Courses

This course surveys various genres, themes, and aesthetic theories that have informed modern and contemporary art. The class approaches this wide array of material through attention to specific themes and/ or various critically defined paradigms and applies these themes/ paradigms to various subjects and media areas including institutional critique, popular culture, photography, painting, sculpture, performance, installation, and video. This course carries a writing intensive (W) designation.

A cross-genre survey of African American literature, historical events, and critical movements. Authors may include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larson, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. Special Topics Course

An examination of contemporary issues and topics in the anthropology of religion. Special Topics Course

A cross-genre survey of major literary figures, critical movements, historical events, and significant texts within the first half of the twentieth century in Britain. Authors may include Joseph Conrad, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, and T. S. Eliot. Topics in this course will vary semester to semester. PW: Executive Systems, Special Topics Course

Tthe second sequence of Japanese Linguistics. Students will examine a topic chosen from a Japanese linguistics area (such as morphology, syntax, psycholinguistics) in depth through original Japanese language data, journal articles, and some fieldwork. Assignments include readings, hands-on problem solving and analysis of raw-Japanese language data and class discussion. Readings and assignments will be in Japanese and English.

This course will study the politics of representation (and the relationship between the image and ideology) in African American photography from the 1840s to the present. Aesthetics, gender, class, the impact of slavery, lynching, colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization on the arts, as well as issues of memory, identity, subjectivity, historical “truth,” and race, will be explored in relation to African American photographers.

A cross-genre survey of African American literature, historical events, and critical movements. Authors may include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larson, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. Topics in this course will vary semester to semester. PW: Executive Systems, Special Topics Course, US and Global Citizenship

Students examine special topics/issues in agriculture at an introductory level. Business, Horticulture and Plant Science, Agricultural Communications, and three times as topics and subject matter change.

Study of a selected theme in American art or architecture. May be repeated for a maximum of 9 hours. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course. A student who does not write with the skill normally required of an upper-division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the course. Special Topics Course, Writing

This course covers a range of special topics in American History. Typically taught as a combination of lecture and discussion, with emphasis on primary sources, its topics will include, among others, the indigenous and European encounters, colonial and constitutional history, the development of the American nation, race, slavery, and civil war, the World Wars and the Cold War, American foreign policy, and the civil rights movement. PW: Global Engagement, Special Topics Course