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2013-2014 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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Courses

 

Fine Arts in Dance
  

  • DFA 263 - Variations/Pas de Deux II


    0.5 credit(s)
    Learning and performing solo works and pas de deux from the classical, romantic, and neoclassical ballet literature as well as from varying modern forms. Study of style, content, and format of modern and classical roles and ballets, and the historical context of their development. Study and development of rehearsal skills and techniques, including the roles of the ballet master and others involved in the process of preparing concert dance for the stage. The exploration and execution of partnering techniques.
    Prerequisite(s): DFA 262  or permission of instructor.


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  • DFA 360 - Repertory/Performance III


    1 credit(s)
    Learning and performing contemporary and classical dance works; and classical, romantic, and neoclassical ballet literature. Study and development of rehearsal skills and techniques, including the roles of choreographer, ballet master, and others involved in the process of preparing concert dance for the stage. Assessment of student performance in the following areas: technical merit, conduct and deportment in theatre, growth in performance qualities, and effort and improvement in all of these areas.
    Prerequisite(s): DFA 261  or permission of instructor.


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  • DFA 361 - Repertory/Performance III


    1 credit(s)
    Learning and performing contemporary and classical dance works; and classical, romantic, and neoclassical ballet literature. Study and development of rehearsal skills and techniques, including the roles of choreographer, ballet master, and others involved in the process of preparing concert dance for the stage. Assessment of student performance in the following areas: technical merit, conduct and deportment in theatre, growth in performance qualities, and effort and improvement in all of these areas.
    Prerequisite(s): DFA 360  or permission of instructor.


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  • DFA 362 - Variations in Pas de Deux III


    0.5 credit(s)
    Learning and performing solo works and pas de deux from the classical, romantic, and neoclassical ballet literature as well as from varying modern forms. Study of style, content, and format of modern and classical roles and ballets, and the historical context of their development. Study and development of rehearsal skills and techniques, including the roles of the ballet master and others involved in the process of preparing concert dance for the stage. The exploration and execution of partnering techniques.
    Prerequisite(s): DFA 263  or permission of instructor.


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  • DFA 363 - Variations in Pas de Deux III


    0.5 credit(s)
    Learning and performing solo works and pas de deux from the classical, romantic, and neoclassical ballet literature as well as from varying modern forms. Study of style, content, and format of modern and classical roles and ballets, and the historical context of their development. Study and development of rehearsal skills and techniques, including the roles of the ballet master and others involved in the process of preparing concert dance for the stage. The exploration and execution of partnering techniques.
    Prerequisite(s): DFA 362  or permission of instructor.


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  • DFA 371 - Technology in Dance


    3 credit(s)
    A laboratory course providing practical experience for students to gain an understanding of technological applications for dance, through acquired computer skills designed to enhance their educational experience, video-audio recording and editing, graphics, and Web design. Students use the same skills to enhance their knowledge of dance, dance education, and technologies in the dance profession.
    Laboratory fee.


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  • DFA 460 - Repertory/Performance IV


    1 credit(s)
    Learning and performing contemporary and classical dance works; and classical, romantic, and neoclassical ballet literature. Study and development of rehearsal skills and techniques, including the roles of choreographer, ballet master, and others involved in the process of preparing concert dance for the stage. Assessment of student performance in the following areas: technical merit, conduct and deportment in theatre, growth in performance qualities, and effort and improvement in all of these areas.
    Prerequisite(s): DFA 361  or permission of instructor.


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  • DFA 461 - Repertory/Performance IV


    1 credit(s)
    Learning and performing contemporary and classical dance works; and classical, romantic, and neoclassical ballet literature. Study and development of rehearsal skills and techniques, including the roles of choreographer, ballet master, and others involved in the process of preparing concert dance for the stage. Assessment of student performance in the following areas: technical merit, conduct and deportment in theatre, growth in performance qualities, and effort and improvement in all of these areas.
    Prerequisite(s): DFA 460  or permission of instructor.


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  • DFA 462 - Variations/Pas de Deux IV


    0.5 credit(s)
    Learning and performing solo works and pas de deux from the classical, romantic, and neoclassical ballet literature as well as from varying modern forms. Study of style, content, and format of modern and classical roles and ballets, and the historical context of their development. Study and development of rehearsal skills and techniques, including the roles of the ballet master and others involved in the process of preparing concert dance for the stage. The exploration and execution of partnering techniques.
    Prerequisite(s): DFA 363  or permission of instructor.


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  • DFA 463 - Variations/Pas de Deux IV


    0.5 credit(s)
    Learning and performing solo works and pas de deux from the classical, romantic, and neoclassical ballet literature as well as from varying modern forms. Study of style, content, and format of modern and classical roles and ballets, and the historical context of their development. Study and development of rehearsal skills and techniques, including the roles of the ballet master and others involved in the process of preparing concert dance for the stage. The exploration and execution of partnering techniques.
    Prerequisite(s): DFA 462  or permission of instructor.


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First-Year Seminar
  

  • FYS 100 - First-Year Seminar


    The first-year seminar is a low-enrollment, introductory-level topics course on a subject or question in the discipline that the professor presents to the class in order to model and instill intellectual passion. Students experience small-group interaction and refine the skills associated with discussion and deliberation of ideas and alternative viewpoints. The classroom format is Socratic: it includes ample time for discussion, sometimes in small groups, and students are required to represent their critical thinking orally. Typically, an advanced undergraduate in the professor’s discipline acts as preceptor for the students and helps them learn study and writing skills. The course satisfies a writing-intensive requirement when listed as FYS 100W .


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  • FYS 100W - First-Year Seminar


    Writing Intensive
    The first-year seminar is a low-enrollment, introductory-level topics course on a subject or question in the discipline that the professor presents to the class in order to model and instill intellectual passion. Students experience small-group interaction and refine the skills associated with discussion and deliberation of ideas and alternative viewpoints. The classroom format is Socratic: it includes ample time for discussion, sometimes in small groups, and students are required to represent their critical thinking orally. Typically, an advanced undergraduate in the professor’s discipline acts as preceptor for the students and helps them learn study and writing skills. The course satisfies a writing-intensive requirement when listed as FYS 100W.


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Foundations
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Foundations of Education
  

  • EDF 120 - Introduction to Education: Schooling and Human Services


    3 credit(s)
    This course introduces students to the process of education and development as it occurs in schools and social service agencies. It offers a foundation in reflective practice and in the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that are central to these professions. It also focuses on how schools and human service agencies can work together to address issues of concern in the community. The course includes a community-service learning component of two hours weekly.
    Laboratory fee.


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  • EDF 220 - Diversity in the Classroom


    1 credit(s)
    This course examines the effects of cultural diversity on classroom dynamics. It analyzes the knowledge and skills necessary for working with culturally diverse students while emphasizing the effect of cultures on the classroom. Students will explore cultural influences on their personal development as well as on student development. Students will identify pedagogical and curricular strategies for creating culturally responsive classrooms.
    Prerequisite(s): EDF 120  and EDP 220 .


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Gender Studies
  

  • GS 100 - Introduction to Gender Studies


    3 credit(s)
    This course explores a range of theoretical approaches to the study of gender, laying the foundation for the major and minor in gender studies. Students examine and critically analyze gender theory and its sources. The course approaches gender as a fundamental category of analysis, with careful attention paid to the intersection of race and class. Its emphasis on theory that is anchored in both the humanities and the social sciences prepares students for subsequent gender studies courses, including those exploring the most recent scholarship coming out of queer theory, masculinity, and sexualities.


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  • GS 202 - Men and Masculinity


    3 credit(s)
    After decades of feminist analysis focused on women’s lives and coming from a variety of perspectives, scholars have turned their gaze toward men. This scholarship scrutinizes not only how men define their identities but also how cultural ideas of masculinity shape everyone’s lives. This course examines men and masculinity through lenses informed by race, class, sexuality studies, and a variety of other angles, all in an effort better to understand things we often take for granted: the lives of men and the role of masculinity in our culture.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  or permission of instructor.


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  • GS 215 - Women in the Economy


    3 credit(s)
    A survey course covering the economic factors that play a significant role in the economic life of women. Topics include the economics of households, marriage, and families, changes in labor-force participation, causes and consequences of gender differences in occupations and earnings, government policies that have an impact on the economic well-being of women, and an international comparison of the economic conditions of women.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  and EC 101 , or permission of instructor.


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  • GS 225 - Women’s and Gay Rights Social Movements

    Course Cross-listed with SOC 225 
    3 credit(s)
    This course provides a detailed examination of the social struggles for women’s and gay rights in the United States and in various countries across the globe. The main focus of the course is on the specific social conditions and events that precipitated battles for change in various social arenas. The outcome of specific struggles and the impact they had on the social position of women and gay and lesbian people are analyzed.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  or SOC 110 , or permission of instructor.


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  • GS 232 - European and American Witchcraft

    Course Cross-listed with HIS 232 
    3 credit(s)
    A history of the European and American attitudes toward witchcraft between the Middle Ages and the present. Special attention is paid to the “witchcraft mania” that emerged in the 15th century, to its regional variations, and to its slow subsidence in the late 17th century. The course also discusses the revival of witchcraft in the 20th century. Main currents of interpretation, both early modern and contemporary, are explored.
    Prerequisite(s): HIS 100  or HIS 130 , or permission of instructor.


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  • GS 250 - Philosophy of Love and Sexuality

    Course Cross-listed with PHI 250 
    3 credit(s)
    ritical analysis of the concept of sex and love, particularly as it has developed in the Western philosophic tradition. It explores sex and love as a defining element of human life, even in that “all too human” desire to step beyond ourselves. The role of sex and love is explored through various themes, like the acquisition of knowledge (as an ideal of truth), its place within religious life, and its stakes in ethical and political community. Students gain an understanding of determinate theoretical methods, like phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and critical social theory.
    Prerequisite(s): PHI 110  or GS 100 .


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  • GS 251W - Rhetorics of Gender Activism

    Course Cross-listed with RPW 251W 
    3 credit(s) Writing Intensive
    If, as Aristotle claims, rhetoric is the study of the available means of persuasion, then it seems imperative that rhetoric turn its attention to the ways in which activists concerned with issues of gender and sexuality have sought to enact social and political change in a range of contexts throughout history. This course applies rhetorical analysis to essays, speeches, documentary films, visual media, and artifacts from activist organizations—all in an effort to understand better the techniques that gender activists use to mobilize, to challenge, and to create change.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  and RPW 110 , or permission of instructor
    Laboratory fee.


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  • GS 263 - History of Sexuality in America

    Course Cross-listed with HIS 263 
    3 credit(s)
    This course analyzes historical changes in the social organization and cultural meaning of sexual practices and desires in the United States. Students examine the establishment of sexual norms in colonial and nineteenth-century America; the role of sex during the era of slavery; the contested boundaries drawn between same-sex and different-sex sociability, friendship and eroticism; the cultural conflicts about prostitution, cross-racial sex, and sex education; and the emergence of heterosexuality and homosexuality as the predominant categories of sexual experience, identity and politics.


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  • GS 305 - African American Women Writers

    Course Cross-listed with ENG 305 /AFS 305 
    3 credit(s)
    This course has as its premise that the work of contemporary African American women writers—such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, and Sherley Anne Williams—can be interpreted in the context of an identifiable literary tradition with sources in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The course looks at the construction of this tradition in terms of specific literary themes and techniques, from “signifying” to communities of women that have been theorized by feminist and African American scholars.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100 ; and either one 200-level literature course, or AFS 110  or AFS 111 ; or permission of instructor.


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  • GS 315 - Sociology of Gender and Sexuality

    Course Cross-listed with SOC 315 
    3 credit(s)
    This course examines gender and sexuality and important social categories. We investigate the ways in which categories of gender and sexuality structure people’s lives and shape people’s identities. Through these examinations, we explore the interconnectedness of people’s experiences of gender and sexuality. We focus on the ways in which gender and sexuality are socially constructed by society. We examine how what we are taught about gender and sexuality affects our identity, relationships with others, and our social status.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  and SOC 110 , or permission of instructor.


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  • GS 319 - The 19th-Century Heroine

    Course Cross-listed with ENG 319 
    3 credit(s)
    A look at the 19th-century literature that centers on women. The course examines the characterization of female protagonists as products of a particular culture and a writer’s own personal artistic vision, particularly as these relate to concepts of the heroic. A variety of writers and genres is studied, including classic novels, travel writing, working class, and sentimental fiction.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  or a 200-level literature course, or permission of instructor.


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  • GS 326 - Sexuality and Social Conflict

    Course Cross-listed with SOC 326 
    3 credit(s)
    This course examines a variety of ways in which sexuality becomes a focus of social conflict. We explore the questions of why and how some aspects of sexuality are brought into the public sphere. We analyze the social construction of sexuality as a personal and private matter but also as a subject for public concern and social regulation, thereby exploring the connections of gender, race, and class to the conflicts surrounding sexuality.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  and SOC 110 , or permission of instructor.


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  • GS 330 - Gender and Sex in Popular Culture

    Course Cross-listed with CMM 330 
    3 credit(s)
    The portrayal of gender and sexuality in popular culture is analyzed. Media, including television, film, magazines, and the Internet, represent and help construct ideas about what it means to be male and female in this society, as well as convey assumptions about sexual orientation. These portrayals take on a particular form for racial and ethnic minorities that often reinforces prevalent stereotypes. Popular culture also depicts sexuality in a manner that presents certain sexual behavior as natural and acceptable, and other kinds as deviant and unusual. The representation of sexuality in a range of media is explored, including mainstream media, advertising, and pornography. The portrayal of gender and sexuality in the culture is examined through a survey of theoretical perspectives on these topics as well as a direct examination of content that represents these aspects of humanity.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  or CMM 110 , and junior or senior standing; or permission of instructor.


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  • GS 340W - Writing in Gender-Based Activist Organizations

    Course Cross-listed with RPW 340W 
    3 credit(s) Writing Intensive
    Focusing on issues such as reproductive rights, healthcare, and domestic violence, students examine the ways in which activist organizations that are focused on issues of gender and sexuality write about controversial issues for a range of audiences and in response to a variety of situations. Guest speakers and working documents from actual reports, press releases, website content, and other written texts.
    Prerequisite(s): RPW 110  and GS 100 , or permission of instructor.
    Laboratory fee.


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  • GS 343 - Visualizing Gender

    Course Cross-listed with ART 343 
    3 credit(s)
    An examination of how gender is relevant to the production, reception, and content of art. Gender theory and feminist theory are used to assess the role of gender in society and in artistic practices as they engage with visual images. This course concentrates on one of the following topics: Women in Art, Gender in American art, Masculinity and Modernism, or Gender and Ritual in Africa. The specific topic is announced in the Schedule of Classes.
    Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level art course, or ART 100  with junior/senior standing, or AET 155  and AET 156 , or permission of instructor.
    Visual resources fee.


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  • GS 350 - Ethics of Gender and Sexuality

    Course Cross-listed with PHI 350 
    3 credit(s)
    Consideration of the presuppositions we bring to thinking about ethics and morality, and of the ways in which culturally constructed gender differences affect ethical theory and moral practice. We examine a series of important themes and issues in contemporary discussions of feminist ethics, e.g., sexuality, motherhood, community, cultural difference, human rights, and moral responsibility as it exceeds the framework of rights.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  or PHI 110 , or permission of instructor.


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