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2021-2022 College of Liberal Arts
Course Descriptions
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ENGH 304 - Sexuality and Gender in 19th-Century Literature and Culture 4 credits
Explores the complex and shifting understandings of gender and sexuality in the nineteenth-century through reading of the period’s novels, poetry, prose, theoretical texts, and visual images. May include topics such as 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 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. Inquires how gender and sexuality have been deployed by 20th/ 21st 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. Same as WGST 304 . Prerequisite: ENGH 150 or WGST 101 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Diversity International
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ENGH 305 - Advanced Studies in Ethnic American Literature 4 credits
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 is repeatable as topic varies. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 CLA-Diversity US
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ENGH 306 - Writers on Writing 4 credits
Focuses on what authors have had to say about their craft. 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. Texts ranging from critical studies to book reviews, interviews, and letters will be read alongside primary texts by those same authors. Students have the opportunity 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
Explores various forms of the genre of nonfiction prose from letter to essay, travel writing to confessional, and memoir to meditation. 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 persuading readers to their perspective, and helping 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
Examines the Gothic – a genre which explores the macabre, the supernatural, the uncanny. Tracks the Gothic’s recurrent features and themes, asking how and why it manages to speak the “unspeakable” through a series of dark tales that flirt with the supernatural. 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? 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
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 will have the opportunity to explore urgent issues like farmworkers’ rights, food insecurity, animal ethics, advertising, cultural foodways, globalization, and food justice/sovereignty. Combines academic and experiential learning as students investigate local food needs and participate in local efforts promoting food justice. Same as ESS 309 . Prerequisite: ENGH 150 or ESS 210 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Immersive Experience, CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 311 - Environmental Justice Literature 4 credits
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, students may examine 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 have the opportunity to 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 people understand the growing cities of their time? Students will have the opportunity to 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 may 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
Allows students to analyze how human rights struggles have used literature and film to bolster their claims for social justice. Simultaneously, students may learn 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. Introduces students to a range of primary texts including twentieth-century and contemporary fiction and documentary films, novels, memoirs, testimonials, 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. Prioritized registration for juniors and seniors. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 or ENGH 120 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
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ENGH 318 - Old English 4 credits
Students will have the opportunity to 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. 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? Students will have the opportunity to 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. Same as FILM 322 . 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 people understand the relationship between media and democracy? Some of these questions may be addressed through 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 have the opportunity to examine films’ political claims and assess their social implications. One of the eventual goals may be to imagine what a revolutionary cinema might look like in the era of the Internet. Same as FILM 323 . Prerequisite: ENGH 150 or ENGH 120 or FILM 101 . CLA-Diversity International
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ENGH 324 - Filming American Feminisms 4 credits
Explores the development of thinking about women, gender, and feminism after 1900 through examination of documentary and fiction film. Also encourages thinking 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 may be put in dialogue with a wide range of films from silents to Hollywood blockbusters to independents and documentaries made with explicitly feminist purposes. Same as WGST 301 anf FILM 324 . Prerequisite: ENGH 150 or WGST 101 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? Students are introduced to film as well as film theory involving gender and its intersections with race, class, and sexuality. Primary texts may include a variety of international films by twentieth-century and contemporary directors like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Celine Sciamma, Laura Poitras, and others. Students may also read the range of film theory— from feminist to political-economic approaches and more. Students will have the opportunity to closely analyze film and thereby engage in debates about the relationship between aesthetics and social justice. Same as FILM 325 . 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 20th 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. Same as 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. 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. Emphasizes the factual article as a literary form. Students will have the opportunity to gain practice in assembling facts (research and interviewing procedures) and in shaping informative, lively articles, editorials, and critical reviews. 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. Emphasizes exercises in characterization, setting, dialogue, and narration. Students will have the opportunity to 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. Emphasizes practice in elements of the poet’s craft, focusing particularly on the language of emotion and the uses of metaphor. Students will have the opportunity to explore traditional verse patterns and work on developing their own imaginative perception and style. CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 334 - Advanced Fiction Workshop 4 credits
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. Consists of creation classes on specific issues of craft, such as point of view, character development, and dialogue. Students will have the opportunity to read full novels and story collections and be expected to use skills gleaned from these texts in their own work. Pushes students past the “write what you know” paradigm; the key will be developing research and observational skills in order to create and appreciate literature beyond their own experience. CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 335 - Advanced Poetry Workshop 4 credits
An advanced course in the art of poetry for students who have completed an introductory creative writing workshop. Focuses on advanced strategies for developing poets, including metrics, prosody, traditional formal schemes, imitations, radical revisions, experimental poetry, sequences, and the longer lyric. CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 340 - Topics in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication 4 credits
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 is meant by “originality”? Can there even be such a thing as an “author” in these postmodern times? What are the ethical responsibilities of authors? 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. Students explore the broad topic of authorship and use theory to interrogate specific cases where authorship or originality was in question. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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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 may 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 343 - Advanced Journalism 4 credits
Focuses on intermediate and advanced interviewing skills, profile writing, news writing, and feature and opinion writing. Students will have the opportunity to learn about covering breaking news and long-term projects; writing for web news outlets and packaging the news for contemporary media; and storytelling through photography and video. Students may also practice analyzing news sources and writing styles and learn the rights and responsibilities of journalists through the NJ Sunshine Law, Open Public Records Act and Freedom of Information Act. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 344 - Rhetorics of the Workplace/Professional Communication 4 credits
Critically approaches the discourses people use at work. Students may identify, analyze, and critique particular forms of speech and writing, paying attention to their role in enforcing distinctions of class, power, and mobility, and other economic forces. Examines the changing rhetoric of work in the modern era, for example, 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. Also, examines the operations of languages that characterize writing in a range of professions including legal, medical, corporate, pharmaceutical, and financial. Rhetorical and literary theorists such as Burke, Brandt, Rose, or Olbrechts-Tyteca may frame our analysis. Students may conduct original research into a particular workplace or set of discourses. Prerequisite: ENGH 150
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ENGH 345 - Community Literacy and Public Rhetoric in the Archives 4 credits
Introduces students to frameworks for conducting archival research in writing and communication studies and focuses specifically on how communities are sustained through acts of literacy and rhetoric. On-campus archives serve as a preliminary research venue for students to practice analyzing primary sources using concepts from rhetorical theory. Then, shifting to the archives of a local community organization, students have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with locating sources and considering their practical and ethical roles as researchers in (re)constructing the past. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 .
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ENGH 346 - Blogs, Tweets, and Social Media: The Practice of Digital Communication 4 credits
Explores the relationship between audience, purpose and text in a cross section of electronic formats, including tweets, blogs, websites, and various social media platforms. Develops criteria for evaluating each form of writing and assessing what makes them effective. Considers the ways individuals and organizations use social media to create and maintain their brand and reach specific audiences. Students may shape and curate their own online identities by creating or revising a personal website (using Wordpress), while using Twitter and Instagram to build a following. Students may also work in teams to design social media campaigns for selected campus clubs and organizations, learning how to create appropriate voice, tone, and content and how to use available software to schedule posts that maximize outreach, and track performance. Same as MCOM 346 . 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, students may 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. Students may also focus mainly on the US, with some comparative discussion of other news systems. Same as MCOM 347 .
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ENGH 349 - Writing across the Curriculum and Peer-to-Peer Mentoring: Theory and Practice 1-4 credits
Introduces students to writing and tutoring theory and pedagogy, with a focus on writing in various disciplines and genres. Topics may 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. Combines readings and discussion with a practicum that allows students 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. Course is repeatable for credits. CLA-Immersive Experience
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ENGH 350 - Medieval or Renaissance Literature: Advanced Studies 4 credits
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. Asks students to develop their literary critical writing through assignments that will put their own analysis of the materials in dialogue 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
Offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from the nineteenth century in Britain. Topics may 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. May also explore literary responses to and representations of the French Revolution, industrialization, secularization, empire, or women’s emancipation. 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 CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 352 - British Literature Post-1900: Advanced studies 4 credits
Offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from the twentieth century. Explores particular questions raised by the relationship of poetics and politics or the under explored histories of British avant-gardes (perhaps with a focus on poetry) or the novel of ideas; may also focus on Scottish and Irish writing, or examine how British literature treats issues of class, race, and gender. Includes assignments that both develop students’ analytical and research skills and foster dialogue with literary critical debates and traditions. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 353 - American Literature Pre-1900: Advanced Studies 4 credits
Offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from pre-1900 American literature. Topics may include the early American novel, American autobiography, slavery and its aftermath, transcendentalism, realism, and US imperialism. Authors may include Emerson, Douglass, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Chesnutt, and James. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 354 - American Literature Post-1900: Advanced Studies 4 credits
Offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from post-1900 American literatures. Topics may include the study of major authors; naturalism, modernism, the Beat Generation, multiculturalism, graphic novels, postmodernism; covering fields such as women’s literature, ethnic literatures, immigrant literature, queer literature; or contextualizing historical eras such as the Great Depression, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, civil rights, the twenty-first century. Asks students to develop their literary and analytical writing through close reading, engaging literary theories and scholarship, and developing critical approaches to the study of literature and culture. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 CLA-Writing Intensive
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ENGH 355 - Transatlantic Literature: Advanced Studies 4 credits
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
Offers in-depth study of global English-language literatures of the twentieth-and twenty-first centuries. Topics may 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. 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
Offers in depth study of prose fiction before 1900. Focuses on the history of the novel in either the United States or Britain or on a genre: captivity narrative, romance, realism, Bildungsroman, sensation fiction, epistolary novel. May 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
Explores representative narratives of the modernist movement and its postmodernist extensions. Texts may 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 360 - Topics in Literary and Critical Theory 4 credits
An exploration of a range of thinkers, movements, issues, debates, and practices in twentieth- and twenty-first century literary and cultural theory. Examines how various theoretical discourses conceive of literature and culture, the subject and society, language and power, gender and sexuality, race and class. Explores such schools and fields as Russian Formalism, Marxism, structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, gender studies, post-colonial, queer, and media theory, but also encourages thinking across these artificial boundaries to examine shared problematics and intellectual heritages. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 .
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ENGH 361 - Marx, Nietzsche, Freud 4 credits
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). Devoted to a close reading of each thinker’s works. Examines what each has to say about human self-understanding, value, history, and time, and tries 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? Students will have the opportunity to 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
Considers the intersection of law and literature from a historical as well as a philosophical perspective. How are legal practices and the rhetorical logic that is associated with law represented in particular works of literature? How do these practices and systems of logic teach people to separate fact from fiction? And how does the narrative and representational logic of literature inform the law? These questions are addressed 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
Allows sustained concentration on a single text from a period before 1900. In some semesters, the text itself may be a long and difficult one (e.g., Milton’s Paradise Lost, Eliot’s Middlemarch, James’ Portrait of a Lady). In other semesters, students may indulge in 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
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ENGH 365 - Intensive Reading of a Single Text Post 1900 2-4 credits
Allows sustained concentration on a single text from after 1900. In some semesters, the text itself will be a long and difficult one (e.g., Joyce’s Ulysses, Dubois’ Souls of Black Folk). In other semesters, students may indulge in 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
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ENGH 366 - Advanced Topics in Criticism and Theory 4 credits
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
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. 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
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. 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 as topic varies. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 and ENGH 210
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ENGH 372 - Advanced Literary Studies, Post-1900: Seminar 4 credits
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. Provides an opportunity for advanced exploration of a topic, text, author, or problem in literature written after 1900. Topics may include Ethnic American Writers, Queering American Literature, Modernism and Theory, Contemporary Women Writers, Digital Humanities. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 and ENGH 210
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ENGH 374 - Major Author, Post-1900: Seminar 4 credits
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. 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, students will have the opportunity 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 students observe what is accessible 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. CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Breadth/Humanities
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ENGH 384 - Studies in British Literature: London Literature 4 credits
Become a London flâneur, walking the streets and interpreting the signs of the city as if it were a text. Reading a wide variety of novels, including classics and lesser known works, from the nineteenth century up to the present. Beginning with Dickens in order to recapture the sense of London as the greatest and dirtiest of cities and the focus of aspiration. Explores the significance of class, the changing role of women in the metropolis, London as the center of Empire and as a contemporary world city. Considers literary style and narrative technique, in addition to historical context. By paying close attention to both text and context, students may achieve a lively appreciation of these works in and of themselves and as part of the cultural life of London. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive
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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. Explores how political, cultural, commercial, regulatory, and editorial issues shape the media manufactured and consumed in Britain. May 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 may also be included. Same as MCOM 385 . 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. Also looks at the financial, ethical and regulatory structures that guide these industries. Given the focus of the semester, particular attention may be paid to media companies based in New York City. Same as MCOM 386 . Restricted to Juniors and Seniors. CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Off Campus Experience
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ENGH 387 - New York Semester on Communications and Media Colloquium 4 credits
Studies the institutions of advertising, communications, public relations, publishing, and media and their roles in contemporary society. Explores the history and ethical dimensions of the principles and practices integral to media, publishing and communications. Delves into the practical day-to-day operations of Madison Avenue, Silicon Alley, and particular institutions located in New York City. Consists of talks by guest speakers drawn from all fields. Includes visits to advertising agencies, public relations firms, publishers and more. Additional activities may include attending screenings, readings, museum visits, and seminars in the International Radio and Television Society and the Center for Communication. These off-campus sources and student projects explore contemporary communication issues, such as the concentration of media ownership and conglomeration, media literacy, and changes in the media landscape. Same as MCOM 387 . CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Off Campus Experience
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ENGH 399 - ShortTrec Program at the Upper Level 1-8 credits
Focuses 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. Course is repeatable as topic varies. CLA-Off Campus Experience, CLA-Immersive 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. Prerequisite: ENGH 150 and ENGH 210 Signature of instructor required for registration. CLA-Capstone
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ENGH 410 - Specialized Honors I 4 credits
CLA-Capstone
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ENGH 411 - Specialized Honors II 4 credits
CLA-Capstone
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ENV 150 - Great Challenges in Environmental Science 4 credits
Investigates the impact of human population growth and the energy sources used on the Earth’s terrestrial and aquatic resources, environmental health and toxicology, global climate change, and biodiversity loss. Studies the science behind each issue, and its historical foundation, and its political, social, and cultural dimensions. Within this context, students may explore possible solutions. Students will have the opportunity to consider 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
An examination of how earth as a 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 may 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. CLA-Breadth/Natural Science
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ENV 265 - Energy and Environment 4 credits
Investigates the sources and commercial production of energy, the energy needs of society, and the impact of energy use on the environment. Encourages students to think critically about the harvest, use and conservation of energy. Through readings, problem solving, and project work, students may apply analytical and quantitative tools to assessing the efficiency and environmental impacts of various energy technologies. Same as PHYS 265 . Prioritized registration to ESS majors. Registration restricted 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. Same as ESS 282 . Course is repeatable as topic varies. Prerequisite: Varies with topic, consult course listings or contact Program Director. CLA-Breadth/Natural Science
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ENV 300 - Independent Study in Environmental Science 1 to 4 credits
Individualized instruction, topic chosen by student and faculty member. Course is repeatable. Signature of instructor required for registration.
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ENV 302 - Geographic Information Systems 4 credits
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 may acquire cartographic, ArcGIS, and remote sensing skills through case studies and individual research investigations. Same as: BIOL 302 and ESS 302 . Prioritized registration to majors in Biology, Environmental Studies, and Archaeology. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Quantitative
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ENV 350 - Advanced Environmental Science 4 credits
Explores the science behind environmental problems and solutions as students study current environmental issues in the context of their scientific (biological, chemical, geological) underpinnings. 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. Laboratory includes field-based investigations as well as simulations and laboratory experiments through which students have the opportunity to gain the skills needed to develop as a scientist who can collect, analyze, and interpret environmental data. Students may also develop 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 . CLA - Breadth/Natural Science, CLA-Quantitative, CLA-Writing in the Major.
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ENV 365 - Advanced GIS 4 credits
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. Practices a problem solving approach that emphasizes the importance of communication within teams and between students and community partners. Students meet with partners at critical stages of the project, set project goals and objectives, 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, students are connected to community partners that work globally, nationally, and locally. Student coursework includes a minimum 18-20 hours of work that directly supports our community partners, which also involves participation in off-campus activities. Same as BIOL 365 . Prerequisite: BIOL 302 or ENV 302 . CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Quantitative, CLA-Off Campus Experience
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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. Same as ESS 382 . Course is repeatable as topic varies. Prerequisite: Varies with topic. 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. Course is repeatable as topic varies. Prerequisites: ENV 350 .
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ENV 400 - Environmental Studies and Sustainability Capstone Seminar 4 credits
Seniors in the environmental studies program come together to investigate environmental and sustainability issues from diverse perspectives using a variety of methodologies. Emphasizes 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 . CLA-Capstone, CLA-Writing in the Major
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ENV 410 - Specialized Honors I 4 credits
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ENV 411 - Specialized Honors II 4 credits
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EOS 101 - Seminar 1 credits
Provides an opportunity for the first year students to extend their summer program experience into the academic year. Topics may vary but will generally focus on exploring what it means to be human and a member of a community.
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ESS 101 - Introduction to Environmental Geology 4 credits
Humans interact with Earth in many ways: using natural resources, experiencing natural hazards, and designing geoengineering techniques that modify natural processes. Students may consider how a diversity of human activities affects our environment, and how a diversity of natural processes affects humans. These topics may aid in exploring the meaning of “sustainability” from the perspective of Earth scientists. Students use the modern and historic New Jersey landscape as a case study, but may also discuss topics such as mountaintop removal in the Appalachians, earthquakes in Indonesia, and water usage in the Western US. Students may learn basic Earth science concepts, techniques for field scientists, methods of data analysis and presentation, and skills for effectively teasing apart complex environmental issues. CLA-Breadth/Natural Science
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ESS 103 - Introduction to Climate Change 4 credits
Explores the science of global climate change and the projected consequences. Teaches how the climate system works and what factors cause it to change across various time scales. Investigates the structure, composition and circulation of the atmosphere and oceans; the greenhouse effect, the earth’s energy balance and the relationships among these planetary system components. While there is a crucial link between various energy sources and global warming, students investigate this link as it applies to carbon fuels, nuclear power and renewable alternatives. Students 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. Students may look at mitigation options; 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
Examines contemporary indigenous literature and film using an environmental lens to explore the ways these texts help understand past and present issues like displacement, resource extraction, and toxic exposure. Texts may 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, students will also have the opportunity to engage with global texts to consider how environmental injustice is perpetuated by globalization and transnational economic policies. Same as ENGH 107 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
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ESS 204 - Environmental Writing and Eco-Criticism 4 credits
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, specific questions are addressed 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 the understanding of the physical environment impacted by discourses of nature, race, gender, class, and location? Same as ENGH 204 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
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ESS 206 - Nature Writing 4 credits
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, specific questions are explored such 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? Students will have the opportunity to 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. Same as ENGH 206 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Diversity US
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ESS 210 - Environment, Society and Sustainability 4 credits
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, students may consider how values, paradigms, policies, technologies, and their intricate interactions determine our current unsustainable relationship with nature, and students may also explore proposals for moving society in an environmentally sustainable direction. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Breadth/Social Science
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ESS 215 - Environmental Science 4 credits
Explores the science behind environmental problems and solutions. Students may study current environmental issues in the context of their scientific (biological, chemical, geological) underpinnings, while also considering the political, social and cultural dimensions of these issues. 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. Same as BIOL 215 . Signature of instructor required for registration. CLA-Breadth/Natural Science, CLA-Writing in the Major
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ESS 261 - Environmental Security & Climate Change 4 credits
Provides students with the background and conceptual tools necessary for understanding the relationship between anthropogenic climate change and international conflict. Examines several connected environmental issues and assesses the effectiveness of international efforts to address environmental problems. Explores the social, political, and economic factors that contribute to and result from human security problems linked to climate change. Includes examinations of contemporary intrastate conflicts. Students will have the opportunity to gain the analytical skills necessary to understand the mechanisms and consequences of both historical and contemporary climate change. Same as PSCI 263 . CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Environmental Studies
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ESS 271 - Environmental History 4 credits
Explores some of the major issues in the history of human interaction with and concern for the environment, from ancient times to today. Examines 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. Same as HIST 271 .
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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 is repeatable as topic varies. Prerequisite: Varies with topic. Contact program director. 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. Same as ENV 282 . Course is repeatable as topic varies. Prerequisite: Varies with topic. Contact Program Director. 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. Course is repeatable as topic varies. Prerequisite: Varies with topic. Contact Program Director. 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 as topic varies. Prerequisite: Varies with the research topic. Signature of instructor required for registration.
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ESS 302 - Geographic Information Systems 4 credits
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 may acquire cartographic, ArcGIS, and remote sensing skills through case studies and individual research investigations. Same as: BIOL 302 and ENV 302 . Prioritized registration to majors in Biology, Environmental Studies, and Archaeology. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
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ESS 305 - Medical Geography 4 credits
Investigates the intersections of health and location. Illuminates the importance of local knowledge for public health, connects issues in health and well-being across scales, and demonstrates the ways that geographic methods are relevant in health sciences, societal sciences, and policy arenas. Involves discussion of the presence and sources of health inequalities across countries, including the U.S. Explores the impact of identity, state, and global organizations on individual, family and community health. In order to link theory and practice, students are connected to community partners that work globally, nationally, and locally, and whose missions are to protect and promote human health. Student coursework may include 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, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity U.S., CLA-Immersive Experience
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ESS 307 - Environmental Justice Literature 4 credits
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, students examine how a wide range of multi-ethnic texts–from comic books to music videos to novels–represent the environment in order to understand how the exploitation of nature is linked to the exploitation of people. May 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. Considers the ways in which environmental injustices reflect and construct ideologies of racism, sexism, classism, and nationalism. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
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ESS 309 - Food, Justice, and U.S. Literature 4 credits
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 will have the opportunity to explore urgent issues like farmworkers’ rights, food insecurity, animal ethics, advertising, cultural foodways, globalization, and food justice/sovereignty. Combines academic and experiential learning as students investigate local food needs and participate in local efforts promoting food justice. Same as ENGH 309 . Prerequisite: ENGH 150 or ESS 210 CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Immersive Experience, 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, and an expanded international human rights agenda. Students have the opportunity to survey its history, and investigate both academic and activist techniques aimed at eliminating persistent, structural inequalities in access to safe and healthy environments for all. Students may be connected to community partners that work locally, and whose missions are to protect and promote human wellbeing. Coursework may include a minimum 18-20 hours of community work, which also involves participation in off-campus activities. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Off Campus Experience
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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. Course is repeatable as topic varies. Prerequisite: ECON 101 or ESS 215 CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
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ESS 331 - Archaeology and Sustainable Culture 4 credits
Students 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. Students critically examine 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. Same as ANTH 331 . CLA-Writing Intensive
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ESS 332 - Wildlife and Culture 4 credits
A cross-cultural exploration of the ways that people think about and interact with wild animals. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources, students ponder abstract philosophical questions like “What is an animal?”, “What is natural?” and “What is human?” Special attention is paid 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. Same as ANTH 332 . Restricted to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors. Prerequisite: 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. Focuses on 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 . 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. Course is repeatable as topic varies. Prerequisite: Varies with topic. Contact program director. 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. Course is repeatable as topic varies. Same as ENV 382 . Prerequisite: Varies with topic. 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. Course is repeatable as topic varies. 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 come together to investigate environmental and sustainability issues from diverse perspectives using a variety of methodologies. Emphasizes 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 . CLA-Capstone, CLA-Writing in the Major
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