain how and why media institutions emerge, sustain themselves, grow into monopolies, shift content priorities, and interact with both consumers and their own labor force. We will also look at the financial, ethical and regulatory structures that guide these industries. Given the focus of the semester, particular attention will be paid to media companies based in New York City. Junior or Senior Standing Equivalent: , MCOM 386 CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Off Campus Experience
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ENGH 387 - New York Semester on Communications and Media Colloquium 4 credits
The course studies the institutions and operations of advertising, communications, public relations, publishing, and media and their roles in contemporary society. We will also explore the history and ethical dimensions of the principles and practices integral to media, publishing and communications. A key component of this course is the opportunity to delve into the practical day-to-day operations of Madison Avenue, Silicon Alley, and the related institutions located in New York City. Central to the course are talks by guest speakers drawn from all fields of advertising, communications, public relations, publishing, and media. The class will also visit advertising agencies, public relations firms, digital and traditional media organizations, and publishers. Additional related activities may include attending related events, screenings, readings, museum visits, and seminars in the International Radio and Television Society and the Center for Communication. Speakers, field trips and events, and student projects explore the contemporary communication issues, such as the concentration of media ownership and conglomeration, media literacy, the increasing democratization of the information environment, and changes in the media landscape. Equivalent:, MCOM 387 CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Off Campus Experience
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ENGH 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. CLA-Off Campus Experience
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ENGH 400 - Senior Capstone 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: ENGH 150 and ENGH 210 CLA-Capstone
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ENGH 410 - Specialized Honors I 0-4 credits
CLA-Capstone
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ENGH 411 - Specialized Honors II 0-4 credits
CLA-Capstone
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 .
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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
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ENV 410 - Specialized Honors I in Environmental Science 4 credits
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ENV 411 - Specialized Honors II in Environmental Science 4 credits
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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ESS 300 - Independent Study in Environmental Studies and Sustainability 1-4 credits
Individualized instruction, topic chosen by student and faculty member. Requires an approved individualized instruction request form. Course is repeatable. Prerequisite: Vary with the research topic. Signature of instructor required for registration.
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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
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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
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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: CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
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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
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ESS 315 - Environmental Justice 4 credits
Explores the relationship between human identity and the environment. Emerging from civil rights activism of the 1960s, environmental justice as a movement originally sought to bring to light the unequal burden of exposure to toxics in minority communities and among farmworkers. Since that time, environmental justice has diversified into inter- and cross-disciplinary academic inquiry, legal and institutional protections, and an expanded international human rights agenda. This course surveys the history of environmental justice, and investigates both academic and activist techniques aimed at eliminating persistent, structural inequalities in access to safe and healthy environments for all. In order to link theory and practice, this
course builds on both the Community Based Learning (CBL) and Freedom Schools curricula by connecting students to community partners that work locally, and whose missions are to protect and promote human health and wellbeing. Student coursework in Environmental Justice 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ESS 410 - Specialized Honors I 0-8 credits
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ESS 411 - Specialized Honors II 0-8 credits
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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
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FILM 201 - Film History and Theory 4 credits
Introduces the history of film form. Teaches how to historically situate one or two feature-length films through analysis. Exposes students to philosophical and theoretical perspectives (including formalist, psychoanalytical, feminist, postcolonial, etc.) that have emerged over the years and led to the consolidation of a vocabulary for film studies. By the end of class, students will have had an opportunity to learn the skills and language needed to develop a historically sensitive and theoretically nuanced interpretation of cinematic works. Engages with such questions as: 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? Equivalent to ENGH 221 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity International
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FILM 214 - Monsters, Gangsters, and the Great Depression 4 credits
Using classic gangster and monster films from the 1930s as the primary course content, this three-week course aims to increase students’ understanding of a.) the historical realities that influenced the construction of the modern gangster narrative and the modern monster film, b.) the place of the gangster and monster film in the history of film, including the issues of censorship and promulgation of the movie production code, and c.) the gangster and monster films as specific genres, their relationship to other genres of the period including film noire, and the depictions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, urbanism, morality, etc. that defined these genres. Lastly, students will consider how and why these two genres remain influential in the present. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
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FILM 220 - Contemporary Transnational Cinema 4 credits
The films chosen for this class are contemporary examples of “transnational” cinema, i.e., cinema that finds reception and distribution beyond its country of origin. Growing global interconnectedness has resulted in the expansion of a transnational market and audience for films. By closely analyzing a range of contemporary films from Argentina, Brazil, China, Iran, India, Germany, Spain, South Africa, and the United States, students will explore how these films’ narrative styles reinforce or challenge the form of cinematic storytelling popularized globally by Hollywood cinema. This class will train students to watch and write about films by placing them in cultural and historical context. Equivalent: / ENGH 220 CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Writing Intensive
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FILM 232 - Music and the Soundscape of Film 4 credits
In this course we study the soundscape of film and the role that music plays within that soundscape. The goal is to analyze how what we hear interacts with what we see when we watch a film. To understand how technology has influenced the role of sound in film, we survey technological developments from the early years of the twentieth century to the current day. Students acquire listening and viewing skills by exploring the relationship between music and sound, sound and narrative, music and film form, and music and film style. No prior knowledge of music or film is necessary. Graded: Regular. Equivalent: MUS 232 CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
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